Nat 1.10 8 I become a transparent eyeball;...
Nat 1.18 3 The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset...
Nat 1.19 13 The shows of day...if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely...
Nat 1.29 2 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man...then all its habits...become sublime.
Nat 1.46 17 ...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
Nat 1.50 5 If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent...
Nat 1.57 10 We become physically nimble and lightsome;...
Nat 1.57 20 We become immortal, for we learn that time and space are relations of matter;...
Nat 1.67 23 ...we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
AmS 1.84 7 ...[the scholar] tends to become a mere thinker...
AmS 1.87 10 ...the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
AmS 1.96 17 In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself...to become a thought of the mind.
AmS 1.100 16 [The scholar's duties] are such as become Man Thinking.
AmS 1.106 12 Men are become of no account.
DSA 1.127 10 Let this faith depart, and...the things it made become false...
DSA 1.130 9 ...we become sensible of the first defect of historical Christianity.
DSA 1.150 11 ...if once you are alive, you shall find [the old forms] shall become plastic and new.
LE 1.157 21 The scholar may lose himself...in words, and become a pedant;...
LE 1.169 2 That is morning...to become as large as nature.
LE 1.173 26 And why must the student be solitary and silent? That he may become acquainted with his thoughts.
MN 1.216 1 ...there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim...that if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion...
MR 1.231 17 ...it is only necessary to ask a few questions as to the progress of the articles of commerce from the fields where they grew, to our houses, to become aware that we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud...
MR 1.241 7 ...he only can become a master, who learns the secrets of labor...
LT 1.273 26 ...a [wealthy] man may say his religion...is become a dividual moveable...
LT 1.275 13 A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity, which had become as good as obsolete for us, is now re-appearing in extracts and allusions...
LT 1.283 20 Thinking, which was a rage, is become an art.
Con 1.297 1 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus]...thou art become an evil eye;...
Con 1.324 15 Whatsoever streams of power and commodity flow to me, shall...become fountains of safety.
Con 1.325 15 ...if I...become idle and dissolute, I quickly come to love the protection of a strong law...
YA 1.367 16 ...sculpture, painting, and religious and civil architecture have become effete...
YA 1.371 8 ...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
Hist 2.5 5 We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks...
Hist 2.25 22 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons... speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it, before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind.
SR 2.54 6 The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.
SR 2.75 10 ...we are become timorous, desponding whimperers.
SR 2.81 20 In Thebes, in Palmyra, [the traveller's] will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they.
Comp 2.100 3 Has [the man of genius] all that the world loves and admires and covets?--he must...afflict them by faithfulness to his truth and become a byword and a hissing.
Comp 2.103 8 The retribution in the circumstance...is often spread over a long time and so does not become distinct until after many years.
Comp 2.116 13 The laws and substances of nature...become penalties to the thief.
SL 2.138 27 ...by contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine.
SL 2.146 8 If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
SL 2.157 5 If [the lawyer] does not believe [his client's innocence] his unbelief will appear to the jury...and will become their unbelief.
Lov1 2.182 8 ...by this love [of beauty] extinguishing the base affection... [the lovers] become pure and hallowed.
Lov1 2.184 10 ...even love...must become more impersonal every day.
Prd1 2.233 18 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who skulk about all day...and at evening...slink to the opium-shop, swallow their morsel and become tranquil and glorified seers.
Prd1 2.236 21 ...every fact hath its roots in the soul, and if the soul were changed would cease to be, or would become some other thing...
Hsm1 2.249 16 Unhappily no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin...
OS 2.269 4 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that overpowering reality...which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and beauty.
OS 2.277 13 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal level in all bosoms...
OS 2.277 17 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they were.
OS 2.290 26 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...dwells...in the earnest experience of the common day,--by reason of the present moment and the mere trifle having become porous to thought...
OS 2.296 25 [The soul saith] More and more the surges of everlasting nature enter into me, and I become public and human in my regards...
Cir 2.310 27 When each new speaker [in a conversation] strikes a new light...we seem to recover our rights, to become men.
Cir 2.318 18 ...this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to us but by contrast to some principle of fixture or stability in the soul.
Cir 2.319 20 Let [the man and woman of seventy] then become organs of the Holy Ghost;...and their eyes are uplifted;...
Int 2.332 23 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious.
Int 2.335 18 To be communicable [the thought] must become picture or sensible object.
Pt1 3.8 14 ...we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts...become the songs of the nations.
Pt1 3.24 21 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity, and lo! his chisel had fashioned out of marble the form of a beautiful youth, Phosphorus, whose aspect is such that it is said all persons who look on it become silent.
Pt1 3.35 22 The figs become grapes whilst [Swedenborg] eats them.
Exp 3.73 3 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol...and the metaphor of each has become a national religion.
Chr1 3.111 24 Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of the character, the most solid enjoyment.
Mrs1 3.127 11 These forms [manners] very soon become fixed...
Nat2 3.179 7 Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology;...and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.
Pol1 3.199 16 ...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement...
NER 3.261 16 ...society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good in some particular but negligent or narrow in the rest;...
NER 3.264 20 ...it may easily be questioned...whether such a retreat [to associations] does not promise to become an asylum to those who have tried and failed...
UGM 4.14 19 ...A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. When the manners of Loo are heard of, the stupid become intelligent...
UGM 4.25 9 ...with the great, our thoughts and manners easily become great.
UGM 4.27 5 [The great man's] attractions warp us from our place. We have become underlings and intellectual suicides.
UGM 4.28 15 There is such good will to impart, and such good will to receive, that each threatens to become the other;...
PPh 4.44 18 ...in proportion to the culture of men they become [Plato's] scholars;...
PPh 4.45 24 As soon as [children] can speak and tell their want and the reason of it, they become gentle.
PPh 4.46 25 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic...
PPh 4.55 15 [Plato's] argument and his sentence are self-poised and spherical. The two poles appear; yes, and become two hands, to grasp and appropriate their own.
PPh 4.77 17 ...elements, planet itself, laws of planet and of men, have passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no longer bread, but body...
PPh 4.77 18 ...elements, planet itself, laws of planet and of men, have passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no longer bread, but body: so all this mammoth morsel has become Plato.
SwM 4.113 6 ...as often as [nature] betakes herself upward from visible phenomena...she instantly as it were disappears, while no one knows what has become of her...
SwM 4.129 17 You love the worth in me; then I am your husband; but it is not me, but the worth, that fixes the love; and that worth is a drop of the ocean of worth that is beyond me. Meantime I adore the greater worth in another, and so become his wife.
SwM 4.132 7 It is dangerous to sculpture these evanescing images of thought. True in transition, they become false if fixed.
SwM 4.132 9 ...when [Swedenborg's] visions become the stereotyped language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age and capacity, they are perverted.
SwM 4.144 16 [Swedenborg's books have become a monument.
ShP 4.192 5 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national interest...
ShP 4.198 19 ...as soon as we have learned what to do with [borrowed thoughts] they become our own.
NMW 4.243 25 I have only to put some gold-lace on the coat of my virtuous republicans [said Napoleon] and they immediately become just what I wish them.
GoW 4.273 13 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition...this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.
GoW 4.279 3 ...[the hero and heroine of Sand's Consuelo] become the servants of great ideas...
ET4 5.50 12 As the scale mounts, the organizations become complex.
ET4 5.73 2 ...[the English] boast...that their horses are become their second selves.
ET5 5.95 18 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too, which was already believed to have become milder and drier by the enormous consumption of coal, is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
ET13 5.221 10 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them, and that it would become their magnanimity, after so great successes, to take order that a proper acknowledgement be made.
ET14 5.248 13 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges, that he...has become a potentate not to be ignored.
ET14 5.254 27 ...having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away. The artists say, Nature puts them out; the scholars have become unideal.
ET14 5.259 8 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all references to such sentiments or manners as are become the standards of propriety for opinion and action in our own modes...
ET16 5.274 18 In these days, [Carlyle] thought, it would become an architect to consult only the grim necessity...
ET18 5.304 2 [England's] colonial policy, obeying the necessities of a vast empire, has become liberal.
F 6.12 8 Each [tendency] absorbs so much food and force as to become itself a new centre.
F 6.17 7 It is a rule that the most casual and extraordinary events, if the basis of population is broad enough, become matter of fixed calculation.
F 6.20 8 As we refine, our checks become finer.
F 6.42 24 ...in each town there is some man who is...an explanation of the... ways of living and society of that town. If you do not chance to meet him, all that you see will leave you a little puzzled; if you see him it will become plain.
F 6.43 15 Every solid in the universe is ready to become fluid on the approach of the mind...
Pow 6.68 5 All the elements whose aid man calls in will sometimes become his masters...
Wth 6.111 2 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported. That has become an inevitable element of our politics;...
Wsp 6.228 14 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots. The young nun, who had become the object of much attention and respect, drew back with anger...
Bty 6.285 13 At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated?
Bty 6.292 9 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones, so that they...become tender or sublime with expression.
Ill 6.308 3 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
SS 7.11 11 As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
Civ 7.27 5 Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct: Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.
Art2 7.42 10 [Man] seems to take his task so minutely from intimations of Nature that his works become as it were hers...
Art2 7.48 10 ...in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so as to become a sort of continuation... of Nature;...
Elo1 7.81 23 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it seems first to become truly human...
Elo1 7.89 16 Every fact gains consequence by [the orator's] naming it, and trifles become important.
Elo1 7.99 13 If [eloquence] do not so become an instrument, but aspires to be somewhat of itself, and to glitter for show, it is false and weak.
DL 7.132 3 Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum]. Every one of us would gladly contribute his share; and the more gladly, the more considerable the institution had become.
WD 7.170 10 There are days which are the carnival of the year. The angels assume flesh, and repeatedly become visible.
Boks 7.191 6 [Books] become the organic culture of the time.
Boks 7.202 4 ...Winckelmann, a Greek born out of due time, has become essential to an intimate knowledge of the Attic genius.
Clbs 7.250 6 There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time...
Cour 7.256 19 We have had examples of men who, for showing effective courage on a single occasion, have become a favorite spectacle to nations...
Cour 7.262 16 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me. ... But I dare not think what would have become of me, if, at that moment, he had scoffed and exposed me.
Cour 7.271 21 If opportunity allowed, [Governor Wise and John Brown] would...desert their former companions. Enemies would become affectionate.
Cour 7.271 24 ...General Daumas and Abdel-Kader, become aware that they are nearer and more alike than any other two...
Cour 7.276 19 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to...foresee in the secular melioration of the planet how these [beast-like men] will become unnecessary and will die out.
Suc 7.291 6 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
PI 8.13 13 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift, even when the thought is of no great scope, as when Michel Angelo, praising the terra cottas, said, If this earth were to become marble, woe to the antiques!
PI 8.18 10 ...hold [the savans] hard to principle and definition, and they become mute and near-sighted.
PI 8.43 2 None any work can frame,/ Unless himself become the same./
PI 8.45 17 ...no matter what objects are near [water]...they become beautiful by being reflected.
PI 8.52 27 ...rhyme is the transparent frame that allows almost the pure architecture of thought to become visible to the mental eye.
SA 8.100 16 ...If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with whip in hand to get them, I will do so.
Res 8.141 20 ...we have seen the snowy deserts on the northwest, seats of Esquimaux, become lands of promise.
Comc 8.160 21 ...all falsehoods, all vices...seen from the point where our moral sympathies do not interfere, become ludicrous.
QO 8.202 4 ...if the thinker...recognizes the perpetual suggestion of the Supreme Intellect, the oldest thoughts become new and fertile whilst he speaks them.
QO 8.204 7 ...the sole terms on which [the Past] can become ours are its subordination to the Present.
PC 8.212 24 The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen clock...
PC 8.226 26 There is anything but humiliation in the homage men pay to a great man; it is...the expression of their hope of what they shall become...
PC 8.227 15 ...the air and water that hang invisibly around us hasten to become solid in the oak and the animal.
PC 8.227 19 In our daily intercourse, we...become the victims of our own arts and implements...
Insp 8.273 20 A fuller inspiration should cause the point to flow and become a line...
Insp 8.285 22 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./
Insp 8.297 15 All our power, all our happiness consists in our reception of [the soul's] hints, which ever become clearer and grander as they are obeyed.
Grts 8.313 6 [Fame] is...that fine element by which the good become partners of the greatness of their superiors.
Dem1 10.3 24 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...
Dem1 10.10 16 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary; and then first we notice that the spots of light have become crescents...
Aris 10.33 25 ...I notice also that [the finer qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock...
PerF 10.83 1 ...the mighty Intellect did not stoop to [the susceptible man] and become property...
Chr2 10.92 21 He is moral...whose aim or motive may become a universal rule...
Chr2 10.108 11 ...the rally on the principle must arrive as people become intellectual.
Edc1 10.127 19 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants', animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man]...fast loses sight of the fact...that they become noxious, when he becomes their slave.
Edc1 10.146 20 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task he had...become associated with distinguished scholars...
SovE 10.194 12 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God]...that these passages of daily life are his work; that in the moment when they desist from interference, these particulars...become the language of mighty principles.
SovE 10.209 11 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with brick and stone. Why have not those who believe in it and love it...dedicated themselves to write out its scientific scriptures to become its Vulgate for millions?
Prch 10.222 15 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. ... The words, great, venerable, have lost their meaning; every thought loses all its depth and has become mere surface.
MoL 10.241 5 You go to be teachers, to become physicians, lawyers, divines;...
Schr 10.279 16 ...the young...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul...become skeptical and forlorn.
Schr 10.288 26 [The scholar] is here to know the secret of Genius; to become, not a reader of poetry, but Homer, Dante, Milton...
Plu 10.322 18 If over-read in this decade, so that his anecdotes and opinions become commonplace...[Plutarch's] sterling values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...
LLNE 10.326 4 The key to the period [1820 and following] appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself.
LLNE 10.338 16 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...the branch of a tree is nothing but a leaf whose serratures have become twigs.
LLNE 10.365 2 In the American social communities, the gossip found such vent and sway as to become despotic.
EzRy 10.382 8 ...now that he had become a professor of religion [Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.
MMEm 10.400 21 Later, another aunt [of Mary Moody Emerson], who had become insane, was brought hither [to Malden] to end her days.
Thor 10.471 4 [Thoreau] said, What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner. You seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it you become its prey.
GSt 10.502 25 [George Stearns] did not hesitate to become the banker of his clients...
LS 11.18 20 [Jesus] teaches us how to become like God.
HDC 11.46 8 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies. And the General Court, thus constituted, only needed to go into separate session from the Council, as they did in 1644, to become essentially the same assembly they are to this day.
LVB 11.92 22 Sir [Van Buren], does this government think that the people of the United States are become savage and mad?
EWI 11.112 26 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...
EWI 11.138 14 Men have become aware, through the emancipation [in the West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence of powers which, in their days of darkness, they had overlooked.
War 11.153 5 The strong tribe, in which war has become an art, attack and conquer their neighbors...
War 11.160 26 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is...the rising of the general tide in the human soul,-and rising highest, and first made visible, in the most simple and pure souls, who have therefore announced it to us beforehand; but presently we all see it. It has now become so distinct as to be a social thought...
War 11.161 6 ...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a subject of prayer and hope...that is the commanding fact.
War 11.161 7 ...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a subject of prayer and hope...that is the commanding fact.
War 11.163 4 It is the tendency of the true interest of man to become his desire and steadfast aim.
War 11.166 12 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the cannon would become street-posts;...
War 11.173 11 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word, peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field. Take away that principle of responsibleness, and they become pirates and ruffians.
FSLN 11.226 21 ...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.
FSLN 11.228 23 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming, a dead letter...
FSLN 11.229 3 ...[the Fugitive Slave Law] discloses the secret of the new times, that Slavery...was become aggressive and dangerous.
ALin 11.333 18 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few years...
Wom 11.409 20 All these ceremonies that hedge our life around...when we have become habituated to them, cannot be dispensed with.
Wom 11.421 8 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;-that...if they become good politicians they are worse clergymen.
Scot 11.465 6 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public...which, though until then unheard of, has become familiar to the present time.
CPL 11.494 5 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...but the poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening. And I verily believe I should have become insane, says Petrarch, if my mind had longer been deprived of its necessary nourishment.
CPL 11.503 8 ...if you can kindle the imagination by a new thought... instantly you expand...and become wise, and even prophetic.
PLT 12.27 19 There is no permanent wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company or other favorable conditions, become wise...
PLT 12.37 19 ...Perception is the armed eye. A civilization has tamed and ripened this savage wit, and he is a Greek. His Aye and No have become nouns and verbs and adverbs.
PLT 12.37 25 At a moment in our history the mind's eye opens and we become aware of spiritual facts...
PLT 12.50 10 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, and has such scope and so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb and not hereafter to become one.
PLT 12.61 2 ...each [mind and heart] is easily exalted in our thoughts till it serves to fill the universe and become the synonym of God...
Mem 12.93 5 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man; all its records full of meanings which open as he lives on... expanding their sense as he advances, until it shall become the whole law of Nature and life.
CInt 12.116 11 If the colleges...really...had the power of imparting...truths which become powers...we should all rush to their gates;...
CInt 12.116 12 If the colleges...really...had the power of imparting... thoughts which become talents...we should all rush to their gates;...
CInt 12.116 13 ...if [colleges] could cause that a mind not profound should become profound,-we should all rush to their gates;...
CInt 12.120 17 [Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it, my counsels to you are not such whereby I should grow great among you, and you become little among the Grecians;...
CL 12.141 4 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul, and the essence of life. By breathing it, we become intelligent...
CL 12.152 4 ...[in October] all the trees are wind-harps, filling the air with music; and all men become poets...
Bost 12.206 3 Moral values become also money values.
MAng1 12.216 3 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years, had not yet become old...
MAng1 12.217 13 Can this charming element [Beauty] be so abstracted by the human mind as to become a distinct and permanent object?
ACri 12.290 17 What the poet omits exalts every syllable that he writes. In good hands it will never become sterility.
ACri 12.294 20 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb, and not only hereafter to become one.
MLit 12.315 5 The great never with their own consent become a load on the minds they instruct.
MLit 12.323 7 ...since the earth as we said had become a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have aided [Goethe] to be that resolute realist he is...
MLit 12.336 5 Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies...into a joyful reverence for the circumambient Whole, and that which was ecstasy shall become daily bread.
Pray 12.351 1 The prayer of Jesus is (as it deserves) become a form for the human race.
Pray 12.353 20 ...let every thought and word go to confirm and illuminate that end; namely, that I must become near and dear to thee [My Father];...
Pray 12.356 11 And being admonished to reflect upon myself, I entered into the very inward parts of my soul, by thy conduct; and I was able to do it, because now thou wert become my helper.
Let 12.401 18 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...all hearts become pious and great...
Let 12.404 16 In Cambridge orations and elsehwere there is much inquiry for that great absentee American Literature. What can have become of it?
Trag 12.416 25 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science. Hence also the torments of life become tuneful tragedy...
Nat 1.9 5 [The lover of nature's] intercourse with heaven and earth becomes part of his daily food.
Nat 1.22 15 There is still another aspect under which the beauty of the world may be viewed, namely, as it becomes an object of the intellect.
Nat 1.29 7 As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque...
Nat 1.34 10 ...the universe becomes transparent...
Nat 1.35 24 That which was unconscious truth, becomes...a part of the domain of knowledge...
Nat 1.40 14 ...the world becomes at last only a realized will...
Nat 1.66 10 The savant becomes unpoetic.
Nat 1.77 1 As when the summer comes...the face of the earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit create its ornaments along its path...
AmS 1.84 1 The priest becomes a form;...
AmS 1.87 5 Nature then becomes to [the scholar] the measure of his attainments.
AmS 1.89 1 Instantly the book becomes noxious...
AmS 1.93 4 ...the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
AmS 1.102 12 ...it becomes [the scholar] to feel all confidence in himself...
DSA 1.123 19 See again the perfection of the Law as it...becomes the law of society.
DSA 1.124 19 In so far as [a man] roves from these [good] ends...he becomes less and less...
DSA 1.128 1 ...man becomes near-sighted...
DSA 1.134 11 ...the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.
DSA 1.134 25 The man enamored of this excellency [of the soul] becomes its priest or poet.
DSA 1.143 22 Literature becomes frivolous.
MN 1.194 18 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite,-but glad and conspiring reception,-reception that becomes giving in its turn...
MN 1.194 27 Not exhortation, not argument becomes our lips...
MN 1.196 20 ...a man lasts but a very little while, for his monomania becomes insupportably tedious in a few months.
MN 1.209 26 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...he becomes careless of his food and of his house...
MN 1.220 14 How all that is called talents and success, in our noisy capitals, becomes buzz and din before this man-worthiness!
MR 1.252 6 We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.
LT 1.272 10 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect. ... If we would make more strict inquiry concerning its origin, we find ourselves rapidly approaching...that term where speech becomes silence...
LT 1.288 26 ...we do not know that...only as much as the law enters us, becomes us, are we living men...
Con 1.321 23 Religion among the low becomes low.
Tran 1.349 6 Each cause as it is called...say Calvinism, or Unitarianism- becomes speedily a little shop...
YA 1.375 15 The patriarchal form of government readily becomes despotic...
YA 1.375 22 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This feeling...becomes petulance and tyranny when the head of the clan...deals with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.
YA 1.393 20 Something may be pardoned to the spirit of loyalty when it becomes fantastic;...
Hist 2.10 1 All history becomes subjective;...
Hist 2.21 11 ...all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized. Then at once History becomes fluid and true, and Biography deep and sublime.
Hist 2.26 27 When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me...time is no more.
Hist 2.28 25 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... is a familiar fact, explained to the child when he becomes a man, only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.
SR 2.45 11 ...the inmost in due time becomes the outmost...
SR 2.69 20 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes;...
SR 2.88 1 ...a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...
Lov1 2.175 13 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when the youth becomes a watcher of windows...
Lov1 2.180 18 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when it becomes a story without an end;...
Lov1 2.187 7 ...losing in violence what it gains in extent, [love] becomes a thorough good understanding.
Fdsp 2.194 9 Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine...
Fdsp 2.200 6 If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly.
Fdsp 2.204 21 When a man becomes dear to me I have touched the goal of fortune.
Prd1 2.232 27 A man of genius...self-indulgent, becomes presently unfortunate, querulous...
OS 2.267 21 Why do men feel that the natural history of man has never been written, but he is always leaving behind what you have said of him, and it becomes old, and books of metaphysics worthless?
OS 2.275 7 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It...becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian than with persons in the house.
OS 2.275 22 Speak to his heart, and the man becomes suddenly virtuous.
OS 2.280 7 To the bad thought which I find in [the book I read], the same soul becomes a discerning, separating sword, and lops it away.
OS 2.280 24 ...the soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature, since it then does not give somewhat from itself, but it...passes into and becomes that man whom it enlightens;...
OS 2.292 17 The simplest person who in his integrity worships God, becomes God;...
Int 2.325 21 ...[the mind] melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other.
Int 2.327 10 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal.
Int 2.331 2 This instinctive action...becomes richer and more frequent in its informations through all states of culture.
Int 2.332 24 Every trivial fact in [the writer's] private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle...
Int 2.339 6 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted...
Art1 2.364 21 ...there is a moment when [the art gallery] becomes frivolous.
Pt1 3.13 9 ...let us...observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming, namely by the beauty of things, which becomes a new and higher beauty when expressed.
Pt1 3.17 17 What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connection of thought.
Pt1 3.34 15 Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false.
Exp 3.85 20 It takes...a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.
Mrs1 3.127 12 ...a fine sense of propriety is cultivated with the more heed that it becomes a badge of social and civil distinctions.
Nat2 3.179 4 Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology;...
Nat2 3.196 10 Nature is the incarnation of a thought, and turns to a thought again, as ice becomes water and gas.
Pol1 3.200 22 Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait, it soon becomes unrecognizable...
UGM 4.27 10 Every hero becomes a bore at last.
UGM 4.28 27 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world where every benefactor becomes so easily a malefactor only by continuation of his activity into places where it is not due;...
UGM 4.30 7 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals.
UGM 4.30 16 ...great men:--the word is injurious. Is there caste? is there fate? What becomes of the promise to virtue?
UGM 4.35 2 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect. Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will. The opaque self becomes transparent with the light of the First Cause.
PNR 4.82 17 Everywhere [Plato] stands on a path which...runs continuously round the universe. Therefore every word becomes an exponent of nature.
SwM 4.134 17 Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive.
NMW 4.226 5 ...a man of Napoleon's truth of adaptation to the mind of the masses around him, becomes not merely representative but actually a monopolizer and usurper of other minds.
NMW 4.228 18 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;...
NMW 4.245 10 When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.
GoW 4.267 6 The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
ET5 5.100 11 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic;...
ET8 5.136 9 Each of [the English] has an opinion which he feels it becomes him to express all the more that it differs from yours.
ET10 5.157 2 The ambition to create value evokes every kind of ability [in England]; government becomes a manufacturing corporation...
ET11 5.173 14 Every man who becomes rich [in England] buys land...
ET16 5.281 8 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position. In the silence of tradition, this one relation to science becomes an important clew;...
ET18 5.300 16 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state, and in hard times becomes hideous.
F 6.13 16 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection...who, as soon as he begins to die...becomes conservative.
F 6.37 10 [The animal] becomes torpid when the fruit or prey it lives on is not in season...
Wth 6.126 14 [The liquor of life] passes through the sacred fermentations, by that law of nature whereby...bodily vigor becomes mental and moral vigor.
Wth 6.126 16 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes, in higher laboratories, imagery and thought;...
Ctr 6.157 23 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies...
Bhr 6.189 17 Not only is [your companion] larger, when at ease and his thoughts generous, but everything around him becomes variable with expression.
Ill 6.322 14 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another; and it cannot signify much what becomes of such castaways...
SS 7.9 3 ...the moment we meet with anybody, each becomes a fraction.
Civ 7.23 11 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...and what a police and ten commandments their work thus becomes.
Art2 7.40 24 Nature is the representative of the universal mind, and the law becomes this,--that Art must be a complement to Nature...
Art2 7.53 23 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made...in tears and smiles of suffering and loving men. Viewed from this point the history of Art becomes intelligible...
Art2 7.54 8 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also. This form becomes immediately sacred in the eyes of their children...
Elo1 7.68 6 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue, which...makes all safe and secure, so that any and every sort of good speaking becomes at once practicable.
Elo1 7.76 4 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union, and he at once becomes famous...
Elo1 7.83 7 The emergency which has convened the meeting is usually of more importance than anything the debaters have in their minds, and therefore becomes imperative to them.
DL 7.105 22 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the new knowledge is taken up into the life of to-day and becomes the means of more.
DL 7.111 26 If we look at this matter [of housekeeping] curiously, it becomes dangerous.
DL 7.124 1 To each occurs, soon after the age of puberty, some event or society or way of living, which becomes the crisis of life...
DL 7.132 22 When [man] perceives the Law, he ceases to despond. Whilst he sees it, every thought and act is raised, and becomes an act of religion.
WD 7.164 15 The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine.
Cour 7.256 7 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men.
Suc 7.283 8 ...we survey our map, which becomes old in a year or two.
OA 7.329 16 [The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty. But every year fills some blanks, and with accelerating speed as he becomes knowing and known.
PI 8.28 18 ...[Lear] becomes fanciful with Tom, playing with the superficial resemblances of objects.
PI 8.34 10 ...every word in language...becomes poetic in the hands of a higher thought.
PI 8.41 16 ...all becomes poetry, when we look from the centre outward...
PI 8.53 6 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant...
PI 8.53 7 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant: the iron becomes steel.
PI 8.53 27 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people...the mind allowing itself range, and therewith is ever a corresponding freedom in the style, which becomes lyrical.
PI 8.74 10 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the truth and reports it, and his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb for ages...
SA 8.82 27 An intellectual man...is instantly reinforced by being put into the company of scholars, and, to the surprise of everybody, becomes a lawgiver.
SA 8.106 19 As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to the man, I see no limit to the horizon which opens before me.
Elo2 8.114 10 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman...
Elo2 8.125 26 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation a style which never becomes obsolete...
Comc 8.157 14 Aristotle's definition of the ridiculous is, what is out of time and place, without danger. If there be pain and danger, it becomes tragic; if not, comic.
Comc 8.159 5 Separate any object...and contemplate it alone, standing there in absolute nature, it becomes at once comic;...
Comc 8.167 1 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... confessedly...a bivouac for a night...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...
Comc 8.174 1 Mirth quickly becomes intemperate...
QO 8.195 22 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep...
PC 8.218 12 If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in spite of the Emperor;...
PPo 8.249 12 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a groom, and heaven a closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer.
Insp 8.292 12 ...[conversation is] the college where you learn what thoughts are, what powers lurk in those fugitive gleams, and what becomes of them;...
Imtl 8.341 14 The demands of [the thinker's] task are such that it becomes omnipresent.
Imtl 8.348 23 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul.
Dem1 10.25 9 [Animal Magnetism] becomes...a black art.
Aris 10.44 27 ...the well-built head supplies all the steps, one as perfect as the other, in the series. Seeing this working head in him, it becomes to me as certain that he will have the direction of estates, as that there are estates.
PerF 10.75 26 ...disorder becomes order where [man] goes; weakness becomes power;...
PerF 10.79 3 [A man] becomes acquainted with the resistances, and with his own tools;...
Chr2 10.94 26 Compare...all our private and personal venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie, and our private good becomes an impertinence...
Edc1 10.126 10 When a man stupid becomes a man inspired...all limits disappear.
Edc1 10.127 20 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants', animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man]...fast loses sight of the fact...that they become noxious, when he becomes their slave.
Edc1 10.132 11 Whilst thus the world exists for the mind;...it becomes the office of a just education to awaken [man] to the knowledge of this fact.
Edc1 10.152 19 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast...
Edc1 10.157 21 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk;...
SovE 10.187 6 The geologic world is chronicled by the growing ripeness of the strata from lower to higher, as it becomes the abode of more highly-organized plants and animals.
SovE 10.204 25 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds.
SovE 10.207 10 It becomes us to consider whether we cannot have a real faith and real objects in lieu of these false ones.
Prch 10.220 8 In proportion to a man's want of goodness...the Deity becomes more objective, until finally flat idolatry prevails.
Schr 10.275 23 There is no power in the mind but in turn becomes an instrument.
Schr 10.282 9 The orator too becomes a fool and a shadow before this light which lightens through him.
Schr 10.283 23 ...trusted and obeyed in happy natures [mother-wit] becomes active and salient...
LLNE 10.328 11 ...government itself becomes the resort of those whom government was invented to restrain.
LLNE 10.350 2 By concert and the allowing each laborer to choose his own work, it becomes pleasure.
LLNE 10.353 13 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just, and straightway every man becomes a centre of a holy and beneficent republic...
LLNE 10.353 17 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized...
LS 11.24 4 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to administer it.
EWI 11.136 5 Lord Chancellor Northington is the author of the famous sentence, As soon as any man puts his foot on English ground, he becomes free.
War 11.156 17 To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting.
War 11.161 14 The star once risen...will mount and mount, until it becomes visible to other men...
FSLN 11.230 2 ...where...[liberty] becomes in a degree matter of concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the incompatibility and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the most cultivated.
SMC 11.351 23 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...becomes a sentiment, a poet, a prophet, an orator...
Shak1 11.450 14 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any tree, a room in any inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest hours.
FRO2 11.487 20 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself...until he...becomes a benefactor.
FRep 11.523 27 ...a certain style of living fast becomes necessary;...
FRep 11.531 22 In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity, which becomes, whilst successful, a scornful materialism...
FRep 11.535 4 ...the land and sea educate the people, and bring out presence of mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed activity. These are the people for an emergency. They...can find a way out of any peril. This rough and ready force becomes them...
PLT 12.23 11 Every scholar knows that he applies himself coldly and slowly at first to his task, but, with the progress of the work, the mind itself becomes heated, and sees far and wide as it approaches the end...
PLT 12.24 27 Increase [the plant's] food and it becomes fertile.
PLT 12.25 2 Surcharge [the mind] with thoughts in which it delights and it becomes active.
PLT 12.36 19 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek... pay to unscrutable force we call Instinct, or Nature when it first becomes intelligent.
PLT 12.38 22 ...the perception [of spiritual facts] thus satisfied reacts on the senses, to clarify them, so that it becomes more indisputable.
PLT 12.45 3 ...if [we converse] with high things...the interval becomes a gulf and we cannot enter into the highest good.
PLT 12.51 1 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged. We detect their mania and humor it, so that conversation soon becomes a tiresome effort.
PLT 12.60 20 The truest state of mind rested in becomes false.
Mem 12.94 7 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza. But where I have them, or what becomes of them when I am not thinking of them...never any man...could turn himself inside out quick enough to find.
ACri 12.284 6 There is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete...
PPr 12.379 19 ...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking...
PPr 12.391 21 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning, becomes an omen to him henceforward...
Let 12.402 1 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate...with the wantonness of the tongue and with the anxiety for a livelihood the blessing of every year becomes a curse...
AmS 1.91 22 ...A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
SwM 4.139 11 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways are altogether evil serve me alone...he soon becometh of a virtuous spirit...
AmS 1.86 27 ...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
NR 3.244 18 ...let us...infer the genius of nature from the best particulars with a becoming charity.
PPh 4.60 10 ...philosophy is an elegant thing, if any one modestly meddles with it [said Plato]; but if he is conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts the man.
ET9 5.148 3 If one of [the English] have...a squeaking or a raven voice, he has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...
ET9 5.149 8 It was said of Louis XIV., that his gait and air were becoming enough in so great a monarch, yet would have been ridiculous in another man;...
Bhr 6.175 7 A prince who is accustomed every day to be courted and deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires...a becoming mode of receiving and replying to this homage.
Bty 6.291 12 ...the smith at his forge, or whatever useful labor, is becoming to the wise eye.
Boks 7.213 9 [The great arts] are [man's] becoming draperies...
Boks 7.215 13 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.
OA 7.320 5 Age is becoming in the country.
SA 8.87 22 [The young European emigrant's] good and becoming clothes put him on thinking that he must behave like people who are so dressed;...
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.
HDC 11.29 7 You have thought it becoming to commemorate the planting of the first inland town [Concord].
SR 2.66 27 ...history is an impertinence and an injury if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.
Nat 1.57 8 ...no man touches these divine natures [ideas], without becoming, in some degree, himself divine.
MN 1.203 9 ...total nature...is becoming somewhat else;...
MN 1.217 16 He who is in love is wise, and is becoming wiser...
MR 1.233 17 ...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them, and they come forth from it. Such cases are becoming more numerous every year.
Con 1.300 21 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life; what was the mouth of the shell for one season...becoming an ornamental node.
Hist 2.16 19 A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree;...
Comp 2.125 3 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen...
PPh 4.68 6 Plato...attempted as if on the part of human intellect, once for all to do it adequate homage,--homage fit for the immense soul to receive, and yet homage becoming the intellect to render.
ET4 5.64 20 As soon as this land [England]...got a hardy people into it, they could not help becoming the sailors and factors of the globe.
ET14 5.260 2 I can well believe what I have often heard, that there are two nations in England; but it is not the Poor and the Rich, nor is it...the Celt and the Goth. These are each always becoming the other;...
ET15 5.269 2 When I see [the English] reading [the London Times's] columns, they seem to me becoming every moment more British.
CbW 6.277 15 The individuals are...in the act of becoming something else, and irresponsible.
Farm 7.146 12 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little...
WD 7.170 3 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early dawn,--a few lights conspicuous in the heaven, as of a world just created and still becoming...
WD 7.172 5 Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born, or what German philosophy denotes as a becoming.
Imtl 8.334 9 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance and adjustment...of a moss, to its wants, growth and perpetuation; all these adjustments becoming perfectly intelligible to our study,-and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
Edc1 10.136 2 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the man...he does not yet know his wealth. He is in danger of becoming merely devout...
Prch 10.230 1 The clergy are always in danger of becoming wards and pensioners of the so-called producing classes.
LLNE 10.335 16 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is...becoming a national institution.
EzRy 10.387 20 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family. He mentioned to me on the way his fears that the oldest son...was becoming intemperate.
EWI 11.145 11 The civility of the world has reached that pitch that [the black race's] more moral genius is becoming indispensable...
FSLN 11.228 23 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming, a dead letter...
SMC 11.366 16 In August, 1862...when it was becoming difficult to meet the draft...twelve men, including [Sylvester Lovejoy], were enlisted for three years...
PLT 12.54 10 Nonsense will not keep its unreason if you come into the humorist's point of view, but unhappily we find it is fast becoming sense...
PLT 12.59 1 The children have only the instinct of the universe, in which becoming somewhat else is the perpetual game of Nature...
MLit 12.316 21 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact,- that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and privileges which lie in any, lie in all...literature is far the best expression.
MLit 12.328 19 Does [Goethe] represent, not only the achievement of that age in which he lived, but that which it would be and is now becoming?
Nat 1.13 4 The field is at once [man's] floor, his work-yard, his play-ground, his garden, and his bed.
Nat 1.69 10 The stars have us to bed/...
LE 1.186 22 Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
MR 1.237 1 When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration...that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
Con 1.300 9 ...the superior beauty is with...the river which ever flowing yet is found in the same bed from age to age;...
Con 1.314 27 ...rising one morning before day from his bed of moss and dry leaves, [Friar Bernard] gnawed his roots and berries...
SR 2.62 15 That popular fable of the sot...washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed ...symbolizes...the state of man...
Int 2.328 17 You cannot with your best deliberation and heed come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you, whilst you rise from your bed...after meditating the matter before sleep on the previous night.
Pt1 3.33 6 ...dream delivers us to dream, and while the drunkenness lasts we will sell our bed, our philosophy, our religion, in our opulence.
Mrs1 3.119 10 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault. To set up their housekeeping nothing is requisite but two or three earthen pots, a stone to grind meal, and a mat which is the bed.
UGM 4.21 8 Ever their phantoms arise before us,/ Our loftier brothers, but one in blood;/ At bed and table they lord it o'er us/ With looks of beauty and words of good./
ShP 4.202 5 ...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...and why he left in his will only his second-best bed to Ann Hathaway, his wife.
ET1 5.10 11 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to him. It was near noon. Mr Coleridge sent a verbal message that he was in bed, but if I would call after one o'clock he would see me.
ET2 5.33 4 ...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main: As if, said they, we contended for the drops of the sea, and not for...the bed of those waters.
ET4 5.59 15 Odin died in his bed, in Sweden;...
ET4 5.68 3 Nelson, dying at Trafalgar...like an innocent schoolboy that goes to bed, says Kiss me, Hardy, and turns to sleep.
ET4 5.70 1 Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer. He says, His bed was under a thatching, and the way to it up a ladder; his fare was coarse; his drink, a penny a gawn, or gallon.
F 6.7 17 The sea changes its bed.
F 6.15 17 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate;...
F 6.41 19 ...the woolly aphides on the apple perspire their own bed...
Ctr 6.154 23 How can you mind diet, bed, dress, or salutes or compliments...when you think how paltry are the machinery and the workers?
CbW 6.262 13 We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
Ill 6.322 12 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another;...
Ill 6.322 13 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another;...
Ill 6.322 16 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another; and it cannot signify much what becomes of such...wailing, stupid, comatose creatures, lifted from bed to bed...
DL 7.119 8 Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveller;...
Farm 7.135 5 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed of rock/...
WD 7.159 10 Why need I speak of steam...which is made in hospitals to bring a bowl of gruel to a sick man's bed...
QO 8.199 2 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the other side of a proposition;...
PPo 8.263 10 What need, cries the mystic Feisi, of palaces and tapestry? What need even of a bed?
Insp 8.286 18 I remember a capital prudence of old President Quincy, who told me that he never went to bed at night until he had laid out the studies for the next morning.
Aris 10.42 25 The Cid has a prevailing health that will let him nurse the leper, and share his bed without harm.
MoL 10.251 15 I asked the first [West Point] Cadet, Who makes your bed? I do.
LLNE 10.346 5 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep, on cold nights, when the farmer at whose door he knocked declined to give him a bed, on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed...
MMEm 10.418 18 Not a prospect but is dark on earth, as to knowledge and joy from externals: but the prospect of a dying bed reflects lustre on all the rest.
MMEm 10.423 18 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a vulture being the bier, tomb and parson of a hero, compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
MMEm 10.428 15 For years [Mary Moody Emerson] had her bed made in the form of a coffin;...
Thor 10.466 18 Every fact which occurs in the bed [of the Concord River], on the banks or in the air over it;...[was] all known to [Thoreau]...
JBS 11.279 26 [John Brown] made his hard bed on the mountains with [animals];...
JBS 11.281 2 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men...who, like the Cid, give the outcast leper a share of their bed;...
FRep 11.532 10 See how fast [our people] extend the fleeting fabric of their trade...with the same abandonment to the moment and the facts of the hour as the Esquimau who sells his bed in the morning.
CL 12.149 21 ...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 12.154 3 ...[the sea] is one vast rolling bed of life...
AgMs 12.358 9 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances; excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock bedaubed with the soil of the field;...
SL 2.159 8 [A man's] sin bedaubs him...
Con 1.309 23 ...the moon and the north star you would quickly have occasion for in your closet and bed-chamber.
DL 7.118 25 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bed-chamber made ready at too great a cost.
LLNE 10.334 11 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed, but the bright image of that eloquent form followed the boy home to his bed-chamber;...
ET5 5.76 27 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of Alfred, Bede, Caxton...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
Boks 7.206 25 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology... to Asser's Life of Alfred and Venerable Bede...
ET11 5.176 24 How came the Duke of Bedford by his great landed estates?
ET11 5.181 16 The Duke of Bedford includes or included a mile square in the heart of London...
HDC 11.62 21 ...Concord then [in 1666] included the greater part of the towns of Bedford, Acton, Lincoln and Carlisle.
HDC 11.74 2 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and Carlisle...arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge.
F 6.18 18 ...in every barrel of cowries brought to New Bedford there shall be one orangia...
F 6.42 25 We know in Massachusetts who built New Bedford...
Bost 12.186 19 ...New Bedford is not nearer to the whales than New London or Portland...
ET11 5.181 20 The Duke of Bedford includes or included...the land occupied by Woburn Square, Bedford Square, Russell Square.
HDC 11.31 17 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister of Woodhill, in Bedfordshire...
MMEm 10.414 27 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...I weary of my pilgrimage,-tired that I must again be clothed in the grandeurs of winter, and anon be bedizened in flowers and cascades.
Dem1 10.27 2 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. ...no guilt and no virtue, but a droll bedlam...
Pow 6.69 16 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...utilizing Bedouin, Sheik and Pacha, with Layard;...
PPo 8.239 18 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control. The other Bedouins were scarcely less moved by these rude measures...
Comc 8.166 24 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him; yet to do/ The Indian Hoghan Moghan too/ Impartial justice, in his stead did/ Hang an old weaver that was bedrid./
Wsp 6.236 26 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...and, now sickening, was like to be bedridden on her hands.
Nat 1.19 3 In July, the blue pontederia...blooms in large beds...
MR 1.239 21 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by...stoves and down beds...
ET5 5.90 10 The high civil and legal offices [in England] are not beds of ease...
ET12 5.209 25 ...many chairs and many fellowships [at Oxford] are made beds of ease;...
Elo1 7.92 17 For the explosions and eruptions, there must be...beds of ignited anthracite at the centre.
PI 8.45 23 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts...in a row of windows, or in wings; gardens by the symmetric contrasts of the beds and walks.
PPo 8.257 7 By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I found the grove in the morning pure,/ In the concert of the nightingales/ My drunken brain to cure./
SovE 10.195 18 We do not believe the less in astronomy and vegetation, because we are writhing and roaring in our beds with rheumatism.
Bost 12.205 16 ...good men are as the green plain of the earth is, as the rocks, and the beds of river are, the foundation and flooring and sills of the state.
Aris 10.42 5 [Ulysses]...carves a bedstead out of the trunk of a tree...
Tran 1.338 20 The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do...
Wsp 6.235 17 Wherever a squirrel or a bee can go with security, I can go [said Benedict].
Bty 6.294 9 The cell of the bee is built at that angle which gives the most strength with the least wax;...
Art2 7.39 6 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no art;...
PI 8.12 2 Note our incessant use of the word like...like thunder, like a bee...
PI 8.16 23 The bee flies among the flowers, and gets mint and marjoram, and generates a new product...
SovE 10.189 25 ...that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Prch 10.231 9 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ... The others...are only neuters in the hive,-every one a possible royal bee, but not now significant.
CL 12.162 14 The true naturalist can go wherever woods or waters go; almost where a squirrel or a bee can go, he can;...
Insp 8.286 3 Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses,/ Find them in the beech grove,/ Pleased to receive me;/...
Bost 12.202 8 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here in the clam-banks and the beech and chestnut forest, I shall take leave to breathe and think freely.
Thor 10.467 25 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...the ash, the maple, the beech, the nuts.
Thor 10.483 13 No tree has so fair a bole and so handsome an instep as the beech.
SHC 11.433 22 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that every child may be shown growing...the beech, which we have allowed to die out of the eastern counties;...
CL 12.162 6 Where is the Norway pine, where the beech...
Supl 10.175 15 Plant beechmast and it comes up, or it does not come up.
ET4 5.69 11 Beef, mutton, wheat-bread and malt-liquors are universal among the first-class laborers [in England].
Carl 10.491 16 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he is a Scotchman who thinks English national character has a pure enthusiasm for beef and mutton...
HDC 11.79 18 For these men [in the Continental army] [Concord] was continually providing shoes, stockings, shirts, coats, blankets and beef.
JBB 11.268 2 [John Brown's] father...became a contractor to supply the army with beef, in the war of 1812...
Pt1 3.19 6 ...the poet sees [the factory-village and the railway] fall within the great Order not less than the beehive or the spider's geometrical web.
Exp 3.63 17 The imagination delights in the woodcraft of Indians, trappers and bee-hunters.
Cour 7.274 8 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to the rack of the inquisitor...
Prch 10.228 27 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
Prd1 2.234 22 ...beer, if not brewed in the right state of the atmosphere, will sour;...
Prd1 2.235 8 Iron cannot rust, nor beer sour...in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.
ET4 5.69 17 ...Tacitus found the English beer already in use among the Germans...
ET4 5.70 1 Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer.
ET5 5.88 14 Heavy fellows, steeped in beer and fleshpots, [the English] are hard of hearing and dim of sight.
ET10 5.164 5 [The English] have...drowsy habitude, daily dress-dinners, wine and ale and beer and gin and sleep.
ET16 5.289 7 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and after looking through the quaint antiquity, we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer...
Wth 6.106 14 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
OA 7.323 20 The humorous thief who drank a pot of beer at the gallows blew off the froth because he had heard it was unhealthy;...
Res 8.150 14 In England men of letters drink wine;...in Germany, beer.
Prd1 2.228 24 If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey it will yield us bees.
UGM 4.9 6 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Huber, of bees;...
PPh 4.54 21 ...whether a swarm of bees settled on his lips, or not;--a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.
ET5 5.83 10 ...in high departments [the English] are cramped and sterile. But the unconditional surrender to facts, and the choice of means to reach their ends, are as admirable as with ants and bees.
ET5 5.84 3 [The English] apply themselves...to fishery, to manufacture of indispensable staples,--salt, plumbago, leather, wool, glass, pottery and brick,--to bees and silkworms;...
Farm 7.135 23 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in a single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
Farm 7.137 22 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts,--the care of bees, of poultry...all men acknowledge.
Insp 8.275 2 Like bees, [the artists] must put their lives into the sting they give.
Plu 10.310 26 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society and affection to the State, which continue even in ants and bees to the very last.
Thor 10.472 4 [Thoreau's] intimacy with animals suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.
Thor 10.472 5 [Thoreau's] intimacy with animals suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.
AKan 11.262 20 ...the Saxon man, when he is well awake, is...a citizen... and links himself naturally to his brothers, as bees hook themselves to one another and to their queen in a loyal swarm.
CL 12.162 9 [Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows]...where trout, woodcocks, wild bees, pigeons, where the bittern (stake-driver) can be seen and heard...
CW 12.170 4 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in the single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
Ctr 6.151 4 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Beethoven or Wellington...passing for nobody;...
PI 8.56 27 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise to a loftier strain, up to Handel, up to Beethoven...
Bost 12.197 26 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...gave a hospitality in this country to the spirit of Coleridge and Wordsworth, and to the music of Beethoven, before yet their genius had found a hearty welcome in Great Britain.
MLit 12.318 18 The music of Beethoven is said...to labor with vaster conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted before.
Civ 7.17 12 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./
Civ 7.22 18 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand?
Elo1 7.88 3 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent a great reality,--the justice of states, which we could well enough see beetling over his head...
Nat 1.10 3 There [in the woods] I feel that nothing can befall me in life... which nature cannot repair.
Hsm1 2.262 27 Whatever outrages have happened to men may befall a man again;...
Exp 3.53 24 I had fancied that the value of life lay...in the fact that I never know, in addressing myself to a new individual, what may befall me.
NER 3.277 17 ...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine...
PPh 4.64 1 ...the fairest fortune that can befall man is to be guided by his daemon to that which is truly his own.
ET7 5.124 12 The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
F 6.40 3 ...the soul contains the event that shall befall it;...
F 6.46 17 ...a hundred signs apprise [some people] of what is about to befall.
Wth 6.83 1 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and suns?/
Art2 7.55 13 Heraldry...and the ceremonies of a coronation, are a dignified repetition of the occurrences that might befall a dragoon and his footboy.
PI 8.61 22 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...when you shall have departed from this place, I shall nevermore speak to you, nor to any other person, save only my mistress; for never other person will be able to discover this place for anything which may befall;...
PI 8.62 8 ...said Merlin...I well knew that all this would befall me...
Dem1 10.9 25 The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it...
Dem1 10.22 10 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...what is to befall him, omens and coincidences foreshow;...
Supl 10.168 26 The first valuable power in a reasonable mind, one would say, was...the power to receive things as they befall...
SovE 10.206 16 The Orientals believe in Fate. That which shall befall them is written on the iron leaf;...
EdAd 11.385 22 What more serious calamity can befall a people than a constitutional dulness and limitation?
MLit 12.329 16 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] I have let mischance befall [in Wilhelm Meister] instead of good fortune. [Men] do so daily.
Hist 2.3 7 What Plato has thought, he [that is once admitted to the right of reason] may think;...what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand.
Hist 2.5 12 What befell Asdrubal or Caesar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us.
Pt1 3.6 8 Every man should be so much an artist that he could report in conversation what had befallen him.
ET17 5.296 2 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French, English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family...
PI 8.24 17 [The intellect] knows that these transfigured results are not the brute experiences, just as souls in heaven are not the red bodies they once animated. Many transfigurations have befallen them.
SA 8.84 11 In Borrow's Lavengro, the gypsy instantly detects, by his companion's face and behavior, that some good fortune has befallen him...
QO 8.188 6 A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that some dislocation has befallen the race;...
FSLN 11.244 11 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...
CPL 11.496 23 If you consider what has befallen you when reading a poem, or a history...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
Nat 1.60 24 [The soul] accepts whatsoever befalls...
DSA 1.140 6 Everything that befalls, accuses [the poor preacher].
YA 1.371 27 [Destiny] is not discovered in [men's] calculated and voluntary activity, but in what befalls, with or without their design.
ET10 5.169 12 What befalls from the violence of financial crises, befalls daily in the violence of artificial legislation.
ET10 5.169 13 What befalls from the violence of financial crises, befalls daily in the violence of artificial legislation.
Pow 6.56 16 One man...is in sympathy with the course of things; can predict it. Whatever befalls, befalls him first;...
Pow 6.59 6 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
CbW 6.257 4 What happens thus to nations befalls every day in private houses.
Suc 7.298 10 Remember what befalls a city boy who goes for the first time into the October woods.
Res 8.140 16 The marked events in history...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
QO 8.181 27 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society,-that every talker helps a story in repeating it, until, at last, from the slenderest filament of fact a good fable is constructed,-the same growth befalls mythology...
PPo 8.256 22 Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow from thy locks;/ Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;/...
Aris 10.43 23 In a thousand cups of life, only one is the right mixture,-a fine adjustment to the existing elements. When that befalls...then no gift need be bestowed on him...
Edc1 10.130 2 Whatever the man does, or whatever befalls him, opens another chamber in his soul...
Edc1 10.138 25 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company...
PLT 12.4 13 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us, when we shall read in a true history what befalls in that kingdom where a thousand years is as one day...
PLT 12.40 19 The game of Intellect is the perception that whatever befalls or can be stated is a universal proposition;...
PLT 12.60 4 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth;...
CInt 12.125 10 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein. 'T is precisely analogous to what befalls in religious societies.
DSA 1.133 25 Let [the life and dialogues of Christ] lie as they befell...
Hist 2.5 9 What befell Asdrubal or Caesar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us.
PI 8.71 4 In good society...is not everything spoken in fine parable, and not so servilely as it befell to the sense?
Insp 8.283 13 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness that befell him, The thought of my father...restrained me;...
Thor 10.463 20 [Thoreau] noted what repeatedly befell him, that, after receiving from a distance a rare plant, he would presently find the same in his own haunts.
HDC 11.56 5 Even this check which befell [the people of Concord] acquaints us with the rapidity of their growth...
TPar 11.288 13 It will not be in the acts of city councils, nor of obsequious mayors;...that coming generations will study what really befell [in Boston];...
ALin 11.335 2 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets;...such multitudes had to be trusted, that no secret could be kept. Every door was ajar, and we know all that befell.
Mem 12.92 12 [Memory...reports to you not what you wish, but what really befell.
Bost 12.192 5 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful odor of the stweefern in the sun;-like what befell, still earlier, Biorn and Thorfinn, Northmen, in their expedition to the same coast;...
NER 3.285 4 That which befits us...is cheerfulness and courage...
Milt1 12.274 18 The tone of [Adam's] thought and passion is as healthful, as even and as vigorous as befits the new and perfect model of a race of gods.
SR 2.54 22 Do I not know beforehand that not possibly can [the preacher] say a new and spontaneous word?
OS 2.278 4 [The best minds]...do not label or stamp [truth] with any man's name, for it is theirs long beforehand...
OS 2.287 22 Jesus speaks always from within, and in a degree that transcends all others. In that is the miracle. I believe beforehand that it ought so to be.
NR 3.245 4 The end and the means...life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers, whose marriage appears beforehand monstrous...
Pow 6.77 3 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.
Wth 6.121 7 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the wood-lot, when bought. Never fear; it is all settled how it shall be, long beforehand, in the custom of the country...
Boks 7.195 26 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...More, will be superior to the average intellect.
Clbs 7.234 8 We know beforehand that yonder man must think as we do.
Elo2 8.117 3 [The orator] knew very well beforehand that [the people] were looking behind and that he was looking ahead...
Elo2 8.118 20 We have all attended meetings called for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest.
Aris 10.49 4 Time was, in England, when the state stipulated beforehand what price should be paid for each citizen's life, if he was killed.
Edc1 10.137 1 Nature, when she sends a new mind into the world, fills it beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes it to know and do.
LLNE 10.332 9 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
LLNE 10.366 6 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm] that people on whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not responsible.
HDC 11.59 7 We know beforehand who must conquer in that unequal struggle [with the Indian].
LVB 11.95 18 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends. I, sir, will not beforehand treat you with the contumely of this distrust.
War 11.160 25 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is...the rising of the general tide in the human soul,-and rising highest, and first made visible, in the most simple and pure souls, who have therefore announced it to us beforehand;...
War 11.165 23 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart.
War 11.169 25 A wise man will never...decide beforehand what he shall do in a given extreme event.
FSLN 11.218 3 It is to [students and scholars] I am beforehand related and engaged...
Koss 11.397 13 ...as Concord is one of the monuments of freedom; we knew beforehand that you [Kossuth] could not go by us;...
Koss 11.401 8 ...when the crisis arrives it will find us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...
II 12.77 16 ...we can take sight beforehand of a state of being wherein the will shall penetrate and control what it cannot now reach.
II 12.81 14 ...the races of men rise out of the ground...divided beforehand into parties ready armed and angry to fight for they know not what.
II 12.88 8 The Buddhist who...reads the issue of the conflict beforehand in the rank of the actors, is calm.
PPr 12.385 10 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy...
Trag 12.414 4 If a man is centred, men and events appear to him a fair image or reflection of that which he knoweth beforehand in himself.
Nat 1.69 18 In every path,/ [Man] treads down that which doth befriend him/...
Pol1 3.210 23 ...[the conservative party] does not...befriend the poor...
MoS 4.177 5 The word Fate...expresses the sense of mankind...that the laws of the world do not always befriend...us.
DL 7.105 17 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the domestics, who like rude foster-mothers befriend and feed him...
Comp 2.117 1 The good are befriended even by weakness and defect.
Pol1 3.211 25 No forms can have any dangerous importance whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.
Bost 12.205 21 The power of labor which belongs to the English race fell here into a climate which befriended it...
FSLC 11.187 25 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending in our own State, on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being shot...to get away from his driver...
FSLN 11.240 14 ...all the statesmen...are sure to be found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.
SR 2.47 11 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt...no muse befriends;...
PPr 12.382 11 Let no man think himself absolved because he...befriends the poor...
SR 2.71 18 ...[man's genius] goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men.
SR 2.75 19 ...we see that most natures...do lean and beg day and night continually.
SR 2.77 25 As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.
Exp 3.73 8 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor. I beg to ask what you call vast-flowing vigor? said his companion.
ET18 5.300 20 In [English] cities, the children are trained to beg, until they shall be old enough to rob.
Res 8.147 7 ...it is the principal thing you are to beg at the hands of Almighty God, to preserve your understanding entire;...
ACri 12.291 14 Never say, I beg not to be misunderstood.
Nat 1.34 14 [The relation between mind and matter] is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius since the world began;...
DSA 1.149 13 ...[Massena] was not himself until the battle began to go against him;...
DSA 1.149 14 ...then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke [Massena's] powers of combination...
Hist 2.25 8 ...Xenophon arose naked, and taking an axe, began to split wood;...
Comp 2.105 22 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected...
Exp 3.66 23 ...if one remembers how innocently he began to be an artist, he perceives that nature joined with his enemy.
Exp 3.72 7 Since neither now nor yesterday began/ These thoughts, which have been ever, nor yet can/ A man be found who their first entrance knew./
SwM 4.100 2 In 1743, when [Swedenborg] was fifty-four years old, what is called his illumination began.
SwM 4.101 22 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was...to...attempt to establish a new religion in the world,--began its lessons in quarries and forges...
MoS 4.162 13 ...I will...offer...a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip [Montaigne].
ShP 4.194 24 As soon as the statue was begun for itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to decline...
ET7 5.124 19 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.
Ctr 6.165 10 ...Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place;...
Wsp 6.216 12 ...when great national movements began...the human soul was in earnest...
Cour 7.258 17 ...I remember when a pair of Irish girls who had been run away with in a wagon by a skittish horse, said that when he began to rear, they were so frightened that they could not see the horse.
Suc 7.291 3 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
Comc 8.172 10 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep;...
Comc 8.172 13 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to weep; and so they wept for two hours. On this, some courtiers began to comfort Timur...
Comc 8.172 16 Timur ceased weeping, but Chodscha ceased not, but began now first to weep amain...
Dem1 10.15 1 The Jew [Masollam]...bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground. This act offended the augur and some others, and they began to utter imprecations against the Jew.
PerF 10.79 13 [The manufacturer] undertook the charge of [the chemical works] himself, began at the beginning...
PerF 10.80 13 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...
Plu 10.313 11 [Plutarch] cites...the memorable words of Antigone, in Sophocles, concerning the moral sentiment:-For neither now nor yesterday began/ These thoughts, which have been ever, nor yet can/ A man be found who their first entrance knew./
LLNE 10.341 11 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present. Though I recall the fact, I do not retain...any connection between [this attempt] and the new zeal of the friends who at that time began to be drawn together by sympathy of studies and of aspiration.
MMEm 10.419 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked to Captain Dexter's. Sick. Promised never to put that ring on. Ended miserably the month which began so worldly.
Thor 10.473 7 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge of their lands...which enabled him to tell every farmer more than he knew before of his own farm; so that he began to feel a little as if Mr. Thoreau had better rights in his land than he.
Carl 10.490 27 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something. Carlyle began to talk, first to the waiters, and then to the walls...in a manner that frightened the whole company.
GSt 10.503 12 In 1863 [George Stearns] began to recruit colored soldiers in Buffalo...
HDC 11.43 10 ...when, presently, the design of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony began to fulfil itself, by the settlement of new plantations in the vicinity of Boston...the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
HDC 11.50 10 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians...
HDC 11.54 27 The country [around Concord] already began to yield more than was consumed by the inhabitants.
HDC 11.58 1 In 1670, the Wampanoags began to grind their hatchets...
HDC 11.74 8 ...when the smoke began to rise from the village where the British were burning cannon-carriages and military stores, the Americans resolved to force their way into town.
HDC 11.75 10 The British, as soon as they were rejoined by the plundering detachment, began that disastrous retreat to Boston...
EWI 11.108 13 [Thomas Clarkson] began to ask himself if these things [facts about slavery in the West Indies] could be true; and if they were, he could no longer rest.
EWI 11.140 26 ...a more enlightened and humane opinion [of the negro] began to prevail.
FSLC 11.203 3 ...as the activity and growth of slavery began to be offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the senator became less sensitive to these evils.
SMC 11.352 6 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence.
SMC 11.374 17 The brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed part was detailed to receive the formal surrender of the rebel arms. The homeward march began on the thirteenth...
FRO1 11.477 17 ...we began [the Free Religious Association] many years ago...
FRO1 11.479 10 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship...
FRO2 11.486 21 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion...never did not exist from the planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh, at which time the true religion which already existed began to be called Christianity.
FRep 11.528 20 America was opened after the feudal mischief was spent, and so the people made a good start. We began well.
FRep 11.528 27 We began with freedom, are are defended from shocks now for a century by the facility with which through popular assemblies every necessary measure of reform can instantly be carried.
MAng1 12.229 1 At near eighty years, [Michelangelo] began in marble a group of four figures for a dead Christ...
MAng1 12.231 17 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's]. At last he began to model it very small in wax.
Nat 1.56 12 Intellectual science has been observed to beget invariably a doubt of the existence of matter.
DSA 1.134 14 ...it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love.
LE 1.161 15 I console myself...by...seeing what the prolific soul could beget on actual nature;...
FSLN 11.239 9 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of the unjust, that at its close it begets itself an offspring...and...there sprouts forth for posterity every-ravening calamity...
Nat 1.50 26 ...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach]...
Con 1.306 10 There [the youth] stands, newly born on the planet, a universal beggar...
Mrs1 3.154 12 Without the rich heart, wealth is a ugly beggar.
NER 3.263 6 When we see...a special reformer, we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue? Is virtue piecemeal? This is a jewel amidst the rags of a beggar.
ET10 5.153 23 The last term of insult [in England] is, a beggar.
Wth 6.88 9 ...by making his wants less or his gains more, [a man] must draw himself out of that state of pain and insult in which [nature] forces the beggar to lie.
Ctr 6.131 8 ...a skill to get money makes [a man] a miser, that is, a beggar.
Ctr 6.159 11 A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful...
Wsp 6.237 7 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to put [the sick woman] into the street? Just as much whether to thrust the little Jenny on your arm into the street. The milk and meal you give the beggar will fatten Jenny.
Bty 6.282 8 Astrology interested us, for it tied man to the system. Instead of an isolated beggar, the farthest star felt him and he felt the star.
WD 7.173 7 Hume's doctrine was...that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot;...had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
Suc 7.307 21 There is no such critic and beggar as this terrible Soul.
SA 8.85 7 ...Do not go to ask your debtor the payment of a debt on the day when you have no other resource. He will learn by your air and tone how it is with you, and will treat you as a beggar.
Supl 10.177 15 The [Oriental] diver dives a beggar, and rises with the price of a kingdom in his hand.
EzRy 10.391 6 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.
Scot 11.466 19 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn; and meantime without one word of brag of...this extreme sympathy reaching down to every beggar and beggar's dog, and horse and cow.
Let 12.400 20 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good! They...are like the patient Ulysses whilst he sat in the guise of a beggar at his own door...
Con 1.316 23 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
ET11 5.191 19 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced...
DL 7.133 19 He who shall bravely and gracefully...show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages;...will restore the life of man to splendor...
Boks 7.212 12 Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit...
CInt 12.129 25 It was in a beggarly heath farm...that Burns found his fancy so sprightly.
Aris 10.56 12 Of course a man is a poor bag of bones. There is no gracious interval, not an inch allowed. Bone rubs against bone. Life is thus a Beggar' s Bush.
Fdsp 2.214 9 We go to Europe...or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us to ourselves. Beggars all.
Art1 2.357 7 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with...beggars and fine ladies...
Nat2 3.190 27 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual! Could it not be had as well by beggars on the highway?
Nat2 3.191 1 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual! Could it not be had as well by beggars on the highway? No, all these things came from successive efforts of these beggars to remove friction from the wheels of life...
UGM 4.4 16 ...enormous populations, if they be beggars, are disgusting...
MoS 4.151 15 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power...like dreaming beggars [men predisposed to morals] assume to speak and act as if these values were already substantiated.
Wth 6.97 14 They should own who can administer...not they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only the greater beggars...
Thor 10.478 24 [Thoreau] detected paltering as readily in dignified and prosperous persons as in beggars...
WD 7.171 12 This miracle [of Nature] is hurled into every beggar's hands.
QO 8.188 3 Is...all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like, a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities?
JBS 11.276 8 A thousand transformations rose/ From fair to foul, from foul to fair:/ The golden crown he did not spare,/ Nor scorn the beggar's clothes./
Scot 11.466 19 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn; and meantime without one word of brag of...this extreme sympathy reaching down to every beggar and beggar's dog, and horse and cow.
OS 2.289 13 Shakspeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own;...
ET19 5.312 3 ...I think it just, in this time of gloom and commercial disaster, of affliction and beggary in these districts, that...you should not fail to keep your literary anniversary.
WD 7.158 11 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate. These arts open great gates of a future, promising...to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.
Aris 10.55 19 If you deal with the vulgar, life is reduced to beggary indeed.
NER 3.273 9 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say, begged to be heard in his turn...
Wsp 6.228 9 [St. Philip Neri] told the abbess the wishes of his Holiness, and begged her to summon the nun without delay.
MMEm 10.410 16 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost, and found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them.
HDC 11.55 27 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones, and settled Fairfield. Weakened by this loss, the people begged to be released from a part of their rates...
Nat2 3.184 14 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. ... A very unreasonable postulate, said the metaphysicians, and a plain begging of the question.
Hist 2.28 13 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
Wth 6.118 22 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring. If the non-conformist or aesthetic farmer leaves out the cattle and does not also leave out the want which the cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by begging or stealing.
Nat 1.54 16 ...so their rising senses/ Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle/ Their clearer reason./
AmS 1.114 19 Young men...who begin life upon our shores...turn drudges...
DSA 1.137 16 We shrink as soon as the prayers begin, which do not uplift...
MN 1.223 19 ...these qualities did not now begin to exist...
MR 1.231 11 ...nothing is left [the young man] but to begin the world anew...
MR 1.235 2 If the accumulated wealth of the past generation is thus tainted...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part to renounce it...
MR 1.250 24 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist...
MR 1.254 3 Let us begin by habitual imparting.
LT 1.283 25 ...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;...
Tran 1.356 10 [Transcendentalists] complain that everything around them must be denied; and if feeble, it takes all their strength to deny, before they can begin to lead their own life.
SR 2.55 13 ...we know not where to begin to set [conformists] right.
Lov1 2.170 9 ...this passion of which we speak [love], though it begin with the young, yet forsakes not the old...
Lov1 2.173 20 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations; what with their fun and their earnest, about...when the singing-school would begin...
Fdsp 2.199 14 We are armed all over with subtle antagonisms, which, as soon as we meet, begin to play...
Prd1 2.241 4 ...begin where we will, we are pretty sure in a short space to be mumbling our ten commandments.
Hsm1 2.246 17 Mar. Dost know what 't is to die?/ Soph. Thou dost not, Martius,/ And, therefore, not what 't is to live; to die/ Is to begin to live..../
Int 2.334 19 ...we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.
Art1 2.367 6 Art must not be a superficial talent, but must begin farther back in man.
Art1 2.367 20 Would it not be better to begin higher up,--to serve the ideal before [men] eat and drink;...
Pt1 3.12 1 With what joy I begin to read a poem which I confide in as an inspiration!
Exp 3.62 3 ...I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
Chr1 3.103 22 ...when [your friends]...must suspend their judgment for years to come, you may begin to hope.
Nat2 3.170 17 The incommunicable trees begin to persuade us to live with them...
Nat2 3.177 17 ...ordinarily...as soon as men begin to write on nature, they fall into euphuism.
Pol1 3.212 3 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs. Augment the mass a thousand-fold, it cannot begin to crush us, as long as reaction is equal to action.
NR 3.246 13 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as agitator.
NR 3.246 14 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as agitator.
NER 3.257 3 I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury.
NER 3.260 27 ...much was to be resisted, much was to be got rid of by those who were reared in the old, before they could begin to affirm and to construct.
NER 3.272 24 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly...these hopeless will begin to hope...
NER 3.272 25 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly...these haters will begin to love...
NER 3.272 26 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly...these immovable statues will begin to spin and revolve.
UGM 4.5 12 If now we proceed to inquire into the kinds of service we derive from others, let us be warned of the danger of modern studies, and begin low enough.
PPh 4.68 12 All things are in a scale; and begin where we will, ascend and ascend.
PPh 4.71 18 [Socrates] can drink, too;...and after leaving the whole party under the table, goes away...to begin new dialogues with somebody that is sober.
MoS 4.168 20 It is Cambridge men who correct themselves and begin again at every half sentence...
MoS 4.171 4 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society, agriculture, trade, large institutions and empire. If these did not exist, they would begin to exist through his endeavors.
MoS 4.182 5 It is vain to complain of the leaf or the berry; cut it off, it will bear another just as bad. You must begin your cure lower down.
ShP 4.204 3 ...not until two centuries had passed, after [Shakespeare's] death, did any criticism which we think adequate begin to appear.
GoW 4.278 14 ...those who begin [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] with the higher hope to read in it a worthy history of genius...have also reason to complain.
ET4 5.47 3 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin.
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 5.76 17 ...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, and then his energies begin to play.
ET5 5.91 7 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;.--a work whose value does not begin until thirty years have elapsed...
ET16 5.274 13 As soon as men begin to talk of art, architecture and antiquities, nothing good comes of it [according to Carlyle].
F 6.3 22 ...we find that we must begin [reform] earlier...
F 6.4 1 We must begin our reform earlier still,-at generation...
Wth 6.104 16 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out. An apple-tree is a stupid kind of creature, but if this treatment be pursued for a short time I think it would begin to mistrust something.
Wth 6.110 24 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800.
Ctr 6.140 23 ...we begin the uphill agitation for repeal of that of which we ought to have prevented the enacting.
Ctr 6.141 2 What we call our root-and-branch reforms...is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely in Education.
Ctr 6.154 9 Suffer [people who scream and bewail] once to begin the enumeration of their infirmities and the sun will go down on the unfinished tale.
Ctr 6.164 13 ...culture cannot begin too early.
CbW 6.248 23 Franklin said, Mankind...begin upon a thing, but, meeting with a difficulty, they fly from it discouraged;...
CbW 6.276 21 ...begin at the beginning...
Bty 6.291 2 ...the lustres of the sea-shell begin with its existence.
Bty 6.304 18 Chaff and dust begin to sparkle...
Bty 6.306 18 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
Ill 6.316 20 Teague and his jade...learn something, and would carry themselves wiselier if they were now to begin.
Ill 6.318 4 We begin low with coarse masks and rise to the most subtle and beautiful.
SS 7.8 18 We begin with friendships...
Civ 7.21 9 Where shall we begin or end the list of those feats of liberty and wit, each of which feats made an epoch of history?
Civ 7.21 19 ...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. He is safe from the teeth of wild animals, from frost, sun-stroke and weather; and fine faculties begin to yield their fine harvest.
Civ 7.25 21 In bird and beast the organs are released and begin to play.
Elo1 7.64 3 There is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress.
Elo1 7.94 6 ...[people] soon begin to ask, What is [the speaker] driving at?...
DL 7.117 7 ...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of housekeeping]...we shall soon give up in despair.
Farm 7.153 8 Put [the farmer] on a new planet and he would know where to begin;...
WD 7.163 13 Things begin to obey [man].
WD 7.173 1 ...I will not begin to name those [illusions] of the youth and adult...
Clbs 7.231 25 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were;...
Clbs 7.232 8 [Conversation] must not begin with uproar and violence.
Suc 7.307 14 ...we must begin by affirming.
OA 7.318 8 ...as long as one is alone by himself, he is not sensible of the inroads of time, which always begin at the surface-edges.
PI 8.18 26 Our indeterminate size is a delicious secret which [the act of imagination] reveals to us. The mountains begin to dislimn, and float in the air.
PI 8.38 15 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols, and not as ends. With such guides [men] begin to see that what they had called pictures are realities...
PI 8.65 1 [Poetry] is the piety of the intellect. Thus saith the Lord, should begin the song.
PI 8.70 10 In the dance of God there is not one of the chorus but can and will begin to spin...whenever the music and figure reach his place and duty.
SA 8.106 10 Another cure [for the disease of sentimentalism] would be to fight fire with fire, to match a sentimentalist with a sentimentalist. I think each might begin to suspect that something was wrong.
Elo2 8.126 15 If I should make the shortest list of the qualifications of the orator, I should begin with manliness;...
Res 8.142 20 ...our arts and productions begin to penetrate both [China and Japan].
Res 8.142 24 ...we begin to perforate and mould the old ball, as a carpenter does with wood.
PC 8.229 17 ...when we see creation we also begin to create.
Insp 8.270 12 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end, sent him to school and made him pay taxes, before he could begin to write his sad story...
Grts 8.311 15 There is so much to be done that we ought to begin quickly to bestir ourselves.
Grts 8.313 10 No aristocrat...can begin to compare with the self-respect of the saint.
Edc1 10.150 1 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men of Athens around Socrates...in short the natural sphere of every leading mind. But the moment this is organized, difficulties begin.
Edc1 10.155 18 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his. By dint of obstinate sitting still...bird and beast...begin to return.
SovE 10.196 17 ...when we have conversed with navigators who know the coast, we may begin to put out an oar and trim a sail.
MMEm 10.408 17 Was there thought and eloquence, [Mary Moody Emerson] would listen like a child. Her aspiration and prayer would begin...
Thor 10.452 12 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question...
Carl 10.490 14 ...though no mortal in America could pretend to talk with Carlyle...yet neither would he in any manner satisfy us (Americans), or begin to answer the questions which we ask.
HDC 11.32 8 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
EWI 11.102 27 For the negro, was the slave-ship to begin with...
EWI 11.118 24 It is vain to get rid of [spoiled children] by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again.
FSLC 11.181 27 ...a man looks gloomily at his children, and thinks, What have I done that you should begin life in dishonor?
ACiv 11.305 10 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again.
ACiv 11.311 1 ...it is not yet too late to begin the emancipation;...
ALin 11.331 12 The profound good opinion which the people of Illinois and of the West had conceived of [Lincoln]...was not rash, though they did not begin to know the riches of his worth.
SMC 11.352 25 Reform must begin at home.
FRep 11.514 20 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions begin in the best heads and run steadily down to the populace.
PLT 12.6 14 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is that the student...shall learn [the mind's] subtle but immense power, or shall begin to learn it;...
PLT 12.18 14 There are...[other minds] that deposit their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time and be brooded in other minds, and the shell not be broken until the next age, for them to begin, as new individuals, their career.
PLT 12.33 7 As soon as our accumulation [of knowledge] overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin...
II 12.68 12 ...long after we have quitted the place [the art gallery], the objects begin to take a new order;...
II 12.70 13 ...Goethe, Fourier, Schelling, Coleridge, they all begin...
CL 12.158 23 No man is suddenly a good walker. Many men begin with good resolution, but they do not hold out...
MAng1 12.221 12 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton;...
ACri 12.292 17 Dangerous words in like kind are...circumstances, commence for begin.
EurB 12.370 19 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition to begin where their fathers ended;...
PPr 12.386 18 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us-as of a failed world just re-collecting its old withered forces to begin again and try to do a little business.
Let 12.395 6 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!...
CL 12.158 27 ...I have sometimes thought it would be well to publish an Art of Walking, with Easy Lessons for Beginners.
Nat 1.56 24 These [thoughts] are they who were set up...from the beginning...
AmS 1.82 19 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men...
AmS 1.85 6 There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God...
AmS 1.85 9 Therein [nature] resembles [the scholar's] own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he never can find...
MR 1.251 7 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet, who...from a small and mean beginning, established a larger empire than that of Rome, is an example.
Con 1.305 19 You quarrel with my conservatism, but it is to build up one of your own; it will have a new beginning, but the same course and end...
Con 1.314 14 ...there is...no man who from the beginning to the end of his life maintains the defective institutions;...
Hist 2.3 16 ...the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty...which belongs to it, in appropriate events.
SL 2.140 3 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences... the heaven predicted from the beginning of the world...would organize itself...
Cir 2.301 16 ...every end is a beginning;...
Pt1 3.7 9 ...the world...is from the beginning beautiful;...
Mrs1 3.141 21 England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox...
Nat2 3.180 27 ...so poor is nature with all her craft, that from the beginning to the end of the universe she has but one stuff...
MoS 4.157 18 Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
ET3 5.42 24 ...there is such an artificial completeness in this nation of artificers [England] as if there were a design from the beginning to elaborate a bigger Birmingham.
ET4 5.55 5 ...the Celts or Sidonides are an old family, of whose beginning there is no memory...
ET8 5.128 23 [The English] are just as cold, quiet and composed, at the end, as at the beginning of dinner.
Bhr 6.172 14 [Manners'] first service is very low,--when they are the minor morals; but 't is the beginning of civility...
CbW 6.276 22 ...begin at the beginning...
Civ 7.20 23 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement...
Art2 7.48 6 Let us proceed to the consideration of the law stated in the beginning of this essay...
WD 7.158 20 ...Leibnitz said of Newton, that if he reckoned all that had been done by mathematicians from the beginning of the world down to Newton, and what had been done by him, his would be the better half...
Boks 7.209 15 This mania [for rare editions of books] reached its height about the beginning of the present century.
PI 8.53 23 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people...
PI 8.58 8 ...Discover thou what it is,/ The strong creature from before the flood,/ Without flesh, without bone, without head, without feet,/ It will neither be younger nor older than at the beginning;/...
Res 8.153 14 I have not...gone beyond the beginning of my list [of Resources].
PPo 8.240 20 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the all-wise fowl who had lived ever since the beginning of the world...
PerF 10.79 14 [The manufacturer] undertook the charge of [the chemical works] himself, began at the beginning...
Edc1 10.126 18 One of the problems of history is the beginning of civilization.
Edc1 10.156 13 Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs.
SovE 10.188 14 In the pre-adamite [Nature] bred valor only; by and by she gets on to man, and adds tenderness, and thus raises virtue piecemeal. When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses;...
Prch 10.224 8 ...all that saints and churches and Bibles from the beginning of the world have aimed at, is to suppress this impertinent surface-action...
LLNE 10.335 13 By a series of lectures largely and fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing...
MMEm 10.418 3 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 11.64 17 From the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century, our records indicate no interruption of the tranquility of the inhabitants [of Concord]...
EWI 11.103 15 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes...
EWI 11.136 27 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...so that this cause has had the power to draw to it every particle of talent and of worth in England, from the beginning.
EWI 11.147 19 The Intellect, with blazing eye, looking through history from the beginning onward, gazes on this blot [slavery] and it disappears.
ACiv 11.305 10 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again.
SMC 11.358 12 I doubt not many of our soldiers could repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the [Civil] war...
SHC 11.434 17 ...when I think of the mystery of life...our ignorance of its beginning or its end...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
Mem 12.99 11 ...there is a wild memory in children and youth which makes what is early learned impossible to forget; and perhaps in the beginning of the world it had most vigor.
AmS 1.100 3 I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen.
DSA 1.143 3 It is already beginning to indicate character and religion to withdraw from the religious meetings.
Tran 1.329 16 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists;...the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses...
YA 1.363 5 America is beginning to assert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children...
YA 1.365 4 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto. A consciousness of this fact is beginning to take the place of the purely trading spirit and education which sprang up whilst all the population lived on the fringe of sea-coast.
YA 1.380 2 ...Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance.
Hist 2.36 5 In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, east, west...
SwM 4.145 20 Swedenborg has rendered a double service to mankind, which is now only beginning to be known.
ET1 5.13 10 ...[Coleridge] recited with strong emphasis, standing, ten or twelve lines beginning,--Born unto God in Christ--/
Boks 7.215 16 In novels the most serious questions are beginning to be discussed.
Cour 7.257 23 A large majority of men...beginning early to be occupied day by day with some routine of safe industry, never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.
PC 8.229 6 No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
LLNE 10.336 1 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus...
LLNE 10.369 21 I please myself with the thought that our American mind... is beginning to show a quiet power...
HDC 11.40 25 We have records of marriages and deaths, beginning nineteen years after the settlement [of Concord];...
HDC 11.65 10 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June;...
HDC 11.74 11 The English beginning to pluck up some of the planks of the [Concord] bridge, the Americans quickened their pace...
War 11.154 25 What does all this war, beginning from the lowest races and reaching up to man, signify?
EPro 11.317 14 ...great as the popularity of the President [Lincoln] has been, we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
SMC 11.370 4 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.
SMC 11.370 6 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment: it always was a good regiment, and people are just beginning to find it out; Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.
PPr 12.388 20 As a literary artist [Carlyle] has great merits, beginning with the main one that he never wrote one dull line.
YA 1.371 18 ...[America] is a country of beginnings...
Chr1 3.114 2 We shall one day see...that...grandeur of character acts in the dark, and succors them who never saw it. What greatness has yet appeared is beginnings and encouragements to us in this direction.
NER 3.264 15 ...it may easily be questioned whether such a community will draw, except in its beginnings, the able and the good;...
PPh 4.47 12 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics...
PPh 4.68 14 All things are symbolical; and what we call results are beginnings.
ET11 5.174 21 All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.
OA 7.328 23 ...the young man's year is a heap of beginnings.
PI 8.5 9 The ends of all are moral, and therefore the beginnings are such.
SovE 10.187 3 'T is a long scale...from the gorilla...to the sanctities of religion...the summits of science, art and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always-accelerated march.
Nat 1.54 19 Their understanding/ Begins to swell.../
AmS 1.85 16 Classification begins.
MR 1.230 13 ...Wall Street doubts, and begins to prophesy'
MR 1.247 26 ...the idea which now begins to agitate society has a wider scope than our daily employments...
LT 1.264 27 Whilst the Daguerreotypist...begins now to traverse the land, let us set up our Camera also...
LT 1.284 16 Old age begins in the nursery...
SR 2.71 20 I like the silent church before the service begins...
SR 2.78 12 ...attend your own work and already the evil begins to be repaired.
Lov1 2.179 27 The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible...
Lov1 2.184 16 The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.
Fdsp 2.193 4 ...as soon as the stranger begins to intrude his partialities... into the conversation, it is all over.
Fdsp 2.202 27 Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
OS 2.271 12 ...the blindness of the intellect begins when it would be something of itself.
OS 2.271 13 The weakness of the will begins when the individual would be something of himself.
OS 2.272 1 ...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins.
Nat2 3.181 16 ...the artist still goes back for materials and begins again with the first elements on the most advanced stage;...
Nat2 3.188 21 After some time has elapsed, [the young person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience [of keeping a diary]...
Pol1 3.208 22 Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader...
UGM 4.34 26 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect.
SwM 4.98 18 ...now, when the royal and ducal Frederics, Christians and Brunswicks of that day have slid into oblivion, [Swedenborg] begins to spread himself into the minds of thousands.
ShP 4.206 21 The recitation [of Shakespeare] begins; one golden word leaps out immortal from all this painted pedantry and sweetly torments us with invitations to its own inaccessible homes.
GoW 4.263 25 A new thought or a crisis of passion apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is exoteric,--is not the fact, but some rumor of the fact. What then? Does he throw away the pen? No; he begins again to describe in the new light which has shined on him...
ET4 5.44 14 ...you cannot draw the line where a race begins or ends.
F 6.13 15 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection...who, as soon as he begins to die, checks his forward play...
Pow 6.57 22 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees...and everything begins to shine with values.
Pow 6.81 15 A man hardly knows how much he is a machine until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press and locomotive, in his own image.
Wth 6.87 16 Wealth begins in a tight roof that keeps the rain and wind out;...
Wth 6.88 1 Wealth begins with these articles of necessity.
Wth 6.117 8 ...after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.
Wth 6.118 16 A farm is a good thing when it begins and ends with itself...
Bhr 6.190 21 Another opposes [a man who is already strong] with sound argument, but the argument is scouted until by and by it gets into the mind of some weighty person; then it begins to tell on the community.
Bhr 6.191 23 Novels are the journal or record of manners, and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface and treat this part of life more worthily.
Wsp 6.215 22 ...a day comes when [a man] begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor.
DL 7.104 11 ...presently begins his use of his fingers, and [the nestler] studies power...
DL 7.116 15 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious, and leaves the whole difficulty untouched. It is better, certainly, in this form, Give us your labor, and the household begins.
DL 7.118 8 It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor...
Farm 7.144 13 In the stomach of the plant development begins.
Farm 7.152 7 As [the first planter's] family thrive, and other planters come up around him, he begins to fell trees and clear good land;...
WD 7.164 8 Tantalus begins to think steam a delusion...
WD 7.172 14 ...what a force of illusion begins life with us and attends us to the end!
Clbs 7.229 16 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain...
Cour 7.257 8 ...man begins life helpless.
Suc 7.307 22 No historical person begins to content us.
PI 8.7 2 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...
PI 8.19 4 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes. And thus begins that deification which all nations have made of their heroes in every kind...
PI 8.40 27 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere, [the poet] has come into new circulations...the opulence of forms begins to pour into his intellect...
PI 8.41 16 Our science is always abreast of our self-knowledge. Poetry begins...
PI 8.46 16 Metre begins with pulse-beat...
SA 8.83 10 When a man meets his accurate mate, society begins...
Elo2 8.111 14 Who knows before the debate begins what the preparation...
Res 8.146 21 A determined man, by his very attitude...begins to conquer.
Comc 8.157 11 ...it is in comparing fractions with essential integers or wholes that laughter begins.
Comc 8.158 22 ...separate any part of Nature and attempt to look at it as a whole by itself, and the feeling of the ridiculous begins.
Insp 8.293 18 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind.
Grts 8.309 3 ...the rule of the orator begins...when his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,- when these shine and burn in his address;...
Imtl 8.334 2 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind.
Aris 10.56 25 When a man begins to speak, the churl will take him up by disputing his first words...
PerF 10.86 15 ...it begins to be doubtful whether our corruption in this country has not gone a little over the mark of safety...
SovE 10.186 25 It is the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe.
Prch 10.222 26 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws-as mankind begins to see them in this age, self-equal, self-executing, instantaneous and self-affirmed;...
Schr 10.280 10 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function...the advance of his character and genius pauses;...
HDC 11.29 2 Fellow Citizens: The town of Concord begins, this day, the third century of its history.
War 11.151 13 War, which to sane men at the present day begins to look like an epidemic insanity...when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...
War 11.159 1 ...the good [Thomas] Cavendish piously begins this statement,-It hath pleased Almighty God.
FSLC 11.193 21 ...when justice is violated, anger begins.
FSLN 11.232 21 ...the world exists...to teach the science of liberty, which begins with liberty from fear.
EPro 11.321 22 In the light of this event [the Emancipation Proclamation] the public distress begins to be removed.
SMC 11.354 11 The secret architecture of things begins to disclose itself;...
Wom 11.413 12 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility. And it is when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning.
CPL 11.502 27 If you sprain your foot, you will presently come to think that Nature has sprained hers. Everything begins to look so slow and inaccessible.
FRep 11.533 4 Blessed is all that agitates the mass, breaks up this torpor, and begins motion.
PLT 12.25 3 The moment a man begins not to be convinced, that moment he begins to convince.
PLT 12.25 4 The moment a man begins not to be convinced, that moment he begins to convince.
PLT 12.35 18 The Instinct begins at this low point, at the surface of the earth...
II 12.68 16 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth...
II 12.70 11 Lord Bacon begins; Behmen begins;...
II 12.70 12 Lord Bacon begins; Behmen begins;...
II 12.79 20 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness, and no repentance. But the moment they attempt to say these things by memory, charlatanism begins.
CInt 12.123 18 Falsehood begins as soon as [talent] disobeys...
CL 12.152 6 ...[in October] all the trees are wind-harps, filling the air with music; and all men...walk to the measure of rhymes they make or remember. The dullest churl begins to quaver.
CW 12.177 27 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little...and there is a perpetual push of buds, so that it is impossible to say when vegetation begins.
Milt1 12.269 24 The humanity which warms [Milton's] pages begins, as it should, at home.
SR 2.71 22 How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
SL 2.135 15 ...we are begirt with laws which execute themselves.
Civ 7.22 21 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand? But the mother said, Put it away, my child; we must begone out of this land, for these people will dwell in it.
Chr1 3.89 20 ...somewhat resided in these men which begot an expectation that outran all their performance.
NER 3.251 20 In these [reform] movements nothing was more remarkable than the discontent they begot in the movers.
Exp 3.78 4 The soul is not twin-born but the only begotten...
Comp 2.121 11 Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade on which as a background the living universe paints itself forth, but no fact is begotten by it;...
WD 7.166 11 Here is greatness begotten of paltriness.
Con 1.320 4 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...a dolorous tune to beguile the distemper;...
NR 3.235 16 The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting we beguile the time with jokes...
UGM 4.10 12 ...solid, liquid, and gas...by their agreeable quarrel, beguile the day of life.
OA 7.313 4 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/ Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me with the wonted spell./
MoS 4.178 17 The Eastern sages owned the goddess Yoganidra, the great illusory energy of Vishnu, by whom, as utter ignorance, the whole world is beguiled.
SS 7.1 16 ...[Seyd] wood-gods fed with honey wild/ And of his memory beguiled./
OA 7.313 3 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/ Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me with the wonted spell./
CInt 12.111 1 By Sybarites beguiled,/ He shall no task decline;/...
Nat2 3.174 15 ...we knew of [the rich man's] villa, his grove, his wine and his company, but the provocation and point of the invitation came out of these beguiling stars.
MN 1.203 5 ...we are steadied by the perception...that all seems just begun;...
MN 1.219 21 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein the sequent Revolution, which was not begun in Concord, or Lexington, or Virginia...
YA 1.365 8 ...prudent men have begun to see that every American should be educated with a view to the values of land.
YA 1.377 6 Meantime Trade had begun to appear...
YA 1.380 16 In Paris, the blouse, the badge of the operative, has begun to make its appearance in the salons.
Exp 3.46 13 In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished and much was begun in us.
Gts 3.164 11 The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also.
ShP 4.194 22 As soon as the statue was begun for itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to decline...
NMW 4.229 16 ...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the intellectual power, as if the sea and land had taken flesh and begun to cipher.
NMW 4.242 24 ...even when the majority of the people had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the country...took his part...
NMW 4.257 15 [Napoleon] left France smaller, poorer, feebler, than he found it; and the whole contest for freedom was to be begun again.
GoW 4.279 23 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can, assured that it has only begun its office...
ET3 5.35 19 ...an American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain. In all that is done or begun by the Americans towards right thinking or practice, we are met by a civilization already settled and overpowering.
ET15 5.264 5 [The London Times] adopted the League against the Corn Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it announced his triumph.
Wth 6.101 6 ...a mass is an immense centre of motion [said the Marseilles banker], but it must be begun, it must be kept up...
Wth 6.101 8 ...a mass is an immense centre of motion [said the Marseilles banker], but it must be begun, it must be kept up:--and he might have added that the way in which it must be begun and kept up is by obedience to the law of particles.
CbW 6.259 16 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which...gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue when once it is begun.
Elo1 7.63 13 [The orator's audience] come to get justice done to that ear and intuition which no Chatham and no Demosthenes has begun to satisfy.
DL 7.107 3 ...by beautiful traits...the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
Boks 7.218 9 ...I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean the Bibles...
PI 8.2 5 For Fancy's gift/ Can mountains lift;/ The Muse can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/...
Insp 8.280 20 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new begun;/...
Grts 8.314 24 ...one fights with cannon as with fists; when once the fire is begun, the least want of ammunition renders what you have done already useless.
Supl 10.169 9 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech. They are never off their centres. As soon as they swell and paint and find truth not enough for them, softening of the brain has already begun.
Supl 10.175 22 Nature is always serious,-does not jest with us. Where we have begun in folly, we are brought quickly to plain dealing.
MoL 10.250 12 [Nature says to the American] Other things you have begun to do,-to strike off the chains which snuffling hypocrites had bound on a weaker race.
Schr 10.288 9 ...gentlemen, there is plainly no end to these expansions [on the scholar]. I have exhausted your patience, and I have only begun.
LLNE 10.353 4 ...what is true and good must not only be begun by life, but must be conducted to its issues by life.
War 11.175 21 There is the highest fitness in the place and time in which this enterprise [Congress of Nations] is begun.
EPro 11.322 1 The cause of disunion and war has been reached and begun to be removed [by the Emancipation Proclamation].
EPro 11.323 4 [The Civil War] might have begun otherwise or elsewhere...
SMC 11.371 20 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...
FRO1 11.477 15 ...it does great honor to the sensibility of the committee [of the Free Religious Association] that they have felt the universal demand in the community for just the movement they have begun.
PLT 12.23 14 ...it is the common remark of the student, Could I only have begun with the same fire which I had on the last day, I should have done something.
II 12.70 15 ...Goethe, Fourier, Schelling, Coleridge, they all begin: we, credulous bystanders, believe, of course, that they can finish as they begun.
CInt 12.120 23 You, gentlemen, are selected out of the great multitude of your mates, out of those who begun life with you...
Con 1.308 26 ...I feel called upon in behalf of rational nature...to declare to you my opinion that if the Earth is yours so also is it mine.
YA 1.390 2 If a humane measure is propounded in behalf of the slave...that sentiment...will have the homage of the hero.
Lov1 2.185 19 [Love] makes covenants with Eternal Power in behalf of this dear mate.
Mrs1 3.150 10 A certain awkward consciousness of inferiority in the men may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of Woman's Rights.
PPh 4.58 5 ...the anecdotes that have come down from the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his master's behalf...
MoS 4.165 15 There is no man, in [Montaigne's] opinion, who has not deserved hanging five or six times; and he pretends no exception in his own behalf.
NMW 4.228 5 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own sense, when in behalf of the Senate he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
Wth 6.96 27 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer for the chart. How intimately our knowledge of the system of the Universe rests on that!--and a true economy in a state or an individual will forget its frugality in behalf of claims like these.
Ctr 6.164 3 Who wishes to resist the eminent and polite, in behalf of the poor, and low, and impolite?
Plu 10.309 23 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs.
EWI 11.100 10 It has been in all men's experience a marked effect of the enterprise in behalf of the African, to generate an overbearing and defying spirit.
JBB 11.269 9 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have been right.
ACiv 11.299 26 Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race;...
SMC 11.375 13 ...let me, in behalf of this assembly, speak directly to you, our defenders [veterans of the Civil War]...
NER 3.256 15 ...I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person whom I pay with money;...
Bhr 6.184 1 [The successful man of the world] knows that troops behave as they are handled at first;...
Cour 7.261 4 I am much mistaken if every man who went to the army in the late war had not a lively curiosity to know how he should behave in action.
SA 8.87 23 [The young European emigrant's] good and becoming clothes put him on thinking that he must behave like people who are so dressed;...
ACri 12.305 13 Don't rattle your rules in our ears; we must behave as we can.
Tran 1.351 20 In other places other men have encountered sharp trials, and behaved themselves well.
HDC 11.78 6 [Concord's] little population of 1300 souls behaved like a party to the contest [the American Revolution].
TPar 11.288 19 ...[the next generation] will care little for fine gentlemen who behaved shabbily;...
SMC 11.365 9 In the disastrous battle of Bull Run this [Massachusetts] company behaved well...
ET2 5.28 7 It is impossible not to personify a ship; every body does, in every thing they say:--she behaves well;...
Edc1 10.156 2 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...volunteer some degree of advances towards fellowship and good understanding with a biped who behaves so civilly and well.
LE 1.179 19 Means to ends, is the motto of all [Napoleon's] behavior.
Tran 1.344 8 If you do not need to hear my thought, because you can read it in my face and behavior, then I will tell it you from sunrise to sunset.
SR 2.48 2 What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children, babes, and even brutes!
Lov1 2.186 6 The soul which is in the soul of each [lover], craving a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects and disproportion in the behaviour of the other.
Hsm1 2.245 4 In the elder English dramatists...there is a constant recognition of gentility, as if a noble behavior were as easily marked in the society of their age as color is in our American population.
Hsm1 2.250 2 ...let [a man]...with perfect urbanity dare the gibbet and the mob by...the rectitude of his behavior.
Pt1 3.33 21 ...we love the poet, the inventor, who in any form, whether in an ode or in an action or in looks and behavior, has yielded us a new thought.
Mrs1 3.122 26 The gentleman is...lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior;...
Mrs1 3.131 25 ...the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
Mrs1 3.146 15 Even the line of heroes is not utterly extinct. ... These are the creators of Fashion, which is an attempt to organize beauty of behavior.
Mrs1 3.147 28 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review, in such manner as that we could at leisure and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
Mrs1 3.148 9 High behavior is as rare in fiction as it is in fact.
Mrs1 3.149 4 ...a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form...
Mrs1 3.150 1 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man a love of trifles...
Pol1 3.218 26 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and sweetness of his behavior, could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
NER 3.256 18 ...if I had not that commodity [money], I should be put on my good behavior in all companies...
ShP 4.210 8 What gentleman has [Shakespeare] not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?
NMW 4.238 16 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought...a great deal about what he should do in case of a reverse of fortune. The same prudence and good sense mark all his behavior.
ET8 5.129 21 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen]. The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England].
ET8 5.133 2 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the terror they cause. These travellers are of every class...and it may easily happen that those of rudest behavior are taken notice of and remembered.
ET11 5.186 1 ...when it happens that the spirit of the earl meets his rank and duties, we have the best examples of behavior.
ET11 5.186 11 [English nobility's] good behavior deserves all its fame...
ET16 5.288 27 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother, long since driven away from the trim hedge-rows and over-cultivated garden of England. And, in England, I am quite too sensible of this. Every one is on his good behavior and must be dressed for dinner at six.
Bhr 6.169 17 What are [manners] but thought...controlling the movements of the body, the speech and behavior?
Bhr 6.170 7 ...in real life, Talma taught Napoleon the arts of behavior.
Bhr 6.172 25 Bad behavior the laws cannot reach.
Bhr 6.173 20 ...these [bad manners] are social inflictions...which must be entrusted to the restraining force of...familiar rules of behavior impressed on young people in their school-days.
Bhr 6.175 12 Claverhouse is a fop, and under the finish of dress and levity of behavior hides the terror of his war.
Bhr 6.177 6 Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
Bhr 6.185 16 In the shallow company, easily excited, easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard; the Alleghanies do not express more repose than his behavior.
Bhr 6.190 23 Self-reliance is the basis of behavior...
Bhr 6.196 5 There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
CbW 6.265 5 It is an old commendation of right behavior, Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi, which our English proverb translates, Be merry and wise.
SS 7.13 10 For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.
DL 7.119 2 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read your heart and earnessness...
Farm 7.153 27 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in animals and in young children belongs to [the farmer]...
Boks 7.200 16 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by the forms and behavior of heroes...
Boks 7.215 1 The young study noble behavior;...
Clbs 7.245 27 A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company...
Suc 7.282 6 But if thou do thy best,/ Without remission, without rest,/ And invite the sunbeam,/ And abhor to feign or seem/ Even to those who thee should love/ And thy behavior approve;/...
OA 7.328 3 In old persons...we often observe a fair, plump, perennial, waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.
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.
SA 8.79 22 'T is an inestimable hint that I owe to a few persons of fine manners, that they make behavior the very first sign of force...
SA 8.79 23 'T is an inestimable hint that I owe to a few persons of fine manners, that they make behavior the very first sign of force,--behavior, and not performance...
SA 8.80 27 ...he who has not this fine garment of behavior is studious of dress...
SA 8.84 10 In Borrow's Lavengro, the gypsy instantly detects, by his companion's face and behavior, that some good fortune has befallen him...
SA 8.85 15 ...youth in America is wont to be...not in society where high behavior could be taught.
SA 8.87 25 [The young European emigrant's] good and becoming clothes put him on thinking that he must behave like people who are so dressed; and silently and steadily his behavior mends.
SA 8.103 5 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was such...good action, combined with such domestic lovely behavior...
Aris 10.56 2 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. ... Their manners and behavior in the house and in the field are those of men at rest...
Edc1 10.137 16 ...there is a perpetual hankering to violate this individuality, to warp [the new man's] ways of thinking and behavior to resemble or reflect your thinking and behavior.
Edc1 10.137 17 ...there is a perpetual hankering to violate this individuality, to warp [the new man's] ways of thinking and behavior to resemble or reflect your thinking and behavior.
Edc1 10.139 11 [Boys] detect weakness in your eye and behavior a week before you open your mouth...
Edc1 10.139 27 Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and talk with each other;...the good-natured yet defiant independence of a leading boy's behavior in the school-yard.
SovE 10.196 1 We answer, when they tell us of the bad behavior of Luther or Paul: Well, what if he did?
MoL 10.257 16 We do not often have a moment of grandeur in these hurried, slipshod lives, but the behavior of the young men [in the war] has taught us much.
Plu 10.316 4 This courteous, gentle and benign disposition and behavior is not so acceptable, so obliging or delightful to any of those with whom we converse, as it is to those who have it.
LLNE 10.334 1 The smallest anecdote of [Everett's] behavior or conversation was eagerly caught and repeated...
LLNE 10.364 22 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their life...their training in behavior.
EzRy 10.394 1 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...
Carl 10.490 7 [Carlyle]...understands his own value quite as well as Webster, of whom his behavior sometimes reminds me...
GSt 10.504 21 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior...
EWI 11.115 16 ...I must be indulged in quoting a few sentences...narrating the behavior of the emancipated people [of the West Indies] on the next day.
War 11.171 26 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that a man should be himself responsible, with goods, health and life, for his behavior;...
FSLC 11.180 9 Every hour brings us from distant quarters of the Union the expression of mortification at the late events in Massachusetts, and at the behavior of Boston.
FSLC 11.212 5 The behavior of Boston was the reverse of what it should have been...
FSLN 11.221 25 [Webster's appearance at Bunker Hill] was a place for behavior more than for speech...
SMC 11.355 16 ...we have all heard passages of generous and exceptional behavior exhibited by individuals there [in the South] to our officers and men...
PLT 12.62 17 ...the highest behavior, consists in the identification of the Ego with the universe;...
CW 12.178 19 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to...the man who lives in the presence of Nature.
Bost 12.192 15 [The Massachusett colonists' experience] seems to have been the last outrage ever committed by the sting-rays or by the sweetfern or by the fox-grapes; they have been of peaceable behavior ever since.
Bost 12.198 6 We can show [in New England] native examples...who possess all the elements of noble behavior.
WSL 12.345 2 ...in the character of Pericles [Landor] has found full play for beauty and greatness of behavior...
EurB 12.373 9 ...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class.
EurB 12.377 5 ...high behavior fraternized with high behavior [in the society in Wilhelm Meister]...
EurB 12.377 6 ...high behavior fraternized with high behavior [in the society in Wilhelm Meister]...
Bhr 6.171 7 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them;...
Bhr 6.172 24 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, and make them know how much happier the generous behaviors are.
Chr2 10.90 7 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/ I count as many as there are/ Cinquefoils or violets in the grass,/ So many saints and saviours,/ So many high behaviours./