Hist 2.29 3 The fact teaches [the child] how Belus was worshipped...
Bty 6.295 21 How many copies are there of the Belvedere Apollo...
Art2 7.50 11 In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece?
ET11 5.190 5 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the details which Ben Jonson's masques (performed at Kenilworth, Althorpe, Belvoir and other noble houses), record or suggest;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
Hist 2.11 11 Belzoni digs and measures in the mummy-pits and pyramids of Thebes until he can see the end of the difference between the monstrous work and himself.
Mrs1 3.119 17 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres...
Wth 6.95 4 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated, and who is using these to add to the stock. So it is with...Belzoni...
Dem1 10.10 27 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh.
CInt 12.129 2 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic...where [is] the Romish or the Calvinistic religion, which made a kind of poetry in the air for Milton, or Byron, or Belzoni?...you expose your atheism.
Exp 3.48 8 People grieve and bemoan themselves, but it is not half so bad with them as they say.
Nat2 3.181 23 ...the trees...seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
Suc 7.309 12 Don't bewail and bemoan.
OA 7.327 11 All the functions of human duty irritate and lash [man] forward, bemoaning and chiding...
FSLC 11.184 9 What is the use of a Federal Bench, if its opinions are the political breath of the hour?
SR 2.55 3 ...these airs of the bench are the emptiest affectation.
SL 2.133 5 The regular course of studies...have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
Hsm1 2.257 3 ...the power of a romance over the boy who grasps the forbidden book under his bench at school, our delight in the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.
Wth 6.92 13 The mechanic at his bench carries a quiet heart and assured manners...
Wth 6.104 7 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the judge will sit less firmly on the bench...
Cour 7.259 17 ...the aggressive attitude of men who...will no longer be bothered with...thieves on the bench; that part, the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
Elo2 8.111 19 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons, the logic,--above all, the flame of passion and the continuous energy of will which is presently to be let loose on this bench of judges...all are invisible and unknown.
Edc1 10.158 5 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl, because the fire falls...take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
SlHr 10.441 4 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or congresses to sit down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in the town-house, on the plain wooden bench where honor came and sat down beside him.
EWI 11.106 17 Very unwilling had that great lawyer [Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery]; he suggested twice from the bench, in the course of the trial [of George Somerset], how the question might be got rid of...
EWI 11.140 20 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity?
FSLC 11.198 11 What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly defined his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a reputable citizen to hold? No man of honor can sit on that bench.
JBB 11.271 3 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right...
JBB 11.272 3 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
NR 3.247 10 ...the Truth sits veiled there on the Bench...
EWI 11.129 16 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary walks on the magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out the benefit of the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide realm [the West Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other thoughts.
FSLC 11.185 19 The learning of the universities...the majesty of the Bench...are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy].
FSLN 11.241 18 We should not forgive...the Bench, if it put itself on the side of the culprit;...
ET15 5.269 9 [The London Times] makes rude work with the Board of Admiralty. The Bench of Bishops is still less safe.
Art2 7.55 5 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!
Aris 10.45 15 It never troubles the Senator what multitudes crack the benches and bend the galleries to hear.
Nat 1.21 26 Willingly does [nature]...bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child.
LE 1.184 7 ...out of this superior frankness and charity you shall learn higher secrets of your nature, which gods will bend and aid you to communicate.
LE 1.186 8 Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every object in nature...
Con 1.299 12 Conservatism...believes...that for me it avails not to trust in principles, they will fail me, I must bend a little;...
Hist 2.34 23 The preternatural prowess of the hero, the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind.
OS 2.271 8 ...the soul, whose organ [what we commonly call man] is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
Art1 2.349 22 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate/...
ET1 5.14 20 [Coleridge]...could not bend to a new companion and think with him.
Bhr 6.186 18 ...[some men] bend and apologize...
Elo1 7.91 27 There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive,--a statement possible, so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away from it, but must either bend to it or die of it.
Farm 7.138 24 [The farmer] bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops, as the sails of a ship bend to the wind.
Res 8.152 24 [The willows] bend all day to every wind;...
Insp 8.268 12 ...Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
Insp 8.273 20 A fuller inspiration...should bend the line and complete the circle.
Aris 10.45 15 It never troubles the Senator what multitudes crack the benches and bend the galleries to hear.
PerF 10.73 3 The man must bend to the law, never the law to him.
Chr2 10.120 19 The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
SovE 10.197 23 If I will stand upright, the creation cannot bend me.
AsSu 11.249 14 His friends, I remember, were told that they would find Sumner a man of the world like the rest; 't is quite impossible to be at Washington and not bend; he will bend as the rest have done.
AsSu 11.249 15 His friends, I remember, were told that they would find Sumner a man of the world like the rest; 't is quite impossible to be at Washington and not bend; he will bend as the rest have done. Well, he did not bend.
ChiE 11.473 12 ...[Confucius]...met the ingrained prudence of his nation by saying always, Bend one cubit to straighten eight.
CL 12.150 20 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night. In the familiar forest he finds Norway and Russia in the masses of overloading snow which break all that they cannot bend.
Bost 12.182 14 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./ And each shall care for other,/ And each to each shall bend,/ To the poor a noble brother,/ To the good an equal friend./
Nat 1.61 17 Like the figure of Jesus, [Nature] stands with bended head...
SR 2.70 27 The genesis and maturation of a planet...the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind...are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
Boks 7.219 8 ...[the sacred books] are...to be read on the bended knee.
Insp 8.268 5 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
AmS 1.86 16 ...to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one root;...
PerF 10.68 4 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives back the bending heavens in dew./
PPo 8.261 12 Is Allah's face on thee/ Bending with love benign,/ And thou not less on Allah's eye/ O fairest! turnest thine./
MMEm 10.412 7 There is a sweet pleasure in bending to circumstances while superior to them.
FSLN 11.218 23 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs-and instantly the entire rectangular assembly [in the railway car], fresh from their breakfast, are bending as one man to their second breakfast.
CL 12.158 3 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.
Hist 2.13 24 Through the bruteness and toughness of matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will.
Hsm1 2.249 9 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
F 6.38 2 ...[every creature] has predisposing power that bends and fits what is near him to his use.
Farm 7.138 22 [The farmer] bends to the order of the seasons...
MAng1 12.241 27 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him...that he is careful where he bends his thoughts...
ET12 5.200 10 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals, which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages, Benedictus, benedicat; benedicitur, benedicatur.
ET12 5.200 10 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals, which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages, Benedictus, benedicat; benedicitur, benedicatur.
ET12 5.200 10 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals, which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages, Benedictus, benedicat; benedicitur, benedicatur.
Wsp 6.234 1 Benedict was always great in the present time.
Wsp 6.236 10 Benedict went out to seek his friend, and met him on the way;...
Wsp 6.237 6.237 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...and, now sickening, was like to be bedridden on her hands. Should she keep her, or should she dismiss her? But Benedict said, why ask?
MAng1 12.231 24 Benedict XIV., during one of these panics, sent for the architect Marchese Polini to come to Rome and examine [St. Peter's dome].
SL 2.160 26 ...why need you torment yourself and friend by secret self-reproaches that you have not...complimented him with gifts and salutations heretofore? Be a gift and a benediction.
HDC 11.86 19 The benediction of [the Concord people's] prayers and of their principles lingers around us.
Ill 6.325 12 The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament; there is he alone with [the gods] alone, they pouring on him benedictions and gifts...
GSt 10.507 15 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there is... not a Southern State in which the freedmen will not learn to-day from their preachers that one of their most efficient benefactors has departed, and will cover his memory with benedictions;...
SMC 11.376 6 A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War], and with such immense results of good...that, though the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.
ET12 5.200 10 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals, which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages, Benedictus, benedicat; benedicitur, benedicatur.
Chr1 3.104 10 ...the rule and hodiurnal life of a good man is benefaction.
CbW 6.256 16 The benefaction derived in Illinois and the great West from railroads is inestimable...
MR 1.228 6 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a benefactor...
Con 1.324 18 Whosoever hereafter shall name my name, shall not record a malefactor but a benefactor in the earth.
Tran 1.337 25 The Buddhist...who...will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
Tran 1.346 9 A man is a poor limitary benefactor.
Comp 2.118 17 In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.
Chr1 3.99 15 I revere the person who is riches; so that I cannot think of him as alone...but as perpetual patron, benefactor and beatified man.
Chr1 3.111 17 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce.
NER 3.256 19 ...if I had not that commodity [money]...man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.
NER 3.277 14 Do you ask my aid? I also wish to be a benefactor.
NER 3.277 15 I wish more to be a benefactor and servant than you wish to be served by me;...
UGM 4.28 26 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world where every benefactor becomes so easily a malefactor only by continuation of his activity into places where it is not due;...
ShP 4.216 17 ...how stands the account of man with this bard and benefactor [Shakespeare]...
NMW 4.225 24 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the standing in the attitude of a benefactor to all persons about him...
F 6.8 14 ...it is of no use...to dress up that terrific benefactor [Providence] in a clean shirt...
Civ 7.22 5 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded and bridged to a good road, there is a benefactor...
DL 7.114 7 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince with our townsmen...
DL 7.128 6 Happy will that house be...in which character marries... Then shall marriage be a covenant to secure to either party the sweetness and honor of being a calm, continuing, inevitable benefactor to the other.
DL 7.129 6 ...when men shall meet as they should...each a benefactor...it shall be the festival of Nature...
Farm 7.141 5 [The farmer] is the continuous benefactor.
WD 7.165 24 ...Trade...that benefactor in spite of itself, ends in shameful defaulting, bubble and bankruptcy...
SA 8.103 7 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was such...good action, combined with...such modesty and persistent preference for others. Wherever he moved, he was the benefactor.
Elo2 8.113 15 ...[the orator] is the benefactor that lifts men above themselves...
QO 8.191 6 If we are fired and guided by these [inspiring lessons], we know [the author] as a benefactor...
PC 8.230 4 Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
Chr2 10.107 27 ...the distinctions of the true clergyman are not less decisive. Men ask now, Is he serious? Is he a sincere man, who lives as he teaches? Is he a benefactor?
SovE 10.188 22 The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor.
Schr 10.284 21 Happy for more than yourself, a benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry;...
Plu 10.320 12 Professor Goodwin is a silent benefactor to the book [Plutarch's Morals]...
FSLN 11.243 19 Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day, much in the tone and spirit in which Lord Bacon prosecuted his benefactor Essex.
ALin 11.336 26 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web... that Heaven, wishing to show the world a completed benefactor, shall make [Lincoln] serve his country even more by his death than by his life?
HCom 11.342 11 The proof that war...is a marked benefactor in the hands of the Divine Providence, is its morale.
FRO2 11.487 21 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself...until he...becomes a benefactor.
FRep 11.531 10 I wish to see America...a benefactor such as no country ever was...
CW 12.176 11 ...if one is so happy as to find the company of a true artist, he is a perpetual holiday and benefactor...
Milt1 12.260 2 [Milton] was a benefactor of the English tongue by showing its capabilities.
WSL 12.340 26 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
Nat 1.13 19 The useful arts are reproductions or new combinations by the wit of man, of the same natural benefactors.
LT 1.281 7 These benefactors [the reformers] hope to raise man by improving his circumstances...
Tran 1.337 22 The Buddhist...who says, Do not flatter your benefactors...is a Transcendentalist.
SR 2.47 25 ...we are...guides, redeemers and benefactors...
Comp 2.116 24 ...disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors...
SL 2.164 9 Why need I go gadding into the scenes and philosophy of Greek and Italian history before I have justified myself to my benefactors?
Gts 3.164 1 It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap. A golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, Do not flatter your benefactors.
ShP 4.197 27 ...Petrarch, Boccaccio and the Provencal poets are [Chaucer' s] benefactors...
ET12 5.202 10 As many sons [at Oxford], almost so many benefactors.
Ctr 6.156 14 ...Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, did not live in a crowd, but descended into it from time to time as benefactors;...
CbW 6.248 17 Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors.
CbW 6.273 27 We know that all our training is to fit us for [friendship], and we do not take the step towards it. How long shall we sit and wait for these benefactors?
WD 7.166 12 We cannot trace the triumphs of civilization to such benefactors as we wish.
Suc 7.286 26 Neither do we grudge to each of these benefactors the praise or the profit which accrues from his industry.
PI 8.73 26 In the mire of the sensual life...[poets'] admiration of heroes and benefactors...are hosts of ideals...
QO 8.199 21 Our benefactors are as many as the children who invented speech...
PC 8.226 6 The benefactors we have indicated were exceptional men...
PC 8.234 10 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...and that the most distinguished by genius and culture are in this class of benefactors,-I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
Edc1 10.142 4 There is no want of example of great men, great benefactors, who have been monks and hermits in habit.
GSt 10.503 2 ...unlike other benefactors, [George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits...
GSt 10.507 14 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there is... not a Southern State in which the freedmen will not learn to-day from their preachers that one of their most efficient benefactors has departed...
HDC 11.85 24 Why need I remind you of our own Hosmers, Minotts...the departed benefactors of the town [Concord]?
EWI 11.102 12 These men [negro slaves], our benefactors...I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
War 11.169 1 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of benefactors, of true, great and able men.
FSLC 11.183 18 ...only persons who were known and tried benefactors are found standing for freedom...
SHC 11.435 15 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century...heroes, poets, beauties, sanctities, benefactors, will have made the air timeable and articulate.
CPL 11.496 16 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the country, of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and hospitals...
Bost 12.208 25 What public souls have lived here [in Boston], what social benefactors...
EurB 12.371 27 ...let us not quarrel with our benefactors.
Nat2 3.182 27 If we consider how much we are nature's, we need not be superstitious about towns, as if that terrific or benefic force did not find us there also...
YA 1.374 21 ...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence which in its working for coming generations, sacrifices the passing one;...
OS 2.275 16 The soul...requires beneficence, but is somewhat better;...
NER 3.270 5 ...[a canine appetite for knowledge] did not bring [the scholar]...to beneficence.
Art2 7.37 10 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity...dissolving man as well as his works in its flowing beneficence.
Prch 10.235 18 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is...simply the celebration of the power and beneficence amid which and by which we live...
CPL 11.496 22 ...it is not easy to exaggerate the utility of the beneficence which takes this form [building of a library].
LT 1.282 8 ...our torment is...the distrust that the Necessity...is fair and beneficent.
Con 1.313 10 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a great and beneficent and progressive necessity...
Con 1.322 20 Which is that state which promises to edify a great, brave, and beneficent man;...
YA 1.363 14 This rage of road building is beneficent for America...
YA 1.371 25 ...the Genius or Destiny is not narrow, but beneficent.
YA 1.375 14 The history of commerce is the record of this beneficent tendency.
YA 1.379 7 This beneficent tendency...exists and works.
YA 1.380 6 All this beneficent socialism is a friendly omen...
YA 1.390 21 It is for us to confide in the beneficent Supreme Power...
Nat2 3.194 11 ...a beneficent purpose lies in wait for us.
Pol1 3.212 14 We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws.
MoS 4.186 2 ...through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
ET11 5.186 2 ...beneficent power...gives a majesty which cannot be concealed or resisted.
ET15 5.261 5 In England...[the power of the newspaper] is all the more beneficent succor against the secretive tendencies of a monarchy.
ET15 5.272 27 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] the least of its victories would be to give to England a new millennium of beneficent power.
Ill 6.319 5 There are...the structural, beneficent illusions of sentiment and of the intellect.
Cour 7.277 3 If you have no faith in beneficent power above you...then reflect that the best use of fate is to teach us courage...
Suc 7.284 25 It is recorded of Linnaeus, among many proofs of his beneficent skill, that when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.
SA 8.107 13 ...I believe that with all liberal and hopeful men there is a firm faith in the beneficent results which we really enjoy;...
Dem1 10.17 16 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. It was...not devilish, since it was beneficent;...
Chr2 10.117 26 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities...
SovE 10.189 3 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
SovE 10.192 21 Nothing is allowed to exceed or absorb the rest; if it do, it is disease, and is quickly destroyed. It was an early discovery of the mind,- this beneficent rule.
Prch 10.237 23 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see that life...is...a growth after immutable laws under beneficent influences the most immense.
Schr 10.267 11 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends.
LLNE 10.350 9 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system;...
LLNE 10.353 14 ...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants of that which is just, and straightway every man becomes a centre of a holy and beneficent republic...
War 11.155 1 Is it not manifest that [war] covers a great and beneficent principle...
FSLN 11.223 25 If [Webster's] moral sensibility had been proportioned to the force of his understanding, what limits could have been set to his genius and beneficent power?
ACiv 11.309 10 I hope it is not a fatal objection to this policy [of emancipation] that it is simple and beneficent thoroughly...
FRO1 11.480 22 I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are springing up...all over this country, should all be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...
Let 12.404 27 Many of the best must die of consumption...and many be stupid and insane, before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.
Wsp 6.215 15 I can best indicate by examples those reactions by which every part of nature replies to the purpose of the actor,--beneficently to the good, penally to the bad.
Gts 3.163 13 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
EzRy 10.391 3 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra Ripley's] beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion;...
Tran 1.355 7 ...the justice which is now claimed for the black...is for a necessity to the soul of the agent, not of the beneficiary.
Tran 1.356 14 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or beneficiary...which they resist as what does not concern them.
Hist 2.28 13 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
Gts 3.163 13 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
Gts 3.163 17 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
Nat 1.12 9 [Commodity]...is a benefit which is temporary and mediate...
Nat 1.14 16 ...this mercenary benefit is one which has respect to a farther good.
Nat 1.17 2 ...in other hours, Nature satisfies...without any mixture of corporeal benefit.
DSA 1.133 1 It is a low benefit to give me something;...
DSA 1.133 2 ...it is a high benefit to enable me to do somewhat of myself.
LE 1.168 9 ...the pine throwing out its pollen for the benefit of the next century; the turpentine exuding from the tree...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
MN 1.204 3 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that it does not exist to any one or to any number of particular ends, but to numberless and endless benefit;...
MN 1.210 17 Are there not moments in the history of heaven when the human race was not counted by individuals, but...was...God rushing into multiform benefit?
MN 1.214 22 He who aims at progress should aim at an infinite, not at a special benefit.
MN 1.220 8 A [New England] man was born...to suffer for the benefit of others...
MR 1.228 13 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a brave and upright man, who must...make it easier for all who follow him to go in honor and with benefit.
MR 1.247 23 ...we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit;...
Tran 1.358 1 ...the path which the hero travels alone is the highway of health and benefit to mankind.
Tran 1.358 7 Possibly some benefit may yet accrue from [Transcendentalists] to the state.
YA 1.366 22 ...beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised the conquering of the soil...
YA 1.372 8 All the facts in any part of nature shall be tabulated and the results shall indicate the same security and benefit;...
YA 1.375 1 ...we who build will receive the very smallest share of benefit.
YA 1.375 1 Benefit will accrue, [railroads] are essential to the country...
YA 1.375 11 We should be mortified to learn that the little benefit we chanced in our own persons to receive was the utmost [the things we do] would yield.
YA 1.386 7 If any man has a talent...for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
YA 1.387 7 If society were transparent, the noble...would be felt as benefit, inasmuch as he was noble.
Comp 2.112 23 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? There arises on the deed the instant acknowledgment of benefit on the one part and of debt on the other;...
Comp 2.113 15 Benefit is the end of nature.
Comp 2.113 16 ...for every benefit which you receive, a tax is levied.
Comp 2.113 23 ...the benefit we receive must be rendered again...
Comp 2.116 1 [The traitor] finds that things are arranged for truth and benefit...
SL 2.152 10 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are;...then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.
Fdsp 2.199 6 ...we have aimed at a swift and petty benefit...
Fdsp 2.201 5 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship]...
Fdsp 2.209 26 Leave it to girls and boys to regard a friend as property, and to suck a short and all-confounding pleasure, instead of the noblest benefit.
Cir 2.305 27 The new statement...to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism. But the eye soon gets wonted to it...then its innocency and benefit appear...
Exp 3.84 5 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make the account square, for if I should die I could not make the account square. The benefit overran the merit the first day...
Chr1 3.104 6 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...two professors recommended to foreign universities; etc., etc. The longest list of specifications of benefit would look very short.
Mrs1 3.143 19 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.
Gts 3.164 13 Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.
Gts 3.164 18 ...we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation.
Gts 3.164 22 ...we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit which is directly received.
Pol1 3.210 25 From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation.
NR 3.239 22 Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons... could not have seen.
NR 3.239 27 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit that there should be two stupidities!
NER 3.261 8 ...in the assault on the kingdom of darkness [many reformers]...lose their sanity and power of benefit.
NER 3.277 7 The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
NER 3.278 3 ...we desire to be touched with that fire which shall command this ice to stream, and make our existence a benefit.
UGM 4.6 18 It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit!
UGM 4.16 23 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds;...
UGM 4.17 19 ...this benefit [of the imagination] is real...
UGM 4.21 10 How to illustrate the distinctive benefit of ideas, the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind?...
UGM 4.31 14 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin. It seems a mechanical advantage, and great benefit it is to each speaker...
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.
UGM 4.35 12 It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song, that...the germs of love and benefit may be multiplied.
PPh 4.63 15 I announce the good of being interpenetrated by the mind that made nature: this benefit, namely, that it can understand nature, which it made and maketh.
PPh 4.67 9 Judge whether it is not safer to be instructed by some one of those who have power over the benefit which they impart to men [said Socrates], than by me, who benefit or not, just as it may happen.
ET9 5.148 26 There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal.
ET10 5.163 22 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England], and the hereditary principle heaps on the owner of to-day the benefit of ages of owners.
ET11 5.194 1 Most of [the English noblemen] are only chargeable with idleness, which, because it squanders such vast power of benefit, has the mischief of crime.
ET12 5.204 16 [The English] know the use of a tutor, as they know the use of a horse; and they draw the greatest amount of benefit out of both.
ET14 5.247 19 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good.
ET14 5.247 20 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good. The eminent benefit of astronomy is the better navigation it creates to enable the fruit-ships to bring home their lemons and wine to the London grocer.
F 6.33 5 ...whilst art draws out the venom, it commonly extorts some benefit from the vanquished enemy.
F 6.35 22 The direction of the whole and of the parts is toward benefit...
F 6.47 23 ...[man] is to take sides with the Deity who secures universal benefit by his pain.
Pow 6.70 7 ...[the people's] instincts are a finger-pointing of Providence, always turned toward real benefit.
Pow 6.81 4 ...we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach...
Wth 6.89 8 He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men...
Ctr 6.148 5 Akin to the benefit of foreign travel, the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and country life...
Ctr 6.166 19 [Man] will convert the Furies into Muses, and the hells into benefit.
CbW 6.256 19 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
Bty 6.303 24 Every natural feature...speaks of that central benefit which is the soul of nature...
Civ 7.31 2 What a benefit would the American government...render to itself...if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition!
DL 7.114 3 The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
DL 7.115 15 [Man] should be visited in this his prison...with no...mean offer of money as the utmost benefit...
Farm 7.150 18 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land, make it sweet and friable; have made English Chat Moss a garden, and will now do as much for the Dismal Swamp. But beyond this benefit they are the text of better opinions and better auguries for mankind.
Clbs 7.230 16 Nothing seems so cheap as the benefit of conversation; nothing is more rare.
Clbs 7.244 12 Every scholar is surrounded by wiser men than he--if they cannot write as well. Cannot they meet and exchange results to their mutual benefit and delight?
OA 7.327 6 Michel Angelo's head is full...of architectural dreams, until a hundred stone-masons can lay them in courses of travertine. There is the like tempest in every good head in which some great benefit for the world is planted.
OA 7.328 17 For a fourth benefit, age sets its house in order...
PI 8.67 22 We are a little civil, it must be owned...to Dante and Shakspeare, and give them the benefit of the largest interpretation.
SA 8.87 19 No nation is dressed with more good sense than ours. And everybody sees certain moral benefit in it.
SA 8.100 14 The old Confucius in China admitted the benefit [of riches], but stated the limitation...
SA 8.104 10 Amidst the calamities which war has brought on our country this one benefit has accrued,--that our eyes...look homeward.
Elo2 8.129 8 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament in favor of that clause of the bill which allowed the prisoner the benefit of counsel, fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
Grts 8.315 19 How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of whom...we have learned to correct our old estimates, and to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
Imtl 8.329 22 Schiller said, What is so universal as death, must be benefit.
Aris 10.48 14 ...society must have the benefit of the best leaders.
Chr2 10.91 16 ...it is for benefit, that all subsists.
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 10.93 3 ...love is delight in the preference of that benefit redounding to another over the securing of our own share;...
Chr2 10.93 6 ...humility is a sentiment of our insignificance when the benefit of the universe is considered.
Chr2 10.94 10 The [interest of the individual] craves a private benefit, which [the dictate of the universal mind] requires him to renounce out of respect to the absolute good.
Chr2 10.100 18 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born... which comes down into Nature as if only for the benefit of souls...
Edc1 10.139 12 [Boys] detect weakness in your eye and behavior a week before you open your mouth, and have given you the benefit of their opinion quick as a wink.
Edc1 10.159 11 Consent yourself to be an organ of your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you...are the fountain of an energy that goes pulsing on with waves of benefit to the borders of society...
SovE 10.201 25 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men, but... we hate to have them treated with contempt. There is so much that we do not know, that we give these suggestions the benefit of the doubt.
Prch 10.228 13 Mankind have been subdued to the acceptance of [Jesus's] doctrine, and cannot spare the benefit of so pure a servant of truth and love.
Prch 10.236 26 The Sabbath changes its forms from age to age, but the substantial benefit endures.
MMEm 10.432 4 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson] who have learned within three years to sit whole days in peace and enjoyment without the least apparent benefit to any...
Thor 10.459 3 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that the one benefit he owed to the College was its library...
GSt 10.507 5 ...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 11.43 14 ...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
EWI 11.129 17 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary walks on the magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out the benefit of the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide realm [the West Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other thoughts.
EWI 11.141 27 The emancipation [in the West Indies] is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun.
FSLC 11.182 14 One intellectual benefit we owe to the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law].
FSLC 11.188 25 ...whilst animals have to do with eating the fruits of the ground, men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth...
FSLC 11.199 21 The only benefit that has accrued from the [Fugitive Slave] law is its service to education.
FSLN 11.236 2 I conceive that thus to detach a man and make him feel that he is to owe all to himself is the way to make him strong and rich; and here the optimist must find, if anywhere, the benefit of Slavery.
FSLN 11.237 16 A man who commits a crime defeats the end of his existence. He was created for benefit, and he exists for harm;...
AKan 11.257 12 I know people who are making haste to reduce their expenses and pay their debts...in preparation to save and earn for the benefit of the Kansas emigrants.
ACiv 11.302 17 We want men...who can open their eyes...to considerations of benefit to the human race...
EPro 11.317 16 ...great as the popularity of the President [Lincoln] has been, we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
EPro 11.323 25 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of drawing a line and rallying the free states to fix it impassably...
EPro 11.325 16 We think we cannot overstate the wisdom and benefit of this act of the government [the Emancipation Proclamation].
EdAd 11.384 12 [The traveller] reflects on...what levers, what pumps, what exhaustive analyses are applied to Nature [in America] for the benefit of masses of men.
EdAd 11.387 7 ...the right patriotism consists in the delight which springs from contributing our peculiar and legitimate advantages to the benefit of humanity.
Wom 11.405 6 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.
SHC 11.431 6 A grove of trees,-what benefit or ornament is so fair and great?...
SHC 11.432 25 Certainly the living need [a garden] more than the dead; indeed...it is given to the dead for the reaction of benefit on the living.
FRO1 11.478 2 ...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious men...in whatever relation they stand to the Christian Church, to unite in a movement of benefit to men...
FRO2 11.486 8 ...we find parity, identity of design, through Nature, and benefit to be the uniform aim...
FRO2 11.489 8 It is the praise of our New Testament that its teachings go to the honor and benefit of humanity...
CPL 11.495 21 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture, as in the act we are met to witness and acknowledge to-day [opening of the Concord Library]. I think we cannot easily overestimate the benefit conferred.
CPL 11.496 2 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...
CPL 11.508 5 [Books'] costliest benefit is that they set us free from themselves;...
FRep 11.537 4 We want men...who can open their eyes...to considerations of benefit to the human race...
FRep 11.544 18 ...the height of reason, the noblest affection, the purest religion will...write our laws for the benefit of men.
PLT 12.30 22 When, moved by love, a man...joins with his neighbor in any act of common benefit...it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
PLT 12.30 26 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character. The benefit to others is contingent and not contemplated by the doer.
PLT 12.40 27 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is a truth held not from...any accidental benefit or recommendation it has in our trade or circumstance...is of inestimable value.
PLT 12.62 6 The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere, good and order, analogy, health and benefit...
II 12.73 1 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money. Perhaps that is a benefit...
II 12.87 14 ...perception that the tendency of the whole is to the benefit of the individual is the universal of faith.
II 12.88 17 Our books are full of generous biographies...of men and of women who lived for the benefit and healing of nature.
Mem 12.96 10 The mind disposes all its experience...to its ruling end;...one [man] to heroic benefit and one to wrath and animal desire.
CL 12.136 22 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction...that in every district were swamps, or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which...were capable of yielding immense benefit.
CL 12.156 2 ...beside their sanitary and gymnastic benefit, mountains are silent poets...
Milt1 12.259 6 [Milton's] endowments received the benefit of a careful and happy discipline.
ACri 12.304 18 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation.
PPr 12.382 13 ...let [a man] see whether he so holds his property that a benefit goes from it to all.
Let 12.394 7 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the writers...should be dissatisfied with the life they lead, and with their company. They have exhausted all its benefit...
SovE 10.188 20 We see the steady aim of Benefit in view from the first.
PPh 4.67 11 Judge whether it is not safer to be instructed by some one of those who have power over the benefit which they impart to men [said Socrates], than by me, who benefit or not, just as it may happen.
PPh 4.66 26 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...he pretends not to know the way of it. It is adverse to many, nor can those be benefited by associating with me whom the Daemon opposes;...
PPh 4.67 3 With many...[said Socrates, the Daemon] does not prevent me from conversing, who yet are not at all benefited by associating with me.
Res 8.137 15 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature;...
MR 1.234 22 ...we all involve ourselves in [the evil of property] the deeper by forming connections...by benefits and debts.
LT 1.277 17 Those who are urging with most ardor what are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men...
Tran 1.346 10 [A man] ought to be a shower of benefits...
Hist 2.39 13 [Each man] shall...bring with him into humble cottages...all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth.
SR 2.63 17 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to...pay for benefits not with money but with honor...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
Comp 2.113 18 He is great who confers the most benefits.
Comp 2.113 21 In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them...
Gts 3.162 1 The law of benefits is a difficult channel, which requires careful sailing, or rude boats.
UGM 4.16 3 Shakspeare's name suggests other and purely intellectual benefits.
PNR 4.80 3 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...we esteem one of the chief benefits the cheap press has yielded...
GoW 4.279 7 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo], who is the centre and fountain of an association for the rendering of the noblest benefits to the human race, no longer answers to his own titled name;...
ET18 5.304 5 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits;...
ET18 5.307 17 ...the American people do not yield...more inventions or books or benefits than the English.
Wth 6.89 4 Wealth requires...the benefits of science, music and fine arts...
Wth 6.97 22 The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing benefits...can be enjoyed by all.
Ctr 6.144 14 One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
Ctr 6.155 19 We can ill spare the commanding social benefits of cities;...
Ill 6.316 12 ...the mighty Mother...insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits...
SS 7.11 20 The benefits of affection are immense;...
DL 7.111 14 [Our houses] are arranged for low benefits.
Boks 7.190 23 We owe to books those general benefits which come from high intellectual action.
Clbs 7.250 13 When we look for the highest benefits of conversation, the Spartan rule of one to one is usually enforced.
OA 7.323 8 Under the general assertion of the well-being of age, we can easily count particular benefits of that condition.
PC 8.212 8 ...I say, Happy is the land wherein benefits like these have grown trite and commonplace.
PC 8.221 1 ...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science. The benefits thence derived to the arts and to civilization are signal and immense.
Insp 8.279 26 Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape and bodily exercise, on the mind.
Imtl 8.337 24 ...I have enjoyed the benefits of all this complex machinery of arts and civilization...
SovE 10.212 26 ...with what power [innocence] converts evil accidents into benefits;...
GSt 10.506 16 ...these public benefits were purchased [by George Stearns] at a severe cost.
War 11.154 8 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage. It would be very easy to show analogous benefits that have resulted from military movements of later ages.
Wom 11.405 5 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.
Scot 11.465 25 [Scott] saw...in the historical aristocracy the benefits to the state which Burke claimed for it;...
FRO1 11.480 5 Pure doctrine always bears fruit in pure benefits.
FRep 11.544 3 Such and so potent is this high method by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse ingenuity prevent the blessing.
AgMs 12.363 26 [Edmund Hosmer]...was incorrigible in his skepticism concerning the benefits conferred by legislatures on the agriculture of Massachusetts.
F 6.47 20 ...when a man...is ground to powder by the vice of his race;-he is to rally on his relation to the Universe, which his ruin benefits.
Insp 8.280 8 Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces;...
ET11 5.175 2 He that will be a head, let him be a bridge, said the Welsh chief Benegridran...
DSA 1.124 7 Benevolence is absolute and real.
DSA 1.124 8 So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
DSA 1.148 11 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude: a bold benevolence...
SR 2.81 13 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe for the purposes...of...benevolence...
SL 2.135 19 [Nature] does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds and wars.
SL 2.136 3 ...our benevolence is unhappy.
Lov1 2.169 5 Nature...anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.
Fdsp 2.191 15 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire;...
Chr1 3.99 22 ...if I go to see an ingenious man I shall think myself poorly entertained if he give me nimble pieces of benevolence and etiquette;...
Chr1 3.103 7 We have no pleasure in thinking of a benevolence that is only measured by its works.
Mrs1 3.123 3 ...the word [gentleman] denotes good-nature or benevolence;...
Mrs1 3.142 23 We may easily seem ridiculous in our eulogy of courtesy, whenever we insist on benevolence as its foundation.
Mrs1 3.145 6 The forms of politeness universally express benevolence in superlative degrees.
Ctr 6.159 19 [People] do not know the charm with which all moments and objects can be embellished, the charm of manners, of self-command, of benevolence.
Wsp 6.227 22 There was a wise, devout man who is called in the Catholic Church, St. Philip Neri, of whom many anecdotes touching his discernment and benevolence are told at Naples and Rome.
Dem1 10.16 15 [The young man] observes, with pain...that his genius, whose invisible benevolence was tower and shield to him, is no longer present and active.
LLNE 10.347 7 Owen made the best impression by his rare benevolence.
MMEm 10.419 18 ...so poor are some of those allotted to join me [Mary Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is benevolence enjoins self-denial.
War 11.175 24 ...not in an antiquated appanage where no onward step can be taken without rebellion, is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...
II 12.85 7 Is there only one courage, one gratitude, one benevolence?
MoS 4.173 6 It stands in [the wise skeptic's] mind that our life in this world is not of quite so easy interpretation as churches and school-books say. He does not wish to take ground against these benevolences...
Tran 1.354 23 In the eternal trinity of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the sign and head. Something of the same taste is observable in all the moral movements of the time, in the religious and benevolent enterprises.
Comp 2.122 18 ...the true, the benevolent, the wise, is more a man and not less, than the fool and knave.
Chr1 3.103 14 We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscription to soup-societies.
NER 3.279 10 The reason why any one refuses...his aid to your benevolent design, is in you...
SwM 4.141 25 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the phenomena of dreaming, which nightly turns many an honest gentleman, benevolent but dyspeptic, into a wretch...
HDC 11.53 13 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts, the final failure of this benevolent enterprise, can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...
JBS 11.279 15 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...living to ideal ends, without any mixture of self-indulgence or compromise, such as lowers the value of benevolent and thoughtful men we know;...
EPro 11.326 14 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race naturally benevolent, docile, industrious...
Ill 6.309 20 We shot Bengal lights into the vaults and groins of the sparry cathedrals [in the Mammoth Cave]...
AmS 1.110 21 ...the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in literature...as benign an aspect.
Tran 1.353 2 I wish to exchange...this fever-glow for a benign climate.
Pol1 3.208 9 The same benign necessity and the same practical abuse appear in the parties...of opponents and defenders of the administration of the government.
Ctr 6.147 25 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain... rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...
PPo 8.261 12 Is Allah's face on thee/ Bending with love benign,/ And thou not less on Allah's eye/ O fairest! turnest thine./
Plu 10.303 9 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which...has drawn attention to what an ancient might call the politeness of Fate,-we will say, more advisedly, the benign Providence...
Plu 10.316 4 This courteous, gentle and benign disposition and behavior is not so acceptable, so obliging or delightful to any of those with whom we converse, as it is to those who have it.
Art1 2.362 10 A calm benignant beauty shines over all this picture [Raphael, Transfiguration]...
Cour 7.261 11 Each [new soldier] whispers to himself:...only will the benignant Heaven save me from disgracing myself and my friends and my State.
PC 8.234 2 ...when I say the educated class, I know what a benignant breadth that word has...
HDC 11.76 9 The benignant Providence which has prolonged their [veterans of battle of Concord's] lives to this hour gratifies the strong curiosity of the new generation.
MAng1 12.240 20 [Michelangelo] enthrones his mistress as a benignant angel...
Comc 8.159 1 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence...enjoying the figure which each self-satisfied particular creature cuts in the unrespecting All, and dismissing it with a benison.
Lov1 2.172 1 The strong bent of nature is seen in the proportion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society.
ET17 5.297 19 Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know that in following the strong bent of his genius, he was careless of the many, careless also of the few...
Pt1 3.12 23 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his skill to rise like a fowl or a flying fish...
Pol1 3.206 1 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily confound the arithmetic of statists...
ET4 5.70 15 [The English] walk and ride as fast as they can, their head bent forward...
ET5 5.77 9 Each vagabond that arrived [in England] bent his neck to the yoke of gain...
ET17 5.293 25 The like frank hospitality, bent on real service, I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went [in England];...
F 6.3 2 ...our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age.
F 6.28 26 Alaric and Bonaparte must believe they rest on a truth, or their will can be bought or bent.
F 6.29 2 ...the pure sympathy with universal ends...cannot be bribed or bent.
Wth 6.115 4 With brow bent...the pale scholar leaves his desk to draw a freer breath...in the garden-walk.
Bhr 6.177 7 The whole economy of nature is bent on expression.
Bhr 6.184 20 ...to earnest persons...we cannot extol [dress circles] highly. A well-dressed talkative company where each is bent to amuse the other...
CbW 6.254 24 The sharpest evils are bent into that periodicity which makes the errors of planets...self-limiting.
Boks 7.210 3 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer. And ten, added the Marquis [of Blandford]. You might hear a pin drop. All eyes were bent on the bidders.
Suc 7.300 3 ...the sand floor is...bent to be a part of the round globe...
Dem1 10.14 26 The augur showed [Masollam] a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain; if he flew on, they might proceed; but if he flew back, they must return. The Jew said nothing, but bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground.
PerF 10.70 26 ...the strata were deposited and uptorn and bent back...to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
Supl 10.179 11 ...there is no question...that the warm sons of the Southeast have bent the neck under the yoke of the cold temperament and the exact understanding of the Northwestern races.
Prch 10.228 4 [Christianity] is the record of a pure and holy soul...bent on serving, teaching and uplifting men.
LLNE 10.346 12 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans, bent on hanging the Quaker...these were gentle souls...
ALin 11.328 21 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./
Milt1 12.261 4 ...[Milton]...bent [English] to express every trait of beauty, every shade of thought;...
Trag 12.414 18 As the west wind lifts up again the heads of the wheat which were bent down and lodged in the storm...so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.
Trag 12.414 22 As the west wind...combs out the matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.
MR 1.228 17 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something...
SR 2.79 14 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon activity and power...a Bentham...it imposes its classification on other men...
QO 8.197 17 Dumont was exalted by being used by Mirabeau, by Bentham and by Sir Philip Francis...
SL 2.154 23 No book, said Bentley, was ever written down by any but itself.
ET8 5.132 24 ...[young Englishmen]...translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins;...
ET14 5.238 4 ...[English] scholars...Taylor, Burton, Bentley, Brian Walton, acquired the solidity and method of engineers.
OA 7.331 9 Bentley thought himself likely to live till fourscore...
Grts 8.311 8 The world was created as an audience for [the scholar]; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities. Read the performance of Bentley, Gibbon...
EzRy 10.391 24 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment...which, under a better discipline, might have ripened into a Bentley or a Porson.
CInt 12.124 14 ...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges, which is as old as the rejection...of Bentley by the pedants of his time...
Clbs 7.243 26 Dr. Bentley's Club held Newton, Wren, Evelyn and Locke;...
ET12 5.207 25 When born with good constitutions, [English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;--Cokes, Mansfields, Seldens and Bentleys...
Pow 6.63 24 The senators who dissented from Mr. Polk's Mexican war were...those who from political position could afford it; not Webster, but Benton and Calhoun.
LT 1.264 23 ...that only is real which men love and rejoice in;...what they embrace and avow, and not the things which chill, benumb, and terrify them.
CbW 6.269 15 ...a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
Chr1 3.94 6 When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it...
F 6.6 28 The cold, inconsiderate of persons...benumbs your feet...
CL 12.162 8 Where is the Norway pine...where the epigaea...or laurus benzoin...
CPL 11.496 16 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the country, of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and hospitals...
ET8 5.134 25 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
ET13 5.226 19 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
EWI 11.98 4 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./ Sole estate his sire bequeathed/...
Wth 6.118 9 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich.
Aris 10.30 6 Than cometh our very gentillesse of grace,/ It was no thing bequethed us with our place./ Chaucer, The Knighte's Tale.
OA 7.321 24 Beranger said, Almost all the good workmen live long.
PI 8.37 12 ...we shall never understand political economy until Burns or Beranger or some poet shall teach it in songs...
PC 8.218 18 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim...is always allowed.
Nat 1.66 8 Empirical science is apt...by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole.
Con 1.324 11 ...[the hero] will say, All the meanness of my progenitors shall not bereave me of the power to make this hour and company fair and fortunate.
SR 2.72 14 What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.
ShP 4.199 2 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes;...and it will bereave his fine attitude and resistance of something of their impressiveness.
ET14 5.253 5 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;...
CbW 6.269 10 Inestimable is he to whom we can say what we cannot say to ourselves. Others...bereave us of the power of thought...
Insp 8.276 19 We are waiting until some tyrannous idea emerging out of heaven shall seize and bereave us of this liberty with which we are falling abroad.
TPar 11.292 12 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke; that the winds of Italy murmur the same truth over your grave; the winds of America over these bereaved streets;...
Trag 12.410 22 That which seems intolerable reproach or bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman appetite or sleep.
DSA 1.136 7 ...this moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the consolation, the hope...that come alone out of the culture of the moral nature, - should be heard...
MN 1.192 27 The weaver should not be bereaved of his superiority to his work...
Mem 12.102 23 ...when age and calamity have bereaved [those who have used their days well] of their limbs or organs, then they retreat on mental faculty...
CInt 12.111 5 ...Merlin's mighty line/ Extremes of nature reconciled-/ Bereaved a tyrant of his will,/ And made the lion mild./
EurB 12.370 18 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition to begin where their fathers ended;...
Trag 12.410 21 That which seems intolerable reproach or bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman appetite or sleep.
DSA 1.124 17 In so far as [a man] roves from these [good] ends, he bereaves himself of power...
DSA 1.146 3 ...the imitator...bereaves himself of his own beauty...
LT 1.284 15 [Ennui]...bereaves the day of its light.
SwM 4.133 10 There is an immense chain of intermediation [in Swedenborg's system of the world]...which bereaves every agency of all freedom and character.
Elo1 7.92 23 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It... perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.
PC 8.225 17 ...the moral element in man counterpoises this dismaying immensity and bereaves it of terror.
Imtl 8.335 23 ...the nebular theory threatens [the sun's and the star's] duration also, bereaves them of this glory [of stability]...
PPr 12.385 9 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy...
Let 12.398 3 There is...a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on young men of this country...which...bereaves them of animal spirits;...
Bhr 6.167 15 Little [man] says to [graceful women, chosen men]/, So dances his heart in his breast,/ Their tranquil mien bereaveth him/ Of wit, of words, of rest./
PLT 12.14 11 The analytic process is cold and bereaving...
Comp 2.119 18 A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason...
Nat 1.71 1 We are like Nebuchadnezzar...bereft of reason...
CL 12.146 6 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...
Bty 6.288 3 ...everybody knows people who appear beridden...
Nat 1.58 11 [Religion] does that for the unschooled, which philosophy does for Berkeley and Viasa.
Cir 2.309 26 The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus...
NER 3.273 1 I cannot help recalling the fine anecdote which Warton relates of Bishop Berkeley...
NER 3.273 6 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
NER 3.273 7 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say, begged to be heard in his turn...
ET14 5.238 18 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...Norris, Cudworth, Berkeley...
ET14 5.242 4 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of Berkeley, that we have no certain assurance of the existence of matter;...
Plu 10.307 16 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who does not hesitate to say, like another Berkeley, Matter is itself privation;...
ET9 5.150 18 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
FSLC 11.212 17 We will never intermeddle with your slavery,-but you can in no wise be suffered to bring it to Cape Cod and Berkshire.
AKan 11.256 15 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private tragedies show it? Do the private letters? Is it an exaggeration, that...Mr. Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of Berkshire, have been murdered?
CbW 6.268 3 [The young people] set forth on their travels in search of a home: they reach Berkshire; they reach Vermont;...
ET11 5.181 13 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown...Lansdowne House in Berkshire Square...
SwM 4.107 1 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy, which he held not idly, as the dreamers of Berlin or Boston...
GoW 4.283 3 ...the [German] professor can not divest himself of the fancy that the truths of philosophy have some application to Berlin and Munich.
ET5 5.96 26 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to be translated from foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most approved works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.
ET15 5.267 11 What would The [London] Times say? is a terror in Paris, in Berlin, in Vienna, in Copenhagen and in Nepaul.
PI 8.74 24 The intellect...uses London and Paris and Berlin...to its end.
Chr2 10.105 25 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No leaf thereof could attain the liberty of being printed (in Berlin) to-day.
NER 3.273 7 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
NMW 4.244 5 [Napoleon] could not confound Fox and Pitt, Carnot, Lafayette and Bernadotte, with the danglers of his court;...
NMW 4.253 25 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...meanly stealing the credit of their great actions from Kellermann, from Bernadotte;...
Con 1.314 25 The Friar Bernard lamented in his cell on Mount Cenis the crimes of mankind...
Con 1.316 2 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...
Bhr 6.185 15 In the shallow company, easily excited, easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard;...
Comp 2.123 12 I learn the wisdom of St. Bernard,--Nothing can work me damage except myself;...
Elo2 8.122 9 What must have been the discourse of St. Bernard, when mothers hid their sons...lest they should be led by his eloquence to join the monastery.
Prch 10.227 8 [The theologian] is to claim for his own whatever eloquence of St. Chrysostom or St. Jerome or St. Bernard he has felt.
Prch 10.234 23 That gray deacon or respectable matron with Calvinistic antecedents...could not have presented any obstacle to the march of St. Bernard...
Bost 12.193 27 In our own age we are learning to look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...
Suc 7.284 8 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
AmS 1.97 5 ...the fear of boys, and dogs, and ferules, the love of little maids and berries...are gone already;...
Con 1.315 1 ...[Friar Bernard] gnawed his roots and berries...
CL 12.159 5 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and...know the lakes, the hills, where grapes, berries and nuts, where the rare plants are;...these we call professors.
EurB 12.371 24 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields, loaded...with nuts and berries...
Exp 3.49 26 We may have the sphere for our cricket-ball, but not a berry for our philosophy.
MoS 4.182 3 It is vain to complain of the leaf or the berry;...
ET18 5.303 13 In the island [England]...there is no Berserker rage....
AmS 1.100 1 ...out of terrible Druids and Berserkers come at last Alfred and Shakspeare.
ET2 5.26 8 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847.
ET2 5.29 5 ...I waked every morning [at sea] with the belief that some one was tipping up my berth.
NMW 4.250 24 [Bonaparte] delighted in the conversation of men of science, particularly of Monge and Berthollet;...
Comc 8.174 5 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive melancholy...
Comc 8.174 11 The physician endeavored to cheer [his melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
Comc 8.174 12 The physician endeavored to cheer [his melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
Bty 6.279 8 [Seyd] smote the lake to feed his eye/ With the beryl beam of the broken wave./
SwM 4.135 18 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;...
SlHr 10.446 5 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals, big beryls weighing tons...not less perfect in their angles and structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.
UGM 4.12 6 Shall we say that...the laboratory of the atmosphere holds in solution I know not what Berzeliuses and Davys?
ET13 5.227 21 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop];...
Bhr 6.196 21 ...if you have headache...or thunderstroke, I beseech you...to hold your peace...
Schr 10.270 24 Genius is a poor man and has no house, but see, this proud landlord who has built the palace...beseeches him to make it honorable by entering there and eating bread.
DL 7.103 7 ...[the nestler's] tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother...
SlHr 10.437 11 ...[Samuel Hoar] dared to do all that might beseem a man...
SwM 4.97 1 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with their structure and law. This path is difficult, secret and beset with terror.
Bhr 6.167 8 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/ He need not go to them, their forms/ Beset his solitude./
Thor 10.454 1 [Thoreau] could easily solve the problems of the surveyor, but he was daily beset with graver questions, which he manfully confronted.
FRep 11.539 14 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.
PLT 12.8 25 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society...
War 11.156 13 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity] into a circle of cultivated men, where the conversation broaches the great questions that besiege the human reason, and he would be dumb and unhappy...
CInt 12.114 15 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...
Wsp 6.233 5 It is related of William of Orange, that whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman sent to him on public business came to his camp...
Dem1 10.24 11 Read demonology or Colquhoun's Report, and we are bewildered and perhaps a little besmirched.
LE 1.186 10 Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every object in nature...to show the besotted world how passing fair is wisdom.
Mrs1 3.154 2 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
HDC 11.52 21 Tahattawan and his son-in-law Waban, besought [John] Eliot to come and preach to them at Concord...
Wsp 6.228 12 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
ET8 5.131 12 [Englishmen's] looks bespeak an invincible stoutness...
ET14 5.259 12 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak indulgence to ornaments of fancy unsuited to our taste...
SMC 11.375 9 I am sure I need not bespeak your gratitude to these fellow citizens and neighbors of ours [veterans of the Civil War].
Milt1 12.257 12 Wood, [Milton's] political opponent, relates that his deportment was affable, his gait erect and manly, bespeaking courage and undauntedness.
EPro 11.317 11 ...so fair a mind...so reticent...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
Nat 1.8 6 The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of [the wise spirit's] best hour...
Nat 1.8 21 [The landscape] is the best part of these men's farms...
Nat 1.15 10 The eye is the best of artists.
Nat 1.15 18 ...as the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters.
Nat 1.50 7 The best moments of life are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers...
Nat 1.54 9 A solemn air, and the best comforter/ To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains/...
AmS 1.87 15 Books are the best type of the influence of the past...
AmS 1.89 24 Books are the best of things, well used;...
AmS 1.91 24 It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.
DSA 1.131 25 That is always best which gives me to myself.
DSA 1.143 10 What was once a mere circumstance, that the best and the worst men in the parish...should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
LE 1.171 3 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy.
MN 1.209 5 A man's wisdom is to know...that the best end must be superseded by a better.
MN 1.210 26 What is best in any work of art but that part which the work itself seems to require and do;...
MN 1.214 8 Nature represents the best meaning of the wisest man.
MN 1.218 26 When thought is best, there is most of it.
MN 1.222 18 The only way into nature is to enact our best insight.
MR 1.250 18 ...we cannot make a planet...by means of the best carpenters'... tools...
MR 1.256 16 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to leave...their best means and skill of procuring a present success...
LT 1.273 4 Milton, in his best tract, describes a relation between religion and the daily occupations...
LT 1.276 18 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was the true and best distinction of this time...
LT 1.282 13 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all cultivated persons, a certain imbecility in the best spirits...
LT 1.283 10 The inadequacy of the work to the faculties is the painful perception which keeps [men] still. This happens to the best.
LT 1.287 11 Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society which to great mechanical invention and the best institutions of property adds the most daring theories;...
Con 1.298 3 The project of innovation is the best possible state of things.
Con 1.301 8 If we read the world historically, we shall say, Of all the ages... this is the best throw of the dice of nature that has yet been, or that is yet possible.
Con 1.302 6 That which is best about conservatism...is the Inevitable.
Con 1.310 8 [Existing institutions] are not the best;...
Con 1.312 8 ...every whim is anticipated and served by the best ability of the whole population of each country.
Con 1.313 13 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a...progressive necessity, which...up to the present high culture of the best nations, has advanced thus far.
Con 1.317 11 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism! your horses are of the best blood;...
Tran 1.334 16 Society is...best when it is likest to solitude.
YA 1.368 21 The cities drain the country of the best part of its population...
YA 1.369 1 In Europe...the land is full of men of the best stock and the best culture...
YA 1.372 27 The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals...
YA 1.373 2 The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but...the best that could yet live;...
YA 1.394 9 ...in England...no man of letters, be his eminence what it may, is received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.
SR 2.59 5 The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
SR 2.78 7 Caratach...when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies,--His hidden meaning lies in our endeavours;/ Our valors are our best gods./
Comp 2.99 13 ...the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him...the best of his manly attributes.
Comp 2.108 9 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it;...
Comp 2.112 15 Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along...
Comp 2.114 5 It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener...
Comp 2.118 24 Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions...
SL 2.133 24 Timoleon's victories are the best victories...
SL 2.165 2 ...let me do my work so well that other idlers if they choose may compare my texture with the texture of [Brant, Schuyler, Washington] and find it identical with the best.
Lov1 2.175 19 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when no place is too solitary...for him who has richer company and sweeter conversation in his new thoughts than any old friends, though the best and purest, can give him;...
Fdsp 2.193 7 ...as soon as the stranger begins to intrude...his defects, into the conversation, it is all over. He has heard the first, the last and best he will ever hear from us.
Fdsp 2.200 17 [A delicate organization] would be lost if it knew itself before any of the best souls were yet ripe enough to know and own it.
Fdsp 2.205 23 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter... by...dinners at the best taverns.
Fdsp 2.207 2 Do not mix waters too much. The best mix as ill as good and bad.
Prd1 2.235 21 ...the best good of wealth is freedom.
Hsm1 2.257 21 ...here we are; and, if we will tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best.
OS 2.277 27 ...the best minds, who love truth for its own sake, think much less of property in truth.
OS 2.289 9 [The poet's] best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.
OS 2.293 18 If you do not find [your friend], will you not acquiesce that it is best you should not find him?...
Cir 2.313 14 Christianity is rightly dear to the best of mankind;...
Int 2.328 13 Our spontaneous action is always the best.
Int 2.328 14 You cannot with your best deliberation and heed come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you...
Int 2.331 19 ...a man explores the basis of civil government. Let him intend his mind without respite, without rest, in one direction. His best heed long time avails him nothing.
Int 2.338 22 ...there are many competent judges of the best book...
Int 2.338 23 ...there are many competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.
Int 2.340 12 Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation is the integrity of the intellect transmitted to its works, but by a vigilance which brings the intellect in its greatness and best state to operate every moment.
Int 2.340 15 ...no diligence can rebuild the universe in a model by the best accumulation or disposition of details...
Art1 2.355 20 I should think fire the best thing in the world, if I were not acquainted with air, and water, and earth.
Art1 2.356 16 The best pictures can easily tell us their last secret.
Art1 2.356 17 The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the everchanging landscape with figures amidst which we dwell.
Art1 2.358 20 ...the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
Art1 2.358 23 The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces... can ever teach...
Art1 2.362 25 Our best praise is given to what [the arts] aimed and promised...
Art1 2.363 1 He has conceived meanly of the resources of man, who believes that the best age of production is past.
Pt1 3.32 23 That also is the best success in conversation, the magic of liberty...
Exp 3.57 12 We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can...
Exp 3.62 2 I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe and is disappointed when anything is less than the best...
Exp 3.64 4 The mid-world is best.
Chr1 3.99 2 The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.
Chr1 3.99 3 The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.
Chr1 3.100 16 ...[the uncivil, unavailable man]...destroys the scepticism which says, Man is a doll, let us eat and drink, 't is the best we can do...
Chr1 3.105 17 This masterpiece [character] is best where no hands but nature's have been laid on it.
Chr1 3.109 25 I should think myself very unhappy in my associates if I could not credit the best things in history.
Chr1 3.111 23 Those relations to the best men...become, in the progress of the character, the most solid enjoyment.
Mrs1 3.120 17 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society, running through all the countries of intelligent men, a...fraternity of the best...
Mrs1 3.126 2 Diogenes, Socrates, and Epaminondas, are gentlemen of the best blood...
Mrs1 3.133 4 [A man] should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams...
Mrs1 3.143 8 ...so long as [fashion] is the highest circle in the imagination of the best heads on the planet, there is something necessary and excellent in it;...
Mrs1 3.143 26 There is not only the right of conquest, which genius pretends,--the individual demonstrating his natural aristocracy best of the best;--but less claims will pass for the time;...
Nat2 3.178 2 Nature is loved by what is best in us.
Pol1 3.209 26 Of the two great parties which at this hour almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men.
Pol1 3.213 19 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance; as...by a selection of the best citizens;...
Pol1 3.218 24 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could enter into strict relations with the best persons...could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
NR 3.244 18 ...let us...infer the genius of nature from the best particulars with a becoming charity.
NR 3.244 19 What is best in each kind is an index of what should be the average of that thing.
NR 3.244 28 ...I would have...no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.
NER 3.256 25 Am I not defrauded of my best culture in the loss of those gymnastics which manual labor and the emergencies of poverty constitute?
NER 3.259 17 ...is not this absurd, that the whole liberal talent of this country should be directed in its best years on studies which lead to nothing?
NER 3.261 22 It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and to conduct that in the best manner, than to make a sally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.
NER 3.264 26 ...a grand phalanx of the best of the human race, banded for some catholic object; yes, excellent;...
NER 3.276 27 ...every man at heart wishes the best and not inferior society...
UGM 4.6 20 ...every one can do his best thing easiest.
UGM 4.14 11 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden, who was...of parts not to be imposed on by the most subtle and sharp, and of a personal courage equal to his best parts;--of Falkland...
UGM 4.19 23 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...then a buffalo-hunting explorer, or a semi-savage Western general. Thus we make a stand against our rougher masters; but against the best there is a finer remedy.
UGM 4.28 1 The best discovery the discoverer makes for himself.
UGM 4.31 9 Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.
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 4.61 5 [Plato] is a great average man; one who, to the best thinking, adds a proportion and equality in his faculties...
PPh 4.62 27 The sciences, even the best...are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.
PPh 4.70 25 Socrates again, in his traits and genius, is the best example of that synthesis which constitutes Plato's extraordinary power.
PPh 4.79 5 ...it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.
PNR 4.83 25 The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was profitable;...
PNR 4.84 12 Plato affirms...that the order or proceeding of nature was from the mind to the body, and, though a sound body cannot restore an unsound mind, yet a good soul can, by its virtue, render the body the best possible.
SwM 4.107 7 This theory [Identity-philosophy] dates from the oldest philosophers, and derives perhaps its best illustration from the newest.
SwM 4.141 1 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who... could hint to human ears the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul. But it is certain that it must tally with what is best in nature.
SwM 4.143 7 It is the best sign of a great nature that it opens a foreground...
MoS 4.158 8 ...shall the young man aim at a leading part in law, in politics, in trade? It will not be pretended that a success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best and inmost in his mind.
MoS 4.161 6 The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of the best game and the chief players;...
MoS 4.161 7 The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of...what is best in the planet;...
MoS 4.165 21 ...[says Montaigne,] I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice;...
MoS 4.176 10 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say...look you,--on the whole, selfishness...makes the best commerce and the best citizen.
MoS 4.176 11 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say...look you,--on the whole, selfishness...makes the best commerce and the best citizen.
ShP 4.192 11 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field;...
ShP 4.203 25 Since the constellation of great men who appeared in Greece in the time of Pericles, there was never any such society [as that in Elizabethan England];--yet their genius failed them to find out the best head in the universe.
ShP 4.205 9 It appears...that [Shakespeare] lived in the best house in Stratford;...
ShP 4.210 19 Had [Shakespeare] been less, we should have had to consider...how good a dramatist he was,--and he is the best in the world.
ShP 4.218 23 ...it must even go into the world's history that the best poet [Shakespeare] led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
NMW 4.227 14 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] adopts the best measures...
NMW 4.235 22 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences...certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
NMW 4.237 11 [Napoleon's] idea of the best defence consists in being still the attacking party.
NMW 4.241 8 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz...
GoW 4.274 21 [Goethe] has said the best things about nature that ever were said.
GoW 4.279 26 The argument [in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is the passage of a democrat to the aristocracy, using both words in their best sense.
ET1 5.4 22 The conditions of literary success are almost destructive of the best social power...
ET1 5.4 25 The conditions of literary success...do not leave that frolic liberty which only can encounter a companion on the best terms.
ET1 5.8 20 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon--much as our pomologists, in their lists, select the three or the six best pears for a small orchard;...
ET1 5.15 9 Carlyle was...as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London.
ET1 5.16 18 The best thing [Carlyle] knew of that country [America] was that in it a man can have meat for his labor.
ET1 5.19 1 ...[Carlyle] named certain individuals, especially one man of letters, his friend, the best mind he knew, whom London had well served.
ET2 5.31 15 'T is a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
ET2 5.32 5 ...under the best conditions, a voyage [at sea] is one of the severest tests to try a man.
ET3 5.34 16 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use...
ET3 5.35 17 A wise traveller will naturally choose to visit the best of actual nations;...
ET3 5.37 8 ...if we will visit London, the present time is the best time, as some signs portend that it has reached its highest point.
ET3 5.40 8 England resembles a ship in its shape, and if it were one, its best admiral could not have worked it or anchored it in a more judicious or effective position.
ET3 5.41 23 ...these Britons have precisely the best commercial position in the whole planet...
ET3 5.43 5 ...I [Nature] have work that requires the best will and sinew.
ET3 5.43 21 For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior intellectual light.
ET4 5.50 16 The best nations are those most widely related;...
ET4 5.54 1 We say, in a regatta or yacht-race, that if the boats are anywhere nearly matched, it is the man that wins. Put the best sailing-master into either boat, and he will win.
ET4 5.55 17 ...[The Celts] made the best popular literature of the Middle Ages...
ET4 5.59 5 The sight of a tent-cord or a cloak-string puts [Norsemen] on hanging somebody...best of all, a king.
ET4 5.61 14 The continued draught of the best men in Norway, Sweden and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries...
ET4 5.66 8 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...
ET4 5.71 12 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed...
ET5 5.74 14 The island [England] was a prize for the best race.
ET5 5.83 23 [The English] are...the best iron-masters, colliers, wool-combers and tanners in Europe.
ET5 5.87 7 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him...
ET5 5.93 4 In every path of practical activity [the English] have gone even with the best.
ET5 5.95 16 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.
ET5 5.96 21 The Board of Trade [of England] caused the best models of Greece and Italy to be placed within the reach of every manufacturing population.
ET5 5.100 12 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic; the people in the street best understand the best words.
ET6 5.114 17 English stories, bon-mots and the recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the French.
ET7 5.118 18 The Duke of Wellington, who had the best right to say so, advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer.
ET7 5.124 9 The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
ET7 5.124 15 ...[Englishmen] affirm the one small fact they know, with the best faith in the world that nothing else exists.
ET8 5.133 1 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the terror they cause. These travellers are of every class, the best and the worst;...
ET8 5.134 8 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...
ET8 5.134 9 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...best for depth, range and equability;...
ET9 5.152 14 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...the pride of the best blood of the modern world.
ET10 5.165 20 In the social world an Englishman to-day has the best lot.
ET10 5.165 22 [The Englishman]...keeps the best company...
ET10 5.165 23 [The Englishman]...is armed by the best education...
ET10 5.167 19 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...or when commons are enclosed by landlords. Then society is admonished...that the best political economy is care and culture of men;...
ET11 5.185 21 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men... who have...kept in every country the best company...
ET11 5.185 27 ...when it happens that the spirit of the earl meets his rank and duties, we have the best examples of behavior.
ET11 5.186 8 ...if [English nobility] never hear plain truth from men, they see the best of everything...
ET11 5.197 18 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds of passage in this House of Commons, and then added...they have their best bower anchor in the House of Lords.
ET12 5.211 18 English wealth falling on their school and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best authors...
ET12 5.212 7 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a book, can consult it, than by one who is on the quest, for years, and reads inferior books because he cannot find the best.
ET12 5.213 15 ...the best poetry of England of this age, in the old forms, comes from two graduates at Cambridge.
ET14 5.239 15 Bacon, in the structure of his mind, held...of the idealists, or (as we popularly say, naming from the best example) Platonists.
ET14 5.249 15 But for Coleridge...one would say that in Germany and in America is the best mind in England rightly respected.
ET14 5.252 3 ...[the English] are the most conditioned men, as if, having the best conditions, they could not bring themselves to forfeit them.
ET14 5.258 3 The best office of the best poets has been to show how low and uninspired was their general style...
ET14 5.258 4 The best office of the best poets has been to show how low and uninspired was their general style...
ET15 5.271 8 Many of [Punch's] caricatures are equal to the best pamphlets...
ET16 5.281 19 Of all the writers [on Stonehenge], Stukeley is the best.
ET17 5.291 18 ...what is nowhere better found than in England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the best.
ET17 5.293 10 ...my recollections of the best hours go back to private conversations in different parts of the kingdom [England]...
ET17 5.295 14 [Wordsworth] thought Rio Janeiro the best place in the world for a great capital city.
ET18 5.299 1 England is the best of actual nations.
ET19 5.312 17 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that [Englishmen's] best parts were slowly revealed;...
F 6.16 2 The population of the world is...not the best, but the best that could live now;...
F 6.24 17 'T is the best use of Fate to teach a fatal courage.
F 6.25 18 ...the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye...sees that what is must be and ought to be, or is the best.
F 6.44 21 ...women, as the most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
F 6.46 23 ...year after year, we find two men, two women, without legal or carnal tie, spend a great part of their best time within a few feet of each other.
Pow 6.54 15 The most valiant men are the best believers in the tension of the laws.
Pow 6.58 24 Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the best places.
Pow 6.58 25 Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the best places.
Pow 6.59 9 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
Pow 6.61 19 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
Pow 6.67 7 ...[Boniface] made good friends of the selectmen, served them with his best chop when they supped at his house...
Pow 6.69 23 Strong race or strong individual rests at last on natural forces, which are best in the savage...
Pow 6.70 13 The best anecdotes of this [aboriginal] force are to be had from savage life...
Pow 6.73 16 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the case admits.
Pow 6.76 9 ...in our flowing affairs a decision must be made,--the best, if you can, but any is better than none.
Pow 6.78 1 John Kemble said that the worst provincial company of actors would go through a play better than the best amateur company.
Pow 6.78 3 Basil Hall likes to show that the worst regular troops will beat the best volunteers.
Wth 6.89 5 Wealth requires...the best culture and the best company.
Wth 6.93 3 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth...
Wth 6.99 23 An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing...
Wth 6.108 5 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...however unwilling you may be, the canteloupes, crook-necks and cucumbers will send for him. Who but must wish that all labor and value should stand on the same simple and surly market? If it is the best of its kind, it will.
Wth 6.108 11 If, in Boston, the best securities offer twelve per cent. for money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.
Wth 6.118 15 A system must be in every economy, or the best single expedients are of no avail.
Wth 6.121 11 Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing...
Wth 6.122 9 Every pedestrian in our pastures has frequent occasion to thank the cows for cutting the best path through the thicket and over the hills;...
Wth 6.125 15 ...Best use of money is to pay debts;...
Wth 6.125 17 ...Best time is present time;...
Ctr 6.136 27 Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale...
Ctr 6.138 4 ...here is a pedant that cannot...conceal his wrath at interruption by the best, if their conversation do not fit his impertinency...
Ctr 6.141 22 The best heads that ever existed...were well-read, universally educated men...
Ctr 6.142 17 ...[your boy] finds his best leading in a by-way of his own...
Ctr 6.147 22 ...as a medical remedy, travel seems one of the best.
Ctr 6.150 7 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...
Ctr 6.150 14 I wish cities could teach their best lesson,--of quiet manners.
Ctr 6.153 6 ...we want cities as the centres where the best things are found...
Ctr 6.155 21 We can ill spare the commanding social benefits of cities; they...will yield their best values to him who best can do without them.
Ctr 6.164 22 ...these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.
Bhr 6.169 18 There is always a best way of doing everything...
Bhr 6.184 25 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied...that all the talkers were brained and exhausted by the deoxygenated air; it spoiled the best persons;...
Bhr 6.195 7 Here is a lesson...which ranks with the best of Roman anecdotes.
Wsp 6.210 13 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...
Wsp 6.210 16 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce...that after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.
Wsp 6.224 16 ...gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police...
Wsp 6.239 7 'T is a higher thing to confide that if it is best we should live, we shall live...
CbW 6.246 5 We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
CbW 6.258 21 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/...
CbW 6.258 25 ...great educators and lawgivers...esteem men of irregular and passional force the best timber.
CbW 6.264 6 ...the best part of health is fine disposition.
CbW 6.269 5 ...the best fruit [travel] finds, when it finds it, is conversation.
CbW 6.270 1 ...the steady wrongheadedness of one perverse person irritates the best;...
CbW 6.272 4 Ask what is best in our experience, and we shall say, a few pieces of plain dealing with wise people.
CbW 6.273 23 ...who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all,--friends?
Bty 6.287 25 ...every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.
Ill 6.310 9 ...the best thing which the [Mammoth] cave had to offer was an illusion.
Ill 6.314 17 ...I remember the quarrel of another youth with the confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the best comfits in the shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he could find only three flavors, or two.
Ill 6.317 21 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty...
Ill 6.321 10 ...says the good Heaven;...weave a shoestring; great affairs and the best wine by and by.
SS 7.6 26 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated, but separate, house and house; these dwell in the midst of heaven, because they are the best of angels.
SS 7.12 8 ...if we recall the rare hours when we encountered the best persons, we then found ourselves...
SS 7.14 12 Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs. The best are accused of exclusiveness.
Civ 7.17 2 We flee away from cities, but we bring/ The best of cities with us/...
Civ 7.30 13 It was a great instruction, said a saint in Cromwell's war, that the best courages are but beams of the Almighty.
Art2 7.46 25 It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist...is as much surprised at the effect as we are, that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the author.
Art2 7.47 23 Nature paints the best part of the picture...
Art2 7.47 24 Nature...carves the best part of the statue...
Art2 7.47 24 Nature...builds the best part of the house...
Art2 7.47 25 Nature...speaks the best part of the oration.
Elo1 7.68 10 ...we must be fed and warmed before we can do any work well,--even the best...
Elo1 7.73 4 ...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 7.95 10 Some of [the eloquent men] were writers, like Burke; but most of them were not, and no record at all adequate to their fame remains. Besides, what is best is lost,--the fiery life of the moment.
Elo1 7.96 27 ...the best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
Elo1 7.99 10 [Eloquence] is the best speech of the best soul.
Elo1 7.99 11 [Eloquence] is the best speech of the best soul.
DL 7.106 11 [The child's] imaginative life dresses all things in their best.
DL 7.110 24 I am afraid that, so considered, our houses will not be found... to express the best thought.
DL 7.113 6 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?--to go from chamber to chamber and see no beauty;...
DL 7.115 24 Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best plain-set...
DL 7.127 24 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest... a household equal to the beauty and grandeur of this world, especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
DL 7.129 13 In the progress of each man's character, his relations to the best men...acquire a graver importance;...
Farm 7.150 7 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found there is a Concord under old Concord, which we are now getting the best crops from;...
Farm 7.151 4 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that...the plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing, because the first comers take up the best lands; the next, the second best;...
Farm 7.152 12 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands, where the wash of mountains has accumulated the best soil...
Farm 7.152 13 The last lands are the best lands.
Farm 7.152 15 It needs science and great numbers to cultivate the best lands, and in the best manner.
WD 7.158 3 ...such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them;...
WD 7.173 17 Who is he that does not always find himself doing something less than his best task?
WD 7.175 19 Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
WD 7.179 11 ...we do not listen with the best regard to the verses of a man who is only a poet...
Boks 7.189 2 ...the best [books] are but records...
Boks 7.190 16 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
Boks 7.193 23 ...I can seldom go there [to the Cambridge Library] without renewing the conviction that the best of it all is already within the four walls of my study at home.
Boks 7.194 5 The best rule of reading will be a method from Nature...
Boks 7.196 10 ...good travellers stop at the best hotels;...
Boks 7.196 12 ...good travellers stop at the best hotels; for...there is the good company and the best information.
Boks 7.196 14 ...the scholar knows that the famed books contain, first and last, the best thoughts and facts.
Boks 7.196 17 ...in the best circles is the best information.
Boks 7.197 16 It holds through all literature that our best history is still poetry.
Boks 7.197 24 Of Homer, George Chapman's is the heroic translation, though the most literal prose version is the best of all.
Boks 7.199 9 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...
Boks 7.199 10 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners, by the first master, in the best times;...
Boks 7.199 25 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first because he is so readable, which is much; then that he is medicinal and invigorating. The lives of...Phocion, Marcellus and the rest, are what history has of best.
Boks 7.201 13 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...but the shortest is the best...
Boks 7.204 2 What is really best in any book is translatable...
Boks 7.208 6 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies;...
Boks 7.208 16 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan; Luther's Table-Talk;...
Boks 7.218 10 ...I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean the Bibles...
Clbs 7.225 17 ...of all the cordials known to us, the best, safest and most exhilarating...is society;...
Clbs 7.228 13 What are the best days in memory?
Clbs 7.228 23 We remember the time when the best gift we could ask of fortune was to fall in with a valuable companion in a ship's cabin...
Clbs 7.233 21 ...[Holmes (?)] tells the best story in the county...
Clbs 7.235 18 He that can define, he that can answer a question so as to admit of no further answer, is the best man.
Clbs 7.237 6 One of the best records of the great German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
Clbs 7.237 10 ...the Table-Talk of Coleridge is one of the best remains of his genius.
Clbs 7.238 16 Best is he who gives an answer that cannot be answered again.
Clbs 7.241 19 ...the best conversation is rare.
Clbs 7.241 25 It is possible that the best conversation is between two persons who can talk only to each other.
Clbs 7.246 24 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;... they have seen the best and the worst of men.
Cour 7.254 9 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in his closet, can lay out the plans of a campaign...such that the best generals and admirals, when all is done, see that they must thank him for success;...
Cour 7.258 26 The political reigns of terror have been...a total perversion of opinion; society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.
Cour 7.271 3 'T is the quiet, peaceable men, the men of principle, that make the best soldiers.
Cour 7.272 15 The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions...
Cour 7.272 18 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was its first act;...
Cour 7.273 23 The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some passages in the defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a great instruction that the best and highest courages are beams of the Almighty.
Cour 7.277 5 ...the best use of fate is to teach us courage...
Suc 7.287 13 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/...
Suc 7.291 2 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself: Meanwhile the Cardinal Ippolito, in whom all my best hopes were placed, being dead, I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
Suc 7.291 7 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
Suc 7.295 18 ...in the scale of powers it is not talent but sensibility which is best...
OA 7.313 20 ...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me with a shining cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by old,/ Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the best./
OA 7.329 2 The best things are of secular growth.
OA 7.330 13 The day comes...best of all, when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind by its twin...
OA 7.331 19 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in...leaving all in the best posture for the future.
PI 8.6 23 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against...
PI 8.13 23 ...a good symbol is the best argument...
PI 8.15 4 I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind...
PI 8.19 15 Our best definition of poetry is one of the oldest sentences...
PI 8.20 13 A symbol always stimulates the intellect; therefore is poetry ever the best reading.
PI 8.22 25 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds...
PI 8.31 8 ...skates allow the good skater far more grace than his best walking would show...
PI 8.33 4 Homer has his own [important passages],--One omen is best, to fight for one's country;/...
PI 8.33 17 There is no choice of words for him who clearly sees the truth. That provides him with the best word.
PI 8.40 23 [The poet] has seen something which all the mathematics and the best industry could never bring him unto.
PI 8.45 4 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
PI 8.52 8 The best thoughts run into the best words;...
PI 8.52 9 The best thoughts run into the best words;...
PI 8.56 13 Gray avows that he thinks even a bad verse as good a thing or better than the best observation that was ever made on it.
PI 8.62 27 Now then go in the name of God [said Merlin], who will protect and save the King Arthur, and the realm of Logres, and you also, as the best knights who are in the world.
PI 8.68 2 We must...ask...whether we shall find our tragedy written in [Hamlet's]...and the way opened to the paradise which ever in the best hour beckons us?
SA 8.79 5 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners. I do not think it is to be resented. Rather, if we are wise, we shall listen and mend. Our critics will then be our best friends...
SA 8.82 5 Nature is the best posture-master.
SA 8.82 24 ...if the elegant are also intellectual, instantly the hesitating scholar...exhibits the best style of manners.
SA 8.86 21 The attitude is the main point, assuring your companion that... you remain in good heart and good mind, which is the best news you can possibly communicate.
SA 8.90 24 ...the best society has often been spoiled to [the highly organized person] by the intrusion of bad companions.
SA 8.93 2 If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in the speech of superior women...
SA 8.101 2 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class...
SA 8.103 9 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...
SA 8.104 6 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people,--as... the French, the English, at their best times have been,--they are sublime;...
Elo2 8.116 8 [The people] have sent their best men;...
Elo2 8.121 17 ...some orators go to the assembly as to a closet where to find their best thoughts.
Elo2 8.122 13 It is said that one of the best readers in his time was the late President John Quincy Adams.
Elo2 8.125 21 ...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience. It is the merit of John Brown and of Abraham Lincoln--one at Charlestown, one at Gettysburg--in the two best specimens of eloquence we have had in this country.
Elo2 8.130 25 If the cause be unfashionable, [the eloquent man] will make it fashionable. 'T is the best man in the best training.
Elo2 8.132 23 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and persuasion...reaching...into a vast future, and so compelling the best thought and noblest administrative ability that the citizen can offer.
Res 8.147 26 ...we have noted examples among our orators, who have... handled and controlled, and, best of all, converted a malignant mob, by superior manhood...
Comc 8.159 24 ...the best of all jokes is the sympathetic contemplation of things by the understanding from the philosopher's point of view.
Comc 8.171 13 No fashion is the best fashion for those matters which will take care of themselves.
QO 8.180 2 In this delay and vacancy of thought we must make the best amends we can...
QO 8.194 25 ...Milton's prose, and Burke even, have their best fame within [this century].
QO 8.197 6 Our best thought came from others.
PC 8.232 10 In the Rebellion, who were our best allies? Always the enemy.
PPo 8.237 2 To Baron von Hammer Purgstall...we owe our best knowledge of the Persians.
PPo 8.252 13 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...Jonson's epitaph on his son,- Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry;...
Insp 8.270 26 In the best races [thought] is rare and imperfect.
Insp 8.274 16 What metaphysician has undertaken to enumerate...the rules for the recovery of inspiration? That is least within control which is best in them.
Insp 8.282 10 One of the best facts I know in metaphysical science is Niebuhr's joyful record that after his genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him.
Insp 8.292 6 [Another source of inspiration is] Conversation, which, when it is best, is a series of intoxications.
Insp 8.292 23 Some perceptions-I think the best-are granted to the single soul;...
Insp 8.294 15 What is best in literature is the affirming, prophesying, spermatic words of men-making poets.
Grts 8.301 13 [Greatness] is the best tonic to the young soul.
Grts 8.302 2 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best.
Grts 8.306 5 ...Sir Humphry Davy said...my best discovery was Michael Faraday.
Imtl 8.328 24 ...spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it...
Imtl 8.329 18 I think all sound minds rest on a certain preliminary conviction, namely, that if it be best that conscious personal life shall continue, it will continue; if not best, then it will not;...
Imtl 8.329 19 I think all sound minds rest on a certain preliminary conviction, namely, that if it be best that conscious personal life shall continue, it will continue; if not best, then it will not;...
Imtl 8.346 6 ...Wordsworth's Ode is the best modern essay on the subject [of immortality].
Dem1 10.13 24 When Hector is told that the omens are unpropitious, he replies,-One omen is the best, to fight for one's country./
Dem1 10.13 25 Euripides said, He is not the best prophet who guesses well...
Aris 10.31 14 ...the cogent motive with the best young men who are revolving plans and forming resolutions for the future, is the spirit of honor...
Aris 10.40 4 In every company one finds the best man;...
Aris 10.41 19 In simple communities, in the heroic ages, a man was chosen for his knack;...and the best of the best was the aristocrat or king.
Aris 10.47 15 The best lightning-rod for your protection is your own spine.
Aris 10.48 14 ...society must have the benefit of the best leaders.
Aris 10.49 17 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...
Aris 10.52 23 Genius...has a royal right in all possessions and privileges. being itself representative and accepted by all men as their delegate. It has indeed the best right, because it raises men above themselves...
Aris 10.53 14 The best feat of genius is to bring all the varieties of talent and culture into its audience;...
Aris 10.62 16 In the best parlors of modern society [the gentleman] will find the laughing devil...
PerF 10.81 23 See how rich life is; rich in private talents, each of which charms us in turn and seems the best.
PerF 10.81 25 ...if we fall in with a cricket-club and see the game masterly played, the best player is the first of men;...
PerF 10.82 6 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater. And poetry and literature are disdainful of all these claims beside their own. Like the boy who thought in turn each one of the four seasons the best...
Chr2 10.108 17 I suspect, that, when the theology was most florid and dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people, and that, in that very time, the best men also fell away from the theology, and rested in morals.
Edc1 10.136 26 I call our system [of education] a system of despair, and I find all the correction, all the revolution that is needed and that the best spirits of this age, promise, in one word, in Hope.
Edc1 10.141 4 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to... a correspondence year by year with his wisest and best friends.
Edc1 10.152 9 Try your design on the best school.
Supl 10.164 26 'T is very wearisome, this straining talk, these experiences all exquisite, intense and tremendous,-The best I ever saw;...
Supl 10.167 3 ...I remember that [William Ellery Channing's] best friend... said...I believe him capable of virtue.
Supl 10.168 7 Ever a low style is best.
SovE 10.190 12 ...it is found at last that some establishment of property...is best for all.
SovE 10.195 26 Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt...never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders...
SovE 10.199 13 You may sometimes talk with the gravest and best citizen, and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he runs into a childish superstition.
Prch 10.219 14 It looks as if there were much doubt, much waiting, to be endured by the best.
Prch 10.223 11 ...this [movement of religious opinion] of to-day has the best omens as being of the most expansive humanity...
Prch 10.225 11 [The moral sentiment] is that, which being...strongest in the best and most gifted men, we know to be implanted by the Creator of Men.
Prch 10.227 27 Always put the best interpretation on a tenet.
Prch 10.232 26 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must. But be that event for us soon or late, we are not excused from playing our short part in the best manner we can...
MoL 10.249 22 As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down...
Schr 10.267 21 All the best of this [busy] class, all who have any insight or generosity of spirit are frequently disgusted...
Plu 10.299 23 [Plutarch] perpetually suggests Montaigne, who was the best reader he has ever found...
Plu 10.300 14 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch. These distant friendships...make the best example of the universal citizenship and fraternity of the human mind.
Plu 10.301 14 It is for his pleasure that [Plutarch] recites all that is best in his reading...
Plu 10.317 8 In his dedication of the work [Plutarch's Morals] to the Archbishop of Canterbury...[Morgan] tells the Primate that Plutarch was the wisest man of his age, and, if he had been a Christian, one of the best too;...
Plu 10.319 5 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria...
Plu 10.322 21 ...[Plutarch's] sterling values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...
LLNE 10.328 24 In philosophy, Immanuel Kant has made the best catalogue of the human faculties and the best analysis of the mind.
LLNE 10.328 25 In philosophy, Immanuel Kant has made the best catalogue of the human faculties and the best analysis of the mind.
LLNE 10.339 22 [Channing] could never be reported, for his eye and voice could not be printed, and his discourses lose their best in losing them.
LLNE 10.343 10 ...perhaps those persons who were mutually the best friends were the most private...
LLNE 10.344 9 Theodore Parker was...in frank and affectionate communication with the best minds of his day...
LLNE 10.347 6 Owen made the best impression by his rare benevolence.
LLNE 10.356 4 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then...we suddenly find...that in the circumstances, the best wisdom were an auction or a fire.
LLNE 10.368 3 [The members of Brook Farm] expressed...the conviction that plain dealing was the best defence of manners and moral between the sexes.
EzRy 10.394 20 This intimate knowledge of families...and still more, his sympathy, made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable...in his exhortations and prayers. He...said on the instant the best things in the world.
MMEm 10.406 3 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names. She said she gave herself full swing in these sudden intimacies, for she...resolved to have their best hours.
MMEm 10.429 7 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying. In the lowest ebb of health nothing is ominous; diet and exercise restore. So it seems best to get that very humbling business of insurance.
SlHr 10.448 12 ...I find an elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] quiet but firm withdrawal from all business in the courts which he could drop without manifest detriment to the interests involved (and this when in his best strength)...
Thor 10.451 23 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented.
Thor 10.467 24 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...the best pines...
Thor 10.469 1 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction...that the best place for each is where he stands.
Thor 10.474 4 Occasionally, a small party of Penobscot Indians would visit Concord, and pitch their tents for a few weeks in summer on the river-bank. [Thoreau] failed not to make acquaintance with the best of them;...
Thor 10.474 18 [Thoreau] thought the best of music was in single strains;...
Carl 10.496 22 ...the new French revolution of 1848 was the best thing [Carlyle] had seen...
Carl 10.497 20 Holding an honored place in the best society, [Carlyle] has stood for the people...
GSt 10.502 13 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown, who... attached some of the best and noblest to him...by lasting ties.
GSt 10.506 15 ...if [George Stearns] could not bring his associates to adopt his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness the next best measure which could secure their assent.
HDC 11.31 2 The best friend the Massachusetts colony had...was Archbishop Laud in England.
HDC 11.31 13 ...some of these [suspended ministers]...were punished with imprisonment or mutilation. This severity brought some of the best men in England to overcome that natural repugnance to emigration which holds the serious and moderate of every nation to their own soil.
HDC 11.33 27 Johnson...intimates that [the pilgrims] consumed many days in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.
HDC 11.37 11 When you came over the morning waters, said one of the Sachems, we took you into our arms. We fed you with our best meat.
EWI 11.99 13 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement...of... [a question] which for many years absorbed the attention of the best and most eminent of mankind.
EWI 11.127 8 ...[British merchants] hastened to make the best of their position, and accepted the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies].
EWI 11.142 15 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of Philippo, are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies] in employments of skill, of profit and of trust; and best of all is the testimony to their moderation.
EWI 11.144 1 If the black man is...not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve, and be exterminated.
War 11.162 15 All admit that [peace] would be the best policy, if the world were all a church...
War 11.162 16 All admit that [peace] would be the best policy...if all the men were the best men...
War 11.162 24 What is the best must be the true;...
FSLC 11.181 25 The very convenience of property, the house and land we occupy, have lost their best value...
FSLC 11.189 5 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him, and that, in the best hours, he is uplifted in virtue of this essence, into a peace and into a power which the material world cannot give...
FSLC 11.200 9 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...above all, with what earnestness and dignity the advocates of freedom were inspired. It was one of the best compensations of this calamity.
FSLC 11.201 9 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster], our best and proudest...
FSLC 11.203 1 [Webster] has been by his clear perceptions and statements in all these years the best head in Congress...
FSLN 11.218 8 ...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a class which...comprises every man in the best hours of his life;...
FSLN 11.229 27 A barbarous tribe of good stock will, by means of their best heads, secure substantial liberty.
AsSu 11.248 12 The very conditions of the game must always be,-the worst life staked against the best.
AKan 11.259 12 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...illustrating the fatal effects of a false position to...put the best people always at a disadvantage;...
AKan 11.262 6 California, a few years ago...had the best government that ever existed.
JBB 11.273 8 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall...not forget to aid him in the best way, by securing freedom and independence in Massachusetts.
JBS 11.277 2 ...the best orators who have added their praise to his fame... have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN BROWN.
JBS 11.279 4 [John Brown] grew up...a fair specimen of the best stock of New England;...
JBS 11.280 3 ...[John Brown] had all the skill of a shepherd by choice of breed and by wise husbandry to obtain the best wool...
ACiv 11.299 11 ...Why cannot the best civilization be extended over the whole country...
ACiv 11.304 2 ...the one [power] strong enough to bring all the civility up to the height of that which is best, prays now at the door of Congress for leave to move.
ACiv 11.307 17 Now, [the Southern people's] interest is in keeping out white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they must pay wages, their interest will be...to get the best labor...
ACiv 11.310 14 In the recent series of national successes, this message [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is the best.
EPro 11.317 3 ...[Lincoln's] long-avowed expectant policy, as if he chose to be strictly the executive of the best public sentiment of the country...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
EPro 11.320 16 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...
EPro 11.322 16 ...this taxation, which makes the land wholesome and habitable...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
ALin 11.337 24 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...obtains the ultimate triumph of the best race by the sacrifice of everything which resists the moral laws of the world.
HCom 11.339 10 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.
HCom 11.340 1 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
SMC 11.363 17 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre, whilst part of the military discipline is sham fights. The best men heartily second him...
SMC 11.369 26 [George Prescott writes] We laid [Lieutenant Barrow] in two double blankets, and then sent off a long distance and got boards off a barn to make the best coffin we could...
EdAd 11.388 22 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
Wom 11.405 15 [Women] are the best index of the coming hour.
Wom 11.408 24 Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is...the best result which life has to offer us...
Wom 11.411 5 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?
Wom 11.418 24 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [of rights for women], is this: that though their mathematical justice is not be be denied, yet the best women do not wish these things;...
Wom 11.426 12 Woman should find in man her guardian. Silently she looks for that, and when she finds that he is not, as she instantly does, she betakes her to her own defences, and does the best she can.
RBur 11.442 22 It seemed odious to Luther that the devil should have all the best tunes;...
Shak1 11.447 11 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment that Bryant and Whittier as guests, and our own Hawthorne,-with the best will to come,-should have found it impossible at last;...
Scot 11.466 6 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class, with whom he established the best relation...
Scot 11.467 17 ...[Scott]...passed all his life in the best company...
Scot 11.467 18 ...[Scott]...passed all his life in the best company, and still found himself the best of the best!
Scot 11.467 19 ...[Scott]...passed all his life in the best company, and still found himself the best of the best!
ChiE 11.474 21 It appears that the ambassadors [from the United States and from England to China] were emulous in their magnanimity. It is certainly the best guaranty for the interests of China and of humanity.
FRO1 11.480 8 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes...
CPL 11.497 4 ...that Concord Library makes Concord as good as Rome, Paris or London, for the hour;-has the best of each of those cities in itself.
CPL 11.500 1 ...in reference to her favorite authors, [Mary Moody Emerson] adds, The delight in others' superiority is my best gift from God.
CPL 11.500 14 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...more widely known as the writer of some of the best books which have been written in this country...
CPL 11.501 2 [Thoreau writes] I think the best parts of Shakspeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events.
CPL 11.501 22 ...literature is the record of the best thoughts.
FRep 11.512 8 The theatre avails itself of the best talent of poet, of painter, and of amateur of taste, to make the ensemble of dramatic effect.
FRep 11.514 21 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions begin in the best heads and run steadily down to the populace.
FRep 11.526 4 ...the best civilization yet is only valuable as a ground of hope.
FRep 11.538 13 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people. No...but whether we shall be...the guide and lawgiver of all nations, as having clearly chosen and firmly held the simplest and best rule of political society.
FRep 11.541 12 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful...for the welfare of sick and unable persons, and serious care of criminals, than was ever any the best government of the Old World.
FRep 11.541 24 Let [men] compete, and success to the strongest, the wisest and the best.
PLT 12.7 14 Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each other...that you shall have no academy.
PLT 12.43 11 That mind is best which is most impressionable.
II 12.84 9 ...men are best and most by themselves...
II 12.87 17 If immortality, in the sense in which you seek it, is best, you shall be immortal.
Mem 12.95 12 This command of old facts, the clear beholding at will of what is best in our experience, is our splendid privilege.
Mem 12.102 10 Some days are bright with thought and sentiment, and we live a year in a day. Yet these best days are not always those which memory can retain.
Mem 12.104 6 In low or bad company you...recall and surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of your life...
Mem 12.107 11 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.
CInt 12.120 5 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry, and of what was best in Cicero and Burke;...
CInt 12.125 7 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
CL 12.140 7 ...we cannot overpraise the comfort and the beauty of the [Massachusetts] climate in the best days of the year.
CL 12.141 19 Walking has the best value as gymnastics for the mind.
CL 12.155 13 ...[Linnaeus] celebrates the health and performance of the Laps as the best walkers of Europe.
CL 12.156 27 I think 't is the best of humanity that goes out to walk.
CL 12.159 6 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and...know the lakes, the hills, where grapes, berries and nuts, where the rare plants are; where the best botanic ground;...these we call professors.
CL 12.160 19 ...the zones of plants...are all thermometers which cannot be deceived, and will not lie. They are instruments by the best maker.
CL 12.161 14 In a water-party in which many scholars joined, I noted that the skipper of the boat was much the best companion.
CL 12.162 2 Where are the best hazel-nuts, chestnuts and shagbarks?
CL 12.163 16 ...the lover of Nature cannot tell the best thing he knows.
CL 12.164 14 ...it is the best part of poetry, merely to name natural objects well.
CL 12.164 21 ...the best passages of great poets, old and new, are often simple enumerations of some features of landscape.
CL 12.166 25 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must know what Pindar means when he says that water is the best of things...
CW 12.177 7 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr. Charles Jackson or Mr. Hall would study chemistry or mines; and you secure the best company and the best teaching with every advantage.
CW 12.179 12 ...there is a general sense which the best knowledge of the particular alphabet [of Nature] leaves unexplained.
Bost 12.191 15 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...
Bost 12.198 2 I do not look to find in England better manners than the best manners here [in New England].
Bost 12.204 17 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but...corn with thanks to the Giver of corn; and the best thanks, namely, obedience to his law;...
MAng1 12.238 26 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others, and so lacked...one of the best elements of humanity.
Milt1 12.254 23 Human nature in these ages is indebted to [Milton] for its best portrait.
Milt1 12.255 20 The genius of France has not, even in her best days, yet culminated in any one head...into such perception of all the attributes of humanity as to entitle it to any rivalry in these lists [with Milton].
Milt1 12.256 11 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem; a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things...
Milt1 12.261 27 ...[Milton] said...I cannot say that I am utterly untrained in those rules which best rhetoricians have given...
ACri 12.293 17 ...these cardinal rules of rhetoric find best examples in the great masters...
ACri 12.297 12 The best service Carlyle has rendered is to rhetoric...
ACri 12.297 22 Carlyle, with his inimitable ways of saying the thing, is next best to the inventor of the thing...
ACri 12.305 11 A man of genius or a work of love or beauty...can't be compounded by the best rules...
MLit 12.317 3 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact,-that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and privileges which lie in any, lie in all;...literature is far the best expression.
MLit 12.324 5 ...a sort of conscientious feeling [Goethe] had to be up to the universe is the best account and apology for many of [his stories].
WSL 12.347 11 [Landor's] Dialogue between Barrow and Newton is the best of all criticisms on the essays of Bacon.
Pray 12.352 17 When I go to visit my friends, I must put on my best garments...
AgMs 12.360 12 The First Report, [Edmund Hosmer] said, is better than the last, as I observe the first sermon of a minister is often his best...
EurB 12.371 13 The best songs in English poetry are by that heavy, hard, pedantic poet, Ben Jonson.
EurB 12.372 9 ...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.
EurB 12.372 21 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation. Oenone was a sketch of the same kind. One of the best specimens we have of the class is Wordsworth's Laodamia...
EurB 12.376 7 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect;...
PPr 12.379 10 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples honestly with the facts lying before all men...and...offers his best counsel to his brothers.
PPr 12.379 19 ...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking...
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.
Let 12.404 16 In Cambridge orations and elsehwere there is much inquiry for that great absentee American Literature. What can have become of it? The least said is best.
Let 12.404 23 Many of the best must die of consumption, many of despair... before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.
Trag 12.408 7 ...in destiny, it is not the good of the whole or the best will that is enacted, but only one particular will.
Trag 12.413 19 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society-mayhap to what is best and greatest in it...
Nat 1.70 7 A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought...
DSA 1.137 18 We are fain to...secure, as best we can, a solitude that hears not.
DSA 1.143 8 ...the motive that holds the best there [in the church] is now only a hope and a waiting.
MR 1.245 24 Much of the economy which we see in houses...is best kept out of sight.
LT 1.276 24 I think that the soul of reform; the conviction that not sensualism...not even government, are needed,-but...reliance on the sentiment of man, which will work best the more it is trusted;...
LT 1.285 10 ...I own I like the speculators best.
Con 1.322 2 Every honest fellow must keep up the hoax the best he can;...
SR 2.83 11 That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Hsm1 2.246 26 Soph. Why should I grieve or vex for being sent/ To them I ever loved the best?.../
Cir 2.312 6 We...install ourselves the best we can in Greek...houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.
Cir 2.312 10 ...we see literature best from the midst of wild nature...
Exp 3.46 8 If any of us knew what we were doing, or where we are going, then when we think we best know!
Exp 3.68 27 A man will not be observed in doing that which he can do best.
Pol1 3.199 13 Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men and institutions rooted like oak-trees to the centre, round which all arrange themselves the best they can.
Pol1 3.201 20 The theory of politics...which [men] have expressed the best they could in their laws and in their revolutions, considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.
NR 3.228 3 The men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude...or by an acid worldly manner; each concealing as he best can his incapacity for useful association...
UGM 4.15 26 Shakspeare's principal merit may be conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the English language...
SwM 4.103 6 ...in Swedenborg, whose who are best acquainted with modern books will most admire the merit of mass.
MoS 4.167 21 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon?
MoS 4.176 10 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say...look you,--on the whole, selfishness plants best, prunes best...
MoS 4.177 2 ...is no community of sentiment discoverable in distant times and places? And when it shows the power of self-interest, I accept that as part of the divine law and must reconcile it with aspiration the best I can.
ShP 4.193 19 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers. Happily, no man wishes to. They are not yet desired in that way. We have few readers, many spectators and hearers. They had best lie where they are.
ShP 4.196 1 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where instead of the metre of Shakspeare, whose secret is that the thought constructs the tune, so that reading for the sense will best bring out the rhythm,--here the lines are constructed on a given tune...
ShP 4.199 22 ...what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work...
NMW 4.223 2 Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth century, Bonaparte is far the best known...
ET5 5.82 13 Philip de Commines says, Now, in my opinion, among all the sovereignties I know in the world, that in which the public good is best attended to...is that of England.
ET5 5.84 21 [The English] think him the best dressed man whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
ET5 5.88 8 ...it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views; but the indulgence...costs great crises, or accumulations of mental power. In common, the horse works best with blinders.
ET5 5.100 12 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic; the people in the street best understand the best words.
ET16 5.289 3 ...I put off my [English] friends with very inadequate details [about America], as best I could.
Pow 6.61 20 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can against the coming ruin.
Ctr 6.155 22 We can ill spare the commanding social benefits of cities; they...will yield their best values to him who best can do without them.
Wsp 6.199 15 [Fate] is the oldest, and best known,/ More near than aught thou call'st thy own/...
Wsp 6.215 12 I can best indicate by examples those reactions by which every part of nature replies to the purpose of the actor...
Art2 7.41 5 Smeaton built Eddystone Lighthouse on the model of an oak-tree, as being the form in Nature best designed to resist a constant assailing force.
Art2 7.42 5 Man seems to have no option about his tools, but merely the necessity to learn from Nature what will fit best...
Farm 7.149 8 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best.
WD 7.176 8 'T is the very principle of science that Nature shows herself best in leasts;...
WD 7.181 27 ...what has been best done in the world...cost nothing.
WD 7.182 23 ...those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
Boks 7.192 22 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to time appear...
Boks 7.197 18 English history is best known through Shakspeare;...
Suc 7.291 21 ...[every man] is to dare to do what he can do best;...
PI 8.10 3 The poet who plays with [the law of correspondence] with most boldness best justifies himself;...
PI 8.26 8 When [nature] serves us best...we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us...
PI 8.60 11 There is in every poem a height which...is best remembered.
Elo2 8.125 11 That something which each man was created to say and do, he only or he best can tell you...
Insp 8.296 5 The deep book...helps us best.
Aris 10.38 11 ...they only prosper or they prosper best who have a military mind...
Aris 10.49 23 The verdict of battles will best prove the general;...
PerF 10.85 9 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will pay best...
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...
LLNE 10.357 8 [Thoreau said] I love best to have each thing in its season only...
Carl 10.497 17 Carlyle has, best of all men in England, kept the manly attitude of his time.
LS 11.16 3 We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own.
FSLN 11.220 25 The low can best win the low...
HCom 11.340 13 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness:/ Their higher instinct knew/ Those love her best who to themselves are true;/ And what they dare to dream of, dare to do;/...
Wom 11.410 11 ...[Women] are always making...that ornamental life in which they best appear.
Wom 11.426 8 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
FRep 11.518 27 The low can best win the low...
PLT 12.19 18 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can.
Mem 12.105 16 ...we understand best what we like;...
Mem 12.106 26 ...we remember best when the head is clear...
Bost 12.205 6 [The people of Massachusetts] knew...that he is greatest who serves best.
Milt1 12.251 12 This tract [Milton's Areopagitica] is far the best known and the most read of all...
ACri 12.291 25 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress and writers of books might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...
Pray 12.351 17 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant...that those external things which I have may be such as may best agree with a right internal disposition of mine;...
Nat 1.66 10 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world...
Grts 8.310 15 ...there is for each a Best Counsel which enjoins the fit word and the fit act for every moment.
Nat 1.38 21 ...what is not hateful, [the foolish] call the best.
YA 1.386 23 Let us have our leading and our inspiration from the best.
SR 2.47 7 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best;...
SL 2.134 9 We impute deep-laid far-sighted plans to Caesar and Napoleon; but the best of their power was in nature, not in them.
OS 2.293 4 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. He has not the conviction, but the sight, that the best is the true...
OS 2.293 21 ...there is a power, which, as it is in you, is in [your friend] also, and could therefore very well bring you together, if it were for the best.
Chr1 3.112 26 Society is spoiled...if the associates are brought a mile to meet. And if it be not society, it is a mischievous, low, degrading jangle, though made up of the best.
Mrs1 3.140 19 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...the air of drowsy strength...perhaps because such a person seems to reserve himself for the best of the game...
Mrs1 3.143 23 Fashion has many classes and many rules of probation and admission, and not the best alone.
Mrs1 3.143 26 There is not only the right of conquest, which genius pretends,--the individual demonstrating his natural aristocracy best of the best;--but less claims will pass for the time;...
Gts 3.165 8 The best of hospitality and of generosity is also not in the will, but in fate.
NR 3.235 10 All things show us that on every side we are very near to the best.
NER 3.283 14 ...[men] believe that the best is the true;...
PNR 4.89 10 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur.
ET5 5.101 8 Every man [in England]...knows what is confided to him, and does therein the best he can.
ET18 5.299 4 ...[England] is an old pile built in different ages, with repairs, additions and makeshifts; but you see the poor best you have got.
Bhr 6.192 16 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret that the best of life is conversation...
WD 7.163 7 ...we have the newspaper, which does its best to make every square acre of land and sea give an account of itself at your breakfast-table;...
Suc 7.282 1 But if thou do thy best,/ Without remission, without rest,/ And invite the sunbeam,/ And abhor to feign or seem/ Even to those who thee should love/ And thy behavior approve;/...
PPo 8.238 8 [Life in the East's] elements are few and simple...rapidly reaching the best and the worst.
Insp 8.269 10 Our money is only a second best.
Insp 8.269 12 Our money is only a second best. We would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will. That is first best.
Dem1 10.21 17 The best are never demoniacal or magnetic;...
AsSu 11.248 13 The very conditions of the game must always be,-the worst life staked against the best. It is the best whom they desire to kill.
TPar 11.285 14 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends. For it was each report of this kind that impressed those to whom it was told in a manner to secure its being told everywhere to the best...
Wom 11.407 25 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband...says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved...she only reflected his own glories upon him. All that she was, was him, while he was hers, and all that she is now, at best, but his pale shade.
SHC 11.428 23 ...Forget man's littleness, deserve the best,/ God's mercy in thy thought and life confest./ William Ellery Channing.
FRO2 11.486 10 ...there is a force always at work to make the best better and the worst good.
FRO2 11.490 26 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who think it the highest worship to expect of Heaven the most and the best;...
Mem 12.103 4 I value the praise of Memory. And how does memory praise? By holding fast the best.
Bost 12.208 14 ...a community, as a man, is entitled to be judged by his best.
MLit 12.326 16 Who saw Milton, who saw Shakspeare, saw them do their best...
F 6.35 25 ...before [every individual] opens liberty,-the Better, the Best.
Mrs1 3.148 23 ...[Shakspeare] adds to so many titles that of being the best-bred man in England and in Christendom.
SS 7.12 2 A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned himself a boor; but whenever he caught them apart, and had one to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.
Let 12.398 20 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...
MR 1.246 22 ...[infirm people] never bestir themselves to serve another person;...
Grts 8.311 15 There is so much to be done that we ought to begin quickly to bestir ourselves.
II 12.68 26 To coax and woo the strong Instinct to bestir itself, and work its miracle, is the end of all wise endeavor.
SwM 4.110 13 These grand rhymes or returns in nature,--the dear, best-known face startling us at every turn...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
Grts 8.315 21 Diderot was...unclean as the society in which he lived; yet was he the best-natured man in France...
FRep 11.524 13 [The election of a rogue and a brawler] was done by the very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible, best-natured people.
YA 1.395 6 This land...wants no ornament or privilege which nature could bestow.
Fdsp 2.196 11 We doubt that we bestow on our hero the virtues in which he shines...
Gts 3.162 9 We can receive anything from love, for that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow.
ET8 5.137 3 More intellectual than other races, when [the English] live with other races they do not take their language, but bestow their own.
ET13 5.215 3 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved, wherein to bestow yourelf, than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like removing it.
Pow 6.63 10 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions, will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter...
Ctr 6.162 16 ...let the populace bestow on you their coldest contempts.
Civ 7.30 11 ...ideas...bestow on the hero their invincibility.
Farm 7.143 20 Nature, like a cautious testator, ties up her estate so as not to bestow it all on one generation...
SA 8.88 27 ...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Edc1 10.154 21 It is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow...
HDC 11.28 12 I cause from every creature/ His proper good to flow:/ As much as he is and doeth,/ So much he shall bestow./
Bost 12.197 18 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
Bost 12.198 13 No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
SR 2.46 17 ...no kernel of nourishing corn can come to [man] but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Nat2 3.184 18 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled.
PPh 4.65 9 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the highest employment of the eyes. By us it is asserted that God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,--that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...
ET12 5.209 22 Oxford...mis-spends the revenues bestowed for such youths as should be most meet for towardness, poverty and painfulness;...
DL 7.112 16 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer; friends are less carefully bestowed...
Elo2 8.121 7 Plutarch, in his enumeration of the ten Greek orators, is careful to mention their excellent voices, and the pains bestowed by some of them in training these.
QO 8.202 8 There is always in [originals] a style and weight of speech which the immanence of the oracle bestowed...
PPo 8.256 29 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause enow for mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?/ Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./
Dem1 10.23 18 ...the main ambition and genius being bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids within [a man's] sphere will follow.
Aris 10.36 6 I cannot tell how English titles are bestowed...
Aris 10.43 27 ...when the well-mixed man is born...then no gift need be bestowed on him...
LLNE 10.335 3 ...[works of talent] are more or less matured in every degree of completeness according to the time bestowed on them...
Thor 10.454 19 I am often reminded, [Thoreau] wrote in his journal, that if I had bestowed on me the wealth of Croesus, my aims must be still the same, and my means essentially the same.
HDC 11.64 10 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord].
AKan 11.257 1 This aid must be sent [to Kansas], and this is not to be doled out as an ordinary charity; but bestowed up to the magnitude of the want...
EdAd 11.389 17 ...we should think our pains well bestowed if we could cure the infatuation of statesmen...
Milt1 12.247 24 It was very easy to remark an altered tone in the criticism when Milton reappeared as an author, fifteen years ago, from any that had been bestowed on the same subject before.
Milt1 12.263 18 [Milton] acknowledges...whatever the Deity may have bestowed upon me in other respects, he has certainly inspired me, if any ever were inspired, with a passion for the good and fair.
Plu 10.318 14 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch...sit as bestower of the crown of noble knighthood...
Gts 3.159 8 I do not think this general insolvency [of the world]...to be the reason of the difficulty experienced at Christmas and New Year and other times, in bestowing gifts;...
Schr 10.284 23 Happy for more than yourself, a benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry; bestowing on the general mind of men organic creations...
FSLN 11.240 18 [The free man] is a finished man; earning and bestowing good;...
Imtl 8.340 2 ...all our intellectual action...bestows a feeling of absolute existence.
SHC 11.432 9 ...how much more are [parks] needed by us...to stanch and appease that fury of temperament which our climate bestows!
ET4 5.54 11 We must use the popular category...for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise we are presently confounded when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.