Class to Cloisters
class, adj. (3)
Aris 10.64 11
No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and
heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people, as
correcting the modes and over-refinements and class prejudices of the
lettered men of the world.
EPro 11.315 7
These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs,
when...the political leaders of the day break the else insurmountable routine
of class and local legislation...
Wom 11.422 20
Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him
brings the other or corresponding half in his hand: a reasonable result is
had. Now there is no lack, I am sure...of the interests of trade or of
imperative class interests being neglected.
class, n. (287)
Nat 1.14 13
...there is no need of specifying particulars in this class of uses
[of the useful arts].
Nat 1.69 22
The perception of this class of [spiritual] truths makes the
attraction which draws men to science...
AmS 1.86 11
The ambitious soul...one after another reduces...all new
powers, to their class and their law...
AmS 1.89 18
Hence the book-learned class, who value books, as such;...
AmS 1.94 13
I have heard it said that the clergy, - who are always, more
universally than any other class, the scholars of their day, - are addressed
as women;...
AmS 1.104 10
It is a shame to [the scholar] if his tranquillity...arise from
the presumption that...his is a protected class;...
AmS 1.109 26
I look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere
announcement of the fact that they find themselves not in the state of mind
of their fathers...
AmS 1.110 20
...the same movement which effected the elevation of what
was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in literature a very
marked...aspect.
LE 1.179 13
...[Napoleon] belonged to a class fast growing in the world...
MN 1.192 19
...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of
handicrafts and mechanics, how splendid soever the result, any more than I
admire the routine of the scholars or clerical class.
MN 1.192 25
...I would not have the laborer sacrificed to my convenience
and pride, nor to that of a great class of such as me.
MN 1.221 8
The lovers of goodness have been one class...
MR 1.233 3
The sins of our trade belong to no class...
MR 1.241 14
...in the experience of all men of that class [the learned
professions], the amount of manual labor which is necessary to the
maintenance of a family, indisposes and disqualifies for intellectual
exertion.
MR 1.242 12
...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy ...are
attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
MR 1.250 1
...no class more faithless than the scholars or intellectual men.
LT 1.268 14
...this [conservative] class...blends itself with the brute forces
of nature...
LT 1.268 22
Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class,
we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes...
LT 1.279 14
The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is
around them until they see it in some gross form, as in a class of
intemperate men...
LT 1.281 19
Quitting now the class of actors, let us turn to see how it
stands with the other class of which we spoke, namely, the students.
LT 1.281 21
...let us turn to see how it stands with the other class of which
we spoke, namely, the students.
LT 1.284 21
I have seen the same gloom on the brow even of those
adventurers from the intellectual class who had dived deepest and with
most success into active life.
LT 1.286 14
The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this, that
they have believed;...
Con 1.320 20
...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the
intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will upset the fair
pageant of Judicature...
Tran 1.329 15
As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects,
Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second
on consciousness;...
Tran 1.329 16
As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects,
Materialists and Idealists;...the first class beginning to think from the data
of the senses...
Tran 1.329 18
...the second class [Idealists] perceive that the senses are not
final...
Tran 1.340 5
...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of
Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or
imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which
experience was acquired;...
Tran 1.340 13
...whatever belongs to the class of intuitive thought is
popularly called at the present day Transcendental.
Tran 1.345 16
In looking at the class of counsel, and power...of the land...
one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and
heavenly world, to these?
Tran 1.354 16
...this class [Transcendentalists] are not sufficiently
characterized if we omit to add that they are lovers and worshippers of
Beauty.
Tran 1.355 27
There is...a great deal of well-founded objection to be
spoken or felt against the sayings and doings of this class
[Transcendentalists]...
Tran 1.358 6
Society also has its duties in reference to this class
[Transcendentalists]...
YA 1.368 24
...the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns,
and the country is cultivated by a so much inferior class.
YA 1.382 19
It was a noble thought of Fourier...to distinguish in his
Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band...
Hist 2.26 7
[Vases, tragedies, statues] have continued to be made in all
ages...but, as a class, from their superior organization, [the Greeks] have
surpassed all.
SR 2.52 10
There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am
bought and sold;...
SR 2.86 8
Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes, are great men, but
they leave no class.
SR 2.86 9
He who is really of [Phocion's, Socrates's] class will not be
called by their name...
SL 2.143 27
A man's genius...the susceptibility to one class of influences...
determines for him the character of the universe.
Prd1 2.222 20
One class live to the utility of the symbol...
Prd1 2.222 22
Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the
symbol...
Prd1 2.222 25
A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the
beauty of the thing signified;...
Prd1 2.222 27
The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and
the third, spiritual perception.
Hsm1 2.255 19
...that which takes my fancy most in the heroic class, is the
good-humor and hilarity they exhibit.
OS 2.287 13
The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is
that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
OS 2.287 15
The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is
that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
OS 2.288 4
...the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to
literary fame...
Int 2.331 10
At last comes the era of reflection...when we keep the mind's
eye open...whilst we act, intent to learn the secret law of some class of facts.
Int 2.345 23
...I cannot recite...laws of the intellect, without remembering
that lofty and sequestered class who have been its prophets and oracles...
Pt1 3.16 10
The inwardness and mystery of this attachment [to nature]
drive men of every class to the use of emblems.
Exp 3.68 14
The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful
obliquely...
Chr1 3.97 16
Men of character like to hear of their faults; the other class do
not like to hear of faults;...
Chr1 3.107 23
There is a class of men...so eminently endowed with insight
and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine...
Mrs1 3.121 21
Comme il faut, is the Frenchman's description of good
society: as we must be. It is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of
precisely that class who have most vigor...
Mrs1 3.122 17
The point of distinction in all this class of names, as
courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the
grain of the tree, are contemplated.
Mrs1 3.123 20
Power first, or no leading class.
Mrs1 3.124 4
In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to
the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits. The
ruling class must have more, but they must have these...
Mrs1 3.124 8
The society of the energetic class...is full of courage...
Mrs1 3.126 9
...every collection of men furnishes some example of the
class [of gentlemen];...
Mrs1 3.126 15
The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and
caught with devotion by men of taste.
Mrs1 3.127 18
There exists a strict relation between the class of power and
the exclusive and polished circles.
Mrs1 3.128 15
The class of power...see that [fashion] is the festivity and
permanent celebration of such as they;...
Mrs1 3.129 10
If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least
favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the
excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class
finds itself at the top...
Mrs1 3.129 12
If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least
favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the
excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class
finds itself at the top...
Mrs1 3.129 15
...if the people should destroy class after class, until two
men only were left, one of these would be the leader and would be
involuntarily served and copied by the other.
Mrs1 3.130 10
...come from year to year and see how permanent [the
distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of
man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it,
a meeting of merchants...a college class...
Mrs1 3.133 19
There will always be in society certain persons...whose
glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the
world. ... But do not measure the importance of this class by their
pretension...
Mrs1 3.139 3
The average spirit of the energetic class is good sense...
Mrs1 3.140 26
...society demands in its patrician class another element...
which it significantly terms good-nature...
Nat2 3.191 23
...this is the ridicule of the [wealthy] class, that they arrive
with pains and sweat and fury nowhere;...
Pol1 3.218 21
Like one class of forest animals, [senators and presidents]
have nothing but a prehensile tail; climb they must, or crawl.
NR 3.232 15
The world is full...of secret and public legions of honor; that
of scholars, for example; and that of gentlemen, fraternizing with the upper
class of every country and every culture.
NR 3.236 14
What you say in your pompous distribution only distributes
you into your class and section.
NER 3.261 3
Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish; and that
makes the offensiveness of the class.
NER 3.270 7
When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not
strange that society should be disheartened...
NER 3.270 17
I do not recognize, beside the class of the good and the wise,
a permanent class of sceptics...
NER 3.270 18
I do not recognize...a permanent class of sceptics...
NER 3.270 18
I do not recognize...a class of conservatives...
NER 3.275 20
...having established his equality with class after class of
those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others
before whom he cannot possess himself...
UGM 4.17 26
The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some
imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds, even in
arithmeticians of the first class...
UGM 4.18 1
The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some
imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...especially in
meditative men of an intuitive habit of thought. This class serve us, so that
they have the perception of identity and the preception of reaction.
UGM 4.19 16
[The great man's] class is extinguished with him.
UGM 4.20 2
I must not forget that we have a special debt to a single class.
PPh 4.61 11
[Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class
have...
PNR 4.88 1
...a very well-marked class of souls...are said to Platonize.
SwM 4.93 2
Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are
not of the class which the economist calls producers...
SwM 4.93 7
A higher class...are the poets...
SwM 4.93 19
...there is a class who lead us into another region,--the world
of morals and of will.
SwM 4.95 6
The Koran makes a distinct class of those who are by nature
good...
SwM 4.95 8
The Koran makes a distinct class of those...whose goodness
has an influence on others, and pronounces this class to be the aim of
creation...
MoS 4.150 4
One class [predisposed to Sensation] has the perception of
difference...
MoS 4.150 8
Another class [predisposed to Morals] have the perception of
identity...
MoS 4.150 17
The literary class is usually proud and exclusive.
MoS 4.155 20
The studious class are their own victims;...
MoS 4.171 18
...the skeptical class, which Montaigne represents, have
reason...
MoS 4.181 7
The last class must needs have a reflex or parasite faith;...
ShP 4.189 19
There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's]
production, but sweet and sad earnest...pointed with the most determined
aim which any man or class knows of in his times.
NMW 4.224 5
The first [conservative] class is timid, selfish, illiberal...
NMW 4.224 8
The second [democratic] class is selfish also...
NMW 4.224 13
[The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue
to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues: the class of business men
in America...
NMW 4.224 14
[The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue
to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues...the class of industry and
skill.
NMW 4.224 17
The instinct of active, brave, able men, throughout the
middle class every where, has pointed out Napoleon as the incarnate
Democrat.
NMW 4.227 26
Bonaparte wrought, in common with that great class he
represented, for power and wealth...
NMW 4.230 12
[Bonaparte] had the virtues of his class...
NMW 4.232 25
[Kings and governors] are a class of persons much to be
pitied...
NMW 4.239 25
[Bonaparte's] remarks and estimates discover the
information and justness of measurement of the middle class.
NMW 4.242 4
The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the
throne was occupied and the land sucked of its nourishment, by a small
class of legitimates...
NMW 4.252 13
I call Napoleon the agent or attorney of the middle class of
modern society;...
NMW 4.253 5
...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him...
and the instinct of the young, ardent and active men every where, which
pointed him out as the giant of the middle class, make [Napoleon's] history
bright and commanding.
GoW 4.264 12
...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she
elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers, who see
connection where the multitude see fragments...
GoW 4.268 11
The robust gentlemen who stand at the head of the practical
class, share the ideas of the time...
GoW 4.268 12
The robust gentlemen who stand at the head of the practical
class...have too much sympathy with the speculative class.
GoW 4.269 2
Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of
the literary class.
ET1 5.20 9
...I [Wordsworth] fear [the Americans] lack a class of men of
leisure...
ET1 5.20 12
I [Wordsworth] am told that things are boasted of in the
second class of society there [in America], which, in England,--God knows,
are done in England every day, but would never be spoken of.
ET4 5.63 9
The brutality of the manners in the [English] lower class
appears in the boxing, bear-baiting, cock-fighting, love of executions...
ET6 5.109 1
Sir Samuel Romilly could not bear the death of his wife.
Every class [in England] has its noble and tender examples.
ET8 5.129 27
In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which
travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the
manufacturers, are wont to be entertained. It easily happens that this class
should characterize England to the foreigner...
ET8 5.132 27
...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the
terror they cause. These travellers are of every class...
ET10 5.163 7
...all that can succor the talent or arm the hands of the
intelligent middle class...is in open market [in England].
ET10 5.166 3
I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the
better class to that of any potentate in Europe...
ET11 5.185 10
If one asks...what service this class [English nobility] have
rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago.
ET11 5.187 21
The jealousy of every class to guard itself is a testimony to
the reality they have found in life.
ET11 5.196 5
The revolution in society has reached this class [the English
nobility].
ET11 5.196 11
...advantages once confined to men of family are now open
to the whole middle class.
ET11 5.197 22
Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle
class [in England], the badge is discredited...
ET11 5.198 8
A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers
on a footing of equality, and outstripping them, as often, in the race of
honor and influence. That cultivated class is large and ever enlarging.
ET13 5.216 18
The priest came out of the people and sympathized with his
class.
ET13 5.226 10
Like the Quakers, [the wise legislator] may resist the
separation of a class of priests...
ET13 5.226 19
...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or
rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it
another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will
steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was
bequeathed. The class certain to be excluded from all preferment are the
religious...
ET13 5.228 4
...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than
conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty
reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods, and on the
day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
ET13 5.228 16
The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was
led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot
heads could breathe: in view of the educated class, generally, it was not a
fact to front the sun;...
ET13 5.230 9
False position introduces cant, perjury, simony and ever a
lower class of mind and character into the [English] clergy...
ET14 5.236 16
There is a...closeness to the matter in hand, even in the
second and third class of [English] writers;...
ET14 5.239 9
...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one with
a larger class...
ET14 5.239 10
...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one
with a larger class, discerned beyond the lesser class with which it has been
conversant.
ET14 5.240 1
'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and
Wordsworth will be Platonists, and that the dull men will be Lockists. Then
politics and commerce will absorb from the educated class men of talents
without genius, precisely because such have no resistance.
ET14 5.242 22
I cite these generalizations...merely to indicate a class.
ET14 5.251 7
...there is no end to the graces and amenities, wit, sensibility
and erudition of the learned class [in England].
ET14 5.260 6
...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],--
the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in
counterpoise...
ET15 5.270 9
[The London Times] gives the argument, not of the majority,
but of the commanding class.
ET15 5.270 12
...[the editors of the London Times] give a voice to the class
who at the moment take the lead;...
ET15 5.270 16
Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the
hour...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of
change.
ET15 5.271 13
[Punch's] sketches are...the delight of every class...
ET18 5.303 4
[The English people's] many-headedness is owing to the
advantageous position of the middle class...
Pow 6.55 26
With adults, as with children, one class enter cordially into the
game...
Pow 6.58 2
...in both men and women [there is] a deeper and more
important sex of mind, namely the inventive or creative class of both men
and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.
Pow 6.58 3
...in both men and women [there is] a deeper and more
important sex of mind, namely the inventive or creative class of both men
and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.
Pow 6.61 3
When [children] are hurt by us...or go to the bottom of the
class...they have a serious check.
Pow 6.68 9
The rule for this whole class of [natural] agencies is,--all plus is
good; only put it in the right place.
Pow 6.72 3
The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind.
Wth 6.104 17
...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in
trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad...would not the dollar...
presently find it out?
Wth 6.113 19
Let a man who belongs to the class of nobles, namely who
have found out that they can do something, relieve himself of all vague
squandering on objects not his.
Ctr 6.140 18
There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the
music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years. ... But
even these can understand pitchforks and the cry of Fire! and I have noticed
in some of this class a marked dislike of earthquakes.
Ctr 6.142 14
You send [your boy] to the Latin class, but much of his tuition
comes, on his way to school, from the shop-windows.
Ctr 6.144 11
Each class fixes its eyes on the advantages it has not;...
Ctr 6.146 25
California and the Pacific Coast is now the university of this
class [of poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut]...
Ctr 6.163 26
All that class of the severe and restrictive virtues, said Burke,
are almost too costly for humanity.
Bhr 6.173 13
I have seen...the pitiers of themselves, a perilous class;...
Bhr 6.197 22
...'t is a thousand to one that [the young girl's] air and manner
will at once betray...that there is some other one or many of her class to
whom she habitually postpones herself.
Wsp 6.211 9
See what allowance vice finds in the respectable and well-conditioned
class.
Wsp 6.213 5
The religion of the cultivated class now...consists in an
avoidance of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to
assume.
Wsp 6.220 3
...look where we will...a perfect reaction, a perpetual
judgment keeps watch and ward. And this appears in a class of facts which
concerns all men, within and above their creeds.
Wsp 6.238 6
The great class...suggest what they cannot execute.
CbW 6.248 18
Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and
malefactors. The second class is vast...
CbW 6.251 23
The coxcomb and bully and thief class are allowed as
proletaries...
CbW 6.265 26
When the political economist reckons up the unproductive
classes, he should put at the head this class of pitiers of themselves...
CbW 6.273 16
With the first class of men our friendship or good
understanding goes quite behind all accidents of estrangement...
Elo1 7.74 25
These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class
who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson
ahead of the pupil.
Boks 7.195 9
...all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were
written by the successful class...
Boks 7.195 9
...all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were
written...by the affirming and advancing class...
Boks 7.208 14
Another class of books closely allied to these
[Autobiographies], and of like interest, are those which may be called
Table-Talks...
Boks 7.208 22
There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as
Favorites...
Boks 7.211 1
Another class [of books] I distinguish by the term
Vocabularies.
Boks 7.212 3
There is another class [of books], more needful to the present
age...
Boks 7.218 9
...I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of
books which are the best: I mean the Bibles...
Clbs 7.241 5
...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their
accomplishment almost inevitably guides into the vortex of ambition...
whom we now consider.
Cour 7.270 1
...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind
engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class...
Suc 7.302 5
Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting,
which only ask receptivity in you, and no strained exertion and cankering
ambition, overstimulating to be at the head of your class and the head of
society...
Suc 7.304 25
To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates
Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric.
OA 7.329 7
Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet
he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes. His
seventh class has not one.
OA 7.329 11
In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little
white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven
stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
SA 8.80 16
Napoleon is the type of this class [of men of aplomb] in modern
history;...
SA 8.87 25
...quite another class of our own youth I should remind, of dress
in general, that some people need it and others need it not.
SA 8.101 2
Every human society wants to be officered by a best class...
SA 8.101 9
In Europe...it has been attempted to secure the existence of a
superior class by hereditary nobility...
Elo2 8.112 6
It is an old proverb that Every people has its prophet; and
every class of the people has.
Elo2 8.112 17
...the political questions...find or form a class of men by
nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures...
Elo2 8.123 13
When, on his return from Washington, [John Quincy Adams]
resumed his lectures in Cambridge, his class attended...
Elo2 8.123 18
[John Quincy Adams's] last lecture, in taking leave of his
class, contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received
from his old friends...
Elo2 8.123 22
[John Quincy Adams's] last lecture...contained some
nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends...
which made a profound impression on the class.
Elo2 8.130 18
[Eloquence] leads us to the high class...
QO 8.177 18
Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence,
What is the event they most desire?...
QO 8.178 9
We expect a great man to be a good reader; or in proportion to
the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power. And though such
are a more difficult and exacting class, they are not less eager.
PC 8.210 22
Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the
novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very
inventions...have evoked!-all implying...the rapid addition to our society
of a class of true nobles...
PC 8.218 20
Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim, or whatever
wit of the old inimitable class, is always allowed.
PC 8.233 13
...I draw new hope...from the avowed aims and tendencies of
the educated class.
PC 8.233 22
...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the
moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer
within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it. In England the like
spiritual disease affected the upper class in the time of Charles II....
PC 8.233 25
...it honorably distinguishes the educated class here, that they
believe in the succor which the heart yields to the intellect...
PC 8.234 1
...when I say the educated class, I know what a benignant
breadth that word has...
PC 8.234 6
...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated
class here is made up...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
PC 8.234 10
...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated
class here is made up...and that the most distinguished by genius and
culture are in this class of benefactors,-I cannot distrust this great
knighthood of virtue...
Grts 8.314 7
Scintillations of greatness...are by no means confined to the
cultivated and so-called moral class.
Grts 8.318 23
Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of
this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen...
Dem1 10.25 5
The peculiarity of the history of Animal Magnetism is that it
drew in as inquirers and students a class of persons never on any other
occasion known as students and inquirers.
Aris 10.38 19
The existence of an upper class is not injurious, so long as it
is dependent on merit.
Aris 10.38 26
Aristocracy is the class eminent by personal qualities...
Aris 10.40 2
I enumerate the claims by which men enter the superior class.
Aris 10.49 22
I think that the community...will be the best measure and the
justest judge of the citizen...better than any statute elevating...any class to
sacerdotal education and power.
Aris 10.51 7
The expectation and claims of mankind indicate the duties of
this class [public respresentatives].
Chr2 10.116 16
...every church divides itself into a liberal and expectant
class, on one side, and an unwilling and conservative class on the other.
Chr2 10.116 17
...every church divides itself into a liberal and expectant
class, on one side, and an unwilling and conservative class on the other.
Chr2 10.117 9
There will always be a class of imaginative youths...
Edc1 10.139 8
...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company...
so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the
engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the
engine-house. They are there only for fun, and not knowing that they are at
school...quite as much and more than they were, an hour ago, in the
arithmetic class.
Edc1 10.158 3
...if one [pupil] has brought in a Plutarch or Shakspeare or
Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good book, and understands what
he reads, put him at once at the head of the class.
Edc1 10.158 9
...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to
check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some
helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it
on the instant to the brave rescuer.
MoL 10.243 11
It is the perpetual tendency of wealth to draw on the
spiritual class...
MoL 10.249 22
As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains
and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the
best minds, and run down, from class to class...
MoL 10.249 23
As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains
and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the
best minds, and run down, from class to class...
MoL 10.252 3
Where there is no vision, the people perish. The fault lies
with the educated class...
Schr 10.264 18
One is tempted to affirm the office and attributes of the
scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a frequent perversity of the
class itself.
Schr 10.265 16
...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet
replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class
with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its
knees.
Schr 10.266 19
It was superstitious to exact too much from philosophers
and the literary class.
Schr 10.267 21
All the best of this [busy] class, all who have any insight or
generosity of spirit are frequently disgusted...
Plu 10.309 8
In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the
relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for
instruction. This teaching was...strict, sincere and affectionate. The part of
each of the class is as important as that of the master.
LLNE 10.330 11
The popular religion of our fathers had received many
severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary
influence of Swedenborg; a man...exerting a singular power over an
important intellectual class;...
LLNE 10.344 27
The vulgar politician disposed of this circle [of
Transcendentalists] cheaply as the sentimental class.
LLNE 10.346 11
These [19th Century] reformers were a new class.
LLNE 10.354 20
[The Fourier marriage] was...ignorant how serious and
how moral [women's] nature always is; how chaste is their organization;
how lawful a class.
EzRy 10.382 18
Many of the students [at Harvard] entered the
[Revolutionary] army, and [Ezra Ripley's] class never returned to
Cambridge.
EzRy 10.382 21
There were an unusually large number of distinguished
men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...
SlHr 10.447 16
[Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend
manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so called
under an impression that the style is passing away, but which, I suppose, is
an optical illusion, as there is always a few more of the class remaining...
Thor 10.460 11
...idealist as he was...[Thoreau] found himself not only
unrepresented in actual politics, but almost equally opposed to every class
of reformers.
Thor 10.464 11
...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau], proper to a
rare class of men...
LS 11.23 17
There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the
Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter. There is one on which I
had intended to say a few words; I mean the unfavorable relation in which
it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from
disinclination to the rite.
HDC 11.48 2
Not a complaint occurs in all the volumes of our Records [of
Concord], of any inhabitant...suffering from any violence or usurpation of
any class.
EWI 11.117 21
The governors [of Jamaica], Lord Belmore, the Earl of
Sligo, and afterwards Sir Lionel Smith (a governor of their own class who
had been sent out to gratify the planters), threw themselves on the side of
the oppressed...
EWI 11.134 17
...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and
political men have found out that these neglected victims are poor and
without weight;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the
negroes'] cause on this very ground...
EWI 11.140 4
...the self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men,
fear no competition or superiority.
War 11.174 25
...if the desire of a large class of young men for a faith and
hope, intellectual and religious, such as they have not yet found, be an
omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...
FSLC 11.179 20
[Massachusetts laws] never came near me to any
discomfort before. I find the like sensibility...in that class who take no
interest in the ordinary questions of party politics.
FSLC 11.198 13
[Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the
extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its incumbents must rank with
a class from which the turnkey, the hangman and the informer are taken...
FSLN 11.218 1
...every man speaks mainly to a class whom he works with
and more or less fully represents.
FSLN 11.218 6
...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a
class which comprises in some sort all mankind...
FSLN 11.218 7
...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a
class which comprises in some sort all mankind...
FSLN 11.218 12
Owing to the silent revolution which the newspaper has
wrought, this class [students and scholars] has come in this country to take
in all classes.
FSLN 11.241 15
I wish to see the instructed class here know their own
flag...
FSLN 11.242 27
You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools,
and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict
clear and prevailing.
SMC 11.355 23
...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were...as
arrogant as the negroes on the Gambia River; and...it looks as if the editors
of the Southern press were in all times selected from this class.
SMC 11.362 8
At one time [George Prescott] finds his company
unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class...
RBur 11.440 4
...Robert Burns, the poet of the middle class, represents in
the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
RBur 11.440 6
...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that
great uprising of the middle class...
Shak1 11.452 25
...there are some men so born to live well that, in
whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it! but,
being advanced to a higher class, they are just as much in their element as
before...
Humb 11.459 5
...we have lived to see now, for the second time in the
history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class [Humboldt]...
Scot 11.465 21
By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time
and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and
graces of that class...
Scot 11.466 5
In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters
and pets of humble class...
FRO2 11.490 23
I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble
souls who enjoy the luxury of a religion that does not degrade;...
CPL 11.498 23
Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that
graduated at Harvard College in 1642...
FRep 11.518 3
Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of
the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is
asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of
professional politicians...
FRep 11.529 11
The government...knows the leading men in the middle
class...
FRep 11.529 12
The government...knows the leaders of the humblest class.
FRep 11.535 24
The class of which I speak make themselves merry
without duties.
PLT 12.3 19
Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which
chemists use in their nomenclature...applied to a higher class of facts;...
PLT 12.20 25
...a well-ordered mind brings to the study of every new fact
or class of facts a certain divination of that which it shall find.
PLT 12.21 21
...the lowest only means incipient form, and over it is a
higher class in which its rudiments are opened...
PLT 12.40 1
...the mind discovers some essential copula binding this [new]
fact or change to a class of facts or changes...
CInt 12.121 24
...in the class called intellectual the men are no better than
the uninstructed.
CL 12.136 24
...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on
excursions on foot into the country...
Bost 12.206 19
...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the
conservative class with some odious novelty or other;...
Bost 12.209 2
What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...and where is
the middle class so able, virtuous and instructed?
MAng1 12.215 14
Whilst [Michelangelo's] name belongs to the highest
class of genius, his life contains in it no injurious influence.
MAng1 12.238 18
Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too
superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect
sympathy.
Milt1 12.260 19
The world, no doubt, contains many of that class of men
whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets...
WSL 12.341 2
Mr. Landor is one of the foremost of that small class who
make good in the nineteenth century the claims of pure literature.
WSL 12.343 19
Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty...belongs
to this sacred class;...
AgMs 12.363 18
These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation,
and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and
inconspicuous to State Commissioners. So with these premiums to farms,
and premiums at cattle-shows. The class that I describe [the poor farmers]
must pay the premium which is awarded to the rich.
EurB 12.372 18
Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry...
EurB 12.372 21
Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry,
destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation. Oenone was a sketch
of the same kind. One of the best specimens we have of the class is
Wordsworth's Laodamia...
EurB 12.373 14
...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room
and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace
from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the
heads of the most imitative class.
EurB 12.375 4
In this class [novel of costume or of circumstance], the
hero, without any particular character, is in a very particular circumstance;...
EurB 12.377 9
The novels of Fashion, of Disraeli, Mrs. Gore, Mr. Ward,
belong to the class of novels of costume...
Let 12.394 2
...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of
Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer?
Let 12.397 11
Regrets and Bohemian castles and aesthetic villages are not a
very self-helping class of productions...
Let 12.399 5
...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing...
Let 12.399 6
...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by
the infatuation of the active class...
Let 12.402 4
The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the
academic class must be freely admitted...
class, v. (2)
PI 8.21 7
The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can
detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared. He can
class them so audaciously because he is sensible of the sweep of the
celestial stream...
Edc1 10.152 11
It is difficult to class [pupils], some are too young, some
are slow, some perverse.
classed, v. (3)
PNR 4.88 17
...'t is the magnitude only of Shakspeare's proper genius that
hinders him from being classed as the most eminent of this [Platonic]
school.
CInt 12.124 20
The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not
to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed...by some available
plan that will give weekly and annual results;...
ACri 12.283 5
The secondary services of literature may be classed under
the name of Rhetoric...
classes, n. (89)
Nat 1.12 5
Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a
multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result. They all admit of being
thrown into one of the following classes: Commodity; Beauty; Language;
and Discipline.
Nat 1.40 2
...[man] is learning the secret that he can reduce under his will
not only particular events but great classes...
AmS 1.94 19
As far as this is true of the studious classes, it is not just and
wise.
DSA 1.122 5
...let me guide your eye to the precise objects of the sentiment
[of virtue] by an enumeration of some of those classes of facts in which this
element is conspicuous.
LT 1.268 24
...the movement party divides itself into two classes...
YA 1.393 11
The aristocracy...degrades life for the unprivileged classes.
SR 2.56 13
It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook
the rage of the cultivated classes.
Comp 2.99 5
Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends him a troop of
pretty sons and daughters, who are getting along in the dame's classes at
the village school...
Comp 2.112 1
...our cultivated classes are timid.
OS 2.275 2
...by every throe of growth the man expands there where he
works, passing, at each pulsation, classes, populations, of men.
Int 2.330 26
Every man...finds his curiosity inflamed concerning the modes
of living and thinking of other men, and especially of those classes whose
minds have not been subdued by the drill of school education.
Mrs1 3.125 22
Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between
power and money] is, which...makes itself felt by men of all classes.
Mrs1 3.143 22
Fashion has many classes and many rules of probation and
admission...
Mrs1 3.148 12
Scott is praised for the fidelity with which he painted the
demeanor and conversation of the superior classes.
NR 3.231 23
The property will be found where the labor, the wisdom and
the virtue have been...in classes...
NER 3.270 20
I do not believe in two classes.
NER 3.270 27
I believe not in two classes of men...
UGM 4.22 26
I admire great men of all classes...
PPh 4.53 4
[The Greeks] saw before them...no pitiless subdivision of
classes...
SwM 4.95 9
The Koran makes a distinct class of those...whose goodness
has an influence on others, and pronounces this class to be the aim of
creation: the other classes are admitted to the feast of being, only as
following in the train of this.
SwM 4.142 12
Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man
[Swedenborg], who denotes classes of souls as a botanist disposes of a
carex...
NMW 4.223 20
In our society there is a standing antagonism between the
conservative and the democratic classes;...
NMW 4.243 3
In 1814, when advised to rely on the higher classes,
Napoleon said to those around him, Gentlemen...my only nobility is the
rabble of the Faubourgs.
NMW 4.252 24
The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the
terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave...make
[Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
ET4 5.63 12
The brutality of the manners in the lower class appears in the
boxing, bear-baiting...and in the readiness for a set-to in the streets,
delightful to the English of all classes.
ET5 5.97 7
[English] social classes are made by statute.
ET5 5.100 7
In Germany there is one speech for the learned, and another
for the masses, to that extent that, it is said, no sentiment or phrase from the
works of any great German writer is ever heard among the lower classes.
ET7 5.118 21
The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General
Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer. The
English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait...
ET8 5.129 18
Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of
Englishmen].
ET8 5.130 5
...these [lower] classes are the right English stock...
ET9 5.150 8
The habit of brag runs through all classes [in England]...
ET10 5.159 13
After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830
procured a patent for his self-acting mule; a creation, the delight of mill-owners,
and destined, they said, to restore order among the industrious
classes;...
ET10 5.162 13
Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the
competition...in the application of steam to agriculture, and sometimes into
trade. But it also introduces large classes into the same competition;...
ET10 5.169 10
...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle
of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that...the dreadful
barometer of the poor-rates was touching the point of ruin. The poor-rate
was sucking in the solvent classes and forcing an exodus of farmers and
mechanics.
ET11 5.184 3
It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the
Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in England] were for the
first time actively interesting themselves in their own defence...
ET11 5.186 15
The upper classes have only birth, say the people here [in
England], and not thoughts.
ET11 5.186 21
[The English upper classes] have the sense of superiority,
the absence of all the ambitious effort which disgusts in the aspiring
classes...
ET12 5.209 13
These seminaries [English public schools] are finishing
schools for the upper classes...
ET13 5.229 16
...the religion of the day [in England] is a theatrical Sinai,
where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and
hypocrisy create satire. ... Nature revenges herself more summarily by the
heathenism of the lower classes.
ET14 5.243 25
The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of
grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws...
ET14 5.247 5
The brilliant Macaulay, who expresses the tone of the
English governing classes of the day, explicitly teaches that good means
good to eat, good to wear...
ET15 5.272 9
The [London] Times shares all the limitations of the
governing classes...
ET18 5.300 1
[Englishmen] cannot see beyond England, nor in England
can they transcend the interests of the governing classes.
ET18 5.300 7
In England, the strong classes check the weaker.
ET18 5.306 17
The feudal system survives [in England]...in the submissive
ideas pervading these people. The fagging of the schools is repeated in the
social classes.
ET19 5.311 17
This conscience is one element [which attracts an American
to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through
all classes...
Ctr 6.139 6
The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and
variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...with
classes of society...
Bhr 6.174 21
If you look at the pictures of patricians and of peasants of
different periods and countries, you will see how well they match the same
classes in our towns.
CbW 6.248 17
Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and
malefactors.
CbW 6.259 27
...all great men come out of the middle classes.
CbW 6.265 25
When the political economist reckons up the unproductive
classes, he should put at the head this class of pitiers of themselves...
Elo1 7.94 13
The preacher enumerates his classes of men and I do not find
my place therein; I suspect then that no man does.
Boks 7.211 5
[Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an inventory to remind
us how many classes and species of facts exist...
Cour 7.259 4
...the protection which a house...even the first accumulation
of savings gives, go in all times to generate this taint of the respectable
classes.
OA 7.329 5
Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet
he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
OA 7.329 7
Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet
he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
OA 7.329 14
[The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species:
all but a few are empty.
OA 7.330 24
We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...with
nothing to break his leisure after the three hours of his daily classes...
PC 8.210 3
When classes are exasperated against each other, the peace of
the world is always kept by striking a new note.
Grts 8.318 9
...degrees of intellect interest only classes of men who pursue
the same studies...
Grts 8.318 15
A great style of hero draws equally all classes...
Grts 8.320 14
With self-respect...there must be in the aspirant the strong
fellow feeling, the humanity, which makes men of all classes warm to him
as their leader and representative.
Aris 10.35 4
The young adventurer finds that the relations of society, the
position of classes, irk and sting him...
Aris 10.40 19
Every survey of the dignified classes...imprints universal
lessons...
Aris 10.53 19
Here [in a village] are classes which day by day have no
intercourse...
Edc1 10.123 3
With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength
to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to
master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
Edc1 10.150 20
[In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of
individuals;...
Edc1 10.153 6
...[the teacher] cannot delight in personal relations with
young friends, when...twenty classes are to be dealt with before the day is
done.
Edc1 10.158 13
If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows
any fact...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him
to tell it so that all may hear.
SovE 10.187 13
The civil history of men might be traced by the successive
meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...bargains of kings
with peoples of certain rights to certain classes, then of rights to masses...
Prch 10.217 24
I see in those classes and those persons in whom I am
accustomed to look for tendency and progress...character, but skepticism;...
Prch 10.230 3
The clergy are always in danger of becoming wards and
pensioners of the so-called producing classes.
MoL 10.251 11
I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending
the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks.
LLNE 10.327 18
College classes, military corps, or trades-unions may
fancy themselves indissoluble for a moment, over their wine;...
LLNE 10.348 17
[Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and
animals, and men and women, and classes of every character.
MMEm 10.409 1
It is so universal with all classes to avoid contact with me
[writes Mary Moody Emerson] that I blame none.
FSLC 11.186 10
There is always something in the very advantages of a
condition which hurts it. Africa has its malformation;...Germany its hatred
of classes;...
FSLN 11.218 13
Owing to the silent revolution which the newspaper has
wrought, this class [students and scholars] has come in this country to take
in all classes.
FSLN 11.240 3
...torpor exists here throughout the active classes on the
subject of domestic slavery and its appalling aggressions.
SMC 11.357 8
All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...men hitherto of
narrow opportunities of knowing the world, but well taught in the grammar-schools.
But perhaps in every one of these classes were idealists...
EdAd 11.388 10
We see that reckless and destructive fury which
characterizes the lower classes of American society...
FRO1 11.477 20
...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal
magnanimity, that thus invites all classes...to unite in a movement of benefit
to men...
CPL 11.498 24
Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that
graduated at Harvard College in 1642, and two sons to later classes.
FRep 11.529 10
The government is acquainted with the opinions of all
classes...
CInt 12.125 6
...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain
relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning
philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has
happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds
himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
MAng1 12.218 19
In relation to this element of Beauty, the minds of men
divide themselves into two classes.
MAng1 12.237 6
[Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...of that
sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much
as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.
PPr 12.384 14
It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must
read [Carlyle's Past and Present]...
Trag 12.411 12
The most exposed classes, soldiers, sailors, paupers, are
nowise destitute of animal spirits.
classes, v. (1)
FRO2 11.488 6
The point of difference that still remains between churches,
or between classes, is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat
positive and historical.
class-feeling, n. (1)
FRep 11.529 21
The men, the women, all over this land shrill their
exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is
unbecoming in the government...not on the class-feeling which narrows the
perception of English, French, German people at home.
classic, adj. (11)
Hsm1 2.257 19
...the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography.
ET15 5.267 18
The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is
said, of young men recently from the University, and perhaps reading law
in chambers in London. Hence the academic elegance and classic allusion
which adorns its columns.
QO 8.196 12
...Cardinal de Retz...described himself in an extemporary
Latin sentence, which he pretended to quote from a classic author...
MoL 10.256 25
...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and
Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge. But the President of the
Bank...relates that at Virginia Springs this idol of the forum exhausted a
trunkful of classic authors.
LLNE 10.331 7
If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston
or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of
person, of a classic style...
Thor 10.476 25
[Thoreau's] classic poem on Smoke suggests Simonides...
RBur 11.442 15
...[Burns] has made the Lowland Scotch a Doric dialect of
fame. It is the only example in history of a language made classic by the
genius of a single man.
Scot 11.464 19
Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in
dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep and
use, but without any ambition to write a high poem after a classic model.
Milt1 12.253 2
We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses
by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which
told...that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible; the
perception and enjoyment of...his perfect fusion of the classic and the
English styles.
ACri 12.303 7
I designed to speak of one point more, the touching a
principal question in criticism in recent times-the Classic and Romantic,
or what is classic?
ACri 12.304 9
The democratic, when the power proceeds organically from
the people and is responsible to them, are classic politics.
Classic, adj. (1)
Hist 2.26 26
...the vaunted distinction...between Classic and Romantic
schools, seems superficial and pedantic.
Classic age, n. (1)
AmS 1.109 4
...there are data for marking the genius of the Classic, of the
Romantic, and now of the Reflective or Philosophical age.
Classic, Chinese, n. (1)
Boks 7.218 19
After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books]
are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of
Confucius and Mencius.
classic, n. (5)
ACri 12.303 24
Classic art is the art of necessity;...
ACri 12.304 9
The classic unfolds, the romantic adds.
ACri 12.304 10
The classic should, the modern would.
ACri 12.304 11
The classic is healthy, the romantic is sick.
ACri 12.304 12
The classic draws its rule from the genius of that which it
does, and not from by-ends.
Classic, n. (2)
ACri 12.303 6
I designed to speak of one point more, the touching a
principal question in criticism in recent times-the Classic and Romantic,
or what is classic?
ACri 12.303 24
What is the Classic?
Classic, Senior, n. (1)
ET12 5.206 25
...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton] can quote
correctly from the Corpus Poetarum...
classical, adj. (5)
ET13 5.217 14
...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that
a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the
link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual
advancement of the age.
Art2 7.45 22
...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is
national or usual; as...the custom of draping a statue in classical costume.
QO 8.194 4
Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the
current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals...
LLNE 10.331 16
The word that [Everett] spoke, in the manner in which he
spoke it, became current and classical in New England.
LLNE 10.335 21
In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham, an excellent classical and
German scholar, had already made us acquainted...with the genius of
Eichhorn's theologic criticism.
Classics, British, n. (1)
PI 8.57 23
I find or fancy more true poetry...in the Welsh and bardic
fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British
Classics.
classics, n. (1)
ET2 5.31 15
Classics which at home are drowsily read, have a strange
charm in a country inn...
classification, n. (15)
AmS 1.85 15
Classification begins.
AmS 1.85 27
...what is classification but the perceiving that these objects
are not chaotic...
LT 1.263 24
...an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would
be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches. To be sure he
would;...but he must be...able to supplant our method and classification by
the superior beauty of his own.
SR 2.79 12
Every new mind is a new classification.
SR 2.79 15
If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon activity and
power...it imposes its classification on other men...
SR 2.80 4
...in all unbalanced minds the classification is idolized...
Cir 2.310 5
Much more obviously is history and the state of the world at
any one time directly dependent on the intellectual classification then
existing in the minds of men.
SwM 4.134 10
The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in
Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to
each man...because he defies all dogmatizing and classification...
ET4 5.54 9
We must use the popular category, as we do the Linnaean
classification, for convenience...
PI 8.29 7
Imagination uses an organic classification.
Comc 8.166 27
A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar only
as a memorandum of his last lesson in the laws of Nature...becomes through
indolence a barrack and a prison...
Comc 8.168 15
The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as
that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind,
seizing a classification to help it to a sincerer knowledge of the fact, stops
in the classification;...
Comc 8.168 16
The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as
that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind,
seizing a classification to help it to a sincerer knowledge of the fact, stops
in the classification;...
LLNE 10.337 27
...[Mesmerism] affirmed unity and connection between
remote points, and as such was excellent criticism on the narrow and dead
classification of what passed for science;...
Mem 12.96 23
This thread or order of remembering, this classification,
distributes men...
classifications, n. (2)
SR 2.79 20
...[creeds and churches] are also classifications of some
powerful mind...
MLit 12.311 23
Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the
select pieces of the first of mankind,-meditations, history, classifications...
classified, v. (1)
Cir 2.303 26
...[a man] has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after
which all his facts are classified.
classifier, n. (2)
LE 1.170 17
Since Carlyle wrote French History, we see that no history
that we have is safe, but a new classifier shall give it new and more
philosophical arrangement.
Aris 10.44 10
...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I
will tell you if he shall be...of a secure hand, of a scientific memory, a right
classifier;...
classifiers, n. (2)
SwM 4.118 18
...there is no comet...or fungus, that, for itself, does not
interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the
frame of things.
Civ 7.17 2
We flee away from cities, but we bring/ The best of cities with
us, these learned classifiers/...
classifies, v. (3)
Nat 1.67 9
It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the
animal kingdom, as it is to know whence and whereto is this tyrannizing
unity in his constitution, which evermore separates and classifies things...
LE 1.172 4
A profound thought, anywhere, classifies all things...
Tran 1.329 10
...thought only appears in the objects it classifies.
classify, v. (2)
Hist 2.12 14
Some men classify objects by color and size and other
accidents of appearance;...
GoW 4.273 16
[Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become...
one great Exploring Expedition, accumulating a glut of facts and fruits too
fast for any hitherto-existing savans to classify,--this man's mind had ample
chambers for the distribution of all.
classifying, adj. (1)
ACri 12.287 20
Not only low style, but the lowest classifying words
outvalue arguments;...
classifying, n. (1)
AmS 1.85 26
...since the dawn of history there has been a constant
accumulation and classifying of facts.
classifying, v. (4)
Int 2.333 20
Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we should...be
conscious...only that he possessed a strange skill of using, of classifying his
facts, which we lacked.
OA 7.329 3
The instinct of classifying marks the wise and healthy mind.
PerF 10.77 24
Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he
chiefly brings...is...his way of classifying and seeing things...
Edc1 10.131 5
...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the
means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...
class-leader, n. (1)
Chr2 10.118 23
How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred
thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his
old stays;...no class-leader admonishes him of absences...
class-legislation, n. (2)
ET4 5.51 2
Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic
elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter...
aggressive freedom and hospitable law with bitter class-legislation;...
ET18 5.300 12
A bitter class-legislation gives power [in England] to those
who are rich enough to buy a law.
classmate, n. (3)
EzRy 10.395 12
My classmate at Cambridge...told me...that in college
[Ezra Ripley] was called Holy Ripley.
EzRy 10.395 14
My classmate at Cambridge...told me from Governor
Gore, who was the Doctor's classmate, that in college [Ezra Ripley] was
called Holy Ripley.
HCom 11.339 1
Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our Commencement
Day?/
clatter, n. (1)
NMW 4.250 19
One fine night, on deck, amid a clatter of materialism,
Bonaparte pointed to the stars, and said, You may talk as long as you
please, gentlemen, but who made all that?
clatter, v. (2)
DSA 1.139 8
...[the vain words] clatter and echo unchallenged.
Trag 12.411 8
...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter
midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at
night in the cellar or on the stairs,-are terrors that make...the teeth clatter,
but are no tragedy...
Claude-Lorraines, n. (1)
Ill 6.315 27
[Women] see through Claude-Lorraines.
clause, n. (4)
ShP 4.214 19
...like the tone of voice of some incomparable person, so [are
Shakespeare's sonnets] a speech of poetic beings, and any clause as
unproducible now as a whole poem.
GoW 4.282 13
...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I
meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...
Elo2 8.129 7
Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in
Parliament in favor of that clause of the bill which allowed the prisoner the
benefit of counsel, fell into such a disorder that he was not able to
proceed;...
SlHr 10.441 22
...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his audience with the
pains he took to qualify and verify his statements, adding clause on clause
to do justice to all his conviction.
clauses, n. (4)
ShP 4.200 12
Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer,
that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the
time of Christ...
FSLC 11.196 4
[the Fugitive Slave Law] offers a bribe in its own clauses
for the consummation of the crime.
Wom 11.425 14
Let us have the true woman...and no lawyer need be called
in to write...the cunning clauses of provision...
Humb 11.457 22
How [Humboldt] reaches...from law to law, folding away
moons and asteroids and solar systems in the clauses and parentheses of his
encyclopaedic paragraphs!
Claverhouse, Lord [John Gr (1)
Bhr 6.175 11
Claverhouse is a fop...
claw, n. (2)
Nat 1.16 7
...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the
eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...the lion's
claw...
F 6.14 26
Lodged in the parent animal...[the vesicle] unlocks itself to fish,
bird, or quadruped...eye and claw.
clawing, v. (1)
Fdsp 2.210 8
Leave this touching and clawing.
claws, n. (3)
ET18 5.305 10
There is cramp limitation in [Englishmen's] habit of
thought...and a tortoise's instinct to hold hard to the ground with his claws...
Ctr 6.136 25
...our talents are as mischievous as if each had been seized
upon by some bird of prey...some zeal, some bias, and only when he was
now gray and nerveless was it relaxing its claws...
EWI 11.143 20
[Nature] appoints no police to guard the lion but his teeth
and claws;...
clay, adj. (2)
Wsp 6.237 19
...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the
man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he
belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him. And
not in vain have they worn their clay coat...if they have truly learned thus
much wisdom.
Art2 7.44 17
Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling
marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite
cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so
much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
Clay, Henry, n. (2)
Elo2 8.122 8
...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning
manners, almost endearments in their style;...like...Barclay, Fox and Henry
Clay.
Grts 8.318 18
A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of
society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such
examples in this country, in Daniel Webster, Henry Clay...
clay, n. (20)
Tran 1.359 23
...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim...
shall abide in beauty and strength...to invest themselves anew in other,
perhaps higher endowed and happier mixed clay than ours...
Lov1 2.186 1
Not always can...even home in another heart, content the
awful soul that dwells in clay.
Art1 2.358 3
...with each moment [the artist] alters the whole air, attitude
and expression of his clay.
SwM 4.97 16
All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what
as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This beatitude
comes...with shocks to the mind of the receiver. It o'erinforms the tenement
of clay,/ and drives the man mad;...
SwM 4.98 9
If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make
the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser:
instead of porcelain they are potter's earth, clay, or mud.
ShP 4.189 4
If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay
and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original.
ET1 5.5 21
[Greenough's] face was so handsome and his person so well
formed that he might be pardoned, if, as was alleged, the face of his Medora
and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay, were idealizations of his own.
ET3 5.39 3
[England] has plenty...of potter's clay, of coal...
Pow 6.60 8
Here is question, every spring, whether to graft with wax, or
whether with clay;...
CbW 6.249 27
Clay and clay differ in dignity...
DL 7.127 3
...let the hearts [our friends] have agitated witness what power
has lurked in the traits of these structures of clay that pass and repass us!
WD 7.175 2
...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their
admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian, nor Teutonic, nor local
at all...
WD 7.175 8
...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their
admirable symbols...was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish
hands...
MMEm 10.409 24
...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way
with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate?
ALin 11.328 6
...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she
threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted
West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the
strength of God, and true./
Wom 11.404 5
Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and
moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its
dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else
decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work
succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
Wom 11.411 8
...how should we better measure the gulf between the best
intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,-
between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the
eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or
comeliness?
FRep 11.512 2
Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the
loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood];...
PLT 12.49 7
I once found Page the painter modelling his figures in clay...
before he painted them on canvas.
MAng1 12.222 12
...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that
was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing
involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in
human clay.
clay, v. (1)
Wth 6.121 8
I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the
wood-lot, when bought. Never fear; it is all settled how it shall be, long
beforehand, in the custom of the country,--whether to sand or whether to
clay it...
clayed, adj. (1)
Civ 7.17 17
...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce
enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/
This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
Clay's, Henry, n. (1)
FSLC 11.207 25
Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that
slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest
counsel of her own? I have never heard in twenty years any project except
Mr. Clay's.
clays, n. (1)
ET11 5.180 8
...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that
gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the
clays of Stafford, are neither forgetting nor forgotten...
clean, adj. (30)
Comp 2.93 16
...in [Compensation] might be shown men...the present
action of the soul of this world, clean from all vestige of tradition;...
SL 2.132 3
The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful if man will
live the life of nature...
Prd1 2.235 6
[Our Yankee trade] takes bank-notes, good, bad, clean,
ragged, and saves itself by the speed with which it passes them off.
Pt1 3.28 25
The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a
clean and chaste body.
ET6 5.107 7
A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is
conscientiously clean.
ET6 5.107 8
A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is
conscientiously clean.
ET6 5.111 21
The keeping of the proprieties is [in England] as
indispensable as clean linen.
ET16 5.287 20
...'t is certain as God liveth, the gun that does not need
another gun, the law of love and justice alone, can effect a clean revolution.
F 6.8 15
...it is of no use...to dress up that terrific benefactor [Providence]
in a clean shirt...
Pow 6.60 16
We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be
had.
Bhr 6.172 20
We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;...
to slough [people's] animal husks and habits; compel them to be clean;...
CbW 6.247 10
[Fine society] is...an affair of clean linen and coaches...
CbW 6.247 13
There are other measures of self-respect for a man than the
number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
SS 7.7 2
We have known many fine geniuses with that imperfection that
they cannot do anything useful, not so much as write one clean sentence.
DL 7.112 19
If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the
parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If the linens and
hangings are clean and fine and the furniture good, the yard, the garden, the
fences are neglected.
DL 7.125 26
...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble
relations...
DL 7.133 18
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...
WD 7.169 15
The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the
deep,--a clean page, which the wise may inscribe with truth...the cathedral
music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
PI 8.44 8
Vast is the difference between writing clean verses for
magazines, and creating these new persons and situations...
PerF 10.75 14
[Labor] surprises in the perfect form and condition of trees
clean of caterpillars and borers...
SovE 10.195 15
We need not always be stipulating for our clean shirt and
roast joint per diem.
MoL 10.247 9
A scholar defending the cause...of the oppressor, is a traitor
to his profession. He has ceased to be a scholar. He is not company for
clean people.
Carl 10.491 8
It needs something more than a clean shirt and reading
German to visit [Carlyle].
FRep 11.526 27
...instead of the doleful experience of the European
economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great
body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has
arrived at a sloven plenty...an unbuttoned comfort, not clean, not
thoughtful...
CW 12.178 4
I admire in trees the creation of property so clean of tears, or
crime, or even care.
Bost 12.204 20
In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and
dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn,
yes, but...corn with thanks to the Giver of corn; and the best thanks,
namely, obedience to his law; this was the office imposed on our Founders
and people; liberty, clean and wise.
Bost 12.211 18
Let every child that is born of her and every child of her
adoption see to it to keep the name of Boston as clean as the sun;...
MLit 12.317 13
Perhaps no considerable minority, no one man, leads a
quite clean and lofty life.
MLit 12.323 4
...[Goethe] was clean from all narrowness;...
MLit 12.335 26
[The Genius of the time] will describe...the now
unbelieved possibility...of clean and noble relations with men.
clean, adv. (6)
AmS 1.90 2
I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction
clean out of my own orbit...
LE 1.161 7
...see how much you would impoverish the world if you could
take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...
Comp 2.104 1
The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the
solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual
strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the
moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so
thin as to leave it bottomless;...
Hsm1 2.251 21
All prudent men see that the [heroic] action is clean
contrary to a sensual prosperity;...
LVB 11.92 24
Sir [Van Buren], does this government think that the people
of the United States are become savage and mad? From their mind are the
sentiments of love and a good nature wiped clean out?
ACri 12.288 7
I envy the boys the force of the double negative...though
clean contrary to our grammar rules...
clean, n. (1)
Con 1.319 21
...leprosy has grown cunning, has got into the ballot-box; the
lepers outvote the clean;...
cleaned, v. (2)
PPo 8.264 3
The bird-soul was ashamed;/ [The birds'] body was quite
annihilated;/ They had cleaned themselves from the dust,/ And were by the
light ensouled./ What was, and was not,-the Past,-/ Was wiped out from
their breast./
MMEm 10.412 3
I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my
expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every
morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked.
cleaner, adj. (2)
MN 1.215 24
Tell me not how great your project is...cleaner diet...
CInt 12.122 10
...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...need to
have their corrupt voting and violence corrected by the cleaner and wiser
suffrages of poor farmers.
cleanliness, n. (3)
NMW 4.251 13
Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my
pharmacopoeia [said Bonaparte].
DL 7.111 11
The progress of domestic living has been in cleanliness, in
ventilation...
CInt 12.118 11
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of
common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery. Thus...at
the introduction...of cleanliness and comfort into penitentiaries.
cleanly, adj. (1)
ET6 5.106 27
[The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal...
cleanse, v. (2)
Ctr 6.138 10
Cleanse with healthy blood [the scholar's] parchment skin.
Supl 10.173 26
...these raptures of fire and frost, which indeed cleanse
pedantry out of conversation...would cost me the days of well-being which
are now so cheap to me, yet so valued.
cleansed, v. (2)
Cir 2.313 9
Cleansed by the elemental light and wind...we may chance to
cast a right glance back upon biography.
EPro 11.326 1
Happy are the young, who find the pestilence [slavery]
cleansed out of the earth...
cleanses, v. (1)
Insp 8.294 18
Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.
cleansing, v. (1)
ET14 5.249 23
...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the
cant, into the preaching of Fate. In comparison with all this rottenness [in
England], any check, any cleansing, though by fire, seemed desirable and
beautiful.
clear, adj. (76)
MN 1.219 24
...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and
expansion of the human race, and resembled herein the sequent Revolution,
which was...the overflowing of the sense of natural right in every clear and
active spirit of the period.
MR 1.247 17
If we...say,-I will [not]...deal with any person whose whole
manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still.
SR 2.48 19
...in the next room [the youth's] voice is sufficiently clear and
emphatic.
SR 2.75 3
...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to
trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart...clear his sight...
SL 2.131 15
If in the hours of clear reason we should speak the severest
truth, we should say that we had never made a sacrifice.
SL 2.156 24
When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as
clear as the heavens.
Prd1 2.223 4
Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol
solidly, then also has a clear eye for its beauty...
Art1 2.354 6
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
Pt1 3.14 23
The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its
transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions;...
Chr1 3.100 19
Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public,
indicate...heads which are not clear...
Mrs1 3.133 16
There will always be in society certain persons...whose
glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the
world. ... They are clear in their office, nor could they be thus formidable
without their own merits.
Mrs1 3.151 26
...no princess could surpass [Lilla's] clear and erect
demeanor on each occasion.
Nat2 3.167 6
Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's]
laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear
from east to west./
Nat2 3.190 25
...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the
waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
NER 3.281 1
Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most
commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no
inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
UGM 4.4 6
...I do not travel to find...clear sky...
PNR 4.81 2
It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind
her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as
Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the
result. ... These were a clear amelioration of trilobite and saurus...
PNR 4.83 14
Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and
ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction...
NMW 4.251 21
I admire [Bonaparte's] simple, clear narrative of his
battles;...
ET1 5.10 14
...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick old man, with bright
blue eyes and fine clear complexion...
ET4 5.59 24
The wind blew off the land, the ship flew, burning in clear
flame, out between the islets into the ocean, and there was the right end of
King Hake.
ET4 5.69 7
A clear skin, a peach-bloom complexion and good teeth are
found all over the island [England].
CbW 6.258 9
Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire
which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.
Boks 7.200 25
...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters...is as clear as the
voice of a fife...
Boks 7.215 12
...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to
import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as
becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle
roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.
Suc 7.289 3
Lord Brougham's single duty of counsel is, to get the prisoner
clear.
Suc 7.293 8
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.
PI 8.71 25
...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias
or a rest on to-day's forms. Hence the shudder of joy with which in each
clear moment we recognize the metamorphosis, because it is always a
conquest, a surprise from the heart of things.
Elo2 8.117 12
The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are clear
perceptions; memory; power of statement; logic; imagination...
Res 8.135 3
...Where [the wise man's] clear spirit leads him, there 's his
road/ By God's own light illumined and foreshowed./
PC 8.221 9
[The scholar] has accosted this immeasurable Nature, and got
clear answers.
PPo 8.254 2
High heart, O Hafiz! though not thine/ Fine gold and silver
ore;/ More worth to thee the gift of song,/ And the clear insight more./
Insp 8.271 2
In happy moments [thought]...carries out what were rude
suggestions...to clear and grand conclusions.
Insp 8.276 13
[Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if...a genial
companion, or a new thought suggested in book or conversation could...
wake the fancy and the clear perception.
Grts 8.306 19
...one fact is clear to me, that diamagnetism is a law of the
mind...
Imtl 8.346 20
...only by rare integrity...can the vision of [immortality] be
clear to a use the most sublime.
Aris 10.62 5
...[the true man] is to know...that...wherever found, the old
renown attaches to the virtues of simple faith and stanch endurance and
clear perception and plain speech...
Edc1 10.145 8
Baffled for want of language and methods to convey his
meaning, not yet clear to himself, [the child] conceives that though not in
this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who
can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
SovE 10.201 13
...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul,
which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. ... Let him know by
your security that your conviction is clear and sufficient...
Prch 10.218 6
I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the
activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow...a clear enough
perception of the inadequacy of the popular religious statement to the wants
of their heart and intellect...
Prch 10.219 2
A thousand negatives [the oracle] utters, clear and strong...
Prch 10.219 16
Perhaps there must be austere elections and determinations
before any clear vision.
Prch 10.224 27
...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his
faculties play true, it is clear mathematically...that this will tell in the
result...
Schr 10.274 19
[The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to
deliver his message; if his voice is clear, then clearly;...
Plu 10.311 6
...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and
his broad humanity, lead him constantly...to the study of the Beautiful and
Good. Hence...his clear convictions of the high destiny of the soul.
Plu 10.320 17
...in recent reading of the old text [of Plutarch's Morals], on
coming on anything absurd or unintelligible, I referred to the new text and
found a clear and accurate statement in its place.
SlHr 10.439 8
[Samuel Hoar] was...a man...with a clear perception of
justice...
SlHr 10.444 25
[Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and
the powerful statement of the material points of his case.
Thor 10.470 16
The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine
grosbeaks...whose fine clear note Thoreau compared to that of a tanager
which has got rid of its hoarseness.
GSt 10.504 13
I have heard...that [George Stearns] had great executive
skill, a clear method and a just attention to all the details of the task in hand.
EWI 11.99 4
We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of
an event singular in the history of civilization; a day of reason; of the clear
light;...
FSLC 11.202 26
[Webster] has been by his clear perceptions and
statements in all these years the best head in Congress...
FSLN 11.216 3
We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/
Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught
his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/
FSLN 11.223 13
What gratitude does every man feel to him who...who
translates truth into language entirely plain and clear!
FSLN 11.243 2
You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and
the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict
clear and prevailing.
EdAd 11.382 6
The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human
fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring
things to names, for these were men,/ Were unitarians of the united world,/
And, wheresoever their clear eye-beams fell,/ They caught the footsteps of
the Same./
EdAd 11.388 5
We are more solicitous than others to make our politics
clear and healthful...
SHC 11.428 22
...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting
sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of
unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...
Humb 11.459 5
...we have lived to see now, for the second time in the
history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class, with a clear head and an
inflexible will [Humboldt].
PLT 12.31 17
...[a man's] aptitude, if he would obey it, would prove a
telescope to bring under his clear vision what was blur to everybody else.
Mem 12.93 20
We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass,
which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear
plate every image that passes;...
Mem 12.95 11
This command of old facts, the clear beholding at will of
what is best in our experience, is our splendid privilege.
Mem 12.106 26
...we remember best when the head is clear...
Bost 12.194 3
Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine, a
man of as clear a sight as almost any other; of Thomas a Kempis...without
feeling how rich and expansive a culture...they owed to the promptings of
this [Christian] sentiment;...
MAng1 12.239 9
[Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect
Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's, clear, insulated,
luminous, with fit design for a vast structure.
Milt1 12.261 23
...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a
secondary power, and he respected the mysterious source whence it had its
spring; namely, clear conceptions and a devoted heart.
Milt1 12.265 5
In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny
respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they
should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors
preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and
not lumpish obedience to the mind...
Milt1 12.268 21
Thus chosen...for the clear perception of all that is graceful
and all that is great in man, Milton was not less happy in his times.
ACri 12.285 15
...[George Borrow] had one clear perception, that the key
to every country was command of the language of the common people.
ACri 12.304 26
A clear or natural expression by word or deed is that which
we mean when we love and praise the antique.
Pray 12.354 9
Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf/ Than that I may
not disappoint myself,/ That in my action I may soar as high,/ As I can now
discern with this clear eye./
PPr 12.389 18
...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance
of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very
word...
Trag 12.409 16
...it is natures not clear...imperfect characters from which
somewhat is hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.
clear, adv. (3)
LLNE 10.359 11
...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house
for its purpose, finds himself...steering clear, though in the dark, of those
dangers which might have shipwrecked him.
FSLN 11.232 24
The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and
clear, the worthlessness of good tools to bad workmen;...
Wom 11.403 4
The politics are base,/ The letters do not cheer,/ And 't is far
in the deeps of history,/ The voice that speaketh clear./
clear, v. (14)
MR 1.247 19
...we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation,
whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our
energies to the common benefit;...
MR 1.248 7
...we are...to clear ourselves of every usage which has not its
roots in our own mind.
Int 2.328 24
We do not determine what we will think. We only...clear away
as we can all obstruction from the fact, and suffer the intellect to see.
UGM 4.25 13
Great men are...a collyrium to clear our eyes from egotism...
Wsp 6.237 2
Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee
woman who had hired herself to work for her...and, now sickening, was like
to be bedridden on her hands. Should she keep her, or should she dismiss
her? But Benedict said, why ask? One thing will clear itself as the thing to
be done...
CbW 6.254 18
Wars, fires, plagues...clear the ground of rotten races and
dens of distemper...
Bty 6.298 4
[Women] refine and clear [the most serious student's] mind;...
Farm 7.151 15
The first planter, the savage...takes poor land. The better
lands are loaded with timber, which he cannot clear;...
Farm 7.152 8
As [the first planter's] family thrive, and other planters come
up around him, he begins to fell trees and clear good land;...
Clbs 7.228 3
The wish to speak to the want of another mind assists to clear
your own.
Suc 7.290 6
...war, cannons and executions are used to clear the ground of
bad, lumpish, irreclaimable savages, but always to the damage of the
conquerors.
HDC 11.43 14
...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled
into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own
benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor
possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
PLT 12.44 23
For weal or woe we clear ourselves from the thing we
contemplate.
Let 12.392 6
...we have thought that we might clear our account [of
correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter...
cleared, v. (6)
MR 1.233 20
...by coming out of trade you have not cleared yourself.
PPh 4.46 2
As soon as, with culture, things have cleared up a little...[men
and women] desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in
detail.
Elo1 7.97 9
He who will train himself to mastery in this science of
persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight.
Let him see...that when he has spoken he...has cleared his own skirts...
WD 7.185 1
...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared the whole distance,
and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space left.
HDC 11.43 22
What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year,
at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf
was to be killed;...the pastures to be cleared;...
EurB 12.376 22
...a probity, a justice was to be [the society in Wilhelm
Meister's] element, symbolized by the insisting that each property should
be cleared of privilege,
clearer, adj. (9)
Nat 1.54 17
...so their rising senses/ Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that
mantle/ Their clearer reason./
MR 1.227 23
...we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines
and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with
the spiritual nature.
Hist 2.12 18
The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes...
Lov1 2.182 17
In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a
clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from
this world...
SA 8.91 25
...in the effort to unfold our thought to a friend we make it
clearer to ourselves...
Elo2 8.121 11
In moments of clearer thought or deeper sympathy, the voice
will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much as
the auditor;...
Insp 8.280 24
Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new
begun;/ White thoughts stand luminous and firm,/ Like statues in the sun;/
Refreshed from supersensuous founts,/ The soul to clearer vision mounts./
Insp 8.297 15
All our power, all our happiness consists in our reception of
[the soul's] hints, which ever become clearer and grander as they are
obeyed.
ACri 12.304 24
When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek vase, I incline to
accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits
than any other people.
clearest, adj. (3)
PI 8.6 2
...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known
virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from
the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense side
of religion and literature, which are all founded on low nature,--on the
clearest and most economical mode of administering the material world,
considered as final.
PPo 8.264 8
The sun from near-by beamed/ Clearest light into [the birds']
soul;/ The resplendence of the Simorg beamed/ As one back from all three./
They knew not, amazed, if they/ Were either this or that./
Supl 10.176 3
The old and the modern sages of clearest insight are plain
men...
clearest, adv. (1)
DSA 1.134 24
...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn
joy...but clearest and most permanent, in words.
cleareth, v. (1)
Suc 7.289 5
Fuller says 't is a maxim of lawyers that a crown once worn
cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof.
clear-grained, adj. (1)
ALin 11.328 15
How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind
indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek
flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by his
clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/
clear-headed, adj. (3)
Dem1 10.18 22
In vain do the clear-headed part of mankind discredit
[demonic individuals] as deceivers or deceived,-the mass is attracted.
Wom 11.409 15
I like women, said a clear-headed man of the world; they
are so finished.
PLT 12.61 13
...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and
thither by affections...
clearing, n. (3)
Pt1 3.38 3
Our log-rolling...the western clearing...are yet unsung.
Wth 6.86 11
One man has stronger arms or longer legs; another sees by the
course of streams and the growth of markets where land will be wanted,
makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and wakes up rich.
Res 8.152 6
When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from
memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/
he must...go...to the clearing and the brook.
clearing, v. (9)
SR 2.74 13
You may fulfil your round of duties by clearing yourself in the
direct, or in the reflex way.
ET5 5.98 2
For the administration of justice [in England], Sir Samuel
Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of business in Chancery was,
the Chancellor's staying away entirely from his court.
ET6 5.104 15
[The Englishman's] vivacity betrays itself...in...the
inarticulate noises he makes in clearing the throat;...
ET11 5.197 12
Now, said Nelson, when clearing for battle, a peerage, or
Westminster Abbey!
Pow 6.68 19
[Men of this surcharge of arterial blood] are made...for
mining, hunting and clearing;...
OA 7.331 17
Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in
completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all
old men in...clearing their titles...
SA 8.101 20
In America, the necessity of clearing the forest...exhausted
such means as the Pilgrims brought...
LLNE 10.354 26
Unless [the leader of a community] have a Cossack
roughness of clearing himself of what belongs not, charlatan he must be.
HDC 11.38 20
I seem to see [the settlers of Concord], with their pious
pastor, addressing themselves to the work of clearing the land.
clearly, adv. (15)
Tran 1.351 18
All that is clearly due to-day is not to lie.
Pol1 3.214 25
...when a quarter of the human race assume to tell me what I
must do, I may be too much disturbed by the circumstances to see so clearly
the absurdity of their command.
SwM 4.119 26
...[Swedenborg] affirms that he sees, with the internal sight,
the things that are in another life, more clearly than he sees the things which
are here in the world.
ET1 5.21 28
Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most obscurely. He was
clever and deep, but he defied the sympathies of every body. Even Mr.
Coleridge wrote more clearly...
PI 8.33 16
There is no choice of words for him who clearly sees the truth.
PC 8.205 7
...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all
creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant,/
Not clearly voiced, but waking a new sense/ Inviting to new knowledge,
one with old./
Schr 10.274 20
[The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to
deliver his message; if his voice is clear, then clearly;...
LS 11.15 13
In this manner we may see clearly enough how this ancient
ordinance [the Lord's Supper] got its footing among the early Christians...
LS 11.24 5
My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence
to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled
to consider whether it becomes me to administer it. I am clearly of opinion I
ought not.
HDC 11.77 19
[William Emerson], at least, saw clearly the pregnant
consequences of the 19th April [1775].
ACiv 11.301 16
...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small
owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any
change...
FRep 11.538 12
It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of
people. No...but whether we shall be...the guide and lawgiver of all nations,
as having clearly chosen and firmly held the simplest and best rule of
political society.
PLT 12.12 4
...he who who contents himself with...recording only what
facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he...
only draws that arc which he clearly sees...
MAng1 12.234 15
[Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar
eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and
angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find
occasion for devotion in the same figures.
MLit 12.319 23
[Shelley] is clearly modern...
clearness, n. (9)
DSA 1.144 16
The stationariness of religion;...the fear of degrading the
character of Jesus by representing him as a man; - indicate with sufficient
clearness the falsehood of our theology.
Int 2.331 24
We say I will walk abroad, and the truth will take form and
clearness to me.
ET15 5.262 15
England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who
possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs, expressing with
clearness and courage their opinion on any person or performance.
F 6.27 24
...when souls reach a certain clearness of perception they accept a
knowledge and motive above selfishness.
SA 8.102 7
I often hear the business of a little town...discussed with a
clearness and thoroughness...that would have satisfied me had it been in
one of the larger capitals.
Elo2 8.112 27
There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain
occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected,--that he can
paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a
company, as if they saw it done before their eyes.
SlHr 10.448 4
There was no elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] reading or tastes
beyond the crystal clearness of his mind.
War 11.161 2
[The idea that there can be peace as well as war] is
expounded, illustrated, defined, with different degrees of clearness;...
II 12.81 19
The haberdashers and brokers and attorneys are idealists and
only differ in the amount and clearness of their perception.
clears, v. (3)
ET8 5.138 18
[The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage,
but the temper of the nation...settles itself soon and easily, as, in this
temperate zone, the sky after whatever storms clears again...
Ill 6.325 25
Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to
baffle and distract [the young mortal]. And when...for an instant, the air
clears...there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones,--they
alone with him alone.
Civ 7.21 7
...the change of shores and population clears [a man's] head of
much nonsense of his wigwam.
clear-sighted, adj. (1)
Wth 6.93 14
Power is what [men of sense] want...power to execute their
design...which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the
universe exists...
cleave, v. (11)
SR 2.61 13
...millions of minds so grow and cleave to [Christ's] genius that
he is confounded with virtue...
SR 2.73 18
If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your
companions;...
Comp 2.92 7
Laurel crowns cleave to deserts/...
SwM 4.145 16
I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of
Indian legend, who says Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last
rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as
the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God.
GoW 4.267 9
The fiery reformer embodies his aspiration in some rite or
covenant, and he and his friends cleave to the form and lose the aspiration.
ET8 5.130 12
[Englishmen's] habits and instincts cleave to nature.
ET15 5.272 10
If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right...
Wsp 6.230 7
...cleave to the truth...and you gain a station from which you
cannot be dislodged.
CbW 6.244 1
Cleave to thine acre; the round year/ Will fetch all fruits and
virtues here/...
FSLC 11.205 23
The people cleave to the Union, because they see their
advantage in it...
PLT 12.6 20
My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is...that [the
student] shall see in [the mind] the source of all traditions, and shall see
each one of them as better or worse statement of its revelations; shall come
to trust it entirely, as the only true; to cleave to God against the name of
God.
cleaves, v. (8)
SL 2.148 22
[A man] cleaves to one person and avoids another, according
to their likeness or unlikeness to himself...
Lov1 2.171 26
...grief cleaves to names and persons and the partial interests
of to-day and yesterday.
DL 7.106 6
St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red
and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination
cleaves to the warm glories of that tinsel even now!
OA 7.336 4
I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the
doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution.
Plu 10.304 5
...[Plutarch]...cleaves to the security of prose narrative...
PLT 12.35 23
The mythology cleaves close to Nature;...
Bost 12.209 21
As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education
and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she
will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America.
Trag 12.406 9
Melancholy cleaves to the English mind in both hemispheres
as closely as to the strings of an Aeolian harp.
cleaving, v. (1)
ET11 5.178 25
This long descent of [English] families and this cleaving
through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination.
cleft, adj. (1)
Hist 2.20 12
The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of
the forest trees, with all their boughs, to a festal or solemn arcade; as the
bands about the cleft pillars still indicate the green withes that tied them.
cleft, n. (1)
Cour 7.278 13
One day as through the cleft/ Between two mountains
steep,/ Shut in both right and left,/ Their questing way they keep,/...
clefts, n. (1)
Cir 2.302 13
The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been
statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining, as we
see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts in June
and July.
clemency, n. (1)
War 11.153 2
The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried
and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above
each other by new merits, as clemency, hospitality, splendor of living.
Cleomenes, n. (1)
Chr1 3.89 8
The Gracchi, Agis, Cleomenes, and others of Plutarch's
heroes, do not in the record of facts equal their own fame.
Cleopatra, n. (4)
NER 3.274 24
Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia...offers to quit the
army, the empire, and Cleopatra, if [the Egyptian priest] will show him
those mysterious sources [of the Nile].
NER 3.276 16
...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness
and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no
longer,--it is time...with Caesar to take in his hand the army, the empire and
Cleopatra, and say, All these will I relinquish, if you will show me the
fountains of the Nile.
ET14 5.237 7
...nature, to pique the more, sometimes works up deformities
into beauty in some rare Aspasia or Cleopatra...
Boks 7.215 23
The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a
vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party.
A person of commanding individualism will answer it as...Cleopatra, as
Milton, as George Sand do...
clergy, n. (30)
AmS 1.94 12
I have heard it said that the clergy...are addressed as women;...
DSA 1.141 2
I know and honor the purity and strict conscience of numbers
of the clergy.
YA 1.392 23
Would [our youths and maidens] like tithes to the clergy...
SwM 4.100 23
[Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the
added fame...of extraordinary religious knowledge and gifts, drew to him
queens, nobles, clergy...
SwM 4.100 26
The clergy interfered a little with the importation and
publication of [Swedenborg's] religious works...
ET7 5.116 6
The faces of clergy and laity in old sculptures and illuminated
missals are charged with earnest belief.
ET11 5.173 17
The Anglican clergy are identified with the aristocracy.
ET13 5.216 12
The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the
boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals.
ET13 5.217 12
...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that
a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the
link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual
advancement of the age.
ET13 5.219 11
The [English] universities also are parcel of the
ecclesiastical system, and their first design is to form the clergy.
ET13 5.219 11
...the clergy for a thousand years have been the scholars of
the nation [England].
ET13 5.223 3
...the Anglican clergy are identified with the aristocracy.
ET13 5.223 15
The Anglican Church is marked...by the manly grace of its
clergy.
ET13 5.230 10
False position introduces cant, perjury, simony and ever a
lower class of mind and character into the [English] clergy...
Ctr 6.140 16
There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the
music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years. They are
past the help of surgeon or clergy.
Bty 6.284 25
The clergy have bronchitis, which does not seem a certificate
of spiritual health.
Bty 6.285 21
...the clergy are not victims of their pursuits more than others.
Elo2 8.127 10
Dr. Charles Chauncy was...a man of marked ability among
the clergy of New England.
Chr2 10.107 21
So of the changed position and manners of the clergy.
Chr2 10.115 23
...in every period of intellectual expansion, the Church
ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest and
freest minds...
Chr2 10.116 13
...the simple and free minds among our clergy have not
resisted the voice of Nature...
Prch 10.229 15
The clergy are as like as peas.
Prch 10.230 1
The clergy are always in danger of becoming wards and
pensioners of the so-called producing classes.
MoL 10.249 5
Coleridge traces three silent revolutions, of which the first
was when the clergy fell from the Church.
EzRy 10.384 1
[Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries, the old New England
clergy, were believers in what is called a particular providence...
HDC 11.72 3
The clergy of New England were, for the most part, zealous
promoters of the Revolution.
EWI 11.115 22
The clergy and missionaries throughout the island
[Antigua] were actively engaged, seizing the opportunity to enlighten the
people on all the duties and responsibilities of their new relation...
FSLN 11.228 2
...the decision of Webster [for the Fugitive Slave Law] was
accompanied with everything offensive to freedom and good morals. There
was something like an attempt to debauch the moral sentiment of the clergy
and of the youth.
FSLN 11.241 17
We should not forgive the clergy for taking on every issue
the immoral side;...
Bost 12.207 10
With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston]
took immense pleasure in...contravening the counsel of the clergy;...
clergyman, n. (15)
NER 3.253 12
[Other reformers] assailed particular vocations, as...that...of
the clergyman...
ET13 5.217 15
...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that
a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the
link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual
advancement of the age.
ET13 5.223 5
They say here [in England], that if you talk with a
clergyman, you are sure to find him well-bred, informed and candid...
ET13 5.223 8
...[the English clergyman] entertains your thought or your
project with sympathy and praise. But if a second clergyman come in, the
sympathy is at an end...
ET13 5.223 11
...whenever it comes to action, the [English] clergyman
invariably sides with his church.
CbW 6.263 22
I once asked a clergyman in a retired town, who were his
companions?...
Clbs 7.227 10
The clergyman walks from house to house all day all the
year to give people the comfort of good talk.
Grts 8.305 26
...there is not a piece of Nature in any kind but a man is born
who...aims...to dedicate himself to that. Then there is the poet...the
clergyman...
Chr2 10.107 25
...the distinctions of the true clergyman are not less
decisive.
Chr2 10.116 22
...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind,
retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they
are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel in France...he might
leave them locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons...
Supl 10.174 12
I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church
where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he
would go when the interesting Sundays were over.
Schr 10.264 21
The men committed by profession as well as by bias to
study, the clergyman, the chemist, the astronomer, the metaphysician...talk
hard and worldly...
LLNE 10.332 26
In the pulpit (for he was then a clergyman)...[Everett]
gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.
LLNE 10.345 5
The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety,
but must have taste...
EzRy 10.387 11
...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture
in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain.
Clergymen, Episcopal, n. (1)
FSLC 11.181 4
I met the smoothest of Episcopal Clergymen the other day...
clergymen, n. (12)
Chr2 10.107 9
Fifty or a hundred years ago...an exact observance of the
Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of clergymen.
Chr2 10.116 18
...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind,
retain the traditions...
Chr2 10.116 26
The orthodox clergymen hold a little firmer to [their
traditions]...
Prch 10.234 14
The supposed embarrassments to young clergymen exist
only to feeble wills.
MoL 10.243 8
...stray clergymen kept the bar in saloons [in California];...
LLNE 10.369 4
[Brook Farm] was a close union...of clergymen, young
collegians, merchants, mechanics, farmers' sons and daughters...
Thor 10.458 24
Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard
University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the
loan of books...to clergymen who were alumni...
HDC 11.31 16
Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a
distinguished minister of Woodhill, in Bedfordshire...
Wom 11.421 5
The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged...
against clergymen who take an active part in politics;...
Wom 11.421 6
The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged...
against clergymen who take an active part in politics;-that if they are good
clergymen they are unacquainted with the expediencies of politics...
Wom 11.421 9
The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged...
against clergymen who take an active part in politics;-that...if they
become good politicians they are worse clergymen.
CPL 11.499 8
I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody
Emerson], native of this town [Concord] (and descended from three of its
clergymen), who removed into Maine...
clerical, adj. (3)
MN 1.192 19
...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of
handicrafts and mechanics, how splendid soever the result, any more than I
admire the routine of the scholars or clerical class.
SwM 4.101 12
[Swedenborg] is described, when in London, as a man of a
quiet, clerical habit...
Bhr 6.181 2
The military eye I meet, now darkly sparkling under clerical,
now under rustic brows.
clerisy, n. (3)
Mrs1 3.144 19
The artist, the scholar, and, in general, the clerisy, win their
way up into these places [of fashion] and get represented here, somewhat
on this footing of conquest.
GoW 4.266 2
...there is a certain ridicule...thrown on the scholars or
clerisy...
MoL 10.254 21
The clerisy, the spiritual guides...have been false to their
trust.
Clerk, John. (1)
ET5 5.86 14
Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of
sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval
tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
clerk, n. (6)
NER 3.255 26
...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of
resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers...who reply to the assessor
and to the clerk of court that they do not know the State...
ET1 5.24 8
...[Wordsworth] led me into the enclosure of his clerk...
ET6 5.106 3
[The Englishman] withholds his name. At the hotel, he is
hardly willing to whisper it to the clerk at the book-office.
Pow 6.79 22
To have learned the use of the tools, by thousands of
manipulations; to have learned the arts of reckoning, by endless adding and
dividing, is the power of the mechanic and the clerk.
FSLC 11.199 13
There is not a clerk but recites [slavery's] statistics;...
ACiv 11.302 19
Government must not be a parish clerk...
clerks, n. (11)
AmS 1.107 19
Wake [men] and they shall...leave governments to clerks
and desks.
Mrs1 3.123 22
In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better
promise than talkers and clerks.
ET4 5.71 21
Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians [in England]
like the company of horses better than the company of professors.
ET8 5.134 12
...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men
of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture; war-class as well as clerks;...
ET13 5.220 2
These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by
atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men;
plenty of clerks and bishops, who, out of their gowns, would turn their
backs on no man.
ET18 5.302 27
...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage,
through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and
stoutness! What courage in war...what clerks and scholars!
F 6.41 3
Ducks take to the water...clerks to counting-rooms...
Pow 6.58 14
...the lawyer's authorities are hunted up by clerks;...
Elo1 7.88 12
The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the
law, which...is a rarest gift, being...in lawyers nothing technical, but always
some piece of common sense, alike interesting to laymen as to clerks.
Boks 7.215 8
...I often see traces of the Scotch or the French novel in the
courtesy and brilliancy of young midshipmen, collegians and clerks.
HDC 11.84 7
The old town clerks did not spell very correctly...
clerk's, n. (2)
Wth 6.102 8
...the clerk's [dollar] is light and nimble;...
HDC 11.64 9
Some interesting peculiarities in the manners and customs of
the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books. Proposals of marriage
were made by the parents of the parties, and minutes of such private
agreements sometimes entered on the clerk's records.
Cleveland, Duke of [William (1)
ET11 5.182 10
From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three
miles...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.
clever, adj. (7)
GoW 4.270 24
[Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic
characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no
Chatham, but any number of clever parliamentary and forensic debaters;...
ET1 5.21 26
Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most obscurely. He was
clever and deep, but he defied the sympathies of every body.
ET6 5.114 10
Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of clever
projects...
ET8 5.140 11
Haldor...told his opinion bluntly and was obstinate and hard:
and this could not please the king, who had many clever people about him...
ET15 5.262 13
England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who
possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs...
ET15 5.262 21
Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and
Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or
short essays for a journal, as they make speeches in Parliament and on the
hustings...
Wth 6.86 14
A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of
steam;...
cleverer, adj. (1)
ET16 5.278 16
I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's
Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain
that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these
rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.
cleverness, n. (2)
MMEm 10.413 7
I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday five or more
miles...just fit for the society I went into, all mildness and the most
commonplace virtue. The lady is celebrated for her cleverness, and she was
never so good to me.
PLT 12.57 2
If a man show cleverness...people clap their hands without
asking more.
clew, n. (2)
ET16 5.281 8
...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of
that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury,
there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position. In the
silence of tradition, this one relation to science becomes an important
clew;...
OA 7.329 22
We carry in memory important anecdotes, and have lost all
clew to the author from whom we had them.
client, n. (11)
SR 2.72 6
Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at
once at thy closet door...
SL 2.157 3
I have heard an experienced counsellor say that he never feared
the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his
client ought to have a verdict.
Chr1 3.99 14
I revere the person who is riches; so that I cannot think of
him as alone, or poor, or exiled, or unhappy, or a client...
F 6.45 24
Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious nature] has curculios,
borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client...
CbW 6.245 19
The lawyer advises the client, and tells his story to the jury
and leaves it with them...
CbW 6.245 21
The lawyer...is as gay and as much relieved as the client if it
turns out that he has a verdict.
OA 7.326 2
Thirty years ago it was a serious concern to [the lawyer]
whether his pleading was good and effective. Now it is of importance to his
client, but of none to himself.
SlHr 10.442 15
Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors
who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had
said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
EWI 11.136 7
I was a slave, said the counsel of [George] Somerset,
speaking for his client, for I was in America...
FSLN 11.225 20
Who doubts the power of any fluent debater to defend...
any client in our courts?
EPro 11.318 6
...when we see how the great stake which foreign nations
hold in our affairs has recently brought every European power as a client
into this court...one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation] was
too long.
clients, n. (6)
SR 2.61 10
...posterity seem to follow [a true man's] steps as a train of
clients.
Wsp 6.235 4
[Benedict said] I seem to fail in my friends and clients, too.
Elo1 7.80 6
A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty
thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad
companies before committees of the House of Commons. His clients pay
not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments...
PC 8.230 23
Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry
politicians...pledged to parties, pledged to clients...
GSt 10.502 26
[George Stearns] did not hesitate to become the banker of
his clients...
Let 12.404 7
We must refer our clients back to themselves, believing that
every man knows in his heart the cure for the disease he so ostentatiously
bewails.
client's, n. (1)
Aris 10.50 7
When the lawyer tries his case in court...his own merits appear
as well as his client's.
clientship, n. (1)
Wth 6.90 17
...no system of clientship suits [the Saxons];...
cliff, n. (3)
MN 1.220 19
Shall we not...betake ourselves to some desert cliff of Mount
Katahdin...
ET11 5.179 16
Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on...
CL 12.156 3
...a view from a cliff over a wide country undoes a good deal
of prose...
clifflike, adj. (1)
ET1 5.15 10
[Carlyle] was tall and gaunt, with a clifflike brow...
cliffs, n. (2)
Thor 10.484 10
There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the
most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...
Thor 10.484 15
There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the
most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter...
climbs the cliffs to gather...
cliff-swallows, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.119 22
In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in
caves, like cliff-swallows...
climate, n. (81)
Nat 1.22 6
Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in
our memory with the geography and climate of Greece.
Nat 1.36 5
Space...climate...give us sincerest lessons...whose meaning is
unlimited.
LT 1.261 26
We do not think the sky will be bluer...or our climate more
temperate...
Tran 1.353 2
I wish to exchange...this fever-glow for a benign climate.
SR 2.82 27
...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done
by him, considering the climate...he will create a house in which [beauty,
convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
Comp 2.98 2
The influences of climate and soil in political history is
another [instance of Compensation].
Comp 2.98 3
The cold climate invigorates.
Prd1 2.224 20
...our existence...so susceptible to climate and to country...
reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
Prd1 2.225 2
[Prudence] respects...climate, want, sleep...
Prd1 2.226 1
...climate is a great impediment to idle persons;...
Prd1 2.234 1
Health, bread, climate, social position, have their importance...
Hsm1 2.258 4
A great man makes his climate genial in the imagination of
men...
Cir 2.311 14
The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday,--
property, climate...and the like, have strangely changed their proportions.
Nat2 3.169 1
There are days which occur in this climate...wherein the
world reaches its perfection;...
UGM 4.4 2
You say...in Valencia the climate is delicious;...
UGM 4.35 10
It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the
seeds of science and of song, that climate, corn, animals, men, may be
milder...
MoS 4.177 16
What can I do...against climate, against barbarism, in my
country?
ET3 5.38 14
The climate [in England] is warmer by many degrees than it is
entitled to by latitude.
ET3 5.39 25
The London fog...sometimes justifies the epigram on the
climate by an English wit, in a fine day, looking up a chimney; in a foul
day, looking down one.
ET3 5.40 5
It is...pretended that the enormous consumption of coal in the
island [England] is also felt in modifying the general climate.
ET3 5.40 6
Factitious climate, factitious position [in England].
ET4 5.48 2
Race is a controlling influence in the Jew, who, for two
millenniums, under every climate, has preserved the same character and
employments.
ET4 5.53 17
In Ireland are the same climate and soil as in England, but less
food...
ET5 5.94 2
The climate and geography [of England], I said, were
factitious...
ET5 5.95 17
By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of
acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with
the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too...is so far reached by
this new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
ET6 5.107 11
Born in a harsh and wet climate...[the Englishman] dearly
loves his house.
ET8 5.135 20
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...catching from their savage climate every fine hint...
ET10 5.159 24
England already had this laborious race, rich soil...and
favorable climate.
ET11 5.196 17
Here [in England] at last were climate and condition
friendly to the working faculty.
F 6.7 15
The planet is liable to...alterations of climate...
F 6.7 21
...the sword of the climate in the west of Africa...cut off men like a
massacre.
F 6.9 4
...so is sex; so is climate; so is the reaction of talents imprisoning
the vital power in certain directions.
F 6.30 14
...we gladly forget numbers, money, climate, gravitation...
F 6.31 7
...in dealing with steam and climate...[men] think they come under
another [dominion];...
Pow 6.56 23
[A strong pulse] is like the climate, which easily rears a crop
which no glass, or irrigation, or tillage, or manures can elsewhere rival.
Wth 6.86 27
...coal is a portable climate.
Bty 6.282 13
However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders
in [astrology], the hint was true and divine...that climate, century, remote
natures as well as near, are part of [the soul's] biography.
Civ 7.25 25
Climate has much to do with this melioration.
Civ 7.26 6
High degrees of moral sentiment control the unfavorable
influences of climate;...
Civ 7.26 11
These feats are measures or traits of civility; and temperate
climate is an important influence...
Civ 7.34 13
...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or
equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous; and no advantages of soil,
climate or coast can resist these suicidal mischiefs.
Elo1 7.68 13
Climate has much to do with [eloquence],--climate and race.
Elo1 7.69 1
Our Southern people are almost all speakers, and have every
advantage over the New England people, whose climate is so cold that 't is
said we do not like to open our mouths very wide.
DL 7.112 4
The shortest enumeration of our wants in this rugged climate
appalls us by the multitude of things not easy to be done.
DL 7.133 10
These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the
household is instituted and the roof-tree stands. If these are sought and in
any good degree attained...can climate...yield anything better, or half as
good"
Farm 7.148 14
...this shelter creates a new climate.
Farm 7.149 16
See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he
alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through
constant evaporation...
WD 7.177 13
That is good which commends to me my country, my
climate, my means and materials, my associates.
Res 8.141 7
Ah! what a plastic little creature [man] is!...he making himself
comfortable in every climate, in every condition.
Res 8.150 17
In this country we have not learned how to repair the
exhaustions of our climate.
PC 8.207 18
Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as
in America to-day?...the hungry cry for men which goes up from the wide
continent; the answering facility of immigration, permitting every wanderer
to choose his climate and government.
PPo 8.239 5
The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a
highly intellectual organization...
Imtl 8.324 17
The credence of men, more than race or climate, makes their
manners and customs;...
Imtl 8.337 22
I have seen what glories of climate...
Supl 10.176 13
...the expression of character...is, in great degree, a matter
of climate.
EWI 11.119 3
The planter...has contracted in his indolent and luxurious
climate the need of excitement by irritating and tormenting his slave.
EWI 11.125 13
It was shown to the planters...that their estates were ruining
them, under the finest climate;...
FSLC 11.206 6
It is not slavery that severs [the North and the South], it is
climate and temperament.
EdAd 11.387 12
...every acre on the globe, every family of men, every
point of climate, has its distinguishing virtues.
SHC 11.432 9
...how much more are [parks] needed by us...to stanch and
appease that fury of temperament which our climate bestows!
CL 12.139 11
We have the finest climate in the world, for this purpose
[listening to Nature], in Massachusetts.
CL 12.139 17
New England has a good climate...
CL 12.139 21
Our climate is a series of surprises...
CL 12.139 25
The [Massachusetts] climate needs...to be corrected by a
little anthracite coal...
CL 12.140 7
...we cannot overpraise the comfort and the beauty of the
[Massachusetts] climate in the best days of the year.
CL 12.152 13
The leaf in our dry climate gets fully ripe...
CL 12.152 15
The leaf in our dry climate gets fully ripe, and...acquires fine
color, whilst, in Europe, the damper climate decomposes it too soon.
CL 12.153 18
Shores in sight of each other in a warm climate make boat-builders;...
Bost 12.183 17
There is the climate of the Sahara: a climate where the
sunbeams are vertical;...
Bost 12.183 24
Such is the assimilating force of the Indian climate that Sir
Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of
all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.
Bost 12.184 14
How can we not believe in influences of climate and air...
Bost 12.185 10
...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger
range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of
extremes...
Bost 12.185 19
[Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows
rather, of east winds and changing skies; visited by icebergs, which,
floating by, nip with their cool breath our blossoms. Not a luxurious
climate...
Bost 12.185 21
Give me a climate where people think well and construct
well,-I will spend six months there, and you may have all the rest of my
years.
Bost 12.186 17
New England is a sort of Scotland. 'T is hard to say why.
Climate is much;...
Bost 12.205 20
The power of labor which belongs to the English race fell
here into a climate which befriended it...
Bost 12.208 22
The climate [of Boston] is electric, good for wit and good
for character.
MLit 12.318 26
This new love of the vast, always native in Germany...
finds a most genial climate in the American mind.
MLit 12.324 25
It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of
every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his
explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as
growing out of the Italian climate;...
climates, n. (25)
Nat 1.13 1
What angels invented...this striped coat of climates...
Prd1 2.226 20
...the inhabitants of these [northern] climates have always
excelled the southerner in force.
Prd1 2.236 9
...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human
word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and
thither, and, by persistency, make the paltry force of one man reappear to
redeem its pledge after months and years in the most distant climates.
Cir 2.311 17
...literatures, cities, climates, religions, leave their
foundations...
Pt1 3.9 14
[A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low
limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line, running up from a torrid base
through all the climates of the globe...
Nat2 3.179 23
A little heat...is all that differences the...deadly cold poles of
the earth from the prolific tropical climates.
ET8 5.127 3
I do not know that [the English] have sadder brows than their
neighbors of northern climates.
ET18 5.303 22
...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded
forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred
years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted
through all climates...
Wth 6.88 3
...here we must recite the iron law which nature thunders in
these northern climates.
Wth 6.89 22
...fruits of all climates;...are [man's] natural playmates...
CbW 6.264 21
'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs nothing, such are its
preserving qualities in damp climates.
DL 7.112 3
...the wealth and multiplication of conveniences embarrass us,
especially in northern climates.
WD 7.160 10
What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha, which
make...rain-proof coats for all climates...
Clbs 7.225 11
Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects...are the necessity
of this exigent system of ours.
Aris 10.32 19
It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I
am describing...a chapter of Templars who sit indifferently in all climates...
Edc1 10.127 6
Certain nations...usually in more temperate climates, have
made such progress as to compare with these [savages] as these compare
with the bear and the wolf.
Supl 10.176 13
In the temperate climates there is a temperate speech...
Supl 10.176 14
In the temperate climates there is a temperate speech, in
torrid climates an ardent one.
EWI 11.102 17
These men [negro slaves]...producers of comfort and
luxury for the civilized world,-there seated in the finest climates of the
globe, children of the sun,-I am heart-sick when I read how they came
there, and how they are kept there.
EdAd 11.386 19
...who can see the continent with...its temperate climates...
without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this
muster of nations...is made?
CL 12.140 3
I own I prefer the solar to the polar climates.
CL 12.145 11
...whole zones and climates [Nature] has concentrated into
apples.
Bost 12.183 3
The old physiologists...watched the effect of different
climates.
Bost 12.185 6
Who lives one year in Boston ranges through all the climates
of the globe.
Bost 12.196 25
...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which
the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor
but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.
climax, n. (2)
ET9 5.145 21
When [the Englishman] adds epithets of praise, his climax is,
so English;...
Comc 8.165 20
The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual
Church is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious
sentiment...
climb, v. (11)
Hist 2.36 20
Put Napoleon in an island prison, let his faculties find...no
Alps to climb...and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
Art1 2.349 25
'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man
in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of one
element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to
climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/...
Exp 3.62 17
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry
and lifeless science...
Pol1 3.218 22
Like one class of forest animals, [senators and presidents]
have nothing but a prehensile tail; climb they must, or crawl.
MoS 4.159 9
...let us learn and get and have and climb.
CbW 6.243 15
...Only the light-armed climb the hill./
Art2 7.55 2
The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its
origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the
street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they
climb on fences or window-sills...
DL 7.101 2
I reached the middle of the mount/ Up which the incarnate soul
must climb/...
MMEm 10.422 16
...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all
around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or
pebbles, bugs, or bubbles. Sometimes they climb, sometimes creep into the
meanest holes...
Thor 10.469 26
[Thoreau] wore a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray
trousers...to climb a tree for a hawk's or a squirrel's nest.
CL 12.144 7
In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the
more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that
if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill
on your way out or on your way back.
climbed, v. (5)
Pol1 3.218 14
Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain
enough...
ET16 5.285 6
We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall]
built by Inigo Jones...climbed to the lonely sculptured summer-house...
Pow 6.72 23
...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind
the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them
with glue and water with his own hands, and having after many trials at last
suited himself, climbed his ladders, and painted away...the sibyls and
prophets.
PLT 12.58 10
The expansions [of the Intellect] are the invitations from
heaven to try...a higher pitch than we have yet climbed...
CL 12.155 17
...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth
of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one
fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
climbers, n. (1)
ET14 5.238 9
[British] minds...were...climbers on the staircase of unity.
climbing, adj. (3)
Exp 3.63 22
...the exclusion...reaches the climbing, flying, gliding,
feathered and four-footed man.
Bty 6.306 11
...there is a climbing scale of culture...
ACiv 11.304 18
On the climbing scale of progress, [the Southerner] is just
up to war...
climbing, v. (7)
NMW 4.235 11
There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said; and he built his
perfect roads, climbing by graded galleries their steepest precipices...
ET2 5.30 18
...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little
boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port...
having no money and wishing to go to England. The sailors have dressed
him in Guernsey frock...and he is climbing nimbly about after them;...
Ctr 6.143 24
...skating, climbing...are lessons in the art of power...
Bhr 6.192 6
We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step,
[the boy's] climbing...
Aris 10.59 17
...I hear the complaint of the aspirant...that there is no...stern
exclusive Legion of Honor, to be entered only by long and real service and
patient climbing up all the steps.
SMC 11.373 7
After driving the enemy from the railroad, crossing it, and
climbing the farther bank to continue the charge, [George Prescott] was
struck...by a musket-ball...
EurB 12.369 8
...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the
conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by
Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...from the lessons which the country
muse taught a stout pedestrian climbing a mountain...
climbs, v. (7)
SwM 4.109 8
...every thing at the end of one use is lifted into a superior,
and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.
ET14 5.257 24
...[Tennyson] wants a subject, and climbs no mount of
vision to bring its secrets to the people.
Wth 6.126 13
[The liquor of life] passes through the sacred fermentations,
by that law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms...
WD 7.162 21
Civilization mounts and climbs.
Thor 10.484 15
There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the
most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter...
climbs the cliffs to gather...
War 11.161 15
The star once risen...will mount and mount, until it...climbs
the zenith of all eyes.
II 12.70 4
The star climbs for a time the heaven, but never reaches its
zenith;...
clime, n. (3)
DL 7.111 13
The progress of domestic living has been...in the
concentration of all the utilities of every clime in each house.
Farm 7.153 21
[The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would
appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature...
RBur 11.438 4
He was the music to whose tone/ The common pulse of man
keeps time/ In cot or castle's mirth or moan,/ In cold or sunny clime./
clinch, v. (3)
ET5 5.88 27
I know not from which of the tribes and temperaments that
went to the composition of the people [of England] this tenacity was
supplied, but they clinch every nail they drive.
Mem 12.107 14
...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the
nail overnight and clinching it next morning. Only I should give extension
to this rule and say, Yes, drive the nail this week and clinch it the next...
Mem 12.107 15
...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the
nail overnight and clinching it next morning. Only I should give extension
to this rule and say, Yes, drive the nail this week and clinch it the next, and
drive it this year and clinch it the next.
clinching, v. (1)
Mem 12.107 12
...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the
nail overnight and clinching it next morning.
cling, v. (14)
SwM 4.144 25
[Swedenborg] elected goodness as the clue to which the
soul must cling in all this labyrinth of nature.
SwM 4.144 27
In the shipwreck, some cling to running rigging, some to
cask and barrel...
NMW 4.252 27
The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the
terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave, who in
their despair...would cling to red-hot iron...make [Napoleon's] history
bright and commanding.
ET1 5.5 3
I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my
first belief that a strong head will dispose fast enough of these
impediments...
ET13 5.228 26
The English...cling to the last rag of form, and are
dreadfully given to cant.
F 6.6 14
Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town.
CbW 6.267 20
...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy
of a protecting domestic horizon.
OA 7.316 5
Cicero makes no reference to the illusions which cling to the
element of time...
PI 8.12 19
Imaginative minds cling to their images...
QO 8.187 18
If we observe the tenacity with which nations cling to their
first types of costume...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the
latest.
MoL 10.244 6
...[the Hebrew nation's] poems and histories cling to the soil
of this globe like the primitive rocks.
JBS 11.277 13
...I mean, in the few remarks I have to make, to cling to
[John Brown's] history...
SMC 11.350 4
...we shall cling affectionately to our houses, our river and
pastures...
SHC 11.431 17
Shadows haunt [trees]; all that ever lived about them cling
to them.
clinging, v. (7)
SwM 4.128 13
I know how delicious is this cup of love...but it is a child's
clinging to his toy;...
ET1 5.15 13
[Carlyle] was...self-possessed...clinging to his northern accent
with evident relish;...
ET14 5.258 19
For a self-conceited modish life...clinging to a corporeal
civilization...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.
Grts 8.308 5
Clinging to Nature, or to that province of Nature which he
knows, [the commander] makes no mistakes...
Prch 10.229 5
...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions, as
betrayed in the clinging to a form of devotion or a theological dogma;...
FRep 11.535 6
...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions...
we should feel this...absurdly out of place.
PLT 12.36 3
[Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains...clinging to his
behemoth ways.
clings, v. (8)
Ctr 6.150 24
[The man of the world's] conversation clings to the weather
and the news...
Bhr 6.191 10
...when a man does not write his poetry it...clings to his form
and manners...
CbW 6.277 7
How respectable the life that clings to its objects!
Farm 7.139 20
[The farmer]...clings to his land as the rocks do.
WD 7.157 14
The apprentice clings to his foot-rule;...
Chr2 10.114 2
The Church...clings to the miraculous...
Schr 10.285 19
Genius has truth and clings to it...
Trag 12.413 18
Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his
proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...
Clinton, Massachusetts, n. (1)
F 6.42 26
We know in Massachusetts...who built...Clinton...
Clio, n. (1)
Insp 8.287 10
I confide that my reader...has perhaps Slighted Minerva's
learned tongue,/ But leaped with joy when on the wind the shell of Clio
rung./
clipped, v. (1)
Plu 10.315 2
At Rome [Plutarch] thinks [Fortune's] wings were clipped...
clique, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.125 20
Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between
power and money] is, which transcends the habits of clique and caste...
Clissold, Augustus, n. (1)
SwM 4.111 18
This startling reappearance of Swedenborg...is not the least
remarkable fact in his history. Aided it is said by the munificence of Mr.
Clissold, and also by his literary skill, this piece of poetic justice is done.
cloak, n. (10)
Fdsp 2.197 22
Thou [my friend] hast come to me lately, and already thou
art seizing thy hat and cloak.
NR 3.227 6
[A person who makes a good public appearance] is a graceful
cloak or lay-figure for holidays.
DL 7.123 1
In the old fables we used to read of a cloak brought from fairy-land
as a gift for the fairest and purest in Prince Arthur's court.
WD 7.170 22
'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...the
fashion of a cloak or hat;...
Cour 7.268 20
The beautiful voice at church...covers up in its volume, as in
a cloak, all the defects of the choir.
Suc 7.297 20
...[the youth] can read Plato, covered to his chin with a cloak
in a cold upper chamber...
Res 8.144 27
See how Nature keeps the lakes warm by tucking them up
under a blanket of ice, and the ground under a cloak of snow.
Dem1 10.5 11
The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat
or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer;...
Dem1 10.25 15
[Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which
was open to the imagination of childhood-of...the travelling cloak, the
shoes of swiftness and the sword of sharpness...
Mem 12.104 4
In low or bad company you fold yourself in your cloak...
recall and surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of
your life...
Cloak, Travelling, n. (1)
QO 8.186 21
There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the
human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...The Travelling Cloak...
cloak, v. (1)
Wth 6.111 20
We must use the means, and yet, in our most accurate using
somehow screen and cloak them...
cloaks, n. (2)
DSA 1.137 17
We are fain to wrap our cloaks about us, and secure...a
solitude that hears not.
Fdsp 2.197 13
...I see well that, for all his purple cloaks, I shall not like [the
party you praise], unless he is at least a poor Greek like me.
cloak-string, n. (1)
ET4 5.59 4
The sight of a tent-cord or a cloak-string puts [Norsemen] on
hanging somebody...
clock, n. (15)
Nat 1.18 22
The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides,
which makes the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours, will
make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
Nat 1.38 1
...Property...is the surface action of internal machinery, like the
index on the face of a clock.
Prd1 2.227 6
The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen
clock...has solaces which others never dream of.
Cir 2.311 12
We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols
which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the
god...and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which shrouded all things,
and the meaning...of chair and clock and tester, is manifest.
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/...
UGM 4.21 27
I go to a convention of philanthropists. Do what I can, I
cannot keep my eyes off the clock.
UGM 4.22 9
...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul
who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or
time, or human body,--that man liberates me; I forget the clock.
PI 8.7 6
...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose
brain it belongs to;...and goes whirling off...in a direction self-chosen, by
law of thought and not by law of kitchen clock or county committee.
PI 8.23 26
The senses imprison us, and we help them with metres as
limitary,--with a pair of scales and a foot-rule and a clock.
SA 8.84 5
...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our
countenance and carriage, as the lapse of time tells itself on the face of a
clock.
PC 8.212 24
The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen
clock...
Edc1 10.153 6
...[the teacher] cannot delight in personal relations with
young friends, when his eye is always on the clock...
MMEm 10.433 5
Shall we not keep Flamsteed and Herschel in the
observatory, though it should even be proved that they neglected to rectify
their own kitchen clock?
HDC 11.49 15
...in the clock on the church, [the people of Concord] read
their own power...
EWI 11.114 23
On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the
West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at
midnight, when the clock struck twelve, on their knees, the silent, weeping
assembly became men;...
clocks, n. (1)
PC 8.214 22
...[The Middle Ages']...mariner's compass, gunpowder, glass,
paper and clocks;...are the delight and tuition of ours.
clod, n. (4)
UGM 4.9 12
The earth rolls; every clod and stone comes to the meridian...
SovE 10.194 16
A man should be...a guest in his own thought. He is there
to speak for truth; but who is he? Some clod the truth has snatched from the
ground, and with fire has fashioned to a momentary man.
SovE 10.194 19
A man should be...a guest in his own thought. He is there
to speak for truth; but who is he? Some clod the truth has snatched from the
ground, and with fire has fashioned to a momentary man. Without the truth,
he is a clod again.
WSL 12.339 2
...[Landor] delights to throw a clod of dirt on the table, and
cry, Gentlemen, there is a better man than all of you.
clods, n. (1)
FSLC 11.178 11
...Fate's grass grows rank in valley clods,/ And rankly on
the castled steep,-/ Speak it firmly, these [Eternal Rights] are gods,/ Are
all ghosts beside./
clogs, n. (1)
F 6.36 5
Liberation of the will from the sheaths and clogs of organization...
is the end and aim of this world.
clogs, v. (1)
ET18 5.300 16
Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state...
cloister, n. (2)
ET16 5.284 24
...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall],
and a quadrangle cloister full of antique and modern statuary...yet the eye
was still drawn to the windows...
Schr 10.261 8
...the society of lettered men is a university which does not
bound itself with the walls of one cloister or college...
cloistered, adj. (1)
Hsm1 2.259 10
...why should a woman...think, because...the cloistered
souls who have had genius and cultivation do not satisfy the imagination
and the serene Themis, none can,--certainly not she?
cloistered, v. (1)
Chr1 3.106 8
...nature advertises me in such [nonconforming] persons that
in democratic America she will not be democratized. How cloistered and
constitutionally sequestered from the market and from scandal!
cloisters, n. (1)
ET12 5.199 17
My new friends [at Oxford] showed me their cloisters...