Centuries to Chances
centuries, n. (80)
Nat 1.56 1
In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the
memory...carries centuries of observation in a single formula.
Nat 1.70 22
In the cycle of the universal man...centuries are points...
DSA 1.145 14
...now, for centuries...men can scarcely be convinced there is
in them anything divine.
MR 1.229 14
It will afford no security from the new ideas, that...the laws of
centuries...are built on other foundations.
Tran 1.351 13
If no call should come for years, for centuries, then I know
that the want of the Universe is the attestation of faith by my abstinence.
Hist 2.4 12
There is a relation between the hours of our life and the
centuries of time.
Hist 2.24 3
What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek
history...in all its periods from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the
domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later?
Hist 2.28 10
I have seen the first monks and anchorets, without crossing
seas or centuries.
SR 2.66 20
The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority
of the soul.
SR 2.69 10
...long intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account.
SR 2.86 6
...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the
nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes,
three or four and twenty centuries ago.
SR 2.86 25
It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing of means
and machinery which were introduced with loud laudation a few years or
centuries before.
OS 2.273 11
See how the deep divine thought reduces centuries and
millenniums...
OS 2.295 15
The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries
of history, is a position of authority.
Pt1 3.38 11
If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my
countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the
poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of
English poets.
Mrs1 3.121 2
The word gentleman, which, like the word Christian, must
hereafter characterize the present and the few preceding centuries by the
importance attached to it, is a homage to personal and incommunicable
properties.
Mrs1 3.147 25
If the individuals who compose the purest circles of
aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in
review...we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
NER 3.258 19
Once (say two centuries ago), Latin and Greek had a strict
relation to all the science and culture there was in Europe...
SwM 4.118 14
...whether it be that these things will not be intellectually
learned, or that many centuries must elaborate and compose so rare and
opulent a soul,--there is no comet, rock-stratum...that, for itself, does not
interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the
frame of things.
SwM 4.143 1
...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some sort, love is greater
than God, his heart beats so high that the thumping against his leathern coat
is audible across the centuries.
MoS 4.185 7
The lesson of life is practically...to believe what the years and
the centuries say, against the hours;...
MoS 4.186 1
Through the years and the centuries...a great and beneficent
tendency irresistibly streams.
ShP 4.200 2
...centuries and churches brought [our English Bible] to
perfection.
ShP 4.204 2
...not until two centuries had passed, after [Shakespeare's]
death, did any criticism which we think adequate begin to appear.
NMW 4.241 26
...when allusion was made to the precious blood of
centuries...[Napoleon] suggested, Neither is my blood ditch-water.
NMW 4.246 12
...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what
romantic pictures! what strange situations!...drawing up his army for battle
in sight of the Pyramids, and saying to his troops, From the tops of those
pyramids, forty centuries look down on you;...
ET3 5.35 25
A nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert,
[England] has, in the last centuries, obtained the ascendent...
ET4 5.61 11
England yielded to the Danes and Northmen in the tenth and
eleventh centuries...
ET4 5.62 26
The nation [England] has a tough, acrid, animal nature, which
centuries of churching and civilizing have not been able to sweeten.
ET4 5.66 18
The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory
found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman
chroniclers, five centuries later...
ET4 5.72 18
Two centuries ago the English horse never performed any
eminent service beyond the seas;...
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;...
ET10 5.158 6
Two centuries ago the sawing of timber was done by hand;...
ET13 5.216 24
The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people
[of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...
ET13 5.220 10
Heats and genial periods arrive in history...as in the
eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and again in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries [in England]...
ET14 5.235 23
For two centuries England was philosophic, religious,
poetic.
ET14 5.236 10
The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of
which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the
writers of two centuries.
ET14 5.238 21
[Bacon's] centuries of observations on useful science, and
his experiments, I suppose, were worth nothing.
ET14 5.245 10
Mr. Hallam, a learned and elegant scholar, has written the
history of European literature for three centuries...
F 6.17 24
There are scores and centuries of [inventors].
Wth 6.83 13
From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low
and wide/...
Wsp 6.239 10
'T is a higher thing to confide that if it is best we should live,
we shall live,--'t is higher to have this conviction than to have the lease of
indefinite centuries and millenniums and aeons.
CbW 6.247 17
I wish the days to be as centuries...
Bty 6.295 15
Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a
letter, and that scrap of paper...in proportion to the beauty of the lines
drawn, will be kept for centuries.
Farm 7.147 13
...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it lives fifteen
centuries...
WD 7.158 24
...one might say that the inventions of the last fifty years
counterpoise those of the fifty centuries before them.
WD 7.164 1
No matter how many centuries of culture have preceded, the
new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos...
Boks 7.192 2
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear
friends...and though they...have been waiting two, ten, or twenty centuries
for us...it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to;...
Boks 7.194 2
The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and
elucidation, echoes and weakeners of these few great voices of time.
Boks 7.197 11
Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we
cannot spare: 1. Homer, who in spite of Pope and all the learned uproar of
centuries, has really the true fire...
Boks 7.202 14
If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps
from the master to the disciples, we have, six or seven centuries later, the
Platonists, who also cannot be skipped...
PI 8.64 20
Bring us...poetry...that shall...mould itself into religions and
mythologies, and impart its quality to centuries;...
SA 8.98 5
Mahomet seems to have borrowed by anticipation of several
centuries a leaf from the mind of Swedenborg...
PPo 8.237 6
[Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of
two hundred [Persian] poets who wrote during a period of five and a half
centuries...
SovE 10.191 19
...the spasms of Nature are years and centuries...
SovE 10.202 19
It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first
century as it was read in the ninth; to do so you must abolish in your mind
the lessons of all the centuries from the ninth to the nineteenth.
MoL 10.242 2
[The scholar]...is born one or two centuries too early for the
rough and sensual population into which he is thrown.
Plu 10.300 10
It is one of the felicities of literary history, the tie which
inseparably couples these two names [Plutarch and Montaigne] across
fourteen centuries.
LLNE 10.327 23
The structures of old faith in every department of society
a few centuries have sufficed to destroy.
EWI 11.143 11
Who cares for oppressing whites, or oppressed blacks,
twenty centuries ago...
War 11.157 14
Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities
had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to
dismantle their castles...
War 11.163 23
This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and
endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to
us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the
feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
FSLC 11.211 4
Europe, the least of all the continents, has almost
monopolized for twenty centuries the genius and power of them all.
FSLN 11.238 23
...the spasms of Nature are centuries and ages...
AsSu 11.247 4
The events of the last few years and months and days have
taught us the lessons of centuries.
SMC 11.354 17
...whatever may happen in this hour or that, the years and
the centuries are always pulling down the wrong and building up the right.
Koss 11.399 15
...hitherto, you [Kossuth] have had in all centuries and in
all parties only the men of heart.
Shak1 11.446 5
...centuries brood, nor can attain/ The sense and bound of
Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him became/ Poets, for the air
was fame./
Shak1 11.450 3
...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so
unites the extremes, that, whilst he has kept the theatre now for three
centuries...he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
ChiE 11.472 3
...China had the magnet centuries before Europe;...
ChiE 11.472 8
...China...thirty centuries before New York, had the custom
of New Year's calls of comity and reconciliation.
FRO1 11.479 7
...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen centuries, God the
Father had no temple and no altar.
FRO2 11.484 1
Thou metest him by centuries,/ And lo! he passes like the
breeze;/...
CPL 11.502 21
...every one of these [words] is the contribution of the wit
of one and another sagacious man in all the centuries of time.
CPL 11.508 20
It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his
thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
CInt 12.121 17
...a larger angle of vision, commands centuries of facts...
CW 12.174 16
In the arboretum you should have things...which people who
read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea...and set it
on its way of ten or fifteen centuries.
MAng1 12.232 9
Sir Joshua Reynolds, two centuries later, declared to the
British Institution, I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of
such sensations as [Michelangelo] intended to excite.
MLit 12.329 14
[We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] The age, that can
damn [Wilhelm Meister] as false and falsifying, will see that it is deeply
one with the genius and history of all the centuries.
MLit 12.332 12
[Goethe]...has declined the office proffered to now and
then a man in many centuries in the power of his genius, of a Redeemer of
the human mind.
Century Aloes, n. (1)
CW 12.174 19
Plant...the Upas, Ebony, Century Aloes...
century, n. (103)
Nat 1.68 16
A perception of this mystery inspires the muse of George
Herbert, the beautiful psalmist of the seventeenth century.
AmS 1.106 15
In a century...one or two men;...
LE 1.168 10
...the pine throwing out its pollen for the benefit of the next
century; the turpentine exuding from the tree...all, are alike unattempted [by
poets].
LT 1.261 7
The fact of aristocracy...is as commanding a feature of the
nineteenth century...as of old Rome...
LT 1.278 26
...a consent to solitude and inaction which proceeds out of an
unwillingness to violate character, is the century which makes the gem.
Con 1.300 7
...the superior beauty is with the oak which stands with its
hundred arms against the storms of a century...
Hist 2.28 15
More than once some individual has appeared to me with...
such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary begging in the
name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
SR 2.86 4
...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the
nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes...
SL 2.155 8
The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or
two for that fact to appear.
Exp 3.64 22
Whilst the debate goes forward on the equity of commerce,
and will not be closed for a century or two, New and Old England may keep
shop.
Mrs1 3.141 22
England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century,
a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox...
NER 3.255 2
There was in all the practical activities of New England for
the last quarter of a century, a gradual withdrawal of tender consciences
from the social organizations.
UGM 4.16 11
Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the
addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and
presupposing his intelligence. This honor...genius perpetually pays;
contented if now and then in a century the proffer is accepted.
UGM 4.32 18
The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be
quoted to prove its barbarism.
SwM 4.102 3
It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the
nineteenth century;...
SwM 4.111 6
Swedenborg printed these scientific books in the ten years
from 1734 to 1744...and now, after their century is complete, he has at last
found a pupil in Mr Wilkinson...
MoS 4.174 27
[The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it
has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is
not very affecting to my imagination;...
ShP 4.204 1
It took a century to make [Shakespeare's genius] suspected;...
ShP 4.204 11
It was not until the nineteenth century...that the tragedy of
Hamlet could find such wondering readers.
NMW 4.223 2
Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth century,
Bonaparte is far the best known...
NMW 4.226 1
...precisely what is agreeable to the heart of every man in the
nineteenth century, this powerful man [Napoleon] possessed.
NMW 4.249 18
This deputy of the nineteenth century [Napoleon] added to
his gifts a capacity for speculation on general topics.
GoW 4.270 9
I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular
external life and aims of the nineteenth century.
GoW 4.270 10
I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular
external life and aims of the nineteenth century. Its other half, its poet, is
Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...
GoW 4.273 12
[Goethe] was the soul of his century.
GoW 4.278 2
I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe'
s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...
GoW 4.288 24
...this man [Goethe] was entirely at home and happy in his
century and the world.
ET2 5.30 1
A rising of the sea...say an inch in a century, from east to west
on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of
mankind...
ET5 5.75 7
Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England],
and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it
came out that the Saxon had the most bottom and longevity...
ET6 5.110 1
[The English] repeated the ceremonies of the eleventh century
in the coronation of the present Queen.
ET10 5.154 7
...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave
moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer. You shall find this
sentiment...deeply implied in the novels and romances of the present
century...
ET11 5.194 26
The education of a soldier is a simpler affair than that of an
earl in the nineteenth century.
ET12 5.202 16
...gifts of all values, from a hall or a fellowship or a library,
down to a picture or a spoon, are continually accruing [at Oxford], in the
course of a century.
ET12 5.203 11
In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me the
manuscript Plato...a manuscript Virgil of the same century;...
ET13 5.221 27
The English, in common perhaps with Christendom in the
nineteenth century, do not respect power, but only performance;...
ET14 5.236 24
I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England]
sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth.
ET15 5.271 15
It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and
humor of England...have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
ET19 5.310 26
I am...here...to speak...of that which is good in holidays and
working-days, the same in one century and in another century.
ET19 5.310 27
I am...here...to speak...of that which is good in holidays and
working-days, the same in one century and in another century.
Wsp 6.206 18
What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the
pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the
twelfth century, may show.
CbW 6.250 21
In mankind [nature] is contented if she yields one master in
a century.
CbW 6.254 15
The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvests
of a century...
Bty 6.282 13
However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders
in [astrology], the hint was true and divine...that climate, century, remote
natures as well as near, are part of [the soul's] biography.
Bty 6.295 10
In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti
lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together, simply
because the tallow-man gave it the form of a rabbit; and I suppose it may
continue to be lugged about unchanged for a century.
Bty 6.296 22
French memoires of the sixteenth century celebrate the name
of Pauline de Viguier...
Bty 6.297 4
Not less in England in the last century was the fame of the
Gunnings...
Farm 7.149 26
The town of Concord is one of the oldest towns in this
country, far on now in its third century.
WD 7.157 1
Our nineteenth century is the age of tools.
WD 7.158 13
Our century to be sure had inherited a tolerable apparatus.
WD 7.159 4
...the immense productions of the laboratory, are new in this
century...
WD 7.178 15
A third illusion haunts us, that a long duration, as a year, a
decade, a century, is valuable.
Boks 7.195 22
...[the pamphlet or political chapter] is winnowed by all the
winds of opinion, and what terrific selection has not passed on it before it
can be reprinted after twenty years;--and reprinted after a century!...
Boks 7.209 15
This mania [for rare editions of books] reached its height
about the beginning of the present century.
Clbs 7.237 8
One of the best records of the great German master who
towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century,
is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
Clbs 7.244 5
...we have records of the brilliant society that Edinburgh
boasted in the first decade of this century.
OA 7.317 24
The mind stretches an hour to a century...
OA 7.332 21
[John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was
ninety in the following October);...
PI 8.34 16
The...measure of poetic genius is the power...to convert those
[superstitions] of the nineteenth century and of the existing nations into
universal symbols.
PI 8.35 3
'T is boyish in Swedenborg to cumber himself with the dead scurf
of Hebrew antiquity, as if the Divine creative energy had fainted in his own
century.
PI 8.60 1
The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth
century...
Elo2 8.122 25
In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams...
was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.
QO 8.181 12
Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...of the thirteenth
century...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
QO 8.181 15
Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century,
was long supposed to be the original work...
QO 8.181 18
Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century,
was long supposed to be the original work, until Grimm found fragments of
another original a century older.
QO 8.187 9
It is only within this century that England and America
discovered that their nursery-tales were old German and Scandinavian
stories;...
QO 8.194 24
The passages of Shakspeare that we most prize were never
quoted until within this century;...
PC 8.211 13
Great strides have been made [in Natural Science] within the
present century.
PC 8.220 26
...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion
of cultivated men to natural science.
Imtl 8.335 11
What lasts a century pleases us in comparison with what lasts
an hour.
Imtl 8.335 13
...a century, when we have once made it familiar and
compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent;...
Chr2 10.106 7
How unlike our habitual turn of thought was that of the last
century in this country!
Chr2 10.107 22
[The clergy] have dropped, with the sacerdotal garb and
manners of the last century, many doctrines and practices once esteemed
indispensable to their order.
Supl 10.165 6
Horace Walpole relates that in the expectation, current in
London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided
themselves with dresses for the occasion.
Supl 10.168 2
[People of English stock's] houses are...designed...to stand
as commodious, rentable tenements for a century or two.
SovE 10.202 15
In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference
of opinion in regard to...the future state of the soul; every variety of
opinion, and rapid revolution in opinions, in the last half century.
SovE 10.202 17
It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first
century as it was read in the ninth;...
SovE 10.203 27
There was in the last century a serious habitual reference
to the spiritual world...
MoL 10.243 20
The subtle Hindoo...produced the wonderful epics of
which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to
thought.
Plu 10.294 23
...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated and printed in Latin,
thence into Italian, French and English, more than a century before the
original Works were yet printed.
LLNE 10.337 7
...there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a
certain sharpness of criticism...
EzRy 10.392 27
...[Ezra Ripley's] knowledge was...the observation of such
facts as country life for nearly a century could supply.
LS 11.3 18
In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and
then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]; and since the ninth
century the laity receive the bread only, the cup being reserved to the
priesthood.
HDC 11.29 2
Fellow Citizens: The town of Concord begins, this day, the
third century of its history.
HDC 11.54 10
Such was, for half a century, the success of the general
enterprise [conversion of the Indians], that, in 1676, there were five
hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians...
HDC 11.64 18
From the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century,
our records indicate no interruption of the tranquility of the inhabitants [of
Concord]...
AKan 11.262 24
A harder task will the new revolution of the nineteenth
century be than was the revolution of the eighteenth century.
AKan 11.262 25
A harder task will the new revolution of the nineteenth
century be than was the revolution of the eighteenth century.
EPro 11.315 2
In so many arid forms which states encrust themselves with,
once in a century...a poetic act and record occur.
EPro 11.319 25
[Slavery] cannot be introduced as an improvement of the
nineteenth century.
Wom 11.415 10
After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in
the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having
first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
Wom 11.424 20
The aspiration of this century will be the code of the next.
SHC 11.430 23
We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense
marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations
of Nature, but, at the same time...wishing to make one spot tender to our
children, who shall come hither in the next century to read the dates of
these lives.
SHC 11.435 11
...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks
overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank
[Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...
Shak1 11.451 23
The egotism of men is immense. It concealed Shakspeare
for a century.
Scot 11.463 11
...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his
birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled-perhaps he alone among literary men
of this century is entitled...
FRO1 11.479 10
...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to
appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship...
CPL 11.499 3
...Concord counted fourteen graduates of Harvard in its first
century...
CPL 11.506 14
[Kepler writes] [The book] may well wait a century for a
reader...
FRep 11.529 1
We...are are defended from shocks now for a century by the
facility with which through popular assemblies every necessary measure of
reform can instantly be carried.
FRep 11.534 15
In the planters of this country, in the seventeenth century,
the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal
independence...
Mem 12.102 19
...I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have
thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books
that have been published in a century.
Milt1 12.248 5
The aspect of Milton, to this generation, will be part of the
history of the nineteenth century.
WSL 12.341 3
Mr. Landor is one of the foremost of that small class who
make good in the nineteenth century the claims of pure literature.
Century, n. (1)
Aris 10.62 2
...[the true man] is to know...that not Louis Quatorze, not
Chesterfield, nor Byron, nor Bonaparte is the model of the Century...
century-clock, n. (1)
OA 7.318 14
...if we did not find the reflection of ourselves in the eyes of
the young people, we could not know that the century-clock had struck
seventy instead of twenty.
Cerberus, n. (1)
Wsp 6.201 5
Some of my friends have complained...that we...gave...too
many cakes to Cerberus;...
ceremonial, adj. (2)
SovE 10.203 6
[Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and
ceremonial occasion...
Prch 10.225 24
All positive rules, ceremonial, ecclesiastical, distinctions of
race or of person, are perishable;...
ceremonies, n. (11)
Chr1 3.99 20
Society...shreds...its conversation into ceremonies and
escapes.
Mrs1 3.138 7
The compliments and ceremonies of our breeding should
recall...the grandeur of our destiny.
ET6 5.109 27
[The English] repeated the ceremonies of the eleventh
century in the coronation of the present Queen.
ET8 5.132 6
Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the
day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates...
splendor in ceremonies...
Bhr 6.187 15
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and
respects...
Ill 6.316 2
...how dare any one, if he could, pluck away the coulisses, stage
effects and ceremonies, by which [women] live.
Art2 7.55 11
Heraldry...and the ceremonies of a coronation, are a dignified
repetition of the occurrences that might befall a dragoon and his footboy.
Suc 7.304 5
...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might
somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief
that he could elude all guards, precautions, ceremonies, means and delays...
War 11.164 9
Observe how every truth and every error...clothes itself
with...language, ceremonies, newspapers.
Wom 11.409 18
All these ceremonies that hedge our life around are not to
be despised...
Wom 11.409 23
[Women's] genius delights in ceremonies...
ceremony, n. (18)
LT 1.290 17
I wish to speak of the...religion around us without ceremony
or false deference.
YA 1.393 26
Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious
affairs in Italy, whilst he debated some point of honor with the French
ambassador; You have left a business of importance for a ceremony.
YA 1.394 1
[Philip II's] ambassador replied, Your Majesty's self is but a
ceremony.
SR 2.62 16
That popular fable of the sot...laid in the duke's bed, and, on his
waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke...symbolizes...
the state of man...
Mrs1 3.124 21
I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland
(that for ceremony there must go two to it; since a bold fellow will go
through the cunningest forms)...
MoS 4.168 2
The Essays...are an entertaining soliloquy on every random
topic that comes into [Montaigne's] head; treating every thing without
ceremony, yet with masculine sense.
ET13 5.219 15
The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the
unbroken order and tradition of its church; the liturgy, ceremony,
architecture;...
SS 7.1 10
...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/ Princely women
hard to please,/ Fenced by form and ceremony/...
Clbs 7.232 19
Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They
like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to
any one. On these terms...the talker is at his ease and jolly, for he can walk
out without ceremony when he pleases.
OA 7.320 3
Age is comely...in chairs of state and ceremony...
Comc 8.164 24
In religion, the sentiment is all; the ritual or ceremony
indifferent.
Comc 8.164 27
...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious]
sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did; it goes through the ceremony
omitting only the will...
SlHr 10.448 23
[Samuel Hoar] carried ceremony finely to the last.
LS 11.9 2
...the leading circumstances in the Gospels are only a faithful
account of that ceremony [the Passover].
LS 11.9 17
It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break
the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern
Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony...
Wom 11.409 17
Form and ceremony are [women's] realm.
CW 12.172 26
Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I
thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...
PPr 12.384 27
Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason
as an egg is full of meat, and every lordship and worship and high form and
ceremony of English conservatism tossed like a football into the air...
Ceremony, n. (1)
Edc1 10.128 24
Here [in the household] is Economy, and Glee, and
Hospitality, and Ceremony, and Frankness, and Calamity, and Death, and
Hope.
Ceres, n. (3)
Nat2 3.180 8
Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves
before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first
lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil, and
opened the door for the remote Flora, Fauna, Ceres, and Pomona to come in.
FRep 11.512 26
As Bacchus of the vine, Ceres of the wheat...so prolific
Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant.
Milt1 12.263 21
[Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according to the fable, ever
seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have
sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all forms
and appearances of things.
certain, adj. (469)
Nat 1.7 19
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always
present, they are inaccessible;...
Nat 1.11 4
...it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not
reside in nature...
Nat 1.28 19
The motion of the earth round its axis and round the sun,
makes the day and the year. These are certain amounts of brute light and
heat.
Nat 1.46 8
We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some
friends...who, answering each to a certain affection of the soul, satisfy our
desire on that side;...
Nat 1.47 11
It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World,
that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain
number of congruent sensations...
Nat 1.50 15
Certain mechanical changes, a small alteration in our local
position, apprizes us of a dualism.
Nat 1.58 18
Some theosophists have arrived at a certain hostility and
indignation towards matter...
Nat 1.67 23
...we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and
sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish,
and insect.
Nat 1.70 2
Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a
certain respect...
Nat 1.70 13
I shall...conclude this essay with some traditions of man and
nature, which a certain poet sang to me;...
DSA 1.121 13
The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the
presence of certain divine laws.
DSA 1.134 13
It is very certain that it is the effect of conversation with the
beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same
knowledge and love.
DSA 1.142 16
...there have been periods when, from the inactivity of the
intellect on certain truths, a greater faith was possible in names and persons.
DSA 1.148 18
...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain
solidity of merit...
LE 1.157 2
...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems to be a
certain grace without grandeur...
MN 1.212 6
...there is a certain infatuating air in woods and mountains
which draws on the idler to want and misery.
MN 1.215 10
...[the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular
practices, as the denial of certain appetites in certain specified indulgences...
MN 1.215 11
...[the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular
practices, as the denial of certain appetites in certain specified indulgences...
MN 1.217 4
Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom...
MR 1.233 25
Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner a
certain shutting of the eyes...
MR 1.233 26
Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a
certain dapperness and compliance...
MR 1.242 25
...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that
man...respecting the compensations of the Universe, ought to ransom
himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his
habits.
LT 1.266 27
As the solar system moves forward in the heavens, certain
stars open before us, and certain stars close up behind us;...
LT 1.282 13
A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all
cultivated persons, a certain imbecility in the best spirits...
LT 1.285 8
By the side of these men [of the intellectual class], the hot
agitators have a certain cheap and ridiculous air;...
Con 1.297 23
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of
conservatism...
Con 1.297 24
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of
conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
Con 1.301 24
Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to
acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain
falsehood.
Con 1.303 3
We have all a certain intellection or presentiment of reform
existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character...
Tran 1.332 10
One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...that
figures do not lie;...
Tran 1.341 3
...many intelligent and religious persons...betake themselves
to a certain solitary and critical way of living...
Tran 1.349 15
...the philanthropies and charities have a certain air of
quackery.
Tran 1.352 12
...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief
experience...
YA 1.374 27
...one thing is certain, that we who build will receive the very
smallest share of benefit.
YA 1.378 2
[Trade] calls out all force of a certain kind that slumbered in
the former dynasties.
YA 1.382 23
At least an economical success seemed certain for the
enterprise [the Associations]...
Hist 2.16 15
If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions
to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those to
which he is averse, he will see how deep is the chain of affinity.
Hist 2.17 1
In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very
diverse works.
SR 2.45 24
...[our rejected thoughts] come back to us with a certain
alienated majesty.
Comp 2.97 19
...in the animal kingdom the physiologist has observed that...
a certain compensation balances every gift and every defect.
Comp 2.106 5
How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in
silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied providence
certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!
Comp 2.118 13
As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain
assurance of success.
Comp 2.123 7
The gain [in external goods] is apparent; the tax is certain.
SL 2.142 27
We think greatness entailed or organized...in certain offices or
occasions...
Lov1 2.169 10
The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private
and tender relation of one to one, which...like a certain divine rage and
enthusiasm, seizes on man at one period...
Lov1 2.171 10
Each man sees over his own experience a certain stain of
error...
Fdsp 2.191 13
The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a
certain cordial exhilaration.
Fdsp 2.203 5
We cover up our thought from [our fellow-man] under a
hundred folds. I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy cast off
this drapery...
Fdsp 2.215 13
It would...give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty
seeking...
Prd1 2.229 13
The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes
remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain
property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the
life an irresistible truth.
Prd1 2.229 23
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, and have a certain swimming and oscillating
appearance.
Prd1 2.230 17
There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature...
Hsm1 2.245 12
In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the
elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of
character and dialogue...
Hsm1 2.247 26
...Wordsworth's Laodamia, and the ode of Dion, and some
sonnets, have a certain noble music;...
Hsm1 2.249 13
...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in
nature...
OS 2.273 24
...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms
is at hand...
OS 2.274 23
The growths of genius are of a certain total character...
OS 2.276 21
I live...with persons who...express a certain obedience to the
great instincts to which I live.
OS 2.277 23
There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to
the greatest men with the lowest...
OS 2.281 18
...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness
of that divine presence [the soul].
OS 2.281 27
A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the
opening of the religious sense in men...
Int 2.332 2
A certain wandering light appears, and is the distinction, the
principle, we wanted.
Int 2.336 18
...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain
control over the spontaneous states...
Art1 2.352 24
As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the
artist and finds expression in his work, so far it will retain a certain
grandeur...
Art1 2.354 21
It is the habit of certain minds to give an all-excluding
fulness to the object...they alight upon...
Art1 2.364 16
...there is a certain appearance of paltriness...in sculpture.
Pt1 3.22 15
What we call nature is a certain self-regulated motion or
change;...
Pt1 3.22 20
...nature...does not leave another to baptize her but baptizes
herself; and this through the metamorphosis again. I remember that a
certain poet described it to me thus...
Pt1 3.30 4
The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and
exhilaration for all men.
Pt1 3.30 27
...Socrates...tells us that the soul is cured of its maladies by
certain incantations, and that these incantations are beautiful reasons, from
which temperance is generated in souls;...
Pt1 3.36 13
Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg] describes as conversing
very learnedly together, appeared to the children who were at some
distance, like dead horses;...
Pt1 3.39 3
[Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions...and each
presently feels the new desire.
Exp 3.52 10
...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is
impulse in them. In the moment it seems impulse; in the year, in the
lifetime, it turns out to be a certain uniform tune which the revolving barrel
of the music-box must play.
Exp 3.56 26
Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain
ideas which they never pass or exceed.
Exp 3.69 1
There is a certain magic about [a man's] properest action which
stupefies your powers of observation...
Chr1 3.90 1
[Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force...
Chr1 3.94 3
Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a
certain sleep.
Chr1 3.97 18
Men of character like to hear of their faults; the other class do
not like to hear of faults; they worship events; secure to them...a certain
chain of circumstances, and they will ask no more.
Chr1 3.97 25
...prosperity belongs to a certain mind, and will introduce that
power and victory which is its natural fruit, into any order of events.
Mrs1 3.121 15
An element which unites all the most forcible persons of
every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties
universally found in men. It seems a certain permanent average;...
Mrs1 3.128 13
Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and
virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain
health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to
work, yet high power to enjoy.
Mrs1 3.129 7
Aristocracy and fashion are certain inevitable results.
Mrs1 3.133 9
There will always be in society certain persons who are
mercuries of its approbation...
Mrs1 3.138 22
...a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit
with.
Mrs1 3.139 4
The average spirit of the energetic class is good sense, acting
under certain limitations and to certain ends.
Mrs1 3.139 5
The average spirit of the energetic class is good sense, acting
under certain limitations and to certain ends.
Mrs1 3.141 7
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and
sympathy.
Mrs1 3.150 8
A certain awkward consciousness of inferiority in the men
may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of Woman's Rights.
Nat2 3.175 24
The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and
enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the
air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road,--a certain haughty favor, as if
from patrician genii to patricians...
Nat2 3.192 8
There is in woods and waters a certain enticement and
flattery...
Pol1 3.199 11
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 3.206 9
A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or
other commodity.
Pol1 3.218 9
...we are constrained to reflect on our splendid moment with a
certain humiliation...
Pol1 3.219 26
We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into
confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in
certain social conventions;...
NR 3.225 15
...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a
certain quality and culture...
NR 3.239 13
In every conversation, even the highest, there is a certain
trick...
NER 3.258 15
The ancient languages...contain wonderful remains of
genius, which draw, and always will draw, certain like-minded men...
NER 3.270 3
[A canine appetite for knowledge] gave the scholar certain
powers of expression...
NER 3.275 21
...having established his equality with class after class of
those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others
before whom he cannot possess himself...
NER 3.278 26
I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of
the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent
electors...
NER 3.284 13
Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the
unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing.
UGM 4.7 5
Certain men affect us as rich possibilities...
UGM 4.16 7
Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the
addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and
presupposing his intelligence.
UGM 4.28 6
It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into
nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men...
PPh 4.44 25
...the writings of Plato have preoccupied...every church, every
poet,--making it impossible to think, on certain levels, except through him.
PPh 4.57 26
With the palatial air there is [in Plato]...a certain earnestness...
PPh 4.65 20
...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a
certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated which is blinded
and buried by studies of another kind;...
PPh 4.71 11
[Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect
temper and a knowledge of his man...which laid the companion open to
certain defeat in any debate...
PPh 4.73 3
...it is certain that [Socrates] had grown to delight in nothing
else than this conversation;...
SwM 4.97 17
All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what
as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This beatitude
comes...with shocks to the mind of the receiver. It...gives a certain violent
bias which taints his judgment.
SwM 4.102 20
A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...suggests...that a certain
vastness of learning...is possible.
SwM 4.119 22
[Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus
of the new state, affirming that his presence in the spiritual world is
attended with a certain separation, but only as to the intellectual part of his
mind, not as to the will part;...
SwM 4.120 1
Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and
New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his
remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
SwM 4.130 17
Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due
proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of
those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to
combination, as when gases will combine in certain fixed rates, but not at
any rate.
SwM 4.140 27
We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who...
could hint to human ears the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted
soul. But it is certain that it must tally with what is best in nature.
MoS 4.150 7
One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is conversant with...
cities and persons, and the bringing certain things to pass;...
MoS 4.161 14
The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that
[the wise skeptic] have a certain solid and intelligible way of living of his
own;...
MoS 4.165 3
In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only...
so that in a humorist a certain nakedness of statement was permitted...
MoS 4.184 5
[Young and ardent minds] accuse the divine Providence of a
certain parsimony.
ShP 4.194 21
...when at last the greatest freedom of style and treatment was
reached [in Egypt and Greece], the prevailing genius of architecture still
enforced a certain calmness and continence in the statue.
ShP 4.195 3
This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture,
the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic
materials...which had a certain excellence which no single genius...could
hope to create.
ShP 4.198 17
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts;...
ShP 4.212 19
[A man of talents] has certain observations, opinions, topics,
which have some accidental prominence...
ShP 4.217 5
Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had
another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and
roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind...
conveying in all their natural history a certain mute commentary on human
life.
NMW 4.227 22
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest
ground of politics...
NMW 4.228 14
It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced
the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity;...
GoW 4.264 25
There is a certain heat in the breast which attends the
perception of a primary truth...
GoW 4.265 27
...there is a certain ridicule...thrown on the scholars or
clerisy...
GoW 4.266 25
A certain partiality...is the tax which all action must pay.
GoW 4.272 9
[Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself
the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national
literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition...
researches into...geology, chemistry, astronomy; and every one of these
kingdoms assuming a certain aerial and poetic character, by reason of the
multitude.
GoW 4.275 24
[Goethe]...has a certain gravitation towards truth.
GoW 4.281 7
...[the German intellect] has a certain probity, which never
rests in a superficial performance...
GoW 4.283 10
...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and
France, adopt their study and their side with a certain levity...
GoW 4.286 21
...certain love affairs [of Goethe] that came to nothing, as
people say, have the strangest importance...
GoW 4.286 23
...certain whimsical opinions, cosmogonies and religions of
his own invention...these [Goethe] magnifies.
ET1 5.14 16
...I...find it impossible to recall the largest part of [Coleridge'
s] discourse, which was often like so many printed paragraphs in his book...
so readily did he fall into certain commonplaces.
ET1 5.18 27
...[Carlyle] named certain individuals...whom London had
well served.
ET4 5.47 15
How came such men as...Francis Bacon, George Herbert,
Henry Vane, to exist here [in England]? What made these delicate natures?
was it the air? was it the sea? was it the parentage? For it is certain that
these men are samples of their contemporaries.
ET4 5.48 24
Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form.
Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective;...
ET4 5.51 26
...certain temperaments marry well...
ET4 5.52 2
...[the English character] is not so much a history of one or of
certain tribes of Saxons, Jutes, or Frisians...
ET4 5.52 6
Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...
ET4 5.69 22
Lord Chief Justice Fortescue, in Henry VI.'s time, says, The
inhabitants of England drink no water, unless at certain times on a religious
score and by way of penance.
ET4 5.72 1
Add a certain degree of refinement to the vivacity of these
[English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality which makes the men
and women of polite society formidable.
ET5 5.76 25
Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of Alfred,
Bede, Caxton...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
ET6 5.107 8
A certain order and complete propriety is found in [the
Englishman's] dress and in his belongings.
ET6 5.111 26
There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in
wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen.
ET9 5.149 11
...the prestige of the English name warrants a certain
confident bearing...
ET10 5.156 26
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,
since the extraordinary will be certain to absorb the other third.
ET10 5.171 3
...the means of meeting a certain ponderous expense, is that
which is considered by a youth in England emerging from his minority.
ET12 5.206 25
...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton] can quote
correctly from the Corpus Poetarum...
ET12 5.207 5
Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...the atmosphere
is loaded with Greek learning; the whole river has reached a certain height...
ET12 5.210 25
The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain
amount of old Norse power.
ET13 5.216 5
[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.
ET13 5.226 19
...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or
rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it
another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will
steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was
bequeathed. The class certain to be excluded from all preferment are the
religious...
ET14 5.239 24
'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and
Wordsworth will be Platonists...
ET14 5.242 4
In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of
filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of
Berkeley, that we have no certain assurance of the existence of matter;...
ET14 5.248 4
It is very certain...that if Lord Bacon had been only the
sensualist his critic pretends, he would never have acquired the fame which
now entitles him to this patronage.
ET16 5.287 17
...'t is certain as God liveth, the gun that does not need
another gun, the law of love and justice alone, can effect a clean revolution.
ET16 5.288 17
There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...too
much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse...
ET17 5.295 3
[The Edinburgh Review] had...changed the tone of its literary
criticism from the time when a certain letter was written to the editor by
Coleridge.
ET18 5.301 17
At home [the English] have a certain statute hospitality.
ET19 5.311 18
This conscience is one element [which attracts an American
to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through
all classes,--the electing of worthy persons to a certain fraternity...
F 6.9 6
...so is sex; so is climate; so is the reaction of talents imprisoning
the vital power in certain directions.
F 6.11 15
In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force...
F 6.13 2
...There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he
is from all eternity...
F 6.27 24
...when souls reach a certain clearness of perception they accept a
knowledge and motive above selfishness.
F 6.28 18
...when a strong will appears, it usually results from a certain
unity of organization...
F 6.31 14
To a certain point, [men] believe themselves the care of a
Providence.
F 6.44 13
Certain ideas are in the air.
Pow 6.54 24
...the key to all ages is--Imbecility; imbecility...even in heroes
in all but certain eminent moments;...
Pow 6.60 22
...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life...
it...will be found at last in harmony with moral laws.
Pow 6.66 10
The most amiable of country gentlemen has a certain pleasure
in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his orchard.
Pow 6.73 11
Success goes...invariably with a certain plus or positive
power...
Wth 6.92 11
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to
invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.
Wth 6.97 22
The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men
on thinking how certain civilizing benefits...can be enjoyed by all.
Wth 6.99 9
In Europe, where the feudal forms secure the permanence of
wealth in certain families, those families buy and preserve these things
[works of art] and lay them open to the public.
Wth 6.99 23
An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have
arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing...
Wth 6.100 18
Probity and closeness to the facts are the basis, but the
masters of the art [of commerce] add a certain long arithmetic.
Wth 6.107 1
...every man has a certain satisfaction whenever his dealing
touches on the inevitable facts;...
Wth 6.108 19
The price of coal shows...a compulsory confinement of the
miners to a certain district.
Wth 6.117 6
...after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and
steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.
Ctr 6.136 27
Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a
man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of
any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale...
Ctr 6.137 25
'T is a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine
arts and philosophy.
Ctr 6.138 22
To wade in marshes and sea-margins is the destiny of certain
birds...
Ctr 6.147 17
...there is in every constitution a certain solstice when the
stars stand still in our inward firmament...
Ctr 6.151 13
I have heard that throughout this country a certain respect is
paid to good broadcloth;...
Ctr 6.151 20
An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it
certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look
through still./
Ctr 6.154 16
The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good
effects not easily estimated.
Ctr 6.156 11
'T is very certain that Plato, Plotinus...did not live in a crowd...
Ctr 6.160 19
There is a certain loftiness of thought and power to marshal
and adjust particulars, which can only come from an insight of their whole
connection.
Ctr 6.160 26
The orator who has once seen things in their divine order...
will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and...he will have a certain
mastery in dealing with them...
Ctr 6.161 13
...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint
John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain
majesty.
Bhr 6.170 17
There are certain manners which are learned in good society,
of that force that if a person have them, he or she must be considered...
Bhr 6.178 3
The jockeys say of certain horses that they look over the whole
ground.
Bhr 6.181 10
It is very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact
indication of his rank in the immense scale of men...
Wsp 6.201 13
...I am sure that a certain truth will be said through me...
Wsp 6.204 6
Nature has self-poise in all her works; certain proportions in
which oxygen and azote combine...
Wsp 6.210 25
Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to
creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and
establish free trade.
Wsp 6.216 6
It is certain that worship stands in some commanding relation
to the health of man...
Wsp 6.217 8
We believe that holiness confers a certain insight, because not
by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of
things.
Wsp 6.227 25
Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had
appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy...
Wsp 6.229 23
Physiognomy and phrenology are...declarations of the soul
that it is aware of certain new sources of information.
Wsp 6.238 13
If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another
and will be more.
CbW 6.246 11
...'t is certain that not by strength of ours, or of the old
sayings, but only on strength of his own, unknown to us or to any, [the
youth] must stand or fall.
CbW 6.262 26
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to
another aim.
CbW 6.274 24
...it is certain that there is a great deal of good in us that
does not know itself...
Bty 6.288 15
...the beauty which certain objects have for [man] is the
friendly fire which expands the thought...
Bty 6.296 14
A beautiful woman is a practical poet...planting tenderness,
hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. Some favors of condition
must go with it, since a certain serenity is essential...
Bty 6.303 18
The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is a certain
cosmical quality...
Bty 6.304 5
...[chosen men and women's] face and manners carry a certain
grandeur...
Ill 6.311 24
...the barrister with the jury, the belle at the ball...ascribe a
certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
Ill 6.317 11
Men who make themselves felt in the world avail themselves of
a certain fate in their constitution which they know how to use.
Ill 6.317 17
'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their
practicality are a certain poetry and play...
SS 7.6 13
To the culture of the world an Archimedes, a Newton is
indispensable; so [nature] guards them by a certain aridity.
SS 7.10 14
A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain
bareness and poverty...
SS 7.11 15
Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can
rarely reach alone.
SS 7.15 2
A higher civility will reestablish in our customs a certain
reverence which we have lost.
Civ 7.19 1
A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man
is found...is called Civilization.
Civ 7.19 5
A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man
is found...a cannibal, and eater of pounded snails, worms and offal,--a
certain degree of progress from this extreme is called Civilization.
Civ 7.22 24
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy...
guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind;...
Art2 7.41 22
The veranda or pagoda roof can curve upward only to a
certain point.
Art2 7.51 14
...a certain analogy reigns throughout the wonders of both
[Nature and works of art];...
Elo1 7.63 3
[An audience's] sympathy gives them a certain social
organism...
Elo1 7.67 18
Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is,
on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant
physical health...
Elo1 7.69 24
...the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to
fascination...
Elo1 7.90 1
The orator must be, to a certain extent, a poet.
Elo1 7.92 21
...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the
eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
Elo1 7.93 12
...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other
well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a
whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness...and the
orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
WD 7.172 25
The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu,
as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements
which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a
tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature
employed certain illusions as her ties and straps...
WD 7.177 15
I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation who thought it
an honor to wash his own face.
Boks 7.191 8
College education is the reading of certain books which the
common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already
accumulated.
Boks 7.197 2
...I find certain books vital and spermatic...
Boks 7.201 10
Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek
history...
Boks 7.208 6
Among the best books are certain Autobiographies;...
Boks 7.213 22
The imagination infuses a certain volatility and intoxication.
Boks 7.214 5
...books that treat...our times, places, professions, customs,
opinions, histories, with a certain freedom...put us on our feet again...
Boks 7.220 19
...[the French Institute and the British Association] divide
the whole body into sections, each of which sits upon and reports of certain
matters confided to it...
Clbs 7.227 4
...one thing is certain,--at some rate, intercourse we must have.
Clbs 7.227 18
'T is certain that money does not more burn in a boy's
pocket than a piece of news burns in our memory until we can tell it.
Clbs 7.228 3
A certain truth possesses us which we in all ways strive to
utter.
Clbs 7.242 19
'T is certain there was liberal and refined conversation in the
Greek, in the Roman and in the Middle Age.
Clbs 7.250 5
There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of
wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable
conditions, become wise for a short time...
Cour 7.261 9
Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a
bayonet charge or capture a battery. Of course they must each go into that
action with a certain despair.
Cour 7.265 8
'T is certain that the threat is sometimes more formidable
than the stroke...
Cour 7.266 25
Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which...does not feel
itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in...cats. The like vein appears in
certain races of men and in individuals of every race.
Cour 7.266 27
In every school there are certain fighting boys;...
Cour 7.268 17
A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of
faculty.
Cour 7.268 18
A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of
faculty.
Cour 7.272 27
The statue, the architecture, were the later and inferior
creation of the same [Greek] genius. In view of this moment of history, we
recognize a certain prophetic instinct, better than wisdom.
Suc 7.285 3
[Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and
found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...
Suc 7.302 22
The wise Socrates treats this matter [of sensibility] with a
certain archness...
OA 7.319 19
We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to
resign, alleging that he perceived a certain decay in his faculties;...
OA 7.320 8
...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces
of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors, a certain
concealed sense of injury...
OA 7.321 5
A man of great employments and excellent performance used
to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty;
although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain Young Men's
Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under
seventy.
OA 7.324 14
...be it as it may with the sick-headache,--'t is certain that
graver headaches and heart-aches are lulled once for all as we come up with
certain goals of time.
OA 7.324 16
...be it as it may with the sick-headache,--'t is certain that
graver headaches and heart-aches are lulled once for all as we come up with
certain goals of time.
OA 7.324 22
To perfect the commissariat, [Nature] implants in each a
certain rapacity to get the supply, and a little oversupply, of his wants.
OA 7.325 25
A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the Supreme Court, and
I was struck with a certain air of levity and defiance which vastly became
him.
OA 7.329 7
Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet
he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
OA 7.330 3
...especially we have a certain insulated thought, which haunts
us, but remains insulated and barren.
PI 8.6 16
...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of
matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...a
certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts...
PI 8.6 21
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 8.18 22
[The act of imagination] infuses a certain volatility and
intoxication into all Nature.
PI 8.21 12
In certain hours we can almost pass our hand through our own
body.
PI 8.55 23
Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward
skill;...
SA 8.83 17
Whilst certain faces are illumined with intelligence...others are
marked with warnings...
SA 8.83 20
...certain voices are hoarse and truculent;...
SA 8.87 13
I know that there go two to this game [of laughter], and, in the
presence of certain formidable wits, savage nature must sometimes rush out
in some disorder.
SA 8.87 19
No nation is dressed with more good sense than ours. And
everybody sees certain moral benefit in it.
SA 8.89 25
One of my friends said in speaking of certain associates, There
is not one of them but I can offend at any moment.
SA 8.91 22
It is very certain that sincere and happy conversation doubles
our powers;...
SA 8.99 22
...[manners and talk] require certain material conditions...
SA 8.99 25
...[manners and talk] require...plenty and ease,--since only so
can certain finer and finest powers appear and expand.
SA 8.101 14
That method [of hereditary nobility] secured...a certain
external culture and good taste;...
SA 8.102 13
...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number
of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in
the interest of the churches, of schools...
Elo2 8.112 24
There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain
occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected...
Elo2 8.119 15
What is peculiar in [eloquence] is a certain creative heat...
Elo2 8.119 18
Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit
of heat, and moreover a certain control of it...
Elo2 8.121 27
...there are persons of natural fascination, with certain
frankness...in their style;...
Elo2 8.125 26
Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of
phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective
language as to remain settled and unaltered.
Elo2 8.126 19
Men differ so much in control of their faculties! You can
find in many, and indeed in all, a certain fundamental equality.
QO 8.177 17
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated
are usually associated certain books which met his views.
QO 8.189 10
...there are certain considerations which go far to qualify a
reproach too grave [to quotation].
QO 8.195 5
...another's thoughts have a certain advantage with us simply
because they are another's.
QO 8.204 11
'T is certain that thought has its own proper motion...
PC 8.213 9
...I find not only this equality between new and old countries...
but also a certain equivalence of the ages of history;...
PC 8.215 16
As we find thus a certain equivalence in the ages, there is also
an equipollence of individual genius to the nation which it represents.
PC 8.215 19
...a certain enormity of culture makes a man invisible to his
contemporaries.
PC 8.219 1
Even manners are a distinction which...are not to be overborne...
even by other eminent talents, since they too proceed from a certain deep
innate perception of fit and fair.
PC 8.233 15
...in certain historic periods there have been times of
negation...
PPo 8.241 19
Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost the seal of Solomon...
Insp 8.269 3
'T is certain that the one thing we wish to know is, where
power is to be bought.
Insp 8.274 19
Of the modus of inspiration we have no knowledge. But in
the experience of meditative men there is a certain agreement as to the
conditions of reception.
Insp 8.276 7
We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute
our plans...the whole armory of means are all present, but a certain heat that
once used not to fail, refuses its office...
Insp 8.279 5
There are...certain risks in this presentiment of the decisive
perception...
Insp 8.284 9
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.
Insp 8.290 4
...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found
certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition
exacted...
Insp 8.290 15
Certain localities...are excitants of the muse.
Grts 8.301 16
It is very certain that we ought not to be and shall not be
contented with any goal we have reached.
Grts 8.303 1
Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees
the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet; a vibration propagated over
Asia and Africa? What of Menu? what...of Franklin? There are certain
points of identity in which these masters agree.
Grts 8.306 11
...[Faraday] showed us various experiments on certain gases...
Grts 8.309 12
There is a certain transfiguration; all great orators have it...
Grts 8.310 9
You are rightly fond of certain books or men...
Grts 8.311 17
This day-labor of ours...has hitherto a certain emblematic
air...
Imtl 8.329 17
I think all sound minds rest on a certain preliminary
conviction, namely, that if it be best that conscious personal life shall
continue, it will continue; if not best, then it will not;...
Imtl 8.330 17
I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at
the assurance of life without end.
Imtl 8.331 5
...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with
a certain contemplative turn...does not build up faith or lead to content.
Dem1 10.5 21
In sleep one shall travel certain roads in stage-coaches or
gigs, which he recognizes as familiar...
Dem1 10.7 21
Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and
dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
Dem1 10.8 22
In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which
seem preposterous...
Dem1 10.12 20
The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved
sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to
accept their statement. It is not the incredibility of the fact, but a certain
want of harmony between the action and the agents.
Dem1 10.15 25
I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I
lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form,-that often a
certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success;...
Dem1 10.21 11
Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and moral with a
certain terror;...
Aris 10.43 1
...it is certain that a sound body must be at the root of any
excellence in manners and actions;...
Aris 10.44 27
...the well-built head supplies all the steps, one as perfect as
the other, in the series. Seeing this working head in him, it becomes to me
as certain that he will have the direction of estates, as that there are estates.
Aris 10.47 20
A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of
faculty.
Aris 10.64 13
There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable
to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize.
PerF 10.69 7
...man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants
who can...help him in every kind. Each by itself has a certain omnipotence...
PerF 10.71 19
[The winds, the clouds, the fire] all have certain properties
which adhere to them...
PerF 10.77 13
Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital
if I removed to Spain or China...
PerF 10.86 14
...a certain personal virtue is essential to freedom;...
Chr2 10.93 12
Certain biases, talents, executive skills, are special to each
individual;...
Chr2 10.99 11
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 10.100 23
Men are forced by their own self-respect to give [some
souls] a certain attention.
Chr2 10.110 5
There is a certain secular progress of opinion, which, in
civil countries, reaches everybody.
Chr2 10.116 9
It is certain that each inspired master will gain instantly by
the separation from the idolatry of ages.
Edc1 10.127 4
Certain nations...have made such progress as to compare
with these [savages] as these compare with the bear and the wolf.
Edc1 10.130 17
If Newton come and...perceive that not alone certain
bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all bodies in the
Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind...
over every cubic atom of his native planet...
Edc1 10.130 18
If Newton come and...perceive that not alone certain
bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all bodies in the
Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind...
over every cubic atom of his native planet...
Edc1 10.133 26
A treatise on education...affects us with a slight paralysis
and a certain yawning of the jaws.
Edc1 10.136 13
It is very certain that the coming age and the departing age
seldom understand each other.
Edc1 10.147 13
It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar
than rhetoric or moral philosophy, because they require exactitude of
performance; it is made certain that the lesson is mastered...
Supl 10.163 14
There is a superlative temperament...which affects the
manners of those who share it with a certain desperation.
SovE 10.187 13
The civil history of men might be traced by the successive
meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...bargains of kings
with peoples of certain rights to certain classes, then of rights to masses...
SovE 10.193 26
...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical
supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom
they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence leaves
them...
SovE 10.207 8
...in all churches a certain decay of ancient piety is
lamented...
Prch 10.219 7
It is certain that many dark hours...will occur.
Prch 10.236 10
We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty
liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...
MoL 10.258 14
Who would not, if it could be made certain that the new
morning of universal liberty should rise on our race by the perishing of one
generation, who would not consent to die?
Schr 10.261 2
The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their
affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica.
Schr 10.278 1
Perhaps I value power of achievement a little more because
in America there seems to be a certain indigence in this respect.
Schr 10.283 7
[Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find
there is somebody within him that knows more than he does, a certain dumb
life in life;...
Schr 10.284 10
[The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which...
cannot be staved off.
Plu 10.311 19
There is a certain violence in [Seneca's] opinions...
Plu 10.312 14
[Seneca] was Buddhist in his cold abstract virtue, with a
certain impassibility beyond humanity.
LLNE 10.325 2
There grew a certain tenderness on the people...
LLNE 10.329 11
[The new age] marked itself by a certain predominance of
the intellect in the balance of powers.
LLNE 10.330 9
The popular religion of our fathers had received many
severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary
influence of Swedenborg; a man of prodigious mind, though as I think
tainted with a certain suspicion of insanity...
LLNE 10.335 17
...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and
miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results.
It is...becoming a national institution. I am quite certain that this purely
literary influence was of the first importance to the American mind.
LLNE 10.336 17
Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting
of our views of the Deity and his Providence.
LLNE 10.337 7
...there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a
certain sharpness of criticism...
LLNE 10.337 15
Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on
the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred
secret to a street show. The attempt...had a certain truth in it;...
LLNE 10.337 23
...a certain success attended [Mesmerism], against all
expectation.
LLNE 10.342 15
I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in
Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to establish certain
opinions...
LLNE 10.364 11
It is certain that freedom from household routine, variety
of character...did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
LLNE 10.365 25
...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]...
were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction; their
knowledge was increased, their manners refined,-but they became in that
proportion averse to labor, and were charged by the heads of the
departments with a certain indolence and selfishness.
LLNE 10.366 11
No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain
strength drawn from the fury of dissent.
CSC 10.375 8
The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was
characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and
earnestness...
MMEm 10.403 21
...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable
state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her
afterwards...
MMEm 10.427 4
I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's]
writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of
Jesus...
MMEm 10.432 19
It was the privilege of certain boys to have [Mary
Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to their
childhood;...
SlHr 10.444 2
[Samuel Hoar's] beauty was pathetic and touching in these
latest days, and, as now appears, it awakened a certain tender fear in all
who saw him, that the costly ornament of our homes and halls and streets
was speedily to be removed.
SlHr 10.447 21
...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration was commanded by
certain heroes of the [legal] profession...
Thor 10.464 14
...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which
showed him the material world as a means and symbol. This discovery,
which sometimes yields to poets a certain casual and interrupted light...was
in him an unsleeping insight;...
Thor 10.466 21
...the shad-flies which fill the air on a certain evening once
a year...were all known by [Thoreau]...
Thor 10.477 15
Whilst [Thoreau] used in his writings a certain petulance of
remark in reference to churches or churchmen, he was a person of a rare,
tender and absolute religion...
Thor 10.479 7
A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier
writings...
Thor 10.479 25
...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic
assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had
just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular
botanical variety...
Thor 10.481 14
[Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard...
Carl 10.489 21
[Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes
find in burly people. That, and all his qualities, have a certain virulence...
LS 11.23 3
...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a
man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This
man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must contend
that it is...really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's
Supper]...
HDC 11.31 6
In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up
certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were
suspended for contumacy...
HDC 11.43 27
The nature of man and his condition in the world, for the
first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formation of
the State [in Massachusetts].
HDC 11.44 5
[The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest
convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General
Court...to certain purposes, sovereign powers.
HDC 11.46 12
...Concord and the other plantations found themselves
separate and independent of Boston, with certain rights of their own...
EWI 11.112 11
The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August,
1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be
registered as apprenticed laborers, and to acquire thereby all the rights and
privileges of freemen, subject to the restriction of laboring under certain
conditions.
EWI 11.137 15
By a certain fatality, none but the vilest arguments were
brought forward [against emancipation in the West Indies]...
War 11.158 16
The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a
voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer
me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...in which voyage, I have
either discovered or brought certain intelligence of all the rich places of the
world...
War 11.166 25
At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights...
War 11.166 27
At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights, if he be of
sound body and mind. At a certain higher stage, he makes no offensive
demonstration...
FSLC 11.188 20
I thought that all men of all conditions had been made
sharers of a certain experience, that in certain rare and retired moments they
had been made to see how man is man...
FSLC 11.206 13
...one thing appears certain to me, as soon as the
constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion.
FSLC 11.212 5
The great game of the government has been to win the
sanction of Massachusetts to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law]. Hitherto
they have succeeded only so far as to win Boston to a certain extent.
FSLC 11.213 24
It is very certain from the perfect guaranties in the
constitution...that there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for the
spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
FSLN 11.230 18
The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union. I
went to certain serious men, who had a little more reason than the rest, and
inquired why they took this part?
FSLN 11.236 24
Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is...no
liberty but his invincible will to do right,-then certain aids and allies will
promptly appear...
AsSu 11.248 18
If...Massachusetts could send to the Senate a better man
than Mr. Sumner, his death would be only so much the more quick and
certain.
JBB 11.271 26
...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and
where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use
that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government. Had that been done
on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of
Massachusetts trailed in the dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable
bench.
ACiv 11.297 12
...for two or three ages [slavery] has lasted, and has yielded
a certain quantity of rice, cotton and sugar.
ACiv 11.301 22
...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small
owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any
change...and those less interested are...averse to innovation. It is like free
trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of
certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat;...
ACiv 11.308 5
It is very certain that 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.
ALin 11.333 12
[Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so
disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but
as jests;...
ALin 11.335 25
Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's
portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have
suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture.
ALin 11.337 12
The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius...
which, with a slow but stern justice, carried forward the fortunes of certain
chosen houses...
HCom 11.342 2
Even Divine Providence...always seems to work after a
certain military necessity.
HCom 11.343 2
[Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to
war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if I
decline. ... Only one thing is certain, I can well die but i cannot afford to
misbehave.
SMC 11.351 17
'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord
Monument]...mixes with surrounding nature...
EdAd 11.384 25
The aspect this country presents is a certain maniacal
activity...
Wom 11.414 2
There is much in [women's] nature, much in their social
position which gives them a certain power of divination.
Wom 11.426 4
...there are always a certain number of passionately loving
fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor
to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
FRep 11.523 26
...a certain style of living fast becomes necessary;...
FRep 11.526 2
The history of civilization, or the refining of certain races to
wonderful power of performance, is analogous;...
FRep 11.534 19
In the planters of this country...the conditions of the
country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain
heroic planting and trading.
FRep 11.537 24
'T is certain that our civilization is yet incomplete...
FRep 11.542 20
...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the
general face of the planet...
PLT 12.9 26
...what we really want is...a certain piety toward the source of
action and knowledge.
PLT 12.10 1
...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled...
PLT 12.20 9
It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful
little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and
fitting and identity in their frame.
PLT 12.20 25
...a well-ordered mind brings to the study of every new fact
or class of facts a certain divination of that which it shall find.
PLT 12.27 18
There is no permanent wise man, but men capable of
wisdom, who, being put into certain company or other favorable conditions,
become wise...
PLT 12.27 22
An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of
certain atoms...
PLT 12.28 1
An individual mind...is a fixation or momentary eddy in
which certain services and powers are taken up...
PLT 12.31 12
Each has a certain aptitude for knowing or doing somewhat
which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on that, that it seems a sort
of obtuseness to everything else.
PLT 12.34 23
[Instinct] is that source of thought and feeling which acts on
masses of men, on all men at certain times with resistless power.
PLT 12.43 18
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. In like mood an old verse, or certain words, gleam with rare
significance.
PLT 12.43 26
We believe that certain persons add to the common vision a
certain degree of control over these states of mind;...
PLT 12.43 27
We believe that certain persons add to the common vision a
certain degree of control over these states of mind;...
PLT 12.47 8
The new sect stands for certain thoughts.
PLT 12.47 12
One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling
and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression.
PLT 12.51 8
...all concentration involves of necessity a certain narrowness.
PLT 12.55 6
The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of
ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the
simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern.
PLT 12.62 9
We have all of us by nature a certain divination and parturient
vaticination in our minds of some higher good and perfection than either
power or knowledge.
II 12.65 8
We have a certain blind wisdom...
II 12.65 11
We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...which seems
to sheathe a certain omniscience;...
II 12.65 23
'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in
that habitual first look which he casts on all objects.
II 12.66 14
All men are, in respect to this source of truth [consciousness],
on a certain footing of equality...
II 12.67 17
...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man,
or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces, as whether that be large
and serene, or dispiriting and degrading. Then we get a certain habit of the
mind as the measure;...
II 12.72 25
Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the
evil influences of trade by force of money.
II 12.74 7
Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water
mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know
of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago
passed out of it, and perhaps his only concern with it is some copyright of
an edition in which certain pages...are contained.
II 12.76 24
...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that
these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our
days...
II 12.76 26
...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that
these things have been hid...and, at certain privileged moments, emerge
unaccountably into light.
II 12.79 12
...there are certain problems one would not willingly open,
except when the irresistible oracles broke silence.
II 12.80 5
All intellectual virtue consists in a reliance on Ideas. It must be
carried with a certain magnificence.
CInt 12.121 7
A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of
truth.
CInt 12.121 8
A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of
truth.
CInt 12.124 11
...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges...
CInt 12.124 26
...of necessity, a certain hostility and jealousy of genius
grows up in the masters of routine...
CInt 12.125 3
...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain
relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning
philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has
happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds
himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
CInt 12.131 5
...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us
and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived...
CL 12.138 4
[Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and
found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...
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.
CL 12.146 9
In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the
pedestrian...
CL 12.158 20
Dr. Johnson said, Few men know how to take a walk, and it
is certain that Dr. Johnson was not one of the few.
Bost 12.184 20
Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough
to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers
attach...
Bost 12.192 26
...in that time [of the settlement of Massachusetts]...a
certain degree of terror still clouded the idea of God in the mind of the
purest.
Bost 12.202 26
The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in
Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which
consumed all opposition...
Bost 12.208 9
...there is yet in every city a certain permanent tone;...
Bost 12.210 10
We praised with a certain adulation the invariable valor of
the old war-gods and war-councillors of the Revolution.
MAng1 12.218 24
...certain minds...possess the power of abstracting
Beauty from things...
MAng1 12.228 21
[Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten,
or twelve heads...seeking that there should be in the composition a certain
universal grace such as Nature makes...
Milt1 12.257 15
Aubrey adds a sharp trait, [Milton] pronounced the letter R
very hard, a certain sign of satirical genius.
Milt1 12.263 27
...[Milton] declares that a certain niceness of nature, an
honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above
those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge
himself that can agree to such degradation.
Milt1 12.264 15
[Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a
certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was
enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had
been charged on him.
ACri 12.284 6
There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so
consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective
language as to remain settled and unaltered.
ACri 12.288 10
...'t is certain that some men swear with genius.
ACri 12.293 5
Persons have been named from their abuse of certain
phrases, as Pyramid Lambert...
MLit 12.310 6
I have just been reading poems which now in memory shine
with a certain steady, warm, autumnal light.
MLit 12.310 11
Over every true poem lingers a certain wild beauty,
immeasurable;...
MLit 12.312 16
The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a
certain philosophic turn...
MLit 12.318 8
[The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with
the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for
resource to a conversation with Nature, which is courted in a certain moody
and exploring spirit...
MLit 12.324 15
...a certain greatness encircles every fact [Goethe] treats;...
WSL 12.339 20
In Mr. Landor's coarseness there is a certain air of
defiance...
WSL 12.345 16
What is the quality of the persons who...have a certain
salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...
PPr 12.385 23
...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.
PPr 12.386 21
It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book
of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and
love of effect...should appear...
Let 12.402 24
It is very certain that speculation is no succedaneum for life.
Trag 12.416 1
It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of
the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint
which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and
certain death.
Trag 12.416 4
It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of
the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint
which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and
certain death.
certain, n. (1)
MoS 4.159 14
...let us know what we know, for certain;...
certainly, adv. (85)
DSA 1.137 1
The test of the true faith, certainly, should be its power to
charm and command the soul...
DSA 1.142 15
Certainly there have been periods when...a greater faith was
possible in names and persons.
LT 1.264 11
...in the wild hope of a mountain boy, called by city boys very
ignorant, because they do not know what his hope has certainly apprized
him shall be;...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
LT 1.265 19
Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of
sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
Certainly I think if this were done there would be much to admire as well as
to condemn;...
LT 1.271 24
This beauty which the fancy finds in everything else, certainly
accuses the manner of life we lead.
YA 1.385 14
There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in
which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this, not
certainly through any increased discretion shown by the citizens at
elections...
Hist 2.22 12
In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity;
a progress, certainly, from the gad-fly of Astaboras to the Anglo and
Italomania of Boston Bay.
SL 2.139 16
Certainly there is a possible right for you that precludes the
need of balance and wilful election.
SL 2.151 23
[The world] will certainly accept your own measure of your
doing and being...
SL 2.163 2
The fact that I am here certainly shows me that the soul had
need of an organ here.
Fdsp 2.203 20
No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any
chat of markets or reading-rooms. But every man was constrained by so
much sincerity to the like plaindealing, and...what symbol of truth he had,
he did certainly show him.
Hsm1 2.259 13
...why should a woman...think, because...the cloistered
souls who have had genius and cultivation do not satisfy the imagination
and the serene Themis, none can,--certainly not she?
Mrs1 3.123 4
The popular notion [of a gentleman] certainly adds a
condition of ease and fortune;...
Mrs1 3.129 13
If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least
favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the
excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class
finds itself at the top, as certainly as cream rises in a bowl of milk...
Mrs1 3.148 13
Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and great ladies, had
some right to complain of the absurdity that had been put in their mouths
before the days of Waverley;...
Mrs1 3.150 11
Certainly let [woman] be as much better placed in the laws
and in social forms as the most zealous reformer can ask...
NR 3.236 2
...the uninspired man certainly finds persons a conveniency in
household matters...
NER 3.284 15
Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the
unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing.
They are laboring harder to set the town right concerning themselves, and
will certainly succeed.
MoS 4.163 18
[Montaigne's Essays] is the only book which we certainly
know to have been in the poet's [Shakespeare's] library.
MoS 4.167 4
As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I
seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I
certainly know...
NMW 4.235 24
...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national
differences...certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
ET1 5.7 10
...certainly on this May day [Landor's] courtesy veiled that
haughty mind...
ET2 5.27 22
...in hurrying over these abysses [of the sea], whatever dangers
we are running into, we are certainly running out of the risks of hundreds of
miles every day...
ET4 5.73 14
The severity of the [English] game-laws certainly indicates an
extravagant sympathy of the nation with horses and hunters.
ET7 5.121 16
Certainly [the English] knew the distinction of [Guizot's]
name.
ET16 5.287 4
My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any
theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged... ...I said,
Certainly yes;--but those who hold it are fanatics of a dream which I should
hardly care to relate to your English ears, to which it might be only
ridiculous...
ET19 5.311 7
It is this [sense of right and wrong] which lies at the
foundation of that aristocratic character, which certainly wanders into
strange vagaries...but which, if it should lose this, would find itself
paralyzed;...
F 6.6 6
For certainly, our appetites here/...All this is ruled by the sight
above./
Wsp 6.215 1
That which is signified by the words moral and spiritual, is a
lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions we have loaded them, will
certainly bring back the words...to their ancient meaning.
Wsp 6.235 9
...[Benedict said] in all the encounters that have yet chanced, I
have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been
historically beaten; and yet I know all the time that I...shall certainly fight
when my hour comes, and shall beat.
CbW 6.258 7
Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire
which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.
Art2 7.54 22
...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a
fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted
the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest. This
appearance certainly gave the hint of the hieroglyphics inscribed on [the
Egyptians'] obelisk.
DL 7.107 10
Domestic events are certainly our affair.
DL 7.113 18
It...certainly ought to open our ear to every good-minded
reformer, that our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute
it.
DL 7.116 13
...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the
good household shall exist, is vicious, and leaves the whole difficulty
untouched. It is better, certainly, in this form, Give us your labor, and the
household begins.
DL 7.117 7
Certainly, if we begin by reforming particulars of our present
system [of housekeeping]...we shall soon give up in despair.
DL 7.119 7
Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for
the traveller;...
DL 7.126 1
...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble
relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society. Certainly
this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so cheap and humble a
result.
DL 7.132 4
Certainly, not aloof from this homage to beauty...the house will
come to be esteemed a Sanctuary.
Boks 7.189 3
...certainly there is dilettanteism enough...
Boks 7.189 10
In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a
modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from
Pontus;...certainly knowing that his passengers are the same and in no
respect better than when he took them on board.
Boks 7.189 15
The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are
in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares.
PI 8.55 26
Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward
skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears
in Ben Jonson's songs, including certainly The Faery beam upon you...
Elo2 8.115 15
...certainly there is no true orator who is not a hero.
QO 8.189 22
Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for
cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!
PPo 8.248 21
[Hafiz] tells his mistress that...certainly not [the monks' and
the dervishes'] cowls and mummeries but her glances can impart to him the
fire and virtue needful for such self-denial [of the ascetic and the saint].
Grts 8.302 2
What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only
the best. Certainly not those in which he was degraded to the level of
dulness or vice...
Dem1 10.13 17
I am content and occupied with such miracles as I know...
such as humanity and astronomy. If any others are important to me they
will certainly be shown to me.
Dem1 10.24 1
Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred
lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say,
There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy. Certainly these facts
are interesting...
Aris 10.34 14
...certainly, if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as
superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that
the steps were taken...
Aris 10.36 3
...we, certainly, have not come here to describe well-dressed
vulgarity.
Aris 10.43 13
Certainly, the origin of most of the perversities and
absurdities that disgust us is, primarily, the want of health.
Aris 10.46 5
Certainly I am not going to argue the merits of gradation in
the universe;...
Aris 10.50 10
When old writers are consulted by young writers who have
written their first book, they say, Publish it by all means; so only can you
certainly know its quality.
Aris 10.54 5
The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence]
certainly are those who establish a wider dominion over men's minds than
any speech can;...
PerF 10.84 16
Things work to their ends...and will certainly defeat any
adventurer who fights against this ordination.
Chr2 10.107 14
...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious]
offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious; certainly
not that they have less integrity or sentiment...
SovE 10.193 17
...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly
contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the
heart.
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.
SovE 10.200 11
Certainly it is human to value a general consent...
Prch 10.236 4
...certainly on this seventh [day] let us be the children of
liberty, of reason, of hope;...
MoL 10.249 19
As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains
and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the
best minds, and run down...
LLNE 10.343 2
I suppose all of [the supposed conspirators] were surprised
at this rumor of a school or sect, and certainly at the name of
Transcendentalism...
LLNE 10.343 6
As these persons became in the common chances of
society acquainted with each other, there resulted certainly strong
friendships...
LLNE 10.351 18
Certainly we listened with great pleasure to such gay and
magnificent pictures [as Fourier's].
EzRy 10.384 3
[Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in
what is called a particular providence,-certainly, as they held it, a very
particular providence......
LS 11.14 15
I have received of the Lord, [St. Paul] says, that which I
delivered to you. By this expression it is often thought that a miraculous
communication is implied; but certainly without good reason, if it is
remembered that St. Paul was living in the lifetime of all the apostles who
could give him an account of the transaction [the Last Supper];...
HDC 11.35 17
The hardships of the journey and of the first encampment
are certainly related by [the pilgrims'] contemporary with some air of
romance...
War 11.152 5
...in the infancy of society...the necessities of the strong will
certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
War 11.159 22
This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took to killing his
own neighbors and kindred, with such appetite that his tribe...would have
killed him had he not fled his country forever. The scandal which we feel in
such facts certainly shows that we have got on a little.
War 11.170 5
How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards
peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly, in the first place,
in the way of routine and mere forms...
ACiv 11.301 21
...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small
owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any
change...and those less interested are...averse to innovation. It is like free
trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of
certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat;...
EdAd 11.387 12
Certainly then this country does not lie here in the sun
causeless;...
EdAd 11.387 26
...we should certainly be gl