Persuade to Picard
persuade, v. (17)
AmS 1.105 16
They are the kings of the world who...persuade men...that
this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...
Nat2 3.170 18
The incommunicable trees begin to persuade us to live with
them...
Nat2 3.171 5
We come to our own [in the woods], and make friends with
matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to
despise.
Pol1 3.220 24
There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of
the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of
things, to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial
restraints, as well as the solar system;...
NER 3.265 18
I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to
prevail on myself to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy...
NER 3.282 3
We would persuade our fellow to this or that; another self
within our eyes dissuades him.
Elo1 7.80 26
Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to
him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?...
PI 8.13 24
...a good symbol...is a missionary to persuade thousands.
SA 8.92 17
...speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
Elo2 8.122 3
...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning
manners, almost endearments in their style; like Bouillon, who could
almost persuade you that a quartan ague was wholesome;...
Schr 10.282 20
...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of
persons to renounce their opinions, and change the course of life.
Schr 10.285 6
[Men of talent]...noisily persuade society that this thing
which they do is the needful cause of all men.
HDC 11.31 25
Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set
his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number
of planters to join him.
CPL 11.499 13
...whenever [Mary Moody Emerson] arrived in a town
where was a good minister who had a library, she would persuade him to
receive her as a boarder...
CInt 12.120 10
...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony
with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of
Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...strong by the strength of the facts
themselves. Then the orator is still one of the audience, persuaded by the
same reasons which persuade them;...
CL 12.160 1
...the speculators who rush for investment...are all more or less
mad...these...persuade us to seek in the fields the health of the mind.
WSL 12.339 6
...nor will [Landor] persuade us to burn Plato and
Xenophon, out of our admiration of Bishop Patrick...
persuaded, v. (20)
Chr1 3.91 15
[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,--invincibly persuaded of that fact in
himself...
Mrs1 3.145 21
The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible
to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout, who loved his friend and
persuaded his enemy;...
PPh 4.60 21
I, therefore, Callicles, am persuaded by these accounts [said
Plato], and consider how I may exhibit my soul before the judge in a
healthy condition.
MoS 4.170 10
We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things...
ET9 5.148 2
If one of [the English] have...a squeaking or a raven voice, he
has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...
Wth 6.91 22
The world is full of fops...who had persuaded beauties and
men of genius to wear their fop livery;...
Wth 6.100 7
[The right merchant] is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of
arithmetic.
Elo1 7.73 10
Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes, on hearing the report
of one of his orations, Had I been there, he would have persuaded me to
take up arms against myself;...
Chr2 10.109 18
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?
Plu 10.313 2
When you are persuaded in your mind that you cannot either
offer or perform anything more agreeable to the gods than the entertaining a
right notion of them, you will then avoid superstition as a no less evil than
atheism.
Plu 10.318 27
[Alexander] persuaded the Sogdians not to kill, but to
cherish their aged parents;...
MMEm 10.401 5
Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary [Moody
Emerson], and persuaded the family to give the child up to her as a
daughter...
EWI 11.100 23
When we consider what remains to be done for this interest
[emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of
such as are not yet persuaded.
ACiv 11.300 25
...interests were never persuaded.
EdAd 11.386 13
...we are persuaded that moral and material values are
always commensurate.
EdAd 11.388 26
...we have seen the best understandings of New England...
persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England
sentiment any longer.
CPL 11.500 16
Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...more widely
known as the writer of some of the best books which have been written in
this country, and which, I am persuaded, have not yet gathered half their
fame.
CInt 12.120 9
...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with
the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of
Patrick Henry...strong by the strength of the facts themselves. Then the
orator is still one of the audience, persuaded by the same reasons which
persuade them;...
Milt1 12.252 10
...we are persuaded, [Milton] kindles a love and emulation
in us which he did not in foregoing generations.
Let 12.396 4
We shall hardly trust ourselves to reply to arguments by
which we would gladly be persuaded.
persuader, n. (1)
PerF 10.74 24
[Man] is...a geometer, an astronomer, a persuader of men...
and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in
him and enables him to work on the material elements.
persuades, v. (3)
Exp 3.81 19
...I cannot dispose of other people's facts; but I possess such a
key to my own as persuades me, against all their denials, that they also have
a key to theirs.
Elo1 7.73 6
...Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of Sparta, asked him
which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied, When I throw him, he
says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe
him.
Clbs 7.240 16
What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the
censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent
advocate? The court appoints another censor, who shall crush it this time.
Beaumarchais persuades him to defend it.
persuading, adj. (1)
Art1 2.365 12
The oratorio has already lost its relation...to the sun, and the
earth, but that persuading [human] voice is in tune with these.
persuading, v. (1)
Boks 7.216 27
Money, and killing, and the Wandering Jew, and persuading
the lover that his mistress is betrothed to another, these are the main-springs
[of the novel];...
persuasion, n. (23)
Nat 1.32 5
...with these forms, the spells of persuasion...are put into [the
poet's] hands.
Nat 1.40 11
[Man] forges the...air...into...words, and gives them wing as
angels of persuasion and command.
DSA 1.136 19
Where now sounds the persuasion, that...imparadises my
heart...
LE 1.186 8
Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every
object in nature...
OS 2.277 1
...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing
else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion;...thence come
conversation, competition, persuasion, cities and war.
Int 2.346 6
...persuasion is in soul, but necessity is in intellect.
PPh 4.64 7
...[said Plato] the persuasion that we must search that which we
do not know, will render us, beyond comparison, better, braver and more
industrious than if we thought it impossible to discover what we do not
know, and useless to search for it.
MoS 4.161 10
Every thing that is excellent in mankind...lips of persuasion...
[the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
NMW 4.232 20
I have gained some advantages over superior forces and
when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte writes to the Directory],
because, in the persuasion that your confidence was reposed in me, my
actions were as prompt as my thoughts.
NMW 4.247 12
[Napoleon's] power does not consist...in any...singular
power of persuasion;...
F 6.24 12
...no persuasion, no bribe shall make [man] give up his point.
Bhr 6.190 12
...the persuasion of [men's] speech is not in what they say...
Elo1 7.59 2
For whom the Muses smile upon,/ And touch with soft
persuasion,/ His words, like a storm-wind, can bring/ Terror and beauty on
their wing;/...
Elo1 7.97 4
He who will train himself to mastery in this science of
persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight.
DL 7.103 13
Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...his lips touched
with persuasion which Chatham and Pericles in manhood had not.
Cour 7.273 16
There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for
cause...
Elo2 8.132 21
Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of
[eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech...
that of political advice and persuasion...
PC 8.209 16
...[the coxcomb] has found that this country and this age
belong to the most liberal persuasion;...
Aris 10.34 3
...I take this inextinguishable persuasion in men's minds [of
hereditary transmission of qualities] as a hint from the outward universe to
man to inlay as many virtues and superiorities as he can into this swift
fresco of the day...
Prch 10.235 12
...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you
reject;...seeing that a sentiment never loses its pathos or its persuasion...
LS 11.21 19
What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the
persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and
onward.
War 11.169 9
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of
moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a
nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I
shall find them...men whose very look and voice carry the sentence of
honor and shame; and all forces yield to their energy and persuasion.
CInt 12.120 24
You, gentlemen, are...set apart through some strong
persuasion of your own, or of your friends, that you were capable of the
high privilege of thought.
persuasive, adj. (3)
LT 1.265 23
...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame
might appear; men...of persuasive speech;...
Bhr 6.171 27
When we reflect on [manners'] persuasive and cheering
force;...we see what range the subject has...
SA 8.82 8
The attitudes of children are gentle, persuasive, royal...
pert, adj. (1)
Boks 7.191 18
Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the
questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the books of
Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed of.
pertaining, v. (1)
ET5 5.84 10
[The English] are neat husbands for ordering all their tools
pertaining to house and field.
pertest, adj. (1)
Pol1 3.200 27
Nature...will not be fooled or abated of any jot of her
authority by the pertest of her sons;...
pertinacious, adj. (1)
LLNE 10.356 15
...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon
belief the purest ethics.
pertinacity, n. (2)
Nat2 3.188 1
Jacob Behmen and George Fox betray their egotism in the
pertinacity of their controversial tracts...
ET5 5.90 22
Private persons [in England] exhibit...the same pertinacity as
the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the
empire of Bonaparte...
pertinence, n. (2)
Hist 2.30 13
What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has
the story of Prometheus!
Elo1 7.82 27
This balance between the orator and the audience is expressed
in what is called the pertinence of the speaker.
pertinences, n. (1)
Gts 3.160 14
For common gifts, necessity makes pertinences and beauty
every day...
pertinency, n. (1)
EzRy 10.391 21
[Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits
of that pertinency and judgment...which make the distinction of the
scholar...
pertinent, adj. (6)
Nat 1.67 5
It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the
animal kingdom...
SL 2.163 7
Shall I...imagine my being here impertinent? less pertinent than
Epaminondas or Homer being there?...
Fdsp 2.207 17
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...are there pertinent...
Boks 7.193 20
It is easy...to demonstrate that though [a man] should read
from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves [of the
libraries]. But nothing can be more deceptive than this arithmetic, where
none but a natural method is really pertinent.
Supl 10.176 18
...in the East [the superlative] is animated, it is pertinent,
pleasing, poetic.
Milt1 12.272 10
The tracts [Milton] wrote on these topics [divorce and
freedom of the press] are, for the most part, as fresh and pertinent to-day as
they were then.
pertly, adv. (1)
Chr1 3.107 16
...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would divide
some share of credit...[Nature] goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the
wrong.
pertness, n. (1)
SwM 4.103 24
...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in
every sentence;...and this admirable writing is pure from all pertness or
egotism.
perturbation, n. (1)
PI 8.58 20
[The wind] makes no perturbation in the place where God wills
it,/ On the sea, on the land./
perturbations, n. (4)
MR 1.246 1
...parched corn and a house with one apartment, that I may be
free of all perturbations...is frugality for gods and heroes.
Exp 3.81 14
The life of truth...is not the slave of tears, contritions and
perturbations.
F 6.7 13
The planet is liable to...perturbations from planets...
Wom 11.417 13
In all [literature], the body of the joke...is identical with
Mahomet's opinion that women have not a sufficient moral or intellectual
force to control the perturbations of their physical structure.
Peru, n. (1)
War 11.158 19
I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and
New Spain...
Perugino [Pietro Vannucci], (1)
ET1 5.8 1
[Landor]...shares the growing taste for Perugino and the early
masters.
peruke, n. (1)
SwM 4.142 17
[Swedenborg] goes up and down the world of men, a
modern Rhadamanthus in gold-headed cane and peruke...
peruse, v. (1)
ACri 12.292 17
Dangerous words in like kind are display, improvement,
peruse...
pervade, v. (4)
Nat 1.27 21
...these analogies...pervade nature.
Wsp 6.215 19
Let us...dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws
which...pervade and govern.
MoL 10.247 19
[The scholar] knows...that the forces which uphold and
pervade [the world] are eternal.
PLT 12.55 7
The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of
ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the
simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern.
pervaded, v. (5)
Nat 1.55 21
It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that the solid
seeming block of matter has been pervaded and dissolved by a thought;...
Nat 1.63 9
Nature is so pervaded with human life that there is something of
humanity in all and in every particular.
Chr1 3.94 14
How often has the influence of a true master realized all the
tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into
all those who beheld him...which pervaded them with his thoughts...
EWI 11.116 3
In every quarter [of Antigua], we were assured, the day
[after emancipation] was like a Sabbath. Work had ceased. The hum of
business was still: tranquillity pervaded the towns and country.
MLit 12.321 13
...more than any other contemporary bard [Wordsworth] is
pervaded with a reverence of somewhat higher than (conscious) thought.
pervades, v. (12)
Nat 1.44 18
So intimate is this Unity, that...it...betrays its source in
Universal Spirit. For it pervades Thought also.
SL 2.152 1
The same reality pervades all teaching.
OS 2.271 21
[This pure nature] is undefinable, unmeasurable; but we know
that it pervades and contains us.
PPh 4.48 2
We unite all things by perceiving the law which pervades
them;...
SwM 4.116 23
[Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a
number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary
containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for
which they are to be substituted. This symbolism pervades the living body.
SwM 4.144 5
...was it that [Swedenborg] saw the vision [of heavenly
society] intellectually, and hence that chiding of the intellectual that
pervades his books?
ET5 5.94 4
The climate and geography [of England], I said, were factitious,
as if the hands of man had arranged the conditions. The same character
pervades the whole kingdom.
Civ 7.25 6
The skill that pervades complex details; the man that maintains
himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...
which is the index of high civilization.
Imtl 8.344 25
Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect which
pervades Nature...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality]
as a waif and a caprice...
Prch 10.219 22
...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must
react upon.
MAng1 12.241 22
A fine melancholy, not unrelieved by his habitual
heroism, pervades [Michelangelo's] thoughts on this subject [death].
PPr 12.391 6
This grandiose character pervades [Carlyle's] wit and his
imagination.
pervading, adj. (1)
PPh 4.50 3
What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn
from me. It is soul...pervading, uniform, perfect, preeminent over nature...
pervading, v. (3)
ET18 5.306 15
The feudal system survives [in England]...in the social
barriers which confine patronage and promotion to a caste, and still more in
the submissive ideas pervading these people.
PLT 12.21 17
...having accepted this law of identity pervading the
universe, we next perceive that whilst every creature represents and obeys
it, there is diversity...
PLT 12.27 2
The mechanical laws might as easily be shown pervading the
kingdom of mind as the vegetative.
pervasive, adj. (1)
F 6.45 9
I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and
pervasive;...
perverse, adj. (12)
LT 1.283 12
...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity
draw us away from life to solitude and meditation.
Tran 1.356 20
...[these old guardians] have but one mood on the subject,
namely, that Antony is very perverse...
Pol1 3.208 16
[Parties] have nothing perverse in their origin...
NER 3.268 6
We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many
frivolous people who make up society, are organic...
CbW 6.269 27
...the steady wrongheadedness of one perverse person
irritates the best;...
Comc 8.162 2
The perception of the Comic is...a protection from those
perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects
sometimes lose themselves.
Edc1 10.148 8
It is curious how perverse and intermeddling we are...
Edc1 10.152 12
It is difficult to class [pupils], some are too young, some
are slow, some perverse.
FRep 11.544 4
Such and so potent is this high method by which the Divine
Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the mask of calamities, that I
do not think we shall by any perverse ingenuity prevent the blessing.
CInt 12.121 22
Here are still perverse millions full of passion, crime and
blood.
Milt1 12.262 17
[Milton] is rightly dear to mankind, because in him,
among so many perverse and partial men of genius,-in him humanity
rights itself;...
ACri 12.287 4
Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato]
introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his
perverse talk...
perversion, n. (6)
DSA 1.127 18
...because the indwelling Supreme Spirit cannot wholly be
got rid of, the doctrine of it suffers this perversion...
SwM 4.138 18
To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived,
that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits!
Cour 7.258 25
The political reigns of terror have been...a total perversion
of opinion;...
PerF 10.85 11
...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I
will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will...make me
Chancellor or Foreign Secretary. But this perversion is punished with
instant loss of true wisdom and real power.
Chr2 10.104 17
Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead
of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome...the
vindictive mythology of Calvinism, are examples of this perversion.
Prch 10.228 11
An era in human history is the life of Jesus; and the
immense influence for good leaves all the perversion and superstition
almost harmless.
perversities, n. (1)
Aris 10.43 13
...the origin of most of the perversities and absurdities that
disgust us is, primarily, the want of health.
perversity, n. (3)
ET8 5.131 5
[The English] are headstrong believers and defenders of their
opinion, and not less resolute in maintaining their whim and perversity.
Schr 10.264 18
One is tempted to affirm the office and attributes of the
scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a frequent perversity of the
class itself.
Trag 12.414 4
If any perversity or profligacy break out in society, [the man
who is centred] will join with others to avert the mischief...
pervert, v. (2)
LE 1.156 16
...the importunity, with which society presses its claim upon
young men, tends to pervert the views of youth in respect to the culture of
the intellect.
Prch 10.229 10
...besides the passion and interest which pervert [religion],
is the shallowness which impoverishes.
perverted, adj. (2)
AmS 1.89 2
The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude...having
once received this book, stands upon it...
TPar 11.292 17
...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights, with
perverted learning and disgraced graces, rot and are forgotten...
perverted, v. (7)
Nat 1.30 8
When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and
truth...old words are perverted to stand for things which are not;...
SwM 4.132 11
...when [Swedenborg's] visions become the stereotyped
language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age and capacity, they
are perverted.
ET12 5.209 17
No doubt, the foundations have been perverted [in English
universities].
CbW 6.270 5
...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes
that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are
soon perverted...into contradictors...
QO 8.204 15
...the words overheard at unawares by the free mind, are
trustworthy and fertile when obeyed and not perverted to low and selfish
account.
SovE 10.199 2
While the immense energy of the sentiment of duty and the
awe of the supernatural exert incomparable influence on the mind,-yet it is
often perverted...
MLit 12.319 7
[Byron's] will is perverted...
perverting, v. (1)
TPar 11.287 20
...it is vain to charge [Theodore Parker] with perverting the
opinions of the new generation.
pervious, adj. (2)
Hist 2.36 8
In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum
proceeded...to the centre of every province of the empire, making each
market-town of Persia, Spain and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the
capital...
NR 3.243 15
...all things are pervious to [the soul] and like highways...
Pescara, Marquis di [Fernan (1)
MAng1 12.240 6
[Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most
accomplished lady of the time, Vittoria Colonna, the widow of the Marquis
di Pescara...
pessimism, n. (1)
Res 8.138 8
A Schopenhauer, with logic and learning and wit, teaching
pessimism...all the talent in the world cannot save him from being odious.
Pessimism, n. (1)
Comp 2.122 13
The soul...always affirms an Optimism, never a Pessimism.
pest, n. (6)
UGM 4.24 6
The worthless and offensive members of society, whose
existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used
people alive...
ET17 5.294 25
[Wordsworth] detailed the two models, on one or the other
of which all the sentences of the historian Robertson are framed. Nor could
Jeffrey, nor the Edinburgh Reviewers write English, nor can-----who is a
pest to the English tongue.
F 6.33 2
...every other pest is not less in the chain of cause and effect...
Ctr 6.132 20
The pest of society is egotists.
Clbs 7.233 14
One of those conceited prigs who value Nature only as it
feeds and exhibits them is equally a pest with the roysterers.
MoL 10.258 10
Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage,
irretrievably. For such a gain, to end once for all that pest of all our free
institutions, one generation might well be sacrificed;...
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich (3)
AmS 1.113 20
I learned, said the melancholy Pestalozzi, that no man...is
either willing or able to help any other man.
LT 1.281 13
The sad Pestalozzi...recorded his conviction that the
amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be
the means of mental and moral improvement.
CbW 6.256 20
What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...or
Pestalozzi...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by
the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
Pestalozzian, adj. (1)
UGM 4.31 6
Is it a reply to these suggestions to say, Society is a
Pestalozzian school: all are teachers and pupils in turn?
pestered, v. (4)
ET1 5.8 8
[Landor] pestered me with Southey; but who is Southey?
Wsp 6.241 7
Let us not be pestered with assertions and half-truths...
Comc 8.165 12
The Society in London...pestered the gallant rover [Capt.
John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the
Indians...
Imtl 8.329 6
A man of affairs is afraid to die, is pestered with terrors...
pestilence, n. (3)
Wsp 6.232 8
A poor, tender, painful body, [man] can run into flame or
bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
HDC 11.82 12
[Concord] has suffered neither from war, nor pestilence...
EPro 11.325 27
Happy are the young, who find the pestilence [slavery]
cleansed out of the earth...
pestilent, adj. (1)
PPo 8.246 8
There resides in the grieving/ A poison to kill;/ Beware to go
near them/ 'T is pestilent still./
pestilential, adj. (2)
LLNE 10.349 23
The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di Roma, the frozen
Polar circles, which by their pestilential or hot or cold airs poison the
temperate regions, accuse man.
LLNE 10.350 4
Attractive Industry would speedily subdue...the pestilential
tracts;...
pestles, n. (1)
Thor 10.473 13
Indian relics abound in Concord,-arrow-heads, stone
chisels, pestles and fragments of pottery;...
pests, n. (1)
Nat 1.76 23
A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of
the spirit. So fast will disagreeable appearances...snakes, pests...vanish;...
pet, adj. (1)
Mrs1 3.154 20
Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his
speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes,
yet was there never...some fool...who...had a pet madness in his brain, but
fled at once to him;...
petal, n. (3)
SwM 4.107 14
In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf,
then to another leaf, with a power of transforming the leaf into radicle,
stamen, pistil, petal, bract, sepal, or seed.
PI 8.8 13
In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis,--that
the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be
transformed at pleasure into every part, as bract, leaf, petal, stamen, pistil or
seed.
CL 12.150 12
...I admire that perennial four-petalled flower, which has one
gray petal, one green, one red, and one white.
petals, n. (1)
OA 7.329 10
In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little
white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven
stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
Peter, n. (4)
WD 7.178 7
...Peter and John are working up all existence into Peter and
John.
WD 7.178 8
...Peter and John are working up all existence into Peter and
John.
PLT 12.57 23
Peter is the mould into which everything is poured like warm
wax...
PLT 12.57 26
Peter is the mould into which everything is poured like warm
wax, and be it astronomy or railroads or French revolution or theology or
botany, it comes out Peter.
Peter, St., n. (1)
SL 2.165 12
...the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary,
of Paul, of Peter.
Peterborough, Lord [Charles (1)
WSL 12.340 1
A sort of Earl Peterborough in literature, [Landor's]
eccentricity is too decided not to have diminished his greatness.
Peters, Hermit, n. (1)
Elo1 7.95 24
Wild men...Hermit Peters...utter the savage sentiment of
Nature in the heart of commercial capitals.
Peter's, St., Basilica, Ro (10)
Nat 1.68 2
The American who has been confined...to the sight of buildings
designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St.
Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an
invisible archetype.
Hist 2.17 22
Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after
a divine model.
DL 7.106 3
St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red
and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.
MAng1 12.216 5
[Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years...
was engaged in executing his grand conceptions in the ineffaceable
architecture of Saint Peter's.
MAng1 12.229 26
In Saint Peter's, is [Michelangelo's] Pieta, or dead
Christ in the arms of his mother.
MAng1 12.231 2
Of [Michelangelo's] genius for architecture it is sufficient
to say that he built Saint Peter's...
MAng1 12.235 5
Not until he was in the seventy-third year of his age,
[Michelangelo] undertook the building of Saint Peter's.
MAng1 12.236 18
In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of
Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to
leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the
structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...
MAng1 12.239 9
[Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect
Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's, clear, insulated,
luminous, with fit design for a vast structure.
MAng1 12.239 15
...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go
to Rome, to build Saint Peter's, he turned his horse's head on the last hill
from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was
visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
Petersburg, Norfolk and, Ra (1)
SMC 11.373 3
...[the Thirty-second Regiment]...were ordered to take the
Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad from the rebels.
Petersburg, St., Russia, n. (2)
YA 1.376 3
...a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man
of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter...
Art1 2.369 1
The boat at St. Petersburg, which plies along the Lena by
magnetism, needs little to make it sublime.
Petersburg, Virginia, n. (3)
SMC 11.372 27
On the sixteenth of June, [the Thirty-second Regiment]...
marched to within three miles of Petersburg.
SMC 11.373 26
On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment
made itself comfortable in log huts, a mile south of our rear line of works
before Petersburg.
SMC 11.374 10
On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment
connected with Sheridan's cavalry, near the Five Forks, and took an
important part in that battle which opened Petersburg and Richmond...
petition, n. (8)
MN 1.195 4
It is God in us which checks the language of petition by a
grander thought.
ET13 5.224 25
The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in
1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this
bill...
Insp 8.290 10
Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English
journals, the petition...against the license of the organ-grinders...
MMEm 10.420 27
Hard to contend for a health which is daily used in
petition for a final close.
LS 11.18 8
I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment
when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act,
necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
HDC 11.41 5
...it appears from a petition of some newcomers, in 1643, that
a part [of the land in Concord] had been divided among the first settlers
without price...
Pray 12.351 12
In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth
of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant that I may be beautiful within;...
Pray 12.354 22
The last of the four orisons...contains this petition;-My
Father: I now come to thee with a desire to thank thee for the continuance
of our love...
petition, v. (1)
HDC 11.65 4
The charges of education and of legislation, at this period,
seem to have afflicted the town [Concord]; for they vote to petition the
General Court to be eased of the law relating to providing a school-master;...
petitioned, v. (1)
HDC 11.32 5
[The pilgrims] petitioned the General Court for a grant of a
township...
petitioner, n. (5)
Gts 3.160 24
In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let
the petitioner be the judge of his necessity...
EzRy 10.387 12
...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture
in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the
service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers,
as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain,
until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
Thor 10.459 10
...the President [of Harvard University] found the
petitioner [Thoreau] so formidable, and the rules [of the Harvard Library]
getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving him a privilege which
in his hands proved unlimited thereafter.
HDC 11.44 7
[The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest
convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General
Court...to certain purposes, sovereign powers. The townsmen's words were
heard and weighed, for all knew that it was a petitioner that could not be
slighted;...
ALin 11.332 13
...[Lincoln] had a vast good nature...fair-minded, leaning to
the claim of the petitioner;...
petitioners, n. (2)
SR 2.62 8
To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book...
seem to say...Who are you, Sir? Yet they all are...petitioners to his
faculties...
GSt 10.502 24
...[George Stearns's] interest [in Kansas] was so manifestly
pure and sincere that he easily obtained eager offerings in quarters where
other petitioners failed.
petitions, n. (5)
Hsm1 2.255 24
...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at
so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by petitions...
ET13 5.224 24
The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in
1753) was resisted by petitions from all parts of the kingdom...
EzRy 10.386 14
[Ezra Ripley's] prayers...are well remembered, and his
own entire faith that these petitions were not to be overlooked...
HDC 11.67 5
...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that
such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ...
even so far as to be bringing the petitions and thank-offerings of the people
unto God...
EWI 11.111 26
...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted
by the planters...and the negroes furiously forbidden to go near them. These
outrage...rekindled the flame of British indignation. Petitions poured into
Parliament...
Petitions to the King, n. (1)
Bost 12.201 21
There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which
contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the
American Declaration of Independence. And this...could be heard (by an
acute ear) in the Petitions to the King...
Petrarca, Francesco, n. (1)
ShP 4.197 26
...Petrarch, Boccaccio and the Provencal poets are [Chaucer'
s] benefactors...
Petrarca, Francesco [Petrar (5)
Lov1 2.183 6
Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all
ages. The doctrine is not old, nor is it new. If Plato, Plutarch and Apuleius
taught it, so have Petrarch, Angelo and Milton.
Cir 2.312 23
...some Petrarch or Ariosto...writes me an ode or a brisk
romance...
DL 7.110 4
All [the scholar's] expense is for Aristotle, Fabricius, Erasmus
and Petrarch.
Suc 7.302 20
The great doctors of this science [of sensibility] are the
greatest men,--Dante, Petrarch, Michel Angelo and Shakspeare.
MAng1 12.240 13
[Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see
[Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed; and they all breathe a
chaste and divine regard, unparalleled in any amatory poetry except that of
Dante and Petrarch.
petrarch [Francesco Petrarca (1)
DL 7.110 4
All [the scholar's] expense is for Aristotle, Fabricius, Erasmus
and Petrarch.
Petrarch [Francesco Petrarc (4)
Lov1 2.183 6
Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all
ages. The doctrine is not old, nor is it new. If Plato, Plutarch and Apuleius
taught it, so have Petrarch, Angelo and Milton.
Cir 2.312 23
...some Petrarch or Ariosto...writes me an ode or a brisk
romance...
Suc 7.302 20
The great doctors of this science [of sensibility] are the
greatest men,--Dante, Petrarch, Michel Angelo and Shakspeare.
MAng1 12.240 13
[Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see
[Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed; and they all breathe a
chaste and divine regard, unparalleled in any amatory poetry except that of
Dante and Petrarch.
Petrarch, n. (1)
CPL 11.494 5
The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful
experiment locked up the poet's library...but the poet's misery caused him
to restore the key on the first evening. And I verily believe I should have
become insane, says Petrarch, if my mind had longer been deprived of its
necessary nourishment.
Petrarch's, n. (1)
CPL 11.494 1
The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful
experiment locked up the poet's library...
petrels, n. (1)
ET2 5.27 1
...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks,
petrels, swim, dive and hover around;...
petrified, adj. (2)
Nat 1.43 24
A Gothic church, said Coleridge, is a petrified religion.
MLit 12.333 15
What is Austria? What is England? What is our graduated
and petrified social scale of ranks and employments?
petrified, v. (1)
DSA 1.130 26
...[Jesus's] name is surrounded with expressions which...are
now petrified into official titles...
petroleum, n. (3)
Res 8.142 1
It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida,
in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by
merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper
end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
PC 8.208 6
Who does not prefer the age...of coal, petroleum, cotton, steam,
electricity, and the spectroscope?
Grts 8.317 20
The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of
oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the
petroleum which he lights behind it;...
pets, n. (6)
Gts 3.159 21
Nature does not cocker us; we are children, not pets;...
Ctr 6.137 21
We must leave our pets at home when we go into the street...
PI 8.10 16
The Indian, the hunter, the boy with his pets, have sweeter
knowledge of these [animal forms] than the savant.
Dem1 10.19 22
The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the
known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or
evaded by this gypsy principle...as if the laws of the Father of the universe
were sometimes balked and eluded by a meddlesome Aunt of the universe
for her pets.
Scot 11.466 5
In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters
and pets of humble class...
Bost 12.202 16
The soul of a political party is by no means usually the
officers and pets of the party...
petted, v. (1)
JBS 11.278 12
...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom
he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave;...he saw that this boy
had nothing better to look forward to in life, whilst he himself was petted
and made much of;...
pettiness, n. (2)
ET14 5.249 21
...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the
cant, into the preaching of Fate.
Suc 7.298 7
What is it we look for...in the sea and the firmament? what but
a compensation for the cramp and pettiness of human performances?
petty, adj. (33)
Tran 1.354 5
...we retain the belief that this petty web we weave will at last
be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue...
Hist 2.34 4
The universal nature, too strong for the petty nature of the bard,
sits on his neck and writes through his hand;...
SR 2.66 11
...in the universal miracle petty and particular miracles
disappear.
Comp 2.110 4
We aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good...
Fdsp 2.199 6
...we have aimed at a swift and petty benefit...
Prd1 2.226 5
We are instructed by these petty experiences which usurp the
hours and years.
Hsm1. 2.252 4
...[heroism] is...scornful of petty calculations...
Nat2 3.181 14
...by clothing the sides of a bird with a few feathers [nature]
gives him a petty omnipresence.
Pol1 3.217 21
It is because we know how much is due from us that we are
impatient to show some petty talent as a substitute for worth.
GoW 4.271 18
...[Goethe] lived...in a petty state...
ET9 5.147 18
...[the English] have...a petty courage, through which every
man delights in showing himself for what he is and in doing what he can;...
ET16 5.279 11
We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and out and took
again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of Stonehenge]. The old
sphinx put our petty differences of nationality out of sight.
Wth 6.102 20
There are wide countries, like Siberia, where [the dollar]
would buy little else to-day than some petty mitigation of suffering.
Wth 6.106 22
The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the
great economy;...
Wth 6.106 27
...however wary we are of the falsehoods and petty tricks
which we suicidally play off on each other, every man has a certain
satisfaction whenever his dealing touches on the inevitable facts;...
Ctr 6.154 12
Let these triflers [who scream and bewail] put us out of
conceit with petty comforts.
Elo1 7.74 12
There is a petty lawyer's fluency...
DL 7.124 27
We...are still villagers, who think that every thing in their
petty town is a little superior to the same thing anywhere else.
Farm 7.146 20
...[the farmer]...is taught the power that lurks in petty things.
SA 8.106 16
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Aris 10.43 16
The petty arts which we blame in the half-great seem as
odious to them also;...
PerF 10.74 1
...each of a thousand petty accidents puts [man] to death
every day...
Chr2 10.107 3
...the church-warden or tithing-man was a petty persecutor;...
Edc1 10.129 27
[Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all...unlock
for us the concealed faculties of the mind? Whatever private or petty ends
are frustrated, this end is always answered.
MoL 10.247 27
Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than
the caterpillar or the cankerworm whose petty ravage...is insignificant in the
vast exuberance of the summer.
Schr 10.267 12
Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right,
original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet
incalculable ends. Yes, but not a petty fingering and running...
Thor 10.465 13
[Thoreau's] own dealing with [young men of sensibility]
was...didactic, scorning their petty ways...
HDC 11.44 14
...each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies]
organized itself after the pattern of the larger town, by appointing its
constable, and other petty half-military officers.
FSLC 11.211 9
Judaea was a petty country. Yet these two, Greece and
Judaea, furnish the mind and the heart by which the rest of the world is
sustained;...
ACiv 11.302 10
In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but
that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle, believing that
Nature...will...more than make good any petty and injurious profit which it
may disturb.
ACiv 11.308 7
...the statesman who shall break through the cobwebs of
doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will be
greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
PLT 12.28 2
An individual mind...is a fixation or momentary eddy in
which certain services and powers are taken up and minister in petty niches
and localities...
CInt 12.123 15
...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with
petty advantage that it loses sight of its obedience...
petulance, n. (16)
Nat 1.12 14
The misery of man appears like childish petulance...
YA 1.375 22
Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of
thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This
feeling...becomes petulance and tyranny when the head of the clan...deals
with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.
SR 2.72 1
All men have my blood and I all men's. Not for that will I adopt
their petulance or folly...
Int 2.347 6
...nor do [the Greek philosophers] ever...testify the least
displeasure or petulance at the dulness of their amazed auditory.
Nat2 3.193 24
Are we tickled trout, and fools of nature? One look at the
face of heaven and earth lays all petulance at rest...
NER 3.260 9
One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation
and in the rudest democratical movements, through all the petulance and all
the puerility...
SwM 4.103 16
Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences
are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing
a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;...
ET1 5.7 9
I had inferred from [Landor's] books...impression of Achillean
wrath,--an untamable petulance.
QO 8.204 1
Only as braveries of too prodigal power can we pardon it,
when the life of genius is so redundant that out of petulance it flings its fire
into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and blushes again here in the street.
PerF 10.88 8
Wrath and petulance may have their short success...
Edc1 10.136 22
...let not the sallies of [the young man's] petulance or folly
be checked with disgust or indignation or despair.
SovE 10.205 7
To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and
ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...and the more
intellectual reject every yoke of authority and custom with a petulance
unprecedented.
MMEm 10.408 18
...the whim and petulance in which by diseased habit
[Mary Moody Emerson] had grown to indulge without suspecting it, was
burned up in the glow of her pure and poetic spirit, which dearly loved the
Infinite.
Thor 10.477 15
Whilst [Thoreau] used in his writings a certain petulance of
remark in reference to churches or churchmen, he was a person of a rare,
tender and absolute religion...
HDC 11.47 21
In these assemblies [New England town-meetings]...every
local feeling, every private grudge, every suggestion of petulance and
ignorance, were not less faithfully produced.
ACri 12.287 10
...all able men have known how to import the petulance of
the street into correct discourse.
petulances, n. (2)
Mrs1 3.127 22
The strong men usually give some allowance even to the
petulances of fashion...
EWI 11.146 21
...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the
negro] observes the men of conscience and intellect...hotly offended by
whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the
negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human
race;...
petulant, adj. (7)
ShP 4.196 13
If [Shakespeare] lost any credit of design, he augmented his
resources; and, at that day, our petulant demand for originality was not so
much pressed.
ET6 5.104 8
The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his
accommodation at inns and on the roads;...
ET15 5.269 3
[The London Times] has the national courage, not rash and
petulant, but considerate and determined.
Wsp 6.205 16
The Greek poets did not hesitate to let loose their petulant
wit on their deities also.
Bty 6.300 1
...petulant old gentlemen...affirm that the secret of ugliness
consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
LLNE 10.363 2
...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who
found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries
so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...
finding his delight in the petulant heroism of boys;...
WSL 12.343 27
[Landor's] love of beauty...betrays itself in all petulant and
contemptuous expressions.
petulantly, adv. (1)
Milt1 12.267 21
Johnson petulantly taunts Milton with great promise and
small performance, in returning from Italy because his country was in
danger, and then opening a private school.
petulence, n. (1)
ET8 5.132 6
Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the
day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates...
petulence and projects in youth.
peu, adj. (1)
UGM 4.6 20
Peu de moyens, beaucoup d'effet.
peu, n. (2)
WD 7.178 17
...an old French sentence says, God works in moments,--En
peu d'heure Dieu labeure.
QO 8.185 2
...[Grimm] says that Louis XVI., going out of chapel after
hearing a sermon from the Abbe Maury, said, Si l'Abbe nous avait parle un
peu de religion, il nous aurait parle de tout.
Peutetre, n. (1)
QO 8.185 13
Rabelais's dying words, I am going to see the great Perhaps
(le grand Peutetre), only repeats the IF inscribed on the portal of the temple
at Delphi.
pew, n. (5)
SL 2.136 21
Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew...
HDC 11.49 7
It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting]
that not a school-house, a public pew...hath been set up, or pulled down...
without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the
affair.
HDC 11.84 18
[Our fathers] stint and higgle on the price of a pew, that they
may send 200 soldiers to General Washington to keep Great Britain at bay.
FRep 11.528 25
...a pew in a particular church gives an easier entrance to
the subscription ball.
PPr 12.380 20
[Carlyle's Past and Present] has the merit which belongs to
every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent, and
so...as the country people say of good preaching, comes bounce down into
every pew.
pew-holding, n. (1)
Prch 10.228 19
I fear that what is called religion, but is perhaps pew-holding,
not obeys but conceals the moral sentiment.
pews, n. (2)
DSA 1.137 11
...we can make...even sitting in our pews, a far better, holier,
sweeter [Sabbath], for ourselves.
Bhr 6.173 26
...in the same country [on the banks of the Mississippi], in the
pews of the churches little placards plead with the worshipper against the
fury of expectoration.
pewter, n. (1)
Res 8.143 10
It was thought that the immense production of gold would
make gold cheap as pewter.
Phaedo [Plato], n. (4)
PPh 4.40 22
Calvinism is in [Plato's] Phaedo: Christianity is in it.
PPh 4.57 27
With the palatial air there is [in Plato]...a certain earnestness,
which mounts, in the Republic and in the Phaedo, to piety.
Boks 7.199 17
...who can overestimate the images [in Plato]...which pass
like bullion in the currency of all nations? Read the Phaedo...
Plu 10.314 12
I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch'
s...Letter to his Wife Timoxena, a more sweet and reassuring argument on
the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...
Phaedrus [Plato], n. (4)
PPh 4.69 12
All things mount and mount. All [Plato's] thought has this
ascension; in Phaedrus, teaching that beauty is the most lovely of all
things...but that there is another, which is as much more beautiful than
beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom...
PNR 4.89 2
...poetry has never soared higher than in the Timaeus and the
Phaedrus.
Boks 7.199 18
...who can overestimate the images [in Plato]...which pass
like bullion in the currency of all nations? Read...the Phaedrus...
Pray 12.351 12
In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth
of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant that I may be beautiful within;...
phalansteries, n. (1)
LLNE 10.357 27
The large cities are phalansteries;...
Phalansteries, n. (1)
Bost 12.199 1
When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the
heats of youth, the...Oakdales and Phalanteries...we see with new increased
respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New
England]...
phalanstery, n. (2)
ET3 5.34 21
...England is a huge phalanstery...
LLNE 10.349 13
[Brisbane's plan]...wove its large Ptolemaic web of cycle
and epicycle, of phalanx and phalanstery, with laudable assiduity.
phalanx, n. (6)
NER 3.264 26
...a grand phalanx of the best of the human race, banded for
some catholic object; yes, excellent;...
NER 3.265 13
Our housekeeping is not satisfactory to us, but perhaps a
phalanx, a community, might be.
ET5 5.101 25
...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the
modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they
coldly hold, marching in phalanx, lockstep, foot after foot, file after file of
heroes, ten thousand deep.
ET18 5.299 7
Broad-fronted, broad-bottomed Teutons, [the English] stand
in solid phalanx foursquare to the points of the compass;...
SA 8.106 4
...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming
health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that
is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds.
LLNE 10.349 13
[Brisbane's plan]...wove its large Ptolemaic web of cycle
and epicycle, of phalanx and phalanstery, with laudable assiduity.
Phalanx, n. (2)
YA 1.382 19
It was a noble thought of Fourier...to distinguish in his
Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band...
LLNE 10.356 22
[Thoreau] required no Phalanx, no Government, no
society, almost no memory.
Phalanx Theban, n. (1)
LLNE 10.327 17
Anciently, society was in the course of things. There
was...a Theban Phalanx.
phalanxes, n. (3)
LLNE 10.350 27
...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of
these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...
LLNE 10.352 19
[Fourier]...skips the faculty of life...which makes or
supplants a thousand phalanxes and New Harmonies with each pulsation.
PLT 12.48 16
To hammer out phalanxes must be done by smiths;...
Phalanx's, Theban, n. (1)
QO 8.190 5
Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if
they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call
their poem Beaumont and Fletcher, or the Theban Phalanx's?
phantasm, n. (2)
Mrs1 3.142 24
The painted phantasm Fashion rises to cast a species of
derision on what we say.
Ill 6.321 11
Well, 't is all phantasm;...
phantasmagoria, n. (1)
Dem1 10.8 14
Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be
thrown to the man out of a quite unknown intelligence. He shall be startled
two or three times in his life by the justice as well as the significance of this
phantasmagoria.
phantasms, n. (2)
LT 1.279 8
...the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the
sanctuary of the heart.
Ill 6.318 4
Since our tuition is through emblems and indirections, it is well
to know that there is method in it, a fixed scale and rank above rank in the
phantasms.
phantom, n. (2)
Tran 1.331 17
...how easy it is to show [the materialist] that he also is a
phantom walking and working amid phantoms...
CbW 6.263 11
I figure [sickness] as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom...
phantoms, n. (6)
Tran 1.331 17
...how easy it is to show [the materialist] that he also is a
phantom walking and working amid phantoms...
NER 3.273 25
What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased
and flattered? No, but...to be...made men of, instead of ghosts and phantoms.
UGM 4.21 6
Ever their phantoms arise before us,/ Our loftier brothers, but
one in blood;/...
Ill 6.308 4
When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To
change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/
Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then
first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/
Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
Suc 7.291 5
There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of
himself:...I began to understand that the promises of this world are for the
most part vain phantoms...
Dem1 10.8 4
We call the phantoms that rise [in dreams], the creation of our
fancy...
Pharaoh, n. (1)
ET4 5.48 16
The Arabs of to-day are the Arabs of Pharaoh;...
Pharisee, n. (1)
DL 7.104 5
...when [the nestler] fasts, the little Pharisee fails not to sound
his trumpet before him.
Pharisees, n. (1)
LS 11.10 5
[Jesus] admonished his disciples respecting the leaven of the
Pharisees.
pharmacopoeia, n. (1)
NMW 4.251 14
Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my
pharmacopoeia [said Bonaparte].
Pharos, n. (1)
Aris 10.59 22
A grand style of culture, which, without injury, an ardent
youth can propose to himself as a Pharos through long dark years, does not
exist...
Pharsalia, Greece, n. (1)
NER 3.274 22
Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia, discourses with
the Egyptian priest concerning the fountains of the Nile...
phases, n. (1)
EdAd 11.392 4
We have a better opinion of the economy of Nature than to
fear that those varying phases which humanity presents ever leave out any
of the grand springs of human action.
pheasant, n. (1)
ET5 5.84 7
You dine with a gentleman [in England] on venison, pheasant,
quail, pigeons, poultry, mushrooms and pine-apples, all the growth of his
estate.
pheasants, n. (1)
ET11 5.188 12
I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that
besides does and pheasants, these have preserved Arundel marbles...
phenomena, n. (22)
Nat 1.4 20
[A true theory's] test is, that it will explain all phenomena.
Nat 1.49 9
It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind, not to
shake our faith in the stability of particular phenomena...
Nat 1.54 25
The perception of real affinities between events...enables the
poet thus to make free with the most imposing forms and phenomena of the
world...
Nat 1.55 11
[Philosophy] proceeds on the faith that a law determines all
phenomena...
Nat 1.55 12
[Philosophy] proceeds on the faith that a law determines all
phenomena, which being known, the phenomena can be predicted.
Nat 1.62 2
We can foresee God in the coarse, as it were, distant phenomena
of matter;...
Tran 1.333 13
Nature, literature, history, are only subjective phenomena.
SR 2.86 20
Galileo, with an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid series
of celestial phenomena than any one since.
Prd1 2.231 9
...when by chance we espy a coincidence between reason and
the phenomena, we are surprised.
Int 2.326 24
All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do
not make objects of voluntary thought, come within the power of fortune;...
Exp 3.76 8
Nature and literature are subjective phenomena;...
SwM 4.109 20
Metaphysics shows us a sort of gravitation operative also in
the mental phenomena;...
SwM 4.113 4
...as often as [nature] betakes herself upward from visible
phenomena...she instantly as it were disappears, while no one knows what
has become of her...
SwM 4.141 23
[Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the
phenomena of dreaming...
MoS 4.170 23
We hearken to the man of science, because we anticipate the
sequence in natural phenomena which he uncovers.
Comc 8.158 8
...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions,
the abortion is also a function of Nature...
Dem1 10.18 6
...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a
transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the
woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names...
Edc1 10.131 5
...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the
means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...
Edc1 10.136 7
Let us apply to this subject [education] the light of the same
torch by which we have looked at all the phenomena of the time; the
infinitude, namely, of every man.
Thor 10.468 1
[Thoreau] returned Kane's Arctic Voyage to a friend of
whom he had borrowed it, with the remark, that Most of the phenomena
noted might be observed in Concord.
PLT 12.19 24
Whilst we consider this appetite of the mind to arrange its
phenomena, there is another fact which makes this useful.
PLT 12.24 9
...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a
like series of symptoms in you, though no other persons ever evoke the like
phenomena...
phenomenal, adj. (3)
Nat 1.60 2
...seen in the light of thought, the world always is phenomenal;...
SR 2.87 14
[The wave's] unity is only phenomenal.
PI 8.14 27
...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their
religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence,--is only
phenomenal.
Phenomenal, n. (1)
Fdsp 2.197 16
I cannot deny it, O friend, that the vast shadow of the
Phenomenal includes thee also in its pied and painted immensity...
phenomenon, n. (13)
Nat 1.29 17
...this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of
somewhat in human life, never loses its power to affect us.
Nat 1.43 2
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying
phenomenon of Health!
Nat 1.49 10
It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind...to lead
us to regard nature as phenomenon...
Nat 1.60 19
...[the soul] accepts from God the phenomenon [Christianity],
as it finds it...
Nat 1.62 20
Idealism saith: matter is a phenomenon, not a substance.
Nat 1.75 14
...each phenomenon has its roots in the faculties and affections
of the mind.
Nat 1.76 8
For you is the phenomenon perfect.
LE 1.166 5
Observe the phenomenon of extempore debate.
MN 1.196 16
...the thunder is a surface phenomenon...
MN 1.207 4
A man, a personal ascendency, is the only great phenomenon.
Pt1 3.15 4
...if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is because the
corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
Insp 8.271 3
The poet cannot see a natural phenomenon which does not
express to him a correspondent fact in his mental experience;...
Bost 12.184 9
[Howell] compares [Indian society] to the geologic
phenomenon which the black soil of the Dhakkan offers,-the property,
namely, of assimilating to itself every foreign substance introduced into its
bosom.
Pheryllt, n. (1)
ET12 5.200 22
[Oxford's] foundations date...from Arthur, if, as is alleged,
the Pheryllt of the Druids had a seminary here.
Phi Beta Kappa Society, n. (2)
OA 7.315 1
On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at
Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was received at the
dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.
OA 7.315 4
On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at
Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy, senior member of the
Society...was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.
phial, n. (3)
OS 2.291 7
The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they
so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is
like...bottling a little air in a phial...
Res 8.146 12
...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy,
[Tissenet] poured it into a cup...
PLT 12.51 23
Nature having for capital this rill [of thought]...she husbands
and hives, she forms reservoirs, were it only a phial or a hair-tube that will
hold as it were a drop of attar.
phials, n. (1)
Bty 6.284 22
[The collector] has got all snakes and lizards in his phials...
Phidian, adj. (3)
ShP 4.207 25
...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...in
the Phidian sculpture...Genius draws up the ladder after him...
Suc 7.302 16
This sensibility appears...when we see...features that explain
the Phidian sculpture.
PI 8.13 9
When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we
cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue
shown in some unprized old property, as...when the old horse-block in the
yard is found to be a Torso Hercules of the Phidian age.
Phidias, n. (11)
SR 2.83 24
There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as
that of the colossal chisel of Phidias...
Comp 2.108 16
Phidias it is not, but the work of man in that early Hellenic
world that I would know.
Comp 2.108 18
The name and circumstance of Phidias...embarrass when
we come to the highest criticism.
Comp 2.108 23
We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given
period, and was hindered, or...modified in doing, by the interfering
volitions of Phidias...the organ whereby man at the moment wrought.
PNR 4.80 22
It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind
her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as
Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the
result.
Pow 6.71 4
In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing
to be a savage...and you have Pericles and Phidias, not yet passed over into
the Corinthian civility.
Art2 7.52 14
Raphael paints wisdom...Phidias carves it...
Art2 7.56 20
...in Greece, the Demos of Athens divided into political
factions upon the merits of Phidias.
DL 7.130 9
...we are...competitors, each one, with Phidias and Raphael in
the production of what is graceful or grand.
MAng1 12.222 18
Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself
such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student
of art owes to the remains of Phidias...
PPr 12.382 23
[A man's] manners,-let them be hospitable and civilizing,
so that no Phidias or Raphael shall have taught anything better in canvas or
stone;...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (2)
Wth 6.96 15
It is the interest of all men that there should be...Philadelphia
Academies of Natural History...
FRep 11.531 4
Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not
represent the population of the United States, but some...Cincinnati or
Philadelphia caucus;...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (8)
ET3 5.40 21
I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city
of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same
belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
Civ 7.32 2
...it is not New York streets...though stretching out towards
Philadelphia until they touch it...that make the real estimation.
Farm 7.151 8
There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion
and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that...
the land is ever yielding less returns to enlarging hosts of eaters. Henry
Carey of Philadelphia replied: Not so, Mr. Malthus...
Suc 7.286 3
Dr. Benjamin Rush, in Philadelphia, carried that city heroically
through the yellow fever of the year 1793.
Grts 8.319 15
...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed
in every village: O yes, If I lived in...Philadelphia...there might be fit
society;...
GSt 10.503 14
In 1863 [George Stearns] began to recruit colored soldiers in
Buffalo, then at Philadelphia and Nashville.
FSLC 11.197 6
New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go
for slavery, and posted the names of merchants who would not. Boston,
alarmed, entered into the same design. Philadelphia, more fortunate, had no
conscience at all...
EPro 11.323 19
Give [the Confederacy] Washington, and they would have
assumed the army and navy, and, through these, Philadelphia, New York,
and Boston.
Philadelphian, n. (1)
ET3 5.40 25
I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city
of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same
belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a
patriotic Philadelphian...
philanthropic, adj. (6)
MR 1.234 24
Considerations of this kind have turned the attention of many
philanthropic...persons to the claims of manual labor, as a part of the
education of every young man.
SL 2.163 22
The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it
have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet...or philanthropic society...
MoS 4.172 27
[The wise skeptic] is a reformer; yet he is no better member
of the philanthropic association.
Pow 6.65 26
Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make
their executive officers out of saints.
CSC 10.375 16
...Edward, Palmer, Jones Very, Maria W. Chapman and
many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were
present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
SlHr 10.448 14
...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication...
to unpaid services of the Temperance and Peace and other philanthropic
societies...
philanthropies, n. (3)
Tran 1.349 14
...the philanthropies and charities have a certain air of
quackery.
PC 8.210 16
Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the
novel and powerful philanthropies...have evoked!...
Bost 12.186 14
What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might
be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at
least an equal freedom in our laws and customs...with so many
philanthropies, humanities, charities, soliciting us to be great and good.
philanthropist, n. (6)
LT 1.280 7
This denouncing philanthropist is himself a slaveholder in
every word and look.
YA 1.371 13
...the land...of the philanthropist...[America] should speak for
the human race.
YA 1.390 19
...to one thing we are bound...not to throw stumbling-blocks in
the way of the abolitionist, the philanthropist;...
SR 2.52 7
I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar...I
give to such men as do not belong to me...
SA 8.105 3
The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of
affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the
love...in the tender-hearted philanthropist to spend and be spent for some
romantic charity...
Milt1 12.272 13
The events which produced [Milton's tracts on divorce and
freedom of the press]...are mere occasions for this philanthropist to blow
his trumpet for human rights.
philanthropists, n. (7)
MR 1.229 12
...let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be...
philanthropists.
Tran 1.348 5
The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does
not mean sloth;...
UGM 4.21 26
I go to a convention of philanthropists. Do what I can, I
cannot keep my eyes off the clock.
Ctr 6.133 27
...if we run over our private list of poets, critics,
philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this
dropsy and elephantiasis [egotism]...
MoL 10.241 6
You go to be teachers, to become...statesmen, naturalists,
philanthropists;...
LLNE 10.357 16
I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of
the age in which we live...
II 12.72 22
It is this employment of new means...that denotes the inspired
man. This is equally obvious...in action as well as in fine arts. We must try
our philanthropists so.
philanthropy, n. (9)
LT 1.269 1
The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...by their
conscience and philanthropy..compose the visible church of the existing
generation.
SR 2.51 10
If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that
pass?
Fdsp 2.203 27
Almost every man we meet...has...some whim of religion or
philanthropy in his head...which spoils all conversation with him.
CbW 6.256 18
The benefaction derived in Illinois and the great West from
railroads is inestimable, and vastly exceeding any intentional philanthropy
on record.
Elo2 8.112 20
...the political questions...find or form a class of men by
nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures, and make them
intelligible and acceptable to the electors. So of education, of art, of
philanthropy.
Chr2 10.103 25
The [moral] sentiment...measures...whatever philanthropy,
or politics, or saint, or seer pretends to speak in its name.
War 11.168 19
...no man, it may be presumed, ever embraced the cause of
peace and philanthropy for the sole end and satisfaction of being plundered
and slain.
FSLN 11.217 7
...I see what havoc it makes with any good mind, a
dissipated philanthropy.
Bost 12.206 22
...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the
conservative class with some odious novelty or other;...a reform in
education, a philanthropy.
Philhellene, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.146 6
...there is still...some friend of Poland; some Philhellene;...
Philip II, of Macedon, n. (10)
NER 3.270 22
You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned
King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice...
NER 3.270 23
You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned
King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused...
NER 3.270 26
You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned
King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused: the
woman exclaimed, I appeal: the king, astonished, asked to whom she
appealed: the woman replied, From Philip drunk to Philip sober.
NER 3.271 1
I believe not in two classes of men, but in man in two moods,
in Philip drunk and Philip sober.
NER 3.271 2
I believe not in two classes of men, but in man in two moods,
in Philip drunk and Philip sober.
ET1 5.7 21
...[Landor]...is well content to impress, if possible, his English
whim upon the immutable past. No great man ever had a great son, if Philip
and Alexander be not an exception;...
ET1 5.7 22
...[Landor]...is well content to impress, if possible, his English
whim upon the immutable past. No great man ever had a great son, if Philip
and Alexander be not an exception; and Philip he calls the greater man.
Elo1 7.73 7
Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes, on hearing the report
of one of his orations, Had I been there, he would have persuaded me to
take up arms against myself;...
PC 8.218 5
The history of Greece is at one time reduced to two persons,-
Philip, or the successor of Philip...and Demosthenes...
Plu 10.307 26
[Plutarch] thinks that Alexander invaded Persia with greater
assistance from Aristotle than from his father Philip.
Philip II, of Spain, n. (1)
YA 1.393 22
Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious
affairs in Italy...
Philip IV, of Spain, n. (1)
Milt1 12.272 26
[Milton] defends the slaying of the king, because a king is
a king no longer than he governs by the laws; It would be right to kill Philip
of Spain making an inroad into England, and what right the king of Spain
hath to govern us at all, the same hath the king Charles to govern
tyranically.
Philip, King, n. (4)
HDC 11.57 27
This expedition [against the Niantic Indians] was but the
introduction of the war with King Philip.
HDC 11.58 2
Philip surrendered seventy guns to the Commissioners in
Taunton Meeting-house...
HDC 11.58 26
A still more formidable enemy [of Concord] was removed...
by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally of Philip...
HDC 11.60 15
With the tragical end of Philip, the war ended.
Philippe, Louis, of France, (2)
Carl 10.494 12
...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for
years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington,
on The Beautiful...[Carlyle] thinks that nothing.
Carl 10.496 23
...the new French revolution of 1848 was the best thing
[Carlyle] had seen, and the teaching this great swindler, Louis Philippe, that
there is a God's justice in the Universe, after all, was a great satisfaction.
Philippi, Greece, n. (1)
Hsm1 2.255 8
It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the
battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides...
Philippo, Mr., n. (1)
EWI 11.142 11
The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of Philippo, are very
explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the
black population [in the West Indies]...
Philip's, King, n. (1)
HDC 11.62 5
After Philip's death, [the Indians'] strength was irrecoverably
broken.
Philistia, n. (1)
PI 8.51 26
Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music,
that it has a privilege of speaking truth which all Philistia is unable to
challenge.
Philistine, n. (1)
PI 8.52 5
With...the first strain of a song,...we pour contempt on the prose
you so magnify; yet the sturdiest Philistine is silent.
philistines, n. (1)
PPh 4.71 24
[Socrates]...valued the bores and philistines...
Philistines, n. (1)
II 12.81 17
[Men] all share, to the rankest Philistines, the same belief.
Phillips, Mr., n. (1)
AKan 11.256 15
Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages
[in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private
tragedies show it? Do the private letters? Is it an exaggeration, that...Mr.
Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of Berkshire, have been murdered?
Phillips, Wendell, n. (3)
Pow 6.78 9
Stumping it through New England for twice seven [years]
trained Wendell Phillips.
PI 8.25 27
[People] like to go...to Faneuil Hall, and be taught by Otis...or
Kossuth, or Phillips, what great hearts they have...
Elo2 8.117 19
As soon as a man shows rare power of expression, like
Chatham, Erskine, Patrick Henry, Webster, or Phillips, all the great
interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...
Philo Judaeus, n. (1)
ET1 5.11 11
[Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of
unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul,--the doctrine of the
Trinity, which was also according to Philo Judaeus the doctrine of the Jews
before Christ, this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny
it...
Philoctetes [Sophocles], n. (1)
Hist 2.26 17
I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes.
Philolaus, n. (2)
PPh 4.42 9
When we are praising Plato, it seems we are praising quotations
from Solon and Sophron and Philolaus.
PPh 4.42 16
Plato absorbed the learning of his times,--Philolaus, Timaeus,
Heraclitus, Parmenides, and what else;...
philological, adj. (1)
F 6.11 26
Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his
brain,-an architectural, a musical, or a philological knack;...
Philological Society, Commi (1)
Plu 10.321 7
I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in
London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch]...
philonic, adj. (1)
QO 8.182 15
...whatever undue reverence may have been claimed for [the
Bible] by the prestige of philonic inspiration, the stronger tendency we are
describing is likely to undo.
philosopher, n. (75)
Nat 1.35 2
Material objects, said a French philosopher, are necessarily
kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator...
Nat 1.55 2
...[the poet] differs from the philosopher only herein, that the
one proposes Beauty as his main end; the other Truth.
Nat 1.55 4
...the philosopher...postpones the apparent order and relations of
things to the empire of thought.
Nat 1.55 14
The true philosopher and the true poet are one...
AmS 1.108 2
Each philosopher...has only done for me...what one day I can
do for myself.
DSA 1.150 18
Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first
the Sabbath...whose light dawns welcome alike into the closet of the
philosopher, into the garret of toil...
LE 1.187 4
...Ask not...Who is the better for the philosopher who conceals
his accomplishments...
MN 1.196 6
...as soon as [the grand inquisitor] probes the crust, behold
gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction...
MN 1.200 16
Away, profane philosopher! seekest thou in nature the cause?
LT 1.259 24
Everything that is popular...deserves the attention of the
philosopher...
Con 1.301 20
There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all
times.
Con 1.301 21
There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all
times.
YA 1.378 18
The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of
trade;...
Hist 2.12 20
...to the philosopher...all things are friendly and sacred...
Lov1 2.174 5
...the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the
young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love...
Cir 2.313 15
...yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding
had fallen into the Christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was
not specially prized...
Cir 2.317 19
...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you
have arrived at a fine Pyrrhonism...
Pol1 3.209 27
The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of
course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...
NR 3.236 8
...[nature]...insults the philosopher in every moment with a
million of fresh particulars.
PPh 4.43 4
A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.
PPh 4.43 5
A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.
PPh 4.43 21
...a philosopher converts the value of all his fortunes into his
intellectual performances.
PPh 4.78 8
...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great
question from [Plato]. These things we are forced to say if we must
consider the effort of Plato or of any philosopher to dispose of nature,--
which will not be disposed of.
SwM 4.93 14
Then, also, the philosopher has his value...
SwM 4.95 22
The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali
Seena, the philosopher, conferred together;...
SwM 4.95 23
The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali
Seena, the philosopher, conferred together; and, on parting, the philosopher
said, All that he sees, I know; and the mystic said, All that he knows, I see.
MoS 4.151 20
On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the
animal world, including the animal in the philosopher and poet also, and the
practical world...weigh heavily on the other side.
MoS 4.151 22
On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the
animal world...and the practical world, including the painful drudgeries
which are never excused to philosopher or poet any more than to the rest,--
weigh heavily on the other side.
MoS 4.153 7
...[the men of the senses] make themselves merry with the
philosopher...
MoS 4.154 19
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...
MoS 4.167 20
[I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play
the philosopher...
ShP 4.210 12
Some able and appreciating critics think...that [Shakespeare]
is falsely judged as poet and philosopher.
GoW 4.271 8
Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;...
ET13 5.222 7
[The English] value a philosopher as they value an
apothecary who brings bark or a drench;...
ET13 5.223 1
[The English university] ripens a bishop, and extrudes a
philosopher.
ET14 5.233 14
When [the Englishman] is intellectual, and a poet or a
philosopher, he carries the same hard truth and the same keen machinery
into the mental sphere.
ET14 5.249 6
Even in [Coleridge], the traditional Englishman was too
strong for the philosopher...
ET16 5.274 6
I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give...a
little [time] to scientific clubs and museums, which, at this moment, make
London very attractive. But my philosopher [Carlyle] was not contented.
ET16 5.279 15
My philosopher [Carlyle] was subdued and gentle [at
Stonehenge].
SS 7.8 7
I have seen many a philosopher whose world is large enough for
only one person.
WD 7.178 10
A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a
wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not
enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.
Boks 7.198 12
You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in
Homer...the poet converted to a philosopher...
Boks 7.201 8
...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of
every kind...containing that ironical eulogy of Socrates which is the source
from which all the portraits of that philosopher current in Europe have been
drawn.
PI 8.10 6
Sonnets of lovers...are valuable to the philosopher...for their
potent symbolism.
PI 8.56 11
The critic, the philosopher, is a failed poet.
Comc 8.159 21
...a prophet...or a philosopher...these do not joke...
Comc 8.163 16
Plutarch happily expresses the value of the jest as a
legitimate weapon of the philosopher.
Comc 8.169 7
The poverty...of the rapt philosopher...is not comic.
PC 8.216 14
...every one has heard the remark...that the philosopher was
above his audience.
PC 8.220 17
How much more are...the wise and good souls...Alfred the
king, Shakspeare the poet, Newton the philosopher...than the foolish and
sensual millions around them!
PC 8.224 4
The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than
[man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or
wedge, bringing it to a hair-point for the eye and hand of the philosopher.
Grts 8.305 25
...there is not a piece of Nature in any kind but a man is born
who...aims...to dedicate himself to that. Then there is the poet, the
philosopher...
Imtl 8.340 24
...Van Helmont, the philosopher of Holland, drew his
sufficient proof [of immortality] purely from the action of the intellect.
Aris 10.44 6
...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I
will tell you if he shall be poet, king...
Schr 10.269 6
The dry-goods men, and the brokers...are idealists, and only
differ from the philosopher in the intensity of the charge.
Plu 10.299 14
[Plutarch] is a philosopher with philosophers...
Plu 10.306 11
We are always interested in the man who treats the intellect
well. We expect it from the philosopher...
Plu 10.307 4
...we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power
from the philosopher in his closet...
Plu 10.308 17
...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher not to hide in a corner...
Plu 10.311 15
Plutarch is genial; with an endless interest in all human and
divine things; Seneca, a professional philosopher...
LLNE 10.326 14
The modern mind believed that the nation existed...for the
guardianship and education of every man. This idea...in the mind of the
philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world.
LLNE 10.337 23
On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came
Mesmerism, which...attempted the explanation of miracle and prophecy, as
well as of creation. What could be more revolting to the contemplative
philosopher!
LLNE 10.338 3
...the joy with which [Mesmerism] was greeted was an
instinct of the people which no true philosopher would fail to profit by.
LLNE 10.344 22
I habitually apply to [Theodore Parker] the words of a
French philosopher who speaks of the man of Nature who abominates the
steam-engine and the factory.
LLNE 10.362 24
...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher...
EPro 11.320 19
The government has assured itself of the best constituency
in the world...every poet, every philosopher...all rally to its support.
SMC 11.359 16
[George Prescott] was a man...who never fancied himself a
philosopher or a saint;...
PLT 12.14 23
...[the poet] is believing; the philosopher, after some
struggle, having only reasons for believing.
PLT 12.40 7
The philosopher knows only laws.
Mem 12.102 25
The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet
disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against
the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of
youth and talent.
CInt 12.114 8
...when the Roman soldier, at the sack of Syracuse, broke
into his study, the philosopher [Archimedes] could not rise from his chair
and his diagram...
CInt 12.125 5
...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain
relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning
philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has
happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds
himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
MAng1 12.244 6
There [in Santa Croce], near the tomb of Nicholas
Macchiavelli, the historian and philosopher;...stands the monument of
Michael Angelo Buonarotti.
MLit 12.322 13
...of all men he who has united in himself...the tendencies
of the era, is the German poet, naturalist and philosopher, Goethe.
WSL 12.346 20
...[Landor] is not a poet or a philosopher.
philosophers, n. (48)
Con 1.301 16
...men are not philosophers...
Tran 1.339 15
This [Transcendental] way of thinking, falling on Roman
times, made Stoic philosophers;...
SR 2.57 18
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored
by...philosophers...
Hsm1 2.251 4
...for the hero that thing he does is the highest deed, and is
not open to the censure of philosophers or divines.
OS 2.287 7
The great distinction...between philosophers like Spinoza, Kant
and Coleridge, and philosophers like Locke, Paley, Mackintosh and
Stewart...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from
without...
OS 2.287 8
The great distinction...between philosophers like Spinoza, Kant
and Coleridge, and philosophers like Locke, Paley, Mackintosh and
Stewart...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from
without...
Pt1 3.16 11
The schools of poets and philosophers are not more intoxicated
with their symbols than the populace with theirs.
NR 3.248 11
I talked yesterday with a pair of philosophers;...
PPh 4.42 26
[Plato] says, in the Republic, Such a genius as philosophers
must of necessity have, is wont but seldom in all its parts to meet in one
man...
PPh 4.56 13
...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of
the world;...
PPh 4.73 8
...under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing,
[Socrates] attacks and brings down...all the fine philosophers of Athens...
SwM 4.104 9
The robust Aristotelian method...had trained a race of athletic
philosophers.
SwM 4.107 6
This theory [Identity-philosophy] dates from the oldest
philosophers...
SwM 4.130 4
[Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between
knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed.
Philosophers are, therefore, vipers, cockatrices...
SwM 4.138 10
Evil, according to old philosophers, is good in the making.
MoS 4.150 12
Plotinus believes only in philosophers;...
NMW 4.250 16
To the philosophers [Napoleon] readily yielded all that was
proved against religion as the work of men and time...
GoW 4.274 22
[Goethe] treats nature as the old philosophers...did...
ET11 5.190 19
In the roll of [English] nobles are found poets, philosophers,
chemists, astronomers...
Wth 6.88 20
...the philosophers have laid the greatness of man in making
his wants few...
Ctr 6.133 14
This distemper [egotism] is the scourge...of artists, inventors
and philosophers.
Ctr 6.133 27
...if we run over our private list of poets, critics,
philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this
dropsy and elephantiasis [egotism]...
Bty 6.289 6
I am warned by the ill fate of many philosophers not to attempt
a definition of Beauty.
Ill 6.324 4
The early Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Xenophanes
measured their force on this problem of identity.
Elo1 7.99 3
One thought the philosophers of Demosthenes's own time
found running through all his orations,--this namely, that virtue secures its
own success.
Clbs 7.248 8
No doubt the suppers of wits and philosophers acquire much
lustre by time and renown.
PI 8.4 18
Faraday, the most exact of natural philosophers, taught that when
we should arrive at the...primordial elements...we should...find...spherules
of force.
PI 8.51 2
St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the
books of the philosophers...
Comc 8.164 1
...the very jests and merry talk of true philosophers move
those that are not altogether insensible...
Comc 8.173 25
...explore the whole of Nature, the farce and buffoonery in
the yard below, as well as the lessons of poets and philosophers upstairs in
the hall...
Imtl 8.340 15
Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers who were least
divine denied generally the immortality of the soul...
Dem1 10.11 22
...all the bravest tales of Homer and the poets, modern
philosophers can explain with profound judgment of law and state and
ethics.
Chr2 10.115 15
Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the
manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan
philosophers.
MoL 10.241 8
You go to be teachers...I hope, some of you, to be the men
of letters, critics, philosophers;...
Schr 10.266 18
It was superstitious to exact too much from philosophers
and the literary class.
Schr 10.266 21
...the philosophers and diffusion-societies have not much
helped us.
Plu 10.299 14
[Plutarch] is a philosopher with philosophers...
Plu 10.301 12
[Plutarch] gossips of heroes, philosophers and poets;...
Plu 10.309 4
In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the
relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for
instruction.
Plu 10.317 12
...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of
ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will
sometime wink at; that our souls may be with these philosophers together in
the same state of bliss.
ACiv 11.309 26
It is the maxim of natural philosophers that the natural
forces wear out in time all obstacles, and take place...
ChiE 11.472 17
...[China] has philosophers who cannot be spared.
PLT 12.8 18
Was it better when we came to the philosophers, who found
everybody wrong;...
PLT 12.38 16
The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is
published...in conversation of scholars and philosophers...
CL 12.140 27
The power of the air was the first explanation offered by the
early philosophers of the mutual understanding that men have.
Bost 12.184 14
How can we not believe in influences of climate and air,
when, as true philosophers, we must believe that chemical atoms also have
their spiritual cause why they are thus and not other;...
Milt1 12.254 23
Many philosophers in England, France and Germany have
formally dedicated their study to this problem [human nature];...
PPr 12.380 25
Though...more than most philosophers a believer in political
systems, Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times...in false
and superficial aims of the people...
Philosophers, n. (1)
CSC 10.374 24
...Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians and
Philosophers,-all came successively to the top [at the Chardon Street
Convention]...
philosopher's, n. (2)
Comc 8.159 26
...the best of all jokes is the sympathetic contemplation of
things by the understanding from the philosopher's point of view.
Comc 8.160 4
There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some
pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended
by a man...who, sympathizing with the philosopher's scrutiny, sympathizes
also with the confusion and indignation of the detected, skulking
institutions.
Philosophers, Opinions of th (1)
Plu 10.309 24
Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of
the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the
Questions and the Symposiacs.
philosophia, prima, n. (1)
ET14 5.240 5
Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his
map of the mind, first of all, universality, or prima philosophia;...
philosophic, adj. (7)
PPh 4.61 11
[Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class
have...
SwM 4.111 7
...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson...a
philosophic critic...
SwM 4.124 25
That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old
mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic
character.
ET14 5.235 24
For two centuries England was philosophic, religious,
poetic.
Boks 7.200 15
[Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you
are stimulated and recruited...by philosophic sentiments...
LLNE 10.330 4
The popular religion of our fathers had received many
severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic
theologians...
MLit 12.312 16
The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a
certain philosophic turn...
philosophical, adj. (17)
Nat 1.5 5
In enumerating the values of nature...I shall use the word...in its
common and in its philosophical import.
AmS 1.92 9
But for the evidence thence afforded to the philosophical
doctrine of the identity of all minds, we should suppose some
preestablished harmony...
AmS 1.112 25
...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely
philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time.
LE 1.170 18
Since Carlyle wrote French History, we see that no history
that we have is safe, but a new classifier shall give it new and more
philosophical arrangement.
LT 1.287 16
...we think the Genius of this Age more philosophical than any
other has been...
Hist 2.31 22
The philosophical perception of identity through endless
mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus.
Hsm1 2.250 18
There is somewhat not philosophical in heroism;...
Mrs1 3.119 7
The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is
philosophical to a fault.
NER 3.260 7
One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation
and in the rudest democratical movements...
PPh 4.78 1
In view of eternal nature, Plato turns out of be philosophical
exercitations.
ET9 5.150 13
...in a philosophical essay...one is surprised [in England] by
the most innocent exhibition of unflinching nationality.
Grts 8.315 1
...[Napoleon's] official advices are to me more literary and
philosophical than the memoirs of the Academy.
LLNE 10.326 26
People grow philosophical about native land and parents
and relations.
Thor 10.457 12
...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his
lecture would be a nice, interesting story...or whether it was one of those
old philosophical things that she did not care about.
EdAd 11.391 3
There are literary and philosophical reputations to settle.
ACri 12.289 13
As a study in language, the use of this word [Devil] is
curious, to see how words help us and must be philosophical.
MLit 12.312 9
[The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out
the genius of the German nation into an activity which, spreading from the
poetic into the scientific, religious and philosophical domains, has made
theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world...
Philosophical age, n. (1)
AmS 1.109 5
...there are data for marking the genius of the Classic, of the
Romantic, and now of the Reflective or Philosophical age.
Philosophical Necessity, n. (1)
Trag 12.408 2
[Belief in Fate] is discriminated from the doctrine of
Philosophical Necessity herein: that the last is an Optimism...
Philosophical Transactions, (1)
SS 7.5 20
[My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the
moon as his letter to Collins, in which he forbade him to insert his name
with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Transactions...
philosophically, adv. (1)
Nat 1.4 23
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature
and the Soul.
philosophies, n. (5)
UGM 4.7 5
One man answers some question which none of his
contemporaries put, and is isolated. The past and passing religions and
philosophies answer some other question.
SwM 4.117 22
...[mankind] had sciences, religions, philosophies...
GoW 4.272 3
[Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself
the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national
literatures...
Elo1 7.78 27
...histories, poems and new philosophies arise to account for
[Caesar].
Dem1 10.18 7
...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a
transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the
woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names,
since all philosophies and religions have attempted in prose or in poetry to
solve this riddle...
philosophize, v. (4)
PPh 4.58 15
...[Plato] believes...that the gods never philosophize...
NMW 4.241 24
[Napoleon] knew...how to philosophize on liberty and
equality;...
Comc 8.163 22
...it is the top of wisdom to philosophize yet not appear to
do it...
Plu 10.312 23
Plutarch...thought it the top of wisdom to philosophize yet
not appear to do it...
philosophizes, v. (1)
MLit 12.318 15
The very child in the nursery prattles mysticism, and
doubts and philosophizes.
philosophizing, v. (2)
SwM 4.127 23
...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not
momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total; and chastity not a
local, but a universal virtue; unchastity being discovered as much in the
trading, or planting, or speaking, or philosophizing, as in generation;...
MoS 4.156 9
[The skeptic says] I, at least, will shun the weakness of
philosophizing beyond my depth.
Philosophy, First, n. (2)
ET14 5.244 14
...[the English] draw only a bucketful at the fountain of the
First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head.
WSL 12.346 23
Only from a mind conversant with the First Philosophy can
definitions be expected.
philosophy, n. (155)
Nat 1.3 7
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and
not of tradition...
Nat 1.17 18
...the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and
dreams.
Nat 1.28 9
...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...applied to the
illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy...affects us in the most
lively...manner.
Nat 1.50 12
Our first institution in the Ideal philosophy is a hint from
Nature herself.
Nat 1.55 7
The problem of philosophy...is, for all that exists conditionally,
to find a ground unconditioned and absolute.
Nat 1.58 11
[Religion] does that for the unschooled, which philosophy does
for Berkeley and Viasa.
Nat 1.59 27
[The ideal theory] is...the view which Reason...that is,
philosophy and virtue, take.
AmS 1.86 24
...when he has learned...to see that the natural philosophy that
now is, is only the first gropings of [the soul's] gigantic hand, [the scholar]
shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming
creator.
AmS 1.110 16
I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming
days, as they glimmer already...through philosophy and science...
AmS 1.111 2
The literature of the poor...the philosophy of the street...are
the topics of the time.
AmS 1.112 20
There is one man of genius who has done much for this
philosophy of life...I mean Emanuel Swedenborg.
LE 1.160 20
Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith...
LE 1.162 2
...the immortal bards of philosophy,-that which they have
written out...makes me bold.
LE 1.162 13
The impoverishing philosophy of ages has laid stress on the
distinctions of the individual...
LE 1.170 27
Religion is yet to be settled on its fast foundations in the
breast of man;...and philosophy...
LE 1.171 5
This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the
adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy.
LE 1.171 19
...[the light] is gone before you can cry, Hold. And so it
happens with our philosophy.
LE 1.172 6
The book of philosophy is only a fact...
LE 1.182 22
If [the man of genius] be defective at either extreme of the
scale, his philosophy will seem low and utilitarian...
MR 1.236 20
We must have a basis for...our delicate entertainments of
poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.
MR 1.241 19
...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and
philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled to wait on his
thoughts;...
MR 1.242 10
...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy...are
attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
LT 1.261 10
The reason and influence of wealth, the aspect of philosophy
and religion...these and other related topics will in turn come to be
considered.
Tran 1.338 5
...we know of none but prophets and heralds of such a
philosophy [Transcendendalism];...
Tran 1.340 1
...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of
Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or
imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which
experience was acquired;...
Hist 2.14 24
We have the same national mind expressed for us again in
[Greek] literature, in epic and lyric poems, drama, and philosophy;...
SR 2.65 2
...if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at
fault.
SR 2.74 9
...the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his
crimes.
SR 2.86 3
...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the
nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes...
Comp 2.111 5
The vulgar proverb, I will get it from his purse or get it from
his skin, is sound philosophy.
SL 2.155 23
Our philosophy is affirmative...
SL 2.164 7
Why need I go gadding into the scenes and philosophy of Greek
and Italian history before I have justified myself to my benefactors?
Lov1 2.170 1
The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savor of a
mature philosophy...
Lov1 2.181 3
[What we love] is that which you know not in yourself and
can never know. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty
which the ancient writers delighted in;...
OS 2.267 22
The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the
chambers and magazines of the soul.
Cir 2.315 22
The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last
facts of philosophy as well as you.
Int 2.339 22
Is it any better if the student...aims to make a mechanical
whole of...philosophy, by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall
within his vision.
Int 2.342 2
He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept...the
first philosophy...he meets...
Int 2.345 1
...whosoever propounds to you a philosophy of the mind, is
only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness...
Pt1 3.3 19
There is no doctrine of forms in our philosophy.
Pt1 3.33 6
...dream delivers us to dream, and while the drunkenness lasts
we will sell our bed, our philosophy, our religion, in our opulence.
Exp 3.49 26
We may have the sphere for our cricket-ball, but not a berry
for our philosophy.
Exp 3.63 27
...the new molecular philosophy shows astronomical
interspaces betwixt atom and atom...
Exp 3.75 16
...scepticisms...are limitations of the affirmative statement, and
the new philosophy must take them in...
Nat2 3.196 3
...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being...
and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death,
which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to
express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
NR 3.235 5
...[Mesmerism, Swedenborgism, Fourierism, and the Millennial
Church]...are poor pretensions enough, but good criticism on the science,
philosophy and preaching of the day.
NR 3.246 27
We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of
the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love
her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth, not dissipated or too
early ripened by books, philosophy, religion, society, or care!...
NER 3.260 20
I conceive...the indication of growing trust in the private self-supplied
powers of the individual, to be the affirmative principle of the
recent philosophy...
NER 3.268 23
We do not believe that...any system of philosophy...will ever
give depth of insight to a superficial mind.
UGM 4.5 7
...our philosophy finds one essence collected or distributed.
PPh 4.40 8
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato...
PPh 4.40 23
Mahometanism draws all its philosophy...from [Plato].
PPh 4.42 25
This breadth [of synthesis] entitles [Plato] to stand as the
representative of philosophy.
PPh 4.45 13
How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and
almost literature, is the problem for us to solve.
PPh 4.47 5
There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the
perceptive powers reach their ripeness... ... That is the moment of adult
health, the culmination of power. Such is the history of Europe, in all
points; and such in philosophy.
PPh 4.47 9
[Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from
Asia...a confusion of crude notions of morals and of natural philosophy...
PPh 4.47 23
He shall be as a god to me, who can rightly divide and define.
This defining is philosophy.
PPh 4.47 23
Philosophy is the account which the human mind gives to
itself of the constitution of the world.
PPh 4.48 17
All philosophy, of East and West, has the same centripetence.
PPh 4.52 12
...the seat of a philosophy delighting in abstractions...is Asia;...
PPh 4.52 18
...[Europe's] philosophy was a discipline;...
PPh 4.54 6
Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of
Europe;...
PPh 4.57 5
All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of
every thing beautiful. This dogma animates and impersonates [Plato's]
philosophy.
PPh 4.59 25
Socrates' profession of obstetric art is good philosophy;...
PPh 4.60 8
...philosophy is an elegant thing, if any one modestly meddles
with it [said Plato];...
PPh 4.64 14
[Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion
for reality; valuing philosophy only as it is the pleasure of conversing with
real being.
SwM 4.111 22
The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr.
Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg], throw all the
contemporary philosophy of England into shade...
MoS 4.149 21
This head and this tail [Sensation and Morals] are called, in
the language of philosophy, Infinite and Finite;...
MoS 4.150 9
Another class [predisposed to Morals]...are men of faith and
philosophy...
MoS 4.152 9
Things always bring their own philosophy with them, that is,
prudence.
MoS 4.159 26
[Unbelief and universal doubting] are no more [the skeptic'
s] moods than are those of religion and philosophy.
MoS 4.160 14
The philosophy we want is one of fluxions and mobility.
MoS 4.175 9
...though philosophy extirpates bugbears, yet it supplies the
natural checks of vice, and polarity to the soul.
ShP 4.204 14
Now, literature, philosophy and thought are Shakspearized.
ShP 4.209 25
What point...of philosophy...has [Shakespeare] not settled?
GoW 4.272 1
[Goethe's] Helena...is a philosophy of literature set in
poetry;...
GoW 4.283 2
...the [German] professor can not divest himself of the fancy
that the truths of philosophy have some application to Berlin and Munich.
ET1 5.19 13
...[Wordsworth] had broken a tooth by a fall, when walking
with two lawyers, and had said that he was glad it did not happen forty
years ago; whereupon they had praised his philosophy.
ET9 5.151 4
America is the paradise of the [English] economists;...but
when he speaks directly of the Americans the islander forgets his
philosophy and remembers his disparaging anecdotes.
ET14 5.240 8
Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his
map of the mind, first of all, universality, or prima philosophia; the
receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within
the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy, but are more
common and of a higher stage.
ET14 5.240 14
If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle
studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and
supplied;...
ET14 5.243 17
Locke, to whom the meaning of ideas was unknown,
became the type of philosophy [in England]...
ET14 5.247 8
The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches...that the glory of
modern philosophy is its direction on fruit;...
ET14 5.247 12
[Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian
philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the
intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to
the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
ET14 5.249 18
It is the surest sign of national decay, when the Bramins can
no longer read or understand the Braminical philosophy.
ET14 5.252 9
...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is
mechanical in its structure...
ET14 5.252 19
[The English] have lost all commanding views in literature,
philosophy and science.
ET14 5.254 15
...satire at the names of philosophy and religion...betray the
ebb of life and spirit [in English students].
ET18 5.305 23
Will, said the old philosophy, is the measure of power...
F 6.49 12
Why should we be afraid of Nature, which is no other than
philosophy and theology embodied?
Wth 6.114 18
...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music,
architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider...
Wth 6.124 25
It is a doctrine of philosophy that man is a being of degrees;...
Ctr 6.137 26
'T is a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine
arts and philosophy.
Ctr 6.139 8
The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and
variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...with the
high resources of philosophy, art and religion;...
Ctr 6.150 26
...[the man of the world] allows himself to be surprised into...
the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.
Ctr 6.160 26
The orator who has once seen things in their divine order...
will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and though he will say
nothing of philosophy, he will have a certain mastery in dealing with them...
Ctr 6.162 5
We wish to learn philosophy by rote...
CbW 6.272 10
Our conversation once and again has apprised us...that a
mental power invites us whose generalizations are more worth for joy and
for effect than anything that is now called philosophy or literature.
Ill 6.325 3
It would be hard to put more mental and moral philosophy than
the Persians have thrown into a sentence...
Civ 7.26 13
...there have been learning, philosophy and art in Iceland, and
in the tropics.
DL 7.127 5
The secret power of form over the imagination and affections
transcends all our philosophy.
WD 7.172 4
Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the
range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to
be born, or what German philosophy denotes as a becoming.
WD 7.184 15
There are people...who have no talents, or care not to have
them,--being that which was before talent, and shall be after it, and of
which talent seems only a tool: this is character, the highest name at which
philosophy has arrived.
Boks 7.217 22
Every good fable...every passage of love, and even
philosophy and science, when they proceed from an intellectual integrity...
have the imaginative element.
Clbs 7.236 13
Dr. Johnson was a man of no profound mind,--full of English
limitations, English politics...Oxford philosophy;...
Suc 7.301 21
Aristotle or Bacon or Kant propound some maxim which is
the key-note of philosophy thenceforward.
PI 8.54 5
Poetry will never be a simple means, as when history or
philosophy is rhymed...
PI 8.63 6
We are sometimes apprised that there is a mental power and
creation more excellent that anything which is commonly called philosophy
and literature;...
PI 8.66 18
I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents
of a reform in philosophy...
PI 8.66 23
The philosophy which a nation receives, rules its religion,
poetry, politics, arts, trades and whole history.
Elo2 8.114 23
For the time, [the orator's] exceeding life throws all other
gifts into shade,--philosophy speculating on its own breath, taste, learning
and all...
Res 8.138 2
A philosophy which sees only the worst;...dispirits us;...
Comc 8.163 18
Men cannot exercise their rhetoric unless they speak, but
their philosophy even whilst they are silent or jest merrily;...
QO 8.179 15
The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps
itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning.
QO 8.179 25
In a hundred years, millions of men, and...not a theory of
philosophy that offers a solution of the great problems...
PC 8.213 11
...the child is in his playthings working incessantly at
problems of natural philosophy...
Insp 8.292 10
[Conversation] is the true school of philosophy...
Imtl 8.325 13
The Greek, with his perfect senses and perceptions, had quite
another philosophy [of immortality].
Dem1 10.23 27
Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred
lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say,
There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy.
Aris 10.63 25
...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy...
Edc1 10.132 26
We have our theory of life, our religion, our philosophy;...
Edc1 10.147 11
It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar
than rhetoric or moral philosophy...
SovE 10.186 13
'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of
Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he
had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning
philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
SovE 10.205 19
I do not think the summit of this age truly reached or
expressed unless it attain the height which religion and philosophy reached
in any former age.
SovE 10.208 11
We are thrown back on rectitude...to mend one; that is all
we can do. But that the zealot stigmatizes as a sterile chimney-corner
philosophy.
SovE 10.213 6
Now science and philosophy recognize the parallelism, the
approximation, the unity of the two [Spirit and Matter]...
MoL 10.243 18
The subtle Hindoo, who carried religion to ecstasy and
philosophy to idealism, produced the wonderful epics of which, in the
present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
MoL 10.244 26
There is much criticism...but an affirmative philosophy is
wanting.
MoL 10.244 26
Our profoundest philosophy...is skepticism.
Plu 10.296 24
M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral
philosophy...
Plu 10.308 12
Of philosophy [Plutarch] is more interested in the results
than in the method.
Plu 10.312 5
Seneca...learned to temper his philosophy with facts.
LLNE 10.328 23
In philosophy, Immanuel Kant has made the best
catalogue of the human faculties and the best analysis of the mind.
LLNE 10.338 20
Schelling and Oken introduced their ideal natural
philosophy...
LLNE 10.342 16
I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in
Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to...inaugurate some
movement in literature, philosophy and religion...
LLNE 10.349 2
As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it
appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy;...
LLNE 10.365 18
It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of
this noted community [Brook Farm], in which the agreement with many
parties was that they should give so many hours of instruction, in
mathematics, in music, in moral and intellectual philosophy, and so forth,-
that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the
advantages of the society...
MMEm 10.408 7
[Mary Moody Emerson] is no...orderly digest of any
system of philosophy...
MMEm 10.409 9
As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the
doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so
have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the
cabinets of natural or moral philosophy...
EWI 11.145 23
It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest
philosophy, that man is one...
EWI 11.146 5
There have been moments in [emancipation in the West
Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history, when there seemed room
for the infusions of a skeptical philosophy;...
War 11.151 1
It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy to indicate
the steps of human progress...
War 11.153 21
[Alexander's conquest of the East] carried the arts and
language and philosophy of the Greeks into the sluggish and barbarous
nations of Persia, Assyria and India.
FSLN 11.218 19
Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb,
carry the business men into the city to their...work-yards and warehouses.
With them enters the car-the newsboy, that humble priest of politics,
finance, philosophy, and religion.
PLT 12.6 11
My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is that the
student shall learn to appreciate the miracle of the mind;...
PLT 12.14 20
...philosophy is still rude and elementary.
II 12.75 12
How shall I educate my children? Shall I indulge, or shall I
control them? Philosophy replies, Nature is stronger than your will...
MAng1 12.222 9
...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that
was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing
involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in
human clay.
MAng1 12.239 26
Michael [Angelo]...had the philosophy to say, Only an
inventor can use the inventions of others.
MAng1 12.241 7
An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems']
philosophy may be found in a paper by Signor Radici in the London
Retrospective Review...
Milt1 12.264 17
[Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a
certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline, learned out
of the noblest philosophy, was enough to keep him in disdain of far less
incontinences that these that had been charged on him.
Milt1 12.275 10
...the Comus [is] a transcript, in charming numbers, of that
philosophy of chastity, which, in the Apology for Smectymnuus, and in the
Reason of Church Government, [Milton] declares to be his defence and
religion.
ACri 12.289 14
The Devil in philosophy is absolute negation...
MLit 12.318 5
All over the modern world the educated and susceptible
have betrayed their discontent...with the poverty of our dogmas of religion
and philosophy.
WSL 12.347 8
[Landor's] Dialogue on the Epicurean philosophy is a
theory of the genius of Epicurus.
Philosophy, n. (2)
Nat 1.4 26
...all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME...must be
ranked under this name, NATURE.
LLNE 10.325 15
There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the
party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement. At times...the
schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church,
State and social customs.
Philosophy of History [Fran (1)
Carl 10.494 15
...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for
years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington...
and on Philsophy of History, [Carlyle] thinks that nothing.
philsopher's, n. (1)
Thor 10.479 20
The tendency to magnify the moment...is of course comic
to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
philters, n. (1)
Dem1 10.16 25
This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate
persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith in incantations and
philters was in old Rome...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which
science and religion explore.
Phinney, Elias [Mr. D.], n (3)
AgMs 12.362 3
One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S.
[Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth.
AgMs 12.362 9
...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney]...would starve in two years on any
one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood...
AgMs 12.362 13
Mr. D. inherited a farm, and spends on it every year from
other resources;...
Phipps, Constantine [Lord (1)
WSL 12.344 23
[Landor]...serenely enjoys the victory of Nature over
fortune. Not only the elaborated story of Normanby, but the whimsical
selection of his heads proves this taste.
Phlegethon River, n. (1)
Bhr 6.194 10
At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the
monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be
found that would burn him;...
phlegm, n. (6)
Pt1 3.6 3
...there is some...excess of phlegm in our constitution which does
not suffer [sun, stars, earth, water] to yield the due effect.
ET8 5.135 27
[The English] have that phlegm or staidness which it is a
compliment to disturb.
CbW 6.270 14
For remedy, while the case [of the blockhead] is yet mild, I
recommend phlegm and truth;...
Farm 7.145 26
Whilst all thus burns...it needs a perpetual tempering, a
phlegm...to check the fury of the conflagration;...
Clbs 7.249 26
One likes in a companion a phlegm which it is a triumph to
disturb...
MMEm 10.407 25
...[Mary Moody Emerson] was offended here by the
phlegm of all her fellow creatures...
phlegmatic, adj. (4)
OS 2.288 27
[Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] seem frigid
and phlegmatic to those who have been spiced with the frantic passion and
violent coloring of inferior but popular writers.
Elo1 7.61 24
The plight of these phlegmatic brains is better than that of
those who prematurely boil...
Comc 8.162 27
The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to
require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright
man...
Trag 12.410 24
In phlegmatic natures calamity is unaffecting, in shallow
natures it is rhetorical.
Phocion, n. (11)
Nat 1.22 5
Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in
our memory with the geography and climate of Greece.
Hist 2.15 13
...to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar, a
marble centaur, the peristyle of the Parthenon, and the last actions of
Phocion?
SR 2.86 7
Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes, are great men...
Hsm1 2.260 25
A simple manly character...should regard its past action
with the calmness of Phocion...
ET1 5.8 18
[Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men,
Washington, Phocion and Timoleon...
DL 7.133 15
...the heroism which at this day would make on us the
impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic
conqueror.
Boks 7.199 24
Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first
because he is so readable, which is much; then that he is medicinal and
invigorating. The lives of...Phocion, Marcellus and the rest, are what
history has of best.
Cour 7.253 20
[Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown of the heroes of Greece
and Rome,--of Socrates, Aristides and Phocion;...
PC 8.220 9
In politics, mark the importance of minorities of one, as of
Phocion...
Plu 10.314 22
[Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him...to...his
love...of heroes like Aristides, Phocion and Cato.
Plu 10.318 12
...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte,
and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch, who
told the story of Leonidas...of Aristides, Phocion...sit as...laureate of the
ancient world.
Phoebus, n. (5)
Hist 2.24 10
In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which
supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;...
Pol1 3.197 14
Out of dust to build/ What is more than dust,--/ Walls
Amphion piled/ Phoebus stablish must./
WD 7.184 22
It is a fine fable for the advantage of character over talent, the
Greek legend of the strife of Jove and Phoebus.
WD 7.184 22
Phoebus challenged the gods...
Insp 8.285 1
...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it,
instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
Phoenician, adj. (1)
ET16 5.282 17
...as Britain was a Phoenician secret, so they kept their
compass a secret...
Phoenician, n. (1)
ET5 5.74 16
The Phoenician, the Celt and the Goth had already got in [to
England].
Phoenicians, n. (4)
ET16 5.282 7
The Druids were Phoenicians.
ET16 5.282 9
...Hercules was the god of the Phoenicians.
Res 8.140 13
The marked events in history...the discovery of the mariner's
compass, which perhaps the Phoenicians made;...each of these events
electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
PLT 12.26 7
...the dull, melancholy Pelasgi arrive at no civility until the
Phoenicians and Ionians come in.
phoenix, n. (2)
PPo 8.255 9
My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in the sky-vault's
cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of life's hope./
PPo 8.255 22
If over this world of ours/ His wings my phoenix spread,/
How gracious falls on land and sea/ The soul-refreshing shade!/
Phoenix, n. (1)
PPo 8.255 8
In the following poem the soul is figured as the Phoenix
alighting on Tuba, the Tree of Life...
phoenixes, n. (2)
UGM 4.34 3
Once you saw phoenixes: they are gone; the world is not
therefore disenchanted.
Supl 10.163 21
We talk, sometimes, with people whose conversation would
lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum, where all the objects
were monsters and extremes. Their good people are phoenixes; their
naughty are like the prophet's figs.
phonei, v. (1)
PPo 8.250 27
In all poetry, Pindar's rule holds,-sunetois phonei, it speaks
to the intelligent;...
Phorkyas [Goethe, Helena], (1)
Hist 2.33 16
These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins,
Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence
on the mind.
phosphorescent, adj. (1)
CL 12.154 2
...what strength and fecundity [in the sea], from the sea-monsters,
hugest of animals, to the primary forms of which it is the
immense cradle, and the phosphorescent infusories;...
phosphoric, adj. (1)
ET2 5.28 24
Near the equator you can read small print by [the light of the
sea-fire]; and the mate describes the phosphoric insects, when taken up in a
pail, as shaped like a Carolina potato.
Phosphorus, n. (1)
Pt1 3.24 20
[The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the
morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this
tranquillity, and lo! his chisel had fashioned out of marble the form of a
beautiful youth, Phosphorus...
photograph, n. (1)
WD 7.158 7
...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and
spectroscope arrived...
photographic, adj. (1)
Thor 10.471 16
...[Thoreau's] memory was a photographic register of all
he saw and heard.
photographs, n. (2)
WD 7.164 11
...we must look deeper for our salvation than to steam,
photographs, balloons or astronomy.
Suc 7.308 17
I do not find...grisly photographs of the field on the day after
the battle, fit subjects for cabinet pictures.
photometers, n. (1)
SL 2.166 12
We are the photometers...that measure the accumulations of
the subtle element.
phrase, n. (42)
MN 1.218 11
Genius...draws its means and the style of its architecture from
within, going abroad only for audience and spectator, as we adapt our voice
and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to.
MR 1.253 5
Let any two matrons meet, and observe how soon their
conversation turns on the troubles from their "help,", as our phrase is.
Pt1 3.11 21
...the phrase will be the fittest, most musical, and the unerring
voice of the world for that time.
Chr1 3.108 2
Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase
from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
SwM 4.96 15
...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but
that any man who has recalled to mind, or according to the common phrase
has learned, one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient
knowledge...
MoS 4.161 25
Some wise limitation, as the modern phrase is;...some stark
and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
ET5 5.82 2
[Englishmen] are not to be led by a phrase...
ET5 5.100 6
In Germany there is one speech for the learned, and another
for the masses, to that extent that, it is said, no sentiment or phrase from the
works of any great German writer is ever heard among the lower classes.
ET6 5.106 12
...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw
out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been
accustomed to spin...
ET6 5.110 27
The favorite phrase of [the Englishmen's] law is, a custom
whereof the memory of man runneth not back to the contrary.
ET7 5.118 8
The phrase of the lowest of the [English] people is honor-bright...
Ctr 6.146 27
...the phrase to know the world, or to travel, is synonymous
with all men's ideas of advantage and superiority.
Ctr 6.159 9
We only vary the phrase, not the doctrine, when we say that
culture opens the sense of beauty.
Wsp 6.209 27
In this country...the phrase higher law became a political
gibe.
CbW 6.258 18
In the high prophetic phrase, He causes the wrath of man to
praise him...
Bty 6.305 19
...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at
our shoulders;...
Elo1 7.74 1
...unless this oiled tongue could, in Oriental phrase, lick the sun
and moon away, it must take its place with opium and brandy.
Elo1 7.90 17
Put the argument...into an image,--some hard phrase...and the
cause is half won.
Boks 7.196 25
...Never read any [books] but what you like;, or, in
Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure te'en:/ In brief,
sir, study what you most affect./
PI 8.12 13
A figurative statement...is remembered and repeated. How often
has a phrase of this kind made a reputation.
PI 8.40 4
The reason we set so high a value on any poetry,--as often on a
line or a phrase as on a poem,--is that it is a new work of Nature...
PI 8.47 16
Another form of rhyme is iterations of phrase...
Res 8.140 3
See...how...every impatient boss who sharply shortens the
phrase or the word to give his order quicker...improves the national tongue.
QO 8.185 16
Goethe's favorite phrase, the open secret, translates Aristotle'
s answer to Alexander, These books are published and not published.
QO 8.195 7
There is an illusion in a new phrase.
QO 8.195 12
A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg...and is very
merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing. Translate it out of the
new words into his own usual phrase, and he will wonder again at his own
simplicity...
QO 8.202 12
A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring
emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument,
because thus had they said...
PC 8.232 9
It was what we call plantation manners which drove peaceable
forgiving New England to emancipation without phrase.
PPo 8.247 8
That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature...
which...make [the poet] an object of interest and his every phrase and
syllable significant, are in Hafiz...
Imtl 8.322 2
Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction
without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/
And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./
Monadnoc.
Chr2 10.104 7
Chateaubriand said, with some irreverence of phrase, If God
made man in his image, man has paid him well back.
Plu 10.300 17
I do not know where to find a book-to borrow a phrase of
Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch]...
Plu 10.322 1
Were there not a sun, we might, for all the other stars, pass
our days in the Reverend Dark, as Heraclitus calls it. I find a humor in the
phrase which might well excuse its doubtful accuracy.
LLNE 10.367 8
One would meet also [at Brook Farm] some modest pride
in their advanced condition, signified by a frequent phrase, Before we came
out of civilization.
MMEm 10.403 20
It was ever the will and not the phrase that concerned
[Mary Moody Emerson].
SlHr 10.442 1
...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement
with all his might, and now and then borrowing the aid of...a farmer's
phrase...
FSLC 11.205 3
It is neither praise nor blame to say that [Webster] has no
moral perception, no moral sentiment, but in that region-to use the phrase
of the phrenologists-a hole in the head.
FRO1 11.477 16
I say again, in the phrase used by my friend, that we
began [the Free Religious Association] many years ago...
FRep 11.521 17
General Jackson was a man of will, and his phrase on one
memorable occasion, I will take the responsibility, is a proverb ever since.
ACri 12.290 11
The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring
you is that of telling all...
MLit 12.330 16
...to use a phrase of Ben Jonson's, [Wilhelm Meister] is
rammed with life.
WSL 12.348 4
The dense writer has yet ample room and choice of phrase...
phrase, v. (1)
FSLN 11.231 20
There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we
exist; the power of Fate...or however else we choose to phrase it...on the
one hand,-and Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.
phraseology, n. (4)
SR 2.66 14
If...a man...carries you backward to the phraseology of some
old mouldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him not.
SR 2.67 23
...see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself
unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David...
Elo2 8.125 26
Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of
phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective
language as to remain settled and unaltered.
ACri 12.284 6
There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so
consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective
language as to remain settled and unaltered.
phrases, n. (16)
PPh 4.71 27
[Socrates]...affected low phrases...
ShP 4.200 24
The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being
translation on translation. There never was a time when there was none. All
the truly idiomatic and national phrases are kept, and all others successively
picked out and thrown away.
NMW 4.250 26
...the men of letters [Bonaparte] slighted; they were
manufacturers of phrases.
ET6 5.111 12
All [the Englishmen's] statesmen...have invented many fine
phrases to cover this slowness of perception and prehensility of tail.
ET9 5.146 9
...the ordinary phrases in all good society, of postponing or
disparaging one's own things in talking with a stranger, are seriously
mistaken by [the English] for an insuppressible homage to the merits of
their nation;...
ET14 5.236 25
I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England]
sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth.
Wsp 6.221 20
If any reader tax me with using vague and traditional
phrases, let me suggest to him by a few examples what kind of a trust this is
[in the moral sentiment], and how real.
Elo1 7.85 26
...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three
or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the
business...
DL 7.120 9
...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the
eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...with phrases of the last oration...
Boks 7.204 7
...in our Bible...it seems easy and inevitable to render the
rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
QO 8.180 22
Read in Plato and you shall...stumble on our evangelical
phrases.
QO 8.197 9
We...could express ourselves in other people's phrases to finer
purpose than they knew.
Plu 10.321 16
there are, no doubt, many vulgar phrases [in the 1718 edition
of Plutarch], and many blunders of the printer;...
ACri 12.291 11
Resolute blotting rids you of all those phrases that sound
like something and mean nothing...
ACri 12.293 5
Persons have been named from their abuse of certain
phrases, as Pyramid Lambert...
ACri 12.295 24
Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that
which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech,-words and phrases that
no scholar coined;...
phrenologist, n. (4)
Int 2.339 12
How wearisome...the phrenologist...whose balance is lost by
the exaggeration of a single topic.
F 6.9 10
...the cab-man is phrenologist so far, he looks in your face to see if
his shilling is sure.
F 6.34 24
Who likes to have a dapper phrenologist pronouncing on his
fortunes?
Aris 10.44 6
Not the phrenologist but the philosopher may well say, Let me
see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be poet, king...
phrenologists, n. (3)
Exp 3.53 2
I hear the chuckle of the phrenologists.
NR 3.234 25
Anomalous facts, as...the new allegations of phrenologists and
neurologists, are of ideal use.
FSLC 11.205 3
It is neither praise nor blame to say that [Webster] has no
moral perception, no moral sentiment, but in that region-to use the phrase
of the phrenologists-a hole in the head.
phrenology, n. (6)
Nat2 3.179 7
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology;...and anatomy
and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.
NER 3.253 8
With these [reformers] appeared the adepts of homoeopathy...
of phrenology...
Wsp 6.229 21
Physiognomy and phrenology are not new sciences...
DL 7.108 14
The physiognomy and phrenology of to-day are rash and
mechanical systems enough...
Suc 7.290 12
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn the
economy of the mind by phrenology...
EzRy 10.389 20
[Ezra Ripley] was the easy dupe of any tonguey agent,
whether...charlatan of iron combs, or tractors, or phrenology, or magnetism,
who went by.
Phrenology, n. (1)
LLNE 10.337 11
Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on
the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...
Phrygius, Dares, n. (1)
ShP 4.197 25
Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di Colonna,
whose Latin romance of the Trojan war was in turn a compilation from
Dares Phrygius, Ovid and Statius.
physic, n. (3)
YA 1.365 26
The continent we inhabit is to be physic and food for our
mind, as well as our body.
MoS 4.172 25
[The wise skeptic's] politics are those...of Krishna, in the
Bhagavat, There is none who is worthy of my love or hatred; whilst he
sentences law, physic, divinity, commerce and custom.
Edc1 10.131 25
...[man] is to be the stalwart...Newton, of the physic,
metaphysic and ethics of the design of the world.
physical, adj. (42)
Nat 1.33 9
The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, the
whole is greater than its part;...and many the like propositions, which have
an ethical as well as physical sense.
Nat 1.58 27
It appears that motion...physical and intellectual science...all
tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world.
MN 1.198 15
My eyes and ears are revolted by any neglect of the physical
facts, the limitations of man.
MN 1.198 20
...one who...beholds the visible as proceeding from the
invisible, cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the
physical laws to do them some injustice.
YA 1.377 26
[Trade] displaces physical strength...
Hist 2.25 27
The Greeks are...perfect in their senses and in their health,
with the finest physical organization in the world.
Prd1 2.222 6
[Prudence] is content to seek health of body by complying
with physical conditions...
Prd1 2.232 27
A man of genius...reckless of physical laws...becomes
presently unfortunate, querulous...
Exp 3.54 17
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.
Chr1 3.94 1
The excess of physical strength is paralyzed by [character].
Mrs1 3.128 12
Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and
virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain
health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to
work, yet high power to enjoy.
NER 3.258 23
...the Mathematics had a momentary importance at some era
of activity in physical science.
PPh 4.56 13
...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of
the world;...
SwM 4.116 5
...one would swear [says Swedenborg] that the physical
world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world;...
SwM 4.116 8
...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and
definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only
into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth
or theological dogma...
SwM 4.116 12
...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and
definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only
into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth
or theological dogma, in place of the physical truth or precept...
SwM 4.116 21
[Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a
number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary
containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for
which they are to be substituted.
SwM 4.117 4
...[Lord Bacon] instanced some physical propositions, with
their translation into a moral or political sense.
ET1 5.20 28
[Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he
wished to impress on me and all good Americans...never to call into action
the physical strength of the people...
ET6 5.104 19
[The Englishman] has that aplomb which results from a good
adjustment of the moral and physical nature...
Pow 6.64 4
...all kinds of power usually emerge at the same time;...power
of mind with physical health;...
Pow 6.70 17
Physical force has no value where there is nothing else.
Ctr 6.133 8
[Egotists] like sickness, because physical pain will extort some
show of interest from the bystanders...
Art2 7.44 3
Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization
of the orator...the physical strength...
Elo1 7.67 18
Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is,
on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant
physical health...
Elo1 7.69 12
...[the Sicilians]...were it only by the physical strength exerted
in telling the story, keep the table in unbounded excitement.
Cour 7.268 16
There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master
in architecture...in painting or in poetry...which yet nowise implies the
presence of physical valor in the artist.
Elo2 8.120 9
...there are physical advantages,--some eminently leading to
this art [of eloquence].
Aris 10.43 8
When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a
symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers.
PerF 10.69 18
Art is long, and life short, and [a man] must supply this
disproportion by borrowing and applying to his task the energies of Nature.
Reinforce his self-respect, show him...his arsenal of forces, physical,
metaphysical, immortal.
SovE 10.184 16
St. Pierre says of the animals that a moral sentiment seems
to have determined their physical organization.
SovE 10.187 11
The civil history of men might be traced by the successive
meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;-virtue meaning
physical courage, then chastity and temperance, then justice and love;...
Prch 10.236 14
We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty
liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...which yet is
more than a match for any physical resistance.
HDC 11.36 18
[The Indians'] physical powers...astonished the white men.
War 11.152 18
War...perfects the physical constitution...
FSLN 11.224 24
...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical
and mental ability when his character is assailed.
Wom 11.417 14
In all [literature], the body of the joke...is identical with
Mahomet's opinion that women have not a sufficient moral or intellectual
force to control the perturbations of their physical structure.
Wom 11.422 22
There is no lack of votes representing the physical wants;...
PLT 12.51 7
The secret of power, intellectual or physical, is concentration...
MAng1 12.243 7
...are we not authorized to say that...here was a man
[Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on
every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened...which, to see and
enjoy, demands the severest discipline of all the physical, intellectual and
moral faculties of the individual?
Milt1 12.262 13
...as basis or fountain of his rare physical and intellectual
accomplishments, the man Milton was just and devout.
Trag 12.416 19
Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature...
has given me a temperament like a block of marble. Thunder cannot move
it; the shaft merely glides along. The great events of my life have slipped
over me without making any demand on my moral or physical nature.
physically, adv. (3)
Nat 1.57 10
We become physically nimble and lightsome;...
Bty 6.299 9
The man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of
shreds and patches...
Comc 8.158 1
...the break of continuity in the intellect, is comedy, and it
announces itself physically in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
physician, n. (24)
Exp 3.51 15
I knew a witty physician who found the creed in the biliary
duct...
Exp 3.82 1
A wise and hardy physician will say, Come out of that, as the
first condition of advice.
NER 3.259 21
If the physician, the lawyer, the divine, never use [Greek
and Latin] to come at their ends, I need never learn it to come at mine.
UGM 4.12 25
Engineer...physician...inasmuch as he has any science,--is a
definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition.
GoW 4.263 18
...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they
might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some
Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the
muscles of the neck.
F 6.5 17
On the first [the appointed day], neither balm nor physician can
save/...
F 6.35 4
A learned physician tells us the fact is invariable with the
Neapolitan...
Ctr 6.132 5
The physician Sanctorius spent his life in a pair of scales,
weighing his food.
Ctr 6.138 25
To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification
of one organ.
CbW 6.245 13
The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few
resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution
which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before.
Bty 6.284 24
Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.
Clbs 7.227 12
The clergyman walks from house to house all day all the
year to give people the comfort of good talk. The physician helps them
mainly in the same way...
Elo2 8.113 13
The orator is the physician.
Comc 8.167 20
...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who...
was in a dying condition, when I met his physician...
Comc 8.174 7
When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient
waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive
melancholy...
Comc 8.174 10
The physician endeavored to cheer [his melancholy patient'
s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He replied, I
am Carlini.
Grts 8.305 26
...there is not a piece of Nature in any kind but a man is born
who...aims...to dedicate himself to that. Then there is the poet...the
physician.
Aris 10.49 26
The prerogatives of a right physician are determined...by the
health he restores to body and mind;...
MoL 10.247 12
Disease alarms the family, but the physician sees in it a
temporary mischief, which he can check and expel.
LLNE 10.325 6
I recall the remark of a witty physician who remembered
the hardships of his own youth;...
Thor 10.478 6
A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a physician to the wounds of
any soul;...
EWI 11.142 8
...[the negro] is now the principal if not the only mechanic in
the West Indies; and is, besides, an architect, a physician, a lawyer...
MAng1 12.219 25
The symptoms disclose the constitution to the
physician;...
MLit 12.332 21
Humanity must wait for its physician still at the side of the
road...
Physician, n. (1)
MLit 12.332 24
...they have served [humanity] better, who assured it out of
the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this
majestic Artist [Goethe]...
Physician of the Soul [Char (1)
Plu 10.296 25
M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral
philosophy, under the title of A Physician of the Soul...
physicians, n. (9)
SL 2.155 22
The laws of disease, physicians say, are as beautiful as the
laws of health.
Exp 3.53 1
I know the mental proclivity of physicians.
Exp 3.53 10
The physicians say they are not materialists; but they are...
Pow 6.55 2
Courage, the old physicians taught...is as the degree of
circulation of the blood in the arteries.
Ctr 6.132 24
In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient
sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot.
MoL 10.241 5
You go to be teachers, to become physicians, lawyers,
divines;...
II 12.85 10
A new constitution, a new fever, say the physicians.
CW 12.177 17
...physicians or naturalists are the only professional men
who continue their tasks out of study-hours;...
Milt1 12.265 22
[Milton]...deliberately undertakes the defence of the
English people, when advised by his physicians that he does it at the cost of
sight.
Physicians, n. (1)
Aris 10.41 16
We shall come to add Kings in the Contents of the Directory,
as we do Physicians, Brokers, etc.
physicist, n. (1)
Plu 10.310 17
[Plutarch's] Natural History is that of a lover and poet, and
not of a physicist.
physicists, n. (1)
ET14 5.253 7
I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English]
science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave
nature of its charm;--though perhaps...the vice attaches to many more than
to British physicists.
physics, n. (11)
Nat 1.33 4
The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics.
Nat 1.39 5
How calmly and genially the mind apprehends one after another
the laws of physics!
Nat 1.55 26
In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the
memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars...
Nat 1.56 3
Thus even in physics, the material is degraded before the
spiritual;...
Pt1 3.14 19
...physics and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent;...
Exp 3.52 25
On the platform of physics we cannot resist the contracting
influences of so-called science.
ET14 5.241 19
A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and
these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian
theories in physics.
ET14 5.245 1
[Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation, that no
copula had been detected between any cause and effect, either in physics or
in thought;...
PI 8.7 21
The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years
ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural
Science...a hint...showing unity and perfect order in physics.
PI 8.8 7
Identity of law, perfect order in physics...exist.
LLNE 10.329 6
...chemistry, which is the analysis of matter, has taught us
that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas. The same
decomposition has changed the whole face of physics;...
physiognomies, n. (1)
SL 2.148 6
We see our evil affections embodied in bad physiognomies.
physiognomists, n. (1)
Wsp 6.223 16
We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character...
physiognomy, n. (5)
ET4 5.48 19
Each religious sect has its physiognomy.
Wsp 6.229 20
Physiognomy and phrenology are not new sciences...
Bty 6.300 18
Cardinal De Retz says of De Bouillon, With the physiognomy
of an ox, he had the perspicacity of an eagle.
DL 7.108 14
The physiognomy and phrenology of to-day are rash and
mechanical systems enough...
Dem1 10.10 22
We doubt not a man's fortune may be read...in the lines of
his face, by physiognomy;...
Physiognomy, n. (1)
LLNE 10.337 10
[The eagerness for reform] appeared in the popularity of
Lavater's Physiognomy, now almost forgotten.
physiological, adj. (3)
SR 2.66 22
Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye
makes...
F 6.13 9
A good deal of our politics is physiological.
Dem1 10.24 16
...suppose a diligent collection and study of these occult
facts were made, they are merely physiological, semi-medical...
physiologist, n. (6)
Nat 1.67 4
...the problems to be solved are precisely those which the
physiologist and the naturalist omit to state.
MN 1.200 3
In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes
that no chemistry...can account for the facts...
Comp 2.97 18
...in the animal kingdom the physiologist has observed that
no creatures are favorites...
Comc 8.167 4
The physiologist Camper humorously confesses the effect of
his studies in dislocating his ordinary associations.
CL 12.140 17
So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the
old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly
vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...
CL 12.164 27
We are not to be imposed upon by the apparatus and the
nomenclature of the physiologist.
physiologists, n. (1)
Bost 12.183 1
The old physiologists said, There is in the air a hidden food
of life;...
physiology, n. (6)
MN 1.216 11
The doctrine in vegetable physiology of the presence or the
general influence of any substance over and above its chemical influence...
is more predicable of man.
Nat2 3.179 6
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology;...and anatomy
and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.
SwM 4.99 8
Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes...prying into...physiology,
mathematics and astronomy...
ET4 5.46 21
We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law
of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in
one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the
same place in its congener;...
ET14 5.250 15
Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to
metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor...
Pow 6.55 3
Courage, the old physicians taught (and their meaning holds, if
their physiology is a little mythical)...is as the degree of circulation of the
blood in the arteries.
Physiology, n. (1)
Nat 1.39 18
...weigh the problems suggested concerning...Physiology...and
judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
Physiology of Taste [Brilla (1)
Res 8.150 27
I do not know that the treatise of Brillat-Savarin on the
Physiology of Taste deserves its fame.
physique, n. (2)
Hist 2.26 6
[Vases, tragedies, statues] have continued to be made in all
ages, and are now, wherever a healthy physique exists;...
ET6 5.106 14
...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw
out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been
accustomed to spin, about poor, thin, unable mortals;--so much had the fine
physique and the personal vigor of this robust race worked on my
imagination.
pianist, n. (1)
ET6 5.112 12
When Thalberg the pianist was one evening performing
before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied
him with her voice.
piano, adj. (1)
PI 8.63 23
None of your parlor or piano verse...will satisfy us.
piano, n. (4)
Pow 6.79 12
Six hours every day at the piano, only to give facility of
touch;...
Civ 7.17 13
Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on
the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream
Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
Civ 7.21 22
'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the
frontier.
Elo1 7.65 10
Him we call an artist who shall play on an assembly of men as
a master on the keys of the piano...
Piazza del Gran Duca, Flor (1)
MAng1 12.229 19
In the Piazza del Gran Duca at Florence, stands, in the
open air, [Michelangelo's] David...
piazza, n. (2)
Boks 7.216 10
I remember when some peering eyes of boys discovered that
the oranges hanging on the boughs of an orange-tree in a gay piazza were
tied to the twigs by thread.
MAng1 12.225 27
...[Michelangelo] arranged the piazza of the Capitol
[Rome], and built its porticos.
pibroch, n. (1)
MMEm 10.411 5
...[Mary Moody Emerson] was...a quite clannish
instrument, a pibroch...
Picard, Jean, n. (1)
Res 8.137 13
...whether searched by the plough of Adam...the surveyor's
chain of Picard, or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these
experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.