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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 to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade.
    Cir 2.317 8 I accuse myself of sloth and unprofitableness day by day;...
    MoS 4.184 5 [Young and ardent minds] accuse the divine Providence of a certain parsimony.
    ET1 5.20 19 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are atrocious, and accuse members of Congress of stealing spoons!
    Wsp 6.224 25 [Every creature's] work is sword and shield. Let him accuse none, let injure him none.
    Ill 6.313 5 ...we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions.
    Boks 7.189 1 It is easy to accuse books...
    Boks 7.190 11 ...there are...books...so nearly equal to the world which they paint, that though one shuts them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.
    LLNE 10.349 24 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di Roma, the frozen Polar circles...accuse man.
    FSLC 11.193 8 ...it is absurd...to accuse the friends of freedom in the North with being the occasion of the new stringency of the Southern slave-laws.
    FSLC 11.193 12 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it?
    FSLC 11.199 5 [Webster's] pacification has brought...all scrupulous and good-hearted men, all women, and all children, to accuse the law.
    FSLC 11.201 17 [Webster] must learn that those who make fame accuse him with one voice;...
    AsSu 11.250 11 [Sumner's] opponents accuse him neither of drunkenness nor debauchery...
    TPar 11.291 2 ...whilst I praise this frank speaker [Theodore Parker], I have no wish to accuse the silence of others.

accused, adj. (2)

    OS 2.285 26 ...confronted face to face, accuser and accused, men offer themselves to be judged.
    Trag 12.410 21 That which seems intolerable reproach or bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman appetite or sleep.

accused, v. (4)

    PPh 4.74 15 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul...
    Bhr 6.195 8 Marcus Scaurus was accused by Quintus Varius Hispanus, that he had excited the allies to take arms against the Republic.
    SS 7.14 13 Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs. The best are accused of exclusiveness.
    AsSu 11.250 17 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...

accuser, n. (1)

    OS 2.285 26 ...confronted face to face, accuser and accused, men offer themselves to be judged.

accusers, n. (1)

    CbW 6.270 7 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...accusers...of this one malefactor;...

accuses, v. (12)

    DSA 1.140 7 Everything that befalls, accuses [the poor preacher].
    LT 1.271 24 This beauty which the fancy finds in everything else, certainly accuses the manner of life we lead.
    LT 1.274 27 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men...
    Tran 1.342 18 ...[Society] saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world;...
    Cir 2.307 10 The love of me accuses the other party.
    F 6.43 18 If the wall remain adamant, it accuses the want of thought.
    PI 8.69 15 ...[Goethe's Faust]...accuses the author as well as the times.
    QO 8.179 22 ...the dearth of design accuses the penury of intellect.
    Grts 8.320 5 ...people are as those with whom they converse? And if all or any are heavy to me, that fact accuses me.
    SovE 10.209 4 ...Stoicism...has now...no commanding Zeno or Antoninus. It accuses us that it has none...
    Wom 11.423 8 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only accuses our existing politics...
    CInt 12.125 19 Piety in a convent accuses every one, from the novice to the abbess.

accusing, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.466 2 ...what accusing silences, and what searching and irresistible speeches, battering down all defences, [Thoreau's] companions can remember!

accusing, v. (1)

    NER 3.271 17 ...[every man] he puts himself on the side of his enemies, listening gladly to what they say of him, and accusing himself of the same things.

accustom, v. (2)

    Wom 11.420 4 ...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? If not, then there need be none in a hundred companies, if you educate them and accustom them to judge.
    FRO2 11.487 16 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself...

accustomed, adj. (19)

    MR 1.244 20 [Our friend] is accustomed to carpets...
    SR 2.68 22 ...when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way;...
    ET5 5.86 21 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could resist them;...
    ET5 5.98 24 The nation [England] is accustomed to the instantaneous creation of wealth.
    ET6 5.106 12 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin...
    Insp 8.277 23 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit, which often went on haste,- so that the penman's hand, by reason he was not accustomed to it, did often shake.
    Prch 10.218 1 I see in those classes and those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress...character, but skepticism;...
    Thor 10.452 16 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to refuse all the accustomed paths...
    LS 11.19 7 We are not accustomed to express our thoughts or emotions by symbolical actions.
    FSLC 11.210 10 ...grant that the heart of financiers, accustomed to practical figures, shrinks within them at these colossal amounts, and the embarrassments which complicate the problem [abolition];...
    Humb 11.458 26 I know that we have been accustomed to think [the Germans] were too good scholars...
    Mem 12.103 26 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life...
    Bost 12.191 21 The planters of Massachusetts do not appear to have been hardy men, rather, comfortable citizens, not at all accustomed to the rough task of discoverers;...
    Bost 12.192 16 Any geologist or engineer is accustomed to face more serious dangers than any enumerated [by the Massachusetts colonists], excepting the hostile Indians.
    Bost 12.198 15 No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
    MAng1 12.228 24 [Michelangelo] was accustomed to say, Those figures alone are good from which the labor is scraped off when the scaffolding is taken away.
    MAng1 12.237 24 It seems that Michael [Angelo] was accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he stuck a candle...
    MLit 12.313 11 Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a stranger...
    WSL 12.338 4 Here [in America] is very good earth and water and plenty of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow; to all other gifts of Nature or man his eyes are sealed by the inexorable demand for the precise conveniences to which he is accustomed in England.

accustomed, v. (14)

    Hist 2.20 1 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses...
    Pt1 3.18 3 ...it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to speak in Parliament.
    SwM 4.132 12 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries...
    MoS 4.154 20 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal...
    ET13 5.219 5 From his infancy, every Englishman is accustomed to hear daily prayers for the Queen...
    ET16 5.275 11 I told Carlyle that I...was accustomed to concede readily all that an Englishman would ask;...
    ET17 5.296 18 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare;...
    Pow 6.74 24 The poet Campbell said that a man accustomed to work, was equal to any achievement he resolved on...
    Ctr 6.149 23 ...it requires a great many cultivated women...accustomed to ease and refinement...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Bhr 6.175 4 A prince who is accustomed every day to be courted and deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires a corresponding expectation...
    Elo1 7.98 7 ...the men least accustomed to appeal to these [moral] sentiments invariably recall them when they address nations.
    Cour 7.261 24 ...[the young soldier] had accustomed himself always to go into whatever place of danger, and do whatever he was afraid to do...
    PI 8.56 24 ...[Newton] only shows...that the poetry which satisfies more youthful souls is not such to a mind like his, accustomed to grander harmonies;...
    SovE 10.213 22 A man who has accustomed himself to look at all his circumstances as very mutable...has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...

ache, n. (1)

    MLit 12.335 14 In [man's] heart he knows the ache of spiritual pain...

ache, v. (1)

    Wth 6.101 24 [The farmer's] bones ache with the days' work that earned [his dollar].

Acherontian Bag, n. (1)

    ACri 12.289 27 Goethe...professed to point his guest to his...Acherontian Bag, in which, he said, he put all his dire hints and images...

aches, v. (2)

    DSA 1.138 11 ...[this man's] head aches...
    CbW 6.268 12 The youth aches for solitude.

achieve, v. (13)

    MR 1.254 18 Love...will accomplish that by imperceptible methods...which force could never achieve.
    Con 1.314 8 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat...with the desire to achieve its own fate...
    Hist 2.11 1 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. ... We assume that we under like influence should be alike affected, and should achieve the like;...
    Hist 2.34 14 All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve.
    Pol1 3.206 3 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily...achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means;...
    Pow 6.75 5 One of the high anecdotes of the world is the reply of Newton to the inquiry how he had been able to achieve his discoveries?--By always intending my mind.
    CbW 6.262 26 Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
    DL 7.110 15 Another man is...a builder of ships...and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books...
    OA 7.326 7 If [the old lawyer] should on a new occasion rise quite beyond his mark and achieve somewhat great and extraordinary, that, of course, would instantly tell;...
    Elo2 8.122 19 ...the wonders [John Quincy Adams] could achieve with that cracked and disobedient organ [his voice] showed what power might have belonged to it in early manhood.
    PC 8.215 25 If [your public] know what is good, and require it, you will aspire and burn until you achieve it.
    Plu 10.315 13 To erect a trophy in the soul against anger is that which none but a great and victorious puissance is able to achieve.
    PLT 12.50 1 The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are seen slower performed in palaeontology. Many races it cost them to achieve the completion that is now in the life of one.

achieved, v. (13)

    Cir 2.321 26 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
    ET14 5.251 12 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men, whose relation to literature was purely accidental...
    Bhr 6.181 9 The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. It must be a victory achieved in the will, before it can be signified in the eye.
    Civ 7.21 16 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay.
    Elo1 7.79 26 In old countries a high money value is set on the services of men who have achieved a personal distinction.
    OA 7.321 17 We have, it is true, examples of an accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works;...
    PI 8.38 17 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols, and not as ends. With such guides [men] begin to see that...the mean life is pictures. And this is achieved by words;...
    Aris 10.54 16 In the fine arts, I find none in the present age...who have achieved any nobility by ennobling the people.
    Edc1 10.146 20 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task he had achieved an excellent education...
    EWI 11.135 15 ...[emancipation in the West Indies] was achieved by plain means of plain men...
    TPar 11.288 4 'T is plain to me that [Theodore Parker] has achieved a historic immortality here;...
    SMC 11.372 4 On the twenty-third, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the North Anna, and achieved a great success.
    Koss 11.400 13 You [Kossuth] have achieved your right to interpret our Washington.

achievement, n. (11)

    Prd1 2.223 27 Cultivated men always feel and speak...as if a great fortune, the achievement of a civil or social measure...had their value as proofs of the energy of the spirit.
    Cir 2.317 12 [When these waves of God flow into me] I no longer poorly compute my possible achievement by what remains to me of the month or the year;...
    PPh 4.64 22 [Plato] delighted...above all in the splendors of genius and intellectual achievement.
    NMW 4.239 4 [Bonaparte's] achievement of business was immense...
    Pow 6.74 25 The poet Campbell said that a man accustomed to work, was equal to any achievement he resolved on...
    Pow 6.80 25 ...never was any signal act or achievement in history but by this expenditure [of spirit].
    PI 8.39 20 Is the solar system good art and architecture? the same wise achievement is in the human brain also...
    Schr 10.265 26 ...[the poet's] achievement is the piercing of the brass heavens of use and limitation...
    Schr 10.277 26 Perhaps I value power of achievement a little more because in America there seems to be a certain indigence in this respect.
    MLit 12.328 17 Does [Goethe] represent, not only the achievement of that age in which he lived, but that which it would be and is now becoming?
    PPr 12.391 2 [Carlyle's style] is the first experiment, and something of rudeness and haste must be pardoned to so great an achievement.

achievements, n. (5)

    Nat 1.73 4 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the achievements of a principle...
    SwM 4.97 25 Indeed, it takes/ From our achievements, when performed at height,/ The pith and marrow of our attribute./
    NMW 4.236 25 My power would fall, were I not to support it by new achievements [said Napoleon].
    Pow 6.54 17 All the great captains, said Bonaparte, have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of the art...
    Milt1 12.270 6 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin; for that our English, the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption.

achieves, v. (2)

    Farm 7.139 2 ...little by little, [Nature] achieves her work.
    Chr2 10.119 4 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor: the child fears and cries, but achieves the feat...

Achillean, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.7 8 I had inferred from [Landor's] books...impression of Achillean wrath...

Achilles [Homer, Iliad, n. [Achilles] (4)

    comp 2.107 26 ...the belt which Ajax gave Hector dragged the Trojan hero over the fields at the wheels of the car of Achilles...
    ET16 5.277 15 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds...like the same mound on the plain of Troy, which still makes good to the passing mariner on Hellespont...the fame of Achilles.
    Farm 7.153 20 ...[the farmer] stands well on the world,--as Adam did...as Homer's heroes, Agamemnon or Achilles, do.
    Cour 7.271 22 Hector and Achilles...become aware that they are nearer and more alike than any other two...

Achilles [Horatio Greenough (1)

    ET1 5.5 21 [Greenough's] face was so handsome and his person so well formed that he might be pardoned, if, as was alleged, the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay, were idealizations of his own.

Achilles, n. (5)

    Comp 2.107 1 Achilles is not quite invulnerable;...
    Cour 7.255 13 There is a Hercules, an Achilles...in the mythology of every nation;...
    Edc1 10.140 11 ...Jove and Achilles, partridge and trout...dance through [the boy's] narrative in merry confusion, yet the logic is good.
    Carl 10.496 5 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men, as the Styx hardened Achilles...
    War 11.152 26 [Society] presently finds the value of good sense and of foresight, and Ulysses takes rank next to Achilles.

aching, adj. (1)

    LT 1.262 20 How I follow [persons] with aching heart, with pining desire!

achromatic, adj. (3)

    Art2 7.41 7 Dollond formed his achromatic telescope on the model of the human eye.
    PPo 8.237 16 Many qualities go to make a good telescope,-as the... achromatic purity of lenses...
    Supl 10.166 12 Think how much pains astronomers and opticians have taken to procure an achromatic lens.

acid, adj. (2)

    NR 3.228 2 The men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude...or by an acid worldly manner;...
    SS 7.7 7 One protects himself [from society] by solitude...and one by an acid, worldly manner...

acid, n. (6)

    Nat 1.34 22 ...acid and alkali, preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God...
    UGM 4.9 13 ...every organ, function, acid, crystal, grain of dust, has its relation to the brain.
    Clbs 7.239 8 ... Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that? The visitor scratched on another paper a formula describing some results of his own with sulphuric acid, and pushed it across the table,--Had he seen that?
    OA 7.319 3 ...prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time.
    PI 8.49 1 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature,--acid and akali...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
    Prch 10.235 4 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid!

acids, n. (2)

    ET4 5.52 15 Perhaps the ocean serves as a galvanic battery, to distribute acids at one pole and alkalies at the other.
    EdAd 11.388 8 ...we believe politics to be...subject to the same laws with trees, earths and acids.

acknowledge, v. (9)

    Nat 1.63 14 ...this [ideal] theory...does not account for that consanguinity which we acknowledge to [nature].
    OS 2.268 8 I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
    Farm 7.138 3 ...[the countryman's] independence and his pleasing arts,-- the care of bees...the care...of orchards and forests, and the reaction of these on the workman, in giving him a strength and an plain dignity like the face and manners of Nature,--all men acknowledge.
    Suc 7.296 10 We assume...that there is but one Homer, but one Shakspeare, one Newton, one Socrates. But the soul in her beaming hour does not acknowledge these usurpations.
    Schr 10.261 11 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for.
    FSLC 11.208 22 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves. I say buy...that we may acknowledge the calamity of [the planter's] position...
    CPL 11.495 18 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture, as in the act we are met to witness and acknowledge to-day [opening of the Concord Library].
    Bost 12.186 6 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place...whereby all who possess talent are impelled to struggle that they may not remain in the same grade with those whom they perceive to be only men like themselves, even though they may acknowledge such indeed to be masters;...
    MAng1 12.244 21 ...[Michelangelo] was a brother and a friend to all who acknowledge the beauty that beams in universal Nature...

acknowledged, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.143 17 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.

acknowledged, v. (6)

    YA 1.384 20 The actual differences of men must be acknowledged...
    PPh 4.62 4 No man ever more fully acknowledged the Ineffable [than Plato].
    DL 7.103 2 The perfection of the providence for childhood is easily acknowledged.
    Clbs 7.239 20 When Edward I. claimed to be acknowledged by the Scotch (1292) as lord paramount, the nobles of Scotland replied, No answer can be made while the throne is vacant.
    Plu 10.296 10 ...Rousseau acknowledged [Plutarch] as his master.
    HDC 11.66 27 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied, In the prayer you speak of, Jesus Christ was acknowledged as the only Mediator between God and man;...

acknowledges, v. (4)

    Cour 7.261 17 So great a soldier as the old French Marshal Montluc acknowledges that he has often trembled with fear...
    PC 8.227 6 No angel in his heart acknowledges any one superior to himself but the Lord alone.
    Insp 8.284 17 Goethe acknowledges [the fine influences of the morning] in the poem in which he dislodges the nightingale from her place as Leader of the Muses...
    Milt1 12.263 15 [Milton] acknowledges to his friend Diodati, at the age of twenty-one, that he is enamoured...of moral perfection...

acknowledging, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.140 7 ...poltroonery is the acknowledging an inferiority to be incurable.

acknowledgment, n. (15)

    Con 1.312 13 Is it not exaggerating a trifle to insist on a formal acknowledgment of your claims...
    Comp 2.112 22 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? There arises on the deed the instant acknowledgment of benefit on the one part and of debt on the other;...
    SL 2.157 23 If a man know that he can do any thing...he has a pledge of the acknowledgement of that fact by all persons.
    NER 3.275 14 ...a naval and military honor...and, anyhow procured, the acknowledgment of eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    ET13 5.221 11 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them, and that it would become their magnanimity, after so great successes, to take order that a proper acknowledgement be made.
    ET17 5.291 9 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them. I must further allow myself a few notices, if only as an acknowledgment of debts that cannot be paid.
    Grts 8.303 14 ...what a bitter-sweet sensation when we have gone to pour out our acknowledgment of a man's nobleness, and found him quite indifferent to our good opinion!
    Supl 10.170 15 [The guest's] health was drunk with some acknowledgment of his distinguished services to both countries...
    HDC 11.49 23 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented to the governments of Europe;...
    HDC 11.76 5 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
    HDC 11.86 21 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord].
    SMC 11.352 21 This new [Concord] Monument is built to mark the arrival of the nation at the new principle,-say, rather, at its new acknowledgment...that only that state can live, in which injury to the least member is recognized as damage to the whole.
    Milt1 12.252 20 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was...more welcome to the poet than the general and vague acknowledgment of his genius by those able but unsympathizing critics.
    ACri 12.298 20 ...one would think...a sympathizing and much-reading America would make a new treaty or send a minister extraordinary to offer congratulations of honoring delight to England in acknowledgment of such a donation [as Carlyle's History of Frederick II];...
    MLit 12.322 9 ...the quality and energy of [Carlyle's] influence on the youth of this country will require at our hands, ere long, a distinct and faithful acknowledgment.

acknowledgments, n. (2)

    Gts 3.164 17 ...we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation.
    NMW 4.244 9 ...ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc...

acolyte, n. (1)

    Boks 7.203 10 [In the Platonists] The acolyte has mounted the tripod over the cave at Delphi;...

acorn, n. (4)

    Nat 1.16 5 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as the acorn...
    Hist 2.4 1 The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn...
    SR 2.66 16 Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion?
    ALin 11.330 11 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a quite native, aboriginal man, as an acorn from the oak;...

acorns, n. (2)

    Thor 10.462 14 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau] said that only a small portion of them would be sound...
    SHC 11.435 10 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank [Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...

acoustic, adj. (2)

    DL 7.104 16 With an acoustic apparatus of whistle and rattle [the child] explores the laws of sound.
    Suc 7.299 13 Does that deep-toned bell...render to you nothing but acoustic vibrations?

acquaint, v. (7)

    DSA 1.146 6 ...acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
    Tran 1.352 6 [Transcendentalists] are exercised in their own spirit with queries which acquaint them with all adversity...
    Lov1 2.186 17 ...as life wears on, it proves a game of permutation and combination of all possible positions of the parties, to...acquaint each with the strength and weakness of the other.
    OS 2.277 7 Persons themselves acquaint us with the impersonal.
    DL 7.107 12 If a man wishes to acquaint himself with the real history of the world...he must not go first to the state-house or the court-room.
    Edc1 10.135 10 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to acquaint [the youthful man] with the resources of his mind...
    CL 12.156 25 The mountains in the horizon acquaint us with finer relations to our friends than any we sustain.

acquaintance, n. (48)

    Nat 1.69 3 Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they/ Find their acquaintance there./
    DSA 1.122 21 If a man dissemble...he...goes out of acquaintance with his own being.
    YA 1.364 10 An unlooked-for consequence of the railroad is the increased acquaintance it has given the American people with the boundless resources of their own soil.
    Comp 2.117 12 ...no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men until he has suffered from the one and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same.
    SL 2.148 18 Every quality of [a man's] mind is magnified in some one acquaintance...
    Lov1 2.183 26 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...on the circle of household acquaintance...
    Fdsp 2.193 2 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger]...so that they who sit by, of our own kinsfolk and acquaintance, shall feel a lively surprise at our unusual powers.
    Fdsp 2.203 13 I knew a man who...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first...all men agreed he was mad. But persisting...he attained to the advantage of bringing every man of his acquaintance into true relations with him.
    Prd1 2.226 18 ...not one stroke can labor lay to without some new acquaintance with nature...
    NER 3.251 1 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years...will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
    UGM 4.11 2 We speak now only of our acquaintance with [the sciences] in their own sphere...
    SwM 4.100 14 [Swedenborg's] duties had brought him into intimate acquaintance with King Charles XII....
    ET1 5.15 18 [Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs...
    ET6 5.106 7 ...[the Englishman's] bearing, on being introduced, is cold, even though he is seeking your acquaintance...
    ET11 5.176 14 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...and who had any acquaintance in his family should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.
    ET11 5.194 4 Campbell says, Acquaintance with the nobility, I could never keep up.
    ET17 5.294 4 At Edinburgh...I made the acquaintance of DeQuincey, of Lord Jeffrey...
    ET19 5.309 10 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it, as fitly expressing the feeling with which I entered England, and which agrees well enough with the more deliberate results of better acquaintance recorded in the foregoing pages.
    Wth 6.123 25 Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress...cousin and acquaintance.
    Ctr 6.139 5 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...
    Ctr 6.156 8 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.
    Bhr 6.171 1 We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition...to the ball-room, or wheresoever they can come into acquaintance and nearness of leading persons of their own sex;...
    Bhr 6.195 26 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by...the acquaintance with real beauty.
    Wsp 6.211 23 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one; and no amount of evidence of his crimes will prevent them... priding themselves on his acquaintance.
    SS 7.5 21 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins, in which he forbade him to insert his name with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Transactions: It would perhaps increase my acquaintance...
    Boks 7.203 16 The reader of these books [of the Platonists] makes new acquaintance with his own mind;...
    Clbs 7.250 1 One likes...to make in an old acquaintance unexpected discoveries of scope and power through the advantage of an inspiring subject.
    SA 8.96 20 A lady of my acquaintance said, I don't care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it.
    Comc 8.168 18 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind... learning languages and reading books to the end of a better acquaintance with man, stops in the languages and books;...
    LLNE 10.364 20 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their life...their first acquaintance with the riches of conversation...
    EzRy 10.388 19 When Put Merriam...had the effrontery to call on the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] as an old acquaintance, in the midst of general conversation Mr. Frost came in...
    EzRy 10.392 24 With a very limited acquaintance with books, [Ezra Ripley' s] knowledge was an external experience...
    EzRy 10.395 12 All [Ezra Ripley's] opinions and actions might be securely predicted by a good observer on short acquaintance.
    MMEm 10.405 26 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names.
    MMEm 10.411 1 When some ladies of my acquaintance by an unusual chance found themselves in her neighborhood and visited her, I told them that [Mary Moody Emerson] was no whistle that every mouth could play on...
    SlHr 10.444 7 ...how solitary [Samuel Hoar] looked, day by day in the world, this man so revered, this man...of large acquaintance and wide family connection!
    Thor 10.452 6 [Thoreau] resumed his endless walks and miscellaneous studies, making every day some new acquaintance with Nature...
    Thor 10.460 14 One man [John Brown], whose personal acquaintance he had formed, [Thoreau] honored with exceptional regard.
    Thor 10.474 3 Occasionally, a small party of Penobscot Indians would visit Concord, and pitch their tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-bank. [Thoreau] failed not to make acquaintance with the best of them;...
    GSt 10.502 9 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown...
    GSt 10.502 14 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown, who... attached some of the best and noblest to him, on very short acquaintance, by lasting ties.
    SMC 11.361 26 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he keeps up a constant acquaintance with them;...
    CPL 11.498 21 The religious bias of our founders had its usual effect to secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book, and thence the step was easy for active minds to an acquaintance with history and with poetry.
    CPL 11.501 24 Every attainment and discipline which increases a man's acquaintance with the invisible world lifts his being.
    Mem 12.108 4 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but...a possession of the intellect. Then...we put the onus of being remembered on the object, instead of on our will. We shall do as we do with all our studies, prize the fact or the name of the person by that predominance it takes in our mind after near acquaintance.
    MAng1 12.222 5 No acquaintance with the secrets of its mechanism...can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.
    MAng1 12.223 25 Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades, but a thorough acquaintance with all the secrets of the art [of architecture]...
    WSL 12.347 20 [Landor's] acquaintance with the English tongue is unsurpassed.

acquaintances, n. (9)

    Nat 1.10 13 ...to be brothers, to be acquaintances, master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance.
    Comp 2.126 23 [The death of a friend] permits or constrains the formation of new acquaintances...
    Fdsp 2.193 9 Vulgarity, ignorance, misapprehension are old acquaintances.
    ShP 4.203 10 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances, the following persons: Theodore Beza, Isaac Casaubon...
    Suc 7.306 3 That is the great happiness of life,--to add to our high acquaintances.
    Grts 8.304 15 You shall not enumerate your brilliant acquaintances...
    EzRy 10.392 15 Sage and savage strove harder in [Ezra Ripley] than in any of my acquaintances...
    MMEm 10.405 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] had many acquaintances among the notables of the time;...
    Carl 10.489 5 [Carlyle] is not mainly a scholar, like the most of my acquaintances...

acquainted, adj. (11)

    AmS 1.95 9 [The world's] attractions...make me acquainted with myself.
    Aris 10.49 8 I should like to see...every man made acquainted with the true number and weight of every adult citizen...
    PerF 10.79 3 [A man] becomes acquainted with the resistances, and with his own tools;...
    LLNE 10.335 22 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism.
    MMEm 10.405 22 When [Mary Moody Emerson] met a young person who interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate with him or her at once...
    HDC 11.75 17 In all the anecdotes of that day's [April 19, 1775] events we may discern the natural action of the people. It...might have been calculated on by any one acquainted with the spirits and habits of our community.
    EWI 11.105 9 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London...
    EWI 11.108 22 [Thomas] Clarkson went to Bristol, made himself acquainted with the interior of the slave-ships and the details of the trade.
    EWI 11.121 4 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are as free...as any that we know of in any country.
    CPL 11.500 12 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...known to our farmers as...better acquainted with their forests and meadows and trees than themselves...
    FRep 11.529 9 The government is acquainted with the opinions of all classes...

acquainted, v. (34)

    LE 1.173 26 And why must the student be solitary and silent? That he may become acquainted with his thoughts.
    LE 1.181 26 The good scholar will not refuse...to make his own hands acquainted with the soil by which he is fed...
    OS 2.287 17 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...or perhaps as acquainted with the fact on the evidence of third persons.
    Int 2.334 7 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not;...
    Art1 2.355 21 I should think fire the best thing in the world, if I were not acquainted with air, and water, and earth.
    Mrs1 3.137 2 Let us not be too much acquainted.
    Pol1 3.215 12 A man who cannot be acquainted with me, taxes me;...
    SwM 4.103 6 ...in Swedenborg, whose who are best acquainted with modern books will most admire the merit of mass.
    MoS 4.163 3 ...I became acquainted with an accomplished English poet, John Sterling;...
    ShP 4.215 11 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history: any one acquainted with the parties can name every figure;...
    Wth 6.86 15 A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam;...
    Wsp 6.217 16 The heart has its arguments, with which the understanding is not acquainted.
    SS 7.3 17 ...[my new friend's] evident earnestness engaged my attention, and in the weeks that followed we became better acquainted.
    Elo1 7.72 8 I [Antenor] became acquainted with the genius and the prudent judgments of [Ulysses and Menelaus].
    Elo1 7.89 9 A crowd of men go up to Faneuil Hall; they are all pretty well acquainted with the object of the meeting;...
    WD 7.179 14 ...if a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundations of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
    Clbs 7.229 2 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach, where...people became rapidly acquainted...
    Clbs 7.239 11 The attention of the English chemist was instantly arrested, and [he and the American chemist] became rapidly acquainted.
    Cour 7.275 9 There are degrees of courage, and each step upward makes us acquainted with a higher virtue.
    PPo 8.252 3 The Persians had a mode of establishing copyright the most secure of any contrivance with which we are acquainted.
    Dem1 10.9 5 We are...by this experience [of dreams]...acquainted with the identity of very unlike-seeming effects.
    Aris 10.55 23 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud.
    PerF 10.79 14 [The manufacturer] undertook the charge of [the chemical works] himself...learned chemistry and acquainted himself with all the conditions of the manufacture.
    Edc1 10.145 21 In London...I became acquainted with a gentleman, Sir Charles Fellowes...
    Plu 10.318 26 That prince [Alexander] kept Homer's poems not only for himself under his pillow in his tent, but carried these for the delight of the Persian youth, and made them acquainted also with the tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles.
    LLNE 10.330 20 [Everett] made us for the first time acquainted with Wolff' s theory of the Homeric writings...
    LLNE 10.343 6 As these persons became in the common chances of society acquainted with each other, there resulted certainly strong friendships...
    PLT 12.4 24 Every creation...is on the method and by the means which our mind approves as soon as it is thoroughly acquainted with the facts;...
    PLT 12.22 23 The robber, as the police reports say, must have been intimately acquainted with the premises.
    II 12.84 21 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre;...
    CW 12.177 1 This is my ideal of the powers of wealth. Find out what lake or sea Agassiz wishes to explore, and offer to carry him there, and he will make you acquainted with all its fishes...
    Milt1 12.259 17 In Paris, [Milton] became acquainted with Grotius;...
    Milt1 12.269 13 The part [Milton] took, the zeal of his fellowship, make us acquainted with the greatness of his spirit as in tranquil times we could not have known it.
    Pray 12.351 26 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries...

acquainting, v. (1)

    UGM 4.16 17 Genius...by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old.

acquaints, v. (4)

    Nat 1.62 20 Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being and the evidence of the world's being.
    Bty 6.288 16 ...the beauty which certain objects have for [man] is the friendly fire which expands the thought and acquaints the prisoner that liberty and power await him.
    SA 8.105 23 A little experience acquaints us with the unconvertibility of the sentimentalist...
    HDC 11.56 5 Even this check which befell [the people of Concord] acquaints us with the rapidity of their growth...

acquiesce, v. (7)

    Nat 1.49 4 ...whilst we acquiesce entirely in the permanence of natural laws, the question of the absolute existence of nature still remains open.
    SL 2.151 19 Take the place and attitude which belong to you, and all men acquiesce.
    SL 2.160 12 The lesson which these observations convey is, Be, and not seem. Let us acquiesce.
    OS 2.293 17 If you do not find [your friend], will you not acquiesce that it is best you should not find him?...
    Wsp 6.210 13 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...
    PLT 12.30 7 I acquiesce to be that I am...
    II 12.84 27 ...all parties acquiesce, at last, each in a private box, with the whole play performed before himself solus.

acquiescence, n. (4)

    AmS 1.106 27 The poor and the low find some amends...for their acquiescence in a political and social inferiority.
    Chr1 3.100 17 Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public, indicate infirm faith...
    ET1 5.11 9 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
    Pow 6.59 12 When a new boy comes into school...there is at once a trial of strength...and it is settled thenceforth which is the leader. So now, there is a measuring of strength...and an acquiescence thenceforward when these two meet.

acquiescent, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.39 22 We are fallen on times so acquiescent and traditionary that we are in danger of forgetting so simple a fact as that the basis of all aristocracy must be truth...

acquiesces, v. (1)

    War 11.152 12 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals...when he learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...

acquire, v. (32)

    MN 1.191 18 The rapid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade...enchants the eyes of all the rest;...
    Con 1.301 23 Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession...
    Con 1.324 14 Whatsoever streams of power and commodity flow to me, shall of me acquire healing virtue...
    SR 2.55 16 We...acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression.
    SR 2.88 9 ...that which a man is, does always by necessity acquire;...
    SR 2.89 23 In the Will work and acquire...
    Comp 2.117 18 Has [a man] a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to...acquire habits of self-help;...
    SL 2.149 4 What can we see or acquire but what we are?
    Art1 2.361 4 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be... a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold... I was to see and acquire I knew not what.
    Exp 3.77 27 ...the longer a particular union lasts the more energy of appetency the parts not in union acquire.
    Exp 3.85 5 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. They acquire democratic manners...they hate and deny.
    UGM 4.13 17 Talk much with any man of vigorous mind, and we acquire very fast the habit of looking at things in the same light...
    ET12 5.211 13 I should readily concede these [physical] advantages, which would be easy to acquire, if I did not find also that [Oxford men] read better than we, and write better.
    Wth 6.96 6 Men are urged by their ideas to acquire the command over nature.
    Wsp 6.227 6 As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity...
    CbW 6.255 1 We acquire the strength we have overcome.
    Bty 6.298 7 ...we fear to fatigue [women], and acquire a facility of expression which passes from conversation into habit of style.
    Elo1 7.89 14 The orator possesses no information which his hearers have not, yet he teaches them to see the thing with his eyes. By the new placing, the circumstances acquire new solidity and worth.
    DL 7.129 15 In the progress of each man's character, his relations to the best men, which at first seem only the romances of youth, acquire a graver importance;...
    Clbs 7.248 8 No doubt the suppers of wits and philosophers acquire much lustre by time and renown.
    Clbs 7.250 7 ...glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
    SA 8.79 16 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start;...
    QO 8.190 18 ...men of extraordinary genius acquire an almost absolute ascendant over their nearest companions.
    QO 8.198 2 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
    Dem1 10.21 9 Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
    PerF 10.72 14 The laws of material nature run up into the invisible world of the mind, and hereby we acquire a key to those sublimities which skulk and hide in the caverns of human consciousness.
    EWI 11.112 9 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers, and to acquire thereby all the rights and privileges of freemen...
    EWI 11.128 22 The extent of the [British] empire, and the magnitude and number of other questions crowding into court, keep this one [slavery] in balance, and prevent it from...being urged with that intemperance which a question of property tends to acquire.
    PLT 12.27 20 There is no permanent wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company or other favorable conditions, become wise, as glasses rubbed acquire power for a time.
    Mem 12.91 15 Any piece of knowledge I acquire to-day...has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
    MAng1 12.220 1 ...to the artist it belongs by a better knowledge of anatomy, and, within anatomy, of life and thought, to acquire the power of true drawing.
    MAng1 12.222 15 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias...

acquired, adj. (2)

    ET2 5.28 26 I find the sea-life an acquired taste...
    Schr 10.283 9 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...a simple wisdom behind all acquired wisdom;...

acquired, v. (35)

    LE 1.164 18 ...the soul has assurance...of all power in the direction of its ray, as well as of the special skills it has already acquired.
    LE 1.181 17 ...in a contempt for the gabble of to-day's opinions the secret of the world is to be learned, and the skill truly to unfold it is acquired.
    LT 1.261 11 The reason and influence of wealth...the tendencies which have acquired the name of Transcendentalism in Old and New England... these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    Con 1.321 11 [Religious institutions] have already acquired a market value as conservators of property;...
    Tran 1.339 25 ...the Idealism of the present day acquired the name of Transcendental from the use of that term by Immanuel Kant...
    Tran 1.340 7 ...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired;...
    SL 2.137 23 He who...thoroughly knows how knowledge is acquired and character formed, is a pedant.
    OS 2.275 21 To the well-born child all the virtues are natural, and not painfully acquired.
    Pt1 3.3 2 Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures...
    Exp 3.84 21 I hear always the law of Adrastia, that every soul which had acquired any truth, should be safe from harm until another period.
    Mrs1 3.128 10 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired lustre to their name...
    NR 3.240 27 I think I have done well if I have acquired a new word from a good author;...
    NER 3.276 14 ...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 dispossess himself of what he has acquired...
    SwM 4.124 10 That slow but commanding influence which [Swedenborg] has acquired, like that of other religious geniuses, must be excessive also...
    SwM 4.129 22 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist.
    ET4 5.48 20 The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face;...
    ET4 5.56 13 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship.
    ET4 5.60 19 [The Normans] had...learned the Romance or barbarous Latin of the Gauls, and had acquired, with the language, all the vices it had names for.
    ET14 5.238 5 ...[English] scholars...acquired the solidity and method of engineers.
    ET14 5.248 7 It is very certain...that if Lord Bacon had been only the sensualist his critic pretends, he would never have acquired the fame which now entitles him to this patronage.
    Ctr 6.143 6 ...the first boy has acquired much more than these poor games along with them.
    Wsp 6.226 3 He who has acquired the ability may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated...
    Farm 7.150 11 ...these [drainage] tiles have acquired by association a new interest.
    Boks 7.218 22 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world...
    Cour 7.263 19 ...the frontiersman [loses fear], when he has a perfect rifle and has acquired a sure aim.
    Suc 7.294 18 I pronounce that young man happy who is content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at...
    Imtl 8.339 26 After we have found our depth [on a new planet], and assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new scene. In each transfer we shall have acquired...a new mastery of the old thoughts...
    Aris 10.41 24 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages, and in reality each to adopt from the other a first-rate man, who thus acquired a new country; was at once made a chief.
    EWI 11.123 11 ...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to trade.
    FSLN 11.227 22 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally different course from Mr. Webster. If any man had in that hour possessed the weight with the country which he had acquired, he could have brought the whole country to its senses.
    EdAd 11.391 5 The name of Swedenborg has in this very time acquired new honors...
    Mem 12.101 2 ...what familiarity has been acquired with the genius of the language, and the writer, helps in fixing the exact meaning of the sentence.
    CL 12.155 6 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence.
    Milt1 12.259 26 Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power of language.
    MLit 12.314 9 ...this habit of intellectual selfishness has acquired in our day the fine name of subjectiveness.

acquirement, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.422 11 Dissolve the body...and we measure duration...by...the acquirement of virtue...

acquires, v. (16)

    MN 1.214 18 ...a man never sees the same object twice: with his own enlargement the object acquires new aspects.
    SR 2.84 17 Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.
    SR 2.88 10 ...what the man acquires, is living property...
    Int 2.330 10 A true man never acquires after college rules.
    Int 2.332 20 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind...
    MoS 4.152 10 No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
    Bhr 6.175 6 A prince who is accustomed every day to be courted and deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires a corresponding expectation...
    Bty 6.289 5 ...as fast as [a man] sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.
    Farm 7.139 10 The farmer...acquires that livelong patience which belongs to [Nature].
    WD 7.183 25 ...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.
    Cour 7.263 16 The sailor loses fear as fast as he acquires command of sails and spars and steam;...
    QO 8.195 16 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in Tiraboschi...or other historian of literature.
    PerF 10.79 8 [The persistent man] is his own apprentice, and more time gives a great addition of power, just as a falling body acquires momentum with every foot of the fall.
    Edc1 10.130 10 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch wandering from age to age, but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power;...
    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.
    CL 12.152 14 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully ripe, and...acquires fine color...

acquiring, v. (10)

    MR 1.232 27 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration; but rather what he then puts out of sight, only showing the brilliant result, and atoning for the manner of acquiring, by the manner of expending it.
    UGM 4.13 5 We are as much gainers by finding a new property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.
    SwM 4.108 23 Here in the brain is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting and assimilating of experience.
    MoS 4.152 11 No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
    ET16 5.275 8 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run away to France...instead of...confronting Englishmen and acquiring their culture...
    ET18 5.303 25 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon seed, with its instinct...for arts and for thought,--acquiring under some skies a more electric energy than the native air allows...
    Bhr 6.178 18 There is no nicety of learning sought by the mind which the eyes do not vie in acquiring.
    CbW 6.275 15 Do not make life hard to any. This point is acquiring new importance in American social life.
    DL 7.114 21 ...in getting wealth the man is generally sacrificed, and often is sacrificed without acquiring wealth at last.
    LLNE 10.335 15 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is acquiring greater importance every day...

acquisition, n. (11)

    Hist 2.17 5 By a deeper apprehension, and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills, the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
    SL 2.161 13 The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of...our acquisition of an office, and the like...
    UGM 4.33 15 ...the smallest acquisition of truth or of energy, in any quarter, is so much good to the commonwealth of souls.
    Wth 6.88 15 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf. Then...she urges him to the acquisition of such things as belong to him.
    Bty 6.288 27 Every man values every acquisition he makes in the science of beauty, above his possessions.
    Clbs 7.229 5 In youth, in the fury of curiosity and acquisition, the day is too short for books...
    Edc1 10.129 10 No dollar of property can be created without...some acquisition of knowledge and practical force.
    MMEm 10.430 10 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong for that rapt emotion, that severe delight which I crave;...
    FSLC 11.189 19 I thought it was this fair mystery, whose foundations are hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was to confound all distinctions...
    TPar 11.286 11 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of duty, or accepted nobly that assigned him in his rare constitution. Wonderful acquisition of knowledge, a rapid wit...
    CL 12.157 19 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.

acquisitions, n. (3)

    SR 2.65 10 My wilful actions and acquisitions are but roving;...
    Res 8.153 22 ...all these acquisitions are victories of the good brain and brave heart;...
    Wom 11.406 16 [Women] learn so fast and convey the result so fast as to outrun the logic of their slow brother, and make his acquisitions poor.

acquit, v. (5)

    Exp 3.51 24 We see young men who owe us a new world...but they never acquit the debt;...
    NER 3.275 8 [A man]...gives his days and nights, his talents and his heart... to acquit himself in all men's sight as a man.
    Thor 10.456 11 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit...is a little chilling to the social affections; and though the companion would in the end acquit him of any malice or untruth, yet it mars conversation.
    Milt1 12.250 14 To insult Salmasius, not to acquit England, is the main design [of Milton's Defence of the English People].
    MLit 12.329 23 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...every keen beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister], and will acquit me of prejudging the cause of humanity by painting it with this morose fidelity.

acquitted, v. (2)

    TPar 11.287 11 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore Parker's] treatment both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity...whilst I acquitted him, of course, of any wish to be flippant.
    AgMs 12.363 24 [Edmund Hosmer] had a good opinion of the [Agricultural] Surveyor, and acquitted him of any blame in the matter...

acre, n. (20)

    LE 1.186 21 Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn?
    Con 1.310 11 [Existing institutions] have, it is most true, left you no acre for your own...
    Con 1.312 19 It is frivolous to say you have no acre, because you have not a mathematically measured piece of land.
    Con 1.312 23 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert...
    Con 1.312 25 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert,-acre, if you need land;...
    Prd1 2.234 14 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the State-Street prudence of buying by the acre to sell by the foot;...
    PNR 4.82 1 The naturalist...is as poor when cataloguing the resolved nebula of Orion, as when measuring the angles of an acre.
    ET9 5.144 6 The king cannot step on an acre [in England] which the peasant refuses to sell.
    ET10 5.169 7 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that the yeoman was forced to sell his cow and pig, his tools and his acre of land;...
    Wth 6.103 26 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts; and every acre in the state is more worth, in the hour of his action.
    Wth 6.123 19 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of...laying out my acre, but the ball will rebound to you.
    CbW 6.244 1 Cleave to thine acre; the round year/ Will fetch all fruits and virtues here/...
    Farm 7.135 19 What these strong masters [farmers] wrote at large in miles,/ I followed in small copy in my acre;/...
    Farm 7.148 17 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...
    WD 7.163 7 ...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;...
    HDC 11.41 11 Other portions [of land in Concord] seem to have been successively divided off and granted to individuals, at the rate of sixpence or a shilling an acre.
    HDC 11.47 12 In this open democracy [in New England], every opinion had utterance; every objection, every fact, every acre of land, every bushel of rye, its entire weight.
    EPro 11.321 25 Every acre in the free states gained substantial value on the twenty-second of September.
    EdAd 11.387 10 ...every acre on the globe, every family of men, every point of climate, has its distinguishing virtues.
    CL 12.145 23 One [apple] tree yields the rent of an acre of land.

Acre, Nine, Corner, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.387 17 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family.

Acre, Palestine, n. (1)

    NMW 4.246 16 On the shore of Ptolemais, gigantic projects agitated [Napoleon]. Had Acre fallen, I should have changed the face of the world.

acres, n. (24)

    Nat 1.76 14 ...you perhaps call [your house]...a hundred acres of ploughed land...
    Nat2 3.172 14 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the mimic waving of acres of houstonia...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    NER 3.252 27 ...the hundred acres of the farm must be spaded...
    ET1 5.17 25 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. ... But here are thousands of acres which might give them all meat...
    ET4 5.57 25 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have weapons which they use in a determined manner, by no means for chivalry, but for their acres.
    ET5 5.95 15 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained...
    ET11 5.182 16 The Duke of Devonshire, besides his other estates, owns 96, 000 acres in the County of Derby.
    ET11 5.182 17 The Duke of Richmond has 40,000 acres at Goodwood and 300,000 at Gordon Castle.
    ET11 5.182 21 An agriculturist bought lately the island of Lewes, in Hebrides, containing 500,000 acres.
    Wth 6.119 14 You think farm buildings and broad acres a solid property;...
    Wth 6.122 21 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing...the peaks of Monadnoc and Uncanoonuc. What, thirty acres, and all this magnificence for fifteen hundred dollars!
    Cour 7.264 8 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together;...and by raking with the hoe a long but little trench, confine to a patch the fire which would easily spread over a hundred acres.
    Suc 7.299 25 What is the beach but acres of sand?...
    LLNE 10.350 26 ...each community should take up six thousand acres of land.
    LLNE 10.359 18 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841, by a society of members...who bought a farm in West Roxbury, of about two hundred acres...
    MMEm 10.401 26 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...to those who may hereafter read her letters, will make its obscure acres amiable.
    HDC 11.39 19 A poor servant [in Concord], that is to possess but fifty acres, may afford to give more wood for fire as good as the world yields, than many noblemen in England.
    HDC 11.41 17 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge;...
    HDC 11.41 19 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge; and to Mr. Spencer, probably for the like reason, 300 acres by the Alewife River.
    HDC 11.41 20 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop...
    HDC 11.62 18 Before 1666, 15,000 acres had been added by grants of the General Court to the original territory of the town [Concord]...
    AKan 11.257 7 I think we are to give largely, lavishly, to these [Kansas] men. And we must prepare to do it. We must...sell our apple-trees, our acres, our pleasant houses.
    WSL 12.344 11 [Landor]...values his pedigree, his acres and the syllables of his name;...
    AgMs 12.358 18 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect.

acre's, n. (2)

    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...
    Con 1.312 25 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert,-acre, if you need land;-acre's worth, if you prefer to draw...to the tilling of the soil.

acrid, adj. (3)

    ET4 5.62 25 The nation [England] has a tough, acrid, animal nature...
    CbW 6.270 3 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right.
    Bost 12.187 6 I think the Potomac water is a little acrid...

acridity, n. (2)

    Pow 6.71 8 Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.
    CbW 6.251 25 The coxcomb and bully and thief class are allowed as proletaries, every one of their vices being the excess or acridity of a virtue.

acrostic, n. (2)

    SR 2.58 10 A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;...
    SL 2.148 22 [A man] is like...an initial, medial, and terminal acrostic.

a-crying, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.236 18 The Persian Saadi said, Beware of hurting the orphan. When the orphan sets a-crying, the throne of the Almighty is rocked from side to side.

act, n. (152)

    Nat 1.19 27 Every heroic act is also decent...
    Nat 1.20 16 When a noble act is done...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.21 20 ...an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple...
    Nat 1.60 7 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...not as painfully accumulated...act after act...
    AmS 1.88 21 The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation...is transferred to the record.
    AmS 1.88 22 The sacredness which attaches to...the act of thought, is transferred to the record.
    AmS 1.96 22 Observe too the impossibility of antedating this act.
    AmS 1.99 13 [The great soul] can still fall back on this elemental force of living [his truths]. This is a total act.
    AmS 1.99 13 Thinking is a partial act.
    DSA 1.121 26 The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and thought, - in speech we must...describe or suggest by painful enumeration of many particulars.
    DSA 1.148 24 You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.
    LE 1.171 24 ...the first observation you make, in the sincere act of your nature...may open a new view of nature and of man...
    LE 1.184 17 ...[the scholar] can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word, no act, no record, would be.
    MN 1.192 11 There is in each of these works an act of invention...
    MN 1.192 13 There is in each of these works...an intellectual step, or short series of steps, taken; that act or step is the spiritual act;...
    MN 1.192 14 There is in each of these works...an intellectual step, or short series of steps, taken; that act or step is the spiritual act;...
    MN 1.211 19 This ecstatical state seems to direct a regard...to the tendency and not to the act.
    MN 1.222 1 If you say, The acceptance of the vision is also the act of God:-I shall not seek to penetrate the mystery...
    MR 1.235 14 ...will you...set every man to make his own shoes, bureau, knife, wagon, sails, and needle? This would be to put men back into barbarism by their own act.
    MR 1.237 12 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    MR 1.254 9 I am to see to it that the world is the better for me, and to find my reward in the act.
    Con 1.306 27 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;... And what is that peril? Knives and muskets, if we meet you in the act;...
    SR 2.56 24 The other terror that scares us from self-trust is...a reverence for our past act or word...
    SR 2.63 5 As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed [kings'] public and renowned steps.
    SR 2.72 12 No man can come near me but through my act.
    Comp 2.101 25 So do we put our life into every act.
    Comp 2.102 26 Every act rewards itself...in a twofold manner...
    Comp 2.110 5 ...our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world.
    Comp 2.122 6 ...in a virtuous act I add to the world;...
    SL 2.131 1 When the act of reflection takes place in the mind...we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.
    SL 2.140 9 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act...and not a whole act of the man.
    SL 2.140 10 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act...and not a whole act of the man.
    SL 2.158 17 Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness.
    SL 2.160 1 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved.
    SL 2.160 20 If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act?
    Lov1 2.180 4 The statue is then beautiful...when it...demands an active imagination to go with it and say what it is in the act of doing.
    Hsm1 2.251 18 ...just and wise men take umbrage at [the hero's] act...
    Hsm1 2.251 22 ...every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good.
    Hsm1 2.260 17 Adhere to your own act...
    OS 2.269 13 ...the act of seeing and the thing seen...are one.
    OS 2.291 16 Souls such as these treat you as gods would...accepting without any admiration...your virtue even,--say rather your act of duty...
    OS 2.292 16 Ineffable is the union of man and God in every act of the soul.
    Int 2.325 21 ...[the mind] melts will into perception, knowledge into act?
    Art1 2.351 2 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.
    Exp 3.78 7 Every day, every act betrays the ill-concealed deity.
    Exp 3.78 15 The act looks very differently on the inside and on the outside;...
    Exp 3.78 21 ...[murder] is an act quite easy to be contemplated;...
    Chr1 3.88 5 Work of his hand/ He nor commends nor grieves:/ Pleads for itself the fact;/ As unrepenting Nature leaves/ Her every act./
    Mrs1 3.132 2 ...the countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
    Gts 3.162 26 I am sorry...when a gift comes from such as do not know my spirit, and so the act is not supported;...
    Nat2 3.184 22 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled. It was no great affair, a mere push, but the astronomers were right in making much of it, for there is no end to the consequences of the act.
    Nat2 3.185 13 Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
    Pol1 3.199 5 ...we ought to remember...that every one of [the State's institutions] was once the act of a single man;...
    Pol1 3.218 10 ...we are constrained to reflect on our splendid moment with a certain humiliation...and not as one act of many acts...
    NR 3.228 14 ...as we grow older we value total powers and effects, as the impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things. The genius is all. The man,--it is his system: we do not try a solitary word or act, but his habit.
    NER 3.254 21 It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the act to be original...
    PPh 4.44 12 [Plato]...died, as we have received it, in the act of writing, at eighty-one years.
    PPh 4.48 4 ...every mental act...recognizes the difference of things.
    SwM 4.127 18 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine Platonic development of the science of marriage; teaching that sex is universal, and not local; virility in the male qualifying every organ, act, and thought; and the feminine in woman.
    GoW 4.261 18 Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows and in his own manners and face.
    GoW 4.267 6 The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
    ET5 5.77 26 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...is ready to allow the justice of the thought and act in his retainer or tenant...
    ET13 5.225 5 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament.
    Pow 6.74 23 [Many an artist] is up to nature and the First Cause in his thought. But the spasm to collect and swing his whole being into one act, he has not.
    Pow 6.79 17 The masters say that they know a master in music, only by seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;--so difficult and vital an act is the command of the instrument.
    Pow 6.80 25 ...never was any signal act or achievement in history but by this expenditure [of spirit].
    Ctr 6.133 16 Eminent spiritualists shall have an incapacity of putting their act or word aloof from them...
    Wsp 6.226 22 To make our word or act sublime, we must make it real.
    Wsp 6.231 10 The man whose eyes are nailed, not on the nature of his act but on the wages...is almost equally low.
    Wsp 6.231 17 A great man cannot be hindered of the effect of his act...
    CbW 6.246 26 We have a debt...to those who have put life and fortune on the cast of an act of justice;...
    CbW 6.277 15 The individuals are...in the act of becoming something else, and irresponsible.
    Bty 6.292 5 Nothing interests us which is stark or bounded, but only...what is in act or endeavor to reach somewhat beyond.
    Ill 6.319 25 ...the soul doth not know itself in its own act when that act is perfected.
    Art2 7.37 24 Every thought that arises in the mind, in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act;...
    DL 7.130 21 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble, whose every act is a subject for the sculptor...
    DL 7.132 22 When [man] perceives the Law, he ceases to despond. Whilst he sees it, every thought and act is raised, and becomes an act of religion.
    WD 7.165 9 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer...
    Boks 7.192 18 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    Cour 7.272 18 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was its first act;...
    Cour 7.272 19 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was its first act;...
    Cour 7.274 25 Sacred courage indicates...that [a man]...will venture all to put in act the invisible thought in his mind.
    Cour 7.275 26 Scholars and thinkers...shrink if...a brutal act is recorded in the journals.
    Suc 7.292 5 ...nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own.
    OA 7.325 9 We learn the fatal compensations that wait on every act.
    PI 8.18 21 The act of imagination is ever attended by pure delight.
    PI 8.23 19 Whatever one act we do, whatever one thing we learn, we are doing and learning all things...
    PI 8.29 1 Fancy is a wilful, imagination a spontaneous act;...
    SA 8.100 7 [The consideration the rich possess] is the approval given by the human understanding to the act of creating value by knowledge and labor.
    Elo2 8.117 10 No act indicates more universal health than eloquence.
    Comc 8.164 11 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead.
    QO 8.177 10 If we go into a library or newsroom, we see the same function [of suction] of a higher plane, performed...with equal impatience of interruption, indicating the sweetness of the act.
    PPo 8.265 19 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./
    Grts 8.310 17 ...there is for each a Best Counsel which enjoins the fit word and the fit act for every moment.
    Grts 8.320 21 The man...sportive in manner, but inexorable in act;...he it is whom we seek...
    Imtl 8.343 15 [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.
    Dem1 10.8 6 ...every act, every thought, every cause, is bipolar...
    Dem1 10.8 7 ...in the act is contained the counteraction.
    Dem1 10.14 27 The augur showed [Masollam] a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain; if he flew on, they might proceed; but if he flew back, they must return. The Jew said nothing, but bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground. This act offended the augur and some others...
    Aris 10.50 3 ...the powers...of a priest [are determined] by the act of inspiring us with a sentiment which disperses the grief from which we suffered.
    PerF 10.83 9 [The susceptible man] does not then invent his sentiment or his act...
    Chr2 10.93 26 We can only mark, one by one, the perfections which [the moral intuition] combines in every act.
    Edc1 10.129 21 Is it not true that every landscape I behold...every act I perform...leaves me a different being from that they found me?
    Edc1 10.158 24 By your own act you teach the beholder how to do the practicable.
    SovE 10.190 3 ...every wish, appetite and passion rushes into act and embodies itself in usages...
    SovE 10.197 26 ...every act is not hereafter but instantaneously rewarded according to its quality.
    Prch 10.229 14 Nothing is more rare, in any man, than an act of his own.
    MMEm 10.417 9 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause...but after consideration she refused it, I know not on what grounds: but a few allusions to it in her diary suggest that it was a religious act...
    Thor 10.464 3 At Mount Washington...Thoreau had a bad fall, and sprained his foot. As he was in the act of getting up from his fall, he saw for the first time the leaves of the Arnica mollis.
    Thor 10.470 22 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird...which always, when he saw it, was in the act of diving down into a tree or bush...
    Thor 10.477 19 ...[Thoreau] was...a person incapable of any profanation, by act or by thought.
    Carl 10.496 19 ...Carlyle thinks that the only religious act which a man nowadays can securely perform is to wash himself well.
    LS 11.11 6 ...it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...
    LS 11.17 19 ...the service [the Lord's Supper] does not stand upon the basis of a voluntary act, but is imposed by authority.
    LS 11.18 11 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
    LS 11.18 12 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God...
    LS 11.20 7 ...any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought...an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration [of Jesus].
    HDC 11.42 12 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history...
    HDC 11.70 26 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...to suspend all commercial intercourse with Great Britain, until the act for blocking the harbor of Boston be repealed;...
    LVB 11.91 14 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty, and are proceeding to execute the same. Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is not our act.
    LVB 11.92 11 We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees]. We are slow to believe it. We hoped...that [the Indians'] remonstrance was premature, and will turn out to be a needless act of terror.
    LVB 11.93 24 We will not have this great and solemn claim upon national and human justice [the relocation of the Cherokees] huddled aside under the flimsy plea of its being a party act.
    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.
    EWI 11.110 15 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built sharp for swiftness...
    EWI 11.113 16 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves' time as the act [of emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling...
    EWI 11.113 27 The colonial legislatures [in the West Indies] received the act of Parliament with various degrees of displeasure...
    FSLC 11.184 14 ...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
    FSLC 11.195 27 A wicked law cannot be executed by good men, and must be by bad. Flagitious men must be employed, and every act of theirs is a stab at the public peace.
    AsSu 11.250 9 [Sumner's enemies] have fastened their eyes like microscopes for five years on every act, word, manner and movement, to find a flaw...
    ACiv 11.310 20 This state-paper [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is the more interesting that it appears to be the President's individual act...
    EPro 11.315 3 In so many arid forms which states encrust themselves with, once in a century...a poetic act and record occur.
    EPro 11.317 12 ...so fair a mind...so reticent...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    EPro 11.319 15 The force of the act [the Emancipation Proclamation] is that it commits the country to this justice...
    EPro 11.319 25 This act [the Emancipation Proclamation] makes that the lives of our heroes have not been sacrificed in vain.
    EPro 11.320 6 The President [Lincoln] by this act [the Emancipation Proclamation] has paroled all the slaves in America;...
    EPro 11.325 16 We think we cannot overstate the wisdom and benefit of this act of the government [the Emancipation Proclamation].
    CPL 11.495 18 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture, as in the act we are met to witness and acknowledge to-day [opening of the Concord Library].
    FRep 11.521 6 ...we...shrink from an act of our own.
    FRep 11.521 7 ...we...shrink from an act of our own. Every such act makes a man famous...
    PLT 12.23 22 ...A body in the act of combination or decomposition enables another body, with which it may be in contact, to enter into the same state.
    PLT 12.30 21 When, moved by love, a man...joins with his neighbor in any act of common benefit...it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
    PLT 12.30 24 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
    PLT 12.46 15 If the thought...does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile.
    PLT 12.50 5 Shakspeare astonishes by his equality in every play, act, scene or line.
    Mem 12.91 3 The builder of the mind found it not less needful that it should have retroaction, and command its past act and deed.
    Mem 12.92 13 You say, I can never think of some act of neglect, of selfishness, or of passion without pain.
    Mem 12.99 27 An act of the understanding will marshal and concatenate a few facts;...
    Mem 12.103 10 If we recall our own favorites, we shall usually find that it is for one crowning act or thought that we hold them dear.
    MAng1 12.235 18 [Michelangelo] required that he should be permitted to accept this work [building St. Peter's] without any fee or reward, because he undertook it as a religious act;...
    Milt1 12.256 4 ...the idea of a purer existence than any he saw around him... inspired every act and every writing of John Milton.
    Milt1 12.272 6 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of domestic liberty, or the liberty of divorce, on the ground that unfit disposition of mind was a better reason for the act of divorce than infirmity of body...
    MLit 12.316 15 ...[the noble natural man] yields himself to your occasion and use, but his act expresses a reference to universal good.

Act, n. (1)

    EWI 11.113 21 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters...20,000,000 pounds sterling...to be distributed to the owners of slaves by commissioners, whose appointment and duties were regulated by the Act [of emancipation].

Act of Congress, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.192 25 You know that the Act of Congress of September 18, 1850, is a law which every one of you will break on the earliest occasion.

Act of Parliament, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.191 7 Lord Coke held that where an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law shall control it...

Act of the Legislature, n. (1)

    CPL 11.495 11 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants...if it avail itself of the Act of the Legislature authorizing towns to tax themselves for the establishment of a public library.

Act, Stamp, n. (1)

    HDC 11.67 27 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the Representative any instructions about any important affair to be transacted by the General Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...

act, v. (69)

    Nat 1.64 2 ...one and not compound [nature] does not act upon us from without...
    AmS 1.99 16 Those...who dwell and act with him, will feel the force of [the great soul's] constitution in the doings and passages of the day...
    LE 1.165 16 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature;...he has only to be forced to act, and it acts.
    MN 1.209 2 ...[a man's] health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act.
    MR 1.233 11 That is the vice,-that no one feels himself called to act for man...
    MR 1.233 15 ...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them...
    LT 1.278 20 I must get with truth, though I should never come to act, as you call it, with effect.
    LT 1.283 5 It is not that men do not wish to act;...
    Con 1.296 10 Saturn...created an oyster. Then he would act again...
    Tran 1.335 13 As I am, so shall I associate, and so shall I act;...
    Tran 1.348 22 ...the good and wise must learn to act...
    YA 1.374 24 ...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence... which infatuates the most selfish men to act against their private interest for the public welfare.
    YA 1.389 16 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    Hist 2.36 20 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let his faculties find no men to act on...and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
    SR 2.59 11 Act singly...
    SR 2.63 6 When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
    Comp 2.103 19 Whilst thus the world...refuses to be disparted, we seek to act partially...
    SL 2.146 13 Men feel and act the consequences of your doctrine without being able to show how they follow.
    SL 2.156 4 If you act you show character;...
    SL 2.158 17 Pretension may sit still, but cannot act.
    SL 2.163 27 To think is to act.
    Hsm1 2.258 13 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us...that we, by the depth of our living, should...act on principles that should interest man and nature in the length of our days.
    OS 2.279 13 ...if I renounce my will and act for the soul...out of [my child' s] young eyes looks the same soul;...
    OS 2.280 10 If we...will act entirely...we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
    OS 2.296 26 [The soul saith] More and more the surges of everlasting nature enter into me, and I become public and human in my regards and actions. So come I to live in thoughts and act with energies which are immortal.
    Int 2.331 9 At last comes the era of reflection...when we keep the mind's eye open...whilst we act...
    Pt1 3.7 25 ...as [the hero and the sage] act and think primarily, so [the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken...
    Pol1 3.214 22 I can see well enough a great difference between my setting myself down to a self-control, and my going to make somebody else act after my views;...
    Pol1 3.215 6 If I put myself in the place of my child, and we stand in one thought and see that things are thus or thus, that perception is law for him and me. We are both there, both act.
    NR 3.243 6 ...according to our nature [things and persons] act on us not at once but in succession...
    NER 3.272 22 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield to the friendly influence...
    PPh 4.41 19 ...these [great] men magnetize their contemporaries, so that their companions can do for them what they can never do for themselves; and the great man does thus...write, or paint or act, by many hands;...
    SwM 4.114 9 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms, which act similarly to the larger ones...
    SwM 4.140 2 Socrates's Genius did not advise him to act or to find...
    MoS 4.151 16 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power...like dreaming beggars [men predisposed to morals] assume to speak and act as if these values were already substantiated.
    ShP 4.219 17 The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler...who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration.
    GoW 4.266 27 Act, if you like,--but you do it at your peril.
    ET6 5.110 20 [The English] have difficulty in bringing their reason to act...
    ET14 5.252 18 [The English]...may be said to live and act in a sub-mind.
    F 6.8 25 ...these shocks and ruins are less destructive to us than the stealthy power of other laws which act on us daily.
    F 6.13 21 [Conservatives]...can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
    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 6.23 16 ...nothing is more disgusting than...the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble...by those who have never dared to think or to act...
    Ill 6.315 6 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community...who held themselves bound to...act with Bible societies and missions and peace-makers...
    Ill 6.324 8 Diogenes of Apollonia said that unless the atoms were made of one stuff, they could never blend and act with one another.
    Ill 6.325 21 The mad crowd drives hither and thither, now furiously commanding this thing to be done, now that. What is [the young mortal] that he should...think or act for himself?
    Civ 7.27 3 Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct: Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.
    Art2 7.48 26 [The artist] must work in the spirit in which we conceive...an angel of the Lord to act;...
    Elo1 7.79 22 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life...who are felt wherever they go...men who...when they act, act effectually...
    Cour 7.266 10 The thoughtful man says...do you not see that I cannot think or act otherwise than I do?...
    Imtl 8.340 18 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might remain after death;...
    Dem1 10.8 5 We call the phantoms that rise [in dreams], the creation of our fancy, but they act like mutineers...
    Dem1 10.23 4 ...the so-called fortunate man is one who, though not gifted... to act with grace or with understanding to great ends...relies on his instincts...
    Dem1 10.23 8 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who...simply does not act where he should not...
    Aris 10.63 24 Let [the man of honor]...say...the music and the dance of liberty will come up to bright and holy ground and will take me in also. Then I shall not have forfeited my right to speak and act for mankind.
    PerF 10.73 9 Whilst these [natural] forces act on us from the outside and we are not in their counsel, we call them Fate.
    Chr2 10.99 23 ...men act powerfully on us.
    Prch 10.224 25 ...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true, it is clear mathematically...that this will tell in the result...
    EWI 11.108 17 [Thomas Clarkson] left Cambridge; he fell in with the six [English] Quakers. They engaged him to act for them.
    FSLN 11.228 27 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming...by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative. The new [Fugitive Slave] Bill...required me to hunt slaves, and it found citizens in Massachusetts willing to act as judges and captors.
    ACiv 11.302 17 We want men...who...act in the interest of civilization.
    EPro 11.325 11 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis. Then new affinities will act...
    Koss 11.400 18 ...it is not those who live idly in the city called after his name, but those who, all over the world, think and act like him, who can claim to explain the sentiment of Washington.
    FRep 11.521 9 ...we can all count the few cases...when a public man ventured to act as he thought...
    FRep 11.532 11 Our people act on the moment...
    FRep 11.537 4 We want men...who...can act in the interest of civilization;...
    PLT 12.9 25 ...what we really want is not a haste to act...
    PLT 12.54 7 The novelist should not make any character act absurdly, but only absurdly as seen by others.
    WSL 12.343 15 Raphael and Homer feel that action is pitiful beside their enchantments. They could act too, if the stake was worthy of them...

Acta Sanctorum, n. (2)

    ET16 5.279 24 ...[Carlyle] reads little, he says, in these last years, but Acta Sanctorum;...

 

 

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