Chromatic to Cites
chromatic, adj. (1)
NR 3.233 13
I read Proclus...for a mechanical help to the fancy and the
imagination. I read for the lustres, as if one should use a fine picture in a
chromatic experiment, for its rich colors.
chrome, n. (1)
Wom 11.412 1
For [woman] the seas their pearls reveal,/ Art and strange
lands her pomp supply/ With purple, chrome and cochineal,/ Ochre and
lapis lazuli./
chromes, n. (1)
PLT 12.29 5
...to the painter [Nature's] plumbago and marl are pencils and
chromes.
chronic, adj. (2)
OA 7.319 27
...the strong and hasty laborers of the street do not work well
with the chronic valetudinarian.
Thor 10.479 26
...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic
assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had
just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular
botanical variety...
Chronicle, Anglo-Saxon, n. (2)
ET4 5.73 7
William the Conqueror being, says Camden, better affected to
beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that
should meddle with his game. The Saxon Chronicle says he loved the tall
deer as if he were their father.
ET14 5.233 26
A taste for plain strong speech...marks the English. It is in
Alfred and the Saxon Chronicle...
chronicle, n. (4)
ShP 4.206 2
We tell the chronicle of parentage...
ET10 5.154 13
I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, and
looking naturally for another standard [than wealth] in a chronicle of the
scholars of Oxford for two hundred years.
ET13 5.216 2
The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired
the English Bible, the liturgy, the monkish histories, the chronicle of
Richard of Devizes.
Wsp 6.206 17
What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the
pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the
twelfth century, may show.
Chronicle of the Cid, n. (1)
PC 8.213 26
...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the
productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an
example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Chronicle of
the Cid, in Spain;...
Chronicle of the Cid [Rober (2)
Boks 7.208 24
There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as
Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid;...
Boks 7.217 27
The Greek fables...the Chronicle of the Cid...have this
enlargement [the imaginative element]...
Chronicle [Richard of Deviz (1)
ET13 5.224 16
[The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any
saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health
and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English
private history, from the prayers of King Richard, in Richard of Devizes'
Chronicle, to those in the diaries of Sir Samuel Romilly and of Haydon the
painter.
chronicled, v. (1)
SovE 10.187 5
The geologic world is chronicled by the growing ripeness of
the strata from lower to higher...
chronicler, n. (2)
HDC 11.35 5
...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]...
make a jest of pumpkins...
CPL 11.500 5
Lemuel Shattuck, by his history of the town [Concord], has
made all of us grateful to his memory as a careful student and chronicler;...
chroniclers, n. (1)
ET4 5.66 18
The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory
found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman
chroniclers, five centuries later...
Chronicles [Jean Froissart] (1)
Boks 7.208 23
There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as
Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid;...
chronicles, n. (2)
ShP 4.193 2
Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English
history, from the chronicles of Brut and Arthur, down to the royal Henries,
which men hear eagerly;...
ET4 5.60 21
The [Norman] conquest has obtained in the chronicles the
name of the memory of sorrow.
Chronicles, Saxon, n. (1)
Boks 7.221 9
Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as
honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories
of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry; a third on the Saxon Chronicles...
Chronicles, Second, xiii.12, (1)
HDC 11.72 15
On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a
very full assembly, taking for his text, 2 Chronicles xiii.12...
Chronicles [Walter Scott], (1)
Plu 10.318 9
...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and
Walter Scott's Chronicles...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the
ancient world.
chronologies, n. (1)
Nat 1.70 20
To [spirit]...the oldest chronologies are young and recent.
chronology, n. (6)
LE 1.159 3
...the epochs and heroes of chronology are pictorial images, in
which [the scholar's] thoughts are told.
Hist 2.40 24
Broader and deeper we must write our annals...instead of this
old chronology of selfishness and pride...
Pt1 3.11 24
...the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
Res 8.149 7
See how [Newton] refreshed himself, resting...from astronomy
by optics; from optics by chronology.
PC 8.212 24
The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen
clock...
Mem 12.108 7
I...can drop easily many poets out of the Elizabethan
chronology, but not Shakspeare.
chronometer, n. (1)
Civ 7.24 20
The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment
and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...longitude reckoned by lunar
observation and by chronometer...
chronometers, n. (2)
Tran 1.358 27
...it may not be without its advantage that we should now
and then encounter rare and gifted men, to...verify our bearings from
superior chronometers.
FRep 11.511 6
The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or
three seconds in a year...
chrysalis, n. (1)
Ctr 6.166 1
Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the
music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears
and joy;...by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls and let the
new creature emerge erect and free,--make way and sing paean!
Chrysostom, John, St., n. (1)
Prch 10.227 7
[The theologian] is to claim for his own whatever eloquence
of St. Chrysostom or St. Jerome or St. Bernard he has felt.
chub, n. (1)
Thor 10.482 12
The chub is a soft fish, and tastes like boiled brown paper
salted.
chuckle, n. (3)
Exp 3.53 1
I hear the chuckle of the phrenologists.
UGM 4.24 26
...in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure
goes by which Thersites too can love and admire.
ET10 5.169 4
...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of
chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England] that bread rose to
famine prices...
chuckle, v. (1)
UGM 4.24 20
Not the feeblest grandame, not a mowing idiot, but uses what
spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph in his or her
opinion over the absurdities of all the rest.
chuckling, v. (1)
ACri 12.299 3
...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of
the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling...
church, adj. (6)
ET11 5.177 4
...Henry VIII...liking [John Russell's] company, gave him a
large share of the plundered church lands.
ET13 5.216 13
The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the
boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals.
ET13 5.217 11
The distribution of land [in England] into parishes enforces
a church sanction to every civil privilege;...
EzRy 10.386 3
...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church
members who had made a division in the church in the time of his
predecessor...
MMEm 10.428 18
...[Mary Moody Emerson]...delighted herself with the
discovery of the figure of a coffin made every evening on their sidewalk, by
the shadow of a church tower which adjoined the house.
HDC 11.64 20
From the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century,
our records indicate no interruption of the tranquility of the inhabitants [of
Concord], either in church or in civil affairs.
Church, adj. (2)
ET15 5.270 18
Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the
hour, yet being apprised of...every Church squabble...[the editors of the
London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
Chr2 10.111 13
Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts,
steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to
emblazon their memory.
Church, American, n. (1)
LLNE 10.339 18
Dr. Channing, whilst he lived, was the star of the
American Church...
Church, Anglican, n. (3)
ET13 5.223 13
The Anglican Church is marked by the grace and good
sense of its forms...
ET14 5.249 11
...Coleridge narrowed his mind in the attempt to reconcile
the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church, with eternal ideas.
Chr2 10.112 14
In England, the gentlemen, the journals, and now, at last,
the churchmen and bishops, have fallen away from the Anglican Church.
Church, Benjamin, n. (1)
HDC 11.60 22
Hunted by Captain [Benjamin] Church, [King Philip] fled
from one swamp to another;...
Church, Book of the [Robert (1)
Cour 7.274 12
There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as
soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus
and Socrates. Look at...Southey's Book of the Church...
Church, Calvinistic, n. (1)
Bost 12.195 10
I trace to this deep religious sentiment and to its culture
great and salutary results to the people of New England; first, namely, the
culture of the intellect, which has always been found in the Calvinistic
Church.
Church, Catholic, n. (9)
DSA 1.142 19
The Puritans in England and America found in the Christ of
the Catholic Church...scope for their austere piety...
Hist 2.12 8
When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the
Catholic Church...we have as it were been the man that made the minster;...
ET13 5.216 23
The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people
[of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...
Wsp 6.227 20
There was a wise, devout man who is called in the Catholic
Church, St. Philip Neri...
PI 8.34 19
'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of the Catholic Church...
Prch 10.227 17
The Catholic Church has been immensely rich in men and
influences.
MoL 10.245 8
We run...to Mesmerism, Spiritualism, to Pusey, to the
Catholic Church, as if for the want of thought...
LS 11.3 16
In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and
then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]...
Wom 11.415 9
After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in
the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having
first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
Church, Christ, College, O (2)
ET12 5.201 9
Albert Alaskie...was entertained with stage-plays in the
Refectory of Christ-Church [College] Oxford] in 1583.
ET12 5.201 11
Isaac Casaubon...was admitted to Christ-Church [College,
Oxford], in July, 1613.
Church, Christian, n. (3)
FSLN 11.228 10
[Webster] did as immoral men usually do, made very low
bows to the Christian Church...
FRO1 11.478 1
...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal
magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious men...in whatever relation they
stand to the Christian Church, to unite in a movement of benefit to men...
Pray 12.350 23
Let us not have the prayers of one sect, nor of the Christian
Church...
Church, Dundee, Scotland, a (1)
ET13 5.215 8
In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say, as to-day
in front of Dundee Church tower...This was built by another and a
better race than any that now look on it.
Church, Dundee, Scotland, n (1)
ET13 5.215 25
The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created
the religious architecture...Fountains Abbey, Ripon, Beverley and dundee...
Church, English, n. (7)
ET13 5.217 18
The English Church has many certificates to show of
humble effective service in humanizing the people...
ET13 5.222 22
...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or
geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their
valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
ET13 5.228 12
The English Church, undermined by German criticism, had
nothing left but tradition;...
Clbs 7.236 13
Dr. Johnson was a man of no profound mind,--full of English
limitations, English politics, English Church...
SovE 10.203 20
The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the
conscience of Europe...the piety of the English Church in Cranmer, and
Herbert, and Taylor;...
Scot 11.465 23
[Scott] saw in the English Church the symbol and seal of all
social order;...
FRep 11.535 7
...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions...
as the English Church, and entailed estates...we should feel this...absurdly
out of place.
Church, Established, n. (3)
ET13 5.228 22
Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church
into sects...
ET13 5.230 16
But the religion of England,--is it the Established Church?
no;...
ET13 5.230 18
But the religion of England...is it the sects? no; they...are to
the Established Church as cabs are to a coach...
Church Government, Reason o (4)
Milt1 12.267 5
...the following passage, in the Reason of Church
Government, indicates [Milton's] own perception of the doctrine of
humility.
Milt1 12.268 11
The memorable covenant, which in his youth, in the
second book of the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] makes with
God and his reader, expressed the faith of his old age.
Milt1 12.270 16
...once in the History, and once again in the Reason of
Church Government, [Milton] has recorded his judgment of the English
genius.
Milt1 12.275 12
...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.
Church, Lutheran, n. (1)
Chr2 10.112 10
The Lutheran Church does not represent in Germany the
opinions of the universities.
Church, Millennial, n. (1)
NR 3.235 4
So with Mesmerism, Swedenborgism, Fourierism, and the
Millennial Church; they are poor pretensions enough, but good criticism on
the science, philosophy and preaching of the day.
church, n. (174)
Nat 1.43 23
A Gothic church, said Coleridge, is a petrified religion.
AmS 1.110 17
I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming
days, as they glimmer already...through church and state.
DSA 1.127 11
Let this faith depart, and...the things it made become...
hurtful. Then falls the church...
DSA 1.128 7
These general views...find abundant illustration...especially in
the history of the Christian church.
DSA 1.137 20
I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say I
would go to church no more.
DSA 1.138 24
It seemed strange that the people should come to church.
DSA 1.139 20
The prayers and even the dogmas of our church are like the
zodiac of Denderah...
DSA 1.143 7
I have heard a devout person...say...On Sundays, it seems
wicked to go to church.
DSA 1.143 17
...in these two errors...I find the causes of a decaying
church...
DSA 1.149 25
The evils of the church that now is are manifest.
MN 1.192 2
...the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to
impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house...
MN 1.193 20
...we set...a bound to the pretensions of the law and the
church.
MN 1.215 23
Tell me not how great your project is...[the world's]
conversion into a Christian church...
MN 1.219 14
What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty;
another, the desire of founding a church;...
MR 1.228 19
Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox,
Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something,-church or state...
LT 1.263 22
...an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would
be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches. To be sure he
would; and not only in ours but in any church, mosque, or temple on the
planet;...
LT 1.268 9
Here is the innumerable multitude of those who accept the state
and the church from the last generation...
LT 1.269 3
The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...compose
the visible church of the existing generation.
LT 1.274 16
Religion was not invited to eat or drink or sleep with us...but
was a holiday guest. Such omissions judge the church;...
LT 1.279 7
...the state, the church...are phantasms...beside the sanctuary of
the heart.
Tran 1.333 24
...[the idealist] does not respect...the church, nor charities,
nor arts, for themselves;...
Tran 1.354 27
A reference to Beauty in action sounds...a little hollow and
ridiculous in the ears of the old church.
Tran 1.357 11
...church and old book mumble and ritualize to an
unheeding, preoccupied and advancing mind...
YA 1.388 16
...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel,
the road, the ship of the capitalist,-whatever goes to secure, adorn, enlarge
these is good;...
YA 1.394 3
In the East, where the religious sentiment comes in to the
support of the aristocracy, and in the Romish church also, there is a grain of
sweetness in the tyranny;...
Hist 2.20 9
The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the
forest trees...
SR 2.50 17
I remember an answer which...I was prompted to make to a
valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines
of the church.
SR 2.54 9
If you maintain a dead church...I have difficulty to detect the
precise man you are...
SR 2.54 21
I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency
of one of the institutions of his church.
SR 2.71 19
I like the silent church before the service begins...
Comp 2.94 4
I was lately confirmed in these desires [to write on
Compensation] by hearing a sermon at church.
SL 2.156 8
You think because you...have given no opinion on the times, on
the church...that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved
wisdom.
Fdsp 2.191 8
How many we...sit with in church, whom, though silently, we
warmly rejoice to be wth!
Prd1 2.221 17
...the merchant breeds his son for the church or the bar;...
Cir 2.313 16
...yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding
had fallen into the Christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was
not specially prized...
Art1 2.361 14
When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures,
I found that genius...was the plain you and me I...had left at home in so
many conversations. I had had the same experience already in a church at
Naples.
Exp 3.57 27
The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative
nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce,
government, church, marriage...
Exp 3.64 5
The lights of the church...[nature] does not distinguish by any
favor.
Mrs1 3.146 17
The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the
doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]...
Nat2 3.170 20
Here [in the woods] no history, or church, or state, is
interpolated on the divine sky and the immortal year.
Pol1 3.216 14
[The wise man] needs...no church, for he is a prophet;...
NER 3.254 5
...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what
happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to
excommunicate one of its members...
NER 3.254 7
...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what
happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to
excommunicate one of its members on account of the somewhat hostile part
to the church which his conscience led him to take in the anti-slavery
business;...
NER 3.254 10
...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what
happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to
excommunicate one of its members...the threatened individual immediately
excommunicated the church...
NER 3.262 24
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false
sentiment I could never stay there five minutes.
NER 3.262 27
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false
sentiment I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? the
street is as false as the church...
NER 3.268 10
A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion
seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me that he
liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public
amusements go on.
NER 3.279 22
It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the
liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the
name of Christian.
NER 3.279 24
It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the
liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the
name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession: a religious church
would not complain.
PPh 4.44 23
...the writings of Plato have preoccupied...every church, every
poet...
SwM 4.122 7
To the withered traditional church...[Swedenborg] let in
nature again...
SwM 4.134 24
Nothing with [Swedenborg] has the liberality of universal
wisdom, but we are always in a church.
SwM 4.136 15
The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the
friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon...intrude themselves into
[Swedenborg's] speculations...
ShP 4.191 21
...the religious among the Anglican church, would suppress
[dramatic entertainments].
ShP 4.200 7
The Liturgy...is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations,
a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church...
ShP 4.201 18
We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the
Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from
the Mysteries...and the final detachment from the church...down to the
possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered,
remodelled and finally made his own.
NMW 4.247 22
...it is the belief of men to-day that nothing new can be
undertaken in politics...or in church...
NMW 4.250 13
In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier, bishop of
Montpellier, on matters of theology. There were two points on which they
could not agree, viz. that of hell, and that of salvation out of the pale of the
church.
ET4 5.63 22
Medwin, in the Life of Shelley, relates that at a military school
they rolled up a young man in a snowball, and left him in his room while
the other cadets went to church;...
ET5 5.98 6
[The Englishmen's] church is artificial.
ET6 5.109 18
Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to
the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...
ET11 5.187 5
[English noblemen] have been a social church...
ET11 5.187 8
Politeness is the ritual of society, as prayers are of the
church...
ET13 5.214 6
[People's] loyalty to truth and their labor and expenditure
rest on real foundations, and not on a national church.
ET13 5.216 18
The church was the mediator, check and democratic
principle, in Europe.
ET13 5.217 7
[The English Church]...has coupled itself with the almanac,
that no court can be held, no field ploughed, no horse shod, without some
leave from the church.
ET13 5.217 9
All maxims of prudence or shop or farm are fixed and dated
by the [English] church.
ET13 5.217 26
From this slow-grown [English] church important reactions
proceed;...
ET13 5.219 3
Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this
occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the
King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect. The
minster and the music were made for each other. It was a hint of the part the
church plays as a political engine.
ET13 5.219 14
The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the
unbroken order and tradition of its church;...
ET13 5.219 26
These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by
atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men;...
ET13 5.220 19
The spirit that dwelt in this [English] church has glided
away to animate other activities...
ET13 5.221 12
[The English Church] is the church of the gentry, but it is
not the church of the poor.
ET13 5.221 13
[The English Church] is the church of the gentry, but it is
not the church of the poor.
ET13 5.221 17
...gentlemen lately testified in the House of Commons that
in their lives they never saw a poor man in a ragged coat inside a church.
ET13 5.221 21
The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English
understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain. Their
religion is a quotation; their church is a doll;...
ET13 5.223 12
...whenever it comes to action, the [English] clergyman
invariably sides with his church.
ET13 5.223 21
[The Anglican Church] is not in ordinary a persecuting
church;...
ET13 5.223 26
...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in
politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder of the
London University...of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge.
ET13 5.226 4
...[the religious element] is in its nature constructive, and will
organize such a church as it wants.
ET13 5.226 24
The [English] curates are ill paid, and the prelates are
overpaid. This abuse draws into the church the children of the nobility and
other unfit persons who have a taste for expense.
ET13 5.228 8
England accepts this ornamented national church, and it
glazes the eyes, bloats the flesh, gives the voice a stertorous clang...
ET13 5.228 18
The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was
led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot
heads could breathe...and the alienation of such men [the educated class]
from the church became complete.
ET13 5.230 3
The [English] church at this moment is much to be pitied.
ET13 5.230 13
...when the hierarchy is afraid of science and education,
afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid of theology, there is nothing
left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
ET16 5.285 21
...I had been more struck with [a cathedral] of no fame, at
Coventry, which rises three hundred feet from the ground, with the
lightness of a mullein plant, and not at all implicated with the church.
ET16 5.286 4
...the nave of a church is seldom so long that it need be
divided by a screen.
ET16 5.286 6
We [Emerson and Carlyle] loitered in the church [Salisbury
Cathedral]...while the service was said.
ET16 5.286 13
Carlyle was unwilling, and we did not ask to have the choir
[at Salisbury Cathedral] shown us, but returned to our inn, after seeing
another old church of the place.
ET16 5.289 11
Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church
of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer,
which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given to
every one who should ask it at the gate. We had both, from the old couple
who take care of the church.
ET16 5.289 21
The length of line [of Winchester Cathedral] exceeds that of
any other English church;...
ET16 5.289 23
I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I
have seen, except Westminster and York.
ET16 5.289 27
I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I
have seen, except Westminster and York. Here was Canute buried...and,
later, in his own church, William of Wykeham.
ET16 5.290 3
[Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part of the crypt into
which we went down and saw the Saxon and Norman arches of the old
church on which the present stands, was built fourteen or fifteen hundred
years ago.
Wsp 6.203 3
Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a
web.
Wsp 6.203 20
I and my neighbors have been bred in the notion that unless
we came soon to some good church...there would be a universal thaw and
dissolution.
Wsp 6.241 10
There will be a new church founded on moral science;...
Wsp 6.241 13
There will be a new church founded on moral science;...the
church of men to come...
CbW 6.245 12
...[the priest] walked to the church without any assurance
that he knew the distemper [of the soul], or could heal it.
Art2 7.46 12
The effect of music belongs how much to the place, as the
church...
DL 7.132 25
Does the consecration of the church confess the profanation of
the house?
Clbs 7.226 19
...the church-chimes in the distance bring the church and its
serious memories before us.
Cour 7.268 19
The beautiful voice at church goes sounding on, and covers
up in its volume...all the defects of the choir.
Cour 7.274 3
As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated,
as with the wish...to make it affirm some pragmatical tenet which our parish
church receives to-day, it is not imparted...
Suc 7.299 13
Is the old church which gave you the first lessons of religious
life...only boards or brick and mortar?
Suc 7.303 9
Who is he...who does not like to hear of those sensibilities
which turn curled heads round at church...
SA 8.101 22
In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn
and fence, then church and town-house, exhausted such means as the
Pilgrims brought...
Elo2 8.121 2
In the church I call him only a good reader who can read
sense and poetry into any hymn in the hymn-book.
PC 8.211 23
The creeds of [the sectarian's] church shrivel like dried leaves
at the door of the observatory...
Imtl 8.326 18
...to keep the body still more sacredly safe for resurrection, it
was put into the walls of the church;...
Imtl 8.328 3
These truths, passing out of [Swedenborg's] system into
general circulation, are now met with every day, qualifying the views and
creeds of all churches and of men of no church.
PerF 10.88 2
Every new asserter of the right surprises us, like a man
joining the church...
Chr2 10.116 5
This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the
charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a
church.
Chr2 10.116 15
...every church divides itself into a liberal and expectant
class, on one side, and an unwilling and conservative class on the other.
Edc1 10.133 6
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into
the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church or old church...I
have died to all use of these new events...
Supl 10.174 11
I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church
where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he
would go when the interesting Sundays were over.
SovE 10.200 13
Certainly it is human to value...a crowded church;...
SovE 10.205 2
I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by
which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in
which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed
becomes more obvious in the least religious minds. I will not now explore
the causes of the result, but the fact must be conceded...and never more
evident than in our American church.
SovE 10.205 3
To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and
ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...
SovE 10.206 4
The poor Irish laborer one sees with respect, because he
believes in something, in his church, and in his employers.
Prch 10.221 8
The understanding...because it has exposed errors in a
church, concludes that a church is an error;...
Prch 10.221 9
The understanding...because it has exposed errors in a
church, concludes that a church is an error;...
Prch 10.227 6
What is essential to the theologian is...not to allow himself
to be excluded from any church.
Prch 10.231 21
We come to church properly for self-examination...
Plu 10.321 15
[The language of the 1718 edition of Plutarch] runs through
the whole scale of conversation in...the palace, the college and the church.
LLNE 10.325 21
It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any
precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the
twenty years following. It seemed...a crack in Nature, which split every
church in Christendom into Papal and Protestant;...
LLNE 10.334 9
...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts
and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his
hearers when the church was dismissed...
LLNE 10.346 10
I think [the pilgrim] persisted for two years in his brave
practice, but did not enlarge his church of believers.
CSC 10.374 15
The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the
Chardon Street Convention] drew together...many persons whose church
was a church of one member only.
EzRy 10.379 7
We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God:/ In
Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their dust endears the sod./ From
humble tenements around/ Came up the pensive train,/ And in the church a
blessing found/ That filled their homes again./
EzRy 10.384 7
[Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in
what is called a particular providence...following the narrowness of King
David and the Jews, who thought the universe existed only or mainly for
their church and congregation.
EzRy 10.385 22
Trained in this [New England] church...it was never out of
[Ezra Ripley's] mind.
EzRy 10.386 4
...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church
members who had made a division in the church in the time of his
predecessor...
EzRy 10.387 14
...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture
in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the
service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers,
as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain,
until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
EzRy 10.387 27
[Ezra Ripley said] When I came to this town, your great-grandfather
was a substantial farmer in this very place, a member of the
church...
SlHr 10.441 3
[Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or congresses to sit
down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in the town-house...
SlHr 10.447 4
[Samuel Hoar] loved the dogmas and the simple usages of
his church;...
SlHr 10.447 8
It seemed as if the New England church had formed [Samuel
Hoar] to be its friend and defender;...
Thor 10.454 8
...[Thoreau] never went to church;...
LS 11.3 14
Without considering the frivolous questions which have been
lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's
Supper];...the questions have been settled differently in every church...
HDC 11.45 7
Members of a church before whose searching covenant all
rank was abolished, [the settlers of Concord] stood in awe of each other, as
religious men.
HDC 11.47 8
He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New
England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find a church of saints...
HDC 11.49 15
...in the clock on the church, [the people of Concord] read
their own power...
HDC 11.76 6
Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of
the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me,
that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and
acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
HDC 11.77 8
The agitating events of those days [of the battle of Concord]
were duly remembered in the church.
War 11.156 14
Put [the man concerned with pugnacity] into a circle of
cultivated men...and he would be dumb and unhappy, as an Indian in church.
War 11.162 15
All admit that [peace] would be the best policy, if the world
were all a church...
JBB 11.267 15
...I do not wonder that gentlemen find traits of relation
readily between [John Brown] and themselves. One finds a relation in the
church...
SMC 11.351 6
The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made
these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak; have, if I may
borrow the old language of the church, converted these elements from a
secular to a sacred and spiritual use;...
Wom 11.424 7
...let [women] enter a school as freely as a church...
FRO1 11.476 12
The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language falters under it,/ It
leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can find/ The
measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./
FRO1 11.478 9
The church is not large enough for the man;...
FRO1 11.478 24
...the statistics of the American, the English and the
German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going
to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and
extemporized...
FRO2 11.485 15
I am glad that a more realistic church is coming to be the
tendency of society...
FRep 11.511 5
It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics
that you must have a source higher than your tap. The mills, the shops...the
college and the church, have all found out this secret.
FRep 11.528 21
We began well. No inquisition here, no kings, no nobles,
no dominant church.
FRep 11.528 25
...a pew in a particular church gives an easier entrance to
the subscription ball.
FRep 11.533 24
Every village, every city, has...its hotel, its private house,
its church, from England.
MAng1 12.225 26
[Michelangelo] built the stairs of Ara Celi leading to the
church once the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus;...
MAng1 12.229 22
In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is
[Michelangelo's] Christ;...
MAng1 12.235 6
On the death of San Gallo, the architect of the church [St.
Peter's], Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist
[Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work...
MAng1 12.243 15
...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's]
opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Do you see this fine church of
Santa Maria Novella? It is that which Michael Angelo called his bride.
MAng1 12.243 21
Here [in Florence] is the church, the palace, the
Laurentian library, [Michelangelo] built.
MAng1 12.243 23
In the church of Santa Croce are [Michelangelo's]
mortal remains.
MAng1 12.243 25
Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he
might be buried in that church [Santa Croce]...
MAng1 12.244 1
Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he
might be buried in that church [Santa Croce], in such a spot that the dome
of the cathedral might be visible from his tomb when the doors of the
church stood open.
MAng1 12.244 3
The innumerable pilgrims whom the genius of Italy draws
to the city [Florence] duly visit this church [Santa Croce]...
MAng1 12.244 17
The traveller from a distant continent, who gazes on that
marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in the
foreign church;...
Milt1 12.266 25
[Milton] advises that in country places, rather than to
trudge many miles to a church, public worship be maintained nearer home,
as in a house or barn.
Milt1 12.269 17
Susceptible as Burke to the attractions...of an ancient
church illustrated by old martyrdoms and installed in cathedrals,-[Milton]
threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...
Milt1 12.271 9
Truly [Milton] was an apostle of freedom; of freedom in the
house, in the state, in the church;...
Milt1 12.273 3
[Milton] would remove hirelings out of the church...
Milt1 12.273 10
The most devout man of his time, [Milton] frequented no
church;...
Pray 12.351 6
Many men have contributed a single expression, a single
word to the language of devotion, which is immediately caught and
stereotyped in the prayers of their church and nation.
Church, n. (59)
DSA 1.135 25
The Church seems to totter to its fall...
DSA 1.144 3
The remedy is already declared in the ground of our
complaint of the Church.
DSA 1.144 4
We have contrasted the Church with the Soul.
Hist 2.9 19
This life of ours is stuck round with...Church, Court and
Commerce, as with so many flowers...
Pol1 3.197 23
When the Church is social worth,/ When the state-house is
the hearth,/ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
NER 3.251 9
[The observer of New England's] attention must be
commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party, is falling from
the Church nominal...
NER 3.251 10
[The observer of New England's] attention must be
commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party, is falling from
the Church nominal...
NER 3.251 18
...that the Church, or religious party...is appearing...in very
significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions;...meeting to
call in question the authority of the Sabbath, of the priesthood, and of the
Church.
NER 3.251 23
The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members
of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the
Church...
NER 3.279 18
If it were worth while to run into details this general
doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce
illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church...
NER 3.279 27
A religious man...is not irritated by wanting the sanction of
the Church...
NER 3.280 1
...the Church feels the accusation of [the religious man's]
presence and belief.
NER 3.280 19
...as a man is equal to the Church and equal to the State, so
he is equal to every other man.
SwM 4.122 3
...by force of intellect, and in effect, [Swedenborg] is the last
Father in the Church...
MoS 4.151 7
Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in
an artist's mind, without flaw, mistake, or friction, which impair the
executed models. So did the Church, the State, college, court, social circle,
and all the institutions.
MoS 4.158 3
...great numbers dislike [the State] and suffer conscientious
scruples to allegiance; and the only defence set up, is the fear of doing
worse in disorganizing. Is it otherwise with the Church?
MoS 4.175 5
What flutters the Church of Rome...may yet be very far from
touching any principle of faith.
MoS 4.176 17
I like not the French celerity,--a new Church and State once
a week.
ShP 4.190 13
The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps,
and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a
cathedral needed by her chants and processions.
ET10 5.154 16
...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's Athenae
Oxonienses]...are, first, disloyalty to Church and State, and, second, to be
born poor, or come to poverty.
ET18 5.300 10
The Church [in England] punishes dissent, punishes
education.
Wth 6.118 3
The eldest son must inherit the [English] manor; what to do
with this supernumerary? [The father] was advised to breed him for the
Church...
Boks 7.206 5
For the Church and the Feudal Institution, Mr. Hallam's
Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet readable and conceivable
outlines.
OA 7.321 11
...the senate of Sparta, the presbytery of the Church, and the
like, all signify simply old men.
Comc 8.165 15
The Society in London...pestered the gallant rover [Capt.
John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the
Indians, and the enlargement of the Church.
Comc 8.165 21
The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual
Church is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious
sentiment...
PC 8.233 20
...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.
Dem1 10.26 24
I think the rappings a new test...to try catechisms with. It
detects organic skepticism in the very heads of the Church.
Chr2 10.109 26
...Paganism hides itself in the uniform of the Church.
Chr2 10.114 1
The Church...clings to the miraculous...
Chr2 10.115 23
...in every period of intellectual expansion, the Church
ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest and
freest minds...
Prch 10.217 4
In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself
first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of the Church...
Prch 10.218 24
...I see not how the great God prepares to satisfy the heart
in the new order of things. No Church, no State emerges;...
Prch 10.220 15
...the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the
nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned.
Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take tacit part with
them, to cast off reverence for the Church;...
Prch 10.237 24
The Church is open to great and small in all nations;...
MoL 10.249 6
Coleridge traces three silent revolutions, of which the first
was when the clergy fell from the Church.
MoL 10.249 7
...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy...
MoL 10.249 11
The true scholar is the Church.
LLNE 10.325 16
There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the
party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement. At times...the
schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church,
State and social customs.
LLNE 10.329 7
Authority falls, in Church, College, Courts of Law,
Faculties, Medicine.
LLNE 10.336 2
...the paramount source of the religious revolution was
Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan
fictions of the Church...
CSC 10.373 7
In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of
Universal Reform assembled...in obedience to a call in the newspapers...
inviting all persons to a public discussion of the institutions of the Sabbath,
the Church and the Ministry.
CSC 10.373 14
In March [1841], accordingly, a three-day' session [of the
Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of
the Church...
Carl 10.496 2
[Carlyle] says, There is properly no religion in England.
These idle nobles at Tattersall's-there is no work or word of serious
purpose in them; they have this great lying Church; and life is a humbug.
LS 11.3 3
In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of
controversy than the Lord's Supper.
LS 11.12 19
It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very
early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in
remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings, where they broke bread
and drank wine as symbols. I look upon this fact as very natural in the
circumstances of the Church.
LS 11.15 1
...[St. Paul's] mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the
primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ
would shortly occur...
LS 11.16 4
We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained
opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own.
LS 11.23 21
...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use
of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this
ordinance [the Lord's Supper]...
FSLN 11.236 21
Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is no
Church for him but his believing prayer;...then certain aids and allies will
promptly appear...
TPar 11.284 2
Here comes Parker, the Orson of parsons, a man/ Whom the
Church undertook to put under her ban.-/
FRO1 11.478 25
...the statistics of the American, the English and the
German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going
to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and
extemporized...
FRO1 11.479 3
One wonders sometimes that the churches still retain so
many votaries, when he reads the histories of the Church.
FRO1 11.480 4
What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings
together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions
by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true
Church...
FRO2 11.486 15
We have had not long since presented to us by Max
Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine, not at all extraordinary in
itself, but only as coming from that eminent Father in the Church...
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...
CInt 12.126 1
It is true that the University and the Church...do not express
the sentiment of the popular politics and the popular optimism, whatever it
be.
CInt 12.127 6
The College should hold the profound thought, and the
Church the great heart to which the nation should turn...
CInt 12.127 10
...these two [the College and the Church] should be
counterbalancing to the bad politics and selfish trade. But there is but one
institution, and not three. The Church and the College now take their tone
from the City...
Church, New England, n. (2)
EzRy 10.383 12
[Ezra Ripley] was identified with the ideas and forms of
the New England Church...
EzRy 10.395 3
...[Ezra Ripley] was engaged to the old forms of the New
England Church.
Church, New Jerusalem, n. (1)
OS 2.282 15
The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist; the opening of the
eternal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church...
are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the
individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
Church of England, n. (2)
LS 11.4 6
...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord'
s Supper's] nature. The famous question of the Real Presence was the main
controversy between the Church of England and the Church of Rome.
LS 11.4 9
In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake
maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or
sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...
Church of Minerva, Rome, I (2)
MAng1 12.221 15
When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made
first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same figure
clothed with muscles. The studies of the statue of Christ in the Church of
Minerva in Rome, made in this manner, were long preserved.
MAng1 12.229 22
In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is
[Michelangelo's] Christ;...
Church of Rome, n. (3)
SovE 10.203 17
The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the
conscience of Europe...
LS 11.4 7
...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord'
s Supper's] nature. The famous question of the Real Presence was the main
controversy between the Church of England and the Church of Rome.
LS 11.11 26
That rite [washing of the feet] is used by the Church of Rome...
Church of Santa Croce, Flo (1)
Hist 2.17 21
Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after
a divine model.
Church of St. Cross, Engla (1)
ET16 5.289 5
Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of
Saint Cross...
Church, Old South, Boston, (1)
OA 7.334 6
[John Adams] talked of Whitefield, and remembered when he
was a Freshman in College to have come into town to the Old South church
(I think) to hear him...
Church Records, n. (1)
HDC 11.66 15
I find, in the [Concord] Church Records, the charges
preferred against [Daniel Bliss], his answer thereto, and the result of the
Council.
Church, Reformed, n. (1)
SovE 10.203 22
The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the
conscience of Europe...the Reformed Church, Scougal;...
Church, Roman, n. (1)
Prch 10.217 12
...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world
marks that we are in a moment of transition; as when the Roman Church
broke into Protestant and Catholic...
Church, Temple, London, En (1)
ET4 5.66 5
The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the
Temple Church at London...are of the same type as the best youthful heads
of men now in England;...
church-bells, n. (1)
EWI 11.124 9
If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery,
and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let the church-bells ring
louder...
church-chimes, n. (1)
Clbs 7.226 18
...the church-chimes in the distance bring the church and its
serious memories before us.
churches, n. (102)
Nat 1.58 13
The uniform language that may be heard in the churches of the
most ignorant sects is, - Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world;...
DSA 1.129 15
...churches are not built on [Jesus's] principles, but on his
tropes.
DSA 1.129 23
...the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches,
gives a false impression;...
DSA 1.136 6
...this ill-suppressed murmur of all thoughtful men against the
famine of our churches;...should be heard...
DSA 1.136 14
In how many churches...is man made sensible that he is an
infinite Soul;...
DSA 1.141 5
What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered
company of pious men, who minister here and there in the churches...
DSA 1.142 24
...no man can go with his thoughts about him into one of our
churches, without feeling that what hold the public worship had on men is
gone...
LE 1.159 10
Every presentiment of the mind is executed somewhere in a
gigantic fact. ... What else are churches, literatures, and empires?
LT 1.263 20
...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in
Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect
soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
LT 1.272 27
The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that
the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands. ... For some
ages, these ideas have been consigned...to the prayers and the sermons of
churches;...
LT 1.290 9
...histories are written of [the Moral Sentiment]...statues, tombs,
churches, built to its honor;...
Con 1.322 5
...wherever he sees anything that will keep men amused...
churches...or what not, [every honest fellow] must cry Hist-a-boy, and urge
the game on.
YA 1.388 9
I find no expression...in our lyceums or churches...of a high
national feeling...
Hist 2.13 7
Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of
figure? The soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how
to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches.
Hist 2.18 25
...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite
accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches...
SR 2.79 20
...chiefly is this [power of a new mind] apparent in creeds and
churches...
SL 2.136 4
Our Sunday-schools and churches and pauper-societies are
yokes to the neck.
Hsm1 2.256 18
The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously;
all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were...the eradication
of old and foolish churches and nations...
OS 2.282 16
The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist;...the revival of the
Calvinistic churches;...are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight
with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
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.
Nat2 3.177 25
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
NER 3.253 15
[Other reformers] devoted themselves to the worrying of
churches and meetings for public worship;...
NER 3.263 9
In the midst of abuses...in the aisles of false churches...
wherever, namely, a just and heroic soul finds itself, there it will do what is
next at hand...
NER 3.268 12
A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he
liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public
amusements go on.
NER 3.279 21
It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the
liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the
name of Christian.
UGM 4.8 4
Churches believe in imputed merit.
MoS 4.167 1
As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I
seem to hear him say...I stand here for truth, and will not, for all the states
and churches and revenues and personal reputations of Europe, overstate
the dry fact, as I see it;...
MoS 4.173 4
It stands in [the wise skeptic's] mind that our life in this world
is not of quite so easy interpretation as churches and school-books say.
ShP 4.200 2
...centuries and churches brought [our English Bible] to
perfection.
ShP 4.201 17
We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the
Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from
the Mysteries celebrated in churches and by churchmen...down to the
possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered,
remodelled and finally made his own.
ET1 5.20 16
In America I [Wordsworth] wish to know not how many
churches or schools, but what newspapers?
ET2 5.33 17
There lay the green shore of Ireland, like some coast of plenty.
We could see towns, towers, churches, harvests;...
ET3 5.38 8
...[England] is stuffed full, in all corners and crevices, with
towns, towers, churches, villas, palaces, hospitals and charity-houses.
ET4 5.67 14
...[the fair Saxon man] is moulded...for colleges, churches,
charities and colonies.
ET12 5.212 14
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses...as churches
and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
ET13 5.219 23
Good churches are not built by bad men;...
ET13 5.223 3
I do not know that there is more cabalism in the Anglican
than in other churches...
ET13 5.226 21
...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or
rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it
another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will
steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was
bequeathed. The class certain to be excluded from all preferment are the
religious,--and driven to other churches;...
ET16 5.277 7
It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple
structures [Stonehenge]...had long outstood all later churches...
F 6.42 21
...in each town there is some man who is...an explanation of the...
churches...of that town.
Bhr 6.173 27
...in the same country [on the banks of the Mississippi], in the
pews of the churches little placards plead with the worshipper against the
fury of expectoration.
Wsp 6.204 19
God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches
and religions.
Wsp 6.207 25
Here are know-nothing religions, or churches that proscribe
intellect;...
Wsp 6.209 7
...the churches stagger backward to the mummeries of the
Dark Ages.
Wsp 6.210 4
What [proof of infidelity], like the externality of churches...
Wsp 6.238 1
Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not. With
eyes open, he makes the choice...of religion which churches stop their
discords to burn and exterminate;...
CbW 6.252 25
[Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in
the interest and the pay of the devil.
Art2 7.45 20
...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is
national or usual; as the usage of building all Roman churches in the form
of a cross...
DL 7.129 3
[Friendship] is the happiness which...makes politics and
commerce and churches cheap.
Suc 7.308 23
I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated
with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to
be right pictures for houses and churches.
OA 7.320 2
Age is comely in coaches, in churches...
PI 8.26 13
Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the
truth,--As o'er our heads the seasons roll,/ And soothe with change of bliss
the soul/?
SA 8.102 15
...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number
of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in
the interest of the churches, of schools...
Comc 8.165 27
Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to
excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have
less need;/...
Comc 8.166 14
...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/
Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch,/
Against the articles in force/ Between both churches, his and ours/...
QO 8.182 6
...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow
growth...
QO 8.182 26
...the surprising results of the new researches into the history
of Egypt have opened to us the deep debt of the churches of Rome and
England to the Egyptian hierology.
QO 8.202 12
Plato, Cicero and Plutarch cite the poets in the manner in
which Scripture is quoted in our churches.
Imtl 8.326 19
...the churches of Europe are really sepulchres.
Imtl 8.328 2
These truths, passing out of [Swedenborg's] system into
general circulation, are now met with every day, qualifying the views and
creeds of all churches and of men of no church.
Dem1 10.17 5
...[the belief in luck] is not the power to which we build
churches...
Chr2 10.105 7
We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove,
Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors, and can hardly believe that they had to
the lively Greek the anxious meaning which, in our towns, is given and
received in churches when our religious names are used...
Chr2 10.105 12
...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one
morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken, and the
like consternation was in the city as if, in Boston, all the Orthodox churches
should be burned in one night.
Chr2 10.112 16
...in America, where are no legal ties to churches, the
looseness appears dangerous.
Chr2 10.114 19
It is only yesterday that our American churches...wheeled
in line for Emancipation.
Chr2 10.117 24
The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to
the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities...
SovE 10.200 15
...as the [moral] sentiment purifies and rises, it leaves
crowds. It makes churches of two, churches of one.
SovE 10.203 15
Far be it from me to underrate the men or the churches that
have fixed the hearts of men...
SovE 10.207 8
...in all churches a certain decay of ancient piety is
lamented...
Prch 10.218 21
...that religious submission and abandonment which give
man a new element and being, and make him sublime, it is not in churches,
it is not in houses.
Prch 10.224 8
...all that saints and churches and Bibles...have aimed at, is
to suppress this impertinent surface-action...
Prch 10.227 13
Be not betrayed into undervaluing the churches which
annoy you by their bigoted claims.
Prch 10.227 15
Be not betrayed into undervaluing the churches which
annoy you by their bigoted claims. They too were real churches.
MoL 10.248 13
If churches are effete, it is because the new Heaven forms.
MoL 10.249 15
...let us have masculine and divine men, formidable
lawgivers...who warp the churches of the world from their traditions...
LLNE 10.334 8
...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts
and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his
hearers when the church was dismissed...
Thor 10.477 16
Whilst [Thoreau] used in his writings a certain petulance of
remark in reference to churches or churchmen, he was a person of a rare,
tender and absolute religion...
LS 11.11 24
...if we had found [washing of the feet] an established rite in
our churches, on grounds of mere authority, it would have been impossible
to have argued against it.
LVB 11.92 2
Men and women with pale and perplexed faces meet one
another in the streets and churches here, and ask if this [relocation of the
Cherokees] be so.
EWI 11.114 22
On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the
West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels...
EWI 11.115 21
The first of August [1834] came on Friday, and a release
was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies] until the next Monday.
The day was chiefly spent by the great mass of the negroes in the churches
and chapels.
EWI 11.120 22
Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation
day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God,
and the churches and chapels were everywhere filled with these happy
people in humble offering of praise.
EWI 11.121 20
[Charles Metcalfe] further describes the erection of
numerous churches, chapels and schools which the new population [of
Jamaica] required...
War 11.165 16
We surround ourselves always...with true images of
ourselves in things, whether it be ships or books or cannons or churches.
FSLC 11.182 4
The college, the churches, the schools, the very shops and
factories, are discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law];...
FSLC 11.209 5
'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand
millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so
enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The churches will melt their plate.
FSLN 11.234 7
I fear there is no reliance to be put on any kind or form of
covenant, no, not on sacred forms, none on churches, none on bibles.
FSLN 11.234 17
These things show that no forms, neither constitutions...
nor churches, nor bibles, are of any use in themselves.
TPar 11.291 14
Fops, whether in hotels or churches, will utter the fop's
opinion...
EdAd 11.392 11
...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is
hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe
that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious
constitution...
EdAd 11.392 21
...the moral and religious sentiments meet us everywhere,
alike in markets as in churches.
RBur 11.442 23
It seemed odious to Luther that the devil should have all
the best tunes; he would bring them into the churches;...
FRO1 11.478 4
We are all very sensible...of the feeling that churches are
outgrown;...
FRO1 11.478 19
...in churches, every healthy and thoughtful mind finds
itself in something less;...
FRO1 11.479 2
One wonders sometimes that the churches still retain so
many votaries, when he reads the histories of the Church.
FRO2 11.488 2
...every believer holds a different creed; that is, all
churches are churches of one member.
FRO2 11.488 5
The point of difference that still remains between
churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and
historical.
CPL 11.495 9
That town is attractive to its native citizens and to
immigrants...still more, if it have an adequate town hall, good churches...
CInt 12.122 5
...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...dwelling
amidst colleges, churches, and scientific museums...are more vicious and
malignant than the rude country people...
Bost 12.201 22
There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which
contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the
American Declaration of Independence. And this...could be heard (by an
acute ear) in...the platforms of churches...
MAng1 12.223 3
Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which
led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures...
MAng1 12.227 9
Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable platform to
rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel], which is believed to be
the same simple contrivance which is used in Rome, at this day, to repair
the walls of churches.
Churchill, John [Duke of M (3)
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...
Boks 7.209 26
Among the distinguished company which attended the sale
[of the Duke of Roxburgh's library] were the Duke of Devonshire, Earl
Spencer, and the Duke of Marlborough...
CPL 11.504 15
The great Duke of Marlborough could not encamp without
his Shakspeare.
Churchill, John [Marquis of (4)
Boks 7.209 26
Among the distinguished company which attended the sale
[of the Duke of Roxburgh's library] were the Duke of Devonshire, Earl
Spencer, and the Duke of Marlborough...
Boks 7.210 2
The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred
guineas. A Thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer. And ten, added the
Marquis [of Blandford].
Boks 7.210 7
...the contest [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] proceeded until
the Marquis said, Two thousand pounds.
Boks 7.210 17
Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and
fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly
added the Marquis [of Blandford].
churching, v. (1)
ET4 5.62 26
The nation [England] has a tough, acrid, animal nature, which
centuries of churching and civilizing have not been able to sweeten.
church-meeting, n. (1)
HDC 11.66 23
The ninth allegation [against Daniel Bliss] is That in
praying for himself, in a church-meeting...he said, he was a poor vile worm
of the dust, that was allowed as Mediator between God and his people.
church-member, n. (1)
Con 1.321 12
...if priest and church-member should fail, the chambers of
commerce...would muster with fury to [religious institutions'] support.
church-members, n. (1)
Grts 8.316 9
We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I
confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes in people not normal, nor
educated, nor presentable, nor church-members...as in more orderly
examples.
churchmen, n. (8)
Pol1 3.221 16
I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily
denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral
nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures.
If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable, he
disgusts scholars and churchmen;...
ShP 4.201 17
We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the
Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from
the Mysteries celebrated in churches and by churchmen...down to the
possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered,
remodelled and finally made his own.
ET14 5.251 17
...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by
forcible men...who were driven by tastes and modes they found in vogue
into their several careers. So, at this moment, every ambitious young man
studies geology: so members of Parliament are made, and churchmen.
Pow 6.65 4
...churchmen and men of refinement, it seems agreed, are not fit
persons to send to Congress.
Chr2 10.112 13
In England, the gentlemen, the journals, and now, at last,
the churchmen and bishops, have fallen away from the Anglican Church.
Thor 10.477 17
Whilst [Thoreau] used in his writings a certain petulance of
remark in reference to churches or churchmen, he was a person of a rare,
tender and absolute religion...
FRO2 11.490 7
I find something stingy in the unwilling and disparaging
admission of these foreign opinions...by our churchmen...
MLit 12.329 20
[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]...
church-organ, n. (1)
EWI 11.124 10
If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery,
and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let the church-bells ring
louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound.
church-rituals, n. (1)
Chr2 10.110 15
The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we
shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of
Christianity...good-naturedly...
church-warden, n. (1)
Chr2 10.107 2
...the church-warden or tithing-man was a petty persecutor;...
church-wardens, n. (1)
Comc 8.165 11
The Society in London which had contributed their means
to convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see the...Roaring Thunders and
Tustanuggees of that day converted into church-wardens and deacons at
least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent
solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
churl, n. (10)
SL 2.147 26
There are graces in the demeanor of a polished and noble
person which are lost upon the eye of a churl.
Pt1 3.41 26
...thou [O poet] must pass for a fool and a churl for a long
season.
MoS 4.178 8
I find a man who has passed through all the sciences, the
churl he was;...
ET8 5.135 6
[The Englishman] is a churl with a soft place in his heart...
SS 7.1 2
Seyd melted the days like cups of pearl,/ Served high and low, the
lord and churl/...
Clbs 7.223 2
Yet Saadi loved the race of men,--/ No churl, immured in cave
or den;/...
Aris 10.30 4
...he that wol have prize of his genterie,/ For he was boren of a
gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven
do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is
not gentil, be he duke or erl;/ For vilaines' sinful dedes make a churl./
Aris 10.56 25
When a man begins to speak, the churl will take him up by
disputing his first words...
War 11.172 20
I do not wonder at the dislike some of the friends of peace
have expressed at Shakspeare. The veriest churl and Jacobin cannot resist
the influence of the style and manners of these haughty lords.
CL 12.152 6
...[in October] all the trees are wind-harps, filling the air with
music; and all men...walk to the measure of rhymes they make or
remember. The dullest churl begins to quaver.
churlish, adj. (3)
SR 2.81 11
I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the
globe for the purposes of art...
ET8 5.137 26
[The English] are...churlish as men sometimes please to be
who do not forget a debt...
PerF 10.80 24
I knew a stupid young farmer, churlish, living only for his
gains...
churls, n. (2)
Bhr 6.174 5
Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation
of our American manners in unspeakable particulars. I think the lesson...
held bad manners up, so that the churls could see the deformity.
LLNE 10.328 8
The nobles shall not any longer, as feudal lords, have
power of life and death over the churls...
chyle, n. (2)
ET13 5.226 2
The statesman knows that the religious element will not fail,
any more than the supply of fibrine and chyle;...
PI 8.24 19
The atoms of the body were once nebulae, then rock, then loam,
then corn, then chyme, then chyle, then blood;...
chyme, n. (1)
PI 8.24 19
The atoms of the body were once nebulae, then rock, then loam,
then corn, then chyme, then chyle, then blood;...
cicatrize, v. (1)
Pow 6.61 9
...if [children] have the buoyancy and resistance that
preoccupies them with new interest in the new moment,--the wounds
cicatrize and the fibre is the tougher for the hurt.
cicatrizes, v. (1)
Comp 2.118 8
It is more [a wise man's] interest than it is [his assailants']
to find his weak point. The wound cicatrizes and falls off from him like a
dead skin...
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, n. (1)
Imtl 8.348 6
...Plato and Cicero had both allowed themselves to overstep
the stern limits of the spirit, and gratify the people with that picture [of
personal immortality].
Cicero, n. (12)
SwM 4.133 25
Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg]
sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero...
SwM 4.133 26
Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg]
sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero...
SwM 4.134 1
Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg]
sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human
relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero;...
GoW 4.285 10
[Goethe's] affections help him, like women employed by
Cicero to worm out the secret of conspirators.
OA 7.316 4
Cicero makes no reference to the illusions which cling to the
element of time...
Elo2 8.124 15
...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the
patriotism of Cicero, Demosthenes and Burke...
Elo2 8.132 1
The historian Paterculus says of Cicero, that only in Cicero's
lifetime was any great eloquence in Rome;...
QO 8.196 7
It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of
ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...as Cicero, Cowley,
Swift, Landor and Carlyle have done.
QO 8.202 10
Plato, Cicero and Plutarch cite the poets in the manner in
which Scripture is quoted in our churches.
FSLC 11.190 14
...the great jurists, Cicero, Grotius...do all affirm [the
principle in law that immoral laws are void].
FSLN 11.227 1
Cicero, Grotius, Coke...do all affirm [that an immoral law
cannot be valid]...
CInt 12.120 5
...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with
the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of
Patrick Henry, and of what was best in Cicero and Burke;...
Cicero [Tully], n. (2)
AmS 1.89 12
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty
to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke...have given;...
AmS 1.89 14
Meek young men grow up in libraries...forgetful that Cicero,
Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these
books.
Cicero's, n. (5)
OA 7.315 11
[Josiah Quincy]...made a sort of running commentary on
Cicero's chapter De Senectute.
OA 7.315 14
...the naivete of [Josiah Quincy's] eager preference of Cicero'
s opinions to King David's, gave unusual interest to the College festival.
OA 7.315 20
[Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...
Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...
Elo2 8.132 1
The historian Paterculus says of Cicero, that only in Cicero's
lifetime was any great eloquence in Rome;...
MMEm 10.412 2
I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my
expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every
morn;...read in a little book,-Cicero's Letters,-a few...
Cid, Chronicle of the, n. (2)
Boks 7.217 27
The Greek fables...the Chronicle of the Cid...have this
enlargement [the imaginative element]...
PC 8.213 27
...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the
productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an
example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Chronicle of
the Cid, in Spain;...
Cid, Chronicle of the [Robe (1)
Boks 7.208 24
There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as
Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid;...
Cid, El, n. (11)
Mrs1 3.125 10
The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this
strong type; Saladin...the Cid...
Mrs1 3.146 17
The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the
doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]: Scipio, and the Cid...
ShP 4.201 2
Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad,
Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.
Boks 7.197 21
English history is best known through Shakspeare;...the
Spanish, through the Cid.
Clbs 7.248 24
...it was when things went prosperously, and the company
was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all were joyful...
Cour 7.255 14
There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every
nation;...
OA 7.322 5
...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of
seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who
appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey
them: as at My Cid, with the fleecy beard, in Toledo;...
PI 8.25 13
...bring [people] Homer's Iliad, and they like that; or the Cid,
and that rings well;...
Aris 10.51 22
To a right aristocracy, to Hercules, to Theseus, Odin, the Cid,
Napoleon;...everything will be permitted and pardoned...
Plu 10.318 5
...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of Arthur, Saxon
Alfred...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
JBS 11.281 1
All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do
not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed
handkerchiefs, but men...who, like the Cid, give the outcast leper a share of
their bed;...
Cid, El [Poema del Cid], n (1)
Aris 10.42 24
The Cid has a prevailing health that will let him nurse the
leper...
cider, n. (1)
CL 12.147 1
Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in
Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and Cow-apple...and Beware-of-this.
Apples of a kind which I remember in boyhood, each containing a
barrel of wind and half a barrel of cider.
cider-barrel, n. (1)
Pt1 3.16 19
Witness the cider-barrel...and all the cognizances of party.
cider-press, n. (1)
Aris 10.45 3
If we see tools in a magazine, as...a cider-press, a diving-bell,
we can predict well enough their destination;...
Cid's, El, n. (1)
Grts 8.311 27
The scholar's courage should be as terrible as the Cid's...
cigar, n. (2)
ShP 4.217 24
Are the agents of nature, and the power to understand them,
worth no more than...the breath of a cigar?
ET16 5.277 4
We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked round the stones [at
Stonehenge] and clambered over them...and found a nook sheltered from
the wind among them, where Carlyle lighted his cigar.
cigars, n. (1)
MoL 10.243 9
...professors of colleges sold cigars, mince-pies, matches [in
California]...
Cilicia, n. (1)
ET9 5.152 2
George of Cappadocia, born at Epiphania in Cilicia, was a low
parasite...
Cimon, n. (2)
NER 3.274 16
The heroes of ancient and modern fame, Cimon,
Themistocles...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and
skilfully played...
Boks 7.199 23
Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first
because he is so readable, which is much; then that he is medicinal and
invigorating. The lives of Cimon, Lycurgus...are what history has of best.
Cincinnati, Ohio, 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...Cincinnati or
Philadelphia caucus;...
Cincinnati, Ohio, n. (1)
EdAd 11.383 23
A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous
magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where
he is importuned by newsboys...with telegraphic despatches not yet fifty
minutes old from Buffalo and Cincinnati.
cinder, n. (3)
CbW 6.276 11
When I asked an ironmaster about the slag and cinder in
railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron to be had: if there's
cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder in the pay.
CbW 6.276 13
When I asked an ironmaster about the slag and cinder in
railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron to be had: if there's
cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder in the pay.
CbW 6.276 14
When I asked an ironmaster about the slag and cinder in
railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron to be had: if there's
cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder in the pay.
Cinderella, n. (1)
PI 8.12 22
...children resent your showing them that their doll Cinderella is
nothing but pine wood and rags;...
cinders, n. (3)
Nat 1.32 17
We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast
their eggs.
AmS 1.90 21
...cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.
SovE 10.209 20
[The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every
line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll, ere these casual
wide-falling cinders can be gathered into broad and steady altar-flame.
Cineas, n. (1)
EdAd 11.384 21
...we cannot stave off the ulterior question,-the famous
question of Cineas to Pyrrhus,-the WHERE TO of all this [American]
power and population...
cinquefoils, n. (1)
Chr2 10.90 5
For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the
mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/ I count as many as
there are/ Cinquefoils or violets in the grass,/ So many saints and saviours,/
So many high behaviours./
Cintra, adj. (1)
ET7 5.123 5
When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to
the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he
replied, You furnish me a reason for going.
cipher, n. (6)
Nat 1.32 14
Whilst we use this grand cipher to expedite the affairs of our
pot and kettle, we feel that we have not yet put it to its use...
OS 2.284 20
...the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of
cause and effect.
Cir 2.301 4
[The circle] is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.
Pt1 3.37 13
Dante's praise is that he dared to write his autobiography in
colossal cipher...
UGM 4.20 18
We will know the meaning of our economies and politics.
Give us the cipher...
Art2 7.40 3
The useful arts comprehend...navigation, practical chemistry
and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and instruments by
which man serves himself; as language, the watch, the ship, the decimal
cipher;...
cipher, v. (3)
NMW 4.229 16
...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the
intellectual power, as if the sea and land had taken flesh and begun to
cipher.
NMW 4.239 27
Those who had to deal with him found that [Bonaparte]...
could cipher as well as another man.
Suc 7.311 9
There is an external life, which is...taught to read, write, cipher
and trade;...
cipherers, n. (1)
EdAd 11.386 8
It is a poor consideration...that political interests on so
broad a scale as ours are administered...by deft partisans, good cipherers;...
ciphering, adj. (2)
NMW 4.229 19
This ciphering operative [Bonaparte] knows what he is
working with and what is the product.
Suc 7.283 22
Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which,
through some adaptation of...ciphering or pugilistic or musical or literary
craft, enriches the community with a new art;...
ciphering, n. (1)
LLNE 10.348 15
[Fourier's] ciphering goes where ciphering never went
before...
ciphering, v. (2)
Boks 7.212 13
Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit, wherein
everything that is not ciphering...is hustled out of sight.
War 11.167 20
Since the peace question has been before the public mind,
those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with
objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the
curious,-moral problems, like those problems in arithmetic which in long
winter evenings the rustics try the hardness of their heads in ciphering out.
ciphers, n. (1)
Lov1 2.176 11
In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the
recollection of days...when...the stars were letters and the flowers ciphers...
Circe, n. (2)
Mrs1 3.144 1
...Fashion loves lions, and points like Circe to her horned
company.
NR 3.238 11
...Nature has her maligners, as if she were Circe;...
circle, n. (80)
Nat 1.44 21
[Every universal truth] is like a great circle on a sphere...
Nat 1.60 4
[Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...
DSA 1.120 16
Behold these out-running laws, which our imperfect
apprehension can see tend this way and that, but not come full circle.
DSA 1.130 19
[The soul] invites every man to expand to the full circle of
the universe...
DSA 1.133 24
Now do not degrade the life and dialogues of Christ out of
the circle of this charm...
DSA 1.151 17
I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those
shining laws that he shall see them come full circle;...
MN 1.193 21
Into our charmed circle, power cannot enter;...
LT 1.263 15
...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in
Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at once in
one of our metropolitan churches.
Con 1.311 21
...for thee the hospitable North opens its heated palaces under
the polar circle;...
Tran 1.339 8
...[man] is balked when he tries to fling himself into this
enchanted circle...
Tran 1.349 18
As to the general course of living, and the daily
employments of men, [Transcendentalists] cannot see much virtue in these,
since they are parts of this vicious circle;...
SR 2.74 20
I have my own...perfect circle.
Comp 2.96 15
I shall attempt...to record some facts that indicate the path of
the law of Compensation; happy beyond my expectation if I shall truly
draw the smallest arc of this circle.
Lov1 2.183 26
The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...on the
circle of household acquaintance...
Fdsp 2.206 23
I please my imagination more with a circle of godlike men
and women variously related to each other...
OS 2.285 9
Who can tell the grounds of his knowledge of the character of
the several individuals in his circle of friends?
OS 2.291 9
Nothing can pass [in the soul], or make you one of the circle,
but the casting aside your trappings...
Cir 2.301 1
The eye is the first circle;...
Cir 2.301 6
St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose
centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere.
Cir 2.301 14
...around every circle another can be drawn;...
Cir 2.304 1
The life of man is a self-evolving circle...
Cir 2.304 27
Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle
around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere.
Cir 2.305 1
Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around
the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere.
Cir 2.305 4
Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around
the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere. Then already is
our first speaker not man, but only a first speaker. His only redress is
forthwith to draw a circle outside of his antagonist.
Cir 2.312 1
Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal circle through
which a new one may be described.
Cir 2.321 25
The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is...to do
something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle.
Int 2.342 14
The circle of the green earth he [in whom the love of truth
predominates] must measure with his shoes to find the man who can yield
him truth.
Mrs1 3.132 12
A circle of men perfectly well-bred would be a company of
sensible persons in which every man's native manners and character
appeared.
Mrs1 3.132 27
A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole
sphere or society with him,--not bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but
atmospherically.
Mrs1 3.143 7
...so long as [fashion] is the highest circle in the imagination
of the best heads on the planet, there is something necessary and excellent
in it;...
Mrs1 3.147 14
...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a
narrower and higher circle...
Mrs1 3.147 15
...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a
narrower and higher circle...
Mrs1 3.153 8
...the advantages which fashion values are plants which
thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of this
precinct they...are of no use...in the literary or scientific circle...
NER 3.272 18
In the circle of the rankest tories...let a powerful and
stimulating intellect...act on them, and very quickly these frozen
conservators will yield to the friendly influence...
UGM 4.28 8
It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into
nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men, and
sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote, Not
transferable and Good for this trip only, on these garments of the soul.
SwM 4.115 11
The second and next higher form is the circular, which is
also called the perpetual-angular, because the circumference of a circle is a
perpetual angle.
SwM 4.124 14
...what is real and universal cannot be confined to the circle
of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius...
SwM 4.146 7
...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the
more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam
and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered
to obscure; and he renders a second passive service to men, not less than the
first, perhaps, in the great circle of being...
MoS 4.151 8
Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in
an artist's mind, without flaw, mistake, or friction, which impair the
executed models. So did the Church, the State, college, court, social circle,
and all the institutions.
ShP 4.190 5
A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say,
I am full of life...to-day I will square the circle...
GoW 4.266 7
In this country...the solid portion of the community is named
with significant respect in every circle.
ET2 5.29 15
Is this sad-colored circle [of the sea] an eternal cemetery?
ET9 5.151 23
...to wave our own flag at the dinner table or in the
University is to carry the boisterous dulness of a fire-club into a polite
circle.
ET16 5.277 11
It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright
stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the
face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds (of which there
are a hundred and sixty within a circle of three miles about Stonehenge)...
ET16 5.278 12
The nineteen smaller stones of the inner circle [at
Stonehenge] are of granite.
F 6.36 10
The whole circle of animal life...pleases at a sufficient
perspective.
Pow 6.74 17
...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step
out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.
Wth 6.87 1
[Coal] carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar
circle;...
Bhr 6.171 12
The mediocre circle learns to demand that which belongs to a
high state of nature or of culture.
Art2 7.55 1
The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its
origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the
street. The first comers gather round in a circle...
Elo1 7.70 26
...who does not remember in childhood some white or black
or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of
fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful
to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
Suc 7.284 2
Giotto could draw a perfect circle...
PI 8.72 12
After the largest circle has been drawn, a larger can be drawn
around it.
SA 8.94 16
Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet...
QO 8.179 18
The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps
itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning. There is
something mortifying in this perpetual circle.
QO 8.191 26
...Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and
inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally
grew.
QO 8.199 13
...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences...
Insp 8.273 21
A fuller inspiration...should bend the line and complete the
circle.
Dem1 10.23 12
...in a particular circle and knot of affairs [the fortunate
man] is not so much his own man as the hand of Nature and time.
PerF 10.81 9
See in a circle of school-girls one with no beauty...but she can
so recite her adventures that she is never alone...
PerF 10.81 13
See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special
vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone, but
at night or at morning wherever she sits the inevitable circle gathers around
her...
Edc1 10.128 8
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...
Edc1 10.147 22
Letter by letter, syllable by syllable, the child learns to
read, and in good time can convey to all the domestic circle the sense of
Shakspeare.
Supl 10.167 4
...[William Ellery Channing's] best friend...speaking of him
in a circle of his admirers, said...I believe him capable of virtue.
SovE 10.198 12
...spontaneous graces and forces elevate [life] in every
domestic circle...
LLNE 10.344 1
...[The Dial] was rather a work of friendship among the
narrow circle of students than the organ of any party.
LLNE 10.344 26
The vulgar politician disposed of this circle [of
Transcendentalists] cheaply as the sentimental class.
LLNE 10.369 26
...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...
Thor 10.458 25
Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard
University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the
loan of books...to clergymen who were alumni, and to some others resident
within a circle of ten miles' radius from the College.
GSt 10.501 18
Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man of
skill and perseverance in his business;...[George Stearns's] extreme interest
in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with
keener attention.
HDC 11.85 19
Humble as is our village [Concord] in the circle of later and
prouder towns that whiten the land, it has been consecrated by the presence
and activity of the purest men.
War 11.156 11
Put [the man concerned with pugnacity] into a circle of
cultivated men...and he would be dumb and unhappy...
RBur 11.439 4
...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced...
that, in this accomplished circle, it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of
all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and
which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
Shak1 11.447 2
'T is not our fault if we have not made this evening's circle
still richer than it is.
Scot 11.467 27
[Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in
the society of...Wilson, Hogg, De Quincey, to name only some of his
literary neighbors, and, as soon as he died, all this brilliant circle was
broken up.
PLT 12.12 3
...he who who contents himself with...recording only what
facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he
does not interfere with its vast curves by prematurely forcing them into a
circle or ellipse...
CInt 12.131 12
...the men and women of your time, the circle of your
friends and employers...are the interrogators.
CL 12.139 20
...Massachusetts...is on the northern slope, towards the Arctic
circle, and the Pole.
ACri 12.287 13
...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!
Let 12.397 2
The loneliest man, after twenty years, discovers that he stood
in a circle of friends...
circle, v. (1)
UGM 4.10 11
...solid, liquid, and gas, circle us round in a wreath of
pleasures...
circles, n. (45)
Nat 1.27 2
Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate
themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
Nat 1.44 22
[Every universal truth] is like a great circle on a sphere,
comprising all possible circles;...
LT 1.270 2
The Temperance-question, which rides the conversation of ten
thousand circles...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of
the time.
Con 1.314 5
...in the darlings of the selectest circles of European or
American aristocracy, the strong heart will beat with love of mankind...
YA 1.393 18
It is a questionable compensation to the embittered feeling of
a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop...is himself also an aspirant
excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
Lov1 2.183 21
In the procession of the soul from within outward, it
enlarges its circles ever...
Cir 2.304 3
The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring
imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles...
Cir 2.304 5
The extent to which this generation of circles...will go, depends
on the force or truth of the individual soul.
Cir 2.310 13
Conversation is a game of circles.
Cir 2.313 27
The natural world may be conceived of as a system of
concentric circles...
Cir 2.318 21
Whilst the eternal generation of circles proceeds, the eternal
generator abides.
Cir 2.318 24
That central life is somewhat...superior to knowledge and
thought, and contains all its circles.
Pt1 3.19 8
Nature adopts [the factory-village and the railway] very fast into
her vital circles...
Mrs1 3.125 23
If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles and not
with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion;...
Mrs1 3.127 19
There exists a strict relation between the class of power and
the exclusive and polished circles.
Mrs1 3.133 22
[Fops] pass also at their just rate; for how can they
otherwise, in circles which exist as a sort of herald's office for the sifting of
character.
Mrs1 3.143 18
...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the
acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of
justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.
Mrs1 3.147 24
If the individuals who compose the purest circles of
aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review...we might find no gentleman
and no lady;...
NER 3.260 4
...in a few months the most conservative circles of Boston and
New York had quite forgotten who of their gownsmen was college-bred,
and who was not.
UGM 4.33 11
A new quality of mind travels...in concentric circles from its
origin...
PPh 4.65 10
In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the highest employment of the
eyes. By us it is asserted that God invented and bestowed sight on us for
this purpose,--that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens,
we might properly employ those of our own minds...
PNR 4.86 25
All the circles of the visible heaven represent [to Plato] as
many circles in the rational soul.
PNR 4.86 26
All the circles of the visible heaven represent [to Plato] as
many circles in the rational soul.
SwM 4.110 7
...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens.
NMW 4.256 4
...when you have penetrated through all the circles of power
and splendor [of Napoleon], you were not dealing with a gentleman, at
last;...
ET17 5.292 18
...I found much advantage in the circles of the Geologic, the
Antiquarian and the Royal Societies.
ET17 5.293 7
It is not in distinguished circles that wisdom and elevated
characters are usually found...
F 6.31 5
[Men] are under one dominion...in social circles...
Pow 6.79 24
I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust
and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
CbW 6.272 7
Our conversation once and again has apprised us that we
belong to better circles than we have yet beheld;...
Farm 7.143 5
Science has shown the great circles in which Nature works;...
Boks 7.196 17
...in the best circles is the best information.
Clbs 7.225 24
...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles.
Clbs 7.230 26
...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he
tells me...that he has no companion. Suppose such a one to go out exploring
different circles in search of this wise and genial counterpart,--he might
inquire far and wide.
Clbs 7.243 12
The history of the Hotel Rambouillet and its brilliant circles
makes an important date in French civilization.
SA 8.95 20
...there are...brave choices enough of taking the part of truth...in
privatest circles.
PerF 10.82 24
The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no
other; the memory opens all her cabinets and archives;...Poetry her splendor
and joy and the august circles of eternal law.
SovE 10.186 25
It is the stomach of plants that development begins, and
ends in the circles of the universe.
LLNE 10.349 22
The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di Roma, the frozen
Polar circles...accuse man.
CSC 10.374 6
These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...were
spoken of in different circles in every note of hope, of sympathy, of joy, of
alarm, of abhorrence and of merriment.
Thor 10.459 19
[Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned
from London circles;...
Carl 10.498 3
...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very
slowly admitted scholars into society,-a very few houses only in the high
circles being ever opened to them,-[Carlyle] has carried himself erect...
FSLN 11.240 12
...all the refined circles...are sure to be found befriending
liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.
SMC 11.371 8
After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard
service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a few
days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and run
in circles...
PLT 12.7 10
Seek the literary circles, the stars of fame...will they afford me
satisfaction?
Circles, Ohio, n. (1)
Hist 2.11 7
...all curiosity respecting...the Ohio Circles...is the desire to do
away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...
circles, v. (1)
SL 2.144 7
[A man] takes only his own out of the multiplicity that sweeps
and circles round him.
circoscriva, v. (1)
MAng1 12.214 2
Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun concetto,/ Ch' un marmo
solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio, e solo a quello arriva/ La man
che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M. Angelo, Sonneto primo.
circuit, n. (12)
Nat 1.23 27
The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms...
AmS 1.95 15
...I dispose of [the world] within the circuit of my expanding
life.
SL 2.137 13
The circuit of the waters is mere falling.
Pt1 3.26 8
This insight, which expresses itself by what is called
Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study,
but...by sharing the path or circuit of things through forms...
Exp 3.80 23
A subject and an object,--it takes so much to make the
galvanic circuit complete...
ET11 5.182 19
The Duke of Norfolk's park in Sussex is fifteen miles in
circuit.
Wth 6.116 3
Long free walks, a circuit of miles, free [the land-owner's]
brain and serve his body.
Insp 8.291 5
Allston rarely left his studio by day. An old friend took him,
one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the country...
Imtl 8.344 27
Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect...
which threads the globes as beads on a string, leaves this out of its circuit,
leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a
caprice...
PerF 10.84 9
...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the
circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God.
MAng1 12.217 26
What other standard of the beautiful exists than the
entire circuit of all harmonious proportions of the great system of Nature?
MAng1 12.218 3
All particular beauties scattered up and down in Nature
are only so far beautiful as they suggest more or less in themselves this
entire circuit of harmonious proportions.
circuits, n. (6)
SL 2.160 14
Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the
divine circuits.
NER 3.284 20
...let a man fall into the divine circuits, and he is enlarged.
Civ 7.30 25
If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works
in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also evil agents...
PC 8.210 18
Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the
novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...the foreign trade and the
home trade (whose circuits in this country are as spacious as the foreign)...
have evoked!...
PerF 10.83 3
...the mighty Intellect did not stoop to [the susceptible man]
and become property, but he rose to it and followed its circuits.
HDC 11.32 26
[The pilgrims] must...with their axes cut a road for their
teams...forced to make long circuits too, to avoid hills and swamps.
circular, adj. (11)
AmS 1.85 8
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the
inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power
returning into itself.
MN 1.201 5
Nature can only be conceived as...a work of ecstasy, to be
represented by a circular movement...
Cir 2.301 10
One moral we have already deduced in considering the
circular or compensatory character of every human action.
Cir 2.304 8
...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into
a circular wave of circumstance...to heap itself on that ridge...
Cir 2.317 19
...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you
have arrived at a fine Pyrrhonism...
SwM 4.115 9
The second and next higher form is the circular...
SwM 4.115 12
The form above [the circular] is the spiral, parent and
measure of circular forms...
SwM 4.115 14
The form above [the circular] is the spiral...its diameters are
not rectilinear, but variously circular...
ET16 5.276 24
Stonehenge is a circular colonnade with a diameter of a
hundred feet...
ET16 5.277 26
The temple [Stonehenge] is circular and uncovered...
Bty 6.293 26
To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all
circular movement has;...
circulars, n. (1)
GSt 10.505 13
When one remembers...the wide correspondence, presently
enlarged by printed circulars, then by newspapers established wholly or
partly at [George Stearns's] own cost;...I think this single will was worth to
the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
circulate, v. (9)
Nat 1.10 10
...the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me;...
AmS 1.96 11
Our affections as yet circulate through [our recent actions].
MN 1.223 21
...these qualities...circulate through the Universe...
Lov1 2.172 7
What books in the circulating library circulate?
Pt1 3.26 26
...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man]
can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the
ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him;...
ET14 5.241 14
A few generalizations always circulate in the world...
Comc 8.171 25
A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the
Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to
her tall figure, as well as to her republican opinions; the Countess retaliated
by calling Madame the Venus of the Pere-Lachaise, a compliment to her
skeleton which did not fail to circulate.
QO 8.181 23
...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that
circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology...
MoL 10.256 6
Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that
circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning...
circulated, v. (2)
ShP 4.193 27
The rude warm blood of the living England circulated in the
play...
MoL 10.253 13
There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke
cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front,
and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square. It made a good
story, and circulated in that day.
circulates, v. (6)
Nat2 3.188 19
This is the man-child that is born to the soul, and her life
still circulates in the babe.
SwM 4.121 11
In nature, each individual symbol plays innumerable parts,
as each particle of matter circulates in turn through every system.
Wth 6.103 22
...the current dollar, silver or paper, is itself the detector of
the right and wrong where it circulates.
Art2 7.48 23
The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired...
by all men...must...be...one through whom the soul of all men circulates as
the common air through his lungs.
Comc 8.170 10
The same astonishment of the intellect