AmS 1.109 4 ...there are data for marking the genius of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or Philosophical age.
Elo2 8.131 20 ...in the Elizabethan Age there was a dramatic zymosis...
Res 8.142 10 Resources of America! why, one thinks of Saint-Simon's saying, The Golden Age is not behind, but before you.
Clbs 7.242 20 ...there was liberal and refined conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the middle Age.
Clbs 7.243 16 ...a history of clubs from early antiquity...through the Greek and Roman to the Middle Age...would be an important chapter in history.
Hist 2.34 11 All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve.
Pt1 3.37 20 We have yet had no genius in America...which...saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer; then in the Middle Age;...
ET11 5.175 11 The Middle Age adorned itself with proofs of manhood and devotion.
Boks 7.205 24 There is Dante's poem, to open the Italian Republics of the Middle Age;...
Clbs 7.242 21 ...there was liberal and refined conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the Middle Age.
Clbs 7.243 16 ...a history of clubs from early antiquity...through the Greek and Roman to the Middle Age...would be an important chapter in history.
Nat 1.3 1 Our age is retrospective.
Nat 1.34 18 There sits the Sphinx at the road-side, and from age to age, as each prophet comes by, he tries his fortune at reading her riddle.
Nat 1.43 7 Xenophanes complained in his old age, that...all things hastened back to Unity.
Nat 1.57 13 No man fears age or misfortune or death in [ideas'] serene company...
AmS 1.82 6 Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age...
AmS 1.87 20 The scholar of the first age received into him the world around;...
AmS 1.88 16 ...neither can any artist entirely...write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient...to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age.
AmS 1.88 16 Each age...must write its own books;...
AmS 1.109 14 Our age is bewailed as the age of Introversion.
AmS 1.110 6 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution;...
DSA 1.129 11 The understanding...said, in the next age, This was Jehovah come down out of heaven...
DSA 1.138 19 ...of the bad preacher, it could not be told from his sermon what age of the world he fell in;...
DSA 1.143 24 ...age is without honor.
DSA 1.144 12 The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past...indicate...the falsehood of our theology.
LE 1.155 8 I have reached the middle age of man;...
LE 1.160 4 ...now will we live...as the upholders and creators of our age;...
LE 1.178 17 This lesson is taught with emphasis in the life of the great actor of this age...
MN 1.221 4 It is the office...of this age to annul that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has effected between the intellect and holiness.
MR 1.252 6 Our age and history...has not been the history of kindness...
LT 1.261 21 If you speak of the age, you mean your own platoon of people...
LT 1.264 8 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer so, than...in the investments of capital, which rather celebrate with mournful music the obsequies of the last age.
LT 1.269 2 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...occupy the ground which Calvinism occupied in the last age...
LT 1.269 4 The present age will be marked by its harvest of projects for the reform of domestic, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical institutions.
LT 1.272 22 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet, in some distant age...be executed by the hands.
LT 1.284 16 Old age begins in the nursery...
LT 1.285 2 What has checked in this age the animal spirits which gave to our forefathers their bounding pulse?
LT 1.287 4 Every age has a thousand sides and signs and tendencies...
Con 1.300 3 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty...to the rock which resists the waves from age to age...
Con 1.300 4 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty...to the rock which resists the waves from age to age...
Con 1.300 9 ...the superior beauty is with...the river which ever flowing yet is found in the same bed from age to age;...
Con 1.304 9 There is a natural sentiment and prepossession in favor of age...
Tran 1.350 16 Every moment of a hero so raises and cheers us that a twelvemonth is an age.
YA 1.376 10 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have said to his council, The age is embarrassed with new opinions;...
YA 1.385 26 We have feudal governments in a commercial age.
YA 1.387 19 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation...
Hist 2.5 3 Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.
Hist 2.8 8 I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age...has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
Hist 2.8 12 There is no age or state of society...to which there is not somewhat corresponding in [each man's] life.
Hist 2.10 7 What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule.
Hist 2.24 2 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...in all its periods from the Heroic or Homeric age...
Hist 2.27 8 The student interprets the age of chivalry by his own age of chivalry...
Hist 2.27 9 The student interprets the age of chivalry by his own age of chivalry...
Hist 2.37 9 Newton and Laplace need myriads of age and thick-strewn celestial areas.
SR 2.47 17 Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age...
SR 2.61 7 Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age;...
SR 2.75 13 Our age yields no great and perfect persons.
Lov1 2.170 2 The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savor of a mature philosophy, as chilling with age and pedantry their purple bloom.
Lov1 2.174 11 ...the celestial rapture falling out of heaven seizes only upon those of tender age...
Fdsp 2.194 22 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance...
Fdsp 2.203 23 To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
Hsm1 2.245 5 In the elder English dramatists...there is a constant recognition of gentility, as if a noble behavior were as easily marked in the society of their age as color is in our American population.
Hsm1 2.260 20 ...congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
OS 2.265 11 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night and Day 've been tampered with/ Every quality and pith/ Surcharged and sultry with a power/ That works its will on age and hour./
OS 2.272 24 We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age...
OS 2.286 19 Neither his age, nor his breeding...can hinder [a man] from being deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
Cir 2.305 17 Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
Cir 2.319 4 ...old age seems the only disease;...
Cir 2.319 8 ...fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime; they are all forms of old age;...
Cir 2.319 24 This old age ought not to creep on a human mind.
Int 2.327 21 Long prior to the age of reflection is the thinking of the mind.
Int 2.345 26 ...I cannot recite...laws of the intellect, without remembering... the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.
Int 2.346 24 ...what marks [Greek philosophers' thought's] elevation and has even a comic look to us, is the innocent serenity with which these babe-like Jupiters...from age to age prattle to each other and to no contemporary.
Art1 2.353 1 No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country...
Art1 2.363 1 He has conceived meanly of the resources of man, who believes that the best age of production is past.
Art1 2.364 2 Already History is old enough to witness the old age and disappearance of particular arts.
Pt1 3.10 9 ...the experience of each new age requires a new confession...
Pt1 3.23 9 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought him to ripe age, she will no longer run the risk of losing this wonder at a blow...
Pt1 3.31 11 ...Orpheus speaks of hoariness as that white flower which marks extreme old age;...
Chr1 3.98 15 Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person...
Chr1 3.106 14 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment; as we read, in an age of polish and criticism, the first lines of written prose and verse of a nation.
Mrs1 3.145 20 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age...
Pol1 3.204 25 [The young] believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.
Pol1 3.208 1 ...our institutions, though in coincidence with the spirit of the age, have not any exemption from the practical defects which have discredited other forms.
NR 3.246 12 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as agitator.
NER 3.254 4 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...
UGM 4.34 16 Happy, if a few names remain so high that...age and comparison have not robbed them of a ray.
SwM 4.99 12 At the age of twenty-eight [Swedenborg] was made Assessor of the Board of Mines by Charles XII.
SwM 4.101 19 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was to penetrate the science of the age with a far more subtle science;...began its lessons in quarries and forges...
SwM 4.132 11 ...when [Swedenborg's] visions become the stereotyped language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age and capacity, they are perverted.
SwM 4.140 19 The secret of heaven is kept from age to age.
MoS 4.169 13 Montaigne died of a quinsy, at the age of sixty, in 1592.
MoS 4.169 16 At the age of thirty-three, [Montaigne] had been married.
ShP 4.201 12 ...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.
ShP 4.202 7 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which all candles shine...
ShP 4.208 2 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the creative age goes up to heaven...
ShP 4.208 3 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the creative age...gives way to a new age...
NMW 4.227 8 [A man of Napoleon's stamp]...comes to be a bureau for all the intelligence, wit and power of the age and country.
NMW 4.250 3 One day [Napoleon] asked whether the planets were inhabited? On another, what was the age of the world?
NMW 4.253 20 The highest-placed individual in the most cultivated age and population of the world,--[Napoleon] has not the merit of common truth and honesty.
NMW 4.254 6 ...[Napoleon] sat, in his premature old age...coldly falsifying facts and dates and characters...
NMW 4.256 24 Bonaparte may be said to represent the whole history of this [democrat] party, its youth and its age;...
GoW 4.270 3 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any rate write...without recurrence...to the sources of inspiration? Some reply to these questions may be furnished by looking over the list of men of literary genius in our age.
GoW 4.273 24 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...
GoW 4.278 19 We had an English romance here...professing to embody the hope of a new age...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage.
ET4 5.45 17 [The English] give the bias to the current age;...
ET4 5.52 19 The Scandinavians in [the English] race still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean;...
ET4 5.59 17 Odin died in his bed, in Sweden; but it was a proverb of ill condition to die the death of old age.
ET4 5.62 19 Many a mean, dastardly boy is, at the age of puberty, transformed into a serious and generous youth.
ET4 5.69 6 [The English] have a vigorous health and last well into middle and old age.
ET6 5.108 7 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other...
ET8 5.140 15 Haldor remained a short time with the king, and then came to Iceland, where he took up his abode in Hiardaholt and dwelt in that farm to a very advanced age.
ET10 5.157 14 [The English] have reinforced their own productivity by the creation of that marvellous machinery which differences this age from any other age.
ET11 5.176 17 The new age brings new qualities into request;...
ET11 5.187 9 Politeness is...a gentle blessing to the age in which it grew.
ET11 5.197 27 [Titles of lordship] belong...to an earlier age...
ET12 5.201 22 On every side, Oxford is redolent of age...
ET12 5.213 16 ...the best poetry of England of this age, in the old forms, comes from two graduates at Cambridge.
ET13 5.217 17 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
ET13 5.220 12 ...the age of the Wicliffes, Cobhams, Arundels, Beckets;...is gone.
ET13 5.225 8 The new age has new desires, new enemies, new trades, new charities...
ET14 5.237 13 A man must think that age well taught and thoughtful, by which masques and poems, like those of Ben Jonson...were received with favor.
ET14 5.242 26 Not these particulars, but the mental plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age...
ET14 5.257 9 [Wordsworth's] verse is the voice of sanity in a worldly and ambitious age.
ET16 5.279 8 ...a thousand years hence, men will thank this age for the accurate history [of Stonehenge].
ET17 5.298 9 The Ode on Immortality is the high-water mark which the intellect has reached in this age.
ET19 5.311 20 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes,--the electing of worthy persons...to acts of kindness and warm and stanch support...from youth to age...
ET19 5.313 18 I see [England] in her old age, not decrepit, but young and still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion.
F 6.4 20 The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.
F 6.39 19 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
F 6.41 21 In age we put out another sort of perspiration...
F 6.46 27 ...what we wish for in youth, comes in heaps on us in old age...
Pow 6.54 20 The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe;...
Pow 6.64 20 In politics...red republicanism in the father is a spasm of nature to engender an intolerable tyrant in the next age.
Ctr 6.166 3 The age of the quadruped is to go out...
Ctr 6.166 4 ...the age of the brain and of the heart is to come in.
Bhr 6.179 2 [Eyes]...ask no leave of age, or rank;...
Wsp 6.205 9 In all ages, souls...are born, who are rather related to the system of the world than to their particular age and locality.
Wsp 6.215 1 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words, age after age, to their ancient meaning.
Wsp 6.215 2 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words, age after age, to their ancient meaning.
Wsp 6.219 12 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history, and keep the balance of power from age to age unbroken.
CbW 6.252 23 ...this beast-force...has provoked in every age the satire of wits...
Ill 6.319 9 There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or condition...
SS 7.8 1 ...each of these potentates [Dante, Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw well the reason of his exclusion. Solitary was he? Why, yes; but his society was limited only by the amount of brain nature appropriated in that age to carry on the government of the world.
Art2 7.48 22 The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired... by all men...must...be a man of no party and no manner and no age...
Art2 7.57 8 ...as far as [popular institutions] accelerate the end of political freedom and national education, they are preparing the soil of man for fairer flowers and fruits in another age.
DL 7.104 23 The small enchanter nothing can withstand,--no seniority of age...
DL 7.107 14 If a man wishes to acquaint himself...with the spirit of the age, he must not go first to the state-house or the court-room.
DL 7.116 19 Another age may divide the manual labor of the world more equally on all the members of society...
DL 7.123 26 To each occurs, soon after the age of puberty, some event or society...which becomes the crisis of life...
DL 7.124 6 ...it is pitiful to date and measure all the facts and sequel of an unfolding life from such a youthful and generally inconsiderate period as the age of courtship and marriage.
DL 7.132 7 The language of a ruder age has given to common law the maxim that every man's house is his castle...
Farm 7.143 23 Nature...has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard to the next and the next, and the fourth and the fortieth age.
WD 7.157 1 Our nineteenth century is the age of tools.
WD 7.158 3 ...such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them;...
WD 7.167 18 [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of economies for Grecian life, noting the proper age for marriage...
WD 7.176 12 The order of changes in the egg determines the age of fossil strata.
Boks 7.190 22 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible...but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.
Boks 7.201 16 The valuable part [of Greek history] is the age of Pericles and the next generation.
Boks 7.204 26 The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan age;...
Boks 7.206 11 The Life of the Emperor Charles V., by the useful Robertson, is still the key of the following age.
Boks 7.212 4 There is another class [of books], more needful to the present age...
Boks 7.217 21 Every good fable...every biography from a religious age... when they proceed from an intellectual integrity...have the imaginative element.
Suc 7.303 8 Who is he in youth or in maturity or even in old age, who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which turn curled heads round at church...
Suc 7.310 18 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation, and they...go home with heavier step and premature age.
Suc 7.311 21 ...[the inner life]...is just the same now in maturity and hereafter in age, [as] it was in youth.
OA 7.317 1 ...if the essence of age is not present, these signs, whether of Art or Nature, are counterfeit and ridiculous;...
OA 7.317 3 ...the essence of age is intellect.
OA 7.317 19 Wherever there is power, there is age.
OA 7.317 25 The mind...dwarfs an age to an hour.
OA 7.318 17 How many men habitually believe that each chance passenger with whom they converse is of their own age...
OA 7.318 21 ...looking at age under an aspect more conformed to the common sense, if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
OA 7.318 23 ...if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
OA 7.318 27 ...seen from the streets and markets and the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low...
OA 7.320 1 Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.
OA 7.320 2 Age is comely in coaches, in churches...
OA 7.320 5 Age is becoming in the country.
OA 7.322 9 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo...elected at the age of ninety-six to the throne of the Eastern Empire...
OA 7.323 8 Under the general assertion of the well-being of age, we can easily count particular benefits of that condition.
OA 7.325 12 I count it another capital advantage of age, this, that a success more or less signifies nothing.
OA 7.326 20 A third felicity of age is that it has found expression.
OA 7.327 22 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession. This makes the value of age...
OA 7.328 4 The compensations of Nature play in age as in youth.
OA 7.328 17 ...age sets its house in order...
OA 7.331 5 Many of [Goethe's] works hung on the easel from youth to age...
OA 7.332 7 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It...reports a moment in the life of a heroic person, who, in extreme old age, appeared still erect and worthy of his fame.
OA 7.333 6 ...[John Adams]...added...what effect age may work in diminishing the power of [John Quincy Adams's] mind, I do not know;...
OA 7.333 11 When Mr. J. Q. Adams's age was mentioned, [John Adams] said, He is now fifty-eight...
OA 7.333 14 ...[John Adams]...remarked that all the Presidents were of the same age...
OA 7.333 24 [John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere, whom he well remembered to have seen come down daily, at great age, to walk in the old town-house...
OA 7.335 20 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare...
PI 8.1 17 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
PI 8.13 9 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as...when the old horse-block in the yard is found to be a Torso Hercules of the Phidian age.
PI 8.14 27 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence,--is only phenomenal. Youth, age, property, condition, events, persons,--self, even,-- are successive maias (deceptions) through which Vishnu mocks and instructs the soul.
PI 8.58 13 [The wind] is in the field, it is in the wood,/ Without hand, without foot,/ Without age, without season/...
PI 8.58 14 ...[The wind] is always of the same age with the ages of ages,/ And of equal breadth with the surface of the earth./
PI 8.63 21 To true poetry we shall sit down as the result and justification of the age in which it appears...
PI 8.64 17 Bring us...poetry which...is the gift to men of new images and symbols, each the ensign and oracle of an age;...
SA 8.101 11 ...in the last age, this system [of hereditary nobility] has been on its trial...
Elo2 8.122 18 ...I never heard [John Quincy Adams] speak in public until his fine voice was much broken by age.
Elo2 8.124 7 In social converse with the mighty dead of ancient days, you will never smart under the galling sense of dependence upon the mighty living of the present age.
Elo2 8.132 8 ...when a great sentiment...makes itself deeply felt in any age or country, then great orators appear.
PC 8.208 3 Who would live in the stone age...
PC 8.208 5 Who does not prefer the age of steel...
PC 8.209 15 ...[the coxcomb] has found that this country and this age belong to the most liberal persuasion;...
PC 8.210 2 Mark...the large resources...of a scholar, in this age.
PC 8.215 26 ...from time to time in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
PC 8.225 7 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age...
PC 8.226 8 The benefactors we have indicated were...great because exceptional. The question which the present age urges with increasing emphasis...is, whether the high qualities which distinguished them can be imparted.
PC 8.227 3 Great men,-the age goes on their credit;...
PC 8.230 16 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists, as in a barbarous age;...
PC 8.233 14 The age has new convictions.
Insp 8.282 18 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and write;/...
Insp 8.282 27 I understand The Harbingers to refer to the signs of age and decay which [Herbert] detects in himself...
Imtl 8.334 27 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in the age of trees...
Imtl 8.340 13 A sort of absoluteness attends all perception of truth,-no smell of age, no hint of corruption.
Dem1 10.16 4 We do not think the young will be forsaken; but he is fast approaching the age when the sub-miraculous external protection and leading are withdrawn and he is committed to his own care.
Aris 10.42 8 The English nation down to a late age inherited the reality of the Northern stock.
Aris 10.54 15 In the fine arts, I find none in the present age who have any popular power...
Chr2 10.105 1 The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Chr2 10.108 7 ...the new age cannot see with the eyes of the last.
Chr2 10.108 13 The mind of this age has fallen away from theology to morals.
Chr2 10.110 7 One service which this age has rendered is, to make the life and wisdom of every past man accessible and available to all.
Chr2 10.112 22 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another sieve for the religious tradition...
Chr2 10.116 6 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss, and the office of this age is to put all these writings on the eternal footing of equality of origin in the instincts of the human mind.
Edc1 10.130 9 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch wandering from age to age...
Edc1 10.136 14 ...the coming age and the departing age seldom understand each other.
Edc1 10.136 26 I call our system [of education] a system of despair, and I find all the correction, all the revolution that is needed and that the best spirits of this age, promise, in one word, in Hope.
SovE 10.186 4 In youth and in age we are moralists...
SovE 10.191 14 An Eastern poet, in describing the golden age, said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
SovE 10.194 24 Let [a man]...find...in the passing hour, the age of ages.
SovE 10.203 26 ...our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calvinist age.
SovE 10.204 22 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism...
SovE 10.205 18 I do not think the summit of this age truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion and philosophy reached in any former age.
SovE 10.205 20 I do not think the summit of this age truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion and philosophy reached in any former age.
SovE 10.208 24 ...a new crop of geniuses like those of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age...
SovE 10.208 25 ...a new crop of geniuses like those of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age...
SovE 10.213 12 The man of this age must be matriculated in the university of sciences and tendencies flowing from all past periods.
Prch 10.217 16 ...material and industrial activity have materialized the age...
Prch 10.219 17 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment...
Prch 10.220 16 ...the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take tacit part with them, to cast off reverence for the Church; and there follows an age of unbelief.
Prch 10.222 25 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...
Prch 10.222 27 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws-as mankind begins to see them in this age, self-equal, self-executing, instantaneous and self-affirmed;...
Prch 10.223 17 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference;...
Prch 10.236 25 The Sabbath changes its forms from age to age...
Prch 10.236 26 The Sabbath changes its forms from age to age...
Prch 10.237 6 Truth...insists on being of this age and of this moment.
MoL 10.245 1 The great poem of the age is the disagreeable poem of Faust...
MoL 10.245 20 A French prophet of our age, Fourier, predicted that one day...the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.
MoL 10.254 25 ...every age is new...
MoL 10.254 26 ...every age...has problems to solve, insoluble by the last age.
MoL 10.257 4 It is impossible to extricate oneself from the questions in which our age is involved.
MoL 10.257 14 War ennobles the age.
Schr 10.275 12 The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he disesteems old age, and lands, and money, and power...
Schr 10.280 3 ...society...sometimes is for an age together a maniac...
Schr 10.283 13 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...makes no progress, but was wise in youth as in age.
Plu 10.294 8 ...though the contemporary, in his youth or in his old age, of Persius, Juvenal, Lucan and Seneca...[Plutarch] does not cite them...
Plu 10.317 7 In his dedication of the work [Plutarch's Morals] to the Archbishop of Canterbury...[Morgan] tells the Primate that Plutarch was the wisest man of his age, and, if he had been a Christian, one of the best too;...
LLNE 10.326 19 It is the age of severance...
LLNE 10.327 10 The age tends to solitude.
LLNE 10.327 21 The age of arithmetic and of criticism has set in.
LLNE 10.328 21 The most remarkable literary work of the age has for its hero and subject precisely this introversion: I mean the poem of Faust.
LLNE 10.338 25 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law;...as distinguished from the profligate manners and politics of earlier times. The age was moral.
LLNE 10.347 3 Robert Owen knew Fourier in his old age.
LLNE 10.352 8 ...we could not exempt [Fourierism] from the criticism which we apply to so many projects for reform with which the brain of the age teems.
LLNE 10.357 17 I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age in which we live...
LLNE 10.361 2 There was no doubt great variety of character and purpose in the members of the community [Brook Farm]. It consisted in the main of young people-few of middle age, and none old.
EzRy 10.381 14 Ezra Ripley followed the business of farming till sixteen years of age...
EzRy 10.381 21 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college by the time he should be twenty-one years of age...
EzRy 10.391 17 ...all will remember that even in [Ezra Ripley's] old age, if the firebell was rung, he was instantly on horseback with his buckets, and bag.
EzRy 10.395 16 ...in his old age, when all the antique Hebraism and its customs are passing away, it is fit that [Ezra Ripley] too should depart...
MMEm 10.399 5 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life. It is a representative life...of an age now past...
MMEm 10.399 20 I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country girl [Mary Moody Emerson]...growing from youth to age amid slender opportunities and usually very humble company.
MMEm 10.410 11 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said, Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are shut. Yes, Madam, I have observed it. Perhaps you would like to know the reasons? Yes, I should. I don't like to see a person of your age guilty of such levity in her dress.
MMEm 10.414 8 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for herself...
MMEm 10.415 25 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance...of bitterer days of youth and age...
MMEm 10.418 15 Shut up in this severe weather with careful, infirm, afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody Emerson's] spirits...
MMEm 10.421 20 Our civilization is not always mending our poetry. It... lacks somewhat of the grandeur that belongs to a Doric and unphilosophical age.
MMEm 10.430 1 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?
MMEm 10.431 25 What a timid, ungrateful creature! Fear the deepest pitfalls of age, when pressing on...to Him with whom a day is a thousand years...
SlHr 10.439 2 ...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
SlHr 10.440 24 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which, in manhood and in old age...left an infantile innocence...
SlHr 10.443 24 Such was, in old age, the beauty of [Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made the same impression of probity on all beholders.
HDC 11.70 22 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons, upwards of twenty-one years of age, inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant...
HDC 11.77 26 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...and at the close of the month [April], he writes, This month remarkable for the greatest events of the present age.
EWI 11.122 8 ...that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age...
EWI 11.122 8 ...each age thinks its own [civility] the perfection of reason.
EWI 11.143 2 Our planet, before the age of written history, had its races of savages...
War 11.173 5 [Shakespeare's lords] are not shams, but the substance of which that age and world is made.
War 11.173 15 ...another age comes, a truer religion and ethics open...
FSLN 11.219 19 ...it was strange to see that office, age, fame, talent...all count for nothing.
FSLN 11.240 7 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale...
FSLN 11.241 26 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of the country...will rightly report him to his own and the next age.
FSLN 11.243 21 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name and aspect under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in this age and country...
TPar 11.292 5 Ah, my brave brother [Theodore Parker]! it seems as if, in a frivolous age, our loss were immense...
ACiv 11.299 23 We live in a new and exceptionable age.
EPro 11.326 9 Incertainties now crown themselves assured,/ And Peace proclaims olives of endless age./
EPro 11.326 17 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race...whose very miseries sprang from their great talent for usefulness, which, in a more moral age, will not only defend their independence, but will give them a rank among nations.
ALin 11.332 4 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial;...
SMC 11.348 22 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky,/ And, where it lightened once, from age to age,/ Men come to learn, in grateful pilgrimage,/ That length of days is knowing when to die./ Lowell, Concord Ode.
SMC 11.351 2 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age.
EdAd 11.391 26 Is the age we live in unfriendly to the highest powers;...
Koss 11.400 1 ...you [Kossuth], the foremost soldier of freedom in this age, it is for us [the people of Concord] to crave your judgment;...
Wom 11.415 20 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil; the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite character, in the age of Louis XIV...
Wom 11.416 4 Another step [for Woman] was the effect of the action of the age in the antagonism to Slavery.
SHC 11.430 14 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.
Shak1 11.447 19 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
Shak1 11.450 10 ...[Shakespeare] still agitates the heart in age as in youth...
Scot 11.467 22 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of Mackintosh, Horner, Jeffrey...
FRO2 11.486 15 We have had not long since presented to us by Max Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine, not at all extraordinary in itself, but only as coming from that eminent Father in the Church, and at that age...
FRep 11.524 24 These [the good and wise] we just join to wake, for these are of the strain/ That justice dare defend, and will the age maintain./
FRep 11.538 1 Ours is the age of the omnibus...
FRep 11.539 8 It is not possible to extricate yourself from the questions in which your age is involved.
PLT 12.7 17 Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each other, so vulgar, there is so much more than their wit,-such follies, gluttonies, partialities, age, care, and sleep, that you shall have no academy.
PLT 12.16 7 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder. To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and Nature. The wonder subsists, and age, though of eternity, could not approach a solution.
PLT 12.18 14 There are...[other minds] that deposit their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time and be brooded in other minds, and the shell not be broken until the next age...
II 12.74 2 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that?
Mem 12.92 2 Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it...perhaps in your age has new meaning.
Mem 12.102 22 ...when age and calamity have bereaved [those who have used their days well] of their limbs or organs, then they retreat on mental faculty...
CL 12.147 17 [A walk in the woods] is one of the secrets for dodging old age.
CL 12.147 18 ...Nature makes a like impression on age as on youth.
Bost 12.187 14 In...the farthest colonies...a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris;...
Bost 12.187 25 Each great city...comes to be the brag of its age and population.
Bost 12.193 25 In our own age we are learning to look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...
Bost 12.210 6 In an age of trade and material prosperity, we have stood a little stupefied by the elevation of our ancestors.
MAng1 12.222 14 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias...
MAng1 12.235 4 Not until he was in the seventy-third year of his age, [Michelangelo] undertook the building of Saint Peter's.
MAng1 12.237 12 ...[Michelangelo]...in old age speaks with extreme pleasure of his residence with the hermits in the mountains of Spoleto;...
MAng1 12.241 23 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari, sending him various spiritual sonnets he had written...
Milt1 12.247 17 ...it is...true that [Milton] has gained, in this age, some increase of permanent praise.
Milt1 12.248 6 There is no name in English literature between [Milton's] age and ours that rises into any approach to his own.
Milt1 12.252 10 ...if we skip the pages of Paradise Lost where God the Father argues like a school divine, so did the next age to [Milton's] own.
Milt1 12.256 18 Nor is there in literature a more noble outline of a wise external education than that which [Milton] drew up, at the age of thirty-six, in his Letter to Samuel Hartlib.
Milt1 12.263 16 [Milton] acknowledges to his friend Diodati, at the age of twenty-one, that he is enamoured...of moral perfection...
Milt1 12.268 13 The memorable covenant, which in his youth...[Milton] makes with God and his reader, expressed the faith of his old age.
Milt1 12.269 4 It is said that no opinion, no civil, religious, moral dogma can be produced that was not broached in the fertile brain of that age [of Milton].
Milt1 12.271 15 [Milton] pushed, as far as any in that democratic age, his ideas of civil liberty.
Milt1 12.278 26 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton; who, in old age, in solitude, in neglect, and blind, wrote Paradise Lost;...
Milt1 12.279 7 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who, in a revolutionary age... endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...
ACri 12.293 8 Every age gazettes a quantity of words which it has used up.
ACri 12.294 26 We cannot find that anything in [Shakespeare's] age was more worth expression than anything in ours;...
MLit 12.311 9 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write.
MLit 12.311 17 How can the age be a bad one which gives me Plato and Paul and Plutarch...beside its own riches?
MLit 12.311 24 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...which the age adopts by quoting them.
MLit 12.311 26 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.
MLit 12.312 15 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn...
MLit 12.313 24 ...the single soul feels its right...to summon all facts and parties before its tribunal. And in this sense the age is subjective.
MLit 12.315 15 The great lead us to Nature, and in our age to metaphysical Nature...
MLit 12.316 11 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent...which...would not make itself intelligible to the wise man of another age or country?
MLit 12.322 14 Whatever the age inherited or invented, [Goethe] has made his own.
MLit 12.323 2 ...in [Goethe] this encyclopaedia of facts, which it has been the boast of the age to compile, wrought an equal effect.
MLit 12.324 7 [Goethe] shared...the subjectiveness of the age...
MLit 12.328 18 Does [Goethe] represent, not only the achievement of that age in which he lived, but that which it would be and is now becoming?
MLit 12.329 12 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] The age, that can damn [Wilhelm Meister] as false and falsifying, will see that it is deeply one with the genius and history of all the centuries.
MLit 12.334 10 The very depth of the sentiment...is guarantee for the riches of science and of song in the age to come.
MLit 12.334 11 He who doubts whether this age or this country can yield any contribution to the literature of the world only betrays his own blindness to the necessities of the human soul.
MLit 12.334 23 The heart beats in this age as of old...
WSL 12.343 20 Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty...belongs to this sacred class; and among these, few men of the present age have a better claim to be numbered than Mr. Landor.
WSL 12.346 15 [Landor] was one of the first to pronounce Wordsworth the great poet of the age...
Pray 12.351 25 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries...
EurB 12.369 1 ...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth]...celebrated his own [life] with the religion of a true priest. Hence the antagonism which was immediately felt between his poetry and the spirit of the age...
EurB 12.372 6 The poem of all the poetry of the present age for which we predict the longest term is Abou ben Adhem, of Leigh Hunt.
EurB 12.374 26 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of literature, supposed to be the natural fruit and expression of the age.
PPr 12.386 27 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle the calm daylight, which always shows every individual man in balance with his age...
PPr 12.387 3 Each age has its own follies...
PPr 12.388 15 One excellence [Carlyle] has in an age of Mammon and of criticism, that he never suffers the eye of his wonder to close.
LT 1.262 4 What is the reason to be given for this extreme attraction which persons have for us, but that they are the Age?...
LT 1.264 2 ...I find the Age walking about in happy and hopeful natures...
LT 1.271 8 The conscience of the Age demonstrates itself in this effort to raise the life of man by putting it in harmony with his idea of the Beautiful and the Just.
LT 1.281 24 Every Age...has its own distemper.
LT 1.287 3 I do not wish to be guilty of the narrowness and pedantry of inferring the tendency and genius of the Age from a few and insufficient facts or persons.
LT 1.287 14 At the manifest risk of repeating what every other Age has thought of itself, we might say we think the Genius of this Age more philosophical than any other has been...
LT 1.287 16 ...we think the Genius of this Age more philosophical than any other has been...
F 6.3 3 ...our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age.
OA 7.316 10 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! I have often detected the like deception in the...wig, spectacles and padded chair of Age.
OA 7.316 14 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of time], and adds dim sight...short memory and sleep. These also are masks, and all is not Age that wears them.
Hist 2.39 5 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood the Age of Gold...
Chr1 3.87 8 He spoke, and words more soft than rain/ Brought the Age of Gold again:/...
LLNE 10.364 26 [Brook Farm] was...an Age of Reason in a patty-pan.
OA 7.315 9 [Josiah Quincy]...entered at some length into an Apology for Old Age...
OA 7.320 16 ...the creed of the street is, Old Age is not disgraceful, but immensely disadvantageous.
AmS 1.109 5 ...there are data for marking the genius of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or Philosophical age.
MLit 12.310 17 In looking at the library of the Present Age, we are first struck with the fact of the immense miscellany.
AmS 1.109 5 ...there are data for marking the genius of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or Philosophical age.
Clbs 7.242 20 ...there was liberal and refined conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the Middle Age.
Clbs 7.243 16 ...a history of clubs from early antiquity...through the Greek and Roman to the Middle Age...would be an important chapter in history.
AmS 1.109 4 ...there are data for marking the genius of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or Philosophical age.
Schr 10.269 2 Talk frankly with [the practical men] and you learn...that the Spirit of the Age has been before you with influences impossible to parry or resist.
Imtl 8.338 21 The soul does not age with the body.
Nat 1.60 7 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...not as painfully accumulated...in an aged creeping Past...
NER 3.272 15 [Men] are conservatives...when they are sick, or aged.
MoS 4.162 27 ...when in Paris, in 1833...in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon, who died in 1830, aged sixty-eight years...
ET19 5.313 4 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so... I feel in regard to this aged England...
PI 8.14 9 The aged Michel Angelo indicates his perpetual study as in boyhood,--I carry my satchel still.
Plu 10.319 1 [Alexander] persuaded the Sogdians not to kill, but to cherish their aged parents;...
HDC 11.76 7 The presence of these aged men who were in arms on that day [battle of Concord] seems to bring us nearer to it.
MAng1 12.235 7 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work...
Lov1 2.170 11 ...this passion of which we speak [love]...makes the aged participators of it not less than the tender maiden...
HDC 11.83 2 Concord has always been noted for its ministers. The living need no praise of mine. Yet it is among the sources of satisfaction and gratitude, this day, that the aged [Ezra Ripley] with whom is wisdom, our fathers' counsellor and friend, is spared to counsel and intercede for the sons.
ET11 5.185 25 You cannot wield great agencies without lending yourself to them...
Pow 6.68 9 The rule for this whole class of [natural] agencies is,--all plus is good; only put it in the right place.
CbW 6.245 8 All the professions are timid and expectant agencies.
CbW 6.256 10 The agencies by which events so grand as the opening of California, of Texas, or Oregon...are effected, are paltry...
Civ 7.33 9 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which...elevate the rule of life. In the presence of these agencies it is frivolous to insist on the invention of printing or gunpowder...
Dem1 10.17 2 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons...this supposed power runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
PerF 10.70 17 What agencies of electricity, gravity, light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is...
CInt 12.115 25 [The college] is essentially the most radiating and public of agencies...
Nat 1.49 24 Until this higher agency intervened, the animal eye sees...sharp outlines and colored surfaces.
MN 1.209 9 ...there is a mischievous tendency in [man]...to quit his agency and rest in his acts...
UGM 4.35 5 ...within the limits of human education and agency, we may say great men exist that there may be greater men.
SwM 4.133 10 There is an immense chain of intermediation [in Swedenborg's system of the world]...which bereaves every agency of all freedom and character.
SwM 4.134 16 Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive.
MoS 4.177 26 There is a painful rumor in circulation that...free agency is the emptiest name.
Bty 6.288 5 ...everybody knows people...who, with all degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency.
Farm 7.146 14 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and pores. By this agency, carrying in solution elements needful to every plant, the vegetable world exists.
SovE 10.195 4 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his agency.
MMEm 10.428 12 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso,- [God's] agency.
Hist 2.32 4 ...every creature is man agent or patient.
SR 2.69 26 Inasmuch as the soul is present there will be power not confident but agent.
MR 1.231 25 In the Spanish islands, every agent or factor of the Americans...has taken oath that he is a Catholic...
LT 1.261 16 The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
Tran 1.355 7 ...the justice which is now claimed for the black...is for a necessity to the soul of the agent, not of the beneficiary.
YA 1.377 24 [Trade] is a new agent in the world...
Hist 2.3 11 ...this [universal mind] is the only and sovereign agent.
Comp 2.114 9 It is best...to buy...in your agent, good sense applied to accounts and affairs.
Chr1 3.92 20 Nature seems to authorize trade, as soon as you see the natural merchant, who appears not so much a private agent as her factor and Minister of Commerce.
Chr1 3.93 19 I see [in the natural merchant]...the consciousness of being an agent and playfellow of the original laws of the world.
Chr1 3.93 27 In all cases [character] is an extraordinary and incomputable agent.
NER 3.283 17 [The Law] rewards actions after their nature, and not after the design of the agent.
UGM 4.9 5 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is;...
SwM 4.138 14 That pure malignity can exist is the extreme proposition of unbelief. It is not to be entertained by a rational agent;...
NMW 4.252 12 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney of the middle class of modern society;...
GoW 4.264 21 [The scholar] is...an organic agent...
Pow 6.77 12 ...the galvanic stream, slow but continuous, is equal in power to the electric spark, and is, in our arts, a better agent.
Wsp 6.240 5 The weight of the universe is pressed down on the shoulders of each moral agent to hold him to his task.
Art2 7.40 22 [In the useful arts] the omnipotent agent is Nature;...
Schr 10.264 8 This, gentlemen, is the topic on which I shall speak,-the natural and permanent function of the Scholar, as he is...an organic agent in nature.
EzRy 10.389 18 [Ezra Ripley] was the easy dupe of any tonguey agent... who went by.
HDC 11.63 9 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676. The following year, he was sent to England...as agent for the Colony;...
LVB 11.91 2 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
FRO2 11.487 22 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...
CInt 12.122 16 Instinct is the name for...that feeling which each has that what is done by any man or agent is done by the same wit as his.
LT 1.259 13 The Times are...tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise;...
Con 1.321 2 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers...refractory to a degree that embarrassed the agents...
YA 1.374 1 One of [that serene Power's] agents is our will...
Hsm1. 2.252 3 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents.
Exp 3.68 10 ...the chemical and ethereal agents are undulatory and alternate;...
Chr1 3.114 19 ...the mind requires...a force of character...which will rule animal and mineral virtues, and blend with the courses of sap, of rivers, of winds, of stars, and of moral agents.
Nat2 3.194 11 We are escorted on every hand through life by spiritual agents...
Pol1 3.213 22 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts...to secure the advantages of efficiency and internal peace by confiding the government to one, who may himself select his agents.
NR 3.235 19 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries, that all the agents with which we deal are subalterns...
MoS 4.186 1 ...through evil agents...a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
ShP 4.207 8 That imagination which dilates the closet [Shakespeare] writes in to the world's dimension, crowds it with agents in rank and order, as quickly reduces the big reality to be the glimpses of the moon.
ShP 4.217 22 Are the agents of nature, and the power to understand them, worth no more than a street serenade...
NMW 4.229 3 [Napoleon]...acts with the solidity and the precision of natural agents.
NMW 4.246 5 [Napoleon's] capacious head...animating such multitudes of agents;...
ET10 5.161 14 By these new agents [steam and money] our social system is moulded.
Civ 7.30 25 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also evil agents...
DL 7.110 7 Do not ask [the scholar] to help with his savings...eager agents to lobby in legislatures...
Farm 7.152 21 ...we cannot enumerate the incidents and agents of the farm without reverting to their influence on the farmer.
Cour 7.264 18 Courage...consists in the conviction that the agents with whom you contend are not superior in strength of resources or spirit to you.
PI 8.66 18 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy...
Dem1 10.12 21 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement. It is not the incredibility of the fact, but a certain want of harmony between the action and the agents.
Dem1 10.16 20 In the popular belief, ghosts are a selecting tribe, avoiding millions, speaking to one. In our traditions, fairies, angels and saints show the like favoritism; so do the agents and the means of magic...
Dem1 10.22 10 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he acts, unheard-of success evinces the presence of rare agents;...
Aris 10.45 13 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too early. Let him not hurry or hesitate. Though millions are already arrived, his seat is reserved. Though millions attend, they only multiply his friends and agents.
Aris 10.65 9 There is no need that [a man of generous spirit] should count the pounds of property or the numbers of agents whom his influence touches;...
Chr2 10.96 4 Before [the moral sentiment] what are persons, prophets, or seraphim but its passing agents...
HDC 11.83 15 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck]...has wisely enriched his pages with the resolutions, addresses and instructions to its agents...
LVB 11.95 8 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick time, that the millions of virtuous citizens, whose agents the government are, have no place to interpose...
EWI 11.138 18 Men have become aware, through the emancipation [in the West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence of powers which, in their days of darkness, they had overlooked. Virtuous men will not again rely on political agents.
CL 12.140 15 The importance to the intellect of exposing the body and brain to the fine mineral and imponderable agents of the air makes the chief interest in the subject.
MAng1 12.236 9 Amidst endless annoyances from the envy and interest of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he had displaced, [Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast ideas.
Hist 2.39 8 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the... Dark Ages...
Wsp 6.209 8 ...the churches stagger backward to the mummeries of the Dark Ages.
PC 8.214 15 In modern Europe, the Middle Ages were called the Dark Ages.
Boks 7.206 6 For the Church and the Feudal Institution, Mr. Hallam's Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet readable and conceivable outlines.
GoW 4.271 4 We conceive...life in the Middle Ages, to be a simple and comprehensible affair;...
ET4 5.55 18 ...[The Celts] made the best popular literature of the Middle Ages...
ET6 5.109 24 The Middle Ages still lurk in the streets of London.
PC 8.214 14 In modern Europe, the Middle Ages were called the Dark Ages.
Schr 10.262 24 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be (as the poets were called in the Middle Ages) Professors of the Joyous Science...
RBur 11.439 20 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival. We are here to hold our parliament with love and poesy, as men were wont to do in the Middle Ages.
FRep 11.513 18 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times.
Bost 12.193 13 ...these Englishmen [who settled Massachusetts], with the Middle Ages still obscuring their reason, were filled with Christian thought.
Nat 1.27 16 ...man in all ages and countries embodies [Spirit] in his language as the FATHER.
AmS 1.105 19 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men...that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...
DSA 1.120 20 These works of thought have been the entertainments of the human spirit in all ages.
DSA 1.129 7 ...what a distortion did [Jesus's] doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in the next, and the following ages!
DSA 1.130 14 ...as it has appeared for ages, [Christianity] is not the doctrine of the soul...
DSA 1.133 22 ...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all ages.
DSA 1.136 22 Where shall I hear words such as in elder ages drew men to leave all and follow...
LE 1.162 14 The impoverishing philosophy of ages has laid stress on the distinctions of the individual...
MN 1.193 26 ...the sturdiest defender of existing institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air which condenses heat in every corner that may restore to the elements the fabric of ages.
MN 1.206 2 An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen.
MN 1.207 8 Follow the great man, and you shall see what the world has at heart in these ages.
MN 1.221 6 It is the office...of this age to annul that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has effected between the intellect and holiness.
LT 1.265 17 Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
LT 1.272 25 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands. ... For some ages, these ideas have been consigned to the poet and musical composer...
Con 1.301 6 If we read the world historically, we shall say, Of all the ages, the present hour and circumstance is the cumulative result;...
Con 1.311 5 The ages have not been idle...
Con 1.313 17 Thank the rude foster-mother [Necessity], though she has... set hopes in your heart which shall be history in the next ages.
Con 1.317 22 Yonder peasant...carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head, which shall be a sacred history to some future ages.
YA 1.370 13 ...I think we must regard the land as...the sanative and Americanizing influence. which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.
YA 1.371 23 ...there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human race is guided...to results affecting masses and ages.
Hist 2.4 18 ...the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.
Hist 2.16 11 ...there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages.
Hist 2.26 5 [Vases, tragedies, statues] have continued to be made in all ages...
Hist 2.30 20 ...[the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion, with some closeness to the faith of later ages.
Hist 2.37 26 A mind might ponder its thoughts for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
SR 2.61 11 A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire.
SR 2.86 2 A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages;...
Comp 2.112 1 Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property.
SL 2.146 19 We are always reasoning from the seen to the unseen. Hence the perfect intelligence that subsists between wise men of remote ages.
Lov1 2.183 4 Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages.
Fdsp 2.201 14 ...after so many ages of experience, what do we know of nature or of ourselves?
Fdsp 2.209 10 Leave to the diamond its ages to grow...
OS 2.269 19 Only by the vision of that Wisdom [the soul] can the horoscope of the ages be read...
OS 2.273 3 Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. Every man parts from that contemplation with the feeling that it rather belongs to ages than to mortal life.
OS 2.273 12 See how the deep divine thought...makes itself present through all ages.
Cir 2.302 27 You admire this tower of granite, weathering the hurts of so many ages.
Cir 2.311 1 O, what truths profound and executable only in ages and orbs, are supposed in the announcement of every truth!
Int 2.329 9 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it.
Art1 2.359 22 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets that these works...are the contributions of many ages and many countries;...
Pt1 3.35 16 Swedenborg, of all men in the recent ages, stands eminently for the translator of nature into thought.
Exp 3.71 27 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence, old with the love and homage of innumerable ages...
Exp 3.83 9 I can very confidently announce one or another law...but I am too young yet by some ages to compile a code.
Chr1 3.110 8 [The virtuous prince] waits a hundred ages till a sage comes, and does not doubt.
Chr1 3.110 11 ...he who waits a hundred ages until a sage comes, without doubting, knows men.
Chr1 3.110 13 ...the virtuous prince moves, and for ages shows empire the way.
Chr1 3.113 15 The ages are opening this moral force [of character].
Chr1 3.114 6 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth who owed nothing to fortune...
Mrs1 3.123 12 ...every man's name that emerged at all from the mass in the feudal ages rattles in our ear like a flourish of trumpets.
Pol1 3.208 6 What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning...
UGM 4.14 17 ...A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
UGM 4.20 4 Mankind have in all ages attached themselves to a few persons who...were entitled to the position of leaders and law-givers.
UGM 4.25 17 ...there are vices and follies incident to whole populations and ages.
PPh 4.66 7 In the doctrine of the organic character and disposition is the origin of caste. ... The East confirms itself, in all ages, in this faith.
PPh 4.78 19 How many ages have gone by, and [Plato] remains unapproached!
PNR 4.87 24 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure...
SwM 4.117 9 The poets, in as far as they are poets, use [Correspondence]; but it is known to them only as the magnet was known for ages, as a toy.
SwM 4.124 8 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the announcement of ethical laws...entitle him to a place, vacant for some ages, among the lawgivers of mankind.
MoS 4.176 24 Does the general voice of ages affirm any principle...
MoS 4.177 4 The word Fate...expresses the sense of mankind, in all ages, that the laws of the world do not always befriend...us.
MoS 4.185 23 We see, now, events forced on which seem to retard or retrograde the civility of ages.
ShP 4.200 6 The Liturgy...is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations...
ShP 4.202 18 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note...the man...on whose thoughts the foremost people of the world are now for some ages to be nourished...
NMW 4.254 20 Laws, institutions, monuments, nations, all fall [said Napoleon]; but the noise [of a great reputation]...resounds in after ages.
GoW 4.265 25 The scholar is the man of the ages...
GoW 4.272 26 In the menstruum of this man's [Goethe's] wit, the past and the present ages...are dissolved into archetypes and ideas.
GoW 4.277 12 ...[Goethe] flung into literature, in his Mephistopheles, the first organic figure that has been added for some ages...
GoW 4.290 8 We shall learn to draw rents and revenues from the immense patrimony of the old and the recent ages.
ET1 5.11 9 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
ET1 5.18 12 ...[Carlyle] was...cognizant of the subtile links that bind ages together...
ET3 5.34 12 The solidity of the structures that compose the [English] towns speaks the industry of ages.
ET4 5.46 11 ...[the Englishmen's] success is not sudden or fortunate, but they have maintained constancy and self-equality for many ages.
ET4 5.62 21 The mildness of the following ages has not quite effaced these traits of Odin;...
ET4 5.66 3 ...in all ages [the English] are a handsome race.
ET5 5.81 17 [The English] are bound to see their measure carried, and stick to it through ages of defeat.
ET5 5.91 9 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;.--a work whose value does not begin until thirty years have elapsed, and thenceforward a record to all ages of the highest import.
ET5 5.101 20 Whilst [the English] are some ages ahead of the rest of the world in the art of living;...this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold...
ET10 5.163 22 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England], and the hereditary principle heaps on the owner of to-day the benefit of ages of owners.
ET11 5.178 26 This long descent of [English] families and this cleaving through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination.
ET12 5.200 9 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals, which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages...
ET13 5.215 3 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like removing it.
ET13 5.215 15 ...plainly there has been great power of sentiment at work in this island [England], of which these [religious] buildings are the proofs; as volcanic basalts show the work of fire which has been extinguished for ages.
ET13 5.216 7 [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. Man awoke refreshed by the sleep of ages.
ET16 5.279 21 The spot, the gray blocks [of Stonehenge] and their rude order...suggested to [Carlyle] the flight of ages...
ET18 5.299 3 ...[England] is an old pile built in different ages...
ET18 5.299 10 ...[the English] have earned their vantage ground and held it through ages of adverse possession.
F 6.15 16 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate;...
F 6.15 17 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a measure of coal;...
F 6.15 18 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...
Pow 6.54 22 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility;...
Wth 6.83 15 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low and wide,/ This must the leaves of ages strew/ The granite slab to clothe and hide,/ Ere wheat can wave its golden pride./
Wth 6.96 7 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of Roman Caesars...or whatever great proprietors.
Ctr 6.148 4 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
Bhr 6.191 4 There is a whisper out of the ages to him who can understand it...
Wsp 6.205 6 In all ages, souls out of time...are born...
Wsp 6.206 1 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture...
Wsp 6.213 17 There is...a simple...presence, dwelling very peacefully in us...and to this homage there is a consent of all thoughtful and just men in all ages and conditions.
Wsp 6.216 9 All the great ages have been ages of belief.
Wsp 6.216 10 All the great ages have been ages of belief.
Wsp 6.219 7 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
Wsp 6.238 10 The great class...the rapt, the lost, the fools of ideas...suggest what they cannot execute. They speak to the ages...
Wsp 6.240 25 The religion which is to guide and fulfil the present and coming ages...must be intellectual.
SS 7.5 10 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting...to slip away into the back stars...there to wear out ages in solitude...
Elo1 7.70 9 The pictures we have of [eloquence] in semi-barbarous ages... show what it aims at.
DL 7.116 11 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious...
Farm 7.142 27 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages decomposed the rocks...
Farm 7.152 24 This crust of soil which ages have refined [the farmer] refines again for the feeding of a civil and instructed people.
PI 8.2 11 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/ So to repeat/ No word or feat/ Crowds in a day the sum of ages,/ And blushing Love outwits the sages./
PI 8.39 6 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry out and complete the metamorphosis, which, in the imperfect kinds arrested for ages, in the perfecter proceeds rapidly in the same individual.
PI 8.57 7 The metallic force of primitive words makes the superiority of the remains of the rude ages.
PI 8.58 14 ...[The wind] is always of the same age with the ages of ages,/ And of equal breadth with the surface of the earth./
PI 8.74 11 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the truth and reports it, and his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb for ages...
SA 8.77 2 When the old world is sterile/ And the ages are effete,/ He will from wrecks and sediment/ The fairer world complete./
QO 8.181 13 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...whose books made the sufficient culture of these ages, Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
QO 8.182 7 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow growth,-a fagot of selections gathered through ages...
PC 8.213 9 ...I find not only this equality between new and old countries... but also a certain equivalence of the ages of history;...
PC 8.215 17 As we find thus a certain equivalence in the ages, there is also an equipollence of individual genius to the nation which it represents.
PPo 8.236 10 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/ And pass the burning summer-time/ In the palm-grove with a rhyme;/ Heedless that each cunning word/ Tribes and ages overheard/...
PPo 8.240 2 He who would understand the influence of the Homeric ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which similar compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
Grts 8.301 10 I might call [the prize] completeness, but that is later,- perhaps adjourned for ages.
Grts 8.302 24 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races-torpid for ages-by Mahomet;...
Imtl 8.324 27 ...the whole life of man in the first ages was ponderously determined on death;...
Imtl 8.327 3 The most remarkable step in the religious history of recent ages is that made by the genius of Swedenborg...
Imtl 8.328 25 ...spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it...
Imtl 8.348 16 Here are people who cannot dispose of a day;...and will you offer them rolling ages without end?
Dem1 10.8 17 A prophetic character in all ages has haunted [dreams].
Dem1 10.11 3 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh. What thousands had beheld the same spot for so many ages, and seen no three marks.
Dem1 10.22 5 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that the one question for history is the pedigree of his house, and future ages will be busy with his renown;...
Aris 10.38 3 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages!
Aris 10.41 17 In simple communities, in the heroic ages, a man was chosen for his knack;...
Aris 10.41 27 In the heroic ages, as we call them, the hero uniformly has some real talent.
Chr2 10.97 5 In all ages, to all men, [the moral force] saith, I am;...
Chr2 10.100 14 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born which has no weakness of self...
Chr2 10.116 11 ...each inspired master will gain instantly by the separation from the idolatry of ages.
Edc1 10.152 9 Try your design on the best school. The scholars are of all ages and temperaments and capacities.
SovE 10.184 5 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals;...
SovE 10.191 4 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the orphan's tears, the vices of men, lust, cruelty and pitiless avarice. These make the gloomy warp of ages.
SovE 10.194 24 Let [a man]...find...in the passing hour, the age of ages.
SovE 10.197 12 What is this intoxicating sentiment...that makes this doll a dweller in ages...
SovE 10.206 14 All ages of belief have been great;...
SovE 10.209 19 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll...
SovE 10.212 7 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up, in shallow hours or ages, with legends, traditions and forms...
Prch 10.219 19 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious exhibitions are interrupted and periodical,-the ages of belief, of heroic action...
MoL 10.243 17 It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity, and especially by the imagination...the angel of earnest and believing ages.
Schr 10.259 4 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages/...
Schr 10.262 2 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise...that those excellent influences which men in all ages have called the Muse, or by some kindred name, come in to keep us warm and true;...
Schr 10.263 16 The scholar is here...to affirm noble sentiments; to hear them wherever spoken, out of the deeps of ages...
Schr 10.272 24 [The scholar] is the attorney of the world, and can never be superfluous where so vast a variety of questions are ever coming up to be solved, and for ages.
Schr 10.275 11 The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he disesteems old age, and lands, and money, and power...
Plu 10.303 12 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which uses the violence of war, of earthquakes and changed water-courses, to save underground through barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
LLNE 10.329 14 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...all gone;...
LLNE 10.329 18 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...warm negro ages of sentiment and vegetation,-all gone;...
EzRy 10.383 26 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house... with long prayers, rich with the diction of ages;...
MMEm 10.424 18 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...
MMEm 10.425 11 The wonderful inhabitant of the building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where the Creator had put his own lighted candle...
MMEm 10.425 25 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry:-its oceans, when beating the symbols of ceaseless ages, than when covered with cargoes of war and oppression.
MMEm 10.433 11 Very rightly...the Christian ages, proceeding on a grand instinct, have said: Faith alone, Faith alone.
LS 11.16 14 On every other subject [than the Lord's Supper] succeeding times have learned to form a judgment more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.
HDC 11.29 20 The river...every winter, for ages, has spread its crust of ice over the great meadows which, in ages, it had formed.
HDC 11.29 22 The river...every winter, for ages, has spread its crust of ice over the great meadows which, in ages, it had formed.
EWI 11.141 22 ...the white has, for ages, done what he could to keep the negro in that hoggish state.
EWI 11.147 26 The sentiment of Right...pronounces Freedom. The Power that built this fabric of things...in the history of the First of August [1834], has made a sign to the ages, of his will.
War 11.149 3 The archangel Hope/ Looks to the azure cope,/ Waits through dark ages for the morn,/ Defeated day by day, but unto Victory born./
War 11.154 9 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage. It would be very easy to show analogous benefits that have resulted from military movements of later ages.
War 11.160 1 For ages...the human race has gone on under the tyranny...of this first brutish form of their effort to be men;...
War 11.160 1 ...ideas work in ages, and animate vast societies of men...
War 11.160 5 ...for ages [the human race] have shared so much of the nature of the lower animals...
FSLC 11.184 13 ...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
FSLC 11.198 22 These resistances [to the Fugitive Slave Law] appear...in the retributions which speak so loud in every part of this business, that I think a tragic poet will know how to make it a lesson for all ages.
FSLC 11.210 17 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages...still the question recurs, What must we do?
FSLN 11.226 26 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here was a question of an immoral law; a question agitated for ages...
FSLN 11.238 24 ...the spasms of Nature are centuries and ages...
JBB 11.272 2 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts...stained to all ages...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
ACiv 11.297 11 ...for two or three ages [slavery] has lasted...
ACiv 11.304 21 We are advanced some ages on the war-state...
EPro 11.326 12 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...
ALin 11.337 8 Easy good nature has been the dangerous foible of the Republic, and it was necessary that its enemies should...drive us to unwonted firmness, to secure the salvation of this country in the next ages.
HCom 11.339 9 These boys we talk about like ancient sages/ Are the same men we read of in old pages-/ The bronze recast of dead heroic ages!/
Shak1 11.449 7 ...[Shakespeare] is...the genius which, in upoetic ages, keeps poetry in honor...
FRO1 11.477 18 ...we began [the Free Religious Association] many years ago,-yes, and many ages before that.
FRep 11.516 14 We are in these days settling for ourselves and our descendants questions which...will make the peace and prosperity or the calamity of the next ages.
FRep 11.530 16 ...the great interests of mankind, being at every moment through ages in favor of justice and the largest liberty, will always...gain on the adversary and at last win the day.
PLT 12.18 25 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...ships and cities and nations and armies of men and ages of duration;...
PLT 12.34 8 We feel as if one man wrote all the books, painted, built, in dark ages;...
PLT 12.51 21 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought], drop by drop, as it trickles from the rock of ages...she husbands and hives...
PLT 12.60 1 The same course continues itself in the mind which we have witnessed in Nature, namely the carrying-on and completion of the metamorphosis from grub to worm, from worm to fly. In human thought this process is often arrested for years and ages.
Mem 12.102 14 There are more inventions in the thoughts of one happy day than ages could execute...
CInt 12.122 24 We feel as if one man wrote all the books...in dark ages...
CL 12.135 2 The Teutonic race have been marked in all ages by a trait which has received the name of Earth-hunger...
Bost 12.182 17 A blessing through the ages thus/ Shield all thy roofs and towers!/ GOD WITH THE FATHERS, SO WITH US,/ Thou darling town of ours [Boston]1/
Bost 12.211 18 ...in distant ages [Boston's] motto shall be the prayer of millions on all the hills that gird the town, As with our Fathers, so God be with us!
Milt1 12.253 4 ...every masterpiece of art goes on for some ages reconciling the world into itself...
Milt1 12.254 13 ...no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].
Milt1 12.254 22 Human nature in these ages is indebted to [Milton] for its best portrait.
Milt1 12.261 19 ...Milton was conscious of possessing this intellectual voice, penetrating through ages...
Milt1 12.268 13 For the first time since many ages, the invocations of the Eternal Spirit in the commencement of [Milton's] books are not poetic forms, but are thoughts...
ACri 12.295 3 We cannot...give any account of [Shakespeare's] existence, but only the fact that there was a wonderful symbolizer and expressor, who has no rival in all ages...
ACri 12.295 19 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider, to keep it at pleasure a little out of the imbroglio of Europe, they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet;...
MLit 12.313 25 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality.
MLit 12.318 11 [The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature, which is courted in a certain moody and exploring spirit, as if they anticipated a more intimate union of man with the world than has been known in recent ages.
MLit 12.321 9 [Wordsworth's The Excursion] was the human soul in these last ages striving for a just publication of itself.
WSL 12.341 8 In these busy days...a faithful scholar, receiving from past ages the treasures of wit and enlarging them by his own love, is a friend and consoler of mankind.
Pray 12.350 24 Let us...have the prayers...of men in all ages and religions who have prayed well.
PPr 12.383 19 The historian of to-day is yet three ages off.
PPr 12.386 16 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us...
PPr 12.391 25 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning...is sure to return...in gigantic reverberation, as if the hills, the horizon, and the next ages returned the sound.
EdAd 11.392 2 Is the age we live in unfriendly...to that blending of the affections with the poetic faculty which has distinguished the Religious Ages?
CL 12.141 16 We might say, the Rock of Ages dissolves himself into the mineral air to build up this mystic constitution of man's mind and body.
Plu 10.318 11 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch, who told the story of Leonidas, of Agesilaus...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
UGM 4.25 25 Nature abhors these complaisances which threaten to melt the world into a lump, and hastens to break up such maudlin agglutinations.
ET4 5.57 8 In Norway, no Persian masses fight and perish to aggrandize a king...
Cour 7.275 15 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity; but to the hero whose intellect is aggrandized by the soul...these terrors vanish as darkness at sunrise.
Cour 7.273 10 A great aim aggrandizes the means.
ET3 5.39 23 The London fog aggravates the distempers of the sky...
Con 1.309 1 All your aggregate existences are less to me a fact than is my own;...
Nat 1.14 1 By the aggregate of these aids [of the useful arts], how is the face of the world changed...
SwM 4.114 22 Hunger is an aggregate of very many little hungers...
F 6.43 21 What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials which have obeyed the will of some man?
Int 2.330 11 What you have aggregated in a natural manner surprises and delights when it is produced.
SwM 4.114 19 What was too small for the eye to detect was read by the aggregates;...
PI 8.29 10 Fancy aggregates; imagination animates.
Int 2.340 9 Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation is the integrity of the intellect transmitted to its works...
QO 8.200 24 My work [said Goethe] is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of Nature;...
War 11.170 22 The next season...an aggression on our commerce by Malays; or the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...
FSLN 11.240 4 ...torpor exists here throughout the active classes on the subject of domestic slavery and its appalling aggressions.
ET2 5.29 16 In our graveyards we scoop a pit, but this aggressive water opens mile-wide pits and chasms...
ET4 5.46 5 ...[the English] are still aggressive and propagandist...
ET4 5.51 1 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter... aggressive freedom and hospitable law with bitter class-legislation;...
ET9 5.147 9 ...I am afraid that English nature is so rank and aggressive as to be a little incompatible with every other.
ET13 5.216 6 [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.
Bhr 6.180 24 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...others are aggressive and devouring...
CbW 6.269 23 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints the reason of a household.
WD 7.164 14 Machinery is aggressive.
Cour 7.259 13 ...the aggressive attitude of men who will have right done... that part, the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
Chr2 10.105 23 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings.
Carl 10.493 18 [Carlyle] has a vivacious, aggressive temperament, and unimpressionable.
FSLN 11.226 11 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery, and that...when [the aspect of the institution] was strong, aggressive, and threatening an illimitable increase.
FSLN 11.229 3 ...[the Fugitive Slave Law] discloses the secret of the new times, that Slavery...was become aggressive and dangerous.
FSLN 11.244 2 Liberty is aggressive...
EPro 11.325 2 ...those [Southern] states have shown every year a more hostile and aggressive temper...
Wom 11.416 2 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who...showed the difference of sex to run through nature and through thought. Of all Christian sects this is at this moment the most vital and aggressive.
RBur 11.440 19 [Burns's] muse and teaching was common sense, joyful, aggressive, irresistible.
LVB 11.96 3 However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the aggressor.
EWI 11.104 1 We sympathize very tenderly here with the poor aggrieved [West Indian] planter...
LE 1.164 14 ...concede [the man of letters] talents never so rare, denying him genius, and he is aggrieved.
ET10 5.167 24 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...
MN 1.205 18 See the play of thoughts!...what saurians, what palaiotheria shall be named with these agile movers?
SA 8.93 19 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman:... She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives unexpected vigor and agility to fancy...
LE 1.170 3 ...not less is there a relation of beauty between my soul and the dim crags of Agiochook up there in the clouds.
Insp 8.287 13 Do you want Monadnoc, Agiocochook...in your closet?
Chr1 3.89 8 The Gracchi, Agis, Cleomenes, and others of Plutarch's heroes, do not in the record of facts equal their own fame.
Elo1 7.79 13 [The Grecian States] did not send to Lacedaemon for troops, but they said, Send us a commander; and...Brasidas, or Agis, was despatched by the Ephors.
MR 1.247 26 ...the idea which now begins to agitate society has a wider scope than our daily employments...
NER 3.263 19 Doubts such as those I have intimated drove many good persons to agitate the questions of social reform.
Elo1 7.63 10 No one can survey the face of an excited assembly, without... being agitated to agitate.
PI 8.73 5 The high poetry which shall thrill and agitate mankind...is deeper hid...
Elo2 8.112 16 ...the political questions, which agitate millions, find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures...
MMEm 10.404 15 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool.
Insp 8.279 13 Aristotle said: No great genius was ever without some mixture of madness, nor can anything grand or superior to the voice of common mortals be spoken except by the agitated soul.
Milt1 12.268 24 [Milton's] birth fell upon the agitated years when the discontents of the English Puritans were fast drawing to a head against the tyranny of the Stuarts.
LT 1.269 20 How can such a question as the Slave-trade be agitated for forty years...without throwing great light on ethics into the general mind?
Pt1 3.24 23 The poet also resigns himself to his mood, and that thought which agitated him is expressed...
NMW 4.246 15 On the shore of Ptolemais, gigantic projects agitated [Napoleon].
ET3 5.36 22 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause which has agitated the whole community...
Elo1 7.63 9 No one can survey the face of an excited assembly, without... being agitated to agitate.
DL 7.127 1 ...let the hearts [our friends] have agitated witness what power has lurked in the traits of these structures of clay that pass and repass us!
PC 8.222 13 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one...he was so agitated that he was forced to call in an assistant to finish the computation.
PC 8.222 15 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one...he was so agitated that he was forced to call in an assistant to finish the computation. Why agitated?...
Dem1 10.4 24 When newly awaked from lively dreams, we are so near them, still agitated by them...give us one syllable...and we should repossess the whole;...
LVB 11.93 26 ...to us the questions upon which the government and the people have been agitated during the past year...seem but motes in comparison [with the relocation of the Cherokees].
FSLN 11.226 26 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here was a question of an immoral law; a question agitated for ages...
EurB 12.370 24 ...[modern painters] will not paint for their times, agitated by the spirit which agitates their country;...
LT 1.272 5 It is the interior testimony to a fairer possibility of life and manners which agitates society every day with the offer of some new amendment.
Con 1.295 13 The war [between Conservatism and Innovation]...agitates every man's bosom with opposing advantages every hour.
OS 2.281 8 Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment [of the soul] agitates men with awe and delight.
Elo1 7.92 22 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him...
PI 8.16 2 ...the book, the landscape or the personality which...penetrated to the inward sense, agitates us, and is not forgotten.
Shak1 11.450 10 ...[Shakespeare] still agitates the heart in age as in youth...
FRep 11.533 3 Blessed is all that agitates the mass...
EurB 12.370 24 ...[modern painters] will not paint for their times, agitated by the spirit which agitates their country;...
HDC 11.77 7 The agitating events of those days [of the battle of Concord] were duly remembered in the church.
Chr1 3.102 5 Had there been something latent in the man, a terrible undemonstrated genius agitating and embarrassing his demeanor, we had watched for its advent.
Bost 12.206 18 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind agitating the mass...
Nat 1.31 23 Long hereafter, amidst agitation and terror in national councils...these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre...
ET7 5.123 22 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners: which, to be sure, is paralleled by the democratic whimsy in this country...that the English are at the bottom of the agitation of slavery...
Wth 6.105 16 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved. He takes it, and there is...an agitation through a large portion of mankind...
Ctr 6.140 23 ...we begin the uphill agitation for repeal of that of which we ought to have prevented the enacting.
Insp 8.278 27 Bonaparte said: There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan. I magnify...all the possible mischances. I am in an agitation utterly painful.
EWI 11.107 16 In [the Quakers'] plain meeting-houses and prim dwellings this dismal agitation [against slavery] got entrance.
FSLN 11.228 7 [Webster] told the people at Boston...that agitation of the subject of Slavery must be suppressed.
MoL 10.247 14 The fears and agitations of men who watch the markets... are not for [the scholar].
MMEm 10.423 25 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou, whose might has laid low the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy hoary throne, with like potency over thy agitations and thy graves.
LT 1.265 2 Let us paint the agitator...
NR 3.246 14 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as agitator.
NMW 4.252 16 [Napoleon] was the agitator...
LT 1.269 10 ...the agitators on the system of Education and the laws of Property, are the right successors of Luther, Knox...
LT 1.285 8 By the side of these men [of the intellectual class], the hot agitators have a certain cheap and ridiculous air;...
CL 12.148 15 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. Stable is their birthplace in the sky, but they are agitators of heaven and earth...
PNR 4.87 8 The gods are [to Plato] the ideas. ... Venus is proportion; Calliope, the soul of the world; Aglaia, intellectual illustration.
Insp 8.273 25 Sometimes there is no sea-fire, and again the sea is aglow to the horizon.
II 12.70 2 Here are we with...the spontaneous impressions of Nature and men, and original oracles,-all ready to be uttered, if only we could be set aglow.
CL 12.149 7 The Hindoos called fire Agni, born in the woods...
AmS 1.92 6 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived...two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul...
AmS 1.105 6 It is a mischievous notion that...the world was finished a long time ago.
LT 1.263 15 I remember, some years ago, somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
Con 1.320 27 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore, some years ago, found the Irish laborers quarrelsome...
SR 2.86 6 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago.
Exp 3.48 24 In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate...
Exp 3.59 6 Unspeakably sad and barren does life look to those who a few months ago were dazzled with the splendor of the promise of the times.
Exp 3.83 13 I am not the novice I was fourteen, nor yet seven years ago.
Mrs1 3.128 22 The class of power, the working heroes...see...that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their own, fifty or sixty years ago.
NER 3.258 19 Once (say two centuries ago), Latin and Greek had a strict relation to all the science and culture there was in Europe...
NER 3.279 21 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian.
ET1 5.19 12 ...[Wordsworth] had broken a tooth by a fall, when walking with two lawyers, and had said that he was glad it did not happen forty years ago;...
ET2 5.31 20 ...some of the happiest and most valuable hours I have owed to books, passed, many years ago, on shipboard.
ET4 5.72 18 Two centuries ago the English horse never performed any eminent service beyond the seas;...
ET8 5.133 14 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind...
ET10 5.157 17 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes...
ET10 5.158 6 Two centuries ago the sawing of timber was done by hand;...
ET10 5.159 22 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago.
ET10 5.159 25 Eight hundred years ago commerce had made [England] rich...
ET16 5.277 21 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were soaring and singing;-- as my friend [Carlyle] said, the larks which were hatched last year, and the wind which was hatched many thousand years ago.
ET16 5.283 11 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston...
ET16 5.283 19 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons...nor did they think they were doing anything remarkable. I suppose there were as good men a thousand years ago.
ET16 5.285 15 The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was finished six hundred years ago, has even a spruce and modern air...
ET16 5.290 5 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part of the crypt...was built fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.
F 6.3 1 It chanced during one winter a few years ago, that our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age.
F 6.7 19 At Naples three years ago ten thousand persons were crushed in a few minutes.
Wth 6.86 14 Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago; but is put to better use.
Wth 6.102 22 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston.
Wth 6.114 22 We had in this region, twenty years ago, among our educated men, a sort of Arcadian fanaticism...
Bty 6.286 8 At the birth of Winckelmann, more than a hundred years ago, side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
Ill 6.309 1 Some years ago...I spent a long summer day in exploring the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
Boks 7.214 15 ...Jeanne and Consuelo, of George Sand, are great steps from the novel of one termination, which we all read twenty years ago.
Clbs 7.238 25 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...
OA 7.325 26 Thirty years ago it was a serious concern to [the lawyer] whether his pleading was good and effective.
PI 8.7 13 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
Elo2 8.113 3 By leading [people's] thought [the eloquent man] leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all...
Elo2 8.127 9 Dr. Charles Chauncy was, a hundred years ago, a man of marked ability among the clergy of New England.
QO 8.183 8 Thirty years ago...you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster's three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could defer till to-morrow;...
QO 8.185 8 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...
PC 8.211 2 Every one who was in Italy thirty-five years ago will remember the caution with which his host or guest in any house looked around him, if a political topic were broached.
PC 8.214 25 Six hundred years ago Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes and the necessity of reform in the calendar;...
PPo 8.263 20 From this poem [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], written five hundred years ago, we cite the following passage...
Insp 8.290 9 Some of us may remember, years ago...the petition...against the license of the organ-grinders...
Imtl 8.328 5 Sixty years ago, the books read...were all directed on death.
Imtl 8.331 10 Many years ago, there were two men in the United States Senate...
Chr2 10.107 6 Fifty or a hundred years ago, prayers were said, morning and evening, in all families;...
Edc1 10.139 8 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the engine-house. They are there only for fun, and not knowing that they are at school...quite as much and more than they were, an hour ago, in the arithmetic class.
Supl 10.165 6 Horace Walpole relates that in the expectation, current in London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided themselves with dresses for the occasion.
SovE 10.204 5 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind...
LLNE 10.330 3 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times; from the Arminians, which was the current name of the backsliders from Calvinism, sixty years ago;...
HDC 11.32 8 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...two hundred years ago this day, leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
LVB 11.95 2 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;...
EWI 11.135 6 ...as an omen and assurance of success, I point to you the bright example which England set you [in emancipation in the West Indies], on this day, ten years ago.
EWI 11.143 11 Who cares for oppressing whites, or oppressed blacks, twenty centuries ago...
FSLC 11.186 17 Let me remind you a little in detail how the natural retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.
FSLC 11.190 6 A few months ago, in my dismay at hearing that the Higher Law was reckoned a good joke in the courts, I took pains to look into a few law-books.
FSLN 11.224 7 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
FSLN 11.244 12 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...years ago;...
AsSu 11.247 22 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of;...
AKan 11.262 5 California, a few years ago...had the best government that ever existed.
ACiv 11.301 4 You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy. Why, The Edinburgh Review...made its case, forty years ago.
ACiv 11.308 1 Why should not America be capable of a second stroke for the well-being of the human race, as eighty or ninety years ago she was for the first...
SMC 11.371 20 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun, eight and a half days ago...
FRO1 11.477 17 ...we began [the Free Religious Association] many years ago,-yes, and many ages before that.
FRep 11.517 16 One hundred years ago the American people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection.
FRep 11.538 15 ...if the spirit which years ago armed this country against rebellion...could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
PLT 12.8 12 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...
CInt 12.125 11 In the romance Spiridion a few years ago, we had what it seems was a piece of accurate autobiography...
CL 12.144 13 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it was impossible to walk in the country...
CL 12.145 18 [The Farmer] saves every drop of sap, as if it were wine. A few years ago those trees were whipsticks. Now, every one of them is worth a hundred dollars.
Bost 12.185 24 What Vasari said, three hundred years ago, of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...
MAng1 12.243 19 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery...cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.
Milt1 12.247 23 It was very easy to remark an altered tone in the criticism when Milton reappeared as an author, fifteen years ago...
Milt1 12.254 5 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton] who died a hundred and sixty years ago...
ACri 12.298 10 Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History of Friedrich, infinitely the wittiest book that ever was written;...
AgMs 12.358 14 I still remember with some shame that in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.
Let 12.403 3 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son.
DSA 1.134 9 Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done...
LE 1.167 4 We assume that all thought is already long ago adequately set down in books...
Art1 2.364 3 The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect.
Mrs1 3.129 3 The city would have died out, rotted and exploded, long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields.
NR 3.237 18 ...if we saw the real from hour to hour, we should...have been burned or frozen long ago.
NMW 4.223 23 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave... and the interests of living labor...
GoW 4.278 18 We had an English romance here, not long ago...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage.
ET11 5.185 11 If one asks...what service this class [English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago.
Elo1 7.86 22 I remember long ago being attracted, by the distinction of the counsel...into the court-room.
Cour 7.260 4 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere...
OA 7.328 12 [The veteran] beholds the feats of the juniors with complacency, but as one who having long ago known these games, has refined them into results and morals.
SA 8.103 1 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago, with my eyes directed on this subject, to fall in with an American to be proud of.
PPo 8.255 9 My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in the sky-vault's cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of life's hope./
Insp 8.270 9 We are very glad...that [the aboriginal man's] doleful experiences were got through with so very long ago.
Aris 10.57 25 ...amid the levity and giddiness of people one looks round... on some self-dependent mind, who...has long ago made up its conclusion that it is impossible to fail.
LLNE 10.367 12 The question which occurs to you had occurred much earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to be done? And long ago Fourier had exclaimed, Ah! I have it, and jumped with joy.
Thor 10.476 9 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove...
Thor 10.477 23 ...the same isolation which belonged to his original thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms. This is neither to be censured nor regretted. Aristotle long ago explained it, when he said, One who surpasses his fellow citizens in virtue is no longer a part of the city. Their law is not for him, since he is a law to himself.
EdAd 11.390 21 Let [a journal] now show its astuteness by...arguing diffusely every point on which men are long ago unanimous.
FRep 11.532 17 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him; already they remember that they long ago suspected his judgment...
PLT 12.25 27 The botanist discovered long ago that Nature loves mixtures...
II 12.74 5 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it...
II 12.85 25 That you have done long ago helps you now.
Milt1 12.252 7 Milton the polemic has lost his popularity long ago;...
GoW 4.266 14 It is believed...the running up and down to procure a company of subscribers to set a-going five or ten thousand spindles...is practical and commendable.
Supl 10.165 3 Every favorite is not a cherub...nor agonies, excruciations nor ecstasies our daily bread.
PI 8.48 11 A little onward lend thy guiding hand,/ To these dark steps a little farther on./ Samson.
Milt1 12.275 14 The Samson Agonistes is too broad an expression of [Milton's] private griefs to be mistaken...
MMEm 10.423 16 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a few days of agony...compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
CSC 10.374 22 ...Groaners, Agrarians, Seventh-day Baptists...all successively...seized their moment [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
SR 2.50 1 Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
Exp 3.69 7 The ardors of piety agree at last with the coldest scepticism,-- that nothing is of us or our works,--that all is of God.
Pol1 3.214 5 Whilst I do what is fit for me, and abstain from what is unfit, my neighbor and I shall often agree in our means...
MoS 4.181 24 It is the rule of mere comity and courtesy to agree where you can...
NMW 4.235 24 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences, (as large majorities of men seem to agree,) certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
NMW 4.250 11 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier, bishop of Montpellier, on matters of theology. There were two points on which they could not agree...
ET13 5.221 20 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain.
ET13 5.227 23 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop]; and...invariably find that the dictates of the Holy Ghost agree with the recommendations of the Queen.
Wsp 6.211 17 ...if an adventurer...procure himself to be elected to a post of trust...by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief,--the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
Suc 7.291 10 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success...
PI 8.13 17 If you agree with me...I may yet be wrong;...
PI 8.13 18 If you agree with me, or if Locke or Montesquieu agree, I may yet be wrong;...
PI 8.58 27 [Taliessin] says of his hero, Cunedda,--He will assimilate, he will agree with the deep and the shallow.
Grts 8.303 2 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? What of Menu? what...of Franklin? There are certain points of identity in which these masters agree.
Imtl 8.342 13 ...the one doctrine in which all religions agree is that new light is added to the mind in proportion as it uses that which it has.
Chr2 10.91 2 Morals respects...that which all men agree to honor as justice...
Supl 10.173 9 ...it would seem the whole human race agree to value a man precisely in proportion to his power of expression;...
Prch 10.227 21 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit which now fires you. So with Cudworth, More, Bunyan. I agree with them more than I disagree.
Prch 10.227 22 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit which now fires you. So with Cudworth, More, Bunyan. I agree with them more than I disagree. I agree with their heart and motive;...
Schr 10.264 24 The poet and the citizen perfectly agree in conversation on the wise life.
HDC 11.53 22 It is piteous to see [the Indians'] self-distrust in...their unanimous entreaty to Captain Willard, to be their Recorder, being very solicitous that what they did agree upon might be faithfully kept without alteration.
HDC 11.65 13 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June; and if any scholar shall come, within the said time, for larning exceeding his son's ability, the said Captain doth agree to instruct them himself in the tongues, till the above said time be fulfilled;...
War 11.162 17 All admit that [peace] would be the best policy...if all would agree to accept this rule.
FSLC 11.191 25 All authors who have any conscience or modesty agree that a person ought not to obey such commands as are evidently contrary to the laws of God.
TPar 11.291 5 There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy. If you don't agree with them, they know they only injure the truth by speaking.
Wom 11.422 1 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
FRO2 11.487 13 ...we all agree that the health and integrity of man is self-respect...
MAng1 12.215 4 ...all things recorded of Michael Angelo Buonarotti agree together.
Milt1 12.264 5 ...[Milton] declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.
Pray 12.351 17 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant...that those external things which I have may be such as may best agree with a right internal disposition of mine;...
Nat 1.16 3 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye...
Nat 1.28 11 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...in any way associated to human nature, affects us in the most...agreeable manner.
Nat 1.51 12 Turn the eyes upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture...
DSA 1.126 19 What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
LT 1.271 13 Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination.
YA 1.367 8 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...
SL 2.145 5 Over all things that are agreeable to his nature and genius the man has the highest right.
Lov1 2.173 15 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations;...
Exp 3.47 8 Every roof is agreeable to the eye until it is lifted;...
Mrs1 3.121 10 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country, makes them intelligible and agreeable to each other...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
Mrs1 3.126 19 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. The association of these masters with each other and with men intelligent of their merits, is mutually agreeable and stimulating.
Pol1 3.218 16 Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth...
UGM 4.7 26 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men;...
UGM 4.10 12 ...solid, liquid, and gas...by their agreeable quarrel, beguile the day of life.
NMW 4.225 27 ...precisely what is agreeable to the heart of every man in the nineteenth century, this powerful man [Napoleon] possessed.
NMW 4.251 25 The most agreeable portion [of Bonaparte's memoirs] is the Campaign in Egypt.
ET9 5.149 5 Their culture generally enables the travelled English to avoid any ridiculous extremes of this self-pleasing, and to give it an agreeable air.
ET17 5.291 12 ...my impression of the island [England] is bright with agreeable memories both of public societies and of households...
F 6.4 25 ...by firmly stating all that is agreeable to experience on one [topic], and doing the same justice to the opposing facts in the others, the true limitations will appear.
Ctr 6.148 10 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws...
Ctr 6.160 3 When our higher faculties are in activity...awkwardness and discomfort give place to natural and agreeable movements.
Bty 6.296 2 ...all masons and carpenters work to repeat and preserve the agreeable forms...
Bty 6.306 12 ...there is a climbing scale of culture, from the first agreeable sensation which a sparkling gem or a scarlet stain affords the eye...
Ill 6.309 1 Some years ago, in company with an agreeable party, I spent a long summer day in exploring the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
SS 7.4 15 The most agreeable compliment you could pay [my new friend] was to imply that you had not observed him in a house or a street where you had met him.
Art2 7.53 24 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made...in tears and smiles of suffering and loving men. Viewed from this point the history of Art becomes...one of the most agreeable studies.
Suc 7.311 12 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get, urging him...to make himself useful and agreeable in the world...
PI 8.15 25 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary meaning. Every new object so seen gives a shock of agreeable surprise.
Comc 8.158 19 The whole of Nature is agreeable to the whole of thought, or to the Reason;...
QO 8.186 19 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind.
Imtl 8.327 17 We shall pass to the future existence as we enter into an agreeable dream.
Imtl 8.339 16 The fable of the Wandering Jew is agreeable to men, because they want more time and land in which to execute their thoughts.
Aris 10.46 3 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor. Is it? Yes, but the fortune was...in the balance or adjustment between devotion to what is agreeable to-day and the forecast of what will be valuable to-morrow.
Aris 10.51 25 To a right aristocracy...to the men, that is, who are incomparably superior to the populace in ways agreeable to the populace... everything will be permitted and pardoned...
Supl 10.169 14 The low expression is strong and agreeable.
Plu 10.295 11 King Henry IV. wrote to his wife...you could not have sent me anything which could be more agreeable than the news of the pleasure you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].
Plu 10.313 3 When you are persuaded in your mind that you cannot either offer or perform anything more agreeable to the gods than the entertaining a right notion of them, you will then avoid superstition as a no less evil than atheism.
Plu 10.317 20 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of Noble Commanders is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch; but the matter...is so agreeable to his taste and genius, that if he had found it, he would have adopted it.
LLNE 10.364 9 The Founders of Brook Farm should have this praise, that they made what all people try to make, an agreeable place to live in.
Thor 10.453 4 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him...
Thor 10.455 22 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking hundreds of miles...buying a lodging in farmers' and fishermen's houses, as cheaper, and more agreeable to him...
LS 11.19 23 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration, every way agreeable to an Eastern mind, and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
LS 11.23 4 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that form be agreeable to their understandings or not.
EWI 11.129 22 As I have walked in the pastures and along the edge of woods, I could not keep my imagination on those agreeable figures, for other images that intruded on me.
War 11.162 25 ...what is true-that is, what is at bottom fit and agreeable to the constitution of man-must at last prevail over all obstruction and all opposition.
FSLN 11.232 8 I too think the musts are a safe company to follow, and even agreeable.
Wom 11.411 21 [Women] should be found in fit surroundings...with agreeable architecture...
Wom 11.425 24 Every woman being the...wife, daughter, sister, mother, of a man, she can never be very far from his ear, never not of his counsel, if she has really something to urge that is good in itself and agreeable to nature.
SHC 11.433 14 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...
SHC 11.433 15 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums, and agreeable to the temper of our times,-an Arboretum...
SHC 11.436 14 Why is the fable of the Wandering Jew agreeable to men, but because they want more time and land to execute their thoughts in?
PLT 12.46 5 Wishing is castle-building; the dreaming about things agreeable to the senses, but to which we have no right.
WSL 12.347 4 ...as it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded, so is Mr. Landor the most useful and agreeable of critics.
EurB 12.373 24 The story of Zanoni was one of those world-fables which is so agreeable to the human imagination that it is found in some form in the language of every country...
EurB 12.377 12 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey.
Mrs1 3.136 11 I have just been reading...Montaigne's account of his journey into Italy, and am struck with nothing more agreeably than the self-respecting fashions of the time.
SA 8.82 7 An awkward man is graceful...when hard at work, or agreeably amused.
LLNE 10.340 24 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were chatting agreeably on indifferent matters...
HDC 11.41 3 Agreeably to the custom of the times, a large portion [of land in Concord] was reserved to the public...
CL 12.144 1 In Massachusetts, our land is agreeably broken...
Let 12.398 25 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...simply because they shall so be...agreeably entertained for one or two years...
Exp 3.65 15 ...stay there in thy closet and toil until the rest are agreed what to do about it.
Exp 3.76 23 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity, with the name of hero or saint. Jesus... is a good man on whom many people are agreed that these optical laws shall take effect.
Wth 6.93 3 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth...
PC 8.213 15 We are all agreed that we have not on the instant better men to show than Plutarch's heroes.
Supl 10.168 6 All our manner of life is on a secure and moderate pattern, such as can last. Violence and extravagance are...distasteful; competence, quiet, comfort, are the agreed welfare.
LS 11.4 22 ...so far from the [Lord's] Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed, there has always been the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular.
FSLC 11.188 17 I thought it a point on which all sane men were agreed, that the law must respect the public morality.
PLT 12.55 9 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern. You will say this is quite axiomatic and a little too true. I do not find it an agreed point.
Hist 2.9 16 What is history, said Napoleon, but a fable agreed upon?
Fdsp 2.203 9 I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first...all men agreed he was mad.
Mrs1 3.143 10 ...it is not to be supposed that men have agreed to be the dupes of anything preposterous;...
Pol1 3.200 20 The statute stands there to say, Yesterday we agreed so and so, but how feel ye this article to-day?
NER 3.273 6 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
NMW 4.251 8 Corvisart candidly agreed with me [said Bonaparte] that all your filthy mixtures are good for nothing.
ET9 5.149 23 ...at last it was agreed that [the Frenchman and the Englishman] should fight alone...
ET16 5.273 1 It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion together to Stonehenge...
Pow 6.54 4 All successful men have agreed in one thing,--they were causationists.
Pow 6.65 5 ...churchmen and men of refinement, it seems agreed, are not fit persons to send to Congress.
Clbs 7.241 20 Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities...
Clbs 7.248 25 ...it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all...agreed in one thing,--that they had not eaten better for three years.
Clbs 7.249 6 It is agreed that in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...
PPo 8.254 6 O Hafiz! speak not of thy need;/ Are not these verses thine?/ Then all the poets are agreed,/ No man can less repine./
Aris 10.48 13 It will be agreed everywhere that society must have the benefit of the best leaders.
Prch 10.235 21 All civil mankind have agreed in leaving one day for contemplation against six for practice.
MoL 10.244 21 Now it is agreed that we are utilitarian;...
Schr 10.270 10 ...all the human race have agreed to value a man according to his power of expression.
Plu 10.293 8 It is agreed that [Plutarch] was born about the year 50 of the Christian era.
LLNE 10.342 22 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth...with pleasure and sympathy.
LLNE 10.345 17 [The pilgrim]...explained with simple warmth the belief of himself and five or six young men with whom he agreed in opinion, of the vast mischief of our insidious coin.
EzRy 10.381 18 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...
HDC 11.57 15 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...
HDC 11.65 7 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord...
EWI 11.110 1 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade...
FSLC 11.204 9 [Webster] adheres to the letter. Happily he was born late,- after the independence had been declared, the Union agreed to, and the constitution settled.
FSLC 11.207 20 Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest counsel of her own?
ACiv 11.308 15 A week before the two captive commissioners were surrendered to England, every one thought it could not be done: it would divide the North. It was done, and in two days all agreed it was the right action.
Wom 11.406 25 ...the general voice of mankind has agreed that [women] have their own strength;...
CL 12.158 8 My companion and I...agreed that russet was the hue of Massachusetts...
Trag 12.406 4 It is usually agreed that some nations have a more sombre temperament...
SwM 4.141 6 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must be...stabler than mountains, agreeing with flowers...
SR 2.58 26 There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions...
Mrs1 3.130 22 Each man's rank in that perfect graduation [of fashion] depends on some symmetry in his structure or some agreement in his structure to the symmetry of society.
Pol1 3.213 1 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. In these decisions all the citizens find a perfect agreement...
PC 8.221 10 [The scholar] has accosted this immeasurable Nature, and got clear answers. He understood what he read. He found agreement with himself.
Insp 8.274 19 Of the modus of inspiration we have no knowledge. But in the experience of meditative men there is a certain agreement as to the conditions of reception.
Insp 8.289 23 ...in regard to some apparent trifles there is great agreement as to their annoyance.
Chr2 10.115 3 ...I find in the eminent experiences in all times a substantial agreement.
LLNE 10.364 17 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...education;...
LLNE 10.365 15 It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm], in which the agreement with many parties was that they should give so many hours of instruction...that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
HDC 11.32 2 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him. They arrived in Boston in 1634. Probably there had been a previous correspondence with Governor Winthrop, and an agreement that they should settle at Musketaquid.
HDC 11.52 23 ...here [at Concord] [Tahattawan and Waban] entered, by [John Eliot's] assistance, into an agreement to twenty-nine rules...
CPL 11.504 7 There is a wonderful agreement among eminent men of all varieties of character and condition in their estimate of books.
Prch 10.227 1 ...the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of men.
HDC 11.64 8 Some interesting peculiarities in the manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books. Proposals of marriage were made by the parents of the parties, and minutes of such private agreements sometimes entered on the clerk's records.
FRO2 11.490 17 ...the charm of the study is in finding the agreements, the identities, in all the religions of men.
Lov1 2.181 3 [What we love] is that which you know not in yourself and can never know. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in;...
ET19 5.309 9 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it, as fitly expressing the feeling with which I entered England, and which agrees well enough with the more deliberate results of better acquaintance recorded in the foregoing pages.
Pow 6.60 11 A good tree that agrees with the soil will grow in spite of blight...
Boks 7.191 9 College education is the reading of certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated.
PI 8.3 18 The common sense which...takes...things as they appear,-- believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees with ourselves...
Comc 8.168 2 ...in the country we cannot find every day a case that agrees with the diagnosis of the books.
PPo 8.238 24 The temperament of the people [in the East] agrees with this life in extremes.
Imtl 8.348 9 How ill agrees this majestical immortality of our religion with the frivolous population!
EWI 11.133 2 ...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged. Is it an union and covenant in which the State of Massachusetts agrees to be imprisoned, and the State of Carolina to imprison?
ACiv 11.311 3 All experience agrees that [emancipation] should be immediate.
MR 1.235 19 ...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society, if it proceeded from a preference of the agricultural life out of the belief that our primary duties as men could be better discharged in that calling.
YA 1.381 5 These communists preferred the agricultural life as the most favorable condition for human culture;...
YA 1.381 21 On one side is agricultural chemistry, coolly exposing the nonsense of our spendthrift agriculture...
YA 1.382 24 At least an economical success seemed certain for the enterprise [the Associations], and that agricultural association must...fix the price of bread...
ET3 5.39 1 The constant rain...brings agricultural production [in England] up to the highest point.
ET4 5.53 8 As you go north into the manufacturing and agricultural districts...the world's Englishman is no longer found.
ET4 5.59 14 If [the Northman] cannot pick any other quarrel, he will get himself...slain by a land-slide, like the agricultural King Onund.
ET11 5.189 3 Arthur Young, Bakewell, Mechi have made [British dukes] agricultural.
ET13 5.217 10 All maxims of prudence or shop or farm are fixed and dated by the [English] church. Hence its strength in the agricultural districts.
DL 7.110 17 Another man is...a builder of ships...and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books or on horses. Another is a farmer, an agricultural foundation...and the same rule holds for all.
Cour 7.254 22 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether...Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand; suggesting that one day a wiser geology shall make...the volcano an agricultural resource.
Supl 10.171 5 ...I had been present...in the country at a cattle-show dinner, which followed an agricultural discourse delivered by a farmer...
LLNE 10.358 6 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread...
HDC 11.30 12 In the country...the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
HDC 11.83 22 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture of a community almost exclusively agricultural...
SHC 11.432 11 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...
AgMs 12.360 4 [Edmund Hosmer] had been reading the report of the Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth...
AgMs 12.362 26 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources...or by other methods of which I [Edmund Hosmer] could tell you many sad anecdotes. What does the Agricultural Surveyor know of all this?
AgMs 12.363 24 [Edmund Hosmer] had a good opinion of the [Agricultural] Surveyor...
Nat 1.72 19 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding, as by...the economic use of...chemical agriculture;...
YA 1.365 11 ...scientific agriculture is an object of growing attention;...
YA 1.366 17 ...the walks of trade were crowded, whilst that of agriculture cannot easily be...
YA 1.367 3 ...with cheap land...everything invites to the arts of agriculture...
YA 1.381 22 On one side is agricultural chemistry, coolly exposing the nonsense of our spendthrift agriculture...
Hist 2.21 26 Agriculture [in Asia and Africa]...was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.
NER 3.252 23 [Other reformers] attacked the system of agriculture...
MoS 4.171 3 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society, agriculture, trade, large institutions and empire.
ET5 5.83 25 [The English] apply themselves to agriculture, to draining...
ET5 5.95 24 The latest step was to call in the aid of steam to agriculture [in England].
ET5 5.96 3 The markets created by the manufacturing population [in England] have erected agriculture into a great thriving and spending industry.
ET5 5.100 25 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture, or in trade...
ET6 5.114 14 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of... political, literary and personal news; railroads, horses, diamonds, agriculture, horticulture, pisciculture and wine.
ET7 5.120 6 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures...no prosperity could support it;...
ET8 5.142 12 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton...respects an economy founded on agriculture, coal-mines, manufactures or trade...
ET10 5.162 12 Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the competition...in the application of steam to agriculture...
Civ 7.22 9 Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and pasturage, to agriculture.
Art2 7.39 25 The useful arts comprehend not only those that lie next to instinct, as agriculture, building, weaving, etc., but also navigation, practical chemistry...
Suc 7.293 20 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought, though it were...the creation of agriculture...it is a chimera;...
PC 8.210 17 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as agriculture...have evoked!...
PC 8.221 3 [The benefits of devotion to natural science] are felt in navigation, in agriculture...
Insp 8.295 27 Books of natural science...geography, botany, agriculture... all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
Edc1 10.128 2 The necessities imposed by this most irritable and all-related texture have taught Man...agriculture, commerce...
Supl 10.178 15 The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is established...by agriculture for bread-stuffs, and manufacture of coarse and family cloths.
EdAd 11.383 13 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from domestic architecture, chemical agriculture...
PLT 12.18 27 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...agriculture, trade, commerce;...
II 12.73 11 ...really the capital discovery of modern agriculture is that it costs no more to keep a good tree than a bad one.
AgMs 12.363 27 [Edmund Hosmer]...was incorrigible in his skepticism concerning the benefits conferred by legislatures on the agriculture of Massachusetts.
EurB 12.376 19 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] was founded on power to do what was necessary, each person finding it an indispensable qualification of membership that he could do something useful, as in mechanics or agriculture or other indispensable art;...
Nat 1.38 25 The first steps in Agriculture...teach that Nature's dice are always loaded;...
LT 1.259 3 ...the present aspects of our social state...Natural Science, Agriculture...have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
Hist 2.21 21 In the early history of Asia and Africa, Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts.
Prd1 2.234 15 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the thrift of the agriculturist, to stick a tree between whiles, because it will grow whilst he sleeps;...
ET5 5.95 2 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order...
ET11 5.182 20 An agriculturist bought lately the island of Lewes, in Hebrides...
OA 7.331 15 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments...
Pt1 3.32 17 All the value which attaches to...Cornelius Agrippa...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
Boks 7.190 2 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables of Cornelius Agrippa...
Boks 7.211 14 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time.
Int 2.327 2 As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man...lies open to the mercy of coming events.
F 6.7 24 Our western prairie shakes with fever and ague.
Civ 7.17 16 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
Aris 10.38 5 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe...that an ague or fever...ended them.
War 11.152 2 ...in the infancy of society...when hunger, thirst, ague and frozen limbs universally take precedence of the wants of the mind and the heart, the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
PLT 12.62 24 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego,-I have a desk...I had an ague...
Elo2 8.122 3 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style; like Bouillon, who could almost persuade you that a quartan ague was wholesome;...
FRep 11.533 5 Corpora non agunt nisi soluta;...
Elo2 8.115 22 [The orator's] speech must be just ahead of the assembly, ahead of the whole human race, or it is superfluous.
Comp 2.93 4 ...it seemed to me when very young that on this subject [Compensation] life was ahead of theology...
ET5 5.101 20 Whilst [the English] are some ages ahead of the rest of the world in the art of living;...this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold...
Elo1 7.74 26 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil.
Elo2 8.117 5 [The orator] knew very well beforehand that [the people] were looking behind and that he was looking ahead...
II 12.78 9 The ideal is as far ahead of the videttes of the van as it is of the rear.
SovE 10.213 5 Once men thought Spirit divine, and Matter diabolic; one Ormuzd, the other Ahriman.
ACri 12.289 6 Burns took [the Devil] into compassion and expressed a blind wish for his reformation. Ye aiblins might, I dinna ken,/ Still have a stake./
GSt 10.502 3 As early as 1855 the Emigrant Aid Society was formed;...
Nat 1.25 10 The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history;...
Nat 1.35 10 ...we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make [the doctrine] plain.
LE 1.166 5 ...the moment [men] desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then ...virtue, learning, anecdote all flock to their aid.
MR 1.237 27 ...now I feel some shame before my wood-chopper...and my cook, for...they can contrive without my aid to bring the day and year round...
Tran 1.346 6 ...these youths bring us a rough but effectual aid.
Tran 1.350 24 New, [Transcendentalists] confess, and by no means happy, is our condition: if you want the aid of our labor, we ourselves stand in greater want of the labor.
YA 1.376 19 The king is compelled to call in the aid of his brothers and cousins and remote relations...
YA 1.376 24 ...this club of noblemen...combine to brave the sovereign, and call in the aid of the people.
Lov1 2.170 26 ...it is to be hoped that by patience and the Muses' aid we may attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth ever young and beautiful...
Fdsp 2.205 26 [Friendship] is for aid and comfort through all the relations and passages of life and death.
OS 2.294 4 ...every byword that belongs to thee for aid or comfort, will surely come home through open or winding passages.
Cir 2.322 10 ...[men] ask the aid of wild passions...to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.
Mrs1 3.149 16 I have seen an individual...who did not need the aid of a court-suit but carried the holiday in his eye;...
Nat2 3.174 1 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence.
Pol1 3.213 4 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. In these decisions all the citizens find a perfect agreement, and only in these; not in what...what amount of land or of public aid each is entitled to claim.
NER 3.277 13 Do you ask my aid? I also wish to be a benefactor.
NER 3.279 9 The reason why any one refuses...his aid to your benevolent design, is in you...
UGM 4.7 27 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid...
UGM 4.8 7 The aid we have from others is mechanical compared with the discoveries of nature in us.
UGM 4.17 7 ...we thus [through the acts of the intellect]...learn to choose men by their truest marks, taught, with Plato, to choose those who can, without aid from the eyes or any other sense, proceed to truth and to being.
UGM 4.25 3 ...in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and admire. This is he that should marshal us the way we were going. There is no end to his aid.
ET2 5.25 12 The request [to lecture in England] was urged...with...every assurance of aid and comfort...
ET5 5.95 24 The latest step was to call in the aid of steam to agriculture [in England].
ET10 5.157 27 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do; nor would they need anything but a pilot to steer them. Carriages also might be constructed to move with an incredible speed, without the aid of any animal.
ET10 5.159 20 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago.
ET11 5.174 12 The selfishness of the [English] nobles comes in aid of the interest of the nation to require signal merit.
ET13 5.222 10 [The English] value a philosopher as they value an apothecary who brings bark or a drench; and inspiration is only some blowpipe, or a finer mechanical aid.
ET14 5.257 7 [Wordsworth] wrote a poem, says Landor, without the aid of war.
ET16 5.283 10 For the difficulty of handling and carrying stones of this size [of Stonehenge], the like is done in all cities, every day, with no other aid than horse-power.
Pow 6.68 5 All the elements whose aid man calls in will sometimes become his masters...
Wth 6.89 15 The sea...offers its perilous aid and the power and empire that follow it...to [man's] craft and audacity.
Wth 6.118 27 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...
Ctr 6.131 9 A topical memoray makes [a man] an almanac;...a skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent...
Ctr 6.132 15 A freemason, not long since, set out to explain to this country that the principal cause of the success of General Washington was the aid he derived from the freemasons.
CbW 6.250 27 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...
CbW 6.263 21 In dealing with the drunken, we do not affect to be drunk. We must treat the sick with the same firmness, giving them of course every aid,--but withholding ourselves.
Bty 6.296 26 ...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
SS 7.12 22 The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid, with a kind of fear.
Civ 7.27 11 ...all our strength and success in the work of our hands depend on our borrowing the aid of the elements.
Civ 7.29 4 Our astronomy is full of examples of calling in the aid of these magnificent helpers.
Art2 7.48 1 ...all the advantages to which I have adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce. He relied on their aid...
Art2 7.48 2 ...all the advantages to which I have adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce. He...put himself in the way to receive aid from some of them;...
Elo1 7.90 10 [A trope] is a wonderful aid to the memory...
Farm 7.146 7 ...there is no porter like Gravitation, who will bring down any weights which man cannot carry, and if he wants aid, knows where to find his fellow laborers.
Farm 7.148 22 The chemist comes to [the farmer's] aid every year by following out some new hint drawn from Nature...
WD 7.160 2 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the beautiful aid of ether...
Cour 7.270 27 [John Brown] said, As soon as I hear one of my men say, Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him down, I don't expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
QO 8.178 10 He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding, said Burke, doubles his own;...
PC 8.215 6 ...[Roger Bacon] announced...carriages, to move with incredible speed, without aid of animals;...
Insp 8.289 26 ...the machine with which we are dealing is of such an inconceivable delicacy that whims also must be respected. Fire must lend its aid.
Dem1 10.24 18 ...[occult facts] are merely physiological, semi-medical... and no aid on the superior problems why we live, and what we do.
PerF 10.76 9 ...[man] walks and works by the aid of gravitation;...
PerF 10.83 24 ...[the world's energies] work together on a system of mutual aid...
Chr2 10.99 8 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...
Edc1 10.145 5 This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not there, but which ought to be there...he makes wild attempts to explain himself and invoke the aid and consent of the bystanders.
Edc1 10.146 27 Always genius...desires nothing so much as...to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.
Prch 10.232 27 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must. But be that event for us soon or late, we are not excused from playing our short part in the best manner we can, no matter how insignificant our aid may be.
LLNE 10.338 7 Unexpected aid from high quarters came to inconoclasts.
MMEm 10.397 6 The yesterday doth never smile,/ To-day goes drudging through the while,/ Yet in the name of Godhead, I/ The morrow front and can defy;/ Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,/ Cannot withhold his conquering aid./
SlHr 10.441 26 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement with all his might, and now and then borrowing the aid of a good story...
LS 11.19 9 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion...
HDC 11.46 16 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston...enjoying, at the same time, a strict and loving fellowship with Boston, and sure of advice and aid, on every emergency.
LVB 11.94 25 On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.
EWI 11.123 26 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips.
FSLC 11.181 3 The only haste in Boston, after the rescue of Shadrach, last February, was, who should first put his name on the list of volunteers in aid of the marshal.
FSLC 11.193 5 There is not a manly Whig, or a manly Democrat, of whom if a slave were hidden in one of our houses from the hounds, we should not ask with confidence to lend his wagon in aid of his escape, and he would lend it.
FSLN 11.241 11 Let the aid of virtue, intelligence and education be cast where they rightfully belong.
AKan 11.256 27 This aid must be sent [to Kansas]...
AKan 11.257 13 We must have aid [for Kansas] from individuals...
AKan 11.257 14 We must have aid [for Kansas] from individuals,-we must also have aid from the state.
AKan 11.257 15 We must have aid [for Kansas] from individuals,-we must also have aid from the state. I know that the last legislature refused that aid.
AKan 11.258 3 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
EdAd 11.393 17 We entreat the aid of every lover of truth and right...
PLT 12.14 6 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and settings... that I may learn to...court its aid...
Milt1 12.266 8 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...
LE 1.184 7 ...out of this superior frankness and charity you shall learn higher secrets of your nature, which gods will bend and aid you to communicate.
Pt1 3.38 9 If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.
Mrs1 3.127 6 [Manners] aid our dealing and conversation...
ET3 5.37 1 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west...
ET10 5.163 9 ...all that can aid science, gratify taste, or soothe comfort, is in open market [in England].
Elo1 7.82 20 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid...Columbus, being introduced, was interrogated whether his geographical knowledge could aid the cabinet;...
DL 7.116 19 ...many things betoken a revolution of opinion and practice in regard to manual labor that may go far to aid our practical inquiry.
LLNE 10.340 18 [Channing] had earlier talked with Dr. John Collins Warren on the like purpose [of bringing thoughtful people together], who admitted the wisdom of the design and undertook to aid him in making the experiment.
MMEm 10.415 8 Vital, I feel not: not active, but passive, and cannot aid the creatures which seem my progeny,-myself.
HDC 11.71 16 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety...to aid all untainted magistrates in the execution of the laws of the land.
JBB 11.266 22 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Said, Boys, the Lord will aid us! and he shoved his ramrod down./ Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Brown.
JBB 11.273 8 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall...not forget to aid him in the best way, by securing freedom and independence in Massachusetts.
II 12.73 6 ...he will instruct and aid us who shows us how the young may be taught without degrading the old;...
Int 2.328 11 I have been floated into hour...by secret currents of might and mind, and my ingenuity and wilfulness have not thwarted, have not aided to an appreciable degree.
SwM 4.111 17 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg...is not the least remarkable fact in his history. Aided it is said by the munificence of Mr. Clissold, and also by his literary skill, this piece of poetic justice is done.
Boks 7.207 17 The [scholar's] task is aided by the strong mutual light which these [Elizabethan] men shed on each other.
SMC 11.350 12 ...the virtues we are met to honor...were exerted for the protection of our common country, and aided its triumph.
MLit 12.323 9 ...since the earth as we said had become a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have aided [Goethe] to be that resolute realist he is...
OA 7.315 10 [Josiah Quincy]...aiding himself by notes in his hand, made a sort of running commentary on Cicero's chapter De Senectute.
Nat 1.14 1 By the aggregate of these aids [of the useful arts], how is the face of the world changed...
LE 1.174 23 ...it is only as...the forest, and the rock, are a sort of mechanical aids to [independence of spirit], that they are of value.
SR 2.87 3 ...Napoleon conquered Europe by the bivouac, which consisted of falling back on naked valor and disencumbering it of all aids.
Lov1 2.181 13 ...the Deity sends the glory of youth before the soul, that it may avail itself of beautiful bodies as aids to its recollection of the celestial good and fair;...
NER 3.256 20 ...if I had not that commodity [money]...man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.
NER 3.260 17 I conceive this gradual casting off of material aids...to be the affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
UGM 4.13 8 We are too passive in the reception of these material or semi-material aids.
NMW 4.257 7 Never was such a leader so endowed and so weaponed [as Napoleon]; never leader found such aids and followers.
ET5 5.96 6 Artificial aids of all kinds are cheaper [in England] than the natural resources.
WD 7.159 26 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body...
Boks 7.212 9 Poetry, with its aids of Mythology and Romance, must be well allowed for an imaginative creature.
Cour 7.262 19 Knowledge is the antidote to fear,--Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
Dem1 10.23 19 ...the main ambition and genius being bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids within [a man's] sphere will follow.
Chr2 10.117 19 [The Sunday] invites...to whatever means and aids of spiritual refreshment.
MMEm 10.419 25 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home.
FSLC 11.209 25 Chemistry is extorting new aids.
FSLN 11.236 15 The insight of the religious sentiment will disclose to [man] unexpected aids in the nature of things.
FSLN 11.236 24 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is...no liberty but his invincible will to do right,-then certain aids and allies will promptly appear...
FRO2 11.488 25 We want all the aids to our moral training.
PLT 12.26 22 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.
CInt 12.122 7 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...dwelling amidst...lectures, poets, libraries, newspapers, and other aids supposed intellectual, are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...
CInt 12.124 3 No books, no aids...can compare with [a good teacher].
MAng1 12.230 16 Slighting the secondary arts of coloring, and all the aids of graceful finish, [Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
Milt1 12.276 21 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.
ET1 5.11 3 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in the fly-leaves,--passages, too, which, I believe, are printed in the Aids to Reflection.
Mrs1 3.127 7 [Manners] aid our dealing and conversation as a railway aids travelling...
Wom 11.414 8 There is much that tends to give [women] a religious height which men do not attain. Their sequestration from affairs and from the injury to the moral sense which affairs often inflict, aids this.
Mem 12.100 27 Apprehension of the whole sentence aids to fix the precise meaning of a particular word...
Mem 12.101 15 ...because all Nature has one law and meaning...all we have known aids us continually to the knowledge of the rest of Nature.
PI 8.25 7 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me... Aiken's Poets...I am quite of their mind.