MN 1.196 3 Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line, and will bore an Artesian well through our conventions and theories...
Wsp 6.228 23 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what...their natures say, though their busy, artful, Yankee understandings try to hold back and choke that word...
WD 7.179 16 ...if a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundations of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
PI 8.61 8 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] Whilst I served King Arthur, I was well known by you...
PI 8.62 13 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free. Certes, Merlin, replied Sir Gawain, of that I am right sorrowful, and so will King Arthur, my uncle, be...
PI 8.62 26 Now then go in the name of God [said Merlin], who will protect and save the King Arthur...
ET4 5.55 19 ...[The Celts] made the best popular literature of the Middle Ages in the songs of Merlin and the tender and delicious mythology of Arthur.
ET7 5.117 25 Geoffrey of Monmouth says of King Aurelius, uncle of Arthur, that above all things he hated a lie.
ET12 5.200 22 [Oxford's] foundations date...from Arthur, if, as is alleged, the Pheryllt of the Druids had a seminary here.
Cour 7.255 14 There is a Hercules...an Arthur...in the mythology of every nation;...
OA 7.317 12 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a babe found exposed in a basket by the river-side...
Insp 8.295 17 ...read Hafiz and the Trouveurs; nay, Welsh and British mythology of Arthur...
Plu 10.318 6 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of Arthur, Saxon Alfred...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
PI 8.60 12 ...in Morte d'Arthur, I remember nothing so well as Sir Gawain' s parley with Merlin in his wonderful prison...
Insp 8.291 11 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...
ShP 4.193 3 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history, from the chronicles of Brut and Arthur, down to the royal Henries, which men hear eagerly;...
PC 8.213 24 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the opposite province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...
PI 8.60 15 After the disappearance of Merlin from King Arthur's court he was seriously missed...
DL 7.123 3 In the old fables we used to read of a cloak brought from fairy-land as a gift for the fairest and purest in Prince Arthur's court.
SwM 4.121 6 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic notion;...a cat means this; and ostrich that; an artichoke this other;...
MN 1.202 16 ...one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...and whether it be quite worth while to make more, and glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
MR 1.231 23 ...in the Spanish islands...no article passes into our ships which has not been fraudulently cheapened.
Tran 1.349 7 Each cause as it is called...say Calvinism, or Unitarianism- becomes speedily a little shop, where the article...is now made up into portable and convenient cakes...
Int 2.334 18 ...our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond;...
Pol1 3.200 20 The statute stands there to say, Yesterday we agreed so and so, but how feel ye this article to-day?
UGM 4.4 26 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new article.
ET5 5.84 25 Every article of cutlery [in England] shows, in its shape, thought and long experience of workmen.
ET8 5.133 24 The common Englishman is prone to forget a cardinal article in the bill of social rights, that every man has a right to his own ears.
ET12 5.202 13 It is usual for a nobleman, or indeed for almost every wealthy student [at Oxford], on quitting college to leave behind him some article of plate;...
Pow 6.71 24 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it cannot be spared...
Wsp 6.209 20 When Paul Leroux offered his article Dieu to the conductor of a leading French journal, he replied, La question de Dieu manque d' actualite.
Clbs 7.234 22 ...I am to say that there may easily be obstacles in the way of finding the pure article [good company] we are in search of...
Cour 7.255 23 ...the pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct... is the endowment of elevated characters.
Insp 8.269 2 It was Watt who told King George III. that he dealt in an article of which kings were said to be fond,-Power.
PerF 10.79 20 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years succeeded in his production of the right article for commerce...
LLNE 10.345 24 [The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for himself...he should give of the commodity to any applicant, and in turn go to his neighbor for any article which he had to spare.
HDC 11.65 18 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds.
HDC 11.67 22 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
EWI 11.102 6 From the earliest time, the negro has been an article of luxury to the commercial nations.
EWI 11.131 10 ...the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States ordains in terms, that, The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
Shak1 11.449 26 I see, among the lovers of this catholic genius [Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper knowledge invites me to hazard an article of my literary creed;...
MR 1.231 15 ...it is only necessary to ask a few questions as to the progress of the articles of commerce from the fields where they grew, to our houses, to become aware that we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud...
MR 1.231 19 How many articles of daily consumption are furnished us from the West Indies;...
Prd1 2.219 4 [Prudence] Theme no poet gladly sung,/ Fair to old and foul to young;/ Scorn not thou the love of parts,/ And the articles of arts./
NMW 4.251 14 Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia [said Bonaparte].
ET1 5.21 16 I inquired if [Wordsworth] had read Carlyle's critical articles and translations.
ET15 5.267 7 The tone of [the London Times's] articles has often been the occasion of comment from the official organs of the continental courts...
ET15 5.268 5 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom. But...all the articles appear to proceed from a single will.
Wth 6.88 1 Wealth begins with these articles of necessity.
Wth 6.97 26 There are many articles good for occasional use, which few men are able to own.
DL 7.131 21 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...where it has its proper place among hundreds of such donations from other citizens who have brought thither whatever articles they have judged to be in their nature rather a public than a private property.
Res 8.143 21 The emancipation has brought a whole nation of negroes as customers to buy all the articles which once their few masters bought...
Comc 8.166 13 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch,/ Against the articles in force/ Between both churches, his and ours/...
Supl 10.177 11 The costume [of the East], the articles in which wealth is displayed, are in the same extremes.
HDC 11.80 11 [The people of Concord] fell into a common error...that the remedy was...to prescribe by law the prices of articles.
HDC 11.82 3 In 1780, a constitution of the State [Massachusetts]...was accepted by the town [Concord], with the reservation of some articles.
EWI 11.109 24 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce.
EWI 11.124 18 [The negroes] seemed created by Providence to bear the heat and the whipping, and make these fine articles.
JBB 11.268 18 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence;...
ET13 5.214 8 ...English life...does not grow out of the Athanasian creed, or the Articles...
MN 1.218 22 Nature is a mute, and man, her articulate, speaking brother, lo! he also is a mute.
Lov1 2.176 19 Every bird on the boughs of the tree sings now to [the lover' s] heart and soul. The notes are almost articulate.
Bhr 6.169 4 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure, movement and gesture of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech.
EWI 11.147 21 The sentiment of Right...ever more articulate...pronounces Freedom.
SHC 11.435 16 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century...heroes, poets, beauties, sanctities, benefactors, will have made the air timeable and articulate.
MLit 12.334 5 Verily [the Doctrine of the Life of Man] will not long want articulate and melodious expression.
PI 8.8 3 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest, from the fluid in an elastic sack, from radiate, mollusk, articulate, vertebrate, up to man;...
SL 2.157 14 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe;...
Int 2.343 5 ...a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates; but in the eloquent man, because he can articulate it, it seems something the less to reside...
Pt1 3.20 2 The world being thus put under the mind for verb and noun, the poet is he who can articulate it.
Wsp 6.228 25 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what...their natures say, though their...understandings try to...articulate something different.
SS 7.14 21 I know that my friend can talk eloquently; you know that he cannot articulate a sentence: we have seen him in different company.
DSA 1.142 2 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...that it is behooted and behowled, and not a trait, not a word of it articulated.
GoW 4.264 6 Whatever can be thought...still rises for utterance, though to rude and stammering organs. If they cannot compass it, it waits and works, until at last it moulds them to its perfect will and is articulated.
ALin 11.335 20 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people];...the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart, the thought of their minds articulated by his tongue.
Pol1 3.201 3 ...as fast as the public mind is opened to more intelligence, the code is seen to be brute and stammering. It speaks not articulately, and must be made to.
OA 7.317 16 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise...though an infant of only a few days, speaks articulately to those who discover him...
Int 2.343 4 ...a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates;...
FRep 11.515 13 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then the cannon articulates its explosions with the voice of a man...and the better code of laws at last records the victory.
PLT 12.35 5 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave, massive, without hands or fingers or articulating lips or teeth or tongue;...
PPh 4.46 7 If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
SwM 4.126 26 [To Swedenborg] The angels, from the sound of the voice, know a man's love; from the articulation of the sound, his wisdom;...
GoW 4.282 2 What signifies...that [the writer's] method or his tropes are inadequate? That message will find method and imagery, articulation and melody.
Elo1 7.92 23 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It... perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.
Milt1 12.252 25 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told, in the diamond sharpness of every articulation, that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible;...
ET1 5.16 12 ...[Carlyle] liked Nero's death, Qualis artifex pereo! better than most history.
ET5 5.78 22 No artifice...is suffered in the island [England].
Wth 6.106 9 ...artifice or legislation punishes itself by reactions, gluts and bankruptcies.
Elo2 8.130 14 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.
PPh 4.69 24 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful.
Edc1 10.134 10 If [a man] is jovial...if he is...a cunning artificer...society has need of all these.
PPh 4.66 6 Such as were fit to govern, into their composition the informing Deity mingled gold;...iron and brass for husbandmen and artificers.
ET3 5.42 23 ...there is such an artificial completeness in this nation of artificers [England] as if there were a design from the beginning to elaborate a bigger Birmingham.
Thor 10.481 27 [Thoreau]...became very jealous of cities and the sad work which their refinements and artifices made with man and his dwelling.
Nat 1.31 14 These facts may suggest the advantage which the country-life possesses...over the artificial and curtailed life of cities.
YA 1.381 24 On one side is agricultural chemistry...offering, by means of a teaspoonful of artificial guano, to turn a sandbank into corn;...
Pt1 3.18 25 ...the poet, who re-attaches things to nature and the Whole,--re-attaching even artificial things and violation of nature, to nature, by a deeper insight,--disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts.
Nat2 3.182 19 We talk of deviations from natural life, as if artificial life were not also natural.
Pol1 3.219 9 The tendencies of the times...leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution; which work with more energy than we believe whilst we depend on artificial restraints.
Pol1 3.220 25 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things, to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system;...
NR 3.242 6 After taxing Goethe as a courtier, artificial, unbelieving, worldly,--I took up this book of Helena, and found him an Indian of the wilderness...
NER 3.258 8 ...the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.
GoW 4.275 19 In optics again [Goethe] rejected the artificial theory of seven colors...
ET3 5.42 23 ...there is such an artificial completeness in this nation of artificers [England] as if there were a design from the beginning to elaborate a bigger Birmingham.
ET5 5.94 1 A proof of the energy of the British people is the highly artificial construction of the whole fabric.
ET5 5.95 2 The native [English] cattle are extinct, but the island is full of artificial breeds.
ET5 5.96 6 Artificial aids of all kinds are cheaper [in England] than the natural resources.
ET5 5.97 3 The nearer we look, the more artificial is [the Englishmen's] social system.
ET5 5.98 7 [The Englishmen's] church is artificial.
ET5 5.98 8 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;...
ET10 5.169 13 What befalls from the violence of financial crises, befalls daily in the violence of artificial legislation.
ET11 5.189 8 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced...the artificial replenishment of lakes and ponds with fish...
ET14 5.251 8 ...the artificial succor which marks all English performance appears in letters also...
Wth 6.110 10 ...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and stoppages.
Art2 7.42 7 Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what is artificial in man's life seems insignificant.
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.
Farm 7.154 5 Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
Suc 7.297 24 'T is the bane of life that natural effects are continually crowded out, and artificial arrangements substituted.
Elo2 8.114 2 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days by the torrent in the gloom of the pine-woods...
Comc 8.169 17 The multiplication of artificial wants and expenses in civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling forms, present innumerable occasions for this discrepancy [between the man and his appearance] to expose itself.
SovE 10.210 18 Such experiments as we recall are those in which some sect or dogma made the tie [with the moral principle], and that was an artificial element, which chilled and checked the union.
SovE 10.210 27 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for another who, underneath his compliances with artificial society, would dearly like to serve somebody...
Schr 10.285 13 What is the use of artificial positions?
CW 12.178 24 Cities force the growth and make [the man] talkative and entertaining, but they make him artificial.
MAng1 12.216 26 The ancient Greeks called the world kosmos, Beauty; a name which, in our artificial state of society, sounds fanciful and impertinent.
MLit 12.330 22 The limits of artificial society are never quite out of sight [in Wilhelm Meister].
ET5 5.95 10 The rivers, lakes and ponds [in England]...are artificially filled with the eggs of salmon, turbot and herring.
II 12.78 8 [Truth] is a gun with a recoil which will knock down the most nimble artillerists...
SMC 11.365 22 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery company of this town [Concord] was reorganized...
SMC 11.374 7 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken prisoner. The lines were held until the tenth, with more than usual suffering from snow and hail and intense cold, added to the annoyance of the artillery fire.
NMW 4.234 12 Sire, every regiment that approaches the heavy artillery is sacrificed: Sire, what orders?
NMW 4.234 14 Seruzier, a colonel of artillery, gives...the following sketch of a scene after the battle of Austerlitz.
NMW 4.234 20 ...the Emperor Napoleon came riding at full speed toward the artillery.
NMW 4.257 12 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power...of this demoralized Europe? It came to no result. All passed away like the smoke of his artillery...
Civ 7.23 1 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
Elo1 7.96 24 This man [the sturdy countryman]...is his own navy and artillery...
WD 7.163 1 ...we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social arrangements...
MoL 10.253 5 Does any one doubt that a good general is better than a park of artillery?
War 11.163 16 This vast apparatus of artillery...this incessant patrolling of sentinels;...seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
War 11.171 21 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through all the throats of artillery...
MAng1 12.224 16 Michael [Angelo] made such good resistance that the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato].
Wsp 6.225 7 The way to conquer the foreign artisan is, not to kill him, but to beat his work.
Wsp 6.231 7 What is vulgar...but the avarice of reward? 'T is the difference of artisan and artist...
ShP 4.191 4 Men, nations, poets, artisans, women, all have worked for [the great man]...
Clbs 7.246 23 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;... they know each his own arts, and the cunning artisans of his craft;...
FRep 11.511 16 The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic perfection;...the calico print, on designers of genius, who draw the wages of artists, not of artisans.
PLT 12.45 5 Artist natures do not weep.
AmS 1.88 11 ...neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional...
AmS 1.99 2 When the artist has exhausted his materials...he has always the resource to live.
DSA 1.147 22 There are...persons...to whom all we call art and artist, seems too nearly allied to show and by-ends...
LE 1.184 1 Let [the scholar]...be an artist superior to tricks of art.
MN 1.210 10 It is pitiful to be an artist, when by forbearing to be artists we might be vessels filled with the divine overflowings...
Hist 2.17 6 By a deeper apprehension...the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
SR 2.82 19 It was in his own mind that the artist sought his model.
SR 2.82 25 ...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done by him...he will create a house in which [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
Comp 2.108 13 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it;...that which in the study of a single artist you might not easily find...
SL 2.157 8 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.
Prd1 2.222 24 Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol, as the poet and artist and the naturalist and man of science.
Int 2.336 8 ...all [men] have some art or power of communication in their head, but only in the artist does it descend into the hand.
Art1 2.352 15 ...the artist must employ the symbols in use in his day...
Art1 2.352 22 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it will retain a certain grandeur...
Art1 2.357 2 ...as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art [of painting], I see...the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.
Art1 2.357 26 No mannerist made these varied groups and diverse original single figures. Here is the artist himself improvising...
Art1 2.359 24 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist...
Art1 2.360 5 In proportion to his force, the artist will find in his work an outlet for his proper character.
Art1 2.363 26 Art should exhilarate...awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist...
Art1 2.366 7 The old tragic Necessity, which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature,--namely...that the artist was drunk with a passion for form which he could not resist...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
Art1 2.366 11 ...the artist and the connoisseur now seek in art the exhibition of their talent...
Pt1 3.6 7 Every man should be so much an artist that he could report in conversation what had befallen him.
Pt1 3.38 23 Art is the path of the creator to his work. The paths or methods are ideal and eternal, though few men ever see them; not the artist himself for years, or for a lifetime, unless he come into the conditions.
Exp 3.56 24 That immobility and absence of elasticity which we find in the arts, we find with more pain in the artist.
Exp 3.66 7 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
Exp 3.66 23 ...if one remembers how innocently he began to be an artist, he perceives that nature joined with his enemy.
Chr1 3.108 24 Every trait which the artist recorded in stone he had seen in life...
Mrs1 3.144 18 The artist, the scholar, and, in general, the clerisy, win their way up into these places [of fashion] and get represented here, somewhat on this footing of conquest.
Nat2 3.181 15 ...the artist still goes back for materials...
NR 3.234 2 Art, in the artist, is proportion...
NR 3.234 11 In modern sculpture, picture and poetry, the beauty is miscellaneous; the artist works here and there and at all points...
NR 3.234 14 Beautiful details we must have, or no artist;...
UGM 4.7 21 The true artist has the planet for his pedestal;...
PPh 4.55 17 Every great artist has been such by synthesis.
PNR 4.81 4 With this artist [nature], time and space are cheap...
SwM 4.141 3 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must not be inferior in tone to the already known works of the artist who sculptures the globes of the firmament and writes the moral law.
GoW 4.268 27 A master likes a master, and does not stipulate whether it be orator, artist, craftsman, or king.
GoW 4.284 21 [Goethe] is the type of culture...artistic but not artist;...
GoW 4.287 17 This lawgiver of art [Goethe] is not an artist.
ET1 5.3 8 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground, with my companion, an American artist...
Pow 6.60 20 ...the torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost...
Pow 6.74 18 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness. Many an artist, lacking this, lacks all;...
Wth 6.92 16 The artist has made his picture so true that it disconcerts criticism.
Bhr 6.176 15 Every man--mathematician, artist, soldier or merchant--looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child...
Bhr 6.178 19 An artist, said Michael Angelo, must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye;...
Wsp 6.223 9 If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium and wine.
Wsp 6.231 8 What is vulgar...but the avarice of reward? 'T is the difference of artisan and artist...
Bty 6.295 10 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued from danger...
Bty 6.299 19 ...we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she...sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.
Art2 7.44 15 The art [in sculpture and architecture] resides in the model, in the plan; for it is on that the genius of the artist is expended...
Art2 7.44 23 There is a still larger deduction to be made from the genius of the artist in favor of Nature than I have yet specified.
Art2 7.45 14 Another deduction from the genius of the artist is what is conventional in his art...
Art2 7.45 27 One consideration more exhausts I believe all the deductions from the genius of the artist in any given work.
Art2 7.46 22 It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist does not feel himself to be the parent of his work...that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the author.
Art2 7.47 27 ...all the advantages to which I have adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce.
Art2 7.48 15 The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired... by all men...must disindividualize himself...
Art2 7.53 11 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it...was one of the possible forms in the Divine mind, and is now only discovered and executed by the artist...
Elo1 7.65 9 Him we call an artist who shall play on an assembly of men as a master on the keys of the piano...
Cour 7.268 16 There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture...in painting or in poetry...which yet nowise implies the presence of physical valor in the artist.
Suc 7.290 27 There was a wise man, an Italian artist, Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
Suc 7.294 14 If the artist...is well at work on his own design, it signifies little that he does not yet find orders or customers.
Suc 7.304 14 ...it has happened that the artist has often drawn in his pictures the face of the future wife whom he had not yet seen.
OA 7.328 19 ...age...finishes its works, which to every artist is a supreme pleasure.
PI 8.49 16 There is under the seeming poverty of metres an infinite variety, as every artist knows.
PC 8.219 16 The artist has always the masters in his eye...
PC 8.226 18 Every artist was first an amateur.
Insp 8.289 5 Novelty, surprise, change of scene, refresh the artist...
Insp 8.290 19 Every artist knows well some favorite retirement.
Insp 8.291 16 What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in the security of his easel or his desk!
Grts 8.317 8 William Blake the artist frankly says, I never knew a bad man in whom there was not something very good.
Dem1 10.12 26 In the hands of poets...nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us. But we should look for the style of the great artist in it...
Aris 10.52 20 Genius...the power to affect the Imagination, as possessed by the orator, the poet, the novelist or the artist,-has a royal right in all possessions and privileges...
MoL 10.255 21 We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the artist...
LLNE 10.344 13 [Theodore Parker] was no artist.
II 12.86 10 His art shall suffice this artist...
II 12.86 11 The artist must be sacrificed.
II 12.86 12 ...the artist must pay for his learning and doing with his life.
Mem 12.105 7 Every artist is alive on the subject of his art.
Mem 12.105 11 Michael Angelo, after having once seen a work of any other artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it pleased him to make use of any portion thereof, he could do so...
Mem 12.107 16 ...Fate also is an artist.
CW 12.176 2 There are two companions, with one or other of whom 't is desirable to go out on a tramp. One is an artist, that is, who has an eye for beauty.
CW 12.176 10 ...if one is so happy as to find the company of a true artist, he is a perpetual holiday and benefactor...
Bost 12.181 2 We are citizens of two fair cities, said the Genoese gentleman to a Florentine artist, and if I were not a Genoese, I should wish to be Florentine.
Bost 12.181 3 ...I, replied the artist, if I were not Florentine- You would wish to be Genoese, said the other. No, replied the artist, I should wish to be Florentine.
Bost 12.181 5 ...I, replied the artist, if I were not Florentine- You would wish to be Genoese, said the other. No, replied the artist, I should wish to be Florentine.
Bost 12.187 18 Astronomers come [to Paris] because there they can find apparatus and companions. Chemist, geologist, artist, musician, dancer, because there only are grandees and their patronage, appreciators and patrons.
MAng1 12.216 8 Above all men whose history we know, Michael Angelo presents us with the perfect image of the artist.
MAng1 12.219 26 ...to the artist it belongs by a better knowledge of anatomy, and, within anatomy, of life and thought, to acquire the power of true drawing.
MAng1 12.221 19 Those who have never given attention to the arts of design are surprised that the artist should find so much to study in a fabric of such limited parts and dimensions as the human body.
MAng1 12.224 17 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack...
MAng1 12.225 20 The excellence of the [defense] works constructed by our artist [Michelangelo] has been approved by Vauban...
MAng1 12.232 18 He alone, [Michelangelo] said, is an artist whose hands can perfectly execute what his mind has conceived;...
MAng1 12.235 7 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work...
MAng1 12.236 6 When the Pope...sent [Michelangelo] one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them back. The Pope was angry, but the artist was immovable.
Milt1 12.260 16 Michael Angelo calls him alone an artist, whose hands can execute what his mind has conceived.
ACri 12.297 3 We have an artist [Carlyle] who in this merit of which I speak [mastery of the low style] will easily cope with these celebrities.
WSL 12.348 11 ...it is not as an artist that Mr. Landor commends himself to us.
PPr 12.388 20 As a literary artist [Carlyle] has great merits...
Let 12.400 16 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius...
Let 12.401 22 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed, the sweetness of life is gone...
Art2 7.40 11 We find that the question, What is Art? leads us directly to another,--Who is the Artist?
WD 7.171 15 The sky is the varnish or glory with which the Artist has washed the whole work...
MLit 12.332 25 ...they have served [humanity] better, who assured it out of the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this majestic Artist [Goethe]...
CW 12.173 10 Here [in the Academy Garden] I [Linnaeus] admire the wisdom of the Supreme Artist...
MAng1 12.214 1 Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun concetto,/ Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio, e solo a quello arriva/ La man che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M. Angelo, Sonneto primo.
ET11 5.194 16 With the tribe of artistes, including the musical tribe, the patrician morgue [in England] keeps no terms, but excludes them.
GoW 4.284 20 [Goethe] is the type of culture...artistic but not artist;...
Nat 1.15 10 The eye is the best of artists.
MN 1.210 11 It is pitiful to be an artist, when by forbearing to be artists we might be vessels filled with the divine overflowings...
Art1 2.354 25 It is the habit of certain minds to give an all-excluding fulness to the object, the thought, the word, they alight upon, and to make that for the time the deputy of the world. These are the artists, the orators, the leaders of society.
Art1 2.363 27 ...[art's] highest effect is to make new artists.
Pt1 3.6 6 Too feeble fall the impressions of nature on us to make us artists.
Pt1 3.30 24 What a joyful sense of freedom we have when Vitruvius announces the old opinion of artists that no architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy.
ET1 5.5 16 At Florence, chief among artists I found Horatio Greenough...
ET10 5.163 19 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the taste of foreign and domestic artists, Shenstone, Pope, Brown, Loudon, Paxton,--are in the vast auction [in England]...
ET10 5.169 25 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with;...
ET14 5.254 26 ...having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away. The artists say, Nature puts them out; the scholars have become unideal.
ET14 5.256 23 ...the grave old [English] poets, like the Greek artists, heeded their designs, and less considered the finish.
Ctr 6.133 14 This distemper [egotism] is the scourge...of artists, inventors and philosophers.
CbW 6.267 12 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness,--whether it be to make baskets...or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.
Bty 6.301 27 The lives of the Italian artists...prove how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
Art2 7.50 17 The whole language of men, especially of artists...points at the belief that every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...
DL 7.130 8 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be...yielded as freely as the sunlight to all. Meantime, be it remembered, we are artists ourselves...
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 8.216 3 All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology;...
Insp 8.275 1 The artists must be sacrificed to their art.
Insp 8.290 21 ...the experience of some good artists has taught them to prefer the smallest and plainest chamber...
Schr 10.271 13 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as in the exemption of a priesthood or bards or artists from taxes and tolls levied on other men;...
LLNE 10.348 8 [Fourier] took his measure of that which all should and might enjoy...from the refinements of palaces, the wealth of universities and the triumphs of artists.
Thor 10.451 21 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston...
Wom 11.412 11 ...[women] could not be such excellent artists in this element of fancy if they did not lend and give themselves to it.
FRep 11.511 15 The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic perfection;...the calico print, on designers of genius, who draw the wages of artists...
II 12.73 25 ...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?
Bost 12.208 27 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...what fine artists...
MAng1 12.218 8 The Italian artists sanction this view of Beauty by describing it as il piu nell' uno, the many in one...
MAng1 12.221 7 The depth of [Michelangelo's] knowledge in anatomy has no parallel among the artists of modern times.
MAng1 12.239 2 It has been supposed that artists more than others are liable to this defect [lack of appreciation of the talents of others].
Let 12.401 15 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...
LE 1.159 19 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew, whereby the old...earth and its old...productions are made new every morning, and shining with the last touch of the artist's hand.
Int 2.338 2 Neither are the artist's copies from experience ever mere copies...
Art1 2.353 16 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand...
Art1 2.355 6 This...power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone. The power depends on the depth of the artist's insight of that object he contemplates.
MoS 4.151 5 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind...
PI 8.36 9 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects;...
Insp 8.287 18 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival.
JBB 11.268 14 ...every one who has heard [John Brown] speak has been impressed alike by his simple, artless goodness, joined with his sublime courage.
RBur 11.442 19 ...[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...
Art2 7.39 23 and hence Art divides itself into the Useful and the Fine Arts.
Art2 7.43 2 Let us now consider this [natural] law as it affects the works that have beauty for their end, that is, the productions of the Fine Arts.
Art2 7.43 9 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts.
MAng1 12.222 14 Our knowledge of [the human form's] highest expression we owe to the Fine Arts.
Nat 1.13 17 The useful arts are reproductions or new combinations by the wit of man, of the same natural benefactors.
Nat 1.67 19 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is...no ray upon the metaphysics...of the arts...to the mind...
AmS 1.101 7 ...[the scholar] must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts...
MN 1.191 15 We hear something too much of the results of machinery, commerce, and the useful arts.
MN 1.191 20 The rapid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire... by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest;...
Tran 1.333 25 ...[the idealist] does not respect...the church, nor charities, nor arts, for themselves;...
Tran 1.349 20 ...as no great ends are answered by the men, there is nothing noble in the arts by which they are maintained.
YA 1.365 10 The arts of engineering and of architecture are studied;...
YA 1.367 3 ...with cheap land...everything invites to the arts of agriculture...
YA 1.367 24 ...the whole force of all the arts goes to facilitate the decoration of lands and dwellings.
Hist 2.30 17 Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic arts and the migration of colonies,) [the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
SR 2.75 21 ...our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen...
SR 2.82 17 The soul created the arts wherever they have flourished.
SR 2.84 18 Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.
SR 2.86 11 The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume...
SL 2.139 27 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences...the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go on far better than now...
Lov1 2.179 26 The same fluency may be observed in every work of the plastic arts.
Prd1 2.219 4 [Prudence] Theme no poet gladly sung,/ Fair to old and foul to young;/ Scorn not thou the love of parts,/ And the articles of arts./
OS 2.275 27 Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands the sciences and arts...
Cir 2.302 21 New arts destroy the old.
Art1 2.351 5 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and fine arts...
Art1 2.351 7 ...in our fine arts, not imitation but creation is the aim.
Art1 2.353 3 No man can...produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages and arts of his time shall have no share.
Art1 2.353 25 ...the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value, as history;...
Art1 2.362 23 ...when we have said all our fine things about the arts, we must end with a frank confession that the arts, as we know them, are but initial.
Art1 2.362 24 ...the arts, as we know them, are but initial.
Art1 2.363 13 There is higher work for Art than the arts.
Art1 2.364 2 Already History is old enough to witness the old age and disappearance of particular arts.
Art1 2.364 14 ...in the works of our plastic arts...creation is driven into a corner.
Art1 2.367 24 Beauty must come back to the useful arts...
Art1 2.367 25 ...the distinction between the fine and the useful arts [must] be forgotten.
Art1 2.368 11 It is in vain that we look for genius to reiterate its miracles in the old arts;...
Pt1 3.3 11 [The umpires of tastes'] knowledge of the fine arts is some study of rules and particulars...
Exp 3.56 23 That immobility and absence of elasticity which we find in the arts, we find with more pain in the artist.
Exp 3.66 13 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
Mrs1 3.149 6 ...[a beautiful behavior] is the finest of the fine arts.
Nat2 3.186 16 We are made alive and kept alive by the same arts.
Nat2 3.190 12 ...bread and wine, mix and cook them how you will, leave us hungry and thirsty, after the stomach is full. It is the same with all our arts and performances.
Pol1 3.210 21 ...[the conservative party] does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts...
UGM 4.8 1 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid, as of health, eternal youth, fine senses, arts of healing, magical power and prophecy.
UGM 4.9 20 ...how few materials are yet used by our arts!
PPh 4.41 26 What is a great man but one of great affinities, who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables, as his food?
PPh 4.45 5 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well, in its long history of arts and arms;...
PPh 4.52 19 ...[Europe] is a land of arts, inventions, trade, freedom.
PNR 4.80 16 [The human being's] arts and sciences...look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox...
SwM 4.102 24 [Swedenborg's] superb speculation, as from a tower, over nature and arts...almost realizes his own picture...of the original integrity of man.
MoS 4.151 13 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power, [men predisposed to morals] say, Why cumber ourselves with superfluous realizations?...
GoW 4.272 8 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into Indian, Etruscan and all Cyclopean arts;...
GoW 4.284 20 [Goethe] is the type of culture, the amateur of all arts and sciences and events;...
GoW 4.285 8 ...his penetration of every secret of the fine arts will make Goethe still more statuesque.
GoW 4.290 20 The secret of genius is...in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality and a purpose;...
ET3 5.34 19 ...the new arts of intercourse meet you every where [in England];...
ET4 5.46 6 ...[the English] are still aggressive and propagandist, enlarging the dominion of their arts and liberty.
ET4 5.57 26 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people considerably advanced in rural arts...
ET4 5.60 6 History rarely yields us better passages than the conversation between King Sigurd the Crusader and King Eystein his brother, on their respective merits,--one the soldier, and the other a lover of the arts of peace.
ET5 5.79 11 ...[Kenelm Digby] was skilled in six tongues, and master of arts and arms.
ET5 5.83 21 [The English] are heavy at the fine arts, but adroit at the coarse;...
ET5 5.84 25 [The English] secure the essentials in their diet, in their arts and manufactures.
ET7 5.116 5 The German name has a proverbial significance of sincerity and honest meaning. The arts bear testimony to it.
ET8 5.141 19 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
ET9 5.151 9 [The English] govern by their arts and ability;...
ET10 5.170 21 [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;...
ET11 5.190 23 ...often [English nobles] have been the friends and patrons of genius and learning, and especially of the fine arts;...
ET13 5.223 26 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts.
ET13 5.225 6 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament. The heavens journey still and sojourn not, and arts, wars, discoveries and opinion go onward at their own pace.
ET14 5.241 3 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature...
ET14 5.248 2 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical. To convince the reason, to touch the conscience, is romantic pretension. The fine arts fall to the ground.
ET14 5.255 20 ...we have [in England] the factitious instead of the natural; tasteless expense, arts of comfort...
ET18 5.303 25 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon seed, with its instinct...for arts and for thought...
ET19 5.313 11 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so...I feel in regard to this aged England...pressed upon by...new and all incalculable modes, fabrics, arts, machines and competing populations.
Pow 6.71 17 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts...
Pow 6.77 12 ...the galvanic stream, slow but continuous, is equal in power to the electric spark, and is, in our arts, a better agent.
Pow 6.79 20 ...to have learned the arts of reckoning, by endless adding and dividing, is the power of...the clerk.
Wth 6.84 9 Then temples rose, and towns, and marts,/ The shop of toil, the hall of arts;/...
Wth 6.86 2 ...the mind acts...in directing the practice of the useful arts...
Wth 6.89 5 Wealth requires...the benefits of science, music and fine arts...
Wth 6.95 1 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...
Wth 6.97 25 The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing benefits...can be enjoyed by all. For example, the providing to each man the means and apparatus of science and of the arts.
Wth 6.98 13 There is a refining influence from the arts of Design on a prepared mind which is as positive as that of music...
Wth 6.99 25 ...this accumulated skill in arts, cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges, constitutes the worth of our world to-day.
Wth 6.121 20 On this art of nature all our arts rely.
Ctr 6.134 18 ...the student we speak to must have a mother-wit...which uses all books, arts, facilities, and elegancies of intercourse...
Ctr 6.137 26 'T is a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
Ctr 6.141 4 Our arts and tools give to him who can handle them much the same advantage over the novice as if you extended his life...
Ctr 6.144 7 There is also a negative value in these [minor] arts.
Ctr 6.147 5 As many languages as [a man] has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
Ctr 6.148 19 In town [a man] can find...the gallery of fine arts;...
Ctr 6.160 18 ...culture must reinforce from higher influx the empirical skills of eloquence...or of trade and the useful arts.
Bhr 6.170 7 ...in real life, Talma taught Napoleon the arts of behavior.
Bhr 6.195 3 How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, of arts...
Wsp 6.202 7 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in tyrannies, literatures and arts,--let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...
Wsp 6.209 5 ...the arts sink into shift and make-believe.
Wsp 6.210 22 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors...that the solid portion of society exist for the arts of comfort;...
Wsp 6.211 16 ...if an adventurer...procure himself to be elected to a post of trust...by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief,--the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
Wsp 6.216 12 ...when arts appeared...the human soul was in earnest...
Wsp 6.225 20 In every variety of human employment, in the mechanical and in the fine arts...there are the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
CbW 6.254 3 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
CbW 6.271 20 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...his suggestions require new ways of living, new books, new men, new arts and sciences;...
Bty 6.295 2 The fine arts have nothing casual...
SS 7.10 16 [A man] is to be dressed in arts and institutions...
SS 7.11 1 Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts you must frequent the public square.
Civ 7.17 6 We praise the guide, we praise the forest life:/ But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts and trained experiment/...
Civ 7.19 16 A nation that has no clothing...no arts of peace...we call barbarous.
Civ 7.19 17 ...after many arts are invented or imported, as among the Turks and Moorish nations, it is often a little complaisant to call them civilized.
Civ 7.20 25 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement,--some superior foreigner importing new and wonderful arts, and teaching them.
Civ 7.23 4 ...the multiplication of the arts of peace...fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...
Civ 7.24 18 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts...
Civ 7.29 16 All our arts aim to win this vantage. We cannot bring the heavenly powers to us, but if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which they travel, they will undertake them with the greatest pleasure.
Civ 7.33 14 These arts [of invention] add a comfort and smoothness to house and street life;...
Civ 7.33 21 Not the less the popular measures of progress will ever be the arts and the laws.
Civ 7.34 7 ...if there be...a country...where the arts, such as they have, are all imported, having no indigenous life;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
Art2 7.39 24 The useful arts comprehend not only those that lie next to instinct...but also navigation, practical chemistry...
Art2 7.40 15 I hasten to state the principle which prescribes...its firm law to the useful and the beautiful arts.
Art2 7.40 21 ...to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind. In the first place let us consider this in reference to the useful arts.
Art2 7.41 12 The first and last lesson of the useful arts is that Nature tyrannizes over our works.
Art2 7.43 11 Architecture and eloquence are mixed arts...
Art2 7.43 13 It will be seen that in each of these [fine] arts there is much which is not spiritual.
Art2 7.47 14 Our arts are happy hits.
Art2 7.47 21 ...the power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts...
Art2 7.49 3 In speaking of the useful arts, I pointed to the fact that we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength...
Art2 7.49 8 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to this, in the fine arts, is the manner of our intellectual work.
Art2 7.52 11 Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the reappearance of one mind, working in many materials...
Art2 7.55 26 It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being.
Art2 7.56 1 These arts have their origin always in some enthusiasm...
Art2 7.56 23 In this country, at this time...the arts...do not flourish.
Elo1 7.97 5 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education, not on popular arts, but on character and insight.
DL 7.111 12 The progress of domestic living has been...in countless means and arts of comfort...
DL 7.129 20 ...the household should cherish the beautiful arts and the sentiment of veneration.
DL 7.130 4 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be collected with care in galleries by the piety and taste of the people...
Farm 7.135 8 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed of rock/ And, like the chemist mid his loaded jars,/ Draw from each stratum its adapted use/ To drug their crops or weapon their arts withal./
Farm 7.137 22 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts...all men acknowledge.
Farm 7.140 26 The men in cities who are...the driving-wheels of trade, or politics or practical arts...are the children or grandchildren of farmers...
WD 7.158 9 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate. These arts open great gates of a future...
WD 7.162 1 Another result of our arts is the new intercourse which is surprising us with new solutions of the embarrassing political problems.
WD 7.166 1 Of course we resort to the enumeration of his arts and inventions as a measure of the worth of man.
WD 7.166 2 ...if, with all his arts, [man] is a felon, we cannot assume the mechanical skill or chemical resources as the measure of worth.
WD 7.166 6 What have these arts done for the character, for the worth of mankind?
WD 7.166 9 'T is sometimes questioned whether morals have not declined as the arts have ascended.
WD 7.166 10 Here are great arts and little men.
WD 7.180 12 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its face. The world has no such landscape...the future no equal second opportunity. Now let poets sing! now let arts unfold!
Boks 7.213 6 Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature.
Clbs 7.228 12 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T is pulley and lever and screw. To fairly disengage the mass, and send it jingling down, a good boulder,--a block of quartz and gold, to be worked up at leisure in the useful arts of life,--is a wonderful relief.
Clbs 7.246 23 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;... they know each his own arts, and the cunning artisans of his craft;...
Clbs 7.249 1 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views...
Suc 7.286 18 ...there is no limit to these varieties of talent. These are arts to be thankful for...
Suc 7.287 20 These boasted arts are of very recent origin.
Suc 7.288 3 These [boasted arts] are local conveniences, but how easy to go now to parts of the world where not only all these arts are wanting, but where they are despised.
Suc 7.306 26 What delights, what emancipates...is wise and good in speech and in the arts.
PI 8.40 15 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of feats and fine arts...hitherto utterly unknown to him...
PI 8.43 19 ...a being whom we have called into life by magic arts, as soon as it has received existence acts independently of the master's impulse...
PI 8.59 23 Odin taught these arts in runes or songs...
PI 8.66 24 The philosophy which a nation receives, rules its religion, poetry, politics, arts, trades and whole history.
PI 8.74 22 We too shall know how to take up...this Western civilization, into thought, as easily as men did when arts were few;...
SA 8.79 13 [Fine manners] is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of those arts.
SA 8.101 3 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who shall be masters instructed in all the great arts of life;...
Res 8.140 15 The marked events in history...the arrival among an old stationary nation of a more instructed race, with new arts:--each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
Res 8.142 19 ...our arts and productions begin to penetrate both [China and Japan].
Res 8.147 19 Against the terrors of the mob...good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.
Res 8.153 16 Resources of Man,--it is...the roll of arts and sciences;...
QO 8.178 25 We quote...arts, sciences, religion, customs and laws;...
QO 8.179 8 ...if we have arts which Rome wanted, so also Rome had arts which we have lost;...
QO 8.179 9 ...if we have arts which Rome wanted, so also Rome had arts which we have lost;...
PC 8.215 9 Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage, and which preserve their arts from immemorial traditions, vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their yam-cloths, pipes, bows...
PC 8.221 1 ...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science. The benefits thence derived to the arts and to civilization are signal and immense.
PC 8.227 19 In our daily intercourse, we...become the victims of our own arts and implements...
Insp 8.274 9 ...where is the Franklin with kite or rod for this fluid [inspiration]?-a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life...
Insp 8.293 16 In enlarged conversation we have suggestions that require... new books, new men, new arts...
Imtl 8.325 9 The chief end of man being to be buried well, the arts most in request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming...
Imtl 8.325 24 [The Greek] carried his arts to Rome, and built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii.
Imtl 8.336 16 Will you...educate your children to be adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
Imtl 8.337 25 ...I have enjoyed the benefits of all this complex machinery of arts and civilization...
Aris 10.31 24 It is not to be a man of rank, but a man of honor, accomplished in all arts and generosities, which seems to [the best young men] the right mark and the true chief of our modern society.
Aris 10.43 16 The petty arts which we blame in the half-great seem as odious to them also;...
Aris 10.54 14 In the fine arts, I find none in the present age who have any popular power...
Edc1 10.125 23 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...in the languages, in sciences, in the useful and in elegant arts.
Supl 10.177 21 ...the Orientals excel in costly arts...
SovE 10.191 9 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom, virtuous examples, symbols of useful and generous arts...
MoL 10.245 12 Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and luxury, have made life expensive...
MoL 10.252 7 ...the politician believes in his arts and combinations;...
MoL 10.252 17 Thought...is the prolific source of all arts, of all wealth, of all delight, of all grandeur.
Schr 10.277 15 I delight in men adorned and weaponed with manlike arts...
LLNE 10.329 7 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of matter, has taught us that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas. The same decomposition has changed the whole face of physics; the like in all arts, modes.
LLNE 10.369 27 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our cities and this country to-day...
MMEm 10.421 18 Our civilization is not always mending our poetry. It is sauced and spiced with our complexity of arts and inventions...
MMEm 10.425 23 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry...
MMEm 10.431 1 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have heard that the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence on the arts and sciences.
SlHr 10.441 16 ...[Samuel Hoar] disdained any arts in his speech...
HDC 11.59 11 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house, or a village; but the association of the white men and their arts of war give them an overwhelming advantage...
HDC 11.82 11 From that time [1788] to the present hour, this town [Concord] has made a slow but constant progress in...the arts of peace.
LVB 11.90 6 We have learned with joy [the Cherokees'] improvement in the social arts.
LVB 11.90 14 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees]...to borrow and domesticate in the tribe the arts and customs of the Caucasian race.
EWI 11.122 26 [The civility] of Athens...lay in an intellect dedicated to beauty. That of Asia Minor in poetry, music and arts;...
EWI 11.123 1 ...[the civility] of Rome [lay] in military arts and virtues...
EWI 11.141 2 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro;...
War 11.153 6 The strong tribe...attack and conquer their neighbors, and teach them their arts and virtues.
War 11.153 21 [Alexander's conquest of the East] carried the arts and language and philosophy of the Greeks into the sluggish and barbarous nations of Persia, Assyria and India.
War 11.153 24 [Alexander's conquest of the East] introduced the arts of husbandry among tribes of hunters and shepherds.
FSLC 11.189 25 All arts, customs, societies, books, and laws, are good as they foster and concur with this spiritual element...
FSLC 11.209 19 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted;...
AsSu 11.247 11 In [the free state], [life] is adorned with education...with arts...
ALin 11.329 11 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement; and this, not so much because nations are by modern arts brought so closely together...
EdAd 11.383 8 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power from the new arts...
EdAd 11.385 17 Our books and fine arts are imitations;...
Wom 11.408 7 ...in general, no mastery in either of the fine arts...has yet been obtained by [women], equal to the mastery of men in the same.
Wom 11.408 8 ...in general, no mastery in either of the fine arts-which should, one would say, be the arts of women-has yet been obtained by them, equal to the mastery of men in the same.
SHC 11.430 15 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.
ChiE 11.472 11 I need not mention [China's] useful arts...
FRep 11.512 26 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered,-every one of the two hundred thousand probably yet to be of utility in the arts.
FRep 11.513 26 ...if this is true in all the useful and in the fine arts, that the direction must be drawn from a superior source or there will be no good work, does it hold less in our social and civil life?
FRep 11.539 24 If our mechanic arts are unsurpassed in usefulness...let these wonders work for honest humanity...
PLT 12.34 16 [Instinct] is a taper, a spark in the great night. Yet a spark at which all the illuminations of human arts and sciences were kindled.
II 12.65 20 Consciousness is...the taper at which all the illumination of human arts and sciences was kindled.
II 12.69 2 [Instinct]...is the inventor of all arts...
II 12.72 20 It is this employment of new means...that denotes the inspired man. This is equally obvious in all the fine arts;...
II 12.72 21 It is this employment of new means...that denotes the inspired man. This is equally obvious...in action as well as in fine arts.
II 12.74 25 ...[Inspiration's] arts and methods of working remain a mystery...
II 12.80 26 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where is no food, and it thrives, and presently makes a grove, and covers the sand with a soil by shedding its leaves. Not less are the arts and institutions of men created out of thought.
CInt 12.113 23 Archimedes disdained to apply himself to the useful arts, only to the liberal or the causal arts.
MAng1 12.216 9 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in the four fine arts...
MAng1 12.221 19 Those who have never given attention to the arts of design are surprised that the artist should find so much to study in a fabric of such limited parts and dimensions as the human body.
MAng1 12.223 11 There is a closer relation than is commonly thought between the fine arts and the useful arts;...
MAng1 12.223 15 ...[Michelangelo's] love of beauty is made solid and perfect by his deep understanding of the mechanic arts.
MAng1 12.223 16 Architecture is the bond that unites the elegant and the economical arts...
MAng1 12.230 15 Slighting the secondary arts of coloring, and all the aids of graceful finish, [Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
ACri 12.283 10 Writing is the greatest of arts...
ACri 12.292 4 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written, graphic arts and oral arts...but is used as if it meant descriptive...
ACri 12.292 4 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written...arts of writing, and arts of speech and song,-but is used as if it meant descriptive...
ACri 12.292 5 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written...arts of writing, and arts of speech and song,-but is used as if it meant descriptive...
MLit 12.322 18 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the magazines of the world's ancient or modern wealth, which arts and intercourse and skepticism could command,-he wanted them all.
PPr 12.388 23 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing;...
Boks 7.211 15 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time.
Art2 7.39 22 ...the Spirit, in its creation, aims at use or at beauty, and hence Art divides itself into the Useful and the Fine arts.
ET11 5.188 13 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved Arundel marbles...
ET13 5.216 20 Latimer, Wicliffe, Arundel...are the democrats, as well as the saints of their times.
ET13 5.220 13 ...the age of the Wicliffes, Cobhams, Arundels, Beckets;...is gone.
CL 12.137 12 [Linnaeus] discovered that the arundo arenaris, or beach-grass, had long firm roots...
QO 8.187 14 ...now it appears that [English and American nursery-tales]... are the property of all the nations descended from the Aryan race...
Plu 10.297 3 ...M. Fustel de Coulanges has explored from its roots in the Aryan race, then in their Greek and Roman descendants, the primaeval religion of the household.
CL 12.148 12 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts...
QO 8.199 16 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached through all thinkers, poets, inventors and wits, men and women, English, German, Celts, Aryan, Ninevite, Copt...
WD 7.168 10 The days are ever divine as to the first Aryans.
PPo 8.241 19 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost the seal of Solomon...
Nat 1.56 21 We ascend into their region, and know that these are the thoughts of the Supreme Being.
Pt1 3.20 26 ...[the poet]...perceives...that within the form of every creature is a force impelling it to ascend into a higher form;...
Pt1 3.24 3 ...the melodies of the poet ascend and leap and pierce into the deeps of infinite time.
Pt1 3.34 1 ...all books of the imagination endure, all which ascend to that truth that the writer sees nature beneath him, and uses it as his exponent.
NER 3.270 12 We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend;...
UGM 4.10 25 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first, when, by union with intellect and will, they ascend into life...
UGM 4.11 12 Each material thing...has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere where it plays a part as indestructible as any other. And to these, their ends, all things continually ascend.
UGM 4.13 9 We must not be sacks and stomachs. To ascend one step,--we are better served through our sympathy.
UGM 4.33 21 If the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each, even more swiftly the seeming injustice disappears when we ascend to the central identity of all the individuals...
PPh 4.68 12 All things are in a scale; and begin where we will, ascend and ascend.
SwM 4.115 6 Forms ascend in order from the lowest to the highest.
SwM 4.126 14 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends.
ET14 5.240 13 [Bacon] held this element [prima philosophia] essential... believing that no perfect discovery can be made in a flat or level, but you must ascend to a higher science.
Wth 6.125 7 ...these things are so in nature. All things ascend...
Wth 6.125 8 ...the royal rule of economy is that it should ascend...
Wth 6.125 26 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. ... It is to invest income; that is to say, to take up particulars into generals; days into integral eras...of its life, and still to ascend in its investment.
Schr 10.289 6 ...if I could prevail to communicate the incommunicable mysteries, you [scholars] should see...that ever as you ascend your proper and native path, you receive the keys of Nature and history...
Wom 11.413 22 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./ What is thy tent, where dost thou dwell?/ My mansion is humility,/ Heaven's vastest capability./ The further it doth downward tend,/ The higher up it doth ascend./
Milt1 12.276 21 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.
FSLN 11.221 2 Mr. Webster had a natural ascendancy of aspect and carriage which distinguished him over all his contemporaries.
ET4 5.70 9 [The English] think...that manly exercises are the foundation of that elevation of mind which gives one nature ascendant over another;...
Res 8.147 18 Against the terrors of the mob, which...once suffered to gain the ascendant, is diabolic...good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.
QO 8.190 18 ...men of extraordinary genius acquire an almost absolute ascendant over their nearest companions.
Tran 1.343 24 ...to behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures itself,-assures itself also to me against every possible casualty except my unworthiness;-these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
Exp 3.45 5 ...there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended;...
GoW 4.284 1 I dare not say that Goethe ascended to the highest grounds from which genius has spoken.
Bhr 6.177 17 The eyes indicate...through how many forms [the soul] has already ascended.
Elo1 7.83 22 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
WD 7.166 9 'T is sometimes questioned whether morals have not declined as the arts have ascended.
QO 8.192 18 [Quotation] betrays the consciousness that truth...is the treasure of all men. And inasmuch as any writer has ascended to a just view of man's condition, he has adopted this tone.
QO 8.202 17 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke not his own, but the words of some god. True poets have always ascended to this lofty platform...
PC 8.225 19 The highest flight to which the muse of Horace ascended was in that triplet of lines in which he described the souls which can calmly confront the sublimity of Nature...
CL 12.155 10 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway...my languor or heaviness returned. When I again ascended the Alps, I revived as before.
MN 1.207 3 A man, a personal ascendency, is the only great phenomenon.
LT 1.263 13 A personal ascendency,-that is the only fact much worth considering.
Pow 6.58 5 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency...then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
Wth 6.101 15 Political Economy is as good a book wherein to read...the ascendency of laws over all private and hostile influences, as any Bible which has come down to us.
Elo1 7.76 13 ...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency...
Elo1 7.81 20 Personal ascendency may exist with or without adequate talent for its expression.
CSC 10.376 22 ...not [the Chardon Street Convention's] least instructive lesson was the gradual but sure ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit...
EWI 11.128 20 The extent of the [British] empire, and the magnitude and number of other questions crowding into court, keep this one [slavery] in balance, and prevent it from obtaining that ascendency...which a question of property tends to acquire.
War 11.166 8 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...
FSLC 11.197 23 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who, by the fear of public opinion, or through the dangerous ascendency of Southern manners, have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
ET3 5.35 26 A nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert, [England] has, in the last centuries, obtained the ascendent...
SwM 4.108 27 ...there is no limit to this ascending scale [in nature]...
F 6.20 11 ...Vishnu follows Maya through all her ascending changes...
F 6.35 21 No statement of the Universe can have any soundness which does not admit [Fate's] ascending effort.
Wth 6.127 2 Nor is the man enriched...unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.
Bty 6.289 13 It is the most enduring quality, and the most ascending quality.
Elo2 8.129 22 These are ascending stairs [to eloquence],--a good voice, winning manners, plain speech, chastened...by the schools into correctness;...
Elo2 8.132 18 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages...
PerF 10.72 5 These [natural] forces are in an ascending series...
Prch 10.233 21 Inspiration will have...the ascending state;...
OS 2.276 10 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the centre of the world...
UGM 4.34 22 All that respects the individual is temporary and prospective, like the individual himself, who is ascending out of his limits into a catholic existence.
SwM 4.143 13 Some minds are for ever restrained from descending into nature; others are for ever prevented from ascending out of it.
SwM 4.145 23 ...ascending by just degrees from events to their summits and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he felt...
PI 8.42 12 ...guided by [thoughts and laws], [the poet] is ascending from an interest in in visible things to an interest in that which they signify...
SovE 10.184 1 ...this unity exists in the organization of insect, beast and bird, still ascending to man...
Prch 10.215 1 Ascending through just degrees/ To a consummate holiness,/ As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching all souls like the sun./
Prch 10.233 24 Spirit is motive and ascending.
FRep 11.540 20 [The Constitution and the law in America] should be mankind's...Royal Proclamation of the Intellect ascending the throne...
PLT 12.13 24 The adepts value only the pure geometry, the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason.
PLT 12.21 24 ...there is development...from lower to superior function... steadily ascending to man.
AmS 1.114 4 ...you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends;...
DSA 1.129 21 ...[Jesus] knew that this daily miracle shines as the character ascends.
Lov1 2.182 26 ...separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends to the highest beauty...
OS 2.290 20 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God is plain and true;...
Wsp 6.223 3 From these low external penalties the scale ascends.
Farm 7.135 22 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in a single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
PLT 12.35 20 The Instinct begins...at the surface of the earth, and works for the necessities of the human being; then ascends step by step to suggestions which are when expressed the intellectual and moral laws.
II 12.68 18 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth... and then ascends, step by step, to suggestions, which are, when expressed, the intellectual and moral laws.
CW 12.170 3 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in the single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
OS 2.274 20 The soul's advances are not made by gradation...but rather by ascension of state...
Pt1 3.24 8 ...nature has a higher end, in the production of new individuals, than security, namely ascension...
UGM 4.32 17 ...there is true ascension in our love.
PPh 4.69 12 All things mount and mount. All [Plato's] thought has this ascension;...
SwM 4.127 13 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted and the law stated...with that scope for ascension of state which the nature of things requires.
MoS 4.174 8 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly insight...
Ill 6.320 14 ...what avails it that...our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also...
LS 11.15 8 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire... so slow were the disciples, during the life and after the ascension of Christ, to receive the idea which we receive, that his second coming was a spiritual kingdom...
F 6.21 18 In its last and loftiest ascensions, insight itself and the freedom of the will is one of [Fate's] obedient members.
PerF 10.82 25 These [mental powers] are means and stairs for new ascensions of the mind.
Nat 1.37 1 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons...of ascent from particular to general;...
Nat 1.69 15 All things unto our flesh are kind,/ In their descent and being; to our mind,/ In their ascent and cause./
PNR 4.80 12 Modern science...has learned to indemnify the student of man for the defects of individuals by tracing growth and ascent in races;...
SwM 4.109 8 ...every thing at the end of one use is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.
Bty 6.306 19 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that the globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger tree...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
SS 7.16 3 ...a sound mind will derive its principles from insight, with ever a purer ascent to the sufficient and absolute right...
PI 8.7 27 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind;...
PI 8.24 21 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees the same refining and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily accidents which the senses report...
Prch 10.224 2 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent from surfaces to solids;...
ET14 5.234 13 Shakspeare, Spenser and Milton, in their loftiest ascents, have this national grip and exactitude of mind.
Ill 6.319 23 The intellect sees...that, in the endless striving and ascents, the metamorphosis is entire...
PI 8.73 23 ...even partial ascents to poetry and ideas are forerunners, and announce the dawn.
SHC 11.428 19 ...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...
Wsp 6.228 4 [St. Philip Neri] undertook to visit the nun and ascertain her character.
WD 7.174 27 ...to ascertain the discoverers of America needs as much voyaging as the discovery cost.
GoW 4.280 23 In England and in America there is a respect for talent; if it is exerted in support of any ascertained or intelligible interest or party...the public is satisfied.
Insp 8.278 7 The depth of the notes which we accidentally sound on the strings of Nature is out of all proportion to our taught and ascertained faculty...
LS 11.16 3 We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own.
YA 1.381 17 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.
MMEm 10.433 8 It is essential to the safety of every mackerel fisher that latitudes and longitudes should be astronomically ascertained;...
EWI 11.130 24 ...the private interference of two excellent citizens of Boston has, I have ascertained, rescued several natives of this State from these Southern prisons.
ShP 4.201 15 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
Thor 10.453 15 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him... and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
LT 1.283 16 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation. This could well be borne...if the men were ravished by their thought, and hurried into ascetic extravagances.
Tran 1.339 19 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling...on popish times, made protestants and ascetic monks...
Prd1 2.231 23 Genius is always ascetic, and piety, and love.
ET4 5.69 24 The extremes of poverty and ascetic penance, it would seem, never reach cold water in England.
PPo 8.248 21 [Hafiz] tells his mistress that not the dervish, or the monk, but the lover, has in his heart the spirit which makes the ascetic and the saint;...
Insp 8.296 26 I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars...of what hygiene, what ascetic...their experience suggested and approved.
LE 1.176 1 ...we have need of...such an asceticism...as only the hardihood and devotion of the scholar himself can enforce.
LE 1.187 2 You will not fear that I am enjoining too stern an asceticism.
Comp 2.112 11 The terror of cloudless noon...the instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
Hsm1 2.261 17 ...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...
Chr2 10.103 13 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it...sets [a man] on some asceticism or some practice of self-examinatioon to hold him to obedience...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
Supl 10.177 10 The religion [of the Arab] runs into asceticism and fate.
SovE 10.208 26 ...a new crop of geniuses like those of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age, and...bring asceticism, duty and magnanimity into vogue again.
SlHr 10.440 5 [Samuel Hoar] was...temperate to asceticism...
Exp 3.64 6 ...the ascetics, Gentoos and corn-eaters, [nature] does not distinguish by any favor.
Boks 7.203 21 ...Pythagoras was...the founder of a school of ascetics and socialists...
Cour 7.274 14 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the Brothers Bollandi, who collected the lives of twenty-five thousand martyrs, confessors, ascetics and self-tormentors.
CW 12.174 20 Plant...the Soma of the Vedas,-Asclepias Viminalis...
ET4 5.73 24 Every [English] inn-room is lined with pictures of races; telegraphs communicate, every hour, tidings of the heats from Newmarket and Ascot;...
SR 2.45 15 ...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they...spoke...what they thought.
SL 2.134 7 There is less intention in history than we ascribe to it.
OS 2.267 6 ...there is a depth in those brief moments [of faith] which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
Exp 3.77 1 By love on one part and by forbearance to press objection on the other part, it is for a time settled that we will look at [Jesus] in the centre of the horizon, and ascribe to him the properties that will attach to any man so seen.
Chr1 3.98 19 The covetousness or the malignity which saddens me when I ascribe it to society, is my own.
NMW 4.231 21 Nothing has been more simple than my elevation [said Bonaparte], 't is in vain to ascribe it to intrigue or crime;...
GoW 4.273 24 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...
Bty 6.289 9 We ascribe beauty to that which is simple;...
Ill 6.311 24 ...the barrister with the jury, the belle at the ball...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
Art2 7.47 6 We grudge to Homer the wide human circumspection his commentators ascribe to him.
Dem1 10.15 8 It is not the tendency of our times to ascribe importance to whimsical pictures of sleep...
TPar 11.286 25 ...we can hardly ascribe to [Theodore Parker's] mind the poetic element...
MN 1.213 19 ...we have...in the oracles ascribed to the half fabulous Zoroaster, a statement of this fact...
Hist 2.34 14 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.
Comp 2.106 11 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of so bad a god.
Fdsp 2.196 13 We doubt that we bestow on our hero the virtues in which he shines, and afterwards worship the form to which we have ascribed this divine inhabitation.
Pt1 3.18 19 In the old mythology...defects are ascribed to divine natures...to signify exuberances.
NMW 4.231 11 [Bonaparte] respected the power of nature and fortune, and ascribed to it his superiority...
Plu 10.317 25 ...I do not lament that a work not [Plutarch's] should be ascribed to him...
LS 11.20 11 The importance ascribed to this particular ordinance [the Lord' s Supper] is not consistent with the spirit of Christianity.
FSLN 11.226 23 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow.
ET3 5.43 20 It is a singular coincidence to this geographic centrality [of England], the spiritual centrality which Emanuel Swedenborg ascribes to the people.
PNR 4.82 6 In ascribing to Plato the merit of announcing [the expansions of facts], we only say, Here was a more complete man, who could apply to nature the whole scale of the senses, the understanding and the reason.
Bhr 6.186 11 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second...is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily found. People grow up and grow old under this infliction, and never suspect the truth, ascribing the solitude which acts on them very injuriously to any cause but the right one.
QO 8.196 5 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...
Aris 10.42 17 The ancients were fond of ascribing to their nobles gigantic proportions and strength.
Exp 3.77 17 Never can love make consciousness and ascription equal in force.
Hist 2.5 9 What befell Asdrubal or Caesar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us.
Ill 6.320 23 That story of Thor, who was set to drain the drinking-horn in Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and wrestling with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...
Res 8.151 24 To know the trees is, as Spenser says of the ash, for nothing ill.
Thor 10.467 24 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...the ash, the maple, the beech, the nuts.
CL 12.146 1 [The pear] grows like the ash Ygdrasil.
Nat 1.58 22 Plotinus was ashamed of his body.
DSA 1.142 9 Now man is ashamed of himself;...
LT 1.280 18 ...I own our virtue makes me ashamed;...
Hist 2.40 10 I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
SR 2.47 1 We...are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
SR 2.51 3 I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names...
SR 2.67 3 [Man] is ashamed before the blade of grass...
SR 2.72 2 All men have my blood and I all men's. Not for that will I adopt their petulance or folly, even to the extent of being ashamed of it.
SR 2.76 22 Let a Stoic...tell men...that a man...should be ashamed of our compassion...
SR 2.88 1 ...a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...
Hsm1. 2.252 11 Heroism, like Plotinus, is almost ashamed of its body.
Chr1 3.105 10 ...character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before new flashes of moral worth.
Mrs1 3.146 10 ...there is still...some youth ashamed of the favors of fortune and impatiently casting them on other shoulders.
Gts 3.162 27 ...if the gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity, and not him.
ShP 4.201 11 ...the generic catholic genius who is not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.
ET8 5.139 17 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England]; Gentlemen, as Charles I. said of Strafford, whose abilities might make a prince rather afraid than ashamed in the greatest affairs of state;...
CbW 6.256 9 In America...the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
Cour 7.269 25 When a confident man comes into a company magnifying this or that author he has freshly read, the company grow silent and ashamed of their ignorance.
SA 8.98 1 ...beware of jokes; too much temperance cannot be used: inestimable for sauce, but corrupting for food, we go away hollow and ashamed.
Comc 8.169 4 If the man is not ashamed of his poverty, there is no joke.
PPo 8.264 1 The bird-soul was ashamed;/ [The birds'] body was quite annihilated;/ They had cleaned themselves from the dust,/ And were by the light ensouled./ What was, and was not,-the Past,-/ Was wiped out from their breast./
Schr 10.264 19 Men are ashamed of their intellect.
MMEm 10.418 24 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars? Never was I so much ashamed.
MMEm 10.423 15 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field, with the sensitive Channing (of whose love of life I am ashamed), what of a few days of agony...compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
Thor 10.461 3 It was said of Plotinus that he was ashamed of his body...
HDC 11.48 8 A man felt himself at liberty to exhibit, at town-meeting, feelings and actions that he would have been ashamed of anywhere but amongst his neighbors.
FSLC 11.180 19 ...Boston, spoiled by prosperity, must bow its ancient honor in the dust, and make us irretrievably ashamed.
AsSu 11.251 6 When the same reproach [of writing his speeches] was cast on the first orator of ancient times by some caviller of his day, he said, I should be ashamed to come with one unconsidered word before such an assembly.
SMC 11.363 10 [The West Point officer] looked rather ashamed, but went through the drill without an oath.
FRep 11.541 7 Humanity asks that government shall not be ashamed to be tender and paternal...
CInt 12.122 12 Men are ashamed of their intellect.
ET3 5.34 8 Under an ash-colored sky, [English] fields have been combed and rolled till they appear to have been finished with a pencil instead of a plough.
ET11 5.180 24 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy: their chateaux will be reduced to ashes and their blood be spilt in torrents.
Bty 6.281 23 ...the skin or skeleton you show me is no more a heron than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.
PPo 8.255 13 Round and round this heap of ashes/ Now flies the bird [the phoenix] amain,/ But in that odorous niche of heaven/ Nestles the bird again./
Thor 10.460 5 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...their dwellings. But New England, at least, is not based on any Roman ruins. We have not to lay the foundations of our houses on the ashes of a former civilization.
Thor 10.473 15 ...on the river-bank, large heaps of clam-shells and ashes mark spots which the savages frequented.
JBS 11.276 22 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.
ALin 11.336 24 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the term;...that...what remained to be done required...a new spirit born out of the ashes of the war;...
HCom 11.340 17 ...They followed [Truth] and found her/ Where all may hope to find/ Not in the ashes of the burnt-out mind,/ But beautiful, with danger's sweetness round her./
ET5 5.90 17 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and when they find one, like...Ashley, Burke, Thurlow...there is nothing too good or too high for him.
Elo2 8.129 4 Lord Ashley...attempting