'Change [Exchange] to Charivari
'Change [Exchange], n. (2)
F 6.31 13
What good, honest, generous men at home, will be wolves and
foxes on 'Change!
Pow 6.79 1
Men whose opinion is valued on 'Change are only such as have
a special experience...
change, n. (66)
Nat 1.9 12
...every hour and change [in nature] corresponds to and
authorizes a different state of the mind...
Nat 1.40 22
...every chemical change...shall hint or thunder to man the laws
of right and wrong...
Nat 1.40 23
...every change of vegetation...shall hint or thunder to man the
laws of right and wrong...
Nat 1.50 20
The least change in our point of view gives the whole world a
pictorial air.
Nat 1.51 6
...the most wonted objects, (make a very slight change in the
point of vision,) please us most.
Nat 1.57 15
...[man] is transported out of the district of change.
MR 1.235 16
...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss
of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society...
MR 1.239 11
...[the heir] is converted from the owner into a watchman or a
watch-dog to this magazine of old and new chattels. What a change!
LT 1.267 8
The change and decline of old reputations are the gracious
marks of our own growth.
SR 2.84 16
...this change [in society] is not amelioration.
Comp 2.112 6
Of the like nature [to Fear] is that expectation of change
which instantly follows the suspension of our voluntary activity.
Cir 2.312 22
In my daily work I...do not believe...in the power of change
and reform.
Int 2.326 27
All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do
not make objects of voluntary thought...are subject to change...
Pt1 3.21 5
All the facts of the animal economy...are symbols of the passage
of the world into the soul of man, to suffer there a change and reappear a
new and higher fact.
Pt1 3.22 16
What we call nature is a certain self-regulated motion or
change;...
Pt1 3.25 6
Like the metamorphosis of things into higher organic forms is
[the poet's thoughts'] change into melodies.
Exp 3.55 13
We need change of objects.
Chr1 3.97 27
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Nat2 3.180 16
Motion or change and identity or rest are the first and second
secrets of nature...
UGM 4.19 8
The soul is impatient of masters and eager for change.
ET2 5.26 5
I wanted a change and a tonic, and England was proposed to me.
ET2 5.29 20
To the geologist...the land is in perpetual flux and change...
ET4 5.72 26
...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to
foot-service, as pure and proper manhood, without any mixture; whilst in a
victory on horseback, the credit ought to be divided betwixt the man and his
horse. But in two hundred years a change has taken place.
ET6 5.110 19
The English power resides also in their dislike of change.
ET10 5.167 13
The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the
man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and
presently, in a change of industry, whole towns are sacrificed...
ET13 5.223 25
...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in
politics, literature, or social arts.
ET13 5.228 25
The English, abhorring change in all things...are dreadfully
given to cant.
ET15 5.270 20
Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the
hour, yet being apprised of every ground-swell...[the editors of the London
Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
F 6.10 6
We sometimes see a change of expression in our companion...
Wsp 6.209 16
...[Christ's personality] recedes, as all persons must, before
the sublimity of the moral laws. From this change...there is a feeling that
religion is gone.
Wsp 6.218 17
The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard
will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius... The vulgar are sensible
of the change in you...
Wsp 6.238 18
If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another
and will be more. And so in relation to...that spectre clothed with beauty at
our curtain by night, at our table by day,--the apprehension, the assurance
of a coming change.
Civ 7.21 6
...the change of shores and population clears [a man's] head of
much nonsense of his wigwam.
Civ 7.22 8
Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and
pasturage, to agriculture.
DL 7.118 5
With a change of aim has followed a change of the whole scale
by which men and things were wont to be measured.
Suc 7.300 23
...every change in [the world] writes a record in the mind.
OA 7.313 20
...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me with a shining
cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by old,/
Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the best./
PI 8.11 23
...the aptness with which a river, a flower, a bird, fire, day or
night, can express [man's] fortunes, is as if the world...with a change of
form, rendered to him all his experience.
PI 8.26 16
Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the
truth,--As o'er our heads the seasons roll,/ And soothe with change of bliss
the soul/?
SA 8.84 2
...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our
countenance and carriage...
Res 8.152 16
If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or
fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that...though
insignificant enough in the general bareness of the forest, yet a great change
takes place in them between fall and spring;...
Insp 8.289 4
Novelty, surprise, change of scene, refresh the artist...
Imtl 8.328 15
[Sixty years ago] We were all taught that we were born to
die; and over that, all the terrors that theology could gather from savage
nations were added to increase the gloom. A great change has occurred.
Aris 10.58 22
...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a
sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which, through all change of
companions, of parties, of fortunes,-changes never...
PerF 10.86 8
...every change, every cause in Nature is nothing but a
disguised missionary.
Chr2 10.108 9
...the [religious] change is in what is superficial; the
principles are immortal...
Chr2 10.119 19
To nations or to individuals the progress of opinion is...
simply a change from coarser to finer checks.
SovE 10.185 6
...presently a mystic change is wrought...and [the man down
in Nature] is made a citizen of the world of souls...
MoL 10.245 10
...those who would check and guide have a dreary feeling
that in the change and decay of the old creeds and motives there was no
offset to supply their place.
LS 11.25 5
...I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can
deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising [the pastoral
office's] highest functions.
EWI 11.139 26
The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely...
to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no
less. Of course, the timid and base persons...shudder at the change...
War 11.165 27
...the least change in the man will change his
circumstances;...
ACiv 11.301 17
...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...
SMC 11.367 8
...though suffering at first some disadvantage from change
of commanders, and from severe losses, [the Thirty-second Regiment] grew
at last...to an excellent reputation...
SMC 11.372 21
June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An
awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth
of June comes at last a respite for a short space, during which...the officers
were able to send to the wagons and procure a change of clothes...
Wom 11.415 19
A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil;
the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite character, in the age of
Louis XIV...
FRep 11.529 7
As the globe keeps its identity by perpetual change, so our
civil system, by perpetual appeal to the people...
FRep 11.533 6
Contrast, change, interruption, are necessary to new
activity...
PLT 12.39 26
The senses report the new fact or change;...
PLT 12.40 1
...the mind discovers some essential copula binding this [new]
fact or change to a class of facts or changes...
CL 12.140 21
So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the
old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly
vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part...to undergo a change of state.
CL 12.151 23
In August...we observe already...that a change has passed on
the landscape.
CL 12.152 19
We know the healing effect on the sick of change of air...
Bost 12.183 8
...it was remarked that insulary people are versatile and
addicted to change...
Milt1 12.248 10
...the new criticism indicated a change in the public taste,
and a change which the poet [Milton] himself might claim to have wrought.
Milt1 12.248 11
...the new criticism indicated a change in the public taste,
and a change which the poet [Milton] himself might claim to have wrought.
change, v. (32)
Nat 1.18 17
The heavens change every moment...
LT 1.263 27
...there is [no fact] that will not change and pass away before a
person whose nature is broader than the person which the fact in question
represents.
LT 1.267 3
The reputations that were great and inaccessible change and
tarnish.
Con 1.298 6
...conservatism...is always...pleading that to change would be
to deteriorate...
Tran 1.332 17
One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...if I put a
gold eagle in my safe, I find it again to-morrow;-but for these thoughts, I
know not whence they are. They change and pass away.
Tran 1.356 19
...these old guardians never change their minds;...
Lov1 2.188 13
...the objects of the affections change...
OS 2.296 23
[The soul saith] I am somehow receptive of the great soul, and
thereby I do overlook the sun and the stars and feel them to be the fair
accidents and effects which change and pass.
Mrs1 3.142 11
A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for
a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and
demanded payment. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt
of honor; if an accident should happen to me, he has nothing to show. Then,
said the creditor, I change my debt into a debt of honor, and tore the note in
pieces.
Pol1 3.209 10
Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of
principle;...parties which...can easily change ground with each other in the
support of many of their measures.
SwM 4.129 12
In fact, in the spiritual world we change sexes every
moment.
ET7 5.121 7
[The English]...cannot easily change their opinions to suit the
hour.
ET14 5.255 2
[The English] parry earnest speech with banter and levity;
they laugh you down, or they change the subject.
Wth 6.87 19
Wealth begins...in two suits of clothes, so to change your
dress when you are wet;...
Wth 6.106 15
Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of
a loaf of bread and a pint of beer, that no wishing will change the rigorous
limits of pints and penny loaves;...knows all of political economy that the
budgets of empires can teach him.
Wth 6.119 13
A master in each art is required, because the practice is never
with still or dead subjects, but they change in your hands.
Ill 6.308 2
When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To
change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/
Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then
first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/
Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
Ill 6.322 12
Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed,
from one folly to another;...
Civ 7.20 22
The occasion of one of these starts of growth is always some
novelty that astounds the mind and provokes it to dare to change.
Elo1 7.64 19
The Koran says, A mountain may change its place, but a man
will not change his disposition;...
Elo1 7.80 22
...each man inquires if any orator can change his convictions.
WD 7.160 5
How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the
human body, as...in the boldest promiser of all,--the transfusion of the
blood,--which, in Paris, it was claimed, enables a man to change his blood
as often as his linen!
WD 7.177 20
Zoologists may deny that horse-hairs in the water change to
worms...
Cour 7.277 7
...baseness cannot change the appointed event.
PI 8.47 6
...in higher degrees, we know the instant power of music upon our
temperaments to change our mood...
PI 8.47 24
...all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt
thou change them...
Chr2 10.102 22
...when used with emphasis, [character] points to what no
events can change, that is, a will built on the reason of things.
Schr 10.282 22
...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of
persons to...change the course of life.
War 11.166 1
...the least change in the man will change his
circumstances;...
Wom 11.422 11
...one [man] would change nothing, and the other is
pleased with nothing;...
FRep 11.513 22
Our sleepy civilization...has built its whole art of war...on
that one compound [gunpowder]...and reckons Greeks and Romans and
Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times. As if the
earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the
discovery of any one of which could change the art of war again...
EurB 12.369 20
The influence [of Wordsworth]...was wafted up and down
into lone and into populous places...modifying opinions which it did not
change...
changed, adj. (5)
OS 2.290 4
From that inspiration [of the soul] the man comes back with a
changed tone.
Dem1 10.10 17
...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no
man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in
some hour the moon eclipses the luminary; and then first we notice that the
spots of light...correspond to the changed figure of the sun.
Chr2 10.107 20
So of the changed position and manners of the clergy.
Plu 10.303 11
...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost
authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which
uses the violence of war, of earthquakes and changed water-courses, to save
underground through barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
MLit 12.335 22
[The Genius of the time] will write the annals of a changed
world...
changed, v. (29)
Nat 1.14 2
By the aggregate of these aids [of the useful arts], how is the
face of the world changed...
Hist 2.13 27
...a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will. The adamant
streams into soft but precise form before it, and whilst I look at it its outline
and texture are changed again.
Hist 2.14 7
...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the
imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove...
Prd1 2.236 20
...every fact hath its roots in the soul, and if the soul were
changed would cease to be, or would become some other thing...
Cir 2.311 15
The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday...
have strangely changed their proportions.
Art1 2.361 15
[At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the
place...
Pt1 3.10 18
I remember when I was young how much I was moved one
morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at
table. He...had written hundreds of lines, but could not tell whether that
which was in him was therein told; he could tell nothing but that all was
changed...
UGM 4.24 15
Is it not a rare contrivance that lodged the due inertia in
every creature...the anger at being waked or changed?
MoS 4.185 19
...although society seems to be delivered over from the hands
of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as
the government is changed...yet, general ends are somehow answered.
NMW 4.242 18
The old, iron-bound, feudal France was changed into a
young Ohio or New York;...
NMW 4.246 16
On the shore of Ptolemais, gigantic projects agitated
[Napoleon]. Had Acre fallen, I should have changed the face of the world.
ET4 5.44 4
An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to
prove that races are imperishable, but nations are...easily changed or
destroyed.
ET10 5.161 16
By dint of steam and of money, war and commerce are
changed.
ET11 5.174 18
Piracy and war gave place [in England] to trade, politics
and letters; the war-lord to the law-lord; the law-lord to the merchant and
the mill-owner; but the privilege was kept, whilst the means of obtaining it
were changed.
ET16 5.274 12
Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes,
Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of
good time on it:--and he thinks he discovers that old Goethe found this out,
and, in his later writings, changed his tone.
ET17 5.291 3
In these comments on an old journey [English Traits], now
revised after seven busy years have much changed men and things in
England, I have abstained from reference to persons...
ET17 5.295 2
[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.
ET19 5.313 9
Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship
parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which
came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so...
I feel in regard to this aged England...irretrievably committed as she now is
to many old customs which cannot be suddenly changed;...
F 6.26 8
All things are touched and changed by [the mind].
Wsp 6.215 23
...a day comes when [a man] begins to care that he do not
cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into
a chariot of the sun.
PI 8.47 24
...all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt
thou change them, and they shall be changed...
Supl 10.161 1
When wrath and terror changed Jove's port/ And the rash-leaping
thunderbolt fell short./
LLNE 10.329 6
...chemistry, which is the analysis of matter, has taught us
that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas. The same
decomposition has changed the whole face of physics;...
AKan 11.258 23
That is the theory of the American State, that it exists to
execute the will of the citizens...and is always to be changed when it does
not.
HCom 11.344 5
Scholars changed the black coat for the blue.
RBur 11.440 11
...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that
great uprising of the middle class...which, not in governments so much as in
education and social order, has changed the face of the world.
CL 12.150 15
In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a
man] does not know them;...
CL 12.153 11
At Niagara, I have noticed, that, as quick as I got out of the
wetting of the Fall, all the grandeur changed into beauty.
CL 12.153 16
...on the shore...[the sea] is changed into a beauty as of gems
and clouds.
changeful, adj. (1)
SMC 11.348 21
...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's
changeful sky/...
changes, n. (37)
Nat 1.25 12
...the use of outer creation [is] to give us language for the
beings and changes of the inward creation.
Nat 1.31 19
The poet...bred in the woods, whose senses have been
nourished by their fair and appeasing changes...shall not lose their lesson
altogether...
Nat 1.40 18
All things...in their boundless changes have an unceasing
reference to spiritual nature.
Nat 1.50 15
Certain mechanical changes, a small alteration in our local
position, apprizes us of a dualism.
LE 1.169 26
Undoubtedly the changes of geology have a relation to the
prosperous sprouting of the corn and peas in my kitchen garden;...
LT 1.262 8
They indicate,-these...figures of the only race in which there
are individuals or changes, how far on the Fate has gone...
Con 1.300 11
...the superior beauty is with...the man who has subsisted for
years amid the changes of nature, yet has distanced himself...
Tran 1.359 14
Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be
superseded;...these cities...ruined...by new inventions, by new seats of trade,
or the geologic changes...
Hist 2.32 26
In splendid variety these changes come...
SR 2.84 14
[Society] undergoes continual changes;...
Comp 2.124 19
The changes which break up at short intervals the
prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth.
SL 2.156 22
No man need be deceived who will study the changes of
expression.
Int 2.341 4
[The poet]...detects more likeness than variety in all [Nature's]
changes.
Pt1 3.36 27
We have all seen changes as considerable in wheat and
caterpillars.
Nat2 3.179 23
All changes [in Efficient Nature] pass without violence...
NER 3.253 24
...there were changes of employment dictated by conscience.
MoS 4.172 11
...the interrogation of custom at all points...is the evidence of
[the superior mind's] perception of the flowing power which remains itself
in all changes.
F 6.14 23
Lodged in the parent animal, [the vesicle] suffers changes which
end in unsheathing miraculous capability in the unaltered vesicle...
F 6.20 11
...Vishnu follows Maya through all her ascending changes...
F 6.38 5
Of what changes then in sky and earth...does the appearance of
some Dante or Columbus apprise us!
Wth 6.101 20
The coin is a delicate meter of civil, social and moral
changes.
Wth 6.102 12
...still more curious is [the dollar's] susceptibility to
metaphysical changes.
Bty 6.292 23
This is the theory of dancing, to recover continually in
changes the lost equilibrium...
Ill 6.325 22
Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to
baffle and distract [the young mortal].
WD 7.167 11
Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days, in
which he marked the changes of the Greek year...
WD 7.176 11
The order of changes in the egg determines the age of fossil
strata.
PI 8.15 21
The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the
nouns of language...
PI 8.50 24
Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of
extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or
to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of
mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
Insp 8.287 21
Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your
window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival. It
needs no instructed ear;...it has...at the changes, tones of triumph...
Grts 8.305 5
There are to each function and department of Nature
supplementary men: to geology...men, with a taste for mountains and rocks,
a quick eye for differences and for chemical changes.
Chr2 10.108 7
The changes are inevitable;...
EzRy 10.392 18
...Save us from the extremity of cold and these violent
sudden changes.
War 11.166 9
...the least change in the man will change his
circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man
was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with
right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most
striking changes of external things...
SHC 11.434 18
...when I think of the mystery of life...the speed of the
changes of that glittering dream we call existence,-I think sometimes that
the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with
path of Suns, insea of foot-paths;...
PLT 12.40 2
...the mind discovers some essential copula binding this [new]
fact or change to a class of facts or changes...
CL 12.164 4
Nature speaks to the imagination;...because her visible
productions and changes are the nouns of language...
Trag 12.414 14
Time the consoler, Time the rich carrier of all changes,
dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures...on our eye, new voices on
our ear.
changes, v. (16)
Lov1 2.186 12
...that which drew [lovers] to each other was signs of
loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are there, however eclipsed.
They appear and reappear and continue to attract; but the regard changes...
Exp 3.72 12
...there is that in us which changes not...
NER 3.270 13
We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always
invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.
ET11 5.183 26
The hardest radical [in England] instantly uncovers and
changes his tone to a lord.
F 6.7 17
The sea changes its bed.
Elo1 7.78 26
...[Caesar] changes the face of the world...
Elo1 7.82 12
...if there be personality in the orator, the face of things
changes.
Farm 7.153 7
...[the farmer] changes the face of the landscape.
PI 8.18 16
Why changes not the violet earth into musk?
PI 8.18 19
...I see that a devouring unity changes all into that which
changes not.
PI 8.18 20
...I see that a devouring unity changes all into that which
changes not.
Aris 10.58 23
...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a
sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...changes never...
Prch 10.236 25
The Sabbath changes its forms from age to age...
CL 12.158 5
There are probably many in this audience who have tried the
experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape
with your eyes upside down. What new softness in the picture! It changes
the landscape from November into June.
Milt1 12.247 19
[The fame of a great man] changes with time.
MLit 12.330 1
...the ideal is truer than the actual. That is ephemeral, but
this changes not.
changing, adj. (3)
Comp 2.91 5
In changing moon, in tidal wave,/ Glows the feud of Want
and Have./
SMC 11.351 21
'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord
Monument]...mixes with surrounding nature,-by day with the changing
seasons, by night the stars roll over it gladly...
Bost 12.185 16
[Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows
rather, of east winds and changing skies;...
changing, v. (3)
WD 7.163 17
[Man] sees the skull of the English race changing from its
Saxon type under the exigencies of American life.
SovE 10.207 24
If theology shows that opinions are fast changing, it is not
so with the convictions of men with regard to conduct.
AgMs 12.361 5
Our [New England] roads are always changing their
direction...
Channel, English, adj. (1)
ET6 5.102 18
...Sydney Smith had made it a proverb that little Lord John
Russell, the minister, would take command of the Channel fleet to-morrow.
Channel, English, n. (1)
ET11 5.191 26
In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell
the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper
at his council table...and the baker will not bring bread any longer.
Meantime the English Channel was swept and London threatened by the
Dutch fleet...
channel, n. (15)
LE 1.181 21
...the lower faculties of man are subdued to docility; through
which as an unobstructed channel the soul now easily and gladly flows?
MN 1.210 7
[A man's] health and greatness consist in his being the channel
through which heaven flows to earth...
LT 1.263 9
...[persons] are the channel of supernatural powers.
SL 2.134 17
[Men of extraordinary success's] success lay in their
parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed
channel;...
SL 2.141 3
...[each man] sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an
infinite sea.
Gts 3.162 1
The law of benefits is a difficult channel, which requires
careful sailing, or rude boats.
Nat2 3.196 19
That power...which makes the whole and the particle its
equal channel...distils its essence into every drop of rain.
NR 3.242 3
...rightly every man is a channel through which heaven
floweth...
NER 3.282 12
This open channel to the highest life is the first and last
reality...
GoW 4.261 12
The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the
river its channel in the soil;...
ET2 5.33 2
...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom
of all the main...
ET5 5.86 14
Before the bombardment of the Danish forts in the Baltic,
Nelson spent day after day, himself, in the boats, on the exhausting service
of sounding the channel.
CbW 6.247 23
The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies
we call fate, love and reason, visibly stream.
Schr 10.273 12
We who should be the channel of that unweariable Power
which never sleeps, must give our diligence no holidays.
PLT 12.16 25
Who has found the boundaries of human intelligence? Who
has made a chart of its channel...
channels, n. (13)
DSA 1.124 19
In so far as [a man] roves from these [good] ends...his being
shrinks out of all remote channels...
Cir 2.314 18
Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact
be drawn to their counterpart...
Exp 3.67 20
Power keeps quite another road than the turnpikes of choice
and will; namely the subterranean and invisible tunnels and channels of life.
NER 3.281 27
There is power over and behind us, and we are the channels
of its communications.
UGM 4.7 18
...each legitimate idea makes its own channels...
UGM 4.15 27
...these unchoked channels and floodgates of expression [in
Shakspeare] are only health or fortunate constitution.
PPh 4.69 10
The universe is perforated by a million channels for [the
supreme Good's] activity.
ShP 4.198 24
Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by
which the senator is made aware of their wishes;...
Ctr 6.162 21
[The finished man of the world]...values men only as channels
of power.
DL 7.121 7
What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch?
It is the iron band...of austerity, which...has directed their activity in safe
and right channels...
FRep 11.534 6
A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on
what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a far-off copy
of Osborne House or the Elysee. The tendency of this is...to extinguish
individualism and choke up all the channels of inspiration from God in man.
PLT 12.28 8
'T is only the source that we can see;-the eternal mind,
careless of its channels...
Milt1 12.276 8
Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these
wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of
regret...that [the men]...were channels through which streams of thought
flowed from a higher source, which they did not appropriate...
Channing, William Ellery, n (21)
ET1 5.10 20
[Coleridge] spoke of Dr. Channing.
ET1 5.11 15
[Coleridge] was very sorry that Dr. Channing...should
embrace such [Unitarian] views.
ET1 5.11 19
When [Coleridge] saw Dr. Channing he had hinted to him that
he was afraid he loved Christianity for what was lovely and excellent...
ET1 5.21 4
[Wordsworth] alluded once or twice to his conversation with
Dr. Channing...
Ctr 6.135 20
Have you seen Mr. Allston, Doctor Channing, Mr. Adams,
Mr. Webster, Mr. Greenough?
Wsp 6.204 10
The decline of the influence...of Wesley, or Channing, need
give us no uneasiness.
Imtl 8.346 26
You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any
resurrection? What do you think? Did Dr. Channing believe that we should
know each other?...
Prch 10.231 12
Buckminster, Channing, Dr. Lowell, Edward Taylor,
Parker, Bushnell, Chapin,-it is they who have been necessary...
LLNE 10.330 13
The popular religion of our fathers had received many
severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary
influence of Swedenborg;...then the powerful influence of the genius and
character of Dr. Channing.
LLNE 10.339 10
I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr.
Channing...
LLNE 10.339 16
Dr. Channing, whilst he lived, was the star of the
American Church...
LLNE 10.340 11
Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley,
to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people
together...
LLNE 10.340 19
Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's house on the
appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to open.
LLNE 10.341 4
Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to
Mr. and Mrs. Ripley...
CSC 10.375 11
Dr. Channing, Edward Taylor, Bronson Alcott...and many
other persons of a mystical or sectarian of philanthropic renown, were
present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
MMEm 10.402 16
[Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton,
Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards, and always the Bible.
Later...Channing, Mackintosh, Byron.
MMEm 10.422 24
Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know
those of a worse war,-private animosities...
MMEm 10.423 14
...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries
of the battle-field, with the sensitive Channing...what of a few days of
agony...compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
EWI 11.115 13
I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which
Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of
emancipation] in the island of Antigua. It has been quoted in every
newspaper, and Dr. Channing has given it additional fame.
SHC 11.428 25
...Forget man's littleness, deserve the best,/ God's mercy in
thy thought and life confest./ William Ellery Channing.
ACri 12.302 8
Here is my friend E., the model of opinionists.
Channing, William H., n. (1)
LLNE 10.341 15
Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis,
Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke,
William H. Channing and many others, gradually drew together...
Channing, William Henry, n. (1)
LLNE 10.363 21
Rev. William Henry Channing, now of London, was from
the first a student of Socialism in France and England...
Channing's, William Ellery, (1)
Supl 10.166 27
Doctor Channing's piety and wisdom had such weight that,
in Boston, the popular idea of religion was whatever this eminent divine
held.
Chanson de Roland, n. (1)
PC 8.213 26
...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the
productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an
example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the opposite
province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...
chant, n. (3)
AmS 1.88 24
The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man: henceforth the
chant is divine also.
DSA 1.129 10
The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's
lips...
SwM 4.109 13
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on
unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...ten thousand times
reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.
chant, v. (5)
NR 3.227 19
...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral
law, he would eat too much gingerbread...
ET13 5.227 20
[The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and
pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a
Bishop];...
Suc 7.309 15
...chant the beauty of the good.
PI 8.57 8
It costs the early bard little talent to chant more impressively than
the later, more cultivated poets.
CL 12.134 7
Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In
the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./
Wonderful verse of the gods,/ Of one import, of varied tone;/ They chant
the bliss of their abodes/ To man imprisoned in his own./
chanted, v. (5)
LE 1.167 10
Poetry has scarce chanted its first song.
ET13 5.218 11
In York minster...I heard the service of evening prayer read
and chanted in the choir.
F 6.1 4
Birds with auguries on their wings/ Chanted undeceiving things,/
[The bard] to beckon, him to warn;/...
PPo 8.239 22
Such [amatory] verses, chanted by their self-taught poets...
will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...
Thor 10.475 14
...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in
describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one. They
ought...to have chanted to the gods such a hymn as would have sung all
their old ideas out of their heads, and new ones in.
chanticleer, n. (1)
EdAd 11.389 8
We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts
the country into an immense chanticleer;...
chanting, adj. (1)
LE 1.167 23
Further inquiry will discover...that not these chanting poets
themselves, knew anything sincere of these handsome natures they so
commended;...
chanting, v. (3)
AmS 1.88 23
The poet chanting was felt to be a divine man...
Fdsp 2.195 3
High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the
meaning of all my thoughts. These are...Apollo and the Muses chanting still.
ET1 5.23 6
...recollecting myself, that I had come thus far to see a poet and
he was chanting poems to me, I saw that [Wordsworth] was right and I was
wrong...
chants, n. (1)
ShP 4.190 16
The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps,
and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a
cathedral needed by her chants and processions.
chaos, n. (23)
MN 1.206 6
[Every child]...is a demon or god thrown into a particular
chaos...
Exp 3.78 3
Any invasion of [life's] unity would be chaos.
NER 3.283 15
...[men] believe...that right is done at last; or chaos would
come.
UGM 4.35 8
It is for man to tame the chaos;...
PPh 4.69 19
...there is another, which is as much more beautiful than
beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom...
PPh 4.76 26
Here is the world...perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos
left...
SwM 4.140 18
...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a
capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is...to carry individualism
and its fopperies into the realm of essences and generals,--which is
dislocation and chaos.
MoS 4.170 17
A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line,
but random and chaos...dispirits us.
ET1 5.13 1
I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's
pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work.
Yes, he said, the man was a chaos of truths...
ET4 5.60 11
...the old fossil world shows that the first steps of reducing the
chaos were confided to saurians and other huge and horrible animals...
F 6.32 1
...every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is
convertible by intellect into wholesome force.
F 6.48 21
...the indwelling necessity plants the rose of beauty on the brow
of chaos...
Wth 6.84 6
...when the quarried means were piled,/ All is waste and
worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/ And, out of slime and chaos,
Wit/ Draws the threads of fair and fit./
Ctr 6.166 17
...at last culture shall absorb the chaos and gehenna.
WD 7.164 3
...the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of
chaos...
PI 8.41 14
...dewdrop and haze and the pencil of light are as long-lived as
chaos and darkness.
Res 8.147 18
Against the terrors of the mob, which...is...chaos come again,
good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.
Dem1 10.26 27
[The demonologic] is a lawless world. We have...come into
the realm or chaos of chance and pretty or ugly confusion;...
Aris 10.33 16
The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people
dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a
relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man,
billows of chaos...
Schr 10.280 6
...there is but one defence against this principle of chaos...
FSLN 11.226 6
In the final hour...did [Webster] take...the side of humanity
and justice, or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
PLT 12.20 16
Without identity at base, chaos must be forever.
Trag 12.413 26
Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his
proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...but let any
shock take place in society...and at once his type of permanence is shaken.
The disorder of his neighbors appears to him universal disorder; chaos is
come again.
Chaos, n. (9)
Con 1.296 21
...I hold what I have got; and so I resist Night and Chaos.
SR 2.47 26
...we are...guides, redeemers and benefactors...advancing on
Chaos and the Dark.
Comp 2.122 7
...in a virtuous act I add to the world; I plant into deserts
conquered from Chaos and Nothing...
Mrs1 3.147 5
...As Heaven and Earth are fairer far/ Than Chaos and blank
Darkness, though once chiefs/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
ShP 4.218 21
...that this man of men [Shakespeare], he who...planted the
standard of humanity some furlongs forward into Chaos,--that he should not
be wise for himself;--it must even go into the world's history that the best
poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public
amusement.
GoW 4.273 3
The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos;...
PerF 10.70 26
...the strata were deposited and uptorn and bent back, and
Chaos moved from beneath, to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
ACri 12.289 21
Natural science gives us the inks, the shades; ink of
Erebus-night of Chaos.
Let 12.402 13
A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe
from Chaos and old Night...
chaotic, adj. (3)
AmS 1.86 1
...what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are
not chaotic...
Edc1 10.131 6
...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the
means of classifying the most refractory phenomena, of depriving them of
all casual and chaotic aspect...
MMEm 10.425 15
Not to complain of the poor old earth's chaotic state,
brought so near in its long and gloomy transmutings by the geologist.
Chapel, Chardon Street, n. (1)
CSC 10.373 3
In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of
Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston...
Chapel, King's College, Ca (2)
ET12 5.199 7
I regret that I had but a single day wherein to see King's
College Chapel [Cambridge]...
F 6.36 25
Christopher Wren said of the beautiful King's College chapel,
that if anybody would tell him where to lay the first stone, he would build
such another.
Chapel, Moravian, n. (1)
EWI 11.116 9
At Grace Hill, [the day after emancipation in the West
Indies] there were at least a thousand persons around the Moravian Chapel
who could not get in.
chapel, n. (14)
Con 1.321 5
The corporation were advised to...build a Catholic chapel...
Mrs1 3.125 2
My gentleman...will outpray saints in chapel...
ET13 5.218 2
The carved and pictured chapel...made the parish-church [in
England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.
ET13 5.220 26
When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman
come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his
smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays
with him...
QO 8.184 27
...[Grimm] says that Louis XVI., going out of chapel after
hearing a sermon from the Abbe Maury, said, Si l'Abbe nous avait parle un
peu de religion, il nous aurait parle de tout.
Chr2 10.119 13
...[the infant soul's] narrow chapel expands to the blue
cathedral of the sky...
Prch 10.229 6
...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions, as
betrayed in the clinging to a form of devotion or a theological dogma; as if
it was the liturgy, or the chapel that was sacred...
LLNE 10.334 13
...not a sentence was written in academic exercises, not a
declamation attempted in the college chapel, but showed the omnipresence
of [Everett's] genius to youthful heads.
EWI 11.116 14
At Grace Bay, [the day following emancipation in the West
Indies] the people, all dressed in white, formed a procession, and walked
arm in arm into the chapel.
EWI 11.138 4
This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the
friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that
superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which...has made it a
proverb in Massachusetts, that eloquence is dog-cheap at the anti-slavery
chapel.
Shak1 11.450 15
Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's]
sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any tree, a room in any
inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest hours.
MAng1 12.234 10
When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV.
desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last
Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he
replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and
he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
MAng1 12.234 23
When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine]
chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold,
Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the
characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...
MLit 12.328 10
[Goethe's] are the bright and terrible eyes which meet the
modern student in every sacred chapel of thought...
Chapel, Sistine, Rome, Ita (5)
Pow 6.72 18
When Michel Angelo was forced to paint the Sistine Chapel in
fresco...he went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with
a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
DL 7.131 5
...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets,
painted in fresco by Michel Angelo...
MAng1 12.226 24
When the Sistine Chapel was prepared for him, that he
might paint the ceiling, [Michelangelo] found the platform on which he was
to work suspended by ropes which passed through the ceiling.
MAng1 12.228 2
[Michelangelo] finished the gigantic painting of the
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in twenty months...
MAng1 12.230 6
[Michelangelo's] paintings are in the Sistine Chapel...
Chapel, Stone, Boston, Mas (1)
RBur 11.443 6
The doves perching always on the eaves of the Stone
Chapel opposite, may know something about [the memory of Burns].
chapels, n. (8)
EWI 11.111 23
...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted
by the planters, their lives threatened, their chapels burned...
EWI 11.114 22
On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the
West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels...
EWI 11.115 6
Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the
announcement of emancipation in the West Indies], anticipating
insurrection and general murder. With far different thoughts, the negroes
spent the hour in their huts and chapels.
EWI 11.115 22
The first of August [1834] came on Friday, and a release
was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies] until the next Monday.
The day was chiefly spent by the great mass of the negroes in the churches
and chapels.
EWI 11.116 5
The [West Indian] planters informed us that [the day after
emancipation] they went to the chapels where their own people were
assembled...
EWI 11.120 22
Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation
day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God,
and the churches and chapels were everywhere filled with these happy
people in humble offering of praise.
EWI 11.121 20
[Charles Metcalfe] further describes the erection of
numerous churches, chapels and schools which the new population [of
Jamaica] required...
MAng1 12.236 4
When the Pope, delighted with one of his chapels, sent
[Michelangelo] one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages,
Michael sent them back.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbell, n. (1)
Prch 10.231 13
Buckminster, Channing, Dr. Lowell, Edward Taylor,
Parker, Bushnell, Chapin,-it is they who have been necessary...
chaplain, n. (4)
ET13 5.222 3
Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army
chaplain...
MMEm 10.400 4
[Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the
the American army at Ticonderoga...
HDC 11.72 10
In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the
enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson, the chaplain of the
Provincial Congress, preached to the people.
HDC 11.78 1
...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town
[Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern
army, at Ticonderoga...
chaplaincy, n. (1)
ET13 5.226 13
...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or
rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards...
chaplet, n. (2)
ET19 5.312 8
I seem to hear you say, that for all that is come and gone yet,
we will not reduce by one chaplet or one oak-leaf the braveries of our
annual feast.
ACri 12.298 15
...one would think, the English people would...signify, by
crowning [Carlyle] with a chaplet of oak-leaves, their joy that such a head
existed among them...
chaplets, Flora's, n. (1)
Nat2 3.177 15
...I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood-cutters and Indians
should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms
of all the Wreaths and Flora's chaplets of the bookshops;...
chaplets, n. (1)
Fdsp 2.196 25
The root of the plant is not unsightly to science, though for
chaplets and festoons we cut the stem short.
Chapman, George, n. (11)
Pt1 3.31 7
...George Chapman, following [Timaeus], writes, So in our tree
of man, whose nervie root/ Springs in his top;/...
ShP 4.192 13
The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the
crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd, Marlow,
Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Decker, Webster, Heywood, Middleton, Peele,
Ford, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
ShP 4.203 22
...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and
acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of whom exists some token
of his having communicated, without enumerating many others whom
doubtless he saw...Marlow, Chapman and the rest.
ET4 5.47 11
How came such men as...William Shakspeare, George
Chapman...
ET14 5.238 17
...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...Chapman, Milton,
Crashaw...
ET14 5.256 8
How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle
through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed! We want the
miraculous;...the beauty of which Chaucer and Chapman had the secret.
Boks 7.207 6
Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare...
Chapman...
Boks 7.208 3
Walton, Chapman, Herrick and Sir Henry Wotton write also
to the times.
Clbs 7.243 21
We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare...
Chapman...
PI 8.50 1
Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see how wide they fly
for weapons...
MLit 12.311 19
How can the age be a bad one which gives me...Saint
Augustine, Spinoza, Chapman...beside its own riches?
Chapman, Maria W., n. (1)
CSC 10.375 15
...Edward, Palmer, Jones Very, Maria W. Chapman and
many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were
present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
Chapman's, George, n. (1)
Boks 7.197 22
Of Homer, George Chapman's is the heroic translation...
chapter, n. (36)
AmS 1.82 14
Year by year we come up hither to read one more chapter of
[the American Scholar's] biography.
Hist 2.30 15
Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of
Europe...[the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
Comp 2.96 11
I shall attempt in this and the following chapter to record
some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation;...
Exp 3.69 15
...I have set my heart on honesty in this chapter...
SwM 4.135 2
Palestine is ever the more valuable as a chapter in universal
history, and ever the less an available element in education.
ET10 5.157 15
It is a curious chapter in modern history, the growth of the
machine-shop.
ET13 5.218 23
Here in England every day a chapter of Genesis, and a
leader in the Times.
ET17 5.291 5
In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have
abstained from reference to persons, except in the last chapter...
Ctr 6.132 9
Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the Canon Yeman's
Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4, against alchemy.
Bhr 6.182 7
Balzac left in manuscript a chapter which he called Theorie de
la demarche...
Bty 6.286 20
So inveterate is our habit of criticism that much of our
knowledge in this direction belongs to the chapter of pathology.
Ill 6.313 3
The chapter of fascinations is very long.
DL 7.120 3
...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...stealing
time to read one chapter more of the novel hardly smuggled into the
tolerance of father and mother...
Boks 7.195 13
There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many
hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you
read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye.
Boks 7.202 24
If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of
Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he will
find it one of the majestic remains of literature...
Clbs 7.243 19
...a history of clubs...tracing the clubs and coteries in each
country, would be an important chapter in history.
Cour 7.277 16
I am permitted to enrich my chapter by adding an anecdote
of pure courage from real life...
OA 7.315 11
[Josiah Quincy]...made a sort of running commentary on
Cicero's chapter De Senectute.
PI 8.69 15
...[Goethe's Faust] is a very disagreeable chapter of literature...
Res 8.150 21
The chapter of pastimes is very long.
Res 8.153 13
It is easy to see that there is no limit to the chapter of
Resources.
Aris 10.32 13
In the sketches which I have to offer [on Aristocracy] I shall
not be surprised if my readers should fancy that I am giving them...a
chapter on Education.
Aris 10.32 18
It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I
am describing...a chapter of Templars who sit indifferently in all climates...
Prch 10.229 1
What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers
inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they
would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter,
provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
Plu 10.299 18
[Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of
his readers...respectfully skipping to the next chapter.
Plu 10.303 26
...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars, and carry a
faint memory of the argument or general design of the chapter;...
Plu 10.305 14
[Plutarch's] chapter On Fortune should be read by poets, and
other wise men;...
Plu 10.305 16
...the vigor of [Plutarch's] pen appears in the chapter
Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned, and in his attack
upon Userers.
Plu 10.314 9
I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch'
s chapter called Pleasure not attainable by Epicurus...a more sweet and
reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...
Plu 10.317 17
I know that the chapter of Apothegms of Noble Commanders
is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch;...
LLNE 10.368 23
Some of [the partners] had spent on [Brook Farm] the
accumulations of years. I suppose they all, at the moment, regarded it as a
failure. I do not think they can so regard it now, but probably as an
important chapter in their experience which has been of lifelong value.
GSt 10.504 7
[George Stearns's] examination before the United States
Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth
reading...
LS 11.14 2
The end which [St. Paul] has in view, in the eleventh chapter of
the first Epistle [to the Corinthians], is not to enjoin upon his friends to
observe the [Lord's] Supper, but to censure their abuse of it.
EWI 11.135 23
[Emancipation in the West Indies] was the masters
revolting from their mastery. The slave-holder said, I will not hold slaves.
The end was noble and the means were pure. Hence the elevation and
pathos of this chapter of history.
EdAd 11.390 27
Will [a journal] measure itself with the chapter on
Slavery...
EurB 12.378 18
We must...adjourn the rest of our critical chapter to a more
convenient season.
Chapter, n. (1)
Aris 10.61 2
In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to
carry himself royally and well;...
chapters, n. (9)
ET11 5.193 11
The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts,
Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre, and now and then
darker scandals break out, ominous as the new chapters added under the
Orleans dynasty to the Causes Celebres in France.
Pow 6.80 14
I adjourn what I have to say on this topic [the limit to the
value of talent and superficial success] to the chapters on Culture and
Worship.
Wsp 6.204 20
In the last chapters we treated some particulars of the
question of culture.
DL 7.106 19
The first ride into the country...the books of the nursery, are
new chapters of joy [to the child].
Plu 10.296 26
M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral
philosophy...in the Revue des Deux Mondes; and M. C. Martha, chapters on
the genius of Marcus Aurelius, of Persius and Lucretius, in the same
journal;...
Plu 10.300 18
I do not know where to find a book-to borrow a phrase of
Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch], and this in chapters
chiefly ethical...
Plu 10.305 22
Many of [Plutarch's discourses] are mere sketches or notes
for chapters in preparation...
Plu 10.309 3
In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the
relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for
instruction.
Plu 10.318 16
The chapters On the Fortune of Alexander, in [Plutarch's]
Morals, are an important appendix to the portrait in the Lives.
character, n. (464)
Nat 1.15 13
...perspective is produced, which integrates every mass of
objects, of what character soever, into a well colored and shaded globe...
Nat 1.22 9
...whosoever has seen a person of powerful character...will have
remarked how easily he took all things along with him...
Nat 1.29 24
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol...
depends on the simplicity of his character...
Nat 1.30 1
When simplicity of character...is broken up...the power over
nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
Nat 1.38 5
The whole character and fortune of the individual are affected
by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding;...
Nat 1.40 3
...[man] is learning the secret that he can...conform all facts to
his character.
Nat 1.41 7
This ethical character so penetrates the bone and marrow of
nature, as to seem the end for which it was made.
Nat 1.46 18
...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought, and,
whilst his character retains all its unconscious effect, is converted in the
mind into solid and sweet wisdom, - it is a sign to us that his office is
closing...
AmS 1.82 16
Let us inquire what light new days and events have thrown on
[the American Scholar's] character and his hopes.
AmS 1.91 23
It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from
the best books.
AmS 1.99 6
Character is higher than intellect.
AmS 1.113 4
[Swedenborg] pierced the emblematic or spiritual character of
the visible, audible, tangible world.
AmS 1.115 12
Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...not to be reckoned
one character;...
DSA 1.123 6
Character is always known.
DSA 1.129 21
...[Jesus] knew that this daily miracle shines as the character
ascends.
DSA 1.141 10
What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered
company of pious men...who...have...accepted...from their own heart, the
genuine impulses of virtue, and so still command our love and awe, to the
sanctity of character.
DSA 1.143 3
It is already beginning to indicate character and religion to
withdraw from the religious meetings.
DSA 1.144 14
The stationariness of religion;...the fear of degrading the
character of Jesus by representing him as a man; - indicate...the falsehood
of our theology.
LE 1.157 5
...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of
fair outline, but empty,-which whoso sees may fill with what wit and
character is in him...
LE 1.161 6
If you would know the power of character, see how much you
would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives
of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...
LE 1.180 11
...they say the bough of the tree has the character of the leaf...
MN 1.201 11
There is...no detachment of an individual. Hence the catholic
character which makes every leaf an exponent of the world.
MN 1.205 6
...[the ocean] it has no character until seen with the shore or
the ship.
MN 1.206 12
Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to
translate the world into some particular language of its own;...into...a
character...
MN 1.218 12
Genius...draws its means and the style of its architecture from
within, going abroad only for audience and spectator, as we adapt our voice
and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to.
MN 1.222 21
Do what you know, and perception is converted into
character...
MR 1.244 21
[Our friend] is accustomed to carpets, and we have not
sufficient character to put floor cloths out of his mind while he stays in the
house...
MR 1.256 10
There is a sublime prudence...which...postpones talent to
genius, and special results to character.
LT 1.274 22
The more intelligent are growing uneasy on the subject of
Marriage. They wish to see the character represented also in that covenant.
LT 1.277 27
I cannot feel any pleasure in sacrifices which display to me
such partiality of character.
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.
LT 1.287 7
...it is only when surveyed from inferior points of view that
great varieties of character appear.
Con 1.303 5
We have all a certain intellection or presentiment of reform
existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character...
Con 1.310 17
[Existing institutions] really have so much flexibility as to
afford your talent and character...the same chance of demonstration and
success which they might have if there was no law and no property.
Con 1.313 9
The order of things is as good as the character of the
population permits.
Con 1.313 26
...see you not how every personal character reacts on the
form, and makes it new?
Con 1.322 22
Which is that state which promises to edify a great, brave,
and beneficent man; to...tax the strength of his character?
Tran 1.338 11
...we have yet no man who has leaned entirely on his
character...
Tran 1.343 15
To behold the beauty of another character...these are degrees
on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have
ascended;...
Tran 1.358 15
...in society...there must be a few persons of purer fire kept
specially as gauges and meters of character;...
YA 1.375 18
Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of
thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter.
Hist 2.7 4
We have the same interest in condition and character.
Hist 2.7 10
All literature writes the character of the wise man.
Hist 2.7 19
[The true aspirant] hears the commendation...of that character
he seeks, in every word that is said concerning character...
Hist 2.7 21
[The true aspirant] hears the commendation...of that character
he seeks, in every word that is said concerning character...
Hist 2.14 16
How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the
same character!
Hist 2.19 24
The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock,
says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the
Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
SR 2.46 22
Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much
impression on [a man], and another none.
SR 2.54 8
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to
you is that it scatters your force. It...blurs the impression of your character.
SR 2.58 10
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;...
SR 2.58 22
Character teaches above our wills.
SR 2.59 18
The force of character is cumulative.
SR 2.61 3
Character, reality, reminds you of nothing else;...
SR 2.68 2
We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of...tutors,
and, as they grow older, of the men of...character they chance to see...
Comp 2.93 12
The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation]
is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands...the influence of character...
Comp 2.100 22
Under all governments the influence of character remains
the same...
Comp 2.101 9
Each new form repeats not only the main character of the
type...
Comp 2.103 22
...to gratify the senses we sever the pleasure of the senses
from the needs of the character.
Comp 2.125 7
...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant,
and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were
a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen, and
not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and
no settled character...
Comp 2.126 22
The death of a dear friend...somewhat later assumes the
aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...breaks up a wonted
occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of
new ones more friendly to the growth of character.
SL 2.137 23
He who...thoroughly knows how knowledge is acquired and
character formed, is a pedant.
SL 2.140 22
Has [a man] not a calling in his character?
SL 2.142 13
[A man] must find in [his vocation] an outlet for his character...
SL 2.142 15
If the labor is mean, let [a man] by his thinking and character
make it liberal.
SL 2.142 22
Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that
thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle of your
character and aims.
SL 2.144 2
A man's genius...determines for him the character of the
universe.
SL 2.144 23
...a few traits of character, manners, face...have an emphasis in
your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you
measure them by the ordinary standards.
SL 2.152 17
...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their
own character and experience to the company.
SL 2.156 1
Human character evermore publishes itself.
SL 2.156 4
...the intimated purpose, expresses character.
SL 2.156 4
If you act you show character;...
SL 2.161 27
The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his
whole being without obstruction, so that on what point soever of his doing
your eye falls it shall report truly of his character...
Lov1 2.169 16
The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private
and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and...
adds to his character heroic and sacred attributes...
Lov1 2.178 2
[The lover] is a new man, with...a religious solemnity of
character and aims.
Lov1 2.179 20
[Beauty's] nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres,
hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things,
which all have this rainbow character...
Lov1 2.182 2
...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire
strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their
discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
Lov1 2.188 21
...the warm loves and fears, that swept over us as clouds,
must lose their finite character and blend with God, to attain their own
perfection.
Fdsp 2.194 21
...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my
friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels
the thick walls of individual character...
Fdsp 2.204 18
...we can scarce believe that so much character can subsist in
another as to draw us by love.
Prd1 2.222 10
The world of the senses...has a symbolic character;...
Prd1 2.228 14
Our American character is marked by a more than average
delight in accurate perception...
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 2.245 16
...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain
heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep
grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident
in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.
Hsm1 2.248 2
Thomas Carlyle, with his natural taste for what is manly and
daring in character, has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from
his biographical and historical pictures.
Hsm1 2.251 14
Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an
individual's character.
Hsm1 2.260 23
A simple manly character need never make an apology...
Hsm1 2.262 24
The unremitting retention of simple and high sentiments in
obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work
with honor...
OS 2.269 2
The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present...
is...that overpowering reality which...constrains every one...to speak from
his character and not from his tongue...
OS 2.274 23
The growths of genius are of a certain total character...
OS 2.280 3
...to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is
false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
OS 2.281 20
...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness
of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this
enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual...
OS 2.285 8
Who can tell the grounds of his knowledge of the character of
the several individuals in his circle of friends?
OS 2.285 15
In that other [man]...authentic signs had yet passed, to signify
that he might be trusted as one who had an interest in his own character.
OS 2.285 24
The intercourse of society...is one wide judicial investigation
of character.
OS 2.286 1
Against their will [men] exhibit those decisive trifles by which
character is read.
OS 2.286 16
Character teaches over our head.
OS 2.296 1
we have...no record of any character or mode of living that
entirely contents us.
Cir 2.301 10
One moral we have already deduced in considering the
circular or compensatory character of every human action.
Cir 2.316 14
For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man,
these are sacred;...
Cir 2.316 19
...the progress of my character will liquidate all these debts
without injustice to higher claims.
Cir 2.320 27
The difference between talents and character is adroitness to
keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road
to new and better goals.
Cir 2.321 3
Character makes an overpowering present;...
Cir 2.321 7
Character dulls the impression of particular events.
Art1 2.351 21
In a portrait [the painter] must inscribe the character and not
the features...
Art1 2.352 21
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 17
...[the infant's] individual character and his practical power
depend on his daily progress in the separation of things...
Art1 2.358 26
The best of beauty is...a radiation from the work of art, of
human character...
Art1 2.360 6
In proportion to his force, the artist will find in his work an
outlet for his proper character.
Art1 2.367 3
...the hand can never execute any thing higher than the
character can inspire.
Pt1 3.13 23
All form is an effect of character;...
Exp 3.52 5
In truth [men] are all creatures of given temperament, which
will appear in a given character...
Exp 3.53 8
...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who...by
such cheap signboards as the color of his beard or the slope of his occiput,
reads the inventory of his fortunes and character.
Chr1 3.90 9
...character is of a stellar and undiminishable greatness.
Chr1 3.92 3
Our frank countrymen of the west and south have a taste for
character...
Chr1 3.95 27
Character is this moral order seen through the medium of an
individual nature.
Chr1 3.96 14
[A man] encloses the world...as a material basis for his
character...
Chr1 3.96 22
...men of character are the conscience of the society to which
they belong.
Chr1 3.97 8
Will is the north, action the south pole. Character may be
ranked as having its natural place in the north.
Chr1 3.97 15
Men of character like to hear of their faults;...
Chr1 3.98 1
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Chr1 3.99 11
The face which character wears to me is self-sufficingness.
Chr1 3.99 16
Character is centrality...
Chr1 3.105 6
Thence [from character] comes a new intellectual exaltation,
to be again rebuked by some new exhibition of character.
Chr1 3.105 8
Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it;...
Chr1 3.105 9
...character passes into thought, is published so, and then is
ashamed before new flashes of moral worth.
Chr1 3.105 12
Character is nature in the highest form.
Chr1 3.108 1
Divine persons are character born...
Chr1 3.108 10
When we see a great man we fancy a resemblance to some
historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune;...
Chr1 3.108 12
None will ever solve the problem of his character according
to our prejudice...
Chr1 3.108 14
Character wants room;...
Chr1 3.111 25
Those relations to the best men...become, in the progress of
the character, the most solid enjoyment.
Chr1 3.113 27
We shall one day see...that...grandeur of character acts in
the dark...
Chr1 3.114 6
The history of those gods and saints which the world has
written and then worshipped, are documents of character.
Chr1 3.114 15
...the mind requires...a force of character which will convert
judge, jury, soldier and king;...
Chr1 3.114 26
I do not forgive in my friends the failure to know a fine
character...
Mrs1 3.121 14
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.
Mrs1 3.122 13
...we must keep alive in the vernacular the distinction
between fashion...and the heroic character which the gentleman imports.
Mrs1 3.132 5
...good sense and character make their own forms every
moment...
Mrs1 3.132 15
A circle of men perfectly well-bred would be a company of
sensible persons in which every man's native manners and character
appeared.
Mrs1 3.133 23
[Fops] pass also at their just rate; for how can they
otherwise, in circles which exist as a sort of herald's office for the sifting of
character.
Mrs1 3.139 25
[Society] hates corners and sharp points of character...
Mrs1 3.148 6
There must be romance of character, or the most fastidious
exclusion of impertinencies will not avail.
Mrs1 3.149 1
Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the
charm of noble manners, in the presence of a man or woman...whose
character emanates freely in their word and gesture.
Mrs1 3.155 9
...[society] reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology,
in any attempt to settle its character.
Gts 3.161 7
...we might convey to some person that which properly
belonged to his character...
Nat2 3.187 11
...the craft with which the world is made, runs also into the
mind and character of men.
Nat2 3.191 3
Conversation, character, were the avowed ends [of wealth];...
Pol1 3.200 10
...the State must follow and not lead the character and
progress of the citizen;...
Pol1 3.200 18
We are superstitious, and esteem the statute somewhat: so
much life as it has in the character of living men is its force.
Pol1 3.207 13
In this country we are very vain of our political institutions,
which are singular in this, that they sprung, within the memory of living
men, from the character and condition of the people...
Pol1 3.209 9
Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of
principle;...parties which are identical in their moral character...
Pol1 3.214 1
Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the
character of his fellows.
Pol1 3.215 23
The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the
influence of private character...
Pol1 3.216 4
That which...which freedom, cultivation, intercourse,
revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character;...
Pol1 3.216 8
The appearance of character makes the State unnecessary.
Pol1 3.217 2
In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its
infancy.
Pol1 3.217 23
We are haunted by a conscience of this right to grandeur of
character...
NR 3.225 19
The least hint sets us on the pursuit of a character which no
man realizes.
NR 3.227 5
I observe a person who makes a good public appearance, and
conclude thence the perfection of his private character, on which this is
based;...
NR 3.227 6
I observe a person who makes a good public appearance, and
conclude thence the perfection of his private character, on which this is
based; but he has no private character.
NR 3.239 23
Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals
faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons...
could not have seen.
NR 3.240 10
A new poet has appeared; a new character approached us;
why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and
section in our old army-files?
NER 3.251 5
Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in
New England during the last twenty-five years, with those middle and those
leading sections that may constitute any just representation of the character
and aim of the community, will have been struck with the great activity of
thought and experimenting.
NER 3.254 26
...we are very easily disposed to resist the same generosity
of speech when we miss originality and truth to character in it.
NER 3.263 12
...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself...by the new
quality of character it shall put forth it shall abrogate that old condition,
law, or school in which it stands...
NER 3.270 1
A canine appetite for knowledge was generated...and this
knowledge...never took the character of substantial, humane truth...
NER 3.270 16
I do not believe that the differences of opinion and character
in men are organic.
UGM 4.6 27
...there are persons who, in their character and actions, answer
questions which I have not skill to put.
UGM 4.10 26
There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture,
astronomy, little suspected at first, when, by union with intellect and will,
they...reappear in conversation, character and politics.
PPh 4.57 6
The synthesis which makes the character of [Plato's] mind
appears in all his talents.
PPh 4.66 2
In the doctrine of the organic character and disposition is the
origin of caste.
PPh 4.75 16
The strange synthesis in the character of Socrates capped the
synthesis in the mind of Plato.
SwM 4.124 26
That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old
mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic
character.
SwM 4.133 10
There is an immense chain of intermediation [in
Swedenborg's system of the world]...which bereaves every agency of all
freedom and character.
MoS 4.162 7
...some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy
this ground of speculation. These qualities meet in the character of
Montaigne.
ShP 4.208 24
...with Shakspeare for biographer...we have really the
information [about Shakespeare] which is material; that which describes
character and fortune...
NMW 4.240 9
[Napoleon's] grand weapon, namely the millions whom he
directed, he owed to the representative character which clothed him.
NMW 4.255 1
I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps
Joseph a little...and Duroc, I love him too; but why?--because his character
pleases me...
GoW 4.272 10
[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 4.280 2
Nature and character assist [Wilhelm Meister's passage from
democrat to the aristocracy]...
GoW 4.283 12
...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and
France...are not understood to be very deeply engaged, from grounds of
character, to the topic or the part they espouse...
ET4 5.45 18
[The English] give the bias to the current age; and that...by
their character...
ET4 5.48 3
Race is a controlling influence in the Jew, who, for two
millenniums...has preserved the same character and employments.
ET4 5.50 20
The English composite character betrays a mixed origin.
ET4 5.52 1
...certain temperaments...by well-managed contrarieties,
develop as drastic a character as the English.
ET4 5.52 14
The English derive their pedigree from such a range of
nationalities that there needs sea-room and land-room to unfold the
varieties of talent and character.
ET4 5.66 10
The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the
Temple Church at London...please by beauty of the same character...which
is daily seen in the streets of London.
ET5 5.94 4
The climate and geography [of England], I said, were factitious,
as if the hands of man had arranged the conditions. The same character
pervades the whole kingdom.
ET5 5.101 3
...[the English] are more bound in character than differenced
in ability or in rank.
ET6 5.106 23
...[the English] have as much energy, as much continence of
character as they ever had.
ET7 5.121 27
[The English] require the same adherence, thorough
conviction and reality, in public men. It is the want of character which
makes the low reputation of the Irish members.
ET7 5.123 12
[The English] have given the parliamentary nickname of
Trimmers to the timeservers, whom English character does not love.
ET8 5.129 17
...[the English] have great range and variety of character.
ET8 5.136 20
On deliberate choice and from grounds of character, [the
English hero] has elected his part to live and die for...
ET8 5.137 8
The English did not calculate the conquest of the Indies. It fell
to their character.
ET9 5.145 26
France is, by its natural contrast, a kind of blackboard on
which English character draws its own traits in chalk.
ET9 5.148 17
A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest
of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he
makes light of them, so will other men. We all find in these a convenient
metre of character...
ET10 5.156 21
[In England] An economist, or a man who can...bring the
year round with expenditure which expresses his character without
embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a
freeman.
ET11 5.172 1
The feudal character of the English state...glares a little, in
contrast with the democratic tendencies.
ET12 5.208 23
A gentleman [in England] must possess a political
character...
ET13 5.230 9
False position introduces cant, perjury, simony and ever a
lower class of mind and character into the [English] clergy...
ET14 5.256 2
What did Walter Scott write without stint? a rhymed traveller'
s guide to Scotland. And the libraries of verses [the English] print have this
Birmingham character.
ET15 5.268 19
...by making the paper everything and those who write it
nothing, the character and the awe of the journal [the London Times] gain.
ET17 5.294 6
At Edinburgh...I made the acquaintance...of the Messrs.
Chambers, and of a man of high character and genius, the short-lived
painter, David Scott.
ET17 5.295 15
We [Emerson and Wordsworth] talked of English national
character.
ET19 5.311 7
It is this [sense of right and wrong] which lies at the
foundation of that aristocratic character...which, if it should lose this, would
find itself paralyzed;...
F 6.1 8
Well might then the poet scorn/ To learn of scribe or courtier/ Hints
writ in vaster character;/...
F 6.4 8
If we must accept Fate, we are not less compelled to affirm...the
power of character.
F 6.8 27
An expense of ends to means is fate;-organization tyrannizing
over character.
F 6.9 14
...mats of hair, the pigment of the epidermis betray character.
F 6.21 26
Thus we trace Fate...in thought and character as well.
F 6.28 9
...he whose thought is deepest will be the strongest character.
F 6.40 27
Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these
the fruit of his character.
F 6.41 24
A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character.
F 6.42 9
A man will see his character emitted in the events that seem to
meet...him.
F 6.42 12
Events expand with the character.
F 6.43 20
To a subtle force [the wall] will stream into new forms,
expressive of the character of the mind.
Wth 6.97 10
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their
possessions. Others cannot: their owning...seems to be a compromise of
their character;...
Wth 6.112 1
...each man's expense must proceed from his character.
Wth 6.123 27
Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and
tyrannical over master and mistress...cousin and acquaintance. 'T is in vain
that genius or virtue or energy of character strive and cry against it.
Ctr 6.145 11
I think there is a restlessness in our people which argues want
of character.
Ctr 6.150 11
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination
is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there
is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
Ctr 6.156 23
We say solitude, to mark the character of the tone of
thought;...
Ctr 6.158 21
...[Bonaparte] could criticise...a character, on universal
grounds...
Ctr 6.162 25
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with
ungainliness and odium...
Bhr 6.172 8
...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of
character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has...
Bhr 6.174 18
Manners...grow out of circumstance as well as out of
character.
Bhr 6.183 23
What is the talent of that character so common--the
successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and drawing-rooms?
Bhr 6.188 4
In persons of character we do not remark manners...
Bhr 6.192 12
...the victories of character are instant...
Bhr 6.193 16
...it is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to
his talents, that constitutes friendship and character.
Wsp 6.214 11
For a great nature it is a happiness to escape a religious
training,--religion of character is so apt to be invaded.
Wsp 6.216 2
What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine
of faith! to prefer, as a better investment...character to performance;...
Wsp 6.217 23
...talent uniformly sinks with character.
Wsp 6.223 17
We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character...
Wsp 6.223 24
Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real
character...
Wsp 6.224 11
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also
a confession of character.
Wsp 6.227 8
In the progress of the character, there is an increasing faith in
the moral sentiment...
Wsp 6.228 5
[St. Philip Neri] undertook to visit the nun and ascertain her
character.
CbW 6.255 5
...the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of
depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power;...
CbW 6.257 20
...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as
well as moral sensibility to keep one erect; the gratifications of the passions
are so quickly seen to be damaging, and--what men like least--seriously
lowering them in social rank. Then all talent sinks with character.
CbW 6.271 17
...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they
have...what access to poetry, religion and the powers which constitute
character,--he wakes in them the feeling of worth...
Bty 6.283 23
...we...deprecate any romance of character;...
Bty 6.304 2
...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech
and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...
Bty 6.304 21
...there is a joy in perceiving the representative or symbolic
character of a fact...
Bty 6.306 6
...character gives splendor to youth...
Bty 6.306 16
...there is a climbing scale of culture...up through...signs and
tokens of thought and character in manners...
Ill 6.322 27
I look upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and
honesty as the root of all that is sublime in character.
Elo1 7.94 11
...a pause in the speaker's own character is very properly a
loss of attraction.
Elo1 7.94 26
The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this
strength of character...
Elo1 7.97 5
He who will train himself to mastery in this science of
persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight.
DL 7.104 24
The small enchanter nothing can withstand,--no seniority of
age, no gravity of character;...
DL 7.107 24
Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear
from the wise gypsy...who could reconcile your moral character and your
natural history;...
DL 7.108 5
Is it not plain that...in the dwelling-house must the true
character and hope of the time be consulted?
DL 7.108 10
It is easier...to criticise [a territory's] polity, books, art, than to
come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
DL 7.109 13
There should be...the genius and love of the man so
conspicuously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him should
read his character in his property...
DL 7.109 20
That our expenditure and our character are twain, is the vice
of society.
DL 7.111 5
[The citizen] brings home whatever commodities and
ornaments have for years allured his pursuit, and his character must be seen
in them.
DL 7.118 2
The diet of the house does not create its order, but knowledge,
character, action, absorb so much life and yield so much entertainment that
the refectory has ceased to be so curiously studied.
DL 7.127 27
Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed
from character;...
DL 7.128 2
Happy will that house be...the house in which character
marries...
DL 7.128 16
There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new
persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the character which
draws them.
DL 7.129 13
In the progress of each man's character, his relations to the
best men...acquire a graver importance;...
WD 7.166 6
What have these arts done for the character, for the worth of
mankind?
WD 7.184 14
There are people...who have no talents, or care not to have
them,--being that which was before talent, and shall be after it, and of
which talent seems only a tool: this is character, the highest name at which
philosophy has arrived.
WD 7.184 19
What [the hero] is will appear in every gesture and syllable.
In this way the moment and the character are one.
WD 7.184 20
It is a fine fable for the advantage of character over talent, the
Greek legend of the strife of Jove and Phoebus.
WD 7.185 18
...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local
skills...to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done,
and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of
thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or that its roots are in eternity,
not in time. Then it flows from character...
Boks 7.216 14
Nature has a magic by which she fits the man to his
fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Clbs 7.236 18
Conversation is the vent of character as well as of thought;...
Clbs 7.237 3
...though they know that there is in the speaker a degree...of
insincerity and of talking for victory, yet the existence of character...is felt
by the frivolous.
Clbs 7.245 23
We must have loyalty and character.
Cour 7.270 18
...for a settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong-minded
man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
Cour 7.275 20
We have little right in piping times of peace to pronounce
on these rare heights of character;...
Suc 7.305 16
An Englishman of marked character and talent...assured me
that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...
Suc 7.305 25
Character and wit have their own magnetism.
OA 7.315 12
The character of the speaker [Josiah Quincy]...gave unusual
interest to the College festival.
PI 8.9 17
Nature gives [the student]...a copy of every humor and shade in
his character and mind.
PI 8.22 22
In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts
adequate and as large as he. ... It is easier...to decipher the arrow-head
character, than to interpret these familiar sights.
PI 8.27 5
As a power [poetry] is the perception of the symbolic character of
things...
PI 8.49 2
...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the
correspondence of parts in Nature...character and history...they do not
longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
SA 8.84 1
Manners are...the betrayers of any disproportion or want of
symmetry in mind and character.
SA 8.84 17
Credit is to be abolished? Can't you abolish faces and
character...
SA 8.84 24
Character must be trusted;...
SA 8.88 7
It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be
seen.
SA 8.93 4
If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in
the speech of superior women;--which...carried ingenuity, character, wise
counsel and affection...
SA 8.95 18
...there are trials enough of nerve and character...in privatest
circles.
SA 8.101 27
In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn
and fence, then church and town-house...made the whole population poor;
and the like necessity is still found in each new settlement in the Territories.
These needs gave their character to the public debates in every village and
state.
Elo2 8.111 10
...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is
gained...they see...the character and advantages of the ground...
Elo2 8.117 16
The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are...
logic; imagination...and then a grand will, which, when legitimate and
abiding, we call character...
Elo2 8.121 8
What character, what infinite variety belong to the voice!...
Elo2 8.130 19
[Eloquence] leads us to...the men of character...
Elo2 8.133 4
Is it not worth the ambition of every generous youth to train
and arm his mind with all the resources of knowledge, of method, of grace
and of character, to serve such a constituency [as the United States]"
Comc 8.160 26
...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...
Comc 8.161 24
[A perception of the Comic] appears to be an essential
element in a fine character.
Comc 8.163 8
...no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
PC 8.228 9
The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral
sentiment.
PC 8.229 18
...when we see creation we also begin to create. Depth of
character...can only find nourishment in this soil.
PC 8.232 20
It has been our misfortune that the politics of America have
been often immoral. It has had the worst effect on character.
Grts 8.304 21
Young men think that the manly character requires that they
should go to California...
Grts 8.306 26
...every man...has a new countenance, new manner, new
voice, new thoughts and new character.
Grts 8.314 5
Scintillations of greatness appear here and there in men of
unequal character...
Grts 8.314 13
Napoleon commands our respect by...the habit of seeing with
his own eyes, never the surface, but to the heart of the matter, whether it
was a road, a cannon, a character, an officer, or a king...
Grts 8.317 23
The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of
oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the
petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again casts a shadow in the
path of the electric light. So does intellect when brought into the presence
of character; character puts out that light.
Grts 8.317 24
The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of
oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the
petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again casts a shadow in the
path of the electric light. So does intellect when brought into the presence
of character; character puts out that light.
Grts 8.318 7
The Greeks surpass all men till they face the Romans, when
Roman character prevails over Greek genius.
Grts 8.320 2
Wit is a magnet to find wit, and character to find character.
Grts 8.320 3
Wit is a magnet to find wit, and character to find character.
Imtl 8.334 13
To breathe, to sleep, is wonderful. But never to know the
Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will!
Imtl 8.348 18
Within every man's thought is a higher thought,-within the
character he exhibits to-day, a higher character.
Imtl 8.348 19
Within every man's thought is a higher thought,-within the
character he exhibits to-day, a higher character.
Dem1 10.8 16
A prophetic character in all ages has haunted [dreams].
Dem1 10.8 21
[Dreams] are the maturation often of opinions not
consciously carried out to statements, but whereof we already possessed the
elements. Thus, when awake, I know the character of Rupert, but do not
think what he may do.
Dem1 10.8 27
In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which
seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile...he is a poltroon. It turns out
prophecy a year later. But it was already in my mind as character...
Dem1 10.12 24
In the hands of poets...nothing in the line of [the occult
sciences'] character and genius would surprise us.
Dem1 10.20 9
Dreams retain the infirmities of our character.
Dem1 10.27 27
[Man] is sure that intimate relations subsist between his
character and his fortunes...
Aris 10.31 21
[The best young men] do not yet covet political power...nor
do they wish to be saints; for fear of partialism; but...the success of the
manly character, they find in the idea of gentleman.
Aris 10.34 10
If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of
character and manners;...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 10.34 13
If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of
character and manners; that it is of the last importance to the imagination
and affection, inspiring...that loyalty and worship so essential to the finish
of character,-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 24
...instead of this impure, a pure reverence for character...is
that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to
public opinion...
Aris 10.66 4
...the American who would serve his country...must reinforce
himself by the power of character...
Chr2 10.102 13
This steadfastness we indicate when we praise character.
Chr2 10.102 14
Character denotes habitual self-possession...
Chr2 10.119 22
If there is any tendency in national expansion to form
character, religion will not be a loser.
Chr2 10.119 25
Whenever the sublimities of character shall be incarnated
in a man, we may rely that awe and love and insatiable curiosity will follow
his steps.
Chr2 10.120 1
Character is the habit of action from the permanent vision of
truth.
Chr2 10.121 26
There is no end to the sufficiency of character.
Edc1 10.128 19
...here [in the household] the secrets of character are told...
Edc1 10.132 15
We learn nothing rightly until we learn the symbolical
character of life.
Edc1 10.133 18
When I see...that there is no sot or fop, ruffian or pedant
into whom thoughts do not enter by passages which the individual never
left open, I can expect any revolution in character.
Edc1 10.137 19
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should
repeat his character and fortune;...
Edc1 10.150 25
[In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of
individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your
discipline and college police. But what doth such a school to form a great
and heroic character?
Edc1 10.151 24
...you see [the young man's] want of those tastes and
perceptions which make the power and safety of your character.
Edc1 10.154 16
...only to think of using [simple discipline and the
following of nature] implies character and profoundness;...
Supl 10.163 10
I wish to point at some of [the doctrine of temperance's]
higher functions as it enters into mind and character.
Supl 10.167 6
...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend...said...I have
studied his character, and I believe him capable of virtue.
Supl 10.167 15
The English mind...stigmatizes any heat or hyperbole as
Irish, French, Italian, and infers weakness and inconsequence of character
in speakers who use it.
Supl 10.176 10
...the basis of character must be simplicity...
Supl 10.176 11
...the expression of character...is, in great degree, a matter
of climate.
Supl 10.176 16
...in Western nations the superlative in conversation is
tedious and weak, and in character is a capital defect...
SovE 10.198 2
Virtue is the adopting of this dictate of the universal mind
by the individual will. Character is the habit of this obedience...
SovE 10.198 8
We go to famous books for our examples of character...
SovE 10.204 10
The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the
mind, giving it concentration and force. A rude people were kept
respectable by the determination of thought on the eternal world. Now
men...suffer in character and intellect.
SovE 10.205 12
...we have punctuality for faith, and good taste for
character.
SovE 10.206 22
We in America are charged...that reverence does not
belong to our character;...
SovE 10.211 9
'T is very shallow to say that cotton, or iron, or silver and
gold are kings of the world; there are rulers that will at any moment make
these forgotten. Fear will. Love will. Character will.
SovE 10.212 16
...all the religion we have is the ethics of one or another
holy person; as soon as character appears, be sure love will, and
veneration...
Prch 10.218 5
I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the
activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow,-I see in them character,
but skepticism;...
Prch 10.218 14
Scorn of hypocrisy, pride of personal character...all these
[persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress]
have;...
Prch 10.218 17
...a boundless ambition of intellect, willingness to sacrifice
personal interests for the integrity of the character,-all these [persons in
whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...
Prch 10.224 6
The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from self-activity
of talents...to the controlling and reinforcing of talents by the
emanation of character.
MoL 10.246 19
A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet
countryman possessed of all the virtues, and...said, With your character
now I could raise all this money at once, and make an excellent thing of it.
Schr 10.268 8
I should wish your energy to run in works and emergencies
growing out of your personal character.
Schr 10.279 6
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character...
Schr 10.280 13
When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular
function...the advance of his character and genius pauses;...
Plu 10.297 9
Whatever is eminent...in opinion, in character...drew
[Plutarch's] attention...
Plu 10.308 16
...true to his practical character, [Plutarch] wishes the
philosopher not to hide in a corner...
Plu 10.311 2
...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and
his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...
LLNE 10.330 13
The popular religion of our fathers had received many
severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary
influence of Swedenborg;...then the powerful influence of the genius and
character of Dr. Channing.
LLNE 10.343 18
...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the
company gave it some notoriety...
LLNE 10.344 19
...[Theodore Parker's] character appeared in the last
moments with the same firm control as in the midday of strength.
LLNE 10.348 18
[Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and
animals, and men and women, and classes of every character.
LLNE 10.349 7
The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was...that it had not the
partiality and hint-and-fragment character of most popular schemes...
LLNE 10.360 26
There was no doubt great variety of character and
purpose in the members of the community [Brook Farm].
LLNE 10.361 11
...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm],
without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say...an
impatience of the formal, routinary character of our educational, religious,
social and economical life in Massachusetts.
LLNE 10.361 20
...a few grave sanitary influences of character were
happily there [at Brook Farm]...
LLNE 10.362 10
Many ladies...gave character and varied attraction to the
place [Brook Farm].
LLNE 10.362 14
In and around Brook Farm, whether as members,
boarders or visitors, were many remarkable persons, for character, intellect
or accomplishments.
LLNE 10.362 17
I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest
observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing,
talking there [at Brook Farm]...
LLNE 10.364 12
It is certain that freedom from household routine, variety
of character...did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
LLNE 10.368 27
...what studies of character...many of the members owed
to [Brook Farm]!
CSC 10.376 5
There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of
those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention], but
relieved...especially by the exhibition of character, and by the victories of
character.
CSC 10.376 6
There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of
those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention], but
relieved...especially by the exhibition of character, and by the victories of
character.
EzRy 10.390 12
[Ezry Ripley] was a man so kind and sympathetic, his
character was so transparent...that he was very justly appreciated in this
community.
MMEm 10.402 8
...[Mary Moody Emerson's] attachment to the youths and
maidens growing up in those families [of her brothers and sisters] was
secure for any trait of talent or of character.
MMEm 10.403 6
...[Mary Moody Emerson] adored [genius] when
ennobled by character.
MMEm 10.405 16
...the minister found quickly that [Mary Moody
Emerson] knew all his books and many more, and made shrewd guesses at
his character and possibilities...
MMEm 10.406 12
...sublimity of character must come from sublimity of
motive...
MMEm 10.407 20
[Mary Moody Emerson] would tear...into the
conversation, into the thought, into the character of the stranger,-
disdaining all the graduation by which her fellows time their steps...
MMEm 10.432 7
Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the
loss of that character which I once thought and felt so sure of...
SlHr 10.439 6
[Samuel Hoar] was a very natural, but a very high
character;...
SlHr 10.442 24
[Samuel Hoar's] character made him the conscience of the
community in which he lived.
SlHr 10.445 10
It is singular that [Samuel Hoar's] character should make
so deep an impression...
Thor 10.451 4
[Thoreau's] character exhibited occasional traits drawn from
this [French] blood...
Thor 10.460 19
Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain
John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he
would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...
Thor 10.473 9
[The farmers who employed Thoreau] felt, too, the
superiority of character which addressed all men with a native authority.
Thor 10.483 27
How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had
a seed-time of character?
Carl 10.491 16
[Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat
vegetables and drink water, and he is a Scotchman who thinks English
national character has a pure enthusiasm for beef and mutton...
Carl 10.493 14
If a scholar goes into a camp of lumbermen or a gang of
riggers, those men will quickly detect any fault of character.
Carl 10.494 13
...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for
years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington,
on The Beautiful...[Carlyle] thinks that nothing.
Carl 10.495 24
[Carlyle's] guiding genius is his moral sense...but that is a
truth of character, not of catechisms.
GSt 10.502 12
[George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of
Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown, who...
had a rare magnetism for men of character...
LS 11.13 19
It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans
and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to
comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity.
HDC 11.37 4
To his bodily perfection, the wild man added some noble
traits of character.
HDC 11.83 20
...I have read with care the [Concord] Town Records
themselves. They must ever be the fountains of all just information
respecting your character and customs.
LVB 11.94 19
...there exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy
diffidence in the moral character of the government.
LVB 11.95 17
...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and
suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a
burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.
EWI 11.124 25
...you could not get any poetry, any wisdom, and beauty in
woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these absurdities
would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a
generosity for the weak and oppressed.
FSLC 11.180 11
Boston, of whose fame for spirit and character we have all
been so proud;...Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
FSLN 11.219 18
...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior
men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law]
and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of...men of
eloquent speech, but men...without character...
FSLN 11.223 3
After [Webster's] talents have been described, there
remains that perfect propriety which animated all the details of the action or
speech with the character of the whole...
FSLN 11.224 24
...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical
and mental ability when his character is assailed.
FSLN 11.238 9
No excess of good nature or of tenderness in individuals
has been able to give a new character to the system [of slavery]...
AsSu 11.248 26
The outrage [attack on Sumner] is the more shocking from
the singularly pure character of its victim.
AsSu 11.249 8
...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was
pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much
as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose
good will was reckoned important by his friends. He was elected. It was a
homage to character and talent.
JBB 11.268 6
[John Brown] cherishes a great respect for his father, as a
man of strong character...
JBS 11.279 12
[In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic
character absolutely without any vulgar trait;...
JBS 11.279 20
...as happens usually to men of romantic character, [John
Brown's] fortunes were romantic.
HCom 11.342 16
[The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men, to
whose life war and discord were abhorrent. What an infusion of character
went out from this and other colleges!
HCom 11.342 18
[The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men, to
whose life war and discord were abhorrent. What an infusion of character
went out from this and other colleges! What an infusion of character down
to the ranks!
SMC 11.376 12
...I do not like to omit the testimony to the character of the
Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George
Prescott]...
Wom 11.410 7
We commonly say that easy circumstances seem somehow
necessary to the finish of the female character...
Wom 11.414 19
This [prophetic] power, this religious character, is
everywhere to be remarked in [women].
Wom 11.415 20
A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil;
the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite character, in the age of
Louis XIV...
Wom 11.420 20
If new power is here, of a character which solves old tough
questions...you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
SHC 11.434 24
The ground [Sleepy Hollow] has the peaceful character that
belongs to this town [Concord];...
Scot 11.463 13
...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his
birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...by the exceptional debt which all
English-speaking men have gladly owed to his character and genius.
FRO1 11.479 20
...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence
within his own mind,-is apprised...that the basis of duty...the power of
character...draw their essence from this moral sentiment, then we have a
religion that exalts...
CPL 11.500 10
Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...of marked
character...
CPL 11.504 8
There is a wonderful agreement among eminent men of all
varieties of character and condition in their estimate of books.
CPL 11.507 17
...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates
have read...so that...you shall understand their allusions to it, and not give it
more or less emphasis than they do. Yet the strong character does not need
this sameness of culture.
FRep 11.516 16
...the direction of talent, of character...may well occupy
us...
FRep 11.518 22
Instead of character, there is a studious exclusion of
character.
FRep 11.518 23
Instead of character, there is a studious exclusion of
character.
FRep 11.519 26
Our great men succumb so far to the forms of the day as to
peril their integrity for the sake of adding to the weight of their personal
character the authority of office...
PLT 12.19 15
...when we have come, by a divine leading, into the inner
firmament, we are apprised of the unreality or representative character of
what we esteemed final.
PLT 12.30 26
When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal
sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but
to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
PLT 12.31 8
Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
PLT 12.54 6
The novelist should not make any character act absurdly, but
only absurdly as seen by others.
PLT 12.56 21
There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is
trust...the worship of ideas. This is solitary, grand, secular. They are in
perpetual balance and strife. One is talent, the other genius. One is skill, the
other character.
PLT 12.63 21
Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
Mem 12.92 18
...in the history of character the day comes when you are
incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion].
Bost 12.185 6
...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range
and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...
Bost 12.197 6
...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of
providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the
long winter...generates in him that spirit of detail which...goes rather to
pinch the features and degrade the character.
Bost 12.200 15
There are always men ready for adventures-more in an
over-governed, over-peopled country, where all the professions are
crowded and all character suppressed...
Bost 12.201 1
There is a Columbia of thought and art and character...
Bost 12.208 23
The climate [of Boston] is electric, good for wit and good
for character.
MAng1 12.215 10
...[Michelangelo's] character and his works...seem rather
a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
MAng1 12.229 12
The style of [Michelangelo's] paintings is monumental;
and even his poetry partakes of that character.
MAng1 12.240 2
There is yet one more trait in Michael Angelo's history,
which humanizes his character without lessening its loftiness; this is his
platonic love.
MAng1 12.240 21
[Michelangelo] enthrones his mistress as a benignant
angel, who is to refine and perfect his own character.
Milt1 12.254 15
...no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed
so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].
Milt1 12.262 26
...the foremost impression [Milton's] character makes is
that of elegance.
Milt1 12.270 14
[Milton] studied with care the character of his
countrymen...
Milt1 12.274 27
...Milton's [imagination] ministers to the character.
Milt1 12.278 25
We have offered no apology for expanding to such length
our commentary on the character of John Milton;...
ACri 12.297 10
[Carlyle] has manly superiority rather than intellectuality,
and so makes hard hits all the time. There's more character than intellect in
every sentence-herein strongly resembling Samuel Johnson.
MLit 12.316 7
Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was
too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the
wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent...which has no root in the
character...
MLit 12.319 20
...[Shelley] is a character full of noble and prophetic
traits;...
MLit 12.321 4
...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion]
ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of
the Boy, in the First Book. Obviously for that passage the poem was
written, and with the exception of this and of a few strains of the like
character in the sequel, the whole poem was dull.
WSL 12.344 4
...beyond his delight in genius and his love of individual and
civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the
appreciation of character.
WSL 12.344 19
...there is a noble nature within [Landor] which instructs
him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings, and, leaving to
others the painting of circumstance, aspire to the office of delineating
character.
WSL 12.344 27
...in the character of Pericles [Landor] has found full play
for beauty and greatness of behavior...
EurB 12.365 7
Wordsworth's nature or character has had all the time it
needed in order to make its mark...
EurB 12.375 4
In this class [novel of costume or of circumstance], the
hero, without any particular character, is in a very particular circumstance;...
EurB 12.376 7
...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best
specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect;...
EurB 12.376 9
...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best
specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect; the
development of character being the problem, the reader is made a partaker
in the whole prosperity.
EurB 12.377 7
...high behavior fraternized with high behavior [in the
society in Wilhelm Meister], without question of heraldry, and the only
power recognized is the force of character.
PPr 12.384 2
It is a costly proof of character that the most renowned
scholar of England [Carlyle] should take his reputation in his hand and
should descend into the [political] ring;...
PPr 12.389 4
That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a
somewhat bloated character;...
PPr 12.391 6
This grandiose character pervades [Carlyle's] wit and his
imagination.
Let 12.403 23
Apathies and total want of work, and reflection on the
imaginative character of American life...are like seasickness...
Trag 12.416 11
Analogous supplies are made to those individuals whose
character leads them to vast exertions of body and mind.
Character, n. (3)
LT 1.261 15
The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development
and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and
other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
Chr1 3.89 22
This is that which we call Character,--a reserved force, which
acts directly by presence and without means.
WSL 12.345 8
The word Character is in all mouths;...
character-destroying, adj. (1)
Schr 10.271 10
There could always be traced...in the most character-destroying
civilization, some vestiges of a faith in genius...
charactered, v. (1)
Nat2 3.183 17
Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain,
therefore is [man] the prophet and discoverer of her secrets.
characteristic, adj. (5)
GoW 4.261 6
[The writer's] office is a reception of the facts into the mind,
and then a selection of the eminent and characteristic experiences.
GoW 4.280 15
...what is also characteristic, Novalis soon returned to this
book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]...
ET4 5.54 12
We must use the popular category...for convenience, and not
as exact and final. Otherwise we are presently confounded when the best-settled
traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely
characteristic of the rival tribe.
ET5 5.89 10
...that is characteristic of all [the Englishmen's] work,--no
more is attempted than is done.
SA 8.94 4
...[Madame de Stael] said, with characteristic nationality,
Conversation, like talent, exists only in France.
characteristic, n. (3)
Hsm1 2.260 4
The characteristic of heroism is its persistency.
ET19 5.311 13
It is this [sense of right and wrong] which...in trade and in
the mechanic's shop, gives...that thoroughness and solidity of work which
is a national [English] characteristic.
Dem1 10.18 12
...this demonic element appears most fruitful when it shows
itself as the determining characteristic in an individual.
characteristically, adv. (1)
Pol1 3.212 16
Human nature expresses itself in [laws] as characteristically
as in statues, or songs, or railroads;...
characteristics, n. (1)
Hist 2.26 14
The attraction of [the Greek] manners is that they belong to
man, and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child;
besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteristics.
characterize, v. (5)
Tran 1.354 7
...we retain the belief...that the moments will characterize the
days.
Mrs1 3.121 1
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.
ET8 5.130 1
In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which
travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the
manufacturers, are wont to be entertained. It easily happens that this class
should characterize England to the foreigner...
Wsp 6.223 11
If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his
work will characterize itself as the effect of opium and wine.
EWI 11.133 7
...I am at a loss how to characterize the tameness and silence
of the two senators and the ten representatives of the State [of
Massachusetts] at Washington.
characterized, v. (5)
Tran 1.354 16
...this class [Transcendentalists] are not sufficiently
characterized if we omit to add that they are lovers and worshippers of
Beauty.
Comp 2.110 2
Our action is overmastered and characterized above our will
by the law of nature.
GoW 4.280 7
The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book [Goethe'
s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic;...
CSC 10.375 8
The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was
characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and
earnestness...
MLit 12.310 19
[The library of the Present Age] can hardly be
characterized by any species of book...
characterizes, v. (15)
DSA 1.141 15
...tradition characterizes the preaching of this country;...
LE 1.182 10
...this twofold merit characterizes ever the productions of great
masters.
LT 1.260 2
Everything that is popular...deserves the attention of the
philosopher, and this for the obvious reason, that...it characterizes the
people.
LT 1.281 2
The exaggeration which our young people make of [the slave's]
wrongs, characterizes themselves.
OS 2.295 16
The position men have given to Jesus...is a position of
authority. It characterizes themselves.
Nat2 3.183 13
This guiding identity [in nature]...characterizes every law.
NR 3.230 1
There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the
numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
Pow 6.54 12
...belief in compensation...characterizes all valuable minds...
Wsp 6.224 15
The fame...of Thomas a Kempis or of Bonaparte,
characterizes those who give it.
DL 7.109 3
An increased consciousness of the soul, you say, characterizes
the period.
CSC 10.375 26
If there was not parliamentary order [at the Chardon Street
Convention], there was...assurance of that constitutional love for religion
and religious liberty which...characterizes the inhabitants of this part of
America.
EdAd 11.388 9
We see that reckless and destructive fury which
characterizes the lower classes of American society...
Milt1 12.248 8
...a man's fame, of course, characterizes those who give it...
MLit 12.313 10
[Subjectiveness] is founded on...the need to recognize one
nature in all the variety of objects, which always characterizes a genius of
the first order.
MLit 12.318 16
A wild striving to express a more inward and infinite sense
characterizes the works of every art.
characters, n. (36)
Nat 1.32 20
...we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not
significant of themselves.
Con 1.318 7
These considerations, urged by those whose characters and
whose fortunes are yet to be formed, must needs command the sympathy of
all reasonable persons.
SL 2.133 21
We love characters in proportion as they are impulsive and
spontaneous.
Exp 3.80 17
If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her
surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with
tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many up and
downs of fate...
Mrs1 3.143 13
...the respect which these mysteries [of fashion] inspire in
the most rude and sylvan characters...betray[s] the universality of the love
of cultivated manners.
Nat2 3.189 5
Days and nights...of communion with angels of darkness and
of light have engraved their shadowy characters on that tear-stained book.
NR 3.227 12
Our exaggeration of all fine characters arises from the fact
that we identify each in turn with the soul.
PPh 4.71 24
[Socrates]...knew the old characters...
ShP 4.209 4
We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those
questions which knock for answer at every heart...on the characters of men,
and the influences...which affect their fortunes;...
ShP 4.212 13
...few real men have left such distinct characters as
[Shakespeare's] fictions.
NMW 4.244 21
The characters which [Napoleon] has drawn of several of
his marshals are discriminating...
NMW 4.254 7
...[Napoleon] sat...in his lonely island, coldly falsifying facts
and dates and characters...
GoW 4.261 17
Not a foot steps into the snow...but prints, in characters
more or less lasting, a map of its march.
GoW 4.270 18
[Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic
characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in.
GoW 4.278 6
I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe'
s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind,
gratifying it with so many...just insights into life and manners and
characters;...
GoW 4.278 26
In the progress of the story, the characters of the hero and
heroine [of Sand's Consuelo] expand at a rate that shivers the porcelain
chess-table of aristocratic convention...
ET17 5.293 8
It is not in distinguished circles that wisdom and elevated
characters are usually found...
Ctr 6.145 6
For the most part, only the light characters travel.
Boks 7.219 15
[The communications of the sacred books]...are living
characters translatable into every tongue and form of life.
Cour 7.255 27
...the pure article...cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the
right, is the endowment of elevated characters.
OA 7.335 5
[John Adams] spoke of the new novels of Cooper...and
Saratoga, with praise, and named with accuracy the characters in them.
PI 8.45 1
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;...
moreover, they speak after their own characters, not ours;...
PI 8.67 5
[A good poem] affects the characters of its readers by formulating
their opinions and feelings...
Chr2 10.121 17
Goethe, in discussing the characters in Wilhelm Meister,
maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest
manly prerogatives...
Edc1 10.138 10
...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation
of their boyhood, natural characters still;...
Edc1 10.142 24
Culture makes [the youth's] books realities to him, their
characters more brilliant, more effective on his mind, than his actual mates.
Supl 10.175 27
The men whom [Nature] admits to her confidence, the
simple and great characters, are uniformly marked by absence of
pretension...
EWI 11.147 7
I am sure that the good and wise elders, the ardent and
generous youth, will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to
withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters of the
question [of emancipation].
Wom 11.414 4
...women know, at first sight, the characters of those with
whom they converse.
Scot 11.466 5
In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters
and pets of humble class...
Scot 11.466 20
In the number and variety of his characters [Scott]
approaches Shakspeare.
PLT 12.53 24
Characters and talents are complemental and suppletory.
MAng1 12.234 26
When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine]
chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold,
Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the
characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...
Milt1 12.273 25
Learn to estimate great characters [wrote Milton], not by
the amount of animal strength, but by the habitual justice and temperance of
their conduct.
MLit 12.329 15
[We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] I have given my
characters [in Wilhelm Meister] a bias to error. Men have the same.
Trag 12.409 17
...it is...imperfect characters from which somewhat is
hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.
charades, n. (1)
Edc1 10.141 2
That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to
games, charades...
charcoal, n. (1)
Chr1 3.104 23
...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of
this simple and rapid power [of character], and we are painting the lightning
with charcoal;...
Chardon Street Chapel, n. (1)
CSC 10.373 3
In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of
Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston...
Chardon Street Convention, (5)
CSC 10.373 7
The [Chardon Street] Convention organized itself by the
choice of Edmund Quincy as Moderator...
CSC 10.373 17
...the [Chardon Street] Convention debated, for three days
again, the remaining subject of the Priesthood.
CSC 10.373 18
This Convention never printed any report of its
deliberations...
CSC 10.376 19
By no means the least value of this [Chardon Street]
Convention, in our eye, was the scope it gave to the genius of Mr. Alcott...
CSC 10.377 1
...the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many
remarkable persons...
charge, n. (32)
MR 1.231 14
We are all implicated of course in this charge;...
MR 1.238 14
...whoever takes any of these things [species of property] into
his possession, takes the charge of defending them from this troop of
enemies...
LT 1.290 18
You will absolve me from the charge of flippancy...when you
see that reality is all we prize...
Tran 1.336 8
In action [the Transcendentalist] easily incurs the charge of
antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the Law-giver, may with
safety not only neglect, but even contravene every written commandment.
Tran 1.357 20
...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak...are
novices;... Yet let them feel the dignity of their charge...
Pow 6.73 26
Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle, endeavor not to do
more than is given thee in charge.
Bhr 6.193 20
It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated
by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit
place of suffering in hell;...
Bty 6.295 17
Burns writes a copy of verses and sends them to a newspaper,
and the human race take charge of them that they shall not perish.
DL 7.131 1
...I think the public museum in each town will one day relieve
the private house of this charge of owning and exhibiting [statues and
pictures].
Boks 7.205 5
[Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon,
who will take him in charge...
Cour 7.261 7
Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a
bayonet charge or capture a battery.
Cour 7.278 26
The hunter raised his gun,--/ He knew one charge was all,--/
And through the boy's pursuing foe/ He sent his only ball./
Elo2 8.111 12
...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is
gained...they see...the character and advantages of the ground, so that the
result is often predicted by the observer with great certainty before the
charge is sounded.
Grts 8.311 1
Let the student mind his own charge;...
PerF 10.79 13
[The manufacturer] undertook the charge of [the chemical
works] himself, began at the beginning...
Schr 10.269 7
The dry-goods men, and the brokers...are idealists, and only
differ from the philosopher in the intensity of the charge.
Schr 10.269 21
The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly
the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it...
HDC 11.42 7
...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to
keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in
their quarter, and, in respect of the greatness of their charge thereabout, and
in regard of the ease of the East quarter above the rest, in their highways,
they are to allow the North quarter 3 pounds.
HDC 11.66 13
Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest sympathy with [George
Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his people.
Party and mutual councils were called, but no grave charge was made good
against him.
EWI 11.118 17
We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a
habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them...
War 11.168 11
In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace
doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such
deductions consider only one half of the fact.
AsSu 11.250 6
...more to [Charles Sumner's] honor are the faults which his
enemies lay to his charge.
AsSu 11.250 15
...beyond this charge...that he broke over the proprieties of
debate, I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska
conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...
TPar 11.289 5
...it was complained...that [Theodore Parker's] zeal burned
with too hot a flame. It is so difficult, in evil times, to escape this charge!...
ALin 11.328 12
How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind
indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/...
SMC 11.373 4
...[the Thirty-second Regiment]...were ordered to take the
Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad from the rebels. In this charge, Colonel
George L. Prescott was mortally wounded.
SMC 11.373 8
After driving the enemy from the railroad, crossing it, and
climbing the farther bank to continue the charge, [George Prescott] was
struck...by a musket-ball...
SMC 11.374 13
On the ninth, [the Thirty-second Regiment] marched in
support of the cavalry, and were advancing in a grand charge...
Wom 11.418 6
...for the general charge [that women are temperamental]:
no doubt it is well founded.
SHC 11.429 2
Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided
the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the
[Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants
together...
MAng1 12.235 7
On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then
commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this
great work...
ACri 12.301 26
Now, said [Samuel Dexter], I come to the grand charge
that we have obstructed the commerce and navigation of Roxbury Ditch.
charge, v. (4)
MR 1.233 1
I do not charge the merchant or the manufacturer.
NMW 4.231 17
They charge me, [Bonaparte] said, with the commission of
great crimes: men of my stamp do not commit crimes.
TPar 11.287 20
...it is vain to charge [Theodore Parker] with perverting the
opinions of the new generation.
Wom 11.417 9
In all [literature], the body of the joke is one, namely, to
charge women with termperament;...
chargeable, adj. (1)
ET11 5.193 26
Most of [the English noblemen] are only chargeable with
idleness...
charged, adj. (2)
LE 1.157 6
...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of
fair outline...which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible
beauty...
Pow 6.70 23
The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged
cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires.
charged, v. (36)
Hsm1 2.255 26
Scipio, charged with peculation, refuses to do himself so
great a disgrace as to wait for justification...
PPh 4.58 1
[Plato] has been charged with feigning sickness at the time of
the death of Socrates.
PPh 4.76 23
[Plato] is charged with having failed to make the transition
from ideas to matter.
MoS 4.182 16
[The spiritualist] had rather stand charged with the
imbecility of skepticism, than with untruth.
ET4 5.63 16
The [English] public schools are charged with being bear-gardens
of brutal strength...
ET5 5.85 14
The spirit of system, attention to details, and the subordination
of details, or the not driving things too finely (which is charged on the
Germans), constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile
power of England.
ET7 5.116 7
The faces of clergy and laity in old sculptures and illuminated
missals are charged with earnest belief.
ET7 5.122 6
See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven
all voting like sheep...all but four voting the income tax,--which was
an ill-judged concession of the government, relieving Irish property from
the burdens charged on English.
ET12 5.202 23
...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of
Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds...
ET14 5.236 12
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. I find...the whole writing of the time charged with
a masculine force and freedom.
F 6.16 18
Look at the unpalatable conclusions of Knox...a rash and
unsatisfactory writer, but charged with pungent and unforgetable truths.
Wth 6.109 22
...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton,
sixpence for tobacco, and so on;...
Wsp 6.212 20
It has been charged that a want of sincerity in the leading
men is a vice general throughout American society.
Elo1 7.63 5
...a jar in a battery is charged with the whole electricity of the
battery.
Cour 7.260 20
Nature has charged every one with his own defence...
OA 7.328 5
In a world so charged and sparkling with power, a man does
not live long and actively without costly additions of experience...
QO 8.191 21
When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor
replies: Yet he was more original than his originals.
Chr2 10.107 11
Fifty or a hundred years ago...an exact observance of the
Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of clergymen. And one sees
with some pain the disuse of rites so charged with humanity and aspiration.
Edc1 10.142 16
Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great
secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
SovE 10.206 20
We in America are charged with a great deficiency in
worship;...
MoL 10.243 13
It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own,
have balanced their labor by mental activity...
Plu 10.321 8
I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London,
charged with the duty of preparing a Critical Dictionary, will not overlook
these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch]...
LLNE 10.365 24
...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.
Thor 10.473 24
[Thoreau] was inquisitive about the making of the stone
arrow-head, and in his last days charged a youth setting out for the Rocky
Mountains to find an Indian who could tell him that...
AsSu 11.250 23
...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his
speeches were written before they were spoken;...
TPar 11.286 1
Theodore Parker was...charged with the energy of New
England...
TPar 11.288 26
The vice charged against America is the want of sincerity
in leading men.
EPro 11.326 5
Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world, until
you have charged their ear and heart with this message to other spiritual
societies...
HCom 11.342 14
[The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men...
FRO2 11.490 21
I am glad to hear each sect complain that they do not now
hold the opinions they are charged with.
FRep 11.518 13
...liberal congresses and legislatures ordain...equivocal,
interested and vicious measures. The men themselves are suspected and
charged with lobbying and being lobbied.
PLT 12.5 27
[When I look at the tree or the river] I feel as if I stood by an
ambassador charged with the message of his king...
CW 12.171 3
When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had
in the bluebirds, bobolinks and thrushes, which were not charged in the
bill;...
MAng1 12.226 1
[Michelangelo] was charged with rebuilding the Pons
Palatinus over the Tiber.
Milt1 12.263 26
When [Milton] was charged with loose habits of living, he
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 19
[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.
charger, n. (1)
PI 8.4 3
...the most imaginative and abstracted person...never...seizes his
wild charger by the tail.
charges, n. (8)
Comp 2.99 21
He who by force of will or of thought is great and overlooks
thousands, has the charges of that eminence.
ET15 5.265 9
The proprietors [of the London Times], who had already
complained that [John Walter's] charges for printing were excessive, found
that they were in his power...
Wth 6.105 3
If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of
nations is enriched; and much more with a new degree of probity. The
expense of crime, one of the principal charges of every nation, is so far
stopped.
HDC 11.41 13
...in the first years [of Concord], the land would not pay the
necessary public charges...
HDC 11.41 16
Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and,
doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639,
granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge;...
HDC 11.65 2
The charges of education and of legislation, at this period,
seem to have afflicted the town [Concord];...
HDC 11.66 15
I find, in the [Concord] Church Records, the charges
preferred against [Daniel Bliss], his answer thereto, and the result of the
Council.
HDC 11.66 17
The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order
and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious
excitements.
charges, v. (1)
Tran 1.336 15
Afterwards, when Emilia charges him with the crime,
Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not I./
charging, v. (1)
Clbs 7.246 2
A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense
preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company, to the
charging himself with too many select letters of introduction.
Charing Cross, London, Eng (1)
ET11 5.181 25
Northumberland House holds its place by Charing Cross.
chariot, adj. (1)
Imtl 8.325 20
[The Greek]...made [death] bright with games of strength and
skill, and chariot races.
chariot, n. (8)
MR 1.243 16
...attempting to drive along the ecliptic with one horse of the
heavens and one horse of the earth, there is only discord and ruin and
downfall to chariot and charioteer.
Cir 2.315 5
...he can well spare his mule and panniers who has a winged
chariot instead.
F 6.32 21
...the ductility of metals, the chariot of the air, the ruddered
balloon are awaiting you.
Wsp 6.215 24
...a day comes when [a man] begins to care that he do not
cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into
a chariot of the sun.
WD 7.173 9
Hume's doctrine was...that the beggar cracking fleas in the
sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot;...had
different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
FSLC 11.201 13
Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we
could have spared. But [Webster]...the first man of the North, in the very
moment of mounting the throne, irresistibly...harnessing himself to the
chariot of the planters.
CL 12.148 18
Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the
conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because they
drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their chariot;...
ACri 12.290 21
A good writer must convey the feeling...as if in his densest
period was...room to turn a chariot and horses between his valid words.
charioteer, n. (3)
MR 1.243 16
...attempting to drive along the ecliptic with one horse of the
heavens and one horse of the earth, there is only discord and ruin and
downfall to chariot and charioteer.
PNR 4.83 7
Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and
ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;...
the charioteer and two horses;...
PI 8.66 7
The poet must let Humanity sit with the Muse in his head, as the
charioteer sits with the hero in the Iliad.
charioteers, n. (1)
PPr 12.389 13
...in all his fun of...playing of tunes with a whiplash like
some renowned charioteers...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if
catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear
level tone the very word...
chariot-race, n. (1)
Chr1 3.90 21
When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I might...at least guide
his horses in the chariot-race;...
chariots, n. (6)
SwM 4.135 22
The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in
Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What
have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what
with...chariots of fire...
Civ 7.30 23
If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works
in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also evil agents...
Boks 7.200 18
[Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you
are stimulated and recruited...by the passing of fillets, parsley and laurel
wreaths, chariots, armor, sacred cups and utensils of sacrifice.
Cour 7.256 21
We have had examples of men who, for showing effective
courage on a single occasion...must be brought in chariots to every mass
meeting.
Imtl 8.350 20
[Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult
to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;-those
fair nymphs of heaven with their chariots...
EWI 11.102 5
...Herodotus, our oldest historian, relates that the
Troglodytes hunted the Ethiopians in four-horse chariots.
charitable, adj. (11)
LE 1.173 19
[The scholar] must be a solitary, laborious, modest, and
charitable soul.
MoS 4.181 21
Charitable souls come with their projects and ask [the
spiritualist's] co-operation.
ET19 5.310 17
...as for Dombey...there is...no man who can read, that does
not read it, and, if he cannot, he finds some charitable pair of eyes that can,
and hears it.
Pow 6.66 7
The pious and charitable proprietor has a foreman not quite so
pious and charitable.
Pow 6.66 8
The pious and charitable proprietor has a foreman not quite so
pious and charitable.
Boks 7.192 15
It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in
naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely
over dark morasses and barren oceans...
LLNE 10.347 8
[Robert Owen's] charitable construction of men and their
actions was invariable.
EzRy 10.385 9
[Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a
shay? ... Should I not be more in my study and less fond of diversion? Do I
not withhold more than is meet from pious and charitable uses?
EzRy 10.385 20
[Ezra Ripley] was a perfectly sincere man, punctual,
severe, but just and charitable...
HDC 11.80 17
...our fathers must be forgiven by their charitable posterity,
if, in 1782, before choosing a representative, it was Voted that the person
who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive
6s. per day...
EWI 11.105 15
The man [West Indian slave] applied to Mr. William
Sharpe, a charitable surgeon...
charitable, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.153 26
Are you...rich enough to make...the itinerant with his consul'
s paper which commends him To the charitable...feel the noble exception f
your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
charities, n. (20)
Tran 1.333 24
...[the idealist] does not respect...the church, nor charities,
nor arts, for themselves;...
Tran 1.341 9
...[many intelligent and religious persons] prefer to ramble in
the country and perish of ennui, to the degradation of such charities and
such ambitions as the city can propose to them.
Tran 1.348 1
...[Transcendentalists] do not willingly share in the public
charities, in the public religious rites...
Tran 1.349 14
...the philanthropies and charities have a certain air of
quackery.
SR 2.52 14
...your miscellaneous popular charities;...though...I sometimes...
give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
Hsm1 2.261 9
We tell our charities...for our justification.
Hsm1 2.261 13
We tell our charities...for our justification. It is a capital
blunder; as you discover when another man recites his charities.
Mrs1 3.146 4
...there is still some absurd inventor of charities;...
ET4 5.67 14
...[the fair Saxon man] is moulded...for colleges, churches,
charities and colonies.
ET10 5.170 2
A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain
to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with;
and a part to repair the wrongs of this intemperate weaving, by hospitals,
savings-banks, Mechanics' Institutes, public grounds, and other charities
and amenities.
ET11 5.185 7
In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is...to
countenance charities...
ET13 5.225 9
The new age has new desires, new enemies, new trades, new
charities...
Farm 7.141 15
The man that works at home helps society at large with
somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities.
Clbs 7.247 24
...it was explained to me, in a Southern city, that it was
impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner.
I do not think our metropolitan charities would plead the same necessity;...
QO 8.188 4
Is...all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body
borrowed...from a hundred charities?
PC 8.209 5
The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the
Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the
enlarged scale of charities to relieve local famine...
EzRy 10.391 10
[Ezra Ripley] subscribed to all charities...
CPL 11.495 5
The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political
arrangement of towns, each...caring for its schools, its charities, its
highways.
FRep 11.520 7
You rally to the support of old charities and the cause of
literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of politicians].
Bost 12.186 14
What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might
be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at
least an equal freedom in our laws and customs...with so many
philanthropies, humanities, charities, soliciting us to be great and good.
charity, n. (50)
Nat 1.13 16
...thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish
man.
LE 1.184 6
...out of this superior frankness and charity you shall learn
higher secrets of your nature...
Con 1.318 9
...beside that charity which should make all adult persons
interested for the youth...we are bound to see that the society of which we
compose a part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the
honor and welfare of mankind.
Tran 1.356 14
Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to
some vocation...or charity...which they resist as what does not concern
them.
Tran 1.358 6
...Society...must behold [Transcendentalists] with what
charity it can.
YA 1.374 1
[That serene Power's] charity is not our charity.
YA 1.374 16
...it turns out that our charity increases pauperism.
YA 1.386 12
How can our young men complain of the poverty of things in
New England, and not feel that poverty as a demand on their charity to
make New England rich?
Hist 2.6 10
Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of
this fact is...the plea for education, for justice, for charity;...
SR 2.52 25
Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage
or charity, much as they would pay a fine...
SR 2.72 7
Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at
once at thy closet door...
Exp 3.81 26
Charity would be wasted on this poor waiting on the
symptoms.
Chr1 3.104 11
The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account
he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune.
Pol1 3.209 3
A party is perpetually corrupted by personality. Whilst we
absolve the association from dishonesty, we cannot extend the same charity
to their leaders.
NR 3.244 19
...let us...infer the genius of nature from the best particulars
with a becoming charity.
SwM 4.125 22
[To Swedenborg] Such as have deprived themselves of
charity, wander and flee...
ET11 5.182 2
...most of the historical [English] houses are masked or lost
in the modern uses to which trade or charity has converted them.
F 6.45 15
If a man has a see-saw in his voice, it will run...into his charity.
Ctr 6.165 24
Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the
music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears
and joy;...if Christianity with its charity;...can set his dull nerves throbbing...
make way and sing paean!
CbW 6.249 11
The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to
preserve are not worth preserving.
Clbs 7.247 22
...it was explained to me...that it was impossible to set any
public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner.
SA 8.105 4
The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of
affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the
love...in the tender-hearted philanthropist to spend and be spent for some
romantic charity...
Elo2 8.110 4
...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire
to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge
of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about
him at command...
PC 8.209 23
Men are now to be astonished by seeing acts of...Christian
charity proposed by statesmen...
Grts 8.312 20
...[the great man] conceals his learning, conceals his charity.
Grts 8.316 18
We must have some charity for the sense of the people,
which admires natural power...
Chr2 10.103 17
...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when
it...sets [a man] on...some zeal to unite men to...establish some reform or
charity which it commands-are the homage we render to this sentiment...
Edc1 10.151 5
What fiery soul will [the college] send out to warm a nation
with his charity?
MoL 10.258 4
The times develop the strength they need. Boys are heroes.
Women have shown a tender patriotism and inexhaustible charity.
LLNE 10.336 27
...every lesson of humility, or justice, or charity, which
the old ignorant saints had taught [man], was still forever true.
MMEm 10.419 23
I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for
clothes and charity...
SlHr 10.437 9
[Samuel Hoar] was born under a Christian and humane star,
full of...honor and charity;...
SlHr 10.440 13
[Samuel Hoar] was open-handed to every charity...
LS 11.21 15
What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality, its
boundless charity...
HDC 11.62 4
For [the Indians] the heart of charity, of humanity, was stone.
HDC 11.64 10
The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a
manner now obsolete [in Concord].
War 11.156 10
In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all
conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or
beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity. And
why? Because the speaker has as yet no other image of manly activity and
virtue...none of charity...
War 11.167 8
At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of
holiness;...he...accepts with alacrity wearisome tasks of denial and charity;...
FSLC 11.183 26
I cannot accept the railroad and telegraph in exchange for
reason and charity.
FSLC 11.192 24
How can a law be enforced that fines pity, and imprisons
charity?
FSLC 11.202 14
I have as much charity for Mr. Webster, I think, as any
one has.
AKan 11.257 1
This aid must be sent [to Kansas], and this is not to be
doled out as an ordinary charity;...
FRep 11.538 17
...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the
charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and
creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great
constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
FRep 11.540 4
Let us realize that this country...is the great charity of God
to the human race.
PLT 12.29 12
[Man's] equipment, though new, is complete;...his courage,
his charity, are his own.
Milt1 12.262 7
...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with
a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse
the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his
words...trip about him at command...
Milt1 12.277 9
Milton, fired with dearest charity to infuse the knowledge
of good things into others, tasked his giant imagination...for an end beyond,
namely, to teach.
Milt1 12.278 21
...as many poems have been written upon unfit society...
yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom
of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul...is entitled to.
Pray 12.356 24
He that knows truth or verity knows what that light [of the
soul] is, and he that knows it knows eternity, and it is known by charity.
PPr 12.384 8
To atone for this departure from the vows of the scholar and
his eternal duties to this secular charity, we have at least this gain, that here
[in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was
addressed cannot choose but hear.
Charity, n. (1)
Pray 12.356 25
O eternal Verity! and true Charity! and dear Eternity! thou
art my God...
charity-boy, n. (1)
SR 2.61 26
Let [a man] not...skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy...
charity-concert, n. (1)
LLNE 10.348 6
[Fourier] took his measure of that which all should and
might enjoy, from no soup-society or charity-concert, but from the
refinements of palaces, the wealth of universities and the triumphs of artists.
charity-houses, n. (1)
ET3 5.38 9
...[England] is stuffed full, in all corners and crevices, with
towns, towers, churches, villas, palaces, hospitals and charity-houses.
charivari, n. (2)
Ill 6.314 3
Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now
and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe
the show in due glory...
SA 8.80 18
...we for the most part are all drawn into the charivari;...