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.
CW 12.171 24 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true
neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through for their learning, or
subtlety, or active or patriotic power...
MAng1 12.224 24 After an active and successful service to the city [Florence]
for six months, Michael Angelo was informed of a treachery that was ripening within the
walls.
WSL 12.345 15 What is the quality of the persons who, without being public men,
or literary men, or rich men, or active men...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all
our life's history...
Let 12.397 27 There is...a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on
young men of this country as soon as they have finished their college education...
Let 12.399 6 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the
infatuation of the active class...
actively, adv. (7)
ET11 5.184 3 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist
demonstration), that the upper classes [in England] were for the first time actively
interesting themselves in their own defence...
Elo1 7.81 24 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech,
it...works actively in all directions...
Edc1 10.129 25 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all work
actively upon our being...
EWI 11.115 23 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were
actively engaged, seizing the opportunity to enlighten the people on all the duties and
responsibilities of their new relation...
War 11.152 16 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious
bloodshed of the early annals, bloodshed in God's name, too, when he learns that it...does
actively forward the culture of man.
activities, n. (13)
NER 3.255 1 There was in all the practical activities of New England for the
last quarter of a century, a gradual withdrawal of tender consciences from the social
organizations.
UGM 4.17 9 Foremost among these activities [of the intellect] are the
summersaults, spells and resurrections wrought by the imagination.
GoW 4.267 16 ...in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make
us more comfortable and more cowardly...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
ET13 5.220 20 The spirit that dwelt in this [English] church has glided away to
animate other activities...
Farm 7.143 10 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the
marine animals, as the land plants supply the oxygen which the animals consume, and the
animals the carbon which the plants absorb. These activities are incessant.
Chr2 10.117 26 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the
perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities...
Schr 10.267 4 Young men, I warn you against the clamors of these self-praising
frivolous activities,-against these busy-bodies;...
Schr 10.268 19 ...I prefer no action to misaction, and I reject the abusive
application of the term practical to those lower activities.
SlHr 10.448 16 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to
such political activities as a strong sense of duty and the love of order and of freedom
urged him to forward.
EdAd 11.385 10 One would say there is nothing colossal in the country but its
geography and its material activities;...
CInt 12.123 7 All [the Understanding's] activities are to short, personal
ends...
PPr 12.381 12 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are
struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the exposure of the progress of fraud
into all parts and social activities;...
Trag 12.417 2 ...higher still than the activities of art, the intellect in its
purity and the moral sense in its purity are not distinguished from each other...
activity, n. (128)
Nat 1.22 22 The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other,
and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other.
Nat 1.22 23 The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other,
and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other.
Nat 1.61 9 ...all the uses of nature admit of being summed in one, which yields
the activity of man an infinite scope.
Nat 1.70 9 A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are
best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through
hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.
AmS 1.100 10 ...a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any
opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.
LE 1.165 23 The vision of genius comes by renouncing the too officious activity
of the understanding...
MN 1.223 16 I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities which house to-day in
this mortal frame shall ever re-assemble in equal activity in a similar frame...
Tran 1.350 1 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal
professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise and
seeming which intimates...an activity without an aim.
Hist 2.17 7 By a deeper apprehension...the artist attains the power of awakening
other souls to a given activity.
SR 2.64 25 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us... organs
of its activity.
SR 2.79 13 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon activity and power...it
imposes its classification on other men...
Comp 2.112 8 Of the like nature [to Fear] is that expectation of change which
instantly follows the suspension of our voluntary activity.
Hsm1 2.250 27 ...a different breeding, different religion and greater
intellectual activity would have modified or even reversed the particular action...
OS 2.273 3 The least activity of the intellectual powers redeems us in a degree
from the conditions of time.
OS 2.289 12 Shakspeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity
as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own;...
Int 2.332 12 ...now you must labor with your brains, and now you must forbear
your activity and see what the great Soul showeth.
Art1 2.352 2 What is that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual
activity, but itself the creative impulse?...
Art1 2.365 3 ...the statue will look cold and false before that new activity
which needs to roll through all things...
Pt1 3.7 15 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which assumes that
manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men...
Exp 3.52 19 ...the individual texture holds its dominion, if not to bias the
moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of enjoyment.
Chr1 3.113 1 Society is spoiled...if the associates are brought a mile to meet.
And if it be not society, it is a mischievous, low, degrading jangle, though made up of
the best. All the greatness of each is kept back, and every foible in painful activity...
Pol1 3.212 6 The fact of two poles, of two forces, centripetal and centrifugal,
is universal, and each force by its own activity develops the other.
NER 3.251 7 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.
NER 3.258 22 ...the Mathematics had a momentary importance at some era of
activity in physical science.
NER 3.260 24 ...in this, as in every period of intellectual activity, there has
been a noise of denial and protest;...
NER 3.284 27 ...only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him,
does an angel seem to arise before a man...
UGM 4.16 17 Genius...by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our
affection for the old.
UGM 4.29 1 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are
guarded from individuals, in a world where every benefactor becomes so easily a malefactor
only by continuation of his activity into places where it is not due;...
GoW 4.281 10 A German public asks for a controlling sincerity. Here is activity
of thought; but what is it for?
ET3 5.35 26 ...[England] has, in the last centuries...stamped the knowledge,
activity and power of mankind with its impress.
ET8 5.141 18 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias,
which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts,
letters?
ET13 5.219 19 ...whilst [the Church] endears itself thus to men of more taste
than activity, the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to its
support...
ET16 5.275 23 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime,
I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the
feeling...that no skill or activity can long compete with the prodigious natural
advantages of that country...
ET18 5.308 3 By this general activity and by this sacredness of individuals,
[the English] have in seven hundred years evolved the principles of freedom.
F 6.45 18 ...as every man is...vexed by his own disease, this checks all his
activity.
Pow 6.53 6 There are men who by their sympathetic attractions...lead the
activity of the human race.
Pow 6.73 18 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the
case admits. The first is the stopping off decisively our miscellaneous activity...
Pow 6.80 3 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust
and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality, with a sort of
mercantile activity and working talent.
Bhr 6.171 22 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want,
and we do not let our taste or feeling stand in the way. But this activity over, we return
to the indolent state...
Wsp 6.209 18 ...in the momentary absence of any religious genius that could
offset the immense material activity, there is a feeling that religion is gone.
Wsp 6.233 2 ...[the will] penetrates the body and puts it in a state of activity
which repels all hurtful influences;...
Wsp 6.239 18 [Immortality] must be proved, if at all, from our own activity and
designs...
Art2 7.41 15 [Our works] must be conformed to [Nature's] law, or they will be
ground to powder by her omnipresent activity.
DL 7.121 7 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is
the iron band...of austerity, which...has directed their activity in safe and right
channels...
WD 7.183 27 There are people who...after years of activity, say, We knew all
this before;...
WD 7.185 6 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind; from the works of man
and the activity of the hands to a delight in the faculties which rule them;...
Clbs 7.227 21 ...in higher activity of mind, every new perception is attended
with a thrill of pleasure...
Suc 7.312 3 ...[this tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul] lies in the sun
and broods on the world. A person of this temper once said to a man of much activity, I
will pardon you that you do so much, and you me that I do nothing.
Comc 8.160 16 The activity of our sympathies may for a time hinder our
perceiving the fact intellectually...
PC 8.209 12 A silent revolution has impelled, step by step, all this activity
[in America].
Imtl 8.341 24 [The thinker] is but as a fly or a worm to this mountain, this
continent, which his thoughts inhabit. It is a perception that comes by the activity of
the intellect;...
Imtl 8.342 6 To me, said Goethe, the eternal existence of my soul is proved from
my idea of activity.
Edc1 10.127 15 [Man's] continual tendency, his great danger, is to overlook the
fact that the world is only his teacher, and the nature of sun and moon, plant and animal
only means of arousing his interior activity.
SovE 10.192 10 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment...and
through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of
Heaven. This discovery may come early...and to multitudes of men wanting in mental
activity it never comes...
Prch 10.218 4 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the
activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow,-I see in them character, but
skepticism;...
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 intellectual activity...
Prch 10.221 5 In the activity of the understanding, the sentiments sleep.
MoL 10.243 15 It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own, have
balanced their labor by mental activity...
MoL 10.245 5 We have...restless, gossiping, aimless activity.
EWI 11.122 5 There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of
activity...
War 11.156 8 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all
conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only
trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity. And why? Because the speaker has
as yet no other image of manly activity and virtue...
War 11.156 16 To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the detail
of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting.
War 11.168 17 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace
doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions
consider only one half of the fact. They look only at the passive side of the friend of
peace...they quite omit to consider his activity.
FSLC 11.203 3 ...as the activity and growth of slavery began to be offensively
felt by [Webster's] constituents, the senator became less sensitive to these evils.
SMC 11.366 11 The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts] being formed of veterans,
and in fields requiring great activity and exposure, suffered extraordinary losses;...
FRep 11.531 21 In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant
confidence in our talent and activity...
FRep 11.533 7 Contrast, change, interruption, are necessary to new activity...
FRep 11.535 1 ...the land and sea educate the people, and bring out presence of
mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed activity.
FRep 11.542 20 ...man seems to play, by his instincts and activity, a certain
part that even tells on the general face of the planet...
PLT 12.12 24 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of
outward objects...in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth;...
PLT 12.56 10 There are two theories of life;... One is activity, the busybody...
Mem 12.102 18 ...I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have
thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that have
been published in a century.
CL 12.151 4 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool, and a new activity
among the hardy birds...
Bost 12.196 23 ...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which the
habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor but in
graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.
MAng1 12.215 18 The means, the materials of [Michelangelo's] activity, were
coarse enough to be appreciated...
MAng1 12.219 1 ...certain minds...possess the power of abstracting Beauty from
things, and reproducing it in new forms, on any object to which accident may determine
their activity; as stone, canvas, song, history.
Milt1 12.269 1 [Milton's] birth fell upon the agitated years when the
discontents of the English Puritans were fast drawing to a head against the tyranny of the
Stuarts. No period has surpassed that in the general activity of mind.
MLit 12.312 8 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the
genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs now at last the
paramount intellectual influence of the world...
MLit 12.315 14 The great never hinder us; for their activity is coincident...
with all the activity and well-being of the race.
MLit 12.327 16 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could
so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the
incessant activity of this man...
Let 12.394 23 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or
five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who
would provoke each other to the best activity.
Let 12.395 23 It were fit to forbid concert and calculation in this
particular... if we were up to the mark of self-denial and faith in our general activity.
Let 12.402 11 ...the smallest new activity given to the perceptive power, is a
victory won to the living universe from Chaos and old Night...
Acton, Massachusetts, n. (5)
HDC 11.54 4 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was
granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond, now partly in
Littleton, partly in Acton, became an Indian town...
HDC 11.62 22 ...Concord then [in 1666] included the greater part of the towns of
Bedford, Acton, Lincoln and Carlisle.
HDC 11.74 2 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and Carlisle...arrived [at
Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that Major Buttrick found himself superior in
number to the enemy's party at the bridge.
HDC 11.74 19 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river...then a single
gun...then a volley, by which Captain Isaac Davis and Abner Hosmer of Acton were instantly
killed.
ACri 12.305 8 Once in the fields with the lowing cattle...and satisfying curves
of the landscape, and I cannot tell whether this is Thessaly and Enna, or whether Concord
and Acton.
actor, n. (18)
AmS 1.108 3 ...each bard, each actor has only done for me...what one day I can
do for myself.
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];...
Con 1.303 8 We have all a certain intellection...of reform existing in the mind,
which does not yet descend into the character, and those who throw themselves blindly on
this lose themselves. Whatever they attempt in that direction...reacts suicidally on the
actor himself.
ShP 4.218 10 The Egyptian verdict of the Shakspeare Societies comes to mind;
that [Shakespeare] was a jovial actor and manager.
NMW 4.247 2 We can not, in the universal imbecility, indecision and indolence of
men, sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon]...
Wsp 6.215 15 I can best indicate by examples those reactions by which every part
of nature replies to the purpose of the actor...
OA 7.334 14 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window,
and distinctly heard all. He had a voice such as I never heard before or since. He cast it
out so that you might hear it at the meeting-house... and he had the grace...of an actor
of plays.
PPo 8.248 2 What is pent and smouldered in the dumb actor, is not pent in the
poet...
Carl 10.494 19 Great is [Carlyle's] reverence...for all such traits as spring
from the intrinsic nature of the actor.
TPar 11.288 23 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in
[Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston];...
Actor, n. (1)
actors, n. (16)
LT 1.268 24 ...the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors,
and the students.
LT 1.268 26 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who... compose the
visible church of the existing generation.
LT 1.281 19 Quitting now the class of actors, let us turn to see how it stands
with the other class of which we spoke, namely, the students.
Tran 1.350 22 It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, of
events, or of actors, that imports.
Comp 2.119 16 The history of persecution is a history of endeavors...to twist a
rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one...
Pt1 3.28 13 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of
Beauty, as painters, poets, musicians and actors, have been more than others wont to lead
a life of pleasure and indulgence;...
ShP 4.205 21 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and shareholder in the theatre, not in
any striking manner distinguished from other actors and managers.
Pow 6.77 27 John Kemble said that the worst provincial company of actors would
go through a play better than the best amateur company.
Elo1 7.93 4 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other
well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole...
PI 8.35 27 On the stage, the farce is commonly far better given than the
tragedy, as the stock actors understand the farce...
PI 8.44 16 This power [of characterization] appears not only in the outline or
portrait of [Shakespeare's] actors...
Dem1 10.27 3 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. ...a droll bedlam,
where...the actors and spectators have no conscience or reflection...
Prch 10.223 18 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote,
any trait...of faithful service. I do not find that the age or country makes the least
difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke...
II 12.88 9 The Buddhist who...reads the issue of the conflict beforehand in the
rank of the actors, is calm.
actor's, n. (1)
Exp 3.78 25 Especially the crimes that spring from love seem right and fair from
the actor's point of view...
acts, n. (49)
Nat 1.26 8 Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they
convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
Nat 1.77 6 ...[the advancing spirit] shall draw...heroic acts, around its way...
Con 1.318 19 The objection to conservatism, when embodied in a party, is that in
its love of acts it hates principles;...
Hist 2.6 12 Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of this
fact is...the foundation...of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of
self-reliance.
SR 2.43 5 Our acts our angels are, or good or ill/...
SR 2.57 7 It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone,
scarcely even in acts of pure memory...
SR 2.65 4 Every man discriminates between the voluntary acts of his mind and his
involuntary perceptions...
SL 2.133 27 When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant
as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are...
SL 2.159 20 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he cannot keep his foolish
counsel. A broken complexion...ungenerous acts...all blab.
Lov1 2.184 18 From exchanging glances, [lovers] advance to acts of courtesy...
Hsm1 2.251 20 ...just and wise men take umbrage at [the hero's] act, until after
some little time be past; then they see it to be in unison with their acts.
Cir 2.320 11 ...of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat;...
Pt1 3.3 6 ...if you inquire whether [the umpires of taste] are beautiful souls,
and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and
sensual.
Chr1 3.93 13 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been
at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled humor, which all his
desire to be courteous cannot shake off. I see plainly how many firm acts have been
done;...
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 15 The acts which you praise, I praise not...
PPh 4.50 16 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be
manifold, arising from the consequences of acts [said Krishna].
ET19 5.311 18 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to
England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes,--the
electing of worthy persons...to acts of kindness and warm and stanch support...
F 6.41 13 ...as we do in dreams, with equanimity, the most absurd acts, so a
drop more of wine in our cup of life will reconcile us to strange company and work.
Wsp 6.213 6 The religion of the cultivated class now...consists in an avoidance
of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to assume.
Art2 7.40 22 [In the useful arts] the omnipotent agent is Nature; all human acts
are satellites to her orb.
Boks 7.216 21 We are [in the novel] cheated into laughter or wonder by feats
which only oddly combine acts that we do every day.
PI 8.45 6 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can
compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by
the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
SA 8.105 8 [This flame of desire] reinforces the heart that feels it, makes all
its acts and words gracious and interesting.
Chr2 10.103 11 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests...are the homage
we render to this sentiment...
MMEm 10.421 23 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have
less outward variety, but simpler and grander means;...a few successions of acts...
HDC 11.72 7 All the military movements in this town [Concord] were solemnized by
acts of public worship.
LVB 11.89 4 Before any acts contrary to his own judgment or interest have
repelled the affections of any man, each may look with trust and living anticipation to
your [Van Buren's] government.
EWI 11.119 24 Parliament was compelled to pass additional laws for the defence
and security of the negro [in the West Indies], and in ill humor at these acts, the great
island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
TPar 11.288 8 It will not be in the acts of city councils, nor of obsequious
mayors;...that coming generations will study what really befell [in Boston];...
EPro 11.316 5 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the
Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President Lincoln's [Emancipation]
Proclamation on the twenty-second of September. These are acts of great scope...
EPro 11.317 9 ...so fair a mind...so reticent that his decision has taken all
parties by surprise, whilst yet it just the sequel of his prior acts,-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 11.318 24 The virtues of a good magistrate...seem vastly more potent than
the acts of bad governors...
EdAd 11.389 15 The facility of majorities is no protection from the natural
sequence of their own acts.
CPL 11.508 3 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes, all books, all past acts are
forgotten...
PLT 12.37 3 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world,
[Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the
animal life and health. Then it requires a proportion between a man's acts and his
condition...
Mem 12.94 17 'T is because of the believed incompatibility of the affirmative
and advancing attitude of the mind with tenacious acts of recollection that people are
often reproached with living in their memory.
acts, v. (33)
Nat 1.4 4 [Man] acts [his condition] as life, before he apprehends it as truth.
AmS 1.99 1 The mind now thinks, now acts...
DSA 1.129 2 [Jesus] said...Through me, God acts;...
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 1.191 22 ...the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish
the farm, the school, the church, the house...
Con 1.325 26 The law acts then as a screen of [the intemperate, covetous
person's] unworthiness...
SR 2.67 11 Before a leaf-bud has burst, [the rose's] whole life acts;...
OS 2.277 20 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become
aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. They
all become wiser than they were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought
in which every heart...thinks and acts with unusual solemnity.
Chr1 3.89 23 This is that which we call Character,--a reserved force, which acts
directly by presence and without means.
ET5 5.77 22 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his
neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...thinks the same thing...
ET5 5.85 11 In trade, the Englishman believes...that if he do not make trade
everything, it will make him nothing; and acts on this belief.
ET6 5.104 26 Each man [in England]...in every manner acts and suffers without
reference to the bystanders, in his own fashion...
Bhr 6.186 11 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or
quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second...is not to be
resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily found. People grow up and grow old
under this infliction, and never suspect the truth, ascribing the solitude which acts on
them very injuriously to any cause but the right one.
Art2 7.37 22 The man not only thinks, but speaks and acts.
Elo1 7.98 5 ...as soon as one acts for large masses, the moral element will and
must be allowed for...
PI 8.24 9 The senses collect the surface facts of matter. The intellect acts on
these brute reports...
PI 8.43 20 ...a being whom we have called into life by magic arts, as soon as it
has received existence acts independently of the master's impulse...
Grts 8.306 13 ...whilst ordinarily magnetism of steel is from north to south, in
other substances, gases, it acts from east to west.
Dem1 10.22 9 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may
fancy...that...when he acts, unheard-of success evinces the presence of rare agents;...
Dem1 10.23 9 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who...waits his time, and
without effort acts when the need is.
Prch 10.224 21 A man acts not from one motive, but from many shifting fears and
short motives;...
FSLC 11.186 16 Let me remind you a little in detail how the natural retribution
acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.
RBur 11.440 2 I can only explain this singular unanimity [to celebrate Burns's
anniversary] in a race which rarely acts together...by the fact that Robert
Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
Mem 12.103 15 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up
into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters. Then a thousand times over it lives and
acts again...
Milt1 12.253 20 ...no man can be named whose mind still acts on the cultivated
intellect of England and America with an energy comparable to that of Milton.
actual, adj. (50)
Nat 1.73 16 The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is
happily figured by the schoolmen...
Nat 1.74 8 ...in actual life, the marriage [of thought and devotion] is not
celebrated.
MR 1.255 11 The mediator between the spiritual and the actual world should have
a great prospective prudence.
Con 1.298 2 The castle which conservatism is set to defend is the actual state
of things, good and bad.
Con 1.303 27 You are welcome...if you can, to displace the actual order by that
ideal republic you announce...
YA 1.372 23 Remark the unceasing effort throughout nature at somewhat better
than the actual creatures...
SR 2.53 22 This rule [of self-reliance], equally arduous in actual and in
intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
Hsm1 2.251 9 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he... knows that
his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists.
Hsm1 2.258 18 We have seen or heard of many extraordinary young men... whose
performance in actual life was not extraordinary.
Art1 2.362 26 Our best praise is given to what [the arts] aimed and promised,
not to the actual result.
Pt1 3.42 8 ...this is the reward; that the ideal shall be real to thee [O poet],
and the impressions of the actual world shall fall like summer rain...
Exp 3.51 3 Of what use is genius, if the organ...cannot find a focal distance
within the actual horizon of human life?
Exp 3.60 27 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual
companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated
its whole pleasure for us.
Mrs1 3.146 22 The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy are not found
in the actual aristocracy...
Nat2 3.175 19 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a
park; that they...go in coaches...to watering-places and to distant cities,-- these make
the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance,
compared with which their actual possessions are shanties and paddocks.
PPh 4.54 13 In actual life, [admirable souls] are so rare as to be
incredible;...
MoS 4.150 26 The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is
his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design?--he will
presently undervalue the actual object.
Wth 6.127 3 Nor is the man enriched...unless through new powers and ascending
pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the
way to the highest.
Art2 7.55 27 [The arts] come to serve [man's] actual wants, never to please his
fancy.
Boks 7.216 2 A person of less courage...will answer [the question of a vicious
marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre] does,--giving way...to conventionalism, to the
actual state and doings of men and women.
PI 8.32 4 Free trade, [men of the world] concede, is very well as a principle,
but it is never quite the time for its adoption without prejudicing actual interests.
PI 8.71 21 The free spirit sympathizes not only with the actual form, but with
the power or possible forms;...
Elo2 8.115 5 ...in contrast with the efficiency [the orator] suggests, our
actual life and society appears a dormitory.
Comc 8.159 14 We have a primary association between perfectness and this [human]
form. But the facts that occur when actual men enter do not make good this
anticipation;...
Comc 8.159 24 ...a prophet...or a philosopher...bring...the ideal whole,
exposing all actual defect;...
Comc 8.160 1 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure
idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man who knows
the world...
Comc 8.165 20 The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual Church
is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious sentiment...
Dem1 10.4 4 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we
should...become the theatre of delirious shows...a delicate creation outdoing the prime
and flower of actual Nature...
Chr2 10.118 17 In the present tendency of our society...society is threatened
with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
Edc1 10.142 26 Culture makes [the youth's] books realities to him, their
characters more brilliant, more effective on his mind, than his actual mates.
Prch 10.219 18 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment,
but in actual history its illustrious exhibitions are interrupted and periodical...
MMEm 10.409 24 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy,
saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every actual case, 't is hard...
Thor 10.460 10 ...idealist as he was...[Thoreau] found himself not only
unrepresented in actual politics, but almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.
Thor 10.475 8 [Thoreau] was so enamoured of the spiritual beauty that he held
all actual written poems in very light esteem in the comparison.
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...
War 11.162 21 ...we never make much account of objections which merely respect
the actual state of the world at this moment...
Milt1 12.278 1 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry, not
finding the actual world exactly conformed to its idea of good and fair, seeks to
accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
MLit 12.309 2 In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt,
in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers.
Actual, adj. (1)
Con 1.305 7 ...you are under the necessity of using the Actual order of things,
in order to disuse it;...
actual, n. (4)
War 11.163 22 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless
playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an
imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a
handful of friends of peace.
Milt1 12.249 11 ...[Milton] demands, on the instant, an ideal justice. Therein
[his tracts] are discriminated from modern writings, in which a regard to the actual is
all but universal.
MLit 12.330 1 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] To a profound soul is not
austere truth the sweetest flattery? Yes, O Goethe! but the ideal is truer than the
actual.
Actual, n. (4)
LT 1.285 17 ...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider the
cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness. It is...the contrast of the dwarfish Actual with
the exorbitant Idea.
Hsm1 2.259 1 The magic [many extraordinary young men] used was the ideal
tendencies, which always make the Actual ridiculous;...
MLit 12.329 7 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to himself: There are poets enough of
the Ideal; let me paint the Actual...
MLit 12.331 5 Goethe...must be set down as the poet of the Actual, not of the
Ideal;...
actualite, n. (1)
Wsp 6.209 22 When Paul Leroux offered his article Dieu to the conductor of a
leading French journal, he replied, La question de Dieu manque d' actualite.
actuality, n. (1)
Wth 6.93 13 Power is what [men of sense] want...power to give...form and
actuality to their thought;...
actualization, n. (2)
War 11.161 2 [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.
actualizing, v. (1)
actually, adv. (15)
MR 1.254 25 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...manage
to break its way up through the frosty ground, and actually to lift a hard crust on its
head?
YA 1.376 7 When a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of
consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter, the Czar interrupted
him,-There is no man of consequence in this empire but he with whom I am actually
speaking;...
SR 2.53 16 Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am...
Mrs1 3.143 20 ...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.
Nat2 3.183 21 Every known fact in natural science was divined by the
presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
UGM 4.3 14 ...actually or ideally, we manage to live with superiors.
SwM 4.142 5 Shall the archangels be less majestic and sweet than the figures
that have actually walked the earth?
NMW 4.226 6 ...a man of Napoleon's truth of adaptation to the mind of the masses
around him, becomes not merely representative but actually a monopolizer and usurper of
other minds.
ET7 5.124 10 The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500), says,
I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging most furiously,
[the English] will seek for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking
what harm might befall them.
CbW 6.267 13 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some
pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness,--whether it be to make baskets...or
songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only
truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.
Art2 7.46 27 The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter,
sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has
inspired us
LS 11.10 25 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at Capernaum] complained that
they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added...that we might not think his body
was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
FSLN 11.218 10 ...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a class
which...comprises every man in the best hours of his life; and in these days not only
virtually but actually.
Bost 12.202 20 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...
acumen, n. (2)
SwM 4.129 24 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.
FSLC 11.185 18 The learning of the universities...the acumen of lawyers... are
all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy].
acute, adj. (18)
Chr1 3.91 12 [The people] cannot come at their ends by sending to Congress a
learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who, before he was appointed by the
people to represent them, was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
Mrs1 3.154 8 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted
wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the
general bleakness and stoniness;... What is vulgar but to refuse the claim on acute and
conclusive reasons?
NR 3.239 15 In every conversation, even the highest, there is a certain trick,
which may be soon learned by an acute person...
Civ 7.33 3 The appearance...in Greece, of the Seven Wise Masters, of the acute
and upright Socrates...are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
Elo1 7.64 6 Isocrates described his art as the power of magnifying what was
small and diminishing what was great,--an acute but partial definition.
OA 7.323 27 When the pleuro-pneumonia of the cows raged, the butchers said that
though the acute degree was novel, there never was a time when this disease did not occur
among cattle.
Comc 8.161 8 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding...
SovE 10.213 16 [The man of this age] must not be one who can be surprised and
shipwrecked by every bold or subtile word which malignant and acute men may utter in his
hearing...
FSLC 11.196 22 I wonder that our acute people who have learned that the cheapest
police is dear schools, should not find out that an immoral law costs more than the loss
of the custom of a Southern city.
Wom 11.416 11 Was never a University of Oxford or Gottingen that made such
students. [Antagonism to Slavery] took a man from the plough and made him acute, eloquent,
and wise to the silencing of the doctors.
PLT 12.7 13 Seek the literary circles...the men of splendor, of bon-mots, will
they afford me satisfaction? I think you could not find a club of men acute and liberal
enough in the world.
PLT 12.8 19 Was it better when we came to the philosophers, who found everybody
wrong; acute and ingenious to lampoon and degrade mankind?
Bost 12.201 21 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which
contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration
of Independence. And this...could be heard (by an acute ear) in the Petitions to the
King...
Milt1 12.257 18 [Milton's] ear for music was so acute that he was not only
enthusiastic in his love, but a skilful performer himself;...
Let 12.398 16 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times
and country, and disdain it. Many of the more acute minds pass into a lofty criticism of
these things...
acutely, adv. (1)
Cour 7.265 8 ...men with little imagination are less fearful; they wait till
they feel pain, whilst others of more sensibility...suffer in the fear of the pang more
acutely than in the pang.
acuteness, n. (3)
II 12.68 2 One often sees in the embittered acuteness of critics snuffing heresy
from afar, their own unbelief...
Bost 12.208 20 ...the genius of Boston is seen in her real independence,
productive power and northern acuteness of mind...
acuter, adj. (1)
Wsp 6.216 26 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter
notes of right and wrong than we can.
acutest, adj. (1)
Acworth, New Hampshire, n. (1)
SlHr 10.446 6 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and
substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those opaque
crystals...which are found in Acworth, New Hampshire, not less perfect in their angles and
structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.
Adam, n. (16)
Nat 1.76 10 All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.
Nat 1.76 11 Adam called his house, heaven and earth;...
OS 2.274 25 The growths of genius are of a certain total character, that does
not advance the elect individual first over John, then Adam, then Richard...
Mrs1 3.135 15 ...if perchance a searching realist comes to our gate...then again
we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves as Adam at the voice of the Lord God in the
garden.
NR 3.223 6 ...in the new-born millions,/ The perfect Adam lives./
ET1 5.17 23 [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. My dame makes
it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat...
Farm 7.153 18 ...[the farmer] stands well on the world,--as Adam did...
PI 8.31 21 [The poet] is a true re-commencer, or Adam in the garden again.
Res 8.137 10 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam...or the submarine
telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.
Edc1 10.137 6 A new Adam in the garden, [the new man] is to name all the beasts
in the field, all the gods in the sky.
Prch 10.237 9 Here is thought and love and truth and duty, new as on the first
day of Adam and of angels.
MoL 10.250 11 [Nature says to the American] One thing you have rightly done. You
have offered a patch of land in the wilderness to every son of Adam who will till it.
Milt1 12.274 3 Was there not a fitness in the undertaking of such a person [as
Milton] to write a poem on the subject of Adam...
Milt1 12.275 19 The most affecting passages in Paradise Lost are personal
allusions; and when we are fairly in Eden, Adam and Milton are often difficult to be
separated.
adamant, adj. (1)
F 6.43 18 If the wall remain adamant, it accuses the want of thought.
adamant, n. (11)
LE 1.171 4 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the
adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy.
Hist 2.13 25 ...a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will. The adamant
streams into soft but precise form before it...
Art1 2.360 9 ...through his necessity of imparting himself the adamant will be
wax in [the artist's] hands...
ET6 5.112 5 In this Gibraltar of propriety [England], mediocrity gets... founded
in adamant.
ET14 5.234 22 The Saxon materialism and narrowness, exalted into the sphere of
intellect, makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton. When it reaches the pure
element, it treads the clouds as securely as the adamant.
Prch 10.226 6 ...when we think our feet are planted now at last on adamant, the
slide is drawn out from under us.
adamantine, adj. (8)
NR 3.247 10 ...the Truth sits veiled there on the Bench, and never interposes an
adamantine syllable;...
NER 3.267 15 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the
secret soul; he will go up and down doing the works of a true member [of a union], and, to
the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.
Government will be adamantine without any governor.
SwM 4.137 2 ...[Swedenborg's] judgments are those of a Swedish polemic, and his
vast enlargements purchased by adamantine limitations.
Wth 6.115 15 [The pale scholar]...by and by wakes up from his idiot dream of
chickweed and red-root, to remember his morning thought, and to find that with his
adamantine purposes he has been duped by a dandelion.
Art2 7.55 22 This strict dependence of Art upon material and ideal Nature, this
adamantine necessity which underlies it, has made all its past and may foreshow its future
history.
Cour 7.277 4 If you...see only an adamantine fate coiling its folds about Nature
and man, then reflect that the best use of fate is to teach us courage...
PPo 8.246 27 Stands the vault adamantine/ Until the Doomsday;/ The wine-cup
shall ferry/ Thee o'er it away./
Adamitic, adj. (1)
Adams, John, n. (15)
F 6.39 22 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few
active persons who epitomize the times?--...Adams...and the rest.
Ctr 6.135 21 Have you seen Mr. Allston, Doctor Channing, Mr. Adams, Mr. Webster,
Mr. Greenough?
Ctr 6.161 17 Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, stood on a fine humanity...
Elo1 7.85 5 ...the splendid weapons which went to the equipment...of Patrick
Henry, of Adams...deserve a special enumeration.
OA 7.323 2 We still feel the force...of Franklin, Jefferson and Adams...
OA 7.332 2 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to
ex-President John Adams, in 1825...
SA 8.102 19 Our gentlemen of the old school, that is, the school of Washington,
Adams and Hamilton, were bred after English types...
MoL 10.248 22 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of
Nature...as...Adams, with Independence;...
FSLC 11.204 18 [Webster] praises Adams and Jefferson, but it is a past Adams and
Jefferson that his mind can entertain.
FSLC 11.204 19 [Webster] praises Adams and Jefferson, but it is a past Adams and
Jefferson that his mind can entertain.
FSLC 11.204 20 [Webster] praises Adams and Jefferson, but it is a past Adams and
Jefferson that his mind can entertain. A present Adams and Jefferson he would denounce.
AsSu 11.250 27 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his
speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's
case, as it was true...of Adams...
FRep 11.537 9 Columbus was no backward-creeping crab, nor was Martin Luther, nor
John Adams...
Bost 12.203 14 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the
governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some John Adams and
Josiah Quincy and Governor Andrew to undertake and carry the defence of patriots in the
courts against the uproar of all the province;...
Bost 12.210 26 The elder President Adams has to divide voices of fame with the
younger President Adams.
Adams, John Quincy, n. (7)
OA 7.333 18 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.
Elo2 8.122 14 It is said that one of the best readers in his time was the late
President John Quincy Adams.
Elo2 8.122 25 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams... was
elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.
EzRy 10.392 13 We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened with much
delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation...that a man who could tell a story so well was
company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
Bost 12.211 2 The elder President Adams has to divide voices of fame with the
younger President Adams.
Adam's, n. (1)
ShP 4.219 8 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also
saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway
vanished;...and life became...a probation, beleaguered round with doleful histories of
Adam's fall and curse behind us;...
Adams, Samuel, n. (1)
Adams, William, n. (1)
CSC 10.375 14 ...H. C. Wright, Dr. Osgood, William Adams...and many other
persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon
Street Convention]...
Adams's, John, n. (3)
OA 7.332 10 --,February, 1825 To-day at Quincy, with my brother, by invitation
of Mr. [John] Adams's family.
FSLC 11.180 16 ...The Boston of the American Revolution, which figures so
proudly in John Adams's Diary...Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
Adams's, John Quincy, n. (2)
OA 7.333 1 I asked [John Adams] if Mr. [John Quincy] Adams's letter of
acceptance had been read to him.
OA 7.333 11 When Mr. J. Q. Adams's age was mentioned, [John Adams] said, He is
now fifty-eight...
adapt, v. (3)
MN 1.218 11 Genius...draws its means and the style of its architecture from
within, going abroad only for audience and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to
the distance and character of the ear we speak to.
Scot 11.464 13 ...finding [the old ballads] now outgrown and dishonored by the
new culture, [Scott] attempted to dignify and adapt them to the times in which he lived.
adaptation, n. (10)
NMW 4.226 4 ...a man of Napoleon's truth of adaptation to the mind of the masses
around him, becomes not merely representative but actually a monopolizer and usurper of
other minds.
Suc 7.283 21 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which, through
some adaptation of fingers or ear or eye...enriches the community with a new art;...
SovE 10.210 12 I know how delicate this [moral] principle is,-how difficult of
adaptation to practical and social arrangements.
adaptations, n. (2)
LE 1.169 23 Men believe in the adaptations of utility, always...
LE 1.169 25 ...in the mountains, [men] may believe in the adaptations of the
eye.
adapted, adj. (4)
Farm 7.135 7 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed of rock/ And, like the
chemist mid his loaded jars,/ Draw from each stratum its adapted use/ To drug their crops
or weapon their arts withal./
adapted, v. (8)
Fdsp 2.206 14 Friendship may be said to require natures...each so well tempered
and so happily adapted...that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
WD 7.167 21 The poem [Hesiod's Works and Days]...is adapted to all meridians by
adding the ethics of works and of days.
Clbs 7.229 3 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach,
where...people became rapidly acquainted, and, if well adapted, more intimate in a day
than if they had been neighbors for years.
Clbs 7.242 14 There are men who are great only to one or two companions of more
opportunity, or more adapted.
PI 8.54 10 The difference between poetry and stock poetry is this, that in the
latter the rhythm is given and the sense adapted to it; while in the former the sense
dictates the rhythm.
PLT 12.31 14 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing or doing somewhat which,
when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on that, that it seems a sort of obtuseness to
everything else.
Trag 12.406 25 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an
intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of
Nature and events is controlled by a law not adapted to man, nor man to that...
adapting, v. (3)
ET10 5.166 24 Man...is ever...adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron,
wood and leather to some required function in the work of the world.
ChiE 11.474 5 [Asian immigrants'] power of continuous labor, their versatility
in adapting themselves to new conditions...are unlooked-for virtues.
adaptive, adj. (2)
Res 8.141 5 Ah! what a plastic little creature [man] is! so shifty, so
adaptive!...
adaptiveness, n. (1)
adapts, v. (1)
Exp 3.53 19 I saw a gracious gentleman who adapts his conversation to the form
of the head of the man he talks with!
add, v. (108)
Nat 1.20 25 ...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to
the beauty of the deed?
AmS 1.107 9 [The poor and the low]...will perish to add one drop of blood to
make that great heart beat...
AmS 1.108 25 I ought not to delay longer to add what I have to say of nearer
reference to the time and to this country.
MN 1.214 16 ...I add, a man never sees the same object twice...
Tran 1.354 17 ...this class [Transcendentalists] are not sufficiently
characterized if we omit to add that they are lovers and worshippers of Beauty.
Hist 2.18 6 A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the
ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.
Int 2.346 27 Well assured that their speech is intelligible and the most natural
thing in the world, [the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis...
Art1 2.353 24 Shall I now add that the whole extant product of the plastic arts
has herein its highest value, as history;...
Pt1 3.19 12 ...in a centred mind, it signifies nothing how many mechanical
inventions you exhibit. Though you add millions...the fact of mechanics has not gained a
grain's weight.
Pt1 3.27 24 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this
extraordinary power to their normal powers;...
Exp 3.65 3 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to
say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy
foolish task, add a line every hour...
Exp 3.65 4 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to
say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy
foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.
Exp 3.66 20 ...what are these millions who read and behold, but incipient
writers and sculptors? Add a little more of that quality which now reads and sees, and
they will seize the pen and chisel.
Nat2 3.185 4 Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse;...
NER 3.274 11 ...Rousseau...Byron,--and I could easily add names nearer
home...they would know the worst...
NER 3.276 22 Dear to us are those who love us;...but dearer are those who reject
us as unworthy, for they add another life...
UGM 4.12 24 Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions
of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky.
PPh 4.40 11 Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and
the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his
categories.
PPh 4.58 12 [Plato] has...a humanity which makes him tender for the
superstitions of the people. Add to this, he believes that poetry, prophecy and the high
insight are from a wisdom of which man is not master;...
PPh 4.67 24 [Plato] said, Culture; he said, Nature; and he failed not to add,
There is also the divine.
PNR 4.80 6 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent
translations of Plato...gives us an occasion...to add a bulletin, like the journals, of
Plato at the latest dates.
SwM 4.98 2 Shall we say, that the economical mother disburses so much earth and
so much fire...to make a man, and will not add a pennyweight...
MoS 4.179 15 Shall I add, as one juggle of this enchantment, the stunning
non-intercourse law which makes co-operation impossible?
NMW 4.239 13 In his later days [Napoleon] had the weakness of wishing to add to
his crowns and badges the prescription of aristocracy;...
ET3 5.37 17 As soon as you enter England, which, with Wales, is no larger than
the State of Georgia, this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an
empire. Add South Carolina, and you have more than an equivalent for the area of Scotland.
ET3 5.39 17 The only drawback on this industrial conveniency [in England] is the
darkness of its sky. The night and day are too nearly of a color. It strains the eyes to
read and to write. Add the coal smoke.
ET4 5.45 2 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth
of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock.
Add the United States of America...and you have a population of English descent and
language of 60,000,000...
ET4 5.49 12 Whatever influences add to mental or moral faculty, take men out of
nationality...
ET4 5.72 1 Add a certain degree of refinement to the vivacity of these [English]
riders, and you obtain the precise quality which makes the men and women of polite society
formidable.
ET5 5.97 1 [The English] have ransacked Italy to find new forms, to add a grace
to the products of their looms, their potteries and their foundries.
ET7 5.116 8 Add to this hereditary [German] rectitude the punctuality and
precise dealing which commerce creates, and you have the English truth and credit.
ET8 5.139 12 I might even add, [the Englishmen's] daily feasts argue a savage
vigor of body.
ET15 5.271 27 I wish I could add that this journal [the London Times] aspired to
deserve the power it wields...
F 6.11 20 If, later, [these drones] give birth to some superior individual, with
force enough to add to this animal a new aim...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
F 6.27 7 Just as much intellect as you add, so much organic power.
Wth 6.95 3 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, and who is using these to add to the stock.
Wth 6.100 18 Probity and closeness to the facts are the basis, but the masters
of the art [of commerce] add a certain long arithmetic.
CbW 6.250 11 Napoleon was called by his men Cent Mille. Add honesty to him, and
they might have called him Hundred Million.
CbW 6.272 18 Add [to conversation] the consent of will and temperament, and
there exists the covenant of friendship.
CbW 6.278 24 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily
reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;...these are the
essentials,--these, and the wish...to add somewhat to the well-being of men.
Elo1 7.74 27 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who
prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil.
Add a little sarcasm and prompt allusion to passing occurrences, and you have the
mischievous member of Congress.
Elo1 7.82 10 ...the commonest populace is flattered by hearing its low mind
returned to it with every ornament which happy talent can add.
Elo1 7.93 11 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other
well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole... Add to
this concentration a certain regnant calmness...and the orator stands before the people as
a demoniacal power...
DL 7.116 23 Another age may...make the labors of a few hours avail to the wants
and add to the vigor of the man.
Cour 7.257 14 The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his
loveliness;...
Suc 7.306 3 That is the great happiness of life,--to add to our high
acquaintances.
Suc 7.308 1 The searching tests to apply to every new pretender are amount and
quality,--what does he add? and what is the state of mind he leaves me in?
Suc 7.308 3 Your theory is unimportant; but what new stock you can add to
humanity, or how high you can carry life?
Suc 7.311 2 ...to help the young soul, add energy...that is not easy...
OA 7.316 2 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...Cicero' s
famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain. But he does not
exhaust the subject; rather invites the attempt to add traits to the picture from our
broader modern life.
OA 7.323 22 ...it will not add a pang to the prisoner marched out to be shot, to
assure him that the pain in his knee threatens mortification.
PI 8.75 10 Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every
fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
Elo2 8.131 26 ...in Germany we have seen a metaphysical zymosis culminating in
Kant, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and so ending. To this we might add
the great eras not only of painters but of orators.
Res 8.139 25 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep.
What spaces! what durations!...in humanity...millions of lives to add only sentiments and
guesses, which at last, gathered in by an ear of sensibility, make the furniture of the
poet.
PC 8.208 24 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the
Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...
PC 8.214 2 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions
of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the
Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Norse Sagas, in Scandinavia; and, I may add, the
Arabian Nights, on the African coast.
Grts 8.312 4 With this respect to the bias of the individual mind add...the most
catholic receptivity for the genius of others.
Imtl 8.332 17 I ought to add that, though men of good minds, [the two friends]
were both pretty strong materialists in their daily aims and way of life.
Dem1 10.23 10 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who...waits his time, and
without effort acts when the need is. If to this you add a fitness to the society around
him, you have the elements of fortune;...
Aris 10.41 14 We shall come to add Kings in the Contents of the Directory, as we
do Physicians, Brokers, etc.
Aris 10.54 14 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly
are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then
convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery, to...win smiles and tears from many
generations. The eminent examples are...Bunyan, Burns, Scott, and now we must add Dickens.
Edc1 10.140 26 [The boy's] hunting and campings-out have given him an
indispensable base: I wish to add a taste for good company through his impatience of bad.
Supl 10.168 19 ...the old head, after deceiving and being deceived many times,
thinks, What's the use of having to unsay to-day what I said yesterday? I will not be
responsible; I will not add an epithet.
MoL 10.250 7 [Nature says to the American] I give you...the forest and the mine,
the elemental forces, nervous energy. When I add difficulty, I add brain.
Schr 10.278 17 It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add to a
high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country with them.
CSC 10.376 24 ...not [the Chardon Street Convention's] least instructive lesson
was the gradual but sure ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit...in spite, we might add, of his
own failures.
EzRy 10.383 10 To these facts, gathered chiefly from [Ezra Ripley's] own
diary...I can only add a few traits from memory.
Thor 10.464 9 I must add the cardinal fact, that there was an excellent wisdom
in [Thoreau]...
Thor 10.480 11 ...what were you [Thoreau] sent into the world for, but to add
this observation?
LS 11.18 10 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment
when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may...add
one moment to your life,-do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings
from your thought?
EWI 11.142 24 I have said that this event [emancipation in the West Indies]
interests us because it came mainly from the concession of the whites; I add, that in part
it is the earning of the blacks.
EPro 11.321 6 Not only will [Lincoln] repeat and follow up his stroke [the
Emancipation Proclamation], but the nation will add its irresistible strength.
EPro 11.324 13 If you could add, say [foreign critics], to your strength the
whole army of England, of France and of Austria, you could not coerce eight millions of
people to come under this government against their will.
EdAd 11.383 6 Add, that this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented
material power from the new arts...
RBur 11.441 4 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the
greatest masters,-Rabelais, Shakspeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and Burns. If I
should add another name, I find it only in a living countryman of Burns [Carlyle].
CPL 11.508 9 Let me add then, read proudly;...
FRep 11.519 11 Man exists for his own sake, and not to add a laborer to the
state.
PLT 12.15 8 Next I treat of the identity of the thought with Nature; and I add a
rude list of some by-laws of the mind.
PLT 12.43 27 We believe that certain persons add to the common vision a certain
degree of control over these states of mind;...
PLT 12.52 16 It is much to write sentences; it is more to add method and write
out the spirit of your life symmetrically.
II 12.72 11 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as...
the Iliad. There is much loss, as we say on the railway, in the stops, but the running
time need be but little increased, to add great results.
II 12.77 27 ...this reminds me to add one more trait of the inspired state,
namely, incessant advance...
CL 12.142 16 Good observers have the manners of trees and animals...and if they
add words, 't is only when words are better than silence.
CW 12.174 10 If you can add to the garden a noble luxury, let it be an
arboretum.
MLit 12.321 10 [Wordsworth's The Excursion] was the human soul in these last
ages striving for a just publication of itself. Add to this, however, the great praise of
Wordsworth, that more than any other contemporary bard he is pervaded with a reverence of
somewhat higher than (conscious) thought.
WSL 12.338 5 Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull] the better quality of
great downrightness in speaking the truth...
Let 12.399 4 ...[a stay in Europe] is only a postponement of [American youths']
proper work, with the additional disadvantage of a two years' vacation. Add that this
class is rapidly increasing...
Trag 12.410 5 Come bad chance,/ And we add it to our strength,/ And we teach it
art and length,/ Itself o'er us to advance./
added, adj. (6)
NER 3.266 23 Men will...plough, and reap, and govern, as by added ethereal
power, when once they are united;...
SwM 4.100 21 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the added fame
of second sight...drew to him queens, nobles, clergy...
FSLC 11.205 24 The people cleave to the Union, because they see their advantage
in it, the added power of each.
Wom 11.416 16 ...[antagonism to Slavery] has, among its other effects, given
Woman a feeling of public duty and an added self-respect.
PLT 12.46 22 Heaven is the exercise of the faculties, the added sense of power.
added, v. (72)
Nat 1.49 27 When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once
added grace and expression.
Hist 2.12 7 When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the
Catholic Church...we have as it were been the man that made the minster;...
SR 2.56 17 ...when to [the cultivated classes'] feminine rage the indignation of
the people is added...it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike
as a trifle of no concernment.
Mrs1 3.133 8 If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his tail on!-But Vich Ian Vohr
must always carry his belongings in some fashion, if not added as honor, then severed as
disgrace.
Mrs1 3.141 24 England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a
good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox, who added to his great
abilities the most social disposition and real love of men.
NER 3.281 20 Each [man] is incomparably superior to his companion in some
faculty. His want of skill in other directions has added to his fitness for his own work.
PPh 4.45 8 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and
spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well... ... It has spread itself since
into a hundred histories, but has added no new element.
SwM 4.119 4 To a right perception...of the order of nature, [Swedenborg] added
the comprehension of the moral laws in their widest social aspects;...
SwM 4.120 9 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a most
ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods; and Swedenborg added
that they used the earth symbolically;...
SwM 4.137 24 I doubt not [Swedenborg] was led by the desire to insert the
element of personality of Deity. But nothing is added.
ShP 4.213 13 This power...of transferring the inmost truth of things into music
and verse, makes [Shakespeare] the type of the poet and has added a new problem to
metaphysics.
NMW 4.239 10 To these gifts of nature, Napoleon added the advantage of having
been born to a private and humble fortune.
NMW 4.249 18 This deputy of the nineteenth century [Napoleon] added to his gifts
a capacity for speculation on general topics.
GoW 4.277 4 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in every shade of coldness,
selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over the human thought,-- and found that the
portrait gained reality and terror by every thing he added and by every thing he took
away.
GoW 4.277 11 ...[Goethe] flung into literature, in his Mephistopheles, the first
organic figure that has been added for some ages...
ET5 5.88 23 This highly destined race [the English], if it had not somewhere
added the chamber of patience to its brain, would not have built London.
ET8 5.136 22 This [English] race has added new elements to humanity and has a
deeper root in the world.
ET10 5.160 5 ...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of
England] was added this goblin of steam...the amassing of property has run out of all
figures.
ET10 5.160 10 The steam-pipe has added to [England's] population and wealth the
equivalent of four or five Englands.
ET11 5.193 11 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and
Hertfords have gained no new lustre, and now and then darker scandals break out, ominous
as the new chapters added under the Orleans dynasty to the Causes Celebres in France.
ET11 5.197 17 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds of passage in this House
of Commons, and then added, with a new figure, they have their best bower anchor in the
House of Lords.
ET17 5.292 3 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite
sweetness and bonhommie.
ET17 5.294 26 Incidentally [Wordsworth] added, Gibbon cannot write English.
ET17 5.295 23 I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a new
book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not:
and yet, he added after a pause...and yet we have embodied it all.
ET17 5.298 10 New means were employed, and new realms added to the empire of the
muse, by [Wordsworth's] courage.
Pow 6.53 21 ...[a man] can well afford to let events and possessions and the
breath of the body go, if their value has been added to him in the shape of power.
Wth 6.84 17 ...Then docks were built, and crops were stored,/ And ingots added
to the hoard./
Wth 6.87 26 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the
greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and
blood...
Wth 6.101 8 ...a mass is an immense centre of motion [said the Marseilles
banker], but it must be begun, it must be kept up:--and he might have added that the way
in which it must be begun and kept up is by obedience to the law of particles.
Wth 6.117 8 ...after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and
steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.
Bhr 6.197 4 An old man who added an elevating culture to a large experience of
life, said to me, When you come into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity
beautiful to you.
Bty 6.290 2 ...the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our
perception that not one ornament was added for ornament...
SS 7.3 14 Do you not see, [my new friend] said...that each of these scholars
whom you have met at S---, though he were to be the last man, would, like the executioner
in Hood's poem, guillotine the last but one? He added many lively remarks...
DL 7.128 17 It has been finely added by Landor to his definition of the great
man, It is he who can call together the most select company when it pleases him.
Farm 7.150 2 ...in this very year, a large quantity of land has been discovered
and added to the town [of Concord] without a murmur of complaint from any quarter.
Boks 7.210 1 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred
guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer. And ten, added the Marquis [of Blandford].
Boks 7.210 17 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty
pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis
[of Blandford].
OA 7.333 3 ...[John Adams]...added, My son has more political prudence that any
man that I know who has existed in my time;...
Res 8.136 1 Day by day for her darlings to her much [Nature] added more;/ In her
hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,/ A door to something grander,--loftier
walls, and vaster floor./
QO 8.202 1 Genius is...the capacity of receiving just impressions from the
external world, and the power of coordinating these after the laws of thought. It implies
Will, or original force, for their right distribution and expression. If to this the
sentiment of piety be added...the oldest thoughts become new and fertile...
PC 8.208 14 I will not say that American institutions have given a new
enlargement to our idea of a finished man, but they have added important features to the
sketch.
Imtl 8.328 14 [Sixty years ago] We were all taught that we were born to die; and
over that, all the terrors that theology could gather from savage nations were added to
increase the gloom.
Imtl 8.342 14 ...the one doctrine in which all religions agree is that new light
is added to the mind in proportion as it uses that which it has.
MoL 10.243 21 The subtle Hindoo...produced the wonderful epics of which, in the
present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
MMEm 10.430 16 Those economists (Adam Smith) who say nothing is added to the
wealth of a nation but what is dug out of the earth...why, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am
content with such paradoxical kind of facts;...
LS 11.10 22 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at Capernaum] complained that
they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added for their better understanding...that
we might not think his body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should live by
his commandment.
HDC 11.37 4 To his bodily perfection, the wild man added some noble traits of
character.
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]...
EWI 11.140 10 The First of August [1834] marks the entrance of a new element
into modern politics, namely, the civilization of the negro. A man is added to the human
family.
JBS 11.277 3 ...the best orators who have added their praise to his fame... have
one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN BROWN.
SMC 11.374 6 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four
killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken prisoner. The lines were held
until the tenth, with more than usual suffering from snow and hail and intense cold, added
to the annoyance of the artillery fire.
Wom 11.405 21 ...Coleridge was wont to apply to a lady for her judgment in
questions of taste, and accept it; but when she added-I think so, because-Pardon me,
madam, he said, leave me to find out the reasons for myself.
CPL 11.505 21 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker
who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said
there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he
knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
Mem 12.99 19 What is the newspaper but a sponge or invention for oblivion? the
rule being that for every fact added to the memory, one is crowded out...
Milt1 12.258 18 To these endowments it must be added that [Milton's] address and
his conversation were worthy of his fame.
Milt1 12.260 1 [Milton's] lore of foreign tongues added daily to his consummate
skill in the use of his own.
Milt1 12.266 4 To this antique heroism, Milton added the genius of the Christian
sanctity.
ACri 12.284 2 Chiefly in this country, the common school has added two or three
audiences [for the writer]: once, we had only the boxes; now, the galleries and the pit.
Trag 12.412 12 To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek
genius added an ideal beauty...
adder, n. (1)
Wsp 6.205 26 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a
pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in
Christ? asks Olaf, in excellent faith. Another argument was an adder put into the mouth of
the reluctant disciple Raud, who refused to believe.
addicted, adj. (4)
LT 1.273 7 A wealthy man, addicted to his pleasure...finds religion to be a
traffic so entangled...that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon
that trade.
addicted, v. [addicted,] (5)
ET4 5.71 6 The people at home [in England] are addicted to boxing, running,
leaping and rowing matches.
T11 5.175 11 The De Veres, Bohuns, Mowbrays and Plantagenets were not addicted
to contemplation.
EzRy 10.389 9 [Ezra Ripley] claimed privilege of years, was much addicted to
kissing;...
adding, n. (1)
AKan 11.259 23 ...the adding of Cuba and Central America to the slave marts is
enlarging the area of Freedom.
adding, v. (38)
Lov1 2.185 12 ...adding up costly advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering
that...they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
OS 2.283 6 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell
from God how long men shall exist...who shall be their company, adding names and dates and
places.
Chr1 3.102 21 ...[the hero] is again on his road, adding new powers and honors
to his domain...
Chr1 3.102 25 ...[the hero] is again on his road, adding...new claims on your
heart, which will bankrupt you if you...have not kept your relation to him by adding to
your wealth.
Nat2 3.185 2 Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a
small excess of his proper quality.
NR 3.234 12 In modern sculpture, picture and poetry, the beauty is
miscellaneous; the artist works here and there and at all points, adding and adding...
NER 3.266 7 ...the force which moves the world is a new quality, and can never
be furnished by adding whatever quantities of a different kind.
PPh 4.71 8 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect temper
and a knowledge of his man...
ShP 4.193 14 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan
plays], inserting a speech or a whole scene, or adding a song, that no man can any longer
claim copyright in this work of numbers.
ET14 5.253 25 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that,
and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions... adding sometimes
the divination of the old masters to the unbroken power of labor in the English mind.
Pow 6.79 21 ...to have learned the arts of reckoning, by endless adding and
dividing, is the power of...the clerk.
WD 7.167 21 The poem [Hesiod's Works and Days]...is adapted to all meridians by
adding the ethics of works and of days.
WD 7.179 4 I am of the opinion of Pliny that whilst we are musing on these
things, we are adding to the length of our lives.
Boks 7.221 4 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose,
the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time
for that? But one of our company...shall study and master it...shall give us the sincere
result as it lies in his mind, adding nothing, keeping nothing back.
Cour 7.277 16 I am permitted to enrich my chapter by adding an anecdote of pure
courage from real life...
OA 7.333 25 [John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere, whom he well remembered to have
seen come down daily, at great age, to walk in the old town-house, adding, And I wish I
could walk as well as he did.
QO 8.182 2 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in
society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is tossed from believer to poet,
from poet to believer, everybody adding a grace or dropping a fault or rounding the
form...
Imtl 8.335 16 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it
with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent; and it does not help the matter adding
numbers...
Chr2 10.117 25 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the
perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities...
Plu 10.300 5 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral
sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received than he whom
Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words, dryly adding, it vexes me that he is so
exposed to the spoil of those that are conversant with him.
Plu 10.321 22 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions
of the wit and humor of their author, sometimes even to the adding of the point.
SlHr 10.441 22 ...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his audience with the pains he
took to qualify and verify his statements, adding clause on clause to do justice to all
his conviction.
HDC 11.31 20 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished
minister...Rev. Peter Bulkeley...adding to his influence the weight of a large estate.
HDC 11.58 20 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn
Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston; adding, what me will, me do.
SHC 11.432 15 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to
the Agricultural Society's ground...all the ornaments of either adding so much value to
all.
ChiE 11.474 10 I cannot help adding...that I have read in the journals a
statement from an English source, that Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the
merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
FRO2 11.489 19 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature,
robs it more than he adds.
FRep 11.519 26 Our great men succumb so far to the forms of the day as to peril
their integrity for the sake of adding to the weight of their personal character the
authority of office...
PLT 12.25 15 I never hear a good speech at caucus or at cattle-show but it helps
me, not so much by adding to my knowledge as by apprising me of admirable uses to which
what I know can be turned.
PLT 12.25 22 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding
a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
PLT 12.42 19 Genius is a delicate sensibility to the laws of the world, adding
the power to express them again in some new form.
Mem 12.99 24 The mind has a better secret in generalization than merely adding
units to its list of facts.
Pray 12.356 6 ...we must not tie up the rosary on which we have strung these few
white beads [prayers], without adding a pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the
Confessions of Saint Augustine.
AgMs 12.363 22 In this strain the Farmer [Edmund Hosmer] proceeded, adding many
special criticisms.
Addison, Joseph, n. (3)
Schr 10.270 27 Where is the palace in England whose tenants are not too happy if
it can make a home for Pope or Addison...
Milt1 12.252 15 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...
Milt1 12.255 11 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson, students...of the same subject
[human nature], cannot, taken together, make any pretension to the amount or the quality
of Milton's inspirations.
addition, n. (25)
Nat 1.66 14 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention
to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that
it is not to be learned by any addition...of known quantities...
MR 1.232 4 In the island of Cuba, in addition to the ordinary abominations of
slavery, it appears only men are bought for the plantations...
Con 1.300 20 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell...marks one year of the
fish's life; what was the mouth of the shell for one season, with the addition of new
matter by the growth of the animal, becoming an ornamental node.
Int 2.339 23 Is it any better if the student...aims to make a mechanical whole
of...philosophy, by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his vision.
Mrs1 3.140 6 ...the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in
fine society as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
Nat2 3.180 25 ...the addition of matter from year to year arrives at last at the
most complex forms;...
NR 3.229 25 ...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.
NMW 4.249 17 When a man has been present in many actions [said Napoleon], he
distinguishes that moment [of panic] without difficulty: it is as easy as casting up an
addition.
NMW 4.252 11 He delighted to fascinate Josephine and her ladies...by the terrors
of a fiction to which his voice and dramatic power lent every addition.
ET14 5.241 7 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great
arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature, since loftiness of
thought and perfect mastery over every subject seem to be derived from some such source as
this. This Pericles had, in addition to a great natural genius.
SA 8.88 19 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go
to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily find that performance an
addition of confidence...
QO 8.178 17 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so
massive, our protest or private addition so rare and insignificant...that...one would say
there is no pure originality.
PC 8.210 22 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel
and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions...have
evoked!-all implying...the rapid addition to our society of a class of true nobles...
PerF 10.79 7 [The persistent man] is his own apprentice, and more time gives a
great addition of power...
Carl 10.489 8 [Carlyle] is...a practical Scotchman...and then only accidentally
and by a surprising addition, the admirable scholar and writer he is.
Carl 10.489 11 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose
Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to
read Plato and Shakspeare...
EWI 11.130 10 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships...
freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and
Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the
stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest
and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense.
FRO2 11.488 6 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is
in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical.
PLT 12.41 7 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.
Mem 12.93 23 ...in addition to this [photographic] property [the memory] has one
more, this, namely, that of all the million images that are imprinted, the very one we
want reappears in the centre of the plate in the moment when we want it.
CW 12.178 13 ...I am always glad to remember that in proportion to the foliation
is the addition of wood.
EurB 12.373 11 ...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room and
of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair
ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative
class.
additional, adj. (9)
Hsm1 2.245 17 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain
heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep grounds of
character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises
naturally into poetry.
Pol1 3.202 21 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers
should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds
to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob,
who...eats their bread and not his own?
ET18 5.302 6 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends
its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion, and is a fact which
might give additional light to that portion of the planet seen from the farthest star.
Elo1 7.61 9 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of
conversation in the parlor. ... Another requires the additional caloric of a multitude and
a public debate;...
EWI 11.115 13 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which
Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in
the island of Antigua. It has been quoted in every newspaper, and Dr. Channing has given
it additional fame.
EWI 11.119 22 Parliament was compelled to pass additional laws for the defence
and security of the negro [in the West Indies]...
PLT 12.25 24 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding
a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken
the first step. With every additional step you enchance immensely the value of your first.
Let 12.399 3 ...[a stay in Europe] is only a postponement of [American youths']
proper work, with the additional disadvantage of a two years' vacation.
additions, n. (6)
Con 1.318 24 ...[the conservative party] makes so many additions and supplements
to the machine of society that it will play smoothly and softly, but will no longer grind
any grist.
Comp 2.122 4 There is no penalty to virtue; no penalty to wisdom; they are
proper additions of being.
ET18 5.299 3 ...[England] is an old pile built in different ages, with repairs,
additions and makeshifts;...
Boks 7.194 1 The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library] brings
me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every private shelf; and to
these it can afford only the most slight and casual additions.
addled, v. (1)
Supl 10.169 22 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets... wine
and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you... and he
sees...whether your head is addled by this mixture of wines.
address, n. (18)
Hist 2.24 20 The reverence exhibited [in the Grecian period] is for personal
qualities; courage, address...
Prd1 2.224 2 Cultivated men always feel and speak...as if a great fortune...a
graceful and commanding address, had their value as proofs of the energy of the spirit.
ET4 5.71 19 [The Englishman's] attachment to the horse arises from the courage
and address required to manage it.
ET5 5.79 7 ...[Kenelm Digby] had so graceful elocution and noble address, that,
had he been dropt out of the clouds in any part of the world, he would have made himself
respected;...
ET6 5.106 4 If [an Englishman] give you his private address on a card, it is
like an avowal of friendship;...
Pow 6.63 11 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping at bay the snarling
majorities of German, Irish and of native millions, will bestow promptness, address and
reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter...
Ctr 6.161 25 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--Get him the
time's long grudge, the court's ill-will,/ And, reconciled, keep him suspected still./
Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/
With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed
Poverty./
Bhr 6.170 21 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery
of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Bhr 6.171 3 We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition...to the
ball-room... where they may learn address, and see it near at hand.
CbW 6.260 16 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. Supply, most kind
gods! this defect in my address...which puts me a little out of the ring...
Civ 7.22 27 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a
letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of
artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
SA 8.93 17 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his
description of the French woman:... She strikes with such address the chords of self-love,
that she gives unexpected vigor and agility to fancy...
Grts 8.309 7 ...the rule of the orator begins...when his deep conviction, and
the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,- when these
shine and burn in his address;...
Plu 10.312 3 Seneca...by...his own skill...of living with men of business and
emulating their address in affairs...learned to temper his philosophy with facts.
HDC 11.59 26 The virtues of patriotism and of prodigious courage and address
were exhibited [in King Philip's war] on both sides...
EWI 11.121 2 ...in 1840 Sir Charles Metcalfe, the new governor of Jamaica, in
his address to the Assembly expressed himself to that late exasperated body in these
terms...
Address, n. (1)
SMC 11.376 9 ...In the above Address I have been compelled to suppress more
details of personal interest than I have used.
address, v. (14)
LE 1.155 1 The invitation to address you this day...was a call so welcome that I
made haste to obey it.
MR 1.228 3 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has
felt his own call to cast aside all evil customs...
Pt1 3.37 6 We do not with sufficient plainness or sufficient profoundness
address ourselves to life...
Mrs1 3.145 11 What if the false gentleman contrives so to address his companion
as civilly to exclude all others from his discourse, and also to make them feel excluded?
ET19 5.309 5 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the
Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet in the Free-Trade Hall. With other guests, I
was invited to be present and to address the company.
Elo1 7.98 9 ...the men least accustomed to appeal to these [moral] sentiments
invariably recall them when they address nations.
Edc1 10.157 2 ...[these difficulties and perplexities in education] solve
themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.
EzRy 10.394 10 [Ezra Ripley]...seemed to address each person rather as the
representative of his house and name, than as an individual.
Carl 10.497 13 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question for wise men, instead of
art and fine fancies and poetry and such things, to address themselves to the problem of
society.
AKan 11.255 9 ...I had been wiser to have stayed at home, unskilled as I am to
address a political meeting...
ACri 12.284 1 ...the transformation of the laborer into reader and writer has
compelled the learned and the thinkers to address them.
addressed, v. (30)
MoS 4.165 4 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only... so
that in a humorist a certain nakedness of statement was permitted, which our manners, of a
literature addressed equally to both sexes, do not allow.
NMW 4.228 5 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own sense, when...he addressed
him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human
mind.
ET1 5.24 1 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed To
the Skylark.
Bhr 6.180 16 One comes away from a company in which, it may easily happen...no
important remark has been addressed to him...
Elo1 7.97 26 ...[the moral sentiment] conveys a hint of our eternity, when [the
hearer] feels himself addressed on grounds which will remain when everything else is
taken...
Suc 7.304 19 ...the man of sensibility counts it a delight only to hear a child'
s voice fully addressed to him...
PPo 8.243 8 Gnomic verses, rules of life conveyed...especially in an image
addressed to the eye and contained in a single stanza, were always current in the East;...
EzRy 10.387 22 We presently arrived [at the funeral], and the Doctor [Ezra
Ripley] addressed each of the mourners separately...
MMEm 10.417 3 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man
of talents, education and good social position...
Thor 10.473 10 [The farmers who employed Thoreau] felt, too, the superiority of
character which addressed all men with a native authority.
LS 11.17 23 [The Lord's Supper] is an expression of gratitude to Christ,
enjoined by Christ. There is an endeavor to keep Jesus in mind, whilst yet the prayers are
addressed to God.
LVB 11.95 14 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to
the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the
apprehensions of some of my friends.
ALin 11.333 5 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to catch with true instinct
the temper of every company he addressed.
ChiE 11.472 27 [Confucius's] morals, though addressed to a state of society
unlike ours, we read with profit to-day.
MAng1 12.215 19 The means, the materials of [Michelangelo's] activity, were
coarse enough to be appreciated, being addressed for the most part to the eye;...
MAng1 12.237 2 A natural fruit of the nobility of [Michelangelo's] spirit is his
admiration for Dante, to whom two of his sonnets are addressed.
MAng1 12.240 11 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see
[Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed;...
Milt1 12.251 4 The other piece is [Milton's] Areopagitica, the discourse,
addressed to the Parliament, in favor of removing the censorship of the press; the most
splendid of his prose works.
Milt1 12.251 15 [Milton's Areopagitica] is valuable in history as an argument
addressed to a government to produce a practical end...
Milt1 12.258 16 The form and the voice of Leonora Baroni seemed to have
captivated [Milton] in Rome, and to her he addressed his Italian sonnets and Latin
epigrams.
PPr 12.384 10 ...here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those
to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.
Let 12.398 9 [American youths] are in the state of the young Persians, when that
mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said, Behold the signs of evil days are come;...
addresses, n. (3)
CbW 6.259 14 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which...overcomes the
friction of crossing thresholds and first addresses in society...
HDC 11.83 14 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The
author [Lemuel Shattuck]...has wisely enriched his pages with the resolutions, addresses
and instructions to its agents...
EWI 11.117 26 The governors [of Jamaica]...were at constant quarrel with the
angry and bilious island legislature. Nothing can exceed the ill humor and sulkiness of
the addresses of this assembly.
addresses, v. (7)
Hist 2.17 14 ...a profound nature awakens in us...the same power and beauty that
a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses.
Art1 2.363 12 Art has not yet come to its maturity...if it do not make the poor
and uncultivated feel that it addresses them with a voice of lofty cheer.
Milt1 12.260 7 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language,
saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument...
addressing, v. (6)
LE 1.166 9 A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits, sitting silent, admires
the miracle of...picturesque speech, in the man addressing an assembly;...
Exp 3.53 23 I had fancied that the value of life lay...in the fact that I never
know, in addressing myself to a new individual, what may befall me.
UGM 4.16 6 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a
human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence.
Elo1 7.65 6 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is not a particular skill
in...dexterously addressing the prejudice of the company...
Elo1 7.73 18 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech, and
addressing the fancy and imagination, often exists without higher merits.
HDC 11.38 20 I seem to see [the settlers of Concord], with their pious pastor,
addressing themselves to the work of clearing the land.
adds, v. (50)
Nat 1.36 12 The understanding adds, divides, combines, measures...
LT 1.287 11 Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society which
to great mechanical invention and the best institutions of property adds the most daring
theories;...
Lov1 2.169 16 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and
tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... adds to his
character heroic and sacred attributes...
Lov1 2.185 21 The union which is thus effected [by love] and which adds a new
value to every atom in nature...is yet a temporary state.
Exp 3.80 23 A subject and an object,--it takes so much to make the galvanic
circuit complete, but magnitude adds nothing.
Chr1 3.110 25 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering
inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him
wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;...the entrance of a friend adds
grace, boldness and eloquence to him;...
Mrs1 3.119 17 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this
account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres...
Mrs1 3.148 23 ...[Shakspeare] adds to so many titles that of being the best-bred
man in England and in Christendom.
PPh 4.61 5 [Plato] is a great average man; one who, to the best thinking, adds a
proportion and equality in his faculties...
ShP 4.189 9 ...seeing what men want and sharing their desire, [the hero] adds
the needful length of sight and of arm...
GoW 4.287 27 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and
sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as
he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the
parties...and the like.
ET2 5.30 23 The mate avers that this is the history of all sailors; nine out of
ten are runaway boys; and adds that all of them are sick of the sea...
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;
and Fuller adds, the genius even of landlocked counties driving the natives with a
maritime dexterity.
ET9 5.145 21 When [the Englishman] adds epithets of praise, his climax is, so
English;...
Wth 6.85 12 [A man] fails to make his place good in the world unless he not only
pays his debt but also adds something to the common wealth.
Ctr 6.158 16 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or
my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I
must know them as contingent...possessions, which pass for more to the people than to me.
We see this abstraction in scholars, as a matter of course; but what a charm it adds when
observed in practical men.
Bhr 6.187 7 ...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the movers and masters of our
souls have surely a right to throw out their limbs as carelessly as they please...
CbW 6.246 22 ...whatever makes us either think or feel strongly, adds to our
power...
Bty 6.297 15 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere, flock to see the Duchess of
Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to see her get into her post-chaise
next morning.
Suc 7.285 24 There is a mode of reckoning, [Columbus] proudly adds, derived from
astronomy, which is sure and safe to any one who understands it.
OA 7.316 11 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of time], and adds dim
sight, deafness...
OA 7.319 7 [The cup of time] opens the senses, adds power...
PI 8.37 16 The trait and test of the poet is that he builds, adds and affirms.
QO 8.199 26 ...[the individual] is no more to be credited with the grand result
[of language] than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of
the continent.
PPo 8.240 4 Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and flowers are the wine and spirits
of the Arab;...
PPo 8.244 12 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace
and Burns, the insight of a mystic...
Grts 8.309 8 ...the rule of the orator begins...when the thought which he
stands...adds to him a grander personality...
Grts 8.312 1 Nature, when she adds difficulty, adds brain.
Grts 8.312 2 Nature, when she adds difficulty, adds brain.
Chr2 10.115 18 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly
reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers. It is not that
the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus are better, but that they do not invade his
freedom; because they are only suggestions, whilst the other adds the inadmissible claim
of positive authority...
SovE 10.188 13 In the pre-adamite [Nature] bred valor only; by and by she gets
on to man, and adds tenderness...
Plu 10.296 5 Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares, I am always charmed with
Plutarch; in his writings are circumstances attached to persons, which give great
pleasure; and adds examples.
EWI 11.121 21 [Charles Metcalfe] further describes the erection of numerous
churches, chapels and schools which the new population [of Jamaica] required, and adds
that more are still demanded.
ALin 11.335 25 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits
of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have suffered at the block, adds
a certain lofty charm to the picture.
SMC 11.362 24 At night [George Prescott] adds: I told that officer from West
Point, this morning, that he could not swear at my company as he did yesterday;...
Wom 11.413 13 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility. And it is
when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning.
When we see that, it adds to the soul a new soul...
FRO2 11.489 20 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature,
robs it more than he adds.
CPL 11.496 2 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this
ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library, which adds by the beauty of the
building...a quite new attraction...
CPL 11.499 27 ...in reference to her favorite authors, [Mary Moody Emerson]
adds, The delight in others' superiority is my best gift from God.
II 12.85 18 Within this magical power derived from fidelity to his nature, [man]
adds also the mechanical force of perseverance.
Mem 12.101 6 So is it with every fact in a new science...each one adds
transparency to the whole mass.
Mem 12.102 4 The experienced and cultivated man is lodged in a hall hung with
pictures...to which every step in the march of the soul adds a more sublime perspective.
MAng1 12.236 24 ...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke of Tuscany]...that he
hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a
point that they could no longer be interfered with...if, he adds, I do not commit a great
crime by disappointing the cormorants who are daily hoping to get rid of me.
Milt1 12.257 13 Aubrey adds a sharp trait, [Milton] pronounced the letter R very
hard, a certain sign of satirical genius.
ACri 12.296 5 Every historic autobiographic trait authenticating the man
[Montaigne] adds to the value of the book.
ACri 12.304 10 The classic unfolds, the romantic adds.
Let 12.401 19 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like
an atmosphere a universal soul...all hearts become pious and great, and it adds fire to
heroes.
adduce, v. (3)
Exp 3.66 5 ...nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound. Here, among
the farms, we adduce the scholars as examples of this treachery.
NER 3.279 17 If it were worth while to run into details this general doctrine of
the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce illustration in
particulars of a man's equality to the Church...
ET14 5.251 3 It would be easy to add exceptions to the limitary tone of English
thought, and much more easy to adduce examples of excellence in particular veins;...
adduced, v. (1)
QO 8.202 13 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from
Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said...
adept, n. (1)
GoW 4.282 19 In England and America, one may be an adept in the writings of a
Greek or Latin poet, without any poetic taste or fire.
adepts, n. (8)
NR 3.235 7 ...these abnormal insights of the adepts ought to be normal, and
things of course.
NER 3.253 7 With these [reformers] appeared the adepts of homoeopathy, of
hydropathy...
ET7 5.124 27 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a
man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the
newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the
number of his note should have the money. He let it lie there six months, the newspapers
now and then, at his instance, stimulating the attention of the adepts;...
PC 8.220 2 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science,
art or function are...always known to the adepts;...
Imtl 8.336 15 Will you...educate your children to be adepts in their several
arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers
to shoot them down?
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