Chr2 10.118 1 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities,-as in...appointing almoners to the helpless...
DSA 1.135 24 ...you will infer the sad conviction...of the universal decay and now almost death of faith in society.
SlHr 10.440 8 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure...
Nat 1.16 3 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye...
AmS 1.90 6 ...[the active soul] every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed and as yet unborn.
AmS 1.92 22 ...great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page.
AmS 1.106 11 [Man] has almost lost the light that can lead him back to his prerogatives.
DSA 1.119 9 Through the transparent darkness the stars pour their almost spiritual rays.
DSA 1.135 26 The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct.
DSA 1.147 16 ...almost all men are content with [society's] easy merits;...
MR 1.227 14 ...some sources of human instruction are almost unnamed and unknown among us;...
MR 1.229 27 There is not the most bronzed and sharpened money-catcher who does not, to your consternation almost, quail and shake the moment he hears a question prompted by the new ideas.
MR 1.243 27 I ought to be armed by every part and function of my household...by my traffic. Yet I am almost no party to any of these things.
MR 1.244 5 Our expense is almost all for conformity.
LT 1.267 5 How great were once Lord Bacon's dimensions! he is now reduced almost to the middle height;...
LT 1.286 4 It almost seems as if what was aforetime spoken fabulously and hieroglyphically, was now spoken plainly...
Tran 1.332 1 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which rounds off to an almost perfect sphericity...
YA 1.383 27 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
Comp 2.123 24 Look at those who have less faculty, and one...knows not well what to make of it. He almost shuns their eye;...
Lov1 2.174 3 I have been told that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words.
Lov1 2.176 19 Every bird on the boughs of the tree sings now to [the lover' s] heart and soul. The notes are almost articulate.
Lov1 2.176 22 The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent; and [the lover] almost fears to trust them with the secret which they seem to invite.
Lov1 2.184 25 Her pure and eloquent blood/ Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,/ That one might almost say her body thought./
Fdsp 2.192 10 [The stranger's] arrival almost brings fear to the good hearts that would welcome him.
Fdsp 2.195 12 It is almost dangerous to me to crush the sweet poison of misused wine of the affections.
Fdsp 2.199 15 Almost all people descend to meet.
Fdsp 2.203 24 Almost every man we meet requires some civility...
Hsm1. 2.252 11 Heroism, like Plotinus, is almost ashamed of its body.
OS 2.288 14 In these instances [the scholar and author] the intellectual gifts do not make the impression of virtue, but almost of vice;...
Art1 2.362 11 [Raphael's Transfiguration] seems almost to call you by name.
Exp 3.47 24 ...in this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.
Mrs1 3.131 14 There is almost no kind of self-reliance...which fashion does not occasionally adopt and give it the freedom of its saloons.
Mrs1 3.145 9 What if the false gentleman almost bows the true out of the world?
Nat2 3.169 2 There are days which occur in this climate, at almost any season of the year, wherein the world reaches its perfection;...
Nat2 3.170 16 The stems of pines, hemlocks and oaks almost gleam like iron on the excited eye.
Nat2 3.173 3 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
Pol1 3.209 24 Of the two great parties which at this hour almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men.
NR 3.234 6 Proportion is almost impossible to human beings.
UGM 4.25 3 Without Plato we should almost lose our faith in the possibility of a reasonable book.
UGM 4.26 11 We learn of our contemporaries what they know...almost through the pores of the skin.
UGM 4.29 3 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world...where almost all men are too social and interfering.
PPh 4.44 27 [Plato]...has almost impressed language and the primary forms of thought with his name and seal.
PPh 4.45 14 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve.
PPh 4.47 5 [Philosophy's] early records, almost perished, are of the immigrations from Asia...
PPh 4.76 4 It is almost the sole deduction from the merit of Plato that his writings have not...the vital authority which the screams of prophets... possess.
SwM 4.94 22 Almost with a fierce haste [the moral sentiment] lays its empire on the man.
SwM 4.102 25 [Swedenborg's] superb speculation...almost realizes his own picture...of the original integrity of man.
SwM 4.108 14 This new spine [the skull] is destined to high uses. It is a new man on the shoulders of the last. It can almost shed its trunk and manage to live alone...
SwM 4.123 27 Plato is a gownsman; his garment, though of purple, and almost sky-woven, is an academic robe...
SwM 4.126 18 [Swedenborg] almost justifies his claim to preternatural vision, by strange insights of the structure of the human body and mind.
SwM 4.132 8 It requires, for [Swedenborg's] just apprehension, almost a genius equal to his own.
MoS 4.165 1 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only, and almost all were written in Latin;...
ShP 4.191 10 Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all;...
NMW 4.227 5 ...a man of Napoleon's stamp almost ceases to have a private speech and opinion.
NMW 4.230 21 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it;...the prudence with which all was seen and the energy with which all was done, make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
NMW 4.235 2 The almost perpendicular fall of the heavy projectiles produced the desired effect.
GoW 4.283 5 ...almost all the valuable distinctions which are current in higher conversation have been derived to us from Germany.
ET1 5.4 22 The conditions of literary success are almost destructive of the best social power...
ET4 5.71 10 I suppose the dogs and horses [in England] must be thanked for the fact that the men have muscles almost as tough and supple as their own.
ET5 5.92 27 [The English] have made...London...such a city that almost every active man, in any nation, finds himself at one time or other forced to visit it.
ET5 5.95 25 Steam is almost an Englishman.
ET5 5.98 11 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a work of art;--a cold, barren, almost arctic isle being made the most fruitful, luxurious and imperial land in the whole earth.
ET6 5.105 24 [The Englishman] does not let you meet his eye. It is almost an affront to look a man in the face without being introduced.
ET8 5.139 25 The following passage from the Heimskringla might almost stand as a portrait of the modern Englishman...
ET10 5.167 26 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration...of almost every fabric in her mills and shops;...
ET11 5.190 24 ...at this moment, almost every great house [in England] has its sumptuous picture-gallery.
ET12 5.202 10 As many sons [at Oxford], almost so many benefactors.
ET12 5.202 11 It is usual for a nobleman, or indeed for almost every wealthy student [at Oxford], on quitting college to leave behind him some article of plate;...
ET13 5.221 4 So far is [the English gentleman] from attaching any meaning to the words, that he believes himself to have done almost the generous thing, and that it is very condescending in him to pray to God.
ET13 5.225 15 The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind; so that when you came to read the liturgy to a modern congregation, it was almost absurd in its unfitness...
ET13 5.227 3 ...a bishop [in England] is only a surpliced merchant. Through his lawn I can see the bright buttons of the shopman's coat glitter. A wealth like that of Durham makes almost a premium on felony.
ET14 5.243 1 ...[the Elizabethan age was] a period almost short enough to justify Ben Jonson's remark on Lord Bacon,--About his time, and within his view, were born all the wits that could honor a nation, or help study.
ET14 5.244 16 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful at the fountain of the First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head. Bacon, who said this, is almost unique among his countrymen in that faculty;...
ET14 5.246 3 ...[Hallam] lifts himself to own better than almost any the greatness of Shakspeare...
ET15 5.263 27 [The London Times] adopted a poor-law system, and almost alone lifted it through.
ET15 5.264 15 [The London Times] has entered into each municipal, literary and social question, almost with a controlling voice.
ET16 5.278 10 On almost every stone [at Stonehenge] we [Emerson and Carlyle] found the marks of the mineralogist's hammer and chisel.
ET16 5.288 15 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping, overgrowing, almost conscious...
Wth 6.91 13 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished; as if virtue were coming to be a luxury...as Burke said, at a market almost too high for humanity.
Wth 6.116 23 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going out of the body to think!
Wth 6.119 8 Now, the farmer buys almost all he consumes...
Ctr 6.162 2 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--...Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
Ctr 6.163 27 All that class of the severe and restrictive virtues, said Burke, are almost too costly for humanity.
Bhr 6.177 17 It almost violates the proprieties if we say above the breath here what the confessing eyes do not hesitate to utter to every street passenger.
Wsp 6.231 11 The man whose eyes are nailed, not on the nature of his act but on the wages, whether it be money, or office, or fame, is almost equally low.
CbW 6.274 9 ...it counts much whether we have had good companions in that time [the past five years],--almost as much as what we have been doing.
Civ 7.31 6 What a benefit would the American government...render to itself...if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition!
Art2 7.45 6 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
Elo1 7.68 26 Our Southern people are almost all speakers...
Elo1 7.92 23 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It... perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.
DL 7.105 8 The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so...enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.
DL 7.105 10 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents... the little talker grows to a boy.
Farm 7.144 10 ...the earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect.
Farm 7.145 14 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly. It is almost inevitable to push the generalization up into higher parts of Nature...
WD 7.158 17 ...so many inventions have been added that life seems almost made over new;...
Clbs 7.241 6 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment almost inevitably guides into the vortex of ambition... whom we now consider.
Cour 7.253 9 Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight, that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own;...
Cour 7.274 7 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to the rack of the inquisitor...
OA 7.321 25 Beranger said, Almost all the good workmen live long.
PI 8.15 5 I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind, as showing treatment. All European libraries might almost be read without the swing of this gigantic arm being suspected.
PI 8.21 12 In certain hours we can almost pass our hand through our own body.
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 8.80 1 Whilst almost everybody has a supplicating eye turned on events and things and other persons, a few natures are central...
SA 8.87 2 Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in his contemptible squeals of joy.
SA 8.104 3 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people... they are sublime;...
SA 8.105 20 ...[sentimentalists] adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise.
SA 8.107 3 They only can give the key and leading to better society: those... who, by their joy and homage to these [eternal laws], are made incapable of conceit, which destroys almost all the fine wits.
Elo2 8.122 1 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...
Elo2 8.122 2 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style; like Bouillon, who could almost persuade you that a quartan ague was wholesome;...
Elo2 8.126 22 ...at a great heat [men] can all express themselves with an almost equal force.
Res 8.152 22 You cannot tell when [the willows] do bud and blossom, these vivacious trees, so ancient, for they are almost the oldest of all.
Comc 8.173 3 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night? If we weep not, who should weep? Therefore have I wept. Timur almost split his sides with laughing.
QO 8.190 18 ...men of extraordinary genius acquire an almost absolute ascendant over their nearest companions.
PC 8.233 18 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society...
PC 8.233 20 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it.
PPo 8.239 18 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control.
PPo 8.245 11 ...[Hafiz] abounds in pregnant sentences which might be engraved on a sword-blade and almost on a ring.
PPo 8.252 5 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza. Almost every one of several hundreds of poems of Hafiz contains his name thus interwoven more or less closely with the subject of the piece.
PPo 8.252 18 [Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz] the opportunity of the most playful self-assertion...sometimes almost in the fun of Falstaff...
PPo 8.263 24 In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], the birds were soon weary of the length and difficulties of the way, and at last almost all gave out.
Insp 8.273 3 The separation of our days by sleep almost destroys identity.
Insp 8.280 3 Plato thought exercise would almost cure a guilty conscience.
Insp 8.283 12 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness that befell him, The thought of my father...restrained me;...
Insp 8.288 14 ...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions...
Imtl 8.341 17 Montesquieu said, The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
Dem1 10.5 6 A painful imperfection almost always attends [dreams].
Dem1 10.6 1 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon. This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...
Dem1 10.12 8 Nature, said Swedenborg, makes almost as much demand on our faith as miracles do.
Dem1 10.13 8 For Spiritism, it shows that no man, almost, is fit to give evidence.
Aris 10.57 5 I will not protract this discourse by describing the duties of the brave and generous. And yet I will venture to name one, and the same is almost the sole condition on which knighthood is to be won;...
Edc1 10.126 26 ...Man himself in many races retains almost the unteachableness of the beast.
Edc1 10.145 24 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil.
Edc1 10.150 23 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police.
Prch 10.228 11 An era in human history is the life of Jesus; and the immense influence for good leaves all the perversion and superstition almost harmless.
Schr 10.270 4 'T is wonderful, 't is almost scandalous, this extraordinary favoritism shown to poets.
Schr 10.284 9 ...the sure months are bringing [the scholar] to an examination-day...for which no tutor, no book, no lectures, and almost no preparation can be of the least avail.
Plu 10.295 18 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast.
Plu 10.311 9 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca...
Plu 10.315 15 [Plutarch] has a tenderness almost to tears when he writes on Friendship...
Plu 10.316 27 I can almost regret that the learned editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved...the preface of Mr. Morgan...
LLNE 10.326 18 This perception [that the individual is the world] is a sword such as was never drawn before. It divides and detaches bone and marrow, soul and body, yea, almost the man from himself.
LLNE 10.327 5 ...[the new race] hate...hierarchies, governors, yea, almost laws.
LLNE 10.331 1 There was an influence on the young people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens.
LLNE 10.337 10 [The eagerness for reform] appeared in the popularity of Lavater's Physiognomy, now almost forgotten.
LLNE 10.340 3 ...[Channing's] printed writings are almost a history of the times;...
LLNE 10.344 15 What [Theodore Parker] said was mere fact, almost offended you...
LLNE 10.347 24 Fourier, almost as wonderful an example of the mathematical mind of France as La Place or Napoleon, turned a truly vast arithmetic to the question of social misery...
LLNE 10.356 20 Thoreau was in his own person a practical answer, almost a refutation, to the theories of the socialists.
LLNE 10.356 23 [Thoreau] required no Phalanx, no Government, no society, almost no memory.
EzRy 10.386 27 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay.
MMEm 10.398 8 [Lucy Percy] is of too high a mind and dignity not only to seek, but almost to wish, the friendship of any creature.
MMEm 10.402 9 [Mary Moody Emerson's] sympathy for young people who pleased her was almost passionate...
MMEm 10.407 10 ...in the country, we converse so much more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else.
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.
Thor 10.459 17 ...[Thoreau's] aversation from English and European manners and tastes almost reached contempt.
Thor 10.460 8 ...idealist as he was, standing for abolition of slavery, abolition of tariffs, almost for abolition of government, it is needless to say [Thoreau] found himself...almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.
Thor 10.460 11 ...idealist as he was...[Thoreau] found himself not only unrepresented in actual politics, but almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.
Thor 10.467 22 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...
Thor 10.478 8 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend...almost worshipped by those few persons who resorted to him as their confessor and prophet...
Thor 10.481 23 ...[Thoreau]...said [echoes] were almost the only kind of kindred voices that he heard.
GSt 10.506 18 For a year or two, the most affectionate and domestic of men [George Stearns] became almost a stranger in his beautiful home.
GSt 10.507 7 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief...
HDC 11.83 22 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture of a community almost exclusively agricultural...
LVB 11.91 13 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty, and are proceeding to execute the same. Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is not our act.
EWI 11.99 10 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement, as far as a great Empire was concerned, of a question on which almost every leading citizen in it had taken care to record his vote;...
EWI 11.100 18 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse...I had almost said, Creep into your grave, the universe has no need of you!
War 11.154 15 ...[war] is at this moment the delight of half the world, of almost all young and ignorant persons;...
FSLC 11.211 4 Europe, the least of all the continents, has almost monopolized for twenty centuries the genius and power of them all.
FSLN 11.241 2 Whilst the inconsistency of slavery with the principles on which the world is built guarantees its downfall, I own that the patience it requires is almost too sublime for mortals...
JBB 11.270 14 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...almost every man who loves the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence, like him...
TPar 11.284 13 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street,/ And to hear, you 're not over-particular whence,/ Almost Taylor's profusion, quite Latimer's sense./ Lowell, A Fable for Critics.
ACiv 11.304 26 ...the South...is almost on a footing in effective war-population with the North.
SMC 11.365 15 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered.
EdAd 11.387 2 We hesitate to employ a word so much abused as patriotism, whose true sense is almost the reverse of its popular sense.
Wom 11.409 13 ...a refined and accomplished woman was a being almost new to [Burns]...
SHC 11.431 17 You can almost see behind these pines the Indian with bow and arrow lurking...
Scot 11.465 3 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public, which almost dates from the era of his books...
Scot 11.465 13 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for a counterpart as a painting of Fate...
FRO1 11.480 26 I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are springing up...all over this country, should all be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association],-almost all of them are represented here...
CPL 11.497 6 Robinson Crusoe, could he have had a shelf of our books, could almost have done without his man Friday...
CPL 11.504 27 Montesquieu...writes: The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
FRep 11.517 18 One hundred years ago the American people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection.
FRep 11.526 22 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
CInt 12.118 2 Never was pure valor-and almost I might say, never pure ability-shown in a bad cause.
CL 12.142 3 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience.
CL 12.145 25 [The pear] is hardy, and almost immortal.
CL 12.162 14 The true naturalist can go wherever woods or waters go; almost where a squirrel or a bee can go, he can;...
Bost 12.194 3 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine, a man of as clear a sight as almost any other; of Thomas a Kempis...without feeling how rich and expansive a culture...they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
Bost 12.198 3 We can show [in New England] native examples, and I may almost say (travellers as we are) natives who never crossed the sea, who possess all the elements of noble behavior.
Bost 12.210 21 It is almost a proverb that a great man has not a great son.
MAng1 12.237 16 Traits of an almost savage independence mark all [Michelangelo's] history.
Milt1 12.267 12 ...who is there, almost [wrote Milton], that measures wisdom by simplicity...
Milt1 12.269 11 Milton...was set down in England in the stern, almost fanatic society of the Puritans.
MLit 12.312 6 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world...
MLit 12.320 27 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book.
WSL 12.345 18 What is the quality of the persons who...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history, almost giving their own quality to the atmosphere and the landscape?
WSL 12.346 4 Mr. Landor, almost alone among living English writers, has indicated his perception of [character].
EurB 12.366 13 The poet must not only converse with pure thought, but he must demonstrate it almost to the senses.
PPr 12.386 9 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes, to the very mountains and stars almost...
Let 12.403 12 From Massachusetts to Illinois the land is fenced in and builded over, almost like New England itself...
DSA 1.123 7 ...alms never impoverish;...
SR 2.52 16 ...alms to sots, and the thousand-fold Relief Societies;- though...I sometimes...give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
Wth 6.105 26 Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms.
Art1 2.365 27 ...a ball-room makes us feel that we are all paupers in the almshouse of this world...
PC 8.209 4 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the improved almshouses;...
Edc1 10.152 5 In these judgments one needs that foresight which was attributed to an eminent reformer, of whom it was said his patience could see in the bud of the aloe the blossom at the end of a hundred years.
CW 12.174 19 Plant...the Upas, Ebony, Century Aloes...
OS 2.285 21 We are all discerners of spirits. That diagnosis lies aloft in our life or unconscious power.
Exp 3.48 6 Ate Dea is gentle,--Over men's heads walking aloft,/ With tender feet treading so soft./
ET2 5.27 12 Our good master keeps his kites up to the last moment, studding-sails alow and aloft...
PPo 8.251 15 Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down,/ Poises Arcturus aloft morning and evening his spear./
PerF 10.78 7 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Fancy, which sends its gay balloon aloft into the sky...
Chr2 10.101 14 When Omar prayed and loved,/ Where Syrian waters roll,/ Aloft the ninth heaven glowed and moved/ To the tread of the jubilant soul./
HDC 11.34 4 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest side.
AsSu 11.246 4 His erring foe,/ Self-assured that he prevails,/ Looks from his victim lying low,/ And sees aloft the red right arm/ Redress the eternal scales./
Nat 1.7 5 ...if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.
Nat 1.9 10 Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight;...
Nat 1.10 24 I am not alone and unacknowledged.
Nat 1.24 3 Nothing is quite beautiful alone;...
Nat 1.46 1 ...these [human forms] all rest...on the unfathomed sea of thought and virtue whereto they alone...are the entrances.
Nat 1.53 12 ...[My passion] all alone stands hugely politic./
Nat 1.72 11 [Man] works on the world with his understanding alone.
AmS 1.87 18 ...perhaps we shall...learn the amount of this influence more conveniently, by considering [books'] value alone.
AmS 1.103 3 ...let [the scholar]...bide his own time, - happy enough if he can satisfy himself alone that this day he has seen something truly.
AmS 1.113 22 Help must come from the bosom alone.
DSA 1.128 23 Alone in all history [Jesus Christ] estimated the greatness of man.
DSA 1.135 6 The man...through whom the soul speaks, alone can teach.
DSA 1.141 24 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...which alone can make thought dear and rich;...that it is travestied and depreciated...
DSA 1.144 23 ...no man goeth alone.
DSA 1.145 18 Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone;...
LE 1.161 2 Leave me alone;...
LE 1.173 22 [The scholar] must have his glees and his glooms alone.
LE 1.174 24 Think alone, and all places are friendly and sacred.
LE 1.175 7 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes...they spurn personal relations; they deal...with ideas. They are alone with the mind.
MN 1.212 11 ...[all things] seek to penetrate and overpower each the nature of every other creature, and itself alone in all modes and throughout space and spirit to prevail and possess.
MN 1.213 7 By piety alone, by conversing with the cause of nature, is [man] safe and commands it.
LT 1.272 16 [The moral sentiment] alone can make a man other than he is.
LT 1.277 1 I think that the soul of reform;...the feeling that then are we strongest when most most private and alone.
LT 1.278 17 To the youth...the temptation is always great to lend himself to public movements, and as one of a party accomplish what he cannot hope to effect alone.
LT 1.281 11 By new infusions alone of the spirit by which he is made and directed, can [man] be re-made and reinforced.
Con 1.296 7 Saturn grew weary of sitting alone...
Con 1.323 6 In the civil wars of France, Montaigne alone, among all the French gentry, kept his castle gates unbarred...
Tran 1.330 22 [The idealist] does not deny the sensuous fact...but he will not see that alone.
Tran 1.342 18 ...[Society] saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world;...
Tran 1.347 10 [Transcendentalists] say to themselves, It is better to be alone than in bad company.
Tran 1.357 27 ...the path which the hero travels alone is the highway of health and benefit to mankind.
YA 1.372 24 Remark the unceasing effort throughout nature at... amelioration in nature, which alone permits and authorizes amelioration in mankind.
YA 1.389 1 /Man alone/ Can perform the impossible./
SR 2.57 7 It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone...
SR 2.71 19 We must go alone.
SR 2.89 3 It is only as a man...stands alone that I see him to be strong...
Comp 2.117 17 Has [a man] a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to entertain himself alone...
SL 2.151 13 Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed...
SL 2.153 27 Life alone can impart life;...
SL 2.160 16 Let us...learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
Lov1 2.173 2 Among the throng of girls [the village boy] runs rudely enough, but one alone distances him;...
Lov1 2.185 6 When alone, [the lovers] solace themselves with the remembered image of the other.
Fdsp 2.189 11 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ Through thee alone the sky is arched,/...
Fdsp 2.193 26 Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
Fdsp 2.198 3 ...[the soul] goes alone for a season that it may exalt its conversation or society.
Fdsp 2.202 4 ...he alone is victor who has truth enough in his constitution to preserve the delicacy of his beauty from the wear and tear of [Time, Want, Danger].
Fdsp 2.202 26 Every man alone is sincere.
Fdsp 2.204 6 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am... behold now the semblance of my being...reiterated in a foreign form;...
Fdsp 2.207 11 In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone.
Fdsp 2.207 24 No two men but being left alone with each other enter into simpler relations.
Fdsp 2.208 15 Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend should overstep...his real sympathy.
Fdsp 2.213 3 We walk alone in the world.
OS 2.279 25 It was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg, which would alone indicate the greatness of that man's perception,--It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;...
OS 2.296 9 The soul gives itself, alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original and Pure...
Int 2.325 21 [Mind] alone is.
Int 2.339 5 ...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 distorted...
Pt1 3.21 9 The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation and animation...
Pt1 3.27 9 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks...as the ancients were wont to express themselves, not with intellect alone but with the intellect inebriated by nectar.
Exp 3.61 23 ...leave me alone and I should relish every hour...
Exp 3.71 8 ...if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at once arrive at satisfactions...
Chr1 3.90 7 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force... by whose impulses the man is guided...which is company for him, so that such men...can entertain themselves very well alone.
Chr1 3.99 13 I revere the person who is riches; so that I cannot think of him as alone, or poor, or exiled, or unhappy, or a client...
Chr1 3.115 13 Is there any religion but this, to know that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a flower, it blooms for me?...I am aware, if I alone, of the greatness of the fact.
Mrs1 3.143 23 Fashion has many classes and many rules of probation and admission, and not the best alone.
Mrs1 3.148 21 In Shakspeare alone the speakers do not strut and bridle...
NR 3.228 19 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected;...
NER 3.260 13 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to...arrive at short methods; urged, as I suppose, by an intuition that the human spirit is equal to all emergencies alone...
NER 3.267 10 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul;...
UGM 4.5 18 I can do that by another which I cannot do alone.
UGM 4.5 26 A little genius let us leave alone.
PPh 4.46 13 ...[ardent young men and women] sigh and weep, write verses and walk alone...
PPh 4.65 24 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated...an organ better worth saving than ten thousand eyes, since truth is perceived by this alone.
SwM 4.108 14 This new spine [the skull] is destined to high uses. It is a new man on the shoulders of the last. It can almost shed its trunk and manage to live alone...
SwM 4.136 17 The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon, concerning faith alone and works alone, intrude themselves into [Swedenborg's] speculations...
SwM 4.139 10 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways are altogether evil serve me alone, he is as respectable as the just man;...
MoS 4.152 7 ...to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone have reason.
MoS 4.158 18 It is from the poor man's hut alone that strength and virtue come...
MoS 4.170 9 Truth, or the connection between cause and effect, alone interests us.
ShP 4.192 1 ...as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king, prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the same time.
ShP 4.202 13 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note the founder of another dynasty, which alone will cause the Tudor dynasty to be remembered...
NMW 4.227 15 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] adopts the best measures... and not these alone, but on every happy and memorable expression.
GoW 4.281 13 Talent alone can not make a writer.
GoW 4.288 3 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties, leaves from their journals, and the like. A great deal still is left that will not find any place. This the bookbinder alone can give any cohesion to;...
ET1 5.11 26 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge], that...it is a far greater virtue to love the true for itself alone, than to love the good for itself alone.
ET1 5.11 27 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge], that...it is a far greater virtue to love the true for itself alone, than to love the good for itself alone.
ET4 5.59 22 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea, the tiller shipped and the sails spread; being left alone he sets fire to some tar-wood and lies down contented on deck.
ET8 5.129 10 The [English] club-houses were established to cultivate social habits, and it is rare that more than two eat together, and oftenest one eats alone.
ET8 5.134 20 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...a race to which their fortunes flow, as if they alone had the elastic organization at once fine and robust enough for dominion;...
ET8 5.143 5 [The English] choose that welfare which is compatible with the commonwealth, knowing that such alone is stable;...
ET9 5.149 24 ...at last it was agreed that [the Frenchman and the Englishman] should fight alone...
ET10 5.164 24 High stone fences and padlocked garden-gates announce the absolute will of the [English] owner to be alone.
ET13 5.223 24 If you let [the Anglican Church] alone, it will let you alone.
ET14 5.235 3 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words, and, when elevation or ornament is sought, to interweave Roman, but sparingly; nor is a sentence made of Roman words alone, without loss of strength.
ET15 5.263 27 [The London Times] adopted a poor-law system, and almost alone lifted it through.
ET16 5.287 19 ...'t is certain as God liveth, the gun that does not need another gun, the law of love and justice alone, can effect a clean revolution.
ET17 5.298 4 ...let us say of [Wordsworth] that, alone in his time, he treated the human mind well...
F 6.19 19 ...'t was much if each [drowning man] could keep afloat alone.
Ctr 6.164 16 ...I observe that [scholars] lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
Bhr 6.191 6 ...Whatever is known to thyself alone, has always very great value.
Bhr 6.197 11 As respects the delicate question of culture I do not think that any other than negative rules can be laid down. For positive rules, for suggestion, nature alone inspires it.
Wsp 6.208 13 After [the people's] pepper-corn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together...
Wsp 6.226 15 ...no man thinks alone and no man acts alone...
Wsp 6.226 16 ...no man thinks alone and no man acts alone...
CbW 6.278 20 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;...
Ill 6.325 11 The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament; there is he alone with [the gods] alone...
SS 7.4 6 For himself [my new friend] declared that he could not get enough alone to write a letter to a friend.
SS 7.10 18 Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must;...
SS 7.11 16 Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
SS 7.12 5 A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned himself a boor; but whenever he...had one to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.
SS 7.14 7 I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone.
Civ 7.17 24 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,/ Traditioned fame of masters, eager strife/ Of keen competing youths, joined or alone/...
Civ 7.30 16 Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
Art2 7.40 16 The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful;...
DL 7.120 16 ...who can see unmoved...the first solitary joys of literary vanity...sitting alone near the top of the house;...
DL 7.123 13 The innocent Venelas alone could wear [the magic mantle].
WD 7.172 7 ...nothing expresses that power which seems to work for beauty alone.
WD 7.177 5 The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near from every point, and thou must find it, if at all, by methods native to thyself alone.
Boks 7.203 23 ...Pythagoras was...nowise a man of abstract studies alone.
Clbs 7.223 7 But [Saadi] has no companion;/ Come ten, or come a million,/ Good Saadi dwells alone./
Clbs 7.229 26 If men are less when together than they are alone, they are also in some respects enlarged.
Clbs 7.230 6 ...no thought is alone...
Cour 7.257 10 The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone...
Suc 7.284 22 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. ... In administration, it is I alone who have arranged the finances, as you know
Suc 7.294 4 Is there no loving...of our design, for itself alone?
OA 7.318 6 ...as long as one is alone by himself, he is not sensible of the inroads of time...
OA 7.320 27 ...he who has accomplished something in any department alone deserves to be heard on that subject.
PI 8.33 12 We detect at once by [style] whether the writer has a firm grasp on his fact or thought,--exists at the moment for that alone...
PI 8.67 13 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys, who recite the rhymes to their hoops or their skates if alone...
PI 8.70 24 Every man may be...lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood...strings worlds like beads upon his thought. The success with which this is done can alone determine how genuine is the inspiration.
SA 8.80 4 ...a few natures are central and forever unfold, and these alone charm us.
Comc 8.159 4 Separate any object...from the connection of things, and contemplate it alone...it becomes at once comic;...
PC 8.212 2 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
PC 8.227 7 No angel in his heart acknowledges any one superior to himself but the Lord alone.
PPo 8.240 21 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the all-wise fowl who had lived ever since the beginning of the world, and now lives alone on the highest summit of Mount Kaf.
PPo 8.258 8 O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
PPo 8.258 23 Ibn Jemin writes thus:-Whilst I disdain the populace,/ I find no peer in higher place./ Friend is a word of royal tone,/ Friend is a poem all alone./
Grts 8.300 1 True dignity abides with him alone/ Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,/ Can still suspect, and still revere himself,/ In lowliness of heart./ Wordsworth.
Grts 8.302 5 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best. Certainly...those in which he rose above all competition by obeying a light that shone to him alone.
Grts 8.307 9 ...none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Grts 8.309 1 ...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
Imtl 8.347 11 He has [immortality], and he alone, who gives life to all names, persons, things, where he comes.
Dem1 10.5 23 In sleep one...shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows...
Aris 10.56 18 Rather let us be alone whilst we live, than encounter these lean kine.
Aris 10.61 2 The Golden Table never lacks members; all its seats are kept full; but with this strange provision, that the members are carefully withdrawn into deep niches...and each believes himself alone.
PerF 10.81 12 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone...
PerF 10.83 18 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it...makes known to [the man]...that he is to deal absolutely in the world, as if he alone were a system and a state...
PerF 10.84 4 Obedience alone gives the right to command.
Chr2 10.96 5 The moral sentiment is alone omnipotent.
Chr2 10.119 7 ...this infant soul must learn to walk alone.
Edc1 10.155 13 ...when [the naturalist] goes to the river-bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone.
SovE 10.211 4 Man does not live by bread alone...
SovE 10.213 1 To [innocence] alone comes true friendship;...
Prch 10.219 26 ...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must react upon. It is resisted and corrupted by that obstinate tendency to personify and bring under the eyesight what should be the contemplation of Reason alone.
Prch 10.237 17 ...when we go alone, or come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose to be disabused of appearances...
MoL 10.254 20 The country complains loudly of the inefficiency of the army. It was badly led. But, before this, it was not the army alone, is was the population that was badly led.
Schr 10.269 12 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth...
Schr 10.277 15 I delight in men...who could alone, or with a few like them, reproduce Europe and America, the result of our civilization.
Schr 10.282 8 Truth alone is great.
Plu 10.302 23 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments, through his loving selection alone, have come to be proverbs of later mankind.
LLNE 10.342 21 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity.
LLNE 10.351 11 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].
MMEm 10.403 15 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism...would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron' s] imagination.
MMEm 10.407 1 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who lives in society alone...
MMEm 10.421 10 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing;...
MMEm 10.429 14 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave. Now existence itself in any form is sweet. Away with knowledge;-God alone.
MMEm 10.433 12 Very rightly...the Christian ages, proceeding on a grand instinct, have said: Faith alone, Faith alone.
SlHr 10.444 10 ...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 7 ...[Thoreau] lived alone;...
Thor 10.457 27 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years alone...
Carl 10.492 6 [Young men] go for free institutions, for letting things alone...[Carlyle] for stringent government...
LS 11.6 8 This material fact, that the occasion [the Last Supper] was to be remembered, is found in Luke alone, who was not present.
LS 11.8 15 ...it should be granted us that, taken alone, [the words This do in remembrance of me] do not necessarily import so much as is usually thought...
LS 11.18 13 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God...
LS 11.19 16 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I think this difficulty...to be entitled to the greatest weight. It is alone a sufficient objection to the ordinance.
HDC 11.46 13 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston, with certain rights of their own, which, what they were, time alone could fully determine;...
HDC 11.60 26 ...[King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian deserter, as he fled alone in the dark of the morning...
EWI 11.110 14 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa. Nearly 30,000 were landed in the port of Havana alone.
War 11.155 27 Bull-baiting, cockpits and the boxer's ring are the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
War 11.162 18 All admit that [peace] would be the best policy...if all would agree to accept this rule. But it is absurd for one nation to attempt it alone.
War 11.165 7 ...when a truth appears,-as, for instance, a perception in the wit of one Columbus that there is land in the Western Sea; though he alone of all men has that thought, and they all jeer,-it will build ships;...
FSLC 11.196 16 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited.
FSLN 11.216 8 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He alone breaks from the van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!/ Browning, The Lost Leader.
FSLN 11.216 9 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He alone breaks from the van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!/ Browning, The Lost Leader.
FSLN 11.221 14 [Webster] was there in his Adamitic capacity, as if he alone of all men did not disappoint the eye and the ear...
FSLN 11.235 13 He only who is able to stand alone is qualified for society.
AKan 11.258 17 He only who is able to stand alone is qualified to be a citizen.
AKan 11.259 3 Who doubts that Kansas would have been very well settled, if the United States had let it alone?
AKan 11.261 18 A very remarkable speech from a Democratic President to his fellow citizens, that they are not to concern themselves with institutions which they alone are to create and determine.
JBS 11.278 15 ...[John Brown] was much considered in the family where he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.
SHC 11.431 21 ...there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters...
Scot 11.463 10 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled-perhaps he alone among literary men of this century is entitled...
FRO2 11.487 23 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...
FRep 11.543 8 Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.
FRep 11.544 13 Trade and government will not alone be the favored aims of mankind...
PLT 12.40 14 Insight assimilates the thing seen. Is it only another way of affirming and illustrating this to say that it sees nothing alone, but sees each particular object in just connections,-sees all in God?
PLT 12.46 15 He alone is strong and happy who has a will.
PLT 12.61 14 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections, which, alone, are blind guides and thriftless workmen...
II 12.66 3 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects. Here alone is the field of metaphysical discovery...
Mem 12.95 19 This power [of memory] will alone make a man remarkable;...
CL 12.163 18 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each man.
CW 12.178 25 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each...
Bost 12.203 24 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some noble protestant, who...will stand for liberty and justice, if alone...
MAng1 12.220 21 Cardinal Farnese one day found [Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum...
MAng1 12.227 22 ...not only was this discoverer of Beauty [Michelangelo]...rooted and grounded in those severe laws of practical skill, which...must be learned by practice alone, but he was one of the most industrious men that ever lived.
MAng1 12.228 25 [Michelangelo] was accustomed to say, Those figures alone are good from which the labor is scraped off when the scaffolding is taken away.
MAng1 12.232 18 He alone, [Michelangelo] said, is an artist whose hands can perfectly execute what his mind has conceived;...
MAng1 12.237 9 [Michelangelo] lived alone...
Milt1 12.252 6 It is the aspect which [Milton] presents to this generation, that alone concerns us.
Milt1 12.260 16 Michael Angelo calls him alone an artist, whose hands can execute what his mind has conceived.
Milt1 12.277 25 Of [Milton's] prose in general, not the style alone but the argument also is poetic;...
MLit 12.312 6 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world...
WSL 12.346 4 Mr. Landor, almost alone among living English writers, has indicated his perception of [character].
Pray 12.352 23 ...O my Father...I am always alone with thee...
Pray 12.353 7 At whatever price, I must be alone with thee [My Father];...
Pray 12.354 26 I feel that without thy love in me I should be alone here in the flesh.
AgMs 12.362 21 I [Edmund Hosmer] do not know of a single instance in which a man has honestly got rich by farming alone.
PPr 12.387 11 ...after a short time, down go [the age's] follies and weakness and the memory of them; its virtues alone remain...
Let 12.395 24 But to be prudent in all the particulars of life, and in this one thing alone religiously forbearing;...and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!
Nat 1.24 23 [Beauty in nature]...is not alone a solid and satisfactory good.
DSA 1.126 14 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East; not alone in Palestine...
DSA 1.136 8 ...this moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the consolation...the grandeur that come alone out of the culture of the moral nature, - should be heard...
Wsp 6.241 26 ...the super-personal Heart,--[man] shall repose alone on that.
Edc1 10.125 20 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...not alone in the elements, but... in the languages...
Edc1 10.130 17 If Newton come and...perceive that not alone certain bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
II 12.69 23 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]? Where the wine that will warm and open these silent lips? Where the fire that will light this combustible pile? That force or flame is alone to be considered;...
SwM 4.97 7 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...the flight, Plotinus called it, of the alone to the alone;...
Civ 7.31 25 I see the immense material prosperity...California quartz-mountains dumped down in New York to be repiled architecturally alongshore from Canada to Cuba...
ET5 5.87 8 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him...
Nat 1.54 8 Prospero calls for music to soothe the frantic Alonzo...
Nat 1.49 23 The first effort of thought...shows us nature aloof...
Tran 1.341 5 [Many intelligent and religious persons] hold themselves aloof...
Int 2.342 6 He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and afloat.
NER 3.262 16 ...you must make me feel that you are aloof from [the institution];...
DL 7.132 4 Certainly, not aloof from this homage to beauty...the house will come to be esteemed a Sanctuary.
Comc 8.158 24 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence, aloof...
Insp 8.279 18 We might say of these memorable moments of life that we were in them, not they in us. We found ourselves by happy fortune in an illuminated portion or meteorous zone, and passed out of it again, so aloof was it from any will of ours.
LLNE 10.333 27 [Everett]...speaking, walking, sitting, was as much aloof and uncommon as a star.
Ctr 6.133 16 Eminent spiritualists shall have an incapacity of putting their act or word aloof from them...
SovE 10.186 20 All forces are found in Nature united with that which they move...light is not massed aloof...
Fdsp 2.202 16 Before [a friend] I may think aloud.
Pol1 3.201 8 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies;...
ET1 5.3 14 ...we could no longer speak aloud in the streets without being understood.
OA 7.335 16 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer...insisted on repairing to the meeting-house, and proclaimed it aloud to the congregation...
Elo2 8.121 19 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud...
JBB 11.266 5 ...There [John Brown] spoke aloud for Freedom, and the Border strife grew warmer/ Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the night;/...
ACri 12.285 26 Rabelais and Montaigne are masters of this Romany, but cannot be read aloud, and so far fall short.
ACri 12.291 7 As soon as you read aloud, you will find what sentences drag.
Trag 12.410 14 [Tragedy] looks like an insupportable load under which earth moans aloud. But analyze it;...it is always another person who is tormented.
ET2 5.27 12 Our good master keeps his kites up to the last moment, studding-sails alow and aloft...
ET16 5.285 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones, over a stream of which the gardener did not know the name (Qu. Alph?);...
ET4 5.55 14 [The Celts] had an alphabet...
Civ 7.19 15 A nation that has no clothing...no alphabet...we call barbarous.
Comc 8.168 7 I think there is malice in a very trifling story...which I should not take any notice of, did I not suspect it to contain some satire upon my brothers of the Natural History Society. It is of a boy who was learning his alphabet.
PC 8.224 14 As language is in the alphabet, so is entire Nature...in one atom.
CW 12.179 13 ...there is a general sense which the best knowledge of the particular alphabet [of Nature] leaves unexplained.
Mem 12.93 12 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind, alphabetic, systematic...
Plu 10.303 14 ...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...
NR 3.238 11 ...Nature has her maligners, as if she were Circe; and Alphonso of Castile fancied he could have given useful advice.
CL 12.144 12 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back. The more reason we have to be content with the felicity of our slopes in Massachusetts, undulating...but without this alpine inconveniency.
Wsp 6.216 20 It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district;...
Nat 1.20 22 ...when Arnold Winkelried, in the high Alps...gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
Hist 2.36 20 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let his faculties find...no Alps to climb...and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
SL 2.148 7 On the Alps the traveller sometimes beholds his own shadow magnified to a giant...
Fdsp 2.200 20 Respect the naturlangsamkeit which...works in duration in which Alps and Andes come and go as rainbows.
NMW 4.227 11 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] levels the Alps;...
NMW 4.235 10 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said;...
NMW 4.246 9 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!--when spying the Alps, by a sunset in the Sicilian sea;...
NMW 4.248 16 An example of [Napoleon's] common-sense is what he says of the passage of the Alps in winter...
NMW 4.248 23 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.
ET11 5.183 18 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are they? I asked. At home on their estates...or in the Alps...
WD 7.160 14 What of the grand tools with which we engineer, like kobolds and enchanters, tunnelling Alps...
WSL 12.347 1 ...it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded...
CL 12.155 5 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence.
CL 12.155 11 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway...my languor or heaviness returned. When I again ascended the Alps, i revived as before.
CL 12.155 17 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
Nat 1.4 5 ...nature is already...describing its own design.
Nat 1.31 11 [This imagery] is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made.
Nat 1.41 25 It has already been illustrated, that every natural process is a version of a moral sentence.
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.
Nat 1.56 9 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches...had already transferred nature into the mind...
Nat 1.62 13 ...we see that the views already presented do not include the whole circumference of man.
AmS 1.81 14 Perhaps the time is already come when [our holiday] ought to be, and will be, something else;...
AmS 1.97 6 ...many another fact that once filled the whole sky, are gone already;...
AmS 1.98 9 I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived...
AmS 1.105 2 ...what overgrown error you behold is there only by sufferance, - by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.
AmS 1.106 8 ...I have already shown the ground of my hope...
AmS 1.110 15 I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already through poetry and art...
AmS 1.114 11 The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid...
AmS 1.114 15 The scholar is...complaisant. See already the tragic consequence.
DSA 1.132 5 Already the long shadows of untimely oblivion creep over me...
DSA 1.135 21 From the views I have already expressed, you will infer the sad conviction...of the universal decay...of faith in society.
DSA 1.143 3 It is already beginning to indicate character and religion to withdraw from the religious meetings.
DSA 1.144 2 The remedy is already declared in the ground of our complaint of the Church.
DSA 1.150 9 ...let the breath of new life be breathed by you through the forms already existing.
LE 1.164 18 ...the soul has assurance...of all power in the direction of its ray, as well as of the special skills it has already acquired.
LE 1.167 4 We assume that all thought is already long ago adequately set down in books...
LE 1.186 1 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then once more perish the buds of art...as they have died already in a thousand thousand men.
MN 1.197 5 [Pure law] existed already in the mind in solution;...
MR 1.250 24 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist...
Con 1.308 25 ...I am very peaceable, and on my private account could well enough die, since it appears...that I have been missent to this earth, where all the seats were already taken...
Con 1.314 11 ...we have already shown that there is no pure reformer...
Con 1.321 10 [Religious institutions] have already acquired a market value as conservators of property;...
YA 1.363 19 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days seemed already numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives...across such tedious distances...
YA 1.379 24 ...Trade is also but for a time, and must give way to somewhat broader and better, whose signs are already dawning in the sky.
YA 1.380 3 ...Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance. We have already seen our way to shorter methods.
YA 1.383 1 ...agricultural association must, sooner or later, fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence; as the great commercial and manufacturing companies had already done.
Hist 2.4 3 ...Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
Hist 2.9 9 Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, and even early Rome are passing already into fiction.
Hist 2.19 27 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses...
Hist 2.37 10 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind.
Hist 2.40 26 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes. Already that day exists for us...
SR 2.59 11 ...what you have already done singly will justify you now.
SR 2.76 15 [A sturdy lad from Vermont]...feels no shame in not studying a profession, for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.
SR 2.78 12 ...attend your own work and already the evil begins to be repaired.
Comp 2.103 16 Cause and effect...cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause...
SL 2.142 23 We like only such actions as have already long had the praise of men...
Lov1 2.169 5 Nature...anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.
Fdsp 2.197 21 Thou [my friend] hast come to me lately, and already thou art seizing thy hat and cloak.
Fdsp 2.212 22 ...we perceive that no arrangements...would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire,--but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we are already they.
Fdsp 2.213 13 Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons...
Hsm1 2.257 8 If we dilate in beholding...the Roman pride, it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment.
Hsm1 2.263 23 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already wrapped in his shroud...
Hsm1 2.264 5 ...the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible...
OS 2.275 26 Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands the sciences and arts...
OS 2.276 2 ...whoso dwells in this moral beatitude already anticipates those special powers which men prize so highly.
OS 2.279 5 [The soul] is adult already in the infant man.
OS 2.284 5 The moment the doctrine of the immortality [of the soul] is separately taught, man is already fallen.
OS 2.297 15 [Man] will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it and so hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart.
Cir 2.301 9 One moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action.
Cir 2.302 15 The Greek letters...are already passing under the same sentence and tumbling into the inevitable pit which the creation of new thought opens for all that is old.
Cir 2.304 18 ...in its first and narrowest pulses [the heart] already tends outward with a vast force...
Cir 2.305 2 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere. Then already is our first speaker not man, but only a first speaker.
Int 2.332 21 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind...
Art1 2.361 10 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the old, eternal fact I had met already in so many forms...
Art1 2.361 14 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the plain you and me I...had left at home in so many conversations. I had had the same experience already in a church at Naples.
Art1 2.364 1 Already History is old enough to witness the old age and disappearance of particular arts.
Art1 2.365 11 The oratorio has already lost its relation to the morning...
Exp 3.71 23 ...every insight from this realm of thought...promises a sequel. I do not make it; I arrive there, and behold what was there already.
Exp 3.75 8 In liberated moments we know that a new picture of life and duty is already possible;...
Exp 3.75 8 ...the elements already exist in many minds around you of a doctrine of life which shall transcend any written record we have.
Chr1 3.99 6 The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.
Chr1 3.102 18 [Men] must...make us feel that they have a controlling happy future opening before them, whose early twilights already kindle in the passing hour.
Chr1 3.103 3 If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage...
Mrs1 3.125 27 ...if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.
Mrs1 3.138 4 I pray my companion...if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate as if I knew already.
Mrs1 3.140 27 ...society demands in its patrician class another element already intimated, which it significantly terms good-nature...
Nat2 3.181 27 The men, though young, having tasted the first drop from the cup of thought, are already dissipated...
NR 3.226 3 Exactly what the parties have already done they shall do again;...
NR 3.238 26 When afterwards [the recluse] comes to unfold [his endowment] in propitious circumstance...he...accounts himself already the fellow of the great.
NER 3.264 2 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans...
NER 3.284 3 [A man] can already rely on the laws of gravity...
UGM 4.9 17 Justice has already been done to steam, to iron...
PPh 4.45 5 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well, in its long history of arts and arms; here are all its traits, already discernible in the mind of Plato...
SwM 4.117 13 ...[Correspondence] was involved, as we explained already, in the doctrine of identity and iteration...
SwM 4.135 7 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at its natural term...
SwM 4.137 11 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip.
SwM 4.141 2 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must not be inferior in tone to the already known works of the artist who sculptures the globes of the firmament and writes the moral law.
SwM 4.141 20 [Swedenborg's] spiritual world bears the same relation to the generosities and joys of truth of which human souls have already made us cognizant, as a man's bad dreams bear to his ideal life.
MoS 4.151 17 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power...like dreaming beggars [men predisposed to morals] assume to speak and act as if these values were already substantiated.
ShP 4.195 3 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already wonted...
ShP 4.200 13 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ...
ET1 5.18 18 [Carlyle] was already turning his eyes towards London with a scholar's appreciation.
ET3 5.35 21 ...an American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain. In all that is done or begun by the Americans towards right thinking or practice, we are met by a civilization already settled and overpowering.
ET3 5.37 13 ...the English interest us a little less within a few years; and hence the impression that the British power...is in solstice, or already declining.
ET4 5.69 17 ...Tacitus found the English beer already in use among the Germans...
ET5 5.74 17 The Phoenician, the Celt and the Goth had already got in [to England].
ET5 5.95 18 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too, which was already believed to have become milder and drier by the enormous consumption of coal, is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
ET10 5.156 22 [In England] An economist, or a man who can...bring the year round with expenditure which expresses his character without embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a freeman.
ET10 5.159 23 England already had this laborious race, rich soil, water, wood, coal, iron...
ET10 5.161 7 Already [steam] is ruddering the balloon...
ET11 5.195 8 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense.
ET11 5.197 25 Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle class [in England]...the titles of lordship are getting musty and cumbersome. I wonder that sensible men have not been already impatient of them.
ET12 5.203 3 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, They called on Lord Eldon. ... ...he said, your men have probably already contributed all they can spare; I can as well give the rest...
ET12 5.211 2 In seeing these youths [at Oxford] I believed I saw already an advantage in vigor and color and general habit, over their contemporaries in the American colleges.
ET15 5.261 16 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy, since the whole people are already forewarned.
ET15 5.265 8 The proprietors [of the London Times], who had already complained that [John Walter's] charges for printing were excessive, found that they were in his power...
ET16 5.280 9 [Carlyle] fancied that greater men had lived in England than any of her writers; and, in fact, about the time when those writers appeared, the last of these were already gone.
ET19 5.310 1 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company, and doubly pleasant to see the faces of so many distinguished persons on this platform. But I have known all these persons already.
F 6.11 3 So [a man] has but one future, and that is already predetermined...
Wth 6.127 4 Nor is the man enriched...unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.
Bhr 6.177 16 The eyes indicate...through how many forms [the soul] has already ascended.
Bhr 6.190 17 A man already strong is listened to...
CbW 6.263 4 ...I will not here repeat the first rule of economy, already propounded once and again...
CbW 6.266 24 Already, who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever?
Elo1 7.73 16 In these examples [of eloquence], higher qualities have already entered...
Elo1 7.84 21 If [the orator] should attempt to instruct the people in that which they already know, he would fail;...
Elo1 7.90 7 Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified. They feel as if they already possessed some new right and power over a fact which they can detach...
DL 7.102 6 I detected many a god/ Forth already on the road,/ Ancestors of beauty come/ In thy breast to make a home./
WD 7.159 15 [Steam] already walks about the field like a man...
Boks 7.191 10 College education is the reading of certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated.
Boks 7.193 23 ...I can seldom go there [to the Cambridge Library] without renewing the conviction that the best of it all is already within the four walls of my study at home.
Boks 7.195 11 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye.
Boks 7.198 10 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer, now ripened to thought...
Boks 7.219 26 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry...to Siberia, Japan, Timbuctoo. Yet he will find that the spirit which is in them...was there already long before him.
Clbs 7.231 18 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety... But when he came home, his brave sequins were dry leaves. He found either that the fact they had thus dizened and adorned was of no value, or that he already knew all and more than all they had told him.
Suc 7.283 14 ...we are adding to an already enormous territory.
Suc 7.287 1 Here are already quite different degrees of moral merit in these examples.
OA 7.317 7 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that here is one who knows already what you would go about with much pains to teach him;...
OA 7.326 3 It has been long already fixed what [the old lawyer] can do...
Elo2 8.125 6 You say, If [the man in the street] could only express himself; but he does already...
QO 8.183 16 ...[young men] are none the worse for being already told, in the last generation of Sheridan;...
QO 8.188 20 If Lord Bacon appears already in the preface, I go and read the Instauration instead of the new book.
PC 8.222 3 When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise; we were found already prepared for it.
Insp 8.274 2 In June the morning is noisy with birds; in August they are already getting old and silent.
Grts 8.314 25 ...one fights with cannon as with fists; when once the fire is begun, the least want of ammunition renders what you have done already useless.
Dem1 10.8 19 [Dreams] are the maturation often of opinions not consciously carried out to statements, but whereof we already possessed the elements.
Dem1 10.8 26 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile...he is a poltroon. It turns out prophecy a year later. But it was already in my mind as character...
Aris 10.33 4 A many-chambered Aristocracy lies already organized in [a man's] moods and faculties.
Aris 10.45 11 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too early. Let him not hurry or hesitate. Though millions are already arrived, his seat is reserved.
Chr2 10.102 8 A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely on him.
Chr2 10.112 21 ...the mind of our culture has already left our liturgies behind.
Chr2 10.117 24 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities...
Edc1 10.125 9 We have already taken...the initial step...this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
Supl 10.169 9 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech. They are never off their centres. As soon as they swell and paint and find truth not enough for them, softening of the brain has already begun.
SovE 10.207 4 ...we are fast losing or have already lost our old reverence;...
MoL 10.241 9 You go to be teachers...I hope, some of you, to be the men of letters, critics, philosophers; perhaps the rare gift of poetry already sparkles...
MoL 10.258 7 ...the issues already appearing overpay the cost.
Schr 10.261 6 A stranger but yesterday to every person present, I find myself already at home...
Schr 10.269 25 Why need [the poet] meddle with politics? His idlest thought, his yesternight's dream is told already in the Senate.
Schr 10.283 12 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...a mother-wit which does not learn by experience or by books, but knew it all already;...
Schr 10.283 19 Whatever object is brought before [mother-wit] is already well known to it.
Plu 10.317 23 If [Plutarch] did not compile the piece [Apothegms of Noble Commanders], many, perhaps most of the anecdotes were already scattered in his works.
LLNE 10.335 21 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism.
LLNE 10.358 2 The large cities are phalansteries; and the theorists drew all their argument from facts already taking place in our experience.
MMEm 10.424 7 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work, on which frightful Gorgons are at play, spite of holy ghosts. 'T is already moth-eaten and its shuttles quaver, as the beams of the loom are shaken.
LS 11.10 17 The reason why St. John does not repeat [Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...
LS 11.24 6 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to administer it. I am clearly of opinion I ought not. This discourse has already been so far extended that I can only say that the reason of my determination is shortly this: It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my
HDC 11.37 17 ...the peace was made, and the ear of the savage already secured, before the pilgrims arrived at his seat of Musketaquid...
HDC 11.39 2 The maple, which is already making the forest gay with its orange hues, reddened over those houseless men [the settlers of Concord].
HDC 11.54 27 The country [around Concord] already began to yield more than was consumed by the inhabitants.
HDC 11.56 23 The college had been already gathered [at Concord] in 1638.
HDC 11.59 13 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house, or a village; but...in the first blast of [the white men's] trumpet we already hear the flourish of victory.
HDC 11.81 19 The constitution of Massachusetts had been already accepted.
EWI 11.132 26 ...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged.
EWI 11.141 15 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human nature...
FSLC 11.186 27 ...laws...are simply declaratory of a right which already existed...
FSLC 11.204 10 What [Webster] finds already written, he will defend.
JBB 11.269 23 ...if [John Brown] must suffer, he must drag official gentlemen into an immortality most undesirable, of which they have already some disagreeable forebodings.
TPar 11.292 6 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius...
ACiv 11.300 19 There are already mountains of facts [on slavery]...
ALin 11.336 1 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim?
SMC 11.365 18 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered. The colonel was, early in the day, disabled by a casualty; the lieutenant-colonel, the major and the adjutant were already transferred to new regiments...
SMC 11.366 5 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment, as he had been already lieutenant in Captain Prescott's company in 1861, went out again in August, 1864...
SMC 11.375 20 Brave men! you [veterans of the Civil War] will hardly be called to see again fields as terrible as those you have already trampled with your victories.
EdAd 11.387 15 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...
Koss 11.401 9 ...when the crisis arrives it will find us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary, and parties already to her freedom.
Shak1 11.449 16 ...we have already seen the most fantastic theories plausibly urged, that Raleigh and Bacon were the authors of [Shakespeare' s] plays.
ChiE 11.472 23 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing. Confucius had already affirmed this of himself...
FRO2 11.486 21 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion...never did not exist from the planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh, at which time the true religion which already existed began to be called Christianity.
FRO2 11.490 3 I submit that in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men...only for joy in the social identity which they open to us, and that these words would have no weight with us if we had not the same conviction already.
CPL 11.502 18 The very language we speak thinks for us by the subtle distinctions which already are marked for us by its words...
CPL 11.508 22 ...I am pleading a cause which in the event of this day [opening of the Concord Library] has already won...
FRep 11.532 17 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him; already they remember that they long ago suspected his judgment...
FRep 11.538 10 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people. No, that has been conspicuously decided already;...
PLT 12.50 9 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, and has such scope and so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb and not hereafter to become one.
Mem 12.94 5 On hearing a fact told I am aware that I knew it already.
Mem 12.96 3 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already...
Mem 12.101 10 The damages of forgetting are more than compensated by the large values which new thoughts and knowledge give to what we already know.
CInt 12.128 6 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul...with the living teacher who has already made the passage from the centre forth...
CL 12.151 23 In August...we observe already that the leaf is sere...
CL 12.166 6 We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.
MAng1 12.220 14 Michael Angelo dedicated himself...to a toilsome observation of Nature. The first anecdote recorded of him shows him to be already on the right road.
MAng1 12.235 21 [Michelangelo] required...that he should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's], free to depart from the plans of San Gallo and to alter what had been already done.
MAng1 12.241 27 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him...that he sees it is already twenty-four o'clock...
Milt1 12.248 13 The reputation of Milton had already undergone one or two revolutions long anterior to its recent aspects.
Milt1 12.251 25 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature; and the accidental facts on which a battle of principles was fought have already passed, or are fast passing, into oblivion.
ACri 12.294 19 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb...
MLit 12.313 14 Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a stranger, but saith,-I know all already and what art thou?
WSL 12.344 6 [Landor's appreciation of character] is the more remarkable considered with his intense nationality, to which we have already alluded.
Trag 12.405 14 ...how the spirit seems already to contract its domain...
Trag 12.405 17 Already our thoughts and words have an alien sound.
Trag 12.413 27 ...in truth [the man not grounded in the divine life] was already a driving wreck before the wind arose...
Trag 12.414 8 [The man who is centred] sees already in the ebullition of sin the simultaneous redress.
ET15 5.266 13 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men. Old Walter...Barnes, Alsiger, Horace Twiss...have contributed to its renown...
DSA 1.149 25 ...now let us do what we can to rekindle the smouldering, nigh quenched fire on the altar.
ET16 5.290 11 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there, but his remains were removed by Henry I. to the new Abbey in the meadows at Hyde, on the northern quarter of the city, and laid under the high altar.
Schr 10.287 26 He that would sacrifice at [the Muse's] altar must not leave a few flowers...
MMEm 10.397 15 On this altar God hath built/ I lay my vanity and guilt;/...
SMC 11.351 25 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...becomes...an altar where the noble youth shall in all time come to make his secret vows.
FRO1 11.479 8 ...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar.
FRep 11.539 2 Here is the post where the patriot should plant himself; here the altar where virtuous young men...should bind each other to loyalty;...
MAng1 12.230 19 Upon the wall [of the Sistine Chapel], over the altar, is painted the Last Judgment.
SovE 10.209 21 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll, ere these casual wide-falling cinders can be gathered into broad and steady altar-flame.
SL 2.134 14 ...[men of an extraordinary success] have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian.
ET13 5.214 18 In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or imported; altars are built...
ET14 5.250 7 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is to heroism...
F 6.48 6 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity...
F 6.48 24 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity.
F 6.49 5 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity...
CInt 12.116 26 ...[the scholars] were traders and left their altars and libraries and worship of truth...
Pt1 3.24 24 The poet also resigns himself to his mood, and that thought which agitated him is expressed, but alter idem, in a manner totally new.
Wth 6.125 11 ...it is a maxim that money is another kind of blood, Pecunia alter sanguis...
AmS 1.105 13 Not he is great who can alter matter...
AmS 1.105 14 Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
MR 1.233 8 [The individual] did not create the abuse; he cannot alter it.
MR 1.249 16 ...if...a woman or a child discovers...a juster way of thinking than mine, I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience, though it go to alter my whole way of life.
OS 2.295 17 The position men have given to Jesus...is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves. It cannot alter the eternal facts.
Elo1 7.64 21 ...the end of eloquence is...to alter in a pair of hours...the convictions and habits of years.
LS 11.15 26 ...it does not appear that the opinion of St. Paul...ought to alter our opinion derived from the Evangelists [concerning the Lord's Supper].
PLT 12.19 3 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...agriculture, trade, commerce;-these are the ponderous instrumentalities into which the nimble thoughts pass, and which they animate and alter...
MAng1 12.235 21 [Michelangelo] required...that he should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's], free to depart from the plans of San Gallo and to alter what had been already done.
Pol1 3.199 8 ...we ought to remember...that [the State's institutions] all are imitable, all alterable;...
Schr 10.283 10 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...somewhat... not altered or alterable;...
Nat 1.50 16 ...a small alteration in our local position, apprizes us of a dualism.
ET1 5.23 12 [Wordsworth] replied he never was in haste to publish; partly because he corrected a good deal, and every alteration is ungraciously received after printing;...
ET6 5.110 24 As soon as [the English] have rid themselves of some grievance and settled the better practice, they...never wish to hear of alteration more.
QO 8.193 8 ...it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent. Always...some sudden alteration of temperature...betrays the foreign interpolation.
HDC 11.53 23 It is piteous to see [the Indians'] self-distrust in...their unanimous entreaty to Captain Willard, to be their Recorder, being very solicitous that what they did agree upon might be faithfully kept without alteration.
F 6.7 14 The planet is liable to...alterations of climate...
Ctr 6.147 20 ...there is in every constitution a certain solstice...when there is required...some diversion or alterative to prevent stagnation.
ET7 5.121 21 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M. Guizot; and the altered position of the man as an illustrious exile and a guest in the country, makes no difference to him...
Bhr 6.178 10 ...in its altered mood by beams of kindness [an eye] can make the heart dance with joy.
LS 11.7 7 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect to your eyes.
Milt1 12.247 21 It was very easy to remark an altered tone in the criticism when Milton reappeared as an author, fifteen years ago...