Hist 2.16 24 ...by watching for a time [a child's] motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude.
SR 2.48 26 The nonchalance of boys who...would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
SL 2.151 18 Take the place and attitude which belong to you, and all men acquiesce.
Hsm1 2.250 4 Towards all this external evil the man within the breast assumes a warlike attitude...
Hsm1 2.250 6 To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism.
OS 2.268 15 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see...that I desire and look up and put myself in the attitude of reception...
Int 2.331 12 I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth...
Int 2.331 26 It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed attitude of the library to seize the thought.
Int 2.337 6 A child knows...if the attitude [in a picture] be natural or grand or mean;...
Art1 2.358 2 ...with each moment [the artist] alters the whole air, attitude and expression of his clay.
Art1 2.365 16 A great man is a new statue in every attitude and action.
Mrs1 3.133 2 [A man] should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation which his daily associates draw him to...
MoS 4.171 26 Skepticism is the attitude assumed by the student in relation to the particulars which society adores, but which he sees to be reverend only in their tendency and spirit.
ShP 4.199 2 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes;...and it will bereave his fine attitude and resistance of something of their impressiveness.
NMW 4.225 24 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the standing in the attitude of a benefactor to all persons about him...
Pow 6.59 22 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him; for this is an affair...of attitude...
Bhr 6.169 10 Nature tells every secret once. Yes, but in man she tells it all the time, by form, attitude...
Bhr 6.182 10 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical.
Wsp 6.219 18 Religion or worship is the attitude of those who see this unity, intimacy and sincerity [in nature];...
CbW 6.278 4 The man,--it is his attitude...
Elo1 7.82 13 The audience [if there be personality in the orator] is thrown into the attitude of pupil...
Cour 7.259 14 ...the aggressive attitude of men who will have right done... that part, the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
PI 8.44 27 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;...they are perfect in their organs, attitude, manners;...
SA 8.86 18 The attitude is the main point...
SA 8.96 9 The attitude, the tone is all.
Elo2 8.115 17 [The true orator's] attitude in the rostrum, on the platform, requires that he counterbalance his auditory.
Elo2 8.115 21 The orator must ever stand...in the attitude of advancing.
Elo2 8.131 3 [Eloquence] is the attitude taken...that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him.
Res 8.146 20 A determined man, by his very attitude...puts a stop to defeat...
CSC 10.376 9 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it, in the attitude taken by the individuals of their number of resistance to the insane routine of parliamentary usage;...
Carl 10.497 18 Carlyle has, best of all men in England, kept the manly attitude of his time.
FSLC 11.212 8 The behavior of Boston was the reverse of what it should have been: it was supple and officious, and it put itself into the base attitude of pander to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law].
FSLC 11.212 10 Let the attitude of the states be firm.
FSLN 11.222 2 ...the perfection of [Webster's] elocution, and all that thereto belongs,-voice, accent, intonation, attitude, manner,- we shall not soon find again.
Koss 11.399 2 We [people of Concord] have seen...that there is nothing accidental in your [Kossuth's] attitude.
Wom 11.416 20 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman;...
PLT 12.3 8 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...
PLT 12.14 22 The poet is in the natural attitude;...
PLT 12.59 10 Transition is the attitude of power.
Mem 12.94 16 'T is because of the believed incompatibility of the affirmative and advancing attitude of the mind with tenacious acts of recollection that people are often reproached with living in their memory.
Bost 12.208 17 Boston too is sometimes pushed into a theatrical attitude of virtue...
MAng1 12.238 21 Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect sympathy. They stand in the attitude rather of appeal from their contemporaries to their race.
PPr 12.388 6 ...nothing is more excellent in [Carlyle's Past and Present] as in all Mr. Carlyle's works than the attitude of the writer.
Nat2 3.186 10 [Nature]...has secured the symmetrical growth of the [the child's] bodily frame by all these attitudes and exertions...
CbW 6.270 12 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away with...everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
Art2 7.42 21 ...in our handiwork...we place ourselves in such attitudes as to bring the force of gravity...to bear upon the spade or the axe we wield.
Elo1 7.62 9 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...delirious attitudes...
SA 8.81 26 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs.
SA 8.82 7 The attitudes of children are gentle, persuasive, royal...
EWI 11.102 1 In the oldest temples of Egypt, negro captives are painted on the tombs of kings, in such attitudes as to show that they are on the point of being executed;...
PLT 12.45 17 The primary rule for the conduct of Intellect is to have control of the thoughts without losing their natural attitudes and action.
PPr 12.386 8 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...
Nat 1.16 21 ...the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.
AmS 1.84 2 ...the attorney [becomes] a statute-book;...
MR 1.230 10 That fancy [the scholar] had, and hesitated to utter because you would laugh,-the broker, the attorney, the market-man are saying the same thing.
SR 2.55 2 [The minister] is a retained attorney...
MoS 4.173 7 [The wise skeptic] does not wish...to play the part of devil's attorney...
NMW 4.252 12 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney of the middle class of modern society;...
Wsp 6.201 10 I have no fears of being forced in my own despite to play as we say the devil's attorney.
Elo1 7.80 1 He who has points to carry must hire, not a skilful attorney, but a commanding person.
Elo1 7.86 27 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. ... [The prisoner's counsel] drove the attorney for the state from corner to corner...
Elo1 7.87 13 ...all this flood not serving the cuttle-fish to get away in, the horrible shark of the district attorney being still there...the poor court pleaded its inferiority.
Suc 7.312 1 This tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul is...no attorney...
Schr 10.272 21 [The scholar] is the attorney of the world...
Thor 10.468 8 [Thoreau] was the attorney of the indigenous plants...
Tran 1.348 20 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest...as if they thought that by sitting very grand in their chairs, the very brokers, attorneys, and congressmen would see the error of their ways, and flock to them.
Ctr 6.161 2 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order...will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and...he will have...an incapableness of being dazzled or frighted, which will distinguish his handling from that of attorneys and factors.
Edc1 10.135 4 ...we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers;...
II 12.81 18 The haberdashers and brokers and attorneys are idealists...
CInt 12.127 21 ...I thought a college was a place not to train talents, not to train attorneys, and those who say what they please, but to adorn Genius...
MN 1.205 3 The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
Lov1 2.186 11 ...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;...
Pol1 3.205 14 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...it will always attract and resist other matter by the full virtue of one pound weight...
Bty 6.296 17 Nature wishes that woman should attract man...
Bty 6.296 19 Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of man than any I yet behold.
Bty 6.296 20 Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of man than any I yet behold.
Cour 7.253 2 I observe that there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind...disinterestedness...practical power...courage...
PI 8.13 6 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as when a boy finds that his pocket-knife will attract steel filings...
HDC 11.38 26 The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble beauty.
PLT 12.44 13 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
SwM 4.100 20 In Sweden [Swedenborg] appears to have attracted a marked regard.
SwM 4.101 7 ...[Swedenborg] went several times to England, where he does not seem to have attracted any attention whatever from the learned or the eminent;...
Wth 6.110 6 Britain, France and Germany...send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
Bty 6.284 18 The boy is not attracted [to science].
Elo1 7.86 22 I remember long ago being attracted, by the distinction of the counsel...into the court-room.
Cour 7.255 8 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which is attracted by frowns or threats or hostile armies...
PI 8.69 18 Shakspeare could no doubt have been disagreeable...if ugliness had attracted him.
Dem1 10.18 23 In vain do the clear-headed part of mankind discredit [demonic individuals] as deceivers or deceived,-the mass is attracted.
Aris 10.34 21 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe.
LLNE 10.360 10 Many persons, attracted by the beauty of the place [Brook Farm] and the culture and ambition of the community, joined them as boarders...
CSC 10.374 5 These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention] attracted a great deal of public attention...
MMEm 10.405 25 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names.
MMEm 10.406 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] surprised, attracted, chided and denounced her companion by turns...
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.
DL 7.130 13 Why should we owe our power of attracting our friends to pictures and vases...
Nat 1.69 23 The perception of this class of [spiritual] truths makes the attraction which draws men to science...
AmS 1.90 2 I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit...
DSA 1.120 2 ...in the powers and path of light, heat, attraction, and life, [the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
DSA 1.138 27 ...there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment...
LT 1.262 2 What is the reason to be given for this extreme attraction which persons have for us...
LT 1.268 18 ...this [conservative] class...is respectable only as nature is; but the individuals have no attraction for us.
LT 1.289 5 To a true scholar the attraction of the aspects of nature...is simply the information they yield him of this supreme nature which lurks within all.
Hist 2.26 10 The attraction of [the Greek] manners is that they belong to man...
Lov1 2.174 22 ...it may seem to many men...that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft, surpassing the deep attraction of its own truth, to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
Cir 2.322 9 Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius, and hence their dangerous attraction for men.
Chr1 3.105 7 Thence [from character] comes a new intellectual exaltation, to be again rebuked by some new exhibition of character. Strange alternation of attraction and repulsion!
Pol1 3.205 10 [Persons and property] exert their power, as steadily as matter its attraction.
Pol1 3.206 8 ...to every particle of property belongs its own attraction.
UGM 4.15 4 What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
ShP 4.206 1 ...[researches concerning Shakespeare's condition] can shed no light upon that infinite invention which is the concealed magnet of his attraction for us.
ET1 5.4 9 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers...and I suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe...it was mainly the attraction of these persons.
ET2 5.26 7 I wanted a change and a tonic, and England was proposed to me. Besides, there were at least the dread attraction and salutary influences of the sea.
ET16 5.273 5 It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion together to Stonehenge, which neither of us had seen; and the project pleased my fancy with the double attraction of the monument and the companion.
Wth 6.90 3 ...according to the excellence of the machinery in each human being is his attraction for the instruments he is to employ.
Ctr 6.134 6 This goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves; such as we see in the sexual attraction.
Ctr 6.148 12 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws, and, in a city, the total attraction of all the citizens is sure to conquer, first or last, every repulsion...
Bhr 6.184 17 ...[dress circles have] every variety of attraction and merit;...
Wsp 6.218 16 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius...and the inevitable loss of attraction to other minds.
CbW 6.272 23 There is a sublime attraction in [a friend] to whatever virtue is in us.
CbW 6.277 3 [The happy conditions of life's] attraction for you is the pledge that they are within your reach.
Elo1 7.63 24 The definitions of eloquence describe its attraction for young men.
Elo1 7.94 12 ...a pause in the speaker's own character is very properly a loss of attraction.
SA 8.92 9 The true friend must have an attraction to whatever virtue is in us.
Grts 8.318 11 ...degrees of intellect...have no attraction for the crowd...
Dem1 10.27 14 ...the attraction which this topic [demonology] has had for me...is precisely because I think the numberless forms in which this superstition has reappeared in every time and every people indicates the inextinguishableness of wonder in man...
Aris 10.47 22 Whoever wants more power than is the legitimate attraction of his faculty, is a politician...
MoL 10.250 3 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
LLNE 10.362 10 Many ladies...gave character and varied attraction to the place [Brook Farm].
EPro 11.318 20 Life in America had lost much of its attraction in the later years.
CPL 11.496 4 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library, which adds...a quite new attraction...
CPL 11.496 9 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...offering a strong attraction to strangers who are seeking a country home to sit down here.
Mem 12.99 26 As deep as the thought, so great is the attraction.
Milt1 12.247 8 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided...
AmS 1.95 7 [The world's] attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts...
MN 1.197 13 ...our arm is no more as strong as the frost, nor our will equivalent to gravity and the elective attractions.
Fdsp 2.201 3 The attractions of this subject [friendship] are not to be resisted...
NR 3.238 5 ...our economical mother...gathering up into some man every property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold occult mutual attractions among her offspring...
UGM 4.27 4 [The great man's] attractions warp us from our place.
MoS 4.183 26 Charles Fourier announced that the attractions of man are proportioned to his destinies;...
MoS 4.184 24 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him. He was an emperor deserted by his states...and still the sirens sang, The attractions are proportioned to the destinies.
F 6.44 26 [The great man] feels the infinitesimal attractions.
Pow 6.53 5 There are men who by their sympathetic attractions carry nations with them...
Ctr 6.139 4 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...
PI 8.16 14 Swedenborg saw gravity to be only an external of the irresistible attractions of affection and faith.
PI 8.41 27 The attractions are proportional to the destinies.
Comc 8.161 10 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding, who sees the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the heyday of youth feels also the full attractions of pleasure...
Plu 10.299 4 Thought defends [Plutarch] from any degradation. He does not lose his way, for the attractions are from within, not from without.
PLT 12.42 3 I am bewildered by the immense variety of attractions and cannot take a step;...
Milt1 12.269 15 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions of historical prescription...[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...
Hist 2.33 24 ...although that poem [Goethe's Helena] be as vague and fantastic as a dream, yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author...
Lov1 2.188 25 That which is so beautiful and attractive as these relations [of love], must be succeeded and supplanted only by what is more beautiful, and so on for ever.
Cir 2.308 6 Infinitely alluring and attractive was [a man] to you yesterday...
Exp 3.68 14 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely...
NER 3.255 18 ...the motto of the Globe newspaper is so attractive to me that I can seldom find much appetite to read what is below it in its columns...
UGM 4.27 24 [Geniuses] are very attractive...
PPh 4.56 10 Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
MoS 4.158 14 Remember the open question between the present order of competition and the friends of attractive and associated labor.
ET16 5.274 6 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give...a little [time] to scientific clubs and museums, which, at this moment, make London very attractive.
Elo1 7.69 17 ...eloquence must be attractive, or it is none.
Elo1 7.76 12 ...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency...
DL 7.120 17 ...who can see unmoved...the cautious comparison of the attractive advertisement of the arrival of Macready, Booth or Kemble...with the expense of the entertainment;...
Boks 7.199 7 Here [in Plato] is that which is so attractive to all men,--the literature of aristocracy shall I call it?...
Boks 7.220 24 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours!
Clbs 7.246 6 [A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense] said the fact was incontestable that the society of gypsies was more attractive than that of bishops.
PI 8.43 17 Barthold Niebuhr said well, There is little merit in inventing a happy idea or attractive situation, so long as it is only the author's voice which we hear.
Res 8.151 14 Natural history is, in the country, most attractive;...
PC 8.226 4 At any time, it only needs the contemporaneous appearance of a few superior and attractive men to give a new and noble turn to the public mind.
Imtl 8.334 3 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive, designs so wise...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
Aris 10.31 1 There is an attractive topic, which never goes out of vogue...
Aris 10.38 16 ...we wish to see those to whom existence is most adorned and attractive, foremost to peril it for their object...
SovE 10.209 1 ...Stoicism, always attractive to the intellectual and cultivated, has now no temples...
Prch 10.228 15 Of course a hero so attractive to the hearts of millions [as Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into his train...
LLNE 10.332 10 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
EWI 11.136 22 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...infinitely attractive to every person according to the degree of reason in his own mind...
EWI 11.138 2 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which makes in all countries anti-slavery meetings so attractive...
EWI 11.144 21 The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.
CPL 11.495 6 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants which has a healthy site, good land, good roads...
PLT 12.11 10 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake, so attractive, so delusive.
Bost 12.194 18 ...how much more attractive and true that this [Christian] piety should be the central trait and the stern virtues follow than that Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on his defence.
WSL 12.347 2 ...it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded...
PPr 12.386 1 ...[Carlyle's] fancies are more attractive and more credible than the sanity of duller men.
LLNE 10.350 2 Attractive Industry would speedily subdue...the pestilential tracts;...
LLNE 10.351 16 ...it is not to be doubted but that in the reign of Attractive Industry all men will speak in blank verse.
MN 1.206 20 There is no attractiveness like that of a new man.
Hsm1 2.250 9 [Heroism's] rudest form is the contempt for safety and ease, which makes the attractiveness of war.
Elo1 7.63 16 Who can wonder at the attractiveness of Parliament...for our ambitious young men...
War 11.171 20 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through all the throats of artillery...
War 11.172 11 What makes to us the attractiveness of the Greek heroes? of the Roman?
War 11.172 13 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...
Comp 2.97 2 If the south attracts, the north repels.
SL 2.144 18 What attracts my attention shall have it...
OA 7.328 21 Youth has an excess of sensibility, before which every object glitters and attracts.
PI 8.60 10 There is in every poem a height which attracts more than other parts...
MR 1.242 11 ...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy ...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
ET8 5.128 3 ...[Englishmen's] well-known courage is entirely attributable to their digust of life.
SR 2.70 15 Self-existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause...
SwM 4.97 26 Indeed, it takes/ From our achievements, when performed at height,/ The pith and marrow of our attribute./
Bty 6.302 25 ...the sovereign attribute [of beauty] remains to be noted.
Art2 7.44 7 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance. All this is so much deduction from the purely spiritual pleasure, as so much deduction from the merit of Art, and is the attribute of Nature.
LLNE 10.342 12 ...a sympathizing Englishman...interrupted with the question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me desires to inquire whether omnipotence abnegates attribute?
Nat 1.49 11 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind...to attribute necessary existence to spirit;...
Exp 3.77 14 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might. Though not in energy, yet by presence, this magazine of substance cannot be otherwise than felt; nor can any force of intellect attribute to the object the proper deity which sleeps or wakes forever in every subject.
Art2 7.46 26 The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us
LLNE 10.339 9 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing...
DSA 1.127 18 ...the divine nature is attributed to one or two persons...
Mrs1 3.121 7 ...the steady interest of mankind in [the name gentleman] must be attributed to the valuable properties which it designates.
ET4 5.46 15 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local wealth...
QO 8.184 21 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of everything.
Edc1 10.152 3 Every mind should be allowed to make its own statement in action, and its balance will appear. In these judgments one needs that foresight which was attributed to an eminent reformer...
SovE 10.186 8 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars (at least it is attributed to many) that...of Nathaniel Carpenter... It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
HDC 11.61 2 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war. This is to be attributed no doubt, in part, to the fact that troops were generally quartered here...
ChiE 11.474 13 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
II 12.68 23 We attributed power and science and good will to the Instinct...
Milt1 12.256 25 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers...
Milt1 12.274 20 The perception we have attributed to Milton, of a purer ideal of humanity, modifies his poetic genius.
PPr 12.386 24 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,-producing on the reader a feeling of forlornness by the excess of value attributed to circumstances.
Nat 1.45 9 Words and actions are not the attributes of brute nature.
AmS 1.105 8 As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it.
DSA 1.133 13 The preachers do not see that they...shear [Jesus] of...the attributes of heaven.
LE 1.158 8 The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the Intellect.
LE 1.162 15 The impoverishing philosophy of ages has laid stress on the distinctions of the individual, and not on the universal attributes of man.
Hist 2.37 22 Do not the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society?
Comp 2.99 13 ...the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him...the best of his manly attributes.
Comp 2.122 11 There can be no excess to love...none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.
Lov1 2.169 16 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... adds to his character heroic and sacred attributes...
OS 2.272 3 We lie open on one side...to the attributes of God.
OS 2.283 20 To truth, justice, love, the attributes of the soul, the idea of immutableness is essentially associated.
OS 2.283 26 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments [truth, justice, love]... never made the separation of the idea of duration from the essence of these attributes...
Art1 2.359 1 The best of beauty is...a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature...
Art1 2.359 3 The best of beauty is...a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.
Pol1 3.205 15 ...the attributes of a person...will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force...
NR 3.242 15 If we were not kept among surfaces, everything would be large and universal; now the excluded attributes burst in on us with the more brightness that they have been excluded.
ET12 5.208 20 The German Huber, in describing to his countrymen the attributes of an English gentleman, frankly admits that in Germany, we have nothing of the kind.
Ill 6.314 26 [I knew a humorist who] shocked the company by maintaining that the attributes of God were two,--power and risibility...
WD 7.172 20 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes.
PI 8.65 14 All [Nature's] kinds share the attributes of the selectest extremes.
PPo 8.244 12 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic...
Aris 10.56 7 Others I meet...who denude and strip one of all attributes but material values.
Chr2 10.93 15 ...the sense of Right and Wrong, is alike in all. Its attributes are self-existence, eternity, intuition and command.
Schr 10.264 16 One is tempted to affirm the office and attributes of the scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a frequent perversity of the class itself.
LVB 11.94 8 ...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether all the attributes of reason, of civility, of justice, and even of mercy, shall be put off by the American people...
Milt1 12.255 23 The genius of France has not...yet culminated in any one head...into such perception of all the attributes of humanity as to entitle it to any rivalry in these lists [with Milton].
LT 1.263 4 I do not wonder at the miracles which poetry attributes to the music of Orpheus...
ET6 5.109 16 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval, prime minister in 1810, to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...
Ill 6.319 7 There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or condition...
Schr 10.273 20 Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped. Shall [the scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from far with reverence, attributing to him the delving in great fields of thought...
MAng1 12.222 3 There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards Anthropomorphism, or attributing to the Deity the human form.
ET6 5.115 1 ...the usage of a dress-dinner every day at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing good [in table-talk]. Much attrition has worn every sentence into a bullet.
ACri 12.296 3 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...words...that have neatness and necessity, through their use in the vocabulary of work and appetite, like the pebbles which the incessant attrition of the sea has rounded.
Art2 7.51 21 ...the great works [of art] are always attuned to moral nature.
MMEm 10.424 23 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages...has attuned [man's] mind in such unison with the harp of the universe, that he is never without some chord of hope's music.
ShP 4.208 22 ...with Shakspeare for biographer, instead of Aubrey and Rowe, we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material;...
Ctr 6.148 24 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library...
Boks 7.208 26 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Aubrey;...
Clbs 7.243 25 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare... Beaumont and Fletcher;...many allusions to their suppers are found in Jonson, Herrick and in Aubrey.
Insp 8.297 7 Aubrey and Burton and Wood tell me incidents which I find not insignificant.
Milt1 12.257 7 Aubrey says [of Milton], This harmonical and ingenuous soul dwelt in a beautiful, well-proportioned body.
Milt1 12.257 13 Aubrey adds a sharp trait, [Milton] pronounced the letter R very hard, a certain sign of satirical genius.
WSL 12.342 1 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame... to...Aubrey and Spence.
ET11 5.190 6 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...down to Aubrey's passages of the life of Hobbes in the house of the Earl of Devon, are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
ET12 5.201 15 Here indeed [at Oxford] was the Olympia of all Antony Wood's and Aubrey's games and heroes...
Boks 7.208 17 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Aubrey's Lives;...
Exp 3.63 7 A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakspeare;...
ET10 5.163 21 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
LLNE 10.356 4 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then...we suddenly find...that in the circumstances, the best wisdom were an auction or a fire.
FSLC 11.197 7 Philadelphia...in this auction of the rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery.
Elo1 7.75 6 These accomplishments [of eloquence] are of the same kind, and only a degree higher than the coaxing of the auctioneer...
QO 8.194 11 ...you can easily pronounce, from the use and relevancy of the sentence, whether it had not done duty many times before,-whether your jewel was got from the mine or from an auctioneer.
EdAd 11.385 13 There is no speech heard but that of auctioneers, newsboys, and the caucus.
YA 1.381 15 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag...
LT 1.269 24 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a trumpet to alarm the ear of mankind...
LT 1.283 24 So little action amidst such audacious and yet sincere profession...
Fdsp 2.200 27 ...let us approach our friend with an audacious trust in the truth of his heart...
UGM 4.17 14 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit.
Imtl 8.343 20 ...wherever man ripens, this audacious belief [in immortality] presently appears...
FRep 11.521 11 John Quincy Adams was a man of an audacious independence...
PI 8.21 8 The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared. He can class them so audaciously because he is sensible of the sweep of the celestial stream...
NR 3.247 18 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine...shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...and the same immeasurable credulity demanded for new audacities.
ShP 4.194 8 [Popular tradition]...in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves [the poet] at leisure and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
Wth 6.89 17 The sea...offers its perilous aid and the power and empire that follow it...to [man's] craft and audacity.
PPo 8.244 16 [Hafiz] accosts all topics with an easy audacity.
Schr 10.266 10 [Nature]...comes in with a new ravishing experience and makes the old time ridiculous. Every poet knows the unspeakable hope, and represents its audacity.
LLNE 10.338 5 ...while society remained in doubt between the indignation of the old school and the audacity of the new, a higher note sounded.
Bost 12.208 11 ...there is yet in every city a certain permanent tone;... audacity or slowness;...
SR 2.78 5 Caratach...when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies,--His hidden meaning lies in our endeavours;/...
ET8 5.133 27 No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room...
AmS 1.113 4 [Swedenborg] pierced the emblematic or spiritual character of the visible, audible, tangible world.
SwM 4.143 1 ...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some sort, love is greater than God, his heart beats so high that the thumping against his leathern coat is audible across the centuries.
EPro 11.316 22 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly...
AmS 1.106 7 I might not carry with me the feeling of my audience in stating my own belief.
MN 1.218 10 Genius...draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience and spectator...
Tran 1.339 24 It is well known to most of my audience that the Idealism of the present day acquired the name of Transcendental from the use of that term by Immanuel Kant...
NR 3.226 12 ...the audience, who have only to hear and not to speak, judge very wisely and superiorly how wrongheaded and unskilful is each of the debaters to his own affair.
ShP 4.192 19 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it. He loses no time in idle experiments. Here is audience and expectation prepared.
ShP 4.192 26 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is the Tale of Troy, which the audience will bear hearing some part of, every week;...
ShP 4.197 1 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived;...from whatever source, they are equally welcome to his uncritical audience.
ET2 5.32 17 It has been said that the King of England would consult his dignity by giving audience to foreign ambassadors in the cabin of a man-of-war.
ET7 5.125 16 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!
ET13 5.218 16 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English audience...
Elo1 7.62 13 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...a selfish enjoyment of his sensations, and loss of perception of the sufferings of the audience.
Elo1 7.63 1 An audience is not a simple addition of the individuals that compose it.
Elo1 7.63 19 [The successful orator] has his audience at his devotion.
Elo1 7.65 8 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is...a taking sovereign possession of the audience.
Elo1 7.65 13 Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and...he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
Elo1 7.66 7 The audience is a constant meter of the orator.
Elo1 7.66 19 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment, the attention [of the audience] deepens, a new and highest audience now listens...
Elo1 7.66 22 There is...something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue.
Elo1 7.67 23 When each auditor...shudders with cold at the thinness of the morning audience...mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable.
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...
Elo1 7.75 4 ...a ruffian touch in his rhetoric, will do [the member of Congress] no harm with his audience.
Elo1 7.82 2 In the assembly, you shall find the orator and the audience in perpetual balance;...
Elo1 7.82 7 If the talents for speaking exist, but not the strong personality, then there are good speakers who perfectly receive and express the will of the audience...
Elo1 7.82 12 The audience [if there be personality in the orator] is thrown into the attitude of pupil...
Elo1 7.82 26 This balance between the orator and the audience is expressed in what is called the pertinence of the speaker.
Elo1 7.83 26 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...carried audience, mourners and mourning along with him...
Elo1 7.84 15 Of course the interest of the audience and of the orator conspire.
Elo1 7.85 21 In a court of justice the audience are impartial;...
Elo1 7.90 6 Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.
Elo1 7.91 8 ...all these talents [of oratory]...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
PI 8.12 27 Mark the delight of an audience in an image.
PI 8.30 13 ...the moment the orator loses command of his audience, the audience commands him.
PI 8.40 21 These successes are not less admirable and astonishing to the poet than they are to his audience.
Elo2 8.112 3 ...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet called into existence, but is to be suggested on the spot...by the exhibition of an unlooked-for bias in the judges or in the audience.
Elo2 8.114 17 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who conquers his audience by infusing his soul into them...
Elo2 8.118 26 ...deep interest or sympathy...will carry the cold and fearful presently into self-possession and possession of the audience.
Elo2 8.125 7 ...[the man in the street]...can always get the ear of an audience to the exclusion of everybody else.
Elo2 8.125 19 ...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience.
Elo2 8.127 2 If [some men] are to put a thing in proper shape, fit for the occasion and the audience, their mind is a blank.
Elo2 8.130 15 It was said of Robespierre's audience, that though they understood not the words, they understood a fury in the words, and caught the contagion.
PC 8.216 15 ...every one has heard the remark...that the philosopher was above his audience.
Insp 8.277 3 Garrick said that on the stage his great paroxysms surprised himself as much as his audience.
Insp 8.293 6 ...a writer must find an audience up to his thought...
Grts 8.309 6 ...the rule of the orator begins...when his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,- when these shine and burn in his address;...
Grts 8.311 6 The world was created as an audience for [the scholar];...
Aris 10.53 16 The best feat of genius is to bring all the varieties of talent and culture into its audience;...
LLNE 10.331 22 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what occasion soever, a fact had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
SlHr 10.441 20 ...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements...
Thor 10.457 1 Talking, one day, of a public discourse, Henry [Thoreau] remarked that whatever succeeded with the audience was bad.
FSLN 11.218 4 It is to [students and scholars] I am beforehand related and engaged, in this audience or out of it...
EPro 11.316 23 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly,-an audience hitherto passive and unconcerned...
Scot 11.465 1 [Scott's] good sense probably elected the ballad to make his audience larger.
FRO2 11.485 4 Friends: I wish I could deserve anything of the kind expression of my friend, the President [of the Free Religious Association], and the kind good will which the audience signifies...
FRO2 11.485 8 ...quite against my design and my will, I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written remarks...
CInt 12.120 9 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...strong by the strength of the facts themselves. Then the orator is still one of the audience, persuaded by the same reasons which persuade them;...
CL 12.158 1 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.
ACri 12.283 20 In this art [writing] modern society has introduced a new element, by introducing a new audience.
PPo 8.250 15 Bring wine; for in the audience-hall of the soul's independence, what is sentinel or Sultan?...
Elo1 7.66 8 There are many audiences in every public assembly...
Elo1 7.66 19 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment, the attention [of the audience] deepens, a new and highest audience now listens, and the audiences of the fun and of facts and of the understanding are all silenced and awed.
Elo1 7.67 6 ...all these several audiences...are really composed out of the same persons;...
Elo1 7.67 13 This range of many powers in the consummate speaker, and of many audiences in one assembly, leads us to consider the successive stages of oratory.
Elo1 7.94 3 The orator is thereby an orator, that he keeps his feet ever on a fact. Thus only is he invincible. No gifts...will make any amends for want of this. All audiences are just to this point.
Suc 7.286 11 We have seen an American woman write a novel...which... was read with equal interest to three audiences, namely, in the parlor, in the kitchen and in the nursery of every house.
FSLN 11.242 18 ...if audiences forget themselves, statesmen do not.
ACri 12.284 3 Chiefly in this country, the common school has added two or three audiences [for the writer]: once, we had only the boxes; now, the galleries and the pit.
Elo1 7.67 20 When each auditor feels himself to make too large a part of the assembly...mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable.
Elo1 7.80 20 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism. Each auditor puts a final stroke to the discourse by exclaiming, Can he mesmerize me?
Elo2 8.121 14 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;...
Supl 10.172 10 ...[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.
LLNE 10.332 27 In the pulpit...[Everett] made amends to himself and his auditor for the self-denial of the professor's chair, and...he gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.
MR 1.227 20 ...none of my auditors will deny that we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with the spiritual nature.
Elo1 7.62 18 ...the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
Plu 10.310 2 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs. They are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors...
LLNE 10.332 18 All [Everett's] auditors felt the extreme beauty and dignity of the manner...
Int 2.347 6 ...nor do [the Greek philosophers] ever...testify the least displeasure or petulance at the dulness of their amazed auditory.
Elo2 8.115 18 [The true orator's] attitude in the rostrum, on the platform, requires that he counterbalance his auditory.
Elo2 8.116 1 I must feel that the speaker compromises himself to his auditory...
TPar 11.287 10 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore Parker's] treatment both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity, and sympathized with the pain of many good people in his auditory...
ET11 5.181 26 Chesterfield House remains in Audley Street.
MN 1.196 2 Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line...
NMW 4.244 11 ...ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to... Ney and Augereau.
SR 2.48 25 The nonchalance of boys who...would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
Comp 2.125 27 We linger in the ruins of the old tent...nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We cannot again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful.
Lov1 2.174 9 ...the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.
Fdsp 2.212 4 There are innumerable degrees of folly and wisdom, and for you to say aught is to be frivolous.
Pol1 3.197 8 Boded Merlin wise,/ Proved Napoleon great,--/ Nor kind nor coinage buys/ Aught above its rate./
UGM 4.29 21 Compromise thy egotism. Who cares for that, so thou gain aught wider and nobler?
GoW 4.285 13 Enemy of [Goethe] you may be,--if so you shall teach him aught which your good-will can not...
ET5 5.79 19 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
Wsp 6.199 16 [Fate] is the oldest, and best known,/ More near than aught thou call'st thy own/...
PI 8.75 7 ...the involuntary part of [men's] life is so much as to...leave them no countenance to say aught of what is so trivial as their selfish thinking and doing.
Edc1 10.125 10 We have already taken...(for aught I know for the first time in the world), the initial step...this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
Plu 10.313 7 [Plutarch] cites Euripides to affirm, If gods do aught dishonest, they are no gods...
MMEm 10.404 8 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... If I had been in aught but dreary deserts, I should have idolized my friends, despised the world and been haughty.
Pol1 3.212 2 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. Augment the mass a thousand-fold, it cannot begin to crush us, as long as reaction is equal to action.
Insp 8.276 26 See how the passions augment our force...
PC 8.207 8 The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence, and thrills with the vast augmentation of strength which it draws from this proof.
War 11.153 7 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues...
Int 2.341 22 [The scholar] must...choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.
ShP 4.196 12 If [Shakespeare] lost any credit of design, he augmented his resources;...
Pow 6.64 14 The faster the ball falls to the sun, the force to fly off is by so much augmented.
Civ 7.22 23 Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness...
War 11.152 27 The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above each other by new merits...
ET10 5.169 16 Such a wealth has England earned, ever new, bounteous and augmenting.
WD 7.162 25 Malthus...forgot to say...that the augmenting wants of society would be met by an augmenting power of invention.
WD 7.162 27 Malthus...forgot to say...that the augmenting wants of society would be met by an augmenting power of invention.
Wth 6.126 25 The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest...that he may spend in spiritual creation and not in augmenting animal existence.
UGM 4.27 18 The centripetence augments the centrifugence. We balance one man with his opposite...
ACri 12.304 17 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation.
EPro 11.315 18 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg, the plantation of America...
RBur 11.440 22 The Confession of Augsburg, the Declaration of Independence...are not more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns.
Dem1 10.14 20 ...while the whole multitude was on the way, an augur called out to them to stand still...
Dem1 10.14 22 ...this man [Masollam] inquired the reason of [the multitude's] halting. The augur showed him a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain;...
Dem1 10.14 27 The augur showed [Masollam] a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain; if he flew on, they might proceed; but if he flew back, they must return. The Jew said nothing, but bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground. This act offended the augur and some others...
ET7 5.120 3 [Wellington] augured ill of the [Napoleonic] empire as soon as he saw that it was mendacious...
NER 3.283 1 If the auguries of the prophesying heart shall make themselves good in time, the man who shall be born...is one who shall enjoy his connection with a higher life...
F 6.1 3 Birds with auguries on their wings/ Chanted undeceiving things,/ [The bard] to beckon, him to warn;/...
Farm 7.150 19 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land, make it sweet and friable; have made English Chat Moss a garden, and will now do as much for the Dismal Swamp. But beyond this benefit they are the text of better opinions and better auguries for mankind.
PC 8.222 4 When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise; we were found already prepared for it. The fact stated accorded with the auguries or divinations of the human mind.
Dem1 10.9 2 Why...should not symptoms, auguries, forebodings be...
PLT 12.15 4 First I wish to speak of the excellence of that element [Intellect], and the great auguries that come from it...
ET14 5.254 8 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student...
Insp 8.271 13 ...nothing great and lasting can be done except...by leaning on the secret augury.
Imtl 8.346 10 A conclusion, an inference, a grand augury [of immortality], is ever hovering...
Mem 12.92 7 The old whim or perception was an augury of a broader insight...
DSA 1.136 25 Where shall I hear these august laws of moral being so pronounced as to fill my ear...
OS 2.269 26 My words do not carry [the soul's] august sense;...
Exp 3.71 26 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...
Exp 3.84 18 I am very content with knowing, if only I could know. That is an august entertainment...
PerF 10.82 24 The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no other; the memory opens all her cabinets and archives;...Poetry her splendor and joy and the august circles of eternal law.
CPL 11.508 4 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes, all books, all past acts are...huddled aside as impertinent in the august presence of the creator.
MLit 12.335 13 ...the august spirit of the world looks out from [man's] eyes.
EzRy 10.386 24 One August afternoon, when I was in [Ezra Ripley's] hayfield helping him with his man to rake up his hay, I well remember his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay.
ET1 5.10 7 From London, on the 5th August [1833], I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge...
ET1 5.19 3 On the 28th August [1833] I went to Rydal Mount, to pay my respects to Mr. Wordsworth.
ET12 5.201 27 [At Oxford] on August 27, 1660, John Milton's Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio and Iconoclastes were committed to the flames.
Res 8.151 23 [The art of taking a walk] will draw...the drowsiness out of August.
Insp 8.274 2 In June the morning is noisy with birds; in August they are already getting old and silent.
EzRy 10.383 4 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children: Sarah, born August 18, 1781; Samuel...Daniel...
EzRy 10.383 6 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children: Sarah...Samuel... Daniel Bliss, born August 1, 1784.
HDC 11.71 4 In August [1774], a County Convention met in this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public affairs...
EWI 11.112 7 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers...
EWI 11.112 23 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...
EWI 11.112 26 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...
EWI 11.113 6 ...be it enacted...that from and after the first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies...
EWI 11.115 18 The first of August [1834] came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies] until the next Monday.
EWI 11.117 3 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that now for ten months, from 1st August, 1834, no injury or violence had been offered to any white [in the West Indies]...
EWI 11.120 2 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
EWI 11.120 5 ...on the 1st August, 1838, the shackles dropped from every British slave.
EWI 11.120 13 The First of August, 1838, was observed in Jamaica as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
EWI 11.140 8 The First of August [1834] marks the entrance of a new element into modern politics, namely, the civilization of the negro.
EWI 11.147 25 The sentiment of Right...pronounces Freedom. The Power that built this fabric of things...in the history of the First of August [1834], has made a sign to the ages, of his will.
SMC 11.366 7 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment...went out again in August, 1864...
SMC 11.366 15 In August, 1862, on the new requisition for troops...twelve men, including [Sylvester Lovejoy], were enlisted for three years...
CL 12.151 19 In August, when the corn is grown to be a resort and protection to woodcocks and small birds...we observe already that the leaf is sere...
MAng1 12.225 19 and the city capitulated on the 9th of August.
Boks 7.204 26 The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan age;...
Cir 2.301 5 St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere.
PPh 4.40 3 St. Augustine, Copernicus...are likewise [Plato's] debtors...
PI 8.51 1 St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the books of the philosophers...
Imtl 8.347 4 Read Plato, or any seer of the interior realities. Read St. Augustine, Swedenborg, Immanuel Kant.
SovE 10.203 19 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe-St. Augustine, and Thomas a Kempis, and Fenelon;...
Prch 10.227 18 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit which now fires you.
Plu 10.306 25 Let others wrangle, said St. Augustine; I will wonder.
Plu 10.319 7 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace or home of Plotinus, St. Augustine...
Carl 10.489 12 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare, Augustine and Calvin...
FRO2 11.486 13 We have had not long since presented to us by Max Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine...
FRO2 11.486 16 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients...
II 12.74 19 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men...that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us. How they entered into me, let them say if they can; for I have gone over all the avenues of my flesh, and cannot find by which they entered, said Saint Augustine.
Bost 12.194 3 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Thomas a Kempis...without feeling how rich and expansive a culture...they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
MLit 12.309 19 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...
MLit 12.311 19 How can the age be a bad one which gives me...Saint Augustine, Spinoza, Chapman...beside its own riches?
MLit 12.327 24 We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.
Pray 12.356 7 ...we must not tie up the rosary on which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint Augustine.
SwM 4.138 26 Burns, with the wild humor of his apostrophe to poor auld Nickie Ben...has the advantage of the vindictive theologian.
RBur 11.442 4 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses been applied to!
Aris 10.30 2 ...he that wol have prize of his genterie,/ For he was boren of a gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is not gentil, be he duke or erl;/...
MEm 10.412 21 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden].
MMEm 10.408 2 [Mary Moody Emerson's] nephew [C. C. Emerson] wrote of her: I am glad the friendship with Aunt Mary is ripening.
MMEm 10.410 14 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost...
Res 8.148 19 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...
Edc1 10.148 23 The joy of our childhood in hearing beautiful stories from some skilful aunt who loves to tell them, must be repeated in youth.
MMEm 10.400 13 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband lived on a farm...
MMEm 10.400 21 Later, another aunt [of Mary Moody Emerson], who had become insane, was brought hither [to Malden] to end her days.
MMEm 10.401 4 Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary [Moody Emerson]...
MMEm 10.412 21 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden].
MMEm 10.414 6 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things than their individual fault. It was from being early impressed by my poor unpractical aunt, that Providence and Prayer were all in all.
MMEm 10.415 24 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance of past destitution in the deep poverty of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt...
MMEm 10.419 22 Could I [Mary Moody Emerson] but live free from calculation, as in the first half of life, when my poor aunt lived.
MMEm 10.431 19 No object of science or observation ever was pointed out to me [Mary Moody Emerson] by my poor aunt, but [God's] Being and commands;...
Mem 12.97 12 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in and out of the house...
Dem1 10.19 22 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...as if the laws of the Father of the universe were sometimes balked and eluded by a meddlesome Aunt of the universe for her pets.
ET4 5.65 21 The American [in England] has arrived at the old mansion-house, and finds himself among uncles, aunts and grandsires.
DL 7.104 24 ...uncles, aunts, grandsires, grandams, fall an easy prey [to the young enchanter]...
SA 8.81 21 Who teaches manners...of grace, of humility,--who but the adoring aunts and cousins that surround a young child?
Let 12.395 2 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me?...
Let 12.395 7 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!...
Pt1 3.26 15 The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.
ET7 5.117 25 Geoffrey of Monmouth says of King Aurelius, uncle of Arthur, that above all things he hated a lie.
F 6.37 13 Eyes are found in light; ears in auricular air;...
SwM 4.113 22 Ex aurique putat micis consistere posse/ Aurum, et de terris terram concrescere parvis;/...
OS 2.282 5 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates...the aurora of Behmen...are of this kind.
Insp 8.288 7 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples,-so sudden, so slight, so spiritual, that it was more like the rippling of the Aurora Borealis at night than any spectacle of day.
MAng1 12.230 3 In the mausoleum of the Medici at Florence are the tombs of Lorenzo and Cosmo, with the grand statues of Night and Day, and Aurora and Twilight.
Comp 2.120 1 [The mob] resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.
Pt1 3.10 21 We sat in the aurora of a sunrise which was to put out all the stars.
Comp 2.106 26 Aurora forgot to ask youth for her lover, and though Tithonus is immortal, he is old.
Insp 8.285 1 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
Insp 8.285 20 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/ Roused tender new longings/ In my lately touched bosom/ And so the night passed,/ And Aurora found me sleeping;/ Yea, hardly did the sun wake me./
Hist 2.16 11 What is Guido's Rospigliosi Aurora but a morning thought...
Pt1 3.11 7 ...behold! all night, from every pore, these fine auroras have been streaming.
SwM 4.113 23 Ex aurique putat micis consistere posse/ Aurum, et de terris terram concrescere parvis;/...
AmS 1.110 14 I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days...
MoS 4.181 25 It is the rule of mere comity and courtesy...to turn your sentence with something auspicious...
ChiE 11.471 8 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event...marks a new era...
DSA 1.142 20 The Puritans in England and America found...in the dogmas inherited from Rome, scope for their austere piety...
LE 1.176 9 Let us sit with our hands on our mouths, a long, austere, Pythagorean lustrum.
Tran 1.355 10 [Our virtue's] representatives are austere;...
Fdsp 2.199 4 The laws of friendship are austere and eternal...
Int 2.341 19 A self-denial no less austere than the saint's is demanded of the scholar.
MoS 4.175 25 We go forth austere, dedicated...
ShP 4.216 20 Solitude has austere lessons;...
NMW 4.239 15 ...[Napoleon] knew his debt to his austere education...
Prch 10.219 15 Perhaps there must be austere elections and determinations before any clear vision.
LLNE 10.332 6 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...adorned with so many simple and austere beauties of expression ...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
FSLN 11.236 6 ...our education is not conducted by toys and luxuries, but by austere and rugged masters...
Koss 11.399 23 We [people of Concord] know the austere condition of liberty...
Milt1 12.263 6 [Milton's] habits of living were austere.
MLit 12.329 25 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] To a profound soul is not austere truth the sweetest flattery??
Art1 2.357 12 A gallery of sculpture teaches more austerely the same lesson [as painting].
Fdsp 2.200 26 Let us not have this childish luxury in our regards, but the austerest worth;...
LE 1.176 13 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce deep into the grandeur and secret of our being...
Hsm1 2.254 20 ...[the hero] loves [his temperance] for its elegancy, not for its austerity.
Hsm1 2.261 15 To speak the truth, even with some austerity...seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...
DL 7.121 4 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity...
Thor 10.478 18 It was easy to trace to the inexorable demand on all for exact truth that austerity which made this willing hermit [Thoreau] more solitary even than he wished.
War 11.175 9 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day...
NMW 4.234 16 Seruzier, a colonel of artillery, gives...the following sketch of a scene after the battle of Austerlitz.
NMW 4.241 10 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz...
NMW 4.246 18 [Napoleon's] army, on the night of the battle of Austerlitz... presented him with a bouquet of forty standards taken in the fight.
Comc 8.171 26 Lord C., said the Countess of Gordon, O, he is a perfect comb, all teeth and back.
ET4 5.70 26 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature.
ET9 5.146 24 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will force his island by-laws down the throat of great countries, like India, China, Canada, Australia...
ET11 5.198 2 [Titles of lordship...may be advantageously consigned...to the dignitaries of Australia and Polynesia.
ET18 5.304 3 Canada and Australia have been contented with substantial independence.
F 6.16 9 We see the English, French, and Germans planting themselves on every shore and market of America and Australia...
WD 7.161 22 When commerce is vastly enlarged, California and Australia expose the gold it needs.
WD 7.161 24 When Europe is over-populated, America and Australia crave to be peopled;...
PI 8.73 10 The high poetry which shall...bring in the new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is...longer postponed than was America or Australia...
FSLC 11.212 27 Every Englishman in Australia, in South Africa, in India... represents London...
ET18 5.300 26 During the Australian emigration [from England], multitudes were rejected by the commissioners as being too emaciated for useful colonists.
SL 2.145 18 All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy.
NMW 4.252 22 ...Rome and Austria, centres of tradition and genealogy, opposed [Napoleon].
NMW 4.253 2 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him, of the emperor of Austria to bribe him;...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
ET15 5.270 10 [The London Times's] editors know better than to defend Russia, or Austria...on abstract grounds.
War 11.163 13 The reference to any foreign register will inform us of the number of thousand or million men that are now under arms in the vast colonial system...of Russia, Austria and France;...
EPro 11.324 14 If you could add, say [foreign critics], to your strength the whole army of England, of France and of Austria, you could not coerce eight millions of people to come under this government against their will.
MLit 12.333 14 What is Austria?
Nat 1.20 24 ...when Arnold Winkelried...gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
NMW 4.234 10 Sire, General Clarke can not combine with General Junot, for the dreadful fire of the Austrian battery.
NMW 4.238 6 At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse, and with these he separated the six thousand Hungarian grenadiers, before the very eyes of the Austrian cavalry.
F 6.44 10 The quality of the thought differences...the Austrian and the American.
EPro 11.324 18 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers Europe of the last seventy years...
NMW 4.235 6 ...in less than no time we buried some thousands of Russians and Austrians under the waters of the lake.
NMW 4.236 18 [Napoleon] was flung into the marsh at Arcola. The Austrians were between him and his troops...
NMW 4.247 7 The Austrians, [Napoleon] said, do not know the value of time.
WSL 12.344 8 [Landor] hates the Austrians, the Italians, the French, the Scotch and the Irish.
AmS 1.93 13 The discerning will read, in his...Shakspeare...only the authentic utterances of the oracle;...
LT 1.284 23 I have seen the authentic sign of anxiety and perplexity on the greatest forehead of the State.
Con 1.314 10 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat...with the desire to achieve its own fate and make every ornament it wears authentic and real.
Hist 2.30 16 Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic arts and the migration of colonies,) [the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
SL 2.166 14 We know the authentic effects of the true fire through every one of its million disguises.
OS 2.285 13 In that other [man]...authentic signs had yet passed, to signify that he might be trusted as one who had an interest in his own character.
NER 3.279 14 The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion... is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.
PPh 4.41 21 ...after some time it is not easy to say what is the authentic work of the master and what is only of his school.
Cour 7.255 15 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every nation; and in authentic history, a Leonidas, a Scipio...
QO 8.198 15 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and discerning public, inviting merit at last to consent to fame, and come up and take place in the reserved and authentic chairs!
TPar 11.288 16 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker...that the true temper and the authentic record of these days will be read.
Wom 11.420 2 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?
II 12.73 20 Power is the authentic mark of spirit.
MLit 12.319 22 ...imagination, the original, authentic fire of the bard, [Shelley] has not.
ACri 12.296 4 Every historic autobiographic trait authenticating the man [Montaigne] adds to the value of the book.
Nat 1.47 14 In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses...what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
AmS 1.93 6 ...the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Hist 2.33 25 ...although that poem [Goethe's Helena] be as vague and fantastic as a dream, yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author...
SL 2.149 6 ...that author [Virgil] is a thousand books to a thousand persons.
Fdsp 2.204 26 My author says,--I offer myself faintly and bluntly to those whose I effectually am...
OS 2.288 21 The author...does not take place of the man.
Pt1 3.32 8 An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
NR 3.233 9 I find the most pleasure in reading a book in a manner least flattering to the author.
NR 3.233 16 It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
NR 3.241 1 I think I have done well if I have acquired a new word from a good author;...
PPh 4.45 10 This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by any thing short-lived or local...
ShP 4.195 13 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771 were written by some author preceding Shakspeare...
ET1 5.15 6 Carlyle was...an author who did not need to hide from his readers...
ET7 5.124 7 The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
Art2 7.46 25 It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist...is as much surprised at the effect as we are, that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the author.
WD 7.169 25 One author is good for winter, and one for the dog-days.
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...
Cour 7.269 24 When a confident man comes into a company magnifying this or that author he has freshly read, the company grow silent and ashamed of their ignorance.
OA 7.329 22 We carry in memory important anecdotes, and have lost all clew to the author from whom we had them.
OA 7.330 9 The day comes when the hidden author of our story is found;...
PI 8.69 16 ...[Goethe's Faust]...accuses the author as well as the times.
QO 8.184 11 ...[the Earl of Strafford] drew all that ran in the author more strictly...
QO 8.191 2 If an author give us just distinctions...it is not so important to us whose they are.
QO 8.194 1 ...people quote so differently: one finding only what is gaudy and popular; another, the heart of the author...
QO 8.195 15 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in Tiraboschi...or other historian of literature.
QO 8.196 12 ...Cardinal de Retz...described himself in an extemporary Latin sentence, which he pretended to quote from a classic author...
QO 8.197 2 In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too much honor, reading out of it better things than the author wrote...
QO 8.197 20 ...James Hogg...is but a third-rate author...
Prch 10.233 10 The author has a new thought...
Plu 10.293 1 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch...not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
Plu 10.299 19 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers...respectfully skipping to the next chapter. But this scholastic omniscience of our author engages a new respect, since they hope he understands his own diagram.
Plu 10.321 21 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author...
HDC 11.83 9 I have been greatly indebted, in preparing this sketch [of Concord], to the printed but unpublished History of this town, furnished me by the unhesitating kindness of its author [Lemuel Shattuck]...
HDC 11.83 11 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck] has done us and posterity a kindness...
EWI 11.136 3 Lord Chancellor Northington is the author of the famous sentence, As soon as any man puts his foot on English ground, he becomes free.
FSLC 11.202 12 ...we must use the introducer and substantial author of the [Fugitive Slave] bill as an illustration of the history.
ALin 11.333 11 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings...
EdAd 11.391 15 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined; the encyclopaedical Humboldt, and the intrepid generalizations collected by the author of the Vestiges of Creation [Robert Chambers].
Wom 11.407 22 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband...says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved, he was the author of that virtue he doted on...
CPL 11.508 10 ...read proudly; put the duty of being read invariably on the author.
Milt1 12.247 23 It was very easy to remark an altered tone in the criticism when Milton reappeared as an author, fifteen years ago...
Milt1 12.272 2 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of literary liberty... insisting that a book shall come into the world as freely as a man, so only it bear the name of author or printer...
MLit 12.320 2 When we read poetry, the mind asks,-Was this verse one of twenty which the author might have written as well;...
MLit 12.334 8 The very depth of the sentiment, which is the author of all the cutaneous life we see, is guarantee for the riches of science and of song in the age to come.
AgMs 12.360 7 ...it was easy to see that [Edmund Hosmer] felt toward the author [of the Agricultural Survey] much as soldiers do toward the historiographer who follows the camp...
EurB 12.374 14 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect, because he speedily betrays that he does not see the true limitations of the charm;...
SovE 10.194 27 Wondrous state of man! never so happy as when he...exists only in obedience and love of the Author.
Plu 10.320 11 I cannot close these notes without expressing my sense of the valuable service which the Editor [of Plutarch's Morals] has rendered to his Author and to his readers.
MMEm 10.412 13 ...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author...it exults, too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.
MMEm 10.427 9 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being...
MMEm 10.430 15 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong...for that kind of obscure virtue which is so rich to lay at the feet of the Author of morality.
Chr2 10.97 18 It would instantly indispose us to any person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature, the setting forth any fact or law which we did not find in our consciousness.
FRO2 11.486 4 ...the Author of Nature has not left himself without a witness in any sane mind...
MN 1.211 5 It was always the theory of literature that the word of a poet was authoritative and final.
Boks 7.190 6 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables...of the old Orpheus of Thrace,--books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative...
FRO2 11.488 16 This positive, historical, authoritative scheme [of miraculous dispensation] is not consistent with our experience or our expectations.
ET12 5.205 11 The number of students and of residents [at English universities], the dignity of the authorities...justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...
Pow 6.58 13 ...the lawyer's authorities are hunted up by clerks;...
Bty 6.296 27 ...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
Suc 7.292 26 Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause...
HDC 11.81 12 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas. But they found no countenance here. The same people who had been active in a County Convention to consider grievances, condemned the rebellion, and joined the authorities in putting it down.
EWI 11.136 12 Granville Sharpe filled the ear of the judges with the sound principles that had from time to time been affirmed by the legal authorities...
FSLC 11.184 7 What is the use of courts, if judges only quote authorities...
AmS 1.90 25 ...there are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority...
DSA 1.146 8 Look to it...that fashion, custom, authority, pleasure, and money, are nothing to you...
Con 1.307 1 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;... And what is that peril? Knives and muskets, if we meet you in the act; imprisonment, if we find you afterward. And by what authority, kind gentlemen? By our law.
Tran 1.340 19 ...the tendency to respect the intuitions and to give them, at least in our creed, all authority over our experience, has deeply colored the conversation and poetry of the present day;...
SR 2.66 21 The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
Fdsp 2.202 23 Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank;...
OS 2.267 2 There is a difference between one and another hour of life in their authority and subsequent effect.
OS 2.295 12 The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
OS 2.295 13 The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion...
OS 2.295 16 The position men have given to Jesus...is a position of authority.
Int 2.344 10 ...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...
Chr1 3.89 14 The authority of the name of Schiller is too great for his books.
Pol1 3.200 26 Nature...will not be fooled or abated of any jot of her authority by the pertest of her sons;...
Pol1 3.221 10 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature.
NER 3.251 17 ...that the Church, or religious party...is appearing...in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions;...meeting to call in question the authority of the Sabbath...
PPh 4.76 8 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which the screams of prophets...possess.
ShP 4.199 10 Did the bard speak with authority?
ET4 5.58 6 A king among these [Norse] farmers has a varying power, sometimes not exceeding the authority of a sheriff.
ET12 5.201 23 On every side, Oxford is redolent of age and authority.
ET15 5.263 15 [The London Times] has risen, year by year, and victory by victory, to its present authority.
ET15 5.272 22 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] it would have the authority which is claimed for that dream of good men not yet come to pass...
Pow 6.63 12 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions, will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
Boks 7.218 22 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world...
PPo 8.247 6 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature...which entitle the poet to speak with authority...are in Hafiz...
Grts 8.309 8 ...the rule of the orator begins...when the thought which he stands for gives its own authority to him...
Chr2 10.115 19 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus are better, but that they do not invade his freedom; because they are only suggestions, whilst the other adds the inadmissible claim of positive authority...
Edc1 10.129 24 [Is it not true] That poverty, love, authority, anger...all work actively upon our being...
SovE 10.205 7 To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...and the more intellectual reject every yoke of authority and custom with a petulance unprecedented.
Prch 10.225 18 ...[the moral sentiment] is so near and inward and constitutional to each, that no commandment can compare with it in authority.
Schr 10.266 15 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority.
LLNE 10.329 7 Authority falls, in Church, College, Courts of Law, Faculties, Medicine.
LLNE 10.367 27 In every family is the father;...in a boat, the skipper; but in this Farm, no authority;...
MMEm 10.402 20 Nobody can...recall the conversation of old-school people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority in their mind...
Thor 10.473 10 [The farmers who employed Thoreau] felt, too, the superiority of character which addressed all men with a native authority.
Carl 10.492 14 [Carlyle says] I think if [Parliament] would give [the money] to me, to provide the poor with labor, and with authority to make them work or shoot them,-and I to be hanged if I did not do it,-I could find them in plenty of Indian meal.
LS 11.4 17 ...it is now near two hundred years since the Society of Quakers denied the authority of the rite [the Lord's Supper] altogether...
LS 11.5 5 ...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; and further, to the opinion, that it is not expedient to celebrate it as we do. I shall now endeavor to state distinctly my reasons for these two opinions. I. The authority of the rite.
LS 11.11 24 ...if we had found [washing of the feet] an established rite in our churches, on grounds of mere authority, it would have been impossible to have argued against it.
LS 11.16 26 If the view which I have taken of the history of the institution [the Lord's Supper] be correct, then the claim of authority should be dropped in administering it.
LS 11.17 20 ...the service [the Lord's Supper] does not stand upon the basis of a voluntary act, but is imposed by authority.
LS 11.17 24 I fear it is the effect of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] to clothe Jesus with an authority which he never claimed...
LS 11.23 22 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper]...
HDC 11.45 16 The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony], whilst [the settlers] untied the great cords of authority to examine their soundness...
HDC 11.45 23 The Governor [of the Massachusetts Bay Colony] conspires with [the settlers] in limiting his claims to their obedience, and values much more their love than his chartered authority.
EWI 11.102 24 The prizes of society...the decencies and joys of marriage, honor, obedience, personal authority...these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
EWI 11.106 26 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost;...
FSLC 11.188 15 I had thought, I confess, what must come at last would come at first, a banding of all men against the authority of this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].
FSLC 11.198 8 What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly defined his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a reputable citizen to hold?
FSLN 11.224 14 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster...caused by his personal and official authority the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill.
TPar 11.285 15 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends. For it was each report of this kind that impressed those to whom it was told in a manner to secure its being told everywhere...to those who speak with authority to their own times and therefore to ours.
FRep 11.519 27 Our great men succumb so far to the forms of the day as to peril their integrity for the sake of adding to the weight of their personal character the authority of office...
Milt1 12.266 23 [Milton] told the bishops that...they seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.
Milt1 12.277 14 [Milton's] own conviction it is which gives such authority to his strain.
Chr1 3.92 18 Nature seems to authorize trade...
NER 3.280 17 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws, which to second and authorize, true virtue must abate very much of its original vigor.
FSLC 11.191 23 No engagement (to a sovereign) can oblige or even authorize a man to violate the laws of Nature.
Chr2 10.100 10 ...it is only as fast as this hearing [of these high communications] from another is authorized by its consent with [a man's] own, that it is pure and safe to each;...
LS 11.11 19 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels, and then compare with it the account of this transaction [Christ's washing the disciples' feet] in St. John, and tell me if this be not much more explicitly authorized than the Supper.
LS 11.16 6 If it could be satisfactorily shown that [the primitive Church] esteemed [the Lord's Supper] authorized and to be transmitted forever, that does not settle the question for us.
SMC 11.367 12 ...[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...
MAng1 12.242 21 Amidst all these witnesses to [Michelangelo's] independence, his generosity, his purity and his devotion, are we not authorized to say that this man was penetrated with the love of the highest beauty, that is, goodness;...
Nat 1.9 13 ...every hour and change [in nature] corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind...
YA 1.372 25 Remark the unceasing effort throughout nature at... amelioration in nature, which alone permits and authorizes amelioration in mankind.
CPL 11.495 11 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants...if it avail itself of the Act of the Legislature authorizing towns to tax themselves for the establishment of a public library.
AmS 1.97 21 Authors we have, in numbers, who have written out their vein...
LE 1.159 26 Say to such doctors, We are thankful to you, as we are...to the authors;...
SR 2.55 8 This conformity makes [men] not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars.
OS 2.288 6 Among the multitude of scholars and authors we feel no hallowing presence;...
OS 2.291 21 ...what rebuke [simple souls'] plain fraternal bearing casts on the mutual flattery with which authors solace each other...
Pt1 3.32 12 If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought, to that degree that he forgets the authors and the public...let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.
ShP 4.211 25 Shakspeare is as much out of the category of eminent authors, as he is out of the crowd.
ShP 4.212 6 [Shakespeare] was...the subtilest of authors...
ShP 4.218 15 ...had [Shakespeare] reached only the common measure of great authors...we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate...
ET12 5.211 18 English wealth falling on their school and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best authors...
ET14 5.241 15 A few generalizations always circulate in the world, whose authors we do not rightly know...
ET15 5.270 21 [The editors of the London Times] watch the hard and bitter struggles of the authors of each liberal movement...
CbW 6.253 12 There will not be a practice or an usage introduced [wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers], of which [the fools] are not the authors.
Boks 7.196 20 If you should transfer the amount of your reading day by day from the newspaper to the standard authors----But who dare speak of such a thing?
OA 7.330 26 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge.