Citied to Clasps
citied, adj. (1)
Con 1.311 15
Would you have...preferred your freedom on a heath...to this
towered and citied world?...
cities, n. (139)
Nat 1.7 11
Seen in the streets of cities, how great [the stars] are!
Nat 1.14 3
The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for
him.
Nat 1.18 8
The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is
pleasant only half the year.
Nat 1.31 14
These facts may suggest the advantage which the country-life
possesses...over the artificial and curtailed life of cities.
Nat 1.31 22
The poet...bred in the woods...shall not lose their lesson
altogether, in the roar of cities...
AmS 1.103 16
The poet...is found to have recorded that which men in
crowded cities find true for them also.
DSA 1.120 6
...the astronomers, the builders of cities, and the captains,
history delights to honor.
LE 1.174 26
The poets who have lived in cities have been hermits still.
MR 1.229 15
It will afford no security from the new ideas, that...the
property and institutions of a hundred cities, are built on other foundations.
MR 1.230 5
...the scholar says, Cities and coaches shall never impose on
me again;...
LT 1.289 24
The granite is curiously concealed...under...large towns and
cities...
Con 1.311 5
[Existing institutions] have lost no time and spared no expense
to collect libraries, museums, galleries, colleges, palaces, hospitals,
observatories, cities.
Tran 1.341 17
...to [many intelligent and religious persons'] lofty dream
the writing of Iliads or Hamlets, or the building of cities or empires seems
drudgery.
Tran 1.359 12
Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be
superseded;...these cities rotted...
YA 1.366 11
The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of
natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment...has naturally given a
strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to withdraw
from cities and cultivate the soil.
YA 1.368 20
The cities drain the country of the best part of its population...
YA 1.369 8
Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with
cities...will render a service to the whole face of this continent...
YA 1.371 17
From Washington...through all its cities...[America] is a
country of beginnings...
Hist 2.11 6
...all curiosity respecting...the excavated cities...is the desire to
do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...
Hist 2.22 14
Sacred cities, to which a periodical religious pilgrimage was
enjoined...were the check on the old rovers;...
Hist 2.24 12
In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which
supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove; not
like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities...
SR 2.70 10
...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to
principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities...who are
not.
SR 2.76 3
If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not
installed in an office within one year afterwards in the cities...it seems to his
friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened...
SR 2.81 8
...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands,
he...shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he...
visits cities and men like a sovereign...
Comp 2.100 5
This law [Compensation] writes the laws of cities and
nations.
Hsm1 2.256 17
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 building of
cities...
OS 2.277 1
...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing
else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion;...thence come
conversation, competition, persuasion, cities and war.
Cir 2.302 7
Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it
this train of cities and institutions.
Cir 2.311 17
...literatures, cities, climates, religions, leave their
foundations...
Nat2 3.171 14
Cities give not the human senses room enough.
Nat2 3.175 17
That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call
a park; that they...go in coaches...to watering-places and to distant cities,--
these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has
delineated estates of romance...
Nat2 3.183 1
If we consider how much we are nature's, we need not be
superstitious about towns, as if that terrific or benefic force did not find us
there also, and fashion cities.
Nat2 3.191 20
...Boston, London, Vienna, and now the governments
generally of the world, are cities and governments of the rich;...
NER 3.263 8
In the midst of abuses...in the heart of cities...wherever,
namely, a just and heroic soul finds itself, there it will do what is next at
hand...
NER 3.263 22
...the revolt against...the inveterate abuses of cities, did not
appear possible to individuals;...
PPh 4.61 15
[Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have:
but he has also what they have not,--this strong solving sense to reconcile
his poetry with the appearances of the world, and build a bridge from the
streets of cities to the Atlantis.
SwM 4.93 17
Others may build cities; [the philosopher] is to understand
them...
MoS 4.150 6
One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is conversant with...
cities and persons...
MoS 4.162 4
...some stark and sufficient man, who is...sufficiently related
to the world to do justice to Paris or London, and, at the same time, a
vigorous and original thinker, whom cities can not overawe, but who uses
them,--is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
NMW 4.257 9
...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power,
of these...burned cities...
ET2 5.25 7
The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation
from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in
1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty towns
and cities...
ET3 5.37 20
The innumerable details [in England], the crowded succession
of towns, cities, cathedrals, castles and great and decorated estates...hide all
boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
ET3 5.40 23
I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city
of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same
belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
ET5 5.96 11
Gas-burners are cheaper than daylight in numberless floors in
the cities [of England].
ET5 5.98 17
Man in England submits to be a product of political economy.
On a bleak moor a mill is built...and men come in as water in a sluice-way,
and towns and cities rise.
ET6 5.114 2
The English dinner is precisely the model on which our own
are constructed in the Atlantic cities.
ET8 5.135 21
Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph
Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever
existed...importing into their galleries every tint and trait of sunnier cities
and skies;...
ET9 5.148 19
I remember a shrewd politician, in one of our western cities,
told me that he had known several successful statesmen made by their
foible.
ET10 5.161 12
[The Bank of England] votes an issue of bills, population is
stimulated and cities rise;...
ET11 5.188 7
...[the English nobility] are they...who gather and protect
works of art, dragged from amidst burning cities and revolutionary
countries...
ET12 5.213 11
...when you have settled it that the universities are
moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford, to mould
the opinions of cities...
ET16 5.283 9
For the difficulty of handling and carrying stones of this size
[of Stonehenge], the like is done in all cities, every day, with no other aid
than horse-power.
ET18 5.300 19
In [English] cities, the children are trained to beg, until they
shall be old enough to rob.
F 6.3 2
...our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age.
F 6.43 3
Each of these men, if they were transparent, would seem to you
not so much men as walking cities...
Wth 6.98 22
In the Greek cities it was reckoned profane that any person
should pretend a property in a work of art...
Wth 6.109 26
...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton,
sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which...brought into the country an
immense prosperity...the building of cities and of states...
Ctr 6.149 10
Cities give us collision.
Ctr 6.150 14
I wish cities could teach their best lesson,--of quiet manners.
Ctr 6.153 5
...we want cities as the centres where the best things are found...
Ctr 6.153 6
...cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
Ctr 6.153 15
...in cities [the gods] have betrayed you to a cloud of
insignificant annoyances...
Ctr 6.155 20
We can ill spare the commanding social benefits of cities;...
Wsp 6.208 7
In our large cities the population is godless...
Wsp 6.222 13
...after a little experience [the countryman] makes the
discovery that there are no large cities...
CbW 6.251 13
All the marked events of our day, all the cities...may be
traced back to their origin in a private brain.
CbW 6.254 4
...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander
introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
built seventy cities...
Bty 6.295 25
In our cities an ugly building is soon removed and is never
repeated...
Ill 6.318 25
The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities
and men were swallowed up...
SS 7.6 9
...there are metals...which, to be kept pure, must be kept under
naphtha. Such are the talents determined on some specialty, which a
culminating civilization fosters in the heart of great cities...
Civ 7.17 1
We flee away from cities, but we bring/ The best of cities with
us/...
Civ 7.17 2
We flee away from cities, but we bring/ The best of cities with
us/...
Civ 7.31 17
...the true test of civilization is, not...the size of cities...no, but
the kind of man the country turns out.
Civ 7.31 23
I see the immense material prosperity...wealth piled in the
massive architecture of cities...
Civ 7.32 7
...when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and
illustrate the land, and see how little the government has to do with their
daily life...I see what cubic values America has...
Civ 7.32 25
...I see what cubic values America has, and in these a better
certificate of civilization than great cities or enormous wealth.
Elo1 7.70 12
It is said that the Khans or story-tellers in Ispahan and other
cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience...
DL 7.133 20
He who shall bravely and gracefully...show men how to lead a
clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities
and villages;...will restore the life of man to splendor...
Farm 7.140 23
...it is from [the farmer] that the health and power, moral
and intellectual, of the cities came.
Farm 7.140 25
The men in cities who are the centres of energy...are the
children or grandchildren of farmers...
Farm 7.154 3
Cities force growth and make men talkative and
entertaining...
WD 7.161 2
The chain of Western railroads from Chicago to the Pacific has
planted cities and civilization in less time than it costs to bring an orchard
into bearing.
WD 7.174 19
History of ancient art, excavated cities, recovery of books
and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and the history worth
knowing;...
Boks 7.192 21
It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in
naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely...
into the heart of sacred cities...
Clbs 7.244 6
Such [literary] societies are possible only in great cities...
OA 7.322 2
...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of
seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old,--
namely, the men who fear no city, but by whom cities stand;...
Res 8.140 25
By his machines man...can knock down cities with his fist of
gunpowder;...
QO 8.193 17
We admire that poetry which no man wrote...which is to be
read...in the effect of a fixed or national style...of sculptures...or cities...on
us.
PPo 8.251 23
Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two
cities...
Dem1 10.4 2
...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we
should...become the theatre of delirious shows, wherein time, space,
persons, cities, animals, should dance before us...
Aris 10.44 8
...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I
will tell you if he shall be poet, king, founder of cities...
Aris 10.45 17
He who understands the art of war, reckons the hostile
battalions and cities, opportunities and spoils.
PerF 10.87 23
Cities go against [the moral sentiment];...
Chr2 10.111 26
...how many sentences and books we owe to unknown
authors,-to writers who were not careful to set down name or date or titles
or cities or postmarks in these illuminations!
Edc1 10.145 15
Happy this child...with a thought which...leads him, now
into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an idea.
SovE 10.189 27
...cities rise and fall...
MoL 10.248 7
War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize. Weeks, months
pass-a new harvest; trade springs up, and there stand new cities, new
homes...
Schr 10.264 23
The men committed by profession as well as by bias to
study...share the infatuation of cities.
Plu 10.303 6
...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost
authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has
unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from...buried
cities...
LLNE 10.345 10
The clergyman who would live in the city may have
piety, but must have taste, whilst there was often coming, among these,
some John the Baptist, wild from the woods...quite scornful of the etiquette
of cities.
LLNE 10.357 27
The large cities are phalansteries;...
LLNE 10.370 1
...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle
of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our
cities and this country to-day...
Thor 10.481 26
[Thoreau] loved Nature so well, was so happy in her
solitude, that he became very jealous of cities...
War 11.154 2
[Alexander's conquest of the East] built seventy cities...
War 11.157 15
Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities
had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to
dismantle their castles...
War 11.162 9
You forget that the quiet which now sleeps in cities and in
farms...rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the
halter and the jail stand behind there...
War 11.164 8
Observe how every truth and every error...clothes itself with
societies, houses, cities...
War 11.170 12
In some of our cities they choose noted duellists as
presidents and officers of anti-duelling societies.
FSLC 11.197 2
The humiliating scandal of great men warping right into
wrong [in the Fugitive Slave Law] was followed up very fast by the cities.
FSLN 11.240 11
All the great cities...are sure to be found befriending
liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.
EPro 11.320 20
The government has assured itself of the best constituency
in the world...the generosity of the cities, the health of the country...all rally
to its support.
SMC 11.349 15
We are glad and proud that we have no monopoly of merit.
We are thankful that other towns and cities are as rich;...
SMC 11.355 3
...cities of men are the first effects of civilization...
SMC 11.355 6
...armies, which are only wandering cities, generate a vast
heat...
SHC 11.431 1
A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and
towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground
with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy
colonnades.
RBur 11.443 18
...the hand-organs of the Savoyards in all cities repeat
[Burns's songs]...
Shak1 11.450 24
There never was a writer who, seeming to draw every hint
from outward history, the life of cities and courts, owed them so little [as
Shakespeare].
FRO1 11.478 22
...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...
CPL 11.497 5
...that Concord Library makes Concord as good as Rome,
Paris or London, for the hour;-has the best of each of those cities in itself.
FRep 11.526 10
...here is the human race poured out over the continent to
do itself justice;...not grimacing like poor rich men in cities, pretending to
be rich, but unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work...
FRep 11.526 15
...really, though you see wealth in the capitals, it is only a
sprinkling of rich men in the cities and at sparse points;...
FRep 11.527 8
The steady improvement of the public schools in the cities
and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious primary
education.
FRep 11.535 20
They who find America insipid-they for whom London
and Paris have spoiled their own homes-can be spared to return to those
cities.
FRep 11.535 26
[The class of which I speak] sit in decorated club-houses
in the cities, and burn tobacco and play whist;...
PLT 12.5 4
It is not then cities or mountains...that any longer commands
us, but only man;...
PLT 12.18 24
[The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...ships and
cities and nations and armies of men and ages of duration;...
CInt 12.122 4
...it happens often that the wellbred and refined, the
inhabitants of cities...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country
people...
CInt 12.124 18
...thought is as rare in colleges as in cities.
CL 12.159 23
The crowd in the cities, at the hotels, theatres, card-tables...
are all more or less mad...
CW 12.172 17
...our people are vain, when abroad, of having the freedom
of foreign cities presented to them in a gold box.
CW 12.178 23
Cities force the growth and make [the man] talkative and
entertaining...
Bost 12.181 1
We are citizens of two fair cities, said the Genoese
gentleman to a Florentine artist, and if I were not a Genoese, I should wish
to be Florentine.
Bost 12.187 9
Of great cities you cannot compute the influences.
Bost 12.208 22
...the genius of Boston is seen in her real independence,
productive power and northern acuteness of mind,-which is in nature
hostile to oppression. It is a good city as cities go;...
Bost 12.209 7
Greater cities there are that sprung from [Boston]...
Milt1 12.256 13
[Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well
hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...not
presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he
have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is
praiseworthy.
Milt1 12.273 24
...it would not be matter of rational wonder [Milton said],
if the wethers of our country should be born with horns that could batter
down cities and towns.
EurB 12.367 24
...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat
down, far from cities...to obey the heavenly vision.
Let 12.403 16
From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty
cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which, driving
men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go to
work on the land;...
citing, v. (3)
QO 8.196 14
It is a curious reflex effect of this enhancement of our thought
by citing it from another, that many men can write better under a mask than
for themselves;...
Plu 10.308 26
'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes
[Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes,
or any other extremist. That vice of theirs shall not hinder him from citing
any good word they chance to drop.
EzRy 10.384 8
Perhaps I cannot better illustrate this tendency [to believe in
a particular providence] than by citing a record from the diary of the father
of [Ezra Ripley's] predecessor...
citizen, n. (85)
AmS 1.100 5
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of
the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen.
DSA 1.138 21
...of the bad preacher, it could not be told from his sermon...
whether he was a citizen or a countryman;...
LE 1.176 22
How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons...
forfeiting...the privacy, and the true and warm heart of the citizen!
MN 1.193 6
Men...do not honor any individual citizen;...
YA 1.367 13
There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an
American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of
Europe;...works...which might well make the land dear to the citizen...
YA 1.370 11
...I think we must regard the land as a commanding and
increasing power on the citizen...
YA 1.385 1
How gladly would each citizen pay a commission for the
support and continuation of good guidance.
Comp 2.99 1
Is a man...by temper and position a bad citizen...Nature sends
him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...
Comp 2.100 17
If the government is a terrific democracy, the pressure is
resisted by an over-charge of energy in the citizen...
Fdsp 2.205 5
I wish [friendship] to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite
a cherub.
Fdsp 2.205 7
We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity.
Cir 2.303 14
An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture...to a
citizen;...
Pt1 3.19 18
A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the
complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder.
Chr1 3.107 18
...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would...teach
that the laws fashion the citizen, [Nature] goes her own gait and puts the
wisest in the wrong.
Nat2 3.178 4
[Nature] is loved as the city of God, although, or rather
because there is no citizen.
Pol1 3.199 4
...we ought to remember that...[the State's institutions] are not
superior to the citizen;...
Pol1 3.199 10
Society is an illusion to the young citizen.
Pol1 3.200 10
...the State must follow and not lead the character and
progress of the citizen;...
Pol1 3.220 26
There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of
the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of
things, to persuade them...that the private citizen might be reasonable and a
good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.
NER 3.275 10
The consideration of an eminent citizen...a naval and
military honor...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to
walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he
felt himself inferior.
PPh 4.40 25
This citizen of a town in Greece [Plato] is no villager nor
patriot.
PPh 4.60 6
[Plato] has good-naturedly furnished the courtier and citizen
with all that can be said against the schools.
PNR 4.82 26
Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and
ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in
the small; studying the state in the citizen and the citizen in the state;...
MoS 4.172 15
The wise skeptic is a bad citizen;...
MoS 4.176 11
...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say...look you,--on
the whole, selfishness...makes the best commerce and the best citizen.
NMW 4.225 17
[The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by
birth a citizen...
NMW 4.239 22
Bonaparte...was citizen before he was emperor...
ET10 5.165 19
...the proudest result of this creation [of English property
rights] has been the great and refined forces it has put at the disposal of the
private citizen.
Pow 6.62 1
Personal power, freedom, and the resources of nature strain
every faculty of every citizen.
Pow 6.67 18
[Boniface] led the 'rummies' and radicals in town-meeting
with a speech. Meantime, he was civil, fat, and easy, in his house, and
precisely the most public-spirited citizen.
Wth 6.99 15
...in America...the public should step into the place of these
[European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the
citizen.
Wth 6.122 14
When a citizen fresh from Dock Square or Milk Street comes
out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from
his windows;...
Wth 6.123 5
...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer
built the house in the right spot for the sun and wind...
Wth 6.123 12
Use has made the farmer wise, and the foolish citizen learns
to take his counsel.
Wth 6.123 15
The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says,
You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode
of building my wall...but the ball will rebound to you.
Bty 6.283 23
...we prize very humble utilities...a voter, a citizen...
Civ 7.34 16
Morality and all the incidents of morality are essential; as,
justice to the citizen, and personal liberty.
Elo1 7.81 1
Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him
who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for
example, good sedate citizen as he is, to make a fanatic of him...
DL 7.110 25
The household, the calling, the friendships, of the citizen are
not homogeneous.
Cour 7.264 3
The forest on fire looks discouraging enough to a citizen...
OA 7.323 3
We still feel the force...of Washington, the perfect citizen;...
Elo2 8.132 24
Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of
[eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech...
that of political advice and persuasion...reaching...into a vast future, and so
compelling the best thought and noblest administrative ability that the
citizen can offer.
PC 8.207 4
No good citizen but shares the wonderful prosperity of the
Federal Union.
PC 8.218 6
The history of Greece is at one time reduced to two persons,-
Philip...and Demosthenes, a private citizen...
PC 8.221 12
[The devotion to natural science] taught [the scholar] anew the
reach of the human mind, and that it was citizen of the universe.
Aris 10.49 9
I should like to see...every man made acquainted with the true
number and weight of every adult citizen...
Aris 10.49 17
I think that the community...will be the best measure and the
justest judge of the citizen...
Chr2 10.112 4
The constitution and law in America must be written on
ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world can be
enlisted to hold the loyalty of the citizen...
Supl 10.169 15
The citizen dwells in delusions.
SovE 10.185 7
...presently...a new perception opens, and [the man down in
Nature] is made a citizen of the world of souls...
SovE 10.199 13
You may sometimes talk with the gravest and best citizen,
and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he runs into a childish
superstition.
Schr 10.264 24
The poet and the citizen perfectly agree in conversation on
the wise life.
LLNE 10.326 9
The former generations...sacrificed uniformly the citizen to
the State.
EzRy 10.388 1
[Ezra Ripley said] When I came to this town, your great-grandfather
was a substantial farmer in this very place...and an excellent
citizen.
GSt 10.501 13
...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the
tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just
consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly
mourns.
LVB 11.89 2
Sir [Van Buren]: The seat you fill places you in a relation of
credit and nearness to every citizen.
LVB 11.89 3
Sir [Van Buren]: The seat you fill places you in a relation of
credit and nearness to every citizen. By right and natural position, every
citizen is your friend.
LVB 11.96 15
I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more
that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen
millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which
threatens the Cherokee tribe. With great respect, sir, I am your fellow
citizen, RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
EWI 11.99 10
[Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement, as far
as a great Empire was concerned, of a question on which almost every
leading citizen in it had taken care to record his vote;...
EWI 11.129 18
Whilst I have meditated in my solitary walks on the
magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out the benefit of
the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide realm [the West
Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other thoughts.
EWI 11.130 16
...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a
freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket...working chained in the streets of
that city...
EWI 11.130 18
...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a
freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket...working chained in the streets of
that city...
EWI 11.131 16
If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn
negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the
Governor break the broad seal of the State;...
EWI 11.132 27
...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of
Massachusetts is thus outraged.
FSLC 11.198 10
What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent
rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly defined
his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the
prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a reputable
citizen to hold?
FSLC 11.199 25
[The Fugitive Slave Law] has...made every citizen a
student of natural law.
AKan 11.258 18
He only who is able to stand alone is qualified to be a
citizen.
AKan 11.258 24
First, the private citizen, then the primary assembly, and
the government last.
AKan 11.260 13
Can any citizen of Massachusetts travel in honor through
Kentucky and Alabama and speak his mind?
AKan 11.260 15
...can any citizen of the Southern country who happens to
think kidnapping a bad thing, say so?
AKan 11.262 18
...the Saxon man, when he is well awake, is not a pirate
but a citizen...
JBB 11.270 5
It were bold to affirm that there is within that broad
commonwealth, at this moment, another citizen as worthy to live, and as
deserving of all public and private honor, as this poor prisoner [John
Brown].
EPro 11.321 7
If the ruler has duties, so has the citizen.
SMC 11.350 11
...the virtues we are met to honor were directed on aims
which command the sympathy of every loyal American citizen...
Wom 11.421 23
...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people
vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of the polls, give every
innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in, informing him that this is the vote
of his party;...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote
as wisely.
Wom 11.421 26
...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people
vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of the polls, give every
innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in...and how the innocent citizen,
without further demur, goes and drops it in the ballot-box,-I cannot but
think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
Wom 11.422 7
Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own...
Wom 11.422 10
Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which,
if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.
SHC 11.433 17
Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most
agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted, by the
taste of every citizen, one tree, with its name recorded in a book;...
FRep 11.539 9
Let the good citizen perform the duties put on him here and
now.
FRep 11.540 17
...the Constitution and the law in America must be written
on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world shall
hold the citizen loyal...
CW 12.172 15
Montaigne took much pains to be made a citizen of Rome;...
CW 12.175 19
I could not find it in my heart to chide the citizen who
should ruin himself to buy a patch of heavy oak timber.
MAng1 12.244 19
[Michelangelo] was not a citizen of any country;...
Milt1 12.255 18
Franklin's man is a frugal, inoffensive, thrifty citizen...
citizen-like, adj. (1)
PPh 4.71 21
[Socrates] affected a good many citizen-like tastes...
citizens, n. (78)
Nat 1.21 14
Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of London, caused the
patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal
streets of the city...
MR 1.229 11
...let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be...
citizens...
Con 1.321 26
[The sagacious] detect the falsehood of the preaching, but
when they say so, all good citizens cry, Hush;...
Tran 1.347 25
...[Transcendentalists] are not good citizens, not good
members of society;...
YA 1.380 20
Witness too the spectacle of three Communities which have
within a very short time sprung up within this Commonwealth, besides
several others undertaken by citizens of Massachusetts within the territory
of other States.
YA 1.385 15
There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in
which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this, not
certainly through any increased discretion shown by the citizens at
elections...
YA 1.387 21
In every age of the world there has been a leading nation...
whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general
justice and humanity...
YA 1.391 1
...as if the Union had any other real basis than the good
pleasure of a majority of the citizens to be united.
Hsm1 2.253 7
Citizens...consider the inconvenience of receiving strangers
at their fireside...
Pol1 3.211 7
Citizens of feudal states are alarmed at our democratic
institutions lapsing into anarchy...
Pol1 3.213 1
Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds,
in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. In these
decisions all the citizens find a perfect agreement...
Pol1 3.213 19
The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it
makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by
contrivance; as...by a selection of the best citizens;...
NR 3.229 27
There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the
numerical citizens...
UGM 4.4 15
The knowledge that in the city is a man who invented the
railroad, raises the credit of all the citizens.
PPh 4.46 19
In a month or two, through the favor of their good genius,
[ardent young men and women] meet some one so related as to assist their
volcanic estate, and, good communication being once established, they are
thenceforward good citizens.
NMW 4.233 6
Here was a man who in each moment and emergency knew
what to do next. It is an immense comfort and refreshment to the spirits, not
only of kings, but of citizens.
ET4 5.57 7
The [Norse] Sagas describe a monarchical republic like Sparta.
The government disappears before the importance of citizens.
ET7 5.123 25
...suspicion will make fools of nations as of citizens.
F 6.3 5
...four or five noted men were each reading a discourse to the
citizens of Boston or New York, on the Spirit of the Times.
Pow 6.67 24
...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper,
the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring
citizens.
Ctr 6.148 12
...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite
as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws, and, in a city, the total
attraction of all the citizens is sure to conquer, first or last, every repulsion...
Bty 6.296 25
...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid
of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on
the balcony at least twice a week...
DL 7.124 26
We never come to be citizens of the world...
DL 7.131 20
I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is
the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure
[engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...where it has its proper
place among hundreds of such donations from other citizens...
Farm 7.140 11
...for sleep, [the farmer] has cheaper and better and more of
it than citizens.
OA 7.324 8
At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches.
Aris 10.42 14
In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the
sheriff...of every city [is to cause] two citizens, and of every borough, two
burgesses, such as have greatest skill in shipping and merchandising, to be
returned.
Supl 10.173 16
The expressors are the gods of the world, but the men
whom these expressors revere are the solid, balanced, undemonstrative
citizens...
Thor 10.477 25
...One who surpasses his fellow citizens in virtue is no
longer a part of the city. Their law is not for him, since he is a law to
himself.
HDC 11.42 11
Fellow citizens, this first recorded political act of our
fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important
event in their civil history...
HDC 11.83 5
Such, fellow citizens, is an imperfect sketch of the history of
Concord.
HDC 11.85 9
Fellow citizens [of Concord]; let not the solemn shadows of
two hundred years, this day, fall over us in vain.
LVB 11.95 8
...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees]
follow each other...at such fatally quick time, that the millions of virtuous
citizens...have no place to interpose...
EWI 11.99 1
Friends and Fellow Citizens: We are met to exchange
congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of
civilization;...
EWI 11.128 7
For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West
Indies] was debated...by the first citizens of England...
EWI 11.129 9
Forgive me, fellow citizens, if I own to you, that in the last
few days that my attention has been occupied with this history [of
emancipation in the West Indies], I have not been able to read a page of it
without the most painful comparisons.
EWI 11.130 4
...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships,
yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as
we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and
Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
EWI 11.130 12
...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships...
freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and
Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained
in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the
costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold
for slaves, to pay that expense.
EWI 11.130 15
...if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official
arrest and the board in jail, these citizens [free negroes] are to be sold for
slaves, to pay that expense. This man, these men, I see, and no law to save
them. Fellow citizens, this crime will not be hushed up any longer.
EWI 11.130 24
...the private interference of two excellent citizens of
Boston has, I have ascertained, rescued several natives of this State from
these Southern prisons.
EWI 11.131 12
...the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States
ordains in terms, that, The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all
privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
EWI 11.131 13
...the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States
ordains in terms, that, The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all
privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
EWI 11.132 17
The Congress should instruct the President to send to those
ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force
as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were
holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...
EWI 11.134 24
If the managers of our political parties are too prudent and
too cold;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the
negroes'] cause on this very ground...
FSLC 11.179 1
Fellow Citizens: I accepted your invitation to speak to you
on the great question of these days, with very little consideration of what I
might have to offer...
FSLC 11.180 12
...Boston, whose citizens, intelligent people in England
told me they could always distinguish by their culture among Americans;...
Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
FSLC 11.192 9
Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his
letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful
inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good
citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
FSLC 11.206 26
I pass to say a few words to the question, What shall we
do? 1. What in our federal capacity is our relation to the nation? 2. And
what as citizens of a state?
FSLC 11.208 10
We shall one day bring the States shoulder to shoulder
and the citizens man to man to exterminate slavery.
FSLN 11.228 27
There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was
fast becoming...by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative. The
new [Fugitive Slave] Bill...required me to hunt slaves, and it found citizens
in Massachusetts willing to act as judges and captors.
FSLN 11.233 19
You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to
protect their citizens.
FSLN 11.234 23
Covenants are of no use without honest men to keep them;
laws of none but with loyal citizens to obey them.
AKan 11.257 19
...I submit that, in a case like this, where citizens of
Massachusetts...have emigrated to national territory...I submit that the
governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have
found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in
Kansas]...
AKan 11.258 7
...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor
sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these
poor farmers [in Kansas], or else should resign their seats to those who can.
But first let them...order funeral service to be said for the citizens whom
they were unable to defend.
AKan 11.258 22
That is the theory of the American State, that it exists to
execute the will of the citizens...
AKan 11.261 16
The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole
difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people respecting
institutions which they need not have concerned themselves about. A very
remarkable speech from a Democratic President to his fellow citizens...
AKan 11.263 7
Fellow citizens, in these times full of the fate of the
Republic, I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve
themselves into Committees of Safety...
JBB 11.267 1
Mr. Chairman, and fellow citizens: I share the sympathy and
sorrow which have brought us together.
JBB 11.271 14
...the government, the judges...give such protection as they
give in Utah to honest citizens...
JBB 11.272 15
...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws are for the
protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full of
lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
JBB 11.273 1
...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or,
I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance, and not a protection; for it takes
away [a man's] right reliance on himself, and the natural assistance of his
friends and fellow citizens...
SMC 11.349 1
Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord doubly our calendar
day...
SMC 11.374 22
Fellow citizens: The obelisk [at Concord] records only the
names of the dead.
SMC 11.375 10
I am sure I need not bespeak your gratitude to these fellow
citizens and neighbors of ours [veterans of the Civil War].
SHC 11.429 1
Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided
the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the
[Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants
together...
CPL 11.495 6
That town is attractive to its native citizens and to
immigrants which has a healthy site, good land, good roads...
CPL 11.495 13
Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who cannot wait for
the slow growth of the population to make these advantages adequate to the
desires of the people...
CPL 11.496 8
...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to
this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...making
scholars of those who only read newspapers or novels until now; and whilst
it secures a new and needed culture to our citizens...
CPL 11.497 25
The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told
you how old is the foundation of our village library, and we think we can
trace in our modest records a correspondent effect of culture amidst our
citizens.
FRep 11.535 5
...the land and sea educate the people, and bring out
presence of mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed activity. These are the
people for an emergency. They...can find a way out of any peril. This rough
and ready force...makes them fit citizens and civilizers.
CInt 12.126 18
...all the youth come out [of Harvard College] decrepit
citizens;...
CW 12.173 2
You know [said Linnaeus], fathers and citizens, that I live
entirely in the Academy Garden;...
Bost 12.181 1
We are citizens of two fair cities, said the Genoese
gentleman to a Florentine artist, and if I were not a Genoese, I should wish
to be Florentine.
Bost 12.191 21
The planters of Massachusetts do not appear to have been
hardy men, rather, comfortable citizens...
WSL 12.342 4
From the moment of entering a library and opening a
desired book, we cease to be citizens, creditors, debtors, housekeepers...
AgMs 12.363 8
The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who...have reared a
family of valuable citizens and matrons to the state...are the only right
subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...
PPr 12.381 17
As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we
are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition...that the
state shall provide at least schoolmaster's education for all the citizens;...
Let 12.398 19
...[American youths] are educated above the work of their
times and country, and disdain it. Many of the more acute minds pass into a
lofty criticism of these things, which only...widens the feeling of hostility
between them and the citizens at large.
Citizens, n. (1)
HDC 11.29 1
Fellow Citizens: The town of Concord begins, this day, the
third century of its history.
citizens', n. [citizen's,] (6)
Bhr 6.171 15
Your manners are always under examination, and by...a
police in citizens' clothes...
Wsp 6.226 19
...the divine assessors who came up with [a man] into life...
like a police in citizens' clothes,--walk with him, step for step...
Aris 10.49 5
Time was, in England, when the state stipulated beforehand
what price should be paid for each citizen's life, if he was killed.
GSt 10.505 3
...enlightened enough to see a citizen's interest in the public
affairs, and virtuous enough to obey to the uttermost the truth he saw,-
[George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable
power in the state.
JBB 11.271 23
...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and
where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use
that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government.
Bost 12.205 27
...there was never, I suppose, a more rapid expansion in
population, wealth and all the elements of power, and in the citizens'
consciousness of power and sustained assertion of it, than was exhibited
here.
citizenship, n. (5)
YA 1.394 25
...the system [of English aristocracy] is an invasion of the
sentiment of justice and the native rights of men, which, however
decorated, must lessen the value of English citizenship.
NMW 4.239 23
Bonaparte...was citizen before he was emperor, and so has
the key to citizenship.
ET9 5.144 15
British citizenship is as omnipotent as Roman was.
Plu 10.300 14
Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one
hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch. These distant friendships...make
the best example of the universal citizenship and fraternity of the human
mind.
Bost 12.188 4
It was said of Rome in its proudest days, looking at the vast
radiation of the privilege of Roman citizenship through the then-known
world,-the extent of the city and of the world is the same...
city, adj. (23)
LT 1.264 10
...in the wild hope of a mountain boy, called by city boys very
ignorant...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
SR 2.76 12
A sturdy lad...who teams it, farms it...is worth a hundred of
these city dolls.
Hsm1 2.254 16
...[the great soul's] own majesty can lend a better grace to
bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
Art1 2.349 14
So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/
Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels, starry wings/...
Art1 2.360 21
...that house and weather and manner of living which
poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...in
the narrow lodging where [the artist] has endured the constraints and
seeming of a city poverty, will serve as well as any other condition as the
symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
Mrs1 3.131 27
...the countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a
ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
Nat2 3.169 21
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is
forced to leave his city estimates of great and small...
Nat2 3.182 14
If we had eyes to see it, a bit of stone from the city wall
would certify us of the necessity that man must exist, as readily as the city.
PPh 4.72 14
...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates]
had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there,
evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh
ruined him.
Ctr 6.152 26
A gorgeous livery [in England] indicates new and awkward
city wealth.
Ctr 6.163 3
If there is any great and good thing in store for you, it will not
come...in the shape of fashion, ease, and city drawing-rooms.
CbW 6.269 1
When joy or calamity or genius shall show [the youth his
purpose]...then city shopmen and cabdrivers...will mirror back to him its
unfathomable heaven...
Farm 7.138 27
[The farmer] is a slow person, timed to Nature, and not to
city watches.
Suc 7.298 10
Remember what befalls a city boy who goes for the first time
into the October woods.
Insp 8.288 12
I have found my advantage in going...in winter to a city
hotel, with a task which would not prosper at home.
TPar 11.288 8
It will not be in the acts of city councils, nor of obsequious
mayors;...that coming generations will study what really befell [in
Boston];...
TPar 11.289 25
...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of
Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary
city ambitions...it is a hypocrisy...
CL 12.156 16
If you wish to know the shortcomings of poetry and
language, try to reproduce the October picture to a city company...
Bost 12.190 26
In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its shores trending
steadily from the two arms which the capes of Massachusetts stretch out to
sea, down to the bottom of the bay where the city domes and spires sparkle
through the haze,-a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time
to the State House...
AgMs 12.359 4
These slight and useless city limbs of ours will come to
shame before this strong soldier [the Farmer]...
EurB 12.371 20
Ben's [Jonson's] flowers are not in pots at a city florist's...
City Library, Boston, Mass (1)
Bhr 6.174 15
It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to
persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with
canes. But even in the perfect civilization of this city [Boston] such
cautions are not quite needless in the Athenaeum and City Library.
city, n. (135)
Nat 1.7 15
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how
would men...preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of
God which had been shown!
Nat 1.21 16
Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of London, caused the
patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal
streets of the city...
Nat 1.51 25
By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the city...lifted from the
ground and afloat before the eye.
Nat 1.53 6
[Shakspeare's] passion...swells, as he speaks, to a city...
MN 1.193 6
Men stand in awe of the city...
MR 1.229 18
The demon of reform has a secret door into the heart...of
every inhabitant of every city.
Con 1.318 3
...an army encamps in a desert, and...creates a white city in an
hour...
Tran 1.341 10
...[many intelligent and religious persons] prefer to ramble
in the country and perish of ennui, to the degradation of such charities and
such ambitions as the city can propose to them.
YA 1.371 16
From Washington, proverbially the city of magnificent
distances...through all its cities...[America] is a country of beginnings...
Comp 2.115 5
Human labor...from the sharpening of a stake to the
construction of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect
compensation of the universe.
Cir 2.308 22
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a
great city...
Int 2.338 14
...the kingdom of thought has no inclosures, but the Muse
makes us free of her city.
Pt1 3.4 4
Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual
meaning...of a city or a contract...
Pt1 3.19 17
A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the
complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder.
Exp 3.84 25
I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the
farms, is not the world I think.
Chr1 3.102 1
I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a
practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love
he took in hand. ... All his action was tentative, a piece of the city carried
out into the fields, and was the city still...
Chr1 3.102 2
I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a
practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love
he took in hand. ... All his action was tentative, a piece of the city carried
out into the fields, and was the city still...
Mrs1 3.128 27
The city is recruited from the country.
Mrs1 3.129 2
The city would have died out, rotted and exploded, long ago,
but that it was reinforced from the fields.
Mrs1 3.129 6
It is only country which came to town day before yesterday
that is city and court to-day.
Nat2 3.178 3
[Nature] is loved as the city of God...
Nat2 3.182 15
If we had eyes to see it, a bit of stone from the city wall
would certify us of the necessity that man must exist, as readily as the city.
Pol1 3.199 24
Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the
laws make the city...
UGM 4.4 13
The knowledge that in the city is a man who invented the
railroad, raises the credit of all the citizens.
UGM 4.21 4
The veneration of mankind selects these [great men] for the
highest place. Witness the multitude of statues, pictures and memorials
which recall their genius in every city, village, house and ship...
UGM 4.26 2
Viewed from any high point, this city of New York...would
seem a bundle of insanities.
UGM 4.26 3
Viewed from any high point...yonder city of London...would
seem a bundle of insanities.
PPh 4.43 25
[Plato]...was of patrician connection in his times and city...
PNR 4.89 17
It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as
the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts
of two kinds:...secondly, those who by eminence of nature and desert are
out of reach of your rewards. Let such be free of the city and above the law.
SwM 4.94 11
If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.
ET3 5.40 21
I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city
of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same
belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
ET5 5.92 1
The nation [England] sits in the immense city they have
builded...
ET5 5.92 27
[The English] have made...London...such a city that almost
every active man, in any nation, finds himself at one time or other forced to
visit it.
ET9 5.145 9
Swedenborg...notes...[the English] regard foreigners as one
looking through a telescope from the top of a palace regards those who
dwell or wander about out of the city.
ET11 5.180 15
A susceptible man could not wear a name which
represented in a strict sense a city or a county of England, without hearing
in it a challenge to duty and honor.
ET11 5.181 14
In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English]
families, the traveller is shown...lower down in the city [London], a few
noble houses which still withstand...the encroachment of streets.
ET11 5.195 11
Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for
the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went
from city to city...preparing for a private life thereafter...
ET13 5.224 25
The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in
1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this
bill...
ET13 5.225 3
The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in
1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this
bill, as...extremely injurious to the interests and commerce of the kingdom
in general, and of the city of London in particular.
ET15 5.266 22
[The London Times] has mercantile and political
correspondents in every foreign city...
ET16 5.290 10
Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in
the Abbey he had founded there, but his remains were removed by Henry I.
to the new Abbey in the meadows at Hyde, on the northern quarter of the
city...
ET17 5.295 15
[Wordsworth] thought Rio Janeiro the best place in the
world for a great capital city.
F 6.18 22
In a large city, the most casual things...are produced as
punctually...as the baker's muffin for breakfast.
F 6.43 21
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of
incongruous materials which have obeyed the will of some man?
Pow 6.56 26
[A strong pulse] is like the opportunity of a city like New
York or Constantinople, which needs no diplomacy to force capital or
genius or labor to it.
Pow 6.75 9
There was, in the whole city, but one street in which Pericles
was ever seen...
Wth 6.89 3
Wealth requires...the freedom of the city, the freedom of the
earth...
Wth 6.98 27
I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms;
could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished
the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a
medicine.
Wth 6.102 3
In the city...[the dollar] comes to be looked on as light.
Wth 6.103 1
...there are many goods appertaining to a capital city which
are not yet purchasable here [in Boston]...
Wth 6.104 24
Every man who removes into this city with any purchasable
talent or skill in him, gives to every man's labor in the city a new worth.
Wth 6.104 26
Every man who removes into this city with any purchasable
talent or skill in him, gives to every man's labor in the city a new worth.
Wth 6.108 27
A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire
farm...boards at a first-class hotel...
Ctr 6.137 21
Culture kills...[man's] conceit of his village or his city.
Ctr 6.139 17
The city breeds one kind of speech and manners;...
Ctr 6.144 16
I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his
heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel
himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither.
Ctr 6.146 20
...boys and men of that condition [who have grown up on a
farm, which they have never left] look upon...drudgery in a city, as
opportunity.
Ctr 6.148 11
...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite
as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws, and, in a city, the total
attraction of all the citizens is sure to conquer, first or last, every repulsion...
Ctr 6.152 22
...I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo the
street was in a blaze with scarlet umbrellas.
Bhr 6.174 14
It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to
persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with
canes. But even in the perfect civilization of this city [Boston] such
cautions are not quite needless in the Athenaeum and City Library.
Bhr 6.181 3
The military eye I meet, now darkly sparkling under clerical,
now under rustic brows. 'T is the city of Lacedaemon;...
CbW 6.275 20
A man of wit was asked, in the train, what was his errand in
the city.
Bty 6.296 26
...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid
of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on
the balcony at least twice a week...
Bty 6.301 3
If a man can raise a small city to be a great kingdom...'t is no
matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
SS 7.4 7
[My new friend] left the city;...
Civ 7.31 4
What a benefit would the American government...render to itself
and to every city, village and hamlet in the states, if it would tax whiskey
and rum almost to the point of prohibition!
Elo1 7.76 25
You are safe...in the city...
Elo1 7.83 20
I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher, whose voice
is not yet forgotten in this city, that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster
which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with
more than his usual alacrity...
Elo1 7.95 22
...the slight yet sufficient party organization [the resistance to
slavery] offered, reinforced the city with new blood from the woods and
mountains.
Elo1 7.96 22
This man [the sturdy countryman] scornfully renounces your
civil organizations,--county, or city, or governor, or army;...
DL 7.119 5
...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior,
read...your thought and will, which he cannot buy at any price, in any
village or city;...
DL 7.119 23
There is many a humble house in every city...where talent and
taste and sometimes genius dwell with poverty and labor.
Farm 7.140 23
The city is always recruited from the country.
Clbs 7.247 21
...it was explained to me, in a Southern city, that it was
impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner.
Cour 7.270 9
Every creature has a courage of his constitution fit for his
duties:--Archimedes, the courage of a geometer to stick to his diagram,
heedless of the siege and sack of the city;...
Suc 7.286 3
Dr. Benjamin Rush, in Philadelphia, carried that city heroically
through the yellow fever of the year 1793.
Suc 7.297 1
There is no...art, city...but if you trace it home, you will find it
rooted in a thought of some individual man.
OA 7.322 2
...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of
seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old,--
namely, the men who fear no city, but by whom cities stand;...
PI 8.26 20
You must go through a city or a nation...to build the true poet
withal.
SA 8.102 12
...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...
Res 8.145 2
...no matter how remote from camp or city, [the old forester]
carries Bangor with him.
Res 8.148 10
Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to
preside at a Free Trade festival in that city;...
Comc 8.174 7
When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient
waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive
melancholy...
QO 8.187 4
Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his
writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were
pronounced...
QO 8.190 5
Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if
they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call
their poem Beaumont and Fletcher, or the Theban Phalanx's? The city will
for nine days or nine years make differences and sinister comparisons...
QO 8.199 23
Language is a city to the building of which every human
being brought a stone;...
PC 8.212 3
That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to
every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
Insp 8.291 7
...[Allston] made it a rule not to go to the city on two
consecutive days.
Dem1 10.3 13
There lies a sleeping city, God of dreams!/ What an unreal
and fantastic world/ Is going on below!/
Dem1 10.21 3
...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or
private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this
kind. Tramps are troublesome enough in the city and in the highways, but
tramps flying through the air...can well be spared.
Aris 10.42 13
In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the
sheriff...of every city [is to cause] two citizens, and of every borough, two
burgesses, such as have greatest skill in shipping and merchandising, to be
returned.
Aris 10.53 9
[The eloquent man] has the freedom of the city.
Chr2 10.105 11
...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.
MoL 10.254 8
...now not only all the statues of bronze in the temples of
Aegina are destroyed, but...the very walls of the city are utterly gone;...
Plu 10.294 2
...[Plutarch]...appears never to have been in Rome but on two
occasions, and then on business of the people of his native city,
Chaeronea;...
Plu 10.319 5
What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days
was his city Alexandria...
LLNE 10.345 6
The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety,
but must have taste...
MMEm 10.420 12
In 1830...[Mary Moody Emerson] reproaches herself
with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends in
the city...
SlHr 10.438 3
At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina...he
was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him...to take his daily walk...
in the streets of the city.
SlHr 10.438 12
...[Samuel Hoar] continued the uniform practice of his
daily walk in all parts of the city [Charleston].
Thor 10.449 3
A queen rejoices in her peers,/ And wary Nature knows her
own,/ By court and city, dale and down,/ And like a lover volunteers/...
Thor 10.477 25
...One who surpasses his fellow citizens in virtue is no
longer a part of the city. Their law is not for him, since he is a law to
himself.
EWI 11.130 21
...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a
freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket...working chained in the streets of
that city...
EWI 11.143 20
[Nature] appoints...no fort or city for the bird but his
wings;...
FSLC 11.181 8
It looked as if in the city [Boston] and the suburbs all were
involved in one hot haste of terror...not so much as a snatch of an old song
for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave
Law].
FSLC 11.196 26
I wonder that our acute people...should not find out that
an immoral law costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.
FSLN 11.218 15
Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb,
carry the business men into the city...
EPro 11.324 2
The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of...
preventing the whole force of Southern connection and influence
throughout the North from distracting every city with endless confusion...
SMC 11.349 9
...every other town and city has its own heroes and
memorial days...
EdAd 11.383 24
At the screams of the steam-whistle, the train quits city
and suburbs...
Koss 11.400 17
...it is not those who live idly in the city called after his
name, but those who...think and act like him, who can claim to explain the
sentiment of Washington.
Wom 11.422 23
...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers
thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...
CPL 11.496 13
...I am not sure that when Boston learns the good deed of
Mr. Munroe [building of Concord Library], it will not...rest until it has
annexed Concord to the city.
FRep 11.533 22
Every village, every city, has its architecture, its costume...
from England.
CInt 12.114 12
When the war came to his own city, [Michaelangelo] lent
his genius...
Bost 12.185 25
What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might
be said of Boston;...
Bost 12.187 16
In...the farthest colonies...a middle-aged gentleman is just
embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his
old age in Paris; so that a fortune falls into the massive wealth of that city
every day in the year.
Bost 12.187 23
Each great city gathers these values and delights for
mankind...
Bost 12.188 5
It was said of Rome in its proudest days...the extent of the
city and of the world is the same...
Bost 12.190 16
How easy it is, after the city is built, to see where it ought
to stand.
Bost 12.191 15
...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at
Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the
best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...
Bost 12.208 8
No doubt all manner of vices can be found in [Boston], as in
every city;...
Bost 12.208 9
...there is yet in every city a certain permanent tone;...
Bost 12.208 22
...the genius of Boston is seen in her real independence,
productive power and northern acuteness of mind,-which is in nature
hostile to oppression. It is a good city as cities go;...
Bost 12.209 4
...thus our little city [Boston] thrives and enlarges...
Bost 12.211 10
Here stands to-day, as of yore, our little city of the rocks
[Boston];...
MAng1 12.224 8
[Michelangelo] visited Bologna to inspect its celebrated
fortifications, and, on his return, constructed a fortification on the heights of
San Miniato, which commands the city and environs of Florence.
MAng1 12.224 11
On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange,
general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city
[Florence]...
MAng1 12.224 25
After an active and successful service to the city
[Florence] for six months, Michael Angelo was informed of a treachery that
was ripening within the walls.
MAng1 12.225 6
...[Michelangelo] withdrew privately from the city
[Florence] to Ferrara...
MAng1 12.225 12
On the 21st of March, 1530, the Prince of Orange
assaulted the city [Florence] by storm.
MAng1 12.225 18
...the city [Florence] capitulated on the 9th of August.
MAng1 12.243 9
The city of Florence...still treasures the fame of this man
[Michelangelo].
MAng1 12.244 3
The innumerable pilgrims whom the genius of Italy draws
to the city [Florence] duly visit this church [Santa Croce]...
ACri 12.301 13
[The founder of New City] had transferred to that city
[Chicago] the magnificent dreams which he had once communicated to me...
City, n. (1)
CInt 12.127 11
...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...
City, New, Illinois, n. (1)
ACri 12.301 4
I passed at one time through a place called New City...
City of God, n. (1)
MN 1.205 26
...O rich and various Man!...carrying...in thy brain, the
geometry of the City of God;...
City State, n. (1)
Bost 12.207 16
The Massachusetts colony grew and filled its own borders
with a denser population than any other American State (Kossuth called it
the City State)...
City, Violet, n. (1)
Bost 12.188 1
The Greeks thought him unhappy who died without seeing
the statue of Jove at Olympia. With still more reason, they praised Athens,
the Violet City.
city-building, adj. (1)
SwM 4.93 7
A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city-building
market-going race of mankind, are the poets...
city's, n. (1)
Art1 2.349 5
...On the city's paved street/ Plant gardens lined with lilac
sweet/...
civic, adj. (3)
Lov1 2.169 13
The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private
and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and...
pledges him to the domestic and civic relations...
GoW 4.280 12
...[Goethe's Milhelm Meister] is a poeticized civic and
domestic story.
Schr 10.271 14
There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in
genius, as...in civic distinction;...
civil, adj. (104)
DSA 1.142 21
The Puritans in England and America found...in the dogmas
inherited from Rome, scope for their austere piety and their longings for
civil freedom.
LE 1.170 7
...[every man's] own conversation with nature is still unsung. Is
it otherwise with civil history?
MN 1.201 24
Read alternately in natural and in civil history...
MN 1.215 21
Tell me not how great your project is, the civil liberation of
the world...
MN 1.219 13
What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty;...
MR 1.247 13
I do not wish to push my criticism on the state of things
around me to that extravagant mark that shall compel me...to an absolute
isolation from the advantages of civil society.
LT 1.269 6
The present age will be marked by its harvest of projects for the
reform of domestic, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical institutions.
LT 1.289 17
...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the
elemental reality...
Con 1.295 5
This quarrel [between Conservatism and Innovation] is the
subject of civil history.
Con 1.323 5
In the civil wars of France, Montaigne alone, among all the
French gentry, kept his castle gates unbarred...
YA 1.367 16
...sculpture, painting, and religious and civil architecture have
become effete...
Hist 2.14 18
We have the civil history of [the Greek] people, as Herodotus,
Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it;...
Hist 2.17 15
Civil and natural history...must be explained from individual
history, or must remain words.
Hist 2.22 1
...in these late and civil countries of England and America these
propensities [Nomadism and Agriculture] still fight out the old battle...
Hist 2.35 22
...along with the civil and metaphysical history of man,
another history goes daily forward,--that of the external world...
Hist 2.37 23
Do not the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the
refinements and decorations of civil society?
SR 2.87 23
Men...have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil
institutions as guards of property...
Prd1 2.224 1
Cultivated men always feel and speak...as if a great fortune,
the achievement of a civil or social measure...had their value as proofs of
the energy of the spirit.
Prd1 2.225 10
Here is a planted globe...fenced and distributed externally
with civil partitions and properties...
Prd1 2.231 5
...the boldest lyric inspiration...should announce and lead the
civil code and the day's work.
Hsm1 2.254 9
These [magnanimous] men...raise the standard of civil virtue
among mankind.
Int 2.331 17
...a man explores the basis of civil government.
Pt1 3.4 7
...even the poets are contented with a civil and conformed manner
of living...
Mrs1 3.127 13
...a fine sense of propriety is cultivated with the more heed
that it becomes a badge of social and civil distinctions.
Pol1 3.205 26
Under the dominion of an idea which possesses the minds of
multitudes, as civil freedom...the powers of persons are no longer subjects
of calculation.
Pol1 3.220 22
There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of
the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment...
NR 3.235 12
It seems not worth while to execute with too much pains some
one intellectual, or aesthetical, or civil feat...
NER 3.256 4
The same disposition to scrutiny and dissent appeared in
civil, festive, neighborly, and domestic society.
PPh 4.56 9
Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are
inventories.
MoS 4.164 15
In the civil wars of the League...Montaigne kept his gates
open and his house without defence.
MoS 4.178 9
...through all the offices, learned, civil and social, [I] can
detect the child.
ET1 5.20 1
[Wordsworth] has even said, what seemed a paradox, that they
needed a civil war in America, to teach the necessity of knitting the social
ties stronger.
ET3 5.43 18
With [England's] fruits, and wares, and money, must its civil
influence radiate.
ET5 5.75 13
Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England],
and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it
came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential securities of civil
liberty invented and confirmed.
ET5 5.90 9
The high civil and legal offices [in England] are not beds of
ease...
ET8 5.140 16
The national temper [of England], in the civil history, is not
flashy or whiffling.
ET8 5.142 6
...to appease diseased or inflamed talent, the [English] army
and navy may be entered (the worst boys doing well in the navy); and the
civil service in departments where serious official work is done;...
ET10 5.163 11
Whatever is excellent and beautiful in civil, rural, or
ecclesiastic architecture...the English noble crosses sea and land to see and
to copy at home.
ET11 5.195 4
...[English nobles] were expert in every species of equitation,
to the most dangerous practices, and this down to the accession of William
of Orange. But graver men appear to have trained their sons for civil affairs.
ET13 5.217 12
The distribution of land [in England] into parishes enforces
a church sanction to every civil privilege;...
ET14 5.242 12
In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of
filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Hegel's study of
civil history, as the conflict of ideas and the victory of the deeper thought;...
Pow 6.65 10
Men in power...may be had cheap for any opinion, for any
purpose; and if it be only a question between the most civil and the most
forcible, I lean to the last.
Pow 6.67 17
[Boniface] led the 'rummies' and radicals in town-meeting
with a speech. Meantime, he was civil, fat, and easy, in his house, and
precisely the most public-spirited citizen.
Pow 6.70 25
The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged
cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or
energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man are worth all
the cannibals in the Pacific.
Wth 6.101 20
The coin is a delicate meter of civil, social and moral
changes.
Wth 6.102 14
Every step of civil advancement makes every man's dollar
worth more.
Bhr 6.188 12
People masquerade before us...as academic or civil
presidents...
CbW 6.262 6
As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the
stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism, so is...civil war...
more rich in the central tones than languid years of prosperity.
Bty 6.296 27
...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid
of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on
the balcony at least twice a week...
SS 7.1 14
...when the mate of the snow and wind,/ [Seyd] left each civil
scale behind/...
Civ 7.23 15
The skilful combinations of civil government...require wisdom
and conduct in the rulers...
Civ 7.25 27
Wherever snow falls there is usually civil freedom.
Civ 7.34 11
...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or
equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
Art2 7.55 16
The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which
induced every lord to build a tower.
Elo1 7.90 4
...nothing so works on the human mind, barbarous or civil, as a
trope.
Elo1 7.96 22
This man [the sturdy countryman] scornfully renounces your
civil organizations...
Farm 7.152 25
This crust of soil which ages have refined [the farmer]
refines again for the feeding of a civil and instructed people.
Boks 7.190 15
A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be
picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest
chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
Clbs 7.239 26
When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people
demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this
were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of
the contending parties.
Clbs 7.242 15
...in all civil nations attempts have been made to organize
conversation by bringing together cultivated people under the most
favorable conditions.
Cour 7.267 15
It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a
more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more
than just to make him civil...
OA 7.327 15
...[man] has...aesthetic wants, domestic, civil, humane wants.
PI 8.67 20
We are a little civil, it must be owned, to Homer and Aeschylus...
SA 8.102 17
...as in civil duties, so in social power and duties.
SA 8.107 7
These are the bases of civil and polite society; namely,
manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public action;...
Res 8.140 27
By his machines man...can recover the history of his race by
the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute,
has involuntarily dropped of its existence;...
Res 8.143 26
The whole history of our civil war is rich in a thousand
anecdotes attesting the fertility of resource...of our people.
Res 8.154 3
The healthy, the civil, the industrious, the learned, the moral
race,--Nature herself only yields her secret to these.
PC 8.208 19
The new claim of woman to a political status is itself an
honorable testimony to the civilization which has given her a civil status
new in history.
Aris 10.62 17
In the best parlors of modern society [the gentleman] will
find...the civil sneer;...
Chr2 10.110 6
There is a certain secular progress of opinion, which, in
civil countries, reaches everybody.
Edc1 10.128 5
Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and
properties...
SovE 10.187 8
The civil history of men might be traced by the successive
meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...
Prch 10.235 21
All civil mankind have agreed in leaving one day for
contemplation against six for practice.
Plu 10.295 5
In France, in the middle of the most turbulent civil wars,
Amyot's translation [of Plutarch] awakened general attention.
Plu 10.319 23
The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer,
but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows; and
the question is debated whether it was civil to bring them...
LLNE 10.327 2
There is an universal resistance to ties and ligaments once
supposed essential to civil society.
Thor 10.459 20
[Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned
from London circles; and though he tried to be civil, these anecdotes
fatigued him.
HDC 11.42 14
...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax
assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their
civil history...
HDC 11.62 17
I turn gladly to the progress of our civil history.
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.
EWI 11.145 25
It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and the newest
philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member,
without a sympathetic injury to all the members. America is not civil,
whilst Africa is barbarous.
War 11.153 27
[Alexander's conquest of the East] weaned the Scythians
and Persians from some cruel and licentious practices to a more civil way
of life.
TPar 11.285 23
...[Theodore Parker's experiences] were part of the history
of the civil and religious liberty of his times.
EPro 11.319 17
The force of the act [the Emancipation Proclamation] is...
that it compels the innumerable officers, civil, military, naval, of the
Republic to range themselves on the line of this equity.
ALin 11.329 3
We meet under the gloom of a calamity [death of Lincoln]
which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society...
SMC 11.351 20
'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord
Monument]...having no reference to utilities, but only to the grand instincts
of the civil and moral man, mixes with surrounding nature...
Wom 11.415 19
A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely
civil;...
Shak1 11.448 5
Wherever there are men, and in the degree in which they
are civil...[Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first poet of the world.
FRep 11.514 1
...if this is true in all the useful and in the fine arts, that the
direction must be drawn from a superior source or there will be no good
work, does it hold less in our social and civil life?
FRep 11.516 25
...while civil and social freedom exists [in America],
nonsense even has a favorable effect.
FRep 11.525 9
...any disturbances in politics, in civil or foreign wars, sober
[the American people]...
FRep 11.529 7
As the globe keeps its identity by perpetual change, so our
civil system, by perpetual appeal to the people...
FRep 11.541 16
The genius of the country has marked out our true
policy,-opportunity. Opportunity of civil rights...
PLT 12.30 8
I acquiesce to be that I am, but I wish no one to be civil to me.
II 12.66 4
'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in
that habitual first look which he casts on all objects. Here alone is the field...
of every religion and civil order that has been or shall be.
Mem 12.99 7
...there is a sound sleep of children and of savages...which
never visits the eyes of civil gentlemen...
Bost 12.209 11
[Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown,
so long as [other cities] carry forward its life of civil and religious
freedom...
Milt1 12.250 12
The lover of [Milton's] genius will always regret that he
should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not...have written
from the deep convictions of love and right, which are the foundations of
civil liberty.
Milt1 12.269 2
It is said that no opinion, no civil, religious, moral dogma
can be produced that was not broached in the fertile brain of that age [of
Milton].
Milt1 12.269 7
Questions that involve all social and personal rights...were
searched by eyes to which the love of freedom, civil and religious, lent new
illumination.
Milt1 12.271 15
[Milton] pushed, as far as any in that democratic age, his
ideas of civil liberty.
WSL 12.344 2
...beyond his delight in genius and his love of individual and
civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the
appreciation of character.
Let 12.404 5
Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any
sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the
graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his
energies, whilst...the religious, civil and judicial forms of the country are
confessedly effete and offensive.
Civil History, n. (1)
LLNE 10.338 21
Schelling and Oken introduced their ideal natural
philosophy, Hegel his metaphysics, and extended it to Civil History.
civilians, n. (1)
Pol1 3.199 23
Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the
laws make the city...
Civilis, n. (1)
ET5 5.85 18
In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the
opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the
side of the strongest;...
civilities, n. (4)
Hsm1 2.245 9
When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters [in the plays of
the elder English dramatists]...the duke or governor exclaims, This is a
gentleman,--and proffers civilities without end;...
ET19 5.310 22
I am not here to exchange civilities with you...
Wsp 6.211 18
...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the
private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the
public one;...
EurB 12.378 10
[The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...to contrive
even his civilities so that they may appear as near as may be to affronts;...
civility, n. (53)
Lov1 2.172 20
[Love] is the dawn of civility and grace in the coarse and
rustic.
Fdsp 2.203 25
Almost every man we meet requires some civility...
Mrs1 3.140 4
...besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the
direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society as the
costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
PPh 4.52 22
European civility is the triumph of talent...
MoS 4.180 22
Some minds are incapable of skepticism. The doubts they
profess to entertain are rather a civility or accommodation to the common
discourse of their company.
MoS 4.185 23
We see, now, events forced on which seem to retard or
retrograde the civility of ages.
ET3 5.36 9
The influence of France is a constituent of modern civility...
ET4 5.60 13
...the foundations of the new civility were to be laid by the
most savage men.
ET4 5.62 15
It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the
first boat-load of Norse pirates into...most noble Knights of the Garter; but
every sparkle of ornament dates back to the Norse boat. There will be time
enough to mellow this strength into civility and religion.
ET4 5.67 12
...[the fair Saxon man] is moulded for...civility, marriage, the
nurture of children...
ET5 5.101 24
...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the
modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they
coldly hold...
ET9 5.152 13
...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in
good time, Saint George of England...emblem of victory and civility...
ET10 5.170 23
A civility of trifles...takes place [in England]...
ET14 5.247 23
It was a curious result, in which the civility and religion of
England for a thousand years ends in denying morals and reducing the
intellect to a sauce-pan.
Pow 6.71 5
In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing
to be a savage...and you have Pericles and Phidias, not yet passed over into
the Corinthian civility.
Bhr 6.172 15
[Manners'] first service is very low,--when they are the minor
morals; but 't is the beginning of civility...
CbW 6.251 15
All the feats which make our civility were the thoughts of a
few good heads.
CbW 6.254 2
...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander
introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
SS 7.15 1
A higher civility will reestablish in our customs a certain
reverence which we have lost.
Civ 7.22 8
Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and
pasturage, to agriculture.
Civ 7.25 26
The highest civility has never loved the hot zones.
Civ 7.26 10
These feats are measures or traits of civility;...
Civ 7.26 16
There can be no high civility without a deep morality...
Civ 7.34 22
...the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of
the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
Suc 7.293 10
So far from the performance being the real success, it is clear
that the success was much earlier than that, namely, when all the feats that
make our civility were the thoughts of good heads.
PC 8.209 22
Men are now to be astonished by seeing acts of...common
civility...proposed by statesmen...
PC 8.213 15
...each nation and period has done its full part to make up the
result of existing civility.
Grts 8.302 14
'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely,
who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but
wisdom and civility...
Aris 10.62 15
...[the gentleman] will find...in the civility of whole nations,
vulgarity of sentiment.
Supl 10.178 6
One of the meters of the height to which any civility rose is
the skill in the fabric of iron.
Supl 10.178 12
The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is
established by coal-mines, by ventilation, by irrigation and every skill...
Schr 10.262 26
I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...heralds of
civility, nobility, learning and wisdom;...
HDC 11.51 3
Those [Indians] who dwelled by ponds and rivers had some
tincture of civility...
LVB 11.90 5
Even in our distant State some good rumor of [the
Cherokees'] worth and civility has arrived.
LVB 11.94 8
...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of
grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether all the attributes of
reason, of civility, of justice, and even of mercy, shall be put off by the
American people...
EWI 11.102 25
The prizes of society...a perpetual melioration into a finer
civility,-these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
EWI 11.122 8
...that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts
itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age...
EWI 11.122 22
There have been nations elevated by great sentiments. Such
was the civility of Sparta and the Dorian race...
EWI 11.123 4
Our civility, England determines the style of...
EWI 11.123 8
[Our civility] is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping
civility.
EWI 11.126 18
...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by
keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of
countries and nations of customers, if once freedom and civility and
European manners could get a foothold there.
EWI 11.145 10
The civility of the world has reached that pitch that [the
black race's] more moral genius is becoming indispensable...
EWI 11.145 20
...the civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race
is degraded.
War 11.157 22
The increase of civility has abolished the use of poison and
of torture...
War 11.170 10
How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards
peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of
routine and mere forms...not by...going through a course of resolutions and
public manifestoes, and being thus formally accredited to the public and to
the civility of the newspapers.
FSLC 11.183 27
It is not skill in iron locomotives that makes so fine
civility...
FSLN 11.229 25
...there are rights which rest on the finest sense of justice,
and, with every degree of civility, it will be more truly felt and defined.
ACiv 11.304 1
...the one [power] strong enough to bring all the civility up
to the height of that which is best, prays now at the door of Congress for
leave to move.
ACiv 11.308 3
Why should not America be capable...of an affirmative step
in the interests of human civility...
CPL 11.495 17
Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly
gifts to education, civility and culture...
PLT 12.15 13
Thirdly...I...attempt to show the relation of men of thought to
the existing religion and civility of the present time.
PLT 12.26 6
...the dull, melancholy Pelasgi arrive at no civility until the
Phoenicians and Ionians come in.
Mem 12.96 19
...another man's memory is the history of science and art
and civility and thought;...
civilization, n. (100)
Mrs1 3.136 16
Wherever [Montaigne] goes he pays a visit to whatever
prince or gentleman of note resides upon his road, as a duty to himself and
to civilization.
Pol1 3.216 26
We think our civilization near its meridian...
UGM 4.26 3
Viewed from any high point...the Western civilization, would
seem a bundle of insanities.
MoS 4.185 20
...although...the march of civilization is a train of felonies,--
yet, general ends are somehow answered.
NMW 4.258 20
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property...it
will be mocked by delusions.
ET3 5.35 21
...an American has more reasons than another to draw him to
Britain. In all that is done or begun by the Americans towards right thinking
or practice, we are met by a civilization already settled and overpowering.
ET3 5.36 26
England has inoculated all nations with her civilization,
intelligence and tastes;...
ET4 5.48 14
Civilization is a re-agent, and eats away the old traits.
ET5 5.85 7
...[the English] have impressed their directness and practical
habit on modern civilization.
ET8 5.140 27
...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English
civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...
ET13 5.218 21
The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of
civilization...
ET14 5.258 19
For a self-conceited modish life...clinging to a corporeal
civilization...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.
ET18 5.304 15
[The English]...occupy themselves...on a corporeal
civilization...
Wth 6.86 26
Every basket [of coal] is power and civilization.
Wth 6.96 5
...if men should...leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists
would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest
civilization should be undone.
Wth 6.97 19
...how to give all access to the masterpieces of art and nature,
is the problem of civilization.
Bhr 6.174 14
It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to
persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with
canes. But even in the perfect civilization of this city [Boston] such
cautions are not quite needless in the Athenaeum and City Library.
Ill 6.312 1
We fancy that our civilization has got on far, but we still come
back to our primers.
Ill 6.323 15
One would think from the talk of men that riches and poverty
were a great matter; and our civilization mainly respects it.
SS 7.6 8
...there are metals...which, to be kept pure, must be kept under
naphtha. Such are the talents determined on some specialty, which a
culminating civilization fosters in the heart of great cities...
Civ 7.19 22
Each nation...has a civilization of its own.
Civ 7.23 2
...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a
letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion
of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
Civ 7.24 7
...a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good
women.
Civ 7.25 16
The skill that pervades complex details; the man that maintains
himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms and
utilize evil which is the index of high civilization.
Civ 7.25 17
Civilization is the result of highly complex organization.
Civ 7.27 7
Civilization depends on morality.
Civ 7.31 16
...the true test of civilization is...the kind of man the country
turns out.
Civ 7.32 24
...I see what cubic values America has, and in these a better
certificate of civilization than great cities or enormous wealth.
Civ 7.33 17
...a purer morality, which kindles genius, civilizes civilization...
WD 7.161 2
The chain of Western railroads from Chicago to the Pacific has
planted cities and civilization in less time than it costs to bring an orchard
into bearing.
WD 7.162 21
Civilization mounts and climbs.
WD 7.166 12
We cannot trace the triumphs of civilization to such
benefactors as we wish.
Boks 7.205 12
...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of
civilization...
Boks 7.206 15
Ximenes...Henry IV. of France, are [Charles V's]
contemporaries. It is a time of seeds and expansions, whereof our recent
civilization is the fruit.
Clbs 7.243 13
The history of the Hotel Rambouillet and its brilliant circles
makes an important date in French civilization.
Suc 7.286 20
Our civilization is made up of a million contributions of this
kind.
PI 8.74 20
We too shall know how to take up...this Western civilization,
into thought...
SA 8.87 16
...one word or two in regard to dress, in which our civilization
instantly shows itself.
SA 8.91 9
That every well-dressed lady or gentleman should be at liberty to
exceed ten minutes in his or her call on serious people, shows a civilization
still rude.
SA 8.104 21
We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people,
their conviction of the great moral advantages of...education and religious
culture, and their determination to hold these fast, and, by them, to hold fast
the country and penetrate every square mile of it with this American
civilization.
Res 8.140 18
The marked events in history...each of these events...supples
the tough barbarous sinew, and brings it into that state of sensibility which
makes the transition to civilization possible and sure.
QO 8.177 10
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
PC 8.208 18
The new claim of woman to a political status is itself an
honorable testimony to the civilization which has given her a civil status
new in history.
PC 8.221 1
...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion of
cultivated men to natural science. The benefits thence derived to the arts
and to civilization are signal and immense.
PPo 8.238 26
The temperament of the people [in the East] agrees with this
life in extremes. Religion and poetry are all their civilization.
Imtl 8.324 5
The Egyptian people furnish us the earliest details of an
established civilization...
Imtl 8.337 25
...I have enjoyed the benefits of all this complex machinery
of arts and civilization...
Aris 10.37 24
What is the meaning of this invincible respect for war, here
in the triumphs of our commercial civilization...
Aris 10.65 19
I do not know whether that word Gentleman, although it
signifies a leading idea in recent civilization, is a sufficiently broad
generalization to convey the deep and grave fact of self-reliance.
Chr2 10.117 16
The Sunday is the core of our civilization...
Edc1 10.126 19
One of the problems of history is the beginning of
civilization.
Supl 10.177 3
Religion and poetry are all the civilization of the Arab.
Supl 10.178 4
...all nations in proportion to their civilization, understand
the manufacture of iron.
SovE 10.190 27
These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious
elements...her curdling cold, her hideous reptiles and worse men, cannibals
and the depravities of civilization;...
Schr 10.271 11
There could always be traced...in the most character-destroying
civilization, some vestiges of a faith in genius...
Schr 10.277 17
I delight in men...who could alone, or with a few like them,
reproduce Europe and America, the result of our civilization.
Plu 10.306 7
The plain speaking of Plutarch...in our new tendencies of
civilization, may tend to correct a false delicacy.
Plu 10.318 21
The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the
refinement of his pure tastes, making him the carrier of civilization into the
East...endeared him to Plutarch.
LLNE 10.355 24
...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to
degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat,
gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way,
and we suddenly find that civilization crowed too soon;...
LLNE 10.356 1
...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to
degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat,
gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way,
and we suddenly find...that civilization was a mistake;...
LLNE 10.367 8
One would meet also [at Brook Farm] some modest pride
in their advanced condition, signified by a frequent phrase, Before we came
out of civilization.
LLNE 10.367 21
The children from six to eight [said Fourier]...shall do
this last function of civilization [the dirty work].
MMEm 10.421 16
Our civilization is not always mending our poetry.
Thor 10.460 5
In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary,
are discovered traces of the Romans...their dwellings. But New England, at
least, is not based on any Roman ruins. We have not to lay the foundations
of our houses on the ashes of a former civilization.
EWI 11.99 4
We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of
an event singular in the history of civilization;...
EWI 11.122 2
I said, this event [emancipation in the West Indies] is a
signal in the history of civilization.
EWI 11.122 2
There are many styles of civilization...
EWI 11.140 10
The First of August [1834] marks the entrance of a new
element into modern politics, namely, the civilization of the negro.
EWI 11.141 12
On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many
sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind, some
of which he expressed; and hence appeared to arise a project which was
always dear to him, of the civilization of Africa...
EWI 11.141 25
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other,
susceptible of rapid civilization.
EWI 11.144 5
...if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable
element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no
wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him...
War 11.161 19
...a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of
civilization over barbarism...
FSLC 11.183 20
I question the value of our civilization, when I see that the
public mind had never less hold of the strongest of all truths.
FSLC 11.194 23
...unless you can draw a sponge over those seditious Ten
Commandments which are the root of our European and American
civilization;...your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.
FSLC 11.201 19
[Webster] must learn...that those who have no points to
carry that are not identical with public morals and generous civilization...
disown him...
FSLC 11.213 8
...it is confounding distinctions to speak of the geographic
sections of this country as of equal civilization.
FSLN 11.241 9
...when one sees how fast the rot [of slavery] spreads...I
think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the
mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day, and accelerate so
far the progress of civilization.
TPar 11.288 24
...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in
[Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in
Boston]; who...came to the rescue of civilization at a hard pinch...
ACiv 11.298 25
We have attempted to hold together two states of
civilization...
ACiv 11.299 11
...Why cannot the best civilization be extended over the
whole country...
ACiv 11.299 18
Is not civilization heroic also?
ACiv 11.302 18
We want men...who...act in the interest of civilization.
ACiv 11.304 4
Emancipation is the demand of civilization.
SMC 11.355 3
...cities of men are the first effects of civilization...
SMC 11.355 4
...cities of men are the first effects of civilization, and also
instantly causes of more civilization...
SMC 11.355 12
The armies mustered in the North...had the vast advantage
of carrying whither they marched a higher civilization.
Wom 11.408 23
Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of
civilization...
Wom 11.409 4
What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
Wom 11.410 9
...[Women] are always making that civilization which they
require;...
FRep 11.513 11
Our sleepy civilization...has built its whole art of war...on
that one compound [gunpowder]...
FRep 11.526 1
The history of civilization, or the refining of certain races to
wonderful power of performance, is analogous;...
FRep 11.526 4
...the best civilization yet is only valuable as a ground of
hope.
FRep 11.536 19
...it is in the interest of civilization and good society and
friendship, that I dread to hear of well-born, gifted and amiable men, that
they have this indifference, disposing them to this despair.
FRep 11.537 5
We want men...who...can act in the interest of civilization;...
FRep 11.537 14
The flowering of civilization is the finished man...
FRep 11.537 24
...our civilization is yet incomplete...
PLT 12.15 6
First I wish to speak of the excellence of that element
[Intellect], and the great auguries that come from it, notwithstanding the
impediments which our sensual civilization puts in the way.
PLT 12.37 17
...Perception is the armed eye. A civilization has tamed and
ripened this savage wit...
Bost 12.188 24
...Boston commands attention as the town which was
appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
Trag 12.407 26
...[this terror of contravening an unascertained and
unascertainable will] disappears with civilization...
Civilization, n. (1)
Civ 7.19 6
A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man
is found...is called Civilization.
civilizations, n. (1)
ET3 5.37 2
...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element,
a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the
farthest east and west...
civilize, v. (3)
SA 8.105 26
...civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the
debauchee of sentiment?
HDC 11.50 10
About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began
to be made to civilize the Indians...
SMC 11.356 2
This [Civil War] will be a slow business, writes our
Concord captain [George Prescott] home, for we have to stop and civilize
people as we go along.
civilized, adj. (18)
DSA 1.128 11
As the...established worship of the civilized world, [the
Christian church] has great historical interest for us.
YA 1.380 11
...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people
indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and
executioner. Witness the new movements in the civilized world...
YA 1.394 22
Commanding worth and personal power must sit crowned in
all companies, nor will extraordinary persons be slighted or affronted in any
company of civilized men.
SR 2.84 14
...[society] is civilized...
SR 2.85 5
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his
feet.
PPh 4.40 12
...the thinkers of all civilized nations are [Plato's] posterity...
Wsp 6.223 22
No secret can be kept in the civilized world.
Comc 8.169 17
The multiplication of artificial wants and expenses in
civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling forms, present innumerable
occasions for this discrepancy [between the man and his appearance] to
expose itself.
QO 8.203 13
Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the most civilized
countries...healthily receive and report what they saw...
Insp 8.270 25
In the savage man, thought is infantile; and, in the civilized,
unequal and ranging up and down a long scale.
Thor 10.468 11
[Thoreau]...owned to a preference of the weeds to the
imported plants, as of the Indian to the civilized man...