Flowing to Forborne
flowing, adj. (25)
Tran 1.356 26
[The Transcendentalist] is braced-up and stilted; all freedom
and flowing genius...are quite out of the question;...
Hist 2.22 24
A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of
rapid domestication...
Lov1 2.169 3
Nature...flowing...anticipates already a benevolence which
shall lose all particular regards in its general light.
OS 2.268 11
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 am a pensioner;...
OS 2.274 14
...the web of events is the flowing robe in which [the soul] is
clothed.
OS 2.281 6
[Revelation] is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the
flowing surges of the sea of life.
Int 2.336 18
...the power of picture or expression, in the most enriched and
flowing nature, implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states...
Pt1 3.30 21
...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop.
I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the
mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition;
as when...Plato defines a line to be a flowing point;...
Pt1 3.37 2
He is the poet and shall draw us with love and terror, who sees
through the flowing vest the firm nature, and can declare it.
Mrs1 3.150 3
Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in
man...any want of that large, flowing and magnanimous deportment which
is indispensable as an exterior in the hall.
PNR 4.81 6
[Nature] waited tranquilly the flowing periods of
paleontology...
MoS 4.172 10
...the interrogation of custom at all points...is the evidence of
[the superior mind's] perception of the flowing power which remains itself
in all changes.
ET4 5.65 27
It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky...
few tall, slender figures of flowing shape...
ET4 5.66 19
The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory
found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman
chroniclers, five centuries later, who wondered at the beauty and long
flowing hair of the young English captives.
Pow 6.76 8
...in our flowing affairs a decision must be made...
Pow 6.77 1
Dr. Johnson said, in one his flowing sentences, 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.
Pow 6.81 8
The world...has no casualty in all its vast and flowing curve.
Ctr 6.129 11
Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/
He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/
Of landscape and of sky,/ And tender to the spirit-touch/ Of man's or
maiden's eye:/ But, to his native centre fast,/ Shall into Future fuse the
Past,/ And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast./
Art2 7.37 10
[All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as
emanations of a Necessity...dissolving man as well as his works in its
flowing beneficence.
WD 7.163 21
Tantalus, who in old times was seen vainly trying to quench
his thirst with a flowing stream which ebbed whenever he approached it,
has been seen again lately.
PC 8.223 16
Nature is brute but as this soul quickens it; Nature, always the
effect, mind the flowing cause.
Insp 8.267 1
That flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a
season its streams into me.
PerF 10.67 1
What central flowing forces, say,/ Make up thy splendor,
matchless day?/
Edc1 10.123 4
With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength
to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to
master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
Bost 12.182 3
The rocky nook with hilltops three/ Looked eastward from
the farms,/ And twice each day the flowing sea/ Took Boston in its arms./
flowing, n. (5)
Con 1.296 25
Thy oysters are barnacles and cockles, and with the next
flowing of the tide they will be pebbles and sea-foam.
Ill 6.320 14
...what avails it that...our pretension of property and even of
self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not
finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also...
WD 7.182 3
...what has been best done in the world,--the works of genius,--
cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of
the thought.
PPo 8.261 9
Plunge in yon angry waves,/ Renouncing doubt and care;/ The
flowing of the seven broad seas/ Shall never wet thy hair./
Mem 12.91 9
Memory...holds together past and present...existing in both,
abides in the flowing...
flowing, v. (29)
LE 1.186 8
Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every
object in nature...
Con 1.300 8
...the superior beauty is with...the river which ever flowing yet
is found in the same bed from age to age;...
Tran 1.334 3
[The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the
procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from
an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...
YA 1.372 11
The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;
a form flowing necessarily from the fluid state...
Fdsp 2.195 2
High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the
meaning of all my thoughts. These are...hymn, ode and epic, poetry still
flowing...
OS 2.284 6
In the flowing of love...there is no question of continuance.
Cir 2.319 15
Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring...abandons itself to the
instruction flowing from all sides.
Art1 2.365 7
...true art is...always flowing.
Pt1 3.20 23
...through that better perception [the poet] stands one step
nearer to things, and sees the flowing or metamorphosis;...
Pt1 3.21 2
...[the poet]...following with his eyes the life, uses the forms
which express that life, and so his speech flows with the flowing of nature.
Gts 3.163 3
The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me...
Gts 3.163 4
The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me,
correspondent to my flowing unto him.
SwM 4.112 18
[Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the flowing of nature...
ET2 5.33 1
When their privilege was disputed by the Dutch and other
junior marines, on the plea that you could never...hold property in what was
always flowing, the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the
bottom of all the main...
Wth 6.119 15
You think farm buildings and broad acres a solid property;
but its value is flowing like water.
Bhr 6.177 11
[Men] carry the liquor of life flowing up and down in these
beautiful bottles...
Bhr 6.180 19
One comes away from a company in which, it may easily
happen...no important remark has been addressed to him, and yet, if in
sympathy with the society, he shall not have a sense of this fact, such a
stream of life has been flowing into him and out from him through the eyes.
Bty 6.292 14
Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just
ready to flow into other forms. Any fixedness...is the reverse of flowing,
and therefore deformed.
Bty 6.293 25
To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all
circular movement has;...
Farm 7.145 6
All things are flowing...
PI 8.17 7
Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to see that the object is always
flowing away...
PI 8.71 19
The nature of things is flowing, a metamorphosis.
SovE 10.213 13
The man of this age must be matriculated in the university
of sciences and tendencies flowing from all past periods.
Schr 10.263 22
Language can hardly exaggerate the beautitude of the
intellect flowing into the faculties.
GSt 10.501 4
High virtue has such an air of nature and necessity that to
thank its possessor would be to praise the water for flowing...
FSLN 11.237 21
A man who steals another man's labor steals away his
own faculties; his integrity, his humanity is flowing away from him.
II 12.79 2
The whole ethics of thought is of this kind, flowing out of
reverence of the source...
Mem 12.90 12
...[memory] is the cohesion which keeps things from falling
into a lump, or flowing in waves.
Mem 12.103 24
At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it
not;...
flowings, n. (1)
PI 8.21 4
The poet contemplates the central identity, sees it undulate and
roll this way and that, with divine flowings, through remotest things;...
flown, v. (4)
Nat2 3.185 17
...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed
man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs
the secret;--how then? Is the bird flown?
Ill 6.315 23
Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I
saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance...
and talked of the dear cottage where so many joyful hours had flown.
War 11.164 15
Observe the ideas of the present day...see...how timber,
brick, lime and stone have flown into convenient shape, obedient to the
master-idea reigning in the minds of many persons.
RBur 11.438 8
Praise to the bard! his words are driven,/ Like flower-seeds
by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven,/ The birds of
fame have flown./ Halleck.
flows, v. (33)
Nat 1.31 16
[Nature's] light flows into the mind evermore...
Nat 1.44 6
The river, as it flows, resembles the air that flows over it;...
Nat 1.44 7
The river, as it flows, resembles the air that flows over it;...
AmS 1.105 11
...in proportion as a man has any thing in him divine, the
firmament flows before him...
LE 1.165 4
...an able man is nothing else than a good, free, vascular
organization, whereinto the universal spirit freely flows;...
LE 1.181 22
...the lower faculties of man are subdued to docility; through
which as an unobstructed channel the soul now easily and gladly flows?
MN 1.210 8
[A man's] health and greatness consist in his being the channel
through which heaven flows to earth...
MN 1.211 2
What is best in any work of art but...that which flows from the
hour and the occasion...
MN 1.219 1
Genius...advertises us that it flows out of a deeper source than
the foregoing silence...
Con 1.296 17
Seest thou the great sea, how it ebbs and flows?...
Con 1.325 19
To the intemperate and covetous person no love flows;...
Hist 2.7 24
Praise is looked, homage tendered, love flows, from mute
nature...
Lov1 2.173 12
...without any coquetry the happy, affectionate nature of
woman flows out in this pretty gossip.
OS 2.271 10
...when [the soul] flows through [man's] affection, it is love.
OS 2.288 1
The same Omniscience flows into the intellect and makes what
we call genius.
Pt1 3.21 1
...[the poet]...following with his eyes the life, uses the forms
which express that life, and so his speech flows with the flowing of nature.
Pt1 3.27 17
...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind
flows into and through things hardest and highest...
Pt1 3.42 17
Wherever snow falls or water flows or birds fly...there is
Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
ET14 5.257 16
Color, like the dawn, flows over the horizon from
[Tennyson's] pencil...
Elo1 7.68 21
...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of
hers. Her speech flows like a river...
WD 7.185 15
...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills
and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the
finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity
with which it flows from ourselves;...
WD 7.185 18
...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local
skills...to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done,
and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of
thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or that its roots are in eternity,
not in time. Then it flows from character...
PI 8.43 27
The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet, and it flows
from the lips of each of his magic beings in the thoughts and words peculiar
to its nature.
QO 8.179 20
The stream of affection flows broad and strong;...
PPo 8.260 7
[Hafiz's] ingenuity never sleeps:-Ah, could I hide me in my
song,/ To kiss thy lips from which it flows!/
Insp 8.277 6
Swedenborg's genius was the perception of the doctrine that
The Lord flows into the spirits of angels and of men;...
Dem1 10.27 25
[Man] is sure...the circumambient soul which flows into
him as into all...has not been searched.
Aris 10.66 9
...the American who would serve his country must...revisit the
margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and
enthusiasm, the fountain I mean of the moral sentiments, the parent
fountain from which this goodly Universe flows as a wave.
EWI 11.139 8
The stream of human affairs flows its own way...
PLT 12.15 15
We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea, which
ebbs and flows...
Mem 12.104 1
At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it
not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life and repaying it with
their beautiful forms. But you need not wander thither. It flows for you, and
they grow for you, in the returning images of former summers.
MLit 12.332 19
Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but...
no drop of healthier blood flows yet in its veins.
Trag 12.415 8
[Our human being] is like a stream of water, which, if
dammed up on one bank, overruns the other, and flows equally at its own
convenience over sand, or mud, or marble.
fluency, n. (3)
Lov1 2.179 25
The same fluency may be observed in every work of the
plastic arts.
Elo1 7.74 12
There is a petty lawyer's fluency...
Dem1 10.7 23
[Dreams] seem to us to suggest an abundance and fluency of
thought not familiar to the waking experience.
fluent, adj. (6)
Chr1 3.91 12
[The people] cannot come at their ends by sending to
Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who, before
he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by
Almighty God to stand for a fact...
GoW 4.282 5
Though [the writer] were dumb [his message] would speak.
If not,--if there be no such God's word in the man,--what care we how
adroit, how fluent, how brilliant he is?
Elo2 8.119 11
The most...thought-paralyzing companion sometimes turns
out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator.
PPo 8.247 11
[Hafiz's] was the fluent mind in which every thought and
feeling came readily to the lips.
FSLN 11.225 19
Who doubts the power of any fluent debater to defend
either of our political parties...
ACri 12.300 6
The power of the poet is...in using every fact in Nature...as a
fluent symbol...
fluid, adj. (18)
Nat 1.52 8
The [sensual man] esteems nature as rooted and fast; the [poet],
as fluid...
Nat 1.76 2
Nature is not fixed but fluid.
Nat 1.76 4
...to pure spirit [nature] is fluid...
AmS 1.105 6
...the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God...
YA 1.372 12
The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;
a form flowing necessarily from the fluid state...
Hist 2.13 1
Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all-creating nature,
soft and fluid as a cloud or the air, why should we be such hard pedants,
and magnify a few forms?
Hist 2.21 11
...all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are
to be generalized. Then at once History becomes fluid and true, and
Biography deep and sublime.
Comp 2.125 4
...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant,
and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were
a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen...
SL 2.138 4
The wild fertility of nature is felt in comparing our rigid names
and reputations with our fluid consciousness.
SL 2.148 13
As in dreams, so in the scarcely less fluid events of the world
every man sees himself in colossal...
Cir 2.302 2
The universe is fluid and volatile.
Cir 2.302 5
The law dissolves the fact and holds it fluid.
Pol1 3.199 15
...the old statesman knows that society is fluid;...
NR 3.233 25
...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts
nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect
persons, to produce beautiful voices, fluid and soul-guided men and women.
UGM 4.9 10
A man is a centre for nature, running out threads of relation
through every thing, fluid and solid...
F 6.43 15
Every solid in the universe is ready to become fluid on the
approach of the mind...
Bty 6.301 18
There are faces so fluid with expression...that we can hardly
find what the mere features really are.
PI 8.30 22
...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit
the poverty or caprice of their expression...being unable to fuse and mould
their words and images to fluid obedience.
fluid, n. (6)
AmS 1.98 23
That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows
itself...as yet more deeply ingrained in every atom and every fluid, is
known to us under the name of Polarity...
Art2 7.42 2
It is the law of fluids that prescribes the shape of the boat...and,
in the finer fluid above, the form and tackle of the sails.
PI 8.8 2
Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each
kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest, from
the fluid in an elastic sack, from radiate, mollusk, articulate, vertebrate, up
to man;...
Insp 8.274 7
...where is the Franklin with kite or rod for this fluid
[inspiration]?...
LLNE 10.352 12
[Fourier] treats man as...something that may be...made
into solid or fluid or gas, at the will of the leader;...
Bost 12.183 10
An aerial fluid streams all day, all night, from every flower
and leaf...
fluids, n. (8)
Comp 2.96 21
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of
nature;...in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal
body;...
Comp 2.96 23
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of
nature;...in the undulations of fluids and of sound;...
Pow 6.80 21
...[spirit] is as much a subject of exact law and arithmetic as
fluids and gases are;...
Art2 7.41 27
It is the law of fluids that prescribes the shape of the boat...
LLNE 10.350 7
Attractive Industry...would...cause the earth to yield
healthy imponderable fluids to the solar system...
LLNE 10.350 8
Attractive Industry...would...cause the earth to yield
healthy imponderable fluids to the solar system, as now it yields noxious
fluids.
LLNE 10.350 14
...the good Fourier knew what those creatures [the
hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] should have been, had not the
mould slipped, through the bad state of the atmosphere; caused no doubt by
the same vicious imponderable fluids.
FRep 11.514 19
The law of water and all fluids is true of wit.
Flume, Franconia, New Hamp (1)
MMEm 10.401 20
Not far from [Mary Moody Emerson's] house was a
brook running over a granite floor like the Franconia Flume...
flung, v. (7)
YA 1.373 19
[Nature] flung us out in her plenty...
SR 2.78 21
For [the self-helping man] all doors are flung wide;...
NMW 4.236 18
[Napoleon] was flung into the marsh at Arcola.
GoW 4.277 10
...[Goethe] flung into literature, in his Mephistopheles, the
first organic figure that has been added for some ages...
Bty 6.279 9
[Seyd] smote the lake to feed his eye/ With the beryl beam of
the broken wave./ He flung in pebbles well to hear/ The moment's music
which they gave./
EWI 11.110 23
In attempting to make its escape from the pursuit of a man-of-
war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive into the sea.
EWI 11.128 12
For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the
West Indies] was debated...and, at last, the right triumphed...and the
oppressor was flung out.
flushed, v. (2)
MoS 4.149 12
A man is flushed with success, and bethinks himself what
this good luck signifies.
Bty 6.301 19
There are faces...so flushed and rippled by the play of
thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are.
flushes, n. (1)
Bty 6.304 27
The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the
spoils of the landscape...flushes of morning and stars of night...
flushes, v. (1)
MoS 4.169 11
In speaking of [Socrates], for once [Montaigne's] cheek
flushes and his style rises to passion.
flute, n. (9)
PPh 4.50 13
As one diffusive air, passing through the perforations of a
flute, is distinguished as the notes of a scale, so the nature of the Great
Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold [said Krishna]...
SwM 4.103 4
There is beauty of a concert, as well as of a flute;...
Bty 6.295 18
...the flute is heard farther than the cart...
Art2 7.44 26
A jumble of musical sounds on a viol or a flute...gives
pleasure to the unskilful ear.
Boks 7.213 23
[The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our
frame in a dance...
PI 8.18 23
[The act of imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our
frame in a dance.
PI 8.52 1
With the first note of the flute or horn...we quit the world of
common sense...
Elo2 8.121 10
What character, what infinite variety belong to the voice!
sometimes it is a flute, sometimes a trip-hammer;...
PerF 10.80 13
...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to
play...
flutes, n. (1)
Hsm1 2.247 23
We have a great many flutes and flageolets, but not often
the sound of any fife.
flutter, n. (1)
Schr 10.287 17
I invite you [scholars] not...to the flutter of gratified
vanity...
flutter, v. (1)
SwM 4.103 11
[Swedenborg's] stalwart presence would flutter the gowns
of an university.
flutters, v. (2)
MoS 4.175 5
What flutters the Church of Rome...may yet be very far from
touching any principle of faith.
HDC 11.30 4
Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow
that enters at a window, flutters round the house, and flies out at another...
flux, n. (9)
Nat 1.27 1
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded
of the flux of all things?
Exp 3.72 10
...I have described life as a flux of moods...
PPh 4.47 14
Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have
the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics: then the partialists,--
deducing the origin of things from flux or water, or from air, or from fire,
or from mind.
PPh 4.56 15
...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of
the world; the theory of atoms, of fire, of flux, of spirit;...
ET2 5.29 20
To the geologist...the land is in perpetual flux and change...
F 6.44 3
The whole world is the flux of matter over the wires of thought to
the poles or points where it would build.
WD 7.162 11
...what can [our politics] help or hinder...when the nations are
in exodus and flux?
PI 8.21 15
I think the use or value of poetry to be the suggestion it affords
of the flux or fugaciousness of the poet.
QO 8.200 1
...all things are in flux.
flux, v. (1)
F 6.43 16
Every solid in the universe is ready to become fluid on the
approach of the mind, and the power to flux it is the measure of the mind.
fluxional, adj. (2)
Pt1 3.34 16
...all symbols are fluxional;...
Mrs1 3.122 6
There is something equivocal in all the words in use to
express the excellence of manners and social cultivation, because the
quantities are fluxional...
fluxions, n. (2)
UGM 4.9 8
Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of
nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Newton, of fluxions.
MoS 4.160 14
The philosophy we want is one of fluxions and mobility.
fly, n. (9)
Hist 2.13 13
Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through
the grub, through the egg, the constant individual;...
OS 2.274 22
The soul's advances are not made by gradation...but rather by
ascension of state, such as can be represented by metamorphosis,--from the
egg to the worm, from the worm to the fly.
F 6.46 20
We wonder how the fly finds its mate...
Wsp 6.222 25
The smallest fly will draw blood...
CbW 6.269 19
A fly is as untamable as a hyena.
PI 8.5 15
I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we
have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the
old form; and in animal transformation not less, as in grub and fly...
Insp 8.285 24
At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of
morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./
Imtl 8.341 21
[The thinker] is but as a fly or a worm to this mountain, this
continent, which his thoughts inhabit.
PLT 12.59 27
The same course continues itself in the mind which we have
witnessed in Nature, namely the carrying-on and completion of the
metamorphosis from grub to worm, from worm to fly.
fly, v. (30)
AmS 1.96 22
In its grub state, [the new deed] cannot fly...
Fdsp 2.192 12
...all things fly into their places...
Art1 2.367 13
[Men] despatch the day's weary chores, and fly to
voluptuous reveries.
Pt1 3.42 17
Wherever snow falls or water flows or birds fly...there is
Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
Chr1 3.98 23
It is disgraceful to fly to events for confirmation of our truth
and worth.
Mrs1 3.152 21
[Youth] have yet to learn that [ our society's] seeming
grandeur is shadowy and relative...its proudest gates will fly open at the
approach of their courage and virtue.
MoS 4.174 22
In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their
knees, [the saints] say...we must fly for relief to the suspected and reviled
Intellect....
ET2 5.27 6
[The good ship] has...left five sail behind her far on the edge of
the west at sundown, which were far east of us at morn...and still we fly for
our lives.
ET10 5.158 3
Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be
impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly
in the air in the manner of birds.
Pow 6.59 26
...when [the weaker party] himself is matched with some other
antagonist, his own shafts fly well and hit.
Pow 6.64 13
The faster the ball falls to the sun, the force to fly off is by so
much augmented.
Wth 6.121 19
How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which,
in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from
false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles.
CbW 6.248 24
Franklin said, Mankind...begin upon a thing, but, meeting
with a difficulty, they fly from it discouraged;...
Elo1 7.89 18
[The orator's] expressions...fly from mouth to mouth.
Elo1 7.89 20
Where [the orator] looks, all things fly to their places.
Boks 7.219 18
[The communications of the sacred books]...are living
characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on
lichens and bark;...they fly in birds, they creep in worms;...
Clbs 7.245 9
There are those who have the instinct of a bat to fly against
any lighted candle and put it out...
PI 8.30 16
...in poetry, the master rushes to deliver his thought, and the
words and images fly to him to express it;...
PI 8.50 1
Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see how wide they fly
for weapons...
Res 8.140 21
By his machines man...can fly like a hawk in the air;...
PC 8.207 21
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology, to fly with
[men] over the sea...
PC 8.215 7
...[Roger Bacon] announced...machines to fly into the air like
birds.
Insp 8.292 4
The moth must fly to the lamp...
Edc1 10.155 10
When [the naturalist] goes into the woods the birds fly
before him...
Prch 10.224 17
Let [the torpid heart] speak, and all these rebels will fly to
their loyalty.
MMEm 10.398 6
On earth I dream;-I die to be:/ Time! shake not thy bald
head at me./ I challenge thee to hurry past,/ Or for my turn to fly too fast./
PLT 12.22 7
A fish in like manner is man furnished to live in the sea; a
thrush, to fly in the air;...
II 12.70 15
If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic...
CL 12.151 7
The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool...and the
first northward flight of the geese...who...fly low over the farms.
CL 12.167 8
...as soon as man knows himself as [Nature's] interpreter...
then all things fly into place...
fly-away, n. (1)
LE 1.171 14
...Truth is such a fly-away...
flying, adj. (14)
DSA 1.137 6
The faith should blend...with the flying cloud...
LE 1.158 21
Over [the scholar] stream the flying constellations;...
Comp 2.101 8
...the naturalist...regards...a bird as a flying man, a tree as a
rooted man.
Cir 2.301 20
This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn], as
far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable, the flying Perfect...
may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in
every department.
Pt1 3.12 24
...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the
poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his skill to rise like a fowl or a
flying fish...
Exp 3.63 22
...the exclusion...reaches the climbing, flying, gliding,
feathered and four-footed man.
Chr1 3.113 4
We chase some flying scheme...
SwM 4.130 6
[Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between
knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed.
Philosophers are, therefore, vipers...and flying serpents;...
ET7 5.116 21
Private men [in England] keep their promises, never so
trivial. Down goes the flying word on the tablets...
ET19 5.312 27
Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the
ship parting with flying colors from the port...
Imtl 8.339 14
Every really able man...considers his work...as far short of
what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual
promise of his Creator?
Supl 10.175 4
In all the years that I have sat in town and forest, I never
saw...a flying man...
PLT 12.5 11
Our metaphysics should be able to follow the flying force
through all transformations...
Mem 12.95 8
Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on
leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one
the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the
flying leaves...
flying, v. (12)
LE 1.168 4
The honking of the wild geese flying by night; the thin note of
the companionable titmouse in the winter day;...all, are alike unattempted
[by poets].
Comp 2.91 11
The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the
eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or
compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./
Pt1 3.23 23
The songs, thus flying immortal from their mortal parent, are
pursued by clamorous flights of censures...
ET2 5.28 18
In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now...is
flying before the gray south wind eleven and a half knots the hour.
Ctr 6.163 12
[The ancients] preferred the noble vessel...dismantled and
unrigged, to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns
firing.
Res 8.147 12
...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even! You
think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the
prow...
PPo 8.241 7
...the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet
and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased,-the army of
birds at the same time flying overhead and forming a canopy to shade them
from the sun.
Dem1 10.21 3
...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or
private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this
kind. Tramps...flying through the air...can well be spared.
Edc1 10.155 23
By and by the curiosity [of the creatures of nature] masters
the fear, and they come swimming, creeping and flying towards [the
naturalist];...
LLNE 10.364 24
Letters were always flying not only from house to house
[at Brook Farm], but from room to room.
Thor 10.470 14
The redstart was flying about...
Mem 12.90 9
As gravity holds matter from flying off into space, so
memory gives stability to knowledge;...
flying-machines, n. (1)
Let 12.393 5
...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we
have no longer the smallest taper-light of credible information and
experience left...
fly-leaf, n. (1)
MoS 4.163 24
...the duplicate copy of Florio...turned out to have the
autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
fly-leaves, n. (1)
ET1 5.11 2
...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table,
[Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in
the fly-leaves...
fly-wheel, n. (1)
MR 1.255 25
...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...
foam, n. (6)
UGM 4.19 12
We touch and go, and sip the foam of many lives.
F 6.32 7
...trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will...carry it like
its own foam...
Bty 6.292 2
The Greeks fabled that Venus was born of the foam of the sea.
PI 8.40 6
[Poetry] must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Comc 8.170 1
...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was
thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...
Pray 12.353 16
Shall we never ask the aim of all this hurry and foam...
foam, v. (1)
Exp 3.85 6
...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts
to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an
experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. They acquire
democratic manners, they foam at the mouth, they hate and deny.
foaming, adj. (1)
Nat2 3.178 25
We see the foaming brook with compunction...
focal, adj. (3)
Nat 1.46 10
We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some
friends...whom we lack power to put at such focal distance from us, that we
can mend or even analyze them.
Exp 3.51 2
Of what use is genius, if the organ...cannot find a focal distance
within the actual horizon of human life?
SwM 4.102 19
A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...requires a long focal
distance to be seen;...
focus, n. (2)
Hist 2.38 19
[Each man] shall collect into a focus the rays of nature.
Exp 3.50 8
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass
through them they prove to be many-colored lenses...and each shows only
what lies in its focus.
fodder, n. (1)
HDC 11.35 10
The great cost of cattle, and the sickening of [the pilgrims']
cattle upon such wild fodder as was never cut before;...are the other
disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
foe, n. (9)
PPh 4.49 17
The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff;...
MoS 4.160 3
[The skeptic] is the considerer...believing that a man has too
many enemies than that he can afford to be his own foe;...
CbW 6.244 3
...Fool and foe may harmless roam,/ Loved and lovers bide at
home./
Cour 7.279 1
The hunter raised his gun,--/ He knew one charge was all,--/
And through the boy's pursuing foe/ He sent his only ball./
OA 7.324 7
All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and
we die without developing them...but if you are enfeebled by any cause,
these sleeping seeds start and open. Meantime, at every stage we lose a foe.
PPo 8.243 25
The secret that should not be blown/ Not one of thy nation
must know;/ You may padlock the gate of a town,/ But never the mouth of a
foe./
PPo 8.259 2
Jami says,-A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,/ So much the
kindlier shows him than before;/ Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins
throw,/ He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor./
SovE 10.188 21
The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor.
AsSu 11.246 1
His erring foe,/ Self-assured that he prevails,/ Looks from
his victim lying low,/ And sees aloft the red right arm/ Redress the eternal
scales./
foes, n. (6)
NER 3.252 13
One apostle thought all men should go to farming...another
that the mischief was in our diet, that we eat and drink damnation. These...
were foes to the death to fermentation.
SwM 4.136 16
The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the
friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon...intrude themselves into
[Swedenborg's] speculations...
Wsp 6.199 1
This is he, who, felled by foes,/ Sprung harmless up, refreshed
by blows/...
PPo 8.251 14
Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down,/ Poises Arcturus
aloft morning and evening his spear./
Chr2 10.120 7
But I, father, says the wise Prahlada, in the Vishnu Purana,
know neither friends nor foes, for I behold Kesava in all beings as in my
own soul.
Chr2 10.120 10
[Character] sees that a man's friends and his foes are of his
own household, of his own person.
fog, n. (4)
Int 2.326 8
In the fog of good and evil affections it is hard for man to walk
forward in a straight line.
ET3 5.39 23
The London fog aggravates the distempers of the sky...
Elo1 7.87 21
...the lawyers saved their rogue under the fog of a definition.
PerF 10.73 26
It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable
as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild beasts...none for a fog...is
yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
foggy, adj. (2)
ET5 5.94 10
This foggy and rainy country [England] furnishes the world
with astronomical observations.
ET19 5.312 14
...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British
island from which my forefathers came was...a cold, foggy, mournful
country...
fogs, n. (4)
Cir 2.311 13
The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday...
have strangely changed their proportions.
ET5 5.95 21
By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of
acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with
the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too...is so far reached by
this new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
ET11 5.196 20
This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and
rains proclaimed [in England],--that intellect and personal force should
make the law;...
CW 12.169 1
Not many men see beauty in the fogs/ Of close, low pine-woods
in a river town;/...
foible, n. (6)
Chr1 3.113 1
Society is spoiled...if the associates are brought a mile to
meet. And if it be not society, it is a mischievous, low, degrading jangle,
though made up of the best. All the greatness of each is kept back, and
every foible in painful activity...
NR 3.227 18
There is [no great man] without his foible.
ET9 5.148 21
I remember a shrewd politician...told me that he had known
several successful statesmen made by their foible.
Ctr 6.150 15
It is the foible especially of American youth,--pretension.
Suc 7.290 3
...Nature utilizes misers, fanatics, show-men, egotists, to
accomplish her ends; but we must not think better of the foible for that.
ALin 11.337 4
Easy good nature has been the dangerous foible of the
Republic...
foibles, n. (3)
CbW 6.258 14
...there is no man who is not indebted to his foibles;...
Thor 10.480 24
...these foibles [of Thoreau], real or apparent, were fast
vanishing in the incessant growth of a spirit so robust and wise...
Scot 11.467 1
[Scott's] strong good sense saved him from the faults and
foibles incident to poets...
foil, v. (1)
Chr1 3.105 16
It is of no use to ape [character] or to contend with it.
Somewhat is possible of resistance, and of persistence, and of creation, to
this power, which will foil all emulation.
foiled, v. (3)
Fdsp 2.200 10
The valiant warrior famoused for fight,/ After a hundred
victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of honor razed quite/ And all the
rest forgot for which he toiled./
PPh 4.77 22
[Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the
ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large. Boa
constrictor has good will to eat it, but he is foiled.
ET1 5.16 10
When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he
professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much
time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his
pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board
down, and had foiled him.
foils, n. (1)
Prd1 2.237 19
Entire self-possession may make a battle very little more
dangerous to life than a match at foils...
foisted, v. (1)
FRep 11.543 8
Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. No monopoly
must be foisted in...
fold, v. (6)
Civ 7.28 12
...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact
form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
Chr2 10.89 1
Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is
near;/...
SovE 10.189 5
...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart
that...though we should fold our arms...the evils we suffer will at last end
themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
FRep 11.530 24
The spread eagle must fold his foolish wings and be less of
a peacock;...
Mem 12.104 3
In low or bad company you fold yourself in your cloak...
recall and surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of
your life...
Bost 12.182 8
The sea returning day by day/ Restores the world-wide mart;/
So let each dweller on the Bay/ Fold Boston in his heart./
folded, adj. (3)
Prd1 2.235 26
When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float
round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was
written...let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across
all these distracting forces...
PI 8.55 11
Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes/...
Pray 12.353 12
Why should I feel reproved when a busy one enters the
room? I am not idle, though I sit with folded hands...
folded, v. (8)
Nat 1.61 18
Like the figure of Jesus, [Nature] stands with...hands folded
upon the breast.
Hist 2.4 2
...Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded
already in the first man.
SL 2.157 16
It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he
described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to
articulate a proposition which they did not believe; but they could not,
though they twisted and folded their lips even to indignation.
Nat2 3.167 2
The rounded world is fair to see,/ Nine times folded in
mystery/...
MMEm 10.425 1
When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and
folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour
with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds...
folding, v. (1)
Humb 11.457 20
How [Humboldt] reaches...from law to law, folding away
moons and asteroids and solar systems in the clauses and parentheses of his
encyclopaedic paragraphs!
foldings, n. (1)
CL 12.165 5
[Agassiz] pretends to be only busy with the foldings of the
yolk of a turtle's egg.
folds, n. (4)
Fdsp 2.203 4
We cover up our thought from [our fellow-man] under a
hundred folds.
SwM 4.124 1
Plato is a gownsman; his garment...is an academic robe, and
hinders action with its voluminous folds.
Cour 7.277 4
If you...see only an adamantine fate coiling its folds about
Nature and man, then reflect that the best use of fate is to teach us courage...
Elo2 8.113 27
In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature
has marked her son;...
foliage, n. (4)
Con 1.300 25
...the solid columnar stem, which lifts that bank of foliage
into the air...is the gift and legacy of dead and buried years.
MoS 4.182 1
These particular griefs and crimes are the foliage and fruit of
such trees as we see growing.
Thor 10.483 2
The tanager flies through the green foliage as if it would
ignite the leaves.
CPL 11.499 22
[Mary Moody Emerson writes] Is the melancholy bird of
night, covered with the dark foliage of the willow and cypress, less gratified
than the gay lark...
foliation, n. (1)
CW 12.178 13
...I am always glad to remember that in proportion to the
foliation is the addition of wood.
folio, n. (1)
EWI 11.127 23
...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence
on the [slave] trade (a bulky folio...) was presented to the House of
Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr.
Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the
postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
folios, n. (2)
Cour 7.274 12
There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as
soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus
and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the Brothers Bollandi...
OA 7.330 21
We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...amid
his folios...
folk, n. (7)
MN 1.191 16
We are a puny and a fickle folk.
SR 2.51 17
...never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this
incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off.
SL 2.136 10
Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us
country folk...
Prd1 2.238 16
Far off, men swell, bully and threaten; bring them hand to
hand, and they are a feeble folk.
ET1 5.17 21
[Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish
abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform.
Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come
wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son
of Adam bread to eat...
Aris 10.29 18
Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/ Is not annexed to
possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in
his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do shame
and vilanie./
CL 12.136 9
Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to
goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To
ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./
folks, n. (1)
SMC 11.370 3
When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to
him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the
Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they
have not found it out before it was all gone.
follies, n. (14)
Fdsp 2.213 10
We may congratulate ourselves that the period...of follies...is
passed in solitude...
Exp 3.57 24
Divinity is behind our failures and follies also.
UGM 4.25 16
...there are vices and follies incident to whole populations
and ages.
MoS 4.152 18
After dinner...ideas are...follies of young men...
ET9 5.151 24
Nature and destiny are always on the watch for our follies.
Pow 6.81 17
...in these [machines man] is forced to leave out his follies and
hindrances...
CbW 6.257 6
...the friends of a gentleman brought to his notice the follies
of his sons...
FRep 11.517 9
...a court or an aristocracy, which must always be a small
minority, can more easily run into follies than a republic...
FRep 11.527 24
Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are
educational... ... The result appears...in the...eagerness for novelty, even for
all the follies of false science;...
PLT 12.7 16
Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each
other, so vulgar, there is so much more than their wit,-such follies,
gluttonies, partialities, age, care, and sleep, that you shall have no academy.
Pray 12.355 6
I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on
earth, amidst its toils and troubles and the follies of those around me, and
told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by;...
PPr 12.387 2
...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle the calm daylight,
which always shows every individual man in balance with his age, and able
to work out his own salvation from all the follies of that...
PPr 12.387 4
Each age has its own follies...
PPr 12.387 10
...after a short time, down go [the age's] follies and
weakness and the memory of them;...
follow, v. (92)
Nat 1.18 26
The tribes of birds and insects...follow each other...
Nat 1.21 25
Willingly does [nature] follow [man's] steps with the rose and
the violet...
Nat 1.46 3
It were a pleasant inquiry to follow into detail [the human
forms'] ministry to our education...
AmS 1.97 24
Authors we have, in numbers...who...follow the trapper into
the prairie...to replenish their merchantable stock.
AmS 1.106 3
The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is
filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
DSA 1.136 23
Where shall I hear words such as in elder ages drew men to
leave all and follow...
DSA 1.151 16
I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those
shining laws that he shall see them come full circle;...
MN 1.207 6
Follow the great man, and you shall see what the world has at
heart in these ages.
MR 1.228 12
...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I
address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a brave and upright man,
who must...make it easier for all who follow him to go in honor and with
benefit.
LT 1.262 19
How I follow [persons] with aching heart, with pining desire!
Tran 1.334 12
From...this beholding of all things in the mind, follow easily
[the idealist's] whole ethics.
Hist 2.22 9
The nomads of Asia follow the pasturage from month to month.
SR 2.61 10
...posterity seem to follow [a true man's] steps as a train of
clients.
SR 2.73 25
...if we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last.
SR 2.78 22
...[the self-helping man]...all eyes follow with desire.
SR 2.82 16
...our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the
Past...
Comp 2.92 14
...all that Nature made thy own,/ Floating in air or pent in
stone,/ Will rive the hills and swim the sea/ And, like thy shadow, follow
thee./
Comp 2.103 9
The specific stripes may follow late after the offence...
Comp 2.103 10
The specific stripes may follow late after the offence, but
they follow because they accompany it.
SL 2.146 15
Men feel and act the consequences of your doctrine without
being able to show how they follow.
SL 2.151 11
Let [the scholar] be great, and love shall follow him.
Hsm1 2.247 10
Dor. O star of Rome! what gratitude can speak/ Fit words
to follow such a deed as this?/
Hsm1 2.263 15
We rapidly approach a brink over which no enemy can
follow us...
Int 2.343 17
Jesus says, Leave father, mother, house and lands, and follow
me.
Exp 3.54 18
I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called
sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical
necessity. Given such an embryo, such a history must follow.
Chr1 3.97 20
The hero sees that the event is ancillary; it must follow him.
Chr1 3.112 14
Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity;...
Nat2 3.194 7
[Nature's] mighty orbit vaults like the fresh rainbow into the
deep, but no archangel's wing was yet strong enough to follow it and report
of the return of the curve.
Pol1 3.200 9
...the State must follow and not lead the character and
progress of the citizen;...
Pol1 3.204 11
...there is an instinctive sense...that property will always
follow persons;...
PPh 4.70 1
When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work,
looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a
model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow
that his production should be beautiful.
PNR 4.88 12
Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes...He, that can
endure/ To follow with allegiance a fallen lord,/ Does conquer him that did
his master conquer,/ And earns a place in the story./
MoS 4.154 23
I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed
briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a
damned rascal: and the natural corollary is pretty sure to follow, The world
lives by humbug, and so will I.
ET14 5.252 26
...a belief like that of Euler and Kepler, that experience
must follow and not lead the laws of the mind;...the modern English mind
repudiates.
ET18 5.303 19
...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded
forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred
years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted
through all climates...
F 6.16 12
We follow the step of the Jew...
F 6.45 27
If the threads are there, thought can follow and show them.
Wth 6.89 16
The sea...offers its perilous aid and the power and empire that
follow it...to [man's] craft and audacity.
Ctr 6.146 12
...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature,
framed for locomotion, we must follow her hint...
Bhr 6.192 7
We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step,
[the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow
the gala procession home to the bannered portal...
Wsp 6.223 18
If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking
house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear
house.
Bty 6.290 9
'T is a law of botany that in plants the same virtues follow the
same forms.
Bty 6.292 27
I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste
that the fashions follow a law of gradation...
Bty 6.294 3
...if we follow it out, this demand in our thought for an ever
onward action is the argument for the immortality.
Ill 6.320 5
One after the other we accept the mental laws, still resisting
those which follow...
Civ 7.23 16
The skilful combinations of civil government, though they
usually follow natural leadings...require wisdom and conduct in the rulers...
Art2 7.39 19
If we follow the popular distinction of works according to
their aim, we should say, the Spirit, in its creation, aims at use or at beauty...
Elo1 7.94 10
...a fact-speaker of any kind, [the people] will long follow;...
DL 7.109 15
A man's money should not follow the direction of his
neighbor's money...
Suc 7.301 2
If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual
education, we shall find that it is not propositions...that are our first need;...
Suc 7.310 15
Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine.
The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation...
PI 8.20 24
The selection of the image is no more arbitrary than the power
and significance of the image. The selection must follow fate.
SA 8.100 18
As the search [for riches] may not be successful, I will follow
after that which I love.
Elo2 8.115 7
Uncommon boys follow uncommon men...
Res 8.139 22
[Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms
deep. What spaces! what durations! dealing with races as merely
preparations of somewhat to follow;...
QO 8.189 5
In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I
follow goes my way...
Grts 8.304 1
...follow the path your genius traces like the galaxy of heaven
for you to walk in.
Imtl 8.323 21
...we are as ignorant of the state which preceded our present
existence as of that which will follow it.
Imtl 8.328 25
...spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that
the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for
the hours or ages that follow it...
Imtl 8.334 2
After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a
healthy mind.
Dem1 10.19 7
It would be easy in the political history of every time to
furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which
without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... The crimes they commit, the
exposures which follow...are strangely overlooked...
Dem1 10.23 20
...the main ambition and genius being bestowed in one
direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids within [a man's] sphere will
follow.
PerF 10.74 20
Look at [man]; you can give no guess at what power is in
him. It never appears directly, but follow him and see his effects, see his
productions.
PerF 10.76 1
...surprising and admirable effects follow [man] like a creator.
PerF 10.81 16
See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special
vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone...
Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter, follow the
cheerful hum...
Chr2 10.120 1
Whenever the sublimities of character shall be incarnated in
a man, we may rely that awe and love and insatiable curiosity will follow
his steps.
Edc1 10.145 15
Happy this child...with a thought which...leads him, now
into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an idea. Let him follow it in good
and in evil report...
SovE 10.205 10
...the mass of the community indolently follow the old
forms with childish scrupulosity...
Schr 10.273 19
Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may
peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped. Shall [the
scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from far with reverence...
HDC 11.63 21
...the country people came armed into Boston, on the
afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April) in such rage and heat, as made us all
tremble to think what would follow;...
LVB 11.95 6
...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees]
follow each other so fast...that the millions of virtuous citizens...have no
place to interpose...
EWI 11.115 15
I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which
Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of
emancipation] in the island of Antigua. It has been quoted in every
newspaper, and Dr. Channing has given it additional fame. But I must be
indulged in quoting a few sentences from the pages that follow it...
War 11.161 10
...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as
war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a
subject...of concert and discussion,-that is the commanding fact. This
having come, much more will follow.
FSLC 11.210 26
[Massachusetts] must follow no vicious examples.
FSLN 11.220 5
...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the
opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an
exponent of this.
FSLN 11.232 8
I too think the musts are a safe company to follow...
TPar 11.290 3
...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of
Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary
city ambitions to gloze over...leaving your principles at home to follow on
the high seas or in Europe a supple complaisance to tyrants,-it is a
hypocrisy...
EPro 11.321 5
Not only will [Lincoln] repeat and follow up his stroke [the
Emancipation Proclamation], but the nation will add its irresistible strength.
EPro 11.324 7
The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of...
disinfecting us of our habitual proclivity...to follow Southern leading.
SMC 11.371 11
I must not follow the multiplied details that make the hard
work of the next year.
Wom 11.421 2
Those whom you [women] teach, and those whom you half
teach, will fast enough make themselves...strong with their new insight, and
votes will follow from all the dull.
FRep 11.532 14
[Our people] follow a fact; they follow success...
PLT 12.5 11
Our metaphysics should be able to follow the flying force
through all transformations...
PLT 12.45 19
[Thoughts] are the oracle; we are not to poke and drill and
force, but to follow them.
II 12.78 14
...the practical rules of literature ought to follow from these
views, namely, that all writing is by the grace of God;...
II 12.86 6
Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously whither.
II 12.86 7
Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously whither. To follow it is
thy part.
II 12.86 9
Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously whither. To follow it is
thy part. And what if it lead, as men say, to an excess, to partiality, to
individualism? Follow it still.
CInt 12.120 20
[Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it...[my
counsels to you] be of that nature as is sometimes not good for me to give,
but are always good for you to follow.
Bost 12.194 20
...how much more attractive and true that this [Christian]
piety should be the central trait and the stern virtues follow than that
Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on his defence.
AgMs 12.360 18
[Farmers] could not afford to follow such advice as is
given here [in the Agricultural Survey];...
PPr 12.379 2
Here is Carlyle's new poem [Past and Present], his Iliad of
English woes, to follow his poem on France...
followed, v. (52)
Nat 1.22 26
...each [of the intellectual and the active powers] prepares and
will be followed by the other.
Nat 1.29 26
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of
language.
AmS 1.112 7
This idea [of Unity] has inspired the genius...in a newer time,
of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. This idea they have differently
followed...
DSA 1.147 8
Discharge to men the priestly office, and...you shall be
followed with their love...
LE 1.183 14
They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or
inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man...now and then [emitting] a
jet of luminous thought followed by total darkness;...
MR 1.256 4
It is better that joy should be spread over all the day in the
form of strength, than that it should be concentrated into ecstasies, full of
danger and followed by reactions.
SR 2.63 5
As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed
[kings'] public and renowned steps.
Hsm1 2.255 9
It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the
battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides,--O Virtue! I have followed
thee through life, and I find thee at last but a shade.
Mrs1 3.127 16
Thus grows up Fashion...the most feared and followed...
NMW 4.235 4
My method was immediately followed by the adjoining
batteries...
ET4 5.61 22
King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward
to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him;...
ET4 5.73 9
...rich Englishmen have followed [William the Conqueror's]
example...in encroaching on the tillage and commons with their game-preserves.
ET6 5.109 20
Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to
the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...followed by a long
brood of children.
ET14 5.237 27
The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and
Latin...by lectures of a professor, followed by their own searchings,--
required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
ET14 5.243 13
These heights [of the Elizabethan age] were followed by a
meanness and a descent of the mind into lower levels;...
ET14 5.249 19
In the decomposition and asphyxia that followed all this
materialism [in England], Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness
and the cant, into the preaching of Fate.
ET16 5.282 6
...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the
magnet; laid their courses by it; their cardinal points in Stonehenge,
Ambresbury, and elsewhere...followed the variations of the compass.
ET16 5.288 8
As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when
dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was
altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the wall, and our host
[Arthur Helps] wittily rescued us from the dilemma, by saying he was the
wickedest and would walk out first, then Carlyle followed, and I went last.
ET17 5.291 21
At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester
correspondent awaiting me, a gentleman whose kind reception was
followed by a train of friendly and effective attentions...
ET19 5.309 13
Sir Archibald Alison, the historian, presided [at the
Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], and opened the meeting with a speech.
He was followed by Mr. Cobden, Lord Brackley and others...
Wth 6.122 3
Mr. Stephenson...believing that the river knows the way,
followed his valley as implicitly as our Western Railroad follows the
Westfield River...
Wsp 6.203 24
Nothing can exceed the anarchy that has followed in our
skies.
CbW 6.254 1
...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander
introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
SS 7.3 8
In the conversation that followed, my new friend made some
extraordinary confessions.
SS 7.3 16
...[my new friend's] evident earnestness engaged my attention,
and in the weeks that followed we became better acquainted.
DL 7.118 5
With a change of aim has followed a change of the whole scale
by which men and things were wont to be measured.
Farm 7.135 19
What these strong masters [farmers] wrote at large in
miles,/ I followed in small copy in my acre;/...
WD 7.169 6
In college terms, and in years that followed, the young
graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were
in a swamp, would see a festive light...
Cour 7.255 4
...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to
come at their end;...and leads them in glad surprise to the very point where
they would be: this man is followed with acclamation.
Cour 7.278 6
A little Indian boy/ Followed him [George Nidiver]
everywhere,/ Eager to share the hunter's joy,/ The hunter's meal to share./
PI 8.21 18
A thought...pressed, followed, opened, dwarfs matter, custom,
and all but itself.
Insp 8.285 6
...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it,
instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./ But they
left me lying in sleep/ Dull, and not to be enlivened,/ And after every late
morning/ Followed unprofitable days./
PerF 10.83 2
...the mighty Intellect did not stoop to [the susceptible man]
and become property, but he rose to it and followed its circuits.
Supl 10.170 17
[The guest's] health was drunk with some acknowledgment
of his distinguished services to both countries, and followed by nine cold
hurrahs.
Supl 10.171 5
...I had been present...in the country at a cattle-show dinner,
which followed an agricultural discourse delivered by a farmer...
SovE 10.204 21
I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by
which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism...
MoL 10.246 26
There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by
suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought. Niebuhr has given striking
examples of that fatal portent; as in the loss of power of thought that
followed the disasters of the Athenians in Sicily.
LLNE 10.334 10
...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts
and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his
hearers when the church was dismissed, but the bright image of that
eloquent form followed the boy home to his bed-chamber;...
LLNE 10.353 21
Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world
becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in obedience to [a
man's] most private being he finds himself...acting in strict concert with all
others who followed their private light.
EzRy 10.381 13
Ezra Ripley followed the business of farming till sixteen
years of age...
EzRy 10.388 1
[Ezra Ripley said] When I came to this town, your great-grandfather
was a substantial farmer in this very place...and an excellent
citizen. Your grandfather followed him, and was a virtuous man.
MMEm 10.424 11
Hail requiem of departed Time! Never was incumbent's
funeral followed by expectant heir with more satisfaction.
LS 11.22 15
...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end
that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps,
was to redeem us from a formal religion...
FSLC 11.197 1
The humiliating scandal of great men warping right into
wrong [in the Fugitive Slave Law] was followed up very fast by the cities.
FSLN 11.216 1
We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/
Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught
his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/
FSLN 11.220 7
...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the
opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an
exponent of this. He too is responsible; they will not be. It will always
suffice to say,-I followed him.
FSLN 11.226 24
[Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful
speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee
through life, and I find thee but a shadow.
HCom 11.340 15
...They followed [Truth] and found her/ Where all may
hope to find/ Not in the ashes of the burnt-out mind,/ But beautiful, with
danger's sweetness round her./
Wom 11.422 8
Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if
followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.
Shak1 11.452 8
[Periods fruitful of great men] are like the great wine
years...which, it is said, are always followed by new vivacity in the politics
of Europe.
Bost 12.200 24
The American idea, Emancipation...has, of course, its
sinister side...but if followed it leads to heavenly places.
MAng1 12.225 9
...[Michelangelo] was instantly followed with apologies
and importunities to return [to Florence].
follower, n. (2)
Nat 1.71 27
Now is man the follower of the sun, and woman the follower
of the moon.
OS 2.295 19
...[the soul] is no follower;...
followers, n. (11)
YA 1.376 25
Each chief attaches as many followers as he can...
MoS 4.174 14
My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints
infected. They found the ark empty; saw, and would not tell; and tried to
choke off their approaching followers, by saying, Action, action, my dear
fellows, is for you!
ShP 4.214 25
...the sentence [in Shakespeare] is so loaded with meaning
and so linked with its foregoers and followers, that the logician is satisfied.
NMW 4.257 7
Never was such a leader so endowed and so weaponed [as
Napoleon]; never leader found such aids and followers.
GoW 4.267 27
[The speculative and the practical faculties, say the
Hindoos,] are but one, for for...the place which is gained by the followers of
the one is gained by the followers of the other.
GoW 4.268 1
[The speculative and the practical faculties, say the Hindoos,]
are but one, for for...the place which is gained by the followers of the one is
gained by the followers of the other.
Cour 7.273 8
...it is not the means on which we draw, as...multitudes of
followers, that count, but the aims only.
Aris 10.44 1
...when the well-mixed man is born...he brings with him
fortune, followers, love, power.
LLNE 10.330 5
The popular religion of our fathers had received many
severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic
theologians, Hartley and Priestley and Belsham, the followers of Locke;...
HDC 11.60 20
...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow
and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at
the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
EdAd 11.390 13
As soon as men have tasted the enjoyment of learning,
friendship and virtue, for which the State exists, the prizes of office appear
polluted, and their followers outcasts.
following, adj. (33)
Nat 1.12 4
Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a
multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result. They all admit of being
thrown into one of the following classes: Commodity; Beauty; Language;
and Discipline.
Nat 1.68 17
The following lines are part of [Herbert's] little poem on Man.
DSA 1.129 7
...what a distortion did [Jesus's] doctrine and memory suffer
in the same, in the next, and the following ages!
Comp 2.96 11
I shall attempt in this and the following chapter to record
some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation;...
Hsm1 2.245 19
...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain
heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep
grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident
in the plot, rises naturally into poetry. Among many texts take the following.
NER 3.267 23
...the speculations of one generation are the history of the
next following.
ShP 4.195 24
The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a
superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know
well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with
Cromwell...
ShP 4.203 10
...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and
acquaintances, the following persons: Theodore Beza, Isaac Casaubon...
NMW 4.234 15
Seruzier, a colonel of artillery, gives...the following sketch
of a scene after the battle of Austerlitz.
ET4 5.62 21
The mildness of the following ages has not quite effaced these
traits of Odin;...
ET8 5.139 24
The following passage from the Heimskringla might almost
stand as a portrait of the modern Englishman...
ET12 5.202 17
My friend Doctor J. gave me the following anecdote.
Bhr 6.185 17
Here are the sweet following eyes of Cecile; it seemed always
that she demanded the heart.
Boks 7.206 10
The Life of the Emperor Charles V., by the useful
Robertson, is still the key of the following age.
OA 7.332 22
[John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was
ninety in the following October);...
Elo2 8.123 10
...[John Quincy Adams] took such ground in the debates of
the following session as to lose the sympathy of many of his constituents in
Boston.
PPo 8.243 21
Take, as specimens of these [Persian] gnomic verses, the
following...
PPo 8.254 17
And with still more vigor in the following lines: Oft have I
said,/ I, a wanderer, do not stray from myself./
PPo 8.255 7
In the following poem the soul is figured as the Phoenix
alighting on Tuba, the Tree of Life...
PPo 8.262 11
The following passages exhibit the strong tendency of the
Persian poets to contemplative and religious poetry and to allegory.
PPo 8.263 20
From this poem [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations],
written five hundred years ago, we cite the following passage...
LLNE 10.325 19
It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any
precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the
twenty years following.
CSC 10.373 11
The [Chardon Street] Convention...spent three days in the
consideration of the Sabbath, and adjourned to a day in March of the
following year [1841]...
CSC 10.373 15
In March [1841]...a three-day' session [of the Chardon
Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the
Church, and a third meeting fixed for the following November...
EzRy 10.384 15
In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe
and comfortable journey to York.
HDC 11.63 7
[Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy
from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676.
The following year, he was sent to England, with Mr. Stoughton, as agent
for the Colony;...
EWI 11.112 21
With these provisions and conditions, the bill [for
emancipation in the West Indies] proceeds...in the following terms...
SMC 11.373 11
[George Prescott] was carried off the field to the division
hospital, and died on the following morning.
SMC 11.376 14
...I do not like to omit the testimony to the character of the
Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George
Prescott], given in the following letter by one of his soldiers...
Scot 11.465 11
The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified
by the superior genius of the following romances...
Milt1 12.267 4
...the following passage...indicates [Milton's] own
perception of the doctrine of humility.
EurB 12.378 6
I fear it was in part the influence of such pictures [as in
Vivian Grey] on living society which made the style of manners of which
we have so many pictures, as, for example, in the following account of the
English fashionist.
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...
following, n. (3)
SA 8.83 15
One man can, by his voice, lead the cheer of a regiment;
another will have no following.
ACiv 11.299 27
...a literal, slavish following of precedents...is not for those
who at this hour lead the destinies of this people.
FRep 11.514 13
In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant
who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title to [the party's]
permanent respect, and to a larger following, is to see for himself what is
the real public interest, and to stand for that;...
following, v. (30)
Nat 1.63 19
...when, following the invisible steps of thought, we come to
inquire, Whence is matter? and Whereto? many truths arise to us...
DSA 1.125 15
[The sentiment of virtue] corrects the capital mistake of the
infant man, who seeks to be great by following the great...
MN 1.191 17
Avarice, hesitation, and following, are our diseases.
Pt1 3.20 27
...[the poet]...following with his eyes the life, uses the forms
which express that life...
Pt1 3.31 7
...George Chapman, following [Timaeus], writes, So in our tree
of man, whose nervie root/ Springs in his top;/...
NER 3.263 27
Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of
Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in
Massachusetts on kindred plans...
PPh 4.59 7
In reading logarithms one is not more secure than in following
Plato in his flights.
PNR 4.87 2
The names of things, too, [to Plato] are fatal, following the
nature of things.
SwM 4.95 10
The Koran makes a distinct class of those...whose goodness
has an influence on others, and pronounces this class to be the aim of
creation: the other classes are admitted to the feast of being, only as
following in the train of this.
SwM 4.104 18
Malpighi, following the high doctrines of Hippocrates,
Leucippus and Lucretius, had given emphasis to the dogma that nature
works in leasts...
NMW 4.223 12
Following [Swedenborg's] analogy, if any man is found to
carry with him the power and affections of vast numbers, if Napoleon is
France...it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
ET5 5.80 15
...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is...the
logic of cooks, carpenters and chemists, following the sequence of nature...
ET17 5.297 19
Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know that in following
the strong bent of his genius, he was careless of the many, careless also of
the few...
ET18 5.303 22
...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded
forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred
years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted
through all climates, mainly following the belt of empire...
DL 7.133 23
...whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my
repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the
life of man to splendor...
Farm 7.148 23
The chemist comes to [the farmer's] aid every year by
following out some new hint drawn from Nature...
PI 8.14 23
...[the Hindoos], following Buddha, have made it the central
doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence...
PI 8.21 5
The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can
detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared.
Grts 8.310 14
I mean that there is for you the following of an inward
leader...
Edc1 10.154 11
...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of
nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the
life of the teacher.
EzRy 10.384 4
[Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in
what is called a particular providence...following the narrowness of King
David and the Jews...
HDC 11.35 13
The great cost of cattle...the sufferings of the people
[pilgrims] in the great snows and cold soon following;...are the other
disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
HDC 11.73 25
The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge,
posted two companies...to guard the bridge...
EWI 11.111 17
...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and
Baptist missionaries, following in the steps of Carey and Ward in the East
Indies, had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor
victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...
FSLC 11.203 21
Mr. Webster perhaps is only following the laws of his
blood and constitution.
PLT 12.20 6
This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts.
The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure,
fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before.
PLT 12.56 11
There are two theories of life;... One is activity...the
following of that practical talent which we have...
CL 12.139 6
...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in
Massachusetts...and following what is usually the natural suggestion of
these pursuits, ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes, Nature has
to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.
Milt1 12.277 27
...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry,
following that of Aristotle, Poetry...seeks to accommodate the shows of
things to the desires of the mind...
EurB 12.369 9
...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the
conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by
Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...from the lessons which the country
muse taught a stout pedestrian...following a river from its parent rill down
to the sea.
follows, v. (27)
Comp 2.112 7
Of the like nature [to Fear] is that expectation of change
which instantly follows the suspension of our voluntary activity.
SL 2.151 8
The scholar...follows some giddy girl...
Cir 2.305 21
Every several result is threatened and judged by that which
follows.
Nat2 3.192 27
The present object [in nature] shall give you this sense of
stillness that follows a pageant which has just gone by.
Pol1 3.201 15
The history of the State...follows at a distance the delicacy of
culture and of aspiration.
ET10 5.154 4
...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave
moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer.
F 6.20 10
...Vishnu follows Maya through all her ascending changes...
F 6.22 6
If Fate follows and limits Power, Power attends and antagonizes
Fate.
Wth 6.94 26
The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a
man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and
implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...
Wth 6.101 18
Money...follows the nature and fortunes of the owner.
Wth 6.102 3
In the city, where money follows the skit of a pen...[the dollar]
comes to be looked on as light.
Wth 6.122 4
Mr. Stephenson...believing that the river knows the way,
followed his valley as implicitly as our Western Railroad follows the
Westfield River...
SS 7.11 25
It by no means follows that we are not fit for society, because
soirees are tedious and because the soiree finds us tedious.
Art2 7.51 12
...it follows that a study of admirable works of art sharpens
our perceptions of the beauty of Nature;...
Elo1 7.82 13
The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows
like a child its preceptor...
Aris 10.50 25
It is not sufficient that your work follows your genius...
Chr2 10.107 12
...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious]
offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...
Prch 10.220 15
...the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the
nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned.
Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take tacit part with
them, to cast off reverence for the Church; and there follows an age of
unbelief.
MMEm 10.416 14
Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as the
shadow does the form.
HDC 11.77 1
...the eye of affection and veneration follows you [veterans of
the battle of Concord].
War 11.165 27
It follows of course that the least change in the man will
change his circumstances;...
TPar 11.289 14
One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he...sometimes vexed
[his friends] with the importunity of his good opinion, whilst they knew
better the ebb which follows unfounded praise.
Wom 11.412 27
The passion [of love], with all its grace and poetry, is
profane to that which follows it.
PLT 12.11 27
...he who who contents himself with...recording only what
facts he has observed...follows a system also...
PLT 12.63 7
...[identification of the Ego with the universe's]
communication from one to another follows its own law...
II 12.75 8
...[the inner mind's] communication from one to another follows
its own law...
AgMs 12.360 8
...it was easy to see that [Edmund Hosmer] felt toward the
author [of the Agricultural Survey] much as soldiers do toward the
historiographer who follows the camp...
folly, n. (41)
LE 1.177 8
...the world revenges itself by exposing, at every turn, the folly
of these...pedantic...creatures.
SR 2.72 1
All men have my blood and I all men's. Not for that will I adopt
their petulance or folly...
Comp 2.98 13
For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
Fdsp 2.201 17
In one condemnation of folly stand the whole universe of
men.
Fdsp 2.212 3
There are innumerable degrees of folly and wisdom...
Cir 2.316 1
...one man's wisdom [is] another's folly;...
Exp 3.57 22
Something is earned...by conversing with so much folly and
defect.
Chr1 3.115 16
Whilst [the holy sentiment] blooms, I will keep sabbath or
holy time, and suspend my gloom and my folly and jokes.
Nat2 3.187 12
...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition...
Pol1 3.205 1
...there are limitations beyond which the folly and ambition of
governors cannot go.
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 4.29 13
...if we indulge [children] to folly, they learn the limitation
elsewhere.
PPh 4.72 14
...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates]
had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there,
evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh
ruined him.
SwM 4.98 5
...the men of God purchased their science by folly or pain.
SwM 4.145 6
Do not rely...on compassion to folly...
MoS 4.183 21
[The man of thought] is content...with triumph of folly and
fraud.
ShP 4.201 9
Every book supplies its time with one good word; every
municipal law, every trade, every folly of the day;...
ET1 5.10 23
...[Coleridge] burst into a declamation on the folly and
ignorance of Unitarianism...
ET9 5.144 10
Every individual [in England] has his particular way of
living, which he pushes to folly...
ET13 5.221 20
The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English
understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain.
CbW 6.262 16
In our life and culture everything is worked up and comes in
use,--passion, war, revolt, bankruptcy, and not less, folly and blunders...
CbW 6.269 20
...folly in the sense of fun...can easily be borne;...
CbW 6.270 16
...let all the truth that is spoken or done be at the zero of
indifferency, or truth itself will be folly.
Bty 6.287 27
We know [our friends] have intervals of folly...
Bty 6.299 4
Faces...are a record in sculpture of a thousand anecdotes of
whim and folly.
Ill 6.322 13
Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed,
from one folly to another;...
OA 7.319 12
...they who take the larger draughts [of the cup of time]...lose
their stature, strength, beauty and senses, and end in folly and delirium.
PI 8.55 6
Hence, all ye vain delights,/ As short as are the nights/ In which
you spend your folly!/
Grts 8.304 3
A sensible person will soon see the folly and wickedness of
thinking to please.
Aris 10.37 2
From the folly of too much association we must come back to
the repose of self-reverence and trust.
Edc1 10.136 22
...let not the sallies of [the young man's] petulance or folly
be checked with disgust or indignation or despair.
Supl 10.175 22
Nature is always serious,-does not jest with us. Where we
have begun in folly, we are brought quickly to plain dealing.
SovE 10.184 14
...all the animals show the same good sense in their humble
walk that the man who is their enemy or friend does; and, if it be in smaller
measure, yet it is not diminished, as his often is, by freak and folly.
MMEm 10.416 14
Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as the
shadow does the form.
EWI 11.100 2
...whether by the wisdom of its friends, or by the folly of its
adversaries;...[emancipation] goes forward.
EdAd 11.383 3
The material basis [of America] is of such extent that no
folly of man can quite subvert it;...
PLT 12.8 24
...was there ever prophet burdened with a message to his
people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his own
mind of private folly with his public wisdom?
PLT 12.9 2
...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary
men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society, where
the manners and estimate of the world have corrected this folly...
MLit 12.310 21
[The library of the Present Age] can hardly be
characterized by any species of book, for...every whim and folly, has an
organ.
Let 12.395 26
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 12.401 24
...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every
other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate, folly increases...
Folly, Praise of [Desideriu (1)
CbW 6.253 3
[Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the
interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in
their times...like Erasmus, with his book, The Praise of Folly;...
Folly, Praise of, n. (1)
Boks 7.211 22
...[the Germans] take any general topic, as...Praise of Folly,
and write and quote without method or end.
Folsom, Abigail, n. (1)
CSC 10.375 22
...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon
Street Convention];...that flea of Conventions, Mrs. Abigail Folsom, was
but too ready with her interminable scroll.
folwe, v. (1)
Aris 10.30 2
...he that wol have prize of his genterie,/ For he was boren of a
gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven
do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is
not gentil, be he duke or erl;/...
fond, adj. (32)
LT 1.280 13
We are all thankful [the denouncing philanthropist] has no
more political power, as we are fond of liberty ourselves.
Prd1 2.224 22
...our existence...so fond of splendor and so tender to hunger
and cold and debt, reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
Gts 3.159 21
Nature does not cocker us; we are children, not pets; she is
not fond;...
PPh 4.71 13
The young men are prodigiously fond of [Socrates]...
PPh 4.71 22
[Socrates]...was monstrously fond of Athens...
NMW 4.250 8
[Napoleon] was very fond of talking of religion.
NMW 4.250 26
Of medicine too [Bonaparte] was fond of talking...
ET6 5.107 26
[The Englishman] is very fond of silver plate...
ET7 5.119 3
[The English] are not fond of ornaments...
Pow 6.75 17
...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not
too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am
sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to
business,--that is the way to be happy.
Wth 6.100 24
Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles
banker who said to his visitor...Young man, you are too young to
understand how masses are formed;...
Ctr 6.152 20
The Italians are fond of red clothes...
Bhr 6.167 17
Too weak to win, too fond to shun/ The tyrants or his doom,/
The much deceived Endymion/ Slips behind a tomb./
SS 7.6 14
If [Archimedes and Newton] had been good fellows, fond of
dancing, port and clubs, we should have had no Theory of the Sphere and
no Principia.
Clbs 7.249 12
We know that l'homme de lettres is...not fond of giving
away his seed-corn;...
Res 8.152 3
When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from
memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/
he must...go to wooded uplands...
Insp 8.269 3
It was Watt who told King George III. that he dealt in an
article of which kings were said to be fond,-Power.
Grts 8.310 9
You are rightly fond of certain books or men...
Aris 10.42 17
The ancients were fond of ascribing to their nobles gigantic
proportions and strength.
Supl 10.174 17
We are fond of dress, of ornament, of accomplishments, of
talents...
Schr 10.273 8
In this country we are fond of results and of short ways to
them;...
LLNE 10.343 15
From that time meetings were held for conversation...of
people...fond of books...
EzRy 10.385 4
[Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay?
Have I not been proud or too fond of this convenience?
EzRy 10.385 7
[Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a
shay? ... Should I not be more in my study and less fond of diversion?
EzRy 10.394 27
[Ezra Ripley] was...not fond of adventure or innovation.
SlHr 10.440 2
[Samuel Hoar] was fond of farms and trees...
SlHr 10.440 3
[Samuel Hoar] was...fond of birds...
Thor 10.456 19
...[Thoreau] was really fond of sympathy...
HDC 11.27 7
Where are these men? asleep beneath their grounds:/ And
strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough./
Scot 11.464 5
...I believe that many of those who read [Scott's books] in
youth...will make some fond exception for Scott as for Byron.
PLT 12.36 17
[Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror
sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek...
not fond of the extravagant and unbounded-pay to unscrutable force we
call Instinct...
Pray 12.350 1
Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,/ Nor gems whose
rates are either rich or poor/ As fancy values them; but with true prayers,/...
fondle, v. (1)
Ctr 6.137 14
It is not a compliment but a disparagement...whenever [a
man] appears, considerately to turn the conversation to the bantling he is
known to fondle.
fondly, adv. (2)
MMEm 10.404 25
...wonderfully as [Mary Moody Emerson] varies and
poetically repeats that image [of the angel of Death] in every page and day,
yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other,-the grandeur of
humility and privation...
MMEm 10.412 15
...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when
the heart thrills with hope in its Author...it exults, too fondly perhaps for a
state of trial.
fondness, n. (1)
Bost 12.188 21
I do not speak with any fondness, but with the language of
coldest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town
which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of
North America.
fondnesses, n. (1)
Fdsp 2.207 15
In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a
social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there
present. No partialities of friend to friend, no fondnesses of brother to
sister...are there pertinent...
Fontanes, Louis de, n. (1)
NMW 4.228 4
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.
Fontenelle, Bernard de Bovi (2)
Chr2 10.109 13
Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of
men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they...would exclaim,
with disappointment, Is that all?
War 11.156 20
...Fontenelle expressed a volume of meaning when he said,
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
Fontenelle, Bernard le Bouv (1)
ET3 5.42 21
Fontenelle thought that nature had sometimes a little
affectation;...
Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovi (2)
Suc 7.302 16
Fontenelle said: There are three things about which I have
curiosity, though I know nothing of them,--music, poetry and love.
OA 7.322 25
We still feel the force...of Fontenelle...
Fonthill Abbey, England, n. (1)
ET10 5.165 14
Strawberry Hill of Horace Walpole, Fonthill Abbey of Mr.
Beckford, were freaks;...
food, n. (88)
Nat 1.9 6
[The lover of nature's] intercourse with heaven and earth
becomes part of his daily food.
Nat 1.36 5
Space...food...give us sincerest lessons...whose meaning is
unlimited.
Nat 1.69 8
The whole is either our cupboard of food,/ Or cabinet of
pleasure./
AmS 1.83 21
The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food,
is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry.
AmS 1.92 14
...[insects] lay up food before death for the young grub they
shall never see.
AmS 1.92 19
...the human body can be nourished on any food...
AmS 1.108 13
...we crave a better and more abundant food.
LE 1.172 2
...the first observation you make...may open a new view of
nature and of man, that...shall take up Greece, Rome, Stoicism,
Eclecticism...as mere data and food for analysis...
MN 1.209 27
If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...he becomes careless of
his food and of his house...
MR 1.231 13
...nothing is left [the young man] but to begin the world
anew, as he does who puts the spade into the ground for food.
MR 1.247 15
If we...say,-I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch
any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent...we shall stand still.
Tran 1.337 9
I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition
to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like
Epaminondas and John de Witt;...I would commit sacrilege with David;
yea, and pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath, for no other reason than that I
was fainting for lack of food.
Tran 1.338 12
...we have yet no man who has leaned entirely on his
character, and eaten angel's food;...
YA 1.365 27
The continent we inhabit is to be physic and food for our
mind, as well as our body.
Hist 2.40 16
...what food or experience or succor have [Olympiads and
Consulates] for the Esquimaux seal-hunter...
Prd1 2.226 16
[The northerner] must brew, bake, salt and preserve his
food...
Hsm1. 2.252 23
...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...laying traps
for sweet food and strong wine...
Exp 3.50 25
Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at
some time shown...if he...cannot go by food?...
Exp 3.64 11
[Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful...do not
come out of the Sunday School, nor weigh their food...
Mrs1 3.141 6
Insight we must have, or we shall run against one another and
miss the way to our food;...
Pol1 3.197 3
All earth's fleece and food/ For their like are sold./
NER 3.252 25
[Other reformers] attacked the system of agriculture, the use
of animal manures in farming, and the tyranny of man over brute nature;
these abuses polluted his food.
UGM 4.7 13
What is good...makes for itself room, food and allies.
UGM 4.7 19
...each legitimate idea makes its own channels and welcome,--
harvests for food...
UGM 4.8 22
...plants convert the minerals into food for animals...
UGM 4.10 10
...hunger and food...circle us round in a wreath of pleasures...
UGM 4.30 23
Why are the masses...food for knives and powder?
PPh 4.41 26
What is a great man but one of great affinities, who takes up
into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables, as his food?
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.
MoS 4.178 2
We have been sopped and drugged...with food, with woman,
with children...
ShP 4.190 6
A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say,
I am full of life...I will ransack botany and find a new food for man...
NMW 4.231 1
Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was
born; a man...capable...of going many days together without rest or food
except by snatches...
ET4 5.47 5
In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that
give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the
miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to...copy heedfully the
training--what food they ate...
ET4 5.48 25
Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form.
Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...plenty of
food;...
ET4 5.53 18
In Ireland are the same climate and soil as in England, but less
food...
ET4 5.58 1
[The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people...drawing half their
food from the sea and half from the land.
ET10 5.167 26
England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the
adulteration of food, of drugs...
F 6.12 7
Each [tendency] absorbs so much food and force as to become
itself a new centre.
F 6.33 8
...the wild beasts [man] makes useful for food...
F 6.36 11
The whole circle of animal life...devouring war, war for food...
pleases at a sufficient perspective.
F 6.37 9
The long sleep...is regulated by the supply of food proper to the
animal.
F 6.37 12
[The animal]...regains its activity when its food is ready.
F 6.37 18
There is adjustment between the animal and its food...
F 6.37 21
[Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...
F 6.38 1
There are more belongings to every creature than his air and his
food.
F 6.39 27
The same fitness must be presumed between a man and the time
and event, as...between a race of animals and the food it eats...
F 6.49 8
Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity, which secures that
all is made of one piece; that...food and eater are of one kind.
Ctr 6.132 7
The physician Sanctorius spent his life in a pair of scales,
weighing his food.
Bhr 6.167 6
...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their
sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/...
DL 7.115 7
We owe to man higher succors than food and fire.
Farm 7.137 5
The food which was not, [the farmer] causes to be.
Farm 7.140 9
...[the farmer] has...plenty of plain food;...
Farm 7.140 18
Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly
connected with abundance of food;...
Farm 7.149 3
...the vines and stalks and stems may go sprawling about in
the fields outside, [the farmer] will attend to the roots in his tub, gorge them
with food that is good for them.
WD 7.162 23
Malthus, when he stated that the mouths went on multiplying
geometrically and the food only arithmetically, forgot to say that the human
mind was also a factor in political economy...
WD 7.178 5
...though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to
its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it, whether
time, or space, or light, or water, or food.
Cour 7.267 23
The llama that will carry a load if you caress him, will
refuse food and die if he is scourged.
Suc 7.293 20
It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the
house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst
it is a thought, though it were...a new food...it is a chimera;...
PI 8.52 11
We ask for food and fire...in prose;...
PI 8.59 6
[Taliessin says] Of an enemy,--The cauldron of the sea was
bordered round by his land, but it would not boil the food of a coward./
SA 8.97 27
...beware of jokes; too much temperance cannot be used:
inestimable for sauce, but corrupting for food, we go away hollow and
ashamed.
SA 8.99 23
...[manners and talk] require...human labor for food, clothes,
house, tools...
Res 8.143 17
...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has sent home to China
American food and tools and luxuries...
Comc 8.171 10
More food for the Comic is afforded whenever the personal
appearance, the face, form and manners, are subjects of thought with the
man himself.
QO 8.201 6
[The individual] must draw the elements into him for food...
PPo 8.254 23
Give me what you will; I eat thistles as roses,/ And according
to my food I grow and I give./
Insp 8.281 6
...wine, no doubt, and all fine food, as of delicate fruits,
furnish some elemental wisdom.
Imtl 8.337 2
...the wish for food, the wish for motion...are not random
whims...
Imtl 8.337 6
...the wish for food, the wish for motion, the wish for sleep,
for society, for knowledge, are...grounded in the structure of the creature,
and meant to be satisfied by food, by motion, by sleep, by society, by
knowledge.
LLNE 10.329 16
The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of
past ages...like a mother yielding food from her own breast instead of
preparing it through chemic and culinary skill...all gone;...
Thor 10.463 9
[Thoreau] liked and used the simplest food...
Thor 10.466 20
...the fishes [in the Concord River], and their spawning and
nests, their manners, their food;...were all known to [Thoreau]...
EWI 11.103 2
For the negro, was the slave-ship to begin with...bad food,
and insufficiency of that;...
EWI 11.143 12
Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature;...
War 11.152 1
...in the infancy of society, when a thin population and
improvidence make the supply of food and of shelter insufficient and very
precarious...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the
cost of the weak...
CPL 11.507 19
The imagination knows its own food in every pasture...
PLT 12.21 27
If man has organs...for locomotion, for taking food...you
shall find all the same in the muskrat.
PLT 12.24 27
Increase [the plant's] food and it becomes fertile.
PLT 12.32 18
Though the world is full of food we can take only the crumbs
fit for us.
PLT 12.33 1
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that
are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system.
PLT 12.33 2
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that
are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no
longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated.
II 12.80 24
Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where is no food, and it
thrives...
Mem 12.93 9
As every creature is furnished with teeth to seize and eat, and
with stomach to digest its food, so the memory is furnished with a perfect
apparatus.
Mem 12.107 2
When the body is in a quiescent state...in the moderation of
food, it yields itself a willing medium to the intellect.
CL 12.149 24
[The Indian] can draw...food and antidotes from a hundred
plants.
Bost 12.183 2
The old physiologists said, There is in the air a hidden food
of life;...
Bost 12.197 2
...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of
providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the
long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...
ACri 12.295 21
...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of
Dover wider...they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some
ages yet; as the camel in the desert is fed by his humps, in long absence
from food.
foods, n. (3)
WD 7.171 4
...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the earth
with its foods;...are given immeasurably to all.
Clbs 7.225 11
Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects...are the necessity
of this exigent system of ours.
ChiE 11.474 9
[Asian immigrants] send back to their friends, in China...
new tools, machinery, new foods, etc....
fool, n. (30)
LE 1.176 18
How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons,
the fool of society...
LE 1.176 18
How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons,
the fool of society, the fool of notoriety...
MN 1.210 1
If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...he is the fool of ideas...
Tran 1.352 17
...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief
experience, which...made me aware that I had played the fool with fools all
this time...
Tran 1.352 20
...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief
experience, which...made me aware...that to me belonged trust, a child's
trust, and obedience, and the worship of ideas, and I should never be fool
more.
YA 1.381 18
All this drudgery...to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's
flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked
into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.
Comp 2.122 20
...the true, the benevolent, the wise, is more a man and not
less, than the fool and knave.
SL 2.159 13
[A man's] vice...writes O fool! fool! on the forehead of a king.
SL 2.159 16
A man may play the fool in the drifts of a desert, but every
grain of sand shall seem to see.
Int 2.344 22
I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Aeschyluses to my
intellectual integrity.
Pt1 3.41 26
...thou [O poet] must pass for a fool and a churl for a long
season.
Exp 3.66 27
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Chr1 3.115 24
...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a
wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any
compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring
can know its face...
Mrs1 3.154 19
Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his
speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes,
yet was there never...some fool who had cut off his beard...but fled at once
to him;...
Nat2 3.185 25
The child...the fool of his senses...lies down at night
overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has
incurred.
MoS 4.170 19
A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line,
but...a hero born from a fool, a fool from a hero,--dispirits us.
GoW 4.266 10
Ideas...at last make a fool of the possessor.
ET10 5.164 14
...the provisions to lock and transmit [English property]
have exercised the cunningest heads in a profession which never admits a
fool.
ET11 5.196 3
Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen,
by making the