Acted to Adepts
acted, v. (14)
DSA 1.138 4 If [the preacher] had ever lived and acted, we were none the wiser
for it.
Tran 1.335 14 Jesus acted so, because he thought so.
SL 2.162 16 Nor can you, if I am true, excite me to the least uneasiness by
saying, [Epaminondas] acted and thou sittest still.
Exp 3.78 26 Especially the crimes that spring from love seem right and fair from
the actor's point of view, but when acted are found destructive of society.
Art2 7.38 5 [Action] rises in thought, to the end that it may uttered and acted.
PI 8.24 26 It was sensation;...when the mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind
acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
LLNE 10.326 7 The former generations acted under the belief that a shining
social prosperity was the beatitude of man...
HDC 11.51 18 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems
of Wachusett...intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;
and the General Court acted on their request.
HDC 11.75 19 Those poor farmers who came up, that day [April 19, 1775], to
defend their native soil, acted from the simplest instincts.
EWI 11.110 4 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their
political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville
Sharpe...whilst he acted as chairman of the London Committee, felt constrained to record
his protest against the limitation...
AsSu 11.249 20 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore...the pity of the indifferent,
cheered by the love and respect of good men with whom he acted;...
acting, adj. (1)
acting, n. (1)
MMEm 10.422 5 [Time] is a goodly name for our notions of breathing, suffering,
enjoying, acting.
acting, v. (20)
YA 1.370 8 Without looking...into those extraordinary social influences which
are now acting in precisely this direction...I think we must regard the land as a
commanding and increasing power on the citizen...
SR 2.79 21 ...[creeds and churches] are also classifications of some powerful
mind acting on the elemental thought of duty...
Comp 2.124 10 ...my brother is my guardian, acting for me with the friendliest
designs...
Fdsp 2.213 7 ...a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that
elsewhere...souls are now acting...which can love us and which we can love.
Mrs1 3.139 4 The average spirit of the energetic class is good sense, acting
under certain limitations and to certain ends.
GoW 4.263 11 By acting rashly, [the writer] buys the power of talking wisely.
ET16 5.285 26 The interior of the [Salisbury] Cathedral is obstructed by the
organ in the middle, acting like a screen.
Civ 7.32 13 ...when I...see...man acting on man by weight of opinion...I see
what cubic values America has...
Art2 7.49 9 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by
bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to
this, in the fine arts, is the manner of our intellectual work. We aim to hinder our
individuality from acting.
Cour 7.275 6 [The man with sacres courage] wishes to break every yoke all over
the world which hinders his brother from acting after his thought.
PI 8.34 24 ...to convert the vivid energies acting at this hour in New York and
Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a subtile and commanding
thought.
QO 8.185 23 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his childish
thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth...
Prch 10.224 23 ...it is as if [a man] were ten or twenty less men than himself,
acting at discord with one another...
LLNE 10.353 21 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...acting in strict concert with all others who followed their private
light.
LLNE 10.359 8 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for
its purpose, finds himself helped, he knows not how, into all these merits of detail...
MMEm 10.432 9 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the loss of that
character which I once thought and felt so sure of, without ever being conscious of acting
from calculation.
PLT 12.31 10 The temptation is to patronize Providence, to fall into the
accepted ways of talking and acting of the good sort of people.
action, n. (357)
Nat 1.3 12 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life...invite
us...to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the
past...
Nat 1.15 11 By the mutual action of [the eye's] structure and of the laws of
light, perspective is produced...
Nat 1.33 6 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus... reaction
is equal to action;...
Nat 1.72 26 ...there are not wanting...occasional examples of the action of man
upon nature with his entire force...
AmS 1.90 9 The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates. In
this action it is genius;...
AmS 1.94 20 Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential.
AmS 1.95 2 ...the transition through which [thought] passes from the unconscious
to the conscious, is action.
AmS 1.98 1 If it were only for a vocabulary, the scholar would be covetous of
action.
AmS 1.100 12 ...a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any
opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.
AmS 1.114 23 Young men...are hindered from action by the disgust which the
principles on which business is managed inspire...
LE 1.178 10 Let [the scholar] endeavor...to solve the problem of that life which
is set before him. And this by punctual action...
LE 1.182 27 The student...is great only by being passive to the superincumbent
spirit. Let this faith then dictate all his action.
MN 1.204 25 ...the didactic morals of self-denial and strife with sin, are in
the view we are constrained by our constitution to take of the fact seen from the platform
of action;...
MN 1.216 8 A man adorns himself with prayer and love, as an aim adorns an
action.
MR 1.236 1 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of
competition in the labors...of state? ... This would be great action...
LT 1.274 26 ...[Marriage] shall honor the man and the woman, as much as the most
diffusive and universal action.
LT 1.278 8 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it
wrong, and returned it frown for frown. Excellent: now can you afford to forget it,
reckoning all your action no more than the passing of your hand through the air...
LT 1.285 7 [The intellectual class's] unbelief arises out of a greater Belief;
their inaction out of a scorn of inadequate action.
LT 1.286 16 The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this...
that, affirming the need of new and higher modes of living and action, they have abstained
from the recommendation of low methods.
Con 1.300 1 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty,
to any action or emblem or actor but to one which combines both these elements
[Conservatism and Reform];...
Tran 1.333 13 Although in his action overpowered by the laws of action... yet
when he speaks...after the order of thought, [the idealist] is constrained to degrade
persons into representatives of truths.
Tran 1.333 14 Although in his action overpowered by the laws of action... yet
when he speaks...after the order of thought, [the idealist] is constrained to degrade
persons into representatives of truths.
Tran 1.336 8 In action [the Transcendentalist] easily incurs the charge of
antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the Law-giver, may with safety not only
neglect, but even contravene every written commandment.
Tran 1.344 23 [Transcendentalists] prolong their privilege of childhood in this
wise; of doing nothing, but making immense demands on all the gladiators in the lists of
action and fame.
Tran 1.350 3 Unless the action is necessary, unless it is adequate, I do not
wish to perform it.
Tran 1.351 25 ...Cannot we...without complaint, or even with good-humor, await
our turn of action in the Infinite Counsels?
Tran 1.354 25 A reference to Beauty in action sounds...a little hollow and
ridiculous in the ears of the old church.
Hist 2.8 13 There is no...mode of action in history to which there is not
somewhat corresponding in [each man's] life.
Hist 2.15 4 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in
sculpture...a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action and never transgressing
the ideal serenity;...
SR 2.63 22 The magnetism which all original action exerts is explained when we
inquire the reason of self-trust.
SR 2.70 22 Commerce, husbandry...engage my respect as examples of [virtue's]
presence and impure action.
SR 2.82 9 ...the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness
affecting the whole intellectual action.
Comp 2.93 15 It seemed to me...that in [Compensation] might be shown men...the
present action of the soul of this world...
Comp 2.96 16 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of
nature;...
Comp 2.115 14 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible to get anything without
its price,--is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than...in the all the action and
reaction of nature.
SL 2.138 26 ...only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong...
SL 2.140 15 ...the action which I in all my years tend to do, is the work for my
faculties.
SL 2.155 5 ...the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the
sentiment from which it proceeds.
SL 2.157 26 ...into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he
attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
SL 2.162 17 I see action to be good, when the need is...
SL 2.163 24 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have
an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet...or...some wild contrasting action to testify that it
is somewhat.
Fdsp 2.192 20 Having imagined and invested [the commended stranger], we ask how
we should stand related in conversation and action with such a man...
Fdsp 2.195 19 I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me
delicious hours; but the joy...yields no fruit. Thought is not born of it; my action is
very little modified.
Fdsp 2.210 20 ...that scornful beauty of [your friend's] mien and action, do not
pique yourself on reducing, but rather fortify and enhance.
Hsm1 2.251 2 ...a different breeding, different religion and greater
intellectual activity would have modified or even reversed the particular action...
Hsm1 2.251 21 All prudent men see that the [heroic] action is clean contrary to
a sensual prosperity;...
Hsm1 2.260 24 A simple manly character...should regard its past action with the
calmness of Phocion...
OS 2.268 26 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present...
is...that common heart...to which all right action is submission;...
OS 2.271 7 ...the soul, whose organ [what we commonly call man] is, would he let
it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
OS 2.276 1 Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of
aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands...action and grace.
OS 2.278 12 The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left
unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation.
Cir 2.301 11 One moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or
compensatory character of every human action.
Cir 2.312 25 ...some Petrarch or Ariosto...writes me an ode or a brisk romance,
full of daring thought and action.
Pt1 3.7 20 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which... confounds
[poets] with those whose province is action but who quit it to imitate the sayers.
Pt1 3.33 21 ...we love the poet, the inventor, who in any form, whether in an
ode or in an action...has yielded us a new thought.
Exp 3.59 8 There is now no longer any right course of action nor any
self-devotion left among the Iranis.
Exp 3.68 5 All good conversation, manners and action come from a spontaneity
which forgets usages...
Exp 3.69 1 There is a certain magic about [a man's] properest action which
stupefies your powers of observation...
Exp 3.74 1 ...in particulars, our greatness is always in a tendency or
direction, not in an action.
Exp 3.74 19 [Just persons] believe...that no right action of ours is quite
unaffecting to our friends...
Exp 3.80 7 The partial action of each strong mind in one direction is a
telescope for the objects on which it is pointed.
Exp 3.81 11 We must hold hard to this poverty...and by more vigorous
self-recoveries, after the sallies of action, possess our axis more firmly.
Chr1 3.87 9 His action won such reverence sweet,/ As hid all measure of the
feat./
Chr1 3.93 24 This virtue [of character] draws the mind more when it appears in
action to ends not so mixed.
Chr1 3.96 14 [A man] encloses the world...as a material basis for his character,
and a theatre for action.
Chr1 3.97 7 Will is the north, action the south pole.
Chr1 3.101 27 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a
practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in
hand. ... All his action was tentative...
Chr1 3.108 21 ...we should not require rash explanation, either on the popular
ethics, or on our own, of [character's] action.
Mrs1 3.126 14 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are
controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers, who have...a broad sympathy which puts
them in fellowship with crowds, and makes their action popular.
Mrs1 3.155 20 Minerva said...there was no one person or action among [men] which
would not puzzle her owl...to know whether it was fundamentally bad or good.
Gts 3.164 15 ...our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental
and at random that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us
for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation.
Nat2 3.184 4 If the identity [in nature] expresses organized rest, the counter
action runs also into organization.
Pol1 3.212 4 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses
on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs. Augment the mass a
thousand-fold, it cannot begin to crush us, as long as reaction is equal to action.
NR 3.232 20 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one
person wrote all the books; as if the editor of a journal planted his body of reporters in
different parts of the field of action...
NR 3.244 27 ...I would have...no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but
the best.
NER 3.269 27 A canine appetite for knowledge was generated...and this knowledge,
not being directed on action, never took the character of substantial, humane growth...
UGM 4.4 23 Our colossal theologies of Judaism...Mahometism, are the necessary
and structural action of the human mind.
PPh 4.51 8 If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity...action tends directly
backwards to diversity.
SwM 4.109 17 Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is good, but grander when we
find...that the atomic theory shows the action of chemistry to be mechanical also.
SwM 4.124 1 Plato is a gownsman; his garment...is an academic robe, and hinders
action with its voluminous folds.
SwM 4.140 9 The illuminated Quakers explained their Light, not as somewhat which
leads to any action...
MoS 4.150 8 One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is conversant with... cities
and persons, and the bringing certain things to pass;--the men of talent and actio
MoS 4.167 23 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the
philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least,
I...keep myself ready for action...
MoS 4.174 14 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected.
They found the ark empty; saw, and would not tell; and tried to choke off their
approaching followers, by saying, Action, action, my dear fellows, is for you!
NMW 4.231 2 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born; a
man...with the speed and spring of a tiger in action;...
NMW 4.232 3 [Bonaparte] had a directness of action never before combined with so
much comprehension.
NMW 4.238 9 This [Austrian] cavalry...required a quarter of an hour to arrive on
the field of action...
NMW 4.254 9 Like all Frenchmen [Napoleon] has a passion for stage effect. Every
action that breathes of generosity is poisoned by this calculation.
GoW 4.266 19 If I were to compare action of a much higher strain with a life of
contemplation, I should not venture to pronounce with much confidence in favor of the
former.
GoW 4.266 27 ...a headiness and loss of balance, is the tax which all action
must pay.
ET1 5.20 28 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished to
impress on me and all good Americans...never to call into action the physical strength of
the people...
ET4 5.58 18 These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with...wise speech
and prompt action.
ET5 5.86 10 ...the English can put more men into the rank, on the day of action,
on the field of battle, than any other army.
ET5 5.95 20 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres
of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for
rape-culture and grass. The climate too...is so far reached by this new action, that fogs
and storms are said to disappear.
ET6 5.103 13 ...rule of court and shop-rule have operated [in England] to give a
mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.
ET11 5.185 24 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men...
and...have been consulted in the conduct of every important action.
ET13 5.222 24 The action of the university...is directed more on producing an
English gentleman, than a saint or a psychologist.
ET13 5.223 11 ...whenever it comes to action, the [English] clergyman invariably
sides with his church.
ET14 5.239 12 ...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one with
a larger class, discerned beyond the lesser class with which it has been conversant.
Hence, all poetry and all affirmative action comes.
ET14 5.250 18 There is in the action of [James Wilkinson's] mind a long Atlantic
roll not known except in deepest waters...
ET14 5.258 15 ...[the Oxonian] does not value the salient and curative influence
of intellectual action...
ET14 5.259 9 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the
latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all references to such sentiments or manners as
are become the standards of propriety for opinion and action in our own modes...
ET16 5.278 7 The sacrificial stone, as it is called, is the only one in all
these blocks [at Stonehenge] that can resist the action of fire...
ET17 5.292 6 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite
sweetness and bonhommie. There seemed a pool of honey about his heart which lubricated all
his speech and action with fine jets of mead.
ET19 5.312 23 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that [Englishmen
were]...good lovers, good haters, and you could know little about them till you had seen
them long, and little good of them till you had seen them in action;...
F 6.43 5 History is the action and reaction of these two,-Nature and Thought;...
Pow 6.76 14 A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the
instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much but can only bring
it to light slowly.
Pow 6.77 13 ...in human action, against the spasm of energy we offset the
continuity of drill.
Wth 6.103 27 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 6.121 19 How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in
replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position;
they fly into place by the action of the muscles.
Ctr 6.158 8 We must have an intellectual quality in all property and in all
action, or they are naught.
Bhr 6.169 11 Nature tells every secret once. Yes, but in man she tells it all
the time, by form...and by the whole action of the machine.
Bhr 6.196 2 [Beautiful manners] must always show self-control;...every gesture
and action shall indicate power at rest.
Wsp 6.212 8 Even well-disposed, good sort of people...for brave, straightforward
action, use half-measures...
Wsp 6.213 11 There is a principle...which all speech aims to say, and all action
to evolve...
Wsp 6.222 15 ...the censors of action are as numerous and as near in Paris as in
Littleton or Portland;...
Wsp 6.226 25 It is our system that counts, not the single word or unsupported
action.
Wsp 6.231 14 He is great whose eyes are opened to see that the reward of actions
cannot be escaped, because he is transformed into his action...
CbW 6.249 20 When [the population] reaches its true law of action, every man
that is born will be hailed as essential.
Bty 6.290 4 ...the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our
perception that...each is a sign of some better health or more excellent action.
Bty 6.291 19 What a difference in effect between a battalion of troops marching
to action, and one of our independent companies on a holiday!
Bty 6.294 2 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular
movement has; as...the action and reaction of nature;...
Bty 6.294 4 ...this demand in our thought for an ever onward action is the
argument for the immortality.
Civ 7.34 22 ...the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of
the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
Art2 7.38 2 Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form
as thought is its first.
Art2 7.38 14 The utterance of thought and emotion in speech and action may be
conscious or unconscious.
Art2 7.38 22 The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any
end, is Art.
Art2 7.39 10 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no
art; for what they do they do instinctively; but relatively to the Supreme Being, they
have. And the same is true of all unconscious action: relatively to the doer, it is
instinct, relatively to the First Cause, it is Art.
Art2 7.42 13 All powerful action is performed by bringing the forces of Nature
to bear upon our objects.
Art2 7.51 10 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our
recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature, again in active operation. It differs from
the works of Nature in this, that they are organically reproductive. This is not, but
spiritually it is prolific by its powerful action on the intellects of men.
Art2 7.54 20 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment
of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and
water which has decomposed the rest.
Elo1 7.97 7 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion
must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight. Let him see that his speech
is not differenced from action;...
DL 7.118 2 The diet of the house does not create its order, but knowledge,
character, action, absorb so much life and yield so much entertainment that the refectory
has ceased to be so curiously studied.
Boks 7.207 2 ...in the Elizabethan era [the scholar] is at the richest period of
the English mind, with the chief men of action and of thought which that nation has
produced...
Clbs 7.241 8 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their
accomplishment...makes them chancellors and commanders of council and of action...whom we
now consider.
Cour 7.261 4 I am much mistaken if every man who went to the army in the late
war had not a lively curiosity to know how he should behave in action.
Cour 7.261 9 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet
charge or capture a battery. Of course they must each go into that action with a certain
despair.
Cour 7.264 17 Courage is equality to the problem, in affairs...or in action;...
Suc 7.310 8 ...to educate [man's] feeling and judgment so that he shall scorn
himself for a bad action, that is the only aim.
Suc 7.311 5 ...to redeem defeat by new thought, by firm action, that is not
easy...
PI 8.6 15 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of
matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...
PI 8.28 1 I assert for myself [wrote Blake] that I do not behold the outward
creation, and that to me it would be a hindrance, and not action.
PI 8.28 13 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul...at leisure plays with the
resemblances and types, for amusement, and not for its moral end, we call its action
Fancy.
PI 8.49 2 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of
parts in Nature...action and reaction,--they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
PI 8.64 6 Is not poetry the little chamber in the brain where is generated the
explosive force which, by gentle shocks, sets in action the intellectual world?
PI 8.67 7 [A good poem] affects the characters of its readers by...inevitably
prompting their daily action.
SA 8.103 4 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor
the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of.
I said never was such...good action, combined with such domestic lovely behavior...
SA 8.107 9 These are the bases of civil and polite society; namely, manners,
conversation, lucrative labor and public action;...
Elo2 8.115 26 [The orator's speech] is action, as the general's word of command
or chart of battle is action.
Elo2 8.120 1 ...this is quite as true of the action of the mind itself, that a
man of this talent [of eloquence] sometimes finds himself cold and slow in private
company...
Comc 8.160 13 The presence of the ideal of right and of truth in all action
makes the yawning delinquencies of practice remorseful to the conscience...
PC 8.211 6 Here...the freedom of action goes to the brink, if not over the
brink, of license.
Grts 8.308 14 ...Nelson, said, I feel that I am fitter to do the action than to
describe it.
Grts 8.314 15 Napoleon commands our respect...by the speed and security of his
action in the premises, always new.
Imtl 8.340 2 ...all our intellectual action, not promises but bestows a feeling
of absolute existence.
Imtl 8.340 25 ...Van Helmont...drew his sufficient proof [of immortality] purely
from the action of the intellect.
Imtl 8.347 18 [Future state] is not duration, but a taking of the soul out of
time, as all high action of the mind does...
Dem1 10.6 3 This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular
resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses
in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in
the same order before...
Dem1 10.12 21 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved
sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their
statement. It is not the incredibility of the fact, but a certain want of harmony between
the action and the agents.
Dem1 10.15 18 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good
fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain
success...influences all joint action of commerce and affairs...
PerF 10.78 23 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces']
inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person... skilful in
action...
Chr2 10.96 15 ...under the action of this sentiment of the Right, [a man's]
heart and mind expand above himself, and above Nature.
Chr2 10.96 22 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without
reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./ Such is
the difference of the action of the heart within and of the senses without.
Chr2 10.100 25 Men are forced by their own self-respect to give [some souls] a
certain attention. Evil men shrink and pay involuntary homage by hiding or apologizing for
their action.
Edc1 10.129 13 No dollar of property can be created without...some acquisition
of knowledge and practical force. It is...a study of the issues of one and another course
of action...
Edc1 10.134 8 ...if [a man] is one to cement society by his all-reconciling
affinities, oh! hasten their action!
Edc1 10.138 11 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of
their boyhood, natural characters still; such are able and fertile for heroic action;...
Edc1 10.140 20 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and
wealth of narrative...should be carried into the habit of the young man...
Supl 10.171 15 ...whilst thus everything recommends simplicity and temperance of
action; the utmost directness, the positive degree, we mean thereby that rightly to be
great is not to stir without great argument.
Supl 10.171 19 Whenever the true objects of action appear, they are to be
heartily sought.
SovE 10.192 17 The idea of right...lays itself out...in the level of the seas,
in the action and reaction of forces.
SovE 10.199 3 While the immense energy of the sentiment of duty and the awe of
the supernatural exert incomparable influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted, and
the tradition received with awe, but without correspondent action of the receiver.
SovE 10.199 26 When we ask simply, What is true in thought? what is just in
action? it is the yielding of the private heart to the Divine mind...
Prch 10.219 20 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment,
but in actual history its illustrious exhibitions are interrupted and periodical,-the ages
of belief, of heroic action...
Prch 10.221 24 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they
to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
Prch 10.224 11 ...all that saints and churches and Bibles...have aimed at, is
to...animate man to central and entire action.
Prch 10.233 2 Our children will be here, if we are not; and their children's
history will be colored by our action.
MoL 10.243 26 The Greek was so perfect in action and in imagination, his
poems...so charming in form and so true to the human mind, that we cannot forget or
outgrow their mythology.
Schr 10.267 10 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right,
original, private, necessary action...
Schr 10.267 17 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right,
original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable
ends. Yes, but not...an over-doing and busy-ness which pretends to the honors of action...
Schr 10.269 16 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in
proportion as they are men? What but truth...and brave obedience to it in right action?
CSC 10.376 17 ...[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...who does not anticipate his own action...
CSC 10.376 26 ...although no decision was had, and no action taken on all the
great points mooted in the discussion, yet the [Chardon Street] Convention brought
together many remarkable persons...
MMEm 10.405 1 ...The chief witness which I have had of a Godlike principle of
action and feeling is in the disinterested joy felt in others' superiority.
MMEm 10.426 14 Usefulness, if it requires action, seems less like existence than
the desire of being absorbed in God, retaining consciousness.
SlHr 10.439 9 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...with a clear perception of justice,
and a perfect obedience thereto in his action;...
Thor 10.452 24 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and
action for any narrow craft or profession...
Thor 10.458 1 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores
of Walden Pond, and lived there two years alone, a life of labor and study. This action
was quite native and fit for him.
Thor 10.480 17 ...I so much regret the loss of [Thoreau's] rare powers of
action, that I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition.
GSt 10.505 20 When one remembers...his immovable convictions,-I think this
single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...of
feebler and interrupted action.
GSt 10.507 20 ...there is to my mind somewhat so absolute in the action of a
good man that we do not, in thinking of him, so much as make any question of the future.
HDC 11.75 14 In all the anecdotes of that day's [April 19, 1775] events we may
discern the natural action of the people.
EWI 11.110 2 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their
political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade...
EWI 11.127 12 These considerations, I doubt not, had their weight [in
emancipation in the West Indies]; the interest of trade, the interest of the revenue,
and...the good fame of the action.
EWI 11.146 1 These considerations [of emancipation in the West Indies] seem to
leave no choice for the action of the intellect and the conscience of the country.
War 11.169 20 In the second place, as far as [the charge of absurdity on the
extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will
say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man;...
War 11.173 22 ...the man who...without any notice of his action abroad... takes
in solitude the right step uniformly...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
War 11.175 2 ...if the disposition to rely more, in study and in action, on the
unexplored riches of the human constitution...proceed;...then war has a short day...
FSLC 11.181 8 I met the smoothest of Episcopal Clergymen the other day, and
allusion being made to Mr. Webster's treachery, he blandly replied, Why, do you know I
think that the great action of his life.
FSLC 11.197 19 Every person who touches this business [the Fugitive Slave Law]
is contaminated. There has not been in our lifetime another moment when public men were
personally lowered by their political action.
FSLN 11.219 4 ...I never felt the check on my free speech and action, until, the
other day, when Mr. Webster, by his personal influence, brought the Fugitive Slave Law on
the country.
FSLN 11.223 2 After [Webster's] talents have been described, there remains that
perfect propriety which animated all the details of the action or speech with the
character of the whole...
AKan 11.257 4 This aid must be sent [to Kansas], and this is not to be doled out
as an ordinary charity; but bestowed...on the scale of a national action.
JBB 11.270 23 [John Brown] believed in his ideas to that extent that he existed
to put them all into action;...
ACiv 11.308 15 A week before the two captive commissioners were surrendered to
England, every one thought it could not be done: it would divide the North. It was done,
and in two days all agreed it was the right action.
ACiv 11.308 16 ...this action [emancipation], which costs so little...rids the
world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery]...
ACiv 11.309 7 Time, say the Indian Scriptures, drinketh up the essence of every
great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.
ACiv 11.309 11 I hope it is not a fatal objection to this policy [of
emancipation] that it is simple and beneficent thoroughly, which is the tribute of a moral
action.
EPro 11.318 14 ...such was [Lincoln's] position, and such the felicity attending
the action [Emancipation Proclamation], that he has replaced government in the good graces
of mankind.
EPro 11.325 18 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states,
and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation
Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim.
EdAd 11.392 6 We have a better opinion of the economy of Nature than to fear
that those varying phases which humanity presents ever leave out any of the grand springs
of human action.
Wom 11.405 6 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in
the public mind...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its
object a benefit to the position of Woman.
Wom 11.411 14 There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was
first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman...
Wom 11.416 3 Another step [for Woman] was the effect of the action of the age in
the antagonism to Slavery.
Shak1 11.447 5 We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our seniors, on
whom the ordinary lead of literary and social action falls...to draw out of their
retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse...
Humb 11.457 11 ...a man's natural powers are often a sort of committee that
slowly, one at a time, give their attention and action;...
FRO1 11.479 24 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within
his own mind...then we have a religion...that commands all the social and all the private
action.
FRep 11.519 12 The spirit of our political action, for the most part, considers
nothing less than the sacredness of man.
FRep 11.524 26 ...we know, all over this country, men of integrity, capable of
action and of affairs...
FRep 11.538 25 ...if the spirit...could be waked to the conserving and creating
duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency
of...faithful...lovers of men, filled...with the simple and sublime purpose of carrying
out in private and in public action the desire and need of mankind.
PLT 12.13 12 Metaphysics...must be biography,-the record of some law whose
working was surprised by the observer in natural action.
PLT 12.18 21 [The perceptions of the soul] are detached from their parent, they
pass into other minds; ripened and unfolded by many they hasten to incarnate themselves in
action...
PLT 12.23 8 The momentum, which increases by exact laws in falling bodies,
increases by the same rate in the intellectual action.
PLT 12.23 20 ...what a modern experimenter calls the contagious influence of
chemical action is so true of mind that I have only to read the law that its application
may be evident...
PLT 12.41 22 [A perception] is impatient to put on its sandals and be gone on
its errand, which is to lead to a larger perception, and so to new action.
PLT 12.45 17 The primary rule for the conduct of Intellect is to have control of
the thoughts without losing their natural attitudes and action.
PLT 12.49 19 The difference is obvious enough in Talent between the speed of one
man's action above another's.
PLT 12.49 21 The difference is obvious enough in Talent between the speed of one
man's action above another's. In debate, in legislature, not less in action;...
II 12.68 23 ...what is Inspiration? It is this Instinct, whose normal state is
passive, at last put in action.
II 12.71 14 Novelty in the means by which we arrive at the old universal ends is
the test of the presence of the highest power, alike in intellectual and in moral action.
II 12.72 21 It is this employment of new means...that denotes the inspired man.
This is equally obvious...in action as well as in fine arts.
Mem 12.90 7 ...[memory] is the thread on which the beads of man are strung,
making the personal identity which is necessary to moral action.
Mem 12.98 23 The facts of the last two or three days or weeks are all you have
with you,-the reading of the last month's books. Your conversation, action, your face and
manners, report of no more...
CL 12.152 19 We know the healing effect on the sick of change of air,- the
action of new scenery on the mind is not less fruitful.
MAng1 12.220 6 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through
seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...its action and counteraction
learned;...
MLit 12.328 22 ...what shall we think of that absence of the moral sentiment,
that singular equivalence to him of good and evil in action, which discredit [Goethe's]
compositions to the pure?
Pray 12.354 8 Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf/ Than that I may not
disappoint myself,/ That in my action I may soar as high,/ As I can now discern with this
clear eye./
Let 12.398 11 [American youths] are in the state of the young Persians, when
that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said...there is now no longer any right
course of action, nor any self-devotion left among the Iranis.
Let 12.401 13 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye,
but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and
anxious and full of discord because they despise genius, which brings power and nobleness
into manly action...
Action, n. (1)
actions, n. (113)
Nat 1.16 15 The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to
man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and
beauty.
Nat 1.20 2 We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of
every individual in it.
Nat 1.21 9 Ever does natural beauty steal in like air, and envelope great
actions.
Nat 1.23 1 Therefore does beauty, which, in relation to actions...comes
unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect;...
AmS 1.82 3 Events, actions arise, that must be sung...
AmS 1.87 24 [Nature] came to [the scholar] short-lived actions; it went out from
him immortal thoughts.
AmS 1.90 24 ...there are creative manners, there are creative actions, and
creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority...
AmS 1.96 5 The actions and events of our childhood and youth are now matters of
calmest observation.
AmS 1.96 8 [The actions and events of our childhood] lie like fair pictures in
the air. Not so with our recent actions...
AmS 1.97 11 ...he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the
richest return of wisdom.
AmS 1.102 7 Whatsoever oracles the human heart...has uttered as its commentary
on the world of actions, - these [the scholar] shall receive and impart.
LT 1.267 23 To-day always looks mean to the thoughtless, in the face of an
uniform experience that all good and great and happy actions are made up precisely of
these blank to-days.
LT 1.278 1 We do not want actions, but men;...
LT 1.278 3 We...want...the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless,
endless actions.
Tran 1.342 1 ...it would not misbecome us to inquire...what these companions and
contemporaries of ours think and do, at least so far as these thoughts and actions appear
to be not accidental and personal...
Hist 2.15 13 ...to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar, a marble
centaur, the peristyle of the Parthenon, and the last actions of Phocion?
Hist 2.16 14 If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to
which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he
will see how deep is the chain of affinity.
Hist 2.17 11 ...a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words... the
same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses.
SR 2.53 13 ...for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those
actions which are reckoned excellent.
SR 2.59 1 ...of one will, the actions will be harmonious...
SR 2.63 8 When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be
transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
SR 2.64 3 What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star...which
shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions...
Comp 2.106 12 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind; but having
traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they involuntarily made amends to reason
by tying up the hands of so bad a god.
SL 2.164 1 Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so.
SL 2.166 6 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers
and scour floors, and...to sweep and scour will instantly appear supreme and beautiful
actions...
Lov1 2.182 3 ...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire
strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their
actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
Hsm1 2.258 9 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of
Pericles...teach us how needlessly mean our life is;...
Hsm1 2.260 11 ...we have the weakness to expect the sympathy of people in those
actions whose excellence is that they outrun sympathy...
OS 2.286 20 Neither his age...nor actions...can hinder [a man] from being
deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
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.
Cir 2.317 22 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you have
arrived...at an equivalence and indifferency of all actions...
Pt1 3.8 19 Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Pt1 3.18 8 Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us
as well as would all trades and all spectacles.
Pt1 3.41 22 Others shall be thy gentlemen and shall represent all courtesy and
worldly life for thee [O poet]; others shall do the great and resounding actions also.
Exp 3.47 23 ...in this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis
would find very few spontaneous actions.
Exp 3.74 16 [Just persons] refuse to explain themselves, and are content that
new actions should do them that office.
Chr1 3.102 26 New actions are the only apologies and explanations of old ones
which the noble can bear to offer or to receive.
Nat2 3.194 8 ...it also appears that our actions are seconded and disposed to
greater conclusions than we designed.
Pol1 3.206 4 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can
easily...achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means;...
NER 3.266 13 ...when [the individual's] thoughts look one way and his actions
another;...what concert can be?
NER 3.279 5 I suppose considerate observers, looking at the masses of men in
their blameless and in their equivocal actions, will assent, that...the general purpose in
the great number of persons is fidelity.
UGM 4.7 1 ...there are persons who, in their character and actions, answer
questions which I have not skill to put.
MoS 4.169 21 [Montaigne says] Most of my actions are guided by example, not
choice.
MoS 4.178 6 The mathematics, 't is complained, leave the mind where they find
it...and so do all events and actions.
NMW 4.232 21 I have gained some advantages over superior forces and when totally
destitute of every thing [Bonaparte writes to the Directory], because...my actions were as
prompt as my thoughts.
NMW 4.249 15 When a man has been present in many actions [said Napoleon], he
distinguishes that moment [of panic] without difficulty...
NMW 4.253 24 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...meanly stealing the credit
of their great actions from Kellermann, from Bernadotte;...
GoW 4.267 15 ...although [the Quaker and the Shaker] each prates of spirit,
there is no spirit, but repetition, which is anti-spiritual. But where are his new things
of to-day? In actions of enthusiasm this drawback appears...
GoW 4.267 19 ...in...actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the
speculative from the practical faculty...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
GoW 4.274 7 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of routine, a thread of
mythology and fable spins itself...
ET5 5.79 21 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are
all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such
chains. ...if he do aught beyond this, by breaking out into divers sorts of exterior
actions, he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art,
the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
F 6.40 22 ...of all the drums and rattles by which men...are led out solemnly
every morning to parade,-the most admirable is this by which we are brought to believe
that events are...independent of actions.
Ctr 6.159 22 ...the [Greek] heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain
a serene aspect;...
Bhr 6.188 9 ...nothing is more charming than to recognize the great style which
runs through the actions of such [persons of character].
Wsp 6.218 10 If your eye is on the eternal...your opinions and actions will have
a beauty which no learning or combined advantages of other men can rival.
Wsp 6.231 13 He is great whose eyes are opened to see that the reward of actions
cannot be escaped...
DL 7.124 12 In men, it is their...removal to the East or to the West, or some
other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement, and all the after years and
actions only derive interest from their relation to that.
PPo 8.265 13 What you see is He not;/ What you hear is He not./ The valleys
which you traverse,/ The actions which you perform,/ They lie under our treatment/ And
among our properties./
Dem1 10.4 14 ...[in dreams] we seem busied...in earnest dialogues, strenuous
actions for nothings...
Dem1 10.9 7 We learn [from dreams] that actions whose turpitude is very
differently reputed proceed from one and the same affection.
Dem1 10.17 4 Heeded though [the belief in luck] be in many actions and
partnerships, it is not the power to which we build churches...
Dem1 10.23 6 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who, in actions of a low or
common pitch, relies on his instincts...
Aris 10.38 18 ...we wish to see those to whom existence is most adorned and
attractive...ready to answer for their actions with their life.
Chr2 10.101 5 [The man of profound moral sentiment's] actions are poetic and
miraculous in [men's] eyes.
EzRy 10.395 10 All [Ezra Ripley's] opinions and actions might be securely
predicted by a good observer on short acquaintance.
LS 11.10 10 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was for
his interment. He washed the feet of his disciples. These are admitted to be symbolical
actions and expressions.
HDC 11.48 7 A man felt himself at liberty to exhibit, at town-meeting, feelings
and actions that he would have been ashamed of anywhere but amongst his neighbors.
FSLC 11.184 17 The levity of the public mind has been shown in the past year by
the most extravagant actions.
Koss 11.397 9 ...[the people of Concord]...have been hungry to see the man whose
extraordinary eloquence is seconded by the splendor and solidity of his actions [Kossuth].
PLT 12.24 1 ...if one remembers...how much we are braced by the presence and
actions of any Spartan soul, it does not need vigor of our own kind...
PLT 12.45 3 ...if [we converse] with high things, with heroic actions, with
virtues, the interval becomes a gulf and we cannot enter into the highest good.
Mem 12.109 2 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and going through a great
variety of actions and companies, and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a
long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
Milt1 12.273 12 And so, throughout all his actions and opinions, is [Milton] a
consistent spiritualist...
WSL 12.343 11 Do not brag of your actions, as if they were better than Homer's
verses or Raphael's pictures.
Trag 12.412 16 ...in life, actions are few, opinions even few, prayers few;...
active, adj. (73)
Nat 1.23 5 Therefore does beauty, which...comes unsought...remain for the
apprehension and pursuit of the intellect; and then again, in its turn, of the active
power.
Nat 1.48 25 ...so long as the active powers predominate over the reflective, we
resist...any hint that nature is more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
AmS 1.90 4 The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
AmS 1.90 7 The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates.
MN 1.219 24 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and
expansion of the human race, and resembled herein the sequent Revolution, which was...the
overflowing of the sense of natural right in every clear and active spirit of the period.
LT 1.284 23 I have seen the same gloom on the brow even of those adventurers
from the intellectual class who had dived deepest and with most success into active life.
YA 1.366 11 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural
wealth...combined with the moral sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the
wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
Hist 2.22 21 The antagonism of the two tendencies [Nomadism and Agriculture] is
not less active in individuals...
Comp 2.108 12 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in
it;...that which flowed out of his constitution and not from his too active invention;...
Lov1 2.180 3 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.
Fdsp 2.191 17 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and
complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire; so
swift, or much more swift, more active...are these fine inward irradiations.
Prd1 2.233 4 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. Whilst something higher
than prudence is active, he is admirable; when common sense is wanted, he is an
encumbrance.
Hsm1 2.258 24 ...[many extraordinary young men] enter an active profession and
the forming Colossus shrinks to the common size of man.
Int 2.334 10 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has
made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not; and a thrill of passion
flashes light on their dark chamber, and the active power seizes instantly the fit image,
as the word of its momentary thought.
Pt1 3.15 6 ...if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is because the
corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
NER 3.277 4 ...[every man at heart] wishes that the same healing should not stop
in his thought, but should penetrate his will or active power.
SwM 4.138 4 That is active duty, say the Hindoos, which is not for our
bondage;...
NMW 4.223 6 ...Bonaparte...owes his predominance to the fidelity with which he
expresses the tone of thought and belief, the aims of the masses of active and cultivated
men.
NMW 4.224 16 The instinct of active, brave, able men, throughout the middle
class every where, has pointed out Napoleon as the incarnate Democrat.
NMW 4.253 4 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him... and the
instinct of the young, ardent and active men every where...make [Napoleon's] history
bright and commanding.
GoW 4.286 19 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender
materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...a period of ten years,
that should be the most active in his life, after his settlement at Weimar, in sunk in
silence.
ET2 5.29 11 The sea is masculine, the type of active strength.
ET4 5.50 26 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements.
The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter... active intellect and dead
conservatism;...
ET5 5.93 1 [The English] have made...London...such a city that almost every
active man, in any nation, finds himself at one time or other forced to visit it.
ET11 5.185 18 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men...
F 6.39 21 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few
active persons who epitomize the times?
Art2 7.51 7 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our
recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature, again in active operation.
Elo1 7.67 10 ...all these several audiences...which successively appear to greet
the variety of style and topic [of the orator], are really composed out of the same
persons; nay, sometimes the same individual will take active part in them all, in turn.
Clbs 7.232 6 No doubt [the shy hermit] does not make allowance enough for men of
more active blood and habit.
Insp 8.269 16 There are times when the intellect is so active that everything
seems to run to meet it.
Imtl 8.331 9 There is a profound melancholy at the base of men of active and
powerful talent, seldom suspected.
Imtl 8.331 14 Both [men] were men of distinction and took an active part in the
politics of their day and generation.
Dem1 10.16 16 [The young man] observes, with pain...that his genius...is no
longer present and active.
Edc1 10.129 12 No dollar of property can be created without...some acquisition
of knowledge and practical force. It is a constant contest with the active faculties of
men...
Edc1 10.136 4 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the man...he does not yet know
his wealth. He is in danger of becoming...wearisome through the monotony of his thought.
It is not less necessary that the intellectual and the active faculties should be
nourished and matured.
SovE 10.192 2 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... all
that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his mind is active are
visions merely...
Prch 10.224 14 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance;... their
senses, their talents, are superfluously active...
Prch 10.235 2 ...the power of sympathy is always great; and affirmative
discourse, presuming assent, will often obtain it when argument would fail. Such, too, is
the active power of good temperament.
MMEm 10.415 8 Vital, I feel not: not active, but passive...
MMEm 10.415 17 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day
of bread failing. More, I led thee when thou knewest not a syllable of my active
Cause...to that Cause;...
SlHr 10.447 5 [Samuel Hoar] loved the dogmas and the simple usages of his
church; was always an honored and sometimes an active member.
GSt 10.505 1 ...an active and intelligent manufacturer and merchant... [George
Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
HDC 11.51 10 Early efforts were made to instruct [the Indians], in which Mr.
Bulkeley, Mr. Flint, and Captain Willard, took an active part.
HDC 11.81 10 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town
[Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas. But they found no
countenance here. The same people who had been active in a County Convention to consider
grievances, condemned the rebellion...
LVB 11.91 20 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House
of Representatives...are contracting to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts
and boats, and to drag them over mountains and rivers...
War 11.167 6 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of
holiness;...his warlike nature is all converted into an active medicinal principle;...
War 11.168 22 A man does not come the length of the spirit of martyrdom without
some active purpose...
FSLN 11.240 2 ...torpor exists here throughout the active classes on the subject
of domestic slavery and its appalling aggressions.
Wom 11.421 5 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged...
against clergymen who take an active part in politics;...
FRO1 11.480 6 ...it is only on the basis of active duty, that worship finds
expression.
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.
FRep 11.524 22 Whilst each cabal...at last brings...men whose names are a knell
to all hope of progress, the good and wise are hidden in their active retirements...
FRep 11.544 11 I could heartily wish that our will and endeavor were more active
parties to the work.
PLT 12.10 26 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with
which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach
it.
