ET5 5.93 21 [The English] are a family to which a destiny attaches, and the Banshee has sworn that a male heir shall never be wanting.
Dem1 10.22 11 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts.
ET14 5.255 1 [The English] parry earnest speech with banter and levity;...
Clbs 7.231 3 Amidst all the gay banter, sentiment cannot profane itself and venture out.
SR 2.44 1 Cast the bantling on the rocks.../
Ctr 6.137 13 It is not a compliment but a disparagement...whenever [a man] appears, considerately to turn the conversation to the bantling he is known to fondle.
Elo2 8.113 23 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned in driving cattle to the hills...
War 11.170 16 Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings...
Comp 2.127 3 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower...by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest...
Bost 12.209 6 ...thus our little city [Boston] thrives and enlarges... propagating itself like a banyan over the continent.
CW 12.174 18 Plant the Banian, the Sandal-tree, the Lotus...
Chr2 10.109 2 When once Selden had said that the priests seemed to him to be baptizing their own fingers, the rite of baptism was getting late in the world.
SovE 10.203 6 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion, on a wedding or a baptism...
ET1 5.13 8 When I rose to go, [Coleridge] said...I will repeat some verses I lately made on my baptismal anniversary...
EWI 11.111 17 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...
EWI 11.119 12 ...[Sir Lionel Smith] defended the Baptist preachers and the stipendiary magistrates [in Jamaica]...
TPar 11.289 7 It was [Theodore Parker's] merit, like...Latimer, and John Baptist, to speak tart truth...
LLNE 10.345 8 The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety, but must have taste, whilst there was often coming, among these, some John the Baptist, wild from the woods...
MAng1 12.243 18 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery, with their high reliefs, cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.
Elo1 7.95 24 Wild men, John Baptists...utter the savage sentiment of Nature in the heart of commercial capitals.
CSC 10.374 22 ...Groaners, Agrarians, Seventh-day Baptists...all successively...seized their moment [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
Pt1 3.22 18 ...nature...does not leave another to baptize her but baptizes herself;...
NR 3.240 16 Here is a new enterprise of Brook Farm...why so impatient to baptize them Essenes...or by any known and effete name?
ET9 5.152 24 Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus and baptize half the earth with his own dishonest name.
NMW 4.245 8 When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field [said Napoleon], they have all one rank in my eyes.
ET11 5.174 5 The Norwegian pirate got what he could and held it for his eldest son. The Norman noble, who was the Norwegian pirate baptized, did likewise.
Pt1 3.22 18 ...nature...does not leave another to baptize her but baptizes herself;...
Chr2 10.109 1 When once Selden had said that the priests seemed to him to be baptizing their own fingers, the rite of baptism was getting late in the world.
SovE 10.202 21 Shall I make the mistake of baptizing the daylight, and time, and space, by the name of John or Joshua, in whose tent I chance to behold daylight, and space, and time?
Fdsp 2.210 15 Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with yonder bar of cloud...
Prd1 2.221 17 ...the merchant breeds his son for the church or the bar;...
OS 2.271 26 ...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul...
Exp 3.54 11 Temperament is the veto or limitation-power in the constitution...absurdly offered as a bar to original equity.
Mrs1 3.148 27 Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners, in the presence of a man or woman who have no bar in their nature...
NMW 4.228 17 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity; since what was an impassable bar to us, and still is to others, becomes a convenient weapon for our purposes;...
ET4 5.70 13 [The English] eat and drink, and live jolly in the open air, putting a bar of solid sleep between day and day.
ET10 5.160 27 Whitworth divides a bar to a millionth of an inch.
Art2 7.49 7 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar.
Elo1 7.63 17 Who can wonder at the attractiveness...of...the bar, for our ambitious young men...
PI 8.32 1 ...[men of the world] admit the general truth, but they and their affair always constitute a case in bar of the statute.
Elo2 8.115 13 We reckon the bar, the senate, journalism and the pulpit, peaceful professions;...
Elo2 8.125 15 ...when any orator at the bar or in the Senate rises in his thought, he descends in his language...
QO 8.183 8 Thirty years ago, when Mr. Webster at the bar or in the Senate filled the eyes and minds of young men, you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster's three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could defer till to-morrow;...
Dem1 10.12 6 ...do [Watt and Fulton] not make an iron bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand skilful mechanics?
Aris 10.42 21 The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe. Douglas can throw the bar a greater cast.
Supl 10.172 9 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.
SovE 10.193 7 All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar [of Divine justice].
MoL 10.243 8 ...stray clergymen kept the bar in saloons [in California];...
SlHr 10.442 6 For a long term of years, [Samuel Hoar] was at the head of the bar in Middlesex...
SlHr 10.442 10 ...[Samuel Hoar's] influence was...sometimes complained of as a bar to public justice.
SlHr 10.447 29 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr. Webster's ability, with whom he had often occasion to try his strength at the bar...
FSLN 11.223 5 [Webster] seemed born for the bar...
Shak1 11.447 19 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
MN 1.223 23 Nothing can bar [these qualities] out, or shut them in...
Insp 8.288 17 ...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions and even necessary orders, though I bar out by system all I can...
SHC 11.428 17 ...Prison thy soul from malice, bar out pride,/ Nor these pale flowers nor this still field deride:/...
Mem 12.90 17 The sparrow, the ant, the worm, have the same memory as we. If you bar their path...they make one or two trials, and then once for all avoid it.
Pow 6.77 9 The hack is a better roadster than the Arab barb.
SR 2.51 12 If an angry bigot...comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, Go love thy infant;...
EWI 11.144 10 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint... or of the leaders of [the negro] race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.
PLT 12.37 13 'T is the barbarian instinct within us which culture deadens.
DL 7.116 3 Aristides was made general receiver of Greece, to collect the tribute which each state was to furnish against the barbarian.
PPh 4.47 7 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia, bringing with them the dreams of barbarians;...
ET11 5.179 22 ...the English are those barbarians of Jamblichus...
CbW 6.254 6 The barbarians who broke up the Roman Empire did not arrive a day too soon.
Imtl 8.326 11 ...the barbarians who received the cross took the doctrine of the resurrection as the Egyptians took it.
Dem1 10.14 18 As I was once travelling by the Red Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named Masollam...according to the testimony of all the Greeks and barbarians, a very skilful archer.
War 11.172 23 We are affected, as boys and barbarians are, by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...
Art1 2.361 1 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be... a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold...
PPh 4.47 18 At last comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping;...
PI 8.49 4 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...they do not longer value...barbaric word-jingle.
AmS 1.102 1 [The scholar] is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism...
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.
LT 1.281 26 Other times have had...a barbarism, domestic or bordering, as their antagonism.
Con 1.316 25 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer who strolled...in the infancy and barbarism of the old world;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
Pt1 3.37 17 We have yet had no genius in America...which...saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer;...
UGM 4.32 19 The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism.
MoS 4.177 16 What can I do...against climate, against barbarism, in my country?
ET13 5.215 18 England felt the full heat of the Christianity which fermented Europe, and drew, like the chemistry of fire, a firm line between barbarism and culture.
Ctr 6.152 17 Can it be that the American forest has refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out...
PI 8.52 17 I know what you say of mediaeval barbarism and sleigh-bell rhyme...
Chr2 10.106 4 ...in the hands...of fierce Gauls, [Christianity's] creeds were tainted with their barbarism.
Chr2 10.108 16 I suspect, that, when the theology was most florid and dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people...
EWI 11.126 15 ...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers...
War 11.161 19 ...a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of civilization over barbarism...
FRep 11.514 26 There have been revolutions which were not in the interest of feudalism and barbarism, but in that of society.
EWI 11.122 3 There are many styles of civilization, and not one only. Ours is full of barbarities.
EWI 11.108 20 The shipmasters in [the slave] trade were...guilty of every barbarity to their own crews.
Con 1.304 6 The system of property and law goes back for its origin to barbarous and sacred times;...
Con 1.304 10 There is a natural sentiment and prepossession in favor...of barbarous and aboriginal usages...
Con 1.304 14 The Indian and barbarous name can never be supplanted without loss.
Hist 2.21 17 ...the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes...
SR 2.84 14 ...[society] is barbarous...
Gts 3.161 9 ...our tokens of compliment and love are for the most part barbarous.
Pol1 3.217 1 In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.
UGM 4.23 21 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing. Then he is a...pontiff who...releases his servants from their barbarous homages;...
MoS 4.166 13 [Montaigne]...is so nervous, by factitious life, that he thinks the more barbarous man is, the better he is.
ET4 5.60 18 [The Normans] had lost their own language and learned the Romance or barbarous Latin of the Gauls...
ET13 5.214 16 In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or imported;...
F 6.20 6 If we are brute and barbarous, the fate takes a brute and dreadful shape.
Wth 6.85 6 Society is barbarous until every industrious man can get his living without dishonest customs.
Civ 7.19 17 A nation that has no clothing...no abstract thought, we call barbarous.
Civ 7.34 12 ...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
Elo1 7.90 4 ...nothing so works on the human mind, barbarous or civil, as a trope.
Res 8.140 16 The marked events in history...each of these events...supples the tough barbarous sinew...
PC 8.230 16 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists, as in a barbarous age;...
Grts 8.302 10 What we commonly call greatness is only such in our barbarous or infant experience.
Schr 10.263 17 The scholar is here...to affirm noble sentiments; to hear them wherever spoken...out of the obscurities of barbarous life...
Schr 10.271 10 There could always be traced, in the most barbarous tribes... some vestiges of a faith in genius...
Plu 10.303 12 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which uses the violence of war, of earthquakes and changed water-courses, to save underground through barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
Plu 10.310 7 You may cull from [Plutarch's] record of barbarous guesses of shepherds and travellers, statements that are predictions of facts established in modern science.
HDC 11.51 23 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban, Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him. There under the rubbish and ruins of barbarous life, the human heart heard the voice of love, and awoke as from a sleep.
EWI 11.145 26 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members. America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.
War 11.153 22 [Alexander's conquest of the East] carried the arts and language and philosophy of the Greeks into the sluggish and barbarous nations of Persia, Assyria and India.
War 11.159 4 ...our American annals have preserved the vestiges of barbarous warfare down to more recent times.
FSLC 11.192 1 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised;...
FSLC 11.213 1 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their forts and factories have been set up,-represents London...
FSLN 11.229 26 A barbarous tribe of good stock will, by means of their best heads, secure substantial liberty.
AsSu 11.247 5 I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute one state.
Wom 11.414 21 In barbarous society the position of women is always low...
Wom 11.423 9 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only...shows how barbarous we are...
Wom 11.424 3 Let the laws be purged of every barbarous remainder, every barbarous impediment to women.
Wom 11.424 4 Let the laws be purged of every barbarous remainder, every barbarous impediment to women.
Mem 12.99 12 Plato deplores writing as a barbarous invention which would weaken the memory by disuse.
Bost 12.193 1 The divine will descends into the barbarous mind in some strange disguise;...
Trag 12.415 17 ...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the obtuse and barbarous...
Comc 8.172 5 ...Timur scratched his head, since the hour of the barber was come...
Comc 8.172 6 ...Timur...commanded that the barber should be called.
Comc 8.172 8 Whilst [Timur] was shaven, the barber gave him a looking-glass in his hand.
LLNE 10.350 21 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties; that is, to be sure that you have got...a barber, a poet, a judge...and so on.
SHC 11.431 26 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs, barberry, lilac, privet and thorns...
Ctr 6.153 8 The countryman finds the town a chop-house, a barber's shop.
OA 7.322 6 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them: as at...Bruce, as Barbour reports him;...
Grts 8.313 14 I have read in an old book that Barcena the Jesuit confessed to another of his order that when the Devil appeared to him in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
Elo2 8.122 8 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...like...Barclay, Fox...
Nat 1.70 15 I shall...conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature...which, as they...perhaps reappear to every bard, may be both history and prophecy.
AmS 1.108 3 ...each bard, each actor has only done for me...what one day I can do for myself.
DSA 1.146 5 Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity...
Hist 2.34 5 The universal nature, too strong for the petty nature of the bard, sits on his neck and writes through his hand;...
Pt1 3.24 5 So far the bard taught me, using his freer speech.
ShP 4.199 10 Did the bard speak with authority?
ShP 4.216 17 ...how stands the account of man with this bard and benefactor [Shakespeare]...
F 6.1 2 Delicate omens traced in air,/ To the lone bard true witness bare;/...
F 6.21 16 God may consent, but only for a time, said the bard of Spain.
Bty 6.303 14 ...the Welsh bard warns his countrywomen, Half of their charms with Cadwallon shall die./
SS 7.1 25 ...As if in [Seyd] the welkin walked,/ The winds took flesh, the mountains talked,/ And he the bard, a crystal soul,/ Sphered and concentric with the whole./
Elo1 7.71 7 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard...
DL 7.114 9 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince...with the bard or the beauty...
PI 8.55 2 ...the masters sometimes rise above themselves to strains...which neither any competitor could outdo, nor the bard himself again equal.
PI 8.57 7 It costs the early bard little talent to chant more impressively than the later, more cultivated poets.
PI 8.59 10 Another bard in like tone says,--I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat;...
PI 8.72 27 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments.
QO 8.199 17 ...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 8.202 16 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke not his own, but the words of some god.
PPo 8.239 16 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control.
PPo 8.254 8 [Hafiz] asserts his dignity as bard and inspired man of his people.
RBur 11.438 5 Praise to the bard! his words are driven,/ Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven,/ The birds of fame have flown./ Halleck.
Milt1 12.252 14 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson...
MLit 12.319 22 ...imagination, the original, authentic fire of the bard, [Shelley] has not.
MLit 12.321 12 ...more than any other contemporary bard [Wordsworth] is pervaded with a reverence of somewhat higher than (conscious) thought.
Fdsp 2.195 1 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are new poetry of the first Bard...
PI 8.57 21 I find or fancy more true poetry...in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.
DSA 1.126 18 What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
DSA 1.132 8 The divine bards are the friends of my virtue...
DSA 1.133 21 ...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all ages.
LE 1.162 2 ...the immortal bards of philosophy,-that which they have written out...makes me bold.
SR 2.45 21 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
Pt1 3.2 1 Olympian bards who sung/ Divine ideas below,/ Which always find us young,/ And always keep us so./
Pt1 3.27 20 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible. This is the reason why bards love wine...
Pt1 3.32 2 The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, Those who are free throughout the world.
ShP 4.216 4 ...the true bards have been noted for their firm and cheerful temper.
ET14 5.248 24 Coleridge...with eyes looking before and after to the highest bards and sages...is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
ET18 5.308 6 [England] is the land of patriots, martyrs, sages and bards...
Cour 7.277 22 Men have done brave deeds,/ And bards have sung them well:/ I of good George Nidiver/ Now the tale will tell./
PI 8.33 23 We want design, and do not forgive the bards if they have only the art of enamelling.
PI 8.57 24 An intrepid magniloquence appears in all the bards...
PI 8.64 7 Bring us the bards who shall sing all our old ideas out of our heads...
PPo 8.244 16 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic, that sometimes affords a deeper glance at Nature than belongs to either of these bards.
Schr 10.271 13 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as in the exemption of a priesthood or bards or artists from taxes and tolls levied on other men;...
MMEm 10.402 22 Nobody can...recall the conversation of old-school people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority in their mind, and nowise the slight, merely entertaining quality of modern bards.
CInt 12.112 1 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./
PI 8.57 5 Bards and Trouveurs.--The metallic force of primitive words makes the superiority of the remains of the rude ages.
PI 8.38 12 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...
Nat 1.9 17 Crossing a bare common...I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.
Nat 1.10 6 Standing on the bare ground...all mean egotism vanishes.
YA 1.392 15 ...to imaginative persons in this country there is somewhat bare and bald in our short history and unsettled wilderness.
Hist 2.20 22 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
Pt1 3.17 27 Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind;...
PPh 4.56 19 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato...feels these...to be no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
SwM 4.116 15 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma, in place of the physical truth or precept: although no mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly arise by bare literal transposition;...
SwM 4.128 17 The Eden of God is bare and grand...
ET16 5.276 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury, passing by Old Sarum, a bare, treeless hill...
Wth 6.85 15 Nor can [a man] do justice to his genius without making some larger demand on the world than a bare subsistence.
Bty 6.281 9 The geologist lays bare the strata...
Bty 6.304 21 ...there is a joy in perceiving the representative or symbolic character of a fact, which no bare fact or event can ever give.
Ill 6.315 17 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday;...
Farm 7.143 17 You cannot...strip off from [an atom]...the relation to light and heat and leave the atom bare.
Suc 7.309 8 Who and what are you that would lay the ghastly anatomy bare?
Chr2 10.109 13 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
MMEm 10.425 21 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry...
HDC 11.33 12 ...[the pilgrims] meet a scorching plain, yet not so plain but that the ragged bushes scratch their legs foully, even to wearing their stockings to their bare skin in two or three hours.
EWI 11.135 27 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness, and the connection of the eminent senators with this question constitutes the immortalizing moments of those men's lives. The bare enunciation of the theses at which the lawyers and legislators arrived, gives a glow to the heart of the reader.
FSLC 11.185 5 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...
FSLC 11.200 2 When a moral quality comes into politics...general principles are laid bare...
MLit 12.310 4 ...we ought to credit literature with much more than the bare word it gives us.
F 6.1 2 Delicate omens traced in air,/ To the lone bard true witness bare;/...
EWI 11.109 19 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack. On the other part are found cold prudence, bare-faced selfishness and silent votes.
WD 7.155 2 Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,/ Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,/ And marching single in an endless file,/ Bring diadems and fagots in their hands./
HDC 11.39 8 Many [of the settlers of Concord] were forced to go barefoot and bareleg...
PPh 4.72 25 [Socrates] wore no under garment; his upper garment was the same for summer and winter, and he went barefooted;...
JBS 11.277 20 ...[John Brown] went bareheaded and barefooted, and clothed in buskskin.
JBS 11.277 20 ...[John Brown] went bareheaded and barefooted, and clothed in buskskin.
HDC 11.39 9 Many [of the settlers of Concord] were forced to go barefoot and bareleg...
LT 1.290 10 ...men seem to fear and to shun [the Moral Sentiment] when it comes barely to view in our immediate neighborhood.
SS 7.10 14 A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty...
Res 8.152 15 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that...though insignificant enough in the general bareness of the forest, yet a great change takes place in them between fall and spring;...
Chr2 10.109 21 ...we paint over the bareness of ethics with the quaint grotesques of theology.
Schr 10.287 19 I invite you [scholars]...to bareness, to power, to enthusiasm...
Schr 10.287 22 Give me bareness and poverty so that I know them as the sure heralds of the Muse.
LLNE 10.357 6 [Thoreau said] What you call bareness and poverty, is to me simplicity.
ET6 5.104 4 Nothing but the most serious business could give one any counterweight to these Baresarks [the English]...
LT 1.290 3 ...[the Moral Sentiment] is recognized in every bargain...
MoS 4.149 14 [A man] drives his bargain in the street; but it occurs that he also is bought and sold.
ET5 5.78 26 ...in a bargain, no prospect of advantage is so dear to the [English] merchant as the thought of being tricked is mortifying.
Wth 6.108 27 One might say...that nothing is cheap or dear, and that the apparent disparities that strike us are only a shopman's trick of concealing the damage in your bargain.
CbW 6.271 5 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...and the like.
Prch 10.228 6 Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness.
MMEm 10.418 1 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been the means of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that. He was honestly seeking his own. But at last, this very night, the bargain is closed...
MMEm 10.418 4 Happy beginning of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] bargain, though the sale of the place [Elm Vale] appears to me one of the worst things for me at this time.
HDC 11.38 6 ...after the bargain [for Concord] was concluded, Mr. Simon Willard, pointing to the four corners of the world, declared that they had bought three miles from that place, east, west, north and south.
EWI 11.116 24 In some places [in the West Indies], [the negroes] waited to see their master, to know what bargain he would make;...
War 11.158 7 Only in Elizabeth's time, out of the European waters, piracy was all but universal. The proverb was,-No peace beyond the line; and the seaman shipped on the buccaneer's bargain, No prey, no pay.
CW 12.171 2 When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, bobolinks and thrushes, which were not charged in the bill;...
Comp 2.106 16 Prometheus knows one secret which Jove must bargain for; Minerva another.
Chr2 10.96 8 ...there is no man who will bargain to sell his life, say at the end of a year, for a million or ten millions of gold dollars in hand...
Comp 2.119 4 There is a third silent party to all our bargains.
SovE 10.187 12 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...bargains of kings with peoples of certain rights to certain classes, then of rights to masses...
LE 1.184 23 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether the cargo be hides or barilla;...be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
Thor 10.473 20 [Thoreau's] visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian. He had the satisfaction of seeing the manufacture of the bark canoe...
Nat 1.20 27 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America;...can we separate the man from the living picture?
Lov1 2.184 17 The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.
MoS 4.186 12 If my bark sink, 't is to another sea./
ET13 5.222 8 [The English] value a philosopher as they value an apothecary who brings bark or a drench;...
F 6.32 5 ...trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will be cloven by it...
F 6.39 3 The vegetable eye makes leaf, pericarp, root, bark, or thorn, as the need is;...
Boks 7.219 17 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...
Res 8.153 2 ...the cow, the rabbit, the insect, bite the sweet and tender bark [of the willow];...
Comc 8.162 23 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea; and though it does not split it, the poor bark is for the moment critically staggered.
PerF 10.74 15 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark;...
CL 12.149 20 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself...hemlock bark for his roof, hair-moss or fern for his bed.
CL 12.150 5 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees...(2) ant-hills...(3) aspens, whose bark is rough on the north and smooth on the south side.
Hsm1 2.249 10 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...
GoW 4.269 23 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must sustain with shameless advocacy some bad government, or must bark, all the year round, in opposition;...
Elo1 7.69 11 ...[the Sicilians] crow, squeal, hiss, cackle, bark, and scream like mad...
Suc 7.309 15 Don't...bark against the bad...
SA 8.83 21 ...certain voices are hoarse and truculent; sometimes they even bark.
Pow 6.67 12 [Boniface]...united in his person the functions of bully, incendiary, swindler, barkeeper, and burglar.
Exp 3.76 15 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as...shopmen or bar-keepers in hotels...
Bhr 6.173 7 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.
Pow 6.57 5 So a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers, of unseen oceans, which are covered with barks that night and day are drifted to this point.
MR 1.251 19 [Caliph Omar's] diet was barley bread;...
YA 1.383 24 One man...with [a dime]...buys...pen, ink, and paper, or a painter's brush, by which he can communicate himself to the human race as if he were fire; and the other buys barley candy.
MR 1.251 16 [The Arabs] conquered Asia, and Africa, and Spain, on barley.
MR 1.251 26 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...with a bottle of water and two sacks, one holding barley and the other dried fruits.
ET4 5.69 18 ...Tacitus found the English beer already in use among the Germans: They make from barley or wheat a drink corrupted into some resemblance to wine.
RBur 11.441 17 ...[Burns] has endeared...beans and barley;...
RBur 11.443 14 ...the corn, barley, and bulrushes hoarsely rustle [Burns's songs]...
QO 8.186 13 Hafiz furnished Burns with the song of John Barleycorn...
LE 1.186 21 Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn?
ET10 5.165 12 Sir Edward Boynton...on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side.
Wth 6.123 4 ...the practical neighbor cavils at the position of the barn;...
DL 7.120 8 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...in barn or wood-shed with scraps of poetry or song...
WD 7.176 6 ...in our history, Jesus is born in a barn...
SA 8.101 22 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence...exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
PerF 10.75 12 [Labor] is twisted and screwed into fragrant hay which fills the barn.
EzRy 10.393 2 [Ezra Ripley] watched with interest...the orchard, the house and the barn...
Thor 10.462 21 [Thoreau] could plan a garden or a house or a barn;...
HDC 11.60 6 Two young farmers, Abraham and Isaac Shepherd, had set their sister Mary, a girl of fifteen years, to watch whilst they threshed grain in the barn.
SMC 11.369 25 [George Prescott writes] We laid [Lieutenant Barrow] in two double blankets, and then sent off a long distance and got boards off a barn to make the best coffin we could...
Milt1 12.266 27 [Milton] advises that in country places, rather than to trudge many miles to a church, public worship be maintained nearer home, as in a house or barn.
Milt1 12.267 4 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger disdains not to be preached in a barn.
ACri 12.296 13 [Herrick] found his subject where he stood, between his feet, in his house, pantry, barn, poultry-yard...
Supl 10.164 10 Controvert [the man with the superlative temperament's] opinion and he cries Persecution! and reckons himself with Saint Barnabas, who was sawn in two.
Con 1.296 24 Thy oysters are barnacles and cockles...
ET11 5.182 6 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three miles...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.
Prd1 2.227 18 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box set in the corner of the barn-chamber...
Dem1 10.7 16 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see not only a glance of Abdiel, so grand and keen, but also in other faces the features of the mink, of the bull, of the rat and the barn-door fowl.
SMC 11.370 13 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods.
ET15 5.266 13 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men. Old Walter...Barnes, Alsiger, Horace Twiss...have contributed to its renown...
Prd1 2.223 7 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon...
MoS 4.167 4 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 house and barns;...
Aris 10.52 11 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...
PLT 12.58 2 [People] are as much alike as their barns and pantries...
Hist 2.32 11 Every animal of the barn-yard, the field and the forest...has contrived...to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
GoW 4.270 22 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no Columbus, but hundreds of post-captains, with transit-telescope, barometer...
ET10 5.169 8 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that...the dreadful barometer of the poor-rates was touching the point of ruin.
Wth 6.102 12 [The dollar] is the finest barometer of social storms, and announces revolutions.
WD 7.158 15 Our century to be sure had inherited a tolerable apparatus. We had the compass, the printing-press, watches, the spiral spring, the barometer, the telescope.
Insp 8.283 17 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low.
Insp 8.283 19 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low. Since I know this, I endeavor, when the barometer is low, to counteract the injurious effect by greater exertion...
LLNE 10.328 27 In science the French savant...with barometer, crucible, chemic test and calculus in hand, travels into all nooks and islands...
FSLC 11.179 24 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air...
CL 12.160 13 It does not need a barometer to find the height of mountains. The line of snow is surer than the barometer;...
CL 12.160 15 It does not need a barometer to find the height of mountains. The line of snow is surer than the barometer;...
ET5 5.75 11 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...forced the baron to dictate Saxon terms to Norman kings;...
ET5 5.77 24 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain, though he is...called a baron or a duke, thinks the same thing...
ET11 5.175 7 ...I make no doubt that...baron, knight and tenant often had their memories refreshed, in regard to the service by which they held their lands.
ET11 5.191 5 ...when the baron, educated only for war, with his brains paralyzed by his stomach, found himself idle at home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry brute.
Bhr 6.170 8 Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast...
Dem1 10.22 2 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy that the mountains and lakes were made specially for him Donald, or him Tecumseh;...
LLNE 10.328 6 The stockholder has stepped into the place of the warlike baron.
War 11.172 16 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...the feudal baron, the French, the English nobility...
War 11.174 4 I regard no longer those names that so tingled in my ear. [The man of principle] is a baron of a better nobility and a stouter stomach.
Bhr 6.170 8 Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast...
LLNE 10.363 24 An English baronet, Sir John Caldwell, was a frequent visitor [at Brook Farm]...
Milt1 12.258 15 The form and the voice of Leonora Baroni seemed to have captivated [Milton] in Rome...
ET5 5.77 27 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...is ready to allow the justice of the thought and act in his retainer or tenant, though sorely against his baronial or ducal will.
ET6 5.111 2 The favorite phrase of [the Englishmen's] law is, a custom whereof the memory of man runneth not back to the contrary. The barons say, Nolumus mutari;...
ET11 5.189 15 The English barons, in every period, have been brave and great...
Ill 6.312 7 The boy, how sweet to him is his fancy! how dear the story of barons and battles!
PI 8.61 9 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] Whilst I served King Arthur, I was well known by you, and by other barons...
PI 8.62 21 ...said Merlin...salute for me the king and the queen and all the barons...
Shak1 11.450 25 You shall never find in this world the barons or kings [Shakespeare] depicted.
Aris 10.33 1 The Golden Book of Venice...the Barons of England...is each a transcript of the decigrade or centigraded Man.
Comc 8.167 2 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... confessedly...a bivouac for a night...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...
ShP 4.190 18 [A great man] finds a war raging: it educates him, by trumpet, in barracks, and he betters the instruction.
MoL 10.251 11 I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks.
CInt 12.115 4 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses...
Exp 3.52 10 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them. In the moment it seems impulse; in the year, in the lifetime, it turns out to be a certain uniform tune which the revolving barrel of the music-box must play.
SwM 4.145 1 In the shipwreck, some cling to running rigging, some to cask and barrel...
F 6.18 18 ...in every barrel of cowries brought to New Bedford there shall be one orangia...
FSLN 11.233 10 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown...that, with provisions so vague for an object not named, and which could not be availed of to claim a barrel of sugar or a barrel of corn, the robbing of a man and of all his posterity is effected.
FSLN 11.233 11 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown...that, with provisions so vague for an object not named, and which could not be availed of to claim a barrel of sugar or a barrel of corn, the robbing of a man and of all his posterity is effected.
CL 12.147 1 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and Cow-apple...and Beware-of-this. Apples of a kind which I remember in boyhood, each containing a barrel of wind and half a barrel of cider.
Res 8.139 16 Measure by barrels the spending of the brook that runs through your field.
Nat 1.23 7 The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation...
Nat 1.28 3 All the facts in natural history taken by themselves...are barren...
Comp 2.98 4 The barren soil does not breed fevers, crocodiles, tigers or scorpions.
Exp 3.59 5 Unspeakably sad and barren does life look to those who a few months ago were dazzled with the splendor of the promise of the times.
Mrs1 3.141 6 ...intellect is selfish and barren.
Nat2 3.177 8 A dilettanteism in nature is barren and unworthy.
ET1 5.13 26 [Coleridge said] There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine. Whereas in Malta, the force of law and mind was seen, in making that barren rock of semi-Saracen inhabitants the seat of population and plenty.
ET5 5.76 15 ...to set [the Saxon] at work and to begin to draw his monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor, fret and barrier must be removed...
ET5 5.77 7 Nobody landed on this spellbound island [England] with impunity. The enchantments of barren shingle and rough weather transformed every adventurer into a laborer.
ET5 5.95 13 Chat Moss and the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are unhealthy and too barren to pay rent.
ET5 5.98 11 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a work of art;--a cold, barren, almost arctic isle being made the most fruitful, luxurious and imperial land in the whole earth.
CbW 6.272 17 Here [in conversation] are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.
WD 7.170 13 Yesterday not a bird peeped; the world was barren, peaked and pining...
Boks 7.192 21 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
Clbs 7.227 6 The experience of retired men is positive,--that we lose our days and are barren of thought for want of some person to talk with.
OA 7.330 5 ...especially we have a certain insulated thought, which haunts us, but remains insulated and barren.
Shak1 11.452 2 There are periods fruitful of great men; others, barren;...
Scot 11.462 7 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, and so...illustrated every hidden corner of a barren and disagreeable territory.
II 12.71 1 In the healthy mind, the thought is not a barren thesis...
II 12.86 1 Work and learn in evil days, in barren days, in days of depression and calamity.
CInt 12.114 1 Hiero the king reproached [Archimedes] with his barren studies.
CInt 12.129 3 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic...where [is] the Romish or the Calvinistic religion, which made a kind of poetry in the air for Milton, or Byron, or Belzoni? but to us it is barren,-you expose your atheism.
CL 12.139 5 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...plant its miles and miles of barren waste with oak and pine...we were better patriots and happier men.
CW 12.177 19 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night...
CW 12.177 21 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches in the sea, in the ground, in barren moors, in the night even...
Hist 2.20 16 No one can walk in a road cut through pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of the grove, especially in winter, when the barrenness of all other trees shows the low arch of the Saxons.
Clbs 7.229 11 ...the days come when we are alarmed, and say there are no thoughts. What a barren-witted pate is mine! the student says;...
HDC 11.73 18 When [British troops] entered Concord, they found the militia and minute-men assembled under the command of Colonel Barrett and Major Buttrick.
HDC 11.73 23 This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river, to wait for reinforcement. Colonel Barrett ordered the troops not to fire, unless fired upon.
HDC 11.30 16 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is...Wood, Hosmer, Barrett, Wheeler...
SMC 11.365 24 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery company of this town [Concord] was reorganized, and Captain Richard Barrett received a commission in March, 1862, from the state, as its commander.
HDC 11.85 24 Why need I remind you of our own...Cumings, Barretts, Beattons, the departed benefactors of the town [Concord]?
ET10 5.164 4 [The English] have...no Parisian poissardes and barricades;...
Wth 6.93 6 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth, and, whatever is pretended, it ends in cosseting. But if this were the main use of surplus capital, it would bring us to barricades, burned towns and tomahawks, presently.
AmS 1.108 15 The human mind cannot be enshrined in a person who shall set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded, unboundable empire.
MoS 4.180 9 Is the name of virtue to be a barrier to that which is virtue?
NMW 4.228 20 ...the river which was a formidable barrier, winter transforms into the smoothest of roads.
ET5 5.76 16 ...to set [the Saxon] at work and to begin to draw his monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor, fret and barrier must be removed...
MMEm 10.417 18 It is difficult, when we have no kind of barrier, to command our feelings.
ACiv 11.303 16 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked by an immoveable barrier...
Carl 10.497 3 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe, when...every one ran away in a coucou, with his head shaved, through the Barriere de Passy, one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
AmS 1.113 15 Every thing that tends to insulate the individual, - to surround him with barriers of natural respect...tends to true union as well as greatness.
AmS 1.115 1 ...thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts...the huge world will come round to him.
Mrs1 3.135 25 ...Napoleon...fenced himself with etiquette and within triple barriers of reserve;...
Nat2 3.170 9 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom. How willingly we would escape the barriers which render them comparatively impotent...
ET4 5.50 7 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix, when we...know that the barriers of races are not so firm but that some spray sprinkles us from the antediluvian seas.
ET11 5.197 10 All the barriers to rank [in England] only whet the thirst and enhance the prize.
ET18 5.306 13 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the social barriers which confine patronage and promotion to a caste...
Civ 7.24 10 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge, overrunning all the old barriers of caste...
SA 8.90 24 Every highly organized person knows the value of the social barriers...
PLT 12.11 6 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it. Gloves on the hands...are no defence against this virus, which comes in as secretly as gravitation into and through all barriers.
Ill 6.322 21 In this kingdom of illusions we grope eagerly for stays and foundations. There is none but a strict and faithful dealing at home and a severe barring out of all duplicity or illusion there.
Con 1.312 11 The king on the throne governs for thee...the barrister pleads...
ET7 5.122 24 The [English] barrister refuses the silk gown of Queen's Counsel, if his junior have it one day earlier.
ET8 5.142 8 ...[the English] hold in esteem the barrister engaged in the severer studies of the law.
Ill 6.311 23 ...the barrister with the jury, the belle at the ball...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
SS 7.10 21 When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law.
Elo1 7.80 2 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons.
QO 8.196 19 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...I doubt not, many a young barrister in chambers in London...
MoL 10.256 7 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning...
Elo1 7.96 7 [The sturdy countryman] is fit to meet the barroom wits and bullies;...
LE 1.161 23 ...in spite of the...bar-room...have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...
Exp 3.61 25 ...leave me alone and I should relish every hour, and what it brought me, the potluck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.
MoS 4.153 23 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the tavern bar-room, thinks that the use of money is sure and speedy spending.
Clbs 7.246 12 I knew a scholar...who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories...
EdAd 11.388 12 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully...
FRep 11.518 25 The country is governed in bar-rooms...
FRep 11.518 26 The country is governed in bar-rooms, and in the mind of bar-rooms.
FRep 11.536 1 ...in the country [the class of which I speak] sit idle in stores and bar-rooms...
ACri 12.295 23 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...
WSL 12.347 10 [Landor's] Dialogue between Barrow and Newton is the best of all criticisms on the essays of Bacon.
SMC 11.369 14 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect...
WSL 12.339 10 ...nor will [Landor] persuade us to burn Plato and Xenophon, out of our admiration of...Lucas on Happiness, or Lucas on Holiness, or even Barrow's Sermons.
Art1 2.349 1 Give to barrows, trays, and pans/ Grace and glimmer of romance/...
Pt1 3.4 17 ...we are not pans and barrows, nor even porters of the fire and torch-bearers...
ET16 5.276 14 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge...Stonehenge and the barrows...
ET16 5.277 9 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows...
Nat 1.13 23 To diminish friction, [man] paves the road with iron bars...
Nat 1.17 5 The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light.
Comp 2.118 23 Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions...
Supl 10.178 20 Our modern improvements have been in the invention...of the famous two parallel bars of iron;...
LLNE 10.368 9 People cannot live together in any but necessary ways. The only candidates who will present themselves will be those who have tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and have failed; and none others will barter for the most comfortable equality the chance of superiority.
HDC 11.35 1 For flesh, [the pilgrims] looked not for any, in those times, unless they could barter with the Indians for venison and raccoons.
Nat 1.50 25 The men, the women, - talking, running, bartering, fighting... are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach]...
FSLC 11.192 3 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised;...
Cour 7.276 4 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...St. Bartholomew massacres, devilish lives...
PI 8.25 18 Give [people]...Sir Andrew Barton, or Sir Patrick Spens...and they like these well enough.
ET13 5.215 14 ...plainly there has been great power of sentiment at work in this island [England], of which these [religious] buildings are the proofs; as volcanic basalts show the work of fire which has been extinguished for ages.
Nat 1.37 21 ...debt...which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
AmS 1.96 20 Henceforth [the new deed] is an object of beauty, however base its origin...
DSA 1.127 21 ...the base doctrine of the majority of voices usurps the place of the doctrine of the soul.
MN 1.214 14 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship... It is that. All other meanings which base men have put on it are conjectural and false.
MN 1.221 17 [The intellect] will burn up...all base current opinions...as in a moment of time.
MR 1.245 24 Much of the economy which we see in houses is of a base origin...
Con 1.323 10 The man of courage and resources is shown [in war or anarchy], and the effeminate and base person.
SR 2.54 11 If you...spread your table like base housekeepers...I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are...
SR 2.78 13 Our sympathy is just as base.
Comp 2.95 11 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success...
Comp 2.95 18 I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day...
Comp 2.106 12 ...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 2.113 18 He is base...to receive favors and render none.
Comp 2.113 19 He is base,--and that is the one base thing in the universe,-- to receive favors and render none.
SL 2.149 14 Introduce a base person among gentlemen, it is all to no purpose;...
SL 2.156 24 When [a man] has base ends and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.
Lov1 2.182 6 ...by this love [of beauty] extinguishing the base affection... [the lovers] become pure and hallowed.
Prd1 2.223 11 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence...
OS 2.297 11 [Man] will cease from what is base and frivolous in his life...
Pt1 3.17 11 ...the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs, of... honest and base, disappear when nature is used as a symbol.
Pt1 3.17 16 What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connection of thought.
Exp 3.55 2 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor, and at one whisper of these high powers we awake from ineffectual struggles with this nightmare [of science]. We...cannot again contract ourselves to so base a state.
Mrs1 3.124 14 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.
ET1 5.20 24 [Wordsworth] was against taking off the tax on newspapers in England...for this reason, that they would be inundated with base prints.
ET10 5.170 18 [England's] success strengthens the hands of base wealth.
Bhr 6.172 22 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...teach them to stifle the base and choose the generous expression...
Wsp 6.210 8 What proof of skepticism like the base rate at which the highest mental and moral gifts are held?
CbW 6.259 21 ...there is...no plant that is not fed from manures. We only insist...that the plant grow upward and convert the base into the better nature.
SS 7.13 2 Before [animal spirits] what a base mendicant is Memory with his leathern badge!
PPo 8.250 4 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy; and lays the emphasis on these to mark his scorn of sanctimony and base prudence.
Imtl 8.324 13 ...where this belief [in immortality] once existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form for the wise;...
Aris 10.56 13 I know nothing which induces so base and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities...
EWI 11.139 21 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...shudder at the change...
War 11.160 14 The eternal germination of the better has unfolded new powers, new instincts, which were really concealed under this rough and base rind.
War 11.169 14 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one...which has a friend in the bottom of the heart of every man, even of the violent and the base;...
War 11.174 9 If peace is sought to be defended or preserved for the safety of the luxurious and the timid, it is a sham, and the peace will be base.
FSLC 11.196 8 No government ever found it hard to pick up tools for base actions.
FSLC 11.201 1 The words of John Randolph...have been ringing onimously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate. ... Ay, we will drive you to the wall, and when we have you there once more, we will keep you there and nail you down like base money.
FSLC 11.212 8 The behavior of Boston was the reverse of what it should have been: it was supple and officious, and it put itself into the base attitude of pander to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law].
FSLN 11.220 19 There is always base ambition enough...
TPar 11.291 25 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who does not in generous company say generous things, and in mean company base things...
Wom 11.403 1 The politics are base,/ The letters do not cheer,/ And 't is far in the deeps of history,/ The voice that speaketh clear./
MLit 12.331 9 [Goethe] accepts the base doctrine of Fate...
MR 1.253 14 But the people do not wish to be represented or ruled by the ignorant and base.
SL 2.141 14 The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
Cir 2.312 14 The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to find the parallax of any star.
Pt1 3.9 13 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line, running up from a torrid base through all the climates of the globe...
Exp 3.71 19 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new...region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries...as if the clouds that covered it parted...and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base...
NR 3.240 3 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit that there should be two stupidities! It is like that brute advantage so essential to astronomy, of having the diameter of the earth's orbit for a base of its triangles.
PPh 4.47 26 Two cardinal facts lie forever at the base [of philosophy];...
PPh 4.54 8 Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of Europe; [Plato] substructs the religion of Asia, as the base.
PNR 4.85 7 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...delighted in revealing the real at the base of the accidental;...
ET7 5.120 11 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon, and from this base at last extended his gigantic lines to Waterloo...
Bhr 6.176 12 The obstinate prejudice in favor of blood, which lies at the base of the feudal and monarchical fabrics of the Old World, has some reason in common experience.
Civ 7.29 6 ...on a planet so small as ours, the want of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt...
Civ 7.29 15 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second, and this line afforded him a respectable base for his triangle.
Elo2 8.109 7 Not on its base Monadnoc surer stood,/ Than [the patriot] to common sense and common good/...
PPo 8.262 23 In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;/ Thine the star-pointing- roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is one half depicted with colors less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!/
Imtl 8.331 8 There is a profound melancholy at the base of men of active and powerful talent, seldom suspected.
Edc1 10.140 26 [The boy's] hunting and campings-out have given him an indispensable base...
EPro 11.320 15 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right. We have...planted ourselves on a law of Nature:-If that fail,/ The pillared firmament is rottenness,/ And earth's base built on stubble./
PLT 12.20 16 Without identity at base, chaos must be forever.
Cour 7.261 6 Tender, amiable boys, who had never encountered any rougher play than a base-ball match...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
Plu 10.309 9 The part of each of the class [of the Greek philosophers] is as important as that of the master. They are like the baseball players, to whom the pitcher, the bat, the catcher and the scout are equally important.
Edc1 10.139 15 [Boys'] elections at baseball or cricket are founded on merit...
SMC 11.363 14 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre...
Nat 1.54 4 Ariel. The strong based promontory/ Have I made shake.../
LT 1.269 8 The leaders of the crusades against War...Government based on force...are the right successors of Luther, Knox...
Art1 2.357 11 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...capped and based by heaven, earth, and sea.
Chr1 3.101 20 It is only on reality that any power of action can be based.
NR 3.227 5 I observe a person who makes a good public appearance, and conclude thence the perfection of his private character, on which this is based;...
SwM 4.112 12 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory; whilst the picture comes recommended by the hard fidelity with which it is based on practical anatomy.
ET4 5.49 17 These limitations of the formidable doctrine of race suggest others which threaten to undermine it, as not sufficiently based.
ET6 5.108 16 ...nothing [can be] more firm and based in nature and sentiment than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].
SS 7.6 20 Even Swedenborg, whose theory of the universe is based on affection...is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...
SovE 10.181 4 These rules were writ in human heart/ By Him who built the day;/ The columns of the universe/ Not firmer based than they./
Thor 10.460 3 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...their dwellings. But New England, at least, is not based on any Roman ruins.
CL 12.136 17 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction that Nature was inexhaustibly rich...
Farm 7.150 9 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found...that Massachusetts has a basement story more valuable... than all the superstructure.
MR 1.245 26 Parched corn eaten to-day, that I may have roast fowl to my dinner Sunday, is a baseness;...
Cour 7.277 6 ...baseness cannot change the appointed event.
PC 8.232 13 The community of scholars...dishearten each other by tolerating political baseness in their members.
Pt1 3.28 18 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and...as it was an emancipation not into the heavens but into the freedom of baser places, they were punished for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and deterioration.
PNR 4.89 26 Plato plays Providence a little with the baser sort...
Ctr 6.151 21 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./
PI 8.51 12 ...they adorned the sepulchres of the dead, and, planting thereon lasting bases, defied the crumbling touches of time...
SA 8.107 7 These are the bases of civil and polite society; namely, manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public action;...
SR 2.48 20 Bashful or bold then, [the youth] will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary.
Fdsp 2.200 14 Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in which a delicate organization is protected from premature ripening.
Nat 1.68 2 The American who has been confined...to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
Hist 2.17 22 Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model.
DL 7.106 3 St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.
MAng1 12.216 5 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years... was engaged in executing his grand conceptions in the ineffaceable architecture of Saint Peter's.
MAng1 12.229 26 In Saint Peter's, is [Michelangelo's] Pieta, or dead Christ in the arms of his mother.
MAng1 12.231 2 Of [Michelangelo's] genius for architecture it is sufficient to say that he built Saint Peter's...
MAng1 12.235 5 Not until he was in the seventy-thrid year of his age, [Michelangelo] undertook the building of Saint Peter's.
MAng1 12.236 18 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...
MAng1 12.239 9 [Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's, clear, insulated, luminous, with fit design for a vast structure.
MAng1 12.239 15 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome, to build Saint Peter's, he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (build by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
MN 1.212 27 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child...
UGM 4.31 13 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin.
Farm 7.147 17 [The tree] did not grow on a ridge, but in a basin...
Farm 7.148 11 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias...surrounded the orchard with a nursery of birches and evergreens. Thus he had the mountain basin in miniature;...
ET4 5.62 4 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when...in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet, as it lay in the basins...
MR 1.236 19 We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments...in the work of our hands.
Con 1.313 5 Who put things on this false basis?
YA 1.390 27 ...as if the Union had any other real basis than the good pleasure of a majority of the citizens to be united.
Int 2.331 17 ...a man explores the basis of civil government.
Exp 3.67 14 To-morrow again every thing looks real and angular...common-sense is as rare as genius,--is the basis of genius...
Chr1 3.96 13 [A man] encloses the world...as a material basis for his character...
Mrs1 3.143 1 ...I will neither be driven from some allowance to Fashion as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief that love is the basis of courtesy.
Gts 3.161 18 ...it restores society in so far to the primary basis, when a man' s biography is conveyed in his gift...
Pol1 3.219 22 The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
PPh 4.65 26 [Plato] said, Culture; but he first admitted its basis, and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages of nature.
PNR 4.81 3 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. ... These were...a good basis for further proceeding.
ET10 5.164 11 The laws [of England] are framed to give property the securest possible basis...
ET15 5.267 24 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy, supplied the writers with the basis of fact and the object to be attained...
F 6.17 6 It is a rule that the most casual and extraordinary events, if the basis of population is broad enough, become matter of fixed calculation.
Pow 6.64 10 The same elements are always present, only sometimes these conspicuous, and sometimes those; what was yesterday foreground, being to-day background;--what was surface, playing now a not less effective part as basis.
Wth 6.100 17 Probity and closeness to the facts are the basis [of commerce]...
Wth 6.105 20 The basis of political economy is noninterference.
Ctr 6.134 14 This individuality is not only not inconsistent with culture, but is the basis of it.
Ctr 6.158 11 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis.
Bhr 6.186 13 The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
Bhr 6.190 23 Self-reliance is the basis of behavior...
Wsp 6.213 10 There is a principle which is the basis of things...
Wsp 6.221 8 The law is the basis of the human mind.
CbW 6.253 27 In the twenty-fourth year of his reign [Edward I] decreed that no tax should be levied without consent of Lords and Commons;-- which is the basis of the English Constitution.
Civ 7.22 1 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.
Art2 7.43 15 Each [of the fine arts] has a material basis...
Art2 7.43 17 The basis of poetry is language...
Art2 7.43 22 The basis of music is the qualities of the air and the vibrations of sonorous bodies.
Art2 7.45 10 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian. And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian, these...are the basis on which the fine spirit rears a higher delight...
Clbs 7.247 26 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis...
Cour 7.257 16 ...[the child's] utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every by-stander to take his part.
Cour 7.274 16 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the Brothers Bollandi, who collected the lives of twenty-five thousand martyrs, confessors, ascetics and self-tormentors. There is much of fable, but a broad basis of fact.
PI 8.31 15 ...if your verse has not a necessary and autobiographic basis...it shall not waste my time.
QO 8.199 27 ...[the individual] is no more to be credited with the grand result [of language] than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.
Imtl 8.330 4 Plutarch, in Greece, has a deep faith that the doctrine of the Divine Providence and that of the immortality of the soul rest on one and the same basis.
Aris 10.39 24 ...the basis of all aristocracy must be truth...
Chr2 10.94 22 We have no idea of power so simple and so entire as this [general mind]. It is the basis of thought, it is the basis of being.
Supl 10.176 10 ...the basis of character must be simplicity...
Plu 10.313 23 [Plutarch] believes that the doctrine of the Divine Providence, and that of the immortality of the soul, rest on one and the same basis.
LS 11.17 19 ...the service [the Lord's Supper] does not stand upon the basis of a voluntary act, but is imposed by authority.
FSLC 11.189 17 I thought it was this fair mystery, whose foundations are hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of law;...
ACiv 11.309 16 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation.
EPro 11.325 11 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis.
SMC 11.354 12 The secret architecture of things begins to disclose itself; the fact that all things were made on a basis of right;...
EdAd 11.383 2 The material basis [of America] is of such extent that no folly of man can quite subvert it;...
EdAd 11.390 2 The State, like the individual, should rest on an ideal basis.
FRO1 11.479 19 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind,-is apprised...that the basis of duty, the order of society...draw their essence from this moral sentiment, then we have a religion that exalts...
FRO1 11.480 6 ...it is only on the basis of active duty, that worship finds expression.
FRep 11.540 25 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation.
PLT 12.31 8 Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
PLT 12.63 21 Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
II 12.72 23 The reformer comes with many plans of melioration, and the basis on which he wishes to build his new world, a great deal of money.
Milt1 12.262 13 ...as basis or fountain of his rare physical and intellectual accomplishments, the man Milton was just and devout.
PPr 12.385 16 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by...impressing the reader with the conviction that the satirist himself has...a genuine respect for the basis of truth in those whom he exposes.
MN 1.220 26 ...we also can bask in the great morning which rises forever out of the eastern sea...
Nat2 3.169 8 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet...we bask in the shining hours of Florida and Cuba;...
Suc 7.298 8 We bask in the day, and the mind finds somewhat as great as itself.
PPo 8.236 4 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/...
Supl 10.174 4 I will bask in the common sun a while longer.
ET14 5.248 10 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges, that he is impressive...
Comp 2.93 10 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands, the bread in our basket...
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.
Gts 3.160 11 If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.
Wth 6.86 25 Every basket [of coal] is power and civilization.
Wth 6.106 17 ...for all that is consumed so much less remains in the basket and pot...
Civ 7.24 13 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge...by the cheap press, bringing the university to every poor man's door in the news-boy's basket.
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...
EzRy 10.391 5 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra Ripley's] beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion; he bore the insult, and the next day his basket for the beggar, his horse and chaise for the cripple, were at their door.
ET5 5.101 6 The laborer [in England] is a possible lord. The lord is a possible basket-maker.
CbW 6.267 9 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness,--whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords...
Bhr 6.193 18 It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...
Bhr 6.194 12 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him; for that in whatever condition, Basle remained incorrigibly Basle.
MAng1 12.230 4 Several statues [by Michelangelo] of less fame, and bas-reliefs, are in Rome and Florence and Paris.
Thor 10.481 16 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard, and, over all, the pond-lily...and a bass-tree which he visited every year when it bloomed...
SR 2.61 26 Let [a man] not...skulk up and down with the air of...a bastard...
ET11 5.191 11 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses, their bastards dukes and earls.
MAng1 12.224 13 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence], and his first operation was to throw up a rampart to storm the bastion of San Miniato.
War 11.163 16 This vast apparatus of artillery,...of stone bastions and trenches and embankments; this incessant patrolling of sentinels;...seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
Mrs1 3.144 9 ...here is...Reverend Jul Bat, who has converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school;...
Clbs 7.245 9 There are those who have the instinct of a bat to fly against any lighted candle and put it out...
QO 8.188 26 In every kind of parasite, when Nature has finished an aphis, a teredo or a vampire bat...the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle...
Plu 10.309 10 The part of each of the class [of the Greek philosophers] is as important as that of the master. They are like the baseball players, to whom the pitcher, the bat, the catcher and the scout are equally important.
Cir 2.303 22 Moons are no more bounds to spiritual power than bat-balls.
Thor 10.480 9 ...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or Paris, or Rome; but...they did what they could, considering that they never saw Bateman's Pond...
Aris 10.58 23 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...bates no jot of heart or hope...
ET6 5.109 25 The Knights of the Bath take oath to defend injured ladies;...
Pt1 3.42 12 Thou [O poet] shalt have...the sea for thy bath and navigation...
Nat2 3.171 18 We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.
Wth 6.99 3 I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a medicine.
DL 7.106 16 The first ride into the country, the first bath in running water... are new chapters of joy [to the child].
Plu 10.309 12 ...Plutarch thought, with Ariston, that neither a bath nor a lecture served any purpose, unless they were purgative.
MAng1 12.230 23 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming themselves;...
MN 1.214 15 You cannot bathe twice in the same river, said Heraclitus;...
Bty 6.303 9 The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakes all the near water.
Nat 1.10 6 Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air...all mean egotism vanishes.
Comp 2.93 17 ...the heart of man might be bathed by an inundation of eternal love...
Fdsp 2.191 4 ...the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.
Int 2.342 20 As long as I hear truth I am bathed by a beautiful element...
Nat2 3.173 7 ...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... We penetrate bodily this incredible beauty;...our eyes are bathed in these lights and forms.
UGM 4.17 18 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies...
ET4 5.56 7 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them, his eyes bathed in tears.
Wsp 6.217 5 ...such persons [of higher moral sentiment] are nearer to the secret of God than others; are bathed by sweeter waters;...
PPo 8.258 2 Presently we have [in Hafiz's poetry],-All day the rain/ Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The flood may pour from morn to night/ Nor wash the pretty Indians white./
DSA 1.119 11 The cool night bathes the world as with a river...
Lov1 2.185 24 The union which is thus effected [by love] and which adds a new value to every atom in nature--for it...bathes the soul in a new and sweeter element--is yet a temporary state.
PLT 12.15 18 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes.
Mem 12.103 14 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters.
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...
Wth 6.122 18 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing the shoulder of Blue Hills...
CbW 6.267 16 In childhood we...doubted not by distant travel we should reach the baths of the descending sun and stars.
CbW 6.274 5 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you have gardens and baths...
LLNE 10.351 4 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...what gardens, what baths!
Cour 7.262 21 The child is as much in danger from...a bath-tub...as the soldier from a cannon...
NER 3.273 4 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
NER 3.275 13 ...a naval and military honor...a marshal's baton...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
Lov1 2.177 4 Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places which pale passion loves,/ Moonlight walks, when all the fowls/ Are safely housed, save bats and owls,/ A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
Mrs1 3.119 24 In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in caves, like cliff-swallows, and the language of these negroes is compared by their neighbors to the shrieking of bats and to the whistling of birds.
MoS 4.173 26 'T is of no importance what bats and oxen think.
Bhr 6.179 20 The confession of a low, usurping devil is there made [in the eyes], and the observer shall seem to feel the stirring of owls and bats and horned hoofs...
PI 8.55 18 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...Midnight walks, when all the fowls/ Are warmly housed, save bats and owls;/...
ET5 5.85 23 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;--a sentence which Bonaparte unconsciously translated, when he said that he had noticed that Providence always favored the heaviest battalion.
Bty 6.291 18 What a difference in effect between a battalion of troops marching to action, and one of our independent companies on a holiday!
Civ 7.23 1 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
HDC 11.73 19 This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river...
Humb 11.457 24 There is no book like [Humboldt's Cosmos]; none indicating such a battalion of powers.
Boks 7.192 6 ...as the enchanter has dressed [books], like battalions of infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten thousand, your chance of hitting on the right one is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...
Aris 10.45 17 He who understands the art of war, reckons the hostile battalions and cities, opportunities and spoils.
Cour 7.276 3 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...
PPo 8.244 27 [Hafiz] says,-I batter the wheel of heaven/ When it rolls not rightly by;/ I am not one of the snivellers/ Who fall thereon and die./
Milt1 12.273 24 ...it would not be matter of rational wonder [Milton said], if the wethers of our country should be born with horns that could batter down cities and towns.
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 with torn sheets and battered sides...
Int 2.327 3 As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man...lies open to the mercy of coming events.
NMW 4.235 4 My method was immediately followed by the adjoining batteries...
ET15 5.272 12 If only [the London Times] dared to...feed its batteries from the central heart of humanity...
Thor 10.466 3 ...what accusing silences, and what searching and irresistible speeches, battering down all defences, [Thoreau's] companions can remember!
Art1 2.368 17 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use...the galvanic battery...
NMW 4.234 10 Sire, General Clarke can not combine with General Junot, for the dreadful fire of the Austrian battery.
NMW 4.234 11 Sire, General Clarke can not combine with General Junot, for the dreadful fire of the Austrian battery.--Let him carry the battery.
ET4 5.52 15 Perhaps the ocean serves as a galvanic battery...
Wsp 6.208 18 There is faith...in the steam-engine, galvanic battery...but not in divine causes.
Wsp 6.221 25 ...the globe is a battery, because every atom is a magnet;...
Elo1 7.63 5 ...a jar in a battery is charged with the whole electricity of the battery.
Elo1 7.63 6 ...a jar in a battery is charged with the whole electricity of the battery.
Farm 7.142 16 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions; the diameter of the water-wheel, the arms of the levers, the power of the battery, are out of all mechanic measure;...
Clbs 7.232 10 ...let [conversation] feel the connection with the battery.
Cour 7.261 8 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
PI 8.72 2 One would say of the force in the works of Nature, all depends on the battery.
PI 8.73 11 The high poetry which shall...bring in the new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is...longer postponed than was...the finding of steam or of the galvanic battery.
Res 8.139 7 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size; the diameter of the water-wheel, the arms of the levers and the volley of the battery out of all mechanic measure;...
Dem1 10.20 26 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the steam battery...are of this kind.
PerF 10.80 6 ...[Bonaparte's] will is an immense battery discharging irresistible volleys of power...
Shak1 11.448 14 What shocks of surprise and sympathetic power, this battery, which [Shakespeare] is, imparts to every fine mind that is born!
Pow 6.70 24 The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires.
SMC 11.371 4 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...at Baltimore, in Virginia, where they were drawn up in battle order for ten days successively...
DSA 1.149 13 ...[Massena] was not himself until the battle began to go against him;...
Con 1.295 8 The battle of patrician and plebeian...reappears in all countries and times.
Tran 1.350 19 All that the brave Xanthus brings home from his wars is the recollection that at the storming of Samos, in the heat of the battle, Pericles smiled on me, and passed on to another detachment.
Hist 2.22 3 ...in these late and civil countries of England and America these propensities [Nomadism and Agriculture] still fight out the old battle...
SR 2.75 24 We shun the rugged battle of fate...
Prd1 2.237 18 Entire self-possession may make a battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils...
Hsm1 2.248 6 In the Harleian Miscellanies there is an account of the battle of Lutzen which deserves to be read.
Hsm1 2.255 8 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides...
Hsm1 2.260 26 A simple manly character...should regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion, when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy, yet did not regret his dissuasion from the battle.
Hsm1 2.260 27 A simple manly character...should regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion, when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy, yet did not regret his dissuasion from the battle.
Cir 2.321 9 When we see the conqueror we do not think much of any one battle or success.
Chr1 3.90 20 When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I might see him offer battle...
Mrs1 3.124 11 The courage which girls exhibit is like a battle of Lundy's Lane...
NER 3.263 24 ...to do battle against numbers [individuals] armed themselves with numbers...
NER 3.274 21 Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia, discourses with the Egyptian priest concerning the fountains of the Nile...
SwM 4.107 5 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy... which he experimented with and established through years of labor, with the heart and strength of the rudest Viking that his rough Sweden ever sent to battle.
NMW 4.227 9 [A man of Napoleon's stamp] gains the battle;...
NMW 4.234 16 Seruzier, a colonel of artillery, gives...the following sketch of a scene after the battle of Austerlitz.
NMW 4.236 9 To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at Lobenstein, two days before the battle of Jena, Napoleon said, My lads, you must not fear death;...
NMW 4.238 11 ...[Napoleon said] I have observed that it is always these quarters of an hour that decide the fate of a battle.
NMW 4.238 11 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought little about what he should do in case of success...
NMW 4.241 9 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz...
NMW 4.241 14 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire. This declaration, which is the reverse of that ordinarily made by generals and sovereigns on the eve of a battle, sufficiently explains the devotion of the army to their leader.
NMW 4.246 10 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...drawing up his army for battle in sight of the Pyramids...
NMW 4.246 18 [Napoleon's] army, on the night of the battle of Austerlitz... presented him with a bouquet of forty standards taken in the fight.
NMW 4.249 8 At Arcola [said Napoleon] I won the battle with twenty-five horsemen.
ET4 5.59 18 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand...
ET5 5.86 10 ...the English can put more men into the rank, on the day of action, on the field of battle, than any other army.
ET11 5.197 13 Now, said Nelson, when clearing for battle, a peerage, or Westminster Abbey!
ET19 5.313 16 I see [England]...with a kind of instinct...that in storm of battle and calamity she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.
Bhr 6.183 22 ...if [the enthusiast] finds the scholar apart from his companions...the scholar has no defence, but must deal on his terms. Now they must fight the battle out on their private strength.
Wsp 6.239 4 The son of Antiochus asked his father when he would join battle.
Clbs 7.233 1 ...there are the gladiators, to whom [conversation] is always a battle;...
Cour 7.258 5 In war even generals are seldom found eager to give battle.
Suc 7.284 21 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. ... The details of working [cannons] in battle, if it is necessary to teach, I shall teach them.
Suc 7.287 15 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/ In struggle with man, in battle with brute:--/...
Suc 7.308 18 I do not find...grisly photographs of the field on the day after the battle, fit subjects for cabinet pictures.
PI 8.59 21 [Odin] could make his enemies in battle blind or deaf...
SA 8.96 5 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will ride to battle horsed on the very logic which you found irresistible.
Elo2 8.111 2 I do not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest than to any anecdote of eloquence;...
Elo2 8.111 4 I do not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest than to any anecdote of eloquence; and the wise think it better than a battle.
Elo2 8.111 8 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...
Elo2 8.115 26 [The orator's speech] is action, as the general's word of command or chart of battle is action.
Res 8.145 14 ...the Corsicans at the battle of Golo...made use of the bodies of their dead to form an intrenchment.
PerF 10.85 5 ...a military genius, instead of using that to defend his country, he says, I will fight the battle so as to give me place and political consideration;...
Prch 10.220 22 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle;...
MoL 10.257 19 Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of Northern and Border statesmen could not untie.
MoL 10.257 26 I learn with grief...that you have had your sufferers in the battle...
MMEm 10.428 21 Saladin caused his shroud to be made, and carried it to battle as his standard.
HDC 11.58 16 ...[Simon Willard] fought with disadvantage against an enemy who must be hunted before every battle.
HDC 11.76 23 ...having quit you like men in the battle, you [veterans of the battle of Concord] have quit yourselves like men in your virtuous families;...
War 11.156 17 To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting.
FSLN 11.235 4 To make good the cause of Freedom, you must draw off from all foolish trust in others. You must be...the charter, the battle and the victory.
SMC 11.357 11 I have a note of a conversation that occurred in our first company, the morning before the battle of Bull Run.
SMC 11.365 8 In the disastrous battle of Bull Run this [Massachusetts] company behaved well...
SMC 11.365 21 The three months of the enlistment expired a few days after the battle [of Bull Run].
SMC 11.368 14 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle seventy-two hours...
SMC 11.368 16 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle seventy-two hours...
SMC 11.371 20 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...
SMC 11.371 25 Every day, for the last eight days, there has been a terrible battle the whole length of the line.
SMC 11.373 2 Early in the morning of the eighteenth [the Thirty-second Regiment] went to the front, formed line of battle...
SMC 11.374 9 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry, near the Five Forks, and took an important part in that battle which opened Petersburg and Richmond...
CInt 12.114 17 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...and battle oft rumored to be marching up to her walls and suburb trenches,-yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...
CInt 12.121 15 The whole battle is fought in a few heads.
Milt1 12.251 24 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature; and the accidental facts on which a battle of principles was fought have already passed, or are fast passing, into oblivion.
Pray 12.353 28 If but this tedious battle could be fought,/ Like Sparta's heroes at one rocky pass,/ One day be spent in dying, men had sought/ The spot, and been cut down like mower's grass./
ET11 5.189 4 Scotland was a camp until the day of Culloden.
Humb 11.458 17 One of [Germany's] writers warns his countrymen that it is not the Battle of Leipsic, but the Leipsic Fair Catalogue, which raises them above the French.
ALin 11.335 8 In four years,-four years of battle-days,-[Lincoln's] endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried...
NMW 4.245 8 When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field [said Napoleon], they have all one rank in my eyes.
MMEm 10.423 14 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a few days of agony...compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
HDC 11.75 6 The militia and minute-men...ran over the hills opposite the battle-field...
EPro 11.323 21 Give [the Confederacy] Washington, and they would have assumed the army and navy, and, through these, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. It looks as if the battle-field would have been at least as large in that event as it is now.
SMC 11.368 5 How would Concord people, [George Prescott] asks, like to pass the night on the battle-field, and hear the dying cry for help, and not be able to go to them.
Let 12.400 1 Is [Germany] not like some battle-field, where hands and arms and all members lie scattered about, whilst the life-blood runs away into the sand?
Con 1.295 12 The war [between Conservatism and Innovation] rages not only in battle-fields...
ET4 5.56 20 Bonaparte's art of war, namely of concentrating force on the point of attack, must always be theirs who have the choice of the battle-ground.
PerF 10.87 12 ...the world is a battle-ground;...
Ctr 6.159 21 The Greek battle-pieces are calm;...
LT 1.284 1 ...we begin to doubt if that great revolution in the art of war, which has made it a game of posts instead of a game of battles, has not operated on Reform;...
Prd1 2.237 17 The Latin proverb says, In battles the eye is first overcome.
NMW 4.232 11 [Bonaparte]...won his battles in his head before he won them on the field.
NMW 4.236 23 [Napoleon] fought sixty battles.
NMW 4.248 26 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained.
NMW 4.248 27 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops... feel inclined to run.
NMW 4.251 21 I admire [Bonaparte's] simple, clear narrative of his battles;...
ET6 5.109 11 Wellington governed India and Spain and his own troops, and fought battles...
Ill 6.312 8 The boy, how sweet to him is his fancy! how dear the story of barons and battles!
Elo2 8.131 1 ...great generals do not fight many battles, but conquer by tactics...
Aris 10.49 23 The verdict of battles will best prove the general;...
MoL 10.245 21 A French prophet of our age, Fourier, predicted that one day, instead of by battles and Oecumenical Councils, the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.
Plu 10.315 5 [Plutarch] thinks it was by superior virtue that Alexander won his battles in Asia and Africa...
War 11.153 1 The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above each other by new merits...
War 11.157 26 ...the art of war...has made...battles less frequent and less murderous.
SMC 11.367 12 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation, attested by the names of the thirty battles they were authorized to inscribe on their flag...
FRep 11.521 24 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race, bought with battles and revolutions and religion...
MAng1 12.227 25 The midnight battles, the forced marches, the winter campaigns of Julius Caesar or Charles XII. do not indicate greater strength of body or of mind [than Michelangelo's].
AgMs 12.358 23 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...not like Napoleon, hero of sixty battles, but of six thousand...
HCom 11.339 12 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.
Nat 1.52 17 [Shakspeare's] imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand...
PC 8.230 2 Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show.
DSA 1.121 17 The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of light...
NMW 4.248 2 I think all men...know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles;...
DL 7.106 3 What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood!
PPh 4.63 23 The misery of man is to be baulked of the sight of essence...
MoS 4.179 20 [The young spirit] has been often baulked.
NMW 4.231 5 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born;...of a perception which did not suffer itself to be baulked or misled by any pretences of others...
NMW 4.258 14 It was...the eternal law of man and of the world which baulked and ruined [Napoleon];...
Ill 6.313 13 Children, youths, adults and old men, all are led by one bawble or another.
Nat2 3.174 20 ...it is the magical lights of the horizon and the blue sky for the background which save all our works of art, which were otherwise bawbles.
Thor 10.476 9 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove...
Hist 2.22 14 In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity; a progress, certainly, from the gad-fly of Astaboras to the Anglo and Italomania of Boston Bay.
Hsm1 2.257 18 Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places...
Bost 12.183 7 The sea returning day by day/ Restores the world-wide mart;/ So let each dweller on the Bay/ Fold Boston in his heart./
Pol1 3.211 5 ...the children of the convicts of Botany Bay are found to have as healthy a moral sentiment as other children.
EWI 11.116 12 At Grace Bay, [the day following emancipation in the West Indies] the people, all dressed in white, formed a procession...
HDC 11.61 18 When the Dutch, or the French, or the English royalist disagreed with the [Massachusetts Bay] Colony, there was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,-an earnest minority,-to keep things from extremity.
hDC 11.63 9 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676. The following year, he was sent to England...as agent for the colony;...
HDC 11.42 27 The charter gave to the freemen of the Company of Massachusetts Bay the election of the Governor and Council of Assistants.
HDC 11.43 6 ...the Company [of Massachusetts Bay] removed to New England;...
HDC 11.44 11 ...it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through [the townsmen] to the Governor and the Council of Massachusetts Bay.
Pow 6.63 9 ...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...
Civ 7.17 14 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./ Well done! he cries; the bear is kept at bay/...
Civ 7.21 17 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay.
Cour 7.272 21 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was...in the instinct which, at Thermopylae, held Asia at bay...
HDC 11.56 18 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay built ships...
HDC 11.84 20 [Our fathers] stint and higgle on the price of a pew, that they may send 200 soldiers to General Washington to keep Great Britain at bay.
CL 12.157 8 Can you bring home...the sunny shores of your own bay, and the low Indian hills of Rhode Island?...
Bost 12.190 17 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
Bost 12.190 25 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its shores trending steadily from the two arms which the capes of Massachusetts stretch out to sea, down to the bottom of the bay where the city domes and spires sparkle through the haze,-a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
Bost 12.191 16 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...
HDC 11.58 6 From Narragansett to the Connecticut River, the scene of war was shifted as fast as these red hunters could traverse the forest.
SA 8.94 13 ...[Madame de Stael] said...If it were not for respect to human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time...
Mrs1 3.144 12 ...here is...Signor Torre del Greco, who extinguished Vesuvius by pouring into it the Bay of Naples;...
ET3 5.42 15 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...delicious landscape in Dovedale, delicious sea-view at Tor Bay...
Hsm1 2.258 10 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of...Bayard...teach us how needlessly mean our life is;...
LE 1.163 12 ...in the great idea and the puny execution;...behold Bayard's... day...
QO 8.180 25 Whoso knows Plutarch, Lucian, Rabelais, Montaigne and Bayle will have a key to many supposed originalities.
Boks 7.192 25 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to time appear,--the...Mirandolas, Bayles, Johnsons...
Cour 7.261 7 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
Pol1 3.220 7 ...let not the most conservative and timid fear anything from a premature surrender of the bayonet and the system of force.
Cour 7.264 27 ...the...shining helmets, beard and moustache of the soldier have conquered you long before his sword or bayonet reaches you.
War 11.166 16 ...bayonet and sword must first retreat a little from their ostentatious prominence;...
Chr1 3.90 14 [The man of character's] victories are by demonstration of superiority, and not by crossing of bayonets.
NMW 4.233 1 The weavers strike for bread, and the king and his ministers...meet them with bayonets.
Pow 6.72 13 The men whom in peaceful communities we hold if we can with iron at their legs...this man [Napoleon] dealt with hand to hand...and won his victories by their bayonets.
Bhr 6.181 3 The military eye I meet, now darkly sparkling under clerical, now under rustic brows. 'T is the city of Lacedaemon; 't is a stack of bayonets.
Cour 7.274 17 The tender skin does not shrink from bayonets...
War 11.165 22 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart.
FSLC 11.192 6 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
DL 7.116 9 What kind of a house was kept...by...Jean Paul Richter at Baireuth?
CL 12.153 19 ...whenever we find a coast broken up into bays and harbors, we find an instant effect on the intellect and the industry of the people.
Prd1 2.233 14 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople...
Prd1 2.233 16 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who skulk about all day...and at evening, when the bazaars are open, slink to the opium-shop, swallow their morsel and become tranquil and glorified seers.
Nat 1.21 1 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America; - before it the beach lined with savages...can we separate the man from the living picture?
LT 1.266 16 ...when we stand by the seashore...a wave comes up the beach far higher than any foregoing one, and recedes;...
Nat2 3.180 22 The whirling bubble on the surface of a brook admits us to the secret of the mechanics of the sky. Every shell on the beach is a key to it.
NER 3.259 1 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high and dry on the beach...
Bty 6.282 4 The boy had juster views when he gazed at the shells on the beach or the flowers in the meadow, unable to call them by their names, than the man in the pride of his nomenclature.
Boks 7.219 18 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark; I watch them on waves on the beach;...
Suc 7.299 21 You walk on the beach and enjoy the animation of the picture.
Suc 7.299 25 What is the beach but acres of sand?...
EzRy 10.384 23 Then again, May 5th [1735, Joseph Emerson writes]: Went to the beach with three of the children.
YA 1.368 11 ...[the farmer] is so contented with his alleys, woodlands, orchards and river, that Niagara...and Nantasket Beach, are superfluities.
CL 12.136 19 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction...that in every district were swamps, or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which...were capable of yielding immense benefit.
WD 7.160 17 In Massachusetts we fight the sea successfully with beach-grass and broom...
CL 12.137 13 [Linnaeus] discovered that the arundo arenaris, or beach-grass, had long firm roots...
DL 7.108 20 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies...bead eyes...
MoS 4.184 12 ...to each man is administered a single drop, a bead of dew of vital power, per day...
WD 7.170 24 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...the fashion of a cloak or hat; like the luck of naked Indians, of whom one is proud in the possession of a glass bead or a red feather...
WD 7.171 10 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...these, not like a glass bead, or the coins or carpets, are given immeasurably to all.
PI 8.3 8 Poverty, frost, famine, disease, debt, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense.
Bost 12.202 6 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] London is a long way off, with beadles and pursuivants and horse-guards.
Exp 3.50 5 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads...
Exp 3.50 19 Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung.
MoS 4.170 12 We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things: all worlds are strung on it, as beads;...
ET5 5.96 18 [The English] make ponchos for the Mexican...beads for the Indian...
Ctr 6.152 19 Can it be that the American forest has refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out,--the love...of beads and tinsel?
PI 8.70 23 Every man may be...lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood...strings worlds like beads upon his thought.
QO 8.187 22 ...if we learn how old are...the fret, the beads, and other ornaments on our walls...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
Imtl 8.329 3 A man of thought is willing to die, willing to live; I suppose because he has seen the thread on which the beads are strung...
Imtl 8.344 26 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect... which threads the globes as beads on a string...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
Mem 12.90 5 ...[memory] is the thread on which the beads of man are strung...
Pray 12.356 5 ...we must not tie up the rosary on which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint Augustine.
Bhr 6.182 3 The nose of Julius Caesar, of Dante, and of Pitt, suggest the terrors of the beak.
Con 1.324 21 ...the stars in heaven shall glow with a kindlier beam, that I have lived.
NER 3.249 3 In the suburb, in the town,/ On the railway, in the square,/ Came a beam of goodness down/ Doubling daylight everywhere/...
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.
Bty 6.279 8 [Seyd] smote the lake to feed his eye/ With the beryl beam of the broken wave./
Civ 7.27 13 You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad-axe chopping upward chips from a beam.
PPo 8.262 19 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
SovE 10.193 5 It is impossible to tilt the beam [of Divine justice].
Prch 10.236 1 ...we should astonish every day by a beam out of eternity;...
Schr 10.266 1 ...[the poet's] achievement is...letting in a beam of the pure eternity which burns up this limbo of shadows and chimeras in which we dwell.
MMEm 10.430 9 I [Mary Moody Emerson] pray to die, though happier myriads and mine own companions press nearer to the throne. His coldest beam will purify and render me forever holy.
EWI 11.110 21 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe, being made just broad enough on the beam to keep the sea.
CL 12.145 15 [The farmer] makes every cloud in the sky, and every beam of the sun, serve him.
MAng1 12.237 7 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.
PI 8.55 27 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in Ben Jonson's songs, including certainly The Faery beam upon you...
SR 2.80 20 ...the immortal light...will beam over the universe...
SwM 4.146 4 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him...
Bty 6.279 20 In dens of passion, and pits of woe, [Seyd] saw strong Eros struggling through,/ To sun the dark and solve the curse,/ And beam to the bounds of the universe./
PPo 8.264 7 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./
PPo 8.264 9 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./
EWI 11.120 20 Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God...
MLit 12.335 3 A charm as radiant as beauty ever beamed...is new to-day.
Suc 7.296 9 We assume...that there is but one Homer, but one Shakspeare, one Newton, one Socrates. But the soul in her beaming hour does not acknowledge these usurpations.
SR 2.64 27 ...when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to [universal intelligence's] beams.
Mrs1 3.133 4 [A man] should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams...
Bhr 6.178 10 ...by beams of kindness [an eye] can make the heart dance with joy.
Wsp 6.241 15 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...it will have heaven and earth for its beams and rafters;...
Ill 6.318 23 What if you shall come to discern that the play and playground of all this pompous history are radiations from yourself, and that the sun borrows his beams?
Civ 7.30 14 It was a great instruction, said a saint in Cromwell's war, that the best courages are but beams of the Almighty.
Elo1 7.98 13 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs,--when a weak human hand touches...the eternal beams and rafters on which the whole structure of Nature and society is laid.
WD 7.159 11 Why need I speak of steam...which...can twist beams of iron like candy-braids...
WD 7.182 9 Fancy defines herself:--Forms that men spy/ With the half-shut eye/ In the beams of the setting sun, am I./
Cour 7.273 24 The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some passages in the defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a great instruction that the best and highest courages are beams of the Almighty.
Imtl 8.333 20 Here is this wonderful thought. But whence came it? Who put it in the mind? It was not I, it was not you; it is elemental,-belongs to thought and virtue, and whenever we have either we see the beams of this light.
Dem1 10.11 8 ...the atmosphere of a summer morning is filled with innumerable gossamer threads running in every direction, revealed by the beams of the rising sun!
PerF 10.71 22 The sun has lost no beams...
Schr 10.263 24 [Intellect] is the power that makes the world incarnated in man, and laying again the beams of heaven and earth...
MMEm 10.424 8 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work, on which frightful Gorgons are at play, spite of holy ghosts. 'T is already moth-eaten and its shuttles quaver, as the beams of the loom are shaken.
SlHr 10.448 26 With beams December planets dart,/ [Samuel Hoar's] cold eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his sunny heart,/ October in his liberal hand./
EWI 11.144 22 The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.
Pray 12.357 2 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak sight upon myself, shooting out beams upon me after a vehement manner;...
AmS 1.108 21 [The universal mind] is one light which beams out of a thousand stars.
Lov1 2.170 17 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women...
MMEm 10.412 12 ...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author...it exults, too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.
MAng1 12.244 22 ...[Michelangelo] was a brother and a friend to all who acknowledge the beauty that beams in universal Nature...
NMW 4.248 5 Bonaparte relied on his own sense, and did not care a bean for other people's.
Thor 10.468 12 [Thoreau]...noticed, with pleasure, that the willow bean-poles of his neighbor had grown more than his beans.
Wth 6.114 8 Pride...can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn...
Thor 10.468 13 [Thoreau]...noticed, with pleasure, that the willow bean-poles of his neighbor had grown more than his beans.
Thor 10.480 21 Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days;...
Thor 10.480 23 Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days; but if, at the end of years, is it still only beans!
RBur 11.441 17 ...[Burns] has endeared...beans and barley;...
Milt1 12.263 11 [Milton] tells us...that he who would write an epic to the nations must eat beans and drink water.
QO 8.186 22 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...Jack and his Beanstalk...
Civ 7.30 19 Let us not lie and steal. No god will help. We shall find all their teams going the other way,--Charles's Wain, Great Bear...every god will leave us.
MMEm 10.401 18 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years. It was...within sight of the White Mountains, with a little lake in front at the foot of a high hill called Bear Mountain.
Nat 1.65 12 ...the bear and tiger rend us.
Nat2 3.182 22 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear...
Civ 7.17 14 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./ Well done! he cries; the bear is kept at bay/...
Farm 7.151 20 ...[the first planter]...has no road but the trail of the moose or bear;...
Farm 7.151 24 ...when [the first planter] is hungry, he cannot always kill and eat a bear...
Farm 7.151 25 ...when [the first planter] is hungry, he cannot always kill and eat a bear,--chances of war,--sometimes the bear eats him.
Cour 7.279 21 The hunter met [the bear's] gaze,/ Nor yet an inch gave way;/ The bear turned slowly round,/ And slowly moved away./
Elo2 8.114 8 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days...when he was...a hunter of the bear.
Edc1 10.127 7 Certain nations...have made such progress as to compare with these [savages] as these compare with the bear and the wolf.
PLT 12.58 24 No wonder the children...play horse, play soldier, play school, play bear...
AmS 1.92 25 ...great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page. I only would say that it needs a strong head to bear that diet.
AmS 1.115 13 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear...
DSA 1.123 17 ...the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
DSA 1.129 8 There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
LE 1.177 20 [The scholar] must bear his share of the common load.
LE 1.181 23 The good scholar will not refuse to bear the yoke in his youth;...
MN 1.206 15 ...it is as impossible for you to paint a right picture as for grass to bear apples.
MR 1.227 16 ...the community in which we live will hardly bear to be told that every man should be open to ecstacy or a divine illumination...
LT 1.273 13 Fain [the wealthy man] would have the name to be religious; fain he would bear up with his neighbors in that.
Tran 1.347 26 ...unwillingly [Transcendentalists] bear their part of the public and private burdens;...
Comp 2.99 23 Has [the man of genius] light? he must bear witness to the light...
SL 2.148 3 The visions of the night bear some proportion to the visions of the day.
Fdsp 2.214 3 Whatever correction of our popular views we make from insight, nature will be sure to bear us out in...
Hsm1. 2.252 2 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents.
Hsm1 2.253 4 What a disgrace is it to me...to bear the inventory of thy shirts...
Exp 3.55 23 ...each [picture] will bear an emphasis of attention once...
Exp 3.60 4 Life itself is a mixture of power and form, and will not bear the least excess of either.
Exp 3.66 14 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease. Yet nature will not bear you out.
Exp 3.70 23 Bear with these distractions...
Chr1 3.103 1 New actions are the only apologies and explanations of old ones which the noble can bear to offer or to receive.
Mrs1 3.148 17 Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and great ladies, had some right to complain of the absurdity that had been put in their mouths before the days of Waverley; but neither does Scott's dialogue bear criticism.
Gts 3.164 13 Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.
Pol1 3.219 26 We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions;...
NR 3.225 13 The man momentarily stands for the thought, but will not bear examination;...
NER 3.251 22 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church...
NER 3.265 24 The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a dollar, but he will be honest in the Senate, for we can bring public opinion to bear on him.
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.
SwM 4.146 1 If the glory was too bright for [Swedenborg's] eyes to bear... the more excellent is the spectacle he saw...
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.
MoS 4.186 5 ...let [a man] learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence without losing his reverence;...
ShP 4.192 26 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is the Tale of Troy, which the audience will bear hearing some part of, every week;...
ShP 4.213 25 [Shakespeare]...finishes an eyelash or a dimple as firmly as he draws a mountain; yet these, like nature's, will bear the scrutiny of the solar microscope.
ET5 5.83 14 The bias of the nation [England] is a passion for utility. They love the lever...the sea and the wind to bear their freight ships.
ET5 5.87 9 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him...
ET5 5.94 22 The Mark-Lane Express, or the Custom House Returns, bear out to the letter the vaunt of Pope...
ET6 5.108 27 Sir Samuel Romilly could not bear the death of his wife.
ET7 5.116 5 The German name has a proverbial significance of sincerity and honest meaning. The arts bear testimony to it.
ET15 5.272 16 If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right...it might now and then bear the brunt of formidable combinations, but no journal is ruined by wise courage.
F 6.32 15 Cold and sea will train an imperial Saxon race, which nature cannot bear to lose...
Pow 6.65 16 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see, against the unanimous declarations of the people, how much crime the people will bear;...
Wth 6.110 20 The cost of the crime and the expense of courts and of prisons we must bear...
Wth 6.111 11 There are few measures of economy which will bear to be named without disgust;...
Ctr 6.155 27 Solitude...is to genius...the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.
CbW 6.243 13 ...thou, Cyndyllan's son! beware/ Ponderous gold and stuffs to bear/...
SS 7.6 1 Those constitutions which can bear in open day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average structure such as iron and salt...
Art2 7.42 14 All powerful action is performed by bringing the forces of Nature to bear upon our objects.
Art2 7.42 23 ...in our handiwork...we place ourselves in such attitudes as to bring the force of gravity...to bear upon the spade or the axe we wield.
Art2 7.42 26 ...in all our operations we seek not to use our own, but to bring a quite infinite force to bear.
Art2 7.49 6 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar.
Elo1 7.96 27 ...if the pupil be of a texture to bear it, the best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
DL 7.117 13 ...a house should bear witness in all its economy that human culture is the end to which it is built and garnished.
SA 8.96 9 Let Nature bear the expense.
SA 8.103 23 ...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be proud of] suspects...that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself. And I think this is a good country that can bear such a creature as he is.
QO 8.186 16 Hafiz...furnished Moore with the original of the piece,- When in death I shall calm recline,/ Oh, bear my heart to my mistress dear,/ etc.
Imtl 8.326 11 No more truth can be conveyed than the popular mind can bear...
PerF 10.70 3 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal, and see...how many arms better than Springfield muskets, we can bring to bear.
SovE 10.206 25 We in America are charged...that...we look at and will bear nothing above us in the state...
MoL 10.256 9 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning, their Greek, their varied literature. That ice won't bear.
MoL 10.257 19 We will not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear.
Schr 10.287 11 [The scholar] shall not submit to degradation, but shall bear these crosses with what grace he can.
LLNE 10.331 18 [Everett] had a great talent for collecting facts, and for bringing those he had to bear with ingenious felicity on the topic of the moment.
EzRy 10.388 5 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues. There is none of that large family left but you, and it rests with you to bear up the good name and usefulness of your ancestors.
EzRy 10.390 22 We remember the remark made by the old farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate. Travellers from the West and North and South bear the like testimony.
MMEm 10.420 1 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home. That ten dollars my dear father earned, and one hundred dollars remain, and I can't bear to take it...
Thor 10.478 14 [Thoreau] thought that without religion or devotion of some kind nothing great was ever accomplished: and he thought that the bigoted sectarian had better bear this in mind.
Thor 10.481 7 ...[Thoreau] could not bear to hear the sound of his own steps...
Carl 10.490 16 [Carlyle]...is a very national figure, and would by no means bear transplantation.
HDC 11.76 19 ...you, my fathers [veterans of battle of Concord]...may well bear a chief part in keeping this peaceful birthday of our town.
EWI 11.124 17 [The negroes] seemed created by Providence to bear the heat and the whipping, and make these fine articles.
FSLC 11.199 20 ...Mr. Webster can judge whether this sort of solar microscope brought to bear on his law is likely to make opposition less.
FSLC 11.208 23 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves. I say buy...that we may...bear a countryman's share in relieving [the planter];...
AsSu 11.250 3 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing...to bear his part in the labor which party organization requires.
HCom 11.345 3 We shall not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear.
ChiE 11.473 16 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has twice attempted to carry through Congress, requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
CPL 11.506 11 [Kepler writes] ...I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice; if you are angry, I can bear it;...
PLT 12.19 22 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can. At last he must be able to tell you it, or write it, translate it all clumsily enough into the new sky-language he calls thought. He cannot help it, the irresistible meliorations bear him forward.
II 12.82 7 Trust entirely the thought. Lean upon it, it will bear up thee and thine...
CL 12.150 2 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees, which bear more numerous branches on their southern side; (2) ant-hills...(3) aspens...
Milt1 12.272 1 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of literary liberty... insisting that a book shall come into the world as freely as a man, so only it bear the name of author or printer...
Pray 12.353 10 These duties are not the life, but the means which enable us to show forth the life. So must I take up this cross, and bear it willingly.
Let 12.394 7 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the writers...should be dissatisfied with the life they lead, and with their company. They...will not bear it much longer.
Let 12.400 27 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans; some seven years later, and...they are like a soil which an enemy has sown with poison, that it will not bear a blade of grass.
ET4 5.63 9 The brutality of the manners in the [English] lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting, cock-fighting, love of executions...
Exp 3.53 6 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who...by such cheap signboards as the color of his beard or the slope of his occiput, reads the inventory of his fortunes and character.
Mrs1 3.154 19 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never...some fool who had cut off his beard...but fled at once to him;...
NMW 4.247 2 We can not...sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who took occasion by the beard...
ET10 5.162 20 Scandinavian Thor...in England...has shorn his beard...
Cour 7.264 25 ...the...shining helmets, beard and moustache of the soldier have conquered you long before his sword or bayonet reaches you.
OA 7.322 5 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them: as at My Cid, with the fleecy beard, in Toledo;...
Thor 10.461 13 [Thoreau] was...of light complexion, with strong, serious blue eyes, and a grave aspect,-his face covered in the late years with a becoming beard.
MAng1 12.220 27 ...one of the last drawings in [Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling; for it is a sketch of an old man with a long beard, in a go-cart, with an hour-glass before him; and the motto, Ancora imparo, I still learn.
LE 1.169 8 ...the pines, bearded with savage moss...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
SS 7.11 6 ...the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is [the scholar's] rent and ration.
ET12 5.212 26 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors for not admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and Aristotle...
CSC 10.374 21 Madmen, madwomen, men with beards...all successively... seized their moment [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
Aris 10.29 9 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...
SMC 11.369 6 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which the bearer had in his hand.
CL 12.149 7 The Hindoos called fire Agni...bearer of oblations...
Ctr 6.146 8 Some men are made for...missionaries, bearers of despatches...
CL 12.149 4 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins (Waters), long-armed, good-looking Aswins! bearers of wealth...harness your car!
ET4 5.63 16 The [English] public schools are charged with being bear-gardens of brutal strength...
OS 2.291 20 ...what rebuke [simple souls'] plain fraternal bearing casts on the mutual flattery with which authors solace each other...
Mrs1 3.149 20 I have seen an individual...who shook off the captivity of etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing...
SwM 4.101 3 [Swedenborg] had great modesty and gentleness of bearing.
MoS 4.178 24 Reason...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment amidst the hubbub of cares and works which have no direct bearing on it;...
ET6 5.106 6 ...[the Englishman's] bearing, on being introduced, is cold...
ET9 5.148 10 [This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain]... encourages a frank and manly bearing...
ET9 5.149 12 ...the prestige of the English name warrants a certain confident bearing...
Bhr 6.175 24 We had in Massachusetts an old statesman who had sat all his life...in chairs of state without overcoming an extreme irritability of face, voice and bearing;...
Bhr 6.182 20 A calm and resolute bearing, a polished speech...are essential to the courtier;...
Farm 7.153 9 Put [the farmer] on a new planet and he would know where to begin; yet there is no arrogance in his bearing...
PI 8.44 17 This power [of characterization] appears not only in the outline or portrait of [Shakespeare's] actors, but also in the bearing and behavior and style of each individual.
TPar 11.286 13 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of duty, or accepted nobly that assigned him in his rare constitution. Wonderful acquisition of knowledge, a rapid wit that heard all, and welcomed all that came, by seeing its bearing.
II 12.88 1 These studies [of the Intellect] seem to me to derive an importance from their bearing on the universal question of modern times, the question of Religion.
Bost 12.198 14 No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
WD 7.161 4 The chain of Western railroads from Chicago to the Pacific has planted cities and civilization in less time than it costs to bring an orchard into bearing.
JBS 11.276 2 A man there came, whence none could tell,/ Bearing a touchstone in his hand,/ And tested all things in the land/ By its unerrring spell./
Tran 1.358 26 ...it may not be without its advantage that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men, to...verify our bearings from superior chronometers.
Prd1 2.239 23 The thought...[in dispute]...does not show itself proportioned and in its true bearings...
PNR 4.80 6 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...
GoW 4.265 21 ...let one man have the comprehensive eye that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings...
Pow 6.70 16 ...who cares for fallings-out of assassins and fights of bears or grindings of icebergs?
Cour 7.263 26 The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts or wolves...
Cour 7.278 17 ...They see two grizzly bears/ With hunger fierce and fell/ Rush at them unawares/ Right down the narrow dell./
Mem 12.99 7 ...there is a sound sleep of children and of savages, profound as the hibernation of bears, which never visits the eyes of civil gentlemen...
Bost 12.191 23 ...[the planters of Massachusetts] exaggerated their troubles. Bears and wolves were many; but early, they believed there were lions;...
Nat 1.45 23 Unfortunately every one of [the human forms] bears the marks as of some injury;...
AmS 1.91 6 Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence. The literature of every nation bears me witness.
MR 1.252 26 ...we enact the part of the selfish noble and king from the foundation of the world. See, this tree always bears one fruit.
Prd1 2.239 24 The thought...[in dispute]...bears extorted, hoarse, and half witness.
Cir 2.310 10 The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon, and which cause the present order of things, as a tree bears its apples.
SwM 4.141 18 [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.
ET4 5.61 16 The continued draught of the best men in Norway, Sweden and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries, like a tree which bears much fruit when young...
Bhr 6.171 10 Every day bears witness to [manners'] gentle rule.
Wsp 6.203 14 A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Wsp 6.203 15 A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Wsp 6.205 3 Heaven always bears some proportion to earth.
Wsp 6.231 15 He is great whose eyes are opened to see that the reward of actions cannot be escaped, because he is transformed into his action, and taketh its nature, which bears its own fruit...
Farm 7.143 12 Nature works on a method of all for each and each for all. The strain that is made on one point bears on every arch and foundation of the structure.
PI 8.58 18 [The wind] was not born, it sees not,/ And is not seen; it does not come when desired;/ It has no form, it bears no burden,/ For it is void of sin./
QO 8.200 25 My work [said Goethe] is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of Nature; it bears the name of Goethe.
PPo 8.242 1 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Karun (the Persian Croesus)...who, with all his treasures, lies buried not far from the Pyramids, in the sea which bears his name;...
PerF 10.83 26 ...[the world's energies] work together on a system of mutual aid...the strain made on one point bears on every arch and foundation of the structure.
Plu 10.320 24 One proof of Plutarch's skill as a writer is that he bears translation so well.
EWI 11.131 17 If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the Governor break the broad seal of the State; he bears the sword in vain.
War 11.167 9 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...being attacked, he bears it and turns the other cheek...
SMC 11.351 11 The sense of the town, the eloquent inscriptions the shaft now bears...will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
FRO1 11.480 5 Pure doctrine always bears fruit in pure benefits.
NHI 12.2 3 Power that by obedience grows,/ Knowledge that its source not knows,/ Wave which severs whom it bears/ From the things which he compares./
ACri 12.303 25 Classic art is the art of necessity; organic; modern or romantic bears the stamp of caprice or chance.