SR 2.47 18 Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart...

OS 2.295 27 We not only affirm that we have few great men, but, absolutely speaking, that we have none;...

SwM 4.116 17 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical... terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...although no mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly arise...inasmuch as the one precept, considered separately from the other, appears to have absolutely no relation to it.

SwM 4.140 11 ...the right examples are private experiences, which are absolutely at one on this point.

CbW 6.263 11 I figure [sickness] as a...phantom, absolutely selfish...

Farm 7.153 12 ...[the farmer] would not shine in palaces; he is absolutely unknown and inadmissible therein;...

PC 8.229 26 When the will is absolutely surrendered to the moral sentiment, that is virtue;...

PerF 10.83 17 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it...makes known to [the man]...that he is to deal absolutely in the world...

SovE 10.185 13 The high intellect is absolutely at one with moral nature.

Prch 10.228 3 [Christianity] is the record of a pure and holy soul, humble, absolutely disinterested...

EWI 11.113 1 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid...shall be absolutely and forever manumitted;...

EWI 11.120 1 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.

JBS 11.279 12 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character absolutely without any vulgar trait;...

CPL 11.503 11 ...what omniscience has music! so absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow reached.

PLT 12.30 17 Absolutely speaking, I can only work for myself.

ACri 12.285 22 ...much of the raw material of the street-talk is absolutely untranslatable into print...

Elo2 8.130 22 Absoluteness is required [in eloquence]...

PPo 8.258 14 Friendship is a favorite topic of the Eastern poets, and they have matched on this head the absoluteness of Montaigne.

Imtl 8.340 12 A sort of absoluteness attends all perception of truth...

Chr2 10.122 13 [Character]...does not ask, in the absoluteness of its trust, even for the assurance of continued life.

Exp 3.79 11 If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal?

LT 1.290 18 You will absolve me from the charge of flippancy...when you see that reality is all we prize...

SR 2.50 12 Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

SR 2.74 18 ...I may also neglect this reflex standard and absolve me to myself.

Pol1 3.209 1 A party is perpetually corrupted by personality. Whilst we absolve the association from dishonesty, we cannot extend the same charity to their leaders.

UGM 4.8 13 I must absolve me to myself.

ET11 5.195 17 All advantages given to absolve the young patrician from intellectual labor are of course mistaken.

Bhr 6.195 18 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans? Utri creditis, Quirites? When he had said these words he was absolved by the assembly of the people.

PPr 12.382 10 Let no man think himself absolved because he does a generous action...

Tran 1.336 13 In the play of Othello, the expiring Desdemona absolves her husband of the murder, to her attendant Emilia.

MN 1.222 23 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as these forest leaves absorb light, electricity, and volatile gases...

Lov1 2.188 15 There are moments when the affections rule and absorb the man...

Exp 3.76 4 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us.

NR 3.239 19 Jesus would absorb the race;...

SwM 4.118 6 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties...a science of such grand presage would absorb all faculties;...

ET10 5.156 26 Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life, since the extraordinary will be certain to absorb the other third.

ET14 5.239 27 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists, and that the dull men will be Lockists. Then politics and commerce will absorb from the educated class men of talents without genius, precisely because such have no resistance.

F 6.11 15 In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force...

F 6.32 18 All the bloods [the Saxon race] shall absorb and domineer...

Pow 6.58 12 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency...then...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.

Wth 6.94 14 ...one tree keeps down another in the forest, that it may not absorb all the sap in the ground.

Wth 6.126 1 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest;...

Ctr 6.166 17 ...at last culture shall absorb the chaos and gehenna.

DL 7.118 2 The diet of the house does not create its order, but knowledge, character, action, absorb so much life and yield so much entertainment that the refectory has ceased to be so curiously studied.

Farm 7.143 9 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the plants absorb.

Boks 7.219 14 Friendship should give and take, solitude and time brood and ripen, heroes absorb and enact [the communications of the sacred books].

PPo 8.247 14 We absorb elements enough, but have not leaves and lungs for healthy perspiration and growth.

SovE 10.192 18 Nothing is allowed to exceed or absorb the rest;...

ACiv 11.298 14 At this moment in America the aspects of political society absorb attention.

II 12.79 23 The thoughts which wander through our mind, we do not absorb and make flesh of...

Chr1 3.100 23 The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many, but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved, the absorbed, the commander because he is commanded, the assured, the primary,--they are good;...

MN 1.220 12 ...the spirit's holy errand through us absorbed the thought.

YA 1.366 14 This inclination [to cultivate the soil] has appeared...in men supposed to be absorbed in business...

Nat2 3.170 23 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape, absorbed by new pictures and by thoughts fast succeeding each other, until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind...

PPh 4.42 15 Plato absorbed the learning of his times...

PPh 4.51 8 If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly backwards to diversity.

PPh 4.53 25 ...Plato, in Egypt and in Eastern pilgrimages, imbibed the idea of one Deity, in which all things are absorbed.

SwM 4.100 3 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.

NMW 4.258 7 ...this exorbitant egotist [Napoleon] narrowed, impoverished and absorbed the power and existence of those who served him;...

SA 8.106 24 ...those people, and no others, interest us...who are absorbed, if you please to say so, in their own dream.

QO 8.181 13 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.

Aris 10.55 3 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself.

MMEm 10.426 15 Usefulness, if it requires action, seems less like existence than the desire of being absorbed in God, retaining consciousness.

EWI 11.99 12 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement...of... [a question] which for many years absorbed the attention of the best and most eminent of mankind.

Dem1 10.26 22 I think the rappings a new test, like blue litmus or other chemical absorbent, to try catechisms with.

Pow 6.72 1 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it...must be had in that form, and absorbents provided to take off its edge.

NMW 4.257 25 Men found that [Napoleon's] absorbing egotism was deadly to all other men.

CbW 6.259 10 Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day...

War 11.156 3 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped?

SwM 4.108 20 The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding and generating, in a new and ethereal element.

ET11 5.183 2 The great [English] estates are absorbing the small freeholds.

F 6.38 18 As soon as there is life, there is...absorbing and using of material.

DL 7.105 18 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the faces that claim his kisses, are all in turn absorbing;...

SR 2.66 7 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom...it... absorbs past and future into the present hour.

Pt1 3.20 4 ...life is great, and fascinates and absorbs;...

PPh 4.51 12 The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces.

ShP 4.196 17 A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where radiating.

F 6.12 7 Each [tendency] absorbs so much food and force as to become itself a new centre.

CbW 6.263 10 ...sickness...absorbs its own sons and daughters.

Chr2 10.95 27 ...[the moral sentiment] absorbs everything into itself.

PLT 12.24 24 The plant absorbs much nourishment from the ground...

Tran 1.356 22 ...[these old guardians] have but one mood on the subject, namely, that Antony is very perverse,-that it is quite as much as Antony can do to...abstain from what he thinks foolish...

Int 2.342 7 He [in whom the love of truth predominates] will abstain from dogmatism...

Chr1 3.111 27 ...if we could abstain from asking anything of [men]...and content us with compelling them through the virtue of the eldest laws!

Mrs1 3.132 6 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and speak or abstain...in a new and aboriginal way;...

Pol1 3.214 3 Whilst I do what is fit for me, and abstain from what is unfit, my neighbor and I shall often agree in our means...

Pow 6.80 12 I know what I abstain from.

SA 8.99 1 Lovers abstain from caresses and haters from insults whilst they sit in one parlor with common friends.

Prch 10.225 15 [The moral sentiment] is a commandment at every moment...to abstain from doing the wrong.

LS 11.23 18 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter. There is one on which I had intended to say a few words; I mean the unfavorable relation in which it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from disinclination to the rite.

EWI 11.109 24 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce.

FSLN 11.221 22 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that...he was only to say plain and equal things,-grand things if he had them, and, if he had them not, only to abstain from saying unfit things...

ACiv 11.300 5 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions, and you still...abstain from striking at the cause.

LT 1.286 17 The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this... that, affirming the need of new and higher modes of living and action, they have abstained from the recommendation of low methods.

ET17 5.291 4 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons...

LLNE 10.332 23 In the lecture-room, [Everett] abstained from all ornament...

EzRy 10.393 20 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had...in delivering to a man or a woman that which all their other friends had abstained from saying...

ChiE 11.473 10 ...[Confucius] abstained from paradox...

MR 1.235 5 ...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part... abstaining from whatever is dishonest and unclean, to take each of us bravely his part...

Elo1 7.62 18 ...the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.

QO 8.189 26 Our very abstaining to repeat and credit the fine remark of our friend is thievish.

Imtl 8.345 21 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed;...

SwM 4.139 27 The teachings of the high Spirit are abstemious...

WD 7.180 26 Cannot we be a little abstemious and obedient?

Imtl 8.348 4 ...[Jesus] is very abstemious of explanation...

Supl 10.175 18 To every question an abstemious but absolute reply.

JBS 11.279 16 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...abstemious, refusing luxuries...

Milt1 12.263 7 [Milton] was abstemious in diet...

Ctr 6.154 18 The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated. Neither will we be driven into a quiddling abstemiousness.

Bhr 6.172 17 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;...

MN 1.215 13 Is it that [the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices...and afterward found himself still...as far from happiness in that abstinence as he had been in the abuse?

MR 1.251 20 ...oftentimes by way of abstinence [Caliph Omar] ate his bread without salt.

Tran 1.351 15 If no call should come for years, for centuries, then I know that the want of the Universe is the attestation of faith by my abstinence.

Hsm1 2.261 23 ...not only need we breathe and exercise the soul by assuming the penalties of abstinence...

NER 3.265 20 I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to prevail on myself to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy, but perhaps a pledge of total abstinence might effectually restrain us.

Edc1 10.154 10 ...total abstinence from this drug [of emulation and display]...involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher.

LLNE 10.354 10 ...abstinence from pleasure appeared to [Fourier] a great sin.

Let 12.396 1 But to be...prudent to secure to ourselves an injurious society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and enemies; and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!

Nat 1.4 17 ...to a sound judgment, the most abstract truth is the most practical.

Nat 1.75 16 Whilst the abstract question occupies your intellect, nature brings it in the concrete to be solved by your hands.

LT 1.261 18 ...the subject of the Times is not an abstract question.

Int 2.326 1 Intellect and intellection signify to the common ear consideration of abstract truth.

Int 2.331 7 At last comes the era of reflection...when we of set purpose sit down to consider an abstract truth;...

Int 2.331 13 I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth...

Int 2.344 25 I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Aeschyluses to my intellectual integrity. Especially take the same ground in regard to abstract truth...

PPh 4.55 1 If he loved abstract truth, [Plato] saved himself by propounding the most popular of all principles, the absolute good...

NMW 4.249 21 [Napoleon] delighted in running through the range of practical, of literary and of abstract questions.

NMW 4.252 3 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon appears as a man of genius directing on abstract questions the native appetite for truth...he was wont to show in war.

ET15 5.270 11 [The London Times's] editors know better than to defend... English vested rights, on abstract grounds.

Pow 6.77 4 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.

Wth 6.116 22 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going out of the body to think!

Civ 7.19 16 A nation that has no clothing...no abstract thought, we call barbarous.

Boks 7.203 23 ...Pythagoras was...nowise a man of abstract studies alone.

Imtl 8.331 6 ...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with...a taste for abstract truth...does not build up faith or lead to content.

Plu 10.312 14 [Seneca] was Buddhist in his cold abstract virtue...

LLNE 10.342 1 ...the men of talent complained of the want of point and precision in this abstract and religious thinker [Alcott].

Thor 10.461 7 It was said of Plotinus that he was ashamed of his body, and 't is very likely he had good reason for it,-that his body was a bad servant, and he had not skill in dealing with the material world, as happens often to men of abstract intellect.

EWI 11.145 19 There remains the very elevated consideration which the subject [emancipation] opens, but which belongs to more abstract views than we are now taking...

Wom 11.422 4 For the other point, of [women]...aiming at abstract right without allowance for circumstances,-that is not a disqualification, but a qualification [for voting].

MLit 12.314 18 ...a man may recite passages of his life with no feeling of egotism. Nor need a man have a vicious subjectiveness because he deals in abstract propositions.

Nat 1.23 17 A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world.

LE 1.165 6 All men, in the abstract, are just and good;...

Mrs1 3.122 9 The word gentleman has not any correlative abstract to express the quality.

Pol1 3.212 18 ...an abstract of the codes of nations would be a transcript of the common conscience.

Comp 2.108 15 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it;...that which in the study of a single artist you might not easily find, but in the study of many you would abstract as the spirit of them all.

Ctr 6.156 10 In the morning,--solitude; said Pythagoras;...that [nature's] favorite may make acquaintance with those divine strengths which disclose themselves to serious and abstracted thought.

PI 8.3 22 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person never makes with impunity the least mistake in this particular,--never tries to kindle his oven with water...

Art2 7.48 14 ...so in art that aims at beauty must the parts be subordinated to Ideal Nature, and everything individual abstracted...

MAng1 12.217 13 Can this charming element [Beauty] be so abstracted by the human mind as to become a distinct and permanent object?

MAng1 12.218 26 ...certain minds, more closely harmonized with Nature, possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things...

AmS 1.86 4 The astronomer discovers that geometry, a pure abstraction of the human mind, is the measure of planetary motion.

AmS 1.92 3 We read the verses of one of the great English poets...with a pleasure...which is in great part caused by the abstraction of all time from their verses.

AmS 1.102 27 ...in severe abstraction, let [the scholar] hold by himself;...

AmS 1.108 24 ...I have dwelt perhaps tediously upon this abstraction of the Scholar.

Con 1.306 5 ...when this great tendency [conservatism]...is challenged by young men, to whom it is no abstraction...it must needs seem injurious.

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...great power of abstraction...

ET18 5.304 18 The English mind turns every abstraction it can receive into a portable utensil...

F 6.44 8 The races of men rise out of the ground...and divides into parties... angry to fight for this metaphysical abstraction.

Ctr 6.158 15 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions, which pass for more to the people than to me. We see this abstraction in scholars, as a matter of course;...

SA 8.104 8 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people... they are sublime; and we know that in this abstraction they are executing excellent work.

Insp 8.288 25 I envy the abstraction of some scholars I have known...

MAng1 12.219 3 ...Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature...

MoS 4.154 25 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely.

MMEm 10.433 1 Is it the less desirable to have the lofty abstractions because the abstractionist is nervous and irritable?

NR 3.237 4 [Nature] punishes abstractionists...

MoS 4.155 26 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they are abstractionists...

Prch 10.237 27 We [in the Church] come to educate, come to isolate, to be abstractionists;...

LE 1.175 6 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes...they spurn personal relations; they deal with abstractions...

PPh 4.52 13 ...the seat of a philosophy delighting in abstractions...is Asia;...

MoS 4.150 16 Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions...

ET8 5.136 4 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of a nature originally melancholy. 'T is the habit of a mind which attaches to abstractions with a passion which gives vast results.

ET14 5.244 25 Hume's abstractions are not deep or wise.

ET14 5.245 5 Doctor Johnson's written abstractions have little value;...

MMEm 10.433 1 Is it the less desirable to have the lofty abstractions because the abstractionist is nervous and irritable?

EWI 11.99 8 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...a day which gave the immense fortification of a fact, of gross history, to ethical abstractions.

War 11.164 13 Observe the ideas of the present day...see how each of these abstractions has embodied itself in an imposing apparatus in the community;...

FSLN 11.243 7 I [Robert Winthrop] can only deal with masses as I find them. Abstractions are not for me.

MLit 12.315 17 The great lead us...in our age to metaphysical Nature...to moral abstractions...

SwM 4.119 8 ...whatever [Swedenborg] saw...he saw not abstractly, but in pictures...

FSLN 11.243 4 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing. Had you done so, you would have found me [Robert Winthrop] its glad organ and champion. Abstractly, I should have preferred that side.

Boks 7.205 15 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the reader to his...Abstracts of my Readings...

Nat 1.35 7 ...visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side. This doctrine is abstruse...

Int 2.345 27 When...we turn over [the Greek philosophers'] abstruse pages, wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few...

MR 1.247 8 I do not wish to be absurd and pedantic in reform.

Con 1.301 19 ...men are...very foolish children, who...see everything in the most absurd manner...

Mrs1 3.146 3 ...there is still some absurd inventor of charities;...

Mrs1 3.155 6 It is easy to see that what is called by distinction society and fashion...has much that is necessary, and much that is absurd.

Pol1 3.200 5 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that any measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law.

NER 3.259 15 ...is not this absurd, that the whole liberal talent of this country should be directed in its best years on studies which lead to nothing?

ET8 5.132 11 [Young Englishmen]...run into absurd frolics with the gravity of the Eumenides.

ET13 5.225 15 The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind; so that when you came to read the liturgy to a modern congregation, it was almost absurd in its unfitness...

F 6.41 13 ...as we do in dreams, with equanimity, the most absurd acts, so a drop more of wine in our cup of life will reconcile us to strange company and work.

Bty 6.288 24 ...the working of this deep instinct makes all the excitement-- much of it superficial and absurd enough--about works of art...

Elo2 8.131 13 Your argument is ingenious...but your major proposition palpably absurd. Will you establish a lie?

Comc 8.157 5 The rocks, the plants, the beasts, the birds, neither do anything ridiculous, nor betray a perception of anything absurd done in their presence.

Chr2 10.92 8 When a man...insists to do...something absurd or whimsical, only because he will, he is weak;...

Prch 10.223 27 ...there is a statement of religion possible which makes all skepticism absurd.

Plu 10.320 16 ...in recent reading of the old text [of Plutarch's Morals], on coming on anything absurd or unintelligible, I referred to the new text and found a clear and accurate statement in its place.

LLNE 10.354 16 [The Fourier marriage] was...full of absurd French superstitions about women;...

EWI 11.125 27 ...[slavery] does not love...a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks;...

War 11.162 17 All admit that [peace] would be the best policy...if all would agree to accept this rule. But it is absurd for one nation to attempt it alone.

War 11.167 23 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace] for better, for worse, carry it out to the end, and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle...

FSLC 11.193 7 ...it is absurd, what I often hear, to accuse the friends of freedom in the North with being the occasion of the new stringency of the Southern slave-laws.

JBS 11.281 8 Nothing is more absurd than to complain of this sympathy [with John Brown]...

FRep 11.516 21 The new conditions of mankind in America are really favorable to...the removal of absurd restrictions and antique inequalities.

Let 12.394 14 [The correspondents] do not entertain anything absurd or even difficult.

Exp 3.61 10 ...however a thoughtful man may suffer from the defects and absurdities of his company, he cannot without affectation deny to any set of men and women a sensibility to extraordinary merit.

NR 3.245 8 We must reconcile the contradictions [between the end and the means] as we can, but their discord and their concord introduce wild absurdities into our thinking and speech.

UGM 4.24 21 Not the feeblest grandame, not a mowing idiot, but uses what spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph in his or her opinion over the absurdities of all the rest.

SwM 4.136 6 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own...seems the most needless.

ET13 5.214 23 ...when wealth, refinement, great men, and ties to the world supervene, [a nation's] prudent men say, Why fight against Fate, or lift these absurdities [of religion] which are now mountainous?

Dem1 10.4 14 ...[in dreams] we seem busied...in earnest dialogues, strenuous actions for nothings and absurdities...

Aris 10.43 14 ...the origin of most of the perversities and absurdities that disgust us is, primarily, the want of health.

Prch 10.221 9 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration;...

EWI 11.124 26 ...you could not get any poetry, any wisdom, and beauty in woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these absurdities would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a generosity for the weak and oppressed.

EWI 11.124 27 ...you could not get any poetry, any wisdom, and beauty in woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these absurdities would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a generosity for the weak and oppressed.

PPr 12.380 11 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present]...firmly holds up to daylight the absurdities still tolerated in the English and European system.

Tran 1.345 3 ...the richly accomplished [nature] will have some capital absurdity;...

Mrs1 3.148 14 Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and great ladies, had some right to complain of the absurdity that had been put in their mouths before the days of Waverley;...

Pol1 3.214 25 ...when a quarter of the human race assume to tell me what I must do, I may be too much disturbed by the circumstances to see so clearly the absurdity of their command.

UGM 4.24 22 Difference from me is the measure of absurdity.

ET9 5.144 8 A testator [in England] endows a dog or a rookery, and Europe cannot interfere with his absurdity.

ET16 5.287 22 ...I insisted that the manifest absurdity of the view to English feasibility could make no difference to a gentleman;...

Bhr 6.173 16 I have seen...the frivolous Asmodeus, who relies on you to find him in ropes of sand to twist; the monotones; in short, every stripe of absurdity;...

CbW 6.270 2 ...the steady wrongheadedness of one perverse person irritates the best; since we must withstand absurdity.

EzRy 10.389 27 ...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact. To undeceive him, I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing...

Thor 10.467 6 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it were, townsmen and fellow creatures; so that he felt an absurdity or violence in any narrative of one of these by itself apart...

War 11.168 11 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact.

Wom 11.420 1 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?

Milt1 12.267 25 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton...in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school. Milton, wiser, felt no absurdity in this conduct.

Let 12.404 1 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst the colossal wrongs of the Indian, of the Negro, of the emigrant, remain unmitigated...

Exp 3.54 11 Temperament is the veto or limitation-power in the constitution...absurdly offered as a bar to original equity.

FRep 11.535 9 ...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions... we should feel this reactionary, and absurdly out of place.

PLT 12.54 7 The novelist should not make any character act absurdly, but only absurdly as seen by others.

JBB 11.269 25 ...it is the reductio ad absurdum of Slavery, when the governor of Virginia is forced to hang a man [John Brown] whom he declares to be a man of the most integrity, truthfulness and courage he has ever met.

SwM 4.95 21 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together;...

SwM 4.95 21 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together;...

LT 1.260 4 [The Times] is very good matter to be handled, if we are skilful; an abundance of important practical questions which it behooves us to understand.

MoS 4.168 5 There have been men with deeper insight [than Montaigne's]; but, one would say, never a man with such abundance of thoughts...

Farm 7.140 17 Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly connected with abundance of food;...

Suc 7.285 19 [Columbus told the King and Queen] I assert that [the pilots] can give no other account than that they went to lands where there was abundance of gold...

Dem1 10.7 23 [Dreams] seem to us to suggest an abundance and fluency of thought not familiar to the waking experience.

Plu 10.301 2 [Plutarch's] vivacity and abundance never leave him to loiter or pound on an incident.

Plu 10.302 12 This facility and abundance make the joy of [Plutarch's] narrative...

HDC 11.54 22 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that the new plantations of Dedham and Concord...will contain abundance of people.

EWI 11.121 8 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are...as much in the enjoyment of abundance...as any that we know of in any country.

CL 12.137 22 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow into which they were first turned out to grass, and found it a bog, where the water-hemlock grew in abundance...

AmS 1.108 13 ...we crave a better and more abundant food.

DSA 1.128 5 These general views...find abundant illustration in the history of religion...

YA 1.383 8 Undoubtedly, abundant mistakes will be made by these first adventurers [the Communities]...

Prd1 2.227 25 One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the good world.

UGM 4.29 8 [Children] shed their own abundant beauty on the objects they behold.

ET1 5.22 21 [Wordsworth's] third [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] is addressed to the flowers, which, he said...are very abundant on the top of the rock.

ET4 5.48 9 ...I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans of the Hercynian forest, and our Hoosiers, Suckers and Badgers of the American woods.

Boks 7.205 5 [Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon, who will...convey him with abundant entertainment down...through fourteen hundred years of time.

Elo2 8.114 12 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman, whilst he pours out the abundant streams of his thought through a language all glittering and fiery with imagination;...

LLNE 10.369 23 I please myself with the thought that our American mind... is beginning to show a quiet power, drawn from wide and abundant sources...

HDC 11.55 12 The fish, which had been the abundant manure of the settlers, was found to injure the land.

Pt1 3.39 1 The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly...

PPo 8.247 9 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature...are in Hafiz, and abundantly fortify and ennoble his tone.

AKan 11.256 5 It is a maxim that all party spirit produces the incapacity to receive natural impressions from facts; and our recent political history has abundantly borne out the maxim.

ET16 5.278 1 ...the situation [of Stonehenge is] fixed astronomically,--the grand entrances, here and at Abury, being placed exactly northeast...

ET16 5.281 5 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position.

MN 1.215 14 Is it that [the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices...and afterward found himself still...as far from happiness in that abstinence as he had been in the abuse?

MR 1.233 8 [The individual] did not create the abuse;...

LT 1.279 18 ...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that if that abuse were redressed all would go well...

Comp 2.98 11 Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse.

Pol1 3.208 10 The same benign necessity and the same practical abuse appear in the parties...of opponents and defenders of the administration of the government.

Pol1 3.215 22 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character...

NMW 4.252 20 [Napoleon] was...the subverter of monopoly and abuse.

ET2 5.30 25 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay.

ET13 5.226 24 The [English] curates are ill paid, and the prelates are overpaid. This abuse draws into the church the children of the nobility and other unfit persons who have a taste for expense.

Imtl 8.335 3 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in the age of trees...in the noble toughness and imperishableness of the palm-tree, which thrives under abuse;...

PerF 10.77 21 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise,-is it...the reform of some public abuse, or some effort of patriotism,-what he chiefly brings...is...his thoughts...

SovE 10.187 24 Every judge is a culprit, every law an abuse.

LS 11.14 4 The end which [St. Paul] has in view...is not to enjoin upon his friends to observe the [Lord's] Supper, but to censure their abuse of it.

FSLN 11.226 5 In the final hour...did [Webster] take...the side of humanity and justice, or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?

JBB 11.271 24 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government.

ACri 12.293 4 Persons have been named from their abuse of certain phrases, as Pyramid Lambert...

ET1 5.21 17 [Wordsworth] proceeded to abuse Goethe's Wilhelm Meister heartily.

Milt1 12.272 21 [Milton] would be divorced when he finds in his consort unfit disposition; knowing that he should not abuse that liberty...

AmS 1.89 24 Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst.

LS 11.13 8 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan converts, whose idolatrous worship had been made up of sacred festivals, and who very readily abused these to gross riot...

EdAd 11.387 1 We hesitate to employ a word so much abused as patriotism...

CInt 12.118 16 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.

MR 1.229 3 What if...the reformers tend to idealism? That only shows the extravagance of the abuses which have driven the mind into the opposite extreme.

MR 1.230 15 It cannot be wondered at that this general inquest into abuses should arise in the bosom of society...

MR 1.230 20 The young man...finds the way to lucrative employments blocked with abuses.

MR 1.230 26 ...The ways of commerce...are now in their general course so vitiated by derelictions and abuses at which all connive, that it requires more vigor and resources than can be expected of every young man, to right himself in them;...

MR 1.236 4 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state], their abuses will be redressed...

LT 1.269 17 ...[modern reform movements] not only check the special abuses...

Con 1.299 25 Each [Conservatism and Reform] exposes the abuses of the other...

Tran 1.349 3 What you call...your great and holy causes, seem to [Transcendentalists] great abuses...

Comp 2.111 19 All the old abuses in society...are avenged in the same manner.

NER 3.252 25 [Other reformers] attacked the system of agriculture, the use of animal manures in farming, and the tyranny of man over brute nature; these abuses polluted his food.

NER 3.263 8 In the midst of abuses...wherever, namely, a just and heroic soul finds itself, there it will do what is next at hand...

NER 3.263 22 ...the revolt against...the inveterate abuses of cities, did not appear possible to individuals;...

War 11.174 24 If the universal cry for reform of so many inveterate abuses, with which society rings...be an omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...

Schr 10.268 17 ...I prefer no action to misaction, and I reject the abusive application of the term practical to those lower activities.

Hist 2.19 10 I have seen a snow-drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower.

HDC 11.73 6 In the field where the western abutment of the old bridge [in Concord] may still be seen...the first organized resistance was made to the British arms.

PLT 12.13 25 The adepts value only the pure geometry, the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason.

ET8 5.134 13 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...

AmS 1.95 13 I...take my place in the ring...taught by an instinct that so shall the dumb abyss be vocal with speech.

MN 1.205 4 Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility?

Tran 1.331 8 Even the materialist Condillac...was constrained to say... though we should sink into the abyss...it is always our own thought that we perceive.

Comp 2.121 1 Under all this running sea of circumstance...lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being.

Cir 2.305 25 The new statement...to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism.

PNR 4.86 12 ...the connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real...

MoS 4.186 9 ...let [a man] learn...that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause...

ET14 5.250 1 [Carlyle] saw little difference in the gladiators, or the causes for which they combated; the one comfort was, that they were all going speedily into the abyss together.

WD 7.171 9 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the eye that looketh into the deeps, which again look back to the eye, abyss to abyss;-- these...are given immeasurably to all.

Prch 10.219 3 A thousand negatives [the oracle] utters...on all sides; but the sacred affirmative it hides in the deepest abyss.

ET2 5.27 20 ...in hurrying over these abysses [of the sea], whatever dangers we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of hundreds of miles every day...

SwM 4.123 27 Plato is a gownsman; his garment...is an academic robe...

ET15 5.267 17 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University, and perhaps reading law in chambers in London. Hence the academic elegance and classic allusion which adorns its columns.

Bhr 6.188 11 People masquerade before us...as academic or civil presidents...

WD 7.169 10 In college terms, and in years that followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were in a swamp, would...find the air faintly echoing with plausive academic thunders.

Edc1 10.151 8 Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope...

LLNE 10.334 12 ...not a sentence was written in academic exercises...but showed the omnipresence of [Everett's] genius to youthful heads.

Let 12.402 4 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class must be freely admitted...

SL 2.133 3 ...the years of academical and professional education have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

Int 2.333 7 I knew, in an academical club, a person who always deferred to me;...

ET12 5.206 4 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford]...he would dance for joy.

PI 8.56 2 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in... Collins's Ode to Evening, all but the last verse, which is academical.

Milt1 12.259 15 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy...where...he received social and academical honors from the learned and the great.

Cir 2.309 18 We learn first to play with [idealism] academically...

Mrs1 3.125 5 [My gentleman] is good company for pirates and good with academicians;...

WD 7.183 1 ...[the savant] observes as other academicians observe;...

DL 7.107 9 The events that occur [in the home] are more near and affecting to us than those which are sought in senates and academies.

WD 7.174 22 ...academies convene to settle the claims of the old schools.

Edc1 10.148 15 ...in education...we are continually trying costly machinery against nature, in patent schools and academies and in great colleges and universities.

PLT 12.7 8 Here are learned academies and universities, yet they have not propounded these [questions which really interest men] for any prize.

Wth 6.96 15 It is the interest of all men that there should be...Philadelphia Academies of Natural History...

Art1 2.361 20 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the place... That fact I saw again in the Academmia at Naples...

ET4 5.53 1 The portraits that hang on the walls in the Academy Exhibition at London...are distinctive English...

Clbs 7.243 11 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first...piqued the emulation of Cardinal Richelieu to rival assemblies, and so to the founding of the French Academy.

Grts 8.315 1 ...[Napoleon's] official advices are to me more literary and philosophical than the memoirs of the Academy.

Humb 11.457 13 ...a whole French Academy, travelled in [Humboldt's] shoes.

CInt 12.124 14 ...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges, which is as old as the rejection of Moliere by the French Academy...

CW 12.173 3 You know [said Linnaeus]...that I live entirely in the Academy Garden;...

Tran 1.349 24 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that...from the courtesies of the academy and the college to the conventions of the cotillon-room and the morning call, there is a spirit of cowardly compromise...

Clbs 7.238 16 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million mansions of heaven and of earth; at all tables, clubs and tete-a-tetes...the doctors in the academy...

Elo2 8.124 23 Every one has felt how superior in force is the language of the street to that of the academy.

Edc1 10.156 26 No discretion that can be lodged...with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities [in education]...

SovE 10.209 3 ...Stoicism...has now no academy...

Thor 10.472 16 ...no academy made [Thoreau] its corresponding secretary...

FRep 11.527 20 The legislature, to which every good farmer goes once on trial, is a superior academy.

PLT 12.7 18 Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each other, so vulgar...that you shall have no academy.

PPh 4.44 11 Returning to Athens, [Plato] gave lessons in the Academy...

PPh 4.70 18 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure which he has established in his Academy as the organ through which every considered opinion shall be announced...

WD 7.182 27 [The savant's] performance is a memoir to the Academy on fish-worms, tadpoles, or spiders' legs;...

Prch 10.223 20 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert, or Frenchman in the Academy.

CInt 12.113 18 You shall not put up in your Academy the statue of Caesar or Pompey...

ACri 12.287 2 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk...

ACri 12.287 8 Everybody knows the points in which the mob has the advantage of the Academy...

QO 8.199 26 ...[the individual] is no more to be credited with the grand result [of language] than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

Ill 6.309 19 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...saw every form of stalagmite and stalactite in the sculptured and fretted chambers;--icicle, orange-flower, acanthus, grapes and snowball.

Fdsp 2.209 11 Leave to the diamond its ages to grow, nor expect to accelerate the births of the eternal.

Art2 7.57 5 ...as far as [popular institutions] accelerate the end of political freedom and national education, they are preparing the soil of man for fairer flowers and fruits in another age.

FSLN 11.241 8 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of slavery] spreads...I think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day, and accelerate so far the progress of civilization.

Let 12.397 7 ...we are impatient of the tedious introductions of Destiny... and would venture something to accelerate them.

OA 7.321 17 We have, it is true, examples of an accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works;...

YA 1.374 4 ...that which expresses itself in our will is stronger than our will. We are very forward to help it, but it will not be accelerated.

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.

PLT 12.49 13 How [Intellect] moves when its pace is accelerated!

Farm 7.149 23 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation...and he deepens the soil, since the discharge of this standing water allows the roots of his plants to penetrate below the surface to the subsoil, and accelerates the ripening of the crop.

OA 7.329 16 [The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty. But every year fills some blanks, and with accelerating speed as he becomes knowing and known.

Nat2 3.195 20 They say that by electro-magnetism your salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner; it is a symbol... of our condensation and acceleration of objects;...

WD 7.183 20 ...the least acceleration of thought and the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of vast duration.

WD 7.183 24 ...the least acceleration of thought and the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of vast duration. We call it time; but when that acceleration and that deepening take effect, it acquires another and higher name.

Res 8.141 15 Life is always rapid here [in America], but what acceleration to its pulse in ten years...

PLT 12.50 11 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, and has such scope and so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb and not hereafter to become one. Well, that millennium in effect is really only a little acceleration in his process of thought.

Mem 12.108 23 The acceleration of mental process is equivalent to the lengthening of life.

ACri 12.294 21 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb, and not only hereafter to become one. Well, that millennium is really only a little acceleration in his process of thought;...

ET1 5.15 13 [Carlyle] was...self-possessed...clinging to his northern accent with evident relish;...

ET4 5.54 17 I found plenty of well-marked English types...robust men, with...a strong island speech and accent;...

DL 7.119 2 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read your heart and earnessness...

PI 8.53 11 ...Ben Jonson said that Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging.

Elo2 8.122 6 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...like Louis XI. of France, whom Comines praises for the gift of managing all minds by his accent...

MMEm 10.418 11 If ever I [Mary Moody Emerson] am blest with a social life, let the accent be grateful.

FSLN 11.222 2 ...the perfection of [Webster's] elocution, and all that thereto belongs,-voice, accent, intonation, attitude, manner,- we shall not soon find again.

OS 2.294 24 [Man] must greatly listen to himself, withdrawing himself from all the accents of other men's devotion.

Elo2 8.109 5 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/ Seemed, when at last his clarion accents broke/ As if the conscience of the country spoke./

FSLN 11.216 3 We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/

Nat 1.69 26 ...we accept the sentence of Plato, that poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

AmS 1.82 10 ...I accept the topic which not only usage but the nature of our association seem to prescribe to this day...

AmS 1.89 12 Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke...have given;...

AmS 1.101 10 Worse yet, [the scholar] must accept...poverty and solitude.

DSA 1.127 6 ...on [another soul's] word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

DSA 1.131 7 Accept the injurious impositions of our early catechetical instruction, and even honesty and self-denial were but splendid sins...

DSA 1.131 23 ...you must accept our interpretations...

LE 1.175 18 ...accept the hint of shame...which true nature gives you...

LE 1.186 18 Neither dogmatize, nor accept another's dogmatism.

MN 1.221 13 Accept the intellect, and it will accept us.

MN 1.221 14 Accept the intellect, and it will accept us.

LT 1.268 8 Here is the innumerable multitude of those who accept the state and the church from the last generation...

SR 2.47 13 Accept the place the divine providence has found for you...

SR 2.47 21 ...we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny;...

SL 2.139 7 [The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature that we prosper when we accept its advice...

SL 2.151 23 [The world] will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being...

SL 2.159 1 Never a magnanimity fell to the ground, but there is some heart to greet and accept it unexpectedly.

Prd1 2.226 26 ...let [a man] accept and hive every fact of chemistry, natural history and economics;...

Prd1 2.233 23 Is it not better that a man should accept the first pains and mortifications of this sort...as hints that he must expect no other good than the just fruit of his own labor and self-denial?

Hsm1 2.259 17 Let the maiden, with erect soul...accept the hint of each new experience...

OS 2.278 2 [The best minds] accept [truth] thankfully everywhere...

OS 2.296 4 The saints and demigods whom history worships we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance.

Cir 2.319 18 ...the man and woman of seventy...accept the actual for the necessary...

Int 2.342 1 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed...he meets...

Int 2.343 15 Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of whom seems at the time to have a superlative influence, but it at last gives place to a new. Frankly let him accept it all.

Exp 3.62 5 I accept the clangor and jangle of contrary tendencies.

Chr1 3.100 1 It is much that [the ingenious man] does not accept the conventional opinions and practices.

Mrs1 3.133 13 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities...

Pol1 3.210 6 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for facilitating in every manner the access of the young and the poor to the sources of wealth and power. But he can rarely accept the persons whom the so-called popular party propose to him as representatives of these liberalities.

NER 3.279 11 The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion... is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because...he feels that you have it not.

UGM 4.14 16 ...I accept the saying of the Chinese Mencius: A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

MoS 4.176 27 ...is no community of sentiment discoverable in distant times and places? And when it shows the power of self-interest, I accept that as part of the divine law...

MoS 4.178 12 ...we may come to accept it as the fixed rule and theory of our state of education, that God is a substance, and his method is illusion.

GoW 4.276 20 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil]. He shall be real;...he shall dress like a gentleman, and accept the manners...

ET5 5.75 10 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...had managed to make the victor speak the language and accept the law and usage of the victim;...

ET7 5.122 26 Lord Collingwood would not accept his medal for victory on 14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for victory on 1st June, 1794;...

ET13 5.227 10 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?

ET13 5.227 12 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?

ET14 5.247 3 Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe,--more's the pity, he thinks,--but 't is not for us to be wiser; we must renounce ideals and accept London.

ET14 5.252 6 Every one of [the Englishmen] is a thousand years old and lives by his memory: and when you say this, they accept it as praise.

F 6.3 17 'T is fine for us to speculate and elect our course, if we must accept an irresistible dictation.

F 6.4 5 If we must accept Fate, we are not less compelled to affirm liberty...

F 6.27 25 ...when souls reach a certain clearness of perception they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness.

F 6.49 3 If in the least particular one could derange the order of nature,- who would accept the gift of life?

Wth 6.105 6 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills, the people at Manchester...are forced into the highway...

Ill 6.320 4 One after the other we accept the mental laws...

SS 7.16 4 ...a sound mind will derive its principles from insight...and will accept society as the natural element in which they are to be applied.

Elo1 7.98 10 Napoleon, even, must accept and use [the moral element] as he can.

Elo1 7.98 18 ...I do not accept that definition of Isocrates, that the office of his art [of eloquence] is to make the great small and the small great;...

Clbs 7.236 7 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people...and at least silencing those who were not generous enough to accept his thoughts.

Cour 7.277 7 If you accept your thoughts as inspirations from the Supreme Intelligence, obey them when they prescribe difficult duties...

SA 8.96 3 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... Then you...will never accept the counterfeit again.

SA 8.96 7 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will accept the fertile truth, instead of the solemn customary lie.

PPo 8.248 7 We accept the religions and politics into which we fall...

PPo 8.256 22 Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow from thy locks;/ Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;/...

Insp 8.292 3 When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy.

Grts 8.310 22 ...if the first rule is...to accept the work for which you were inwardly formed,-the second rule is concentration...

Dem1 10.12 19 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.

Aris 10.61 6 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well; but in the absence of his colleagues and in the presence of mean people he is tempted to accept the low customs of towns.

Aris 10.63 15 Let [the man of honor] accept the position of armed neutrality...

PerF 10.69 6 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks...and a third who can run a hundred leagues in half an hour; so man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can accept harder stints than these...

SovE 10.196 18 The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

LS 11.18 23 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully; but the thanks he offers, and which an exalted being will accept, are not compliments, commemorations...

HDC 11.77 27 ...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern army, at Ticonderoga...

War 11.162 17 All admit that [peace] would be the best policy...if all would agree to accept this rule.

War 11.167 21 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace] for better, for worse, carry it out to the end, and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle...

FSLC 11.183 24 I cannot accept the railroad and telegraph in exchange for reason and charity.

JBS 11.278 25 ...I incline to accept [John Brown's] own account of the matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little older, when he said, This was all settled millions of years before the world was made.

Wom 11.405 21 ...Coleridge was wont to apply to a lady for her judgment in questions of taste, and accept it;...

PLT 12.6 24 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.

PLT 12.38 19 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published...in conversation...of men of the world, and at last in the very choruses of songs. The young hear it, and...they accept it...

II 12.75 1 ...the ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

CInt 12.127 16 You all well know...the facility with which men renounce their youthful aims...and they accept the employments of the market.

MAng1 12.235 16 [Michelangelo] required that he should be permitted to accept this work [building St. Peter's] without any fee or reward...

Milt1 12.273 6 [Milton] would...support preachers by voluntary contributions; requiring that such only should preach as have faith enough to accept so self-denying and precarious a mode of life...

ACri 12.304 23 When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek vase, I incline to accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits than any other people.

AmS 1.103 24 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable...

Gts 3.160 6 Fruits are acceptable gifts...

Elo2 8.112 19 ...the political questions...find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures, and make them intelligible and acceptable to the electors.

SovE 10.190 5 ...every wish, appetite and passion rushes into act and... protects itself with laws. Some of them are useful and universally acceptable...

Plu 10.316 5 This courteous, gentle and benign disposition and behavior is not so acceptable, so obliging or delightful to any of those with whom we converse, as it is to those who have it.

MMEm 10.428 9 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I [Mary Moody Emerson] rose,-I felt that I...had promised [God] in youth that to be a blot on this fair world, at His command, would be acceptable.

CInt 12.130 11 Attention is [the intellect's] acceptable prayer.

Wth 6.112 13 Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work, and not its acceptableness.

MN 1.220 10 ...not men's acceptance of our doing, but the spirit's holy errand through us absorbed the thought.

MN 1.221 27 If you say, The acceptance of the vision is also the act of God:-I shall not seek to penetrate the mystery...

MR 1.233 27 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...an acceptance of customs...

MR 1.252 13 An acceptance of the sentiment of love throughout Christendom for a season would bring the felon and the outcast to our side in tears...

Cir 2.309 12 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by...his alert acceptance of [truth] from whatever quarter;...

Nat2 3.193 13 The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him.

Wsp 6.218 13 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius...

DL 7.117 3 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must come in connection with a true acceptance by each man of his vocation...

OA 7.333 1 I asked [John Adams] if Mr. [John Quincy] Adams's letter of acceptance had been read to him.

Prch 10.228 12 Mankind have been subdued to the acceptance of [Jesus's] doctrine...

Schr 10.267 14 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not...an acceptance of the method and frauds of other men;...

Schr 10.268 22 ...the scholar finds in [the practical men] unlooked-for acceptance of his most paradoxical experience.

FSLN 11.217 11 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation.

ALin 11.333 14 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but as jests; and only later, by the very acceptance and adoption they find in the mouths of millions, turn out to be the wisdom of the hour.

FRep 11.529 8 As the globe keeps its identity by perpetual change, so our civil system, by perpetual appeal to the people and acceptance of its reforms.

SL 2.151 17 It is a maxim worthy of all acceptation that a man may have that allowance he takes.

CbW 6.247 5 Fine society, in the common acceptation, has neither ideas nor aims.

AmS 1.89 9 Books are written on [a book]...by men of talent, that is...who set out from accepted dogmas...

Nat2 3.193 11 The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him.

Aris 10.32 15 It will not pain me if I am found now and then to rove from the accepted and historic, to a theoretic peerage;...

Plu 10.297 16 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what Chaucer is among English poets...a compend of all accepted traditions.

PLT 12.31 10 The temptation is to patronize Providence, to fall into the accepted ways of talking and acting of the good sort of people.

DSA 1.141 7 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men...who...have not accepted from others...the genuine impulses of virtue...

Int 2.327 24 In the period of infancy [the mind] accepted and disposed of all impressions...

UGM 4.16 11 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence. This honor...genius perpetually pays; contented if now and then in a century the proffer is accepted.

UGM 4.16 19 These [new fields of activity] are at once accepted as the reality...

PPh 4.44 3 [Plato]...accepted the invitations of Dion and of Dionysius to the court of Sicily...

ShP 4.208 16 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...which not your experience but the man within the breast has accepted as words of fate, and tell me if they match;...

ET3 5.35 12 If there be one test of national genius universally accepted, it is success;...

ET12 5.202 22 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo. This inestimable prize was offered to Oxford University for seven thousand pounds. The offer was accepted...

Bhr 6.173 2 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners--forms accepted by the sense of all--can reach...

Ill 6.320 6 One after the other we accept the mental laws, still resisting those which follow, which however must be accepted.

WD 7.167 8 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun...indicating that those ancient men, in their attempts to express the Supreme Power of the universe, called him the Day, and that this name was accepted by all the tribes.

Aris 10.52 22 Genius...has a royal right in all possessions and privileges. being itself representative and accepted by all men as their delegate.

SovE 10.193 24 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life...

LLNE 10.338 18 [Goethe] extended [his theory of metamorphosis] into anatomy and animal life, and his views were accepted.

GSt 10.506 14 ...if [George Stearns] could not bring his associates to adopt his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness the next best measure which could secure their assent.

LS 11.16 17 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it? Here it stands, generally accepted...

HDC 11.81 19 The constitution of Massachusetts had been already accepted.

HDC 11.82 2 In 1780, a constitution of the State [Massachusetts]...was accepted by the town [Concord]...

HDC 11.82 5 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its delegate, accepted the new Constitution of the United States...

EWI 11.114 16 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In the island of Antigua...these objections had such weight that the legislature... adopted absolute emancipation. In the other islands the system of the Ministry was accepted.

EWI 11.127 8 ...[British merchants] hastened to make the best of their position, and accepted the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies].

FSLC 11.179 1 Fellow Citizens: I accepted your invitation to speak to you on the great question of these days, with very little consideration of what I might have to offer...

TPar 11.286 9 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of duty, or accepted nobly that assigned him in his rare constitution.

PLT 12.21 16 ...having accepted this law of identity pervading the universe, we next perceive that whilst every creature represents and obeys it, there is diversity...

Bost 12.205 8 [The people of Massachusetts] accepted the divine ordination that man is for use;...

EurB 12.367 23 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet...

Let 12.395 14 Another objection [to Communities] seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate. Is it, he writes, a too great wilfulness and intermeddling with life,-which is better accepted than calculated?

Pow 6.58 3 ...in both men and women [there is] a deeper and more important sex of mind, name