Hsm1 2.247 6 Val. What ails my brother?/
Nat 1.4 10 All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
Nat 1.55 16 The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
LE 1.182 18 ...to the [crowd], [the man of genius] must owe his aim.
MN 1.203 22 ...my [Nature's] aim is the health of the whole tree...
MN 1.216 8 A man adorns himself with prayer and love, as an aim adorns an action.
MR 1.227 4 ...the aim of each young man in this association is the very highest that belongs to a rational mind.
MR 1.233 14 ...all such ingenuous souls as feel within themselves the irrepressible strivings of a noble aim...find these ways of trade unfit for them...
MR 1.245 21 Economy is...a sacrament, when its aim is grand;...
Con 1.320 9 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...
Tran 1.350 2 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise and seeming which intimates...an activity without an aim.
YA 1.388 22 The 'opposition' papers, so called, are on the same side. They attack the great capitalist, but with the aim to make a capitalist of the poor man.
SR 2.69 19 Power...resides...in the darting to an aim.
Comp 2.106 23 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them... A plain confession of the in-working of the All and of its moral aim.
SL 2.160 3 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved. One knows it,--himself,--and is pledged by it...to nobleness of aim...
SL 2.161 22 The object of the man, the aim of these moments, is to make daylight shine through him...
Lov1 2.183 17 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.
Lov1 2.185 1 Life, with this pair [Romeo and Juliet], has no other aim, asks no more, than Juliet,--than Romeo.
Art1 2.351 6 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and fine arts, if we employ the popular distinction of works according to their aim either at use or beauty.
Art1 2.351 8 ...in our fine arts, not imitation but creation is the aim.
Exp 3.82 10 A preoccupied attention is the only answer to the importunate frivolity of other people; an attention, and to an aim which makes their wants frivolous.
Mrs1 3.122 20 The point of distinction in all this class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated. It is beauty which is the aim this time, and not worth.
Nat2 3.185 21 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths, with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...
NER 3.251 6 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years, with those middle and those leading sections that may constitute any just representation of the character and aim of the community, will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
PPh 4.57 25 With the palatial air there is [in Plato], for the direct aim of several of his works...a certain earnestness...
PPh 4.75 26 [Plato] is intellectual in his aim;...
PNR 4.88 22 The secret of [Plato's] popular success is the moral aim which endeared him to mankind.
SwM 4.95 9 The Koran makes a distinct class of those...whose goodness has an influence on others, and pronounces this class to be the aim of creation...
ShP 4.189 19 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's] production, but sweet and sad earnest...pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.
ShP 4.215 23 One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim.
NMW 4.224 20 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim.
NMW 4.233 16 [Napoleon] is firm, sure...sacrificing every thing...to his aim;...
NMW 4.258 18 Every experiment...that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
GoW 4.264 8 This striving after imitative expression...is significant of the aim of nature...
GoW 4.267 17 ...in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
GoW 4.285 5 Piety itself is no aim [said Goethe], but only as a means whereby through purest inward peace we may attain to highest culture.
GoW 4.288 26 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power.
ET5 5.80 27 All the steps [the English] orderly take;...keeping their eye on their aim...
ET5 5.90 21 [The English] have a wonderful heat in the pursuit of a public aim.
ET15 5.267 20 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers;...
F 6.11 20 If, later, [these drones] give birth to some superior individual, with force enough to add to this animal a new aim...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
F 6.30 8 One way is right to go; the hero sees it, and moves on that aim...
F 6.36 7 Liberation of the will...is the end and aim of this world.
F 6.39 11 The ulterior aim...will not stop but will work into finer particulars...
Wth 6.125 9 ...the royal rule of economy is that...whatever we do must always have a higher aim.
Wsp 6.232 21 A high aim reacts on the means, on the days, on the organs of the body.
Wsp 6.232 22 A high aim is curative, as well as arnica.
CbW 6.262 27 Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
Art2 7.39 20 If we follow the popular distinction of works according to their aim, we should say, the Spirit, in its creation, aims at use or at beauty...
Art2 7.49 16 The poet aims at getting observations without aim;...
DL 7.113 9 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find in the housemates no aim;...
DL 7.117 12 ...our social forms are very far from truth and equity. But the way to set the axe at the root of the tree is to raise our aim.
DL 7.118 5 With a change of aim has followed a change of the whole scale by which men and things were wont to be measured.
Boks 7.194 8 [The best rule of reading] holds each student to a pursuit of his native aim...
Cour 7.263 19 ...the frontiersman [loses fear], when he has a perfect rifle and has acquired a sure aim.
Cour 7.273 9 The aim reacts back on the means.
Cour 7.273 10 A great aim aggrandizes the means.
Cour 7.278 3 In Californian mountains/ A hunter bold was he [George Nidiver]:/ Keen his eye and sure his aim/ As any you should see./
Cour 7.280 1 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave heart./
Suc 7.310 8 ...to educate [man's] feeling and judgment so that he shall scorn himself for a bad action, that is the only aim.
OA 7.324 19 [With age] The passions have answered their purpose: that slight but dread overweight with which in each instance Nature secures the execution of her aim, drops off.
PI 8.52 13 ...we talk of our work, our tools and material necessities, in prose; that is, without any elevation or aim at beauty;...
QO 8.192 20 In so far as the receiver's aim is on life, and not on literature, will be his indifference to the source.
Insp 8.296 2 Books of natural science...all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
Grts 8.301 3 There is a prize which we are all aiming at, and the more power and goodness we have, so much more the energy of that aim.
Grts 8.301 18 Our aim is no less than greatness;...
Grts 8.303 17 They may well fear Fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim;...
Grts 8.306 23 ...every mind has...a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind;...
Grts 8.320 22 The man...whose aim is always distinct to him;...he it is whom we seek...
Aris 10.39 1 Men of aim must lead the aimless;...
PerF 10.86 3 That band which ties [cosmical laws] together...is universal good, saturating all with one being and aim...
Chr2 10.92 20 He is moral...whose aim or motive may become a universal rule...
SovE 10.188 20 We see the steady aim of Benefit in view from the first.
Schr 10.278 18 It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country with them.
Schr 10.287 9 The practical aim is forever higher than the literary aim.
Schr 10.287 10 The practical aim is forever higher than the literary aim.
LLNE 10.339 2 ...the humanity which was the aim of all the multitudinous works of Dickens;...was all on the side of the people.
LLNE 10.339 8 There was...a consciousness of power not yet finding its determinate aim.
EWI 11.123 15 The national aim and employment streams into our ways of thinking...
War 11.163 4 It is the tendency of the true interest of man to become his desire and steadfast aim.
EPro 11.325 4 ...the aim of the war on our part is indicated by the aim of the President's [Emancipation] Proclamation...
EPro 11.325 5 ...the aim of the war on our part is indicated by the aim of the President's [Emancipation] Proclamation...
EPro 11.325 20 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim.
SMC 11.352 25 The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South;...
EdAd 11.390 7 ...[man] lives in such connection with Thought and Fact that his bread is surely involved as one element thereof, but is not its end and aim.
FRO2 11.486 9 ...we find parity, identity of design, through Nature, and benefit to be the uniform aim...
PLT 12.48 10 ...the whole ponderous machinery of the state has really for its aim just to place this skill of each.
PLT 12.55 2 The natural remedy against this miscellany of knowledge and aim...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...
II 12.82 19 If [a man] is wrong, increase his determination to his aim, and he is right again.
II 12.83 15 Him we account the fortunate man whose determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt.
Bost 12.199 23 What should hinder that this America...the firm shore hid until science and art should be ripe to propose it as a fixed aim...should have its happy ports...
MAng1 12.217 15 Like Truth, [Beauty] is an ultimate aim of the human being.
Milt1 12.250 3 Only its general aim, and a few elevated passages, can save [Milton's Defence of the English People].
MLit 12.335 20 [The Genius of the time] will write in a higher spirit and a wider knowledge and with a grander practical aim than ever yet guided the pen of poet.
Pray 12.353 16 Shall we never ask the aim of all this hurry and foam...
EurB 12.377 10 The novels of Fashion, of Disraeli, Mrs. Gore, Mr. Ward, belong to the class of novels of costume, because the aim is purely external success.
AmS 1.93 21 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us when they aim not to drill, but to create;...
AmS 1.114 16 The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself.
DSA 1.132 17 To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.
DSA 1.147 9 ...let us not aim at common degrees of merit.
LE 1.172 14 I by no means aim in these remarks to disparage the merit of these or of any existing compositions;...
MN 1.198 9 In treating a subject so large, in which we must...aim much more to suggest than to describe, I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
MN 1.214 21 He who aims at progress should aim at an infinite, not at a special benefit.
MN 1.215 27 ...there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim...that if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion...
Hist 2.11 2 ...we aim to master intellectually the steps and reach the same height or the same degradation that our fellow, our proxy has done.
Comp 2.110 3 We aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good...
SL 2.136 7 Our Sunday-schools and churches and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. ... There are natural ways of arriving at the same ends at which these aim, but do not arrive.
Exp 3.48 22 An innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with.
Mrs1 3.127 5 Manners aim to facilitate life...
Nat2 3.185 12 We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
NER 3.264 4 [The new communities] aim to give every member a share in the manual labor...
MoS 4.158 5 ...shall the young man aim at a leading part in law, in politics, in trade? It will not be pretended that a success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best and inmost in his mind.
Civ 7.29 16 All our arts aim to win this vantage. We cannot bring the heavenly powers to us, but if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which they travel, they will undertake them with the greatest pleasure.
Art2 7.49 9 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to this, in the fine arts, is the manner of our intellectual work. We aim to hinder our individuality from acting.
Chr2 10.94 13 Every hour puts the individual in a position where his wishes aim at something which the sentiment of duty forbids him to seek.
Edc1 10.135 3 ...we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers;...
Edc1 10.153 24 Our modes of Education aim to expedite...
Supl 10.164 21 Language should aim to describe the fact.
II 12.78 11 ...before the good we aim at, all history is symptomatic...
CInt 12.126 23 ...a college...should aim at a reverent discipline and invitation of the soul...
Milt1 12.259 3 ...as far as possible [writes Milton], I aim to show myself equal in thought and speech to what I have written, if I have written anything well.
Insp 8.289 20 La Nature aime les croisements, says Fourier.
YA 1.384 7 ...the Communities aimed at a higher success in securing to all their members an equal and thorough education.
Fdsp 2.199 6 ...we have aimed at a swift and petty benefit...
Art1 2.362 26 Our best praise is given to what [the arts] aimed and promised...
Ctr 6.146 11 ...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must follow her hint...
Wsp 6.225 14 The American workman who strikes ten blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and told on his person.
Suc 7.294 18 I pronounce that young man happy who is content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at...
Prch 10.224 9 ...all that saints and churches and Bibles...have aimed at, is to suppress this impertinent surface-action...
HCom 11.343 18 Here...in this little nest of New England republics [enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at Sumter.
FRep 11.515 9 When the cannon is aimed by ideas, when men with religious convictions are behind it...the better code of laws at last records the victory.
PLT 12.31 14 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing or doing somewhat which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on that, that it seems a sort of obtuseness to everything else.
MAng1 12.230 16 ...[Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
Prd1 2.223 21 ...culture...aiming at the perfection of the man as the end, degrades every thing else...into means.
Pol1 3.213 12 The idea after which each community is aiming to make and mend its law, is the will of the wise man.
NMW 4.252 15 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney...of the throng who fill the markets, shops, counting-houses, manufactories, ships, of the modern world, aiming to be rich.
ET3 5.36 2 The Russian in his snows is aiming to be English.
Pow 6.76 21 The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible for the guidance of suitors.
Wth 6.96 2 ...if men should...leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
Cour 7.274 24 Sacred courage indicates...that [a man] is aiming neither at pelf nor comfort...
Grts 8.301 1 There is a prize which we are all aiming at...
Thor 10.452 25 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living well.
SMC 11.361 23 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits...
Wom 11.422 4 For the other point, of [women]...aiming at abstract right without allowance for circumstances,-that is not a disqualification, but a qualification [for voting].
Nat2 3.192 2 The appearance strikes the eye everywhere of an aimless society, of aimless nations.
Pol1 3.210 12 The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless...
SwM 4.110 20 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and a beating heart.
ET7 5.122 14 ...[Englishmen] hate the Irish, as aimless;...
Wsp 6.208 11 How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are?
Prch 10.221 27 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to this chill, houseless, fatherless, aimless Cain, the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
MoL 10.245 5 We have...restless, gossiping, aimless activity.
Pray 12.353 17 Shall we never ask the aim...of this aimless activity?
Aris 10.39 2 Men of aim must lead the aimless;...
AmS 1.105 27 The day is always his who works in it with serenity and great aims.
DSA 1.148 2 ...slight [the commanders]...by high and universal aims, and they instantly feel...that it is in lower places that they must shine.
DSA 1.149 18 So it is...in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown.
MN 1.203 5 ...remote aims are in active accomplishment.
LT 1.287 17 ...we think the Genius of this Age more philosophical than any other has been, righter in its aims...
Con 1.305 16 You [reformers] are not only identical with us [conservatives] in your needs, but also in your methods and aims.
Tran 1.338 14 ...we have yet no man...who, working for universal aims, found himself fed, he knew not how;...
Tran 1.346 4 We easily predict a fair future to each new candidate who enters the lists, but...by low aims and ill example do what we can to defeat this hope.
YA 1.366 10 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
YA 1.384 10 ...one may say that aims so generous and so forced on [the Communities] by the times, will not be relinquished, even if these attempts fail...
Comp 2.101 11 Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type, but part for part...all the aims...
SL 2.142 22 Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle of your character and aims.
SL 2.150 2 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now avails...how Roman his mien and manners, if his heart and aims are in the senate...
SL 2.150 4 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now avails...how Roman his mien and manners, if...she has no aims, no conversation that can enchant her graceful lord?
Lov1 2.178 2 [The lover] is a new man, with...a religious solemnity of character and aims.
Lov1 2.186 4 [The soul]...at last...puts on the harness and aspires to vast and universal aims.
Lov1 2.187 22 Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman...are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
Nat2 3.191 16 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences...the old aims have been lost sight of...
Nat2 3.195 19 They say that by electro-magnetism your salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner; it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors...
Pol1 3.208 14 Parties...have better guides to their own humble aims than the sagacity of their leaders.
NER 3.268 5 We renounce all high aims.
UGM 4.21 1 These [great] men...engage us to new aims and powers.
NMW 4.223 5 ...Bonaparte...owes his predominance to the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of thought and belief, the aims of the masses of active and cultivated men.
NMW 4.241 21 [Napoleon's] real strength lay in [the people's] conviction that he was their representative in his genius and aims...
NMW 4.257 2 The counter-revolution...still waits for its organ and representative, in a lover and a man of truly public and universal aims.
GoW 4.270 8 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century.
GoW 4.284 11 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest of universal nature...
ET3 5.35 23 The culture of the day, the thoughts and aims of men, are English thoughts and aims.
ET10 5.170 16 [England's] prosperity, the splendor which so much manhood and talent and perseverance has thrown upon vulgar aims, is the very argument of materialism.
ET10 5.171 2 ...not the aims of a manly life, but the means of meeting a certain ponderous expense, is that which is considered by a youth in England emerging from his minority.
ET14 5.246 21 [Dickens] is a painter of English details, like Hogarth; local and temporary in his tints and style, and local in his aims.
ET14 5.255 15 In the absence of the highest aims...there is [in England] the suppression of the imagination...
Ctr 6.163 15 ...mere amiableness must not take rank with high aims and self-subsistency.
Bhr 6.177 14 The face and eyes reveal what the spirit is doing...what aims it has.
Bhr 6.181 16 Whoever looked on [a complete man] would consent to his will, being certified that his aims were generous and universal.
Wsp 6.208 12 After [the people's] pepper-corn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together...
CbW 6.247 5 Fine society...has neither ideas nor aims.
Bty 6.285 26 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves to their own details, and do not come out men of more force. Have they... grand aims...which we demand in man...
SS 7.10 27 Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts you must frequent the public square.
SS 7.13 18 So many men whom I know are degraded by their sympathies; their native aims being high enough, but their relation all too tender to the gross people about them.
Civ 7.26 27 [A highly destined society] must be catholic in aims.
DL 7.117 27 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be...a hall...whose inmates...do not ask your house how theirs should be kept. They have aims;...
DL 7.123 22 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model. Neither does the measurer himself;...neither do...the heroes of the race. When he inspects them critically, he discovers that their aims are low...
DL 7.133 12 Beside these aims [of the household], Society is weak...
Clbs 7.225 22 We seek society with very different aims...
Cour 7.273 9 ...it is not the means on which we draw...that count, but the aims only.
PI 8.73 9 The high poetry which shall...bring in the new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is deeper hid...
PC 8.233 13 ...I draw new hope...from the avowed aims and tendencies of the educated class.
PPo 8.247 17 An air...of incompetence to their proper aims, belongs to many who have both experience and wisdom.
Imtl 8.332 19 ...though men of good minds, [the two friends] were both pretty strong materialists in their daily aims and way of life.
Aris 10.47 16 Let a man's social aims be proportioned to his means and power.
Aris 10.65 10 ...it suffices that [a man of generous spirit's] aims are high...
Chr2 10.108 5 ...So far the religion is now where it should be. Persons...are discriminated according to their aims, and not by these ritualities.
Edc1 10.132 1 ...truly the population of the globe has its origin in the aims which their existence is to serve;...
Prch 10.237 26 ...how rare and lofty, how unattainable, are the aims [the Church] labors to set before men!
LLNE 10.343 21 ...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the company...perhaps waked curiosity as to its aims and results.
LLNE 10.353 25 ...in a day of small, sour and fierce schemes, one is admonished and cheered by a project of such friendly aims [as Fourier's]...
LLNE 10.362 23 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a man of no employment or practical aims...
MMEm 10.406 11 ...lift your aims...
MMEm 10.409 27 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every actual case, 't is hard, and we lose sight of the first necessity,-here too amid works red with default in all great and grand and infinite aims.
SlHr 10.444 9 ...was it only the lot of excellence, that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of life alone...
Thor 10.454 20 I am often reminded, [Thoreau] wrote in his journal, that if I had bestowed on me the wealth of Croesus, my aims must be still the same, and my means essentially the same.
AsSu 11.250 13 [Sumner's] opponents accuse him neither of drunkenness... nor personal aims of any kind.
SMC 11.350 10 ...the virtues we are met to honor were directed on aims which command the sympathy of every loyal American citizen...
FRep 11.544 14 Trade and government will not alone be the favored aims of mankind...
CInt 12.127 14 You all well know...the facility with which men renounce their youthful aims and say, the labor is too severe, the prize too high for me;...
MAng1 12.233 24 [Michelangelo] was conscious in his efforts of higher aims than to address the eye.
MLit 12.332 10 [Goethe] was content to...spend on common aims his splendid endowments...
EurB 12.368 14 [Wordsworth] once for all forsook the styles and standards and modes of thinking of London and Paris, and the books read there and the aims pursued...
EurB 12.374 8 Whoever looked on the hero [the complete man] would consent to his will, being certified that his aims were universal, not selfish;...
PPr 12.381 2 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people...
Let 12.396 16 How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits...
Let 12.396 23 ...whilst this aspiration [to improve society] has always made its mark in the lives of men of thought, in vigorous individuals it...is satisfied along with the satisfaction of other aims.
Let 12.398 3 There is...a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on young men of this country...which strips them of all manly aims...
Let 12.404 1 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst the colossal wrongs of the Indian, of the Negro, of the emigrant, remain unmitigated...
AmS 1.83 5 In the divided or social state these functions [of priest, scholar, statesman, producer, and soldier] are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work...
DSA 1.135 10 ...the man who aims to speak as books enable...babbles.
DSA 1.141 17 ...[preaching in this country] aims at what is usual...
MN 1.203 21 The gardener aims to produce a fine peach or pear...
MN 1.214 20 He who aims at progress should aim at an infinite, not at a special benefit.
MR 1.229 8 It is when your facts and persons grow unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that the scholar flies for refuge to the world of ideas, and aims to recruit and replenish nature from that source.
LT 1.280 21 ...how trivial seem the contests of the abolitionist, whilst he aims merely at the circumstance of the slave.
Comp 2.104 14 The particular man aims to be somebody;...
OS 2.271 15 All reform aims in some one particular to let the soul have its way through us;...
Int 2.339 21 Is it any better if the student...aims to make a mechanical whole of history...by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his vision.
NER 3.275 5 [A man] aims at such things as his neighbors prize...
UGM 4.28 23 ...whilst every individual strives...to impose the law of its being on every other creature, Nature steadily aims to protect each against every other.
ET5 5.89 18 A nation of laborers, every [English] man is trained to some one art or detail, and aims at perfection in that;...
ET13 5.224 2 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder...of the Free School, of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge.
Ctr 6.162 23 He who aims high must dread an easy home and popular manners.
Wsp 6.213 11 There is a principle...which all speech aims to say...
Art2 7.37 23 Every thought that arises in the mind, in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act;...
Art2 7.39 21 ...the Spirit, in its creation, aims at use or at beauty...
Art2 7.48 12 ...so in art that aims at beauty must the parts be subordinated to Ideal Nature...
Art2 7.49 15 The poet aims at getting observations without aim;...
Elo1 7.70 11 The pictures we have of [eloquence] in semi-barbarous ages... show what it aims at.
Elo1 7.73 21 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits. Thus separated, as this fascination of discourse aims only at amusement...it is yet a juggle...
PI 8.47 8 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words...
Grts 8.305 23 ...there is not a piece of Nature in any kind but a man is born who...aims...to dedicate himself to that.
ACiv 11.300 5 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions, and you still content yourself with parrying the blows it aims...
Nat 1.5 9 Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man;...the air...
Nat 1.9 16 In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue.
Nat 1.10 7 Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air...all mean egotism vanishes.
Nat 1.12 19 What angels invented...this ocean of air above...
Nat 1.13 27 ...[man] paves the road with iron bars, and mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts... from town to town, like an eagle or a swallow through the air.
Nat 1.17 24 ...the air had so much life and sweetness that it was a pain to come within doors.
Nat 1.21 8 Ever does natural beauty steal in like air, and envelope great actions.
Nat 1.40 10 [Man] forges the subtile and delicate air into wise and melodious words...
Nat 1.42 15 ...this moral sentiment which thus scents the air...is caught by man...
Nat 1.44 7 The river, as it flows, resembles the air that flows over it;...
Nat 1.44 7 ...the air resembles the light which traverses it with more subtile currents;...
Nat 1.50 21 The least change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
Nat 1.51 24 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates, as on air, the sun...lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
Nat 1.53 4 ...The ornament of beauty is Suspect,/ A crow which flies in heaven's sweetest air./
Nat 1.54 9 A solemn air, and the best comforter/ To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains/...
Nat 1.57 11 ...we tread on air;...
Nat 1.64 13 Once inhale the upper air...and we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator...
AmS 1.96 7 [The actions and events of our childhood] lie like fair pictures in the air.
AmS 1.114 13 Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat.
DSA 1.119 4 The air is full of birds...
DSA 1.124 26 [The religious sentiment] is a mountain air.
LE 1.168 7 ...the fall of swarms of flies, in autumn, from combats high in the air...the angry hiss of the wood-birds;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
MN 1.193 24 ...the sturdiest defender of existing institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air...
MN 1.212 6 ...there is a certain infatuating air in woods and mountains which draws on the idler to want and misery.
MN 1.217 9 ...[Love] is that in which the individual...inhales an odorous and celestial air...
LT 1.262 26 How [persons]...lap us in Elysium to soothing dreams and castles in the air!
LT 1.275 2 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men...
LT 1.278 9 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown. Excellent: now can you afford to forget it, reckoning all your action no more than the passing of your hand through the air...
LT 1.285 9 By the side of these men [of the intellectual class], the hot agitators have a certain cheap and ridiculous air;...
Con 1.300 25 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts that bank of foliage into the air...is the gift and legacy of dead and buried years.
Tran 1.332 2 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...lies floating in soft air...
Tran 1.349 15 ...the philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
Hist 2.4 13 ...the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature...
Hist 2.13 2 Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all-creating nature, soft and fluid as a cloud or the air, why should we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms?
Hist 2.15 24 [Nature] hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
Hist 2.36 17 ...the wings of an eagle in the egg presuppose air.
Hist 2.36 21 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let his faculties find...no stake to play for, and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
SR 2.61 25 Let [a man] not...skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy...
SR 2.62 5 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air...
Comp 2.92 12 ...all that Nature made thy own,/ Floating in air or pent in stone,/ Will rive the hills and swim the sea/ And, like thy shadow, follow thee./
Comp 2.111 11 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet...as two currents of air mix...
SL 2.140 5 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences... the heaven...still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize itself, as do now the rose and the air and the sun.
SL 2.156 2 ...the mere air of doing a thing...expresses character.
SL 2.164 4 ...the least [action] admits of being inflated with the celestial air until it eclipses the sun and moon.
Lov1 2.176 11 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when...the air was coined into song;...
Prd1 2.225 14 We live by the air which blows around us...
Prd1 2.225 15 ...we are poisoned by the air that is too cold or too hot, too dry or too wet.
Prd1 2.238 27 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains...the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it, the boundary mountains on which the eye had fastened have melted into air.
Hsm1 2.258 5 A great man makes his climate genial in the imagination of men, and its air the beloved element of all delicate spirits.
Hsm1 2.258 19 We have seen or heard of many extraordinary young men... whose performance in actual life was not extraordinary. When we see their air and mien...we admire their superiority;...
OS 2.275 5 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air.
OS 2.291 7 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is like...bottling a little air in a phial...
Int 2.325 4 ...air dissolves water;...
Int 2.325 5 ...electric fire dissolves air...
Int 2.338 9 ...when we write with ease and come out into the free air of thought, we seem to be assured that nothing is easier than to continue this communication at pleasure.
Int 2.338 16 One would think...that good thought would be as familiar as air and water...
Int 2.339 7 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes...not itself but falsehood; herein resembling the air, which is our natural element...but if a stream of the same be directed on the body for a time, it causes cold, fever, and even death.
Int 2.346 1 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers]...
Art1 2.349 7 ...Let spouting fountains cool the air,/ Singing in the sun-baked square./
Art1 2.353 10 ...[a man] is necessitated by the air he breathes...to share the manner of his times...
Art1 2.355 21 I should think fire the best thing in the world, if I were not acquainted with air, and water, and earth.
Art1 2.358 2 ...with each moment [the artist] alters the whole air, attitude and expression of his clay.
Pt1 3.8 7 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down...
Pt1 3.12 26 ...the all-piercing, all-feeding and ocular air of heaven that man shall never inhabit.
Pt1 3.25 12 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odors in the air...
Pt1 3.29 15 ...the air should suffice for [the poet's] inspiration...
Pt1 3.30 9 We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air.
Pt1 3.40 24 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again to people a new world. This is like the stock of air for our respiration or for the combustion of our fireplace;...
Exp 3.73 1 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol, as...Anaximenes by air...
Chr1 3.95 22 We can drive a stone upward for a moment into the air...
Chr1 3.103 12 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted...still cheers and enriches, and the man...seems to purify the air and his house...
Mrs1 3.140 17 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...the air of drowsy strength...
Mrs1 3.149 24 The open air and the fields, the street and public chambers are the places where Man executes his will;...
Mrs1 3.151 18 [Lilla] was...like air or water, an element of such a great range of affinities that it combines readily with a thousand substances.
Nat2 3.169 4 There are days which occur in this climate...when the air, the heavenly bodies and the earth, make a harmony...
Nat2 3.172 10 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
Nat2 3.175 23 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road...
Nat2 3.175 26 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road,--a certain haughty favor, as if from patrician genii to patricians, a kind of aristocracy in nature, a prince of the power of the air.
Nat2 3.183 4 The cool disengaged air of natural objects makes them enviable to us...
Nat2 3.185 8 Without electricity the air would rot...
Nat2 3.186 22 ...[the vegetable life] fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds...
NER 3.257 2 ...I do not like the close air of saloons.
NER 3.274 20 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played, but the stake not to be so valued but that any time it could be held as a trifle light as air...
UGM 4.7 9 Certain men affect us as rich possibilities, but helpless to themselves and to their times,--the sport perhaps of some instinct that rules in the air;...
UGM 4.20 13 We swim...on a river of delusions and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air...
UGM 4.26 1 ...the ideas of the time are in the air, and infect all who breathe it.
PPh 4.47 15 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics: then the partialists,-- deducing the origin of things from flux or water, or from air, or from fire, or from mind.
PPh 4.50 12 As one diffusive air, passing through the perforations of a flute, is distinguished as the notes of a scale, so the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold [said Krishna]...
PPh 4.57 24 With the palatial air there is [in Plato]...a certain earnestness...
SwM 4.101 17 There is a common portrait of [Swedenborg] in antique coat and wig, but the face has a wandering or vacant air.
SwM 4.106 6 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous...and resembling one of those winter mornings when the air sparkles with crystals.
SwM 4.109 11 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...
SwM 4.118 1 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object,--animal, rock, river, air...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
SwM 4.131 8 There is an air of infinite grief and the sound of wailing all over and through [Swedenborg's] lurid universe.
SwM 4.142 18 [Swedenborg] goes up and down the world of men...and with nonchalance and the air of a referee, distributes souls.
MoS 4.159 11 Men...like trees, receive a great part of their nourishment from the air.
MoS 4.166 10 ...[Montaigne] has stayed in-doors till he is deadly sick; he will to the open air, though it rain bullets.
MoS 4.178 1 We have been sopped and drugged with the air...
ShP 4.207 17 The forest of Arden, the nimble air of Scone Castle...where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
ShP 4.213 6 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air...
NMW 4.245 21 ...as intellectual beings we feel the air purified by the electric shock, when material force is overthrown by intellectual energies.
NMW 4.248 25 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches, the real and only danger to be apprehended in the Alps. On these high mountains there are often very fine days in December...with an extreme calmness in the air.
NMW 4.251 13 Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia [said Bonaparte].
GoW 4.261 20 The air is full of sounds; the sky, of tokens;...
GoW 4.270 11 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century, breathing its air...
ET1 5.21 20 [Wordsworth] proceeded to abuse Goethe's Wilhelm Meister heartily. It was full of all manner of fornication. It was like the crossing of flies in the air.
ET3 5.39 21 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...contaminate the air...
ET4 5.46 15 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local wealth...
ET4 5.47 14 How came such men as...Francis Bacon, George Herbert, Henry Vane, to exist here [in England]? What made these delicate natures? was it the air?...
ET4 5.65 24 The pictures on the chimney-tiles of [the American's] nursery were pictures of these [English] people. Here they are in the identical costumes and air which so took him.
ET4 5.70 13 [The English] eat and drink, and live jolly in the open air...
ET5 5.77 10 Each vagabond that arrived [in England] bent his neck to the yoke of gain, or found the air too tense for him.
ET6 5.103 15 A terrible machine has possessed itself of the ground, the air, the men and women [in England]...
ET6 5.112 15 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied him with her voice. The circumstance took air, and all England shuddered from sea to sea.
ET8 5.134 6 ...however derived,--whether a happier tribe or mixture of tribes, the air, or what circumstance that mixed for them the golden mean of temperament,--here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...
ET8 5.141 20 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters? The early history shows it, as the musician plays the air which he proceeds to conceal in a tempest of variations.
ET9 5.147 16 ...it must be admitted, the island [England] offers a daily worship to the old Norse god Brage, celebrated among our Scandinavian forefathers for his eloquence and majestic air.
ET9 5.148 9 [This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain] takes away a dodging, skulking, secondary air...
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.
ET9 5.149 8 It was said of Louis XIV., that his gait and air were becoming enough in so great a monarch, yet would have been ridiculous in another man;...
ET10 5.158 3 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds.
ET10 5.161 9 Already [steam] is ruddering the balloon, and the next war will be fought in the air.
ET11 5.186 13 ...[English nobles] have that simplicity and that air of repose which are the finest ornament of greatness.
ET11 5.192 19 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let down from a window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air, was a scandal to Europe...
ET14 5.252 15 The tone of colleges and of scholars and of literary society [in England] has this mortal air.
ET15 5.269 14 There is an air of freedom even in [the London Times's] advertising columns...
ET16 5.285 16 The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was finished six hundred years ago, has even a spruce and modern air...
ET18 5.303 27 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon seed, with its instinct...for arts and for thought,--acquiring under some skies a more electric energy than the native air allows...
ET19 5.312 15 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...a cold, foggy, mournful country, where nothing grew well in the open air but robust men and virtuous women...
F 6.1 1 Delicate omens traced in air,/ To the lone bard true witness bare;/...
F 6.17 24 The air is full of men.
F 6.17 27 This kind of talent so abounds, this constructive tool-making efficiency...as if the air [a man] breathes were made of Vaucansons...
F 6.25 2 We should be crushed by the atmosphere, but for the reaction of the air within the body.
F 6.25 21 If the air come to our lungs, we breathe and live;...
F 6.28 2 [The breath of will] is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale...
F 6.32 21 ...the ductility of metals, the chariot of the air, the ruddered balloon are awaiting you.
F 6.37 13 Eyes are found in light; ears in auricular air;...
F 6.37 14 Eyes are found in light;...wings in air;...
F 6.37 27 There are more belongings to every creature than his air and his food.
F 6.44 13 Certain ideas are in the air.
F 6.44 18 The truth is in the air...
Pow 6.64 23 ...conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
Wth 6.83 13 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low and wide/...
Ctr 6.132 4 The air, said Fouche, is full of poniards.
Ctr 6.152 4 A shrewd foreigner said of the Americans that whatever they say has a little the air of a speech.
Bhr 6.177 2 If [the human body] were made of glass, or of air...it could not publish more truly its meaning than now.
Bhr 6.183 1 It is reported of one prince that his head had the air of leaning downwards, in order not to humble the crowd.
Bhr 6.183 6 It was said of the late Lord Holland that he always came down to breakfast with the air of a man who had just met with some signal good fortune.
Bhr 6.184 24 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied...that all the talkers were brained and exhausted by the deoxygenated air;...
Bhr 6.185 6 Look on this woman. There is not beauty...but all see her gladly; her whole air and impression are healthful.
Bhr 6.189 3 ...you cannot rightly train one to an air and manner, except by making him the kind of man of whom that manner is the natural expression.
Bhr 6.197 20 ...'t is a thousand to one that [the young girl's] air and manner will at once betray that she is not primary...
Wsp 6.209 26 In this country the like stupefaction was in the air...
CbW 6.259 24 The youth is charmed with the fine air and accomplishments of the children of fortune.
CbW 6.265 11 ...I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.
CbW 6.265 13 ...I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.
Bty 6.279 6 Beauty chased [Seyd] everywhere,/ In flame, in storm, in clouds of air./
Bty 6.287 2 ...the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
Bty 6.288 5 ...everybody knows people...who, with all degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency.
Ill 6.312 17 [The dreariest alderman] imitates the air and actions of people whom he admires...
Ill 6.325 25 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal]. And when...for an instant, the air clears...there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones,--they alone with him alone.
SS 7.6 4 Those constitutions which can bear in open day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average structure such as... atmospheric air and water.
Civ 7.28 3 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity...
Civ 7.29 25 ...[the heavenly powers] swerve never from their foreordained paths,--neither the sun, nor the moon, nor a bubble of air, nor a mote of dust.
Art2 7.43 22 The basis of music is the qualities of the air and the vibrations of sonorous bodies.
Art2 7.48 23 The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired... by all men...must...be...one through whom the soul of all men circulates as the common air through his lungs.
DL 7.122 10 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air;...
Farm 7.142 24 Who are the farmer's servants? Not the Irish...but...the quarry of the air, the water of the brook...
Farm 7.144 14 The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth...
Farm 7.144 17 The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.
Farm 7.144 18 The air works for [the farmer].
Farm 7.144 21 Air is matter subdued by heat.
Farm 7.144 23 ...the air is the receptacle from which all things spring...
Farm 7.144 25 The invisible and creeping air takes form and solid mass.
Farm 7.145 9 The plants imbibe the materials which they want from the air and the ground.
Farm 7.145 11 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again.
Farm 7.148 19 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine,--Enclosing in the garden square/ A dead and standing pool of air/...
Farm 7.149 19 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation, and allows the warm rain to bring down into the roots the temperature of the air and of the surface soil;...
WD 7.163 15 ...the next war will be fought in the air.
WD 7.169 9 In college terms, and in years that followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were in a swamp, would...find the air faintly echoing with plausive academic thunders.
WD 7.171 5 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the intellectual, temperamenting air;...are given immeasurably to all.
Boks 7.195 8 ...all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class...
Boks 7.210 20 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the hammer fall, he paused; the ivory instrument swept the air;...
Clbs 7.225 6 The flame of life burns too fast in pure oxygen, and Nature has tempered the air with nitrogen.
Clbs 7.225 7 ...thought is the native air of the mind...
Clbs 7.226 21 Opinions are accidental in people,--have a poverty-stricken air.
Cour 7.266 19 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi, though she...inhaled the air of the cavern standing on the tripod, fell into convulsions and died.
Suc 7.298 2 We remember when in early youth the earth spoke and the heavens glowed; when an evening, any evening...was enough us; the houses were in the air.
OA 7.325 25 A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the Supreme Court, and I was struck with a certain air of levity and defiance which vastly became him.
PI 8.15 12 As the bird alights on the bough, then plunges into the air again, so the thoughts of God pause but for a moment in any form.
PI 8.18 27 Our indeterminate size is a delicious secret which [the act of imagination] reveals to us. The mountains begin to dislimn, and float in the air.
PI 8.57 15 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do to the Indian, or the hunter, or miner, each of whom represents his facts as accurately as the cry of the wolf or the eagle tells of the forest or the air they inhabit.
PI 8.60 7 [The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when] Pons de Capdeuil declares,--Since the air renews itself and softens, so must my heart renew itself...
PI 8.60 23 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand; looking that way, he could see nothing save a kind of smoke which seemed like air...
PI 8.61 26 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...neither shall I ever go out from hence, for in the world there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined; and it is neither of wood, nor of iron, nor of stone, but of air...
SA 8.85 5 ...Do not go to ask your debtor the payment of a debt on the day when you have no other resource. He will learn by your air and tone how it is with you, and will treat you as a beggar.
SA 8.94 26 ...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air...
Elo2 8.128 9 ...the French say of Guizot, what Guizot learned this morning he has the air of having known from all eternity.
Res 8.140 21 By his machines man...can fly like a hawk in the air;...
Comc 8.162 21 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea;...
QO 8.187 5 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced...
QO 8.192 5 ...Voltaire usually imitated, but with such superiority that Dubuc said: He is like the false Amphitryon; although the stranger, it is always he who has the air of being master of the house.
PC 8.211 24 ...a new and healthful air regenerates the human mind...
PC 8.212 18 Geology...has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.
PC 8.215 7 ...[Roger Bacon] announced...machines to fly into the air like birds.
PC 8.226 16 The air does not rush to fill a vacuum with such speed as the mind to catch the expected fact.
PC 8.227 14 ...the air and water that hang invisibly around us hasten to become solid in the oak and the animal.
PC 8.228 1 If [men in Kansas and California] are made as [the wise man] is, if they breathe the like air...he knows that their joy or resentment rises to the same point as his own.
PPo 8.247 16 An air of sterility...belongs to many who have both experience and wisdom.
PPo 8.254 15 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor has any man inhaled...from the musky morning wind that sweet air which I am permitted to breathe every hour of the day.
PPo 8.255 27 Either world inhabits [the phoenix],/ Sees oft below him planets roll;/ His body is all of air compact,/ Of Allah's love his soul./
Insp 8.279 26 Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape and bodily exercise, on the mind.
Insp 8.284 9 Plutarch affirms that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and the chief cause that excites this faculty and virtue is a certain temperature of air and winds.
Grts 8.311 17 This day-labor of ours...has hitherto a certain emblematic air...
Grts 8.319 9 What are these [heroes] but the promise and the preparation of a day when the air of the world shall be purified by nobler society...
Imtl 8.340 4 ...all our intellectual action...bestows a feeling of absolute existence. We are taken out of time and breathe a purer air.
Dem1 10.21 4 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...flying through the air...can well be spared.
Dem1 10.21 19 The best are never demoniacal or magnetic; leave this limbo to the Prince of the power of the air.
Aris 10.55 6 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself. Is there...any cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air presupposing so undoubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs?
PerF 10.70 4 Go out of doors and get the air.
PerF 10.70 5 Ah, if you knew what was in the air.
PerF 10.71 13 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is full of peaches, full of oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of keys to unlock and combine its virtues;...and by and by it has lifted into the air its full weight in golden fruit.
PerF 10.71 23 ...gravity is as adhesive...air as virtuous...as on the first day.
PerF 10.73 27 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild beasts...none for a fog, or a damp air...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
PerF 10.76 5 ...a man draws on all the air for his occasions, as if there were no other breather;...
PerF 10.84 20 [Men] wish to pocket land and water and fire and air and all fruits of these, for property...
PerF 10.88 19 ...as the bird on the air...so do nations of men and their institutions rest on thoughts.
Supl 10.167 26 [People of English stock's] houses are...not designed to... blow about through the air much in hurricanes...
SovE 10.206 19 ...[the Orientals] will not turn on their heel to avoid famine, plague or the sword of the enemy. That is great, and gives a great air to the people.
MoL 10.247 19 Air, water, fire, iron, gold, wheat, electricity, animal fibre, have not lost a particle of power...
Schr 10.276 5 There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and our cargo across the sea.
Plu 10.301 26 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion for the modern reader owes much to the foreign air...
LLNE 10.339 6 There was a breath of new air...
LLNE 10.344 25 I habitually apply to [Theodore Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory. His vast lungs breathe independence with the air of the mountains and the woods.
LLNE 10.346 17 It was a time when the air was full of reform.
LLNE 10.348 9 A man is entitled to pure air, and to the air of good conversation in his bringing up...
LLNE 10.348 10 A man is entitled...to the air of good conversation in his bringing up...
EzRy 10.386 21 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but the Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor, as with an air that said to all the congregation, This is no time for you young Cambridge men; the affair, sir, is getting serious. I will pray myself.
SlHr 10.439 20 The severity of [Samuel Hoar's] logic might have inspired fear, had it not been restrained by his natural reverence, which made him modest and courteous, though his courtesy had a grave and almost military air.
SlHr 10.445 8 [Samuel Hoar] had uniformly the air of knowing just what he wanted...
Thor 10.466 19 Every fact which occurs in the bed [of the Concord River], on the banks or in the air over it;...[was] all known to [Thoreau]...
Thor 10.466 21 ...the shad-flies which fill the air on a certain evening once a year...were all known by [Thoreau]...
Thor 10.479 13 [Thoreau] praised wild mountains and winter forests for their domestic air...
Thor 10.481 12 ...[Thoreau] remarked that by night every dwelling-house gives out bad air...
GSt 10.501 3 High virtue has such an air of nature and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise the water for flowing...
HDC 11.35 18 The hardships of the journey and of the first encampment are certainly related by [the pilgrims'] contemporary with some air of romance...
HDC 11.39 2 The useful pine lifted its cones into the frosty air.
HDC 11.39 12 ...if...[the settlers of Concord] found the air of America very cold, they might say with Higginson...that...all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
HDC 11.66 9 In 1741, the celebrated Whitfield preached here [in Concord], in the open air, to a great congregation.
EWI 11.107 9 [Lord Mansfield's] decision established the principle that the air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe...
FSLC 11.179 9 There is infamy in the air.
FSLC 11.180 1 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air...
FSLC 11.193 17 Will you...blame the air for rushing in where a vacuum is made...
EdAd 11.391 20 Will [a journal] venture into the thin and difficult air of that school where the secrets of structure are discussed under the topics of mesmerism and the twilights of demonology?
Wom 11.410 4 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;...a statue should stand in the air;...
Wom 11.423 15 ...there is contamination enough [in politics], but it rots the men now, and fills the air with stench.
SHC 11.428 2 No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral stoops,/ No winding torches paint the midnight air;/...
SHC 11.435 16 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century...heroes, poets, beauties, sanctities, benefactors, will have made the air timeable and articulate.
RBur 11.440 27 [Burns's] musical arrows yet sing through the air.
Shak1 11.446 8 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/ The sense and bound of Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him became/ Poets, for the air was fame./
PLT 12.22 7 A fish in like manner is man furnished to live in the sea; a thrush, to fly in the air;...
PLT 12.26 23 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids, neither warm fireside nor fresh air, walking or riding, avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.
PLT 12.32 19 The air rings with sounds, but only a few vibrations can reach our tympanum.
PLT 12.54 2 The air would rot without lightning;...
PLT 12.57 20 There is a conflict between a man's private dexterity or talent and his access to the free air and light which wisdom is;...
II 12.76 14 That is the quality of [the moral sense], that it commands, and is not commanded. And rarely, and suddenly, and without desert, we are let into the serene upper air.
II 12.80 22 Nineteen twentieths of their substance do trees draw from the air.
II 12.81 24 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day, as leaves and wood are made of air, an idea fashioned them...
CInt 12.129 2 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic...where [is] the Romish or the Calvinistic religion, which made a kind of poetry in the air for Milton, or Byron, or Belzoni?...you expose your atheism.
CL 12.133 1 The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/ And all through which it blows;/...
CL 12.138 21 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or hand, or other uncovered part...
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.
CL 12.140 26 The power of the air was the first explanation offered by the early philosophers of the mutual understanding that men have.
CL 12.141 2 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul, and the essence of life.
CL 12.141 5 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul, and the essence of life. By breathing it, we become intelligent, and, because we breathe the same air, understand one another.
CL 12.141 10 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the future. If it be true that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and that the chief cause that excites that faculty is a certain temperature of the air and winds, etc.
CL 12.141 12 Even Lord Bacon said, The Stars inject their imagination or influence into the air.
CL 12.141 13 The air that we breathe is an exhalation of all the solid material of the globe.
CL 12.141 17 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.
CL 12.145 27 [The pear]...could live, like an Arab, on air and water.
CL 12.152 3 ...[in October] all the trees are wind-harps, filling the air with music;...
CL 12.152 19 We know the healing effect on the sick of change of air...
CL 12.160 4 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true.
Bost 12.183 2 The old physiologists said, There is in the air a hidden food of life;...
Bost 12.183 4 [The old physiologists] believed the air of mountains and the seashore a potent predisposer to rebellion.
Bost 12.183 5 [The old physiologists] believed the air of mountains and the seashore a potent predisposer to rebellion. The air was a good republican...
Bost 12.183 9 The air that we breathe is an exhalation of all the solid material globe.
Bost 12.183 14 ...from every stratum a different aroma and air according to its quality.
Bost 12.184 14 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air...
Bost 12.186 1 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place...
Bost 12.186 9 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generates by the air of that place...whereby...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find no less stimulus in our native air;...
Bost 12.196 20 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...takes from the muscles their suppleness, from the skin its exposure to the air;...
Bost 12.196 23 ...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.
MAng1 12.229 20 In the Piazza del Gran Duca at Florence, stands, in the open air, [Michelangelo's] David...
MAng1 12.231 4 [Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the air;...
Milt1 12.258 8 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches...
ACri 12.299 21 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less surely. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire, or of the blessing of love, and yet, I suppose, they are sensible of these...
MLit 12.309 20 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...
MLit 12.325 16 We are provoked with...the patronizing air with which [Goethe] vouchsafes to tolerate the genius and performances of other mortals...
MLit 12.331 14 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air and a gaze at the magnificence of summer, but dares not break from his slavery...
WSL 12.339 20 In Mr. Landor's coarseness there is a certain air of defiance...
WSL 12.346 9 [Landor] exercises with a grandeur of spirit the office of writer, and carries it with an air of old and unquestionable nobility.
EurB 12.369 17 The influence [of Wordsworth] was in the air...
EurB 12.370 16 Otto-of-roses is good, but wild air is better.
PPr 12.385 1 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism tossed like a football into the air...
PPr 12.385 2 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism tossed like a football into the air, and kept in the air, with merciless kicks and rebounds...
PPr 12.385 6 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.
Let 12.393 12 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.
Trag 12.412 27 [Some men] treat trifles with a tragic air.
Bty 6.288 13 Thought is the pent air-ball which can rive the planet...
PPr 12.390 24 How like an air-balloon or bird of Jove does [Carlyle] seem to float over the continent...
Pow 6.62 25 The commerce of rivers...and who knows but the commerce of air-balloons, must add an American extension to the pond-hole of admiralty.
PI 8.53 3 The poet, like a delighted boy, brings you heaps of rainbow-bubbles, opaline, air-borne...instead of a few drops of soap and water.
Pt1 3.4 3 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual meaning of a ship or a cloud...
Supl 10.178 20 Our modern improvements have been in the invention...of the famous two parallel bars of iron; then of the air-chamber of Watt, and of the judicious tubing of the engine, by Stephenson...
ET11 5.193 22 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year.
MN 1.198 13 I do not wish in attempting to paint a man, to describe an air-fed... ghost.
Thor 10.453 18 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him... the height of mountains and the air-line distance of his favorite summits,- this, and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
Pt1 3.42 16 ...thou [O poet] shalt possess that wherein others are only tenants and boarders. Thou true land-lord! sea-lord! air-lord!
Pol1 3.221 13 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures.
AmS 1.88 10 ...no air-pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum...
Let 12.392 14 ...in regard to the writer who has given us his speculations on Railroads and Air-roads, our correspondent shall have his own way.
SR 2.55 3 ...these airs of the bench are the emptiest affectation.
SL 2.133 16 People...take to themselves great airs upon their attainments...
SL 2.158 7 A stranger comes from a distant school...with airs and pretensions;...
Prd1 2.227 6 The domestic man, who loves no music so well as...the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.
Pt1 3.12 4 ...I shall mount above these clouds and opaque airs in which I live...
ShP 4.211 4 [Shakespeare] wrote the airs for all our modern music...
ET15 5.269 7 [The London Times] attacks a duke as readily as a policeman, and with the most provoking airs of condescension.
Wsp 6.202 2 I see not why we should give ourselves such sanctified airs.
Imtl 8.346 18 ...only by rare integrity, by a man permeated and perfumed with airs of heaven...can the vision [of immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.
Schr 10.266 25 ...practical people in America give themselves wonderful airs.
LLNE 10.349 23 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di Roma, the frozen Polar circles, which by their pestilential or hot or cold airs poison the temperate regions, accuse man.
Bost 12.202 5 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck. We are a little too close to wolf and famine than that anybody should give himself airs here in the swamp.
CbW 6.243 19 Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,/ Drink the wild air's salubrity/...
Carl 10.493 2 [Carlyle] saw once, as he told me, three or four miles of human beings, and fancied that the airth was some great cheese, and these were mites.
YA 1.388 4 In America, out-of-doors all seems a market; in-doors an air-tight stove of conventionalism.
Art1 2.349 15 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels, starry wings/...
ShP 4.194 1 The rude warm blood of the living England circulated in the play, as in street-ballads, and gave body which [Shakespeare] wanted to his airy and majestic fancy.
OA 7.313 2 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/ Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me with the wonted spell./
Elo2 8.110 6 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command...
Milt1 12.262 10 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command...
MoS 4.159 6 ...we ought to secure those advantages which we can command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and unattainable.
DSA 1.134 22 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...sometimes in towers and aisles of granite...
NER 3.263 9 In the midst of abuses...in the aisles of false churches... wherever, namely, a just and heroic soul finds itself, there it will do what is next at hand...
SA 8.94 19 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix...
ALin 11.335 2 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets;...such multitudes had to be trusted, that no secret could be kept. Every door was ajar...
PLT 12.28 23 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar...
Comp 2.107 24 ...the belt which Ajax gave Hector dragged the Trojan hero over the fields at the wheels of the car of Achilles...
Comp 2.107 27 ...the sword which Hector gave Ajax was that on whose point Ajax fell.
MMEm 10.402 12 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards...
PPh 4.40 24 Mahometanism draws all its philosophy, in its hand-book of morals, the Akhlak-y-Jalaly, from [Plato].
Lov1 2.177 10 ...[the lover] walks with arms akimbo;...
Ctr 6.148 5 Akin to the benefit of foreign travel, the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and country life...
MLit 12.316 17 Another element of the modern poetry akin to this subjective tendency...is the Feeling of the Infinite.
LT 1.280 10 [This denouncing philanthropist] is the state of Georgia, or Alabama...walking here on our north-eastern shores.
AKan 11.260 15 Can any citizen of Massachusetts travel in honor through Kentucky and Alabama and speak his mind?
Bost 12.186 26 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers...
EurB 12.370 11 In [Tennyson's] boudoirs of damask and alabaster, one is farther off from stern Nature and human life than in Lalla Rookh and the Loves of the Angels.
Elo1 7.83 23 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
HDC 11.79 11 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...with the utmost alacrity and despatch, fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns.
War 11.167 7 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...he...accepts with alacrity wearisome tasks of denial and charity;...
Res 8.142 8 ...we have found the Taurida in Pennsylvania and Ohio. If they have not the lamp of Aladdin, they have the Aladdin oil.
Dem1 10.25 14 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of magicians and fairies and lamps of Aladdin...
LLNE 10.351 10 Aladdin and his magician, or the beautiful Scheherezade can alone, in these prosaic times before the [Fourierist] sight, describe the material splendors collected there [in the Golden Horn].
Res 8.142 7 ...we have found the Taurida in Pennsylvania and Ohio. If they have not the lamp of Aladdin, they have the Aladdin oil.
Edc1 10.126 5 All the fairy tales of Aladdin or the invisible Gyges...are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.
PerF 10.84 21 [Men]...would like to have Aladdin's lamp to compel darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and lions and serpents to serve them like footmen.
PPh 4.57 17 ...the birds of highest flight have the strongest alar bones.
Bty 6.294 12 ...the bone or the quill of the bird gives the most alar strength with the least weight.
Con 1.317 5 ...the vigor of...Alaric the Goth...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
F 6.28 24 Alaric and Bonaparte must believe they rest on a truth...
Suc 7.304 26 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric.
ET4 5.59 3 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on a morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits out of their horses' mouths and crush each other's heads with them, as did Alaric and Eric.
Hist 2.38 5 Who knows himself before he...has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm?
ET4 5.56 4 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean. They even entered the port of the town where he was, causing no small alarm and sudden manning and arming of his galleys.
PI 8.6 10 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...suspects that some one is doing him, and at this alarm everything is compromised;...
Imtl 8.329 13 The experiences of the soul will fast outgrow this alarm [of death].
CSC 10.374 8 These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...were spoken of in different circles in every note of hope, of sympathy, of joy, of alarm, of abhorrence and of merriment.
HDC 11.72 18 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly, taking for his text, 2 Chronicles xiii.12, And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you.
FRep 11.533 11 If a temperate wise man should look over our American society, I think the first danger that would excite his alarm would be the European influences on this country.
PLT 12.6 23 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
LT 1.269 25 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a trumpet to alarm the ear of mankind...
PI 8.35 21 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy...
CInt 12.115 26 [The college] is essentially the most radiating and public of agencies, like, but better than...the alarm-bell...
Pol1 3.211 7 Citizens of feudal states are alarmed at our democratic institutions lapsing into anarchy...
CbW 6.257 10 ...[the gentleman] replied...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys;...
Boks 7.198 2 ...in these days, when it is found...that we need not be alarmed though we should find it not dull, [Herodotus's history] is regaining credit.
Clbs 7.229 10 ...the days come when we are alarmed, and say there are no thoughts.
Cour 7.263 26 The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts or wolves...
Prch 10.220 24 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle; but...when the enemy lies cold in his blood at our feet; we are alarmed at our solitude;...
HDC 11.68 18 ...we cannot but be alarmed at the great majority, in the British parliament, for the imposition of unconstitutional taxes on the colonies;...
FSLC 11.197 5 New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go for slavery, and posted the names of merchants who would not. Boston, alarmed, entered into the same design.
HDC 11.73 2 In these peaceful fields [of Concord], for the first time since a hundred years, the drum and alarm-gun were heard...
Int 2.344 4 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season...they will be no longer an alarming meteor...
Ill 6.309 17 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...plied with music and guns the echoes in these alarming galleries;...
Elo1 7.62 10 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...an alarming loss of perception of the passage of time...
PPo 8.243 12 [The Persian poets] use an inconsecutiveness quite alarming to Western logic...
HDC 11.57 11 ...a new and alarming public distress retarded the growth of [Concord], as of the sister towns...
HDC 11.71 5 In August [1774], a County Convention met in this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public affairs...
LVB 11.95 14 I will not hide from you [Van Buren], as an indication of the alarming distrust, that a letter addressed as mine is, and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.
ACiv 11.300 3 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions...
Pow 6.61 13 A timid man, listening to the alarmists in Congress and in the newspapers...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
Hsm1 2.250 16 ...pleasantly and as it were merrily [the hero] advances to his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
Nat2 3.187 4 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...protects us, through a multitude of groundless alarms, from some one real danger at last.
SMC 11.368 3 [George Prescott's] next note is, cracker for a day and a half,-but all right. Another day, had not left the ranks for thirty hours, and the nights were broken by frequent alarms.
MoL 10.247 12 Disease alarms the family, but the physician sees in it a temporary mischief, which he can check and expel.
MMEm 10.412 27 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs over reason, and every dignified respect to herself, in her anxiety about recovery, and the smallest means connected. Not one wish of others detains her, not one care. But it alarms me [Mary Moody Emerson] not...
FRep 11.524 7 The record of the election now and then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler.
EWI 11.146 24 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when...names which should be the alarums of liberty and the watchwords of truth, are mixed up with all the rotten rabble of selfishness and tyranny.
ET12 5.201 6 Albert Alaskie...was entertained with stage-plays in the Refectory of Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in 1583.
CbW 6.268 7 The farm is near this, 't is near that; [the young people] have got far from Boston, but 't is near Albany...
FSLN 11.224 26 ...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed. His speeches on the seventh of March, and at Albany, at Buffalo, at Syracuse and Boston are cited in justification.
FSLN 11.228 13 ...when allusion was made to the question of duty and the sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly said, at Albany, Some higher law, something existing somewhere between here and the third heaven,-I do not know where.
QO 8.181 9 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
ET7 5.123 24 [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 French popular legends on the subject of perfidious Albion.
PPo 8.242 4 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace, built by demons on Alburz, gold and silver and precious stones were used so lavishly that in the brilliancy produced by their combined effect, night and day appeared the same;...
Ctr 6.132 10 Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the Canon Yeman' s Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4, against alchemy.
Bty 6.282 15 Alchemy, which sought to transmute one element into another...that was in the right direction.
Dem1 10.25 23 ...this prodigious promiser [Animal Magnetism] ends always and always will, as sorcery and alchemy have done before, in a very small and smoky performance.
Hist 2.5 22 ...I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon, Alcibiades, and Catiline.
NER 3.274 16 The heroes of ancient and modern fame, Cimon... Alcibiades...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
Boks 7.199 11 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of Pericles, Alcibiades...
Cir 2.322 7 Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius...
OA 7.319 2 ...alcohol, hashish...are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time.
PI 8.70 18 O celestial Bacchus! drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...and in the long delay indemnifying themselves with the false wine of alcohol, of politics or of money.
Insp 8.279 7 There are...certain risks in this presentiment of the decisive perception, as in the use of ether or alcohol...
HDC 11.36 19 [The Indians'] physical powers...before yet the English alcohol had proved more fatal to them than the English sword, astonished the white men.
Thor 10.467 16 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used, more important to him than microscope or alcohol-receiver to other investigators, was a whim which grew on him by indulgence...
Ill 6.318 18 The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in Orion, the portentous year of Mizar and Alcor, must come down and be dealt with in your household thought.
LLNE 10.342 10 ...a sympathizing Englishman...interrupted with the question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me desires to inquire whether omnipotence abnegates attribute?
CSC 10.375 12 Dr. Channing, Edward Taylor, Bronson Alcott...and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian of philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
CSC 10.376 21 By no means the least value of this [Chardon Street] Convention, in our eye, was the scope it gave to the genius of Mr. Alcott...
Boks 7.193 18 It is easy...to demonstrate that though [a man] should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves [of the libraries].
Boks 7.210 26 ...M. Van Praet groped in vain among the royal alcoves in Paris, to detect a copy of the famed Valdarfer Boccaccio.
PI 8.65 22 ...in so many alcoves of English poetry I can count only nine or ten authors who are still inspirers and lawgivers to their race.
MAng1 12.214 1 Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun concetto,/ Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio, e solo a quello arriva/ La man che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M. Angelo, Sonneto primo.
PI 8.45 16 ...no matter what objects are near [water]...an alder-bush, or a stake,--they become beautiful by being reflected.
Ill 6.312 15 In the life of the dreariest alderman, fancy enters into all details...
LLNE 10.350 22 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties; that is, to be sure that you have got...an umbrella-maker, a mayor and alderman, and so on.
F 6.14 10 ...it would be rather the speediest way of deciding the vote, to put the selectmen or the mayor and aldermen at the hay-scales.
Nat2 3.176 15 The uprolled clouds and the colors of morning and evening will transfigure maples and alders.
Res 8.145 6 ...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout roof.
QO 8.184 22 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of everything.
ET4 5.48 26 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...good ale and mutton;...
ET4 5.71 14 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed, a wealthy, juicy, broad-chested creature, steeped in ale and good cheer...
ET10 5.164 5 [The English] have...drowsy habitude, daily dress-dinners, wine and ale and beer and gin and sleep.
Comc 8.163 15 Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
RBur 11.441 17 ...[Burns] has endeared...ale, the poor man's wine;...
Ill 6.313 8 It was wittily if somewhat bitterly said by D'Alembert, qu'un etat de vapeur etait un etat tres facheux, parcequ'il nous faisait voir les choses comme elles sont.
Chr2 10.110 17 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity-say the sarcasms of...D'Alembert-good-naturedly...
Nat 1.24 11 Thus is Art a nature passed through the alembic of man.
ET8 5.132 19 ...at Naples [young Englishmen] put St. Januarius's blood in an alembic;...
PI 8.5 13 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form;...
Aris 10.43 10 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it; as if a fine alembic were fed with liquor for its distillations from broad full vats in the vaults of the laboratory.
LT 1.270 18 ...it is well if government and our social order can extricate themselves from these alembics and find themselves still government and social order.
PI 8.16 18 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;--yes, so long as they are contented to be such, and are safe with the geologist,--but when they are melted in Promethean alembics and come out men...
Fdsp 2.206 9 [Friendship]...should be alert and inventive...
Cir 2.309 12 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by...his alert acceptance of [truth] from whatever quarter;...
ET3 5.43 7 ...I [Nature] have work that requires the best will and sinew. Sharp and temperate northern breezes shall blow, to keep that will alive and alert.
War 11.167 2 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights, if he be of sound body and mind. At a certain higher stage, he...is alert to repel injury...
AgMs 12.361 10 ...our [New England] people are...always alert to better themselves....
HDC 11.41 19 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge; and to Mr. Spencer, probably for the like reason, 300 acres by the Alewife River.
HDC 11.34 24 ...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the pilgrims] great store of fish in the spring-time, and especially, alewives...
WD 7.168 1 Czar Alexander was more expansive [than Bonaparte], and wished to call the Pacific my ocean;...
Elo2 8.117 23 A worthy gentleman, Mr. Alexander...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
Plu 10.318 16 The chapters On the Fortune of Alexander, in [Plutarch's] Morals, are an important appendix to the portrait in the Lives.
War 11.153 12 Plutarch, in his essay On the Fortune of Alexander, considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
Mrs1 3.125 10 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type; Saladin...Alexander...
NER 3.274 17 The heroes of ancient and modern fame, Cimon... Alexander...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
PPh 4.77 12 ...you shall feel that Alexander indeed overran, with men and horses, some countries of the planet;...
GoW 4.273 3 The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos;...
ET1 5.7 21 ...[Landor]...is well content to impress, if possible, his English whim upon the immutable past. No great man ever had a great son, if Philip and Alexander be not an exception;...
ET1 5.7 25 [Landor] prefers the Venus to everything else, and after that, the head of Alexander, in the gallery here [in Florence].
CbW 6.254 2 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
Boks 7.199 23 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first because he is so readable, which is much; then that he is medicinal and invigorating. The lives of...Alexander, Demosthenes...are what history has of best.
OA 7.321 18 We have, it is true, examples of an accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works; as in the Macedonian Alexander...
PI 8.23 22 Every healthy mind is a true Alexander or Sesostris...
QO 8.185 17 Goethe's favorite phrase, the open secret, translates Aristotle' s answer to Alexander, These books are published and not published.
Grts 8.302 11 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte...surely, who represent the highest force of mankind;...
Plu 10.307 24 [Plutarch] thinks that Alexander invaded Persia with greater assistance from Aristotle than from his father Philip.
Plu 10.315 4 [Plutarch] thinks it was by superior virtue that Alexander won his battles in Asia and Africa...
Plu 10.318 19 The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the refinement of his pure tastes...endeared him to Plutarch.
War 11.153 14 Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
TPar 11.285 9 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends.
WSL 12.339 5 Bolivar, Mina and General Jackson will never be greater soldiers than Napoleon and Alexander, let Mr. Landor think as he will;...
AgMs 12.358 20 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...
ET9 5.152 7 [George of Cappadocia] saved his money...and got promoted by a faction to the episcopal throne of Alexandria.
Plu 10.319 5 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria...
Edc1 10.149 24 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men...of Alexandria around Plotinus;...
SMC 11.364 1 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came.
SR 2.58 10 A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;...
Schr 10.266 20 ...the Alexandrian grammarians...have not much helped us.
PPh 4.40 16 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists! the Alexandrians, a constellation of genius;...
ET4 5.58 26 A pair of [Norse] kings, after dinner, will divert themselves by thrusting each his sword through the other's body, as did Yngve and Alf.
PPh 4.39 20 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation,--Boethius...Alfieri...is some reader of Plato...
ET3 5.34 1 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in;...
ET4 5.62 27 Alfieri said the crimes of Italy were the proof of the superiority of the stock;...
MAng1 12.244 8 There [in Santa Croce], near the tomb...of Boccaccio, and of Alfieri, stands the monument of Michael Angelo Buonarotti.
Boks 7.208 12 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Gibbon's, Hume's, Franklin's, Burns's, Alfieri's, Goethe's and Haydon's Autobiographies.
Boks 7.206 24 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology... to Asser's Life of Alfred...
AmS 1.100 2 ...out of terrible Druids and Berserkers come at last Alfred and Shakspeare.
Con 1.317 4 ...the vigor of...Alfred the Saxon...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
SR 2.63 2 Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus?
ET4 5.47 9 How came such men as King Alfred, and Roger Bacon...
ET5 5.76 26 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of Alfred, Bede, Caxton...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
ET7 5.117 21 Alfred...is called by a writer at the Norman Conquest, the truth-speaker;...
ET8 5.141 22 In Alfred, in the Northmen, one may read the genius of the English society...
ET11 5.175 4 He shall have the book, said the mother of Alfred, who can read it;...
ET11 5.175 5 He shall have the book, said the mother of Alfred, who can read it; and Alfred won it by that title...
ET12 5.200 21 [Oxford's] foundations date from Alfred...
ET13 5.231 7 ...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil...that divine secret has existed in England from the days of Alfred...
ET14 5.233 25 A taste for plain strong speech...marks the English. It is in Alfred and the Saxon Chronicle...
ET16 5.289 25 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York. Here was Canute buried, and here Alfred the Great was crowned and buried...
ET16 5.290 6 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there...
ET18 5.307 10 ...retrospectively, we may strike the balance and prefer one Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney, one Raleigh, one Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.
CbW 6.256 20 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
Suc 7.287 27 Newton was a great man, without...lucifer-matches, or ether for his pain; so was Shakspeare and Alfred and Scipio and Socrates.
Suc 7.295 24 How often it seems the chief good to be born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race. Such a man feels himself...conscious by his receptivity of an infinite strength. Like Alfred, good fortune accompanies him like a gift of God.
PI 8.3 12 The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all the valid minds,--of...Alfred, Luther...
PC 8.214 19 [The Middle Ages'] Dante and Alfred and Wickliffe and Abelard and Bacon;...are the delight and tuition of ours.
PC 8.220 16 How much more are...the wise and good souls...Alfred the king, Shakspeare the poet, Newton the philosopher...than the foolish and sensual millions aroun them!
Plu 10.318 6 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of Arthur, Saxon Alfred...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
JBS 11.281 24 ...the arch-abolitionist...is Love, whose other name is Justice, which was before Alfred, before Lycurgus, before slavery, and will be after it.
Milt1 12.257 5 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had not been in part furnished or corroborated by political enemies, would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal, like...the popular traditions of Alfred the Great.
LE 1.163 12 ...in the great idea and the puny execution;...behold Alfred's... day...
ET16 5.290 12 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation, and what is left of Alfred's body now lies covered by modern buildings, or buried in the ruins of the old.
Pt1 3.30 16 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics...but it is felt in every definition;...
Pt1 3.35 9 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric...and we shall both be gainers.
Ctr 6.143 4 [The boy] learns chess, whist, dancing and theatricals. The father observes that another boy has learned algebra and geometry in the same time.
Wsp 6.241 12 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...the algebra and mathematics of ethical law...
CbW 6.276 18 ...whatever art you select, algebra, planting...all are attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are apt;...
PC 8.214 22 ...[The Middle Ages']...chemistry, algebra, astronomy;...are the delight and tuition of ours.
PC 8.217 22 If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his nation cannot spare him; nor if he know...the secret of geometry, of algebra;...
Edc1 10.149 3 Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and learning the secret of algebra...
CInt 12.128 19 ...if the Latin, Greek, Algebra or Art were in the parents, it will be in the children...
Comp 2.116 17 All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
WD 7.179 13 ...we do not listen with the best regard to the verses of a man who is only a poet, nor to his problems if he is only an algebraist;...
EPro 11.324 21 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers...the condition...of France, French Algiers...
AmS 1.97 25 Authors we have, in numbers...who...ramble round Algiers, to replenish their merchantable stock.
Pow 6.69 14 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...gypsying with Borrow in Spain and Algiers;...
MN 1.222 16 If knowledge, said Ali the Caliph, calleth unto practice, well; if not, it goeth away.
Con 1.317 5 ...the vigor of...Mahomet, Ali and Omar the Arabians... sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
SR 2.88 15 Thy lot or portion of life, said the Caliph Ali, is seeking after thee;...
Aris 10.58 26 In his consciousness of deserving success, the caliph Ali constantly neglected the ordinary means of attaining it...
SwM 4.95 21 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together;...
LE 1.168 22 ...[when I see the daybreak] I feel perhaps the pain of an alien world;...
SR 2.62 5 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air...
OS 2.268 16 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that...from some alien energy the visions come.
SwM 4.124 24 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...and is there objective, or really takes place in bodies by alien will,--in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
F 6.40 1 [Man] thinks his fate alien, because the copula is hidden.
Clbs 7.241 24 ...the simple lover of truth...finds himself a stranger and alien.
Dem1 10.15 10 It is not the tendency of our times to ascribe importance...to omens. But the faith in peculiar and alien power takes another form in the modern mind...
LS 11.20 25 ...to adhere to one form a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.
Trag 12.405 18 Already our thoughts and words have an alien sound.
SR 2.46 1 ...[our rejected thoughts] come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
MR 1.253 2 In every household, the peace of a pair is poisoned by the... alienation of domestics.
ET13 5.228 18 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe...and the alienation of such men [the educated class] from the church became complete.
Tran 1.356 16 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or morning or evening call, which they resist as what does not concern them. But it costs such...alienations and misgivings,-they have so many moods about it;...
Nat 1.65 9 We are as much strangers in nature as we are aliens from God.
SR 2.80 10 [The unbalanced mind] cannot imagine how you aliens have any right to see...
Lov1 2.183 23 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...
Art1 2.354 23 It is the habit of certain minds to give an all-excluding fulness to...the word, they alight upon...
DL 7.118 25 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate...
Boks 7.192 17 It seems...as if some charitable soul, after...alighting upon a few true [books] which made him happy and wise, would do a right act in naming those which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
PPo 8.255 8 In the following poem the soul is figured as the Phoenix alighting on Tuba, the Tree of Life...
Exp 3.58 3 Like a bird which alights nowhere, but hops perpetually from bough to bough, is the Power which abides in no man and in no woman, but for a moment speaks from this one, and for another moment from that one.
DL 7.114 10 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince...with the man or woman of worth who alights at our door.
PI 8.15 12 As the bird alights on the bough, then plunges into the air again, so the thoughts of God pause but for a moment in any form.
Dem1 10.16 7 The young man takes a leap in the dark and alights safe.
Nat 1.23 22 Nature is a sea of forms radically alike...
Nat 1.42 13 ...all organizations are radically alike.
Tran 1.334 5 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself, centre alike of him and of them...
Hist 2.9 3 [Each man] must attain and maintain that lofty sight where... poetry and annals are alike.
SR 2.67 14 [The rose's] nature is satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike.
SR 2.73 21 It is alike your interest, and mine, and all men's...to live in truth.
Comp 2.100 24 Under all governments the influence of character remains the same,--in Turkey and in New England about alike.
SL 2.136 24 If we look wider, things are all alike;...
SL 2.162 24 Action and inaction are alike to the true.
Pt1 3.19 27 The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of Life...to which the belt of wampum and the commerce of America are alike.
Chr1 3.108 8 Nature never...makes two men alike.
ET4 5.60 26 [The Normans] were all alike, they took everything they could carry...
F 6.14 17 In vegetable and animal tissue it is just alike...
Wth 6.101 5 ...the true and only power, whether composed of money, water or men; it is all alike [said the Marseilles banker];...
Bhr 6.191 25 The novels used to be all alike...
CbW 6.278 7 The man,--it is his attitude...in repose alike as in energy, still formidable and not to be disposed of.
Ill 6.314 15 ...a friend of mine complained that all the varieties of fancy pears in our orchard seem to have been selected by somebody who had a whim for a particular kind of pear, and only cultivated such as had that perfume; they were all alike.
Boks 7.192 12 ...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination,--not a choice out of three caskets, but out of half a million caskets, all alike.
Cour 7.271 25 ...General Daumas and Abdel-Kader, become aware that they are nearer and more alike than any other two...
Suc 7.303 15 ...the genial man is interested in every slipper that comes into the assembly. The passion, alike everywhere, creeps under the snows of Scandinavia, under the fires of the equator...
Comc 8.170 17 Alike in all these cases...the majesty of man is violated.
Chr2 10.93 15 ...the sense of Right and Wrong, is alike in all.
MMEm 10.422 18 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles. Sometimes they climb, sometimes creep into the meanest holes-but they are all alike in vanishing...
EWI 11.145 22 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one...
TPar 11.291 20 ...[Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for sympathy-alike the brave slave-holder and the brave slave-rescuer.
FRep 11.534 5 A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a far-off copy of Osborne House or the Elysee. The tendency of this is to make all men alike;...
PLT 12.58 1 [People] are as much alike as their barns and pantries...
II 12.71 13 Novelty in the means by which we arrive at the old universal ends is the test of the presence of the highest power, alike in intellectual and in moral action.
II 12.72 13 One master could so easily be conceived as writing all the books of the world. They are all alike.
Bost 12.191 8 Snow and moonlight make all places alike;...
ACri 12.294 3 ...in the conduct of the play, and the speech of the heroes, [Shakespeare] keeps the level tone which is the tone of high and low alike...
Nat 1.48 7 Whether nature enjoy a substantial existence without, or is only in the apocalypse of the mind, it is alike useful and alike venerable to me.
Nat 1.48 8 Whether nature enjoy a substantial existence without, or is only in the apocalypse of the mind, it is alike useful and alike venerable to me.
DSA 1.150 17 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath...whose light dawns welcome alike into the closet of the philosopher, into the garret of toil...
LE 1.168 12 ...indeed any vegetation, any animation...are alike unattempted [by poets].
YA 1.391 14 Nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the State and the individual are alike ephemeral.
Hist 2.11 1 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. ... We assume that we under like influence should be alike affected, and should achieve the like;...
Hist 2.34 22 The preternatural prowess of the hero, the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind.
SR 2.69 2 Fear and hope are alike beneath [the soul].
Hsm1 2.250 15 ...pleasantly and as it were merrily [the hero] advances to his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
Gts 3.164 11 The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also.
NER 3.260 7 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...
NER 3.262 3 The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
NER 3.263 9 In the midst of abuses...alike in one place and in another,-- wherever, namely, a just and heroic soul finds itself, there it will do what is next at hand...
ET16 5.279 13 To these conscious stones [of Stonehenge] we two pilgrims [Emerson and Carlyle] were alike known and near.
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...which is alike lovely and honorable to those who render and those who receive it;...
CbW 6.278 17 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm and in the miscellany of metropolitan life...
Elo1 7.88 11 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift, being...in lawyers nothing technical, but always some piece of common sense, alike interesting to laymen as to clerks.
WD 7.177 3 The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near from every point...
Elo2 8.126 20 Fundamentally all [men] feel alike and think alike...
Edc1 10.131 12 By the permanence of Nature, minds are trained alike...
MMEm 10.416 4 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything, and the darkest and lightest are alike welcome.
JBB 11.268 13 ...every one who has heard [John Brown] speak has been impressed alike by his simple, artless goodness, joined with his sublime courage.
EPro 11.316 7 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation on the twenty-second of September. These are acts...honoring alike those who initiate and those who receive them.
ALin 11.337 20 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...conquers alike by what is called defeat or by what is called victory...
EdAd 11.392 21 ...the moral and religious sentiments meet us everywhere, alike in markets as in churches.
Scot 11.464 26 ...[Scott] had the...skill...not to write solemn pentameters alike on a hero or a spaniel.
PLT 12.49 21 The difference is obvious enough in Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's. In debate, in legislature, not less in action; in war or in affairs, alike daring and effective.
PLT 12.53 20 No man passes for that with another which he passes for with himself. The respect and the censure of his brother are alike injurious and irrelevant.
Trag 12.413 6 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...prepared alike to give death or to give life, as the emergency of the next moment may require.
WD 7.172 13 ...the earth is the cup, the sky is the cover, of the immense bounty of Nature which is offered us for our daily aliment;...
MLit 12.317 25 There are...sentiments, which find no aliment or language for themselves on the wharves, in court, or market...
SwM 4.108 22 Here in the brain is all the process of alimentation repeated...
WD 7.160 22 Egypt...now, it is said, thanks Mehemet Ali's irrigations and planted forests for late-returning showers.
ET19 5.309 12 Sir Archibald Alison, the historian, presided [at the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet]...
ET19 5.310 9 ...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table...
Nat 1.45 18 [The spirit] says...in such as this [human form] have I found and beheld myself; I will speak to it;...it can yield me thought already formed and alive.
DSA 1.123 14 Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers...
DSA 1.133 25 Let [the life and dialogues of Christ] lie as they befell, alive and warm...
DSA 1.150 10 ...if once you are alive, you shall find [the old forms] shall become plastic and new.
LE 1.165 26 Out of [the spontaneous sentiment] must all that is alive and genial in thought go.
MR 1.227 10 ...some of those offices and functions for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society that the memory of them is only kept alive in old books...
MR 1.255 5 This great, overgrown, dead Christendom of ours still keeps alive at least the name of a lover of mankind.
LT 1.272 15 [The moral sentiment] is new and creative. That is alive.
LT 1.281 10 ...by combination of that which is dead [the reformers] hope to make something alive.
LT 1.289 4 This ever renewing generation of appearances rests on a reality, and a reality that is alive.
Tran 1.351 22 The martyrs were...hung alive on meat-hooks.
Hist 2.32 23 As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx, who was said to sit in the road-side and put riddles to every passenger. If the man could not answer, she swallowed him alive.
Comp 2.102 5 The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point. If the good is there, so is the evil;...if the force, so the limitation. Thus is the universe alive.
SL 2.155 19 [The things the great man did] are the demonstrations in a few particulars of the genius of nature; they show the direction of the stream. But the stream is blood; every drop is alive.
Lov1 2.176 16 [Love] makes all things alive and significant.
Prd1 2.224 21 ...our existence...so alive to social good and evil...reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
Art1 2.365 5 ...the statue will look cold and false before that new activity which...is impatient of...things not alive.
Art1 2.368 3 In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful because it is alive, moving, reproductive;...
Pt1 3.9 27 ...it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,--a thought so passionate and alive that...it has an architecture of its own...
Exp 3.52 7 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them.
Mrs1 3.122 11 ...we must keep alive in the vernacular the distinction between fashion...and the heroic character which the gentleman imports.
Nat2 3.186 16 We are made alive and kept alive by the same arts.
NR 3.240 8 If John was perfect, why are you and I alive?
NR 3.244 11 Jesus is not dead; he is very well alive...
NER 3.283 9 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall rely on the Law alive and beautiful...
UGM 4.24 8 The worthless and offensive members of society...invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive...
SwM 4.130 2 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing...
SwM 4.134 17 Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive.
MoS 4.168 13 Cut [Montaigne's] words, and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.
GoW 4.262 7 ...nature strives upward; and, in man, the report is something more than print of the seal. It is a new and finer form of the original. The record is alive, as that which it recorded is alive.
GoW 4.282 17 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...the commas and dashes are alive;...
ET3 5.43 7 ...I [Nature] have work that requires the best will and sinew. Sharp and temperate northern breezes shall blow, to keep that will alive and alert.
ET4 5.58 14 ...[going into guest-quarters] was the only way in which, in a poor country, a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when he leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom.
ET13 5.228 1 ...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods...
ET14 5.253 10 The eye of the naturalist must have...a susceptibility...alive to the heart as well as to the logic of creation.
Wth 6.118 23 When men now alive were born, the farm yielded everything that was consumed on it.
Ctr 6.129 5 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/...
Wsp 6.221 7 ...in the human mind, this tie of fate is made alive.
Wsp 6.242 2 ...the good Laws themselves are alive...
CbW 6.251 21 Fate keeps everything alive so long as the smallest thread of public necessity holds it on to the tree.
Art2 7.37 9 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from the vulgar Fate by being instant and alive...
Elo1 7.68 25 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers. Her speech flows like a river...such justice done to all the parts! It is a true transubstantiation,--the fact converted into speech, all warm and colored and alive...
DL 7.103 24 [The child's] flesh is angel's flesh, all alive.
Suc 7.305 20 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England,--he had brought all that was alive away.
PI 8.41 9 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment...know as well as coarser how to...maintain their stock alive, and multiply;...
PI 8.54 16 ...the verse must be alive...
Res 8.137 9 The world is...strings of tension waiting to be struck; the earth sensitive as iodine to light; the most plastic and impressionable medium, alive to every touch...
Comc 8.162 5 A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible.
QO 8.187 27 ...shall we say that only the first men were well alive...
Grts 8.316 2 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot, and Diderot, pitying the creature, wrote the dedication for him, and so raised five-and-twenty louis to save his famishing lampooner alive.
PerF 10.85 16 [A survey of cosmical powers] shows us the world alive...
Supl 10.171 23 The superlative is as good as the positive, if it be alive.
LLNE 10.365 20 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm] showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
MMEm 10.415 20 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I...from the solitary heart taught thee to say, at first womanhood, Alive with God is enough,-'t is rapture.
SlHr 10.446 18 No person was more keenly alive to the stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar].
Thor 10.483 7 Immortal water, alive even to the superficies.
EWI 11.110 24 In attempting to make its escape from the pursuit of a man-of- war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive into the sea.
EWI 11.140 16 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...
FSLC 11.187 27 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending... on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being...burned alive...to get away from his driver...
AKan 11.256 23 ...the people of Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men, to save them alive...
AKan 11.263 19 When [the country] is lost it will be time enough then for any who are luckless enough to remain alive to gather up their clothes and depart to some land where freedom exists.
SMC 11.375 2 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields, and returned alive, put just as much at hazard as those who died...
Wom 11.420 11 On the questions that are important...whether men shall be holden in bondage, or shall be roasted alive and eaten, as in Typee, or shall be hunted with bloodhounds, as in this country...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
CPL 11.501 1 [Thoreau writes] It is a relief to read some true books wherein all are equally dead, equally alive.
FRep 11.521 13 John Quincy Adams was a man of an audacious independence that always kept the public curiosity alive in regard to what he might do.
Mem 12.105 7 Every artist is alive on the subject of his art.
CL 12.157 12 The landscape is vast, complete, alive.
CW 12.169 8 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Nor wit, nor eloquence,-no, nor even the song/ Of any woman that is now alive,-/ Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
MAng1 12.239 7 Michael Angelo said of Masaccio's pictures that when they were first painted they must have been alive.
MAng1 12.243 24 Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he might be buried in that church [Santa Croce]...
Milt1 12.248 2 [New criticism] implied merit [in Milton] indisputable and illustrious; yet so near to the modern mind as to be still alive and life-giving.
Milt1 12.251 8 [Milton's Areopagitica] is, as Luther said of one of Melancthon's writings, alive, hath hands and feet...
MLit 12.309 4 In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers. They keep alive the memory and the hope of a better day.
MLit 12.319 4 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end-an infinite good, alive and beautiful...
Nat 1.34 23 ...acid and alkali, preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God...
MN 1.216 13 The doctrine in vegetable physiology of the presence or the general influence of any substance over and above its chemical influence, as of an alkali...is more predicable of man.
PI 8.49 1 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature,--acid and akali...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
ET4 5.52 16 Perhaps the ocean serves as a galvanic battery, to distribute acids at one pole and alkalies at the other.
PI 8.13 21 ...if crystals, if alkalies...say what I say, it must be true.
Nat 1.24 21 Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Comp 2.106 22 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them... A plain confession of the in-working of the All and of its moral aim.
Comc 8.159 1 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence...enjoying the figure which each self-satisfied particular creature cuts in the unrespecting All...
PPo 8.263 6 ...quarry thy stones from the crystal All,/ And build the dome that shall not fall./
PLT 12.21 13 The life of the All must stream through us to make the man and the moment great.
PLT 12.36 1 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they represented in Pan... who was not yet completely finished in godlike form...had emblematic horns and feet? Pan, that is, All.
Trag 12.405 10 In the dark hours, our existence seems to be...a struggle against the encroaching All...
Chr1 3.115 22 ...when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring... comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
PI 8.64 13 Bring us...poetry like that verse of Saadi, which the angels testified met the approbation of Allah in Heaven;...
PPo 8.249 12 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a groom, and heaven a closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer.
PPo 8.253 23 I have no hoarded treasure,/ Yet have I rich content;/ The first from Allah to the Shah,/ The last to Hafiz went./
Insp 8.279 27 The Arabs say that Allah does not count from life the days spent in the chase...
CW 12.174 7 ...[a man in his wood-lot] remembers that Allah in his allotment of life does not count the time which the Arab spends in the chase.
PPo 8.255 28 Either world inhabits [the phoenix],/ Sees oft below him planets roll;/ His body is all of air compact,/ Of Allah's love his soul./
PPo 8.261 11 Is Allah's face on thee/ Bending with love benign,/ And thou not less on Allah's eye/ O fairest! turnest thine./
PPo 8.261 13 Is Allah's face on thee/ Bending with love benign,/ And thou not less on Allah's eye/ O fairest! turnest thine./
Chr1 3.115 22 ...when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring... comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
CL 12.149 11 The Hindoos called fire Agni...the sacrificer visible to all, thousand-eyed, all-beholding...
Chr2 10.93 14 ...the high, contemplative, all-commanding vision...is alike in all.
Fdsp 2.209 25 Leave it to girls and boys to regard a friend as property, and to suck a short and all-confounding pleasure...
Hist 2.13 1 Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all-creating nature... why should we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms?
Bty 6.306 24 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings...up to the perception of Plato that globe and universe are rude and early expressions of an all-dissolving Unity,--the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
PC 8.223 13 On...this all-dissolving unity, the emphasis of heaven and earth is laid.
Pow 6.76 20 The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation...
HDC 11.66 22 The ninth allegation [against Daniel Bliss] is That in praying for himself...he said, he was a poor vile worm of the dust, that was allowed as Mediator between God and his people.
EWI 11.132 19 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...
NR 3.234 25 Anomalous facts, as...the new allegations of phrenologists and neurologists, are of ideal use.
SwM 4.123 1 [Swedenborg's] disciples allege that their intellect is invigorated by the study of his books.
Dem1 10.13 12 For Spiritism, it shows that no man, almost, is fit to give evidence. Then I say to the amiable and sincere among them, these matters are quite too important than that I can rest them on any legends. If I have no facts, as you allege, I can very well wait for them.
AsSu 11.251 10 ...when I think of these most small faults as the worst which party hatred could allege, I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.
Bhr 6.181 6 The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
Dem1 10.21 13 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and moral with a certain terror; so...the alleged second-sight of the pseudo-spiritualists.
FSLC 11.182 26 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed the shallowness of leaders; the divergence of parties from their alleged grounds;...
YA 1.365 15 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere...
MoS 4.157 18 Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
MoS 4.158 19 ...it is alleged that labor impairs the form and breaks the spirit of man...
ET1 5.5 20 [Greenough's] face was so handsome and his person so well formed that he might be pardoned, if, as was alleged, the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay, were idealizations of his own.
ET4 5.47 24 Race avails much, if that be true which is alleged, that all Celts are Catholics and all Saxons are Protestants;...
ET12 5.200 22 [Oxford's] foundations date...from Arthur, if, as is alleged, the Pheryllt of the Druids had a seminary here.
F 6.27 21 I know not whether there be, as is alleged...a permanent westerly current...
Dem1 10.12 22 We are used to vaster wonders than these that are alleged.
Chr2 10.109 5 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India put obstacles in the way of schools (as is alleged)...it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.
FSLC 11.187 23 [Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is not going crusading into Virginia and Georgia after slaves, who, it is alleged, are very comfortable where they are...
WSL 12.338 8 Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull]...the peculiarity which is alleged of the Englishman, that his virtues do not come out until he quarrels.
EurB 12.373 3 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America.
Bhr 6.195 13 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
ET16 5.288 22 There, in that great sloven continent [America], in high Alleghany pastures...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...
ET19 5.314 7 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen...the elasticity and hope of mankind must henceforth remain on the Alleghany ranges, or nowhere.
Con 1.308 19 I cannot occupy the bleakest crag of the White Hills or the Alleghany Range, but some man or corporation steps up to me to show me that it is his.
Nat2 3.176 9 In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock as well as from the top of the Alleghanies.
Bhr 6.185 15 In the shallow company, easily excited, easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard; the Alleghanies do not express more repose than his behavior.
PI 8.41 12 ...flights of painted moths are as old as the Alleghanies.
Elo2 8.132 9 ...the Andes and Alleghanies indicate the line of the fissure in the crust of the earth along which they were lifted...
Chr1 3.115 8 This is confusion, this the right insanity, when the soul no longer knows its own, nor where its allegiance, its religion, are due.
PNR 4.88 12 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes...He, that can endure/ To follow with allegiance a fallen lord,/ Does conquer him that did his master conquer,/ And earns a place in the story./
MoS 4.158 1 ...great numbers dislike [the State] and suffer conscientious scruples to allegiance;...
Chr2 10.109 27 Paganism has only taken the oath of allegiance, taken the cross...
SovE 10.185 9 ...presently...[the man down in Nature] is aware that he owes a higher allegiance to do and live as a good member of this universe.
Plu 10.314 26 So keen is [Plutarch's] sense of allegiance to right reason, that he makes a fight against Fortune whenever she is named.
FSLC 11.191 20 Even the Canon Law says (in malis promissis non expedit servare fidem), Neither allegiance nor oath can bind to obey that which is wrong.
FSLN 11.242 11 [American universities] have forgotten their allegiance to the Muse...
JBB 11.271 19 The state judges fear collision between their two allegiances;...
ET7 5.118 26 An Englishman...checks himself in compliments, alleging that in the French language one cannot speak without lying.
OA 7.319 18 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to resign, alleging that he perceived a certain decay in his faculties;...
Nat 1.31 7 ...good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories.
Nat 1.33 26 What is true of proverbs, is true of all...allegories.
SwM 4.120 2 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
SovE 10.192 3 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... all that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his mind is active are...wonderful allegories...
Hist 2.34 8 ...when [the bard] seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance, the issue is an exact allegory.
PNR 4.83 1 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small; studying the state in the citizen and the citizen in the state; and leaving it doubtful whether he exhibited the Republic as an allegory on the education of the private soul;...
SwM 4.116 25 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in allegory...
Art2 7.47 4 We hesitate at doing Spenser so great an honor as to think that he intended by his allegory the sense we affix to it.
PPo 8.262 13 The following passages exhibit the strong tendency of the Persian poets to contemplative and religious poetry and to allegory.
WSL 12.348 18 [Landor's] books are a strange mixture of politics, etymology, allegory, sentiment and personal history;...
PLT 12.52 19 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order, so that I shall have one homogeneous piece,-a Lycidas, an Allegro...this continuity is for the great.
Milt1 12.275 7 L'Allegro and Il Peneroso are but a finer autobiography of [Milton's] youthful fancies at Harefield;...
LLNE 10.359 26 William Allen was at first and for some time the head farmer [at Brook Farm]...
Trag 12.416 9 The individual who suffers has a mysterious counterbalance to that condition, which, to us who look upon her, appears to be attended with no alleviating circumstance.
YA 1.394 18 That there are mitigations and practical alleviations to this rigor [of English aristocracy], is not an excuse for the rule.
NER 3.268 26 We do not believe that...any influence of genius, will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind. Having settled ourselves into this infidelity, our skill is expended to procure alleviations...
Art1 2.354 22 It is the habit of certain minds to give an all-excluding fulness to the object...they alight upon...
ShP 4.219 4 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished; they read...all-excluding mountainous duty;...
EurB 12.375 22 ...this reward granted [the novels of costume or of circumstance] is property, all-excluding property...
II 12.78 25 ...we must be openers of doors, and not a blind alley;...
YA 1.368 8 ...[the farmer] is so contented with his alleys, woodlands, orchards and river, that Niagara and the Notch of the White Hills...are superfluities.
FSLC 11.185 14 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy, whom the fame of Boston had reached...in the alleys of Savannah, on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him.
ACri 12.295 7 My friend thinks the reason why the French mind is so shallow, and still to seek, running into vagaries and blind alleys, is because they do not read Shakspeare;...
Ctr 6.137 27 In the Norse legend, All-fadir did not get a drink of Mimir's spring (the fountain of wisdom) until he left his eye in pledge.
Nat 1.24 19 God is the all-fair.
ET14 5.247 14 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
Pt1 3.12 26 ...the all-piercing, all-feeding and ocular air of heaven that man shall never inhabit.
ACri 12.304 17 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation.
MN 1.194 20 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite,-but glad and conspiring reception,-reception that becomes giving in its turn, as the receiver is only the All-Giver in part and in infancy.
ET10 5.160 25 The wise, versatile, all-giving machinery makes chisels, roads, locomotives, telegraphs.
ET14 5.247 14 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
NR 3.232 24 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...but there is such equality and identity both of judgment and point of view in the narrative that it is plainly the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman.
MN 1.194 5 ...come...hither, thou loving, all-hoping poet!...
ET15 5.264 13 [The London Times] first denounced and then adopted the new French Empire, and urged the French Alliance and its results.
LLNE 10.347 12 ...[Robert Owen] interpreted with great generosity the acts of the Holy Alliance...
Nat 1.30 24 ...picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
Fdsp 2.201 20 ...the sweet sincerity of joy and peace which I draw from this alliance with my brother's soul is the nut itself whereof all nature and all thought is but the husk and shell.
Fdsp 2.209 1 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable natures...
ET14 5.254 1 ...for the most part the natural science in England is out of its loyal alliance with morals...
Wsp 6.217 22 So intimate is this alliance of mind and heart, that talent uniformly sinks with character.
PPo 8.256 6 I declare myself the slave of that masculine soul/ Which ties and alliance on earth once forever renounces./
FSLC 11.205 20 The union of this people is a real thing, an alliance of men of one flock, one language, one religion, one system of manners and ideas.
ACri 12.303 11 [Writing] brings man into alliance with what is great and eternal.
Fdsp 2.205 19 I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
Fdsp 2.213 16 Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances...
Aris 10.60 19 That highest good of rational existence is always coming to such as reject mean alliances.
LLNE 10.341 22 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man quite too cold and contemplative for the alliances of friendship...
SA 8.87 15 To pass to an allied topic [to manners], one word or two in regard to dress...
EdAd 11.390 24 Will [a journal] cope with the allied questions of Government, Nonresistance, and all that belongs under that category?
PLT 12.20 22 ...mind, our mind, or mind like ours, reappears to us in our study of Nature, Nature being everywhere formed after a method which we can well understand, and all the parts, to the most remote, allied or explicable...
DSA 1.147 22 There are...persons...to whom all we call art and artist, seems too nearly allied to show and by-ends...
UGM 4.17 24 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...
PPh 4.65 14 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds, which, though disturbed when compared with the others that are uniform, are still allied to their circulations;...
F 6.1 11 ...the prevision is allied/ Unto the thing so signified;/...
Boks 7.208 14 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies], and of like interest, are those which may be called Table-Talks...
Suc 7.295 6 ...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust...from the disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;...
Insp 8.279 8 Great wits to madness nearly are allied;/ Both serve to make our poverty our pride./
Insp 8.295 21 Fact-books, if the facts be well and thoroughly told, are much more nearly allied to poetry than many books are that are written in rhyme.
Grts 8.316 21 ...natural is really allied to moral power...
Prch 10.232 5 ...we are...allied to men around us...
UGM 4.7 13 What is good...makes for itself room, food and allies.
Bhr 6.195 10 Marcus Scaurus was accused by Quintus Varius Hispanus, that he had excited the allies to take arms against the Republic.
Bhr 6.195 14 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
PC 8.231 12 I believe that the checks are as sure as the springs. It is thereby that men are great and have great allies.
PC 8.231 13 I believe that the checks are as sure as the springs. It is thereby that men are great and have great allies. And who are the allies? Rude opposition, apathy, slander,-even these.
PC 8.232 10 In the Rebellion, who were our best allies? Always the enemy.
PerF 10.69 20 ...show [a man] what mighty allies and helpers he has.
Schr 10.273 21 Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped. Shall [the scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from far with reverence, attributing to him the...conversing with supernatural allies?
LVB 11.92 20 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact. Such a dereliction of all faith and virtue, such a denial of justice...were never heard of...in the dealing of a nation with its own allies and wards...
EWI 11.146 18 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and of intellect, his own natural allies and champions...so hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
FSLN 11.236 25 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...
AmS 1.113 7 ...[Swedenborg] showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms...
SovE 10.197 9 What is this intoxicating sentiment that allies this scrap of dust to the whole of Nature and the whole of Fate...
Pow 6.69 14 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...riding alligators in South America with Waterton;...
JBS 11.276 25 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.
PI 8.54 1 The prayers of nations are rhythmic, have iterations and alliterations...
DSA 1.148 5 ...[the commanders] with you are open to the influx of the all-knowing Spirit...
PNR 4.87 12 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls; but this well-bred, all-knowing Greek geometer comes with command, gathers them all up into rank and gradation...
OA 7.323 4 We still feel the force...of Goethe, the all-knowing poet;...
WD 7.175 14 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...the populous, all-loving solitude which men quit for the tattle of towns.
QO 8.190 20 The Comte de Crillon said one day to M. d'Allonville...If the universe and I professed one opinion and M. Necker expressed a contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken.
CW 12.174 7 ...[a man in his wood-lot] remembers that Allah in his allotment of life does not count the time which the Arab spends in the chase.
MMEm 10.419 17 ...so poor are some of those allotted to join me [Mary Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is benevolence enjoins self-denial.
MR 1.249 6 I ought not to allow any man...to feel that he is rich in my presence.
MR 1.252 18 See this wide society of laboring men and women. We allow ourselves to be served by them...
LT 1.276 7 [These reforms] are the simplest statements of man in these matters; the plain right and wrong. I cannot choose but allow and honor them.
Con 1.325 15 ...if I allow myself in derelictions and become idle and dissolute, I quickly come to love the protection of a strong law...
SR 2.64 27 ...when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to [universal intelligence's] beams.
SR 2.77 9 In what prayers do men allow themselves!
Comp 2.109 6 That which the droning world...will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
Comp 2.123 1 ...all the good of nature is the soul's, and may be had if paid for...by labor which the heart and the head allow.
SL 2.131 23 No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. Allow for exaggeration in the most patient and sorely ridden hack that ever was driven.
Hsm1 2.250 24 There is somewhat in great actions which does not allow us to go behind them.
OS 2.289 3 ...[Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul...
Cir 2.307 24 Every personal consideration that we allow costs us heavenly state.
Art1 2.360 10 ...through his necessity of imparting himself the adamant will be wax in [the artist's] hands, and will allow an adequate communication of himself...
Exp 3.69 14 I would gladly be moral and keep due metes and bounds...and allow the most to the will of man;...
Mrs1 3.133 15 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege.
Mrs1 3.154 9 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;... What is gentle, but to allow [their claim], and give their heart and yours a holiday from the national caution?
PNR 4.89 26 Plato plays Providence a little with the baser sort, as people allow themselves with their dogs and cats.
MoS 4.165 5 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only... so that in a humorist a certain nakedness of statement was permitted, which our manners...do not allow.
MoS 4.175 21 ...as soon as each man attains the poise and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he will not need extreme examples...
ET5 5.74 2 The Saxon and the Northman are both Scandinavians. History does not allow us to fix the limits of the application of these names with any accuracy...
ET5 5.77 25 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...is ready to allow the justice of the thought and act in his retainer or tenant...
ET13 5.225 23 [Religion] is endogenous, like the skin and other vital organs. A new statement every day. The prophet and apostle knew this, and the nonconformist confutes the conformists, by quoting the texts they must allow.
ET17 5.291 8 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them. I must further allow myself a few notices, if only as an acknowledgment of debts that cannot be paid.
ET18 5.305 5 I have sometimes seen [Englishmen] walk with my countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage...
F 6.30 16 We can afford to allow the limitation, if we know it is the meter of the growing man.
Ctr 6.146 16 ...let us...allow to travel its full effect.
Ctr 6.156 21 The high advantage of university life is often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and fire,--which parents will allow the boy without hesitation at Cambridge, but do not think needful at home.
Ctr 6.163 25 ...every brave heart must treat society as a child, and never allow it to dictate.
Wsp 6.201 16 A just thinker will allow full swing to his skepticism.
PI 8.31 7 ...skates allow the good skater far more grace than his best walking would show...
QO 8.198 22 Mr. Wordsworth, said Charles Lamb, allow me to introduce to you my only admirer.
Edc1 10.125 16 ...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
Prch 10.227 5 What is essential to the theologian is...not to allow himself to be excluded from any church.
MoL 10.256 13 I allow [senators and lawyers] the merit of that reading which appears in their opinions, tastes, beliefs and practice.
HDC 11.42 10 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter, and...in regard of the ease of the East quarter above the rest, in their highways, they are to allow the North quarter 3 pounds.
EWI 11.139 15 There are now other energies than force, other than political, which no man in future can allow himself to disregard.
FSLC 11.191 3 ...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that human law;...
ACiv 11.302 26 [The existing administration] is to be thanked for its angelic virtue, compared with any executive experiences with which we have been familiar. But the times will not allow us to indulge in compliment.
EPro 11.325 10 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis.
SMC 11.363 3 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point officer] I had a good many young men in my company whose mothers asked me to look after them, and I should do so, and not allow them to hear such language...
SMC 11.363 7 [George Prescott writes] Told [the West Point officer] I did not swear myself and would not allow him to.
FRep 11.517 11 ...a court or an aristocracy...can more easily run into follies than a republic, which has too many observers...to allow its head to be turned by any kind of nonsense...
PLT 12.30 3 ...our deep conviction of the riches proper to every mind does not allow us to admit of much looking over into one another's virtues.
MLit 12.321 19 ...[Shakespeare and Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul...
MLit 12.329 10 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] That all shall right itself in the long Morrow, I may well allow, and my novel [Wilhelm Meister] may wait for the same regeneration.
WSL 12.338 1 Here [in America] is very good earth and water and plenty of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow;...
WSL 12.342 15 Let us thankfully allow every faculty and art which opens new scope to a life so confined as ours.
DSA 1.147 26 ...the commanders encroach on us only...by our allowance and homage.
Con 1.301 26 Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood. As this is the invariable method of our training, we must give it allowance...
Con 1.319 5 ...[the radical's] theory is right, but he makes no allowance for friction;...
SL 2.151 18 ...a man may have that allowance he takes.
OS 2.296 5 The saints and demigods whom history worships we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance.
Mrs1 3.127 21 The strong men usually give some allowance even to the petulances of fashion...
Mrs1 3.142 27 ...I will neither be driven from some allowance to Fashion as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief that love is the basis of courtesy.
Mrs1 3.152 21 [Youth] have yet to learn that [ our society's] seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative: it is great by their allowance;...
SwM 4.119 15 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are still instructive...
ET5 5.83 5 This [English] common-sense is a perception...of laws that can be stated, and of laws than cannot be stated, or that are learned only by practice, in which allowance for friction is made.
ET14 5.246 27 Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe...
Wsp 6.211 8 See what allowance vice finds in the respectable and well-conditioned class.
Civ 7.23 4 ...the multiplication of the arts of peace, which is nothing but a large allowance to each man to choose his work according to his faculty... fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...
Boks 7.213 13 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds.
Clbs 7.232 5 No doubt [the shy hermit] does not make allowance enough for men of more active blood and habit.
Clbs 7.233 11 Able people, if they do not know how to make allowance for [men of a delicate sympathy], paralyze them.
PI 8.52 6 With...the first strain of a song,...we pour contempt on the prose you so magnify; yet the sturdiest Philistine is silent. The like allowance is the prescriptive right of poetry.
Aris 10.52 27 [Men] are honored by rendering [Genius] honor, and the reason of this allowance is that Genius unlocks for all men the chains of use, temperament and drudgery...
HDC 11.65 24 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds. Captain Minott was chosen, and after the General Court was adjourned received of the town for his services, an allowance of three shillings per day.
Wom 11.422 4 For the other point, of [women]...aiming at abstract right without allowance for circumstances,-that is not a disqualification, but a qualification [for voting].
SwM 4.134 11 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man...because he defies all dogmatizing and classification, so many allowances and contingences and futurities are to be taken into account;...
ET18 5.301 26 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by the ancient allowed customs...
PI 8.36 27 [The poet's] wreath and robe is...escape from the gossip and routine of society, and the allowed right and practice of making better.
Fdsp 2.202 22 Sincerity is the luxury allowed...only to the highest rank;...
Chr1 3.112 19 [Friends'] relation is not made, but allowed.
Pol1 3.204 1 ...doubts have arisen whether too much weight had not been allowed in the laws to property...
Pol1 3.204 2 ...doubts have arisen whether too much weight had not been allowed in the laws to property, and such a structure given to our usages as allowed the rich to encroach on the poor...
NR 3.227 17 We consecrate a great deal of nonsense because it was allowed by great men.
MoS 4.183 7 All moods may be safely tried, and their weight allowed to all objections...
ET4 5.53 22 These queries concerning ancestry and blood may be well allowed...
ET6 5.105 8 I know not where any personal eccentricity is so freely allowed [as in England]...
ET7 5.121 10 [The English] are like ships with too much head on to come quickly about, nor will prosperity or even adversity be allowed to shake their habitual view of conduct.
ET16 5.278 21 The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument...
ET18 5.307 26 Every man [in England] is allowed and encouraged to be what he is...
F 6.37 19 [The animal] is not allowed to diminish in numbers...
Pow 6.60 15 Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing.
Wth 6.119 24 Nor is any investment so permanent that it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching...
Bhr 6.194 14 The legend says [the monk Basle's] sentence was remitted, and he was allowed to go into heaven...
CbW 6.251 23 The coxcomb and bully and thief class are allowed as proletaries...
Elo1 7.98 6 ...as soon as one acts for large masses, the moral element will and must be allowed for...
Farm 7.147 4 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and their fruit will never be allowed to ripen.
Boks 7.212 10 Poetry...must be well allowed for an imaginative creature.
Cour 7.271 19 If opportunity allowed, [Governor Wise and John Brown] would prefer each other's society...
OA 7.313 15 ...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me with a shining cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by old,/ Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the best./
PI 8.69 10 In the presence of Jove, Priapus may be allowed as an offset...
SA 8.91 11 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit.
Elo2 8.129 8 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament in favor of that clause of the bill which allowed the prisoner the benefit of counsel, fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
PC 8.218 20 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim...is always allowed.
Imtl 8.348 6 ...Plato and Cicero had both allowed themselves to overstep the stern limits of the spirit, and gratify the people with that picture [of personal immortality].
Dem1 10.18 10 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names, since all philosophies and religions have attempted...to settle the thing once for all, as...they may be allowed to do.
Aris 10.56 11 Of course a man is a poor bag of bones. There is no gracious interval, not an inch allowed.
PerF 10.80 18 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money.
Chr2 10.110 10 Socrates and Marcus Aurelius are allowed to be saints;...
Edc1 10.125 18 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
Edc1 10.151 27 Every mind should be allowed to make its own statement in action...
SovE 10.192 18 Nothing is allowed to exceed or absorb the rest;...
MoL 10.256 10 Reading!-do you mean that this senator or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws, was a reader of Greek books?
MMEm 10.409 5 As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over the apartments of social affections...
HDC 11.66 25 The ninth allegation [against Daniel Bliss] is That in praying for himself...he said, he was a poor vile worm of the dust, that was allowed as Mediator between God and his people.
HDC 11.67 3 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ...
EWI 11.107 5 We cannot say the cause set forth by this return is allowed or approved of by the laws of this kingdom [England];...
EWI 11.138 20 Up to this day we have allowed to statesmen a paramount social standing...
EWI 11.139 25 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...who owe all their place to the opportunities which the older order of things allowed them, to deceive and defraud men, shudder at the change...
FSLN 11.227 24 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally different course from Mr. Webster. If any man had in that hour possessed the weight with the country which he had acquired, he could have brought the whole country to its senses. But not a moment's pause was allowed.
FSLN 11.237 26 I suppose in general this is allowed, that if you have a nice question of right and wrong, you would not go with it to Louis Napoleon...
FSLN 11.242 22 ...in one part of the discourse the orator [Robert Winthrop] allowed to transpire, rather against his will, a little sober sense.
ALin 11.334 26 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets;...
Wom 11.420 16 On the questions that are important...whether the unlimited sale of cheap liquors shall be allowed;-[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
Wom 11.423 1 If the wants, the passions, the vices, are allowed a full vote... I think it but fair that the virtues, the aspirations should be allowed a full vote...
Wom 11.423 4 If the wants, the passions, the vices, are allowed a full vote... I think it but fair that the virtues, the aspirations should be allowed a full vote...
SHC 11.433 23 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that every child may be shown growing...the beech, which we have allowed to die out of the eastern counties;...
PLT 12.61 18 ...all great minds and all great hearts have mutually allowed the absolute necessity of the twain.
Con 1.318 23 Under pretence of allowing for friction, [the conservative party] makes so many additions and supplements to the machine of society that it will play smoothly and softly, but will no longer grind any grist.
ET3 5.37 26 The innumerable details [in England]...all these catching the eye and never allowing it to pause, hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
SS 7.11 23 ...the one event which never loses its romance is the encounter with superior persons on terms allowing the happiest intercourse.
PI 8.53 25 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people, and they are always hymns, poetic,--the mind allowing itself range...
Elo2 8.128 14 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk from the games of ball and skates...that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
Res 8.151 12 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants...an old horse that will stand tied in a pasture half a day without risk, so allowing the picnic-party the full freedom of the woods.
SovE 10.190 11 ...it is found at last that some establishment of property, allowing each on some distinct terms to fence and cultivate a piece of land, is best for all.
LLNE 10.350 1 By concert and the allowing each laborer to choose his own work, it becomes pleasure.
LLNE 10.360 18 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive, not allowing each to do what he had a talent for...
HCom 11.341 18 War passes the power of all chemical solvents, breaking up the old adhesions, and allowing the atoms of society to take a new order.
MN 1.201 1 The simultaneous life throughout the whole body...allows the understanding no place to work.
SR 2.58 13 In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect...
Comp 2.126 21 The death of a dear friend...somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.
NR 3.241 12 A recluse sees only two or three persons, and allows them all their room;...
NMW 4.248 12 If [the land-commander] allows himself to be guided by the commissaries [Napoleon remarks] he will never stir...
ET3 5.38 20 Here [in England] is...a temperature which...allows the attainment of the largest stature.
ET18 5.303 27 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon seed, with its instinct...for arts and for thought,--acquiring under some skies a more electric energy than the native air allows...
Ctr 6.150 25 ...[the man of the world] allows himself to be surprised into thought...
CbW 6.254 22 ...the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters a rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
Bty 6.291 5 ...our taste in building...allows the real supporters of the house honestly to show themselves.
Farm 7.149 18 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation, and allows the warm rain to bring down into the roots the temperature of the air and of the surface soil;...
Farm 7.149 21 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation...and he deepens the soil, since the discharge of this standing water allows the roots of his plants to penetrate below the surface to the subsoil...
Boks 7.193 15 It is easy to count...the number of years which human life in favorable circumstances allows to reading;...
OA 7.327 25 He is serene...whose condition, in particular and in general, allows the utterance of his mind.
PI 8.52 26 ...rhyme is the transparent frame that allows almost the pure architecture of thought to become visible to the mental eye.
SA 8.88 20 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily find that performance...a fortification that...allows him to go gayly into conversations where else he had been dry and embarrassed.
PPo 8.239 6 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization...
Insp 8.292 19 ...in discourse with a friend, our thought...detaches itself, and allows itself to be seen as a thought...
Imtl 8.344 2 ...[the belief in immortality] must have the assurance of a man' s faculties that they can fill...a longer term than Nature here allows him.
Imtl 8.349 21 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him; which also Yama allows...
Plu 10.303 13 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness the upturning of the alphabets of old races...
FRep 11.541 3 We want...a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
Prch 10.220 5 Ignorance and passion alloy and degrade.
Chr2 10.106 2 ...before [Christianity] was yet a national religion it was alloyed...
Prch 10.228 6 Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness.
MMEm 10.431 7 That greatest of all gifts, however small my [Mary Moody Emerson's] power of receiving,-the capacity, the element to love the All-perfect, without regard to personal happiness:-happiness?-'t is itself.
Pt1 3.12 25 ...the all-piercing, all-feeding and ocular air of heaven that man shall never inhabit.
ET3 5.38 12 In the history of art it is a long way from a cromlech to York minster; yet all the intermediate steps may still be traced in this all-preserving island [England].
LT 1.275 25 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism, [which]... when it shall be taken up as the garniture of some profound and all-reconciling thinker, will appear the rich and appropriate decoration of his robes.
Edc1 10.134 8 ...if [a man] is one to cement society by his all-reconciling affinities, oh! hasten their action!
SL 2.155 14 ...now, every thing [the great man] did...looks large, all-related...
Edc1 10.127 27 The necessities imposed by this most irritable and all-related texture have taught Man hunting, pasturage...
HCom 11.340 24 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
NR 3.232 24 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...but there is such equality and identity both of judgment and point of view in the narrative that it is plainly the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman.
ET1 5.10 17 [Coleridge] asked whether I knew Allston...
Wth 6.113 1 Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
Ctr 6.135 20 Have you seen Mr. Allston, Doctor Channing, Mr. Adams, Mr. Webster, Mr. Greenough?
Art2 7.47 12 We fear that Allston and Greenough did not foresee and design all the effect they produce on us.
Insp 8.291 3 Allston rarely left his studio by day.
Insp 8.291 20 Allston...had two or three rooms in different parts of Boston, where he could not be found.
CW 12.176 6 In walking with Allston, you shall see what was never before shown to the eye of man.
ET1 5.14 3 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me...a picture of Allston's...
Chr1 3.115 21 ...when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring... comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
PI 8.30 20 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression, so that they only hint the matter, or allude to it...
LS 11.4 20 I allude to these facts only to show that, 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.
ET1 5.21 3 [Wordsworth] alluded once or twice to his conversation with Dr. Channing...
WSL 12.344 6 [Landor's appreciation of character] is the more remarkable considered with his intense nationality, to which we have already alluded.
ET1 5.22 22 [Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] alludes to the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music;...
MMEm 10.414 17 [Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the early days of her solitude...
NER 3.267 24 In alluding just now to our system of education, I spoke of the deadness of its details.
MMEm 10.417 13 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that foolish place...
DL 7.111 4 [The citizen] brings home whatever commodities and ornaments have for years allured his pursuit...
Comp 2.105 25 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man...is able to see the sensual allurement of an object and not see the sensual hurt;...
Aris 10.39 10 I wish...men...whom the mystery of botany allures, and the mineral laws;...
AmS 1.105 23 Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies...
LE 1.155 5 A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
Cir 2.308 6 Infinitely alluring and attractive was [a man] to you yesterday...
Schr 10.262 5 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise...that the face of Nature remains irresistibly alluring.
AmS 1.93 5 ...the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
NMW 4.231 14 [Bonaparte's] favorite rhetoric lay in allusion to his star;...
NMW 4.241 25 ...when allusion was made to the precious blood of centuries...[Napoleon] suggested, Neither is my blood ditch-water.
ET15 5.267 18 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University, and perhaps reading law in chambers in London. Hence the academic elegance and classic allusion which adorns its columns.
Art2 7.40 26 It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to municiple ends.
Elo1 7.74 27 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil. Add a little sarcasm and prompt allusion to passing occurrences, and you have the mischievous member of Congress.
Elo1 7.91 6 If you...give [a man] a grasp of facts, learning, quick fancy, sarcasm, splendid allusion, interminable illustration,--all these talents...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
Comc 8.171 21 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier Tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure...
PPo 8.249 9 His complete intellectual emancipation [Hafiz] communicates to the reader. There is no example of such facility of allusion...
PPo 8.259 12 ...the celerity of flight and allusion which our colder muses forbid, is habitual to [Hafiz].
Plu 10.302 4 In [Plutarch's] immense quotation and allusion we quickly cease to discriminate between what he quotes and what he invents.
Plu 10.304 3 Many examples might be cited [in Plutarch] of nervous expression and happy allusion...
LLNE 10.333 9 [Everett] abounded...in splendid allusion, in quotation impossible to forget...
FSLC 11.181 5 I met the smoothest of Episcopal Clergymen the other day, and allusion being made to Mr. Webster's treachery, he blandly replied, Why, do you know I think that the great action of his life.
FSLN 11.228 11 ...when allusion was made to the question of duty and the sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly said...Some higher law, something existing somewhere between here and the third heaven,-I do not know where.
II 12.78 21 ...[the writer]...should write nothing that will not help somebody,-as I knew of a good man who held conversations, and wrote on the wall, that every person might speak to the subject, but no allusion should be made to the opinions of other speakers;...
Milt1 12.248 24 [Milton's tracts] are...rich with allusion...
MLit 12.327 4 It is all design with [Goethe], just...analogies, allusion, illustration...
LT 1.275 14 A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity...is now re-appearing in extracts and allusions...
Hist 2.7 16 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming. The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him, and he is stimulated wherever he moves, as by personal allusions.
Hist 2.7 17 A true aspirant therefore never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse.
ShP 4.191 18 The court [in Shakespeare's time] took offence easily at political allusions and attempted to suppress [dramatic entertainments].
ET9 5.146 1 This [English] arrogance habitually exhibits itself in allusions to the French.
Clbs 7.243 23 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare... Beaumont and Fletcher;...many allusions to their suppers are found in Jonson, Herrick and in Aubrey.
Elo2 8.123 19 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture...contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends...
PPo 8.240 11 The principal figure in the allusions of Eastern poetry is Solomon.
Edc1 10.140 9 The young giant, brown from his hunting-tramp, tells his story well, interlarded with lucky allusions to Homer, to Virgil...
Schr 10.272 25 ...the allusions just now made to the extent of [the scholar' s] duties...may show that his place is no sinecure.
MMEm 10.417 8 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause...but after consideration she refused it, I know not on what grounds: but a few allusions to it in her diary suggest that it was a religious act...
CPL 11.507 15 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...so that...you shall understand their allusions to it...
Milt1 12.275 18 The most affecting passages in Paradise Lost are personal allusions;...
Bty 6.281 14 ...does [the geologist] know...what effect on the race that inhabits a granite shelf? what on the inhabitants of marl and of alluvium?
PPo 8.240 19 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the all-wise fowl who had lived ever since the beginning of the world...
Nat 1.41 3 Therefore is Nature ever the ally of Religion...
ET8 5.137 20 England is the lawgiver, the patron, the instructor, the ally.
ET15 5.272 15 If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right... genius would be its cordial and invincible ally;...
Edc1 10.134 11 If [a man] is jovial...if he is...a potent ally...society has need of all these.
HDC 11.58 26 A still more formidable enemy [of Concord] was removed... by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally of Philip...
FSLN 11.241 21 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 appreciate the service...
ACiv 11.302 9 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle, believing that Nature is its ally...
HCom 11.343 10 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect. It was found that enthusiasm was a more potent ally than science and munitions of war without it.
Schr 10.271 5 Will [wealth]...make its Almacks too narrow for a wise man to enter?
PLT 12.11 16 I write...a sort of Farmer's Almanac of mental moods.
SR 2.85 10 A Greenwich nautical almanac [the civilized man] has...
ET13 5.217 5 [The English Church]...has coupled itself with the almanac, that no court can be held, no field ploughed, no horse shod, without some leave from the church.
Ctr 6.131 6 A topical memory makes [a man] an almanac;...
Boks 7.219 6 All these [sacred] books...are more to our daily purpose than this year's almanac or this day's newspaper.
PI 8.46 6 Who would hold the order of the almanac so fast but for the ding-dong,-- Thirty days hath September, etc.;...
EzRy 10.384 11 Perhaps I cannot better illustrate this tendency [to believe in a particular providence] than by citing a record from the diary of the father of [Ezra Ripley's] predecessor...written in the blank leaves of the almanac for the year 1735.
HDC 11.77 22 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...
CL 12.164 17 A farmer's boy finds delight in reading the verses under the Zodiacal vignettes in the Almanac.
AgMs 12.361 2 The story [in the Agricultural Survey] of the farmer's daughter, whom education had spoiled for everything useful on a farm,- that is good, too, and we have much that is like it in Thomas's Almanack.
LE 1.177 5 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language...rob it of its almightiness by failing to work with it.
Wsp 6.215 11 I find the omnipresence and the almightiness in the reaction of every atom in nature.
Art2 7.42 7 Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what is artificial in man's life seems insignificant.
SR 2.47 26 ...we are...guides, redeemers and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort...
Chr1 3.91 14 [The people] cannot come at their ends by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
ET13 5.221 8 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them...
Wsp 6.212 17 Only those can help in counsel or conduct...who were appointed by God Almighty...to stand for this which they uphold.
Res 8.147 7 ...it is the principal thing you are to beg at the hands of Almighty God, to preserve your understanding entire;...
Schr 10.270 18 I, said the great-hearted Kepler, may well wait a hundred years for a reader, since God Almighty has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
Carl 10.497 5 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
LS 11.22 21 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men that they must serve him with the heart;...
War 11.158 12 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...
War 11.159 2 ...the good [Thomas] Cavendish piously begins this statement,-It hath pleased Almighty God.
MAng1 12.236 13 The combined desire to fulfil, in everlasting stone, the conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to Almighty God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with unbroken spirit.
AsSu 11.252 5 ...if our arms at this distance cannot defend [Charles Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious...to the Almighty Maker of men.
YA 1.375 5 /Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret and inviolable springs./
Comp 2.126 2 The voice of the Almighty saith, Up and onward for evermore!
Civ 7.30 14 It was a great instruction, said a saint in Cromwell's war, that the best courages are but beams of the Almighty.
Cour 7.273 24 The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some passages in the defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a great instruction that the best and highest courages are beams of the Almighty.
Imtl 8.344 15 Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret but inviolable springs./
Plu 10.317 11 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at;...
FSLN 11.236 18 The Persian Saadi said, Beware of hurting the orphan. When the orphan sets a-crying, the throne of the Almighty is rocked from side to side.
Lov1 2.173 18 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations; what with their fun and their earnest, about Edgar and Jonas and Almira...