MEm 10.412 21 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden].
ET7 5.125 14 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge. Mr. B. arose and mildly yet firmly called the attention of the audience and the performers to the fact that, in his judgment, the bridge was unsafe!
EzRy 10.392 22 Mr. N. F. is dead, and I expect to hear of the death of Mr. B. It is cruel to separate old people from their wives in this cold weather.
Comc 8.168 9 That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy. That is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and so on.
Comc 8.168 10 That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy. That is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and so on.
ET17 5.293 2 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...among the men of science...Babbage and Edward Forbes.
WD 7.159 19 ...taught by Mr. Babbage, [steam] must calculate interest and logarithms.
Art2 7.38 23 From the first imitative babble of a child to the despotism of eloquence;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
Prch 10.231 11 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people... wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ... It does not signify what [the others] say or think to-day; 't is the cry and the babble of the nursery...
DL 7.104 27 ...[the child] conforms to nobody...all caper and make mouths and babble and chirrup to him.
HDC 11.75 22 These men [the minute-men] did not babble of glory.
QO 8.187 14 ...now it appears that [English and American nursery-tales]... have been warbled and babbled between nurses and children for unknown thousands of years.
DSA 1.135 12 ...the man who aims to speak as books enable...babbles.
SR 2.48 10 ...one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
Nat2 3.188 20 This is the man-child that is born to the soul, and her life still circulates in the babe.
Wsp 6.237 8 [Benedict said] Thrust the [sick] woman out, and you thrust your babe out of doors...
Wsp 6.241 11 There will be a new church founded on moral science; at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again...
CbW 6.247 23 The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love and reason, visibly stream.
Cour 7.257 8 The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone...
OA 7.317 14 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a babe found exposed in a basket by the river-side...
OA 7.317 21 Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.
PI 8.46 12 The babe is lulled to sleep by the nurse's song.
SA 8.81 22 The babe meets such courting and flattery as only kings receive when adult;...
Chr2 10.119 3 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor...
PI 8.51 14 ...they adorned the sepulchres of the dead, and, planting thereon lasting bases, defied...the misty vaporousness of oblivion. Yet all were but Babel vanities.
ALin 11.334 19 ...in the Babel of counsels and parties, this man [Lincoln] wrought incessantly...laboring to find what the people wanted, and how to obtain that.
Int 2.346 23 ...what marks [Greek philosophers' thought's] elevation and has even a comic look to us, is the innocent serenity with which these babe-like Jupiters sit in their clouds...
Con 1.315 11 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers with their babes at their breasts...
SR 2.48 2 What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children, babes, and even brutes!
SL 2.138 7 We pass in the world...for erudition and piety, and we are all the time jejune babes.
Hsm1 2.249 11 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
Exp 3.62 10 In the morning I awake and find the old world, wife, babes and mother...not far off.
SA 8.84 18 As long as men are born babes they will live on credit for the first fourteen or eighteen years of their life.
War 11.168 7 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance...when your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered in your sight?
FSLC 11.194 5 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...
SMC 11.356 13 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...on witnessing the butchery done by the Missouri riders on women and babes, were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.
ET4 5.50 6 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix, when we see the rudiments of tiger and baboon in our human form...
Wsp 6.206 6 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest. And to marry a pagan wife or husband was...voluntarily to take a step backwards towards the baboon...
ET11 5.187 4 The economist of 1855 who asks, Of what use are the [English] lords? may learn of Franklin to ask, Of what use is a baby?
MoS 4.175 4 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination; for it seems to concern the shattering of baby-houses and crockery-shops.
Wth 6.92 27 Society in large towns is babyish, and wealth is made a toy.
Schr 10.280 17 Society is babyish, and is dazzled and deceived by the weapon [of talent]...
Pow 6.67 22 ...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens.
Hist 2.9 8 Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, and even early Rome are passing already into fiction.
Hist 2.21 19 ...the Persian court...travelled from Ecbatana, where the spring was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter.
PPh 4.44 9 It is said [Plato] went farther, into Babylonia: this is uncertain.
CW 12.173 8 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden]...unless I am very much mistaken, what is far more beautiful than Babylonian robes...
SA 8.94 9 When they showed [Madame de Stael] the beautiful Lake Leman, she exclaimed, O for the gutter of the Rue de Bac!...
Comc 8.163 25 ...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though unprovided of iron weapons...wounded their invaders with the boughs of trees which they carried...
PPo 8.249 19 We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the Song of Solomon, much less out of the erotic and bacchanalian songs of Hafiz.
PI 8.70 12 O celestial Bacchus!--drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds, hungry for eloquence...
FRep 11.512 26 As Bacchus of the vine, Ceres of the wheat...so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant.
ET12 5.206 6 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford], and a thousand dollars a year, as long as he chose to remain a bachelor, he would dance for joy.
CbW 6.251 3 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...nor does it seem to make much difference whether he is bachelor or patriarch;...
OA 7.330 21 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge, an ancient bachelor...
EzRy 10.393 24 Was a man a sot...or too long time a bachelor...the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...
Thor 10.454 13 [Thoreau] chose, wisely no doubt for himself, to be the bachelor of thought and Nature.
EurB 12.371 8 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint staircases and groined ceilings.
MR 1.232 7 In the island of Cuba...it appears only men are bought for the plantations, and one dies in ten every year, of these miserable bachelors, to yield us sugar.
Nat2 3.182 8 The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.
ET12 5.210 18 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...and I believed they would prove too severe tests for the candidates for a Bachelor's degree in Yale or Harvard.
Chr1 3.104 17 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money... the large income derived from my writings for fifty years back, have been expended to instruct me in what I now know.
Ctr 6.139 18 The city breeds one kind of speech and manners; the back country a different style;...
SS 7.5 7 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting...to slip away into the back stars...
LS 11.23 6 ...now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate [Jesus] by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that form be agreeable to their understandings or not. Is not this to make vain the gift of God? Is not this to turn back the hand on the dial?
HCom 11.342 13 The war gave back integrity to this erring and immoral nation.
CW 12.171 11 ...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank...
Nat 1.29 6 As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque...
Nat 1.43 8 Xenophanes complained...that...all things hastened back to Unity.
Nat 1.58 20 [The Manichean and Plotinus] distrusted in themselves any looking back to these flesh-pots of Egypt.
Nat 1.62 11 [Nature] is the organ through which the universal spirit speaks to the individual, and strives to lead back the individual to it.
AmS 1.99 12 [The great soul] can still fall back on this elemental force of living [his truths].
AmS 1.104 20 Let [the scholar] look into [fear's] eye and...inspect its origin...which lies no great way back;...
AmS 1.106 12 [Man] has almost lost the light that can lead him back to his prerogatives.
LE 1.161 14 I console myself...in the malignity and dulness of the nations, by falling back on these sublime recollections...
MN 1.204 10 With this conception of the genius or method of nature, let us go back to man.
MR 1.235 13 ...will you...set every man to make his own shoes, bureau, knife, wagon, sails, and needle? This would be to put men back into barbarism by their own act.
MR 1.248 17 Let [a man]...put all his practices back on their first thoughts...
MR 1.256 24 ...the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back...
Con 1.304 5 The system of property and law goes back for its origin to barbarous and sacred times;...
Hist 2.13 8 Genius...far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb, that diverge...by infinite diameters.
SR 2.45 12 ...our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
SR 2.45 24 ...[our rejected thoughts] come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
SR 2.87 2 ...Napoleon conquered Europe by the bivouac, which consisted of falling back on naked valor...
Comp 2.105 7 Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.
SL 2.158 19 Pretension never...drove back Xerxes...
Lov1 2.171 12 Let any man go back to those delicious relations which make the beauty of his life...he will shrink and moan.
Hsm1 2.249 9 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
Hsm1 2.253 11 ...the soul of a better quality thrusts back the unreasonable economy into the vaults of life...
Hsm1 2.253 18 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building, like a palace, the gates of which were...fixed back to the wall with large nails.
Hsm1 2.260 15 If you would serve your brother, because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you.
OS 2.269 20 ...by falling back on our better thoughts...we can know what [the soul] saith.
OS 2.290 3 From that inspiration [of the soul] the man comes back with a changed tone.
Cir 2.308 15 By going one step farther back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled...
Cir 2.308 18 ...we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.
Cir 2.313 12 ...steeped in the sea of beautiful forms which the field offers us, we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.
Cir 2.315 16 Think how many times we shall fall back into pitiful calculations before we take up our rest in the great sentiment...
Int 2.334 16 ...our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood...
Int 2.345 7 ...[the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness.
Art1 2.359 10 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral nature...breathes from them all. That which we carry to them, the same we bring back more fairly illustrated in the memory.
Art1 2.367 6 Art must not be a superficial talent, but must begin farther back in man.
Art1 2.367 23 Beauty must come back to the useful arts...
Chr1 3.113 1 Society is spoiled...if the associates are brought a mile to meet. And if it be not society, it is a mischievous, low, degrading jangle, though made up of the best. All the greatness of each is kept back...
Mrs1 3.128 21 The class of power, the working heroes...see...that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their own...
Gts 3.163 15 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons, not at all considering the value of the gift but looking back to the greater store it was taken from,--I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
Nat2 3.173 20 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... ... I am over-instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please. I cannot go back to toys.
Nat2 3.181 15 ...the artist still goes back for materials...
NER 3.282 5 We would persuade our fellow to this or that; another self within our eyes dissuades him. That which we keep back, this reveals.
UGM 4.15 23 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed...is the secret of the reader's joy in literary genius. Nothing is kept back.
MoS 4.174 10 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly insight, and sends back the votary orphaned.
NMW 4.240 22 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs. Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road, and Mrs. Balcombe desired them, in rather an angry tone, to keep back.
GoW 4.273 6 The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos; Goethe went, only the other day, as far; and one step farther he hazarded, and brought himself safe back.
GoW 4.289 8 ...compared with any motives on which books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work]...has the power to inspire which belongs to truth. Thus has he brought back to a book some of its ancient might and dignity.
ET1 5.10 4 ...year after year the scholar must still go back to Landor for a multitude of elegant sentences;...
ET2 5.30 20 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to England. The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock...and he...likes the work first-rate, and if the captain will take him, means now to come back again in the ship.
ET4 5.62 14 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into...most noble Knights of the Garter; but every sparkle of ornament dates back to the Norse boat.
ET6 5.111 1 The favorite phrase of [the Englishmen's] law is, a custom whereof the memory of man runneth not back to the contrary.
ET13 5.228 14 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism.
ET16 5.280 12 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by little showers...
ET17 5.293 10 ...my recollections of the best hours go back to private conversations in different parts of the kingdom [England]...
ET17 5.297 15 [A London gentleman] said he once showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth, who took it in one hand, then drew out his own watch and held it up with the other, before the company, but no one making the expected remark, he put back his own in silence.
ET19 5.313 1 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back with torn sheets and battered sides...
ET19 5.314 3 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
Pow 6.69 3 The roisters who are destined for infamy at home, if sent to Mexico will...come back heroes and generals.
Pow 6.81 26 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred...is traced back to the girl that wove it, and lessens her wages.
Wth 6.110 24 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800.
Wth 6.126 2 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest;...the scraps and filings must be gathered back into the crucible;...
Ctr 6.145 4 ...men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
Ctr 6.155 18 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that...pays off the mortgage on the paternal farm, and then goes back cheerfully to work again.
Wsp 6.215 1 That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words...to their ancient meaning.
Wsp 6.227 1 What I am and what I think is conveyed to you, in spite of my efforts to hold it back.
Wsp 6.228 15 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots. The young nun...drew back with anger...
Wsp 6.228 24 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what...their natures say, though their...understandings try to hold back and choke that word...
CbW 6.251 14 All the marked events of our day...may be traced back to their origin in a private brain.
CbW 6.269 2 When joy or calamity or genius shall show [the youth his purpose], then woods...then city shopmen...will mirror back to him its unfathomable heaven...
CbW 6.272 2 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have... he wakes in them the feeling of worth... ... 'T is wonderful the effect on the company. They are not the men they were. They have all been to California and all have come back millionaires.
CbW 6.272 17 Here [in conversation] are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.
CbW 6.274 1 It makes no difference, in looking back five years, how you have been dieted or dressed;...
Ill 6.312 2 We fancy that our civilization has got on far, but we still come back to our primers.
Art2 7.55 2 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills...
Elo1 7.94 24 If you would correct my false view of facts,--hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought, and I cannot go back from the new conviction.
DL 7.123 12 [The women of Arthur's court]...said that the devil was in the mantle, for really the truth was in the mantle, and was exposing the ugliness which each would fain conceal. All drew back with terror from the garment.
Farm 7.138 13 Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves: Well, my children, whom I have injured, shall go back to the land...
Farm 7.148 16 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...
WD 7.171 9 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the eye that looketh into the deeps, which again look back to the eye, abyss to abyss;-- these...are given immeasurably to all.
Boks 7.193 25 The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every private shelf;...
Boks 7.206 20 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology to the Younger Edda and the Heimskringla of Snorro Sturleson...
Boks 7.221 4 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time for that? But one of our company...shall study and master it...shall give us the sincere result as it lies in his mind, adding nothing, keeping nothing back.
Cour 7.273 10 The aim reacts back on the means.
Suc 7.284 8 ...Ojeda could run out swiftly on a plank projected from the top of a tower, turn round swiftly and come back;...
Suc 7.299 3 Wordsworth writes of the delights of the boy in Nature:--For never will come back the hour/ Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower./
Suc 7.304 13 If in his walk [the lover] chanced to look back, his friend was walking behind him.
PI 8.17 2 ...the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in Nature, to give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.
PI 8.32 25 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind, and sends me back in search of the book.
PI 8.66 19 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back to Nature...
PI 8.73 16 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life.
SA 8.98 10 ...On the day of resurrection, those who have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it. Again, on their turning back, they will be called to another door, and again, on reaching it, will see it closed against them...
Res 8.143 15 The disgust of California has not been able to drive nor kick the Chinaman back to his home;...
QO 8.186 6 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy streams are ower strang;/ Make me thy wrack when I come back,/ But spare me when I gang/-is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
QO 8.199 16 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first geometer, bard, mason, carpenter, planter, shepherd...
QO 8.199 18 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first negro, who...gave a shriller sound or name for the thing he saw and dealt with?
PC 8.231 10 We wish...to ordain...universal suffrage, believing that it will not carry us to mobs, or back to kings again.
PC 8.233 3 [A man] cannot go from the good to the evil at pleasure, and then back again to the good.
PPo 8.251 12 In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees? Yet in the Divan you would not skip them, since [Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him better:-What lovelier forms things wear,/ Now that the Shah comes back!/...
PPo 8.264 10 The sun from near-by beamed/ Clearest light into [the birds'] soul;/ The resplendence of the Simorg beamed/ As one back from all three./ They knew not, amazed, if they/ Were either this or that./
Insp 8.268 8 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
Insp 8.291 26 Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your book-shelf and your task.
Imtl 8.326 6 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask...that a little window may be cut in the sepulchre, from which the swallow might be seen when it comes back in the spring.
Dem1 10.4 27 When newly awaked from lively dreams...give us...one hint, and we should repossess the whole; hours of this strange entertainment would come trooping back to us;...
Dem1 10.14 25 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.
Dem1 10.21 24 Great men feel that they are so by...falling back on what is humane;...
Aris 10.37 3 From the folly of too much association we must come back to the repose of self-reverence and trust.
Aris 10.38 8 From the most accumulated culture we are always running back to the sound of any drum and fife.
Aris 10.63 2 Pay [money], and you may play the tyrant at discretion and never look back to the fatal question,-where had you the money that you paid?
PerF 10.68 4 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives back the bending heavens in dew./
PerF 10.70 26 ...the strata were deposited and uptorn and bent back...to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
PerF 10.71 2 The winds and the rains come back a thousand and a thousand times.
Chr2 10.104 8 Chateaubriand said...If God made man in his image, man has paid him well back.
Chr2 10.111 20 ...with every repeater something of creative force is lost, as we feel when we go back to each original moralist.
Chr2 10.114 10 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...
Edc1 10.146 3 [Fellowes] went back to England, bought a Greek grammar and learned the language;...
Edc1 10.148 18 The natural method [of education] forever confutes our experiments, and we must still come back to it.
Supl 10.179 8 If it come back...to the question of final superiority, it is too plain that there is no question that the star of empire rolls West...
SovE 10.208 8 We are thrown back on rectitude forever and ever, only rectitude,-to mend one;...
Plu 10.300 12 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch.
Thor 10.469 11 [Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable...until the bird, the reptile, the fish, which had retired from him, should come back and resume its habits...
LS 11.14 8 To make [his friends'] enormity plainer, [St. Paul] goes back to the origin of this religious feast [the Lord's Supper] to show what sort of feast that was...
LS 11.22 4 ...although for the satisfaction of others I have labored to show by the history that this rite [the Lord's Supper] was not intended to be perpetual; although I have gone back to weigh the expressions of Paul, I feel that here is the true point of view.
HDC 11.37 1 Roger Williams affirms that he has known [Indians] run between eighty and a hundred miles in a summer's day, and back again within two days.
EWI 11.142 19 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and advances from the whites that they will be gladly received...as members of this or that committee of trust. They hold back, and say to each other that social position is not to be gained by pushing.
FSLC 11.188 6 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch, and send back again to the dog-hutch he fled from.
FSLC 11.189 4 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...
FSLC 11.191 15 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset, wherein the dicta of Lords Talbot and Hardwicke had been cited, to the effect of carrying back the slave to the West Indies, said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
TPar 11.289 1 [Theodore Parker] never kept back the truth for fear to make an enemy.
TPar 11.290 18 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses. He kept nothing back.
ACiv 11.306 21 ...what kind of peace shall at that moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for it,-will give up the slaves, and the whole torment of the past half-century will come back to be endured anew.
ACiv 11.306 25 Neither do I doubt, is such a composition should take place, that the Southerners will come back quietly and politely...
EPro 11.319 20 [The Emancipation Proclamation] is not a measure that admits of being taken back...
EPro 11.326 4 Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world...
SMC 11.353 7 Every Democrat who went South came back a Republican...
SMC 11.360 14 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back;...
SMC 11.370 14 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods.
Scot 11.463 16 I can well remember as far back as when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston...
Scot 11.465 13 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for a counterpart as a painting of Fate...
ChiE 11.474 7 [Asian immigrants] send back to their friends, in China, money, new products of art...
FRep 11.516 5 ...when the adventurers [to America] have planted themselves and looked about, they send back all the money they can spare to bring their friends.
FRep 11.531 25 In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity, which becomes, whilst successful, a scornful materialism,-but with the fault, of course, that it has...no reserved force whereon to fall back when a reverse comes.
PLT 12.34 27 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man's invention, but the common instinct, making the revolutions that never go back.
PLT 12.38 11 The point of interest is here, that these gates [spiritual facts], once opened, never swing back.
PLT 12.42 26 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...no longer looks back to Hebrew or Greek or English use or tradition in religion, laws or life...
Mem 12.95 14 He who calls what is vanished back again into being enjoys a bliss like that of creating, says Neibuhr.
CL 12.144 8 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back.
CL 12.154 18 ...the sea drives us back to the hills.
Bost 12.203 25 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some noble protestant, who...will stand for liberty and justice, if alone, until all come back to him.
MAng1 12.236 6 When the Pope...sent [Michelangelo] one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them back.
MAng1 12.238 9 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles] after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo]. Michael Angelo refused to receive them. Look you, Messer Michael Angelo, replied the man, these candles have well-nigh broken my arm, and I will not carry them back;...
MLit 12.331 19 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air...but dares not...lead a man's life in a man's relation to Nature, In that which should be his own place, he feels like a truant, and is scourged back presently to his task and his cell.
Pray 12.357 1 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak sight upon myself...
Let 12.404 7 We must refer our clients back to themselves, believing that every man knows in his heart the cure for the disease he so ostentatiously bewails.
Nat 1.33 22 ...The last ounce broke the camel's back;...
Comp 2.107 5 [Siegfried]...is not quite immortal, for a leaf fell on his back whilst he was bathing in the dragon's blood...
SL 2.159 13 [A man's] vice...sets the mark of the beast on the back of the head...
Fdsp 2.203 22 ...to most of us society shows...its side and back.
Hsm1 2.246 27 ...Now I'll kneel,/ But with my back toward thee: 't is the last duty/ This trunk can do the gods./
Cir 2.318 16 ...I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.
Mrs1 3.135 23 ...Napoleon...was not great enough, with eight hundred thousand troops at his back, to face a pair of freeborn eyes...
Nat2 3.169 23 The knapsack of custom falls off [the man of the world's] back with the first step he takes into these precincts [of the forest].
SwM 4.126 22 [According to Swedenborg] It is never permitted to any one, in heaven, to stand behind another and look at the back of his head;...
ET1 5.14 7 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it...
ET4 5.68 18 ...Sir Edward Parry said of Sir John Franklin, that if he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for he was a man who never turned his back on a danger...
ET5 5.84 6 A manufacturer [in England] sits down to dinner in a suit of clothes which was wool on a sheep's back at sunrise.
ET11 5.175 3 He that will be a head, let him be a bridge, said the Welsh chief Benegridran, when he carried all his men over the river on his back.
ET16 5.288 5 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the wall...
ET18 5.305 11 There is cramp limitation in [Englishmen's] habit of thought...and a tortoise's instinct to hold hard to the ground with his claws, lest he should be thrown on his back.
F 6.47 12 A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature, as the equestrians in the circus...plant one foot on the back of one [horse] and the other foot on the back of the other.
F 6.47 13 A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature, as the equestrians in the circus...plant one foot on the back of one [horse] and the other foot on the back of the other.
Wth 6.86 21 The steam puffs and expands as before, but this time it is dragging all Michigan at its back to hungry New York and hungry England.
Wth 6.116 20 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc.
Wsp 6.218 19 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius... The vulgar are sensible of the change in you, and of your descent, though they clap you on the back and congratulate you on your increased common-sense.
CbW 6.246 16 ...it is only as [a man] turns his back on us and on all men... that any good can come to him.
Bty 6.295 11 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued from danger...
PI 8.14 17 Our Kentuckian orator [Davy Crockett] said of his dissent from his companion, I showed him the back of my hand.
Comc 8.169 27 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...
Comc 8.171 27 Lord C., said the Countess of Gordon, O, he is a perfect comb, all teeth and back.
Insp 8.273 23 To-day the electric machine will not work, no spark will pass; then presently the world is all a cat's back, all sparkle and shock.
Insp 8.288 27 I envy the abstraction of some scholars I have known, who could sit on a curbstone in State Street, put up their back, and solve their problem.
Thor 10.483 1 The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
SMC 11.360 26 Some of these [Civil War] letters are written on the back of old bills...
EdAd 11.388 25 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... clapped on the back by comfortable capitalists from all sections, and persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
Trag 12.415 25 The market-man never damned the lady because she had not paid her bill, but the stout Irishman has to take that once a month. She, however, never feels weakness in her back because of the slave-trade.
Nat2 3.174 5 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their...parks and preserves, to back their faulty personality with these strong accessories.
ET9 5.144 11 Every individual [in England] has his particular way of living, which he pushes to folly, and the decided sympathy of his compatriots is engaged to back up Mr. Crump's whim by statutes and chancellors and horse-guards.
Ill 6.323 21 The permanent interest of every man is...to have the weight of nature to back him in all that he does.
FSLC 11.185 1 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law.
ET6 5.104 22 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which results from...the obedience of all the powers to the will; as if the axes of his eyes were united to his backbone, and only moved with the trunk.
FRep 11.537 23 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish. Freer swing his arms;...more forward and forthright his whole build and rig than the Englishman's, who, we see, is much imprisoned in his backbone.
ET15 5.263 21 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen...a towering assurance, backed by the perfect organization in its printing-house...
ET16 5.285 8 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...climbed to the lonely sculptured summer-house, on a hill backed by a wood;...
CbW 6.251 1 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid,--to whom he is to be...for backer and sponsor...
Nat 1.18 4 The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset, with the blue east for their background...
Comp 2.121 9 Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade on which as a background the living universe paints itself forth...
OS 2.270 22 All goes to show that the soul in man...is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie...
Nat2 3.174 19 ...it is the magical lights of the horizon and the blue sky for the background which save all our works of art...
PNR 4.80 13 Modern science...by the simple expedient of lighting up the vast background, generates a feeling of complacency and hope.
Pow 6.64 9 The same elements are always present, only sometimes these conspicuous, and sometimes those; what was yesterday foreground, being to-day background;...
Boks 7.199 13 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of...Protagoras, Anaxagoras and Socrates, with the lovely background of the Athenian and suburban landscape.
LLNE 10.325 4 Children had been repressed and kept in the background;...
TPar 11.284 3 There 's a background of God to each hard-working feature,/ Every word that [Parker] speaks has been fierily furnaced/ In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest/...
ET13 5.220 3 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men; plenty of clerks and bishops, who, out of their gowns, would turn their backs on no man.
Civ 7.31 12 Tobacco and opium have broad backs...
Boks 7.189 18 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we leave the shop with a sigh...
EWI 11.104 7 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides...we too should wince.
EWI 11.129 26 I could not see the great vision of the patriots and senators who have adopted the slave's cause:-they turned their backs on me.
FRep 11.520 19 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure. 'T is virtue which they want, and wanting it,/ Honor no garment to their backs can fit./
NER 3.266 17 ...when with one hand [the individual] rows and with the other backs water, what concert can be?
Prch 10.224 20 Now every man...with one hand rows, and with the other backs water.
PLT 12.54 24 [A man] rows with one hand and with the other backs water...
LLNE 10.330 2 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times; from the Arminians, which was the current name of the backsliders from Calvinism...
NER 3.253 26 No doubt there was plentiful vaporing, and cases of backsliding might occur.
Comp 2.107 13 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance... this back-stroke...certifying that the law is fatal;...
ACiv 11.310 17 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year. The American Executive ranges itself for the first time on the side of freedom. If Congress has been backward, the President has advanced.
AmS 1.90 16 [Institutions] look backward and not forward.
Con 1.297 11 ...[Saturn] feared again; and nature froze, the things that were made went backward...
Tran 1.330 19 Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.
SR 2.58 11 A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;-read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
SR 2.66 14 If...a man...carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him not.
Lov1 2.174 24 In looking backward [many men] may find that several things which were not the charm have more reality to this groping memory than the charm itself which embalmed them.
Lov1 2.184 7 ...the step backward from the higher to the lower relations is impossible.
ET16 5.283 4 On hints like these, Stukeley...computing backward by the known variations of the compass, bravely assigns the year 406 before Christ for the date of the temple [Stonehenge].
Wsp 6.209 7 ...the churches stagger backward to the mummeries of the Dark Ages.
Civ 7.33 17 ...a purer morality...casts backward all that we held sacred into the profane...
Elo1 7.72 20 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood...and neither moved his sceptre backward nor forward...you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
DL 7.132 26 Does the consecration of the church confess the profanation of the house? Let us read the incantation backward.
SovE 10.207 7 Revolutions never go backward...
Schr 10.282 11 [Truth] shines backward and forward, diminishes and annihilates everybody...
War 11.161 10 Revolutions go not backward.
II 12.70 6 The star climbs for a time the heaven, but never reaches its zenith; it culminates low, and goes backward whence it came.
II 12.85 26 No rival can rival backward.
Mem 12.90 23 It is essential to a locomotive that it can...run backward and forward with equal celerity.
Mem 12.110 15 When we live...by obedience to the law of the mind instead of by passion...the light of to-day will shine backward and forward.
FRep 11.537 7 Columbus was no backward-creeping crab...
Comp 2.126 6 ...we walk ever with reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards.
PPh 4.51 9 If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity...action tends directly backwards to diversity.
Wsp 6.206 5 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest. And to marry a pagan wife or husband was...voluntarily to take a step backwards towards the baboon...
Trag 12.407 21 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]:...if you spill the salt;...if you say the Lord's prayer backwards;...
Art1 2.360 19 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...in the log-hut of the backwoods...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
Nat 1.29 20 It is this [dependence of language upon nature] which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a...backswoodsman...
SS 7.11 27 A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned himself a boor; but whenever he caught them apart, and had one to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.
F 6.13 22 ...strong natures, backwoodsmen...are inevitable patriots...
QO 8.197 25 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
Nat 1.34 16 [The relation between mind and matter] is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius since the world began; from the era of the Egyptians...to that...of Bacon...
AmS 1.89 13 Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given;...
AmS 1.89 14 Meek young men grow up in libraries...forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
LE 1.172 12 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large. Then Plato, Bacon, Kant, and the Eclectic Cousin condescend instantly to be men and mere facts.
SR 2.83 16 Where is the master who could have instructed...Bacon...
SL 2.146 24 What secret can [Plato] conceal from the eyes of Bacon?...
Int 2.344 26 The Bacon, the Spinoza...is only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness...
Exp 3.55 20 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare;...at one time in Bacon;...
UGM 4.18 14 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle...the credit of...Bacon...are in point.
PPh 4.40 19 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists!...Sir Thomas More...Lord Bacon...
SwM 4.102 20 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...suggests, as Aristotle, Bacon...that a certain vastness of learning...is possible.
SwM 4.117 2 Lord Bacon had found that truth and nature differed only as seal and print;...
ShP 4.202 23 Bacon...never mentioned [Shakespeare's] name.
ShP 4.203 12 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Lord Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh...
ShP 4.218 15 ...had [Shakespeare] reached only the common measure of great authors, of Bacon, Milton, Tasso, Cervantes, we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate...
ET4 5.47 12 How came such men as...Francis Bacon, George Herbert...
ET5 5.94 5 Bacon said, Rome was a state not subject to paradoxes;...
ET5 5.100 15 ...[the English people's] language seems drawn from the Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, Pope, Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott.
ET6 5.111 6 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer;...
ET14 5.238 16 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;--More, Hooker, Bacon...
ET14 5.238 20 Lord Bacon has the English duality.
ET14 5.239 13 Bacon, in the structure of his mind, held of the analogists...
ET14 5.239 21 Locke is as surely the influx of decomposition and of prose, as Bacon and the Platonists of growth.
ET14 5.240 3 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality...
ET14 5.241 20 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these may be traced usually to Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, or Hooker...
ET14 5.243 2 ...[the Elizabethan age was] a period almost short enough to justify Ben Jonson's remark on Lord Bacon,--About his time, and within his view, were born all the wits that could honor a nation, or help study.
ET14 5.244 15 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful at the fountain of the First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head. Bacon, who said this, is almost unique among his countrymen in that faculty;...
ET14 5.248 5 It is very certain...that if Lord Bacon had been only the sensualist his critic pretends, he would never have acquired the fame which now entitles him to this patronage.
ET14 5.248 14 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon...
ET14 5.248 16 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it by specific gravity or levity...
ET15 5.266 12 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men. Old Walter, Sterling, Bacon...have contributed to its renown...
CbW 6.253 1 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times...like Bacon, with life-long dissimulation;...
SS 7.13 6 ...Bacon said of manners, To obtain them, it only needs not to despise them...
Elo1 7.83 16 ...let Bacon speak and wise men would rather listen though the revolution of kingdoms was on foot.
Boks 7.194 19 ...perhaps, the human mind would be a gainer if all the secondary writers were lost,--say, in England, all but Shakspeare, Milton and Bacon...
Boks 7.196 1 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...Bacon...More, will be superior to the average intellect.
Boks 7.207 5 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare... Bacon...
Boks 7.207 11 [The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon...
Boks 7.218 4 The Greek fables...and even the prose of Bacon and Milton... have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
Suc 7.301 19 Aristotle or Bacon or Kant propound some maxim which is the key-note of philosophy thenceforward.
OA 7.322 24 We still feel the force...of Bacon...
PI 8.20 1 Bacon expressed the same sense in his definition, Poetry accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind;...
PI 8.50 15 Thomas Moore had the magnanimity to say, If Burke and Bacon were not poets...he did not know what poetry meant.
PI 8.53 8 Lord Bacon, we are told, loved not to see poesy go on other feet than poetical dactyls and spondees;...
QO 8.188 19 If Lord Bacon appears already in the preface, I go and read the Instauration instead of the new book.
QO 8.195 27 ...Hallam cites a sentence from Bacon or Sidney...and straightway it commends itself to us...
QO 8.197 27 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits,-by Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Bacon and others...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
Imtl 8.340 15 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers who were least divine denied generally the immortality of the soul...
Dem1 10.22 27 Lord Bacon uncovers the magic when he says, Manifest virtues procure reputation; occult ones, fortune.
Dem1 10.24 8 Read a page of Cudworth or of Bacon, and we are exhilarated...
Plu 10.296 14 In England, Sir Thomas North translated [Plutarch's] Lives in 1579, and Holland the Morals in 1603, in time to be...read by Bacon, Dryden and Cudworth.
FSLN 11.243 18 Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day, much in the tone and spirit in which Lord Bacon prosecuted his benefactor Essex.
Shak1 11.449 18 ...we have already seen the most fantastic theories plausibly urged, that Raleigh and Bacon were the authors of [Shakespeare' s] plays.
Shak1 11.452 15 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each other...and, in short space before and after, Montaigne, Bacon, Spenser, Raleigh and Jonson.
II 12.70 11 Lord Bacon begins; Behmen begins;...
CL 12.141 11 Even Lord Bacon said, The Stars inject their imagination or influence into the air.
Bost 12.210 22 Bacon, Newton and Washington were childless.
Milt1 12.255 3 Lord Bacon...shrinks and falters before the absolute and uncourtly Puritan [Milton].
ACri 12.286 2 Bacon, if he could out-cant a London chirurgeon, must have possessed the Romany under his brocade robes.
WSL 12.347 12 [Landor's] Dialogue between Barrow and Newton is the best of all criticisms on the essays of Bacon.
PPr 12.390 1 Plato is the purple ancient, and Bacon and Milton the moderns of the richest strains.
ET4 5.58 3 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have herds of cows, and malt, wheat, bacon, butter and cheese.
ET9 5.152 3 George of Cappadocia...was a low parasite who got a lucrative contract to supply the army with bacon.
GoW 4.287 5 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal...and the historical part of his Theory of Colors, have the same interest. In the last, he rapidly notices Kepler, Roger Bacon...
GoW 4.287 10 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton.
ET4 5.47 9 How came such men as King Alfred, and Roger Bacon...
ET10 5.157 17 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes...
ET10 5.158 4 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds. But the secret slept with Bacon.
PC 8.214 20 [The Middle Ages'] Dante and Alfred and Wickliffe and Abelard and Bacon;...are the delight and tuition of ours.
PC 8.214 25 Six hundred years ago Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes and the necessity of reform in the calendar;...
MoL 10.248 15 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature,-as Roger Bacon, with his secret of gunpowder...
FRep 11.513 12 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...
ET14 5.247 12 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
LT 1.267 4 How great were once Lord Bacon's dimensions!...
SwM 4.111 10 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... a philosophic critic, with a coequal vigor of understanding and imagination comparable only to Lord Bacon's...
ET14 5.241 24 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is Lord Bacon's sentence, that Nature is commanded by obeying her;...
QO 8.185 26 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth, and earlier, Bacon's Consilia juventutis plus divinitatis habent.
QO 8.192 13 On the whole, we like the valor of [quotation]. 'T is on Marmontel's principle...and on Bacon's broader rule, I take all knowledge to be my province.
Plu 10.305 7 ...here is [Plutarch's] sentiment on superstition, somewhat condensed in Lord Bacon's citation of it...
Plu 10.310 15 The explanation of the rainbow, of the floods of the Nile, and of the remora, etc. [in Plutarch], are just; and the bad guesses are not worse than many of Lord Bacon's.
NHI 12.1 1 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that nothing should be in the globe of matter which was not also in the globe of crystal;...
Milt1 12.255 6 Bacon's Essays are the portrait of an ambitious and profound calculator...
Milt1 12.274 24 ...Bacon's imagination was said to be the noblest that ever contented itself to minister to the understanding...
Milt1 12.277 27 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
ET9 5.152 28 ...[The Americans and the English] are equally badly off in our founders; and the false pickle-dealer is an offset to the false bacon-seller.
Nat 1.60 22 [The soul] is not hot and passionate at the appearance of what it calls its own good or bad fortune...
AmS 1.109 22 ...the time is...Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought./ Is it so bad then?
DSA 1.138 18 ...of the bad preacher, it could not be told from his sermon what age of the world he fell in;...
LE 1.171 16 ...Truth is...as bad to catch as light.
Con 1.298 2 The castle which conservatism is set to defend is the actual state of things, good and bad.
Con 1.313 23 Is [this manner of living] so irremediably bad?
Con 1.313 25 The form [of this manner of living] is bad...
Con 1.320 3 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...
Tran 1.347 11 [Transcendentalists] say to themselves, It is better to be alone than in bad company.
YA 1.381 27 On one side is agricultural chemistry...and on the other, the farmer, not only eager for the information, but with bad crops and in debt and bankruptcy, for want of it.
YA 1.389 10 I fear little from the bad effect of Repudiation;...
SR 2.49 4 ...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them...as good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome.
SR 2.57 26 Is it so bad then to be misunderstood?
Comp 2.99 1 Is a man...by temper and position a bad citizen...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...
Comp 2.106 14 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of so bad a god.
Comp 2.109 26 Bad counsel confounds the adviser.
SL 2.148 6 We see our evil affections embodied in bad physiognomies.
SL 2.152 9 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are;...then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.
Prd1 2.235 6 [Our Yankee trade] takes bank-notes, good, bad, clean, ragged, and saves itself by the speed with which it passes them off.
Prd1 2.238 4 In the occurrence of unpleasant things among neighbors, fear comes readily to heart and magnifies the consequence of the other party; but it is a bad counsellor.
OS 2.280 6 To the bad thought which I find in [the book I read], the same soul becomes a discerning, separating sword, and lops it away.
Art1 2.367 17 [Men] eat and drink, that they may afterwards execute the ideal. Thus is art vilified; the name conveys to the mind its secondary and bad senses;...
Exp 3.47 12 ...the men ask, What's the news? as if the old were so bad.
Exp 3.48 9 People grieve and bemoan themselves, but it is not half so bad with them as they say.
Exp 3.76 13 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street...
Exp 3.79 17 ...seen from the conscience or will, [sin] is pravity or bad.
Chr1 3.98 11 What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake...at the threat of...bad neighbors...
Mrs1 3.155 5 It is easy to see that what is called by distinction society and fashion has good laws as well as bad...
Mrs1 3.155 7 Too good for banning, and too bad for blessing, [society] reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character.
Mrs1 3.155 12 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth; he said it had failed; they were all rogues and vixens, who went from bad to worse...
Mrs1 3.155 18 Minerva said...if you called [men] bad, they would appear so; if you called them good, they would appear so;...
Mrs1 3.155 22 Minerva said...there was no one person or action among [men] which would not puzzle her owl, much more all Olympus, to know whether it was fundamentally bad or good.
Pol1 3.221 8 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love. All those who have pretended this design...have admitted in some manner the supremacy of the bad State.
NR 3.227 22 It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful...
PPh 4.73 2 ...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men, [Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or bad, for sale.
SwM 4.125 10 [To Swedenborg] Each Satan appears to himself a man; to those as bad as he, a comely man;...
SwM 4.141 21 [Swedenborg's] spiritual world bears the same relation to the generosities and joys of truth of which human souls have already made us cognizant, as a man's bad dreams bear to his ideal life.
MoS 4.172 15 The wise skeptic is a bad citizen;...
MoS 4.174 15 Bad as was to me this detection by San Carlo [that all direct ascension leads to ghastly insight]...there was still a worse, namely the cloy or satiety of the saints.
MoS 4.182 4 It is vain to complain of the leaf or the berry; cut it off, it will bear another just as bad.
ShP 4.196 8 ...some passages [in Shakespeare's Henry VIII], as the account of the coronation, are like autographs. What is odd, the compliment to Queen Elizabeth is in the bad rhythm.
NMW 4.237 3 We are...always in a bad plight...
NMW 4.238 22 ...when you bring bad news [Bonaparte told his secretary], rouse me instantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost.
GoW 4.269 22 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must sustain with shameless advocacy some bad government...
GoW 4.279 14 Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm Meister]...keeps such bad company, that the sober English public...were disgusted.
ET2 5.30 9 Such discomfort and such danger as the narratives of the captain and mate disclose are bad enough as the costly fee we pay for entrance to Europe;...
ET2 5.31 14 'T is a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
ET5 5.74 22 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England]...presently he heard bad news from Italy...
ET5 5.95 15 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained...
ET6 5.111 24 'T is in bad taste, is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.
ET8 5.128 26 ...a kind of pride in bad public speaking is noted in the House of Commons...
ET8 5.133 12 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind...
ET13 5.219 23 Good churches are not built by bad men;...
ET14 5.244 7 ...a bad general wants myriads of men and miles of redoubts to compensate the inspirations of courage and conduct.
ET18 5.300 17 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state, and in hard times becomes hideous. In bad seasons, the porridge was diluted.
F 6.5 4 Our America has a bad name for superficialness.
Pow 6.64 3 ...all kinds of power usually emerge at the same time; good energy and bad;...
Pow 6.65 4 Our politics fall into bad hands...
Pow 6.70 2 The people lean on this [aboriginal source], and the mob is not quite so bad an argument as we sometimes say, for it has this good side.
Pow 6.78 6 All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Wth 6.100 8 [The right merchant] is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune...
Wth 6.102 18 In California, the country where [the dollar] grew,--what would it buy? A few years since, it would buy a shanty, dysentery, hunger, bad company and crime.
Wth 6.104 19 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad...would not the dollar... presently find it out?
Wth 6.106 2 Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.
Wth 6.114 18 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider...
Wth 6.115 22 No land is bad, but land is worse.
Ctr 6.143 19 Landor said, I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
Bhr 6.172 25 Bad behavior the laws cannot reach.
Bhr 6.174 5 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable particulars. I think the lesson... held bad manners up, so that the churls could see the deformity.
Bhr 6.182 1 The sculptor and Winckelmann and Lavater will tell you...how [the nose's] forms express...good or bad temper.
Wsp 6.207 15 ...is not indifferentism as bad as superstition?
Wsp 6.215 16 I can best indicate by examples those reactions by which every part of nature replies to the purpose of the actor,--beneficently to the good, penally to the bad.
Wsp 6.224 26 The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.
Wsp 6.239 25 ...[men] suffer from politics, or bad neighbors...and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life.
Wsp 6.242 1 No good fame can help, no bad fame can hurt [man].
CbW 6.252 14 To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer...
CbW 6.255 22 Some of [the people] went [to California] with honest purposes, some with very bad ones...
CbW 6.259 2 A man of sense and energy...said to me, I want none of your good boys,--give me the bad ones.
CbW 6.259 9 Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
CbW 6.262 1 Bad times have a scientific value.
CbW 6.262 17 In our life and culture everything is worked up and comes in use,--passion, war, revolt, bankruptcy, and not less...insult, ennui and bad company.
CbW 6.271 10 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with surfaces... exaggerated bad news and the rain.
CbW 6.274 15 ...it is who lives near us of equal social degree,--a few people at convenient distance, no matter how bad company,--these, and these only, shall be your life's companions;...
Bty 6.299 11 The man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors...
Ill 6.316 5 We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages.
Ill 6.321 3 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...
Ill 6.322 9 ...it is the undisciplined will that is whipped with bad thoughts and bad fortunes.
Ill 6.322 10 ...it is the undisciplined will that is whipped with bad thoughts and bad fortunes.
SS 7.7 19 Dante was very bad company...
Civ 7.27 27 We had letters to send: couriers...foundered their horses; bad roads in spring, snowdrifts in winter, heats in summer;...
Elo1 7.67 24 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable.
Elo1 7.77 23 ...any swindlers we have known are novices and bunglers, as is attested by their ill name. A greater power of face would...with the rest of their takings, take away the bad name.
DL 7.106 13 [The child] has heard of wild horses and of bad boys...
DL 7.132 17 Will [man] not see...that his economy, his labor, his good and bad fortune, his health and manners are all a curious and exact demonstration in miniature of the Genius of the Eternal Providence?
Farm 7.139 6 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with...bad weather...
Boks 7.189 1 It is easy to accuse books, and bad ones are easily found;...
Boks 7.205 1 The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan age;...and Martial will give [the student] Roman manners,--and some very bad ones,--in the early days of the Empire...
Boks 7.211 8 Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read.
Clbs 7.245 13 There are those who go only to talk, and those who go only to hear: both are bad.
Clbs 7.245 22 Nobody wishes bad manners.
Cour 7.258 27 The political reigns of terror have been...a total perversion of opinion; society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.
Cour 7.261 1 ...with this pacific education we have no readiness for bad times.
Suc 7.290 6 ...war, cannons and executions are used to clear the ground of bad, lumpish, irreclaimable savages, but always to the damage of the conquerors.
Suc 7.310 8 ...to educate [man's] feeling and judgment so that he shall scorn himself for a bad action, that is the only aim.
PI 8.56 12 Gray avows that he thinks even a bad verse as good a thing or better than the best observation that was ever made on it.
SA 8.86 20 The attitude is the main point, assuring your companion that, come good news or come bad, you remain in good heart and good mind...
SA 8.90 25 ...the best society has often been spoiled to [the highly organized person] by the intrusion of bad companions.
SA 8.92 19 [Speech] is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
SA 8.93 12 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman...
SA 8.106 6 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds.
Elo2 8.118 21 We have all attended meetings called for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest. Every speaker rose unwillingly, and even his speech was a bad excuse;...
Res 8.148 11 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to preside at a Free Trade festival in that city; it was threatened that the operatives, who were in bad humor, would break up the meeting by a mob.
PC 8.230 25 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...you are...under bad governments to force on them, by your persistence, good laws.
PC 8.232 3 Bad kings and governors help us, if only they are bad enough.
PC 8.232 4 Bad kings and governors help us, if only they are bad enough.
Insp 8.289 3 What untunes is as bad as what cripples or stuns me.
Grts 8.317 9 William Blake the artist frankly says, I never knew a bad man in whom there was not something very good.
Aris 10.53 26 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole village, good and bad, bright and stupid, in his facts;...
PerF 10.79 18 [The manufacturer's] friends dissuaded him, advised him to give up the work, which was not suited to the country. Why throw good money after bad?
Chr2 10.93 19 In bad men [the sense of Right and Wrong] is dormant...
Chr2 10.102 1 Great men serve us as insurrections do in bad governments.
Edc1 10.140 27 [The boy's] hunting and campings-out have given him an indispensable base: I wish to add a taste for good company through his impatience of bad.
Edc1 10.145 16 Happy this child...with a thought which...leads him, now into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an idea. Let him follow it in good and in evil report, in good or bad company;...
Edc1 10.154 4 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...it is so energetic on slow and on bad natures...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
Edc1 10.154 21 It is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow...
Edc1 10.155 1 ...the familiar observation of the universal compensations might suggest the fear that so summary a stop of a bad humor [striking a bad boy] was more jeopardous than its continuance.
Supl 10.164 14 Bad news is always exaggerated...
Supl 10.171 7 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad;...
SovE 10.189 25 ...that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
SovE 10.190 1 ...all the instincts of man, good and bad, work...
SovE 10.196 1 We answer, when they tell us of the bad behavior of Luther or Paul: Well, what if he did?
MoL 10.247 23 Bad times,-what are bad times?
MoL 10.247 24 Bad times,-what are bad times?
Schr 10.286 7 The scholar must be ready for bad weather...
Schr 10.287 5 ...[the scholar] has bad company...
Plu 10.307 27 [Plutarch] thinks that he who has ideas of his own is a bad judge of another man's...
Plu 10.310 14 The explanation of the rainbow, of the floods of the Nile, and of the remora, etc. [in Plutarch], are just; and the bad guesses are not worse than many of Lord Bacon's.
LLNE 10.334 4 ...every young scholar could recite brilliant sentences from [Everett's] sermons, with mimicry, good or bad, of his voice.
LLNE 10.350 12 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system; the good Fourier knew what those creatures should have been, had not the mould slipped, through the bad state of the atmosphere;...
LLNE 10.366 2 Good people are as bad as rogues if steady performance is claimed;...
EzRy 10.386 6 ...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the time of his predecessor, and showed me how every one of the nine had come to bad fortune or to a bad end.
Thor 10.457 1 Talking, one day, of a public discourse, Henry [Thoreau] remarked that whatever succeeded with the audience was bad.
Thor 10.461 5 It was said of Plotinus that he was ashamed of his body, and 't is very likely he had good reason for it,-that his body was a bad servant...
Thor 10.464 2 At Mount Washington...Thoreau had a bad fall, and sprained his foot.
Thor 10.474 21 [Thoreau's] poetry might be bad or good;...
Thor 10.481 12 ...[Thoreau] remarked that by night every dwelling-house gives out bad air...
Carl 10.497 7 [Carlyle] was very serious about the bad times;...
EWI 11.103 2 For the negro, was the slave-ship to begin with...bad food, and insufficiency of that;...
EWI 11.125 20 [The planters] were full of vices; their children were lumps of pride, sloth, sensuality and rottenness. The position of woman was nearly as bad as it could be;...
EWI 11.126 4 ...[slavery] does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay. For these reasons the islands [of the West Indies] proved bad customers to England.
EWI 11.143 11 Who cares for oppressing whites, or oppressed blacks, twenty centuries ago, more than for bad dreams?
War 11.165 19 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man. They only serve as an index to show where man is now; what a bad, ungoverned temper he has;...
FSLC 11.180 1 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented...
FSLC 11.184 14 ...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
FSLC 11.195 26 A wicked law cannot be executed by good men, and must be by bad.
FSLN 11.227 24 Angry parties went from bad to worse...
FSLN 11.232 25 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear, the worthlessness of good tools to bad workmen;...
AKan 11.260 17 ...can any citizen of the Southern country who happens to think kidnapping a bad thing, say so?
ACiv 11.301 2 You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy.
EPro 11.318 24 The virtues of a good magistrate...seem vastly more potent than the acts of bad governors...
ALin 11.332 4 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial; one by bad health, one by conceit...
SMC 11.362 9 At one time [George Prescott] finds his company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class,-'t is profanity all the time; yet instead of a bad influence on our men, I think it works the other way,-it disgusts them.
EdAd 11.387 21 Bad as it is, this freedom [in America] leads onward and upward...
EdAd 11.389 6 We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts the country into an immense chanticleer;...
SHC 11.434 27 ...every part of Nature is handsome when not deformed by bad Art.
CPL 11.503 3 ...when you sprain your mind, by gloomy reflection on your failures and vexations, you come to have a bad opinion of life.
PLT 12.7 21 A plain man finds [men of wit] so heavy, dull, and oppressive, with bad jokes and conceit and stupefying individualism, that he comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.
II 12.73 12 ...really the capital discovery of modern agriculture is that it costs no more to keep a good tree than a bad one.
Mem 12.100 13 ...it is remarked that inventive men have bad memories.
Mem 12.100 24 A man would think twice about...reading a new paragraph, if he believed...that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained. But the experience is not quite so bad.
Mem 12.104 3 In low or bad company you fold yourself in your cloak... recall and surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of your life...
Mem 12.106 23 He is a skilful doctor who can give me a recipe for the cure of a bad memory.
Mem 12.107 6 ...the true river Lethe is the body of man, with its belly and uproar of appetite and mountains of indigestion and bad humors and quality of darkness.
CInt 12.118 3 Never was pure valor...shown in a bad cause.
CInt 12.121 23 Here are bad governors and bad subjects.
CInt 12.121 24 Here are bad governors and bad subjects.
CInt 12.121 27 There are bad books and false teachers and corrupt judges;...
CInt 12.126 17 ...that which [Harvard College] exists for, to be...a Delphos uttering warning and ravishing oracles to lift and lead mankind,-that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of. On the contrary, every generosity of thought is suspect and gets a bad name.
CInt 12.127 8 ...these two [the College and the Church] should be counterbalancing to the bad politics and selfish trade.
Bost 12.200 22 The American idea, Emancipation, appears in our freedom of intellection, in our reforms and in our bad politics;...
Bost 12.206 11 A house in Boston was worth as much again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people, because here the neighbors would defend each other against bad governors and against troops;...
ACri 12.292 2 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...slim for bad;...
MLit 12.311 18 How can the age be a bad one which gives me Plato and Paul and Plutarch...beside its own riches?
WSL 12.338 12 Transfer these traits to a very elegant and accomplished mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter Savage Landor...
PPr 12.380 27 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times, not in bad bills of Parliament...but the vice in false and superficial aims of the people...
Trag 12.410 4 Come bad chance,/ And we add it to our strength,/ And we teach it art and length,/ Itself o'er us to advance./
Trag 12.415 14 A tender American girl doubts of Divine Providence whilst she reads the horrors of the middle passage; and they are bad enough at the mildest;...
Wsp 6.217 14 Given the equality of two intellects,--which will form the most reliable judgments, the good, or the bad hearted?
DSA 1.143 1 [Public worship] has lost its grasp on the affection of the good and the fear of the bad.
Con 1.310 14 ...[existing institutions] are really friendly to the good, unfriendly to the bad;...
YA 1.381 15 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse.
SR 2.50 25 Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this;...
Comp 2.95 9 The fallacy lay in the immense concession that the bad are successful;...
Fdsp 2.207 3 Do not mix waters too much. The best mix as ill as good and bad.
Mrs1 3.139 20 That makes the good and bad of manners, namely what helps or hinders fellowship.
Suc 7.309 15 Don't...bark against the bad...
CbW 6.253 15 Good is a good doctor but Bad is sometimes a better.
SwM 4.112 20 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the flowing of nature, and how wise was that old answer of Amasis to him who bade him drink up the sea, Yes, willingly, if you will stop the rivers that flow in.
ET16 5.281 1 I stood on the last [the sacrificial stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice that its top ranged with the sky-line.
LE 1.181 4 Let [the scholar] not, too eager to grasp some badge of reward, omit the work to be done.
YA 1.380 15 In Paris, the blouse, the badge of the operative, has begun to make its appearance in the salons.
SL 2.163 21 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge...
Fdsp 2.204 17 We are holden to men by every sort of tie...by every circumstance and badge and trifle...
Mrs1 3.124 15 The courage which girls exhibit is like...a sea-fight. The intellect relies on memory to make some supplies to face these extemporaneous squadrons. But memory is a base mendicant with basket and badge, in the presence of these sudden masters.
Mrs1 3.127 13 ...a fine sense of propriety is cultivated with the more heed that it becomes a badge of social and civil distinctions.
ET5 5.87 19 [The English] have...no French taste for a badge or a proclamation.
ET11 5.176 11 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV. Few esteemed themselves in the mode, whose heads were not adorned with the black ragged staff, his badge.
ET11 5.197 23 Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle class [in England], the badge is discredited...
F 6.35 13 The sufferance which is the badge of the Jew, has made him, in these days, the ruler of the rulers of the earth.
Ctr 6.159 20 Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman...
Ill 6.314 2 ...everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
SS 7.13 3 Before [animal spirits] what a base mendicant is Memory with his leathern badge!
Grts 8.312 6 The day will come when no badge, uniform or medal will be worn;...
Aris 10.58 20 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...changes never...
Aris 10.62 9 ...[the true man] is to know...that there is a master grace and dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form, to which utility and even genius must do homage. And it is the sign and badge of this nobility, the drawing his counsel from his own breast.
HDC 11.77 3 To you [veterans of the battle of Concord] belongs a better badge than stars and ribbons.
SMC 11.375 9 I hope the disuse of such medals or badges in this country only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil War], and carries their deeds in such lively remembrance that they require no badge or reminder.
SHC 11.432 5 I do not wonder that [parks] are the chosen badge and point of pride of European nobility.
Pow 6.63 3 ...let these rough riders--legislators in shirt-sleeves, Hoosier, Sucker, Wolverine, Badger...drive as they may, and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
ET4 5.48 12 ...I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans of the Hercynian forest, and our Hoosiers, Suckers, and Badgers of the American woods.
LT 1.260 14 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...which has planted its... various signs and badges of possession, over every rood of the planet...
Hist 2.14 3 In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races;...
SR 2.51 4 ...how easily we capitulate to badges and names...
Pt1 3.16 14 In our political parties, compute the power of badges and emblems.
NMW 4.239 14 In his later days [Napoleon] had the weakness of wishing to add to his crowns and badges the prescription of aristocracy;...
Aris 10.32 21 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but so few, so heedless of badges... that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of Peerage...
SMC 11.375 4 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields, and returned alive...in other countries, would wear distinctive badges of honor as long as they lived.
SMC 11.375 6 I hope the disuse of such medals or badges in this country only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil War]...
UGM 4.27 11 Perhaps Voltaire was not bad-hearted, yet he said of the good Jesus, even, I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again.
ET9 5.152 26 ...[The Americans and the English] are equally badly off in our founders;...
ET15 5.269 10 One bishop fares badly [in the London Times] for his rapacity...
Wsp 6.225 23 In every variety of human employment...there are, among the numbers who do their task...just to pass, and as badly as they dare...the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
Bty 6.290 26 The dancing-master can never teach a badly built man to walk well.
Clbs 7.232 23 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly or do not listen to the comment or to the thought by which the company strive to repay them;...
MoL 10.254 19 The country complains loudly of the inefficiency of the army. It was badly led.
MoL 10.254 21 The country complains loudly of the inefficiency of the army. It was badly led. But, before this, it was not the army alone, is was the population that was badly led.
EWI 11.105 12 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London, and had beaten with a pistol on his head, so badly that his whole body became diseased...
ACiv 11.299 7 ...the rude and early state of society does not work well with the later, nay, works badly...
SMC 11.369 5 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn.
EdAd 11.389 15 Men reason badly, but Nature and Destiny are logical.
FRep 11.528 3 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of the public...because it is thought to be, on the whole, the verdict, though badly spoken, of the greatest number.
Mem 12.97 23 A knife with a good spring...a watch, the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
DSA 1.124 20 ...absolute badness is absolute death.
Ill 6.325 23 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal].
Edc1 10.156 3 Can you not baffle the impatience and passion of the child by your tranquillity?
Fdsp 2.199 23 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled blows...in the heydey of friendship and thought.
Exp 3.72 23 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this cause...
Nat2 3.167 3 Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's] laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear from east to west./
DSA 1.124 3 ...whatever opposes that will is everywhere balked and baffled...
ET14 5.233 17 [The Englishman's] mind must stand on a fact. He will not be baffled, or catch at clouds...
Clbs 7.230 18 Nothing seems so cheap as the benefit of conversation; nothing is more rare. 'T is wonderful how you are balked and baffled.
Edc1 10.145 6 Baffled for want of language and methods to convey his meaning, not yet clear to himself, [the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
PLT 12.63 15 ...[Socrates] utilized his humanity chiefly as a better eye-glass to penetrate the vapors that baffled the vision of other men.
Mem 12.95 10 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the flying leaves...and the envious Fate is baffled.
OA 7.336 5 I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit...
Dem1 10.5 4 There is a strange wilfulness in the speed with which [a dream] disperses and baffles our grasp.
GSt 10.504 9 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading, as a shining example of the manner in which a truth-speaker baffles all statecraft...
FRO1 11.476 7 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language falters under it,/ It leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find/ The measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./
ACri 12.289 27 Goethe...professed to point his guest to his...Acherontian Bag, in which, he said, he put all his dire hints and images...
Nat 1.13 21 ...by means of steam, [man] realizes the fable of Aeolus's bag...
Comp 2.110 12 [Every opinion] is a thread-ball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains in the thrower's bag.
NER 3.257 14 ...we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind...
ET5 5.95 6 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his sirloin.
Wth 6.120 5 ...the cow that [Mr. Cockayne] buys gives milk for three months; then her bag dries up.
Civ 7.30 16 Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
Aris 10.56 10 Of course a man is a poor bag of bones.
Chr2 10.110 2 Paganism...carries the bag, spends the treasure...
Supl 10.177 16 A bag of sequins, a jewel...constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.
EzRy 10.391 19 ...all will remember that even in [Ezra Ripley's] old age, if the firebell was rung, he was instantly on horseback with his buckets, and bag.
EPro 11.314 6 Pay ransom to the owner/ And fill the bag to the brim./ Who is the owner? The slave is the owner,/ And ever was. Pay him./
F 6.22 12 Man is not order of nature...nor any ignominious baggage;...
Mem 12.108 17 This past memory is the baggage, but where is the troop?
CL 12.155 24 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road, although they were both loaded heavily enough with my baggage.
Bost 12.206 27 From...the Quaker women who for a testimony walked naked into the streets, and as the record tells us were arrested and publicly whipped,-the baggages that they were;...down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
Mrs1 3.144 4 ...that is my Lord Ride, who came yesterday from Bagdat;...
MAng1 12.225 17 By the treachery...of the general of the Republic, Malatesta Baglioni, all [Michelangelo's] skill was rendered unavailing...
ET16 5.276 18 Far and wide a few shepherds with their flocks sprinkled the [Salisbury] plain, and a bagman drove along the road.
ET8 5.129 25 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained.
ET18 5.305 7 I have sometimes seen [Englishmen] walk with my countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage, and their companions seemed bags of bones.
ET15 5.266 14 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men. Old Walter...Jones Lloyd, John Oxenford, Mr. Mosely, Mr. Bailey, have contributed to its renown...
ET17 5.292 25 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...Wilkinson, Bailey, Kenyon and Forster...
MoL 10.245 3 The great poem of the age is the disagreeable poem of Faust,-of which the Festus of Bailey and the Paracelsus of Browning are English variations.
Pt1 3.18 3 ...it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to speak in Parliament.
Exp 3.76 11 ...the fop contrived to dress his bailiffs in his livery...
ET11 5.193 2 Dismal anecdotes abound...of [English] dukes served by bailiffs...
ET17 5.293 4 It was my privilege also [in London] to converse with Miss Baillie, with Lady Morgan, with Mrs. Jameson and Mrs. Somerville.
DL 7.116 9 What kind of a house was kept...by...Jean Paul Richter at Baireuth?
Elo1 7.71 12 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard, from the Hebrew and the Greek down to the Scottish Glenkindie, who ...harpit a fish out o' saut-water,/ Or water out of a stone,/ Or milk out of a maiden's breast/ Who bairn had never none./
Bty 6.299 22 Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Ill 6.313 26 The intellectual man requires a fine bait;...
DL 7.114 25 The wise man angles with himself only, and with no meaner bait.
YA 1.383 7 ...it is proposed to plant corn and to bake bread by companies.
SR 2.87 9 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...until...the soldier should...bake his bread himself.
Prd1 2.223 17 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence...a prudence which...asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?
Prd1 2.226 15 [The northerner] must brew, bake, salt and preserve his food...
Suc 7.291 20 'T is clownish to insist on doing all with one's own hands, as if every man should...bake his dough;...
ET5 5.94 19 The French Comte de Lauraguais said, No fruit ripens in England but a baked apple;...
Con 1.305 10 The past has baked your loaf, and in the strength of its bread you would break up the oven.
MMEm 10.412 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked.
EurB 12.375 23 ...this reward granted [the novels of costume or of circumstance] is property, all-excluding property, a little cake baked for them to eat and for none other...
GoW 4.283 24 ...your interest in the writer is not confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has performed his task creditably, as a baker when he has left his loaf;...
ET11 5.191 24 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the baker will not bring bread any longer.
Wth 6.123 2 ...the baker doubts he shall never like to drive up to the door;...
SS 7.11 8 [The scholar's] products are as needful as those of the baker or the weaver.
FRep 11.534 10 [A man's life] is manufactured for him. The tailor makes your dress; the baker your bread...
ET1 5.18 23 The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject.
F 6.18 24 In a large city...things whose beauty lies in their casualty, are produced as punctually...to order as the baker's muffin for breakfast.
ShP 4.192 11 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national interest...not a whit less considerable because it was cheap and of no account, like a baker's-shop.
CInt 12.129 5 Is...an insurance office, bank or bakery...further from God than a sheep-pasture or a clam-bank?
Aris 10.34 1 ...I notice also that [the finer qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock, by painting and repainting them on every individual, until at last Nature adopts them and bakes them into her porcelain.
ET5 5.95 2 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order...
ET11 5.189 2 Arthur Young, Bakewell, Mechi have made [British dukes] agricultural.
Tran 1.358 10 In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only...baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments...
Nat 1.5 13 ...[man's] operations taken together are so insignificant, a little chipping, baking, patching, and washing...
Schr 10.273 15 Other men are...baking and tanning...
LE 1.166 16 ...[the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak,-to speak...with rhythmical balance of sentences,-as it was to sit silent;...
YA 1.365 21 ...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of this broad region to redress the balance of our own judgments...
YA 1.372 5 [That Genius] indicates itself by...a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.
YA 1.389 25 The private mind has the access to the totality of goodness and truth that it may be a balance to a corrupt society;...
YA 1.392 4 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty, which, when it loses its balance, redresses itself presently...
Hist 2.5 19 ...crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac...
Hist 2.15 2 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture, the tongue on the balance of expression...
Comp 2.91 4 Mountain tall and ocean deep/ Trembling balance duly keep./
Comp 2.99 9 Thus [Nature]...takes the boar out and puts the lamb in and keeps her balance true.
Comp 2.102 11 Justice is not postponed. A perfect equity adjusts its balance in all parts of life.
Comp 2.112 12 The terror of cloudless noon...the instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
Comp 2.115 7 The absolute balance of Give and Take...is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...
Comp 2.120 27 Under all this running sea of circumstance, whose waters ebb and flow with perfect balance, lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being.
SL 2.139 17 Certainly there is a possible right for you that precludes the need of balance and wilful election.
Prd1 2.224 4 If a man lose his balance and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.
Hsm1 2.250 13 The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will...
Int 2.334 26 In the intellect constructive...we observe the same balance of two elements as in intellect receptive.
Int 2.339 13 How wearisome...any possessed mortal whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic.
Int 2.344 14 ...a capillary column of water is a balance for the sea.
Pt1 3.6 13 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses, but not enough to...compel the reproduction of themselves in speech. The poet is the person in whom these powers are in balance...
NR 3.237 3 ...the sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.
SwM 4.119 13 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable. Modern psychology offers no similar example of a deranged balance.
MoS 4.155 4 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong by being in extremes. He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance.
MoS 4.156 26 [The skeptic says] I am here to consider, skopein, to consider how it is. I will try to keep the balance true.
ShP 4.216 19 ...how stands the account of man with this bard and benefactor [Shakespeare], when, in solitude...we seek to strike the balance?
GoW 4.266 26 ...a headiness and loss of balance, is the tax which all action must pay.
ET18 5.307 10 ...retrospectively, we may strike the balance and prefer one Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney, one Raleigh, one Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.
F 6.5 2 Any excess of emphasis on one part would be corrected, and a just balance would be made.
F 6.14 5 ...if you could weigh bodily the tonnage of any hundred of the Whig and the Democratic party in a town on the Dearborn balance...you could predict with certainty which party would carry it.
F 6.37 2 ...where shall we find the first atom in this house of man, which is all consent, inosculation and balance of parts?
F 6.43 9 ...matter and mind are in perpetual tilt and balance, so.
Ctr 6.137 5 Culture redresses [a man's] balance...
Wsp 6.219 12 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history, and keep the balance of power from age to age unbroken.
CbW 6.255 12 ...evermore in the world is this marvellous balance of beauty and disgust...
Elo1 7.82 3 In the assembly, you shall find the orator and the audience in perpetual balance;...
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 11 This balance [between the orator and the occasion] is observed in the privatest intercourse.
PI 8.41 12 The balance of the world is kept...
Aris 10.46 2 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor. Is it? Yes, but the fortune was...in the balance or adjustment between devotion to what is agreeable to-day and the forecast of what will be valuable to-morrow.
PerF 10.69 10 ...man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can...help him in every kind. Each by itself has a certain omnipotence, but all...in the presence of each other...own the balance of power.
Chr2 10.102 16 Character denotes...a balance not to be overset or easily disturbed by outward events and opinion...
Edc1 10.152 1 Every mind should be allowed to make its own statement in action, and its balance will appear.
MoL 10.250 2 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.
Plu 10.319 11 If Plutarch...held the balance between the severe Stoic and the indulgent Epicurean, his humanity shines not less in his intercourse with his personal friends.
LLNE 10.329 12 [The new age] marked itself by a certain predominance of the intellect in the balance of powers.
LLNE 10.361 9 ...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm], without centripetal balance;...
EWI 11.128 19 The extent of the [British] empire, and the magnitude and number of other questions crowding into court, keep this one [slavery] in balance...
EWI 11.144 13 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint... outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity. The anti-slavery of the whole world is dust in the balance before this...
EdAd 11.391 16 Here is the balance to be adjusted between the exact French school of Cuvier, and the genial catholic theorists, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Goethe, Davy and Agassiz.
PLT 12.56 19 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust...the worship of ideas. This is solitary, grand, secular. They are in perpetual balance and strife.
II 12.66 10 None of the metaphysicians have prospered in describing this power [consciousness], which...is the corrector of private excesses and mistakes;...of a balance which is never lost, not even in the insane.
ACri 12.292 27 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...balance for remainder-spent the balance of his life;...
ACri 12.293 1 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...balance for remainder-spent the balance of his life;...
PPr 12.386 27 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle the calm daylight, which always shows every individual man in balance with his age...
Let 12.402 15 The balance of mind and body will redress itself fast enough.
Con 1.322 10 ...not to balance reasons for and against the establishment any longer, and if it still be asked in this necessity of partial organization, which party...has the highest claims on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart...
YA 1.365 18 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere, to balance the known extent of land in the eastern;...
Prd1 2.221 21 ...it would be hardly honest in me not to balance these fine lyric words of Love and Friendship with words of coarser sound...
UGM 4.27 18 We balance one man with his opposite...
ET18 5.307 7 ...we must not play Providence and balance the chances of producing ten great men against the comfort of ten thousand mean men...
F 6.28 22 There must be a pound to balance a pound.
Pow 6.73 13 ...an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.
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.
Farm 7.143 7 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals...
PC 8.223 10 I shall never believe that centrifugence and centripetence balance, unless mind heats and meliorates...
MoL 10.253 1 The exertions of this force [intellect] are the eminent experiences,-out of a long life all that is worth remembering. These are the moments that balance years.
MN 1.200 10 ...in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still.
PPh 4.54 9 Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of Europe; [Plato] substructs the religion of Asia, as the base. In short, a balanced soul was born, perceptive of the two elements.
PPh 4.55 1 ...the union of impossibilities, which reappears in every object;, its real and its ideal power,--was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato]. The balanced soul came.
SwM 4.99 4 ...men of large calibre...help us more than balanced mediocre minds.
SwM 4.119 19 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are...a more striking testimony to the sublime laws he announced than any that balanced dulness could afford.
Supl 10.173 16 The expressors are the gods of the world, but the men whom these expressors revere are the solid, balanced, undemonstrative citizens...
PLT 12.53 26 The world stands by balanced antagonisms.
MoL 10.243 14 It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity...
MoS 4.171 23 Every superior mind...will know how to avail himself of the checks and balances in nature...
F 6.37 18 Balances are kept.
Wth 6.105 19 Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances.
Comp 2.97 20 ...in the animal kingdom the physiologist has observed that... a certain compensation balances every gift and every defect.
Comp 2.102 15 The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.
NER 3.280 10 The familiar experiment called the hydrostatic paradox, in which a capillary column of water balances the ocean, is a symbol of the relation of one man to the whole family of men.
MoS 4.183 9 [The moral sentiment] is the drop which balances the sea.
PC 8.217 7 I find the single mind equipollent to a multitude of minds...as a drop of water balances the sea;...
ShP 4.194 26 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already wonted...
Comc 8.161 22 ...a perception of the Comic seems to be a balance-wheel in our metaphysical structure.
Nat 1.48 2 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...galaxy balancing galaxy...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
Pow 6.63 8 ...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...
NMW 4.240 19 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs. Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road...
NMW 4.240 21 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs. Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road, and Mrs. Balcombe desired them, in rather an angry tone, to keep back.
Bty 6.297 1 ...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...
YA 1.392 15 ...to imaginative persons in this country there is somewhat bare and bald in our short history and unsettled wilderness.
Hist 2.16 4 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit...
Fdsp 2.196 26 ...I must hazard the production of the bald fact amidst these pleasing reveries...
Nat2 3.179 21 A little heat...is all that differences the bald, dazzling white and deadly cold poles of the earth from the prolific tropical climates.
MoS 4.167 6 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...my old lean bald pate;...
ET9 5.147 26 If one of [the English] have a bald, or a red, or a green head... he has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...
DL 7.108 20 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies, bald heads...
OA 7.316 17 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head...
OA 7.332 13 The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair... a cotton cap covered his bald head.
LLNE 10.344 15 What [Theodore Parker] said was mere fact, almost offended you, so bald and detached;...
MMEm 10.398 4 On earth I dream;-I die to be:/ Time! shake not thy bald head at me./ I challenge thee to hurry past,/ Or for my turn to fly too fast./
Scot 11.462 5 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon...
Clbs 7.238 4 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile?
PI 8.64 10 Bring us...poetry which, like the verses inscribed on Balder's columns in Breidablik, is capable of restoring the dead to life;...
Scot 11.466 12 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of mutual help and good will. From these originals he drew so genially his... Caleb Balderstones and Fairservices...
YA 1.393 22 ...the baldest life is symbolic.
Nat 1.75 4 We make fables to hide the baldness of the fact...
Pt1 3.40 2 What drops of all the sea of our science are baled up!...
EdAd 11.392 22 A God starts up behind cotton bales also.
Hsm1 2.247 29 ...Scott will sometimes draw a [heroic] stroke like the portrait of Lord Evandale given by Balfour of Burley.
SL 2.133 10 ...education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism...
OS 2.268 6 The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment.
Trag 12.407 17 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]: If you balk water you will be drowned the next time;...
DSA 1.124 2 ...whatever opposes that will is everywhere balked and baffled...
Tran 1.339 7 ...[man] is balked when he tries to fling himself into this enchanted circle...
Fdsp 2.208 18 I am equally balked by antagonism and by compliance.
Pt1 3.40 10 Stand there, [O poet,] balked and dumb...stand and strive...
Bhr 6.187 23 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost. 'T is a great destitution to both that this should not be entertained with large leisures, but contrariwise should be balked by importunate affairs.
Wsp 6.221 6 ...cant and lying and the attempt to secure a good which does not belong to us, are, once for all, balked and vain.
Clbs 7.230 18 Nothing seems so cheap as the benefit of conversation; nothing is more rare. 'T is wonderful how you are balked and baffled.
Imtl 8.343 2 ...we are always balked of a complete success...
Dem1 10.19 21 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.
Chr1 3.109 12 When the Yunani sage arrived at Balkh...Gushtasp appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every country should assemble...
Nat2 3.193 18 What shall we say...of this flattery and balking of so many well-meaning creatures?
Comc 8.157 22 The balking of the intellect...is comedy;...
Nat 1.63 8 [If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to wander without end. Then the heart resists it, because it balks the affections...
Aris 10.51 19 The day is darkened...when genius grows...reckless of its fine duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer to its humble fellows, balks their respect and confounds their understanding by silly extravagances.
Cour 7.262 5 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was overpowered with fear...
Cour 7.262 8 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was ready to faint away. Lieutenant Ball seeing me...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so;...
Nat 1.12 17 The misery of man appears like childish petulance, when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight on this green ball...
LE 1.180 22 [Napoleon] no longer calculated the chance of the cannon ball.
Prd1 2.237 23 Examples are cited by soldiers of men who have seen the cannon pointed and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from the path of the ball.
Pt1 3.16 15 See the great ball which they roll from Baltimore to Bunker Hill!
Pt1 3.32 25 That also is the best success in conversation, the magic of liberty, which puts the world like a ball in our hands.
Mrs1 3.131 27 The maiden at her first ball...believes that there is a ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
Mrs1 3.141 19 The favorites of society...are able men...who exactly fill the hour and the company; contented and contenting, at...a ball or a jury...
Nat2 3.184 11 Once heave the ball from the hand, and we can show how all this mighty order grew.
Nat2 3.184 25 That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball;...
Nat2 3.196 8 The reality is more excellent than the report. Here is...no spent ball.
SwM 4.108 8 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over, as a span-worm, into a ball...
ShP 4.217 2 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads...
Pow 6.64 13 The faster the ball falls to the sun, the force to fly off is by so much augmented.
Pow 6.77 17 'T is the same ounce of gold here in a ball, and there in a leaf.
Wth 6.83 3 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and suns?/
Wth 6.123 19 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of...laying out my acre, but the ball will rebound to you.
Wsp 6.203 2 ...whether your community is made...of saints or of wreckers, it coheres in a perfect ball.
Wsp 6.219 8 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft, and the ball never loses its way in its wild path through space,--a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
Wsp 6.223 23 Society is a masked ball...
Ill 6.311 24 ...the barrister with the jury, the belle at the ball...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
Elo1 7.90 17 Put the argument...into an image,--some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball...and the cause is half won.
WD 7.173 10 Hume's doctrine was that...the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
Cour 7.263 9 It is the veteran soldier, who, seeing the flash of the cannon, can step aside from the path of the ball.
Cour 7.279 2 The hunter raised his gun,--/ He knew one charge was all,--/ And through the boy's pursuing foe/ He sent his only ball./
Elo2 8.128 15 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk from the games of ball and skates...that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
Res 8.142 25 ...we begin to perforate and mould the old ball, as a carpenter does with wood.
Res 8.150 15 ...in France the theatre and the ball occupy the night.
Prch 10.222 9 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. The ball...is there, but his power to cheer...is gone forever.
Plu 10.315 3 At Rome [Plutarch] thinks [Fortune's] wings were clipped: she stood no longer on a ball, but on a cube as large as Italy.
LLNE 10.362 27 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...
HDC 11.74 16 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river (our ancient friend here, Master Blood, saw the water struck by the first ball);...
HDC 11.74 16 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river...then a single gun, the ball from which wounded Luther Blanchard and Jonas Brown...
FSLC 11.193 16 Will you blame the ball for rebounding from the floor...
AsSu 11.248 5 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of; Mr. Webster's life...was not to be risked on the turn of a vagabond's ball.
FRep 11.528 26 ...a pew in a particular church gives an easier entrance to the subscription ball.
ACri 12.302 26 ...this is the ball that is tossed in every court of law, in every legislature and in literature...by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or belief.
AmS 1.111 16 The meal in the firkin;...the ballad in the street;...show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
Art1 2.349 10 Let statue, picture, park and hall,/ Ballad, flag and festival,/ The past restore, the day adorn/ And make each morrow a new morn./
Art1 2.356 3 A good ballad draws my ear and heart whilst I listen...
ShP 4.192 2 ...as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king, prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the same time.
Pow 6.78 14 No genius can recite a ballad at first reading so well as mediocrity can at the fifteenth or twentieth reading.
Cour 7.277 18 I am permitted to enrich my chapter by adding an anecdote of pure courage from real life, as narrated in a ballad by a lady to whom all the particulars of the fact are exactly known.
PI 8.67 11 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...
Res 8.148 22 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the ballad, the game...
QO 8.186 3 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
QO 8.196 17 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as Chatterton in archaic ballad...
Scot 11.464 15 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep and use...
Scot 11.464 27 [Scott's] good sense probably elected the ballad to make his audience larger.
AgMs 12.359 16 [Edmund Hosmer]...reminds us of the hero of the Robin Hood ballad...
PI 8.74 15 Poems!--we have no poem. Whenever that angel shall be organized and appear on earth, the Iliad will be reckoned a poor ballad-grinding.
SwM 4.141 8 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded...
MoS 4.166 8 ...[Montaigne] will talk with sailors and gipsies, use flash and street ballads;...
ET14 5.232 15 [The plain style] imports into [English] songs and ballads the smell of the earth...
Boks 7.197 20 English history is best known through Shakspeare; how much through Merlin, Robin Hood and the Scottish ballads!...
Cour 7.256 9 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books, the ballads which delight boys...may testify.
Suc 7.287 9 The ancient Norse ballads describe [the Norseman] as afflicted with this inextinguishable thirst of victory.
PI 8.25 17 Give [people] Robin Hood's ballads or Griselda...and they like these well enough.
PI 8.48 12 So in our songs and ballads the refrain skilfully used, and deriving some novelty or better sense in each of many verses...
PI 8.57 18 ...the direct smell of the earth or the sea, is in these ancient poems...the songs and ballads of the English and Scotch.
PPo 8.240 1 He who would understand the influence of the Homeric ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which similar compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
PPo 8.243 15 ...the connection between the stanzas of [the Persians'] longer odes is much like that between the refrain of our old English ballads...
Scot 11.464 8 [Scott's] own ear had been charmed by old ballads...
Mem 12.106 10 ...I come to a bright school-girl who...carries thousands of nursery rhymes and all the poetry in all the readers, hymn-books, and pictorial ballads in her mind;...
ShP 4.207 27 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...in... the Ballads of Spain and Scotland,--Genius draws up the ladder after him...
Exp 3.60 21 [Life] is a tempest of fancies, and the only ballast I know is a respect to the present hour.
MoS 4.167 20 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon?
Nat 1.50 19 We are strangely affected by seeing the shore...from a balloon...
Tran 1.332 8 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it... And this wild balloon...is a just symbol of his whole state and faculty.
Mrs1 3.144 8 ...here is...Monsieur Jovaire, who came down this morning in a balloon;...
Nat2 3.195 14 We anticipate a new era from the invention of a locomotive, or a balloon;...
MoS 4.167 21 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon?
ET10 5.161 8 Already [steam] is ruddering the balloon...
ET10 5.168 10 The machinery has proved, like the balloon, unmanageable...
F 6.27 3 ...now we are as men in a balloon...
F 6.32 22 ...the ductility of metals...the ruddered balloon are awaiting you.
F 6.33 12 Man moves in all modes...by gas of balloon...
Pow 6.74 9 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,-- all are distractions which cause oscillations in our giddy balloon...
WD 7.161 21 The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.
WD 7.163 14 We are to have the balloon yet...
Dem1 10.21 1 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind.
PerF 10.78 6 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Fancy, which sends its gay balloon aloft into the sky...
MoL 10.248 17 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature,-as Roger Bacon...with his secret of the balloon and of steam;...
PI 8.13 2 When some familiar truth or fact appears...equipped with a grand pair of ballooning wings, we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
WD 7.164 12 ...we must look deeper for our salvation than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy.
ET5 5.78 23 ...no breach of truth and plain dealing,--not so much as secret ballot, is suffered in the island [England].
Pow 6.61 17 A timid man...observing...sectional interests...with a mind made up to desperate extremities, ballot in one hand and rifle in the other,-- might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
PC 8.209 27 ...[the fop] lies at [the patriot's] mercy in the ballot of the club.
MoL 10.258 5 ...on each new threat of faction, the ballot of the people has been unexpectedly right.
HDC 11.48 3 The negative ballot of a ten-shilling freeholder [in Concord] was as fatal as that of the honored owner of Blood's Farms or Willard's Purchase.
FRep 11.525 11 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive.
CInt 12.126 8 Harvard College has no voice in Harvard College, but State Street votes it down on every ballot.
Con 1.319 20 ...leprosy has grown cunning, has got into the ballot-box;...
PPh 4.53 21 The Roman legion...the steam-mill, steamboat, steam-coach, may all be seen in perspective; the town-meeting, the ballot-box...
Wom 11.421 27 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of the polls, give every innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in...and how the innocent citizen, without further demur, goes and drops it in the ballot-box,-I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
Cour 7.260 18 An old farmer...when I ask him if he is not going to town-meeting, says: No, 't is no use balloting, for it will not stay;...
MoS 4.152 3 The ward meetings, on election days, are not softened by any misgiving of the value of these ballotings.
FSLN 11.219 12 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law.
FRep 11.524 10 The record of the election now and then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler. But how was it done? What lawless mob burst into the polls and threw in these hundreds of ballots in defiance of the magistrates?
Mrs1 3.143 6 Fashion...is often...only a ballroom code.
Art1 2.365 26 ...a ball-room makes us feel that we are all paupers in the almshouse of this world...
Bhr 6.170 27 We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition...to the ball-room, or wheresoever they can come into acquaintance and nearness of leading persons of their own sex;...
Bhr 6.188 19 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance, and they know him; as when in Paris the chief of the police enters a ball-room, so many diamonded pretenders shrink...
Aris 10.39 14 I wish...men who see the dance in men's lives as well as in a ball-room...
EurB 12.373 9 ...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class.
LE 1.175 16 [Society's] foolish routine, an indefinite multiplication of balls...can teach you no more than a few can.
Comp 2.91 9 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./
Cir 2.299 1 Nature centres into balls/...
Nat2 3.184 19 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled.
Nat2 3.184 24 That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system...
PPh 4.74 2 No escape; [Socrates] drives [his opponents] to terrible choices by his dilemmas, and tosses the Hippiases and Gorgiases with their grand reputations, as a boy tosses his balls.
NMW 4.234 26 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect: their balls and mine rolled upon the ice without breaking it up.
NMW 4.236 4 [Bonaparte]...on a hostile position, rained a torrent of iron,-- shells, balls, grape-shot...
Ctr 6.144 22 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic...
Ill 6.318 12 You play with jackstraws, balls...estates and politics; but there are finer games before you.
CL 12.145 9 The American sun paints itself in these glowing balls [apples]...
CL 12.145 22 [The apple trees] look as if they were arms and fingers, holding out to you balls of fire and gold.
F 6.5 17 On the first [the appointed day], neither balm nor physician can save/...
Clbs 7.226 3 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...sometimes it is love, and makes the balm of our early and of our latest days;...
SovE 10.198 16 From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...
DSA 1.119 6 The air is...sweet with the breath of...the balm-of-Gilead...
Supl 10.177 17 A bag of sequins...a balsam...constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.
Wom 11.413 14 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility. And it is when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning. When we see that...it is balsam in the heart.
Schr 10.266 5 ...[Nature] has balsams for our hurts, and hellebores for our insanities.
ET5 5.86 12 Before the bombardment of the Danish forts in the Baltic, Nelson spent day after day, himself, in the boats, on the exhausting service of sounding the channel.
FRep 11.531 3 Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United States, but some Baltimore or Chicago...caucus;...
Con 1.320 26 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers quarrelsome...
Pt1 3.16 16 See the great ball which they roll from Baltimore to Bunker Hill!
EzRy 10.392 11 We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation at the time when the Doctor was perparing to go to Baltimore and Washington, that a man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
EPro 11.323 16 Give the Confederacy New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore.
SMC 11.369 21 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. ... There was no place nearer than Baltimore where we could have got a coffin...
SMC 11.371 3 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...at Baltimore, in Virginia...
ET2 5.31 24 We found on board [the Washington Irving] the usual cabin library; Basil Hall, Dumas, Dickens, Bulwer, Balzac and Sand were our sea-gods.
Bhr 6.182 7 Balzac left in manuscript a chapter which he called Theorie de la demarche...
boks 7.213 16 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds. Everything else pins it down, and men flee for redress to...Sand, Balzac...
SA 8.81 14 Balzac finely said: Kings themselves cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance to capitulate...
GoW 4.267 21 ...in...actions that...put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
FSLC 11.198 17 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its incumbents must rank with a class from which the turnkey, the hangman and the informer are taken, necessary functionaries...to whom the dislike and the ban of society universally attaches.
TPar 11.284 2 Here comes Parker, the Orson of parsons, a man/ Whom the Church undertook to put under her ban.-/
MLit 12.331 10 [Goethe]...gleans what straggling joys may yet remain out of [Fate's] ban.
Civ 7.26 1 Where the banana grows the animal system is indolent...
ET17 5.292 10 My visit [to England] fell in the fortunate days when Mr. [George] Bancroft was the American Minister in London...
Int 2.346 7 This band of grandees, Hermes...and the rest, have somewhat... so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
Nat2 3.174 25 A boy hears a military band play on the field at night, and he has kings and queens and famous chivalry palpably before him.
ET10 5.161 22 The telegraph is a limp band that will hold the Fenris-wolf of war.
ET10 5.161 26 ...now that a telegraph line runs through France and Europe from London, every message it transmits makes stronger by one thread the band which war will have to cut.
F 6.20 22 When the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf with steel...they put round his foot a limp band...and this held him;...
F 6.21 1 Neither brandy...nor genius, can get rid of this limp band [of Fate].
Elo1 7.73 24 [Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing through the streets...
DL 7.121 3 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band of poverty...
PerF 10.86 1 That band which ties [cosmical laws] together is unity...
HDC 11.38 3 Wibbacowet, the husband of Squaw Sachem, received a suit of cloth, a hat, a white linen band, shoes, stockings and a greatcoat;...
FSLC 11.212 24 It was the praise of Athens, She could not lead countless armies into the field, but she knew how with a little band to defeat those who could.
JBB 11.266 15 Then [John Brown] grasped his trusty rifle, and boldly fought for Freedom;/ Smote from border unto border the fierce invading band/...
FRO1 11.480 27 I wish...that within this little band that has gathered here to-day [Free Religious Association], should grow friendship.
CInt 12.120 26 Need enough there is of such a band of priests of intellect and knowledge;...
YA 1.382 20 It was a noble thought of Fourier...to distinguish in his Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band...
LLNE 10.327 17 Anciently, society was in the course of things. There was a Sacred Band...
Aris 10.59 15 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant that we have no prizes offered to the ambition of virtuous young men; that there is no Theban Band;...
Bty 6.289 15 ...the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes.
EzRy 10.393 21 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had...in uncovering the bandage from a sore place, and applying the surgeon's knife with a truly surgical spirit.
DSA 1.146 10 Look to it...that fashion, custom, authority, pleasure, and money...are not bandages over your eyes...
LE 1.156 22 Men looked, when all feudal straps and bandages were snapped asunder, that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans...
F 6.17 3 One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
ET5 5.96 16 [The English] make ponchos for the Mexican, bandannas for the Hindoo...
NER 3.264 27 ...a grand phalanx of the best of the human race, banded for some catholic object; yes, excellent;...
PC 8.217 2 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...the radicals of the hour, banded against the corruptions of Rome...
ET12 5.203 8 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me the manuscript Plato...
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].
YA 1.377 5 Feudalism grew to be a bandit and brigand.
Hist 2.20 12 The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees, with all their boughs, to a festal or solemn arcade; as the bands about the cleft pillars still indicate the green withes that tied them.
ET11 5.191 22 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and but three bands to his neck...
Elo1 7.71 25 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast. His arms lie on the ground, but he, like a leader, walks about the bands of the men.
PPo 8.246 18 To be wise the dull brain so earnestly throbs,/ Bring bands of wine for the stupid head./
HDC 11.45 14 The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony]...
FRO1 11.480 20 The soul of our late war...was...secondly, to abolish the mischief of the war itself, by healing and saving the sick and wounded soldiers,-and this by the sacred bands of the Sanitary Commission.
FRO1 11.480 9 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands...
Nat2 3.194 12 We cannot bandy words with Nature...
Schr 10.266 6 [Nature] does not bandy words with us...
Suc 7.297 23 'T is the bane of life that natural effects are continually crowded out...
Res 8.145 3 ...no matter how remote from camp or city, [the old forester] carries Bangor with him.
OA 7.314 5 ...Lowly faithful, banish fear,/ Right onward drive unharmed;/ The port, well worth the cruise, is near,/ And every wave is charmed./
Nat 1.72 22 This is such a resumption of power as if a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch...
ET4 5.64 1 Flogging, banished from the armies of Western Europe, remains here [in England] by the sanction of the Duke of Wellington.
LLNE 10.346 13 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans, bent on...banishing the Romanist, these were gentle souls...
ET1 5.6 25 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...the entire and immediate banishment of all make-shift and make-believe.
SS 7.10 7 ...this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can make right or tolerable.
Suc 7.304 7 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could...hold instant and sempiternal communication! In solitude, in banishment, the hope returned...
Boks 7.189 20 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we...learn, as I did without surprise of a surly bank director, that in bank parlors they estimate all stocks of this kind as rubbish.
Boks 7.189 21 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we...learn, as I did without surprise of a surly bank director, that in bank parlors they estimate all stocks of this kind as rubbish.
ACri 12.287 11 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks!
ACri 12.287 13 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks!
ACri 12.287 16 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks! The whole party were surprised and cheered, except the bank president...
ET7 5.124 21 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.
Con 1.300 25 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts that bank of foliage into the air...is the gift and legacy of dead and buried years.
Tran 1.332 3 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it...
SL 2.135 22 When we come out of...the bank...[nature] says to us, So hot? my little Sir.
Nat2 3.192 19 The pine-tree, the river, the bank of flowers before [the poet] does not seem to be nature.
HDC 11.73 22 This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river...
HDC 11.74 25 A head-stone and a foot-stone, on this bank of the river, mark the place where these first victims [of the American Revolution] lie.
SMC 11.360 15 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon the little account in the savings bank...
SMC 11.373 7 After driving the enemy from the railroad, crossing it, and climbing the farther bank to continue the charge, [George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball...
SHC 11.435 12 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank [Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...
Shak1 11.447 17 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot...whose American devotion through forty or fifty years to the affairs of a bank, has not been able to bury the fires of his genius,-Mr. Charles Sprague,- pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
PLT 12.16 13 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river...
PLT 12.16 18 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes, colors and natures; nor can I much detain them as they pass except by running beside them a little way along the bank.
CInt 12.129 5 Is...an insurance office, bank or bakery...further from God than a sheep-pasture or a clam-bank?
Trag 12.415 7 [Our human being] is like a stream of water, which, if dammed up on one bank, overruns the other, and flows equally at its own convenience over sand, or mud, or marble.
ET10 5.161 10 ...another machine more potent in England than steam is the Bank.
ET10 5.164 17 The Bank [of England] is a strong box to which the king has no key.
Supl 10.172 19 At the Bank of England they put a scrap of paper that is worth a million pounds sterling into the hands of the visitor to touch.
MoL 10.256 23 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge. But the President of the Bank nods to the President of the Insurance Office, and relates that at Virginia Springs this idol of the forum exhausted a trunkful of classic authors.
Ctr 6.138 27 A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk and a dancer could not exchange functions.
CbW 6.247 18 Now we reckon [days] as bank-days...
Tran 1.332 3 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it...
YA 1.380 9 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner.
ET5 5.75 26 ...the banker, with his seven per cent., drives the earl out of his castle.
Pow 6.76 3 Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton), and you will be the great brewer of London. Be brewer, and banker, and merchant, and manufacturer, and you will soon be in the Gazette.
Wth 6.100 25 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor...Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
Ctr 6.159 2 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn...of a living banker, his success in poetry;...
Elo1 7.77 25 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound merchant, banker, judge...
LLNE 10.347 5 [Robert Owen] said that Fourier learned of him all the truth he had; the rest of his system was imagination, and the imagination of a banker.
MMEm 10.433 8 ...every banker, shopkeeper and wood-sawer has a stake in the elevation of the moral code by saint and prophet.
Thor 10.470 9 [Thoreau] drew out of his breast-pocket his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on this day, whereof he kept account as a banker when his notes fall due.
GSt 10.502 25 [George Stearns] did not hesitate to become the banker of his clients...
MLit 12.331 11 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country;...
ACri 12.294 6 ...[Shakespeare's] very sonnets are as solid and close to facts as the Banker's Gazette;...
Schr 10.265 1 The poet with poets betrays no amiable weakness. They all chime in, and are as inexorable as bankers on the subject of real life.
II 12.81 22 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them...
Cir 2.316 25 ...are all claims on [a man] to be postponed to a landlord's or a banker's?
Wth 6.100 27 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor, surprised at the contrast between the splendor of the banker's chateau and hospitality and the meanness of the counting-room in which he had seen him,--Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
NR 3.238 27 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob, into a banking house...and in each new place he is no better than an idiot;...
YA 1.383 5 The Community is only the continuation of the same movement which made the joint-stock companies for manufactures, mining, insurance, banking, and so forth.
Tran 1.331 23 The sturdy capitalist, no matter how deep and square on blocks of Quincy granite he lays the foundations of his banking-house or Exchange, must set it ...on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
ET5 5.98 16 Man in England submits to be a product of political economy. On a bleak moor a mill is built, a banking-house is opened, and men come in as water in a sluice-way...
Dem1 10.21 6 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...descending...on...the bank-messenger in the country, can well be spared.
Wth 6.103 19 The Bank-Note Detector is a useful publication.
Prd1 2.235 6 [Our Yankee trade] takes bank-notes, good, bad, clean, ragged, and saves itself by the speed with which it passes them off.
ACiv 11.301 25 Banknotes rob the public...
Exp 3.67 17 To-morrow again every thing looks real and angular...and experience is hands and feet to every enterprise;--and yet, he who should do his business on this understanding would be quickly bankrupt.
Wth 6.112 25 ...society can never prosper but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.
PPr 12.386 15 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us...
YA 1.381 11 The farmer...turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.
Edc1 10.133 9 If I have renounced the search of truth...I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as a bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain.
Chr1 3.102 23 ...[the hero] is again on his road, adding...new claims on your heart, which will bankrupt you if you have loitered about the old things...
PC 8.231 8 We wish...to ordain free trade, and believe that it will not bankrupt us;...
SR 2.88 12 ...what the man acquires, is living property, which does not wait the beck of...bankruptcies...
Wth 6.106 10 ...artifice or legislation punishes itself by reactions, gluts and bankruptcies.
Suc 7.289 8 Rien ne reussit mieux que le succes. And we Americans are tainted with this insanity, as our bankruptcies...may show.
Prch 10.232 3 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to bankruptcies, famines and desolations.
YA 1.374 19 ...we repair commerce with unlimited credit, and are presently visited with unlimited bankruptcy.
YA 1.382 1 On one side is agricultural chemistry...and on the other, the farmer, not only eager for the information, but with bad crops and in debt and bankruptcy, for want of it.
Exp 3.48 27 If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me...
Gts 3.159 2 It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy;...
NMW 4.253 26 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in hopeless bankruptcy...
ET1 5.17 16 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing. Hence it comes that...the booksellers are on the eve of bankruptcy.
ET16 5.287 15 I can easily see the bankruptcy of the vulgar musket-worship...
CbW 6.254 21 ...the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters a rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
CbW 6.262 6 As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism, so is...national bankruptcy or revolution more rich in the central tones than languid years of prosperity.
CbW 6.262 16 In our life and culture everything is worked up and comes in use,--passion, war, revolt, bankruptcy...
WD 7.165 25 ...Trade...ends in shameful defaulting, bubble and bankruptcy...
QO 8.189 18 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy.
Supl 10.174 9 Children and thoughtless people...like to talk of a marriage, of a bankruptcy, of a debt, of a crime.
EWI 11.125 15 It was shown to the planters...that they needed the severest monopoly laws at home to keep them from bankruptcy.
FRep 11.532 7 See how fast [our people] extend the fleeting fabric of their trade,-not at all considering the remote reaction and bankruptcy...
CL 12.159 27 ...the speculators who rush for investment...are all more or less mad,-I need not say it now in the crash of bankruptcy;...
Farm 7.138 8 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way from the bankrupts of trade...
Hist 2.23 8 ...this intellectual nomadism, in its excess, bankrupts the mind...
UGM 4.22 6 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...certifies me of the equity which...bankrupts every self-seeker...that man liberates me;...
Wth 6.112 18 The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work;...
Con 1.321 14 ...if priest and church-member should fail...the presidents of the banks...would muster with fury to [religious institutions'] support.
Pt1 3.37 20 Banks and tariffs...are flat and dull to dull people...
ET15 5.270 15 ...[the editors of the London Times] have an instinct for finding where the power now lies, which is eternally shifting its banks.
F 6.42 20 ...in each town there is some man who is...an explanation of the... banks...of that town.
Wth 6.104 4 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the soundness of banks will show it;...
Bhr 6.173 22 In the hotels on the banks of the Mississippi they print...that No gentleman can be permitted to come to the public table without his coat;...
PI 8.42 5 Better men saw heavens and earths; saw noble instruments of noble souls. We see railroads, mills and banks...
LLNE 10.327 4 ...[the new race] hate tolls, taxes, turnpikes, banks...
Thor 10.466 9 The river on whose banks [Thoreau] was born and died he knew from its springs to its confluence with the Merrimack.
Thor 10.466 18 Every fact which occurs in the bed [of the Concord River], on the banks or in the air over it;...[was] all known to [Thoreau]...
Thor 10.467 2 ...the snake, muskrat, otter, woodchuck and fox, on the banks [of the Concord River];...were all known to [Thoreau]...
Thor 10.467 3 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau]...
HDC 11.29 19 The river, by whose banks most of us were born, every winter, for ages, has spread its crust of ice over the great meadows which, in ages, it had formed.
HDC 11.30 1 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river...shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.
TPar 11.290 11 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery broke over its old banks...
FRep 11.522 18 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by political power and by the power in the railroad board, in the mills, or the banks.
PLT 12.16 22 ...I have a suspicion that, as geologists say every river makes its own valley, so does this mystic stream. It makes its valley, makes its banks and makes perhaps the observer too.
Mem 12.96 17 In the minds of most men memory is nothing but a farm-book or a pocket-diary. On such a day I paid my note;...on the next the banks suspended payment.
Bost 12.194 25 These ancient men, like great gardens with great banks of flowers, send out their perfumed breath across the great tracts of time.
LT 1.270 11 The political questions touching the Banks;...are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
ET2 5.26 27 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...
ET2 5.27 2 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around; no fishermen; she has passed the Banks...
Elo1 7.65 17 Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and, be they...with their opinions in the keeping of a confessor, or with their opinions in their bank-safes,--he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
Comp 2.94 24 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it...that a compensation is to be made to these last [the good] hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day,--bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne?
Nat2 3.190 23 ...this bank-stock and file of mortgages;...all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
SR 2.89 5 [A man] is weaker by every recruit to his banner.
Ill 6.314 2 ...everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
Bhr 6.192 8 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the bannered portal...
ET19 5.313 2 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm?
Bty 6.291 21 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting under a wall, and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
Mrs1 3.155 7 Too good for banning, and too bad for blessing, [society] reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character.
Hsm1 2.254 15 ...[the great soul's] own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
PI 8.47 15 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought, believing...that for every thought its proper melody or rhyme exists, though the odds are immense against our finding it, and only genius can rightly say the banns.
Fdsp 2.197 1 ...I must hazard the production of the bald fact amidst these pleasing reveries, though it should prove an Egyptian skull at our banquet.
SwM 4.95 13 ...the Persian poet exclaims to a soul of this kind [of goodness],--Go boldly forth, and feast on being's banquet;/ Thou art the called,--the rest admitted with thee./
Clbs 7.235 21 In the old time conundrums were sent from king to king by ambassadors. The seven wise masters at Periander's banquet spent their time in answering them.
Clbs 7.248 10 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands;...
Clbs 7.248 24 ...it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all were joyful...
ET19 5.309 3 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet...
PPh 4.70 4 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
SwM 4.127 5 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet;...
Aris 10.46 14 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...such despotism of wealth and comfort in banquet-halls, whilst death is in the pots of the wretched...
Pow 6.75 12 [Pericles] declined all invitations to banquets...
DL 7.118 18 ...only the low habits need palaces and banquets.
Boks 7.200 21 An inestimable trilogy of ancient social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch.