Nat 1.7 8 One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man...the perpetual presence of the sublime.
DSA 1.146 18 ...when you meet one of these men or women...let their trampled instincts be genially tempted out in your atmosphere;...
MR 1.250 17 ...we cannot make a planet, with atmosphere, rivers, and forests, by means of the best carpenters'...tools...
LT 1.285 1 Is there less oxygen in the atmosphere?
Hist 2.19 2 What appears once in the atmosphere may appear often...
Prd1 2.234 23 ...beer, if not brewed in the right state of the atmosphere, will sour;...
OS 2.268 21 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is that great nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere;...
OS 2.291 8 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.
Pt1 3.40 26 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again to people a new world. This is like the stock of air for our respiration or for the combustion of our fireplace; not a measure of gallons, but the entire atmosphere if wanted.
Mrs1 3.121 16 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men. It seems a certain permanent average; as the atmosphere is a permanent composition...
Mrs1 3.127 2 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate; but once matched by the skill of the other party, they drop the point of the sword,--points and fences disappear, and the youth finds himself in a more transparent atmosphere...
Pol1 3.211 27 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs.
UGM 4.12 5 Shall we say that...the laboratory of the atmosphere holds in solution I know not what Berzeliuses and Davys?
SwM 4.94 18 The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys...
SwM 4.103 26 Swedenborg was born into an atmosphere of great ideas.
ET11 5.179 3 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land.
ET12 5.207 3 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...the atmosphere is loaded with Greek learning;...
ET14 5.242 24 Not these particulars, but the mental plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age...
F 6.25 1 We should be crushed by the atmosphere, but for the reaction of the air within the body.
F 6.27 21 I know not whether there be...in the upper region of our atmosphere, a permanent westerly current...
Pow 6.64 11 The longer the drought lasts the more is the atmosphere surcharged with water.
Wsp 6.232 2 ...a beautiful atmosphere is generated from the planet by the averaged emanations from all its rocks and soils.
Ill 6.316 4 Too pathetic, too pitiable, is the region of affection, and its atmosphere always liable to mirage.
Farm 7.144 18 The atmosphere, a sharp solvent, drinks the essence and spirit of every solid on the globe...
Boks 7.217 19 If our times are sterile in genius, we must cheer us with books of rich and believing men who had atmosphere and amplitude about them.
Suc 7.306 6 Morals are generated as the atmosphere is.
OA 7.313 14 I care not if the pomps [clouds] show/ Be what they soothfast appear,/ Or if yon realms in sunset glow/ Be bubbles of the atmosphere./
SA 8.90 14 The delight...in pure, brilliant, social atmosphere;...doubles the value of life.
PC 8.233 10 ...I draw new hope from the atmosphere we breathe to-day...
Insp 8.284 13 ...I am glad that the atmosphere should be an excitant...
Dem1 10.11 6 ...the atmosphere of a summer morning is filled with innumerable gossamer threads running in every direction...
Aris 10.55 21 The astronomers are very eager to know whether the moon has an atmosphere;...
Aris 10.55 23 ...it takes two to make an atmosphere.
Prch 10.222 11 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. The ball...is there, but his power...to illuminate the heart as well as the atmosphere, is gone forever.
LLNE 10.350 12 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system; the good Fourier knew what those creatures should have been, had not the mould slipped, through the bad state of the atmosphere;...
MMEm 10.427 25 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then I ask not faith nor knowledge;...
EdAd 11.392 23 The conscience of man is regenerated as is the atmosphere...
Wom 11.412 15 [Women] emit from their pores a colored atmosphere...
SHC 11.431 10 ...[trees] keep the earth habitable; their roots run down, like cattle, to the water-courses; their heads expand to feed the atmosphere.
CL 12.140 18 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...
CW 12.178 7 ...Nineteen twentieths of the timber are drawn from the atmosphere.
CW 12.178 10 ...the top of the tree is also a tap-root thrust into the public pocket of the atmosphere.
MLit 12.310 14 ...they say every man walks environed by his proper atmosphere...
WSL 12.345 18 What is the quality of the persons who...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history, almost giving their own quality to the atmosphere and the landscape?
Let 12.401 16 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...
Farm 7.145 26 Whilst all thus burns...it needs a perpetual tempering... atmospheres of azote...to check the fury of the conflagration;...
LLNE 10.348 16 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women...
Nat 1.68 13 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...atmospheric influence...
NR 3.229 23 ...we are very sensible of an atmospheric influence in men and in bodies of men, not accounted for in an arithmetical addition of all their measurable properties.
ET14 5.248 11 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges, that he is impressive...
SS 7.6 4 Those constitutions which can bear in open day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average structure such as... atmospheric air and water.
Insp 8.284 10 My anchorite thought it sad that atmospheric influences should bring to our dust the communion of the soul with the Infinite.
Mrs1 3.132 27 A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,--not bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically.
Nat 1.60 7 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom...
AmS 1.98 23 That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself...as yet more deeply ingrained in every atom and every fluid, is known to us under the name of Polarity...
MN 1.200 9 How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom;...the dance of the hours goes forward still.
Lov1 2.185 22 The union which is thus effected [by love] and which adds a new value to every atom in nature...is yet a temporary state.
Fdsp 2.202 21 ...I...may deal with [a friend] with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
OS 2.297 7 ...the universe is represented in an atom...
Pt1 3.23 5 This atom of seed is thrown into a new place...
Exp 3.64 1 ...the new molecular philosophy shows astronomical interspaces betwixt atom and atom...
Nat2 3.167 9 Self-kindled every atom glows,/ And hints the future which it owes./
Nat2 3.180 15 It is a long way from granite to the oyster; farther yet to Plato and the preaching of the immortality of the soul. Yet all must come, as surely as the first atom has two sides.
Nat2 3.184 24 That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball;...
NR 3.245 13 ...every atom has a sphere of repulsion;...
PPh 4.77 8 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world passed through the mind of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have the Platonic tinge;...
PPh 4.77 9 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world passed through the mind of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have the Platonic tinge; every atom, every relation or quality you knew before, you shall know again and find here, but now ordered;...
SwM 4.106 10 In the atom of magnetic iron [Swedenborg] saw the quality which would generate the spiral motion of sun and planet.
SwM 4.113 14 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland; and of Leucippus, that the atom may be known by the mass;...
F 6.36 27 ...where shall we find the first atom in this house of man...
F 6.48 8 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity which...compels every atom to serve an universal end.
Wsp 6.215 12 I find the omnipresence and the almightiness in the reaction of every atom in nature.
Wsp 6.221 25 ...the globe is a battery, because every atom is a magnet;...
Ill 6.319 21 The intellect sees that every atom carries the whole of nature;...
Farm 7.135 24 ...every atom poises for itself,/ And for the whole./
Farm 7.139 2 ...atom by atom...[Nature] achieves her work.
Farm 7.143 14 You cannot detach an atom from its holdings...
Farm 7.143 17 You cannot...strip off from [an atom]...the relation to light and heat and leave the atom bare.
PI 8.5 3 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom.
PC 8.221 18 ...from each atom rays out illimitable influence.
PC 8.222 23 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...that atom draws to atom throughout Nature...
PC 8.224 10 ...the mass is like the atom...
PC 8.224 15 As language is in the alphabet, so is entire Nature...in one atom.
PerF 10.68 1 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives back the bending heavens in dew./
PerF 10.72 7 These [natural] forces...seem to leave no room for the individual; man or atom, he only shares them;...
Edc1 10.130 20 If Newton come and...perceive...that every atom in Nature draws to every other atom,-he extends the power of his mind...over every cubic atom of his native planet...
Edc1 10.130 21 If Newton come and...perceive...that every atom in Nature draws to every other atom,-he extends the power of his mind...over every cubic atom of his native planet...
Edc1 10.130 22 If Newton come and...perceive...that every atom in Nature draws to every other atom,-he extends the power of his mind...over every cubic atom of his native planet...
War 11.152 23 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.
PLT 12.29 27 If [a man] could attain full size he would take up, first or last, atom by atom, all the world into a new form.
CW 12.170 5 ...every atom poises for itself,/ And for the whole..../
UGM 4.9 7 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Dalton, of atomic forms;...
SwM 4.102 10 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated...in chemistry, the atomic theory;...
SwM 4.109 17 Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is good, but grander when we find...that the atomic theory shows the action of chemistry to be mechanical also.
ET1 5.24 4 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark. In this connection he said of the Newtonian theory that it might yet be superseded and forgotten; and Dalton's atomic theory.
Clbs 7.239 1 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England, the author of the theory of atomic proportions...
PI 8.16 10 The atomic theory is only an interior process produced...
PC 8.223 20 Mind carries the law; history is the slow and atomic unfolding.
ACiv 11.307 13 ...[Emancipation] alters the atomic social constitution of the Southern people.
War 11.154 21 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water;...
Prd1 2.219 6 Grandeur of the perfect sphere/ Thanks the atoms that cohere./
Cir 2.314 10 Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft, who has explored the gravity of atoms and the elective affinities, who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate statement...
PPh 4.56 15 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world; the theory of atoms, of fire, of flux, of spirit;...
SwM 4.133 5 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the world] is a gigantic crystal, all whose atoms and laminae lie in uninterrupted order...
MoS 4.186 2 ...through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
GoW 4.273 19 [Goethe] had a power to unite the detached atoms again by their own law.
ET5 5.100 22 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata, or Dalton of atoms...
F 6.17 27 This kind of talent so abounds, this constructive tool-making efficiency, as if it adhered to the chemic atoms;...
F 6.24 26 If the Universe have these savage accidents, our atoms are as savage in resistance.
F 6.27 23 I know not whether there be...in the upper region of our atmosphere, a permanent westerly current which carries with it all atoms which rise to that height...
Wth 6.106 12 The sublime laws play indifferently through atoms and galaxies.
Ctr 6.154 21 All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
Wsp 6.219 15 ...the primordial atoms are prefigured and predetermined to moral issues...
Wsp 6.231 25 ...I look on those sentiments which make the glory of the human being, love, humility, faith, as being also the intimacy of Divinity in the atoms;...
Wsp 6.240 18 Man is made of the same atoms as the world is...
CbW 6.252 3 ...we are used as brute atoms until we think...
CbW 6.259 13 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which sets our human atoms spinning...
Ill 6.324 7 Diogenes of Apollonia said that unless the atoms were made of one stuff, they could never blend and act with one another.
DL 7.109 4 An increased consciousness of the soul, you say, characterizes the period. Let us see if it has not only arranged the atoms at the circumference, but the atoms at the core.
DL 7.109 5 An increased consciousness of the soul, you say, characterizes the period. Let us see if it has not only arranged the atoms at the circumference, but the atoms at the core.
Boks 7.213 24 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance...
Cour 7.266 3 ...there is no separate essence called courage...no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue;...
PI 8.4 22 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements...we should not find cubes, or prisms, or atoms, at all, but spherules of force.
PI 8.18 24 [The act of imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance.
PI 8.24 17 The atoms of the body were once nebulae...
Res 8.140 21 By his machines man...can see atoms like a gnat;...
Grts 8.311 7 The world was created as an audience for [the scholar]; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities.
SovE 10.188 7 It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law, exerting influence...down in the kingdoms of brute or of chemical atoms.
FSLC 11.205 11 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which, if so much as the smallest end be shivered off, the whole will snap into atoms.
HCom 11.341 18 War passes the power of all chemical solvents, breaking up the old adhesions, and allowing the atoms of society to take a new order.
SHC 11.430 16 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles...
FRep 11.528 13 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into atoms is so much as the smallest end be shivered off.
PLT 12.27 22 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms...
CInt 12.128 1 ...I thought...a college was to teach you...chemistry, botany, zoology, the streaming of thought into form, and the precipitation of atoms which Nature is.
Bost 12.184 15 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air, when, as true philosophers, we must believe that chemical atoms also have their spiritual cause why they are thus and not other;...
WSL 12.348 27 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed.
PPr 12.384 6 To atone for this departure from the vows of the scholar and his eternal duties to this secular charity, we have at least this gain, that here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.
Con 1.311 7 Have we not atoned for this small offence...of leaving you no right in the soil, by this splendid indemnity of ancestral and national wealth?
Chr1 3.113 26 We shall one day see...that quality atones for quantity...
MR 1.232 27 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration; but rather what he then puts out of sight, only showing the brilliant result, and atoning for the manner of acquiring, by the manner of expending it.
DL 7.120 5 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...stealing time to read one chapter more of the novel hardly smuggled into the tolerance of father and mother,--atoning for the same by some pages of Plutarch or Goldsmith;...
SA 8.104 23 The consolation and happy moment of life, atoning for all short-comings, is sentiment;...
SlHr 10.437 19 ...when [Samuel Hoar] saw the day and the gods went against him, he withdrew, but with an unaltered belief. All was conquered praeter atrocem animum Catonis.
ET1 5.20 19 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...
NR 3.227 22 ...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would...do some precious atrocity.
AKan 11.256 2 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion; but his supporters in the Senate...speak out, and declare the intolerable atrocity of the code.
Tran 1.358 3 What is the privilege and nobility of our nature but its persistency, through its power to attach itself to what is permanent?
Exp 3.53 15 What notions do [physicians] attach to love!...
Exp 3.77 1 By love on one part and by forbearance to press objection on the other part, it is for a time settled that we will look at [Jesus] in the centre of the horizon, and ascribe to him the properties that will attach to any man so seen.
Pol1 3.206 14 The law may do what it will with the owner of property; its just power will still attach to the cent.
ET17 5.297 16 I do not attach much importance to the disparagement of Wordsworth among London scholars.
Pow 6.80 17 ...this force or spirit, being the means relied on by Nature for bringing the work of the day about,--as far as we attach importance to household life and the prizes of the world, we must respect that.
WD 7.179 23 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday. Can he uncover the ligaments...which attach the dull men and things we know to the First Cause?
Res 8.145 21 Wanting a picket to which to attach my horse, [Malus] says, I tied him to my leg.
SovE 10.196 4 Shall we attach ourselves violently to our teachers and historical personalities, and think the foundation shaken if any fault is shown in their record?
EWI 11.133 6 ...perhaps I know too little of politics for the smallest weight to attach to any censure of mine...
EWI 11.134 13 I entreat you, sirs, let not this stain attach, let not this misery accumulate any longer.
Bost 12.184 22 Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers attach...
MN 1.215 9 ...[the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices...
SR 2.55 5 ...most men have...attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion.
Prd1 2.224 18 ...our existence, thus apparently attached in nature to the sun and the returning moon and the periods which they mark...reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
Chr1 3.90 25 Man, ordinarily...only half attached...to the world he lives in, in these examples [of men of character] appears to share the life of things...
Mrs1 3.121 3 The word gentleman, which, like the word Christian, must hereafter characterize the present and the few preceding centuries by the importance attached to it, is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties.
Gts 3.160 8 ...[fruits]...admit of fantastic values being attached to them.
UGM 4.20 4 Mankind have in all ages attached themselves to a few persons who...were entitled to the position of leaders and law-givers.
SwM 4.100 11 Later, [Swedenborg] resigned his office of Assessor: the salary attached to this office continued to be paid to him during his life.
ET8 5.130 13 [The English] are of the earth, earthy; and of the sea, as the sea-kinds, attached to it for what it yields them...
ET13 5.216 11 Bishop Wilfrid manumitted two hundred and fifty serfs, whom he found attached to the soil.
ET14 5.241 9 ...[Pericles] meeting with Anaxagoras...he attached himself to him, and nourished himself with sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence;...
Pow 6.58 17 ...Commander Wilkes appropriates the results of all the naturalists attached to the Expedition;...
Prch 10.221 11 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration;...
Plu 10.296 4 Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares, I am always charmed with Plutarch; in his writings are circumstances attached to persons, which give great pleasure;...
MMEm 10.401 4 Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary [Moody Emerson]...
MMEm 10.413 12 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction?
GSt 10.502 12 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown, who... attached some of the best and noblest to him...by lasting ties.
LS 11.16 8 We know how inveterately [the primitive Church] were attached to their Jewish prejudices...
EWI 11.110 27 ...every [West Indian] house had a dungeon attached to it;...
SMC 11.361 19 [George Prescott] writes, You don't know how one gets attached to a company by living with them...
EdAd 11.390 23 Can [a journal] front this matter of Socialism, to which the names of Owen and Fourier have attached, and dispose of that question?
AmS 1.88 21 The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation...is transferred to the record.
Tran 1.355 13 [Our virtue's respresentatives] are still liable to that slight taint of burlesque which in our strange world attaches to the zealot.
YA 1.376 25 Each chief attaches as many followers as he can...
Lov1 2.186 12 ...that which drew [lovers] to each other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are there, however eclipsed. They appear and reappear and continue to attract; but the regard...quits the sign and attaches to the substance.
Pt1 3.32 16 All the value which attaches to Pythagoras...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
Chr1 3.97 23 A given order of events has no power to secure to [the hero] the satisfaction which the imagination attaches to it;...
SwM 4.134 7 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man, because he is right by his wrong, and wrong by his right;....
ET5 5.93 21 [The English] are a family to which a destiny attaches...
ET8 5.136 4 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of a nature originally melancholy. 'T is the habit of a mind which attaches to abstractions with a passion which gives vast results.
ET14 5.253 6 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;--though perhaps...the vice attaches to many more than to British physicists.
Suc 7.293 11 The fame of each discovery rightly attaches to the mind that made the formula which contains all the details...
Aris 10.62 3 ...[the true man] is to know...that...wherever found, the old renown attaches to the virtues of simple faith and stanch endurance and clear perception and plain speech...
Chr2 10.94 19 He who doth a just action seeth therein nothing of his own, but an inconceivable nobleness attaches to it, because it is a dictate of the general mind.
FSLC 11.198 17 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its incumbents must rank with a class from which the turnkey, the hangman and the informer are taken, necessary functionaries...to whom the dislike and the ban of society universally attaches.
FRep 11.515 3 No interest now attaches to the wars of York and Lancaster...
WSL 12.341 24 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame...
WSL 12.345 11 What is the nature of that subtle and majestic principle which attaches us to a few persons...
SwM 4.135 11 Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by attaching themselves to the Christian symbol...
ET6 5.108 10 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.
ET13 5.221 3 So far is [the English gentleman] from attaching any meaning to the words, that he believes himself to have done almost the generous thing, and that it is very condescending in him to pray to God.
Wom 11.410 13 The spiritual force of man is as much shown...in his fancy and imagination,-attaching deep meanings to things and to arbitrary inventions of no real value,-as in his perception of truth.
Pt1 3.16 9 The inwardness and mystery of this attachment [to nature] drive men of every class to the use of emblems.
ET4 5.71 17 [The Englishman's] attachment to the horse arises from the courage and address required to manage it.
ET7 5.124 4 This [English] dulness makes their attachment to home...
EzRy 10.395 7 ...[Ezra Ripley]...appeared a modern Israelite in his attachment to the Hebrew history and faith.
MMEm 10.402 5 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] attachment to the youths and maidens growing up in those families [of her brothers and sisters] was secure for any trait of talent or of character.
SlHr 10.445 24 Nobody cared to speak of thoughts or aspirations to a black-letter lawyer [Samuel Hoar], who only studied to keep men out of prison, and their lands out of attachment.
Carl 10.489 18 I called [Carlyle] a trip-hammer with an Aeolian attachment.
TPar 11.287 16 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless, and he, with something less of affectionate attachment to the old, or with more vigorous logic, rejected them.
ET19 5.311 23 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes...which stands in strong contrast with the superficial attachments of other races...
NER 3.261 12 The criticism and attack on institutions...has made one thing plain...
NMW 4.237 8 A thunderbolt in the attack, [Napoleon] was found invulnerable in his intrenchments.
NMW 4.237 9 [Napoleon's] very attack was never the inspiration of courage...
ET4 5.56 19 Bonaparte's art of war, namely of concentrating force on the point of attack, must always be theirs who have the choice of the battle-ground.
ET5 5.78 26 In [the English] parliament, the tactics of the opposition is to resist every step of the government by a pitiless attack;...
ET8 5.127 19 [The Englishman's] hilarity is like an attack of fever.
Plu 10.305 18 ...the vigor of [Plutarch's] pen appears in the chapter Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned, and in his attack upon Userers.
HDC 11.61 11 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward, the fame of whose prayers, it is said, once saved Concord from an attack of the Indian.
EWI 11.109 18 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack.
AsSu 11.251 24 I wish that [Charles Sumner] may know the shudder of terror which ran through all this community on the first tidings of this brutal attack.
PLT 12.22 1 If man has organs...for digesting, for protection by house-building, by attack and defence...you shall find all the same in the muskrat.
MAng1 12.224 18 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack...
LT 1.260 18 ...all the children of men attack the colossus [Conservatism] in their youth...
YA 1.388 21 The 'opposition' papers, so called, are on the same side. They attack the great capitalist, but with the aim to make a capitalist of the poor man.
Comp 2.105 13 If [the unwise man] escapes [the conditions of life] in one part they attack him in another more vital part.
NMW 4.238 3 At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse...
ET7 5.122 20 [The English] attack their own politicians every day...as adventurers.
Cour 7.262 6 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was overpowered with fear...
Schr 10.285 24 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true, which attack and wound any who opposes them...
War 11.153 5 The strong tribe...attack and conquer their neighbors...
NER 3.252 22 [Other reformers] attacked the system of agriculture...
NER 3.253 13 [Other reformers] attacked the institution of marriage as the fountain of social evils.
NMW 4.230 1 [The art of war] consisted, according to [Bonaparte], in having always more forces than the enemy, on the point where the enemy is attacked, or where he attacks...
ET1 5.10 1 Landor is strangely undervalued in England;...sometimes savagely attacked in the Reviews.
Bhr 6.186 6 Society is very swift in its instincts, and, if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked;...
Civ 7.34 3 ...if there be...a country...where liberty is attacked in the primary institution of social life;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
HDC 11.72 24 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was to destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on the 19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage.
War 11.167 9 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...being attacked, he bears it and turns the other cheek...
PPr 12.385 9 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy...
LT 1.260 7 Let us examine the pretensions of the attacking and defending parties.
NMW 4.237 12 [Napoleon's] idea of the best defence consists in being still the attacking party.
EurB 12.378 15 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...to invert the relation in which our sex stand to women, so that they appear the attacking, and he the passive or defensive party.
Con 1.298 12 ...innovation is always in the right, triumphant, attacking...
Hist 2.22 5 The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly...
NER 3.262 23 I cannot afford...to waste all my time in attacks.
ET15 5.264 26 [The London Times] will kill all but that paper which is diametrically in opposition; since many papers, first and last, have lived by their attacks on the leading journal.
PPh 4.73 6 ...under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down all the fine speakers...
NMW 4.230 1 [The art of war] consisted, according to [Bonaparte], in having always more forces than the enemy, on the point where the enemy is attacked, or where he attacks...
ET15 5.264 18 ...[the London Times] attacks its rivals by perfecting its printing machinery...
ET15 5.269 5 [The London Times] attacks a duke as readily as a policeman...
Cour 7.276 11 ...[the hideous facts in history] require of us a patience as robust as the energy that attacks us...
Nat 1.59 14 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man...as the ground which to attain is the object of human life...
AmS 1.106 21 All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being, - ripened; yes, and are content to be less, so that may attain to its full stature.
Con 1.305 5 ...you cannot...attain liberty without rejecting obligation...
Hist 2.9 1 [Each man] must attain and maintain that lofty sight where facts yield their secret sense...
Lov1 2.170 27 ...it is to be hoped that...we may attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth ever young and beautiful...
Lov1 2.188 21 ...the warm loves and fears, that swept over us as clouds, must lose their finite character and blend with God, to attain their own perfection.
Hsm1 2.255 21 It is a height to which common duty can very well attain, to suffer and to dare with solemnity.
Chr1 3.114 20 If we cannot attain at a bound to these grandeurs [of character], at least let us do them homage.
SwM 4.115 22 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences...
ShP 4.215 8 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses;...
GoW 4.285 6 Piety itself is no aim [said Goethe], but only as a means whereby through purest inward peace we may attain to highest culture.
ET11 5.195 21 In the university, the [English] noblemen are exempted from the public exercises for the degree...by which they attain a degree called honorary.
Wsp 6.210 10 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...
CbW 6.272 15 In excited conversation we have...hints of power native to the soul...such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation.
Bty 6.298 11 That Beauty is the normal state is shown by the perpetual effort of nature to attain it.
Elo1 7.70 13 It is said that the Khans or story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience...
SA 8.100 22 There is in America a general conviction in the minds of all mature men, that every young man of good faculty and good habits can by perseverance attain to an adequate estate;...
Elo2 8.121 12 In moments of clearer thought or deeper sympathy, the voice will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much as the auditor;...
Chr2 10.105 24 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No leaf thereof could attain the liberty of being printed (in Berlin) to-day.
SovE 10.205 18 I do not think the summit of this age truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion and philosophy reached in any former age.
LLNE 10.360 24 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of daily labor. At the same time, it was an attempt...to share the advantages they should attain, with others now deprived of them.
HDC 11.34 16 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail...
War 11.155 5 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to freedom, to attain to a mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being;...
Wom 11.407 1 ...the general voice of mankind has agreed...that the same mental height which [women's] husbands attain by toil, they attain by sympathy with their husbands.
Wom 11.414 6 There is much that tends to give [women] a religious height which men do not attain.
Shak1 11.446 5 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/ The sense and bound of Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him became/ Poets, for the air was fame./
PLT 12.29 26 If [a man] could attain full size he would take up, first or last, atom by atom, all the world into a new form.
II 12.77 23 ...one day, though far off, you will attain the control of these [higher] states;...
Milt1 12.254 12 If hereby we attain any more precision, we proceed to say that we think no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].
MN 1.198 11 In treating a subject so large...I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
MN 1.214 2 Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things...
Con 1.302 4 For the present...to come at what sum is attainable to us, we must even hear the parties plead as parties.
Hist 2.7 9 ...all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist...describes [to each reader] his unattained but attainable self.
Fdsp 2.198 18 ...my moods are quite attainable...
Art1 2.366 25 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. High beauty is no longer attainable by him in canvas or in stone...
CbW 6.276 19 ...whatever art you select...all are attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are apt;...
ACiv 11.299 22 There are periods, said Niebuhr, when something much better than happiness and security of life is attainable.
GoW 4.290 13 No mortgage, or attainder, will hold on men or hours.
Nat 1.55 26 In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars...
MR 1.246 11 [Infirm people] contrive everywhere to exhaust for their single comfort the entire means and appliances of that luxury to which our invention has yet attained.
Lov1 2.180 10 ...of poetry the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies...
Fdsp 2.203 12 I knew a man who...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first...all men agreed he was mad. But persisting...he attained to the advantage of bringing every man of his acquaintance into true relations with him.
ET6 5.114 19 English stories, bon-mots and the recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the French. In America, we...have not yet attained the same perfection...
ET12 5.212 2 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country...
ET15 5.267 25 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy, supplied the writers with the basis of fact and the object to be attained...
Pow 6.81 6 ...we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach, and has its own sublime economies by which it may be attained.
Ctr 6.159 27 ...[a cheerful intelligent face] indicates the purpose of nature and wisdom attained.
Bhr 6.197 18 What finest hands would not be clumsy to sketch the genial precepts of the young girl's demeanor? The chances seem infinite against success; and yet success is continually attained.
Bty 6.292 20 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry, and to watch the steps through which it is attained.
Elo1 7.78 3 It was said that a man has at one step attained vast power, who has renounced his moral sentiment...
DL 7.133 9 These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the household is instituted and the roof-tree stands. If these are sought and in any good degree attained, can the state...yield anything better, or half as good"
Res 8.146 27 ...one man whose eye commands the end in view and the means by which it can be attained, is...victor over all mankind who do not see the issue and the means.
Comc 8.158 13 ...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.
Dem1 10.8 16 Once or twice the conscious fetters shall seem to be unlocked [by dreams], and a freer utterance attained.
SovE 10.184 3 ...this unity exists...from lower type of man to the highest yet attained...
Schr 10.270 15 Even the demonstrations of Nature for millenniums seem not to have attained their end, until this interpreter [the poet] arrives.
War 11.174 18 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men who have...attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.
ACiv 11.306 19 ...what kind of peace shall at that moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for it...
FRep 11.526 26 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...tight roof and coals enough have been attained;...
MAng1 12.219 15 [Michelangelo] labored to express the beautiful, in the entire conviction that it was only to be attained by knowledge of the true.
Pray 12.355 16 I thank thee for the knowledge that I have attained of thee by thy sons who have been before me...
OS 2.277 21 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. ... All are conscious of attaining to a higher self-possession.
Pt1 3.28 16 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and, as it was a spurious mode of attaining freedom...they were punished for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and deterioration.
WD 7.184 8 There are people...who in their consciousness of deserving success constantly slight the ordinary means of attaining it;...
Aris 10.58 27 In his consciousness of deserving success, the caliph Ali constantly neglected the ordinary means of attaining it...
Carl 10.495 2 Nor can that decorum...in attaining which the Englishman exceeds all nations, win from [Carlyle] any obeisance.
ACiv 11.297 5 ...it is the mark of nobleness to volunteer the lowest service, the greatest spirit only attaining to humility.
MN 1.222 4 If you ask, How can any rules be given for the attainment of gifts so sublime? I shall only remark that the solicitations of this spirit...are never forborne.
ET3 5.38 20 Here [in England] is...a temperature which...allows the attainment of the largest stature.
Elo1 7.90 26 ...rapid generalization, humor, pathos, are keys which the orator holds; and yet these fine gifts...do often hinder a man's attainment of [eloquence].
Elo1 7.99 20 [Eloquence's] great masters, whilst they valued every help to its attainment...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
EWI 11.115 26 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged...urging [the people] to the attainment of that higher liberty with which Christ maketh his children free.
War 11.156 10 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity. And why? Because the speaker has as yet no other image of manly activity and virtue...none of the attainment of truth.
CPL 11.501 23 Every attainment and discipline which increases a man's acquaintance with the invisible world lifts his being.
AmS 1.87 5 Nature then becomes to [the scholar] the measure of his attainments.
SL 2.133 16 People...take to themselves great airs upon their attainments...
DSA 1.121 5 When...[man] attains to say, - I love the Right...then...God is well pleased.
Hist 2.17 6 By a deeper apprehension...the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
Lov1 2.182 17 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world...
Exp 3.80 11 The partial action of each strong mind in one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed. But every other part of knowledge is to be pushed to the same extravagance, ere the soul attains her due sphericity.
MoS 4.175 20 ...as soon as each man attains the poise and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he will not need extreme examples...
Elo2 8.119 16 What is peculiar in [eloquence] is a certain creative heat, which a man attains to perhaps only once in his life.
Grts 8.307 16 ...it is only as [a man] feels and obeys [his bias] that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world.
PPo 8.237 11 The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus...have ceased to be empty names; and others, like Ferideddin Attar and Omar Khayyam, promise to rise in Western estimation.
PPo 8.263 15 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical tale...
PLT 12.51 24 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought]...she husbands and hives, she forms reservoirs, were it only a phial or a hair-tube that will hold as it were a drop of attar.
AmS 1.112 26 ...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time. Such an attempt of course must have difficulty which no genius could surmount.
DSA 1.123 10 The least admixture of a lie, - for example...any attempt to make a good impression...will instantly vitiate the effect.
LE 1.172 18 ...any particular portraiture does not in any manner exclude or forestall a new attempt...
SR 2.47 10 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him;...
Comp 2.110 22 The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it.
Comp 2.111 13 ...as soon as there is any departure from simplicity and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor feels the wrong;...
Lov1 2.179 10 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization.
Cir 2.304 15 ...if the soul is quick and strong it...expands another orbit on the great deep, which also runs up into a high wave, with attempt again to stop and to bind.
Mrs1 3.146 14 Even the line of heroes is not utterly extinct. ... These are the creators of Fashion, which is an attempt to organize beauty of behavior.
Mrs1 3.155 9 ...[society] reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character.
PPh 4.77 23 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large. Boa constrictor has good will to eat it, but he is foiled. He falls abroad in the attempt;...
SwM 4.128 14 I know how delicious is this cup of love...but it is a child's clinging to his toy; an attempt to eternize the fireside and nuptial chamber;...
NMW 4.257 15 [Napoleon's] attempt was in principle suicidal.
ET13 5.225 18 No chemist has prospered in the attempt to crystallize a religion.
ET14 5.249 9 ...Coleridge narrowed his mind in the attempt to reconcile the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church, with eternal ideas.
F 6.12 22 It was a poetic attempt to lift this mountain of Fate...which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Wth 6.119 25 Nor is any investment so permanent that it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching, as the history of each attempt to lock up an inheritance through two generations for an unborn inheritor may show.
Wsp 6.221 4 ...cant and lying and the attempt to secure a good which does not belong to us, are, once for all, balked and vain.
OA 7.316 2 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...Cicero' s famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain. But he does not exhaust the subject; rather invites the attempt to add traits to the picture from our broader modern life.
PI 8.23 1 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds, without any attempt to draw a moral or affix a meaning.
PI 8.53 13 Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense,--as the avoirdupois of the hero...but the beauty and soul in his aspect...runs into fable, personifies every fact...
Insp 8.283 21 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low. Since I know this, I endeavor, when the barometer is low, to counteract the injurious effect by greater exertion, and my attempt is successful.
Chr2 10.93 23 The extreme simplicity of this [moral] intuition embarrasses every attempt at analysis.
SovE 10.185 14 A thought is embosomed in a sentiment, and the attempt to detach and blazon the thought is like a show of cut flowers.
Plu 10.302 16 [Plutarch] disowns any attempt to rival Thucydides;...
LLNE 10.337 14 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show. The attempt was coarse and odious to scientific men...
LLNE 10.341 2 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper...and so ended the first attempt to establish aesthetic society in Boston.
LLNE 10.341 9 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present. Though I recall the fact, I do not retain any instant consequence of this attempt...
LLNE 10.355 3 It was easy to see what must be the fate of this fine system [of Fourier's] in any serious and comprehensive attempt to set it on foot in this country.
LLNE 10.360 22 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of daily labor. At the same time, it was an attempt to lift others with themselves...
HDC 11.68 21 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition...
EWI 11.109 12 During the next sixteen years, ten times, year after year, the attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery] was renewed by Mr. Wilberforce...
FSLN 11.228 1 ...the decision of Webster [for the Fugitive Slave Law] was accompanied with everything offensive to freedom and good morals. There was something like an attempt to debauch the moral sentiment of the clergy and of the youth.
FRep 11.517 24 [The American people] are now proceeding...to carry out, not the bill of rights, but the bill of human duties. And look what revolution that attempt involves.
FRep 11.517 27 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians...
PLT 12.12 13 All these exhaustive theories appear indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal Thought.
PLT 12.12 20 We have invincible repugnance...to study of the eyes instead of that which the eyes see; and the belief of men is that the attempt is unnatural...
II 12.84 23 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre; but they soon desist from the attempt...
Milt1 12.249 6 There is [in Milton's tracts] no attempt to conciliate...
MLit 12.311 11 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write. In our present attempt to enumerate some traits of the recent literature, we shall have somewhat to offer on each of these topics...
WSL 12.345 7 [Landor's] portraits, though mere sketches, must be valued as attempts in the very highest kind of narrative, which not only has very few examples to exhibit of any success, but very few competitors in the attempt.
EurB 12.368 17 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt to reconcile these with the spirit of fashion and selfishness...
PPr 12.386 19 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...
Con 1.303 7 We have all a certain intellection or presentiment of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character, and those who throw themselves blindly on this lose themselves. Whatever they attempt in that direction, fails...
Comp 2.96 11 I shall attempt in this and the following chapter to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation;...
SL 2.145 11 It is vain to attempt to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it.
Lov1 2.170 21 It matters not...whether we attempt to describe the passion [of love] at twenty, thirty, or at eighty years.
Int 2.329 11 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it. It is called truth. But the moment we...attempt to correct and contrive, it is not truth.
Pt1 3.8 9 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down...
Exp 3.81 14 [The life of truth] does not attempt another's work...
Chr1 3.101 6 All things...attempt nothing they cannot do, except man only.
SwM 4.101 21 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was...to...attempt to establish a new religion in the world,--began its lessons in quarries and forges...
MoS 4.180 3 There are these, and more than these diseases of thought, which our ordinary teachers do not attempt to remove.
GoW 4.263 2 ...[the writer] would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.
ET13 5.215 4 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like removing it.
Bty 6.289 7 I am warned by the ill fate of many philosophers not to attempt a definition of Beauty.
Elo1 7.84 20 If [the orator] should attempt to instruct the people in that which they already know, he would fail;...
Farm 7.151 16 The first planter, the savage...takes poor land. The better lands are loaded with timber, which he cannot clear; they need drainage, which he cannot attempt.
PI 8.62 18 Well, said Merlin, [my captivity] must be borne, for never will [King Arthur] see me...neither will any one speak with me again after you, it would be vain to attempt it;...
Comc 8.158 20 ...separate any part of Nature and attempt to look at it as a whole by itself, and the feeling of the ridiculous begins.
Imtl 8.346 11 A conclusion, an inference, a grand augury [of immortality], is ever hovering, but attempt to ground it, and the reasons are all vanishing and inadequate.
War 11.162 18 All admit that [peace] would be the best policy...if all would agree to accept this rule. But it is absurd for one nation to attempt it alone.
ACiv 11.304 10 I shall not attempt to unfold the details of the project of emancipation.
FRO2 11.489 12 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man...
PLT 12.14 25 What I am now to attempt is simply some sketches or studies for such a picture; Memoires pour servir toward a Natural History of Intellect.
PLT 12.15 11 Thirdly...I...attempt to show the relation of men of thought to the existing religion and civility of the present time.
II 12.79 18 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness, and no repentance. But the moment they attempt to say these things by memory, charlatanism begins.
II 12.84 20 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre;...
CL 12.157 13 The landscape is vast, complete, alive. We step about...and attempt in poor linear ways to hobble after those angelic radiations.
Milt1 12.264 12 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight; nor needed to expect the gilt spur...to stir him up, by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect attempted innocence.
Comp 2.107 11 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares even into the wild poesy in which the human fancy attempted to make bold holiday...
Chr1 3.101 14 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it;...
Chr1 3.101 18 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it; so equal, that it was not suspected to be a grand and inimitable exploit. Yet there stands that fact unrepeated, a high-water mark in military history. Many have attempted it since, and not been equal to it.
Gts 3.165 14 When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more.
PPh 4.68 3 Plato...attempted as if on the part of human intellect, once for all to do it adequate homage...
PPh 4.76 19 [Plato] attempted a theory of the universe...
SwM 4.119 10 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable.
SwM 4.127 5 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet;...
ShP 4.191 18 The court [in Shakespeare's time] took offence easily at political allusions and attempted to suppress [dramatic entertainments].
ET4 5.68 12 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him...
ET5 5.89 11 ...that is characteristic of all [the Englishmen's] work,--no more is attempted than is done.
ET9 5.144 14 There is no freak so ridiculous but some Englishman has attempted to immortalize by money and law.
ET10 5.169 22 We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. And, in view of these injuries, some compensation has been attempted in England.
ET14 5.239 17 Whoever...requires heaps of facts before any theories can be attempted, has no poetic power...
ET14 5.245 12 Mr. Hallam...has written the history of European literature for three centuries,--a performance of great ambition, inasmuch as a judgment was to be attempted on every book.
ET14 5.254 22 ...having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away.
F 6.34 8 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world, and it was attempted...to dissipate it, by amusing nations...
Bhr 6.194 3 The angel that was sent to find a place of torment for [the monk Basle] attempted to remove him to a worse pit...
Civ 7.19 8 Nobody has attempted a definition [of Civilization].
Art2 7.45 4 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work; a coarse sketch in colors of a landscape, in which imitation is all that is attempted,--these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
SA 8.101 8 In Europe...it has been attempted to secure the existence of a superior class by hereditary nobility...
Dem1 10.18 8 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names, since all philosophies and religions have attempted in prose or in poetry to solve this riddle...
LLNE 10.334 13 ...not a sentence was written in academic exercises, not a declamation attempted in the college chapel, but showed the omnipresence of [Everett's] genius to youthful heads.
LLNE 10.337 20 On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came Mesmerism, which...attempted the explanation of miracle and prophecy...
Thor 10.471 7 ...the meaning of Nature was never attempted to be defined by [Thoreau].
Carl 10.492 4 In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says...I know not what they would have done to anybody that had got in there and attempted to tell out of doors what they did.
FSLC 11.196 18 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited. The scowl of the community is attempted to be averted by the mischievous whisper, Tariff and Southern market, if you will be quiet: no tariff and loss of Southern market, if you dare to murmur.
ACiv 11.298 24 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization...
ACiv 11.299 4 ...a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy: we have attempted to hold these two states of society under one law.
Scot 11.464 12 ...finding [the old ballads] now outgrown and dishonored by the new culture, [Scott] attempted to dignify and adapt them to the times in which he lived.
ChiE 11.473 17 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has twice attempted to carry through Congress, requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
FRep 11.517 17 One hundred years ago the American people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection.
FRep 11.518 14 No [legislative] measure is attempted for itself...
PLT 12.17 16 Every just thinker has attempted to indicate these degrees [of Intellect]...
CW 12.175 13 How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted, on the lost Pleiad!...
Bost 12.198 26 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...
MLit 12.318 20 The music of Beethoven is said...to labor with vaster conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted before.
MN 1.198 12 I do not wish in attempting to paint a man, to describe an air-fed... ghost.
MR 1.243 13 ...attempting to drive along the ecliptic with one horse of the heavens and one horse of the earth, there is only discord and ruin and downfall to chariot and charioteer.
SL 2.153 20 That statement only is fit to be made public which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.
ShP 4.203 1 Ben Jonson...had no suspicion of the elastic fame whose first vibrations [Shakespeare] was attempting.
ET12 5.212 27 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors...for not attempting themselves to fill their vacant shelves as original writers.
ET16 5.280 14 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by little showers, and late as it was, men and women were out attempting to protect their spread windrows.
WD 7.180 24 You must hear the bird's song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
Cour 7.263 5 It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting it again.
Elo2 8.129 6 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
Insp 8.293 13 ...two men of good mind will excite each other's activity, each attempting still to cap the other's thought.
EzRy 10.382 6 Always inclined to notice ministers, and frequently attempting, when only five or six years old, to imitate them by preaching... [Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.
EWI 11.110 22 In attempting to make its escape from the pursuit of a man-of- war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive into the sea.
PLT 12.11 26 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed, without attempting to arrange them within one outline, follows a system also...
DSA 1.130 12 Historical Christianity has fallen into the error that corrupts all attempts to communicate religion.
DSA 1.149 27 ...all attempts to project and establish a Cultus with new rites and forms, seem to me vain.
DSA 1.150 3 All attempts to contrive a system are as cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason...
MN 1.199 3 How can I hope for better hap in my attempts to enunciate spiritual facts?
LT 1.270 23 ...each of these aspirations and attempts of the people for the Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates...
LT 1.285 13 [Speculators] have some piety which looks with faith to a fair Future, unprofaned by rash and unequal attempts to realize it.
Tran 1.336 6 ...[the Transcendentalist] resists all attempts to palm other rules and measures on the spirit than its own.
YA 1.384 12 ...one may say that aims so generous and so forced on [the Communities] by the times, will not be relinquished, even if these attempts fail...
Comp 2.105 18 So signal is the failure of all attempts to make this separation of the good from the tax, that the experiment would not be tried... but for the circumstance that when the disease began in the will...the intellect is at once infected...
SL 2.133 10 ...education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism...
Lov1 2.179 20 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use.
Exp 3.85 2 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought.
Mrs1 3.124 9 The society of the energetic class...is full...of attempts which intimidate the pale scholar.
NMW 4.253 1 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him... make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
ET9 5.147 17 The English have a steady courage that fits them for great attempts and endurance...
ET14 5.249 2 ...the misfortune of [Coleridge's] life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings...seems to mark the closing of an era.
ET14 5.250 17 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor, with a catholic perception of relations, equal to the highest attempts...
WD 7.167 6 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun...indicating that those ancient men, in their attempts to express the Supreme Power of the universe, called him the Day...
WD 7.168 4 Czar Alexander...wished to call the Pacific my ocean; and the Americans were obliged to resist his attempts to make it a close sea.
Boks 7.218 7 ...in our time the Ode of Wordsworth, and the poems and the prose of Goethe...inspire hope and generous attempts.
Clbs 7.242 16 ...in all civil nations attempts have been made to organize conversation by bringing together cultivated people under the most favorable conditions.
PerF 10.86 11 All our political disasters grow as logically out of our attempts in the past to do without justice, as the sinking of some part of your house comes of defect in the foundation.
Edc1 10.145 5 This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not there, but which ought to be there...he makes wild attempts to explain himself and invoke the aid and consent of the bystanders.
LLNE 10.351 26 [Fourierism] contained so much truth, and promised in the attempts that shall be made to realize it so much valuable instruction, that we are engaged to observe every step of its progress.
MMEm 10.411 15 [Mary Moody Emerson] speaks of her attempts in Malden, to wake up the soul amid the dreary scenes of monotonous Sabbaths...
FSLN 11.231 13 I know...how idle are all attempts to shake ourselves free from [conservatism].
PLT 12.20 3 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts.
MAng1 12.231 23 ...[St. Peter's dome] is said to have been injured by unskilful attempts to repair it.
WSL 12.345 4 [Landor's] portraits, though mere sketches, must be valued as attempts in the very highest kind of narrative...
Con 1.302 27 ...Wisdom attempts nothing enormous and disproportioned to its powers...
SL 2.157 26 ...into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
OS 2.290 7 The vain traveller attempts to embellish his life by quoting my lord and the prince and the countess...
Art1 2.351 2 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.
Chr1 3.101 8 All things...attempt nothing they cannot do, except man only. He has pretension; he wishes and attempts things beyond his force.
Pol1 3.217 17 ...successes in those fields [of trade and ambition] are the poor amends, the fig-leaf with which the shamed soul attempts to hide its nakedness.
NR 3.243 27 As soon as [a man] needs a new object, suddenly he beholds it, and no longer attempts to pass through it...
NER 3.261 15 ...society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him;...
NER 3.267 7 Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished in his proportion;...
SwM 4.119 19 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus of the new state...
PI 8.53 21 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every fact:--the clouds clapped their hands...the sky spoke. This is the substance, and this treatment always attempts a metrical grace.
PLT 12.48 17 To hammer out phalanxes must be done by smiths; as soon as the scholar attempts it, he is half a charlatan.
Nat 1.69 12 Music and light attend our head./
Nat 1.69 21 Oh mighty love! Man is one world, and hath/ Another to attend him./
Nat 1.76 21 A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.
DSA 1.128 2 ...man...can only attend to what addresses the senses.
LE 1.158 20 A divine pilgrim in nature, all things attend [the scholar's] steps.
SR 2.78 11 Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work...
Int 2.344 11 ...he [in whom the love of truth predominates] is to refuse himself to that which draws him not, whatsoever fame and authority may attend it...
NER 3.272 2 How sinks the song in the waves of melody which the universe pours over [the master's] soul! Before that gracious Infinite out of which he drew these few strokes, how mean they look, though the praises of the world attend them.
UGM 4.6 1 A main difference betwixt men is, whether they attend their own affair or not.
PPh 4.64 4 This also is the essence of justice,--to attend every one his own...
GoW 4.262 23 The gardener saves every slip and seed and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants. Not less does the writer attend his affair.
ET1 5.18 2 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. ... They burned the stacks and so found a way to force the rich people to attend to them.
Farm 7.149 2 ...the vines and stalks and stems may go sprawling about in the fields outside, [the farmer] will attend to the roots in his tub...
WD 7.177 8 How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee, we look at the distant hills and their seductions!
Aris 10.45 12 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too early. Let him not hurry or hesitate. Though millions are already arrived, his seat is reserved. Though millions attend, they only multiply his friends and agents.
EzRy 10.387 17 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family.
PLT 12.3 2 I have used such opportunity as I have had...to attend scientific lectures;...
CL 12.140 25 We are very sensible of this [power of the air]...when, after much confinement to the house, we go abroad into the landscape, with any leisure to attend to its soothing and expanding influences.
ET11 5.183 13 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords.
ET11 5.194 7 Campbell says, Acquaintance with the nobility, I could never keep up. It requires a life of idleness, dressing and attendance on their parties.
LS 11.14 5 We quote [St. Paul's] passage nowadays as if it enjoined attendance upon the [Lord's] Supper;...
War 11.166 20 ...bayonet and sword must...quite hide themselves...inviting the attendance only of relations and friends;...
MMEm 10.403 14 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism...and all its attendant wonders, would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron's] imagination.
Tran 1.336 14 In the play of Othello, the expiring Desdemona absolves her husband of the murder, to her attendant Emilia.
Comp 2.107 18 The Furies, [the ancients] said, are attendants on justice...
Wom 11.411 20 Society...colors, forms, are [women's] homes and attendants.
SR 2.59 24 [The hero] is attended as by a visible escort of angels.
OS 2.281 2 These [announcements of the soul] are always attended by the emotion of the sublime.
OS 2.282 1 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men...
SwM 4.119 22 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus of the new state, affirming that his presence in the spiritual world is attended with a certain separation, but only as to the intellectual part of his mind, not as to the will part;...
GoW 4.261 10 The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow.
ET5 5.82 13 Philip de Commines says, Now, in my opinion, among all the sovereignties I know in the world, that in which the public good is best attended to...is that of England.
ET17 5.292 7 An equal good fortune attended many later accidents of my journey [in England]...
DL 7.112 12 If the children...are...dieted, attended...then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...
DL 7.112 21 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If all are well attended, then must the master and mistress be studious of particulars at the cost of their own accomplishments and growth;...
Boks 7.209 24 Among the distinguished company which attended the sale [of the Duke of Roxburgh's library] were the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Spencer, and the Duke of Marlborough...
Clbs 7.227 22 ...in higher activity of mind, every new perception is attended with a thrill of pleasure...
Clbs 7.227 24 ...in higher activity of mind, every new perception is attended with a thrill of pleasure, and the imparting of it to others is also attended with pleasure.
Cour 7.258 10 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
PI 8.18 21 The act of imagination is ever attended by pure delight.
Elo2 8.118 18 We have all attended meetings called for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest.
Elo2 8.123 13 When, on his return from Washington, [John Quincy Adams] resumed his lectures in Cambridge, his class attended...
Comc 8.160 3 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man who knows the world...
Dem1 10.10 7 Every man goes through the world attended with innumerable facts prefiguring...his fate...
Dem1 10.14 16 As I was once travelling by the Red Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named Masollam...
Dem1 10.15 14 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 10.55 24 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud.
Supl 10.170 11 I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary by functionaries...
SovE 10.206 7 Superstitious persons we see with respect, because...they walk attended by pictures of the imagination, to which they pay homage.
LLNE 10.335 12 By a series of lectures largely and fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing...
LLNE 10.337 23 ...a certain success attended [Mesmerism], against all expectation.
CSC 10.375 11 The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and earnestness, whilst many of the most intellectual and cultivated persons attended its councils.
HDC 11.68 26 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition, which, as it succeeded before, in some measure, by the blessing of heaven, so, we cannot but hope it will be attended with still greater success, in future.
HDC 11.77 9 On the second day after the affray [battle of Concord], divine service was attended, in this house, by 700 soldiers.
EWI 11.105 16 The man [West Indian slave] applied to Mr. William Sharpe, a charitable surgeon, who attended the diseases of the poor.
EWI 11.137 14 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared...a resistance which drew from Mr. Huddlestone in Parliament the observation, That a curse attended this trade even in the mode of defending it.
ALin 11.331 15 A plain man of the people, an extraordinary fortune attended [Lincoln].
SMC 11.358 3 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army; but there is a higher Power that... enables [men] to see their duty, and gives them courage to face the dangers with which those duties are attended.
Wom 11.421 17 For their want of intimate knowledge of affairs, I do not think this ought to disqualify [women] from voting at any town-meeting which I ever attended.
CL 12.137 2 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students...
Trag 12.416 8 The individual who suffers has a mysterious counterbalance to that condition, which, to us who look upon her, appears to be attended with no alleviating circumstance.
Lov1 2.178 16 ...[the maiden] teaches [the lover's] eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps.
Hsm1. 2.252 22 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...attending on his own health...
MoL 10.251 10 I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks.
Thor 10.463 16 [Thoreau] said...Nature knows very well what sounds are worth attending to...
EPro 11.318 13 ...such was [Lincoln's] position, and such the felicity attending the action [Emancipation Proclamation], that he has replaced government in the good graces of mankind.
EurB 12.371 22 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields...
Fdsp 2.213 17 Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no god attends.
OS 2.281 18 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul].
Cir 2.309 6 Generalization is always a new influx of the divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.
Chr1 3.93 2 ...[the natural merchant] inspires respect and the wish to deal with him...for the quiet spirit of honor which attends him...
GoW 4.264 26 There is a certain heat in the breast which attends the perception of a primary truth...
F 6.22 6 If Fate follows and limits Power, Power attends and antagonizes Fate.
WD 7.172 15 ...what a force of illusion begins life with us and attends us to the end!
Imtl 8.338 20 As a hint of endless being, we may rank that novelty which perpetually attends life.
Imtl 8.340 12 A sort of absoluteness attends all perception of truth...
Dem1 10.5 7 A painful imperfection almost always attends [dreams].
Nat 1.56 16 [Intellectual science] fastens the attention upon immortal necessary uncreated natures...
Nat 1.66 11 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world...
Nat 1.69 24 ...the end is lost sight of in attention to the means.
LE 1.155 7 A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
LE 1.158 2 The want of the times and the propriety of this anniversary concur to draw attention to the doctrine of Literary Ethics.
MR 1.234 24 Considerations of this kind have turned the attention of many...persons to the claims of manual labor, as a part of the education of every young man.
LT 1.259 24 Everything that is popular...deserves the attention of the philosopher...
LT 1.268 3 Let us not see the foundations...of a new and better order of things laid, with...an attention preoccupied with trifles.
Con 1.296 5 There is a fragment of old fable...which may deserve attention...
YA 1.365 12 ...scientific agriculture is an object of growing attention;...
SL 2.144 18 What attracts my attention shall have it...
Lov1 2.172 9 ...what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties?
Lov1 2.178 18 ...[the maiden] extrudes all other persons from [the lover's] attention as cheap and unworthy...
Prd1 2.224 17 ...the order of the world and the distribution of affairs and times, being studied with the co-perception of their subordinate place, will reward any degree of attention.
OS 2.296 7 ...pressed on our attention...[the saints and demigods] fatigue and invade.
Int 2.339 4 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted...
Art1 2.355 11 ...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself.
Art1 2.364 23 I do not wonder that Newton, with an attention habitually engaged on the paths of planets and suns, should have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in stone dolls.
Exp 3.55 24 ...each [picture] will bear an emphasis of attention once...
Exp 3.71 1 Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts; they will one day be members, and obey one will. On that one will, on that secret cause, they nail our attention and hope.
Exp 3.82 8 A preoccupied attention is the only answer to the importunate frivolity of other people;...
Exp 3.82 9 A preoccupied attention is the only answer to the importunate frivolity of other people; an attention, and to an aim which makes their wants frivolous.
Nat2 3.191 15 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences, the main attention has been diverted to this object;...
NER 3.251 8 [The observer of New England's] attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party, is falling from the Church nominal...
SwM 4.101 8 ...[Swedenborg] went several times to England, where he does not seem to have attracted any attention whatever from the learned or the eminent;...
ShP 4.210 22 ...what [Shakespeare] has to say is of that weight as to withdraw some attention from the vehicle;...
NMW 4.238 2 [Napoleon's] personal attention descended to the smallest particulars.
NMW 4.240 24 In the time of the empire [Napoleon] directed attention to the improvement and embellishment of the markets of the capital.
NMW 4.247 6 We can not...sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who...showed us how much may be accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all men possess in less degrees; namely, by punctuality, by personal attention, by courage and thoroughness.
ET5 5.85 12 The spirit of system, attention to details...constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.
ET6 5.112 21 [The English] require a tone of voice that excites no attention in the room.
ET7 5.124 27 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money. He let it lie there six months, the newspapers now and then, at his instance, stimulating the attention of the adepts;...
ET7 5.125 15 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge. Mr. B. arose and mildly yet firmly called the attention of the audience and the performers to the fact that, in his judgment, the bridge was unsafe!
ET15 5.261 9 The celebrated Lord Somers knew of no good law proposed and passed in his time, to which the public papers had not directed his attention.
ET16 5.286 17 We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the train Clarendon Park, but could see little but the edge of a wood, though Carlyle had wished to pay closer attention to the birthplace of the Decrees of Clarendon.
Ctr 6.133 12 ...we have seen children who finding themselves of no account when grown people come in, will cough until they choke, to draw attention.
Wsp 6.228 14 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots. The young nun, who had become the object of much attention and respect, drew back with anger...
Bty 6.289 21 ...the mythologists tell us that Vulcan was painted lame and Cupid blind, to call attention to the fact that one was all limbs, and the other all eyes.
Bty 6.291 26 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
SS 7.3 16 ...[my new friend's] evident earnestness engaged my attention...
Art2 7.55 4 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so make a cup of which the object of attention occupies the hollow area.
Elo1 7.64 14 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person...will hurl a sentence worthy of attention...
Elo1 7.66 15 If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence [in the audience] of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede; a more chaste and wise attention takes place.
Elo1 7.66 18 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment, the attention [of the audience] deepens...
Elo1 7.94 18 ...whilst [the preacher] deals in words we are released from attention.
WD 7.174 2 How difficult to deal erect with [these passing hours]! The events they bring...their urgent work, all throw dust in the eyes and distract attention.
Clbs 7.239 10 The attention of the English chemist was instantly arrested...
PI 8.6 14 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...
PI 8.12 11 A figurative statement arrests attention...
PI 8.28 17 Lear...thinks every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own. What, have his daughters brought him to this pass? But when, his attention being diverted, his mind rests from this thought, he becomes fanciful with Tom, playing with the superficial resemblances of objects.
Elo2 8.120 13 A good voice has a charm in speech as in song; sometimes of itself enchains attention...
Elo2 8.125 12 That something which each man was created to say and do, he only or he best can tell you, and has a right to supreme attention so far.
Insp 8.291 23 ...the delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted.
Dem1 10.5 26 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon. This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...
Dem1 10.13 7 Nature...works...by infinite graduation; so that we live embosomed...by innumerable impressions so softly laid on that though important we do not discover them until our attention is called to them.
Dem1 10.24 3 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy. Certainly these facts... deserve to be considered. But they are entitled only to a share of attention, and not a large share.
Dem1 10.24 5 Let [occult facts'] value as exclusive subjects of attention be judged of by the infallible test of the state of mind in which much notice of them leaves us.
PerF 10.81 17 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter...see where is the rapt attention...
Chr2 10.100 23 Men are forced by their own self-respect to give [some souls] a certain attention.
Edc1 10.132 19 Day creeps after day, each full of facts...that we cannot enough despise,-call heavy, prosaic and desert. The time we seek to kill: the attention it is elegant to divert from things around us.
Supl 10.171 10 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer.
SovE 10.200 11 Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought harmoniously organized into correspondence with the universe of mind and matter. What narrative of wonders coming down from a thousand years ought to charm his attention like this?
Plu 10.295 6 In France...Amyot's translation [of Plutarch] awakened general attention.
Plu 10.297 11 Whatever is eminent in fact or in fiction...or in memorable sayings, drew [Plutarch's] attention...
Plu 10.303 7 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which...has drawn attention to what an ancient might call the politeness of Fate...
LLNE 10.351 25 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends...commanded our attention and respect.
CSC 10.374 6 These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention] attracted a great deal of public attention...
EzRy 10.389 3 [Ezra Ripley] had...the patient, continuing courtesy, carrying out every respectful attention to the end, which marks what is called the manners of the old school.
GSt 10.501 24 ...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
GSt 10.504 14 I have heard...that [George Stearns] had great executive skill, a clear method and a just attention to all the details of the task in hand.
LS 11.4 25 Having recently given particular attention to this subject [the Lord's Supper], 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;...
LVB 11.89 8 Each has the highest right to call your [Van Buren's] attention to such subjects as are of a public nature...
LVB 11.94 14 One circumstance lessens the reluctance with which I intrude at this time on your [Van Buren's] attention my conviction that the government ought to be admonished of a new historical fact...
EWI 11.99 12 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement...of... [a question] which for many years absorbed the attention of the best and most eminent of mankind.
EWI 11.107 11 Public attention...was drawn that way [to the West Indies], and the methods of the stealing and the transportation [of slaves] from Africa became noised abroad.
EWI 11.129 10 ...in the last few days that my attention has been occupied with this history [of emancipation in the West Indies], I have not been able to read a page of it without the most painful comparisons.
EWI 11.146 19 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes...those whose attention should be nailed to the grand objects of this cause [emancipation], so hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
ACiv 11.298 14 At this moment in America the aspects of political society absorb attention.
EPro 11.316 15 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator, having ended the compliments and pleasantries with which he conciliated attention...announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
Koss 11.398 3 Sir [Kossuth], we have watched with attention your progress through the land...
Humb 11.457 11 ...a man's natural powers are often a sort of committee that slowly, one at a time, give their attention and action;...
FRO2 11.485 7 ...quite against my design and my will, I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written remarks...
PLT 12.11 7 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect]...
PLT 12.26 21 ...no friendly attention and fostering kindness...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.
II 12.70 24 ...[Inspiration] has the royal expedient to thrust Nature between him and you, and perpetually to divert attention from himself, by the stream of thoughts, laws and images.
Mem 12.105 17 ...we understand best what we like; for this doubles our power of attention, and makes it our own.
Mem 12.109 20 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...so that what one had painfully held by strained attention and recapitulation now falls into place...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
CInt 12.130 10 Attention is [the intellect's] acceptable prayer.
CL 12.138 24 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or hand, or other uncovered part, burrows into it, multiplies and kills the sufferer. By timely attention, it is easily extracted.
CL 12.143 11 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention.
Bost 12.188 23 ...Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
MAng1 12.221 18 Those who have never given attention to the arts of design are surprised that the artist should find so much to study in a fabric of such limited parts and dimensions as the human body.
MAng1 12.239 1 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others, and so lacked...one of the best elements of humanity. This apathy perhaps happens as often from preoccupied attention as from jealousy.
Milt1 12.247 3 The discovery of the lost work of Milton, the treatise Of the Christian Doctrine, in 1823, drew a sudden attention to his name.
Milt1 12.247 14 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame, or to such increase or abatement of it as is incidental to a sublime genius, quite independent of the momentary challenge of universal attention to his claims.
Milt1 12.265 1 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors...till the attention be weary...
SR 2.73 17 ...if you are not [noble], I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions.
ET17 5.291 22 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester correspondent awaiting me, a gentleman whose kind reception was followed by a train of friendly and effective attentions...
Bhr 6.186 3 Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions.
MMEm 10.406 5 Society is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions.
Nat 1.18 13 To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty...
CbW 6.263 13 I figure [sickness] as a...phantom...attentive to its sensations...
Elo1 7.70 14 It is said that the Khans or story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience, keeping them for many hours attentive to the most fanciful and extravagant adventures.
Imtl 8.331 20 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and, though attentive enough to the routine of public duty, they daily returned to each other...
Supl 10.172 9 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.
SlHr 10.440 3 [Samuel Hoar] was...fond of birds, and attentive to their manners and habits;...
Plu 10.305 3 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons. When Theanor had said this, he looked attentively on Epaminondas, as if he designed a fresh search into his nature and inclinations.
PPh 4.58 4 ...the anecdotes that have come down from the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his master's behalf...
Wth 6.105 9 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills...landlords are shot down in Ireland. The police-records attest it.
Aris 10.54 23 The manners of course must have that depth and firmness of tone to attest their centrality in the nature of the man.
MLit 12.327 16 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
Pray 12.351 27 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries, which attest...the eternity of the sentiment...
Tran 1.351 14 If no call should come for years, for centuries, then I know that the want of the Universe is the attestation of faith by my abstinence.
Pray 12.351 27 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries, which attest, if there be need of attestation, the eternity of the sentiment...
PNR 4.81 1 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.
PNR 4.83 25 The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was profitable;...
Elo1 7.77 20 ...any swindlers we have known are novices and bunglers, as is attested by their ill name.
SMC 11.367 11 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation, attested by the names of the thirty battles they were authorized to inscribe on their flag...
Res 8.143 27 The whole history of our civil war is rich in a thousand anecdotes attesting the fertility of resource...of our people.
Pt1 3.11 23 All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
Pow 6.62 6 ...the rancor of the disease attests the strength of the constitution.
Wth 6.121 26 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...shooting through this man's cellar and that man's attic window...
GoW 4.271 23 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when Germany played no such leading part in the world's affairs as to swell the bosom of her sons with any metropolitan pride, such as might have cheered...once, a Roman or Attic genius.
Boks 7.202 5 ...Winckelmann, a Greek born out of due time, has become essential to an intimate knowledge of the Attic genius.
CbW 6.274 4 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you have been lodged on the first floor or the attic;...
Schr 10.261 4 The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica.
Schr 10.262 6 We have strayed from the territorial monuments of Attica...
FSLC 11.211 6 Greece was the least part of Europe. Attica a little part of that,-one tenth of the size of Massachusetts. Yet that district still rules the intellect of men.
Int 2.333 4 ...[men] have myriads of facts just as good [as the writer's], would they only get a lamp to ransack their attics withal.
Nat 1.11 8 ...nature is not always tricked in holiday attire...