Caron, Pierre Augustin to Catholics
Caron, Pierre Augustin [Be (3)
Clbs 7.240 12
What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the
censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent
advocate?
Clbs 7.240 16
What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the
censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent
advocate? The court appoints another censor, who shall crush it this time.
Beaumarchais persuades him to defend it.
Clbs 7.240 18
The court successively appoints three more severe
inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of
the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
carp, v. (1)
ET12 5.213 3
It is easy to carp at colleges...
carpenter, n. (14)
Nat 1.49 1
The broker...the carpenter...are much displeased at the
intimation [that nature is more short-lived than spirit].
SL 2.147 3
A chemist may tell his most precious secrets to a carpenter, and
he shall be never the wiser...
UGM 4.12 20
Every carpenter who shaves with a fore-plane borrows the
genius of a forgotten inventor.
ShP 4.201 6
Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad,
Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men. In the
composition of such works...the mason, the carpenter, the merchant, the
farmer, the fop, all think for us.
Bty 6.291 10
...the carpenter building a ship...is becoming to the wise eye.
Civ 7.27 12
You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad-axe
chopping upward chips from a beam.
WD 7.157 21
The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a
practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a
carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye
appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...
Res 8.142 25
...we begin to perforate and mould the old ball, as a carpenter
does with wood.
QO 8.199 17
...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences
that reached...back to the first geometer, bard, mason, carpenter, planter,
shepherd...
Aris 10.42 3
Ulysses in Homer is represented as a very skilful carpenter.
Aris 10.48 23
In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five
hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand; if a mechanic, as
carpenter or smith, twelve hundred or two thousand.
CPL 11.501 21
There are utilitarians who prefer that Jesus should have
wrought as a carpenter...
PLT 12.57 16
The men we know, poets, wits, writers, deal with their
thoughts as jewellers with jewels, which they sell but must not wear. Like
the carpenter, who gives up the key of the fine house he has built, and never
enters it again.
MAng1 12.227 10
[Michelangelo] gave this model [of a movable platform]
to a carpenter...
Carpenter, Nathaniel, n. (1)
SovE 10.186 10
'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of
Nathaniel Carpenter... It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so
much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and
mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
Carpenter, William Benjamin (2)
ET17 5.293 2
Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting
men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...among the men of
science...De la Beche, Hooker, Carpenter...
F 6.12 18
...with high magnifiers...Dr. Carpenter might come to distinguish
in the embryo...this is a Whig...
carpenters, n. (3)
ET5 5.76 22
The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls...
divine stevedores, carpenters, reapers, smiths and masons...
ET5 5.80 14
...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is...the
logic of cooks, carpenters and chemists...
Bty 6.296 1
...all masons and carpenters work to repeat and preserve the
agreeable forms...
carpenters', n. [carpenter's,] (4)
MR 1.250 18
...we cannot make a planet...by means of the best carpenters'...
tools...
Tran 1.358 9
In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only...carpenters'
planes...but also some few finer instruments...
Pt1 3.13 14
...the carpenter's stretched cord, if you hold your ear close
enough, is musical in the breeze.
Bhr 6.189 18
No carpenter's rule...will measure the dimensions of any
house or house-lot;...
carpentry, n. (2)
Nat 1.63 2
Idealism is a hypothesis to account for nature by other principles
than those of carpentry and chemistry.
CL 12.160 26
When I look at natural structures...I know that I am seeing an
architecture and carpentry which has no sham...
carpet, adj. (1)
PI 8.63 23
...none of your carpet poets...will satisfy us.
carpet, n. (4)
ET12 5.204 13
Oxford is a Greek factory, as Wilton mills weave carpet and
Sheffield grinds steel.
PPo 8.240 27
When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet
of green silk...
PPo 8.241 4
When all [the troops and spirits] were in order, the east wind,
at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that
were upon it, whither he pleased...
CW 12.179 8
...when [the man] sees this annual reappearance of beautiful
forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask
himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic...
carpet-bag, n. (1)
Civ 7.28 9
Only one doubt occurred, one staggering objection,--
[Electricity] had no carpet-bag...
carpeted, v. (1)
Wth 6.95 14
The world is his who has money to go over it. He arrives at
the seashore and a sumptuous ship has floored and carpeted for him the
stormy Atlantic...
carpeting, adj. (1)
ET16 5.277 17
Within the enclosure [of Stonehenge] grow buttercups,
nettles, and all around, wild thyme, daisy, meadowsweet, goldenrod, thistle
and the carpeting grass.
carpet-mill, n. (1)
FRep 11.511 12
The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic
perfection; the carpet-mill, of mordants and dyes which exhaust the skill of
the chemist;...
carpets, n. (11)
MR 1.238 25
...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after
year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...carpets...the son finds his
hands full...
MR 1.244 20
[Our friend] is accustomed to carpets...
MR 1.244 23
[Our friend] is accustomed to carpets...and so we pile the
floor with carpets.
Con 1.315 15
...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him
how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest
they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this on rich
embroidered carpets...
Nat2 3.183 11
...let us be men instead of woodchucks and the oak and the
elm shall gladly serve us, though we sit in chairs of ivory on carpets of silk.
UGM 4.4 25
The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to
buy cloths or carpets.
WD 7.170 21
'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor,--a matter
of coins, coats and carpets...
WD 7.171 10
...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...these, not
like a glass bead, or the coins or carpets, are given immeasurably to all.
Supl 10.169 18
The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets,
coaches, dinners, wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to
look straight at you...
FRep 11.539 26
...if we have taught the river to make shoes and nails and
carpets...let these wonders work for honest humanity...
PLT 12.29 2
To the miller [Nature's] rivers whirl the wheel and weave
carpets and broadcloth.
carping, adj. (1)
Tran 1.357 7
[The strong spirits'] thought and emotion...quite withdraws
them from all notice of these carping critics;...
carriage, adj. (1)
ET10 5.158 7
Two centuries ago...the carriage wheels ran on wooden
axles;...
carriage, n. (24)
Lov1 2.175 15
...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his
heart and brain...when the youth becomes...studious of a glove, a veil, a
ribbon, or the wheels of a carriage;...
Mrs1 3.138 17
Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful
carriage and customs.
UGM 4.15 17
[The people] delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk!
What a front! what eyes! Atlantean shoulders, and the whole carriage
heroic...
ET1 5.15 3
...being intent on delivering a letter which I had brought from
Rome, [I] inquired for Craigenputtock. It was a farm in Nithsdale, in the
parish of Dunscore, sixteen miles distant. No public coach passed near it, so
I took a private carriage from the inn.
ET6 5.108 17
...nothing [can be] more firm and based in nature and
sentiment than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].
ET8 5.129 6
A Yorkshire mill-owner told me he had ridden more than once
all the way from London to Leeds, in the first-class carriage, with the same
persons, and no word exchanged.
ET16 5.273 18
On Friday, 7th July, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the
South Western Railway through Hampshire to Salisbury, where we found a
carriage to convey us to Amesbury.
ET16 5.276 4
We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the train at Salisbury and took
a carriage to Amesbury...
ET16 5.286 19
At Bishopstoke we [Emerson and Carlyle] stopped, and
found Mr. H[elps]., who received us in his carriage...
Bhr 6.169 12
The visible carriage or action of the individual...we call
manners.
Wsp 6.203 13
...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in
the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same
instant, and the horses come up with the family carriage unbespoken to the
door.
CbW 6.266 26
...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just
arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest
end as ever?
CbW 6.270 9
...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes
that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are
soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat about to
be overset, or a carriage run away with,--not only the foolish pilot or driver,
but everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes,
to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
Elo1 7.77 18
The newspapers, every week, report the adventures of some
impudent swindler, who, by steadiness of carriage, duped those who should
have known better.
SA 8.84 4
...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our
countenance and carriage...
Comc 8.163 10
[Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of
carriage can plead any immunity...
Aris 10.40 11
...if the finders of parallax, of new planets, of steam power
for boat and carriage...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of
mankind serve them as gods?
SlHr 10.438 17
...when...a deputation of gentlemen waited upon him in the
hall to say they had come with the unanimous voice of the State to remove
him by force, and the carriage was at the door, [Samuel Hoar] considered
his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
SlHr 10.443 25
Such was, in old age, the beauty of [Samuel Hoar's] person
and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made the same impression of
probity on all beholders.
Thor 10.465 27
Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own
cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or
considered than his refusals, they remind one...of that fop Brummel's reply
to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will
you ride, then?...
FSLN 11.221 3
Mr. Webster had a natural ascendancy of aspect and
carriage which distinguished him over all his contemporaries.
ACiv 11.301 15
Here is a woman who has no other property [but slaves],-
like a lady in Charleston I knew of, who owned fifteen sweeps and rode in
her carriage.
CPL 11.504 20
The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte...tossed
his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read
them...
Milt1 12.257 10
[Milton's] manners and his carriage did him no injustice.
carriage-maker's, n. (1)
Edc1 10.149 13
I have seen a carriage-maker's shop emptied of all its
workmen into the street, to scrutinize a new pattern from New York.
carriages, n. (6)
SR 2.87 6
The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las
Casas, without abolishing our...commissaries and carriages...
ET10 5.157 25
Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that
machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole
galley of rowers could do; nor would they need anything but a pilot to steer
them. Carriages also might be constructed to move with an incredible
speed...
DL 7.109 25
...some things each man buys without hesitation; if it were
only...conveyance in carriages and boats...
PC 8.215 5
...[Roger Bacon] announced...carriages, to move with incredible
speed, without aid of animals;...
MMEm 10.407 12
...in the country, we converse so much more with
ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else. The very sound
of your bells and the rattling of the carriages have a tendency to divert
selfishness.
CW 12.175 17
Horses and carriages are costly toys...
carried, v. (92)
SR 2.62 13
That popular fable of the sot...carried to the duke's house...
symbolizes...the state of man...
SL 2.152 21
...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their
own character and experience to the company. If we had reason to expect
such a confidence we should go through all inconvenience and opposition.
The sick would be carried in litters.
Pt1 3.3 20
We were put into our bodies, as fire is put into a pan to be
carried about;...
Pt1 3.17 27
...we choose the smallest box or case in which any needful
utensil can be carried.
Pt1 3.31 15
...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in
mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt
this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as
bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
Pt1 3.32 10
If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought...let me
read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and
criticism.
Pt1 3.41 4
...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael...
resemble a mirror carried through the street, ready to render an image of
every created thing.
Chr1 3.102 1
I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a
practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love
he took in hand. ... All his action was tentative, a piece of the city carried
out into the fields, and was the city still...
Mrs1 3.149 17
I have seen an individual...who did not need the aid of a
court-suit but carried the holiday in his eye;...
Pol1 3.201 10
What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints
to-day...shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and
war...
Pol1 3.219 27
We must not...doubt that roads can be built, letters carried,
and the fruit of labor secured, when the government of force is at an end.
NR 3.247 12
...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine, put as if the ark
of God were carried forward some furlongs, and planted there for the
succor of the world, shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...
NER 3.277 12
What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some
higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine
good, so that his fear, his coldness, his custom may be...melted and carried
away in the great stream of good will.
SwM 4.101 14
[Swedenborg] wore a sword when in full velvet dress, and,
whenever he walked out, carried a gold-headed cane.
MoS 4.154 14
With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans; our life is like
an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being carried before him;...
MoS 4.185 14
...by knaves as by martyrs the just cause is carried forward.
ShP 4.213 21
[Shakespeare] carried his powerful execution into minute
details...
ET3 5.40 27
I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city
of Philadelphia was...by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities
of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian,
and was examined with pleasure...by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But
when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans and to Boston, it somehow
failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.
ET4 5.62 6
It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when...in
1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet...and all
the equipments from the Arsenal, and carried them to England.
ET5 5.81 16
[The English] are bound to see their measure carried...
ET5 5.90 4
Sir Samuel Romilly refused to speak in popular assemblies,
confining himself to the House of Commons, where a measure can be
carried by a speech.
ET6 5.103 5
Machinery has been applied to all work [in England], and
carried to such perfection that little is left for the men but to mind the
engines...
ET6 5.109 9
Nothing so much marks [Englishmen's] manners as the
concentration on their household ties. This domesticity is carried into court
and camp.
ET10 5.160 2
The Norman historians recite that in 1067, William carried
with him into Normandy, from England, more gold and silver than had ever
before been seen in Gaul.
ET11 5.175 2
He that will be a head, let him be a bridge, said the Welsh
chief Benegridran, when he carried all his men over the river on his back.
ET11 5.180 11
...[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.
ET15 5.263 25
In 1820, [the London Times] adopted the cause of Queen
Caroline, and carried it against the king.
Wth 6.87 10
When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and
carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the
fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.
Wth 6.90 6
...[the human being] is successful, or his education is carried on
just so far, as is the marriage of his faculties with nature...
CbW 6.274 5
It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether
you...have been carried in a neat equipage or in a ridiculous truck...
Civ 7.22 17
There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child
saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran and picked him up...
and carried them to her mother...
Elo1 7.71 15
...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator...carried
through a series of adventures furnishing brilliant opportunities to his talent?
Elo1 7.83 26
I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on
occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation
with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant
thankfulness...carried audience, mourners and mourning along with him...
Boks 7.219 27
[The communications of the sacred books]...are living
characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. ... These are
Scriptures which the missionary might well carry...to Siberia, Japan,
Timbuctoo. Yet he will find that the spirit which is in them...was there
already long before him. The missionary must be carried by it, and find it
there, or he goes in vain.
Clbs 7.238 26
It happened many years ago that an American chemist
carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...
Suc 7.286 3
Dr. Benjamin Rush, in Philadelphia, carried that city heroically
through the yellow fever of the year 1793.
Suc 7.286 5
Leverrier carried the Copernican system in his head...
OA 7.331 3
Goethe himself carried this completion of studies to the highest
point.
PI 8.14 22
This belief that the higher use of the material world is to furnish
us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind, is carried to its
logical extreme by the Hindoos...
PI 8.54 15
...a verse is not a vehicle to carry a sentence as a jewel is carried
in a case...
PI 8.65 21
Dante was faithful [to Nature] when not carried away by his
fierce hatreds.
SA 8.93 4
If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in
the speech of superior women;--which...carried ingenuity, character, wise
counsel and affection...
Elo2 8.116 27
[the orator]...surprises [the people]...with...his steady gaze at
the new and future event whereof they had not thought, and they are...
carried off out of all recollection of their malignant considerations...
Res 8.146 5
[Tissenet]...explained to [the Indians]...that they did great
wrong in wishing to harm him, who carried them all in his heart.
Res 8.150 2
...we learn that our doctrine of resources must be carried into
higher application...
Comc 8.163 27
...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though unprovided of iron
weapons...wounded their invaders with the boughs of trees which they
carried...
QO 8.198 15
[The man] carried the journal [containing the review of his
pamphlet] with haste to the sympathizing Cousin Matilda...
QO 8.198 20
...what dismay when the good Matilda, pleased with [the
author's] pleasure, confessed she had written the criticism, and carried it
with her own hands to the post-office!
PC 8.211 16
The correlation of forces and the polarization of light have
carried us to sublime generalizations...
Imtl 8.325 23
[The Greek] carried his arts to Rome, and built his beautiful
tombs at Pompeii.
Imtl 8.339 3
Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation
and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform,-
suggesting a design still to be carried out;...
Dem1 10.7 3
It was in this glance [at an animal] that Ovid got the hint of
his metamorphoses; Calidasa of his transmigration of souls. For these fables
are our own thoughts carried out.
Dem1 10.8 18
[Dreams] are the maturation often of opinions not
consciously carried out to statements...
Dem1 10.12 1
...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and
pronounced over it magical words, and it stood up and brought him water,
and turned a spit, and carried bundles...
Aris 10.35 1
We...put faith...in the Republican principle carried out to the
extremes of practice in universal suffrage...
Edc1 10.140 22
...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action
and wealth of narrative...should be carried into the habit of the young man...
Supl 10.175 23
Life could not be carried on except by fidelity and good
earnest;...
MoL 10.243 18
The subtle Hindoo, who carried religion to ecstasy and
philosophy to idealism, produced the wonderful epics of which, in the
present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
Plu 10.318 24
That prince [Alexander] kept Homer's poems not only for
himself under his pillow in his tent, but carried these for the delight of the
Persian youth...
LLNE 10.348 13
Fourier carried a whole French Revolution in his head...
LLNE 10.352 26
There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties
always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual, they
seek to realize in the surrounding world. The value of Fourier's system is
that it is a statement of such an order...carried outward into its
correspondence in facts.
LLNE 10.353 3
[Fourier's] mistake is that this particular order and series is
to be imposed...on all men, and carried into rigid execution.
LLNE 10.357 2
[Thoreau] was a good Abbot Samson, and carried a
counsel in his breast.
EzRy 10.388 3
[Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his
grave, full of labors and virtues.
MMEm 10.400 5
[Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the
the American army at Ticonderoga: he carried his infant daughter, before he
went, to his mother in Malden...
MMEm 10.428 21
Saladin caused his shroud to be made, and carried it to
battle as his standard.
SlHr 10.448 23
[Samuel Hoar] carried ceremony finely to the last.
Thor 10.469 21
Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old music-book to
press plants;...
Carl 10.490 26
Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d'
hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle...
Carl 10.498 4
...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very
slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has carried himself erect...
HDC 11.60 8
[Mary Shepherd] was carried captive into the Indian country...
HDC 11.76 5
Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of
the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me,
that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and
acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
HDC 11.78 19
...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town
[Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two
dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to
such as shall carry wood thither; and 210 cords of wood were carried.
HDC 11.84 14
If, at any time, in common with most of our towns, [our
fathers] have carried this economy to the verge of a vice, it is to be
remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.
EWI 11.110 18
...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed
in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe...
War 11.153 20
[Alexander's conquest of the East] carried the arts and
language and philosophy of the Greeks into the sluggish and barbarous
nations of Persia, Assyria and India.
War 11.170 27
This [aspiration towards peace] is not to be carried by
public opinion...
War 11.171 13
Nor...is the peace principle to be carried into effect by fear.
JBB 11.271 10
[The judges] assume that the United States can protect its
witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts that is true, but the moment
he is carried out of the bounds of Massachusetts, the United States, it is
notorious, afford no protection at all;...
ALin 11.337 11
The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius...
which, with a slow but stern justice, carried forward the fortunes of certain
chosen houses...
SMC 11.364 9
It looked very much like a severe thunder-storm, writes the
captain [George Prescott] and I knew the men would all have to sleep out of
doors, unless we carried [tent-poles].
SMC 11.365 2
[George Prescott writes] The major had tried to discourage
me;-said, perhaps, if I carried [tent-poles] over, some other company
would get them;...
SMC 11.373 10
[George Prescott] was carried off the field to the division
hospital...
Wom 11.420 6
...all my points would sooner be carried in the State if
women voted.
FRO2 11.487 7
[Thought] is easily carried; it takes no room;...
FRep 11.518 17
No [legislative] measure is attempted for itself, but the
opinion of the people is courted in the first place, and the measures are
perfunctorily carried through as secondary.
FRep 11.529 3
We...are are defended from shocks now for a century by the
facility with which through popular assemblies every necessary measure of
reform can instantly be carried.
II 12.80 5
All intellectual virtue consists in a reliance on Ideas. It must be
carried with a certain magnificence.
Mem 12.93 19
We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass,
which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear
plate every image that passes;...
Bost 12.203 1
The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in
Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which...
fed the party and carried it...to victory.
MAng1 12.239 24
It is more commendation to say, This was Michael
Angelo's favorite, than to say, This was carried to Paris by Napoleon.
ACri 12.288 12
...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.
carrier, n. (4)
F 6.33 15
There's nothing [man] will not make his carrier.
SA 8.92 20
You are to be missionary and carrier of all that is good and
noble.
Plu 10.318 20
The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the
refinement of his pure tastes, making him the carrier of civilization into the
East...endeared him to Plutarch.
Trag 12.414 13
Time the consoler, Time the rich carrier of all changes,
dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures...on our eye, new voices on
our ear.
carriers, n. (4)
MR 1.237 14
It is Smith himself, and his carriers...who have intercepted the
sugar of the sugar...
MoL 10.248 14
You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of
Nature...
MoL 10.248 24
You [scholars] are carriers of ideas which are to fashion the
mind and so the history of this breathing world, so as they shall be, and not
otherwise.
SMC 11.355 10
The armies mustered in the North were as much
missionaries to the mind of the country as they were carriers of material
force...
carries, v. (75)
Nat 1.13 21
...by means of steam, [man]...carries the two and thirty winds
in the boiler of his boat.
Nat 1.56 1
In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the
memory...carries centuries of observation in a single formula.
Nat 1.64 22
This [spiritual] view...carries upon its face the highest
certificate of truth...
LE 1.173 1
...nothing is great,-not mighty Homer and Milton, beside the
infinite Reason. It carries them away as a flood.
Con 1.317 20
Yonder peasant...carries a whole revolution of man and
nature in his head...
SR 2.58 20
The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or
straw he carries in his bill into my web also.
SR 2.66 14
If...a man...carries you backward to the phraseology of some
old mouldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him not.
SR 2.81 21
[The traveller] carries ruins to ruins.
Comp 2.121 21
Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie
with him he so far deceases from nature.
Lov1 2.169 13
The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private
and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and...
carries him with a new sympathy into nature...
OS 2.289 11
Shakspeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent
activity as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own;...
OS 2.297 14
[Man] will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that
trust which carries God with it...
Cir 2.320 19
[The new position of the advancing man] carries in its bosom
all the energies of the past...
Art1 2.360 3
[Personal relations] were [the artist's] inspirations, and these
are the effects he carries home to your heart and mind.
Pt1 3.27 14
As the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his
horse's neck and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must
we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world.
Nat2 3.177 5
A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this
kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity:...he
carries a fowling-piece or a fishing-rod.
Nat2 3.183 14
Man carries the world in his head...
NER 3.284 5
...the good globe is faithful, and carries us securely through
the celestial spaces...
SwM 4.135 13
Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by attaching
themselves to the Christian symbol, instead of to the moral sentiment,
which carries innumerable christianities, humanities, divinities, in its bosom.
SwM 4.137 2
[Swedenborg] carries his controversial memory with him in
his visits to the souls.
ShP 4.190 15
The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps,
and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a
cathedral needed by her chants and processions.
ShP 4.202 15
There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the
passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass
without a single valuable note...the man who carries the Saxon race in him
by the inspiration which feeds him...
ET1 5.9 16
Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of freak which the
English delight to indulge...
ET1 5.22 7
...of poetry [Wordsworth] carries even hundreds of lines in his
head before writing them.
ET5 5.85 4
The admirable equipment of [Englishmen's] arctic ships carries
London to the pole.
ET5 5.96 9
No man [in England] can afford to walk, when the
parliamentary-train carries him for a penny a mile.
ET5 5.101 6
Every man [in England] carries the English system in his
brain...
ET5 5.101 9
The chancellor carries England on his mace...
ET11 5.176 23
I have met somewhere with a historiette, which...carries a
general truth.
ET14 5.233 15
When [the Englishman] is intellectual, and a poet or a
philosopher, he carries the same hard truth and the same keen machinery
into the mental sphere.
F 6.27 23
I know not whether there be...in the upper region of our
atmosphere, a permanent westerly current which carries with it all atoms
which rise to that height...
Pow 6.65 25
In trade also this energy usually carries a trace of ferocity.
Wth 6.86 27
[Coal] carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar
circle;...
Wth 6.87 5
...coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as
warm as Calcutta;...
Wth 6.92 14
The mechanic at his bench carries a quiet heart and assured
manners...
Ctr 6.138 21
When [nature] has points to carry, she carries them.
Ctr 6.146 4
...let [the traveler] go where he will, he can only find so much
beauty or worth as he carries.
Bhr 6.181 10
...each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank
in the immense scale of men...
Bhr 6.188 27
A man who is sure of his point, carries a broad and contented
expression...
Wsp 6.217 24
The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous
courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.
Wsp 6.223 25
If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he
meets know that he conceals somewhat...
CbW 6.247 26
See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with
him...
Ill 6.319 21
The intellect sees that every atom carries the whole of nature;...
Elo1 7.90 10
[A trope] is a wonderful aid to the memory, which carries
away the image and never loses it.
Farm 7.152 22
[The farmer] carries out this cumulative preparation of
means to their last effect.
Suc 7.281 7
Who bides at home, nor looks abroad,/ Carries the eagles and
masters the sword./
OA 7.334 27
[John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences...but carries
them invariably to a conclusion...
PI 8.4 2
...the most imaginative and abstracted person...never...carries a
torch into a powder-mill...
SA 8.80 14
The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the
young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or
debilities...knows his way and carries his points.
Res 8.145 2
...no matter how remote from camp or city, [the old forester]
carries Bangor with him.
Res 8.149 16
In the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the torches which each
traveller carries make a dismal funeral procession...
QO 8.195 20
It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by
official canonization in...Hallam, or other historian of literature. Their...
citation of a passage, carries the sentimental value of a college diploma.
PC 8.218 11
If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding
carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in
spite of the Emperor;...
PC 8.223 19
Mind carries the law;...
PC 8.230 14
The Divine Nature carries on its administration by good men.
Insp 8.271 1
In happy moments [thought]...carries out what were rude
suggestions to larger scope...
Grts 8.312 7
The day will come...when the eye, which carries in it
planetary influences from all the stars, will indicate rank fast enough by
exerting power.
Grts 8.320 24
The man...who carries fate in his eye;-he it is whom we
seek...
Dem1 10.3 11
This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked
in each other's arms, and carries them asunder by wide spaces of land and
sea...
Chr2 10.110 2
Paganism...carries the bag, spends the treasure...
Chr2 10.120 2
[Character] carries a superiority to all the accidents of life.
Schr 10.277 7
These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them
trained:...the craft of mathematical combination, which carries a working-plan
of the heavens and of the earth in a formula.
Schr 10.277 21
It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree
that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he is not only
widely intelligent, but carries a council in his breast for the emergency of to-day;...
MMEm 10.416 26
If more liberal views of the divine government make me
[Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which carries me to His now
hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss
of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.
Thor 10.483 1
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
HDC 11.85 14
Every moment carries us farther from the two great epochs
of public principle, the Planting, and the Revolution of the colony [of
Massachusetts Bay].
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...
FSLC 11.213 5
Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their
forts and factories have been set up,-represents London, represents the art,
power and law of Europe. Every man educated at the Northern school
carries the like advantages into the South.
SMC 11.375 7
I hope the disuse of such medals or badges in this country
only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil War],
and carries their deeds in such lively remembrance that they require no
badge or reminder.
RBur 11.443 10
The memory of Burns,-every man's, every boy's and girl'
s head carries snatches of his songs...
PLT 12.47 23
By and by comes a facility; some one that can move the
mountain and build of it a causeway through the Dismal Swamp, as easily
as he carries the hair on his head.
Mem 12.106 8
...I come to a bright school-girl who...carries thousands of
nursery rhymes and all the poetry in all the readers, hymn-books, and
pictorial ballads in her mind;...
Mem 12.106 11
[The bright school-girl] carries [what she has memorized]
so carelessly, it seems like the profusion of hair on the shock heads of all
the village boys and village dogs;...
ACri 12.304 2
Classic art is the art of necessity; organic; modern or
romantic bears the stamp of caprice or chance. One is the product of
inclination, of caprice, of haphazard; the other carries its law and necessity
within itself.
WSL 12.346 9
[Landor] exercises with a grandeur of spirit the office of
writer, and carries it with an air of old and unquestionable nobility.
carrion, adj. (1)
Comp 2.111 25
[Fear] is a carrion crow...
carrion, n. (4)
MN 1.216 1
...there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim...that
if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion...
SwM 4.125 11
[To Swedenborg] Each Satan appears to himself a man;...to
the purified, a heap of carrion.
SwM 4.138 21
...the carrion in the sun will convert itself to grass and
flowers;...
Cour 7.276 2
...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who
batten on the hideous facts in history...
carry, v. (152)
Nat 1.33 20
...'T is hard to carry a full cup even;...
Nat 1.77 3
As when the summer comes...the face of the earth becomes
green before it, so shall the advancing spirit...carry with it the beauty it
visits...
AmS 1.93 1
...He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must
carry out the wealth of the Indies.
AmS 1.106 6
I might not carry with me the feeling of my audience in
stating my own belief.
LE 1.178 20
Bonaparte represents truly a great recent revolution, which we
in this country...shall carry to its farthest consummation.
LE 1.183 16
They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or
inflamed] find...that he cannot make of his infrequent illumination a
portable taper to carry whither he would...
Tran 1.348 23
...the good and wise must...carry salvation to the combatants
and demagogues in the dusty arena below.
YA 1.369 23
The vast majority of the people of this country live by the
land, and carry its quality in their manners and opinions.
SR 2.51 1
A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if
every thing were titular and ephemeral but he.
SR 2.81 17
He who travels...to get somewhat which he does not carry,
travels away from himself...
Comp 2.123 14
...the harm that I sustain I carry about with me...
Fdsp 2.194 25
High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who carry out the
world for me to new and noble depths...
Fdsp 2.211 23
What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what
grandeur of spirit we can.
Fdsp 2.216 8
It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry
a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.
OS 2.269 26
My words do not carry [the soul's] august sense;...
Int 2.329 8
As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry
away in the ineffaceable memory the result...
Art1 2.358 22
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we
must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Art1 2.359 9
...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the
highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral
nature...breathes from them all. That which we carry to them, the same we
bring back more fairly illustrated in the memory.
Art1 2.365 22
A true announcement of the law of creation...would carry art
up into the kingdom of nature...
Pt1 3.12 17
Oftener it falls that this winged man, who will carry me into the
heaven, whirls me into mists...
Pt1 3.17 9
...there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense
of nature;...
Pt1 3.23 20
...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought,
[nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...a fearless,
vivacious offspring, clad with wings...which carry them fast and far...
Exp 3.49 10
I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step
into real nature.
Exp 3.53 24
I carry the keys of my castle in my hand...
Exp 3.66 2
...to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, nature causes each
man's peculiarity to superabound.
Exp 3.85 26
...in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he
has a sanity and revelations which in his passage into new worlds he will
carry with him.
Chr1 3.91 20
The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of
their constituents what they should say...
Mrs1 3.132 25
A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole
sphere or society with him...
Mrs1 3.133 7
If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his tail on!-But Vich
Ian Vohr must always carry his belongings in some fashion...
NER 3.253 2
...the man must walk, wherever boats and locomotives will
not carry him.
NER 3.276 8
If [a man's constitution] cannot carry itself as it ought...it is
time to undervalue what he has valued...
UGM 4.23 11
Sword and staff, or talents sword-like or staff-like, carry on
the work of the world.
PPh 4.51 24
...if we dare carry these generalizations a step higher, and
name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the
end of the one is escape from organization...and the end of the other is the
highest instrumentality...
SwM 4.130 18
It is hard to carry a full cup;...
SwM 4.140 14
...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a
capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is to carry the law of surface
into the plane of substance...
SwM 4.140 16
...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a
capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is...to carry individualism
and its fopperies into the realm of essences and generals...
MoS 4.151 13
Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all
the arts in power, [men predisposed to morals] say, Why cumber ourselves
with superfluous realizations?...
NMW 4.223 13
Following [Swedenborg's] analogy, if any man is found to
carry with him the power and affections of vast numbers, if Napoleon is
France...it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
NMW 4.234 11
Sire, General Clarke can not combine with General Junot,
for the dreadful fire of the Austrian battery.--Let him carry the battery.
ET4 5.60 27
[The Normans] were all alike, they took everything they could
carry...
ET5 5.90 8
Sir Robert Peel knew the Blue Books by heart. His colleagues
and rivals carry Hansard in their heads.
ET7 5.124 6
The Englishman who visits Mount Etna will carry his teakettle
to the top.
ET8 5.129 25
In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which
travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the
manufacturers, are wont to be entertained.
ET8 5.132 12
[Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every nook and
corner of the earth their turbulent sense;...
ET9 5.149 13
...the prestige of the English name warrants a certain
confident bearing, which a Frenchman or Belgian could not carry.
ET9 5.151 22
...to wave our own flag at the dinner table or in the
University is to carry the boisterous dulness of a fire-club into a polite
circle.
ET11 5.176 15
At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were
daily eaten at a breakfast...and who had any acquaintance in his family
should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.
F 6.14 7
...if you could weigh bodily the tonnage of any hundred of the
Whig and the Democratic party in a town on the Dearborn balance...you
could predict with certainty which party would carry it.
F 6.32 7
...trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will...carry it like
its own foam...
F 6.33 20
Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its
cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should...carry the house away.
Pow 6.53 5
There are men who by their sympathetic attractions carry
nations with them...
Pow 6.56 3
With adults, as with children, one class...whirl with the
whirling world; the others...are only dragged in by the humor and vivacity
of those who can carry a dead weight.
Ctr 6.138 20
When [nature] has points to carry, she carries them.
Ctr 6.163 20
Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who chides her disregard
of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our poor Frankfort, I shall not
carry things far.
Ctr 6.165 15
We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding
inferior quadruped organization.
Bhr 6.177 10
[Men] carry the liquor of life flowing up and down in these
beautiful bottles...
CbW 6.258 6
The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls...
on...some trade or politics of the hour, he...seems inspired and a godsend to
those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.
Bty 6.304 5
...[chosen men and women's] face and manners carry a certain
grandeur...
Ill 6.315 9
We must not carry comity too far...
Ill 6.316 19
Teague and his jade...learn something, and would carry
themselves wiselier if they were now to begin.
SS 7.8 1
...each of these potentates [Dante, Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw
well the reason of his exclusion. Solitary was he? Why, yes; but his society
was limited only by the amount of brain nature appropriated in that age to
carry on the government of the world.
Civ 7.28 7
...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity, and
always going our way,--just the way we wanted to send [our letters]. Would
he take a message? Just as lief as not;...would carry it in no time.
Civ 7.28 10
Only one doubt occurred, one staggering objection,--
[Electricity] had...not so much as a mouth, to carry a letter.
Civ 7.28 14
...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact
form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
Civ 7.31 12
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry
the load of armies...
Civ 7.33 7
...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of
the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry
forward races to new convictions...
Elo1 7.65 19
Bring [the master orator] to his audience...and they shall carry
and execute that which he bids them.
Elo1 7.79 27
He who has points to carry must hire, not a skilful attorney,
but a commanding person.
Elo1 7.90 18
Put the argument...into an image,--some hard phrase...which
[the assembly] can...carry home with them,--and the cause is half won.
Elo1 7.94 5
Fame of voice or of rhetoric will carry people a few times to
hear a speaker;...
DL 7.104 8
Carry [the nestler] out of doors,--he is overpowered by the
light...
Farm 7.141 11
He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside...
makes a fortune which he cannot carry away with him...
Farm 7.146 6
...there is no porter like Gravitation, who will bring down
any weights which man cannot carry...
WD 7.162 16
...ships were built capacious enough to carry the people of a
county.
WD 7.168 15
...if we do not use the gifts [the days] bring, they carry them
as silently away.
WD 7.181 24
We do not want factitious men, who can do any literary or
professional feat, as, to...carry a measure, for money;...
Boks 7.192 20
It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in
naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely
over dark morasses and barren oceans...
Boks 7.219 22
[The communications of the sacred books]...are living
characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on
lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of
men and women. These are Scriptures which the missionary might well
carry over prairie, desert and ocean...
Cour 7.267 22
The llama that will carry a load if you caress him, will
refuse food and die if he is scourged.
Suc 7.292 17
...we do not carry a counsel in our breasts, or do not know it;...
Suc 7.308 4
Your theory is unimportant; but what new stock you can add to
humanity, or how high you can carry life?
OA 7.324 2
All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent...
OA 7.329 20
We carry in memory important anecdotes...
PI 8.14 10
The aged Michel Angelo indicates his perpetual study as in
boyhood,--I carry my satchel still.
PI 8.31 4
Every writer is a skater, and must go partly where he would, and
partly where the skates carry him;...
PI 8.39 5
[The poet's] inspiration is power to carry out and complete the
metamorphosis...
PI 8.54 14
...a verse is not a vehicle to carry a sentence as a jewel is carried
in a case...
PI 8.67 1
A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable
men, who...carry it to their reasonable neighbors.
Elo2 8.118 24
...deep interest or sympathy...will carry the cold and fearful
presently into self-possession and possession of the audience.
Res 8.140 23
By his machines man...can carry whatever loads a ton of coal
can lift;...
Comc 8.173 11
...what is fitter than that we should espouse and carry a
principle against all opposition?
PC 8.212 3
That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to
every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
PC 8.231 9
We wish...to ordain...universal suffrage, believing that it will
not carry us to mobs, or back to kings again.
PC 8.232 6
In England, it was the game-laws which exasperated the
farmers to carry the Reform Bill.
Insp 8.271 6
...[the poet] is made aware of a power to carry on and
complete the metamorphosis of natural into spiritual facts.
Insp 8.282 1
The wealth of the mind in this respect of seeing is like that of
a looking-glass, which is never tired or worn by any multitude of objects
which it reflects. You may carry it all round the world, it is ready and
perfect as ever for new millions.
Grts 8.309 15
If we should ask ourselves what is this self-respect, it would
carry us to the highest problems.
Imtl 8.333 21
When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his
government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.
Imtl 8.344 5
Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think
himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry
in himself the proof of immortality...
Aris 10.39 5
I wish catholic men...who carry the world in their thoughts;...
Aris 10.49 11
I should like to see...every man made acquainted with the
true number and weight of every adult citizen, and that he be placed where
he belongs, with so much power confided to him as he could carry and use.
Aris 10.50 23
...[the public] forgot to ask the fourth question...without
which the others do not avail. Has [the candidate] a will? Can he carry his
points against opposition?
Aris 10.53 7
A man who has that possession of his means and that
magnetism that he can at all times carry the convictions of a public
assembly, we must respect...
Aris 10.61 3
In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to
carry himself royally and well;...
PerF 10.74 18
...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his
ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark; but by
cunningly dividing the force, tapping the tempest for a little side-wind, he
uses the monsters, and they carry him where he would go.
Chr2 10.116 20
...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind,
retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly.
SovE 10.213 23
A man who has accustomed himself...to carry his
possessions, his relations to persons, and even his opinions, in his hand...
has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
Prch 10.236 3
...we should...retire a moment to the grand secret we carry in
our bosom, of inspiration from heaven.
Schr 10.276 7
There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by
gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and
our cargo across the sea.
Schr 10.278 18
It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add
to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country
with them.
Schr 10.281 25
...as we see the effrontery with which money and power
carry their ends and ride over honesty and good meaning, patriotism and
religion seem to shriek like ghosts.
Plu 10.303 25
...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars, and carry a
faint memory of the argument or general design of the chapter;...
Plu 10.322 11
It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can
force ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders
[of Plutarch]. If we could keep the secret, and communicate it only to a few
chosen aspirants, we might confide that, by this noble infiltration, they
would easily carry the victory over all competitors.
MMEm 10.420 25
...sometimes I [Mary Moody Emerson] fancy that I am
emptied and peeled to carry some seed to the ignorant...
Thor 10.465 21
Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own
cost to the Yellowstone River...
Thor 10.472 11
...[Thoreau] would carry you to the heron's haunt...
HDC 11.78 18
...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town
[Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two
dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to
such as shall carry wood thither;...
War 11.165 10
...when a truth appears...it will build fleets; it will carry
over half Spain and half England;...
War 11.167 22
...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]
for better, for worse, carry it out to the end, and meet its absurd
consequences; or else...give up the principle...
War 11.168 26
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of
moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a
nation...of true, great and able men.
War 11.169 7
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of
moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a
nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I
shall find them...men whose very look and voice carry the sentence of
honor and shame;...
War 11.170 24
The next season...the party this man votes with have an
appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the
other way...
War 11.174 13
If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who
have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their
life in their hand...
FSLC 11.179 11
I wake in the morning with a painful sensation, which I
carry about all day, and which, when traced home, is the odious
remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts...
FSLC 11.201 18
[Webster] must learn...that those who have no points to
carry that are not identical with public morals and generous civilization...
disown him...
FSLN 11.218 15
Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb,
carry the business men into the city...
FSLN 11.220 15
I saw that a great man [Webster]...was able,-fault of the
total want of stamina in public men,-when he failed...to carry parties with
him.
AKan 11.260 24
Are there no women in that [Southern] country,-women,
who always carry the conscience of a people?
EPro 11.314 19
Come, East and West and North,/ By races, as snow-flakes,/
And carry my purpose forth,/ Which neither halts nor shakes./
HCom 11.342 8
The revolutions carry their own points...
SMC 11.364 12
...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the
colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover
twenty-four men, and unless he ordered me not to carry them, I should do
so.
SMC 11.364 18
[George Prescott writes] We only had about twelve men...
and some of them have their heavy knapsacks and guns to carry, so could
not carry any poles.
SMC 11.369 19
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.
Shak1 11.450 12
Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's]
sonnets in the pocket.
ChiE 11.473 18
I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill
which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has twice attempted to carry
through Congress, requiring that candidates for public offices shall first
pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
FRep 11.517 17
One hundred years ago the American people attempted to
carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection.
FRep 11.517 21
[The American people] are now proceeding...to carry out,
not the bill of rights, but the bill of human duties.
FRep 11.530 25
The spread eagle...must keep his wings to carry the
thunderbolt when he is commanded.
FRep 11.543 12
It is our part to carry out to the last the ends of liberty and
justice.
PLT 12.18 22
[The perceptions of the soul] are detached from their parent,
they pass into other minds; ripened and unfolded by many they hasten to
incarnate themselves in action, to take body, only to carry forward the will
which sent them out.
PLT 12.56 4
The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing
with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men...seems
inspired and a god-send to those who wish to...carry a point.
CW 12.175 7
...a common spy-glass, which you carry in your pocket, will
show the satellites of Jupiter...
CW 12.176 20
A man should carry Nature in his head...
CW 12.176 27
This is my ideal of the powers of wealth. Find out what lake
or sea Agassiz wishes to explore, and offer to carry him there...
CW 12.177 3
This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...what
district Dr. Gray has not found the plants of,-carry him;...
Bost 12.203 15
...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom
the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light...
some John Adams and Josiah Quincy and Governor Andrew to undertake
and carry the defence of patriots in the courts against the uproar of all the
province;...
Bost 12.209 10
[Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown,
so long as [other cities] carry forward its life of civil and religious
freedom...
MAng1 12.238 9
[Vasari's] servant brought [the candles] after nightfall,
and presented them to [Michelangelo]. Michael Angelo refused to receive
them. Look you, Messer Michael Angelo, replied the man, these candles
have well-nigh broken my arm, and I will not carry them back;...
Milt1 12.278 13
[Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] was a sally of the
extravagant spirit of the time...eager to carry on the standard of truth to new
heights.
Milt1 12.279 9
...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the
angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who,...endeavored...to carry out the
life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...
ACri 12.291 21
...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might
carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which
editors and members of Congress...might repair, and learn to sink what we
could best spare of our words;...
PPr 12.380 20
Every reader [of Carlyle's Past and Present] shall carry
away something.
carrying, v. (31)
AmS 1.105 17
They are the kings of the world who...persuade men by the
cheerful serenity of their carrying the matter, that this thing which they do
is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...
MN 1.205 23
...O rich and various Man!...carrying in thy senses the
morning and the night and the unfathomable galaxy;...
Lov1 2.178 19
...[the maiden] indemnifies [the lover] by carrying out her
own being into somewhat impersonal, large, mundane...
Pol1 3.209 21
The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they...
lash themselves to fury in the carrying of some local and momentary
measure...
Pol1 3.215 6
...if, without carrying [my child] into the thought, I look over
into his plot, and, guessing how it is with him, ordain this or that, he will
never obey me.
PNR 4.81 21
[Plato] represents...the power...of carrying up every fact to
successive platforms...
SwM 4.110 16
These grand rhymes or returns in nature,--the dear, best-known
face startling us at every turn...and carrying up the semblance into
divine forms,--delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
NMW 4.240 19
When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs. Balcombe, some
servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road...
ET16 5.283 8
For the difficulty of handling and carrying stones of this size
[of Stonehenge], the like is done in all cities, every day, with no other aid
than horse-power.
ET18 5.303 23
...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded
forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years
from the British islands...carrying the Saxon seed, with its instinct for
liberty...
F 6.28 6
Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up
into a sphere where all is plastic.
Pow 6.71 23
We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the
world...
Wth 6.109 22
...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton,
sixpence for tobacco, and so on;...
Wth 6.120 23
The rule is not to dictate nor to insist on carrying out each of
your schemes by ignorant wilfulness...
Elo1 7.77 24
A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect
assurance, would confound merchant, banker, judge...
Farm 7.146 14
Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a
thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming
little, and entering the smallest holes and pores. By this agency, carrying in
solution elements needful to every plant, the vegetable world exists.
Suc 7.289 18
I could point to men in this country, of indispensable
importance to the carrying on of American life, of this [egotistical] humor,
whom we could ill spare;...
Grts 8.314 21
When one of his favorite schemes missed, [Napoleon] had
the faculty of taking up his genius, as he said, and of carrying it somewhere
else.
Chr2 10.120 16
Confucius said one day to Ke Kang: Sir, in carrying on
your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced
desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.
Edc1 10.130 13
Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark,
a luminous patch...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of
power;...and finding and carrying their law in his mind, can, as it were, see
his simple idea realized up yonder in giddy distances...
Schr 10.273 16
Other men are...heaving and carrying...
Schr 10.277 4
These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them
trained: this memory carrying in its caves the pictures of all the past...
EzRy 10.389 2
[Ezra Ripley] had...the patient, continuing courtesy,
carrying out every respectful attention to the end, which marks what is
called the manners of the old school.
HDC 11.58 5
Philip...revenged his humiliation a few years after, by
carrying fire and tomahawk into the English villages.
FSLC 11.191 15
Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset,
wherein the dicta of Lords Talbot and Hardwicke had been cited, to the
effect of carrying back the slave to the West Indies, said, I care not for the
supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all
principle.
SMC 11.355 11
The armies mustered in the North...had the vast advantage
of carrying whither they marched a higher civilization.
SHC 11.429 3
Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided
the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the
[Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants
together...
FRep 11.538 24
...if the spirit...could be waked to the conserving and
creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great
constituency of...faithful...lovers of men, filled...with the simple and
sublime purpose of carrying out in private and in public action the desire
and need of mankind.
PLT 12.15 16
We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying
its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes.
Bost 12.202 24
The soul of a political party is by no means usually the
officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but the theorists
and extremists...these men will...never tire in carrying their point.
MAng1 12.231 10
...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an
old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily
onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...
carrying-on, n. (1)
PLT 12.59 25
The same course continues itself in the mind which we have
witnessed in Nature, namely the carrying-on and completion of the
metamorphosis from grub to worm, from worm to fly.
carrying-trade, n. (1)
Wth 6.109 17
When the European wars threw the carrying-trade of the
world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms, a seizure was now and
then made of an American ship.
cars, n. (4)
Pt1 3.19 9
Nature adopts [the factory-village and the railway] very fast into
her vital circles, and the gliding train of cars she loves like her own.
ET10 5.156 17
Gentlemen do not hesitate to ride in the second-class cars
[in England]...
Wth 6.120 13
...how can Cockayne, who has no pastures, and leaves his
cottage daily in the cars at business hours, be pothered with fatting and
killing oxen?
EWI 11.123 13
...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to
trade. We peddle...we ride in cars...to market, and for the sale of goods.
cart, n. (10)
Nat 1.51 8
In a camera obscura, the butcher's cart, and the figure of one of
our own family amuse us.
AmS 1.83 23
[The planter] sees his bushel and his cart...
Prd1 2.235 3
...keep the rake, says the haymaker, as nigh the scythe as you
can, and the cart as nigh the rake.
NER 3.252 27
The ox must be taken from the plough and the horse from
the cart...
ET8 5.135 1
[The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of
them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again, who lifts the cart
out of the mire...but it is done in the dark and with muttered maledictions.
ET11 5.196 13
...advantages once confined to men of family are now open
to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach, toil
can travel in his cart.
Bty 6.295 18
...the flute is heard farther than the cart...
Elo2 8.113 14
Whether he speaks in the Capitol or on a cart, [the orator] is
the benefactor that lifts men above themselves...
PerF 10.81 2
One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years
dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...
Thor 10.466 26
...the conical heaps of small stones on the river-shallows,
the huge nests of small fishes, one of which will sometimes overfill a cart;...
were all known to [Thoreau]...
carte, n. (1)
Shak1 11.452 7
[Periods fruitful of great men] are like the great wine
years...which are not only noted in the carte of the table d'hote, but which,
it is said, are always followed by new vivacity in the politics of Europe.
carted, v. (1)
F 6.16 26
[The Germans and Irish] are ferried over the Atlantic and carted
over America...
Cartesian, n. (1)
UGM 4.29 26
Be another:...not a naturalist, but a Cartesian;...
cartilage, n. (2)
ET6 5.108 9
An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth
to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by
some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching
the two Siamese.
Boks 7.211 13
...[a dictionary] is full of suggestion,--the raw material of
possible poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling,
sorting, ligature and cartilage.
cartilages, n. (1)
Chr1 3.110 24
The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without
encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and...
the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be
yielded;--another, and he cannot speak, and the bones of his body seem to
lose their cartilages;...
carting, v. (1)
PerF 10.75 5
[The farmer] put his days into carting from the distant swamp
the mountain of muck which has been trundled about until it now makes the
cover of fruitful soil.
cart-load, n. (1)
Farm 7.149 15
See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles...
cart-loads, n. (1)
ET12 5.201 14
I saw [at Oxford] the Ashmolean Museum, whither Elias
Ashmole in 1682 sent twelve cart-loads of rarities.
cartoon, n. (2)
MAng1 12.230 22
Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the
cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming
themselves;...
MAng1 12.233 7
[Michelangelo] never made but one portrait (a cartoon of
Messer Tommaso di Cavalieri)...
cartoons, n. (2)
ET12 5.202 19
In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the
cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo.
MAng1 12.233 4
A little before he died, [Michelangelo] burned a great
number of designs, sketches and cartoons made by him...
cart-path, n. (1)
Chr2 10.114 9
The soul...finds in every cart-path of labor ways to heaven...
cartridges, n. (1)
FRep 11.515 16
When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for
what they live for...then the cannon articulates its explosions with the voice
of a man, then the rifle seconds the cannon and the fowling-piece the rifle,
and the women make cartridges...and the better code of laws at last records
the victory.
carts, n. (1)
LVB 11.91 20
...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and
the House of Representatives...are contracting to put this active nation [the
Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to drag them over mountains and
rivers...
cart-wheel, n. (1)
Res 8.152 25
...the cart-wheel in the road may crush [the willows];...
cart-wheels, n. (1)
ACri 12.287 5
Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato]
introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his
perverse talk, his gallipots, and cook, and trencher, and cart-wheels...
Cartwright [Wheelwright, C. (1)
Boks 7.201 26
Aristophanes is now very accessible...through the labors of
Mitchell and Cartwright.
carve, v. (9)
Con 1.312 26
...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or
acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert,-acre, if you need
land;-acre's worth, if you prefer to...carve...to the tilling of the soil.
Art1 2.354 8
We carve and paint...as students of the mystery of Form.
Art1 2.363 22
A man should find in [art] an outlet for his whole energy. He
may paint and carve only as long as he can do that.
PPh 4.73 2
...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of
talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men,
[Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or
bad, for sale.
ET4 5.48 23
Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form.
Pow 6.78 20
The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same
dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy learns to
cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it...
FRep 11.531 20
In this country...there is, at present...a headlong devotion...
to the conquest of the continent,-to each man as large a share of the same
as he can carve for himself...
CInt 12.122 21
[A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad
to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and
better than he could do it; whether it be to build, engineer, carve, paint...
MAng1 12.234 5
[Michelangelo] did not only build a divine temple, and
paint and carve saints and prophets. He lived out the same inspiration.
carved, adj. (4)
Con 1.315 16
...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him
how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest
they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this...on marble
floors, with...carved wood...about you?
ET13 5.218 2
The carved and pictured chapel...made the parish-church [in
England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.
PC 8.215 12
Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage...
vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their...boats and
carved war-clubs.
Edc1 10.145 24
...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk
point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone...
carved, v. (9)
Art1 2.354 9
We carve and paint, or we behold what is carved and painted,
as students of the mystery of Form.
ShP 4.194 14
[Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the
temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments...
GoW 4.269 14
There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred
person... Every word was carved before his eyes into the earth and the sky;...
ET6 5.107 17
...within, [the Englishman's house] is wainscoted, carved,
curtained...
ET10 5.163 18
The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the
wood that Gibbons carved;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
ET13 5.215 3
[Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this
mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than
attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like
removing it.
SS 7.3 6
I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a
cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that...he was convinced
that the sculptor who carved it intended it for Memory...
Art2 7.56 2
Who carved marble? The believing man, who wished to
symbolize their gods to the waiting Greeks.
Imtl 8.325 26
[The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet
Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not
so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers
for immortal spirits.
Carver, John, n. (1)
Bost 12.191 2
In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can...wonder
that Governor Carver had not better eyes than to stop on the Plymouth
Sands.
carves, v. (4)
Wth 6.97 14
They should own who can administer...they whose work
carves out work for more...
Art2 7.47 23
Nature...carves the best part of the statue...
Art2 7.52 14
Raphael paints wisdom...Phidias carves it...
Aris 10.42 5
[Ulysses]...carves a bedstead out of the trunk of a tree...
carving, n. (2)
Hist 2.12 5
...the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving
over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral.
Art1 2.364 7
[Sculpture] was originally a useful art...and among a people
possessed of a wonderful perception of form this childish carving was
refined to the utmost splendor of effect.
carving, v. (3)
AmS 1.97 17
...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving
shepherds...went out one day...and discovered that they had whittled up the
last of their pine trees.
YA 1.385 5
...many people have a native skill for carving out business for
many hands;...
Hist 2.12 5
...the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving
over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral.
Cary, Lucius [Lord Falklan (3)
Mrs1 3.124 20
I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland...
UGM 4.14 12
Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil
terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden...of
Falkland...
DL 7.121 25
Nor can I resist the temptation of quoting so trite an instance
as the noble housekeeping of Lord Falkland in Clarendon...
Caryatides, n. (1)
Let 12.398 6
...the noblest youths are in a few years converted into pale
Caryatides...
Casaubon, Isaac, n. (2)
ShP 4.203 11
...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and
acquaintances...Theodore Beza, Isaac Casaubon...
ET12 5.201 10
Isaac Casaubon...was admitted to Christ-Church [College,
Oxford], in July, 1613.
cascade, n. (1)
Comc 8.169 27
...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was
thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...
cascades, n. (1)
MMEm 10.414 27
...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this
afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...I weary
of my pilgrimage,-tired that I must again be clothed in the grandeurs of
winter, and anon be bedizened in flowers and cascades.
case, n. (59)
Nat 1.37 6
Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the
extreme care with which its tuition is provided, - a care pretermitted in no
single case.
YA 1.368 15
...the selection of a fit house-lot has the same advantage over
an indifferent one, as the selection to a given employment of a man who has
a genius for that work. In the last case the culture of years will never make
the most painstaking apprentice his equal...
Hist 2.8 27
...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history
is commonly read...to himself, and not deny his conviction that he is the
court, and if England or Egypt have anything to say to him he will try the
case;...
Comp 2.124 25
...the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case...
Prd1 2.232 25
Tasso's is no unfrequent case in modern biography.
OS 2.282 8
What was in the case of these remarkable persons a ravishment,
has, in innumerable instances in common life, been exhibited in less
striking manner.
Pt1 3.17 26
...we choose the smallest box or case in which any needful
utensil can be carried.
Exp 3.79 2
...the intellect qualifies in our own case the moral judgments.
Pol1 3.199 7
...every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a
particular case;...
Pol1 3.203 9
Gift, in one case, makes [property] as really the new owner's
as labor made it the first owner's...
Pol1 3.203 11
...in the other case, of patrimony, the law makes an
ownership which will be valid in each man's view according to the estimate
which he sets on the public tranquillity.
MoS 4.156 24
[The skeptic says] I neither affirm nor deny. I stand here to
try the case.
ShP 4.192 20
The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of
the first importance to the poet who works for it. He loses no time in idle
experiments. Here is audience and expectation prepared. In the case of
Shakspeare there is much more.
NMW 4.238 13
Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought little about
what he should do in case of success...
NMW 4.238 14
Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought...a great deal
about what he should do in case of a reverse of fortune.
ET4 5.64 23
In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law,
that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be
accounted maritime;...
ET7 5.125 3
It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by
counsel...
Pow 6.73 17
...there are two economies which are the best succedanea
which the case admits.
Wth 6.92 20
The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust...but the
determined youth saw in it an aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...
CbW 6.270 13
For remedy, while the case [of the blockhead] is yet mild, I
recommend phlegm and truth;...
CbW 6.270 17
...when the case [of the blockhead] is seated and malignant,
the only safety is in amputation;...
Farm 7.138 5
All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum where, in case
of mischance, to hide their poverty...
Clbs 7.235 25
...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each
case some man of eloquent tongue...
Cour 7.268 27
The judge puts his mind to the tangle of contradictions in
the case...and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common
arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
Suc 7.292 14
The gravest and learnedest courts in this country...will wait
months and years for a case to occur that can be tortured into a precedent...
PI 8.32 1
...[men of the world] admit the general truth, but they and their
affair always constitute a case in bar of the statute.
PI 8.32 10
...so extreme were the times and manners of mankind, that you
must admit miracles, for the times constituted a case.
PI 8.54 15
...a verse is not a vehicle to carry a sentence as a jewel is carried
in a case...
Elo2 8.129 18
...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in
the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could
not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life
depended on his own abilities to defend it?
Comc 8.168 1
...in the country we cannot find every day a case that agrees
with the diagnosis of the books.
Aris 10.50 5
When the lawyer tries his case in court he himself is also on
trial...
Edc1 10.152 15
Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the
morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair. Each
single case, the more it is considered, shows more to be done;...
MMEm 10.404 16
[Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles
Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to
agitate the pool. This in general, one case or so excepted, and even this is a
relation to God through you.
MMEm 10.409 24
...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way
with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every actual case, 't is
hard...
MMEm 10.413 15
Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness
attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would
sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction? But that is not the case, I
[Mary Moody Emerson] believe.
SlHr 10.442 9
[Samuel Hoar] had one side or the other of every important
case...
SlHr 10.444 26
[Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and
the powerful statement of the material points of his case.
Carl 10.489 22
[Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes
find in burly people. That, and all his qualities, have a certain virulence,
coupled though it be in his case with the utmost impatience of Christendom
and Jewdom...
EWI 11.102 20
[The negro slaves'] case was left out of the mind and out of
the heart of their brothers.
EWI 11.106 10
...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George
Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were
set aside, and equity affirmed.
EWI 11.106 19
...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned again and
again...
EWI 11.106 27
Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law,
long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its
introduction are lost; and in a case so odious as the condition of slaves,
must be taken strictly...
EWI 11.132 5
If the State has no power to defend its own people in its own
shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal Government,
has it no representation in the Federal Government? Are those men dumb? I
am no lawyer, and cannot indicate the forms applicable to the case, but here
is something which transcends all forms.
EWI 11.140 14
In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had
thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the
underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and
owners...
EWI 11.140 23
In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had
thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury
gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do
what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench,
The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity? For they had no
doubt...that the case of slaves was the same as if horses had been thrown
overboard.
EWI 11.140 25
In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had
thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury
gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do
what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench,
The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity? For they had no
doubt...that the case of slaves was the same as if horses had been thrown
overboard. It is
FSLC 11.191 12
Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset...said, I
care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be
contrary to all principle.
FSLC 11.198 8
What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent
rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly defined
his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the
prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a reputable
citizen to hold?
AsSu 11.250 26
...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his
speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be
true in Sumner's case...
AKan 11.255 13
There is this peculiarity about the case of Kansas, that all
the right is on one side.
AKan 11.257 18
...I submit that, in a case like this...I submit that 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]...
ACiv 11.301 4
You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy.
Why, The Edinburgh Review...made its case, forty years ago.
ACiv 11.310 4
...there is perpetual march and progress to ideas. But in
either case [natural philsophy and history], no link of the chain can drop out.
ALin 11.331 24
...[Lincoln]...was excellent...in arguing his case and
convincing you fairly and firmly.
ALin 11.332 18
...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity,
in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one
will remember;...
CInt 12.120 7
...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with
the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of
Patrick Henry...not the making a plausible case...
ACri 12.291 15
Never say, I beg not to be misunderstood. It is only
graceful in the case when you are afraid that what is called a better meaning
will be taken, and you wish to insist on a worse;...
AgMs 12.360 22
...this [Agricultural Survey] was written for the literary
men. But in that case, the state should not be taxed to pay for it.
Trag 12.413 15
A man should try Time, and his face should wear the
expression of a just judge...who puts Nature and fortune on their merits: he
will hear the case out, and then decide.
case-hardened, adj. (1)
Carl 10.496 8
...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education
indurates the young men...so that when they come forth of them, they say...
we have gone through all the degrees, and are case-hardened against the
veracities of the Universe;...
Casella, Alfredo [Dante, D (1)
SwM 4.127 6
[Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of
Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love, which, Dante says,
Casella sang among the angels in Paradise;...
cases, n. (31)
Nat 1.51 14
In these cases, by mechanical means, is suggested the
difference between the observer and the spectacle...
Nat 1.55 19
It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles], that a spiritual life
has been imparted to nature;...
MR 1.233 17
...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature
must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them, and they come
forth from it. Such cases are becoming more numerous every year.
Chr1 3.93 26
In all cases [character] is an extraordinary and incomputable
agent.
NER 3.253 26
No doubt there was plentiful vaporing, and cases of
backsliding might occur.
NER 3.265 25
The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a
dollar, but he will be honest in the Senate, for we can bring public opinion
to bear on him. Thus concert was the specific in all cases.
ET17 5.291 5
In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have
abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the
fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that
concerned them.
Pow 6.77 5
Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness
is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles
of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day. There are cases
where little can be said, and much must be done.
Wsp 6.233 1
It is incredible what force the will has in such cases;...
CbW 6.248 21
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated
with a faint hope that he will die,--quantities...of cases for a gun.
SS 7.5 25
These conversations [with my friend] led me somewhat later to
the knowledge of similar cases...
Elo1 7.74 14
There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently
impressive...though it be, in so many cases, nothing more than a facility of
expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more
slowly;...
Elo1 7.87 7
...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by
requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words...
supposing cases...
Elo1 7.92 18
...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the
eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
DL 7.103 4
The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks
and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and the
father's house.
PI 8.52 25
We do not enclose watches in wooden, but in crystal cases...
Elo2 8.129 5
Lord Ashley, in 1696, while the bill for regulating trials in
cases of high treason was pending, attempting to utter a premeditated
speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to
proceed;...
Comc 8.168 14
The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as
that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie...
Comc 8.170 17
Alike in all these cases...the majesty of man is violated.
QO 8.189 19
The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as
hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more
indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt
involves bankruptcy. On the contrary, in far the greater number of cases the
transaction is honorable to both.
MMEm 10.413 22
The feverish lust of notice perhaps in all these cases
would injure the heart of common refinement and virtue.
HDC 11.30 20
Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first
settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is Blood...Miles,-the names of the
inhabitants for the first thirty years; and the family is in many cases
represented, when the name is not.
EWI 11.104 12
...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into
swamps and hills; and, in cases of passion, a planter throwing his negro into
a copper of boiling cane-juice,-if we saw these things with eyes, we too
should wince.
War 11.167 16
Since the peace question has been before the public mind,
those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with
objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the
curious,-moral problems...
War 11.169 20
In the second place, as far as [the charge of absurdity on the
extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme
cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just
man;...
War 11.169 21
...as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace
doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will
say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man;...
HCom 11.344 21
...in how many cases it chanced, when the hero had
fallen, they who came by night to his funeral, on the morrow returned to the
war-path...
FRep 11.521 8
...we can all count the few cases...when a public man
ventured to act as he thought...
PLT 12.52 3
I am familiar with cases...wherein the vital force being
insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared;...
II 12.67 10
...we must form the habit of preferring in all cases this guidance
[of instinct], which is given as it is used.
Let 12.402 18
In all the cases we have ever seen where people were
supposed to suffer from too much wit...it turned out that they had not wit
enough.
cashier, n. (1)
Pow 6.58 13
The merchant works by book-keeper and cashier;...
cashmere, n. (1)
F 6.10 20
You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it
does not make cashmere...
cask, n. (2)
SwM 4.145 1
In the shipwreck, some cling to running rigging, some to cask
and barrel...
Wth 6.119 17
[A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting
wine from a cask.
caskets, n. (2)
Boks 7.192 11
...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be
computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination,--not a
choice out of three caskets, but out of half a million caskets, all alike.
Boks 7.192 12
...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be
computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination,--not a
choice out of three caskets, but out of half a million caskets, all alike.
Cass, Lewis, n. (2)
Imtl 8.332 9
Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook
hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None,
replied Albert. Any light, Lewis? None, replied he.
AKan 11.255 23
When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the
Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion; but his
supporters in the Senate, Mr. Cass, Mr. Geyer, Mr. Hunter, speak out, and
declare the intolerable atrocity of the code.
Cassandra, n. (3)
MMEm 10.432 23
Cassandra uttered, to a frivolous, skeptical time, the
arcana of the Gods...
MMEm 10.432 25
...it is easy to believe that Cassandra domesticated in a
lady's house would have proved a troublesome boarder.
FSLN 11.244 10
I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that
has foretold all that has befallen...
Cassandras, n. (1)
Bhr 6.188 25
I had received, said a sibyl, I had received at birth the fatal
gift of penetration; and these Cassandras are always born.
Cassibelaunus, n. (1)
ET4 5.48 18
...the Briton of to-day is a very different person from
Cassibelaunus or Ossian.
cassock, n. (1)
Prch 10.228 24
...Is a rich rogue made to feel his roguery among divines or
literary men? No? Then 't is rogue again under the cassock.
cast, adj. (1)
HCom 11.340 4
Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the
dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With
the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
cast, n. (11)
AmS 1.109 21
...the time is...Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought./
Con 1.303 22
[The existing world] will stand until a better cast of the dice
is made.
Hsm1 2.245 12
In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the
elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of
character and dialogue...
Exp 3.66 18
You love the boy...gazing at a drawing or a cast;...
Pow 6.59 24
...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia,
it would not help him; for this is an affair...of aplomb: the opponent has...in
every cast, the choice of weapon and mark;...
Pow 6.65 14
These Hoosiers and Suckers are really better than the
snivelling opposition. Their wrath is at least of a bold and manly cast.
CbW 6.246 25
We have a debt...to those who have put life and fortune on
the cast of an act of justice;...
SS 7.3 2
I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a
cast of the Rondanini Medusa...
QO 8.189 7
In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I
follow goes my way, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we
say;...
Aris 10.42 21
The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe.
Douglas can throw the bar a greater cast.
Chr2 10.116 19
...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind,
retain the traditions...
cast, v. (56)
AmS 1.107 7
[The poor and the low] cast the dignity of man from their
downtrod selves upon the shoulders of a hero...
DSA 1.146 6
...cast behind you all conformity...
MN 1.195 10
The festival of the intellect and the return to its source cast a
strong light on the always interesting topics of Man and Nature.
MN 1.215 6
To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the
disciple]...meditates to cast himself into the arms of that society and manner
of life which he had newly abandoned...
MR 1.228 3
...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I
address has felt his own call to cast aside all evil customs...
MR 1.256 18
The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to
cast all things behind...
Tran 1.329 4
The first thing we have to say respecting what are called new
views here in New England...is, that they are...the very oldest of thoughts
cast into the mould of these new times.
YA 1.372 15
The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the
equator;...the form...required to prevent the protuberances...even of lesser
mountains cast up at any time by earthquakes, from continually deranging
the axis of the earth.
SR 2.44 1
Cast the bantling on the rocks.../
SR 2.66 19
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his
ripened being?
SR 2.74 27
...it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the
common motives of humanity...
Comp 2.100 2
Has [the man of genius] all that the world loves and admires
and covets?--he must cast behind him their admiration...
Comp 2.116 22
...the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he
approached cast down their colors and from enemies became friends...
SL 2.145 2
...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all
proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the
ordinary standards. ... Let them have their weight, and do not...cast about
for illustration and facts more usual in literature.
Fdsp 2.203 5
We cover up our thought from [our fellow-man] under a
hundred folds. I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy cast off
this drapery...
Fdsp 2.210 27
Let [your friend] be to thee for ever...not a trivial
conveniency to be soon outgrown and cast aside.
Fdsp 2.211 26
Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select
souls...
Hsm1 2.247 4
Treacherous heart,/ My hand shall cast thee quick into my
urn,/ Ere thou transgress this knot of piety./
Cir 2.313 12
...steeped in the sea of beautiful forms which the field offers
us, we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.
Cir 2.317 2
The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away
our virtues...
Cir 2.320 21
I cast away in this new moment all my once hoarded
knowledge...
Int 2.341 11
...the profound genius will cast the likeness of all creatures
into every product of his wit.
Exp 3.76 9
...every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast.
Mrs1 3.132 3
...the countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a
ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed, or
the failing party must be cast out of this presence.
Mrs1 3.142 25
The painted phantasm Fashion rises to cast a species of
derision on what we say.
Pol1 3.210 1
The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course
wish to cast his vote with the democrat...
NER 3.260 10
One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation
and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to cast aside
the superfluous...
NER 3.276 1
...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim,
[a man] will cast all behind him...
ET14 5.245 15
...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...all
new thought must be cast into the old moulds.
F 6.24 4
'T is weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate.
CbW 6.266 20
One day we shall cast out the passion for Europe by the
passion for America.
Elo1 7.87 22
The parts [in the court-room trial] were so well cast and
discriminated that it was an interesting game to watch.
OA 7.330 15
The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so
wise, yet half-wise, half-thought, because it cast no light abroad, is
suddenly matched in our mind by its twin...
OA 7.334 10
I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a
window, and distinctly heard all. He had a voice such as I never heard
before or since. He cast it out so that you might hear it at the meeting-house...
Elo2 8.113 22
[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...
PC 8.224 10
[Man] finds that the universe, as Newton said, was made at
one cast;...
PPo 8.263 3
I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters
cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes
down at last;/...
SovE 10.191 18
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.
Prch 10.219 21
No age and no person is destitute of the [religious]
sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious exhibitions are interrupted and
periodical,-the ages of belief...of men cast in a higher mould.
Prch 10.220 14
...the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the
nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned.
Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take tacit part with
them, to cast off reverence for the Church;...
Schr 10.275 4
...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father...I have ever had in
my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I
cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time
has come when I should resign it.
MMEm 10.421 5
There was great truth in what a pious enthusiast said,
that, if God should cast him into hell, he would yet clasp his hands around
Him.
MMEm 10.427 19
...if it were in the nature of things possible He could
withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith...
that, though cast from Him, my sorrows, my ignorance and meanness were
a part of His plan;...
EWI 11.134 22
...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and
political men have found out...that [these neglected victims] have...no
strong vote to cast at the elections;...then let the citizens in their primary
capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
FSLC 11.188 1
...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending...on
our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being...cast into the sea...to
get away from his driver...
FSLC 11.200 2
When a moral quality comes into politics...general
principles are laid bare, which cast light on the whole frame of society.
FSLN 11.240 7
...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be
no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale...
FSLN 11.241 12
Let the aid of virtue, intelligence and education be cast
where they rightfully belong.
AsSu 11.251 4
When the same reproach [of writing his speeches] was cast
on the first orator of ancient times by some caviller of his day, he said, I
should be ashamed to come with one unconsidered word before such an
assembly.
CPL 11.506 12
[Kepler writes] ...I have stolen the golden vases of the
Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines
of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice;...the die is cast;...
CPL 11.506 23
With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...these
tractable prophets, historians, and singers...who now cast their moonlight
illumination over solitude, weariness and fallen fortunes.
FRep 11.535 11
Let the passion for America cast out the passion for
Europe.
MAng1 12.243 18
...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's]
opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of
the Baptistery...cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo
said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.
Milt1 12.260 25
[Milton's] mastery of his native tongue was more than to
use it as well as any other; he cast it into new forms.
Milt1 12.275 27
It is true of Homer and Shakspeare...that those prodigious
geniuses did cast themselves so totally into their song that their
individuality vanishes...
Milt1 12.277 6
The creations of Shakspeare are cast into the world of
thought to no further end than to delight.
Castalian, adj. (2)
ET12 5.207 6
Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...the atmosphere
is loaded with Greek learning; the whole river has reached a certain height,
and kills all that growth of weeds which this Castalian water kills.
FSLN 11.242 18
I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the
university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political
arena, believing that senators and statesmen would be glad to throw off the
harness and to dip again in the Castalian pools.
castanets, n. (1)
PPr 12.389 12
...in all his fun of castanets...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and
anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him
in clear level tone the very word...
castaways, n. (1)
Ill 6.322 14
Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed,
from one folly to another; and it cannot signify much what becomes of such
castaways...
caste, n. (17)
Mrs1 3.125 21
Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between
power and money] is, which transcends the habits of clique and caste...
Mrs1 3.130 2
We sometimes...feel that the moral sentiment rules man and
nature. We think all other distinctions and ties will be slight and fugitive,
this of caste or fashion for example;...
UGM 4.30 16
...great men:--the word is injurious. Is there caste? is there
fate?
PPh 4.51 22
These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and
interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...caste; the
other, culture...
PPh 4.52 16
The country...of men faithful in doctrine and in practice to the
idea of a deaf, unimplorable, immense fate, is Asia; and it realizes this faith
in the social institution of caste.
PPh 4.52 18
...[Europe] resists caste by culture;...
PPh 4.53 8
[The Greeks] saw before them...no Indian caste...
PPh 4.66 3
In the doctrine of the organic character and disposition is the
origin of caste.
PPh 4.66 8
The Koran is explicit on this point of caste.
SwM 4.95 15
The privilege of this caste [the saints] is an access to the
secrets and structure of nature by some higher method than by experience.
ET18 5.306 14
The feudal system survives [in England]...in the social
barriers which confine patronage and promotion to a caste...
Bhr 6.186 17
Some men appear to feel that they belong to a Pariah caste.
Civ 7.24 11
Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge,
overrunning all the old barriers of caste...
DL 7.117 1
...[the reform that applies itself to the household] must break up
caste...
PC 8.232 27
We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game
of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste...
Aris 10.32 26
I find the caste in the man.
Aris 10.48 16
...society must have the benefit of the best leaders. How to
obtain them? Birth has been tried and failed. Caste in India has no good
result.
Castellan, France, n. (1)
MoS 4.163 8
...in prosecuting my correspondence [with John Sterling], I
found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his
chateau, still standing near Castellan, in Perigord...
Castelli, Benedetto, n. (1)
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...
castes, n. (1)
Bost 12.184 2
...Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the
Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all
take a Hindoo tint.
casteth, v. (2)
Pt1 3.31 21
...John saw, in the Apocalypse...the stars fall from heaven as
the fig tree casteth her untimely fruit;...
MMEm 10.425 5
When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and
folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour
with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds, and he adores the
eternal purposes of Him who lifteth up and casteth down...
castigation, n. (1)
EurB 12.378 9
[The English fashionist's] highest triumph is to appear with
the most wooden manners, as little polished as will suffice to avoid
castigation...
Castile, Alphonso X, of Le (1)
NR 3.238 11
...Nature has her maligners, as if she were Circe; and
Alphonso of Castile fancied he could have given useful advice.
Castilian, adj. (1)
LE 1.163 1
[The youth] is curious concerning that man's day. What filled
it?...the Castilian etiquette?
casting, adj. (1)
FSLN 11.224 11
Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical
moments in history...when the powers of right and wrong are mustered for
conflict, and it lies with one man to give a casting vote,-Mr. Webster,
most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
casting, n. (1)
GoW 4.264 19
Nature has dearly at heart the formation of the speculative
man, or scholar. It is an end...prepared in the original casting of things.
casting, v. (17)
Nat 1.5 3
In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I
shall use the word in both senses;...
OS 2.291 10
Nothing can pass [in the soul]...but the casting aside your
trappings...
Mrs1 3.146 11
...there is still...some youth ashamed of the favors of fortune
and impatiently casting them on other shoulders.
Nat2 3.186 20
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from
the flower or the tree a single seed...
NER 3.260 16
I conceive this gradual casting off of material aids...to be the
affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
SwM 4.129 7
...it is only when you leave and lose me by casting yourself
on a sentiment which is higher than both of us, that I draw near and find
myself at your side;...
NMW 4.249 16
When a man has been present in many actions [said
Napoleon], he distinguishes that moment [of panic] without difficulty: it is
as easy as casting up an addition.
Wth 6.124 23
...we must not leave the topic [economy] without casting one
glance into the interior recesses.
Wsp 6.235 26
[Benedict said] I would not degrade myself by casting about
in my memory for a thought...
Bty 6.298 14
...we see faces every day which have a good type but have
been marred in the casting;...
PI 8.46 4
The universality of this taste [for rhyme] is proved by our habit of
casting our facts into rhyme to remember them better...
LLNE 10.346 15
These [19th Century] reformers were a new class. Instead
of the fiery souls of the Puritans...these were gentle souls...casting sheep's-eyes
even on Fourier and his houris.
HDC 11.34 4
After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow
themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting
the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest
side.
PLT 12.64 9
[The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a
far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting ourselves
on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands...
CInt 12.115 12
...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 idol...
MLit 12.310 16
...they say every man walks environed by his proper
atmosphere, extending to some distance around him. This beautiful result
must be credited to literature also in casting its account.
Trag 12.409 5
A low, haggard sprite sits by our side, casting the fashion of
uncertain evils...
castings, n. (1)
Farm 7.142 25
Who are the farmer's servants? Not the Irish...but...the
quarry of the air...the castings of the worm...
cast-iron, adj. (2)
ET12 5.207 22
When born with good constitutions, [English students]
make those eupeptic studying-mills, the cast-iron men...whose powers of
performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;...
Ill 6.317 25
...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a
gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions,
and who shall say that he is not their sport? We stigmatize the cast-iron
fellows who cannot so detach themselves, as dragon-ridden...
castle, adj. (1)
Con 1.323 7
In the civil wars of France, Montaigne alone, among all the
French gentry, kept his castle gates unbarred...
Castle, Barnard, England, n (1)
ET11 5.182 6
From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three
miles...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.
Castle, Gordon, Scotland, n (1)
ET11 5.182 18
The Duke of Richmond has 40,000 acres at Goodwood and
300,000 at Gordon Castle.
Castle, Kenilworth, England (1)
ET11 5.190 5
A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen
Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the details which Ben Jonson's masques
(performed at Kenilworth, Althorpe, Belvoir and other noble houses),
record or suggest;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
Castle, Ludlow, England, n. (1)
ET11 5.190 15
I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which
Milton's Comus was written...
castle, n. (12)
Con 1.297 27
The castle which conservatism is set to defend is the actual
state of things, good and bad.
Exp 3.53 24
I carry the keys of my castle in my hand...
Mrs1 3.152 15
The constitution of our society makes it a giant's castle to
the ambitious youth who have not found their names enrolled in its Golden
Book...
ET5 5.75 27
...the banker...drives the earl out of his castle.
ET10 5.162 17
...old energy of the Norse race [in England] arms itself with
these magnificent powers [of steam];...and the mill buys out the castle.
ET10 5.163 27
This comfort and splendor [in England]...sumptuous castle
and modern villa,--all consist with perfect order.
ET10 5.164 16
The [English] house is a castle which the king cannot enter.
Bhr 6.192 3
[The boy in earlier novels] was in want of a wife and a castle...
DL 7.132 9
The language of a ruder age has given to common law the
maxim that every man's house is his castle...
PI 8.34 20
'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of...the feudal castle...
LLNE 10.356 1
...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to
degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat,
gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way,
and we suddenly find...that we have opened the wrong door and let the
enemy into the castle;...
MMEm 10.405 24
When [Mary Moody Emerson] met a young person who
interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate with him or her at
once...and stormed the castle.
Castle, Raby, England, n. (1)
ET11 5.182 9
From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three
miles...towards Darlington, past Raby Castle, through the estate of the Duke
of Cleveland.
Castle Radcliffe, n. (1)
LE 1.172 25
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each
other; Ivanhoe and Waverley compared with Castle Radcliffe and the Porter
novels;...
Castle, Ravenswood [Scott, (1)
Hist 2.35 13
...Ravenswood Castle [is] a fine name for proud poverty...
Castle, Scone, Scotland, n. (1)
ShP 4.207 17
The forest of Arden, the nimble air of Scone Castle...where is
the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those
transcendent secrets?
Castle Teganwy, Wales, n. (1)
PI 8.58 4
A favorable specimen is Taliessin's Invocation of the Wind at the
door of Castle Teganwy...
Castle, Warwick, England, n (1)
ET11 5.188 10
I look with respect at houses six, seven, eight hundred, or,
like Warwick Castle, nine hundred years old.
Castle, Windsor, England, n (2)
ET16 5.290 19
William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us,
and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted
them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who built Windsor
and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford.
PPr 12.391 12
[Carlyle's] jokes shake down Parliament House and
Windsor Castle...
castle-building, n. (1)
PLT 12.46 4
Wishing is castle-building;...
castled, adj. (1)
FSLC 11.178 12
...Fate's grass grows rank in valley clods,/ And rankly on
the castled steep,-/ Speak it firmly, these [Eternal Rights] are gods,/ Are
all ghosts beside./
Castlereagh, Viscount [Robe (2)
ET5 5.90 12
Many of the great [English] leaders, like Pitt, Canning,
Castlereagh...are soon worked to death.
ET7 5.123 3
When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to
the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he
replied, You furnish me a reason for going.
castle-roof, n. (1)
ET8 5.131 24
[The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I
think, at...any passive obedience, like jumping off a castle-roof at the word
of a czar.
castles, n. (14)
LT 1.262 26
How [persons]...lap us in Elysium to soothing dreams and
castles in the air!
Con 1.315 6
...the cabins of the peasants and the castles of the lords
supplied [Friar Bernard's] few wants.
Pt1 3.41 7
O poet! a new nobility is conferred in groves and pastures, and
not in castles or by the sword-blade any longer.
ET3 5.37 21
The innumerable details [in England], the crowded succession
of towns, cities, cathedrals, castles and great and decorated estates...hide all
boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
ET8 5.141 2
...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English
civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...
ET11 5.173 24
The taste of the [English] people is conservative. They are
proud of the castles, and of the language and symbol of chivalry.
ET11 5.191 1
Castles are proud things, but 't is safest to be outside of them.
ET13 5.215 7
In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say...This
was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
F 6.34 12
The opinion of the million was the terror of the world, and it was
attempted...to pile it over with strata of society...with clamps and hoops of
castles...
CbW 6.253 19
Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles...
CbW 6.265 10
...I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far
better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug
and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.
Imtl 8.326 24
The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold;/ The Earth
goes to the Earth sooner than it wold;/ The Earth builds on the Earth castles
and towers;/ The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours./
War 11.157 17
Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities
had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to
dismantle their castles...
Let 12.397 10
Regrets and Bohemian castles and aesthetic villages are not a
very self-helping class of productions...
castle's, n. (1)
RBur 11.438 3
He was the music to whose tone/ The common pulse of man
keeps time/ In cot or castle's mirth or moan,/ In cold or sunny clime./
cast-off, adj. (1)
ET11 5.179 19
Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on,--a
sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American, whose country is
whitewashed all over by unmeaning names, the cast-off clothes of the
country from which its emigrants came;...
castra, n. (2)
ET11 5.179 10
Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Leicester the castra,
or camp, of the Lear, or Leir (now Soar);....
ET11 5.179 12
Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exeter or Excester,
the castra of the Ex;...
Castriota, George [Scanderb (1)
SR 2.63 2
Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus?
casts, n. (1)
Wth 6.98 17
...pictures, engravings, statues and casts, beside their first cost,
entail expenses, as of galleries and keepers for the exhibition;...
casts, v. (21)
Nat 1.9 22
In the woods, too, a man casts off his years...
MR 1.256 22
...the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain...
LT 1.275 4
[The spirit of Reform] casts its eye on Trade, and Day Labor...
Hist 2.13 21
[Nature] casts the same thought into troops of forms...
SL 2.165 23
If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the
selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and
hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world...
marking its own incomparable worth by the slight it casts on these gauds of
men;--these all are his...
OS 2.280 14
...the Maker of all things and all persons...casts his dread
omniscience through us over things.
OS 2.291 20
...what rebuke [simple souls'] plain fraternal bearing casts on
the mutual flattery with which authors solace each other...
NER 3.271 24
The Iliad...the German anthem, when they are ended, the
master casts behind him.
MoS 4.150 23
The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any
object.
Civ 7.33 17
...a purer morality...casts backward all that we held sacred into
the profane...
Grts 8.317 19
The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of
oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the
petroleum which he lights behind it;...
Grts 8.317 21
The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of
oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the
petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again casts a shadow in the
path of the electric light.
Imtl 8.352 2
Thinking the soul as unbodily among bodies, firm among
fleeting things, the wise man casts off all grief.
Edc1 10.145 3
This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God]
sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not
there, but which ought to be there: the thought is dim but it is sure, and he
casts about restless for means and masters to verify it;...
SovE 10.184 25
The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to
Nature, goes blameless through its low part...casts its filthy hull...
Schr 10.265 19
...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet
replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class
with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its
knees. Instantly he casts in his lot with the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant.
HDC 11.33 15
...in time of summer, the sun casts such a reflecting heat
from the sweet fern, whose scent is very strong, that some [pilgrims] nearly
fainted.
JBS 11.280 22
...it is impossible to see courage, and disinterestedness, and
the love that casts out fear, without sympathy.
CPL 11.497 9
Every faculty casts itself into an art...
II 12.66 2
'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in
that habitual first look which he casts on all objects.
II 12.71 7
The divine energy...casts its old garb, and reappears, another
creature;...
casual, adj. (17)
Exp 3.50 2
Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.
Exp 3.61 7
...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our
actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the
universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. If these are mean and
malignant, their contentment...is a more satisfying echo to the heart than...
the casual sympathy of admirable persons.
Exp 3.68 13
Our chief experiences have been casual.
Mrs1 3.121 13
An element which unites all the most forcible persons of
every country...and is somewhat so precise that it is at once felt if an
individual lack the masonic sign,--cannot be any casual product, but must
be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
NR 3.237 5
[Nature]...will only forgive an induction which is rare and
casual.
PNR 4.86 27
...[to Plato] there is nothing casual in the action of the human
mind.
ET14 5.254 10
No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student...
but only a casual dipping here and there...
F 6.17 5
It is a rule that the most casual and extraordinary events...become
matter of fixed calculation.
F 6.18 22
In a large city, the most casual things...are produced as
punctually...as the baker's muffin for breakfast.
F 6.19 8
These [laws of repression]...show a kind of mechanical exactness...
in what we call casual...events.
Bty 6.295 2
The fine arts have nothing casual...
Civ 7.33 6
...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of
the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry
forward races to new convictions...
Boks 7.194 1
The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library]
brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every
private shelf; and to these it can afford only the most slight and casual
additions.
PI 8.36 7
Many of the fine poems of Herrick, Jonson and their
contemporaries had this casual origin.
Edc1 10.131 6
...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the
means of classifying the most refractory phenomena, of depriving them of
all casual and chaotic aspect...
SovE 10.209 20
[The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every
line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll, ere these casual
wide-falling cinders can be gathered into broad and steady altar-flame.
Thor 10.464 14
...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which
showed him the material world as a means and symbol. This discovery,
which sometimes yields to poets a certain casual and interrupted light...was
in him an unsleeping insight;...
casually, adv. (1)
Elo2 8.131 4
[Eloquence] is the attitude taken, the unmistakable sign, never
so casually given...that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in
him.
casualties, n. (4)
Exp 3.68 12
We thrive by casualties.
Suc 7.304 11
When [the lover] went abroad, he met, by wonderful
casualties, the one person he sought.
OA 7.330 8
Time, yes, that is...the unweariable explorer, not subject to
casualties...
Dem1 10.16 1
I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay
it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form...that children and
young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved
dangerous to wiser people.
casualty, n. (7)
MN 1.213 14
The poet must be a rhapsodist; his inspiration a sort of bright
casualty;...
Tran 1.343 22
...to behold in another the expression of a love so high that it
assures itself,-assures itself also to me against every possible casualty
except my unworthiness;-these are degrees on the scale of human
happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
F 6.18 23
In a large city...things whose beauty lies in their casualty, are
produced as punctually...as the baker's muffin for breakfast.
Pow 6.81 7
The world...has no casualty in all its vast and flowing curve.
SovE 10.198 14
From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I
infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and
immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...
SovE 10.198 15
From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I
infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and
immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...
SMC 11.365 17
It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost
unofficered. The colonel was, early in the day, disabled by a casualty;...
casuistry, n. (1)
LT 1.270 7
The Temperance-question...is a gymnastic training to the
casuistry and conscience of the time.
cat, n. (10)
SR 2.74 16
Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to...cat...
SR 2.76 11
A sturdy lad...who teams it, farms it...and always like a cat falls
on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
SwM 4.121 5
[Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic
notion;...a cat means this; and ostrich that; an artichoke this other;...
Bhr 6.184 7
...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one
instantly perceives ...that his will comprehends the other's will, as the cat
does the mouse;...
Bhr 6.185 13
Look at Northcote, said Fuseli; he looks like a rat that has
seen a cat.
Bty 6.290 24
The cat and the deer cannot move or sit inelegantly.
Cour 7.262 21
The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier
from a cannon...
Supl 10.165 1
Every favorite is not a cherub, nor every cat a griffin...
MMEm 10.406 24
If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little
ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not
wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's
your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
PLT 12.15 26
What but thought...makes us better than cow or cat?
cataclysm, n. (1)
EurB 12.377 23
[The Vivian Greys]...are up to anything, though it were the
genesis of Nature, or the last cataclysm...
cataclysms, n. (1)
F 6.8 19
Will you say...one need not lay his account for cataclysms every
day?
catacombs, n. (3)
Hist 2.11 20
...[Belzoni's] thought lives along the whole line of temples
and sphinxes and catacombs...
Hist 2.23 24
The primeval world...I can dive to it in myself as well as grope
for it with researching fingers in catacombs...
Imtl 8.325 8
The labor of races was spent [in Egypt] on the excavation of
catacombs.
catalepsy, n. (1)
Wth 6.116 9
The smell of the plants has drugged [the land-owner] and
robbed him of energy. He finds a catalepsy in his bones.
Catalogue, Leipsic Fair, n. (1)
Humb 11.458 18
One of [Germany's] writers warns his countrymen that it
is not the Battle of Leipsic, but the Leipsic Fair Catalogue, which raises
them above the French.
catalogue, n. (16)
Nat 1.14 13
The catalogue [of useful arts] is endless...
Hist 2.38 23
You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the
volumes you have read.
Pt1 3.31 22
...Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations
through the masquerade of birds and beasts;...
PPh 4.57 11
The mind of Plato is not to be exhibited by a Chinese
catalogue...
ET5 5.91 2
Sir John Herschel, in completion of the work of his father, who
had made the catalogue of the stars of the northern hemisphere, expatriated
himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope...
ET12 5.204 2
[The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue
on the desk of every library in Oxford.
ET12 5.204 3
[The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue
on the desk of every library in Oxford.
ET12 5.204 5
[The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue
on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they
underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the
library of that college...
ET16 5.284 25
...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall],
and a quadrangle cloister full of antique and modern statuary,--to which
Carlyle, catalogue in hand, did all too much justice,--yet the eye was still
drawn to the windows...
Bhr 6.178 22
...there is no end to the catalogue of [the eye's]
performances...
Boks 7.193 25
The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library]
brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every
private shelf;...
PI 8.15 18
The endless passing of one element into new forms...explains
the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers.
PPo 8.257 6
We may open anywhere [in the poetry of Hafiz] on a floral
catalogue.
LLNE 10.328 24
In philosophy, Immanuel Kant has made the best
catalogue of the human faculties and the best analysis of the mind.
AKan 11.256 11
Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages
[in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private
tragedies show it?
PLT 12.41 8
Every new impression on the mind is...to be accounted for,
and, until accounted for, registered as an indisputable addition to our
catalogue of natural facts.
catalogue, v. (1)
AmS 1.100 22
Flamsteed and Herschel...may catalogue the stars with the
praise of all men...
catalogues, n. (3)
Nat 1.28 5
...all Linnaeus' and Buffon's volumes, are dry catalogues of
facts;...
Nat 1.55 27
In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the
memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars...
SS 7.3 5
I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a
cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that the name which
that fine work of art bore in the catalogues was a misnomer...
cataloguing, v. (2)
AmS 1.100 25
...[the scholar]...cataloguing obscure and nebulous stars of
the human mind...must relinquish display and immediate fame.
PNR 4.81 27
The naturalist...is as poor when cataloguing the resolved
nebula of Orion, as when measuring the angles of an acre.
catamounts, n. (1)
Cour 7.263 26
The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts or wolves...
cataract, n. (2)
MN 1.199 16
The wholeness we admire in the order of the world is the
result of infinite distribution. Its smoothness is the smoothness of the pitch
of the cataract.
Grts 8.320 10
...the difference of level which makes Niagara a cataract,
makes eloquence, indignation, poetry, in him who finds there is much to
communicate.
cataracts, n. (2)
YA 1.368 6
A little grove, which any farmer can find or cause to grow near
his house, will in a few years make cataracts...quite unnecessary to his
scenery;...
SHC 11.434 26
The ground [Sleepy Hollow] has the peaceful character that
belongs to this town [Concord];-no lofty crags, no glittering cataracts;...
catastrophe, n. (1)
ET10 5.170 9
[England] too is in the stream of fate, one victim more in a
common catastrophe.
Catawbas, n. (1)
II 12.84 4
[Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen too slowly than that
the determination should appear in this brief life. As with our Catawbas and
Isabellas at the eastward, the season is not quite long enough for them.
cat-briers, n. (1)
Res 8.145 6
...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a
twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side,
crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over,
happy in his stout roof.
catch, v. (34)
LE 1.165 17
The hero is great by means of the predominance of the
universal nature; he has only to open his mouth, and it speaks;... All men
catch the word...
LE 1.171 16
...Truth is...as bad to catch as light.
LE 1.177 16
How can [the scholar] catch and keep the strain of upper
music that peals from [human life]?
Comp 2.109 22
Harm watch, harm catch.
SL 2.144 9
[A man] is like one of those booms which are set out from the
shore on rivers to catch drift-wood...
Fdsp 2.212 12
You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.
If unlike...you shall never catch a true glance of his eye.
OS 2.270 14
If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams,
wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade...we shall catch many hints
that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
Int 2.328 27
We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments
into their heaven...
Exp 3.81 23
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer
among drowning men, who all catch at him...
Nat2 3.181 19
If we look at [nature's] work, we seem to catch a glance of a
system in transition.
UGM 4.13 12
Looking where others look, and conversing with the same
things, we catch the charm which lured them.
UGM 4.26 12
We learn of our contemporaries what they know...almost
through the pores of the skin. We catch it by sympathy...
ET14 5.233 18
[The Englishman's] mind must stand on a fact. He will not
be baffled, or catch at clouds...
Wth 6.115 18
A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of
every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand
and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
Bhr 6.170 3
Manners are very communicable; men catch them from each
other.
DL 7.124 14
...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation...
Cour 7.272 10
Poetry and eloquence catch the hint [of courage]...
Suc 7.293 5
[Your appointed task] by no means consists in rushing
prematurely to a showy feat that shall catch the eye...
PC 8.226 18
The air does not rush to fill a vacuum with such speed as the
mind to catch the expected fact.
Dem1 10.6 19
You may catch the glance of a dog sometimes which lays a
kind of claim to sympathy and brotherhood.
PerF 10.78 7
It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the
performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Fancy, which sends
its gay balloon aloft into the sky to catch every tint and gleam of romance;...
Edc1 10.148 26
The boy wishes to learn...to catch a fish in the brook...
Supl 10.175 1
You shall not catch [Nature] in any anomalies...
SovE 10.209 12
...the inspirations we catch of this [moral] law are not
continuous and technical...
MMEm 10.422 14
...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all
around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or
pebbles, bugs, or bubbles.
FSLC 11.185 15
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 11.188 6
...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for
his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and
catch...
ALin 11.333 4
[Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to catch with true
instinct the temper of every company he addressed.
Wom 11.406 11
Men remark figure: women always catch the expression.
SHC 11.436 5
We shall bring hither [to Sleepy Hollow] the body of the
dead, but how shall we catch the escaped soul?
PLT 12.14 6
I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and settings...
that I may learn to...catch sight of its splendor...
Mem 12.93 15
There is no book like the memory, none with such a good
index, and that of every kind...arranged...by all sorts of mysterious hooks
and eyes to catch and hold...
CL 12.134 1
Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In
the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./
CL 12.156 23
Where is he who has senses fine enough to catch the
inspiration of the landscape?
catcher, n. (1)
Plu 10.309 10
The part of each of the class [of the Greek philosophers] is
as important as that of the master. They are like the baseball players, to
whom the pitcher, the bat, the catcher and the scout are equally important.
catches, n. (1)
PPo 8.236 11
...[Saadi's] idle catches told the laws/ Holding Nature to her
cause./
catches, v. (3)
PPh 4.61 19
[Plato] never...catches us up into poetic raptures.
Insp 8.293 22
By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the
eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely,
thoughtless; and now...we see new relations, many truths;...each catches by
the mane one of these strong coursers...
Mem 12.103 13
The poor short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches
it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters.
catching, v. (7)
ET3 5.37 25
The innumerable details [in England]...all these catching the
eye and never allowing it to pause, hide all boundaries by the impression of
magnificence and endless wealth.
ET8 5.135 19
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...catching from their savage climate every fine hint...
Elo2 8.126 5
The polite are always catching modish innovations...
Chr2 10.91 17
...we say in our modern politics, catching at last the
language of morals, that the object of the State is the greatest good of the
greatest number...
HDC 11.36 16
...in winter, [the Indians] sat around holes in the ice,
catching salmon, pickeral, breams and perch...
ACri 12.284 13
The polite are always catching modish innovations [in
language]...
PPr 12.389 16
...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance
of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very
word...
catechetical, adj. (1)
DSA 1.131 8
Accept the injurious impositions of our early catechetical
instruction, and even honesty and self-denial were but splendid sins...
catechism, n. (5)
Cir 2.313 7
We can never see Christianity from the catechism...
MoS 4.180 12
Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit
may find small good in...essays and catechism...
EzRy 10.395 6
...[Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily...the creed and catechism
of the fathers...
HDC 11.51 4
Those [Indians] who dwelled by ponds and rivers had some
tincture of civility, but the hunters of the tribe were found intractable at
catechism.
WSL 12.345 20
A moral force, yet wholly unmindful of creed and
catechism...[character] works directly and without means...
catechisms, n. (4)
SwM 4.122 7
To the withered traditional church, yielding dry catechisms,
[Swedenborg] let in nature again...
PC 8.228 14
Science...sweeps away, with every new perception, our
infantile catechisms...
Dem1 10.26 22
I think the rappings a new test...to try catechisms with.
Carl 10.495 25
[Carlyle's] guiding genius is his moral sense...but that is a
truth of character, not of catechisms.
catechizing, v. (1)
Thor 10.474 5
...[Thoreau] well knew that asking questions of Indians is
like catechizing beavers and rabbits.
categories, n. (2)
PPh 4.40 11
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory
and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to
add any idea to his categories.
ET14 5.250 5
The necessities of mental structure force all minds into a few
categories;...
categorist, n. (1)
SwM 4.140 14
...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a
capital offence in so learned a categorist.
category, n. (4)
ShP 4.211 24
Shakspeare is as much out of the category of eminent
authors, as he is out of the crowd.
ET4 5.54 8
We must use the popular category...for convenience...
Comc 8.168 14
The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as
that of religion and science].
EdAd 11.390 26
Will [a journal] cope with the allied questions of
Government, Nonresistance, and all that belongs under that category?
catered, v. (1)
DL 7.112 16
If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the
parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...the daily table [is]
less catered.
catering, v. (1)
Chr2 10.94 6
The antagonist nature is the individual...with appetites
which...would enlist the entire spiritual faculty of the individual, if it were
possible, in catering for them.
caterpillar, n. (4)
Hist 2.13 14
Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through
the grub, through the egg, the constant individual;...
ShP 4.215 14
Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing
verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history:
any one acquainted with the parties can name every figure; this is Andrew
and that is Rachel. The sense thus remains prosaic. It is a caterpillar with
wings...
GoW 4.275 15
...the tape-worm, the caterpillar, goes from knot to knot and
closes with the head [wrote Goethe].
MoL 10.247 27
Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than
the caterpillar or the cankerworm...
caterpillars, n. (5)
Pt1 3.36 27
We have all seen changes as considerable in wheat and
caterpillars.
ET10 5.167 5
There should be temperance in making cloth, as well as in
eating. A man should not be a silk-worm, nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.
Wsp 6.203 3
Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a
web.
PerF 10.75 14
[Labor] surprises in the perfect form and condition of trees
clean of caterpillars and borers...
Schr 10.282 6
...a true orator will make us feel that the states and
kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and
caterpillars...
caterpillars', n. (1)
Schr 10.282 5
...a true orator will make us feel that the states and
kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and
caterpillars...
catgut, n. (1)
SL 2.143 2
We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut...
cathartic, adj. (1)
Hsm1 2.248 25
...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in
every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that book its immense fame.
We need books of this tart cathartic virtue...
Cathcart, George, n. (1)
ET4 5.62 3
It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when...in
1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet...
cathedral, adj. (1)
WD 7.169 17
The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the
deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our
solitude.
cathedral, n. (15)
Hist 2.11 23
A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done
by us.
Hist 2.12 6
...the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving
over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral.
Hist 2.21 3
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the
insatiable demand of harmony in man.
ShP 4.190 16
The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps,
and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a
cathedral needed by her chants and processions.
ET13 5.227 16
The [English] Bishop is elected by the Dean and Prebends
of the cathedral.
ET13 5.227 20
[The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and
pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a
Bishop];...
Ctr 6.160 10
Even a high dome, and the expansive interior of a cathedral,
have a sensible effect on manners.
Art2 7.44 19
Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling
marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite
cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so
much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
PI 8.56 4
Perhaps this dainty style of poetry is not producible to-day, any
more than a right Gothic cathedral.
Chr2 10.119 14
...[the infant soul's] narrow chapel expands to the blue
cathedral of the sky...
Prch 10.233 27
Only let there be a deep observer, and he will make light of
new shop and new circumstance that afflict you; new shop, or old cathedral,
it is all one to him.
SHC 11.428 1
No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral stoops,/ No winding
torches paint the midnight air;/...
CInt 12.129 15
Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the
new shop or old cathedral...
MAng1 12.239 17
...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go
to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble
dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like
you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
MAng1 12.243 26
Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he
might be buried in that church [Santa Croce], in such a spot that the dome
of the cathedral might be visible from his tomb when the doors of the
church stood open.
Cathedral, Ripon, England, (1)
ET13 5.215 25
The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created
the religious architecture...Fountains Abbey, Ripon, Beverley and Dundee...
Cathedral, Salisbury, Engla (4)
ET4 5.66 6
The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the
Temple Church at London, and those in Worcester and in Salisbury
cathedrals...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in
England;...
ET16 5.285 14
The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was finished six hundred
years ago, has even a spruce and modern air...
ET16 5.285 21
Salisbury [Cathedral] is now esteemed the culmination of
the Gothic art in England...
ET16 5.285 25
The interior of the [Salisbury] Cathedral is obstructed by
the organ in the middle...
Cathedral, St. Paul's, Lon (1)
ET11 5.186 7
[English nobility] survey society as from the top of St. Paul'
s...
Cathedral, Strasburg, Germa (1)
Hist 2.17 23
Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of
Erwin of Steinbach.
Cathedral, Winchester, Engl (2)
ET16 5.289 19
In the [Winchester] Cathedral I was gratified, at least by the
ample dimensions.
ET16 5.290 19
William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us,
and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted
them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who build Windsor
and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford.
Cathedral, Worcester, Engla (1)
ET4 5.66 6
The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the
Temple Church at London, and those in Worcester and in Salisbury
cathedrals...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in
England;...
cathedral-bell, n. (1)
Carl 10.490 17
They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell...
Cathedral, Cologne, n. (1)
II 12.70 10
Even those we call great men build substructures, and, like
Cologne Cathedral, these are never finished.
cathedrals, n. (13)
Hist 2.20 20
In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the
origin of the stained glass window, with which the Gothic cathedrals are
adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing
branches of the forest.
Hist 2.20 24
Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and
the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind
of the builder...
PPh 4.78 21
A chief structure of human wit, like...the mediaeval
cathedrals...it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato].
ET3 5.37 20
The innumerable details [in England], the crowded succession
of towns, cities, cathedrals, castles and great and decorated estates...hide all
boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
ET4 5.66 6
The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the
Temple Church at London, and those in Worcester and in Salisbury
cathedrals...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in
England;...
ET13 5.215 7
In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say...This
was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
ET16 5.280 4
The Acta Sanctorum show plainly that the men of those
times believed in God and in the immortality of the soul, as their abbeys
and cathedrals testify...
Wsp 6.231 21
Fear God, and where you go, men shall think they walk in
hallowed cathedrals.
Ill 6.309 21
We shot Bengal lights into the vaults and groins of the sparry
cathedrals [in the Mammoth Cave]...
Art2 7.53 19
The Iliad of Homer...the Gothic cathedrals...were made...in
grave earnest...
Art2 7.56 5
The Gothic cathedrals were built when the builder and the
priest and the people were overpowered by their faith.
CL 12.150 17
In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a
man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night.
Milt1 12.269 18
Susceptible as Burke to the attractions...of an ancient
church illustrated by old martyrdoms and installed in cathedrals,-[Milton]
threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...
Cathedrals, n. (1)
ET11 5.173 19
The Cathedrals, the Universities...conspire to uphold the
heraldry which the current politics of the day [in England] are sapping.
catholic, adj. (25)
MN 1.201 10
There is...no detachment of an individual. Hence the catholic
character which makes every leaf an exponent of the world.
YA 1.371 8
...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should
become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
NR 3.229 17
We are amphibious creatures...having two sets of faculties, the
particular and the catholic.
NER 3.264 27
...a grand phalanx of the best of the human race, banded for
some catholic object; yes, excellent;...
UGM 4.34 22
All that respects the individual is temporary and prospective,
like the individual himself, who is ascending out of his limits into a catholic
existence.
PPh 4.45 17
How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and
almost literature, is the problem for us to solve. This could not have
happened without a sound, sincere and catholic man...
MoS 4.185 9
The lesson of life is practically...to resist the usurpation of
particulars; to penetrate to their catholic sense.
ShP 4.201 10
...the generic catholic genius who is not afraid or ashamed to
owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with the next age as the
recorder and embodiment of his own.
ET14 5.248 22
Coleridge, a catholic mind, with a hunger for ideas;...is one
of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the
capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
ET14 5.250 15
Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to
metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor, with a catholic perception of
relations, equal to the highest attempts...
Ctr 6.157 9
Solitude takes off the pressure of present importunities, that
more catholic and humane relations may appear.
Bty 6.304 2
...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech
and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...
Civ 7.26 27
[A highly destined society] must be catholic in aims.
Civ 7.27 2
What is moral? It is the respecting in action catholic or universal
ends.
Civ 7.30 3
To accomplish anything excellent the will must work for
catholic and universal ends.
Grts 8.312 5
With this respect to the bias of the individual mind add...the
most catholic receptivity for the genius of others.
Grts 8.318 13
...there are always men who have a more catholic genius...
Aris 10.39 3
I wish catholic men...who carry the world in their thoughts;...
Schr 10.283 20
...[mother-wit's] look is catholic and universal...
EPro 11.315 8
These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs,
when...the political leaders of the day...take a step forward in the direction
of catholic and universal interests.
EdAd 11.391 18
Here is the balance to be adjusted between the exact
French school of Cuvier, and the genial catholic theorists, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire,
Goethe, Davy and Agassiz.
Shak1 11.449 24
I see, among the lovers of this catholic genius
[Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper knowledge invites me to
hazard an article of my literary creed;...
FRep 11.542 18
A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the
universe. They are all toiling...to a use in the economy of the world; the
higher and more complex organizations to higher and more catholic service.
Pray 12.350 20
...there are scattered about in the earth a few records of
these devout hours [of prayer], which it would edify us to read, could they
be collected in a more catholic spirit than the wretched and repulsive
volumes which usurp that name.
Let 12.392 7
...we have thought that we might clear our account [of
correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter...
Catholic, adj. (6)
Con 1.321 4
The corporation were advised to...build a Catholic chapel...
Chr1 3.98 8
What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the Catholic
Purgatory...
ShP 4.200 7
The Liturgy...is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations,
a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church...
ET18 5.305 14
There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform
in every shape;...extension of suffrage, Jewish franchise, Catholic
emancipation...
Chr2 10.114 4
The Church...clings to the miraculous...which has even an
immoral tendency, as one sees in Greek, Indian and Catholic legends...
Prch 10.217 12
...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world
marks that we are in a moment of transition; as when the Roman Church
broke into Protestant and Catholic...
Catholic Church, n. (9)
DSA 1.142 19
The Puritans in England and America found in the Christ of
the Catholic Church...scope for their austere piety...
Hist 2.12 8
When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the
Catholic Church...we have as it were been the man that made the minster;...
ET13 5.216 23
The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people
[of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...
Wsp 6.227 20
There was a wise, devout man who is called in the Catholic
Church, St. Philip Neri...
PI 8.34 19
'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of the Catholic Church...
Prch 10.227 17
The Catholic Church has been immensely rich in men and
influences.
MoL 10.245 8
We run...to Mesmerism, Spiritualism, to Pusey, to the
Catholic Church, as if for the want of thought...
LS 11.3 16
In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and
then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]...
Wom 11.415 9
After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in
the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having
first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
Catholic, n. (2)
MR 1.231 27
In the Spanish islands, every agent or factor of the
Americans...has taken oath that he is a Catholic...
YA 1.390 3
If a humane measure is propounded in behalf...of the Catholic...
that sentiment...will have the homage of the hero.
Catholic, Roman, adj. (1)
Imtl 8.328 8
[Sixty years ago] All were under the shadow of Calvinism and
of the Roman Catholic purgatory...
catholicity, n. (2)
ET17 5.297 27
...there is something hard and sterile in [Wordsworth's]
poetry...want of due catholicity and cosmopolitan scope...
Ctr 6.134 27
[Our student] must have a catholicity...
Catholics, n. (1)
ET4 5.47 25
Race avails much, if that be true which is alleged, that all
Celts are Catholics and all Saxons are Protestants;...