DSA 1.148 16 ...we shall resist for truth's sake the freest flow of kindness and appeal to sympathies far in advance;...
LE 1.164 5 We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
LT 1.266 12 Now and then comes...a...soul, more informed and led by God...which is much in advance of the rest...
Int 2.338 21 ...the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative...
ET1 5.6 12 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture, published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr. Ruskin on the morality in architecture...
F 6.36 4 ...the love and praise [man] extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.
Bty 6.282 3 The naturalist is led from the road by the whole distance of his fancied advance.
Chr2 10.108 14 The mind of this age has fallen away from theology to morals. I conceive it an advance. I conceive it an advance.
Edc1 10.127 3 For a thousand years the islands and forests of a great part of the world have been filled with savages who made no steps of advance in art or skill beyond the necessity of being fed and warmed.
Edc1 10.150 8 ...though every young man is born with some determination in his nature...it is, in the most, obstructed and delayed, and, whatever they may hereafter be, their senses are now opened in advance of their minds.
Prch 10.233 20 Inspiration will have advance, affirmation...
MoL 10.241 21 ...[the scholar] is in advance of his race;...
Schr 10.269 15 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth, and perpetual advance in knowledge of it...
Schr 10.280 13 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function...the advance of his character and genius pauses;...
GSt 10.502 27 [George Stearns] did not hesitate to become the banker of his clients, and to furnish them money and arms in advance of the subscriptions which he obtained.
AsSu 11.249 21 [Charles Sumner]...has stood for the North, a little in advance of all the North...
ACiv 11.308 11 Men reconcile themselves very fast to a bold and good measure when once it is taken, though they condemned it in advance.
Scot 11.465 1 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public...
FRep 11.525 20 ...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance from less to more.
FRep 11.540 7 America should affirm and establish that in no instance shall the guns go in advance of the present right.
PLT 12.46 6 Will is the advance to that which rightly belongs to us...
PLT 12.60 9 So long as you are capable of advance, so long you have not abdicated the hope and future of a divine soul.
II 12.78 1 ...this reminds me to add one more trait of the inspired state, namely, incessant advance...
ACri 12.283 22 The decline of the privileged orders, all over the world; the advance of the Third Estate; the transformation of the laborer into reader and writer has compelled the learned and the thinkers to address them.
MLit 12.327 1 [Goethe] has an eye constant to the fact of life and that never pauses in its advance.
YA 1.395 11 ...we shall quickly enough advance out of all hearing of others' censures...
Lov1 2.184 18 From exchanging glances, [lovers] advance to acts of courtesy...
OS 2.274 24 The growths of genius are of a certain total character, that does not advance the elect individual first over John, then Adam, then Richard...
Art1 2.354 2 Shall I now add that the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke drawn in the portrait of that fate...according to whose ordinations all beings advance to their beatitude?
PPh 4.63 6 [Dialectic] is of that rank [said Plato] that no intellectual man will enter on any study for its own sake, but only with a view to advance himself in that one sole science which embraces all.
ET5 5.90 1 To show capacity, A Frenchman described as the end of a speech in debate: No, said an Englishman, but...to advance the business.
ET6 5.111 8 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer;... Canning, to advance with the times;...
FSLN 11.232 5 Each [party] wishes to cover the whole ground; to hold fast and to advance.
Trag 12.410 7 Come bad chance,/ And we add it to our strength,/ And we teach it art and length,/ Itself o'er us to advance./
Nat2 3.181 17 ...the artist still goes back for materials and begins again with the first elements on the most advanced stage;...
Nat2 3.181 25 The animal is the novice and probationer of a more advanced order.
ET4 5.57 26 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people considerably advanced in rural arts...
ET8 5.140 15 Haldor remained a short time with the king, and then came to Iceland, where he took up his abode in Hiardaholt and dwelt in that farm to a very advanced age.
Civ 7.21 3 The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
Chr2 10.116 14 ...the simple and free minds among our clergy have not resisted...the advanced perceptions of the mind;...
LLNE 10.367 7 One would meet also [at Brook Farm] some modest pride in their advanced condition...
TPar 11.287 14 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless...
Humb 11.456 1 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able to compare older states of knowledge with that which now exists...
Con 1.313 13 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a...progressive necessity, which...has advanced thus far.
Exp 3.70 1 [The individual] designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken.
Chr1 3.109 16 ...the beloved of Yezdam, the prophet Zertusht, advanced into the midst of the assembly.
NMW 4.244 26 ...every species of merit was sought and advanced under [Napoleon's] government.
ET10 5.162 19 Scandinavian Thor...in England has advanced with the times...
Imtl 8.332 4 Slowly [the two men] advanced towards each other as they could...
ACiv 11.304 21 We are advanced some ages on the war-state...
ACiv 11.310 18 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year. The American Executive ranges itself for the first time on the side of freedom. If Congress has been backward, the President has advanced.
EPro 11.317 1 The extreme moderation with which the President [Lincoln] advanced to his design,-his long-avowed expectant policy...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.
Shak1 11.452 24 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it! but, being advanced to a higher class, they are just as much in their element as before...
AmS 1.81 8 We do not meet...for the advancement of science...
OS 2.288 16 In these instances [the scholar and author]...we feel that a man' s talents stand in the way of his advancement in truth.
ET13 5.217 17 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
Wth 6.102 14 Every step of civil advancement makes every man's dollar worth more.
FRep 11.531 13 ...all advancement is by ideas...
Boks 7.207 11 [The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon,-- not if he read the Advancement of Learning...
UGM 4.10 22 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first...
Wom 11.415 4 With the advancements of society, the position and influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light.
ET4 5.50 19 ...navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer of nations.
OS 2.274 18 The soul's advances are not made by gradation...
NER 3.252 21 ...[some reformers] wish the pure wheat, and will die but it shall not ferment. Stop, dear Nature, these incessant advances of thine;...
Imtl 8.336 26 Nature never moves by jumps, but always in steady and supported advances.
Edc1 10.156 1 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...volunteer some degree of advances towards fellowship and good understanding with a biped who behaves so civilly and well.
EWI 11.142 16 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and advances from the whites that they will be gladly received as subscribers to the Exchange...
Humb 11.456 4 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able...to see great advances in knowledge develop themselves...
Tran 1.339 3 Nature...ever works and advances...
SR 2.84 12 Society never advances.
Hsm1 2.250 15 ...pleasantly and as it were merrily [the hero] advances to his own music...
MoS 4.181 15 ...[some minds'] sensual habit would fix the believer to his last position, whilst he as inevitably advances;...
Cour 7.259 23 We want the will which advances and dictates.
PI 8.42 15 ...as everything streams and advances...there is no limit to [the poet's] hope.
PI 8.66 4 In poetry, said Goethe, only the really great and pure advances us...
Mem 12.93 5 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man; all its records full of meanings which open as he lives on... expanding their sense as he advances...
Nat 1.77 2 As when the summer comes...the face of the earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit create its ornaments along its path...
Tran 1.357 13 ...church and old book mumble and ritualize to an unheeding, preoccupied and advancing mind...
Hist 2.29 24 The advancing man discovers how deep a property he has in literature...
SR 2.59 24 [Previous victories] shed a united light on the advancing actor.
OS 2.284 27 ...all unawares the advancing soul has built and forged for itself a new condition...
Cir 2.320 18 The new position of the advancing man has all the powers of the old, yet has them all new.
Cir 2.321 20 True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and disappear as an early cloud of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing.
ET5 5.85 25 [The Englishmen's] military science propounds that if the weight of the advancing column is greater than that of the resisting, the latter is destroyed.
Boks 7.195 9 ...all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written...by the affirming and advancing class...
PerF 10.72 19 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
PLT 12.5 18 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
Mem 12.94 16 '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.
Bhr 6.176 5 ...underneath all [the old Massachusetts statesman's] irritability was a puissant will, firm and advancing...
LT 1.264 19 ...whatever is affirmative and now advancing, contains [that which shall constitute the times to come].
Con 1.299 5 It makes a great difference to your figure and to your thought whether your foot is advancing or receding.
SR 2.47 26 ...we are...guides, redeemers and benefactors...advancing on Chaos and the Dark.
Comp 2.125 14 ...to us...resting, not advancing...this growth comes by shocks.
NER 3.263 27 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans...
SwM 4.126 8 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws; as when he uttered that famed sentence, that In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the springtime of their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest...
Civ 7.20 13 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes. It is the learning the secret of cumulative power, of advancing on one's self.
Suc 7.307 9 The good mind chooses...what is advancing...
Elo2 8.115 21 The orator must ever stand...in the attitude of advancing.
LLNE 10.370 5 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science...whose genius is...normal... and so inspires the hope of steady strength advancing on itself...
FSLN 11.232 7 Each [party] wishes to cover the whole ground; to hold fast and to advance. Only, one lays the emphasis on keeping, and the other on advancing.
SMC 11.374 13 On the ninth, [the Thirty-second Regiment] marched in support of the cavalry, and were advancing in a grand charge...
FRep 11.537 12 ...the Genius or Destiny of America is...a man incessantly advancing...
PLT 12.61 22 ...the good mind is known by the choice...of what is advancing.
Nat 1.31 12 These facts may suggest the advantage which the country-life possesses...
Nat 1.59 23 The advantage of the ideal theory over the popular faith is this, that it presents the world in precisely that view which is most desirable to the mind.
MN 1.197 15 [Nature] has this advantage as a witness, it cannot be debauched.
MR 1.232 21 ...the general system of our trade...is a system...not of giving but of taking advantage.
MR 1.236 25 The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them...
Con 1.312 17 Now can your children be educated, your labor turned to their advantage...
Tran 1.358 23 ...it may not be without its advantage that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men...
YA 1.366 26 ...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised...the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor... could suggest.
YA 1.367 25 A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live.
YA 1.368 12 ...the selection of a fit house-lot has the same advantage over an indifferent one, as the selection to a given employment of a man who has a genius for that work.
YA 1.368 17 ...the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal: no more will gardening give the advantage of a happy site to a house in a hole...
Comp 2.120 14 Every advantage has its tax.
Fdsp 2.203 12 I knew a man who...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first...all men agreed he was mad. But persisting...he attained to the advantage of bringing every man of his acquaintance into true relations with him.
Art1 2.357 22 There is no statue like this living man, with his infinite advantage over all ideal sculpture, of perpetual variety.
Pt1 3.28 19 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and...they were punished for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and deterioration.
Pt1 3.28 20 ...never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick.
Chr1 3.92 27 The habit of [the natural merchant's] mind is a reference to standards of natural equity and public advantage;...
Mrs1 3.124 3 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits.
Nat2 3.195 24 In these checks and impossibilities...we find our advantage, not less than in the impulses.
Pol1 3.207 17 We may be wise in asserting the advantage in modern times of the democratic form...
NR 3.240 1 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit that there should be two stupidities! It is like that brute advantage so essential to astronomy, of having the diameter of the earth's orbit for a base of its triangles.
NER 3.281 9 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess that his creative imagination gave him no deep advantage...
NER 3.281 11 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess...that his advantage was a knack...
UGM 4.21 22 I go to Boston or New York and run up and down on my affairs: they are sped, but so is the day. I am vexed by the recollection of this price I have paid for a trifling advantage.
UGM 4.31 13 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin. It seems a mechanical advantage, and great benefit it is to each speaker...
PPh 4.75 22 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates, to which unquestionably his own debt was great; and these derived again their principal advantage from the perfect art of Plato.
SwM 4.111 12 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to the day, and tranferred them, with every advantage, from their forgotten Latin into English...
SwM 4.139 1 Burns, with the wild humor of his apostrophe to poor auld Nickie Ben...has the advantage of the vindictive theologian.
NMW 4.228 14 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity;...
NMW 4.239 11 To these gifts of nature, Napoleon added the advantage of having been born to a private and humble fortune.
NMW 4.249 14 You see [said Napoleon] that two armies are two bodies which meet and endeavor to frighten each other; a moment of panic occurs, and that moment must be turned to advantage.
ET1 5.12 18 I took advantage of a pause to say that [Coleridge] had many readers of all religious opinions in America...
ET2 5.27 15 Watchfulness is the law of the ship,--watch on watch, for advantage and for life.
ET4 5.47 1 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit.
ET4 5.56 23 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... Of course they...can engage [the land-nations] on shore with a victorious advantage in the retreat.
ET5 5.78 27 ...in a bargain, no prospect of advantage is so dear to the [English] merchant as the thought of being tricked is mortifying.
ET5 5.93 18 ...it is [Englishmen's] commercial advantage that whatever light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their race.
ET6 5.114 27 ...the usage of a dress-dinner every day at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing good [in table-talk].
ET11 5.174 6 There was this advantage of Western over Oriental nobility, that this was recruited from below.
ET11 5.180 13 [The English lords]...call themselves after their lands, as if the man represented the country that bred him;... It has...the advantage of suggesting responsibleness.
ET12 5.199 3 At the present day...[Cambridge] has the advantage of Oxford, counting in its alumni a greater number of distinguished scholars.
ET12 5.200 3 [The Oxford students'] affectionate and gregarious ways reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge men, though I imputed to these English an advantage in their secure and polished manners.
ET12 5.211 2 In seeing these youths [at Oxford] I believed I saw already an advantage in vigor and color and general habit, over their contemporaries in the American colleges.
ET12 5.212 1 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country...
ET14 5.247 18 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good.
ET15 5.261 14 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy, since the whole people are already forewarned.
ET16 5.275 20 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, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...
ET17 5.292 17 ...I found much advantage in the circles of the Geologic, the Antiquarian and the Royal Societies.
ET18 5.305 6 I have sometimes seen [Englishmen] walk with my countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage...
Pow 6.56 21 The advantage of a strong pulse is not to be supplied by any labor, art or concert.
Pow 6.58 5 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency...then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
Ctr 6.141 5 Our arts and tools give to him who can handle them much the same advantage over the novice as if you extended his life...
Ctr 6.147 2 ...the phrase to know the world, or to travel, is synonymous with all men's ideas of advantage and superiority.
Ctr 6.156 18 The high advantage of university life is often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and fire...
Bhr 6.170 9 Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast, and by the advantage of a palace, better the instruction.
Bhr 6.177 26 In some respects the animals excel us. The birds have a longer sight, beside the advantage by their wings of a higher observatory.
Bhr 6.179 27 The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary...
Bhr 6.183 27 What is the talent of that character so common--the successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and drawing-rooms? Manners:...sense to see his advantage, and manners up to it.
Bhr 6.196 12 We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
CbW 6.253 7 They were the fools who cried against me...wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers to Grimm; aye, but the but the fools have the advantage of numbers...
CbW 6.271 6 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...an advantage gained over a competitor...and the like.
Ill 6.323 19 ...the Indians say that they do not think the white man...has any advantage of them.
Elo1 7.68 27 Our Southern people are almost all speakers, and have every advantage over the New England people, whose climate is so cold that 't is said we do not like to open our mouths very wide.
Elo1 7.75 18 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...then they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.
Elo1 7.82 16 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid, Ximenes urged that an advantage might be gained of France...
Elo1 7.84 23 ...by making [the people] wise in that which he knows, [the orator] has the advantage of the assembly every moment.
WD 7.184 20 It is a fine fable for the advantage of character over talent, the Greek legend of the strife of Jove and Phoebus.
Clbs 7.228 6 Every time we say a thing in conversation, we get a mechanical advantage in detaching it well and deliverly.
Clbs 7.249 22 A principal purpose also is the hospitality of the club, as a means of receiving a worthy foreigner with mutual advantage.
Clbs 7.250 2 One likes...to make in an old acquaintance unexpected discoveries of scope and power through the advantage of an inspiring subject.
Cour 7.253 8 ...there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness, as shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and influences of conduct,--a purpose so sincere and generous that it cannot be tempted aside by any prospects of wealth or other private advantage.
Cour 7.256 26 ...the animals have great advantage of us in precocity.
Cour 7.259 24 When we get an advantage...it is because our adversary has committed a fault...
Cour 7.271 15 Governor Wise of Virginia, in the record of his first interviews with his prisoner [John Brown], appeared to great advantage.
Suc 7.295 1 ...a few years will show the advantage of the real master over the short popularity of the showman.
OA 7.325 12 I count it another capital advantage of age, this, that a success more or less signifies nothing.
OA 7.326 14 Every one is sensible of this cumulative advantage in living.
PI 8.51 25 Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music, that it has a privilege of speaking truth...
PI 8.57 9 [The early bard's] advantage is that his words are things...
QO 8.195 2 ...a writer appears to more advantage in the pages of another book than in his own.
QO 8.195 5 ...another's thoughts have a certain advantage with us simply because they are another's.
QO 8.203 21 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears.
Insp 8.288 10 I have found my advantage in going in summer to a country inn...with a task which would not prosper at home.
Grts 8.317 27 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of the Olympian genius.
Dem1 10.20 15 The history of man is a series of conspiracies to win from Nature some advantage without paying for it.
Aris 10.38 7 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe...that an ague or fever...ended them. We give soldiers the same advantage to-day.
PerF 10.69 12 We cannot afford to miss any advantage.
Chr2 10.91 10 There is this eternal advantage to morals, that...the moral cause of the world lies behind all else in the mind.
Supl 10.168 9 ...I do not know any advantage more conspicuous which a man owes to his experience in markets...than the caution and accuracy he acquires in his report of facts.
MoL 10.256 3 Sincerity is, in dangerous times, discovered to be an immeasurable advantage.
MoL 10.258 8 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably.
Schr 10.262 20 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of blessing. Beauty...which draws by being beautiful, and not by considerations of advantage, comes in and puts a new face on the world.
Schr 10.286 27 Let those come [to scholarship]...who see that there is no choice here, no advantage and no disadvantage compared with other careers.
Plu 10.321 11 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch], which show the wealth of their tongue to greater advantage than many books of more renown as models.
LLNE 10.357 5 [Thoreau said] Again and again I congratulate myself on my so-called poverty, I could not overstate this advantage.
LLNE 10.357 11 [Thoreau said] It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
MMEm 10.398 11 They whom [Lucy Percy] is pleased to choose are such as are of the most eminent condition both for power and employment,-not with any design towards her own particular, either of advantage or curiosity...
Thor 10.453 22 [Surveying] had the advantage for [Thoreau] that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds...
LS 11.12 15 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...
HDC 11.59 12 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house, or a village; but the association of the white men and their arts of war give them an overwhelming advantage...
HDC 11.63 2 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers...make good advantage by their corn, cattle, poultry, butter and cheese.
HDC 11.71 23 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one or more companies of minute-men...to provide arms and ammunition, that those who are unable to purchase them themselves, may have the advantage of them...
EWI 11.125 6 ...that which the head and the heart demand is found to be, in the long run, for what the grossest calculator calls his advantage.
EWI 11.128 4 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
EWI 11.128 13 ...England has the advantage of trying the question [of slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the nuisance exists;...
FSLC 11.205 24 The people cleave to the Union, because they see their advantage in it...
ACiv 11.304 19 On the climbing scale of progress, [the Southerner] is just up to war, and has never appeared to such advantage as in the last twelvemonth.
SMC 11.355 11 The armies mustered in the North...had the vast advantage of carrying whither they marched a higher civilization.
SMC 11.363 21 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they set themselves to use the time to the wisest advantage...
Koss 11.398 16 It is our republican doctrine...that the wide variety of opinions is an advantage.
FRep 11.519 19 We have seen the great party of property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away, for views of party fear or advantage, every principle of humanity...
FRep 11.540 13 We...shall proceed like William Penn...on principles of honest trade and mutual advantage.
CInt 12.123 15 ...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with petty advantage that it loses sight of its obedience...
CInt 12.124 1 ...the very highest advantage which a young man of good mind can meet is to find such a teacher.
CW 12.177 8 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr. Charles Jackson or Mr. Hall would study chemistry or mines; and you secure the best company and the best teaching with every advantage.
Milt1 12.253 9 The opposition to [a masterpiece of art]...at last ends; and a new race grows up in the taste and spirit of the work, with the utmost advantage for seeing intimately its power and beauty.
ACri 12.287 8 Everybody knows the points in which the mob has the advantage of the Academy...
NER 3.278 10 We are haunted with a belief that you [reformers] have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn...
Elo2 8.129 13 ...[Lord Ashley] drew such an argument from his own confusion as more advantaged his cause that all the powers of eloquence could have done.
SwM 4.140 3 Socrates's Genius did not advise him to act or to find, but if he purposed to do somewhat not advantageous, it dissuaded him.
ET8 5.137 18 [The English] are very conscious of their advantageous position in history.
ET18 5.303 3 [The English people's] many-headedness is owing to the advantageous position of the middle class...
Bty 6.301 13 If a man...can enlarge knowledge...his deformities will come to be reckoned ornamental and advantageous on the whole.
ET11 5.197 27 [Titles of lordship...may be advantageously consigned...to the dignitaries of Australia and Polynesia.
F 6.24 14 A man ought to compare advantageously with a river...
CbW 6.248 15 What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves and triflers of both sexes might be advantageously spared!
Boks 7.194 23 With this pilot of his own genius, let the student read one, or let him read many, he will read advantageously.
Nat 1.12 8 Under the general name of commodity, I rank all those advantages which our senses owe to nature.
DSA 1.125 16 [The sentiment of virtue] corrects the capital mistake of the infant man, who...hopes to derive advantages from another...
DSA 1.150 15 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us;...
LE 1.155 21 [The scholar's] failures...are inlets to higher advantages.
MN 1.217 5 Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom, preferable to all other advantages...
MR 1.235 10 ...will you give up the immense advantages reaped from the division of labor...
MR 1.236 6 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state]...the way will be open again to the advantages which arise from the division of labor...
MR 1.247 12 I do not wish to push my criticism on the state of things around me to that extravagant mark that shall compel me...to an absolute isolation from the advantages of civil society.
Con 1.295 14 The war [between Conservatism and Innovation]...agitates every man's bosom with opposing advantages every hour.
Con 1.312 15 Is it not exaggerating a trifle to insist on a formal acknowledgment of your claims, when these substantial advantages have been secured to you?
Con 1.325 18 ...if I...become idle and dissolute, I quickly come to love the protection of a strong law, because I feel no title in myself to my advantages.
YA 1.364 18 ...in this country [the railroad] has...anticipated by fifty years... the working of mines, and other natural advantages.
YA 1.365 22 ...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of this broad region to...appreciate the advantages opened to the human race in this country...
YA 1.394 11 The English have many virtues, many advantages...
Hist 2.21 25 ...the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of a market had induced to build towns.
Comp 2.117 26 Whilst [a great man] sits on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep.
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...
Fdsp 2.197 5 No advantages, no powers, no gold or force, can be any match for [a man who stands united with his thought].
Hsm1 2.245 11 In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...
Chr1 3.98 26 The capitalist does not run every hour to the broker to coin his advantages into current money of the realm;...
Chr1 3.114 22 In society, high advantages are set down to the possessor as disadvantages.
Mrs1 3.153 2 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities...
Pol1 3.213 20 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts...to secure the advantages of efficiency and internal peace by confiding the government to one, who may himself select his agents.
NER 3.262 17 ...you must make me feel that you...by your natural and supernatural advantages do easily see to the end of [the institution]...
UGM 4.10 4 If we limit ourselves to the first advantages, a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...
UGM 4.10 18 We are entitled...to higher advantages.
UGM 4.18 27 If a wise man should appear in our village he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages;...
UGM 4.23 9 I like a master standing firm on legs of iron...loaded with advantages...
PPh 4.65 27 [Plato] said, Culture; but he first admitted its basis, and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages of nature.
SwM 4.98 25 [Swedenborg's] frame is on a larger scale and possesses the advantages of size.
MoS 4.159 4 ...we ought to secure those advantages which we can command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and unattainable.
MoS 4.160 4 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.
NMW 4.232 18 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.
ET2 5.27 18 There are many advantages, says Saadi, in sea-voyaging, but security is not one of them.
ET3 5.41 26 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom...
ET4 5.46 15 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local wealth...
ET11 5.195 17 All advantages given to absolve the young patrician from intellectual labor are of course mistaken.
ET11 5.196 10 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class.
ET11 5.198 17 ...the rich Englishman goes over the world at the present day, drawing more than all the advantages which the strongest of his kings could command.
ET12 5.211 13 I should readily concede these [physical] advantages...if I did not find also that [Oxford men] read better than we, and write better.
ET16 5.275 24 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...
Pow 6.62 14 The rough-and-ready style which belongs to a people of sailors, foresters, farmers and mechanics, has its advantages.
Wth 6.109 7 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap. But he pays for the one convenience of a better dinner, by the loss of some of the richest social and educational advantages.
Wth 6.110 6 Britain, France and Germany...send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
Ctr 6.144 12 Each class fixes its eyes on the advantages it has not;...
Ctr 6.147 3 No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages.
Ctr 6.148 6 ...the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and country life...
Ctr 6.151 11 There are advantages in the old hat and box-coat.
Wsp 6.218 11 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.
CbW 6.275 9 ...we live...not only with the young whom we are to...clothe with the advantages we have earned...
Bty 6.302 11 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
SS 7.13 14 In society, high advantages are set down to the individual as disqualifications.
Civ 7.31 19 I see the vast advantages of this country...
Civ 7.34 12 ...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous; and no advantages of soil, climate or coast can resist these suicidal mischiefs.
Art2 7.47 26 ...all the advantages to which I have adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce.
Elo1 7.70 10 The pictures we have of [eloquence] in semi-barbarous ages, when it has some advantages in the simpler habit of the people, show what it aims at.
DL 7.121 11 Ah! short-sighted students of books, of Nature and of man! too happy, could they know their advantages.
Farm 7.139 20 It were as false for farmers to use a wholesale and massy expense, as for states to use a minute economy. But if thus pinched on one side, he has compensatory advantages.
SA 8.104 16 We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages of freedom...
Elo2 8.111 10 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...they see...the character and advantages of the ground...
Elo2 8.120 9 ...there are physical advantages,--some eminently leading to this art [of eloquence].
Comc 8.173 21 ...we cannot afford to part with any advantages.
PC 8.207 13 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?...
PC 8.230 9 ...superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
Edc1 10.141 15 ...if circumstances do not permit the high social advantages, solitude has also its lessons.
Edc1 10.154 1 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
SovE 10.197 13 What is this intoxicating sentiment...that makes this doll... able to spurn all outward advantages...
LLNE 10.357 10 [Thoreau said] It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
LLNE 10.360 24 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of daily labor. At the same time, it was an attempt...to share the advantages they should attain, with others now deprived of them.
LLNE 10.365 20 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm] showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
Thor 10.458 6 As soon as [Thoreau] had exhausted the advantages of that solitude [at Walden Pond], he abandoned it.
War 11.172 3 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...quite willing to use the opportunities and advantages that good government throw in his way, but nothing daunted, and not really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...
FSLC 11.186 8 There is always something in the very advantages of a condition which hurts it.
FSLC 11.206 9 The North likes the South well enough, for it knows its own advantages.
FSLC 11.213 5 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their forts and factories have been set up,-represents London, represents the art, power and law of Europe. Every man educated at the Northern school carries the like advantages into the South.
EdAd 11.383 6 ...the territory [of America] is a considerable fraction of the planet, and the population neither loath nor inexpert to use their advantages.
EdAd 11.387 7 ...the right patriotism consists in the delight which springs from contributing our peculiar and legitimate advantages to the benefit of humanity.
Wom 11.411 22 [Women] should be found in fit surroundings...with all advantages which the means of man collect...
Wom 11.413 24 The first thing men think of, when they love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of their affection.
SHC 11.429 9 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together, to show you the ground, now that the new avenues make its advantages appear;...
SHC 11.431 24 ...there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters, where art has been employed only to... bring out the natural advantages.
ChiE 11.473 27 It is gratifying to know that the advantages of the new intercourse between the two countries [China and the United States] are daily manifest on the Pacific coast.
CPL 11.495 15 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who cannot wait for the slow growth of the population to make these advantages adequate to the desires of the people...
FRep 11.522 22 I think this levity is a reaction on the [American] people from the extraordinary advantages and invitations of their condition.
II 12.81 8 ...the real credentials by which man...lays his hand on those advantages which confirm and consolidate rank, are intellectual and moral.
CL 12.144 21 We may well enumerate what compensating advantages we have over that country [Illinois]...
CL 12.163 8 If we should now say a few words on the advantages that belong to the conversation with Nature, I might set them so high as to make it a religious duty.
Bost 12.198 9 No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
Milt1 12.256 24 For the delineation of this heroic image of man, Milton enjoyed singular advantages.
Milt1 12.259 23 Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power of language.
ACri 12.301 7 I fell in with one of the founders [of New City] who showed its advantages and its river and port and the capabilities...
WSL 12.344 12 [Landor]...loves all his advantages...
Trag 12.406 1 We cannot afford to let go any advantages.
MN 1.196 26 ...this invincible hope of a more adequate interpreter is the sure prediction of his advent.
OS 2.280 21 ...[the soul] also reveals truth. And here we should seek to reinforce ourselves by its very presence, and to speak with a worthier, loftier strain of that advent.
Int 2.335 9 [The thought] is the advent of truth into the world...
Pt1 3.11 8 Every one has some interest in the advent of the poet...
Chr1 3.102 6 Had there been something latent in the man...we had watched for its advent.
NER 3.283 3 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who shall enjoy his connection with a higher life...
Civ 7.33 4 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
War 11.161 17 ...it is not a great matter how long men refuse to believe the advent of peace...
Hist 2.39 7 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the Advent of Christ...
Art2 7.46 1 One consideration more exhausts I believe all the deductions from the genius of the artist in any given work. This is the adventitious.
Art2 7.46 18 The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.
EurB 12.376 1 Except in the stories of Edgeworth and Scott, whose talent knew how to give to the book a thousand adventitious graces, the novels of costume are all one...
LT 1.268 20 It is...the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain [of conservatism] to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest.
Hist 2.22 22 The antagonism of the two tendencies [Nomadism and Agriculture] is not less active in individuals, as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate.
Hist 2.27 10 The student interprets...the days of maritime adventure and circumnavigation by quite parallel miniature experiences of his own.
GoW 4.281 6 The German intellect wants...the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure;...
Pow 6.55 12 Where the arteries hold their blood, is courage and adventure possible.
Pow 6.68 15 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood] pine for adventure...
Insp 8.280 18 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;...he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes...keen for daring adventure.
Grts 8.316 14 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting...
EzRy 10.394 27 [Ezra Ripley] was...not fond of adventure or innovation.
HDC 11.35 26 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...must be...for those who were new to the country...a formidable adventure.
HDC 11.39 6 The majestic summits of Wachusett and Monadnoc towering in the horizon, invited the steps of adventure westward.
EdAd 11.387 24 Bad as it is, this freedom [in America] leads onward and upward,-to a Columbia of thought and art, which is the last and endless end of Columbus's adventure.
Bost 12.200 16 This thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers;...
Bost 12.201 2 There is a Columbia of thought and art and character, which is the last and endless sequel of Columbus's adventure.
Con 1.310 27 ...in this institution of credit...always some neighbor stands ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.
UGM 4.7 22 ...the adventurer...has nothing broader than his own shoes.
ET5 5.77 8 Nobody landed on this spellbound island [England] with impunity. The enchantments of barren shingle and rough weather transformed every adventurer into a laborer.
Wsp 6.211 13 ...if an adventurer go through all the forms, procure himself to be elected to a post of trust...by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief,-- the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
Wsp 6.211 25 We were not deceived by the professions of the private adventurer...
Aris 10.35 3 The young adventurer finds that the relations of society...irk and sting him...
PerF 10.84 16 Things work to their ends...and will certainly defeat any adventurer who fights against this ordination.
LT 1.284 21 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 1.383 9 Undoubtedly, abundant mistakes will be made by these first adventurers [the Communities]...
YA 1.385 18 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this...by...the increasing disposition of private adventurers to assume [government's] fallen functions.
NMW 4.233 17 [Napoleon] is firm, sure...not misled, like common adventurers, by the splendor of his own means.
ET7 5.122 8 [The English] have a horror of adventurers in or out of Parliament.
ET7 5.122 21 [The English] attack their own politicians every day...as adventurers.
CbW 6.255 19 I do not think very respectfully of the designs or the doings of the people who went to California in 1849. It was a rush and a scramble of needy adventurers...
Boks 7.195 15 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye. All these are young adventurers...
FRep 11.516 4 ...when the adventurers [to America] have planted themselves and looked about, they send back all the money they can spare to bring their friends.
FRep 11.520 2 Our politics are full of adventurers...
Hist 2.30 6 One after another [the advancing man] comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Aesop...
OS 2.290 22 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...has...no adventures;...
ET6 5.107 25 ...with the national tendency to sit fast in the same spot for many generations, [the Englishman's house] comes to be, in the course of time, a museum of...trophies of the adventures and exploits of the family.
Pow 6.68 20 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood] are made...for hair-breadth adventures...
Elo1 7.70 15 It is said that the Khans or story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience, keeping them for many hours attentive to the most fanciful and extravagant adventures.
Elo1 7.71 16 ...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator...carried through a series of adventures furnishing brilliant opportunities to his talent?
Elo1 7.77 16 The newspapers, every week, report the adventures of some impudent swindler...
Clbs 7.247 4 [Manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] have found virtue in the strangest homes; and in the rich store of their adventures are instances and examples which you have been seeking in vain for years...
PerF 10.81 11 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone...
Thor 10.481 3 [Thoreau's] study of Nature...inspired his friends with curiosity to see the world through his eyes, and to hear his adventures.
SMC 11.356 27 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the village politician, who could now...amass what a stock of adventures to retail hereafter at the fireside...
Bost 12.200 12 There are always men ready for adventures...
LLNE 10.350 3 Attractive Industry would speedily subdue, by adventurous scientific and persistent tillage, the pestilential tracts;...
JBS 11.279 22 Walter Scott would have delighted to...trace [John Brown's] adventurous career.
SMC 11.356 22 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the adventurous type of New Englander...
ACri 12.291 27 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb -reeled some;...
ACri 12.292 1 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...considerable as an adverb for much;...
PLT 12.37 20 ...Perception is the armed eye. A civilization has tamed and ripened this savage wit, and he is a Greek. His Aye and No have become nouns and verbs and adverbs.
GSt 10.504 11 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading, as a shining example of the manner in which a truth-speaker... extorts at last a reluctant homage from the bitterest adversaries.
EWI 11.100 3 ...whether by the wisdom of its friends, or by the folly of its adversaries;...[emancipation] goes forward.
MoS 4.182 25 [The wise and magninimous] will exult in [the spiritualist's] far-sighted good-will that can abandon to the adversary all the ground of tradition and common belief...
Bty 6.283 16 A deep man...believes that the orator will decompose his adversary;...
Clbs 7.237 25 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin]...what plain lies between the gods and Surtur, their adversary...
Cour 7.254 25 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end; whispers to this friend, argues down that adversary...
Cour 7.259 25 When we get an advantage...it is because our adversary has committed a fault...
FRep 11.530 18 ...the great interests of mankind...will always...gain on the adversary and at last win the day.
Bost 12.203 21 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some adversary of the death penalty;...
Milt1 12.251 2 ...the peroration [of Milton's Defence of the English People], in which he implores his countrymen to refute this adversary [Saumaise] by their great deeds, is in a just spirit.
Pol1 3.221 23 ...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
PPh 4.66 25 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...he pretends not to know the way of it. It is adverse to many, nor can those be benefited by associating with me whom the Daemon opposes;...
ET18 5.299 11 ...[the English] have earned their vantage ground and held it through ages of adverse possession.
PC 8.231 25 The great are not tender at being...insulted. Such only feel themselves in adverse fortune.
Plu 10.306 2 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...or perhaps, at a rhetorician's school, the subject of Herodotus being the lesson of the day, Plutarch was appointed by lot to take the adverse side.
Plu 10.308 23 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist.
JBS 11.280 5 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct, which, in spite of adverse accidents, should secure, one year with another, an honest reward...
PI 8.59 14 Another bard in like tone says,--I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat; one of them is called the 'Helper'; it will help thee at thy need in sickness, grief, and all adversities.
Let 12.403 20 Perhaps the adversities of our commerce have not yet been pushed to the wholesomest degree of severity.
Tran 1.352 7 [Transcendentalists] are exercised in their own spirit with queries which acquaint them with all adversity...
ET7 5.121 10 [The English] are like ships with too much head on to come quickly about, nor will prosperity or even adversity be allowed to shake their habitual view of conduct.
ET19 5.312 24 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that in prosperity [Englishmen] were moody and dumpish, but in adversity they were grand.
Wsp 6.233 22 [The faithful student] learns that adversity is the prosperity of the great.
ACiv 11.304 13 I will only advert to some leading points of the argument [for emancipation]...
ShP 4.205 1 Beside some important illustration of the history of the English stage, to which I have adverted, [the Shakspeare Society] have gleaned a few facts touching the property, and dealings in regard to property, of the poet [Shakespeare].
Art2 7.47 27 ...all the advantages to which I have adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce.
AmS 1.106 9 ...I have already shown the ground of my hope, in adverting to the doctrine that man is one.
MLit 12.327 8 ...without adverting to absolute standards, we claim for [Goethe] the praise of truth...
Tran 1.346 22 These exacting children advertise us of our wants.
ShP 4.217 20 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have...the comets given into his hand...and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night, and advertise in all towns, Very superior pyrotechny this evening?
SL 2.152 12 We see it advertised that Mr. Grand will deliver an oration on the Fourth of July...
ShP 4.204 24 The Shakspeare Society have...advertised the missing facts... and with what result?
ET7 5.124 21 ...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.
Elo1 7.63 26 Antiphon the Rhamnusian...advertised in Athens that he would cure distempers of the mind with words.
PI 8.23 14 We are advertised that there is nothing to which man is not related;...
FSLC 11.197 2 New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go for slavery...
CL 12.147 15 When Nero advertised for a new luxury, a walk in the woods should have been offered.
Exp 3.73 24 Most of life seems to be mere advertisement of faculty;...
Pol1 3.213 27 Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
DL 7.120 17 ...who can see unmoved...the cautious comparison of the attractive advertisement of the arrival of Macready, Booth or Kemble...with the expense of the entertainment;...
Suc 7.290 23 We countenance each other in this life of show, puffing, advertisement and manufacture of public opinion;...
Suc 7.291 11 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success,--that we shall drop the brag and the advertisement...
EurB 12.365 3 It was a brighter day than we have often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.
Comp 2.124 20 The changes which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth.
FSLC 11.197 9 Philadelphia...in this auction of the rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery. And the Boston Advertiser, and the Courier, in these weeks, urge the same course on the people of Massachusetts.
MN 1.218 27 Genius...advertises us that it flows out of a deeper source than the foregoing silence...
Chr1 3.106 6 ...nature advertises me in such [nonconforming] persons that in democratic America she will not be democratized.
SwM 4.137 15 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip. Swedenborg confounds us not less with...his own books, which he advertises among the angels.
SMC 11.363 23 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes. It advertises, prayer-meeting at 7 o'clock, in cell No. 8, second floor...
ET15 5.269 14 There is an air of freedom even in [the London Times's] advertising columns...
SL 2.139 7 [The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature that we prosper when we accept its advice...
OS 2.292 13 ...[men's] plainest advice is a kind of praising.
Exp 3.82 2 A wise and hardy physician will say, Come out of that, as the first condition of advice.
NR 3.238 12 ...Nature has her maligners, as if she were Circe; and Alphonso of Castile fancied he could have given useful advice.
ShP 4.190 15 The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps, and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a cathedral needed by her chants and processions.
ET1 5.17 8 ...it was now ten years since [Carlyle] had learned German, by the advice of a man who told him he would find in that language what he wanted.
Elo2 8.132 20 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and persuasion...
QO 8.183 22 In our own college days we remember hearing other pieces of Mr. Webster's advice to students...
Grts 8.315 2 [Napoleon's] advice to his brother...was: I have only one counsel for you,-Be Master.
SlHr 10.438 6 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He rejected the advice...
Thor 10.460 24 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The Republican Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was premature, and not advisable. He replied,-I did not send to you for advice, but to announce that I am to speak.
HDC 11.46 16 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston...enjoying, at the same time, a strict and loving fellowship with Boston, and sure of advice and aid, on every emergency.
EdAd 11.387 27 ...we should certainly be glad to give good advice in politics.
Wom 11.405 18 ...according to the rule, take [women's] first advice, not the second...
CL 12.143 10 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice...
MAng1 12.225 1 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. He communicated it to the government with his advice upon it;...
AgMs 12.360 19 [Farmers] could not afford to follow such advice as is given here [in the Agricultural Survey];...
Grts 8.314 27 ...[Napoleon's] official advices are to me more literary and philosophical than the memoirs of the Academy.
ACiv 11.300 8 If the American people hesitate, it is not for want of warning or advices.
Thor 10.460 23 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The Republican Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was premature, and not advisable.
YA 1.386 24 In every society some men are born to rule and some to advise.
SwM 4.140 2 Socrates's Genius did not advise him to act or to find...
PI 8.1 7 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him,/ Him they beckon, him advise/ Of heavenlier prosperities/ And a more excelling grace/ And a truer bosom-glow/ Than the wine-fed feasters know./
Edc1 10.157 13 I advise teachers to cherish mother-wit.
Con 1.321 4 The corporation were advised to call off the police...
MoS 4.153 19 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him... when he advised a young scholar, perplexed with fore-ordination and free-will, to get well drunk.
NMW 4.243 2 In 1814, when advised to rely on the higher classes, Napoleon said to those around him, Gentlemen...my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs.
ET1 5.4 8 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers...and I suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe, when I was ill and was advised to travel, it was mainly the attraction of these persons.
Wth 6.118 2 The eldest son must inherit the [English] manor; what to do with this supernumerary? [The father] was advised to breed him for the Church...
Wsp 6.227 26 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy, and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the wonderful powers shown by her novice.
Comc 8.174 11 The physician endeavored to cheer [his melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
PerF 10.79 16 [The manufacturer's] friends dissuaded him, advised him to give up the work...
SlHr 10.438 3 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston]...
HDC 11.46 3 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies.
FSLC 11.207 8 ...shall we, as we are advised on all hands, lie by, and wait the progress of the census? But will Slavery lie by? I fear not.
Milt1 12.265 22 [Milton]...deliberately undertakes the defence of the English people, when advised by his physicians that he does it at the cost of sight.
Plu 10.303 9 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which...has drawn attention to what an ancient might call the politeness of Fate,-we will say, more advisedly, the benign Providence...
SR 2.50 15 I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser...
Comp 2.109 27 Bad counsel confounds the adviser.
CbW 6.261 14 ...[the rich man] is a shrewd adviser in the insurance office;...
ET7 5.118 19 The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer.
CbW 6.245 18 The lawyer advises the client, and tells his story to the jury and leaves it with them...
Prch 10.235 24 A wise man advises that we should see to it that we read and speak two or three reasonable words, every day...
Milt1 12.266 24 [Milton] advises that in country places, rather than to trudge many miles to a church, public worship be maintained nearer home, as in a house or barn.
AgMs 12.361 14 The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to sell their cattle and their hay in the fall...
CbW 6.245 1 ...this garrulity of advising is born with us...
GoW 4.269 22 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must sustain with shameless advocacy some bad government...
Ctr 6.145 1 I am not much an advocate for travelling...
Wsp 6.206 21 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. O fie! O how unwilling should I be to forsake thee, in so forlorn and dreadful a position, were I thy lord and advocate, as thou art mine.
CbW 6.246 3 The judge...hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community; but is only an advocate after all.
Clbs 7.240 15 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent advocate?
Elo2 8.118 3 If the performance of the advocate reaches any high success it is paid in England with dignities in the professions...
Elo2 8.130 21 [Eloquence] leads us to...the men of character...and the cause they maintain borrows importance from an illustrious advocate.
LLNE 10.351 20 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends...commanded our attention and respect.
Let 12.395 12 Another objection [to Communities] seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate.
WD 7.181 24 We do not want factitious men, who can do any literary or professional feat, as, to...advocate a cause...for money;...
AmS 1.94 18 ...indeed there are advocates for [the clergys'] celibacy.
LT 1.270 25 ...each of these aspirations and attempts of the people for the Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates...
NMW 4.228 8 The advocates of liberty and of progress are ideologists;--a word of contempt often in [Napoleon's] mouth;...
Elo2 8.112 14 There are not only the wants of the intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met, but also the vast interests of property, public and private, of mining, of manufactures, of trade, of railroads, etc. These must have their advocates of each improvement and each interest.
EWI 11.106 9 ...[Granville Sharpe] so filled the heads and hearts of his advocates that when he brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
EWI 11.135 24 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness...
FSLC 11.200 8 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...above all, with what earnestness and dignity the advocates of freedom were inspired.
ACiv 11.304 12 I shall not attempt to unfold the details of the project of emancipation. It has been stated with great ability by several of its leading advocates.
EdAd 11.393 22 We rely on the talents and industry of good men known to us, but much more on the magnetism of truth, which is multiplying and educating advocates for itself and friends for us.
II 12.68 1 Objection and loud denial not less prove the reality and conquests of an idea than the friends and advocates it finds.
Edc1 10.145 22 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus, in the Aegean Sea, had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone...
Boks 7.189 8 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...
MoL 10.253 22 Pytheas of Aegina was victor in the Pancratium of the boys...
MoL 10.254 6 ...now not only all the statues of bronze in the temples of Aegina are destroyed, but the temples themselves...
Comp 2.102 12 Aei gar eu piptousin oi Dios kuboi...
ET1 5.23 23 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others; for...whatever combined a truth with an affection was ktema es aei, good to-day and good forever.
DL 7.116 6 How was it with Aemilius and Cato?
Nat2 3.175 3 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp...
Insp 8.273 26 Sometimes the Aeolian harp is dumb all day in the window...
Insp 8.287 26 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause...rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an Aeolian harp?
Edc1 10.129 18 As every wind draws music out of the Aeolian harp, so doth every object in Nature draw music out of [man's] mind.
Carl 10.489 18 I called [Carlyle] a trip-hammer with an Aeolian attachment.
CInt 12.130 2 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature.
Trag 12.406 11 Melancholy cleaves to the English mind in both hemispheres as closely as to the strings of an Aeolian harp.
ET16 5.283 2 There is also some curious coincidence [to Stukeley] in the names. Apollodorus makes Magnes the son of Aeolus, who married Nais.
Nat 1.13 21 ...by means of steam, [man] realizes the fable of Aeolus's bag...
Wth 6.83 19 What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/ (In dizzy aeons dim and mute/ The reeling brain can ill compute)/ Copper and iron, lead, and gold?/
Wsp 6.239 10 'T is a higher thing to confide that if it is best we should live, we shall live,--'t is higher to have this conviction than to have the lease of indefinite centuries and millenniums and aeons.
WD 7.180 10 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its face. The world has no such landscape, the aeons of history no such hour...
Fdsp 2.211 16 Crimen quos inquinat, aequat.
Hist 2.21 7 The mountain of granite [the Gothic cathedral] blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.
MoS 4.160 18 A theory of Saint John, and non-resistance, seems...too thin and aerial.
GoW 4.272 9 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into...geology, chemistry, astronomy; and every one of these kingdoms assuming a certain aerial and poetic character, by reason of the multitude.
PLT 12.13 23 The adepts value only the pure geometry, the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason.
Bost 12.183 10 An aerial fluid streams all day, all night, from every flower and leaf...
ShP 4.208 13 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences,--aerolites...and tell me if they match;...
ET10 5.168 11 The machinery has proved, like the balloon, unmanageable, and flies away with the aeronaut.
WD 7.161 19 The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.
PPo 8.256 3 Come!-the palace of heaven rests on aery pillars,-/ Come, and bring me wine; our days are wind./
Elo1 7.85 3 ...the splendid weapons which went to the equipment of Demosthenes, of Aeschines...deserve a special enumeration.
Hist 2.14 5 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination;...
Int 2.344 16 If Aeschylus be that man he is taken for, he has not yet done his office when he has educated the learned of Europe for a thousand years.
Exp 3.82 13 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold.
Chr1 3.106 17 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books, whether Aeschylus, Dante, Shakspeare, or Scott...
Art2 7.53 18 The Iliad of Homer...the tragedies of Aeschylus...were made... in grave earnest...
Boks 7.198 3 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 3. Aeschylus...
PI 8.65 19 In the world of letters how few commanding oracles! Homer did what he could; Pindar, Aeschylus, and the Greek Gnomic poets...
PI 8.67 21 We are a little civil, it must be owned, to Homer and Aeschylus...
PC 8.213 19 We cannot yet afford to drop Homer, nor Aeschylus...
LLNE 10.363 14 [Charles Newcomb's] reading lay in Aeschylus, Plato, Dante, Calderon, Shakspeare...
Thor 10.475 9 [Thoreau] admired Aeschylus and Pindar;...
Thor 10.475 11 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one.
Scot 11.465 13 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for a counterpart as a painting of Fate...
CInt 12.129 24 Bring the insight, and [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and astounding strokes of genius close by him as Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.
WSL 12.341 11 When we pronounce the names of Homer and Aeschylus;... we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.
WSL 12.346 17 [Landor] loves Pindar, Aeschylus, Euripides...
WSL 12.347 14 [Landor] has illustrated the genius of Homer, Aeschylus, Pindar, Euripides, Thucydides.
Int 2.344 23 I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Aeschyluses to my intellectual integrity.
Clbs 7.238 9 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with death on my mouth have I spoken the fate-words of the generation of the Aesir;...
Hist 2.30 7 One after another [the advancing man] comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Aesop...
Pt1 3.31 22 ...Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;...
PPh 4.75 13 It was a rare fortune that this Aesop of the mob [Socrates] and this robed scholar [Plato] should meet...
ET9 5.151 19 Aesop and Montaigne, Cervantes and Saadi are men of the world;...
CbW 6.261 4 The first-class minds, Aesop, Socrates...had the poor man's feeling and mortification.
CbW 6.261 25 Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard...know the realities of human life.
PI 8.3 12 The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all the valid minds,--of Aesop, Aristotle...
PI 8.25 11 ...[people] relish Aesop...
Aris 10.49 1 I don't know how much Epictetus was sold for, or Aesop...
ALin 11.333 19 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few years, like Aesop or Pilpay...
ShP 4.201 2 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.
Tran 1.354 25 [The moral movements of the time] have a liberal, even an aesthetic spirit.
ET14 5.251 10 ...much of [English] aesthetic production is antiquarian and manufactured...
ET18 5.303 6 [The English people's] many-headedness is owing to the advantageous position of the middle class, who are always the source of letters and science. Hence the vast plenty of their aesthetic production.
Wth 6.118 19 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring. If the non-conformist or aesthetic farmer leaves out the cattle and does not also leave out the want which the cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by begging or stealing.
Ctr 6.148 5 ...the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and country life...
OA 7.327 15 ...[man] has...aesthetic wants...
LLNE 10.341 2 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper...and so ended the first attempt to establish aesthetic society in Boston.
ACri 12.288 25 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard, who found his wrath so aesthetic and fertilizing that they took notes...
Let 12.397 10 Regrets and Bohemian castles and aesthetic villages are not a very self-helping class of productions...
Let 12.397 14 Especially to one importunate correspondent we must say that there is no chance for the aesthetic village.
NR 3.235 12 It seems not worth while to execute with too much pains some one intellectual, or aesthetical, or civil feat...
CInt 12.131 17 When the great painter was told by a dauber, I have painted five pictures whilst you have made one, he replied, Pingo in aeternitatem.
PPh 4.56 7 Plato keeps the two vases, one of aether and one of pigment, at his side, and invariably uses both.
SR 2.51 18 Thy love afar is spite at home.
Fdsp 2.212 13 We see the noble afar off and they repel us;...
Mrs1 3.147 2 The theory of society supposes the existence and sovereignty of these [natural aristocrats]. It divines afar off their coming.
Pol1 3.215 13 A man who cannot be acquainted with me...looking from afar at me ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical end...
Wsp 6.238 11 The great class...the rapt, the lost, the fools of ideas...suggest what they cannot execute. They speak to the ages, and are heard from afar.
II 12.68 3 One often sees in the embittered acuteness of critics snuffing heresy from afar, their own unbelief...
PI 8.37 3 ...[the poet] is not affable with all...
ALin 11.332 13 ...[Lincoln] had a vast good nature...affable, and not sensible to the affliction which the innumerable visits paid to him when President would have brought to any one else.
Milt1 12.257 12 Wood, [Milton's] political opponent, relates that his deportment was affable...
MN 1.206 17 ...when the genius comes...it is...the power of transferring the affair in the street into oils and colors.
Prd1 2.225 22 ...the tax, and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains...these eat up the hours.
Prd1 2.229 4 Scatter-brained and afternoon men spoil much more than their own affair in spoiling the temper of those who deal with them.
Nat2 3.184 20 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled. It was no great affair, a mere push, but the astronomers were right in making much of it...
NR 3.226 15 ...the audience, who have only to hear and not to speak, judge very wisely and superiorly how wrongheaded and unskilful is each of the debaters to his own affair.
NR 3.246 3 ...the least of [our earth's] rational children, the most dedicated to his private affair, works out, though as it were under a disguise, the universal problem.
UGM 4.6 2 A main difference betwixt men is, whether they attend their own affair or not.
UGM 4.6 4 [Man's] own affair, though impossible to others, he can open with celerity...
UGM 4.8 14 Mind thy affair, says the spirit...
GoW 4.262 23 The gardener saves every slip and seed and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair.
GoW 4.271 5 We conceive...life in the Middle Ages, to be a simple and comprehensible affair;...
ET4 5.70 16 [The English] walk and ride as fast as they can, their head bent forward, as if urged on some pressing affair.
ET5 5.87 2 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous and difficult tactics, but delight to bring the affair hand to hand;...
ET6 5.105 4 ...not that [the Englishman] is trained to neglect the eyes of his neighbors,--he is really occupied with his own affair and does not think of them.
ET11 5.194 25 The education of a soldier is a simpler affair than that of an earl in the nineteenth century.
ET12 5.202 23 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds...
ET14 5.239 5 [Idealism] seems an affair of race, or of meta-chemistry;...
Pow 6.59 22 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him; for this is an affair of presence of mind...
Ctr 6.161 12 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty.
Bhr 6.184 4 [The successful man of the world] knows that troops behave as they are handled at first; that is his cheap secret; just what happens to every two persons who meet on any affair...
Wsp 6.210 22 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors...that life is an affair to put somewhat between the upper and lower mandibles.
Wsp 6.233 26 If [the faithful student] is insulted, he can be insulted; all his affair is not to insult.
CbW 6.247 10 [Fine society] is...an affair of clean linen and coaches...
CbW 6.273 11 [Friendship] is a serious and majestic affair...
Elo1 7.86 17 ...it is the certainty with which, indifferently in any affair that is well handled, the truth stares us in the face...that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.
DL 7.107 10 Domestic events are certainly our affair.
Cour 7.269 4 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
Suc 7.297 5 Is all life a surface affair?
PI 8.31 27 ...[men of the world] admit the general truth, but they and their affair always constitute a case in bar of the statute.
Imtl 8.326 13 [The doctrine of the resurrection] was an affair of the body...
SovE 10.194 5 [Good men] do not see that He [God], that It, is there, next and within;...the affair of affairs;...
Prch 10.235 7 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid! As for position, the position is always the same...flanked...by the resolute, simply by minding their own affair.
EzRy 10.386 23 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but the Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor, as with an air that said to all the congregation, This is no time for you young Cambridge men; the affair, sir, is getting serious. I will pray myself.
HDC 11.49 11 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam, hath been...altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.
HDC 11.67 25 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the Representative any instructions about any important affair to be transacted by the General Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
AgMs 12.358 15 I still remember with some shame that in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.
Let 12.404 18 A literature...is the affair of a power which works by a prodigality of life and force very dismaying to behold...
Nat 1.32 14 Whilst we use this grand cipher to expedite the affairs of our pot and kettle, we feel that we have not yet put it to its use...
AmS 1.99 14 Let the grandeur of justice shine in [the great soul's] affairs.
LT 1.273 18 What does [the wealthy man]...but resolve...to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs;...
YA 1.385 6 ...many people have...a genius for the disposition of affairs;....
YA 1.386 4 If any man has a talent...for administering difficult affairs...let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
YA 1.390 13 We have our own affairs, our own genius, which chains each to his proper work.
YA 1.393 23 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy...
SR 2.49 20 [The self-reliant individual] would utter opinions on all passing affairs...
Comp 2.114 10 It is best...to buy...in your agent, good sense applied to accounts and affairs.
Fdsp 2.203 2 We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man...by affairs.
Prd1 2.224 15 ...the order of the world and the distribution of affairs and times, being studied with the co-perception of their subordinate place, will reward any degree of attention.
Cir 2.312 11 ...we see literature best...from the din of affairs...
Pt1 3.17 11 ...the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs, of low and high...disappear when nature is used as a symbol.
Exp 3.73 22 Our life seems...not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast-flowing vigor.
Chr1 3.90 15 [The man of character] conquers because his arrival alters the face of affairs.
Chr1 3.95 15 ...justice is the application of [truth] to affairs.
Chr1 3.108 16 Character...must not...be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs or on few occasions.
NER 3.255 13 ...the country is full of kings. Hands off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this kingdom of me.
NER 3.259 25 ...I will omit this conjugating [of Greek and Latin], and go straight to affairs.
UGM 4.21 20 I go to Boston or New York and run up and down on my affairs...
MoS 4.159 8 ...let us mix in affairs;...
NMW 4.246 4 [Napoleon's] capacious head, revolving and disposing sovereignly trains of affairs...
GoW 4.271 20 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when Germany played no such leading part in the world's affairs as to swell the bosom of her sons with any metropolitan pride...
GoW 4.280 11 The book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] treats only of the ordinary affairs of men...
GoW 4.286 6 Though [the intellectual man] wishes to prosper in affairs, he wishes more to know the history and destiny of man;...
GoW 4.286 21 ...certain love affairs [of Goethe] that came to nothing, as people say, have the strangest importance...
ET4 5.51 4 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter...a people scattered by their wars and affairs over the face of the whole earth, and homesick to a man;...
ET6 5.102 22 ...[the English] hate the practical cowards who cannot in affairs answer directly yes or no.
ET6 5.113 8 [The English] value themselves...on conciseness and going to the point, in private affairs.
ET7 5.120 2 Wellington discovered the ruin of Bonaparte's affairs, by his own probity.
ET8 5.139 17 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England]; Gentlemen, as Charles I. said of Strafford, whose abilities might make a prince rather afraid than ashamed in the greatest affairs of state;...
ET8 5.141 13 ...[The English] think humanely on the affairs of France, of Turkey...
ET11 5.195 4 ...[English nobles] were expert in every species of equitation, to the most dangerous practices, and this down to the accession of William of Orange. But graver men appear to have trained their sons for civil affairs.
ET12 5.208 2 ...[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture.
ET15 5.268 3 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom.
ET15 5.271 10 Many of [Punch's] caricatures...will convey to the eye in an instant the popular view which was taken of each turn of public affairs.
Pow 6.75 3 Concentration is the secret of strength...in all management of human affairs.
Pow 6.76 8 ...in our flowing affairs a decision must be made...
Wth 6.92 26 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth...gave fame by his sense and energy to the name and affairs of the Tittleton snuff-box factory.
Ctr 6.160 24 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order... will come to affairs as from a higher ground...
Ctr 6.161 16 Burke descended from a higher sphere when he would influence human affairs.
Bhr 6.187 23 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost. 'T is a great destitution to both that this should not be entertained with large leisures, but contrariwise should be balked by importunate affairs.
Ill 6.321 10 ...says the good Heaven;...weave a shoestring; great affairs and the best wine by and by.
Elo1 7.70 7 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer fast; steals away...his memory, that he shall not remember the most pressing affairs;...
Elo1 7.75 17 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen, with large experience of public affairs, when they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.
Elo1 7.89 23 By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and magnificence wherever he goes.
Elo1 7.92 7 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see; and as he cannot dispose of it, it disposes of him. The history of public men and affairs in America will readily furnish tragic examples of this fatal force.
Elo1 7.92 13 In transcendent eloquence, there was ever some crisis in affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the cause he pleads...
WD 7.171 25 ...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now, as I trudge the streets on my affairs.
Boks 7.206 18 If now the relations of England to European affairs bring [the scholar] to British ground, he is arrived at the very moment when modern history takes new proportions.
Clbs 7.244 25 The man of thought...the administrator skilful in affairs... whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found.
Cour 7.264 16 Courage is equality to the problem, in affairs...or in action;...
Cour 7.268 7 There is a courage of a merchant in dealing with his trade, by which dangerous turns of affairs are met and prevailed over.
OA 7.331 14 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...
PI 8.31 24 [The poet] affirms the applicability of the ideal law to...the present knot of affairs.
PI 8.34 13 The...measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of affairs...
PI 8.48 23 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune. Later they like...to detect a melody as prompt and perfect in their daily affairs.
SA 8.85 8 Wait till your affairs go better...
SA 8.102 5 I have been often impressed at our country town-meetings with the accumulated virility, in each village, of five or six or eight or ten men, who...so easily handle the affairs of the town.
SA 8.103 9 It is of course that [the American to be proud of] should ride well, shoot well, sail well, keep house well, administer affairs well;...
SA 8.104 2 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people... they are sublime;...
PPo 8.262 3 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./
Insp 8.286 15 ...it is a primal rule to defend your morning...and...to relieve it from any jangle of affairs...
Insp 8.287 12 Are you poetical...tired of labor and affairs?
Imtl 8.329 6 A man of affairs is afraid to die...
Imtl 8.331 2 ...what is called great and powerful life-the administration of large affairs...is prone to develop narrow and special talent;...
Imtl 8.339 9 Every really able man...a man of large affairs, an inventor... considers his work...as far short of what it should be.
Imtl 8.348 13 Will you offer empires to such as cannot set a house or private affairs in order?
Dem1 10.15 19 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...
Dem1 10.23 12 ...in a particular circle and knot of affairs [the fortunate man] is not so much his own man as the hand of Nature and time.
Aris 10.64 18 The habit of directing large affairs generates a nobility of thought in every mind of average ability.
Aris 10.64 20 ...affairs themselves show the way in which they should be handled;...
Chr2 10.92 27 ...justice is the application of this good of the whole to the affairs of each one;...
Edc1 10.141 23 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
SovE 10.193 27 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence leaves them...
SovE 10.194 5 [Good men] do not see that He [God], that It, is there, next and within;...the affair of affairs;...
SovE 10.197 3 ...I have never until now dreamed that this undertaking the entire management of my own affairs was not commendable.
Prch 10.232 18 We shall not very long have any part or lot in this earth, in whose affairs we so hotly mix...
Prch 10.235 26 A wise man advises that we should see to it that we read and speak two or three reasonable words, every day, amid the crowd of affairs and the noise of trifles.
Prch 10.236 9 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe, whilst...our hands work in a small knot of affairs.
Schr 10.261 2 The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica.
Schr 10.272 16 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in that also. Have we less interest...in manual work or in household affairs;...
Plu 10.295 22 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast. It...has whispered in my ear many good suggestions and maxims for my conduct and the government of my affairs.
Plu 10.298 13 Plutarch was...a self-respecting, amiable man, who knew how to better a good education...by devotion to affairs private and public;...
Plu 10.298 23 A man of society, of affairs;...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life...
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.
Thor 10.462 24 [Thoreau]...could give judicious counsel in the gravest private or public affairs.
GSt 10.505 3 ...enlightened enough to see a citizen's interest in the public affairs, and virtuous enough to obey to the uttermost the truth he saw,- [George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
HDC 11.64 20 From the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century, our records indicate no interruption of the tranquility of the inhabitants [of Concord], either in church or in civil affairs.
HDC 11.70 11 ...we think it our duty, at this critical time of our public affairs, to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...
HDC 11.70 16 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope, should the state of our public affairs require it, that they will still remain watchful and persevering;...
HDC 11.71 6 In August [1774], a County Convention met in this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public affairs...
LVB 11.95 25 A man [Van Buren] with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment.
EWI 11.103 24 ...the crude element of good in human affairs must work and ripen...
EWI 11.139 8 The stream of human affairs flows its own way...
FSLC 11.187 20 If our resistance to this law [the Fugitive Slave Law] is not right, there is no right. This is not meddling with other people's affairs: this is hindering other people from meddling with us.
FSLN 11.223 7 [Webster]...took very naturally a leading part in large private and in public affairs;...
FSLN 11.226 17 ...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.
EPro 11.315 4 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs...
EPro 11.318 5 ...when we see how the great stake which foreign nations hold in our affairs has recently brought every European power as a client into this court...one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation] was too long.
ALin 11.337 10 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius which rules in the affairs of nations;...
SMC 11.360 8 [The Civil War soldiers]...have farms, shops, factories, affairs of every kind to think of...
EdAd 11.388 3 We have not been able to escape our national and endemic habit, and to be liberated from interest in the elections and in public affairs.
EdAd 11.389 10 Public affairs are chained in the same law with private;...
Wom 11.414 7 There is much that tends to give [women] a religious height which men do not attain. Their sequestration from affairs and from the injury to the moral sense which affairs often inflict, aids this.
Wom 11.414 8 There is much that tends to give [women] a religious height which men do not attain. Their sequestration from affairs and from the injury to the moral sense which affairs often inflict, aids this.
Wom 11.417 26 There are plenty of people who believe women to be... incapable of interest in affairs.
Wom 11.418 2 There are plenty of people who believe that the world is governed by men of dark complexions, that affairs are only directed by such...
Wom 11.421 15 For their want of intimate knowledge of affairs, I do not think this ought to disqualify [women] from voting at any town-meeting which I ever attended.
Wom 11.424 1 I do not think it yet appears that women wish this equal share in public affairs.
Shak1 11.447 17 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot...whose American devotion through forty or fifty years to the affairs of a bank, has not been able to bury the fires of his genius,-Mr. Charles Sprague,- pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
Shak1 11.450 20 ...it was not history, courts and affairs that gave [Shakespeare] lessons...
FRep 11.518 9 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians, who...win the posts of power and give their direction to affairs.
FRep 11.524 26 ...we know, all over this country, men of integrity, capable of action and of affairs...
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; in war or in affairs, alike daring and effective.
CL 12.157 1 In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for this walking.
Bost 12.183 8 ...it was remarked that insulary people are versatile and addicted to change, both in religious and secular affairs.
EurB 12.367 18 Early in life, at a crisis it is said in his private affairs, [Wordsworth] made his election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly genius;...