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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

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Acclimate to Acta Sanctorum

 

acclimate, v. (1)

    Art1 2.349 21 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate/...

accommodate, v. (3)

    Comp 2.101 17 ...each [occupation, trade, art, transaction] must somehow accommodate the whole man and recite all his destiny.
    FRep 11.514 16 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title...to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;-that is a principle, and all the cheering and hissing of the crowd must by and by accommodate itself to it.
    Milt1 12.278 3 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...

accommodated, v. (1)

    Chr2 10.104 19 Every particular instruction...is accommodated to humble and gross minds...

accommodates, v. (2)

    ET14 5.241 26 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...[Bacon's] doctrine of poetry, which accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
    PI 8.20 2 Bacon expressed the same sense in his definition, Poetry accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind;...

accommodating, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.272 16 [Milton] sought absolute truth, not accomodating truth.

accommodation, n. (7)

    Con 1.295 9 The battle...of old usage and accommodation to new facts... reappears in all countries and times.
    OS 2.275 17 ...there is a kind of descent and accommodation felt when we leave speaking of moral nature to urge a virtue which it enjoins.
    MoS 4.180 23 Some minds are incapable of skepticism. The doubts they profess to entertain are rather a civility or accommodation to the common discourse of their company.
    ET6 5.104 9 The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns and on the roads;...
    CbW 6.267 4 Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance;...
    HDC 11.34 1 [The pilgrims'] first temporary accommodation was rude enough.
    HDC 11.54 22 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that the new plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large accommodations...

accommodations, n. (2)

    ET14 5.249 7 Even in [Coleridge], the traditional Englishman was too strong for the philosopher, and he fell into accommodations;...
    F 6.41 11 ...insane persons are indifferent to their dress, diet, and other accommodations...

accompanied, v. (11)

    Nat 1.45 19 ...the eye...is always accompanied by these forms, male and female;...
    SwM 4.122 19 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him all day, accompanied him even into sleep and dreams;...
    ET6 5.112 14 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied him with her voice.
    ET16 5.288 10 On the way to Winchester, whither our host accompanied us in the afternoon, my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses...
    ET17 5.293 22 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days...one at the Museum...and still another, on which Mr. [Richard] Owen accompanied my countryman Mr. H[illard]. and myself through the Hunterian Museum.
    ET17 5.294 11 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau, then newly returned from her Egyptian tour. On Sunday afternoon I accompanied her to Rydal Mount.
    Cour 7.262 4 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was overpowered with fear...
    QO 8.190 25 Original power is usually accompanied with assimilating power...
    PC 8.222 19 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...
    FSLN 11.227 25 ...the decision of Webster [for the Fugitive Slave Law] was accompanied with everything offensive to freedom and good morals.
    ACri 12.297 2 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a perfect, plain style, from which he can soar to a fine, lyric delicacy, or descend to coarsest sarcasm, without losing his firm footing. This flower of speech is accompanied with an assurance of fame.

accompanies, v. (3)

    Suc 7.295 25 How often it seems the chief good to be born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race. Such a man feels himself...conscious by his receptivity of an infinite strength. Like Alfred, good fortune accompanies him like a gift of God.
    CSC 10.376 14 ...[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...
    CL 12.157 22 Every acquisition we make in the science of beauty is so sweet that I think it is cheaply paid for by what accompanies it, of course, the prating and affectation of connoisseurship.

accompaniment, n. (3)

    SwM 4.97 12 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease.
    Art2 7.53 3 Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty that it has been taken for it.
    EWI 11.145 7 ...in the great anthem which we call history...after playing a long time a very low and subdued accompaniment, [the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...

accompany, v. (8)

    Comp 2.103 10 The specific stripes may follow late after the offence, but they follow because they accompany it.
    NER 3.276 12 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time to undervalue what he has valued...
    ET14 5.250 21 There is in the action of [James Wilkinson's] mind a long Atlantic roll...only lacking what ought to accompany such powers, a manifest centrality.
    F 6.42 11 A man will see his character emitted in the events...which exude from and accompany him.
    Pow 6.53 8 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers...
    CbW 6.246 8 We accompany the youth with sympathy and manifold old sayings of the wise to the gate of the arena...
    Imtl 8.327 17 We shall pass to the future existence as we enter into an agreeable dream. All nature will accompany us there.
    Edc1 10.126 19 The animals that accompany and serve man make no progress as races.

accompanying, adj. (1)

    SovE 10.198 3 ...Religion is the accompanying emotion, the emotion of reverence which the presence of the universal mind ever excites in the individual.

accompanying, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.26 16 The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.

accomplice, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.211 15 There is at least this satisfaction in crime, according to the Latin proverb;--you can speak to your accomplice on even terms.
    Insp 8.268 9 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.

accomplices, n. (1)

    AKan 11.259 15 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...and we free statesmen, as accomplices to the guilt, ever in the power of the grand offender.

accomplish, v. (17)

    MR 1.254 16 Love...will accomplish that by imperceptible methods...which force could never achieve.
    LT 1.278 16 To the youth...the temptation is always great to lend himself to public movements, and as one of a party accomplish what he cannot hope to effect alone.
    Con 1.324 3 [The hero's] greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto the end...
    SR 2.61 8 Every true man...requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;...
    GoW 4.285 27 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the expression of the idea... that a man exists...not for what he can accomplish, but for what can be accomplished in him.
    ET10 5.159 21 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago.
    ET14 5.249 3 ...the misfortune of [Coleridge's] life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings, failing to accomplish any one masterpiece,-- seems to mark the closing of an era.
    Civ 7.30 2 To accomplish anything excellent the will must work for catholic and universal ends.
    Elo1 7.77 21 ...any swindlers we have known are novices and bunglers, as is attested by their ill name. A greater power of face would accomplish anything...
    Suc 7.290 2 ...Nature utilizes misers, fanatics, show-men, egotists, to accomplish her ends;...
    Grts 8.307 7 ...none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
    LLNE 10.333 15 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of defying experiment of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or Rabbinical words;-feats which no man could better accomplish...
    FSLC 11.208 2 [Abolition] is really the project fit for this country to entertain and accomplish.
    FSLC 11.208 18 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property [slaves] of the planters...
    Wom 11.426 19 ...whatever the woman's heart is prompted to desire, the man's mind is simultaneously prompted to accomplish.
    CInt 12.124 24 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed...by some available plan that will give weekly and annual results; and a little violence must be done to private genius to accomplish this.
    MAng1 12.229 5 ...what did [Michelangelo] accomplish?

accomplished, adj. (26)

    Tran 1.345 3 ...the richly accomplished [nature] will have some capital absurdity;...
    YA 1.387 3 It is only their dislike of the pretender, which makes men sometimes unjust to the accomplished man.
    OS 2.287 11 The great distinction...between men of the world who are reckoned accomplished talkers...and a fervent mystic...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    Int 2.340 23 We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature.
    Chr1 3.101 22 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform...
    MoS 4.163 4 ...I became acquainted with an accomplished English poet, John Sterling;...
    ET9 5.150 16 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable and accomplished gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET11 5.186 24 [The English upper classes] have...the power to command... the presence of the most accomplished men in their festive meetings.
    ET11 5.187 14 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon; a midway heaven, fulfilling to their sense their fairy tales and poetry. This, just as far as the breeding of the nobleman really made him brave, handsome, accomplished and great-hearted.
    Wsp 6.230 26 ...none is accomplished so long as any are incomplete;...
    CbW 6.249 15 I do not wish any mass at all, but honest men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only...
    Bty 6.296 23 French memoires of the sixteenth century celebrate the name of Pauline de Viguier, a virtuous and accomplished maiden...
    Clbs 7.244 13 It was a pathetic experience when a genial and accomplished person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a chair for me.
    Aris 10.31 23 It is not to be a man of rank, but a man of honor, accomplished in all arts and generosities, which seems to [the best young men] the right mark and the true chief of our modern society.
    SovE 10.207 27 ...the most accomplished culture, or rapt holiness, never exhausted the claim of these lowly duties...
    LLNE 10.363 18 There [at Brook Farm] was the accomplished Doctor of Music [John S. Dwight]...
    LLNE 10.366 14 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent. Thus Mr. Ripley told Theodore Parker, There is your accomplished friend---: he would hoe corn all Sunday if I would let him, but all Massachusetts could not make him do it on Monday.
    EWI 11.133 24 ...whilst our very amiable and very innocent representatives...at Washington are accomplished lawyers and merchants... there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
    FSLN 11.219 15 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of...accomplished men...but men without self-respect...
    Wom 11.409 12 ...a refined and accomplished woman was a being almost new to [Burns]...
    RBur 11.439 4 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that, in this accomplished circle, it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    MAng1 12.240 5 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most accomplished lady of the time...
    Milt1 12.248 17 ...[Milton]...obtained great respect from his contemporaries as an accomplished scholar and a formidable pamphleteer.
    MLit 12.330 19 I am [in Wilhelm Meister]...instructed in the possibility of a highly accomplished society...
    WSL 12.338 12 Transfer these traits to a very elegant and accomplished mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter Savage Landor...
    PPr 12.379 11 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker...

accomplished, v. (19)

    LT 1.277 6 The young men who have been vexing society for these last years with regenerative methods...all failed to see that the Reform of Reforms must be accomplished without means.
    SR 2.86 15 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin...
    Exp 3.46 12 In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished...
    PPh 4.58 16 ...[Plato] believes that poetry, prophecy and the high insight are from a wisdom of which man is not master;...but by a celestial mania these miracles are accomplished.
    NMW 4.239 8 There have been many working kings...but none who accomplished a tithe of this man's [Napoleon's] performance.
    NMW 4.247 3 We can not...sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who...showed us how much may be accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all men possess in less degrees;...
    GoW 4.286 1 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the expression of the idea...that a man exists...not for what he can accomplish, but for what can be accomplished in him.
    OA 7.320 26 ...he who has accomplished something in any department alone deserves to be heard on that subject.
    Insp 8.274 21 Plato...notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect...
    PerF 10.79 22 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years... brought up the stock of his mills to par, and then sold out his interest, having accomplished the reform that was required.
    Edc1 10.127 10 Victory over things is the office of man. Of course, until it is accomplished, it is the war and insult of things over him.
    Thor 10.478 13 [Thoreau] thought that without religion or devotion of some kind nothing great was ever accomplished...
    War 11.171 4 ...[peace] is to be accomplished by the spontaneous teaching, of the cultivated soul, in its secret experience and meditation,-that it is now time that it should pass out of the state of beast into the state of man;...
    ALin 11.330 4 ...acclamations of praise for the task [Lincoln] had accomplished burst out into a song of triumph...
    FRep 11.539 15 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time. I believe this cannot be accomplished by dunces or idlers...
    PLT 12.23 2 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy; a presumption inflamed, as the lawyers say, by observing how many faces in the street still remind us of visages in the forest,-the escape from the quadruped type not yet perfectly accomplished.
    Bost 12.202 21 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but...the men who are never contented and never to be contented with the work actually accomplished...
    MAng1 12.215 6 [Michelangelo] accomplished extraordinary works;...
    Milt1 12.258 6 ...in his essay on Education, [Milton] doubts whether, in the fine days of spring, any study can be accomplished by young men.

accomplishes, v. (2)

    Chr1 3.90 11 What others effect by talent or by eloquence, this man [of character] accomplishes by some magnetism.
    Farm 7.149 15 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles...

accomplishing, v. (1)

    Pray 12.355 15 Wilt thou give me strength to persevere in this great work of redemption. Wilt thou show me the true means of accomplishing it.

accomplishment, n. (8)

    MN 1.203 5 ...remote aims are in active accomplishment.
    PPh 4.64 20 [Plato] delighted in every accomplishment...
    DL 7.129 8 ...when men shall meet as they should...each a benefactor...so rich with deeds, with thoughts, with so much accomplishment,--it shall be the festival of Nature...
    Clbs 7.241 6 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment almost inevitably guides into the vortex of ambition... whom we now consider.
    SA 8.93 23 ...Luther commends that accomplishment of pure German speech of his wife.
    LLNE 10.362 22 ...[Charles Newcomb's] mind [was] fed and overfed by whatever is exalted in genius, whether...in Drama or Music, or in social accomplishment and elegancy;...
    FSLN 11.240 17 ...freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
    FRep 11.537 15 The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment...

accomplishments, n. (28)

    LE 1.164 21 In order to a knowledge of the resources of the scholar, we must not rest in the use of slender accomplishments...
    LE 1.177 23 [The scholar's]...accomplishments, are keys that open to him the beautiful museum of human life.
    LE 1.187 5 ...Ask not...Who is the better for the philosopher who conceals his accomplishments...
    MR 1.236 19 We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments...in the work of our hands.
    SL 2.150 12 Persons approach us, famous...for their accomplishments... with very imperfect result.
    Fdsp 2.195 20 I must feel pride in my friends's accomplishments...
    OS 2.279 7 In my dealing with my child...my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing;...
    Chr1 3.111 18 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor... clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be a festival of nature which all things announce.
    MoS 4.158 23 ...I cannot forgive you the want of accomplishments;...
    GoW 4.269 4 ...men are cordial in their recognition and welcome of the intellectual accomplishments.
    Ctr 6.143 13 These minor skills and accomplishments...are tickets of admission to the dress-circle of mankind...
    Bhr 6.170 22 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
    CbW 6.259 25 The youth is charmed with the fine air and accomplishments of the children of fortune.
    Elo1 7.75 4 These accomplishments [of eloquence] are of the same kind, and only a degree higher than the coaxing of the auctioneer...
    Elo1 7.80 7 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons. His clients pay not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments...
    DL 7.112 23 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If all are well attended, then must the master and mistress be studious of particulars at the cost of their own accomplishments and growth;...
    SA 8.83 4 We think a man unable and desponding. It is only that he is misplaced. Put him with new companions, and they will find in him... unsuspected accomplishments...
    SA 8.101 4 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men, adorned with dignity and accomplishments.
    Supl 10.174 18 We are fond of dress, of ornament, of accomplishments, of talents...
    MoL 10.256 4 I distrust all the legends of great accomplishments or performance of unprincipled men.
    Schr 10.266 13 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority.
    Schr 10.276 24 ...I own I love talents and accomplishments;...
    Schr 10.278 20 In making this claim of costly accomplishments for the scholar, I chiefly wish to infer the dignity of his work by the lustre of his appointments.
    LLNE 10.362 14 In and around Brook Farm, whether as members, boarders or visitors, were many remarkable persons, for character, intellect or accomplishments.
    MMEm 10.413 9 [I, Mary Moody Emerson] Met a lady in the morning walk, a foreigner,-conversed on the accomplishments of Miss T.
    ALin 11.330 13 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...no frivolous accomplishments...
    Milt1 12.262 14 ...as basis or fountain of his rare physical and intellectual accomplishments, the man Milton was just and devout.
    MLit 12.322 1 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor,-a man... whose genius and accomplishments deserve a wiser criticism than we have yet seen applied to them...

accord, n. (5)

    ET14 5.260 15 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations, of genius and of animal force...forever by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.
    Bty 6.293 8 It is necessary in music, when you strike a discord, to let down the ear by an intermediate note or two to the accord again;...
    Chr2 10.121 22 In perfect accord with [Goethe], Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.
    LS 11.21 17 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence;...
    FRO1 11.477 11 I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which we have heard. To many...I have found so much in accord with my own thought that I have little left to say.

accord, v. (3)

    Pray 12.350 17 ...we seldom have the prayer otherwise than it can be inferred from the man and his fortunes, which are the answer to the prayer, and always accord with it.
    Pray 12.354 5 The next [prayer] is in a metrical form. It is the aspiration of a different mind, in quite other regions of power and duty, yet they all accord at last.
    Let 12.397 25 More letters we have on the subject of the position of young men, which accord well enough with what we see and hear.

accordance, n. (3)

    ET15 5.261 2 The power of the newspaper is familiar in America, and in accordance with our political system.
    LS 11.16 12 On every other subject [than the Lord's Supper] succeeding times have learned to form a judgment more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.
    MLit 12.313 18 We say, in accordance with the general view I have stated, that the single soul feels its right to be no longer confounded with numbers...

accordant, adj. (1)

    CInt 12.119 15 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song, just as a powerful note of an organ sets all tuned strings in its neighborhood in accordant vibration...

accorded, v. (7)

    YA 1.394 7 ...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.
    ET7 5.123 2 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; and the long withholden medal was accorded.
    ET16 5.276 21 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
    Ctr 6.157 19 The poet, as a craftsman, is only interested in the praise accorded to him...
    Art2 7.50 7 The first time you hear [good poetry], it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet. The feeling of all great poets has accorded with this.
    PC 8.222 4 When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise; we were found already prepared for it. The fact stated accorded with the auguries or divinations of the human mind.
    FSLC 11.201 27 [Webster] must learn...that those to whom his name was once dear and honored, as the manly statesman to whom the choicest gifts of Nature had been accorded, disown him...

according, adv. (103)

    Nat 1.55 8 The problem of philosophy, according to Plato, is, for all that exists conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute.
    LT 1.273 27 ...a [wealthy] man may say his religion...is become a dividual moveable, and goes and comes near him, according as that good man frequents the house.
    LT 1.286 25 We have come to that which is the spring of all power...and who shall tell us according to what law its inspirations and its informations are given or witholden?
    Con 1.312 24 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert...
    Tran 1.337 11 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man exerts the sovereign right which the majesty of his being confers on him;...
    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.
    SL 2.134 12 According to the faith of their times [men of an extraordinary success] have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny...
    SL 2.148 23 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids another, according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself...
    SL 2.161 19 The epochs of our life are...in a thought which...says,--Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus. And all our after years...according to their ability execute its will.
    Lov1 2.184 1 ...things are ever grouping themselves according to higher or more interior laws.
    Fdsp 2.211 14 There is at least this satisfaction in crime, according to the Latin proverb;--you can speak to your accomplice on even terms.
    Art1 2.351 6 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and fine arts, if we employ the popular distinction of works according to their aim either at use or beauty.
    Art1 2.354 1 Shall I now add that the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke drawn in the portrait of that fate...according to whose ordinations all beings advance to their beatitude?
    Pt1 3.21 7 [The poet] uses forms according to the life, and not according to the form.
    Pt1 3.24 14 [The sculptor] rose one day, according to his habit, before dawn...
    Exp 3.45 7 ...the Genius which according to the old belief stands at the door by which we enter, and gives us the lethe to drink, that we may tell no tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
    Chr1 3.95 16 All individual natures stand in a scale, according to the purity of this element [truth] in them.
    Chr1 3.98 15 Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person...
    Chr1 3.101 5 All things work exactly according to their quality and according to their quantity;...
    Chr1 3.101 6 All things work exactly according to their quality and according to their quantity;...
    Chr1 3.108 13 None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice...
    Mrs1 3.132 1 ...the countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
    Nat2 3.182 10 ...according to the skill of the eye, from any one object the parts and properties of any other may be predicted.
    Pol1 3.203 12 ...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 3.220 8 ...according to the order of nature...it stands thus; there will always be a government of force where men are selfish;...
    NR 3.237 1 Everything must have its flower or effort at the beautiful, coarser or finer according to its stuff.
    NR 3.243 5 ...according to our nature [things and persons] act on us not at once but in succession...
    NER 3.271 2 I think, according to the good-hearted word of Plato, Unwillingly the soul is deprived of truth.
    PPh 4.57 21 According to the old sentence, If Jove should descend to the earth, he would speak in the style of Plato.
    PPh 4.69 25 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful.
    SwM 4.96 15 ...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind, or according to the common phrase has learned, one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
    SwM 4.108 15 This new spine [the skull] is destined to high uses. It is a new man on the shoulders of the last. It can almost shed its trunk and manage to live alone, according to the Platonic idea in the Timaeus.
    SwM 4.125 2 [To Swedenborg] All things in the universe arrange themselves to each person anew, according to his ruling love.
    SwM 4.126 17 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends. And the truly poetic account of the writing in the inmost heaven, which, as it consists of inflexions according to the form of heaven, can be read without instruction.
    SwM 4.138 10 Evil, according to old philosophers, is good in the making.
    ShP 4.203 5 If it need wit to know wit, according to the proverb, Shakspeare's time should be capable of recognizing it.
    NMW 4.229 25 [The art of war] consisted, according to [Bonaparte], in having always more forces than the enemy, on the point where the enemy is attacked, or where he attacks...
    ET1 5.11 11 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul,--the doctrine of the Trinity, which was also according to Philo Judaeus the doctrine of the Jews before Christ, this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
    ET2 5.32 10 Sea-days are long--these lack-lustre, joyless days which whistled over us; but they were few--only fifteen, as the captain counted, sixteen according to me.
    ET3 5.41 6 The sea, which, according to Virgil's famous line, divided the poor Britons utterly from the world, proved to be the ring of marriage with all nations.
    ET4 5.73 9 ...rich Englishmen have followed [William the Conqueror's] example, according to their ability...in encroaching on the tillage and commons with their game-preserves.
    ET8 5.138 4 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman...
    ET8 5.140 7 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...for whatever turned up, he...never slept less nor more on account of them, nor ate nor drank but according to his custom.
    ET9 5.150 17 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET10 5.153 12 Haydon says, There is a fierce resolution [in England] to make every man live according to the means he possesses.
    ET12 5.210 8 ...education, according to the English notion of it, is arrived at [at Oxford].
    F 6.21 3 ...if we give it the high sense in which the poets use it, even thought itself is not above Fate; that too must act according to eternal laws...
    F 6.39 5 ...the first cell converts itself into stomach, mouth, nose, or nail, according to the want;...
    F 6.41 6 The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it...
    F 6.41 7 The pleasure of life is...not according to the work or the place.
    Wth 6.90 2 ...according to the excellence of the machinery in each human being is his attraction for the instruments he is to employ.
    CbW 6.258 14 ...according to the old oracle, the Furies are the bonds of men;...
    Ill 6.325 1 In a crowded life of many parts and performers...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer, and, according to his election, he fixes his fortune in absolute Nature.
    Civ 7.23 5 ...the multiplication of the arts of peace, which is nothing but a large allowance to each man to choose his work according to his faculty... fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...
    Art2 7.39 20 If we follow the popular distinction of works according to their aim, we should say, the Spirit, in its creation, aims at use or at beauty...
    WD 7.178 3 ...though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it...
    Boks 7.215 21 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party.
    SA 8.84 15 When a stranger comes to buy goods of you, do you not look in his face and answer according to what you read there?
    Comc 8.163 12 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity,--they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice...
    Comc 8.168 24 ...according to Latin poetry and English doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./
    QO 8.193 1 It is no more according to Plato than according to me.
    QO 8.194 19 The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader.
    PC 8.220 12 ...power obeys reality, and not appearance; according to quality, and not quantity.
    PPo 8.254 23 Give me what you will; I eat thistles as roses,/ And according to my food I grow and I give./
    Insp 8.274 23 Plato...notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect, and a life according to the things themselves.
    Insp 8.277 19 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here, nor was there any time to consider how to set it punctually down according to the right understanding of the letters, but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit...
    Insp 8.277 20 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit...
    Dem1 10.14 17 As I was once travelling by the Red Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named Masollam...according to the testimony of all the Greeks and barbarians, a very skilful archer.
    PerF 10.76 16 ...[man's] his ability and performance are according to his reception of these various streams of force.
    PerF 10.84 13 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God. Thus is the world delivered into your hand, but on two conditions,-not for property, but for use, use according to the noble nature of the gifts; and...not for self-indulgence.
    Chr2 10.108 5 ...So far the religion is now where it should be. Persons...are discriminated according to their aims, and not by these ritualities.
    Edc1 10.158 26 According to the depth from which you draw your life, such is the depth not only of your strenuous effort, but of your manners and presence.
    SovE 10.197 27 ...every act is not hereafter but instantaneously rewarded according to its quality.
    Schr 10.270 11 ...all the human race have agreed to value a man according to his power of expression.
    LLNE 10.335 3 ...[works of talent] are more or less matured in every degree of completeness according to the time bestowed on them...
    LLNE 10.352 22 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual, they seek to realize in the surrounding world.
    LLNE 10.353 19 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in obedience to [a man's] most private being he finds himself, according to his presentiment... acting in strict concert with all others who followed their private light.
    MMEm 10.421 11 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing; according to Adam Smith's idea of society, done nothing;...
    LS 11.25 1 [The pastoral office] has some [duties] which it will always be my delight to discharge according to my ability...
    EWI 11.110 10 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.
    EWI 11.136 23 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...infinitely attractive to every person according to the degree of reason in his own mind...
    War 11.161 4 [The idea that there can be peace as well as war] is expounded, illustrated, defined, with different degrees of clearness; and its actualization...predicted according to the light of each seer.
    War 11.165 13 We surround ourselves always, according to our freedom and ability, with true images of ourselves in things...
    FSLC 11.205 17 [The destiny of this country] is to be administered according to what is, and is to be...
    FSLC 11.205 18 [The destiny of this country] is to be administered according to what is, and is to be, and not according to what is dead and gone.
    ALin 11.334 14 This man [Lincoln] grew according to the need.
    Wom 11.405 18 ...according to the rule, take [women's] first advice, not the second...
    Wom 11.424 12 If you do refuse [women] a vote, you will also refuse to tax them,-according to our Teutonic principle, No representation, no tax.
    Wom 11.424 25 When new opinions appear, they will be entertained and respected, by every fair mind, according to their reasonableness...
    Wom 11.424 26 When new opinions appear, they will be entertained and respected, by every fair mind, according to their reasonableness, and not according to their convenience...
    SHC 11.434 13 What is the Earth itself but...according to the Eastern fable, a bridge full of holes, into one or other of which all passengers sink to silence?
    FRep 11.521 5 We are all living according to custom;...
    PLT 12.32 3 ...each tree can secrete from the soil the elements that form a peach, a lemon, or a cocoa-nut, according to its kind...
    Mem 12.107 17 We forget also according to beautiful laws.
    CInt 12.124 20 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed, not according to the secret needs of each mind but by some available plan that will give weekly and annual results;...
    CInt 12.131 10 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived, that every scholar...must hear the questions proposed, and answer them by himself, and receive honor or dishonor according to the fidelity shown.
    CL 12.147 7 According to the common estimate of farmers, the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....
    Bost 12.183 14 ...from every stratum a different aroma and air according to its quality.
    Bost 12.183 14 According to quality and according to temperature, [the air] must have effect on manners.
    Bost 12.183 15 According to quality and according to temperature, [the air] must have effect on manners.
    Milt1 12.263 21 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.
    Milt1 12.277 26 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
    PPr 12.387 8 ...if you should ask the contemporary, he would tell you, with pride or with regret (according as he was practical or poetic), that he had [no superstitions].

accordingly, adv. (9)

    Mrs1 3.134 18 I may go into a cottage, and find a farmer who feels that he is the man I have come to see, and fronts me accordingly.
    GoW 4.276 23 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil]. He shall be real;...or he shall not exist. Accordingly, he stripped him of mythologic gear...and...looked for him in his own mind...
    CSC 10.373 12 In March [1841], accordingly, a three-days' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the Church...
    CSC 10.373 16 In March [1841]...a three-day' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the Church, and a third meeting fixed for the following November, which was accordingly holden;...
    HDC 11.57 20 This war [with the Niantic Indians] seems to have been... eluctantly entered by Massachusetts. Accordingly, Major [Simon] Willard did the least he could...
    FSLC 11.190 13 I found, accordingly, that the great jurists, Cicero, Grotius...do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void].
    MAng1 12.226 3 [Michelangelo] was charged with rebuilding the Pons Palatinus over the Tiber. He prepared, accordingly, a large quantity of blocks of travertine...
    AgMs 12.361 17 ...we farmers always know what our interest dictates, and do accordingly.
    Trag 12.409 16 ...accordingly it is natures not clear...imperfect characters from which somewhat is hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.

accords, v. (4)

    Tran 1.337 14 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man...sets the seal of his divine nature to the grace he accords.
    Exp 3.73 14 This vigor accords with and assists justice and reason...
    Pol1 3.207 22 Democracy is better for us, because the religious sentiment of the present time accords better with it.
    ACiv 11.310 26 If Congress accords with the President, it is not yet too late to begin the emancipation;...

accost, v. (1)

    Hist 2.7 14 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming. The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him...

accosted, v. (2)

    Comc 8.167 21 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me in great spirits...
    PC 8.221 8 [The scholar] has accosted this immeasurable Nature, and got clear answers.

accosting, v. (1)

    ET14 5.236 4 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...the enterprise or accosting of new subjects...astonish...

accosts, v. (5)

    LE 1.157 26 ...of what worth the world is, and with what emphasis it accosts the soul of man, such is the worth, such the call of the scholar.
    Lov1 2.177 10 ...[the lover] accosts the grass and the trees;...
    Cour 7.268 27 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
    PC 8.205 6 ...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant/...
    PPo 8.244 16 [Hafiz] accosts all topics with an easy audacity.

account, n. (111)

    Nat 1.47 9 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind...
    AmS 1.85 15 ...Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
    AmS 1.106 13 Men are become of no account.
    DSA 1.121 3 He ought. [Man] knows the sense of that grand word, though his analysis fails to render account of it.
    LE 1.184 13 Let [the scholar] not grieve too much on account of unfit associates.
    MN 1.204 11 ...[man] pretends to give account of himself to himself...
    MN 1.204 14 What account can [man] give of his essence more than so it was to be?
    MR 1.243 19 The duty that every man...should call the institutions of society to account...gains in emphasis if we look at our modes of living.
    Con 1.297 14 This [fable of Saturn and Uranus] may stand for the earliest account of a conversation on politics between a Conservative and a Radical which has come down to us.
    Con 1.308 22 ...I am very peaceable, and on my private account could well enough die...
    YA 1.368 1 A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account;...
    Hist 2.9 21 This life of ours is stuck round with...Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers and wild ornaments grave and gay. I will not make more account of them.
    Hist 2.13 4 Why should we make account of time...
    Hist 2.14 20 We have the civil history of [the Greek] people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were and what they did.
    Hist 2.30 24 [Prometheus] stands between the unjust justice of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals, and readily suffers all things on their account.
    SR 2.49 14 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is... watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account.
    SR 2.69 11 ...long intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account.
    Comp 2.121 26 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature. In some manner there will be a demonstration of the wrong to the understanding also; but, should we not see it, this deadly deduction makes square the eternal account.
    SL 2.132 21 It is quite another thing that [a man] should be able to give account of his faith...
    Fdsp 2.201 4 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship]...
    Hsm1 2.248 6 In the Harleian Miscellanies there is an account of the battle of Lutzen which deserves to be read.
    OS 2.289 20 Why...should I make account of Hamlet and Lear, as if we had not the soul from which they fell as syllables from the tongue?
    OS 2.290 12 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...
    Cir 2.310 7 The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon...
    Exp 3.51 25 We see young men who owe us a new world...but they never acquit the debt; they die young and dodge the account;...
    Exp 3.62 6 I find my account in sots and bores also.
    Exp 3.84 4 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make the account square...
    Exp 3.84 5 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make the account square, for if I should die I could not make the account square.
    Chr1 3.104 12 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune.
    Mrs1 3.119 18 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres...
    Mrs1 3.136 9 I have just been reading...Montaigne's account of his journey into Italy...
    Pol1 3.208 20 We might as wisely reprove the east wind or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position...
    NER 3.254 6 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members on account of the somewhat hostile part to the church which his conscience led him to take in the anti-slavery business;...
    PPh 4.47 24 Philosophy is the account which the human mind gives to itself of the constitution of the world.
    SwM 4.106 10 [Swedenborg] was apt for cosmology, because of that native perception of identity which made mere size of no account to him.
    SwM 4.112 2 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry.
    SwM 4.119 20 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus of the new state...
    SwM 4.126 15 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends. And the truly poetic account of the writing in the inmost heaven, which, as it consists of inflexions according to the form of heaven, can be read without instruction.
    SwM 4.134 12 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man...because he defies all dogmatizing and classification, so many allowances and contingences and futurities are to be taken into account;...
    MoS 4.170 18 A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line, but...a prosperity and no account of it...dispirits us.
    MoS 4.181 19 Great believers are always reckoned infidels...and really men of no account.
    ShP 4.192 5 Probably king, prelate and puritan, all found their own account in [the Elizabethan theatre].
    ShP 4.192 10 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national interest...not a whit less considerable because it was cheap and of no account...
    ShP 4.196 6 ...some passages [in Shakespeare's Henry VIII], as the account of the coronation, are like autographs.
    ShP 4.216 16 ...how stands the account of man with this bard and benefactor [Shakespeare]...
    NMW 4.248 26 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained.
    NMW 4.251 18 [Bonaparte's] memoirs...have great value, after all the deduction that it seems is to be made from them on account of his known disingenuousness.
    NMW 4.251 23 I admire...[Bonaparte's] good-natured and sufficiently respectful account of Marshal Wurmser and his other antagonists;...
    ET2 5.31 5 ...the inconveniences and terrors of the sea are not of any account to those whose minds are preoccupied.
    ET6 5.104 1 It requires, men say, a good constitution to travel in Spain. I say as much of England, for other cause, simply on account of the vigor and brawn of the people.
    ET8 5.140 6 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...for whatever turned up, he...never slept less nor more on account of them...
    ET14 5.256 7 How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed! We want the miraculous; the beauty which we can manufacture at no mill,--can give no account of;...
    F 6.8 19 Will you say...one need not lay his account for cataclysms every day?
    F 6.13 6 ...in the history of the individual is always an account of his condition...
    Ctr 6.133 10 ...we have seen children who finding themselves of no account when grown people come in, will cough until they choke, to draw attention.
    CbW 6.278 4 ...to the grand interests, superficial success is of no account.
    Art2 7.41 2 It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to municiple ends. That is a true account of all just works of useful art.
    DL 7.108 23 The account of the body is to be sought in the mind.
    WD 7.163 8 ...we have the newspaper, which does its best to make every square acre of land and sea give an account of itself at your breakfast-table;...
    Cour 7.261 11 Each [new soldier] whispers to himself: My exertions must be of small account to the result;...
    Suc 7.285 18 [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...
    Suc 7.311 25 ...we have powers, connection, children, reputations, professions; this [inner life] makes no account of them all.
    OA 7.319 20 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to resign...he was dissuaded by his friends, on account of the public convenience at that time.
    OA 7.333 21 We inquired when [John Adams] expected to see Mr. [John Quincy] Adams.--He said: Never: Mr. Adams will not come to Quincy but to my funeral. It would be a great satisfaction to me to see him, but I don't wish him to come on my account.
    PI 8.51 9 Of their living habitations they made little account...
    PI 8.72 22 A little more or less skill in whistling is of no account.
    SA 8.93 13 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman...
    Comc 8.169 3 ...according to Latin poetry and English doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./ In this instance the halfness lies in the pretension of the parties to some consideration on account of their condition.
    QO 8.203 9 The earliest describers of savage life, as Captain Cook's account of the Society Islands...have a charm of truth...
    QO 8.204 15 ...the words overheard at unawares by the free mind, are trustworthy and fertile when obeyed and not perverted to low and selfish account.
    PC 8.216 16 I think I have seen two or three great men who, for that reason, were of no account among scholars.
    Imtl 8.349 8 The human mind takes no account of geography...
    Dem1 10.19 9 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... The crimes they commit...are strangely overlooked, or do more strangely turn to their account.
    Aris 10.59 2 ...to the grand interests, a superficial success is of no account.
    PerF 10.76 26 If we were truly to take account of stock before the last Court of Appeals,-that were an inventory!
    Edc1 10.140 16 If [a boy] can turn his books to such picturesque account in his fishing and hunting, it is easy to see how his reading and experience... will interpenetrate each other.
    LLNE 10.365 11 Eggs might be hatched in ovens, but the hen on her own account much preferred the old way.
    Thor 10.470 9 [Thoreau] drew out of his breast-pocket his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on this day, whereof he kept account as a banker when his notes fall due.
    LS 11.5 6 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples is given by the four Evangelists...
    LS 11.6 10 This material fact, that the occasion [the Last Supper] was to be remembered, is found in Luke alone, who was not present. There is no reason, however, that we know, for rejecting the account of Luke.
    LS 11.9 1 ...the leading circumstances in the Gospels are only a faithful account of that ceremony [the Passover].
    LS 11.11 16 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...
    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 11.12 9 These views of the original account of the Lord's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and prophetic interest...
    LS 11.14 17 ...St. Paul was living in the lifetime of all the apostles who could give him an account of the transaction [the Last Supper];...
    LS 11.15 22 ...it does not appear from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;...
    HDC 11.41 2 ...the original distribution of the land [in Concord], or an account of the principle on which it was divided, are not preserved.
    HDC 11.80 21 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town...
    War 11.162 20 ...we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment...
    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.
    ALin 11.337 18 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which makes little account of time, little of one generation or race...
    ALin 11.337 19 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...makes no account of disasters...
    SMC 11.360 14 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon the little account in the savings bank...
    SMC 11.366 22 ...a very good account has been heard, not only of the [Fortieth] regiment, but of the talents and virtues of these men.
    EdAd 11.391 8 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts. Here is an unsettled account in the book of Fame;...
    Wom 11.408 26 Conversation is our account of ourselves.
    FRep 11.524 13 [The election of a rogue and a brawler] was done by the very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible, best-natured people. The only account of this is, that they have been scared or warped into some association in their mind of the candidate with the interest of their trade or of their property.
    FRep 11.532 22 It seems as if history gave no account of any society in which despondency came so readily to heart as we see it and feel it in ours.
    PLT 12.26 17 A subject of thought to which we return...from year to year, has always some ripeness of which we can give no account.
    CL 12.136 21 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction...that in every district were swamps, or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which...if explored, and turned to account, were capable of yielding immense benefit.
    CL 12.153 26 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What wealth is here! Every wave is a fortune; one thinks of Etzlers and great projectors who will yet turn all this waste strength to account...
    Bost 12.207 26 The towns or countries in which the man lives and dies where he was born, and his son and son's son live and die where he did, are of no great account.
    MAng1 12.229 6 It does not fall within our design to give an account of [Michelangelo's] works...
    ACri 12.294 27 We cannot...give any account of [Shakespeare's] existence, but only the fact that there was a wonderful symbolizer and expressor...
    MLit 12.310 16 ...they say every man walks environed by his proper atmosphere, extending to some distance around him. This beautiful result must be credited to literature also in casting its account.
    MLit 12.324 5 ...a sort of conscientious feeling [Goethe] had to be up to the universe is the best account and apology for many of [his stories].
    AgMs 12.360 23 The account [in the Agricultural Survey] of the maple sugar,-that is very good and entertaining...
    EurB 12.378 6 I fear it was in part the influence of such pictures [as in Vivian Grey] on living society which made the style of manners of which we have so many pictures, as, for example, in the following account of the English fashionist.
    Let 12.392 7 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter...
    Let 12.399 19 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany...
    Trag 12.406 17 ...no theory of life can have any right which leaves out of account the values of vice...fear and death.

account, v. (17)

    Nat 1.63 1 Idealism is a hypothesis to account for nature by other principles than those of carpentry and chemistry.
    Nat 1.63 13 ...this [ideal] theory...does not account for that consanguinity which we acknowledge to [nature].
    MN 1.200 4 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that no chemistry, no mechanics, can account for the facts...
    MN 1.207 25 Is it for [a man] to account himself cheap and superfluous...
    PPh 4.44 15 We are to account for the supreme elevation of this man [Plato] in the intellectual history of our race...
    ShP 4.208 17 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me...if the former account in any manner for the latter;...
    ET9 5.146 18 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company, who plainly account all the world out of England a heap of rubbish.
    ET18 5.305 27 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters...
    Elo1 7.79 1 ...histories, poems and new philosophies arise to account for [Caesar].
    DL 7.127 8 The first glance we meet may satisfy us...that no laws of line or surface can ever account for the inexhaustible expressiveness of form.
    Grts 8.309 25 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for.
    Imtl 8.343 17 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins property, health, life itself, without hesitation, for its thought, and all men justify the man by their praise for this act. And Mahomet in the same mind declared, Not dead, but living, ye are to account all those who are slain in the way of God.
    Plu 10.308 10 ...[Plutarch] chiefly liked that proportion which teaches us to account that which is just, equal; and not that which is equal, just.
    Thor 10.464 8 [Thoreau's] robust common sense, armed with stout hands, keen perceptions and strong will, cannot yet account for the superiority which shone in his simple and hidden life.
    SMC 11.369 10 The Colonel [George Prescott] took evident pleasure in the fact that he could account for all his men.
    II 12.83 14 Him we account the fortunate man whose determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt.
    Pray 12.351 18 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant...that I may account him to be rich, who is wise and just.

accountable, adj. (1)

    MR 1.233 7 The sins of our trade belong...to no individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats. Every body partakes, every body confesses...yet none feels himself accountable.

accountants, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.135 3 ...we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers;...

accounted, v. (6)

    Chr1 3.89 17 This inequality of the reputation to the works or the anecdotes is not accounted for by saying that the reverberation is longer than the thunder-clap...
    NR 3.229 24 ...we are very sensible of an atmospheric influence in men and in bodies of men, not accounted for in an arithmetical addition of all their measurable properties.
    ET4 5.64 26 In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be accounted maritime;...
    HDC 11.52 7 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?- which questions were accounted of by some, as part of the whitenings of the harvest toward.
    PLT 12.41 6 Every new impression on the mind is...to be accounted for, and, until accounted for, registered as an indisputable addition to our catalogue of natural facts.
    Milt1 12.257 17 ...[Milton] was accounted an excellent master of his rapier.

accounting, v. (1)

    LT 1.279 25 ...the man of ideas, accounting the circumstance nothing, judges of the commonwealth from the state of his own mind.

accounts, n. (11)

    LT 1.269 16 These [modern reform] movements are on all accounts important;...
    LT 1.273 9 A wealthy man...finds religion to be a traffic...of so many piddling accounts, that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.
    Comp 2.114 10 It is best...to buy...in your agent, good sense applied to accounts and affairs.
    Hsm1 2.256 2 Scipio, charged with peculation, refuses to do himself so great a disgrace as to wait for justification, though he had the scroll of his accounts in his hands...
    NR 3.231 20 Property keeps the accounts of the world, and is always moral.
    PPh 4.60 21 I, therefore, Callicles, am persuaded by these accounts [said Plato], and consider how I may exhibit my soul before the judge in a healthy condition.
    ShP 4.201 27 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left...no file of old yellow accounts to decompose in damp and worms, so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
    ShP 4.207 21 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is...the chancellor's file of accounts...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
    ET19 5.312 4 ...I think it just, in this time of gloom and commercial disaster, of affliction and beggary in these districts, that, on these very accounts I speak of, you should not fail to keep your literary anniversary.
    LS 11.6 13 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established in this slight manner...
    EWI 11.120 7 The accounts [of emancipation] which we have from all parties [in the West Indies]...are of the most satisfactory kind.

accounts, v. (2)

    NR 3.238 26 When afterwards [the recluse] comes to unfold [his endowment] in propitious circumstance...he...accounts himself already the fellow of the great.
    PI 8.15 20 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language...

accoutrements, n. (1)

    ET5 5.86 2 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without;...

accredited, adj. (1)

    LT 1.264 17 In the brain of a fanatic; in the wild hope of a mountain boy... is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come, more than in the now organized and accredited oracles.

accredited, v. (4)

    Con 1.312 22 Providence takes care...that you are waited for, and come accredited;...
    YA 1.387 5 If society were transparent, the noble would everywhere be gladly received and accredited...
    Exp 3.68 16 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely and not by the direct stroke; men of genius, but not yet accredited;...
    War 11.170 10 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...not by...going through a course of resolutions and public manifestoes, and being thus formally accredited to the public and to the civility of the newspapers.

accredits, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.177 25 The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

accrue, v. (5)

    Tran 1.358 7 Possibly some benefit may yet accrue from [Transcendentalists] to the state.
    YA 1.375 1 Benefit will accrue, [railroads] are essential to the country...
    NR 3.238 8 Great dangers undoubtedly accrue from this incarnation and distribution of the godhead...
    GoW 4.285 14 Enemy of [Goethe] you may be,--if so you shall teach him aught which your good-will can not, were it only what experience will accrue from your ruin.
    LVB 11.94 23 On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.

accrued, v. (4)

    Ctr 6.141 19 ...though we must not omit any jot of our system, we can seldom be sure that...as much good would not have accrued from a different system.
    SA 8.104 10 Amidst the calamities which war has brought on our country this one benefit has accrued,--that our eyes...look homeward.
    HDC 11.55 11 ...in 1640, all immigration [to Concord] ceased, and the country produce and farm-stock depreciated. Other difficulties accrued.
    FSLC 11.199 22 The only benefit that has accrued from the [Fugitive Slave] law is its service to education.

accrues, v. (2)

    ET13 5.226 13 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards...
    Suc 7.286 27 Neither do we grudge to each of these benefactors the praise or the profit which accrues from his industry.

accruing, v. (1)

    ET12 5.202 16 ...gifts of all values, from a hall or a fellowship or a library, down to a picture or a spoon, are continually accruing [at Oxford]...

accumulate, v. (6)

    SL 2.161 3 Common men are apologies for men; they...accumulate appearances because the substance is not.
    ET4 5.52 17 ...England tends to accumulate her liberals in America...
    Pow 6.74 13 ...you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing.
    Ctr 6.148 4 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
    SovE 10.186 23 ...[the moral powers] are thirsts for action, and the more you accumulate, the more they mould and form.
    EWI 11.134 14 I entreat you, sirs, let not this stain attach, let not this misery accumulate any longer.

accumulated, adj. (10)

    MR 1.234 27 If the accumulated wealth of the past generation is thus tainted...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part to renounce it...
    SwM 4.143 5 Swedenborg...with all his accumulated gifts, paralyzes and repels.
    ShP 4.195 1 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already wonted...
    ET14 5.236 27 I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth. Their poets by simple force of mind equalized themselves with the accumulated science of ours.
    Wth 6.99 24 ...this accumulated skill in arts, cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges, constitutes the worth of our world to-day.
    Elo1 7.75 19 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...then they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.
    SA 8.102 2 I have been often impressed at our country town-meetings with the accumulated virility, in each village, of five or six or eight or ten men...
    Aris 10.38 7 From the most accumulated culture we are always running back to the sound of any drum and fife.
    LLNE 10.369 1 ...what accumulated culture many of the members owed to [Brook Farm]!
    FRep 11.529 5 A congress...escapes the violence of accumulated grievance.

accumulated, v. (9)

    Nat 1.60 6 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...not as painfully accumulated...
    NMW 4.240 4 When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...
    Wth 6.95 2 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...
    Farm 7.141 3 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows...
    Farm 7.143 3 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages... mellowed his land...and accumulated the sphagnum whose decays made the peat of his meadow.
    Farm 7.152 11 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands, where the wash of mountains has accumulated the best soil...
    Boks 7.191 10 College education is the reading of certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated.
    FSLC 11.203 14 At last, at a fatal hour, [Webster's] sluggishness accumulated to downright counteraction...
    FSLN 11.240 9 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale, and not until liberty has slowly accumulated weight enough to countervail and preponderate against all this, can the sufficient recoil come.

accumulates, v. (2)

    ET14 5.244 7 The absence of the faculty [of generalization] in England is shown by the timidity which accumulates mountains of facts...
    Imtl 8.321 3 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/ Verdict which accumulates/ From lengthening scroll of human fates/...

accumulating, v. (1)

    GoW 4.273 15 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition, accumulating a glut of facts and fruits too fast for any hitherto-existing savans to classify,--this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.

accumulation, n. (13)

    AmS 1.85 26 ...since the dawn of history there has been a constant accumulation and classifying of facts.
    Int 2.340 16 ...no diligence can rebuild the universe in a model by the best accumulation or disposition of details...
    Chr1 3.107 27 There is a class of men...so eminently endowed with insight and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine, and who seem to be an accumulation of that power [of character] we consider.
    SwM 4.110 20 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and a beating heart.
    Ctr 6.165 9 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined; and will shun every expenditure of his forces on pleasure or gain which will jeopardize this social and secular accumulation.
    Cour 7.259 2 ...the protection which a house...even the first accumulation of savings gives, go in all times to generate this taint of the respectable classes.
    Edc1 10.129 14 No dollar of property can be created without...some acquisition of knowledge and practical force. It is...an accumulation of power...
    MoL 10.252 24 Intellect measures itself by its counteraction to any accumulation of material force.
    Schr 10.282 15 The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to any accumulation of material force.
    Plu 10.312 4 Seneca...by...his own skill...of living with men of business and emulating their address in affairs by great accumulation of his own property, learned to temper his philosophy with facts.
    PLT 12.33 5 As soon as our accumulation [of knowledge] overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin...
    II 12.85 24 A man must do the work with that faculty he has now. But that faculty is the accumulation of past days.
    Bost 12.186 18 New England is a sort of Scotland. 'T is hard to say why. Climate is much; then, old accumulation of the means,-books, schools, colleges, literary society;...

accumulations, n. (10)

    Tran 1.358 16 ...in society...there must be a few...persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.
    Comp 2.111 20 ...all unjust accumulations of property and power, are avenged in the same manner.
    SL 2.166 13 We are the photometers...that measure the accumulations of the subtle element.
    Pol1 3.206 27 When the rich are outvoted...it is the joint treasury of the poor which exceeds their accumulations.
    ET5 5.88 6 ...it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views; but the indulgence...costs great crises, or accumulations of mental power.
    Wsp 6.202 23 We may well give skepticism as much line as we can. The spirit will return and fill us. It drives the drivers. It counterbalances any accumulations of power...
    Elo1 7.92 17 For the explosions and eruptions, there must be accumulations of heat somewhere...
    LLNE 10.368 20 Some of [the partners] had spent on [Brook Farm] the accumulations of years.
    AKan 11.257 10 I know people who are making haste to reduce their expenses and pay their debts, not with a view to new accumulations, but in preparation to save and earn for the benefit of the Kansas emigrants.
    Bost 12.209 20 ...the deeper principle will always prevail over whatever material accumulations.

accuracy, n. (21)

    Nat 1.48 9 ...[nature] is ideal to me so long as I cannot try the accuracy of my senses.
    Nat 1.49 25 Until this higher agency intervened, the animal eye sees, with wonderful accuracy, sharp outlines and colored surfaces.
    Mrs1 3.140 9 Accuracy is essential to beauty...
    PPh 4.46 20 The progress is to accuracy, to skill, to truth, from blind force.
    PPh 4.47 20 ...[Plato] is the arrival of accuracy and intelligence.
    ET5 5.74 4 The Saxon and the Northman are both Scandinavians. History does not allow us to fix the limits of the application of these names with any accuracy...
    ET12 5.207 18 The men [English students] have learned accuracy and comprehension, logic, and pace, or speed of working.
    F 6.17 12 ...on a population of twenty or two hundred millions, something like accuracy may be had.
    Wth 6.100 20 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts...
    Wsp 6.213 21 It is the order of the world to educate with accuracy the senses and the understanding;...
    Elo1 7.74 15 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be...nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly;...
    Boks 7.200 23 An inestimable trilogy of ancient social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch. Plutarch's has the least approach to historical accuracy;...
    OA 7.335 5 [John Adams] spoke of the new novels of Cooper...and Saratoga, with praise, and named with accuracy the characters in them.
    Grts 8.304 19 I am...to infer your reading from the wealth and accuracy of your conversation.
    Edc1 10.147 2 Accuracy is essential to beauty.
    Supl 10.168 12 ...I do not know any advantage more conspicuous which a man owes to his experience in markets and the Exchange, or politics, than the caution and accuracy he acquires in his report of facts.
    Plu 10.322 2 Were there not a sun, we might, for all the other stars, pass our days in the Reverend Dark, as Heraclitus calls it. I find a humor in the phrase which might well excuse its doubtful accuracy.
    Thor 10.453 24 [Thoreau's] accuracy and skill in this work [surveying] were readily appreciated...
    Thor 10.473 3 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered his rare accuracy and skill...
    PLT 12.3 17 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied to a higher class of facts;...
    Bost 12.197 14 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...with great accuracy in details, little spirit of society or knowledge of the world, you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...

accurate, adj. (21)

    Prd1 2.226 24 Let [a man] have accurate perceptions.
    Prd1 2.228 15 Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate perception...
    Pt1 3.3 21 We were put into our bodies...but there is no accurate adjustment between the spirit and the organ...
    NR 3.230 9 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men,--many old women,--and not anywhere the Englishman who...combined the accurate engines...
    PPh 4.77 5 Plato would willingly have a Platonism, a known and accurate expression for the world...
    PPh 4.77 6 Plato would willingly have a Platonism, a known and accurate expression for the world, and it should be accurate.
    SwM 4.144 8 In [Swedenborg's] profuse and accurate imagery is no pleasure, for there is no beauty.
    ET1 5.6 9 [Greenough] was an accurate and a deep man.
    ET14 5.233 3 ...the Englishman has accurate perceptions;...
    ET16 5.279 8 ...a thousand years hence, men will thank this age for the accurate history [of Stonehenge].
    Wth 6.111 19 We must use the means, and yet, in our most accurate using somehow screen and cloak them...
    DL 7.122 2 [Lord Falkland's] house being within little more than ten miles from Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that University...
    SA 8.83 9 When a man meets his accurate mate, society begins...
    Insp 8.277 25 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it...
    Edc1 10.147 5 Give a boy accurate perceptions.
    Edc1 10.150 14 ...the instruction [in colleges] seems to require skilful tutors, of accurate and systematic mind, rather than ardent and inventive masters.
    Plu 10.293 4 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch...no accurate memoir of his life, not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
    Plu 10.320 17 ...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.
    FSLN 11.229 18 ...I suppose that liberty is an accurate index, in men and nations, of general progress.
    PLT 12.36 17 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek- delighting in accurate form...pay to the unscrutable force we call Instinct...
    CInt 12.125 12 In the romance Spiridion a few years ago, we had what it seems was a piece of accurate autobiography...

accurately, adv. (18)

    LT 1.265 10 Could we...indicate those who most accurately represent every good and evil tendency of the general mind...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    Hist 2.18 24 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches...
    SL 2.158 2 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
    PPh 4.46 4 As soon as, with culture...[men and women] see [things] no longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed, they desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
    NMW 4.224 24 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material... widely and accurately learned and skilful...
    F 6.45 5 Moller...taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful...
    Ctr 6.138 23 To wade in marshes and sea-margins is the destiny of certain birds, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places.
    WD 7.157 17 ...a good surveyor will pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man can measure them by tape.
    Suc 7.308 25 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...
    PI 8.57 13 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do to the Indian, or the hunter, or miner, each of whom represents his facts as accurately as the cry of the wolf or the eagle tells of the forest or the air they inhabit.
    QO 8.201 22 [Originality] is...reporting accurately what we see and are.
    Dem1 10.5 15 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer;...and if it served no other purpose would show us how accurately Nature fits man awake.
    Aris 10.48 21 In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand;...
    PerF 10.76 20 We define Genius to be...a sensibility so equal that it receives accurately all impressions...
    Prch 10.229 12 The opinions of men lose all worth to him who perceives that they are accurately predictable from the ground of their sect.
    Thor 10.461 17 [Thoreau] could pace sixteen rods more accurately than another man could measure them with rod and chain.
    PLT 12.23 17 The affinity of particles accurately translates the affinity of thoughts...
    Mem 12.97 20 A knife with a good spring, a forceps whose lips accurately meet and match...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...

accursed, adj. (2)

    Chr2 10.110 11 ...Mahomet is no longer accursed;...
    FSLC 11.209 13 Every man in the land will give a week's work to dig away this accursed mountain of sorrow [slavery] once and forever out of the world.

accursed, v. (1)

    Ill 6.307 2 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed, adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./

accusation, n. (3)

    NER 3.280 1 ...the Church feels the accusation of [the religious man's] presence and belief.
    DL 7.113 17 It is a sufficient accusation of our ways of living...that our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute it.
    PPo 8.248 15 [The mind] indicates this respect to absolute truth by the use it makes of the symbols that are most stable and reverend, and therefore is always provoking the accusation of irreligion.

accusations, n. (1)

    MR 1.228 18 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham, in their accusations of society, all respected something...

accuse, v. (16)

    Con 1.301 11 If we see [the world] from the side of Will, or the Moral Sentiment, we shall accuse the Past and the Present...
    Fdsp 2.208 7 A man is reputed t