Countries to Courses
countries, n. (78)
Nat 1.27 17
...man in all ages and countries embodies [Spirit] in his
language as the FATHER.
AmS 1.110 27
That which had been negligently trodden under foot by
those who were harnessing and provisioning themselves for long journeys
into far countries, is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts.
Con 1.295 11
The battle...of the rich and the poor, reappears in all countries
and times.
YA 1.367 7
There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American
with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...
Hist 2.22 2
...in these late and civil countries of England and America these
propensities [Nomadism and Agriculture] still fight out the old battle...
Hist 2.36 22
Transport [Napoleon] to large countries...and you shall see
that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not
the virtual Napoleon.
OS 2.283 11
Do not require a description of the countries towards which
you sail.
Art1 2.359 22
[The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the
technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets that these
works...are the contributions of many ages and many countries;...
Mrs1 3.120 7
...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these
horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the
purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these
cannibals and man-stealers;...
Mrs1 3.120 9
...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;...
Mrs1 3.120 15
...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these
horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man...
establishes a select society, running through all the countries of intelligent
men...
Mrs1 3.137 7
We should meet each morning as from foreign countries...
Mrs1 3.137 8
We should meet each morning as from foreign countries,
and, spending the day together, should depart at night, as into foreign
countries.
Mrs1 3.153 17
Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself
before...the heart of love. This is the royal blood, this the fire, which, in all
countries and contingencies, will work after its kind and conquer and
expand all that approaches it.
NER 3.258 16
The ancient languages...contain wonderful remains of
genius, which draw, and always will draw, certain like-minded men...in all
countries, to their study;...
UGM 4.4 8
...if there were any magnet that would point to the countries
and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and powerful, I
would sell all and buy it...
PPh 4.77 13
...you shall feel that Alexander indeed overran, with men and
horses, some countries of the planet;...
PPh 4.77 14
...countries, and things of which countries are made...have
passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no
longer bread, but body...
ShP 4.196 26
[The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his
thoughts have been derived; whether through translation...whether by travel
in distant countries...
ShP 4.200 19
The nervous language of the Common Law...and the
precision and substantial truth of the legal distinctions, are the contribution
of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries
where these laws govern.
GoW 4.280 27
...in all these countries [England, America and France], men
of talent write from talent.
ET3 5.34 2
Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth
living in;...
ET4 5.45 12
The British census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half
millions in the home countries.
ET4 5.61 16
The continued draught of the best men in Norway, Sweden
and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries...
ET4 5.65 4
As early as the [Norman] conquest it is remarked...that
[England's] merchants trade to all countries.
ET4 5.71 3
The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to
Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature. These
men have written the game-books of all countries...
ET5 5.94 16
...there is more gold in England than in all other countries.
ET5 5.94 17
[England] is too far north for the culture of the vine, but the
wines of all countries are in its docks.
ET7 5.124 5
This [English] dulness makes...their adherence in all foreign
countries to home habits.
ET9 5.146 23
...so help him God! [the Englishman] will force his island by-laws
down the throat of great countries, like India, China, Canada,
Australia...
ET10 5.169 2
In the culmination of national prosperity, in the annexation
of countries;...it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...
ET11 5.188 7
...[the English nobility] are they...who gather and protect
works of art, dragged from amidst burning cities and revolutionary
countries...
F 6.16 11
We see the English, French, and Germans...monopolizing the
commerce of these countries [America and Australia].
Pow 6.70 20
The luxury of ice is in tropical countries and midsummer days.
Wth 6.89 10
He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from
the labors...of men in distant countries and in past times.
Wth 6.102 19
There are wide countries, like Siberia, where [the dollar]
would buy little else to-day than some petty mitigation of suffering.
Ctr 6.145 2
...men run away to other countries because they are not good in
their own...
Ctr 6.145 24
The stuff of all countries is just the same.
Ctr 6.152 8
...in old, dense countries, among a million of good coats a fine
coat comes to be no distinction...
Bhr 6.174 20
If you look at the pictures of patricians and of peasants of
different periods and countries, you will see how well they match the same
classes in our towns.
Bhr 6.178 15
...in enumerating the names of persons or of countries...the
eyes wink at each new name.
Civ 7.34 17
Montesquieu says: Countries are well cultivated, not as they
are fertile, but as they are free;...
Elo1 7.79 25
In old countries a high money value is set on the services of
men who have achieved a personal distinction.
WD 7.174 17
To what end, then, [man] asks, should I study languages, and
traverse countries, to learn so simple truths?
Boks 7.190 15
A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be
picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest
chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
Clbs 7.246 22
...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet,
see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;
they have traversed wide countries;...
PI 8.20 9
...[Swedenborg said]: Names, countries, nations and the like are
not at all known to those who are in heaven;...
PI 8.62 15
...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath
imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free. Certes, Merlin,
replied Sir Gawain, of that I am right sorrowful, and so will King Arthur,
my uncle, be...who is making search after you throughout all countries.
Elo2 8.112 4
[Debate] is eminently the art which only flourishes in free
countries.
QO 8.203 13
Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the most civilized
countries...healthily receive and report what they saw...
PC 8.210 26
People have in all countries been burned and stoned for saying
things which are commonplaces at all our breakfast-tables.
PC 8.213 8
...I find not only this equality between new and old countries...
but also a certain equivalence of the ages of history;...
Insp 8.296 25
I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so
many scholars, in so many countries, of what hygiene, what ascetic...their
experience suggested and approved.
Aris 10.41 9
The multiplication of monarchs known by telegraph and daily
news from all countries to the daily papers...has robbed the title of king of
all its romance...
Chr2 10.110 6
There is a certain secular progress of opinion, which, in
civil countries, reaches everybody.
Edc1 10.135 18
A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself,
but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his
word is current in all countries;...
Supl 10.167 21
The people of English stock, in all countries, are a solid
people...
Supl 10.170 17
[The guest's] health was drunk with some acknowledgment
of his distinguished services to both countries...
Supl 10.177 18
A bag of sequins...a single horse, constitute an estate in
countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of
concealable and convertible property.
Prch 10.234 18
...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists, since it is
not armed with prisons or fagots as in ruder times or countries, is not worth
considering [by the young clergyman]...
MoL 10.248 9
Italy, France-a hundred times those countries have been
trampled with armies and burned over...
LS 11.8 11
[Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to
remember him, and that with good effect. It may have crossed his mind that
this would be easily continued a hundred or a thousand years...and yet have
been altogether out of his purpose to fasten it upon men in all times and all
countries.
LS 11.12 3
That rite [washing of the feet] is used...by the Sandemanians. It
has been very properly dropped by other Christians. Why? For two reasons:
(1) because it was a local custom, and unsuitable in western countries;...
EWI 11.121 15
...every man's position [in Jamaica] is settled by the same
circumstances which regulate that point in other free countries...
EWI 11.126 16
...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by
keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of
countries and nations of customers...
EWI 11.138 1
This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the
friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that
superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which makes in all
countries anti-slavery meetings so attractive...
FSLC 11.210 27
...countries have been great by ideas.
SMC 11.375 3
Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil
War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay.
But those also who went through the same fields, and returned alive...in
other countries, would wear distinctive badges of honor as long as they
lived.
ChiE 11.474 1
It is gratifying to know that the advantages of the new
intercourse between the two countries [China and the United States] are
daily manifest on the Pacific coast.
FRep 11.526 22
...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...
FRep 11.542 22
...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the
general face of the planet...leads rivers into dry countries for their
irrigation...
PLT 12.9 10
...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars to
be courtiers and diners-out...
Bost 12.183 20
There are countries, said Howell, where the heaven is a
fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping sponge, most parts of the
year.
Bost 12.207 23
The towns or countries in which the man lives and dies
where he was born, and his son and son's son live and die where he did, are
of no great account.
Milt1 12.254 26
...we think it impossible to recall one in those countries
[England, France, Germany] who communicates the same vibration of
hope, of self-reverence, of piety, of delight in beauty, which the name of
Milton awakens.
ACri 12.285 20
[George Borrow]...mastered the patois of the gypsies,
called Romany, which is spoken by them in all countries where they
wander...
AgMs 12.361 9
...our [New England] people are not stationary, like those
of old countries...
country, adj. (48)
Nat 1.18 9
The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is
pleasant only half the year.
AmS 1.98 2
Years are well spent in country labors;...to the one end of
mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
YA 1.369 9
Whatever events in progress shall go to...infuse into [men] the
passion for country life and country pleasures, will render a service to the
whole face of this continent...
YA 1.369 10
Whatever events in progress shall go to...infuse into [men] the
passion for country life and country pleasures, will render a service to the
whole face of this continent...
SL 2.136 10
Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us
country folk...
Lov1 2.173 7
...who can avert his eyes from the engaging...ways of school-girls
who go into the country shops...
Fdsp 2.206 2
[Friendship] is fit for...country rambles...
SwM 4.142 8
These angels that Swedenborg paints...are all country
parsons...
MoS 4.164 10
...[Montaigne] loved the compass, staidness and
independence of the country gentleman's life.
ShP 4.191 23
...extemporaneous enclosures at country fairs were the ready
theatres of strolling players.
ET1 5.3 16
...our country names were on the door-plates...
ET2 5.31 17
Classics which at home are drowsily read, have a strange
charm in a country inn...
ET3 5.39 11
...at one season, the country people [of England] say, the lakes
contain one part water and two parts fish.
ET4 5.58 7
A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in some of our
country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered...
ET5 5.78 21
You shall trace these Gothic touches [in England] at school, at
country fairs...
ET8 5.129 23
The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident
in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated
and dignified man of family [in England]. So is the burly farmer; so is the
country squire...
ET14 5.237 1
The country gentlemen [in England] had a posset or drink
they called October;...
Pow 6.66 9
The most amiable of country gentlemen has a certain pleasure
in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his orchard.
Ctr 6.146 21
Poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut formerly
owed what knowledge they had to their peddling trips to the Southern
States.
Ctr 6.148 7
...the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of
town and country life...
Ctr 6.155 2
Wordsworth was praised to me in Westmoreland for having
afforded to his country neighbors an example of a modest household where
comfort and culture were secured without display.
Elo1 7.74 20
It requires no special insight to edit one of our country
newspapers.
Clbs 7.244 15
It was a pathetic experience when a genial and accomplished
person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New
England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a chair
for me.
SA 8.102 2
I have been often impressed at our country town-meetings with
the accumulated virility, in each village, of five or six or eight or ten men...
Insp 8.288 11
I have found my advantage in going in summer to a country
inn...with a task which would not prosper at home.
Chr2 10.107 4
...in many a house in country places the poor children found
seven sabbaths in a week.
LLNE 10.367 1
The country members [at Brook Farm] naturally were
surprised to observe that one man ploughed all day and one looked out of
the window all day...and both received at night the same wages.
EzRy 10.392 27
...[Ezra Ripley's] knowledge was...the observation of such
facts as country life for nearly a century could supply.
MMEm 10.399 19
I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a
country girl [Mary Moody Emerson], poor, solitary...
SlHr 10.446 25
[Samuel Hoar] had his birth and breeding in a little country
town...
HDC 11.55 10
...in 1640, all immigration [to Concord] ceased, and the
country produce and farm-stock depreciated.
HDC 11.56 20
The people on the [Massachusetts] bay...found the way to
the West Indies...and the country people speedily learned to supply
themselves with sugar, tea and molasses.
HDC 11.62 27
Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English
government, concerning the country towns; The farmers are numerous and
wealthy...
HDC 11.63 18
...the country people came armed into Boston, on the
afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...
HDC 11.80 13
...the country towns thought it would be cheaper if [the
government] were removed from the capital.
EWI 11.104 19
...a good man or woman, a country boy or girl...once in a
while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to
tell of them.
ALin 11.330 15
[Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a flatboatman, a
captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer...
EdAd 11.386 4
It is a poor consideration that the country wit is
precocious...
RBur 11.442 7
...the farm-work, the country holiday, the fishing-cobble are
still [Burns's] debtors to-day.
CPL 11.496 9
...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to
this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...offering a
strong attraction to strangers who are seeking a country home to sit down
here.
PLT 12.48 22
Most men's minds do not grasp anything. All slips through
their fingers, like the paltry brass grooves that in most country houses are
used to raise or drop the curtain...
CInt 12.122 8
...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...are more
vicious and malignant than the rude country people...
CInt 12.129 26
...it was in a mean country inn that Burns found his fancy
so sprightly.
Bost 12.196 1
The universality of an elementary education in New England
is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds the
village lyceum,-now very general throughout all the country towns of
New England...
Milt1 12.266 24
[Milton] advises that in country places, rather than to
trudge many miles to a church, public worship be maintained nearer home,
as in a house or barn.
EurB 12.368 23
[Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the
dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt...to
show...that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet
Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to the
country life...
EurB 12.369 8
...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the
conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by
Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...from the lessons which the country
muse taught a stout pedestrian climbing a mountain...
PPr 12.380 18
[Carlyle's Past and Present] has the merit which belongs to
every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent, and
so...as the country people say of good preaching, comes bounce down into
every pew.
country, n. (500)
Nat 1.13 26
...[man] paves the road with iron bars, and mounting a coach
with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts
through the country...
Nat 1.30 19
Hundreds of writers may be found...who feed unconsciously on
the language created by the primary writers of the country...
Nat 1.51 3
What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country
quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the railroad car!
Nat 1.60 6
[Idealism] beholds the whole circle...of country and religion...
Nat 1.67 27
The American who has been confined, in his own country, to
the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on
entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these
structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
AmS 1.97 8
...town and country...must also soar and sing.
AmS 1.108 26
I ought not to delay longer to add what I have to say of
nearer reference to the time and to this country.
AmS 1.114 16
The mind of this country...eats upon itself.
DSA 1.141 16
...tradition characterizes the preaching of this country;...
DSA 1.143 1
In the country, neighborhoods, half parishes are signing off,
to use the local term.
LE 1.155 15
...a scholar is...the excellency of his country...
LE 1.156 2
The few scholars in each country...seem to me not individuals
but societies;...
LE 1.156 14
...a very different estimate of the scholar's profession prevails
in this country...
LE 1.156 19
This country has not fulfilled what seemed the reasonable
expectation of mankind.
LE 1.166 22
I pass now to consider the task offered to the intellect of this
country.
LE 1.178 20
Bonaparte represents truly a great recent revolution, which we
in this country...shall carry to its farthest consummation.
LE 1.185 10
...I thought that standing...girt and ready to go and assume
tasks, public and private, in your country, you would not be sorry to be
admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
LE 1.186 12
...the vice of the times and the country is an excessive
pretension...
MN 1.191 12
...it is a common calamity if [the scholars] neglect their post
in a country where the material interest is so predominant as it is in
America.
MN 1.220 5
What a debt is ours to that old religion, which, in the
childhood of most of us, still dwelt like a sabbath morning in the country of
New England...
MR 1.240 3
...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and
curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he
has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him...to the serving
of his country...
Con 1.312 9
...every whim is anticipated and served by the best ability of
the whole population of each country.
Con 1.320 16
The cause of education is urged in this country with the
utmost earnestness...
Tran 1.341 8
...[many intelligent and religious persons] prefer to ramble in
the country and perish of ennui, to the degradation of such charities and
such ambitions as the city can propose to them.
Tran 1.342 15
...[Transcendentalists] incline...to live in the country rather
than in the town...
YA 1.363 2
...our people have their intellectual culture from one country
and their duties from another.
YA 1.363 10
America is beginning to assert herself to the senses and to the
imagination of her children, and Europe is receding in the same degree.
This their reaction on education gives a new importance to the internal
improvements and to the politics of the country.
YA 1.364 14
...in this country [the railroad] has given a new celerity to
time...
YA 1.365 23
...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of
this broad region to...appreciate the advantages opened to the human race in
this country...
YA 1.366 25
...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised...the
adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor...
could suggest.
YA 1.367 27
A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no
account;...
YA 1.368 20
The cities drain the country of the best part of its population...
YA 1.368 23
...the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns,
and the country is cultivated by a so much inferior class.
YA 1.369 23
The vast majority of the people of this country live by the
land...
YA 1.370 19
We cannot look on the freedom of this country...without a
presentiment that here shall laws and institutions exist on some scale of
proportion to the majesty of nature.
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.
YA 1.371 15
[America] is the country of the Future.
YA 1.371 18
...[America] is a country of beginnings...
YA 1.375 2
Benefit will accrue, [railroads] are essential to the country...
YA 1.384 18
Look across the country from any hill-side around us...
YA 1.392 15
...to imaginative persons in this country there is somewhat
bare and bald in our short history and unsettled wilderness.
YA 1.392 17
[Imaginative persons in this country] ask, who would live in a
new country that can live in an old?...
YA 1.392 20
...it is not strange that our youths and maidens should burn to
see the picturesque extremes of an antiquated country.
YA 1.394 14
...[the English] need all and more than all the resources of the
past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the mortifications
prepared for him by the system of society...
SR 2.61 7
Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age;...
SR 2.66 15
If...a man...carries you backward to the phraseology of some
old mouldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him not.
Prd1 2.224 21
...our existence...so susceptible to climate and to country...
reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
Hsm1 2.253 27
Nothing of the kind have I seen in any other country.
Hsm1 2.258 6
That country is the fairest which is inhabited by the noblest
minds.
Hsm1 2.262 7
The circumstances of man, we say, are historically
somewhat better in this country and at this hour than perhaps ever before.
Int 2.343 26
A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions,
tastes, and manner of living. Such has Swedenborg...seemed to many young
men in this country.
Art1 2.353 2
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and
country...
Chr1 3.91 22
The men who carry their points...are themselves the country
which they represent;...
Chr1 3.96 13
[A man] encloses the world, as the patriot does his country,
as a material basis for his character...
Chr1 3.109 13
When the Yunani sage arrived at Balkh...Gushtasp
appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every country should assemble...
Mrs1 3.121 10
An element which unites all the most forcible persons of
every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties
universally found in men.
Mrs1 3.126 9
...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are
controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers...
Mrs1 3.128 27
The city is recruited from the country.
Mrs1 3.129 5
It is only country which came to town day before yesterday
that is city and court to-day.
Mrs1 3.131 2
...good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever
country readily fraternize with those of every other.
Mrs1 3.150 8
...at this moment I esteem it a chief felicity of this country,
that it excels in women.
Mrs1 3.154 23
...[Osman's] great heart lay there so sunny and hospitable in
the centre of the country, that it seemed as if the instinct of all sufferers
drew them to his side.
Nat2 3.175 2
[A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...
Pol1 3.207 10
In this country we are very vain of our political institutions...
Pol1 3.209 17
The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they
do not plant themselves on the deep and necessary grounds to which they
are respectively entitled...
NR 3.230 12
It is even worse in America, where, from the intellectual
quickness of the race, the genius of the country is more splendid in its
promise and more slight in its performance.
NR 3.232 16
The world is full...of secret and public legions of honor; that
of scholars, for example; and that of gentlemen, fraternizing with the upper
class of every country and every culture.
NER 3.255 10
The country is full of rebellion;...
NER 3.255 11
...the country is full of kings.
NER 3.255 21
...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of
resistance to the government...
NER 3.259 10
Some thousands of young men are graduated at our colleges
in this country every year...
NER 3.259 16
...is not this absurd, that the whole liberal talent of this
country should be directed in its best years on studies which lead to
nothing?
NER 3.264 4
Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of
Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in
Massachusetts on kindred plans, and many more in the country at large.
NER 3.268 19
...the ground on which eminent public servants urge the
claims of popular education is fear; This country is filling up with
thousands and millions of voters, and you must educate them to keep them
from our throats.
UGM 4.22 7
...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul
who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or
time, or human body,--that man liberates me;...
UGM 4.30 20
Generous and handsome, [the thoughtful youth] says, is your
hero; but look at yonder poor Paddy, whose country is his wheelbarrow;...
PPh 4.52 11
The country of unity...is Asia;...
MoS 4.152 12
In England, the richest country that ever existed, property
stands for more, compared with personal ability, than in any other.
MoS 4.164 14
...[Montaigne] was esteemed in the country for his sense and
probity.
MoS 4.177 17
What can I do...against climate, against barbarism, in my
country?
ShP 4.189 15
A poet is...a heart in unison with his time and country.
NMW 4.227 9
[A man of Napoleon's stamp]...comes to be a bureau for all
the intelligence, wit and power of the age and country.
NMW 4.231 24
Nothing has been more simple than my elevation [said
Bonaparte]...it was owing to the peculiarity of the times and to my
reputation of having fought well against the enemies of my country.
NMW 4.242 27
...even when the majority of the people had begun to ask
whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of
men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the
country...took his part...
GoW 4.266 3
In this country, the emphasis of conversation and of public
opinion commends the practical man;...
GoW 4.289 11
Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country...
taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it
subservient.
ET1 5.13 16
...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge]
compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the
Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an
excellent school of political economy;...
ET1 5.16 19
The best thing [Carlyle] knew of that country [America] was
that in it a man can have meat for his labor.
ET1 5.17 18
[Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism, the crowded
country...
ET1 5.18 5
We [Emerson and Carlyle] went out to walk over long hills, and
looked at Criffel...and down into Wordsworth's country.
ET2 5.25 16
The remuneration [for lectures in England] was equivalent to
the fees at that time paid in this country for the like services.
ET3 5.35 13
...if there be one successful country in the universe for the last
millennium, that country is England.
ET3 5.35 14
...if there be one successful country in the universe for the last
millennium, that country is England.
ET3 5.38 23
Charles the Second said, [English temperature] invited men
abroad more days in the year and more hours in the day than another
country.
ET3 5.38 25
...England has all the materials of a working country except
wood.
ET4 5.45 15
[The English] are free forcible men, in a country where life is
safe...
ET4 5.51 5
Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic
elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes...
ET4 5.53 14
In Scotland...the poverty of the country makes itself
remarked...
ET4 5.58 12
...[going into guest-quarters] was the only way in which, in a
poor country, a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when he
leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom.
ET4 5.61 24
King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward
to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him; but Norway was so
emptied then, that such men have not since been to find in the country...
ET4 5.70 24
Every season turns out the [the English] aristocracy into the
country to shoot and fish.
ET5 5.82 19
Montesquieu said, England is the freest country in the world.
ET5 5.94 10
This foggy and rainy country [England] furnishes the world
with astronomical observations.
ET5 5.99 15
Is it the smallness of the country, or is it the pride and
affection of race,--[the English] have solidarity, or responsibleness...
ET6 5.103 22
...[England] is no country for fainthearted people;...
ET6 5.105 5
Every man in this polished country [England] consults only
his convenience...
ET6 5.113 9
In an aristocratical country like England, not the Trial by Jury,
but the dinner, is the capital institution.
ET6 5.114 22
...the range of nations from which London draws, and the
steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society, as broken
country makes picturesque landscape;...
ET7 5.121 22
...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his
mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M.
Guizot; and the altered position of the man as an illustrious exile and a
guest in the country, makes no difference to him...
ET7 5.123 19
[The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary
delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged
or assisted by foreigners: which, to be sure, is paralleled by the democratic
whimsy in this country...that the English are at the bottom of the agitation
of slavery...
ET8 5.127 21
Religion, the theatre and the reading the books of [the
Englishman's] country all feed and increase his natural melancholy.
ET8 5.128 9
As compared with the Americans, I think [the English]
cheerful and contented. Young people in this country are much more prone
to melancholy.
ET9 5.144 21
[The Englishman] is intensely patriotic, for his country is so
small.
ET9 5.145 20
A much older traveller...says... ... ...whenever [the English]
partake of any delicacy with a foreigner, they ask him whether such a thing
is made in his country.
ET9 5.146 15
I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of
England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the
disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the
instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company...
ET10 5.153 1
There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to
wealth [as England].
ET10 5.154 23
In 1809, the majority in Parliament expressed itself by the
language of Mr. Fuller in the House of Commons, If you do not like the
country, damn you, you can leave it.
ET10 5.160 18
In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that the people of this
country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in railways,
in the last four years.
ET10 5.161 13
...[the Bank of England] refuses loans, and emigration
empties the country;...
ET10 5.168 23
...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to
their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they
were impoverishing.
ET11 5.174 2
The superior education and manners of the [English] nobles
recommend them to the country.
ET11 5.179 2
This long descent of [English] families and this cleaving
through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination. It has
too a connection with the names of the towns and districts of the country.
ET11 5.179 18
Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on,--a
sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American, whose country is
whitewashed all over by unmeaning names...
ET11 5.179 19
Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on,--a
sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American, whose country is
whitewashed all over by unmeaning names, the cast-off clothes of the
country from which its emigrants came;...
ET11 5.180 3
The English lords...call themselves after their lands, as if the
man represented the country that bred him;...
ET11 5.180 19
The predilection of the patricians for residence in the
country...makes the safety of the English hall.
ET11 5.182 5
In the country, the size of private [English] estates is more
impressive.
ET11 5.185 20
The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men...
who have run through every country...
ET11 5.185 21
The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men...
who have...kept in every country the best company...
ET12 5.212 2
...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands
of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in
this country...
ET13 5.214 20
In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or
imported; altars are built...priests ordained. The education and expenditure
of the country take that direction...
ET13 5.216 26
The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people
[of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system, close fitted
to the manners and genius of the country...
ET15 5.262 9
...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark
my words;...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of
Northumberland out of their titles and possessions, and the country out of
its king.
ET16 5.275 13
I told Carlyle that...I saw everywhere in the country
[England] proofs of sense and spirit...
ET16 5.275 24
I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but
meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall
lapse at once into the feeling...that no skill or activity can long compete
with the prodigious natural advantages of that country...
ET16 5.278 22
The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery
should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument, in a
country on which all the muses have kept their eyes now for eighteen
hundred years.
ET16 5.286 26
My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?--any
with an American idea,--any theory of the right future of that country?
ET16 5.287 12
...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance...
and procured a kind of hearing for it. I said, it is true that I have
never seen in any country a man of sufficient valor to stand for this truth...
ET17 5.292 1
At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester
correspondent awaiting me, a gentleman whose kind reception was
followed by a train of friendly and effective attentions which never rested
whilst I remained in the country.
ET17 5.295 17
I told [Wordsworth] it was not creditable that no one in all
the country knew anything of Thomas Taylor...
ET18 5.301 18
England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all
nations.
ET19 5.312 14
...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British
island from which my forefathers came was...a cold, foggy, mournful
country...
F 6.5 9
The Spartan, embodying his religion in his country, dies before its
majesty without a question.
Pow 6.61 19
A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country
have seen their best days...
Pow 6.62 19
A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he wished it were a
penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this country...
Pow 6.63 15
Men expect from good whigs put into office by the
respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with Mexico...than
from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
Pow 6.66 12
Of the Shaker society it was formerly a sort of proverb in the
country that they always sent the devil to market.
Wth 6.95 8
[The rich] include the country as well as the town...in their
notion of available material.
Wth 6.102 16
In California, the country where [the dollar] grew,--what
would it buy?
Wth 6.102 26
Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston.
Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town, thanks to...the
contemporaneous growth of New York and the whole country.
Wth 6.109 16
There is an example of the compensations in the commercial
history of this country.
Wth 6.109 21
Of course the loss [of an American ship] was serious to the
owner, but the country was indemnified;...
Wth 6.109 25
...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton,
sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which...brought into the country an
immense prosperity...
Wth 6.117 15
In England, the richest country in the universe, I was
assured...that great lords and ladies had no more guineas to give away than
other people;...
Wth 6.118 6
It is a general rule in that country [England] that bigger
incomes do not help anybody.
Wth 6.120 2
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 21
Help comes in the custom of the country...
Wth 6.121 2
The custom of the country will do it all.
Wth 6.121 7
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...
Wth 6.122 16
When a citizen fresh from Dock Square or Milk Street comes
out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from
his windows;...
Ctr 6.132 14
A freemason, not long since, set out to explain to this country
that the principal cause of the success of General Washington was the aid
he derived from the freemasons.
Ctr 6.139 18
The city breeds one kind of speech and manners; the back
country a different style;...
Ctr 6.145 14
All educated Americans...go to Europe; perhaps because it is
their mental home, as the invalid habits of this country might suggest.
Ctr 6.145 25
Do you suppose there is any country where they do not scald
milk-pans...
Ctr 6.146 18
The boy grown up on a farm, which he has never left, is said
in the country to have had no chance...
Ctr 6.147 6
A foreign country is a point of comparison wherefrom to judge
[a man's] own.
Ctr 6.148 21
In the country [a man] can find solitude and reading...
Ctr 6.149 6
In the country, in long time, for want of good conversation,
one's understanding and invention contract a moss on them...
Ctr 6.150 2
The head of a commercial house or a leading lawyer or
politician is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all parts of
the country...
Ctr 6.151 13
I have heard that throughout this country a certain respect is
paid to good broadcloth;...
Ctr 6.155 10
There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and
middle-class houses in town and country, that has not got into literature...
Bhr 6.170 14
The nobility cannot in any country be disguised...
Bhr 6.173 26
...in the same country [on the banks of the Mississippi], in the
pews of the churches little placards plead with the worshipper against the
fury of expectoration.
Bhr 6.190 25
In this country...we have a superficial culture...
Wsp 6.209 25
In this country the like stupefaction was in the air...
Wsp 6.235 15
I spent, [Benedict] said, ten months in the country.
CbW 6.248 26
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the
minority?
CbW 6.255 20
I do not think very respectfully of the designs or the doings
of the people who went to California in 1849. It was...in the western
country, a general jail delivery of all the rowdies of the rivers.
CbW 6.260 7
Charles James Fox said of England, The history of this
country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent circumstances
the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons
would lose its greatest force and weight.
Ill 6.315 24
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. Well,
this thatching of hovels is the custom of the country.
Civ 7.20 5
The Indians of this country have not learned the white man's
work;...
Civ 7.31 18
...the true test of civilization is...the kind of man the country
turns out.
Civ 7.31 19
I see the vast advantages of this country...
Civ 7.33 23
...if there be a country which cannot stand any one of these
tests,--a country where knowledge cannot be diffused without perils of mob
law and statute law;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
Civ 7.33 24
...if there be...a country where knowledge cannot be diffused
without perils of mob law and statute law;...that country is...not civil, but
barbarous;...
Civ 7.34 11
...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or
equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
Art2 7.56 21
In this country, at this time, other interests than religion and
patriotism are predominant...
Elo1 7.75 14
One of our statesmen said, The curse of this country is
eloquent men.
Elo1 7.86 9
In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you
hire to lead your party...through a difficult country.
Elo1 7.95 18
The resistance to slavery in this country has been a fruitful
nursery of orators.
Elo1 7.100 4
[Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men, who...esteemed
that object for which they toiled, whether the prosperity of their country, or
the laws...as above the whole world, and themselves also.
DL 7.106 16
The first ride into the country, the first bath in running water...
are new chapters of joy [to the child].
DL 7.119 16
There was never a country in the world which could so easily
exhibit this heroism as ours;...
Farm 7.140 24
The city is always recruited from the country.
Farm 7.141 12
He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside...
makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
Farm 7.149 25
The town of Concord is one of the oldest towns in this
country...
WD 7.169 11
In solitude and in the country, what dignity distinguishes the
holy time!
WD 7.177 13
That is good which commends to me my country, my
climate, my means and materials, my associates.
Boks 7.213 19
[Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library
and the theatre, as well as...the Adirondack country...make such amends as
they can.
Clbs 7.233 27
Diderot said of the Abbe Galiani: He was a treasure in rainy
days; and if the cabinet-makers made such things, everybody would have
one in the country.
Clbs 7.243 19
...a history of clubs...tracing the clubs and coteries in each
country, would be an important chapter in history.
Cour 7.270 16
...for a settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong-minded
man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
Suc 7.289 17
I could point to men in this country...of this [egotistical]
humor, whom we could ill spare;...
Suc 7.292 13
The gravest and learnedest courts in this country shudder to
face a new question...
OA 7.320 5
Age is becoming in the country.
OA 7.331 24
America is the country of young men...
PI 8.7 3
...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose
brain it belongs to; what country, tradition or religion;...
PI 8.33 4
Homer has his own [important passages],--One omen is best, to
fight for one's country;/...
SA 8.101 5
Every human society wants to be officered by a best class,
who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men, adorned with dignity and
accomplishments. Every country wishes this...
SA 8.102 27
...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that
honor the country.
SA 8.103 23
...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be
proud of] suspects...that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man
superior to himself. And I think this is a good country that can bear such a
creature as he is.
SA 8.104 10
Amidst the calamities which war has brought on our country
this one benefit has accrued,--that our eyes...look homeward.
SA 8.104 20
We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people,
their conviction of the great moral advantages of...education and religious
culture, and their determination to hold these fast, and, by them, to hold fast
the country...
SA 8.105 2
The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of
affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the
love...of the boy...in the passion for his country;...
Elo2 8.109 6
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;/ Seemed, when at last
his clarion accents broke/ As if the conscience of the country spoke./
Elo2 8.118 8
...the great and daily growing interests at stake in this country
must pay proportional prices to their spokesmen and defenders.
Elo2 8.119 23
...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms
and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her
voice...
Elo2 8.124 10
...in your struggles with the world...when even your country
may seem ready to abandon herself and you...seek refuge...in the precepts
and example of Him whose law is love...
Elo2 8.125 22
...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of
passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience.
It is the merit of John Brown and of Abraham Lincoln--one at Charlestown,
one at Gettysburg--in the two best specimens of eloquence we have had in
this country.
Elo2 8.132 8
...when a great sentiment...makes itself deeply felt in any age
or country, then great orators appear.
Elo2 8.132 15
If there ever was a country where eloquence was a power, it
is the United States.
Res 8.150 16
In this country we have not learned how to repair the
exhaustions of our climate.
Res 8.151 8
[Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly
one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country wants all things on a
low tone...
Res 8.151 14
Natural history is, in the country, most attractive;...
Res 8.151 17
The first care of a man settling in the country should be to
open the face of the earth to himself...
Comc 8.168 1
...in the country we cannot find every day a case that agrees
with the diagnosis of the books.
QO 8.180 17
...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of
thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native
country to discover its foregoers...
QO 8.200 14
Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of
fit and fair,-all these we never made...
PC 8.207 3
We meet to-day under happy omens...to the country and to
mankind.
PC 8.207 6
The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country
has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence...
PC 8.209 15
...[the coxcomb] has found that this country and this age
belong to the most liberal persuasion;...
PC 8.210 7
In this country the prodigious mass of work that must be done
has either made new divisions of labor or created new professions.
PC 8.210 18
Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the
novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...the foreign trade and the
home trade (whose circuits in this country are as spacious as the foreign)...
have evoked!...
PC 8.218 11
If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding
carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in
spite of the Emperor;...
PPo 8.241 25
Firdusi, the Persian Homer, has written in the Shah Nameh
the annals of the fabulous and heroic kings of the country...
Insp 8.288 15
...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the
country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions...
Insp 8.291 5
Allston rarely left his studio by day. An old friend took him,
one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the country...
Grts 8.318 17
A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of
society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such
examples in this country, in Daniel Webster, Henry Clay...
Dem1 10.13 24
When Hector is told that the omens are unpropitious, he
replies,-One omen is the best, to fight for one's country./
Dem1 10.21 6
...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or
private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this
kind. Tramps...descending...on...the bank-messenger in the country, can
well be spared.
Dem1 10.21 25
Great men feel that they are so by...falling back on what is
humane; in renouncing family, clan, country and each exclusive and local
connection...
Aris 10.31 6
There is an attractive topic, which...is impertinent in no
community,-the permanent traits of the Aristocracy. It is...to be found in
every country and in every company of men.
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...
Aris 10.41 24
In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent
policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages, and in
reality each to adopt from the other a first-rate man, who thus acquired a
new country; was at once made a chief.
Aris 10.66 2
...the American who would serve his country must learn the
beauty and honor of perseverance...
PerF 10.79 18
[The manufacturer's] friends dissuaded him, advised him to
give up the work, which was not suited to the country.
PerF 10.85 5
...a military genius, instead of using that to defend his
country, he says, I will fight the battle so as to give me place and political
consideration;...
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...
Chr2 10.96 14
...there is...many a man who does not hesitate to lay down
his life...in the cause of his country...
Chr2 10.106 7
How unlike our habitual turn of thought was that of the last
century in this country!
Edc1 10.125 8
...I praise New England because it is the country in the
world where is the freest expenditure for education.
Edc1 10.125 15
We have already taken...the initial step...thus deciding at
the start the destiny of this country,-this, namely, that the poor man...is
allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall
educate me...
Supl 10.170 14
I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary
by functionaries,-men of law, state and trade. The guest was a great man
in his own country and an honored diplomatist in this.
Supl 10.171 4
...I had been present...in the country at a cattle-show dinner...
Supl 10.178 9
The political economist defies us to show any gold-mine
country that is traversed by good roads...
SovE 10.202 11
In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference
of opinion in regard to inspiration, prophecy...
Prch 10.223 17
I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good
anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do not find that the age or country
makes the least difference;...
Prch 10.230 15
The simple fact...that all over this country the people are
waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is
inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties.
Prch 10.232 1
...it is impossible to pay no regard...to the calamities and
prosperities of our town and country;...
Prch 10.232 19
We shall not very long have any part or lot in this earth...
where we feel and speak so energetically of our country and our cause.
MoL 10.242 20
The country was full of activity...
MoL 10.254 18
The country complains loudly of the inefficiency of the
army.
MoL 10.257 5
All of us have shared the new enthusiasm of country and of
liberty which swept like a whirlwind through all souls at the outbreak of
war...
Schr 10.273 8
In this country we are fond of results and of short ways to
them;...
Schr 10.278 19
It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add
to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country
with them.
Schr 10.284 12
[The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which...
cannot be staved off. For all men, all women...your country...are the
interrogators...
LLNE 10.333 6
In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint
and affluent fancy. Then was exhibited all the richness of a rhetoric which
we have never seen rivalled in this country.
LLNE 10.339 12
I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr.
Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first
specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had
given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review.
LLNE 10.345 11
There was a pilgrim in those days walking in the country
who stopped at every door...
LLNE 10.355 3
It was easy to see what must be the fate of this fine system
[of Fourier's] in any serious and comprehensive attempt to set it on foot in
this country.
LLNE 10.355 18
In our free institutions...fortunes are easily made by
thousands, as in no other country.
LLNE 10.369 19
I recall these few selected facts, none of them of much
independent interest, but symptomatic of the times and country.
LLNE 10.370 1
...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle
of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our
cities and this country to-day...
EzRy 10.390 20
We remember the remark made by the old farmer who
used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country
would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
MMEm 10.401 16
Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its
price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder
with her sister, for many years. It was in a picturesque country...
MMEm 10.407 5
From the country [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her
sister in town, You cannot help saying that my epistle is a striking specimen
of egotism.
MMEm 10.407 8
...in the country, we converse so much more with
ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else.
SlHr 10.443 5
I used to feel that [Samuel Hoar's] conscience was a kind of
meter of the degree of honesty in the country...
Thor 10.451 3
Henry David Thoreau was the last male descendant of a
French ancestor who came to this country from the Isle of Guernsey.
Thor 10.455 19
In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over
so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose...
Thor 10.459 15
[Thoreau's] preference of his country and condition was
genuine...
Thor 10.469 15
[Thoreau] knew the country like a fox or a bird...
Thor 10.484 24
The country knows not yet, or in the least part, how great a
son it has lost [in Thoreau].
Carl 10.492 25
If you boast of the growth of the country, and show
[Carlyle] the wonderful results of the census, he finds nothing so depressing
as the sight of a great mob.
GSt 10.506 26
...when I consider that [George Stearns] lived long enough
to see with his own eyes the salvation of his country...I count him happy
among men.
GSt 10.507 17
Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George
Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember...that...there is
hardly a man in this country worth knowing who does not hold his name in
exceptional honor.
HDC 11.30 11
In the country...the agricultural life favors the permanence
of families.
HDC 11.32 22
...the Indian paths leading up and down the country were a
foot broad.
HDC 11.33 26
Johnson...intimates that [the pilgrims] consumed many days
in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.
HDC 11.35 25
A march of a number of families with their stuff, through
twenty miles of unknown forest...must be...for those who were new to the
country, a formidable adventure.
HDC 11.36 10
The moose was still trotting in the country...
HDC 11.42 19
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.
HDC 11.43 13
...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled
into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own
benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor
possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
HDC 11.45 3
I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers...were
united by personal affection.
HDC 11.46 25
...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned...to
exercise the right of expressing an opinion on every question before the
country.
HDC 11.49 20
The British government has recently presented to the several
public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the
Domesday Book...
HDC 11.53 4
...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near,
when there was more room for them up in the country?
HDC 11.54 27
The country [around Concord] already began to yield more
than was consumed by the inhabitants.
HDC 11.60 8
[Mary Shepherd] was carried captive into the Indian country...
HDC 11.60 16
Beleaguered in his own country...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 11.62 23
In the great growth of the country, Concord participated...
HDC 11.65 25
The country [near Concord] was not yet so thickly settled
but that the inhabitants suffered from wolves and wildcats...
HDC 11.68 11
...in answer to letters received from the united committees
of correspondence...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;...
HDC 11.69 21
...all such persons as shall purchase, sell, or use any such
tea, shall, for the future, be deemed unfriendly to the happy constitution of
this country.
HDC 11.69 27
...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we...will...
with the same resolution, as [George III's] freeborn subjects in this country,
to the utmost of our power, defend all our rights inviolate to the latest
posterity.
HDC 11.70 8
...if any person or persons...shall...be factors for the East
India Company, we will treat them...as enemies to their country...
HDC 11.76 18
...you, my fathers [veterans of battle of Concord], whom
God and the history of your country have ennobled, may well bear a chief
part in keeping this peaceful birthday of our town.
HDC 11.77 4
To you [veterans of the battle of Concord] belongs a better
badge than stars and ribbons. This prospering country is your ornament...
HDC 11.78 26
When...the poor of Boston were quartered by the Provincial
Congress on the neighboring country, Concord received 82 persons to its
hospitality.
HDC 11.85 5
...in every part of this country...[Concord's sons] plough the
earth...
LVB 11.89 20
...my communication respects the sinister rumors that fill
this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.
LVB 11.93 8
...a crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] is projected that
confounds our understandings by its magnitude,-a crime that really
deprives us as well as the Cherokees of a country?...
LVB 11.93 12
...how could we call...the land that was cursed by [the
Cherokees'] parting and dying imprecations our country, any more?
LVB 11.95 5
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; that the unanimous country would
put them down.
EWI 11.100 21
When we consider what remains to be done for this interest
[emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of
such as are not yet persuaded.
EWI 11.109 3
More seamen died in [the slave] trade in one year than in the
whole remaining trade of the country [England] in two.
EWI 11.116 4
In every quarter [of Antigua], we were assured, the day
[after emancipation] was like a Sabbath. Work had ceased. The hum of
business was still: tranquillity pervaded the towns and country.
EWI 11.121 10
All those who are acquainted with the state of the island
[Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are...as strongly sensible
of the blessings of liberty, as any that we know of in any country.
EWI 11.128 5
...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.
EWI 11.128 24
There are causes in the composition of the British
legislature, and the relation of its leaders to the country and to Europe,
which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other legislative
assemblies.
EWI 11.131 25
...the farmers may brag their democracy in the country, but
they are disgraced men.
EWI 11.136 8
I was a slave, said the counsel of [George] Somerset,
speaking for his client, for I was in America: I am now in a country where
the common rights of mankind are known and regarded.
EWI 11.137 4
All the great geniuses of the British senate...ranged
themselves on [emancipation's] side;...Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, in
this country, all recorded their votes.
EWI 11.146 2
These considerations [of emancipation in the West Indies]
seem to leave no choice for the action of the intellect and the conscience of
the country.
War 11.156 1
In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all
conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped?
War 11.159 21
This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took to killing his
own neighbors and kindred, with such appetite that his tribe...would have
killed him had he not fled his country forever.
FSLC 11.180 17
...The Boston of the American Revolution, which figures
so proudly in John Adams's Diary, which the whole country has been
reading; Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
FSLC 11.180 22
...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with
a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here;...
FSLC 11.186 12
...America, the most prosperous country in the Universe,
has the greatest calamity in the Universe, negro slavery.
FSLC 11.197 25
...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the
confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the
support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law]. We poor men in the
country who might once have thought it an honor to shake hands with
them...would now shrink from their touch...
FSLC 11.203 20
...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th
March, 1850...[Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the
slavery party in this country.
FSLC 11.205 15
The destiny of this country is great and liberal...
FSLC 11.208 1
[Abolition] is really the project fit for this country to
entertain and accomplish.
FSLC 11.208 18
It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish,
to buy that property [slaves] of the planters...
FSLC 11.209 6
'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand
millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so
enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The father of his country shall wait,
well pleased, a little longer for his monument;...
FSLC 11.211 9
Judaea was a petty country. Yet these two, Greece and
Judaea, furnish the mind and the heart by which the rest of the world is
sustained;...
FSLC 11.211 23
The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in
politics. But they who have brought the great wrong [the Fugitive Slave
Law] on the country have not forgotten it.
FSLC 11.213 1
Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their
forts and factories have been set up,-represents London...
FSLC 11.213 8
...it is confounding distinctions to speak of the geographic
sections of this country as of equal civilization.
FSLN 11.218 13
Owing to the silent revolution which the newspaper has
wrought, this class [students and scholars] has come in this country to take
in all classes.
FSLN 11.219 7
...I never felt the check on my free speech and action, until,
the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his personal influence, brought the
Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
FSLN 11.223 14
The history of this country has given a disastrous
importance to the defects of this great man's [Webster's] mind.
FSLN 11.223 18
...it was the misfortune of his country that with this large
understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect...
FSLN 11.225 24
...in this country one sees that there is always margin
enough in the statute for a liberal judge to read one way and a servile judge
another.
FSLN 11.227 17
...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to
these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law.
FSLN 11.227 21
...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to
these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally
different course from Mr. Webster. If any man had in that hour possessed
the weight with the country which he had acquired, he could have brought
the whole country to its senses.
FSLN 11.227 23
...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to
these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally
different course from Mr. Webster. If any man had in that hour possessed
the weight with the country which he had acquired, he could have brought
the whole country to its senses.
FSLN 11.229 5
The way in which the country was dragged to consent to
this [Fugitive Slave Law]...was the darkest passage in the history.
FSLN 11.239 18
The national spirit in this country is so drowsy...
FSLN 11.241 24
It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing
single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of
the country appreciate the service...
FSLN 11.243 22
[Robert Winthrop] denounced every name and aspect
under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in this age and
country...
AsSu 11.248 4
Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in
Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came
forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought
of; Mr. Webster's life was the property of his friends and of the whole
country...
AsSu 11.251 4
...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his
speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be
true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of every first-rate speaker that ever
lived. It is the high compliment he pays to the intelligence of the Senate and
of the country.
AKan 11.258 26
In this country for the last few years the government has
been the chief obstruction to the common weal.
AKan 11.259 6
I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this
country for the last twenty years...
AKan 11.260 16
...can any citizen of the Southern country who happens to
think kidnapping a bad thing, say so?
AKan 11.260 24
Are there no women in that [Southern] country,-women,
who always carry the conscience of a people?
AKan 11.262 6
California, a few years ago, by the testimony of all people
at that time in the country, had the best government that ever existed.
AKan 11.262 14
Every man throughout the country [California] was armed
with knife and revolver...
AKan 11.263 14
I wish we could send the sergeant-at-arms to stop every
American who is about to leave the country.
AKan 11.263 16
Send home every one who is abroad, lest they should find
no country to return to.
AKan 11.263 17
Come home and stay at home, while there is a country to
save.
JBB 11.268 25
[John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments,
shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence; and he
used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that a
whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a
violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this country.
JBS 11.277 5
...the best orators who have added their praise to his fame,-
and I need not go out of this house to find the purest eloquence in the
country,-have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN
BROWN.
TPar 11.292 23
The sudden and singular eminence of Mr. Parker, the
importance of his name and influence, are the verdict of his country to his
virtues.
ACiv 11.298 1
There is no interest in any country so imperative as that of
labor;...
ACiv 11.298 12
...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in
disguise...and insults the faithful workman at his daily toil? I see...for such
calamity no solution but servile war and the Africanization of the country
that permits it.
ACiv 11.298 23
The state of the country fills us with anxiety and stern
duties.
ACiv 11.299 12
...Why cannot the best civilization be extended over the
whole country...
ACiv 11.299 13
...Why cannot the best civilization be extended over the
whole country, since the disorder of the less-civilized portion menaces the
existence of the country?
ACiv 11.310 24
The message [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] has
been received throughout the country with praise...
EPro 11.317 4
...[Lincoln's] long-avowed expectant policy, as if he chose
to be strictly the executive of the best public sentiment of the country...the
firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to
the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that
we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine
Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
EPro 11.319 15
The force of the act [the Emancipation Proclamation] is
that it commits the country to this justice...
EPro 11.320 21
The government has assured itself of the best constituency
in the world...the generosity of the cities, the health of the country...all rally
to its support.
ALin 11.329 4
We meet under the gloom of a calamity [death of Lincoln]
which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society, as the
fearful tidings travel...from country to country...
ALin 11.329 5
We meet under the gloom of a calamity [death of Lincoln]
which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society, as the
fearful tidings travel...from country to country...
ALin 11.329 15
In this country, on Saturday, every one was struck dumb...
as he meditated on the ghastly blow [Lincoln's death].
ALin 11.330 22
All of us remember...the surprise and disappointment of
the country at [Lincoln's] first nomination by the convention at Chicago.
ALin 11.334 11
[Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state was a triumph...of
the public conscience. This middle-class country had got a middle-class
president, at last.
ALin 11.335 18
Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American
people];...father of his country...
ALin 11.336 26
...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web...
that Heaven...shall make [Lincoln] serve his country even more by his death
than by his life?
ALin 11.337 7
Easy good nature has been the dangerous foible of the
Republic, and it was necessary that its enemies should...drive us to
unwonted firmness, to secure the salvation of this country in the next ages.
HCom 11.341 9
...in these last years all opinions have been affected by the
magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered
us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...
HCom 11.343 22
...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the
country as a principal planter of the Western States...I think the little state
bigger than I knew
SMC 11.350 12
...the virtues we are met to honor...were exerted for the
protection of our common country...
SMC 11.351 14
...whatever good grows to the country out of war...will go
on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and
spiritual life.
SMC 11.354 27
...it was found, contrary to all popular belief, that the
country was at heart abolitionist...
SMC 11.355 9
The armies mustered in the North were as much
missionaries to the mind of the country as they were carriers of material
force...
SMC 11.357 22
One of our later volunteers...said, I go because I shall
always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.
SMC 11.358 6
...the captain [George Prescott] writes home of another of
his men, B[owers] comes from a sense of duty and love of country...
SMC 11.359 25
...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...a serious
devotion to the cause of the country that never swerved...
SMC 11.365 11
...the regimental officers believed, what is now the general
conviction of the country, that the misfortunes of the day [battle of Bull
Run] were not so much owing to the fault of the troops as to the
insufficiency of the combinations by the general officers.
SMC 11.375 6
I hope the disuse of such medals or badges in this country
only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil War]...
SMC 11.376 6
A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War],
and with such immense results of good...that, though the cannon volleys
have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the
benedictions of their country and mankind.
EdAd 11.384 25
The aspect this country presents is a certain maniacal
activity...
EdAd 11.385 9
One would say there is nothing colossal in the country but
its geography and its material activities;...
EdAd 11.386 12
Conceding these unfavorable appearances, it would yet be
a poor pedantry to read the fates of this country from these narrow data.
EdAd 11.387 13
...this country does not lie here in the sun causeless;...
EdAd 11.387 25
Lovers of our country...we should certainly be glad to give
good advice in politics.
EdAd 11.388 15
The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings
the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an
overgrown bully...
EdAd 11.389 7
We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts
the country into an immense chanticleer;...
EdAd 11.389 9
We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts
the country into an immense chanticleer; and a very insincere political
opposition. The country needs to be extricated from its delirium at once.
Koss 11.397 12
...it is the privilege of the people of this town [Concord] to
keep a hallowed mound which has a place in the story of the country;...
Koss 11.398 17
...I may say of the people of this country at large, that their
sympathy is more worth, because it stands the test of party.
Koss 11.400 4
This country of workingmen greets in you [Kossuth] a
worker.
Wom 11.420 13
On the questions that are important...whether men shall be
holden in bondage, or shall be roasted alive and eaten, as in Typee, or shall
be hunted with bloodhounds, as in this country...[women] would give, I
suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
Wom 11.423 17
The fairest names in this country...have gone into
Congress and come out dishonored.
SHC 11.431 1
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.
Scot 11.462 5
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...
Scot 11.465 20
By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time
and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and
graces of that class...
FRO1 11.480 17
The soul of our late war...was, first, the desire to abolish
slavery in this country...
FRO1 11.480 24
I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are
springing up...all over this country, should all be remembered as within the
sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...
CPL 11.496 15
Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many
admirable examples which have lately honored the country...
CPL 11.500 15
Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...more widely
known as the writer of some of the best books which have been written in
this country...
FRep 11.515 24
At every moment some one country more than any other
represents the sentiment and the future of mankind.
FRep 11.516 2
At every moment some one country more than any other
represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None will doubt that
America occupies this place in the opinion of nations, as is proved by the
fact of the vast immigration into this country...
FRep 11.516 7
...[immigrants] find this country just passing through a great
crisis in its history...
FRep 11.517 27
Hitherto government has been that of the single person or
of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is
asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of
professional politicians...
FRep 11.518 25
The country is governed in bar-rooms...
FRep 11.519 17
We have seen the great party of property and education in
the country drivelling and huckstering away...every principle of humanity...
FRep 11.522 7
[The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast
domain...and feels the security that there can be no famine in a country
reaching through so many latitudes...
FRep 11.522 10
[The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast
domain...and feels the security that there can be...no danger from any
excess of importation of art or learning into a country of such native
strength...
FRep 11.522 14
In proportion to the personal ability of each man, [the
American] feels the invitation and career which the country opens to him.
FRep 11.524 25
...we know, all over this country, men of integrity...
FRep 11.525 19
The gracious lesson taught by science to this country is
that the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance from less to
more.
FRep 11.526 6
Ours is the country of poor men.
FRep 11.526 13
...here is the human race poured out over the continent to
do itself justice;...unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work, when labor
is sure to pay. This through all the country.
FRep 11.527 8
The steady improvement of the public schools in the cities
and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious primary
education.
FRep 11.530 3
...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the
obedience of man to the guiding of Nature...yet is there fate above fate, if
we choose to spread this language;...
FRep 11.530 19
Never country had such a fortune...as this...
FRep 11.531 10
I wish to see America...a benefactor such as no country
ever was...
FRep 11.531 16
In this country...there is, at present, a great sensualism...
FRep 11.533 12
If a temperate wise man should look over our American
society, I think the first danger that would excite his alarm would be the
European influences on this country.
FRep 11.533 15
We buy much of Europe that does not make us better men;
and mainly the expensiveness which is ruining that country.
FRep 11.533 21
See the secondariness and aping of foreign and English
life, that runs through this country...
FRep 11.534 14
In the planters of this country...the conditions of the
country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence...
FRep 11.534 15
In the planters of this country...the conditions of the
country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence...
FRep 11.535 14
What this country longs for is personalities...
FRep 11.535 27
...in the country [the class of which I speak] sit idle in
stores and bar-rooms...
FRep 11.537 19
The new times need a new man...whom plainly this
country must furnish.
FRep 11.538 16
...if the spirit which years ago armed this country against
rebellion...could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making
the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of
religious...obeyers of duty...
FRep 11.540 3
Let us realize that this country...is the great charity of God
to the human race.
FRep 11.541 14
The genius of the country has marked out our true
policy,-opportunity.
PLT 12.27 5
A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the
traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a
determinate heap of one size and form and not another.
PLT 12.33 12
In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to
omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have
their fountains...
PLT 12.56 6
The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing
with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men...seems
inspired and a god-send to those who wish to...carry a point. 'T is the
difference between progress by railroad and by walking across the broken
country.
PLT 12.57 1
It is the levity of this country to forgive everything to talent.
II 12.65 4
In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to
omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have
their fountains...
CInt 12.115 17
At this season, the colleges keep their anniversaries, and in
this country where education is a primary interest, every family has a
representative in their halls...
CL 12.135 8
The land, the care of land, seems to be the calling of the
people of this new country...
CL 12.136 12
...in the country, Nature is always inviting to the compromise
of walking as soon as we are released from severe labor.
CL 12.136 16
Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of
Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country...
CL 12.136 25
...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on
excursions on foot into the country...
CL 12.143 19
For walking, you must have a broken country.
CL 12.144 3
In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable like a park, and not
like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire...
CL 12.144 15
Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was
composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it was impossible to
walk in the country...
CL 12.144 21
We may well enumerate what compensating advantages we
have over that country [Illinois]...
CL 12.144 26
...'t is a commonplace, which I have frequently heard spoken
in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of the Divine Providence that the
New England states should have been first settled before the Western
country was known, or they would never have been settled at all.
CL 12.145 7
In October, the country is covered with [the apple's]
ornamental harvests.
CL 12.146 19
I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with
and hold their ground against the native forest-trees: the apple growing with
profusion that mocks the pains taken by careful cockneys, who come out
into the country, plant young trees, and watch them dwindling.
CL 12.155 8
...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I
seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy
burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway...my
languor or heaviness returned.
CL 12.156 3
...a view from a cliff over a wide country undoes a good deal
of prose...
CL 12.159 2
Those who persist [in walking] from year to year, and obtain
at last an intimacy with the country...these we call professors.
CW 12.171 23
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 for their learning...
CW 12.173 26
The place where a thoughtful man in the country feels the
joy of eminent domain is in his wood-lot.
Bost 12.185 15
[Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures;...
Bost 12.190 5
Massachusetts in particular, [John Smith] calls the paradise
of these parts, notices its high mountain, and its river, which doth pierce
many days' journey into the entrails of that country.
Bost 12.190 6
Morton arrived [in Massachusetts] in 1622, in June, beheld
the country, and the more he looked, the more he liked it.
Bost 12.191 18
...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at
Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the
best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...where a
bold shore was bounded by a country of rich undulating woodland.
Bost 12.197 24
In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical
and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that
refinement...which...gave a hospitality in this country to the spirit of
Coleridge and Wordsworth...before yet their genius had found a hearty
welcome in Great Britain.
Bost 12.200 14
There are always men ready for adventures-more in an
over-governed, over-peopled country...
Bost 12.200 18
...a gold-mine, a new country, speak to the imagination...
Bost 12.201 4
European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this
country without aristocracy;...
Bost 12.205 13
...when within our memory some flippant senator wished to
taunt the people of this country by calling them the mudsills of society, he
paid them ignorantly a true praise;...
Bost 12.205 21
The power of labor which belongs to the English race fell
here...into a maritime country made for trade...
MAng1 12.222 2
There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of
the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the
uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards
Anthropomorphism...
MAng1 12.237 11
...[Michelangelo] had a passion for the country...
MAng1 12.244 19
[Michelangelo] was not a citizen of any country;...
Milt1 12.259 19
...probably no traveller ever entered that country of history
[Italy] with better right to its hospitality [than Milton]...
Milt1 12.267 23
Johnson petulantly taunts Milton...in returning from Italy
because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.
Milt1 12.267 26
[Milton] returned into his revolutionized country, and
assumed an honest and useful task...
Milt1 12.273 23
...it would not be matter of rational wonder [Milton said],
if the wethers of our country should be born with horns that could batter
down cities and towns.
ACri 12.284 2
Chiefly in this country, the common school has added two
or three audiences [for the writer]: once, we had only the boxes; now, the
galleries and the pit.
ACri 12.285 16
...[George Borrow] had one clear perception, that the key
to every country was command of the language of the common people.
ACri 12.298 9
Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History
of Friedrich, infinitely the wittiest book that ever was written;...
MLit 12.316 11
Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul
was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the
wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent...which...would not make itself
intelligible to the wise man of another age or country?
MLit 12.322 7
...the quality and energy of [Carlyle's] influence on the
youth of this country will require at our hands, ere long, a distinct and
faithful acknowledgment.
MLit 12.327 11
In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book
could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe,
which attest the incessant activity of this man...
MLit 12.331 12
[Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the
country;...
MLit 12.334 11
He who doubts whether this age or this country can yield
any contribution to the literature of the world only betrays his own
blindness to the necessities of the human soul.
WSL 12.337 6
We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an
erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English
traveller;-a man nowise cautious to conceal his name or that of his native
country...
WSL 12.337 8
We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an
erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English
traveller;-a man nowise cautious to conceal...his very slight esteem for the
persons and the country that surround him.
EurB 12.369 22
In this country [Wordsworth's influence] very early found
a stronghold...
EurB 12.370 24
...[modern painters] will not paint for their times, agitated
by the spirit which agitates their country;...
EurB 12.373 26
The story of Zanoni was one of those world-fables which
is so agreeable to the human imagination that it is found in some form in
the language of every country...
Let 12.398 1
There is...a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on
young men of this country as soon as they have finished their college
education...
Let 12.398 15
...[American youths] are educated above the work of their
times and country, and disdain it.
Let 12.398 23
...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic
states every week take their departure for Europe; for no business that they
have in that country...
Let 12.403 5
A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm
for his son. Though there were crowds of emigrants in the roads, the
country was open on both sides...
Let 12.404 5
Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any
sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the
graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his
energies, whilst...the religious, civil and judicial forms of the country are
confessedly effete and offensive.
Country, n. (1)
CW 12.172 2
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...but whom I had the pleasure of knowing long before the Country
did;...
country-boy, n. (1)
Pt1 3.19 17
A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the
complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder.
country-gentleman, n. (1)
ET11 5.195 10
Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for
the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense.
country-house, n. (1)
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!
country-life, n. (2)
Nat 1.31 13
These facts may suggest the advantage which the country-life
possesses...
ET11 5.177 20
The [English] aristocracy are marked by their predilection
for country-life.
countryman, n. (14)
DSA 1.138 22
...of the bad preacher, it could not be told from his sermon...
whether he was a citizen or a countryman;...
Mrs1 3.131 27
...the countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a
ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
Nat2 3.173 22
I am grown expensive and sophisticated. I can no longer live
without elegance, but a countryman shall be my master of revels.
ET17 5.293 22
Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two
or three signal days...one at the Museum...and still another, on which Mr.
[Richard] Owen accompanied my countryman Mr. H[illard]. and myself
through the Hunterian Museum.
Ctr 6.153 7
The countryman finds the town a chop-house, a barber's shop.
Wsp 6.222 3
The countryman leaving his native village for the first time
and going abroad, finds all his habits broken up.
Elo1 7.96 4
[The woods and mountains] send us every year...some some
sturdy countryman, on whom neither money, nor politeness...make any
impression.
Farm 7.137 21
...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman...all men
acknowledge.
Supl 10.169 17
The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets,
coaches, dinners, wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to
look straight at you...
MoL 10.246 18
A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet
countryman possessed of all the virtues...
RBur 11.441 5
...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the
greatest masters,-Rabelais, Shakspeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and
Burns. If I should add another name, I find it only in a living countryman of
Burns [Carlyle].
CL 12.145 1
The privilege of the countryman is the culture of the land...
CW 12.177 9
...the countryman, as I said, has more than he paid for; the
landscape is his.
EurB 12.371 21
...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home...
countryman's, n. (1)
FSLC 11.208 23
It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish,
to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West
Indian slaves. I say buy...that we may...bear a countryman's share in
relieving [the planter];...
countrymen, n. (38)
Con 1.323 24
Is there not something shameful that I should owe my
peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my
countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other reputable
persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in good
odor?
YA 1.375 3
Benefit will accrue, [railroads] are essential to the country, but
that will be felt not until we are no longer countrymen.
Pt1 3.38 8
If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my
countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the
poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of
English poets.
Chr1 3.92 2
Our frank countrymen of the west and south have a taste for
character...
MoS 4.161 20
The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that
[the wise skeptic] have...proof...that he has evinced the temper, stoutness
and the range of qualities which, among his contemporaries and
countrymen, entitle him to fellowship and trust.
ET4 5.65 6
Other countrymen look slight and undersized beside [the
English]...
ET6 5.112 1
There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in
wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen.
ET7 5.120 13
...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at
Lisbon...believing in his countrymen and their syllogisms above all the
rhodomontade of Europe.
ET7 5.123 27
A slow temperament makes [the English] less rapid and
ready than other countrymen...
ET7 5.126 1
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,/...
ET8 5.135 17
Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph
Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever
existed, and profusely pouring over the cold mind of his countrymen
creations of grace and truth...
ET12 5.208 19
The German Huber, in describing to his countrymen the
attributes of an English gentleman, frankly admits that in Germany, we
have nothing of the kind.
ET14 5.243 19
[Locke's] countrymen forsook the lofty sides of Parnassus...
ET14 5.244 16
...[the English] draw only a bucketful at the fountain of the
First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head.
Bacon, who said this, is almost unique among his countrymen in that
faculty;...
ET14 5.259 1
I am not surprised...to find an Englishman like Warren
Hastings...deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering them
a translation of the Bhagvat.
ET16 5.275 6
Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that
they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run away to
France and go with their countrymen and are amused...
ET18 5.305 5
I have sometimes seen [Englishmen] walk with my
countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage...
ET19 5.314 5
...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a
commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own
Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
Ctr 6.145 18
Can we never extract this tape-worm of Europe from the brain
of our countrymen?
CbW 6.266 15
My countrymen are not less infatuated with the rococo toy
of Italy.
DL 7.104 18
...chiefly, like his senior countrymen, the young American
studies new and speedier modes of transportation.
Thor 10.462 1
[Thoreau]...would probably outwalk most countrymen in a
day's journey.
LS 11.7 2
Jesus is a Jew, sitting with his countrymen, celebrating their
national feast [the Passover].
HDC 11.61 14
A great defence [of Concord] undoubtedly was the village
of Praying Indians, until this settlement fell a victim to the envenomed
prejudice against their countrymen.
FSLN 11.224 22
It is remarked of Americans...that they think they praise a
man more by saying that he is smart than by saying that he is right.
Whether the defect be national or not...it is so far true of [Webster's]
countrymen, namely, that the appeal is sure to be made to his physical and
mental ability when his character is assailed.
FSLN 11.226 18
...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in
affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man
[Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength
that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.
FSLN 11.242 1
[The single defender of the right] may well say, If my
countrymen do not care to be defended, I too will decline the controversy...
HCom 11.343 8
...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these
scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite-God
knows they had no fury for killing their old friends and countrymen-had
its signal and lasting effect.
Koss 11.397 5
The people of this town [Concord] share with their
countrymen the admiration of valor and perseverance;...
Shak1 11.448 24
[Shakespeare] is as superior to his countrymen, as to all
other countrymen.
Humb 11.458 16
One of [Germany's] writers warns his countrymen that it
is not the Battle of Leipsic, but the Leipsic Fair Catalogue, which raises
them above the French.
MAng1 12.244 11
Three significant garlands are sculptured on
[Michelangelo's] tomb; they should be four, but that his countrmen feared
their own partiality.
Milt1 12.248 19
[Milton's] poem fell unregarded among his countrymen.
Milt1 12.251 1
...the peroration [of Milton's Defence of the English
People], in which he implores his countrymen to refute this adversary
[Saumaise] by their great deeds, is in a just spirit.
Milt1 12.270 15
[Milton] studied with care the character of his
countrymen...
ACri 12.286 19
Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over
Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone
when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen.
WSL 12.338 15
Transfer these traits to a very elegant and accomplished
mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter Savage Landor, who may
stand as a favorable impersonation of the genius of his countrymen at the
present day.
Let 12.398 25
...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic
states every week take their departure for Europe;...simply because they
shall so be hid from the reproachful eyes of their countrymen...
country-neighbors, n. (1)
ET17 5.296 13
Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth] to me...for having
afforded to his country-neighbors an example of a modest household where
comfort and culture were secured without any display.
country-people, n. (2)
PPh 4.71 19
...[Socrates] was what our country-people call an old one.
GoW 4.266 16
It is believed...the negotiations of a caucus and the
practising on the prejudices and facility of country-people to secure their
votes in November,--is practical and commendable.
country's, n. (1)
Milt1 12.265 7
In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny
respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they
should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors
preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and
not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion and our country'
s liberty...
countrywomen, n. (1)
Bty 6.303 15
...the Welsh bard warns his countrywomen, Half of their
charms with Cadwallon shall die./
counts, n. (1)
HDC 11.66 20
The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order
and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious
excitements. His answer to one of the counts breathes such true piety that I
cannot forbear to quote it.
counts, v. (9)
SL 2.148 20
[A man] is like a quincunx of trees, which counts five,--east,
west, north, or south;...
OS 2.295 5
He that finds God a sweet enveloping thought to him never
counts his company.
Cir 2.319 14
Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring...counts itself nothing...
NER 3.271 20
Genius counts all its miracles poor and short.
GoW 4.262 25
[The writer] counts it all nonsense that they say, that some
things are undescribable.
Wsp 6.226 24
It is our system that counts...
CbW 6.274 8
...it counts much whether we have had good companions in
that time [the past five years]...
Suc 7.304 18
...the man of sensibility counts it a delight only to hear a child'
s voice fully addressed to him...
PPo 8.245 25
The understanding's copper coin/ Counts not with the gold of
love./
county, adj. (6)
ET15 5.269 21
...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London
Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put
a nobleman, described by name and title...into any county jail in England...
Elo1 7.62 3
Our county conventions often exhibit a small-pot-soon-hot
style of eloquence.
PI 8.7 7
...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose
brain it belongs to;...and goes whirling off...in a direction self-chosen, by
law of thought and not by law of kitchen clock or county committee.
PI 8.41 22
...the broker sees the stock-list; the politician, the ward and
county votes;...
Plu 10.322 5
It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force
ambitious young men, before they mount the platform of the county
conventions, to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
SlHr 10.443 12
...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained,
as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the
burned court-house...all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the
Legislature...
County Convention, n. (2)
HDC 11.71 4
In August [1774], a County Convention met in this town
[Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public affairs...
HDC 11.81 11
In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this
town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas. But
they found no countenance here. The same people who had been active in a
County Convention to consider grievances, condemned the rebellion...
County, Derby, England, n. (1)
ET11 5.182 16
The Duke of Devonshire, besides his other estates, owns 96,
000 acres in the County of Derby.
County, Hampshire, Massachu (1)
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].
County, Litchfield, Connect (1)
JBS 11.277 16
John Brown...was born in Torrington, Litchfield County,
Connecticut, in 1800.
County, Middlesex, Massachu (1)
HDC 11.55 7
In 1643, the colony was so numerous that it became
expedient to divide it into four counties, Concord being included in
Middlesex.
county, n. (17)
MR 1.244 15
Give [any man's] mind a new image, and he...is richer with
that dream than the fee of a county could make him.
Con 1.321 15
...if priest and church-member should fail...the very
innholders and landlords of the county, would muster with fury to [religious
institutions'] support.
Exp 3.83 18
I should feel it pitiful to demand a result on this town and
county...
Pol1 3.202 2
One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county.
ET11 5.180 16
A susceptible man could not wear a name which
represented in a strict sense a city or a county of England, without hearing
in it a challenge to duty and honor.
Pow 6.64 26
...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and
tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have
the good nature of strength and courage.
Ill 6.309 6
We traversed, through spacious galleries affording a solid
masonry foundation for the town and county overhead, the six or eight
black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the
innermost recess which tourists visit...
Ill 6.320 22
The cloud is now as big as your hand, and now it covers a
county.
Elo1 7.86 3
...the court and the county have really come together to arrive
at these three or four memorable expressions which betrayed the mind and
meaning of somebody.
Elo1 7.96 22
This man [the sturdy countryman] scornfully renounces your
civil organizations,--county, or city, or governor, or army;...
DL 7.118 20
Let a man...say, My house is here in the county, for the culture
of the county;...
WD 7.162 17
...ships were built capacious enough to carry the people of a
county.
Clbs 7.233 21
...[Holmes (?)] tells the best story in the county...
Aris 10.42 10
In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the
sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights...to be returned.
SHC 11.432 15
This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies
adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...making together a large
block of public ground, permanent property of the town and county...
Mem 12.105 26
Abel Lawton knew every horse that went up and down
through Concord to the towns in the county.
Bost 12.189 9
On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated
forty of his subjects...the council established at Plymouth in the county of
Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in
America.
County, Sutherland, Scotlan (1)
ET11 5.182 13
The Duke of Sutherland owns the County of Sutherland...
County, Worcester, Massachu (1)
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].
county-families, n. (1)
ET11 5.177 21
The [English] aristocracy are marked by their predilection
for country-life. They are called the county-families.
county-town, n. (1)
YA 1.386 7
If any man has a talent...for combining a hundred private
enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board,
Mr. Smith, Governor...
couple, n. (6)
Prd1 2.229 27
The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most
passionless piece you can imagine; a couple of saints who worship the
Virgin and Child.
Mrs1 3.152 26
For the present distress...of those who are predisposed to
suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy
remedies. To remove your residence a couple of miles, or at most four, will
commonly relieve the most extreme susceptibility.
ET16 5.289 10
Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church
of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer,
which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given to
every one who should ask it at the gate. We had both, from the old couple
who take care of the church.
ET17 5.294 9
At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a couple of days the
guest of Miss Martineau...
F 6.11 23
Most men and most women are merely one couple more.
Insp 8.287 15
Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your
window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival.
couple, v. (1)
Dem1 10.26 3
It is wholly a false view to couple these things [Animal
Magnetism, Mesmerism] in any manner with the religious nature and
sentiment...
coupled, v. (4)
MN 1.222 10
The one condition coupled with the gift of truth is its use.
MoS 4.165 6
...though a biblical plainness coupled with a most uncanonical
levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the
offence is superficial.
ET13 5.217 5
[The English Church]...has coupled itself with the almanac,
that no court can be held, no field ploughed, no horse shod, without some
leave from the church.
Carl 10.489 21
[Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes
find in burly people. That, and all his qualities, have a certain virulence,
coupled though it be in his case with the utmost impatience of Christendom
and Jewdom...
couples, n. (1)
UGM 4.25 19
It is observed in old couples...that they grow like...
couples, v. (1)
Plu 10.300 9
It is one of the felicities of literary history, the tie which
inseparably couples these two names [Plutarch and Montaigne] across
fourteen centuries.
couplet, n. (1)
PPo 8.240 6
Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and flowers are the wine and
spirits of the Arab; a couplet is equal to a bottle, and a rose to a dram...
coupling, v. (1)
ET5 5.82 24
Their self-respect...and their realistic logic or coupling of
means to ends, have given [the English] the leadership of the modern world.
coups d'etat, n. (1)
FRep 11.540 8
We shall not make coups d'etat and afterwards explain and
pay...
courage, n. (169)
AmS 1.104 15
It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he seek a temporary peace
by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions...as a boy
whistles to keep his courage up.
DSA 1.135 7
Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach;...
DSA 1.149 3
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the
world, is the highest applause. Such souls...are...the dictators of fortune.
One needs not praise their courage...
LE 1.162 3
...the immortal bards of philosophy,-that which they have
written out with patient courage, makes me bold.
LE 1.180 7
...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in the sallies of
courage...
MN 1.223 26
I draw from this faith courage and hope.
Con 1.316 16
...[riches] take somewhat for everything they give. I look
bigger, but I am less; I have...more armor, but less courage;...
Con 1.323 9
The man of courage and resources is shown [in war or
anarchy]...
Tran 1.351 23
Cannot we screw our courage to patience and truth...
Hist 2.24 20
The reverence exhibited [in the Grecian period] is for personal
qualities; courage, address...
Hist 2.28 21
The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child,
in repressing his spirits and courage...is a familiar fact...
SR 2.52 25
Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage
or charity, much as they would pay a fine...
SR 2.72 18
...let us enter into the state of war and wake Thor and Woden,
courage and constancy...
Lov1 2.177 24
Into the most pitiful and abject [love] will infuse a heart and
courage to defy the world...
Fdsp 2.201 11
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest
courage.
Fdsp 2.206 7
[Friends] are to dignify to each other the daily needs and
offices of man's life, and embellish it by courage, wisdom and unity.
Prd1 2.237 11
...in regard to disagreeable and formidable things, prudence
does not consist in evasion or in flight, but in courage.
Prd1 2.240 24
...truth, frankness, courage, love, humility and all the virtues
range themselves on the side of prudence...
Hsm1 2.248 21
A wild courage...shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch]...
Cir 2.321 2
The difference between talents and character is adroitness to
keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road
to new and better goals.
Art1 2.365 10
The sweetest music is...in the human voice when it speaks
from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.
Mrs1 3.124 9
The society of the energetic class...is full of courage...
Mrs1 3.124 10
The courage which girls exhibit is like a battle of Lundy's
Lane...
Mrs1 3.152 22
[Youth] have yet to learn that [ our society's] seeming
grandeur is shadowy and relative...its proudest gates will fly open at the
approach of their courage and virtue.
NER 3.285 5
That which befits us...is cheerfulness and courage...
UGM 4.14 11
Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil
terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden,
who was...of parts not to be imposed on by the most subtle and sharp, and
of a personal courage equal to his best parts;--of Falkland...
PPh 4.63 27
...courage is nothing else than knowledge;...
PPh 4.64 7
Courage then! for [said Plato] the persuasion that we must
search that which we do not know, will render us, beyond comparison,
better, braver and more industrious than if we thought it impossible to
discover what we do not know, and useless to search for it.
PPh 4.72 16
...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates]
had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there,
evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh
ruined him.
PNR 4.83 4
Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and
ulterior senses. His...beautiful definitions of ideas, of time, of form, of
figure, of the line, sometimes hypothetically given, as his defining of virtue,
courage, justice, temperance;...
PNR 4.86 19
[Plato]...descended into detail with a courage like that he
witnessed in nature.
SwM 4.96 18
...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but
that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself
recover all his ancient knowledge...if he have but courage and faint not in
the midst of his researches.
MoS 4.164 18
In the civil wars of the League...Montaigne kept his gates
open and his house without defence. All parties freely came and went, his
courage and honor being universally esteemed.
NMW 4.237 5
We are always...just on the edge of destruction and only to
be saved by invention and courage.
NMW 4.237 10
[Napoleon's] very attack was never the inspiration of
courage...
NMW 4.237 15
In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon]
remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the-
morning kind...
NMW 4.237 17
In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon]
remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the-
morning kind: I mean unprepared courage;...
NMW 4.237 23
...[Napoleon] did not hesitate to declare that he was himself
eminently endowed with this two-o'clock-in-the-morning courage...
NMW 4.244 18
In the Russian campaign he was so much impressed by the
courage and resources of Marshal Ney, that [Napoleon] said, I have two
hundred millions in my coffers, and I would give them all for Ney.
NMW 4.247 6
We can not...sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this
strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who...showed us how much may be
accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all men possess in less
degrees; namely, by punctuality, by personal attention, by courage and
thoroughness.
NMW 4.249 4
Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles
are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel
inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own
courage...
GoW 4.280 6
...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is highly stimulating to
intellect and courage.
GoW 4.290 9
Goethe teaches courage...
ET4 5.56 26
The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage,
sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm
them and every shore is at their mercy. ... As soon as the shores are
sufficiently peopled to make piracy a losing business, the same skill and
courage are ready for the service of trade.
ET4 5.68 1
The English delight in the antagonism which combines in one
person the extremes of courage and tenderness.
ET4 5.71 18
[The Englishman's] attachment to the horse arises from the
courage and address required to manage it.
ET5 5.87 3
...[the English]...do not like ponderous and difficult tactics, but
delight to bring the affair hand to hand; where the victory lies with the
strength, courage and endurance of the individual combatants.
ET8 5.128 3
...[Englishmen's] well-known courage is entirely attributable
to their digust of life.
ET8 5.132 3
Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the
day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates courage
on fortitude...
ET9 5.147 16
The English have a steady courage that fits them for great
attempts and endurance...
ET9 5.147 18
...[the English] have...a petty courage, through which every
man delights in showing himself for what he is and in doing what he can;...
ET11 5.174 9
English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has
courage and faculty, let him come in.
ET12 5.208 8
It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton,
Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that, in their playgrounds, courage is
universally admired...
ET13 5.222 17
[The English] talk with courage and logic, and show you
magnificent results...
ET14 5.244 9
...a bad general wants myriads of men and miles of redoubts
to compensate the inspirations of courage and conduct.
ET15 5.262 16
England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who
possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs, expressing with
clearness and courage their opinion on any person or performance.
ET15 5.269 3
[The London Times] has the national courage...
ET15 5.272 18
...no journal is ruined by wise courage.
ET16 5.281 22
The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley]...connects
[Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and religion of the world, and
with the courage of his tribe, does not stick to say, the Deity who made the
world by the scheme of Stonehenge.
ET17 5.298 11
New means were employed, and new realms added to the
empire of the muse, by [Wordsworth's] courage.
ET18 5.302 24
...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage,
through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and
stoutness! What courage in war...
ET19 5.314 1
...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a
commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own
Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
F 6.24 18
'T is the best use of Fate to teach a fatal courage.
F 6.29 9
A text of heroism, a name and anecdote of courage, are not
arguments but sallies of freedom.
F 6.29 14
Does the reading of history make us fatalists? What courage does
not the opposite opinion show!
Pow 6.55 2
Courage, the old physicians taught...is as the degree of
circulation of the blood in the arteries.
Pow 6.55 4
Courage, the old physicians taught...courage, or the degree of
life, is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.
Pow 6.55 12
Where the arteries hold their blood, is courage and adventure
possible.
Pow 6.65 1
...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and tavern
through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have the
good nature of strength and courage.
Pow 6.71 22
We say that success...depends on a plus condition of mind and
body, on power of work, on courage;...
Wth 6.126 18
The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it
becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance.
Ctr 6.139 26
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the
thing before.
Bhr 6.196 9
It is good to give a stranger...a night's lodging. It is better to be
hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a
companion.
CbW 6.278 21
The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points
steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;...courage to
be what we are...
Elo1 7.80 8
A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty
thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad
companies before committees of the House of Commons. His clients pay
not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments,--for courage, conduct
and a commanding social position...
Elo1 7.86 11
In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you
hire to lead your party...through a difficult country. He may not compare
with any of the party in mind or breeding or courage or possessions, but he
is much more important to the present need than any of them.
Boks 7.215 26
A person of less courage...will answer [the question of a
vicious marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre] does,--giving way to fate...
Cour 7.255 6
The third excellence is courage...
Cour 7.255 19
'T is said courage is common...
Cour 7.255 23
...the pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct...
is the endowment of elevated characters.
Cour 7.255 24
...the pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct...
is the endowment of elevated characters.
Cour 7.256 16
How short a time since this whole nation rose every
morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers in the
field...
Cour 7.256 18
We have had examples of men who, for showing effective
courage on a single occasion, have become a favorite spectacle to nations...
Cour 7.258 1
...the high price of courage indicates the general timidity.
Cour 7.261 18
So great a soldier as the old French Marshal Montluc
acknowledges that he has often trembled with fear, and recovered courage
when he had said a prayer for the occasion.
Cour 7.261 23
I knew a young soldier...who confided to his sister that he
had made up his mind to volunteer for the war. I have not, he said, any
proper courage, but I shall never let any one find it out.
Cour 7.262 10
Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you
will recover in a minute or so;...
Cour 7.264 9
...courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
Cour 7.264 16
Courage is equality to the problem...
Cour 7.266 2
...there is no separate essence called courage...
Cour 7.266 22
Undoubtedly there is a temperamental courage...
Cour 7.267 3
Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.
Cour 7.267 18
Each has his own courage...
Cour 7.267 19
...the courage of the tiger is one, and of the horse another.
Cour 7.267 25
There is a courage of the cabinet as well as a courage of the
field;...
Cour 7.267 26
There is a courage of the cabinet as well as a courage of the
field;...
Cour 7.267 26
There is...a courage of manners in private assemblies...
Cour 7.268 1
There is...a courage which enables one man to speak masterly
to a hostile company, whilst another man who can easily face a cannon's
mouth dares not open his own.
Cour 7.268 5
There is a courage of a merchant in dealing with his trade...
Cour 7.268 11
There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master
in architecture, in sculpture...
Cour 7.268 16
There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master
in architecture...in painting or in poetry...which yet nowise implies the
presence of physical valor in the artist. This is the courage of genius, in
every kind.
Cour 7.270 6
Every creature has a courage of his constitution fit for his
duties...
Cour 7.270 8
Every creature has a courage of his constitution fit for his
duties:--Archimedes, the courage of a geometer to stick to his diagram...
Cour 7.270 13
...each is betrayed when he seeks in himself the courage of
others.
Cour 7.270 23
[John Brown] held the belief that courage and chastity are
silent concerning themselves.
Cour 7.271 6
True courage is not ostentatious;...
Cour 7.272 3
Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.
Cour 7.273 3
...the sacred courage is connected with the heart.
Cour 7.273 26
...whenever the religious sentiment is adequately affirmed, it
must be with dazzling courage.
Cour 7.274 22
Sacred courage indicates that a man loves an idea better
than all things in the world;...
Cour 7.275 8
There are degrees of courage...
Cour 7.275 23
In the most private life, difficult duty is never far off.
Therefore we must think with courage.
Cour 7.276 23
I do not wish to...urge [any man] to ape the courage of his
comrade.
Cour 7.276 24
Have the courage not to adopt another's courage.
Cour 7.277 6
...the best use of fate is to teach us courage...
Cour 7.277 17
I am permitted to enrich my chapter by adding an anecdote
of pure courage from real life...
Suc 7.306 8
...the springs of justice and courage do not fail any more than
salt or sulphur springs.
SA 8.95 21
Courage to ask questions; courage to expose our ignorance.
SA 8.95 22
Courage to ask questions; courage to expose our ignorance.
SA 8.106 17
Temperance, courage, love, are made up of the same jewels.
Elo2 8.115 15
We reckon the bar, the senate, journalism and the pulpit,
peaceful professions; but you cannot escape the demand for courage in
these...
Res 8.146 19
What a new face courage puts on everything!
PPo 8.239 2
[The religion of the East] distinguishes only two days in each
man's history,-his birthday, called the Day of the Lot, and the Day of
Judgment. Courage and absolute submission to what is appointed him are
his virtues.
Insp 8.280 17
A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;...he can never
think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes...with hope, courage, fertile
in resources...
Grts 8.304 25
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.
Grts 8.311 22
[The scholar's] courage is to weigh Plato...
Grts 8.311 25
[The scholar's] courage is to...criticise Kant and
Swedenborg, and on all these arouse the central courage of insight.
Grts 8.311 26
The scholar's courage should be as terrible as the Cid's...
Imtl 8.341 25
Courage comes naturally to those who have the habit of
facing labor and danger...
Imtl 8.342 1
...courage or confidence in the mind comes to those who know
by use its wonderful forces and inspirations and returns.
Aris 10.38 14
...they only prosper or they prosper best...who engineer in
sword and cannon style, with energy and sharpness. Why, but because
courage never loses its high price?
PerF 10.86 23
Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
Chr2 10.92 27
...courage is contempt of danger in the determination to see
this good of the whole enacted;...
SovE 10.187 11
The civil history of men might be traced by the successive
meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;-virtue meaning
physical courage, then chastity and temperance, then justice and love;...
SovE 10.191 10
Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and
fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with
a woof of human industry and wisdom...with...courage and the victories of
the just and wise over malice and wrong.
MoL 10.250 22
...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas...
imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage.
Schr 10.263 13
The scholar is here to fill others with love and courage...
Schr 10.274 4
Is there only one courage and one warfare?
Plu 10.318 19
The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the
refinement of his pure tastes...endeared him to Plutarch.
LLNE 10.346 1
...[the pilgrim] had the courage which so stern a return to
Arcadian manners required...
LLNE 10.353 26
...there is an intellectual courage and strength in
[Fourierism] which is superior and commanding;...
LLNE 10.354 4
It argued singular courage, the adoption of Fourier's
system, to even a limited extent...
GSt 10.504 2
...[George Stearns's] plain good sense, courage, adherence,
and his romantic generosity disarmed...all gainsayers.
GSt 10.504 18
Plainly [George Stearns] was...a man whom disasters, which
dishearten other men, only stimulated to new courage and endeavor.
LS 11.21 19
What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the
persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and
onward.
HDC 11.59 26
The virtues of patriotism and of prodigious courage and
address were exhibited [in King Philip's war] on both sides...
HDC 11.85 27
On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of
John Eliot...who had a courage that intimidated those savages whom his
love could not melt;...
War 11.152 27
The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried
and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above
each other by new merits...
War 11.172 27
We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful
gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping, defy the world, so
confident are they of their courage and strength...
JBB 11.268 9
[John Brown] is a man to make friends wherever on earth
courage and integrity are esteemed...
JBB 11.268 14
...every one who has heard [John Brown] speak has been
impressed alike by his simple, artless goodness, joined with his sublime
courage.
JBB 11.270 1
...it is the reductio ad absurdum of Slavery, when the
governor of Virginia is forced to hang a man [John Brown] whom he
declares to be a man of the most integrity, truthfulness and courage he has
ever met.
JBS 11.280 21
...it is impossible to see courage, and disinterestedness, and
the love that casts out fear, without sympathy.
ACiv 11.302 7
In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but
that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle...
EPro 11.318 12
Against all timorous counsels [Lincoln] had the courage to
seize the moment;...
ALin 11.335 11
There, by his courage, his justice...[Lincoln] stood a heroic
figure in the centre of a heroic epoch.
SMC 11.358 2
One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may
think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from
danger, should wish to enter the army; but there is a higher Power that...
enables [men] to see their duty, and gives them courage to face the dangers
with which those duties are attended.
EdAd 11.390 15
A journal that would meet the real wants of this time must
have a courage and power sufficient to solve the problems which the great
groping society around us...is dumbly exploring.
PLT 12.29 12
[Man's] equipment, though new, is complete;...his courage,
his charity, are his own.
PLT 12.63 22
...[the Intellect's] courage is of its own kind...
II 12.85 6
Is there only one courage, one gratitude, one benevolence?
II 12.87 4
The virtue of the Intellect is its own, as its courage is of its own
kind...
Bost 12.193 11
...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology,
which yet conceals some grand commandment; as courage, veracity,
honesty...
Milt1 12.257 13
Wood, [Milton's] political opponent, relates that his
deportment was affable, his gait erect and manly, bespeaking courage and
undauntedness.
EurB 12.373 21
...[Bulwer's] novels are marked...with a courage of
experiment which in each instance had its degree of success.
EurB 12.378 12
[The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...to have the
courage to offend against every restraint of decorum...
PPr 12.383 1
It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the
contemporary practical questions;...
PPr 12.388 3
...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].
Trag 12.405 23
...in the serene hours we have no courage to spare.
courageous, adj. (2)
Suc 7.310 17
Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine.
The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation, and
they check that eager courageous pace...
Let 12.392 17
To the railway, we must say,-like the courageous lord
mayor at his first hunting, when told the hare was coming,-Let it come, in
Heaven's name, I am not afraid on 't.
courages, n. (6)
Civ 7.30 13
It was a great instruction, said a saint in Cromwell's war, that
the best courages are but beams of the Almighty.
Cour 7.272 15
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions...
Cour 7.273 24
The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some passages in the
defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a great instruction that
the best and highest courages are beams of the Almighty.
Schr 10.274 7
I thought there were as many courages as men.
Schr 10.274 12
Let [men of thought] decline henceforward foreign
methods and foreign courages.
FSLC 11.213 23
That is the secret of Southern power, that they rest not on
meetings, but on private heats and courages.
Courier, Boston, n. (1)
FSLC 11.197 10
Philadelphis...in this auction of the rights of mankind,
rescinded all its legislation against slavery. And the Boston Advertiser, and
the Courier, in these weeks, urge the same course on the people of
Massachusetts.
courier, n. (1)
ACri 12.286 18
Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over
Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone
when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen.
couriers, n. (2)
Ctr 6.146 7
Some men are made for couriers, exchangers, envoys...
Civ 7.27 25
We had letters to send: couriers could not go fast enough nor
far enough;...
course, n. (229)
Nat 1.12 9
[Commodity], of course, is a benefit which is temporary and
mediate...
AmS 1.93 16
Of course there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to
a wise man.
AmS 1.97 10
Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions
has the richest return of wisdom.
AmS 1.101 15
For the ease and pleasure of...accepting...the religion of
society, [the scholar] takes...of course, the self-accusation, the faint heart...
which are the nettles...in the way of the self-relying...
AmS 1.112 27
...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely
philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time. Such an
attempt of course must have difficulty which no genius could surmount.
LE 1.175 8
Of course I would not have any superstition about solitude.
MN 1.199 24
...insane persons are those who...do not flow with the course
of nature.
MR 1.230 26
...The ways of commerce...are now in their general course so
vitiated by derelictions and abuses at which all connive, that it requires
more vigor and resources than can be expected of every young man, to right
himself in them;...
MR 1.231 13
We are all implicated of course in this charge;...
MR 1.234 16
Of course, whilst another man has no land, my title to mine...
is at once vitiated.
LT 1.284 6
...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be not...a paper
blockade, in which each party is to display the utmost resources of his spirit
and belief, and no conflict occur, but the world shall take that course which
the demonstration of the truth shall indicate.
LT 1.291 9
...all the tongues of to-day will of course at first defame what is
noble;...
Con 1.295 19
Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between
Conservatism and Innovation] of course must have a correspondent depth
of seat in the human constitution.
Con 1.298 4
Of course conservatism always has the worst of the argument...
Con 1.305 19
You quarrel with my conservatism, but it is to build up one
of your own; it will have a new beginning, but the same course and end...
Con 1.306 8
The youth, of course, is an innovator by the fact of his birth.
Con 1.321 17
Of course, religion in such hands loses its essence.
Tran 1.349 16
As to the general course of living, and the daily
employments of men, [Transcendentalists] cannot see much virtue in these...
YA 1.369 4
Of course these [European estates] make model farms...
YA 1.372 3
...love and good are inevitable, and in the course of things.
Hist 2.37 7
Columbus needs a planet to shape his course upon.
SR 2.54 14
...under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise
man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper
life.
SR 2.65 20
If I see a trait, my children will see it after me, and in course of
time all mankind...
Comp 2.101 16
Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is...a correlative
of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human life; of...its course
and its end.
SL 2.133 2
The regular course of studies...have not yielded me better facts
than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
SL 2.134 16
[Men of extraordinary success's] success lay in their
parallelism to the course of thought...
SL 2.139 10
The whole course of things goes to teach us faith.
SL 2.158 3
In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as well and accurately
weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as
if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
Fdsp 2.203 11
I knew a man who...spoke to the conscience of every person
he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first...all men
agreed he was mad. But persisting...for some time in this course, he attained
to the advantage of bringing every man of his acquaintance into true
relations with him.
Fdsp 2.209 16
Of course [your friend] has merits that are not yours...
Fdsp 2.213 2
The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the
less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.
Prd1 2.237 2
On the most profitable lie the course of events presently lays
a destructive tax;...
OS 2.289 3
...[Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] are poets by
the free course which they allow to the informing soul...
OS 2.291 4
The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they
so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is
like gathering a few pebbles off the ground...
Int 2.340 2
When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling
our note-books...in the hope that in the course of a few years we shall have
condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which
the world has yet arrived.
Art1 2.355 8
...every object...may of course be so exhibited to us as to
represent the world.
Pt1 3.11 14
Of course the value of genius to us is in the veracity of its
report.
Exp 3.57 18
Of course it needs the whole society to give the symmetry we
seek.
Exp 3.59 8
There is now no longer any right course of action nor any self-devotion
left among the Iranis.
Exp 3.59 11
There are objections to every course of life and action...
Chr1 3.104 9
A man is a poor creature if he is to be measured [by a list of
specifications of benefit]. For all these of course are exceptions...
Mrs1 3.128 24
[The working heroes] are the sowers, their sons shall be the
reapers, and their sons, in the ordinary course of things, must yield the
possession of the harvest to new competitors...
Nat2 3.184 27
Exaggeration is in the course of things.
Pol1 3.201 24
Of persons, all have equal rights, in virtue of being identical
in nature. This interest of course with its whole power demands a
democracy.
Pol1 3.202 6
One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county. This
accident...falls unequally, and its rights of course are unequal.
Pol1 3.206 23
What the owners wish to do, the whole power of property
will do, either through the law or else in defiance of it. Of course I speak of
all the property, not merely of the great estates.
Pol1 3.210 1
The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course
wish to cast his vote with the democrat...
NR 3.230 22
...[the language] is a sort of monument to which each forcible
individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.
NR 3.235 8
...these abnormal insights of the adepts ought to be normal, and
things of course.
NER 3.254 13
...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what
happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to
excommunicate one of its members...the threatened individual immediately
excommunicated the church, in a public and formal process. This...of
course loses all value when it is copied.
NER 3.257 19
...we cannot tell our course by the stars...
NER 3.258 5
The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the
course on astronomy;...
UGM 4.25 20
It is observed in old couples, or in persons who have been
housemates for a course of years, that they grow like...
PPh 4.51 10
[Unity] is the course or gravitation of mind;...
PPh 4.53 13
...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture
seemed things of course...
PPh 4.53 16
...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture
seemed things of course, not more difficult than the completion of...new
mills at Lowell. These things are in course, and may be taken for granted.
SwM 4.124 13
Of course what is real and universal cannot be confined to
the circle of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius...
NMW 4.242 10
...a man of [the French people] held, in the Tuileries,
knowledge and ideas like their own, opening of course to them and their
children all places of power and trust.
NMW 4.252 20
Of course the rich and aristocratic did not like [Napoleon].
GoW 4.286 14
Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit]
affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of
Goethe;...
ET2 5.31 4
Of course the inconveniences and terrors of the sea are not of
any account to those whose minds are preoccupied.
ET2 5.32 13
Reckoned from the time when we left soundings, our speed
was such that the captain [of the Washington Irving] drew the line of his
course in red ink on his chart...
ET4 5.56 21
The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage,
sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm
them and every shore is at their mercy. ... Of course they come into the
fight from a higher ground of power than the land-nations;...
ET5 5.95 22
In due course, all England will be drained...
ET6 5.103 24
...[England] is no country for fainthearted people;...take your
own course...
ET6 5.107 23
...with the national tendency to sit fast in the same spot for
many generations, [the Englishman's house] comes to be, in the course of
time, a museum of heirlooms...
ET6 5.109 15
This [English] taste for house and parish merits has of course
its doting and foolish side.
ET10 5.157 9
An Englishman...labors three times as many hours in the
course of a year as another European;...
ET10 5.162 9
Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the
competition...
ET11 5.174 10
Of course the terms of admission to this club [English
aristocracy] are hard and high.
ET11 5.190 26
Of course there is another side to this gorgeous show [of
English aristocracy].
ET11 5.195 18
All advantages given to absolve the young patrician from
intellectual labor are of course mistaken.
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.
ET12 5.202 16
...gifts of all values, from a hall or a fellowship or a library,
down to a picture or a spoon, are continually accruing [at Oxford], in the
course of a century.
ET12 5.205 7
...the expenses of private tuition [at Oxford] are reckoned at
from 50 pounds to 70 pounds a year, or 1000 dollars for the whole course of
three years and a half.
ET12 5.205 24
This aristocracy [at Oxford], of course, repairs its own
losses;...
ET12 5.210 6
Whether in course or by indirection...education, according to
the English notion of it, is arrived at [at Oxford].
ET12 5.212 12
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses...
ET13 5.226 16
...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or
rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it
another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money will do
after its kind...
ET14 5.238 13
'T is a very old strife between those who elect to see
identity and those who elect to see discrepancies; and it renews itself in
Britain. The poets, of course, are of one part; the men of the world, of the
other.
ET14 5.256 9
The poetry [of England] of course is low and prosaic;...
ET15 5.261 18
A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret
to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy, since
the whole people are already forewarned. Thus England rids herself of
those incrustations which have been the ruin of old states. Of course, this
inspection is feared.
ET15 5.267 5
The influence of this journal [London Times] is a recognized
power in Europe, and, of course, none is more conscious of it than its
conductors.
ET15 5.268 3
Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but
keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial
wisdom.
ET15 5.271 2
Of course the aspirants see that The [London] Times is one
of the goods of fortune...
ET17 5.297 3
Of course this trait [Wordsworth's economy] would have
another look in London...
F 6.3 17
'T is fine for us to speculate and elect our course...
Pow 6.56 15
One man...is in sympathy with the course of things;...
Pow 6.65 23
The messages of the governors and the resolutions of the
legislatures are a proverb for expressing a sham virtuous indignation,
which, in the course of events, is sure to be belied.
Pow 6.74 10
Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries,
hopes,--all are distractions which cause oscillations in our giddy balloon,
and make a good poise and a straight course impossible.
Pow 6.78 4
A course of mobs is good practice for orators.
Wth 6.86 10
One man has stronger arms or longer legs; another sees by the
course of streams and the growth of markets where land will be wanted,
makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and wakes up rich.
Wth 6.109 20
Of course the loss [of an American ship] was serious to the
owner, but the country was indemnified;...
Wth 6.124 17
Hotspur of course is poor, and Furlong a good provider.
Ctr 6.146 5
Of course, for some men, travel may be useful.
Ctr 6.158 16
I must have children...I must have a social state and history,
or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these
accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions, which
pass for more to the people than to me. We see this abstraction in scholars,
as a matter of course;...
Ctr 6.162 2
Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--...Make him
lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better
course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou
brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
Bhr 6.184 16
Of course [dress circles have] every variety of attraction and
merit;...
Wsp 6.217 19
...the heart is at once aware of the state of health or disease,
which is the controlling state, that is, of sanity or of insanity; prior of course
to all question of the ingenuity of arguments...
CbW 6.261 20
...try [a rich man] with a course of mobs;...this may be the
element he wants...
CbW 6.263 21
In dealing with the drunken, we do not affect to be drunk.
We must treat the sick with the same firmness, giving them of course every
aid,--but withholding ourselves.
Civ 7.20 26
...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the
beginning of each improvement,--some superior foreigner importing new
and wonderful arts, and teaching them. Of course he must not know too
much...
Elo1 7.61 7
One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of
conversation in the parlor. The waters, of course, are not very deep.
Elo1 7.76 6
...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and
read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead in the public mind over all
these executive men, who, of course, are full of indignation...
Elo1 7.84 14
Of course the interest of the audience and of the orator
conspire.
DL 7.123 8
[The women of Arthur's court], of course, said that the devil
was in the mantle...
WD 7.165 27
Of course we resort to the enumeration of his arts and
inventions as a measure of the worth of man.
Boks 7.201 10
Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek
history...
Boks 7.209 3
There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as
Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Landor; and De Quincey;--a list,
of course, that may easily be swelled...
Clbs 7.241 3
Conversation is the Olympic games whither every superior
gift resorts to assert and approve itself,--and, of course, the inspirations of
powerful and public men, with the rest.
Cour 7.261 8
Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a
bayonet charge or capture a battery. Of course they must each go into that
action with a certain despair.
Suc 7.291 7
There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of
himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become
something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
Suc 7.291 12
...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success,--that we
shall...take Michel Angelo's course, to confide in one's self, and be
something of worth and value.
OA 7.326 8
If [the old lawyer] should on a new occasion rise quite beyond
his mark...that, of course, would instantly tell;...
PI 8.26 17
Of course, when we describe man as poet...we speak of the
potential or ideal man...
PI 8.31 11
Of course [the amateur] draws the bow with his fingers and the
[poet] with the strength of his body;...
PI 8.32 10
Of course, we know what you say, that legends are found in all
tribes,--but this legend is different.
PI 8.48 18
Of course rhyme soars and refines with the growth of the mind.
PI 8.58 23
In one of his poems [Taliessin] asks:--Is there but one course to
the wind?/ But one to the water of the sea?/ Is there but one spark in the fire
of boundless energy?/
SA 8.103 7
It is of course that [the American to be proud of] should ride
well, shoot well, sail well, keep house well, administer affairs well;...
SA 8.106 22
Of course those people, and no others, interest us, who believe
in their thought...
Elo2 8.128 1
The doctor [Charles Chauncy]...had lost some natural relation
to men, and quick application of his thought to the course of events.
QO 8.182 6
...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are of course of this
slow growth...
QO 8.193 24
Every word in the language has once been used happily. The
ear, caught by that felicity, retains it, and it is used again and again, as if the
charm belonged to the word and not to the life of thought which so enforced
it. These profane uses, of course, kill it, and it is avoided.
Grts 8.305 5
There are to each function and department of Nature
supplementary men: to geology...men, with a taste for mountains and rocks,
a quick eye for differences and for chemical changes. Give such, first a
course in chemistry, and then a geological survey.
Grts 8.309 1
...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they
shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was
written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
Grts 8.309 24
As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if
at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a
silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for.
Imtl 8.324 3
In the first records of a nation in any degree thoughtful and
cultivated, some belief in the life beyond life would of course be suggested.
Imtl 8.329 21
I think all sound minds rest on a certain preliminary
conviction, namely, that if it be best that conscious personal life shall
continue, it will continue; if not best, then it will not; and we, if we saw the
whole, should of course see that it was better so.
Dem1 10.18 13
...this demonic element appears most fruitful when it shows
itself as the determining characteristic in an individual. In the course of my
life I have been able to observe several such...
Dem1 10.25 7
Of course the inquiry [into Animal Magnetism] is pursued
on low principles.
Dem1 10.25 11
[Animal Magnetism] becomes...a black art. The uses of the
thing, the commodity, the power...direct the course of inquiry.
Aris 10.52 1
To a right aristocracy...to the men, that is, who are
incomparably superior to the populace in ways agreeable to the populace...
doing for them what they wish done and cannot do;-of course, everything
will be permitted and pardoned...
Aris 10.54 21
The manners of course must have that depth and firmness of
tone to attest their centrality in the nature of the man.
Aris 10.56 10
Of course a man is a poor bag of bones.
Chr2 10.103 22
The [moral] sentiment, of course, is the judge and measure
of every expression of it...
Chr2 10.114 26
...I include in [revelations of the moral sentiment], of
course, the history of Jesus...
Chr2 10.118 20
How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred
thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his
old stays;...
Edc1 10.127 10
Victory over things is the office of man. Of course, until it
is accomplished, it is the war and insult of things over him.
Edc1 10.129 10
No dollar of property can be created without some direct
communication with Nature, and of course some acquisition of knowledge
and practical force.
Edc1 10.129 13
No dollar of property can be created without...some
acquisition of knowledge and practical force. It is...a study of the issues of
one and another course of action...
Edc1 10.153 2
Of course the devotion to details reacts injuriously on the
teacher.
Edc1 10.154 17
...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.
Edc1 10.157 16
I assume that you [teachers] will keep the grammar,
reading, writing and arithmetic in order; 't is easy and of course you will.
Edc1 10.158 16
Of course you [teachers] will insist on modesty in the
children...
Prch 10.220 10
Of course the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against
the nominal religion...
Prch 10.228 15
Of course a hero so attractive to the hearts of millions [as
Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into his train...
Prch 10.235 14
The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each
other for meditation on life and duty, is...simply the celebration of the
power and beneficence amid which and by which we live...
MoL 10.241 6
You go to be teachers, to become...in due course, statesmen,
naturalists, philanthropists;...
Schr 10.282 22
...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of
persons to...change the course of life.
Plu 10.305 19
There is, of course, a wide difference of time in the writing
of these discourses [of Plutarch]...
LLNE 10.327 16
Anciently, society was in the course of things.
LLNE 10.339 14
I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr.
Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first
specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had
given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review. They were...of course
immediately fruitful in provoking emulation which lifted the style of
Journalism.
LLNE 10.342 3
These fine conversations, of course, were
incomprehensible to some in the company...
LLNE 10.343 7
As these persons became in the common chances of
society acquainted with each other, there resulted certainly strong
friendships, which of course were exclusive in proportion to their heat...
LLNE 10.345 25
Of course we were curious to know how [the pilgrim]
sped in his experiments on the neighbor...
LLNE 10.355 12
There is of course to every theory a tendency to run to an
extreme...
LLNE 10.361 3
Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were of
course persons impatient of the routine...of society around them...
LLNE 10.366 10
It was very gently said [at Brook Farm] that people on
whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not
responsible. They saw the necessity that the work must be done, and did it
not, and it of course fell to be done by the few religious workers.
LLNE 10.366 18
Of course every visitor [to Brook Farm] found that there
was a comic side to this Paradise of shepherds and shepherdesses.
CSC 10.374 3
The daily newspapers reported...brief sketches of the course
of proceedings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...
SlHr 10.443 17
...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained,
as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the
burned court-house...all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the
Legislature, where his presence and speech, of course, secured the
rebuilding;...
SlHr 10.443 17
...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained...
all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...and, of course
also, having answered our end, we passed him by...
SlHr 10.448 2
[Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr. Webster's ability...
and a proportionately deep regret at Mr. Webster's political course in his
later years.
Thor 10.456 9
It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a
proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of
our daily thought. This habit, of course, is a little chilling to the social
affections;...
Thor 10.457 6
I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see with regret that his
page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights
everybody? Henry objected, of course...
Thor 10.464 24
...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;...I
do not use it as a means. This was the muse and genius that ruled his
opinions, conversation, studies, work and course of life.
Thor 10.477 19
Of course, the same isolation which belonged to his
original thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious
forms.
Thor 10.478 16
[Thoreau's] virtues, of course, sometimes ran into
extremes.
Thor 10.479 19
The tendency to magnify the moment...is of course comic
to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
Thor 10.481 20
[Thoreau] thought the scent a more oracular inquisition
than the sight,-more oracular and trustworthy. The scent, of course,
reveals what is concealed from the other senses.
Carl 10.494 10
A natural defender of anything...[Carlyle] respects; and the
nobler this object, of course, the better.
Carl 10.496 21
Of course the new French revolution of 1848 was the best
thing [Carlyle] had seen...
HDC 11.31 8
In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up
certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were
suspended for contumacy, in the course of two years and a half.
HDC 11.46 10
By this course of events, Concord and the other plantations
found themselves separate and independent of Boston...
HDC 11.78 4
In the whole course of the [Revolutionary] war the town
[Concord] did not depart from this pledge it had given.
EWI 11.106 17
Very unwilling had that great lawyer [Lord Mansfield]
been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery]; he suggested twice from the
bench, in the course of the trial [of George Somerset], how the question
might be got rid of...
EWI 11.114 2
...of course, every provision of the bill [for emancipation in
the West Indies] was criticised with severity.
EWI 11.139 21
The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely...
to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no
less. Of course, the timid and base persons...shudder at the change...
War 11.165 27
It follows of course that the least change in the man will
change his circumstances;...
War 11.170 8
How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards
peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of
routine and mere forms...not by...going through a course of resolutions and
public manifestoes...
War 11.170 17
Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion
think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient
course of speeches and cheerings...
War 11.175 17
The proposition of the Congress of Nations is undoubtedly
that at which the present fabric of our society and the present course of
events do point.
FSLC 11.194 27
...the sentiments, of course, write the statutes.
FSLC 11.197 11
Philadelphia...in this auction of the rights of mankind,
rescinded all its legislation against slavery. And the Boston Advertiser, and
the Courier...urge the same course on the people of Massachusetts.
FSLC 11.208 25
It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish,
to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West
Indian slaves. I say buy...because it is the only practicable course...
FSLN 11.217 14
The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is...
to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own
and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and
fatigue of their conversation. For they cannot affirm these from any original
experience, and of course not with the natural movement and total strength
of their nature and talent...
FSLN 11.220 23
...of course, [vulgar politicians] can drive out from the
contest any honorable man.
FSLN 11.227 19
...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to
these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally
different course from Mr. Webster.
FSLN 11.230 5
...where...[liberty] becomes in a degree matter of
concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the incompatibility
and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the most
cultivated.
FSLN 11.234 10
Of course [slave-owners] will not dare to read the Bible?
AsSu 11.250 25
...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his
speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be
true in Sumner's case...
JBS 11.280 3
...[John Brown] had all the skill of a shepherd by choice of
breed and by wise husbandry to obtain the best wool, and that for a course
of years.
JBS 11.280 24
All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side.
TPar 11.287 11
...I found some harshness in [Theodore Parker's] treatment
both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity...whilst I acquitted him, of course,
of any wish to be flippant.
TPar 11.288 25
...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in
[Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in
Boston]; who...came to the rescue of civilization at a hard pinch, and who
blocked its course.
TPar 11.291 12
There were, of course, multitudes to censure and defame
this truth-speaker [Theodore Parker].
EPro 11.320 25
Of course, we are assuming the firmness of the policy thus
declared [in the Emancipation Proclamation].
SMC 11.355 12
Of course, there are noble men everywhere...
Wom 11.415 11
After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in
the sixteenth or seventeenth century,-when her religious nature gave her,
of course, new importance,-the Quakers have the honor of having first
established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
Wom 11.416 27
Of course, this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its
inconveniences.
Wom 11.417 17
Of course it would be easy for women to retaliate in kind,
by painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape.
Wom 11.426 2
The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves
of kings. The melioration of manners brought their melioration of course.
FRO2 11.488 10
I object, of course, to the claim of miraculous
dispensation...
FRep 11.522 19
[The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with
Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by political
power and by the power in the railroad board, in the mills, or the banks.
This...gives, of course, an easy self-reliance...
FRep 11.523 9
...[Americans...say, One vote can do no harm! and vote for
something which they do not approve, because their party or set votes for it.
Of course this puts them in the power of any party having a steady interest
to promote which does not conflict manifestly with the pecuniary interest of
the voters.
FRep 11.531 23
In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant
confidence in our talent and activity, which becomes, whilst successful, a
scornful materialism,-but with the fault, of course, that it has no depth...
FRep 11.532 20
...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man
blunders, [our people] quit him;...and they transfer the repute of judgment
to the next prosperous person who has not yet blundered. Of course this
levity makes them as easily despond.
FRep 11.543 23
the course of events is quite too strong for any helmsman,
PLT 12.6 11
My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is that the
student shall learn to appreciate the miracle of the mind;...
PLT 12.7 25
...the course of things makes the scholars either egotists or
worldly and jocose.
PLT 12.31 4
The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is that
they believe in the ideas of others. From this deference comes the
imbecility and fatigue of their society, for of course they cannot affirm
these from the deep life;...
PLT 12.59 23
The same course continues itself in the mind which we have
witnessed in Nature...
II 12.66 23
I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the
immortality of the Soul.
II 12.70 14
...Goethe, Fourier, Schelling, Coleridge, they all begin: we,
credulous bystanders, believe, of course, that they can finish as they begun.
CL 12.142 13
If a man tells me that he has an intense love of Nature, I
know, of course, that he has none.
CL 12.148 23
Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the
conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... They drive
before them in their course the long, vast, uninjurable, rain-retaining cloud.
CL 12.157 22
Every acquisition we make in the science of beauty is so
sweet that I think it is cheaply paid for by what accompanies it, of course,
the prating and affectation of connoisseurship.
Bost 12.194 16
This [Christian] spirit, of course, involved that of Stoicism,
as, in its turn, Stoicism did this.
Bost 12.200 22
The American idea, Emancipation...has, of course, its
sinister side...
Milt1 12.248 8
...a man's fame, of course, characterizes those who give it...
Milt1 12.249 7
There is [in Milton's tracts]...no mediate, no preparatory
course suggested...
Milt1 12.252 19
We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton'
s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the
recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was...of
course, more welcome to the poet than the general and vague
acknowledgment of his genius by those able but unsympathizing critics.
ACri 12.301 2
Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a
trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses.
When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem:-
Hail, daughters of the tempest-footed horse,/ That skims like wind along the
course./
MLit 12.315 2
[The great man's] own affection is in Nature...and, of
course, all his communication leads outward to it...
MLit 12.315 12
The great never hinder us; for their activity is coincident...
with the course of the rivers and of the winds...
MLit 12.321 19
...[Shakespeare and Milton] are poets by the free course
which they allow to the informing soul...
Let 12.398 11
[American youths] are in the state of the young Persians,
when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said...there is now
no longer any right course of action, nor any self-devotion left among the
Iranis.
Trag 12.407 1
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an
intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the
order of Nature and events is controlled by a law...which holds on its way
to the end, serving [man] if his wishes chance to lie in the same course...
courser, n. (2)
Suc 7.287 12
The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy
courser tall,/...
PPo 8.245 18
On every side is an ambush laid by the robber-troops of
circumstance; hence it is that the horseman of life urges on his courser at
headlong speed.
coursers, n. (2)
Insp 8.293 23
By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the
eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely,
thoughtless; and now...we see new relations, many truths;...each catches by
the mane one of these strong coursers...
CL 12.149 9
The Hindoos called fire Agni...lord of red coursers;...
courses, n. (14)
MR 1.227 22
...we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines
and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with
the spiritual nature.
Hist 2.29 8
[The child] finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his
door, and himself has laid the courses.
Hsm1 2.262 22
...let [a man]...stablish himself in those courses he approves.
Chr1 3.114 18
...the mind requires...a force of character...which will rule
animal and mineral virtues, and blend with the courses of sap, of rivers, of
winds, of stars, and of moral agents.
ET16 5.282 3
...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the
magnet; laid their courses by it;...
Wsp 6.217 25
The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous
courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.
WD 7.168 24
Remember what boys think in the morning...of Thanksgiving
or Christmas. The very stars in their courses wink to them of nuts and
cakes...
Boks 7.205 20
Now having our idler safe down as far as the fall of
Constantinople in 1453, he is in very good courses;...
OA 7.327 4
Michel Angelo's head is full...of architectural dreams, until a
hundred stone-masons can lay them in courses of travertine.
HDC 11.52 11
Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians
together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were
taking for their good;...
War 11.155 16
...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help]
immediately modifies and controls this; turns its energies into harmless,
useful and high courses...
TPar 11.292 15
...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the
transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will
affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...that the sea
which bore your mourners home affirms it, the stars in their courses...
EPro 11.322 21
[Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses
lay open to him;...
Let 12.399 8
...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by
the infatuation of the active class, who...educate their own children in the
same courses...