Conscriptions to Construing
conscriptions, n. (2)
NMW 4.241 23
[Napoleon's] real strength lay in [the people's] conviction
that he was their representative in his genius and aims...even when he
decimated them by his conscriptions.
NMW 4.257 20
...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new
conscriptions;...they deserted [Napoleon].
conscripts, n. (1)
ET7 5.120 9
If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture
and manufactures...no prosperity could support it; much less a nation
decimated for conscripts and out of pocket, like France.
consecrate, v. (1)
NR 3.227 16
We consecrate a great deal of nonsense because it was
allowed by great men.
consecrated, adj. (1)
Prch 10.226 13
...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland...
deforming every consecrated grove, [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to
say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature
doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
consecrated, v. (4)
Pt1 3.19 4
Readers of poetry see the factory-village and the railway, and
fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these; for these works
of art are not yet consecrated in their reading;...
Pol1 3.207 19
We may be wise in asserting the advantage in modern times
of the democratic form, but to other states of society, in which religion
consecrated the monarchical, that and not this was expedient.
HDC 11.85 21
...[Concord] has been consecrated by the presence and
activity of the purest men.
II 12.87 1
There is a probity of the Intellect, which demands, if possible,
virtues more costly than any Bible has consecrated.
consecrating, adj. (1)
OS 2.285 3
By the same fire, vital, consecrating, celestial, which burns
until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of
light, we see and know each other...
consecration, n. (5)
MN 1.191 4
The land we live in has no interest so dear...as the fit
consecration of days of reason and thought.
ET13 5.219 7
From his infancy, every Englishman is accustomed to hear
daily prayers for the Queen, for the royal family and the Parliament, by
name; and this lifelong consecration cannot be without influence on his
opinions.
DL 7.132 23
Does the consecration of Sunday confess the desecration of
the entire week?
DL 7.132 24
Does the consecration of the church confess the profanation of
the house?
SHC 11.430 26
Our people accepting this lesson from science, yet touched
by the tenderness which Christianity breathes, have found a mean in the
consecration of gardens.
consecutive, adj. (3)
ET14 5.245 4
[Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation...that the term
cause and effect was loosely or gratuitously applied to what we know only
as consecutive, not at all as causal.
Insp 8.273 16
We cannot make the inspiration consecutive.
Insp 8.291 7
...[Allston] made it a rule not to go to the city on two
consecutive days.
consecutiveness, n. (2)
Insp 8.272 27
...what we want is consecutiveness.
PLT 12.52 26
...what we want is consecutiveness.
consent, n. (25)
DSA 1.133 20
...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in
my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all
ages.
LT 1.278 24
...a consent to solitude and inaction which proceeds out of an
unwillingness to violate character, is the century which makes the gem.
Fdsp 2.208 14
Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and
unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in
the other party.
Prd1 2.239 25
...assume a consent [in a dispute] and it shall presently be
granted...
Mrs1 3.126 21
The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and
caught with devotion by men of taste. ... By swift consent everything
superfluous is dropped...
ET8 5.136 18
There is an English hero superior to the French, the German,
the Italian, or the Greek. When he is brought to the strife with fate, he
sacrifices a richer material possession, and on more purely metaphysical
grounds. He is there with his own consent...
F 6.37 1
...where shall we find the first atom in this house of man, which is
all consent, inosculation and balance of parts?
Wsp 6.213 16
There is...a simple...presence, dwelling very peacefully in
us...and to this homage there is a consent of all thoughtful and just men in
all ages and conditions.
CbW 6.253 26
In the twenty-fourth year of his reign [Edward I] decreed
that no tax should be levied without consent of Lords and Commons;...
CbW 6.272 18
Add [to conversation] the consent of will and temperament,
and there exists the covenant of friendship.
DL 7.122 14
...[Lord Falkland's] house was a university in a less volume,
whither [the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] came...to
examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent
made current in vulgar conversation.
WD 7.180 16
...life is good only when it is...a perfect timing and consent...
SA 8.93 25
Madame de Stael, by the unanimous consent of all who knew
her, was the most extraordinary converser that was known in her time...
Grts 8.310 7
As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at
any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent
obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... It is not an oracle...but
such as it is, it is something which the contradiction of all mankind could
not shake, and which the consent of all mankind could not confirm.
PerF 10.80 17
...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to
play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed
to go his way without any money.
Chr2 10.100 10
...it is only as fast as this hearing [of these high
communications] from another is authorized by its consent with [a man's]
own, that it is pure and safe to each;...
Edc1 10.145 6
This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God]
sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not
there, but which ought to be there...he makes wild attempts to explain
himself and invoke the aid and consent of the bystanders.
SovE 10.200 12
Certainly it is human to value a general consent...
HDC 11.29 3
By a common consent, the people of New England, for a few
years past, as the second centennial anniversary of each of its early
settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe the day.
TPar 11.290 24
[Theodore Parker] took away the reproach of silent consent
that would otherwise have lain against the indignant minority, by uttering in
the hour and place wherein these outrages were done, the stern protest.
RBur 11.439 16
At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859]
was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden
consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival.
PLT 12.28 12
Wherever there is health, that is, consent to the cause and
constitution of the universe, there is perception and power.
PLT 12.56 16
There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is
trust...consent to be nothing for eternity...
Milt1 12.266 23
[Milton] told the bishops that...they seek to prove their
high preeminence from human consent and authority.
MLit 12.315 5
The great never with their own consent become a load on
the minds they instruct.
consent, v. (18)
LT 1.278 21
I must consent to inaction.
Tran 1.341 14
...[many intelligent and religious persons] consent to such
labor as is open to them...
SR 2.53 14
I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic
right.
NR 3.248 24
Could [my good men] but once understand that I...heartily
wished them God-speed, yet...could well consent to their living in Oregon
for any claim I felt on them,--it would be a great satisfaction.
F 6.21 15
God may consent, but only for a time, said the bard of Spain.
Bhr 6.181 15
Whoever looked on [a complete man] would consent to his
will...
QO 8.198 14
We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet
in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and
discerning public, inviting merit at last to consent to fame...
PerF 10.80 22
...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to
play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed
to go his way without any money. And I suppose, if he could have played
loud enough...the whole population of the globe would beat time, and
consent that he should go without his fine.
Edc1 10.159 7
Consent yourself to be an organ of your highest thought, and
lo! suddenly you put all men in your debt...
MoL 10.258 17
Who would not, if it could be made certain that the new
morning of universal liberty should rise on our race by the perishing of one
generation, who would not consent to die?
EWI 11.136 16
...It is better to suffer every evil, than to consent to any.
War 11.173 27
[The man of principle] is willing to be hanged at his own
gate, rather than consent to any compromise of his freedom...
FSLN 11.229 6
The way in which the country was dragged to consent to
this [Fugitive Slave Law]...was the darkest passage in the history.
FSLN 11.239 1
Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes surely. The
proverbs of the nations affirm these delays, but affirm the arrival. They say,
God may consent, but not forever.
Scot 11.463 24
...when we reopen these old books [of Scott's] we all
consent to be boys again.
CInt 12.113 1
I cannot consent to wander from the duties of this day into
the fracas of politics.
Pray 12.355 22
I know that thou wilt deal with me as I deserve. I place
myself therefore in thy hand, knowing that thou wilt keep me from harm so
long as I consent to live under thy protecting care.
EurB 12.374 8
Whoever looked on the hero [the complete man] would
consent to his will...
consentaneous, adj. (1)
F 6.36 20
Our life is consentaneous and far-related.
consented, v. (5)
OA 7.331 9
A literary astrologer, [Goethe] never applied himself to any
task but at the happy moment when all the stars consented.
Schr 10.287 8
[The scholar] has not consented to the frivolity, nor to the
dispersion.
HDC 11.56 2
In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of
Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones, and settled
Fairfield. Weakened by this loss, the people begged to be released from a
part of their rates, to which the General Court consented.
EPro 11.323 7
If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels,
the divided sentiment of the border states made peaceable secession
impossible...
Bost 12.189 2
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;...
consenting, adj. (1)
Let 12.397 16
...there is no chance for the aesthetic village. Every one of
the villagers has committed his several blunder; his genius was good, his
stars consenting, but he was a marplot.
consents, n. (1)
EdAd 11.382 21
...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only
what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and song,/
The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of world beloved
and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./
consents, v. (1)
Elo2 8.114 25
...how every listener gladly consents to be nothing in [the
orator's] presence...
consequence, n. (30)
Nat 1.48 24
It is a natural consequence of this structure [of man], that...we
resist...any hint that nature is more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
AmS 1.114 15
The scholar is...complaisant. See already the tragic
consequence.
DSA 1.134 3
The second defect of the traditionary and limited way of using
the mind of Christ is a consequence of the first;...
YA 1.364 9
An unlooked-for consequence of the railroad is the increased
acquaintance it has given the American people with the boundless resources
of their own soil.
YA 1.376 3
...a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man
of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter...
YA 1.376 5
When a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a
man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some
matter, the Czar interrupted him,-There is no man of consequence in this
empire but he with whom I am actually speaking;...
YA 1.376 8
When a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a
man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some
matter, the Czar interrupted him,-There is no man of consequence in this
empire but he with whom I am actually speaking; and so long only as I am
speaking to him is he of any consequence.
YA 1.379 27
In consequence of the revolution in the state of society
wrought by trade, Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy
and cumbrous appearance.
Prd1 2.238 3
In the occurrence of unpleasant things among neighbors, fear
comes readily to heart and magnifies the consequence of the other party;...
Mrs1 3.136 14
[Montaigne's] arrival in each place...is an event of some
consequence.
Pol1 3.215 16
A man who cannot be acquainted with me...looking from
afar at me ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical
end,--not as I, but as he happens to fancy. Behold the consequence.
NER 3.259 18
...is not this absurd, that the whole liberal talent of this
country should be directed in its best years on studies which lead to
nothing? What was the consequence?
NER 3.282 25
Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence]
into speech, but whether we hit or whether we miss, we have the fact. Every
discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence that we
do not get it into verbs and nouns...
GoW 4.275 23
It is really of very little consequence what topic [Goethe]
writes upon.
ET9 5.145 4
Swedenborg...notes the similitude of minds among the
English, in consequence of which they contract familiarity with friends who
are of that nation...
Pow 6.54 11
A belief in causality...and, in consequence, belief in
compensation...characterizes all valuable minds...
Elo1 7.89 15
Every fact gains consequence by [the orator's] naming it...
Cour 7.277 15
...there is one good opinion which must always be of
consequence to you, namely, your own.
Insp 8.272 5
When I wish to write on any topic, 't is of no consequence
what kind of book or man gives me a hint or a motion...
Chr2 10.102 9
A man is already of consequence in the world when it is
known that we can implicitly rely on him.
Prch 10.217 19
In consequence of this revolution in opinion, it appears, for
the time, as the misfortune of this period that the cultivated mind has not
the happiness and dignity of the religious sentiment.
Plu 10.303 23
It is a consequence of this poetic trait in his mind, that I
confess that, in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars...
LLNE 10.341 9
Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to
Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of
ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present. Though I recall the
fact, I do not retain any instant consequence of this attempt...
Thor 10.458 17
[Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his opinion without
affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the company. It was of no
consequence if every one present held the opposite opinion.
HDC 11.31 5
In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up
certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were
suspended for contumacy...
HDC 11.49 6
It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting]
that not a school-house, a public pew...hath been set up, or pulled down...
without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the
affair.
EWI 11.110 14
In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing
out of the act of abolition, ships were built sharp for swiftness...
War 11.175 12
...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of
austerity and virtue, then war has a short day, and human blood will cease
to flow. It is of little consequence in what manner...this purpose of mercy
and holiness is effected.
SMC 11.362 21
[George Prescott writes] There is a fine for officers
swearing in the army, and I have too many young men that are not used to
such talk. I told the colonel this morning I should [march my men away],
and shall,-don't care what the consequence is.
Let 12.392 4
...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our
correspondence; and a little more liable because in consequence of our
editorial function we receive more epistles than our individual share...
consequences, n. (12)
Nat 1.48 12
The frivolous make themselves merry with the Ideal theory, as
if its consequences were burlesque;...
LE 1.179 23
[Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity
performed their exploits...by justly comparing the relation between means
and consequences...
SR 2.49 6
[The boy] cumbers himself never about consequences...
SL 2.146 13
Men feel and act the consequences of your doctrine without
being able to show how they follow.
Exp 3.78 17
The act looks very differently on the inside and on the outside;
in its quality and in its consequences.
Nat2 3.184 22
Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but,
right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled. It was no great
affair, a mere push, but the astronomers were right in making much of it,
for there is no end to the consequences of the act.
PPh 4.50 16
...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be
manifold, arising from the consequences of acts [said Krishna].
Pow 6.61 16
A timid man...observing...sectional interests urged with a fury
which shuts its eyes to consequences...might easily believe that he and his
country have seen their best days...
HDC 11.77 20
[William Emerson], at least, saw clearly the pregnant
consequences of the 19th April [1775].
War 11.167 23
...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]
for better, for worse, carry it out to the end, and meet its absurd
consequences; or else...give up the principle...
War 11.168 13
In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace
doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such
deductions consider only one half of the fact.
War 11.173 25
...the man who...takes in solitude the right step uniformly,
on his private choice and disdaining consequences,-does not yield, in my
imagination, to any man.
consequent, adj. (2)
ET10 5.157 18
Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon explained the
precession of the equinoxes, the consequent necessity of the reform of the
calendar;...
PC 8.233 16
...in certain historic periods there have been times of
negation...and a consequent national decline;...
conservation, n. (3)
SR 2.70 23
I see the same law working in nature for conservation and
growth.
NMW 4.237 1
...as much life is needed for conservation as for creation.
PerF 10.71 20
[The winds, the clouds, the fire] all have certain properties
which adhere to them, such as conservation...
conservatism, n. (33)
LT 1.268 14
No Burke, no Metternich has yet done full justice to the side
of conservatism.
Con 1.297 24
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of
conservatism...
Con 1.298 1
The castle which conservatism is set to defend is the actual
state of things, good and bad.
Con 1.298 4
...conservatism always has the worst of the argument...
Con 1.298 13
Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations...
Con 1.298 15
...conservatism [stands] on circumstance...
Con 1.298 18
...conservatism is debonair and social...
Con 1.298 23
Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative;...
Con 1.298 24
...conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
Con 1.298 25
Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth;...
Con 1.298 27
Conservatism makes no poetry...
Con 1.299 6
Conservatism never puts the foot forward;...
Con 1.299 8
Conservatism tends to universal seeming and treachery...
Con 1.302 6
That which is best about conservatism...is the Inevitable.
Con 1.305 17
You quarrel with my conservatism, but it is to build up one
of your own;...
Con 1.305 25
On these and the like grounds of general statement,
conservatism plants itself without danger of being displaced.
Con 1.316 11
Conservatism is affluent and open-handed...
Con 1.317 10
Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...
Con 1.318 17
The objection to conservatism, when embodied in a party, is
that in its love of acts it hates principles;...
Con 1.320 1
Conservatism takes as low a view of every part of human
action and passion.
Con 1.326 12
[Man's hope]...grew here on the wild crab of conservatism.
Cir 2.319 8
...fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime; they are
all forms of old age; they are rest, conservatism, appropriation, inertia;...
ET4 5.50 27
Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic
elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter...
active intellect and dead conservatism;...
Pow 6.64 21
...conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the
children and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
Wsp 6.208 5
The lover of the old religion complains that our
contemporaries...have corrupted into a timorous conservatism and believe
in nothing.
Supl 10.163 7
...it is a long way from the Maine Law to the heights of
absolute self-command which respect the conservatism of the entire
energies of the body, the mind, and the soul.
FSLN 11.230 26
[Reasonably men] answered...that...each was vying with
his neighbor to lead the [Democratic] party, by proposing the worst
measure, and they threw themselves on the extreme conservatism, as a drag
on the wheel...
FSLN 11.231 2
[Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would
be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood stiffly on conservatism...
only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the
precipice.
FSLN 11.231 11
I have a respect for conservatism.
ChiE 11.471 16
[China's] people had such elemental conservatism that by
some wonderful force of race and national manners, the wars and
revolutions that occur in her annals have proved but momentary swells or
surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
Bost 12.207 6
From Roger Williams...down to...William Garrison, there
never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and
heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
PPr 12.385 1
Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason
as an egg is full of meat, and every lordship and worship and high form and
ceremony of English conservatism tossed like a football into the air...
PPr 12.385 11
Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and
Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by anticipating the plea
of poetic and humane conservatism...
Conservatism, n. (5)
LT 1.260 8
Here is this great fact of Conservatism...
LT 1.260 17
...to whom I will, will I give; and whom I will, I will exclude
and starve: so says Conservatism;...
Con 1.295 2
The two parties which divide the state, the party of
Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old...
Con 1.297 19
Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on
the last movement.
Con 1.297 21
That which is was made by God, saith Conservatism.
conservative, adj. (19)
Con 1.295 6
The conservative party established the reverend hierarchies
and monarchies of the most ancient world.
Con 1.305 14
However men please to style themselves, I see no other than
a conservative party.
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;...
YA 1.393 7
The English, the most conservative people this side of India,
are not sensible of the restraint [of aristocracy]...
Pol1 3.210 15
...the conservative party...is timid...
Pol1 3.220 6
...let not the most conservative and timid fear anything from a
premature surrender of the bayonet and the system of force.
NR 3.246 11
The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man, has
ripened beyond the possibility of sincere radicalism, and unless he can
resist the sun, he must be conservative the remainder of his days.
NER 3.260 4
...in a few months the most conservative circles of Boston and
New York had quite forgotten who of their gownsmen was college-bred,
and who was not.
NMW 4.223 19
In our society there is a standing antagonism between the
conservative and the democratic classes;...
NMW 4.252 24
The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the
terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave...make
[Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
NMW 4.256 13
...Bonaparte represents the democrat, or the party of men
of business, against the stationary or conservative party.
ET8 5.141 7
The conservative, money-loving, lord-loving English are yet
liberty-loving;...
ET11 5.173 23
The taste of the [English] people is conservative.
ET12 5.200 20
Oxford is old, even in England, and conservative.
F 6.13 17
In England there is always some man of wealth and large
connection...who, as soon as he begins to die...becomes conservative.
Pow 6.60 6
Health is good,--power, life, that...is conservative as well as
creative.
Chr2 10.116 17
...every church divides itself into a liberal and expectant
class, on one side, and an unwilling and conservative class on the other.
FSLN 11.230 14
In Massachusetts...there has always existed a predominant
conservative spirit.
Bost 12.206 19
...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the
conservative class with some odious novelty or other;...
conservative, n. (10)
Con 1.301 4
As we take our stand on Necessity, or on Ethics, shall we go
for the conservative, or for the reformer.
Con 1.302 9
There is the question not only what the conservative says for
himself, but, why must he say it?
Con 1.314 13
...it is to be considered that there is no pure conservative...
Con 1.319 7
The idealist retorts that the conservative falls into a far more
noxious error in the other extreme.
Con 1.319 9
The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity...
NER 3.271 4
Iron conservative, miser, or thief, no man is but by a
supposed necessity...
MoS 4.172 15
The wise skeptic is a bad citizen; no conservative, he sees
the selfishness of property and the drowsiness of institutions.
NMW 4.256 11
In describing the two parties into which modern society
divides itself,--the democrat and the conservative,--I said, Bonaparte
represents the democrat...
NMW 4.256 17
The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is
an old democrat.
ET1 5.20 27
[Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he
wished to impress on me and all good Americans to cultivate the moral, the
conservative, etc., etc....
Conservative, n. (1)
Con 1.297 15
This [fable of Saturn and Uranus] may stand for the earliest
account of a conversation on politics between a Conservative and a Radical
which has come down to us.
conservatives, n. (8)
Con 1.305 13
...you [reformers] are betrayed by your own nature. You also
are conservatives.
Con 1.326 15
...amidst a planet peopled with conservatives, one Reformer
may yet be born.
NER 3.270 18
I do not recognize...a class of conservatives...
NER 3.272 11
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous...
NER 3.272 13
[Men] are conservatives after dinner...
ET4 5.52 18
...England tends to accumulate her liberals in America, and
her conservatives at London.
F 6.13 17
All conservatives are such from personal defects.
FSLN 11.231 14
We are all conservatives...in our essences...
conservatories, n. (2)
CW 12.173 17
...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the
costly gardens...with their greenhouses, conservatories, palm-houses...
EurB 12.370 8
The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer
[Tennyson]...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...
conservators, n. (2)
Con 1.321 11
[Religious institutions] have already acquired a market value
as conservators of property;...
NER 3.272 22
In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart
and mind act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield
to the friendly influence...
conservatory, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.134 27
Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house,
fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage and all manner of toys...
conserve, v. (1)
SwM 4.135 6
The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to
reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at its natural term...
conservers, n. (2)
Con 1.298 22
We are...reformers in the morning, conservers at night.
MoS 4.171 17
...we are natural conservers and causationists...
conserves, v. (1)
EWI 11.143 26
When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea,-
that conserves it;...
conserving, adj. (4)
YA 1.390 10
That is [the hero's] nobility...always to throw himself...on the
liberal, on the expansive side, never on the defensive, the conserving, the
timorous, the lock-and-bolt system.
UGM 4.24 14
Is it not a rare contrivance that lodged the due inertia in
every creature, the conserving, resisting energy...
MoS 4.171 1
One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes
conserving and constructive;...
FRep 11.538 18
...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the
charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and
creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great
constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
consider, v. (71)
Nat 1.62 12
When we consider Spirit, we see that the views already
presented do not include the whole circumference of man.
AmS 1.84 21
Let us...consider [the scholar] in reference to the main
influences he receives.
LE 1.166 21
I pass now to consider the task offered to the intellect of this
country.
MR 1.235 2
If the accumulated wealth of the past generation is thus
tainted...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part to renounce
it...
MR 1.238 4
Consider further the difference between the first and second
owner of property.
MR 1.253 25
The State must consider the poor man...
LT 1.260 26
I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform]...
LT 1.285 14
...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider
the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness.
Con 1.313 9
Consider [the order of things] as the work of a great and
beneficent and progressive necessity...
YA 1.394 26
[The system of English aristocracy] is for Englishmen to
consider, not for us;...
SR 2.54 17
A man must consider what a blind-man's-buff is this game of
conformity.
SR 2.74 14
Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to father...
SR 2.75 7
If any man consider the present aspects of what is called by
distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics.
Hsm1 2.253 8
Citizens...consider the inconvenience of receiving strangers
at their fireside...
OS 2.270 8
If we consider what happens in conversation...we shall catch
many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of
nature.
Int 2.329 13
If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us,
we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle
over the arithmetical or logical.
Int 2.331 7
At last comes the era of reflection...when we of set purpose sit
down to consider an abstract truth;...
Pt1 3.30 15
...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop.
I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the
mathematics...but it is felt in every definition;...
Exp 3.58 17
If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of
bread down his throat, he would starve.
Chr1 3.96 25
Impure men consider life as it is reflected in opinions, events
and persons.
Chr1 3.103 3
If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to
consider it...
Chr1 3.108 1
There is a class of men...so eminently endowed with insight
and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine, and who
seem to be an accumulation of that power [of character] we consider.
Gts 3.160 18
...if the man at the door have no shoes, you have not to
consider whether you could procure him a paint-box.
Nat2 3.174 22
When the rich tax the poor with servility and
obsequiousness, they should consider the effect of men reputed to be the
possessors of nature, on imaginative minds.
Nat2 3.178 17
The critics who complain of the sickly separation of the
beauty of nature from the thing to be done, must consider that our hunting
of the picturesque is inseparable from our protest against false society.
Nat2 3.182 25
If we consider how much we are nature's, we need not be
superstitious about towns...
PPh 4.60 21
I, therefore, Callicles, am persuaded by these accounts [said
Plato], and consider how I may exhibit my soul before the judge in a
healthy condition.
PPh 4.78 8
...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great
question from [Plato]. These things we are forced to say if we must
consider the effort of Plato or of any philosopher to dispose of nature,--
which will not be disposed of.
MoS 4.156 24
[The skeptic says] I am here to consider, skopein, to consider
how it is.
MoS 4.156 25
[The skeptic says] I am here to consider, skopein, to consider
how it is.
ShP 4.210 18
Had [Shakespeare] been less, we should have had to consider
how well he filled his place...
NMW 4.250 4
...[Napoleon] proposed to consider the probability of the
destruction of the globe...
ET14 5.240 15
If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle
studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and
supplied;...
F 6.14 11
In science we have to consider two things...
Wsp 6.230 19
Why should I give up my thought, because I cannot answer
an objection to it? Consider only whether it remains in my life the same it
was.
Civ 7.32 18
...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom
all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people...I see
what cubic values America has...
Art2 7.40 20
...to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be
submitted to the universal mind. In the first place let us consider this in
reference to the useful arts.
Art2 7.42 27
Let us now consider this [natural] law as it affects the works
that have beauty for their end...
Elo1 7.67 14
This range of many powers in the consummate speaker...leads
us to consider the successive stages of oratory.
Elo1 7.81 15
...it is not powers of speech that we primarily consider under
this word eloquence...
Boks 7.190 12
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library.
Clbs 7.241 10
...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their
accomplishment...makes them at last fatalists...whom we now consider.
Clbs 7.241 10
We consider those who are interested in thoughts...
Elo2 8.128 19
This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result
of our half-education...that I wish [a boy's] guardians to consider that they
are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
PC 8.210 10
Consider...what variety of issues...the railroad, the telegraph...
have evoked!...
PC 8.234 4
...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated
class here is made up...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
Insp 8.277 18
Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here, nor was there
any time to consider how to set it punctually down...but all was ordered
according to the direction of the spirit...
Chr2 10.108 11
I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
SovE 10.207 10
It becomes us to consider whether we cannot have a real
faith and real objects in lieu of these false ones.
Prch 10.234 15
They need not consider them.
GSt 10.506 24
...when I consider that [George Stearns] lived long enough
to see with his own eyes the salvation of his country...I count him happy
among men.
LS 11.6 12
I doubt not, the expression [This do in remembrance of me.]
was used by Jesus. I shall presently consider its meaning.
LS 11.13 10
Many persons consider this fact, the observance of such a
memorial feast [the Lord's Supper] by the early disciples, decisive of the
question whether it ought to be observed by us.
LS 11.24 3
My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence
to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled
to consider whether it becomes me to administer it.
HDC 11.49 16
...in the clock on the church, [the people of Concord] read
their own power, and consider, at leisure, the wisdom and error of their
judgments.
HDC 11.79 26
The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne
with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted; but years passed,
after the peace, before the debt was paid. As soon as danger and injury
ceased, the people were left at leisure to consider their poverty and their
debts.
HDC 11.81 11
In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this
town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas. But
they found no countenance here. The same people who had been active in a
County Convention to consider grievances, condemned the rebellion...
EWI 11.100 20
When we consider what remains to be done for this interest
[emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of
such as are not yet persuaded.
EWI 11.107 24
Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to
consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro
slaves in the West Indies...
War 11.168 14
In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace
doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such
deductions consider only one half of the fact.
War 11.168 17
In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace
doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such
deductions consider only one half of the fact. They look only at the passive
side of the friend of peace...they quite omit to consider his activity.
EPro 11.317 25
When we consider the immense opposition that has been
neutralized or converted by the progress of the war...one can hardly say the
deliberation [on the Emancipation Proclamation] was too long.
HCom 11.343 22
...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the
country as a principal planter of the Western States...I think the little state
bigger than I knew
SMC 11.360 10
Consider what sacrifice and havoc in business
arrangements this war-blast made.
CPL 11.496 23
If you consider what has befallen you when reading a
poem, or a history...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books
to make all towns equal...
CPL 11.502 23
Consider that it is our own state of mind at any time that
makes our estimate of life and the world.
PLT 12.19 23
Whilst we consider this appetite of the mind to arrange its
phenomena, there is another fact which makes this useful.
II 12.73 23
...when we consider who and what the professors of that art
usually are, does it not seem as if music falls accidentally and superficially
on its artists?
CW 12.171 7
Neither did I fully consider [when I bought my farm] what an
indescribable luxury is our Indian river, the Musketaquid...
MAng1 12.227 3
Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo, the pope!s
architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be repaired
in the picture. San Gallo replied: That was for him to consider, for the
platform could be constructed in no other way..
Milt1 12.253 12
...it would be great injustice to Milton to consider him as
enjoying merely a critical reputation.
considerable, adj. (14)
Cir 2.303 19
Nature...has a cause like all the rest; and when once I
comprehend that, will...these leaves hang so individually considerable?
Pt1 3.36 27
We have all seen changes as considerable in wheat and
caterpillars.
ShP 4.192 9
[The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national
interest...not a whit less considerable because it was cheap and of no
account...
NMW 4.240 7
When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great
debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...and reduced
the claims by considerable sums.
ET3 5.35 24
A nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert,
[England] has, in the last centuries, obtained the ascendent...
ET4 5.45 7
The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a
fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of
British stock. Add the United States of America...in which the foreign
element, however considerable, is rapidly assimilated, and you have a
population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
DL 7.132 2
Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this
truly municipal duty [of a library and museum]. Every one of us would
gladly contribute his share; and the more gladly, the more considerable the
institution had become.
HDC 11.84 27
...without any considerable mill privileges, the natural
increase of [Concord's] population is drained by the constant emigration of
the youth.
EdAd 11.383 4
...the territory [of America] is a considerable fraction of the
planet...
MAng1 12.224 20
...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to
demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung
mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a
bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable
space was left between them and the wall.
ACri 12.292 25
Vulgarisms to be gazetted...considerable-it is
considerable of a compliment...
ACri 12.292 26
Vulgarisms to be gazetted...considerable-it is
considerable of a compliment...
ACri 12.292 27
Vulgarisms to be gazetted...considerable-it is
considerable of a compliment, under considerable of a cloud;...
MLit 12.317 12
Perhaps no considerable minority, no one man, leads a
quite clean and lofty life.
considerable, adv. (1)
ACri 12.292 1
Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an
adverb...considerable as an adverb for much;...
considerably, adv. (1)
ET4 5.57 26
[The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people considerably
advanced in rural arts...
considerate, adj. (9)
Hist 2.29 9
...in that protest which each considerate person makes against
the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old
reformers...
Exp 3.67 22
It is ridiculous that we are diplomatists, and doctors, and
considerate people;...
NER 3.279 3
I suppose considerate observers...will assent, that...the general
purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
UGM 4.20 27
These [great] men...make us considerate...
ET15 5.269 4
[The London Times] has the national courage, not rash and
petulant, but considerate and determined.
Ctr 6.165 3
...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that
secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined;...
CbW 6.249 22
...let us have the considerate vote of single men spoken on
their honor and their conscience.
Comc 8.158 23
The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate
good nature at every object in existence, aloof...
Carl 10.495 16
There is nothing deeper in [Carlyle's] constitution...than the
considerate, condescending good nature with which he looks at every object
in existence...
considerately, adv. (2)
YA 1.366 23
...beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the
farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately; this [inclination to
withdraw from cities] promised the conquering of the soil...
Ctr 6.137 12
It is not a compliment but a disparagement...whenever [a
man] appears, considerately to turn the conversation to the bantling he is
known to fondle.
consideration, n. (38)
Nat 1.16 11
For better consideration, we may distribute the aspects of
beauty in a threefold manner.
MR 1.227 1
I wish to offer to your consideration some thoughts on the
particular and general relations of man as a reformer.
LT 1.290 15
Only as far as [the Moral Sentiment] shines through them are
these times or any times worth consideration.
Con 1.302 14
Here is the fact which men call Fate...not to be disposed of
by the consideration that the Conscience commands this or that...
Con 1.306 12
In his first consideration how to feed, clothe, and warm
himself, [the youth] is met by warnings on every hand that this thing and
that thing have owners...
YA 1.363 15
This rage of road building is beneficent for America, where
vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade...
Comp 2.120 9
Hours of sanity and consideration are always arriving to
communities...
SL 2.138 21
A little consideration of what takes place around us every day
would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;...
Cir 2.307 24
Every personal consideration that we allow costs us heavenly
state.
Int 2.326 1
Intellect and intellection signify to the common ear
consideration of abstract truth.
Int 2.337 14
...a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all
consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.
Pt1 3.4 24
...this hidden truth, that the fountains whence all this river of
Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us
to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of
Beauty;...
Pol1 3.204 9
...there is an instinctive sense...that truly the only interest for
the consideration of the State is persons;...
NER 3.267 21
I pass to the indication in some particulars of that faith in
man...which engages the more regard, from the consideration that the
speculations of one generation are the history of the next following.
NER 3.275 9
The consideration of an eminent citizen...a naval and military
honor...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk
erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt
himself inferior.
MoS 4.159 20
This then is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of
consideration, of self-containing;...
Pow 6.79 25
I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust
and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
Ctr 6.160 4
...the consideration of the great periods and spaces of
astronomy induces a dignity of mind and an indifference to death.
CbW 6.260 5
...nothing is so indicative of deepest culture as a tender
consideration of the ignorant.
Art2 7.45 26
One consideration more exhausts I believe all the deductions
from the genius of the artist in any given work.
Art2 7.48 5
Let us proceed to the consideration of the law stated in the
beginning of this essay...
Elo1 7.81 26
...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of
speech, it...supplies the imagination with fine materials. This circumstance
enters into every consideration of the power of orators...
OA 7.320 11
Few envy the consideration enjoyed by the oldest inhabitant.
SA 8.100 4
The consideration the rich possess in all societies is not without
meaning or right.
Comc 8.169 2
...according to Latin poetry and English doggerel,--Poverty
does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./ In this instance the
halfness lies in the pretension of the parties to some consideration on
account of their condition.
Insp 8.282 3
Another consideration...will cheer the heart of older scholars,
namely that there is diurnal and secular rest.
PerF 10.85 6
...a military genius, instead of using that to defend his
country, he says, I will fight the battle so as to give me place and political
consideration;...
Edc1 10.152 13
Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the
morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair.
LLNE 10.332 5
[Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily
communicated...as if in the consciousness and consideration of all history
and all learning ...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our
imagination...
CSC 10.373 10
The [Chardon Street] Convention...spent three days in the
consideration of the Sabbath...
MMEm 10.417 6
[Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered
marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause...but
after consideration she refused it...
GSt 10.501 12
...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the
tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just
consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly
mourns.
LS 11.8 23
...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and
personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is
described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. And I
admit that this impression might probably be left upon the mind of one who
read only the passages under consideration in the New Testament.
HDC 11.41 16
Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and,
doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639,
granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge;...
HDC 11.57 24
...Major [Simon] Willard...incurred the censure of the
Commissioners, who write to their loving friend Major Willard, that they
leave to his consideration the inconveniences arising from his non-attendance
to his commission.
EWI 11.145 17
There remains the very elevated consideration which the
subject [emancipation] opens...
FSLC 11.179 3
Fellow Citizens: I accepted your invitation to speak to you
on the great question of these days, with very little consideration of what I
might have to offer...
EdAd 11.386 3
It is a poor consideration that the country wit is
precocious...
Consideration, n. (1)
HDC 11.50 15
...this design [the conversion of the Indians] is named first
in the printed Considerations, that inclined Hampden, and determined
Winthrop and his friends, to come hither [to New England].
considerations, n. (31)
AmS 1.101 24
[The scholar] is one who raises himself from private
considerations...
LE 1.185 6
...I have ventured to offer you these considerations upon the
scholar's place and hope...
MR 1.234 23
Considerations of this kind have turned the attention of
many...persons to the claims of manual labor, as a part of the education of
every young man.
Con 1.318 6
These considerations...must needs command the sympathy of
all reasonable persons.
Hsm1. 2.252 27
...the little man takes the great hoax [the world] so
innocently...that the great soul cannot choose but laugh at such earnest
nonsense. Indeed, these humble considerations make me out of love with
greatness.
Int 2.326 2
The considerations of time and place...tyrannize over most men'
s minds.
Mrs1 3.149 9
...by the moral quality radiating from his countenance [a
man] may abolish all considerations of magnitude...
Pol1 3.208 24
Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this
deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader, and obeying personal
considerations, throw themselves into the maintenance and defence of
points nowise belonging to their system.
NMW 4.232 8
[Bonaparte] sees where the matter hinges, throws himself on
the precise point of resistance, and slights all other considerations.
ET4 5.68 9
...[Admiral Rodney] declared himself very sensible to fear,
which he surmounted only by considerations of honor and public duty.
Pow 6.80 9
...there are sublime considerations which limit the value of
talent and superficial success.
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.
Elo1 7.70 8
...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer fast; steals away...his
belief, that he shall not admit any opposing considerations.
Cour 7.263 10
Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent
considerations of duty...
Elo2 8.117 1
[the orator]...surprises [the people]...with...his steady gaze at
the new and future event whereof they had not thought, and they are...
carried off out of all recollection of their malignant considerations...
Comc 8.164 20
...the religious sentiment is the most real and earnest thing
in nature...excluding, when it appears, all other considerations...
QO 8.189 11
...there are certain considerations which go far to qualify a
reproach too grave [to quotation].
PC 8.230 20
Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...among violent
proprietors, to check self-interest...by considerations of humanity to the
workman and to his child;...
PC 8.230 24
Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry
politicians...you are to make valid the large considerations of equity and
good sense;...
Insp 8.272 18
...villa, park, social considerations, cannot cover up real
poverty and insignificance...
Schr 10.262 19
Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our
tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of
blessing. Beauty...which draws by being beautiful, and not by
considerations of advantage, comes in and puts a new face on the world.
LS 11.13 26
Upon this matter of St. Paul's view of the [Lord's] Supper, a
few important considerations must be stated.
LS 11.22 6
In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why
he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or
from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form.
LS 11.23 20
Influenced by these considerations, I have proposed to the
brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of
authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper]...
HDC 11.48 19
The matters there debated [in Concord town-meetings] are
such as to invite very small considerations.
EWI 11.126 24
...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this
hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day;
[British merchants] could not expect any mitigation in the madness of the
poor African war-chiefs. These considerations opened the eyes of the
dullest in Britain.
EWI 11.127 9
These considerations [of trade], I doubt not, had their weight
[in emancipation in the West Indies];...
EWI 11.145 27
These considerations [of emancipation in the West Indies]
seem to leave no choice for the action of the intellect and the conscience of
the country.
War 11.154 10
Considerations of this [historical] kind lead us to a true
view of the nature and office of war.
ACiv 11.302 16
We want men...who can open their eyes...to considerations
of benefit to the human race...
FRep 11.537 3
We want men...who can open their eyes...to considerations
of benefit to the human race...
considered, adj. (4)
LT 1.271 22
Nature, literature, science, childhood, appear to us beautiful;
but not...the ripe fruit and considered labors of man.
PPh 4.70 19
...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are
assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure which he
has established in his Academy as the organ through which every
considered opinion shall be announced...
Thor 10.465 24
Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own
cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or
considered than his refusals, they remind one...of that fop Brummel's reply
to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will
you ride, then?...
CInt 12.118 26
...I note that the British people are emigrating hither by
thousands, which is a very sincere, and apt to be a very seriously considered
expression of opinion.
considered, v. (45)
Nat 1.4 23
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature
and the Soul.
Nat 1.27 14
That which intellectually considered we call Reason,
considered in relation to nature, we call Spirit.
Nat 1.28 24
The instincts of the ant are very unimportant considered as the
ant's;...
LE 1.172 18
...any particular portraiture...when considered by the soul,
warps and shrinks away.
MN 1.201 20
...if man himself be considered as the end...we see that it has
not succeeded.
LT 1.261 17
The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development
and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and
other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
Con 1.313 24
...if the mitigations are considered, do not all the mischiefs
virtually vanish?
Con 1.314 12
...it is to be considered that there is no pure conservative...
Comp 2.122 11
There can be no excess to love...none to beauty, when these
attributes are considered in the purest sense.
Lov1 2.170 8
...it is to be considered that this passion of which we speak
[love], though it begin with the young, yet forsakes not the old...
Prd1 2.232 4
The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws
of the senses trivial and to count them nothing considered with his devotion
to his art.
Cir 2.314 20
Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact
be drawn to their counterpart, but, rightly considered, these things proceed
from the eternal generation of the soul.
Int 2.326 4
Intellect separates the fact considered, from you...
Exp 3.60 10
It is not the part of men, but of fanatics...to say that, the
shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a
duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
NR 3.231 24
The property will be found where the labor, the wisdom and
the virtue have been...in classes and (the whole life-time considered, with
the compensations) in the individual also.
NR 3.232 1
How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the
municipal system is considered!
SwM 4.116 16
...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical...
terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the
corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or
theological dogma...although no mortal would have predicted that any thing
of the kind could possibly arise...inasmuch as the one precept, considered
separately from the other, appears to have absolutely no relation to it.
GoW 4.275 11
...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that one vertebra of the
spine might be considered as the unit of the skeleton...
GoW 4.275 20
...[Goethe]...considered that every color was the mixture of
light and darkness in new proportions.
ET4 5.66 23
When it is considered what humanity...the traits of the blonde
race betoken, its accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch...
ET10 5.156 4
The Crystal Palace is not considered honest until it pays;...
ET10 5.171 4
...the means of meeting a certain ponderous expense, is that
which is considered by a youth in England emerging from his minority.
ET14 5.256 24
...the grave old [English] poets...heeded their designs, and
less considered the finish.
Bhr 6.170 19
There are certain manners which are learned in good society,
of that force that if a person have them, he or she must be considered...
DL 7.110 22
I am afraid that, so considered, our houses will not be found to
have unity...
DL 7.112 12
If the children...are considered, dressed...then does the
hospitality of the house suffer;...
PI 8.6 4
...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known
virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from
the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense side
of religion and literature, which are all founded on low nature,--on the
clearest and most economical mode of administering the material world,
considered as final.
SA 8.88 5
There are always slovens in State Street or Wall Street, who are
not less considered.
Elo2 8.126 12
...all these are the gymnastics, the education of eloquence,
and not itself. They cannot be too much considered and practised as
preparation...
Dem1 10.24 2
Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred
lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say,
There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy. Certainly these facts...
deserve to be considered.
Chr2 10.93 6
...humility is a sentiment of our insignificance when the
benefit of the universe is considered.
Edc1 10.152 16
Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the
morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair. Each
single case, the more it is considered, shows more to be done;...
LLNE 10.325 5
Children had been repressed and kept in the background;
now they were considered, cosseted and pampered.
SlHr 10.438 17
...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets
before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last
point of possibility.
SlHr 10.439 1
...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the cause
of freedom, [Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty,
for his age, lost...
Thor 10.454 26
A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly
cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau]. He...considered these
refinements as impediments to conversation...
LS 11.15 25
...it does not appear that the opinion of St. Paul, all things
considered, ought to alter our opinion derived from the Evangelists
[concerning the Lord's Supper].
LS 11.23 27
My brethren have considered my views [on the Lord's Supper]
with patience and candor...
JBS 11.278 12
...[John Brown] was much considered in the family where
he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had
conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.
Wom 11.420 27
Those whom you [women] teach, and those whom you
half teach, will fast enough make themselves considered...
ChiE 11.471 9
All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable
Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This
auspicious event, considered in connection with the late innovations in
Japan, marks a new era...
II 12.69 23
Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]? Where
the wine that will warm and open these silent lips? Where the fire that will
light this combustible pile? That force or flame is alone to be considered;...
MLit 12.320 12
The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern
literature, when it is considered how hostile his genius at first seemed to the
reigning taste...
WSL 12.344 5
[Landor's appreciation of character] is the more remarkable
considered with his intense nationality...
WSL 12.348 26
Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own
immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean
merit.
considerer, n. (1)
MoS 4.159 26
[The skeptic] is the considerer...
considering, v. (16)
AmS 1.87 18
...perhaps we shall...learn the amount of this influence more
conveniently, by considering [books'] value alone.
LT 1.263 14
A personal ascendency,-that is the only fact much worth
considering.
SR 2.82 27
...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done
by him, considering the climate...he will create a house in which [beauty,
convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
Cir 2.301 10
One moral we have already deduced in considering the
circular or compensatory character of every human action.
Gts 3.163 14
...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate
all Timons, not at all considering the value of the gift but looking back to
the greater store it was taken from,--I rather sympathize with the
beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
NR 3.241 20
...in the contest we are now considering, the players are also
the game...
Wth 6.90 20
The English are prosperous and peaceable, with their habit of
considering that every man must take care of himself...
SA 8.90 1
...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no
vulgarity. All topics were broached...
Imtl 8.351 5
Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is
pleasant. Blessed is he who takes the good, but he who chooses the pleasant
loses the object of man. But thou, considering the objects of desire, hast
abandoned them.
Aris 10.64 16
There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable
to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize. And mainly
the habit of considering large interests...
Prch 10.234 18
...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists...is not
worth considering [by the young clergyman]...
Thor 10.480 8
...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said
they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or
Paris, or Rome; but...they did what they could, considering that they never
saw Bateman's Pond...
LS 11.3 8
Without considering the frivolous questions which have been
lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's
Supper];...the questions have been settled differently in every church...
FRep 11.532 7
See how fast [our people] extend the fleeting fabric of their
trade,-not at all considering the remote reaction and bankruptcy...
PLT 12.24 14
The idea of vegetation is irresistible in considering mental
activity.
MAng1 12.217 10
In considering a life dedicated to the study of Beauty, it
is natural to inquire, what is Beauty?
considers, v. (8)
Nat 1.12 1
Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a
multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result.
MR 1.230 16
It cannot be wondered at that this general inquest into abuses
should arise in the bosom of society, when one considers the practical
impediments that stand in the way of virtuous young men.
Pol1 3.201 21
The theory of politics...which [men] have expressed the best
they could in their laws and in their revolutions, considers persons and
property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.
Imtl 8.339 11
Every really able man...considers his work...as far short of
what it should be.
SovE 10.201 7
...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul,
which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree.
War 11.153 13
Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East
by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
FRep 11.519 13
The spirit of our political action, for the most part,
considers nothing less than the sacredness of man.
PLT 12.40 8
The philosopher knows only laws. That is, he considers a
purely mental fact, part of the soul itself.
consigned, v. (2)
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...
ET11 5.198 1
[Titles of lordship...may be advantageously consigned...to
the dignitaries of Australia and Polynesia.
consilia, n. (1)
QO 8.185 26
Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his
childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth,
and earlier, Bacon's Consilia juventutis plus divinitatis habent.
consist, v. (23)
Nat 1.33 14
...the proverbs of nations consist usually of a natural fact...
MN 1.208 26
...[a man's] health and erectness consist in the fidelity with
which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on
which his genius can act.
MN 1.210 7
[A man's] health and greatness consist in his being the channel
through which heaven flows to earth...
Hist 2.4 21
Of the universal mind each individual man is one more
incarnation. All its properties consist in him.
Comp 2.101 24
Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and
organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist
in the small creature.
Prd1 2.237 10
...in regard to disagreeable and formidable things, prudence
does not consist in evasion or in flight, but in courage.
Mrs1 3.140 2
...[society] values all peculiarities as in the highest degree
refreshing, which can consist with good fellowship.
PNR 4.82 11
These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in
continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision...
ShP 4.189 6
If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay
and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original. Nor
does valuable originality consist in unlikeness to other men.
NMW 4.247 10
[Napoleon's] power does not consist in any wild or
extravagant force;...
GoW 4.277 15
[Goethe's works] consist of translations, criticism, dramas,
lyric and every other description of poems, literary journals and portraits of
distinguished men.
ET10 5.164 1
This comfort and splendor [in England]...all consist with
perfect order.
ET14 5.260 13
...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]...
are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations, of genius
and of animal force, though the first consist of only a dozen souls and the
second of twenty millions, forever by their discord and their accord yield
the power of the English State.
Ctr 6.142 8
I like people who like Plato. Because this love does not consist
with self-conceit.
Wsp 6.231 1
...the happiness of one cannot consist with the misery of any
other.
DL 7.114 26
Generosity does not consist in giving money or money's
worth.
Suc 7.301 1
The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law
which...make the order of Nature; and in the perfection of this
correspondence or expressiveness, the health and force of man consist.
Prch 10.224 1
The health and welfare of man consist in ascent from
surfaces to solids;...
Plu 10.308 5
[Plutarch] says of Socrates that he endeavored to...make truth
consist with sober sense.
LLNE 10.350 23
Your community should consist of two thousand persons,
to prevent accidents of omission;...
ACiv 11.297 17
...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these
people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and
to pronounce...the well-being of a man to consist in eating the fruit of other
men's labor.
PLT 12.12 7
...he who who contents himself with...recording only what
facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he...
only draws that arc which he clearly sees...and waits for a new opportunity,
well assured that these observed arcs will consist with each other.
Trag 12.409 21
In those persons who move the profoundest pity, tragedy
seems to consist in temperament, not in events.
consisted, v. (7)
YA 1.391 8
Every great and memorable community has consisted of
formidable individuals...
SR 2.87 2
...Napoleon conquered Europe by the bivouac, which consisted
of falling back on naked valor...
Comp 2.95 10
The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the
base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success...
Pt1 3.35 13
...all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark
and solid...
NMW 4.229 25
[The art of war] consisted, according to [Bonaparte], in
having always more forces than the enemy, on the point where the enemy is
attacked, or where he attacks...
LLNE 10.361 1
There was no doubt great variety of character and purpose
in the members of the community [Brook Farm]. It consisted in the main of
young people...
Milt1 12.265 15
[Milton's native honor] refined his amusements, which
consisted in gardening, in exercise with the sword, and in playing on the
organ.
consistency, n. (4)
SR 2.56 24
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our
consistency;...
SR 2.57 17
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...
SR 2.57 19
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
SR 2.60 10
I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and
consistency.
consistent, adj. (11)
Prd1 2.232 20
...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right,
wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent
and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping
also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a
grief we all feel...
Nat2 3.181 6
Nature is always consistent...
NMW 4.228 27
[Napoleon] is a worker in brass...in money and in troops,
and a very consistent and wise master-workman.
Grts 8.312 4
With this respect to the bias of the individual mind add, what
is consistent with it, the most catholic receptivity for the genius of others.
Chr2 10.102 20
We sometimes employ the word [character] to express the
strong and consistent will of men of mixed motive...
EzRy 10.395 10
...[Ezra Ripley's] whole life and conversation were
consistent.
LS 11.8 2
...many opinions may be entertained of [Jesus's] intention, all
consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance [in
the Lord's Supper].
LS 11.20 12
The importance ascribed to this particular ordinance [the Lord'
s Supper] is not consistent with the spirit of Christianity.
War 11.168 2
...if you go for no war, then be consistent, and give up self-defence...
FRO2 11.488 17
This positive, historical, authoritative scheme [of
miraculous dispensation] is not consistent with our experience or our
expectations.
Milt1 12.273 13
And so, throughout all his actions and opinions, is
[Milton] a consistent spiritualist...
consistere, v. (1)
SwM 4.113 22
Ex aurique putat micis consistere posse/ Aurum, et de terris
terram concrescere parvis;/...
consisting, v. (1)
Grts 8.319 12
What are these [heroes] but the promise and the preparation
of a day...when the measure of greatness shall be usefulness in the highest
sense, greatness consisting in truth, reverence and good will?
consists, v. (54)
AmS 1.109 18
...we cannot enjoy any thing for hankering to know whereof
the pleasure consists;...
LE 1.179 12
...the modern majesty consists in work.
MN 1.210 23
...as far as we can trace the natural history of the soul, its
health consists in the fulness of its reception?...
LT 1.286 14
The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this, that
they have believed;...
Hist 2.36 1
[Man's] power consists in the multitude of his affinities...
SL 2.160 8
[Virtue] consists in a perpetual substitution of being for
seeming...
Prd1 2.221 3
My prudence consists in avoiding and going without...
Prd1 2.234 18
There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing,
were it only...the the prudence which consists in husbanding little strokes of
the tool...
OS 2.286 4
...the wisdom of the wise man consists herein, that he does not
judge [men];...
Cir 2.309 7
Valor consists in the power of self-recovery...
Cir 2.316 3
One man thinks justice consists in paying debts...
Pt1 3.22 7
...the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the
shells of animalcules...
Pt1 3.34 19
Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and
individual symbol for an universal one.
Exp 3.55 11
...health of body consists in circulation...
Exp 3.57 9
...each [man] has his special talent, and the mastery of
successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when
that turn shall be oftenest to be practised.
Pol1 3.204 20
Society always consists in greatest part of young and foolish
persons.
SwM 4.126 16
[Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with
singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends.
And the truly poetic account of the writing in the inmost heaven, which, as
it consists of inflexions according to the form of heaven, can be read
without instruction.
MoS 4.159 2
since true fortitude of understanding consists in not letting
what we know be embarrassed by what we do not know...
MoS 4.180 19
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul;...
ShP 4.189 3
If we require the originality which consists in weaving, like a
spider, their web from their own bowels;...no great men are original.
ShP 4.191 11
Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not
being original at all;...
NMW 4.237 11
[Napoleon's] idea of the best defence consists in being still
the attacking party.
GoW 4.287 6
...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of
Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these
grandees of European scientific history and himself;...
ET6 5.108 6
An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth
to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other...
Wth 6.86 6
...the art of getting rich consists not in industry...but in a better
order...
Wth 6.101 11
Success consists in close appliance to the laws of the world...
Wth 6.112 15
Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of
money,--but in spending them off the line of your career.
Wsp 6.213 6
The religion of the cultivated class now...consists in an
avoidance of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to
assume.
Wsp 6.213 20
...our faith in ecstasy consists with total inexperience of it.
CbW 6.277 27
Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means.
Bty 6.300 9
...petulant old gentlemen...affirm that the secret of ugliness
consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
DL 7.118 10
...poverty consists in feeling poor.
Cour 7.264 9
...courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
Cour 7.264 18
Courage...consists in the conviction that the agents with
whom you contend are not superior in strength of resources or spirit to you.
Suc 7.293 3
[Your appointed task] by no means consists in rushing
prematurely to a showy feat...
PI 8.19 19
...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists in
speaking to the Father and to matter;...
QO 8.191 11
...the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and
equal aptitude to all intelligence.
Insp 8.297 14
All our power, all our happiness consists in our reception of
[the soul's] hints...
Imtl 8.342 19
The health of the mind consists in the perception of law.
Imtl 8.342 20
[The mind's] dignity consists in being under the law.
Dem1 10.10 1
It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments
should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few
insignificant hints...
Aris 10.61 7
The honor of a member consists in an indifferency to the
persons and practices about him...
PerF 10.70 11
One half the avoirdupois of the rocks which compose the
solid crust of the globe consists of oxygen.
SovE 10.189 11
The excellence of men consists in the completeness with
which the lower system is taken up into the higher...
EWI 11.122 11
[Our] well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee
and toast...
ALin 11.337 2
The kindness of kings consists in justice and strength.
EdAd 11.387 5
...the right patriotism consists in the delight which springs
from contributing our peculiar and legitimate advantages to the benefit of
humanity.
PLT 12.39 9
The detachment consists in seeing [a fact] under a new order...
PLT 12.62 18
...the highest behavior, consists in the identification of the
Ego with the universe;...
II 12.80 4
All intellectual virtue consists in a reliance on Ideas.
II 12.87 1
[The probity of the Intellect] consists in an absolute devotion to
truth...
CInt 12.113 17
Against the heroism of soldiers I set the heroism of
scholars, which consists in ignoring the other.
CInt 12.117 15
...sanity consists in not being subdued by your means.
MAng1 12.217 19
The nature of the beautiful...consists herein, that because
the understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it
beautiful? for that reason it is so.
consociated, v. (1)
SS 7.6 24
Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and
vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception:
There are also angels who do not live consociated...
consolation, n. (16)
AmS 1.101 22
[The scholar] is to find consolation in exercising the highest
functions of human nature.
DSA 1.128 13
Of [the Christian church's] blessed words, which have been
the consolation of humanity, you need not that I should speak.
DSA 1.136 7
...this moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the
consolation, the hope...that come alone out of the culture of the moral
nature, - should be heard...
Hsm1 2.261 2
There is no weakness or exposure for which we cannot find
consolation in the thought--this is a part of my constitution...
Pt1 3.5 12
[The poet] is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by
his art, but with this consolation in his pursuits, that they will draw all men
sooner or later.
ET10 5.171 7
A large family is reckoned a misfortune [in England]. And it
is a consolation in the death of the young, that a source of expense is closed.
ET14 5.256 14
...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the
Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are
still glowing and effective,--how few!
PI 8.37 25
Poetry is the consolation of mortal men.
SA 8.104 22
The consolation and happy moment of life...is sentiment;...
PerF 10.85 14
I find the survey of these cosmical powers a doctrine of
consolation...
SovE 10.198 16
From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I
infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and
immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...
Schr 10.273 6
In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a
consolation...but as a decalogue.
Thor 10.475 24
[Thoreau] knew the worth of the Imagination for the
uplifting and consolation of human life...
ACiv 11.309 22
This is the consolation on which we rest in the darkness of
the future and the afflictions of to-day, that the government of the world is
moral...
CPL 11.501 5
[Thoreau writes] I think the best parts of Shakspeare would
only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events. I have found it
so and all the more, that they are not intended for consolation.
CW 12.177 15
[Walking] is the consolation of mortal men.
consolations, n. (3)
Tran 1.354 12
...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues
or consolations, we bore with our indigence...
DL 7.133 6
These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the
household is instituted...
EurB 12.368 22
[Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the
dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt...to
show...that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet
Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to the
country life...
console, v. (10)
LE 1.161 11
I console myself in the poverty of my thoughts...by falling
back on these sublime recollections...
LT 1.285 14
...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider
the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness.
Art1 2.367 9
[Now men] abhor men as tasteless, dull, and inconvertible,
and console themselves with color-bags and blocks of marble.
Pt1 3.42 3
...thou [O poet] shalt be known only to thine own, and they shall
console thee with tenderest love.
Chr1 3.104 24
...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of
this simple and rapid power [of character], and we are painting the lightning
with charcoal; but in these long nights and vacations I like to console
myself so.
SwM 4.93 12
A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and
imagination with ideas and pictures which...console [men] for the
shortcomings of the day...
Bty 6.297 19
...why need we console ourselves with the fames of Helen of
Argos, or Corinna...
PI 8.52 19
...we have not done with music, no, nor with rhyme, nor must
console ourselves with prose poets so long as boys whistle and girls sing.
EWI 11.118 23
It is vain to get rid of [spoiled children] by not minding
them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then
if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they
begin again.
TPar 11.285 2
At the death of a good and admirable person [Theodore
Parker] we meet to console and animate each other by the recollection of
his virtues.
consoled, v. (6)
Ctr 6.148 2
...a man who looks...at London, says, If I should be driven from
my own home, here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most
prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could
contrive and accumulate.
SS 7.4 19
...[my new friend] consoled himself with the delicious thought of
the inconceivable number of places where he was not.
OA 7.313 17
...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me with a shining
cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by old,/
Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the best./
LS 11.25 4
...I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can
deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising [the pastoral
office's] highest functions.
FSLC 11.189 15
I thought that every time a man goes back to his own
thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a
law...constituted the explanation of life, the excuse and indemnity for the
errors and calamities which sadden it. In long years consumed in trifles,
they remember these moments, and are consoled.
TPar 11.292 7
...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the
transfer of your genius...
consoler, n. (5)
MoL 10.250 20
...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas...
consoler, upholder...
Shak1 11.448 10
Genius is the consoler of our mortal condition...
WSL 12.341 9
In these busy days...a faithful scholar...is a friend and
consoler of mankind.
Trag 12.414 13
Time the consoler, Time the rich carrier of all changes,
dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures...on our eye, new voices on
our ear.
Trag 12.416 20
The intellect is a consoler, which delights in detaching or
putting an interval between a man and his fortune...
consolers, n. (1)
Wsp 6.242 1
The Laws are [man's] consolers...
consoles, v. (2)
Insp 8.283 7
...[In The Harbingers, Herbert]...consoles himself that his own
faith and the divine life in him remain to him unchanged, unharmed.
Trag 12.415 1
Time consoles, but Temperament resists the impression of
pain.
consolidate, v. (1)
II 12.81 9
...the real credentials by which man...lays his hand on those
advantages which confirm and consolidate rank, are intellectual and moral.
consolidated, v. (1)
ET6 5.112 5
In this Gibraltar of propriety [England], mediocrity gets...
consolidated...
consolidation, n. (1)
NR 3.240 6
...in the State and in the schools [democracy] is indispensable
to resist the consolidation of all men into a few men.
consoling, v. (1)
EdAd 11.385 27
We hearken in vain for any profound voice...consoling the
defeated...
consonance, n. (1)
ET11 5.189 23
Shakspeare's portraits of good Duke Humphrey, of
Warwick, of Northumberland, of Talbot, were drawn in strict consonance
with the traditions.
consonant, adj. (2)
Elo2 8.125 27
Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of
phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective
language as to remain settled and unaltered.
ACri 12.284 7
There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so
consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective
language as to remain settled and unaltered.
consonat, v. (1)
Nat 1.44 21
Omne verum vero consonat.
consort, n. (1)
Milt1 12.272 20
[Milton] would be divorced when he finds in his consort
unfit disposition;...
conspicuous, adj. (26)
Nat 1.26 10
...this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import, - so
conspicuous a fact in the history of language, - is our least debt to nature.
Nat 1.44 26
The central Unity is still more conspicuous in actions.
DSA 1.122 6
...let me guide your eye to the precise objects of the sentiment
[of virtue] by an enumeration of some of those classes of facts in which this
element is conspicuous.
MN 1.195 18
It is [great men's] solitude, not their force, that makes them
conspicuous.
LT 1.259 22
Nature itself seems...to invite us to explore the meaning of the
conspicuous facts of the day.
Tran 1.340 25
It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest
observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves
from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
Comp 2.99 14
To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance
before the world, [the President] is content to eat dust before the real
masters who stand erect behind the throne.
SL 2.134 5
Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in
all practical life.
Mrs1 3.120 22
What fact more conspicuous in modern history than the
creation of the gentleman?
Pol1 3.218 18
This conspicuous chair is [senators' and presidents']
compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
ShP 4.192 7
[The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national
interest,--by no means conspicuous, so that some great scholar would have
thought of treating it in an English history...
ShP 4.197 15
The influence of Chaucer is conspicuous in all our early
literature;...
ET15 5.263 7
The most conspicuous result of this talent [for writing for
journals] is the Times newspaper.
Pow 6.64 7
The same elements are always present, only sometimes these
conspicuous, and sometimes those;...
Art2 7.54 17
...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into
parallelopipeds, which broken in two, one part would be an obelisk; that in
Upper Egypt the inhabitants would naturally mark a memorable spot by
setting up so conspicuous a stone.
WD 7.170 2
The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's
Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early dawn,--a few lights
conspicuous in the heaven...
PI 8.47 20
The fact is made conspicuous, nay, colossal, by this simple
rhetoric [of iterations of phrase]...
Res 8.147 25
...we have noted examples among our orators, who have on
conspicuous occasions, handled and controlled...a malignant mob, by
superior manhood...
Supl 10.168 10
...I do not know any advantage more conspicuous which a
man owes to his experience in markets...than the caution and accuracy he
acquires in his report of facts.
War 11.154 13
...[war] has been the principal employment of the most
conspicuous men;...
Wom 11.415 7
With the advancements of society, the position and
influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light. In modern
times, three or four conspicuous instrumentalities may be marked.
CW 12.174 27
Learn to know the conspicuous planets in the heavens...
Bost 12.201 26
What is very conspicuous is the saucy independence which
shines in all [the Massachusetts colonists'] eyes.
MAng1 12.230 26
Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the
cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming
themselves; an incident of the war of Pisa. The wonderful merit of this
drawing...is conspicuous even in the coarsest prints.
MLit 12.312 2
If we should designate favorite studies in which the age
delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature
of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.
Trag 12.406 20
What are the conspicuous tragic elements in human nature?
conspicuously, adv. (7)
ET3 5.43 24
For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all
Christians, because they have interior intellectual light. This appears
conspicuously in the spiritual world.
Art2 7.37 11
[All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as
emanations of a Necessity...dissolving man as well as his works in its
flowing beneficence. This influence is conspicuously visible in the
principles and history of Art.
DL 7.109 11
There should be...the genius and love of the man so
conspicuously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him should
read his character in his property...
Cour 7.253 2
I observe that there are three qualities which conspicuously
attract the wonder and reverence of mankind...disinterestedness...practical
power...courage...
Aris 10.53 18
The best feat of genius is to bring all the varieties of talent
and culture into its audience; the mediocre and the dull are reached as well
as the intelligent. I have seen it conspicuously shown in a village.
FSLC 11.186 18
...these few months have shown very conspicuously [the
Fugitive Slave Law's] nature and impracticability.
FRep 11.538 9
It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of
people. No, that has been conspicuously decided already;...
conspicuousness, n. (1)
Wom 11.416 27
Of course, this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its
inconveniences.
conspiracies, n. (1)
Dem1 10.20 14
The history of man is a series of conspiracies to win from
Nature some advantage without paying for it.
conspiracy, n. (10)
SR 2.49 26
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of
every one of its members.
SR 2.72 5
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune
you with emphatic trifles.
CbW 6.256 13
The agencies by which events so grand as...the junction of
the two oceans, are effected, are paltry,--coarse selfishness, fraud and
conspiracy;...
LVB 11.93 9
...how could we call the conspiracy that should crush these
poor [Cherokee] Indians our government...
FSLN 11.237 12
...a man cannot steal without incurring the penalties of the
thief...though there be a general conspiracy among scholars and official
persons to hold him up...
AsSu 11.250 18
...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the
Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...
AKan 11.259 20
...Union is a conspiracy against the Northern States which
the Northern States are to have the privilege of paying for;...
ACiv 11.297 7
...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery,-they call it
an institution, I call it a destitution...
PLT 12.10 10
...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled...
and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded. Practical
men...cannot arrive at this. Something very different has to be done,-the
resisting this conspiracy of men and material things...
PLT 12.57 8
...society seems to be in conspiracy to utilize every gift
prematurely...
conspirator, n. (1)
F 6.22 27
...here they are, side by side...king and conspirator...
conspirators, n. (3)
SR 2.66 21
The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority
of the soul.
GoW 4.285 11
[Goethe's] affections help him, like women employed by
Cicero to worm out the secret of conspirators.
LLNE 10.342 18
I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in
Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to...inaugurate some
movement in literature, philosophy and religion, of which design the
supposed conspirators were quite innocent;...
conspire, v. (12)
Nat 1.17 10
...I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.
Nat 1.47 5
To this one end of Discipline, all parts of nature conspire.
Nat 1.50 14
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
DSA 1.124 14
All things proceed out of the same spirit, and all things
conspire with it.
YA 1.379 16
Our part is plainly...to conspire with the new works of new
days.
ET11 5.173 21
...the national music, the popular romances, conspire to
uphold the heraldry which the current politics of the day [in England] are
sapping.
F 6.23 27
I cited the instinctive and heroic races as proud believers in
Destiny. They conspire with it;...
Art2 7.51 22
If the earth and sea conspire with virtue more than vice,--so
do the masterpieces of art.
Elo1 7.84 16
Of course the interest of the audience and of the orator
conspire.
Chr2 10.121 6
In a sensible family...all conspire and joyfully cooperate.
Edc1 10.135 14
[The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to
acquaint [the youthful man] with the resources of his mind...and to inflame
him with a piety towards the Grand Mind in which he lives. Thus would
education conspire with the Divine Providence.
War 11.156 26
Not only the moral sentiment, but trade, learning and
whatever makes intercourse, conspire to put [war] down.
conspired, v. (2)
ET5 5.75 15
Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England],
and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it
came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential securities of civil
liberty invented and confirmed. The genius of the race and the genius of the
place conspired to this effect.
HDC 11.40 18
The sermon [to the settlers of Concord] fell into good and
tender hearts; the people conspired with their teacher.
conspires, v. (3)
GoW 4.264 1
Nature conspires.
Art2 7.51 18
[A work of great art] conspires with all exalted sentiments.
HDC 11.45 21
The Governor [of the Massachusetts Bay Colony] conspires
with [the settlers] in limiting his claims to their obedience...
conspiring, adj. (1)
MN 1.194 18
Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name
for our communication with the infinite,-but glad and conspiring
reception...
conspiring, v. (4)
Nat 1.41 20
...a conspiring of parts and efforts to the production of an end
is essential to any being.
YA 1.374 21
...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence
which in its working for coming generations, sacrifices the passing one;...
YA 1.395 9
If only the men are employed in conspiring with the designs of
the Spirit who led us hither and is leading us still, we shall quickly enough
advance out of all hearing of others' censures...
FRep 11.525 22
...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant
advance...from rude to finer organization, the globe of matter thus
conspiring with the principle of undying hope in man.
constable, n. (5)
Elo1 7.70 1
The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together,
and no constable to keep them.
PC 8.209 25
Men are now to be astonished by seeing acts of...Christian
charity...executed...by policemen and the constable.
HDC 11.44 13
...each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies]
organized itself after the pattern of the larger town, by appointing its
constable, and other petty half-military officers.
HDC 11.44 24
In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the
freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular
officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable...
HDC 11.66 3
...bounties of twenty shillings are given as late as 1735, to
Indians and whites, for the heads of these animals [wolves and wildcats],
after the constable has cut off the ears.
constables, n. (2)
ET11 5.184 5
It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the
Chartist demonstration), that...men of rank were sworn special constables
with the rest.
ET15 5.264 9
[The London Times] denounced and discredited the French
Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England, until it
had enrolled 200,000 special constables to watch the Chartists...
constancy, n. (5)
Nat 1.53 13
In the strength of his constancy, the Pyramids seem to
[Shakspeare] recent and transitory.
SR 2.72 18
...let us enter into the state of war and wake Thor and Woden,
courage and constancy...
ET4 5.46 11
...[the Englishmen's] success is not sudden or fortunate, but
they have maintained constancy and self-equality for many ages.
F 6.46 19
Wonderful intricacy in the web, wonderful constancy in the
design this vagabond life admits.
Wsp 6.224 22
Each must be armed--not necessarily with musket and pike.
Happy, if seeing these, he can feel that he has better muskets and pikes in
his energy and constancy.
constant, adj. (37)
Nat 1.27 21
...these analogies...are constant...
Nat 1.36 20
Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the
necessary lessons of difference...
Nat 1.48 4
...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and
intermingle without number or end...or whether, without relations of time
and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
AmS 1.85 26
...since the dawn of history there has been a constant
accumulation and classifying of facts.
MR 1.254 22
Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or
mushroom...by its constant...gentle pushing, manage to break its way up
through the frosty ground...
YA 1.369 6
...these [European estates]...are a constant education to the eye
of the surrounding population.
Hist 2.13 15
Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through
the grub, through the egg, the constant individual;...
SL 2.155 1
The permanence of all books is fixed...by...the intrinsic
importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.
SL 2.161 20
This revisal or correction is a constant force...
Prd1 2.221 23
...it would be hardly honest in me...whilst my debt to my
senses is real and constant, not to own it in passing.
Hsm1 2.245 3
In the elder English dramatists...there is a constant
recognition of gentility...
Pt1 3.19 24
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and
constant fact of Life...
PNR 4.85 2
[Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical; the
proportions are constant of oxygen, azote and lime;...
PNR 4.85 4
[Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical;...
there is just so much water and slate and magnesia; not less are the
proportions constant of the moral elements.
SwM 4.114 5
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...
ET3 5.38 25
The constant rain...keeps [England's] multitude of rivers full...
ET5 5.86 24
Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men that if they
could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could
resist them; and from constant practice they came to do it in three minutes
and a half.
Pow 6.55 10
During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount
of blood is collected in the arteries...and but little is sent into the veins. This
condition is constant with intrepid persons.
Wth 6.103 17
A dollar...is worth more...in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding
community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives and
arsenic are in constant play.
Civ 7.25 1
...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the
engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of
fresh water out of salt water, every hour...
Art2 7.41 6
Smeaton built Eddystone Lighthouse on the model of an oak-tree,
as being the form in Nature best designed to resist a constant assailing
force.
Elo1 7.66 7
The audience is a constant meter of the orator.
Farm 7.149 17
See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he
alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through
constant evaporation...
SA 8.79 7
...the subject of manners has a constant interest to thoughtful
persons.
PC 8.219 13
Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the
few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.
Insp 8.288 18
...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the
country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions and even necessary orders,
though I...resolutely omit, to my constant damage, all that can be omitted.
Imtl 8.329 24
A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant
labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he
said;...
Chr2 10.107 19
...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious]
offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...but
only...perhaps that they find some violence, some cramping of their
freedom of thought, in the constant recurrence of the form.
Edc1 10.129 7
[The desire of power] is a constant teaching of the laws of
matter and of mind.
Edc1 10.129 11
No dollar of property can be created without...some
acquisition of knowledge and practical force. It is a constant contest with
the active faculties of men...
Prch 10.221 2
...this examination [of religion] resulting in the constant
detection of errors, the flattered understanding assumes to judge all things...
HDC 11.82 10
From that time [1788] to the present hour, this town
[Concord] has made a slow but constant progress in population and wealth...
HDC 11.85 1
...the natural increase of [Concord's] population is drained by
the constant emigration of the youth.
EWI 11.117 23
The governors [of Jamaica]...were at constant quarrel with
the angry and bilious island legislature.
SMC 11.361 26
[George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming
to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first
point, he keeps up a constant acquaintance with them;...
Mem 12.100 21
A man would think twice about learning a new science or
reading a new paragraph, if he believed the magnetism was only a constant
amount, and that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained.
MLit 12.326 26
[Goethe] has an eye constant to the fact of life...
Constant, Benjamin, n. (1)
SA 8.95 1
...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air: such
a conversation between Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier and
Benjamin Constant and Schlegel!...
Constantinople, Turkey, n. (10)
Con 1.311 16
Would you have...preferred your freedom on a heath...to this
world of Rome...and Constantinople...
Hist 2.40 13
How many times we must say Rome, and Paris, and
Constantinople!
Prd1 2.233 14
[The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom
travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople...
Pow 6.56 26
[A strong pulse] is like the opportunity of a city like New
York or Constantinople, which needs no diplomacy to force capital or
genius or labor to it.
Wth 6.94 24
To be rich is...to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the
desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople;...
Boks 7.205 19
Now having our idler safe down as far as the fall of
Constantinople in 1453, he is in very good courses;...
OA 7.322 8
...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of
seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who
appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey
them:...as blind old Dandolo...storming Constantinople at ninety-four...
LLNE 10.351 6
...know you one and all, that Constantinople is the natural
capital of the globe.
EdAd 11.383 18
A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous
magnificence...of Rome and Constantinople...takes his seat in a railroad-car,
where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from
Liverpool and Havre...
Let 12.393 2
When a railroad train shoots through Europe every day from
Brussels to Vienna, from Vienna to Constantinople, it cannot stop every
twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house...
constantly, adv. (7)
PPh 4.70 13
...[Plato] constantly affirms that virtue cannot be taught;...
WD 7.184 7
There are people...who in their consciousness of deserving
success constantly slight the ordinary means of attaining it;...
Aris 10.58 26
In his consciousness of deserving success, the caliph Ali
constantly neglected the ordinary means of attaining it...
Plu 10.311 3
...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and
his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...
MMEm 10.428 10
Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody Emerson] to
continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso,-
[God's] agency.
HDC 11.78 8
The number of [Concord's] troops constantly in service [in
the American Revolution] is very great.
Milt1 12.271 5
Toland tells us...[Milton] used to tell those about him the
entire satisfaction of his mind that he had constantly employed his strength
and faculties in the defence of liberty...
constants, n. (1)
ET14 5.241 18
A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and
these are in the world constants...
constellated, v. (1)
Art1 2.359 21
[The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the
technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets that these
works were not always thus constellated;...
constellation, n. (10)
AmS 1.82 6
...the star in the constellation Harp...astronomers announce,
shall one day be the pole-star...
MN 1.203 8
...planet, system, constellation, total nature is growing like a
field of maize in July;...
Hist 2.9 13
Who cares what the fact was, when we have made a
constellation of it...
NR 3.240 23
We want the great genius only...for one star more in our
constellation...
PPh 4.40 16
How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of
night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists! the Alexandrians, a constellation of
genius;...
ShP 4.203 22
Since the constellation of great men who appeared in Greece
in the time of Pericles, there was never any such society [as that in
Elizabethan England];...
Civ 7.32 6
...when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and
illustrate the land, and see how little the government has to do with their
daily life...I see what cubic values America has...
WD 7.167 13
Hesiod wrote a poem which he called Works and Days...
instructing the husbandman at the rising of what constellation he might
safely sow...
CW 12.175 14
How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted,
on the lost Pleiad! for though that pretty constellation is called for
thousands of years the Seven Stars, most eyes can only count six.
MLit 12.309 15
We go musing into the vault of day and night; no
constellation shines...
constellations, n. (6)
LE 1.158 21
Over [the scholar] stream the flying constellations;...
Bty 6.304 11
My boots and chair and candlestick are fairies in disguise,
meteors and constellations.
Farm 7.142 9
In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called
a minder. And in this great factory