Trait to Treaty
trait, n. (48)
DSA 1.142 1
What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...that it is behooted and
behowled, and not a trait, not a word of it articulated.
LE 1.178 23
Not the least instructive passage in modern history seems to
me a trait of Napoleon exhibited to the English when he became their
prisoner.
MR 1.255 9
Will you suffer me to add one trait more to this portrait of man
the reformer?
LT 1.282 15
We do not find the same trait [of perplexity] in the Arabian, in
the Hebrew...periods;...
Tran 1.339 12
...genius and virtue predict in man the same absence of
private ends and of condescension to circumstances, united with every trait
and talent of beauty and power.
YA 1.389 7
It is not often the worst trait that occasions the loudest outcry.
SR 2.65 19
If I see a trait, my children will see it after me...
Hsm1 2.248 2
Thomas Carlyle...has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites
to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.
Chr1 3.102 14
These are properties of life, and another trait is the notice of
incessant growth.
Chr1 3.108 24
Every trait which the artist recorded in stone he had seen in
life...
NR 3.226 25
All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or
utility which they have.
ShP 4.209 15
What trait of his private mind has [Shakespeare] hidden in
his dramas?
ShP 4.215 21
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet.
ET4 5.57 14
Individuals are often noticed [in the Norse Sagas] as very
handsome persons, which trait only brings the story nearer to the English
race.
ET4 5.63 18
The [English] public schools are charged with being bear-gardens
of brutal strength, and are liked by the people for that cause. The
fagging is a trait of the same quality.
ET7 5.118 22
The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General
Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer. The
English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait...
ET8 5.127 10
This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French
travellers...
ET8 5.135 21
Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph
Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever
existed...importing into their galleries every tint and trait of sunnier cities
and skies;...
ET15 5.271 15
It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and
humor of England...have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
ET17 5.297 3
...this trait [Wordsworth's economy] would have another
look in London...
ET19 5.311 5
That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the
wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race,--its
commanding sense of right and wrong, the love and devotion to that,--this
is the imperial trait...
Pow 6.55 2
We must reckon success a constitutional trait.
Wsp 6.207 23
The fatal trait is the divorce between religion and morality.
Suc 7.307 8
One more trait of true success.
PI 8.37 15
The trait and test of the poet is that he builds, adds and affirms.
PI 8.75 10
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every
fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
SA 8.95 8
What a good trait is that recorded of Madame de Maintenon,
that, during dinner, the servant slipped to her side, Please, madame, one
anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day.
Res 8.150 23
It was a pleasing trait in Goethe's romance, that Makaria
retires from society to astronomy and her correspondence.
Grts 8.308 15
...another trait of greatness is facility.
Dem1 10.5 5
A dislocation seems to be the foremost trait of dreams.
Aris 10.60 15
There is no heroic trait...that will not sometime embody itself
in the form of a friend.
Aris 10.60 20
One trait more we must celebrate, the self-reliance which is
the patent of royal natures.
Prch 10.223 15
I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good
anecdote, any trait of heroism...
MoL 10.251 5
A redeeming trait of the Sophists of Athens...is that they
made their own clothes and shoes.
Plu 10.303 23
It is a consequence of this poetic trait in his mind, that I
confess that, in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars...
Plu 10.311 2
...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and
his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...
MMEm 10.402 7
...[Mary Moody Emerson's] attachment to the youths and
maidens growing up in those families [of her brothers and sisters] was
secure for any trait of talent or of character.
GSt 10.506 8
...this sudden association now with the leaders of parties and
persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation...never altered...
one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.
War 11.156 6
In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all
conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or
beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity.
JBS 11.279 13
[In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic
character absolutely without any vulgar trait;...
II 12.77 27
...this reminds me to add one more trait of the inspired state,
namely, incessant advance...
CL 12.135 2
The Teutonic race have been marked in all ages by a trait
which has received the name of Earth-hunger...
Bost 12.194 19
...how much more attractive and true that this [Christian]
piety should be the central trait and the stern virtues follow than that
Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on his defence.
MAng1 12.240 1
There is yet one more trait in Michael Angelo's history,
which humanizes his character without lessening its loftiness; this is his
platonic love.
Milt1 12.257 14
Aubrey adds a sharp trait, [Milton] pronounced the letter R
very hard, a certain sign of satirical genius.
Milt1 12.261 5
...[Milton]...bent [English] to express every trait of beauty,
every shade of thought;...
ACri 12.296 4
Every historic autobiographic trait authenticating the man
[Montaigne] adds to the value of the book.
Let 12.404 20
A literature...is the affair of a power which works by a
prodigality of life and force very dismaying to behold,-every trait of
beauty purchased by hecatombs of private tragedy.
traitor, n. (4)
Comp 2.115 27
The beautiful laws and substances of the world persecute
and whip the traitor.
NER 3.282 9
...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with
the enemy, and he answers civilly to us, but believes the spirit. We exclaim,
There's a traitor in the house!...
NER 3.282 11
...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with
the enemy, and he answers civilly to us, but believes the spirit. We exclaim,
There's a traitor in the house! but at last it appears that he is the true man,
and I am the traitor.
MoL 10.247 7
A scholar defending the cause...of the oppressor, is a traitor
to his profession.
traitors, n. (1)
TPar 11.292 16
...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights...rot
and are forgotten...
traits, n. (56)
DSA 1.121 25
The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act
and thought, - in speech we must...describe or suggest by painful
enumeration of many particulars.
MR 1.232 14
...the general system of our trade (apart from the blacker
traits, which, I hope, are exceptions...) is a system of selfishness;...
Tran 1.356 1
There is...a great deal of well-founded objection to be spoken
or felt against the sayings and doings of this class [Transcendentalists],
some of whose traits we have selected;...
YA 1.377 19
Feudalism...had some good traits of its own;...
SL 2.144 23
...a few traits of character, manners, face...have an emphasis in
your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you
measure them by the ordinary standards.
Lov1 2.170 25
He who paints [love] at the first period will lose some of its
later, he who paints it at the last, some of its earlier traits.
Lov1 2.182 24
...beholding in many souls the traits of the divine beauty...
the lover ascends to the highest beauty...
Art1 2.354 7
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
It needs, by the exhibition of single traits, to assist and lead the dormant
taste.
Art1 2.358 8
The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power
explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...
Chr1 3.104 21
...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of
this simple and rapid power [of character]...
NR 3.227 25
It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful,
but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.
NER 3.258 10
One of the traits of the new spirit is the inquisition it fixed
on our scholastic devotion to the dead languages.
PPh 4.45 5
I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and
spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well, in its long history
of arts and arms; here are all its traits, already discernible in the mind of
Plato...
PPh 4.45 12
This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every
work of art; since the author of it...abode by real and abiding traits.
PPh 4.70 25
Socrates again, in his traits and genius, is the best example of
that synthesis which constitutes Plato's extraordinary power.
ShP 4.196 5
...the play [Henry VIII] contains through all its length
unmistakable traits of Shakspeare's hand...
GoW 4.270 17
[Goethe] appears at a time when a general culture...has
smoothed down all sharp individual traits;...
ET4 5.48 6
The French in Canada...have held their national traits.
ET4 5.48 15
Civilization is a re-agent, and eats away the old traits.
ET4 5.52 24
...what we think of when we talk of English traits really
narrows itself to a small district.
ET4 5.54 11
We must use the popular category...for convenience, and not
as exact and final. Otherwise we are presently confounded when the best-settled
traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely
characteristic of the rival tribe.
ET4 5.62 22
The mildness of the following ages has not quite effaced these
traits of Odin;...
ET4 5.66 24
When it is considered...what resources of mental and moral
power the traits of the blonde race betoken, its accession to empire marks a
new and finer epoch...
ET7 5.125 26
The Italian is subtle, the Spaniard treacherous: tortures, it is
said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret. None
of these traits belong to the Englishman.
ET8 5.134 3
...it is in the deep traits of race that the fortunes of nations are
written...
ET9 5.145 26
France is, by its natural contrast, a kind of blackboard on
which English character draws its own traits in chalk.
ET9 5.151 16
Individual traits are always triumphing over national ones.
Ctr 6.152 5
...one of the traits down in the books as distinguishing the
Anglo-Saxon is a trick of self-disparagement.
Bhr 6.167 12
...The green grass is a looking-glass/ Whereon [men's] traits
are found./
Bhr 6.176 17
Every man...looks with confidence for some traits and talents
in his own child...
Bhr 6.181 23
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the
traits of all his ancestors;...
Wsp 6.234 12
I recall some traits of a remarkable person whose life and
discourse betrayed many inspirations of this [moral] sentiment.
SS 7.7 4
...no man is fit for society who has fine traits.
Civ 7.26 10
These feats are measures or traits of civility;...
Civ 7.31 15
These are traits and measures and modes [of civilization];...
DL 7.106 26
...by beautiful traits...the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey
through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
DL 7.127 2
...let the hearts [our friends] have agitated witness what power
has lurked in the traits of these structures of clay that pass and repass us!
Boks 7.201 2
Xenophon's delineation of Athenian manners is an accessory
to Plato, and supplies traits of Socrates;...
Cour 7.256 15
How short a time since this whole nation rose every
morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers in the
field...
OA 7.316 2
[Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...Cicero'
s famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain.
But he does not exhaust the subject; rather invites the attempt to add traits
to the picture from our broader modern life.
Grts 8.314 7
It is easy to draw traits [of greatness] from Napoleon...
Aris 10.31 3
There is an attractive topic, which...is impertinent in no
community,-the permanent traits of the Aristocracy.
EzRy 10.383 10
To these facts, gathered chiefly from [Ezra Ripley's] own
diary...I can only add a few traits from memory.
EzRy 10.391 20
[Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits
of that pertinency and judgment...which make the distinction of the
scholar...
Thor 10.451 4
[Thoreau's] character exhibited occasional traits drawn from
this [French] blood...
Thor 10.464 27
At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion, and,
though insensible to some fine traits of culture, could very well report his
weight and calibre.
Carl 10.494 18
Great is [Carlyle's] reverence...for all such traits as spring
from the intrinsic nature of the actor.
HDC 11.37 4
To his bodily perfection, the wild man added some noble
traits of character.
JBB 11.267 13
...I do not wonder that gentlemen find traits of relation
readily between [John Brown] and themselves.
SMC 11.359 27
[George Prescott] was a Puritan in the army, with traits
that remind one of John Brown...
MAng1 12.237 16
Traits of an almost savage independence mark all
[Michelangelo's] history.
ACri 12.289 23
Goethe, who had collected all the diabolical hints in men
and nature for traits for his Walpurgis Nacht, continued the humor of
collecting such horrors after this first occasion had passed...
MLit 12.311 12
In order to any complete view of the literature of the
present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and
what it wishes to write. In our present attempt to enumerate some traits of
the recent literature, we shall have somewhat to offer on each of these
topics...
MLit 12.319 21
...[Shelley] is a character full of noble and prophetic
traits;...
WSL 12.338 11
Transfer these traits to a very elegant and accomplished
mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter Savage Landor...
Trag 12.407 16
...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we
discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...
Trajan, n. (3)
Plu 10.293 11
[Plutarch] has been represented as having been the tutor of
the Emperor Trajan...
Plu 10.293 13
[Plutarch] has been represented...as having received from
Trajan the consular dignity...
Plu 10.293 18
...[Plutarch] was not the tutor of Trajan...
tramp, n. (3)
Thor 10.476 14
I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the
tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud;...
CW 12.171 7
When I bought my farm...as little did I guess what sublime
mornings and sunsets I was buying...what fields and lanes for a tramp.
CW 12.176 1
There are two companions, with one or other of whom 't is
desirable to go out on a tramp.
tramp, v. (1)
ET14 5.232 23
[The English muse] says, with De Stael, I tramp in the mire
with wooden shoes, whenever they would force me into the clouds.
trample, v. (2)
ET9 5.146 26
...so help him God! [the Englishman] will...trample down all
nationalities with his taxed boots.
ET14 5.254 18
As they trample on nationalities to reproduce London and
Londoners in Europe and Asia, so [the English] fear the hostility of ideas,
of poetry, or religion...
trampled, adj. (1)
DSA 1.146 17
...when you meet one of these men or women...let their
trampled instincts be genially tempted out in your atmosphere;...
trampled, v. (2)
MoL 10.248 10
Italy, France-a hundred times those countries have been
trampled with armies and burned over...
SMC 11.375 20
Brave men! you [veterans of the Civil War] will hardly be
called to see again fields as terrible as those you have already trampled with
your victories.
tramps, n. (2)
Dem1 10.21 2
...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or
private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this
kind. Tramps are troublesome enough in the city and in the highways, but
tramps flying through the air...can well be spared.
Dem1 10.21 3
...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or
private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this
kind. Tramps are troublesome enough in the city and in the highways, but
tramps flying through the air...can well be spared.
trance, n. (6)
OS 2.281 22
...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness
of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this
enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and
trance...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion...
Art1 2.354 16
The infant lies in a pleasing trance...
SwM 4.97 4
All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
SwM 4.146 2
...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the
more excellent is the spectacle he saw...
Imtl 8.327 10
...Swedenborg...explained his opinion of the history and
destiny of souls in a narrative form, as of one who had gone in a trance into
the society of other worlds.
Thor 10.470 11
[Thoreau] thought that, if waked up from a trance, in this
swamp, he could tell by the plants what time of the year it was within two
days.
trance-mediums, n. (1)
FRep 11.517 1
The trance-mediums, the rebel paradoxes, exasperate the
common sense.
trances, n. (3)
Fdsp 2.206 5
[Friendship] keeps company with...the trances of religion.
OS 2.282 3
A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening
of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of
light. The trances of Socrates...are of this kind.
SwM 4.97 9
All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
The trances of Socrates, Plotinus...will readily come to mind.
tranferred, v. (1)
SwM 4.111 11
...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson...
who has restored his master's buried books to the day, and tranferred them...
from their forgotten Latin into English...
tranquil, adj. (15)
Nat 1.10 18
In the tranquil landscape...man beholds somewhat as beautiful
as his own nature.
Nat 1.67 14
...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and
superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost
in a tranquil sense of unity.
Prd1 2.233 18
[The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom
travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who skulk
about all day...and at evening...slink to the opium-shop, swallow their
morsel and become tranquil and glorified seers.
Exp 3.71 18
When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised
of my vicinity to a new...region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this
region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries...as if the clouds
that covered it parted...and showed the approaching traveller the inland
mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base...
Nat2 3.169 12
There are days which occur in this climate...when...the cattle
that lie on the ground seem to have great and tranquil thoughts.
ET6 5.105 16
...every one of these islanders [the English] is an island
himself, safe, tranquil, incommunicable.
Pow 6.71 18
...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of
war] is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be
compensated in tranquil times...
Bhr 6.167 15
Little [man] says to [graceful women, chosen men]/, So
dances his heart in his breast,/ Their tranquil mien bereaveth him/ Of wit, of
words, of rest./
DL 7.117 23
...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the
mountains...to be...a hall which shines with...brows ever tranquil...
Suc 7.311 26
This tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul is no express-rider...
PI 8.65 9
We know Nature and figure her exuberant, tranquil, magnificent
in her fertility...
Edc1 10.151 5
What tranquil mind will [the college] have fortified to walk
with meekness in private and obscure duties...
Milt1 12.269 14
The part [Milton] took, the zeal of his fellowship, make us
acquainted with the greatness of his spirit as in tranquil times we could not
have known it.
tranquillity, n. (20)
Nat 1.42 22
Who can guess...how much tranquillity has been reflected to
man from the azure sky...
AmS 1.104 8
It is a shame to [the scholar] if his tranquillity...arise from the
presumption that...his is a protected class;...
Pt1 3.24 18
[The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the
morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this
tranquillity...
Mrs1 3.137 5
I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with
heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity
and self-poise.
Pol1 3.203 14
...in the other case, of patrimony, the law makes an
ownership which will be valid in each man's view according to the estimate
which he sets on the public tranquillity.
Pol1 3.218 5
[What we do] may throw dust in [our companions'] eyes, but
does not...give us the tranquillity of the strong when we walk abroad.
Civ 7.21 12
...the effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the
tranquillity, power and refinement of the builder.
DL 7.125 19
How seldom do we behold tranquillity!
Farm 7.137 20
...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman...all men
acknowledge.
Suc 7.287 5
I don't know but we and our race elsewhere set a higher value
on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other men,--have
less tranquillity of mind...
OA 7.331 25
America is...too full of work hitherto for leisure and
tranquillity;...
SA 8.88 26
...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the
lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a
feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Aris 10.64 14
There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable
to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize.
Edc1 10.156 4
Can you not baffle the impatience and passion of the child
by your tranquillity?
SlHr 10.446 22
...[Samuel Hoar's] countenance had an unalterable
tranquillity and sweetness;...
HDC 11.64 19
From the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century,
our records indicate no interruption of the tranquility of the inhabitants [of
Concord]...
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.
Mem 12.104 21
...this power of sinking the pain of any experience and of
recalling the saddest with tranquillity, and even with a wise pleasure, is
familiar.
Trag 12.411 20
A man should not commit his tranquillity to things...
Trag 12.411 25
...the earliest works of the art of sculpture are countenances
of sublime tranquillity.
tranquillizing, adj. (1)
YA 1.366 1
The land, with its tranquillizing, sanative influences, is to
repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education...
tranquilly, adv. (2)
PNR 4.81 6
[Nature] waited tranquilly the flowing periods of
paleontology...
Mem 12.96 2
We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one
day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly
told him he knew it already...
transacted, v. (2)
Prd1 2.225 22
...the tax, and an affair to be transacted with a man without
heart or brains...these eat up the hours.
HDC 11.67 25
From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's
warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the Representative any
instructions about any important affair to be transacted by the General
Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town
Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
transaction, n. (15)
LE 1.184 23
...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether...the
transaction [be] a letter of credit or a transfer of stocks; be it what it may,
his commission comes gently out of it;...
Comp 2.101 13
Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is a compend of
the world...
Comp 2.112 25
Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or
cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? ... The transaction
remains in the memory of himself and his neighbor;...
Comp 2.112 27
Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or
cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? ... The transaction
remains in the memory of himself and his neighbor; and every new
transaction alters according to its nature their relation to each other.
Pol1 3.203 19
...persons and property mixed themselves in every
transaction.
Wth 6.100 16
[The right merchant] insures himself in every transaction...
Bhr 6.186 8
Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or
quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second...
is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily found.
QO 8.189 16
The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as
hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more
indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt
involves bankruptcy.
QO 8.189 20
The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as
hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more
indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt
involves bankruptcy. On the contrary, in far the greater number of cases the
transaction is honorable to both.
Aris 10.41 27
In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent
policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages, and in
reality each to adopt from the other a first-rate man, who thus acquired a
new country; was at once made a chief. And no wrong was so keenly
resented as any fraud in this transaction.
LS 11.5 20
St. Luke...after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last
Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me. In St. John...this
whole transaction is passed over without notice.
LS 11.11 18
I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have
been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the
account of it in the other Gospels, and then compare with it the account of
this transaction [Christ's washing the disciples' feet] in St. John...
LS 11.14 18
...St. Paul was living in the lifetime of all the apostles who
could give him an account of the transaction [the Last Supper];...
EWI 11.127 15
...the whole transaction [emancipation in the West Indies]
reflects infinite honor on the people and parliament of England.
ACiv 11.301 8
A democratic statesman said to me...that, if he owned the
state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the
transaction.
transactions, n. (5)
Comp 2.93 10
The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation]
is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands...the transactions of the street, the
farm, and the dwelling-house;...
Wth 6.100 22
The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote
operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts which is easy in
near and small transactions;...
LS 11.6 2
Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last
Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on
the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...who has
recorded with minuteness the conversation and the transactions of that
memorable evening, has quite omitted such a notice.
LS 11.14 10
To make [his friends'] enormity plainer, [St. Paul] goes back
to the origin of this religious feast [the Lord's Supper] to show what sort of
feast that was, out of which this riot of theirs came, and so relates the
transactions of the Last Supper.
FSLN 11.233 4
[Official papers] are all declaratory of the will of the
moment, and are passed with more levity and on grounds far less honorable
than ordinary business transactions of the street.
Transactions, Philosophical, (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...
transalpine, adj. (1)
NER 3.277 10
What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some
higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine
good...
transatlantic, adj. (1)
Wth 6.110 25
The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of
immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs will
begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic
customers of 1800.
transcend, v. (7)
Exp 3.75 10
...the elements already exist in many minds around you of a
doctrine of life which shall transcend any written record we have.
Nat2 3.181 8
[Nature] keeps her laws, and seems to transcend them.
UGM 4.26 17
The great, or such as...transcend fashions by their fidelity to
universal ideas, are saviors from these federal errors...
ET18 5.299 23
[Englishmen] cannot see beyond England, nor in England
can they transcend the interests of the governing classes.
Ill 6.323 24
...we transcend the circumstance continually and taste the real
quality of existence;...
Dem1 10.27 13
Willingly I too say, Hail! to the unknown awful powers
which transcend the ken of the understanding.
FRO1 11.476 5
In many forms we try/ To utter God's infinity,/ But the
Boundless has no form,/ And the Universal Friend/ Doth as far transcend/
An angel as a worm./
transcendant, adj. (1)
Shak1 11.449 27
...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so
unites the extremes, that, whilst he has kept the theatre now for three
centuries...he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
transcended, v. (1)
Con 1.303 9
We have all a certain intellection...of reform existing in the
mind, which does not yet descend into the character, and those who throw
themselves blindly on this lose themselves. Whatever they attempt in that
direction...reacts suicidally on the actor himself. This is the penalty of
having transcended nature.
transcendencies, n. (1)
SovE 10.198 20
...I see not why to these simple instincts, simple yet grand,
all the heights and transcendencies of virtue and of enthusiasm are not open.
transcendency, n. (1)
Pt1 3.26 12
A spy [things] will not suffer; a lover, a poet, is the
transcendency of their own nature,--him they will suffer.
Transcendency, n. (1)
PI 8.70 6
Transcendency.--In a cotillon some persons dance and others
await their turn when the music and the figure come to them.
transcendent, adj. (22)
MN 1.221 3
...Let us worship the mighty and transcendent Soul.
YA 1.394 6
...in England...such is the transcendent honor accorded to
wealth and birth, that no man of letters...is received into the best society,
except as a lion and a show.
SR 2.47 22
...we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the
same transcendent destiny;...
Lov1 2.179 14
Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from
one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any
attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of
friendship or love known and described in society, but...to relations of
transcendent delicacy and sweetness...
Hsm1 2.257 5
All these great and transcendent properties are ours.
OS 2.270 6
...I desire...to report what hints I have collected of the
transcendent simplicity and energy of the Highest Law.
Exp 3.63 1
...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and
what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the
Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them;...
Chr1 3.111 1
The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering
inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and...the secrets
that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;...and
there are persons he cannot choose but remember, who gave a transcendent
expansion to his thought...
PPh 4.78 16
Men, in proportion to their intellect, have admitted [Plato's]
transcendent claims.
SwM 4.144 12
The entire want of poetry in so transcendent a mind [as
Swedenborg's] betokens the disease...
ShP 4.207 22
The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of
Othello's captivity,--where is the...private letter, that has kept one word of
those transcendent secrets?
NMW 4.227 21
Bonaparte was the idol of common men because he had in
transcendent degree the qualities and powers of common men.
ET8 5.138 27
To understand the power of performance that is in their finest
wits...in the versatile transcendent poets...one should see how English day-laborers
hold out.
F 6.35 10
A transcendent talent draws so largely on [a man's] forces as to
lame him;...
Ctr 6.142 6
I am always happy to meet persons who perceive the
transcendent superiority of Shakspeare over all other writers.
Ctr 6.151 5
How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of...any
container of transcendent power, passing for nobody;...
Elo1 7.92 12
In transcendent eloquence, there was ever some crisis in
affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the cause he pleads...
PI 8.17 3
...the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in
Nature, to give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.
PC 8.216 3
All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is
doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology;...
PC 8.230 12
...the transcendent powers of mind were not meant to be
misused.
Milt1 12.274 23
[Milton's] fancy is never transcendent, extravagant;...
MLit 12.327 6
It is all design with [Goethe]...but of Shakspeare and the
transcendent muse, no syllable.
transcendental, adj. (3)
Tran 1.339 2
Nature is transcendental...
PPh 4.55 5
If he made transcendental distinctions, [Plato] fortified himself
by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite
conversers;...
ET14 5.234 15
This mental materialism makes the value of English
transcendental genius;...
Transcendental, adj. (6)
Tran 1.336 19
Of this fine incident, Jacobi, the Transcendental moralist,
makes use...
Tran 1.338 2
...there is no such thing as a Transcendental party;...
Tran 1.339 26
...the Idealism of the present day acquired the name of
Transcendental from the use of that term by Immanuel Kant...
Tran 1.340 9
...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; that these were intuitions of the mind itself; and
he denominated them Transcendental forms.
Tran 1.340 14
...whatever belongs to the class of intuitive thought is
popularly called at the present day Transcendental.
SL 2.135 23
When we come out of...the Transcendental club...[nature] says
to us, So hot? my little Sir.
transcendental, n. (2)
Pt1 3.32 9
I think nothing is of any value in books excepting the
transcendental and extraordinary.
ACri 12.294 14
[Shakespeare's] muse is moral simply from its depth, and I
value the intermixture of the common and the transcendental as in Nature.
transcendentalism, n. (1)
Cir 2.315 25
Blessed be nothing and The worse things are, the better they
are are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
Transcendentalism, n. (5)
LT 1.261 11
The reason and influence of wealth...the tendencies which
have acquired the name of Transcendentalism in Old and New England...
these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
Tran 1.329 11
What is popularly called Transcendentalism among us, is
Idealism;...
Tran 1.338 24
Shall we say then that Transcendentalism is the Saturnalia
or excess of Faith;...
Tran 1.348 6
The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does
not mean sloth;...
LLNE 10.343 2
I suppose all of [the supposed conspirators] were surprised
at this rumor of a school or sect, and certainly at the name of
Transcendentalism...
Transcendentalist, n. (5)
Tran 1.335 21
The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of
spiritual doctrine.
Tran 1.337 27
The Buddhist...who...will not deceive the benefactor by
pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
Tran 1.338 3
...there is no pure Transcendentalist;...
Tran 1.340 17
...there is no pure Transcendentalist...
Tran 1.348 8
The philanthropists...had as lief hear that their friend is dead,
as that he is a Transcendentalist;...
transcendentalists, n. (1)
ET13 5.224 9
[The English] are neither transcendentalists nor Christians.
transcendently, adv. (1)
Imtl 8.334 4
After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a
healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently
skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the
delicate contrivance and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it all
forever hidden!
transcending, adj. (1)
LE 1.172 9
...a wise man will never esteem [the book of philosophy]
anything final and transcending.
transcending, v. (4)
Pt1 3.40 14
Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive,
until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night
shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy...
NMW 4.246 1
Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the
ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
QO 8.189 24
Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for
cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!
PLT 12.53 9
I must think we are entitled to powers far transcending any
that we possess;...
transcends, v. (11)
MR 1.251 1
To principles something else is possible that transcends all the
power of expedients.
Con 1.326 6
The boldness of the hope men entertain transcends all former
experience.
Fdsp 2.216 22
True love transcends the unworthy object...
OS 2.287 21
Jesus speaks always from within, and in a degree that
transcends all others.
Art1 2.364 18
Nature transcends all our moods of thought...
Mrs1 3.125 20
Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between
power and money] is, which transcends the habits of clique and caste...
PPh 4.41 6
[Plato's] broad humanity transcends all sectional lines.
DL 7.127 5
The secret power of form over the imagination and affections
transcends all our philosophy.
EWI 11.132 6
If the State has no power to defend its own people in its own
shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal Government,
has it no representation in the Federal Government? Are those men dumb? I
am no lawyer, and cannot indicate the forms applicable to the case, but here
is something which transcends all forms.
II 12.67 20
The eye and ear have a logic which transcends the skill of the
tongue.
Milt1 12.253 23
As a poet, Shakspeare undoubtedly transcends, and far
surpasses [Milton] in his popularity with foreign nations;...
transcript, n. (3)
Pol1 3.212 19
...an abstract of the codes of nations would be a transcript of
the common conscience.
Aris 10.33 2
The Golden Book of Venice...the hierarchy of India...is each a
transcript of the decigrade or centigraded Man.
Milt1 12.275 9
...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.
transcripts, n. (3)
AmS 1.91 14
When [the scholar] can read God directly, the hour is too
precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
Pt1 3.8 13
...we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them
down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something
of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write
down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts...become the
songs of the nations.
MAng1 12.233 13
...let no man suppose that the images which
[Michelangelo's] spirit worshipped were mere transcripts of external grace...
transept, n. (1)
ET16 5.289 22
The length of line [of Winchester Cathedral] exceeds that of
any other English church; being 556 feet, by 250 in breadth of transept.
transfer, n. (6)
LE 1.184 24
...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether...the
transaction [be] a letter of credit or a transfer of stocks; be it what it may,
his commission comes gently out of it;...
Tran 1.334 10
From this transfer of the world into the consciousness...
follow easily [the idealist's] whole ethics.
Chr1 3.98 4
...if we have broken any idols it is through a transfer of the
idolatry.
PI 8.12 16
Genius thus [through figurative speech] makes the transfer from
one part of Nature to a remote part...
Imtl 8.339 25
After we have found our depth [on a new planet], and
assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new
scene. In each transfer we shall have acquired...a new mastery of the old
thoughts...
TPar 11.292 7
...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the
transfer of your genius...
transfer, v. (14)
MN 1.209 7
...there is a mischievous tendency in [man] to transfer his
thought from the life to the ends...
Hist 2.8 22
...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history
is commonly read...to himself...
Chr1 3.94 21
Cannot Caesar in irons shuffle off the irons and transfer them
to the person of Hippo or Thraso the turnkey?
F 6.31 9
...[men] think...that it would be a practical blunder to transfer the
method and way of working of one sphere into the other.
Boks 7.196 18
If you should transfer the amount of your reading day by
day from the newspaper to the standard authors----But who dare speak of
such a thing?
PI 8.40 17
...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that
prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of fairy
machineries and funds of power hitherto utterly unknown to him, whereby
he can transfer his visions to mortal canvas...
PI 8.48 21
...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune. Later they
like to transfer that rhyme to life...
Imtl 8.339 20
Take us as we are, with our experience, and transfer us to a
new planet...
Imtl 8.339 25
After we have found our depth [on a new planet], and
assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new scene.
Supl 10.168 27
The first valuable power in a reasonable mind, one would
say, was...the power to receive things as they befall, and to transfer the
picture of them to another mind unaltered.
Prch 10.220 3
Art will embody this vanishing Spirit in temples, pictures,
sculptures and hymns. The senses instantly transfer the reverence from the
vanishing Spirit to this steadfast form.
FSLC 11.180 22
...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with
a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here;...
FRep 11.532 18
...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man
blunders, [our people] quit him;...and they transfer the repute of judgment
to the next prosperous person who has not yet blundered.
WSL 12.338 11
Transfer these traits to a very elegant and accomplished
mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter Savage Landor...
transferable, adj. (4)
MN 1.197 26
Let us...try how far [the method of nature] is transferable to
the literary life.
SR 2.50 25
Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or
this;...
Pol1 3.207 9
The same necessity which secures the rights of person and
property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the
form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...and
nowise transferable to other states of society.
UGM 4.28 9
It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into
nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men, and
sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote, Not
transferable and Good for this trip only, on these garments of the soul.
transference, n. (3)
PerF 10.71 25
...gravity is as adhesive...water as medicinal as on the first
day. There is no loss, only transference.
II 12.73 5
Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the
evil influences of trade by force of money. Perhaps that is a benefit, but
those who give the money must be just so much more shrewd, and worldly,
and hostile, in order to save so much money. I see not how any virtue is
thus gained to society. It is a mere transference.
II 12.87 23
...the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that
trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrangements, to the sphere of
freedom and of rational life.
transferred, v. (16)
Nat 1.56 9
The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches...had already
transferred nature into the mind...
AmS 1.88 22
The sacredness which attaches to...the act of thought, is
transferred to the record.
SR 2.63 7
When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be
transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
Mrs1 3.123 17
The competition is transferred from war to politics and
trade, but the personal force appears readily enough in these new arenas.
UGM 4.34 7
The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be
common pottery; but the sense of the pictures is sacred, and you may still
read them transferred to the walls of the world.
PPh 4.54 27
...the union of impossibilities, which reappears in every
object;, its real and its ideal power,--was now also transferred entire to the
consciousness of a man [Plato].
MoS 4.168 11
I know not anywhere the book that seems less written [than
Montaigne's Essays]. It is the language of conversation transferred to a
book.
Boks 7.209 13
The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the
delirious extent to which book-fancying can go, when the legitimate delight
in a book is transferred to a rare edition or to a manuscript.
PI 8.5 24
...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known
virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from
the forms to the lurking method.
SlHr 10.443 14
...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained,
as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the
burned court-house, on the belief that the courts would be transferred from
Concord to Lowell,-all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the
Legislature...
LS 11.17 9
It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity,-that the
true worship was transferred from God to Christ...
War 11.166 21
...bayonet and sword...will be transferred to the museums of
the curious...
War 11.171 17
The manhood that has been in war must be transferred to
the cause of peace...
SMC 11.365 18
It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost
unofficered. The colonel was, early in the day, disabled by a casualty; the
lieutenant-colonel, the major and the adjutant were already transferred to
new regiments...
Bost 12.189 3
A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay]
from all other colonies was that the persons composing it consented to
come on the one condition that the charter should be transferred from the
company in England to themselves;...
ACri 12.301 13
[The founder of New City] had transferred to that city
[Chicago] the magnificent dreams which he had once communicated to me...
transferring, v. (3)
MN 1.206 17
...when the genius comes...it is...the power of transferring the
affair in the street into oils and colors.
ShP 4.213 11
This power...of transferring the inmost truth of things into
music and verse, makes [Shakespeare] the type of the poet...
Bty 6.302 21
The radiance of the human form, though sometimes
astonishing...in most, rapidly declines. But we remain lovers of it, only
transferring our interest to interior excellence.
transfers, n. (1)
Insp 8.275 24
...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which
[Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of
a chain...
transfers, v. (3)
Nat 1.36 15
...Reason transfers all these lessons into its own world of
thought...
Tran 1.331 2
This [idealistic] manner of looking at things transfers every
object in nature from an independent and anomalous position without there,
into the consciousness.
SovE 10.211 25
The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice from the
circumstance to the cause;...
transfiguration, n. (4)
Nat 1.53 24
This transfiguration which all material objects undergo through
the passion of the poet...might be illustrated by a thousand examples from
[Shakspeare's] Plays.
LE 1.158 26
...so pass into [the scholar's] mind, in bright transfiguration,
the grand events of history...
Grts 8.309 12
There is a certain transfiguration; all great orators have it...
CSC 10.376 13
...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention]
found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and
transfiguration which accompanies...a man whose mind is made up to obey
the great inward Commander...
Transfiguration [Raphael], n (5)
LE 1.164 7
Say to the man of letters that he cannot paint a Transfiguration...
and he will not seem to himself depreciated.
Art1 2.362 8
The Transfiguration, by Raphael, is an eminent example of
this peculiar merit [simplicity].
Art1 2.363 3
The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of
power;...
Exp 3.62 26
...the Transfiguration, the Last Judgment...are on the walls of
the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them;...
DL 7.131 3
I go to Rome and see on the walls of the Vatican the
Transfiguration, painted by Raphael...
transfigurations, n. (2)
Pt1 3.14 22
The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its
transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions;...
PI 8.24 16
[The intellect] knows that these transfigured results are not the
brute experiences, just as souls in heaven are not the red bodies they once
animated. Many transfigurations have befallen them.
transfigure, v. (1)
Nat2 3.176 14
The uprolled clouds and the colors of morning and evening
will transfigure maples and alders.
transfigured, adj. (1)
PI 8.24 14
[The intellect] knows that these transfigured results are not the
brute experiences...
transfigured, v. (5)
AmS 1.96 18
In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself...to
become a thought of the mind. Instantly it is raised, transfigured;...
MR 1.250 26
...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but
already to begin to exist,-not by the men or materials the statesman uses,
but by men transfigured and raised above themselves by the power of
principles.
Chr1 3.114 11
The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by
the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his
death which has transfigured every particular into an universal symbol for
the eyes of mankind.
Mem 12.103 16
The poor short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches
it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters. Then a thousand
times over it lives and acts again, each time transfigured, ennobled.
WSL 12.341 19
When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak
Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure
accessible to human nature. We have...entered that crystal sphere in which
everything in the world of matter reappears, but transfigured and immortal.
transform, v. (2)
Tran 1.335 2
Let any thought or motive of mine be different from that they
are, the difference will transform my condition and economy.
LLNE 10.354 22
It is the worst of community that it must inevitably
transform into charlatans the leaders...
transformation, n. (8)
Nat 1.26 2
Most of the process by which this transformation [from thing to
word] is made, is hidden from us...
Pt1 3.36 25
...if any poet has witnessed the transformation he doubtless
found it in harmony with various experiences.
Exp 3.86 4
...the true romance which the world exists to realize will be the
transformation of genius into practical power.
Nat2 3.179 17
[Efficient Nature] publishes itself in creatures, reaching
from particles and spiculae through transformation on transformation to the
highest symmetries...
ShP 4.215 7
The finest poetry was first experience; but the thought has
suffered a transformation since it was an experience.
PI 8.5 14
I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we
have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the
old form; and in animal transformation not less, as in grub and fly...
MMEm 10.415 4
Oh, if there be a power superior to me...when will He
let...my tides cease to an eternal ebb? Oh for transformation!
ACri 12.283 23
...the transformation of the laborer into reader and writer
has compelled the learned and the thinkers to address them.
transformations, n. (4)
Nat 1.17 8
I seem to partake [the sky's] rapid transformations;...
JBS 11.276 5
A thousand transformations rose/ From fair to foul, from foul
to fair:/ The golden crown he did not spare,/ Nor scorn the beggar's clothes./
PLT 12.5 12
Our metaphysics should be able to follow the flying force
through all transformations...
CL 12.143 14
...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a
little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if
young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be
wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I
fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.
transformed, adj. (1)
GoW 4.275 6
...Goethe suggested the leading idea of modern botany...that
every part of a plant is only a transformed leaf to meet a new condition;...
transformed, v. (8)
Hist 2.14 5
...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the
imagination;...
Hsm1 2.246 8
Let not soft nature so transformed be,/ And lose her gentler
sexed humanity,/ to make me see my lord bleed. So, 't is well;/...
GoW 4.275 13
...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that one vertebra of the
spine might be considered as the unit of the skeleton: the head was only the
uttermost vertebrae transformed.
ET4 5.62 19
Many a mean, dastardly boy is, at the age of puberty,
transformed into a serious and generous youth.
ET5 5.77 8
Nobody landed on this spellbound island [England] with
impunity. The enchantments of barren shingle and rough weather
transformed every adventurer into a laborer.
Wsp 6.231 14
He is great whose eyes are opened to see that the reward of
actions cannot be escaped, because he is transformed into his action...
PI 8.8 12
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...
SA 8.82 23
...if the elegant are also intellectual, instantly the hesitating
scholar is inspired, transformed...
transforming, v. (1)
SwM 4.107 13
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.
transforms, v. (3)
NMW 4.228 20
...the river which was a formidable barrier, winter
transforms into the smoothest of roads.
ET3 5.34 6
Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth
living in;...the latter because art...transforms a rude, ungenial land into a
paradise of comfort and plenty.
ET10 5.165 5
An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to
establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds,
so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he
transforms his paling into stone-masonry...
transfusion, n. (3)
SL 2.152 7
There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same
state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place;...
WD 7.160 3
How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the
human body, as...in the boldest promiser of all,--the transfusion of the
blood...
Dem1 10.20 25
...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new
or private language...the transfusion of the blood...are of this kind.
transgress, v. (4)
Con 1.307 15
[The youth says] Nature has sufficiently provided me with
rewards and sharp penalties, to bind me not to transgress.
Comp 2.107 20
...if the sun in heaven should transgress his path [the
Furies] would punish him.
Hsm1 2.247 5
Treacherous heart,/ My hand shall cast thee quick into my
urn,/ Ere thou transgress this knot of piety./
FSLC 11.191 4
...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a
crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that
human law;...
transgressed, v. (2)
F 6.6 12
The great immense mind of Jove is not to be transgressed.
FRep 11.532 3
That repose which is the ornament and ripeness of man is
not American. That repose which indicates a faith in the laws of the
universe,-a faith that they...are not to be impeded, transgressed or
accelerated.
transgresses, v. (1)
PI 8.21 25
[The poet] observes higher laws than he transgresses.
transgressing, v. (1)
Hist 2.15 4
...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in
sculpture...a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action and never
transgressing the ideal serenity;...
transgression, n. (3)
Nat 1.25 18
...transgression [means] the crossing of a line;...
MoS 4.182 27
[The spiritualist's far-sighted good-will] sees to the end of
all transgression.
SA 8.106 13
Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and
whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us...we must learn to adorn
every day with sacrifices.
transgressions, n. (1)
Prd1 2.232 3
The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws
of the senses trivial...
transgressor, n. (1)
Pow 6.63 18
Men expect from good whigs put into office by the
respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with...with our own
malcontent members, than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or
Jackson...
transient, adj. (3)
PPh 4.50 27
As if [Krishna] had said, All is for the soul, and the soul is
Vishnu; and animals and stars are transient paintings;...
Imtl 8.351 14
[Yama said to Nachiketas] I know worldly happiness is
transient...
Pray 12.351 23
Wacic the Caliph...ended his life...with these words: O thou
whose kingdom never passes away, pity one whose dignity is so transient.
transit, n. (2)
PI 8.4 14
...the creation is...in transit...
PLT 12.59 6
The universe exists only in transit...
transition, adj. (1)
Wsp 6.207 17
We live in a transition period, when the old faiths which
comforted nations...seem to have spent their force.
transition, n. (18)
AmS 1.94 27
...the transition through which [thought] passes from the
unconscious to the conscious, is action.
SR 2.69 17
Power...resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new
state...
Lov1 2.180 6
The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a
transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
Cir 2.320 1
Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
Nat2 3.181 19
If we look at [nature's] work, we seem to catch a glance of a
system in transition.
Nat2 3.188 27
The friend coldly turns [the pages of a young person's diary]
over, and passes from the writing to conversation, with easy transition...
PPh 4.76 24
[Plato] is charged with having failed to make the transition
from ideas to matter.
SwM 4.132 6
It is dangerous to sculpture these evanescing images of
thought. True in transition, they become false if fixed.
Pow 6.71 6
Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of
transition [from savagery to civility]...
Ctr 6.137 18
[Man's] excellence is facility of adaptation and of transition...
Bty 6.292 10
Beauty is the moment of transition...
Res 8.140 18
The marked events in history...each of these events...supples
the tough barbarous sinew, and brings it into that state of sensibility which
makes the transition to civilization possible and sure.
QO 8.193 7
...it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is
to invent. Always some steep transition...betrays the foreign interpolation.
Imtl 8.330 25
...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who
once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so
overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence. This disquietude
only marks the transition.
Prch 10.217 11
...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world
marks that we are in a moment of transition;...
Prch 10.222 19
We are in transition, from the worship of the fathers which
enshrined the law in a private and personal history...
PLT 12.59 10
Transition is the attitude of power.
WSL 12.348 19
...what skill of transition [Landor] may possess is
superficial...
transitional, adj. (3)
PPh 4.55 18
Our strength is transitional, alternating;...
PPh 4.55 27
...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in
staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the
other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much
transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain
the power and the charm of Plato.
Insp 8.289 15
...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic
creativeness which is not found in staying at home nor yet in travelling, but
in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly
managed to present as much transitional surface as possible,-these are the
types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
transitions, n. (6)
PPh 4.55 25
...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in
staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the
other...this command of two elements must explain the power and the
charm of Plato.
ShP 4.211 11
...[Shakespeare] read the hearts of men and women...the
transitions by which virtues and vices slide into their contraries...
ET19 5.313 9
Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship
parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which
came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so...
I feel in regard to this aged England...pressed upon by the transitions of
trade...
Insp 8.289 13
...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic
creativeness which is not found in staying at home nor yet in travelling, but
in transitions from one to the other...these are the types or conditions of this
power [of novelty].
FSLN 11.222 12
...[Webster] knew perfectly well how to make such
exordiums, episodes and perorations as might give perspective to his
harangues without in the least embarrassing his march or confounding his
transitions.
PLT 12.60 18
...not in his goals but in his transitions man is great.
transitive, adj. (1)
Pt1 3.34 17
...all language is vehicular and transitive...
transitory, adj. (4)
Nat 1.53 14
In the strength of his constancy, the Pyramids seem to
[Shakspeare] recent and transitory.
ET4 5.55 2
Some peoples are deciduous or transitory.
Dem1 10.3 19
Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large
creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/
Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels
the crowd./
PLT 12.28 6
In this eternal resurrection and rehabilitation of transitory
persons, who and what are they?
transits, n. (1)
WD 7.181 9
The savages in the islands...delight to play with the surf,
coming in on the top of the rollers, then swimming out again, and repeat the
delicious manoeuvre for hours. Well, human life is made up of such transits.
transit-telescope, n. (1)
GoW 4.270 22
[Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic
characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no
Columbus, but hundreds of post-captains, with transit-telescope,
barometer...
translatable, adj. (3)
Boks 7.204 3
What is really best in any book is translatable...
Boks 7.219 16
[The communications of the sacred books]...are living
characters translatable into every tongue and form of life.
Schr 10.264 2
All the sciences are only new applications, each translatable
into the other, of the one law which [the scholar's] mind is.
translate, v. (15)
Nat 1.33 4
The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics.
LE 1.171 20
Translate, collate, distil all the systems, it steads you nothing;...
MN 1.206 9
Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to
translate the world into some particular language of its own;...
Fdsp 2.199 14
We are armed all over with subtle antagonisms, which, as
soon as we meet...translate all poetry into stale prose.
Art1 2.365 1
Sculpture may serve to teach the pupil...how purely the spirit
can translate its meanings into that eloquent dialect [of form].
NER 3.282 22
Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence]
into speech...
ET8 5.132 24
...[young Englishmen]...translate and send to Bentley the
arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins;...
Art2 7.37 5
...[all the departments of life] translate each into a new
language the sense of the other.
PI 8.9 2
The laws of light and of heat translate each other;...
Elo2 8.130 4
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language
perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
QO 8.195 11
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...
Grts 8.314 26
I find it easy to translate all [Napoleon's] technics into all of
mine...
PLT 12.19 19
So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange
and dignify his shop or farm the best he can. At last he must be able to tell
you it, or write it, translate it all clumsily enough into the new sky-language
he calls thought.
PLT 12.37 16
We find ourselves expressed in Nature, but we cannot
translate it into words.
ACri 12.290 14
The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring
you is that of telling all,-Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire; which
we translate short, Touch and go.
translated, v. (15)
AmS 1.103 13
...he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is
master to that extent...of all into whose language his own can be translated.
Pt1 3.35 5
Either of these [symbols], or of a myriad more, are equally good
to the person to whom they are significant. Only they must...be very
willingly translated into the equivalent terms which others use.
SwM 4.111 2
The scientific works [of Swedenborg] have just now been
translated into English...
GoW 4.279 15
Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm Meister]...keeps such bad
company, that the sober English public, when the book was translated, were
disgusted.
ET5 5.85 21
In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the
opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the
side of the strongest;--a sentence which Bonaparte unconsciously
translated, when he said that he had noticed that Providence always favored
the heaviest battalion.
ET5 5.96 24
[The Board of Trade of England] caused to be translated from
foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most approved
works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.
ET13 5.216 3
The priest [in England] translated the Vulgate...
ET13 5.216 3
[The priest...translated the sanctities of old hagiology into
English virtues on English ground.
Boks 7.202 24
If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of
Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius,
translated into English by Thomas Taylor, he will find it one of the majestic
remains of literature...
PPo 8.237 3
[Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of
two hundred [Persian] poets...
MoL 10.246 9
Bowditch translated Laplace, and when he removed to
Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that he should make
their tables of annuities.
Plu 10.294 21
...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated and printed in Latin,
thence into Italian, French and English, more than a century before the
original Works were yet printed.
Plu 10.294 25
...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated in Rome in 1470...
Plu 10.296 11
In England, Sir Thomas North translated [Plutarch's] Lives
in 1579...
Bost 12.193 24
An old lady who remembered these pious people [the
Massachusetts colonists] said of them that they had to hold on hard to the
huckleberry bushes to hinder themselves from being translated.
translates, v. (6)
LT 1.275 10
By the books [the Times] reads and translates, judge what
books it will presently print.
CbW 6.265 7
It is an old commendation of right behavior, Aliis laetus,
sapiens sibi, which our English proverb translates, Be merry and wise.
QO 8.185 16
Goethe's favorite phrase, the open secret, translates Aristotle'
s answer to Alexander, These books are published and not published.
PerF 10.86 4
That band which ties [cosmical laws] together...is universal
good, saturating all with one being and aim, so that each translates the
other...
FSLN 11.223 12
What gratitude does every man feel to him who...who
translates truth into language entirely plain and clear!
PLT 12.23 17
The affinity of particles accurately translates the affinity of
thoughts...
translating, v. (4)
PPh 4.39 21
...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to
each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato, translating into the
vernacular, wittily, his good things.
MoS 4.169 26
This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by
translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in
Europe;...
PI 8.22 7
Genius certifies its entire possession of its thought, by translating
it into a fact which perfectly represents it...
ACri 12.300 19
Whatever new object we see, we perceive to be only a new
version of our familiar experience, and we set about translating it at once
into our parallel facts.
translation, n. (25)
Mrs1 3.136 9
I have just been reading, in Mr. Hazlitt's translation,
Montaigne's account of his journey into Italy...
UGM 4.11 8
Each material thing...has its translation, through humanity,
into the spiritual and necessary sphere...
SwM 4.117 4
...[Lord Bacon] instanced some physical propositions, with
their translation into a moral or political sense.
MoS 4.162 15
A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays
[of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy.
MoS 4.163 17
I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered
autographs of William Shakspeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of
Montaigne.
ShP 4.196 24
[The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his
thoughts have been derived; whether through translation, whether through
tradition...
ShP 4.198 2
...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from
William of Lorris and John of Meung...
ShP 4.200 4
There never was a time when there was not some translation
[of the Bible] existing.
ShP 4.200 6
The Liturgy...is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations,
a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church...
ShP 4.200 20
The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being
translation on translation.
ShP 4.200 21
The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being
translation on translation.
ShP 4.200 22
The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being
translation on translation.
ShP 4.204 8
...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German, by
Lessing, and the translation of his works by Wieland and Schlegel, that the
rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.
ShP 4.214 11
No recipe can be given for the making of a Shakspeare; but
the possibility of the translation of things into song is demonstrated.
ET14 5.259 2
I am not surprised...to find an Englishman like Warren
Hastings...deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering them
a translation of the Bhagvat.
CbW 6.266 2
An old French verse runs, in my translation:--Some of your
griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But what
torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/
Bty 6.305 15
...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color
or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more interior
ray had been emitted, disclosing its deep holdings in the frame of things.
The laws of this translation we do not know...
DL 7.120 15
...who can see unmoved...the first solitary joys of literary
vanity, when the translation or the theme has been completed...
DL 7.128 21
A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in
translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious
meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual
treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the
shadow of a Friend./
Boks 7.197 23
Of Homer, George Chapman's is the heroic translation...
QO 8.186 8
The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned
Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
PerF 10.77 16
Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital
if I removed to Spain or China, or, by stranger translation, to the planet
Jupiter or Mars...
Plu 10.295 5
In France...Amyot's translation [of Plutarch] awakened
general attention.
Plu 10.320 24
One proof of Plutarch's skill as a writer is that he bears
translation so well.
EdAd 11.391 7
...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their
first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts.
Translation, n. (1)
Plu 10.317 4
I can almost regret that the learned editor of the present
republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved...the preface of Mr.
Morgan, the editor and in part writer of this Translation of 1718.
translations, n. (10)
PNR 4.80 2
The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent
translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes
of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...
GoW 4.277 15
[Goethe's works] consist of translations, criticism, dramas,
lyric and every other description of poems, literary journals and portraits of
distinguished men.
ET1 5.21 16
I inquired if [Wordsworth] had read Carlyle's critical articles
and translations.
ET5 5.86 19
Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of
sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval
tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
ET17 5.295 19
I told [Wordsworth] it was not creditable that no one in all
the country knew anything of Thomas Taylor, the Platonist, whilst in every
American library his translations are found.
Elo1 7.70 18
The whole world knows pretty well the style of these
[Eastern] improvisators, and how fascinating they are, in our translations of
the Arabian Nights.
Boks 7.203 25
The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of
Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for
internal intercourse.
Boks 7.204 2
I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named, and all
good books, in translations.
MoL 10.243 20
The subtle Hindoo...produced the wonderful epics of
which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to
thought.
CInt 12.131 3
...the examination for admission and the examination for
degrees and honors may be lax in this college and severe in that, and you
may find facilities, translations, syllabuses and tutors here or there to coach
you through, but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...
translator, n. (4)
Int 2.345 2
...whosoever propounds to you a philosophy of the mind, is
only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness...
Pt1 3.35 17
Swedenborg...stands eminently for the translator of nature into
thought.
Plu 10.321 23
We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp
perceptions of the wit and humor of their author, sometimes even to the
adding of the point. I notice one, which, although the translator has justified
his rendering in a note, the severer criticism of the Editor has not retained.
Milt1 12.270 2
My mother bore me, [Milton] said, a speaker of what God
made mine own, and not a translator.
translators, n. (6)
ET14 5.234 3
Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar speech. Donne...
Hooker, Cotton and the translators wrote it.
Boks 7.204 8
The Italians have a fling at translators,--i traditori traduttori;...
Suc 7.296 14
In good hours we...find Shakspeare or Homer...only to have
been translators of the happy present...
Plu 10.320 21
The correction [in the 1871 edition of Plutarch's Morals] is
not only of names of authors and of places grossly altered or misspelled,
but of unpardonable liberties taken by the translators...
Plu 10.321 20
We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp
perceptions of the wit and humor of their author...
ACri 12.284 25
...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic...that they are
the terror of translators...
translator's, n. (1)
Plu 10.317 14
...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. The puzzle in the worthy translator's mind between
his theology and his reason well reappears in the puzzle of his sentence.
translucent, adj. (1)
DL 7.109 8
Do you see the man...in his economy? Is that translucent,
thorough-lighted?
translucid, adj. (1)
Pt1 3.26 9
This insight, which expresses itself by what is called
Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study,
but...by sharing the path or circuit of things through forms, and so making
them translucid to others.
transmigrating, adj. (1)
SwM 4.145 13
I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of
Indian legend...
transmigration, n. (2)
Hist 2.32 8
The transmigration of souls is no fable.
Dem1 10.7 1
It was in this glance [at an animal] that Ovid got the hint of
his metamorphoses; Calidasa of his transmigration of souls.
Transmigration, n. (2)
SwM 4.96 3
If one should ask the reason of this intuition, the solution
would lead us into that property which...is implied by the Bramins in the
tenet of Transmigration.
SwM 4.124 23
That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old
mythology of the Greeks, collected in Ovid and in the Indian
Transmigration...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
transmigrations, n. (1)
Hist 2.32 1
...what see I on any side but the transmigrations of Proteus?
transmission, n. (6)
AmS 1.98 25
...these fits of easy transmission and reflection...are the law of
nature...
SwM 4.121 14
In the transmission of the heavenly waters, every hose fits
every hydrant.
ET15 5.265 18
I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times
office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House
Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a
powder-mill; but...by dint of some transmission of cards, we were at last
conducted into the parlor of Mr. Morris...
Clbs 7.249 10
...in the sections of the British Association more information
is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in...the
printing and transmission of ponderous reports.
Res 8.150 7
...the law of light, which Newton said proceeded by fits of easy
reflection and transmission...is the law of mind;...
Aris 10.33 19
I observe the inextinguishable prejudice men have in favor of
a hereditary transmission of qualities.
transmit, v. (3)
ET10 5.164 12
...the provisions to lock and transmit [English property]
have exercised the cunningest heads in a profession which never admits a
fool.
SA 8.100 27
...[there is in America the general belief that] if [the young
American] have...quick eye for the opportunities which are always offering
for investment, he can come to wealth, and in such good season as to enjoy
as well as transmit it.
LS 11.8 8
...men more easily transmit a form than a virtue...
transmits, v. (4)
MN 1.208 27
...[a man's] health and erectness consist in the fidelity with
which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on
which his genius can act.
Pt1 3.23 2
...[nature] shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless
spores, and one of which, being preserved, transmits new billions of spores
to-morrow or next day.
ET10 5.161 25
...now that a telegraph line runs through France and Europe
from London, every message it transmits makes stronger by one thread the
band which war will have to cut.
Aris 10.33 22
Some qualities [Nature] carefully fixes and transmits...
transmitted, v. (3)
Int 2.340 10
Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation is the integrity
of the intellect transmitted to its works...
SA 8.101 10
In Europe...it has been attempted to secure the existence of a
superior class by hereditary nobility, with estates transmitted by
primogeniture and entail.
LS 11.16 6
If it could be satisfactorily shown that [the primitive Church]
esteemed [the Lord's Supper] authorized and to be transmitted forever, that
does not settle the question for us.
transmute, v. (3)
Bty 6.282 16
Alchemy, which sought to transmute one element into
another...that was in the right direction.
PPo 8.235 1
Go transmute crime to wisdom, learn to stem/ The vice of
Japhet by the thought of Shem./
PPo 8.259 18
From the plain text-The chemist of love/ Will this perishing
mould,/ Were it made out of mire,/ Transmute into gold./-[Hafiz]
proceeds to the celebration of his passion;...
transmuted, v. (1)
Pt1 3.4 19
...we are...children of the fire, made of it, and only the same
divinity transmuted and at two or three removes, when we know least about
it.
transmutes, v. (1)
Lov1 2.185 22
The union which is thus effected [by love] and which adds a
new value to every atom in nature--for it transmutes every thread
throughout the whole web of relation into a golden ray...is yet a temporary
state.
transmuting, v. (1)
AmS 1.88 6
...it depends on how far the process had gone, of transmuting
life into truth.
transmutings, n. (2)
UGM 4.16 26
We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see
the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher
benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds; as...the transmutings
of the imagination...
MMEm 10.425 16
Not to complain of the poor old earth's chaotic state,
brought so near in its long and gloomy transmutings by the geologist.
transom, n. (2)
ET2 5.31 17
Classics which at home are drowsily read, have a strange
charm...in the transom of a merchant brig.
SS 7.12 10
...if we recall the rare hours when we encountered the best
persons, we then found ourselves, and then first society seemed to exist.
That was society, though in the transom of a brig...
transparency, n. (6)
Bty 6.286 22
The crowd in the street oftener furnishes degradations than
angels or redeemers, but they all prove the transparency.
PerF 10.72 18
...in the impenetrable mystery which hides-and hides
through absolute transparency-the mental nature, I await the insight which
our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
FRO2 11.484 4
...Thou seek'st in globe and galaxy,/ He hides in pure
transparency;/...
PLT 12.5 17
...in the impenetrable mystery which hides (and hides through
absolute transparency) the mental nature, I await the insight which our
advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
Mem 12.101 6
So is it with every fact in a new science...each one adds
transparency to the whole mass.
MLit 12.330 11
The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and
Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree
diminishes the transparency of things...
transparent, adj. (35)
Nat 1.7 9
One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this
design, to give man...the perpetual presence of the sublime.
Nat 1.10 8
I become a transparent eyeball;...
Nat 1.34 10
...the universe becomes transparent...
Nat 1.50 5
If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and
surfaces become transparent...
Nat 1.73 26
The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things, and
so they appear not transparent but opaque.
DSA 1.119 8
Through the transparent darkness the stars pour their almost
spiritual rays.
DSA 1.144 8
When a man comes, all books are legible, all things
transparent...
YA 1.387 4
If society were transparent, the noble would everywhere be
gladly received...
Comp 2.125 4
...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant,
and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were
a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen...
Cir 2.302 3
Our globe seen by God is a transparent law...
Int 2.325 14
...what man has yet been able to mark the steps and boundaries
of that transparent essence [Intellect]?
Pt1 3.12 5
...I shall mount above these clouds and opaque airs in which I
live,--opaque, though they seem transparent...
Pt1 3.42 20
...wherever are forms with transparent boundaries...there is
Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
Chr1 3.96 17
...[a healthy soul] stands to all beholders like a transparent
object betwixt them and the sun...
Mrs1 3.127 2
[Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and
intimidate; but once matched by the skill of the other party, they drop the
point of the sword,--points and fences disappear, and the youth finds
himself in a more transparent atmosphere...
UGM 4.35 2
In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause,
he begins to help us more as an effect. Then he appears as an exponent of a
vaster mind and will. The opaque self becomes transparent with the light of
the First Cause.
SwM 4.98 7
If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make
the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser...
ET1 5.5 12
...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as
they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to
make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of
those bright personalities.
F 6.43 1
Each of these men, if they were transparent, would seem to you...
walking cities...
Boks 7.190 21
A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be
picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest
chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
The men themselves were hid and inaccessible...but the thought which they
did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent
words to us...
OA 7.315 13
...the transparent good faith of [Josiah Quincy's] praise and
blame...gave unusual interest to the College festival.
PI 8.52 25
...rhyme is the transparent frame that allows almost the pure
architecture of thought to become visible to the mental eye.
PC 8.223 18
...[Nature] is hostile to ignorance,-plastic, transparent,
delightful, to knowledge.
Insp 8.274 12
...where is...a Franklin who can draw off electricity from
Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life, inspire men...and make the
world transparent...
Edc1 10.131 4
...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the
means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...
EzRy 10.390 12
[Ezry Ripley] was a man so kind and sympathetic, his
character was so transparent...that he was very justly appreciated in this
community.
SlHr 10.446 8
...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan
and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those
opaque crystals...not less perfect in their angles and structure, and only less
beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.
GSt 10.503 27
[George Stearns's] transparent singleness of purpose...
disarmed...all gainsayers.
EWI 11.144 20
The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the
talisman: his skin and bones, though they were the color of night, are
transparent...
FSLN 11.225 5
...I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh of March
discourse and those others, and think them very transparent and very open
to criticism...
JBB 11.268 7
...[John Brown] is so transparent that all men see him
through.
PLT 12.42 23
The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and
faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the
whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself...
II 12.89 3
The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid
all things from him is really transparent, transparent everywhere to pure
eyes...renew life for [a man].
MAng1 12.219 24
The walls of houses are transparent to the architect.
MAng1 12.233 16
...let no man suppose...that this profound soul
[Michelangelo] was taken or holden in the chains of superficial beauty. To
him, of all men, it was transparent.
transpierces, v. (1)
SL 2.158 11
What has he done? is the divine question which...transpierces
every false reputation.
transpire, v. (2)
ET15 5.268 14
[The London Times] draws from any number of learned and
skilful contributors; but a more learned and skilful person supervises,
corrects, and co-ordinates. Of this closet, the secret does not transpire.
FSLN 11.242 22
...in one part of the discourse the orator [Robert
Winthrop] allowed to transpire, rather against his will, a little sober sense.
transpired, v. (2)
LLNE 10.331 21
Let [Everett] rise to speak on what occasion soever, a fact
had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well
known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
LVB 11.91 5
The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for
the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an
agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the
part of the Cherokees; that the fact afterwards transpired that these deputies
did by no means represent the will of the nation;...
transpires, v. (2)
Comp 2.116 11
[Commit a crime and] Some damning circumstance always
transpires.
UGM 4.20 24
With each new mind, a new secret of nature transpires;...
transplant, v. (2)
AmS 1.97 13
I will not...transplant an oak into a flower-pot...
Bost 12.189 20
John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world
that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a
colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere;...
transplantation, n. (1)
Carl 10.490 16
[Carlyle]...is a very national figure, and would by no means
bear transplantation.
transplanting, n. (1)
CL 12.154 12
The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and
builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter of the globe; and
performs an analogous office in perpetual new transplanting of the races of
men over the surface...
transport, n. (1)
Chr1 3.99 2
The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in
the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the
perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already
command those events I desire.
transport, v. (3)
LT 1.262 16
Thoughts...transport me into new and magnificent scenes.
Hist 2.36 22
Transport [Napoleon] to large countries...and you shall see
that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not
the virtual Napoleon.
EWI 11.110 18
In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing
out of the act of abolition, ships were built...with a frightful disregard of the
comfort of the victims they were destined to transport.
transportation, n. (4)
YA 1.363 12
Who has not been stimulated to reflection by the facilities
now in progress of construction for travel and the transportation of goods in
the United States?
SwM 4.100 2
In 1743, when [Swedenborg] was fifty-four years old, what is
called his illumination began. All his metallurgy and transportation of ships
overland was absorbed into this ecstasy.
DL 7.104 20
...chiefly...the young American studies new and speedier
modes of transportation.
EWI 11.107 13
Public attention...was drawn that way [to the West Indies],
and the methods of the stealing and the transportation [of slaves] from
Africa became noised abroad.
transported, adj. (2)
ET5 5.97 18
The pauper [in England] lives better than the free laborer...and
the transported felon better than the one under imprisonment.
Milt1 12.260 12
At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language,
saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument...
Such where the deep transported mind may soar/ Above the wheeling poles,
and at Heaven's door/ Look in, and see each blissful deity,/ How he before
the thunderous throne doth lie./
transported, v. (3)
Nat 1.57 14
...[man] is transported out of the district of change.
PPo 8.241 5
When all [the troops and spirits] were in order, the east wind,
at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that
were upon it, whither he pleased...
MLit 12.330 27
...we are not [in Wilhelm Meister] transported out of the
dominion of the senses...
transporters, n. (1)
PI 8.19 18
...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists in
speaking to the Father and to matter;...
transporting, v. (2)
YA 1.363 20
This rage of road building is beneficent for America...
inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union
staunch, whose days seemed already numbered by the mere inconvenience
of transporting representatives...across such tedious distances...
Wth 6.87 2
[coal] is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is
wanted.
transports, v. (2)
Farm 7.146 10
Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a
thousand miles.
PI 8.13 27
[A new symbol] satiates, transports, converts [men].
transposition, n. (1)
SwM 4.116 15
...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: although no
mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly arise
by bare literal transposition;...
transubstantiation, n. (2)
Elo1 7.68 24
...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of
hers. Her speech flows like a river...such justice done to all the parts! It is a
true transubstantiation,--the fact converted into speech...
PI 8.35 5
This contemporary insight is transubstantiation...
transverse, adj. (1)
Dem1 10.18 4
...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world,
though not an antagonist, yet a transverse element...
trap, n. (9)
SR 2.60 5
We love [honor] and pay it homage because it is not a trap for
our love and homage...
Exp 3.54 15
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.
ET4 5.70 27
The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to
Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury by gun, by trap, by harpoon, by
lasso...all the game that is in nature.
ET7 5.119 22
[The English] confide in each other,--English believes in
English. The French feel the superiority of this probity. The Englishman is
not springing a trap for his admiration, but is honestly minding his business.
Pow 6.67 26
...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper,
the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring
citizens. He did this the easier that the peddler stopped at his house, and
paid his keeping by setting up his new trap on the landlord's premises.
Ill 6.316 7
...this especial trap [marriage] is laid to trip up our feet with...
Thor 10.454 11
...though a naturalist, [Thoreau] used neither trap nor gun.
EWI 11.129 3
[The question of slavery in the West Idies] was not narrowed
down [in England] to a paltry electioneering trap;...
EurB 12.375 16
Again and again we have been caught in that old foolish
trap [the novel of costume of circumstance].
trapper, n. (2)
AmS 1.97 25
Authors we have, in numbers...who...follow the trapper into
the prairie...to replenish their merchantable stock.
CL 12.161 11
The college is not so wise as the mechanic's shop, nor the
quarter-deck as the forecastle. Witness the insatiable interest of the white
man about...the trapper...
trappers, n. (1)
Exp 3.63 17
The imagination delights in the woodcraft of Indians, trappers
and bee-hunters.
trappings, n. (3)
OS 2.291 10
Nothing can pass [in the soul]...but the casting aside your
trappings...
Bty 6.306 19
Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the
joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that the
globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger tree...the
first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
WSL 12.344 17
...there is a noble nature within [Landor] which instructs
him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings...
traps, n. (3)
MN 1.202 8
When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis
Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a gambling table where
each is laying traps for the other...one can hardly help asking...whether it be
quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
Hsm1. 2.252 22
...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...laying traps
for sweet food and strong wine...
Ctr 6.135 11
Though [men] talk of the object before them...their vanity is
laying little traps for your admiration.
travail, n. (1)
HDC 11.34 16
[Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail...
travailed, v. (1)
MN 1.208 21
Here art thou with whom so long the universe travailed in
labor;...
travel, n. (19)
YA 1.363 12
Who has not been stimulated to reflection by the facilities
now in progress of construction for travel and the transportation of goods in
the United States?
ShP 4.196 25
[The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his
thoughts have been derived; whether through translation...whether by travel
in distant countries...
ET10 5.166 4
I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the
better class to that of any potentate in Europe,--whether for travel, or for
opportunity of society...
Ctr 6.139 6
The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and
variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...with
travel...
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; books, travel, society,
solitude.
Ctr 6.145 9
I have been quoted as saying captious things about travel;...
Ctr 6.146 5
...for some men, travel may be useful.
Ctr 6.146 16
...let us...allow to travel its full effect.
Ctr 6.147 3
No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages.
Ctr 6.147 7
One use of travel is to recommend the books and works of
home...
Ctr 6.147 22
...as a medical remedy, travel seems one of the best.
Ctr 6.148 5
Akin to the benefit of foreign travel, the aesthetic value of
railroads is to unite the advantages of town and country life...
CbW 6.267 16
In childhood we...doubted not by distant travel we should
reach the baths of the descending sun and stars.
CbW 6.269 4
The uses of travel are occasional, and short;...
Grts 8.305 19
...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea, and
must go thither if he has to run away from his father's house to the
forecastle; another longs for travel in foreign lands;...
SMC 11.356 24
All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the adventurous
type of New Englander, with his appetite for novelty and travel;...
EdAd 11.384 9
[The traveller] reflects on...how far these chains of
intercourse and travel [in America] reach, interlock and ramify;...
CL 12.135 19
Travel and walking have this apology, that Nature has
impressed on savage men periodical or secular impulses to emigrate...
Milt1 12.259 23
Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton
certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that
great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power
of language.
travel, v. (27)
Tran 1.357 18
...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak...are
novices; they only show the road in which man should travel...
YA 1.368 24
The land,-travel a whole day together,-looks poverty-stricken...
SR 2.82 11
Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home.
OS 2.265 3
Space is ample, east and west,/ But two cannot go abreast,/
Cannot travel in it two/...
OS 2.276 9
...the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind...will
travel a royal road to particular knowledges and powers.
Art1 2.358 21
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we
must carry it with us, or we find it not.
UGM 4.3 22
We travel into foreign parts to find [the great man's] works...
UGM 4.4 4
...I do not travel to find comfortable, rich and hospitable
people...
ET1 5.4 9
...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see
the faces of three or four writers...and I suppose if I had sifted the reasons
that led me to Europe, when I was ill and was advised to travel, it was
mainly the attraction of these persons.
ET6 5.103 27
It requires, men say, a good constitution to travel in Spain.
ET11 5.196 12
...advantages once confined to men of family are now open
to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach, toil
can travel in his cart.
Wth 6.114 9
Pride...can travel afoot...
Ctr 6.145 6
For the most part, only the light characters travel.
Ctr 6.147 1
...the phrase to know the world, or to travel, is synonymous
with all men's ideas of advantage and superiority.
CbW 6.266 22
Culture will give gravity and domestic rest to those who
now travel only as not knowing how else to spend money.
Civ 7.29 19
...if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which [the
heavenly powers] travel, they will undertake them with the greatest
pleasure.
DL 7.119 6
...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior,
read...your thought and will...which he may well travel fifty miles...to
behold.
WD 7.163 3
...we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social
arrangements: we...travel, grind, weave, forge, plant, till and excavate better
[than our fathers did].
Dem1 10.5 21
In sleep one shall travel certain roads in stage-coaches or
gigs, which he recognizes as familiar...
Chr2 10.116 22
...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind,
retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they
are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel in France...he might
leave them locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons...
Schr 10.285 22
...what [Genius] says and does is...on the great highways of
Nature...which all souls must travel.
EzRy 10.390 19
We remember the remark made by the old farmer who
used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country
would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
AKan 11.260 14
Can any citizen of Massachusetts travel in honor through
Kentucky and Alabama and speak his mind?
ALin 11.329 4
We meet under the gloom of a calamity [death of Lincoln]
which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society, as the
fearful tidings travel over sea, over land...
Mem 12.92 10
[Memory] is the companion, this the tutor, the poet, the
library, with which you travel.
CL 12.136 6
...the necessity of exercise and the nomadic instinct are always
stirring the wish to travel...
Milt1 12.267 17
...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure
as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common
way/ In cheerful godliness;.../
travelled, adj. (1)
ET9 5.149 3
Their culture generally enables the travelled English to avoid
any ridiculous extremes of this self-pleasing...
travelled, v. (9)
Hist 2.21 17
...the Persian court...travelled from Ecbatana, where the spring
was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter.
Art1 2.361 25
It had travelled by my side; that which I fancied I had left in
Boston was here in the Vatican...
PPh 4.42 19
Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself
still capable of a larger synthesis...he travelled into Italy...
PPh 4.44 6
[Plato] travelled into Italy;...
ET11 5.176 26
[The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor having travelled on the
continent...became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the
Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.
PPo 8.240 26
When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet
of green silk...
Insp 8.289 18
...Montaigne travelled with his books, but did not read in
them.
MMEm 10.428 27
...as [Mary Moody Emerson] never travelled without
being provided for this dear and indispensable contingency [death], I
believe she wore out a great many [shrouds].
Humb 11.457 13
...a whole French Academy, travelled in [Humboldt's]
shoes.
traveller, n. (49)
LE 1.169 13
...the broad, cold lowland...where the traveller...thinks with
pleasing terror of the distant town; this beauty...has never been recorded by
art...
SR 2.81 2
The soul is no traveller;...
SR 2.84 27
If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad-axe
and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal...
SL 2.148 7
On the Alps the traveller sometimes beholds his own shadow
magnified to a giant...
OS 2.289 17
...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has
created...take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing
traveller on the rock.
OS 2.290 7
The vain traveller attempts to embellish his life by quoting my
lord and the prince and the countess...
Art1 2.359 11
The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from
chamber to chamber through galleries of statues, vases, sarcophagi and
candelabra...is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of
which they all sprung...
Pt1 3.27 11
...the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his
horse's neck...
Exp 3.59 1
A political orator wittily compared our party promises to
western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either
side to tempt the traveller, but soon became narrow and narrower and ended
in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree.
Exp 3.71 17
When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised
of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or
to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries of its
profound beauty and repose, as if the clouds that covered it parted at
intervals, and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains...
Nat2 3.171 23
There is...the wood-fire to which the chilled traveller rushes
for safety,--and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.
Pol1 3.202 26
...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers
should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must
sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and
with more right, than Jacob, who, because he is a youth and a traveller, eats
their bread and not his own?
ET2 5.25 24
I am not a good traveller...
ET3 5.34 23
Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in
England] rides as on a cannon-ball...
ET3 5.35 8
The problem of the traveller landing at Liverpool is, Why
England is England?
ET3 5.35 16
A wise traveller will naturally choose to visit the best of actual
nations;...
ET6 5.113 14
...[the English] think, says the Venetian traveller of 1500, no
greater honor can be conferred or received, than to invite others to eat with
them, or to be invited themselves...
ET8 5.133 11
There are multitudes of rude young English...who...have
made the English traveller a proverb for uncomfortable and offensive
manners.
ET9 5.145 10
A much older traveller...says:--The English are great lovers
of themselves and of every thing belonging to them.
ET11 5.172 11
Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations. The
proprietor never saw them, or never lived in them. Primogeniture built these
sumptuous piles, and I suppose it is the sentiment of every traveller...It was
well to come ere these were gone.
ET11 5.181 11
In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English]
families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly...
ET13 5.231 1
Electricity cannot be made fast...it is a traveller, a newness, a
surprise, a secret...
Bhr 6.177 22
In Siberia a late traveller found men who could see the
satellites of Jupiter with their unarmed eye.
Wsp 6.214 14
I have seen, said a traveller who had known the extremes of
society, I have seen human nature in all its forms; it is everywhere the
same...
CbW 6.266 10
There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of
the rich...that of the sick...and that of the traveller...
Civ 7.17 10
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./
Art2 7.47 16
Our arts are happy hits. We are...like a traveller surprised by a
mountain echo...
Elo1 7.69 6
The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer melodramatic exhibition
[of eloquence] than the table d'hote of his inn will afford him in