DSA 1.128 8 In [the Christian church], all of us have had our birth and nurture.
LE 1.170 13 Since the birth of Niebuhr and Wolf, Roman and Greek history have been written anew.
MN 1.223 11 The entrance of this [great reality] into his mind seems to be the birth of man.
Con 1.306 9 The youth...is an innovator by the fact of his birth.
YA 1.394 7 ...in England...such is the transcendent honor accorded to wealth and birth, that no man of letters...is received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.
OS 2.272 25 We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth.
Art1 2.360 16 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
Pt1 3.11 24 ...the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
Pt1 3.20 8 ...birth and death...are emblems;...
Pt1 3.21 3 All the facts of...birth...are symbols of the passage of the world into the soul of man...
Exp 3.45 17 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature...
Mrs1 3.148 5 ...elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.
PPh 4.50 4 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...exempt from birth, growth and decay...
PPh 4.66 1 [Plato's] patrician tastes laid stress on the distinctions of birth.
SwM 4.105 15 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty...of proving...the first birth and annunciation of one of the laws of nature.
SwM 4.136 4 My learning is such as God gave me in my birth and habit...
ShP 4.206 3 We tell the chronicle of parentage, birth, birth-place...
NMW 4.225 17 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen...
GoW 4.281 15 There must be a man behind the book; a personality which by birth and quality is pledged to the doctrines there set forth...
ET5 5.92 18 [The English] have approved...their British birth, by husbandry and immense wheat harvests;...
ET11 5.180 5 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth...
ET11 5.186 15 The upper classes have only birth, say the people here [in England], and not thoughts.
F 6.11 19 If, later, [these drones] give birth to some superior individual...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
Ctr 6.144 13 Each class fixes its eyes on the advantages it has not;...the democrat, on birth and breeding.
Bhr 6.188 24 I had received, said a sibyl, I had received at birth the fatal gift of penetration;...
Bty 6.286 7 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
Bty 6.287 15 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him;...
Art2 7.38 10 What is in, will out. It struggles to the birth.
WD 7.172 17 We are coaxed, flattered and duped...from birth to death;...
OA 7.318 1 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years, who was dying, and was saying to himself, I said, coming into the world by birth, I will enjoy myself for a few moments.
SA 8.77 8 He forbids to despair;/ His cheeks mantle with mirth;/ And the unimagined good of men/ Is yeaning at the birth./
Aris 10.48 15 ...society must have the benefit of the best leaders. How to obtain them? Birth has been tried and failed.
Schr 10.279 27 What is the use of...birth, or breeding, or money to a maniac?
Schr 10.280 4 ...society...sometimes is for an age together a maniac, with birth, breeding, beauty, cunning, strength and money.
Plu 10.293 5 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch...not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
LLNE 10.364 19 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their life, the birth of valued friendships...
EzRy 10.393 7 The usual experiences of men, birth, marriage, sickness, death, burial;...[Ezra Ripley] studied them all...
MMEm 10.409 11 ...so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses of ancient and modern lore. All say-Forbear to enter the pales of the initiated by birth, wealth, talents and patronage.
MMEm 10.422 2 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man. But these lamps are held...to divide the history of God's operations in the birth and death of nations...
SlHr 10.446 25 [Samuel Hoar] had his birth and breeding in a little country town...
EWI 11.113 5 ...be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid...shall be absolutely and forever manumitted; and that the children thereafter born to any such persons, and the offspring of such children, shall, in like manner, be free, from their birth;...
JBB 11.267 16 ...I do not wonder that gentlemen find traits of relation readily between [John Brown] and themselves. One finds a relation in the church...another in the place of his birth.
ALin 11.328 14 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by his clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/
RBur 11.439 15 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival.
RBur 11.440 12 ...[Robert Burns's] birth, breeding and fortunes were low.
Shak1 11.452 9 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God...
PLT 12.48 25 I have heard that idiot children are known from their birth by the circumstance that their hands do not close round anything.
Mem 12.93 1 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man;...
Mem 12.103 13 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth.
Bost 12.198 9 ...no good birth or breeding...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
MAng1 12.242 13 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by [Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari, who had informed him of the rejoicings made at the house of his nephew Lionardo, at Florence, over the birth of another Buonarotti.
Milt1 12.268 24 [Milton's] birth fell upon the agitated years when the discontents of the English Puritans were fast drawing to a head against the tyranny of the Stuarts.
Pt1 3.12 13 This day shall be better than my birthday...
ET7 5.120 27 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
PPo 8.239 1 The religion [of the East] teaches an inexorable Destiny. It distinguishes only two days in each man's history,-his birthday, called the Day of the Lot, and the Day of Judgment.
HDC 11.76 19 ...you, my fathers [veterans of battle of Concord]...may well bear a chief part in keeping this peaceful birthday of our town.
Scot 11.463 7 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...
ShP 4.206 4.206 We tell the chronicle of parentage, birth, birth-place...
ET9 5.147 24 ...[the Englishman] hides no defect of his form, features, dress, connection, or birthplace...
ET16 5.286 17 We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the train Clarendon Park, but could see little but the edge of a wood, though Carlyle had wished to pay closer attention to the birthplace of the Decrees of Clarendon.
Plu 10.319 6 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace or home of Plotinus, St. Augustine...
JBS 11.281 19 ...our blind statesmen go up and down...hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition]. They will need a very vigilant committee indeed to find its birthplace...
CL 12.148 14 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. Stable is their birthplace in the sky...
Fdsp 2.209 11 Leave to the diamond its ages to grow, nor expect to accelerate the births of the eternal.
Art1 2.363 14 [The arts] are abortive births of an imperfect or vitiated instinct.
SwM 4.96 6 The soul having been often born, or, as the Hindoos say, travelling the path of existence through thousands of births...there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
NMW 4.224 10 The second [democratic] class is selfish also...always outnumbering the other [conservative class] and recruiting its numbers every hour by births.
Ctr 6.164 22 ...these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.
Farm 7.140 17 Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly connected with abundance of food;...
F 6.23 23 They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane...
Boks 7.210 4 Now [the bidders for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] talked apart, now ate a biscuit, now made a bet...
PPh 4.68 16 A key to the method and completeness of Plato is his twice bisected line.
SwM 4.116 27 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of language. Plato knew it, as is evident from his twice bisected line in the sixth book of the Republic.
Prch 10.226 12 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland, bisecting every delightful valley...[Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
Comp 2.97 4 An inevitable dualism bisects nature...
NMW 4.250 9 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier, bishop of Montpellier, on matters of theology.
NMW 4.250 15 The Emperor told Josephine that he disputed like a devil on these two points [hell, and salvation out of the pale of the church], on which the bishop [Fournier] was inexorable.
ET7 5.120 27 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
ET13 5.222 15 The most sensible and well-informed [English] men possess the power of thinking just so far as the bishop in religious matters...
ET13 5.222 27 [The English university] ripens a bishop, and extrudes a philosopher.
ET13 5.226 27 ...a bishop [in England] is only a surpliced merchant.
ET13 5.230 5 If a bishop [in England] meets an intelligent gentleman and reads fatal interrogations in his eyes, he has no resource but to take wine with him.
ET15 5.269 9 One bishop fares badly [in the London Times] for his rapacity...
Cour 7.258 11 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.
Imtl 8.346 24 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection?
Chr2 10.118 21 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays; no bishop watches him...
CPL 11.494 1 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...
ET13 5.227 15 The [English] Bishop is elected by the Dean and Prebends of the cathedral.
ET1 5.13 15 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy;...
FRep 11.534 12 [A man's life] is manufactured for him. The tailor makes your dress;...the Bishop of London your faith.
ET13 5.226 13 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards...
ET15 5.269 9 [The London Times] makes rude work with the Board of Admiralty. The Bench of Bishops is still less safe.
ET6 5.102 13 The cabmen [in England] have [pluck];...the bishops have it;...
ET10 5.169 24 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with;...
ET13 5.220 2 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men; plenty of clerks and bishops, who, out of their gowns, would turn their backs on no man.
ET13 5.227 6 Brougham...said, How will the reverend bishops of the other house be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...
Pow 6.79 27 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...university deans and professors, bishops too, were... usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
Clbs 7.246 6 [A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense] said the fact was incontestable that the society of gypsies was more attractive than that of bishops.
Chr2 10.112 13 In England, the gentlemen, the journals, and now, at last, the churchmen and bishops, have fallen away from the Anglican Church.
Carl 10.490 20 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown, and set a-swinging, to the surprise and consternation of all persons,-bishops, courtiers, scholars, writers...
Bost 12.202 2 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck.
Milt1 12.266 20 [Milton] told the bishops that instead of showing the reason of their lowly condition from divine example and command, they seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.
Bost 12.207 11 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in...contravening the counsel of the clergy; as they had come so far for the sweet satisfaction of resisting the Bishops and the King.
PPr 12.384 17 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it proscribes. Poor Queen Victoria...poor Primates and Bishops,-poor Dukes and Lords!
SwM 4.136 20 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
SwM 4.136 27 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
ET4 5.51 6 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes,--dukes and chartists, Bishops of Durham and naked heathen colliers;...
ET16 5.286 20 At Bishopstoke we [Emerson and Carlyle] stopped, and found Mr. H[elps]., who...took us to his house at Bishops Waltham.
ET16 5.286 18 At Bishopstoke we [Emerson and Carlyle] stopped, and found Mr. H[elps]....
PC 8.218 9 If [a man] has...administrative faculty, like Chatham or Bismarck, he is the king's king.
Tran 1.332 5 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away... a bit of bullet...
Exp 3.57 3 A man is like a bit of Labrador spar...
Nat2 3.182 13 If we had eyes to see it, a bit of stone from the city wall would certify us of the necessity that man must exist, as readily as the city.
ET16 5.282 20 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone...
Ill 6.317 8 [The new style or mythology] is like the cement which the peddler sells at the door; he makes broken crockery hold with it, but you can never buy of him a bit of the cement which will make it hold when he is gone.
Elo1 7.96 16 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went through, in childhood, the drill of Calvinism...so that he stands in the New England assembly a purer bit of New England than any...
Boks 7.217 4 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]; new names, but no new qualities in the men and women. Hence the vain endeavor to keep any bit of this fairy gold which has rolled like a brook through our hands.
Thor 10.469 4 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction...that the best place for each is where he stands. He expressed it once in this wise: I think nothing is to be hoped from you, if this bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter to you to eat than any other in this world, or in any world.
FSLC 11.201 11 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster]...the first man of the North, in the very moment of mounting the throne, irresistibly taking the bit in his mouth and the collar on his neck...
AKan 11.262 10 A bit of ground [in California] that your hand could cover was worth one or two hundred dollars...
Cir 2.315 7 Geoffrey draws on his boots to go through the woods, that his feet may be safer from the bite of snakes;...
Mem 12.98 12 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us...that what his mind grasps it does not let go. 'T is the bull-dog bite; you must cut off the head to loosen the teeth.
LT 1.277 19 Those who are urging with most ardor what are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men, and affect us as the insane do. They bite us, and we run mad also.
ET10 5.168 2 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...finding that milk will not nourish...nor pepper bite the tongue...
Cour 7.257 6 Cut off [the snapping-turtle's] head, and the teeth will not let go the stick. Break the egg of the young, and the little embryo...bites fiercely; these vivacious creatures contriving--shall we say?--not only to bite after they are dead, but also to bite before they are born.
Cour 7.257 7 Cut off [the snapping-turtle's] head, and the teeth will not let go the stick. Break the egg of the young, and the little embryo...bites fiercely; these vivacious creatures contriving--shall we say?--not only to bite after they are dead, but also to bite before they are born.
Res 8.153 1 ...the cow, the rabbit, the insect, bite the sweet and tender bark [of the willow];...
Grts 8.311 12 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are frivolous.
EWI 11.143 4 Our planet, before the age of written history, had its races of savages, like...the animalcules that wiggle and bite in a drop of putrid water.
CL 12.146 25 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and Cow-apple, and the Bite-me-if- you-dare...
PPh 4.77 24 ...the bitten world holds the biter fast by his own teeth.
F 6.8 5 Without...groping after intestinal parasites or infusory biters...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
War 11.154 21 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water;...
MoS 4.153 8 [The men of the senses] believe that mustard bites the tongue...
Cour 7.257 4 Break the egg of the young [snapping-turtle], and the little embryo, before yet the eyes are open, bites fiercely;...
Supl 10.174 1 ...these raptures of fire and frost, which...make the speech salt and biting, would cost me the days of well-being which are now so cheap to me, yet so valued.
PPh 4.77 23 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large. Boa constrictor has good will to eat it, but he is foiled. He falls abroad in the attempt; and biting, gets strangled...
ET4 5.59 1 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on a morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits out of their horses' mouths and crush each other's heads with them...
ET6 5.114 11 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of clever projects, bits of popular science...
Elo1 7.91 12 ...people always perceive whether you drive or whether the horses take the bits in their teeth and run.
PPh 4.77 24 ...the bitten world holds the biter fast by his own teeth.
Gts 3.162 7 The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
MN 1.214 25 The reforms whose fame now fills the land...are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.
Comp 2.104 22 [Men] think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side, the bitter.
Prd1 2.235 20 ...let [a man] put the bread he eats at his own disposal, that he may not stand in bitter and false relations to other men;...
ET4 5.51 2 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter... aggressive freedom and hospitable law with bitter class-legislation;...
ET8 5.135 7 [The Englishman] is a churl with a soft place in his heart, whose speech is a brash of bitter waters...
ET11 5.196 1 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men. This cockering justifies Dr. Johnson's bitter apology for primogeniture, that it makes but one fool in a family.
ET13 5.224 3 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder...of the Free School, of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge. The Platonists of Oxford are as bitter against this heresy, as Thomas Taylor.
ET15 5.270 21 [The editors of the London Times] watch the hard and bitter struggles of the authors of each liberal movement...
ET17 5.294 19 [Wordsworth] was nationally bitter on the French; bitter on Scotchmen, too.
ET18 5.300 12 A bitter class-legislation gives power [in England] to those who are rich enough to buy a law.
F 6.45 25 Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious nature] has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first...then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.
Elo1 7.96 25 [The sturdy countryman] has learned his lessons in a bitter school.
Suc 7.310 16 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation...
Imtl 8.333 2 All laughter at man is bitter...
Schr 10.286 16 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and shod in insult until he has learned that this bitter bread and shameful dress is also wholesome and warm...
MMEm 10.422 27 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war,-private animosities, pinching, bitter warfare of the human heart...
MMEm 10.426 19 Number the waste places of the journey...the bitter dregs of the cup,-and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.
FSLC 11.181 23 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news. When I look down the columns at the titles of paragraphs...what bitter mockeries!
FSLC 11.202 9 I will not pursue [Webster's] bitter history.
TPar 11.289 3 ...it was complained that [Theodore Parker] was bitter and harsh...
TPar 11.290 15 Two days, bitter in the memory of Boston, the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses.
MMEm 10.415 25 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance...of bitterer days of youth and age...
EWI 11.118 13 ...experience...shows the existence, beside the covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery], the love of power...
GSt 10.504 10 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading, as a shining example of the manner in which a truth-speaker... extorts at last a reluctant homage from the bitterest adversaries.
Trag 12.406 21 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;...
Ill 6.313 8 It was wittily if somewhat bitterly said by D'Alembert, qu'un etat de vapeur etait un etat tres facheux, parcequ'il nous faisait voir les choses comme elles sont.
MMEm 10.417 16 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that foolish place, which I most bitterly lament...
Exp 3.63 24 ...hawk and snipe and bittern...have no more root in the deep world than man...
SHC 11.435 25 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...red-eyed warbler, the heron, the bittern, will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...
CL 12.162 10 [Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows]...where trout, woodcocks, wild bees, pigeons, where the bittern (stake-driver) can be seen and heard...
DSA 1.143 6 I have heard a devout person...say in bitterness of heart, On Sundays, it seems wicked to go to church.
Comp 2.124 3 The heart and soul of all men being one, this bitterness of His and Mine ceases.
Prd1 2.239 11 ...neither should you put yourself in a false position with your contemporaries by indulging a vein of hostility and bitterness.
Hsm1 2.254 21 It seems not worth [the hero's] while to...denounce with bitterness flesh-eating or wine-drinking...
SwM 4.131 5 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth...is denied, as much as when a bitterness in men of talent leads to satire...
MoS 4.154 12 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans;...
NMW 4.243 21 In a moment of bitterness [Napoleon] said to one of his oldest friends, Men deserve the contempt with which they inspire me.
NMW 4.258 23 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property...it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter...
Ctr 6.136 18 The causes to which we have sacrificed...would show like roots of bitterness...
WSL 12.339 15 A less pardonable eccentricity [in Landor] is the cold and gratuitous obtrusion of licentious images, not so much the suggestion of merriment as of bitterness.
Grts 8.303 13 ...what a bitter-sweet sensation when we have gone to pour out our acknowledgment of a man's nobleness, and found him quite indifferent to our good opinion!
UGM 4.24 25 Not one [person] has a misgiving of being wrong. Was it not a bright thought that made things cohere with this bitumen, fastest of cements?
Wsp 6.202 26 The whole creation is made of hooks and eyes, of bitumen...
Mem 12.90 3 Memory is...the cement, the bitumen, the matrix in which the other faculties are embedded;...
SR 2.87 2 ...Napoleon conquered Europe by the bivouac...
Comc 8.166 30 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... confessedly...a bivouac for a night...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...
WD 7.176 27 A general, said Bonaparte, always has troops enough, if he only knows how to employ those he has, and bivouacs with them.
SL 2.159 21 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he cannot keep his foolish counsel. A broken complexion...and the want of due knowledge,--all blab.
Nat2 3.185 16 ...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?
MR 1.243 4 Let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] learn...to relish the taste of fair water and black bread.
SR 2.51 17 ...never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off.
Comp 2.91 1 The wings of Time are black and white/...
Cir 2.321 16 People say sometimes, See what I have overcome;...see how completely I have triumphed over these black events.
Cir 2.321 17 People say sometimes, See what I have overcome;...see how completely I have triumphed over these black events. Not if they still remind me of the black event.
Exp 3.79 1 No man at last believes...that the crime in him is as black as in the felon.
UGM 4.30 11 Children think they cannot live without their parents. But, long before they are aware of it, the black dot has appeared and the detachment has taken place.
ET1 5.10 16 [Coleridge] took snuff freely, which presently soiled his cravat and neat black suit.
ET3 5.39 20 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...give white sheep the color of black sheep...
ET11 5.176 10 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV. Few esteemed themselves in the mode, whose heads were not adorned with the black ragged staff, his badge.
F 6.9 21 Find the part which black eyes and which blue eyes play severally in the company.
F 6.9 24 How shall a man...draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or his mother's life?
Pow 6.58 9 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency,--which implies...merely the temperamental or taming eye of a soldier or a schoolmaster (which one has and one has not, as one has a black mustache and one a blond),--then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
Wth 6.86 25 We may well call [coal] black diamonds.
Wsp 6.209 3 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the rat and mouse revelation, thumps in table-drawers, and black art.
CbW 6.265 16 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead;...
CbW 6.265 19 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead; waves of light pass over and hide it for a moment, but the black star keeps fast in the zenith.
Ill 6.309 6 We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
Ill 6.310 22 Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead [in the Mammoth Cave], reflecting the light of a half-hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect.
Civ 7.34 6 ...if there be...a country...where the position of the white woman is injuriously affected by the outlawry of the black woman;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
Elo1 7.70 23 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
OA 7.332 12 The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair, dressed in a blue coat, black small-clothes, white stockings;...
PPo 8.242 27 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
Dem1 10.25 9 [Animal Magnetism] becomes...a black art.
HDC 11.64 15 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being informed of the great present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to Stephen Hosmer to deliver a town cow, of a black color, with a white face, unto said Pellit, for his present supply.
EWI 11.103 4 For the negro...no right in the poor black woman that cherished him in her bosom...
EWI 11.103 15 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes...
EWI 11.103 18 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. The black man was greedy, and chose the largest.
EWI 11.130 2 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment as mariners, cooks or stewards, in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
EWI 11.142 13 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of Philippo, are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies]...
EWI 11.143 27 If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races...the black man must serve, and be exterminated.
EWI 11.144 2 If the black man is...not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve, and be exterminated.
EWI 11.144 3 ...if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him...
EWI 11.144 27 ...you must save yourself, black or white, man or woman;...
EWI 11.145 3 I esteem the occasion of this jubilee [of emancipation in the West Indies] to be the proud discovery that the black race can contend with the white...
FSLC 11.185 12 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him.
FSLC 11.200 5 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...
FSLC 11.200 22 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate. We do not govern the people of the North by our black slaves, but by their own white slaves.
AKan 11.258 6 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas], or else should resign their seats to those who can. But first let them hang the halls of the state-house with black crape...
ACiv 11.309 1 ...justice satisfies everybody,-white man, red man, yellow man and black man.
EPro 11.320 4 [The Emancipation Proclamation] does not promise the redemption of the black race;...
HCom 11.344 6 Scholars changed the black coat for the blue.
FRep 11.541 21 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the world without toll or custom-houses, invitation as we now make...to every race and skin, white men, red men, yellow men, black men;...
CL 12.149 18 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself with fibre of milkweed...or root of spruce, black or white, for strings;...
CW 12.169 13 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
Bost 12.184 9 [Howell] compares [Indian society] to the geologic phenomenon which the black soil of the Dhakkan offers,-the property, namely, of assimilating to itself every foreign substance introduced into its bosom.
Bost 12.208 1 I know that this history [of Massachusetts] contains many black lines of cruel injustice;...
Comc 8.165 9 The Society in London which had contributed their means to convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see the Keokuks, Black Hawks... converted into church-wardens and deacons at least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
ALin 11.330 14 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a flatboatman, a captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer...
Nat2 3.184 1 The common sense of Franklin, Dalton, Davy and Black is the same common sense which made the arrangements which now it discovers.
Tran 1.355 5 ...the justice which is now claimed for the black...is for Beauty...
PI 8.46 1 In society you have this figure [of rhyme]...in a funeral procession, where all wear black...
EWI 11.117 5 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that now for ten months...only one black [in the West Indies] had been hurt in 800,000 negroes...
EWI 11.144 16 ...if you have man, black or white is an insignificance.
FSLC 11.190 21 ...no reasonable person needs a quotation from Blackstone to convince him that white cannot be legislated to be black...
ET7 5.121 16 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived there on his escape from Paris, in February, 1848. Many private friends called on him. His name was immediately proposed as an honorary member of the Athenaeum. M. Guizot was blackballed.
SMC 11.367 24 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one mile through mud...a good deal of the way over my boots, and with short rations; on one day nothing but liver, blackberries, and pennyroyal tea.
ET9 5.145 25 France is, by its natural contrast, a kind of blackboard on which English character draws its own traits in chalk.
Elo2 8.113 23 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned in driving cattle to the hills...
Clbs 7.246 17 The black-coats are good company only for black-coats;...
LVB 11.92 6 We have inquired if this [rumored relocation of the Cherokees] be a gross misrepresentation from the party opposed to the government and anxious to blacken it with the people.
ET8 5.135 25 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...and when he saw that the splendor of one of his pictures in the Exhibition dimmed his rival's that hung next it, secretly took a brush and blackened his own.
MR 1.232 14 ...the general system of our trade (apart from the blacker traits, which, I hope, are exceptions...) is a system of selfishness;...
Tran 1.336 18 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him with the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not I./ Emilia replies, The more angel she, and thou the blacker devil./
CbW 6.255 9 ...Art lives and thrills in...mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.
Wsp 6.201 17 I dip my pen in the blackest ink...
Art1 2.357 9 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...white-faced, black-faced...
ShP 4.205 5 It appears that from year to year [Shakespeare] owned a larger share of the Blackfriars' Theatre...
Elo1 7.88 24 ...I read without surprise that the black-letter lawyers of the day sneered at [Lord Mansfield's] equitable decisions...
SlHr 10.445 22 Nobody cared to speak of thoughts or aspirations to a black-letter lawyer [Samuel Hoar], who only studied to keep men out of prison...
Gts 3.161 27 This is...a false state of property, to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering, or payment of blackmail.
Insp 8.290 14 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition, signed by Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens and other writers...against the license of the organ-grinders, who infested the streets near their houses, to levy on them blackmail.
SL 2.154 15 Blackmore, Kotzebue or Pollok may endure for a night...
ET3 5.39 19 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks darken the day...
EWI 11.142 24 I have said that this event [emancipation in the West Indies] interests us because it came mainly from the concession of the whites; I add, that in part it is the earning of the blacks.
EWI 11.143 11 Who cares for oppressing whites, or oppressed blacks, twenty centuries ago...
ACiv 11.307 17 Now, [the Southern people's] interest is in keeping out white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they must pay wages, their interest will be...to get the best labor, and, if they fear their blacks, to invite Irish, German and American laborers.
ACiv 11.308 23 What is so foolish as the terror lest the blacks should be made furious by freedom and wages?
ACiv 11.308 26 What is so foolish as the terror lest the blacks should be made furious by freedom and wages? It is denying these that is the outrage, and makes the danger from the blacks.
MoL 10.251 16 I asked the first [West Point] Cadet, Who makes your bed? I do. Who fetches your water? I do. Who blacks your shoes? I do.
Schr 10.273 26 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil...he cannot look a blacksmith in the eye;...
MoS 4.168 17 ...blacksmiths and teamsters do not trip in their speech;...
RBur 11.442 24 ...Burns knew how to take from fairs and gypsies, blacksmiths and drovers, the speech of the market and street, and clothe it with melody.
FSLC 11.190 14 ...the great jurists...Coke, Blackstone...do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void].
FSLC 11.190 20 ...no reasonable person needs a quotation from Blackstone to convince him that white cannot be legislated to be black...
FSLC 11.190 23 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature...
FSLN 11.227 2 ...Blackstone, Burlamaqui, Vattel...do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid]...
ET1 5.15 26 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand magazine;...
PPo 8.242 27 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
LT 1.266 5 Here is a Damascus blade, such as you may search through nature in vain to parallel...
SR 2.67 4 [Man] is ashamed before the blade of grass...
NER 3.266 2 All the men in the world...cannot make...a blade of grass...
ET5 5.89 8 At Rogers's mills, in Sheffield...I was told...that they make no mistakes, every blade in the hundred and in the thousand is good.
QO 8.201 2 One leaf, one blade of grass, one meridian, does not resemble another.
PPo 8.241 18 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne. Behind them all came the ant, with a blade of grass...
Let 12.401 1 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans; some seven years later, and...they are like a soil which an enemy has sown with poison, that it will not bear a blade of grass.
Let 12.402 20 In all the cases we have ever seen where people were supposed to suffer from too much wit, or, as men said, from a blade too sharp for the scabbard, it turned out that they had not wit enough.
Suc 7.284 4 ...Olaf, King of Norway, could run round his galley on the blades of the oars of the rowers when the ship was in motion;...
Elo2 8.117 27 A worthy gentleman...listening to the debates of the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Edinburgh...delighted with the talent shown by Dr. Hugh Blair, went to him and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
ET4 5.68 25 ...[the English] know where their war-dogs lie. Cromwell, Blake, Marlborough, Chatham, Nelson and Wellington are not to be trifled with...
PI 8.27 15 In some individuals this insight or second sight has an extraordinary reach which compels our wonder, as in Behmen, Swedenborg and William Blake the painter.
PI 8.27 16 William Blake...writes thus...
Insp 8.290 24 William Blake said, Natural objects always did and do weaken, deaden and obliterate imagination in me.
Grts 8.317 8 William Blake the artist frankly says, I never knew a bad man in whom there was not something very good.
Comp 2.118 10 Blame is safer than praise.
Exp 3.79 9 ...[the intellect] leaves out praise and blame and all weak emotions.
MoS 4.167 25 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I...can shoot the gulf at last with decency. If there be anything farcical in such a life, the blame is not mine: let it lie at fate's and nature's door.
F 6.24 4 'T is weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate.
OA 7.315 13 ...the transparent good faith of [Josiah Quincy's] praise and blame...gave unusual interest to the College festival.
SovE 10.191 21 Man is always throwing his praise or blame on events...
FSLC 11.205 1 It is neither praise nor blame to say that [Webster] has no moral perception, no moral sentiment...
ChiE 11.473 4 [Confucius's] rare perception appears in...his unerring insight,-putting always the blame of our misfortunes on ourselves;...
AgMs 12.363 25 [Edmund Hosmer] had a good opinion of the [Agricultural] Surveyor, and acquitted him of any blame in the matter...
Fdsp 2.208 8 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade.
Ill 6.316 5 We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages.
PPo 8.244 20 Our father Adam [says Hafiz] sold Paradise for two kernels of wheat; then blame me not, if I hold it dear at one grapestone.
Aris 10.43 17 The petty arts which we blame in the half-great seem as odious to them also;...
Aris 10.52 11 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...
MMEm 10.409 2 It is so universal with all classes to avoid contact with me [writes Mary Moody Emerson] that I blame none.
FSLC 11.193 16 Will you blame the ball for rebounding from the floor...
FSLC 11.193 17 Will you...blame the air for rushing in where a vacuum is made...
MLit 12.333 7 ...every fine genius teaches us how to blame himself.
Comp 2.117 6 The stag in the fable admired his horns and blamed his feet...
NER 3.279 5 I suppose considerate observers, looking at the masses of men in their blameless and in their equivocal actions, will assent, that...the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
Wth 6.85 6 [A man] is no whole man until he knows how to earn a blameless livelihood.
SovE 10.184 24 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...
TPar 11.292 25 ...amiable and blameless at home, feared abroad as the standard-bearer of liberty...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave...
Boks 7.213 20 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre, as well as...the tour to Mont Blanc...make such amends as they can.
HDC 11.74 17 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river...then a single gun, the ball from which wounded Luther Blanchard and Jonas Brown...
Bhr 6.185 20 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 6.185 22 ...the movements of Blanche are the sallies of a spirit which is sufficient for the moment...
Fdsp 2.212 2 Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say any thing to such? No matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and bland.
Boks 7.209 26 Among the distinguished company which attended the sale [of the Duke of Roxburgh's library] were the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Spencer, and the Duke of Marlborough, then Marquis of Blandford.
Boks 7.210 2 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer. And ten, added the Marquis [of Blandford].
Boks 7.210 7 ...the contest [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] proceeded until the Marquis said, Two thousand pounds.
Boks 7.210 17 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford].
Elo1 7.73 2 ...[Homer] does not fail to arm Ulysses at first with this power of overcoming all opposition by the blandishments of speech.
FSLC 11.181 6 I met the smoothest of Episcopal Clergymen the other day, and allusion being made to Mr. Webster's treachery, he blandly replied, Why, do you know I think that the great action of his life.
LT 1.267 24 To-day always looks mean to the thoughtless, in the face of an uniform experience that all good and great and happy actions are made up precisely of these blank to-days.
Mrs1 3.147 5 ...As Heaven and Earth are fairer far/ Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
Wth 6.93 22 Few men on the planet have more truly belonged to it. But [Columbus] was forced to leave much of his map blank.
LLNE 10.351 17 ...it is not to be doubted but that in the reign of Attractive Industry all men will speak in blank verse.
EzRy 10.384 11 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...written in the blank leaves of the almanac for the year 1735.
HDC 11.77 22 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775, in a blank leaf of which he has written a narrative of the fight [battle of Concord];...
Nat 1.73 23 The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye.
Elo2 8.127 3 If [some men] are to put a thing in proper shape, fit for the occasion and the audience, their mind is a blank.
SA 8.80 24 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible--woven for the king's garment--must mean manners, which do really clothe a princely nature. Such a one can well go in a blanket, if he would.
Res 8.144 21 The hunter, the soldier, rolls himself in his blanket, and the falling snow...is his eider-down...
Res 8.144 27 See how Nature keeps the lakes warm by tucking them up under a blanket of ice...
HDC 11.79 18 For these men [in the Continental army] [Concord] was continually providing shoes, stockings, shirts, coats, blankets and beef.
SMC 11.369 20 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. I think we were very fortunate to save it at all, for...we had to carry him and all our wounded nearly two miles in blankets.
SMC 11.369 24 [George Prescott writes] We laid [Lieutenant Barrow] in two double blankets, and then sent off a long distance and got boards off a barn to make the best coffin we could...
II 12.76 25 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...
Wsp 6.226 8 Wherever work is done, victory is obtained. There is no chance, and no blanks.
Boks 7.192 14 ...it happens in our experience that in this lottery [of books] there are at least fifty or a hundred blanks to a prize.
OA 7.329 15 [The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty. But every year fills some blanks...
PI 8.49 18 A right ode (however nearly it may adopt conventional metre, as the...heroic blank-verse...) will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of conventionality...
YA 1.390 17 We cannot give our life to the cause...of the pauper, as another is doing; but to one thing we are bound, not to blaspheme the sentiment and the work of that man...
PI 8.63 17 There is something...the eminent scholars of England, historians and reviewers, romancers and poets included, might deny and blaspheme it,--which is setting us and them aside...and planting itself.
DSA 1.140 24 In the street, what has [the poor preacher] to say to the bold village blasphemer?
DSA 1.140 24 The village blasphemer sees fear in the face, form, and gait of the minister.
NR 3.239 20 Jesus would absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.
SwM 4.131 2 ...though aware that truth is not solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry, [Swedenborg] makes war on his mind...and, on all occasions, traduces and blasphemes it.
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.
MN 1.198 24 Statements of the infinite are usually felt to be unjust to the finite, and blasphemous.
Wsp 6.207 2 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath.
Mrs1 3.137 21 Proportionate is our disgust at those invaders who fill a studious house with blast and running...
Pow 6.77 24 At West Point, Colonel Buford...pounded with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off. He fired a piece of ordnance some hundred times in swift succession, until it burst. Now which stroke broke the trunnion? Every stroke. Which blast burst the piece? Every blast.
DL 7.113 9 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to hear an endless chatter and blast;...
HDC 11.59 13 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house, or a village; but...in the first blast of [the white men's] trumpet we already hear the flourish of victory.
TPar 11.284 5 ...Every word that [Parker] speaks has been fierily furnaced/ In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest/...
FSLC 11.210 7 Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison [slavery],-bore, blast, excavate, pulverize, and shovel it once for all, down into the bottomless Pit.
SHC 11.435 1 Bleak sea-rocks and sea-downs and blasted heaths have their own beauty;...
OS 2.282 2 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light.
MMEm 10.397 19 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./
Ctr 6.152 22 ...I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo the street was in a blaze with scarlet umbrellas.
Farm 7.145 24 Whilst all thus burns,--the universe in a blaze kindled from the torch of the sun,--it needs a perpetual tempering...to check the fury of the conflagration;...
SwM 4.146 4 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him...
NR 3.229 9 ...[a personal influence] borrows all its size from the momentary estimation of the speakers: the Will-of-the-wisp...only blazes at one angle.
PC 8.223 4 Nature is a fable whose moral blazes through it.
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!/
Imtl 8.323 9 The hearth blazes in the middle and a grateful heat is spread around...
EWI 11.147 18 The Intellect, with blazing eye, looking through history from the beginning onward, gazes on this blot [slavery] and it disappears.
SHC 11.436 22 Our dissatisfaction with any other solution is the blazing evidence of immortality.
LE 1.176 17 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons.
Grts 8.317 12 Bret Harte has pleased himself with noting and recording the sudden virtue blazing in the wild reprobates of the ranches and mines of California.
Chr2 10.113 24 Some poor soul beheld the Law blazing through such impediments as he had, and yielded himself to humility and joy. What was gained by being told that it was justification by faith?
CW 12.169 6 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Nor Rome, nor joyful Paris, nor the halls/ Of rich men, blazing hospitable light,/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
Chr1 3.105 21 Care is taken that the greatly-destined shall slip up into life in the shade, with no thousand-eyed Athens to watch and blazon every new thought...
MoS 4.173 7 [The wise skeptic] does not wish to...blazon every doubt and sneer that darkens the sun for him.
SovE 10.185 15 A thought is embosomed in a sentiment, and the attempt to detach and blazon the thought is like a show of cut flowers.
Prch 10.215 4 Ascending through just degrees/ To a consummate holiness,/ As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching all souls like the sun./
LT 1.263 2 ...[persons] have the skill to make the world look bleak and inhospitable, or seem the nest of tenderness and joy.
Exp 3.81 7 ...yet is the God the native of these bleak rocks.
Nat2 3.169 6 There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is to desire that we have heard of the happiest latitudes...
ET5 5.98 15 Man in England submits to be a product of political economy. On a bleak moor a mill is built...and men come in as water in a sluice-way...
SHC 11.435 1 Bleak sea-rocks and sea-downs and blasted heaths have their own beauty;...
RBur 11.441 26 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,-bleak leagues of pasture and stubble...
Con 1.308 18 I cannot occupy the bleakest crag of the White Hills or the Alleghany Range, but some man or corporation steps up to me to show me that it is his.
Mrs1 3.154 5 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
CL 12.154 23 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, The appearance is that of matter...dismissed by Nature from her care. The poor blear-eyed doctor was no poet.
Dem1 10.28 10 The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste...unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.
Hsm1 2.246 10 Let not soft nature so transformed be,/ And lose her gentler sexed humanity,/ to make me see my lord bleed. So, 't is well;/...
Gts 3.161 12 Thou must bleed for me.
MoS 4.168 12 Cut [Montaigne's] words, and they would bleed;...
Clbs 7.234 11 We know beforehand that yonder man must think as we do. Has he not two hands,--two feet,--hair and nails? Does he not eat,--bleed,-- laugh,--cry?
SR 2.53 9 I wish [my life]...not to need diet and bleeding.
MN 1.220 9 A [New England] man was born...to suffer for the benefit of others like the noble rock-maple which all around our villages bleeds for the service of man.
MoS 4.153 18 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him when he said, Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weiber, Gesang,/ Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang;/...
SwM 4.99 1 ...it is easier to see the reflection of the great sphere in large globes, though defaced by some crack or blemish, than in drops of water...
Scot 11.467 7 ...[Scott] had no insanity, or vice, or blemish.
Lov1 2.182 21 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world, and is able to point it out, and this with mutual joy that they are now able, without offence, to indicate blemishes and hindrances in each other...
Int 2.331 14 I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that.
DSA 1.137 5 The faith should blend with the light of rising and of setting suns...
LE 1.175 25 Digest and correct the past experience; and blend it with the new and divine life.
SR 2.80 6 ...the walls of the system blend to [unbalanced mind's] eye in the remote horizon with the walls of the universe;...
Lov1 2.188 21 ...the warm loves and fears, that swept over us as clouds, must lose their finite character and blend with God, to attain their own perfection.
Chr1 3.114 17 ...the mind requires...a force of character...which will rule animal and mineral virtues, and blend with the courses of sap, of rivers, of winds, of stars, and of moral agents.
Ill 6.324 8 Diogenes of Apollonia said that unless the atoms were made of one stuff, they could never blend and act with one another.
Milt1 12.276 11 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret...that [the men]...were channels through which streams of thought flowed from a higher source, which they...did not blend with their own being?
Art2 7.40 9 When we reflect on the pleasure we receive from a ship, a railroad, a dry-dock; or from a picture, a dramatic representation, a statue, a poem,--we find that these have not a quite simple, but a blended origin.
ET13 5.216 27 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...at once domestical and stately. In the long time, it has blended with everything in heaven above and the earth beneath.
Edc1 10.159 4 The beautiful nature of the world has here blended your happiness with your power.
Mrs1 3.139 27 [Society]...hates whatever can interfere with total blending of parties;...
Nat 1.31 8 [This imagery] is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind.
MN 1.217 10 ...[Love] is that in which the individual...is wrapped round with awe of the object, blending for the time that object with the real and only good...
SL 2.135 3 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods? If he could communicate that secret it would instantly lose its exaggerated value, blending with the daylight and the vital energy the power to stand and to go.
Int 2.344 6 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season...they will be...one more bright star...blending its light with all your day.
ET4 5.66 10 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...please by...an expression blending good-nature, valor and refinement...which is daily seen in the streets of London.
EdAd 11.391 27 Is the age we live in unfriendly...to that blending of the affections with the poetic faculty which has distinguished the Religious Ages?
PLT 12.45 26 A blending of these two-the intellectual perception of truth and the moral sentiment of right-is wisdom.
LT 1.268 16 ...this [conservative] class...blends itself with the brute forces of nature...
ET4 5.50 14 A child blends in his face the faces of both parents...
War 11.152 9 ...in the first dawnings of the religious sentiment, that blends itself with [savages'] passions...
PLT 12.44 22 Affection blends, intellect disjoins subject and object.
DSA 1.144 10 All men bless and curse.
ET13 5.224 22 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys piously, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and praise God, and pray him to bless it to me, and continue it.
Elo2 8.127 22 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he implored the Divine Being to--to--to bless to them all the boy that was this morning drowned in Frog Pond.
QO 8.190 8 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher, or the Theban Phalanx's? The city will for nine days or nine years make differences and sinister comparisons: there is a new and more excellent public that will bless the friends.
LS 11.9 11 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...
MAng1 12.232 7 Raphael said, I bless God I live in the times of Michael Angelo.
DSA 1.128 12 Of [the Christian church's] blessed words...you need not that I should speak.
SR 2.79 2 To the persevering mortal, said Zoroaster, the blessed Immortals are swift.
Cir 2.307 22 O blessed Spirit, whom I forsake for [persons called high and worthy], they are not thou!
Int 2.342 17 The circle of the green earth he [in whom the love of truth predominates] must measure with his shoes to find the man who can yield him truth. He shall then know that there is somewhat more blessed and great in hearing than in speaking.
Ctr 6.162 4 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./
Insp 8.283 22 To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift.
Imtl 8.351 3 Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is pleasant. Blessed is he who takes the good...
SovE 10.195 6 The emphasis of that blessed doctrine [of Trust] lay in lowliness.
SovE 10.197 5 I have not discovered, until this blessed ray flashed just now through my soul, that there dwelt any power in Nature that would relieve me of my load.
EzRy 10.384 19 In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York. But April 24th, we find: Shay overturned, with my wife and I in it, yet neither of us much hurt. Blessed be our gracious Preserver.
LS 11.22 27 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and now, with his blessed word and life before us, Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital importance,-really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper]...
EWI 11.147 12 There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right;...
FRep 11.533 3 Blessed is all that agitates the mass...
ET14 5.254 23 ...having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away.
F 6.48 6 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity...
Fdsp 2.204 20 Can another be so blessed and we so pure that we can offer him tenderness?
Cir 2.315 22 Blessed be nothing and The worse things are, the better they are are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
Clbs 7.229 21 Sancho Panza blessed the man who invented sleep.
LS 11.9 12 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it, using this formula...Blessed be Thou, O Lord, our God, who givest us the fruit of the vine...
Ctr 6.157 1 We four, wrote Neander to his sacred friends, will enjoy at Halle the inward blessedness of a civitas Dei...
OS 2.289 5 ...[Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul, which through their eyes beholds again and blesses the things which it hath made.
MLit 12.321 21 ...[Shakespeare and Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul, which through their eyes beholdeth again and blesseth the things which it hath made.
Hist 2.39 12 [Each man] shall...bring with him into humble cottages the blessing of the morning stars...
Int 2.344 1 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won...
ET11 5.187 8 Politeness is...a gentle blessing to the age in which it grew.
CbW 6.256 23 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
Bty 6.283 18 A deep man...believes that the evil eye can wither, that the heart's blessing can heal;...
Cour 7.272 5 Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman. Florence Nightingale brings lint and the blessing of her shadow.
Schr 10.262 17 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of blessing.
Plu 10.313 1 Plutarch thought truth...the goodliest blessing that God can give.
EzRy 10.379 7 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God:/ In Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their dust endears the sod./ From humble tenements around/ Came up the pensive train,/ And in the church a blessing found/ That filled their homes again./
EzRy 10.384 14 The minister [Joseph Emerson] writes against January 31st [1735]: Bought a shay for 27 pounds, 10 shillings. The Lord grant it may be a comfort and blessing to my family.
MMEm 10.432 20 It was the privilege of certain boys to have [Mary Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood; a blessing which nothing else in education could supply.
HDC 11.34 14 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God, till they can provide them houses, which they could not ordinarily, till the earth, by the Lord's blessing, brought forth bread to feed them.
HDC 11.68 25 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition, which, as it succeeded before, in some measure, by the blessing of heaven, so, we cannot but hope it will be attended with still greater success, in future.
ACiv 11.298 7 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise...and calls labor vile...
FRep 11.544 5 Such and so potent is this high method by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse ingenuity prevent the blessing.
Bost 12.182 17 A blessing through the ages thus/ Shield all thy roofs and towers!/ GOD WITH THE FATHERS, SO WITH US,/ Thou darling town of ours [Boston]1/
ACri 12.299 22 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less surely. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire, or of the blessing of love, and yet, I suppose, they are sensible of these...
Let 12.402 1 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate...with the wantonness of the tongue and with the anxiety for a livelihood the blessing of every year becomes a curse...
MR 1.255 22 He who would help himself and others should...be...a continent, persisting, immovable person,-such as we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world;...
Mrs1 3.155 7 Too good for banning, and too bad for blessing, [society] reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character.
NER 3.270 2 A canine appetite for knowledge was generated...and this knowledge...never took the character of substantial, humane truth, blessing those whom it entered.
MMEm 10.431 14 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...I indulge the delight of sympathizing with great virtues,-blessing their Original...
FRep 11.520 14 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm,-in the old time when the minister was still invited, in the spring, to make a prayer for the blessing of a piece of land,-the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
DSA 1.142 13 ...scarcely in a thousand years does any man dare to be wise and good, and so draw after him the tears and blessings of his kind.
Chr1 3.103 6 If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he...has doubled his power to serve you, and ere you can rise up again will burden you with blessings.
Wsp 6.199 20 [Fate] is Jove, who, deaf to prayers,/ Floods with blessings unawares./
EWI 11.121 8 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are...as strongly sensible of the blessings of liberty, as any that we know of in any country.
War 11.169 17 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one which is looked upon as the asylum of the human race and has the tears and the blessings of mankind.
ET6 5.108 19 The song of 1596 says, The wife of every Englishman is counted blest.
PPo 8.255 20 Once flees [the phoenix] upward, he will perch/ On Tuba's golden bough;/ His home is on that fruited arch/ Which cools the blest below.
MMEm 10.418 11 If ever I [Mary Moody Emerson] am blest with a social life, let the accent be grateful.
ET2 5.26 21 At last...the storm came, the winds blew...
ET4 5.59 23 The wind blew off the land, the ship flew, burning in clear flame, out between the islets into the ocean, and there was the right end of King Hake.
Pow 6.68 24 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet, who, when the wind blew a gale, could not contain his joy;...
OA 7.323 21 The humorous thief who drank a pot of beer at the gallows blew off the froth because he had heard it was unhealthy;...
EWI 11.103 10 ...when [the negro] sank in the furrow, no wind of good fame blew over him...
EWI 11.104 23 ...a good man or woman...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them. The horrid story ran and flew; the winds blew it all over the world.
Nat 1.42 6 ...blight, rain, insects, sun, - [a farm] is a sacred emblem...
Pow 6.60 12 A good tree that agrees with the soil will grow in spite of blight...
PLT 12.24 21 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat. This curious resemblance repeats, in the mental function, the...crossings, blight, parasites, and in short, all the accidents of the plant.
HDC 11.55 16 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet summer blighted the corn;...
JBB 11.266 19 ...[John Brown] and his brave boys vowed-so might Heaven help and speed 'em-/ They would save those grand old prairies from the curse that blights the land;/...
Nat 1.34 6 When in fortunate hours we ponder this miracle, the wise man doubts if at all other times he is not blind and deaf;...
Nat 1.77 11 The kingdom of man over nature...he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
AmS 1.109 23 Would we be blind?
DSA 1.144 25 ...[men] love to be blind in public.
LT 1.280 19 ...I own our virtue makes me ashamed;...so thin and blind...
Prd1 2.238 19 Love is fabled to be blind...
Cir 2.307 19 I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits of persons called high and worthy.
Exp 3.61 15 The coarse and frivolous have an instinct of superiority...and honor it in their blind capricious way with sincere homage.
Pol1 3.219 12 Much has been blind and discreditable, but the nature of the revolution is not affected by the vices of the revolters;...
PPh 4.46 21 The progress is to accuracy, to skill, to truth, from blind force.
MoS 4.177 8 We paint...Love and Fortune, blind;...
ET18 5.304 12 [The English] mind is in a state of arrested development...a blind savant like Huber and Sanderson.
F 6.13 19 [Conservatives] have been...born halt and blind...
Wsp 6.204 26 There is always some religion, some hope and fear extended into the invisible,--from the blind boding which nails a horseshoe to the mast or the threshold, up to the song of the Elders in the Apocalypse.
Bty 6.289 14 We say love is blind...
Bty 6.289 15 We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes, because he does not see what he does not like;...
Bty 6.289 20 ...the mythologists tell us that Vulcan was painted lame and Cupid blind, to call attention to the fact that one was all limbs, and the other all eyes.
Ill 6.309 14 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...paddled three quarters of a mile in the deep Echo River, whose waters are peopled with the blind fish;...
OA 7.322 6 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo, elected doge at eighty-four years...
PI 8.59 21 [Odin] could make his enemies in battle blind or deaf...
Comc 8.172 3 ...Timur...had a blind eye and a lame foot.
QO 8.195 23 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep, being always blind and deaf to imaginative and analogy-loving souls...
PC 8.216 8 The early names are too typical,-Homer, or blind man;...
PC 8.230 18 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amidst fools and blind, to see the right done;...
SovE 10.189 2 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...in spite of malignity and blind self-interest...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
Prch 10.215 3 Ascending through just degrees/ To a consummate holiness,/ As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching all souls like the sun./
Schr 10.259 6 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And willing grow old,/ Deaf and dumb, blind and cold/...
MMEm 10.424 16 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are prolific numbers of the same sad hour, colored...by the prophecy of others, more dreary, blind and sickly.
FSLC 11.190 4 I am surprised that lawyers can be so blind as to suffer the principles of Law to be discredited.
JBS 11.281 16 ...our blind statesmen go up and down...hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition].
Koss 11.398 20 [The sympathy of Americans] is not a blind wave;...
PLT 12.61 15 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections, which, alone, are blind guides and thriftless workmen...
PLT 12.62 14 Knowledge is plainly to be preferred before power, as being that which guides and directs its blind force and impetus;...
II 12.65 8 We have a certain blind wisdom...
II 12.78 25 ...we must be openers of doors, and not a blind alley;...
Mem 12.102 26 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.
Milt1 12.278 27 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton; who, in old age, in solitude, in neglect, and blind, wrote Paradise Lost;...
ACri 12.289 5 Burns took [the Devil] into compassion and expressed a blind wish for his reformation.
ACri 12.295 7 My friend thinks the reason why the French mind is so shallow, and still to seek, running into vagaries and blind alleys, is because they do not read Shakspeare;...
MLit 12.319 3 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron it is blind...
LE 1.155 20 Eyes is [the scholar] to the blind;...
ET4 5.62 17 It is a medical fact that the children of the blind see;...
Chr2 10.118 6 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies to the help of the deaf-mute and the blind...
CPL 11.503 5 Think how indigent Nature must appear to the blind, the deaf, and the idiot.
UGM 4.18 20 It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to blind the beholder.
Aris 10.63 27 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy who suffers a vulgarity of speech and habit to blind him to the grosser vulgarity of pitiless selfishness...
Pt1 3.33 10 The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.
PPh 4.65 21 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated which is blinded and buried by studies of another kind;...
ET5 5.88 8 ...it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views; but the indulgence...costs great crises, or accumulations of mental power. In common, the horse works best with blinders.
PLT 12.51 12 The horse goes better with blinders...
EPro 11.322 27 It is wonderful to see the unseasonable senility of what is called the Peace Party...blinding their eyes to the main feature of the war, namely, its inevitableness.
Con 1.303 6 We have all a certain intellection or presentiment of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character, and those who throw themselves blindly on this lose themselves.
SR 2.54 17 A man must consider what a blind-man's-buff is this game of conformity.
Dem1 10.19 14 ...I find...some play at blindman's-buff, when men as wise as Goethe talk mysteriously of the demonological.
Nat 1.75 2 To our blindness, these [common] things seem unaffecting.
LT 1.277 15 [The Reforms] mix the fire of the moral sentiment, with...the blindness that prefers some darling measure to justice and truth.
Comp 2.95 10 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success...
OS 2.271 11 ...the blindness of the intellect begins when it would be something of itself.
Pt1 3.18 20 In the old mythology...defects are ascribed to divine natures, as...blindness to Cupid, and the like,--to signify exuberances.
Wsp 6.218 3 ...the cure of blindness...is love.
OA 7.322 18 We still feel the force...of Galileo, of whose blindness Castelli said, The noblest eye is darkened that Nature ever made...
EWI 11.147 1 I assure myself that this coldness and blindness [towards the negro] will pass away.
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 12.338 5 Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull] the better quality of great downrightness in speaking the truth...
Comp 2.106 5 How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied providence certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!
F 6.23 3 Nor can [man] blink the freewill.
HDC 11.66 5 Mr. Whiting was succeeded in the pastoral office [in Concord] by Rev. Daniel Bliss...
HDC 11.66 9 Mr. Bliss heard that great orator [George Whitefield] with delight...
HDC 11.66 19 The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious excitements.
HDC 11.66 26 ...Mr. Bliss replied, In the prayer you speak of, Jesus Christ was acknowledged as the only Mediator between God and man;...
HDC 11.67 12 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word, lest some would put a wrong meaning thereupon. The Council admonished Mr. Bliss of some improprieties of expression...
HDC 11.67 16 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.
EzRy 10.383 2 [Ezra Ripley] married, November 16, 1780, Mrs. Phebe (Bliss) Emerson...
PI 8.26 16 Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the truth,--As o'er our heads the seasons roll,/ And soothe with change of bliss the soul/?
Plu 10.317 13 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at; that our souls may be with these philosophers together in the same state of bliss.
MMEm 10.403 14 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism, with its high and mysterious elections to eternal bliss...would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron's] imagination.
Mem 12.95 14 He who calls what is vanished back again into being enjoys a bliss like that of creating, says Neibuhr.
CL 12.134 7 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./ Wonderful verse of the gods,/ Of one import, of varied tone;/ They chant the bliss of their abodes/ To man imprisoned in his own./
Chr2 10.119 15 ...[the infant soul's] narrow chapel expands to the blue cathedral of the sky, where he Looks in and sees each blissful deity,/ Where he before the thunderous throne doth lie./
Milt1 12.260 14 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument... Such where the deep transported mind may soar/ Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door/ Look in, and see each blissful deity,/ How he before the thunderous throne doth lie./
Nat 1.10 7 Standing on the bare ground - my head bathed by the blithe air...all mean egotism vanishes.
LT 1.266 1 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough: bloated promises, which end in nothing or little.
Con 1.299 18 ...[reform] runs to egotism and bloated self-conceit;...
SL 2.160 13 Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
DL 7.108 19 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies...
Comc 8.164 16 ...[the intellect] compares incessantly the sublime idea with the bloated nothing which pretends to be it...
War 11.170 14 Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings...
PPr 12.389 4 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character;...
ET13 5.228 9 England accepts this ornamented national church, and it glazes the eyes, bloats the flesh, gives the voice a stertorous clang...
Nat 1.55 21 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervaded and dissolved by a thought;...
Hist 2.18 25 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches,--a round block in the centre, which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth...
Art1 2.357 27 No mannerist made these varied groups and diverse original single figures. Here is the artist himself improvising, grim and glad, at his block.
ET16 5.283 13 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns...
Bty 6.295 5 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together...
Clbs 7.228 10 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T is pulley and lever and screw. To fairly disengage the mass, and send it jingling down, a good boulder,--a block of quartz and gold...is a wonderful relief.
ALin 11.335 25 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture.
SHC 11.432 13 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...making together a large block of public ground...
PLT 12.44 10 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
PLT 12.44 14 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
MAng1 12.213 3 Never did sculptor's dream unfold/ A form which marble doth not hold/ In its white block;.../
Trag 12.416 15 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of marble.
YA 1.379 14 Our part is plainly not to throw ourselves across the track, to block improvement...
Prch 10.226 23 ...we can keep our religion, despite of the violent railroads of generalization...that block and intersect our old parish highways.
LT 1.284 2 ...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be not...a paper blockade...
MAng1 12.224 23 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall. This simple expedient was sufficient, and the Prince was obliged to turn his siege into a blockade.
MR 1.230 19 The young man...finds the way to lucrative employments blocked with abuses.
F 6.15 22 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...rude forms, in which she has only blocked her future statue...
PerF 10.75 10 [Labor] is massed and blocked away in that stone house...
TPar 11.288 25 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston]; who...came to the rescue of civilization at a hard pinch, and who blocked its course.
ACiv 11.303 16 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...
PLT 12.35 26 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they represented in Pan... who was not yet completely finished in godlike form, blocked rather...
CInt 12.114 15 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...
MAng1 12.233 2 The things proposed to [Michelangelo] in his imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to express so grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work. For this reason he only blocked his statue.
PLT 12.19 16 So works the poor little blockhead manikin.
CbW 6.269 13 ...a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion.
CbW 6.269 14 ...a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion.
PLT 12.28 26 To the idle blockhead Nature is poor, sterile, inhospitable.
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.
Thor 10.480 4 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety, had failed to describe the seeds or count the sepals. That is to say, we replied, the blockheads were not born in Concord;...
CPL 11.504 14 Even the wild and warlike Arab Mahomet said, Men are either learned or learning: the rest are blockheads.
HDC 11.70 27 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...to suspend all commercial intercourse with Great Britain, until the act for blocking the harbor of Boston be repealed;...
ChiE 11.472 4 ...China had the magnet centuries before Europe; and block-printing or stereotype...
Tran 1.331 22 The sturdy capitalist, no matter how deep and square on blocks of Quincy granite he lays the foundations of his banking-house or Exchange, must set it ...on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
Art1 2.367 10 [Now men] abhor men as tasteless, dull, and inconvertible, and console themselves with color-bags and blocks of marble.
ET16 5.278 7 The sacrificial stone, as it is called, is the only one in all these blocks [at Stonehenge] that can resist the action of fire...
ET16 5.279 19 The spot, the gray blocks [of Stonehenge] and their rude order...suggested to [Carlyle] the flight of ages...
DL 7.104 14 Out of blocks, thread-spools, cards and checkers, [the child] will build his pyramid...
Edc1 10.146 1 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking about him, observed more blocks and fragments like this.
Edc1 10.146 3 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking about him, observed more blocks and fragments like this. He returned to the spot, procured laborers and uncovered many blocks.
PLT 12.20 4 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit.
MAng1 12.226 4 [Michelangelo] was charged with rebuilding the Pons Palatinus over the Tiber. He prepared, accordingly, a large quantity of blocks of travertine...
ET11 5.181 5 Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The wolves are here in such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the streets;...
ET16 5.289 8 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given to every one who should ask it at the gate.
Pow 6.58 9 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency,--which implies...merely the temperamental or taming eye of a soldier or a schoolmaster (which one has and one has not, as one has a black mustache and one a blond),--then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
SMC 11.358 27 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... fair, blond, the rose lived long in his cheek;...
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...
AmS 1.107 9 [The poor and the low]...will perish to add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat...
Con 1.317 11 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism! your horses are of the best blood;...
Con 1.317 16 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...but every one of these goods steals away a drop of my blood.
YA 1.388 11 I find no expression...especially in our newspapers, of a high national feeling, no lofty counsels that rightfully stir the blood.
SR 2.71 26 Why should we assume the faults of our friend...or child, because they...are said to have the same blood?
SR 2.71 27 All men have my blood and I all men's.
Comp 2.107 6 [Siegfried]...is not quite immortal, for a leaf fell on his back whilst he was bathing in the dragon's blood...
Comp 2.109 15 ...blood for blood;...
SL 2.150 20 ...a person of related mind...comes to us...so nearly and intimately, as if it were the blood in our proper veins, that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...
SL 2.155 18 [The things the great man did] are the demonstrations in a few particulars of the genius of nature; they show the direction of the stream. But the stream is blood; every drop is alive.
Lov1 2.169 20 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints...one must not be too old.
Lov1 2.177 11 ...[the lover] feels the blood of the violet, the clover and the lily in his veins;...
Lov1 2.178 27 [The lover's] friends find in [his mistress] a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood.
Lov1 2.184 23 Her pure and eloquent blood/ Spoke in her cheeks.../
Fdsp 2.189 1 A ruddy drop of manly blood/ The surging sea outweighs;/...
Fdsp 2.204 15 We are holden to men by every sort of tie, by blood...
Fdsp 2.213 3 The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.
Hsm1 2.248 22 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch]...
OS 2.291 17 Souls such as these treat you as gods would...accepting without any admiration...your virtue even,--say rather your act of duty, for your virtue they own as their proper blood...
OS 2.294 11 ...one blood rolls uninterruptedly an endless circulation through all men...
Int 2.332 9 It seems as if the law of the intellect resembled that law of nature...by which the heart now draws in, then hurls out the blood...
Pt1 3.16 26 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...
Pt1 3.31 14 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire...
Exp 3.51 15 What cheer can the religious sentiment yield, when that is suspected to be secretly dependent on...the state of the blood?
Chr1 3.108 24 I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood.
Mrs1 3.126 2 Diogenes, Socrates, and Epaminondas, are gentlemen of the best blood...
Mrs1 3.145 16 ...nor is it to be concealed that living blood and a passion of kindness does at last distinguish God's gentleman from Fashion's.
Mrs1 3.147 25 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review...we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
Mrs1 3.153 16 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love. This is the royal blood...
Nat2 3.187 14 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head...
Nat2 3.196 24 ...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood;...
NER 3.266 2 All the men in the world...cannot make a drop of blood...
NER 3.283 8 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall not take counsel of flesh and blood...
UGM 4.14 15 We cannot read Plutarch without a tingling of the blood;...
UGM 4.21 7 Ever their phantoms arise before us,/ Our loftier brothers, but one in blood;/...
SwM 4.104 11 Harvey had shown the circulation of the blood;...
SwM 4.110 6 The globule of blood gyrates around its own axis in the human veins...
SwM 4.113 27 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/ Blood, of small sanguine drops reduced to one;/...
SwM 4.114 23 Hunger is an aggregate of very many little hungers, or losses of blood by the little veins all over the body.
SwM 4.141 12 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded,--the earth-beat... which makes the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood...
ShP 4.193 26 The rude warm blood of the living England circulated in the play...
NMW 4.234 6 [Napoleon was] Not bloodthirsty, but not sparing of blood,-- and pitiless.
NMW 4.241 26 ...when allusion was made to the precious blood of centuries...[Napoleon] suggested, Neither is my blood ditch-water.
NMW 4.242 1 ...when allusion was made to the precious blood of centuries...[Napoleon] suggested, Neither is my blood ditch-water.
ET4 5.46 14 Men hear gladly of the power of blood or race.
ET4 5.52 21 The Scandinavians in [the English] race still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean; the Briton in the blood hugs the homestead still.
ET4 5.53 21 These queries concerning ancestry and blood may be well allowed...
ET4 5.55 1 The sources from which tradition derives [the English] stock are mainly three. And first they are of the oldest blood of the world,--the Celtic.
ET5 5.74 6 ...from the residence of a portion of these [Scandinavian] people in France, and from some effect of that powerful soil on their blood and manners, the Norman has come popularly to represent in England the aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle.
ET5 5.87 15 It is not usually a point of honor...and never any whim, that [the English] will shed their blood for;...
ET5 5.92 15 [The English] have approved their Saxon blood, by their sea-going qualities;...
ET6 5.105 14 An Englishman...wears a wig, or a shawl, or a saddle, or stands on his head, and no remark is made. And as he has been doing this for several generations, it is now in the blood.
ET6 5.110 14 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
ET8 5.132 19 ...at Naples [young Englishmen] put St. Januarius's blood in an alembic;...
ET9 5.146 2 I suppose that all men of English blood in America, Europe or Asia, have a secret feeling of joy that they are not French natives.
ET9 5.152 14 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...the pride of the best blood of the modern world.
ET11 5.178 23 Pepys tells us, in writing of an Earl Oxford, in 1666, that the honor had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years.
ET11 5.180 12 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford...know the man who...like the long line of his fathers, had carried that crag, that shore, dale, fen, or woodland, in his blood and manners.
ET11 5.180 25 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy: their chateaux will be reduced to ashes and their blood be spilt in torrents.
ET11 5.196 6 The great powers of industrial art have no exclusion of name or blood.
ET11 5.197 8 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families, the continual recruiting of these from new blood.
ET13 5.229 2 The English (and I wish it were confined to them, but 't is a taint in the Anglo-Saxon blood in both hemispheres),--the English and the Americans cant beyond all other nations.
F 6.6 28 The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood...
F 6.32 9 The cold...tingles your blood...
F 6.45 9 I find...that a crudity in the blood will appear in the argument;...
Pow 6.55 5 Courage, the old physicians taught...is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.
Pow 6.55 8 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...
Pow 6.55 12 Where the arteries hold their blood, is courage and adventure possible.
Pow 6.68 11 Men of this surcharge of arterial blood cannot live on nuts, herb-tea, and elegies;...
Pow 6.69 8 The young English are fine animals, full of blood...
Wth 6.87 26 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as if it added feet and hands and eyes and blood...
Wth 6.125 10 ...it is a maxim that money is another kind of blood...
Ctr 6.138 10 Cleanse with healthy blood [the scholar's] parchment skin.
Bhr 6.176 10 ...there must be capacity for culture in the blood.
Bhr 6.176 12 The obstinate prejudice in favor of blood...has some reason in common experience.
Wsp 6.202 24 Heaven kindly gave our blood a moral flow./
Wsp 6.206 14 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/ For he let Christian wed heathen,/ And mixed our blood as flesh and mathen./
Wsp 6.222 25 The smallest fly will draw blood...
Bty 6.283 6 ...[a man] feels the antipodes and the pole as drops of his blood;...
Bty 6.293 27 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has; as the circulation of waters, the circulation of the blood...
Bty 6.300 27 Sir Philip Sidney...Ben Jonson tells us, was no pleasant man in countenance, his face being spoiled with pimples, and of high blood, and long.
SS 7.1 22 ...[Seyd] shared the life of the element,/ The tie of blood and home was rent/...
SS 7.12 12 A cold sluggish blood thinks it has not facts enough to the purpose...
Civ 7.32 12 ...when I...see...how self-helped and self-directed all families are,--knots of men in purely natural societies, societies...of kindred blood...I see what cubic values America has...
Elo1 7.65 1 The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude, and concentrating their valors and powers:--But now the blood of twenty thousand men/ Blushed in my face./
Elo1 7.93 20 This terrible earnestness [of the eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's blood.
Elo1 7.95 22 ...the slight yet sufficient party organization [the resistance to slavery] offered, reinforced the city with new blood from the woods and mountains.
Farm 7.139 25 In the town where I live...most of the first settlers (in 1635), should they reappear on the farms to-day, would find their own blood and names still in possession.
WD 7.160 4 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the boldest promiser of all,--the transfusion of the blood...
WD 7.160 5 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the boldest promiser of all,--the transfusion of the blood,--which, in Paris, it was claimed, enables a man to change his blood as often as his linen!
WD 7.175 7 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was...the heat of the blood and the heaving of the lungs;...
WD 7.182 12 The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood.
Clbs 7.232 6 No doubt [the shy hermit] does not make allowance enough for men of more active blood and habit.
Cour 7.266 22 Undoubtedly there is a temperamental courage, a warlike blood...
PI 8.14 8 Saint John gave us the Christian figure of souls washed in the blood of Christ.
PI 8.24 19 The atoms of the body were once nebulae, then rock, then loam, then corn, then chyme, then chyle, then blood;...
PI 8.73 18 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life. The drop of ichor that tingles in their veins has not yet refined their blood...
PI 8.73 21 Time will be when ichor shall be [poets'] blood...
QO 8.198 27 Swedenborg threw a formidable theory into the world, that every soul existed in a society of souls, from which all its thoughts passed into it, as the blood of the mother circulates in her unborn child;...
Grts 8.315 14 ...I please myself with [greatness's] diffusion; to find a spark of true fire amid much corruption. It is some guaranty, I hope, for the health of the soul which has this generous blood.
Dem1 10.20 26 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the transfusion of the blood...are of this kind.
Aris 10.36 6 I cannot tell how English titles are bestowed, whether on pure blood, or on the largest holder in the three-per-cents.
Aris 10.45 21 The blood royal never pays, we say.
Aris 10.55 5 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself. Is there...any cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air presupposing so undoubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs?
Aris 10.57 16 It was objected to Gustavus that he...was too prodigal of a blood so precious.
Supl 10.165 19 ...much of the rhetoric of terror,-It froze my blood, It made my knees knock, etc.-most men have realized only in dreams and nightmares.
Prch 10.220 24 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle; but...when the enemy lies cold in his blood at our feet; we are alarmed at our solitude;...
Prch 10.232 9 ...it were inhuman to affect ignorance or indifference on Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our countenance dejected Saturday or Monday.
MoL 10.244 20 In Puritanism, how the whole Jewish history became flesh and blood in those men, let Bunyan show.
LLNE 10.355 11 ...like the dreams of poetic people on the first outbreak of the old French Revolution, so [the Fourierist community] would disappear in a slime of mire and blood.
LLNE 10.356 14 ...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon belief the purest ethics.
EzRy 10.388 11 I can remember a little speech [Ezra Ripley] made to me, when the last tie of blood which held me and my brothers to his house was broken by the death of his daughter.
MMEm 10.423 4 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! They are but letting blood which corrupts into worms and dragons.
MMEm 10.430 25 ...one secret sentiment of virtue...will tell, in the world of spirits, of God's immediate presence, more than the blood of many a martyr who has it not.
Thor 10.451 5 [Thoreau's] character exhibited occasional traits drawn from this [French] blood...
LS 11.7 10 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect to your eyes. It is now a historical covenant of God with the Jewish nation. Hereafter it will remind you of a new covenant sealed with my blood.
LS 11.9 23 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for you. Take; eat. This is my blood which is shed for you. Drink it?...
LS 11.10 20 [Jesus] there [at Capernaum] tells the Jews, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
HDC 11.30 24 ...the honor you have done me this day, in making me your organ, testifies your persevering kindness to [Bulkeley's] blood.
HDC 11.33 14 Some of [the pilgrims], having no leggins, have had the blood trickle down at every step.
HDC 11.73 10 There [at the Concord bridge] the Americans first shed British blood.
HDC 11.79 10 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will not confer with flesh and blood...
EWI 11.104 16 The blood is moral: the blood is anti-slavery...
EWI 11.111 4 The [West Indian] boy was set to strip and flog his own mother to blood, for a small offence.
EWI 11.117 18 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed...to exert the same licentious despotism as before. The negroes complained to the magistrates and to the governor. In the island of Jamaica, this ill blood continually grew worse.
EWI 11.124 12 The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
EWI 11.134 3 ...you will not suffer me to forget one eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams], in whose veins the blood of Massachusetts rolls...
War 11.175 10 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day, and human blood will cease to flow.
FSLC 11.183 6 ...you cannot rely on any man for the defence of truth, who is not constitutionally or by blood and temperament on that side.
FSLC 11.192 15 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter...both [the inhabitants and soldiers] and I must humbly entreat your majesty to be pleased to employ your arms and lives in things that are possible, however hazardous they may be, and we will exert ourselves to the last drop of our blood.
FSLC 11.203 22 Mr. Webster perhaps is only following the laws of his blood and constitution.
FSLC 11.204 26 All the drops of [Webster's] his blood have eyes that look downward.
JBS 11.280 27 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men of gentle blood and generosity...
JBS 11.281 5 ...what is the oath of gentle blood and knighthood?
HCom 11.341 22 It is not the Government, but the War, that has...sifted out the pedants, put in the new and vigorous blood.
HCom 11.344 3 When her blood is up, [Massachusetts] has a fist big enough to knock down an empire.
HCom 11.344 5 When her blood is up, [Massachusetts] has a fist big enough to knock down an empire. And her blood was roused.
FRep 11.528 9 All this [American] forwardness and self-reliance...proceed on the belief...that [the people's] union and law are not in their memory, but in their blood and condition.
PLT 12.26 2 ...the blood of two trees being mixed a new and excellent fruit is produced.
II 12.69 14 ...the drop of blood has latent power and organs...
CInt 12.121 23 Here are still perverse millions full of passion, crime and blood.
CL 12.151 15 Man [in the forest] feels the blood of thousands in his body...
Bost 12.182 9 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./
Bost 12.186 10 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...not less ambition in our blood...
Bost 12.207 19 The Massachusetts colony grew...all the while sending out colonies...until it has infused all the Union with its blood.
Bost 12.209 8 Greater cities there are that sprung from [Boston], full of its blood and name and traditions.
Bost 12.210 26 ...in Boston, Nature...has given good sons to good sires, or at least continued merit in the same blood.
MAng1 12.222 8 ...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.
MLit 12.332 19 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but... no drop of healthier blood flows yet in its veins.
HDC 11.30 15 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is Blood, Flint, Willard, Meriam...
HDC 11.74 15 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river (our ancient friend here, Master Blood, saw the water struck by the first ball);...
Cour 7.264 1 The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts or wolves... nor the dog-breeder by his bloodhound...
EWI 11.104 11 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills;...we too should wince.
Wom 11.420 13 On the questions that are important...whether men shall be holden in bondage, or shall be roasted alive and eaten, as in Typee, or shall be hunted with bloodhounds, as in this country...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
SwM 4.142 12 Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who denotes classes of souls as a botanist disposes of a carex...
HDC 11.48 4 The negative ballot of a ten-shilling freeholder [in Concord] was as fatal as that of the honored owner of Blood's Farms or Willard's Purchase.
ET4 5.54 25 ...the Roman has implanted his dark complexion in the trinity or quaternity of bloods [in England].
F 6.32 18 All the bloods [the Saxon race] shall absorb and domineer...
Boks 7.210 9 Earl Spencer bethought him like a prudent general of useless bloodshed and waste of powder...
War 11.152 13 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals...when he learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...
War 11.152 14 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals, bloodshed in God's name, too, when he learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...
NMW 4.234 4 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history, of the price at which he bought his successes; but he must not therefore be set down as cruel...not bloodthirsty, not cruel,--but woe to what thing or person stood in his way!
NMW 4.234 6 [Napoleon was] Not bloodthirsty, but not sparing of blood,-- and pitiless.
ET5 5.100 23 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels;...
AmS 1.112 10 In contrast with their [Goethe's, Wordsworth's, Carlyle's] writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks cold and pedantic. This writing is blood-warm.
LT 1.269 23 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of his bloody deck...is a trumpet to alarm the ear of mankind...
F 6.7 5 ...the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers...these are in the system...
EWI 11.135 14 Here [in emancipation in the West Indies] was no prodigy... no bloody war...
War 11.168 9 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance...when your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered in your sight? If you say yes...a few bloody-minded desperadoes would soon butcher the good.
Lov1 2.170 3 The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savor of a mature philosophy, as chilling with age and pedantry their purple bloom.
Hsm1 2.256 14 Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
OA 7.320 24 Universal convictions are not to be shaken...by the sentimental fears of girls who would keep the infantile bloom on their cheeks.
PC 8.225 2 ...the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.
Hist 2.34 26 In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul a garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful...
Thor 10.470 8 [Thoreau] drew out of his breast-pocket his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on this day...
Hsm1 2.259 16 [A woman] has a new and unattempted problem to solve, perchance that of the happiest nature that ever bloomed.
PPo 8.261 18 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./
Thor 10.481 17 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard, and, over all, the pond-lily...and a bass-tree which he visited every year when it bloomed...
Bty 6.293 13 I suppose the Parisian milliner...will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by interposing the just gradations.
SA 8.106 3 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health.
MMEm 10.398 2 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./
HDC 11.38 26 The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble beauty.
Nat 1.19 2 In July, the blue pontederia...blooms in large beds...
Hist 2.21 5 The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower...
Comp 2.103 16 Cause and effect...cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause...
Chr1 3.115 12 Is there any religion but this, to know that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a flower, it blooms for me?...
Chr1 3.115 14 Whilst [the holy sentiment] blooms, I will keep sabbath or holy time...
CL 12.152 9 The witch-hazel blooms to mark the last hour arrived...
Nat 1.19 11 The shows of day...orchards in blossom...if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.
Edc1 10.152 5 In these judgments one needs that foresight which was attributed to an eminent reformer, of whom it was said his patience could see in the bud of the aloe the blossom at the end of a hundred years.
Res 8.152 21 You cannot tell when [the willows] do bud and blossom...
Pt1 3.35 25 When some of [Swedenborg's] angels affirmed a truth, the laurel twig which they held blossomed in their hands.
Hist 2.21 3 The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
SwM 4.98 24 ...[Swedenborg] seemed...to be a composition of several persons,--like the giant fruits which are matured in gardens by the union of four or five single blossoms.
Bost 12.185 18 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows rather, of east winds and changing skies; visited by icebergs, which, floating by, nip with their cool breath our blossoms.
PI 8.35 14 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees it...to be related to astronomy and history and the eternal order of the world. Then the dry twig blossoms in his hand.
SovE 10.195 1 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his agency.
MMEm 10.397 8 Ah me! it was my childhood's thought,/ If He should make my web a blot/ On life's fair picture of delight,/ My heart's content would find it right./
MMEm 10.416 19 ...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled...
MMEm 10.428 8 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I [Mary Moody Emerson] rose,-I felt that I...had promised [God] in youth that to be a blot on this fair world, at His command, would be acceptable.
EWI 11.147 19 The Intellect, with blazing eye, looking through history from the beginning onward, gazes on this blot [slavery] and it disappears.
EPro 11.321 14 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor... we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind.
PPo 8.265 20 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./ Ye blot out my highest being,/ That ye may find yourselves on my throne;/ Forever ye blot out yourselves,/ As shadows in the sun./ Farewell!/
PPo 8.265 22 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./ Ye blot out my highest being,/ That ye may find yourselves on my throne;/ Forever ye blot out yourselves,/ As shadows in the sun./ Farewell!/
ACri 12.291 8 As soon as you read aloud, you will find what sentences drag. Blot them out, and read again, you will find the words that drag.
PNR 4.87 26 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure, and not that it was the brief extempore blotting of one short-lived scribe.
ACri 12.291 10 Resolute blotting rids you of all those phrases that sound like something and mean nothing...
FSLC 11.201 23 [Webster] must learn...that the obscure and private who have no voice and care for none, so long as things go well, but who feel the disgrace of the new legislation creeping like miasma into their homes, and blotting the daylight...disown him...
YA 1.380 15 In Paris, the blouse, the badge of the operative, has begun to make its appearance in the salons.
RBur 11.441 14 ...how true a poet is [Burns]! And the poet, too, of poor men, of gray hodden and the guernsey coat and the blouse.
AmS 1.105 2 ...what overgrown error you behold is there only by sufferance, - by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.
Hist 2.6 27 We sympathize in the great moments of history...because there law was enacted...or the blow was struck, for us...
SR 2.85 2 ...strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch...
SR 2.85 3 ...the same blow shall send the white to his grave.
Pt1 3.23 10 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought him to ripe age, she will no longer run the risk of losing this wonder at a blow...
MoS 4.174 17 Bad as was to me this detection by San Carlo [that all direct ascension leads to ghastly insight]...this blow from a bride, there was still a worse, namely the cloy or satiety of the saints.
PC 8.221 23 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth, in the intellectual world,-Truth...the soundness and health of things, against which no blow can be struck but it recoils on the striker;...
Insp 8.283 14 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness that befell him, The thought of my father, who could not have sustained such a blow as my death, restrained me;...
Aris 10.37 13 We like cool people, who...can survive the blow well enough if stock should rise or fall...
Edc1 10.154 21 It is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow...
LVB 11.96 2 However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the aggressor.
ALin 11.329 17 In this country, on Saturday, every one was struck dumb... as he meditated on the ghastly blow [Lincoln's death].
Milt1 12.265 25 There is a forbearance even in [Milton's] polemics. He opens the war and strikes the first blow.
Trag 12.414 24 How fast we forget the blow that threatened to cripple us.
Nat 1.69 4 For us, the winds do blow/...
AmS 1.84 26 Ever the winds blow;...
Comp 2.116 26 Winds blow and waters roll/ Strength to the brave and power and deity,/ Yet in themselves are nothing./
Comp 2.122 25 Material good...if it came without desert or sweat, has no root in me, and the next wind will blow it away.
OS 2.274 5 The things we now esteem fixed shall...detach themselves like ripe fruit from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.
Exp 3.49 12 The Indian who was laid under a curse that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all.
ET3 5.43 7 ...I [Nature] have work that requires the best will and sinew. Sharp and temperate northern breezes shall blow, to keep that will alive and alert.
Pow 6.68 25 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet, who, when the wind blew a gale, could not contain his joy; Blow! he cried, me do tell you, blow!
Pow 6.68 26 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet, who, when the wind blew a gale, could not contain his joy; Blow! he cried, me do tell you, blow!
CbW 6.247 21 Is all we have to do to draw the breath in and blow it out again?
Suc 7.311 3 ...to help the young soul...and blow the coals into a useful flame;...that is not easy...
PI 8.4 17 First innuendos, then broad hints, then smart taps are given, suggesting...that matter is not what it appears;--that chemistry can blow it all into gas.
PerF 10.72 8 These [natural] forces...seem to leave no room for the individual; man or atom...he sails the way these irresistible winds blow.
Supl 10.167 25 [People of English stock's] houses are...not designed to... blow about through the air much in hurricanes...
Milt1 12.272 13 The events which produced [Milton's tracts on divorce and freedom of the press]...are mere occasions for this philanthropist to blow his trumpet for human rights.
DSA 1.129 24 ...the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover...
Con 1.318 2 ...an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour...
SR 2.67 4 [Man] is ashamed before...the blowing rose.
DL 7.105 22 The blowing rose is a new event;...
WD 7.160 18 In Massachusetts we fight...the blowing sand-barrens with pine plantations.
CL 12.137 11 [Linnaeus] went into Oland, and found that the farms on the shore were perpetually...ruined by blowing sand.
Bost 12.183 22 There are countries, said Howell, where the heaven is a fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping sponge, most parts of the year.
Pt1 3.16 24 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting, blowing on the wind on a fort at the ends of the earth, shall make the blood tingle...
Nat2 3.172 12 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
Wth 6.120 8 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his work; but they get blown and lame.
Wth 6.120 9 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his work; but they get blown and lame. What to do with blown and lame oxen?
Nat 1.37 26 ...Property, which has been well compared to snow, - if it fall level to-day, it will be blown into drifts to-morrow, - is the surface action of internal machinery...
Int 2.339 17 I cannot see what you see, because I am caught up by a strong wind and blown so far in one direction that I am out of the hoop of your horizon.
MoS 4.172 6 Society does not like to have any breath of question blown on the existing order.
ET2 5.29 20 To the geologist...the land is in perpetual flux and change, now blown up like a tumor, now sunk in a chasm...
PI 8.31 5 Every writer is...a sailor, who can only land where sails can be blown.
PPo 8.243 22 The secret that should not be blown/ Not one of thy nation must know;/ You may padlock the gate of a town,/ But never the mouth of a foe./
Schr 10.265 13 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the reading in solitude of some moving image of a wise poet, this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
II 12.86 22 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now fixed to the wall or the tree, exhausted and presently blown away.
ET13 5.222 9 [The English] value a philosopher as they value an apothecary who brings bark or a drench; and inspiration is only some blowpipe, or a finer mechanical aid.
Comp 2.108 4 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down by repeated blows...
Fdsp 2.199 23 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled blows...in the heydey of friendship and thought.
Exp 3.49 27 ...all our blows glance...
Wsp 6.199 2 This is he, who, felled by foes,/ Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows/...
Wsp 6.225 12 The American workman who strikes ten blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and told on his person.
Wsp 6.225 14 The American workman who strikes ten blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and told on his person.
Elo1 7.96 6 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some some sturdy countryman, on whom neither money...nor blows...make any impression.
Grts 8.311 13 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are frivolous. Let us get out of the way of their blows by making them true of ourselves.
War 11.154 5 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage.
TPar 11.284 9 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak/...
ACiv 11.300 4 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions, and you still content yourself with parrying the blows it aims...
RBur 11.440 20 Not Latimer, nor Luther struck more telling blows against false theology than did this brave singer [Burns].
Nat 1.13 12 ...the wind blows the vapor to the field;...
SR 2.56 9 ...the...faces of the multitude...are put on and off as the wind blows...
Prd1 2.225 14 We live by the air which blows around us...
ET12 5.212 19 The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
F 6.27 26 A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary.
F 6.28 3 ...[the breath of will] is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.
Elo2 8.121 15 In moments of clearer thought or deeper sympathy, the voice will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much as the auditor; he also is a sharer of the higher wind that blows over his strings.
Chr2 10.92 9 When a man...insists to do...something absurd or whimsical, only because he will...he blows with his lips against the tempest...
Chr2 10.120 20 The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
SMC 11.348 18 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
CL 12.133 2 The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/ And all through which it blows;/...
Nat 1.18 4 The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset, with the blue east for their background...
Nat 1.19 1 In July, the blue pontederia...blooms in large beds...
Nat 1.27 10 ...the blue sky in which the private earth is buried...is the type of Reason.
Tran 1.354 3 What am I? What but a thought of serenity and independence, an abode in the deep blue sky?
YA 1.364 27 The heaven's blue pillars are Medea's house./
Pt1 3.42 18 ...Wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds or sown with stars...there is Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
Nat2 3.172 2 The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet.
Nat2 3.174 18 ...it is the magical lights of the horizon and the blue sky for the background which save all our works of art...
ET1 5.10 14 ...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick old man, with bright blue eyes and fine clear complexion...
ET4 5.67 5 On the English face are combined decision and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid aspect.
F 6.9 22 Find the part which black eyes and which blue eyes play severally in the company.
F 6.48 14 ...the rainbow and the curve of the horizon and the arch of the blue vault are only results from the organism of the eye.
Bty 6.299 6 Portrait painters say that most faces and forms are irregular and unsymmetrical; have one eye blue and one gray;...
WD 7.171 13 The blue sky is a covering for a market and for the cherubim and seraphim.
WD 7.171 23 ...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now...
WD 7.173 22 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years have woven their blue glory between to-day and us these passing hours shall glitter and draw us as the wildest romance and the homes of beauty and poetry?
OA 7.332 12 The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair, dressed in a blue coat...
PI 8.1 5 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him/...
PI 8.59 8 To an exile on an island [Taliessin] says,--The heavy blue chain of the sea didst thou, O just man, endure.
PI 8.72 24 Turnpike is one thing and blue sky another.
PPo 8.244 25 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.
Dem1 10.26 21 I think the rappings a new test, like blue litmus or other chemical absorbent, to try catechisms with.
Chr2 10.119 13 ...[the infant soul's] narrow chapel expands to the blue cathedral of the sky...
SovE 10.191 17 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
Thor 10.461 11 [Thoreau] was...of light complexion, with strong, serious blue eyes...
Thor 10.482 4 Thank God, [Thoreau] said, they cannot cut down the clouds! All kinds of figures are drawn on the blue ground with this fibrous white paint.
HCom 11.344 6 Scholars changed the black coat for the blue.
CW 12.169 13 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
AgMs 12.358 9 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances; excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock...
ET5 5.90 7 Sir Robert Peel knew the Blue Books by heart.
Wth 6.122 19 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing the shoulder of Blue Hills...
Tran 1.354 7 ...we retain the belief that this petty web we weave will at last be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue...
Art1 2.357 8 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with...beggars and fine ladies, draped in red and green and blue and gray;...
ACiv 11.296 5 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/
SMC 11.361 22 [George Prescott] writes, You don't know how one gets attached to a company by living with them and sleeping with them all the time. I know every man by heart. I know every man's weak spot,-who is shaky, and who is true blue.
Bhr 6.180 22 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
Thor 10.483 1 The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
SHC 11.435 24 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...the oriole, robin, purple finch, bluebird, thrush...will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...
Mem 12.104 13 The spring days when the bluebird arrives have usually only few hours of fine temperature...
CL 12.151 5 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool, and a new activity among the hardy birds, the premature arrival of the bluebird...
CW 12.171 2 When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, bobolinks and thrushes, which were not charged in the bill;...
Mem 12.104 16 ...when late in autumn we hear rarely a bluebird's notes they are sweet by reminding us of the spring.
GoW 4.276 25 ...[Goethe] stripped [the Devil] of mythologic gear, of horns, cloven foot, harpoon tail, brimstone and blue-fire...
Hsm1 2.256 22 Simple hearts...play their own game in innocent defiance of the Blue-Laws of the world;...
LT 1.261 26 We do not think the sky will be bluer...
ET15 5.268 9 [The London Times] speaks out bluff and bold...
ET4 5.44 15 Blumenbach reckons five races;...
Hsm1 2.261 12 We tell our charities...for our justification. It is a capital blunder;...
Exp 3.79 6 It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder, said Napoleon, speaking the language of the intellect.
Pol1 3.214 16 This undertaking for another is the blunder which stands in colossal ugliness in the governments of the world.
F 6.31 9 ...[men] think...that it would be a practical blunder to transfer the method and way of working of one sphere into the other.
PI 8.4 4 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person...never...seizes his wild charger by the tail. We should not pardon the blunder in another, nor endure it in ourselves.
Edc1 10.147 8 Pardon in [a boy] no blunder.
LLNE 10.331 25 It was remarked that for a man who threw out so many facts [Everett] was seldom convicted of a blunder.
Thor 10.456 2 [Thoreau] wanted...a blunder to pillory...
II 12.79 9 ...you shall not speak of any work of art except in its presence; then you will...make no blunder.
CInt 12.115 14 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us...to give, among other possessions, the college into its hand casting down...every dignified blunder that has crept into its administration.
CL 12.161 3 ...in all works of human art there is deduction to be made for blunder and falsehood.
Let 12.397 15 ...there is no chance for the aesthetic village. Every one of the villagers has committed his several blunder;...
PPh 4.45 26 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women...blunder and quarrel...
Exp 3.69 26 [The individual] designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done;...
NMW 4.232 10 [Bonaparte] never blundered into victory...
Suc 7.310 21 Which of [the most sanguine] has not...blundered where they were most ambitious of success?...
MoL 10.256 17 [Senators and lawyers] read that they might know, did they not? Well, these men [who passed infamous laws] did not know. They blundered;...
FRep 11.532 20 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...and they transfer the repute of judgment to the next prosperous person who has not yet blundered.
Wth 6.119 20 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with it...but a blunderhead comes out of Cornhill, tries his hand, and it all leaks away.
Fdsp 2.213 10 We may congratulate ourselves that the period...of blunders...is passed in solitude...
Chr1 3.102 21 ...[the hero] cannot...wait to unravel any man's blunders;...
PPh 4.65 19 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...and that...we might, by imitating the uniform revolutions of divinity, set right our own wanderings and blunders.
Wsp 6.217 27 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent. Hence the extraordinary blunders and final wrong-head into which men spoiled by ambition usually fall.
Wsp 6.218 2 ...the remedy for all blunders...is love.
Wsp 6.229 26 ...for ourselves it is really of little importance what blunders in statement we make...
CbW 6.262 16 In our life and culture everything is worked up and comes in use,--passion, war, revolt, bankruptcy, and not less, folly and blunders...
Plu 10.321 16 there are, no doubt, many vulgar phrases [in the 1718 edition of Plutarch], and many blunders of the printer;...
FSLC 11.205 7 The scraps of morality to be gleaned from [Webster's] speeches are reflections of the mind of others; he says what he hears said, but often makes signal blunders in their use.
Milt1 12.250 18 What under heaven had...the manner of living of Saumaise...or his blunders of grammar...to do with the solemn question whether Charles Stuart had been rightly slain?
FRep 11.532 16 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...
PLT 12.28 25 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar,-towers, hall, storeroom and cellar. If [man] takes her hint and uses her goods she speaks no word; if he blunders and starves she says nothing.
ET5 5.82 6 In politics [the English] put blunt questions, which must be answered;...
ET7 5.117 16 [The English] are blunt in saying what they think...
PI 8.59 22 [Odin] could make his enemies in battle blind or deaf, and their weapons so blunt that they could no more cut than a willow-twig.
SS 7.5 3 [My friend's] dismay at his visibility had blunted the fears of mortality.
FSLC 11.183 23 The sense of injustice is blunted,-a sure sign of the shallowness of our intellect.
Fdsp 2.204 27 ...I offer myself faintly and bluntly to those whose I effectually am...
ET8 5.140 9 Haldor...told his opinion bluntly and was obstinate and hard...
ET13 5.224 13 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live.
Aris 10.48 20 In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand;...
ET8 5.133 8 There are multitudes of rude young English who have the self-sufficiency and bluntness of their nation...
Hist 2.24 13 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities, wherein the face is a confused blur of features...
Mrs1 3.155 16 Minerva said...[men] were only ridiculous little creatures, with this odd circumstance, that they had a blur, or indeterminate aspect, seen far or seen near;...
ShP 4.213 18 Things were mirrored in [Shakespeare's] poetry without loss or blur...
Ill 6.318 17 The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in Orion...must come down and be dealt with in your household thought.
Supl 10.166 21 I...am content that [my eyes] should see the real world, always geometrically finished without blur or halo.
PLT 12.31 18 ...[a man's] aptitude, if he would obey it, would prove a telescope to bring under his clear vision what was blur to everybody else.
CPL 11.500 24 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses? For my part, they have been the only things I remembered...when all things else were blurred and defaced.
SR 2.54 7 The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It...blurs the impression of your character.