LT 1.259 7 Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact;...
SR 2.83 20 Do that which is assigned you...
SL 2.162 10 Why should we make it a point with our false modesty to disparage...that form of being assigned to us?
PPh 4.70 16 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift.
SwM 4.120 18 A man is in general and in particular an organized... selfishness or gratitude. And the cause of this harmony [Swedenborg] assigned in the Arcana...
ET4 5.72 20 Two centuries ago the English horse never performed any eminent service beyond the seas; and the reason assigned was that the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service...
Wth 6.83 10 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To build in matter home for mind./
Cour 7.276 17 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to...detect what scullion function is assigned [beast-like men]...
MMEm 10.419 16 True, I [Mary Moody Emerson] must finger the very farthing candle-ends,-the duty assigned to my pride;...
TPar 11.286 10 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of duty, or accepted nobly that assigned him in his rare constitution.
SMC 11.367 14 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation, attested...by the important position usually assigned them in the field.
FRep 11.542 16 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe. They are all toiling...in the province assigned to them...
WSL 12.340 9 ...we love the man [Landor], from sympathy as well as for reasons to be assigned;...
ET16 5.283 6 On hints like these, Stukeley...bravely assigns the year 406 before Christ for the date of the temple [Stonehenge].
War 11.152 24 On its own scale, on the virtues it loves, [war]...shakes the whole society until every atom falls into the place its specific gravity assigns it.
WSL 12.339 15 Montaigne assigns as a reason for his license of speech that he is tired of seeing his Essays on the work-tables of ladies...
ET8 5.137 6 [The English] assimilate other races to themselves, and are not assimilated.
PI 8.14 1 [Men] assimilate themselves to [a new symbol]...
PI 8.58 27 [Taliessin] says of his hero, Cunedda,--He will assimilate, he will agree with the deep and the shallow.
PI 8.64 18 Bring us...poetry...that shall assimilate men to it...
Imtl 8.336 22 We are driven by instinct to hive innumerable experiences which are of no visible value, and we may revolve through many lives before we shall assimilate or exhaust them.
SwM 4.96 22 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things...
ET4 5.45 7 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...in which the foreign element, however considerable, is rapidly assimilated, and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
ET8 5.137 7 [The English] assimilate other races to themselves, and are not assimilated.
QO 8.201 10 ...however received, these elements pass into the substance of [the individual's] constitution, will be assimilated...
Imtl 8.339 24 After we have found our depth [on a new planet], and assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new scene.
PLT 12.33 3 A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated.
WD 7.178 3 ...though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it...
PLT 12.40 11 Insight assimilates the thing seen.
ET4 5.46 3 [The English] have assimilating force...
Ctr 6.142 3 ...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power.
QO 8.178 7 ...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power.
QO 8.190 26 Original power is usually accompanied with assimilating power...
CPL 11.504 6 ...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power.
Bost 12.183 23 Such is the assimilating force of the Indian climate that Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.
SwM 4.108 24 Here in the brain is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting and assimilating of experience.
Bost 12.184 11 [Howell] compares [Indian society] to the geologic phenomenon which the black soil of the Dhakkan offers,-the property, namely, of assimilating to itself every foreign substance introduced into its bosom.
MN 1.213 10 ...all knowledge is assimilation to the object of knowledge...
YA 1.364 4 ...when...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment... an hourly assimilation goes forward...
UGM 4.25 25 The like assimilation goes on between men of one town...
PNR 4.83 13 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...doctrine of assimilation;...
Wth 6.93 8 Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves...
Art1 2.354 7 We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision. It needs, by the exhibition of single traits, to assist and lead the dormant taste.
NER 3.284 10 ...we need not assist the administration of the universe.
PPh 4.46 17 In a month or two, through the favor of their good genius, [ardent young men and women] meet some one so related as to assist their volcanic estate, and, good communication being once established, they are thenceforward good citizens.
GoW 4.280 2 Nature and character assist [Wilhelm Meister's passage from democrat to the aristocracy]...
ET6 5.113 19 ...[the English] would sooner give five or six ducats to provide an entertainment for a person, than a groat to assist him in any distress.
ET13 5.227 21 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop];...
FRO2 11.487 25 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...an adult, self-searching soul, brave to assist or resist a world...
Hist 2.20 2 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses, so that when art came to the assistance of nature it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself.
ET15 5.266 17 ...[the London Times] has never wanted the first pens for occasional assistance.
Civ 7.28 20 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon...
Edc1 10.146 7 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...he invoked the assistance of the English Government;...
Plu 10.307 25 [Plutarch] thinks that Alexander invaded Persia with greater assistance from Aristotle than from his father Philip.
HDC 11.52 23 ...here [at Concord] [Tahattawan and Waban] entered, by [John Eliot's] assistance, into an agreement to twenty-nine rules...
JBB 11.273 1 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance, and not a protection; for it takes away [a man's] right reliance on himself, and the natural assistance of his friends and fellow citizens...
Edc1 10.154 15 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher. It requires time, use, insight, event, all the great lessons and assistances of God;...
ET15 5.266 4 Our entertainer [at the London Times] confided us to a courteous assistant to show us the establishment...
PC 8.222 14 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one...he was so agitated that he was forced to call in an assistant to finish the computation.
HDC 11.43 1 The charter gave to the freemen of the Company of Massachusetts Bay the election of the Governor and Council of Assistants.
Pt1 3.8 3 ...[the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants;...as assistants who bring building-materials to an architect.
Bost 12.207 9 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in turning out the governor and deputy and assistants...
Nat 1.32 7 We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings.
SL 2.160 24 ...why need you torment yourself and friend by secret self-reproaches that you have not assisted him...heretofore?
ShP 4.206 16 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park and Tremont have vainly assisted.
ET7 5.123 17 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners...
ET12 5.206 12 ...[the young men at Oxford] pointed out to me a paralytic old man, who was assisted into the hall.
Chr2 10.119 6 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor: the child fears and cries, but achieves the feat...and never wishes to be assisted more.
Prch 10.234 10 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection. We are happy and enriched; we go away invigorated, assisted each in our own work...
Mem 12.100 26 In reading a foreign language, every new word mastered is a lamp lighting up related words and so assisting the memory.
Exp 3.73 14 This vigor accords with and assists justice and reason...
Wth 6.111 4 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported. That has become an inevitable element of our politics; for their votes, each of the dominant parties courts and assists them to get it executed.
Clbs 7.228 3 The wish to speak to the want of another mind assists to clear your own.
YA 1.384 2 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
SA 8.92 13 ...we are easily great with the loved and honored associate.
LLNE 10.353 8 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also believed...that the method of each associate might be trusted...
Nat 1.22 5 Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in our memory with the geography and climate of Greece.
DSA 1.123 20 As we are, so we associate.
Tran 1.335 12 As I am, so shall I associate, and so shall I act;...
UGM 4.25 6 We love to associate with heroic persons...
SwM 4.125 7 [To Swedenborg] The marriages of the world are broken up. Interiors associate all in the spiritual world.
Bhr 6.171 19 We talk much of utilities, but 't is our manners that associate us.
DL 7.126 16 There is no face, no form, which one cannot in fancy associate with great power of intellect or with generosity of soul.
Boks 7.220 20 ...let each scholar associate himself to such persons as he can rely on, in a literary club...
Suc 7.297 21 ...[the youth] can read Plato, covered to his chin with a cloak in a cold upper chamber, though he should associate the Dialogues ever after with a woollen smell.
EzRy 10.383 20 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old, cold, unpainted, uncarpeted, square-pewed meeting-house...
SlHr 10.439 23 ...it was perfectly easy for [Samuel Hoar] to associate with farmers...
EdAd 11.393 4 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal.
FRO2 11.487 3 The religious find religion wherever they associate.
CL 12.159 15 ...it was the practice...of the Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the towns, into the desert, and, if they liked, to associate with wild animals.
MLit 12.322 4 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor,-a man... whose genius and accomplishments deserve a wiser criticism than we have yet seen applied to them, and the rather that his name does not readily associate itself with any school of writers.
NER 3.264 8 The scheme [of the new communities] offers, by the economies of associated labor and expense, to make every member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.
MoS 4.158 14 Remember the open question between the present order of competition and the friends of attractive and associated labor.
Nat 1.28 10 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...in any way associated to human nature, affects us in the most lively...manner.
Nat 1.46 5 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...
Hist 2.20 6 What would...neat porches and wings have been, associated with those gigantic halls before which only Colossi could sit as watchmen...
Lov1 2.175 9 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when...the most trivial circumstance associated with one form is put in the amber of memory;...
OS 2.283 22 To truth, justice, love...the idea of immutableness is essentially associated.
Mrs1 3.121 5 Frivolous and fantastic additions have got associated with the name [gentleman]...
Gts 3.161 7 ...we might convey to some person that which...was easily associated with him in thought.
QO 8.177 17 In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
Dem1 10.5 19 In our dreams the same scenes and fancies are many times associated...
Edc1 10.146 21 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task he had...become associated with distinguished scholars...
LE 1.184 13 Let [the scholar] not grieve too much on account of unfit associates.
MN 1.215 4 To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the disciple] shuns his associates...
SL 2.139 14 Why need you choose so painfully your...associates...
SL 2.148 25 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids another, according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself truly seeking himself in his associates...
SL 2.151 15 Nothing is more deeply punished than...the insane levity of choosing associates by others' eyes.
Chr1 3.109 24 I should think myself very unhappy in my associates if I could not credit the best things in history.
Chr1 3.112 23 Society is spoiled...if the associates are brought a mile to meet.
Mrs1 3.133 3 [A man] should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation which his daily associates draw him to...
WD 7.177 14 That is good which commends to me my country, my climate, my means and materials, my associates.
SA 8.89 26 One of my friends said in speaking of certain associates, There is not one of them but I can offend at any moment.
Dem1 10.15 15 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political and military projects...
Aris 10.60 13 The solitariest man who shares [a certain order of men's] spirit walks environed by them;...and happy is he who prefers these associates to profane companions.
LLNE 10.364 18 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was, to most of the associates, education;...
EzRy 10.385 18 The same faith [in particular providence] made what was strong and what was weak in Dr. Ripley and his associates.
GSt 10.506 13 ...if [George Stearns] could not bring his associates to adopt his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness the next best measure which could secure their assent.
Mem 12.104 6 In low or bad company you...recall and surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of your life...
Hist 2.23 1 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health and flowing spirits]...associates as happily as beside his own chimneys.
ET4 5.71 16 The Englishman associates well with horses and dogs.
SovE 10.190 17 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor.
LT 1.273 23 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres...and...esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.
PPh 4.66 22 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...
PPh 4.66 26 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...he pretends not to know the way of it. It is adverse to many, nor can those be benefited by associating with me whom the Daemon opposes;...
PPh 4.67 4 With many...[said Socrates, the Daemon] does not prevent me from conversing, who yet are not at all benefited by associating with me.
Boks 7.220 17 ...it would be well for sincere young men to borrow a hint from the French Institute and the British Association...
Clbs 7.249 6 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...
SL 2.152 15 We see it advertised that Mr. Grand will deliver an oration on the Fourth of July, and Mr. Hand before the Mechanics' Association...
AmS 1.82 11 ...I accept the topic which not only usage but the nature of our association seem to prescribe to this day...
MR 1.227 4 ...the aim of each young man in this association is the very highest that belongs to a rational mind.
Tran 1.343 26 ...it is a fidelity to this sentiment [Love] which has made common association distasteful to [Transcendentalists.]
YA 1.382 24 At least an economical success seemed certain for the enterprise [the Associations], and that agricultural association must...fix the price of bread...
YA 1.382 26 ...agricultural association must, sooner or later, fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence;...
YA 1.384 5 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...setting a higher value on the private family, with poverty, than on an association with wealth, will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
Hist 2.12 14 The difference between men is in their principle of association.
SR 2.77 7 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...in...their association;...
Lov1 2.169 19 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints...one must not be too old.
Fdsp 2.199 16 All association must be a compromise...
Hsm1 2.262 20 Let [a man] quit too much association...
Exp 3.55 13 ...health of body consists in circulation, and sanity of mind in variety or facility of association.
Mrs1 3.126 16 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. The association of these masters with each other and with men intelligent of their merits, is mutually agreeable and stimulating.
Mrs1 3.130 11 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it, a meeting of merchants...a professional association...
Pol1 3.209 1 A party is perpetually corrupted by personality. Whilst we absolve the association from dishonesty, we cannot extend the same charity to their leaders.
NR 3.228 4 The men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude...or by an acid worldly manner; each concealing as he best can his incapacity for useful association...
NER 3.264 19 ...it may easily be questioned...whether those who have energy will not prefer their chance of superiority and power in the world, to the humble certainties of the association;...
NER 3.264 25 Friendship and association are very fine things...
PPh 4.67 5 Such, O Theages, is the association with me [said Socrates]; for, if it pleases the God, you will make great and rapid proficiency...
MoS 4.172 27 [The wise skeptic] is a reformer; yet he is no better member of the philanthropic association.
GoW 4.279 6 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo], who is the centre and fountain of an association for the rendering of the noblest benefits to the human race, no longer answers to his own titled name;...
ET4 5.57 18 ...the solid material interest predominates [in the Norse Sagas]...wherein the association is logical, between merit and land.
ET5 5.80 2 [The English] are jealous of minds that have much facility of association...
CbW 6.274 12 ...see the overpowering importance of neighborhood in all association.
SS 7.7 9 One protects himself [from society] by solitude...and one by an acid, worldly manner,--each concealing how he can...his incapacity for strict association.
Civ 7.20 14 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes. ... It implies a facility of association...
Civ 7.26 23 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...the cabalism or esprit de corps of a masonic or other association of friends.
Farm 7.150 11 ...these [drainage] tiles have acquired by association a new interest.
Comc 8.159 12 We have a primary association between perfectness and this [human] form.
PC 8.233 1 We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste,-to come and go without rebuke. But that kind of loose association does not leave a man his own master.
Aris 10.37 2 From the folly of too much association we must come back to the repose of self-reverence and trust.
Edc1 10.150 19 ...the youth of genius...are...not good for every-day association.
LLNE 10.327 10 The association of the time is accidental and momentary and hypocritical...
LLNE 10.327 13 The association [of the time] is for power, merely,-for means;...
LLNE 10.333 24 ...whatever [Everett] has quoted will be remembered by any who heard him, with inseparable association with his voice and genius.
LLNE 10.358 7 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread...
LLNE 10.358 8 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence...
GSt 10.506 3 ...this sudden association now with the leaders of parties and persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation...never altered... one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.
LS 11.19 4 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us. Whatever long usage and strong association may have done in some individuals to deaden this repulsion, I apprehend that their use is rather tolerated than loved by any of us.
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...
EWI 11.138 19 [Virtuous men] have found out the deleterious effect of political association.
FSLC 11.203 17 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850, in opposition to his education, association, and to all his own most explicit language for thirty years, [Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.
Wom 11.416 21 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman; urging, by argument and by association, her rights of all kinds...
FRO1 11.480 12 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions probably grew from the like origin. The close association which bound the first disciples of Jesus is another example;...
FRep 11.524 15 [The election of a rogue and a brawler] was done by the very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible, best-natured people. The only account of this is, that they have been scared or warped into some association in their mind of the candidate with the interest of their trade or of their property.
Mem 12.96 12 This is the high difference, the quality of the association by which a man remembers.
Bost 12.198 11 ...no association with the elegant...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
EurB 12.376 25 ...a perception of beauty was the equally indispensable element of the association [society in Wilhelm Meister]...
Let 12.394 18 [The correspondents] do not wish a township or any large expenditure or incorporated association...
NER 3.263 18 If partiality was one fault of the movement party, the other defect was their reliance on Association.
LLNE 10.359 15 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841...
Hsm1 2.257 11 The first step of worthiness will be to disabuse us of our superstitious associations with places and times...
OS 2.281 26 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form it warms...all the families and associations of men...
Mrs1 3.130 8 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it...
NER 3.264 12 These new associations are composed of men and women of superior talents and sentiments;...
NER 3.265 4 [One man]...in his natural and momentary associations, doubles or multiplies himself;...
Art2 7.56 18 Who cares, who knows what works of art our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol? They are a mere flourish to please the eye of persons who have associations with books and galleries.
Boks 7.200 10 Plutarch charms by the facility of his associations;...
Comc 8.167 6 The physiologist Camper humorously confesses the effect of his studies in dislocating his ordinary associations.
Aris 10.45 5 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism.
Plu 10.298 4 ...[Plutarch] had many qualities of the poet in the...speed of his mental associations...
LLNE 10.358 12 Society in England and in America is trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces, in cooperative associations...
WSL 12.341 14 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we pass at once out of trivial associations...
YA 1.382 11 The science is confident, and surely the poverty is real. If any means could be found to bring these two together! This was one design of the projectors of the Associations which are now making their first feeble experiments.
SS 7.14 22 Assort your party, or invite none.
LE 1.167 4 We assume that all thought is already long ago adequately set down in books...
LE 1.185 9 ...I thought that standing...girt and ready to go and assume tasks...in your country, you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
MN 1.193 15 ...our literary anniversaries will presently assume a greater importance...
MR 1.227 3 I shall assume that the aim of each young man in this association is the very highest that belongs to a rational mind.
MR 1.243 17 The duty that every man should assume his own vows...gains in emphasis if we look at our modes of living.
Tran 1.330 14 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which in their first appearance to us assume a native superiority to material facts...
YA 1.385 18 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this...by...the increasing disposition of private adventurers to assume [government's] fallen functions.
Hist 2.10 27 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. ... We assume that we under like influence should be alike affected, and should achieve the like;...
SR 2.71 24 Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife... because they sit around our hearth...
Comp 2.115 25 The league between virtue and nature engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice.
SL 2.131 5 Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms...
SL 2.163 3 The fact that I am here certainly shows me that the soul had need of an organ here. Shall I not assume the post?
Prd1 2.239 13 Though your views are in straight antagonism to [your contemporaries], assume an identity of sentiment...
Prd1 2.239 13 Though your views are in straight antagonism to [your contemporaries]...assume that you are saying precisely that which all think...
Prd1 2.239 24 ...assume a consent [in a dispute] and it shall presently be granted...
Cir 2.319 17 ...the man and woman of seventy assume to know all...
Exp 3.83 2 Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness...these are the lords of life. I dare not assume to give their order...
Pol1 3.214 23 ...when a quarter of the human race assume to tell me what I must do, I may be too much disturbed by the circumstances to see so clearly the absurdity of their command.
UGM 4.31 17 ...if any appear never to assume the chair, but always to stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a sufficiently long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about.
SwM 4.107 17 The whole art of the plant is still to repeat leaf on leaf without end, the more or less of heat, light, moisture and food determining the form it shall assume.
MoS 4.151 16 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power...like dreaming beggars [men predisposed to morals] assume to speak and act as if these values were already substantiated.
ET9 5.149 14 ...[the English] feel themselves at liberty to assume the most extraordinary tone on the subject of English merits.
Bhr 6.197 12 Who dare assume to guide a youth, a maid, to perfect manners?...
Wsp 6.213 8 The religion of the cultivated class now...consists in an avoidance of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to assume.
CbW 6.270 11 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away with...everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
WD 7.166 3 ...if, with all his arts, [man] is a felon, we cannot assume the mechanical skill or chemical resources as the measure of worth.
WD 7.170 10 There are days which are the carnival of the year. The angels assume flesh...
Clbs 7.234 3 ...men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates...
Suc 7.296 6 We assume that there are few great men, all the rest are little;...
Edc1 10.157 14 I assume that you [teachers] will keep the grammar, reading, writing and arithmetic in order;...
Schr 10.278 27 [The scholar] is to forge out of coarsest ores the sharpest weapons. But...if his talents assume an independence...they cannot serve him.
Schr 10.279 25 These gifts, these senses, these facilities are...all wasted and mischievous when they assume to lead and not obey.
JBB 11.271 7 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner.
CL 12.142 26 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a long day's toil in walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the most solemn and spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to wear.
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...
ET4 5.44 5 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...
AmS 1.110 20 ...the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in literature a very marked...aspect.
MN 1.200 6 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that...a mysterious principle of life must be assumed...
MN 1.201 21 ...if...it be assumed that the final cause of the world is to make holy or wise or beautiful men, we see that it has not succeeded.
YA 1.382 21 It was a noble thought of Fourier...to distinguish in his Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band, by whom whatever duties were disagreeable and likely to be omitted, were to be assumed.
Hist 2.19 26 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
Comp 2.94 7 [The preacher] assumed that judgment is not executed in this world;...
Comp 2.95 20 I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day and the same doctrines assumed by the literary men when occasionally they treat the related topics.
Mrs1 3.122 7 There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation, because...the last effect is assumed by the senses as the cause.
MoS 4.171 26 Skepticism is the attitude assumed by the student in relation to the particulars which society adores, but which he sees to be reverend only in their tendency and spirit.
GoW 4.275 10 ...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that one vertebra of the spine might be considered as the unit of the skeleton...
Elo1 7.64 7 Among the Spartans, the art [of eloquence] assumed a Spartan shape, namely, of the sharpest weapon.
PI 8.10 10 [Science] assumed to explain a reptile or mollusk, and isolated it...
QO 8.182 17 What divines had assumed as the distinctive revelations of Christianity, theologic criticism has matched by exact parallelisms from the Stoics and poets of Greece and Rome.
Supl 10.176 7 The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth;...a ground on which nothing is assumed...
HDC 11.71 11 In September [1774]...the inhabitants [of Concord]...forbade the justices to open the court of sessions. This little town then assumed the sovereignty.
EPro 11.323 18 Give [the Confederacy] Washington, and they would have assumed the army and navy...
Milt1 12.267 26 [Milton] returned into his revolutionized country, and assumed an honest and useful task...
LT 1.282 8 Our Religion assumes the negative form of rejection.
Con 1.319 9 The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity...
SR 2.51 11 If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition... why should I not say to him, Go love thy infant;...
Comp 2.126 16 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius;...
Hsm1 2.250 4 Towards all this external evil the man within the breast assumes a warlike attitude...
Pt1 3.7 14 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men...
Gts 3.162 9 We can receive anything from love, for that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow.
NR 3.248 3 My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought...
SwM 4.107 26 A poetic anatomist, in our own day...assumes the hair-worm, the span-worm, or the snake, as the type or prediction of the spine.
ET14 5.253 14 [English science] isolates the reptile or mullusk it assumes to explain;...
ET15 5.269 25 Every slip of an Oxonian or Cantabrigian who writes his first leader assumes that we subdued the earth before we sat down to write this particular [London] Times.
F 6.35 5 ...when mature [the Neopolitan] assumes the forms of the unmistakable scoundrel.
Comc 8.158 10 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion...assumes to the intellect the like completeness with the further function to which in different circumstances it had attained.
PC 8.217 8 I find the single mind equipollent to a multitude of minds...and under this view the problem of culture assumes wonderful interest.
Prch 10.221 3 ...this examination [of religion] resulting in the constant detection of errors, the flattered understanding assumes to judge all things...
PPr 12.387 12 ...[each age's] limitation assumes the poetic form of a beautiful superstition, as the dimness of our sight clothes the objects in the horizon with mist and color.
Hsm1 2.261 22 ...not only need we breathe and exercise the soul by assuming the penalties of abstinence...
PPh 4.78 13 No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. But there is an injustice in assuming this ambition for Plato.
GoW 4.272 9 [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...geology, chemistry, astronomy; and every one of these kingdoms assuming a certain aerial and poetic character, by reason of the multitude.
ET4 5.61 7 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans], who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal...
ET12 5.208 24 A gentleman [in England] must possess...an independent and public position, or at least the right of assuming it.
Aris 10.57 19 ...a soul on which elevated duties are laid will so realize its special and lofty duties as not to be in danger of assuming through a low generosity those which do not belong to it.
EPro 11.320 25 ...we are assuming the firmness of the policy thus declared [in the Emancipation Proclamation].
EurB 12.367 19 Early in life...[Wordsworth] made his election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly genius;...
DSA 1.144 12 The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past...indicate...the falsehood of our theology.
LE 1.164 2 An intimation of these broad rights is familiar in the sense of injury which men feel in the assumption of any man to limit their possible progress.
LE 1.167 8 We assume that...what we say we only throw in as confirmatory of this supposed complete body of literature. A very shallow assumption.
Pol1 3.214 14 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. ... Love and nature cannot maintain the assumption;...
NR 3.248 8 My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation until all is said which words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.
Thor 10.479 26 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety...
FSLC 11.183 15 The popular assumption that all men loved freedom, and believed in the Christian religion, was found hollow American brag;...
PPr 12.381 25 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the assumption throughout the book, that a new chivalry and nobility, namely, the dynasty of labor, is replacing the old nobilities.
MoL 10.246 11 Bowditch translated Laplace, and when he removed to Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that he should make their tables of annuities.
Nat 1.62 24 Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being and the evidence of the world's being. The one is perfect; the other, incapable of any assurance;...
DSA 1.125 8 ...the dawn of the sentiment of virtue on the heart, gives and is the assurance that Law is sovereign over all natures;...
LE 1.164 16 ...the soul has assurance...of all power in the direction of its ray...
MN 1.221 24 [Man's] nobility needs the assurance of this inexhaustible reserved power.
Tran 1.330 8 [The idealist]...asks the materialist for his grounds of assurance that things are as his senses represent them.
Tran 1.337 10 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man exerts the sovereign right which the majesty of his being confers on him;...
SR 2.53 17 ...I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
SR 2.53 18 ...I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
Comp 2.118 13 As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success.
Nat2 3.169 13 These halcyons may be looked for with a little more assurance in that pure October weather which we distinguish by the name of the Indian summer.
ET2 5.25 12 The request [to lecture in England] was urged...with...every assurance of aid and comfort...
ET5 5.101 18 The charm in Nelson's history is the unselfish greatness, the assurance of being supported to the uttermost by those whom he supports to the uttermost.
ET14 5.242 4 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of Berkeley, that we have no certain assurance of the existence of matter;...
ET15 5.263 21 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen...a towering assurance...
Wsp 6.238 18 If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another and will be more. And so in relation to...that spectre clothed with beauty at our curtain by night, at our table by day,--the apprehension, the assurance of a coming change.
CbW 6.245 12 ...[the priest] walked to the church without any assurance that he knew the distemper [of the soul], or could heal it.
Elo1 7.77 24 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound merchant, banker, judge...
Cour 7.275 21 ...there is no assurance of security.
PI 8.30 5 When [the poet] sings, the world listens with the assurance that now a secret of God is to be spoken.
Grts 8.307 23 [A man] is never happy nor strong until he...learns...to have the entire assurance of his own mind.
Imtl 8.330 17 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end.
Imtl 8.340 5 I know not whence we draw the assurance of prolonged life... by so many claims as from our intellectual history.
Imtl 8.343 27 ...[the belief in immortality] must have the assurance of a man's faculties that they can fill a larger theatre...than Nature here allows him.
Imtl 8.344 10 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously. But...so soon as [the man] dogmatically will grasp a personal duration to bolster up in cockney fashion that inward assurance, he is lost in contradiction.
Dem1 10.15 19 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success...influences all joint action of commerce and affairs, and a corresponding assurance in the individuals so distinguished meets and justifies the expectation of others by a boundless self-trust.
Chr2 10.122 14 [Character]...does not ask, in the absoluteness of its trust, even for the assurance of continued life.
Prch 10.218 4 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow,-I see in them character, but skepticism;...
CSC 10.375 24 If there was not parliamentary order [at the Chardon Street Convention] there was...assurance of that constitutional love for religion and religious liberty which...characterizes the inhabitants of this part of America.
MMEm 10.427 10 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being, assurance of whose direct dealing with her she incessantly invokes...
HDC 11.49 4 ...so be [the town-meeting] an everlasting testimony for [the settlers of Concord], and so much ground of assurance of man's capacity for self-government.
HDC 11.79 8 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will not confer with flesh and blood...
EWI 11.135 3 ...as an omen and assurance of success, I point to you the bright example which England set you [in emancipation in the West Indies]...
FSLN 11.241 26 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of the country...will rightly report him to his own and the next age. Without this assurance, he will sooner sink.
CPL 11.508 23 ...I am happy in the assurance that the whole assembly to whom I speak entirely sympathize in the feeling of this town [Concord] in regard to the new Library...
ACri 12.297 3 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a perfect, plain style, from which he can soar to a fine, lyric delicacy, or descend to coarsest sarcasm, without losing his firm footing. This flower of speech is accompanied with an assurance of fame.
UGM 4.19 1 ...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated;...
MoS 4.156 12 [The skeptic says] What is the use of pretending to assurances we have not, respecting the other life?
Wsp 6.231 26 ...as soon as the man is right, assurances and previsions emanate from the interior of his body and his mind;...
LLNE 10.352 3 ...in spite of the assurances of [Fourierism's] friends that it was new and widely discriminated from all other plans for the regeneration of society, we could not exempt it from the criticism which we apply to so many project for reform...
SMC 11.373 13 On his death-bed, [George Prescott] received the needless assurances of his general that he had done more than all his duty...
OA 7.321 2 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty;...
OA 7.323 23 ...it will not add a pang to the prisoner marched out to be shot, to assure him that the pain in his knee threatens mortification.
OA 7.324 11 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches. I hope this hegira is not as movable a feast as that one I annually look for, when the horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our gardens disappear on the tenth of July;...
Insp 8.287 27 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause...rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an Aeolian harp? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit.
Plu 10.320 1 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I myself am invited as a shadow, I assure you I refuse to go.
EWI 11.146 27 I assure myself that this coldness and blindness [towards the negro] will pass away.
Let 12.396 6 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves, that our people are busied with these projects of a better social state...
Wth 6.92 14 The mechanic at his bench carries a quiet heart and assured manners...
SlHr 10.447 10 It seemed as if the New England church had formed [Samuel Hoar] to be...the lover and assured friend of its parish by-laws...
Chr1 3.100 25 The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many, but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved, the absorbed, the commander because he is commanded, the assured, the primary,--they are good;...
Nat 1.56 14 Turgot said, He that has never doubted the existence of matter, may be assured he has no aptitude for metaphysical inquiries.
SR 2.62 16 That popular fable of the sot...laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane...symbolizes...the state of man...
Fdsp 2.193 24 Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
Fdsp 2.206 17 Friendship may be said to require natures...each so well tempered and so happily adapted...that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
Hsm1 2.245 24 ...Sophocles will not ask his life, although assured that a word will save him...
Int 2.338 10 ...when we write with ease...we seem to be assured that nothing is easier than to continue this communication at pleasure.
Int 2.346 25 Well assured that their speech is intelligible...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis...
GoW 4.279 23 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can, assured that it has only begun its office...
Wth 6.117 15 In England...I was assured...that great lords and ladies had no more guineas to give away than other people;...
Wsp 6.230 13 I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so many problems will bring the answers also in due time.
SS 7.3 3 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that the name which that fine work of art bore in the catalogues was a misnomer...
Suc 7.305 18 An Englishman of marked character and talent...assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...
Suc 7.306 4 The very law of averages might have assured you that there will be in every hundred heads, say ten or five good heads.
PI 8.62 29 ...Sir Gawain departed joyful and sorrowful; joyful because of what Merlin had assured him should happen to him, and sorrowful that Merlin had thus been lost.
Elo2 8.124 13 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...and be assured you shall find it...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
Res 8.146 10 [Tissenet] assured [the Indians] that if they should provoke him he would burn up their rivers and their forests;...
Imtl 8.328 23 ...spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it...
LLNE 10.361 21 ...a few grave sanitary influences of character were happily there [at Brook Farm], which, I was assured, were always felt.
Thor 10.459 7 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books, and assured him that he, Thoreau, and not the librarian, was the proper custodian of these.
EWI 11.116 1 In every quarter [of Antigua], we were assured, the day [after emancipation] was like a Sabbath.
War 11.169 11 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will not be one that invites injury;...
EPro 11.319 10 ...all men of African descent who have faculty enough to find their way to our lines are assured of the protection of American law.
EPro 11.320 16 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...
EPro 11.326 8 Incertainties now crown themselves assured,/ And Peace proclaims olives of endless age./
SMC 11.350 8 ...we...believe that our visitors will pardon us if we take the privilege of talking freely about our nearest neighbors as in a family party;-well assured, meantime, that the virtues we are met to honor were directed on aims which command the sympathy of every loyal American citizen...
PLT 12.12 7 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he... only draws that arc which he clearly sees...and waits for a new opportunity, well assured that these observed arcs will consist with each other.
Milt1 12.267 2 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger disdains not to be preached in a barn.
MLit 12.332 23 ...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]...
ET15 5.262 7 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
Tran 1.343 21 ...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;...
YA 1.372 13 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...the form, the mathematician assures us, required to prevent the protuberances of the continent...from continually deranging the axis of the earth.
Mrs1 3.134 6 ...[a gentleman's] eyes look straight forward, and he assures the other party...that he has been met.
ET1 5.20 18 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are atrocious...
Prch 10.230 16 The simple fact...that all over this country the people are waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties.
LS 11.20 18 ...the Apostle well assures us that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
SHC 11.429 16 ...this concourse of friendly company assures me that [the committee] have rightly interpreted your wishes.
OA 7.330 25 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...ever... assuring himself he should retire from the University and read the authors.
SA 8.86 19 The attitude is the main point, assuring your companion that... you remain in good heart and good mind...
Nat 1.17 14 The dawn is my Assyria;...
Hist 2.29 7 [The child] finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door...
War 11.153 23 [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.
EdAd 11.383 17 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...
Hist 2.22 13 In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity; a progress, certainly, from the gad-fly of Astaboras to the Anglo and Italomania of Boston Bay.
LT 1.267 6 ...many another star has turned out to be a planet or an asteroid...
Comp 2.91 12 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./
PC 8.224 13 The asteroids are the chips of an old star, and a meteoric stone is a chip of an asteroid.
PC 8.224 12 The asteroids are the chips of an old star...
Humb 11.457 21 How [Humboldt] reaches...from law to law, folding away moons and asteroids and solar systems in the clauses and parentheses of his encyclopaedic paragraphs!
SHC 11.428 5 ...Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops/ Along the modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of the season spread their plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our tombs./
Comc 8.169 21 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. Such is the story told of the painter Astley...
AmS 1.97 1 So is there...no event, in our private history, which shall not... astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean.
DSA 1.121 16 ...this homely game of life we play, covers...principles that astonish.
SR 2.71 6 Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble...by a simple declaration of the divine fact.
SR 2.86 16 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin...
MoS 4.181 11 The manners and thoughts of believers astonish [some minds]...
NMW 4.254 13 I must dazzle and astonish [said Napoleon].
ET14 5.236 5 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...and, generally, the easy exertion of power,--astonish...
ET14 5.241 16 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...which astonish...
ET15 5.270 26 ...when [the editors of the London Times] see that [authors of each liberal movement] have established their fact...they strike in with the voice of a monarch, astonish those whom they succor as much as those whom they desert...
Elo1 7.98 27 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to that standard, thereby making the great great, and the small small, which is the true way to astonish and reform mankind.
PC 8.227 9 There is not a person here present to whom omens that should astonish have not predicted his future...
Chr2 10.99 24 There are men who astonish and delight...
Prch 10.236 1 ...we should astonish every day by a beam out of eternity;...
RBur 11.442 18 ...[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...
MLit 12.326 19 [Goethe]...worked always to astonish...
NER 3.270 24 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal: the king, astonished, asked to whom she appealed...
Suc 7.298 19 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz...with so many hints to his astonished senses;...
FSLN 11.226 14 [Webster]...left, with much complacency we are told, the testament of his [7th of March] speech to the astonished State of Massachusetts...
MAng1 12.231 6 [Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the air; and he redeemed his pledge by suspending that vast cupola [of St. Peter' s], without offence to grace or to stability, over the astonished beholder.
OS 2.297 4 ...man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh, and be less astonished at particular wonders;...
Art1 2.356 12 ...what astonished and fascinated me in the first work [of art], astonished me in the second work also;...
Mrs1 3.151 13 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She was an elemental force, and astonished me by her amount of life...
WD 7.161 7 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...whose sudden performance astonished mankind....
OA 7.332 20 [John Adams said]...I am astonished that I have lived to see and know of this event.
PC 8.209 21 Men are now to be astonished by seeing acts of good nature... proposed by statesmen...
PC 8.225 12 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...whose outrunning immensity, the old Greeks believed, astonished the gods themselves;...
Dem1 10.9 18 ...[dreams] have a substantial truth. The same remark may be extended to the omens and coincidences which may have astonished us.
HDC 11.36 20 [The Indians'] physical powers...astonished the white men.
Wom 11.407 15 ...[women]...lose themselves eagerly in the glory of their husbands and children. Man stands astonished at a magnanimity he cannot pretend to.
Shak1 11.449 11 Men were so astonished and occupied by [Shakespeare's] poems that they have not been able to see his face and condition...
Mem 12.96 5 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already, and in proof set himself to recite it from end to end. Boileau, astonished, was much distressed, until he perceived that it was only a feat of memory.
WSL 12.337 15 [John Bull]...is astonished to learn that a wooden house may last a hundred years;...
Hist 2.27 26 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people.
Lov1 2.180 11 ...of poetry the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavors after the unattainable.
Art1 2.362 5 Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
ET14 5.258 21 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness. That astonishes and disconcerts English decorum.
Cour 7.269 11 ...a new book astonishes for a few days...
Suc 7.292 3 ...nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing...
Elo2 8.118 15 ...this power [of eloquence] which so fascinates and astonishes and commands is only the exaggeration of a talent which is universal.
PLT 12.50 4 Shakspeare astonishes by his equality in every play, act, scene or line.
NER 3.273 10 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they were struck dumb...
SwM 4.116 1 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing things which occur... throughout nature...
MoS 4.174 10 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected.
Suc 7.300 5 ...the sand floor is...bent to be a...part of the astonishing astronomy...
Dem1 10.12 10 ...I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour.
Bty 6.302 18 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing, is only a burst of beauty for a few years or a few months at the perfection of youth...
PI 8.40 20 These successes are not less admirable and astonishing to the poet than they are to his audience.
DSA 1.141 22 ...historical Christianity destroys the power of preaching, by withdrawing it from the exploration of the moral nature of man;...where are the resources of astonishment and power.
LE 1.179 6 The English officers and men looked on with astonishment...
OS 2.292 20 ...for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable. It inspires awe and astonishment.
Int 2.347 1 ...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis, without a moment's heed of the universal astonishment of the human race below...
Nat2 3.176 6 In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth...
Nat2 3.189 1 The friend coldly turns [the pages of a young person's diary] over, and passes from the writing to conversation, with easy transition, which strikes the other party with astonishment and vexation.
NER 3.260 1 To the astonishment of all, the self-made men took even ground at once with the oldest of the regular graduates...
NER 3.267 13 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul; he will go up and down doing the works of a true member [of a union], and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.
UGM 4.24 8 The worthless and offensive members of society...never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.
MoS 4.149 10 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse. Life is a pitching of this penny,--heads or tails. We never tire of this game, because there is still a slight shudder of astonishment at the exhibition of the other face...
MoS 4.178 18 ...The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearance of reconciliation between the theory and practice of life.
Ill 6.310 18 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...and even what seemed a comet flaming among them. All the party were touched with astonishment and pleasure.
Comc 8.170 5 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
PC 8.209 14 To his astonishment [the coxcomb] has found that this country and this age belong to the most liberal persuasion;...
Dem1 10.3 22 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream;...
Dem1 10.10 4 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few insignificant hints, when all are inspired with the same sense. As if one should exhaust his astonishment at the economy of his thumb-nail, and overlook the central causal miracle of his being a man.
War 11.158 2 ...we read with astonishment of the beastly fighting of the old times.
PLT 12.42 13 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly; and to the astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as softly and playfully on its way as if...it were a wide prairie.
F 6.39 24 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?--...Astor...and the rest.
LE 1.163 23 ...the more quaintly you inspect...its astounding whole,-so much the more you master the biography of this hero...
YA 1.381 12 The farmer...turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant. This result might well seem astounding.
SovE 10.200 27 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding...as to exhaust wonder...
CInt 12.129 23 Bring the insight, and [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and astounding strokes of genius close by him as Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.
PC 8.224 1 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or wedge...
Civ 7.20 21 The occasion of one of these starts of growth is always some novelty that astounds the mind and provokes it to dare to change.
Pow 6.71 8 Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.
F 6.45 20 A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves.
OA 7.331 7 A literary astrologer, [Goethe] never applied himself to any task but at the happy moment when all the stars consented.
Pt1 3.32 20 All the value which attaches to...Oken, or any other who introduces questionable facts into his cosmogony, as...magic, astrology...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
Nat2 3.179 4 Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology;...
Bty 6.282 7 Astrology interested us, for it tied man to the system.
Dem1 10.12 15 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences, of mesmerism, of astrology...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.
LLNE 10.327 24 Astrology, magic, palmistry, are long gone.
Nat 1.56 4 The astronomer, the geometer, rely on their irrefragable analysis...
AmS 1.86 3 The astronomer discovers that geometry...is the measure of planetary motion.
SL 2.165 8 Bonaparte...rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
Cir 2.312 13 The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to find the parallax of any star.
F 6.18 4 Doubtless in every million there will be an astronomer...
Bty 6.282 27 The human heart...is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.
Civ 7.29 8 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
PC 8.217 11 Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers; as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer.
Grts 8.305 20 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea... another will be a lawyer; another, an astronomer;...
Imtl 8.327 6 ...Swedenborg...described the moral faculties and affections of man, with the hard realism of an astronomer describing the suns and planets of our system...
PerF 10.74 23 [Man] is...a geometer, an astronomer, a persuader of men... and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
Supl 10.172 15 The astronomer shows you in his telescope the nebula of Orion, that you may look on that which is esteemed the farthest-off land in visible nature.
Schr 10.264 21 The men committed by profession as well as by bias to study, the clergyman, the chemist, the astronomer, the metaphysician...talk hard and worldly...
Schr 10.281 10 The astronomer is not ridiculous inasmuch as he is an astronomer, but inasmuch as he is not an astronomer.
Schr 10.281 11 The astronomer is not ridiculous inasmuch as he is an astronomer, but inasmuch as he is not an astronomer.
Schr 10.281 12 The astronomer is not ridiculous inasmuch as he is an astronomer, but inasmuch as he is not an astronomer.
MAng1 12.244 7 There [in Santa Croce], near the tomb...of Galileo, the great-hearted astronomer;...stands the monument of Michael Angelo Buonarotti.
AmS 1.82 7 ...the star in the constellation Harp...astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star...
DSA 1.120 5 ...the astronomers, the builders of cities, and the captains, history delights to honor.
Nat2 3.184 5 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe.
Nat2 3.184 20 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled. It was no great affair, a mere push, but the astronomers were right in making much of it...
ET5 5.96 19 [The English] make...telescopes for astronomers, cannons for kings.
ET10 5.169 24 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with;...
ET11 5.190 20 In the roll of [English] nobles are found poets, philosophers, chemists, astronomers...
Grts 8.318 10 ...degrees of intellect interest only classes of men who pursue the same studies, as chemists or astronomers, mathematicians or linguists...
Aris 10.55 19 The astronomers are very eager to know whether the moon has an atmosphere;...
Supl 10.166 11 Think how much pains astronomers and opticians have taken to procure an achromatic lens.
Bost 12.187 16 Astronomers come [to Paris] because there they can find apparatus and companions.
SwM 4.103 23 ...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in every sentence;...his faculties work with astronomic punctuality...
PI 8.42 8 There was as much creative force then as now, but it made globes and astronomic heavens, instead of broadcloth and wine-glasses.
Insp 8.288 22 In the hotel...I command an astronomic leisure.
Chr2 10.109 15 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature, the causes by which all the astronomic results are affected...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
ChiE 11.472 14 ...I must remember that [China] has respectable remains of astronomic science...
DSA 1.139 21 The prayers and even the dogmas of our church are like...the astronomical monuments of the Hindoos...
DSA 1.141 26 What a cruel injustice it is to...that Law whose fatal sureness the astronomical orbits poorly emulate; - that it is travestied and depreciated...
Exp 3.63 27 ...the new molecular philosophy shows astronomical interspaces betwixt atom and atom...
ET5 5.94 11 This foggy and rainy country [England] furnishes the world with astronomical observations.
ET16 5.280 25 I engaged the local antiquary, Mr. Brown, to go with us [Emerson and Carlyle] to Stonehenge...and show us what he knew of the astronomical and sacrificial stones.
ET16 5.280 27 I stood on the last [the sacrificial stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice that its top ranged with the sky-line.
ET16 5.281 5 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position.
F 6.18 21 ...there will, in a dozen millions of...Mahometans, be one or two astronomical skulls.
Civ 7.29 6 ...on a planet so small as ours, the want of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt...
PI 8.24 5 Slowly...there dawned on some mind a theory of the sun,--and we found the astronomical fact.
ET16 5.277 27 The temple [Stonehenge] is circular and uncovered, and the situation fixed astronomically...
MMEm 10.433 7 It is essential to the safety of every mackerel fisher that latitudes and longitudes should be astronomically ascertained;...
Bty 6.284 8 These geologies, chemistries, astronomies, seem to make wise...
Nat 1.68 12 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord...because he...finds something of himself...in every new...fact of astronomy...
MN 1.201 24 Read alternately...a treatise of astronomy...with a volume of French Memoires pour servir.
MN 1.202 13 ...one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...
MN 1.219 5 ...astronomy is thought and harmony in masses of matter.
Hist 2.10 13 Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known. The better for him.
Fdsp 2.215 14 It would...give me a certain household joy to quit...this spiritual astronomy...
Int 2.346 14 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems...to be at once poetry and music and dancing and astronomy and mathematics.
Pt1 3.21 9 The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation and animation...
Nat2 3.179 3 Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology;...
Nat2 3.183 15 Man carries...the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought.
NR 3.231 15 ...morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy and all the lovely accidents of nature play through [the day-laborer's] mind.
NR 3.232 10 The Eleusinian mysteries...the Indian astronomy...show that there always were seeing and knowing men in the planet.
NR 3.240 2 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit that there should be two stupidities! It is like that brute advantage so essential to astronomy, of having the diameter of the earth's orbit for a base of its triangles.
NER 3.258 5 The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy;...
UGM 4.10 24 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first...
UGM 4.18 13 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle, the Ptolemaic astronomy...are in point.
PPh 4.62 19 As there is a science of stars, called astronomy;...so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.
PPh 4.62 27 The sciences, even the best,--mathematics and astronomy, are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.
PPh 4.65 5 What value [Plato] gives to the art of gymnastic in education;... what to astronomy...
PNR 4.82 3 ...the Republic of Plato...may be said to require and so to anticipate the astronomy of Laplace.
SwM 4.99 9 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes...prying into...physiology, mathematics and astronomy...
SwM 4.102 4 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated, in astronomy, the discovery of the seventh planet...
SwM 4.102 7 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...anticipated the views of modern astronomy in regard to the generation of earths by the sun;...
SwM 4.110 3 Astronomy is excellent;...
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...geology, chemistry, astronomy;...
ET4 5.55 15 [The Celts] had...astronomy...
ET12 5.202 8 I do not know...whether [at Oxford] the Ptolemaic astronomy does not still hold its ground against the novelties of Copernicus.
ET14 5.247 20 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good. The eminent benefit of astronomy is the better navigation it creates to enable the fruit-ships to bring home their lemons and wine to the London grocer.
F 6.18 5 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not new men...
F 6.49 9 In astronomy is vast space but no foreign system;...
Pow 6.54 3 ...the education of the will is the flowering and result of all this geology and astronomy.
Ctr 6.160 5 ...the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind and an indifference to death.
Civ 7.29 3 Our astronomy is full of examples of calling in the aid of these magnificent helpers.
WD 7.164 12 ...we must look deeper for our salvation than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy.
WD 7.181 10 ...here your very astronomy is an espionage.
Suc 7.285 24 There is a mode of reckoning, [Columbus] proudly adds, derived from astronomy, which is sure and safe to any one who understands it.
Suc 7.300 5 ...the sand floor is...bent to be a...part of the astonishing astronomy...
OA 7.331 2 In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy and epistolary correspondence.
PI 8.4 26 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear that dwindled astronomy into a toy;...
PI 8.24 6 ...the astronomy is in the mind...
PI 8.35 13 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees it...to be related to astronomy and history and the eternal order of the world.
PI 8.57 1 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy...
Res 8.139 24 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity, millions of lives of men to collect the first observations on which our astronomy is built;...
Res 8.149 6 See how [Newton] refreshed himself, resting from the profound researches of the calculus by astronomy; from astronomy by optics;...
Res 8.150 24 It was a pleasing trait in Goethe's romance, that Makaria retires from society to astronomy and her correspondence.
Res 8.151 20 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself by a little knowledge of Nature, or a great deal, if he can; of birds, plants, rocks, astronomy;...
PC 8.211 14 Geology, astronomy, chemistry, optics, have yielded grand results.
PC 8.211 22 The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity.
PC 8.214 22 ...[The Middle Ages']...chemistry, algebra, astronomy;...are the delight and tuition of ours.
PC 8.217 23 If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his nation cannot spare him; nor if he know...the secret of geometry, of algebra; on which the computations of astronomy, of navigation, of machinery, rest.
PC 8.221 4 [The benefits of devotion to natural science] are felt...in manufactures, in astronomy...
Insp 8.273 5 The separation of our days by sleep almost destroys identity. Could we but turn these fugitive sparkles into an astronomy of Copernican worlds!
Insp 8.296 1 Books of natural science...explorations of the sea, of meteors, of astronomy,-all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
Imtl 8.346 15 You cannot make a written theory or demonstration of [immortality] as you can an orrery of the Copernican astronomy.
Dem1 10.13 16 I am content and occupied with such miracles as I know... such as humanity and astronomy.
Chr2 10.92 4 [The man] has his life in Nature, like a beast: but choice is born in him;...here is the Declaration of Independence, the July Fourth of zoology and astronomy.
Edc1 10.128 3 The necessities imposed by this most irritable and all-related texture have taught Man...geometry, astronomy.
Edc1 10.131 20 Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import...
Edc1 10.158 11 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact about astronomy...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.
SovE 10.195 17 We do not believe the less in astronomy and vegetation, because we are writhing and roaring in our beds with rheumatism.
MoL 10.248 18 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as Copernicus, with his secret of the true astronomy;...
LLNE 10.336 13 Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature;...
EdAd 11.382 2 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men/...
Shak1 11.448 13 ...Shakspeare taught us that the little world of the heart is vaster, deeper and richer than the spaces of astronomy.
FRO1 11.479 18 ...as soon as every man...is apprised that the perfect law of duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, of vegetation, of astronomy, as face to face in a glass;...then we have a religion that exalts...
PLT 12.4 2 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied...to those laws...which are common to chemistry, anatomy, astronomy, geometry...laws of the world?
PLT 12.5 8 In astronomy, vast distance, but we never go into a foreign system.
PLT 12.53 3 'T is with us a flash of light, then a long darkness, then a flash again. Ah, could we turn these fugitive sparkles into an astronomy of Copernican worlds.
PLT 12.57 25 Peter is the mould into which everything is poured like warm wax, and be it astronomy or railroads or French revolution or theology or botany, it comes out Peter.
II 12.87 20 ...astronomy, chemistry, keep their word.
CInt 12.126 10 Everything will be permitted there [at Harvard College] which goes to adorn Boston Whiggism,-is it geology, astronomy, poetry...
CL 12.165 25 The geology, the astronomy, the anatomy, are all good, but 't is all a half...
CL 12.165 26 The geology, the astronomy, the anatomy, are all good, but 't is all a half, and-enlarge it by astronomy never so far-remains a half.
CL 12.166 2 Astronomy is a cold, desert science...
CW 12.170 10 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/ the miracle of generative force,/ Far-reaching concords of astronomy/...
CW 12.176 16 ...it is much better to learn the elements...of ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
Nat 1.38 25 The first steps in...Astronomy...teach that Nature's dice are always loaded;...
PI 8.49 4 Astronomy, Botany, Chemistry, Hydraulics and the elemental forces have their own periods and returns...
EdAd 11.390 18 Let [a journal] now show its astuteness by dodging each difficult question...
LE 1.156 22 Men looked, when all feudal straps and bandages were snapped asunder, that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans...
Tran 1.351 22 The martyrs were sawn asunder...
Wsp 6.205 23 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder.
Imtl 8.351 9 These two, ignorance (whose object is what is pleasant) and knowledge (whose object is what is good) are known to be far asunder...
Dem1 10.3 11 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms, and carries them asunder by wide spaces of land and sea...
Carl 10.490 19 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown, and set a-swinging, to the surprise and consternation of all persons...
CL 12.149 3 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins (Waters), long-armed, good-looking Aswins! bearers of wealth...harness your car!
CL 12.149 4 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins (Waters), long-armed, good-looking Aswins! bearers of wealth...harness your car!
LT 1.291 4 You shall be the asylum and patron of every new thought...
Fdsp 2.200 8 If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate myself, if then I made my other friends my asylum...
Art1 2.366 12 ...the artist and the connoisseur now seek in art...an asylum from the evils of life.
NER 3.264 20 ...it may easily be questioned...whether such a retreat [to associations] does not promise to become an asylum to those who have tried and failed...
Farm 7.138 4 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum where, in case of mischance, to hide their poverty...
Imtl 8.342 26 [A belief in the laws] communicates...an asylum in temples to the loyal soul.
War 11.169 16 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one which is looked upon as the asylum of the human race...
Wom 11.417 17 These [literary jokes on Woman] were all...such satire as might be written on the tenants of a hospital or on an asylum for idiots.
SHC 11.435 27 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...red-eyed warbler, the heron, the bittern, will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...
WSL 12.342 11 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual life [a library] must appear to have the sanction of Nature...
CInt 12.118 11 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery. Thus...at the introduction of gentleness into insane asylums...
Exp 3.48 5 Ate Dea is gentle...
MR 1.251 21 ...oftentimes by way of abstinence [Caliph Omar] ate his bread without salt.
Mrs1 3.145 22 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...what his mouth ate, his hand paid for...
UGM 4.3 8 In the legends of the Gautama, the first men ate the earth and found it deliciously sweet.
ET4 5.47 5 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to...copy heedfully the training--what food they ate...
ET8 5.140 7 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...for whatever turned up, he...never slept less nor more on account of them, nor ate nor drank but according to his custom.
F 6.45 23 Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious nature] has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first...
Wsp 6.235 18 I ate whatever was set before me [said Benedict];...
SS 7.10 20 The king lived and ate in his hall with men, and understood men, said Selden.
Boks 7.210 4 Now [the bidders for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] talked apart, now ate a biscuit, now made a bet...
PPo 8.236 2 God only knew how Saadi dined;/ Roses he ate, and drank the wind./
Insp 8.270 6 We are very glad that [the aboriginal man] ate his fishes and snails and marrow-bones out of our sight and hearing...
Thor 10.454 9 ...[Thoreau] ate no flesh, he drank no wine, he never knew the use of tobacco;...
LS 11.4 27 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples;...
LS 11.9 7 It appears that the Jews [at Passover] ate the lamb and the unleavened bread and drank wine after a prescribed manner.
Bost 12.192 7 ...Biorn and Thorfinn, Northmen...ate so many grapes from the wild vines that they were reeling drunk.
ET13 5.214 7 ...English life...does not grow out of the Athanasian creed...
Prch 10.236 27 We no longer recite the old creeds of Athanasius or Arius...
SR 2.64 22 Here are the lungs of that inspiration...which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism.
NER 3.278 19 The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no scepticism, no atheism but that.
SwM 4.138 14 That pure malignity can exist is the extreme proposition of unbelief. It is not to be entertained by a rational agent; it is atheism;...
Wsp 6.201 7 Some of my friends have complained...that we ran Cudworth' s risk of making...the argument of atheism so strong that he could not answer it.
PI 8.74 4 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism.
PerF 10.87 11 I admire the sentiment of Thoreau, who said, Nothing is so much to be feared as fear; God himself likes atheism better.
Plu 10.313 6 When you are persuaded in your mind that you cannot either offer or perform anything more agreeable to the gods than the entertaining a right notion of them, you will then avoid superstition as a no less evil than atheism.
Thor 10.483 22 Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
FSLN 11.228 17 ...if the reporters say true, [Webster's] wretched atheism found some laughter in the company.
CInt 12.129 3 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic...you expose your atheism.
Tran 1.336 25 I, [Jacobi] says, am that atheist...who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation, would lie as the dying Desdemona lied;...
Imtl 8.330 8 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I avow that I am not so humble as the atheist; I know not how they think, but for me, I do not wish to exchange the idea of immortality against that of the beatitude of one day.
MoS 4.181 18 Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic...
ET13 5.219 26 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.
Imtl 8.340 27 It is my greatest desire, [Van Helmont] said, that it might be granted unto atheists to have tasted, at least but one only moment, what it is intellectually to understand;...
Chr2 10.111 3 These men [Voltaire, Frederic the Great, D'Alembert] preached the true God,-Him whom men serve by justice and uprightness; but they called themselves atheists.
ET10 5.154 11 I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...
ET12 5.201 17 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...is a lively record of English manners and merits...
Pow 6.68 15 Men of this surcharge of arterial blood...cannot satisfy all their wants at the Thursday Lecture or the Boston Athenaeum.
Bhr 6.174 15 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with canes. But even in the perfect civilization of this city [Boston] such cautions are not quite needless in the Athenaeum and City Library.
ET7 5.121 16 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived there on his escape from Paris, in February, 1848. Many private friends called on him. His name was immediately proposed as an honorary member of the Athenaeum.
ET17 5.292 15 The privileges of the [London] Athenaeum and of the Reform Clubs were hospitably opened to me...
ET19 5.309 3 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet...
Wth 6.103 7 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly, not for the corn or house-room, but for Athenian corn, and Roman house-room...
Boks 7.199 13 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of...Protagoras, Anaxagoras and Socrates, with the lovely background of the Athenian and suburban landscape.
Boks 7.200 27 Xenophon's delineation of Athenian manners is an accessory to Plato...
Hsm1 2.257 13 Why should these words, Athenian, Roman, Asia and England, so tingle in the ear?
Hist 2.24 2 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...in all its periods from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans...
ET14 5.232 7 [The English]...never are surprised into a covert or witty word, such as pleased the Athenians and Italians...
MoL 10.246 27 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought. Niebuhr has given striking examples of that fatal portent; as in the loss of power of thought that followed the disasters of the Athenians in Sicily.
Schr 10.261 1 The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica.
II 12.79 26 The thoughts which wander through our mind, we do not absorb and make flesh of, but...we retail them as news, to our lovers and to all Athenians.
Let 12.399 7 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who, whilst they regard these young Athenians with suspicion and dislike, educate their own children in the same courses...
Plu 10.305 17 ...the vigor of [Plutarch's] pen appears in the chapter Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned, and in his attack upon Userers.
Plu 10.305 17 ...the vigor of [Plutarch's] pen appears in the chapter Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned, and in his attack upon Userers.
LE 1.170 21 The moment a man of genius pronounces the name...of Athens...we see their state under a new aspect.
Hist 2.8 23 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read, from Rome and Athens and London, to himself...
Hsm1 2.245 20 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens...
Hsm1 2.245 21 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens,--all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his wife.
Chr1 3.105 20 Care is taken that the greatly-destined shall slip up into life in the shade, with no thousand-eyed Athens to watch and blazon every new thought...
PPh 4.44 10 Returning to Athens, [Plato] gave lessons in the Academy...
PPh 4.52 26 European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results. Pericles, Athens, Greece, had been working in this element with the joy of genius not yet chilled by any foresight of the detriment of an excess.
PPh 4.71 16 [Socrates] can drink, too; has the strongest head in Athens;...
PPh 4.71 22 [Socrates]...was monstrously fond of Athens...
PPh 4.71 25 [Socrates]...thought every thing in Athens a little better than anything in any other place.
PPh 4.73 8 ...under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down...all the fine philosophers of Athens...
GoW 4.288 14 Socrates loved Athens;...
ET3 5.40 23 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
ET5 5.91 14 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains...
Art2 7.56 19 ...in Greece, the Demos of Athens divided into political factions upon the merits of Phidias.
Elo1 7.63 26 Antiphon the Rhamnusian...advertised in Athens that he would cure distempers of the mind with words.
Boks 7.201 20 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for, to learn our way in the streets of Athens...
Suc 7.286 1 Hippocrates in Greece knew how to stay the devouring plague which ravaged Athens in his time...
Elo2 8.118 12 It does not surprise us...to learn from Plutarch what great sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of rhetoric;...
PC 8.220 16 How much more are...the wise and good souls...Socrates in Athens, the saints in Judea...than the foolish and sensual millions around them!
Chr2 10.105 9 ...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken...
Edc1 10.146 16 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument, fifty years older than the Parthenon of Athens...
Edc1 10.149 24 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men of Athens around Socrates;...
MoL 10.251 5 A redeeming trait of the Sophists of Athens...is that they made their own clothes and shoes.
Plu 10.301 27 Thebes, Sparta, Athens and Rome charm us away from the disgust of the passing hour.
LLNE 10.331 2 There was an influence on the young people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens.
EWI 11.122 24 [The civility] of Athens, again, lay in an intellect dedicated to beauty.
FSLC 11.212 22 It was the praise of Athens, She could not lead countless armies into the field, but she knew how with a little band to defeat those who could.
Wom 11.411 6 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?
Mem 12.99 14 The Rhapsodists in Athens it seems could recite at once any passage of Homer that was desired.
Bost 12.188 1 The Greeks thought him unhappy who died without seeing the statue of Jove at Olympia. With still more reason, they praised Athens, the Violet City.
SwM 4.104 9 The robust Aristotelian method...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
SwM 4.105 25 [Swedenborg's] writings would be a sufficient library to a lonely and athletic student;...
MoS 4.152 20 After dinner...a man comes to be valued by his athletic and animal qualities.
GoW 4.282 17 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble...
F 6.12 2 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... an athletic frame for wide journeying...
MoL 10.250 25 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic;...a stoic, formidable, athletic...
ET11 5.189 4 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced the rape-culture...
Dem1 10.17 1 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons...this supposed power runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
UGM 4.15 16 [The people] delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk! What a front! what eyes! Atlantean shoulders...
LT 1.260 11 Here is this great fact of Conservatism, entrenched in its immense redoubt, with...the Atlantic and Pacific seas for its ditches and trenches;...
MN 1.205 8 Who would value any number of miles of Atlantic brine bounded by lines of latitude and longitude?
YA 1.369 24 We in the Atlantic states, by position, have been commercial...
Pol1 3.197 18 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
ET2 5.32 19 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the Englis