Bet to Birminghamized
bet, n. (1)
Boks 7.210 4
Now [the bidders for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] talked apart,
now ate a biscuit, now made a bet...
betake, v. (2)
MN 1.220 19
Shall we not...betake ourselves to some desert cliff of Mount
Katahdin...
Tran 1.341 2
...many intelligent and religious persons...betake themselves
to a certain solitary and critical way of living...
betakes, v. (3)
SwM 4.113 3
...as often as [nature] betakes herself upward from visible
phenomena...she instantly as it were disappears, while no one knows what
has become of her...
Dem1 10.20 7
There is one world common to all who are awake, but each
sleeper betakes himself to one of his own.
Wom 11.426 11
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...
Bethany, Palestine, n. (1)
LT 1.274 8
[The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his
religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises...is
better breakfasted than he whose morning appetite would have gladly fed
on green figs between Bethany and Jerusalem...
Bethel, n. (1)
Elo2 8.114 9
...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel...
bethink, v. (2)
Int 2.329 4
[Ideas]...so fully engage us that we...gaze like children, without
an effort to make them our own. By and by we fall out of that rapture,
bethink us where we have been, what we have seen...
Prch 10.236 20
We want some intercalated days, to bethink us and to
derive order to our life from the heart.
bethinks, v. (1)
MoS 4.149 13
A man is flushed with success, and bethinks himself what
this good luck signifies.
Bethlehem Star, n. (1)
Chr2 10.90 3
For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the
mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/...
bethought, v. (5)
ET16 5.286 26
My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any
theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged, I bethought
myself neither of caucuses nor congress...
F 6.33 21
...the Marquis of Worcester, Watt, and Fulton bethought
themselves that where was power was not devil...
Civ 7.27 21
The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to
endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his
saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall;...
Boks 7.210 8
Earl Spencer bethought him like a prudent general of useless
bloodshed and waste of powder...
Thor 10.457 14
...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his
lecture would be a nice, interesting story...or whether it was one of those
old philosophical things that she did not care about. Henry turned to her,
and bethought himself...
betoken, v. (2)
ET4 5.66 25
When it is considered...what resources of mental and moral
power the traits of the blonde race betoken, its accession to empire marks a
new and finer epoch...
DL 7.116 17
...many things betoken a revolution of opinion and practice in
regard to manual labor...
betokened, v. (1)
ET8 5.140 3
King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all
his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances, whether they betokened
danger or pleasure;...
betokens, v. (1)
SwM 4.144 12
The entire want of poetry in so transcendent a mind [as
Swedenborg's] betokens the disease...
betray, v. (24)
AmS 1.101 6
...[the scholar] must betray often an ignorance and
shiftlessness in popular arts...
Hist 2.19 20
The Indian and Egyptian temples still betray the mounds and
subterranean houses of their forefathers.
Lov1 2.172 14
Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before and never shall
meet them again. But we see them...betray a deep emotion, and we are no
longer strangers.
Chr1 3.110 22
The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without
encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and...
the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be
yielded;...
Mrs1 3.143 15
...the respect which these mysteries [of fashion] inspire in
the most rude and sylvan characters, and the curiosity with which the
details of high life are read, betray the universality of the love of cultivated
manners.
Nat2 3.186 26
All things betray the same calculated profusion.
Nat2 3.187 27
Jacob Behmen and George Fox betray their egotism in the
pertinacity of their controversial tracts...
NER 3.270 7
When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not
strange that society should be disheartened...
ET14 5.254 17
...parochial and shop-till politics, and idolatry of usage,
betray the ebb of life and spirit [in English students].
F 6.9 14
...mats of hair, the pigment of the epidermis betray character.
Wth 6.92 5
The brave workman, who might betray his feeling of it in his
manners...must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the
work done.
Wth 6.104 10
If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants
and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the
pulpit will betray it...
Bhr 6.182 4
What refinement and what limitations the teeth betray!
Bhr 6.197 20
...'t is a thousand to one that [the young girl's] air and manner
will at once betray that she is not primary...
Bty 6.299 14
A beautiful person among the Greeks was thought to betray
by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods;...
Ill 6.317 14
...[men who make themselves felt in the world] never deeply
interest us unless they...betray, never so slightly, their penetration of what is
behind [the curtain].
PI 8.63 12
[The high poets] have touched this heaven and retain afterwards
some sparkle of it: they betray their belief that such discourse is possible.
Comc 8.157 4
The rocks, the plants, the beasts, the birds, neither do
anything ridiculous, nor betray a perception of anything absurd done in
their presence.
QO 8.186 18
There are many fables which, as they...betray no sign of being
borrowed, are said to be agreeable to the human mind.
Aris 10.43 19
...the manners betray the like puny constitution.
HDC 11.51 25
The questions which the Indians put [to John Eliot] betray
their reason and their ignorance.
MLit 12.318 6
[The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with
the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for
resource to a conversation with Nature...
Let 12.397 21
As long as [a man] sleeps in the shade of the present error,
the after-nature does not betray its resources.
Trag 12.412 24
There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in
some rude action; they betray their impatience of quiet by an irregular
Catilinarian gait;...
betrayed, v. (19)
Con 1.305 12
...you [reformers] are betrayed by your own nature.
MoS 4.155 19
Neither will [the skeptic] be betrayed to a book and wrapped
in a gown.
ET6 5.105 19
[The Englishman] is never betrayed into any curiosity or
unbecoming emotion.
ET17 5.297 1
A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter
Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth, and slipping out every
day...to the Swan Inn for a cold cut and porter; and one day passing with
Wordsworth the inn, he was betrayed by the landlord's asking him if he had
come for his porter.
ET18 5.301 11
...[the foreign policy of England] betrayed Genoa, Sicily,
Parma, Greece, Turkey, Rome and Hungary.
F 6.29 13
...'T is written on the gate of Heaven, Woe unto him who suffers
himself to be betrayed by Fate!
Ctr 6.153 16
...in cities [the gods] have betrayed you to a cloud of
insignificant annoyances...
Wsp 6.234 13
I recall some traits of a remarkable person whose life and
discourse betrayed many inspirations of this [moral] sentiment.
Elo1 7.86 5
...the court and the county have really come together to arrive
at these three or four memorable expressions which betrayed the mind and
meaning of somebody.
DL 7.114 13
...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince...with the
man or woman of worth who alights at our door. How can we do this, if the
wants of each day...constrain us to a continual vigilance lest we be betrayed
into expense?
Cour 7.270 12
...each is betrayed when he seeks in himself the courage of
others.
Prch 10.227 13
Be not betrayed into undervaluing the churches which
annoy you by their bigoted claims.
Prch 10.229 4
...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions, as
betrayed in the clinging to a form of devotion or a theological dogma;...
EzRy 10.389 24
...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the
particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General
Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole
for fact.
SlHr 10.438 27
...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the
cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and
liberty, for his age, lost...
Wom 11.423 25
...when I read the list of men of intellect, of refined
pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I
think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
MAng1 12.222 2
There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of
the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the
uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards
Anthropomorphism...
Milt1 12.259 1
...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their
compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed
no marks of sublimity or genius.
MLit 12.318 3
All over the modern world the educated and susceptible
have betrayed their discontent with the limits of our municipal life...
betrayers, n. (1)
SA 8.83 26
Manners are...the betrayers of any disproportion or want of
symmetry in mind and character.
betraying, adj. (1)
Dem1 10.11 10
All life, all creation, is telltale and betraying.
betraying, v. (3)
SR 2.47 17
Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the
genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely
trustworthy was seated at their heart...
Lov1 2.172 11
...what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any
passage betraying affection between two parties?
MMEm 10.427 7
I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's]
writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of
Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference,
any mediation between her and the Author of her being...
betrays, v. (32)
Nat 1.44 17
So intimate is this Unity, that...it...betrays its source in
Universal Spirit.
Tran 1.335 6
I-this thought which is called I-is the mould into which the
world is poured like melted wax. The mould is invisible, but the world
betrays the shape of the mould.
Hist 2.9 4
...the purpose of nature, betrays itself in the use we make of the
signal narrations of history.
SL 2.141 20
The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by
name and personal election...betrays obtuseness to perceive that there is one
mind in all the individuals...
Fdsp 2.198 5
The soul invirons itself with friends that it may enter into a
grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season that it
may exalt its conversation or society. This method betrays itself along the
whole history of our personal relations.
Fdsp 2.213 16
Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances...
OS 2.282 11
Everywhere the history of religion betrays a tendency to
enthusiasm.
Cir 2.307 6
The continual effort...to work a pitch above his last height,
betrays itself in a man's relations.
Art1 2.353 8
...[a man] cannot wipe out from his work every trace of the
thoughts amidst which it grew. The very avoidance betrays the usage he
avoids.
Art1 2.363 6
The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of
power;...tokens of the everlasting effort to produce, which even in its worst
estate the soul betrays.
Exp 3.78 7
Every day, every act betrays the ill-concealed deity.
Nat2 3.175 21
The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet]...
Nat2 3.181 5
Compound it how [nature] will, star, sand, fire, water, tree,
man, it is still one stuff, and betrays the same properties.
Nat2 3.195 12
Our servitude to particulars betrays us into a hundred foolish
expectations.
ET4 5.50 20
The English composite character betrays a mixed origin.
ET6 5.104 13
[The Englishman's] vivacity betrays itself at all points...
F 6.22 14
[Man] betrays his relation to what is below him...
CbW 6.264 19
He who desponds betrays that he has not seen [the law
which distributes things].
WD 7.185 16
...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills
and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the
finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity
with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of thought it betrays...
PI 8.12 18
Genius thus [through figurative speech]...betrays the rhymes and
echoes that pole makes with pole.
PI 8.17 9
[Poetry's] essential mark is that it betrays in every word instant
activity of mind...
PI 8.33 8
Style betrays you...
SA 8.87 5
Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the
slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in
his contemptible squeals of joy.
Elo2 8.120 15
The voice...betrays the nature and disposition...
QO 8.192 15
[Quotation] betrays the consciousness that truth is the
property of no individual...
QO 8.193 9
...it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is
to invent. Always...some sudden alteration...of point of view, betrays the
foreign interpolation.
Dem1 10.27 19
...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition
[demonology] has reappeared...betrays [man's] conviction that behind all
your explanations is a vast and potent and living Nature...
Schr 10.264 27
The poet with poets betrays no amiable weakness.
MLit 12.334 13
He who doubts whether this age or this country can yield
any contribution to the literature of the world only betrays his own
blindness to the necessities of the human soul.
WSL 12.337 4
We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an
erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English
traveller;...
WSL 12.343 26
[Landor's] love of beauty...betrays itself in all petulant and
contemptuous expressions.
EurB 12.374 15
...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect, because
he speedily betrays that he does not see the true limitations of the charm;...
betrothal, n. (1)
ET13 5.218 12
It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of
Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality
in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848...
betrothed, adj. (3)
Nat2 3.193 11
The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm
of his maiden in her acceptance of him.
Wth 6.113 10
...the betrothed maiden by one secure affection is relieved
from a system of slaveries...
DL 7.115 21
You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding,
health and self-help. To offer [man] money in lieu of these is to do him the
same wrong as when the bridegroom offers his betrothed virgin a sum of
money to release him from his engagements.
betrothed, v. (1)
Boks 7.217 1
Money, and killing, and the Wandering Jew, and persuading
the lover that his mistress is betrothed to another, these are the main-springs
[of the novel];...
better, adj. (428)
Nat 1.11 1
[The waving of the boughs'] effect is like that of a higher
thought or a better emotion coming over me...
Nat 1.16 11
For better consideration, we may distribute the aspects of
beauty in a threefold manner.
Nat 1.37 13
...good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be
executed!
Nat 1.72 25
...in the thick darkness, there are not wanting gleams of a better
light...
AmS 1.81 19
Perhaps the time is already come...when the sluggard intellect
of this continent will...fill the postponed expectation of the world with
something better than the exertions of mechanical skill.
AmS 1.98 17
...the final value of action, like that of books, and better than
books, is that it is a resource.
AmS 1.103 26
...the deeper [the orator] dives into his privatest, secretest
presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most...universally true. The
people delight in it; the better part of every man feels, This is my music;...
AmS 1.108 12
...we crave a better and more abundant food.
DSA 1.137 11
...we can make...a far better, holier, sweeter [Sabbath], for
ourselves.
DSA 1.139 8
When [the good hearer] listens to these vain words, he
comforts himself by their relation to his remembrance of better hours...
DSA 1.141 12
...the exceptions are not so much to be found in a few
eminent preachers, as in the better hours...of all...
LE 1.160 27
There is a better way than this indolent learning of another.
LE 1.181 1
Let the scholar appreciate this combination of gifts, which,
applied to better purpose, make true wisdom.
LE 1.187 4
...Ask not...Who is the better for the philosopher who conceals
his accomplishments...
MN 1.192 26
Let there be worse cotton and better men.
MN 1.199 2
How can I hope for better hap in my attempts to enunciate
spiritual facts?
MN 1.203 17
Why should not then these messieurs of Versailles strut and
plot for tabourets and ribbons, for a season, without prejudice to their
faculty to run on better errands by and by?
MN 1.209 6
A man's wisdom is to know...that the best end must be
superseded by a better.
MR 1.242 12
Better that the book should not be quite so good, and the
book-maker abler and better...
MR 1.242 14
Better that the book should not be quite so good, and the
book-maker abler and better...
MR 1.245 17
It is better to go without [the conveniences of life], than to
have them at too great a cost.
MR 1.253 23
It is better to work on institutions by the sun than by the wind.
MR 1.254 8
I am to see to it that the world is the better for me...
MR 1.256 1
It is better that joy should be spread over all the day in the
form of strength...
LT 1.268 2
Let us not see the foundations...of a new and better order of
things laid, with...an attention preoccupied with trifles.
LT 1.268 11
Here is the innumerable multitude of those who accept the
state and the church from the last generation, and stand on no argument but
possession. They have reason also, and, as I think, better reason than is
commonly stated.
LT 1.276 17
The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was
the true and best distinction of this time...
Con 1.297 27
...[conservatism] will not open its eyes to see a better fact.
Con 1.303 22
[The existing world] will stand until a better cast of the dice
is made.
Con 1.304 4
We hold to this [existing world], until you can demonstrate
something better.
Con 1.304 27
You who...are willing to...risk the indisputable good that
exists, for the chance of better, live, move, and have your being in this
[society]...
Con 1.313 15
Thank the rude foster-mother [Necessity], though she has
taught you a better wisdom than her own...
Con 1.320 9
[Conservatism's] social and political action has no better
aim;...
Tran 1.333 11
Mind is the only reality, of which men and all other natures
are better or worse reflectors.
Tran 1.346 1
Will it be better with the new generation?
Tran 1.347 10
[Transcendentalists] say to themselves, It is better to be
alone than in bad company.
YA 1.370 4
How much better when the whole land is a garden...
YA 1.372 23
Remark the unceasing effort throughout nature at somewhat
better than the actual creatures...
YA 1.373 3
The population of the world is a conditional population; these
are not the best, but...the best that could yet live; there shall be a better,
please God.
YA 1.379 23
...Trade is also but for a time, and must give way to somewhat
broader and better...
YA 1.391 6
...the wise and just man will always feel...that if all went down,
he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better
constitution.
Hist 2.6 19
Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their
stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...
Hist 2.10 14
Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had
long been known. The better for him.
Hist 2.33 7
...if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments...then the
facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...
SR 2.50 1
Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree,
for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the
liberty and culture of the eater.
SR 2.52 1
I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last...
SR 2.66 17
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and
completion?
SR 2.66 18
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his
ripened being?
SR 2.67 6
These roses under my window make no reference to former roses
or to better ones;...
SR 2.89 6
Is not a man better than a town?
Comp 2.95 24
...men are better than their theology.
Comp 2.119 10
The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you;...
SL 2.133 4
The regular course of studies...have not yielded me better facts
than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
SL 2.133 18
...the question is everywhere vexed when a noble nature is
commended, whether the man is not better who strives with temptation.
SL 2.134 3
When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and
pleasant as roses, we must...not...say, Crump is a better man with his
grunting resistance to all his native devils.
SL 2.147 19
People are not the better for the sun and moon, the horizon and
the trees;...
SL 2.158 6
A stranger comes from a distant school, with better dress...
SL 2.160 4
...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and
brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved. One knows it,--himself,--and
is pledged by it...to nobleness of aim which will prove in the end a better
proclamation of it than the relating of the incident.
SL 2.161 17
The epochs of our life are...in a thought which...says,--Thus
hast thou done, but it were better thus.
Fdsp 2.195 25
[Our friend's] goodness seems better than our goodness...
Prd1 2.233 23
Is it not better that a man should accept the first pains and
mortifications of this sort...as hints that he must expect no other good than
the just fruit of his own labor and self-denial?
Prd1 2.234 12
There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing...
Prd1 2.239 19
The natural motions of the soul are so much better than the
voluntary ones that you will never do yourself justice in dispute.
Prd1 2.240 4
We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we
waited for some better sympathy and intimacy to come.
Hsm1 2.246 19
...[To die] is to end/ An old, stale, weary work and to
commence/ A newer and a better..../
Hsm1 2.253 10
...the soul of a better quality thrusts back the unreasonable
economy into the vaults of life...
Hsm1 2.254 15
...[the great soul's] own majesty can lend a better grace to
bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
Hsm1 2.255 3
Better still is the temperance of King David...
Hsm1 2.259 6
...a better valor and a purer truth shall one day organize
[many extraordinary young men's] belief.
Hsm1 2.262 6
The circumstances of man, we say, are historically
somewhat better in this country and at this hour than perhaps ever before.
Hsm1 2.262 17
It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his
breast to the bullets of a mob...and died when it was better not to live.
OS 2.269 20
...by falling back on our better thoughts...we can know what
[the soul] saith.
OS 2.275 16
The soul...requires beneficence, but is somewhat better;...
OS 2.292 18
...for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self
is new and unsearchable.
Cir 2.303 2
...that which builds is better than that which is built.
Cir 2.303 3
Better than the hand and nimbler was the invisible thought
which wrought through it;...
Cir 2.307 15
For every friend whom he loses for truth, [a man] gains a
better.
Cir 2.311 21
Good as is discourse, silence is better...
Cir 2.314 25
The same law of eternal procession...extinguishes each
[virtue] in the light of a better.
Cir 2.315 23
Blessed be nothing and The worse things are, the better they
are are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
Cir 2.321 3
The difference between talents and character is adroitness to
keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road
to new and better goals.
Int 2.327 12
...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from
the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and
immortal. ... A better art than that of Egypt has taken fear and corruption
out of it.
Int 2.339 20
Is it any better if the student...aims to make a mechanical
whole of history...by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his
vision.
Art1 2.366 15
Men are not well pleased with the figure they make in their
own imaginations, and...convey their better sense in an oratorio, a statue, or
a picture.
Art1 2.367 19
Would it not be better to begin higher up,--to serve the ideal
before [men] eat and drink;...
Pt1 3.12 13
This day shall be better than my birthday...
Pt1 3.13 13
Being used as a type, a second wonderful value appears in the
object, far better than its old value;...
Pt1 3.20 22
...through that better perception [the poet] stands one step
nearer to things...
Exp 3.49 4
If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my
principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to
me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me,--neither
better nor worse.
Exp 3.65 22
Thou art sick, but shalt not be worse, and the universe, which
holds thee dear, shall be the better.
Exp 3.75 5
...[a man's] good is tidings of a better.
Chr1 3.101 21
No institution will be better than the institutor.
Chr1 3.108 25
Every trait which the artist recorded in stone he had seen in
life, and better than his copy.
Mrs1 3.123 21
In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better
promise than talkers and clerks.
Mrs1 3.141 26
Parliamentary history has few better passages than the
debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons;...
Mrs1 3.149 3
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;...
Mrs1 3.149 4
...a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form...
Gts 3.160 27
In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let
the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked,
though at great inconvenience. If it be a fantastic desire, it is better to leave
to others the office of punishing him.
Nat2 3.177 9
The fop of fields is no better than his brother of Broadway.
Pol1 3.199 9
...we ought to remember...that [the State's institutions] all are
imitable, all alterable; we may make as good, we may make better.
Pol1 3.204 18
We are kept by better guards than the vigilance of such
magistrates as we commonly elect.
Pol1 3.207 16
[Our political institutions] are not better, but only fitter for us.
Pol1 3.207 21
Democracy is better for us, because the religious sentiment
of the present time accords better with it.
Pol1 3.208 14
Parties...have better guides to their own humble aims than
the sagacity of their leaders.
Pol1 3.215 20
...the less government we have the better...
Pol1 3.220 5
Are our methods now so excellent that all competition is
hopeless? could not a nation of friends even devise better ways?
NR 3.239 3
...[the recluse] goes into a mob...into a camp, and in each new
place he is no better than an idiot;...
NR 3.245 11
...Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech;...
NR 3.245 12
...Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech;...
NER 3.258 8
...the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial
volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.
NER 3.261 21
It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than
the establishment...than to make a sally against evil by some single
improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.
NER 3.261 27
...there is no part of society or of life better than any other
part.
NER 3.265 25
...concert is neither better nor worse...than individual force.
NER 3.273 15
Men in all ways are better than they seem.
UGM 4.13 24
If you affect to give me bread and fire...at last it leaves me as
it found me, neither better nor worse...
PPh 4.63 18
Nature is good, but the intellect is better...
PPh 4.64 9
...[said Plato] the persuasion that we must search that which we
do not know, will render us, beyond comparison, better, braver and more
industrious than if we thought it impossible to discover what we do not
know, and useless to search for it.
PPh 4.71 25
[Socrates]...thought every thing in Athens a little better than
anything in any other place.
PPh 4.79 3
...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic
[of Plato], we speak as boys, and much of our impatient criticism of the
dialectic, I suspect, is no better.
PNR 4.84 2
Plato affirms...that it is better to suffer injustice than to do it;...
PNR 4.88 8
Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes,--Nature is made
better by no mean,/ But nature makes that mean/...
SwM 4.120 7
[Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a
most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods;...
SwM 4.138 2
The less we have to do with our sins the better.
MoS 4.153 1
Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller
one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir
Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world. I
don't know how great men you may be, said the Guinea man, but I don't
like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all
muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
MoS 4.160 9
[Skepticism] is a position taken up for better defence...
MoS 4.166 14
[Montaigne]...is so nervous, by factitious life, that he thinks
the more barbarous man is, the better he is.
MoS 4.172 26
[The wise skeptic] is a reformer; yet he is no better member
of the philanthropic association.
MoS 4.179 2
...we may, in fifty years, have half a dozen reasonable hours.
But what are these cares and works the better?
ShP 4.196 11
Shakspeare knew that tradition supplies a better fable than
any invention can.
ShP 4.203 4
[Jonson] no doubt thought the praise he has conceded to
[Shakespeare] generous, and esteemed himself...the better poet of the two.
GoW 4.274 26
Eyes are better on the whole than telescopes or microscopes.
GoW 4.283 18
However excellent [Goethe's] sentence is, he has somewhat
better in view.
ET1 5.21 24
[Wordsworth] had never gone farther than the first part [of
Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]; so disgusted was he that he threw the book
across the room. I deprecated this wrath, and said what I could for the better
parts of the book...
ET1 5.23 19
I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with
the public, but more contemplative readers preferred the first books of the
Excursion, and the Sonnets. He said, Yes, they are better.
ET1 5.24 11
[Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way
towards the inn;...
ET2 5.30 26
Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst
pay. It is a little better with the mate, and not very much better with the
captain.
ET4 5.51 11
Neither do this people [the English] appear to be of one stem,
but collectively a better race than any from which they are derived.
ET4 5.60 2
History rarely yields us better passages than the conversation
between King Sigurd the Crusader and King Eystein his brother...
ET4 5.71 24
Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians [in England]
like the company of horses better than the company of professors. I suppose
the horses are better company for them.
ET5 5.80 10
[The English]...cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of
thought...whose steps they cannot count by their wonted rule. Neither do
they reckon better a syllogism that ends in syllogism.
ET5 5.86 26
...conscious that no race of better men exists, [the English]
rely most on the simplest means...
ET5 5.93 18
...it is [Englishmen's] commercial advantage that whatever
light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their race.
ET6 5.108 5
...the poorest [Englishmen] have some spoon or saucepan...
saved out of better times.
ET6 5.110 22
As soon as [the English] have rid themselves of some
grievance and settled the better practice, they make haste to fix it as a
finality...
ET7 5.120 6
If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture
and manufactures...no prosperity could support it;...
ET8 5.131 19
Of absolute stoutness no nation has more or better examples
[than England].
ET9 5.152 17
...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in
good time, Saint George of England...the pride of the best blood of the
modern world. Strange, that the solid truth-speaking Briton should derive
from an impostor. Strange, that the New World should have no better luck...
ET10 5.156 14
If [the English] cannot pay, they do not buy; for they have
no presumption of better fortunes next year...
ET10 5.160 20
...a better measure than these sounding figures is the
estimate that there is wealth enough in England to support the entire
population in idleness for one year.
ET10 5.166 3
I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the
better class to that of any potentate in Europe...
ET11 5.174 27
The things these English have done were not done...without
wisdom and conduct; and the first hands...were often challenged to show
their right to their honors, or yield them to better men.
ET12 5.209 10
...so eminent are the members that a glance at the calendars
will show that in all the world one cannot be in better company than on the
books of one of the larger Oxford or Cambridge colleges.
ET12 5.212 3
...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...
ET13 5.215 10
In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say...This
was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
ET14 5.247 15
[Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian
philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the
intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to
the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
ET14 5.247 16
[Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian
philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the
intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to
the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
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.
ET14 5.257 27
[Tennyson] contents himself with describing the
Englishman as he is, and proposes no better.
ET15 5.271 21
The [London] Times, like every important institution,
shows the way to a better.
ET17 5.295 9
[Wordsworth] had thought an elder brother of Tennyson at
first the better poet...
ET18 5.307 16
...the American people do not yield better or more able
men...than the English.
ET18 5.307 18
Congress is not wiser or better than Parliament.
ET19 5.309 10
In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks
[at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it, as fitly
expressing the feeling with which I entered England, and which agrees well
enough with the more deliberate results of better acquaintance recorded in
the foregoing pages.
F 6.14 15
...if, after five hundred years you get a better observer or a better
glass, he finds, within the last [egg] observed, another [vesicle].
F 6.26 12
[The mind] dates from itself; not from...better men...
Pow 6.60 2
The second man is as good as the first,--perhaps better;...
Pow 6.65 12
These Hoosiers and Suckers are really better than the
snivelling opposition.
Pow 6.76 10
...in our flowing affairs a decision must be made,--the best, if
you can, but any is better than none.
Pow 6.77 9
The hack is a better roadster than the Arab barb.
Pow 6.77 12
...the galvanic stream, slow but continuous, is equal in power
to the electric spark, and is, in our arts, a better agent.
Wth 6.85 21
...a better order is equivalent to vast amounts of brute labor.
Wth 6.86 7
...the art of getting rich consists not in industry...but in a better
order...
Wth 6.86 14
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago; but
is put to better use.
Wth 6.109 6
A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire
farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have
outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap. But he pays for
the one convenience of a better dinner, by the loss of some of the richest
social and educational advantages.
Ctr 6.139 16
...the old English poet Gascoigne says, A boy is better unborn
than untaught.
Ctr 6.151 10
How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who
preferred...worse rather than better clothes...
Ctr 6.162 2
Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--...Make him
lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better
course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou
brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
Ctr 6.162 3
Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--...Make him
lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better
course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou
brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
Bhr 6.185 21
Nothing can be more excellent in kind than the Corinthian
grace of Gertrude's manners, and yet Blanche, who has no manners, has
better manners than she;...
Bhr 6.189 12
A little integrity is better than any career.
Bhr 6.193 12
...[simple and noble persons]...meet on a better ground than
the talents and skills they may chance to possess...
Bhr 6.194 4
The angel that was sent to find a place of torment for [the
monk Basle] attempted to remove him to a worse pit, but with no better
success;...
Bhr 6.195 23
I have seen manners that make a similar impression with
personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they are suddenly better
than beauty...
Bhr 6.196 8
It is good to give a stranger...a night's lodging. It is better to be
hospitable to his good meaning and thought...
Wsp 6.212 5
...they who pay this homage [to the public sinner] have said to
themselves, On the whole, we don't know about this that you call honesty;
a bird in the hand is better.
Wsp 6.215 26
What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine
of faith! to prefer, as a better investment, being to doing;...
Wsp 6.224 21
Each must be armed--not necessarily with musket and pike.
Happy, if seeing these, he can feel that he has better muskets and pikes in
his energy and constancy.
Wsp 6.232 12
It is strange that superior persons should not feel that they
have some better resistance against cholera than avoiding green peas and
salads.
CbW 6.247 22
Is all we have to do to draw the breath in and blow it out
again? Porphyry's definition is better; Life is that which holds matter
together.
CbW 6.253 15
Good is a good doctor but Bad is sometimes a better.
CbW 6.258 7
Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire
which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.
CbW 6.259 21
...there is...no plant that is not fed from manures. We only
insist...that the plant grow upward and convert the base into the better
nature.
CbW 6.259 27
...all great men come out of the middle classes. 'T is better
for the head; 't is better for the heart.
CbW 6.260 21
...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. ... But the wise
gods say, No, we have better things for thee.
CbW 6.265 11
...I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far
better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug
and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.
CbW 6.272 7
Our conversation once and again has apprised us that we
belong to better circles than we have yet beheld;...
CbW 6.273 5
...few writers have said anything better to this point [of
friendship] than Hafiz...
Bty 6.290 3
...the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our
perception that...each is a sign of some better health or more excellent
action.
Bty 6.296 20
Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often
cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, Yes, I
am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of man than any I yet
behold.
Ill 6.312 10
[The boy] has no better friend or influence than Scott,
Shakspeare, Plutarch and Homer.
SS 7.12 6
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...had one to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the
better man.
Civ 7.23 6
...the multiplication of the arts of peace, which is nothing but a
large allowance to each man...to live by his better hand,--fills the State with
useful and happy laborers;...
Civ 7.32 24
...I see what cubic values America has, and in these a better
certificate of civilization than great cities or enormous wealth.
Art2 7.44 16
Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling
marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite
cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so
much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
Elo1 7.61 24
The plight of these phlegmatic brains is better than that of
those who prematurely boil...
Elo1 7.74 22
...whoever can say off currently, sentence by sentence, matter
neither better nor worse than what is there [in the country newspaper]
printed, will be very impressive to our easily pleased population.
Elo1 7.76 10
Leaving behind us these pretensions, better or worse, to come
a little nearer to the verity,--eloquence is attractive as an example of the
magic of personal ascendency...
DL 7.107 19
Fact is better than fiction...
DL 7.108 12
...we are always hovering round this better divination.
DL 7.116 13
...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the
good household shall exist, is vicious, and leaves the whole difficulty
untouched. It is better, certainly, in this form, Give us your labor, and the
household begins.
DL 7.125 25
...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith in a better life...
DL 7.125 26
...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in better men...
DL 7.126 6
...Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so
cheap and humble a result. The aspirations in the heart after the good and
true teach us better,--nay, the men themselves suggest a better life.
DL 7.133 11
These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the
household is instituted and the roof-tree stands. If these are sought and in
any good degree attained...can the labor of many for one, yield anything
better, or half as good"
Farm 7.140 10
...for sleep, [the farmer] has cheaper and better and more of
it than citizens.
Farm 7.148 8
In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually
a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The
planter took the hint of the Sequoias, built a high wall, or--better--
surrounded the orchard with a nursery of birches and evergreens.
Farm 7.150 10
By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know,
and have found...that Massachusetts has a basement story...that promises to
pay a better rent than all the superstructure.
Farm 7.150 14
These [drainage] tiles are political economists, confuters of
Malthus and Ricardo; they are so many Young Americans announcing a
better era,--more bread.
Farm 7.150 19
[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.
Farm 7.151 14
The first planter, the savage...takes poor land. The better
lands are loaded with timber, which he cannot clear;...
Farm 7.152 1
Later [the first planter] learns that his planting is better than
hunting;...
WD 7.158 22
...Leibnitz said of Newton, that if he reckoned all that had
been done by mathematicians from the beginning of the world down to
Newton, and what had been done by him, his would be the better half...
WD 7.160 26
...there is no argument of theism better than the grandeur of
ends brought about by paltry means.
WD 7.164 9
Tantalus begins to think...galvanism no better than it should be.
WD 7.166 7
What have these arts done for the character, for the worth of
mankind? Are men better?
Boks 7.189 12
In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a
modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from
Pontus;...certainly knowing that his passengers are the same and in no
respect better than when he took them on board.
Boks 7.189 16
The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are
in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares.
Clbs 7.233 6
It does not help that you find as good or a better man than
yourself, if he is not timed and fitted to you.
Clbs 7.248 14
Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a
banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands; and it is to
be believed that an indifferent tavern dinner in such society was more
relished by the convives than a much better one in worse company.
Cour 7.254 11
Men admire...the power of better combination and
foresight...
Cour 7.263 9
Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent
considerations of duty...
Cour 7.273 1
The statue, the architecture, were the later and inferior
creation of the same [Greek] genius. In view of this moment of history, we
recognize a certain prophetic instinct, better than wisdom.
Suc 7.288 14
The inventor knows there is much more and better where this
came from.
Suc 7.295 9
...it is sanity to know that, over my talent or knack, and a
million times better than any talent, is the central intelligence...
Suc 7.297 12
...has [the scholar or writer] never found that there is a better
poetry hinted in a boy's whistle of a tune...than in all his literary results?
OA 7.322 15
We still feel the force...of Archimedes, holding Syracuse
against the Romans by his wit, and himself better than all their nation;...
OA 7.335 7
[John Adams]...is better the next day after having visitors in his
chamber from morning to night.
PI 8.20 21
Better than images is seen through them.
PI 8.21 27
Poetry must first be good sense, though it is something better.
PI 8.27 19
William Blake...writes thus: He who does not imagine in
stronger and better lineaments and in stronger and better light than his
perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
PI 8.27 20
William Blake...writes thus: He who does not imagine in
stronger and better lineaments and in stronger and better light than his
perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
PI 8.33 18
Great design belongs to a poem, and is better than any skill of
execution...
PI 8.37 1
[The poet's] wreath and robe is...escape from the gossip and
routine of society, and the allowed right and practice of making better.
PI 8.42 3
Better men saw heavens and earths;...
PI 8.43 13
Better examples [of poetry] are Shakspeare's Ariel, his Caliban...
PI 8.48 13
So in our songs and ballads the refrain skilfully used, and
deriving some novelty or better sense in each of many verses...
PI 8.50 10
Thomas Taylor...is really a better man of imagination, a better
poet...than any man between Milton and Wordsworth.
PI 8.50 11
Thomas Taylor...is really...a better poet...than any man between
Milton and Wordsworth.
PI 8.50 12
Thomas Taylor...is really...a better poet, or perhaps I should say
a better feeder to a poet, than any man between Milton and Wordsworth.
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 8.68 13
Better not to be easily pleased.
SA 8.91 27
It may happen that each hears from the other a better wisdom
than any one else will ever hear from either.
SA 8.93 4
If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in
the speech of superior women;--which was better than song...
SA 8.106 26
...those people, and no others, interest us...who are absorbed, if
you please to say so, in their own dream. They only can give the key and
leading to better society...
Elo2 8.111 4
I do not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle,
to which people listen with more interest than to any anecdote of
eloquence; and the wise think it better than a battle.
Elo2 8.116 23
...[the orator] taking no counsel of past things but only of the
inspiration of his to-day's feeling, surprises [the people]...with his better
knowledge...
Res 8.137 17
I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over
Nature; by seeing that wisdom is better than strength;...
Res 8.138 10
A Schopenhauer...inferring that sleep is better than waking,
and death than sleep,--all the talent in the world cannot save him from
being odious.
Res 8.146 27
...one man whose eye commands the end in view and the
means by which it can be attained, is not only better than ten men or a
hundred men, but victor over all mankind who do not see the issue and the
means.
Res 8.150 22
There are better games than billiards and whist.
Res 8.153 11
...I think [the mighty law of vegetation] more grateful and
health-giving than any news I am likely to find of man in the journals, and
better than Washington politics.
Comc 8.168 18
The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as
that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind...
learning languages and reading books to the end of a better acquaintance
with man, stops in the languages and books;...
QO 8.182 8
...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow
growth,-a fagot of selections gathered through ages, leaving the worse and
saving the better...
QO 8.190 14
Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our
spirits and trust, in another mouth.
QO 8.197 2
In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too
much honor, reading out of it better things than the author wrote...
QO 8.199 19
...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences
that reached...back to the first negro, who, with more health or better
perception, gave a shriller sound or name for the thing he saw and dealt
with?
PC 8.209 19
...[the coxcomb] has found...that good sense is now in power,
and that resting on a vast constituency of intelligent labor, and, better yet,
on perceptions less and less dim of laws the most sublime.
PC 8.213 16
...we have not on the instant better men to show than Plutarch'
s heroes.
PC 8.215 23
If [your public] are satisfied with cheap performance, you will
not easily arrive at better.
PC 8.234 15
I read the promise of better times and of greater men.
PPo 8.237 21
...the essential value [in books] is the adding of knowledge to
our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions
which distribute facts...
Insp 8.272 10
Rarey can tame a wild horse; but if he could give speed to a
dull horse, were not that better?
Insp 8.277 11
...all poets have signalized their consciousness of rare
moments...when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted
them to performances far better than they could reach at other times;...
Insp 8.279 20
...when you can use the lightning it is better than cannon.
Insp 8.296 1
Books of natural science...all the better if written without
literary aim or ambition.
Grts 8.304 18
I am to infer that you keep good company by your better
information and manners...
Grts 8.313 8
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the
haughtiness of humility.
Imtl 8.329 21
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; and we, if we saw the
whole, should of course see that it was better so.
Imtl 8.332 15
...the impulse which drew these minds to this inquiry
[concerning immortality] through so many years was a better affirmative
evidence than their failure to find a confirmation was negative.
Imtl 8.346 1
I mean that I am a better believer, and all serious souls are
better believers in the immortality, than we can give grounds for.
Imtl 8.346 2
I mean that I am a better believer, and all serious souls are
better believers in the immortality, than we can give grounds for.
Dem1 10.14 23
...this man [Masollam] inquired the reason of [the
multitude's] halting. The augur showed him a bird, and told him, If that
bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain;...
Dem1 10.21 20
The best are never demoniacal or magnetic; leave this
limbo to the Prince of the power of the air. The lowest angel is better.
Aris 10.48 2
Every Frenchman would have a career. We English are not
any better with our love of making a figure.
Aris 10.49 19
I think that the community...will be the best measure and the
justest judge of the citizen...better than any royal patronage;...
Aris 10.49 20
I think that the community...will be the best measure and the
justest judge of the citizen...better than any premium on race;...
Aris 10.49 20
I think that the community...will be the best measure and the
justest judge of the citizen...better than any statute elevating families to
hereditary distinction...
PerF 10.70 2
...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the
resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal, and see...how
many arms better than Springfield muskets, we can bring to bear.
PerF 10.86 22
The divine knowledge has ebbed out of us and we do not
know enough to be free. I hope better of the State.
Chr2 10.115 16
Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the
manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan
philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus are
better, but that they do not invade his freedom;...
Edc1 10.127 5
Certain nations, with a better brain...have made such
progress as to compare with these [savages] as these compare with the bear
and the wolf.
Edc1 10.147 10
It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar
than rhetoric or moral philosophy...
Supl 10.178 7
Universally, the better gold, the worse man.
SovE 10.184 7
In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt the human
superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals; but a better
discernment finds that the difference is only of less and more.
SovE 10.185 21
The finer the sense of justice, the better poet.
SovE 10.188 19
When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses;
only so are the conditions of the then world met, and these monsters are
the...diggers, pioneers and fertilizers...making better life possible.
SovE 10.200 20
Jesus was better than others, because he refused to listen to
others and listened at home.
Prch 10.217 6
In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself
first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of...the scientific or
political or economic institution for other better or worse forms.
Prch 10.221 18
Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is
without God in the world. To wander all day in the sunlight among the
tribes of animals, unrelated to anything better;...
MoL 10.253 5
Does any one doubt that a good general is better than a park
of artillery?
Schr 10.267 20
The action of these [busy] men I cannot respect, for they do
not respect it themselves. They were better and more respectable abed and
asleep.
Schr 10.280 27
The objection of men of the world to what they call the
morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the
idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense, and do not
qualify them for any complete life of a better kind.
Plu 10.300 3
...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his
moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received
than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words...
Plu 10.301 20
I find [Plutarch] a better teacher of rhetoric than any modern.
Plu 10.314 6
[Plutarch] believes that the souls of infants pass immediately
into a better and more divine state.
LLNE 10.347 10
[Robert Owen] was the better Christian in his controversy
with Christians...
LLNE 10.353 11
...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants
of that which is just...
LLNE 10.360 16
[Brook Farm] was a noble and generous movement in the
projectors, to try an experiment of better living.
CSC 10.376 7
These men and women [at the Chardon Street Convention]
were in search of something better and more satisfying than a vote or a
definition...
EzRy 10.391 23
[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.
MMEm 10.414 23
...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this
afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me, Even
these leaves you use to think my better emblem have lost their charm on me
too...
MMEm 10.420 6
Better anything than dishonest dependence...
MMEm 10.420 23
The difficulty of getting places of low board for a lady,
is obvious. And, at moments, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am tired out. Yet
how independent, how better than to hang on friends!
MMEm 10.422 22
To her nephew Charles [Mary Moody Emerson writes]:
War; what do I think of it? Why in your ear I think it so much better than
oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it
would be an omen of high and glorious import.
MMEm 10.423 2
Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know
those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which
corrupts old worlds? How much better, more honest, are storming and
conflagration of towns!
MMEm 10.426 9
Sadness is better than walking talking acting
somnambulism.
MMEm 10.430 1
If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,-
were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without
mentality or devotion?
Thor 10.451 18
[Thoreau's] father was a manufacturer of lead-pencils, and
Henry applied himself for a time to this craft, believing he could make a
better pencil than was then in use.
Thor 10.457 7
I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see with regret that his
page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights
everybody? Henry objected, of course, and vaunted the better lectures
which reached only a few persons.
Thor 10.473 8
The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon
discovered...his knowledge of their lands...which enabled him to tell every
farmer more than he knew before of his own farm; so that he began to feel a
little as if Mr. Thoreau had better rights in his land than he.
Thor 10.475 23
...[Thoreau] have not the poetic temperament, he never
lacks the causal thought, showing that his genius was better than his talent.
Thor 10.476 26
[Thoreau's] classic poem on Smoke suggests Simonides,
but is better than any poem of Simonides.
Carl 10.494 10
A natural defender of anything...[Carlyle] respects; and the
nobler this object, of course, the better.
LS 11.10 23
...when the Jews on that occasion [at Capernaum] complained
that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added for their better
understanding...that we might not think his body was to be actually eaten,
that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
LS 11.16 19
But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not
designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it? Here it stands...the undoubted
occasion of much good; is it not better it should remain?
HDC 11.35 27
...the pilgrims had the preparation of an armed mind, better
than any hardihood of body.
HDC 11.55 19
New plantations and better land had been opened, far and
near;...
HDC 11.56 15
We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride
in apparel, daintiness in diet, and that in those who, in times past, would
have been satisfied with bread. This is the sin of the lowest of the people.
Better evidence could not be desired of the rapid growth of the settlement
[Concord].
HDC 11.67 18
In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached again at Concord, on
Sunday afternoon; Mr. [Daniel] Bliss preached in the morning, and the
Concord people thought their minister gave them the better sermon of the
two.
HDC 11.77 3
To you [veterans of the battle of Concord] belongs a better
badge than stars and ribbons.
EWI 11.99 5
We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of
an event singular in the history of civilization; a day of reason;...of that
which makes us better than a flock of birds and beasts;...
EWI 11.136 15
It is better to suffer every evil, than to consent to any.
War 11.160 19
The sublime question has startled one and another happy
soul in different quarters of the globe,-Cannot love be, as well as hate?
Would not love answer the same end, or even a better?
War 11.174 4
I regard no longer those names that so tingled in my ear.
[The man of principle] is a baron of a better nobility and a stouter stomach.
War 11.174 10
If peace is sought to be defended or preserved for the safety
of the luxurious and the timid, it is a sham, and the peace will be base. War
is better...
FSLN 11.223 20
...it was the misfortune of his country that with this large
understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect...
FSLN 11.226 17
...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in
affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man
[Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength
that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.
FSLN 11.241 23
It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing
single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of
the country appreciate the service...
AsSu 11.248 17
If...Massachusetts could send to the Senate a better man
than Mr. Sumner, his death would be only so much the more quick and
certain.
JBB 11.268 22
[John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments,
shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence; and he
used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that a
whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a
violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this country.
JBS 11.278 10
...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom
he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave;...he saw that this boy
had nothing better to look forward to in life...
TPar 11.291 11
I can readily forgive [silence], only not the other, the false
tongue which makes the worse appear the better cause.
ACiv 11.298 17
In every house...the children ask the serious father,-What
is the news of the war to-day, and when will there be better times?
ACiv 11.299 21
There are periods, said Niebuhr, when something much
better than happiness and security of life is attainable.
ACiv 11.303 3
Better the war should more dangerously threaten us...and
so...exasperate our nationality.
ACiv 11.310 7
...ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good
and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
ACiv 11.311 4
More and better than the President has spoken shall,
perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be...
ACiv 11.311 6
More and better than the President has spoken shall,
perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be,-
but...not more or better than he hoped in his heart...
EPro 11.316 10
These measures [for liberty]...are received into a sympathy
so deep as to apprise us that mankind are greater and better than we know.
EPro 11.318 15
Better is virtue in the sovereign than plenty in the season,
say the Chinese.
SMC 11.363 5
I [George Prescott] told [the West Point officer] I had a
good many young men in my company whose mothers asked me to look
after them, and I should do so, and not allow them to hear such language,
especially from an officer, whose duty it was to set them a better example.
SMC 11.363 13
[George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men]
cheerful. 'T is better than medicine.
EdAd 11.392 2
We have a better opinion of the economy of Nature than to
fear that those varying phases which humanity presents ever leave out any
of the grand springs of human action.
Wom 11.408 18
...[women's] fine organization, their taste and love of
details, makes the knowledge they give better in their hands.
Wom 11.408 19
...there is an art which is better than painting, poetry,
music, or architecture...namely, Conversation.
Wom 11.408 20
...there is an art...better than botany, geology, or any
science; namely, Conversation.
Wom 11.426 3
The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves
of kings. The melioration of manners brought their melioration of course. It
could not be otherwise, and hence the new desire of better laws.
RBur 11.439 22
...We are here to hold our parliament [the Burns Festival]
with love and poesy, as men were wont to do in the Middle Ages. Those
famous parliaments might or might not have had more stateliness and better
singers than we...but they could not have better reason.
RBur 11.439 24
...We are here to hold our parliament [the Burns Festival]
with love and poesy, as men were wont to do in the Middle Ages. Those
famous parliaments might or might not have had more stateliness and better
singers than we...but they could not have better reason.
RBur 11.442 20
...[Burns] had that secret of genius to draw from the
bottom of society the strength of its speech, and astonish the ears of the
polite with these artless words, better than art...
Scot 11.467 12
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than
wit for a poet and writer.
FRO2 11.486 10
...there is a force always at work to make the best better
and the worst good.
FRO2 11.489 8
It is the praise of our New Testament...that no better lesson
has been taught or incarnated.
CPL 11.503 14
...what omniscience has music! so absolutely impersonal,
and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow reached. Yet to a scholar the
book is as good or better.
FRep 11.511 10
The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or
three seconds in a year, ever since Newton explained to Parliament that the
way to improve navigation was to get good watches, and to offer public
premiums for a better time-keeper than any then in use.
FRep 11.512 14
The wine-merchant has his analyst and taster, the more
exquisite the better.
FRep 11.513 18
Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk
Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one
compound...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better
than Indians and bow-and-arrow times.
FRep 11.515 18
When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for
what they live for...then gods join in the combat; then poets are born, and
the better code of laws at last records the victory.
FRep 11.516 22
The mind is always better the more it is used...
FRep 11.527 6
...here that same great body [of the people] has arrived at a
sloven plenty...the man...disposed to give his children a better education
than he received.
FRep 11.533 13
We buy much of Europe that does not make us better
men;...
FRep 11.543 2
Happily we are under better guidance than of statesmen.
FRep 11.543 22
Our helm is given up to a better guidance than our own;...
PLT 12.6 18
My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is...that [the
student] shall see in [the mind] the source of all traditions, and shall see
each one of them as better or worse statement of its revelations;...
PLT 12.8 18
Was it better when we came to the philosophers, who found
everybody wrong;...
PLT 12.14 14
There is something surgical in metaphysics as we treat it.
Were not an ode a better form?
PLT 12.15 26
What but thought...makes us better than cow or cat?
PLT 12.48 5
Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created
to fetch it,-a vessel of honor or of dishonor. 'T is of instant use in the
economy of the Cosmos, and the more armed and biassed for the work the
better.
PLT 12.54 1
The more the peculiarities are pressed, the better the result.
PLT 12.59 9
We are passing into new heavens...in thought by our better
knowledge.
PLT 12.62 16
...Aristotle declares that the origin of reason is not reason,
but something better.
PLT 12.63 14
...[Socrates] utilized his humanity chiefly as a better eye-glass
to penetrate the vapors that baffled the vision of other men.
II 12.75 20
...your nature and genius will certainly give your vigilance the
slip...and will educate the children by the inevitable infusions of its quality.
You will do as you can. Why then cumber yourself about it, and make
believe be better than you are?
Mem 12.91 23
The Past has a new value every moment to the active mind,
through the incessant purification and better method of its memory.
Mem 12.98 7
[The orator] has an old story, an odd circumstance, that
illustrates the point he is now proving, and is better than an argument.
Mem 12.99 23
The mind has a better secret in generalization than merely
adding units to its list of facts.
CInt 12.115 25
[The college] is essentially the most radiating and public of
agencies, like, but better than, the light-house...
CInt 12.116 8
If the colleges were better...we should all rush to their
gates;...
CInt 12.121 25
...in the class called intellectual the men are no better than
the uninstructed.
CInt 12.125 20
What right have you to be better than your neighbor?
CInt 12.130 13
...know that, next to being [intellect's] minister, like
Aristotle, and perhaps better than that, is the profound reception and
sympathy, without ambition, which secularizes and trades it.
CL 12.139 9
...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in
Massachusetts...and...ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes,
Nature has to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.
CL 12.142 17
Good observers have the manners of trees and animals...and
if they add words, 't is only when words are better than silence.
CW 12.170 12
The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of
sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/ the miracle of generative
force,/ Far-reaching concords of astronomy/ Felt in the plants and in the
punctual birds;/ Better, the linked purpose of the whole./
CW 12.176 15
...it is much better to learn the elements of geology, of
botany...by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
Bost 12.191 2
In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can...wonder
that Governor Carver had not better eyes than to stop on the Plymouth
Sands.
Bost 12.198 1
I do not look to find in England better manners than the best
manners here [in New England].
MAng1 12.219 26
...to the artist it belongs by a better knowledge of
anatomy, and, within anatomy, of life and thought, to acquire the power of
true drawing.
MAng1 12.221 26
There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of
the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the
uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards
Anthropomorphism...
MAng1 12.238 2
Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did not use wax
candles, but a better sort made of the tallow of goats.
Milt1 12.259 20
...probably no traveller ever entered that country of history
[Italy] with better right to its hospitality [than Milton]...
Milt1 12.272 6
[Milton] maintained the doctrine of domestic liberty, or the
liberty of divorce, on the ground that unfit disposition of mind was a better
reason for the act of divorce than infirmity of body...
Milt1 12.278 5
...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry...
seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience.
Milt1 12.279 3
...are we not the better; are not all men fortified by the
remembrance of the bravery...of this man [Milton]...
ACri 12.284 15
...the learned depart from established forms of speech, in
hope of finding or making better;...
ACri 12.286 21
Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over
Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone
when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen. A well-chosen
series of stereoscopic views would have served a better purpose...
ACri 12.288 3
The short Saxon words with which the people help
themselves are better than Latin.
ACri 12.288 14
...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose
talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were
pretty blasphemies. The better the worse, you will say;...
ACri 12.290 10
The next virtue of rhetoric is compression, the science of
omitting, which makes good the old verse of Hesiod, Fools, they did not
know that half was better than the whole.
ACri 12.291 16
Never say, I beg not to be misunderstood. It is only
graceful in the case when you are afraid that what is called a better meaning
will be taken, and you wish to insist on a worse;...
ACri 12.291 19
...a man has a right to pass...for a worse man than he is, but
not for a better.
PD 12.307 3
The tongue is prone to lose the way;/ Not so the pen, for in a
letter/ We have not better things to say,/ But surely say them better./
MLit 12.309 5
In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our
debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these
rude helpers. They keep alive the memory and the hope of a better day.
MLit 12.311 4
...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books...which
leave no man where they found him, but make him better or worse;...
WSL 12.338 5
Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull] the better quality
of great downrightness in speaking the truth...
WSL 12.339 3
...[Landor] delights to throw a clod of dirt on the table, and
cry, Gentlemen, there is a better man than all of you.
WSL 12.343 12
Do not brag of your actions, as if they were better than
Homer's verses or Raphael's pictures.
WSL 12.343 20
Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty...belongs
to this sacred class; and among these, few men of the present age have a
better claim to be numbered than Mr. Landor.
AgMs 12.360 10
The First Report, [Edmund Hosmer] said, is better than
the last...
AgMs 12.361 11
...our [New England] people...will remove from town to
town as...a better farm is to be had...
EurB 12.370 17
Otto-of-roses is good, but wild air is better.
PPr 12.382 16
A man's diet should be what is simplest and readiest to be
had, because it is so private a good. His house should be better, because that
is for the use of hundreds, perhaps of thousands...
PPr 12.382 24
[A man's] manners,-let them be hospitable and civilizing,
so that no Phidias or Raphael shall have taught anything better in canvas or
stone;...
Let 12.394 9
Excellent reasons [the correspondents] have shown why
something better should be tried.
Let 12.396 8
It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves, that our people are
busied with these projects of a better social state...
Let 12.401 24
...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every
other planet is better than the earth.
Let 12.402 24
It may easily happen...that the times must be worse before
they are better.
Trag 12.408 15
After reason and faith have introduced a better public and
private tradition, the tragic element is somewhat circumscribed.
better, adv. (145)
Nat 1.60 26
[The soul]...is a doer, only that it may the better watch.
AmS 1.82 22
It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity
convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...just
as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end.
AmS 1.89 27
I had better never see a book than to be warped by its
attraction clean out of my own orbit...
AmS 1.99 18
Those...who dwell and act with him, will feel the force of [the
great soul's] constitution in the doings and passages of the day better than it
can be measured by any public and designed display.
MR 1.235 20
...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss
of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society, if it proceeded from a
preference of the agricultural life out of the belief that our primary duties as
men could be better discharged in that calling.
MR 1.241 22
...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and
philosophy, that individual...is better taught by a moderate and dainty
exercise...than by the downright drudgery of the farmer and the smith.
LT 1.274 6
[The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his
religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises...is
better breakfasted than he whose morning appetite would have gladly fed
on green figs between Bethany and Jerusalem...
LT 1.277 23
I think the work of the reformer as innocent as other work that
is done around him; but when I have seen it near, I do not like it better.
Con 1.309 10
I cannot then spare you the whole world. I love you better.
Tran 1.348 15
...genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Tran 1.353 10
That is to be done which [the Transcendentalist] has not
skill to do, or to be said which others can say better...
Tran 1.353 15
Much of our reading, much of our labor, seems mere
waiting; it was not that we were born for. Any other could do it as well or
better.
YA 1.379 7
We design it thus and thus; it turns out otherwise and far better.
Hist 2.29 4
The fact teaches [the child]...how the Pyramids were built,
better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen
and the cost of every tile.
SR 2.53 26
...you will always find those who think they know what is your
duty better than you know it.
SR 2.71 20
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any
preaching.
Comp 2.113 2
[The borrower] may soon come to see that he had better
have broken his own bones than to have ridden in his neighbor's coach...
SL 2.133 23
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we
like him.
SL 2.135 20
[Nature] does not like our benevolence or our learning much
better than she likes our frauds and wars.
SL 2.140 1
If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences,
the work...of men would go on far better than now...
SL 2.157 22
If a man know that he can do any thing,--that he can do it
better than any one else,--he has a pledge of the acknowledgement of that
fact by all persons.
Fdsp 2.192 22
We talk better [with the commended stranger] than we are
wont.
Fdsp 2.208 23
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
OS 2.278 16
We know better than we do.
Cir 2.315 3
...it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what
god he devotes it; if to ease and pleasure, he had better be prudent still;...
Art1 2.356 25
When [dancing] has educated the frame...to grace, the steps
of the dancing-master are better forgotten;...
Exp 3.83 4
I know better than to claim any completeness for my picture.
Mrs1 3.138 24
I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or
the laws than with a sloven and unpresentable person.
Mrs1 3.150 12
Certainly let [woman] be as much better placed in the laws
and in social forms as the most zealous reformer can ask...
Pol1 3.202 24
...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers
should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must
sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and
with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
Pol1 3.207 23
Democracy is better for us, because the religious sentiment
of the present time accords better with it.
NR 3.237 20
[Nature] loves better a wheelwright who dreams all night of
wheels...
UGM 4.13 10
We must not be sacks and stomachs. To ascend one step,--
we are better served through our sympathy.
UGM 4.15 1
There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better
than that other can...
PPh 4.65 23
...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a
certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated...an organ better
worth saving than ten thousand eyes...
ShP 4.212 4
For executive faculty, for creation, Shakspeare is unique. No
man can imagine it better.
NMW 4.247 26
...it is at all times the belief of society that the world is
used up. But Bonaparte knew better than society;...
NMW 4.247 27
...Bonaparte knew better than society; and moreover knew
that he knew better.
NMW 4.247 27
I think all men know better than they do;...
NMW 4.251 3
Believe me, [Bonaparte] said...we had better leave off all
these remedies...
ET1 5.16 13
...[Carlyle] liked Nero's death, Qualis artifex pereo! better
than most history.
ET4 5.71 22
Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians [in England]
like the company of horses better than the company of professors.
ET4 5.72 27
...[the English] boast that they understand horses better than
any other people in the world...
ET4 5.73 4
William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to
beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that
should meddle with his game.
ET5 5.97 17
The pauper [in England] lives better than the free laborer, the
thief better than the pauper...
ET5 5.97 18
The pauper [in England] lives better than the free laborer...and
the transported felon better than the one under imprisonment.
ET8 5.136 7
[The English] like the sayers of No, better than the sayers of
Yes.
ET10 5.155 3
...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate
family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders.
Better take [the children] away from those who might deprave them.
ET11 5.189 13
Against the cry of the old tenantry and the sympathetic cry
of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and planted
anew, and now six millions of people live, and live better, on the same land
that fed three millions.
ET12 5.211 14
I should readily concede these [physical] advantages...if I
did not find also that [Oxford men] read better than we, and write better.
ET12 5.211 15
I should readily concede these [physical] advantages...if I
did not find also that [Oxford men] read better than we, and write better.
ET13 5.215 1
[Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this
mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than
attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like
removing it.
ET14 5.246 2
...[Hallam] lifts himself to own better than almost any the
greatness of Shakspeare...
ET14 5.246 4
...better than Johnson [Hallam] appreciates Milton.
ET15 5.270 10
[The London Times's] editors know better than to defend
Russia, or Austria...on abstract grounds.
ET17 5.291 14
...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.
ET19 5.310 20
...these things are not for me to say; these compliments,
though true, would better come from one who felt and understood these
merits more.
ET19 5.313 15
I see [England]...with a kind of instinct that she sees a little
better in a cloudy day...
F 6.42 5
...a man likes better to be complimented on his position...than on
his merits.
Pow 6.63 22
The senators who dissented from Mr. Polk's Mexican war
were not those who knew better...
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 26
Cannot one converse better on a topic on which he has
experience, than on one which is new?
CbW 6.265 23
A man should make life and nature happier to us, or he had
better never been born.
CbW 6.270 21
How to live with unfit companions?--for with such, life is
for the most part spent; and experience teaches little better than our earliest
instinct of self-defence...
Ill 6.312 23
[the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of
some leader in the state or in society; weighs what he says; perhaps he
never comes nearer to him for that, but dies at last better contented for this
amusement of his eyes and his fancy.
SS 7.3 17
...[my new friend's] evident earnestness engaged my attention,
and in the weeks that followed we became better acquainted.
Civ 7.25 11
The skill that pervades complex details;...the very prison
compelled to maintain itself...and better still, made a reform school...these
are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index
of high civilization.
Elo1 7.77 19
The newspapers, every week, report the adventures of some
impudent swindler, who, by steadiness of carriage, duped those who should
have known better.
DL 7.126 5
...Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so
cheap and humble a result. The aspirations in the heart after the good and
true teach us better...
Farm 7.149 4
The smaller [the farmer's] garden, the better he can feed it...
WD 7.163 4
...we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social
arrangements: we...travel, grind, weave, forge, plant, till and excavate better
[than our fathers did].
Clbs 7.239 18
Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do
you not think I could understand any business in England in a month? Yes,
my lord, replied the other, but I think you would understand it better in two
months.
Clbs 7.248 26
...it was when things went prosperously, and the company
was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all...agreed in
one thing,--that they had not eaten better for three years.
Cour 7.267 2
In every school there are certain fighting boys;...in every
town, bravoes and bullies, better or worse dressed...
Cour 7.274 23
Sacred courage indicates that a man loves an idea better
than all things in the world;...
Suc 7.290 3
...Nature utilizes misers, fanatics, show-men, egotists, to
accomplish her ends; but we must not think better of the foible for that.
Suc 7.298 26
The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored
trees, and says...they are n't growing any better;...
Suc 7.305 6
...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was defeated, why he had better a
great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy.
PI 8.35 26
On the stage, the farce is commonly far better given than the
tragedy...
PI 8.36 12
...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's
selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to
Rome, or to Persia, for his fable. But I believe nobody knows better than he
that herein he consults his ease rather than his strength or his desire.
PI 8.46 5
The universality of this taste [for rhyme] is proved by our habit of
casting our facts into rhyme to remember them better...
PI 8.46 13
Sailors can work better for their yo-heave-o.
PI 8.46 14
Soldiers can march better and fight better for the drum and
trumpet.
PI 8.46 15
Soldiers can march better and fight better for the drum and
trumpet.
PI 8.68 17
The poet should rejoice...if he has so moved us as...to open the
eye of the intellect to see farther and better.
SA 8.85 8
Wait till your affairs go better...
Elo2 8.125 6
You say, If [the man in the street] could only express himself;
but he does already, better than any one can for him...
QO 8.184 12
...[the Earl of Strafford] drew all that ran in the author more
strictly, and might better judge of his own wants to supply them.
QO 8.189 6
In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I
follow goes my way, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we
say;...
QO 8.189 8
In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I
follow goes my way, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we
say; but if I like the gay equipage so well as to go out of my road, I had
better have gone afoot.
QO 8.196 15
...many men can write better under a mask than for
themselves;...
QO 8.197 23
...James Hogg...is but a third-rate author, owing his fame to
his effigy colossalized through the lens of John Wilson,-who, again,
writes better under the domino of Christopher North than in his proper
clothes.
PC 8.217 19
If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his
nation cannot spare him;...
PC 8.217 24
If [a man] can converse better than any other, he rules the
minds of men...
PPo 8.251 10
In general what is more tedious than dedications or
panegyrics addressed to grandees? Yet in the Divan you would not skip
them, since [Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him better...
Insp 8.293 12
Homer said, When two come together, one apprehends
before the other; but it is because one thought well that the other thinks
better...
Grts 8.319 4
These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate
a magnetism which is probably known better and finer to each scholar in
the little Olympus of his own favorites...
Imtl 8.340 10
Salt is a good preserver; cold is: but a truth cures the taint of
mortality better...
Aris 10.51 4
...if [Will] is not in you, you had better not put yourself in
places where not to have it is to be a public enemy.
Aris 10.57 13
It was objected to Gustavus that he did not better distinguish
between the duties of a carabine and a general...
PerF 10.87 8
If I have not my own respect, I...had better creep into my
grave.
PerF 10.87 11
I admire the sentiment of Thoreau, who said, Nothing is so
much to be feared as fear; God himself likes atheism better.
Chr2 10.100 2
Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use
them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the
same truth, but they have heard it better.
Edc1 10.143 7
Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet,
read Hodson's Life...
LLNE 10.333 14
[Everett] abounded...even in a sort of defying experiment
of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or
Rabbinical words;-feats which no man could better accomplish...
EzRy 10.384 8
Perhaps I cannot better illustrate this tendency [to believe in
a particular providence] than by citing a record from the diary of the father
of [Ezra Ripley's] predecessor...
MMEm 10.425 23
...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the
idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and
industry...
SlHr 10.445 1
[Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and the
powerful statement of the material points of his case. He soon possessed it,
and he never possessed it better...
Thor 10.455 23
In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over
so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking
hundreds of miles...buying a lodging in farmers' and fishermen's houses...
because there he could better find the men and the information he wanted.
Thor 10.461 20
[Thoreau] could find his path in the woods at night, he
said, better by his feet than his eyes.
Thor 10.463 12
...Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter, saying that
the man who shoots the buffalo lives better than the man who boards at the
Graham House.
Thor 10.471 18
...none knew better than [Thoreau] that it is not the fact
that imports...
Thor 10.478 14
[Thoreau] thought that without religion or devotion of
some kind nothing great was ever accomplished: and he thought that the
bigoted sectarian had better bear this in mind.
EWI 11.100 20
...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a
malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an
impulse...I had almost said, Creep into your grave, the universe has no need
of you! But I have thought better: let him not go.
EWI 11.103 16
Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in
the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra,
or white, his choice of two boxes...
EWI 11.135 2
...government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the
injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.
JBB 11.272 11
If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the
sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and
venerable. What avails their learning or veneration? At a pinch, they are no
more use than idiots. After the mischance they wring their hands, but they
had better never have been born.
JBB 11.273 4
...I am detaining the meeting on matters which others
understand better.
JBS 11.277 6
...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.
TPar 11.289 14
One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he...sometimes vexed
[his friends] with the importunity of his good opinion, whilst they knew
better the ebb which follows unfounded praise.
Wom 11.410 23
...man invents and adorns all he does with delays and
degrees, paints it all over with forms, to please himself better;...
Wom 11.411 4
...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 11.412 6
The worm its golden woof presents./ Whatever runs, flies,
dives or delves/ All doff for [woman] their ornaments,/ Which suit her
better than themselves./
CPL 11.500 12
Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...known to our
farmers as...better acquainted with their forests and meadows and trees than
themselves...
PLT 12.34 6
Each man has a feeling that what is done anywhere is done by
the same wit as his. All men are his representatives, and he is glad to see
that his wit can work at this or that problem as it ought to be done, and
better than he could do it.
PLT 12.51 12
The horse goes better with blinders...
II 12.74 11
When a young man asked old Goethe about Faust, he replied,
What can I know of this? I ought rather to ask you, who are young, and can
enter much better into that feeling.
Mem 12.91 20
...a piece of news I hear, has a value at this moment exactly
proportioned to my skill to deal with it. To-morrow, when I know more, I
recall that piece of knowledge, and use it better.
Mem 12.92 1
Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood
and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it means more
and serves you better as an illustration;...
Mem 12.98 10
The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems
to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us that he is in the habit of
seeing better than other people;...
Mem 12.101 20
Shall we not on higher stages of being remember and
understand our early history better?
CInt 12.122 19
[A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad
to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and
better than he could do it;...
CL 12.166 18
...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive
persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found...answers our
purpose still better.
Bost 12.209 25
As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education
and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she
will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her
farmers will toil better;...
MAng1 12.239 19
...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go
to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble
dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like
you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
Milt1 12.254 15
Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of
every great man, namely, to raise the idea of Man in the minds of his
contemporaries and of posterity...
ACri 12.294 22
Shakespeare's] loom is better toothed, cranked and
pedalled than other people's...
PD 12.307 4
The tongue is prone to lose the way;/ Not so the pen, for in a
letter/ We have not better things to say,/ But surely say them better./
MLit 12.326 4
The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the
nature in this piece [Goethe's journal]; I liked the sly art in the
composition...still better.
MLit 12.332 14
[Goethe] has written better than other poets only as his
talent was subtler...
MLit 12.332 23
...they have served [humanity] better, who assured it out of
the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this
majestic Artist [Goethe]...
AgMs 12.360 21
[Farmers] could not afford to follow such advice as is
given here [in the Agricultural Survey]; they have sterner teachers; their
own business teaches them better.
AgMs 12.361 26
...necessity finds out when to go to Brighton, and when to
feed in the stall, better than Mr. [Henry] Colman can tell us.
Let 12.395 14
Another objection [to Communities] seems to have occurred
to a subtle but ardent advocate. Is it, he writes, a too great wilfulness and
intermeddling with life,-which is better accepted than calculated?
Let 12.396 5
The more discontent, the better we like it.
better, n. (7)
SR 2.46 14
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the
conviction...that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion;...
Cir 2.318 27
...that which is made instructs how to make a better.
ET13 5.222 5
Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army
chaplain: Mr. Briscoll, by his admirable conduct and good sense, got the
better of Methodism, which had appeared among the soldiers and once
among the officers.
F 6.11 18
The more of these drones perish, the better for the hive.
War 11.160 12
The eternal germination of the better has unfolded new
powers...
War 11.167 21
...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]
for better, for worse, carry it out to the end, and meet its absurd
consequences; or else...give up the principle...
CL 12.143 18
...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a
little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if
young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be
wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I
fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.
Better, n. (5)
LT 1.270 24
...each of these aspirations and attempts of the people for the
Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates...
F 6.35 25
...before [every individual] opens liberty,-the Better, the Best.
Ctr 6.166 14
...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic
effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to
the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he
will not overcome and convert...
Imtl 8.339 13
Every really able man...considers his work...as far short of
what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual
promise of his Creator?
FSLN 11.232 1
In vulgar politics the Whig goes...for the old necessities,-
the Musts. The reformer goes for the Better, for the ideal good...
better, v. (3)
Bhr 6.170 9
Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness
copy very fast, and by the advantage of a palace, better the instruction.
Plu 10.298 12
Plutarch was...a self-respecting, amiable man, who knew
how to better a good education by travels...
AgMs 12.361 10
...our [New England] people are...always alert to better
themselves....
better-directed, adj. (1)
Civ 7.32 14
...when I...see...man acting on man by weight of opinion, of
longer or better-directed industry;...I see what cubic values America has...
better-garnished, adj. (1)
Nat2 3.175 14
That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call
a park; that they live in larger and better-garnished saloons than he has
visited...these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has
delineated estates of romance...
betters, v. (1)
ShP 4.190 18
[A great man] finds a war raging: it educates him, by
trumpet, in barracks, and he betters the instruction.
Betterton, Thomas, n. (1)
ShP 4.206 17
Betterton, Garrick, Kemble, Kean and Macready dedicate
their lives to this genius [Shakespeare];...
Bettine [Bettina von Arnim] (1)
Ctr 6.163 17
Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who chides her disregard
of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our poor Frankfort, I shall not
carry things far.
Bettine [Elizabeth von Arni [Bettine,] (2)
Exp 3.55 21
Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should
not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare;...afterwards in Goethe;
even in Bettine;...
PC 8.218 19
Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim...is always
allowed.
Beverley Minster, England, (1)
ET13 5.215 25
The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created
the religious architecture...Fountains Abbey, Ripon, Beverley and Dundee...
bewail, v. (4)
LE 1.173 6
Thus is justice done to each generation and individual,-
wisdom teaching man...that he shall not bewail himself...
MN 1.220 21
Shall we not...betake ourselves to...some unvisited recess in
Moosehead Lake, to bewail our innocency and to recover it...
Ctr 6.154 4
What is odious but...people who scream and bewail?...
Suc 7.309 12
Don't bewail and bemoan.
bewailed, v. (1)
AmS 1.109 14
Our age is bewailed as the age of Introversion.
bewailing, v. (1)
CbW 6.265 27
When the political economist reckons up the unproductive
classes, he should put at the head this class of...cravers of sympathy,
bewailing imaginary disasters.
bewails, v. (1)
Let 12.404 9
...every man knows in his heart the cure for the disease he so
ostentatiously bewails.
beware, v. (16)
AmS 1.84 18
...All things have two handles: beware of the wrong one.
MN 1.212 2
Is it [man's] work in the world to study nature, or the laws of
the world? Let him beware of proposing to himself any end.
Comp 2.113 25
Beware of too much good staying in your hand.
Cir 2.308 19
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
F 6.47 3
...hence the high caution, that since we are sure of having what we
wish, we beware to ask only for high things.
Wth 6.89 17
Beware of me, [the sea] says, but if you can hold me, I am the
key to all the lands.
Ctr 6.133 17
Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation.
Bhr 6.182 4
Beware you don't laugh, said the wise mother, for then you
show all your faults.
CbW 6.243 12
...thou, Cyndyllan's son! beware/ Ponderous gold and stuffs
to bear/...
SA 8.97 25
...beware of jokes;...
SA 8.98 18
...even if you could trust yourself on that perilous topic
[sickness], beware of unmuzzling a valetudinarian, who will soon give you
your fill of it.
PPo 8.246 7
There resides in the grieving/ A poison to kill;/ Beware to go
near them/ 'T is pestilent still./
PPo 8.262 26
In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;/ Thine the star-pointing-
roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is one half depicted with colors
less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!/
Thor 10.470 25
Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of
the night-warbler, a bird he had never identified...the only bird which sings
indifferently by night and by day. I told him he must beware of finding and
booking it, lest life should have nothing more to show him.
FSLN 11.236 16
The Persian Saadi said, Beware of hurting the orphan.
When the orphan sets a-crying, the throne of the Almighty is rocked from
side to side.
AKan 11.254 4
...Help them who cannot help again:/ Beware from right to
swerve./
Beware-of-this, n. (1)
CL 12.146 26
Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in
Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and Cow-apple...and Beware-of-this.
bewildered, v. (2)
Dem1 10.24 11
Read demonology or Colquhoun's Report, and we are
bewildered...
PLT 12.42 2
I am bewildered by the immense variety of attractions and
cannot take a step;...
bewildering, v. (1)
PC 8.224 6
Here stretches...out of conception even, this vast Nature,
daunting, bewildering, but all penetrable...
bewitched, v. (1)
PPh 4.74 7
...Meno has discoursed a thousand times, at length, on virtue...
and very well, as it appeared to him; but at this moment he cannot even tell
what it is,--this cramp-fish of a Socrates has so bewitched him.
bewitching, v. (1)
DL 7.103 23
...[the child's] little sins [are] more bewitching than any virtue.
Beza, Theodore, n. (1)
ShP 4.203 11
...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and
acquaintances...Theodore Beza, Isaac Casaubon...
Bhagavad-Geeta, n. (2)
PPh 4.49 12
The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in
one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly...in the
Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu Purana.
MoS 4.172 23
[The wise skeptic's] politics are those...of Krishna, in the
Bhagavat...
Bhagavad-Gita, n. (1)
Boks 7.218 18
After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books]
are...the Upanishads, the Vishnu Purana, the Bhagvat Geeta, of the
Hindoos;...
Bhavagad-Gita, n. (1)
ET14 5.259 2
I am not surprised...to find an Englishman like Warren
Hastings...deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering them
a translation of the Bhagvat.
Biagioli, Giambattista, n,. (1)
MAng1 12.241 12
An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems']
philosophy may be found in a paper...by the Italian scholar, in the
Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo,
contained in the volume of his poems published by Biagioli...
bias, n. (40)
MR 1.242 19
...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that
man...ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain
rigor and privation in his habits.
Tran 1.338 5
...all who by strong bias of nature have leaned to the spiritual
side in doctrine, have stopped short of their goal.
Mrs1 3.152 3
...the bias of [Lilla's] nature was not to thought, but to
sympathy...
SwM 4.97 18
All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what
as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This beatitude
comes...with shocks to the mind of the receiver. It...gives a certain violent
bias which taints his judgment.
SwM 4.121 21
[Swedenborg's] theological bias thus fatally narrowed his
interpretation of nature...
ShP 4.202 19
There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the
passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass
without a single valuable note...the man...on whose thoughts the foremost
people of the world are now for some ages to be nourished, and minds to
receive this and not another bias.
ET4 5.45 16
[The English] give the bias to the current age;...
ET5 5.83 11
The bias of the nation [England] is a passion for utility.
ET8 5.137 26
[The English] are testy and headstrong through an excess of
will and bias;...
ET8 5.141 17
Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias,
which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce,
codes, arts, letters?
ET10 5.157 4
The headlong bias to utility [in England] will let no talent lie
in a napkin...
ET14 5.251 19
The bias of Englishmen to practical skill has reacted on the
national mind.
ET18 5.299 14
England is not so public in its bias;...
ET18 5.301 9
[The foreign policy of England] has a principal regard to the
interest of trade, checked however by the aristocratic bias of the
ambassador...
F 6.12 16
People are born with the moral or with the material bias;...
Ctr 6.131 22
...nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent
into the world, overloads him with bias...
Ctr 6.136 23
...our talents are as mischievous as if each had been seized
upon by some bird of prey...some zeal, some bias...
Wsp 6.202 15
The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the
credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical
bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power...
Wsp 6.217 23
The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous
courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.
CbW 6.267 7
...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to
some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness...
PI 8.71 23
...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias
or a rest on to-day's forms.
Elo2 8.112 2
...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet
called into existence, but is to be suggested on the spot...by the exhibition
of an unlooked-for bias in the judges or in the audience.
Res 8.138 18
...if you tell me...that every man is provided, in the new bias
of his faculty, with a key to Nature...I am invigorated...
Grts 8.307 5
...there is a teaching for [every man] from within...and, the
more it is trusted, separates and signalizes him, while it makes him more
important and necessary to society. We call this specialty the bias of each
individual.
Grts 8.307 13
...every individual man has a bias which he must obey...
Grts 8.310 21
...if the first rule is to obey your native bias...the second rule
is concentration...
Grts 8.312 3
With this respect to the bias of the individual mind add...the
most catholic receptivity for the genius of others.
PerF 10.73 13
...in man that bias or direction of his constitution is often as
tyrannical as gravity.
Edc1 10.142 6
There is no want of example of great men, great benefactors,
who have been monks and hermits in habit. The bias of mind is sometimes
irresistible in that direction.
Edc1 10.145 13
Happy this child with a bias...
SovE 10.208 25
...a new crop of geniuses like those of the Elizabethan age,
may be born in this age, and, with happy heart and a bias for theism, bring
asceticism, duty and magnanimity into vogue again.
MoL 10.247 22
...no decay has crept over the spiritual force which gives
bias and period to boundless Nature.
Schr 10.264 20
The men committed by profession as well as by bias to
study...talk hard and worldly...
LLNE 10.363 13
[Charles Newcomb] was the Abbe or spiritual father [of
Brook Farm], from his religious bias.
Scot 11.465 20
By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time
and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and
graces of that class...
CPL 11.498 18
The religious bias of our founders had its usual effect to
secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book...
II 12.82 11
Every man comes into Nature impressed with his own polarity
or bias...
CL 12.135 9
The land, the care of land, seems to be the calling of the
people of this new country, of those, at least, who have not some decided
bias...
ACri 12.294 8
...the only check on the detail of each of [Shakespeare's]
portraits is his own universality, which made bias or fixed ideas
impossible...
MLit 12.329 15
[We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] I have given my
characters [in Wilhelm Meister] a bias to error. Men have the same.
bias, v. (1)
Exp 3.52 18
...the individual texture holds its dominion, if not to bias the
moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of enjoyment.
biases, n. (3)
ET14 5.250 23
If [James Wilkinson's] mind does not rest in immovable
biases, perhaps the orbit is larger and the return is not yet...
Chr2 10.93 12
Certain biases, talents, executive skills, are special to each
individual;...
Wom 11.422 14
...one [man] wishes schools, another armies, one gunboats,
another public gardens. Bring all these biases together and something is
done in favor of them all.
biassed, v. (1)
PLT 12.48 4
Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created
to fetch it,-a vessel of honor or of dishonor. 'T is of instant use in the
economy of the Cosmos, and the more armed and biassed for the work the
better.
bib, n. (1)
Con 1.319 13
The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and...his
total legislation is for the present distress, a universe...with bib and pap-spoon...
Bible, adj. (1)
Ill 6.315 6
...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community...who
held themselves bound to...act with Bible societies and missions and peace-makers...
Bible Conventions, n. (1)
NER 3.251 14
[The observer of New England's] attention must be
commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party...is appearing...
in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions;...
bible, n. (2)
Pow 6.53 2
There is not yet any inventory of a man's faculties, any more
than a bible of his opinions.
Plu 10.318 4
[Plutarch's] delight in magnanimity and self-sacrifice has
made his books...a bible for heroes;...
Bible, n. (30)
DSA 1.144 13
The stationariness of religion; the assumption...that the Bible
is closed;...indicate...the falsehood of our theology.
LT 1.279 22
If every island and every house had a Bible...would the
wounds of the world heal...
Exp 3.63 13
I think I will never read any but the commonest books,--The
Bible, Homer, Dante, Shakspeare and Milton.
UGM 4.20 25
With each new mind, a new secret of nature transpires; nor
can the Bible be closed until the last great man is born.
PPh 4.39 15
The Bible of the learned for twenty-two hundred years, every
brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant
generation...is some reader of Plato...
PPh 4.44 19
...our Jewish Bible has implanted itself in the table-talk and
household life of every man and woman in the European and American
nations...
ShP 4.199 26
Our English Bible is a wonderful specimen of the strength
and music of the English language.
ET5 5.100 14
...[the English people's] language seems drawn from the
Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton,
Pope, Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott.
ET12 5.203 12
In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me...the first
Bible printed at Mentz...
ET12 5.203 21
On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr.
Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect
order;...
ET13 5.216 1
The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired
the English Bible...
ET13 5.218 5
The carved and pictured chapel...made the parish-church [in
England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.
ET14 5.256 13
...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the
Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are
still glowing and effective,--how few!
Wth 6.101 17
Political Economy is as good a book wherein to read...the
ascendency of laws over all private and hostile influences, as any Bible
which has come down to us.
Boks 7.194 12
...the Bible has been the literature as well as the religion of
large portions of Europe;...
Boks 7.204 4
...in our Bible...it seems easy and inevitable to render the
rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
Boks 7.220 9
...it takes millenniums to make a Bible.
PI 8.8 24
Natural objects...are really parts of a symmetrical universe, like
words of a sentence; and if their true order is found, the poet can read their
divine significance orderly as in a Bible.
Elo2 8.122 15
I have heard that no man could read the Bible with such
powerful effect [as John Quincy Adams].
QO 8.182 10
The Bible itself is like an old Cremona [violin];...
MMEm 10.402 14
[Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton,
Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible.
MMEm 10.408 8
[Mary Moody Emerson] is...a Bible, miscellaneous in its
parts...
FSLC 11.190 9
I had often heard that the Bible constituted a part of every
technical law library...
FSLN 11.234 10
Of course [slave-owners] will not dare to read the Bible?
FSLN 11.234 11
Of course [slave-owners] will not dare to read the Bible?
Won't they? They quote the Bible, quote Paul, quote Christ, to justify
slavery.
SMC 11.361 15
If Marshal Montluc's Memoirs are the Bible of soldiers, as
Henry IV. of France said, Colonel Prescott might furnish the Book of
Epistles.
CPL 11.498 20
The religious bias of our founders had its usual effect to
secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book...
II 12.87 1
There is a probity of the Intellect, which demands, if possible,
virtues more costly than any Bible has consecrated.
ACri 12.295 9
...the English and Germans, who read Shakspeare and the
Bible, have a great onward march.
ACri 12.296 11
Herrick is a remarkable example of the low style. He is,
therefore, a good example of the modernness of an old English writer. So
Latimer, so Chaucer, so the Bible.
bibles, n. (2)
FSLN 11.234 7
I fear there is no reliance to be put on any kind or form of
covenant, no, not on sacred forms, none on churches, none on bibles.
FSLN 11.234 18
These things show that no forms, neither constitutions...
nor churches, nor bibles, are of any use in themselves.
Bibles, n. (8)
GoW 4.269 9
There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person:
he wrote Bibles...
GoW 4.290 16
We too must write Bibles...
Bhr 6.192 15
The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret
that the best of life is conversation...
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...
Suc 7.296 1
'T is the fulness of man that...makes his Bibles and
Shakspeares and Homers so great.
PI 8.38 11
Socrates, the Indian teachers of the Maia, the Bibles...these all
deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...
QO 8.180 19
...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of
thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native
country to discover...its latent, but real connection with our own Bibles.
Prch 10.224 8
...all that saints and churches and Bibles...have aimed at, is
to suppress this impertinent surface-action...
Bible-society, n. (1)
SR 2.54 9
If you...contribute to a dead Bible-society...I have difficulty to
detect the precise man you are...
biblical, adj. (3)
MoS 4.165 6
...though a biblical plainness coupled with a most uncanonical
levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the
offence is superficial.
ET14 5.233 24
A taste for plain strong speech, what is called a biblical
style, marks the English.
Elo1 7.93 26
...first and last, [eloquence] must still be at bottom a biblical
statement of fact.
bibliography, n. (2)
ET12 5.203 24
On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase,
[Bulkeley Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in
perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of his purchase, and
placed them in the volume; but has too much awe for the Providence that
appears in bibliography also, to suffer the reunited parts to be re-bound.
Boks 7.209 10
The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the
delirious extent to which book-fancying can go...
bibliomaniacs, n. (1)
AmS 1.89 23
Hence the restorers of readings...the bibliomaniacs of all
degrees.
bibulous, adj. (1)
OS 2.290 26
...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...dwells...in
the earnest experience of the common day,--by reason of the present
moment and the mere trifle having become...bibulous of the sea of light.
bid, n. (1)
Boks 7.209 27
The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred
guineas.
bid, v. (8)
SR 2.71 9
Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet...
Fdsp 2.214 13
Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell...
Hsm1 2.246 3
Valerius. Bid thy wife farewell.
ET1 5.17 26
[Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish
abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform.
Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come
wandering over these moors. ... But here are thousands of acres which
might give them all meat, and nobody to bid these poor Irish go to the moor
and till it.
Wth 6.84 13
...The storm-wind wove, the torrent span,/ Where they were
bid the rivers ran;/...
Bhr 6.177 27
A cow can bid her calf...to run away...
MMEm 10.410 25
[Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you
a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures. Go
instantly and call Elizabeth till you find [Elizabeth Hoar and her niece]. The
man...did as he was bid...
HDC 11.52 10
Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians
together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were
taking for their good;...
bidders, n. (1)
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.
bidding, n. (3)
Pol1 3.208 23
Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this
deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader...
Schr 10.286 4
Genius delights only in statements which are themselves
true...which society cannot dispose of or forget, but which...will not down
at anybody's bidding...
CPL 11.506 27
You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure. Yes, but its
tractableness, coming and going like a dog at our bidding, compensates the
quietness...
bide, v. (4)
AmS 1.103 2
...let [the scholar]...bide his own time...
Mrs1 3.138 10
The flower of courtesy does not very well bide handling...
CbW 6.244 4
...Fool and foe may harmless roam,/ Loved and lovers bide at
home./
GSt 10.504 16
Plainly [George Stearns] was...a soldier to bide the brunt;...
bides, v. (1)
Suc 7.281 6
Who bides at home, nor looks abroad,/ Carries the eagles and
masters the sword./
biding, v. (2)
MN 1.208 15
...many more men than one [God] harbors in his bosom,
biding their time and the needs and the beauty of all.
Carl 10.490 2
[Carlyle] talks like a very unhappy man...biding his time,
meditating how to undermine and explode the whole world of nonsense
which torments him.
Bidpai [Pilpay], n. (2)
ShP 4.201 2
Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad,
Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.
ALin 11.333 19
I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less
facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few
years, like Aesop or Pilpay...
bids, v. (3)
Elo1 7.65 20
Bring [the master orator] to his audience...and they shall carry
and execute that which he bids them.
LS 11.10 12
[Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was
for his interment. He washed the feet of his disciples. These are admitted to
be symbolical actions and expressions. Here [at the Last Supper], in like
manner, he calls the bread his body, and bids the disciples eat.
War 11.171 9
...[peace] is to hear the voice of God, which bids the devils
that have rended and torn [the man] come out of him...
bien, adv. (2)
ET11 5.186 3
...beneficent power, le talent de bien faire, gives a majesty
which cannot be concealed or resisted.
Chr2 10.104 9
Si Dieu a fait l'homme a son image, l'homme l' a bien
rendu.
bier, n. (2)
Elo1 7.65 27
[Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in
the Pied Piper of Hamelin...or that of the minstrel of Meudon, who made
the pall-bearers dance around the bier.
MMEm 10.423 16
...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries
of the battle-field...what of a vulture being the bier, tomb and parson of a
hero, compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
bifold, adj. (2)
Con 1.301 13
...this bifold fact [Conservatism and Reform] lies thus united
in real nature...
Prd1 2.233 3
The scholar shames us by his bifold life.
big, adj. (9)
ShP 4.207 9
That imagination which dilates the closet [Shakespeare] writes
in to the world's dimension...as quickly reduces the big reality to be the
glimpses of the moon.
Ill 6.316 14
We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children that
makes the heart too big for the body.
Ill 6.320 21
The cloud is now as big as your hand, and now it covers a
county.
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.
EWI 11.103 17
Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in
the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra,
or white, his choice of two boxes, a big and a little one.
ACiv 11.300 18
Neither was anything concealed of the theory or practice of
slavery. To what purpose make more big books of these statistics?
HCom 11.344 4
When her blood is up, [Massachusetts] has a fist big
enough to knock down an empire.
CL 12.144 14
Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was
composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it was impossible to
walk in the country...
Bost 12.188 10
Linnaeus, like a naturalist, esteeming the globe a big egg,
called London the punctum saliens in the yolk of the world.
bigger, adj. (8)
Con 1.316 14
...[riches] take somewhat for everything they give. I look
bigger, but I am less;...
ET3 5.42 25
...there is such an artificial completeness in this nation of
artificers [England] as if there were a design from the beginning to
elaborate a bigger Birmingham.
ET4 5.65 8
[The English] are bigger men than the Americans.
F 6.30 23
...when the boy grows to man...he pulls down that wall and builds
a new and bigger.
Wth 6.117 2
Saving and unexpensiveness will not keep the most pathetic
family from ruin, nor will bigger incomes make free spending safe.
Wth 6.118 6
It is a general rule in that country [England] that bigger
incomes do not help anybody.
Cour 7.258 13
The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved
King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop,
expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and
slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
HCom 11.344 3
...when I see how irresistible the convictions of
Massachusetts are in these swarming populations,-I think the little state
bigger than I knew.
biggest, adj. (1)
ET16 5.277 22
We [Emerson and Carlyle] counted and measured by paces
the biggest stones [at Stonehenge]...
Bigio, Nanni di Bacio, n. (2)
MAng1 12.226 7
...this work [rebuilding the Pons Palatinus] was taken
from [Michelangelo]...and intrusted to Nanni di Bacio Bigio...
MAng1 12.226 8
Nanni sold the travertine, and filled up the piers [of the
Pons Palatinus] with gravel at small expense.
big-mouthed, adj. (1)
MoL 10.256 20
...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and
Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge.
bigness, n. (1)
HDC 11.34 25
...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the pilgrims] great store
of fish in the spring-time, and especially, alewives, about the bigness of a
herring.
Bigot, Emeric, n. (1)
Milt1 12.258 24
In a letter to one of his foreign correspondents, Emeric
Bigot...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions,
whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of
sublimity or genius.
bigot, n. (5)
MN 1.193 20
The bigot must cease to be a bigot to-day.
MN 1.193 21
The bigot must cease to be a bigot to-day.
SR 2.51 10
If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition...
why should I not say to him, Go love thy infant;...
Nat2 3.185 10
...without this violence of direction which men and women
have, without a spice of bigot and fanatic, no excitement, no efficiency.
Boks 7.191 15
Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the
questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the books of
Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed of.
bigoted, adj. (3)
MoS 4.164 21
Gibbon reckons, in these bigoted times, but two men of
liberality in France,--Henry IV. and Montaigne.
Prch 10.227 14
Be not betrayed into undervaluing the churches which
annoy you by their bigoted claims.
Thor 10.478 14
[Thoreau] thought that without religion or devotion of
some kind nothing great was ever accomplished: and he thought that the
bigoted sectarian had better bear this in mind.
bigotry, n. (2)
LT 1.269 15
The leaders of the crusades against War, Negro slavery...are
the right successors of Luther...and Whitefield. They have...the same noble
impulse, and the same bigotry.
ET15 5.269 11
One bishop fares badly [in the London Times] for his
rapacity, and another for his bigotry...
bigots, n. (4)
Cir 2.313 24
...the instinct of man...gladly arms itself against the
dogmatism of bigots...
MoS 4.171 25
Every superior mind...will know how to avail himself of the
checks and balances in nature, as a natural weapon against the exaggeration
and formalism of bigots and blockheads.
SovE 10.187 25
Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage kills worms;...
PLT 12.54 4
...without the violence of direction that men have, without
bigots, without men of fixed idea, no excitement, no efficiency.
bilge, n. (1)
ET2 5.29 7
Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset...suffocated
with bilge...
bilge-water, n. (1)
AKan 11.259 27
Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for
an ugly thing. They call it otto of rose and lavender,-I call it bilge-water.
biliary, adj. (1)
Exp 3.51 16
I knew a witty physician who found the creed in the biliary
duct...
bilious, adj. (4)
ET5 5.78 5
The people [of England] have that nervous bilious temperament
which is known by medical men to resist every means employed to make its
possessor subservient to the will of others.
ET8 5.129 19
Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of
Englishmen]. The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident
in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated
and dignified man of family [in England].
F 6.45 20
A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies
than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves.
EWI 11.117 24
The governors [of Jamaica]...were at constant quarrel with
the angry and bilious island legislature.
Bill, Copyright, n. (1)
EurB 12.366 18
In the debates on the Copyright Bill, in the English
Parliament, Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry
in derision...
Bill, Fugitive Slave, n. (3)
FSLC 11.184 20
Who could have believed it, if foretold that a hundred
guns would be fired in Boston on the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill?
FSLN 11.224 15
Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster...caused by his
personal and official authority the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill.
TPar 11.290 14
[Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when
Southern slavery...wrung from the weakness or treachery of Northern
people fatal concessions in the Fugitive Slave Bill...
Bill, Homestead, n. (1)
EPro 11.316 2
Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history
were the Confession of Augsburg...the passage of the Homestead Bill in the
last Congress...
bill, n. (32)
SR 2.58 21
The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or
straw he carries in his bill into my web also.
SR 2.84 21
What a contrast between the...American, with a...bill of
exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander...
Pol1 3.201 10
What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints
to-day...shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and
war...
ET8 5.133 24
The common Englishman is prone to forget a cardinal article
in the bill of social rights, that every man has a right to his own ears.
ET10 5.154 24
When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill forbidding parish
officers to bind children apprentices at a greater distance than forty miles
from their home, Peel opposed...
ET13 5.224 23
The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in
1753) was resisted by petitions from all parts of the kingdom...
ET13 5.224 26
The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in
1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this
bill...
ET14 5.233 12
[The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect
security and convenience in the eating of it, to the chances of the amplest
and Frenchiest bill of fare...
F 6.9 1
...the bill of the bird...determines tyrannically its limits.
CbW 6.262 26
You buy much that is not rendered in the bill.
Bty 6.283 25
...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good
son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...as a sort of bill of
exchange easily convertible into fine chambers...
Elo2 8.129 4
Lord Ashley, in 1696, while the bill for regulating trials in
cases of high treason was pending, attempting to utter a premeditated
speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to
proceed;...
Elo2 8.129 7
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;...
Elo2 8.129 21
...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in
the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could
not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life
depended on his own abilities to defend it? This happy turn did great
service in promoting that excellent bill [regulating trials in cases of high
treason].
EWI 11.103 21
The buckra box was full up with pen, paper and whip, and
the negro box with hoe and bill; and hoe and bill for the negro to this day.
EWI 11.108 6
John Woolman of New Jersey...was uneasy in his mind
when he was set to write a bill of sale of a negro, for his master.
EWI 11.109 6
In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by
Wilberforce...
EWI 11.109 26
...in 1807, on the 25th March, the bill passed, and the slave-trade
was abolished.
EWI 11.112 3
...in 1833, on the 14th May, Lord Stanley, Minister of the
Colonies, introduced into the House of Commons his bill for the
Emancipation.
EWI 11.112 20
With these provisions and conditions, the bill [for
emancipation in the West Indies] proceeds...in the following terms...
EWI 11.113 22
After much debate, the bill [for emancipation in the West
Indies] passed by large majorities.
EWI 11.114 2
...every provision of the bill [for emancipation in the West
Indies] was criticised with severity.
EWI 11.114 5
...the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] required the
appointment of magistrates who should hear every complaint of the
apprentice and see that justice was done him.
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 11.128 6
For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West
Indies] was debated...
FSLC 11.202 13
...we must use the introducer and substantial author of the
[Fugitive Slave] bill as an illustration of the history.
ChiE 11.473 16
I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill
which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has twice attempted to carry
through Congress, requiring that candidates for public offices shall first
pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
FRep 11.517 17
One hundred years ago the American people attempted to
carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection.
FRep 11.517 22
[The American people] are now proceeding...to carry out,
not the bill of rights, but the bill of human duties.
FRep 11.540 18
[The Constitution and the law in America] should be
mankind's bill of rights...
CW 12.171 4
When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had
in the bluebirds, bobolinks and thrushes, which were not charged in the
bill;...
Trag 12.415 23
The market-man never damned the lady because she had
not paid her bill...
Bill, n. (2)
FSLN 11.219 8
I say Mr. Webster, for though the [Fugitive Slave] Bill was
not his, it is yet notorious that he was the life and soul of it...
FSLN 11.228 25
There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was
fast becoming...by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative. The
new [Fugitive Slave] Bill made it operative...
Bill, Nebraska, n. (1)
FSLN 11.244 16
...the Fugitive Law did much to unglue the eyes of men,
and now the Nebraska Bill leaves us staring.
Bill of Rights, Massachuset (1)
Bost 12.201 17
There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon...I 'm as
good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of
Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence.
Bill of Rights, n. (1)
SMC 11.352 10
...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the
Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But in
the necessities of the hour, they...winked at a practical exception to the Bill
of Rights they had drawn up.
Bill, Reform, n. (4)
ET1 5.21 2
[Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished
to impress on me and all good Americans...never to call into action the
physical strength of the people, as had just now been done in England in the
Reform Bill...
PC 8.232 6
In England, it was the game-laws which exasperated the
farmers to carry the Reform Bill.
MoL 10.251 22
'T is some thirty years since the days of the Reform Bill in
England...
EPro 11.315 22
Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history
were the Confession of Augsburg...the passage of the Reform Bill...
billets-doux, n. (1)
Nat2 3.182 23
The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace...is
directly related, there amid essences and billets-doux, to Himmaleh
mountain-chains and the axis of the globe.
billiard-room, n. (1)
SL 2.150 3
...Gertrude has Guy; but what now avails...how Roman his mien
and manners, if his heart and aims are...in the billiard-room...
billiards, n. (4)
Ctr 6.144 23
Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for
something fine and romantic...
Clbs 7.235 8
What is a match at...billiards...to a match of mother-wit...
Res 8.150 22
There are better games than billiards and whist.
PLT 12.9 8
Here [in society] they play the game of conversation, as they
play billiards, for pastime and credit.
billions, n. (1)
Pt1 3.23 2
...[nature] shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless
spores, and one of which, being preserved, transmits new billions of spores
to-morrow or next day.
billows, n. (3)
Art1 2.363 3
The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of
power; billows or ripples they are of the stream of tendency;...
MoS 4.160 21
We want a ship in these billows we inhabit.
Aris 10.33 16
The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people
dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a
relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man,
billows of chaos...
bills, n. (7)
NMW 4.240 5
When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great
debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...
ET10 5.161 11
[The Bank of England] votes an issue of bills, population is
stimulated and cities rise;...
Wth 6.105 6
If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills, the people at
Manchester...are forced into the highway...
WD 7.159 22
Lord Chancellor Thurlow thought [steam] might be made to
draw bills and answers in chancery.
SMC 11.360 26
Some of these [Civil War] letters are written on the back of
old bills...
PPr 12.380 27
...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times, not
in bad bills of Parliament...but the vice in false and superficial aims of the
people...
PPr 12.381 1
...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times, not
in bad bills of Parliament, nor the remedy in good bills, but the vice in false
and superficial aims of the people...
binal, adj. (1)
Edc1 10.131 22
Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import,
fetching away...solstice, period, comet and binal star, by comprehending
their relation and law.
bind, v. (20)
Con 1.307 14
[The youth says] Nature has sufficiently provided me with
rewards and sharp penalties, to bind me not to transgress.
YA 1.364 3
...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the
thousand various threads of national descent and employment, and bind
them fast in one web...
Cir 2.304 16
...if the soul is quick and strong it...expands another orbit on
the great deep, which also runs up into a high wave, with attempt again to
stop and to bind.
Nat2 3.183 22
A man does not tie his shoe without recognizing laws which
bind the farthest regions of nature...
Pol1 3.215 11
This is the history of governments,--one man does something
which is to bind another.
ET1 5.18 12
...[Carlyle] was...cognizant of the subtile links that bind ages
together...
ET10 5.154 25
When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill forbidding parish
officers to bind children apprentices at a greater distance than forty miles
from their home, Peel opposed...
F 6.20 19
...the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris
Wolf...
Wth 6.84 22
...Still, through [Matter's] motes and masses, draw/ Electric
thrills and ties of Law,/ Which bind the strengths of Nature wild/ To the
conscience of a child./
WD 7.172 22
The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu,
as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements
which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a
tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship...
Boks 7.207 20
...the works of Ben Jonson are a sort of hoop to bind all
these fine [Elizabethan] persons together...
PI 8.65 17
Literature warps away from life, though at first it seems to bind
it.
PC 8.230 9
...superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
Dem1 10.17 25
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. ... This, which seemed to insert itself
between all other things, to sever them, to bind them, I named the
Demoniacal...
Edc1 10.128 16
Here [in the household] is the sincere thing, the wondrous
composition for which day and night go round. In that routine are the
sacred relations, the passions that bind and sever.
FSLC 11.183 3
[The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law]...showed...that the
resolutions of public bodies, or the pledges never so often given and put on
record of public men, will not bind them.
FSLC 11.191 20
Even the Canon Law says (in malis promissis non expedit
servare fidem), Neither allegiance nor oath can bind to obey that which is
wrong.
FRO1 11.481 3
The interests that grow out of a meeting like this [of the
Free Religious Association] should bind us with new strength to the old
eternal duties.
FRep 11.539 4
Here is the post where the patriot should plant himself; here
the altar where virtuous young men...should bind each other to loyalty;...
MLit 12.336 1
Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous,
customary, enemies...
binder, n. (1)
PPo 8.242 2
Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of
Jamschid, the binder of demons...
binding, adj. (2)
Chr2 10.92 21
He is moral...whose aim or motive may become a universal
rule, binding on all intelligent beings;...
FSLC 11.206 11
If [the North and the South] continue to have a binding
interest, they will be pretty sure to find it out...
binding, v. (3)
ET10 5.155 5
...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate
family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders.
Better take [the children] away from those who might deprave them. And it
was highly injurious to trade to stop binding to manufacturers...
ET13 5.218 19
It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of
Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality
in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English
audience...listening with all the devotion of national pride. That was
binding old and new to some purpose.
PLT 12.39 27
...the mind discovers some essential copula binding this
[new] fact or change to a class of facts or changes...
binds, v. (4)
Nat 1.49 21
The first effort of thought tends to relax this despotism of the
senses which binds us to nature as if we were a part of it...
Con 1.302 11
What insurmountable fact binds [the conservative] to that
side?
LS 11.21 12
...it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds
me to [Christianity]...
Mem 12.97 5
...this mysterious power [memory] that binds our life together
has its own vagaries and interruptions.
binomial, adj. (1)
Edc1 10.140 12
...Jove and Achilles...opera and binomial theorem...dance
through [the boy's] narrative in merry confusion, yet the logic is good.
biographer, n. (4)
Nat 1.21 17
...[William Russell's] biographer says, the multitude imagined
they saw liberty and virtue sitting by his side.
ShP 4.208 5
Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare;...
ShP 4.208 21
...with Shakspeare for biographer...we have really the
information [about Shakespeare] which is material;...
MAng1 12.223 4
Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which
led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures,
improper, says his biographer, for the place, but proper for the exhibition of
all the pomp of his profound knowledge.
biographers, n. (2)
NMW 4.240 18
I like an incident mentioned by one of [Napoleon's]
biographers at St. Helena.
Milt1 12.256 26
Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton]
by his biographers...
biographical, adj. (2)
Hsm1 2.248 3
Thomas Carlyle...has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites
to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.
PLT 12.62 23
...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly
say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be
able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego,-I have a desk, I
have an office...
biographies, n. (6)
Nat 1.3 2
[Our age] writes biographies, histories, and criticism.
AmS 1.102 2
[The scholar] is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades
ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating...noble biographies...
PPh 4.43 11
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Bhr 6.184 26
...here [in dress circles] are the secret biographies written and
read.
Plu 10.293 7
Strange that the writer of so many illustrious biographies [as
Plutarch] should wait so long for his own.
II 12.88 15
Our books are full of generous biographies of Saints, who knew
not that they were such;...
biography, n. (40)
AmS 1.82 14
Year by year we come up hither to read one more chapter of
[the American Scholar's] biography.
DSA 1.138 22
...of the bad preacher, it could not be told from his sermon...
whether he was a citizen or a countryman; or any other fact of his
biography.
LE 1.160 15
The whole value...of biography, is to increase my self-trust...
LE 1.161 4
Still more do we owe to biography the fortification of our hope.
LE 1.163 24
...the more quaintly you inspect...its astounding whole,-so
much the more you master the biography of this hero...
MN 1.202 20
...we feel not much otherwise if, instead of beholding foolish
nations, we take...the eminent souls, and narrowly inspect their biography.
Hist 2.10 3
...there is properly no history, only biography.
Hist 2.30 3
[The advancing man's] own secret biography he finds in lines
wonderfully intelligible to him, dotted down before he was born.
SR 2.61 21
...all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a
few stout and earnest persons.
Comp 2.125 11
...such should be the outward biography of man in time, a
putting off of dead circumstances day by day...
Prd1 2.232 25
Tasso's is no unfrequent case in modern biography.
OS 2.295 21
Before the immense possibilities of man...all past biography...
shrinks away.
Cir 2.313 13
...steeped in the sea of beautiful forms which the field offers
us, we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.
Int 2.332 24
Every trivial fact in [the writer's] private biography becomes
an illustration of this new principle...
Int 2.334 20
...we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish
person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of
the hundred volumes of the Universal History.
Mrs1 3.144 26
Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass
through all the degrees...being...perfumed, and dined, and introduced, and
properly grounded in all the biography and politics and anecdotes of the
boudoirs.
Gts 3.161 18
...it restores society in so far to the primary basis, when a man'
s biography is conveyed in his gift...
NER 3.271 10
It would be easy to show, by a narrow scanning of any man'
s biography, that we are not so wedded to our paltry performances of every
kind but that every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his performances,
in comparing them with his belief of what he should do;...
UGM 4.14 21
I cannot even hear of...great power of performance, without
fresh resolution. ... This is the moral of biography;...
UGM 4.32 21
The genius of humanity is the real subject whose biography
is written in our annals.
PPh 4.43 17
Plato especially has no external biography.
PPh 4.44 14
...the biography of Plato is interior.
PPh 4.70 20
...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are
assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure...whose
biography he has likewise so labored that the historic facts are lost in the
light of Plato's mind.
ShP 4.207 11
Can any biography shed light on the localities into which the
Midsummer Night's Dream admits me?
ET3 5.36 14
Every book we read, every biography, play, romance, in
whatever form, is still English history and manners.
ET10 5.154 8
...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave
moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer. You shall find this
sentiment...deeply implied...in biography and in the votes of public
assemblies...
ET18 5.302 14
We cannot go deep enough into the biography of the spirit
who never throws himself entire into one hero...
Bty 6.282 14
However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders
in [astrology], the hint was true and divine...that climate, century, remote
natures as well as near, are part of [the soul's] biography.
Boks 7.217 20
Every good fable...every biography from a religious age...
when they proceed from an intellectual integrity...have the imaginative
element.
Insp 8.296 24
I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so
many scholars...of what hygiene, what ascetic...their experience suggested
and approved.
Edc1 10.149 6
Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and
learning the secret...of chosen facts in history or in biography.
Plu 10.296 23
M. Octave Greard...has...constructed from the works of
Plutarch himself his true biography.
Thor 10.476 27
[Thoreau's] biography is in his verses.
TPar 11.285 4
I have the feeling that every man's biography is at his own
expense.
TPar 11.285 6
...all biography is autobiography.
Shak1 11.449 21
...we pause expectant before the genius of Shakspeare-
as if his biography were not yet written;...
PLT 12.13 10
Metaphysics...must be biography...
MAng1 12.215 16
Every line in [Michelangelo's] biography might be read
to the human race with wholesome effect.
ACri 12.298 25
...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with new
heroes, things unvoiced before-the German Plutarch, now that we have
exhausted the Greek and Roman and British biography...
MLit 12.328 23
The spirit of [Goethe's] biography, of his poems, of his
tales, is identical...
Biography, n. (1)
Hist 2.21 12
...all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are
to be generalized. Then at once History becomes fluid and true, and
Biography deep and sublime.
Biorn, n. (2)
Pow 6.55 21
If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he
will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric
and put in a stronger and bolder man,--Biorn, or Thorfin,--and the ships
will...sail six hundred...miles further...
Bost 12.192 5
In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company
through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful
odor of the stweefern in the sun;-like what befell, still earlier, Biorn and
Thorfinn, Northmen, in their expedition to the same coast;...
biped, n. (3)
F 6.22 18
[Man] betrays his relation to what is below him...quadruped ill-disguised,
hardly escaped into biped...
Edc1 10.156 2
...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of
nature]...volunteer some degree of advances towards fellowship and good
understanding with a biped who behaves so civilly and well.
CL 12.133 4
The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/ And all through which
it blows;/ If plant or brain, if egg or shell,/ Or bird or biped knows./
bipolar, adj. (2)
Chr1 3.97 3
Everything in nature is bipolar...
Dem1 10.8 7
...every act, every thought, every cause, is bipolar...
birch, n. (1)
CL 12.149 19
...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How
an Indian helps himself...making his bow of hickory, birch, or even a fir-bough,
at a pinch;...
birches, n. (2)
Farm 7.148 9
In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually
a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The
planter took the hint of the Sequoias...surrounded the orchard with a
nursery of birches and evergreens.
Mem 12.103 20
...confined now in populous streets you behold again the
green fields, the shadows of the gray birches;...
birch-tree, n. (1)
CL 12.149 22
[The Indian] goes to a white birch-tree, and can fit his leg
with a seamless boot, or a hat for his head.
Bird Conversations [Ferided (1)
PPo 8.263 15
Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical
tale...
bird, n. (72)
Nat 1.33 17
...A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush;...
Nat 1.34 22
...beast and bird...preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of
God...
DSA 1.137 7
The faith should blend...with...the singing bird...
LE 1.167 26
Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets]
contented themselves with the passing chirp of a bird...
MN 1.199 11
The bird hastens to lay her egg: the egg hastens to be a bird.
MN 1.199 12
The bird hastens to lay her egg: the egg hastens to be a bird.
Comp 2.101 8
...the naturalist...regards...a bird as a flying man, a tree as a
rooted man.
Comp 2.112 3
Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over
government and property. That obscene bird is not there for nothing.
Lov1 2.176 17
Every bird on the boughs of the tree sings now to [the lover'
s] heart and soul.
Int 2.340 25
We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers
in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird, are not theirs...
Exp 3.58 3
Like a bird which alights nowhere, but hops perpetually from
bough to bough, is the Power which abides in no man and in no woman, but
for a moment speaks from this one, and for another moment from that one.
Exp 3.63 20
We fancy that we are strangers, and not so intimately
domesticated in the planet as the wild man and the wild beast and bird.
Exp 3.68 18
The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful
obliquely...one gets the cheer of their light without paying too great a tax.
Theirs is the beauty of the bird...and not of art.
Nat2 3.181 13
...by clothing the sides of a bird with a few feathers [nature]
gives him a petty omnipresence.
Nat2 3.185 17
...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed
man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs
the secret;--how then? Is the bird flown?
SwM 4.125 15
[To Swedenborg] Bird and beast is not bird and beast, but
emanation and effluvia of the minds and wills of men there present.
SwM 4.131 12
...a bird does not more readily weave its nest...than this seer
of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit...round every new
crew of offenders.
SwM 4.144 10
No bird ever sang in all [Swedenborg's] gardens of the dead.
ET14 5.251 26
The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint
of the steam-whistle, and the poem is created...by no means as the bird of a
new morning...
F 6.9 2
...the bill of the bird...determines tyrannically its limits.
F 6.14 25
Lodged in the parent animal...[the vesicle] unlocks itself to fish,
bird, or quadruped...
Ctr 6.136 20
...our talents are as mischievous as if each had been seized
upon by some bird of prey...
Wsp 6.212 5
...they who pay this homage [to the public sinner] have said to
themselves, On the whole, we don't know about this that you call honesty;
a bird in the hand is better.
Bty 6.281 20
The want of sympathy makes [the ornithologist's] record a
dull dictionary. His result is a dead bird.
Bty 6.281 20
The bird is not in its ounces and inches...
Bty 6.284 5
The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands
should touch the stars...his ears understand the language of beast and bird...
Bty 6.290 5
Elegance of form in bird or beast, or in the human figure,
marks some excellence of structure...
Bty 6.294 12
...the bone or the quill of the bird gives the most alar strength
with the least weight.
Civ 7.25 20
In bird and beast the organs are released and begin to play.
Art2 7.39 7
Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no
art;...
Art2 7.53 1
The plumage of the bird...has a reason for its rich colors in the
constitution of the animal.
Farm 7.135 4
[Farmers] harness beast, bird, insect, to their work;/...
WD 7.170 12
Yesterday not a bird peeped;...
WD 7.182 4
Shakspeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.
Clbs 7.226 7
...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles.
Sometimes it is facts...sometimes a singing, as if the heart poured out all
like a bird;...
Cour 7.278 9
And when the bird or deer/ Fell by the hunter's skill,/ The
boy was always near/ To help with right good will./
OA 7.314 1
As the bird trims her to the gale,/ I trim myself to the storm of
time,/ I man the rudder, reef the sail,/ Obey the voice at eve obeyed at
prime/...
PI 8.5 15
I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we
have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the
old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in egg and bird...
PI 8.11 21
...the aptness with which a river, a flower, a bird, fire, day or
night, can express [man's] fortunes, is as if the world were only a disguised
man...
PI 8.15 11
As the bird alights on the bough, then plunges into the air again,
so the thoughts of God pause but for a moment in any form.
PI 8.72 4
One would say of the force in the works of Nature, all depends on
the battery. If it give one shock, we shall get to the fish form, and stop; if
two shocks, to the bird;...
Res 8.148 23
See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young
people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the
rabbits, the mino bird...
PPo 8.255 14
Round and round this heap of ashes/ Now flies the bird [the
phoenix] amain,/ But in that odorous niche of heaven/ Nestles the bird
again./
PPo 8.255 16
Round and round this heap of ashes/ Now flies the bird [the
phoenix] amain,/ But in that odorous niche of heaven/ Nestles the bird
again./
PPo 8.256 28
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./
PPo 8.260 14
...what a nest has [Hafiz] found for his bonny bird to take up
her abode in!
Imtl 8.329 11
A man of affairs is afraid to die...because he...is the victim of
those who have moulded the religious doctrines into some neat and
plausible system...for household use. It is the fear of the young bird to trust
its wings.
Dem1 10.14 22
...this man [Masollam] inquired the reason of [the
multitude's] halting. The augur showed him a bird, and told him, If that
bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain;...
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.
Dem1 10.15 3
The Jew [Masollam]...bent his bow and shot the bird to the
ground. This act offended the augur and some others, and they began to
utter imprecations against the Jew. But he replied, Wherefore? Why are you
so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird?
PerF 10.88 19
...as the bird on the air...so do nations of men and their
institutions rest on thoughts.
Edc1 10.152 7
Alas for the cripple Practice when it seeks to come up with
the bird Theory, which flies before it.
Edc1 10.155 17
These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time,
and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his. By dint of obstinate sitting
still...bird and beast...begin to return.
SovE 10.184 1
...this unity exists in the organization of insect, beast and
bird, still ascending to man...
SovE 10.184 9
Experiment shows that the bird and the dog reason as the
hunter does...
Prch 10.221 19
Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is
without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to
foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;...
Prch 10.221 21
Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is
without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to
foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;-no, the bird...would
disclaim his sympathy...
Thor 10.467 10
...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks
[of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it
were, townsmen and fellow creatures; so that he felt an absurdity or
violence in any narrative of one of these by itself apart, and still more of...
in...the specimen of a squirrel or a bird in brandy.
Thor 10.469 10
[Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable...until the bird, the
reptile, the fish, which had retired from him, should come back and resume
its habits...
Thor 10.469 15
[Thoreau] knew the country like a fox or a bird...
Thor 10.470 20
Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of
the night-warbler, a bird he had never identified...
Thor 10.470 24
Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of
the night-warbler...the only bird which sings indifferently by night and by
day.
Thor 10.471 5
[Thoreau's] interest in the flower or the bird lay very deep
in his mind...
EWI 11.143 20
[Nature] appoints...no fort or city for the bird but his
wings;...
EdAd 11.382 9
Our eyes/ Are armed, but we are strangers to the stars,/ And
strangers to the mystic beast and bird,/ And strangers to the plant and to the
mine./
CPL 11.499 21
[Mary Moody Emerson writes] Is the melancholy bird of
night...less gratified than the gay lark...
PLT 12.17 1
Leaving aside the question which was prior, egg or bird, I
believe the mind is the creator of the world...
CL 12.133 4
The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/ And all through which
it blows;/ If plant or brain, if egg or shell,/ Or bird or biped knows./
Bost 12.193 5
The common eye cannot tell what the bird will be, from the
egg...
Milt1 12.264 26
In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny
respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they
should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird that
first rouses, or not much tardier...
PPr 12.390 24
How like an air-balloon or bird of Jove does [Carlyle] seem
to float over the continent...
bird-fancier, n. (1)
ShP 4.212 27
...no veins, no curiosities; no cow-painter, no bird-fancier, no
mannerist is [Shakespeare]...
bird-hunting, v. (1)
LLNE 10.362 27
...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher,
who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact
contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and
playing ball or bird-hunting;...
birds, n. (72)
Nat 1.16 7
...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the
eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...the wings
and forms of most birds...
Nat 1.18 25
The tribes of birds and insects...follow each other...
Nat 1.52 25
...the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers [Shakspeare]
finds to be the shadow of his beloved;...
Nat 1.65 10
We do not understand the notes of birds.
DSA 1.119 5
The air is full of birds...
LE 1.167 16
By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an
oratorio of praises of nature,-flowers, birds, mountains, sun, and moon;...
MR 1.253 21
To use an Egyptian metaphor, it is not [the people's] will for
any long time, to raise the nails of wild beasts and to depress the heads of
the sacred birds.
Hist 2.34 19
Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of
the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness...the power...of understanding
the voices of birds, are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.
Comp 2.109 12
...this law of laws [Compensation]...is hourly preached in
all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs, whose teaching is as true
and as omnipresent as that of birds and flies.
Lov1 2.179 2
[The lover's] friends find in [his mistress] a likeness to her
mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no
resemblance except...to rainbows and the song of birds.
Pt1 3.25 23
The pairing of the birds is an idyl...
Pt1 3.31 23
...Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations
through the masquerade of birds and beasts;...
Pt1 3.42 17
Wherever snow falls or water flows or birds fly...there is
Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
Mrs1 3.120 1
In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in
caves, like cliff-swallows, and the language of these negroes is compared
by their neighbors to the shrieking of bats and to the whistling of birds.
PPh 4.57 17
...the birds of highest flight have the strongest alar bones.
ET10 5.158 3
Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be
impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly
in the air in the manner of birds.
ET11 5.197 16
The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds of passage in this
House of Commons...
ET12 5.213 12
...when you have settled it that the universities are
moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford, to mould
the opinions of cities, to build their houses as simply as birds their nests...
F 6.1 3
Birds with auguries on their wings/ Chanted undeceiving things,/
[The bard] to beckon, him to warn;/...
Wth 6.98 11
Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does
not care to possess...pictures also of birds, beasts, fishes, shells, trees,
flowers, whose names he desires to know.
Ctr 6.138 22
To wade in marshes and sea-margins is the destiny of certain
birds...
Bhr 6.177 25
In some respects the animals excel us. The birds have a
longer sight...
CbW 6.267 25
...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy
of a protecting domestic horizon. I find the same illusion in the
search after happiness which I observe every summer recommenced in this
neighborhood, soon after the pairing of the birds.
Bty 6.281 17
We should go to the ornithologist with a new feeling if he
could teach us what the social birds say when they sit in the autumn
council...
Bty 6.292 21
The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire
the restoration of symmetry, and to watch the steps through which it is
attained. This is the charm of...the flight of birds...
WD 7.164 27
I saw a brave man...constructing his cabinet of drawers for
shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds.
Boks 7.219 19
[The communications of the sacred books]...are living
characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on
lichens and bark;...they fly in birds, they creep in worms;...
PI 8.41 2
Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is
permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which birds, flowers,
the human cheek, the living rock, the broad landscape, the ocean and the
eternal sky were painted.
Res 8.151 19
The first care of a man settling in the country should be to
open the face of the earth to himself by a little knowledge of Nature, or a
great deal, if he can; of birds, plants, rocks, astronomy;...
Comc 8.157 3
The rocks, the plants, the beasts, the birds, neither do
anything ridiculous, nor betray a perception of anything absurd done in
their presence.
Comc 8.158 4
With the trifling exception of the stratagems of a few beasts
and birds, there is no seeming, no halfness in Nature, until the appearance
of man.
PC 8.215 7
...[Roger Bacon] announced...machines to fly into the air like
birds.
PPo 8.240 19
[Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg, king of birds...
PPo 8.240 24
By [Simorg] Solomon was taught the language of birds...
PPo 8.241 6
...the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet
and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased,-the army of
birds at the same time flying overhead and forming a canopy to shade them
from the sun.
PPo 8.249 27
Hafiz praises...birds, mornings and music, to give vent to his
immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
PPo 8.257 1
The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the olive and fig-tree, the
birds that inhabit them...are never wanting in these musky verses [of
Hafiz]...
PPo 8.261 20
While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the
falcon said/ Why, of all birds, must thou be dumb?/ With closed mouth thou
utterest,/ Though dying, no last word to man./
PPo 8.263 16
Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical
tale, in which the birds, coming together to choose their king, resolve on a
pilgrimage to Mount Kaf...
PPo 8.263 23
In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], the
birds were soon weary of the length and difficulties of the way...
PPo 8.265 16
You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless,
confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./
Insp 8.274 2
In June the morning is noisy with birds;...
Edc1 10.155 8
Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets...of
birds...
Edc1 10.155 10
When [the naturalist] goes into the woods the birds fly
before him...
Edc1 10.158 12
If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows
any fact about...birds...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and
encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.
Supl 10.165 27
...there is an inverted superlative...which...hates birds and
flowers.
SovE 10.188 9
Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus
we hear the song of summer birds...
Plu 10.314 4
The soul, incapable of death, suffers in the same manner in
the body, as birds that are kept in a cage.
LLNE 10.356 5
Since the foxes and the birds have the right of it, with a
warm hole to keep out the weather, and no more,-a pent-house to fend the
sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and
thoughts...
LLNE 10.356 24
[Thoreau] lived extempore from hour to hour, like the
birds and the angels;...
SlHr 10.440 3
[Samuel Hoar] was...fond of birds...
Thor 10.466 26
...the birds which frequent the stream [the Concord River],
heron, duck, sheldrake, loon, osprey;...were all known to [Thoreau]...
Thor 10.469 23
Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old music-book to
press plants; in his pocket...a spy-glass for birds...
Thor 10.473 4
The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon
discovered...his knowledge...of trees, of birds, of Indian remains and the
like...
EWI 11.99 6
We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of
an event singular in the history of civilization; a day of reason;...of that
which makes us better than a flock of birds and beasts;...
EWI 11.143 7
We do not wish a world of bugs or of birds;...
SHC 11.435 22
Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old
tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...
RBur 11.438 8
Praise to the bard! his words are driven,/ Like flower-seeds
by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven,/ The birds of
fame have flown./ Halleck.
RBur 11.442 1
What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of
middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the
homely landscape which the poor see around them...birds, hares, field-mice,
thistles and heather...
RBur 11.443 14
...the birds whistle [Burns's songs]...
CL 12.135 22
...Nature has impressed on savage men periodical or secular
impulses to emigrate, as upon lemmings, rats and birds.
CL 12.136 26
...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on
excursions on foot into the country, to collect plants and insects, birds and
eggs.
CL 12.138 26
[Linnaeus]...examined fishes, insects, birds, quadrupeds;...
CL 12.151 4
The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool, and a new
activity among the hardy birds...
CL 12.151 17
Man...pumps the sap of all this forest through his arteries; the
loquacity of all birds in the morning;...
CL 12.151 21
In August, when the corn is grown to be a resort and
protection to woodcocks and small birds...we observe already that the leaf
is sere...
CW 12.170 11
The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of
sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/ the miracle of generative
force,/ Far-reaching concords of astronomy/ Felt in the plants and in the
punctual birds;/...
CW 12.174 4
[A man in his wood-lot] can fancy that the birds know him
and trust him...
ACri 12.302 15
[Channing] complains of Nature,-too many leaves, too
windy and grassy, and I suppose the birds are too feathery and the horses
too leggy.
ACri 12.305 5
Once in the fields with the lowing cattle, the birds, trees and
waters...and I cannot tell whether this is Thessaly and Enna, or whether
Concord and Acton.
MLit 12.312 25
...[the poet] now revolves...what are the birds to me?...
Let 12.393 26
The sea and the iron road are safer toys for such ungrown
people; we are not yet ripe to be birds.
bird's, n. (1)
WD 7.180 24
You must hear the bird's song without attempting to render it
into nouns and verbs.
bird-soul, n. (1)
PPo 8.264 1
The bird-soul was ashamed;/ [The birds'] body was quite
annihilated;/ They had cleaned themselves from the dust,/ And were by the
light ensouled./ What was, and was not,-the Past,-/ Was wiped out from
their breast./
Birmingham, England, adj. (2)
ET5 5.98 18
Man [in England] is made as a Birmingham button.
ET14 5.256 2
What did Walter Scott write without stint? a rhymed traveller'
s guide to Scotland. And the libraries of verses [the English] print have this
Birmingham character.
Birmingham, England, n. (7)
ET3 5.42 25
...there is such an artificial completeness in this nation of
artificers [England] as if there were a design from the beginning to
elaborate a bigger Birmingham.
ET5 5.97 11
The last Reform-bill [in England] took away political power
from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall, whilst Birmingham and
Manchester...had no representative.
ET10 5.162 22
Scandinavian Thor...in England...lends Miollnir to
Birmingham for a steam-hammer.
ET17 5.293 27
The like frank hospitality...I found among the great and the
humble, wherever I went [in England]; in Birmingham, in Oxford...
Wth 6.105 7
If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills, the people at
Manchester...at Birmingham, are forced into the highway...
EWI 11.126 6
It was very easy for manufacturers less shrewd than those of
Birmingham and Manchester to see that if the state of things in the islands
[of the West Indies] was altered, if the slaves had wages, the slaves would
be clothed, would build houses...
ALin 11.334 6
[The Gettyburg Address] and one other American speech,
that of John Brown to the court that tried him, and a part of Kossuth's
speech at Birmingham, can only be compared with each other...
Birminghamized, v. (1)
ET5 5.98 9
The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;--
made-up men with made-up manners;--and thus the whole is
Birminghamized...