Nat 1.29 18 ...this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power to affect us.
Nat 1.59 1 It appears that motion...and religion, all tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world.
DSA 1.126 9 The expressions of this [moral] sentiment affect us more than all other compositions.
LE 1.156 6 ...when events occur of great import, I count over these representatives of opinion, whom they will affect, as if I were counting nations.
LT 1.277 19 Those who are urging with most ardor what are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men, and affect us as the insane do.
Tran 1.346 19 We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not;...
SR 2.82 3 I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions...
OS 2.278 27 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
Gts 3.165 1 I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love, which is the genius and god of gifts, and to whom we must not affect to prescribe.
Nat2 3.178 1 Literature, poetry, science are the homage of man to this unfathomed secret [nature], concerning which no sane man can affect an indifference or incuriosity.
UGM 4.7 6 Certain men affect us as rich possibilities...
UGM 4.13 22 If you affect to give me bread and fire, I perceive that I pay for it the full price...
SwM 4.123 25 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]...a theoretic or speculative man, but whom no practical man in the universe could affect to scorn.
MoS 4.185 27 ...throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means.
ShP 4.209 5 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on the characters of men, and the influences, occult and open, which affect their fortunes;...
ET1 5.5 14 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities.
Bhr 6.175 10 English grandees affect to be farmers.
Wsp 6.238 6 The great class, they who affect our imagination...suggest what they cannot execute.
CbW 6.263 19 In dealing with the drunken, we do not affect to be drunk.
Ill 6.315 12 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the permission reluctantly...
WD 7.175 25 Real kings...affect a plain and poor exterior.
Boks 7.196 27 ...Never read any [books] but what you like;, or, in Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure te'en:/ In brief, sir, study what you most affect./
PI 8.26 5 ...a cow does not...show or affect any interest in the landscape...
PC 8.219 17 The artist has always the masters in his eye, though he affect to flout them.
PC 8.219 21 Agassiz and Owen and Huxley affect to address the American and English people...
PPo 8.243 6 ...for the most part, [the Persians] affect short poems and epigrams.
Aris 10.52 19 Genius...the power to affect the Imagination...has a royal right in all possessions and privileges...
Aris 10.55 12 What is it that makes the true knight? Loyalty to his thought. That makes...the commanding port which all men admire and which men not noble affect.
Prch 10.232 8 ...it were inhuman to affect ignorance or indifference on Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our countenance dejected Saturday or Monday.
Schr 10.269 11 Able men may sometimes affect a contempt for thought...
LS 11.19 3 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us.
War 11.173 4 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and virtue. In dangerous times they are presently tried, and therefore their name is a flourish of trumpets. They, at least, affect us as a reality.
Koss 11.399 7 ...you [Kossuth] are elected by God and your genius to the task. We do not, therefore, affect to thank you.
PLT 12.12 11 I confess to a little distrust of that completeness of system which metaphysicians are apt to affect.
II 12.67 25 ...when the eye cannot detect the juncture of the skilful mosaic, the spirit is apprised of disunion, simply by the failure to affect the spirit.
CInt 12.118 16 We affect to slight England and Englishmen.
PPr 12.387 21 ...the sun and stars affect us only grandly, because we cannot reach to their smoke and surfaces and say, Is that all?
SR 2.51 20 ...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.
SR 2.55 3 ...these airs of the bench are the emptiest affectation.
Exp 3.61 11 ...a thoughtful man...cannot without affectation deny to any set of men and women a sensibility to extraordinary merit.
ET3 5.42 22 Fontenelle thought that nature had sometimes a little affectation;...
ET17 5.295 7 Tennyson [Wordsworth] thinks a right poetic genius, though with some affectation.
DL 7.111 1 [The citizen's] house ought to show us his honest opinion of what makes his well-being when he...forgets all affectation, compliance, and even exertion of will.
Clbs 7.234 12 [Yonder man's] dissent from me is the veriest affectation.
Edc1 10.141 8 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which forbids conceit, affectation, emphasis and dulness...
Thor 10.458 3 No one who knew [Thoreau] would tax him with affectation.
CL 12.157 22 Every acquisition we make in the science of beauty is so sweet that I think it is cheaply paid for by what accompanies it, of course, the prating and affectation of connoisseurship.
MMEm 10.430 5 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow...would...make no grimace of affected sympathy...
Nat 1.38 6 The whole character and fortune of the individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding;...
Nat 1.48 13 The frivolous make themselves merry with the Ideal theory...as if it affected the stability of nature.
Nat 1.50 17 We are strangely affected by seeing the shore from a moving ship...
Tran 1.330 10 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm facts not affected by the illusions of sense...
Hist 2.11 1 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. ... We assume that we under like influence should be alike affected, and should achieve the like;...
Pol1 3.219 13 ...the nature of the revolution is not affected by the vices of the revolters;...
PPh 4.71 21 [Socrates] affected a good many citizen-like tastes...
PPh 4.71 27 [Socrates]...affected low phrases...
ET4 5.73 4 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game.
Wsp 6.203 7 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web. If they were more refined...it would be nervous, like that of the Shakers, who...it is said are affected in the same way and the same time, to work and to play;...
Civ 7.34 6 ...if there be...a country...where the position of the white woman is injuriously affected by the outlawry of the black woman;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
Elo1 7.88 4 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent a great reality,--the justice of states...which his trifling talk nowise affected...
PI 8.44 7 This force of representation so plants [the poet's] figures before him that he...is affected by them as by persons.
Comc 8.161 18 If the essence of the Comic be the contrast in the intellect between the idea and the false performance, there is good reason why we should be affected by the exposure.
PC 8.211 17 The correlation of forces and the polarization of light...have affected an imaginative race like poetic inspirations.
PC 8.233 22 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it. In England the like spiritual disease affected the upper class in the time of Charles II....
Chr2 10.109 16 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature, the causes by which all the astronomic results are affected...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
LLNE 10.336 23 ...the religious nature in man was not affected by these errors in his understanding.
EzRy 10.385 2 [Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope I desire it) that the Lord would teach me suitably to resent this Providence...and to be suitably affected with it.
MMEm 10.403 5 [Mary Moody Emerson] had a deep sympathy with genius. When it was unhallowed, as in Byron, she had none the less, whilst she deplored and affected to denounce him.
MMEm 10.417 21 It humbles me [Mary Moody Emerson] beyond anything I have met, to find myself for a moment affected with hope, fear, or especially anger, about interest.
EWI 11.139 9 [The steam of human affairs...is very little affected by the activity of legislators.
War 11.172 23 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...
FSLC 11.180 5 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented, for though they snuff oppression and dishonor at a distance, it is because they are more impressionable: the whole population will in a short time be as painfully affected.
EPro 11.318 9 ...it became every day more apparent what gigantic and what remote interests were to be affected by the decision of the President [Lincoln]...
HCom 11.341 6 ...in these last years all opinions have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...
SMC 11.362 5 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...encourages a temperance society which is formed in the camp. I have not had a man drunk, or affected by liquor, since we came here.
CL 12.142 23 There is also an effect [of walking] on beauty. De Quincey said, I have seen Wordsworth's eyes sometimes affected powerfully in this respect.
Nat2 3.171 12 ...ever like a dear friend and brother when we chat affectedly with strangers, comes in this honest face [of nature], and takes a grave liberty with us...
Nat 1.28 12 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of...
SR 2.46 2 Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this.
Prd1 2.229 25 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery (the only great affecting picture which I have seen) is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine;...
MoS 4.175 2 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
Pow 6.81 10 I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of the factories with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States.
SovE 10.214 2 ...it seems as if whatever is most affecting and sublime in our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life so extraordinary, and, one might say, superhuman.
LS 11.20 1 ...I choose that my remembrances of [Jesus] should be pleasing, affecting, religious.
HDC 11.33 1 Edward Johnson of Woburn has described in an affecting narrative [the pilgrims'] labors by the way.
EWI 11.140 11 Not the least affecting part of this history of abolition [in the West Indies] is the annihilation of the old indecent nonsense about the nature of the negro.
SMC 11.363 26 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, and their own printed record is a proud and affecting narrative.
CPL 11.501 3 [Thoreau writes] I think the best parts of Shakspeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events.
FRep 11.531 1 Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United States, but some...caucus;...
MAng1 12.231 8 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...
Milt1 12.275 17 The most affecting passages in Paradise Lost are personal allusions;...
YA 1.371 23 ...there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human race is guided...to results affecting masses and ages.
SR 2.82 8 ...the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.
Chr1 3.94 2 Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a certain sleep.
Ctr 6.151 2 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Napoleon affecting a plain suit at his glittering levee;...
DL 7.107 8 The events that occur [in the home] are more near and affecting to us than those which are sought in senates and academies.
PC 8.209 2 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the search for just rules affecting labor;...
Thor 10.458 16 [Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his opinion without affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the company.
Nat 1.22 20 The intellect searches out the absolute order of things...without the colors of affection.
Nat 1.42 26 Who can guess...how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
Nat 1.46 8 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...who, answering each to a certain affection of the soul, satisfy our desire on that side;...
Nat 1.50 2 [Grace and expression] proceed from imagination and affection...
AmS 1.99 15 Let the beauty of affection cheer [the great soul's] lowly roof.
DSA 1.142 27 [Public worship] has lost its grasp on the affection of the good...
MR 1.253 21 Let our affection flow out to our fellows;...
YA 1.366 27 ...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised...the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which... affection for a man's home could suggest.
SR 2.72 21 Check this lying hospitality and lying affection.
Lov1 2.172 11 ...what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties?
Lov1 2.174 21 ...it may seem to many men...that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
Lov1 2.182 6 ...by this love [of beauty] extinguishing the base affection... [the lovers] become pure and hallowed.
Lov1 2.183 14 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature...
Lov1 2.185 11 [The lovers] try and weigh their affection...
Lov1 2.186 14 ...that which drew [lovers] to each other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are there, however eclipsed. They appear and reappear and continue to attract; but the regard...quits the sign and attaches to the substance. This repairs the wounded affection.
Fdsp 2.191 13 The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
Fdsp 2.191 23 Our intellectual and active powers increase with our affection.
Fdsp 2.193 13 What is so pleasant as these jets of affection which make a young world for me again?
Fdsp 2.198 6 The instinct of affection revives the hope of union with our mates...
OS 2.271 10 ...when [the soul] flows through [man's] affection, it is love.
Cir 2.307 12 If [my friend] were high enough to slight me, then could I... rise by my affection to new heights.
Int 2.326 10 Intellect is void of affection...
Pt1 3.15 19 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and cultivation, who live with [nature]? No; but also hunters, farmers, grooms and butchers, though they express their affection in their choice of life and not in their choice of words.
Mrs1 3.137 12 Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.
NR 3.226 18 When I meet a pure intellectual force or a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man;...
UGM 4.5 15 Our affection towards others creates a sort of vantage or purchase which nothing will supply.
UGM 4.16 18 Genius...by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old.
SwM 4.114 27 Every particular idea of man, and every affection...is an image and effigy of him.
SwM 4.115 1 Every particular idea of man, and...every smallest part of his affection, is an image and effigy of him.
SwM 4.125 3 [To Swedenborg] Man is such as his affection and thought are.
ShP 4.219 19 ...right is more beautiful than private affection;...
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.
ET5 5.99 16 Is it the smallness of the country, or is it the pride and affection of race,--[the English] have solidarity, or responsibleness...
ET5 5.99 26 These private, reserved, mute family-men [of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat, and this strength of affection makes the romance of their heroes.
ET7 5.117 21 Alfred, whom the affection of the nation makes the type of [the English] race, is called by a writer at the Norman Conquest, the truth-speaker;...
ET9 5.151 11 ...whenever an abatement of their power is felt, [the English] have not conciliated the affection on which to rely.
ET13 5.218 1 From this slow-grown [English] church important reactions proceed; much for culture, much for giving a direction to the nation's affection and will to-day.
F 6.28 16 ...we can see...that affection is essential to will.
F 6.29 18 ...insight is not will, nor is affection will.
F 6.47 18 ...when a man is the victim of his fate, has...a strut in his gait and a conceit in his affection;...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
Wth 6.113 10 ...the betrothed maiden by one secure affection is relieved from a system of slaveries...
Ctr 6.135 4 ...if a man seeks a companion who can look at objects for their own sake and without affection or self-reference, he will find the fewest who will give him that satisfaction;...
Ctr 6.158 19 Bonaparte, like Caesar...could look at every object for itself, without affection.
Bhr 6.189 8 A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.
Bty 6.283 25 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value, his intellect, his affection...
Ill 6.316 3 Too pathetic, too pitiable, is the region of affection...
SS 7.6 20 Even Swedenborg, whose theory of the universe is based on affection...is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...
SS 7.11 21 The benefits of affection are immense;...
Farm 7.145 18 Nations burn with internal fire of thought and affection...
Clbs 7.225 10 ...thought...pure...soon burns up the bone-house of man, unless tempered with affection and coarse practice in the material world.
Clbs 7.228 1 Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student. The affection or sympathy helps.
Clbs 7.245 2 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found. Each wishes to open his thought, his knowledge, his social skill to the daylight in your company and affection;...
OA 7.336 9 ...the inference from the working of intellect...affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.
PI 8.16 14 Swedenborg saw gravity to be only an external of the irresistible attractions of affection and faith.
PI 8.69 3 Vexatious to find poets, who are by excellence the thinking and feeling of the world, deficient in truth of intellect and of affection.
SA 8.93 5 If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in the speech of superior women;--which...carried ingenuity, character, wise counsel and affection...
SA 8.104 24 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart...
SA 8.107 4 Any other affection between men than this geometric one of relation to the same thing, is a mere mush of materialism.
QO 8.179 20 The stream of affection flows broad and strong;...
Dem1 10.9 8 We learn [from dreams] that actions whose turpitude is very differently reputed proceed from one and the same affection.
Aris 10.34 12 If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of character and manners; that it is of the last importance to the imagination and affection...certainly, if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
SovE 10.212 14 Ethics are thought not to satisfy affection.
Plu 10.310 25 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society and affection to the State...
LLNE 10.325 20 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It seemed a war between intellect and affection;...
HDC 11.45 6 I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers...were united by personal affection.
HDC 11.61 9 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward...
HDC 11.76 27 ...the eye of affection and veneration follows you [veterans of the battle of Concord].
HDC 11.77 11 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord], had a hereditary claim to the affection of the people...
ACiv 11.297 20 ...a man coins himself into his labor; turns his day, his strength, his thought, his affection into some product which remains as the visible sign of his power;...
EPro 11.324 5 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... disinfecting us of our habitual proclivity, through the affection of trade and the traditions of the Democratic party, to follow Southern leading.
Wom 11.412 20 ...the starry crown of woman is in the power of her affection and sentiment...
Wom 11.413 25 The first thing men think of, when they love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of their affection.
Wom 11.418 5 There are plenty of people who...do not see the use of contemplative men, or how ignoble would be the world that wanted them. And so without the affection of women.
Scot 11.463 15 ...no modern writer has inspired his readers with such affection to his own personality [as Scott].
FRep 11.544 16 ...the height of reason, the noblest affection...will find their home in our institutions...
PLT 12.44 22 Affection blends, intellect disjoins subject and object.
Mem 12.96 8 The mind disposes all its experience after its affection...
Mem 12.99 21 ...only what the affection animates can be remembered.
Mem 12.104 23 The memory is as the affection.
Bost 12.198 12 ...no depth of affection that does not rise to a religious sentiment, can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
Milt1 12.254 3 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton] who died a hundred and sixty years ago...
Milt1 12.268 8 ...the religious sentiment warmed [Milton's] writings and conduct with the highest affection of faith.
MLit 12.315 1 [The great man's] own affection is in Nature...
Pray 12.352 14 I hunger with strong hope and affection for thee...
Trag 12.413 19 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...
Tran 1.343 3 ...[Transcendentalists] are not stockish or brute,-but joyous, susceptible, affectionate;...
Lov1 2.173 12 ...without any coquetry the happy, affectionate nature of woman flows out in this pretty gossip.
Hsm1 2.257 26 Epaminondas, brave and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon...
ET4 5.67 10 The fair Saxon man...domestic, affectionate, is not the wood out of which cannibal, or inquisitor, or assassin is made...
ET4 5.67 16 [The English] are rather manly than warlike. When the war is over, the mask falls from the affectionate and domestic tastes...
ET4 5.68 6 Lord Collingwood, [Nelson's] comrade, was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic.
ET6 5.107 13 ...being of an affectionate and loyal temper, [the Englishman] dearly loves his house.
ET6 5.108 13 ...as the [English] men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.
ET12 5.199 23 [The Oxford students'] affectionate and gregarious ways reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge men...
Bhr 6.194 20 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when...he complained that he missed in Napoleon's letters the affectionate tone which had marked their childish correspondence.
DL 7.120 21 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each one after the early separations which school or business require;...
Cour 7.271 21 If opportunity allowed, [Governor Wise and John Brown] would...desert their former companions. Enemies would become affectionate.
PI 8.52 10 The best thoughts run into the best words; imaginative and affectionate thoughts into music and metre.
Plu 10.309 7 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction. This teaching was...strict, sincere and affectionate.
LLNE 10.344 8 Theodore Parker was...in frank and affectionate communication with the best minds of his day...
EzRy 10.395 3 Not speculative, but affectionate;...[Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily...the creed and catechism of the fathers...
Thor 10.456 13 ...no equal companion stood in affectionate relations with one so pure and guileless [as Thoreau].
Thor 10.465 12 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young men of sensibility] was never affectionate, but superior...
GSt 10.501 20 Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man...of retiring and affectionate habits;...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
GSt 10.506 17 For a year or two, the most affectionate and domestic of men [George Stearns] became almost a stranger in his beautiful home.
LS 11.7 1 ...we must suppose that the expression, This do in remembrance of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some disciple who was present. What did it really signify? It is a prophetic and affectionate expression.
TPar 11.287 15 [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, and he, with something less of affectionate attachment to the old, or with more vigorous logic, rejected them.
CPL 11.505 15 I have found several humble men and women who gave as affectionate, if not as judicious testimony to their readings.
FRep 11.519 5 The partisan on moral...questions, will choose a proven rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest, affectionate, noble gentleman;...
NR 3.245 23 ...each man's genius being nearly and affectionately explored, he is justified in his individuality...
GoW 4.290 15 ...the former great men call to us affectionately.
ET16 5.290 17 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately...
Civ 7.32 19 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people...I see what cubic values America has...
Plu 10.310 18 [Plutarch's] humanity stooped affectionately to trace the virtues which he loved in the animals also.
LS 11.12 24 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than that this eventful evening [of the Last Supper] should be affectionately remembered by them;...
HDC 11.78 12 [Concord] spends profusely, affectionately, in the service [of the American Revolution].
SMC 11.350 4 ...we shall cling affectionately to our houses, our river and pastures...
Nat 1.26 22 ...flowers express to us the delicate affections.
Nat 1.30 13 In due time...words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.
Nat 1.34 25 ...day and night...are what they are by virtue of preceding affections in the world of spirit.
Nat 1.63 8 [If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to wander without end. Then the heart resists it, because it balks the affections...
Nat 1.74 22 ...when a faithful thinker...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
Nat 1.75 15 ...each phenomenon has its roots in the faculties and affections of the mind.
Nat 1.75 26 [The world] shall answer the endless inquiry...of the affections...
AmS 1.96 10 Our affections as yet circulate through [our recent actions].
AmS 1.113 2 ...[Swedenborg] saw and showed the connection between nature and the affections of the soul.
DSA 1.123 18 See again the perfection of the Law as it applies itself to the affections...
LE 1.177 23 [The scholar's]...affections...are keys that open to him the beautiful museum of human life.
LE 1.186 26 Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread...such as shall not take away your property...in all men's affections...
Con 1.325 12 I depend on my honor, my labor, and my dispositions for my place in the affections of mankind...
SR 2.49 13 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is... watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account.
SL 2.148 6 We see our evil affections embodied in bad physiognomies.
Lov1 2.188 11 ...we are often made to feel that our affections are but tents of a night.
Lov1 2.188 13 ...the objects of the affections change...
Lov1 2.188 14 There are moments when the affections rule and absorb the man...
Fdsp 2.193 19 The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed;...
Fdsp 2.195 14 It is almost dangerous to me to crush the sweet poison of misused wine of the affections.
Prd1 2.240 12 Let us suck the sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us.
Int 2.326 7 Heraclitus looked upon the affections as dense and colored mists.
Int 2.326 9 In the fog of good and evil affections it is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line.
NR 3.241 8 ...our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor...
UGM 4.13 21 Men are helpful through the intellect and the affections.
NMW 4.223 14 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy, if any man is found to carry with him the power and affections of vast numbers, if Napoleon is France...it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
NMW 4.228 23 Napoleon renounced, once for all, sentiments and affections...
GoW 4.285 9 [Goethe's] affections help him...
ET1 5.23 20 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others;...
ET10 5.155 2 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders.
F 6.43 11 [Man] plants his brain and affections.
Wsp 6.232 15 Life is hardly respectable...if it has...no duties or affections that constitute a necessity of existing.
Elo1 7.67 2 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination; narrow brows expand with enlarged affections;...
Elo1 7.79 2 A supreme commander over all his passions and affections; but the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that.
Elo1 7.99 19 In its right exercise, [eloquence] is an elastic, unexhausted power...expanding with the expansion of our interests and affections.
DL 7.127 4 The secret power of form over the imagination and affections transcends all our philosophy.
Cour 7.265 22 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries...
Suc 7.300 18 ...the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside populous, important...
SA 8.80 12 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities, hurls his word like a bullet when occasion requires...
PC 8.228 20 The affections are the wings by which the intellect launches on the void...
Imtl 8.327 5 ...Swedenborg...described the moral faculties and affections of man, with the hard realism of an astronomer describing the suns and planets of our system...
Imtl 8.340 21 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might remain after death; which were only those of the understanding, and not of the affections;...
Chr2 10.119 25 There is a fear that pure truth, pure morals, will not make a religion for the affections.
Edc1 10.128 18 ...here [in the household] labor drudges, here affections glow...
LLNE 10.326 25 ...veneration is low; the natural affections feebler than they were.
MMEm 10.409 8 As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over the apartments of social affections...
Thor 10.456 10 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit...is a little chilling to the social affections;...
LVB 11.89 5 Before any acts contrary to his own judgment or interest have repelled the affections of any man, each may look with trust and living anticipation to your [Van Buren's] government.
War 11.165 21 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man. They only serve as an index to show where man is now;...how his affections halt;...
EdAd 11.391 27 Is the age we live in unfriendly...to that blending of the affections with the poetic faculty which has distinguished the Religious Ages?
Wom 11.407 8 The life of the affections is primary to [women]...
Wom 11.407 13 ...[women] give entirely to their affections...
Wom 11.412 27 The passion [of love], with all its grace and poetry, is profane to that which follows it. All these affections are only introductory to that which is beyond, and to that which is sublime.
PLT 12.61 14 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections...
Mem 12.104 25 Sampson Reed says, The true way to store the memory is to develop the affections.
CInt 12.123 26 ...the idea of a college is an assembly of such men, obedient each to this pure light [of thought], and drawing from it illumination to that science or art to which his constitution and affections draw him.
Trag 12.414 26 ...new hopes spring, new affections twine, and the broken is whole again.
Nat 1.28 10 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...in any way associated to human nature, affects us in the most lively...manner.
SR 2.51 6 Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right.
Prd1 2.232 2 The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial...
Int 2.335 14 [The thought] affects every thought of man...
Mrs1 3.143 5 Fashion, which affects to be honor, is often...only a ballroom code.
ET1 5.18 13 ...[Carlyle]...saw how every event affects all the future.
Wth 6.123 14 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of building my wall...but the ball will rebound to you.
SS 7.8 8 [Many a philosopher] affects to be a good companion;...
Art2 7.42 27 Let us now consider this [natural] law as it affects the works that have beauty for their end...
Art2 7.48 6 Let us proceed to the consideration of the law stated in the beginning of this essay, as it affects the purely spiritual part of a work of art.
Elo1 7.78 25 What is told of [Caesar] is miraculous; it affects men so.
PI 8.20 17 This power is in the image because this power is in Nature. It so affects, because it so is.
PI 8.67 5 [A good poem] affects the characters of its readers by formulating their opinions and feelings...
Comc 8.169 11 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance; as if a man should neglect himself and treat his shadow on the wall with marks of infinite respect. It affects us oddly...
Edc1 10.133 25 A treatise on education...affects us with slight paralysis...
Supl 10.163 13 There is a superlative temperament...which affects the manners of those who share it with a certain desperation.
FSLN 11.217 23 My own habitual view is to the well-being of students or scholars. And it is only when the public event affects them, that it very seriously touches me.
Wom 11.407 5 In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail: when Woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.
PLT 12.31 23 There is no property or relation in that immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last found who affects this...
Nat 1.54 22 The perception of real affinities between events...enables the poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
Nat 1.54 23 The perception of real affinities between events (that is to say, of ideal affinities, for those only are real), enables the poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
Hist 2.36 2 [Man's] power consists in the multitude of his affinities...
Hist 2.37 13 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind. Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay-Lussac, from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles, anticipate the laws of organization.
Hist 2.40 9 ...every history should be written in a wisdom which divined the range of our affinities...
SL 2.151 13 Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed...
Lov1 2.184 4 Cause and effect, real affinities...predominate later...
Cir 2.314 10 Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft, who has explored the gravity of atoms and the elective affinities, who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate statement...
Mrs1 3.151 19 [Lilla] was...like air or water, an element of such a great range of affinities that it combines readily with a thousand substances.
PPh 4.41 25 What is a great man but one of great affinities...
SwM 4.122 23 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into society, and showed by what affinities he was girt to his equals and his counterparts;...
Ctr 6.137 1 Culture is the suggestion...that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale...
SS 7.14 17 ...[people in conversation] separate...each seeking his like; and any interference with the affinities would produce constraint and suffocation.
SS 7.15 8 One would think that the affinities would pronounce themselves with a surer reciprocity.
WD 7.184 2 There are people...who love at first sight and hate at first sight; discern the affinities and repulsions;...
Suc 7.302 10 The world is enlarged for us, not by new objects, but by finding more affinities and potencies in those we have.
Insp 8.279 23 How many sources of inspiration can we count? As many as our affinities.
Edc1 10.134 8 ...if [a man] is one to cement society by his all-reconciling affinities, oh! hasten their action!
EPro 11.325 11 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis. Then new affinities will act...
Nat 1.57 23 ...we learn...that with...a virtuous will [time and space] have no affinity.
DSA 1.123 20 The good, by affinity, seek the good;...
DSA 1.123 21 ...the vile, by affinity, [seek] the vile.
Hist 2.16 17 If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he will see how deep is the chain of affinity.
SR 2.52 11 There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold;...
Comp 2.96 25 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the electricity, galvanism, and chemical affinity.
Comp 2.102 3 The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point. If the good is there, so is the evil; if the affinity, so the repulsion;...
Fdsp 2.194 18 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends]...
Fdsp 2.195 6 ...my relation to [my friends] is so pure that we hold by simple affinity...
Fdsp 2.195 8 ...the Genius of my life being thus social, the same affinity will exert its energy on whomsoever is as noble as these men and women...
Fdsp 2.207 25 ...it is affinity that determines which two shall converse.
Mrs1 3.124 19 The rulers of society must be...men of the right Caesarian pattern, who have great range of affinity.
Mrs1 3.125 20 Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between power and money] is...
Mrs1 3.127 22 The strong men usually give some allowance even to the petulances of fashion, for that affinity they find in it.
Nat2 3.171 10 ...as water to our thirst, so is the rock, the ground, to our eyes and hands and feet. It is firm water; it is cold flame; what health, what affinity!
UGM 4.10 8 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...the sureness of affinity...
PPh 4.67 19 Quite above us, beyond the will of you or me, is this secret affinity or repulsion laid.
ET7 5.125 23 What influence the English have [in Europe] is by brute force of wealth and power; that of the French by affinity and talent.
Wth 6.100 5 The right merchant is...a man of a strong affinity for facts...
SS 7.14 8 Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.
DL 7.113 15 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no invitation to what is good in us, and no receptacle for what is wise:--this is a great price to pay for...being defrauded of affinity, of repose...
Farm 7.143 16 You cannot...strip off from [an atom] the electricity, gravitation, chemic affinity...
Cour 7.272 2 Everywhere [courage] finds its own with magnetic affinity.
PI 8.7 9 One of these vortices or self-directions of thought is the impulse to search resemblance, affinity, identity, in all its objects...
Aris 10.64 23 ...I believe in the closest affinity between moral and material power.
PerF 10.70 17 What agencies of electricity, gravity, light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is...
SlHr 10.445 27 [Samuel Hoar] had an affinity for mathematics...
PLT 12.23 17 The affinity of particles accurately translates the affinity of thoughts...
PLT 12.23 18 The affinity of particles accurately translates the affinity of thoughts...
PLT 12.63 4 Often there is so little affinity between the man and his works that we think the wind must have writ them.
Bost 12.197 20 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...unites itself by natural affinity to the highest minds of the world;...
AmS 1.102 25 Let [the scholar] not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
MN 1.204 21 There is the incoming or the receding of God: that is all we can affirm;...
LT 1.276 10 The Reformers affirm the inward life, but they do not trust it...
Tran 1.330 10 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm facts not affected by the illusions of sense...
YA 1.382 3 Here are Etzlers and mechanical projectors, who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;...
SR 2.65 3 [The soul's] presence or its absence is all we can affirm.
SL 2.153 1 ...the thing uttered in words is not therefore affirmed. It must affirm itself...
Fdsp 2.204 8 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature. I...who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being...reiterated in a foreign form;...
OS 2.279 27 ...It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;...
OS 2.295 26 We not only affirm that we have few great men, but, absolutely speaking, that we have none;...
Exp 3.51 16 I knew a witty physician who...used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist...
Mrs1 3.143 3 ...I will neither be driven from some allowance to Fashion as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief that love is the basis of courtesy. We must obtain that, if we can; but by all means we must affirm this.
NER 3.260 27 ...much was to be resisted, much was to be got rid of by those who were reared in the old, before they could begin to affirm and to construct.
PPh 4.61 2 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato]; and when I die, to die so. And I invite all other men...to this contest, which, I affirm, surpasses all contests here.
MoS 4.151 11 It is not strange that these men [predisposed to morals]... should affirm disdainfully the superiority of ideas.
MoS 4.156 23 [The skeptic says] I neither affirm nor deny.
MoS 4.176 24 Does the general voice of ages affirm any principle...
MoS 4.182 14 Even the doctrines dear to the hope of man...[the spiritualist' s] neighbors can not put the statement so that he shall affirm it.
ET7 5.124 14 ...[Englishmen] affirm the one small fact they know...
ET11 5.172 16 Primogeniture is a cardinal rule of English property and institutions. Laws, customs, manners...affirm it.
F 6.4 6 If we must accept Fate, we are not less compelled to affirm liberty...
Ctr 6.166 15 ...we shall dare affirm that there is nothing [the human being] will not overcome and convert...
Bty 6.300 8 ...petulant old gentlemen...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ill 6.312 13 [The boy] has no better friend or influence than Scott, Shakspeare, Plutarch and Homer. The man lives to other objects, but who dare affirm that they are more real?
Ill 6.320 19 We must work and affirm, but we have no guess of the value of what we say or do.
Cour 7.274 2 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated, as with the wish...to make it affirm some pragmatical tenet which our parish church receives to-day, it is not imparted...
PI 8.24 7 ...the astronomy is in the mind: the senses affirm that the earth stands still and the sun moves.
Aris 10.36 1 I affirm that inequalities exist...in the powers of expression and action;...
Chr2 10.97 24 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...
Schr 10.263 1 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...affirmers of the one law, yet as those who should affirm it in music and dancing;...
Schr 10.263 15 The scholar is here...to affirm noble sentiments;...
Schr 10.264 16 One is tempted to affirm the office and attributes of the scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a frequent perversity of the class itself.
Plu 10.313 7 [Plutarch] cites Euripides to affirm, If gods do aught dishonest, they are no gods...
HDC 11.37 24 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English...
War 11.167 14 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty.
FSLC 11.190 16 ...the great jurists...Mackintosh, Jefferson, do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void].
FSLN 11.217 13 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For they cannot affirm these from any original experience...
FSLN 11.227 3 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid]...
FSLN 11.238 27 Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes surely. The proverbs of the nations affirm these delays, but affirm the arrival.
JBB 11.270 3 It were bold to affirm that there is within that broad commonwealth, at this moment, another citizen as worthy to live, and as deserving of all public and private honor, as this poor prisoner [John Brown].
TPar 11.292 8 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm to all men, in all times, that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...
Koss 11.400 4 ...you [Kossuth], the foremost soldier of freedom in this age, it is for us [the people of Concord] to crave your judgment; who are we that we should dictate to you? You have won your own. We only affirm it.
FRep 11.540 6 America should affirm and establish that in no instance shall the guns go in advance of the present right.
PLT 12.31 5 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is that they believe in the ideas of others. From this deference comes the imbecility and fatigue of their society, for of course they cannot affirm these from the deep life;...
II 12.78 23 ...we must affirm and affirm, but neither you nor I know the value of what we say;...
Nat 1.66 21 ...a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation...
OS 2.291 12 Nothing can pass [in the soul]...but...dealing man to man in... omniscient affirmation.
Prch 10.233 20 Inspiration will have advance, affirmation...
LVB 11.95 3 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed;...
Milt1 12.266 9 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws...
ACri 12.303 23 ...literature resounds with the music of united vast ideas of affirmation and of moral truth.
Exp 3.75 17 ...scepticisms...are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in and make affirmations outside of them...
MoS 4.180 19 Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul;...
PI 8.28 8 [Imagination] is the vision of an inspired soul reading arguments and affirmations in all Nature of that which it is driven to say.
PPo 8.250 11 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the world.
Chr2 10.104 1 [The religions we call false]...were affirmations of the conscience correcting the evil customs of their times.
LT 1.260 27 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform]...
LT 1.264 18 ...whatever is affirmative and now advancing, contains [that which shall constitute the times to come].
Con 1.298 23 Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative;...
SL 2.155 23 Our philosophy is affirmative...
Exp 3.45 21 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature, that she was so sparing of her fire and so liberal of her earth that it appears to us that we lack the affirmative principle...
Exp 3.75 15 ...scepticisms...are limitations of the affirmative statement...
NER 3.260 19 I conceive...the indication of growing trust in the private self-supplied powers of the individual, to be the affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
MoS 4.177 21 ...the main resistance which the affirmative impulse finds...is in the doctrine of the Illusionists.
ET13 5.216 5 [The priest...translated the sanctities of old hagiology into English virtues on English ground. It was a certain affirmative or aggressive state of the Caucasian races.
ET14 5.239 11 ...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one with a larger class, discerned beyond the lesser class with which it has been conversant. Hence, all poetry and all affirmative action comes.
Pow 6.57 13 This affirmative force [a broad, healthy, massive understanding] is in one and is not in another...
Pow 6.72 3 The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind.
Elo1 7.97 23 [The moral sentiment] is what is called affirmative truth...
Suc 7.308 14 We may apply this affirmative law to letters, to manners...
OA 7.324 4 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and we die without developing them; such is the affirmative force of the constitution;...
PI 8.64 26 Poetry must be affirmative.
SA 8.90 8 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse.
Imtl 8.332 15 ...the impulse which drew these minds to this inquiry [concerning immortality] through so many years was a better affirmative evidence than their failure to find a confirmation was negative.
Prch 10.234 27 ...the power of sympathy is always great; and affirmative discourse, presuming assent, will often obtain it when argument would fail.
Prch 10.235 20 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is...simply the celebration of the power and beneficence amid which and by which we live, not critical, but affirmative.
MoL 10.244 25 There is much criticism...but an affirmative philosophy is wanting.
Plu 10.301 22 [Plutarch's] superstitions are poetic, aspiring, affirmative.
LLNE 10.356 18 [Thoreau]...fortified you at all times with an affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
Thor 10.478 3 Thoreau...might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living. It was an affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
ACiv 11.305 1 ...as long as we fight without any affirmative step taken by the government...[the Southerners] and we fight on the same side, for slavery.
ACiv 11.308 2 Why should not America be capable...of an affirmative step in the interests of human civility...
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.
Bost 12.188 7 London now for a thousand years has been in an affirmative or energizing mood;...
Comp 2.121 3 Being is the vast affirmative...
Suc 7.307 10 The good mind...embraces the affirmative.
Suc 7.309 22 The affirmative of affirmatives is love.
Prch 10.219 3 A thousand negatives [the oracle] utters...on all sides; but the sacred affirmative it hides in the deepest abyss.
Prch 10.235 8 Speak the affirmative;...
Plu 10.310 20 Knowing and not knowing is the affirmative or negative of the dog; knowing you is to be your friend; not knowing you, your enemy.
PLT 12.61 23 We must embrace the affirmative.
PLT 12.61 24 ...the affirmative of affirmatives is love.
HDC 11.64 26 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry? Voted affirmatively.
II 12.78 16 ...[the writer] should write affirmatively, not polemically...
Suc 7.309 14 Nerve us with incessant affirmatives.
Suc 7.309 22 The affirmative of affirmatives is love.
Res 8.138 14 ...if...you give me affirmatives;...I am invigorated...
PLT 12.61 24 ...the affirmative of affirmatives is love.
MN 1.222 13 Emanuel Swedenborg affirmed that it was opened to him that the spirits who knew truth in this life, but did it not, at death shall lose their knowledge.
Con 1.299 22 ...it may be safely affirmed of these two metaphysical antagonists [Conservatism and Reform], that each is a good half, but an impossible whole.
YA 1.394 6 ...in England, the fact seems to me intolerable, what is commonly affirmed, that such is the transcendent honor accorded to wealth and birth, that no man of letters...is received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.
SL 2.138 10 Every man sees that he is that middle point whereof every thing may be affirmed and denied with equal reason.
SL 2.152 27 ...the thing uttered in words is not therefore affirmed.
Pt1 3.35 24 When some of [Swedenborg's] angels affirmed a truth, the laurel twig which they held blossomed in their hands.
NR 3.245 18 All the universe over, there is but one thing, this old Two-Face... right-wrong, of which any proposition may be affirmed or denied.
PPh 4.61 24 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored...that of which every thing can be affirmed and denied...
PPh 4.62 7 Having paid his homage, as for the human race, to the Illimitable, [Plato] then stood erect, and for the human race affirmed, And yet things are knowable!...
ET2 5.26 14 ...the captain affirmed that the ship would show us in time all her paces...
Cour 7.273 26 ...whenever the religious sentiment is adequately affirmed, it must be with dazzling courage.
Imtl 8.324 8 ...The Egyptians are the first of mankind who have affirmed the immortality of the soul.
LLNE 10.337 25 ...[Mesmerism] affirmed unity and connection between remote points...
EWI 11.106 12 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
EWI 11.136 12 Granville Sharpe filled the ear of the judges with the sound principles that had from time to time been affirmed by the legal authorities...
SHC 11.436 12 ...all great men find eternity affirmed in the promise of their faculties.
ChiE 11.472 24 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing. Confucius had already affirmed this of himself...
PLT 12.38 14 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published in set propositions...
Schr 10.262 27 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...affirmers of the one law...
Boks 7.195 9 ...all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written...by the affirming and advancing class...
Insp 8.294 16 What is best in literature is the affirming, prophesying, spermatic words of men-making poets.
LT 1.286 15 The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this... that, affirming the need of new and higher modes of living and action, they have abstained from the recommendation of low methods.
Pt1 3.12 20 Oftener it falls that this winged man, who will carry me into the heaven...leaps and frisks about with me as it were from cloud to cloud, still affirming that he is bound heavenward;...
Pt1 3.13 8 ...let us...observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming...
SwM 4.104 26 ...Linnaeus, [Swedenborg's] contemporary, was affirming... that Nature is always like herself...
SwM 4.119 21 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus of the new state, affirming that his presence in the spiritual world is attended with a certain separation, but only as to the intellectual part of his mind, not as to the will part;...
Suc 7.307 14 ...we must begin by affirming.
PI 8.29 4 ...imagination [is] a perception and affirming of a real relation between a thought and some material fact.
Edc1 10.135 21 In affirming that the moral nature of man is the predominant element and should therefore be mainly consulted in the arrangements of a school, I am very far from wishing that it should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
PLT 12.40 12 Insight assimilates the thing seen. Is it only another way of affirming and illustrating this to say that it sees nothing alone, but sees each particular object in just connections,-sees all in God?
PLT 12.55 13 There is in all students a distrust of truth, a timidity about affirming it;...
DSA 1.136 20 Where now sounds the persuasion, that...imparadises my heart, and so affirms its own origin in heaven?
Con 1.297 25 [Conservatism] affirms because it holds.
Tran 1.330 5 [The idealist] concedes all that [the materialist] affirms...
Hist 2.11 23 A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
Comp 2.122 12 The soul...always affirms an Optimism...
Hsm1 2.250 4 Towards all this external evil the man within the breast... affirms his ability to cope single-handed with the infinite army of enemies.
Hsm1 2.264 6 ...the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous... affirms itself no mortal but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being.
Pt1 3.31 4 ...Timaeus affirms that the plants also are animals;...
Pt1 3.31 5 ...Timaeus...affirms a man to be a heavenly tree...
PPh 4.48 21 Urged by an opposite necessity, the mind returns from the one to that which is not one, but other or many;...and affirms the necessary existence of variety...
PPh 4.70 13 ...[Plato] constantly affirms that virtue cannot be taught;...
PPh 4.74 16 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul...
PNR 4.83 22 Plato affirms the coincidence of science and virtue;...
PNR 4.83 26 The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was profitable; Plato affirms that it is profitable throughout;...
SwM 4.119 24 ...[Swedenborg] affirms that he sees, with the internal sight, the things that are in another life, more clearly than he sees the things which are here in the world.
MoS 4.170 25 We love whatever affirms, connects, preserves;...
F 6.26 3 A man speaking from insight affirms of himself what is true of the mind: seeing its immortality, he says, I am immortal;...
F 6.27 12 Our thought...affirms an oldest necessity...
CbW 6.254 1 Plutarch affirms that the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
Farm 7.148 24 The chemist...now affirms that this dreary space occupied by the farmer is needless;...
OA 7.336 9 ...the inference from the working of intellect...affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.
PI 8.31 22 [The poet] affirms the applicability of the ideal law to this moment...
PI 8.32 13 ...the poet affirms the laws, prose busies itself with exceptions...
PI 8.37 16 The trait and test of the poet is that he builds, adds and affirms.
Insp 8.284 6 Plutarch affirms that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction...
Imtl 8.332 27 The skeptic affirms that the universe is a nest of boxes with nothing in the last box.
Chr2 10.97 15 The excellence of Jesus...is, that he affirms the Divinity in him and in us...
Chr2 10.103 7 [The moral sentiment] affirms not only its truth, but its supremacy.
Chr2 10.121 22 ...Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.
Prch 10.230 26 ...over all, let [the young preacher] value the sensibility that receives, that loves, that dares, that affirms.
Schr 10.271 22 ...[genius and virtue] are the First Good, of which Plato affirms that all things are for its sake...
HDC 11.36 26 Roger Williams affirms that he has known [Indians] run between eighty and a hundred miles in a summer's day...
EWI 11.147 24 The sentiment of Right...pronounces Freedom. The Power that built this fabric of things affirms it in the heart;...
TPar 11.292 14 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...that the sea which bore your mourners home affirms it...
PLT 12.41 14 My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs.
II 12.66 24 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul.
CL 12.160 4 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them;...
CL 12.160 5 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them; the religious man, going abroad, affirms them;...
CL 12.160 7 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them;...the patriot on his mountains or his prairie affirms them;...
CL 12.160 8 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them;...the contemplative man affirms them.
EurB 12.370 17 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition to begin where their fathers ended;...
Art2 7.47 4 We hesitate at doing Spenser so great an honor as to think that he intended by his allegory the sense we affix to it.
PI 8.23 2 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds, without any attempt to draw a moral or affix a meaning.
Hist 2.27 25 ...men of God have from time to time...made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer. Hence evidently the tripod, the priest, the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus.
Comp 2.100 3 Has [the man of genius] all that the world loves and admires and covets?--he must...afflict them by faithfulness to his truth...
Ctr 6.138 6 ...here is a pedant that cannot...conceal his wrath at interruption by the best, if their conversation do not fit his impertinency,--here is he to afflict us with his personalities.
Prch 10.233 26 Only let there be a deep observer, and he will make light of new shop and new circumstance that afflict you;...
LVB 11.95 11 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick time, that the millions of virtuous citizens...must shut their eyes until the last howl and wailing of these tormented villages and tribes shall afflict the ear of the world.
CInt 12.129 16 Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances that afflict you.
OA 7.324 8 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches.
MMEm 10.418 14 Shut up in this severe weather with careful, infirm, afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody Emerson's] spirits...
Hsm1 2.247 2 O love! thou doubly hast afflicted me/ With virtue and with beauty..../
Int 2.342 26 When Socrates speaks, Lysis and Menexenus are afflicted by no shame that they do not speak.
NMW 4.228 7 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own sense, when...he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
ET5 5.77 22 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...thinks the same thing...
Ctr 6.135 7 ...most men are afflicted with a coldness, an incuriosity, as soon as any object does not connect with their self-love.
Ill 6.314 6 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy...who is afflicted with a tendency to trace home the glittering miscellany of fruits and flowers to one root.
Cour 7.263 13 [The soldier] sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination;...
Suc 7.287 10 The ancient Norse ballads describe [the Norseman] as afflicted with this inextinguishable thirst of victory.
SA 8.91 17 ...presidents of the United States are afflicted by rude Western and Southern gossips...
Prch 10.224 12 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance;...
HDC 11.65 3 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord];...
CbW 6.263 14 I figure [sickness] as a...phantom...afflicting other souls with meanness and mopings...
Bost 12.206 19 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious novelty or other;...
ET19 5.312 3 ...I think it just, in this time of gloom and commercial disaster, of affliction and beggary in these districts, that...you should not fail to keep your literary anniversary.
PI 8.28 14 Lear, mad with his affliction, thinks every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own.
MMEm 10.407 5 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who...is looked up to as a specimen of genius. I performed a mission in secretly undermining his vanity, or trying to. Alas! never done but by mortifying affliction.
ALin 11.332 14 ...[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.
ACiv 11.309 23 This is the consolation on which we rest in the darkness of the future and the afflictions of to-day, that the government of the world is moral...
NER 3.274 6 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world.
Boks 7.211 24 Now and then out of that affluence of [the German's] learning comes a fine sentence from Theophrastus, or Seneca, or Boethius...
EdAd 11.382 20 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of world beloved and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./
Con 1.316 11 Conservatism is affluent and open-handed...
CbW 6.260 8 Charles James Fox said of England, The history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
LLNE 10.333 3 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.
WSL 12.340 18 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an affluent and ready memory familiar with all chosen books...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
AmS 1.95 20 I do not see how any man can afford...to spare any action in which he can partake.
DSA 1.148 1 ...slight [the commanders], as you can well afford to do, by high and universal aims, and they instantly feel...that it is in lower places that they must shine.
MR 1.229 13 It will afford no security from the new ideas, that the old nations...are built on other foundations.
LT 1.278 7 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown. Excellent: now can you afford to forget it...
Con 1.310 17 [Existing institutions] really have so much flexibility as to afford your talent and character...the same chance of demonstration and success which they might have if there was no law and no property.
Fdsp 2.215 1 I cannot afford to speak much with my friend.
Fdsp 2.215 11 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament. ... Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.
Fdsp 2.215 19 ...next week I shall have languid moods, when I can well afford to occupy myself with foreign objects;...
Cir 2.312 2 The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life...
Chr1 3.107 4 ...some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
Mrs1 3.154 13 The king of Schiraz could not afford to be so bountiful as the poor Osman who dwelt at his gate.
Pol1 3.218 27 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and sweetness of his behavior, could he afford to circumvent the favor of the caucus and the press, and covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
Pol1 3.219 3 Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere.
NR 3.235 20 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries, that all the agents with which we deal are subalterns, which we can well afford to let pass,...
NER 3.262 22 I cannot afford to be irritable and captious...
PPh 4.60 11 [Plato] could well afford to be generous...
SwM 4.119 19 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are...a more striking testimony to the sublime laws he announced than any that balanced dulness could afford.
SwM 4.138 3 No man can afford to waste his moments in compunctions.
MoS 4.160 2 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing that a man has too many enemies than that he can afford to be his own foe;...
GoW 4.282 22 That a man has spent years on Plato and Proclus, does not afford a presumption that he holds heroic opinions...
ET5 5.94 12 [England's] short rivers do not afford water-power, but the land shakes under the thunder of the mills.
ET5 5.96 8 No man [in England] can afford to walk, when the parliamentary-train carries him for a penny a mile.
ET7 5.117 16 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces. English veracity seems to result on a sounder animal structure, as if they could afford it.
ET10 5.156 16 If [the English] cannot pay, they do not buy;...and they say without shame, I cannot afford it.
ET11 5.183 21 ...with such interests at stake, how can these men [English peers] afford to neglect them?
ET14 5.257 1 ...if this religion is in the poetry, it raises us to some purpose, and we can well afford some staidness or hardness...
F 6.30 16 We can afford to allow the limitation, if we know it is the meter of the growing man.
Pow 6.53 19 ...[a man] can well afford to let events and possessions and the breath of the body go, if their value has been added to him in the shape of power.
Pow 6.63 23 The senators who dissented from Mr. Polk's Mexican war were...those who from political position could afford it;...
Wth 6.91 12 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished; as if virtue were coming to be a luxury which few could afford...
Wth 6.92 12 He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
Wth 6.119 4 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...well knowing that no man could afford to hire labor without selling his land.
Bhr 6.185 24 ...[Blanche] can afford to express every thought by instant action.
SS 7.13 20 Men cannot afford to live together on their merits...
Elo1 7.69 8 The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer melodramatic exhibition [of eloquence] than the table d'hote of his inn will afford him in the conversation of the joyous guests.
Farm 7.141 25 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;...
Boks 7.193 27 The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every private shelf; and to these it can afford only the most slight and casual additions.
Boks 7.209 10 The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go...
Boks 7.211 27 ...one cannot afford to read for a few sentences;...
Clbs 7.245 26 ...neither can we afford to be superfine.
Cour 7.261 14 Each [new soldier] whispers to himself:...only will the benignant Heaven save me from disgracing myself and my friends and my State. Die! O yes, I can well die; but I cannot afford to misbehave;...
OA 7.325 15 Little by little [age] has amassed such a fund of merit that it can very well afford to go on its credit when it will.
PI 8.5 8 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that...the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses, and we can afford to leave it one day.
PI 8.12 4 ...nothing but great weight in things can afford a quite literal speech.
Comc 8.173 21 ...we cannot afford to part with any advantages.
PC 8.213 18 We cannot yet afford to drop Homer, nor Aeschylus...
PPo 8.259 21 ...nothing in [Hafiz's] religious or in his scientific traditions is too sacred or too remote to afford a token of his mistress.
Grts 8.313 13 No aristocrat...can begin to compare with the self-respect of the saint. Why is he so lowly, but that he knows that he can well afford it, resting on the largeness of God in him?
PerF 10.69 12 We cannot afford to miss any advantage.
PerF 10.88 6 ...the cause of right for which we labor...can afford many checks...
Chr2 10.121 27 [Character] can afford to wait;...
SlHr 10.447 25 ...Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common men would find it out.
HDC 11.39 17 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say with Higginson...that... all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
HDC 11.39 19 A poor servant [in Concord], that is to possess but fifty acres, may afford to give more wood for fire as good as the world yields, than many noblemen in England.
HDC 11.54 21 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that the new plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large accommodations...
JBB 11.271 11 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts that is true, but the moment he is carried out of the bounds of Massachusetts, the United States, it is notorious, afford no protection at all;...
TPar 11.285 21 He whose voice will not be heard here again [Theodore Parker] could well afford to tell his experiences;...
HCom 11.343 3 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if I decline. ... Only one thing is certain, I can well die but i cannot afford to misbehave.
SMC 11.364 24 [George Prescott writes] I told Lieutenant Bowers, this morning, that I could afford to be sick from bringing the tent-poles...
FRep 11.514 17 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title...to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;-that is a principle, and all the cheering and hissing of the crowd must by and by accommodate itself to it. Our times easily afford you very good examples.
FRep 11.520 5 Our politics are full of adventurers, who...think they can afford to join the devil's party.
PLT 12.7 11 Seek the literary circles...the men of splendor, of bon-mots, will they afford me satisfaction?
ACri 12.296 6 We can't afford to take the horse out of [Montaigne's] Essays; it would take the rider too.
AgMs 12.360 18 [Farmers] could not afford to follow such advice as is given here [in the Agricultural Survey];...
Trag 12.406 1 We cannot afford to let go any advantages.
AmS 1.92 9 But for the evidence thence afforded to the philosophical doctrine of the identity of all minds, we should suppose some preestablished harmony...
Tran 1.338 9 ...of a purely spiritual life, history has afforded no example.
Pt1 3.41 23 Thou [O poet] shalt lie close hid with nature, and canst not be afforded to the Capitol or the Exchange.
ET7 5.117 7 In the nobler kinds [of animals], where strength could be afforded, [Nature's] races are loyal to truth...
ET17 5.296 13 Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth] to me...for having afforded to his country-neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without any display.
Ctr 6.155 2 Wordsworth was praised to me in Westmoreland for having afforded to his country neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without display.
Civ 7.29 14 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second, and this line afforded him a respectable base for his triangle.
Comc 8.171 10 More food for the Comic is afforded whenever the personal appearance, the face, form and manners, are subjects of thought with the man himself.
Thor 10.468 5 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset, or five minutes' day after six months, a splendid fact, which Annursnuc had never afforded him.
Bost 12.199 21 What should hinder that this America...glimpses being afforded which spoke to the imagination, yet the firm shore hid until science and art should be ripe to propose it as a fixed aim...should have its happy ports...
NER 3.255 22 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government...
Ill 6.309 4 We traversed, through spacious galleries affording a solid masonry foundation for the town and county overhead, the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
Nat 1.15 20 ...the stimulus [light] affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath...make all matter gay.
LE 1.178 17 This lesson is taught with emphasis in the life of the great actor of this age, and affords the explanation of his success.
SL 2.162 21 Heaven...affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
Chr1 3.93 4 ...[the natural merchant] inspires respect and the wish to deal with him...for the intellectual pastime which the spectacle of so much ability affords.
GoW 4.286 14 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...
Bty 6.306 13 ...there is a climbing scale of culture, from the first agreeable sensation which a sparkling gem or a scarlet stain affords the eye...
Art2 7.51 5 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature...
PI 8.21 15 I think the use or value of poetry to be the suggestion it affords of the flux or fugaciousness of the poet.
PPo 8.244 14 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic, that sometimes affords a deeper glance at Nature than belongs to either of these bards.
PPo 8.246 12 Harems and wine-shops only give [Hafiz] a new ground of observation, whence to draw sometimes a deeper moral than regulated sober life affords...
PPo 8.251 4 Every song of Hafiz affords new proof of the unimportance of your subject to success...
EWI 11.121 26 The legislature [of Jamaica]...say, The peaceful demeanor of the emancipated population...affords a proof of their continued comfort and prosperity.
FSLN 11.238 6 The habit of mind of traders in power would not be esteemed favorable to delicate moral perception. American slavery affords no exception to this rule.
HDC 11.77 9 On the second day after the affray [battle of Concord], divine service was attended, in this house, by 700 soldiers.
Nat 1.58 10 [Religion] puts an affront upon nature.
ET6 5.105 24 [The Englishman] does not let you meet his eye. It is almost an affront to look a man in the face without being introduced.
SR 2.60 19 Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times...
Boks 7.213 11 Whilst the prudential and economical tone of society starves the imagination, affronted Nature gets such indemnity as she may.
YA 1.394 21 Commanding worth and personal power must sit crowned in all companies, nor will extraordinary persons be slighted or affronted in any company of civilized men.
CbW 6.255 5 ...the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power;...
ET4 5.68 13 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him...
EurB 12.378 11 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...to contrive even his civilities so that they may appear as near as may be to affronts;...
Bost 12.184 4 Parsee, Mongol, Afghan, Israelite, Christian, have all passed under this [Hindoo] influence...
MR 1.238 17 A man...who builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy to caulk it...
Prd1 2.225 27 ...if we go a-fishing we must expect a wet coat.
Nat 1.49 23 The first effort of thought...shows us nature...as it were, afloat.
Nat 1.51 27 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the sun, the mountain... lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
LE 1.172 11 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large.
Int 2.342 7 He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and afloat.
F 6.19 19 ...'t was much if each [drowning man] could keep afloat alone.
Wth 6.114 9 Pride...can travel afoot...
QO 8.189 9 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say; but if I like the gay equipage so well as to go out of my road, I had better have gone afoot.
Tran 1.334 8 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...and necessitating him to regard all things as having a subjective or relative existence, relative to that aforesaid Unknown Centre of him.
EWI 11.112 25 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...
LT 1.286 5 It almost seems as if what was aforetime spoken fabulously and hieroglyphically, was now spoken plainly...
LT 1.280 14 I am afraid our virtue is a little geographical.
LT 1.290 26 Let it not be recorded in our own memories that in this moment of the Eternity...we were afraid of any fact...
SR 2.75 12 We are afraid of truth...
SR 2.75 12 We are...afraid of fortune...
SR 2.75 12 We are...afraid of death...
SR 2.75 13 We are...afraid of each other.
Fdsp 2.213 26 It is foolish to be afraid of making our ties too spiritual...
Prd1 2.238 7 You are afraid of Grim; but Grim also is afraid of you.
Prd1 2.238 13 ...the peace of society is often kept, because, as children say, one is afraid and the other dares not.
Hsm1 2.260 22 ...Always do what you are afraid to do.
NER 3.257 21 We are afraid of a horse...
NER 3.268 13 A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on. I am afraid the remark is too honest...
PPh 4.72 6 ...[Socrates] showed one who was afraid to go on foot to Olympia, that it was no more than his daily walk within doors, if continuously extended, would easily reach.
SwM 4.125 21 [To Swedenborg] They who are in evil and falsehood are afraid of all others.
MoS 4.165 24 ...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that Plato, in his purest virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture;...
ShP 4.201 11 ...the generic catholic genius who is not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.
GoW 4.288 20 We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.
ET1 5.11 20 When [Coleridge] saw Dr. Channing he had hinted to him that he was afraid he loved Christianity for what was lovely and excellent...
ET4 5.71 20 [The Englishman's] attachment to the horse arises from the courage and address required to manage it. The horse finds out who is afraid of it, and does not disguise its opinion.
ET8 5.139 16 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;...
ET9 5.147 8 ...I am afraid that English nature is so rank and aggressive as to be a little incompatible with every other.
ET13 5.230 10 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
ET13 5.230 11 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
ET13 5.230 12 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
F 6.49 11 Why should we be afraid of Nature...
Ctr 6.139 25 ...Marshal Lannes said to a French officer, Know, Colonel, that none but a poltroon will boast that he never was afraid.
Wsp 6.201 18 I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
Wsp 6.232 9 I am not afraid of accident as long as I am in my place.
Ill 6.323 17 ...the Indians say that they do not think the white man...afraid of heat and cold...has any advantage of them.
DL 7.110 22 I am afraid that, so considered, our houses will not be found to have unity...
Cour 7.261 26 ...[the young soldier] had accustomed himself always to go into whatever place of danger, and do whatever he was afraid to do...
Cour 7.269 1 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.
Elo2 8.128 26 A few bruises and scratches will do [a boy] no harm if he has thereby learned not to be afraid.
Imtl 8.329 6 A man of affairs is afraid to die...
Aris 10.52 9 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise and adorns them not, is not even afraid of them...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...
Schr 10.281 7 We are not afraid of new truth...no, but of a counterfeit.
MMEm 10.406 11 ...do what you are afraid to do...
Koss 11.399 12 We [people of Concord] are afraid that you [Kossuth] are growing popular...
RBur 11.443 1 The memory of Burns,-I am afraid heaven and earth have taken too good care of it to leave us anything to say.
CL 12.145 12 I am afraid you do not understand values.
Bost 12.208 4 I am afraid there are anecdotes of poverty and disease in Broad Street that match the dismal statistics of New York and London.
ACri 12.290 2 Goethe...professed to point his guest to his...Acherontian Bag, in which, he said, he put all his dire hints and images, and into which, he said, he should be afraid to fall himself, lest he should be burnt up.
ACri 12.291 15 Never say, I beg not to be misunderstood. It is only graceful in the case when you are afraid that what is called a better meaning will be taken, and you wish to insist on a worse;...
MLit 12.322 27 [Goethe] was not afraid to live.
Let 12.392 19 To the railway, we must say,-like the courageous lord mayor at his first hunting, when told the hare was coming,-Let it come, in Heaven's name, I am not afraid on 't.
PPo 8.242 8 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Afrasiyab, strong as an elephant...
PPo 8.242 13 The crocodile in the rolling stream had no safety from Afrasiyab.
MR 1.251 16 [The Arabs] conquered Asia, and Africa, and Spain, on barley.
Hist 2.21 20 In the early history of Asia and Africa, Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts.
Hist 2.21 22 The geography of Asia and of Africa necessitated a nomadic life.
Hist 2.22 5 The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly...
ET4 5.70 26 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature.
F 6.7 22 ...the sword of the climate in the west of Africa...cut off men like a massacre.
Civ 7.20 6 ...in Africa the negro of to-day is the negro of Herodotus.
Grts 8.302 25 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet; a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa?
Plu 10.303 16 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness...the deciphering of forgotten languages, so to complete the annals of the forefathers of Asia, Africa and Europe.
Plu 10.315 5 [Plutarch] thinks it was by superior virtue that Alexander won his battles in Asia and Africa...
EWI 11.107 13 Public attention...was drawn that way [to the West Indies], and the methods of the stealing and the transportation [of slaves] from Africa became noised abroad.
EWI 11.107 27 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to consider what step they should take...for the discouragement of the slave-trade on the coast of Africa.
EWI 11.110 12 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.
EWI 11.124 2 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips. What if it cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa?
EWI 11.126 16 ...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers...
EWI 11.141 12 On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind, some of which he expressed; and hence appeared to arise a project which was always dear to him, of the civilization of Africa...
EWI 11.145 26 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members. America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.
FSLC 11.186 8 There is always something in the very advantages of a condition which hurts it. Africa has its malformation; England has its Ireland;...
FSLC 11.195 8 By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it is piracy and murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.
FSLC 11.211 2 Europe is little compared with Asia and Africa; yet Asia and Africa are its ox and its ass.
FSLN 11.228 21 Slavery in Virginia or Carolina was like Slavery in Africa or the Feejees, to me.
ACri 12.285 21 [George Borrow]...mastered the patois of the gypsies, called Romany, which is spoken by them in all countries where they wander, in Europe, Asia, Africa.
Pow 6.69 13 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...hunting lion, rhinoceros, elephant, in South Africa;...
FSLC 11.213 1 Every Englishman in Australia, in South Africa, in India... represents London...
Mrs1 3.142 17 ...friend of the African slave, [Charles James Fox] possessed a great personal popularity;...
Boks 7.203 10 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...and all the rest of the Platonic rhetoric, exalted a little under the African sun, sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
PC 8.214 2 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Norse Sagas, in Scandinavia; and, I may add, the Arabian Nights, on the African coast.
EWI 11.103 13 ...when [the negro] sank in the furrow...he went down to death with dusky dreams of African shadow-catchers and Obeahs hunting him.
EWI 11.126 24 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day; [British merchants] could not expect any mitigation in the madness of the poor African war-chiefs.
EWI 11.141 1 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro;...
EPro 11.319 9 ...all men of African descent who have faculty enough to find their way to our lines are assured of the protection of American law.
EWI 11.100 10 It has been in all men's experience a marked effect of the enterprise in behalf of the African, to generate an overbearing and defying spirit.
ACiv 11.298 11 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise...and insults the faithful workman at his daily toil? I see...for such calamity no solution but servile war and the Africanization of the country that permits it.
Chr2 10.106 2 ...in the hands of hot Africans...[Christianity's] creeds were tainted with their barbarism.
EWI 11.98 3 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./
DL 7.106 1 What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood!
Let 12.397 21 As long as [a man] sleeps in the shade of the present error, the after-nature does not betray its resources.
Prd1 2.229 3 Scatter-brained and afternoon men spoil much more than their own affair in spoiling the temper of those who deal with them.
OA 7.318 10 If, on a winter day, you should stand within a bell-glass, the face and color of the afternoon clouds would not indicate whether it were June or January;...
Nat 1.17 20 Not less excellent, except for our less susceptibility in the afternoon, was the charm...of a January sunset.
DSA 1.137 22 Men go, thought I, where they are wont to go, else had no soul entered the temple in the afternoon.
LE 1.163 8 ...in the...sauntering of the afternoon;...behold Charles the Fifth' s day;...
Hist 2.20 18 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
Lov1 2.175 27 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days when happiness was not happy enough...
Mrs1 3.144 2 This gentleman is this afternoon arrived from Denmark;...
ET16 5.288 10 On the way to Winchester, whither our host accompanied us in the afternoon, my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses...
ET16 5.290 21 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who built Windsor and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford. But it was growing late in the afternoon.
ET17 5.294 11 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau, then newly returned from her Egyptian tour. On Sunday afternoon I accompanied her to Rydal Mount.
OA 7.335 11 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election, on Sunday afternoon...
Insp 8.291 4 Allston rarely left his studio by day. An old friend took him, one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the country...
LLNE 10.341 17 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation.
EzRy 10.386 24 One August afternoon, when I was in [Ezra Ripley's] hayfield helping him with his man to rake up his hay, I well remember his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gu