Catilinarian to Centuples
Catilinarian, adj. (1)
Trag 12.412 25
There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in
some rude action; they betray their impatience of quiet by an irregular
Catilinarian gait;...
Catiline, n. (1)
Hist 2.5 22
...I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of
Solomon, Alcibiades, and Catiline.
cat-like, adj. (1)
Prd1 2.227 21
In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box...
stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel. Herein he tastes...
the cat-like love of garrets, presses and corn-chambers...
Cato, n. (6)
Tran 1.337 6
I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition
to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like
Epaminondas and John de Witt; I would resolve on suicide like Cato;...
DL 7.116 6
How was it with Aemilius and Cato?
Cour 7.253 20
[Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown of the heroes of Greece
and Rome...of Quintus Curtius, Cato and Regulus;...
PC 8.220 9
In politics, mark the importance of minorities of one, as of...
Cato...
Plu 10.314 22
[Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him...to...his
love...of heroes like Aristides, Phocion and Cato.
Plu 10.318 13
...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte,
and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch, who
told the story of Leonidas...of...Epaminondas, Caesar, Cato and the rest, sit
as...laureate of the ancient world.
Catonis, n. (1)
SlHr 10.437 19
...when [Samuel Hoar] saw the day and the gods went
against him, he withdrew, but with an unaltered belief. All was conquered
praeter atrocem animum Catonis.
Catos, n. (2)
Tran 1.339 16
This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on despotic
times, made patriot Catos and Brutuses;...
Plu 10.291 4
...Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,/ The Catos, the wise
patriots of Rome,/ Shall flock to you and tarry by your side/ And comfort
you with their high company./
cats, n. (4)
PNR 4.89 27
Plato plays Providence a little with the baser sort, as people
allow themselves with their dogs and cats.
Cour 7.266 24
Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which...does not feel
itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in...cats.
LLNE 10.348 12
A man is entitled...to the air of good conversation in his
bringing up, and not, as we or so many of us, to the poor-smell and musty
chambers, cats and fools.
War 11.155 25
Idle and vacant minds want excitement, as all boys kill cats.
cat's, n. (1)
Insp 8.273 23
To-day the electric machine will not work, no spark will
pass; then presently the world is all a cat's back, all sparkle and shock.
cats'-cradles, n. (1)
Hsm1. 2.252 12
What shall [heroism] say then to the sugar-plums and cats'-cradles...
which rack the wit of all society?
Catskill Mountains, n. (1)
Supl 10.170 4
Under the Catskill Mountains the boy in the steamboat said,
Come up here, Tony; it looks pretty out-of-doors.
cattle, n. (41)
Nat 1.32 2
At the call of a noble sentiment, again...the cattle low upon the
mountains...
MR 1.238 11
Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies,
as...a planted field by...the inroad of cattle;...
MR 1.238 11
Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies,
as...a stock of cattle by hunger;...
MR 1.238 24
...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after
year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...cattle...the son finds his
hands full...
Hist 2.22 6
The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the
attacks of the gad-fly, which drives the cattle mad...
Hist 2.22 8
The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the
attacks of the gad-fly, which drives the cattle mad, and so compels the
tribe...to drive off the cattle to the higher sandy regions.
Nat2 3.169 11
There are days which occur in this climate...when...the cattle
that lie on the ground seem to have great and tranquil thoughts.
Pol1 3.202 20
It seemed fit...that Laban and not Jacob should elect the
officer who is to guard the sheep and cattle.
NR 3.237 24
...the frugal farmer takes care that his cattle shall eat down the
rowen...
ET5 5.95 1
The native [English] cattle are extinct, but the island is full of
artificial breeds.
ET5 5.95 7
The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses
to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is
economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his sirloin. Stall-feeding
makes sperm-mills of the cattle...
ET11 5.188 16
I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that...
these have preserved...breeds of cattle elsewhere extinct.
ET14 5.232 16
[The plain style] imports into [English] songs and ballads
the smell of the earth, the breath of cattle...
Pow 6.59 8
When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls
when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there
is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
Wth 6.118 18
A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a
shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring.
Wth 6.118 20
A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a
shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring. If the
non-conformist or aesthetic farmer leaves out the cattle and does not also
leave out the want which the cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by
begging or stealing.
Wth 6.118 21
A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a
shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring. If the
non-conformist or aesthetic farmer leaves out the cattle and does not also
leave out the want which the cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by
begging or stealing.
CbW 6.274 5
It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether
you have...good cattle and horses...
OA 7.324 1
When the pleuro-pneumonia of the cows raged, the butchers
said that...there never was a time when this disease did not occur among
cattle.
Elo2 8.113 25
[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...
Elo2 8.114 7
In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has
marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and
company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier
days...when he was the companion of the mountain cattle...
PC 8.224 18
The good wit finds the law from a single observation,-the
law, and its limitations, and its correspondences,-as the farmer finds his
cattle by a footprint.
Imtl 8.350 10
Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose herds of cattle;...
Dem1 10.28 10
The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to
waste...unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.
MoL 10.246 2
In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland
gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain
could support. After some time the question was, to know how many great
cattle it would feed.
HDC 11.35 8
...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]...
make a jest of pumpkins, for with this fruit the Lord was pleased to feed his
people until their corn and cattle were increased.
HDC 11.35 9
The great cost of cattle, and the sickening of [the pilgrims']
cattle upon such wild fodder as was never cut before;...are the other
disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
HDC 11.35 10
The great cost of cattle, and the sickening of [the pilgrims']
cattle upon such wild fodder as was never cut before;...are the other
disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
HDC 11.63 3
Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English
government, concerning the country towns; The farmers...make good
advantage by their corn, cattle, poultry, butter and cheese.
HDC 11.75 25
[the minute-men] supposed they had a right to their corn and
their cattle...
JBS 11.277 19
When [John Brown] was five years old his father emigrated
to Ohio, and the boy was there set...to look after cattle and dress skins;...
JBS 11.278 6
...it chanced that in Pennsylvania, where he was sent by his
father to collect cattle, [John Brown] fell in with a boy whom he heartily
liked...
JBS 11.278 15
...[John Brown] was much considered in the family where
he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had
conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.
SHC 11.431 9
...[trees] keep the earth habitable; their roots run down, like
cattle, to the water-courses;...
CL 12.137 17
In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every
spring from the loss of their cattle...
CL 12.148 6
Some English reformers thought the cattle made all this wide
space necessary between house and house...
ACri 12.305 5
Once in the fields with the lowing cattle...and I cannot tell
whether this is Thessaly and Enna, or whether Concord and Acton.
AgMs 12.361 15
The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to
sell their cattle and their hay in the fall...
AgMs 12.361 22
Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they
will sell their oxen in November; but for me [Edmund Hosmer] to sell my
cattle and my produce in the fall would be to sell my farm, for I should
have no manure to renew a crop in the spring.
cattle-show, adj. (1)
Supl 10.171 4
...I had been present...in the country at a cattle-show dinner...
cattle-show, n. (2)
Edc1 10.139 6
...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company...
so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the
engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the
engine-house. They are there only for fun, and not knowing that they are at
school, in the court-house, or the cattle-show, quite as much and more than
they were, an hour ago, in the arithmetic class.
PLT 12.25 14
I never hear a good speech at caucus or at cattle-show but it
helps me...
cattle-shows, n. (1)
AgMs 12.363 17
These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation,
and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and
inconspicuous to State Commissioners. So with these premiums to farms,
and premiums at cattle-shows.
Caucasian, adj. (5)
Hist 2.39 25
Hear the rats in the wall, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus
under foot, the lichen on the log. ... As old as the Caucasion man,--perhaps
older,--these creatures have kept their counsel beside him...
ET4 5.62 24
...the rudiment of a structure matured in the tiger is said to be
still found unabsorbed in the Caucasian man.
ET13 5.216 6
[The priest...translated the sanctities of old hagiology into
English virtues on English ground. It was a certain affirmative or
aggressive state of the Caucasian races.
LLNE 10.367 15
Don't you see, [Fourier] cried, that nothing so delights
the young Caucasian child as dirt?
LVB 11.90 14
...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of
these red men [the Cherokees]...to borrow and domesticate in the tribe the
arts and customs of the Caucasian race.
Caucasus Mountains, n. (2)
Pt1 3.31 16
...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;...
Aris 10.29 10
Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and
the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol
the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...
caucus, n. (18)
Tran 1.341 2
...many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves
from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
SL 2.135 21
When we come out of the caucus...[nature] says to us, So hot?
my little Sir.
Pt1 3.37 21
...the newspaper and caucus...are flat and dull to dull people...
Pol1 3.218 27
If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could...make
life serene around him by the dignity and sweetness of his behavior, could
he afford to circumvent the favor of the caucus and the press, and covet
relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
ShP 4.192 3
...as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...neither
then [in Shakespeare's time] could king, prelate, or puritan, alone or united,
suppress an organ which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture,
Punch and library, at the same time.
GoW 4.266 15
It is believed...the negotiations of a caucus and the
practising on the prejudices and facility of country-people to secure their
votes in November,--is practical and commendable.
Pow 6.64 26
...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and
tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have
the good nature of strength and courage.
Clbs 7.235 13
However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and
spiritual power that are compared; whether in...the caucus...or the chamber
of science...
Suc 7.290 16
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn...
power through...a packed jury or caucus...
Elo2 8.115 12
...I think every one of us can remember when our first
experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper of the first master
of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear in the court-house or
in the caucus.
Aris 10.35 9
...[the young adventurer] lends himself to each malignant
party that assails what is eminent. He will one day know that...that neither
the caucus, nor the newspaper...can avail to outlaw...or destroy the offence
of superiority in persons.
AsSu 11.249 1
[Charles Sumner] had not taken his degrees in the caucus
and in hack politics.
EdAd 11.385 13
There is no speech heard but that of auctioneers,
newsboys, and the caucus.
FRep 11.511 4
It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics
that you must have a source higher than your tap. The mills, the shops, the
theatre and the caucus...have all found out this secret.
FRep 11.529 13
The government...knows the leaders of the humblest class.
The President comes near enough to these; if he does not, the caucus does...
FRep 11.531 4
Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not
represent the population of the United States, but some...caucus;...
PLT 12.25 14
I never hear a good speech at caucus or at cattle-show but it
helps me...
CInt 12.120 12
...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...strong by the strength of the facts
themselves. Then the orator is still one of the audience, persuaded by the
same reasons which persuade them;...not a wire-puller paid to manage the
lobby and caucus.
caucuses, n. (5)
ET16 5.286 27
My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any
theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged, I bethought
myself neither of caucuses nor congress...
Edc1 10.138 17
I like...boys, who have the same liberal ticket of admission
to all...town-meetings, caucuses, mobs, target-shootings, as flies have;...
EWI 11.133 26
...whilst our very amiable and very innocent
representatives...at Washington are...very eloquent at dinners and at
caucuses, there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
SMC 11.354 24
The opinions of masses of men, which the tactics of
primary caucuses and the proverbial timidity of trade had concealed, the
[Civil] war discovered;...
FRep 11.518 4
Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of
the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is
asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of
professional politicians, who by means of newspapers and caucuses really
thrust their unworthy minority into the place of the old aristocracy on the
one side...
caught, v. (37)
Nat 1.42 16
...this moral sentiment...is caught by man...
Nat 1.42 27
Who can guess...how much industry and providence and
affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
Nat 1.68 26
Nothing hath got so far/ But man hath caught and kept it as his
prey;/...
DSA 1.129 9
The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's
lips...
DSA 1.146 27
...[all men] love to be caught up into the vision of principles.
MN 1.209 19
That well-known voice...governs all men, and none ever
caught a glimpse of its form.
Comp 2.117 8
...when the hunter came, [the stag's] feet saved him, and
afterwards, caught in the thicket, his horns destroyed him.
SL 2.132 18
These [problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination
and the like] are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping-coughs, and
those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe
the cure.
Lov1 2.170 15
...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow
nook of a private bosom, caught from a wandering spark out of another
private heart, glows and enlarges...
Int 2.339 17
I cannot see what you see, because I am caught up by a strong
wind and blown so far in one direction that I am out of the hoop of your
horizon.
Pt1 3.26 26
...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man]
can draw, by...suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him;
then he is caught up into the life of the Universe...
Exp 3.54 15
I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called
sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical
necessity.
Mrs1 3.126 16
The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and
caught with devotion by men of taste.
SwM 4.121 9
[Swedenborg...poorly tethers every symbol to a several
ecclesiastic sense. The slippery Proteus is not so easily caught.
NMW 4.256 3
It does not appear that [Napoleon] listened at key-holes, or
at least that he was caught at it.
ET1 5.12 9
[Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of
trinism and tetrakism and much more, of which I only caught this, that the
will was that by which a person is a person;...
Ctr 6.164 21
...these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too
late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.
Bhr 6.185 9
Here is Elise, who caught cold in coming into the world and
has always increased it since.
CbW 6.256 4
California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this
immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is rooted and grown. 'T is
a decoy-duck; 't is tubs thrown to amuse the whale; but real ducks, and
whales that yield oil, are caught.
SS 7.12 4
A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard the best-bred
young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned himself a boor; but
whenever he caught them apart, and had one to himself alone, then they
were the boors and he the better man.
PI 8.6 22
Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which
drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the
best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head
against...
PI 8.40 13
...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that
prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception of means and
materials...hitherto utterly unknown to him...
Elo2 8.130 17
It was said of Robespierre's audience, that though they
understood not the words, they understood a fury in the words, and caught
the contagion.
Comc 8.165 17
Smith...sent out a party into the swamp, caught an Indian,
and sent him home in the first ship to London...
QO 8.192 6
Wordsworth, as soon as he heard a good thing, caught it up...
QO 8.193 20
Every word in the language has once been used happily. The
ear, caught by that felicity, retains it...
LLNE 10.334 2
The smallest anecdote of [Everett's] behavior or
conversation was eagerly caught and repeated...
MMEm 10.404 1
All [Mary Moody Emerson's] language was happy, but...
unattainable by talent, as if caught from some dream.
LS 11.6 21
I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper]
together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution...
would have been established...in a manner so slight, that the intention of
commemorating it should not appear...to have caught the ear...of the only
two among the twelve who wrote down what happened.
FSLN 11.216 3
We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/
Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught
his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/
EdAd 11.382 7
The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human
fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring
things to names, for these were men,/ Were unitarians of the united world,/
And, wheresoever their clear eye-beams fell,/ They caught the footsteps of
the Same./
FRep 11.522 27
[Americans] are carless of politics, because they do not
entertain the possibility of being seriously caught in meshes of legislation.
CInt 12.132 5
...old men cannot see...the institutions, the laws under which
they have lived, passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your
contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of your
high calling...
MLit 12.317 5
A selfish commerce and government have caught the eye
and usurped the hand of the masses.
MLit 12.333 22
...all the hints of omnipresence and energy which we have
caught, this man [the poet] should unfold, and constitute facts.
Pray 12.351 5
Many men have contributed a single expression, a single
word to the language of devotion, which is immediately caught and
stereotyped in the prayers of their church and nation.
EurB 12.375 15
Again and again we have been caught in that old foolish
trap [the novel of costume of circumstance].
cauldron, n. (1)
PI 8.59 5
[Taliessin says] Of an enemy,--The cauldron of the sea was
bordered round by his land, but it would not boil the food of a coward./
caulk, v. (1)
MR 1.238 18
A man...who builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy
to caulk it...
causal, adj. (8)
Hist 2.13 8
Genius studies the causal thought...
Comp 2.103 3
The causal retribution is in the thing and is seen by the soul.
ET14 5.245 4
[Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation...that the term
cause and effect was loosely or gratuitously applied to what we know only
as consecutive, not at all as causal.
Ill 6.319 20
...who has...come to the conviction that what seems the
succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series?
PC 8.223 3
Shall we study the mathematics of the sphere, and not its causal
essence also?
Dem1 10.10 5
It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments
should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few
insignificant hints, when all are inspired with the same sense. As if one
should exhaust his astonishment at the economy of his thumb-nail, and
overlook the central causal miracle of his being a man.
Thor 10.475 22
...[Thoreau] have not the poetic temperament, he never
lacks the causal thought...
CInt 12.113 23
Archimedes disdained to apply himself to the useful arts,
only to the liberal or the causal arts.
causal, n. (1)
Pt1 3.8 27
[The poet] is...an utterer of the necessary and causal.
causality, n. (1)
Pow 6.54 9
A belief in causality...characterizes all valuable minds...
causation, n. (4)
SR 2.69 6
The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal
causation...
MoS 4.176 13
Are the opinions of a man...on fate and causation, at the
mercy of a broken sleep or an indigestion?
ET5 5.82 23
Their self-respect, their faith in causation...have given [the
English] the leadership of the modern world.
F 6.42 16
[Man] looks like a piece of luck, but is a piece of causation;...
causationists, n. (2)
MoS 4.171 18
...we are natural conservers and causationists...
Pow 6.54 5
All successful men have agreed in one thing,--they were
causationists.
Cause, Eternal, n. (1)
MoS 4.186 11
...let [a man] learn...that, though abyss open under abyss, and
opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause...
Cause, Final, n. (1)
Nat 1.47 7
A noble doubt perpetually suggests itself, - whether this end
[Discipline] be not the Final Cause of the Universe;...
Cause, First, n. (7)
Exp 3.72 15
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which
identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his
body;...
UGM 4.35 3
In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause,
he begins to help us more as an effect. Then he appears as an exponent of a
vaster mind and will. The opaque self becomes transparent with the light of
the First Cause.
Pow 6.74 21
[Many an artist] is up to nature and the First Cause in his
thought.
Art2 7.39 11
Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have
no art; for what they do they do instinctively; but relatively to the Supreme
Being, they have. And the same is true of all unconscious action: relatively
to the doer, it is instinct, relatively to the First Cause, it is Art.
WD 7.179 24
...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the
theory of this particular Wednesday. Can he uncover the ligaments...which
attach the dull men and things we know to the First Cause?
Imtl 8.349 2
...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of
youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at
last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations
and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God, God into him,
until the last garment of egotism falls, and he is with God,-shares the will
and the immensity of the First Cause.
PLT 12.64 13
[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...and
ties the will of a child to the love of the First Cause.
cause, n. (211)
Nat 1.12 1
Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a
multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result.
Nat 1.24 26
[Beauty in nature] must stand...not as yet the last or highest
expression of the final cause of Nature.
Nat 1.35 19
...every form [shall be] significant of [the world's] hidden life
and final cause.
Nat 1.61 12
...[nature] is faithful to the cause whence it had its origin.
Nat 1.69 15
All things unto our flesh are kind,/ In their descent and being;
to our mind,/ In their ascent and cause./
AmS 1.111 20
...show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual
cause lurking...in these suburbs and extremities of nature;...
AmS 1.111 25
...let me see...the shop, the plough, and the ledger referred to
the like cause by which light undulates...
MN 1.199 25
Not the cause, but an ever novel effect, nature descends
always from above.
MN 1.200 17
Away, profane philosopher! seekest thou in nature the cause?
MN 1.201 21
...if...it be assumed that the final cause of the world is to
make holy or wise or beautiful men, we see that it has not succeeded.
MN 1.211 17
This ecstatical state seems to direct a regard...to the cause and
not to the ends;...
MN 1.213 8
By piety alone, by conversing with the cause of nature, is
[man] safe and commands it.
MN 1.214 5
...because ecstasy is the law and cause of nature, you cannot
interpret it in too high and deep a sense.
MN 1.218 3
[Genius] looks to the cause and life...
LT 1.276 13
[The Reformers] do not rely on precisely that strength which
wins me to their cause;...
LT 1.285 15
...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider
the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness.
LT 1.290 6
...[the Moral Sentiment] wins the cause with juries;...
Con 1.304 7
...[the system of property and law] is the fruit of the same
mysterious cause as the mineral or animal world.
Con 1.314 20
...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has
also his gracious and relenting moments, and espouses for the time the
cause of man;...
Con 1.320 15
The cause of education is urged in this country with the
utmost earnestness...
Tran 1.349 4
Each cause as it is called...becomes speedily a little shop...
YA 1.390 15
We cannot give our life to the cause of the debtor...as another
is doing;...
YA 1.392 11
We are full of vanity, of which the most signal proof is our
sensitiveness to foreign and especially English censure. One cause of this is
our immense reading...
Hist 2.12 17
Some men classify objects by color and size and other
accidents of appearance; others by...the relation of cause and effect.
Hist 2.12 25
...every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause...
Hist 2.14 14
There is, at the surface [of history], infinite variety of things;
at the centre there is simplicity of cause.
SR 2.51 11
If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition...
why should I not say to him, Go love thy infant;...
SR 2.52 3
Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude
company.
SR 2.56 8
...the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no
deep cause...
SR 2.61 7
Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age;...
SR 2.64 19
We first share the life by which things exist and afterwards...
forget that we have shared their cause.
SR 2.66 11
All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause...
SR 2.71 6
...let us sit at home with the cause.
Comp 2.103 14
Cause and effect...cannot be severed;...
Comp 2.103 16
Cause and effect...cannot be severed; for the effect already
blooms in the cause...
Lov1 2.181 20
...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female
sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form,
movement and intelligence of this person, because it suggests to him the
presence of that which indeed is within the beauty, and the cause of the
beauty.
Lov1 2.184 4
Cause and effect...predominate later...
Fdsp 2.215 1
We must...admit or exclude [society] on the slightest cause.
Prd1 2.228 9
If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness
before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
Prd1 2.236 24
...the proper administration of outward things will always
rest on a just apprehension of their cause and origin;...
OS 2.268 13
When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see
not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I...not a cause but a
surprised spectator of this ethereal water;...
OS 2.272 1
...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the
infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the
effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins.
OS 2.284 20
...the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of
cause and effect.
Cir 2.303 6
...ever, behind the coarse effect, is a fine cause...
Cir 2.303 8
...ever, behind the coarse effect, is a fine cause, which, being
narrowly seen, is itself the effect of a finer cause.
Cir 2.303 16
Nature...has a cause like all the rest;...
Cir 2.305 27
The new statement...to those dwelling in the old, comes like
an abyss of scepticism. But the eye soon gets wonted to it, for the eye and it
are effects of one cause;...
Cir 2.314 21
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Pt1 3.6 22
...the Universe has three children...which reappear under
different names in every system of thought, whether they be called cause,
operation and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune;...
Exp 3.67 4
How easily, if fate would suffer it, we might...adjust ourselves,
once for all, to the perfect calculation of the kingdom of known cause and
effect.
Exp 3.70 17
...that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause,
as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.
Exp 3.70 26
Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts; they will
one day be members, and obey one will. On that one will, on that secret
cause, they nail our attention and hope.
Exp 3.72 24
The baffled intellect must still kneel before this cause...
Exp 3.72 25
The baffled intellect must still kneel before this cause, which
refuses to be named,--ineffable cause...
Exp 3.74 9
...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is...the universal
impulse to believe, that is...the principal fact in the history of the globe.
Shall we describe this cause as that which works directly?
Exp 3.83 20
The effect is deep and secular as the cause.
Mrs1 3.122 8
There is something equivocal in all the words in use to
express the excellence of manners and social cultivation, because...the last
effect is assumed by the senses as the cause.
Mrs1 3.153 14
Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself
before the cause and fountain of honor...namely the heart of love.
Nat2 3.177 17
...ordinarily, whether we are too clumsy for so subtle a topic,
or from whatever cause, as soon as men begin to write on nature, they fall
into euphuism.
Nat2 3.179 11
...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...
the quick cause before which all forms flee as the driven snows;...
Nat2 3.187 17
...the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the
partisans...
Pol1 3.209 26
Of the two great parties which at this hour almost share the
nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other
contains the best men.
UGM 4.34 26
In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a
cause, he begins to help us more as an effect.
PPh 4.48 9
The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects;...
PPh 4.48 10
The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects; then
for the cause of that;...
PPh 4.48 11
The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects; then
for the cause of that; and again the cause...
PPh 4.48 20
Urged by an opposite necessity, the mind returns from the one
to that which is not one, but other or many; from cause to effect;...
PPh 4.56 22
To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us
declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose
the universe.
PPh 4.57 1
Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer] wished that all
things should be as much as possible like himself. Whosoever, taught by
wise men, shall admit this as the prime cause of the origin and foundation
of the world, will be in the truth.
PPh 4.57 4
All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of
every thing beautiful. This dogma animates and impersonates [Plato's]
philosophy.
PPh 4.71 3
Socrates, a man...of a personal homeliness so remarkable as to
be a cause of wit in others...
SwM 4.113 10
The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final
cause gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing
[of Swedenborg].
SwM 4.120 17
A man is in general and in particular an organized...
selfishness or gratitude. And the cause of this harmony [Swedenborg]
assigned in the Arcana...
MoS 4.149 17
[A man] sees the beauty of a human face, and searches the
cause of that beauty, which must be more beautiful.
MoS 4.170 9
Truth, or the connection between cause and effect, alone
interests us.
MoS 4.185 14
...by knaves as by martyrs the just cause is carried forward.
ET3 5.36 21
...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral
estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some
cause which has agitated the whole community...
ET4 5.46 13
Is this [English] power due to their race, or to some other
cause?
ET4 5.63 18
The [English] public schools are charged with being bear-gardens
of brutal strength, and are liked by the people for that cause.
ET5 5.79 22
...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or
rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing
else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth,
nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause,
the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
ET5 5.99 21
[The English] embrace their cause with more tenacity than
their life.
ET6 5.104 1
It requires, men say, a good constitution to travel in Spain. I
say as much of England, for other cause, simply on account of the vigor and
brawn of the people.
ET7 5.118 11
...the cause is damaged in the [English] public opinion, on
which any paltering can be fixed.
ET10 5.166 10
The cause and spring of [England's wealth] is the wealth of
temperament in the people.
ET13 5.219 21
...the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted
to [the Church's] support, from its inextricable connection with the cause of
public order, with politics and with the funds.
ET14 5.240 17
If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle
studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and
supplied; and this I [Bacon] take to be a great cause that has hindered the
progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been
studied but in passage.
ET14 5.245 1
[Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation, that no
copula had been detected between any cause and effect, either in physics or
in thought;...
ET14 5.245 2
[Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation...that the term
cause and effect was loosely or gratuitously applied to what we know only
as consecutive, not at all as causal.
ET14 5.248 19
Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without
finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it...
as an effect of the same cause which showed itself more pronounced
afterwards in Hooke, Boyle and Halley.
ET15 5.263 25
In 1820, [the London Times] adopted the cause of Queen
Caroline, and carried it against the king.
ET15 5.267 26
...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests
the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons
of exact information, and with settled views of policy...availed themselves
of [the writers'] younger energy and eloquence to plead the cause.
ET15 5.271 4
...the aspirants see that The [London] Times is one of the
goods of fortune, not to be won but by winning their cause.
F 6.33 3
...every other pest is not less in the chain of cause and effect...
F 6.40 25
...we have not eyes sharp enough to descry the thread that ties
cause and effect.
Wth 6.100 13
[The right merchant] knows that all goes on the old road...for
every effect a perfect cause...
Ctr 6.132 14
A freemason, not long since, set out to explain to this country
that the principal cause of the success of General Washington was the aid
he derived from the freemasons.
Bhr 6.186 12
Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you,
or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the
second...is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily
found. People grow up and grow old under this infliction, and never suspect
the truth, ascribing the solitude which acts on them very injuriously to any
cause but the right one.
Wsp 6.220 10
Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Wsp 6.220 19
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
Bty 6.285 13
At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso],
From what cause hast thou become so emaciated?
Elo1 7.76 16
...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of
personal ascendency,--a total and resultant power, and rare, because it
requires a rich coincidence of powers, intellect, will, sympathy, organs
and...good fortune in the cause.
Elo1 7.86 1
...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three
or four stubborn words or phrases...which sink into the ear of all parties,
and stick there, and determine the cause.
Elo1 7.86 24
I remember long ago being attracted, by...the local importance
of the cause, into the court-room.
Elo1 7.90 19
Put the argument...into an image...and the cause is half won.
Elo1 7.92 14
In transcendent eloquence, there was ever some crisis in
affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the cause he pleads...
Farm 7.137 19
...the profession [of farming] has in all eyes its ancient
charm, as standing nearest to God, the first cause.
WD 7.181 24
We do not want factitious men, who can do any literary or
professional feat, as, to...advocate a cause...for money;...
Cour 7.256 7
...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is
esteemed becomes the darling of all men.
Cour 7.273 17
There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for
cause...
Cour 7.276 25
There is scope and cause and resistance enough for us in our
proper work and circumstance.
Suc 7.288 18
Cause and effect are a little tedious;...
Suc 7.288 21
We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without
regard to the cause;...
Suc 7.292 27
Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you
are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause...
OA 7.324 5
All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and
we die without developing them...but if you are enfeebled by any cause,
these sleeping seeds start and open.
OA 7.325 24
A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the Supreme Court...
PI 8.3 2
The perception of matter is made the common sense, and for cause.
PI 8.28 7
Imagination respects the cause.
PI 8.28 15
Lear...thinks every man who suffers must have the like cause
with his own.
PI 8.50 25
Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of
extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or
to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of
mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
Elo2 8.129 13
...[Lord Ashley] drew such an argument from his own
confusion as more advantaged his cause that all the powers of eloquence
could have done.
Elo2 8.130 20
[Eloquence] leads us to...the men of character...and the cause
they maintain borrows importance from an illustrious advocate.
Elo2 8.130 23
If the cause be unfashionable, [the eloquent man] will make
it fashionable.
Elo2 8.131 8
[Eloquence] is...the unmistakable sign, never so casually
given, in tone of voice, or manner, or word, that a greater spirit speaks from
you than is spoken to in him. But I say, provided your cause is really honest.
PC 8.223 16
Nature is brute but as this soul quickens it; Nature, always the
effect, mind the flowing cause.
PC 8.230 3
Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the
possessor to new power as a benefactor.
PPo 8.236 12
...[Saadi's] idle catches told the laws/ Holding Nature to her
cause./
PPo 8.256 26
The loving nightingale mourns;-cause enow for
mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?/ Know
that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./
Insp 8.284 8
Plutarch affirms that souls are naturally endowed with the
faculty of prediction, and the chief cause that excites this faculty and virtue
is a certain temperature of air and winds.
Grts 8.320 22
The man...who sees longevity in his cause;...he it is whom
we seek...
Imtl 8.344 24
Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect which
pervades Nature...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality]
as a waif and a caprice...
Dem1 10.8 7
...every act, every thought, every cause, is bipolar...
PerF 10.85 9
...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will
know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will pay best...
PerF 10.86 8
...every change, every cause in Nature is nothing but a
disguised missionary.
PerF 10.88 5
...the cause of right for which we labor never dies...
Chr2 10.91 12
...the moral cause of the world lies behind all else in the
mind.
Chr2 10.96 14
...there is...many a man who does not hesitate to lay down
his life...in the cause of his country...
SovE 10.188 22
The wars which make history so dreary have served the
cause of truth and virtue.
SovE 10.211 26
The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice from the
circumstance to the cause;...
Prch 10.232 20
We shall not very long have any part or lot in this earth...
where we feel and speak so energetically of our country and our cause.
Prch 10.234 2
...new shop, or old cathedral, it is all one to [the deep
observer]. He will find...as deep a cloud of mystery on the cause...
Prch 10.238 2
We [in the Church] come...to open the upper eyes to the
deep mystery of cause and effect...
MoL 10.247 5
A scholar defending the cause of slavery...is a traitor to his
profession.
Schr 10.264 12
[The scholar] is...here to revere the dominion of a serene
necessity and be its pupil and apprentice by tracing everything home to a
cause;...
Schr 10.271 23
...[genius and virtue] are the First Good, of which Plato
affirms that...it is the cause of everything beautiful.
Schr 10.280 18
Society...is dazzled and deceived by the weapon [of talent],
without inquiring into the cause for which it is drawn;...
Schr 10.285 7
[Men of talent]...noisily persuade society that this thing
which they do is the needful cause of all men.
Plu 10.307 18
[Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who does not hesitate to
say...The Sun is the cause that all men are ignorant of Apollo, by sense
withdrawing the rational intellect from that which is to that which appears.
LLNE 10.344 11
Theodore Parker was...the stout Reformer to urge and
defend every cause of humanity with and for the humblest of mankind.
CSC 10.375 2
The most daring innovators and the champions-until-death
of the old cause sat side by side [at the Chardon Street Convention].
SlHr 10.438 27
...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the
cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and
liberty, for his age, lost...
SlHr 10.442 21
...[Samuel Hoar]...would not argue a rotten cause;...
SlHr 10.448 15
...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication...
to unpaid services of...the cause of Education, and specially of the
University...
Thor 10.457 21
[Thoreau] was a speaker and actor of the truth...and was
ever running into dramatic situations from this cause.
Carl 10.494 5
...[Carlyle] detects in an instant if a man stands for any cause
to which he is not born and organically committed.
GSt 10.502 9
[George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of
Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown...
GSt 10.504 23
I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or
that man's behavior, but never that his anger outlasted for a moment the
mischief done or threatened to the good cause...
GSt 10.505 18
When one remembers...his immovable convictions,-I think
this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand
ordinary partisans...
HDC 11.61 5
Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war. This is
to be attributed no doubt, in part, to the fact that...it was the residence of
many noted soldiers. Tradition finds another cause in the sanctity of its
minister.
HDC 11.76 21
If ever men in arms had a spotless cause, you [veterans of
the battle of Concord] had.
HDC 11.77 14
The cause of the Colonies was so much in [William
Emerson's] heart that he did not cease to make it the subject of his
preaching and his prayers...
HDC 11.77 26
To promote the same cause [the American Revolution],
[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town [Concord], leave to
accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern army, at Ticonderoga...
HDC 11.82 25
Two religious societies, of differing creed, dwell together
[in Concord] in good understanding, both promoting, we hope, the cause of
righteousness and love.
LVB 11.95 25
A man [Van Buren] with your experience in affairs must
have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral
sentiment.
EWI 11.99 20
In this cause [emancipation], no man's weakness is any
prejudice;...
EWI 11.100 26
In this cause [emancipation], we must renounce our
temper...
EWI 11.107 5
We cannot say the cause set forth by this return is allowed or
approved of by the laws of this kingdom [England];...
EWI 11.127 18
It was a stately spectacle, to see the cause of human rights
argued with so much patience and generosity...before that powerful people
[the English].
EWI 11.129 25
I could not see the great vision of the patriots and senators
who have adopted the slave's cause...
EWI 11.134 25
If the managers of our political parties are too prudent and
too cold;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the
negroes'] cause on this very ground...
EWI 11.136 24
One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation
in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...so that this
cause has had the power to draw to it every particle of talent and of worth
in England...
EWI 11.137 7
All men remember the subtlety and the fire of indignation
which the Edinburgh Review contributed to the cause [of emancipation in
the West Indies];...
EWI 11.137 10
...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear
somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
EWI 11.137 24
This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the
friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
EWI 11.146 20
...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the
negro] observes...those whose attention should be nailed to the grand
objects of this cause [emancipation], so hotly offended by whatever
incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as
to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
War 11.168 18
...no man, it may be presumed, ever embraced the cause of
peace and philanthropy for the sole end and satisfaction of being plundered
and slain.
War 11.171 3
...the only hope of this cause [of peace] is in the increased
insight...
War 11.171 17
The manhood that has been in war must be transferred to
the cause of peace...
War 11.174 6
The cause of peace is not the cause of cowardice.
FSLN 11.222 19
...[Webster's] splendid wrath...was the wrath of the fact
and the cause he stood for.
FSLN 11.234 27
To make good the cause of Freedom, you must draw off
from all foolish trust in others.
AKan 11.255 20
When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the
Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion;...
TPar 11.287 26
...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves
expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind, in which
they beheld their own opinions combined with zeal in every cause of love
and humanity, they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed
them...
TPar 11.288 23
...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in
[Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in
Boston]; who threw himself into the cause of humanity...
TPar 11.291 11
I can readily forgive [silence], only not the other, the false
tongue which makes the worse appear the better cause.
ACiv 11.300 6
The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions,
and you still...abstain from striking at the cause.
ACiv 11.308 19
...this action [emancipation]...rids the world, at one stroke,
of this degrading nuisance [slavery], the cause of war and ruin to nations.
EPro 11.321 27
The cause of disunion and war has been reached and begun
to be removed [by the Emancipation Proclamation].
EPro 11.325 12
...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic
feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the
enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and
healthful basis. Then...the cause of war being removed, Nature and trade
may be trusted to establish a lasting peace.
SMC 11.359 25
...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...a serious
devotion to the cause of the country that never swerved...
Koss 11.399 3
We [people of Concord] have seen that you [Kossuth] are
organically in that cause you plead.
Scot 11.466 1
[Scott] saw...in his own reading and research such store of
legend and renown as won his imagination to their cause.
FRO2 11.488 21
...[miraculous dispensation] is contrary to that law of
Nature which all wise men recognize; namely, never to require a larger
cause than is necessary to the effect.
CPL 11.508 21
...I am pleading a cause which in the event of this day
[opening of the Concord Library] has already won...
FRep 11.520 7
You rally to the support of old charities and the cause of
literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of politicians].
PLT 12.28 12
Wherever there is health, that is, consent to the cause and
constitution of the universe, there is perception and power.
PLT 12.43 2
The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and
faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the
whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so
that he...sees so truly the omnipresence of eternal cause that he can convert
the daily and hourly event of New York, of Boston, into universal symbols.
Mem 12.96 9
The mind disposes all its experience...to its ruling end; one
man by puns and one by cause and effect...
Mem 12.96 27
...one [man] rarely takes an interest in how the facts really
stand, in the order of cause and effect, without self-reference. This is an
intellectual man.
CInt 12.113 10
Here [in the college], is, or should be, the majesty of reason
and the creative cause;...
CInt 12.114 26
Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is
besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times
wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be
reformed...and the fact argues a just confidence in the grandeur and self-subsistency
of the cause of religious liberty which made all material war an
impertinence.
CInt 12.118 3
Never was pure valor...shown in a bad cause.
CInt 12.120 14
[Demosthenes] wins his cause honestly.
CInt 12.122 3
There are bad books and false teachers and corrupt judges;
and in the institutions of education a want of faith in their own cause.
CInt 12.129 18
Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the
new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances that afflict you. He will
find the circumstances not altered; as deep a cloud of mystery on the cause...
CL 12.141 9
Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the
future. If it be true that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of
prediction, and that the chief cause that excites that faculty is a certain
temperature of the air and winds, etc.
Bost 12.184 16
How can we not believe in influences of climate and air,
when, as true philosophers, we must believe that chemical atoms also have
their spiritual cause why they are thus and not other;...
Milt1 12.265 6
In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny
respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they
should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors
preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and
not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion and our country'
s liberty...
MLit 12.324 19
This is the secret of that deep realism, which went about
among all objects [Goethe] beheld, to find the cause why they must be what
they are.
MLit 12.329 24
[We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...every keen
beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister], and will acquit
me of prejudging the cause of humanity by painting it with this morose
fidelity.
Let 12.398 20
From this cause, companies of the best-educated young men
in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...
Let 12.404 11
As far as our correspondents have entangled their private
griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage
themselves as fast as possible.
Cause, n. (9)
SR 2.89 21
...do thou...deal with Cause and Effect...
Imtl 8.334 12
To breathe, to sleep, is wonderful. But never to know the
Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will!
Dem1 10.9 5
We are let by this experience [of dreams] into the high region
of Cause...
MMEm 10.415 17
...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first
young day of bread failing. More, I led thee when thou knewest not a
syllable of my active Cause...to that Cause;...
MMEm 10.415 19
...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first
young day of bread failing. More, I led thee when thou knewest not a
syllable of my active Cause...to that Cause;...
Thor 10.477 2
[Thoreau's] habitual thought makes all his poetry a hymn to
the Cause of causes...
Carl 10.487 2
Hold with the Maker, not the Made,/ Sit with the Cause, or
grim or glad./
Wom 11.416 6
...that Cause [antagonism to Slavery] turned out to be a
great scholar.
ACri 12.293 11
We are now offended with Standpoint, Myth, Subjective,
the Good and the True and the Cause.
Cause of Causes, n. (1)
Res 8.138 24
...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as
he has experimented on things...we are full of good will and gratitude to the
Cause of Causes.
Cause, Original, n. (1)
Nat 1.31 10
[This imagery] is the working of the Original Cause through
the instruments he has already made.
Cause, Supreme, n. (1)
SR 2.70 15
Self-existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause...
cause, v. (20)
LE 1.161 9
...see how much you would impoverish the world if you could
take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...and
cause them not to be.
MN 1.213 2
These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set their brute glorious
eyes on the eye of every child, and, if they can, cause their nature to pass
through his wondering eyes into him...
YA 1.368 5
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;...
Cir 2.310 9
The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account
of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon, and which cause
the present order of things...
ShP 4.202 14
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 founder of another dynasty, which alone
will cause the Tudor dynasty to be remembered...
ET8 5.132 27
...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the
terror they cause.
ET11 5.195 27
Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that
Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause
they are so seldom wise men.
Pow 6.74 8
Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,--
all are distractions which cause oscillations in our giddy balloon...
Insp 8.273 19
A fuller inspiration should cause the point to flow and
become a line...
Aris 10.42 11
In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the
sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights...to be returned.
LLNE 10.350 6
Attractive Industry...would...cause the earth to yield
healthy imponderable fluids to the solar system...
HDC 11.28 9
I cause from every creature/ His proper good to flow:/ As
much as he is and doeth,/ So much he shall bestow./
EWI 11.118 20
We sometimes observe that spoiled children...seem to
measure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the
degree of reaction they can cause.
War 11.166 9
...the least change in the man will change his
circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man
was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with
right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most
striking changes of external things...
ALin 11.329 9
...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind
as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...
CInt 12.116 12
...if [colleges] could cause that a mind not profound should
become profound,-we should all rush to their gates;...
CL 12.156 21
Where is he who is to save the perfect moment, and cause
that this beauty shall not be lost?
Milt1 12.265 1
In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny
respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they
should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird that
first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be
read...
MLit 12.317 22
There are facts...which drive young men into gardens and
solitary places, and cause extravagant gestures, starts, distortions of the
countenance and passionate exclamations;...
MLit 12.331 22
Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never
assays those thunder-tones which cause to vibrate the sun and the moon...
caused, v. (23)
Nat 1.21 14
Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of London, caused the
patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal
streets of the city...
AmS 1.92 2
We read the verses of one of the great English poets...with a
pleasure...which is in great part caused by the abstraction of all time from
their verses.
MN 1.208 25
Whilst a necessity so great caused the man to exist, his health
and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from
the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act.
MR 1.232 1
In the Spanish islands, every agent or factor of the Americans...
has taken oath that he is a Catholic, or has caused a priest to make that
declaration for him.
MoS 4.169 14
When [Montaigne] came to die he caused the mass to be
celebrated in his chamber.
ET5 5.96 21
The Board of Trade [of England] caused the best models of
Greece and Italy to be placed within the reach of every manufacturing
population.
ET5 5.96 23
[The Board of Trade of England] caused to be translated from
foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most approved
works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.
ET11 5.175 16
Of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, the Emperor told
Henry V. that no Christian king had such another knight for wisdom,
nurture and manhood, and caused him to be named, Father of curtesie.
ET12 5.202 4
I saw the school-court or quadrangle [at Oxford] where, in
1683, the Convocation caused the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes to be
publicly burnt.
ET13 5.220 7
Heats and genial periods arrive in history, or, shall we say,
plenitudes of Divine Presence, by which high tides are caused in the human
spirit...
ET16 5.284 9
We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton
Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...where he conversed with
Lord Brooke...who caused to be engraved on his tombstone, Here lies Fulke
Greville, Lord Brooke, the friend of Sir Philip Sidney.
Imtl 8.328 17
A wise man in our time caused to be written on his tomb,
Think on living.
MoL 10.255 22
We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the
artist, which caused him to make it so as he did, and not otherwise;...
LLNE 10.350 13
...the good Fourier knew what those creatures [the
hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] should have been, had not the
mould slipped, through the bad state of the atmosphere; caused no doubt by
the same vicious imponderable fluids.
MMEm 10.428 20
Saladin caused his shroud to be made, and carried it to
battle as his standard.
SlHr 10.439 14
It was rather his reputation for severe method in his
intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar]
to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University...
HDC 11.55 14
The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused
some distress...
FSLN 11.224 13
Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster...caused by his
personal and official authority the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill.
ALin 11.329 8
...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind
as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...
ALin 11.329 9
...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind
as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...
CPL 11.494 3
The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful
experiment locked up the poet's library...but the poet's misery caused him
to restore the key on the first evening.
Bost 12.199 15
John Smith says...nothing would be done for a plantation,
till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and
Leyden went to New Plymouth; whose humorous ignorances caused them
for more than a year to endure a wonderful deal of misery, with an infinite
patience.
PPr 12.385 24
...we may easily fail in expressing the general objection [to
Carlyle's Past and Present] which we feel. It appears to us as a certain
disproportion in the picture, caused by the obtrusion of the whims of the
painter.
causeless, adj. (1)
EdAd 11.387 14
...this country does not lie here in the sun causeless;...
causelessly, adv. (1)
Pray 12.352 7
...soon I am weary of spending my time causelessly and
unimproved...
Causes, Cause of, n. (1)
Res 8.138 24
...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as
he has experimented on things...we are full of good will and gratitude to the
Cause of Causes.
Causes Celebres, n. (1)
ET11 5.193 12
The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts,
Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre, and now and then
darker scandals break out, ominous as the new chapters added under the
Orleans dynasty to the Causes Celebres in France.
causes, n. (44)
Nat 1.50 6
If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision...causes and
spirits are seen through [outlines and surfaces].
DSA 1.143 17
...in these two errors...I find the causes of a decaying
church...
LE 1.157 11
I will not lose myself in the desultory questions, what are the
limitations, and what the causes of the fact.
LE 1.163 23
...the more quaintly you inspect...its spiritual causes...so much
the more you master the biography of this hero...
Tran 1.349 2
What you call...your great and holy causes, seem to
[Transcendentalists] great abuses...
YA 1.391 19
...the development of our American internal resources...and
the appearance of new moral causes which are to modify the State, are
giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
Hist 2.12 18
The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes...
OS 2.276 14
In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have
come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the
centre of the world, where...we see causes, and anticipate the universe...
Nat2 3.187 16
Great causes are never tried on their merits;...
Nat2 3.194 24
The uneasiness which the thought of our helplessness in the
chain of causes occasions us, results from looking too much at one
condition of nature, namely, Motion.
PPh 4.47 16
Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have
the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics: then the partialists,--
deducing the origin of things from flux or water, or from air, or from fire,
or from mind. All mix with these causes mythologic pictures.
PPh 4.56 18
...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of
the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato...
studious of all natural laws and causes, feels these...to be no theories of the
world but bare inventories and lists.
PPh 4.56 19
...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of
the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato...
studious of all natural laws and causes, feels these, as second causes, to be
no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
SwM 4.145 24
...ascending by just degrees from events to their summits
and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he felt...
MoS 4.151 2
In powerful moments, [the genius's] thought has dissolved the
works of art and nature into their causes...
MoS 4.151 25
The trade in our streets believes in no metaphysical causes...
ShP 4.192 6
[The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national
interest...
ET14 5.249 26
[Carlyle] saw little difference in the gladiators, or the
causes for which they combated;...
F 6.31 26
Fate then is a name...for causes which are unpenetrated.
F 6.32 3
Fate is unpenetrated causes.
Ctr 6.136 15
The causes to which we have sacrificed...would show like
roots of bitterness...
Wsp 6.208 19
There is faith...in public opinion, but not in divine causes.
Wsp 6.242 8
Honor and fortune exist to him who always recognizes the
neighborhood of the great,--always feels himself in the presence of high
causes.
Bty 6.293 22
...the circumstances may be easily imagined in which woman
may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and drive a coach...if only it come
by degrees.
Civ 7.32 16
...when I...see...the invitation which experience and permanent
causes open to youth and labor...I see what cubic values America has...
Boks 7.198 20
In Plato you explore modern Europe in its causes and seed...
Cour 7.276 12
...[the hideous facts in history] require of us...an unresting
exploration of final causes.
Suc 7.300 6
...the sand floor is...bent to be a...part of the astonishing
astronomy, and existing at last to moral ends and from moral causes.
PI 8.50 23
Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of
extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or
to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of
mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
PPo 8.240 17
Solomon had three talismans...second, the glass in which he
saw the secrets of his enemies and the causes of all things, figured;...
PerF 10.73 19
...we see the causes of evils and learn to parry them and use
them as instruments, by knowledge...
Chr2 10.95 21
[The moral sentiment] puts us...in the cabinet of science and
of causes...
Chr2 10.109 15
Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of
men the secret system of Nature, the causes by which all the astronomic
results are affected...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with
disappointment, Is that all?
Edc1 10.126 16
...when one and the same man...leaves...the stupor of the
senses, to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits
disappear. No horizon shuts down. He sees things in their causes...
SovE 10.204 26
I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by
which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in
which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed
becomes more obvious in the least religious minds. I will not now explore
the causes of the result, but the fact must be conceded as of frequent
occurrence...
Prch 10.237 16
...the upper eyes behold causes and the connection of things.
EzRy 10.388 23
...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam,
my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret
very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it
impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us.
Thor 10.477 2
[Thoreau's] habitual thought makes all his poetry a hymn to
the Cause of causes...
EWI 11.128 22
There are causes in the composition of the British
legislature...which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other
legislative assemblies.
SMC 11.355 4
...cities of men are the first effects of civilization, and also
instantly causes of more civilization...
Wom 11.424 22
The aspiration of this century will be the code of the next.
It holds of high and distant causes...
Mem 12.94 25
Memory was called by the schoolmen vespertina cognitio,
evening knowledge, in distinction from the command of the future which
we have by the knowledge of causes, and which they called matutina
cognitio, or morning knowledge.
MLit 12.330 7
An interchangeable Truth, Beauty and Goodness, each
wholly interfused in the other, must make the humors of that eye which
would see causes reaching to their last effect...
Trag 12.409 19
...it is...imperfect characters from which somewhat is
hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.
causes, v. (13)
Nat 1.20 1
Every heroic act...causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
LT 1.289 2
Underneath all these appearances lies...that which causes.
SR 2.65 2
...if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at
fault.
Comp 2.98 7
Every excess causes a defect;...
Fdsp 2.192 7
See, in any house where virtue and self-respect abide, the
palpitation which the approach of a stranger causes.
Int 2.339 10
...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and
apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes...not itself but
falsehood; herein resembling the air, which is...the breath of our nostrils,
but if a stream of the same be directed on the body for a time, it causes
cold, fever, and even death.
Exp 3.56 17
...thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular? The
reason of the pain this discovery causes us...is the plaint of tragedy which
murmurs from it in regard to persons, to friendship and love.
Exp 3.66 3
...nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.
Mrs1 3.136 18
When [Montaigne] leaves any house in which he has lodged
for a few weeks, he causes his arms to be painted and hung up as a
perpetual sign...
CbW 6.258 18
In the high prophetic phrase, He causes the wrath of man to
praise him...
Farm 7.137 6
The food which was not, [the farmer] causes to be.
PI 8.17 6
Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to pass the brute body and
search the life and reason which causes it to exist;...
PI 8.17 8
Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to see that the object is always
flowing away, whilst the spirit or necessity which causes it subsists.
causeway, n. (1)
PLT 12.47 22
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.
causing, adj. (2)
Nat 1.73 15
These are examples of...an instantaneous in-streaming causing
power.
LT 1.289 9
That reality, that causing force is moral.
causing, v. (9)
LT 1.283 2
...the criticism which is levelled at the laws and manners, ends
in thought, without causing a new method of life.
Cir 2.321 18
True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and
disappear...
Pol1 3.213 16
The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it
makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by
contrivance; as by causing the entire people to give their voices on every
measure;...
ET4 5.56 4
Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul,
looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the
Mediterranean. They even entered the port of the town where he was,
causing no small alarm and sudden manning and arming of his galleys.
Bty 6.302 14
...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her
powers serve him;...causing the sun and moon to seem only the decorations
of his estate;--this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
SS 7.9 9
...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two
superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years...is at last
justified by victorious proof of probity...causing joyful emotions, tears and
glory...
MMEm 10.417 1
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.
CW 12.172 7
Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and
true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country
through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers...
when witch-grass and nettles grew, causing a forest of apple-trees or miles
of corn and rye to thrive.
Bost 12.185 8
...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range
and greater versatility, causing them to exhibit equal dexterity in what are
elsewhere reckoned incompatible works, perhaps they may thank their
climate of extremes...
caution, n. (11)
LE 1.180 3
A man of infinite caution, [Napoleon] neglected never the least
particular of preparation...
Mrs1 3.154 11
Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or
besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence
and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;... What is gentle,
but to allow [their claim], and give their heart and yours a holiday from the
national caution?
SwM 4.132 4
[Swedenborg's] books should be used with caution.
F 6.47 2
...hence the high caution, that since we are sure of having what we
wish, we beware to ask only for high things.
Pow 6.75 22
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution
to make a great fortune [said Rothschild]...
Bhr 6.174 8
It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution to
strangers not to speak loud;...
PC 8.211 3
Every one who was in Italy thirty-five years ago will remember
the caution with which his host or guest in any house looked around him, if
a political topic were broached.
Insp 8.291 2
These indulgences [in favorite places of retirement] are to be
used with great caution.
Grts 8.308 24
...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they
shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was
written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
Supl 10.168 12
...I do not know any advantage more conspicuous which a
man owes to his experience in markets and the Exchange, or politics, than
the caution and accuracy he acquires in his report of facts.
Supl 10.171 10
...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and
one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the
day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer. The caution of the
toast did honor to our village father.
cautions, n. (1)
Bhr 6.174 14
It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to
persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with
canes. But even in the perfect civilization of this city [Boston] such
cautions are not quite needless in the Athenaeum and City Library.
cautious, adj. (7)
Pol1 3.211 9
...the older and more cautious among ourselves are learning
from Europeans to look with some terror at our turbulent freedom.
DL 7.120 17
...who can see unmoved...the cautious comparison of the
attractive advertisement of the arrival of Macready, Booth or Kemble...with
the expense of the entertainment;...
Farm 7.143 19
Nature, like a cautious testator, ties up her estate so as not
to bestow it all on one generation...
SlHr 10.441 19
So cautious was [Samuel Hoar], and tender of the truth,
that he sometimes wearied his audience with the pains he took to qualify
and verify his statements...
LS 11.16 2
We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained
opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own.
ACiv 11.311 9
More and better than the President has spoken shall,
perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be,-
but...not more or better than he hoped in his heart, when...he penned these
cautious words.
WSL 12.337 5
We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an
erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English
traveller;-a man nowise cautious to conceal his name or that of his native
country...
cautiously, adv. (2)
Ctr 6.155 20
We can ill spare the commanding social benefits of cities;
they must be used, yet cautiously and haughtily...
PLT 12.11 8
Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws
and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different
sides of this dim and perilous lake...
Cavaillon, France, n. (1)
CPL 11.494 1
The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful
experiment locked up the poet's library...
Cavalieri, Tommaso di, n. (1)
MAng1 12.233 8
[Michelangelo] never made but one portrait (a cartoon of
Messer Tommaso di Cavalieri)...
cavaliers, n. (1)
SwM 4.133 21
All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they
who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon
ferries them all over in his boat; kings, counsellors, cavaliers, doctors...
Cavaliers, n. (2)
ET11 5.173 2
In spite of...the devastation of society by the profligacy of the
court, we take sides as we read for the loyal England, and King Charles's
return to his right with his Cavaliers,
Cour 7.273 22
The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some passages in the
defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a great instruction that
the best and highest courages are beams of the Almighty.
cavalry, adj. (1)
SA 8.105 17
[Sentimentalists] have, they tell you, an intense love of
Nature; poetry,--O, they adore poetry...and the cavalry regiment and the
governor;...
cavalry, n. (9)
LE 1.180 9
...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in the sallies of
courage...which, at the right moment...demolished cavalry, infantry, king,
and kaisar...
MR 1.251 11
The naked Derar, horsed on an idea, was found an overmatch
for a troop of Roman cavalry.
NMW 4.238 6
At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered Kellermann to
attack with eight hundred horse, and with these he separated the six
thousand Hungarian grenadiers, before the very eyes of the Austrian
cavalry.
NMW 4.238 7
This [Austrian] cavalry was half a league off...
ET4 5.72 16
In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses
where they landed, and were at once converted into a body of expert
cavalry.
Elo2 8.111 9
...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is
gained...they see the cannon, the musketry, the cavalry...
MoL 10.253 10
There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke
cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front,
and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square.
SMC 11.374 8
On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment
connected with Sheridan's cavalry...
SMC 11.374 12
On the ninth, [the Thirty-second Regiment] marched in
support of the cavalry...
Cave, Fingal's, Hebrides, n (1)
ET1 5.22 11
[Wordsworth] had just returned from a visit to Staffa, and
within three days had made three sonnets on Fingal's Cave...
Cave, Lady...Rising in the, (1)
QO 8.186 24
There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the
human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...the Lady Diving in the Lake
and Rising in the Cave...
Cave, Mammoth, Kentucky, n. (5)
Ill 6.309 3
Some years ago...I spent a long summer day in exploring the
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
Ill 6.310 1
The mysteries and scenery of the [Mammoth] cave had the same
dignity that belongs to all natural objects...
Ill 6.310 10
...the best thing which the [Mammoth] cave had to offer was an
illusion.
Ill 6.310 25
I own I did not like the [Mammoth] cave so well for eking out
its sublimities with this theatrical trick.
Res 8.149 15
In the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the torches which each
traveller carries make a dismal funeral procession...
cave, n. (9)
MN 1.205 15
So must we admire in man...the cave of memory.
Pt1 3.30 8
We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the
open air.
PNR 4.83 6
Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and
ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;
the cave of Trophonius;...
ET1 5.22 23
[Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] alludes to
the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music;...
Civ 7.21 14
A man in a cave or in a camp...will die with no more estate
than the wolf or the horse leaves.
Farm 7.151 18
...[the first planter]...lives in a cave or a hutch...
Boks 7.203 11
[In the Platonists] The acolyte has mounted the tripod over
the cave at Delphi;...
Clbs 7.223 2
Yet Saadi loved the race of men,--/ No churl, immured in cave
or den;/...
PLT 12.35 4
Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...
Cave of Music, n. (1)
ET1 5.22 23
[Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] alludes to
the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music;...
Cavendish, Spencer [Duke of (2)
ET11 5.182 15
The Duke of Devonshire...owns 96,000 acres in the County
of Derby.
ET11 5.193 15
The respectable Duke of Devonshire...is reported to have
said that he cannot live at Chatsworth but one month in the year.
Cavendish, Thomas, n. (2)
War 11.158 8
The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus to Lord Hunsdon...It
hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of
the world...
War 11.158 27
...the good [Thomas] Cavendish piously begins this
statement,-It hath pleased Almighty God.
Cavendish, William [Duke of (1)
Boks 7.209 25
Among the distinguished company which attended the sale
[of the Duke of Roxburgh's library] were the Duke of Devonshire, Earl
Spencer, and the Duke of Marlborough...
Cavendish, William [Earl of (2)
ET11 5.190 8
A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen
Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...down to Aubrey's passages of the life of
Hobbes in the house of the Earl of Devon, are favorable pictures of a
romantic style of manners.
Boks 7.207 15
[The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon,--
not if he read...all the Letters (especially those to the Earl of Devonshire,
explaining the Essex business)...
Cavendish's, William [Earl (1)
Ctr 6.148 26
Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the
Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library...
cavern, adj. (1)
ET16 5.278 3
...the situation [of Stonehenge is] fixed astronomically,--the
grand entrances...being placed exactly northeast, as all the gates of the old
cavern temples are.
cavern, n. (2)
Ill 6.309 7
We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the
cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
Cour 7.266 20
Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy
without command in the Temple at Delphi, though she...inhaled the air of
the cavern standing on the tripod, fell into convulsions and died.
caverned, v. (1)
CbW 6.265 13
...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.
caverns, n. (2)
Hist 2.19 27
In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by
nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses...
PerF 10.72 16
The laws of material nature run up into the invisible world
of the mind, and hereby we acquire a key to those sublimities which skulk
and hide in the caverns of human consciousness.
caves, n. (6)
Mrs1 3.119 22
In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in
caves...
ET3 5.42 13
In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe,
having...caves in Matlock and Derbyshire;...
SS 7.1 17
In caves and hollow trees [Seyd] crept/...
Civ 7.19 3
A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man
is found,--a dweller in caves...is called Civilization.
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...
SHC 11.434 13
What is the Earth itself but a surface scooped into nooks
and caves of slumber...
cavil, n. (1)
ACiv 11.308 7
...the statesman who shall break through the cobwebs of
doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will be
greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
cavil, v. (1)
SA 8.80 19
...we chide, lament, cavil and recriminate.
caviller, n. (1)
AsSu 11.251 5
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.
cavils, n. (2)
CbW 6.252 7
[The sane man's] existence is a perfect answer to all
sentimental cavils.
Elo1 7.96 19
[The sturdy countryman] has not only the documents in his
pocket to answer all cavils and to prove all his positions...
cavils, v. (1)
Wth 6.123 4
...the practical neighbor cavils at the position of the barn;...
caw caw, v. (1)
MMEm 10.430 3
If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,-
were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without
mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow would caw caw...
cawing, n. (1)
PLT 12.43 13
There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more
suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in
another hour.
Caxton, William, n. (2)
ShP 4.197 23
Chaucer, it seems, drew continually, through Lydgate and
Caxton, from Guido di Colonna...
ET5 5.76 27
Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of Alfred,
Bede, Caxton...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
Cayenne, n. (1)
F 6.7 22
...the sword of the climate...at Cayenne...cut off men like a
massacre.
cease, v. (23)
DSA 1.126 26
...the oracles of this truth cease never...
LE 1.169 1
That is morning, to cease for a bright hour to be a prisoner of
this sickly body...
MN 1.193 20
The bigot must cease to be a bigot to-day.
MR 1.247 23
...we must not cease to tend to the correction of flagrant
wrongs...
Con 1.321 21
...men are misled into a reliance on institutions, which, the
moment they cease to be the instantaneous creations of the devout
sentiment, are worthless.
Fdsp 2.208 19
Let [my friend] not cease an instant to be himself.
Prd1 2.236 21
...every fact hath its roots in the soul, and if the soul were
changed would cease to be, or would become some other thing...
OS 2.297 10
[Man] will cease from what is base and frivolous in his life...
Cir 2.308 1
How often must we learn this lesson? Men cease to interest us
when we find their limitations.
Int 2.329 10
As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry
away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and all men and all the ages
confirm it. It is called truth. But the moment we cease to report...it is not
truth.
Gts 3.165 4
There are persons from whom we always expect fairy-tokens;
let us not cease to expect them.
UGM 4.34 17
...at last we shall cease to look in men for completeness...
DL 7.133 2
Let religion cease to be occasional;...
Imtl 8.328 19
Cease from this antedating of your experience.
SovE 10.193 21
...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly
contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the
heart. It did itself create and distribute all that is created and distributed,
and, trusting to its power, we cease to care for what it will certainly order
well.
Plu 10.302 4
In [Plutarch's] immense quotation and allusion we quickly
cease to discriminate between what he quotes and what he invents.
MMEm 10.415 3
Oh, if there be a power superior to me...when will He
let...my tides cease to an eternal ebb?
HDC 11.77 16
The cause of the Colonies was so much in [William
Emerson's] heart that he did not cease to make it the subject of his
preaching and his prayers...
War 11.175 11
...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of
austerity and virtue, then war has a short day, and human blood will cease
to flow.
EPro 11.321 18
With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor...
we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind. We shall
cease to be hypocrites and pretenders...
EPro 11.325 12
...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic
feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the
enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and
healthful basis. Then...the old repulsion will cease...
Mem 12.104 26
Remember me means, Do not cease to love me.
WSL 12.342 3
From the moment of entering a library and opening a
desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear.
ceased, v. (26)
OS 2.292 24
When we have...ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may
God fire the heart with his presence.
Pt1 3.4 11
...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore
the double meaning...of every sensuous fact;...
Pt1 3.22 10
...language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their
secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.
Mrs1 3.127 25
Napoleon...never ceased to court the Faubourg St.
Germain;...
Gts 3.157 3
Gifts of one who loved me,--/ 'T was high time they came;/
When he ceased to love me,/ Time they stopped for shame./
SwM 4.100 4
[Swedenborg] ceased to publish any more scientific books...
ET14 5.252 11
...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is
mechanical in its structure, as if inspiration had ceased...
ET17 5.292 9
An equal good fortune attended many later accidents of my
journey [in England], until the sincerity of English kindness ceased to
surprise.
Bty 6.285 16
Thou hast ceased to take recreation, saying to thyself, In
seven days I shall be put to death.
DL 7.118 4
The diet of the house does not create its order, but knowledge,
character, action, absorb so much life and yield so much entertainment that
the refectory has ceased to be so curiously studied.
WD 7.165 16
I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar
and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite
superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of
crime.
Comc 8.172 15
Timur ceased weeping...
Comc 8.172 16
Timur ceased weeping, but Chodscha ceased not...
PPo 8.237 9
The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus...have ceased to be
empty names;...
Insp 8.281 16
When we have ceased for a long time to have any fulness of
thoughts that once made a diary a joy as well as a necessity...in writing a
letter to a friend we may find that we rise to thought...that costs no effort...
MoL 10.247 8
A scholar defending the cause...of the oppressor, is a traitor
to his profession. He has ceased to be a scholar.
Thor 10.458 13
In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public
expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was
put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released. The like
annoyance was threatened the next year. But as his friends paid the tax...I
believe he ceased to resist.
HDC 11.55 9
...in 1640, all immigration [to Concord] ceased...
HDC 11.79 25
The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne
with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted; but years passed,
after the peace, before the debt was paid. As soon as danger and injury
ceased, the people were left at leisure to consider their poverty and their
debts.
HDC 11.81 17
The grievances [in Concord] ceased with the adoption of the
Federal Constitution.
EWI 11.116 2
In every quarter [of Antigua], we were assured, the day
[after emancipation] was like a Sabbath. Work had ceased.
EWI 11.121 11
All disqualifications and distinctions of color have ceased
[in Jamaica];...
MLit 12.334 15
Has the power of poetry ceased, or the need?
MLit 12.334 15
Has the power of poetry ceased, or the need? Have the
eyes ceased to see that which they would have, and which they have not?
MLit 12.334 17
Has the power of poetry ceased, or the need? Have the
eyes ceased to see that which they would have, and which they have not?
Have they ceased to see other eyes?
EurB 12.365 10
We have ceased to expect that which [Wordsworth] cannot
give.
ceaseless, adj. (1)
MMEm 10.425 25
...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the
idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and
industry:-its oceans, when beating the symbols of ceaseless ages, than
when covered with cargoes of war and oppression.
ceases, v. (15)
Nat 1.30 7
When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and
truth...new imagery ceases to be created...
SR 2.69 16
Power ceases in the instant of repose;...
Comp 2.105 24
...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and
separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man ceases to see
God whole in each object...
Comp 2.124 4
The heart and soul of all men being one, this bitterness of
His and Mine ceases.
Lov1 2.180 8
The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a
transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is
not. Then first it ceases to be a stone.
OS 2.271 27
...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the
infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the
effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins.
Int 2.331 1
This instinctive action never ceases in a healthy mind...
UGM 4.34 26
In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a
cause, he begins to help us more as an effect.
NMW 4.227 5
...a man of Napoleon's stamp almost ceases to have a
private speech and opinion.
DL 7.132 20
When [man] perceives the Law, he ceases to despond.
Chr2 10.99 12
The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the
child...but on [a man's] arrival at a certain maturity, it ceases...
Chr2 10.115 23
...in every period of intellectual expansion, the Church
ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest and
freest minds...
Shak1 11.450 11
...[Shakespeare] still agitates the heart in age as in youth,
and will, until it ceases to beat.
FRO2 11.487 20
All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself...until
he ceases to be an underling...
CInt 12.117 6
...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors
to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the
contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the college...
ceases to be a school;...
ceasing, v. (6)
Pow 6.71 1
In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing
to be a savage...
Civ 7.20 15
In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress
that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say...is made by
tribes. ... It implies...the ceasing from fixed ideas.
Comc 8.172 24
...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the
mirror, and seen myself ugly. Thereat I grieved, because, although I am
Caliph...yet still I am so ugly; therefore have I wept. But, thou, why
weepest thou without ceasing?
Imtl 8.344 4
Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think
himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live;...
Schr 10.286 12
[The scholar] must...ride at anchor and vanquish every
enemy whom his small arms cannot reach, by the grand resistance of
submission, of ceasing to do.
FRep 11.519 6
The partisan on moral...questions, will choose a proven
rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest, affectionate, noble
gentleman; the partisan ceasing to be a man that he may be a sectarian.
Cecil, Robert [Earl of Sal (1)
Grts 8.311 10
He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh.
Cecil, William [Lord Burle (1)
ET10 5.156 23
Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to
devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life...
Cecile, n. (1)
Bhr 6.185 17
Here are the sweet following eyes of Cecile; it seemed always
that she demanded the heart.
Cecil's, Robert [Earl of S (1)
UGM 4.14 4
Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil
terribly, is an electric touch.
cedar, n. (2)
Nat 1.54 6
Ariel. The strong based promontory/ Have I made shake, and by
the spurs plucked up/ The pine and cedar./
PPo 8.256 30
The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the olive and fig-tree...are
never wanting in these musky verses [of Hafiz]...
cedars, n. (1)
ET16 5.285 1
...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall]...yet
the eye was still drawn to the windows, to a magnificent lawn, on which
grew the finest cedars in England.
ceiling, n. (7)
OS 2.271 25
...there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the
infinite heavens...
ET12 5.200 5
The halls [at Oxford] are rich with oaken wainscoting and
ceiling.
Ill 6.310 22
Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead [in the
Mammoth Cave], reflecting the light of a half-hid lamp, yielded this
magnificent effect.
MAng1 12.226 25
When the Sistine Chapel was prepared for him, that he
might paint the ceiling, [Michelangelo] found the platform on which he was
to work suspended by ropes which passed through the ceiling.
MAng1 12.226 27
When the Sistine Chapel was prepared for him, that he
might paint the ceiling, [Michelangelo] found the platform on which he was
to work suspended by ropes which passed through the ceiling.
MAng1 12.228 2
[Michelangelo] finished the gigantic painting of the
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in twenty months...
MAng1 12.230 7
[Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of
which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation...
ceilings, n. (3)
Ctr 6.160 13
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their
awkwardness under high ceilings and in spacious halls.
II 12.86 18
Michael Angelo must paint Sistine ceilings till he can no longer
read, except by holding the book over his head.
EurB 12.371 9
[Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint
staircases and groined ceilings.
celebrate, v. (15)
LE 1.155 4
A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so
alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my
ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
MN 1.194 14
We ought to celebrate this hour by expressions of manly joy.
MN 1.197 23
...it were some suitable paean if we should piously celebrate
this hour by exploring the method of nature.
LT 1.264 7
...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant
thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer so, than...in the investments of
capital, which rather celebrate with mournful music the obsequies of the
last age.
SR 2.78 25
We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate [the self-helping
man]...
Lov1 2.178 8
Beauty, whose revelation to man we now celebrate...seems
sufficient to itself.
UGM 4.12 14
In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet
and adorn each other...we wish for a thousand heads, a thousand bodies,
that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places.
MoS 4.173 10
I mean to...celebrate the calendar-day of our Saint Michel de
Montaigne, by counting and describing these doubts or negations.
Bty 6.296 22
French memoires of the sixteenth century celebrate the name
of Pauline de Viguier...
Comc 8.162 9
Men celebrate their perception of halfness and a latent lie by
the peculiar explosions of laughter.
Aris 10.60 20
One trait more we must celebrate, the self-reliance which is
the patent of royal natures.
LS 11.5 2
...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish
an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his
disciples; and further, to the opinion, that it is not expedient to celebrate it
as we do.
LS 11.9 2
Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last]
Supper, but the Supper was the Passover.
LS 11.16 27
You say, every time you celebrate the rite [the Lord's Supper],
that Jesus enjoined it;...
FSLC 11.204 23
[Webster] can celebrate [liberty], but it means as much
from him as from Metternich or Talleyrand.
celebrated, adj. (14)
NER 3.266 24
...in a celebrated experiment, by expiration and respiration
exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the little
finger only...
ET1 5.5 1
It is probable you left some obscure comrade...when you crossed
sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
ET5 5.86 15
Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of
sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval
tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
ET15 5.261 6
The celebrated Lord Somers knew of no good law proposed
and passed in his time, to which the public papers had not directed his
attention.
Elo1 7.74 25
These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class
who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson
ahead of the pupil.
Schr 10.263 7
A celebrated musician was wont to say, that men knew not
how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others;...
MMEm 10.413 7
I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday five or more
miles...just fit for the society I went into, all mildness and the most
commonplace virtue. The lady is celebrated for her cleverness, and she was
never so good to me.
HDC 11.66 8
In 1741, the celebrated Whitfield preached here [in Concord],
in the open air, to a great congregation.
War 11.158 8
The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus to Lord Hunsdon...It
hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of
the world...
MAng1 12.219 6
Since Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and
proportion that reigns in all Nature, it is therefore studied in Nature, and not
in what does not exist. Hence the celebrated French maxim of Rhetoric,
Rien de beau que le vrai; Nothing is beautiful but what is true.
MAng1 12.224 6
[Michelangelo] visited Bologna to inspect its celebrated
fortifications...
MAng1 12.230 21
Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the
cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming
themselves;...
Milt1 12.250 24
...as an historical argument, [Milton's Defence of the
English People] cannot be valued with similar disquisitions of Robertson
and Hallam, and even less celebrated scholars.
Milt1 12.258 27
...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their
compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed
no marks of sublimity or genius.
celebrated, v. (13)
Nat 1.74 9
...in actual life, the marriage [of thought and devotion] is not
celebrated.
Hist 2.18 15
A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the
woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them
suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought
which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on
the approach of human feet.
Chr1 3.98 21
...rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of
joy but by serenity...
SwM 4.127 7
[Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of
Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love...which, as rightly
celebrated, in its genesis, fruition and effect, might well entrance the souls...
MoS 4.169 15
When [Montaigne] came to die he caused the mass to be
celebrated in his chamber.
ShP 4.201 17
We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the
Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from
the Mysteries celebrated in churches and by churchmen...down to the
possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered,
remodelled and finally made his own.
ET9 5.147 14
...it must be admitted, the island [England] offers a daily
worship to the old Norse god Brage, celebrated among our Scandinavian
forefathers for his eloquence and majestic air.
Elo1 7.65 21
[Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in
the Pied Piper of Hamelin...
Boks 7.208 2
...[Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time, if not
to the same extent yet much in the same way, as Walter Scott has celebrated
the persons and places of Scotland.
Clbs 7.248 10
Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a
banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands;...
EWI 11.120 12
The manner in which the new festival [of emancipation in
the West Indies] was celebrated, brings tears to the eyes.
CL 12.148 12
Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the
conveying Maruts...
EurB 12.368 25
...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth]...celebrated
his own [life] with the religion of a true priest.
celebrates, v. (5)
Fdsp 2.205 21
I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers
to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by
a frivolous display...
PPh 4.65 6
What value [Plato] gives to the art of gymnastic in education;...
what to astronomy, whose appeasing and medicinal power he celebrates!
ET19 5.311 27
...I have not the smallest interest in any holiday except as it
celebrates real and not pretended joys;...
CL 12.155 11
...[Linnaeus] celebrates the health and performance of the
Laps as the best walkers of Europe.
Milt1 12.266 18
[Milton] celebrates in the martyrs the unresistible might of
weakness.
celebrating, v. (6)
Pt1 3.37 9
If we filled the day with bravery, we should not shrink from
celebrating it.
PPh 4.49 15
The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in
one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly...in the
Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu Purana. Those writings contain
little else than this idea, and they rise to pure and sublime strains in
celebrating it.
ET14 5.250 3
...[Carlyle's] imagination, finding no nutriment in any
creation, avenged itself by celebrating the majestic beauty of the laws of
decay.
LS 11.3 7
In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of
controversy than the Lord's Supper. There never has been...any uniformity
in the mode of celebrating it.
LS 11.7 2
Jesus is a Jew, sitting with his countrymen, celebrating their
national feast [the Passover].
LS 11.7 23
...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an
expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the
living generation, beyond the abolition of the festival he was celebrating...
celebration, n. (5)
Pt1 3.15 14
...all men have the thoughts whereof the universe is the
celebration.
Mrs1 3.128 18
The class of power, the working heroes...see that [fashion]
is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they;...
CbW 6.246 20
What we have...to say of life, is rather description, or if you
please, celebration, than available rules.
PPo 8.259 19
From the plain text-The chemist of love/ Will this perishing
mould,/ Were it made out of mire,/ Transmute into gold./-[Hafiz]
proceeds to the celebration of his passion;...
Prch 10.235 18
The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each
other for meditation on life and duty, is...simply the celebration of the
power and beneficence amid which and by which we live...
celebrations, n. (1)
Art1 2.365 6
Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of
form.
Celebres, Causes, n. (1)
ET11 5.193 12
The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts,
Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre, and now and then
darker scandals break out, ominous as the new chapters added under the
Orleans dynasty to the Causes Celebres in France.
celebrities, n. (2)
ET11 5.194 12
A man of wit [in England], who is also one of the
celebrities of wealth and fashion, confessed to his friend that he could not
enter [noblemen's] houses without being made to feel that they were great
lords, and he a low plebeian.
ACri 12.297 5
We have an artist [Carlyle] who in this merit of which I
speak [mastery of the low style] will easily cope with these celebrities.
celebrity, n. (3)
ShP 4.206 5
We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death;...
Ctr 6.158 23
A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade
gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste
or skill;...
MMEm 10.398 19
...[Lucy Percy]...will take a deep interest for persons of
celebrity.
celerities, n. (1)
Civ 7.17 19
Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was
impossible/ Within four walls is possible again/...
celerity, n. (7)
YA 1.364 15
...in this country [the railroad] has given a new celerity to
time...
UGM 4.6 5
[Man's] own affair, though impossible to others, he can open
with celerity...
MoS 4.176 17
I like not the French celerity,--a new Church and State once
a week.
PPo 8.259 12
...the celerity of flight and allusion which our colder muses
forbid, is habitual to [Hafiz].
PerF 10.80 3
Bonaparte, with his celerity of combination...reads the
geography of Europe as if his eyes were telescopes;...
GSt 10.505 16
When one remembers...the celerity with which his purpose
took form;...I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause
ten thousand ordinary partisans...
Mem 12.91 1
It is essential to a locomotive that it can...run backward and
forward with equal celerity.
Celeste, Mecanique [Pierre (1)
Bost 12.204 5
...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their
education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any...equal power of
imagination. No Novum Organon; no Mecanique Celeste;...have we yet
contributed.
celestial, adj. (39)
MN 1.217 9
...[Love] is that in which the individual...inhales an odorous
and celestial air...
Con 1.326 11
[Man's hope] was not imported from the stock of some
celestial plant...
Tran 1.345 26
...Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the
invisible and heavenly world, to these? ... ...did the high idea die out of
them, and leave their unperfumed body as its tomb and tablet, announcing
to all that the celestial inhabitant, who once gave them beauty, had
departed?
Hist 2.37 9
Newton and Laplace need myriads of age and thick-strewn
celestial areas.
SR 2.86 19
Galileo, with an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid series
of celestial phenomena than any one since.
SL 2.151 4
...only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line
of my own march, that soul [which]...native of the same celestial latitude,
repeats in its own all my experience.
SL 2.164 4
...the least [action] admits of being inflated with the celestial air
until it eclipses the sun and moon.
Lov1 2.174 10
...the celestial rapture falling out of heaven seizes only upon
those of tender age...
Lov1 2.181 14
...the Deity sends the glory of youth before the soul, that it
may avail itself of beautiful bodies as aids to its recollection of the celestial
good and fair;...
OS 2.285 3
By the same fire, vital, consecrating, celestial, which burns
until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of
light, we see and know each other...
Pt1 3.27 8
The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he
speaks...with the intellect...suffered to take its direction from its celestial
life;...
Pt1 3.42 21
...wherever are outlets into celestial space...there is Beauty...
shed for thee [O poet]...
Chr1 3.115 2
When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine
character] is arrived and shines on us with glad rays out of that far celestial
land, then to be coarse...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of
heaven.
NR 3.246 1
...our earth, whilst it spins on its own axis, spins all the time
around the sun, through the celestial spaces...
NER 3.284 6
...the good globe is faithful, and carries us securely through
the celestial spaces...
UGM 4.11 8
Each material thing has its celestial side;...
UGM 4.12 10
In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet
and adorn each other, it seems a poverty that we can only spend it once...
UGM 4.20 19
...if persons and things are scores of a celestial music, let us
read off the strains.
PPh 4.58 15
...[Plato] believes that poetry, prophecy and the high insight
are from a wisdom of which man is not master;...but by a celestial mania
these miracles are accomplished.
PNR 4.84 26
[Plato] saw...that a celestial geometry was in place [in the
supersensible], as a logic of lines and angles here below;...
SwM 4.109 9
...every thing at the end of one use is lifted into a superior,
and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.
SwM 4.115 18
The form above [the perpetual-circular] is the vortical, or
perpetual-spiral: next, the perpetual-vortical, or celestial...
SwM 4.125 8
[To Swedenborg] Whatever the angels looked upon was to
them celestial.
SwM 4.136 19
The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the
friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon...intrude themselves into
[Swedenborg's] speculations upon the economy of the universe, and of the
celestial societies.
SwM 4.140 25
We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who,
by stricter obedience, had brought his thoughts into parallelism with the
celestial currents...
SwM 4.143 26
Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed
to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends;...
Wth 6.125 3
It is a doctrine of philosophy...that there is nothing in [a man'
s] body which is not repeated as in a celestial sphere in his mind;...
Civ 7.26 27
...[a highly destined society] must run in the grooves of the
celestial wheels.
Civ 7.30 24
If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works
in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also evil agents...
PI 8.20 15
The very design of imagination is to domesticate us in another,
in a celestial nature.
PI 8.21 9
The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can
detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared. He can
class them so audaciously because he is sensible of the sweep of the
celestial stream...
PI 8.70 12
O celestial Bacchus!--drive them mad,--this multitude of
vagabonds, hungry for eloquence...
Comc 8.171 1
In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus from the Temple, the
crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for the extraordinary energy of
the face, it would draw the eye too much; but the countenance of the
celestial messenger subordinates it, and we see it not.
Dem1 10.26 1
[Mesmerism]...is separated by celestial diameters from the
love of spiritual truths.
PerF 10.82 19
By this wondrous susceptibility to all the impressions of
Nature the man finds himself the receptacle of celestial thoughts...
Schr 10.272 9
Gold and silver, says one of the Platonists, grow in the earth
from the celestial gods...
CL 12.151 2
The mallows the Greeks held sacred as giving the first sign of
the sympathy of the earth with the celestial influences.
Bost 12.185 14
...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger
range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of
extremes, which at one season gives them the splendor of the equator and a
touch of Syria, and then runs down to a cold which approaches the
temperature of the celestial spaces.
Bost 12.198 15
No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and
grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial
conversation.
celibacy, n. (1)
AmS 1.94 18
...indeed there are advocates for [the clergys'] celibacy.
celibate, adj. (1)
MR 1.243 2
For privileges so rare and grand, let [the man with a strong
bias to the contemplative life] not stint to pay a great tax. Let him be...a
pauper, and if need be, celibate also.
cell, n. (13)
Con 1.314 25
The Friar Bernard lamented in his cell on Mount Cenis the
crimes of mankind...
ET8 5.132 22
...[young Englishmen]...measure with an English footrule
every cell of the Inquisition...
ET10 5.157 21
Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced (as if
looking from his lofty cell, over five centuries, into ours) that machines can
be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers
could do;...
F 6.11 24
Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his
brain...
F 6.38 15
The animal cell makes itself;...
F 6.39 4
...the first cell converts itself into stomach, mouth, nose, or nail,
according to the want;...
Bty 6.294 9
The cell of the bee is built at that angle which gives the most
strength with the least wax;...
Cour 7.266 2
...there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell
in the brain...that make or give this virtue;...
Elo2 8.124 3
In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart...the pensive
portress of Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.
QO 8.199 26
...[the individual] is no more to be credited with the grand
result [of language] than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef
which is the basis of the continent.
Grts 8.313 16
...when the Devil appeared to [Barcena the Jesuit] in his cell
one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed
him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than
himself.
MLit 12.331 19
[Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the
country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air...but
dares not...lead a man's life in a man's relation to Nature, In that which
should be his own place, he feels like a truant, and is scourged back
presently to his task and his cell.
PPr 12.388 27
How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's]
one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven
opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his
men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable Sauerteig, or
Teuffelsdrockh...says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.
cell No. 8, n. (1)
SMC 11.363 24
When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were
prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or
weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes. It advertises, prayer-meeting
at 7 o'clock, in cell No. 8, second floor...
cellar, n. (8)
Con 1.317 13
Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...your pantry is
full of meats and your cellar of wines...
Lov1 2.183 11
[The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition
and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages with
words that take hold of the upper world, whilst one eye is prowling in the
cellar;...
Prd1 2.227 14
The good husband finds method as efficient...in the
harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns...
Pt1 3.30 8
We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the
open air.
Wth 6.121 26
Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of
railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...shooting through this man's
cellar and that man's attic window...
Plu 10.298 27
...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life, and knows...the
forge, farm, kitchen and cellar...
PLT 12.28 23
...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar,-towers,
hall, storeroom and cellar.
Trag 12.411 6
...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter
midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at
night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy...
Cellini, Benvenuto, n. (1)
Pow 6.74 20
...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step
out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness. Many an artist, lacking
this, lacks all; he sees the masculine Angelo or Cellini with despair.
Cellini's, Benvenuto, n. (2)
Boks 7.208 8
Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as...
Benvenuto Cellini's Life;...
MAng1 12.239 12
[Michelangelo] often expressed his admiration of
Cellini's bust of Altoviti.
cells, n. (3)
SwM 4.125 25
[To Swedenborg] The covetous seem to themselves to be
abiding in cells where their money is deposited...
OA 7.329 14
[The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species:
all but a few are empty.
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.
Celt, n. (3)
ET4 5.50 4
It need not puzzle us that...Celt and Roman...should mix...
ET5 5.74 16
The Phoenician, the Celt and the Goth had already got in [to
England].
ET14 5.260 1
I can well believe what I have often heard, that there are two
nations in England; but it is not the Poor and the Rich, nor is it...the Celt
and the Goth.
Celtic, adj. (2)
ET4 5.55 1
The sources from which tradition derives [the English] stock
are mainly three. And first they are of the oldest blood of the world,--the
Celtic.
F 6.34 27
Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his...pelvis, all the
vices of a...Celtic race...
Celtic Researches [Edward (1)
ET16 5.281 17
...was [Stonehenge]...identical in design and style with the
East Indian temples of the sun, as Davies in the Celtic Researches
maintains?
Celts, n. (4)
ET4 5.47 25
Race avails much, if that be true which is alleged, that all
Celts are Catholics and all Saxons are Protestants;...
ET4 5.47 26
Race avails much, if that be true which is alleged...that Celts
love unity of power, and Saxons the representative principle.
ET4 5.55 4
...the Celts or Sidonides are an old family...
QO 8.199 16
...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences
that reached through all thinkers, poets, inventors and wits, men and
women, English, German, Celts, Aryan, Ninevite, Copt...
cement, n. (3)
Ill 6.317 6
[The new style or mythology] is like the cement which the
peddler sells at the door;...
Ill 6.317 8
[The new style or mythology] is like the cement which the
peddler sells at the door; he makes broken crockery hold with it, but you
can never buy of him a bit of the cement which will make it hold when he is
gone.
Mem 12.90 3
Memory is...the cement, the bitumen, the matrix in which the
other faculties are embedded;...
cement, v. (2)
CbW 6.247 9
Sydney Smith said, A few yards in London cement or
dissolve friendship.
Edc1 10.134 7
...if [a man] is one to cement society by his all-reconciling
affinities, oh! hasten their action!
cements, n. (1)
UGM 4.24 25
Not one [person] has a misgiving of being wrong. Was it not
a bright thought that made things cohere with this bitumen, fastest of
cements?
cemetery, n. (5)
MoS 4.162 25
It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that, in the cemetery of
Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...
ET2 5.29 15
Is this sad-colored circle [of the sea] an eternal cemetery?
SHC 11.429 4
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...
SHC 11.432 21
...I have heard it said here that we would gladly spend for a
park for the living, but not for a cemetery;...
SHC 11.434 3
...[Sleepy Hollow] was inevitably chosen by [the people of
Concord] when the design of a new cemetery was broached...
Cemetery, Pere-Lachaise, P (1)
Comc 8.171 24
A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the
Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to
her tall figure, as well as to her republican opinions; the Countess retaliated
by calling Madame the Venus of the Pere-Lachaise...
Cenis, Mount, France, n. (1)
Con 1.314 26
The Friar Bernard lamented in his cell on Mount Cenis the
crimes of mankind...
censers, n. (1)
EurB 12.370 14
Amid swinging censers and perfumed lamps...we long for
rain and frost.
censor, n. (2)
Clbs 7.240 13
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 15
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.
Censor, n. (1)
WSL 12.340 25
...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page...we
feel how dignified is this perpetual Censor in his curule chair...
censors, n. (2)
Lov1 2.170 7
...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and
stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love. But
from these formidable censors I shall appeal to my seniors.
Wsp 6.222 14
...after a little experience [the countryman] makes the
discovery...that the censors of action are as numerous and as near in Paris
as in Littleton or Portland;...
Censors, Order of, n. (1)
YA 1.389 5
I shall not need to go into an enumeration of our national
defects and vices which require this Order of Censors in the State.
censorship, n. (3)
PC 8.231 7
We wish to put the ideal rules into practice...believing that a
free press will prove safer than the censorship;...
Milt1 12.251 5
The other piece is [Milton's] Areopagitica, the discourse...
in favor of removing the censorship of the press; the most splendid of his
prose works.
Milt1 12.271 26
[Milton] maintained the doctrine of literary liberty,
denouncing the censorship of the press...
censorships, n. (1)
PC 8.218 16
Popes and kings and Councils of Ten are very sharp with their
censorships and inquisitions...
censure, n. (13)
YA 1.392 11
We are full of vanity, of which the most signal proof is our
sensitiveness to foreign and especially English censure.
Hsm1 2.251 3
...for the hero that thing he does is the highest deed, and is
not open to the censure of philosophers or divines.
Pol1 3.208 5
What satire on government can equal the severity of censure
conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning...
MoS 4.164 26
...[Montaigne] has anticipated all censure by the bounty of
his own confessions.
Ctr 6.157 20
The poet, as a craftsman, is only interested in the praise
accorded to him, and not in the censure, though it be just.
Ctr 6.157 22
...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the
censure as proving incapacity in the critic.
Schr 10.266 17
...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning
and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank
and authority. If this were only the reaction from excessive expectations
from literature, now disappointed, it were a just censure.
MMEm 10.413 21
A mediocre mind will be deranged in either extreme of...
praise or censure...
HDC 11.57 22
This war [with the Niantic Indians] seems to have been...
eluctantly entered by Massachusetts. Accordingly, Major [Simon] Willard
did the least he could, and incurred the censure of the Commissioners...
EWI 11.133 6
...perhaps I know too little of politics for the smallest weight
to attach to any censure of mine...
TPar 11.291 12
There were...multitudes to censure and defame this truth-speaker
[Theodore Parker].
PLT 12.53 19
No man passes for that with another which he passes for
with himself. The respect and the censure of his brother are alike injurious
and irrelevant.
WSL 12.340 7
...we have spoken all our discontent [with Landor]. Possibly
his writings are open to harsher censure;...
censure, v. (1)
LS 11.14 3
The end which [St. Paul] has in view...is not to enjoin upon his
friends to observe the [Lord's] Supper, but to censure their abuse of it.
censured, v. (2)
NER 3.254 5
...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what
happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to
excommunicate one of its members...
Thor 10.477 22
...the same isolation which belonged to his original
thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms.
This is neither to be censured nor regretted.
censures, n. (5)
YA 1.395 12
...we shall quickly enough advance out of all hearing of
others' censures...
Pt1 3.23 25
The songs, thus flying immortal from their mortal parent, are
pursued by clamorous flights of censures...
NR 3.238 22
In his childhood and youth [the recluse] has had many checks
and censures...
ET1 5.9 26
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more [to Landor]
than all the censures.
LS 11.13 9
[Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the
Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan converts, whose idolatrous worship
had been made up of sacred festivals, and who very readily abused these to
gross riot, as appears from the censures of St. Paul.
censuring, v. (3)
Tran 1.348 18
The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest, censuring
their dulness and vices...
NR 3.241 24
If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you...instead of
the poet, are censuring your own caricature of him.
NR 3.242 4
...whilst I fancied I was criticising [a man], I was censuring or
rather terminating my own soul.
census, n. (12)
YA 1.372 17
The census of the population is found to keep an invariable
equality in the sexes...
Pol1 3.202 8
Personal rights...demand a government framed on the ratio of
the census;...
ET4 5.45 11
The British census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half
millions in the home countries.
ET4 5.45 13
The British census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half
millions in the home countries. What makes this census important is the
quality of the units that compose it.
CbW 6.249 2
'T is pedantry to estimate nations by the census...
Civ 7.31 16
...the true test of civilization is, not the census...no, but the kind
of man the country turns out.
DL 7.108 7
It is easier to count the census...than to come to the persons and
dwellings of men and read their character...
Suc 7.283 7
We count our census...
PerF 10.69 22
...King David had no good from making his census out of
vainglory...
Carl 10.492 26
If you boast of the growth of the country, and show
[Carlyle] the wonderful results of the census, he finds nothing so depressing
as the sight of a great mob.
HDC 11.82 14
[Concord's] population, in the census of 1830, was 2020
souls.
FSLC 11.207 10
...shall we, as we are advised on all hands, lie by, and wait
the progress of the census? But will Slavery lie by? I fear not.
Cent Mille, n. (1)
CbW 6.250 11
Napoleon was called by his men Cent Mille.
cent, n. (9)
YA 1.383 17
In one hand [a dime] became an eagle as it fell, and in another
hand a copper cent.
SR 2.52 8
...I grudge...the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me...
Comp 2.113 24
...the benefit we receive must be rendered again...cent for
cent...
Exp 3.54 5
Shall I preclude my future by...kindly adapting my conversation
to the shape of heads? When I come to that, the doctors shall buy me for a
cent.
Pol1 3.206 8
A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or
other commodity.
Pol1 3.206 14
The law may do what it will with the owner of property; its
just power will still attach to the cent.
Wth 6.100 13
[The right merchant] knows that all goes on the old road,
pound for pound, cent for cent...
Dem1 10.25 21
...in the Universe no man was ever known to get a cent's
worth without paying in some form or other the cent...
CL 12.159 25
...the speculators who rush for investment, at ten per cent.,
twenty per cent, cent. per cent., are all more or less mad...
cent, per, n. (8)
ET5 5.75 26
...the banker, with his seven per cent., drives the earl out of his
castle.
Wth 6.108 11
If, in Boston, the best securities offer twelve per cent. for
money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.
Wth 6.108 12
If, in Boston, the best securities offer twelve per cent. for
money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.
Suc 7.293 22
It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the
house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst
it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera; but when it is a fact, and
comes in the shape of eight per cent...they cry, It is the voice of God.
Suc 7.293 23
CL 12.147 9
According to the common estimate of farmers, the wood-lot
yields its gentle rent of six per cent....
CL 12.159 25
...the speculators who rush for investment, at ten per cent.,
twenty per cent....are all more or less mad...
CL 12.159 26
...the speculators who rush for investment, at ten per cent.,
twenty per cent, cent. per cent., are all more or less mad...
centaur, n. (1)
Hist 2.15 12
...to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar, a
marble centaur, the peristyle of the Parthenon, and the last actions of
Phocion?
centaurs, n. (1)
ET4 5.73 20
A score or two of mounted gentlemen may frequently be seen
[in England] running like centaurs down a hill nearly as steep as the roof of
a house.
centenarians, n. (1)
OA 7.331 26
...we have had robust centenarians...
centennial, adj. (2)
HDC 11.29 5
...the people of New England...as the second centennial
anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe
the day.
Scot 11.463 7
...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his
birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...
centigraded, adj. (1)
Aris 10.33 3
The Golden Book of Venice...the hierarchy of India...is each a
transcript of the decigrade or centigraded Man.
central, adj. (43)
Nat 1.22 3
A virtuous man...makes the central figure of the visible sphere.
Nat 1.44 26
The central Unity is still more conspicuous in actions.
AmS 1.108 17
[The universal mind] is one central fire...
Hist 2.40 23
Broader and deeper we must write our annals...if we would
trulier express our central and wide-related nature...
Lov1 2.171 2
...it is to be hoped that...we may attain to that inward view of
the law which shall describe a truth...so central that it shall commend itself
to the eye at whatever angle beholden.
OS 2.281 7
Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment [of
the soul] agitates men with awe and delight.
Cir 2.318 22
That central life is somewhat superior to creation...
Art1 2.355 8
...every object has its roots in central nature...
Exp 3.70 13
In the growth of the embryo, Sir Everard Home I think noticed
that the evolution was not from one central point...
UGM 4.8 11
Right ethics are central...
UGM 4.33 21
If the disparities of talent and position vanish when the
individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the
career of each, even more swiftly the seeming injustice disappears when we
ascend to the central identity of all the individuals...
PPh 4.70 17
...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are
assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure which he
has established in his Academy as the organ through which every
considered opinion shall be announced...
SwM 4.121 12
The central identity enables any one symbol to express
successively all the qualities and shades of real being.
SwM 4.133 1
Swedenborg's system of the world wants central
spontaneity;...
ET14 5.257 18
Color, like the dawn, flows over the horizon from
[Tennyson's] pencil, in waves so rich that we do not miss the central form.
ET15 5.272 12
If only [the London Times] dared to...feed its batteries from
the central heart of humanity...
F 6.48 22
...the indwelling necessity...discloses the central intention of
Nature to be harmony and joy.
Wsp 6.241 20
[The new church founded on moral science] shall send man
home to his central solitude...
CbW 6.262 7
As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the
stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism, so is...national
bankruptcy or revolution more rich in the central tones than languid years
of prosperity.
Bty 6.303 23
Every natural feature...speaks of that central benefit which is
the soul of nature...
Ill 6.322 11
When we break the laws, we lose our hold on the central reality.
Boks 7.215 18
What made the popularity of Jane Eyre, but that a central
question was answered in some sort?
Suc 7.295 10
...it is sanity to know that, over my talent or knack...is the
central intelligence...
Suc 7.295 14
He only who comes into this central intelligence...comes into
self-possession.
Suc 7.295 19
...talent confines, but the central life puts us in relation to all.
OA 7.318 5
That which does not decay is so central and controlling in us,
that, as long as one is alone by himself, he is not sensible of the inroads of
time...
OA 7.330 27
In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom
and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy
and epistolary correspondence.
OA 7.335 23
...the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in
fourscore years...
PI 8.14 24
...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their
religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence...
PI 8.21 3
The poet contemplates the central identity...
PI 8.28 23
Imagination is central; fancy, superficial.
PI 8.34 6
No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to
you, work away until you come to the heart of it: then it will...as fully
represent the central law...as if it were the book of Genesis or the book of
Doom.
PI 8.42 26
We cannot know things by words and writing, but only by
taking a central position in the universe and living in its forms.
SA 8.80 3
...a few natures are central and forever unfold...
Grts 8.311 25
[The scholar's] courage is to...criticise Kant and
Swedenborg, and on all these arouse the central courage of insight.
Dem1 10.10 5
It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments
should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few
insignificant hints, when all are inspired with the same sense. As if one
should exhaust his astonishment at the economy of his thumb-nail, and
overlook the central causal miracle of his being a man.
Aris 10.37 21
...we...prize whatever mark of a central life.
PerF 10.67 1
What central flowing forces, say,/ Make up thy splendor,
matchless day?/
Supl 10.173 17
The expressors are the gods of the world, but the men
whom these expressors revere are the solid, balanced, undemonstrative
citizens, who make the reserved guard, the central sense, of the world.
Prch 10.224 11
...all that saints and churches and Bibles...have aimed at, is
to...animate man to central and entire action.
Plu 10.306 16
The central fact is the superhuman intelligence...
SMC 11.350 22
...as we have learned that the upheaved mountain, from
which these discs or flakes were broken, was once a glowing mass at white
heat, slowly crystallized, then uplifted by the central fires of the globe: so
the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the
heart of the universe.
Bost 12.194 19
...how much more attractive and true that this [Christian]
piety should be the central trait and the stern virtues follow than that
Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on his defence.
Central America, n. (2)
Suc 7.283 13
We interfere in Central and South America...
AKan 11.259 23
...the adding of Cuba and Central America to the slave
marts is enlarging the area of Freedom.
Central Europe, n. (1)
FRep 11.516 3
At every moment some one country more than any other
represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None will doubt that
America occupies this place in the opinion of nations, as is proved by the
fact of the vast immigration into this country from all the nations of
Western and Central Europe.
centrality, n. (15)
Chr1 3.99 16
Character is centrality...
PPh 4.60 12
[Plato] could well afford to be generous,--who from the
sunlike centrality and reach of his vision, had a faith without cloud.
PNR 4.86 5
[Plato] was born to behold the self-evolving power of spirit...a
power which is the key at once to the centrality and the evanescence of
things.
SwM 4.106 18
The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the
universality of each law in nature;...the centrality of man in nature...
ET3 5.40 16
The old Venetians pleased themselves with the flattery that
Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles and the line; as if that
were an imperial centrality.
ET3 5.43 19
It is a singular coincidence to this geographic centrality [of
England], the spiritual centrality which Emanuel Swedenborg ascribes to
the people.
ET3 5.43 20
It is a singular coincidence to this geographic centrality [of
England], the spiritual centrality which Emanuel Swedenborg ascribes to
the people.
ET14 5.250 21
There is in the action of [James Wilkinson's] mind a long
Atlantic roll...only lacking what ought to accompany such powers, a
manifest centrality.
SA 8.97 17
Here is centrality and penetration...
PC 8.221 14
The first quality we know in matter is centrality,-we call it
gravity...
PC 8.221 26
...the first measure of a mind is its centrality...
PC 8.222 26
[Newton's] law was only a particular of the more universal
law of centrality.
Grts 8.303 20
If a man's centrality is incomprehensible to us, we may as
well snub the sun.
Aris 10.54 23
The manners of course must have that depth and firmness of
tone to attest their centrality in the nature of the man.
SovE 10.207 18
...there is great centrality, a centripetence equal to the
centrifugence.
centralization, n. (1)
Chr2 10.118 16
In the present tendency of our society...when counties and
towns are resisting centralization...society is threatened with actual
granulation, religious as well as political.
centralizing, adj. (1)
NMW 4.227 2
Much more absolute and centralizing was the successor to
Mirabeau's popularity...
centralizing, v. (1)
AKan 11.259 6
I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this
country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round
one spring, and that a vast crime...
centre, n. (71)
Nat 1.27 24
[Man] is placed in the centre of beings...
Nat 1.41 27
The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the
circumference.
AmS 1.85 13
Far too as her splendors shine...without centre, without
circumference...Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
LE 1.180 17
...everything [was] expected from the valor and discipline of
every platoon, in flank and centre [in Napoleon's army]...
MN 1.196 16
The new book says, I will give you the key to nature, and we
expect to go like a thunderbolt to the centre.
MN 1.208 6
...from [a man] all things are illuminated to their centre.
Tran 1.334 5
[The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the
procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from
an invisible, unsounded centre in himself, centre alike of him and of them...
Hist 2.14 13
There is, at the surface [of history], infinite variety of things;
at the centre there is simplicity of cause.
Hist 2.18 26
...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite
accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches,--a round block
in the centre, which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth...
Hist 2.36 6
In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum
proceeded...to the centre of every province of the empire...
SR 2.60 26
...a true man...is the centre of things.
SR 2.66 3
It must be that when God speaketh he...should scatter forth light,
nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought;...
SR 2.66 10
All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause...
SL 2.139 3
There is a soul at the centre of nature and over the will of every
man...
Prd1 2.222 13
...a true prudence or law of shows...knows that it is surface
and not centre where it works.
Prd1 2.229 16
This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting]
is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity.
Prd1 2.229 22
Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be
drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon
their centre of gravity...
OS 2.276 13
In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have
come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the
centre of the world...
OS 2.286 27
If [a man] have found his centre, the Deity will shine through
him...
Cir 2.301 6
St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose
centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere.
Cir 2.315 15
...the highest prudence is the lowest prudence. Is this too
sudden a rushing from the centre to the verge of our orbit?
Cir 2.315 19
Think how many times we shall fall back into pitiful
calculations before we...make the verge of to-day the new centre.
Pt1 3.7 8
[The poet]...stands on the centre.
Exp 3.76 27
By love on one part and by forbearance to press objection on
the other part, it is for a time settled that we will look at [Jesus] in the
centre of the horizon...
Mrs1 3.154 23
...[Osman's] great heart lay there so sunny and hospitable in
the centre of the country, that it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers
drew them to his side.
Nat2 3.196 1
...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being,
from the centre to the poles of nature...lends that sublime lustre to death,
which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to
express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
Pol1 3.199 12
Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him
in rigid repose, with certain names, men and institutions rooted like oak-trees
to the centre...
Pol1 3.199 17
...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the
centre of the movement...
NR 3.235 21
Thus we settle it in our cool libraries, that...life will be simpler
when we live at the centre and flout the surfaces.
NR 3.248 13
...I endeavored to show my good men...that I loved the centre,
but doated on the superficies;...
UGM 4.9 9
A man is a centre for nature...
PNR 4.87 20
[Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the
sphere illuminated...
SwM 4.115 15
The form above [the circular] is the spiral...its diameters...
have a spherical surface for centre;...
SwM 4.118 10
...Why does the horizon hold me fast, with my joy and grief,
in this centre?
SwM 4.133 9
There is an immense chain of intermediation [in Swedenborg'
s system of the world], extending from centre to extremes, which bereaves
every agency of all freedom and character.
SwM 4.134 15
The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in
Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to
each man...strong by his vices, often paralyzed by his virtues;--sinks into
entire sympathy with his society. This want reacts to the centre of the
system.
SwM 4.134 18
Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by
name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive. There is no lustre in that
eye which gazes from the centre and which should vivify the immense
dependency of beings.
SwM 4.144 27
Many opinions conflict as to the true centre.
NMW 4.252 22
England, the centre of capital...opposed [Napoleon].
GoW 4.279 6
...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo], who is the centre and
fountain of an association for the rendering of the noblest benefits to the
human race, no longer answers to his own titled name;...
ET3 5.40 11
Sir John Herschel said, London is the centre of the terrene
globe.
ET3 5.40 20
...the Greeks fancied Delphi the navel of the earth, in their
favorite mode of fabling the earth to be an animal. The Jews believed
Jerusalem to be the centre.
ET3 5.43 22
For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all
Christians, because they have interior intellectual light.
ET5 5.92 20
[The English] have...justified their occupancy of the centre of
habitable land, by their supreme ability and cosmopolitan spirit.
ET16 5.275 22
I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but
meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall
lapse at once into the feeling...that there and not here is the seat and centre
of the British race;...
F 6.12 8
Each [tendency] absorbs so much food and force as to become
itself a new centre.
Wth 6.101 6
...a mass is an immense centre of motion [said the Marseilles
banker]...
Ctr 6.129 9
Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He
must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of
landscape and of sky,/ And tender to the spirit-touch/ Of man's or maiden's
eye:/ But, to his native centre fast,/ Shall into Future fuse the Past,/ And the
world's flowing fates in his own mould recast./
Ctr 6.157 7
The more I know you [wrote Neander to his sacred friends], the
more I dissatisfy and must dissatisfy all my wonted companions. Their very
presence stupefies me. The common understanding withdraws itself from
the one centre of all existence.
Bhr 6.180 5
If the man is off his centre, his eyes show it.
Wsp 6.202 19
...[Faith] tyrannizes at the centre of nature.
Bty 6.283 10
...a right and perfect man would be felt to the centre of the
Copernican system.
Elo1 7.92 18
For the explosions and eruptions, there must be...beds of
ignited anthracite at the centre.
Suc 7.306 27
...the heart at the centre of the universe with every throb hurls
the flood of happiness into every artery, vein and veinlet...
OA 7.322 27
We still feel the force...of Fontenelle, that precious porcelain
vase laid up in the centre of France...
PI 8.41 17
...all becomes poetry, when we look from the centre outward...
QO 8.188 7
A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that...that
men are off their centre;...
PC 8.221 20
To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth, in the
intellectual world,-Truth, whose centre is everywhere and its
circumference nowhere...
PC 8.222 18
...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the
fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was
accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact
more immense still...
PerF 10.81 19
See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special
vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone...
Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter...see where is...
a pretty crowd all bright with one electricity; there in the centre of
fellowship and joy is Scheherazade again.
Chr2 10.98 14
How can [a man] exist to weave relations of joy and virtue
with other souls, but because he is inviolable, anchored at the centre of
Truth and Being?
Schr 10.277 19
It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree
that he touches both the centre and the circumference...
Plu 10.307 14
Plutarch is uniformly true to this [spiritual] centre.
LLNE 10.336 4
...the paramount source of the religious revolution was
Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan
fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live
was not the centre of the Universe...
LLNE 10.353 13
...it would be better to say, Let us be lovers and servants
of that which is just, and straightway every man becomes a centre of a holy
and beneficent republic...
Thor 10.467 20
One of the weapons [Thoreau] used...was a whim which
grew on him by indulgence...namely, of extolling his own town and
neighborhood as the most favored centre for natural observation.
ALin 11.335 13
There, by his courage, his justice...[Lincoln] stood a heroic
figure in the centre of a heroic epoch.
SMC 11.371 19
The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and
centre since the battle begun...
Humb 11.457 17
The wonderful Humboldt, with his solid centre and
expanded wings, marches like an army...
Mem 12.93 26
...in addition to this [photographic] property [the memory]
has one more, this, namely, that of all the million images that are imprinted,
the very one we want reappears in the centre of the plate in the moment
when we want it.
CInt 12.128 6
This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of
the young soul...with the living teacher who has already made the passage
from the centre forth...
Centre, Unknown, n. (1)
Tran 1.334 8
[The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the
procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from
an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...and necessitating him to regard
all things as having a subjective or relative existence, relative to that
aforesaid Unknown Centre of him.
centred, adj. (2)
Pt1 3.19 10
...in a centred mind, it signifies nothing how many mechanical
inventions you exhibit.
Bty 6.279 14
[Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/ From centred and
from errant sphere./
centred, v. (4)
PNR 4.86 6
Plato is so centred that he can well spare all his dogmas.
CbW 6.277 18
The hero is he who is immovably centred.
PI 8.71 1
The poet is rare because he must be exquisitely vital and
sympathetic, and, at the same time, immovably centred.
Trag 12.414 2
If a man is centred, men and events appear to him a fair
image or reflection of that which he knoweth beforehand in himself.
centres, n. (9)
YA 1.367 22
...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of
selection [of a seat], by making it easy to cultivate very distant tracts and
yet remain in strict intercourse with the centres of trade and population.
Mrs1 3.146 12
Even the line of heroes is not utterly extinct. ... And these
are the centres of society, on which it returns for fresh impulses.
Pol1 3.199 16
...the old statesman knows that society is fluid; there are no
such roots and centres...
NMW 4.252 22
...Rome and Austria, centres of tradition and genealogy,
opposed [Napoleon].
Ctr 6.153 5
...we want cities as the centres where the best things are found...
CbW 6.251 8
The good men are employed for private centres of use...
Farm 7.140 25
The men in cities who are the centres of energy...are the
children or grandchildren of farmers...
Clbs 7.232 11
Men must not be off their centres.
Supl 10.169 7
Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and
positive speech. They are never off their centres.
centres, v. (3)
Cir 2.299 1
Nature centres into balls/...
Chr1 3.93 7
This immensely stretched trade, which makes the capes of the
Southern Ocean his wharves and the Atlantic Sea his familiar port, centres
in [the natural merchant's] brain only;...
Chr2 10.95 18
[The moral sentiment] centres, it concentrates us.
centre-table, n. (1)
EWI 11.122 14
[Our] well-being consists in having...a well glazed parlor,
with marbles, mirrors and centre-table;...
centrifugal, adj. (7)
Con 1.297 18
[The battle between Conservatism and Innovation] is ever
thus. It is the counteraction of the centripetal and the centrifugal forces.
Hist 2.4 17
...the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of
centrifugal and centripetal forces...
Comp 2.96 24
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of
nature;...in the centrifugal and centripetal gravity;...
Pt1 3.28 6
These [stimulants] are auxiliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a
man...
Nat2 3.184 10
It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also
have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the
harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.
Pol1 3.212 5
The fact of two poles, of two forces, centripetal and
centrifugal, is universal...
Wsp 6.204 15
...the public and the private element...like centrifugal and
centripetal, adhere to every soul...
centrifugence, n. (4)
UGM 4.27 18
The centripetence augments the centrifugence. We balance
one man with his opposite...
Farm 7.146 2
Whilst all thus burns...it needs...a centripetence equal to the
centrifugence;...
PC 8.223 10
I shall never believe that centrifugence and centripetence
balance, unless mind heats and meliorates...
SovE 10.207 19
...there is great centrality, a centripetence equal to the
centrifugence.
centripetal, adj. (7)
Con 1.297 17
It is the counteraction of the centripetal and the centrifugal
forces.
Hist 2.4 17
...the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of
centrifugal and centripetal forces...
Comp 2.96 24
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of
nature;...in the centrifugal and centripetal gravity;...
Nat2 3.184 10
It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also
have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the
harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.
Pol1 3.212 5
The fact of two poles, of two forces, centripetal and
centrifugal, is universal...
Wsp 6.204 16
...the public and the private element...like centrifugal and
centripetal, adhere to every soul...
LLNE 10.361 8
...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm],
without centripetal balance;...
centripetence, n. (6)
UGM 4.27 17
The centripetence augments the centrifugence. We balance
one man with his opposite...
PPh 4.48 18
All philosophy, of East and West, has the same centripetence.
Farm 7.146 1
Whilst all thus burns...it needs...a centripetence equal to the
centrifugence;...
PC 8.222 26
Every law in Nature, as...centripetence...has a counterpart in
the intellect.
PC 8.223 10
I shall never believe that centrifugence and centripetence
balance, unless mind heats and meliorates...
SovE 10.207 18
...there is great centrality, a centripetence equal to the
centrifugence.
cents, n. (2)
YA 1.383 14
...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite
project of theirs, that of...paying all sorts of service at one rate, say ten
cents the hour.
EPro 11.321 25
What if...the gold dollar costs one hundred and twenty-seven
cents?
cent's, n. (1)
Dem1 10.25 20
...in the Universe no man was ever known to get a cent's
worth without paying in some form or other the cent...
cents, per, n. (1)
ET8 5.143 7
[The English] choose that welfare which is compatible with
the commonwealth, knowing that such alone is stable; as wise merchants
prefer investments in the three per cents.
cents, six per, n. (1)
Pow 6.61 23
A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country
have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can against the
coming ruin. But after this has been foretold with equal confidence fifty
times, and government six per cents have not declined a quarter of a mill,
he discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play
make our politics unimportant.
cent-societies, n. (1)
FSLC 11.209 11
'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand
millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so
enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The mechanics will give, the needle-women
will give; the children will have cent-societies.
centuple, adj. (2)
Pt1 3.4 12
...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore
the double meaning, or shall I say the quadruple or centuple or much more
manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...
Bty 6.304 15
Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning.
centupled, v. (1)
Wth 6.126 20
The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it
becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance. This is the right
compound interest; this is capital doubled, quadrupled, centupled;...
centuples, v. (1)
ET10 5.162 7
...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the
steam-piston...doubles, quadruples, centuples the duke's capital...