Charlatan to Chiffinch, William
charlatan, n. (4)
Pol1 3.219 3
Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be
sincere.
LLNE 10.354 27
Unless [the leader of a community] have a Cossack
roughness of clearing himself of what belongs not, charlatan he must be.
EzRy 10.389 19
[Ezra Ripley] was the easy dupe of any tonguey agent,
whether...charlatan of iron combs, or tractors, or phrenology, or magnetism,
who went by.
PLT 12.48 18
To hammer out phalanxes must be done by smiths; as soon
as the scholar attempts it, he is half a charlatan.
charlatanism, n. (3)
PNR 4.89 8
All [Plato's] painting in the Republic must be esteemed
mythical, with intent to bring out...his thought. You cannot institute,
without peril of charlatanism.
ET8 5.142 11
...the calm, sound and most British Briton shrinks from
public life as charlatanism...
II 12.79 19
All men are inspirable. Whilst they say only the beautiful and
sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness, and no repentance. But the
moment they attempt to say these things by memory, charlatanism begins.
charlatans, n. (3)
SwM 4.130 7
[Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between
knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed.
Philosophers are, therefore, vipers...and flying serpents; literary men are
conjurors and charlatans.
LLNE 10.354 22
It is the worst of community that it must inevitably
transform into charlatans the leaders...
Wom 11.425 4
...let [new opinions] make their way by the upper road, and
not by the way of manufacturing public opinion, which...makes charlatans.
Charlemagne, n. (1)
ET4 5.55 27
Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul,
looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the
Mediterranean.
Charles I, of England [Cha (1)
Milt1 12.250 19
What under heaven had...the manner of living of
Saumaise...or his niceties of diction, to do with the solemn question
whether Charles Stuart had been rightly slain?
Charles I, of England, n. (4)
ET5 5.79 3
Sir Kenelm Digby, a courtier of Charles and James...was a
model Englishman in his day.
ET8 5.139 15
No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];
Gentlemen, as Charles I. said of Strafford, whose abilities might make a
prince rather afraid than ashamed in the greatest affairs of state;...
ET12 5.211 23
Charles I. said that he understood English law as well as a
gentleman ought to understand it.
Milt1 12.273 2
[Milton] defends the slaying of the king, because a king is a
king no longer than he governs by the laws; It would be right to kill Philip
of Spain making an inroad into England, and what right the king of Spain
hath to govern us at all, the same hath the king Charles to govern
tyranically.
Charles II, of England, n. (4)
Nat 1.21 13
Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of London, caused the
patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal
streets of the city...
OS 2.291 24
I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell
and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand
Turk.
ET3 5.38 21
Charles the Second said, [English temperature] invited men
abroad more days in the year and more hours in the day than another
country.
PC 8.233 23
...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the
moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer
within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it. In England the like
spiritual disease affected the upper class in the time of Charles II....
Charles II's, of England, (1)
ET11 5.173 1
In spite of...the devastation of society by the profligacy of the
court, we take sides as we read for the loyal England, and King Charles's
return to his right with his Cavaliers,
Charles IX, of France, n. (1)
FSLC 11.192 2
Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute
the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St.
Bartholomew, have been universally praised;...
Charles River, adj. (1)
Bost 12.186 24
I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more
clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers...
Charles River, Massachusett (2)
Boks 7.204 16
I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River
when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I
have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
HDC 11.32 20
[The pilgrims] could cross the Massachusetts or Charles
River, by the ferry at Newtown;...
Charles River, n. (1)
Bost 12.187 4
...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water
lose their relish for the water of the Charles River...
Charles Town [Charlestown], (1)
JBS 11.278 26
...I incline to accept [John Brown's] own account of the
matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little older, when he said,
This was all settled millions of years before the world was made.
Charles V, Emperor, n. (3)
LE 1.162 22
...[the youth] has read the story of Emperor Charles the Fifth...
MAng1 12.224 2
When the Florentines united themselves with Venice,
England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor Charles V.,
Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and Engineer, to
superintend the erection of the necessary works.
MAng1 12.224 10
On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange,
general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city
[Florence]...
Charles V, Life of... [W. (1)
Boks 7.206 9
The Life of the Emperor Charles V., by the useful Robertson,
is still the key of the following age.
Charles V, of France, n. (1)
Schr 10.277 10
I am apt to believe, with the Emperor Charles V., that as
many languages as a man knows, so many times is he a man.
Charles V, of Spain, n. (1)
UGM 4.23 3
I like...Charles V., of Spain;...
Charles V's, Emperor, n. (1)
LE 1.163 10
...in the great idea and the puny execution;-behold Charles
the Fifth's day;...
Charles X, of Sweden [Gust (2)
SR 2.63 2
Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus?
Aris 10.57 13
It was objected to Gustavus that he did not better distinguish
between the duties of a carabine and a general...
Charles XII, of Sweden, n (5)
UGM 4.23 3
I like...Charles XII., of Sweden;...
SwM 4.99 14
At the age of twenty-eight [Swedenborg] was made Assessor
of the Board of Mines by Charles XII.
SwM 4.100 14
[Swedenborg's] duties had brought him into intimate
acquaintance with King Charles XII....
Cour 7.267 5
Swedenborg has left this record of his king: Charles XII. of
Sweden did not know what that was which others called fear...
MAng1 12.227 27
The midnight battles, the forced marches, the winter
campaigns of Julius Caesar or Charles XII. do not indicate greater strength
of body or of mind [than Michelangelo's].
Charles's Wain, n. (1)
Civ 7.30 18
Let us not lie and steal. No god will help. We shall find all
their teams going the other way,--Charles's Wain, Great Bear...every god
will leave us.
Charleston, South Carolina, (1)
Chr2 10.118 9
The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals,
flies...to the reform of convicts and harlots,-as the war created the Hilton
Head and Charleston missions...
Charleston, South Carolina, (7)
ET3 5.40 27
I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city
of Philadelphia was...by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities
of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian,
and was examined with pleasure...by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But
when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans and to Boston, it somehow
failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.
SlHr 10.437 22
At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina...
whilst staying in Charleston...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe
for him to appear in public...
SlHr 10.438 12
...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets
before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last
point of possibility.
EWI 11.132 15
The Congress should instruct the President to send to those
ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force
as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were
holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...
ACiv 11.301 14
Here is a woman who has no other property [but slaves],-
like a lady in Charleston I knew of, who owned fifteen sweeps and rode in
her carriage.
EPro 11.323 14
Give the Confederacy New Orleans, Charleston, and
Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore.
ALin 11.336 12
[Lincoln] had seen Savannah, Charleston and Richmond
surrendered;...
Charlestown Jail, West Vir (1)
JBB 11.270 11
...we are here to think of relief for the family of John
Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It
comprises his brave fellow sufferers in the Charlestown Jail;...
Charlestown, West Virginia, (1)
Elo2 8.125 20
...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of
passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience.
It is the merit of John Brown and of Abraham Lincoln--one at Charlestown,
one at Gettysburg...
charm, n. (91)
Nat 1.17 20
Not less excellent...was the charm...of a January sunset.
Nat 1.54 13
Again; The charm dissolves apace/...
Nat 1.55 17
Is not the charm of one of Plato's or Aristotle's definitions
strictly like that of the Antigone of Sophocles?
DSA 1.133 24
Now do not degrade the life and dialogues of Christ out of
the circle of this charm...
DSA 1.146 2
The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in
him it has a charm.
Hist 2.25 18
The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons
speak simply...
SR 2.48 14
So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with
its own piquancy and charm...
Lov1 2.174 26
In looking backward [many men] may find that several
things which were not the charm have more reality to this groping memory
than the charm itself which embalmed them.
Lov1 2.174 27
In looking backward [many men] may find that several
things which were not the charm have more reality to this groping memory
than the charm itself which embalmed them.
Lov1 2.179 4
Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from
one and another face and form?
Hsm1 2.259 20
Let the maiden, with erect soul...search in turn all the
objects that solicit her eye, that she may learn the power and the charm of
her new-born being...
Int 2.332 27
Every trivial fact in [the writer's] private biography...delights
all men by its piquancy and new charm.
Art1 2.352 20
The Genius of the Hour sets his ineffaceable seal on the
work [of art] and gives it an inexpressible charm for the imagination.
Art1 2.353 14
...that which is inevitable in the work [of art] has a higher
charm than individual talent can ever give...
Art1 2.358 23
The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces...
can ever teach...
Art1 2.359 6
...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the
highest charm is the universal language they speak.
Pt1 3.30 16
...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop.
I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the
mathematics...but it is felt in every definition;...
Chr1 3.105 26
Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought.
When I explored the source of their sanctity and charm for the imagination,
it seemed as if each answered, From my non-conformity...
Mrs1 3.148 26
Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the
charm of noble manners...
Nat2 3.193 12
The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm
of his maiden in her acceptance of him.
NR 3.234 5
...the wonder and charm of [art] is the sanity in insanity which
it denotes.
UGM 4.10 7
...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms,
which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...
UGM 4.13 13
Looking where others look, and conversing with the same
things, we catch the charm which lured them.
PPh 4.56 2
...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in
staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the
other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much
transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain
the power and the charm of Plato.
MoS 4.152 16
After dinner, a man believes less, denies more: verities have
lost some charm.
GoW 4.280 4
No generous youth can escape this charm of reality in the
book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]...
GoW 4.287 6
...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of
Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these
grandees of European scientific history and himself;...
ET2 5.31 16
Classics which at home are drowsily read, have a strange
charm in a country inn...
ET5 5.101 17
The charm in Nelson's history is the unselfish greatness, the
assurance of being supported to the uttermost by those whom he supports to
the uttermost.
ET14 5.232 17
[The plain style] imports into [English] songs and ballads
the smell of the earth...and, like a Dutch painter, seeks a household charm...
ET14 5.253 5
I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English]
science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave
nature of its charm;...
Ctr 6.158 16
I must have children...I must have a social state and history,
or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these
accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions, which
pass for more to the people than to me. We see this abstraction in scholars,
as a matter of course; but what a charm it adds when observed in practical
men.
Ctr 6.159 16
[People] do not know the charm with which all moments and
objects can be embellished...
Ctr 6.159 18
[People] do not know the charm with which all moments and
objects can be embellished, the charm of manners, of self-command, of
benevolence.
Bhr 6.192 23
That is the charm in all good novels...that the heroes mutually
understand, from the first...
Bhr 6.192 24
That is the charm in all good novels, as it is the charm in all
good histories, that the heroes mutually understand, from the first...
Wsp 6.216 22
...any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman
involves a moral charm.
Bty 6.290 1
...the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our
perception that not one ornament was added for ornament...
Bty 6.292 20
The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire
the restoration of symmetry, and to watch the steps through which it is
attained. This is the charm of running water...
Ill 6.317 15
'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their
practicality are a certain poetry and play...
Civ 7.24 3
...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which
educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
Civ 7.28 16
...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact
form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...and it
went like a charm.
Art2 7.53 15
The gayest charm of beauty has a root in the constitution of
things.
DL 7.126 12
One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature,
when he...sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and
peculiar charm...
Farm 7.137 18
...the profession [of farming] has in all eyes its ancient
charm, as standing nearest to God, the first cause.
Clbs 7.226 14
Some talkers excel in the precision with which they
formulate their thoughts...others lay criticism asleep by a charm.
Clbs 7.231 9
...who can resist the charm of talent?
Clbs 7.236 17
...[Dr. Johnson's] conversation...has a lasting charm.
Cour 7.272 15
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions...
PI 8.5 11
Thin or solid, everything is in flight. I believe this conviction
makes the charm of chemistry...
PI 8.11 11
Seas, forests, metals, diamonds and fossils interest the eye, but 't
is only with some preparatory or predicting charm.
PI 8.25 3
This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in things so diverse,
gives a pure pleasure. Every one of a million times we find a charm in the
metamorphosis.
PI 8.25 8
When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me
Shelley...to show that it has no charm, I am quite of their mind.
PI 8.45 18
...no matter what objects are near [water]...they become
beautiful by being reflected. It is rhyme to the eye, and explains the charm
of rhyme to the ear.
PI 8.45 25
In society you have this figure [of rhyme] in a bridal company,
where a choir of white-robed maidens give the charm of living statues;...
PI 8.46 26
If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English
metres...you can easily believe these metres to be...derived from the human
pulse, and to be therefore not proper to one nation, but to mankind. I think
you will also find a charm heroic, plaintive, pathetic, in these cadences...
PI 8.67 19
Do you think Burns...has opened no eyes and ears to...the
dignity of man and the charm and excellence of woman?
SA 8.79 9
Who does not delight in fine manners? Their charm cannot be
predicted or overstated.
Elo2 8.120 11
A good voice has a charm in speech as in song;...
QO 8.191 13
...the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and
equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm.
QO 8.193 10
There is...a new charm in such intellectual works as, passing
through long time, have had a multitude of authors and improvers.
QO 8.193 21
Every word in the language has once been used happily. The
ear, caught by that felicity, retains it, and it is used again and again, as if the
charm belonged to the word and not to the life of thought which so enforced
it.
QO 8.198 2
The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were
written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior
meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
QO 8.203 11
The earliest describers of savage life...have a charm of truth...
Grts 8.305 7
Others find a charm and a profession in the natural history of
man and the mammalia or related animals;...
PerF 10.79 1
The power of persistence...is one of these [mental] forces
which never loses its charm.
Chr2 10.115 27
This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion...the New
Testament loses by its connection with a church.
Chr2 10.116 1
This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm
of poetry...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
Edc1 10.128 10
Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions
and properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant. He too
must come into this magic circle of relations, and know...the charm of
riches, the charm of power.
Edc1 10.130 25
...what is the charm which every ore, every new plant...
possess for Humboldt?
Edc1 10.137 11
The charm of life is this variety of genius...
Prch 10.226 27
...the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and
identities in all the religions of men.
Plu 10.300 26
...twilights, shadows, omens and spectres have a charm for
[Plutarch].
MMEm 10.414 24
...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this
afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me, Even
these leaves you use to think my better emblem have lost their charm on me
too...
Thor 10.475 6
...[Thoreau] would have detected every live stanza or line in
a volume [of poetry] and knew very well where to find an equal poetic
charm in prose.
Carl 10.494 20
A strong nature has a charm for [Carlyle]...
War 11.171 18
The manhood that has been in war must be transferred to
the cause of peace, before war can lose its charm...
War 11.173 13
This self-subsistency is the charm of war;...
JBS 11.276 24
But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire
his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings
restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the
breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect
charm./ William Allingham.
TPar 11.287 4
The old religions have a charm for most minds which it is a
little uncanny to disturb.
ALin 11.335 25
Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's
portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have
suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture.
Shak1 11.450 9
...such [is] the charm of [Shakespeare's] speech, that he
still agitates the heart in age as in youth...
FRO2 11.490 16
...the charm of the study is in finding the agreements, the
identities, in all the religions of men.
PLT 12.64 4
We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect]
by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all. Our poetry, our
religion are its skirts and penumbrae. Yet the charm of life is the hints we
derive from this.
CL 12.166 20
...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature,
and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer
form;...
MAng1 12.216 21
It is a happiness to find...a soul at intervals born to
behold and create only Beauty. So shall not the indescribable charm of the
natural world...want observers.
Milt1 12.263 1
The victories of the conscience in [Milton] are gained by
the commanding charm which all the severe and restrictive virtues have for
him.
ACri 12.303 15
...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime
charm...
MLit 12.335 2
A charm as radiant as beauty ever beamed...is new to-day.
WSL 12.341 23
A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in
any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame...
EurB 12.374 16
...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect, because
he speedily betrays that he does not see the true limitations of the charm;...
charm, v. (12)
DSA 1.124 25
Wonderful is [the religious sentiment's] power to charm and
to command.
DSA 1.137 2
The test of the true faith, certainly, should be its power to
charm and command the soul...
ET12 5.213 13
...when you have settled it that the universities are
moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...to give
veracity to art and charm mankind...
ET14 5.237 11
...these [English poets] were so quick and vital that they
could charm and enrich by mean and vulgar objects.
Bhr 6.181 7
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in
beasts, is a power behind the eye.
SS 7.11 5
...the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this
bearded and that rosy visage is [the scholar's] rent and ration.
PI 8.54 27
...the masters sometimes rise above themselves to strains which
charm their readers...
SA 8.80 4
...a few natures are central and forever unfold, and these alone
charm us.
SovE 10.200 11
Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought harmoniously
organized into correspondence with the universe of mind and matter. What
narrative of wonders coming down from a thousand years ought to charm
his attention like this?
SovE 10.209 17
...the inspirations we catch of this [moral] law are...joyful
sparkles...and that is their priceless good to men, that they charm and
uplift...
Plu 10.300 13
Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one
hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch. These distant friendships charm
us...
Plu 10.302 1
Thebes, Sparta, Athens and Rome charm us away from the
disgust of the passing hour.
charmed, adj. (1)
MN 1.193 21
Into our charmed circle, power cannot enter;...
charmed, v. (15)
Comp 2.93 7
The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation]
is to be drawn, charmed my fancy...
ShP 4.197 20
...in the whole society of English writers, a large
unacknowledged debt [to Chaucer] is easily traced. One is charmed with the
opulence which feeds so many pensioners.
ET16 5.281 19
The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley], charmed with the
geometric perfections of his ruin, connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest
monuments and religion of the world...
CbW 6.259 24
The youth is charmed with the fine air and accomplishments
of the children of fortune.
WD 7.174 14
An everlasting Now reigns in Nature, which hangs the same
roses on our bushes which charmed the Roman and the Chaldaean in their
hanging-gardens.
Cour 7.256 22
Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased
themselves with being called lions...
OA 7.314 8
...Lowly faithful, banish fear,/ Right onward drive unharmed;/
The port, well worth the cruise, is near,/ And every wave is charmed./
Aris 10.33 14
The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people
dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a
relation, or rumor, or influence of good and fair...superficially touched, yet
charmed by these shadows:-and, far below these, gross and thoughtless,
the animal man...
Aris 10.39 17
I wish...men who are charmed by the beautiful Nemesis as
well as by the dire Nemesis...
Plu 10.296 3
Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares, I am always charmed
with Plutarch;...
Wom 11.411 15
There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but
was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman, who
charmed beholders by this new expression...
Scot 11.464 8
[Scott's] own ear had been charmed by old ballads...
CPL 11.508 12
...read proudly; put the duty of being read invariably on the
author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed,-
but I shall not make believe I am charmed.
CPL 11.508 13
...read proudly; put the duty of being read invariably on the
author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed,-
but I shall not make believe I am charmed.
MLit 12.330 15
In reading [Wilhelm] Meister, I am charmed with the
insight;...
Charmides [Plato], n. (1)
Pt1 3.30 26
...Socrates, in Charmides, tells us that the soul is cured of its
maladies by certain incantations, and that these incantations are beautiful
reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls;...
charming, adj. (12)
Nat 1.8 14
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably
made up of some twenty or thirty farms.
Lov1 2.180 17
...personal beauty is then first charming and itself when it
dissatisfies us with any end;...
ET4 5.58 23
...crowbars, peat-knives and hay-forks are tools valued by [the
Norsemen] all the more for their charming aptitude for assassinations.
ET16 5.285 2
I had not seen more charming grounds [than at Wilton Hall].
Bhr 6.188 8
...nothing is more charming than to recognize the great style
which runs through the actions of such [persons of character].
WD 7.182 15
The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy]. It
was a fine efflorescence of fine powers; as was said of the letters of the
Frenchwoman,--the charming accident of their more charming existence.
WD 7.182 16
The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy]. It
was a fine efflorescence of fine powers; as was said of the letters of the
Frenchwoman,--the charming accident of their more charming existence.
Boks 7.200 24
...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters is a charming
portraiture of ancient manners and discourse...
MoL 10.243 27
The Greek was so perfect in action and in imagination, his
poems...so charming in form and so true to the human mind, that we cannot
forget or outgrow their mythology.
LLNE 10.367 11
The question which occurs to you had occurred much
earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to be
done?
MAng1 12.217 12
Can this charming element [Beauty] be so abstracted by
the human mind as to become a distinct and permanent object?
Milt1 12.275 9
...the Comus [is] a transcript, in charming numbers, of that
philosophy of chastity, which, in the Apology for Smectymnuus, and in the
Reason of Church Government, [Milton] declares to be his defence and
religion.
charming, v. (4)
Bty 6.301 14
This is the triumph of expression...charming us with a power
so fine and friendly and intoxicating that it makes admired persons insipid...
Elo1 7.91 7
...all these talents [of oratory], so potent and charming, have an
equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
DL 7.103 22
[The child's] ignorance is more charming than all knowledge...
OA 7.315 20
[Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...
Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute], charming by its uniform rhetorical
merit;...
charms, n. (6)
SL 2.150 13
Persons approach us...worthy of all wonder for their charms
and gifts;...with very imperfect result.
Lov1 2.187 16
At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them
together...that magical play of charms,--was deciduous...
ShP 4.216 2
Epicurus relates that poetry hath such charms that a lover
might forsake his mistress to partake of them.
Bty 6.303 16
...the Welsh bard warns his countrywomen, Half of their
charms with Cadwallon shall die./
MMEm 10.425 17
...[the earth's] youthful charms as decked by the hand of
Moses' Cosmogony, will linger about the heart, while Poetry succumbs to
Science.
SMC 11.348 1
Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads
and embowered farms?/
charms, v. (5)
Pt1 3.39 18
...by and by [the poet] says something which is original and
beautiful. That charms him.
Chr1 3.94 7
When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it,
as man charms down the resistance of the lower animals.
Boks 7.200 9
Plutarch charms by the facility of his associations;...
PerF 10.81 22
See how rich life is; rich in private talents, each of which
charms us in turn...
CW 12.175 18
...the word park always charms me.
charnel-breath, n. (1)
SwM 4.144 18
[Swedenborg's] laurel so largely mixed with cypress, a
charnel-breath so mingles with the temple incense, that boys and maids will
shun the spot.
Charon, n. (1)
SwM 4.133 20
All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they
who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon
ferries them all over in his boat;...
Charron, Pierre, n. (1)
ET1 5.8 5
I could not make [Landor] praise Mackintosh, nor my more
recent friends; Montaigne very cordially,--and Charron also...
chart, n. (8)
UGM 4.12 18
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from
Columbus.
ET2 5.32 13
Reckoned from the time when we left soundings, our speed
was such that the captain [of the Washington Irving] drew the line of his
course in red ink on his chart...
ET3 5.40 20
I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city
of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same
belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
Wth 6.96 24
We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude
on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer for the chart.
Civ 7.24 19
The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment
and compend of a nation's arts: the ship steered by compass and chart...
Elo2 8.115 26
[The orator's speech] is action, as the general's word of
command or chart of battle is action.
Res 8.137 5
We are...each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided
each by a private chart...
PLT 12.16 25
Who has found the boundaries of human intelligence? Who
has made a chart of its channel...
Charta, Magna, n. [Charta] (4)
ET18 5.301 21
In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall
have safe and secure conduct to go out and come into England...
ET18 5.308 1
Magna Charta, said Rushworth, is such a fellow that he will
have no sovereign.
CbW 6.253 18
...savage forest laws and crushing despotism made possible
the inspirations of Magna Charta under John.
PC 8.214 20
...[The Middle Ages'] Magna Charta, decimal numbers...are
the delight and tuition of ours.
charted, v. (1)
Bost 12.190 22
In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its waters bounded and
marked by lighthouses, buoys and sea-marks; every foot sounded and
charted;...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the
State House...
charter, n. (10)
ET5 5.81 25
Is it a machine, is it a charter...the universe of Englishmen will
suspend their judgment until the trial can be had.
ET11 5.196 20
This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and
rains proclaimed [in England],--that intellect and personal force should
make the law;...
ET18 5.306 1
You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their
Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters...
PC 8.218 14
Wit has a great charter.
PPo 8.249 15
Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a groom, and heaven a
closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer. This
boundless charter is the right of genius.
HDC 11.42 26
The charter gave to the freemen of the Company of
Massachusetts Bay the election of the Governor and Council of Assistants.
HDC 11.50 13
About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began
to be made to civilize the Indians, and to win them to the knowledge of the
true God. This indeed, in so many words, is expressed in the charter of the
colony as one of its ends;...
FSLN 11.235 3
To make good the cause of Freedom, you must draw off
from all foolish trust in others. You must be...the charter, the battle and the
victory.
CInt 12.115 3
...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it
be, then resign your charter to the Legislature, turn your college into
barracks and warehouses...
Bost 12.189 3
A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay]
from all other colonies was that the persons composing it consented to
come on the one condition that the charter should be transferred from the
company in England to themselves;...
Charter, n. (1)
Clbs 7.239 25
When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people
demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this
were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of
the contending parties.
charter-box, n. (1)
ET5 5.81 15
...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the
plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from year to
year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance, with calculations and
estimates. But, meantime, he is drawing numbers and money to his opinion,
resolved that if all remedy fails, right of revolution is at the bottom of his
charter-box.
chartered, adj. (1)
HDC 11.45 23
The Governor [of the Massachusetts Bay Colony] conspires
with [the settlers] in limiting his claims to their obedience, and values much
more their love than his chartered authority.
charters, n. (3)
ET5 5.75 22
The power of the Saxon-Danes...so vivacious as to extort
charters from the kings, stood on the strong personality of these people.
ET11 5.172 21
In spite of...stolen charters...we take sides as we read for the
loyal England...
FRep 11.521 23
The American marches with a careless swagger to the
height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants,
risking all the prized charters of the human race...
chartism, n. (1)
ET11 5.196 20
This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and
rains proclaimed [in England],--that intellect and personal force should
make the law;...
Chartism, n. (2)
ET9 5.150 26
The English dislike the American structure of society, whilst
yet trade, mills, public education and Chartism are doing what they can to
create in England the same social condition.
II 12.81 21
Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of
Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords,
who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them...
Chartist, adj. (2)
ET11 5.184 2
It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the
Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in England] were for the
first time actively interesting themselves in their own defence...
ET15 5.270 18
Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the
hour, yet being apprised of...every Chartist resolution...[the editors of the
London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
Chartist, n. (4)
Aris 10.62 20
...[the gentleman] will find...in English palaces the London
twist...contempt of the masses, contempt of Ireland, dislike of the Chartist.
Aris 10.63 9
...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the
standard of Chartist and outlaw?
Aris 10.63 16
Let [the man of honor] accept the position of armed
neutrality, abhorring the crimes of the Chartist...
Carl 10.497 21
...[Carlyle] has stood for the people, for the Chartist, for the
pauper...
chartists, n. (1)
ET4 5.51 6
Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic
elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes,--dukes and
chartists, Bishops of Durham and naked heathen colliers;...
Chartists, n. (1)
ET15 5.264 10
[The London Times] denounced and discredited the French
Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England, until it
had enrolled 200,000 special constables to watch the Chartists...
charts, n. (1)
Wth 6.98 10
Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does
not care to possess, such as cyclopedias, dictionaries, tables, charts, maps
and other public documents;...
Chase, Chevy [Ballad], n. (1)
PI 8.25 19
Give [people]...Chevy Chase, or Tam O'Shanter, and they like
these well enough.
chase, n. (6)
Fdsp 2.198 9
The instinct of affection revives the hope of union with our
mates, and the returning sense of insulation recalls us from the chase.
ET2 5.27 5
...they say at sea a stern chase is a long race...
ET4 5.70 10
[The English] think...with the Arabs, that the days spent in the
chase are not counted in the length of life.
PPo 8.262 7
The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I,
experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people
prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./ To me, appointed to the
chase,/ The king's hand gives the grouse's breast;/ Whilst a chatterer like
thee/ Must gnaw worms in the thorn. Farewell!/
Insp 8.280 2
The Arabs say that Allah does not count from life the days
spent in the chase...
CW 12.174 9
...[a man in his wood-lot] remembers that Allah in his
allotment of life does not count the time which the Arab spends in the chase.
chase, v. (4)
Nat 1.54 16
...so their rising senses/ Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that
mantle/ Their clearer reason./
Chr1 3.113 4
We chase some flying scheme...
Civ 7.17 18
...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce
enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/
This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
Dem1 10.8 9
If I strike, I am struck; if I chase, I am pursued.
chased, v. (1)
Bty 6.279 5
Beauty chased [Seyd] everywhere/...
chasing, n. (1)
PPr 12.389 7
That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a
somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned
persons, like a showery south wind with its sunbursts and rapid chasing of
lights and glooms over the landscape...
chasing, v. (1)
Exp 3.80 12
Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail?
chasm, n. (6)
DSA 1.145 15
...the chasm yawns to that breadth, that men can scarcely be
convinced there is in them anything divine.
MoS 4.184 27
In every house...this chasm is found,--between the largest
promise of ideal power, and the shabby experience.
ET2 5.29 21
To the geologist...the land is in perpetual flux and change,
now blown up like a tumor, now sunk in a chasm...
Wsp 6.238 26
The race of mankind have always offered at least this
implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely...the terror of its being
taken away... The whole revelation that is vouchsafed us is the gentle trust,
which, in our experience, we find will cover also with flowers the slopes of
this chasm.
MoL 10.244 12
See the activity of the imagination in the Crusades...the
chasm was bridged over;...
Let 12.394 24
By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four
or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be
formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity. They
believe that this society would fill up the terrific chasm of ennui...
chasms, n. (3)
Nat 1.60 18
...not at all disturbed by chasms of historical evidence, [the
soul] accepts from God the phenomenon [Christianity], as it finds it...
UGM 4.32 22
The genius of humanity is the real subject whose biography
is written in our annals. We must infer much, and supply many chasms in
the record.
ET2 5.29 17
In our graveyards we scoop a pit, but this aggressive water
opens mile-wide pits and chasms...
chaste, adj. (9)
SR 2.71 21
How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look...
SR 2.73 4
I shall endeavor...to be the chaste husband of one wife...
Pt1 3.28 25
The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a
clean and chaste body.
ET8 5.130 23
[The English]...shake their heads if [a man] is particularly
chaste.
Elo1 7.66 15
If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the
emergence [in the audience] of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious
that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are
started, graver and higher, these roisters recede; a more chaste and wise
attention takes place.
Chr2 10.108 23
...the stern determination...to be chaste and humble, was
substantially the same, whether under a self-respect, or under a vow made
on the knees at the shrine of Madonna.
LLNE 10.354 19
[The Fourier marriage] was...ignorant how serious and
how moral [women's] nature always is; how chaste is their organization;...
MAng1 12.240 11
[Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see
[Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed; and they all breathe a
chaste and divine regard, unparalleled in any amatory poetry except that of
Dante and Petrarch.
Milt1 12.263 7
[Milton] was...chaste...
chasten, v. (1)
ET14 5.235 12
A good [English] writer, if he has indulged in a Roman
roundness, makes haste to chasten and nerve his period by English
monosyllables.
chastened, v. (1)
Elo2 8.129 23
These are ascending stairs [to eloquence],--a good voice,
winning manners, plain speech, chastened...by the schools into
correctness;...
chastised, v. (1)
Bost 12.186 11
What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might
be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...not
less ambition in our blood, which Puritanism has not sufficiently
chastised;...
chastity, n. (9)
SwM 4.127 21
...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not
momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total; and chastity not a
local, but a universal virtue;...
Cour 7.270 24
[John Brown] held the belief that courage and chastity are
silent concerning themselves.
PI 8.32 4
Chastity, [men of the world] admit, is very well,--but then think
of Mirabeau's passion and temperament!
SovE 10.187 11
The civil history of men might be traced by the successive
meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;-virtue meaning
physical courage, then chastity and temperance, then justice and love;...
Bost 12.193 11
...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology,
which yet conceals some grand commandment; as...honesty, or chastity and
generosity.
Milt1 12.264 8
His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle
spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight;...
Milt1 12.265 12
[Milton's native honor] is the spirit of Comus, the loftiest
song in the praise of chastity that is in any language.
Milt1 12.272 23
...with his whole heart [Milton] abhors licentiousness and
loves chastity.
Milt1 12.275 10
...the Comus [is] a transcript, in charming numbers, of that
philosophy of chastity, which, in the Apology for Smectymnuus, and in the
Reason of Church Government, [Milton] declares to be his defence and
religion.
Chat Moss, England, n. (1)
ET5 5.95 12
Chat Moss and the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire
are unhealthy and too barren to pay rent.
Chat Moss, English, n. (1)
Farm 7.150 16
[The farmer's tiles] drain the land, make it sweet and
friable; have made English Chat Moss a garden...
chat, n. (4)
Fdsp 2.203 15
No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any
chat of markets...
Fdsp 2.210 11
I can get politics and chat and neighborly conveniences from
cheaper companions [than my friend].
Chr1 3.104 20
...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of
this simple and rapid power [of character]...
Clbs 7.232 17
Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They
like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to
any one. On these terms they...please themselves by sallies and chat...
chat, v. (1)
Nat2 3.171 12
...ever like a dear friend and brother when we chat affectedly
with strangers, comes in this honest face [of nature], and takes a grave
liberty with us...
chateau, n. (3)
MoS 4.163 7
...in prosecuting my correspondence [with John Sterling], I
found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his
chateau...
Wth 6.100 27
Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles
banker who said to his visitor, surprised at the contrast between the
splendor of the banker's chateau and hospitality and the meanness of the
counting-room in which he had seen him,--Young man, you are too young
to understand how masses are formed;...
Wth 6.113 17
Montaigne said, When he was a younger brother, he went
brave in dress and equipage, but afterward his chateau and farms might
answer for him.
Chateaubriand, Francois Ren (2)
QO 8.203 18
...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's]
description, until Chateaubriand, or Moore, or Campbell, or Byron, or the
artists, arrive...
MLit 12.319 24
[Shelley]...shares with Richter, Chateaubriand, Manzoni
and Wordsworth the feeling of the Infinite...
Chateaubriand, Francois Ren (1)
Chr2 10.104 6
Chateaubriand said...If God made man in his image, man
has paid him well back.
chateaux, n. (2)
NMW 4.257 24
...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new
conscriptions; and they who had toiled so desperately were never nearer to
the reward,--they could not...strut in their chateaux,--they deserted
[Napoleon].
ET11 5.180 24
Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If
revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy: their chateaux
will be reduced to ashes and their blood be spilt in torrents.
Chatham, Earl of [William (30)
MN 1.207 2
When Chatham leads the debate, men may well listen, because
they must listen.
Pt1 3.18 2
...it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed to read
in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to speak in Parliament.
Chr1 3.89 1
I have read that those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that
there was something finer in the man than anything which he said.
NMW 4.244 4
[Napoleon] could not confound Fox and Pitt, Carnot,
Lafayette and Bernadotte, with the dangler of his court;...
GoW 4.270 24
[Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic
characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no
Chatham, but any number of clever parliamentary and forensic debaters;...
ET4 5.68 25
...[the English] know where their war-dogs lie. Cromwell,
Blake, Marlborough, Chatham, Nelson and Wellington are not to be trifled
with...
ET5 5.90 12
Many of the great [English] leaders, like Pitt, Canning,
Castlereagh...are soon worked to death.
ET5 5.90 17
They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and
when they find one, like...Mansfield, Pitt, Eldon...there is nothing too good
or too high for him.
ET6 5.111 7
Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer;
Chatham, that confidence was a plant of slow growth;...
ET9 5.146 27
Lord Chatham goes for liberty and no taxation without
representation;...
ET10 5.168 20
...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to
their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they
were impoverishing.
ET18 5.306 26
It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in
England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox, Burke, Pitt...were by this
means sent to Parliament...
Ctr 6.152 26
Mr. Pitt...thought the title of Mister good against any king in
Europe.
Bhr 6.182 2
The nose of Julius Caesar, of Dante, and of Pitt, suggest the
terrors of the beak.
Elo1 7.63 12
[The orator's audience] come to get justice done to that ear
and intuition which no Chatham and no Demosthenes has begun to satisfy.
Elo1 7.85 4
...the splendid weapons which went to the equipment...of Fox,
of Pitt...deserve a special enumeration.
Elo1 7.94 25
The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this
strength of character...
Elo1 7.99 8
To stand on one's own feet, Heeren finds the key-note to the
discourses of Demosthenes, as of Chatham.
DL 7.103 13
Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...his lips touched
with persuasion which Chatham and Pericles in manhood had not.
Cour 7.253 22
[Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown...of Chatham...
Elo2 8.113 9
After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr.
Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the
overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.
Elo2 8.117 18
As soon as a man shows rare power of expression, like
Chatham, Erskine, Patrick Henry, Webster, or Phillips, all the great
interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...
PC 8.218 8
If [a man] has...administrative faculty, like Chatham or
Bismarck, he is the king's king.
Aris 10.51 23
To a right aristocracy...to Sir Robert Walpole, to Fox,
Chatham...everything will be permitted and pardoned...
EWI 11.109 8
In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by
Wilberforce and supported by him and by Fox and Burke and Pitt...
EWI 11.128 2
...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on
the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being
named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister,
and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the
country to read the report.
EWI 11.137 1
All the great geniuses of the British senate, Fox, Pitt, Burke...
ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...
EWI 11.141 6
Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of
African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture
of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...pipe-bowls and trinkets. These
he showed to Mr. Pitt...
AsSu 11.250 27
...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his
speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be
true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of Chatham...
ACri 12.286 11
He who would be powerful must have the terrible gift of
familiarity,-Mirabeau, Chatham, Fox...
Chatham, Lord [William Pit (1)
EWI 11.109 3
Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were drawn into the generous
enterprise [emancipation of West Indian slaves].
Chatham's, Earl of [William (2)
LE 1.163 11
...in the great idea and the puny execution;...behold Chatham'
s...day...
SR 2.59 26
[Virtue] is it which throws thunder into Chatham's voice...
Chatsworth, England, n. (1)
ET11 5.193 18
The respectable Duke of Devonshire...is reported to have
said that he cannot live at Chatsworth but one month in the year.
chattels, n. (1)
MR 1.239 10
...[the heir] is converted from the owner into a watchman or a
watch-dog to this magazine of old and new chattels.
chatter, n. (4)
Nat2 3.171 5
We come to our own [in the woods], and make friends with
matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to
despise.
ET13 5.225 10
The chatter of French politics, the steam-whistle...had quite
put most of the old legends out of mind;...
DL 7.113 9
...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to
remove it, than this?...to hear an endless chatter and blast;...
Suc 7.309 17
When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the
chatter and the criticism will stop.
chatterer, n. (1)
PPo 8.262 9
The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I,
experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people
prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./ To me, appointed to the
chase,/ The king's hand gives the grouse's breast;/ Whilst a chatterer like
thee/ Must gnaw worms in the thorn. Farewell!/
chattering, adj. (1)
Schr 10.267 6
Young men, I warn you...against chattering, meddlesome,
rich and official people.
chatters, v. (1)
Wsp 6.229 4
If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said, with
their will or against their will. We do not care for you, let us pretend what
we may,--we are always looking through you to the dim dictator behind
you. Whilst your habit or whim chatters, we civilly and impatiently wait
until that wise superior shall speak again.
Chatterton, Thomas, n. (1)
QO 8.196 16
...many men can write better under a mask than for
themselves; as Chatterton in archaic ballad...
chatting, v. (1)
LLNE 10.340 24
[Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen
assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were chatting
agreeably on indifferent matters...
chatty, adj. (1)
PI 8.18 8
The savans are chatty and vain...
Chaucer, Geoffrey, n. (24)
AmS 1.91 27
We read the verses of one of the great English poets, of
Chaucer...with the most modern joy...
Hist 2.30 8
One after another [the advancing man] comes up in his private
adventures with every fable...of Chaucer...
OS 2.288 24
Humanity shines...in Chaucer...
Pt1 3.31 13
...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in
mean condition to fire...
Pt1 3.41 1
...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael,
have obviously no limits to their works except the limits of their lifetime...
ShP 4.197 8
[The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone, and puts it in
high place, wherever he finds it. Such is the happy position of Homer
perhaps; of Chaucer, of Saadi.
ShP 4.197 15
The influence of Chaucer is conspicuous in all our early
literature;...
ShP 4.197 21
...Chaucer is a huge borrower.
ShP 4.197 22
Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di
Colonna...
ShP 4.216 5
...Chaucer is glad and erect;...
ShP 4.216 24
Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer, saw the splendor of
meaning that plays over the visible world;...
ET12 5.200 26
Chaucer found [Oxford] as firm as if it had always stood;...
ET14 5.256 7
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.
F 6.6 9
For certainly, our appetites here,/ Be it of warre, or pees, or hate, or
love,/ All this is ruled by the sight above./ Chaucer: The Knight's Tale.
F 6.46 2
If the threads are there, thought can follow and show them.
Especially when a soul is quick and docile, as Chaucer sings...
Ctr 6.132 7
Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the Canon Yeman's
Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4, against alchemy.
PI 8.25 14
...read to [people] from Chaucer, and they reckon him an honest
fellow.
PPo 8.252 11
...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember
but two or three examples in English poetry: that of Chaucer, in the House
of Fame...
Insp 8.295 13
You may read Chaucer, Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Milton...
Aris 10.30 7
Than cometh our very gentillesse of grace,/ It was no thing
bequethed us with our place./ Chaucer, The Knighte's Tale.
Plu 10.297 13
[Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what Chaucer is among
English poets...
CL 12.136 8
Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to
goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To
ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./
ACri 12.296 11
Herrick is a remarkable example of the low style. He is,
therefore, a good example of the modernness of an old English writer. So
Latimer, so Chaucer, so the Bible.
EurB 12.366 24
In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant
Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked
the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward
for writing such stuff. Homer, Horace, Milton and Chaucer would defy the
coroner.
Chaucerian, adj. (1)
LE 1.168 21
...when I see the daybreak I am not reminded of these...
Chaucerian pictures.
Chaucer's, Geoffrey, n. (2)
ET14 5.234 10
Chaucer's hard painting of his Canterbury pilgrims satisfies
the senses.
Wsp 6.207 3
The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so
devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. Such is Chaucer's
extraordinary confusion of heaven and earth in the picture of Dido...
Chauncy, Charles, n. (1)
Elo2 8.127 9
Dr. Charles Chauncy was...a man of marked ability among the
clergy of New England.
chaunt, v. (1)
Pt1 3.37 7
We do not with sufficient plainness or sufficient profoundness
address ourselves to life, nor dare we chaunt our own times and social
circumstance.
cheap, adj. (78)
Nat 1.17 11
How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements!
MN 1.207 25
Is it for [a man] to account himself cheap and superfluous...
LT 1.285 8
By the side of these men [of the intellectual class], the hot
agitators have a certain cheap and ridiculous air;...
Tran 1.346 18
...in our experience, man is cheap...
YA 1.367 1
...with cheap land...everything invites to the arts of agriculture...
Hist 2.39 21
I hold our actual knowledge very cheap.
SR 2.78 3
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the
prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers
heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends.
Lov1 2.178 18
...[the maiden] extrudes all other persons from [the lover's]
attention as cheap and unworthy...
Fdsp 2.213 14
Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike
leagues of friendship with cheap persons...
Hsm1 2.255 23
...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at
so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by petitions...
OS 2.291 4
The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they
so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is
like gathering a few pebbles off the ground...
Pt1 3.32 26
How cheap even the liberty then seems;...when an emotion
communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature;...
Exp 3.53 6
...[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 3.111 16
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the
profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous
men, each of whom is sure of himself and sure of his friend. It is a
happiness which...makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
PPh 4.53 22
The Roman legion...the steam-mill, steamboat, steam-coach,
may all be seen in perspective;...the newspaper and cheap press.
PNR 4.80 4
The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent
translations of Plato...we esteem one of the chief benefits the cheap press
has yielded...
PNR 4.81 4
With this artist [nature], time and space are cheap...
ShP 4.192 10
[The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a
national interest...not a whit less considerable because it was cheap and of
no account...
ShP 4.196 16
There was no literature for the million [in Shakespeare's
day]. The universal reading, the cheap press, were unknown.
GoW 4.270 27
[Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic
characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no
learned man, but learned societies, a cheap press...
ET5 5.94 20
...oranges and pine-apples are as cheap in London as in the
Mediterranean.
ET13 5.217 24
[The English Church] has the seal of...a ritual marked by
the same secular merits, nothing cheap or purchasable.
F 6.16 27
[The Germans and Irish] are...carted over America...to make corn
cheap...
Pow 6.70 19
...fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap.
Wth 6.107 17
You will rent a house, but must have it cheap.
Wth 6.108 24
One might say...that nothing is cheap or dear...
Wth 6.109 5
A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire
farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have
outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap.
Wth 6.109 12
...power and pleasure are not cheap.
Wth 6.122 22
When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his
first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day,
bathing...the peaks of Monadnoc and Uncanoonuc. What, thirty acres, and
all this magnificence for fifteen hundred dollars! It would be cheap at fifty
thousand.
Ctr 6.148 22
In the country [a man] can find...cheap living and his old
shoes;...
Bhr 6.184 3
[The successful man of the world] knows that troops behave as
they are handled at first; that is his cheap secret;...
Wsp 6.223 20
If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking
house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear
house.
Wsp 6.230 5
Wit is cheap, and anger is cheap;...
CbW 6.247 16
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred.
Bty 6.283 2
Men hold themselves cheap and vile;...
Bty 6.301 4
If a man...can make bread cheap...'t is no matter whether his
nose is parallel to his spine...
Bty 6.302 10
...if a man can build a plain cottage with such symmetry as to
make all the fine palaces look cheap and vulgar;...this is still the legitimate
dominion of beauty.
Civ 7.24 11
Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge...by
the cheap press, bringing the university to every poor man's door...
DL 7.126 3
...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble
relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society. Certainly
this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so cheap and humble a
result.
DL 7.129 4
[Friendship] is the happiness which...makes politics and
commerce and churches cheap.
Farm 7.135 12
[Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set
the wind to winnow pulse and grain,/ They thank the spring-flood for its
fertile slime,/ And on cheap summit-levels of the snow/ Slide with the
sledge to inaccessible woods/ O'er meadows bottomless./
WD 7.177 18
I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation who thought it
an honor to wash his own face. He seemed to me more sane than those who
hold themselves cheap.
Boks 7.199 27
...this book [Plutarch's Lives] has taken care of itself, and
the opinion of the world is expressed in the innumerable cheap editions...
Clbs 7.230 16
Nothing seems so cheap as the benefit of conversation;
nothing is more rare.
Suc 7.302 2
Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting...
Suc 7.310 9
'T is cheap and easy to destroy.
PI 8.35 24
In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the
solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy, and the
result is that one of the partners offers a poem in a new style that hints at a
new literature. Yet the writer holds it cheap...
Elo2 8.118 14
It does not surprise us...to learn from Plutarch what great
sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of rhetoric; and if the pupils got
what they paid for, the lessons were cheap.
Res 8.143 10
It was thought that the immense production of gold would
make gold cheap as pewter.
PC 8.208 1
Land without price is offered to the settler, cheap education to
his children.
PC 8.215 22
If [your public] are satisfied with cheap performance, you will
not easily arrive at better.
PC 8.231 21
A strenuous soul hates cheap successes.
Insp 8.271 15
...[the man] can see and do this or that cheap task, at will, but
it steads him not beyond.
Imtl 8.345 1
Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect...leaves
out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as...altogether cheap and
common...
Edc1 10.125 2
A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
Supl 10.174 2
...these raptures of fire and frost, which...make the speech
salt and biting, would cost me the days of well-being which are now so
cheap to me, yet so valued.
Supl 10.178 15
The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is
established...in having water cheap and pure...
MoL 10.244 23
Now it is agreed...that with universal cheap education we
have stringent theology, but religion is low.
Schr 10.287 17
I invite you [scholars] not to cheap joys...
LLNE 10.358 3
The cheap way is to make every man do what he was born
for.
LLNE 10.358 13
Society in England and in America is trying the
[Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces, in cooperative associations, in
cheap eating-houses...
LLNE 10.358 14
Society in England and in America is trying the
[Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces, in cooperative associations, in
cheap eating-houses, as well as in the economies of club-houses and in
cheap reading-rooms.
EWI 11.122 10
Our culture is very cheap and intelligible.
FSLC 11.210 9
Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison
[slavery],-bore, blast, excavate, pulverize, and shovel it once for all, down
into the bottomless Pit. A thousand millions were cheap.
FSLN 11.240 15
Liberty is never cheap.
ACiv 11.302 1
...imposts are the cheap and right taxation;...
EdAd 11.383 9
...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented
material power...from the expansions effected by public schools, cheap
postage and a cheap press...
EdAd 11.383 10
...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented
material power...from the expansions effected by public schools, cheap
postage and a cheap press...
Wom 11.417 1
...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences.
But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject;...
Wom 11.419 22
It is very cheap wit that finds it so droll that a woman
should vote.
Wom 11.420 15
On the questions that are important...whether the unlimited
sale of cheap liquors shall be allowed;-[women] would give, I suppose, as
intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
CPL 11.501 16
[Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a
few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To
these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what
grinds corn...is anything worth, I have little to say.
PLT 12.22 8
...a mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of
the costlier illustrations...
PLT 12.41 26
Do not trifle with your perceptions, or hold them cheap.
CL 12.166 23
...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature,
and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer
form; but the persons...must know [Nature's] simple, cheap pleasures...
AgMs 12.361 3
...why this recommendation [in the Agricultural Survey] of
stone houses? They are not so cheap, not so dry, and not so fit for us [New
England farmers].
AgMs 12.361 20
Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they
will sell their oxen in November;...
EurB 12.373 1
...the novels, which come to us in every ship from England,
have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation
through the new cheap press...
cheap, adv. (3)
Exp 3.73 26
...information is given us not to sell ourselves cheap;...
Pow 6.65 9
Men in power...may be had cheap for any opinion...
AKan 11.262 27
I think the American Revolution bought its glory cheap.
cheapened, v. (1)
MR 1.231 25
...in the Spanish islands...no article passes into our ships
which has not been fraudulently cheapened.
cheaper, adj. (11)
YA 1.383 5
It has turned out cheaper to make calico by companies;...
Fdsp 2.210 12
I can get politics and chat and neighborly conveniences from
cheaper companions [than my friend].
ET5 5.96 7
Artificial aids of all kinds are cheaper [in England] than the
natural resources.
ET5 5.96 10
Gas-burners are cheaper than daylight in numberless floors in
the cities [of England].
ET13 5.230 19
But the religion of England...is it the sects? no; they...are to
the Established Church as cabs are to a coach, cheaper and more
convenient, but really the same thing.
Wth 6.107 11
The manufacturer says he will furnish you with just that
thickness or thinness [of paper] you want;...here is his schedule;--any
variety of paper, as cheaper or dearer, with the prices annexed.
Farm 7.140 10
...for sleep, [the farmer] has cheaper and better and more of
it than citizens.
Thor 10.455 22
In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over
so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking
hundreds of miles...buying a lodging in farmers' and fishermen's houses, as
cheaper, and more agreeable to him...
HDC 11.80 13
...the country towns thought it would be cheaper if [the
government] were removed from the capital.
EWI 11.101 7
If there be any man...who would not so much as part with
his ice-cream, to save [a race of men] from rapine and manacles, I think I
must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer
and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing
them.
EWI 11.101 19
...the oldest planters of Jamaica are convinced that it is
cheaper to pay wages than to own the slave.
cheaper, adv. (1)
EzRy 10.391 9
...[Ezra Ripley] loved to buy dearer and sell cheaper than
others.
cheapest, adj. (3)
Comp 2.114 2
Cheapest, say the prudent, is the dearest labor.
Wth 6.122 6
Mr. Stephenson...turned out to be the safest and cheapest
engineer.
FSLC 11.196 23
I wonder that our acute people who have learned that the
cheapest police is dear schools, should not find out that an immoral law
costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.
cheaply, adv. (6)
DSA 1.147 15
Society's praise can be cheaply secured...
UGM 4.15 5
What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to
whatever virtue is in us? We will never more think cheaply of ourselves...
Schr 10.278 23
[The scholar] is not cheaply equipped.
LLNE 10.344 27
The vulgar politician disposed of this circle [of
Transcendentalists] cheaply as the sentimental class.
CL 12.157 21
Every acquisition we make in the science of beauty is so
sweet that I think it is cheaply paid for by what accompanies it, of course,
the prating and affectation of connoisseurship.
Let 12.402 14
A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe...
and cheaply bought by any amounts of hard fare and false social position.
cheapness, n. (2)
UGM 4.31 1
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
Civ 7.22 23
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy
augmented by cheapness...
Cheapside, London, England, (1)
ET1 5.3 9
...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground...
from the Tower up through Cheapside and the Strand...
cheat, n. (3)
Comp 2.114 23
The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the
knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains
yield to the operative.
Ill 6.323 8
At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which
still leads us to work and live for appearances;...
ALin 11.328 14
How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind
indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek
flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by his
clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/
cheat, v. (5)
Comp 2.119 14
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to
cheat nature...
Wsp 6.215 21
Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him.
Wsp 6.215 22
...a day comes when [a man] begins to care that he do not
cheat his neighbor.
EWI 11.140 16
In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had
thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the
underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and
owners...
AgMs 12.358 11
...[Edmund Hosmer] always needs to be watched lest he
should cheat himself.
cheated, v. (12)
DSA 1.138 3
[The preacher] had no one word intimating that he...had been
commended, or cheated, or chagrined.
Comp 2.118 27
Men suffer all their life under the foolish superstition that
they can be cheated.
Comp 2.119 1
...it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but
himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Nat2 3.195 21
...nature cannot be cheated;...
UGM 4.19 2
...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could
not be cheated;...
UGM 4.20 20
We have been cheated of our reason;...
NMW 4.255 14
...[Napoleon] cheated at cards;...
ET11 5.192 1
...the English Channel was swept and London threatened by
the Dutch fleet, manned too by English sailors, who, having been cheated
of their pay for years by the king, enlisted with the enemy.
WD 7.158 8
...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and
spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate.
Boks 7.216 20
We are [in the novel] cheated into laughter or wonder by
feats which only oddly combine acts that we do every day.
Dem1 10.4 15
...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by spectral jokes and
waking suddenly with ghastly laughter...
II 12.67 21
The ear is not to be cheated.
cheating, n. (1)
TPar 11.290 1
...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of
Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary
city ambitions to gloze over...the cheating of Indians...it is a hypocrisy...
cheating, v. (2)
Comp 2.114 14
...in labor as in life there can be no cheating.
ET11 5.192 9
The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and
title; lewdness, gaming, smuggling, bribery and cheating;...make the reader
pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices
to a handful of rich men.
cheats, v. (2)
LE 1.165 20
...in [men] this disease of an excess of organization cheats
them of equal issues.
Con 1.309 16
To the end of your power you will serve this lie which cheats
you.
Check, Internal, n. (1)
SwM 4.140 7
The Hindoos have denominated the Supreme Being, the
Internal Check.
check, n. (17)
Nat 1.71 9
[The world] is kept in check by death and infancy.
DSA 1.139 26
...this docility is a check upon the mischief from the good
and devout.
YA 1.373 26
That serene Power interposes the check upon the caprices and
officiousness of our wills.
Hist 2.22 17
...stringent laws and customs tending to invigorate the national
bond, were the check on the old rovers;...
ET8 5.133 5
The Saxon melancholy in the vulgar rich and poor appears as
gushes of ill-humor, which every check exasperates into sarcasm and
vituperation.
ET11 5.192 23
Under the present reign the perfect decorum of the Court is
thought to have put a check on the gross vices of the [English] aristocracy;...
ET13 5.216 18
The church was the mediator, check and democratic
principle, in Europe.
ET13 5.228 23
Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church
into sects, which instantly rise to credit and hold the Establishment in check.
ET14 5.249 23
...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the
cant, into the preaching of Fate. In comparison with all this rottenness [in
England], any check, any cleansing, though by fire, seemed desirable and
beautiful.
ET18 5.302 9
...this perfunctory hospitality puts...no check on that puissant
nationality which makes their existence incompatible with all that is not
English.
Pow 6.61 7
When [children] are hurt by us...or are beaten in the game,--if
they lose heart and remember the mischance in their chamber at home, they
have a serious check.
SA 8.86 6
It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before
meals. It has the effect to...introduce a moment of relfection. ... What a
check to the violent manners which sometimes come to the table...
HDC 11.56 4
Even this check which befell [the people of Concord]
acquaints us with the rapidity of their growth...
HDC 11.56 17
The check [to Concord] was but momentary.
FSLN 11.219 4
...I never felt the check on my free speech and action, until,
the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his personal influence, brought the
Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
FRep 11.523 21
...it is useless to rely on [the people] to go to a meeting, or
to give a vote, if any check from this must-have-the-money side arises.
ACri 12.294 7
...the only check on the detail of each of [Shakespeare's]
portraits is his own universality...
check, v. (24)
LT 1.269 17
...[modern reform movements] not only check the special
abuses...
SR 2.72 21
Check this lying hospitality and lying affection.
OS 2.283 8
In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell
from God how long men shall exist...who shall be their company, adding
names and dates and places. But we must pick no locks. We must check this
low curiosity.
Nat2 3.189 13
...perhaps the discovery...that though we should hold our
peace the truth would not the less be spoken, might check injuriously the
flames of our zeal.
ET1 5.3 12
For the first time for many months we were forced to check the
saucy habit of travellers' criticism...
ET18 5.300 4
England, Scotland and Ireland combine to check the
[English] colonies.
ET18 5.300 5
England and Scotland combine to check Irish manufactures
and trade.
ET18 5.300 7
England rallies at home to check Scotland.
ET18 5.300 8
In England, the strong classes check the weaker.
CbW 6.249 18
If government knew how, I should like to see it check...the
population.
Farm 7.145 27
Whilst all thus burns...it needs a perpetual tempering...to
check the fury of the conflagration;...
Farm 7.146 1
Whilst all thus burns...it needs...a hoarding to check the
spending...
Suc 7.310 16
Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine.
The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation, and
they check that eager courageous pace...
PC 8.230 19
Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...among violent
proprietors, to check self-interest...
Edc1 10.158 6
...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to
check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some
helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it
on the instant to the brave rescuer.
Supl 10.171 26
If man loves the conditioned, he also loves the
unconditioned. We don't wish...to check the invention of wit or the sally of
humor.
Supl 10.179 4
The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and
stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of
thinking, which go to check the pedantry of our inventions...
Prch 10.236 22
That should be the use of the Sabbath,-to check this
headlong racing...
MoL 10.245 9
...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.
MoL 10.247 13
Disease alarms the family, but the physician sees in it a
temporary mischief, which he can check and expel.
Schr 10.267 24
...I do not wish to check your impulses to action...
JBS 11.276 14
And since they could not so avail/ To check his unrelenting
quest,/ They seized him, saying, Let him test/ How real is our jail!/
EPro 11.322 9
Is it feared that taxes will check immigration?
EurB 12.378 17
We must here check our gossip in mid-volley...
checked, v. (10)
LT 1.285 1
What has checked in this age the animal spirits which gave to
our forefathers their bounding pulse?
Chr1 3.99 7
That exultation [in events] is only to be checked by the
foresight of an order of things so excellent as to throw all our prosperities
into the deepest shade.
ET13 5.215 20
The power of the religious sentiment [in England] put an
end to human sacrifices, checked appetite...
ET15 5.264 7
[The London Times] denounced and discredited the French
Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England...
ET18 5.301 8
[The foreign policy of England] has a principal regard to the
interest of trade, checked however by the aristocratic bias of the
ambassador...
Elo1 7.83 15
Poor Tom never knew the time when the present occurrence
was so trivial that he could tell what was passing in his mind without being
checked for unseasonable speech;...
Edc1 10.136 22
...let not the sallies of [the young man's] petulance or folly
be checked with disgust or indignation or despair.
SovE 10.210 18
Such experiments as we recall are those in which some
sect or dogma made the tie [with the moral principle], and that was an
artificial element, which chilled and checked the union.
FRO1 11.478 20
...in churches, every healthy and thoughtful mind finds
itself in something less; it is checked, cribbed, confined.
PLT 12.25 20
The commonest remark, if the man could only extend it a
little, would make him a genius; but the thought is prematurely checked...
checkers, n. (1)
DL 7.104 14
Out of blocks, thread-spools, cards and checkers, [the child]
will build his pyramid...
checking, v. (1)
PPh 4.60 5
What moderation and understatement and checking [Plato's]
thunder in mid volley!
checkmates, v. (1)
UGM 4.22 5
...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul
who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that
man liberates me;...
checks, n. (21)
Comp 2.100 8
Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist...
Comp 2.100 9
Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist...
Nat2 3.195 15
...the new engine brings with it the old checks.
Nat2 3.195 23
In these checks and impossibilities...we find our advantage,
not less than in the impulses.
NR 3.238 21
In his childhood and youth [the recluse] has had many checks
and censures...
UGM 4.19 3
...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could
not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guaranties of
condition.
UGM 4.27 8
Ah! yonder in the horizon is our help;--other great men, new
qualities, counterweights and checks on each other.
MoS 4.171 23
Every superior mind...will know how to avail himself of the
checks and balances in nature...
MoS 4.175 11
...though philosophy extirpates bugbears, yet it supplies the
natural checks of vice, and polarity to the soul.
ET12 5.206 9
...these young men [at Oxford] thus happily placed, and paid
to read, are impatient of their few checks...
F 6.20 8
As we refine, our checks become finer.
Pow 6.60 24
...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life...
it has its own checks and purifications, and will be found at last in harmony
with moral laws.
Wth 6.105 19
Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances.
Wth 6.110 12
...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor,
which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and
stoppages.
Cour 7.276 14
Wolf, snake and crocodile are not inharmonious in Nature,
but are made useful as checks, scavengers and pioneers;...
PC 8.231 5
We wish...to offer liberty instead of chains, and see whether
liberty will not disclose its proper checks;...
PC 8.231 10
I believe that the checks are as sure as the springs.
PerF 10.88 6
...the cause of right for which we labor...can afford many
checks...
Chr2 10.119 19
To nations or to individuals the progress of opinion is...
simply a change from coarser to finer checks.
Carl 10.494 25
[Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every
noble nature...contains, if savage passions, also fit checks and grand
impulses...
II 12.84 8
This determination of Genius in each is so strong that, if it were
not guarded with powerful checks, it would have made society impossible.
checks, v. (7)
MN 1.195 4
It is God in us which checks the language of petition by a
grander thought.
ET7 5.118 25
An Englishman...checks himself in compliments...
F 6.13 15
In England there is always some man of wealth and large
connection...who, as soon as he begins to die, checks his forward play...
F 6.45 17
...as every man is...vexed by his own disease, this checks all his
activity.
Clbs 7.234 16
...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that
[yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself. He
checks the flow of his opinion...
PI 8.73 3
The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or
silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments. It teaches
the enormous force of a few words, and in proportion to the inspiration
checks loquacity.
MMEm 10.431 9
[Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her
passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...
cheek, n. (13)
SL 2.159 11
[A man's] vice...cuts lines of mean expression in his cheek...
Chr1 3.91 27
The constituency at home hearkens to [men of characters']
words, watches the color of their cheek...
MoS 4.169 11
In speaking of [Socrates], for once [Montaigne's] cheek
flushes and his style rises to passion.
GoW 4.288 22
There is a slight blush of shame on the cheek of good men
and aspiring men...
Boks 7.219 11
[The sacred books'] communications are not to be given or
taken with the lips and the end of the tongue, but out of the glow of the
cheek, and with the throbbing heart.
PI 8.41 2
Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is
permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which...the human
cheek, the living rock...were painted.
PPo 8.243 2
These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic
by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in
which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the
eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
PPo 8.251 19
Take my heart in thy hand, O beautiful boy of Shiraz!/ I
would give for the mole on thy cheek Samarcand and Buchara!/
PPo 8.258 9
O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to
polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear
hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
PPo 8.259 24
The Moon thought she knew her own orbit well enough; but
when she saw the curve on Zuleika's cheek, she was at a loss...
War 11.167 10
At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of
holiness;...being attacked, he bears it and turns the other cheek...
SMC 11.358 27
The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]...
fair, blond, the rose lived long in his cheek;...
MLit 12.311 1
...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books which take
the rose out of the cheek of him that wrote them...
cheeks, n. (4)
Lov1 2.184 24
Her pure and eloquent blood/ Spoke in her cheeks.../
NMW 4.255 25
[Napoleon] had the habit of pulling [women's] ears and
pinching their cheeks when he was in good humor...
OA 7.320 24
Universal convictions are not to be shaken...by the
sentimental fears of girls who would keep the infantile bloom on their
cheeks.
SA 8.77 6
He forbids to despair;/ His cheeks mantle with mirth;/ And the
unimagined good of men/ Is yeaning at the birth./
cheep, v. (1)
MLit 12.309 17
We go musing into the vault of day and night;...frogs pipe,
mice cheep, and wagons creak along the road.
cheer, n. (10)
Con 1.315 27
Then came in the men, and they said, What cheer, brother?
Art1 2.363 12
Art has not yet come to its maturity...if it do not make the
poor and uncultivated feel that it addresses them with a voice of lofty cheer.
Exp 3.51 12
What cheer can the religious sentiment yield, when that is
suspected to be secretly dependent on the seasons of the year...
Exp 3.68 17
The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful
obliquely...one gets the cheer of their light without paying too great a tax.
ET4 5.71 14
If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the
English race it is of the best breed, a wealthy, juicy, broad-chested creature,
steeped in ale and good cheer...
SA 8.83 14
One man can, by his voice, lead the cheer of a regiment;
another will have no following.
Prch 10.226 20
...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland...
[Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-...Time,/ Pleased with your
triumphs o'er his brother brother Space,/ Accepts from your bold hands the
proffered crown/ Of hope and smiles on you with cheer sublime./
EdAd 11.385 16
Where is...the voice of aboriginal nations opening new
eras with hymns of lofty cheer?
SHC 11.433 6
On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery],
towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the
village...
AgMs 12.359 3
As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the
midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect.
Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...and here he stands, with
Atlantic strength and cheer, invincible still.
cheer, v. (17)
AmS 1.99 15
Let the beauty of affection cheer [the great soul's] lowly roof.
AmS 1.100 18
The office of the scholar is to cheer...
DSA 1.151 4
What hinders that now...you speak the very truth...and cheer
the waiting, fainting hearts of men...
LT 1.280 9
This denouncing philanthropist is himself a slaveholder in
every word and look. Does he free me? Does he cheer me?
Tran 1.351 16
Your virtuous projects, so called, do not cheer me.
Tran 1.351 17
I know that which shall come will cheer me.
GoW 4.264 25
Presentiments, impulses, cheer [the scholar].
ET7 5.123 10
The radical mob at Oxford cried after the tory Lord Eldon,
There's old Eldon; cheer him; he never ratted.
Boks 7.217 18
If our times are sterile in genius, we must cheer us with
books of rich and believing men...
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./
Comc 8.174 10
The physician endeavored to cheer [his melancholy patient'
s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He replied, I
am Carlini.
Insp 8.282 4
Another consideration...will cheer the heart of older scholars,
namely that there is diurnal and secular rest.
Prch 10.222 10
I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the
purpose that animates him. The ball...is there, but his power to cheer...is
gone forever.
LLNE 10.370 1
...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle
of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our
cities and this country to-day...
EWI 11.111 19
...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and
Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and
cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...
Wom 11.403 2
The politics are base,/ The letters do not cheer,/ And 't is far
in the deeps of history,/ The voice that speaketh clear./
Pray 12.355 4
When nought on earth seemeth pleasant to me, thou...dost
cheer my travels on.
cheered, v. (16)
AmS 1.83 21
The planter...is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity
of his ministry.
LE 1.168 24
...[when I see the daybreak] I am cheered by the moist, warm,
glittering, budding, melodious hour...
Hsm1 2.260 3
Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. Not in vain
you live, for every passing eye is cheered and refined by the vision.
GoW 4.271 22
...[Goethe] lived...in a time when Germany played no such
leading part in the world's affairs as to swell the bosom of her sons with
any metropolitan pride, such as might have cheered a French, or English...
genius.
ET17 5.291 10
My journeys [in England] were cheered by so much
kindness from new friends, that my impression of the island is bright with
agreeable memories...
OA 7.335 18
[John Adams] received a premature report of his son's
election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time
for any news to arrive. The informer...insisted on repairing to the meeting-house,
and proclaimed it aloud to the congregation, who were so overjoyed
that they rose in their seats and cheered thrice.
Res 8.137 20
I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over
Nature;...by seeing that every healthy and resolute man is...a method
coming into a confusion and drawing order out of it. We are touched and
cheered by every such example.
Edc1 10.140 21
...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action
and wealth of narrative, cheered with so much humor and street rhetoric,
should be carried into the habit of the young man...
LLNE 10.324 2
For Joy and Beauty planted it/ With faerie gardens
cheered,/ And boding Fancy haunted it/ With men and women weird./
LLNE 10.353 24
...in a day of small, sour and fierce schemes, one is
admonished and cheered by a project of such friendly aims [as Fourier's]...
MMEm 10.400 25
[Mary Moody Emerson]...lived in entire solitude with
these old people, very rarely cheered by short visits from her brothers and
sisters.
AsSu 11.249 19
[Charles Sumner] meekly bore...the pity of the indifferent,
cheered by the love and respect of good men with whom he acted;...
CPL 11.503 8
...if you can kindle the imagination by a new thought...
instantly you expand,-are cheered, inspired...
ACri 12.287 16
...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues
of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a
grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks! The whole party were surprised
and cheered...
MLit 12.331 1
...we are not [in Wilhelm Meister] transported out of the
dominion of the senses, or cheered with an infinite tenderness...
Pray 12.352 22
...O my Father...my heart is cheered and at rest with thy
presence...
cheerful, adj. (42)
AmS 1.105 17
They are the kings of the world who...persuade men by the
cheerful serenity of their carrying the matter, that this thing which they do
is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...
DSA 1.133 27
Let [the life and dialogues of Christ] lie as they befell...part...
of the cheerful day.
SR 2.66 26
...history is an impertinence and an injury if it be any thing
more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.
Lov1 2.187 12
[Lovers]...exchange the passion which once could not lose
sight of its object, for a cheerful disengaged furtherance, whether present or
absent, of each other's designs.
Fdsp 2.193 26
Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it
should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a
thousand years.
Cir 2.321 4
Character makes...a cheerful, determined hour...
Cir 2.321 15
People say sometimes, See what I have overcome; see how
cheerful I am;...
Art1 2.349 20
'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part/...
Pt1 3.14 7
So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And hath in it the more of
heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth procure/ To habit in, and it more
fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace and amiable sight./
Pt1 3.31 24
...when Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily
relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;--we take the cheerful
hint of the immortality of our essence and its versatile habit and escapes...
Nat2 3.196 26
...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into
us as blood;...it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of
cheerful labor;...
ShP 4.209 20
One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the
gentleman and the king...his delight...in cheerful giving.
ShP 4.216 5
...the true bards have been noted for their firm and cheerful
temper.
ShP 4.216 9
Not less sovereign and cheerful,--much more sovereign and
cheerful, is the tone of Shakspeare.
ShP 4.216 10
Not less sovereign and cheerful,--much more sovereign and
cheerful, is the tone of Shakspeare.
GoW 4.289 21
This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...tasked himself with stints
for a giant...
ET8 5.128 8
As compared with the Americans, I think [the English]
cheerful and contented.
ET8 5.128 11
The English have...a ringing cheerful voice.
ET8 5.134 17
...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men
of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding
wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a
common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of
cheerful duty;...
Ctr 6.133 23
Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation.
It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and
by treating the patient tenderly, to...exclude him from the great world of
God's cheerful fallible men and women.
Ctr 6.159 24
A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture...
Bhr 6.190 2
Under the humblest roof, the commonest person in plain
clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable...
Wsp 6.230 16
I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so
many problems will bring the answers also in due time. Very rich, very
potent, very cheerful Giver that he is, he shall have it all his own way, for
me.
CbW 6.278 23
The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points
steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;...
independence and cheerful relation...
DL 7.105 19
[The boy] walks daily among wonders...yet warm, cheerful
and with good appetite the little sovereign subdues them without knowing
it;...
Boks 7.200 8
[The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On
the Daemon of Socrates...On Love; and thank anew...the cheerful domain of
ancient thinking.
Clbs 7.241 15
We consider those...who think it the highest compliment
they can pay a man...to expose to him the grand and cheerful secrets
perhaps never opened to their daily companions...
Cour 7.276 8
[The hideous facts in history] are not cheerful facts, but they
do not disturb a healthy mind;...
Suc 7.295 21
How often it seems the chief good to be born with a cheerful
temper...
Res 8.146 23
...they can conquer who believe they can. Every one hears
gladly that cheerful voice.
Dem1 10.9 14
A skilful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet
not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them,-a cheerful,
manly part, or a poor drivelling part?
PerF 10.81 17
See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special
vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone...
Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter, follow the
cheerful hum...
Schr 10.262 17
Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our
tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of
blessing. Beauty...the cheerful festal principle...comes in and puts a new
face on the world.
Schr 10.263 3
I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...expressors
themselves of that firm and cheerful temper...which reigns through the
kingdoms of chemistry, vegetation and animal life.
ALin 11.332 8
...this man [Lincoln] was sound to the core, cheerful,
persistent...
SMC 11.361 25
[George Prescott] never remits his care of the men,
aiming...to keep them cheerful.
SMC 11.363 13
[George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful.
Wom 11.406 19
'T is [women's] mood and tone that is important. Does
their mind misgive them, or are they firm and cheerful?
RBur 11.442 10
...as he was thus the poet of the poor, anxious, cheerful,
working humanity, so had [Burns] the language of low life.
Milt1 12.267 18
...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure
as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common
way/ In cheerful godliness;.../
Pray 12.353 1
My Father, when I cannot be cheerful or happy, I can be true
and obedient...
Trag 12.409 8
A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...a power of the
imagination to dislocate things orderly and cheerful and show them in
startling array.
cheerfully, adv. (4)
LE 1.178 8
Let [the scholar] endeavor...cheerfully, to solve the problem of
that life which is set before him.
Ctr 6.155 18
There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and
middle-class houses in town and country...that...pays off the mortgage on
the paternal farm, and then goes back cheerfully to work again.
Civ 7.31 12
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry
the load of armies...
TPar 11.291 26
...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who...
says one thing, now cheerfully, now indignantly, but always because he
must...
cheerfulness, n. (17)
Pt1 3.29 14
[The poet's] cheerfulness should be the gift of the sunlight;...
NER 3.285 5
That which befits us...is cheerfulness and courage...
ShP 4.215 22
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his
cheerfulness...
ET8 5.139 23
No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men
of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a
victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day;
and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a
conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.
Ctr 6.159 19
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman...
CbW 6.264 11
...to make knowledge valuable, you must have the
cheerfulness of wisdom.
CbW 6.264 23
...so of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent,
the more of it remains.
CbW 6.265 20
...power dwells with cheerfulness;...
Cour 7.255 25
...the pure article...cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the
right, is the endowment of elevated characters.
Suc 7.306 15
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is
cheerfulness...
PerF 10.70 7
See what your robust neighbor, who never feared to live in
[the air], has got from it; strength, cheerfulness...
Plu 10.302 2
...[Plutarch's] own cheerfulness and rude health are also
magnetic.
MMEm 10.416 23
I [Mary Moody Emerson] end days of fine health and
cheerfulness without getting upward now.
HDC 11.79 23
The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne
with cheerfulness [by Concord]...
MLit 12.327 18
In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book
could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe,
which attest the incessant activity of this man...with uniform cheerfulness
and greatness of mind.
Let 12.401 13
On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German.
Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life
is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius,
which brings...cheerfulness into endurance...
Trag 12.416 6
It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of
the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint
which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and
certain death. Yet these wards are not the least remarkable for the
composure and cheerfulness of their inmates.
cheerily, adv. (1)
Cour 7.264 15
The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of
arithmetic, because he does not yet command the simple steps of the
solution which the boy beside him has mastered. These once seen, he...
cheerily proceeds a step farther.
cheering, adj. (5)
Fdsp 2.191 18
In poetry and in common speech the emotions of
benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to
the material effects of fire; so swift, or much more swift...more cheering,
are these fine inward irradiations.
Fdsp 2.207 3
You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several
times with two several men...
Bhr 6.171 27
When we reflect on [manners'] persuasive and cheering
force;...we see what range the subject has...
DL 7.121 20
In many parts of true economy a cheering lesson may be
learned from the mode of life and manners of the later Romans...
FSLC 11.200 3
...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency
[of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...
cheering, n. (1)
FRep 11.514 15
In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant
who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title...to a larger
following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand
for that;-that is a principle, and all the cheering and hissing of the crowd
must by and by accommodate itself to it.
cheering, v. (5)
ET13 5.217 20
The English Church has many certificates to show of
humble effective service...in cheering and refining men...
Cour 7.268 13
There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master
in architecture...in painting or in poetry, each cheering the mind of the
spectator or receiver as by true strokes of genius...
Comc 8.169 16
The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his
appearance;... It affects us oddly, as...to see a man in a high wind run after
his hat, which is always droll. The relation of the parties is inverted,--the
hat being for the moment master, the bystanders cheering the hat.
EdAd 11.385 26
We hearken in vain for any profound voice...cheering
timid good men...
EdAd 11.387 4
We have no sympathy with that boyish egotism, hoarse
with cheering for one side, for one state, for one town...
cheerings, n. (1)
War 11.170 17
Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion
think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient
course of speeches and cheerings...
cheerly, adv. (1)
Schr 10.281 13
Be that you are: be that cheerly and sovereignly.
cheers, n. (2)
Koss 11.397 22
[The people of Concord] set no more value than you
[Kossuth] do on cheers and huzzas.
FRep 11.524 19
Whilst each cabal...at last brings, with cheers and street
demonstrations, men whose names are a knell to all hope of progress, the
good and wise are hidden in their active retirements...
cheers, v. (10)
Con 1.326 7
[The boldness of the hope men entertain] calms and cheers
them with the picture of a simple and equal life of truth and piety.
Tran 1.350 15
Every moment of a hero so raises and cheers us that a
twelvemonth is an age.
Fdsp 2.213 5
...a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart...
Chr1 3.103 10
Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted, its granary
emptied, still cheers and enriches...
MoS 4.171 6
One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes
conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society,
agriculture, trade, large institutions and empire. ... Therefore he cheers and
comforts men...
ET14 5.254 8
No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student...
DL 7.111 19
The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get
sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the
extent of their ability. With these ends...[housekeeping] cheers and raises
neither the husband, the wife, nor the child;...
Suc 7.293 15
...the mob uniformly cheers the publisher, and not the
inventor.
Milt1 12.251 11
...[Milton's Areopagitica] cheers as well as teaches.
WSL 12.343 8
...if fire cheers us, we should bring wood and coals.
cheery, adj. (1)
ET12 5.211 11
No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men
[at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit
and resolute gymnastics...the American would arrives at as robust exegesis
and cheery and hilarious tone.
cheese, n. (4)
UGM 4.4 16
...enormous populations, if they be beggars, are disgusting,
like moving cheese...
ET4 5.58 3
[The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have herds of cows, and malt,
wheat, bacon, butter and cheese.
Carl 10.493 3
[Carlyle] saw once, as he told me, three or four miles of
human beings, and fancied that the airth was some great cheese, and these
were mites.
HDC 11.63 3
Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English
government, concerning the country towns; The farmers...make good
advantage by their corn, cattle, poultry, butter and cheese.
Chelmsford, Massachusetts, n (2)
SlHr 10.443 2
...in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think
of this? and in political crises, he was entreated to write a few lines to make
known to good men in Chelmsford, or Marlborough, or Shirley, what that
opinion was.
HDC 11.64 4
In 1699, so broad was [Concord's] territory, I find the
selectmen running the lines with Chelmsford, Cambridge and Watertown.
Chelsea, London, England, n (1)
ACri 12.299 18
I am not aware that Mr. Buchanan has sent a special
messenger to Great Cheyne Row, Chelsea;...
chemic, adj. (10)
UGM 4.11 13
...the chemic lump arrives at the plant, and grows;...
F 6.17 27
This kind of talent so abounds, this constructive tool-making
efficiency, as if it adhered to the chemic atoms;...
F 6.33 8
...the chemic explosions are controlled like [man's] watch.
Wth 6.89 24
...the fabrics of his chemic laboratory;...are [man's] natural
playmates...
Ctr 6.138 15
We can spare...your chemic analysis...
Farm 7.135 9
[Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap/...
Farm 7.143 16
You cannot...strip off from [an atom] the electricity,
gravitation, chemic affinity...
LLNE 10.328 27
In science the French savant...with barometer, crucible,
chemic test and calculus in hand, travels into all nooks and islands...
LLNE 10.329 17
The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of
past ages...like a mother yielding food from her own breast instead of
preparing it through chemic and culinary skill...all gone;...
ACri 12.290 20
A good writer must convey the feeling of a flamboyant
witness, and at the same time of chemic selection...
chemical, adj. (39)
Nat 1.40 22
...every chemical change...shall hint or thunder to man the laws
of right and wrong...
Nat 1.72 19
[Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the
understanding, as by...the economic use of...chemical agriculture;...
DSA 1.120 1
...in its chemical ingredients;...[the world] is well worth the
pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
MN 1.216 13
The doctrine in vegetable physiology of the presence or the
general influence of any substance over and above its chemical influence...
is more predicable of man.
LT 1.278 1
We...want...not a chemical drop of water, but rain;...
Hist 2.12 23
Every chemical substance...teaches the unity of cause...
Hist 2.40 3
What connection do the books show between the fifty or sixty
chemical elements and the historical eras?
Comp 2.96 25
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of
nature;...in the electricity, galvanism, and chemical affinity.
Fdsp 2.202 21
...I...may deal with [a friend] with the simplicity and
wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
Prd1 2.225 8
...here lies stubborn matter, and will not swerve from its
chemical routine.
Int 2.325 2
Every substance is negatively electric to that which stands
above it in the chemical tables...
Exp 3.68 9
...the chemical and ethereal agents are undulatory and
alternate;...
Mrs1 3.146 23
...the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be
greatest just outside of the spectrum.
Nat2 3.183 26
Common sense...recognizes the fact at first sight in chemical
experiment.
PPh 4.56 16
...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of
the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius.
SwM 4.130 15
Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due
proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of
those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to
combination...
ET5 5.95 8
The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses
to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is
economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his sirloin. Stall-feeding...
converts the stable to a chemical factory.
F 6.10 21
You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it
does not make cashmere, as expect...a chemical discovery from that jobber.
F 6.36 13
The whole circle of animal life...until at last...the whole chemical
mass is...refined for higher use-pleases at a sufficient perspective.
Wth 6.98 6
Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the
moon; yet how few can buy a telescope! and of those, scarcely one would
like the trouble of keeping it in order and exhibiting it. So of electrical and
chemical apparatus...
Ctr 6.154 20
All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
SS 7.14 8
Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.
Farm 7.145 1
Our senses...do not believe the chemical fact that these huge
mountain chains are made up of gases and rolling wind.
WD 7.166 3
...if, with all his arts, [man] is a felon, we cannot assume the
mechanical skill or chemical resources as the measure of worth.
Cour 7.254 17
Men admire...the power of better combination and
foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether, exploring the
chemical elements whereof we and the world are made, and seeing their
secret, Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand;...
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.
Grts 8.306 15
...further experiments led [Faraday] to the theory that every
chemical substance would be found to have its own, and a different,
polarity.
Dem1 10.26 22
I think the rappings a new test, like blue litmus or other
chemical absorbent, to try catechisms with.
PerF 10.79 11
I knew a manufacturer who found his property invested in
chemical works which were depreciating in value.
Edc1 10.130 27
...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact
touching...the secrets of chemical composition and decomposition possess
for Humboldt?
SovE 10.188 7
It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the
mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law, exerting influence...down
in the kingdoms of brute or of chemical atoms.
HCom 11.341 17
War passes the power of all chemical solvents...
EdAd 11.383 12
...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented
material power...from domestic architecture, chemical agriculture...
FRep 11.533 5
Corpora non agunt nisi soluta; the chemical rule is true in
mind.
PLT 12.23 20
...what a modern experimenter calls the contagious influence
of chemical action is so true of mind that I have only to read the law that its
application may be evident...
CInt 12.130 6
My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian
harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the
heart of Nature. I do not think that you will believe that the miracle of
Nature is less, the chemical power worn out.
CW 12.178 6
No lesson of chemistry is more impressive to me than this
chemical fact that Nineteen twentieths of the timber are drawn from the
atmosphere.
Bost 12.184 15
How can we not believe in influences of climate and air,
when, as true philosophers, we must believe that chemical atoms also have
their spiritual cause why they are thus and not other;...
MLit 12.309 11
Our souls...do eat and drink of chemical water and wheat.
chemically, adv. (1)
Prch 10.226 2
...the earth we stand upon...is chemically resolvable into
gases and nebulae...
chemist, n. (26)
AmS 1.86 5
The chemist finds proportions and intelligible method
throughout matter;...
SL 2.147 2
A chemist may tell his most precious secrets to a carpenter, and
he shall be never the wiser...
SL 2.147 5
A chemist may tell his most precious secrets to a carpenter, and
he shall be never the wiser,--the secrets he would not utter to a chemist for
an estate.
Cir 2.314 9
Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft...who has not yet
discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate
statement...
Exp 3.81 2
...all the muses and love and religion...will find a way to punish
the chemist who publishes in the parlor the secrets of the laboratory.
ET13 5.225 18
No chemist has prospered in the attempt to crystallize a
religion.
CbW 6.262 19
Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new
creations; like a good chemist whom I found the other day in his laboratory,
converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.
DL 7.110 18
Another man is...a builder of ships...and could achieve
nothing if he should dissipate himself on books or on horses. Another is a
farmer...another is a chemist, and the same rule holds for all.
Farm 7.135 6
...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed of rock/ And, like
the chemist mid his loaded jars,/ Draw from each stratum its adapted use/
To drug their crops or weapon their arts withal./
Farm 7.148 22
The chemist comes to [the farmer's] aid every year by
following out some new hint drawn from Nature...
Clbs 7.238 26
It happened many years ago that an American chemist
carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...
Clbs 7.239 10
The attention of the English chemist was instantly arrested...
PI 8.7 22
The hardest chemist...is forced to keep the poetic curve of
Nature...
PI 8.16 26
...the chemist mixes hydrogen and oxygen to yield a new
product, which is not these, but water;...
PPo 8.259 15
From the plain text-The chemist of love/ Will this perishing
mould,/ Were it made out of mire,/ Transmute into gold./-[Hafiz]
proceeds to the celebration of his passion;...
Edc1 10.139 10
They know truth from counterfeit as quick as the chemist
does.
Schr 10.264 21
The men committed by profession as well as by bias to
study, the clergyman, the chemist, the astronomer, the metaphysician...talk
hard and worldly...
FSLN 11.222 24
[Webster] worked with that closeness of adhesion to the
matter in hand which a joiner or a chemist uses...
SMC 11.353 27
...when you replace the love of family or clan by a
principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...burns as
hotly in Kansas and California as in Boston, and no chemist can
discriminate between one soil and the other.
FRep 11.511 14
The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic
perfection; the carpet-mill, of mordants and dyes which exhaust the skill of
the chemist;...
FRep 11.512 15
The wine-merchant has his analyst and taster, the more
exquisite the better. He has also, I fear, his debts to the chemist as well as to
the vineyard.
CL 12.146 2
It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into
my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to
manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...
CL 12.154 7
The sea is the chemist that dissolves the mountain and the
rock;...
CL 12.160 20
The earthquake is the first chemist, goldsmith and brazier...
Bost 12.187 18
Astronomers come [to Paris] because there they can find
apparatus and companions. Chemist, geologist, artist, musician, dancer,
because there only are grandees and their patronage, appreciators and
patrons.
MLit 12.322 22
...chemist, king, radical...all worked for [Goethe]...
chemistries, n. (1)
Bty 6.284 8
These geologies, chemistries, astronomies, seem to make wise...
chemistry, n. (70)
Nat 1.63 2
Idealism is a hypothesis to account for nature by other principles
than those of carpentry and chemistry.
AmS 1.105 25
Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies...Davy,
chemistry;...
MN 1.200 4
In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes
that no chemistry...can account for the facts...
MN 1.212 15
Every star in heaven is discontented and insatiable.
Gravitation and chemistry cannot content them.
Tran 1.339 5
Man owns the dignity of the life which throbs around him, in
chemistry, and tree, and animal...
YA 1.381 21
On one side is agricultural chemistry, coolly exposing the
nonsense of our spendthrift agriculture...
Prd1 2.226 27
...let [a man] accept and hive every fact of chemistry, natural
history and economics;...
Cir 2.314 4
...this chemistry and vegetation...are means and methods only...
Pt1 3.14 19
...physics and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent;...
Pt1 3.21 9
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation and
animation...
Chr1 3.110 17
He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him
the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
Nat2 3.183 15
Man carries...the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended
in a thought.
Nat2 3.194 21
...if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel
that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find...the
fathomless powers of gravity and chemistry, and, over them, of life,
preexisting within us in their highest form.
NER 3.258 9
...the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial
volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.
PPh 4.62 21
As there is...a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is
a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect
discriminating the false and the true.
SwM 4.99 8
Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes...prying into chemistry and
optics...
SwM 4.102 10
It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the
nineteenth century; anticipated...in chemistry, the atomic theory;...
SwM 4.109 15
Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is good, but grander
when we find chemistry only an extension of the law of masses into
particles...
SwM 4.109 18
Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is good, but grander
when we find...that the atomic theory shows the action of chemistry to be
mechanical also.
SwM 4.124 17
The world has a sure chemistry...
MoS 4.184 19
Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and
passion without bounds...he could try conclusions with gravitation or
chemistry;...
GoW 4.272 8
[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;...
ET13 5.215 17
England felt the full heat of the Christianity which
fermented Europe, and drew, like the chemistry of fire, a firm line between
barbarism and culture.
F 6.11 27
Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his
brain...some stray taste or talent for...chemistry...
F 6.28 13
The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.
F 6.29 17
A little whim of will to be free gallantly contending against the
universe of chemistry.
Pow 6.77 10
In chemistry, the galvanic stream, slow but continuous, is
equal in power to the electric spark...
Wsp 6.208 16
There is faith in chemistry...but not in divine causes.
Wsp 6.219 23
It is a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those...of
chemistry...and so forth.
Wsp 6.219 26
Those [natural] laws...push the same geometry and chemistry
up into the invisible plane of social and rational life...
Wsp 6.220 16
Strong men believe in cause and effect. The man was born to
do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of his deed; and by
looking narrowly you shall see...it was all...an experiment in chemistry.
Bty 6.282 14
Chemistry takes to pieces, but it does not construct.
Ill 6.310 7
I remarked especially [in the Mammoth Cave] the mimetic habit
with which nature, on new instruments, hums her old tunes, making...
chemistry to ape vegetation.
Art2 7.39 26
The useful arts comprehend...navigation, practical chemistry
and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and instruments by
which man serves himself;...
Farm 7.139 1
He takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry.
Cour 7.273 14
The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn
hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail, or
as if one had eyes to see in chemistry the fuel that is rushing to feed the sun.
PI 8.4 16
First innuendos, then broad hints, then smart taps are given,
suggesting...that matter is not what it appears;--that chemistry can blow it
all into gas.
PI 8.5 1
...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was
power and purpose...
PI 8.5 11
Thin or solid, everything is in flight. I believe this conviction
makes the charm of chemistry...
PI 8.16 9
Chemistry, geology, hydraulics, are secondary science.
PI 8.23 18
The chemistry of this is the chemistry of that.
Elo2 8.130 10
...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth
written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of
the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the
Divine Artificer.
Res 8.149 8
It is a law of chemistry that every gas is a vacuum to every
other gas;...
QO 8.200 6
The old animals have given their bodies to the earth to furnish
through chemistry the forming race...
PC 8.211 14
Geology, astronomy, chemistry, optics, have yielded grand
results.
PC 8.212 27
Geology itself is only chemistry with the element of time
added;...
PC 8.214 22
...[The Middle Ages']...chemistry, algebra, astronomy;...are
the delight and tuition of ours.
PC 8.224 11
...the mass is like the atom,-the same chemistry, gravity and
conditions.
Grts 8.305 6
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. Give such, first a
course in chemistry, and then a geological survey.
PerF 10.79 14
[The manufacturer] undertook the charge of [the chemical
works] himself, began at the beginning, learned chemistry...
Edc1 10.149 4
Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and
learning the secret...of chemistry...
SovE 10.183 7
...each of the great departments of Nature-chemistry,
vegetation, the animal life-exhibits the same laws on a different plane;...
Schr 10.263 5
I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...expressors
themselves of that firm and cheerful temper...which reigns through the
kingdoms of chemistry, vegetation and animal life.
Schr 10.286 18
[The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and
shod in insult until he has learned that this bitter bread and shameful dress...
is of the same chemistry as praise and fat living;...
LLNE 10.329 3
...chemistry, which is the analysis of matter, has taught us
that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas.
FSLC 11.209 25
Chemistry is extorting new aids.
EdAd 11.382 3
The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human
fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring
things to names, for these were men/...
SHC 11.430 11
...the irresistible democracy-shall I call it?-of chemistry,
of vegetation, which recomposes for new life every decomposing particle,-
the race never dying, the individual never spared,-have impressed on the
mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.
FRO1 11.478 16
The child, the young student, finds scope in his...
chemistry...because he finds a truth larger than he is;...
FRO1 11.479 17
...as soon as every man...is apprised that the perfect law of
duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, of vegetation, of astronomy,
as face to face in a glass;...then we have a religion that exalts...
PLT 12.4 1
Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which
chemists use in their nomenclature...applied...to those laws...which are
common to chemistry, anatomy...laws of the world?
PLT 12.4 17
...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of
Nature] which interests us, when we shall...see that what is set down is true
through all the sciences; in the laws of thought as well as of chemistry.
PLT 12.12 26
...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of
outward objects, as...natural history, ships, animals, chemistry,-in that
proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth;...
PLT 12.20 14
It is necessary to suppose that every hose in Nature fits every
hydrant; so only is combination, chemistry, vegetation, animation,
intellection possible.
PLT 12.55 17
To science there is no poison; to botany no weed; to
chemistry no dirt.
II 12.87 20
...astronomy, chemistry, keep their word.
CInt 12.127 25
...I thought...a college was to teach you...chemistry, botany,
zoology, the streaming of thought into form, and the precipitation of atoms
which Nature is.
CInt 12.129 7
Is chemistry suspended?
CW 12.177 6
This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr.
Charles Jackson or Mr. Hall would study chemistry or mines;...
CW 12.178 5
No lesson of chemistry is more impressive to me than this
chemical fact that Nineteen twentieths of the timber are drawn from the
atmosphere.
Chemistry, n. (2)
Farm 7.142 23
Who are the farmer's servants? Not the Irish...but Geology
and Chemistry...
PI 8.49 5
Astronomy, Botany, Chemistry, Hydraulics and the elemental
forces have their own periods and returns...
chemists, n. (6)
ET5 5.80 14
...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is...the
logic of cooks, carpenters and chemists...
ET10 5.169 24
A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain
to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with;...
ET11 5.190 20
In the roll of [English] nobles are found poets, philosophers,
chemists, astronomers...
Grts 8.318 10
...degrees of intellect interest only classes of men who
pursue the same studies, as chemists or astronomers, mathematicians or
linguists...
Thor 10.451 20
After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils],
[Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston...
PLT 12.3 17
Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which
chemists use in their nomenclature...applied to a higher class of facts;...
chemist's, n. (3)
MR 1.250 19
...we cannot make a planet...by means of the best...engineers'
tools, with chemist's laboratory and smith's forge to boot...
Art1 2.368 18
...[genius] will raise to a divine use...the prism, and the
chemist's retort;...
Ctr 6.148 18
In town [a man] can find...the chemist's shop...
cheque, n. (2)
MR 1.237 10
Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by
simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my
faculties by that act which nature intended me...
ET12 5.203 5
...[Lord Eldon] withdrew his cheque for three thousand, and
wrote four thousand pounds.
Cherbury, Baron of [Edward (1)
Ctr 6.143 27
...Lord Herbert of Cherbury said, A good rider on a good
horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
Cherbury, England, n. (1)
Plu 10.318 8
...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Lord Herbert
of Cherbury, Cromwell, Nelson...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the
ancient world.
Cherbury's, Baron of [Edwar (2)
ET11 5.189 26
A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen
Elizabeth's archbishop Parker; Lord Herbert of Cherbury's autobiography;...
are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
Boks 7.208 9
Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as...Lord
Herbert of Cherbury's Memoirs;...
cherish, v. (13)
LE 1.174 4
...go cherish your soul;...
Exp 3.55 22
Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should
not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare...but now I turn the
pages of either of them languidly, whilst I still cherish their genius.
Chr1 3.115 11
Is there any religion but this, to know that wherever in the
wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a
flower, it blooms for me?...
Pol1 3.210 21
...[the conservative party] does not build, nor write, nor
cherish the arts...
NR 3.246 17
There is nothing we cherish and strive to draw to us but in
some hour we turn and rend it.
DL 7.129 20
...the household should cherish the beautiful arts and the
sentiment of veneration.
Suc 7.301 6
If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual
education, we shall find that it is...not new dogmas...that are our first need;
but to watch and tenderly cherish the intellectual and moral sensibilities...
PC 8.214 9
...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply,
what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a
height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish...
Chr2 10.95 6
High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble
like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they what they may,/ Are yet the
fountain-light of all our day,/ Are yet the master-light of all our seeing,-/
Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make/ Our noisy years seem
moments in the being/ Of the eternal silence,-truths that wake/ To perish
never./
Edc1 10.157 14
I advise teachers to cherish mother-wit.
Plu 10.319 1
[Alexander] persuaded the Sogdians not to kill, but to cherish
their aged parents;...
SlHr 10.445 16
Society had reason to cherish [Samuel Hoar]...
CW 12.179 4
What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each...
and this is that which the conversation with Nature goes to cherish and to
guard.
cherished, adj. (3)
OS 2.293 11
[God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... In the
presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so universal
that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable projects of
mortal condition in its flood.
MMEm 10.410 12
When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the
Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt
Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost...
Wom 11.405 11
In that race which is now predominant over all the other
races of men, it was a cherished belief that women had an oracular nature.
cherished, v. (2)
Pol1 3.211 4
In the strife of ferocious parties, human nature always finds
itself cherished;...
EWI 11.103 5
For the negro...no right in the poor black woman that
cherished him in her bosom...
cherishes, v. (3)
MoS 4.149 19
[A man] builds his fortunes...cherishes his children; but he
asks himself, Why? and whereto?
Farm 7.154 10
What possesses interest for us is...[each man's]
constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely;
we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the
conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.
JBB 11.268 5
[John Brown] cherishes a great respect for his father...
cherishing, n. (1)
CInt 12.125 4
...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain
relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning
philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has
happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds
himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
cherishing, v. (3)
LT 1.271 4
There is a perfect chain...of reforms...each cherishing some part
of the general idea...
UGM 4.4 18
Our religion is the love and cherishing of these patrons [great
men].
Schr 10.283 1
I wish...to see men's sense of duty extend to the cherishing
and use of their intellectual powers...
Cherokee Indians, adj. (3)
LVB 11.89 21
...my communication respects the sinister rumors that fill
this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.
LVB 11.91 1
The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for
the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an
agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the
part of the Cherokees;...
LVB 11.96 13
I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more
that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen
millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which
threatens the Cherokee tribe.
Cherokee Indians, n. (3)
LVB 11.91 4
The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for
the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an
agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the
part of the Cherokees;...
LVB 11.91 11
It now appears that the government of the United States
choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty...
LVB 11.93 8
...a crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] is projected that
confounds our understandings by its magnitude,-a crime that really
deprives us as well as the Cherokees of a country?...
Cherokee Nation, n. (2)
LVB 11.91 13
It now appears that the government of the United States
choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty, and are proceeding to
execute the same. Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This
is not our act.
LVB 11.94 11
...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of
grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether...so vast an outrage
upon the Cherokee Nation and upon human nature shall be consummated.
cheroot, n. (1)
EurB 12.378 2
[The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy
morning, if fame were not such a bore. Men, women...are stupid things; but
a rifle, and a mild pleasant gunpowder, a spaniel, and a cheroot, are themes
for Olympus.
cherries, n. (2)
CL 12.162 1
Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person
who knows where arnica grows...or the slippery-elm, or wild cherries, or
wild pears?
WSL 12.337 20
...[John Bull] wonders that [Americans] do not make elder-wine
and cherry-bounce, since here are cherries, and every mile is crammed
with elder-bushes.
cherry, n. (1)
CL 12.145 5
The Rosaceous tribe in botany, including the apple, pear,
peach and cherry, are coeval with man.
cherry-bounce, n. (1)
WSL 12.337 19
...[John Bull] wonders that [Americans] do not make elder-wine
and cherry-bounce, since here are cherries, and every mile is crammed
with elder-bushes.
cherub, n. (3)
Hist 2.18 24
...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite
accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches...
Fdsp 2.205 6
I wish [friendship] to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite
a cherub.
Supl 10.165 1
Every favorite is not a cherub...
cherubim, n. (4)
Int 2.345 18
I shall not presume to interfere in the old politics of the skies;--
The cherubim know most; the seraphim love most.
Exp 3.56 14
The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like the story as well as
when you told it me yesterday? Alas! child, it is even so with the oldest
cherubim of knowledge.
F 6.24 21
Go face...what danger lies in the way of duty,-knowing you are
guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.
WD 7.171 14
The blue sky is a covering for a market and for the cherubim
and seraphim.
Cherubim, n. (1)
PPr 12.385 6
The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official
zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air...shows to
the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.
chess, n. (6)
Ctr 6.143 2
[The boy] learns chess, whist, dancing and theatricals.
Ctr 6.143 8
[The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess;...
Clbs 7.235 8
What is a match at...chess, to a match of mother-wit...
Cour 7.254 13
Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight,
however exhibited, whether it only plays a game of chess, or whether...a
cunning mathematician...predicts the planet which eyes had never seen;...
Cour 7.269 7
Morphy played a daring game in chess...
CInt 12.122 22
[A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad
to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and
better than he could do it; whether it be to build...or play chess, or ride, or
swim.
chess-table, n. (1)
GoW 4.279 1
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...
chest, adj. (1)
PI 8.31 13
...[the amateur] speaks with his lips and the [poet] with a chest
voice.
chest, n. (11)
Nat 1.53 1
...the scents and dyes of flowers [Shakspeare] finds to be the
shadow of his beloved; time, which keeps her from him, is his chest;...
Hist 2.24 22
The reverence exhibited [in the Grecian period] is for personal
qualities; courage...a broad chest.
Comp 2.98 18
If the gatherer gathers too much, Nature takes out of the man
what she puts into his chest;...
MoS 4.153 12
[The men of the senses] believe...that there is much
sentiment in a chest of tea;...
ShP 4.201 26
Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the
problem, [the antiquaries] have left...no chest in a garret unopened...so keen
was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
Wsp 6.229 17
An anatomical observer remarks that the sympathies of the
chest, abdomen and pelvis tell at last on the face...
Res 8.141 5
Ah! what a plastic little creature [man] is!...his body a chest of
tools...
PPo 8.263 12
The eternal Watcher, who doth wake/ All night in the body's
earthen chest,/ Will of thine arms a pillow make,/ And a bolster of thy
breast./
Insp 8.281 13
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and
fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
PLT 12.32 27
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that
are put into it...
Mem 12.101 16
...all the facts in this chest of memory are property at
interest.
Chesterfield, Earl of [Phil (2)
Aris 10.62 1
...[the true man] is to know...that not Louis Quatorze, not
Chesterfield, nor Byron, nor Bonaparte is the model of the Century...
Supl 10.168 9
I judge by every man's truth of his degree of understanding,
said Chesterfield.
Chesterfield House, London, (1)
ET11 5.181 25
Chesterfield House remains in Audley Street.
Chesterfield, Lord [Philip (5)
ET1 5.8 15
[Landor] glorified Lord Chesterfield more than was necessary...
ET7 5.118 13
Even Lord Chesterfield...when he came to define a
gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction;...
SA 8.87 8
It is necessary for the purification of drawing-rooms that these
entertaining explosions [of laughter] should be under strict control. Lord
Chesterfield had early made this discovery...
Elo2 8.124 27
...Lord Chesterfield thought that without being instructed in
the dialect of the Halles no man could be a complete master of French.
Milt1 12.255 16
The man of Lord Chesterfield is unworthy to touch
[Milton's man's] garment's hem.
chestnut, adj. (2)
Farm 7.147 8
There is a great deal of enchantment in a chestnut rail or
picketed pine boards.
Bost 12.202 8
[The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here
in the clam-banks and the beech and chestnut forest, I shall take leave to
breathe and think freely.
chestnut, n. (1)
Comc 8.158 7
An oak or a chestnut undertakes no function it cannot
execute;...
Chestnut Street, Philadelph (1)
ET3 5.40 27
I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city
of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same
belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a
patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his
showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street.
chestnuts, n. (3)
Thor 10.456 25
...[Thoreau] was always ready to lead...a search for
chestnuts or grapes.
CL 12.152 1
The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than
the days which October always brings us, when, after the first frosts, a
steady shower of gold falls in the strong south wind from the chestnuts,
maples and hickories;...
CL 12.162 3
Where are the best hazel-nuts, chestnuts and shagbarks?
chests, n. (1)
Wth 6.112 16
Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of
money,--but in spending them off the line of your career.
Chevy Chase [Ballad], n. (1)
PI 8.25 19
Give [people]...Chevy Chase, or Tam O'Shanter, and they like
these well enough.
chew, v. (1)
ET8 5.132 15
[Young Englishmen] chew hasheesh; cut themselves with
poisoned creases;...
Cheyne, Great, Row, London (1)
ACri 12.299 18
I am not aware that Mr. Buchanan has sent a special
messenger to Great Cheyne Row, Chelsea;...
Chicago, Illinois, adj. (1)
FRep 11.531 3
Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not
represent the population of the United States, but some Baltimore or
Chicago...caucus;...
Chicago, Illinois, n. (6)
Wth 6.105 11
If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills...landlords are
shot down in Ireland. The police-records attest it. The vibrations are
presently felt in New York, New Orleans and Chicago.
WD 7.161 1
The chain of Western railroads from Chicago to the Pacific has
planted cities and civilization in less time than it costs to bring an orchard
into bearing.
PI 8.34 25
...to convert the vivid energies acting at this hour in New York
and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a subtile
and commanding thought.
ALin 11.330 23
All of us remember...the surprise and disappointment of
the country at [Lincoln's] first nomination by the convention at Chicago.
ACri 12.301 10
After Chicago had secured the confluence of the railroads
to itself, I chanced to meet my founder [of New City] again...
ACri 12.301 12
After Chicago had secured the confluence of the railroads
to itself, I chanced to meet my founder [of New City] again, but now
removed to Chicago.
chicane, n. (1)
Bty 6.286 2
The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves to
their own details, and do not come out men of more force. Have they...the
equality to any event which we demand in man, or only the reactions of the
mill, of the wares, of the chicane?
Chicharona [Borrow, The Zi (1)
ET13 5.229 27
George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed
in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The
features of the assembly were twisted...not an individual present but
squinted; the genteel Pepa, the good-humored Chicharona...
chickens, n. (1)
LLNE 10.365 12
A hen without her chickens was but half a hen.
chickweed, n. (1)
Wth 6.115 13
[The pale scholar]...by and by wakes up from his idiot dream
of chickweed and red-root, to remember his morning thought...
Chickweed, n. (1)
Thor 10.468 19
See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at
by a million farmers...and just now come out triumphant over all lanes,
pastures, fields and gardens, such is their vigor. We have insulted them with
low names, too,-as Pigweed, Wormwood, Chickweed, Shad-blossom.
chide, v. (12)
DSA 1.140 2
We need not chide the negligent servant.
Fdsp 2.194 4
I chide society...
Fdsp 2.205 6
We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity.
Prd1 2.231 4
...the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult...
UGM 4.29 11
If we huff and chide [children] they soon come not to mind
it...
SA 8.80 19
...we chide, lament, cavil and recriminate.
Edc1 10.156 20
Say little; do not snarl; do not chide;...
CSC 10.374 26
...Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians and
Philosophers,-all...seized their moment, if not their hour [at the Chardon
Street Convention], wherein to chide, or pray, or preach, or protest.
LS 11.14 6
We quote [St. Paul's] passage nowadays as if it enjoined
attendance upon the [Lord's] Supper; but he wrote it merely to chide [his
friends] for drunkenness.
EWI 11.118 23
It is vain to get rid of [spoiled children] by not minding
them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then
if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they
begin again.
CW 12.175 19
I could not find it in my heart to chide the citizen who
should ruin himself to buy a patch of heavy oak timber.
MLit 12.329 21
[We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] Fierce
churchmen and effeminate aspirants will chide and hate my name, but every
keen beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister]...
chided, v. (2)
LE 1.186 16
Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of
perpetual inquiry.
MMEm 10.406 6
[Mary Moody Emerson] surprised, attracted, chided and
denounced her companion by turns...
chides, v. (1)
Ctr 6.163 18
Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who chides her disregard
of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our poor Frankfort, I shall not
carry things far.
chiding, v. (3)
SwM 4.144 4
...was it that [Swedenborg] saw the vision [of heavenly
society] intellectually, and hence that chiding of the intellectual that
pervades his books?
OA 7.327 11
All the functions of human duty irritate and lash [man]
forward, bemoaning and chiding...
PLT 12.46 27
A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is...rude and
chiding.
chief, adj. (49)
AmS 1.115 10
Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit;...
MN 1.217 1
What is Love, and why is it the chief good, but because it is an
overpowering enthusiasm?
Pt1 3.19 23
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and
constant fact of Life...
Exp 3.59 17
[Life's] chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy
what they find, without question.
Exp 3.68 13
Our chief experiences have been casual.
Mrs1 3.150 7
...at this moment I esteem it a chief felicity of this country,
that it excels in women.
PPh 4.78 20
A chief structure of human wit...it requires all the breath of
human faculty to know [Plato].
PNR 4.80 3
The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent
translations of Plato...we esteem one of the chief benefits the cheap press
has yielded...
SwM 4.97 18
In the chief examples of religious illumination somewhat
morbid has mingled...
MoS 4.161 7
The wise skeptic wishes to have a near view of the best game
and the chief players;...
ShP 4.213 27
...[Shakespeare] is the chief example to prove that more or
less of production...is a thing indifferent.
NMW 4.251 13
Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my
pharmacopoeia [said Bonaparte].
ET1 5.5 16
At Florence, chief among artists I found Horatio Greenough...
ET4 5.58 19
...[the Norsemen's] chief end of man is to murder or to be
murdered;...
ET4 5.69 13
Good feeding is a chief point of national pride among the
vulgar [in England]...
ET10 5.170 12
...being in the fault, [England] has the misfortune of
greatness to be held as the chief offender.
ET14 5.245 7
Doctor Johnson's written abstractions have little value; the
tone of feeling in them makes their chief worth.
ET16 5.278 20
The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery
should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument...
Pow 6.77 18
At West Point, Colonel Buford, the chief engineer, pounded
with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off.
Wth 6.94 21
To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the master-works
and chief men of each race.
Ctr 6.144 8
There is also a negative value in these [minor] arts. Their chief
use to the youth is not amusement...
CbW 6.272 20
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do
what we can.
Bty 6.294 22
In rhetoric, this art of omission is a chief secret of power...
Civ 7.21 17
...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the
horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief
enemies are kept at bay.
Elo1 7.67 17
Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is,
on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant
physical health...
Elo1 7.99 1
All the chief orators of the world have been grave men...
DL 7.124 1
To each occurs, soon after the age of puberty, some event or
society or way of living, which becomes...the chief fact in their history.
Boks 7.207 2
...in the Elizabethan era [the scholar] is at the richest period
of the English mind, with the chief men of action and of thought which that
nation has produced...
Suc 7.295 20
How often it seems the chief good to be born with a cheerful
temper...
Suc 7.301 17
...the chief difference between man and man is a difference of
impressionability.
OA 7.323 11
...the chief evil of life is taken away in removing the grounds
of fear.
SA 8.92 10
Our chief want in life,--is it not somebody who can make us do
what we can?
PC 8.221 5
[The benefits of devotion to natural science] are felt...in mining
and in war. But over all their utilities, I must hold their chief value to be
metaphysical.
PC 8.221 6
The chief value [of devotion to natural science] is not the useful
powers he obtained, but the test it has been of the scholar.
Insp 8.284 8
Plutarch affirms that souls are naturally endowed with the
faculty of prediction, and the chief cause that excites this faculty and virtue
is a certain temperature of air and winds.
Insp 8.297 10
These are some hints towards what is in all education a chief
necessity,-the right government, or...the right obedience to the powers of
the human soul.
Imtl 8.325 8
The chief end of man being to be buried well, the arts most in
request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming...
Chr2 10.101 16
A chief event of life is the day in which we have
encountered a mind that startled us by its large scope.
Plu 10.298 5
...[Plutarch] is a chief example of the illumination of the
intellect by the force of morals.
LLNE 10.344 3
Perhaps [The Dial's] writers were its chief readers...
MMEm 10.404 27
...The chief witness which I have had of a Godlike
principle of action and feeling is in the disinterested joy felt in others'
superiority.
HDC 11.76 19
...you, my fathers [veterans of battle of Concord]...may well
bear a chief part in keeping this peaceful birthday of our town.
LVB 11.89 10
Each has the highest right to call your [Van Buren's]
attention to such subjects as are of a public nature, and properly belong to
the chief magistrate;...
EWI 11.122 23
There have been nations elevated by great sentiments. Such
was the civility of Sparta and the Dorian race, whilst it was defective in
some of the chief elements of ours.
AKan 11.258 27
In this country for the last few years the government has
been the chief obstruction to the common weal.
CL 12.140 15
The importance to the intellect of exposing the body and
brain to the fine mineral and imponderable agents of the air makes the chief
interest in the subject.
CL 12.141 9
Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the
future. If it be true that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of
prediction, and that the chief cause that excites that faculty is a certain
temperature of the air and winds, etc.
CW 12.175 1
Learn to know the conspicuous planets in the heavens, and
the chief constellations.
Milt1 12.266 11
Few men could be cited who have so well understood what
is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it has
brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of
spiritual laws, and...laying its chief stress on humility.
Chief Justice, n. (3)
EzRy 10.382 23
There were an unusually large number of distinguished
men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...Samuel Sewell, Chief Justice of
Massachusetts;...
EzRy 10.382 25
There were an unusually large number of distinguished
men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...Royall Tyler, Chief Justice of
Vermont;...
EWI 11.105 27
[Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In
consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him.
Sharpe would not believe it; no prescription on earth could ever render such
iniquities legal. But the decisions are against you, and Lord Mansfield, now
Chief Justice of England, leans to the decisions.
chief, n. (15)
AmS 1.106 25
What a testimony, full of grandeur, full of pity, is borne to
the demands of his own nature, by...the poor partisan, who rejoices in the
glory of his chief.
YA 1.376 24
Each chief attaches as many followers as he can...
YA 1.386 27
The chief is the chief all the world over...
Chr1 3.109 18
The Yunani sage, on seeing that chief [Zertusht], said, This
form and this gait cannot lie, and nothing but truth can proceed from them.
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.
ET11 5.175 2
He that will be a head, let him be a bridge, said the Welsh
chief Benegridran...
Wth 6.90 17
...no clanship, no patriarchal style of living by the revenues of
a chief...suits [the Saxons];...
Bhr 6.188 19
...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance,
and they know him; as when in Paris the chief of the police enters a ball-room,
so many diamonded pretenders shrink...
WD 7.178 9
A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a
wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not
enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.
Dem1 10.22 1
A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may
fancy that the mountains and lakes were made specially for him Donald, or
him Tecumseh;...
Aris 10.32 1
It is not to be a man of rank, but a man of honor...which seems
to [the best young men] the right mark and the true chief of our modern
society.
Aris 10.41 25
In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent
policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages, and in
reality each to adopt from the other a first-rate man, who thus acquired a
new country; was at once made a chief.
Aris 10.42 19
The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe.
SlHr 10.441 1
The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in
the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...left...the strength of a
chief united to the modesty of a child.
HDC 11.45 12
[The settlers of Concord] bore to John Winthrop, the
Governor, a grave but hearty kindness. For the first time, men examined the
powers of the chief whom they loved and revered.
chiefest, adj. (4)
MoS 4.158 25
...culture will instantly impair that chiefest beauty of
spontaneousness.
CPL 11.505 9
Patience is the chiefest fruit of study.
CPL 11.505 12
A man, that strives to make himself a different thing from
other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he
hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.
FRep 11.544 2
Such and so potent is this high method by which the Divine
Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the mask of calamities, that I
do not think we shall by any perverse ingenuity prevent the blessing.
chiefly, adv. (31)
DSA 1.151 9
I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which ravished
the souls of those Eastern men, and chiefly of those Hebrews...shall speak
in the West also.
YA 1.392 12
We are full of vanity, of which the most signal proof is our
sensitiveness to foreign and especially English censure. One cause of this is
our immense reading, and that reading chiefly confined to the productions
of the English press.
SR 2.79 19
...chiefly is this [power of a new mind] apparent in creeds and
churches...
Prd1 2.237 24
The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlor
and the cabin.
PPh 4.49 11
The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in
one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly in the Indian
Scriptures...
ET11 5.178 11
Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke of Buckingham, He
was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire, where his ancestors had chiefly
continued about the space of four hundred years...
ET15 5.267 15
The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is
said, of young men recently from the University...
Ill 6.310 9
...I...still chiefly remember that the best thing which the
[Mammoth] cave had to offer was an illusion.
SS 7.5 22
[My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the
moon as his letter to Collins, in which he forbade him to insert his name
with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Transactions: It would
perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to
decline.
Civ 7.21 1
...chiefly the seashore has been the point of departure, to
knowledge, as to commerce.
DL 7.104 18
...chiefly, like his senior countrymen, the young American
studies new and speedier modes of transportation.
DL 7.113 26
...the love of wealth seems to grow chiefly out of the root of
the love of the Beautiful.
Farm 7.151 12
The first planter, the savage...looking chiefly to safety from
his enemy...takes poor land.
Insp 8.294 11
[Another source of inspiration is] New poetry; by which I
mean chiefly, old poetry that is new to the reader.
Dem1 10.3 4
The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences,
luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which...deserve notice chiefly
because every man has usually in a lifetime two or three hints in this kind
which are specially impressive to him.
PerF 10.77 22
Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he
chiefly brings...is...his thoughts...
Schr 10.278 21
...I chiefly wish to infer the dignity of [the scholar's] work
by the lustre of his appointments.
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 10.308 9
...[Plutarch] chiefly liked that proportion which teaches us to
account that which is just, equal; and not that which is equal, just.
EzRy 10.383 8
To these facts, gathered chiefly from [Ezra Ripley's] own
diary...I can only add a few traits from memory.
EzRy 10.392 7
...[Ezra Ripley's] talk in the parlor was chiefly narrative.
Thor 10.473 18
[Thoreau's] visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the
Indian.
Thor 10.477 9
Now chiefly is my natal hour,/ And only now my prime of
life;/ I will not doubt the love untold,/ Which not my worth nor want have
bought,/ Which wooed me young, and wooes me old,/ And to this evening
hath me brought./
HDC 11.44 23
In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the
freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular
officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable...
HDC 11.59 15
...what chiefly interests me, in the annals of [King Philip's]
war, is the grandeur of spirit exhibited by a few of the Indian chiefs.
EWI 11.115 20
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.
War 11.167 20
...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]
for better, for worse, carry it out to the end, and meet its absurd
consequences; or else...give up the principle...
SMC 11.365 26
This [old artillery] company, chiefly recruited here [in
Concord], was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment,
Massachusetts Volunteers...
PLT 12.25 21
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of
adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
PLT 12.63 14
...[Socrates] utilized his humanity chiefly as a better eye-glass
to penetrate the vapors that baffled the vision of other men.
ACri 12.284 1
Chiefly in this country, the common school has added two
or three audiences [for the writer]: once, we had only the boxes; now, the
galleries and the pit.
chiefs, n. (7)
Mrs1 3.131 3
The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in
London and Paris by the purity of their tournure.
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/...
CbW 6.243 3
Say not, the chiefs who first arrive/ Usurp the seats for which
all strive;/...
Elo1 7.71 20
Helen is pointing out to Priam, from a tower, the different
Grecian chiefs.
Aris 10.63 11
...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the
standard of Chartist and outlaw? No, for these have been dragged in their
ignorance by furious chiefs to the Red Revolution;...
HDC 11.59 17
...what chiefly interests me, in the annals of [King Philip's]
war, is the grandeur of spirit exhibited by a few of the Indian chiefs.
War 11.153 4
The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried
and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above
each other by new merits, as clemency, hospitality, splendor of living. The
people imitate the chiefs.
chief's, n. (1)
PPo 8.239 17
When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young
[Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control.
Chiffinch, William, n. (1)
SL 2.159 22
Can a cook, a Chiffinch, an Iachimo be mistaken for Zeno or
Paul?