Beheld to Belts
beheld, v. (27)
Nat 1.3 4
The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face;...
Nat 1.45 16
[The spirit] says...in such as this [human form] have I found
and beheld myself;...
LE 1.158 13
[The scholar] cannot know [his resources] until he has beheld
with awe the infinitude and impersonality of the intellectual power.
Fdsp 2.209 2
Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable
natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared...
Int 2.329 6
[Ideas]...so fully engage us that we...gaze like children, without
an effort to make them our own. By and by we fall out of that rapture...and
repeat as truly as we can what we have beheld.
Chr1 3.90 19
When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I might see him offer
battle...
Chr1 3.94 12
How often has the influence of a true master realized all the
tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into
all those who beheld him...
NR 3.226 1
...on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve, and when
the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it seemed to veil, we are vexed
to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we
first beheld.
UGM 4.32 3
Each is uneasy until he has...beheld his talent also in its last
nobility and exaltation.
PNR 4.80 18
[The human being's] arts and sciences...look glorious when
prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox...
SwM 4.96 6
The soul having been often born...having beheld the things
which are here, those which are in heaven and those which are beneath,
there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
ShP 4.218 27
...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]...
ET8 5.139 21
No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men
of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a
victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day;
and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a
conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.
CbW 6.272 8
Our conversation once and again has apprised us that we
belong to better circles than we have yet beheld;...
Ill 6.319 15
As if one shut up always in a tower, with one window through
which the face of heaven and earth could be seen, should fancy that all the
marvels he beheld belonged to that window.
PPo 8.264 16
[The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the
eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him
among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw
themselves in the Simorg./
Dem1 10.11 2
Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a
door to the pyramid of Ghizeh. What thousands had beheld the same spot
for so many ages, and seen no three marks.
Chr2 10.113 23
Some poor soul beheld the Law blazing through such
impediments as he had, and yielded himself to humility and joy. What was
gained by being told that it was justification by faith?
Prch 10.234 6
Given the insight, [the deep observer] will find as many
beauties and heroes and strokes of genius close by him as Dante or
Shakspeare beheld.
GSt 10.507 4
...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...beheld his work
prosper for the joy and benefit of all mankind,-I count him happy among
men.
HDC 11.38 22
...[the settlers of Concord] beheld, with curiosity, all the
pleasing features of the American forest.
TPar 11.287 25
...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves
expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind, in which
they beheld their own opinions combined with zeal in every cause of love
and humanity, they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed
them...
CInt 12.129 25
Bring the insight, and [the deep observer] will find as many
beauties and heroes and astounding strokes of genius close by him as
Shakspeare or Aeschylus or Dante beheld.
Bost 12.190 6
Morton arrived [in Massachusetts] in 1622, in June, beheld
the country, and the more he looked, the more he liked it.
MAng1 12.233 16
Through [superficial beauty] [Michelangelo] beheld the
eternal spiritual beauty which ever clothes itself with grand and graceful
outlines...
Milt1 12.259 12
...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was
sent into Italy, where he beheld the remains of ancient art...
MLit 12.324 19
This is the secret of that deep realism, which went about
among all objects [Goethe] beheld, to find the cause why they must be what
they are.
behemoth, adj. (1)
PLT 12.36 4
[Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains...clinging to his
behemoth ways.
behemoth, n. (3)
SwM 4.135 23
The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in
Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What
have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what
with...behemoth and unicorn?
FSLC 11.211 14
...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the
brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery].
EPro 11.314 16
Up! and the dusky race/ That sat in darkness long,-/ Be
swift their feet as antelopes,/ And as behemoth strong./
Behemoth, n. (1)
PLT 12.35 5
Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth, disdaining
speech, disdaining particulars;...
behind, adv. (7)
SS 7.1 14
...when the mate of the snow and wind,/ [Seyd] left each civil
scale behind/...
Art2 7.55 1
The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its
origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the
street. The first comers gather round in a circle, those behind stand on
tiptoe...
Elo2 8.117 4
[The orator] knew very well beforehand that [the people] were
looking behind and that he was looking ahead...
Chr2 10.112 21
...the mind of our culture has already left our liturgies
behind.
EWI 11.136 21
One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation
in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...
War 11.162 13
You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go
unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding
of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...
MLit 12.328 1
Here was a man [Goethe] who, in the feeling that the thing
itself was so admirable as to leave all comment behind, went up and down,
from object to object, lifting the veil from every one, and did no more.
behind-hand, adv. (1)
Let 12.392 2
...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our
correspondence;...
Behmen [Bohme], Jacob, n. (4)
Chr2 10.111 22
...Behmen, George Fox,-these speak originally;...
SovE 10.203 22
The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the
conscience of Europe...the mystics, Behmen and Swedenborg;...
II 12.70 11
Lord Bacon begins; Behmen begins;...
CL 12.165 11
Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried to decipher this
hieroglyphic [of Nature]...
Behmen [Bohme], Jakob, n. [Behmen] (15)
OS 2.282 5
A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening
of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of
light. The trances of Socrates...the aurora of Behmen...are of this kind.
Pt1 3.34 23
The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the
eyes of Jacob Behmen...
Nat2 3.187 27
Jacob Behmen and George Fox betray their egotism in the
pertinacity of their controversial tracts...
NER 3.279 26
A religious man, like Behmen...is not irritated by wanting
the sanction of the Church...
UGM 4.8 18
Behmen and Swedenborg saw that things were representative.
PPh 4.40 4
St. Augustine...Behmen...are likewise [Plato's] debtors...
SwM 4.97 10
All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
The trances of Socrates...Behmen...will readily come to mind.
SwM 4.117 5
Behmen, and all mystics, imply this law [of Correspondence]
in their dark riddle-writing.
SwM 4.135 11
Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by attaching
themselves to the Christian symbol...
SwM 4.142 22
The warm, many-weathered, passionate-peopled world is to
[Swedenborg]...an emblematic freemason's procession. How different is
Jacob Behmen!...
SwM 4.143 1
Behmen is healthily and beautifully wise...
ET14 5.241 21
A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and
these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian
theories in physics. In England these may be traced usually to Shakspeare,
Bacon, Milton, or Hooker, even to Van Helmont and Behmen...
PI 8.27 14
In some individuals this insight or second sight has an
extraordinary reach which compels our wonder, as in Behmen, Swedenborg
and William Blake the painter.
QO 8.181 3
Swedenborg, Behmen, Spinoza, will appear original to
uninstructed and to thoughtless persons...
Insp 8.277 17
Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here...but all was
ordered according to the direction of the spirit...
Behmenism, n. (1)
Wsp 6.203 20
I and my neighbors have been bred in the notion that unless
we came soon to some good church,--Calvinism, or Behmenism, or
Romanism, or Mormonism,--there would be a universal thaw and
dissolution.
behold, v. (86)
Nat 1.57 15
Whilst we behold unveiled the nature of Justice and Truth, we
learn the difference between the absolute and the conditional or relative.
Nat 1.64 14
...being admitted to behold the absolute natures of justice and
truth...we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator...
Nat 1.67 11
When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to
recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why
all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
Nat 1.75 7
...when the fact is seen under the light of an idea, the gaudy
fable fades and shrivels. We behold the real higher law.
AmS 1.104 27
...what overgrown error you behold is there only by
sufferance...
AmS 1.106 18
All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green
and crude being...
DSA 1.120 13
Behold these out-running laws...
DSA 1.120 16
Behold these infinite relations, so like, so unlike;...
LE 1.163 2
The soul answers-Behold [Charles V's] day is here!
LE 1.163 10
...in the great idea and the puny execution;-behold Charles
the Fifth's day;...
LE 1.163 11
...in the great idea and the puny execution;...behold Chatham'
s...day...
MN 1.196 6
...as soon as [the grand inquisitor] probes the crust, behold
gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction...
MN 1.200 21
...thou must behold [nature] in a spirit as grand as that by
which it exists, ere thou canst know the law.
MN 1.201 12
When we behold the landscape in a poetic spirit, we do not
reckon individuals.
MN 1.218 18
Behold! there is the sun, and the rain, and the rocks;...
MR 1.230 7
...the scholar says...behold every solitary dream of mine is
rushing to fulfilment.
MR 1.230 12
Behold, State Street thinks...
MR 1.244 26
Let the house rather be a temple of the Furies of
Lacedaemon...which none but a Spartan may enter or so much as behold.
Con 1.298 25
Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth;...
Tran 1.334 2
[The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the
procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from
an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...
Tran 1.343 14
To behold the beauty of another character...these are degrees
on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have
ascended;...
Tran 1.343 16
...to behold the beauty lodged in a human being, with such
vivacity of apprehension that I am instantly forced home to inquire if I am
not deformity itself;...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to
which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
Tran 1.343 19
...to behold in another the expression of a love so high that it
assures itself,-assures itself also to me against every possible casualty
except my unworthiness;-these are degrees on the scale of human
happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
Tran 1.358 6
...Society...must behold [Transcendentalists] with what
charity it can.
YA 1.375 18
Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of
thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter.
SL 2.147 9
Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in
the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold
them...
Lov1 2.177 7
Behold there in the wood the fine madman [the lover]!
Fdsp 2.204 8
A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature. I...who see nothing in
nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold
now the semblance of my being...reiterated in a foreign form;...
Hsm1 2.246 12
...Never one object underneath the sun/ Will I behold
before my Sophocles:/ Farewell;.../
OS 2.270 1
Only [the soul] can inspire whom it will, and behold! their
speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind.
OS 2.285 18
We know...whether that which we teach or behold is only an
aspiration or is our honest effort also.
OS 2.296 17
Behold, [the soul] saith, I am born into the great, the universal
mind.
Cir 2.319 21
...let [the man and woman of seventy] behold truth; and their
eyes are uplifted...
Int 2.327 6
We behold [a truth separated by the intellect] as a god upraised
above care and fear.
Int 2.332 22
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.
Art1 2.354 8
We carve and paint, or we behold what is carved and painted,
as students of the mystery of Form.
Pt1 3.11 6
...behold! all night, from every pore, these fine auroras have
been streaming.
Pt1 3.31 18
...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in
mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt
this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as
bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
Exp 3.66 19
...what are these millions who read and behold, but incipient
writers and sculptors?
Exp 3.71 23
...every insight from this realm of thought...promises a sequel.
I do not make it; I arrive there, and behold what was there already.
Exp 3.79 12
Saints are sad, because they behold sin...from the point of
view of the conscience...
Chr1 3.97 13
[The feeble souls] never behold a principle until it is lodged
in a person.
Pol1 3.215 15
A man who cannot be acquainted with me...looking from
afar at me ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical
end,--not as I, but as he happens to fancy. Behold the consequence.
UGM 4.29 9
[Children] shed their own abundant beauty on the objects they
behold.
PNR 4.86 3
[Plato] was born to behold the self-evolving power of spirit...
MoS 4.183 21
[The man of thought] can behold with serenity the yawning
gulf between the ambition of man and his power of performance...
ET1 5.4 14
Besides those [writers] I have named...there was not in Britain
the man living whom I cared to behold...
F 6.3 14
Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas,
behold their return and reconcile their opposition.
Wth 6.98 25
In the Greek cities it was reckoned profane that any person
should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could
behold it.
Bty 6.296 21
Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often
cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, Yes, I
am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of man than any I yet
behold.
Art2 7.55 6
The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its
origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the
street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they
climb on fences or window-sills, and so make a cup of which the object of
attention occupies the hollow area. The architect put benches in this, and
enclosed the cup with a wall,--and behold a Coliseum!
Art2 7.56 25
The genuine offspring of our ruling passions we behold.
DL 7.119 7
...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior,
read...your thought and will...which he may...dine sparely and sleep hard in
order to behold.
DL 7.125 19
How seldom do we behold tranquillity!
WD 7.171 19
...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual
creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which
they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue
depth which weaves itself over me now...
WD 7.181 20
Fill my hour, ye gods, so that I shall not say, whilst I have
done this, Behold, also, an hour of my life is gone,--but rather, I have lived
an hour.
Suc 7.300 11
How that element [color] washes the universe with its
enchanting waves! The sculptor had ended his work, and behold a new
world of dream-like glory.
PI 8.27 26
I assert for myself [wrote Blake] that I do not behold the
outward creation...
Comc 8.169 27
...[Astley's] comrades playfully forced off his coat, and
behold on the back of his waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the
rocks with foam and rainbow...
QO 8.188 8
A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that...that
multitudes of men do not live with Nature, but behold it as exiles.
Imtl 8.323 18
Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our mansion, it feels not the
winter storm; but when this short moment of happiness has been enjoyed, it
is forced again into the same dreary tempest from which it had escaped, and
we behold it no more.
Imtl 8.351 17
[Yama said to Nachiketas] The wise, by means of the union
of the intellect with the soul, thinking him whom it is hard to behold, leaves
both grief and joy.
Aris 10.29 13
Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and
the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol
the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...
Chr2 10.98 8
...I may easily speak of that adorable nature, there where only
I behold it in my dim experiences, in such terms as shall seem to the
frivolous...as profane.
Chr2 10.120 8
But I, father, says the wise Prahlada, in the Vishnu Purana,
know neither friends nor foes, for I behold Kesava in all beings as in my
own soul.
Edc1 10.129 21
Is it not true that every landscape I behold, every friend I
meet...leaves me a different being from that they found me?
SovE 10.202 23
Shall I make the mistake of baptizing the daylight, and
time, and space, by the name of John or Joshua, in whose tent I chance to
behold daylight, and space, and time?
Prch 10.221 19
Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is
without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to
foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;...
Prch 10.222 25
The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...
Prch 10.237 16
...the upper eyes behold causes and the connection of things.
LLNE 10.336 12
...the paramount source of the religious revolution was
Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan
fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live
was...a little scrap of a planet, rushing round the sun in our system, which in
turn was too minute to be seen at the distance of many stars which we
behold.
HDC 11.72 16
On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a
very full assembly taking for his text, 2 Chronicles xiii.12, And, behold,
God himself is with us for our captain...
LVB 11.91 15
Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is
not our act. Behold us.
FSLC 11.200 3
...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency
[of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...
PLT 12.59 6
...we behold [the universe] shooting the gulf from the past to
the future.
Mem 12.98 15
We hate this fatal shortness of Memory, these docked men
whom we behold.
Mem 12.103 19
...confined now in populous streets you behold again the
green fields, the shadows of the gray birches;...
CW 12.169 11
...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Hath such a soul,
such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me
when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/
Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
MAng1 12.216 20
It is a happiness to find...a soul at intervals born to
behold and create only Beauty.
MAng1 12.222 4
...behold the effect of this familiar object [the human
form] every day!
MAng1 12.243 6
...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to
demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur
and grace are opened, which no profane eye and no indolent eye can
behold...
MLit 12.313 11
Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe
in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a
stranger...
MLit 12.314 6
Every form under the whole heaven [the narrow-minded]
behold in this most partial light or darkness of intense selfishness...
MLit 12.319 6
In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in
Byron...it sees not its true end...a life...descending into Nature to behold
itself reflected there.
Let 12.398 9
[American youths] are in the state of the young Persians,
when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said, Behold the
signs of evil days are come;...
Let 12.404 20
A literature...is the affair of a power which works by a
prodigality of life and force very dismaying to behold...
beholden, v. (4)
AmS 1.85 2
Every day, men and women, conversing - beholding and
beholden.
Lov1 2.171 3
...it is to be hoped that...we may attain to that inward view of
the law which shall describe a truth...so central that it shall commend itself
to the eye at whatever angle beholden.
ShP 4.197 17
...more recently not only Pope and Dryden have been
beholden to [Chaucer], but, in the whole society of English writers, a large
unacknowledged debt is easily traced.
Boks 7.204 13
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English
speech...
beholder, n. (20)
MN 1.212 16
Ever [the stars] woo and court the eye of every beholder.
Hist 2.15 16
Every one must have observed faces and forms which, without
any resembling feature, make a like impression on the beholder.
SL 2.162 5
...the eye of the beholder is puzzled...
Lov1 2.180 20
...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when it
makes the beholder feel his unworthiness;...
Hsm1 2.259 25
The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and
proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her
own nobleness.
Art1 2.363 25
Art should exhilarate...awakening in the beholder the same
sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist...
Pt1 3.8 26
[The poet] is a beholder of ideas...
Pt1 3.30 3
The metamorphosis excites in the beholder an emotion of joy.
Chr1 3.113 24
...we do not know the majestic manners which belong to [a
man], which appease and exalt the beholder.
UGM 4.18 20
It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to blind the
beholder.
Bhr 6.179 25
'T is remarkable too that the spirit that appears at the
windows of the house [the eyes] does at once invest himself in a new form
of his own to the mind of the beholder.
Wsp 6.223 13
If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that
state of mind you had when you made it.
Bty 6.291 8
Every necessary or organic action pleases the beholder.
DL 7.125 22
We do not know the majestic manners that belong to [a man],
which appease and exalt the beholder.
Edc1 10.158 25
By your own act you teach the beholder how to do the
practicable.
Schr 10.264 9
[The scholar] is here to be the beholder of the real;...
FSLC 11.193 24
The very defence which the God of Nature has provided
for the innocent against cruelty is the sentiment of indignation and pity in
the bosom of the beholder.
MAng1 12.229 19
[Michelangelo's Moses]...is designed to embody the
Hebrew Law. The law-giver is supposed to gaze upon the worshippers of
the golden calf. The majestic wrath of the figure daunts the beholder.
MAng1 12.231 7
[Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the
air; and he redeemed his pledge by suspending that vast cupola [of St. Peter'
s], without offence to grace or to stability, over the astonished beholder.
MLit 12.329 22
[We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...every keen
beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister]...
beholders, n. (9)
LE 1.157 8
...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of
fair outline...which does not, like the charged cloud...emit lightnings on all
beholders.
Art1 2.352 25
As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the
artist and finds expression in his work, so far it...will represent to future
beholders the Unknown...
Art1 2.365 17
A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders
nobly mad.
Chr1 3.96 17
...[a healthy soul] stands to all beholders like a transparent
object betwixt them and the sun...
Nat2 3.176 17
The difference between landscape and landscape is small,
but there is great difference in the beholders.
Bhr 6.186 25
The hero...should impart comfort by his own security and
good nature to all beholders.
Cour 7.265 11
...'t is possible that the beholders suffer more keenly than
the victims.
SlHr 10.443 26
Such was, in old age, the beauty of [Samuel Hoar's] person
and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made the same impression of
probity on all beholders.
Wom 11.411 15
There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but
was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman, who
charmed beholders by this new expression...
beholdeth, v. (1)
MLit 12.321 20
...[Shakespeare and Milton] are poets by the free course
which they allow to the informing soul, which through their eyes beholdeth
again and blesseth the things which it hath made.
beholding, adj. (2)
SR 2.77 19
[Prayer] is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul.
PI 8.24 20
...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees the same refining
and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily accidents
which the senses report...
beholding, n. (2)
LT 1.283 4
The genius of the day does not incline to a deed, but to a
beholding.
Mem 12.95 11
This command of old facts, the clear beholding at will of
what is best in our experience, is our splendid privilege.
beholding, v. (14)
AmS 1.85 2
Every day, men and women, conversing - beholding and
beholden.
MN 1.202 18
...we feel not much otherwise if, instead of beholding foolish
nations, we take the great and wise men...and narrowly inspect their
biography.
Con 1.296 8
Saturn grew weary of sitting...with none but the great Uranus
or Heaven beholding him...
Tran 1.334 11
From...this beholding of all things in the mind, follow easily
[the idealist's] whole ethics.
Lov1 2.181 15
...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female
sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form,
movement and intelligence of this person...
Lov1 2.182 23
...beholding in many souls the traits of the divine beauty...
the lover ascends to the highest beauty...
Fdsp 2.196 6
The lover, beholding his maiden, half knows that she is not
verily that which he worships;...
Hsm1 2.257 6
If we dilate in beholding the Greek energy...it is that we are
already domesticating the same sentiment.
Cir 2.318 2
I own I am gladdened...not less by beholding in morals that
unrestrained inundation of the principle of good...
Pt1 3.5 10
Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their
belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time.
Ill 6.307 24
When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding the shimmer,/ The wild
dissipation,/ And, 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./
Elo1 7.72 25
...when...his words fell like the winter snows, not then would
any mortal contend with Ulysses; and [the Trojans], beholding, wondered
not afterwards so much at his aspect.
Mem 12.91 8
Memory...holds together past and present, beholding both...
MLit 12.316 2
Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was
too happy in beholding her power and love?
beholds, v. (21)
Nat 1.10 19
...in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as
beautiful as his own nature.
Nat 1.18 14
...in the same field, [the attentive eye] beholds, every hour, a
picture which was never seen before...
Nat 1.60 4
[Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...
MN 1.198 17
...one who...beholds the visible as proceeding from the
invisible, cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the
physical laws to do them some injustice.
MR 1.250 23
...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but
already to begin to exist...
SR 2.69 5
The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal
causation...
SL 2.148 7
On the Alps the traveller sometimes beholds his own shadow
magnified to a giant...
Lov1 2.184 20
Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit.
OS 2.289 4
...[Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] are poets by
the free course which they allow to the informing soul, which through their
eyes beholds again and blesses the things which it hath made.
Cir 2.316 1
...one man's wisdom [is] another's folly; as one beholds the
same objects from a higher point.
Int 2.327 1
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of
melancholy.
NR 3.243 26
As soon as [a man] needs a new object, suddenly he beholds
it...
PPh 4.58 20
...[Plato] beholds the penal metempsychosis...
PPh 4.70 2
When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work,
looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a
model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow
that his production should be beautiful. But when he beholds that which is
born and dies, it will be far from beautiful.
MoS 4.150 25
The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any
object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but
beholds the design?--he will presently undervalue the actual object.
GoW 4.262 23
Whatever [the writer] beholds or experiences, comes to him
as a model and sits for its picture.
OA 7.328 10
[The veteran] beholds the feats of the juniors with
complacency...
PI 8.9 19
Every object [the student] beholds is the mask of a man.
PI 8.11 16
The mind, penetrated with its sentiment or its thought, projects it
outward on whatever it beholds.
PI 8.17 1
...the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in
Nature, to give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.
Milt1 12.274 9
[Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden...
behoof, n. (2)
AmS 1.84 15
...do not all things exist for the student's behoof?
Dem1 10.19 19
The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the
known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or
evaded by this gypsy principle, which chooses favorites and works in the
dark for their behoof;...
behooted, v. (1)
DSA 1.142 1
What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...that it is behooted and
behowled...
behooves, v. (7)
LT 1.260 5
[The Times] is very good matter to be handled, if we are
skilful; an abundance of important practical questions which it behooves us
to understand.
Hsm1 2.261 24
...it behooves the wise man to look with a bold eye into
those rarer dangers which sometimes invade men...
Cir 2.315 1
...it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what
god he devotes it;...
Bty 6.300 23
Since I am so ugly, said Du Guesclin, it behooves that I be
bold.
Aris 10.46 15
...it behooves a good man to walk with tenderness and heed
amidst so much suffering.
War 11.172 9
The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the
conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a
kingdom and a state;...really poorer if government, law and order went by
the board;...because he...never needs to ask another what in any crisis it
behooves him to do.
CInt 12.115 10
...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but
the only reality,-then it behooves us to enthrone it, obey it;...
behowled, v. (1)
DSA 1.142 1
What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...that it is behooted and
behowled...
Behring [Bering], Vitus Jo (1)
SR 2.86 15
Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fishing-boats
as to astonish Parry and Franklin...
Behring's Strait [Straits], (1)
ET5 5.91 13
The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year
after year, in search of Sir John Franklin, until at last they have threaded
their way through polar pack and Behring's Straits...
Being and Seeming [Ralph W (1)
Scot 11.462 9
Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott
was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the
country he looked upon, and so...illustrated every hidden corner of a barren
and disagreeable territory. Lecture, Being and Seeming, 1838.
Being, Divine, n. (1)
Elo2 8.127 21
...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was
informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and
was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion.
The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he
implored the Divine Being to--to--to bless to them all the boy that was this
morning drowned in Frog Pond.
being, n. (160)
Nat 1.27 26
...a ray of relation passes from every other being to [man].
Nat 1.41 21
...a conspiring of parts and efforts to the production of an end
is essential to any being.
Nat 1.52 8
The [sensual man] esteems nature as rooted and fast; the [poet],
as fluid, and impresses his being thereon.
Nat 1.55 23
It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that this feeble
human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing
soul...
Nat 1.62 22
Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the
evidence of our own being and the evidence of the world's being.
Nat 1.62 23
Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the
evidence of our own being and the evidence of the world's being.
Nat 1.63 9
[If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in
the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to wander without end. Then the
heart resists it, because it balks the affections in denying substantive being
to men and women.
Nat 1.69 14
All things unto our flesh are kind,/ In their descent and
being;.../
AmS 1.95 18
So much only of life as I know by experience...so far have I
extended my being...
AmS 1.106 19
All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green
and crude being...
DSA 1.120 24
[Man] learns that his being is without bound;...
DSA 1.122 21
If a man dissemble...he...goes out of acquaintance with his
own being.
DSA 1.124 18
In so far as [a man] roves from these [good] ends...his being
shrinks out of all remote channels...
DSA 1.128 1
Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade
out of sight...
DSA 1.128 23
...ravished by [the soul's] beauty, [Jesus Christ]...had his
being there.
DSA 1.132 5
There is no longer a necessary reason for my being.
DSA 1.133 20
...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in
my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all
ages.
DSA 1.136 25
Where shall I hear these august laws of moral being so
pronounced as to fill my ear...
DSA 1.150 21
Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first
the Sabbath...whose light...everywhere suggests...the dignity of spiritual
being.
LE 1.161 26
...I will thank my great brothers so truly for the admonition of
their being...
LE 1.165 13
The condition of our incarnation in a private self seems to be a
perpetual tendency...to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law
of universal being.
LE 1.166 9
A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits, sitting silent,
admires the miracle of...picturesque speech, in the man addressing an
assembly;-a state of being and power how unlike his own!
LE 1.176 14
Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce deep into the
grandeur and secret of our being...
LE 1.176 25
Fatal to the man of letters, fatal to man, is...the seeming that
unmakes our being.
LE 1.183 10
[They whom the student's thoughts have entertained or
inflamed] seek him, that he may turn his lamp on the dark riddles whose
solution they think is inscribed on the walls of their being.
MN 1.207 13
A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and
[man] was hurled into being as the bridge over that yawning need...
MN 1.207 27
Did [a man] not come into being because something must be
done which he and no other is and does?
Con 1.305 1
You who...are willing to...risk the indisputable good that
exists, for the chance of better, live, move, and have your being in this
[society]...
Tran 1.333 22
[The idealist] does not respect...property, otherwise than as
a manifold symbol, illustrating with wonderful fidelity of details the laws of
being;...
Tran 1.337 12
...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults
according to the letter, man exerts the sovereign right which the majesty of
his being confers on him;...
Tran 1.343 17
...to behold the beauty lodged in a human being, with such
vivacity of apprehension that I am instantly forced home to inquire if I am
not deformity itself;...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to
which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
Hist 2.36 4
[Man's] power consists...in the fact that his life is intertwined
with the whole chain of organic and inorganic being.
Hist 2.40 16
What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads
and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being?
SR 2.47 20
Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the
genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely
trustworthy was...predominating in all their being.
SR 2.58 7
All the sallies of [a man's] will are rounded in by the law of his
being...
SR 2.64 11
...the sense of being which in calm hours rises...in the soul, is
not diverse from things...
SR 2.64 15
...the sense of being which in calm hours rises...in the soul, is
not diverse from things...from man, but...proceeds obviously from the same
source whence their life and being also proceed.
SR 2.66 19
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his
ripened being?
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.
Comp 2.122 5
There is no penalty to virtue; no penalty to wisdom; they are
proper additions of being.
SL 2.160 9
[Virtue] consists in a perpetual substitution of being for
seeming...
SL 2.161 24
The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his
whole being without obstruction...
SL 2.162 10
Why should we make it a point with our false modesty to
disparage...that form of being assigned to us?
Lov1 2.178 20
...[the maiden] indemnifies [the lover] by carrying out her
own being into somewhat impersonal, large, mundane...
Fdsp 2.204 9
A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature. I...who see nothing in
nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold
now the semblance of my being...reiterated in a foreign form;...
Prd1 2.224 27
[Prudence] takes the laws of the world, whereby man's
being is conditioned, as they are...
Prd1 2.225 5
There revolve, to give bound and period to [man's] being on
all sides, the sun and moon...
Prd1 2.236 4
...let [a man] likewise feel the admonition to integrate his
being across all these distracting forces...
Hsm1 2.259 20
Let the maiden, with erect soul...search in turn all the
objects that solicit her eye, that she may learn the power and the charm of
her new-born being...
Hsm1 2.264 8
...the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous...
affirms itself no mortal but a native of the deeps of absolute and
inextinguishable being.
OS 2.268 3
Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
OS 2.268 23
The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present...
is...that Unity, that Over-Soul, within which every man's particular being is
contained...
OS 2.270 23
All goes to show that the soul in man...is not the intellect or
the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of
our being, in which they lie...
OS 2.271 22
We know that all spiritual being is in man.
OS 2.284 25
The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of
the senses is to...accepting the tide of being which floats us into the secret
of nature, work and live...
OS 2.293 9
[God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... He is
sure that his welfare is dear to the heart of being.
Cir 2.320 10
We do not guess to-day...the power, of to-morrow, when we
are building up our being.
Int 2.342 9
He [in whom the love of truth predominates] will...recognize all
the opposite negations between which, as walls, his being is swung.
Int 2.342 13
...he [in whom the love of truth predominates]...respects the
highest law of his being.
Exp 3.53 5
...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who
winds him round his finger by knowing the law of his being;...
Exp 3.62 17
The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.
Exp 3.77 11
The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every
comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might.
Chr1 3.95 14
Truth is the summit of being;...
Chr1 3.115 10
Is there any religion but this, to know that wherever in the
wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a
flower, it blooms for me?...
Nat2 3.195 27
...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being...
lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too
outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the
immortality of the soul.
Pol1 3.221 9
I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily
denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral
nature.
NR 3.243 25
Through solidest eternal things the man finds his road as if
they did not subsist, and does not once suspect their being.
NER 3.277 27
...we hold on to our little properties...although they confess
that our being does not flow through them.
UGM 4.16 6
Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the
addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and
presupposing his intelligence.
UGM 4.17 8
...we thus [through the acts of the intellect]...learn to choose
men by their truest marks, taught, with Plato, to choose those who can,
without aid from the eyes or any other sense, proceed to truth and to being.
UGM 4.28 22
...every individual strives...to impose the law of its being on
every other creature...
PPh 4.48 16
In the midst of the sun is the light, in the midst of the light is
truth, and in the midst of truth is the imperishable being, say the Vedas.
PPh 4.49 9
The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in
one Being.
PPh 4.51 4
That which the soul seeks is resolution into being above form...
PPh 4.51 15
These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and
interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is being; the
other, intellect...
PPh 4.64 15
[Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion
for reality; valuing philosophy only as it is the pleasure of conversing with
real being.
PNR 4.80 15
The human being has the saurian and the plant in his rear.
PNR 4.86 13
...the connection between our knowledge and the abyss of
being is still real...
SwM 4.95 3
The realms of being to no other bow,/ Not only all are thine,
but all are Thou./
SwM 4.95 10
The Koran makes a distinct class of those...whose goodness
has an influence on others, and pronounces this class to be the aim of
creation: the other classes are admitted to the feast of being, only as
following in the train of this.
SwM 4.121 14
The central identity enables any one symbol to express
successively all the qualities and shades of real being.
SwM 4.138 16
Euripides rightly said, Goodness and being in the gods are
one;/ He who imputes ill to them makes them none./
SwM 4.146 3
...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the
more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam
and blaze through him...
SwM 4.146 8
...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the
more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam
and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered
to obscure; and he renders a second passive service to men, not less than the
first, perhaps, in the great circle of being...
Pow 6.53 4
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
Pow 6.54 10
A belief in causality, or strict connection between every pulse-beat
and the principle of being...characterizes all valuable minds...
Pow 6.74 22
[Many an artist] is up to nature and the First Cause in his
thought. But the spasm to collect and swing his whole being into one act, he
has not.
Wth 6.90 3
...according to the excellence of the machinery in each human
being is his attraction for the instruments he is to employ.
Wth 6.124 25
It is a doctrine of philosophy that man is a being of degrees;...
Ctr 6.166 15
...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic
effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to
the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he
will not overcome and convert...
Wsp 6.213 27
...we are never without a hint...that we are one day to deal
with real being...
Wsp 6.231 23
...I look on those sentiments which make the glory of the
human being...as being also the intimacy of Divinity in the atoms;...
CbW 6.246 15
That by which a man conquers in any passage is a profound
secret to every other being in the world...
Art2 7.50 14
A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain
of being...
Elo1 7.73 14
...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his
impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as
if I were the most culpable being on earth.
DL 7.132 14
Will [man] not see...that Law prevails for ever and ever; that
his private being is a part of it;...
WD 7.165 6
...the political economist thinks 't is doubtful if all the
mechanical inventions that ever existed have lightened the day's toil of one
human being.
PI 8.43 18
...a being whom we have called into life by magic arts, as soon
as it has received existence acts independently of the master's impulse...
SA 8.87 11
...[Lord Chesterfield] says, I am sure that since I had the use of
my reason, no human being has ever heard me laugh.
SA 8.100 8
It is the sense of every human being that man should have this
dominion of Nature...
Elo2 8.115 3
[Eloquence] instructs...that a man is...to the extent of his
being, a power;...
QO 8.199 24
Language is a city to the building of which every human
being brought a stone;...
PPo 8.265 20
You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless,
confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./ Ye blot out
my highest being,/ That ye may find yourselves on my throne;/ Forever ye
blot out yourselves,/ As shadows in the sun./ Farewell!/
Grts 8.301 4
Every human being has a right to [greatness]...
Imtl 8.330 22
...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who
once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so
overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence.
Imtl 8.338 19
As a hint of endless being, we may rank that novelty which
perpetually attends life.
Imtl 8.344 3
Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think
himself non-existent...
Aris 10.47 25
This is the whole game of society and the politics of the
world. Being will always seem well;-but whether possibly I cannot
contrive to seem without the trouble of being?
PerF 10.83 17
The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a
manner it...makes known to [the man] that the spiritual powers are
sufficient to him if no other being existed;...
PerF 10.86 3
That band which ties [cosmical laws] together...is universal
good, saturating all with one being and aim...
Chr2 10.91 22
...the reason we must give for the existence of the world is,
that it is for the benefit of all being.
Chr2 10.94 22
We have no idea of power so simple and so entire as this
[general mind]. It is the basis of thought, it is the basis of being.
Chr2 10.95 7
High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble
like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they what they may,/ Are yet the
fountain-light of all our day,/ Are yet the master-light of all our seeing,-/
Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make/ Our noisy years seem
moments in the being/ Of the eternal silence,-truths that wake/ To perish
never./
Chr2 10.122 11
[Character] extols humility,-by every self-abasement
lifted higher in the scale of being.
Edc1 10.129 23
Is it not true that every landscape I behold...every pain I
suffer, leaves me a different being from that they found me?
Edc1 10.129 25
[Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all work
actively upon our being...
Edc1 10.142 1
...the way to knowledge and power has ever been...a way,
not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial and renunciation, into
solitude and privation; and, the more is taken away, the more real and
inevitable wealth of being is made known to us.
Supl 10.174 16
All rests at last on the simplicity of nature, or real being.
SovE 10.193 26
...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical
supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom
they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence leaves
them...
SovE 10.197 15
...what touches any thread in the vast web of being touches
me.
SovE 10.197 21
How came this creation so magically woven...that an
invisible fence surrounds my being which screens me from all harm that I
will to resist?
Prch 10.218 20
...that religious submission and abandonment which give
man a new element and being...it is not in churches, it is not in houses.
Schr 10.281 18
Body and its properties belong to the region of nonentity,
as if more of body was necessarily produced where a defect of being
happens in a greater degree.
LLNE 10.353 19
Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world
becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in obedience to [a
man's] most private being he finds himself...acting in strict concert with all
others who followed their private light.
MMEm 10.407 27
[Mary Moody Emerson] could keep step with no human
being.
MMEm 10.414 13
Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in life, what a
proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been.
MMEm 10.425 9
'T is a strange deficiency in Brougham's title of a System
of Natural Theology, when the moral constitution of the being for whom
these contrivances were made is not recognized.
MMEm 10.427 10
I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's]
writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of
Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference,
any mediation between her and the Author of her being...
LS 11.18 5
...I believe...that every effort to pay religious homage to more
than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
LS 11.18 18
[Jesus] is the mediator in that only sense in which possibly any
being can mediate between God and man, that is, an instructor of man.
LS 11.18 23
...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most
thankfully; but the thanks he offers, and which an exalted being will accept,
are not compliments, commemorations...
HDC 11.30 7
Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow
that enters at a window...and flies out at another, and none knoweth whence
he came, or whither he goes. The more reason that we should give to our
being what permanence we can;...
EWI 11.118 14
...experience...shows the existence, beside the
covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery]...the voluptuousness of
holding a human being in his absolute control.
War 11.155 7
Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to a
mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being;...
War 11.167 10
At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of
holiness;...being attacked, he bears it and turns the other cheek, as one
engaged, throughout his being, no longer to the service of an individual but
to the common soul of all men.
War 11.169 25
A wise man will never impawn his future being and action...
AsSu 11.250 21
...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the
Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States, with
discourtesy. Then, that he is an abolitionist; as if every sane human being
were not an abolitionist...
Wom 11.409 12
...a refined and accomplished woman was a being almost
new to [Burns]...
SHC 11.428 19
...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting
sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of
unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...
SHC 11.434 21
...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there
upward, under which our busy being is whirled, is only a Sleepy Hollow,
with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
SHC 11.436 18
The being that can share a thought and feeling so sublime
as confidence in truth is no mushroom.
CPL 11.501 25
Every attainment and discipline which increases a man's
acquaintance with the invisible world lifts his being.
FRep 11.542 4
Whilst every man can say I serve,-to the whole extent of
my being I apply my faculty to the service of mankind in my especial
place,-he therein sees and shows a reason for his being in the world...
PLT 12.16 10
...the suggestion is always returning, that hidden source
publishing at once our being and that it is the source of outward Nature.
PLT 12.35 20
The Instinct begins...at the surface of the earth, and works
for the necessities of the human being;...
II 12.68 18
The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth,
and works for the necessities of the human being;...
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.
Mem 12.95 14
He who calls what is vanished back again into being enjoys
a bliss like that of creating, says Neibuhr.
Mem 12.97 3
Nature interests [the intellectual man];...mind, being, in their
own method and law.
Mem 12.101 19
Shall we not on higher stages of being remember and
understand our early history better?
Bost 12.196 17
New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by
shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the
year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external
nature;...
Bost 12.205 9
[The people of Massachusetts] accepted the divine
ordination...that intelligent being exists to the utmost use;...
MAng1 12.217 16
Like Truth, [Beauty] is an ultimate aim of the human
being.
Milt1 12.255 9
Of the upper world of man's being [Bacon's Essays] speak
few and faint words.
Milt1 12.276 11
Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these
wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of
regret...that [the men]...were channels through which streams of thought
flowed from a higher source, which they...did not blend with their own
being?
MLit 12.314 8
Every form under the whole heaven [the narrow-minded]
behold in this most partial light or darkness of intense selfishness, until we
hate their being.
MLit 12.324 13
...[Goethe]...pierced the purpose of a thing and studied to
reconcile that purpose with his own being.
MLit 12.328 7
What [Goethe] said of Lavater, may truelier said of him,
that it was fearful to stand in the presence of one before whom all the
boundaries within which Nature has circumscribed our being were laid flat.
WSL 12.343 6
Whatever can make for itself...the most profound and
permanent existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men, must have a
reason for its being.
Trag 12.415 3
Our human being is wonderfully plastic;...
Being, n. (14)
Comp 2.121 1
Under all this running sea of circumstance...lies the
aboriginal abyss of real Being.
Comp 2.121 3
Being is the vast affirmative...
Fdsp 2.197 19
Thou [my friend] art not Being...
Pt1 3.14 13
We stand before the secret of the world, there where Being
passes into Appearance and Unity into Variety.
Pt1 3.14 21
The earth and the heavenly bodies...we sensually treat, as if
they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.
Exp 3.73 17
In our more correct writing we give to this generalization the
name of Being...
PPh 4.49 9
The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in
one Being.
PPh 4.62 2
[Plato] even stood ready, as in the Parmenides, to demonstrate
that it was so,--that this Being exceeded the limits of intellect.
GoW 4.284 17
[Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of
universal truth, to be his portion: a man...having one test for all men,--What
can you teach me? All possessions are valued by him for that only; rank,
privileges, health, time, Being itself.
Chr2 10.98 15
How can [a man] exist to weave relations of joy and virtue
with other souls, but because he is inviolable, anchored at the centre of
Truth and Being?
LLNE 10.363 10
[Charles Newcomb] lived and thought, in 1842, such
worlds of life; all hinging on the thought of Being or Reality as opposed to
consciousness;...
MMEm 10.426 11
Sadness is better than walking talking acting
somnambulism. Yes, this entire solitude with the Being who makes the
powers of life!
MMEm 10.431 20
No object of science or observation ever was pointed
out to me [Mary Moody Emerson] by my poor aunt, but [God's] Being and
commands;...
PLT 12.40 17
In all healthy souls is an inborn necessity of presupposing
for each particular fact a prior Being which compels it to a harmony with
all other natures.
Being, Supreme, n. (6)
Nat 1.56 23
We...know that these are the thoughts of the Supreme Being.
Nat 1.64 5
...spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature
around us...
Hsm1 2.257 24
...friends, angels and the Supreme Being shall not be absent
from the chamber where thou sittest.
SwM 4.140 6
The Hindoos have denominated the Supreme Being, the
Internal Check.
Art2 7.39 9
Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no
art; for what they do they do instinctively; but relatively to the Supreme
Being, they have.
HDC 11.86 21
The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the
history of this people [of Concord].
Being, Universal, n. (1)
Nat 1.10 10
...the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me;...
beings, n. (41)
Nat 1.25 12
...the use of outer creation [is] to give us language for the
beings and changes of the inward creation.
Nat 1.27 24
[Man] is placed in the centre of beings...
Nat 1.51 2
...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealized at once [when
seen from a coach], or, at least...seen as apparent, not substantial beings.
MN 1.204 7
...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on
us is this, that...the whole...obeys that redundancy or excess of life which in
conscious beings we call ecstasy.
Hist 2.6 13
...involuntarily we always read as superior beings.
SL 2.149 22
What avails it to fight with the eternal laws of mind, which
adjust the relation of all persons to each other by the mathematical measure
of their havings and beings?
SL 2.158 16
...there need never be any doubt concerning the respective
ability of human beings.
Int 2.327 16
What is addressed to us for contemplation...makes us
intellectual beings.
Art1 2.354 2
Shall I now add that the whole extant product of the plastic
arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke drawn in the portrait of that
fate...according to whose ordinations all beings advance to their beatitude?
Exp 3.77 21
Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a
point...
Pol1 3.221 25
...there are now men...to whom no weight of adverse
experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of
human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest
sentiments...
NR 3.234 7
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings.
UGM 4.28 8
It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into
nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men, and
sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote, Not
transferable and Good for this trip only, on these garments of the soul.
SwM 4.107 26
A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake,
being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right
angle; and between the lines of this mystical quadrant all animated beings
find their place...
SwM 4.118 4
One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that
every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story
of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
SwM 4.134 20
Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by
name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive. There is no lustre in that
eye which gazes from the centre and which should vivify the immense
dependency of beings.
ShP 4.214 19
...like the tone of voice of some incomparable person, so [are
Shakespeare's sonnets] a speech of poetic beings...
NMW 4.245 20
...as intellectual beings we feel the air purified by the
electric shock, when material force is overthrown by intellectual energies.
ET1 5.18 21
London is the heart of the world, [Carlyle] said, wonderful
only from the mass of human beings.
Civ 7.27 6
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.
Elo1 7.91 22
...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man...amid
the inconceivable levity of human beings, never for an instant warped from
his erectness.
Farm 7.145 17
The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose,
slower, but incessantly. It is almost inevitable to push the generalization up
into higher parts of Nature, rank over rank into sentient beings.
PI 8.43 27
The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet, and it flows
from the lips of each of his magic beings in the thoughts and words peculiar
to its nature.
QO 8.200 24
My work [said Goethe] is an aggregation of beings taken
from the whole of Nature;...
Imtl 8.338 26
...it is the nature of intelligent beings to be forever new to life.
Aris 10.52 16
...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the
people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall
blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt?
He eats their bread...and after breakfast he cannot remember that there are
human beings.
Aris 10.65 12
...it suffices...that the interest of intellectual and moral beings
is paramount with [the man of generous spirit]...
Chr2 10.92 22
He is moral...whose aim or motive may become a universal
rule, binding on all intelligent beings;...
Chr2 10.95 23
[The moral sentiment] puts us at the heart of Nature, where
we belong...and so converts us into universal beings.
Chr2 10.120 8
But I, father, says the wise Prahlada, in the Vishnu Purana,
know neither friends nor foes, for I behold Kesava in all beings as in my
own soul.
SovE 10.188 6
It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the
mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law, exerting influence over
nations, intelligent beings...
MMEm 10.415 7
I am not infinite, nor have I power or will, but bound and
imprisoned, the tool of mind, even of the beings I feed and adorn.
MMEm 10.421 23
In a religious contemplative public [our civilization]
would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means; a few
pulsations of created beings...
Carl 10.493 2
[Carlyle] saw once, as he told me, three or four miles of
human beings, and fancied that the airth was some great cheese, and these
were mites.
LS 11.18 12
I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the
moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very
act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
FSLC 11.188 13
The resistance of all moral beings is secured to [the
Fugitive Slave Law].
FSLC 11.188 23
I thought that all men of all conditions had been made
sharers of a certaan experience, that in certain rare and retired moments
they had been made to see...what makes the essence of rational beings...
ACiv 11.297 2
Use, labor of each for all, is the health and virtue of all
beings.
SMC 11.354 14
...justice is really desired by all intelligent beings;...
Wom 11.413 6
The instincts of mankind have drawn the Virgin Mother-
Created beings all in lowliness/ Surpassing, as in height above them all./
MLit 12.317 16
...these low customary ways are not all that survives in
human beings.
being's, n. (1)
SwM 4.95 13
...the Persian poet exclaims to a soul of this kind [of
goodness],--Go boldly forth, and feast on being's banquet;/ Thou art the
called,--the rest admitted with thee./
belated, adj. (1)
ET12 5.200 15
...the porter at each hall [at Oxford] is required to give the
name of any belated student who is admitted after that hour [nine o'clock].
beleaguered, v. (2)
ShP 4.219 7
...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they
also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose?
The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a probation,
beleaguered round with doleful histories of Adam's fall and curse behind
us;...
HDC 11.60 16
Beleaguered in his own country...it was only a great thaw in
January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip'
s] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
Belgian, n. (1)
ET9 5.149 12
...the prestige of the English name warrants a certain
confident bearing, which a Frenchman or Belgian could not carry.
Belgium, n. (2)
ET10 5.159 1
...about 1829-30, much fear was felt [in England] lest the
[textile] trade would be drawn away by...the emigration of the spinners to
Belgium and the United States.
II 12.76 5
...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and
refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native
power.
Belgravia, London, England, (1)
ET11 5.181 23
The Marquis of Westminster built within a few years the
series of squares called Belgravia.
belie, v. (1)
Hist 2.39 20
...it is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state
one fact without seeming to belie some other.
belied, v. (1)
Pow 6.65 24
The messages of the governors and the resolutions of the
legislatures are a proverb for expressing a sham virtuous indignation,
which, in the course of events, is sure to be belied.
belief, n. (122)
Nat 1.49 15
To the senses and the unrenewed understanding, belongs a sort
of instinctive belief in the absolute existence of nature.
Nat 1.59 20
Children...believe in the external world. The belief that it
appears only, is an afterthought...
AmS 1.102 23
Let [the scholar] not quit his belief that a popgun is a
popgun...
AmS 1.106 7
I might not carry with me the feeling of my audience in
stating my own belief.
DSA 1.127 25
...poetry, the ideal life, the holy life, exist as ancient history
merely; they are not in the belief...of society;...
MR 1.235 19
...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss
of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society, if it proceeded from a
preference of the agricultural life out of the belief that our primary duties as
men could be better discharged in that calling.
LT 1.284 4
...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be not...a paper
blockade, in which each party is to display the utmost resources of his spirit
and belief, and no conflict occur...
Tran 1.354 5
...we retain the belief that this petty web we weave will at last
be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue...
SL 2.139 1
Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load
of care.
Hsm1 2.259 8
...a better valor and a purer truth shall one day organize
[many extraordinary young men's] belief.
Pt1 3.5 9
Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their
belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time.
Exp 3.45 8
...the Genius which according to the old belief stands at the
door by which we enter, and gives us the lethe to drink, that we may tell no
tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
Mrs1 3.143 1
...I will neither be driven from some allowance to Fashion as
a symbolic institution, nor from the belief that love is the basis of courtesy.
Gts 3.163 9
I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this
flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this
gift seems to deny?
Pol1 3.220 23
There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of
the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of
things...
NER 3.255 7
There is observable throughout [the practical activities of
New England]...a steady tendency of the thoughtful and virtuous to a deeper
belief and reliance on spiritual facts.
NER 3.271 14
...every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his
performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should do;...
NER 3.278 9
We are haunted with a belief that you [reformers] have a
secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn...
NER 3.278 14
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a
lover of truth.
NER 3.278 20
Could [the proposition of depravity] be received into
common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.
NER 3.280 2
...the Church feels the accusation of [the religious man's]
presence and belief.
UGM 4.3 13
Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society
[of good men];...
UGM 4.7 26
Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men;...
PNR 4.83 19
Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and
ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction...
instanced everywhere, but specially...in Socrates' belief that the laws below
are sisters of the laws above.
SwM 4.120 1
Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and
New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his
remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
MoS 4.176 14
Is [a man's] belief in God and Duty no deeper than a
stomach evidence?
MoS 4.180 19
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul;...
MoS 4.181 16
...presently the unbeliever, for love of belief, burns the
believer.
MoS 4.182 26
[The wise and magninimous] will exult in [the spiritualist's]
far-sighted good-will that can abandon to the adversary all the ground of
tradition and common belief...
NMW 4.223 5
...Bonaparte...owes his predominance to the fidelity with
which he expresses the tone of thought and belief, the aims of the masses of
active and cultivated men.
NMW 4.247 19
When [Napoleon] appeared it was the belief of all military
men that there could be nothing new in war;...
NMW 4.247 20
...it is the belief of men to-day that nothing new can be
undertaken in politics...
NMW 4.247 24
...it is at all times the belief of society that the world is
used up.
GoW 4.276 8
...what [Goethe] says...of periods of belief...refuses to be
forgotten.
ET1 5.5 4
I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my
first belief that a strong head will dispose fast enough of these
impediments...
ET2 5.29 4
...I waked every morning [at sea] with the belief that some one
was tipping up my berth.
ET4 5.51 25
I incline to the belief that, as water, lime and sand make
mortar, so certain temperaments marry well...
ET5 5.81 20
Into this English logic...an infusion of justice enters, not so
apparent in other races;--a belief in the existence of two sides...
ET5 5.85 11
In trade, the Englishman believes...that if he do not make trade
everything, it will make him nothing; and acts on this belief.
ET7 5.116 7
The faces of clergy and laity in old sculptures and illuminated
missals are charged with earnest belief.
ET7 5.118 23
The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General
Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer. The
English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait, as distinguishing them
from the French, who, in the popular belief, are more polite than true.
ET7 5.121 6
[The English] are tenacious of their belief...
ET7 5.124 16
...as [Englishmen's] own belief in guineas is perfect, they
readily, on all occasions, apply the pecuniary argument as final.
ET10 5.168 22
...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to
their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they
were impoverishing.
ET14 5.252 24
...a belief like that of Euler and Kepler, that experience
must follow and not lead the laws of the mind;...the modern English mind
repudiates.
ET15 5.267 21
...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests
the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers;...
F 6.42 3
The tendency of every man to enact all that is in his constitution is
expressed in the old belief that the efforts which we make to escape from
our destiny only serve to lead us into it...
Pow 6.54 8
A belief in causality...characterizes all valuable minds...
Pow 6.54 11
A belief in causality...and, in consequence, belief in
compensation...characterizes all valuable minds...
Bhr 6.171 6
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;...
Wsp 6.201 11
I have...no belief that it is of much importance what I or any
man may say...
Wsp 6.216 10
All the great ages have been ages of belief.
Wsp 6.224 1
If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he
meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he
conceals. Is it otherwise if there be some belief or some purpose he would
bury in his breast?
Wsp 6.237 11
In the Shakers...I find one piece of belief...
Ill 6.311 16
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the
joy which we give to the circumstance.
Art2 7.50 18
The whole language of men...points at the belief that every
work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of
fate...
Elo1 7.70 7
...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer fast; steals away...his
belief, that he shall not admit any opposing considerations.
Elo1 7.76 17
We have a half belief that the person is possible who can
counterpoise all other persons.
Elo1 7.92 22
...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the
eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
Cour 7.270 23
[John Brown] held the belief that courage and chastity are
silent concerning themselves.
Suc 7.292 25
Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you
are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause...
Suc 7.304 4
...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might
somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief
that he could elude all guards, precautions, ceremonies, means and delays...
PI 8.14 20
This belief that the higher use of the material world is to furnish
us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind, is carried to its
logical extreme by the Hindoos...
PI 8.19 12
...poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight,
looking through [things], and using them as types or words for thoughts
which they signify. Or is this belief a metaphysical whim of modern times...
PI 8.63 12
[The high poets] have touched this heaven and retain afterwards
some sparkle of it: they betray their belief that such discourse is possible.
Grts 8.308 27
...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they
shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was
written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
Imtl 8.324 2
In the first records of a nation in any degree thoughtful and
cultivated, some belief in the life beyond life would...be suggested.
Imtl 8.324 12
...where this belief [in immortality] once existed it would
necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form for the wise;...
Imtl 8.334 2
After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a
healthy mind.
Imtl 8.342 3
...courage or confidence in the mind comes to those who know
by use its wonderful forces and inspirations and returns. Belief in its future
is a reward kept only for those who use it.
Imtl 8.342 24
Nothing seems to me so excellent as a belief in the laws.
Imtl 8.343 20
...wherever man ripens, this audacious belief [in immortality]
presently appears...
Imtl 8.343 22
As soon as thought is exercised, this belief [in immortality] is
inevitable;...
Imtl 8.343 23
...as soon as virtue glows, this belief [in immortality]
confirms itself.
Dem1 10.15 13
The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good
fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of
uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political
and military projects...
Dem1 10.16 17
In the popular belief, ghosts are a selecting tribe...
Dem1 10.16 23
This faith in a doting power, so easily sliding into the
current belief everywhere...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which
science and religion explore.
PerF 10.78 13
What a power [is Imagination], when, combined with the
analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence; the art of compelling belief...
PerF 10.85 22
...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us...out of an idolatry
of forms, instead of working to simple ends, in the belief that Heaven
always succors us in working for these.
Chr2 10.121 18
Goethe...maintained his belief that pure loveliness and
right good will are the highest manly prerogatives...
Edc1 10.139 14
[Boys]...have no pedantry, but entire belief on experience.
SovE 10.204 21
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...
SovE 10.206 2
We delight in children...because of their reverence for their
seniors, and for their objects of belief.
SovE 10.206 14
All ages of belief have been great;...
Prch 10.217 9
The venerable and beautiful traditions in which we were
educated are losing their hold on human belief, day by day;...
Prch 10.219 20
No age and no person is destitute of the [religious]
sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious exhibitions are interrupted and
periodical,-the ages of belief, of heroic action...
MoL 10.243 25
The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a scale which
dwarfs our art, and by the paintings on their interior walls invited us into
the secret of the religious belief whence he drew such power.
MoL 10.244 5
The Hebrew nation compensated for the insignificance of its
members and territory by its religious genius, its tenacious belief;...
MoL 10.255 21
We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the
artist...
LLNE 10.326 7
The former generations acted under the belief that a
shining social prosperity was the beatitude of man...
LLNE 10.342 14
I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in
Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to establish certain
opinions...
LLNE 10.345 16
[The pilgrim]...explained with simple warmth the belief
of himself...of the vast mischief of our insidious coin.
LLNE 10.356 15
...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon
belief the purest ethics.
EzRy 10.390 5
...I am not sure that [Ezra Ripley] did not die in the belief in
the reality of Major Downing.
SlHr 10.437 18
...when [Samuel Hoar] saw the day and the gods went
against him, he withdrew, but with an unaltered belief.
SlHr 10.439 5
...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the cause
of freedom, [Samuel Hoar]...promptly withdrew, but with unaltered belief.
SlHr 10.443 13
...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained,
as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the
burned court-house, on the belief that the courts would be transferred from
Concord to Lowell,-all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the
Legislature...
Thor 10.453 2
If [Thoreau] slighted and defied the opinions of others, it
was only that he was more intent to reconcile his practice with his own
belief.
Thor 10.465 9
I have repeatedly known young men of sensibility converted
in a moment to the belief that this [Thoreau] was the man they were in
search of...
LS 11.15 1
...[St. Paul's] mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the
primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ
would shortly occur...
LVB 11.89 12
In this belief and at the instance of a few of my friends and
neighbors, I crave of your [Van Buren's] patience a short hearing for their
sentiments and my own...
FSLN 11.244 24
...I hope we...have come to a belief that there is a divine
Providence in the world...
ACiv 11.306 14
There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade,
and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent, and
from Canada to the Gulf. But since this is the rooted belief and will of the
people, so much the more are they in danger, when impatient of defeats, or
impatient of taxes, to go with a rush for some peace;...
SMC 11.354 27
...it was found, contrary to all popular belief, that the
country was at heart abolitionist...
Wom 11.405 11
In that race which is now predominant over all the other
races of men, it was a cherished belief that women had an oracular nature.
Wom 11.405 16
[Women] are the best index of the coming hour. I share
this belief.
SHC 11.436 7
We shall bring hither [to Sleepy Hollow] the body of the
dead, but how shall we catch the escaped soul? Here will burn for us...the
sublime belief.
SHC 11.436 10
I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man, we
pronounce the belief of immortality.
FRO2 11.486 3
...I am ready to give...the first simple foundation of my
belief...
FRO2 11.489 17
...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New
Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man, for then you
confound it with the fables of every popular religion, and my distrust of the
story makes me distrust the doctrine as soon as it differs from my own
belief.
FRep 11.528 6
All this [American] forwardness and self-reliance...proceed
on the belief that as the people have made a government they can make
another;...
PLT 12.6 11
My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is that the
student shall learn to appreciate the miracle of the mind;...
PLT 12.12 19
We have invincible repugnance...to study of the eyes instead
of that which the eyes see; and the belief of men is that the attempt is
unnatural...
PLT 12.12 21
I share the belief that the natural direction of the intellectual
powers is from within outward...
PLT 12.56 12
There are two theories of life;... One is activity...the
following of that practical talent which we have, in the belief that what is so
natural...will surely lead us out safely;...
II 12.81 17
[Men] all share, to the rankest Philistines, the same belief.
Mem 12.92 3
What was an isolated, unrelated belief or conjecture, our later
experience instructs us how to place in just connection with other views
which confirm and expand it.
CL 12.159 16
In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles,
collect around an insane person...
CL 12.165 16
...it is only our ineradicable belief that the world answers to
man, and part to part, that gives any interest in the subject.
ACri 12.303 3
...this is the ball that is tossed...in the history of every mind
by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or
belief.
Trag 12.406 23
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an
intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;...
Trag 12.406 24
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an
intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the
order of Nature and events is controlled by a law not adapted to man, nor
man to that...
Belief, n. (1)
LT 1.285 6
[The intellectual class's] unbelief arises out of a greater
Belief;...
beliefs, n. (7)
Exp 3.75 18
...scepticisms...are limitations of the affirmative statement, and
the new philosophy must take them in and make affirmations outside of
them, just as much as it must include the oldest beliefs.
MoS 4.175 16
There is the power of moods, each setting at nought all but
its own tissue of facts and beliefs.
MoS 4.175 19
The beliefs and unbeliefs appear to be structural;...
Wsp 6.203 14
A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ill 6.319 2
We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of
men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers
held and were framed upon.
PI 8.6 18
...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of
matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...a
certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts, which have an order,
method and beliefs of their own...
MoL 10.256 15
I allow [senators and lawyers] the merit of that reading
which appears in their opinions, tastes, beliefs and practice.
believe, v. (234)
Nat 1.3 22
We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe
that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the
order of things can satisfy.
Nat 1.7 13
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how
would men believe and adore;...
Nat 1.18 11
I...believe that we are as much touched by [winter scenery] as
by the genial influences of summer.
Nat 1.30 15
Hundreds of writers may be found...who...believe and make
others believe that they see and utter truths...
Nat 1.59 19
Children, it is true, believe in the external world.
AmS 1.106 10
I believe man has been wronged;...
AmS 1.109 9
...I believe each individual passes through all three [epochs].
DSA 1.135 23
...you will infer the sad conviction, which I share, I believe,
with numbers, of the universal decay...of faith in society.
LE 1.155 9
...I believe I am not less glad or sanguine at the meeting of
scholars, than when, a boy, I first saw the graduates of my own College
assembled at their anniversary.
LE 1.167 12
Do not believe the past.
LE 1.169 23
Men believe in the adaptations of utility, always...
LE 1.169 25
...in the mountains, [men] may believe in the adaptations of
the eye.
MN 1.193 14
I sometimes believe that our literary anniversaries will
presently assume a greater importance...
LT 1.282 7
...our torment is...the distrust that the Necessity (which we all at
last believe in) is fair and beneficent.
Tran 1.342 8
...whoso knows...these talkers who talk the sun and moon
away, will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its
mark.
Hist 2.9 22
I believe in Eternity.
SR 2.45 7
To believe your own thought...that is genius.
SR 2.45 7
...to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true
for all men,--that is genius.
SR 2.66 16
If...a man...carries you backward to the phraseology of some
old mouldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him not.
SR 2.90 2
...you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it.
Comp 2.125 20
We do not believe in the riches of the soul...
Comp 2.125 22
We do not believe there is any force in to-day to rival or
recreate that beautiful yesterday.
Comp 2.125 26
We linger in the ruins of the old tent...nor believe that the
spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again.
SL 2.157 2
I have heard an experienced counsellor say that he never feared
the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his
client ought to have a verdict.
SL 2.157 4
If [the lawyer] does not believe [his client's innocence] his
unbelief will appear to the jury...
SL 2.157 9
That which we do not believe we cannot adequately say...
SL 2.157 15
It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he
described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to
articulate a proposition which they did not believe;...
SL 2.165 26
Let a man believe in God...
Fdsp 2.204 18
...we can scarce believe that so much character can subsist in
another as to draw us by love.
Prd1 2.228 7
If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness
before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
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.
OS 2.293 27
O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over
the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!
Cir 2.306 18
Our moods do not believe in each other.
Cir 2.312 21
In my daily work I...do not believe in remedial force...
Int 2.330 8
By trusting [the instinct] to the end, it shall ripen into truth, and
you shall know why you believe.
Pt1 3.3 24
...the intellectual men do not believe in any essential dependence
of the material world on thought and volition.
Exp 3.45 3
Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not
know the extremes, and believe that it has none.
Exp 3.74 2
It is for us to believe in the rule, not in the exception.
Exp 3.74 5
...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we
believe concerning the immortality of the soul or the like, but the universal
impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance...
Exp 3.74 7
...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is...the universal
impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance...
Exp 3.74 17
[Just persons] believe that we communicate without speech
and above speech...
Exp 3.78 8
We believe in ourselves as we do not believe in others.
Chr1 3.109 21
Plato said it was impossible not to believe in the children of
the gods...
Mrs1 3.150 15
...I confide so entirely in [woman's] inspiring and musical
nature, that I believe only herself can show us how she shall be served.
Pol1 3.199 24
Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the
laws make the city...
Pol1 3.204 24
[The young] believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did
at their age.
Pol1 3.219 9
The tendencies of the times...leave the individual, for all code,
to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution; which work with more
energy than we believe whilst we depend on artificial restraints.
NR 3.226 18
When I meet a pure intellectual force or a generosity of
affection, I believe here then is man;...
NR 3.227 19
I believe that if an angel should come to chant the chorus of
the moral law, he would eat too much gingerbread...
NR 3.244 12
Jesus is not dead; he is very well alive: nor John, nor Paul, nor
Mahomet, nor Aristotle; at times we believe we have seen them all...
NER 3.265 9
...the men of less faith could not thus believe, and to such,
concert appears the sole specific of strength.
NER 3.268 2
Men do not believe in a power of education.
NER 3.268 5
We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many
frivolous people who make up society, are organic...
NER 3.268 22
We do not believe that any education...will ever give depth
of insight to a superficial mind.
NER 3.270 15
I do not believe that the differences of opinion and character
in men are organic.
NER 3.270 20
I do not believe in two classes.
NER 3.270 27
I believe not in two classes of men...
NER 3.281 15
I believe it is the conviction of the purest men that the net
amount of man and man does not much vary.
NER 3.283 14
...[men] believe that the best is the true;...
UGM 4.3 1
It is natural to believe in great men.
UGM 4.8 4
Churches believe in imputed merit.
UGM 4.34 24
We have never come at the true and best benefit of any
genius so long as we believe him an original force.
PPh 4.54 12
The reason why we do not at once believe in admirable souls
is because they are not in our experience.
SwM 4.134 1
Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg]
sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human
relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero;...
MoS 4.153 8
[The men of the senses] believe that mustard bites the
tongue...
MoS 4.155 13
You believe yourselves rooted and grounded on adamant;...
MoS 4.170 20
Seen or unseen, we believe the tie exists [between all things
in life].
MoS 4.176 3
...a book...or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through
the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will...
MoS 4.180 10
Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit
may find small good in tea...
MoS 4.182 18
I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the
universe;...
MoS 4.182 21
I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the
universe;...but your dogmas seem to me caricatures: why should I make
believe them?
MoS 4.185 6
The lesson of life is practically...to believe what the years and
the centuries say, against the hours;...
NMW 4.251 2
Believe me, [Bonaparte] said to the last [Antonomarchi], we
had better leave off all these remedies...
NMW 4.255 2
I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps
Joseph a little...and Duroc, I love him too; but why?--because his character
pleases me...I believe the fellow never shed a tear.
ET1 5.11 2
...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table,
[Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in
the fly-leaves,--passages, too, which, I believe, are printed in the Aids to
Reflection.
ET5 5.87 6
...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in
naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring
all your guns to bear on him...
ET7 5.123 15
[The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary
delusions; thus to believe what stands recorded in the gravest books, that
the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners...
ET7 5.125 11
I knew a very worthy man,--a magistrate, I believe he was, in
the town of Derby,--who went to the opera to see Malibran.
ET8 5.127 7
[The English], too, believe that where there is no enjoyment of
life there can be no vigor and art in speech or thought;...
ET8 5.131 7
...one can believe that Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy,
having predicted from the stars the hour of his death, slipped the knot
himself round his own neck, not to falsify his horoscope.
ET12 5.203 12
In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me...the first
Bible printed at Mentz (I believe in 1450);...
ET14 5.259 25
I can well believe what I have often heard, that there are
two nations in England;...
ET19 5.313 19
I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her
power of endurance and expansion.
F 6.24 22
If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it at least for your
good.
F 6.24 23
If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it at least for your
good.
F 6.28 25
Alaric and Bonaparte must believe they rest on a truth...
F 6.29 3
Whoever has had experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose
but believe in unlimited power.
F 6.31 2
...whether, seeing these two things, fate and power, we are
permitted to believe in unity?
F 6.31 3
The bulk of mankind believe in two gods.
F 6.31 15
To a certain point, [men] believe themselves the care of a
Providence.
F 6.31 17
...in war, [men] believe a malignant energy rules.
F 6.34 25
Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his skull...all the vices
of a Saxon...race...
F 6.40 21
...of all the drums and rattles by which men...are led out solemnly
every morning to parade,-the most admirable is this by which we are
brought to believe that events are arbitrary...
Pow 6.61 18
A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country
have seen their best days...
Wth 6.93 2
The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer
must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth...
Wth 6.100 10
Men...believe in magic, in all parts of life.
Ctr 6.150 10
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination
is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there
is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
Bhr 6.191 7
There is some reason to believe that when a man does not
write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one
vent of writing;...
Bhr 6.195 16
...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended
himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus
Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no
witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
Wsp 6.205 24
King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was
to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder. Wilt thou
now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in excellent faith.
Wsp 6.205 27
King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was
to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder. Wilt thou
now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in excellent faith. Another
argument was an adder put into the mouth of the reluctant disciple Raud,
who refused to believe.
Wsp 6.208 6
The lover of the old religion complains that our
contemporaries...have corrupted into a timorous conservatism and believe
in nothing.
Wsp 6.217 7
We believe that holiness confers a certain insight, because not
by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of
things.
Wsp 6.220 6
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...
Wsp 6.220 10
Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Bty 6.283 11
'T is curious that we only believe as deep as we live.
Ill 6.309 10
We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of
the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to...a niche or grotto...called, I believe, Serena'
s Bower.
Art2 7.45 26
One consideration more exhausts I believe all the deductions
from the genius of the artist in any given work.
Art2 7.47 7
Even Shakspeare, of whom we can believe everything, we
think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his
Hamlet and Antony.
Elo1 7.73 7
...Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of Sparta, asked him
which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied, When I throw him, he
says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe
him.
Elo1 7.76 18
We believe that there may be a man who is a match for
events...
Elo1 7.94 9
A good upholder of anything which they believe...[the people]
will long follow;...
DL 7.110 19
We must not make believe with our money...
Farm 7.144 27
Our senses...believe only the impression of the moment...
Farm 7.145 1
Our senses...do not believe the chemical fact that these huge
mountain chains are made up of gases and rolling wind.
WD 7.165 16
I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar
and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite
superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of
crime.
WD 7.171 21
...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual
creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which
they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue
depth which weaves itself over me now...
Cour 7.263 3
They can conquer who believe they can.
Suc 7.290 15
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn...
power through making believe you are powerful...
Suc 7.292 7
We do not believe our own thought;...
OA 7.318 15
How many men habitually believe that each chance passenger
with whom they converse is of their own age...
PI 8.5 11
Thin or solid, everything is in flight. I believe this conviction
makes the charm of chemistry...
PI 8.10 25
Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without
this faculty [of imagination].
PI 8.26 24
...all men know the portrait [of the true poet] when it is drawn,
and it is part of religion to believe its possible incarnation.
PI 8.29 18
[My poet] must believe in his poetry.
PI 8.36 12
...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's
selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to
Rome, or to Persia, for his fable. But I believe nobody knows better than he
that herein he consults his ease rather than his strength or his desire.
PI 8.37 23
As one of the old Minnesingers sung,--Oft have I heard, and
now believe it true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./
PI 8.46 22
If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English
metres...you can easily believe these metres to be organic...
PI 8.47 10
...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill
them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought, believing, as we
believe of all marriage, that matches are made in heaven...
SA 8.106 23
...those people, and no others, interest us, who believe in their
thought...
SA 8.107 11
...I believe that with all liberal and hopeful men there is a firm
faith in the beneficent results which we really enjoy;...
Elo2 8.113 4
By leading [people's] thought [the eloquent man] leads their
will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe
that they could be led to do at all...
Elo2 8.121 15
I believe that some orators go to the assembly as to a closet
where to find their best thoughts.
Elo2 8.122 16
I have heard that no man could read the Bible with such
powerful effect [as John Quincy Adams]. I can easily believe it...
Elo2 8.125 13
...I believe it to be true that when any orator at the bar or in
the Senate rises in his thought, he descends in his language...
Elo2 8.130 1
Speak what you do know and believe;...
Res 8.146 22
...they can conquer who believe they can.
PC 8.223 9
I shall never believe that centrifugence and centripetence
balance, unless mind heats and meliorates...
PC 8.225 15
...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...of
whose dizzy vastitudes all the worlds of God are a mere dot on the margin;
impossible to deny, impossible to believe.
PC 8.229 1
It happens sometimes that poets do not believe their own
poetry;...
PC 8.231 7
We wish...to ordain free trade, and believe that it will not
bankrupt us;...
PC 8.231 10
I believe that the checks are as sure as the springs.
PC 8.233 25
...it honorably distinguishes the educated class here, that they
believe in the succor which the heart yields to the intellect...
Insp 8.271 11
I believe that nothing great and lasting can be done except by
inspiration...
Insp 8.281 18
When we...have come to believe that an image or a happy
turn of expression is no longer at our command, in writing a letter to a
friend we may find that we rise...to a cordial power of expression that costs
no effort...
Insp 8.286 20
I believe that in our good days a well-ordered mind has a
new thought awaiting it every morning.
Grts 8.314 22
Whatever they may tell you [said Napoleon], believe that
one fights with cannon as with fists;...
Grts 8.318 16
A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of
society, till we say the very dogs believe in him.
Imtl 8.330 7
Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: If the immortality of the
soul were an error, I should be sorry not to believe it.
Imtl 8.346 26
You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any
resurrection? What do you think? Did Dr. Channing believe that we should
know each other?...
Imtl 8.351 18
[Yama said] Thee, O Nachiketas! I believe a house whose
door is open to Brahma.
Dem1 10.14 6
...says Plutarch...we cannot believe that men are sacred and
favorites of Heaven.
Dem1 10.26 13
I say to the table-rappers:-I well believe/ Thou wilt not
utter what thou dost not know,/ And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate./
Aris 10.38 3
How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and
Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe they were all such
speedy shadows as we;...
Aris 10.64 23
...I believe in the closest affinity between moral and material
power.
PerF 10.88 2
Every new asserter of the right surprises us...and we hardly
dare believe he is in earnest.
Chr2 10.105 4
We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove,
Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors, and can hardly believe that they had to
the lively Greek the anxious meaning which, in our towns, is given and
received in churches when our religious names are used...
Edc1 10.143 13
I believe that our own experience instructs us that the
secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
Supl 10.165 18
...I believe that much of the rhetoric of terror...most men
have realized only in dreams and nightmares.
Supl 10.167 6
...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend...said...I believe
him capable of virtue.
SovE 10.195 16
We do not believe the less in astronomy and vegetation,
because we are writhing and roaring in our beds with rheumatism.
SovE 10.205 9
It is a sort of mark of probity and sincerity to declare how
little you believe...
SovE 10.206 15
The Orientals believe in Fate.
SovE 10.206 27
We in America are charged...that...we...believe in our
senses and understandings, while our imagination and our moral sentiment
are desolated.
SovE 10.209 8
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 left all for this...
SovE 10.210 19
...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be
drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another
in whom he discovers absolute honesty;...
Prch 10.225 23
...there are those to whom the question of what shall be
believed is the more interesting because they are to proclaim and teach
what they believe.
MoL 10.252 19
Men are as they believe.
Schr 10.277 9
I am apt to believe, with the Emperor Charles V., that as
many languages as a man knows, so many times is he a man.
Plu 10.302 25
[Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious
sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed
fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind. I hope it is only my
immense ignorance that makes me believe that they do not survive out of
his pages...
Plu 10.309 27
Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of
the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the
Questions and the Symposiacs. They are...very crude opinions; many of
them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the
notes of his younger auditors...
Plu 10.314 8
I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch'
s chapter called Pleasure not attainable by Epicurus...a more sweet and
reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...
LLNE 10.362 16
I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest
observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing,
talking there [at Brook Farm]...
LLNE 10.365 5
Married women I believe uniformly decided against the
community.
LLNE 10.368 18
The society at Brook Farm existed...about six or seven
years, and then broke up, the Farm was sold, and I believe all the partners
came out with pecuniary loss.
MMEm 10.413 15
Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness
attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would
sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction? But that is not the case, I
[Mary Moody Emerson] believe.
MMEm 10.429 2
...as [Mary Moody Emerson] never travelled without
being provided for this dear and indispensable contingency [death], I
believe she wore out a great many [shrouds].
MMEm 10.431 1
I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe thus much, that [the
greatest geniuses'] large perception consumed their egotism...
MMEm 10.432 25
...it is easy to believe that Cassandra domesticated in a
lady's house would have proved a troublesome boarder.
Thor 10.457 15
...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his
lecture...was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care
about. Henry turned to her...and, I saw, was trying to believe that he had
matter that might fit her and her brother...
Thor 10.458 13
In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public
expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was
put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released. The like
annoyance was threatened the next year. But as his friends paid the tax...I
believe he ceased to resist.
Thor 10.458 16
[Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his opinion without
affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the company.
LS 11.7 21
...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an
expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the
living generation...
LS 11.17 4
You say, every time you celebrate the rite [the Lord's Supper],
that Jesus enjoined it; and the whole language you use conveys that
impression. But if you read the New Testament as I do, you do not believe
he did.
LS 11.18 3
...I believe the human mind can admit but one God...
HDC 11.86 14
...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place,
in all times since its planting, of pious and excellent persons...
LVB 11.92 9
We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and
find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees].
We are slow to believe it.
EWI 11.105 24
[Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In
consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him.
Sharpe would not believe it;...
War 11.161 16
...it is not a great matter how long men refuse to believe the
advent of peace...
FSLN 11.217 19
[Intellectual people who take their ideas from others] say
what they would have you believe, but what they do not quite know.
FSLN 11.239 20
The Anglo-Saxon race is proud and strong and selfish.
They believe only in Anglo-Saxons.
FSLN 11.244 14
I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that
has foretold all that has befallen...years ago; foretold all, and no man laid it
to heart. It seemed, as the Turks say, Fate makes that a man should not
believe his own eyes.
JBB 11.269 13
You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in
behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have been right. But I believe
that to have interfered as I have done, for the despised poor, was not wrong,
but right.
JBB 11.270 24
...[John Brown] said he did not believe in moral suasion, he
believed in putting the thing through.
JBB 11.272 18
Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that
when a United States Court in Virginia, now, in its present reign of terror,
sends to Connecticut...for a witness, it wants him for a witness?
ACiv 11.301 27
Banknotes rob the public, but are such a daily convenience
that we...make believe they are gold.
SMC 11.350 5
...we...believe that our visitors will pardon us if we take the
privilege of talking freely about our nearest neighbors as in a family party;...
SMC 11.354 20
The [Civil] war made the Divine Providence credible to
many who did not believe the good Heaven quite honest.
SMC 11.354 22
Every man was an abolitionist by conviction, but did not
believe that his neighbor was.
EdAd 11.388 6
...we believe politics to be nowise accidental or
exceptional...
EdAd 11.392 13
...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is
hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe
that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious
constitution...
Koss 11.398 17
I believe I may say of the people of this country at large,
that their sympathy is more worth, because it stands the test of party.
Wom 11.412 13
[Women] are poets who believe their own poetry.
Wom 11.417 24
There are plenty of people who believe women to be
incapable of anything but to cook...
Wom 11.417 27
There are plenty of people who believe that the world is
governed by men of dark complexions...
Scot 11.464 2
...I believe that many of those who read [Scott's books] in
youth...will make some fond exception for Scott as for Byron.
FRO2 11.486 22
I believe that not only Christianity is as old as the
Creation...but more, that a man of religious susceptibility...can find the
same idea in numberless conversations.
FRO2 11.490 22
I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble
souls who enjoy the luxury of a religion that does not degrade;...
FRO2 11.491 2
I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble
souls...who believe that the history of Jesus is the history of every man,
written large.
CPL 11.494 4
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 11.508 12
...read proudly; put the duty of being read invariably on the
author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed,-
but I shall not make believe I am charmed.
FRep 11.523 2
[Americans] believe that what they have enacted they can
repeal if they do not like it.
FRep 11.539 15
It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that
you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this
time. I believe this cannot be accomplished by dunces or idlers...
PLT 12.5 14
I believe in the existence of the material world as the
expression of the spiritual or the real...
PLT 12.17 1
...I believe the mind is the creator of the world...
PLT 12.31 2
The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is that
they believe in the ideas of others.
PLT 12.31 6
...[intellectual persons who believe in the ideas of others] say
what they would have you believe, but what they do not quite know.
PLT 12.43 26
We believe that certain persons add to the common vision a
certain degree of control over these states of mind;...
PLT 12.62 1
Sensibility is the secret readiness to believe in all kinds of
power...
II 12.69 14
We believe...that the rudest mind has a Delphi and Dodona...in
itself...
II 12.70 13
...Goethe, Fourier, Schelling, Coleridge, they all begin: we,
credulous bystanders, believe, of course, that they can finish as they begun.
II 12.74 12
...I believe it is true in the experience of all men...that, for the
memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us.
II 12.75 20
...your nature and genius will certainly give your vigilance the
slip...and will educate the children by the inevitable infusions of its quality.
You will do as you can. Why then cumber yourself about it, and make
believe be better than you are?
II 12.80 11
It was the saying of Pythagoras, Remember to be sober, and to
be disposed to believe; for these are the nerves of wisdom.
Mem 12.108 26
If a great many thoughts pass through your mind, you will
believe a long time has elapsed...
CInt 12.122 12
The poet does not believe in his poetry.
CInt 12.130 5
My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian
harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the
heart of Nature. I do not think that you will believe that the miracle of
Nature is less...
CL 12.157 4
Can you hear what the morning says to you, and believe that?
Bost 12.184 13
How can we not believe in influences of climate and air...
Bost 12.184 15
How can we not believe in influences of climate and air,
when, as true philosophers, we must believe that chemical atoms also have
their spiritual cause why they are thus and not other;...
Bost 12.184 20
Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough
to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers
attach...
AgMs 12.364 1
I believe that my friend [Edmund Hosmer] is a little stiff
and inconvertible in his own opinions...
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.
Let 12.394 23
By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four
or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be
formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity. They
believe that this society would fill up the terrific chasm of ennui...
believed, adj. (3)
Hist 2.31 4
...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of
Jove, it represents a state of mind which...seems the self-defence of man
against this untruth, namely a discontent with the believed fact that a God
exists...
FSLC 11.197 20
...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the
confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the
support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
Mem 12.94 15
'T is because of the believed incompatibility of the
affirmative and advancing attitude of the mind with tenacious acts of
recollection that people are often reproached with living in their memory.
believed, v. (53)
LE 1.179 19
[Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity
performed their exploits only by correct combinations...
LE 1.179 27
...whilst he believed in number and weight, [Napoleon]
believed also in the freedom...of the soul.
LE 1.180 1
...[Napoleon] believed...in the freedom...of the soul.
LT 1.286 15
The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this, that
they have believed;...
Tran 1.341 25
...in ecclesiastical history we take so much pains to know...
what the Reformers believed...
Fdsp 2.196 6
Friendship...is too good to be believed.
Chr1 3.95 27
...it is the privilege of truth to make itself believed.
NMW 4.254 5
The official paper, [Napoleon's] Moniteur, and all his
bulletins, are proverbs for saying what he wished to be believed;...
GoW 4.266 11
It is believed, the ordering a cargo of goods from New York
to Smyrna...is practical and commendable.
ET1 5.5 24
[Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools
or fraternities...
ET3 5.40 19
...the Greeks fancied Delphi the navel of the earth, in their
favorite mode of fabling the earth to be an animal. The Jews believed
Jerusalem to be the centre.
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.
ET12 5.210 16
I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for
the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...and I believed they
would prove too severe tests for the candidates for a Bachelor's degree in
Yale or Harvard.
ET12 5.211 1
In seeing these youths [at Oxford] I believed I saw already an
advantage in vigor and color and general habit, over their contemporaries in
the American colleges.
ET15 5.266 19
[The London Times's] private information...recalls the
stories of Fouche's police, whose omniscience made it believed that the
Empress Josephine must be in his pay.
ET16 5.280 2
The Acta Sanctorum show plainly that the men of those
times believed in God...
Pow 6.54 5
[All successful men] believed that things went not by luck, but
by law;...
Ctr 6.132 10
I saw a man who believed the principal mischiefs in the
English state were derived from the devotion to musical concerts.
Wsp 6.210 19
It is believed by well-dressed proprietors that there is no
more virtue than they possess;...
Bty 6.287 14
The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession
at birth of each mortal, to guide him;...
Ill 6.318 25
The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities
and men were swallowed up...
Clbs 7.248 12
Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a
banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands; and it is to
be believed that an indifferent tavern dinner in such society was more
relished by the convives than a much better one in worse company.
OA 7.331 20
It must be believed that there is a proportion between the
designs of a man and the length of his life...
Elo2 8.109 10
...No mimic; from [the patriot's] breast his counsel drew,/
Believed the eloquent was aye the true;/...
Res 8.146 15
...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy,
[Tissenet] poured it into a cup, and lighting a straw at the fire in the
wigwam, he kindled the brandy (which [the Indians] believed to be water),
and burned it up before their eyes.
QO 8.183 7
...the whole cyclopaedia of [a great man's] table-talk is
presently believed to be his own.
PC 8.225 12
...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...whose
outrunning immensity, the old Greeks believed, astonished the gods
themselves;...
Dem1 10.17 10
I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which
manifested itself only in contradiction...
Edc1 10.134 25
We do not give [boys] a training as if we believed in their
noble nature.
Prch 10.225 21
...there are those to whom the question of what shall be
believed is the more interesting because they are to proclaim and teach
what they believe.
LLNE 10.326 10
The modern mind believed that the nation existed for the
individual...
LLNE 10.353 6
Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also
believed that a similar model lay in every mind...
LLNE 10.357 21
[The Fourierists] were not the creators they believed
themselves...
EzRy 10.394 25
[Ezra Ripley] did not know when he was good in prayer or
sermon, for he had no literature and no art; but he believed, and therefore
spoke.
SlHr 10.442 14
Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors
who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had
said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
SlHr 10.442 18
...what Middlesex jury, containing any God-fearing men in
it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar
believed to be just?
Carl 10.497 4
Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of
Europe...one man remained who believed he was put there by God
Almighty to govern his empire...
LS 11.19 20
If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his
disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of
commemoration...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I
should not adopt it.
EWI 11.146 10
I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing negro...has
believed there was no vindication of right;...
FSLC 11.183 16
The popular assumption that all men loved freedom, and
believed in the Christian religion, was found hollow American brag;...
FSLC 11.184 17
Who could have believed it, if foretold that a hundred
guns would be fired in Boston on the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill?
JBB 11.270 21
[John Brown] believed in his ideas to that extent that he
existed to put them all into action;...
JBB 11.270 24
...[John Brown] said he did not believe in moral suasion, he
believed in putting the thing through.
TPar 11.285 9
It is only what [a man] tells of himself that comes to be
known and believed.
ALin 11.337 9
The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius
which rules in the affairs of nations;...
SMC 11.365 10
...the regimental officers believed...that the misfortunes of
the day [battle of Bull Run] were not so much owing to the fault of the
troops as to the insufficiency of the combinations by the general officers.
Mem 12.100 21
A man would think twice about learning a new science or
reading a new paragraph, if he believed...that he lost a word or a thought for
every word he gained.
CL 12.165 18
If we believed that Nature was foreign and unrelated...we
should think all exploration of it frivolous waste of time.
Bost 12.183 4
[The old physiologists] believed the air of mountains and the
seashore a potent predisposer to rebellion.
Bost 12.191 24
...[the planters of Massachusetts] exaggerated their troubles.
Bears and wolves were many; but early, they believed there were lions;...
MAng1 12.227 7
Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable platform to
rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel], which is believed to be
the same simple contrivance which is used in Rome, at this day, to repair
the walls of churches.
MAng1 12.235 11
Michael Angelo, who believed in his own ability as a
sculptor, but distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build
St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied.
Milt1 12.258 3
...[Milton] believed, his poetic vein only flowed from the
autumnal to the vernal equinox;...
believer, n. (18)
LE 1.179 16
[Napoleon] was not a believer in luck;...
MR 1.250 23
...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but
already to begin to exist...
YA 1.371 13
...the land...of the believer...[America] should speak for the
human race.
SwM 4.106 26
...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy...
MoS 4.181 14
...[some minds'] sensual habit would fix the believer to his
last position...
MoS 4.181 16
...presently the unbeliever, for love of belief, burns the
believer.
QO 8.182 1
...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that
circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is
tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer...
QO 8.182 2
...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that
circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is
tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer...
PC 8.233 20
...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the
moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer
within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it.
Imtl 8.330 21
...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who
once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so
overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence.
Imtl 8.346 1
I mean that I am a better believer, and all serious souls are
better believers in the immortality, than we can give grounds for.
Chr2 10.110 4
Paganism...writes the tracts, elects the minister, and
persecutes the true believer.
SovE 10.185 21
The believer says to the skeptic:-One avenue was shaded
from thine eyes/ Through which I wandered to eternal truth./
LS 11.3 21
In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer
should communicate at least once in a year...
AsSu 11.250 22
...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the
Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States, with
discourtesy. Then, that he is an abolitionist; as if every sane human being
were not...a believer that all men should be free.
FRO2 11.488 1
...every believer holds a different creed; that is, all
churches are churches of one member.
Milt1 12.273 13
And so, throughout all his actions and opinions, is
[Milton] a consistent...believer in the omnipotence of spiritual laws.
PPr 12.380 25
Though...more than most philosophers a believer in political
systems, Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times...in false
and superficial aims of the people...
believers, n. (15)
OS 2.295 1
Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers.
Chr1 3.108 27
...we are born believers in great men.
NER 3.283 13
Men are all secret believers in [the Law]...
MoS 4.170 8
We are natural believers.
MoS 4.181 9
The last class must needs have a reflex or parasite faith;...an
instinctive reliance on the seers and believers of realities.
MoS 4.181 10
The manners and thoughts of believers astonish [some
minds]...
MoS 4.181 17
Great believers are always reckoned infidels...
ET8 5.131 3
[The English] are headstrong believers and defenders of their
opinion...
F 6.23 27
I cited the instinctive and heroic races as proud believers in
Destiny.
Pow 6.54 15
The most valiant men are the best believers in the tension of
the laws.
Imtl 8.346 2
I mean that I am a better believer, and all serious souls are
better believers in the immortality, than we can give grounds for.
SovE 10.200 13
Certainly it is human to value...a fraternity of believers...
LLNE 10.346 10
I think [the pilgrim] persisted for two years in his brave
practice, but did not enlarge his church of believers.
EzRy 10.384 2
[Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in
what is called a particular providence...
FRO2 11.487 12
We are all believers in natural religion;...
believes, v. (66)
AmS 1.115 26
...each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which
also inspires all men.
Con 1.299 9
Conservatism...believes in a negative fate;...
Con 1.299 10
Conservatism...believes that men's temper governs them;...
Tran 1.331 13
The materialist...believes that his life is solid...
Tran 1.332 18
...ask [the materialist] why he believes that an uniform
experience will continue uniform...
Tran 1.335 22
[The Transcendentalist] believes in miracle...
Tran 1.335 24
...[the Transcendentalist] believes in inspiration, and in
ecstasy.
Comp 2.118 18
...the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor
of the enemy he kills passes into himself...
OS 2.293 13
[God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... He
believes that he cannot escape from his good.
OS 2.295 20
[The soul] believes in itself.
Cir 2.306 16
...every man believes that he has a greater possibility.
Art1 2.363 1
He has conceived meanly of the resources of man, who
believes that the best age of production is past.
Pt1 3.34 24
The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the
eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and,
he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader.
Exp 3.78 27
No man at last believes that he can be lost...
Chr1 3.93 20
[The natural merchant] too believes that none can supply
him...
Mrs1 3.132 1
...the countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a
ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
NR 3.248 8
Is it that every man believes every other to be an incurable
partialist, and himself a universalist?
NER 3.282 9
...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with
the enemy, and he answers civilly to us, but believes the spirit.
UGM 4.5 5
[Man] believes that the great material elements had their origin
from his thought.
UGM 4.8 3
The boy believes there is a teacher who can sell him wisdom.
PPh 4.58 12
...[Plato] believes that poetry, prophecy and the high insight
are from a wisdom of which man is not master;...
MoS 4.150 12
Plotinus believes only in philosophers;...
MoS 4.151 24
The trade in our streets believes in no metaphysical causes...
MoS 4.152 15
After dinner, a man believes less, denies more...
GoW 4.262 27
[The writer] believes that all that can be thought can be
written...
ET5 5.85 8
In trade, the Englishman believes that nobody breaks who
ought not to break;...
ET7 5.119 19
[The English] confide in each other,--English believes in
English.
ET10 5.155 12
The Englishman believes that every man must take care of
himself...
ET13 5.221 4
So far is [the English gentleman] from attaching any
meaning to the words, that he believes himself to have done almost the
generous thing, and that it is very condescending in him to pray to God.
ET13 5.224 7
[England] believes in a Providence which does not treat with
levity a pound sterling.
F 6.5 10
The Turk, who believes his doom is written on the iron leaf...
rushes on the enemy's sabre with undivided will.
F 6.6 19
...now and then an amiable parson, like...Robert Huntington,
believes in a pistareen-Providence...
Wth 6.109 3
A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire
farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have
outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap.
Wth 6.116 5
[The land-owner] believes he composes easily on the hills.
CbW 6.270 3
...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes
that...he only is right.
Bty 6.283 14
A deep man believes in miracles...
Bty 6.283 15
A deep man...believes in magic...
Bty 6.283 15
A deep man...believes that the orator will decompose his
adversary;...
Bty 6.283 17
A deep man...believes that the evil eye can wither...
Suc 7.292 1
...it is rare to find a man who believes his own thought...
PI 8.3 16
The common sense which...takes...things as they appear,--
believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees with ourselves...
PI 8.23 7
[A man] does after what he believes.
SA 8.106 3
...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming
health.
Res 8.138 3
A philosophy which...believes neither in virtue nor in genius;...
dispirits us;...
Comc 8.170 12
The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance
of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of
Diderot, who believes in nothing but hunger...
QO 8.201 17
Genius believes its faintest presentiment against the testimony
of all history;...
PC 8.219 15
Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the
few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.
Dem1 10.27 2
[The demonologic] is a lawless world. ...a droll bedlam,
where everybody believes only after his humor...
Aris 10.55 3
He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in
objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself.
Aris 10.61 1
The Golden Table never lacks members; all its seats are kept
full; but with this strange provision, that the members are carefully
withdrawn into deep niches...and each believes himself alone.
Chr2 10.99 19
In its companions [the soul] sees other truths honored, and
successively finds their foundation also in itself. Then it...no longer
believes because of thy saying, but because it has recognized them in itself.
Chr2 10.101 7
In [the man of profound moral sentiment's] presence, or
within his influence, every one believes in the immortality of the soul.
Edc1 10.144 22
Somewhat [the child] sees in forms...or believes
practicable in mechanics...which no one else sees or hears or believes.
Edc1 10.144 24
Somewhat [the child] sees in forms...or believes
practicable in mechanics or possible in political society, which no one else
sees or hears or believes.
SovE 10.202 7
With patience and fidelity to truth [a man] may work his
way through, if only by coming against somebody who believes more
fables than he does;...
SovE 10.206 3
The poor Irish laborer one sees with respect, because he
believes in something, in his church, and in his employers.
MoL 10.252 6
...the politician believes in his arts and combinations;...
Schr 10.266 27
...[the cant of the time] believes that ideas do not lead to the
owning of stocks;...
Plu 10.300 27
[Plutarch] believes in witchcraft and the evil eye...
Plu 10.313 21
[Plutarch] believes that the doctrine of the Divine
Providence, and that of the immortality of the soul, rest on one and the
same basis.
Plu 10.314 5
[Plutarch] believes that the souls of infants pass immediately
into a better and more divine state.
LS 11.11 14
I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have
been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the
account of it in the other Gospels...
FSLC 11.204 2
[Webster] believes...that government exists for the
protection of property.
FSLN 11.225 1
...Mr. Webster's literary editor believes that it was his wish
to rest his fame on the speech of the seventh of March.
JBB 11.268 18
[John Brown] believes in two articles...the Golden Rule and
the Declaration of Independence;...
JBB 11.268 26
[John Brown] believes in the Union of the States...
believeth, v. (1)
DSA 1.144 20
None believeth in the soul of man...
believing, adj. (9)
SL 2.139 1
Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load
of care.
Hsm1. 2.252 20
...the little man...works in [the world] so headlong and
believing...
Art2 7.56 3
Who carved marble? The believing man, who wished to
symbolize their gods to the waiting Greeks.
Boks 7.217 18
If our times are sterile in genius, we must cheer us with
books of rich and believing men...
Cour 7.270 16
...for a settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong-minded
man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
Imtl 8.334 20
...the naturalist works not for himself, but for the believing
mind...
Edc1 10.156 15
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. But
you must have the believing and prophetic eye.
MoL 10.243 17
It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own,
have balanced their labor by mental activity, and especially by the
imagination...the angel of earnest and believing ages.
FSLN 11.236 21
Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is no
Church for him but his believing prayer;...then certain aids and allies will
promptly appear...
believing, v. (31)
AmS 1.89 11
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty
to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke...have given;...
LE 1.178 11
Believing...in the presence and favor of the grandest
influences, let [the scholar] deserve that favor...
MR 1.256 6
There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we
know of man, which, believing in a vast future...postpones always the
present hour to the whole life;...
Mrs1 3.124 20
I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland...
Mrs1 3.152 7
...the bias of [Lilla's] nature was not to thought, but to
sympathy, yet was she so perfect in her own nature as to meet intellectual
persons by the fulness of her heart, warming them by her sentiments;
believing...that by dealing nobly with all, all would show themselves noble.
MoS 4.160 1
[The skeptic] is the considerer...believing that a man has too
many enemies than that he can afford to be his own foe;...
MoS 4.175 25
We go...believing in the iron links of Destiny...
ET5 5.86 2
...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every
man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without; believing that the
force of an army depended on the weight and power of the individual
soldiers...
ET7 5.120 12
...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at
Lisbon...believing in his countrymen and their syllogisms above all the
rhodomontade of Europe.
ET14 5.240 11
[Bacon] held this element [prima philosophia] essential...
believing that no perfect discovery can be made in a flat or level, but you
must ascend to a higher science.
F 6.34 16
The Fultons and Watts of politics, believing in unity, saw that it
was a power...
F 6.49 17
Let us build to the Beautiful Necessity, which makes man brave
in believing that he cannot shun a danger that is appointed...
Wth 6.122 2
Mr. Stephenson...believing that the river knows the way,
followed his valley as implicitly as our Western Railroad follows the
Westfield River...
Wsp 6.203 14
We are born believing.
SS 7.4 3
[My new friend] coveted Mirabeau's don terrible de la familiarite,
believing that he whose sympathy goes lowest is the man from whom kings
have the most to fear.
PI 8.47 10
...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill
them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought, believing, as we
believe of all marriage, that matches are made in heaven...
PC 8.231 5
We wish to put the ideal rules into practice...believing that a
free press will prove safer than the censorship;...
PC 8.231 9
We wish...to ordain...universal suffrage, believing that it will
not carry us to mobs, or back to kings again.
Imtl 8.330 11
Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I delight in believing
myself as immortal as God himself.
Imtl 8.351 9
Believing this world exists, and not the other, the careless
youth is subject to my [Death's] sway.
LLNE 10.356 16
...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon
belief the purest ethics. He was more real and practically believing in them
than any of his company...
EzRy 10.394 2
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, believing himself entitled to a full explanation...
Thor 10.451 18
[Thoreau's] father was a manufacturer of lead-pencils, and
Henry applied himself for a time to this craft, believing he could make a
better pencil than was then in use.
FSLN 11.242 15
I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the
university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political
arena, believing that senators and statesmen would be glad to throw off the
harness and to dip again in the Castalian pools.
ACiv 11.302 8
In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but
that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle, believing that
Nature is its ally...
SMC 11.352 11
...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the
Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But in
the necessities of the hour, they...winked at a practical exception to the Bill
of Rights they had drawn up. They winked at the exception, believing it
insignificant.
EdAd 11.389 21
...we are far from believing politics the primal interest of
men.
PLT 12.6 25
...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how
impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian
may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to
meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
PLT 12.14 23
...[the poet] is believing;...
PLT 12.14 24
...[the poet] is believing; the philosopher, after some
struggle, having only reasons for believing.
Let 12.404 7
We must refer our clients back to themselves, believing that
every man knows in his heart the cure for the disease he so ostentatiously
bewails.
Belisarius, n. (2)
SL 2.165 10
The poet uses the names...of Bonduca, of Belisarius;...
PC 8.218 7
If [a man] has a military genius, like Belisarius...he is the king's
king.
Bell, Charles, n. (2)
CL 12.157 24
The facts disclosed by Winkelmann, Goethe, Bell...are joyful
possessions...
Trag 12.415 27
It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards
of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint
which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and
certain death.
bell, n. (12)
Nat 1.38 11
A bell and a plough have each their use...
Lov1 2.177 5
...A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the sounds
we [lovers] feed upon./
OS 2.271 24
A wise old proverb says, God comes to see us without bell;...
CbW 6.267 15
In childhood we fancied ourselves walled in by the horizon,
as by a glass bell...
CbW 6.267 20
On experiment the horizon...leaves us on an endless
common, sheltered by no glass bell.
Elo1 7.69 27
The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together...
Clbs 7.226 18
...the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely...
Suc 7.299 11
Does that deep-toned bell...render to you nothing but acoustic
vibrations?
PI 8.55 19
Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...A midnight bell, a
passing groan,/ These are the sounds we feed upon/...
SHC 11.428 14
Learn from the loved one's rest serenity;/ To-morrow that
soft bell for thee shall sound,/ And thou repose beneath the whispering
tree,/ One tribute more to this submissive ground;-/...
Milt1 12.264 25
In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny
respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they
should be, at home;...up and stirring, in winter, often ere the sound of any
bell awake men to labor or devotion;...
Trag 12.411 17
...the frailest glass bell will support a weight of a thousand
pounds of water at the bottom of a river or sea, if filled with the same.
Bellarmine, Robert, n. (1)
ShP 4.203 15
...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and
acquaintances...Abraham Cowley, Bellarmine...
bell-astronomy, n. (1)
CbW 6.267 21
...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy
of a protecting domestic horizon.
Belle Assemblee, La, n. (1)
Boks 7.214 20
These stories [novels] are to the plots of real life what the
figures in La Belle Assemblee...are to portraits.
belle, n. (1)
Ill 6.311 24
...the barrister with the jury, the belle at the ball...ascribe a
certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
Belleisle, n. (2)
WD 7.181 15
I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but
they seem...to ask how many lines or pages are finished since I saw them
last. Not so, as I told you, was it in Belleisle.
WD 7.181 16
The days at Belleisle were all different...
Bellerophon, n. (1)
LE 1.178 25
On coming on board the Bellerophon, a file of English
soldiers drawn up on deck gave [Napoleon] a military salute.
bell-glass, n. (1)
OA 7.318 9
If, on a winter day, you should stand within a bell-glass, the
face and color of the afternoon clouds would not indicate whether it were
June or January;...
bellies, n. (1)
FSLN 11.229 15
[Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law] showed...that while
we reckoned ourselves a highly cultivated nation, our bellies had run away
with our brains...
bellows, n. (1)
Bost 12.183 22
There are countries, said Howell, where the heaven is a
fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping sponge, most parts of the
year.
bellows, v. (1)
CL 12.148 27
Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the
conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... The lightning
roars like a parent cow that bellows for its calf, and the rain is set free by
the Maruts.
bells, n. (5)
Clbs 7.226 17
...the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely...
Imtl 8.336 9
If not to be, how like the bells of a fool is the trump of fame!
MMEm 10.407 11
...in the country, we converse so much more with
ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else. The very sound
of your bells and the rattling of the carriages have a tendency to divert
selfishness.
AKan 11.260 8
...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words
[Union and Democracy]...ring bells and fire cannon, with every new link of
the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
RBur 11.443 18
...the hand-organs of the Savoyards in all cities repeat
[Burns's songs], and the chimes of bells ring them in the spires.
belly, n. (4)
F 6.22 11
Man is not order of nature...belly and members...
Wsp 6.205 23
King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was
to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly...
Insp 8.281 1
...another Arabian proverb has its coarse truth: When the belly
is full, it says to the head, Sing, fellow!
Mem 12.107 5
...the true river Lethe is the body of man, with its belly and
uproar of appetite and mountains of indigestion and bad humors and quality
of darkness.
Belly, n. (1)
MoS 4.177 18
I can reason down or deny every thing, except this perpetual
Belly...
Belmore, Lord, n. (1)
EWI 11.117 19
The governors [of Jamaica], Lord Belmore, the Earl of
Sligo, and afterwards Sir Lionel Smith...threw themselves on the side of the
oppressed...
belong, v. (67)
AmS 1.115 16
Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned in
the gross...of the section, to which we belong;...
MR 1.233 3
The sins of our trade belong to no class...
Hist 2.6 11
Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of
this fact is...the foundation...of the heroism and grandeur which belong to
acts of self-reliance.
Hist 2.26 11
The attraction of [the Greek] manners is that they belong to
man...
SR 2.52 9
...I grudge...the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me...
SR 2.52 10
...I grudge...the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me
and to whom I do not belong.
SR 2.88 6
Especially [the cultivated man] hates what he has if he see that
it...came to him by...crime; then he feels that...it does not belong to him...
SL 2.151 19
Take the place and attitude which belong to you, and all men
acquiesce.
Hsm1 2.254 16
...[the great soul's] own majesty can lend a better grace to
bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
Cir 2.314 14
...the goods which belong to you gravitate to you...
Exp 3.50 11
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Chr1 3.96 23
...men of character are the conscience of the society to which
they belong.
Chr1 3.113 23
...we do not know the majestic manners which belong to [a
man], which appease and exalt the beholder.
Nat2 3.182 4
Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon
come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us...
NR 3.240 25
...[the great genius] thinks we wish to belong to him, as he
wishes to occupy us.
ET7 5.125 26
The Italian is subtle, the Spaniard treacherous: tortures, it is
said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret. None
of these traits belong to the Englishman.
ET10 5.166 1
...[the Englishman's] English name and accidents are like a
flourish of trumpets announcing him. This, with his quiet style of manners,
gives him the power of a sovereign without the inconveniences which
belong to that rank.
ET11 5.196 8
The tools of our time, namely steam, ships, printing, money
and popular education, belong to those who can handle them;...
ET11 5.197 26
[Titles of lordship] belong...to an earlier age...
ET11 5.198 15
[The English] cannot shut their eyes to the fact that an
untitled nobility possess all the power without the inconveniences that
belong to rank...
F 6.4 23
If one would study his own time, it must be by this method of
taking up in turn each of the leading topics which belong to our scheme of
human life...
Wth 6.88 15
...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and
daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf. Then...she urges
him to the acquisition of such things as belong to him.
Ctr 6.144 5
...the gun, fishing-rod, boat and horse, constitute, among all
who use them, secret freemasonries. They are as if they belong to one club.
Ctr 6.162 8
...the wiser God says, Take the shame, the poverty and the
penal solitude that belong to truth-speaking.
Bhr 6.186 2
Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her
train...
Bhr 6.186 4
Society is very swift in its instincts, and, if you do not belong
to it, resists and sneers at you...
Bhr 6.186 17
Some men appear to feel that they belong to a Pariah caste.
Wsp 6.213 18
To this [moral] sentiment belong vast and sudden
enlargements of power.
Wsp 6.221 5
...cant and lying and the attempt to secure a good which does
not belong to us, are, once for all, balked and vain.
CbW 6.272 7
Our conversation once and again has apprised us that we
belong to better circles than we have yet beheld;...
SS 7.10 1
[The ends of thought]...belong to the immensities and eternities.
DL 7.125 21
We do not know the majestic manners that belong to [a man]...
Boks 7.207 21
...the works of Ben Jonson are a sort of hoop to bind all
these fine [Elizabethan] persons together, and to the land to which they
belong.
OA 7.335 22
When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can
well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that
belong to these.
PI 8.5 20
...we see that things wear different names and faces, but belong to
one family;...
PI 8.37 5
There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet]...
Elo2 8.121 9
What character, what infinite variety belong to the voice!...
QO 8.200 9
...every individual is only a momentary fixation of what was
yesterday another's, is to-day his and will belong to a third to-morrow.
PC 8.209 15
...[the coxcomb] has found that this country and this age
belong to the most liberal persuasion;...
PPo 8.258 7
This picture of the first days of Spring, from Enweri, seems to
belong to Hafiz:-O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and
to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear
hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
Aris 10.57 20
...a soul on which elevated duties are laid will so realize its
special and lofty duties as not to be in danger of assuming through a low
generosity those which do not belong to it.
Chr2 10.93 17
We belong to [the sense of Right and Wrong], not it to us.
Chr2 10.95 20
[The moral sentiment] puts us at the heart of Nature, where
we belong...
Chr2 10.105 23
Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The
Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings.
Chr2 10.113 22
All the victories of religion belong to the moral sentiment.
Chr2 10.115 24
...in every period of intellectual expansion, the Church
ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest and
freest minds...
SovE 10.185 20
...health, melody and a wider horizon belong to moral
sensibility.
SovE 10.206 21
We in America are charged...that reverence does not
belong to our character;...
Prch 10.236 6
...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think,
who belong to the universe...
MoL 10.241 16
...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...in
regard to the career of letters,-the power and joy that belong to it...
Schr 10.277 2
These shrewd faculties belong to man.
Schr 10.281 16
Body and its properties belong to the region of nonentity...
MMEm 10.406 4
Society is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to
her train...
LS 11.20 17
...an importance is given by Christians to [the Lord's Supper]
which never can belong to any form.
HDC 11.72 1
This body [the Provincial Congress]...adopted those efficient
measures whose progress and issue belong to the history of the nation.
LVB 11.89 10
Each has the highest right to call your [Van Buren's]
attention to such subjects as are of a public nature, and properly belong to
the chief magistrate;...
EWI 11.123 12
...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to
trade.
FSLN 11.241 13
Let the aid of virtue, intelligence and education be cast
where they rightfully belong.
SHC 11.430 20
We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense
marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations
of Nature, but, at the same time, fully admitting the divine hope and love
which belong to our nature, wishing to make one spot tender to our
children...
PLT 12.20 8
Not only man puts things in a row, but things below in a row.
PLT 12.24 11
...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a
like series of symptoms in you...though you are conscious that they do not
properly belong to you...
CL 12.145 25
Yonder pear has every property which should belong to a
tree.
CL 12.149 14
What uses that we know belong to the forest, and what
countless uses that we know not!
CL 12.163 8
If we should now say a few words on the advantages that
belong to the conversation with Nature, I might set them so high as to make
it a religious duty.
CL 12.163 13
What truth, and what elegance belong to every fact of
Nature, we know.
Bost 12.198 14
No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and
grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial
conversation.
EurB 12.377 9
The novels of Fashion, of Disraeli, Mrs. Gore, Mr. Ward,
belong to the class of novels of costume...
belonged, v. (18)
DSA 1.128 19
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.
LE 1.179 13
...[Napoleon] belonged to a class fast growing in the world...
Tran 1.352 18
...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief
experience, which...made me aware...that to me belonged trust, a child's
trust, and obedience, and the worship of ideas...
Gts 3.161 6
...we might convey to some person that which properly
belonged to his character...
ET17 5.297 10
A gentleman in London showed me a watch that once
belonged to Milton...
Wth 6.93 21
Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples as cowardly
landsmen until they dare fit him out. Few men on the planet have more
truly belonged to it.
Wth 6.98 24
In the Greek cities it was reckoned profane that any person
should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could
behold it.
Ill 6.319 15
As if one shut up always in a tower, with one window through
which the face of heaven and earth could be seen, should fancy that all the
marvels he beheld belonged to that window.
Boks 7.201 23
...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more
of that master we gain appetite for...to know the tyranny of Aristophanes,
requiring more genius and sometimes not less cruelty than belonged to the
official commanders.
PI 8.56 4
Perhaps this dainty style of poetry is not producible to-day, any
more than a right Gothic cathedral. It belonged to a time and taste which is
not in the world.
SA 8.90 6
...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no
vulgarity. All topics were broached...myself, thyself, all selves, and
whatever else, with a security and vivacity which belonged to the nobility
of the parties...
Elo2 8.122 21
...the wonders [John Quincy Adams] could achieve with that
cracked and disobedient organ [his voice] showed what power might have
belonged to it in early manhood.
QO 8.193 21
Every word in the language has once been used happily. The
ear, caught by that felicity, retains it, and it is used again and again, as if the
charm belonged to the word and not to the life of thought which so enforced
it.
Thor 10.477 20
...the same isolation which belonged to his original
thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms.
Thor 10.484 21
Thoreau seemed to me living in the hope to gather this
plant [the Edelweisse], which belonged to him of right.
Humb 11.458 12
[Humboldt] belonged to that wonderful German nation,
the foremost scholars in all history...
ChiE 11.474 18
...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the
merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York...that the
whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce.
MAng1 12.244 20
[Michelangelo] was not a citizen of any country; he
belonged to the human race;...
belonging, v. (3)
Pol1 3.208 26
Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this
deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader, and...throw themselves
into the maintenance and defence of points nowise belonging to their
system.
ET9 5.145 13
A much older traveller...says:--The English are great lovers
of themselves and of every thing belonging to them.
ET9 5.147 25
...[the Englishman] thinks every circumstance belonging to
him comes recommended to you.
belongings, n. (4)
Mrs1 3.133 7
If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his tail on!-But Vich
Ian Vohr must always carry his belongings in some fashion...
ET6 5.107 10
A certain order and complete propriety is found in [the
Englishman's] dress and in his belongings.
ET7 5.119 17
Plain rich clothes, plain rich equipage, plain rich finish
throughout their house and belongings mark the English truth.
F 6.37 27
There are more belongings to every creature than his air and his
food.
belongs, v. (95)
Nat 1.49 15
To the senses and the unrenewed understanding, belongs a sort
of instinctive belief in the absolute existence of nature.
AmS 1.114 7
...this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs...to
the American Scholar.
MN 1.207 10
...what strikes us in the fine genius is that which belongs of
right to every one.
MR 1.227 5
...the aim of each young man in this association is the very
highest that belongs to a rational mind.
Tran 1.340 13
...whatever belongs to the class of intuitive thought is
popularly called at the present day Transcendental.
Hist 2.3 18
...the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody...
every emotion which belongs to it, in appropriate events.
Hist 2.23 20
...every thing is in turn intelligible to [the individual], as his
onward thinking leads him into the truth to which that fact or series belongs.
SR 2.60 25
...a true man belongs to no other time or place...
Comp 2.102 25
If you see a hand or a limb, you know that the trunk to
which it belongs is there behind.
SL 2.132 8
Let [a man] do and say what strictly belongs to him...
SL 2.133 12
...education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and
balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.
SL 2.145 7
Everywhere [the man] may take what belongs to his spiritual
estate...
OS 2.273 2
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a
thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. Every man parts
from that contemplation with the feeling that it rather belongs to ages than
to mortal life.
OS 2.294 4
...every byword that belongs to thee for aid or comfort, will
surely come home through open or winding passages.
Int 2.344 12
Entire self-reliance belongs to the intellect.
Art1 2.368 21
Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to our
great mechanical works...the effect of the mercenary impulses which these
works obey?
Chr1 3.97 25
...prosperity belongs to a certain mind, and will introduce that
power and victory which is its natural fruit, into any order of events.
Mrs1 3.139 19
...being in its nature a convention, [society] loves what is
conventional, or what belongs to coming together.
Pol1 3.206 8
...to every particle of property belongs its own attraction.
PPh 4.62 26
...to judge is to unite to an object the notion which belongs to
it.
MoS 4.171 20
...the skeptical class, which Montaigne represents, have
reason, and every man, at some time, belongs to it.
ShP 4.215 21
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet.
GoW 4.289 7
...compared with any motives on which books are written in
England and America, [Goethe's work]...has the power to inspire which
belongs to truth.
ET4 5.54 18
I found plenty of well-marked English types...a Norman type,
with the complacency that belongs to that constitution.
ET13 5.228 7
If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
F 6.16 7
We know in history what weight belongs to race.
F 6.41 8
We know what madness belongs to love...
Pow 6.62 12
The rough-and-ready style which belongs to a people of
sailors, foresters, farmers and mechanics, has its advantages.
Wth 6.113 18
Let a man who belongs to the class of nobles, namely who
have found out that they can do something, relieve himself of all vague
squandering on objects not his.
Bhr 6.171 13
The mediocre circle learns to demand that which belongs to a
high state of nature or of culture.
Bhr 6.187 11
...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the movers and masters of
our souls have surely a right to throw out their limbs as carelessly as they
please, on the world that belongs to them...
Wsp 6.203 15
A self-poise belongs to every particle...
Wsp 6.237 17
...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the
man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he
belongs among them.
Bty 6.286 19
So inveterate is our habit of criticism that much of our
knowledge in this direction belongs to the chapter of pathology.
Bty 6.290 7
...beauty is only an invitation from what belongs to us.
Bty 6.293 25
To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all
circular movement has;...
Ill 6.310 2
The mysteries and scenery of the [Mammoth] cave had the same
dignity that belongs to all natural objects...
Art2 7.46 11
The effect of music belongs how much to the place...
Elo1 7.98 12
It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that
the highest power belongs...
Farm 7.139 11
The farmer...acquires that livelong patience which belongs
to [Nature].
Farm 7.154 1
That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in animals and
in young children belongs to [the farmer]...
WD 7.178 4
...though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to
its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it...
Cour 7.268 18
A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of
faculty.
Cour 7.272 1
See too what good contagion belongs to [courage].
Suc 7.307 20
What is this immortal demand for more, which belongs to our
constitution?...
OA 7.330 12
The day comes...when the admirable verse finds the poet to
whom it belongs;...
PI 8.7 3
...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose
brain it belongs to;...
PI 8.33 18
Great design belongs to a poem...
PI 8.43 26
The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet...
SA 8.97 20
Here is...strong understanding, and the higher gifts, the insight
of the real, or from the real, and the moral rectitude which belongs to it...
Res 8.138 16
...if you tell me...that this world belongs to the energetic;...I
am invigorated...
Res 8.144 9
The world belongs to the energetic man.
Res 8.153 24
...the world belongs to the energetic, belongs to the wise.
Comc 8.168 13
The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as
that of religion and science].
PPo 8.244 15
Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon,
Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic, that sometimes affords a deeper
glance at Nature than belongs to either of these bards.
PPo 8.247 17
An air of sterility...belongs to many who have both
experience and wisdom.
PPo 8.256 24
Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow from thy locks;/
Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;/ Neither endurance nor truth
belongs to the laugh of the rose./
Grts 8.301 19
...that which invites all, belongs to us all...
Imtl 8.333 18
Here is this wonderful thought. But whence came it? Who
put it in the mind? It was not I, it was not you; it is elemental,-belongs to
thought and virtue...
Aris 10.38 27
...to [aristocracy] belongs without assertion a proper
influence.
Aris 10.47 20
A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of
faculty.
Aris 10.49 10
I should like to see...every man made acquainted with the
true number and weight of every adult citizen, and that he be placed where
he belongs...
PerF 10.83 8
And so, one step higher, when [the susceptible man] comes
into the realm of sentiment and will. He sees...the eternity that belongs to
all moral nature.
PerF 10.85 24
This world belongs to the energetical.
SovE 10.192 11
The student discovers one day that he lives in
enchantment...and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides
to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early...and
to multitudes of men wanting in mental activity it never comes-any more
than poetry or art. But it ought to come; it belongs to the human intellect...
SovE 10.203 2
Our religion...belongs to our time and place;...
SovE 10.205 27
We delight in children because of that religious eye which
belongs to them;...
SovE 10.212 21
...what divination or insight belongs to [ethical truth]!
MoL 10.242 1
[The scholar] belongs to a superior society...
Schr 10.275 7
Beauty belongs to the [moral] sentiment...
LLNE 10.354 27
Unless [the leader of a community] have a Cossack
roughness of clearing himself of what belongs not, charlatan he must be.
MMEm 10.421 19
Our civilization is not always mending our poetry. It...
lacks somewhat of the grandeur that belongs to a Doric and unphilosophical
age.
Thor 10.471 13
[Thoreau] would not offer a memoir of his observations to
the Natural History Society. Why should I? To detach the description from
its connections in my mind would make it no longer true or valuable to me:
and they do not wish what belongs to it.
HDC 11.77 3
To you [veterans of the battle of Concord] belongs a better
badge than stars and ribbons.
EWI 11.145 18
There remains the very elevated consideration which the
subject [emancipation] opens, but which belongs to more abstract views
than we are now taking...
FSLN 11.222 2
...the perfection of [Webster's] elocution, and all that
thereto belongs...we shall not soon find again.
EdAd 11.390 25
Will [a journal] cope with the allied questions of
Government, Nonresistance, and all that belongs under that category?
SHC 11.434 25
The ground [Sleepy Hollow] has the peaceful character that
belongs to this town [Concord];...
PLT 12.46 7
Will is the advance to that which rightly belongs to us...
PLT 12.54 13
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in Nature.
PLT 12.57 23
There is a conflict...between wisdom and the habit and
necessity of repeating itself which belongs to every mind.
PLT 12.59 20
...wit...puts together what belongs together...
PLT 12.63 8
...[identification of the Ego with the universe's]
communication from one to another...refuses our intrusion. It is in one, it
belongs to all; yet how to impart it?
II 12.75 9
[The inner mind] is one, it belongs to all: yet how to impart it?
CInt 12.121 8
A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of
truth.
CW 12.178 20
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 12.205 19
The power of labor which belongs to the English race fell
here into a climate which befriended it...
MAng1 12.215 14
Whilst [Michelangelo's] name belongs to the highest
class of genius, his life contains in it no injurious influence.
MAng1 12.219 26
...to the artist it belongs by a better knowledge of
anatomy, and, within anatomy, of life and thought, to acquire the power of
true drawing.
WSL 12.343 19
Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty...belongs
to this sacred class;...
EurB 12.372 12
...it is strange that one of the best poems [Abou ben
Adhem] should be written by a man [Leigh Hunt] who has hardly written
any other. And Godiva is a parable which belongs to the same gospel.
EurB 12.372 17
Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry...
PPr 12.380 15
[Carlyle's Past and Present] has the merit which belongs to
every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent...
PPr 12.388 8
[Carlyle] has the dignity of a man of letters, who knows what
belongs to him...
Trag 12.413 16
...all melancholy, as all passion, belongs to the exterior life.
beloved, adj. (20)
DSA 1.149 11
There are...men to whom a crisis...comes graceful and
beloved as a bride.
LE 1.187 16
...[Thought] shall yield every sincere good that is in the soul to
the scholar beloved of earth and heaven.
MN 1.217 17
He who is in love...sees newly every time he looks at the
object beloved...
Lov1 2.171 18
...infinite compunctions embitter in mature life the
remembrances of budding joy, and cover every beloved name.
Lov1 2.175 20
...the figures, the motions, the words of the beloved object
are not, like other images, written in water...
Lov1 2.177 25
Into the most pitiful and abject [love] will infuse a heart and
courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved
object.
Lov1 2.185 15
...adding up costly advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering
that willingly, joyfully, they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful,
the beloved head...
Fdsp 2.193 23
The moment we indulge our affections...nothing fills the
proceeding eternity but the forms all radiant of beloved persons.
Hsm1 2.258 5
A great man makes his climate genial in the imagination of
men, and its air the beloved element of all delicate spirits.
Chr1 3.109 15
...the beloved of Yezdam, the prophet Zertusht, advanced
into the midst of the assembly.
ET14 5.243 22
[Locke's] countrymen...disused the studies once so
beloved;...
Ill 6.319 8
There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved
person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or
condition...
Suc 7.304 1
In [the lover's] surprise at the sudden and entire understanding
that is between him and the beloved person, it occurs to him that they might
somehow meet independently of time and place.
Insp 8.286 2
Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses/...
Chr2 10.114 1
The Church, in its ardor for beloved persons, clings to the
miraculous...
LS 11.6 1
Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last
Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on
the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially, the beloved
disciple...has quite omitted such a notice.
HDC 11.60 24
...his brother, his uncle, his sister, and his beloved squaw
being taken or slain, [King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian
deserter...
FSLC 11.190 1
...all men are beloved as they raise us to [the spiritual
element];...
SMC 11.372 25
...from these incessant labors there was now to be rest for
one head,-the honored and beloved commander [George Prescott] of the
[Thirty-second] regiment.
EdAd 11.382 22
...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only
what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and song,/
The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of world beloved
and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./
beloved, n. (1)
Nat 1.52 27
...the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers [Shakspeare]
finds to be the shadow of his beloved;...
beloved, v. (4)
MN 1.200 23
...thou must behold [nature] in a spirit as grand as that by
which it exists, ere thou canst know the law. Known it will not be, but
gladly beloved and enjoyed.
Elo1 7.72 6
...once the wise Ulysses came hither on an embassy, with
Menelaus, beloved by Mars.
Plu 10.313 24
[Plutarch] thinks it impossible either that a man beloved of
the gods should not be happy, or that a wise and just man should not be
beloved of the gods.
Plu 10.313 26
[Plutarch] thinks it impossible either that a man beloved of
the gods should not be happy, or that a wise and just man should not be
beloved of the gods.
Belsham, Thomas, n. (1)
LLNE 10.330 5
The popular religion of our fathers had received many
severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic
theologians, Hartley and Priestley and Belsham...
belt, n. (12)
Comp 2.107 24
...the belt which Ajax gave Hector dragged the Trojan hero
over the fields at the wheels of the car of Achilles...
Pt1 3.19 26
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and
constant fact of Life...to which the belt of wampum and the commerce of
America are alike.
Exp 3.62 22
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry
and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes
is the equator of life...a narrow belt.
ET2 5.30 17
...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little
boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port...
having no money and wishing to go to England. The sailors have dressed
him in Guernsey frock, with a knife in his belt...
ET3 5.40 22
I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city
of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same
belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
ET3 5.40 23
I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city
of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same
belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
ET18 5.303 23
...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded
forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred
years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted
through all climates, mainly following the belt of empire...
F 6.5 25
Wise men feel that there is...a strap or belt which girds the world...
F 6.22 27
...here they are, side by side...belt and spasm...
Elo1 7.99 24
[Eloquence's] great masters...resembling the Arabian warrior
of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat
used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
PC 8.225 3
Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver
flame which flashes up the half of heaven...
SovE 10.204 6
The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the
mind...
belted, v. (2)
Prd1 2.225 9
Here is a planted globe, pierced and belted with natural laws...
Edc1 10.128 4
Here is a world pierced and belted with natural laws...
belting, adj. (1)
Bty 6.279 12
Oft peeled for [Seyd] a lofty tone/ From nodding pole and
belting zone./
belting, n. (1)
WD 7.160 9
What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha, which
make...belting for mill-wheels...
belts, n. (2)
Pt1 3.9 14
[A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low
limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line...with belts of the herbage of
every latitude on its high and mottled sides;...
Wth 6.98 1
Every man wishes to see...the satellites and belts of Jupiter and
Mars...yet how few can buy a telescope!...