Copy to Countless
copy, n. (19)
MN 1.218 3
...what is Genius but finer love...a love of the flower and
perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same?
Hist 2.15 17
A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the
same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild
mountain walk...
Art1 2.351 18
...[the painter] will come to value the expression of nature
and not nature itself, and so exalt in his copy the features that please him.
Pt1 3.25 4
...[the poet's thoughts], sharing the aspiration of the whole
universe, tend to paint a far more delicate copy of their essence on his mind.
Chr1 3.108 26
Every trait which the artist recorded in stone he had seen in
life, and better than his copy.
MoS 4.163 16
I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered
autographs of William Shakspeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of
Montaigne.
MoS 4.163 20
...the duplicate copy of Florio...turned out to have the
autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
ET7 5.121 2
On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to
offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the
Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God
will judge;...
Ctr 6.136 8
All conversation is at an end when we have discharged
ourselves of a dozen personalities...which make up our American existence.
Nor do we expect anybody to be other than a faint copy of these heroes.
Bty 6.295 15
Burns writes a copy of verses and sends them to a newspaper,
and the human race take charge of them that they shall not perish.
Farm 7.135 19
What these strong masters [farmers] wrote at large in
miles,/ I followed in small copy in my acre;/...
Boks 7.209 21
In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold.
The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many curiosities was a copy
of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471;...
Boks 7.209 23
In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold.
The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many curiosities was a copy
of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471; the only perfect
copy of this edition.
Boks 7.210 27
...M. Van Praet groped in vain among the royal alcoves in
Paris, to detect a copy of the famed Valdarfer Boccaccio.
PI 8.9 16
Nature gives [the student]...a copy of every humor and shade in
his character and mind.
Schr 10.288 21
...[the scholar] should read a little proudly, as one who
knows the original, and cannot therefore very highly value the copy.
MMEm 10.411 9
In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and
those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost...[Mary Moody Emerson]
was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
AsSu 11.251 20
...I wish, sir, that the high respects of this meeting shall be
expressed to Mr. Sumner; that a copy of the resolutions that have been read
may be forwarded to him.
FRep 11.534 3
A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on
what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a far-off copy
of Osborne House or the Elysee.
copy, v. (9)
AmS 1.98 13
Colleges and books only copy the language which the field
and the work-yard made.
SR 2.82 22
...why need we copy the Doric or the Gothic model?
Chr1 3.104 25
...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of
this simple and rapid power [of character], and we are painting the lightning
with charcoal; but in these long nights and vacations I like to console
myself so. Nothing but itself can copy it.
ET4 5.47 4
In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that
give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the
miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to...copy heedfully the
training...
ET10 5.163 14
Whatever is excellent and beautiful...in fountain, garden, or
grounds,--the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at home.
Bhr 6.170 8
Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness
copy very fast...
QO 8.196 25
...it is not rare to find...people who copy drawings with
admirable skill, but are incapable of any design.
EWI 11.122 20
...the villages copy Boston.
EurB 12.370 26
...[modern painters] copy the technics of their
predecessors...
copying, v. (2)
F 6.17 18
[Man] helps himself on each emergency by copying or
duplicating his own structure...
CL 12.164 18
What is the merit of Thomson's Seasons but copying a few
of the pictures out of this vast book [of Nature] into words...
Copyright Bill, n. (1)
EurB 12.366 18
In the debates on the Copyright Bill, in the English
Parliament, Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry
in derision...
copyright, n. (7)
Exp 3.64 23
Law of copyright and international copyright is to be
discussed...
Exp 3.64 24
Law of copyright and international copyright is to be
discussed...
PPh 4.77 19
[Plato] has clapped copyright on the world.
ShP 4.193 15
...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered
[Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this
work of numbers.
ET3 5.36 17
...a sensible Englishman once said to me, As long as you do
not grant us copyright, we shall have the teaching of you.
PPo 8.252 1
The Persians had a mode of establishing copyright the most
secure of any contrivance with which we are acquainted.
II 12.74 6
Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water
mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know
of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago
passed out of it, and perhaps his only concern with it is some copyright of
an edition in which certain pages...are contained.
coquetry, n. (1)
Lov1 2.173 11
...without any coquetry the happy, affectionate nature of
woman flows out in this pretty gossip.
Cor Gawr [Choir Gaur], n. (1)
ET16 5.279 3
Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole
history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance...
which leaves its own Stonehenge or Choir Gaur to the rabbits, whilst it
opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.
coral, adj. (1)
QO 8.199 26
...[the individual] is no more to be credited with the grand
result [of language] than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef
which is the basis of the continent.
coral, n. (2)
MN 1.202 3
When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful
hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments...as fast as the
madrepores make coral...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite
worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
Gts 3.161 15
The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet
brings his poem;...the sailor, coral and shells;...
Corax the Naxian, n. (1)
Plu 10.313 18
[Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have
given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax
the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./
cord, n. (11)
MN 1.207 23
[a man] cannot read, or think, or look but he unites the
hitherto separated strands into a perfect cord.
Comp 2.110 14
...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale,
unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat...
Pt1 3.13 14
...the carpenter's stretched cord, if you hold your ear close
enough, is musical in the breeze.
Nat2 3.188 20
This is the man-child that is born to the soul, and her life
still circulates in the babe. The umbilical cord has not yet been cut.
SwM 4.143 15
...[Swedenborg] could never break the umbilical cord which
held him to nature...
ET8 5.130 20
[The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise,
butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any
hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence, as if
somebody were fumbling at the umbilical cord and might stop their
supplies.
ET11 5.194 20
When Julia Grisi and Mario sang at the houses of the Duke
of Wellington and other grandees, a cord was stretched between the singer
and the company.
PerF 10.82 13
Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people
in gay or mournful or martial mood. But these are...only the hint of its
power on a keener sense. It is a stroke on a loose or tense cord.
Chr2 10.99 19
In its companions [the soul] sees other truths honored, and
successively finds their foundation also in itself. Then it cuts the cord...
HDC 11.78 14
...say the plaintive records, General Washington, at
Cambridge, is not able to give but 24s. per cord for wood, for the army;...
HDC 11.78 17
...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town
[Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two
dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to
such as shall carry wood thither;...
cordage, n. (3)
ET4 5.56 12
The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage,
sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship.
PI 8.74 2
In the mire of the sensual life...even [poets'] novel and
newspaper, nay, their superstitions also, are...a cordage of ropes that hold
them up out of the slough.
SovE 10.204 14
...cordage and machinery never supply the place of life.
corded, v. (1)
Suc 7.298 26
The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored
trees, and says...they should be cut and corded before spring.
cordial, adj. (15)
Nat 1.43 11
The fable of Proteus has a cordial truth.
Fdsp 2.191 13
The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a
certain cordial exhilaration.
Hsm1 2.245 15
...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain
heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is so earnest and
cordial...that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot,
rises naturally into poetry.
GoW 4.269 3
...men are cordial in their recognition and welcome of the
intellectual accomplishments.
ET4 5.51 9
Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic
elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes...nothing can be
praised in it without damning exceptions, and nothing denounced without
salvos of cordial praise.
ET15 5.272 15
If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right...
genius would be its cordial and invincible ally;...
Pow 6.67 9
...with his honor the Judge [Boniface] was very cordial...
CbW 6.243 23
The music that can deepest reach,/ And cure all ill, is
cordial speech/...
Elo1 7.67 27
When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily
fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are
then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome,
compared with a substantial cordial man...
Farm 7.135 21
...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in
a single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
PPo 8.251 6
Every song of Hafiz affords new proof of the unimportance of
your subject to success, provided only the treatment be cordial.
Insp 8.281 22
...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to a
thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
CInt 12.127 1
...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with
the problems in which it delights; the noblest tasks to the Muse proposed
and the most cordial and honoring rewards;...
CW 12.170 2
...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in
the single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
ACri 12.298 13
Here has come into the country, three months ago, a
History of Friedrich...a book that, one would think, the English people
would rise up in a mass to thank [Carlyle] for, by cordial acclamation...
cordial, n. (3)
Nat 1.9 17
In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue.
Clbs 7.234 24
...beside its comfort as medicine and cordial, once in the
right company, new and vast values do not fail to appear.
ChiE 11.472 13
I need not mention [China's] useful arts...its tea, the
cordial of nations.
cordially, adv. (3)
ET1 5.8 5
I could not make [Landor] praise Mackintosh, nor my more
recent friends; Montaigne very cordially,--and Charron also...
Pow 6.55 26
With adults, as with children, one class enter cordially into the
game...
Imtl 8.332 7
Slowly [the two men] advanced towards each other as they
could, through the brilliant company, and at last met,-said nothing, but
shook hands long and cordially.
cordials, n. (1)
Clbs 7.225 17
...of all the cordials known to us, the best, safest and most
exhilarating...is society;...
cords, n. (5)
PI 8.5 18
I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we
have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the
old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in embryo and man;
everything undressing and stealing away from its old into new form, and
nothing fast but those invisible cords which we call laws...
PI 8.5 21
...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known
virtue through every variety...
HDC 11.45 16
The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state
[the Massachusetts Bay Colony], whilst [the settlers] untied the great cords
of authority to examine their soundness...
HDC 11.63 23
...nothing would satisfy [the country people] but that the
governor must be bound in chains or cords...
HDC 11.78 19
...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town
[Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two
dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to
such as shall carry wood thither; and 210 cords of wood were carried.
core, n. (11)
MN 1.196 5
Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line,
and will...pierce to the core of things.
Tran 1.331 27
The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last...
on a mass of unknown materials and solidity, red-hot or white-hot perhaps
at the core...
F 6.19 23
We cannot trifle with...this cropping-out in our planted gardens
of the core of the world.
Bhr 6.187 27
'T is hard to keep the what from breaking through this pretty
painting of the how. The core will come to the surface.
Elo1 7.97 19
It is not the people that are in fault for not being convinced,
but he that cannot convince them. He should mould them, armed as he is
with the reason and love which are also the core of their nature.
DL 7.109 5
An increased consciousness of the soul, you say, characterizes
the period. Let us see if it has not only arranged the atoms at the
circumference, but the atoms at the core.
PI 8.29 24
...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know that this
correspondence of things to thoughts...is elemental, or in the core of things.
Chr2 10.117 16
The Sunday is the core of our civilization...
Prch 10.237 5
The old intellect still lives, to pierce the shows to the core.
FSLN 11.242 10
The [American] universities are not, as in Hobbes's time,
the core of rebellion...
ALin 11.332 8
...this man [Lincoln] was sound to the core...
Corinna, n. (1)
Bty 6.297 20
...why need we console ourselves with the fames of Helen of
Argos, or Corinna...
Corinne [Madame de Stael], (1)
MMEm 10.408 4
As by seeing a high tragedy, reading a true poem, or a
novel like Corinne, so, by society with [Mary Moody Emerson], one's mind
is electrified and purged.
Corinthian, adj. (2)
Pow 6.71 4
In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing
to be a savage...and you have Pericles and Phidias, not yet passed over into
the Corinthian civility.
Bhr 6.185 19
Nothing can be more excellent in kind than the Corinthian
grace of Gertrude's manners...
Corinthians, Epistle to the, (2)
LS 11.13 24
I am of opinion that it is wholly upon the Epistle to the
Corinthians...that the ordinance [the Lord's Supper] stands.
LS 11.14 2
The end which [St. Paul] has in view, in the eleventh chapter of
the first Epistle [to the Corinthians], is not to enjoin upon his friends to
observe the [Lord's] Supper, but to censure their abuse of it.
Coriolanus, n. (1)
UGM 4.15 11
Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that
homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and
Gracchus down to Pitt...
Cork, Ireland, n. (1)
ET2 5.33 15
Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship
by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks. To-day...we measure by
Kinsale, Cork, Waterford and Ardmore.
corks, n. (1)
Elo2 8.119 5
Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political
meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural
as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only
needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...without
corks...
cormorants, n. (1)
MAng1 12.236 25
...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke of Tuscany]...that
he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's]
brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...if, he
adds, I do not commit a great crime by disappointing the cormorants who
are daily hoping to get rid of me.
Corn Laws, n. (2)
YA 1.380 13
...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people
indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and
executioner. Witness...the English League against the Corn Laws;...
ET15 5.264 4
[The London Times] adopted the League against the Corn
Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it announced his triumph.
corn, n. (80)
Nat 1.13 2
Beasts, fire, water, stones, and corn serve [man].
Nat 1.41 24
The first and gross manifestation of this truth [of the doctrine
of Use] is our inevitable and hated training in values and wants, in corn and
meat.
Nat 1.59 8
I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Nat 1.65 13
We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn
and the apple...
DSA 1.119 14
The corn and the wine have been freely dealt to all
creatures...
LE 1.169 27
Undoubtedly the changes of geology have a relation to the
prosperous sprouting of the corn and peas in my kitchen garden;...
MR 1.245 25
Parched corn eaten to-day, that I may have roast fowl to my
dinner Sunday, is a baseness;...
MR 1.245 27
...parched corn and a house with one apartment, that I may be
free of all perturbations...is frugality for gods and heroes.
Con 1.306 19
...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the
goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my field where to plant my
corn...
Tran 1.337 8
I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition
to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like
Epaminondas and John de Witt;...I would commit sacrilege with David;
yea, and pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath, for no other reason than that I
was fainting for lack of food.
YA 1.374 12
...the selfishness which hoards the corn for high prices is the
preventive of famine;...
YA 1.381 25
On one side is agricultural chemistry...offering, by means of a
teaspoonful of artificial guano, to turn a sandbank into corn;...
YA 1.383 7
...it is proposed to plant corn and to bake bread by companies.
YA 1.383 21
One man...with [a dime]...buys corn enough to feed the
world;...
Hist 2.7 23
[The true aspirant] hears the commendation...of that character
he seeks...in the running river and the rustling corn.
SR 2.46 16
...no kernel of nourishing corn can come to [man] but through
his toil...
SR 2.68 15
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as...the
rustle of the corn.
SR 2.87 8
The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las
Casas, without abolishing our arms...until...the soldier should receive his
supply of corn...and bake his bread himself.
Comp 2.97 14
There is somewhat that resembles...man and woman...in a
kernel of corn...
SL 2.136 13
We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them
give them. Farmers will give corn;...
Int 2.333 26
If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your
eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the the corn-flags...
Gts 3.161 14
The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet
brings his poem;...the farmer, corn;...
Pol1 3.205 4
Corn will not grow unless it is planted and manured;...
Pol1 3.206 9
A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or
other commodity.
NR 3.240 22
We came this time for condiments, not for corn.
NER 3.254 20
It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this
coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the
act to be original...
NER 3.283 21
...whether thy work be fine or coarse, planting corn or
writing epics, so only it be honest work...it shall earn a reward to the senses
as well as to the thought...
UGM 4.9 19
Justice has already been done to steam...to corn and cotton;...
UGM 4.35 10
It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the
seeds of science and of song, that climate, corn, animals, men, may be
milder...
SwM 4.93 5
Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are
not of the class which the economist calls producers...they have not
cultivated corn, nor made bread;...
SwM 4.93 11
A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and
imagination with ideas and pictures which raise men out of the world of
corn and money...
ShP 4.205 15
About the time when [Shakespeare] was writing Macbeth, he
sues Philip Rogers...for thirty-five shillings, ten pence, for corn delivered to
him at different times;...
ShP 4.217 1
Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had
another use than for apples, and corn another than for meal...
ET5 5.82 8
In politics [the English] put blunt questions, which must be
answered; Who is to pay the taxes? What will you do for trade? What for
corn?
ET8 5.135 3
[The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of
them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again, who...threshes The
corn/ That ten day-laborers could not end,/ but it is done in the dark and
with muttered maledictions.
F 6.16 27
[The Germans and Irish] are...carted over America...to make corn
cheap...
Wth 6.103 6
A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy...
Wth 6.103 7
A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly,
not for the corn or house-room, but for Athenian corn, and Roman house-room...
Wth 6.103 8
A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly,
not for the corn or house-room, but for Athenian corn, and Roman house-room...
Wth 6.114 8
Pride...can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn...
Wth 6.115 8
[The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is
choking the young corn, and finds there are two;...
Wth 6.115 25
...every hill of melons, row of corn [on a man's land]...stand
in his way...when he would go out of his gate.
Wth 6.121 10
I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the
wood-lot, when bought. Never fear; it is all settled how it shall be, long
beforehand, in the custom of the country...how to dress, whether to grass or
to corn;...
Civ 7.28 19
I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the
seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn...
Art2 7.42 15
We do not grind corn or lift the loom by our own strength...
Farm 7.137 16
If [a man] have not...some product for which the farmer
will give him corn, he must himself return into his due place among the
planters.
Farm 7.150 25
There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion
and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men
multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an
arithmetical;...
Farm 7.152 5
The sun-stroke which knocks [the first planter] down brings
his corn up.
Boks 7.216 24
[The novel] is only confectionery, not the raising of new
corn.
PI 8.24 19
The atoms of the body were once nebulae, then rock, then loam,
then corn, then chyme, then chyle, then blood;...
PerF 10.75 18
...[labor] grows in the corn;...
Chr2 10.95 14
The moral element invites man...to find his satisfaction...not
in much corn or wool, but in its communication.
Edc1 10.125 17
...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an
ear of corn when starving...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the
rich, and say, You shall educate me...
Schr 10.276 1
We cannot eat the granite nor drink hydrogen. They must be
decompounded and recompounded into corn and water before they can
enter our flesh.
LLNE 10.345 21
[The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some
necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for
himself, were it corn, or paper, or cloth, or boot-jacks, he should give of the
commodity to any applicant...
LLNE 10.366 15
No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain
strength drawn from the fury of dissent. Thus Mr. Ripley told Theodore
Parker, There is your accomplished friend---: he would hoe corn all
Sunday if I would let him, but all Massachusetts could not make him do it
on Monday.
HDC 11.27 3
Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed
the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples,
wool and wood./
HDC 11.30 1
...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in
this river...mow the grass and reap the corn, shortly shall hurry from its
banks as did their forefathers.
HDC 11.35 2
Indian corn, even the coarsest, made as pleasant meal as rice.
HDC 11.35 7
...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]...
make a jest of pumpkins, for with this fruit the Lord was pleased to feed his
people until their corn and cattle were increased.
HDC 11.37 2
A little pounded parched corn or no-cake sufficed [Indians]
on the march.
HDC 11.43 23
What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year,
at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf
was to be killed;...corn to be raised;...
HDC 11.55 16
The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused
some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet
summer blighted the corn;...
HDC 11.60 16
...his corn cut down...it was only a great thaw in January,
that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor
followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
HDC 11.63 3
Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English
government, concerning the country towns; The farmers...make good
advantage by their corn, cattle, poultry, butter and cheese.
HDC 11.75 25
[the minute-men] supposed they had a right to their corn and
their cattle...
EWI 11.102 13
These men [negro slaves], our benefactors, as they are
producers of corn and wine...I am heart-sick when I read how they came
there, and how they are kept there.
FSLN 11.233 11
You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in
it; and very good argument has shown...that, with provisions so vague for
an object not named, and which could not be availed of to claim a barrel of
sugar or a barrel of corn, the robbing of a man and of all his posterity is
effected.
Wom 11.410 19
...[the horse and ox] run...to the corn when hungry...
RBur 11.443 14
...the corn, barley, and bulrushes hoarsely rustle [Burns's
songs]...
CPL 11.501 17
[Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a
few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To
these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what
grinds corn...is anything worth, I have little to say.
FRep 11.530 7
...if there is fate in corn and cotton, so is there fate in
thought...
FRep 11.535 16
...it is the rule of the universe that corn shall serve man,
and not man corn.
FRep 11.535 17
...it is the rule of the universe that corn shall serve man,
and not man corn.
CL 12.151 20
In August, when the corn is grown to be a resort and
protection to woodcocks and small birds...we observe already that the leaf
is sere...
CW 12.172 8
Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and
true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country
through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers...
when witch-grass and nettles grew, causing a forest of apple-trees or miles
of corn and rye to thrive.
Bost 12.189 24
[John Smith writes (1624)] Here [in New England] are
many isles planted with corn, groves, mulberries, salvage gardens and good
harbours.
Bost 12.204 15
In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and
dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world.
Bost 12.204 16
In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and
dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn,
yes, but honest corn; corn with thanks to the Giver of corn;...
Bost 12.204 17
In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and
dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn,
yes, but honest corn; corn with thanks to the Giver of corn;...
Corn, [William Spence], n. (1)
ET9 5.150 15
In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William
Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea,
were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she
would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in
this secondary quality...
corn-cakes, n. (1)
FRep 11.526 25
...instead of the doleful experience of the European
economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great
body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has
arrived at a sloven plenty,-ham and corn-cakes...enough have been
attained;...
corn-chambers, n. (1)
Prd1 2.227 21
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 garrets, presses and corn-chambers...
corn-eaters, n. (1)
Exp 3.64 6
...the ascetics, Gentoos and corn-eaters, [nature] does not
distinguish by any favor.
corner, n. (27)
Nat 1.20 7
...[man] may creep into a corner...
MN 1.193 25
...the sturdiest defender of existing institutions feels the
terrific inflammability of this air which condenses heat in every corner...
MN 1.199 10
We can never surprise nature in a corner;...
Con 1.317 20
Yonder peasant, who sits neglected there in a corner, carries
a whole revolution of man and nature in his head...
Tran 1.351 10
...I can sit in a corner and perish (as you call it), but I will
not move until I have the highest command.
Hist 2.6 22
All that Shakspeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that
reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
SR 2.47 23
...we are...not minors and invalids in a protected corner...
SR 2.49 1
...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass
by, [the boy] tries and sentences them on their merits...
Prd1 2.227 17
In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box set in
the corner of the barn-chamber...
Art1 2.360 18
...that house and weather and manner of living which
poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear, in the
gray unpainted wood cabin, on the corner of a New Hampshire farm...will
serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours
itself indifferently through all.
Art1 2.364 15
...in the works of our plastic arts and especially of sculpture,
creation is driven into a corner.
ET8 5.132 13
[Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every nook and
corner of the earth their turbulent sense;...
ET9 5.148 23
...an ex-governor of Illinois, said to me, If the man knew
anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest;...
ET15 5.261 10
There is no corner and no night. A relentless inquisition [the
newspaper] drags every secret to the day...
F 6.10 14
At the corner of the street you read the possibility of each
passenger in the facial angle...
Pow 6.70 12
...when you espouse an Orleans party...or any other but an
organic party...you have a personality instead of a principle, which will
inevitably drag you into a corner.
Ctr 6.154 8
What is odious but...people...who intrigue to secure a padded
chair and a corner out of the draught.
Ill 6.317 13
...[men who make themselves felt in the world] never deeply
interest us unless they lift a corner of the curtain...
Elo1 7.73 27
[Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing
through the streets, which...is forgotten as soon as it has turned the next
corner;...
Elo1 7.86 27
I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. ...
[The prisoner's counsel] drove the attorney for the state from corner to
corner...
Elo1 7.87 1
I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. ...
[The prisoner's counsel] drove the attorney for the state from corner to
corner...
Dem1 10.28 6
The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so
wistfully in a corner?
PerF 10.86 24
A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which
he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of
streets and of school education.
Edc1 10.145 24
...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk
point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone...
Plu 10.308 17
...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher not to hide in a corner...
War 11.175 21
Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence
[Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...
Scot 11.462 7
Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott
was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the
country he looked upon, and so...illustrated every hidden corner of a barren
and disagreeable territory.
Corner, Nine Acre, n. (1)
EzRy 10.387 17
I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre
Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family.
Corner, Nine-Acre, n. (1)
Thor 10.480 10
...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said
they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or
Paris, or Rome; but...they did what they could, considering that they never
saw...Nine-Acre Corner...
cornered, v. (1)
Cour 7.255 22
Animal resistance, the instinct of the male animal when
cornered, is no doubt common;...
corners, n. (10)
LE 1.176 10
Let us live in corners...
YA 1.370 27
A heterogeneous population crowding on all ships from all
corners of the world to the great gates of North America...it cannot be
doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic
and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
Mrs1 3.139 24
[Society] hates corners and sharp points of character...
ET3 5.38 7
...[England] is stuffed full, in all corners and crevices, with
towns, towers, churches, villas, palaces, hospitals and charity-houses.
Bhr 6.187 16
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and
respects, and not crushed into corners.
Ill 6.314 10
...the scientific whim is lurking in all corners.
Elo1 7.95 13
[Eloquence] is always dying out of famous places and
appearing in corners.
Suc 7.305 15
As our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just
importance to their fresh and manifold claims, so the like sensibility...has
eyes and hospitality for merit in corners.
HDC 11.38 8
...after the bargain [for Concord] was concluded, Mr. Simon
Willard, pointing to the four corners of the world, declared that they had
bought three miles from that place, east, west, north and south.
Bost 12.201 13
There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you
may hear in the corners of streets...I 'm as good as you be...
corner-stone, n. (1)
Wth 6.122 24
[The citizen from Dock Square] proceeds at once...to fix the
spot for his corner-stone.
corner-stones, n. (1)
PPh 4.39 6
...[Plato's sentences] are the corner-stones of schools;...
cornfield, n. (1)
AgMs 12.358 4
In an afternoon in April...I...found the Farmer in his
cornfield.
cornfields, n. (2)
HDC 11.76 25
...you [veterans of the battle of Concord] have quit
yourselves like men in your virtuous families; in your cornfields;...
Bost 12.189 27
[John Smith writes (1624)] The seacoast, as you pass,
shows you all along large cornfields...
corn-flags, n. (1)
Int 2.334 3
If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your
eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the corn-flags...
Cornhill, n. (1)
Wth 6.119 20
[A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting
wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with it...but a blunderhead
comes out of Cornhill, tries his hand, and it all leaks away.
cornhusk, n. (1)
EWI 11.104 10
...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides, and hot rum
poured on, superinduced with brine or pickle, rubbed in with a cornhusk...
we too should wince.
cornice, n. (1)
MAng1 12.224 19
...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to
demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung
mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a
bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable
space was left between them and the wall.
corn-lawed, v. (1)
PPr 12.390 19
Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and
labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and
Europe, tunnelled, graded, corn-lawed...and America...have never before
been conquered in literature.
corn-laws, n. (1)
Wsp 6.210 27
Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to
creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and
establish free trade.
Corn-Laws, n. (1)
EPro 11.315 23
Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history
were the Confession of Augsburg...the repeal of the Corn-Laws...
Cornwall, Barry, n. (1)
ET17 5.292 23
Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting
men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...Milnes, Milman,
Barry Cornwall...
Cornwall, Earl of [Richard] (1)
ET4 5.64 8
Henry III. mortgaged all the Jews in the kingdom to his brother
the Earl of Cornwall...
Cornwall, England, n. (3)
ET3 5.41 13
It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of
the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to
France...
ET3 5.42 13
In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe,
having...mines in Cornwall;...
ET11 5.180 7
...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that
gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle, the
kail of Cornwall...are neither forgetting nor forgotten...
Cornwall, n. (1)
Hist 2.35 9
...all the postulates of elfin annals...I find true in Concord,
however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne.
corollary, n. (1)
MoS 4.154 23
I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed
briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a
damned rascal: and the natural corollary is pretty sure to follow, The world
lives by humbug, and so will I.
coronation, adj. (2)
MN 1.224 7
Pusillanimity and fear [the soul] refuses with a beautiful scorn;
they are not for her who puts on her coronation robes, and goes out through
universal love to universal power.
ET13 5.218 26
Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this
occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the
King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect.
coronation, n. (4)
Pol1 3.216 5
That which...which freedom, cultivation, intercourse,
revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character; that is the end of Nature, to
reach unto this coronation of her king.
ShP 4.196 6
...some passages [in Shakespeare's Henry VIII], as the account
of the coronation, are like autographs.
ET6 5.110 1
[The English] repeated the ceremonies of the eleventh century
in the coronation of the present Queen.
Art2 7.55 12
Heraldry...and the ceremonies of a coronation, are a dignified
repetition of the occurrences that might befall a dragoon and his footboy.
coroner, n. (2)
EurB 12.366 19
In the debates on the Copyright Bill, in the English
Parliament, Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry
in derision...
EurB 12.366 25
In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant
Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked
the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward
for writing such stuff. Homer, Horace, Milton and Chaucer would defy the
coroner.
coronet, n. (4)
NER 3.275 13
...a naval and military honor...a ducal coronet...have this
lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed
in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
ET11 5.177 11
The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the
coronet...
ET11 5.178 2
Some of [the English aristocracy]...as Sheridan said of Coke,
disdain to hide their head in a coronet;...
SMC 11.348 8
Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads
and embowered farms?/ ... In fields their boyish feet had known?/ In trees
their fathers' hands had set,/ And which with them had grown,/ Widening
each year their leafy coronet?/
corpora, n. (1)
FRep 11.533 4
Corpora non agunt nisi soluta;...
corporal, adj. (2)
Edc1 10.152 24
Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the
conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty
pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the
wisest are tempted...to proclaim...corporal punishment...
Edc1 10.154 19
...only to think of using [simple discipline and the
following of nature] implies character and profoundness; to enter on this
course of discipline is to be good and great. It is precisely analogous to the
difference between the use of corporal punishment and the methods of love.
corporate, adj. (1)
HDC 11.42 16
...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax
assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their
civil history, implying...the exercise of a sovereign power, and connected
with all the immunities and powers of a corporate town in Massachusetts.
corporation, n. (5)
Con 1.308 19
I cannot occupy the bleakest crag of the White Hills or the
Alleghany Range, but some man or corporation steps up to me to show me
that it is his.
Con 1.321 3
The corporation were advised to call off the police...
GoW 4.282 10
In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern
no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some moneyed
corporation...
ET10 5.157 3
The ambition to create value evokes every kind of ability [in
England]; government becomes a manufacturing corporation...
HDC 11.84 16
...it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a
financial corporation.
corporations, n. (2)
ET11 5.183 4
In 1786 the soil of England was owned by 250,000
corporations and proprietors;...
HDC 11.42 21
The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting
of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe
themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small
corporations of land and power.
corporation-works, n. (1)
PI 8.36 21
What are [the poet's] garland and singing-robes? What but a
sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow, or the timber-yard and
corporation-works of a nest of pismires is event enough for him...
corporeal, adj. (6)
Nat 1.17 1
...in other hours, Nature satisfies...without any mixture of
corporeal benefit.
SwM 4.115 8
The lowest form is angular, or the terrestrial and corporeal.
ET14 5.258 19
For a self-conceited modish life...clinging to a corporeal
civilization...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.
ET18 5.304 15
[The English]...occupy themselves...on a corporeal
civilization...
SS 7.5 6
Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being
shot, I, who am only waiting to shuffle off my corporeal jacket...
PI 8.28 1
[Blake wrote] I question not my corporeal eye any more than I
would question a window concerning a sight.
corporeal, n. (1)
Dem1 10.18 1
...every demoniacal property can manifest itself in the
corporeal and incorporeal...
corps, esprit de, n. (1)
Civ 7.26 23
There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it
may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...the cabalism or
esprit de corps of a masonic or other association of friends.
corps, esprit du, n. (1)
ET2 5.28 10
...that wonderful esprit du corps by which we adopt into our
self-love every thing we touch, makes us all champions of [a ship's] sailing
qualities.
corps, n. (3)
Mrs1 3.130 10
...come from year to year and see how permanent [the
distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of
man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it,
a meeting of merchants, a military corps...
Res 8.145 18
Malus...was captain of a corps of engineers in Bonaparte's
Egyptian campaign...
LLNE 10.327 18
College classes, military corps, or trades-unions may
fancy themselves indissoluble for a moment, over their wine;...
Corps, Ninth, n. (1)
SMC 11.366 9
Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick...saw hard service in the
Ninth Corps, under General Burnside.
corpse, n. (9)
Nat 1.16 1
Even the corpse has its own beauty.
Nat 1.28 15
The seed of a plant, - to what affecting analogies in the nature
of man is that little fruit made use of, in all discourse, up to the voice of
Paul, who calls the human corpse a seed...
Nat 1.56 10
The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches...had already
transferred nature into the mind, and left matter like an outcast corpse.
Hist 2.31 26
The philosophical perception of identity through endless
mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus. What else am I who
laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last night like a corpse, and this
morning stood and ran?
SR 2.57 2
Why drag about this corpse of your memory...
SL 2.131 12
Even the corpse that has lain in the chambers has added a
solemn ornament to the house.
Imtl 8.325 11
The chief end of man being to be buried well, the arts most
in request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming, to give imperishability
to the corpse.
Imtl 8.327 1
...the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of
eternity, which dissolved the poor corpse and nature also...
SHC 11.431 5
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.
corpses, n. (2)
Mrs1 3.119 19
It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this
account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres, among
the corpses and rags of an ancient nation which they know nothing of.
FRep 11.519 22
We have seen the great party of property and education in
the country drivelling and huckstering away...the dearest hopes of
mankind;...imbecile as corpses when evil was to be prevented.
corpus, habeas, n. (1)
JBB 11.272 24
...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or,
I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance...
Corpus Poetarum, n. (1)
ET12 5.206 26
...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton] can quote
correctly from the Corpus Poetarum...
correct, adj. (10)
LE 1.179 21
[Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity
performed their exploits only by correct combinations...
Exp 3.73 16
In our more correct writing we give to this generalization the
name of Being...
NR 3.232 26
I looked into Pope's Odyssey yesterday: it is as correct and
elegant after our canon of to-day as if it were newly written.
PPh 4.65 16
...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,--
that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might
properly employ those of our own minds...and that having thus learned, and
being naturally possessed of a correct reasoning faculty, we might...set right
our own wanderings and blunders.
ET14 5.245 22
Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth which lies in the
mystics, and which often outvalues as a seed of power and a source of
revolution all the correct writers and shining reputations of their day.
Comc 8.167 24
...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who...
was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with
joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I
inquired. O, I saw him this morning; it is the most correct apoplexy I have
ever seen;...
LLNE 10.331 13
If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston
or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of
person...a voice...that...was the most mellow and beautiful and correct of all
the instruments of the time.
LS 11.16 25
If the view which I have taken of the history of the institution
[the Lord's Supper] be correct, then the claim of authority should be
dropped in administering it.
ACri 12.287 10
...all able men have known how to import the petulance of
the street into correct discourse.
MLit 12.327 5
It is all design with [Goethe], just...analogies, allusion,
illustration, which knowledge and correct thinking supply;...
correct, v. (17)
LE 1.175 24
Digest and correct the past experience;...
LT 1.279 20
...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that
if that abuse were redressed all would go well, and they fill the land with
clamor to correct it.
Int 2.329 11
As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry
away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and all men and all the ages
confirm it. It is called truth. But the moment we...attempt to correct and
contrive, it is not truth.
UGM 4.20 26
These [great] men correct the delirium of the animal spirits...
MoS 4.168 19
It is Cambridge men who correct themselves and begin again
at every half sentence...
Wsp 6.236 19
...[Benedict] would correct his conduct, in that respect in
which he had faulted, to the next person he should meet.
Elo1 7.94 21
If you would correct my false view of facts,--hold up to me
the same facts in the true order of thought...
DL 7.116 25
[The reform that applies itself to the household] must correct
the whole system of our social living.
Grts 8.315 17
How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of
whom...we have learned to correct our old estimates, and to see them as, on
the whole, instruments of great benefit.
Aris 10.36 26
...a new respect for the sacredness of the individual man, is
that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to
public opinion...
Chr2 10.119 21
No evil can come from reform which a deeper thought will
not correct.
Edc1 10.158 23
By simple living, by an illimitable soul...you correct...all.
Plu 10.306 8
The plain speaking of Plutarch...in our new tendencies of
civilization, may tend to correct a false delicacy.
FSLC 11.213 14
...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law]
is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost, that the well-known
sentiment of her people was not expressed. Let us correct this error.
AKan 11.258 20
Next to the private man, I value the primary assembly,
met to watch the government and to correct it.
FRep 11.525 7
After every practical mistake out of which any disaster
grows, the [American] people wake and correct it with energy.
FRep 11.530 22
We have much to learn, much to correct...
corrected, v. (14)
YA 1.363 4
...our people have their intellectual culture from one country
and their duties from another. This false state of things is newly in a way to
be corrected.
NER 3.261 10
It is of little moment that one or two or twenty errors of our
social system be corrected...
ET1 5.23 11
[Wordsworth] replied he never was in haste to publish; partly
because he corrected a good deal...
F 6.5 1
Any excess of emphasis on one part would be corrected...
SS 7.10 10
...this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can
make right or tolerable. This result is so against nature...that it must be
corrected by a common sense and experience.
Plu 10.296 21
M. Octave Greard, in a critical work on [Plutarch's] Morals,
has carefully corrected the popular legends...
SMC 11.353 2
The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South; but first
the North had to be reconstructed. Its own theory and practice of liberty had
got sadly out of gear, and must be corrected.
Wom 11.422 25
...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers
thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...
PLT 12.9 1
...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary
men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society, where
the manners and estimate of the world have corrected this folly...
PLT 12.13 6
The inward analysis must be corrected by rough experience.
PLT 12.50 19
The excess of individualism, when it is not corrected...makes
that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea...
CInt 12.122 10
...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...need to
have their corrupt voting and violence corrected by the cleaner and wiser
suffrages of poor farmers.
CL 12.139 26
The [Massachusetts] climate needs...to be corrected by a
little anthracite coal...
Bost 12.187 7
I think the Potomac water is a little acrid, and should be
corrected by copious infusions of these provincial streams.
correcting, v. (8)
AmS 1.101 3
...[the scholar]...correcting still his old records; must
relinquish display and immediate fame.
DSA 1.122 27
See how this rapid intrinsic energy worketh everywhere...
correcting appearances...
Exp 3.75 24
...we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting
lenses which we are...
DL 7.117 8
...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of
housekeeping], correcting a few evils and letting the rest stand, we shall
soon give up in despair.
OA 7.335 1
[John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences...but carries
them invariably to a conclusion, without correcting a word.
Aris 10.64 10
No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and
heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people, as
correcting the modes and over-refinements and class prejudices of the
lettered men of the world.
Chr2 10.104 1
[The religions we call false]...were affirmations of the
conscience correcting the evil customs of their times.
FRep 11.525 15
In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond
expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden, undated
perception of eternal right coming into and correcting things that were
wrong;...
correction, n. (10)
MR 1.247 24
...we must not cease to tend to the correction of flagrant
wrongs...
SL 2.161 20
This revisal or correction is a constant force...
Fdsp 2.214 1
Whatever correction of our popular views we make from
insight, nature will be sure to bear us out in...
SwM 4.124 4
The moral insight of Swedenborg, the correction of popular
errors...take him out of comparison with any other modern writer...
Edc1 10.136 25
I call our system [of education] a system of despair, and I
find all the correction, all the revolution that is needed...in one word, in
Hope.
Edc1 10.155 3
...the correction of this quack practice is to import into
Education the wisdom of life.
Plu 10.320 19
The correction [in the 1871 edition of Plutarch's Morals] is
not only of names of authors and of places grossly altered or misspelled...
LLNE 10.336 19
Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting
of our views of the Deity and his Providence. This correction of our
superstitions was confirmed by the new science of Geology...
ChiE 11.473 22
I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill...
requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on
their literary qualifications for the same. Well, China has preceded us...in
this essential correction of a reckless usage;...
MAng1 12.221 11
Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his contemporaries
inform us, were made...in the style of an engraving on copper or wood; a
manner more expressive but not admitting of correction.
corrections, n. (1)
UGM 4.6 14
...[other than great men] must make painful corrections...
corrective, n. (1)
PI 8.32 18
...inestimable is the criticism of memory as a corrective to first
impressions.
correctly, adv. (5)
Nat 1.67 12
...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and
superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost
in a tranquil sense of unity.
Prd1 2.229 21
Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be
drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon
their centre of gravity...
Exp 3.73 12
This vigor is...in the highest degree unbending. Nourish it
correctly and do it no injury, and it will fill up the vacancy between heaven
and earth.
ET12 5.206 26
...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton] can quote
correctly from the Corpus Poetarum...
HDC 11.84 8
The old town clerks did not spell very correctly...
correctness, n. (4)
Int 2.337 10
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, nor can himself draw with correctness a
single feature.
Elo2 8.129 24
These are ascending stairs [to eloquence],--a good voice,
winning manners, plain speech, chastened...by the schools into
correctness;...
LS 11.14 25
...there is a material circumstance which diminishes our
confidence in the correctness of the Apostle's [St. Paul's] view [of the Lord'
s Supper];...
EPro 11.325 20
The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free
states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to
[the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim.
corrector, n. (2)
Plu 10.321 1
In spite of its carelessness and manifold faults, which, I doubt
not, have tried the patience of its present learned editor and corrector, I yet
confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
II 12.66 9
None of the metaphysicians have prospered in describing this
power [consciousness], which...is the corrector of private excesses and
mistakes;...
corrects, v. (4)
DSA 1.125 13
[The sentiment of virtue] corrects the capital mistake of the
infant man...
ET15 5.268 13
[The London Times] draws from any number of learned and
skilful contributors; but a more learned and skilful person supervises,
corrects, and co-ordinates.
Ctr 6.131 4
Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power...culture corrects the
theory of success.
PC 8.228 13
Science corrects the old creeds;...
Correggio, Antonio Allegri (1)
Milt1 12.259 14
...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was
sent into Italy, where he beheld...the rival works of Raphael, Michael
Angelo and Correggio;...
correlation, n. (5)
F 6.39 12
The ulterior aim...the correlation by which planets subside and
crystallize...will not stop but will work into finer particulars...
F 6.45 3
The correlation is shown in defects.
F 6.45 26
This correlation really existing can be divined.
PC 8.211 15
The correlation of forces and the polarization of light have
carried us to sublime generalizations...
PC 8.222 1
When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted
and his colleagues, it was no surprise;...
correlative, adj. (2)
Mrs1 3.122 9
The word gentleman has not any correlative abstract to
express the quality.
Edc1 10.151 26
If [the young man] has his own vice, he has its correlative
virtue.
correlative, n. (3)
Hist 2.35 26
...[man] is also the correlative of nature.
Hist 2.38 14
...in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One,
and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and written.
Comp 2.101 14
Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is...a correlative
of every other.
correlatively, adv. (1)
Lov1 2.187 24
Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a
woman, so variously and correlatively gifted, are shut up in one house to
spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the
emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
correpondences, n. (1)
SwM 4.120 22
This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between
heaven and earth]...was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic
direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.
correspond, v. (8)
Nat 1.47 16
In my utter impotence...to know whether the impressions [my
senses] make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does
it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image
in the firmament of the soul?
Hist 2.5 4
The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be
credible or intelligible.
PPh 4.62 15
[Things] are knowable, because being from one, things
correspond.
PPh 4.69 6
To these four sections [images, objects, opinions, truths], the
four operations of the soul correspond,--conjecture, faith, understanding,
reason.
SwM 4.116 4
...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences
[says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing things which occur...
which correspond so entirely to supreme and spiritual things that one would
swear that the physical world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world;...
PI 8.41 25
...the poet sees...the large effect of laws which correspond to the
inward laws which he knows...
SA 8.81 27
...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters
and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes
that correspond to theirs.
Dem1 10.10 17
...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no
man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in
some hour the moon eclipses the luminary; and then first we notice that the
spots of light...correspond to the changed figure of the sun.
corresponded, v. (2)
NR 3.230 19
We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the
German genius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not meet in
either of those nations a single individual who corresponded with the type.
PPh 4.52 10
To this partiality [of unity and diversity] the history of nations
corresponded.
correspondence, n. (42)
Nat 1.29 3
Because of this radical correspondence between visible things
and human thoughts, savages...converse in figures.
YA 1.377 14
[Traders'] information, their wealth, their correspondence,
have made them quite other men than left their native shore.
Fdsp 2.216 9
It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry
a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.
PPh 4.62 16
There is a scale; and the correspondence of heaven to earth...is
our guide.
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 4.117 22
...[mankind] had sciences, religions, philosophies, and yet
had failed to see the correspondence of meaning between every part and
every other part.
SwM 4.120 12
The correspondence between thoughts and things
henceforward occupied [Swedenborg].
MoS 4.150 18
The correspondence of Pope and Swift describes mankind
around them as monsters;...
MoS 4.163 5
...in prosecuting my correspondence [with John Sterling], I
found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his
chateau...
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...
NMW 4.238 26
It was a whimsical economy of the same kind which
dictated [Bonaparte's] practice, when general in Italy, in regard to his
burdensome correspondence.
NMW 4.239 2
[Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters
unopened for three weeks, and then observed with satisfaction how large a
part of the correspondence had thus disposed of itself...
GoW 4.286 16
Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit]
affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of
Goethe;...no correspondence...
ET3 5.35 5
...the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...and reads
quietly the Times newspaper, which, by its immense correspondence and
reporting seems to have machinized the rest of the world for his occasion.
ET11 5.192 4
The Selwyn correspondence, in the reign of George III.,
discloses a rottenness in the aristocracy which threatened to decompose the
state.
ET15 5.263 23
[The London Times] has shown those qualities which are
dear to Englishmen...a towering assurance, backed by...its world-wide
network of correspondence and reports.
Wth 6.89 10
The same correspondence that is between thirst in the stomach
and water in the spring, exists between the whole of man and the whole of
nature.
Bhr 6.194 16
There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of
Bonaparte with his brother Joseph...
Bhr 6.194 21
There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of
Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when...he complained that he missed in
Napoleon's letters the affectionate tone which had marked their childish
correspondence.
Clbs 7.249 9
...in the sections of the British Association more information
is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many
months of ordinary correspondence...
Suc 7.300 22
The fundamental fact in our metaphysic constitution is the
correspondence of man to the world...
Suc 7.300 27
The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law
which...make the order of Nature; and in the perfection of this
correspondence or expressiveness, the health and force of man consist.
OA 7.326 25
[The youth] is tormented with the want of correspondence
between things and thoughts.
OA 7.327 20
...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by
seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession.
OA 7.331 2
In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom
and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy
and epistolary correspondence.
PI 8.9 25
Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a
substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities.
PI 8.29 21
...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know that this
correspondence of things to thoughts is far deeper than they can penetrate...
PI 8.48 27
...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the
correspondence of parts in Nature...they do not longer value rattles and
ding-dongs...
Res 8.150 24
It was a pleasing trait in Goethe's romance, that Makaria
retires from society to astronomy and her correspondence.
Grts 8.317 24
Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of
Weimar, does not shine.
Grts 8.318 1
Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of
Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of
the Olympian genius. It is more plainly seen in the correspondence between
Voltaire and Frederick of Prussia.
Edc1 10.141 3
That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to...
a correspondence year by year with his wisest and best friends.
SovE 10.200 8
Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought harmoniously
organized into correspondence with the universe of mind and matter.
LLNE 10.352 26
There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties
always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual, they
seek to realize in the surrounding world. The value of Fourier's system is
that it is a statement of such an order...carried outward into its
correspondence in facts.
LLNE 10.362 8
Margaret Fuller...was often a guest [at Brook Farm], and
always in correspondence with her friends.
SlHr 10.437 22
At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina...
pending his correspondence with the governor and the legal officers, he was
repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...
GSt 10.505 12
When one remembers...the wide correspondence, presently
enlarged by printed circulars, then by newspapers established wholly or
partly at [George Stearns's] own cost;...I think this single will was worth to
the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
HDC 11.32 1
Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his
face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of
planters to join him. They arrived in Boston in 1634. Probably there had
been a previous correspondence with Governor Winthrop...
HDC 11.68 7
...in answer to letters received from the united committees of
correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the town [of Concord] say: We
cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of
this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and
felicity of this land;...
SMC 11.361 27
[George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming
to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first
point, he...urges their correspondence with their friends;...
PLT 12.22 4
If man has organs...for reproduction and love and care of his
young, you shall find all the same in the muskrat. There is a perfect
correspondence;...
Let 12.392 3
...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our
correspondence;...
Correspondence, n. (1)
SwM 4.105 19
[Swedenborg] named his favorite views the doctrine of
Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine of Influx, the
doctrine of Correspondence.
correspondences, n. (2)
SwM 4.116 19
[Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a
number of examples of such correspondences [between the natural and
spiritual worlds]...
PC 8.224 17
The good wit finds the law from a single observation,-the
law, and its limitations, and its correspondences...
Correspondences, n. (1)
SwM 4.115 26
...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences
[says Swedenborg] we shall treat of both these symbolical and typical
resemblances...
correspondency, n. (1)
Hist 2.38 11
I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the
reason of this correspondency.
correspondent, adj. (6)
Nat 1.76 20
A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of
the spirit.
Con 1.295 20
Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between
Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in
the human constitution.
Gts 3.163 4
The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me,
correspondent to my flowing unto him.
Insp 8.271 4
The poet cannot see a natural phenomenon which does not
express to him a correspondent fact in his mental experience;...
SovE 10.199 3
While the immense energy of the sentiment of duty and the
awe of the supernatural exert incomparable influence on the mind,-yet it is
often perverted, and the tradition received with awe, but without
correspondent action of the receiver.
CPL 11.497 24
The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told
you how old is the foundation of our village library, and we think we can
trace in our modest records a correspondent effect of culture amidst our
citizens.
correspondent, n. (6)
ET17 5.291 19
At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester
correspondent awaiting me...
SMC 11.362 1
[George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming
to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first
point, he...writes news of them home, urging his own correspondent to visit
their families...
Let 12.392 15
...in regard to the writer who has given us his speculations on
Railroads and Air-roads, our correspondent shall have his own way.
Let 12.393 5
...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we
have no longer the smallest taper-light of credible information and
experience left...
Let 12.395 9
One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my
uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to
propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all
uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!-so heedless is
our correspondent of putting all the dough into one pan, and all the leaven
into another.
Let 12.397 13
Especially to one importunate correspondent we must say
that there is no chance for the aesthetic village.
correspondents, n. (5)
SL 2.164 11
How dare I read Washington's campaigns when I have not
answered the letters of my own correspondents?
ShP 4.203 9
...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances,
the following persons: Theodore Beza, Isaac Casaubon...
ET15 5.266 21
[The London Times] has mercantile and political
correspondents in every foreign city...
Milt1 12.258 24
In a letter to one of his foreign correspondents...[Milton]
writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common
conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.
Let 12.404 10
As far as our correspondents have entangled their private
griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage
themselves as fast as possible.
corresponding, adj. (9)
Pt1 3.15 5
...if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is because the
corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
SwM 4.116 10
...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...
Ctr 6.166 14
...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic
effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to
the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he
will not overcome and convert...
Bhr 6.175 6
A prince who is accustomed every day to be courted and
deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires a corresponding expectation...
PI 8.53 26
Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers
of a people...the mind allowing itself range, and therewith is ever a
corresponding freedom in the style...
PPo 8.247 20
...quick perception and corresponding expression...this
generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
Dem1 10.15 19
The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good
fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of
uncertain success...influences all joint action of commerce and affairs, and
a corresponding assurance in the individuals so distinguished meets and
justifies the expectation of others by a boundless self-trust.
Thor 10.472 16
...no academy made [Thoreau] its corresponding secretary...
Wom 11.422 17
Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him
brings the other or corresponding half in his hand...
corresponding, v. (8)
Tran 1.331 25
The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last,
not on a cube corresponding to the angles of his structure, but on a mass of
unknown materials and solidity...
Hist 2.8 14
There is no...mode of action in history to which there is not
somewhat corresponding in [each man's] life.
SwM 4.114 25
Man is a kind of very minute heaven, corresponding to the
world of spirits and to heaven.
PerF 10.73 6
The brain of man has methods and arrangements
corresponding to these material powers...
HDC 11.32 7
...on the 2d of September, 1635, corresponding in New Style
to 12th September...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to
Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
Mem 12.101 14
...because all Nature has one law and meaning,-part
corresponding to part,-all we have known aids us continually to the
knowledge of the rest of Nature.
MAng1 12.215 3
Few lives of eminent men are harmonious; few that
furnish, in all the facts, an image corresponding with their fame.
MAng1 12.218 21
...all men have an organization corresponding more or
less to the entire system of Nature...
corresponds, v. (10)
Nat 1.9 12
...every hour and change [in nature] corresponds to and
authorizes a different state of the mind...
Nat 1.26 15
Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the
mind...
Nat 1.71 25
...[the structure] once fitted [man], now it corresponds to him
from far and on high.
Hist 2.23 17
Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his
states of mind...
SR 2.62 1
...the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which
corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god,
feels poor when he looks on these.
Schr 10.279 15
...the young...finding that nothing outside corresponds to
the noble order in the soul, are confused...
War 11.164 5
Every nation and every man instantly surround themselves
with a material apparatus which exactly corresponds to their moral state...
FRO1 11.479 16
...as soon as every man...is apprised that the perfect law of
duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, of vegetation, of astronomy,
as face to face in a glass;...then we have a religion that exalts...
PLT 12.20 1
There is in Nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the
unity in the mind and makes it available.
CInt 12.124 5
Here [in a good teacher] is sympathy; here is an order that
corresponds to that in [a young man's] own mind...
corroborated, v. (1)
Milt1 12.257 1
Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton]
by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had not been in part furnished or
corroborated by political enemies, would lead us to suspect the portraits
were ideal...
corrode, v. (1)
ET3 5.39 22
In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or
blacks...poison many plants and corrode the monuments and buildings.
corrugated, v. (1)
ET17 5.296 10
[Wordsworth] had a healthy look, with a weather-beaten
face, his face corrugated...
corrupt, adj. (10)
YA 1.389 26
The private mind has the access to the totality of goodness
and truth that it may be a balance to a corrupt society;...
Pt1 3.25 18
...herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith that
the poems are a corrupt version of some text in nature with which they
ought to be made to tally.
Pol1 3.208 3
Every actual State is corrupt.
Wsp 6.202 4
If the Divine Providence has hid from men neither disease nor
deformity nor corrupt society...let us not be so nice that we cannot write
these facts down coarsely as they stand...
WD 7.165 22
Politics were never more corrupt and brutal;...
MMEm 10.423 12
War devastates the conscience of men, yet corrupt peace
does not less.
FSLC 11.186 5
...of the corrupt society that exists we have never been able
to combine any pure prosperity.
CInt 12.122 1
There are bad books and false teachers and corrupt judges;...
CInt 12.122 9
...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...need to
have their corrupt voting and violence corrected by the cleaner and wiser
suffrages of poor farmers.
MAng1 12.234 15
[Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar
eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and
angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find
occasion for devotion in the same figures.
corrupt, v. (3)
Comp 2.113 26
Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast
corrupt and worm worms.
SS 7.13 27
Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to the assembly in
our own garb and speech...
Aris 10.52 10
...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the
people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall
blame them if they burn his barns...
corrupted, v. (14)
Pol1 3.208 27
A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.
ET4 5.57 21
The heroes of the [Norse] Sagas are not the knights of South
Europe. No vaporing of France and Spain has corrupted them.
ET4 5.69 19
...Tacitus found the English beer already in use among the
Germans: They make from barley or wheat a drink corrupted into some
resemblance to wine.
Wth 6.111 23
The rabble are corrupted by their means;...
Wsp 6.208 5
The lover of the old religion complains that our
contemporaries...have corrupted into a timorous conservatism and believe
in nothing.
SA 8.101 18
...wealth and ease corrupted the race [of the hereditary
nobility].
Dem1 10.19 17
The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the
known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or
evaded by this gypsy principle...
Chr2 10.104 20
Every particular instruction...is accommodated to humble
and gross minds, and corrupted.
Prch 10.219 23
...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must
react upon. It is resisted and corrupted by that obstinate tendency to
personify and bring under the eyesight what should be the contemplation of
Reason alone.
EWI 11.137 17
By a certain fatality, none but the vilest arguments were
brought forward [against emancipation in the West Indies], which corrupted
the very persons who used them.
FSLC 11.180 26
...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with
a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here; at least we can
brag thus until to-morrow, when the farmers also may be corrupted.
FSLN 11.242 24
I [Robert Winthrop] am, as you see, a man virtuously
inclined, and only corrupted by my profession of politics.
SMC 11.352 15
...this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison, which in
eighty years corrupted the whole overgrown body politic...
Mem 12.92 11
[Memory] does not lie, cannot be corrupted...
corruptible, n. (1)
AmS 1.96 18
In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself...to
become a thought of the mind. Instantly it is raised, transfigured; the
corruptible has put on incorruption.
corrupting, v. (3)
Cour 7.272 23
The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was...in the
instinct which, at Thermopylae...kept Asia out of Europe,--Asia with its
antiquities and organic slavery,--from corrupting the hope and new morning
of the West.
SA 8.97 27
...beware of jokes; too much temperance cannot be used:
inestimable for sauce, but corrupting for food, we go away hollow and
ashamed.
Dem1 10.20 2
[Belief in the demonological] is a midsummer madness,
corrupting all who hold the tenet.
corruption, n. (12)
Nat 1.29 26
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of
language.
Nat 1.29 27
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of
language.
Con 1.315 3
...[Friar Bernard]...set forth to go to Rome to reform the
corruption of mankind.
Int 2.327 13
...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from
the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and
immortal. ... A better art than that of Egypt has taken fear and corruption
out of it.
SwM 4.132 3
Except Rabelais and Dean Swift nobody ever had such
science of filth and corruption [as did Swedenborg].
Bhr 6.196 24
...if you have headache...or thunderstroke, I beseech you...to
hold your peace, and not pollute the morning...by corruption and groans.
Grts 8.315 13
It is difficult to find greatness pure. Well, I please myself
with its diffusion; to find a spark of true fire amid much corruption.
Imtl 8.340 13
A sort of absoluteness attends all perception of truth,-no
smell of age, no hint of corruption.
PerF 10.86 16
...it begins to be doubtful whether our corruption in this
country has not gone a little over the mark of safety...
Schr 10.274 24
It is the corruption of our generation that men value a long
life...
FSLN 11.223 17
Whether evil influences and the corruption of politics, or
whether original infirmity, it was the misfortune of his country that with
this large understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect...
TPar 11.292 19
...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights...rot
and are forgotten with their double tongue saying all that is sordid for the
corruption of man.
corruptions, n. (2)
PC 8.217 3
...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him
in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...the radicals of the hour,
banded
TPar 11.289 25
...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of
Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary
city ambitions to gloze over municipal corruptions...it is a hypocrisy...
corrupts, v. (7)
AmS 1.88 27
...love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue.
DSA 1.130 12
Historical Christianity has fallen into the error that corrupts
all attempts to communicate religion.
PPh 4.60 10
...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.
Bhr 6.191 18
...when [a man] opens [his thought] for show, it corrupts him.
WD 7.177 21
Zoologists may deny that horse-hairs in the water change to
worms, but I find that whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
MMEm 10.423 1
Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know
those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which
corrupts old worlds?
MMEm 10.423 4
Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know
those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which
corrupts old worlds? How much better, more honest, are storming and
conflagration of towns! They are but letting blood which corrupts into
worms and dragons.
corsairs, n. (1)
CbW 6.261 26
Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard, have been taken by
corsairs...and know the realities of human life.
corse, n. (1)
ShP 4.207 4
...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all
I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the
tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost: What may
this mean,/ That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel/ Revisit'st thus
the glimpses of the moon?/
Corsicans, n. (1)
Res 8.145 13
...the Corsicans at the battle of Golo...made use of the bodies
of their dead to form an intrenchment.
Cortes, n. (1)
ET8 5.137 13
...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the
codes of every empire and race;...in the West Indies, the edicts of the
Spanish Cortes;...
Cortez, Hernando, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.128 16
The class of power, the working heroes, the Cortez...see that
[fashion] is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they;...
cortical, adj. (2)
ET8 5.138 9
If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I
suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in
the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another
anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and
caducous;...
CL 12.140 17
So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the
old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly
vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...
Corvisart des Marets, Jean (1)
NMW 4.251 1
Of medicine too [Bonaparte] was fond of talking, and with
those of its practitioners whom he most esteemed,--with Corvisart at Paris...
Corvisart des Martes, Jean (1)
NMW 4.251 8
Covisart candidly agreed with me [said Bonaparte] that all
your filthy mixtures are good for nothing.
Cosdami [Borrow, The Zinca (1)
ET13 5.229 27
George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed
in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The
features of the assembly were twisted...not an individual present but
squinted; the genteel Pepa, the good-humored Chicharona, the Cosdami, all
squinted;...
cosmetic, n. (2)
PPo 8.242 26
These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic
by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in
which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the
eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
Aris 10.55 5
He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in
objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself. Is there...any
cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air
presupposing so undoubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs?
cosmetics, n. (1)
Bost 12.198 17
No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and
grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial
conversation. All else is coarse and external; all else is tailoring and
cosmetics beside this;...
cosmic, adj. (1)
FRep 11.542 27
...the cosmic results will be the same, whatever the daily
events may be.
cosmical, adj. (7)
Bty 6.303 18
The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is a certain
cosmical quality...
Res 8.140 8
What power does Nature not owe to her duration, of amassing
infinitesimals into cosmical forces!
PC 8.211 27
That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to
every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
Dem1 10.22 15
A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may
fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in
foreign parts. What more facile than to project this exuberant selfhood into
the region where individuality is forever bounded by generic and cosmical
laws?
PerF 10.85 13
I find the survey of these cosmical powers a doctrine of
consolation...
Thor 10.479 24
[Thoreau] referred every minute fact to cosmical laws.
TPar 11.285 17
...the political rule is a cosmical rule, that if a man is not
strong in his own district, he is not a good candidate elsewhere.
cosmically, adv. (1)
ET14 5.242 10
In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of
filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of
Swedenborg, so cosmically applied by him, that the man makes his heaven
and hell;...
cosmogonies, n. (1)
GoW 4.286 24
...certain whimsical opinions, cosmogonies and religions of
his own invention...these [Goethe] magnifies.
cosmogony, n. (1)
Pt1 3.32 20
All the value which attaches to...Oken, or any other who
introduces questionable facts into his cosmogony...is the certificate we have
of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
Cosmogony, n. (1)
MMEm 10.425 18
...[the earth's] youthful charms as decked by the hand of
Moses' Cosmogony, will linger about the heart, while Poetry succumbs to
Science.
cosmology, n. (2)
SwM 4.105 4
...the largest application of principles, had been exhibited by
Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology;...
SwM 4.106 8
[Swedenborg] was apt for cosmology...
cosmopolitan, adj. (3)
YA 1.371 8
...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should
become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
ET5 5.92 21
[The English] have...justified their occupancy of the centre of
habitable land, by their supreme ability and cosmopolitan spirit.
ET17 5.297 27
...there is something hard and sterile in [Wordsworth's]
poetry...want of due catholicity and cosmopolitan scope...
Cosmos [Alexander von Humbo (3)
Wth 6.94 26
The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a
man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and
implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...
WD 7.172 10
...with great propriety, Humboldt entitles his book, which
recounts the last results of science, Cosmos.
Humb 11.457 15
With great propriety, [Humboldt] named his sketch of the
results of science Cosmos.
Cosmos, n. (1)
PLT 12.48 4
Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created
to fetch it,-a vessel of honor or of dishonor. 'T is of instant use in the
economy of the Cosmos...
Cossack, adj. (1)
LLNE 10.354 26
Unless [the leader of a community] have a Cossack
roughness of clearing himself of what belongs not, charlatan he must be.
cosset, v. (1)
F 6.6 23
...Nature...does not cosset or pamper us.
cosseted, v. (1)
LLNE 10.325 5
Children had been repressed and kept in the background;
now they were considered, cosseted and pampered.
cosseting, n. (1)
EurB 12.375 24
...this reward granted [the novels of costume or of
circumstance] is property, all-excluding property...a preference and
cosseting which is rude and insulting to all but the minion.
cosseting, v. (1)
Wth 6.93 4
The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer
must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth, and, whatever is
pretended, it ends in cosseting.
cost, n. (37)
MN 1.202 22
None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself...will justify the
cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and
defective person was at last procured.
MR 1.245 18
It is better to go without [the conveniences of life], than to
have them at too great a cost.
Hist 2.29 6
The fact teaches [the child]...how the Pyramids were built,
better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen
and the cost of every tile.
Cir 2.314 15
...the goods which belong to you gravitate to you and need not
be pursued with pains and cost?
GoW 4.287 15
...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of
Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these
grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of
the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to
Newton. The drawing of the line...gives pleasure when Iphigenia and Faust
do not, without any cost of invention comparable to that of Iphigenia and
Faust.
ET11 5.193 23
[English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and
the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a
year.
Pow 6.60 20
...the torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost...
Wth 6.98 17
...pictures, engravings, statues and casts, beside their first cost,
entail expenses, as of galleries and keepers for the exhibition;...
Wth 6.110 18
The cost of the crime and the expense of courts and of
prisons we must bear...
Wth 6.110 21
The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of
immigrants], I will not compute.
Wth 6.122 1
Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of
railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...and so arriving at his end, at
great pleasure to geometers, but with cost to his company.
Ctr 6.131 15
If [nature] wants a thumb, she makes one at the cost of arms
and legs...
Ctr 6.141 14
...a large part of our cost and pains is thrown away.
Ctr 6.144 27
Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for
something fine and romantic, which they are not; and a free admission to
them on an equal footing...would be worth ten times its cost, by
undeceiving him.
SS 7.9 27
We must infer that the ends of thought were peremptory, if they
were to be secured at such ruinous cost.
Civ 7.26 2
Where the banana grows the animal system is...pampered at the
cost of higher qualities...
DL 7.112 23
If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the
parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If all are well
attended, then must the master and mistress be studious of particulars at the
cost of their own accomplishments and growth;...
DL 7.118 26
I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to
get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate,
nor a bed-chamber made ready at too great a cost.
Imtl 8.336 15
Will you, with vast cost and pain, educate your children to be
adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a
masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
Edc1 10.125 24
The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the
public cost, the rudiments of knowledge...
Edc1 10.148 10
It s curious...what vast pains and cost we incur to do wrong.
Edc1 10.151 13
Is it not manifest...that wise men...heartily seeking the
good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to
arouse the young to a just and heroic life;...
Edc1 10.153 24
...there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the
endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind and to govern by
steam. But it is at frightful cost.
MoL 10.258 7
...the issues already appearing overpay the cost.
Thor 10.452 17
...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some
lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be
exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to...keep his
solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his
family and friends...
Thor 10.465 22
Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own
cost to the Yellowstone River...
GSt 10.505 15
When one remembers...the wide correspondence, presently
enlarged by printed circulars, then by newspapers established wholly or
partly at [George Stearns's] own cost;...I think this single will was worth to
the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
GSt 10.506 17
...these public benefits were purchased [by George Stearns]
at a severe cost.
HDC 11.35 9
The great cost of cattle, and the sickening of [the pilgrims']
cattle upon such wild fodder as was never cut before;...are the other
disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
HDC 11.81 3
...whilst the town [Concord] had its own full share of the
public distress, it was very far from desiring relief at the cost of order and
law.
EWI 11.123 27
...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the
negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips.
War 11.152 6
...in the infancy of society...the necessities of the strong will
certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
War 11.163 15
...one is scared to find at what a cost the peace of the globe
is kept.
FSLC 11.196 2
A wicked law cannot be executed by good men, and must
be by bad. Flagitious men must be employed, and every act of theirs is a
stab at the public peace. It cannot be executed at such a cost...
CW 12.178 15
...[trees] grow, when you wake and when you sleep, at
nobody's cost...
Milt1 12.265 23
[Milton]...deliberately undertakes the defence of the
English people, when advised by his physicians that he does it at the cost of
sight.
AgMs 12.361 6
Our [New England] roads are always changing their
direction, and after a man has built at great cost a stone house, a new road is
opened, and he finds himself a mile or two from the highway.
cost, v. (26)
MN 1.206 2
An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing
ages to form and ripen.
Comp 2.99 12
...the President has paid dear for his White House. It has
commonly cost him all his peace...
Chr1 3.104 14
The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account
he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each
bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold.
UGM 4.4 6
...I do not travel to find...ingots that cost too much.
Civ 7.29 2
The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind,
fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.
WD 7.175 2
...to ascertain the discoverers of America needs as much
voyaging as the discovery cost.
WD 7.182 1
...what has been best done in the world,--the works of genius,--
cost nothing.
Boks 7.196 11
...good travellers stop at the best hotels; for though they cost
more, they do not cost much more...
Clbs 7.225 4
We need tonics, but must have those that cost little or no
reaction.
PI 8.24 1
It cost thousands of years only to make the motion of the earth
suspected.
Supl 10.174 1
...these raptures of fire and frost, which...make the speech
salt and biting, would cost me the days of well-being which are now so
cheap to me, yet so valued.
EzRy 10.385 10
...on 15th May [1735] we have this [from Joseph
Emerson]: Shay brought home; mending cost thirty shillings.
Thor 10.453 10
...[Thoreau] was very competent to live in any part of the
world. It would cost him less time to supply his wants than another.
Thor 10.455 6
[Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he
could not meet the individuals to any purpose. They make their pride, he
said, in making their dinner cost much;...
Thor 10.455 7
[Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he
could not meet the individuals to any purpose. They make their pride, he
said, in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my
dinner cost little.
Thor 10.456 4
It cost [Thoreau] nothing to say No;...
EWI 11.124 1
...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes']
work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips. What if it cost a few
unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa?
FSLC 11.209 1
'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand
millions of dollars.
FSLN 11.219 10
[the Fugitive Slave Law] cost [Webster] his life...
ACiv 11.305 7
...if we conquer the enemy [the South],-what then? We
shall still have to keep him under, and it will cost as much to hold him
down as it did to get him down.
HCom 11.345 5
We see...a new era, worth to mankind all the treasure and
all the lives it has cost;...
SMC 11.358 19
Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he
confided to his sister...that he had long trained himself by forcing himself,
on the suspicion of any near danger, to go directly up to it, cost him what
struggles it might.
PLT 12.7 1
...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible
it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on
his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all
inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
PLT 12.50 1
The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are
seen slower performed in palaeontology. Many races it cost them to achieve
the completion that is now in the life of one.
Mem 12.92 22
...in the history of character the day comes when you are
incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion]. Then...you look
on it...with wonder at the deed, and with applause at the pain it has cost you.
ACri 12.296 15
[Herrick was] Like Montaigne in this, that his subject cost
him nothing...
coster-mongers, n. [costermongers,] (3)
ET4 5.63 12
The coster-mongers of London streets hold cowardice in
loathing...
ET4 5.69 2
...the bullies of the costermongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials
and Spitalfield, [the English] know how to wake up.
ET11 5.173 12
...the fair idea of a settled government [in England]
connecting itself with heraldic names...was too pleasing a vision to be
shattered by...the politics of shoe-makers and costermongers.
costlier, adj. (2)
PPo 8.260 19
I have sought for thee a costlier dome/ Than Mahmoud's
palace high,/ And thou, returning, find thy home/ In the apple of Love's
eye./
PLT 12.22 9
...a mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of
the costlier illustrations...
costliest, adj. (3)
Mrs1 3.140 6
...the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in
fine society as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
CPL 11.508 5
[Books'] costliest benefit is that they set us free from
themselves;...
ACri 12.283 12
...to [writing] the education is costliest.
costly, adj. (31)
MR 1.243 4
[The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] may
leave to others the costly conveniences of housekeeping...
Con 1.317 17
All this costly culture of yours is not necessary.
Hist 2.25 18
The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons
speak simply...
SR 2.62 4
To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book
have an alien and forbidding air...
Lov1 2.185 12
...adding up costly advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering
that...they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
Fdsp 2.206 13
Friendship may be said to require natures so rare and costly...
that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
Pt1 3.7 22
...Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer as
Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon.
Exp 3.48 18
[Grief], like all the rest...never introduces me into the reality,
for contact with which we would even pay the costly price of sons and
lovers.
ET2 5.30 9
Such discomfort and such danger as the narratives of the
captain and mate disclose are bad enough as the costly fee we pay for
entrance to Europe;...
ET6 5.107 21
Hither [to his house the Englishman] brings all that is rare
and costly...
ET10 5.164 26
Every whim of exaggerated egotism is put into stone and
iron [in England], into silver and gold, with costly deliberation and detail.
Wth 6.87 15
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing from where
it abounds to where it is costly.
Wth 6.113 23
Let [the realist] delegate to others the costly courtesies and
decorations of social life.
Ctr 6.163 27
All that class of the severe and restrictive virtues, said Burke,
are almost too costly for humanity.
OA 7.328 7
...a man does not live long and actively without costly
additions of experience...
Aris 10.33 24
Some qualities [Nature] carefully fixes and transmits, but
some, and those the finer, she exhales with the breath of the individual, as
too costly to perpetuate.
Edc1 10.138 7
...we sacrifice the genius of the pupil...to a neat and safe
uniformity, as the Turks whitewash the costly mosaics of ancient art...
Edc1 10.148 14
...in education...we are continually trying costly machinery
against nature...
Supl 10.177 21
...the Orientals excel in costly arts...
Supl 10.177 23
...the Orientals excel...in weaving on hand-looms costly
stuffs from silk and wool...
Schr 10.278 20
In making this claim of costly accomplishments for the
scholar, I chiefly wish to infer the dignity of his work by the lustre of his
appointments.
SlHr 10.444 3
[Samuel Hoar's] beauty was pathetic and touching in these
latest days, and, as now appears, it awakened a certain tender fear in all
who saw him, that the costly ornament of our homes and halls and streets
was speedily to be removed.
ACiv 11.302 4
...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax,
governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as
much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
CPL 11.495 17
Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly
gifts to education, civility and culture...
FRep 11.533 26
Life is grown and growing so costly that it threatens to kill
us.
PLT 12.44 7
...the gods have guarded this privilege [of sensibility] with
costly penalty.
II 12.86 26
There is a probity of the Intellect, which demands, if possible,
virtues more costly than any Bible has consecrated.
CW 12.173 14
...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the
costly gardens...
CW 12.175 17
Horses and carriages are costly toys...
ACri 12.283 14
On the writer the choicest influences are concentrated,-
nothing that does not go to his costly equipment...
PPr 12.384 1
It is a costly proof of character that the most renowned
scholar of England [Carlyle] should take his reputation in his hand and
should descend into the [political] ring;...
costly, n. (1)
EurB 12.370 7
The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer
[Tennyson]...his taste for the costly and gorgeous, discriminate the musky
poet of gardens and conservatories...
costs, n. (3)
Wth 6.110 24
The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of
immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs will
begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic
customers of 1800.
EWI 11.130 11
...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships...
freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and
Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained
in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the
costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold
for slaves, to pay that expense.
EPro 11.319 5
...an event [Emancipation] worth the dreadful war, worth its
costs and uncertainties, seems now to be close before us.
costs, v. (35)
MR 1.244 8
...it is...not worship, that costs so much.
Tran 1.356 16
Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to
some vocation...or morning or evening call, which they resist as what does
not concern them. But it costs such sleepless nights...they have so many
moods about it;...
Prd1 2.238 17
It is a proverb that courtesy costs nothing;...
Cir 2.307 24
Every personal consideration that we allow costs us heavenly
state.
NR 3.244 25
...a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear than
a poor one;...
UGM 4.6 16
It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on
our eyes;...
UGM 4.6 18
It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other
men.
ET5 5.88 6
...it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views;
but the indulgence...costs great crises...
ET6 5.111 25
'T is in bad taste, is the most formidable word an Englishman
can pronounce. But this japan costs them dear.
ET7 5.122 23
[The English] love stoutness...in declining money or
promotion that costs any concession.
ET9 5.151 6
...this childish [English] patriotism costs something...
Wth 6.107 12
A pound of paper costs so much...
Wth 6.108 10
If a St. Michael's pear sells for a shilling, it costs a shilling
to raise it.
Wth 6.108 13
You may not see that the fine pear costs you a shilling, but it
costs the community so much.
Wth 6.108 14
You may not see that the fine pear costs you a shilling, but it
costs the community so much.
Wth 6.109 11
Money often costs too much...
Wth 6.114 11
...vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and
peace...
CbW 6.264 20
'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs nothing...
CbW 6.264 22
'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs nothing, such are its
preserving qualities in damp climates. Well, sunshine costs less, yet is finer
pigment.
WD 7.161 3
The chain of Western railroads from Chicago to the Pacific has
planted cities and civilization in less time than it costs to bring an orchard
into bearing.
WD 7.174 26
...your homage to Dante costs you so much sailing;...
Cour 7.263 15
...every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
Cour 7.266 15
Hear what women say of doing a task by sheer force of will:
it costs them a fit of sickness.
Suc 7.298 2
Now it costs a rare combination of clouds and lights to
overcome the common and mean.
PI 8.57 7
It costs the early bard little talent to chant more impressively than
the later, more cultivated poets.
Elo2 8.126 22
...it costs a great heat to enable a heavy man to come up with
those who have a quick sensibility.
Insp 8.281 22
...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to a
thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
Aris 10.31 18
[The best young men] do not yet covet...any exuberance of
wealth, wealth that costs too much;...
FSLC 11.196 25
I wonder that our acute people...should not find out that
an immoral law costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.
FSLN 11.218 21
[The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a
head his bread of knowledge costs...
ACiv 11.308 16
...this action [emancipation], which costs so little...rids the
world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery]...
EPro 11.321 24
What if...the gold dollar costs one hundred and twenty-seven
cents?
II 12.73 11
...really the capital discovery of modern agriculture is that it
costs no more to keep a good tree than a bad one.
II 12.82 21
[A man] has a facility, which costs him nothing, to do
somewhat admirable to all men.
CInt 12.130 20
Power costs nothing to the powerful.
costume, n. (22)
LE 1.163 15
The difference of circumstance is merely costume.
SR 2.86 12
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume...
Mrs1 3.148 19
...[Scott's] dialogue is in costume...
GoW 4.277 24
Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every sense...called by its
admirers the only delineation of modern society,--as if other novels...dealt
with costume and condition, this with the spirit of life.
ET4 5.65 18
I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at
Liverpool; porter, drayman, coachman, guard,--what substantial,
respectable, grandfatherly figures, with costume and manners to suit.
Bty 6.293 14
I suppose the Parisian milliner...will know how to reconcile
the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by interposing the just
gradations.
Bty 6.300 6
...petulant old gentlemen...who see, after a world of pains have
been successfully taken for the costume, how the least mistake in sentiment
takes all the beauty out of your clothes,--affirm that the secret of ugliness
consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ill 6.323 23
Riches and poverty are a thick or thin costume;...
Art2 7.45 22
...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is
national or usual; as...the custom of draping a statue in classical costume.
Boks 7.214 23
...the novel...will not always be the novel of costume merely.
PI 8.44 26
In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;
we give them appropriate figures, faces, costume;...
QO 8.187 18
If we observe the tenacity with which nations cling to their
first types of costume...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the
latest.
QO 8.196 17
...many men can write better under a mask than for
themselves; as...Le Sage in Spanish costume...
Dem1 10.9 9
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance...
Aris 10.36 1
...inequalities exist, not in costume, but in the powers of
expression and action;...
Supl 10.177 10
The costume [of the East], the articles in which wealth is
displayed, are in the same extremes.
CSC 10.374 16
A great variety of dialect and of costume was noticed [at
the Chardon Street Convention];...
FRep 11.533 23
Every village, every city, has its architecture, its costume...
from England.
WSL 12.344 20
[Landor] draws his own portrait in the costume of a village
schoolmaster...
EurB 12.375 2
...the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds:
first, the novels of costume or of circumstance...
EurB 12.376 2
Except in the stories of Edgeworth and Scott...the novels of
costume are all one...
EurB 12.377 10
The novels of Fashion, of Disraeli, Mrs. Gore, Mr. Ward,
belong to the class of novels of costume...
costumes, n. (8)
SL 2.151 6
The scholar...apes the customs and costumes of the man of the
world to deserve the smile of beauty...
ET4 5.65 24
The pictures on the chimney-tiles of [the American's] nursery
were pictures of these [English] people. Here they are in the identical
costumes and air which so took him.
ET6 5.109 22
[The English] keep their old customs, costumes, and pomps...
ET13 5.225 17
The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking
emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind; so that when
you came to read the liturgy to a modern congregation, it...suggested a
masquerade of old costumes.
Bty 6.291 17
How beautiful are ships on the sea! but ships in the theatre,--
or ships kept for picturesque effect on Virginia Water by George IV., and
men hired to stand in fitting costumes at a penny an hour!
SS 7.4 25
[My friend] went to Vienna, to Smyrna, to London. In all the
variety of costumes...he could never discover a man in the street who wore
anything like his own dress.
PLT 12.58 23
No wonder the children love masks and costumes...
Trag 12.414 15
Time the consoler...dries the freshest tears by obtruding
new figures, new costumes, new roads, on our eye, new voices on our ear.
cot, n. (1)
RBur 11.438 3
He was the music to whose tone/ The common pulse of man
keeps time/ In cot or castle's mirth or moan,/ In cold or sunny clime./
coterie, n. (1)
QO 8.199 12
...does it not look...as if we stood, not in a coterie of
prompters...but in a circle of intelligences...
coteries, n. (1)
Clbs 7.243 18
...a history of clubs...tracing the clubs and coteries in each
country, would be an important chapter in history.
cotillon, n. (1)
PI 8.70 6
In a cotillon some persons dance and others await their turn when
the music and the figure come to them.
cotillon-room, n. (1)
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...
cotillons, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.131 24
A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes
unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster
pass...and find favor, as long as...the iron shoes do not wish to dance in
waltzes and cotillons.
cottage, adj. (1)
Pt1 3.33 11
The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the
snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an
emblem of the state of man.
cottage, n. (12)
LE 1.174 22
...it is only as the garden, the cottage...are a sort of mechanical
aids to [independence of spirit], that they are of value.
Mrs1 3.134 16
I may go into a cottage, and find a farmer who feels that he
is the man I have come to see...
Nat2 3.190 24
...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the
waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
ET6 5.112 11
A severe decorum rules the court and the cottage [in
England].
ET17 5.296 17
...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage
where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and
plainest fare;...
Wth 6.120 1
When Mr. Cockayne takes a cottage in the country, and will
keep his cow, he thinks a cow is a creature that is fed on hay and gives a
pail of milk twice a day.
Wth 6.120 12
...how can Cockayne, who has no pastures, and leaves his
cottage daily in the cars at business hours, be pothered with fatting and
killing oxen?
CbW 6.267 27
The young people do not like the town, do not like the sea-shore,
they will...find a dear cottage deep in the mountains...
Bty 6.302 8
...if a man can build a plain cottage with such symmetry as to
make all the fine palaces look cheap and vulgar;...this is still the legitimate
dominion of beauty.
Ill 6.315 22
Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I
saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance...
and talked of the dear cottage where so many joyful hours had flown.
Suc 7.300 18
...the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside
populous, important...
RBur 11.441 16
...[Burns] has endeared the farmhouse and cottage...
cottages, n. (2)
Hist 2.39 12
[Each man] shall...bring with him into humble cottages the
blessing of the morning stars...
MAng1 12.237 5
[Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...not of the
simple inhabitants of lowly streets or humble cottages, but of that sordid
and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in
them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.
cottas, terra, n. (1)
PI 8.13 12
Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift, even when
the thought is of no great scope, as when Michel Angelo, praising the terra
cottas, said, If this earth were to become marble, woe to the antiques!
cotton, adj. (6)
Ill 6.321 13
...if we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we
can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all but some galaxy
which we braided...
OA 7.332 13
The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair...
a cotton cap covered his bald head.
HDC 11.38 1
Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem,
Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English,
receiving for the same, some fathoms of Wampumpeag, hatchets, hoes,
knives, cotton cloth and shirts.
ACiv 11.300 27
Can you convince...the iron interest, or the cotton interest,
by reading passages from Milton or Montesquieu?
EdAd 11.392 22
A God starts up behind cotton bales also.
FRep 11.512 19
...the interest nations took in our war was exasperated by
the importance of the cotton trade.
Cotton, Charles, n. (2)
ShP 4.203 15
...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and
acquaintances...Charles Cotton, John Pym...
ET14 5.234 3
Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar speech. Donne...
Hooker, Cotton...wrote it.
cotton, n. (22)
MN 1.192 26
Let there be worse cotton and better men.
MR 1.237 7
Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of...cotton...
by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to
my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
MR 1.237 18
...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the
cotton of the cotton.
MR 1.237 19
...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the
cotton of the cotton.
Mrs1 3.120 11
...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these
horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man
serves himself with metals, wood, stone, glass, gum, cotton, silk and wool;...
UGM 4.8 26
The inventors of fire...cotton;...severally make an easy way
for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
UGM 4.9 19
Justice has already been done to steam...to corn and cotton;...
MoS 4.151 27
The trade in our streets...thinks nothing of the force which
necessitated traders and a trading planet to exist: no, but sticks to cotton,
sugar, wool and salt.
ET10 5.167 15
The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the
man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and
presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of
linen...
Wth 6.109 23
...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton,
sixpence for tobacco, and so on;...
PC 8.208 6
Who does not prefer the age...of coal, petroleum, cotton, steam,
electricity, and the spectroscope?
PerF 10.88 16
The world stands on ideas, and not on iron or cotton;...
SovE 10.211 6
'T is very shallow to say that cotton, or iron, or silver and
gold are kings of the world;...
MoL 10.242 21
The country was full of activity, with its wheat, coal, iron,
cotton;...
EWI 11.102 14
These men [negro slaves], our benefactors, as they are
producers...of cotton, of sugar, of rum and brandy;..I am heart-sick when I
read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
EWI 11.124 14
The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted
blood in it. The coffee was fragrant;...the cotton clothed the world.
ACiv 11.297 13
...for two or three ages [slavery] has lasted, and has yielded
a certain quantity of rice, cotton and sugar.
CPL 11.497 13
The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance to history than
cotton, or silver, or gold.
CPL 11.501 18
[Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a
few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To
these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what...
weaves cotton, is anything worth, I have little to say.
FRep 11.512 20
...what is cotton? One plant out of some two hundred
thousand known to the botanist...
FRep 11.513 1
...as Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton,
so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant.
FRep 11.530 7
...if there is fate in corn and cotton, so is there fate in
thought...
cotton-mule, n. (1)
ET5 5.93 7
The steam-chamber of Watt, the locomotive of Stephenson, the
cotton-mule of Roberts, perform the labor of the world.
Cotton's, Charles, n. (1)
MoS 4.162 15
A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays
[of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy.
cotton-spinner, n. (1)
ET5 5.76 3
What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links, against a cotton-spinner
with steam in his mill;...
cotton-wool, n. (1)
Elo1 7.74 3
I know no remedy against [an oiled tongue] but cotton-wool...
couch, n. (1)
Insp 8.286 1
Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses/...
couch, v. (1)
SwM 4.119 11
When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce the law most
sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable.
couched, v. (3)
PNR 4.88 27
[Plato's] writings have...the sempiternal youth of poetry. For
their arguments, most of them, might have been couched in sonnets...
ET14 5.242 14
In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of
filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the identity-philosophy
of Schelling, couched in the statement that all difference is
quantitative.
Bost 12.201 12
There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you
may hear in the corners of streets...I 'm as good as you be...
coucou, n. (1)
Carl 10.497 2
Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of
Europe, when...every one ran away in a coucou, with his head shaved,
through the Barriere de Passy, one man remained who believed he was put
there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
cough, n. (1)
SMC 11.359 6
The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]...
tender as a woman in his care for a cough or a chilblain in his men;...
cough, v. (2)
Ctr 6.133 11
...we have seen children who finding themselves of no
account when grown people come in, will cough until they choke, to draw
attention.
PLT 12.28 21
[Nature] is immensely rich; [man] is welcome to her entire
goods, but she...will not so much as beckon or cough;...
coughs, v. (1)
Farm 7.151 22
...[the first planter] coughs, he has a stitch in his side, he has
a fever and chills;...
Coulanges, Fustel de, n. (1)
Plu 10.297 2
...M. Fustel de Coulanges has explored from its roots in the
Aryan race, then in their Greek and Roman descendants, the primaeval
religion of the household.
coulisses, n. (1)
Ill 6.316 1
...how dare any one, if he could, pluck away the coulisses, stage
effects and ceremonies, by which [women] live.
council, adj. (4)
ET11 5.191 20
In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell
the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper
at his council table...
Pow 6.75 11
There was, in the whole city, but one street in which Pericles
was ever seen, the street which led to the market-place and the council
house.
Elo2 8.109 2
He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great
forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears
the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/...
EWI 11.127 22
...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence
on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day
being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime
Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire
into the country to read the report.
Council, Fourth Lateran, n. (1)
LS 11.3 21
In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer
should communicate at least once in a year...
council, n. (17)
YA 1.376 10
...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have said to his council,
The age is embarrassed with new opinions;...
NER 3.265 17
Many of us have differed in opinion, and we could find no
man who could make the truth plain, but possibly a college, or an
ecclesiastical council, might.
ET15 5.267 27
...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests
the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons
of exact information, and with settled views of policy...availed themselves
of [the writers'] younger energy and eloquence to plead the cause. Both the
council and the executive departments gain by this division.
Bty 6.281 17
We should go to the ornithologist with a new feeling if he
could teach us what the social birds say when they sit in the autumn
council...
Elo1 7.82 15
The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows
like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say. It is as if, amidst the
king's council at Madrid, Ximenes urged that an advantage might be gained
of France...
Clbs 7.241 8
...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their
accomplishment...makes them chancellors and commanders of council and
of action...whom we now consider.
Cour 7.264 17
Courage is equality to the problem...in council, or in
action;...
Schr 10.277 21
It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree
that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he is not only
widely intelligent, but carries a council in his breast for the emergency of to-day;...
Carl 10.492 2
In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says, the only great
Parliament, they sat...grave as an ecumenical council...
GSt 10.506 9
There [George Stearns] sat in the council, a simple, resolute
Republican...
HDC 11.71 12
In September [1774]...the inhabitants [of Concord]...forbade
the justices to open the court of sessions. This little town then assumed the
sovereignty. It was judge and jury and council and king.
HDC 11.73 20
This little battalion [of minute-men], though in their hasty
council some were urgent to stand their ground, retreated before the enemy
to the high land on the other bank of the river...
EWI 11.104 27
The richest and greatest, the prime minister of England, the
king's privy council were obliged to say that [the story of West Indian
slaves] was too true.
EWI 11.127 26
...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence
on the [slave] trade (a bulky folio embodying...all the examinations before
the council) was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being
named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister,
and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the
country to read the report.
TPar 11.286 15
Such was the largeness of [Theodore Parker's] reception of
facts and his skill to employ them that it looked as if he were some
president of council to whom a score of telegraphs were ever bringing in
reports;...
SMC 11.354 3
As long as we debate in council, both sides may form their
private guess what the event may be, or which is the strongest.
Bost 12.189 8
On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated
forty of his subjects...the council...for the planting, ruling, ordering and
governing of New England in America.
Council, n. (4)
HDC 11.44 10
...it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots,
that spoke through [the townsmen] to the Governor and the Council of
Massachusetts Bay.
HDC 11.46 8
...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown
so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the
laws and to assess all monies. And the General Court, thus constituted, only
needed to go into separate session from the Council, as they did in 1644, to
become essentially the same assembly they are to this day.
HDC 11.66 17
I find, in the [Concord] Church Records, the charges
preferred against [Daniel Bliss], his answer thereto, and the result of the
Council.
HDC 11.67 11
...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in
some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon
uneasy that I had used the word, lest some would put a wrong meaning
thereupon. The Council admonished Mr. Bliss of some improprieties of
expression...
Council of Assistants, n. (1)
HDC 11.43 1
The charter gave to the freemen of the Company of
Massachusetts Bay the election of the Governor and Council of Assistants.
Council, Privy, n. (1)
Grts 8.317 2
When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against
[Henry VII] was brought to London, and examined before the Privy
Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl
govern all Ireland, replied the King.
council-chamber, n. (1)
PLT 12.38 6
These [spiritual] facts, this essence [Truth], are not new; they
are old and eternal, but our seeing of them is new. Having seen them we...
pass into the council-chamber and government of Nature.
council-chambers, n. (1)
OA 7.320 3
Age is comely...in council-chambers...
councillor, n. (1)
HDC 11.63 10
[Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy
from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676.
The following year, he was sent to England...as agent for the Colony; and
on his return, in 1685, was a royal councillor.
councils, n. (9)
Nat 1.31 23
Long hereafter, amidst agitation and terror in national
councils...these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre...
Nat 1.39 7
What noble emotions dilate the mortal as he enters into the
councils of the creation...
Con 1.295 12
The war [between Conservatism and Innovation] rages not
only...in national councils and ecclesiastical synods...
OA 7.321 8
...in all governments, the councils of power were held by the
old;...
CSC 10.375 11
The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was
characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and
earnestness, whilst many of the most intellectual and cultivated persons
attended its councils.
GSt 10.505 12
When one remembers...the councils in which [George
Stearns] satI think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand
ordinary partisans...
HDC 11.66 13
Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest sympathy with [George
Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his people.
Party and mutual councils were called...
War 11.153 20
[Alexander's conquest of the East] had the effect of uniting
into one great interest the divided commonwealths of Greece, and infusing
a new and more enlarged public spirit into the councils of their statesmen.
TPar 11.288 8
It will not be in the acts of city councils, nor of obsequious
mayors;...that coming generations will study what really befell [in
Boston];...
Councils, Oecumenical, n. (1)
MoL 10.245 22
A French prophet of our age, Fourier, predicted that one
day, instead of by battles and Oecumenical Councils, the rival portions of
humanity would dispute each other's excellence in the manufacture of little
cakes.
Councils of Ten, n. (1)
PC 8.218 15
Popes and kings and Councils of Ten are very sharp with their
censorships and inquisitions...
Counsel, Best, n. (1)
Grts 8.310 16
...there is for each a Best Counsel which enjoins the fit word
and the fit act for every moment.
counsel, n. (62)
Nat 1.57 3
Of [Ideas] took [the Supreme Being] counsel.
MR 1.241 26
I would not quite forget the venerable counsel of the Egyptian
mysteries...
Tran 1.345 17
In looking at the class of counsel, and power...of the land...
one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and
heavenly world, to these?
Hist 2.39 26
Hear the rats in the wall, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus
under foot, the lichen on the log. ... As old as the Caucasion man,--perhaps
older,--these creatures have kept their counsel beside him...
Comp 2.109 26
Bad counsel confounds the adviser.
SL 2.159 19
[A man] may be a solitary eater, but he cannot keep his foolish
counsel.
Prd1 2.230 22
We must call the highest prudence to counsel...
Hsm1 2.260 20
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young
person...
Hsm1 2.262 19
I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk,
but after the counsel of his own bosom.
NER 3.283 8
...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and
foreshow, is one who...shall not take counsel of flesh and blood...
NMW 4.232 13
[Bonaparte's] principal means are in himself. He asks
counsel of no other.
ET3 5.42 26
Nature held counsel with herself and said, My Romans are
gone. To build my new empire, I will choose a rude race, all masculine,
with brutish strength.
ET5 5.93 15
...in the complications of the trade and politics of their vast
empire, [the English] have been equal to every exigency, with counsel and
with conduct.
ET7 5.125 4
It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by
counsel...
ET7 5.125 5
It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by
counsel, and made up his mind; then the counsel for the other side taking
their turn to speak, he found himself so unsettled and perplexed that he
exclaimed, So help me God! I will never listen to evidence again.
ET11 5.195 8
...Sir Philip Sidney in his letter to his brother...gave plain and
hearty counsel.
ET12 5.199 22
I saw several faithful, high-minded young men [at Oxford],
some of them in the mood of making sacrifices for peace of mind,--a topic,
of course, on which I had no counsel to offer.
Wth 6.123 12
Use has made the farmer wise, and the foolish citizen learns
to take his counsel.
Wsp 6.212 15
Only those can help in counsel or conduct who did not make
a party pledge to defend this or that...
CbW 6.261 17
...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise counsel in a court of
law.
Elo1 7.86 23
I remember long ago being attracted, by the distinction of the
counsel...into the court-room.
Elo1 7.86 25
I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room.
The prisoner's counsel were the strongest and cunningest lawyers in the
commonwealth.
Cour 7.269 20
In all applications [courage] is the same power,--the habit of
reference to one's own mind, as the home of all truth and counsel...
Suc 7.289 3
Lord Brougham's single duty of counsel is, to get the prisoner
clear.
Suc 7.292 17
...we do not carry a counsel in our breasts, or do not know it;...
SA 8.93 5
If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in
the speech of superior women;--which...carried ingenuity, character, wise
counsel and affection...
SA 8.99 6
See how it lies there in you; and if there is no counsel, offer none.
Elo2 8.109 9
...No mimic; from [the patriot's] breast his counsel drew,/
Believed the eloquent was aye the true;/...
Elo2 8.116 21
...[the orator] taking no counsel of past things...surprises [the
people] with his tidings...
Elo2 8.129 8
Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in
Parliament in favor of that clause of the bill which allowed the prisoner the
benefit of counsel, fell into such a disorder that he was not able to
proceed;...
PPo 8.256 14
I, too, have a counsel for thee; O, mark it and keep it,/ Since I
received the same from the Master above:/ Seek not for faith or for truth in
a world of light-minded girls;/ A thousand suitors reckons this dangerous
bride./
Grts 8.310 12
You are rightly fond of certain books or men that you have
found to excite your reverence and emulation. But none of these can
compare with the greatness of that counsel which is open to you in happy
solitude.
Grts 8.315 3
[Napoleon's] advice to his brother...was: I have only one
counsel for you,-Be Master.
Aris 10.62 10
...[the true man] is to know...that there is a master grace and
dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form, to which
utility and even genius must do homage. And it is the sign and badge of this
nobility, the drawing his counsel from his own breast.
PerF 10.73 10
Whilst these [natural] forces act on us from the outside and
we are not in their counsel, we call them Fate.
PerF 10.78 22
...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces']
inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person...wise
in counsel...
Prch 10.234 25
...though I observe the deafness to counsel among men, yet
the power of sympathy is always great;...
MoL 10.255 4
...neither saint nor sage, can compare with that counsel
which is open to you.
LLNE 10.340 11
Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley,
to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people
together...
LLNE 10.357 2
[Thoreau] was a good Abbot Samson, and carried a
counsel in his breast.
LLNE 10.363 5
...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who
found his daily enjoyment...with the fine boys who were skating and
playing ball or bird-hunting;...yet was he the chosen counsellor to whom
the guardians [at Brook Farm] would repair on any hitch or difficulty that
occurred, and draw from him a wise counsel.
CSC 10.376 18
...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention]
found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and
transfiguration which accompanies...a man...who...awaits confidently the
new emergency for the new counsel.
EzRy 10.393 10
The usual experiences of men...[Ezra Ripley] studied them
all, and sympathized so well in these that he was excellent company and
counsel to all...
Thor 10.462 23
[Thoreau]...could give judicious counsel in the gravest
private or public affairs.
HDC 11.46 2
It was on doubts concerning their own power, that, in 1634, a
committee repaired to [John Winthrop] for counsel...
HDC 11.47 4
Here [in the town-meeting] the rich gave counsel, but the
poor also;...
HDC 11.48 27
...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and
private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town
Records], as proof that...if the good counsel prevailed, the sneaking counsel
did not fail to be suggested;...
LVB 11.94 25
On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of
government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any
good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery,
appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.
EWI 11.136 6
I was a slave, said the counsel of [George] Somerset,
speaking for his client, for I was in America...
FSLC 11.182 23
...[the crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed...how
competent we are to give counsel and help in a day of trial.
FSLC 11.207 23
Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that
slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest
counsel of her own?
ACiv 11.307 6
...the North will for a time have its full share and more, in
place and counsel.
ALin 11.335 12
There, by...his even temper, his fertile counsel, his
humanity, [Lincoln] stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch.
Wom 11.425 23
Every woman being the...wife, daughter, sister, mother, of
a man, she can never be very far from his ear, never not of his counsel...
SHC 11.432 3
What work of man will compare with the plantation of a
park? It dignifies life. It is a seat for friendship, counsel, taste and religion.
FRep 11.511 17
Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor
Flaxman to counsel...
Bost 12.203 13
...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom
the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light...
some tender minister hospitable to Whitfield against the counsel of all the
ministers;...
Bost 12.207 10
With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston]
took immense pleasure in...contravening the counsel of the clergy;...
Milt1 12.250 9
The lover of [Milton's] genius will always regret that he
should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not have taken
counsel of his own lofty heart at this, as at other times...
Milt1 12.264 11
His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and
gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight; nor
needed to expect the gilt spur...to stir him up, by his counsel and his arm, to
secure and protect attempted innocence.
Milt1 12.279 8
...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the
angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who...taking counsel only of himself,
endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace
and dignity...
PPr 12.379 10
[Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples honestly with the facts
lying before all men...and...offers his best counsel to his brothers.
Counsel, Queen's, n. (1)
ET7 5.122 25
The [English] barrister refuses the silk gown of Queen's
Counsel, if his junior have it one day earlier.
counsel, v. (3)
Prch 10.233 15
...if I had to counsel a young preacher, I should say: When
there is any difference felt between the foot-board of the pulpit and the
floor of the parlor, you have not yet said that which you should say.
HDC 11.83 4
Concord has always been noted for its ministers. The living
need no praise of mine. Yet it is among the sources of satisfaction and
gratitude, this day, that the aged [Ezra Ripley]...our fathers' counsellor and
friend, is spared to counsel and intercede for the sons.
Let 12.404 12
As far as our correspondents have entangled their private
griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage
themselves as fast as possible.
counselled, v. (1)
Wom 11.415 16
[The equality of the sexes] is even more perfect in the later
sect of the Shakers, where no business is broached or counselled without
the intervention of one elder and one elderess.
counselling, v. (1)
YA 1.386 4
If any man has a talent...for counselling poor farmers how to
turn their estates to good husbandry...let him in the county-town...put up his
sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
counsellor, n. (10)
SL 2.156 27
I have heard an experienced counsellor say that he never
feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart
that his client ought to have a verdict.
Prd1 2.234 3
Let [a man] esteem Nature a perpetual counsellor...
Prd1 2.238 4
In the occurrence of unpleasant things among neighbors, fear
comes readily to heart and magnifies the consequence of the other party;
but it is a bad counsellor.
MoS 4.171 12
...though the town and state and way of living, which our
counsellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity, yet
men rightly go for him...
OA 7.317 13
...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table,
his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a babe found exposed in a
basket by the river-side...
PPo 8.240 18
[Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg, king of birds...
LLNE 10.363 3
...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who
found his daily enjoyment...with the fine boys who were skating and
playing ball or bird-hunting;...yet was he the chosen counsellor to whom
the guardians [at Brook Farm] would repair on any hitch or difficulty that
occurred...
HDC 11.83 3
Concord has always been noted for its ministers. The living
need no praise of mine. Yet it is among the sources of satisfaction and
gratitude, this day, that the aged [Ezra Ripley]...our fathers' counsellor and
friend, is spared to counsel and intercede for the sons.
FRep 11.512 11
The marine insurance office has its mathematical
counsellor to settle averages;...
PPr 12.388 4
...we at this distance are not so far removed from any of the
specific evils [of the English State], and are deeply participant in too many,
not to share the gloom and thank the love and courage of the counsellor
[Carlyle].
counsellors, n. (2)
SwM 4.133 21
All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they
who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon
ferries them all over in his boat; kings, counsellors, cavaliers, doctors...
LVB 11.95 1
Our counsellors and old statesmen here say that ten years ago
they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed
Indian measures could not be executed;...
Counsels, Infinite, n. (1)
Tran 1.351 25
...Cannot we...without complaint, or even with good-humor,
await our turn of action in the Infinite Counsels?
counsels, n. (16)
YA 1.388 11
I find no expression...especially in our newspapers, of a high
national feeling, no lofty counsels that rightfully stir the blood.
Exp 3.83 16
This is a fruit,--that I should not ask for a rash effect from
meditations, counsels and the hiving of truths.
Chr1 3.90 3
[Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force...
by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot
impart;...
Chr1 3.107 8
...forgive the counsels; they are very natural.
ET7 5.126 5
Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close
intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they
speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere infirmity without
design;/...
Elo1 7.72 3
[Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise
Ulysses...knowing all wiles and wise counsels.
Aris 10.63 20
Let [the man of honor]...say, The time will come when these
poor enfans perdus of revolution, will have instructed their party, if only by
their fate, and wiser counsels will prevail;...
MoL 10.241 13
...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...
Schr 10.285 3
These questions [of life] speak...to Genius...whose private
counsels are not tinged with selfishness, but are laws.
MMEm 10.432 18
[Mary Moody Emerson] gave high counsels.
EPro 11.318 11
Against all timorous counsels [Lincoln] had the courage to
seize the moment;...
ALin 11.334 19
...in the Babel of counsels and parties, this man [Lincoln]
wrought incessantly...laboring to find what the people wanted, and how to
obtain that.
EdAd 11.387 26
Lovers of our country, but not always approvers of the
public counsels, we should certainly be glad to give good advice in politics.
EdAd 11.388 23
...we have seen the best understandings of New England,
the trusted leaders of her counsels...say, We are too old to stand for what is
called a New England sentiment any longer.
CInt 12.120 15
[Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it, my counsels
to you are not such whereby I should grow great among you...
PPr 12.379 22
...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for
the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking, recommended to him by the
desire to give some timely counsels...
counsels, v. (1)
Schr 10.264 25
The poet counsels his own son as if he were a merchant.
count, n. (1)
ET4 5.44 15
...you cannot draw the line where a race begins or ends. Hence
every writer makes a different count.
count, v. (42)
LE 1.156 5
...when events occur of great import, I count over these
representatives of opinion, whom they will affect, as if I were counting
nations.
LT 1.262 21
I count myself nothing before [persons].
Hist 2.27 7
...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no
more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception...why should I count
Egyptian years?
Prd1 2.232 4
The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws
of the senses trivial and to count them nothing considered with his devotion
to his art.
Int 2.338 18
...we can count all our good books;...
Exp 3.47 13
How many individuals can we count in society?...
NER 3.256 14
...I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility
to behave well and nobly to that person whom I pay with money;...
UGM 4.6 9
I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of
thought...
ET4 5.44 7
...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on
any necessary law...nor did he...count with precision the existing races...
ET5 5.80 9
[The English]...cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of
thought...whose steps they cannot count by their wonted rule.
ET14 5.256 12
...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the
Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are
still glowing and effective,--how few!
Civ 7.17 7
We praise the guide, we praise the forest life:/ But will we
sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts and trained experiment,/
Or count the Sioux a match for Agassiz?/
DL 7.108 7
It is easier to count the census...than to come to the persons and
dwellings of men and read their character...
Boks 7.193 12
It is easy to count the number of pages which a diligent man
can read in a day...
Boks 7.197 7
...I will venture...to count the few books which a superficial
reader must thankfully use.
Cour 7.273 9
...it is not the means on which we draw...that count, but the
aims only.
Suc 7.283 7
We count our census...
OA 7.313 20
...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me with a shining
cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by old,/
Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the best./
OA 7.320 12
We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing else to
count.
OA 7.320 13
We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing else to
count.
OA 7.323 8
Under the general assertion of the well-being of age, we can
easily count particular benefits of that condition.
OA 7.325 12
I count it another capital advantage of age, this, that a success
more or less signifies nothing.
PI 8.65 22
...in so many alcoves of English poetry I can count only nine or
ten authors who are still inspirers and lawgivers to their race.
PI 8.66 16
I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents
of a reform in philosophy...
Elo2 8.111 8
...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is
gained: they count the armies...
Insp 8.279 23
How many sources of inspiration can we count?
Insp 8.280 1
The Arabs say that Allah does not count from life the days
spent in the chase...
Grts 8.311 21
Leave others to count votes and calculate stocks.
Aris 10.65 8
There is no need that [a man of generous spirit] should count
the pounds of property or the numbers of agents whom his influence
touches;...
Chr2 10.90 4
For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the
mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/ I count as many as
there are/ Cinquefoils or violets in the grass,/ So many saints and saviours,/
So many high behaviours./
MoL 10.246 3
In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland
gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain
could support. ... To-day we are come to count the number of sheep.
Thor 10.480 3
...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic
assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had
just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular
botanical variety, had failed to describe the seeds or count the sepals.
GSt 10.507 5
...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...beheld his work
prosper for the joy and benefit of all mankind,-I count him happy among
men.
FSLN 11.219 20
...it was strange to see that office, age, fame, talent, even a
repute for honesty, all count for nothing.
SMC 11.347 3
They have shown what men may do,/ They have proved
how men may die,-/ Count, who can, the fields they have pressed,/ Each
face to the solemn sky! Brownell.
FRep 11.521 7
...we can all count the few cases...when a public man
ventured to act as he thought...
CW 12.174 8
...[a man in his wood-lot] remembers that Allah in his
allotment of life does not count the time which the Arab spends in the chase.
CW 12.175 10
...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven
Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more...
CW 12.175 16
How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted,
on the lost Pleiad! for though that pretty constellation is called for
thousands of years the Seven Stars, most eyes can only count six.
Milt1 12.259 24
Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton
certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that
great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power
of language.
ACri 12.285 10
...if I were asked how many masters of English idiom I
know, I shall be perplexed to count five.
Trag 12.407 18
...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we
discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]:...if you count ten
stars you will fall down dead;...
counted, adj. (1)
Bost 12.209 17
You cannot conquer [Boston]...by counted millions of
wealth.
counted, v. (13)
MN 1.210 15
Are there not moments in the history of heaven when the
human race was not counted by individuals, but was only the Influenced...
Pt1 3.41 15
...in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes
of animals and plants...
NER 3.259 12
...the persons who, at forty years, still read Greek, can all be
counted on your hand.
ET2 5.32 10
Sea-days are long--these lack-lustre, joyless days which
whistled over us; but they were few--only fifteen, as the captain counted...
ET4 5.70 10
[The English] think...with the Arabs, that the days spent in the
chase are not counted in the length of life.
ET6 5.108 19
The song of 1596 says, The wife of every Englishman is
counted blest.
ET15 5.261 21
No antique privilege, no comfortable monopoly, but sees
surely that its days are counted;...
ET16 5.277 21
We [Emerson and Carlyle] counted and measured by paces
the biggest stones [at Stonehenge]...
Wsp 6.211 26
We were not deceived by the professions of the private
adventurer,--the louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our
spoons;...
CbW 6.250 24
I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every
able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him
for material aid...
CbW 6.251 20
You would say this rabble of nations might be spared. But
no, they are all counted and depended on.
HDC 11.28 2
I will have never a noble,/ No lineage counted great;/ Fishers
and choppers and ploughmen/ Shall constitute a state./
CPL 11.499 2
...Concord counted fourteen graduates of Harvard in its first
century...
countenance, n. (35)
LT 1.261 2
I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform]...which
encroaches on [Conservatism] every day, puts it out of countenance...
Con 1.310 25
...in this institution of credit, which is as universal as honesty
and promise in the human countenance, always some neighbor stands ready
to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.
SR 2.56 6
If this aversion had its origin in contempt and resistance like [the
nonconformist's] own he might well go home with a sad countenance;...
SR 2.81 7
...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands,
he...shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he
goes, the missionary of wisdom and virtue...
Lov1 2.177 25
Into the most pitiful and abject [love] will infuse a heart and
courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved
object.
Cir 2.309 21
...[idealism's] countenance waxes stern and grand...
Art1 2.362 15
The sweet and sublime face of Jesus [in Raphael's
Transfiguration] is beyond praise, yet how it disappoints all florid
expectations! This familiar, simple, home-speaking countenance is as if one
should meet a friend.
Mrs1 3.130 6
...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,
where too it has not the least countenance from the law of the land.
Mrs1 3.149 9
...by the moral quality radiating from his countenance [a
man] may abolish all considerations of magnitude...
Gts 3.159 18
These gay natures [flowers] contrast with the somewhat stern
countenance of ordinary nature...
UGM 4.26 5
We keep each other in countenance and exasperate by
emulation the frenzy of the time.
ET8 5.135 11
Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph
Turner]...resembling in countenance the portrait of Punch with the laugh
left out;...
Bhr 6.167 5
...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their
sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/...
Bty 6.298 25
Martial ridicules a gentleman of his day whose countenance
resembled the face of a swimmer seen under water.
Bty 6.300 26
Sir Philip Sidney...Ben Jonson tells us, was no pleasant man
in countenance...
Art2 7.44 4
Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization
of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance.
Clbs 7.228 21
How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to
communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...the delicious verses we
had hoarded! What a motive had then our solitary days! How the
countenance of our friend still left some light after he had gone!
PI 8.75 7
...the involuntary part of [men's] life is so much as to...leave them
no countenance to say aught of what is so trivial as their selfish thinking
and doing.
SA 8.84 3
...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our
countenance and carriage...
SA 8.84 21
Every innocent man has in his countenance a promise to pay...
Comc 8.170 27
In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus from the Temple,
the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for the extraordinary
energy of the face, it would draw the eye too much; but the countenance of
the celestial messenger subordinates it, and we see it not.
Comc 8.173 14
...when the men appear who ask our votes as
representatives of this ideal, we are sadly out of countenance.
Grts 8.306 25
...every man...has a new countenance, new manner, new
voice, new thoughts and new character.
Imtl 8.338 27
Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation
and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform...
SovE 10.212 27
...with what power [innocence] converts evil accidents into
benefits; the power of its countenance; the power of its presence!
Prch 10.232 9
...it were inhuman to affect ignorance or indifference on
Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our countenance dejected
Saturday or Monday.
SlHr 10.446 21
...[Samuel Hoar's] countenance had an unalterable
tranquillity and sweetness;...
HDC 11.81 9
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.
EWI 11.120 20
Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation
day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to
God...
FSLN 11.221 5
[Webster's] countenance, his figure, and his manners were
all in so grand a style, that he was, without effort, as superior to his most
eminent rivals as they were to the humblest;...
EPro 11.326 13
...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the
[Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection
sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...
Koss 11.398 6
Sir [Kossuth], we have watched with attention...the
unvarying tone and countenance which you have maintained.
CL 12.149 12
The Hindoos called fire Agni...of graceful form and whose
countenance is turned on all sides.
MLit 12.317 24
There are facts...which drive young men into gardens and
solitary places, and cause extravagant gestures, starts, distortions of the
countenance and passionate exclamations;...
Pray 12.352 6
When my long-attached friend comes to me...I rejoice to
pass my eyes over his countenance;...
countenance, v. (2)
ET11 5.185 6
In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is...to
countenance charities...
Suc 7.290 22
We countenance each other in this life of show...
countenances, n. (3)
Art2 7.52 2
These [ancient sculptures] are the countenances of the first-born...
Trag 12.411 25
...the earliest works of the art of sculpture are countenances
of sublime tranquillity.
Trag 12.412 6
The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of
complacency and repose...
counter, adj. (2)
Nat2 3.184 4
If the identity [in nature] expresses organized rest, the counter
action runs also into organization.
ET4 5.50 25
Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic
elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter...
counter, n. (1)
ET12 5.209 16
The definition of a public school [in England] is a school
which excludes all that could fit a man for standing behind a counter.
counteract, v. (2)
Insp 8.283 19
Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the
barometer is high than when it is low. Since I know this, I endeavor, when
the barometer is low, to counteract the injurious effect by greater exertion...
FRep 11.535 15
What this country longs for is personalities...to counteract
its materialities.
counteracted, v. (1)
Comp 2.104 23
This dividing and detaching is steadily counteracted.
counteracting, adj. (1)
ET4 5.49 8
It is easy to add to the counteracting forces to race.
counteraction, n. (7)
Con 1.297 17
[The battle between Conservatism and Innovation] is ever
thus. It is the counteraction of the centripetal and the centrifugal forces.
SR 2.51 23
The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction
of the doctrine of love...
Dem1 10.8 8
...in the act is contained the counteraction.
MoL 10.252 23
Intellect measures itself by its counteraction to any
accumulation of material force.
Schr 10.282 15
The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to
any accumulation of material force.
FSLC 11.203 15
At last, at a fatal hour, [Webster's] sluggishness
accumulated to downright counteraction...
MAng1 12.220 6
The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended
through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...its action and
counteraction learned;...
counteractions, n. (1)
Wth 6.94 12
Each of these idealists, working after his thought, would make
it tyrannical, if he could. He is met and antagonized by other speculators as
hot as he. The equilibrium is preserved by these counteractions...
counterbalance, n. (3)
FSLN 11.235 16
...that I understand to be the end for which a soul exists in
this world,-to be himself the counterbalance of all falsehood and all wrong.
Milt1 12.277 17
What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it
need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse...
Trag 12.416 8
The individual who suffers has a mysterious counterbalance
to that condition...
counterbalance, v. (3)
YA 1.372 19
The census of the population is found to keep an invariable
equality in the sexes, with a trifling predominance in favor of the male, as if
to counterbalance the necessarily increased exposure of male life in war,
navigation, and other accidents.
Elo2 8.115 18
[The true orator's] attitude in the rostrum, on the platform,
requires that he counterbalance his auditory.
FSLC 11.189 8
I thought that every time a man goes back to his own
thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...that these moments
counterbalance the years of drudgery...
counterbalances, n. (1)
Wsp 6.202 22
We may well give skepticism as much line as we can. The
spirit will return and fill us. It drives the drivers. It counterbalances any
accumulations of power...
counterbalancing, adj. (1)
CInt 12.126 2
It is true that the University and the Church, which should be
counterbalancing institutions to our great material institutions of trade and
of territorial power, do not express the sentiment of the popular politics and
the popular optimism, whatever it be.
counterbalancing, v. (1)
CInt 12.127 8
...these two [the College and the Church] should be
counterbalancing to the bad politics and selfish trade.
counterfeit, adj. (6)
Pt1 3.28 27
That is not an inspiration, which we owe to narcotics, but some
counterfeit excitement and fury.
Exp 3.48 13
There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that
here at least we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it
turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit.
MoS 4.170 21
Talent makes counterfeit ties; genius finds the real ones.
ET7 5.119 8
[The English] read gladly in old Fuller that a lady in the reign
of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of...
pendants of counterfeit pearl.
WD 7.173 5
Seldom and slowly the mask [of illusion] falls and the pupil is
permitted to see that all is one stuff, cooked and painted under many
counterfeit appearances.
OA 7.317 2
...if the essence of age is not present, these signs, whether of
Art or Nature, are counterfeit and ridiculous;...
counterfeit, n. (7)
Cir 2.322 7
Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the
semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius...
SA 8.96 3
The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do
not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your
logic and learning. ... Then you can see the real and the counterfeit...
SA 8.96 4
The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do
not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your
logic and learning. ... Then you...will never accept the counterfeit again.
Imtl 8.324 14
...I know well that where this belief [in immortality] once
existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form
for the wise;-so that I only look on the counterfeit as a proof that the
genuine faith had been there.
Edc1 10.139 9
[Boys] know truth from counterfeit as quick as the chemist
does.
Schr 10.281 8
We are not afraid of new truth...but of a counterfeit.
War 11.152 22
On its own scale, on the virtues it loves, [war] endures no
counterfeit...
counterfeit, v. (1)
SA 8.105 11
Now society in towns is infested by persons who, seeing that
the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them.
counterfeited, v. (3)
Comp 2.114 18
...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof
wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be
counterfeited or stolen...
Comp 2.114 20
...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof
wealth and credit are signs. These signs...may be counterfeited or stolen,
but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be
counterfeited or stolen.
QO 8.202 9
There is always in [originals] a style and weight of speech...
which cannot be counterfeited.
counterfeiters, n. (1)
Cour 7.259 16
...the aggressive attitude of men who...will no longer be
bothered with...counterfeiters in public offices...that part, the part of the
leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and
sincere men...
counterfeits, n. (3)
Art1 2.365 4
...the statue will look cold and false before that new activity
which...is impatient of counterfeits...
Chr1 3.108 26
We have seen many counterfeits, but we are born believers
in great men.
ET13 5.228 5
...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than
conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty
reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods, and on the
day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
counterpart, n. (9)
Hist 2.17 23
Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of
Erwin of Steinbach.
Fdsp 2.210 24
Guard [your friend] as thy counterpart.
Cir 2.314 19
Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact
be drawn to their counterpart...
Clbs 7.230 11
...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral
nature, its counterpart, is stated.
Clbs 7.230 27
...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he
tells me...that he has no companion. Suppose such a one to go out exploring
different circles in search of this wise and genial counterpart,--he might
inquire far and wide.
PI 8.65 7
The Muse [of Poetry] shall be the counterpart of Nature...
PC 8.223 1
Every law in Nature...has a counterpart in the intellect.
PPo 8.262 26
In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;/ Thine the star-pointing-
roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is one half depicted with colors
less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!/
Scot 11.465 13
The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified
by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of
Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for a counterpart as a
painting of Fate...
counterparts, n. (2)
SwM 4.122 24
Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg]
diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied
him...into society, and showed by what affinities he was girt to his equals
and his counterparts;...
Ctr 6.150 12
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination
is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe...that
the poet, the mystic and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
counter-party, n. (1)
NMW 4.256 25
The counter-revolution, the counter-party, still waits for its
organ and representative...
counterpoise, n. (3)
Int 2.344 13
One soul is a counterpoise of all souls...
ET14 5.260 7
...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],--
the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in
counterpoise...
PI 8.74 27
The only heart that can help us is one that draws...from itself, a
counterpoise to society.
counterpoise, v. (2)
Elo1 7.76 18
We have a half belief that the person is possible who can
counterpoise all other persons.
WD 7.158 24
...one might say that the inventions of the last fifty years
counterpoise those of the fifty centuries before them.
counterpoises, v. (1)
PC 8.225 16
...the moral element in man counterpoises this dismaying
immensity and bereaves it of terror.
counter-revolution, n. (1)
NMW 4.256 25
The counter-revolution...still waits for its organ and
representative...
counters, n. (1)
NER 3.262 9
Do you complain of the laws of Property? It is a pedantry to
give such importance to them. Can we not play the game of life with these
counters, as well as those?...
counter-statement, n. (1)
Wsp 6.202 9
If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out in passions, in
war...let us not be so nice that we cannot...doubt but there is a counter-statement
as ponderous, which we can arrive at...
countervail, v. (5)
AmS 1.94 1
Gowns and pecuniary foundations...can never countervail the
least sentence or syllable of wit.
Ctr 6.144 21
I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his
heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel
himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither. His easy
superiority to multitudes of professional men could never quite countervail
to him this imaginary defect.
FSLN 11.240 9
...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be
no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale,
and not until liberty has slowly accumulated weight enough to countervail
and preponderate against all this, can the sufficient recoil come.
CInt 12.130 10
[The intellect's] oracles countervail all.
MLit 12.330 14
The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and
Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree...makes
the world opaque to the observer, and destroys so far the value of his
experience. No particular gifts can countervail this defect.
countervails, v. (2)
LT 1.263 8
[Persons] are an incalculable energy which countervails all
other forces in nature...
ET6 5.111 22
The keeping of the proprieties is [in England] as
indispensable as clean linen. No merit quite countervails the want of this
whilst this sometimes stands in lieu of all.
counterweight, n. (2)
ET6 5.104 3
Nothing but the most serious business could give one any
counterweight to these Baresarks [the English]...
Schr 10.282 16
The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to
any accumulation of material force. There is no mass that can be a
counterweight for it.
counterweights, n. (1)
UGM 4.27 8
Ah! yonder in the horizon is our help;--other great men, new
qualities, counterweights and checks on each other.
countess, n. (1)
OS 2.290 8
The vain traveller attempts to embellish his life by quoting my
lord and the prince and the countess...
Countess of Carlisle [Lucy (1)
MMEm 10.398 20
...[Lucy Percy]...will take a deep interest for persons of
celebrity.
counties, n. (10)
ShP 4.190 19
[A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or
flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and
he hits on a railroad.
ET2 5.25 8
The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation
from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in
1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty towns
and cities, and presently extended into the middle counties and northward
into Scotland.
ET4 5.64 27
In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law,
that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be
accounted maritime; and Fuller adds, the genius even of landlocked
counties driving the natives with a maritime dexterity.
F 6.7 17
Towns and counties fall into [the sea].
PerF 10.87 3
...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York
or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be
fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.
Chr2 10.118 15
In the present tendency of our society...when counties and
towns are resisting centralization...society is threatened with actual
granulation, religious as well as political.
SlHr 10.442 7
For a long term of years, [Samuel Hoar] was at the head of
the bar in Middlesex, practising, also, in the adjoining counties.
HDC 11.55 6
In 1643, the colony was so numerous that it became
expedient to divide it into four counties, Concord being included in
Middlesex.
HDC 11.81 5
In 1786, when the general sufferings drove the people in
parts of Worcester and Hampshire counties to insurrection, a large party of
armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...
SHC 11.433 23
Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most
agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every
tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that every child may be shown
growing...the beech, which we have allowed to die out of the eastern
counties;...
counting, adj. (1)
OS 2.271 3
What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting,
counting man, does not...represent himself, but misrepresents himself.
counting, v. (8)
LE 1.156 6
...when events occur of great import, I count over these
representatives of opinion, whom they will affect, as if I were counting
nations.
Mrs1 3.142 7
A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a
note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and
demanded payment.
MoS 4.159 27
[The skeptic] is the considerer...counting stock...
MoS 4.173 12
I mean to...celebrate the calendar-day of our Saint Michel de
Montaigne, by counting and describing these doubts or negations.
ET12 5.199 4
At the present day...[Cambridge] has the advantage of
Oxford, counting in its alumni a greater number of distinguished scholars.
F 6.8 3
Without...counting how many species of parasites hang on a
bombyx...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of
nature.
Edc1 10.151 13
Is it not manifest...that wise men...heartily seeking the
good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to
arouse the young to a just and heroic life;...
Thor 10.480 18
...I cannot help counting it a fault in [Thoreau] that he had
no ambition.
counting-house, n. (1)
NER 3.256 9
Why should professional labor and that of the counting-house
be paid so disproportionately to the labor of the porter and wood-sawyer?
counting-houses, n. (1)
NMW 4.252 14
I call Napoleon the agent or attorney...of the throng who
fill the markets, shops, counting-houses, manufactories, ships, of the
modern world...
counting-room, adj. (2)
Pow 6.68 18
[Men of this surcharge of arterial blood]...had rather die by the
hatchet of a Pawnee than sit all day and every day at a counting-room desk.
Wth 6.125 19
The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of
the universe.
counting-room, n. (4)
LE 1.184 21
...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether the
cargo be hides or barilla;...be it what it may, his commission comes gently
out of it;...
Wth 6.101 1
Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles
banker who said to his visitor, surprised at the contrast between the
splendor of the banker's chateau and hospitality and the meanness of the
counting-room in which he had seen him,--Young man, you are too young
to understand how masses are formed;...
Grts 8.304 24
When [young men] have learned that the parlor and the
college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the
camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in
their choice of place.
FRep 11.523 15
...if [Americans] should come to be interested in
themselves and in their career, they would no more stay away from the
election than from their own counting-room...
counting-rooms, n. (2)
F 6.41 3
Ducks take to the water...clerks to counting-rooms...
FSLN 11.218 16
Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb,
carry the business men into the city to their shops, counting-rooms...
countless, adj. (11)
Nat 1.1 1
A subtle chain of countless rings/ The next unto the farthest
brings;...
LE 1.173 11
...the thing whereon [thought] shines...is a new subject with
countless relations.
LT 1.278 3
We...want...the spirit that sheds and showers...countless,
endless actions.
Hist 2.13 15
Genius detects...through countless individuals the fixed
species;...
Pt1 3.23 1
...[nature] shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless
spores...
NR 3.223 1
In countless upward-striving waves/ The moon-drawn tide-wave
strives/...
SwM 4.118 10
Why hear I the same sense from countless differing voices...
DL 7.111 12
The progress of domestic living has been...in countless means
and arts of comfort...
Dem1 10.18 7
...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a
transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the
woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names...
FSLC 11.212 23
It was the praise of Athens, She could not lead countless
armies into the field, but she knew how with a little band to defeat those
who could.
CL 12.149 15
What uses that we know belong to the forest, and what
countless uses that we know not!