Comity to Commuted
comity, n. (4)
MoS 4.181 23
It is the rule of mere comity and courtesy to agree where you
can...
ET11 5.176 20
...the virtues of pirates gave way [in England] to those of
planters, merchants, senators and scholars. Comity, social talent and fine
manners, no doubt, have had their part also.
Ill 6.315 9
We must not carry comity too far...
ChiE 11.472 10
...China...thirty centuries before New York, had the custom
of New Year's calls of comity and reconciliation.
command, n. (61)
Nat 1.40 12
[Man] forges the...air...into...words, and gives them wing as
angels of persuasion and command.
Con 1.312 5
...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the
established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command;...
Tran 1.351 12
...I will not move until I have the highest command.
YA 1.377 12
...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans...
new command takes place, new servants and new masters.
Hist 2.6 2
...all [laws] express more or less distinctly some command of this
supreme, illimitable essence [the universal nature].
Pt1 3.9 6
I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent
writer of lyrics...whose skill and command of language we could not
sufficiently praise.
Exp 3.72 20
...the question ever is, not what you have done or forborne, but
at whose command you have done or forborne it.
Chr1 3.94 11
How often has the influence of a true master realized all the
tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into
all those who beheld him...
Chr1 3.113 5
...we are hunted by some fear or command behind us.
Mrs1 3.119 16
If the house do not please [the inhabitants of Gournou], they
walk out and enter another, as there are several hundreds at their command.
Pol1 3.214 26
...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.
PPh 4.56 1
...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in
staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the
other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much
transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain
the power and the charm of Plato.
PNR 4.87 13
[Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to
pious and to poetic souls; but this well-bred, all-knowing Greek geometer
comes with command, gathers them all up into rank and gradation...
ShP 4.217 13
[Shakespeare] converted the elements which waited on his
command, into entertainments.
ET1 5.15 12
[Carlyle] was...self-possessed and holding his extraordinary
powers of conversation in easy command;...
ET6 5.102 18
...Sydney Smith had made it a proverb that little Lord John
Russell, the minister, would take command of the Channel fleet to-morrow.
ET14 5.257 15
There is no finer ear, nor more command of the keys of
language [than Tennyson's].
Pow 6.79 13
...six hours a day at painting, only to give command of the
odious materials...
Pow 6.79 17
The masters say that they know a master in music, only by
seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;--so difficult and vital an act is the
command of the instrument.
Wth 6.95 26
I have never seen a man...with an adequate command of
nature.
Wth 6.96 6
Men are urged by their ideas to acquire the command over
nature.
Ctr 6.153 27
We spawning, spawning myrmidons,/ Our turn to-day! we
take command,/ Jove gives the globe into the hand/ Of myrmidons, of
myrmidons./
Bty 6.300 12
If command...exist in the most deformed person, all the
accidents that usually displease, please...
Elo1 7.91 19
...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man who, in
prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of
representing his ideas...
WD 7.163 12
Man flatters himself that his command over Nature must
increase.
Cour 7.254 27
...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to
come at their end;...looks at all men as wax for his hands; takes command
of them as the wind does of clouds...
Cour 7.263 17
The sailor loses fear as fast as he acquires command of sails
and spars and steam;...
Cour 7.266 18
Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy
without command in the Temple at Delphi...fell into convulsions and died.
PI 8.17 14
[Poetry] is a presence of mind that gives a miraculous command
of all means of uttering the thought and feeling of the moment.
PI 8.30 13
...the moment the orator loses command of his audience, the
audience commands him.
Elo2 8.110 7
...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire
to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge
of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...like so many
nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command...
Elo2 8.115 26
[The orator's speech] is action, as the general's word of
command or chart of battle is action.
Elo2 8.129 11
...having recovered his spirits and the command of his
faculties, [Lord Ashley] drew such an argument from his own confusion as
more advantaged his cause that all the powers of eloquence could have
done.
PPo 8.241 4
When all [the troops and spirits] were in order, the east wind,
at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that
were upon it, whither he pleased...
Insp 8.281 20
When we...have come to believe that an image or a happy
turn of expression is no longer at our command, in writing a letter to a
friend we may find that we rise...to a cordial power of expression that costs
no effort...
Chr2 10.93 17
...the sense of Right and Wrong, is alike in all. Its attributes
are self-existence, eternity, intuition and command.
Chr2 10.97 25
...in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and
command;...
Chr2 10.102 25
Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest appear solitary, like a
general without his command...
Chr2 10.115 20
Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the
manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan
philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus are
better, but that they do not invade his freedom; because they are only
suggestions, whilst the other adds the inadmissible claim...of an external
command, where command cannot be.
Chr2 10.121 10
Command is exceptional, and marks some break in the link
of reason;...
MoL 10.252 12
...I am here to commend to you your art and profession as
thinkers. It is real. It is the secret of power. It is the art of command.
MMEm 10.428 9
The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain
disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I [Mary Moody Emerson]
rose,-I felt that I...had promised [God] in youth that to be a blot on this
fair world, at His command, would be acceptable.
Thor 10.480 16
...[Thoreau] seemed born for great enterprise and for
command;...
Carl 10.493 7
If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory
and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who
will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer,
is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
HDC 11.57 18
In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to
raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics, and
appointed Major Simon Willard, of this town [Concord], to the command.
HDC 11.73 11
Eight hundred British soldiers, under the command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Smith, had marched from Boston to Concord;...
HDC 11.73 18
When [British troops] entered Concord, they found the
militia and minute-men assembled under the command of Colonel Barrett
and Major Buttrick.
HDC 11.74 21
Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and gave the
command to fire...
FSLC 11.192 7
Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his
letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful
inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good
citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
HCom 11.344 14
One mother said, when her son was offered the command
of the first negro regiment, If he accepts it, I shall be as proud as if I had
heard that he was shot.
SMC 11.367 10
...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last, under the
command of Colonel Prescott, to an excellent reputation...
SMC 11.370 24
Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which
was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George
Prescott] was satisfied, and he and his command held their ground manfully.
SMC 11.372 17
June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An
awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command;...
SMC 11.373 8
...[George Prescott] was struck, in front of his command, by
a musket-ball...
Mem 12.94 24
Memory was called by the schoolmen vespertina cognitio,
evening knowledge, in distinction from the command of the future which
we have by the knowledge of causes, and which they called matutina
cognitio, or morning knowledge.
Mem 12.95 11
This command of old facts...is our splendid privilege.
Bost 12.198 10
...no habit of command...can bestow that delicacy and
grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial
conversation.
Milt1 12.262 11
...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed
with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to
infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak,
his words...trip about him at command...
Milt1 12.266 22
[Milton] told the bishops that instead of showing the
reason of their lowly condition from divine example and command, they
seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.
ACri 12.285 16
...[George Borrow] had one clear perception, that the key
to every country was command of the language of the common people.
MLit 12.332 27
...they have served [humanity] better, who assured it out of
the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this
majestic Artist [Goethe], with all the treasuries of wit, of science, and of
power at his command.
command, v. (48)
DSA 1.124 26
Wonderful is [the religious sentiment's] power to charm and
to command.
DSA 1.137 2
The test of the true faith, certainly, should be its power to
charm and command the soul...
DSA 1.141 9
What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered
company of pious men...who...have...accepted...from their own heart, the
genuine impulses of virtue, and so still command our love and awe...
LE 1.160 7
...neither Greece nor Rome...is to command any longer.
Con 1.307 16
[The youth says] Like the Persian noble of old, I ask that I
may neither command nor obey.
Con 1.318 8
These considerations...must needs command the sympathy of
all reasonable persons.
YA 1.384 22
These rising grounds which command the champaign below,
seem to ask for lords...
SR 2.62 10
The picture...is not to command me...
SR 2.65 12
...the idlest reverie, the faintest native emotion, command my
curiosity and respect.
SL 2.145 19
All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in
awe, were unable to command her diplomacy.
SL 2.158 25
The high, the generous, the self-devoted sect will always
instruct and command mankind.
Cir 2.312 3
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may
command a view of our present life...
Cir 2.313 5
We have the same need to command a view of the religion of
the world.
Chr1 3.99 6
The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in
the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the
perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already
command those events I desire.
NER 3.278 2
...we desire to be touched with that fire which shall command
this ice to stream, and make our existence a benefit.
MoS 4.159 5
...we ought to secure those advantages which we can
command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and unattainable.
ET8 5.142 15
[The English] wish neither to command nor obey...
ET11 5.186 22
[The English upper classes] have...the power to command...
the presence of the most accomplished men in their festive meetings.
ET11 5.198 l8
...the rich Englishman goes over the world at the present
day, drawing more than all the advantages which the strongest of his kings
could command.
ET16 5.287 14
...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance...
and procured a kind of hearing for it. I said, it is true that I have
never seen in any country a man of sufficient valor to stand for this truth,
and yet it is plain to me that no less valor than this can command my
respect.
F 6.23 19
[Man's] sound relation to these facts is to use and command...
Pow 6.57 9
[A broad, healthy, massive understanding]...anticipates
everybody's discovery; and if it do not command every fact of the genius
and the scholar, it is because it is large and sluggish...
Wth 6.122 17
When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his
first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows; his library must
command a western view;...
Bhr 6.187 17
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can
usually command.
Cour 7.264 12
The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of
arithmetic, because he does not yet command the simple steps of the
solution which the boy beside him has mastered.
Cour 7.267 15
It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a
more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more
than just to make him civil, and to command in words of great obligation to
his officers and men...
SA 8.85 20
Keep cool, and you command everybody, said Saint-Just;...
SA 8.95 6
Madame de Tesse said, If I were Queen, I should command
Madame de Stael to talk to me every day.
Elo2 8.124 19
The orator must command the whole scale of the language...
Insp 8.274 6
In June the morning is noisy with birds; in August they are
already getting old and silent. Hence arises the question, Are these moods
in any degree within control? If we knew how to command them!
Insp 8.276 24
...says the man...the favorable hour will come when I can
command all my powers...
Insp 8.288 21
In the hotel...I command an astronomic leisure.
Grts 8.308 5
It is easy for a commander to command.
Aris 10.45 19
Men are born to command...
PerF 10.69 24
...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the
resources we can command...
PerF 10.84 4
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
SovE 10.208 5
...by obedience we command...
MMEm 10.417 19
It is difficult, when we have no kind of barrier, to
command our feelings.
FSLC 11.187 1
...it is not to be presumed that [laws] can so stultify
themselves as to command injustice.
SMC 11.350 10
...the virtues we are met to honor were directed on aims
which command the sympathy of every loyal American citizen...
Shak1 11.452 26
...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, and easily command...
II 12.77 19
The old law of science, Imperat parendo, we command by
obeying, is forever true;...
Mem 12.91 3
The builder of the mind found it not less needful that it
should have retroaction, and command its past act and deed.
Bost 12.205 1
[The people of Massachusetts] knew, as God knew, that
command of Nature comes by obedience to Nature;...
MAng1 12.236 1
When importuned to claim some compensation of the
empire for the important services he had rendered it, [the ancient Persian]
demanded that he and his should neither command nor obey, but should be
free.
MAng1 12.238 20
Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too
superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect
sympathy.
MLit 12.322 19
Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the magazines of the
world's ancient or modern wealth, which arts and intercourse and
skepticism could command,-he wanted them all.
WSL 12.342 23
Certainly there are heights in Nature which command
this;...
commanded, v. (27)
DSA 1.130 5
Having seen that the law in us is commanding, [Jesus] would
not suffer it to be commanded.
MN 1.207 1
...when Napoleon unrolls his map, the eye is commanded by
original power.
LT 1.260 20
A necessity not yet commanded...is the foundation on which
[Conservatism] rests.
Pt1 3.15 26
...[the coachman or the hunter] has no definitions, but he is
commanded in nature by the living power which he feels to be there present.
Chr1 3.100 24
The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many,
but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved, the absorbed, the
commander because he is commanded, the assured, the primary,--they are
good;...
Nat2 3.185 25
The child...commanded by every sight and sound...lies down
at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty
madness has incurred.
NER 3.251 8
[The observer of New England's] attention must be
commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party, is falling from
the Church nominal...
PPh 4.64 13
[Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion
for reality;...
SwM 4.95 5
All men are commanded by the saint.
NMW 4.244 1
[Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an oblique tribute of
respect to those able persons who commanded his regard...
ET5 5.94 27
Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber,
nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And
realms commanded which those trees adorn./
ET14 5.241 24
A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and
these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian
theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect
to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is Lord Bacon's sentence, that Nature
is commanded by obeying her;...
ET16 5.289 8
Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of
Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer,
which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given to
every one who should ask it at the gate.
Elo1 7.78 8
It was said of Sir William Pepperell...that, put him where you
might, he commanded, and saw what he willed come to pass.
Elo1 7.90 13
A popular assembly...is commanded by these two powers,--
first by a fact, then by skill of statement.
Comc 8.172 6
...Timur...commanded that the barber should be called.
PPo 8.240 14
Solomon had three talismans: first, the signet-ring by which
he commanded the spirits...
Insp 8.283 15
Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness that befell him, The
thought of my father...restrained me; I commanded myself to live.
Grts 8.318 26
Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of
this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen,-a man...with a spirit
and a practical vein in the times of terror that commanded the admiration of
the wisest.
LLNE 10.351 25
The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and
his friends...commanded our attention and respect.
SlHr 10.447 20
...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration was commanded by
certain heroes of the [legal] profession...
FRep 11.530 26
The spread eagle...must keep his wings to carry the
thunderbolt when he is commanded.
II 12.76 12
That is the quality of [the moral sense], that it commands, and
is not commanded.
CInt 12.117 19
Two men cannot converse together on any topic without
presently finding where each stands in moral judgment; and each learns
whether the other's view commands, or is commanded by, his own.
MAng1 12.235 7
On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then
commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this
great work...
WSL 12.343 25
...wherever freedom and justice are threatened...[Landor's]
interest is sure to be commanded.
WSL 12.347 3
...it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less
elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded...
commander, n. (14)
Chr1 3.100 24
The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many,
but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved, the absorbed, the
commander because he is commanded, the assured, the primary,--they are
good;...
Elo1 7.79 1
A supreme commander over all his passions and affections; but
the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that.
Elo1 7.79 12
[The Grecian States] did not send to Lacedaemon for troops,
but they said, Send us a commander;...
DL 7.122 17
I honor that man whose ambition it is...not to be a poet or a
commander, but to be a master of living well...
Res 8.144 5
The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild
the road.
Grts 8.308 4
It is easy for a commander to command.
Dem1 10.8 6
We call the phantoms that rise [in dreams], the creation of our
fancy, but they act like mutineers, and fire on their commander;...
Edc1 10.134 10
If [a man] is jovial...if he is...a strong commander...society
has need of all these.
HDC 11.75 5
The militia and minute-men-every one from that moment
being his own commander-ran over the hills opposite the battle-field...
SMC 11.359 23
...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...the
moral qualities of a commander...
SMC 11.365 25
In the fall of 1861, the old artillery company of this town
[Concord] was reorganized, and Captain Richard Barrett received a
commission in March, 1862, from the state, as its commander.
SMC 11.370 12
Let me add an extract from the official report of the
brigade commander...
SMC 11.372 25
...from these incessant labors there was now to be rest for
one head,-the honored and beloved commander [George Prescott] of the
[Thirty-second] regiment.
PPr 12.380 5
...he is the commander who is always in the mount...
Commander, n. (2)
CSC 10.376 16
...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention]
found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and
transfiguration which accompanies...a man whose mind is made up to obey
the great inward Commander...
SMC 11.376 12
...I do not like to omit the testimony to the character of the
Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George
Prescott]...
commander-in-chief, n. (1)
NER 3.256 1
...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of
resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers...who...embarrass...the
commander-in-chief of the militia by non-resistance.
Commanders, Great, Apothegm (1)
Plu 10.322 7
It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force
ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of
Plutarch].
commanders, n. (4)
DSA 1.147 25
...the commanders encroach on us only...by our allowance
and homage.
Boks 7.201 23
...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more
of that master we gain appetite for...to know the tyranny of Aristophanes,
requiring more genius and sometimes not less cruelty than belonged to the
official commanders.
Clbs 7.241 8
...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their
accomplishment...makes them chancellors and commanders of council and
of action...whom we now consider.
SMC 11.367 8
...though suffering at first some disadvantage from change
of commanders, and from severe losses, [the Thirty-second Regiment] grew
at last...to an excellent reputation...
Commanders, Noble, Apothegm (1)
Plu 10.317 18
I know that the chapter of Apothegms of Noble Commanders
is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch;...
commanding, adj. (50)
Nat 1.30 23
...picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that
he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
DSA 1.137 4
The test of the true faith...should be its power to charm...the
soul...so commanding that we find pleasure and honor in obeying.
DSA 1.138 27
...there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment...
MR 1.251 3
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the
world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
LT 1.261 6
The fact of aristocracy...is as commanding a feature of the
nineteenth century...as of old Rome...
Tran 1.335 10
Am I in harmony with myself? my position will seem to you
just and commanding.
YA 1.370 11
...I think we must regard the land as a commanding and
increasing power on the citizen...
YA 1.394 19
Commanding worth and personal power must sit crowned in
all companies...
Hist 2.28 12
More than once some individual has appeared to me with...
such commanding contemplation...begging in the name of God, as made
good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
Prd1 2.224 2
Cultivated men always feel and speak...as if a great fortune...a
graceful and commanding address, had their value as proofs of the energy
of the spirit.
Mrs1 3.149 14
I have seen an individual whose manners, though wholly
within the conventions of elegant society, were...original and commanding...
NER 3.281 3
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;...
SwM 4.123 4
There is no such problem for criticism as [Swedenborg's]
theological writings, their merits are so commanding...
SwM 4.124 9
That slow but commanding influence which [Swedenborg]
has acquired, like that of other religious geniuses, must be excessive also...
NMW 4.225 18
[The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by
birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a
commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the
common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny...
NMW 4.253 6
...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 4.269 6
...the writer does not stand with us on any commanding
ground.
ET1 5.9 18
Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of freak which the
English delight to indulge, as if to signalize their commanding freedom.
ET6 5.106 26
The power and possession which surround [the English] are
their own creation, and they exert the same commanding industry at this
moment.
ET14 5.252 19
[The English] have lost all commanding views in literature,
philosophy and science.
ET15 5.270 9
[The London Times] gives the argument, not of the majority,
but of the commanding class.
ET19 5.311 3
That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the
wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race,--its
commanding sense of right and wrong...
Ctr 6.155 19
We can ill spare the commanding social benefits of cities;...
Wsp 6.216 6
It is certain that worship stands in some commanding relation
to the health of man...
Wsp 6.222 8
In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is
lost. ... He misses...the commanding eye of his neighborhood...
Elo1 7.80 1
He who has points to carry must hire, not a skilful attorney, but
a commanding person.
Elo1 7.80 8
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,--for courage, conduct
and a commanding social position...
Elo1 7.83 9
...if one of [the debaters] have anything of commanding
necessity in his heart, how speedily he will find vent for it...
Boks 7.215 22
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 Rochester does...
Clbs 7.231 21
[The lover of letters among the men of wit and learning]
could not find that he was helped by so much as...one commanding
impulse...
PI 8.34 26
...to convert the vivid energies acting at this hour in New York
and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a subtile
and commanding thought.
PI 8.65 17
In the world of letters how few commanding oracles!
SA 8.88 2
...a king or a general does not need a fine coat, and a
commanding person may save himself all solicitude on that point.
Elo2 8.120 5
...give [an eloquent man] a commanding occasion...and he
surprises by new and unlooked-for powers.
Grts 8.307 7
...none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or
commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him
alone.
Aris 10.40 3
I enumerate the claims by which men enter the superior class.
1. A commanding talent.
Aris 10.55 11
What is it that makes the true knight? Loyalty to his thought.
That makes...the commanding port which all men admire...
SovE 10.209 3
...Stoicism...has now...no commanding Zeno or Antoninus.
SovE 10.212 4
The commanding fact which I never do not see, is the
sufficiency of the moral sentiment.
MoL 10.255 19
...[the work of art] should have a commanding motive in
the time and condition in which it was made.
LLNE 10.332 3
[Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily
communicated from so commanding a platform...that...this learning
instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
LLNE 10.354 1
...there is an intellectual courage and strength in
[Fourierism] which is superior and commanding;...
EWI 11.124 25
...you could not get any poetry, any wisdom, and beauty in
woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these absurdities
would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a
generosity for the weak and oppressed.
War 11.161 9
...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as
war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a
subject...of concert and discussion,-that is the commanding fact.
JBB 11.267 4
This commanding event [John Brown's raid] which has
brought us together, eclipses all others which have occurred for a long time
in our history...
TPar 11.289 19
[Theodore Parker's] commanding merit as a reformer is
this, that he insisted beyond all men in pulpits...that the essence of
Christianity is its practical morals;...
EdAd 11.389 23
...the laws and governors cannot possess a commanding
interest for any but vacant or fanatical people;...
CInt 12.131 25
...it is the privilege of the moral sentiment to be every
moment new and commanding...
Milt1 12.263 1
The victories of the conscience in [Milton] are gained by
the commanding charm which all the severe and restrictive virtues have for
him.
ACri 12.299 4
...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of
the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling, with...
shrugs, and long commanding glances...
commanding, v. (7)
DSA 1.130 4
Having seen that the law in us is commanding, [Jesus] would
not suffer it to be commanded.
ET1 5.7 6
I found [Landor]...living in a cloud of pictures at his Villa
Gherardesca, a fine house commanding a beautiful landscape.
Bhr 6.175 19
...perhaps the ambitious youth thinks he has got the whole
secret when he has learned that disengaged manners are commanding.
Ill 6.325 19
The mad crowd drives hither and thither, now furiously
commanding this thing to be done, now that.
Aris 10.46 20
I only point in passing to the order of the universe, which
makes a rotation,-not like the coarse policy of the Greeks, ten generals,
each commanding one day and then giving place to the next...
Supl 10.173 1
The arithmetic of Newton...the inspiration of Shakspeare, are
sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.
Milt1 12.253 27
Milton stands erect, commanding...
commandment, n. (12)
Tran 1.336 11
In action [the Transcendentalist] easily incurs the charge of
antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the Law-giver, may with
safety not only neglect, but even contravene every written commandment.
SR 2.74 24
If any one imagines that this law [of self-reliance] is lax, let him
keep its commandment one day.
OS 2.281 7
Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment [of
the soul] agitates men with awe and delight.
Insp 8.292 1
When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some
commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you...
Grts 8.309 22
As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus: I do
not pretend to any commandment or large revelation...
SovE 10.211 20
...the old commandment, Thou shalt not kill, holds down
New York, and London, and Paris...
Prch 10.225 13
[The moral sentiment] is a commandment at every
moment...to do the duty of that moment...
Prch 10.225 17
...[the moral sentiment] is so near and inward and
constitutional to each, that no commandment can compare with it in
authority.
LS 11.10 26
...when the Jews on that occasion [at Capernaum] complained
that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added...that we might
not think his body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should
live by his commandment.
LVB 11.93 20
You [Van Buren] will not do us the injustice of connecting
this remonstrance [against the relocation of the Cherokees] with any
sectional and party feeling. It is in our hearts the simplest commandment of
brotherly love.
FSLC 11.194 24
...unless you can draw a sponge over those seditious Ten
Commandments which are the root of our European and American
civilization; and over that eleventh commandment, Do unto others as you
would have them do to you, your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.
Bost 12.193 10
...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology,
which yet conceals some grand commandment;...
commandments, n. (10)
Prd1 2.241 5
...begin where we will, we are pretty sure in a short space to
be mumbling our ten commandments.
Pt1 3.17 7
...we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things,
whereby the world is a temple whose walls are covered with...
commandments of the Deity,--in this, that there is no fact in nature which
does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
Exp 3.64 12
[Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful...do not
come out of the Sunday School......nor punctually keep the commandments.
Mrs1 3.145 4
Let the creed and commandments even have the saucy
homage of parody.
ShP 4.219 3
...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they
also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose?
The beauty straightway vanished; they read commandments...
ET6 5.103 1
...[the English] will let you break all the commandments, if
you do it natively and with spirit.
Wsp 6.219 3
...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of
duty are opened;...
Civ 7.23 11
The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy
laborers;...and what a police and ten commandments their work thus
becomes.
MMEm 10.408 6
[Mary Moody Emerson] is no statute-book of practical
commandments...
FSLN 11.232 18
Events roll...the result is the enforcing of some of those
first commandments which we heard in the nursery.
Commandments, Ten, n. (3)
Nat 1.41 2
...every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall...
echo the Ten Commandments.
Chr2 10.119 11
...[the infant soul]...reads the original of the Ten
Commandments...
FSLC 11.194 21
...unless you can draw a sponge over those seditious Ten
Commandments which are the root of our European and American
civilization;...your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.
commandons, v. (1)
Ctr 6.153 20
Mirmidons, race feconde,/ Mirmidons,/ Enfin nous
commandons/...
commands, n. (5)
Con 1.302 18
...although the commands of the Conscience are essentially
absolute, they are historically limitary.
MMEm 10.431 20
No object of science or observation ever was pointed
out to me [Mary Moody Emerson] by my poor aunt, but [God's] Being and
commands;...
FSLC 11.191 26
All authors who have any conscience or modesty agree
that a person ought not to obey such commands as are evidently contrary to
the laws of God.
RBur 11.439 6
...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced...
that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your
commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed
makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
PLT 12.64 11
[The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a
far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting ourselves
on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands...
commands, v. (26)
DSA 1.135 12
...the man who aims to speak...as interest commands,
babbles.
MN 1.213 9
By piety alone, by conversing with the cause of nature, is
[man] safe and commands it.
Con 1.302 15
Here is the fact which men call Fate...not to be disposed of
by the consideration that the Conscience commands this or that...
SR 2.43 3
...the soul that can/ Render an honest and a perfect man,/
Commands all light.../
SR 2.89 14
He who knows that power is inborn...commands his limbs...
SL 2.158 23
...as much goodness as there is, so much reverence it
commands.
OS 2.275 27
Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of
aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands the sciences and
arts...
Cir 2.303 27
[A man] can only be reformed by showing him a new idea
which commands his own.
Int 2.346 19
...[the Greek philosophers' thought] commands the entire
schedule and inventory of things for its illustration.
Wth 6.111 23
That is the good head, which serves the end and commands
the means.
PI 8.30 14
...the moment the orator loses command of his audience, the
audience commands him.
Elo2 8.118 16
...this power [of eloquence] which so fascinates and
astonishes and commands is only the exaggeration of a talent which is
universal.
Res 8.146 26
...one man whose eye commands the end in view and the
means by which it can be attained, is...victor over all mankind who do not
see the issue and the means.
Grts 8.314 10
Napoleon commands our respect by his enormous self-trust...
Aris 10.40 18
It only needs to look at the social aspect of England and
America and France, to see the rank which original practical talent
commands.
Chr2 10.103 17
...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when
it...sets [a man] on...some zeal to unite men to...establish some reform or
charity which it commands-are the homage we render to this sentiment...
Chr2 10.121 5
In a sensible family...nobody commands, and nobody
obeys...
EdAd 11.390 7
...the insight which commands the laws and conditions of
the true polity precludes forever all interest in the squabbles of parties.
FRO1 11.479 23
...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence
within his own mind...then we have a religion...that commands all the social
and all the private action.
PLT 12.5 6
It is not then...animals, or globes that any longer commands us,
but only man;...
II 12.76 12
That is the quality of [the moral sense], that it commands...
CInt 12.117 19
Two men cannot converse together on any topic without
presently finding where each stands in moral judgment; and each learns
whether the other's view commands, or is commanded by, his own.
CInt 12.121 16
...a larger angle of vision, commands centuries of facts...
Bost 12.188 22
...Boston commands attention as the town which was
appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
MAng1 12.224 8
[Michelangelo] visited Bologna to inspect its celebrated
fortifications, and, on his return, constructed a fortification on the heights of
San Miniato, which commands the city and environs of Florence.
WSL 12.342 25
Certainly there are heights in Nature which command this;
there are many more which this commands.
commas, n. (1)
GoW 4.282 16
...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I
meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...the commas and dashes are
alive;...
commemorate, v. (2)
LS 11.23 2
...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a
man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This
man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must contend
that it is...really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's
Supper]...
HDC 11.29 7
You have thought it becoming to commemorate the planting
of the first inland town [Concord].
commemorated, v. (2)
LS 11.5 13
In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in
giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples,
but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was hereafter to be
commemorated.
LS 11.11 15
I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have
been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the
account of it in the other Gospels...
commemorating, v. (2)
LS 11.6 19
I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper]
together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution...
would have been established...in a manner so slight, that the intention of
commemorating it should not appear, from their narrative, to have caught
the ear...of the only two among the twelve who wrote down what happened.
LS 11.19 17
This mode of commemorating Christ [the Lord's Supper] is
not suitable to me.
commemoration, n. (4)
LS 11.4 15
In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake
maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or
sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...and Bishop Hoadley, that it was...a
simple commemoration.
LS 11.17 17
I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord'
s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally
conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to
God and the commemoration due to Christ.
LS 11.19 22
If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his
disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of
commemoration...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I
should not adopt it.
LS 11.20 9
...any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought, a
flow of love, an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true
commemoration [of Jesus].
Commemoration Ode [James R (2)
ALin 11.328 28
Here [in Lincoln] was a type of the true elder race,/ And
one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face./ Lowell, Commemoration
Ode.
HCom 11.340 25
Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its
awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and
mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look
proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
commemorations, n. (1)
LS 11.18 24
...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most
thankfully; but the thanks he offers...are not compliments,
commemorations...
commence, v. (2)
Hsm1 2.246 18
...[To die] is to end/ An old, stale, weary work and to
commence/ A newer and a better..../
ACri 12.292 17
Dangerous words in like kind are...circumstances,
commence for begin.
commenced, v. (2)
MAng1 12.235 8
On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then
commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this
great work, which, though commenced forty years before, was only
commenced by Bramante, and ill continued by San Gallo.
MAng1 12.235 9
On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then
commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this
great work, which, though commenced forty years before, was only
commenced by Bramante, and ill continued by San Gallo.
Commencement, adj. (1)
WD 7.169 7
In college terms, and in years that followed, the young
graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were
in a swamp, would see a festive light...
Commencement Day, n. (1)
HCom 11.339 2
Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our Commencement
Day?/
commencement, n. (2)
EzRy 10.382 13
The commencement of the Revolutionary War greatly
interrupted [Ezra Ripley's] education at college.
Milt1 12.268 15
...the invocations of the Eternal Spirit in the
commencement of [Milton's] books are not poetic forms, but are thoughts...
commences, v. (1)
EWI 11.118 27
The child will sit in your arms contented, provided you do
nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.
commencing, v. (1)
Nat 1.58 3
Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of
human duties commencing from man; the other, from God.
commend, v. (6)
YA 1.393 6
One thing...the beauties of aristocracy, we commend to the
study of the travelling American.
Lov1 2.171 2
...it is to be hoped that...we may attain to that inward view of
the law which shall describe a truth...so central that it shall commend itself
to the eye at whatever angle beholden.
Hsm1 2.260 16
If you would serve your brother, because it is fit for you to
serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people
do not commend you.
NMW 4.248 2
I think all men...know that the institutions we so volubly
commend are go-carts and baubles;...
MoL 10.252 10
Gentlemen, I am here to commend to you your art and
profession as thinkers.
Plu 10.308 17
...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to
men of public regards and ruling genius...
commendable, adj. (4)
AmS 1.97 23
Authors we have, in numbers...who, moved by a
commendable prudence, sail for Greece...to replenish their merchantable
stock.
GoW 4.266 18
It is believed...the negotiations of a caucus and the
practising on the prejudices and facility of country-people to secure their
votes in November,--is practical and commendable.
CbW 6.277 9
...your theories and plans of life are fair and commendable:--
but will you stick?
SovE 10.197 3
...I have never until now dreamed that this undertaking the
entire management of my own affairs was not commendable.
commendation, n. (4)
DSA 1.147 11
Can we not leave...the virtue that glitters for the
commendation of society...
Hist 2.7 18
[The true aspirant] hears the commendation, not of himself, but,
more sweet, of that character he seeks, in every word that is said concerning
character...
CbW 6.265 5
It is an old commendation of right behavior, Aliis laetus,
sapiens sibi, which our English proverb translates, Be merry and wise.
MAng1 12.239 23
It is more commendation to say, This was Michael
Angelo's favorite, than to say, This was carried to Paris by Napoleon.
commendatory, n. (1)
LT 1.273 24
To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres...and...esteems his
associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own
piety.
commended, adj. (2)
Fdsp 2.192 7
A commended stranger is expected and announced...
Fdsp 2.192 15
Of a commended stranger, only the good report is told by
others...
commended, v. (6)
DSA 1.138 3
[The preacher] had no one word intimating that he...had been
commended, or cheated, or chagrined.
LE 1.167 25
Further inquiry will discover...that not these chanting poets
themselves, knew anything sincere of these handsome natures they so
commended;...
SL 2.133 18
...the question is everywhere vexed when a noble nature is
commended, whether the man is not better who strives with temptation.
PNR 4.88 20
[Plato's] subtlety commended him to men of thought.
GoW 4.263 3
Nothing so broad, so subtle, or so dear, but comes...
commended to [the writer's] pen, and he will write.
Thor 10.479 14
...[Thoreau]...commended the wilderness for resembling
Rome and Paris.
commending, v. (3)
DSA 1.148 23
...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain
solidity of merit...which is so essentially and manifestly virtue, that...
nobody thinks of commending it.
Thor 10.475 10
[Thoreau] admired Aeschylus and Pindar; but when some
one was commending them, he said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in
describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one.
Milt1 12.278 18
...as many poems have been written upon unfit society,
commending solitude, yet have not been proceeded against...so should
[Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic
soul...is entitled to.
commends, v. (8)
Chr1 3.88 2
Work of his hand/ He nor commends nor grieves:/ Pleads for
itself the fact;/ As unrepenting Nature leaves/ Her every act./
Mrs1 3.153 25
Are you...rich enough to make...the itinerant with his consul'
s paper which commends him To the charitable...feel the noble exception f
your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
GoW 4.266 5
In this country, the emphasis of conversation and of public
opinion commends the practical man;...
WD 7.177 13
That is good which commends to me my country, my
climate, my means and materials, my associates.
SA 8.93 22
...Luther commends that accomplishment of pure German
speech of his wife.
QO 8.196 1
...Hallam...distinguishes a lyric of Edwards or Vaux, and
straightway it commends itself to us...
Thor 10.462 9
[Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose
Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed],
commends in her father...
WSL 12.348 12
...it is not as an artist that Mr. Landor commends himself to
us.
commensurability, n. (1)
Gts 3.164 4
...there is no commensurability between a man and any gift.
commensurate, adj. (8)
YA 1.365 3
The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this
immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto.
Cir 2.317 17
...these [divine] moments confer a sort of omnipresence and
omnipotence which...sees that the energy of the mind is commensurate with
the work to be done...
Pol1 3.210 26
From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit
to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the
resources of the nation.
NMW 4.244 16
...[Napoleon] could not hide his satisfaction in receiving
from [his generals] a seconding and support commensurate with the
grandeur of his enterprise.
ET10 5.159 22
The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been
computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of
steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to
accomplish fifty years ago. The production has been commensurate.
PC 8.228 15
Science...necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander
orbits and universal laws which it discloses.
Edc1 10.135 6
The great object of Education should be commensurate with
the object of life.
EdAd 11.386 14
...we are persuaded that moral and material values are
always commensurate.
comment, n. (4)
ET15 5.267 7
The tone of [the London Times's] articles has often been the
occasion of comment from the official organs of the continental courts...
Clbs 7.232 24
Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They
go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly or do not listen to the
comment or to the thought by which the company strive to repay them;...
MLit 12.328 1
Here was a man [Goethe] who, in the feeling that the thing
itself was so admirable as to leave all comment behind, went up and down,
from object to object, lifting the veil from every one, and did no more.
MLit 12.328 25
...we may here set down by way of comment of [Goethe's]
genius the impressions recently awakened in us by the story of Wilhelm
Meister.
Commentaries [Julius Caesar (1)
CPL 11.504 11
Julius Caesar, when shipwrecked, and forced to swim for
life...took his Commentaries between his teeth and swam for the shore.
commentaries, n. (1)
LE 1.170 11
What else do these volumes of extracts and manuscript
commentaries, that every scholar writes, indicate?
commentary, n. (7)
AmS 1.102 6
Whatsoever oracles the human heart...has uttered as its
commentary on the world of actions, - these [the scholar] shall receive
and impart.
Hist 2.8 3
The student is...to esteem his own life the text [of history], and
books the commentary.
ShP 4.217 6
Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had
another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and
roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind...
conveying in all their natural history a certain mute commentary on human
life.
Boks 7.194 2
The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and
elucidation, echoes and weakeners of these few great voices of time.
Boks 7.201 25
Aristophanes is now very accessible, with much valuable
commentary, through the labors of Mitchell and Cartwright.
OA 7.315 11
[Josiah Quincy]...made a sort of running commentary on
Cicero's chapter De Senectute.
Milt1 12.278 25
We have offered no apology for expanding to such length
our commentary on the character of John Milton;...
Commentary on Galatians [Ma (1)
Clbs 7.236 9
...it is not [Luther's] theologic works,--his Commentary on the
Galatians, and the rest, but his Table-Talk, which is still read by men.
commentators, n. (2)
Art2 7.47 6
We grudge to Homer the wide human circumspection his
commentators ascribe to him.
EdAd 11.385 21
We have taste, critical talent, good professors, good
commentators, but a lack of male energy.
commented, v. (3)
LE 1.156 19
...the importunity, with which society presses its claim upon
young men, tends to pervert the views of youth in respect to the culture of
the intellect. Hence the historical failure, on which Europe and America
have so freely commented.
MMEm 10.412 1
I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my
expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every
morn;...commented on the Scriptures;...
WSL 12.347 5
[Landor] has commented on a wide variety of writers...
comments, n. (2)
ET17 5.291 1
In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have
abstained from reference to persons...
Ctr 6.157 15
Here is a new poem, which elicits a good many comments in
the journals and in conversation.
Commerce, Minister of, n. (1)
Chr1 3.92 21
Nature seems to authorize trade, as soon as you see the
natural merchant, who appears not so much a private agent as her factor and
Minister of Commerce.
commerce, n. (68)
LE 1.181 11
Let [the scholar] know that...most in the reverence of the
humble commerce and humble needs of life...the secret of the world is to be
learned...
MN 1.191 15
We hear something too much of the results of machinery,
commerce, and the useful arts.
MN 1.192 6
I do not wish to look with sour aspect at...the mart of
commerce.
MR 1.228 23
...now...all things else hear the trumpet, and must rush to
judgment,-Christianity...commerce...
MR 1.230 23
The employments of commerce are not intrinsically unfit for
a man...
MR 1.231 16
...it is only necessary to ask a few questions as to the progress
of the articles of commerce from the fields where they grew, to our houses,
to become aware that we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud...
MR 1.235 25
Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of
competition in the labors of commerce...
Con 1.321 13
...if priest and church-member should fail, the chambers of
commerce...would muster with fury to [religious institutions'] support.
YA 1.374 17
...we repair commerce with unlimited credit, and are presently
visited with unlimited bankruptcy.
YA 1.375 13
The history of commerce is the record of this beneficent
tendency.
SR 2.70 19
Commerce, husbandry...are somewhat...
Fdsp 2.205 24
The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and
homely that can be joined;...
Cir 2.316 12
For me, commerce is of trivial import;...
Art1 2.368 17
...[genius] will raise to a divine use...our commerce...
Pt1 3.19 26
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and
constant fact of Life...to which the belt of wampum and the commerce of
America are alike.
Exp 3.57 27
The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative
nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce,
government, church, marriage...
Exp 3.64 21
Whilst the debate goes forward on the equity of commerce...
New and Old England may keep shop.
Chr1 3.111 15
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the
profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous
men, each of whom is sure of himself and sure of his friend. It is a
happiness which...makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
Pol1 3.200 2
Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that
commerce, education and religion may be voted in or out;...
Pol1 3.220 14
...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force
they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...of commerce and
the exchange of property...can be answered.
NER 3.263 21
...the revolt against the spirit of commerce...did not appear
possible to individuals;...
MoS 4.172 25
[The wise skeptic's] politics are those...of Krishna, in the
Bhagavat, There is none who is worthy of my love or hatred; whilst he
sentences law, physic, divinity, commerce and custom.
MoS 4.176 11
...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say...look you,--on
the whole, selfishness...makes the best commerce and the best citizen.
NMW 4.225 3
Paris and London and New York, the spirit of commerce...
were also to have their prophet;...
ET7 5.116 9
Add to this hereditary [German] rectitude the punctuality and
precise dealing which commerce creates, and you have the English truth
and credit.
ET8 5.129 17
Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of
Englishmen].
ET8 5.141 19
Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias,
which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce,
codes, arts, letters?
ET9 5.147 5
...the fact that British commerce was to be re-created by the
independence of America, took [the English] all by surprise.
ET10 5.159 25
Eight hundred years ago commerce had made [England]
rich...
ET10 5.160 17
A thousand million of pounds sterling are said to compose
the floating money of commerce [of England].
ET10 5.161 16
By dint of steam and of money, war and commerce are
changed.
ET10 5.163 2
All things precious, or useful, or amusing, or intoxicating,
are sucked into this commerce and floated to London.
ET10 5.168 5
In true England all is false and forged. This too is the
reaction of machinery, but of the larger machinery of commerce.
ET13 5.225 2
The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in
1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this
bill, as...extremely injurious to the interests and commerce of the kingdom
in general...
ET14 5.239 27
'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.
ET16 5.282 19
...as Britain was a Phoenician secret, so they kept their
compass a secret, and it was lost with the Tyrian commerce.
ET18 5.306 1
You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their
Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters...
F 6.16 10
We see the English, French, and Germans...monopolizing the
commerce of [America and Australia].
Pow 6.62 21
The very word 'commerce' has only an English meaning...
Pow 6.62 23
The commerce of rivers...must add an American extension to
the pond-hole of admiralty.
Pow 6.62 24
The commerce of rivers, the commerce of railroads...must add
an American extension to the pond-hole of admiralty.
Pow 6.62 25
The commerce of rivers...and who knows but the commerce of
air-balloons, must add an American extension to the pond-hole of admiralty.
Pow 6.71 25
We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the
world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce,
but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and
destructive,--yet it cannot be spared...
Wth 6.100 1
Commerce is a game of skill...
CbW 6.276 18
...whatever art you select...commerce, politics,--all are
attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are apt;...
Civ 7.21 3
...chiefly the seashore has been the point of departure, to
knowledge, as to commerce.
DL 7.108 3
Is it not plain that not in...chambers of commerce, but in the
dwelling-house must the true character and hope of the time be consulted?
DL 7.129 3
[Friendship] is the happiness which...makes politics and
commerce and churches cheap.
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 commerce...yield anything better, or half as
good"
WD 7.161 21
When commerce is vastly enlarged, California and Australia
expose the gold it needs.
WD 7.162 15
...German, Chinese, Turk, Russ and Kanaka were putting out
to sea, and intermarrying race with race; and commerce took the hint...
Res 8.142 18
We have seen China opened to European and American
ambassadors and commerce;...
Res 8.143 19
...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has sent home to China
American food and tools and luxuries...and a new market has grown up for
our commerce.
Insp 8.269 6
...we want a finer kind [of power] than that of commerce;...
Imtl 8.331 2
...what is called great and powerful life-the administration of
large affairs, in commerce, in the courts, in the state,-is prone to develop
narrow and special talent;...
Dem1 10.15 18
The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good
fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of
uncertain success...influences all joint action of commerce and affairs...
PerF 10.79 20
...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years
succeeded in his production of the right article for commerce...
Edc1 10.128 2
The necessities imposed by this most irritable and all-related
texture have taught Man...agriculture, commerce...
Supl 10.177 27
...the Orientals excel in costly arts...things which are the
poetry and superlative of commerce.
Carl 10.492 20
The navigation laws of England made its commerce.
War 11.162 4
...if a foreign nation should wantonly insult or plunder our
commerce, or, worse yet, should land on our shores to rob and kill, you
would not have us sit, and be robbed and killed?
War 11.170 22
The next season...an aggression on our commerce by
Malays; or the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry
through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...
ChiE 11.474 10
[Asian immigrants] send back to their friends, in China...
new tools, machinery, new foods, etc., and are thus establishing a
commerce without limit.
PLT 12.18 27
[The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...agriculture,
trade, commerce;...
Bost 12.197 7
As an antidote to the spirit of commerce and of economy, the
religious spirit...was especially necessary to the culture of New England.
ACri 12.301 26
Now, said [Samuel Dexter], I come to the grand charge
that we have obstructed the commerce and navigation of Roxbury Ditch.
MLit 12.317 5
A selfish commerce and government have caught the eye
and usurped the hand of the masses.
Let 12.403 20
Perhaps the adversities of our commerce have not yet been
pushed to the wholesomest degree of severity.
Commerce, n. (3)
YA 1.370 17
...the uprise and culmination of the new and anti-feudal power
of Commerce is the political fact of most significance to the American at
this hour.
Hist 2.9 19
This life of ours is stuck round with...Church, Court and
Commerce, as with so many flowers...
MLit 12.322 15
[Goethe] has owed to Commerce and to the victories of the
Understanding, all their spoils.
commercial, adj. (29)
Con 1.323 15
...in peace and a commercial state we depend, not as we
ought, on our knowledge and all men's knowledge that we are honest men...
Tran 1.339 22
This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on Unitarian
and commercial times, makes the peculiar shades of Idealism which we
know.
YA 1.369 25
We in the Atlantic states, by position, have been commercial...
YA 1.382 27
...agricultural association must, sooner or later, fix the price of
bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence; as the great
commercial and manufacturing companies had already done.
YA 1.385 25
We have feudal governments in a commercial age.
YA 1.385 27
It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system,
to pay a private emperor a fee for services...
YA 1.391 18
...the development of our American internal resources, the
extension to the utmost of the commercial system...are giving an aspect of
greatness to the Future...
Pol1 3.209 7
Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of
principle; as the planting interest in conflict with the commercial;...
SwM 4.111 13
...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson...
who has restored his master's buried books to the day...to go round the
world in our commercial and conquering tongue.
ET3 5.41 23
...these Britons have precisely the best commercial position in
the whole planet...
ET5 5.92 9
The commercial relations of the world are so intimately drawn
to London, that every dollar on earth contributes to the strength of the
English government.
ET5 5.93 17
...it is [Englishmen's] commercial advantage that whatever
light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their race.
ET6 5.106 17
I happened to arrive in England at the moment of a
commercial crisis.
ET15 5.264 17
[TheLondon Times] has done bold and seasonable service
in exposing frauds which threatened the commercial community.
ET19 5.312 2
...I think it just, in this time of gloom and commercial
disaster...that...you should not fail to keep your literary anniversary.
ET19 5.314 2
...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a
commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own
Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
Wth 6.109 16
There is an example of the compensations in the commercial
history of this country.
Ctr 6.149 26
The head of a commercial house or a leading lawyer or
politician is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all parts of
the country...
Elo1 7.95 26
Wild men...utter the savage sentiment of Nature in the heart of
commercial capitals.
Elo2 8.132 19
Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of
[eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech, in
our commercial, manufacturing, railroad and educational conventions; that
of political advice and persuasion...
Grts 8.304 11
You shall not tell me that your commercial house, your
partners or yourself are of importance;...
Aris 10.37 23
What is the meaning of this invincible respect for war, here
in the triumphs of our commercial civilization...
Aris 10.41 13
...the effect of freer institutions in England and America, has
robbed the title of king of all its romance, as that of our commercial consuls
as compared with the ancient Roman.
LLNE 10.358 9
One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project,
thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must
presently fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in
self-defence, as the great commercial and manufacturing companies had
done.
HDC 11.70 25
On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons...
inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with
each other...to suspend all commercial intercourse with Great Britain...
EWI 11.102 6
From the earliest time, the negro has been an article of
luxury to the commercial nations.
FSLC 11.203 6
...as the activity and growth of slavery began to be
offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the senator became less
sensitive to these evils. They were not for him to deal with: he was the
commercial representative.
EdAd 11.389 1
...we have seen the best understandings of New England...
persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England
sentiment any longer. Rely on us for commercial representatives, but for
questions of ethics,-who knows what markets may be opened?
Wom 11.423 22
...when I read the list of men...of social distinction, leading
men of wealth and enterprise in the commercial community, and see what
they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was
ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
Commercial-Room, n. (1)
ET8 5.129 24
In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room...
Commines, Philippe de, n. (2)
ET5 5.82 10
Philip de Commines says, Now, in my opinion, among all the
sovereignties I know in the world, that in which the public good is best
attended to...is that of England.
Elo2 8.122 4
...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning
manners, almost endearments in their style;...like Louis XI. of France,
whom Comines praises for the gift of managing all minds by his accent...
commiseration, n. (2)
ET9 5.146 17
I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of
England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the
disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the
instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company...
Trag 12.407 6
[Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and
Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration.
commissariat, n. (2)
Cour 7.273 12
The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn
hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail...
OA 7.324 21
To perfect the commissariat, [Nature] implants in each a
certain rapacity to get the supply, and a little oversupply, of his wants.
commissaries, n. (2)
SR 2.87 6
The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las
Casas, without abolishing our...commissaries and carriages...
NMW 4.248 13
If [the land-commander] allows himself to be guided by
the commissaries [Napoleon remarks] he will never stir...
commission, n. (9)
DSA 1.136 1
...any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose
hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of
Christ is preached.
LE 1.184 25
...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether...the
transaction [be] a letter of credit or a transfer of stocks; be it what it may,
his commission comes gently out of it;...
YA 1.385 1
How gladly would each citizen pay a commission for the
support and continuation of good guidance.
Hist 2.27 22
...men of God have from time to time...made their commission
felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
NER 3.275 12
...a naval and military honor, a general's commission...have
this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and
unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself
inferior.
NMW 4.231 18
They charge me, [Bonaparte] said, with the commission of
great crimes: men of my stamp do not commit crimes.
HDC 11.57 25
...Major [Simon] Willard...incurred the censure of the
Commissioners, who write to their loving friend Major Willard, that they
leave to his consideration the inconveniences arising from his non-attendance
to his commission.
HDC 11.78 1
...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town
[Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern
army, at Ticonderoga...
SMC 11.365 24
In the fall of 1861, the old artillery company of this town
[Concord] was reorganized, and Captain Richard Barrett received a
commission in March, 1862, from the state, as its commander.
Commission of the Philologic (1)
Plu 10.321 7
I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in
London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch]...
Commission, Sanitary, n. (4)
PC 8.208 23
The war gave us...the success of the Sanitary Commission...
Chr2 10.118 9
The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals,
flies...to the reform of convicts and harlots,-as the war created...the
Sanitary Commission...
FRO1 11.480 21
The soul of our late war...was...secondly, to abolish the
mischief of the war itself, by healing and saving the sick and wounded
soldiers,-and this by the sacred bands of the Sanitary Commission.
FRep 11.538 18
...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the
charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and
creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great
constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
commissioner, n. (1)
FSLC 11.184 15
...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties
provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no
effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
Commissioner, n. (3)
SlHr 10.437 21
At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina as
the Commissioner of Massachusetts in 1844...he was repeatedly warned
that it was not safe for him to appear in public...
AgMs 12.361 14
The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to
sell their cattle and their hay in the fall...
AgMs 12.362 5
One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S.
[Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth. The good
Commissioner [Henry Colman] takes off his hat when he approaches them...
Commissioner, Patent-Office (1)
QO 8.179 1
The Patent-Office Commissioner knows that all machines in
use have been invented and re-invented over and over;...
commissioners, n. (5)
ET18 5.300 27
During the Australian emigration [from England],
multitudes were rejected by the commissioners as being too emaciated for
useful colonists.
SlHr 10.443 12
...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained,
as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the
burned court-house...all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the
Legislature...
EWI 11.113 19
The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian]
planters...20,000,000 pounds sterling...to be distributed to the owners of
slaves by commissioners...
EWI 11.115 8
I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which
Messrs, Thome and Kimball, the commissioners sent out in the year 1837...
describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of
Antigua.
ACiv 11.308 12
A week before the two captive commissioners were
surrendered to England, every one thought it could not be done...
Commissioners, n. (3)
HDC 11.57 22
This war [with the Niantic Indians] seems to have been...
eluctantly entered by Massachusetts. Accordingly, Major [Simon] Willard
did the least he could, and incurred the censure of the Commissioners...
HDC 11.58 3
Philip surrendered seventy guns to the Commissioners in
Taunton Meeting-house...
HDC 11.59 1
[King Philip] stoutly declared to the Commissioners that he
would not deliver up a Wampanoag...
Commissioners, State, n. (1)
AgMs 12.363 16
These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation,
and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and
inconspicuous to State Commissioners.
Commissioners, Water, n. (1)
Thor 10.466 15
The result of the recent survey of the Water
Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau] had
reached by his private experiments...
commissions, n. (2)
ShP 4.205 10
It appears...that [Shakespeare]...was intrusted by his
neighbors with their commissions in London...
ET11 5.184 22
In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the
high commissions...
commit, v. (14)
LT 1.273 17
What does [the wealthy man]...but resolve...to find himself out
some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing
of his religious affairs;...
Tran 1.337 7
I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition
to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like
Epaminondas and John de Witt;...I would commit sacrilege with David;...
Comp 2.116 3
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
Comp 2.116 4
Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the
ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge...
NMW 4.231 19
They charge me, [Bonaparte] said, with the commission of
great crimes: men of my stamp do not commit crimes.
Pow 6.67 5
There was no crime which [Boniface] did not or could not
commit.
Ctr 6.151 15
...dress makes a little restraint; men will not commit
themselves.
Dem1 10.19 7
It would be easy in the political history of every time to
furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which
without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... The crimes they commit...are
strangely overlooked...
SovE 10.197 24
...if I violate myself, if I commit a crime, the lightning
loiters by the speed of retribution...
FSLC 11.191 3
...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a
crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that
human law;...
FSLC 11.194 12
...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to
thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your
statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or
last every feeling of the heart. ... You can commit no crime, for they are
created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it;...
ACiv 11.302 7
In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but
that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle...
MAng1 12.236 25
...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke of Tuscany]...that
he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's]
brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...if, he
adds, I do not commit a great crime by disappointing the cormorants who
are daily hoping to get rid of me.
Trag 12.411 20
A man should not commit his tranquillity to things...
commits, v. (3)
GoW 4.267 4
What [men who have acted] have done commits and enforces
them to do the same again.
FSLN 11.237 15
A man who commits a crime defeats the end of his
existence.
EPro 11.319 15
The force of the act [the Emancipation Proclamation] is
that it commits the country to this justice...
committed, adj. (1)
SR 2.49 11
As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a
committed person...
committed, v. (18)
MoS 4.172 19
...parties wish every one committed...
GoW 4.268 16
It is not from men excellent in any kind that disparagement
of any other is to be looked for. With such, Talleyrand's question is ever
the main one; not, is he rich? is he committed?...but...does he stand for
something?
GoW 4.276 16
Goethe would have no word that does not cover a thing. The
same measure will still serve [with the Devil]: I have never heard of any
crime which I might not have committed.
ET7 5.122 13
[Englishmen] like a man committed to his objects.
ET12 5.202 2
Here [at Oxford]...John Milton's Pro Populo Anglicano
Defensio and Iconoclastes were committed to the flames.
ET19 5.313 7
Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship
parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which
came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so...
I feel in regard to this aged England...irretrievably committed as she now is
to many old customs which cannot be suddenly changed;...
F 6.11 9
Jesus said, When he looketh on her, he hath committed adultery.
F 6.12 25
It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this despotism of race with
liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds
committed in a prior state of existence.
Wth 6.110 18
...it turns out that the largest proportion of crimes are
committed by foreigners.
Cour 7.259 25
When we get an advantage...it is because our adversary has
committed a fault...
Dem1 10.16 5
We do not think the young will be forsaken; but he is fast
approaching the age when the sub-miraculous external protection and
leading are withdrawn and he is committed to his own care.
Edc1 10.158 21
...to whatsoever beating heart I speak, to you it is
committed to educate men.
Schr 10.264 20
The men committed by profession as well as by bias to
study...talk hard and worldly...
Schr 10.281 21
Matter, says Plutarch, is a privation. Let the man of ideas at
this hour be as direct, and as fully committed.
Carl 10.494 6
...[Carlyle] detects in an instant if a man stands for any cause
to which he is not born and organically committed.
EWI 11.131 15
If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn
negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the
Governor break the broad seal of the State;...
Bost 12.192 13
[The Massachusett colonists' experience] seems to have
been the last outrage ever committed by the sting-rays...
Let 12.397 15
...there is no chance for the aesthetic village. Every one of
the villagers has committed his several blunder;...
Committee, Abolitionist, n. (1)
Thor 10.460 22
...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he
would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown,
on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The Republican
Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was
premature, and not advisable.
committee, adj. (2)
TPar 11.288 15
...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker...in
legislative committee rooms, that the true temper and the authentic record
of these days will be read.
FRO1 11.477 4
I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed
myself summoned, to a little committee meeting...
Committee, Hospital, n. (1)
Con 1.319 22
...society has resolved itself into a Hospital Committee...
Committee, Kansas, n. (1)
AKan 11.261 11
The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole
difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people...
Committee, London, n. (2)
EWI 11.110 5
The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit
their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but
Granville Sharpe...whilst he acted as chairman of the London Committee,
felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation...
EWI 11.127 24
...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence
on the [slave] trade (a bulky folio embodying all the facts which the
London Committee had been engaged for years in collecting...) was
presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the
discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other
gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to
read the report.
Committee, Massachusetts St (1)
GSt 10.502 5
...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State
Kansas Committee...
committee, n. (22)
OS 2.285 25
In full court, or in small committee...men offer themselves to
be judged.
ET2 5.25 21
...the proposal [to lecture in England] offered an excellent
opportunity of seeing the interior of England and Scotland, by means of a
home and a committee of intelligent friends awaiting me in every town.
ET7 5.116 19
...any slipperiness in the [English] government of political
faith...would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.
ET12 5.202 22
...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of
Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds...
ET12 5.213 6
Genius exists there [in the college] also, but will not answer
a call of a committee of the House of Commons.
Elo1 7.75 20
In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result
depends on a few men with working talent.
Elo1 7.75 27
In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result
depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they
can forward the work. But a new man comes there who...is insignificant,
and nobody in the committee...
WD 7.177 9
How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working
committee, we look at the distant hills and their seductions!
Cour 7.259 18
...the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee,
must be taken by stout and sincere men...
PI 8.7 7
...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.
MoL 10.246 8
Dickens complained that in America, as soon as he arrived
in any of the Western towns, a committee waited on him and invited him to
deliver a temperance lecture.
HDC 11.46 2
It was on doubts concerning their own power, that, in 1634, a
committee repaired to [John Winthrop] for counsel...
HDC 11.71 14
On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole
town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety...
EWI 11.142 19
[West Indian negroes] receive hints and advances from the
whites that they will be gladly received...as members of this or that
committee of trust.
JBS 11.281 19
...our blind statesmen go up and down...hunting for the
origin of this new heresy [abolition]. They will need a very vigilant
committee indeed to find its birthplace...
SMC 11.356 8
Our farmers went to Kansas as peaceable, God-fearing men
as the members of our school committee here.
SHC 11.429 1
Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided
the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the
[Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants
together...
Humb 11.457 10
...a man's natural powers are often a sort of committee
that slowly...give their attention and action;...
FRO1 11.477 13
...it does great honor to the sensibility of the committee
[of the Free Religious Association] that they have felt the universal demand
in the community for just the movement they have begun.
FRO1 11.480 25
I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are
springing up...all over this country, should all be remembered as within the
sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...
CInt 12.131 6
...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us
and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived...
ACri 12.292 8
A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee
of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a
debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and
graphic.
Committee, n. (1)
LLNE 10.353 9
Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also
believed...that the method of each associate might be trusted, as well as that
of his particular Committee and General Office...
Committee of Investigation, (1)
AKan 11.256 9
Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in
Kansas] have been overstated?
Committee on the Harper's F (1)
GSt 10.504 5
[George Stearns's] examination before the United States
Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth
reading...
Committee, Provincial, of S (1)
HDC 11.72 23
A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this
town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety.
Committee, Republican, n. (1)
Thor 10.460 21
...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he
would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown,
on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The Republican
Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was
premature, and not advisable.
Committee-room, n. (1)
Ctr 6.153 3
[The English] have piqued themselves on governing the whole
world in the poor, plain, dark Committee-room which the House of
Commons sat in, before the fire.
committees, n. (7)
Bhr 6.171 15
Your manners are always under examination, and by
committees little suspected...
Wsp 6.225 9
The way to conquer the foreign artisan is, not to kill him, but
to beat his work. And the Crystal Palaces and World Fairs, with their
committees and prizes on all kinds of industry, are the result of this feeling.
Elo1 7.80 5
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.
LLNE 10.360 2
...the work [at Brook Farm] was distributed in orderly
committees to the men and women.
HDC 11.68 7
...in answer to letters received from the united committees of
correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the town [of Concord] say: We
cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of
this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and
felicity of this land;...
JBS 11.281 16
...our blind statesmen go up and down, with committees of
vigilance and safety, hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition].
FRep 11.534 25
In the planters of this country...the conditions of the
country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain
heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the solitudes of
the West, where...neighborhoods must combine against the Indians...by
organizing themselves into committees of vigilance.
Committees of Safety, n. (1)
AKan 11.263 10
...I think the towns should hold town meetings, and
resolve themselves into Committees of Safety...
Committees', Union, n. (1)
FSLC 11.202 7
[Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the
woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they
have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs can
drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear. It will outwhisper all the salvos of
the Union Committees' cannon.
committing, v. (1)
CL 12.155 9
...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I
seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy
burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway, though
without committing the least excess, my languor or heaviness returned.
commodious, adj. (1)
Supl 10.168 1
[People of English stock's] houses are...designed...to stand
as commodious, rentable tenements for a century or two.
commodities, n. (6)
MR 1.231 19
...we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud in a hundred
commodities.
Gts 3.160 7
...[fruits] are the flower of commodities...
DL 7.111 3
[The citizen] brings home whatever commodities and
ornaments have for years allured his pursuit...
HDC 11.69 4
...the purchasing commodities subject to such illegal taxation
is an explicit, though an impious and sordid resignation of the liberties of
this free and happy people.
HDC 11.80 10
[The people of Concord] fell into a common error...that the
remedy was, to forbid the great importation of foreign commodities...
EPro 11.316 16
[Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator...having
run over the superficial fitness and commodities of the measure he urges...
announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
commodity, n. (18)
Nat 1.12 7
Under the general name of commodity, I rank all those
advantages which our senses owe to nature.
Nat 1.16 17
The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful
to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines of
commodity and beauty.
Nat 1.41 16
...the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.
LE 1.171 16
...Truth is...so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity...
MR 1.237 20
...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the
cotton of the cotton. They have got the education, I only the commodity.
Con 1.324 13
Whatsoever streams of power and commodity flow to me,
shall of me acquire healing virtue...
SR 2.77 16
Prayer that craves a particular commodity...is vicious.
Fdsp 2.205 7
We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity.
Int 2.342 4
[He in whom the love of repose predominates] gets rest,
commodity and reputation;...
Gts 3.163 2
...if the gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed
that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity, and
not him.
Pol1 3.206 10
A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or
other commodity.
NER 3.256 17
...if I had not that commodity [money], I should be put on
my good behavior in all companies...
ET14 5.247 7
The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches that good means...
material commodity;
ET14 5.248 3
The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the
English cant of practical. To convince the reason, to touch the conscience,
is romantic pretension. The fine arts fall to the ground. Beauty, except as
luxurious commodity, does not exist.
Bty 6.289 3
The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only
commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied.
Dem1 10.25 10
[Animal Magnetism] becomes...a black art. The uses of the
thing, the commodity, the power, at once come to mind...
LLNE 10.345 22
[The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some
necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for
himself...he should give of the commodity to any applicant...
SlHr 10.446 3
...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan
and substructure of society a natural ability...and not for tickling
commodity, that it was admirable...
Commodity, n. (1)
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.
common, adj. (245)
Nat 1.5 4
In enumerating the values of nature...I shall use the word...in its
common and in its philosophical import.
Nat 1.5 8
Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by
man;...
Nat 1.22 8
...in common life whosoever has seen a person of powerful
character...will have remarked how easily he took all things along with
him...
Nat 1.23 25
A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous
impression on the mind. What is common to them all...is beauty.
Nat 1.37 7
What tedious training...to form the common sense;...
AmS 1.107 3
[The poor and the low] are content to be brushed like flies
from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him to that
common nature...
DSA 1.147 9
...let us not aim at common degrees of merit.
LE 1.177 20
[The scholar] must bear his share of the common load.
MN 1.191 11
...it is a common calamity if [the scholars] neglect their post
in a country where the material interest is so predominant as it is in
America.
MR 1.227 7
...our life, as we lead it, is common and mean;...
MR 1.247 22
...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 1.253 11
We complain that the politics of masses of the people are...
led in opposition to manifest justice and the common weal...
Tran 1.341 1
...many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves
from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
Tran 1.342 2
...it would not misbecome us to inquire...what these
companions and contemporaries of ours think and do, at least so far as these
thoughts and actions appear to be...common to many...
Tran 1.343 25
...it is a fidelity to this sentiment [Love] which has made
common association distasteful to [Transcendentalists.]
YA 1.374 10
...we would have a common granary for the poor;...
YA 1.380 23
These [Communities] proceeded...from an impatience of
many usages in common life...
YA 1.384 2
Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women
in the community as were mothers, to an associate life, to a common table...
will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
YA 1.384 3
Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women
in the community as were mothers, to an associate life, to...a common
nursery, etc....will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
YA 1.389 15
...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local
mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love
of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with
its natural force.
YA 1.391 22
One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common
conscience...
YA 1.391 23
One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common
conscience...
Hist 2.3 1
There is one mind common to all individual men.
Hist 2.17 2
In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very
diverse works.
Hist 2.17 8
...common souls pay with what they do, nobler souls with that
which they are.
Hist 2.19 10
I have seen a snow-drift along the sides of the stone wall
which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a
tower.
SR 2.62 26
...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John
and Edward in a...common day's work;...
SR 2.64 10
In that deep force...all things find their common origin.
SR 2.74 27
...it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the
common motives of humanity...
Comp 2.114 5
What we buy in a broom, a mat, a wagon, a knife, is some
application of good sense to a common want.
SL 2.141 19
The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by...
outward signs that mark him extraordinary and not in the roll of common
men, is fanaticism...
SL 2.142 5
The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as
he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into...
SL 2.161 1
Common men are apologies for men;...
Fdsp 2.191 14
In poetry and in common speech the emotions of
benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to
the material effects of fire;...
Fdsp 2.201 8
...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social
benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation...which
even leaves the language of love suspicious and common...
Fdsp 2.207 18
In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a
social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there
present. ... Only he may then speak who can sail on the common thought of
the party...
Prd1 2.222 27
The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and
the third, spiritual perception.
Prd1 2.232 9
[The man of talent's] art is...less for every defect of common
sense.
Prd1 2.233 5
The scholar shames us by his bifold life. Whilst something
higher than prudence is active, he is admirable; when common sense is
wanted, he is an encumbrance.
Prd1 2.238 23
If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what
common ground remains...
Hsm1. 2.252 8
[Heroism's] jest is the littleness of common life.
Hsm1 2.255 20
It is a height to which common duty can very well attain, to
suffer and to dare with solemnity.
Hsm1 2.258 26
...[many extraordinary young men] enter an active
profession and the forming Colossus shrinks to the common size of man.
Hsm1 2.261 18
...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes
of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would
appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...
OS 2.268 24
The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present...
is...that common heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship...
OS 2.273 20
In common speech we refer all things to time...
OS 2.276 23
I am certified of a common nature;...
OS 2.277 10
In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is
made, as to a third party, to a common nature.
OS 2.277 10
In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is
made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common
nature is not social;...
OS 2.277 24
There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to
the greatest men with the lowest...
OS 2.282 10
What was in the case of these remarkable persons a
ravishment, has, in innumerable instances in common life, been exhibited in
less striking manner.
OS 2.288 17
[Genius] is a larger imbibing of the common heart.
OS 2.290 24
...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...dwells...in
the earnest experience of the common day...
Cir 2.311 3
In common hours, society sits cold and statuesque.
Cir 2.315 25
Blessed be nothing and The worse things are, the better they
are are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
Int 2.325 24
Intellect and intellection signify to the common ear
consideration of abstract truth.
Int 2.330 16
...the differences between men in natural endowment are
insignificant in comparison with their common wealth.
Int 2.336 12
In common hours we have the same facts as in the uncommon
or inspired...
Int 2.345 12
...you will find [your consciousness] is no recondite, but a
simple, natural, common state which the writer restores to you.
Art1 2.358 8
The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power
explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...
Pt1 3.5 4
[The poet]...apprises us not of his wealth, but of the common
wealth.
Pt1 3.29 13
...the poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that
the common influences should delight him.
Pt1 3.31 22
...Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations
through the masquerade of birds and beasts;...
Gts 3.160 14
For common gifts, necessity makes pertinences and beauty
every day...
Nat2 3.183 25
Common sense knows its own...
Nat2 3.183 27
The common sense of Franklin, Dalton, Davy and Black is
the same common sense which made the arrangements which now it
discovers.
Nat2 3.184 1
The common sense of Franklin, Dalton, Davy and Black is
the same common sense which made the arrangements which now it
discovers.
Pol1 3.212 19
...an abstract of the codes of nations would be a transcript of
the common conscience.
Pol1 3.213 24
All forms of government symbolize an immortal
government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers...
NER 3.278 20
Could [the proposition of depravity] be received into
common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.
UGM 4.7 24
Our common discourse respects two kinds of use or service
from superior men.
UGM 4.31 22
As to what we call the masses, and common men,--there are
no common men.
UGM 4.32 9
Some rays escape the common observer...
UGM 4.34 6
The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be
common pottery;...
PPh 4.78 27
...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic
[of Plato], we speak as boys...
SwM 4.95 17
In common parlance, what one man is said to learn by
experience, a man of extraordinary sagacity is said, without experience, to
divine.
SwM 4.96 15
...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but
that any man who has recalled to mind, or according to the common phrase
has learned, one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient
knowledge...
SwM 4.101 15
There is a common portrait of [Swedenborg] in antique coat
and wig...
SwM 4.123 23
What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]...
without one swell of vanity, or one look to self in any common form of
literary pride!...
SwM 4.124 16
...what is real and universal cannot be confined to the circle
of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius, but will pass
forth into the common stock of wise and just thinking.
SwM 4.145 6
Do not rely...on prudence, on common sense...
MoS 4.169 20
...[Montaigne] says, might I have had my own will, I would
not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me, but 't is to
much purpose to evade it, the common custom and use of life will have it
so.
MoS 4.176 6
Presently a new experience gives a new turn to our thoughts:
common sense resumes its tyranny;...
MoS 4.180 23
Some minds are incapable of skepticism. The doubts they
profess to entertain are rather a civility or accommodation to the common
discourse of their company.
MoS 4.182 26
[The wise and magninimous] will exult in [the spiritualist's]
far-sighted good-will that can abandon to the adversary all the ground of
tradition and common belief...
ShP 4.218 14
...had [Shakespeare] reached only the common measure of
great authors...we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate...
NMW 4.225 19
[The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by
birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a
commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the
common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny...
NMW 4.227 20
Bonaparte was the idol of common men because he had in
transcendent degree the qualities and powers of common men.
NMW 4.227 22
Bonaparte was the idol of common men because he had in
transcendent degree the qualities and powers of common men.
NMW 4.233 16
[Napoleon] is firm, sure...not misled, like common
adventurers, by the splendor of his own means.
NMW 4.240 27
The market-place, [Napoleon] said, is the Louvre of the
common people.
NMW 4.245 4
Seventeen men in [Napoleon's] time were raised from
common soldiers to the rank of king, marshal, duke, or general;...
NMW 4.253 21
...[Napoleon] has not the merit of common truth and
honesty.
ET1 5.6 27
Greenough brought me, through a common friend, an invitation
from Mr. Landor...
ET1 5.24 6
...[Wordsworth] said he wished to show me what a common
person in England could do...
ET5 5.99 22
Though not military, yet every common subject [in England]
by the poll is fit to make a soldier of.
ET8 5.130 24
...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly
indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper;...
ET8 5.133 23
The common Englishman is prone to forget a cardinal article
in the bill of social rights, that every man has a right to his own ears.
ET8 5.134 16
...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men
of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding
wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a
common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of
cheerful duty;...
ET10 5.170 9
[England] too is in the stream of fate, one victim more in a
common catastrophe.
ET14 5.232 1
A strong common sense...marks the English mind for a
thousand years;...
ET14 5.234 23
Even in its elevations materialistic, [England's] poetry is
common sense inspired;...
ET14 5.235 22
To the images from this twin source (of Christianity and
art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of the Holy Ghost. The
English mind flowered in every faculty. The common sense was surprised
and inspired.
ET14 5.236 17
There is a hygienic simpleness...in the common style of the
[English] people...
ET14 5.240 8
Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his
map of the mind, first of all, universality, or prima philosophia; the
receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within
the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy, but are more
common and of a higher stage.
ET14 5.240 21
[Bacon] explained himself by giving various quaint
examples of the summary or common laws of which each science has its
own illustration.
ET16 5.283 15
I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston,
swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge
columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons, with
paddies to help...
ET18 5.306 1
You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their
Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters...
Wth 6.85 12
[A man] fails to make his place good in the world unless he
not only pays his debt but also adds something to the common wealth.
Ctr 6.151 8
How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who
preferred trifling subjects and common expressions in intercourse with
strangers...
Ctr 6.157 5
The more I know you [wrote Neander to his sacred friends], the
more I dissatisfy and must dissatisfy all my wonted companions. Their very
presence stupefies me. The common understanding withdraws itself from
the one centre of all existence.
Bhr 6.176 14
The obstinate prejudice in favor of blood...has some reason in
common experience.
Bhr 6.183 24
What is the talent of that character so common--the
successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and drawing-rooms?
CbW 6.247 5
Fine society, in the common acceptation, has neither ideas
nor aims.
CbW 6.271 3
Our habit of thought...is not satisfying; in the common
experience I fear it is poor and squalid.
Bty 6.304 9
Facts which had never before left their stark common sense
suddenly figure as Eleusinian mysteries.
SS 7.3 22
There was some paralysis on [my new friend's] will, such that
when he met men on common terms he spoke weakly...
SS 7.10 10
...this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can
make right or tolerable. This result is so against nature...that it must be
corrected by a common sense and experience.
Art2 7.43 19
...being applied primarily to the common necessities of man,
[language] is not new-created by the poet for his own ends.
Art2 7.48 23
The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired...
by all men...must...be...one through whom the soul of all men circulates as
the common air through his lungs.
Elo1 7.88 11
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...
Elo1 7.88 13
Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense.
Elo1 7.89 23
By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the
common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and
magnificence wherever he goes.
DL 7.132 7
The language of a ruder age has given to common law the
maxim that every man's house is his castle...
WD 7.158 26
...our common and indispensable utensils of house and farm
are new;...
WD 7.169 19
...in the common experience of the scholar, the weathers fit
his moods.
WD 7.175 6
...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their
admirable symbols...was common lime and silex and water and sunlight...
Boks 7.191 8
College education is the reading of certain books which the
common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already
accumulated.
Cour 7.255 19
'T is said courage is common...
Cour 7.255 23
Animal resistance...is no doubt common;...