NR 3.229 15 We are amphibious creatures...
ET4 5.57 27 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people...living amphibiously on a rough coast...
Pol1 3.197 13 Out of dust to build/ What is more than dust,--/ Walls Amphion piled/ Phoebus stablish must./
MN 1.214 11 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship,-those purple skies and lovely waters the amphitheatre dressed and garnished only for the exchange of thought and love of the purest souls? It is that.
Art2 7.54 24 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight, sickness, or odd appearance in the street.
MLit 12.325 5 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the amphitheatre...
Mrs1 3.134 14 I may easily go into a great household where there is... excellent provision for comfort, luxury and taste, and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.
QO 8.192 3 ...Voltaire usually imitated, but with such superiority that Dubuc said: He is like the false Amphitryon; although the stranger, it is always he who has the air of being master of the house.
LE 1.184 10 If, with a high trust, [the scholar] can thus submit himself, he will find that ample returns are poured into his bosom...
Con 1.311 1 ...if in any one respect [existing institutions] have come short, see what ample retribution of good they have made.
OS 2.265 1 Space is ample, east and west,/ But two cannot go abreast,/ Cannot travel in it two/...
Pt1 3.38 5 ...[America's] ample geography dazzles the imagination...
ShP 4.209 17 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the gentleman and the king, what forms and humanities pleased him;...
NMW 4.244 9 ...ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc...
GoW 4.273 17 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition...this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.
ET16 5.289 20 In the [Winchester] Cathedral I was gratified, at least by the ample dimensions.
WD 7.178 22 Moments of insight...what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
PPo 8.239 24 Such [amatory] verses...will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...or prove an ample reward on their return from the dangers of the ghazon, or the fight.
EdAd 11.384 5 ...the train...shows our traveller what tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region...
WSL 12.340 15 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
WSL 12.348 3 The dense writer has yet ample room and choice of phrase...
LE 1.165 24 The vision of genius comes by...giving leave and amplest privilege to the spontaneous sentiment.
ET14 5.233 12 [The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect security and convenience in the eating of it, to the chances of the amplest and Frenchiest bill of fare...
Ctr 6.138 26 To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
ET11 5.181 15 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown...lower down in the city [London], a few noble houses which still withstand in all their amplitude the encroachment of streets.
Boks 7.217 19 If our times are sterile in genius, we must cheer us with books of rich and believing men who had atmosphere and amplitude about them.
Prch 10.229 23 [The clergy] look into Plato, or into the mind, and then try to make parish mince-meat of the amplitudes and eternities, and the shock is noxious.
CL 12.156 7 ...we are glad to see the world, and what amplitudes it has...
Hsm1 2.253 23 ...the master has amply provided for the reception of the men and their animals...
ET2 5.25 14 The request [to lecture in England] was urged...by friendliest parties in Manchester, who, in the sequel, amply redeemed their word.
Bty 6.301 11 If a man...can enlarge knowledge,--'t is no matter...whether his legs are straight, or whether his legs are amputated...
AmS 1.83 15 The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk...
CbW 6.270 18 ...when the case [of the blockhead] is seated and malignant, the only safety is in amputation;...
SwM 4.100 10 [Swedenborg]...devoted himself to the writing and publication of his voluminous theological works, which were printed...at Dresden, Leipsic, London, or Amsterdam.
Bost 12.199 13 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America...but nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth;...
Dem1 10.16 21 In the popular belief, ghosts are a selecting tribe, avoiding millions, speaking to one. In our traditions, fairies, angels and saints show the like favoritism; so do the agents and the means of magic, as sorcerers and amulets.
GoW 4.263 17 ...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.
ET8 5.128 18 [The English] sported sadly; ils s'amusaient tristement, selon la coutume de leur pays, said Froissart;...
Nat 1.51 9 In a camera obscura, the butcher's cart, and the figure of one of our own family amuse us.
Mrs1 3.135 11 ...by luxuries and ornaments we amuse the young people...
SwM 4.136 8 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own, and amuse me with pelican and stork, instead of thrush and robin;...seems the most needless.
NMW 4.253 1 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him... make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
Bhr 6.184 20 ...to earnest persons...we cannot extol [dress circles] highly. A well-dressed talkative company where each is bent to amuse the other...
CbW 6.256 2 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is rooted and grown. 'T is a decoy-duck; 't is tubs thrown to amuse the whale;...
Bty 6.285 6 Why should not priests, lodged and fed comfortably in the temples, also amuse themselves [said Tisso]?
PI 8.29 16 I do not wish...to find...that [my poet] would kindle or amuse me with that which does not kindle or amuse him.
PI 8.29 17 I do not wish...to find...that [my poet] would kindle or amuse me with that which does not kindle or amuse him.
PI 8.63 24 ...none of your carpet poets, who are content to amuse, will satisfy us.
Comc 8.161 13 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding, who sees the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the heyday of youth feels also the full attractions of pleasure, and is thus eminently qualified to enjoy the joke. At the same time he is to that degree under the Reason that it does not amuse him as much as it amuses another spectator.
Con 1.322 5 ...wherever he sees anything that will keep men amused... [every honest fellow] must cry Hist-a-boy, and urge the game on.
SR 2.81 16 He who travels to be amused...travels away from himself...
NER 3.268 16 A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on. I am afraid the remark...comes from the same origin as the maxim of the tyrant, If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
UGM 4.20 12 We swim...on a river of delusions and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air...
ET8 5.128 12 [The English] are...not so easily amused as the southerners...
ET16 5.275 6 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run away to France and go with their countrymen and are amused...
Wsp 6.227 8 As men get on in life, they acquire...somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused.
CbW 6.247 14 Society wishes to be amused.
CbW 6.247 15 I do not wish to be amused.
Ill 6.313 26 ...the sots are easily amused.
SA 8.82 7 An awkward man is graceful...when hard at work, or agreeably amused.
Chr2 10.109 11 ...[mankind at large]...wish to be amused.
TPar 11.286 24 [Theodore Parker]...often amused himself with throwing his meaning into pretty apologues;...
PLT 12.9 13 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars...to talk for the amusement of those who wish to be amused...
MR 1.244 11 Why must [any man] have...access to public houses and places of amusement?
Pt1 3.3 13 [The umpires of tastes'] knowledge of the fine arts is...some limited judgment of color or form, which is exercised for amusement or for show.
ShP 4.218 25 ...it must even go into the world's history that the best poet [Shakespeare] led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
ET8 5.127 18 When [the Englishman] wishes for amusement, he goes to work.
Ctr 6.144 8 There is also a negative value in these [minor] arts. Their chief use to the youth is not amusement...
Ctr 6.148 3 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
Ill 6.312 24 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state or in society; weighs what he says; perhaps he never comes nearer to him for that, but dies at last better contented for this amusement of his eyes and his fancy.
Elo1 7.73 21 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits. Thus separated, as this fascination of discourse aims only at amusement...it is yet a juggle...
PI 8.28 12 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul...at leisure plays with the resemblances and types, for amusement, and not for its moral end, we call its action Fancy.
Res 8.149 12 We have not a toy or trinket for idle amusement but somewhere it is the one thing needful...
Imtl 8.332 21 ...you shall find a good deal of skepticism in the...places of coarse amusement.
Edc1 10.126 22 Those [animals] called domestic are capable of learning of man a few tricks of utility or amusement...
PLT 12.9 12 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars...to talk for the amusement of those who wish to be amused...
Tran 1.342 16 ...[Transcendentalists] incline...to find their tasks and amusements in solitude.
Fdsp 2.203 2 We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man...by amusements...
NER 3.268 13 A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
Imtl 8.341 15 [The thinker] studies...in his amusements, even in his sleep.
Milt1 12.265 14 [Milton's native honor] refined his amusements...
Bty 6.283 14 We do not think heroes can exert any more awful power than that surface-play which amuses us.
PI 8.29 5 Fancy amuses; imagination expands and exalts us.
PI 8.29 8 Fancy...surprises and amuses the idle...
PI 8.31 14 Talent amuses...
Comc 8.161 14 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding, who sees the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the heyday of youth feels also the full attractions of pleasure, and is thus eminently qualified to enjoy the joke. At the same time he is to that degree under the Reason that it does not amuse him as much as it amuses another spectator.
Pol1 3.217 25 ...each of us...can do somewhat useful, or graceful, or formidable, or amusing, or lucrative.
ET4 5.59 8 King Ingiald finds it vastly amusing to burn up half a dozen kings in a hall...
ET10 5.163 1 All things precious, or useful, or amusing, or intoxicating, are sucked into this commerce and floated to London.
OA 7.316 21 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head, which... does deceive his juniors and the public, who presently distinguish him with a most amusing respect;...
WSL 12.338 24 [Landor's] partialities and dislikes...often whimsical and amusing;...
F 6.34 9 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world, and it was attempted...to dissipate it, by amusing nations...
WD 7.165 1 I saw a brave man...constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds. It was easy to see that he was amusing himself with making pretty links for his own limbs.
Plu 10.295 5 In France...Amyot's translation [of Plutarch] awakened general attention.
MLit 12.325 25 [Goethe's journal] was, says Wieland, as good as Xenophon's Anabasis.
Con 1.317 1 ...the contemplation of some Scythian Anacharsis;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
F 6.7 6 ...the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,- these are in the system...
PPo 8.244 13 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic...
War 11.159 7 I read in Williams's History of Maine, that Assacombuit, the Sagamore of the Anagunticook tribe, was remarkable for his turpitude and ferocity...
PPo 8.253 8 When Hafiz sings...Anaitis, leader of the starry host, calls even the Messiah in heaven out to the dance.
Nat 1.33 25 ...we repeat [proverbs] for the value of their analogical import.
Nat 1.27 20 ...there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies...
Nat 1.28 12 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of...
Art2 7.52 10 Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the reappearance of one mind, working in many materials...
Dem1 10.11 5 Secret analogies tie together the remotest parts of Nature...
Edc1 10.143 22 Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions.
MLit 12.327 3 It is all design with [Goethe], just...analogies, allusion, illustration...
Nat 1.27 23 ...man is an analogist...
ET14 5.239 14 Bacon, in the structure of his mind, held of the analogists...
PI 8.15 14 All thinking is analogizing...
Boks 7.217 14 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry: that which shall show us...in all the plight and circumstance of men, the analogons of our own thoughts...
Nat 1.23 24 A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind.
Nat 1.26 8 Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
Nat 1.57 26 ...religion and ethics...have an analogous effect with all lower culture...
AmS 1.113 12 Another sign of our times, also marked by an analogous political movement, is the new importance given to the single person.
LE 1.164 26 The growth of the intellect is strictly analogous in all individuals.
Nat2 3.192 5 Quite analogous to the deceits in life, there is...a similar effect on the eye from the face of external nature.
Pow 6.71 18 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.
Wth 6.125 13 ...the estate of a man is only a larger kind of body, and admits of regimen analogous to his bodily circulations.
Art2 7.49 7 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to this, in the fine arts, is the manner of our intellectual work.
DL 7.117 17 [A house] stands there under the sun and moon to ends analogous, and not less noble than theirs.
Comc 8.166 25 In science the jest at pedantry is analogous to that in religion which lies against superstition.
Edc1 10.154 18 ...only to think of using [simple discipline and the following of nature] implies character and profoundness; to enter on this course of discipline is to be good and great. It is precisely analogous to the difference between the use of corporal punishment and the methods of love.
SovE 10.183 9 ...the intellectual and moral worlds are analogous to the material.
War 11.154 8 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage. It would be very easy to show analogous benefits that have resulted from military movements of later ages.
FRep 11.526 3 The history of civilization, or the refining of certain races to wonderful power of performance, is analogous;...
CInt 12.125 9 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein. 'T is precisely analogous to what befalls in religious societies.
CL 12.154 11 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter of the globe; and performs an analogous office in perpetual new transplanting of the races of men over the surface...
PPr 12.390 14 We have been civilizing very fast...and it has not appeared in literature; there has been no analogous expansion and recomposition in books.
Trag 12.416 9 Analogous supplies are made to those individuals whose character leads them to vast exertions of body and mind.
Nat 1.28 20 ...is there no intent of an analogy between man's life and the seasons?
Nat 1.28 23 ...do the seasons gain no grandeur or pathos from that analogy [with man's life]?
Nat 1.36 17 ...Reason transfers all these lessons into its own world of thought, by perceiving the analogy that marries Matter and Mind.
Nat 1.43 17 Not only resemblances exist in things whose analogy is obvious...but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness.
AmS 1.86 8 ...science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
Fdsp 2.196 4 ...the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
Cir 2.301 11 One moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action. Another analogy we shall now trace...
NMW 4.223 13 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy, if any man is found to carry with him the power and affections of vast numbers, if Napoleon is France...it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
ET14 5.238 8 [British] minds loved analogy;...
ET14 5.239 16 Whoever discredits analogy...has no poetic power...
ET14 5.252 12 ...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is mechanical in its structure...as if no vast hope, no religion, no song of joy, no wisdom, no analogy existed any more.
ET14 5.254 5 [Natural science in England] stands in strong contrast with the genius of the Germans, those semi-Greeks, who love analogy...
Art2 7.51 14 ...a certain analogy reigns throughout the wonders of both [Nature and works of art];...
OA 7.330 17 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind...by its sequence, or next related analogy...
PI 8.13 16 I had rather have a good symbol of my thought, or a good analogy, than the suffrage of Kant or Plato.
Elo2 8.125 27 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
Dem1 10.9 22 Goethe said: These whimsical pictures [dreams]...may well have an analogy with our whole life and fate.
PLT 12.62 5 The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere, good and order, analogy...
MAng1 12.221 23 ...reflection discloses evermore a closer analogy between the finite [human] form and the infinite inhabitant.
ACri 12.284 7 There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
MMEm 10.411 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...read Butler's Analogy;...
QO 8.195 24 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep, being always blind and deaf to imaginative and analogy-loving souls...
EdAd 11.384 11 [The traveller] reflects on...what levers, what pumps, what exhaustive analyses are applied to Nature [in America] for the benefit of masses of men.
Nat 1.56 5 The astronomer, the geometer, rely on their irrefragable analysis...
Nat 1.68 14 ...[man] is lord [of the world]...because he...finds something of himself...in every new...fact of...atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lays open.
DSA 1.121 3 He ought. [Man] knows the sense of that grand word, though his analysis fails to render account of it.
LE 1.172 2 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man, that...shall take up Greece, Rome, Stoicism, Eclecticism...as mere data and food for analysis...
SR 2.64 9 In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin.
SL 2.137 26 The simplicity of nature...is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.
Lov1 2.174 12 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years...
Fdsp 2.212 23 In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
OS 2.268 1 In [philosophy's] experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve.
Exp 3.47 23 ...in this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions.
Exp 3.62 15 The great gifts are not got by analysis.
PPh 4.59 22 There is indeed no weapon in all the armory of wit which [Plato] did not possess and use,--epic, analysis, mania, intuition, music, satire and irony...
SwM 4.130 22 In his Animal Kingdom [Swedenborg] surprised us by declaring that he loved analysis, and not synthesis;...
GoW 4.277 14 I have no design to enter into any analysis of [Goethe's] numerous works.
ET11 5.197 5 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families...
Ctr 6.138 15 We can spare...your chemic analysis...
Bty 6.303 2 Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is still escaping out of all analysis.
WD 7.167 23 ...[Hesiod] has not pushed his study of days into such inquiry and analysis as they invite.
Cour 7.265 2 ...we do not exhaust the subject [Courage] in the slight analysis;...
Comc 8.173 15 ...there is no end to this analysis [of the Comic].
Insp 8.296 16 The day is good in which we have had the most perceptions. The analysis is the more difficult, because poppy-leaves are strewn when a generalization is made;...
Grts 8.302 20 ...the scholars represent...the intellect and the moral sentiment,-which in the last analysis can never be separated.
PerF 10.85 25 [This world] is a fagot of laws, and a true analysis of these laws...would be a wholesome lesson for every time and for this time.
Chr2 10.93 24 The extreme simplicity of this [moral] intuition embarrasses every attempt at analysis.
Prch 10.220 17 ...the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take tacit part with them, to cast off reverence for the Church; and there follows an age of unbelief. This analysis was inevitable and useful.
Prch 10.221 11 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so that analysis has run to seed in unbelief.
LLNE 10.326 20 It is the age...of analysis...
LLNE 10.328 25 In philosophy, Immanuel Kant has made the best catalogue of the human faculties and the best analysis of the mind.
LLNE 10.329 3 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of matter, has taught us that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas.
MMEm 10.426 2 How grand [the earth's] preparation for souls,-souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had...applied its steely analysis to that state of being which recognizes neither psychology nor element.
PLT 12.13 6 The inward analysis must be corrected by rough experience.
PLT 12.14 15 The poet sees wholes and avoids analysis;...
MLit 12.323 22 ...of [Goethe's] analysis, always wholes were the result.
FRep 11.512 13 The wine-merchant has his analyst and taster...
SwM 4.112 14 It is remarkable that this sublime genius [Swedenborg] decides peremptorily for the analytic, against the synthetic method;...
PLT 12.14 11 The analytic process is cold and bereaving...
MLit 12.323 21 ...[Goethe] is an apology for the analytic spirit of the period...
Nat 1.46 11 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...whom we lack power to put at such focal distance from us, that we can mend or even analyze them.
MN 1.199 7 The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Lov1 2.179 4 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form?
PC 8.222 6 ...if we should analyze Newton's discovery, we should say that if it had not been anticipated by him, it would not have been found.
Edc1 10.146 9 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...he called in the succor of Sir Humphrey Davy to analyze the pigments;...
SovE 10.205 4 To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race, who analyze the prayer and psalm of their forefathers...
LLNE 10.329 2 In science the French savant......travels into all nooks and islands, to weigh, to analyze and report.
PLT 12.12 13 All these exhaustive theories appear indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal Thought.
MLit 12.310 8 [Poems' light] is not in their grammatical construction which they give me. If i If I analyze the sentences, it eludes me...
MLit 12.315 20 ...the weak and wicked, led also to analyze, saw nothing in thought but luxury.
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.
Int 2.339 25 The world refuses to be analyzed by addition and subtraction.
Pt1 3.7 3 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty. ... Each is that which he is, essentially, so that he cannot be surmounted or analyzed...
ShP 4.208 11 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me if they match;...
F 6.28 14 The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.
PC 8.229 21 The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
WSL 12.345 9 ...[Character] is a force which we all feel; yet who has analyzed it?
PI 8.7 22 ...the severest analyzer...is forced to keep the poetic curve of Nature...
PerF 10.78 11 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Imagination, which turns every dull fact into pictures and poetry, by making it an emblem of thought. What a power, when, combined with the analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence;...
Ill 6.311 2 ...we must be content to be pleased without too curiously analyzing the occasions.
PI 8.29 20 ...Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth, are heartily enamoured of their sweet thoughts.
PI 8.42 10 The poet is enamoured of thoughts and laws.
LLNE 10.368 1 ...in [Brook] Farm...each was master or mistress of his or her actions; happy, hapless anarchists.
Con 1.323 1 A state of war or anarchy...is so far valuable that it puts every man on trial.
Pol1 3.211 8 Citizens of feudal states are alarmed at our democratic institutions lapsing into anarchy...
NR 3.240 4 Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy...
Wsp 6.203 24 Nothing can exceed the anarchy that has followed in our skies.
Wsp 6.203 27 The stern old faiths have all pulverized. ... 'T is as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms as that which existed in Massachusetts in the Revolution...
Ill 6.325 7 There is no chance and no anarchy in the universe.
Edc1 10.144 3 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion...would you leave the young child to the mad career of his own passions and whimsies, and call this anarchy a respect for the child's nature?
AKan 11.261 27 I am glad to see that the terror at disunion and anarchy is disappearing.
AKan 11.262 1 Massachusetts, in its heroic day, had no government-was an anarchy.
CW 12.177 4 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr. Wyman wishes to find new anatomic structures or fossil remains;...
ET8 5.138 8 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous;...
Wsp 6.229 16 An anatomical observer remarks that the sympathies of the chest, abdomen and pelvis tell at last on the face...
ET4 5.51 16 Who can call by right names what races are in Britain? Who can trace them historically? Who can discriminate them anatomically, or metaphysically?
SwM 4.107 22 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle;...
ET4 5.44 1 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to prove that races are imperishable...
ET8 5.131 7 ...one can believe that Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy, having predicted from the stars the hour of his death, slipped the knot himself round his own neck, not to falsify his horoscope.
PLT 12.3 18 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature and anatomists in their descriptions, applied to a higher class of facts;...
SwM 4.112 2 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry.
WD 7.180 16 ...life is good only...when we do not anatomize it.
LLNE 10.329 26 The young men were born with...a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
Nat 1.43 25 Michael Angelo maintained, that, to an architect, a knowledge of anatomy is essential.
Art1 2.357 14 As picture teaches the coloring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.
Pt1 3.30 26 What a joyful sense of freedom we have when Vitruvius announces the old opinion of artists that no architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy.
Nat2 3.179 6 Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology;...and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.
UGM 4.10 23 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first...
SwM 4.102 10 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated...in anatomy, the discoveries of Schlichting, Monro and Wilson;...
SwM 4.104 25 Unrivalled dissectors...had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...
SwM 4.112 12 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory; whilst the picture comes recommended by the hard fidelity with which it is based on practical anatomy.
ET8 5.138 4 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman...
ET10 5.166 25 Man...is ever...adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood and leather to some required function in the work of the world.
WD 7.171 1 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass,--the secular, refined, composite anatomy of man...are given immeasurably to all.
Cour 7.276 1 The Medical College piles up in its museum its grim monsters of morbid anatomy...
Suc 7.309 8 Who and what are you that would lay the ghastly anatomy bare?
PI 8.7 26 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind;...
LLNE 10.338 17 [Goethe] extended [his theory of metamorphosis] into anatomy and animal life...
FSLN 11.238 16 ...when the Southerner points to the anatomy of the negro, and talks of chimpanzee,-I recall Montesquieu's remark, It will not do to say that negroes are men, lest it should turn out that whites are not.
Wom 11.417 15 These [literary jokes on Woman] were all drawings of morbid anatomy...
PLT 12.4 2 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied...to those laws...which are common to chemistry, anatomy...laws of the world?
PLT 12.8 7 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject: Does the gentleman speak of anatomy? Who peeped into a box at the Custom House and then published a drawing of my rat?
CL 12.160 24 When I look at natural structures, as at a tree...or the anatomy of an elephant, I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry which has no sham...
CL 12.165 1 Agassiz studies year after year fishes and fossil anatomy of saurian, and lizard, and pterodactyl. But whatever he says, we know very well what he means.
CL 12.165 25 The geology, the astronomy, the anatomy, are all good, but 't is all a half...
MAng1 12.219 27 ...to the artist it belongs by a better knowledge of anatomy, and, within anatomy, of life and thought, to acquire the power of true drawing.
MAng1 12.221 4 ...[Michelangelo] devoted himself to the study of anatomy for twelve years;...
MAng1 12.221 6 The depth of [Michelangelo's] knowledge in anatomy has no parallel among the artists of modern times.
MAng1 12.230 14 Every one of these pieces [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling]...is a study of anatomy and design.
Boks 7.211 2 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy is a book of great learning.
SR 2.86 7 Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes, are great men...
Exp 3.73 1 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol, as...Anaxagoras by (Nous) thought...
ET14 5.241 8 ...[Pericles] meeting with Anaxagoras...he attached himself to him, and nourished himself with sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence;...
Ctr 6.161 14 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty. Plato says Pericles owed this elevation to the lessons of Anaxagoras.
Boks 7.199 12 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of...Protagoras, Anaxagoras and Socrates...
Mem 12.103 7 Plato remembered Anaxagoras by one of his sayings.
Plu 10.310 11 Usually, when Thales, Anaximenes or Anaximander are quoted [by Plutarch], it is really a good judgment.
Exp 3.72 27 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol, as...Anaximenes by air...
F 6.18 8 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes...had anticipated them;...
Plu 10.310 10 Usually, when Thales, Anaximenes or Anaximander are quoted [by Plutarch], it is really a good judgment.
CL 12.141 2 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul, and the essence of life.
SL 2.163 18 We know that the ancestor of every action is a thought.
ET4 5.46 27 ...we look to find in the son every mental and moral property that existed in the ancestor.
ET4 5.50 16 A child blends in his face...some feature from every ancestor whose face hangs on the wall.
ET5 5.85 18 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis, his German ancestor, whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;...
ET11 5.176 25 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor having travelled on the continent...became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.
OA 7.317 9 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that...there is that in him which is the ancestor of all around him;...
QO 8.201 20 ...[Genius] knows that...that a state of mind is the ancestor of everything.
EzRy 10.381 9 The father [Noah Ripley] was born at Hingham [Connecticut], on the farm purchased by his ancestor, William Ripley, of England...
Thor 10.451 2 Henry David Thoreau was the last male descendant of a French ancestor who came to this country from the Isle of Guernsey.
JBB 11.268 16 [John Brown] joins that perfect Puritan faith which brought his fifth ancestor to Plymouth Rock with his grandfather's ardor in the Revolution.
LE 1.173 5 Thus is justice done to each generation and individual,- wisdom teaching man that he shall not...mimic his ancestors;...
Con 1.304 10 There is a natural sentiment and prepossession in favor...of ancestors...
PPh 4.42 12 ...every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
ET6 5.107 27 ...though [the Englishman] have no gallery of portraits of his ancestors, he has of their punch-bowls and porringers.
ET11 5.178 11 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire, where his ancestors had chiefly continued about the space of four hundred years...
F 6.9 24 How shall a man escape from his ancestors...
F 6.10 10 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors...
F 6.10 12 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin,-seven or eight ancestors at least;...
F 6.11 22 If, later, [these drones] give birth to some superior individual...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
Bhr 6.181 23 A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors;...
Wsp 6.209 7 Not knowing what to do, we ape our ancestors;...
Bty 6.298 16 ...we see faces every day which have a good type but have been marred in the casting; a proof that we are all...should have been beautiful if our ancestors had kept the laws...
Bty 6.299 11 The man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors...
DL 7.102 7 I detected many a god/ Forth already on the road,/ Ancestors of beauty come/ In thy breast to make a home./
WD 7.175 27 In the Norse legend of our ancestors, Odin dwells in a fisher' s hut...
WD 7.177 22 The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment.
QO 8.176 3 ...every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Chr2 10.106 8 Our ancestors spoke continually of angels and archangels with the same good faith as they would have spoken of their own parents or their late minister.
EzRy 10.388 6 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues. There is none of that large family left but you, and it rests with you to bear up the good name and usefulness of your ancestors.
Wom 11.406 4 Among our Norse ancestors, Frigga was worshipped as the goddess of women.
Bost 12.210 8 In an age of trade and material prosperity, we have stood a little stupefied by the elevation of our ancestors.
Con 1.311 10 Have we not atoned for this small offence...of leaving you no right in the soil, by this splendid indemnity of ancestral and national wealth?
SwM 4.122 21 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which...showed him through what a long ancestry his thoughts descend;...
ET4 5.51 19 In the impossibility of arriving at satisfaction on the historical question of race, and--come of whatever disputable ancestry--the indisputable Englishman before me...I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as his lineal progenitors...
ET4 5.53 21 These queries concerning ancestry and blood may be well allowed...
Hist 2.9 7 No anchor, no cable, no fences avail to keep a fact a fact.
Pol1 3.211 14 It is said that...in the despotism of public opinion, we have no anchor;...
ET11 5.197 19 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds of passage in this House of Commons, and then added...they have their best bower anchor in the House of Lords.
Aris 10.45 3 If we see tools in a magazine, as a file, an anchor, a plough... we can predict well enough their destination;...
Schr 10.286 10 [The scholar] must...ride at anchor and vanquish every enemy whom his small arms cannot reach, by the grand resistance of submission...
FSLC 11.192 18 The practitioners [of law] should guard this dogma [that immoral laws are void] well...as the anchor in the respect of mankind.
Exp 3.55 6 Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorage is quicksand.
ET2 5.32 26 When their privilege was disputed by the Dutch and other junior marines, on the plea that you could never anchor on the same wave... the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...
ET4 5.56 16 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. For if they have not numerical superiority where they anchor, they have only to sail a mile or two to find it.
Exp 3.55 6 Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorage is quicksand.
Ill 6.307 4 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed, adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./
ET3 5.40 9 England resembles a ship in its shape, and if it were one, its best admiral could not have worked it or anchored it in a more judicious or effective position.
ET3 5.41 4 ...England is anchored at the side of Europe...
Chr2 10.98 14 How can [a man] exist to weave relations of joy and virtue with other souls, but because he is inviolable, anchored at the centre of Truth and Being?
Hist 2.28 9 I have seen the first monks and anchorets, without crossing seas or centuries.
Insp 8.284 10 My anchorite thought it sad that atmospheric influences should bring to our dust the communion of the soul with the Infinite.
CbW 6.276 23 'T is as easy to twist iron anchors and braid cannons as to braid straw;...
Nat 1.15 3 The ancient Greeks called the world kosmos, beauty.
AmS 1.81 6 We do not meet...for the recitation of histories, tragedies, and odes, like the ancient Greeks;...
AmS 1.87 8 ...the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
DSA 1.127 24 ...poetry, the ideal life, the holy life, exist as ancient history merely;...
MN 1.218 17 Here about us coils forever the ancient enigma...
MR 1.245 3 ...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements...
LT 1.268 20 It is...the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain [of conservatism]...who engages our interest.
Con 1.295 7 The conservative party established the reverend hierarchies and monarchies of the most ancient world.
Tran 1.345 22 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? Are they...taken in early ripeness to the gods,-as ancient wisdom foretold their fate?
Hist 2.25 18 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons speak simply...
SR 2.60 2 [Honor] is always ancient virtue.
Comp 2.107 16 ...in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis...
Lov1 2.181 4 [What we love] is that which you know not in yourself and can never know. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in;...
Hsm1 2.248 19 ...I must think we are more deeply indebted to [Plutarch] than to all the ancient writers.
Cir 2.312 5 We fill ourselves with ancient learning...only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.
Int 2.343 8 The ancient sentence said, Let us be silent, for so are the gods.
Pt1 3.32 2 The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, Those who are free throughout the world.
Chr1 3.112 10 It was a tradition of the ancient world that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god;...
Mrs1 3.119 20 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres, among the corpses and rags of an ancient nation which they know nothing of.
Nat2 3.172 22 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames, or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room;--these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
NER 3.258 12 The ancient languages, with great beauty of structure, contain wonderful remains of genius...
NER 3.274 15 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
SwM 4.96 17 ...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
SwM 4.113 12 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland;...
SwM 4.120 7 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods;...
SwM 4.132 17 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries, wherein...the highest truths known to ancient wisdom were taught.
GoW 4.289 8 ...compared with any motives on which books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work]...has the power to inspire which belongs to truth. Thus has he brought back to a book some of its ancient might and dignity.
ET11 5.178 8 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;...but I doubt that steam, the enemy of time as well as of space, will disturb these ancient rules.
ET11 5.181 10 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly...
ET11 5.189 20 The grand old halls scattered up and down in England, are dumb vouchers to the state and broad hospitality of their ancient lords.
ET12 5.200 8 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals...
ET14 5.243 10 ...we find stumps of vast trees in our exhausted soils, and have received traditions of their ancient fertility to tillage...
ET14 5.259 6 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...
ET18 5.301 26 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by the ancient allowed customs...
Wth 6.109 13 The ancient poet said, The gods sell all things at a fair price.
Wsp 6.215 2 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words, age after age, to their ancient meaning.
CbW 6.257 1 It is a sentence of ancient wisdom that God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires.
Art2 7.40 27 It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to municiple ends.
Art2 7.51 24 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
Elo1 7.93 17 This terrible earnestness [of the eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's blood.
DL 7.130 23 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble, whose every act is a subject for the sculptor, and to whose eye the gods and nymphs never appear ancient...
Farm 7.137 18 ...the profession [of farming] has in all eyes its ancient charm, as standing nearest to God, the first cause.
WD 7.167 6 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun...indicating that those ancient men, in their attempts to express the Supreme Power of the universe, called him the Day...
WD 7.174 19 History of ancient art, excavated cities, recovery of books and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and the history worth knowing;...
Boks 7.200 8 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates...On Love; and thank anew...the cheerful domain of ancient thinking.
Boks 7.200 20 An inestimable trilogy of ancient social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch.
Boks 7.200 25 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters is a charming portraiture of ancient manners and discourse...
Suc 7.287 9 The ancient Norse ballads describe [the Norseman] as afflicted with this inextinguishable thirst of victory.
OA 7.330 20 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge, an ancient bachelor...
PI 8.36 9 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects;...
PI 8.57 17 ...the direct smell of the earth or the sea, is in these ancient poems...
SA 8.101 7 In Europe, ancient and modern, it has been attempted to secure the existence of a superior class by hereditary nobility...
Elo2 8.124 5 In social converse with the mighty dead of ancient days, you will never smart under the galling sense of dependence upon the mighty living of the present age.
Res 8.152 22 You cannot tell when [the willows] do bud and blossom, these vivacious trees, so ancient...
PC 8.207 2 We meet to-day under happy omens to our ancient society...
Dem1 10.15 12 ...the faith in peculiar and alien power takes another form in the modern mind, much more resembling the ancient doctrine of the guardian genius.
Aris 10.40 19 Every survey of the dignified classes, in ancient or modern history, imprints universal lessons...
Aris 10.41 13 ...the effect of freer institutions in England and America, has robbed the title of king of all its romance, as that of our commercial consuls as compared with the ancient Roman.
Edc1 10.138 7 ...we sacrifice the genius of the pupil...to a neat and safe uniformity, as the Turks whitewash the costly mosaics of ancient art...
Edc1 10.146 5 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...
SovE 10.207 8 ...in all churches a certain decay of ancient piety is lamented...
Plu 10.298 14 ...a master of ancient culture, [Plutarch] read books with a just criticism;...
Plu 10.303 12 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which uses the violence of war, of earthquakes and changed water-courses, to save underground through barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
Plu 10.306 4 The plain speaking of Plutarch, as of the ancient writers generally...has a great gain for brevity...
Plu 10.318 15 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
LLNE 10.325 1 The ancient manners were giving way.
MMEm 10.409 9 As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses of ancient and modern lore.
LS 11.8 25 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. ... But this impression is removed by reading any narrative of the mode in which the ancient or the modern Jews have kept the Passover.
LS 11.15 14 In this manner we may see clearly enough how this ancient ordinance [the Lord's Supper] got its footing among the early Christians...
HDC 11.49 21 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England.
HDC 11.74 14 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river (our ancient friend here, Master Blood, saw the water struck by the first ball);...
FSLC 11.180 18 ...Boston, spoiled by prosperity, must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
FSLC 11.211 26 The ancient maxim still holds that never was any injustice effected except by the help of justice.
AsSu 11.251 5 When the same reproach [of writing his speeches] was cast on the first orator of ancient times by some caviller of his day, he said, I should be ashamed to come with one unconsidered word before such an assembly.
HCom 11.339 7 These boys we talk about like ancient sages/ Are the same men we read of in old pages-/ The bronze recast of dead heroic ages!/
Wom 11.414 17 ...in the East...in the Mohammedan faith, Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...
ChiE 11.472 16 ...[China] has...historic records of forgotten time, that have supplied important gaps in the ancient history of the western nations.
FRO1 11.480 8 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes...
CPL 11.496 1 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...
CPL 11.502 4 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun...
II 12.74 20 ...the ancient Proclus seems to signify his sense of the same fact, by saying, The parts in us are more the property of wholes, and of things above us, than they are our property.
Bost 12.193 26 In our own age we are learning to look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...
Bost 12.194 25 These ancient men...send out their perfumed breath across the great tracts of time.
MAng1 12.216 24 The ancient Greeks called the world kosmos, Beauty;...
MAng1 12.235 24 [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. This disinterestedness and spirit-no fee and no interference-reminds one of the reward named by the ancient Persian.
Milt1 12.259 13 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy, where he beheld the remains of ancient art...
Milt1 12.269 17 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions...of an ancient church illustrated by old martyrdoms and installed in cathedrals,-[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...
MLit 12.322 18 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the magazines of the world's ancient or modern wealth...he wanted them all.
Trag 12.411 1 A panic such as frequently in ancient or savage nations put a troop or an army to flight without an enemy; a fear of ghosts...are no tragedy...
Boks 7.201 27 An excellent popular book is J. A. St. John's Ancient Greece;...
AmS 1.102 24 Let [the scholar] not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
OS 2.297 1 ...revering the soul, and learning, as the ancient said, that its beauty is immense, man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh...
NR 3.243 11 As the ancient said, the world is a plenum or solid;...
Insp 8.289 18 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty]. A ride near the sea, a sail near the shore, said the ancient.
Plu 10.303 7 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which...has drawn attention to what an ancient might call the politeness of Fate...
PPr 12.389 27 Plato is the purple ancient...
II 12.71 10 The divine energy...casts its old garb, and reappears, another creature;...the Ancient of Days in the dew of the morning.
LLNE 10.327 15 Anciently, society was in the course of things.
Nat2 3.170 14 The anciently-reported spells of these places [the woods] creep on us.
AmS 1.112 18 Goethe...has shown us...the genius of the ancients.
Con 1.304 16 The ancients tell us that the gods loved the Ethiopians for their stable customs;...
Lov1 2.179 3 The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.
Pt1 3.27 8 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 3.70 4 The ancients...exalted Chance into a divinity;...
Nat2 3.179 14 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature... itself secret, its works driven before it in flocks and multitudes (as the ancients represented nature by Proteus, a shepherd,)...
SwM 4.97 2 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with their structure and law. This path is difficult, secret and beset with terror. The ancients called it ecstasy or absence...
ET19 5.312 26 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port...
Ctr 6.163 6 Open your Marcus Antoninus. In the opinion of the ancients he was the great man who scorned to shine...
Bty 6.287 14 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him;...
Boks 7.201 4 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind,--being a repertory of the wisdom of the ancients on the subject of love;...
Insp 8.295 26 Books of natural science, especially those written by the ancients...all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
Dem1 10.17 26 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... This, which seemed to insert itself between all other things...I named the Demoniacal, after the example of the ancients...
Aris 10.42 17 The ancients were fond of ascribing to their nobles gigantic proportions and strength.
ALin 11.337 9 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius which rules in the affairs of nations;...
FRO2 11.486 18 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients...
PPr 12.387 19 The ancients are only venerable to us because distance has destroyed what was trivial;...
Nat 1.22 12 ...nature became ancillary to a man.
Chr1 3.97 20 The hero sees that the event is ancillary;...
MAng1 12.221 2 ...one of the last drawings in [Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling; for it is a sketch of an old man with a long beard, in a go-cart, with an hour-glass before him; and the motto, Ancora imparo, I still learn.
Chr1 3.94 17 What means did you employ? was the question asked of the wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of Mary of Medici;...
SA 8.80 20 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible...must mean manners...
RBur 11.442 4 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses been applied to!
CbW 6.272 14 In excited conversation we have...hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape...
LT 1.260 10 Here is this great fact of Conservatism, entrenched in its immense redoubt, with Himmaleh for its front, and Atlas for its flank, and Andes for its rear...
SR 2.58 7 ...the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere.
Fdsp 2.200 21 Respect the naturlangsamkeit which...works in duration in which Alps and Andes come and go as rainbows.
Elo2 8.132 9 ...the Andes and Alleghanies indicate the line of the fissure in the crust of the earth along which they were lifted...
SHC 11.435 3 ...though we make much ado in our praises of Italy or Andes, Nature makes not so much difference.
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...
Grts 8.319 17 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village: O yes, If I lived in...Andover, there might be fit society;...
PI 8.25 18 Give [people]...Sir Andrew Barton, or Sir Patrick Spens...and they like these well enough.
SMC 11.364 1 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came.
Bost 12.203 15 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some John Adams and Josiah Quincy and Governor Andrew to undertake and carry the defence of patriots in the courts against the uproar of all the province;...
Mrs1 3.134 1 We pointedly, and by name, introduce the parties to each other. Know you before all heaven and earth, that this is Andrew, and this is Gregory...
ShP 4.215 12 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history: any one acquainted with the parties can name every figure; this is Andrew and that is Rachel.
HDC 11.63 15 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros.
UGH 4.21 23 I remember the peau d'ane on which whoso sat should have his desire, but a piece of the skin was gone for every wish.
LE 1.166 4 ...the moment [men] desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then ...virtue, learning, anecdote all flock to their aid.
Hsm1 2.248 23 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch]...
Mrs1 3.142 4 Another anecdote is so close to my matter, that I must hazard the story.
NER 3.272 27 I cannot help recalling the fine anecdote which Warton relates of Bishop Berkeley...
UGM 4.3 19 ...every circumstance of the day recalls an anecdote of [great men].
ET1 5.15 14 [Carlyle] was...full of lively anecdote...
ET4 5.66 15 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later...
ET12 5.202 18 My friend Doctor J. gave me the following anecdote.
ET17 5.296 22 [Harriet Martineau] said that in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare; if they wanted anything more, they must pay him for their board. It was the rule of the house. I replied that it evinced English pluck more than any anecdote I knew.
F 6.29 8 A text of heroism, a name and anecdote of courage, are not arguments but sallies of freedom.
Bhr 6.192 14 We are fortified by every heroic anecdote.
Elo1 7.99 27 [Eloquence's] great masters...never permitted any talent,-- neither voice, rhythm, poetic power, anecdote, sarcasm--to appear for show;...
Cour 7.262 1 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy...
Cour 7.277 17 I am permitted to enrich my chapter by adding an anecdote of pure courage from real life...
SA 8.95 11 What a good trait is that recorded of Madame de Maintenon, that, during dinner, the servant slipped to her side, Please, madame, one anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day.
Elo2 8.111 3 I do not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest than to any anecdote of eloquence;...
Imtl 8.331 17 [Both men] were men of intellect, and one of them, at a later period, gave to a friend this anecdote.
Prch 10.223 15 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait of heroism...
LLNE 10.334 1 The smallest anecdote of [Everett's] behavior or conversation was eagerly caught and repeated...
EzRy 10.392 7 A man of anecdote, [Ezra Ripley's] talk in the parlor was chiefly narrative.
JBB 11.267 11 Every anecdote [of John Brown] is eagerly sought...
MAng1 12.220 13 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.
SL 2.144 22 A few anecdotes...have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards.
Prd1 2.227 24 [The good husband's] garden or his poultry-yard tells him many pleasant anecdotes.
Int 2.330 17 Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes...for you?
Chr1 3.89 17 This inequality of the reputation to the works or the anecdotes is not accounted for by saying that the reverberation is longer than the thunder-clap...
Mrs1 3.144 27 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees...being...perfumed, and dined, and introduced, and properly grounded in all the biography and politics and anecdotes of the boudoirs.
PPh 4.58 3 ...the anecdotes that have come down from the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his master's behalf...
ShP 4.199 1 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes; the crowd of practical and knowing men, who, by correspondence or conversation, are feeding him with evidence, anecdotes and estimates...
ShP 4.208 9 [Shakespeare] cannot...give us anecdotes of his inspirations.
NMW 4.225 7 Every one of the million readers of anecdotes or memoirs or lives of Napoleon, delights in the page, because he studies in it his own history.
NMW 4.233 27 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history...
ET1 5.7 8 I had inferred from [Landor's] books, or magnified from some anecdotes, an impression of Achillean wrath...
ET7 5.125 10 Any number of delightful examples of this English stolidity are the anecdotes of Europe.
ET9 5.151 5 America is the paradise of the [English] economists;...but when he speaks directly of the Americans the islander forgets his philosophy and remembers his disparaging anecdotes.
ET11 5.189 27 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the anecdotes preserved by the antiquaries Fuller and Collins;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
ET11 5.192 27 Dismal anecdotes abound...of [English] dukes served by bailiffs...
ET15 5.266 23 One hears anecdotes of the rise of [the London Times's] servants, as of the functionaries of the India House.
ET16 5.287 21 I fancied that one or two of my anecdotes made some impression on Carlyle...
ET17 5.296 2 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French, English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family...
Pow 6.70 13 The best anecdotes of this [aboriginal] force are to be had from savage life...
Pow 6.75 3 One of the high anecdotes of the world is the reply of Newton to the inquiry how he had been able to achieve his discoveries?--By always intending my mind.
Ctr 6.150 27 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito...
Bhr 6.195 8 Here is a lesson...which ranks with the best of Roman anecdotes.
Wsp 6.227 21 There was a wise, devout man who is called in the Catholic Church, St. Philip Neri, of whom many anecdotes touching his discernment and benevolence are told at Naples and Rome.
Bty 6.299 4 Faces...are a record in sculpture of a thousand anecdotes of whim and folly.
Elo1 7.80 19 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism.
Elo1 7.95 4 We are slenderly furnished with anecdotes of these men [Chatham, Pericles, Luther]...
Boks 7.197 25 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 2. Herodotus, whose history contains inestimable anecdotes...
Boks 7.198 1 ...in these days, when it is found that what is most memorable of history is a few anecdotes...[Herodotus's history] is regaining credit.
Boks 7.208 18 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Spence's anecdotes;...
Clbs 7.228 18 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...the proud anecdotes of our heroes...
OA 7.329 18 An old scholar finds keen delight in verifying the impressive anecdotes and citations he has met with in miscellaneous reading and hearing, in all the years of youth.
OA 7.329 21 We carry in memory important anecdotes...
Res 8.143 27 The whole history of our civil war is rich in a thousand anecdotes attesting the fertility of resource...of our people.
QO 8.184 15 I remember to have heard Mr. Samuel Rogers...relate, among other anecdotes of the Duke of Wellington, that a lady having expressed...a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
Grts 8.301 24 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best.
Chr2 10.113 6 [Morals] does not ask whether you are wrong or right in your anecdotes of [past teachers and witnesses];...
SovE 10.212 17 ...all the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person; as soon as character appears, be sure love will, and veneration, and anecdotes and fables about him...
Plu 10.300 21 No poet could illustrate his thought with more novel or striking similes or happier anecdotes [than does Plutarch].
Plu 10.301 5 I admire [Plutarch's] rapid and crowded style, as if he had such store of anecdotes of his heroes that he is forced to suppress more than he recounts...
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.
Plu 10.322 18 If over-read in this decade, so that his anecdotes and opinions become commonplace...[Plutarch's] sterling values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...
LLNE 10.345 27 ...we were curious to know how [the pilgrim] sped in his experiments on the neighbor, and his anecdotes were interesting...
EzRy 10.386 2 ...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the time of his predecessor...
EzRy 10.394 13 In [Ezra Ripley] have perished more local and personal anecdotes of this village and vicinity than are possessed by any survivor.
MMEm 10.405 23 When [Mary Moody Emerson] met a young person who interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate with him or her at once...by anecdotes, by wit, by rebuke...
Thor 10.456 23 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people...whom he delighted to entertain...with the varied and endless anecdotes of his experiences by field and river...
Thor 10.459 20 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles; and though he tried to be civil, these anecdotes fatigued him.
HDC 11.75 13 In all the anecdotes of that day's [April 19, 1775] events we may discern the natural action of the people.
HDC 11.86 13 I have had much opportunity of access to anecdotes of families...
EWI 11.105 5 It became plain to all men, the more this business was looked into, that the crimes and cruelties of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated. The more it was searched, the more shocking anecdotes came up...
EWI 11.111 1 There is no end to the tragic anecdotes in the municipal records of the [West Indian] colonies.
JBS 11.280 4 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct...
TPar 11.288 21 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story, fortified with exact anecdotes...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston];...
EPro 11.315 12 Every step in the history of political liberty...is fruitful in heroic anecdotes.
SMC 11.349 12 ...we can hardly expect a wide sympathy for the names and anecdotes which we delight to record.
PLT 12.11 15 I write anecdotes of the intellect;...
Mem 12.97 13 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in and out of the house, and occasionally recites anecdotes of old times and persons...
Mem 12.97 16 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in and out of the house, and occasionally recites anecdotes of old times and persons...and she being gone again I search in vain for any trace of the anecdotes?
Mem 12.108 10 The universal sense of fables and anecdotes is marked by our tendency to forget name and date and geography.
Bost 12.208 4 I am afraid there are anecdotes of poverty and disease in Broad Street that match the dismal statistics of New York and London.
Milt1 12.256 26 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes had come down from a greater distance of time...would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal...
AgMs 12.362 26 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources...or by other methods of which I [Edmund Hosmer] could tell you many sad anecdotes.
PPo 8.257 25 The lilies white prolonged/ Their sworded tongue to the smell;/ The clustering anemones/ Their pretty secrets tell./
Nat 1.52 3 [The poet] unfixes the land and the sea...and disposes them anew.
Nat 1.74 22 ...when a faithful thinker...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
DSA 1.128 27 [Jesus Christ] saw that God...evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his World.
LE 1.170 15 Since the birth of Niebuhr and Wolf, Roman and Greek history have been written anew.
MR 1.231 11 ...nothing is left [the young man] but to begin the world anew...
LT 1.275 15 A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity...in twenty years will get all printed anew.
LT 1.288 20 ...where but in that Thought through which we communicate with absolute nature, and are made aware that...the law which clothes us with humanity remains anew?...shall we learn the Truth?
Tran 1.359 22 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... shall abide in beauty and strength...to invest themselves anew in other, perhaps higher endowed and happier mixed clay than ours...
Hist 2.19 13 By surrounding ourselves with the original circumstances we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture...
Lov1 2.175 4 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain, which created all things anew;...
SwM 4.125 2 [To Swedenborg] All things in the universe arrange themselves to each person anew, according to his ruling love.
ET11 5.189 12 Against the cry of the old tenantry and the sympathetic cry of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and planted anew...
Boks 7.200 7 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates...On Love; and thank anew the art of printing...
PC 8.221 11 [The devotion to natural science] taught [the scholar] anew the reach of the human mind...
PerF 10.83 20 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, and though all should perish could make all anew.
Edc1 10.126 24 Those [animals] called domestic are capable of learning of man a few tricks of utility or amusement, but they cannot communicate the skill to their race. Each individual must be taught anew.
Schr 10.279 20 I declare anew from Heaven that truth exists new and beautiful and profitable forevermore.
Plu 10.322 22 ...[Plutarch's] books will be reprinted and read anew by coming generations.
ACiv 11.306 22 ...what kind of peace shall at that moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for it,-will give up the slaves, and the whole torment of the past half-century will come back to be endured anew.
PLT 12.29 26 Every man is a new method and distributes things anew.
Mem 12.103 22 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the solitary river...vibrate anew to the tenderness and dainty music of the poetry your boyhood fed upon.
Comc 8.170 23 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus from the Temple, the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for the extraordinary energy of the face, it would draw the eye too much;...
Nat 1.17 4 I see the spectacle of morning...with emotions which an angel might share.
AmS 1.96 25 In its grub state...[the new deed] is a dull grub. But suddenly, without observation, the selfsame thing...is an angel of wisdom.
DSA 1.147 8 Discharge to men the priestly office, and...you shall be followed with their love as by an angel.
DSA 1.148 25 You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.
DSA 1.149 19 So it is in rugged crisis...that the angel is shown.
MR 1.234 9 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born a saint...with the conscience and love of an angel, and he is to get his living in the world;...
Tran 1.336 18 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him with the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not I./ Emilia replies, The more angel she, and thou the blacker devil./
Tran 1.341 19 ...every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel...
SL 2.134 2 When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must...not turn sourly on the angel...
NR 3.227 19 ...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would eat too much gingerbread...
NER 3.249 7 ...the angel Hope aye makes/ Him an angel whom she leads./
NER 3.249 8 ...the angel Hope aye makes/ Him an angel whom she leads./
NER 3.285 1 ...only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man...
SwM 4.126 9 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws; as when he uttered that famed sentence, that In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the springtime of their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest...
SwM 4.140 20 No imprudent, no sociable angel ever dropt an early syllable to answer the longings of saints, the fears of mortals.
MoS 4.156 14 [The skeptic says] Why be an angel before your time?
Bhr 6.193 20 It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...
Bhr 6.194 2 The angel that was sent to find a place of torment for [the monk Basle] attempted to remove him to a worse pit...
Bhr 6.194 8 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him;...
CbW 6.275 21 A man of wit was asked, in the train, what was his errand in the city. He replied, I have been sent to procure an angel to do cooking.
Art2 7.48 25 [The artist] must work in the spirit in which we conceive...an angel of the Lord to act;...
Cour 7.262 13 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me.
PI 8.10 12 Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system...
PI 8.74 13 Poems!--we have no poem. Whenever that angel shall be organized and appear on earth, the Iliad will be reckoned a poor ballad-grinding.
Res 8.140 23 By his machines man...can see the system of the universe like Uriel, the angel of the sun;...
PC 8.227 6 No angel in his heart acknowledges any one superior to himself but the Lord alone.
Grts 8.310 2 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... It is not an oracle, nor an angel, nor a dream, nor a law;...
Imtl 8.338 11 I have a house, a closet which holds my books, a table, a garden, a field: are these...a reason for refusing the angel who beckons me away...
Dem1 10.21 20 The best are never demoniacal or magnetic; leave this limbo to the Prince of the power of the air. The lowest angel is better.
Dem1 10.22 7 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that he has a guardian angel;...
Prch 10.215 3 Ascending through just degrees/ To a consummate holiness,/ As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching all souls like the sun./
MoL 10.243 16 It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity, and especially by the imagination...the angel of earnest and believing ages.
MoL 10.251 2 I wish the youth to be...no helpless angel to be slapped in the face...
MMEm 10.397 24 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./
MMEm 10.404 22 I used to propose that [Mary Moody Emerson's] epitaph should be: Here lies the angel of Death.
MMEm 10.428 7 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I [Mary Moody Emerson] rose,-I felt that I had given to God more perhaps than an angel could...
Koss 11.396 5 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./ My angel,-his name is Freedom,-/ Choose him to be your king;/ He shall cut pathways east and west,/ And fend you with his wing./
Koss 11.399 8 We [people of Concord] only see in you [Kossuth] the angel of freedom...
FRO1 11.476 6 In many forms we try/ To utter God's infinity,/ But the Boundless has no form,/ And the Universal Friend/ Doth as far transcend/ An angel as a worm./
PLT 12.15 23 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front. But this force...is no fee or property of man or angel.
PLT 12.43 20 Genius is not a lazy angel contemplating itself and things.
II 12.69 5 ...could we break the silence of this oldest angel [Instinct], who was with God when the worlds were made!
Mem 12.92 25 Memory is...a guardian angel set there within you to record your life;...
MAng1 12.240 20 [Michelangelo] enthrones his mistress as a benignant angel...
MMEm 10.416 22 ...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled, though it returns in the long life of destitution like an Angel.
Wom 11.403 7 ...there in the parlor sits/ Some figure in noble guise,-/ Our Angel in a stranger's form;/ Or Woman's pleading eyes./
Pol1 3.216 23 [The wise man's] relation to men is angelic;...
SwM 4.120 3 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories, or written in the angelic and ecstatic mode, [Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
SwM 4.131 18 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that seemed of brass, but it was formed of angelic spirits...
QO 8.181 11 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas, the angelic doctor...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
Dem1 10.17 16 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. It was...not angelic, since it is often a marplot.
ACiv 11.302 23 [The existing administration] is to be thanked for its angelic virtue, compared with any executive experiences with which we have been familiar.
PLT 12.35 12 ...[Instinct] plays the god in animal nature as in human or as in the angelic...
II 12.76 2 ...the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.
CL 12.157 14 The landscape is vast, complete, alive. We step about...and attempt in poor linear ways to hobble after those angelic radiations.
Milt1 12.278 21 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society... yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul...is entitled to.
Milt1 12.279 6 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton]...
PC 8.218 17 Some Dante or Angelo...is always allowed.
PC 8.219 17 Michel Angelo is thinking of Da Vinci, and Raffaelle is thinking of Michel Angelo.
Imtl 8.329 23 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said;...
II 12.86 17 Michael Angelo must paint Sistine ceilings till he can no longer read, except by holding the book over his head.
Mem 12.105 10 Michael Angelo, after having once seen a work of any other artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it pleased him to make use of any portion thereof, he could do so...
CInt 12.114 10 Michael Angelo gave himself to art...
Bost 12.197 22 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...nourishes itself on Plato and Dante, Michael Angelo and Milton;...
MAng1 12.215 4 ...all things recorded of Michael Angelo Buonarotti agree together.
MAng1 12.216 7 Above all men whose history we know, Michael Angelo presents us with the perfect image of the artist.
MAng1 12.217 6 This truth, that perfect beauty and perfect goodness are one, was made known to Michael Angelo;...
MAng1 12.219 11 In art, Michael Angelo is himself but a document or verification of this maxim [Rien de beau que le vrai].
MAng1 12.220 11 Michael Angelo dedicated himself...to a toilsome observation of Nature.
MAng1 12.221 11 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton;...
MAng1 12.222 19 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to...the paintings and statues of Michael Angelo...
MAng1 12.223 1 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures...
MAng1 12.223 12 ...it is an essential fact in the history of Michael Angelo that his love of beauty is made solid and perfect by his deep understanding of the mechanic arts.
MAng1 12.224 2 When the Florentines united themselves with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and Engineer, to superintend the erection of the necessary works.
MAng1 12.224 14 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence], and his first operation was to throw up a rampart to storm the bastion of San Miniato. His design was frustrated by the providence of Michael Angelo.
MAng1 12.224 15 Michael [Angelo] made such good resistance that the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato].
MAng1 12.224 25 After an active and successful service to the city [Florence] for six months, Michael Angelo was informed of a treachery that was ripening within the walls.
MAng1 12.225 13 Michael Angelo is represented as having ordered his defence [of Florence] so vigorously that the Prince [of Orange] was compelled to retire.
MAng1 12.225 23 In Rome, Michael Angelo was consulted by Pope Paul III. in building the fortifications of San Borgo.
MAng1 12.226 10 Michael Angelo made known his opinion that the bridge [Pons Palatinus] could not resist the force of the current;...
MAng1 12.226 21 ...besides the sublimity and even extravagance of Michael Angelo, he possessed an unexpected dexterity in minute mechanical contrivances.
MAng1 12.226 27 Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo, the pope!s architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be repaired in the picture.
MAng1 12.227 5 Michael [Angelo] removed the whole, and constructed a movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel]...
MAng1 12.232 8 Raphael said, I bless God I live in the times of Michael Angelo.
MAng1 12.234 25 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...
MAng1 12.235 10 Michael Angelo, who believed in his own ability as a sculptor, but distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied.
MAng1 12.236 5 When the Pope...sent [Michelangelo] one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them back.
MAng1 12.237 24 It seems that Michael [Angelo] was accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he stuck a candle...
MAng1 12.238 6 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles] after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo]. Michael Angelo refused to receive them.
MAng1 12.238 7 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles] after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo]. Michael Angelo refused to receive them. Look you, Messer Michael Angelo, replied the man, these candles have well-nigh broken my arm, and I will not carry them back;...
MAng1 12.238 13 ...just here [said Vasari's servant to Michelangelo], before your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright in it very well, and there I will light them all. Put them down, then, returned Michael, since you shall not make a bonfire at my gate.
MAng1 12.238 18 Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect sympathy.
MAng1 12.239 5 Michael Angelo said of Masaccio's pictures that when they were first painted they must have been alive.
MAng1 12.239 25 Michael [Angelo]...had the philosophy to say, Only an inventor can use the inventions of others.
MAng1 12.240 23 Condivi, his friend, has left this testimony; I have often heard Michael Angelo reason and discourse upon love, but never heard him speak otherwise than upon platonic love.
MAng1 12.241 11 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper...by the Italian scholar, in the Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo...
MAng1 12.242 4 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration.
MAng1 12.242 7 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration. No, replied Michael, it is nothing;...
MAng1 12.242 14 Michael [Angelo] admonishes [Vasari] that a man ought not to smile, when all those around him weep;...
MAng1 12.243 14 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. Do you see that statue of Saint George? Michael Angelo asked it why it did not speak.
MAng1 12.243 16 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Do you see this fine church of Santa Maria Novella? It is that which Michael Angelo called his bride.
MAng1 12.243 19 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery...cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.
MAng1 12.244 9 There [in Santa Croce]...stands the monument of Michael Angelo Buonarotti.
MAng1 12.244 18 The traveller from a distant continent, who gazes on that marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in the foreign church; for the great name of Michael Angelo sounds hospitably in his ear.
Milt1 12.259 14 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy, where he beheld...the rival works of Raphael, Michael Angelo and Correggio;...
Milt1 12.260 16 Michael Angelo calls him alone an artist, whose hands can execute what his mind has conceived.
MAng1 12.226 8 ...this work [rebuilding the Pons Palatinus] was taken from [Michelangelo]...and intrusted to Nanni di Bacio Bigio, who plays but a pitiful part in Michael's history.
MAng1 12.239 4 ...Michael Angelo's praise on many works is to this day the stamp of fame.
MAng1 12.239 23 It is more commendation to say, This was Michael Angelo's favorite, than to say, This was carried to Paris by Napoleon.
MAng1 12.240 1 There is yet one more trait in Michael Angelo's history, which humanizes his character without lessening its loftiness; this is his platonic love.
EurB 12.370 14 In [Tennyson's] boudoirs of damask and alabaster, one is farther off from stern Nature and human life than in Lalla Rookh and the Loves of the Angels.
Nat 1.12 18 What angels invented these splendid ornaments...
Nat 1.40 11 [Man] forges the...air...into...words, and gives them wing as angels of persuasion and command.
DSA 1.135 9 Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach; and every man can open his door to these angels...
LT 1.291 14 ...the highest compliment man ever receives from heaven is the sending to him its disguised and discredited angels.
SR 2.43 5 Our acts our angels are, or good or ill/...
SR 2.59 25 [The hero] is attended as by a visible escort of angels.
Comp 2.121 20 There is no stunning confutation of [the criminal's] nonsense before men and angels.
Comp 2.125 18 We cannot let our angels go.
SL 2.154 6 They who make up the final verdict upon every book are...a court as of angels...
Lov1 2.186 27 The angels that inhabit this temple of the body appear at the windows...
Hsm1 2.257 23 ...friends, angels and the Supreme Being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.
Cir 2.307 25 We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.
Int 2.347 7 The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men...
Art1 2.349 16 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels, starry wings/...
Pt1 3.32 20 All the value which attaches to...Oken, or any other who introduces questionable facts into his cosmogony, as angels, devils...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
Pt1 3.35 24 When some of [Swedenborg's] angels affirmed a truth, the laurel twig which they held blossomed in their hands.
Chr1 3.106 24 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and especially the total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he writes, in unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing. Could they dream on still, as angels, and not wake to comparisons and to be flattered!
Nat2 3.189 3 Days and nights...of communion with angels of darkness and of light have engraved their shadowy characters on that tear-stained book.
UGM 4.29 5 We rightly speak of the guardian angels of children.
UGM 4.34 10 Once [our teachers] were angels of knowledge...
SwM 4.118 27 ...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous opinion...that he was an abnormal person, to whom was granted the privilege of conversing with angels and spirits;...
SwM 4.125 8 [To Swedenborg] Whatever the angels looked upon was to them celestial.
SwM 4.126 8 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws; as when he uttered that famed sentence, that In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the springtime of their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest...
SwM 4.126 10 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...The more angels, the more room...
SwM 4.126 24 [To Swedenborg] The angels, from the sound of the voice, know a man's love;...
SwM 4.127 7 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love, which, Dante says, Casella sang among the angels in Paradise;...
SwM 4.137 15 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip. Swedenborg confounds us not less with...his own books, which he advertises among the angels.
SwM 4.137 27 He who loves goodness, harbors angels...
SwM 4.141 16 ...there is [in Swedenborg] no beauty, no heaven: for angels, goblins.
SwM 4.142 2 A man should not tell me that he has walked among the angels;...
SwM 4.142 6 These angels that Swedenborg paints give us no very high idea of their discipline and culture...
Bhr 6.193 24 ...such was the eloquence and good humor of the monk [Basle], that wherever he went he was received gladly and civilly treated even by the most uncivil angels;...
Bhr 6.194 1 ...even good angels came from far to see [the monk Basle]...
Bhr 6.196 21 ...if you have headache...or thunderstroke, I beseech you by all angels to hold your peace...
Wsp 6.222 24 ...it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.
Wsp 6.240 16 ...the last lesson of life, the choral song which rises from all elements and all angels, is a voluntary obedience, a necessitated freedom.
Bty 6.286 21 The crowd in the street oftener furnishes degradations than angels or redeemers...
SS 7.6 23 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...
SS 7.6 26 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated, but separate, house and house; these dwell in the midst of heaven, because they are the best of angels.
DL 7.121 16 The angels that dwell with [the eager, blushing boys]...are Toil and Want...
WD 7.170 9 There are days which are the carnival of the year. The angels assume flesh...
PI 8.64 12 Bring us...poetry like that verse of Saadi, which the angels testified met the approbation of Allah in Heaven;...
PI 8.71 2 In good society, nay, among the angels in heaven, is not everything spoken in fine parable...
PC 8.233 6 [Swedenborg] saw in vision the angels and the devils;...
PPo 8.252 20 [Hafiz] tells us, The angels in heaven were lately learning his last pieces.
PPo 8.253 8 When Hafiz sings, the angels hearken...
Insp 8.277 7 Swedenborg's genius was the perception of the doctrine that The Lord flows into the spirits of angels and of men;...
Insp 8.277 15 ...a religious poet once told me that he valued his poems, not because they were his, but because they were not. He thought the angels brought them to him.
Dem1 10.16 19 In the popular belief, ghosts are a selecting tribe, avoiding millions, speaking to one. In our traditions, fairies, angels and saints show the like favoritism;...
Dem1 10.21 22 Power as such is not known to the angels.
Aris 10.59 4 [A grand interest] prospers...in obstruction and nonsense, as well as among the angels;...
Aris 10.61 23 ...when the great come by, as always there are angels walking in the earth, they know [the generous soul] at sight.
PerF 10.78 17 ...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence], method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand...
Chr2 10.106 8 Our ancestors spoke continually of angels and archangels with the same good faith as they would have spoken of their own parents or their late minister.
Edc1 10.128 21 ...here [in the household] the secrets of character are told... the compensations which, like angels of justice, pay every debt...
Prch 10.237 9 Here is thought and love and truth and duty, new as on the first day of Adam and of angels.
LLNE 10.356 24 [Thoreau] lived extempore from hour to hour, like the birds and the angels;...
MMEm 10.403 14 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism, with its high and mysterious elections to eternal bliss, beyond angels...would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron's] imagination.
FSLC 11.189 4 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...
FSLC 11.189 23 I thought it was this fair mystersy...which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was...instead of noble motives and inspirations, and a heaven of companions and angels around and before us, to leave us in a grimacing menagerie of monkeys and idiots.
CPL 11.506 18 In books I have the history or the energy of the past. Angels they are to us of entertainment, sympathy and provocation.
Mem 12.92 16 You say, I can never think of some act of neglect, of selfishness, or of passion without pain. Well, that is as it should be. That is the police of the Universe: the angels are set to punish you...
Bost 12.198 19 ...these [religious] thoughts are as if angels had talked with the child.
MAng1 12.234 17 [Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find occasion for devotion in the same figures.
ACri 12.283 16 ...a war, an earthquake, revival of letters, the new dispensation by Jesus, or by Angels;...exist to [the writer] as colors for his brush.
Tran 1.338 12 ...we have yet no man who has leaned entirely on his character, and eaten angel's food;...
DL 7.103 24 [The child's] flesh is angel's flesh, all alive.
FSLN 11.215 3 Of all we loved and honored, naught/ Save power remains,-/ A fallen angel's pride of thought,/ Still strong in chains./
LLNE 10.336 8 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...and thus fitted to be the platform on which the Drama of the Divine Judgment was played before the assembled Angels of Heaven...
Exp 3.67 10 ...presently comes a day, or is it only a half-hour, with its angel-whispering,--which discomfits the conclusions of nations and of years!
Mrs1 3.129 9 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top...
Gts 3.163 17 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
NER 3.278 25 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors...
UGM 4.24 14 Is it not a rare contrivance that lodged the due inertia in every creature...the anger at being waked or changed?
Pow 6.55 6 During passion, anger, fury...a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...
Wsp 6.205 17 Laomedon, in his anger at Neptune and Apollo...does not hesitate to menace them...
Wsp 6.228 15 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots. The young nun...drew back with anger...
Wsp 6.230 5 Wit is cheap, and anger is cheap;...
Art2 7.38 16 The man in an ecstasy of fear or anger is an unconscious actor.
PI 8.18 4 ...a painter, a sculptor, a musician, can in their several ways express the same sentiment of anger, or love, or religion.
PPo 8.242 17 Rustem felt such anger at the arrogance of the King of Mazinderan that every hair on his body started up like a spear.
Insp 8.276 27 See how the passions augment our force,-anger, love, ambition!...
Imtl 8.349 16 Nachiketas...said, O Death! let Gautama...forget his anger against me...
Edc1 10.129 24 [Is it not true] That poverty, love, authority, anger...all work actively upon our being...
Plu 10.315 11 To erect a trophy in the soul against anger is that which none but a great and victorious puissance is able to achieve.
Plu 10.315 13 Anger turns the mind out of doors, and bolts the door.
MMEm 10.417 17 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that foolish place, which I most bitterly lament,-not because they were improper, but they arose from anger.
MMEm 10.417 22 It humbles me [Mary Moody Emerson] beyond anything I have met, to find myself for a moment affected with hope, fear, or especially anger, about interest.
GSt 10.504 21 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior, but never that his anger outlasted for a moment the mischief done or threatened to the good cause...
FSLC 11.193 21 ...when justice is violated, anger begins.
II 12.68 5 One often sees in the embittered acuteness of critics snuffing heresy from afar, their own unbelief, that they pour forth on the innocent promulgator of new doctrine their anger at that which they vainly resist in their own bosom.
Lov1 2.171 3 ...it is to be hoped that...we may attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth...so central that it shall commend itself to the eye at whatever angle beholden.
Exp 3.57 5 A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle;...
NR 3.229 10 ...[a personal influence] borrows all its size from the momentary estimation of the speakers: the Will-of-the-wisp...only blazes at one angle.
SwM 4.107 24 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle;...
SwM 4.115 11 The second and next higher form is the circular, which is also called the perpetual-angular, because the circumference of a circle is a perpetual angle.
NMW 4.230 4 ...[Bonaparte's] whole talent is strained by endless manoeuvre and evolution, to march always on the enemy at an angle...
ET2 5.29 3 The floor of your room [at sea] is sloped at an angle of twenty or thirty degrees...
F 6.10 16 At the corner of the street you read the possibility of each passenger in the facial angle...
Pow 6.76 24 The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency...
Bty 6.294 10 The cell of the bee is built at that angle which gives the most strength with the least wax;...
Elo1 7.84 25 Napoleon's tactics of marching on the angle of an army, and always presenting a superiority of numbers, is the orator's secret also.
Clbs 7.236 5 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people...in giving wise answers, showing that he saw at a larger angle of vision...
Supl 10.175 10 ...Nature...crystallizes in water at one invariable angle...in granite at one;...
PLT 12.10 13 What is life but the angle of vision?
PLT 12.10 14 A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
CInt 12.121 16 ...a larger angle of vision, commands centuries of facts...
Tran 1.331 25 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last, not on a cube corresponding to the angles of his structure, but on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
SL 2.146 11 If you pour water into a vessel twisted into coils and angles...it will find its level in all.
UGM 4.10 9 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...the veracity of angles.
PNR 4.82 1 The naturalist...is as poor when cataloguing the resolved nebula of Orion, as when measuring the angles of an acre.
PNR 4.84 27 [Plato] saw...that a celestial geometry was in place [in the supersensible], as a logic of lines and angles here below;...
MoS 4.150 25 The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design?--he will presently undervalue the actual object.
Insp 8.293 2 We must be warmed by the fire of sympathy, to be brought into the right...angles of vision.
SlHr 10.446 7 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals...not less perfect in their angles and structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.
CL 12.163 26 [The principle of levity] is related to the purest of the world, to gravity, the growth of grass, and the angles of crystals.
DL 7.114 24 The wise man angles with himself only...
ShP 4.191 20 ...the religious among the Anglican church, would suppress [dramatic entertainments].
ET11 5.173 16 The Anglican clergy are identified with the aristocracy.
ET13 5.223 2 I do not know that there is more cabalism in the Anglican than in other churches...
ET13 5.223 3 ...the Anglican clergy are identified with the aristocracy.
ET13 5.223 13 The Anglican Church is marked by the grace and good sense of its forms...
ET14 5.249 11 ...Coleridge narrowed his mind in the attempt to reconcile the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church, with eternal ideas.
Chr2 10.112 14 In England, the gentlemen, the journals, and now, at last, the churchmen and bishops, have fallen away from the Anglican Church.
ET12 5.202 1 Here [at Oxford]...John Milton's Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio and Iconoclastes were committed to the flames.
HDC 11.36 15 Of the Indian hemp [the Indians] spun their nets and lines for summer angling...
Hist 2.22 13 In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity; a progress, certainly, from the gad-fly of Astaboras to the Anglo and Italomania of Boston Bay.
ET13 5.229 2 The English (and I wish it were confined to them, but 't is a taint in the Anglo-Saxon blood in both hemispheres),--the English and the Americans cant beyond all other nations.
Imtl 8.323 2 ...when Edwin, the Anglo-Saxon king, was deliberating on receiving the Christian missionaries, one of his nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond... reminds me of one of your winter feasts...
FSLN 11.239 19 The Anglo-Saxon race is proud and strong and selfish.
ET4 5.73 6 William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that should meddle with his game. The Saxon Chronicle says he loved the tall deer as if he were their father.
ET14 5.233 26 A taste for plain strong speech...marks the English. It is in Alfred and the Saxon Chronicle...
Ctr 6.152 6 ...one of the traits down in the books as distinguishing the Anglo-Saxon is a trick of self-disparagement.
ET16 5.290 6 Sharon Turner, in his History of the Anglo-Saxons, says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there...
FSLN 11.239 21 The Anglo-Saxon race is proud and strong and selfish. They believe only in Anglo-Saxons.