Control to Copula
control, n. (22)
Int 2.328 26
We have little control over our thoughts.
Int 2.336 19
...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain
control over the spontaneous states...
NER 3.255 12
...the country is full of kings. Hands off! let there be no
control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this
kingdom of me.
Bhr 6.176 7
...underneath all [the old Massachusetts statesman's]
irritability was...a memory in which lay in order and method like geologic
strata every fact of his history, and under the control of his will.
Bhr 6.179 13
The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not
subject to the control of the will.
Civ 7.24 25
The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment
and compend of a nation's arts... No use can lessen the wonder of this
control by so weak a creature of forces so prodigious.
PI 8.75 4
The grandeur of our life exists...in what of us is inevitable and
above our control.
SA 8.87 8
It is necessary for the purification of drawing-rooms that these
entertaining explosions [of laughter] should be under strict control.
Elo2 8.119 18
Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit
of heat, and moreover a certain control of it...
Elo2 8.126 17
Men differ so much in control of their faculties!
PPo 8.239 18
When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young
[Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control.
Insp 8.274 5
In June the morning is noisy with birds; in August they are
already getting old and silent. Hence arises the question, Are these moods
in any degree within control?
Insp 8.274 16
What metaphysician has undertaken to enumerate...the rules
for the recovery of inspiration? That is least within control which is best in
them.
Aris 10.64 25
Virtue and genius are always on the direct way to the control
of the society in which they are found.
Edc1 10.157 12
Sympathy, the female force...deficient in instant control
and the breaking down of resistance, is more subtle and lasting and creative
[than will, the male power].
LLNE 10.344 20
...[Theodore Parker's] character appeared in the last
moments with the same firm control as in the midday of strength.
EWI 11.118 15
...experience...shows the existence, beside the
covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery]...the voluptuousness of
holding a human being in his absolute control.
PLT 12.44 1
We believe that certain persons add to the common vision a
certain degree of control over these states of mind;...
PLT 12.45 16
The primary rule for the conduct of Intellect is to have
control of the thoughts without losing their natural attitudes and action.
PLT 12.47 6
There is a meter which determines the constructive power of
man,-this, namely, the question whether the mind possesses the control of
its thoughts, or they of it.
PLT 12.50 15
When pace is increased it will happen that the control is in a
degree lost.
II 12.77 23
...one day, though far off, you will attain the control of these
[higher] states;...
control, v. (12)
DSA 1.137 3
...the laws of nature control the activity of the hands...
Prd1 2.234 6
Let [a man] control the habit of expense.
Chr1 3.91 1
Man...in these examples [of men of character] appears...to be
an expression of the same laws which control the tides and the sun...
Pow 6.54 13
...belief in compensation...characterizes all valuable minds,
and must control every effort that is made by an industrious one.
Wsp 6.217 26
The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous
courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.
Civ 7.26 5
High degrees of moral sentiment control the unfavorable
influences of climate;...
Insp 8.294 23
We...cannot control and domesticate at will the high states of
contemplation and continuous thought.
HDC 11.43 16
...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled
into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own
benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor
possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
FSLC 11.191 9
Lord Coke held that where an Act of Parliament is against
common right and reason, the common law shall control it...
Wom 11.417 13
In all [literature], the body of the joke...is identical with
Mahomet's opinion that women have not a sufficient moral or intellectual
force to control the perturbations of their physical structure.
II 12.75 12
How shall I educate my children? Shall I indulge, or shall I
control them?
II 12.77 17
...we can take sight beforehand of a state of being wherein the
will shall penetrate and control what it cannot now reach.
controlled, v. (8)
MR 1.253 10
We complain that the politics of masses of the people are
controlled by designing men...
Mrs1 3.126 10
...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town,
are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers...
NMW 4.241 22
[Napoleon's] real strength lay in [the people's] conviction
that he was their representative in his genius and aims, not only when he
courted, but when he controlled...them.
F 6.33 9
...the chemic explosions are controlled like [man's] watch.
Res 8.147 26
...we have noted examples among our orators, who have...
handled and controlled...a malignant mob, by superior manhood...
Chr2 10.100 12
...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; and all receiving from abroad must be
controlled by this immense reservation.
HDC 11.43 27
The nature of man and his condition in the world, for the
first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formation of
the State [in Massachusetts].
Trag 12.406 25
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an
intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the
order of Nature and events is controlled by a law not adapted to man, nor
man to that...
controlling, adj. (9)
Chr1 3.102 16
[Men] must...make us feel that they have a controlling
happy future opening before them...
GoW 4.271 26
[Goethe]...was born with a free and controlling genius.
GoW 4.281 10
A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
ET4 5.47 27
Race is a controlling influence in the Jew...
ET15 5.264 15
[The London Times] has entered into each municipal,
literary and social question, almost with a controlling voice.
Wsp 6.217 18
...the heart is at once aware of the state of health or disease,
which is the controlling state...
Elo1 7.70 13
It is said that the Khans or story-tellers in Ispahan and other
cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience...
PC 8.211 9
A controlling influence of the times has been the wide and
successful study of Natural Science.
Insp 8.292 26
Some perceptions...are granted to the single soul; they...are
the permanent and controlling ones.
controlling, v. (6)
Wth 6.104 2
If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and
put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital, the rates
of insurance will indicate it;...
Bhr 6.169 16
What are [manners] but thought...controlling the movements
of the body...
OA 7.318 5
That which does not decay is so central and controlling in us,
that, as long as one is alone by himself, he is not sensible of the inroads of
time...
QO 8.198 4
The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were
written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior
meaning they would acquire when read under this light; this idea of the
authorship controlling our appreciation of the works themselves.
Prch 10.224 5
The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from self-activity
of talents...to the controlling and reinforcing of talents...
ACri 12.300 4
The power of the poet is in controlling these symbols;...
controls, v. (6)
PC 8.208 20
Now that by the increased humanity of law she controls her
property, [woman] inevitably takes the next step to her share in power.
PerF 10.77 27
In proportion to the depth of the insight is the power and
reach of the kingdom [a man] controls.
Edc1 10.157 5
The will, the male power...makes that military eye which
controls boys as it controls men;...
Edc1 10.157 6
The will, the male power...makes that military eye which
controls boys as it controls men;...
Thor 10.477 3
[Thoreau's] habitual thought makes all his poetry a hymn
to...the Spirit which vivifies and controls his own...
War 11.155 15
...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help]
immediately modifies and controls this;...
controversial, adj. (3)
Nat2 3.188 1
Jacob Behmen and George Fox betray their egotism in the
pertinacity of their controversial tracts...
SwM 4.137 3
[Swedenborg] carries his controversial memory with him in
his visits to the souls.
Milt1 12.249 1
[Milton's tracts] are not effective...like what became also
controversial tracts, several masterly speeches in the history of the
American Congress.
controversies, n. (3)
LS 11.4 3
...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord'
s Supper's] nature.
FRO2 11.485 13
I think we might now relinquish our theological
controversies to communities more idle and ignorant than we.
Milt1 12.270 19
...drawn into the great controversies of the times, [Milton]
is never lost in a party.
controversy, n. (7)
AmS 1.102 23
The odds are that the whole question is not worth the
poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy.
LT 1.270 10
Anti-masonry had a deep right and wrong, which gradually
emerged to sight out of the turbid controversy.
NR 3.230 26
In any controversy concerning morals, an appeal may be made
with safety to the sentiments which the language of the people expresses.
LLNE 10.347 10
[Robert Owen] was the better Christian in his controversy
with Christians...
LS 11.3 4
In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of
controversy than the Lord's Supper.
LS 11.4 5
...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord'
s Supper's] nature. The famous question of the Real Presence was the main
controversy between the Church of England and the Church of Rome.
FSLN 11.242 2
[The single defender of the right] may well say, If my
countrymen do not care to be defended, I too will decline the controversy...
controvert, v. (2)
Supl 10.164 8
Controvert [the man with the superlative temperament's]
opinion and he cries Persecution!...
Thor 10.456 7
It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a
proposition was to controvert it...
contumacious, adj. (2)
ET8 5.134 22
...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if
the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued
dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had
bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
ET18 5.306 2
You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their
Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters, but by
the contumacious sharp-tongued energy of English naturel...
contumacy, n. (2)
Comp 2.121 17
...the criminal adheres to his vice and contumacy...
HDC 11.31 8
In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up
certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were
suspended for contumacy...
contumely, n. (3)
Chr1 3.98 11
What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the
Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake...at the threat of...contumely...
Bty 6.298 21
...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a
kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner;...
LVB 11.95 19
...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and
suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a
burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends. I, sir, will
not beforehand treat you with the contumely of this distrust.
conundrums, n. (1)
Clbs 7.235 19
In the old time conundrums were sent from king to king by
ambassadors.
convalescent, adj. (1)
Nat2 3.178 24
...when we are convalescent, nature will look up to us.
convene, n. (1)
Exp 3.65 6
Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed, and the
conventions convene, and before the vote is taken, dig away in your
garden...
convene, v. (1)
WD 7.174 22
...academies convene to settle the claims of the old schools.
convened, v. (2)
Elo1 7.83 5
The emergency which has convened the meeting is usually of
more importance than anything the debaters have in their minds...
Aris 10.32 21
It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I
am describing...a chapter of Templars...but...so rarely convened...that their
names and doings are not recorded in any Book of Peerage...
convenience, n. (40)
MN 1.192 24
...I would not have the laborer sacrificed to my convenience
and pride...
Con 1.309 25
...what your convenience could spare, your pride cannot.
Con 1.316 19
What you say of your...world is true enough, and I gladly
avail myself of its convenience;...
Con 1.316 23
...the plant Man does not require for his most glorious
flowering this pomp of preparation and convenience...
YA 1.369 4
In Europe...the land is full of men...whose interest and pride it
is...to fill [their estates] with every convenience and ornament.
Hist 2.10 8
What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for
manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying for
itself, by means of the wall of that rule.
SR 2.82 23
Beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought and quaint
expression are as near to us as to any...
Mrs1 3.135 7
It were unmerciful, I know, quite to abolish the use of these
screens, which are of eminent convenience...
Mrs1 3.137 22
Proportionate is our disgust at those invaders who fill a
studious house with blast and running, to secure some paltry convenience.
GoW 4.273 10
The immense horizon which journeys with us lends its
majesty...to matters of convenience and necessity...
ET2 5.32 2
The busiest talk with leisure and convenience at sea...
ET4 5.54 9
We must use the popular category...for convenience...
ET6 5.104 11
The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his
accommodation at inns and on the roads; a quiddle about his toast and his
chop and every species of convenience...
ET6 5.105 5
Every man in this polished country [England] consults only
his convenience...
ET10 5.156 5
The Crystal Palace is not considered honest until it pays; no
matter how much convenience, beauty, or eclat, it must be self-supporting.
ET14 5.233 11
[The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect
security and convenience in the eating of it...
Wth 6.97 2
...it is each man's interest that...ease and convenience of living...
should exist somewhere...
Wth 6.109 6
A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire
farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have
outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap. But he pays for
the one convenience of a better dinner, by the loss of some of the richest
social and educational advantages.
Wth 6.123 8
...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer
built the house in the right spot for...the convenience to the pasture...
Bhr 6.172 12
...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of
character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has, and what
relations to convenience, power and beauty.
Elo1 7.75 9
These kinds of public and private speaking have their use and
convenience to the practitioners;...
DL 7.111 7
...what idea predominates in our houses? Thrift first, then
convenience and pleasure.
Clbs 7.232 21
Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They
go rarely to thei their equals, and then as for their own convenience simply...
OA 7.319 20
We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to
resign...he was dissuaded by his friends, on account of the public
convenience at that time.
SA 8.81 5
[Manners'] vast convenience I must always admire.
Res 8.142 23
...geography and geology are yielding to man's convenience...
Edc1 10.127 17
Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants', animals'] beauty,
comforted by their convenience, [man] seeks them as ends...
Supl 10.170 27
Men of the world value truth...not by its sacredness, but for
its convenience.
MoL 10.245 13
Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and
luxury, have made life expensive...
Schr 10.288 2
...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] must
relinquish...prosperity and convenience;...
EzRy 10.385 4
[Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay?
Have I not been proud or too fond of this convenience?
HDC 11.44 3
[The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest
convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General
Court, immunities...
HDC 11.46 18
[The Massachusetts Bay towns'] powers were speedily
settled by obvious convenience...
EWI 11.124 16
The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted
blood in it. The coffee was fragrant;...the cotton clothed the world. What!
all raised by these men, and no wages? Excellent! What a convenience!
FSLC 11.181 24
The very convenience of property, the house and land we
occupy, have lost their best value...
ACiv 11.301 26
Banknotes rob the public, but are such a daily convenience
that we silence our scruples...
EdAd 11.393 6
...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate
themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom
and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review...
Wom 11.424 26
When new opinions appear, they will be entertained and
respected, by every fair mind, according to their reasonableness, and not
according to their convenience...
CL 12.161 24
Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a
person who knows where arnica grows...
Trag 12.415 9
[Our human being] is like a stream of water, which, if
dammed up on one bank, overruns the other, and flows equally at its own
convenience over sand, or mud, or marble.
conveniences, n. (12)
Nat 1.12 19
What angels invented...these rich conveniences...
MR 1.235 17
...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss
of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society...
MR 1.243 5
[The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] may
leave to others the costly conveniences of housekeeping...
MR 1.245 12
How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the
conveniences of life honestly?
Fdsp 2.210 11
I can get politics and chat and neighborly conveniences from
cheaper companions [than my friend].
Prd1 2.227 22
In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box...
stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel. Herein he tastes...
the cat-like love...of the conveniences of long housekeeping.
DL 7.112 2
...the wealth and multiplication of conveniences embarrass us...
Boks 7.205 11
...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of
civilization...
Cour 7.275 1
[The man with sacred courage] is everywhere a liberator, but
of a freedom that is ideal; not seeking to have land or money or
conveniences...
Suc 7.287 21
These boasted arts are of very recent origin. They are local
conveniences...
Suc 7.288 1
These [boasted arts] are local conveniences...
WSL 12.338 3
Here [in America] is very good earth and water and plenty
of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow; to all other gifts of Nature or man
his eyes are sealed by the inexorable demand for the precise conveniences
to which he is accustomed in England.
conveniency, n. (6)
Fdsp 2.210 26
Let [your friend] be to thee for ever...not a trivial
conveniency to be soon outgrown and cast aside.
NR 3.236 2
...the uninspired man certainly finds persons a conveniency in
household matters...
ET3 5.39 14
The only drawback on this industrial conveniency [in
England] is the darkness of its sky.
ET3 5.42 3
...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river
Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the
kingdom, giving...all the conveniency to trade that a people so skilful and
sufficient in economizing water-front by docks, warehouses and lighters
required.
PI 8.4 9
...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early
hints are given that we are not to stay here;...a warning that this magnificent
hotel and conveniency we call Nature is not final.
CInt 12.115 7
...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it
be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses, and divert the
funds of your founders into the stock of...a tan-yard or some other
undoubted conveniency for the surrounding population.
convenient, adj. (14)
LE 1.185 24
When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let
learning and romantic expectations go, until a more convenient season;-
then dies the man in you;...
MN 1.197 14
...we can use nature as a convenient standard...
Tran 1.349 9
Each cause as it is called...becomes speedily a little shop,
where the article...is now made up into portable and convenient cakes...
Comp 2.108 18
The name and circumstance of Phidias, however
convenient for history, embarrass when we come to the highest criticism.
Prd1 2.237 4
...frankness...puts the parties on a convenient footing...
NMW 4.228 18
It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced
the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity; since
what was an impassable bar to us, and still is to others, becomes a
convenient weapon for our purposes;...
ET4 5.54 7
The kitchen-clock is more convenient than sidereal time.
ET9 5.148 16
A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest
of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he
makes light of them, so will other men. We all find in these a convenient
metre of character...
ET13 5.230 19
But the religion of England...is it the sects? no; they...are to
the Established Church as cabs are to a coach, cheaper and more
convenient, but really the same thing.
CbW 6.274 14
...it is who lives near us of equal social degree,--a few
people at convenient distance...these, and these only, shall be your life's
companions;...
EWI 11.123 25
We found it very convenient to keep [the negroes] at work...
War 11.164 16
Observe the ideas of the present day...see...how timber,
brick, lime and stone have flown into convenient shape, obedient to the
master-idea reigning in the minds of many persons.
SHC 11.431 2
A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and
towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground
with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy
colonnades.
EurB 12.378 19
We must...adjourn the rest of our critical chapter to a more
convenient season.
conveniently, adv. (3)
AmS 1.87 17
...perhaps we shall...learn the amount of this influence more
conveniently, by considering [books'] value alone.
Cir 2.301 23
This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn]...
may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in
every department.
ET3 5.42 20
[England] is a nation conveniently small.
convent, n. (6)
Con 1.316 1
Then came in the men, and they said, What cheer, brother?
Does thy convent want gifts?
Wsp 6.227 23
Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had
appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy...
Wsp 6.228 7
[St. Philip Neri] threw himself on his mule...and hastened
through the mud and mire to the distant convent.
CInt 12.125 13
In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young
saint who comes into a convent for her education...
CInt 12.125 15
In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young
saint who comes into a convent for her education, and not falling into the
system and the little parties in the convent...it turns out in a few days that
every hand is against this young votary.
CInt 12.125 19
Piety in a convent accuses every one, from the novice to the
abbess.
conventicle, n. (2)
PC 8.216 24
...in his own days [Michelangelo's] friends were few; and you
would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...
Milt1 12.269 20
...[Milton] threw himself, the flower of elegancy, on the
side of the reeking conventicle;...
Convention, Chardon Street, (5)
CSC 10.373 7
The [Chardon Street] Convention organized itself by the
choice of Edmund Quincy as Moderator...
CSC 10.373 17
...the [Chardon Street] Convention debated, for three days
again, the remaining subject of the Priesthood.
CSC 10.373 18
This Convention never printed any report of its
deliberations...
CSC 10.376 19
By no means the least value of this [Chardon Street]
Convention, in our eye, was the scope it gave to the genius of Mr. Alcott...
CSC 10.377 1
...the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many
remarkable persons...
Convention, County, n. (2)
HDC 11.71 4
In August [1774], a County Convention met in this town
[Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public affairs...
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...
convention, n. (10)
Fdsp 2.207 20
In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a
social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there
present. ... Now this convention...destroys the high freedom of great
conversation...
Mrs1 3.130 12
...come from year to year and see how permanent [the
distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of
man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it,
a meeting of merchants...a political, a religious convention;...
Mrs1 3.139 18
...being in its nature a convention, [society] loves what is
conventional...
UGM 4.21 26
I go to a convention of philanthropists. Do what I can, I
cannot keep my eyes off the clock.
GoW 4.271 13
Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;...
a manly mind, unembarrassed by the variety of coats of convention with
which life had got encrusted...
GoW 4.279 1
In the progress of the story, the characters of the hero and
heroine [of Sand's Consuelo] expand at a rate that shivers the porcelain
chess-table of aristocratic convention...
PPo 8.248 9
...it is only a few delicate spirits who are sufficient to see that
the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it entangles...
Edc1 10.133 24
...a convention for education...affects us with slight
paralysis...
ALin 11.330 23
All of us remember...the surprise and disappointment of
the country at [Lincoln's] first nomination by the convention at Chicago.
ALin 11.331 1
...when the new and comparatively unknown name of
Lincoln was announced [for President] (notwithstanding the report of the
acclamations of that convention [in Chicago], we heard the result coldly
and sadly.
Convention, n. (5)
NMW 4.226 10
Dumont relates that he sat in the gallery of the Convention
and heard Mirabeau make a speech.
DL 7.133 17
He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of
Convention and Fashion...will restore the life of man to splendor...
CSC 10.373 1
In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of
Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston...
HDC 11.82 1
In 1780, a constitution of the State [Massachusetts], proposed
by the Convention chosen for that purpose, was accepted by the town
[Concord]...
FSLC 11.207 16
Shall we call a new Convention, or will any expert
statesman furnish us a plan for the summary or gradual winding up of
slavery, so far as the Republic is its patron?
conventional, adj. (28)
YA 1.388 14
I speak of those organs which can be presumed to speak a
popular sense. They recommend conventional virtues...
SR 2.45 3
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter
which were...not conventional.
SL 2.144 17
[Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in a man's memory
without his being able to say why] are symbols of value to him as they can
interpret parts of his consciousness which he would vainly seek words for
in the conventional images of books and other minds.
SL 2.165 11
...the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary,
of Paul, of Peter.
Art1 2.360 12
[The artist] need not cumber himself with a conventional
nature and culture...
Pt1 3.9 21
We hear, through all the varied music [of modern poetry], the
ground-tone of conventional life.
Pt1 3.16 27
Some stars...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood
tingle under the rudest or the most conventional exterior.
Pt1 3.39 16
Most of the things [the poet] says are conventional, no doubt;...
Chr1 3.100 1
It is much that [the ingenious man] does not accept the
conventional opinions and practices.
Mrs1 3.139 18
...being in its nature a convention, [society] loves what is
conventional...
NR 3.230 6
In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in
England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read,
conventional, proud men...
NMW 4.225 26
[The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by
birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a
commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the
common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the refined
enjoyments of...palaces and conventional honors...
GoW 4.269 24
...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write
conventional criticism...
ET6 5.107 1
[The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal,
loving routine and conventional ways;...
CbW 6.260 15
...what we ask daily, is to be conventional.
SS 7.7 17
We pray to be conventional.
Art2 7.45 14
Another deduction from the genius of the artist is what is
conventional in his art...
Art2 7.45 23
...who will deny that the merely conventional part of the
[artistic] performance contributes much to its effect?
DL 7.109 10
There should be nothing confounding and conventional in
economy...
PI 8.49 17
A right ode (however nearly it may adopt conventional metre...)
will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of conventionality...
Schr 10.268 6
...I rather wish you to...give play to your energies, but not...
in conventional ways.
LLNE 10.345 5
Society always values...inoffensive people, susceptible of
conventional polish.
LLNE 10.360 18
[The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our
ways of living were too conventional and expensive...
Thor 10.481 6
[Thoreau] had many elegancies of his own, whilst he
scoffed at conventional elegance.
MLit 12.316 9
Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was
too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the
wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent...which derives all its eclat from
our conventional education...
MLit 12.328 14
...that we may not...pay a great man so ill a compliment as
to praise him only in the conventional and comparative speech, let us
honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this
genius [Goethe].
EurB 12.368 2
We have poets who write the poetry...of the patrician and
conventional Europe...
EurB 12.369 4
...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the
conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by
Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...
conventional, n. (1)
AmS 1.88 12
...neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional...
conventionalism, n. (2)
YA 1.388 5
In America, out-of-doors all seems a market; in-doors an air-tight
stove of conventionalism.
Boks 7.216 1
A person of less courage...will answer [the question of a
vicious marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre] does,--giving way...to
conventionalism...
conventionality, n. (1)
PI 8.49 20
A right ode...will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of
conventionality...
Conventions, Bible, n. (1)
NER 3.251 14
[The observer of New England's] attention must be
commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party...is appearing...
in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions;...
conventions, n. (22)
MN 1.196 4
Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line,
and will bore an Artesian well through our conventions and theories...
Con 1.325 13
I depend on my honor, my labor, and my dispositions for my
place in the affections of mankind, and not on any conventions or
parchments of yours.
Tran 1.349 25
...[Transcendentalists] have...found that...from the courtesies
of the academy and the college to the conventions of the cotillon-room and
the morning call, there is a spirit of cowardly compromise...
SR 2.88 19
The political parties meet in numerous conventions;...
SR 2.88 26
...the reformers summon conventions and vote and resolve in
multitude.
Exp 3.59 26
Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force
prospers just as well as in the newest world...
Exp 3.65 5
Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed, and the
conventions convene, and before the vote is taken, dig away in your
garden...
Mrs1 3.149 13
I have seen an individual whose manners, though wholly
within the conventions of elegant society, were never learned there...
Pol1 3.219 26
We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into
confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in
certain social conventions;...
NER 3.257 1
I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions
of society;...
GoW 4.289 18
I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being both representatives
of the impatience and reaction of nature against the morgue of conventions...
ET14 5.254 15
Squalid contentment with conventions...betray the ebb of
life and spirit [in English students].
Elo1 7.62 3
Our county conventions often exhibit a small-pot-soon-hot
style of eloquence.
Elo2 8.113 19
The orator is he whom every man is seeking when he goes...
into the conventions...
Elo2 8.132 20
Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of
[eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech, in
our commercial, manufacturing, railroad and educational conventions; that
of political advice and persuasion...
SovE 10.210 4
...there are the new conventions of social science, before
which the questions of the rights of women...come for a hearing.
Plu 10.322 6
It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force
ambitious young men, before they mount the platform of the county
conventions, to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
FSLN 11.232 27
The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and
clear...that official papers are of no use; resolutions of public meetings,
platforms of conventions, no, nor laws, nor constitutions, any more.
ACri 12.297 14
In [Carlyle's] books the vicious conventions of writing are
all dropped.
MLit 12.323 22
All conventions, all traditions [Goethe] rejected.
MLit 12.330 23
The vicious conventions...stand [in Wilhelm Meister] for
all they are worth in the newspaper.
Let 12.398 6
...the noblest youths are in a few years converted into pale
Caryatides to uphold the temple of conventions.
Conventions, n. (3)
NER 3.251 22
The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members
of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the
Church...
NER 3.251 24
The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members
of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the
Church, and immediately afterwards to declare their discontent with these
Conventions...
CSC 10.375 21
...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon
Street Convention];...that flea of Conventions, Mrs. Abigail Folsom, was
but too ready with her interminable scroll.
Conventions, Sabbath, n. (1)
NER 3.251 14
[The observer of New England's] attention must be
commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party...is appearing...
in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions;...
converge, v. (1)
MoS 4.179 5
A method in the world we do not see, but this parallelism of
great and little, which never...discover the smallest tendency to converge.
conversant, adj. (10)
Comp 2.115 17
...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those
processes with which he is conversant...do recommend to him his trade...
PPh 4.60 9
...philosophy is an elegant thing, if any one modestly meddles
with it [said Plato]; but if he is conversant with it more than is becoming, it
corrupts the man.
SwM 4.104 5
The robust Aristotelian method...conversant with series and
degree...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
MoS 4.150 5
One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is conversant with facts
and surfaces...
NMW 4.224 23
[Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their
vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material...
conversant with mechanical powers...
ET14 5.239 11
...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one
with a larger class, discerned beyond the lesser class with which it has been
conversant.
Schr 10.261 14
Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for
the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for. But in
proportion as we are conversant with the laws of life, we have seen the like.
Plu 10.300 7
...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his
moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received
than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words, dryly
adding, it vexes me that he is so exposed to the spoil of those that are
conversant with him.
FRO2 11.486 27
...a man of religious susceptibility, and one at the same
time conversant with many men...can find the same idea [that Christianity
is as old as Creation] in numberless conversations.
WSL 12.346 22
Only from a mind conversant with the First Philosophy can
definitions be expected.
conversation, n. (248)
Nat 1.29 19
It is this [dependence of language upon nature] which gives
that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer...
AmS 1.94 15
I have heard it said...that the rough, spontaneous conversation
of men [the clergy] do not hear...
DSA 1.134 13
...it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul,
to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love.
LE 1.170 5
...[every man's] own conversation with nature is still unsung.
MN 1.206 12
Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to
translate the world into some particular language of its own;...into...a
conversation...
MR 1.245 7
...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements,
whilst our public edifices, like theirs, will be worthy...for conversation...
MR 1.253 3
Let any two matrons meet, and observe how soon their
conversation turns on the troubles from their "help,", as our phrase is.
LT 1.270 1
The Temperance-question, which rides the conversation of ten
thousand circles...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of
the time.
LT 1.271 17
In conversation with a wise man, we find ourselves
apologizing for our employments;...
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.
Con 1.314 17
...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty, when
approached in the confidence of conversation...has also his gracious and
relenting moments...
Con 1.318 4
...an army encamps in a desert, and...creates a white city in an
hour...a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.
Tran 1.340 20
...the tendency to respect the intuitions and to give them, at
least in our creed, all authority over our experience, has deeply colored the
conversation and poetry of the present day;...
Tran 1.342 12
[Transcendentalists] are lonely; the spirit of their writing
and conversation is lonely;...
Tran 1.347 23
...[the Transcendentalists'] solitary and fastidious manners
not only withdraw them from the conversation, but from the labors of the
world;...
Hist 2.31 19
...in all [man's] weakness both his body and his mind are
invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
SR 2.55 22
There is a mortifying experience in particular...I mean...the
forced smile which we put on...in answer to conversation which does not
interest us.
Comp 2.96 4
That which [men] hear in schools and pulpits without
afterthought, if said in conversation would probably be questioned in
silence.
Comp 2.106 9
The human soul is true to these facts [of Compensation] in
the painting...of conversation.
SL 2.150 4
...Gertrude has Guy; but what now avails...how Roman his mien
and manners, if...she has no aims, no conversation that can enchant her
graceful lord?
Lov1 2.172 3
The strong bent of nature is seen in the proportion which this
topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society.
Lov1 2.175 17
...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his
heart and brain...when no place is too solitary...for him who has richer
company and sweeter conversation in his new thoughts than any old
friends...can give him;...
Lov1 2.182 8
By conversation with that which is in itself excellent,
magnanimous, lowly, and just, the lover comes to a warmer love of these
nobilities...
Fdsp 2.192 20
Having imagined and invested [the commended stranger],
we ask how we should stand related in conversation and action with such a
man...
Fdsp 2.192 22
The same idea exalts conversation with [the commended
stranger].
Fdsp 2.193 5
...as soon as the stranger begins to intrude...his defects, into
the conversation, it is all over.
Fdsp 2.198 4
...[the soul] goes alone for a season that it may exalt its
conversation or society.
Fdsp 2.204 1
Almost every man we meet...has...some whim of religion or
philanthropy in his head...which spoils all conversation with him.
Fdsp 2.206 27
...I find this law of one to one peremptory for conversation...
Fdsp 2.207 8
...three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere
and searching sort.
Fdsp 2.207 21
In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a
social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there
present. ... Now this convention...destroys the high freedom of great
conversation...
Fdsp 2.208 2
We talk sometimes of a great talent for conversation, as if it
were a permanent property in some individuals.
Fdsp 2.208 4
Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.
Prd1 2.235 25
How many words and promises are promises of
conversation!
Hsm1 2.264 3
Who does not sometimes...await with curious complacency
the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?
OS 2.268 25
The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present...
is...that common heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship...
OS 2.270 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.
OS 2.276 27
...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing
else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion;...thence come
conversation, competition, persuasion, cities and war.
OS 2.277 8
In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is
made...to a common nature.
OS 2.278 14
The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left
unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation.
OS 2.278 19
I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with
my neighbors, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play...
OS 2.291 27
I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell
and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand
Turk. For they are, in their own elevation, the fellows of kings, and must
feel the servile tone of conversation in the world.
Cir 2.310 13
Conversation is a game of circles.
Cir 2.310 13
In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the
common of silence on every side.
Int 2.337 9
A child knows...if the attitude [in a picture] be natural or grand
or mean; though he has never received any instruction in drawing or heard
any conversation on the subject...
Pt1 3.5 24
...the great majority of men seem to be...mutes, who cannot
report the conversation they have had with nature.
Pt1 3.6 8
Every man should be so much an artist that he could report in
conversation what had befallen him.
Pt1 3.9 3
I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent
writer of lyrics...
Pt1 3.17 15
The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words
and images excluded from polite conversation.
Pt1 3.27 26
All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this
extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize
conversation...
Pt1 3.32 24
That also is the best success in conversation, the magic of
liberty...
Exp 3.53 19
I saw a gracious gentleman who adapts his conversation to the
form of the head of the man he talks with!
Exp 3.54 3
Shall I preclude my future by...kindly adapting my conversation
to the shape of heads?
Exp 3.55 16
We house with the insane, and must humor them; then
conversation dies out.
Exp 3.68 4
All good conversation, manners and action come from a
spontaneity which forgets usages...
Chr1 3.99 19
Society...shreds...its conversation into ceremonies and
escapes.
Mrs1 3.127 7
[Manners] aid our dealing and conversation...
Mrs1 3.141 12
A man who is happy [in the company], finds in every turn
of the conversation equally lucky occasions for the introduction of that
which he has to say.
Mrs1 3.148 12
Scott is praised for the fidelity with which he painted the
demeanor and conversation of the superior classes.
Nat2 3.188 26
The friend coldly turns [the pages of a young person's diary]
over, and passes from the writing to conversation...
Nat2 3.190 20
The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the
end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the
intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind. But what an operose
method! What a train of means to secure a little conversation!
Nat2 3.190 25
...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the
waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
Nat2 3.191 3
Conversation, character, were the avowed ends [of wealth];...
Nat2 3.191 26
[The rich] are like one who has interrupted the conversation
of a company to make his speech, and now has forgotten what he went to
say.
NR 3.234 8
In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk
too much.
NR 3.237 7
We like to come to a height of land and see the landscape, just
as we value a general remark in conversation.
NR 3.239 13
In every conversation, even the highest, there is a certain
trick...
NER 3.280 22
...all frank and searching conversation, in which a man lays
himself open to his brother, apprises each of their radical unity.
UGM 4.10 26
There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture,
astronomy, little suspected at first, when, by union with intellect and will,
they...reappear in conversation, character and politics.
UGM 4.17 16
[The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We
are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word dropped in
conversation, sets free our fancy...
UGM 4.26 24
...we feed on genius, and refresh ourselves from too much
conversation with our mates...
PPh 4.71 14
The young men...invite [Socrates] to their feasts, whither he
goes for conversation.
PPh 4.73 5
...it is certain that [Socrates] had grown to delight in nothing
else than this conversation;...
MoS 4.168 11
I know not anywhere the book that seems less written [than
Montaigne's Essays]. It is the language of conversation transferred to a
book.
ShP 4.198 27
Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by
which the senator is made aware of their wishes; the crowd of practical and
knowing men, who, by correspondence or conversation, are feeding him
with evidence, anecdotes and estimates...
ShP 4.210 27
...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form of a
conversation...is immaterial compared with the universality of its
application.
NMW 4.250 23
[Bonaparte] delighted in the conversation of men of
science...
GoW 4.262 18
...besides the universal joy of conversation, some men are
born with exalted powers for this second creation. Men are born to write.
GoW 4.263 7
In conversation, in calamity, [the writer] finds new
materials;...
GoW 4.266 4
In this country, the emphasis of conversation and of public
opinion commends the practical man;...
GoW 4.283 6
...almost all the valuable distinctions which are current in
higher conversation have been derived to us from Germany.
ET1 5.14 18
As I might have foreseen, the visit [with Coleridge] was rather
a spectacle than a conversation...
ET1 5.15 12
[Carlyle] was...self-possessed and holding his extraordinary
powers of conversation in easy command;...
ET1 5.21 3
[Wordsworth] alluded once or twice to his conversation with
Dr. Channing...
ET1 5.21 7
The conversation [with Wordsworth] turned on books.
ET1 5.24 20
To judge from a single conversation, [Wordsworth] made the
impression of a narrow and very English mind;...
ET4 5.60 2
History rarely yields us better passages than the conversation
between King Sigurd the Crusader and King Eystein his brother...
ET8 5.127 15
This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French
travellers, who...have spent their wit on the solemnity of their neighbors.
The French say, gay conversation is unknown in their island.
ET8 5.140 9
Haldor was...short in conversation...
ET13 5.222 21
...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or
geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their
valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
ET16 5.288 1
As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when
dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was
altogether too wicked.
ET17 5.296 5
...[Wordsworth's] conversation was not marked by special
force or elevation.
Ctr 6.136 4
All conversation is at an end when we have discharged
ourselves of a dozen personalities...
Ctr 6.137 13
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.
Ctr 6.138 5
...here is a pedant that cannot...conceal his wrath at interruption
by the best, if their conversation do not fit his impertinency...
Ctr 6.149 3
...the want of good conversation [at the Earl of Devon's] was a
very great inconvenience...
Ctr 6.149 7
In the country, in long time, for want of good conversation,
one's understanding and invention contract a moss on them...
Ctr 6.150 24
[The man of the world's] conversation clings to the weather
and the news...
Ctr 6.157 15
Here is a new poem, which elicits a good many comments in
the journals and in conversation.
Bhr 6.192 16
The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret
that the best of life is conversation...
CbW 6.269 5
...the best fruit [travel] finds, when it finds it, is conversation.
CbW 6.270 26
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for
his competitors...
CbW 6.271 8
The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy
and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with surfaces...
CbW 6.272 6
Our conversation once and again has apprised us that we
belong to better circles than we have yet beheld;...
CbW 6.272 11
In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe...
Bty 6.298 8
...we fear to fatigue [women], and acquire a facility of
expression which passes from conversation into habit of style.
Ill 6.311 3
Our conversation with nature is not just what it seems.
SS 7.3 8
In the conversation that followed, my new friend made some
extraordinary confessions.
SS 7.12 14
A cold sluggish blood thinks it...must decline its turn in the
conversation.
SS 7.13 26
Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to the assembly in
our own garb and speech...
SS 7.14 11
Put any company of people together with freedom for
conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs.
SS 7.14 18
All conversation is a magnetic experiment.
Civ 7.24 5
...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which...
breeds courtesy and learning, conversation and wit, in her rough mate;...
Elo1 7.61 6
One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of
conversation in the parlor.
Elo1 7.64 11
Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest
of the Lacedaemonians, he will at first find him despicable in conversation...
Elo1 7.69 8
The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer melodramatic exhibition
[of eloquence] than the table d'hote of his inn will afford him in the
conversation of the joyous guests.
Elo1 7.85 14
In any knot of men conversing on any subject, the person who
knows most about it will...lead the conversation...
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.
DL 7.124 14
...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation...
Farm 7.154 9
What possesses interest for us is...[each man's] constitutional
excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be
satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation
with Nature cherishes and guards.
Clbs 7.225 23
...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles.
Clbs 7.226 27
Neither do we by any means always go to people for
conversation.
Clbs 7.227 27
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
Clbs 7.228 5
Every time we say a thing in conversation, we get a
mechanical advantage in detaching it well and deliverly.
Clbs 7.228 7
I prize the mechanics of conversation.
Clbs 7.229 1
We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach,
where...conversation naturally flowed...
Clbs 7.230 16
Nothing seems so cheap as the benefit of conversation;
nothing is more rare.
Clbs 7.231 1
Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as
to exclude science, the saint and the poet.
Clbs 7.232 3
...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have
convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be
something else than they were;...they kill conversation at once.
Clbs 7.232 7
...it is only on natural ground that conversation can be rich.
Clbs 7.233 19
[Holmes's (?)] conversation is all pictures...
Clbs 7.236 16
...[Dr. Johnson's] conversation...has a lasting charm.
Clbs 7.236 17
Conversation is the vent of character as well as of thought;...
Clbs 7.240 27
Every variety of gift...has its vent and exchange in
conversation.
Clbs 7.241 1
Conversation is the Olympic games whither every superior
gift resorts to assert and approve itself...
Clbs 7.241 19
...the best conversation is rare.
Clbs 7.241 25
It is possible that the best conversation is between two
persons who can talk only to each other.
Clbs 7.242 1
Even Montesquieu confessed that in conversation, if he
perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from that
moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
Clbs 7.242 17
...in all civil nations attempts have been made to organize
conversation by bringing together cultivated people under the most
favorable conditions.
Clbs 7.242 19
...there was liberal and refined conversation in the Greek, in
the Roman and in the Middle Age.
Clbs 7.243 15
...a history of clubs...tracing the efforts to secure liberal and
refined conversation...would be an important chapter in history.
Clbs 7.246 9
Tutors and parents cannot interest [the boy] like the
uproarious conversation he finds in the market or the dock.
Clbs 7.246 20
...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet,
see...how long the conversation lasts!
Clbs 7.247 25
...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis...
Clbs 7.250 13
When we look for the highest benefits of conversation, the
Spartan rule of one to one is usually enforced.
Cour 7.270 15
Captain John Brown...said to me in conversation, that for a
settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong-minded man is worth a
hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
Suc 7.289 21
I could point to men in this country...of this [egotistical]
humor, whom we could ill spare; any one of them would be a national loss.
But it spoils conversation.
Suc 7.309 10
...do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation.
OA 7.332 5
I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President
John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the
Presidency. It is but a sketch, and nothing important passed in the
conversation;...
PI 8.11 25
We cannot utter a sentence in sprightly conversation without a
similitude.
PI 8.12 2
Conversation is not permitted without tropes;...
PI 8.17 1
...the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in
Nature, to give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.
PI 8.18 27
In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with
images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger
to our fascinated eyes.
PI 8.27 17
William Blake, whose abnormal genius, Wordsworth said,
interested him more than the conversation of Scott or of Byron, writes thus...
SA 8.91 22
...sincere and happy conversation doubles our powers;...
SA 8.92 27
In this art of conversation, Woman...is the lawgiver.
SA 8.93 8
No one can be a master in conversation who has not learned
much from women;...
SA 8.94 5
...[Madame de Stael] said...Conversation, like talent, exists only
in France.
SA 8.94 7
Madame de Stael valued nothing but conversation.
SA 8.94 27
...[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!...
SA 8.95 3
...[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! they were all in a state of delight. The
intoxication of the conversation had made them insensible to all notice of
weather...
SA 8.95 7
Conversation fills all gaps...
SA 8.96 12
Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation...
SA 8.96 17
...things said for conversation are chalk eggs.
SA 8.99 16
...in good conversation parties don't speak to the words, but to
the meanings of each other.
SA 8.99 19
Manners first, then conversation.
SA 8.107 8
These are the bases of civil and polite society; namely,
manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public action;...
Elo2 8.126 7
...there is a conversation above grossness and below
refinement, where propriety resides.
QO 8.178 16
Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so
massive...that...one would say there is no pure originality.
QO 8.192 8
Wordsworth, as soon as he heard a good thing...very soon
reproduced it in his conversation and writing.
QO 8.197 4
You have had the like experience in conversation: the wit was
in what you heard, not in what the speakers said.
Insp 8.276 12
[Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if...a genial
companion, or a new thought suggested in book or conversation could fire
the train...
Insp 8.292 6
[Another source of inspiration is] Conversation, which, when
it is best, is a series of intoxications.
Insp 8.292 8
Not Aristotle, not Kant or Hegel, but conversation, is the right
metaphysical professor.
Insp 8.293 2
We must be warmed by the fire of sympathy, to be brought
into the right...angles of vision. Conversation; for intellectual activity is
contagious.
Insp 8.293 14
In enlarged conversation we have suggestions that require
new ways of living...
Grts 8.304 20
I am...to infer your reading from the wealth and accuracy of
your conversation.
Grts 8.312 16
The great man loves the conversation or the book that
convicts him...
Imtl 8.331 22
[One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he
became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and...they daily...
spent much time in conversation on the immortality of the soul...
Imtl 8.339 1
Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation
and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform...
Dem1 10.6 3
This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its
singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost
every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation
and action have occurred to him in the same order before...
Edc1 10.141 12
...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...teaches by
practice the law of conversation...
Supl 10.163 18
We talk, sometimes, with people whose conversation would
lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum...
Supl 10.173 27
...these raptures of fire and frost, which indeed cleanse
pedantry out of conversation...would cost me the days of well-being which
are now so cheap to me, yet so valued.
Supl 10.176 16
...in Western nations the superlative in conversation is
tedious and weak...
SovE 10.199 16
You may sometimes talk with the gravest and best citizen,
and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he runs into a childish
superstition. His face looks infatuated, and his conversation is.
SovE 10.204 2
There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to
the spiritual world, running through diaries, letters and conversation...
Schr 10.264 24
The poet and the citizen perfectly agree in conversation on
the wise life.
Plu 10.298 18
...eminently social, [Plutarch]...knew the high value of good
conversation;...
Plu 10.312 1
Seneca...by his conversation with the Court of Nero...learned
to temper his philosophy with facts.
Plu 10.319 16
[Plutarch] knew the laws of conversation and the laws of
good-fellowship quite as well as Horace...
Plu 10.321 13
[The language of the 1718 edition of Plutarch] runs through
the whole scale of conversation in the street, the market...
Plu 10.321 18
there are, no doubt, many vulgar phrases [in the 1718 edition
of Plutarch], and many blunders of the printer; but it is the speech of
business and conversation...
LLNE 10.334 1
The smallest anecdote of [Everett's] behavior or
conversation was eagerly caught and repeated...
LLNE 10.341 18
Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis,
Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke,
William H. Channing and many others...from time to time spent an
afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation.
LLNE 10.343 12
...perhaps those persons who were mutually the best
friends...had no ambition of publishing their letters, diaries or conversation.
LLNE 10.343 13
From that time meetings were held for conversation...
LLNE 10.348 10
A man is entitled...to the air of good conversation in his
bringing up...
LLNE 10.362 7
Margaret Fuller, with her joyful conversation and large
sympathy, was often a guest [at Brook Farm]...
LLNE 10.364 21
There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm]
was...to many, the most important period of their life...their first
acquaintance with the riches of conversation...
EzRy 10.388 20
When Put Merriam...had the effrontery to call on the
Doctor [Ezra Ripley] as an old acquaintance, in the midst of general
conversation Mr. Frost came in...
EzRy 10.392 10
We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened
with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation...that a man who could
tell a story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
EzRy 10.393 16
[Ezra Ripley's] conversation was strictly personal and apt
to the party and the occasion.
EzRy 10.395 9
...[Ezra Ripley's] whole life and conversation were
consistent.
MMEm 10.398 12
[Lucy Percy] prefers the conversation of men to that of
women;...
MMEm 10.402 18
Nobody can...recall the conversation of old-school
people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority in
their mind...
MMEm 10.407 19
[Mary Moody Emerson] would tear...into the
conversation, into the thought, into the character of the stranger,-
disdaining all the graduation by which her fellows time their steps...
MMEm 10.408 15
Our Delphian [Mary Moody Emerson]...could always
be tamed by large and sincere conversation.
Thor 10.455 1
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...
Thor 10.456 12
It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a
proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of
our daily thought. This habit...is a little chilling to the social affections;
and...mars conversation.
Thor 10.463 5
...[Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town, always
ready...for conversation prolonged into late hours.
Thor 10.464 23
...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;...I
do not use it as a means. This was the muse and genius that ruled his
opinions, conversation, studies, work and course of life.
Thor 10.465 2
At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion, and...
could very well report his weight and calibre. And this made the impression
of genius which his conversation sometimes gave.
Thor 10.478 6
A truth-speaker [Thoreau], capable of the most deep and
strict conversation;...
Carl 10.489 2
Thomas Carlyle is...as extraordinary in his conversation as in
his writing...
LS 11.6 2
Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last
Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on
the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...who has
recorded with minuteness the conversation and the transactions of that
memorable evening, has quite omitted such a notice.
EWI 11.139 16
There are now other energies than force, other than
political, which no man in future can allow himself to disregard. There is
direct conversation and influence.
War 11.156 4
In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all
conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped?
War 11.156 12
Put [the man concerned with pugnacity] into a circle of
cultivated men, where the conversation broaches the great questions that
besiege the human reason, and he would be dumb and unhappy...
War 11.156 22
...Fontenelle expressed a volume of meaning when he said,
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
FSLC 11.199 9
A measure of pacification and union. What is [the Fugitive
Slave Law's] effect? To make one sole subject for conversation and painful
thought throughout the continent, namely, slavery.
FSLN 11.217 13
The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is...
to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own
and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and
fatigue of their conversation.
JBB 11.268 21
[John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments,
shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence; and he
used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that a
whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a
violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this country.
SMC 11.357 9
I have a note of a conversation that occurred in our first
company, the morning before the battle of Bull Run.
Wom 11.408 22
Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of
civilization...
Wom 11.408 25
Conversation is our account of ourselves.
Wom 11.411 18
Society, conversation, decorum...are [women's] homes
and attendants.
FRO2 11.486 2
...as my friend, your presiding officer [of the Free
Religious Association], has asked me to take at least some small part in this
day's conversation, I am ready to give...the first simple foundation of my
belief...
PLT 12.9 8
Here [in society] they play the game of conversation, as they
play billiards, for pastime and credit.
PLT 12.18 17
The perceptions of a soul, its wondrous progeny, are born by
the conversation, the marriage of souls;...
PLT 12.38 15
The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is
published...in conversation of scholars and philosophers...
PLT 12.51 1
We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were
a little deranged. We detect their mania and humor it, so that conversation
soon becomes a tiresome effort.
II 12.83 24
Life is not quite desirable to [men slow in finding their
vocation]. It uniformly suggests in the conversation of men the presumption
of continued life, of which the present is only one term.
Mem 12.98 23
The facts of the last two or three days or weeks are all you
have with you,-the reading of the last month's books. Your conversation,
action, your face and manners, report of no more...
Mem 12.100 14
Sir Isaac Newton was embarrassed when the conversation
turned on his discoveries and results; he could not recall them;...
CL 12.163 8
If we should now say a few words on the advantages that
belong to the conversation with Nature, I might set them so high as to make
it a religious duty.
CW 12.179 4
What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each...
and this is that which the conversation with Nature goes to cherish and to
guard.
Bost 12.198 15
No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and
grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial
conversation.
Milt1 12.256 3
...the idea of a purer existence than any he saw around him,
to be realized in the life and conversation of men, inspired every act and
every writing of John Milton.
Milt1 12.258 19
...[Milton's] address and his conversation were worthy of
his fame.
Milt1 12.258 26
...in reply apparently to some compliment on his powers of
conversation, [Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their
compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed
no marks of sublimity or genius.
Milt1 12.259 1
...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their
compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed
no marks of sublimity or genius.
ACri 12.284 17
...there is a conversation above grossness and below
refinement where prosperity resides...
ACri 12.300 12
All conversation, as all literature, appears to me the
pleasure of rhetoric...
MLit 12.318 7
[The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with
the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for
resource to a conversation with Nature...
AgMs 12.360 2
I walked up and down the field, as [Edmund Hosmer]
ploughed his furrow, and we talked as we walked. Our conversation
naturally turned on the season and its new labors.
Trag 12.405 5
The conversation of men is a mixture of regrets and
apprehensions.
Trag 12.416 24
[The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters
and of science.
Conversation, n. (2)
SwM 4.128 24
Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by
Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth.
Wom 11.408 22
...there is an art...better than botany, geology, or any
science; namely, Conversation.
conversational, adj. (1)
MMEm 10.398 17
[Lucy Percy] converses with those who are most
distinguished for their conversational powers.
Conversations, Bird [Feride (1)
PPo 8.263 15
Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical
tale...
Conversations, Imaginary [W (1)
WSL 12.340 12
...for twenty years we have still found the Imaginary
Conversations a sure resource in solitude...
Conversations' Lexicon, n. (1)
Pol1 3.217 7
Malthus and Ricardo quite omit [character];...in the
Conversations' Lexicon it is not set down;...
conversations, n. (16)
Hist 2.7 12
Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in
which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming.
Art1 2.361 13
When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures,
I found that genius...was the plain you and me I...had left at home in so
many conversations.
Exp 3.80 16
If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her
surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with
tragic and comic issues, long conversations...
NMW 4.237 14
In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon]
remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the-
morning kind...
ET11 5.190 12
At Wilton House the Arcadia was written, amidst
conversations with Fulke Greville...
ET17 5.293 11
...my recollections of the best hours go back to private
conversations in different parts of the kingdom [England]...
SS 7.5 24
These conversations [with my friend] led me somewhat later to
the knowledge of similar cases...
Boks 7.207 25
...what with...the gossiping record of his opinions in his
conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden, [Jonson] has really
illustrated the England of his time...
Clbs 7.237 9
One of the best records of the great German master who
towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century,
is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
SA 8.88 21
If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to
go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily find
that performance...a fortification that...allows him to go gayly into
conversations where else he had been dry and embarrassed.
LLNE 10.342 3
These fine conversations, of course, were
incomprehensible to some in the company...
LLNE 10.346 19
...Robert Owen...read lectures or held conversations
wherever he found listeners;...
CSC 10.377 3
...the [Chardon Street] Convention...gave occasion to
memorable interviews and conversations...
MMEm 10.406 16
[Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently of dull
conversations...
FRO2 11.487 2
...a man of religious susceptibility...can find the same idea
[that Christianity is as old as Creation] in numberless conversations.
II 12.78 19
...[the writer]...should write nothing that will not help
somebody,-as I knew of a good man who held conversations, and wrote
on the wall, that every person might speak to the subject, but no allusion
should be made to the opinions of other speakers;...
Conversations with Goethe [ (1)
Boks 7.208 19
Another class of books closely allied to these
[Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which
the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe;...
converse, n. (5)
Comp 2.97 27
What we gain in power is lost in time, and the converse.
Int 2.331 8
At last comes the era of reflection...when we keep the mind's
eye open whilst we converse...
GoW 4.283 19
[Goethe] has the formidable independence which converse
with truth gives...
Elo2 8.124 5
In social converse with the mighty dead of ancient days, you
will never smart under the galling sense of dependence upon the mighty
living of the present age.
Prch 10.229 21
It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read
from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the
congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is
noxious. I think they do this, or the converse of this, with their thought.
converse, v. (36)
Nat 1.29 5
...savages...converse in figures.
DSA 1.119 20
One is constrained to respect the perfection of this world in
which our senses converse.
SR 2.72 24
Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and
deceiving people with whom we converse.
Fdsp 2.207 26
...it is affinity that determines which two shall converse.
Fdsp 2.215 4
If [my friend] is great, he makes me so great that I cannot
descend to converse.
Fdsp 2.215 25
...if you come, perhaps you will fill my mind...not with
yourself but with your lustres, and I shall not be able any more than now to
converse with you.
OS 2.291 1
Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature
looks like word-catching.
Cir 2.319 11
Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow
old, but grow young.
Exp 3.48 22
An innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and
the things we aim at and converse with.
Exp 3.69 21
The persons who compose our company converse...and
somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
Exp 3.71 7
When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised
of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life.
Exp 3.84 24
I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the
farms, is not the world I think.
Nat2 3.172 5
The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality
meet. I think if we should be rapt away into all that and dream of heaven,
and should converse with Gabriel and Uriel, the upper sky would be all that
would remain of our furniture.
NER 3.280 25
When two persons sit and converse in a thoroughly good
understanding, the remark is sure to be made, See how we have disputed
about words!
NER 3.281 2
Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most
commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no
inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
NER 3.282 22
Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence]
into speech...
ET17 5.293 3
It was my privilege also [in London] to converse with Miss
Baillie, with Lady Morgan, with Mrs. Jameson and Mrs. Somerville.
Pow 6.78 25
Cannot one converse better on a topic on which he has
experience, than on one which is new?
Bhr 6.179 26
The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues...
Elo1 7.64 9
Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest
of the Lacedaemonians, he will at first find him despicable in conversation...
Clbs 7.237 13
In the Norse legends, The gods of Valhalla when they meet
the Jotuns, converse on the perilous terms that he who cannot answer the
other's questions forfeits his own life.
OA 7.318 16
How many men habitually believe that each chance passenger
with whom they converse is of their own age...
QO 8.189 25
Shall we converse as spies?
PC 8.217 24
If [a man] can converse better than any other, he rules the
minds of men...
Insp 8.287 3
Solitary converse with Nature;...
Grts 8.320 4
...people are as those with whom they converse?
Plu 10.316 6
This courteous, gentle and benign disposition and behavior is
not so acceptable, so obliging or delightful to any of those with whom we
converse, as it is to those who have it.
MMEm 10.407 9
...in the country, we converse so much more with
ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else.
War 11.156 20
To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the
detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting. It is like the
talk of one of those monomaniacs whom we sometimes meet in society,
who converse on horses;...
Wom 11.414 4
...women know, at first sight, the characters of those with
whom they converse.
PLT 12.6 4
Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as
plastic forces;...
PLT 12.44 26
If we converse with low things...we are not compromised.
II 12.74 3
Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water
mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know
of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago
passed out of it...
CInt 12.117 16
Two men cannot converse together on any topic without
presently finding where each stands in moral judgment;...
Pray 12.352 5
When my long-attached friend comes to me, I have pleasure
to converse with him...
EurB 12.366 12
The poet must not only converse with pure thought, but he
must demonstrate it almost to the senses.
conversed, v. (12)
LE 1.167 19
By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an
oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he
knows nothing, by all their poems, of any of these fine things; that he has
conversed with the mere surface and show of them all;...
UGM 4.16 20
These [new fields of activity] are at once accepted as the
reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.
UGM 4.18 25
If a wise man should appear in our village he would create,
in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth...
ShP 4.199 21
Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a Delphi whereof to ask
concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay? and to
have answer, and to rely on that? All the debts which such a man could
contract to other wit would never disturb his consciousness of originality;
for the ministrations of books and of other minds are a whiff of smoke to
that most private reality with which he has conversed.
NMW 4.250 9
In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier, bishop of
Montpellier, on matters of theology.
ET16 5.284 7
We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton
Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...where he conversed with
Lord Brooke...
Ill 6.316 25
I, who have all my life...read poems and miscellaneous books,
conversed with many geniuses, am still the victim of any new page;...
Elo1 7.72 13
When [Ulysses and Menelaus] conversed, and interweaved
stories and opinions with all, Menelaus spoke succinctly...
SovE 10.196 15
...when we have conversed with navigators who know the
coast, we may begin to put out an oar and trim a sail.
MMEm 10.410 5
When Mrs. Thoreau called on [Mary Moody Emerson]
one day, wearing pink ribbons, she shut her eyes, and so conversed with her
for a time.
MMEm 10.413 9
[I, Mary Moody Emerson] Met a lady in the morning
walk, a foreigner,-conversed on the accomplishments of Miss T.
PPr 12.379 14
...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and
accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful
political signs in England for the last few years, has conversed much on
these topics...
conversely, adv. (1)
PC 8.224 20
State the sun, and you state the planets, and conversely.
converser, n. (1)
SA 8.93 27
Madame de Stael...was the most extraordinary converser that
was known in her time...
conversers, n. (2)
PPh 4.55 7
...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from
sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...
Bost 12.208 27
What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...what gifted
conversers...
converses, v. (10)
LE 1.157 23
...when [the scholar] comprehends his duties he...converses
with things.
Con 1.303 14
Reform converses with possibilities...
OS 2.275 5
With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity,
and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always
been spoken in the world...
Mrs1 3.124 27
...only that plenteous nature is rightful master which is the
complement of whatever person it converses with.
Mrs1 3.139 10
The person who...converses with heat, puts whole drawing-rooms
to flight.
PPh 4.47 1
There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the
perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become
microscopic: so that man, at that instant...with his feet still planted on the
immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and
stellar creation.
Ctr 6.135 15
...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the
interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with
his family, or a few companions...
Elo1 7.64 15
Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest
of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same
person...will hurl a sentence worthy of attention...so that he who converses
with him will appear to be in no respect superior to a boy.
MMEm 10.398 16
[Lucy Percy] converses with those who are most
distinguished for their conversational powers.
PLT 12.44 22
...the fact of intellectual perception severs once for all the
man from the things with which he converses.
conversing, n. (1)
Lov1 2.181 21
If...from too much conversing with material objects, the soul
was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped nothing but
sorrow;...
conversing, v. (17)
Nat 1.31 1
A man conversing in earnest...will find that a material image...
arises in his mind...
AmS 1.85 2
Every day, men and women, conversing - beholding and
beholden.
DSA 1.147 17
...the instant effect of conversing with God will be to put
[society's easy merits] away.
MN 1.213 8
By piety alone, by conversing with the cause of nature, is
[man] safe and commands it.
Comp 2.93 18
...the heart of man might be bathed by an inundation of
eternal love, conversing with that which he knows was always and always
must be...
Fdsp 2.200 3
It makes no difference how many friends I have, and what
content I can find in conversing with each, if there be one to whom I am not
equal.
Prd1 2.223 25
[Culture] sees prudence...to be...a name for wisdom and
virtue conversing with the body and its wants.
Pt1 3.36 14
Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg] describes as conversing
very learnedly together, appeared to the children who were at some
distance, like dead horses;...
Exp 3.57 21
Something is earned...by conversing with so much folly and
defect.
Pol1 3.221 22
...there are now men...more exactly, I will say, I have just
been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience
will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human
beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest
sentiments...
UGM 4.13 12
Looking where others look, and conversing with the same
things, we catch the charm which lured them.
PPh 4.64 15
[Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion
for reality; valuing philosophy only as it is the pleasure of conversing with
real being.
PPh 4.67 3
With many...[said Socrates, the Daemon] does not prevent me
from conversing, who yet are not at all benefited by associating with me.
SwM 4.118 27
...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous
opinion...that he was an abnormal person, to whom was granted the
privilege of conversing with angels and spirits;...
Elo1 7.85 11
In any knot of men conversing on any subject, the person who
knows most about it will have the ear of the company if he wishes it...
Schr 10.273 21
Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may
peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped. Shall [the
scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from far with reverence,
attributing to him the...conversing with supernatural allies?
MAng1 12.242 2
In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his
friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that
one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration.
conversion, n. (15)
Nat 1.29 16
...this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of
somewhat in human life, never loses its power to affect us.
AmS 1.115 9
...for work...the conversion of the world.
DSA 1.132 18
A true conversion...is...to be made by the reception of
beautiful sentiments.
MN 1.215 22
Tell me not how great your project is...[the world's]
conversion into a Christian church...
MR 1.256 21
The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to
cast all things behind, in the insatiable thirst for divine communications. A
purer fame, a greater power rewards the sacrifice. It is the conversion of our
harvest into seed.
OS 2.282 5
A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening
of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of
light. The trances of Socrates...the conversion of Paul...are of this kind.
Int 2.336 21
...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain
control over the spontaneous states, without which no production is
possible. It is a conversion of all nature into the rhetoric of thought...
SwM 4.106 16
The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the
universality of each law in nature;...the version or conversion of each into
other, and so the correspondence of all the parts;...
SwM 4.138 20
To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived,
that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits!
F 6.29 25
There can be no driving force except through the conversion of
the man into his will...
Wsp 6.210 3
What [proof of infidelity], like the facility of conversion?
PI 8.35 6
This contemporary insight is transubstantiation, the conversion of
daily bread into the holiest symbols;...
Elo2 8.130 11
...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth
written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of
the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the
Divine Artificer.
Comc 8.165 13
The Society in London...pestered the gallant rover [Capt.
John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the
Indians...
Schr 10.277 24
It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree
that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he...alternates
the contemplation of the fact in pure intellect, with the total conversion of
the intellect into energy;...
convert, v. (27)
Nat 1.26 7
Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which
they convert into verbs...
DSA 1.132 17
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the
soul.
DSA 1.138 6
The capital secret of his profession, namely, to convert life
into truth, [the preacher] had not learned.
MR 1.256 25
...the time will come when we too...shall eagerly convert
more than we now possess into means and powers...
Chr1 3.114 15
...the mind requires...a force of character which will convert
judge, jury, soldier and king;...
Pol1 3.205 12
Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...convert it to
gas; it will always weigh a pound;...
UGM 4.8 22
...plants convert the minerals into food for animals...
PPh 4.67 26
There is no thought in any mind but it quickly tends to convert
itself into a power and organizes a huge instrumentality of means.
SwM 4.95 2
[The moral sentiment]...by inspiring the will, which is the seat
of personality, seems to convert the universe into a person;...
SwM 4.116 9
...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and
definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only
into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth
or theological dogma...
SwM 4.138 22
...the carrion in the sun will convert itself to grass and
flowers;...
Ctr 6.166 8
[Man] is to convert all impediments into instruments...
Ctr 6.166 16
...there is nothing [the human being] will not overcome and
convert...
Ctr 6.166 18
[Man] will convert the Furies into Muses...
CbW 6.259 21
...there is...no plant that is not fed from manures. We only
insist...that the plant grow upward and convert the base into the better
nature.
Elo1 7.97 20
...[the eloquent man] is to convert [the people] into fiery
apostles and publishers of the same wisdom.
DL 7.130 15
Why should we convert ourselves into showmen and
appendages to our fine houses and our works of art?
Suc 7.289 27
Nature knows how to convert evil to good;...
PI 8.34 16
The...measure of poetic genius is the power...to convert those
[superstitions] of the nineteenth century and of the existing nations into
universal symbols.
PI 8.34 23
...to convert the vivid energies acting at this hour in New York
and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a subtile
and commanding thought.
SA 8.92 18
...speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
Comc 8.165 8
The Society in London which had contributed their means to
convert the savages...pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with
frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
Comc 8.165 19
Smith...sent out a party into the swamp, caught an Indian,
and sent him home in the first ship to London, telling the Society they
might convert one themselves.
Aris 10.54 9
The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence]
certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their
eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery...
Koss 11.400 25
Sir [Kossuth]...we congratulate you that you have known
how to convert calamities into powers...
PLT 12.43 2
The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and
faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the
whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so
that he...sees so truly the omnipresence of eternal cause that he can convert
the daily and hourly event of New York, of Boston, into universal symbols.
II 12.72 14
One master could so easily be conceived as writing all the
books of the world. They are all alike. For [Inspiration] is a power to
convert all Nature to his use.
converted, v. (25)
Nat 1.41 15
In God, every end is converted into a new means.
Nat 1.46 19
...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought, and...is
converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom, - it is a sign to us that
his office is closing...
AmS 1.96 2
A strange process too, this by which experience is converted
into thought...
AmS 1.96 3
A strange process too, this by which experience is converted
into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin.
MN 1.222 21
Do what you know, and perception is converted into
character...
MR 1.239 8
...[the heir] is converted from the owner into a watchman or a
watch-dog to this magazine of old and new chattels.
Mrs1 3.144 9
...here is...Reverend Jul Bat, who has converted the whole
torrid zone in his Sunday school;...
MoS 4.164 15
In the civil wars of the League, which converted every house
into a fort, Montaigne kept his gates open and his house without defence.
ShP 4.217 12
[Shakespeare] converted the elements which waited on his
command, into entertainments.
GoW 4.275 8
...by varying the conditions, a leaf may be converted into any
other organ...
ET1 5.9 21
[Landor] has a wonderful brain, despotic, violent and
inexhaustible, meant for a soldier, by what chance converted to letters;...
ET4 5.72 15
In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses
where they landed, and were at once converted into a body of expert
cavalry.
ET11 5.182 3
...most of the historical [English] houses are masked or lost
in the modern uses to which trade or charity has converted them.
Elo1 7.68 24
...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of
hers. Her speech flows like a river...such justice done to all the parts! It is a
true transubstantiation,--the fact converted into speech...
Boks 7.198 12
You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in
Homer...the poet converted to a philosopher...
SA 8.106 1
...what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
Was ever one converted?
Res 8.147 26
...we have noted examples among our orators, who have...
handled and controlled, and...converted a malignant mob, by superior
manhood...
Comc 8.165 10
The Society in London which had contributed their means
to convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see the...Roaring Thunders and
Tustanuggees of that day converted into church-wardens and deacons at
least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent
solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
Schr 10.282 24
...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of
persons to...change the course of life. They go forth not the men they came
in, but shriven, convicted and converted.
Thor 10.465 8
I have repeatedly known young men of sensibility converted
in a moment to the belief that this [Thoreau] was the man they were in
search of...
War 11.167 6
At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of
holiness;...his warlike nature is all converted into an active medicinal
principle;...
EPro 11.317 26
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.
SMC 11.351 6
The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made
these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak; have...converted
these elements from a secular to a sacred and spiritual use;...
EurB 12.374 20
...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect...
because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy, inasmuch as the
power...is a power for London; a divine power converted into a burglar's
false key...
Let 12.398 5
...the noblest youths are in a few years converted into pale
Caryatides...
convertibility, n. (2)
Bty 6.304 7
The feat of the imagination is in showing the convertibility of
every thing into every other thing.
SovE 10.183 12
That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal
structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one
part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation
proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest
and meanest structures by the same design...
convertible, adj. (9)
ET14 5.232 8
[The English]...never are surprised into a covert or witty
word, such as pleased the Athenians and Italians, and was convertible into a
fable not long after;...
F 6.32 2
...every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is
convertible by intellect into wholesome force.
Bty 6.283 26
...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good
son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...as a sort of bill of
exchange easily convertible into fine chambers...
Art2 7.52 19
The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every
other.
PI 8.23 16
We are advertised...that every thing is convertible into every
other.
Comc 8.162 5
A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible.
Supl 10.177 20
A bag of sequins...a single horse, constitute an estate in
countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of
concealable and convertible property.
SovE 10.183 3
Since the discovery of Oersted that galvanism and
electricity and magnetism are only forms of one and the same force, and
convertible into each other, we have continually suggested to us a larger
generalization...
ACri 12.300 3
Idealism regards the world as symbolic, and all these
symbols or forms as fugitive and convertible expressions.
converting, v. (6)
Hist 2.18 9
The trivial experience of every day is always...converting into
things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed.
SL 2.142 21
Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that
thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle of your
character and aims.
Wth 6.93 9
Men of sense esteem wealth to be...the converting of the sap
and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.
Wsp 6.205 21
King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was
to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly...
CbW 6.262 21
Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new
creations; like a good chemist whom I found the other day in his laboratory,
converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.
FSLN 11.227 15
[The Fugitive Slave Law] was the question...whether the
Negro shall be...a piece of money? Whether this system, which is a kind of
mill or factory for converting men into monkeys, shall be upheld and
enlarged?
converts, n. (3)
Cir 2.317 6
Forgive his crimes, forgive his virtues too,/ Those smaller
faults, half converts to the right./
LS 11.13 5
[Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the
Jewish converts...
LS 11.13 6
[Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the
Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan converts...
converts, v. (19)
YA 1.378 10
...[Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office...
Prd1 2.231 17
We call partial half-lights, by courtesy, genius; talent which
converts itself to money;...
Cir 2.311 8
We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols
which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the
god and converts the statues into fiery men...
Nat2 3.172 18
The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the musical, steaming,
odorous south wind, which converts all trees to wind-harps;...these are the
music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
Nat2 3.175 3
[A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which
converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp...
Nat2 3.193 26
To the intelligent, nature converts itself into a vast promise...
UGM 4.8 23
...each man converts some raw material in nature to human
use.
PPh 4.43 21
...a philosopher converts the value of all his fortunes into his
intellectual performances.
ET5 5.95 7
The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses
to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is
economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his sirloin. Stall-feeding...
converts the stable to a chemical factory.
F 6.39 4
...the first cell converts itself into stomach, mouth, nose, or nail,
according to the want;...
Elo1 7.73 25
[Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing
through the streets, which converts all the passengers into poets...
WD 7.178 5
A snake converts whatever prey the meadow yields him into
snake;...
Clbs 7.240 13
What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the
censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent
advocate?
Clbs 7.240 19
The court successively appoints three more severe
inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of
the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
PI 8.14 1
[A new symbol] satiates, transports, converts [men].
Chr2 10.95 23
[The moral sentiment] puts us at the heart of Nature, where
we belong...and so converts us into universal beings.
SovE 10.212 26
...with what power [innocence] converts evil accidents into
benefits;...
EdAd 11.389 7
We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts
the country into an immense chanticleer;...
Trag 12.416 22
The intellect is a consoler, which delights in detaching or
putting an interval between a man and his fortune, and so converts the
sufferer into a spectator and his pain into poetry.
convervatism, n. (1)
Elo1 7.95 16
...wherever the fresh moral sentiment, the instinct of freedom
and duty, come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of
gain, the spark will pass.
convex, adj. (1)
Exp 3.51 1
Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too
concave...
convey, v. (35)
Nat 1.26 9
...this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import...is our
least debt to nature.
Nat 1.32 9
...how great a language to convey such pepper-corn
informations!
AmS 1.82 18
It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity
convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...
LT 1.279 5
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense
of the sacredness of private integrity.
Tran 1.358 20
Perhaps too there might be room [in society] for the exciters
and monitors; collectors of the heavenly spark, with power to convey the
electricity to others.
SL 2.134 27
Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey
to others any insight into his methods?
SL 2.160 11
The lesson which these observations convey is, Be, and not
seem.
Art1 2.352 4
...that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual
activity...is the inlet of that higher illumination which teaches to convey a
larger sense by simpler symbols.
Art1 2.352 16
...the artist must employ the symbols in use in his day and
nation to convey his enlarged sense to his fellow-men.
Art1 2.366 15
Men are not well pleased with the figure they make in their
own imaginations, and...convey their better sense in an oratorio, a statue, or
a picture.
Gts 3.161 5
...we might convey to some person that which properly
belonged to his character...
NR 3.231 2
Proverbs, words and grammar-inflections convey the public
sense with more purity and precision than the wisest individual.
UGM 4.6 19
It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other
men.
ET15 5.271 9
Many of [Punch's] caricatures...will convey to the eye in an
instant the popular view which was taken of each turn of public affairs.
ET16 5.273 19
On Friday, 7th July, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the
South Western Railway through Hampshire to Salisbury, where we found a
carriage to convey us to Amesbury.
Bhr 6.172 9
...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of
character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has...
Civ 7.22 11
Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and
pasturage, to agriculture. Our Scandinavian forefathers have left us a
significant legend to convey their sense of the importance of this step.
Boks 7.205 5
[Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon,
who will...convey him with abundant entertainment down...through
fourteen hundred years of time.
PI 8.65 3
The poet who shall use Nature as his hieroglyphic must have an
adequate message to convey thereby.
Elo2 8.124 25
Ought not the scholar to be able to convey his meaning in
terms as short and strong as the porter or truckman uses to convey his?
Elo2 8.124 26
Ought not the scholar to be able to convey his meaning in
terms as short and strong as the porter or truckman uses to convey his?
Insp 8.274 9
...where is the Franklin with kite or rod for this fluid
[inspiration]?-a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself,
and convey it into the arts of life...
Grts 8.309 5
...the rule of the orator begins...when his deep conviction, and
the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,-
when these shine and burn in his address;...
Aris 10.39 15
I wish...men who...can feel and convey the sense which is
only collectively or totally expressed by a population;...
Aris 10.65 20
I do not know whether that word Gentleman...is a
sufficiently broad generalization to convey the deep and grave fact of self-reliance.
Edc1 10.145 7
Baffled for want of language and methods to convey his
meaning, not yet clear to himself, [the child] conceives that though not in
this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who
can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
Edc1 10.147 21
Letter by letter, syllable by syllable, the child learns to
read, and in good time can convey to all the domestic circle the sense of
Shakspeare.
Supl 10.164 19
From want of skill to convey quality, we hope to move
admiration by quantity.
LS 11.14 20
...it is contrary to all reason to suppose that God should work a
miracle to convey information that could so easily be got by natural means.
EdAd 11.393 10
The name [Massachusetts Quarterly Review] might
convey the impression of a book of criticism...
Wom 11.406 14
[Women] learn so fast and convey the result so fast as to
outrun the logic of their slow brother...
CL 12.164 3
Nature speaks to the imagination; first, through her grand
style,-the hint of immense force and unity which her works convey;...
ACri 12.285 11
Ought not the scholar to convey his meaning in terms as
short and strong as the smith and the drover use to convey theirs?
ACri 12.285 13
Ought not the scholar to convey his meaning in terms as
short and strong as the smith and the drover use to convey theirs?
ACri 12.290 18
A good writer must convey the feeling of a flamboyant
witness, and at the same time of chemic selection...
conveyance, n. (2)
Pt1 3.34 18
...all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries
and horses are, for conveyance...
DL 7.109 25
...some things each man buys without hesitation; if it were
only...conveyance in carriages and boats...
conveyancing, n. (1)
ET14 5.254 3
...for the most part the natural science in England...is as void
of imagination and free play of thought as conveyancing.
conveyed, v. (13)
Nat 1.47 2
Thus is the unspeakable but intelligible and practicable meaning
of the world conveyed to man...in every object of sense.
Int 2.335 17
...[the thought] needs a vehicle or art by which it is conveyed
to men.
Gts 3.161 19
...it restores society in so far to the primary basis, when a man'
s biography is conveyed in his gift...
Pol1 3.208 6
What satire on government can equal the severity of censure
conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning...
UGM 4.15 25
Shakspeare's principal merit may be conveyed in saying that
he of all men best understands the English language...
SwM 4.128 17
I know how delicious is this cup of love...but it is a child's
clinging to his toy; an attempt...to keep the picture-alphabet through which
our first lessons are prettily conveyed.
ET12 5.210 21
...in general, here [at Oxford]...the knowledge pretended to
be conveyed was conveyed.
Wsp 6.226 27
What I am and what I think is conveyed to you, in spite of
my efforts to hold it back.
Wsp 6.227 2
What I am has been secretly conveyed from me to another,
whilst I was vainly making up my mind to tell him it.
PI 8.5 26
...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 metho