YA 1.378 9 Instead of a huge Army and Navy and Executive Departments, [Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office...
SMC 11.372 11 We [Thirty-second Regiment] have been in the first line twenty-six days, and fighting every day but two; whilst your newspapers talk of the inactivity of the Army of the Potomac.
Bost 12.188 14 [Boston] is...not...an army-barracks grown up by time and luck to a place of wealth;...
MMEm 10.400 8 [Mary Moody Emerson's father] died at Rutland, Vermont, of army-fever...
NR 3.240 13 A new poet has appeared; a new character approached us; why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and section in our old army-files?
ET4 5.63 24 [The English] have retained impressment, deck-flogging, army-flogging and school-flogging.
Mrs1 3.136 3 No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation;...
ET18 5.305 13 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;--law-reform, army-reform...
Thor 10.464 5 At Mount Washington...Thoreau had a bad fall, and sprained his foot. As he was in the act of getting up from his fall, he saw for the first time the leaves of the Arnica mollis.
Wsp 6.232 23 A high aim is curative, as well as arnica.
SMC 11.359 7 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... tender as a woman in his care for a cough or a chilblain in his men; had troches and arnica in his pocket for them.
CL 12.161 25 Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows where arnica grows...
Ctr 6.163 17 Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who chides her disregard of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our poor Frankfort, I shall not carry things far.
PC 8.218 19 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim...is always allowed.
Exp 3.55 21 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare;...afterwards in Goethe; even in Bettine;...
MAng1 12.243 9 The city of Florence, on the river Arno, still treasures the fame of this man [Michelangelo].
ET17 5.292 26 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...the younger poets, Clough, Arnold and Patmore;...
Fdsp 2.199 17 ...the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.
Bost 12.183 13 ...from every stratum a different aroma and air according to its quality.
MN 1.208 13 Hereto was [a man] born...to do an office which nature could not forego...and then immerge again into the holy silence and eternity out of which as a man he arose.
Hist 2.25 7 ...Xenophon arose naked, and taking an axe, began to split wood;...
Lov1 2.180 25 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when... [the beholder] cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset. Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you?
Pt1 3.9 8 ...the question arose whether [a recent writer of lyrics] was not only a lyrist but a poet...
Chr1 3.109 5 We require that a man should be so large and columnar in the landscape, that it should deserve to be recorded that he arose, and girded up his loins, and departed to such a place.
ET7 5.125 14 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge. Mr. B. arose and mildly yet firmly called the attention of the audience and the performers to the fact that, in his judgment, the bridge was unsafe!
CbW 6.253 23 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles, and as much as he could get. It was necessary to call the people together by shorter, swifter ways,--and the House of Commons arose.
Elo1 7.72 18 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood and looked down... you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
Dem1 10.18 27 ...[demonic individuals] are not to be conquered save by the universe itself, against which they have taken up arms. Out of such experiences doubtless arose the strange, monstrous proverb, Nobody against God but God.
LLNE 10.329 20 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...all gone; another hour had struck and other forms arose.
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.
MAng1 12.242 1 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him...that...no fancy arose in his mind but DEATH was sculptured on it.
Trag 12.413 27 ...in truth [the man not grounded in the divine life] was already a driving wreck before the wind arose...
Grts 8.311 25 [The scholar's] courage is to...criticise Kant and Swedenborg, and on all these arouse the central courage of insight.
Edc1 10.151 14 Is it not manifest...that wise men...heartily seeking the good of mankind...should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life;...
Trag 12.414 7 If any perversity or profligacy break out in society, [the man who is centred] will join with others to avert the mischief, but it will not arouse resentment or fear, because he discerns its impassable limits.
Edc1 10.132 20 ...presently the aroused intellect finds gold and gems in one of these scorned facts...
SR 2.56 18 ...when the ignorant and the poor are aroused...it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
Prd1 2.230 20 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature... which seems at last to have aroused all the wit and virtue in the world to ponder the question of Reform.
NER 3.272 17 ...when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused;... [men] are radicals.
EWI 11.109 21 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack. On the other part are found cold prudence, bare-faced selfishness and silent votes. But the nation was aroused to enthusiasm.
PLT 12.19 4 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of larger scope...
Lov1 2.186 1 [The soul] arouses itself at last from these endearments, as toys...
Cir 2.312 26 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto] smites and arouses me with his shrill tones...
Edc1 10.127 15 [Man's] continual tendency, his great danger, is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher, and the nature of sun and moon, plant and animal only means of arousing his interior activity.
LT 1.271 15 We arraign our daily employments.
Con 1.308 12 I am unworthy to arraign your manner of living, until I too have been tried.
Gts 3.162 16 We arraign society if it do not give us...opportunity, love, reverence and objects of veneration.
CInt 12.116 22 ...the new times are the times of arraignment, times of trial...
Pol1 3.199 13 Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men and institutions rooted like oak-trees to the centre, round which all arrange themselves the best they can.
SwM 4.125 1 [To Swedenborg] All things in the universe arrange themselves to each person anew, according to his ruling love.
PLT 12.11 26 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed, without attempting to arrange them within one outline, follows a system also...
PLT 12.19 17 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can.
PLT 12.19 24 Whilst we consider this appetite of the mind to arrange its phenomena, there is another fact which makes this useful.
PLT 12.45 25 There are men...who easily entertain ideas, but...cannot connect or arrange their thoughts so as effectively to report them.
PLT 12.52 17 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order...this continuity is for the great.
Nat 1.73 9 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...many obscure and yet contested facts, now arranged under the name of Animal Magnetism;...
Comp 2.116 1 [The traitor] finds that things are arranged for truth and benefit...
ShP 4.194 16 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was projected from the wall; the groups being still arranged with reference to the building...
ET1 5.6 23 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic laws...
ET5 5.94 3 The climate and geography [of England], I said, were factitious, as if the hands of man had arranged the conditions.
ET15 5.265 1 The late Mr. Walter was printer of The [London] Times, and had gradually arranged the whole materiel of it in perfect system.
DL 7.109 4 An increased consciousness of the soul, you say, characterizes the period. Let us see if it has not only arranged the atoms at the circumference, but the atoms at the core.
DL 7.111 14 [Our houses] are arranged for low benefits.
Suc 7.284 23 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. ... In administration, it is I alone who have arranged the finances, as you know
Edc1 10.150 12 Appetite and indolence [young men] have, but no enthusiasm. These come in numbers to the college: few geniuses: and the teaching comes to be arranged for these many, and not for those few.
Mem 12.93 12 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged by names of persons...
MAng1 12.225 27 ...[Michelangelo] arranged the piazza of the Capitol [Rome], and built its porticos.
EurB 12.371 20 Ben's [Jonson's] flowers are not in pots at a city florist's, arranged on a flower-stand...
Nat 1.36 22 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons...of progressive arrangement;...
AmS 1.87 21 The scholar of the first age received into him the world around;...gave it the new arrangement of his own mind...
LE 1.170 18 Since Carlyle wrote French History, we see that no history that we have is safe, but a new classifier shall give it new and more philosophical arrangement.
SL 2.144 4 A man is...a progressive arrangement;...
NMW 4.229 11 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...but these men ordinarily lack the power of arrangement...
ET1 5.6 19 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure: A scientific arrangement of spaces and forms to functions and to site;...
Bty 6.294 18 ...our art saves material by more skilful arrangement...
Art2 7.44 13 In sculpture and in architecture the material...and in architecture the mass, are sources of great pleasure quite independent of the artificial arrangement.
DL 7.113 2 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted; they are many and great. Nor are they to be disposed of by any criticism or amendment of particulars taken one at a time, but only by the arrangement of the household to a higher end than those to which our dwellings are usually built and furnished.
Insp 8.286 27 If a new view of life or mind gives us joy, so does new arrangement.
Edc1 10.152 25 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...mechanical arrangement...
LLNE 10.349 3 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy; for the system was the perfection of arrangement and contrivance.
LLNE 10.349 4 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy; for the system was the perfection of arrangement and contrivance. The force of arrangement could no farther go.
CPL 11.495 2 The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political arrangement of towns...
CPL 11.496 3 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library, which adds by the beauty of the building, and its skilful arrangement, a quite new attraction...
PLT 12.27 9 A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not another. That is what he knows and has to say of Spain; he cannot say it truly until a sufficient time for the arrangement of the particles has elapsed.
PPr 12.380 7 ...he is the commander...whose eye not only sees details, but throws crowds of details into their right arrangement...
Con 1.304 25 You who quarrel with the arrangements of society...live, move, and have your being in this...
Fdsp 2.212 15 Late,--very late,--we perceive that no arrangements...would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire...
Nat2 3.184 2 The common sense of Franklin, Dalton, Davy and Black is the same common sense which made the arrangements which now it discovers.
Ctr 6.156 17 ...the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude.
Farm 7.146 21 Great is the force of a few simple arrangements;...
WD 7.163 2 ...we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social arrangements...
Suc 7.297 24 'T is the bane of life that natural effects are continually crowded out, and artificial arrangements substituted.
PerF 10.73 5 The brain of man has methods and arrangements corresponding to these material powers...
Edc1 10.135 23 In affirming that the moral nature of man is the predominant element and should therefore be mainly consulted in the arrangements of a school, I am very far from wishing that it should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
SovE 10.210 13 I know how delicate this [moral] principle is,-how difficult of adaptation to practical and social arrangements.
SMC 11.360 11 Consider what sacrifice and havoc in business arrangements this war-blast made.
II 12.71 4 In the healthy mind, the thought...appears...in institutions, in social arrangements...
II 12.87 24 ...the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.
Comp 2.110 5 ...our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world.
Chr1 3.96 16 A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole;...
NR 3.228 18 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected;...
MLit 12.325 6 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, which is the enclosure of the natural cup of heads that arranges itself round every spectacle in the street;...
Hsm1. 2.252 21 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray, arranging his toilet...
Grts 8.309 3 ...the rule of the orator begins, not in the array of his facts, but when his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,-when these shine and burn in his address;...
SlHr 10.445 5 [Samuel Hoar] saw what was essential, and refused whatever was not, so that no man embarrassed himself less with a needless array of books and evidences of contingent value.
Trag 12.409 9 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...a power of the imagination to dislocate things orderly and cheerful and show them in startling array.
MR 1.253 7 ...at the polls [the rich man] finds [laborers] arrayed in a mass in distinct opposition to him.
Prch 10.220 11 Of course the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion...
ET5 5.98 2 For the administration of justice [in England], Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of business in Chancery was, the Chancellor's staying away entirely from his court.
MN 1.222 25 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as...the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the arrest and fixation of the most volatile and ethereal currents.
EWI 11.130 12 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense.
PLT 12.27 21 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms...
MMEm 10.400 20 One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks, it appears, was to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff, who might come to...to arrest the uncle for debt.
ET18 5.304 11 [The English] mind is in a state of arrested development...
PI 8.7 13 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
PI 8.7 27 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind;...
Insp 8.270 21 The Hunterian law of arrested development is not confined to vegetable and animal structure...
Schr 10.271 27 ...the world is made of thickened light and arrested electricity...
PLT 12.60 2 The history of mankind is the history of arrested growth.
Civ 7.20 8 In other races [than the Indian and the negro] the growth is not arrested...
Clbs 7.239 11 The attention of the English chemist was instantly arrested...
PI 8.39 6 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry out and complete the metamorphosis, which, in the imperfect kinds arrested for ages, in the perfecter proceeds rapidly in the same individual.
Schr 10.280 15 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function...the development of that mind is arrested.
EWI 11.130 7 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
FSLC 11.180 21 In Boston, we have said with such lofty confidence, no fugitive slave can be arrested...
FSLC 11.180 24 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here;...
PLT 12.60 1 The same course continues itself in the mind which we have witnessed in Nature, namely the carrying-on and completion of the metamorphosis from grub to worm, from worm to fly. In human thought this process is often arrested for years and ages.
Bost 12.206 26 From...the Quaker women who for a testimony walked naked into the streets, and as the record tells us were arrested and publicly whipped,-the baggages that they were;...down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
PI 8.12 11 A figurative statement arrests attention...
OS 2.275 8 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It...becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian than with persons in the house.
MAng1 12.214 3 Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun concetto,/ Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio, e solo a quello arriva/ La man che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M. Angelo, Sonneto primo.
Fdsp 2.192 10 [The stranger's] arrival almost brings fear to the good hearts that would welcome him.
Pt1 3.11 26 Man...still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own.
Chr1 3.90 15 [The man of character] conquers because his arrival alters the face of affairs.
Mrs1 3.134 22 It was...a very natural point of old feudal etiquette that a gentleman who received a visit, though it were of his sovereign...should wait his arrival at the door of his house.
Mrs1 3.136 12 [Montaigne's] arrival in each place, the arrival of a gentleman of France, is an event of some consequence.
PPh 4.47 20 ...[Plato] is the arrival of accuracy and intelligence.
ET6 5.102 5 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies;...
ET19 5.309 1 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet...
Pow 6.57 24 What enhancement to all the water and land in England is the arrival of James Watt or Brunel!
DL 7.120 18 ...who can see unmoved...the cautious comparison of the attractive advertisement of the arrival of Macready, Booth or Kemble...with the expense of the entertainment;...
Boks 7.219 26 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry...to Siberia, Japan, Timbuctoo. Yet he will find that the spirit which is in them...greets him on his arrival...
Res 8.140 13 The marked events in history...the arrival among an old stationary nation of a more instructed race...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
PPo 8.241 10 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built, against her arrival, a palace...
Chr2 10.99 11 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...but on [a man's] arrival at a certain maturity, it ceases...
MMEm 10.402 10 [Mary Moody Emerson's] sympathy for young people who pleased her...was sure to make her arrival in each house a holiday.
MMEm 10.405 11 ...on her arrival at any new home [Mary Moody Emerson] was likely to steer first to the minister's house and pray his wife to take a boarder;...
EWI 11.144 8 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes...outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.
War 11.173 1 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and virtue.
FSLN 11.221 8 ...[Webster's] arrival in any place was an event which drew crowds of people...
FSLN 11.238 27 Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes surely. The proverbs of the nations affirm these delays, but affirm the arrival.
FSLN 11.239 8 There has come, too, one to whom lurking warfare is dear, Retribution...limping, late in her arrival.
SMC 11.352 20 This new [Concord] Monument is built to mark the arrival of the nation at the new principle...
CL 12.151 5 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool, and a new activity among the hardy birds, the premature arrival of the bluebird...
Nat 1.36 1 ...we arrive at once at a new fact, that nature is a discipline.
MN 1.195 23 How tardily men arrive at any result! how tardily they pass from it to another!
MN 1.214 3 ...only the light-armed arrive at the summit.
SL 2.136 7 Our Sunday-schools and churches and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. ... There are natural ways of arriving at the same ends at which these aim, but do not arrive.
Lov1 2.185 18 ...the lot of humanity is on these children [young lovers]. Danger, sorrow and pain arrive to them as to all.
OS 2.283 13 Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to-morrow you arrive there and know them by inhabiting them.
Pt1 3.6 10 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses...
Pt1 3.32 7 An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
Exp 3.71 9 ...if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at once arrive at satisfactions...
Exp 3.71 23 ...every insight from this realm of thought...promises a sequel. I do not make it; I arrive there, and behold what was there already.
Chr1 3.95 2 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L' Ouverture: let us fancy, under these swarthy masks he has a gang of Washingtons in chains. When they arrive at Cuba, will the relative order of the ship's company be the same?
Nat2 3.180 11 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed;... How far off yet is the trilobite! how far the quadruped! how inconceivably remote is man! All duly arrive...
Nat2 3.188 12 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul.
Nat2 3.191 23 ...this is the ridicule of the [wealthy] class, that they arrive with pains and sweat and fury nowhere;...
NR 3.237 13 ...once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
NR 3.241 6 To embroil the confusion and make it impossible to arrive at any general statement,--when we have insisted on the imperfection of individuals, our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor...
NER 3.260 11 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to...arrive at short methods;...
PPh 4.48 12 The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects; then for the cause of that; and again the cause...self-assured that it shall arrive at an absolute and sufficient one...
PNR 4.81 8 [Nature] waited tranquilly...for the hour to be struck when man should arrive.
NMW 4.238 8 This [Austrian] cavalry...required a quarter of an hour to arrive on the field of action...
ET5 5.89 12 When Thor and his companions arrive at Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art, and excel in it all other men.
ET6 5.106 16 I happened to arrive in England at the moment of a commercial crisis.
ET6 5.106 21 [The English] will not break up, or arrive at any desperate revolution...
ET6 5.113 24 The guests [at dinner in London] are expected to arrive within half an hour of the time fixed by card of invitation...
ET11 5.178 16 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...
ET11 5.188 23 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...keeping the series of history unbroken and waiting for its interpreter, who is sure to arrive.
ET12 5.211 11 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics...the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
ET13 5.220 5 Heats and genial periods arrive in history...
ET16 5.278 27 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive, stone by stone, at the whole history [of Stonehenge]...
Wth 6.100 22 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts...so as to arrive at gigantic results, without any compromise of safety.
Bhr 6.174 27 Broad lands and great interests...arrive to such heads as can manage them...
Wsp 6.202 10 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out in passions, in war...let us not be so nice that we cannot...doubt but there is a counter-statement as ponderous, which we can arrive at...
CbW 6.243 3 Say not, the chiefs who first arrive/ Usurp the seats for which all strive;/...
CbW 6.254 7 The barbarians who broke up the Roman Empire did not arrive a day too soon.
Art2 7.51 2 ...we arrive at this conclusion...that the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature...
Elo1 7.86 4 ...the court and the county have really come together to arrive at these three or four memorable expressions which betrayed the mind and meaning of somebody.
Suc 7.294 20 I pronounce that young man happy who is content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at, and waits willingly when the occasion of making it appreciated shall arrive...
OA 7.335 14 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive.
PI 8.4 19 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements...we should...find...spherules of force.
PI 8.62 23 You will find the king at Carduel in Wales [said Merlin]; and when you arrive there you will find there all the companions who departed with you...
SA 8.82 17 ...we are awkward for want of thought. The inspiration is scanty, and does not arrive at the extremities.
QO 8.203 19 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until Chateaubriand, or Moore, or Campbell, or Byron, or the artists, arrive...
PC 8.215 23 If [your public] are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better.
PerF 10.83 11 We arrive at virtue by taking its direction instead of imposing ours.
Chr2 10.108 11 ...the rally on the principle must arrive as people become intellectual.
Schr 10.265 23 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last...
Schr 10.270 14 For [the poet] arms, art, politics, trade, waited like menials, until the lord of the manor should arrive.
CSC 10.373 20 This [Chardon Street] Convention never...pretended to arrive at any result by the expression of its sense in formal resolutions;...
LS 11.15 20 We arrive, then, at this conclusion: first, that it does not appear from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;...
PLT 12.10 6 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded. Practical men, though they could lift the globe, cannot arrive at this.
PLT 12.26 6 ...the dull, melancholy Pelasgi arrive at no civility until the Phoenicians and Ionians come in.
II 12.71 11 Novelty in the means by which we arrive at the old universal ends is the test of the presence of the highest power...
Mem 12.92 8 The old whim or perception was an augury of a broader insight, at which we arrive later with securer conviction.
Trag 12.406 4 The riches of body or of mind which we do not need to-day are the reserved fund against the calamity that may arrive to-morrow.
Nat 1.58 18 Some theosophists have arrived at a certain hostility and indignation towards matter...
Nat 1.66 16 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it...is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit...
MN 1.203 20 ...Nature seems further to reply, I have ventured so great a stake as my success, in no single creature. I have not yet arrived at any end.
Fdsp 2.202 16 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought...
Cir 2.317 20 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you have arrived at a fine Pyrrhonism...
Int 2.340 5 When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books...in the hope that in the course of a few years we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived.
Exp 3.73 18 In our more correct writing we give to this generalization the name of Being, and thereby confess that we have arrived as far as we can go.
Exp 3.73 20 Suffice it for the joy of the universe that we have not arrived at a wall...
Chr1 3.109 11 When the Yunani sage arrived at Balkh...Gushtasp appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every country should assemble...
Chr1 3.115 1 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be coarse...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
Mrs1 3.144 3 This gentleman is this afternoon arrived from Denmark;...
PPh 4.64 5 ...the notion of virtue is not to be arrived at except through direct contemplation of the divine essence.
SwM 4.135 7 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at its natural term...
SwM 4.138 19 To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits!
SwM 4.141 15 ...it is certain that [the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must tally with what is best in nature. ... In this mood we hear the rumor that the seer has arrived...
NMW 4.225 18 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny...
ET4 5.65 19 The American [in England] has arrived at the old mansion-house...
ET5 5.75 6 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England]...
ET5 5.77 9 Each vagabond that arrived [in England] bent his neck to the yoke of gain...
ET7 5.121 12 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived there on his escape from Paris...
ET10 5.170 20 [England's] success strengthens the hands of base wealth. Who can propose to youth poverty and wisdom, when mean gain has arrived at the conquest of letters and arts;...
ET12 5.210 9 ...education, according to the English notion of it, is arrived at [at Oxford].
ET15 5.269 16 On the days when I arrived in London in 1847, I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...
F 6.37 23 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...his companions arrived at the same hour...
Wth 6.99 23 An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing...
Ctr 6.159 14 A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be said to have arrived at self-possession.
Wsp 6.203 23 No Isaiah or Jeremy has arrived.
CbW 6.266 6 An old French verse runs, in my translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/
WD 7.158 8 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived...
WD 7.184 15 There are people...who have no talents, or care not to have them,--being that which was before talent, and shall be after it, and of which talent seems only a tool: this is character, the highest name at which philosophy has arrived.
Boks 7.206 18 If now the relations of England to European affairs bring [the scholar] to British ground, he is arrived at the very moment when modern history takes new proportions.
PPo 8.263 25 In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], the birds were soon weary of the length and difficulties of the way, and at last almost all gave out. Three only persevered, and arrived before the throne of the Simorg.
Aris 10.45 11 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too early. Let him not hurry or hesitate. Though millions are already arrived, his seat is reserved.
Aris 10.56 1 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. ... They seem to have arrived at the fact, to have got rid of the show, and to be serene.
MoL 10.246 7 Dickens complained that in America, as soon as he arrived in any of the Western towns, a committee waited on him and invited him to deliver a temperance lecture.
EzRy 10.387 21 We presently arrived [at the funeral], and the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] addressed each of the mourners separately...
MMEm 10.432 12 ...when at last her release arrived, the event of [Mary Moody Emerson's] death had really such a comic tinge in the eyes of every one who knew her, that her friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
HDC 11.29 6 ...the people of New England...as the second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe the day.
HDC 11.31 26 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him. They arrived in Boston in 1634.
HDC 11.32 13 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more. A month later, Rev. John Jones and a large number of settlers destined for the new town arrived in Boston.
HDC 11.37 18 ...the peace was made, and the ear of the savage already secured, before the pilgrims arrived at his seat of Musketaquid...
HDC 11.74 4 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and Carlisle...arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge.
HDC 11.81 7 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...
LVB 11.90 5 Even in our distant State some good rumor of [the Cherokees'] worth and civility has arrived.
EWI 11.136 2 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness, and the connection of the eminent senators with this question constitutes the immortalizing moments of those men's lives. The bare enunciation of the theses at which the lawyers and legislators arrived, gives a glow to the heart of the reader.
EWI 11.145 8 ...in the great anthem which we call history...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...
SMC 11.374 20 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment was mustered out in the field, at Washington, on the twenty-eighth of June, and arrived in Boston on the first of July.
CPL 11.499 11 ...whenever [Mary Moody Emerson] arrived in a town where was a good minister who had a library, she would persuade him to receive her as a boarder...
FRep 11.526 24 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
PLT 12.6 3 [When I look at the tree or the river] I feel as if I stood by an ambassador charged with the message of his king which he does not deliver because the hour when he should say it is not yet arrived.
II 12.76 7 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power.
CL 12.152 9 The witch-hazel blooms to mark the last hour arrived...
Bost 12.190 5 Morton arrived [in Massachusetts] in 1622...
PPr 12.386 12 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...and instead of the common earth and sky, we have a Martin's Creation or Judgment Day. A crisis has always arrived which requires a deus ex machina.
Let 12.398 13 As soon as [American youths] have arrived at this term, there are no employments to satisfy them...
MN 1.218 23 ...when Genius arrives, its speech is like a river;...
SR 2.46 12 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;...
SL 2.147 8 Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened;...
Nat2 3.180 25 ...the addition of matter from year to year arrives at last at the most complex forms;...
Nat2 3.190 2 ...there is throughout nature...something that leads us on and on, but arrives nowhere;...
Nat2 3.194 1 [Nature's] secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain.
UGM 4.11 13 ...the chemic lump arrives at the plant, and grows;...
UGM 4.11 14 ...the chemic lump...arrives at the quadruped, and walks;...
UGM 4.11 15 ...the chemic lump...arrives at the man, and thinks.
UGM 4.26 13 We learn of our contemporaries what they know...almost through the pores of the skin. We catch it by sympathy, or as a wife arrives at the intellectual and moral elevations of her husband.
F 6.37 21 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...
Wth 6.84 5 ...when the quarried means were piled,/ All is waste and worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/...
Wth 6.95 13 The world is his who has money to go over it. He arrives at the seashore and a sumptuous ship has floored and carpeted for him the stormy Atlantic...
Elo1 7.77 11 Face to face with a highwayman...can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?--a problem easy enough to Caesar or Napoleon. Whenever a man of that stamp arrives, the highwayman has found a master.
WD 7.170 1 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives...
Res 8.150 4 ...every power in energy speedily arrives at its limits...
Aris 10.58 25 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...wearies out opposition, and arrives at its port.
Schr 10.270 16 Even the demonstrations of Nature for millenniums seem not to have attained their end, until this interpreter [the poet] arrives.
Koss 11.401 7 ...when the crisis arrives it will find us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...
PLT 12.26 9 The Briton, the Pict, is nothing until the Roman, the Saxon, the Norman, arrives.
II 12.83 13 An enthusiastic workman dignifies his art and arrives at results.
Mem 12.104 13 The spring days when the bluebird arrives have usually only few hours of fine temperature...
CPL 11.497 8 Robinson Crusoe, could he have had a shelf of our books, could almost have done without his man Friday, or even the arriving ship.
Comp 2.120 9 Hours of sanity and consideration are always arriving to communities...
SL 2.136 6 Our Sunday-schools and churches and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. ... There are natural ways of arriving at the same ends at which these aim, but do not arrive.
Art1 2.368 26 When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat... arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.
Nat2 3.179 18 [Efficient Nature] publishes itself in creatures...arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap.
ET4 5.51 17 In the impossibility of arriving at satisfaction on the historical question of race, and...the indisputable Englishman before me...I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as his lineal progenitors...
ET16 5.276 8 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury... and, arriving at Amesbury, stopped at the George Inn.
Wth 6.121 27 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...and so arriving at his end, at great pleasure to geometers, but with cost to his company.
Wsp 6.199 12 This is he men miscall Fate,/ Threading dark ways, arriving late/...
CbW 6.266 25 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever?
Ill 6.310 10 On arriving at what is called the Star-Chamber [in the Mammoth Cave], our lamps were taken from us by the guide...
Ill 6.318 8 ...[Columbus] found the illusion of arriving from the east at the Indies more composing to his lofty spirit than any tobacco.
SA 8.94 23 The party in the second coach, on arriving, heard this story with surprise;...
Aris 10.61 17 The generous soul, on arriving in a new port, makes instant preparation for a new voyage.
FSLC 11.185 14 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him.
MN 1.199 1 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought, when he said, I am God; but the moment it was out of his mouth it became a lie to the ear; and the world revenged itself for the seeming arrogance by the good story about his shoe.
MoS 4.150 22 It is easy to see how this arrogance [of the literary class] comes.
ET9 5.145 27 This [English] arrogance habitually exhibits itself in allusions to the French.
ET15 5.270 2 One would think the world was on its knees to The [London] Times office for its daily breakfast. But this arrogance is calculated.
Farm 7.153 9 Put [the farmer] on a new planet and he would know where to begin; yet there is no arrogance in his bearing...
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.
Aris 10.29 4 But for ye speken of such gentillesse/ As is descended out of old richesse,/ That therfore shullen ye be gentilmen,-/ Such arrogance n' is not worth a hen./
PLT 12.11 23 ...if one can say so without arrogance, I might suggest that he who who contents himself with dotting a fragmentary curve...follows a system also...
ET15 5.269 23 Was never such arrogancy as the tone of this paper [the London Times].
ET8 5.137 24 ...the English press [is] never timorous about French opinion, but arrogant and contemptuous.
SMC 11.355 20 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were...as arrogant as the negroes on the Gambia River;...
YA 1.364 21 The railroad is but one arrow in our quiver...
WD 7.184 27 Apollo stretched his bow and shot his arrow into the extreme west.
Dem1 10.15 7 ...[Masollam] replied...Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird? How could this fowl give us any wise directions respecting our journey, when he could not save his own life? Had he known anything of futurity, he would not have come here to be killed by the arrow of Masollam the Jew.
HDC 11.36 13 Of the pith elder...[the Indians] made their arrow.
SHC 11.431 18 You can almost see behind these pines the Indian with bow and arrow lurking...
PI 8.22 22 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he. ... It is easier...to decipher the arrow-head character, than to interpret these familiar sights.
Thor 10.473 23 [Thoreau] was inquisitive about the making of the stone arrow-head...
Thor 10.463 25 One day, walking with a stranger, who inquired where Indian arrow-heads could be found, [Thoreau] replied, Everywhere...
Thor 10.473 12 Indian relics abound in Concord,-arrow-heads, stone chisels, pestles and fragments of pottery;...
Pow 6.59 19 Nothing that [the weaker party] knows will quite hit the mark, whilst all the rival's arrows are good, and well thrown.
PPo 8.248 17 Hypocrisy is the perpetual butt of [Hafiz's] arrows...
RBur 11.440 27 [Burns's] musical arrows yet sing through the air.
FRep 11.513 17 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...and is very scornful about bows and arrows...
PerF 10.69 18 Art is long, and life short, and [a man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his task the energies of Nature. Reinforce his self-respect, show him...his arsenal of forces...
PerF 10.70 1 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal...
War 11.165 17 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man.
PLT 12.31 21 There is no property or relation in that immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last found who affects this...
ET4 5.62 5 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when...in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet...and all the equipments from the Arsenal...
F 6.35 8 ...these [defects] are magazines and arsenals.
Wth 6.94 25 To be rich is...to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.
War 11.163 9 We have all grown up in the sight...of arsenals and militia.
Mrs1 3.138 2 I pray my companion...if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them...
Wth 6.103 17 A dollar...is worth more...in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives and arsenic are in constant play.
FSLC 11.187 14 Here is a statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] which enacts the crime of kidnapping,-a crime on one footing with arson and murder.
FSLN 11.234 13 If slavery is good, then is lying, theft, arson, homicide, each and all good...
Art2 7.39 15 ...Plato rightly said, Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art.
PerF 10.81 8 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day; he was no peasant after all. So near to us is the flowering of Fine Art in the rudest population.
Nat 1.4 27 ...all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME, that is, both nature and art...must be ranked under this name, NATURE.
Nat 1.5 9 Art is applied to the mixture of [man's] will with the [unchanged essences]...
Nat 1.19 5 In July, the blue pontederia...swarms with yellow butterflies in continual motion. Art cannot rival this pomp of purple and gold.
Nat 1.23 15 The production of a work of art throws a light upon the mystery of humanity.
Nat 1.23 17 A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world.
Nat 1.24 12 Thus in art does Nature work through the will of a man...
Nat 1.44 13 A rule of one art...holds true throughout nature.
AmS 1.87 13 The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past, - in whatever form, whether of literature, of art, of institutions, that mind is inscribed.
AmS 1.90 12 The book...the school of art...stop with some past utterance of genius.
AmS 1.98 5 Years are well spent...in art; to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
AmS 1.105 16 They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought to all nature and all art...
AmS 1.110 16 I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already through poetry and art...
AmS 1.111 10 I ask not for...what is Greek art...
DSA 1.127 12 Let this faith depart, and...the things it made become... hurtful. Then falls...art, letters, life.
DSA 1.147 21 There are...persons...to whom all we call art and artist, seems too nearly allied to show and by-ends...
LE 1.169 18 ...this beauty...which the sun and the moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded by art...
LE 1.171 1 Religion is yet to be settled on its fast foundations in the breast of man;...and art.
LE 1.176 5 We...talk of muse and prophet, of art and creation.
LE 1.184 2 Let [the scholar]...be an artist superior to tricks of art.
LE 1.185 26 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then once more perish the buds of art...
LE 1.186 26 Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread...such as shall not take away your property...in art, in nature, and in hope.
MN 1.194 23 ...the wit of man...his art, is the grace and presence of God.
MN 1.206 11 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own;...into...an art...
MN 1.210 27 What is best in any work of art but that part which the work itself seems to require and do;...
MN 1.211 22 [This ecstatic state] respects...art, and not works of art;...
MR 1.242 20 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias...to art...that man... ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
MR 1.243 6 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] may leave to others...the possession of works of art.
MR 1.243 8 ...he who can create works of art needs not collect them.
MR 1.245 7 ...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements, whilst our public edifices, like theirs, will be worthy...for art...
MR 1.245 11 How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly?
LT 1.283 20 Thinking, which was a rage, is become an art.
LT 1.283 26 ...we begin to doubt if that great revolution in the art of war, which has made it a game of posts instead of a game of battles, has not operated on Reform;...
LT 1.286 24 We have come to that which is the spring...of art and poetry;...
Tran 1.333 3 The materialist respects sensible masses...social art and luxury...
YA 1.367 14 [Gardening] is the fine art which is left for us...
YA 1.369 13 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.
YA 1.378 14 ...[Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office, where every man may find what he wishes to buy, and expose what he has to sell; not only produce and manufactures, but art, skill, and intellectual and moral values.
Hist 2.16 9 There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
Hist 2.17 15 ...the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual history, or must remain words.
Hist 2.20 2 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses, so that when art came to the assistance of nature it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself.
Hist 2.23 27 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek... art and poetry...
SR 2.46 1 Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this.
SR 2.81 12 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe for the purposes of art...
SR 2.86 3 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes...
SR 2.86 18 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin, whose equipment exhausted the resources of science and art.
SR 2.86 27 We reckoned the improvements of the art of war among the triumphs of science...
Comp 2.101 13 Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is a compend of the world...
SL 2.157 7 This is that law whereby a work of art...sets us in the same state of mind wherein the artist was when he made it.
Lov1 2.175 5 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...which was the dawn in him of music, poetry, and art;...
Lov1 2.188 3 ...nature and intellect and art emulate each other in the gifts and the melody they bring to the epithalamium.
Prd1 2.229 11 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
Prd1 2.232 5 The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial and to count them nothing considered with his devotion to his art.
Prd1 2.232 5 [The man of talent's] art never taught him lewdness...
Prd1 2.232 7 [The man of talent's] art is less for every deduction from his holiness...
Prd1 2.240 26 ...truth, frankness, courage, love, humility and all the virtues range themselves on the side of prudence, or the art of securing a present well-being.
Hsm1 2.257 22 ...art and nature...shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.
Cir 2.304 10 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance,--as for instance...rules of an art...to heap itself on that ridge...
Int 2.327 12 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal. ... A better art than that of Egypt has taken fear and corruption out of it.
Int 2.333 6 The difference between persons is not in wisdom but in art.
Int 2.335 17 ...[the thought] needs a vehicle or art by which it is conveyed to men.
Int 2.336 7 ...all [men] have some art or power of communication in their head...
Int 2.337 25 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well; its composition is full of art...
Art1 2.352 17 ...the new in art is always formed out of the old.
Art1 2.354 4 ...historically viewed, it has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty.
Art1 2.354 10 The virtue of art lies in detachment...
Art1 2.357 1 ...as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art [of painting], I see the boundless opulence of the pencil...
Art1 2.357 24 There is no statue like this living man, with his infinite advantage over all ideal sculpture, of perpetual variety. What a gallery of art have I here!
Art1 2.358 6 ...except to open your eyes to the masteries of eternal art, [oil and easels, marble and chisels] are hypocritical rubbish.
Art1 2.358 9 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...
Art1 2.358 16 In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art; art perfected...
Art1 2.358 20 ...the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
Art1 2.358 24 The best of beauty is a finer charm than...rules of art can ever teach...
Art1 2.358 26 The best of beauty is...a radiation from the work of art, of human character...
Art1 2.363 6 Art has not yet come to its maturity if it do not put itself abreast with the most potent influences of the world...
Art1 2.363 15 Art is the need to create;...
Art1 2.363 23 Art should exhilarate...
Art1 2.364 3 The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect.
Art1 2.364 4 [Sculpture] was originally a useful art...
Art1 2.365 7 ...true art is never fixed...
Art1 2.365 13 All works of art should not be detached, but extempore performances.
Art1 2.365 22 A true announcement of the law of creation...would carry art up into the kingdom of nature...
Art1 2.366 1 ...a ball-room makes us feel that we are all paupers in the almshouse of this world...without skill or industry. Art is as poor and low.
Art1 2.366 11 ...the artist and the connoisseur now seek in art the exhibition of their talent...
Art1 2.366 15 Men are not well pleased with the figure they make in their own imaginations, and they flee to art...
Art1 2.366 16 Art makes the same effort which a sensual prosperity makes;...
Art1 2.367 4 The art that thus separates is itself first separated.
Art1 2.367 5 Art must not be a superficial talent...
Art1 2.367 15 [Men] eat and drink, that they may afterwards execute the ideal. Thus is art vilified;...
Pt1 3.4 27 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of Beauty;...and to the general aspect of the art in the present time.
Pt1 3.5 12 [The poet] is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art...
Pt1 3.5 15 In love, in art...we study to utter our painful secret.
Pt1 3.19 4 Readers of poetry see the factory-village and the railway, and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these; for these works of art are not yet consecrated in their reading;...
Pt1 3.22 13 This expression or naming is not art, but a second nature...
Pt1 3.38 20 ...I am not wise enough for a national criticism, and must use the old largeness a little longer, to discharge my errand from the muse to the poet concerning his art.
Pt1 3.38 21 Art is the path of the creator to his work.
Exp 3.46 26 Men seem to have learned of the horizon the art of perpetual retreating and reference.
Exp 3.56 19 ...thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular? The reason of the pain this discovery causes us (and we make it late in respect to works of art and intellect) is the plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to persons, to friendship and love.
Exp 3.59 25 We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.
Exp 3.68 19 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely...one gets the cheer of their light without paying too great a tax. Theirs is the beauty of...the morning light, and not of art.
Exp 3.69 4 The art of life has a pudency...
Exp 3.76 5 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us. Nature, art, persons, letters, religions, objects, successively tumble in...
Chr1 3.93 16 I see [in the natural merchant], with the pride of art and skill of masterly arithmetic and power of remote combination, the consciousness of being an agent and playfellow of the original laws of the world.
Nat2 3.173 16 Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty [of nature].
Nat2 3.174 19 ...it is the magical lights of the horizon and the blue sky for the background which save all our works of art...
Pol1 3.210 26 From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation.
Pol1 3.220 16 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...of institutions of art and science can be answered.
NR 3.234 1 This preference of the genius to the parts is the secret of that deification of art, which is found in all superior minds.
NR 3.234 2 Art, in the artist, is proportion...
NR 3.234 27 Homoeopathy is insignificant as an art of healing...
NR 3.244 27 ...I would have no work of art...but the best.
NER 3.270 4 [A canine appetite for knowledge] gave the scholar...the power...of literary art...
NER 3.272 3 From the triumphs of his art [the master] turns with desire to this greater defeat.
UGM 4.13 15 Napoleon said, You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
UGM 4.31 24 ...true art is only possible on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere.
PPh 4.45 10 This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art;...
PPh 4.53 10 Art was in its splendid novelty [in Greece].
PPh 4.56 2 Art expresses the one or the same by the different.
PPh 4.59 25 Socrates' profession of obstetric art is good philosophy;...
PPh 4.59 27 ...[Plato's] finding that word cookery, and adulatory art, for rhetoric, in the Gorgias, does us a substantial service still.
PPh 4.65 4 What value [Plato] gives to the art of gymnastic in education;...
PPh 4.69 1 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images, that is, both shadows and reflections;--for the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants, animals, and the works of art and nature.
PPh 4.69 23 [Plato] has the same regard to [ascension] as the source of excellence in works of art.
PPh 4.75 23 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates, to which unquestionably his own debt was great; and these derived again their principal advantage from the perfect art of Plato.
PPh 4.77 11 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world passed through the mind of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have the Platonic tinge; every atom, every relation or quality you knew before, you shall know again and find here, but now ordered; not nature, but art.
SwM 4.107 14 The whole art of the plant is still to repeat leaf on leaf without end...
MoS 4.151 1 In powerful moments, [the genius's] thought has dissolved the works of art and nature into their causes...
MoS 4.161 7 The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of...what is best in the planet; art and nature, places and events;...
ShP 4.194 4 The poet needs a ground in popular tradition...which...may restrain his art within the due temperance.
ShP 4.194 24 As soon as the statue was begun for itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to decline...
ShP 4.207 24 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him...
NMW 4.229 24 The art of war was the game in which [Bonaparte] exerted his arithmetic.
NMW 4.249 6 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own courage, and it only requires a slight opportunity, a pretence, to restore confidence to them. The art is, to give rise to the opportunity and to invent the pretence.
NMW 4.250 1 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it. He gave a subject, and the discussions turned on questions of religion, the different kinds of government, and the art of war.
GoW 4.274 19 [Goethe] has explained the distinction between the antique and the modern spirit and art.
GoW 4.274 20 [Goethe] has defined art, its scope and laws.
GoW 4.287 17 This lawgiver of art [Goethe] is not an artist.
ET1 5.6 5 ...[Greenough] thought art would never prosper until we left our shy jealous ways and worked in society as [the Greeks].
ET1 5.6 11 [Greenough] was...impatient of Gothic art.
ET1 5.6 15 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture, published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr. Ruskin on the morality in architecture, notwithstanding the antagonism in their views of the history of art.
ET1 5.7 22 In art, [Landor] loves the Greeks...
ET3 5.34 5 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in;...the latter because art conquers nature...
ET3 5.38 10 In the history of art it is a long way from a cromlech to York minster;...
ET4 5.56 18 Bonaparte's art of war, namely of concentrating force on the point of attack, must always be theirs who have the choice of the battle-ground.
ET4 5.70 20 ...hunting is the fine art of every Englishman of condition.
ET5 5.79 22 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
ET5 5.89 14 When Thor and his companions arrive at Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art, and excel in it all other men.
ET5 5.89 18 A nation of laborers, every [English] man is trained to some one art or detail...
ET5 5.89 24 [The Englishman] would rather not do anything at all than not do it well. I suppose no people have such thoroughness;--from the highest to the lowest, every man meaning to be master of his art.
ET5 5.93 10 There is no department of literature, of science, or of useful art, in which [the English] have not produced a first-rate book.
ET5 5.98 11 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a work of art;...
ET5 5.100 26 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture...or in art...
ET5 5.101 21 Whilst [the English] are some ages ahead of the rest of the world in the art of living;...this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold...
ET8 5.127 8 [The English], too, believe that where there is no enjoyment of life there can be no vigor and art in speech or thought;...
ET8 5.130 7 ...these [lower] classes are the right English stock, and may fairly show the national qualities, before yet art and education have dealt with them.
ET8 5.135 19 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...removing the reproach of sterility from English art...
ET8 5.142 20 ...not creators in art, [the English] value its refinement.
ET10 5.155 10 The respect for truth of facts in England is equalled only by the respect for wealth. It is at once the pride of art of the Saxon...and his passion for independence.
ET11 5.182 4 A multitude of town palaces [in London] contain inestimable galleries of art.
ET11 5.185 22 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men... who...have seen every secret of art and nature...
ET11 5.188 6 ...[the English nobility] are they...who gather and protect works of art...
ET11 5.196 5 The great powers of industrial art have no exclusion of name or blood.
ET12 5.212 11 The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.
ET12 5.213 13 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...to give veracity to art and charm mankind...
ET14 5.235 19 To the images from this twin source (of Christianity and art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of the Holy Ghost.
ET14 5.237 7 ...the Greek art wrought many a vase or column, in which too long or too lithe, or nodes, or pits and flaws are made a beauty of;...
ET14 5.241 12 ...[Pericles] meeting with Anaxagoras...he attached himself to him, and nourished himself with sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence; and imported thence into the oratorical art whatever could be useful to it.
ET16 5.274 3 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give some time to works of art collected here [in London] which they cannot find at home...
ET16 5.274 7 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit.
ET16 5.274 13 As soon as men begin to talk of art, architecture and antiquities, nothing good comes of it [according to Carlyle].
ET16 5.285 22 Salisbury [Cathedral] is now esteemed the culmination of the Gothic art in England...
ET16 5.286 2 The rule of art is that a colonnade is more beautiful the longer it is...
F 6.31 6 [Men] are under one dominion...in art...
F 6.33 4 ...whilst art draws out the venom, it commonly extorts some benefit from the vanquished enemy.
Pow 6.54 18 All the great captains, said Bonaparte, have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of the art...
Pow 6.56 22 The advantage of a strong pulse is not to be supplied by any labor, art or concert.
Pow 6.72 16 This aboriginal might gives a surprising pleasure when it appears under conditions of supreme refinement, as in the proficients in high art.
Pow 6.72 18 When Michel Angelo was forced to paint the Sistine Chapel in fresco, of which art he knew nothing, he went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
Pow 6.73 8 There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
Pow 6.78 22 A humorous friend of mine thinks that the reason why Nature is so perfect in her art, and gets up such inconceivably fine sunsets, is that she has learned how, at last, by dint of doing the same thing so very often.
Wth 6.85 19 Wealth has its source in applications of the mind to nature, from the rudest strokes of spade and axe up to the last secrets of art.
Wth 6.86 3 ...the mind acts...in the creation of finer values by fine art...
Wth 6.86 6 ...the art of getting rich consists not in industry...but in a better order...
Wth 6.96 13 It is the interest of all men that there should be Vaticans and Louvres full of noble works of art;...
Wth 6.97 19 ...how to give all access to the masterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.
Wth 6.98 24 In the Greek cities it was reckoned profane that any person should pretend a property in a work of art...
Wth 6.100 18 Probity and closeness to the facts are the basis, but the masters of the art [of commerce] add a certain long arithmetic.
Wth 6.114 16 Art is a jealous mistress...
Wth 6.119 11 A master in each art is required...
Wth 6.121 16 How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position;...
Wth 6.121 20 On this art of nature all our arts rely.
Ctr 6.139 8 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...with the high resources of philosophy, art and religion;...
Ctr 6.143 25 ...fencing, riding, are lessons in the art of power...
Bhr 6.178 24 ...there is no end to the catalogue of [the eye's] performances, whether in indolent vision (that of health and beauty), or in strained vision (that of art and labor).
Bhr 6.182 18 Palaces interest us mainly in the exhibition of manners, which, in the idle and expensive society dwelling in them, are raised to a high art.
Bhr 6.182 21 A calm and resolute bearing...and the art of hiding all uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier;...
Wsp 6.209 3 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the rat and mouse revelation, thumps in table-drawers, and black art.
CbW 6.270 26 Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors...
CbW 6.276 17 ...whatever art you select...all are attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are apt;...
Bty 6.288 25 ...the working of this deep instinct makes all the excitement... about works of art...
Bty 6.290 15 The lesson taught by the study of...Gothic art...was worth all the research,--namely, that all beauty must be organic;...
Bty 6.294 17 ...our art saves material by more skilful arrangement...
Bty 6.294 22 In rhetoric, this art of omission is a chief secret of power...
Bty 6.294 26 In all design, art lies in making your object prominent...
Bty 6.294 27 In all design, art lies in making your object prominent, but there is a prior art in choosing objects that are prominent.
Bty 6.296 3 The felicities of design in art or in works of nature are shadows or forerunners of that beauty which reaches its perfection in the human form.
Bty 6.300 13 If...art...exist in the most deformed person, all the accidents that usually displease, please...
Ill 6.323 6 I prefer...to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry and art.
SS 7.3 4 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that the name which that fine work of art bore in the catalogues was a misnomer...
Civ 7.17 19 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again/...
Civ 7.21 20 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. ... Invention and art are born...
Civ 7.26 13 ...there have been learning, philosophy and art in Iceland, and in the tropics.
Art2 7.39 7 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no art;...
Art2 7.41 3 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. That is a true account of all just works of useful art.
Art2 7.43 4 [Man's] art is the least part of his work of art.
Art2 7.44 1 Eloquence, as far as it is a fine art, is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...
Art2 7.44 13 The art [in sculpture and architecture] resides in the model, in the plan;...
Art2 7.45 14 Another deduction from the genius of the artist is what is conventional in his art...
Art2 7.45 15 Another deduction from the genius of the artist is what is conventional in his art, of which there is much in every work of art.
Art2 7.46 25 It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist...is as much surprised at the effect as we are, that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the author.
Art2 7.48 7 Let us proceed to the consideration of the law stated in the beginning of this essay, as it affects the purely spiritual part of a work of art.
Art2 7.48 8 ...in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature...
Art2 7.48 12 ...so in art that aims at beauty must the parts be subordinated to Ideal Nature...
Art2 7.49 19 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself;...
Art2 7.50 13 A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being...
Art2 7.50 18 ...every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...
Art2 7.51 1 The mind that made the world is not one mind, but the mind. And every work of art is a more or less pure manifestation of the same.
Art2 7.51 5 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature...
Art2 7.51 13 ...a study of admirable works of art sharpens our perceptions of the beauty of Nature;...
Art2 7.51 16 ...the contemplation of a work of great art draws us into a state of mind which may be called religious.
Art2 7.51 23 If the earth and sea conspire with virtue more than vice,--so do the masterpieces of art.
Art2 7.52 19 The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.
Art2 7.53 13 ...every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
Art2 7.53 25 ...each work of art sprang irresistibly from necessity...
Art2 7.56 15 Who cares, who knows what works of art our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol?
Elo1 7.64 4 Isocrates described his art as the power of magnifying what was small and diminishing what was great...
Elo1 7.64 7 Among the Spartans, the art [of eloquence] assumed a Spartan shape, namely, of the sharpest weapon.
Elo1 7.64 17 Plato's definition of rhetoric is, the art of ruling the minds of men.
Elo1 7.69 16 ...in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art [of eloquence].
Elo1 7.71 6 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard...
Elo1 7.91 4 If you arm the man with the extraordinary weapons of this art [of oratory]...all these talents...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
Elo1 7.92 9 For the triumphs of the art [of eloquence] somewhat more must still be required...
Elo1 7.93 2 The possession the subject has of [the eloquent man's] mind is so entire that it insures an order of expression which is the order of Nature itself, and so the order...inimitable by any art.
Elo1 7.98 19 ...I do not accept that definition of Isocrates, that the office of his art [of eloquence] is to make the great small and the small great;...
Elo1 7.99 9 Eloquence, like every other art, rests on laws the most exact and determinate.
DL 7.106 1 What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood!
DL 7.106 26 ...by beautiful traits, which without art yet seem the masterpieces of wisdom...the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
DL 7.108 9 It is easier...to criticise [a territory's] polity, books, art, than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
DL 7.130 17 Why should we convert ourselves into showmen and appendages to our fine houses and our works of art?
WD 7.157 13 The eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose.
WD 7.161 14 Art and power will go on as they have done...
WD 7.162 18 This thousand-handed art has introduced a new element into the state.
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 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...
Clbs 7.240 26 Every variety of gift--science, religion, politics, letters, art, prudence, war or love--has its vent and exchange in conversation.
Cour 7.268 12 There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture, in sculpture...
Suc 7.283 24 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which... enriches the community with a new art;...
Suc 7.294 3 Is there no loving...of art...for itself alone?
Suc 7.294 14 If the artist, in whatever art, is well at work on his own design, it signifies little that he does not yet find orders or customers.
Suc 7.295 1 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency. He has thereby...got the appointment; but you have raised yourself into a higher school of art...
Suc 7.297 1 There is no...art, city...but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
Suc 7.308 15 We may apply this affirmative law to letters...to art...
Suc 7.308 22 I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and churches.
Suc 7.310 4 The painter Giotto...renewed art because he put more goodness into his heads.
OA 7.320 25 Life and art are cumulative;...
PI 8.26 18 ...when we describe man as poet, and credit him with the triumphs of the art, we speak of the potential or ideal man...
PI 8.33 23 We want design, and do not forgive the bards if they have only the art of enamelling.
PI 8.39 19 Is the solar system good art and architecture?...
PI 8.39 22 We cannot look at works of art but they teach us how near man is to creating.
SA 8.82 12 No art can contravene [thought] or conceal it.
SA 8.90 3 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...magic,theism, art...
SA 8.92 27 In this art of conversation, Woman...is the lawgiver.
SA 8.96 4 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will adopt the art of war that has defeated you.
Elo2 8.112 3 [Debate] is eminently the art which only flourishes in free countries.
Elo2 8.112 20 ...the political questions...find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures, and make them intelligible and acceptable to the electors. So of education, of art, of philanthropy.
Elo2 8.115 11 ...I think every one of us can remember when our first experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper of the first master of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear in the court-house or in the caucus.
Elo2 8.118 18 All men are competitors in this art [of eloquence].
Elo2 8.119 2 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do.
Elo2 8.119 19 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat, and moreover...an art of husbanding it...
Elo2 8.120 10 ...there are physical advantages,--some eminently leading to this art [of eloquence].
Elo2 8.130 8 He who would convince the worthy Mr. Dunderhead of any truth which Dunderhead does not see, must be a master of his art.
Elo2 8.132 25 ...here [in the United States] are the service of science, the demands of art, and the lessons of religion to be brought home to the instant practice of thirty millions of people.
Res 8.151 20 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself by a little knowledge of Nature, or a great deal, if he can; of birds, plants, rocks, astronomy; in short, the art of taking a walk.
Comc 8.170 14 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of Diderot, who believes...that the sole end of art, virtue and poetry is to put something for mastication between the upper and lower mandibles.
QO 8.179 27 In a hundred years, millions of men, and...not an art of education that fulfils the conditions.
QO 8.184 10 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument, inventing and disposing what seemed fit to be said upon that subject, before he read the book; then, reading, compared his own with the author's, and noted his own defects and the author's art and fulness;...
QO 8.188 2 Is...all art Chinese imitation?...
QO 8.200 18 Goethe frankly said, What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius?
QO 8.201 8 [The individual] must draw the elements into him for food, and, if they be granite and silex, will prefer them cooked by sun and rain, by time and art, to his hand.
QO 8.203 20 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears.
PC 8.220 1 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science, art or function are often little known to the world...
Insp 8.275 2 The artists must be sacrificed to their art.
Insp 8.277 17 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit...
Grts 8.302 15 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but...the creation of laws, institutions, letters and art.
Imtl 8.329 24 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;...
Imtl 8.341 20 Art is long, says the thinker, and life is short.
Imtl 8.347 14 He has [immortality], and he alone, who gives life to all names, persons, things, where he comes. No religion, not the wildest mythology dies for him; no art is lost.
Dem1 10.12 3 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words, and it stood up and brought him water, and turned a spit, and carried bundles, doing all the work of a slave. What is this but a prophecy of the progress of art?
Dem1 10.25 9 [Animal Magnetism] becomes...a black art.
Aris 10.32 3 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in a gentleman...
Aris 10.45 16 He who understands the art of war, reckons the hostile battalions and cities, opportunities and spoils.
PerF 10.69 14 Art is long, and life short...
PerF 10.78 12 What a power [is Imagination], when, combined with the analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence; the art of compelling belief...
PerF 10.78 13 What a power [is Imagination], when, combined with the analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence;...the art of making peoples' hearts dance to his pipe!
PerF 10.81 5 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day;...
Edc1 10.126 2 The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost...at last, the ripest results of art and science.
Edc1 10.127 3 For a thousand years the islands and forests of a great part of the world have been filled with savages who made no steps of advance in art or skill beyond the necessity of being fed and warmed.
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 10.142 9 Let [the solitary man] study the art of solitude...
Edc1 10.146 6 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...
Edc1 10.149 9 Nature provided for the communication of thought, by planting with it in the receiving mind a fury to impart it. 'T is so in every art, in every science.
Supl 10.172 23 Our travelling is a sort of search for the superlatives or summits of art...
SovE 10.187 3 'T is a long scale...from the gorilla...to the sanctities of religion...the summits of science, art and poetry.
SovE 10.192 11 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment...and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early...and to multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it never comes-any more than poetry or art.
Prch 10.226 17 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
Prch 10.238 5 The open secret of the world is the art of subliming a private soul with inspirations from the great and public and divine Soul from which we live.
MoL 10.243 23 The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a scale which dwarfs our art...
MoL 10.246 13 Napoleon knows the art of war, but should not be put on picket duty.
MoL 10.252 11 Gentlemen, I am here to commend to you your art and profession as thinkers.
MoL 10.252 12 ...I am here to commend to you your art and profession as thinkers. It is real. It is the secret of power. It is the art of command.
Schr 10.265 3 [Poets] have no toleration for literature; art is only a fine word for appearance in default of matter.
Schr 10.270 12 For [the poet] arms, art, politics, trade, waited like menials...
Schr 10.279 11 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character... so that presently...talent is mistaken for genius...sensuality for art;...
Schr 10.284 22 Happy for more than yourself, a benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry;...
Plu 10.300 24 [Plutarch's] style is realistic, picturesque and varied; his sharp objective eyes seeing everything that moves, shines or threatens in nature or art, or thought or dreams.
Plu 10.303 13 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which uses the violence of war, of earthquakes and changed water-courses, to save underground through barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
LLNE 10.351 15 Poverty shall be abolished [by Fourierism]; deformity, stupidity and crime shall be no more. Genius, grace, art, shall abound...
LLNE 10.355 20 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers...
LLNE 10.359 6 ...if one must study all the strokes to be laid, all the faults to be shunned in a building or work of art...there would be no end.
LLNE 10.364 14 It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction, art, music, poetry, reading, masquerade, did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
LLNE 10.364 22 The art of letter-writing, it is said, was immensely cultivated [at Brook Farm].
EzRy 10.394 25 [Ezra Ripley] did not know when he was good in prayer or sermon, for he had no literature and no art;...
SlHr 10.446 28 No art or practice of the farm was unknown to [Samuel Hoar]...
Thor 10.452 26 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living well.
Thor 10.464 20 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;...
Carl 10.497 12 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question for wise men, instead of art and fine fancies and poetry and such things, to address themselves to the problem of society.
War 11.153 5 The strong tribe, in which war has become an art, attack and conquer their neighbors...
War 11.153 11 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues and abilities, and the tribe makes long strides. And, finally...all its secrets of wisdom and art are disseminated by its invasions.
War 11.157 9 ...learning and art, and especially religion weave ties that make war look like fratricide, as it is.
War 11.157 25 ...the art of war...has made...battles less frequent and less murderous.
FSLC 11.213 3 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their forts and factories have been set up,-represents London, represents the art, power and law of Europe.
ACiv 11.304 22 We are advanced some ages on the war-state,-to trade, art and general cultivation.
SMC 11.351 3 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak;...
EdAd 11.387 22 Bad as it is, this freedom [in America] leads onward and upward,-to a Columbia of thought and art...
Wom 11.407 7 When women engage in any art or trade, it is usually as a resource, not as a primary object.
Wom 11.407 27 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece.
Wom 11.408 19 ...there is an art which is better than painting, poetry, music, or architecture...namely, Conversation.
Wom 11.410 10 ...[Women] are always making...that state of art, of decoration...in which they best appear.
Wom 11.411 27 For [woman] the seas their pearls reveal,/ Art and strange lands her pomp supply/ With purple, chrome and cochineal,/ Ochre and lapis lazuli./
Wom 11.418 19 ...there are multitudes of men who live to objects quite out of them, as...to letters or an art...
SHC 11.431 22 ...there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters, where art has been employed only to remove superfluities...
SHC 11.436 16 Life is not long enough for art, nor long enough for friendship.
RBur 11.442 20 ...[Burns] had that secret of genius to draw from the bottom of society the strength of its speech, and astonish the ears of the polite with these artless words, better than art...
ChiE 11.474 8 [Asian immigrants] send back to their friends, in China, money, new products of art, new tools...
FRO1 11.476 10 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language falters under it,/ It leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find/ The measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./
CPL 11.497 9 Every faculty casts itself into an art...
CPL 11.497 10 Every faculty casts itself into an art, and memory into the art of writing...
CPL 11.506 23 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...these tractable prophets, historians, and singers, whose embalmed life is the highest feat of art;...
FRep 11.513 13 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...
FRep 11.513 22 Our sleepy civilization...has built its whole art of war...on that one compound [gunpowder]...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times. As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could change the art of war again...
FRep 11.522 9 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can be...no danger from any excess of importation of art or learning into a country of such native strength...
FRep 11.544 15 ...every useful, every elegant art...will find their home in our institutions...
PLT 12.60 13 That wonderful oracle [the divine soul] will reply when it is consulted, and there is...no rule of life or art or science, on which it is not a competent and the only competent judge.
II 12.68 7 ...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or other works of fine art, the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences.
II 12.69 7 The whole art of man has been an art of excitation...
II 12.71 5 In the healthy mind, the thought...appears...in art, in books.
II 12.73 24 ...when we consider who and what the professors of that art usually are, does it not seem as if music falls accidentally and superficially on its artists?
II 12.77 21 The old law of science, Imperat parendo, we command by obeying, is forever true; and by faithful serving, we shall complete our noviciate to this subtle art.
II 12.79 7 ...you shall not speak of any work of art except in its presence;...
II 12.83 13 An enthusiastic workman dignifies his art and arrives at results.
II 12.86 9 His art shall suffice this artist...
Mem 12.96 19 ...another man's memory is the history of science and art and civility and thought;...
Mem 12.104 11 The memory has a fine art of sifting out the pain and keeping all the joy.
Mem 12.105 7 Every artist is alive on the subject of his art.
CInt 12.114 11 Michael Angelo gave himself to art...
CInt 12.119 11 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song...
CInt 12.123 26 ...the idea of a college is an assembly of such men, obedient each to this pure light [of thought], and drawing from it illumination to that science or art to which his constitution and affections draw him.
CInt 12.124 12 ...there is a certain shyness...of a master of art in colleges...
CInt 12.126 11 Everything will be permitted there [at Harvard College] which goes to adorn Boston Whiggism,-is it...antiquities, art, rhetoric.
CL 12.146 4 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...
CL 12.158 21 [Taking a walk] is a fine art...
CL 12.161 2 ...in all works of human art there is deduction to be made for blunder and falsehood.
CL 12.161 5 ...Goethe, whose whole life was a study of the theory of art, said no man should be admitted to his Republic, who was not versed in Natural History.
CW 12.177 12 [Walking] is a fine art;...
Bost 12.197 23 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 whatever is pure and sublime in art...
Bost 12.199 22 What should hinder that this America...the firm shore hid until science and art should be ripe to propose it as a fixed aim...should have its happy ports...
Bost 12.201 1 There is a Columbia of thought and art and character...
MAng1 12.218 15 Every great work of art seems to take up into itself the excellencies of all works...
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 12.221 25 Man is the highest, and indeed the only proper object of plastic art.
MAng1 12.222 17 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias...
MAng1 12.223 25 Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades, but a thorough acquaintance with all the secrets of the art [of architecture]...
MAng1 12.229 9 Sculpture, [Michelangelo] called his art...
MAng1 12.233 11 [Michelangelo] never made but one portrait...because he abhorred to draw a likeness unless it were of infinite beauty. Such was his devotion to art.
MAng1 12.234 3 The sublimity of [Michelangelo's] art is in his life.
MAng1 12.239 21 ...the reputation of many works of art now in Italy derives a sanction from the tradition of [Michelangelo's] praise.
MAng1 12.242 25 ...art was to [Michelangelo] no means of livelihood or road to fame, but the end of living...
Milt1 12.253 3 ...every masterpiece of art goes on for some ages reconciling the world into itself...
Milt1 12.255 27 ...we are tempted to say that art and not life seems to be the end of [German writers'] effort.
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 9 Milton...delicately bred in all the elegancy of art and learning, was set down in England in the stern, almost fanatic society of the Puritans.
ACri 12.283 19 In this art [writing] modern society has introduced a new element, by introducing a new audience.
ACri 12.297 13 The best service Carlyle has rendered is to rhetoric, or art of writing.
ACri 12.302 19 [Channing] thinks...that the only art is landscape-painting.
ACri 12.303 8 The art of writing is the highest of those permitted to man as drawing directly from the soul...
ACri 12.303 24 Classic art is the art of nec