Compliance to Conducts
compliance, n. (6)
MR 1.233 26
Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a
certain dapperness and compliance...
Con 1.314 23
...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has
also his gracious and relenting moments, and espouses for the time the
cause of man; and even if this be a shortlived emotion, yet the remembrance
of it in private hours mitigates his...compliance with custom.
SL 2.150 25
We foolishly think in our days of sin that we must court
friends by compliance to the customs of society...
Fdsp 2.208 18
I am equally balked by antagonism and by compliance.
Exp 3.82 5
In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature
and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power of being
greatly useful.
DL 7.111 2
[The citizen's] house ought to show us his honest opinion of
what makes his well-being when he...forgets all affectation, compliance,
and even exertion of will.
compliances, n. (3)
Chr1 3.115 25
...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a
wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any
compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring
can know its face...
NR 3.228 17
The acts which you praise, I praise not, since they are
departures from [the man's] faith, and are mere compliances.
SovE 10.210 27
...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be
drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for
another...the respect he feels for another who, underneath his compliances
with artificial society, would dearly like to serve somebody...
complicate, v. (2)
Wth 6.111 9
...we have to pay, not what would have contented [the
immigrants] at home, but what they have learned to think necessary here; so
that opinion, fancy and all manner of moral considerations complicate the
problem.
FSLC 11.210 13
...grant that the heart of financiers...shrinks within them
at...the embarrassments which complicate the problem [abolition];...
complications, n. (1)
ET5 5.93 13
...in the complications of the trade and politics of their vast
empire, [the English] have been equal to every exigency...
complicity, n. (2)
ET5 5.80 27
All the steps [the English] orderly take;...keeping their eye on
their aim, in all the complicity and delay incident to the several series of
means they employ.
F 6.7 11
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house
is concealed...there is complicity...
complied, v. (2)
HDC 11.57 8
The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any
town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up
a Grammar school, the masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as
they may be fitted for the University. With these requirements Concord...
complied...
MAng1 12.235 13
Michael Angelo, who...distrusted his capacity as an
architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied.
compliment, n. (33)
LT 1.291 12
...the highest compliment man ever receives from heaven is
the sending to him its disguised and discredited angels.
Con 1.322 8
What a compliment we pay to the good SPIRIT with our
superserviceable zeal!
Tran 1.346 23
There is no compliment, no smooth speech with [youths];...
Tran 1.346 25
...[youths] pay you only this one compliment, of insatiable
expectation;...
SL 2.164 21
I can think of nothing to fill my time with, and I find the Life
of Brant. It is a very extravagant compliment to pay to Brant...
Fdsp 2.203 6
I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...omitting
all compliment and commonplace, spoke to the conscience of every person
he encountered...
OS 2.292 11
Deal so plainly with man and woman as to...destroy all hope
of trifling with you. It is the highest compliment you can pay.
Chr1 3.112 7
Could we not pay our friend the compliment of truth, of
silence, of forbearing?
Chr1 3.115 27
...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a
wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any
compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring
can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it is to own it.
Mrs1 3.132 2
...the countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a
ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
Gts 3.161 8
...our tokens of compliment and love are for the most part
barbarous.
UGM 4.16 4
Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the
addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and
presupposing his intelligence.
PPh 4.39 2
Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical
compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is
in this book.
ShP 4.196 8
...some passages [in Shakespeare's Henry VIII], as the account
of the coronation, are like autographs. What is odd, the compliment to
Queen Elizabeth is in the bad rhythm.
ET5 5.74 23
[The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England]...at last, he
made a handsome compliment of roads and walls, and departed.
ET8 5.136 1
[The English] have that phlegm or staidness which it is a
compliment to disturb.
ET9 5.145 23
...when [the Englishman] wishes to pay you the highest
compliment, he says, I should not know you from an Englishman.
ET17 5.296 6
...perhaps it is a high compliment to the cultivation of the
English generally, when we find such a man [as Wordsworth] not
distinguished.
Ctr 6.137 9
It is not a compliment but a disparagement to consult a man
only on horses...
Ill 6.312 20
[the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of
some leader in the state or in society;...
SS 7.4 15
The most agreeable compliment you could pay [my new friend]
was to imply that you had not observed him in a house or a street where
you had met him.
Clbs 7.241 13
We consider those...who think it the highest compliment
they can pay a man to deal with him as an intellect...
Suc 7.302 14
This sensibility appears...when we see eyes that are a
compliment to the human race...
OA 7.332 14
We made our compliment [to John Adams]...
Comc 8.171 24
A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the
Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to
her tall figure, as well as to her republican opinions; the Countess retaliated
by calling Madame the Venus of the Pere-Lachaise, a compliment to her
skeleton which did not fail to circulate.
PPo 8.251 17
It is told of Hafiz, that, when he had written a compliment to
a handsome youth...the verses came to the ears of Timour in his palace.
Supl 10.167 8
An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the
Duke of Wellington...
Supl 10.170 24
...the great official...declared that he should remember this
honor to the latest moment of his existence. He was answered again by
officials. Pity, thought I, they should lie so about their keen sensibility...to
the commonplace compliment of a dinner.
AsSu 11.251 2
...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his
speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be
true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of every first-rate speaker that ever
lived. It is the high compliment he pays to the intelligence of the Senate and
of the country.
ACiv 11.302 26
[The existing administration] is to be thanked for its
angelic virtue, compared with any executive experiences with which we
have been familiar. But the times will not allow us to indulge in
compliment.
Milt1 12.258 25
...in reply apparently to some compliment on his powers of
conversation, [Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their
compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed
no marks of sublimity or genius.
ACri 12.292 26
Vulgarisms to be gazetted...considerable-it is
considerable of a compliment...
MLit 12.328 13
...that we may not...pay a great man so ill a compliment as
to praise him only in the conventional and comparative speech, let us
honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this
genius [Goethe].
compliment, v. (3)
DSA 1.148 23
You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but
you would not praise an angel.
EWI 11.123 19
The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we
flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for...
JBB 11.272 7
If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty
of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.
complimentary, adj. (1)
Wsp 6.211 21
...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the
private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the
public one; and no amount of evidence of his crimes will prevent them
giving him...complimentary dinners...
complimented, v. (4)
SL 2.160 25
...why need you torment yourself and friend by secret self-reproaches
that you have not...complimented him with gifts and salutations
heretofore?
ET7 5.120 17
...the chairman [of a St. George's festival in Montreal]
complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they
met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
F 6.42 6
...a man likes better to be complimented on his position...than on
his merits.
SMC 11.370 1
After Gettysburg, Colonel Prescott remarks that our [Thirty-second]
regiment is highly complimented.
compliments, n. (15)
Fdsp 2.203 1
We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by
compliments...
Hsm1. 2.252 13
What shall [heroism] say then...to the toilet, compliments,
quarrels, cards and custard, which rack the wit of all society?
OS 2.290 11
The ambitious vulgar...preserve their cards and compliments.
Mrs1 3.138 6
The compliments and ceremonies of our breeding should
recall...the grandeur of our destiny.
NMW 4.255 22
...[Napoleon]...listened after the hurrahs and the
compliments of the street...
ET7 5.118 25
An Englishman...checks himself in compliments...
ET19 5.310 20
...these things are not for me to say; these compliments,
though true, would better come from one who felt and understood these
merits more.
Ctr 6.154 24
How can you mind diet, bed, dress, or salutes or
compliments...when you think how paltry are the machinery and the
workers?
Elo1 7.71 6
...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of
the orator and the bard...
Farm 7.138 18
...you cannot make pretty compliments to fate and
gravitation, whose minister [the farmer] is.
OA 7.315 7
On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at
Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was received at the
dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect. He replied to these
compliments in a speech...
Plu 10.307 12
These men [who revere the spiritual power]...are not the
parasites of wealth. Perhaps they sometimes compromise...make and take
compliments; but they keep open the source of wisdom and health.
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...
EPro 11.316 14
[Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator, having
ended the compliments and pleasantries with which he conciliated
attention...announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles
involved;...
AgMs 12.362 7
One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S.
[Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth. The good
Commissioner [Henry Colman]...repeats his compliments as often as their
names are introduced.
comply, v. (2)
Supl 10.171 3
Men of the world value truth...not by its sacredness, but for
its convenience. Of such, especially of diplomatists, one has a right to
expect wit and ingenuity to avoid the lie if they must comply with the form.
EWI 11.119 8
Sir Lionel Smith defended the poor negro girls, prey to the
licentiousness of the [Jamaican] planters; they shall not be whipped with
tamarind rods if they do not comply with their master's will;...
complying, v. (1)
Prd1 2.222 5
[Prudence] is content to seek health of body by complying
with physical conditions...
comport, v. (1)
F 6.4 17
We are sure that...necessity does comport with liberty...
comports, v. (1)
PLT 12.32 9
Teach me never so much and I hear or retain only...what
comports with my experience and my desire.
compose, v. (22)
Nat 1.15 16
...where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting, the
landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical.
LT 1.267 13
Slowly...it steals on us, the new fact, that we who were pupils
or aspirants...do compose a portion of that head and heart we are wont to
think worthy of all reverence and heed.
LT 1.269 3
The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...compose
the visible church of the existing generation.
Con 1.318 14
...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a
part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and
welfare of mankind.
Lov1 2.170 5
...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and
stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love.
Exp 3.69 20
The persons who compose our company converse...and
somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
Mrs1 3.147 24
If the individuals who compose the purest circles of
aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review...we might find no gentleman
and no lady;...
NER 3.282 6
In vain we compose our faces and our words;...
UGM 4.11 25
Animated chlorine knows of chlorine, and incarnate zinc, of
zinc. Their quality makes [man's] career; and he can variously publish their
virtues, because they compose him.
UGM 4.33 2
No man, in all the procession of famous men, is reason or
illumination or that essence we were looking for; but is an exhibition, in
some quarter, of new possibilities. Could we one day complete the immense
figure which these flagrant points compose!
PPh 4.56 23
To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us
declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose
the universe.
SwM 4.118 15
...whether it be that these things will not be intellectually
learned, or that many centuries must elaborate and compose so rare and
opulent a soul,--there is no comet, rock-stratum...that, for itself, does not
interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the
frame of things.
ShP 4.217 7
Shakspeare employed [the things of nature] as colors to
compose his picture.
ET3 5.34 11
The solidity of the structures that compose the [English] towns
speaks the industry of ages.
ET4 5.45 14
The British census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half
millions in the home countries. What makes this census important is the
quality of the units that compose it.
ET10 5.160 16
A thousand million of pounds sterling are said to compose
the floating money of commerce [of England].
Wth 6.111 15
...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have
too much of it, and therein resembles the hideous animalcules of which our
bodies are built up,--offensive in the particular, yet compose valuable and
effective masses.
Elo1 7.63 2
An audience is not a simple addition of the individuals that
compose it.
Elo1 7.65 12
Him we call an artist...who, seeing the people furious, shall
soften and compose them...
PerF 10.70 10
One half the avoirdupois of the rocks which compose the
solid crust of the globe consists of oxygen.
SMC 11.355 7
...armies...lift the spirit of the soldiers who compose them to
the boiling point.
MAng1 12.219 20
The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which
it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface and, if beautiful, only the
result of interior harmonies, which, to him who knows them, compose the
image of higher beauty.
composed, adj. (2)
Int 2.331 26
It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed
attitude of the library to seize the thought.
ET8 5.128 22
[The English] are just as cold, quiet and composed, at the
end, as at the beginning of dinner.
composed, v. (25)
Nat 1.4 24
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature
and the Soul.
Hist 2.24 13
In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which
supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;...
wherein the face is...composed of incorrupt, sharply defined and
symmetrical features...
SR 2.87 12
The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed
does not.
Pol1 3.210 15
...the conservative party, composed of the most moderate,
able and cultivated part of the population, is timid...
NER 3.251 15
...that the Church, or religious party...is appearing...in very
significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions; composed of
ultraists...
NER 3.264 12
These new associations are composed of men and women of
superior talents and sentiments;...
ShP 4.200 12
Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer,
that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the
time of Christ...
NMW 4.223 10
It is Swedenborg's theory that...the lungs are composed of
infinitely small lungs;...
GoW 4.262 13
The facts do not lie in [the memory] inert; but some subside
and others shine; so that we soon have a new picture, composed of the
eminent experiences.
ET1 5.22 4
[Wordsworth] led me out into his garden, and showed me the
gravel walk in which thousands of his lines were composed.
Wth 6.101 4
...the true and only power, whether composed of money, water
or men; it is all alike [said the Marseilles banker];...
CbW 6.251 27
The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee. But
the units whereof this mass is composed, are neuters, every one of which
may be grown to a queen-bee.
Art2 7.50 6
The first time you hear [good poetry], it sounds rather as if
copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily
composed by the poet.
Art2 7.53 12
We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we
do in hearing a perfect song, that it...was one of the possible forms in the
Divine mind, and is now only discovered and executed by the artist, not
arbitrarily composed by him.
Elo1 7.67 8
...all these several audiences...which successively appear to
greet the variety of style and topic [of the orator], are really composed out
of the same persons;...
Suc 7.284 12
...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera,
wherein he...invented the engines, composed the music...
PI 8.45 6
...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can
compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts,
composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
SA 8.82 1
...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters
and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes
that correspond to theirs. Are they humble? he is composed.
Aris 10.41 4
An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men for
whom Nature and ethics are strong enough...
LLNE 10.331 21
Let [Everett] rise to speak on what occasion soever, a fact
had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well
known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
HDC 11.71 26
This body [the Provincial Congress] was composed of the
foremost patriots...
SMC 11.375 25
A gloom gathers on this assembly, composed as it is of
kindred men and women...
CL 12.144 14
Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was
composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it was impossible to
walk in the country...
ACri 12.300 26
Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a
trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses.
When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem...
WSL 12.349 1
Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own
immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean
merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which
both are composed.
composer, n. (6)
Nat 1.15 18
...as the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters.
LT 1.272 26
The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that
the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands. ... For some
ages, these ideas have been consigned to the poet and musical composer...
Pt1 3.38 26
The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the
orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically
and abundantly...
SwM 4.109 10
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on
unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...
CInt 12.119 17
I value dearly...the composer with his score.
MLit 12.322 23
...radical, painter, composer,-all worked for [Goethe]...
composes, v. (2)
F 6.22 24
On one side elemental order...and on the other part thought, the
spirit which composes and decomposes nature...
Wth 6.116 5
[The land-owner] believes he composes easily on the hills.
composing, v. (5)
ET1 5.22 11
[Wordsworth] had just returned from a visit to Staffa, and
within three days had made three sonnets on Fingal's Cave, and was
composing a fourth when he was called in to see me.
Ill 6.318 9
...[Columbus] found the illusion of arriving from the east at the
Indies more composing to his lofty spirit than any tobacco.
LVB 11.91 7
...out of eighteen thousand souls composing the [Cherokee]
nation, fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-eight have protested against
the so-called treaty.
Mem 12.96 2
We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one
day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly
told him he knew it already...
Bost 12.189 1
A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay]
from all other colonies was that the persons composing it consented to
come on the one condition that the charter should be transferred from the
company in England to themselves;...
composite, adj. (5)
GoW 4.290 4
Man is the most composite of all creatures;...
ET4 5.50 20
The English composite character betrays a mixed origin.
Elo1 7.66 2
[Eloquence] is a power...requiring a large composite man...
WD 7.170 27
...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass,--the
secular, refined, composite anatomy of man...are given immeasurably to all.
MLit 12.319 18
[Shelley's] muse is uniformly imitative; all his poems
composite.
composition, n. (27)
Nat 1.70 6
A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition
are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought...
LT 1.266 3
...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough:
bloated promises, which end in nothing or little. And then truly great men,
but with some defect in their composition which neutralizes their whole
force.
Tran 1.329 6
The light is always identical in its composition...
Fdsp 2.202 11
There are two elements that go to the composition of
friendship...
Int 2.337 25
...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious
states]...can design well and group well; its composition is full of art...
Mrs1 3.121 17
An element which unites all the most forcible persons of
every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties
universally found in men. It seems a certain permanent average; as the
atmosphere is a permanent composition...
Nat2 3.187 13
...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition...
PPh 4.66 4
Such as were fit to govern, into their composition the informing
Deity mingled gold;...
SwM 4.98 21
As happens in great men, [Swedenborg] seemed...to be a
composition of several persons...
SwM 4.99 25
[Swedenborg]...from this time [1716] for the next thirty years
was employed in the composition and publication of his scientific works.
ShP 4.201 4
Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad,
Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men. In the
composition of such works the time thinks...
ET5 5.88 26
I know not from which of the tribes and temperaments that
went to the composition of the people [of England] this tenacity was
supplied, but they clinch every nail they drive.
CbW 6.262 10
What had been, ever since our memory, solid continent,
yawns apart and discloses its composition and genesis.
QO 8.200 4
The old forest is decomposed for the composition of the new
forest.
Insp 8.290 5
...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found
certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition
exacted...
Edc1 10.128 14
Here [in the household] is the sincere thing, the wondrous
composition for which day and night go round.
Edc1 10.130 27
...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact
touching...the secrets of chemical composition and decomposition possess
for Humboldt?
LLNE 10.359 7
...if one must study all the strokes to be laid, all the faults
to be shunned in a building or work of art, of its keeping, its composition...
there would be no end.
CSC 10.374 9
The composition of the assembly [at the Chardon Street
Convention] was rich and various.
Thor 10.475 1
[Thoreau] could not be deceived as to the presence or
absence of the poetic element in any composition...
EWI 11.128 23
There are causes in the composition of the British
legislature...which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other
legislative assemblies.
ACiv 11.306 23
Neither do I doubt, is such a composition should take
place, that the Southerners will come back quietly and politely...
MAng1 12.228 20
[Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten,
or twelve heads...seeking that there should be in the composition a certain
universal grace such as Nature makes...
Milt1 12.254 20
Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of
every great man, namely...to draw after Nature a life of man, exhibiting
such a composition of grace, of strength and of virtue, as poet had not
described nor hero lived.
Milt1 12.256 11
[Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well
hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem; a composition
and pattern of the best and honorablest things...
MLit 12.314 22
...the criterion which discriminates these two habits [of
subjectiveness] in the poet's mind is the tendency of his composition;...
MLit 12.326 3
The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the
nature in this piece [Goethe's journal]; I liked the sly art in the
composition...still better.
compositions, n. (15)
DSA 1.126 10
The expressions of this [moral] sentiment affect us more
than all other compositions.
DSA 1.148 8
...[the commanders] with you are open to the influx of the all-knowing
Spirit, which annihilates...the little shades and gradations of
intelligence in compositions we call wiser and wisest.
LE 1.172 16
I by no means aim in these remarks to disparage the merit of
these or of any existing compositions;...
LE 1.182 9
If [the scholar] have this twofold goodness,-the drill and the
inspiration...then...the perfection of his endowment will appear in his
compositions.
Hist 2.16 9
...there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the
books of all ages.
OS 2.289 9
The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think
less of his compositions.
PPo 8.240 3
He who would understand the influence of the Homeric
ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which similar
compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
Milt1 12.248 23
These tracts [by Milton] are remarkable compositions.
Milt1 12.258 27
...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their
compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed
no marks of sublimity or genius.
Milt1 12.266 16
The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and
low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of
Christianity which Milton well understood. They give an inexhaustible
truth to all his compositions.
Milt1 12.277 22
The lover of Milton reads one sense in his prose and in his
metrical compositions;...
MLit 12.326 12
This subtle element of egotism in Goethe certainly does
not seem to deform his compositions...
MLit 12.328 22
...what shall we think of that absence of the moral
sentiment, that singular equivalence to him of good and evil in action,
which discredit [Goethe's] compositions to the pure?
EurB 12.367 8
...Wordsworth...though setting a private and exaggerated
value on his compositions;...is really a master of the English language...
EurB 12.371 2
Tennyson's compositions are not so much poems as studies
in poetry...
compost, n. (1)
MAng1 12.222 8
...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that
was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing
involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in
human clay.
composure, n. (2)
Mrs1 3.132 12
All that fashion demands is composure and self-content.
Trag 12.416 6
It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of
the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint
which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and
certain death. Yet these wards are not the least remarkable for the
composure and cheerfulness of their inmates.
compotes, adj. (1)
FSLC 11.185 2
I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would
back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men, compotes
mentis...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting
fanaticism...
compound, adj. (6)
Nat 1.64 2
...one and not compound [nature] does not act upon us from
without...
Comp 2.119 11
...compound interest on compound interest is the rate and
usage of this exchequer.
Hsm1 2.249 8
The disease and deformity around us certify the infraction of
natural, intellectual and moral laws, and often violation on violation to
breed such compound misery.
Mrs1 3.121 27
[Good society]...is a compound result into which every
great force enters as an ingredient...
SwM 4.114 6
It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound,
or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from
invisible forms...
Wth 6.126 19
The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it
becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance. This is the right
compound interest;...
compound, n. (2)
SwM 4.114 14
The unities of each organ are so many little organs,
homogeneous with their compound...
FRep 11.513 15
Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk
Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...all drill and
military education, on that one compound...
compound, v. (2)
Nat2 3.181 3
Compound it how [nature] will, star, sand, fire, water, tree,
man, it is still one stuff...
ET10 5.165 7
An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to
establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds,
so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he
transforms his paling into stone-masonry...and all Europe cannot prevail on
him to sell or compound for an inch of the land.
compounded, v. (1)
ACri 12.305 10
A man of genius or a work of love or beauty...can't be
compounded by the best rules...
compounding, v. (1)
CInt 12.113 11
...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to
suffer the flash of swords and the boyish strife of passion and feebleness of
military strength to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence
of Intellectual Law.
comprehend, v. (10)
Cir 2.303 17
Nature...has a cause like all the rest; and when once I
comprehend that, will these fields stretch so immovably wide...
Int 2.347 2
...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis, without a
moment's heed of the universal astonishment of the human race below, who
do not comprehend their plainest argument;...
Pt1 3.12 6
...from the heaven of truth I shall see and comprehend my
relations.
Chr1 3.92 14
See [the man fortunate in trade] and you will know as easily
why he succeeds, as, if you see Napoleon, you would comprehend his
fortune.
Chr1 3.100 20
Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public,
indicate...heads...which must see a house built before they can comprehend
the plan of it.
PPh 4.63 9
The essence or peculiarity of man is to comprehend a whole
[said Plato];...
Art2 7.39 24
The useful arts comprehend not only those that lie next to
instinct...but also navigation, practical chemistry...
LS 11.10 22
...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.
LS 11.13 18
It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans
and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to
comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity.
II 12.84 18
If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene,
and, slower or faster, endeavors to comprehend what you say.
comprehended, v. (3)
AmS 1.104 1
In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.
EWI 11.137 22
Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the
West Indies] was built on the narrow ground...of sordid gain, in opposition
to every motive that had reference to humanity, justice, and religion, or to
that great principle which comprehended them all.
MAng1 12.220 3
The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended
through seeing its surface.
comprehendeth, v. (1)
AmS 1.108 1
...a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures
of all men.
comprehending, v. (3)
Edc1 10.131 22
Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import,
fetching away...solstice, period, comet and binal star, by comprehending
their relation and law.
SovE 10.200 27
You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life
here a miracle so astounding,-a miracle comprehending all the universe of
miracles to which your intelligent life gives you access,-as to exhaust
wonder...
MAng1 12.216 15
Beauty...comprehending grandeur as a part, and
reaching to goodness as its soul,-this to receive and this to impart, was
[Michelangelo's] genius.
comprehends, v. (5)
LE 1.157 22
...when [the scholar] comprehends his duties he above all men
is a realist...
PPh 4.46 12
The same weakness and want, on a higher plane, occurs daily
in the education of ardent young men and women. ah! you don't undertand
me; I have never met with any one who comprehends me...
ET14 5.244 4
The Germans generalize: the English cannot interpret the
German mind. German science comprehends the English.
Bhr 6.184 6
...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one
instantly perceives ...that his will comprehends the other's will...
PLT 12.5 1
...[science] adopts the method of the universe as fast as it
appears; and this discloses that the mind as it opens, the mind as it shall be,
comprehends and works thus;...
comprehensible, adj. (2)
PPh 4.52 25
European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results.
GoW 4.271 5
We conceive...life in the Middle Ages, to be a simple and
comprehensible affair;...
comprehension, n. (8)
AmS 1.104 21
...[the scholar] will...find in himself a perfect comprehension
of [fear's] nature and extent;...
DSA 1.149 9
There are...men to whom a crisis...demanding...
comprehension...comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
SwM 4.119 5
To a right perception...of the order of nature, [Swedenborg]
added the comprehension of the moral laws in their widest social aspects;...
NMW 4.232 4
[Bonaparte] had a directness of action never before
combined with so much comprehension.
ET12 5.207 18
The men [English students] have learned accuracy and
comprehension, logic, and pace, or speed of working.
ALin 11.334 17
[Lincoln's] mind mastered the problem of the day; and as
the problem grew, so did his comprehension of it.
II 12.82 3
A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good
humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less
comprehension.
MLit 12.323 16
...[Goethe] is of that comprehension which can see the
value of truth.
comprehensive, adj. (8)
LT 1.287 9
Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society
which to great mechanical invention and the best institutions of property
adds the most daring theories;...
GoW 4.265 20
...let one man have the comprehensive eye that can replace
this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings...
Boks 7.190 8
...there are...books which are the work and the proof of
faculties so comprehensive...that though one shuts them with meaner ones,
he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.
Prch 10.233 11
The author...sees the sweep of a more comprehensive
tendency than others are aware of;...
LLNE 10.349 8
The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was...that it...was coherent
and comprehensive of facts to a wonderful degree.
LLNE 10.355 2
It was easy to see what must be the fate of this fine system
[of Fourier's] in any serious and comprehensive attempt to set it on foot in
this country.
Thor 10.452 25
[Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of
knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much
more comprehensive calling, the art of living well.
II 12.82 1
A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good
humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less
comprehension.
comprehensively, adv. (1)
Civ 7.20 11
In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress
that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say,--childish
illusions passing daily away and he seeing things really and
comprehensively,--is made by tribes.
comprehensiveness, n. (1)
LLNE 10.351 21
The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and
his friends, the comprehensiveness of their theory...commanded our
attention and respect.
compression, n. (4)
Pow 6.71 15
...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of
war] is a training for the finest and softest arts...
ACri 12.290 6
Dante is the professor that shall teach both the noble low
style...also the sculpture of compression.
ACri 12.290 7
The next virtue of rhetoric is compression...
WSL 12.348 2
[Landor] knows the wide difference between compression
and an obscure elliptical style.
Compression, n. (1)
ACri 12.299 25
After Low Style and Compression what the books call
Metonomy is a principal power of rhetoric.
comprise, v. (3)
Nat 1.44 23
[Every universal truth] is like a great circle on a sphere,
comprising all possible circles; which, however, may be drawn and
comprise it in like manner.
Exp 3.75 11
The new statement will comprise the scepticisms as well as the
faiths of society...
ET4 5.44 22
The British Empire is reckoned...to comprise a territory of 5,
000,000 square miles.
comprised, v. (2)
AmS 1.100 17
[The scholar's duties] may all be comprised in self-trust.
PPh 4.63 10
The essence or peculiarity of man [said Plato] is to
comprehend...that which in the diversity of sensations can be comprised
under a rational unity.
comprises, v. (3)
FSLN 11.218 7
...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a
class which comprises in some sort all mankind...
FSLN 11.218 8
...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a
class which...comprises every man in the best hours of his life;...
JBB 11.270 10
...we are here to think of relief for the family of John
Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It
comprises his brave fellow sufferers in the Charlestown Jail;...
comprising, v. (5)
Nat 1.44 22
[Every universal truth] is like a great circle on a sphere,
comprising all possible circles;...
ET12 5.200 17
...out of twelve hundred young men [at Oxford], comprising
the most spirited of the aristocracy, a duel has never occurred.
Insp 8.279 25
Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of
air, landscape and bodily exercise, on the mind.
EWI 11.141 3
Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of
African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture
of the negro; comprising cloths and loom, weapons...
CL 12.135 17
The avarice of real estate native to us all covers...all that is
called the love of Nature, comprising the largest use and the whole beauty
of a farm or landed estate.
Compromise, Missouri, n. (2)
FSLN 11.233 17
You relied on the Missouri Compromise. That is ridden
over.
TPar 11.290 14
[Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when
Southern slavery...wrung from the weakness or treachery of Northern
people fatal concessions in...the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
compromise, n. (17)
MR 1.234 1
Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a
compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.
MR 1.236 8
...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all
these institutions [commerce, law, state]...a man may select the fittest
employment for his peculiar talent again, without compromise.
LT 1.274 16
...the compromise made with the slaveholder...every day
appears more flagrant mischief to the American constitution.
Con 1.313 19
You are yourself the result of this manner of living, this foul
compromise...
Tran 1.349 26
...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal
professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly
compromise...
Fdsp 2.199 16
All association must be a compromise...
NER 3.264 24
...it may easily be questioned...whether the members [of
associations] will not necessarily be fractions of men, because each finds
that he cannot enter it without some compromise.
ET4 5.49 14
Whatever influences add to mental or moral faculty, take men
out of nationality...and make the national life a culpable compromise.
Wth 6.97 9
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their
possessions. Others cannot: their owning...seems to be a compromise of
their character;...
Wth 6.100 23
The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote
operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts...so as to arrive at
gigantic results, without any compromise of safety.
War 11.174 1
[The man of principle] is willing to be hanged at his own
gate, rather than consent to any compromise of his freedom...
JBS 11.279 15
[In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic
character...living to ideal ends, without any mixture of self-indulgence or
compromise...
ACiv 11.303 18
...there have been days in American history, when, if the
free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...and our recent
calamities forever precluded. The free states yielded, and every
compromise was surrender...
FRep 11.543 10
Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. No
monopoly must be foisted in...no coward compromise conceded to a strong
partner.
II 12.84 13
[Men] are not timed each to the other: they cannot keep step,
and life requires too much compromise.
CInt 12.123 6
[The Understanding] is the power which the world of men
adopt and educate. He is...the worker in the useful; he works by shifts, by
compromise...
CL 12.136 13
...in the country, Nature is always inviting to the compromise
of walking as soon as we are released from severe labor.
compromise, v. (4)
Nat 1.48 15
God...will not compromise the end of nature by permitting any
inconsequence in its procession.
UGM 4.29 19
Compromise thy egotism.
Plu 10.307 11
These men [who revere the spiritual power]...are not the
parasites of wealth. Perhaps they sometimes compromise...but they keep
open the source of wisdom and health.
FRep 11.521 2
...the stiffest patriots falter and compromise;...
compromised, v. (3)
Pt1 3.10 20
Society seemed to be compromised.
PI 8.6 10
The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a
makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...suspects that some
one is doing him, and at this alarm everything is compromised;...
PLT 12.45 1
If we converse with low things...we are not compromised.
compromises, n. (1)
Wsp 6.212 9
Even well-disposed, good sort of people...for brave,
straightforward action, use half-measures and compromises.
compromises, v. (1)
Elo2 8.115 27
I must feel that the speaker compromises himself to his
auditory...
compulsion, n. (1)
F 6.19 13
The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency...
amounts to little more than a criticism or protest made by a minority of one,
under compulsion of millions.
compulsory, adj. (2)
Wth 6.108 18
The price of coal shows...a compulsory confinement of the
miners to a certain district.
PLT 12.27 23
An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of
certain atoms, which, after performing compulsory duty to this enchanted
statue, are released again to flow in the currents of the world.
compunction, n. (2)
LT 1.278 13
To the youth...full of compunction at his unprofitable
existence, the temptation is always great to lend himself to public
movements...
Nat2 3.178 26
We see the foaming brook with compunction...
compunctions, n. (2)
Lov1 2.171 16
...infinite compunctions embitter in mature life the
remembrances of budding joy...
SwM 4.138 3
No man can afford to waste his moments in compunctions.
computation, n. (3)
YA 1.377 27
[Trade] displaces physical strength, and instals computation,
combination, information, science, in its room.
F 6.18 12
No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that
Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales...
Oenipodes...each had the same tense geometrical brain, apt for the same
vigorous computation...
PC 8.222 15
We are told that in posting his books, after the French had
measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his
theoretic results were approximating that empirical one...he was so agitated
that he was forced to call in an assistant to finish the computation.
computations, n. (2)
ShP 4.195 10
...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be
inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First,
Second and Third parts of Henry VI....
PC 8.217 22
If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his
nation cannot spare him; nor if he know...the secret of geometry, of algebra;
on which the computations of astronomy, of navigation, of machinery, rest.
compute, v. (12)
MN 1.203 2
When we are dizzied with the arithmetic of the savant toiling
to compute the length of [Nature's] line...we are steadied by the perception
that a great deal is doing;...
LT 1.270 20
The student of history will hereafter compute the singular
value of our endless discussion of questions to the mind of the period.
Cir 2.317 12
[When these waves of God flow into me] I no longer poorly
compute my possible achievement by what remains to me of the month or
the year;...
Pt1 3.16 14
In our political parties, compute the power of badges and
emblems.
MoS 4.178 26
If we compute it in time, we may, in fifty years, have half a
dozen reasonable hours.
Wth 6.83 20
What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/ (In dizzy aeons dim
and mute/ The reeling brain can ill compute)/ Copper and iron, lead, and
gold?/
Wth 6.110 23
The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of
immigrants], I will not compute.
DL 7.108 7
It is easier to...compute the square extent of a territory...than to
come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
PC 8.225 6
Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver
flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires
of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its
enormous age...
MoL 10.249 26
Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and
numbers; I compute...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured
out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
CInt 12.122 21
[A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad
to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and
better than he could do it; whether it be to build...sing, heal or compute...
Bost 12.187 9
Of great cities you cannot compute the influences.
computed, v. (6)
SR 2.48 5
...that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has
computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, [children, babes,
and brutes] have not.
OS 2.274 17
After its own law...is the rate of [the soul's] progress to be
computed.
ET10 5.159 18
The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been
computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men...
ET11 5.198 9
It is computed that, with titles and without, there are seventy
thousand of these people coming and going in London, who make up what
is called high society.
CbW 6.265 2
...the power of happiness of any soul is not to be computed or
drained.
Boks 7.192 9
...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed
by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...
computing, v. (5)
MN 1.201 27
When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful
hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments without end
into her wide common...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite
worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
SR 2.56 26
...the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit
than our past acts...
Exp 3.75 26
...we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting
lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors.
ET16 5.283 4
On hints like these, Stukeley...computing backward by the
known variations of the compass, bravely assigns the year 406 before Christ
for the date of the temple [Stonehenge].
FSLC 11.199 18
There is...not an economist but is computing [slavery's]
profit and loss...
comrade, n. (4)
ET1 5.4 26
It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern...when
you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
ET4 5.68 5
Lord Collingwood, [Nelson's] comrade, was of a nature the
most affectionate and domestic.
Cour 7.276 23
I do not wish to...urge [any man] to ape the courage of his
comrade.
Res 8.145 7
...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a
twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side,
crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over,
happy in his stout roof.
comrades, n. (7)
Nat 1.20 24
...when Arnold Winkelried...gathers in his side a sheaf of
Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes
entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
ShP 4.193 21
Shakspeare, in common with his comrades, esteemed the
mass of old plays waste stock...
Comc 8.169 26
...[Astley's] comrades playfully forced off his coat...
FSLN 11.241 16
I wish to see the instructed class here...not fire on their
comrades.
SMC 11.361 12
Always devoted...sometimes full of joy at the deportment
of his comrades, [George Prescott's letters] contain the sincere praise of
men whom I now see in this assembly.
SMC 11.368 11
...at Fredericksburg...Lieutenant-Colonel Prescott loudly
expressed his satisfaction at his comrades...
SMC 11.373 16
One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades...
writing to his own family, uses these words: He was one of the few men
who fight for principle.
Comus [John Milton], n. (4)
ET11 5.190 16
I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which
Milton's Comus was written...
PI 8.48 8
Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining
on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver
lining on the night./ Comus.
Milt1 12.265 11
[Milton's native honor] is the spirit of Comus...
Milt1 12.275 9
...the Comus [is] a transcript, in charming numbers, of that
philosophy of chastity, which, in the Apology for Smectymnuus, and in the
Reason of Church Government, [Milton] declares to be his defence and
religion.
concatenate, v. (1)
Mem 12.100 1
An act of the understanding will marshal and concatenate a
few facts;...
concave, adj. (5)
SL 2.151 26
[The world] will certainly accept your own measure of your
doing and being...whether you see your work produced to the concave
sphere of the heavens...
OS 2.273 22
...we habitually refer the immensely sundered stars to one
concave sphere.
Exp 3.51 1
Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too
concave...
UGM 4.32 2
Each is uneasy until he has produced his private ray unto the
concave sphere...
Supl 10.166 3
...a face magnified in a concave mirror loses its expression.
conceal, v. (21)
SL 2.146 8
If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his
pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he
publishes.
SL 2.146 23
What secret can [Plato] conceal from the eyes of Bacon?...
PNR 4.84 1
The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was
profitable; Plato affirms that...profit is intrinsic, though the just conceal his
justice from gods and men;...
NMW 4.225 20
[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...
ET5 5.80 7
[The English]...cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of
thought...
ET8 5.141 21
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? The early history shows it, as the musician plays the air
which he proceeds to conceal in a tempest of variations.
Pow 6.82 7
A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you
shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into
the piece;...
Wth 6.97 12
They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and
conceal;...
Ctr 6.138 4
...here is a pedant that cannot...conceal his wrath at interruption
by the best, if their conversation do not fit his impertinency...
Bhr 6.193 8
In all the superior people I have met I notice directness, truth
spoken more truly, as if everything of obstruction, of malformation, had
been trained away. What have they to conceal?
Wsp 6.223 25
If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he
meets know that he conceals somewhat...
SS 7.4 12
[My new friend] could not enough conceal himself.
DL 7.123 11
[The women of Arthur's court]...said that the devil was in the
mantle, for really the truth was in the mantle, and was exposing the ugliness
which each would fain conceal.
Clbs 7.235 10
However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and
spiritual power that are compared;...
PI 8.56 10
I know the pride of mathematicians and materialists, but they
cannot conceal from me their capital want.
SA 8.82 13
No art can contravene [thought] or conceal it.
Aris 10.56 4
I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this
ambient cloud. ... Their manners and behavior in the house and in the field
are those of men at rest: what have they to conceal? what have they to
exhibit?
Supl 10.166 7
...I can well spare the exaggerations which appear to me
screens to conceal ignorance.
Schr 10.277 13
I like to see a man of that virtue that no obscurity or
disguise can conceal...
FSLC 11.206 2
I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself. As
much real union as there is, the statutes will be sure to express; as much
disunion as there is, no statute can long conceal.
WSL 12.337 5
We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an
erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English
traveller;-a man nowise cautious to conceal his name or that of his native
country...
concealable, adj. (1)
Supl 10.177 19
A bag of sequins...a single horse, constitute an estate in
countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of
concealable and convertible property.
concealed, adj. (3)
ShP 4.205 27
...[researches concerning Shakespeare's condition] can shed
no light upon that infinite invention which is the concealed magnet of his
attraction for us.
OA 7.320 8
...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces
of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors, a certain
concealed sense of injury...
Edc1 10.129 26
[Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all...unlock
for us the concealed faculties of the mind?
concealed, v. (29)
Nat 1.39 2
...in [Nature's] heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful
results.
DSA 1.139 14
There is poetic truth concealed in all the commonplaces of
prayer and of sermons...
LE 1.177 18
[Human life's] laws are concealed under the details of daily
action.
LT 1.289 21
The granite is curiously concealed under a thousand
formations and surfaces...
Tran 1.357 22
[The Transcendentalists'] heart is the ark in which the fire is
concealed which shall burn in a broader and universal flame.
Comp 2.103 14
Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens with the
flower of the pleasure which concealed it.
SL 2.159 24
Confucius exclaimed,--How can a man be concealed? How
can a man be concealed?
SL 2.159 25
Confucius exclaimed,--How can a man be concealed? How
can a man be concealed?
Lov1 2.167 1
I was as a gem concealed;/ Me my burning ray revealed./
Koran.
Mrs1 3.145 15
...nor is it to be concealed that living blood and a passion of
kindness does at last distinguish God's gentleman from Fashion's.
NR 3.243 2
Whatever does not concern us is concealed from us.
NR 3.243 4
As soon as a person is no longer related to our present well-being,
he is concealed, or dies, as we say.
PNR 4.85 20
Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write
thus:...as respects either of them in itself...concealed both from gods and
men, no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice is
the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the
greatest good.
ET11 5.186 4
...beneficent power...gives a majesty which cannot be
concealed or resisted.
F 6.7 9
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house
is concealed...there is complicity...
Wsp 6.224 23
To every creature is his own weapon, however skilfully
concealed from himself, a good while.
Wsp 6.229 15
To a sound constitution the defect of another is at once
manifest; and the marks of it are only concealed from us by our own
dislocation.
Bty 6.288 22
Goethe said, The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of
nature which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us.
Farm 7.136 3
[The farmer] planted where the deluge ploughed,/ His hired
hands were wind and cloud;/ His eyes detect the Gods concealed/ In the
hummock of the field./
WD 7.179 22
...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the
theory of this particular Wednesday. Can he uncover the ligaments
concealed from all but piety...
MMEm 10.424 3
In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no fantastic illusions,
no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds...
Thor 10.465 6
[Thoreau]...saw the limitations and poverty of those he
talked with, so that nothing seemed concealed from such terrible eyes.
Thor 10.481 21
[Thoreau] thought the scent a more oracular inquisition
than the sight,-more oracular and trustworthy. The scent, of course,
reveals what is concealed from the other senses.
War 11.160 14
The eternal germination of the better has unfolded new
powers, new instincts, which were really concealed under this rough and
base rind.
ACiv 11.300 17
Neither was anything concealed of the theory or practice of
slavery.
SMC 11.354 25
The opinions of masses of men, which the tactics of
primary caucuses and the proverbial timidity of trade had concealed, the
[Civil] war discovered;...
Shak1 11.451 23
The egotism of men is immense. It concealed Shakspeare
for a century.
PLT 12.44 6
It is not to be concealed that the gods have guarded this
privilege [of sensibility] with costly penalty.
MLit 12.326 5
The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the
nature in this piece [Goethe's journal]; I liked the sly art in the
composition...still better. It is a true poem, so concealed is the art too.
concealing, v. (5)
NR 3.228 3
The men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude...or by an
acid worldly manner; each concealing as he best can his incapacity for
useful association...
SwM 4.103 20
Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences
are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing
a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;--
being some curiosity or oddity...purposely framed to excite surprise, as
jugglers do by concealing their means.
F 6.15 22
One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages,
and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...rude forms...
concealing under these unwieldy monsters the fine type of her coming king.
Wth 6.108 26
One might say...that nothing is cheap or dear, and that the
apparent disparities that strike us are only a shopman's trick of concealing
the damage in your bargain.
SS 7.7 8
One protects himself [from society] by solitude...and one by an
acid, worldly manner,--each concealing how he can the thinness of his
skin...
concealment, n. (3)
MR 1.232 20
...the general system of our trade...is a system...of
concealment...
SL 2.159 4
Concealment avails [a man] nothing, boasting nothing.
Wsp 6.222 17
There is no concealment...
concealments, n. (1)
SovE 10.195 24
Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our
surrenders and concealments and partisanship...
conceals, v. (7)
LE 1.187 4
...Ask not...Who is the better for the philosopher who conceals
his accomplishments...
NR 3.243 20
...the divine Providence which keeps the universe open in
every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the persons that
do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
Wsp 6.223 26
If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he
meets know that he conceals somewhat...
Wsp 6.223 27
If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he
meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he conceals.
Grts 8.312 19
...[the great man] conceals his learning, conceals his charity.
Prch 10.228 20
I fear that what is called religion, but is perhaps pew-holding,
not obeys but conceals the moral sentiment.
Bost 12.193 10
...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology,
which yet conceals some grand commandment;...
concede, v. (10)
LE 1.164 11
Concede to [the man of letters] genius...and he is content;...
LE 1.164 13
...concede [the man of letters] talents never so rare, denying
him genius, and he is aggrieved.
NER 3.260 22
I readily concede that in this, as in every period of
intellectual activity, there has been a noise of denial and protest;...
ET12 5.211 12
I should readily concede these [physical] advantages...if I
did not find also that [Oxford men] read better than we, and write better.
ET16 5.275 11
I told Carlyle that I...was accustomed to concede readily all
that an Englishman would ask;...
CbW 6.249 9
I wish not to concede anything to [masses]...
PI 8.32 2
Free trade, [men of the world] concede, is very well as a
principle...
Schr 10.271 7
I incline to concede the isolation which [wealth] asks...
MLit 12.313 3
We can easily concede that a steadfast tendency of this sort
[toward subjectiveness] appears in modern literature.
MLit 12.317 14
Perhaps no considerable minority, no one man, leads a
quite clean and lofty life. What then? We concede in sadness the fact.
conceded, v. (6)
ShP 4.203 2
[Jonson] no doubt thought the praise he has conceded to
[Shakespeare] generous...
ShP 4.219 12
It must be conceded that these are half-views of half-men.
Ctr 6.141 12
...it is conceded that much of our training fails of effect;...
Bty 6.293 19
All that is a little harshly claimed by progressive parties may
easily come to be conceded without question, if this rule [of gradation] be
observed.
SovE 10.204 27
I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by
which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in
which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed
becomes more obvious in the least religious minds. I will not now explore
the causes of the result, but the fact must be conceded as of frequent
occurrence...
FRep 11.543 10
Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. No
monopoly must be foisted in...no coward compromise conceded to a strong
partner.
concedes, v. (4)
MN 1.200 3
In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes
that no chemistry...can account for the facts...
Con 1.316 7
The reformer concedes that these mitigations exist...
Con 1.319 1
The conservative party in the universe concedes that the
radical would talk sufficiently to the purpose, if we were still in the garden
of Eden;...
Tran 1.330 5
[The idealist] concedes all that [the materialist] affirms...
conceding, v. (3)
Thor 10.465 14
[Thoreau's] own dealing with [young men of sensibility]
was...didactic, scorning their petty ways,-very slowly conceding, or not
conceding at all, the promise of his society at their houses...
FSLC 11.208 21
It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish,
to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West
Indian slaves. I say buy,-never conceding the right of the planter to own,
but that we may acknowledge the calamity of his position...
EdAd 11.386 10
Conceding these unfavorable appearances, it would yet be
a poor pedantry to read the fates of this country from these narrow data.
conceit, n. (18)
Comp 2.118 4
When [a great man] is pushed, tormented, defeated...he...is
cured of the insanity of conceit;...
ET2 5.29 14
Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over [the sea], each one,
like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney
conceit...
ET6 5.112 2
There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in
wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen. There is a knell in the
conceit and externality of their voice, which seems to say, Leave all hope
behind.
ET7 5.125 27
The Italian is subtle, the Spaniard treacherous: tortures, it is
said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret. None
of these traits belong to the Englishman. His choler and conceit force every
thing out.
ET9 5.150 6
[The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer
any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes
up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance, for any help he will offer.
There are really no limits to this conceit...
F 6.47 18
...when a man is the victim of his fate, has...a strut in his gait and
a conceit in his affection;...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
Ctr 6.132 19
...nature has secured individualism by giving the private
person a high conceit of his weight in the system.
Ctr 6.137 20
Culture kills...[man's] conceit of his village or his city.
Ctr 6.154 12
Let these triflers [who scream and bewail] put us out of
conceit with petty comforts.
Ill 6.324 15
Dispel, O Lord of all creatures! the conceit of knowledge
which proceeds from ignorance.
SA 8.95 25
The great gain is...not to conquer your companion,--then you
learn nothing but conceit...
SA 8.107 3
They only can give the key and leading to better society: those...
who, by their joy and homage to these [eternal laws], are made incapable of
conceit...
Edc1 10.141 8
...[the boy] gladly enters a school which forbids conceit,
affectation, emphasis and dulness...
ALin 11.332 5
In a host of young men that start together and promise so
many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial; one by bad
health, one by conceit...
SMC 11.359 15
[George Prescott] was a man without conceit...
PLT 12.7 22
A plain man finds [men of wit] so heavy, dull, and oppressive,
with bad jokes and conceit and stupefying individualism, that he comes to
write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an
unprofitable companion.
II 12.76 15
Is it that we are such mountains of conceit that Heaven cannot
enough mortify and snub us...
CL 12.159 10
Nature kills egotism and conceit;...
conceited, adj. (5)
LT 1.277 18
Those who are urging with most ardor what are called the
greatest benefits of mankind, are...conceited men...
MoS 4.160 6
[The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot
give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so
vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited
vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger,
on the other.
Clbs 7.233 12
One of those conceited prigs who value Nature only as it
feeds and exhibits them is equally a pest with the roysterers.
SMC 11.355 20
...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were the
narrowest and most conceited of mankind...
PLT 12.61 11
Intellect...runs down into talent...conceited, ostentatious and
malignant.
conceits, n. (4)
PPh 4.74 9
This hard-headed humorist [Socrates], whose strange conceits,
drollery and bonhommie diverted the young patricians...turns out...to have a
probity as invincible as his logic...
MoS 4.155 25
If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits
they entertain,--they are abstractionists...
F 6.24 9
Let [man] empty his breast of his windy conceits...
PC 8.209 13
A great many full-blown conceits have burst [in America].
conceivable, adj. (5)
Pow 6.81 3
...we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man,
is also, first or last, within his reach...
Boks 7.206 7
For the Church and the Feudal Institution, Mr. Hallam's
Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet readable and conceivable
outlines.
Insp 8.272 16
A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that
can come to us.
Insp 8.275 26
...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which
[Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of
a chain, and the mode precisely as conceivable and familiar to higher
intelligence as the index-making of the literary hack.
SovE 10.195 12
I hope it is conceivable that a man may go to ruin gladly, if
he see that thereby no shade falls on that he loves and adores.
conceivably, adv. (1)
ShP 4.211 26
[Shakespeare] is inconceivably wise; the others, conceivably.
conceive, v. (24)
MN 1.209 11
I conceive a man as always spoken to from behind...
YA 1.379 18
I conceive that the office of statute law should be to express
and not to impede the mind of mankind.
OS 2.267 8
...the argument which is always forthcoming to silence those
who conceive extraordinary hopes of man, namely the appeal to experience,
is for ever invalid and vain.
Gts 3.164 3
The reason of these discords I conceive to be that there is no
commensurability between a man and any gift.
NR 3.230 15
We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the
German genius...
NER 3.260 16
I conceive this gradual casting off of material aids...to be the
affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
NER 3.274 8
[Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the
seeming affluence of the world. They...conceive a disgust at the indigence
of nature...
SwM 4.115 21
Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg]...
should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences...
GoW 4.271 3
We conceive Greek or Roman life...to be a simple and
comprehensible affair;...
Bhr 6.173 4
Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion
concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at
public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a
dog of honor to growl at any passer-by...
Ill 6.324 11
...the Hindoos...express the liveliest feeling, both of the
essential identity and of that illusion which they conceive variety to be.
Art2 7.48 24
[The artist] must work in the spirit in which we conceive a
prophet to speak...
Boks 7.203 1
If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of
Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he...
will conceive new gratitude to his fellow men...
PI 8.3 18
The common sense which...takes...things as they appear,--
believes in the existence of matter, not because we can touch it or conceive
of it, but because it agrees with ourselves...
PC 8.230 10
...I conceive that, in this economical world...the transcendent
powers of mind were not meant to be disused.
Chr2 10.98 5
When I think of Reason, of Truth, of Virtue, I cannot
conceive them as lodged in your soul and lodged in my soul...
Chr2 10.108 14
The mind of this age has fallen away from theology to
morals. I conceive it an advance.
FSLC 11.207 3
...I conceive it demonstrated,-the necessity of common
sense and justice entering into the laws.
FSLN 11.235 25
I conceive that thus to detach a man and make him feel
that he is to owe all to himself is the way to make him strong and rich;...
PLT 12.20 9
It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful
little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and
fitting and identity in their frame.
PLT 12.59 4
I cannot conceive any good in a thought which confines and
stagnates.
CInt 12.126 22
I conceive that a college should have no mean ambition...
EurB 12.374 27
We conceive that the obvious division of modern romance
is into two kinds...
Let 12.399 25
I cannot conceive of a people more disjoined than the
Germans.
conceived, v. (16)
MN 1.201 2
Nature can only be conceived as existing to a universal and not
to a particular end;...
Cir 2.313 26
The natural world may be conceived of as a system of
concentric circles...
Art1 2.362 27
He has conceived meanly of the resources of man, who
believes that the best age of production is past.
Chr1 3.89 24
[Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable
force...
MoS 4.166 5
[Montaigne] has been in courts so long as to have conceived a
furious disgust at appearances;...
Ctr 6.149 4
...though [Thomas Hobbes] conceived he could order his
thinking as well as another, yet he found a great defect.
Wsp 6.215 7
The true meaning of spiritual is...that law...which cannot be
conceived as not existing.
Clbs 7.227 25
Thought is the child of the intellect, and this child is
conceived with joy and born with joy.
LLNE 10.332 9
[Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily
communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less
attractive or indeed less fit for green boys from Connecticut, New
Hampshire and Massachusetts...this learning instantly took the highest
place to our imagination...
HDC 11.53 16
We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of
Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with
which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new
hope they had conceived...
ALin 11.331 8
The profound good opinion which the people of Illinois and
of the West had conceived of [Lincoln]...was not rash...
FRO2 11.491 1
I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble
souls...who have conceived an infinite hope for mankind;...
PLT 12.17 24
...the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling
out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether...
II 12.72 12
One master could so easily be conceived as writing all the
books of the world.
MAng1 12.232 20
He alone, [Michelangelo] said, is an artist whose hands
can perfectly execute what his mind has conceived;...
Milt1 12.260 18
Michael Angelo calls him alone an artist, whose hands can
execute what his mind has conceived.
conceiver, n. (1)
LLNE 10.353 6
Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also
believed that a similar model lay in every mind...
conceives, v. (5)
MN 1.198 17
...one who conceives the true order of nature...cannot state his
thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them
some injustice.
Fdsp 2.197 2
A man who stands united with his thought conceives
magnificently of himself.
Edc1 10.145 8
...[the child] conceives that though not in this house or town,
yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in
possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
FSLC 11.194 3
...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;...
JBB 11.268 27
...[John Brown] conceives that the only obstruction to the
Union is Slavery...
conceiving, v. (2)
PI 8.51 10
Of their living habitations they made little account, conceiving
of them but as hospitia, or inns...
LLNE 10.348 2
Fourier...has put men under the obligation...of conceiving
magnificent hopes and making great demands as the right of man.
concentrate, v. (7)
Nat 1.24 7
The poet...the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of
the world on one point...
Hist 2.38 16
Thus in all ways does the soul concentrate and reproduce its
treasures for each pupil.
Cir 2.316 16
For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man,
these are sacred; nor can i...concentrate my forces mechanically on the
payment of moneys.
Art1 2.354 20
Love and all the passions concentrate all existence around a
single form.
ET11 5.177 24
...[the English aristocracy] concentrate the love and labor of
many generations on the building, planting and decoration of their
homesteads.
Farm 7.148 25
...[the farmer] will concentrate his kitchen-garden into a
box of one or two rods square...
Mem 12.102 24
...when age and calamity have bereaved [those who have
used their days well] of their limbs or organs, then they retreat on mental
faculty, and concentrate on that.
concentrated, adj. (3)
AmS 1.93 24
...[colleges] can only highly serve us...when they gather from
far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and by the
concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
LE 1.184 27
...you shall get your lesson out of the hour, and the object,
whether it be a concentrated or a wasteful employment...
GoW 4.270 22
[Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic
characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no
Columbus, but hundreds of post-captains, with...concentrated soup and
pemmican;...
concentrated, v. (6)
MR 1.256 3
It is better that joy should be spread over all the day in the
form of strength, than that it should be concentrated into ecstasies...
NMW 4.236 6
On any point of resistance [Bonaparte] concentrated
squadron on squadron in overwhelming numbers...
GoW 4.275 18
Man and the higher animals are built up through the
vertebrae, the powers being concentrated in the head [wrote Goethe].
Bhr 6.173 1
Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion
concentrated into good manners...can reach...
CL 12.145 11
...whole zones and climates [Nature] has concentrated into
apples.
ACri 12.283 13
On the writer the choicest influences are concentrated...
concentrates, v. (5)
SR 2.71 5
Thus all concentrates...
Art1 2.355 11
...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself.
WD 7.178 24
Life culminates and concentrates;...
Chr2 10.95 18
[The moral sentiment] centres, it concentrates us.
Schr 10.288 4
...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] may live on a
heath without trees; sometimes hungry, sometimes rheumatic with cold.
The fire retreats and concentrates within into a pure flame...
concentrating, v. (5)
ET4 5.56 18
Bonaparte's art of war, namely of concentrating force on the
point of attack, must always be theirs who have the choice of the battle-ground.
Pow 6.73 19
...there are two economies which are the best succedanea
which the case admits. The first is...concentrating our force on one or a few
points;....
Elo1 7.64 26
The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude, and
concentrating their valors and powers...
FSLC 11.199 12
There is not a man of thought or of feeling but is
concentrating his mind on [slavery].
Let 12.395 7
One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my
uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to
propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all
uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!...
concentration, n. (29)
MN 1.205 14
So must we admire in man...the concentration of the vast...
MR 1.234 13
...to earn money enough to buy [a farm] requires a sort of
concentration toward money...
Mrs1 3.147 16
...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a
narrower and higher circle, concentration of its light...
NER 3.281 23
...every hinderance operates as a concentration of [a man's]
force.
UGM 4.17 1
We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the
power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit
from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds; as...the transmutings of the
imagination, even versatility and concentration...
ET5 5.80 5
[The English] are jealous of minds that have much facility of
association, from an instinctive fear that the seeing many relations to their
thought might impair this serial continuity and lucrative concentration.
ET5 5.86 20
Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of
sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval
tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
ET6 5.109 8
Nothing so much marks [Englishmen's] manners as the
concentration on their household ties.
Pow 6.73 26
The one prudence in life is concentration;...
Pow 6.75 1
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics...
Wth 6.116 23
Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic
observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object
over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who
needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going out of
the body to think!
Ctr 6.131 19
Our efficiency depends so much on our concentration, that
nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world,
overloads him with bias...
Bty 6.292 12
Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just
ready to flow into other forms. Any fixedness, heaping or concentration on
one feature...is the reverse of flowing, and therefore deformed.
Elo1 7.93 11
...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other
well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a
whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness...and the
orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
DL 7.111 13
The progress of domestic living has been...in the
concentration of all the utilities of every clime in each house.
Suc 7.289 14
Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength
and concentration to men...
Insp 8.269 8
...every reasonable man would give any price...for
condensation, concentration and the recalling at will of high mental energy.
Grts 8.310 23
...if the first rule is...to accept the work for which you were
inwardly formed,-the second rule is concentration...
Supl 10.172 27
The arithmetic of Newton...the concentration of Bonaparte...
are sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.
SovE 10.202 3
[A man] may throw himself upon...some verbal creed, with
such concentration as to hide the universe from him: but the stars roll
above;...
SovE 10.204 6
The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the
mind, giving it concentration and force.
Schr 10.274 16
...the thoughtful man needs no armor but this-
concentration.
FSLC 11.202 21
We delighted...in [Webster's] concentration...
PLT 12.51 7
The secret of power, intellectual or physical, is concentration...
PLT 12.51 8
...all concentration involves of necessity a certain narrowness.
PLT 12.52 22
Such concentration of experiences is in every great work...
PLT 12.58 12
Present power...requires concentration on the moment...
Let 12.394 18
[The correspondents] do not wish a township or any large
expenditure or incorporated association, but simply a concentration of
chosen people.
Let 12.395 6
One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my
uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to
propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all
uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!...
concentrations, n. (1)
PLT 12.58 7
The daily history of the Intellect is this alternating of
expansions and concentrations.
concentrative, adj. (1)
Wth 6.116 12
The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like
resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks;
the other is diffuse strength;...
concentric, adj. (4)
MN 1.195 27
...our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata...
Cir 2.313 27
The natural world may be conceived of as a system of
concentric circles...
UGM 4.33 10
A new quality of mind travels...in concentric circles from its
origin...
SS 7.1 26
...As if in [Seyd] the welkin walked,/ The winds took flesh, the
mountains talked,/ And he the bard, a crystal soul,/ Sphered and concentric
with the whole./
concentrical, adj. (1)
MN 1.195 25
The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the
geological structure of the globe.
conception, n. (7)
MN 1.204 9
With this conception of the genius or method of nature, let us
go back to man.
PPh 4.49 7
In all nations there are minds which incline to dwell in the
conception of the fundamental Unity.
MoS 4.151 3
[The genius] has a conception of beauty which the sculptor
cannot embody.
PC 8.224 5
Here stretches...out of conception even, this vast Nature...
Dem1 10.6 10
Animals have been called the dreams of Nature. Perhaps for
a conception of their consciousness we may go to our own dreams.
Dem1 10.17 13
I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which
manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped
by a conception...
Milt1 12.254 14
...no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed
so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].
conceptions, n. (8)
Chr2 10.111 4
When the highest conceptions...are imported, the nation is
not culminating...
MAng1 12.216 4
[Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years...
was engaged in executing his grand conceptions in the ineffaceable
architecture of Saint Peter's.
MAng1 12.230 18
...[Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine
Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and
magnificence of his conceptions.
MAng1 12.231 12
...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an
old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily
onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...
MAng1 12.232 27
The things proposed to [Michelangelo] in his
imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to express so
grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work.
MAng1 12.236 12
The combined desire to fulfil, in everlasting stone, the
conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to Almighty
God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with
unbroken spirit.
Milt1 12.261 23
...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a
secondary power, and he respected the mysterious source whence it had its
spring; namely, clear conceptions and a devoted heart.
MLit 12.318 19
The music of Beethoven is said...to labor with vaster
conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted before.
concern, n. (10)
Con 1.321 9
If you do not value the Sabbath, or other religious institutions,
give yourself no concern about maintaining them.
ET6 5.105 9
I know not where any personal eccentricity is so freely
allowed [as in England], and no man gives himself any concern with it.
OA 7.325 27
Thirty years ago it was a serious concern to [the lawyer]
whether his pleading was good and effective.
Elo2 8.129 15
...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in
the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could
not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life
depended on his own abilities to defend it?
QO 8.191 27
...Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and
inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally
grew.
Aris 10.31 7
My concern with [Aristocracy] is that concern which all well-disposed
persons will feel, that there should be model men...
Scot 11.462 2
Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott
was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty every sheet of water...
he looked upon...
II 12.74 6
Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water
mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know
of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago
passed out of it, and perhaps his only concern with it is some copyright of
an edition in which certain pages...are contained.
MAng1 12.225 8
The news of [Michelangelo's] departure occasioned a
general concern in Florence...
Let 12.404 17
A literature is no man's private concern...
concern, v. (13)
Tran 1.356 15
Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to
some vocation...or morning or evening call, which they resist as what does
not concern them.
SR 2.57 21
[The great soul] may as well concern himself with his shadow
on the wall.
Pt1 3.11 9
Every one has some interest in the advent of the poet, and no
one knows how much it may concern him.
Nat2 3.182 5
Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon
come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us...
NR 3.243 1
Whatever does not concern us is concealed from us.
NR 3.243 21
...the divine Providence which keeps the universe open in
every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the persons that
do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
MoS 4.175 3
[The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it
has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is
not very affecting to my imagination; for it seems to concern the shattering
of baby-houses and crockery-shops.
F 6.8 2
Without uncovering what does not concern us...the forms of the
shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
Insp 8.294 3
We esteem nations important, until we discover that a few
individuals much more concern us;...
Grts 8.312 21
...the highest wisdom does not concern itself with particular
men...
LS 11.12 6
...the Passover was local too, and does not concern us...
HDC 11.44 19
In 1635, the [General] Court say, whereas particular towns
have many things which concern only themselves, it is Ordered, that the
freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and
woods, and choose their own particular officers.
AKan 11.261 17
A very remarkable speech from a Democratic President to
his fellow citizens, that they are not to concern themselves with institutions
which they alone are to create and determine.
concerned, v. (11)
ET11 5.187 25
When a man once knows that he has done justice to himself,
let him dismiss all terrors of aristocracy as superstitions, so far as he is
concerned.
ET17 5.291 7
In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have
abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the
fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that
concerned them.
OA 7.325 19
When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth, then sixty-three
years old, he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth, and
when his companions were much concerned for the mischance, he had
replied that he was glad it had not happened forty years before.
PC 8.232 23
...it is not by easy virtue, where the public is concerned, that
heroic results are obtained.
Aris 10.55 21
The astronomers are very eager to know whether the moon
has an atmosphere; I am only concerned that every man have one.
MoL 10.252 22
...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other
men, is master of all other men so far as that truth and its wide relations are
concerned.
EzRy 10.394 7
In all such passages [with people] [Ezra Ripley] justified
himself to the conscience, and commonly to the love, of the persons
concerned.
MMEm 10.403 20
It was ever the will and not the phrase that concerned
[Mary Moody Emerson].
EWI 11.99 9
[Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement, as far
as a great Empire was concerned, of a question on which almost every
leading citizen in it had taken care to record his vote;...
AKan 11.261 14
The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole
difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people respecting
institutions which they need not have concerned themselves about.
CInt 12.121 12
...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other
men is master of all other men, so far as that truth and its wide relations are
concerned.
concerning, v. (6)
Plu 10.313 9
[Plutarch] cites...the memorable words of Antigone, in
Sophocles, concerning the moral sentiment...
HDC 11.46 1
It was on doubts concerning their own power, that, in 1634, a
committee repaired to [John Winthrop] for counsel...
HDC 11.62 26
Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English
government, concerning the country towns; The farmers are numerous and
wealthy...
HDC 11.63 17
In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the
province against Andros. A company marched to the capital...forming a part
of that body concerning which we are informed, the country people came
armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...
HDC 11.67 26
From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's
warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the Representative any
instructions about any important affair to be transacted by the General
Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town
Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
LVB 11.89 20
...my communication respects the sinister rumors that fill
this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.
concernment, n. (2)
SR 2.56 22
...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of
society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and
religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
Exp 3.63 11
...for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect
secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.
concerns, v. (11)
Tran 1.331 1
[The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table, this
chair...but he looks at these things...as...each being a sequel or completion
of a spiritual fact which nearly concerns him.
SR 2.53 20
What I must do is all that concerns me...
Prd1 2.236 17
Prudence concerns the present time, persons, property and
existing forms.
Int 2.326 15
He who is immersed in what concerns person or place cannot
see the problem of existence.
Wth 6.88 18
...every thought of every hour opens a new want to [a man]
which it concerns his power and dignity to gratify.
Wsp 6.220 4
...look where we will...a perfect reaction, a perpetual
judgment keeps watch and ward. And this appears in a class of facts which
concerns all men, within and above their creeds.
Bty 6.282 24
The human heart concerns us more than the poring into
microscopes...
Prch 10.231 5
There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting
peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one
person that is qualified to give it. It is only that person who concerns me...
JBB 11.273 7
I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family,
we shall remember all those whom his fate concerns...
FRep 11.525 1
...we know, all over this country, men of integrity...with the
deepest sympathy in all that concerns the public...
Milt1 12.252 6
It is the aspect which [Milton] presents to this generation,
that alone concerns us.
concert, n. (29)
NR 3.233 18
It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself. A
higher pleasure of the same kind I found lately at a concert, where I went to
hear Handel's Messiah.
NER 3.252 5
[The Sabbath and Bible Conventions] defied each other, like
a congress of kings, each of whom had...a way of his own that made concert
unprofitable.
NER 3.263 25
...to do battle...against concert [individuals] relied on new
concert.
NER 3.263 26
...to do battle...against concert [individuals] relied on new
concert.
NER 3.265 9
...to [the men of less faith], concert appears the sole specific
of strength.
NER 3.265 24
The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a
dollar, but he will be honest in the Senate, for we can bring public opinion
to bear on him. Thus concert was the specific in all cases.
NER 3.265 25
...concert is neither better nor worse...than individual force.
NER 3.266 5
...let there be one man, let there be truth in two men, in ten
men, then is concert for the first time possible;...
NER 3.266 9
What is the use of the concert of the false and the disunited?
NER 3.266 10
There can be no concert in two, where there is no concert in
one.
NER 3.266 11
There can be no concert in two, where there is no concert in
one.
NER 3.266 17
...when with one hand [the individual] rows and with the
other backs water, what concert can be?
NER 3.267 14
...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place
the secret soul; he will go up and down doing the works of a true member
[of a union], and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with
concert, though no man spoke.
SwM 4.103 4
There is beauty of a concert, as well as of a flute;...
ET15 5.268 5
Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but
keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial
wisdom. But the parts are kept in concert...
F 6.37 24
[Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...his companions
arrived...awaiting him with...concert...
Pow 6.56 22
The advantage of a strong pulse is not to be supplied by any
labor, art or concert.
SS 7.11 14
Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can
rarely reach alone.
PI 8.57 4
...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the
largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear in the music beats
like its own; the waves of melody will...set him into concert and harmony.
PPo 8.257 9
By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I found the grove in the
morning pure,/ In the concert of the nightingales/ My drunken brain to cure./
LLNE 10.342 14
I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in
Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to establish certain
opinions...
LLNE 10.342 19
...there was no concert, and only here and there two or
three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity.
LLNE 10.349 24
Society, concert, cooperation, is the secret of the coming
Paradise.
LLNE 10.349 27
By concert and the allowing each laborer to choose his
own work, it becomes pleasure.
LLNE 10.353 21
Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world
becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in obedience to [a
man's] most private being he finds himself...acting in strict concert with all
others who followed their private light.
War 11.161 8
...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.
ACiv 11.306 6
We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free
states to some conviction...that by concert or by might we must put an end
to [slavery].
Let 12.394 19
By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four
or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be
formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity.
Let 12.395 20
It were fit to forbid concert and calculation in this particular,
if that were our system...
concerted, adj. (1)
Nat 1.67 1
...a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a
hundred concerted experiments.
concert-rooms, n. (1)
Elo2 8.119 24
...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms
and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her
voice...
concerts, n. (4)
LE 1.175 16
[Society's] foolish routine, an indefinite multiplication of...
concerts...can teach you no more than a few can.
NER 3.268 12
A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he
liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public
amusements go on.
Ctr 6.132 12
I saw a man who believed the principal mischiefs in the
English state were derived from the devotion to musical concerts.
LLNE 10.351 3
...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these
[Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...what concerts, what lectures...
concession, n. (11)
MR 1.254 2
Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the
concession of the rich...
Comp 2.95 8
The fallacy lay in the immense concession that the bad are
successful;...
Fdsp 2.208 23
I hate, where I looked for...at least a manly resistance, to
find a mush of concession.
OS 2.292 3
[Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they
confront them, a king to a king, without ducking or concession...
ET7 5.122 5
See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven
all voting like sheep...all but four voting the income tax,--which was
an ill-judged concession of the government...
ET7 5.122 24
[The English] love stoutness...in declining money or
promotion that costs any concession.
Aris 10.34 19
...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a
result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind
to see that the steps were taken, the pains incurred. No taxation, no
concession...would be a price too large.
EWI 11.142 23
I have said that this event [emancipation in the West
Indies] interests us because it came mainly from the concession of the
whites;...
FSLN 11.230 2
...where...[liberty] becomes in a degree matter of
concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the incompatibility
and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the most
cultivated.
Bost 12.210 14
This praise [of our ancestors] was a concession of
unworthiness in those who had so much to say of it.
PPr 12.389 10
That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a
somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned
persons...and yet its offensiveness to multitudes of reluctant lovers makes
us often wish some concession were possible on the part of the humorist.
concessions, n. (3)
Ill 6.320 7
One after the other we accept the mental laws, still resisting
those which follow, which however must be accepted. But all our
concessions only compel us to new profusion.
TPar 11.290 13
[Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when
Southern slavery...wrung from the weakness or treachery of Northern
people fatal concessions in the Fugitive Slave Bill...
ACiv 11.306 19
...what kind of peace shall at that moment be easiest
attained, [the people] will make concessions for it...
concetto, n. (1)
MAng1 12.214 1
Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun concetto,/ Ch' un marmo
solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio, e solo a quello arriva/ La man
che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M. Angelo, Sonneto primo.
conchologist, n. (1)
OA 7.329 12
The conchologist builds his cabinet whilst as yet he has few
shells.
conchology, n. (1)
Nat 1.67 18
I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there
is...no ray upon the metaphysics of conchology...to the mind...
conciliate, v. (5)
SR 2.48 25
The nonchalance of boys who...would disdain as much as a lord
to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
ET11 5.172 20
The estates, names and manners of the [English] nobles
flatter the fancy of the people and conciliate the necessary support.
ET11 5.181 4
As [the French] do not mean to live with their tenants, they
do not conciliate them...
Wth 6.92 12
He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will
answer for him.
Milt1 12.249 6
There is [in Milton's tracts] no attempt to conciliate...
conciliated, v. (2)
ET9 5.151 11
...whenever an abatement of their power is felt, [the English]
have not conciliated the affection on which to rely.
EPro 11.316 15
[Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator, having
ended the compliments and pleasantries with which he conciliated
attention...announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles
involved;...
conciliation, n. (1)
FSLC 11.198 24
Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he
told us, final. It was a pacification...a measure of conciliation and
adjustment.
Concini, Concino [Marquis d (1)
Chr1 3.94 17
What means did you employ? was the question asked of the
wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of Mary of Medici;...
conciseness, n. (1)
ET6 5.113 7
[The English] value themselves...on conciseness and going to
the point, in private affairs.
conclave, n. (1)
NMW 4.252 26
The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the
terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave...make
[Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
conclude, v. (4)
Nat 1.70 11
I shall...conclude this essay with some traditions of man and
nature...
Exp 3.66 12
You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...conclude
very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
NR 3.227 4
I observe a person who makes a good public appearance, and
conclude thence the perfection of his private character, on which this is
based;...
PI 8.73 12
We must not conclude against poetry from the defects of poets.
concluded, v. (2)
ET13 5.229 22
George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed
in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The
features of the assembly were twisted...
HDC 11.38 7
...after the bargain [for Concord] was concluded, Mr. Simon
Willard, pointing to the four corners of the world, declared that they had
bought three miles from that place, east, west, north and south.
concludes, v. (3)
Prch 10.221 8
The understanding...because it has exposed errors in a
church, concludes that a church is an error;...
Plu 10.319 24
...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I make an invitation...I give
my guests leave to bring shadows;...
Thor 10.482 17
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to
the moon...and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed
with them.
concluding, adj. (1)
Elo2 8.123 23
Here is the concluding paragraph [of John Quincy Adams's
final lecture]...
concluding, v. (1)
Wsp 6.236 14
...if [Benedict] called at the door of his friend and he was not
at home, he did not go again; concluding that he had misinterpreted the
intimations.
conclusion, n. (17)
Nat 1.42 12
...the sailor, the shepherd, the miner, the merchant...have each
an experience...leading to the same conclusion...
Con 1.326 1
In conclusion...it is a happiness for mankind that innovation
has got on so far and has so free a field before it.
Exp 3.52 12
Men resist the conclusion in the morning, but adopt it as the
evening wears on, that temper prevails over everything of time, place and
condition...
GoW 4.278 23
We had an English romance here...in which the only reward
of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage. Goethe's romance [Wilhelm
Meister] has a conclusion as lame and immoral.
Art2 7.51 3
...we arrive at this conclusion...that the delight which a work of
art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed
Nature...
Clbs 7.234 12
[Yonder man's] dissent from me is the veriest affectation.
This conclusion is at once the logic of persecution and of love.
OA 7.315 24
[Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...
Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty
strain.
OA 7.335 1
[John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences...but carries
them invariably to a conclusion...
Imtl 8.346 10
A conclusion, an inference, a grand augury [of immortality],
is ever hovering...
Aris 10.40 22
...the conclusion which Roman Senators, Indian Brahmins...
inculcate...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy
are moral.
Aris 10.57 25
...amid the levity and giddiness of people one looks round...
on some self-dependent mind, who...has long ago made up its conclusion
that it is impossible to fail.
Schr 10.265 13
...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves
hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the reading in
solitude of some moving image of a wise poet, this grave conclusion is
blown out of memory;...
EzRy 10.391 27
[Ezra Ripley] had a foresight, when he opened his mouth,
of all that he would say, and he marched straight to the conclusion.
LS 11.4 25
...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to
establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover
with his disciples;...
LS 11.15 20
We arrive, then, at this conclusion: first, that it does not appear
from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the
Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;...
HDC 11.38 4
...in conclusion, the said Indians declared themselves
satisfied, and told the Englishmen they were welcome.