A to Absolute

Comc 8.168 8 That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy.

MMEm 10.431 18 While I [Mary Moody Emerson] am sympathizing in the government of God over the world, perhaps I lose nearer views. Well, I learned his existence a priori.

Let 12.393 8 ...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we... must speak on a priori grounds.

Cir 2.315 8 Geoffrey draws on his boots to go through the woods, that his feet may be safer from the bite of snakes; Aaron never thinks of such a peril.

MoS 4.182 24 [The wise and magnanimous] will exult in [the spiritualist's] far-sighted good-will that can abandon to the adversary all the ground of tradition and common belief...

Elo2 8.124 11 ...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...

LS 11.19 19 This mode of commemorating Christ [the Lord's Supper] is not suitable to me. That is reason enough why I should abandon it.

MN 1.215 8 To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the disciple]...meditates to cast himself into the arms of that society and manner of life which he had newly abandoned...

Nat2 3.185 27 The child...abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.

SwM 4.145 26 ...ascending by just degrees from events to their summits and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he felt, and abandoned himself to his joy and worship.

ET14 5.235 6 The [English] children and laborers use the Saxon unmixed. The Latin unmixed is abandoned to the colleges and Parliament.

Imtl 8.351 6 Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is pleasant. Blessed is he who takes the good, but he who chooses the pleasant loses the object of man. But thou, considering the objects of desire, hast abandoned them.

Thor 10.458 6 As soon as [Thoreau] had exhausted the advantages of that solitude [at Walden Pond], he abandoned it.

LVB 11.90 17 ...notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that they shall be duly cared for;...

MAng1 12.233 1 The things proposed to [Michelangelo] in his imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to express so grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work.

MN 1.217 3 Never self-possessed or prudent, [Love] is all abandonment.

SL 2.141 27 It is the vice of our public speaking that it has not abandonment.

Cir 2.321 27 The way of life is...by abandonment.

Pt1 3.26 21 ...beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect [every intellectual man] is capable of a new energy...by abandonment to the nature of things;...

PPh 4.57 14 In [Plato] the freest abandonment is united with the precision of a geometer.

ET18 5.303 13 In the island [England]...there is...no abandonment or ecstasy of will or intellect...

Art2 7.49 23 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are...when consciously [the orator] makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator.

WD 7.181 10 There can be no greatness without abandonment.

PPo 8.260 23 ...we have [in Hafiz's poetry] all degrees of passionate abandonment...

Imtl 8.349 5 It is curious to find the selfsame feeling, that it is...not duration, but a state of abandonment to the Highest, and so the sharing of His perfection,-appearing in the farthest east and west.

Prch 10.217 4 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of the Church...

Prch 10.218 19 ...that religious submission and abandonment which give man a new element and being...it is not in churches, it is not in houses.

MMEm 10.417 11 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] could hardly promise herself sympathy in her religious abandonment with any but a rarely-found partner.

FRep 11.532 8 See how fast [our people] extend the fleeting fabric of their trade...with the same abandonment to the moment and the facts of the hour as the Esquimau who sells his bed in the morning.

EurB 12.376 27 ...a perception of beauty was the equally indispensable element of the association [society in Wilhelm Meister], by which each was dignified and all were dignified; then each was to obey his genius to the length of abandonment.

Elo1 7.80 13 ...among our cool and calculating people...where heats and panics and abandonments are quite out of the system, there is a good deal of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.

OS 2.276 7 ...the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind finds itself related to all its works...

Cir 2.319 15 Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring...abandons itself to the instruction flowing from all sides.

Aris 10.64 2 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy...who abandons his right position of being priest and poet of these impious and unpoetic doers of God's work.

WSL 12.348 16 [Landor] is too wilful, and never abandons himself to his genius.

Nat 1.50 2 [Grace and expression]...abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects.

SL 2.131 21 Neither vexations nor calamities abate our trust.

NER 3.280 17 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws, which to second and authorize, true virtue must abate very much of its original vigor.

Wth 6.105 5 In Europe, crime is observed to increase or abate with the price of bread.

Chr2 10.103 16 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it...sets [a man] on...some zeal to unite men to abate some nuisance...are the homage we render to this sentiment...

FSLC 11.186 3 [The devil] was never known to abate a penny of his rents.

Pol1 3.200 26 Nature...will not be fooled or abated of any jot of her authority by the pertest of her sons;...

Insp 8.291 15 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased; since from noon to night his strength abated.

EzRy 10.389 7 [Ezra Ripley's] partiality for ladies...was by no means abated by time.

ET9 5.151 10 ...whenever an abatement of their power is felt, [the English] have not conciliated the affection on which to rely.

PI 8.16 20 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;--yes, so long as they are contented to be such, and are safe with the geologist,--but when they are melted in Promethean alembics and come out men, and then, melted again, come out words, without any abatement, but with an exaltation of power!

Milt1 12.247 12 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame, or to such increase or abatement of it as is incidental to a sublime genius...

Milt1 12.279 11 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who,...endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity, without any abatement of its strength?

MN 1.202 7 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there,-duke and marshal, abbe and madame...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.

LLNE 10.363 12 [Charles Newcomb] was the Abbe or spiritual father [of Brook Farm], from his religious bias.

Wsp 6.227 26 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy, and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the wonderful powers shown by her novice.

Wsp 6.228 8 [St. Philip Neri] told the abbess the wishes of his Holiness...

CInt 12.125 20 Piety in a convent accuses every one, from the novice to the abbess.

ET10 5.165 14 Strawberry Hill of Horace Walpole, Fonthill Abbey of Mr. Beckford, were freaks;...

ET13 5.215 25 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created the religious architecture...Fountains Abbey, Ripon, Beverley and Dundee...

ET16 5.290 9 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there, but his remains were removed by Henry I. to the new Abbey in the meadows at Hyde, on the northern quarter of the city...

Imtl 8.326 20 I read at Melrose Abbey the inscription on the ruined gate...

ET10 5.165 15 Strawberry Hill of Horace Walpole, Fonthill Abbey of Mr. Beckford, were freaks; and Newstead Abbey became one in the hands of Lord Byron.

ET13 5.215 24 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created the religious architecture,--York, Newstead, Westminster...

ET1 5.23 15 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public...

ET1 5.4 16 Besides those [writers] I have named...there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold, unless it were the Duke of Wellington, whom I afterwards saw at Westminster Abbey at the funeral of Wilberforce.

ET11 5.197 13 Now, said Nelson, when clearing for battle, a peerage, or Westminster Abbey!

ET13 5.215 24 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created the religious architecture,--York, Newstead, Westminster...

16 5.289 24 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York.

MAng1 12.244 4 The innumerable pilgrims whom the genius of Italy draws to the city [Florence] duly visit this church [Santa Croce], which is to Florence what Westminster Abbey is to England.

ET16 5.290 7 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there...

ET16 5.280 4 The Acta Sanctorum show plainly that the men of those times believed in God and in the immortality of the soul, as their abbeys and cathedrals testify...

SHC 11.428 1 No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral stoops,/ No winding torches paint the midnight air;/...

FRO2 11.488 8 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical. I think that to be, as Mr. Abbot has stated it in his form, the one difference remaining.

LLNE 10.357 2 [Thoreau] was a good Abbot Samson...

PPr 12.381 21 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the picture of Abbot Samson, the true governor, who is not there to expect reason and nobleness of others, he is there to give them of his own reason and nobleness;...

Hist 2.8 15 Every thing tends in a wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to [each man].

Bhr 6.176 21 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns.

Cour 7.271 24 ...General Daumas and Abdel-Kader, become aware that they are nearer and more alike than any other two...

Dem1 10.14 14 Let me add one more example of the same good sense in a story quoted out of Hecateus of Abdera...

Nat 1.20 7 ...[man] may...abdicate his kingdom...

Pt1 3.41 17 God wills also that thou [O poet] abdicate a manifold and duplex life...

SovE 10.196 20 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice...

PLT 12.60 10 So long as you are capable of advance, so long you have not abdicated the hope and future of a divine soul.

Int 2.343 19 Each new mind we approach seems to require an abdication of all our past and present possessions.

ET1 5.17 18 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform.

Dem1 10.15 25 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form,-that often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success;...

Dem1 10.7 14 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see not only a glance of Abdiel, so grand and keen...

Wsp 6.229 17 An anatomical observer remarks that the sympathies of the chest, abdomen and pelvis tell at last on the face...

Schr 10.267 20 The action of these [busy] men I cannot respect, for they do not respect it themselves. They were better and more respectable abed and asleep.

PC 8.214 19 [The Middle Ages'] Dante and Alfred and Wickliffe and Abelard and Bacon;...are the delight and tuition of ours.

Edc1 10.149 25 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men...of Paris around Abelard;...

CW 12.178 16 Lord Abercorn, when some one praised the rapid growth of his trees, replied, Sir, they have nothing else to do!

EWI 11.116 27 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament that the system [of emancipation in the West Indies] worked well;...

FSLC 11.198 3 You have a law [The Fugitive Slave Law] which no man can obey, or abet the obeying, without loss of self-respect...

CInt 12.119 24 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how...to enchant men so that their will and purpose is in abeyance...

Art1 2.367 8 [Now men] abhor men as tasteless, dull, and inconvertible...

Wsp 6.241 1 There are two things, said Mahomet, which I abhor, the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions.

Suc 7.282 4 But if thou do thy best,/ Without remission, without rest,/ And invite the sunbeam,/ And abhor to feign or seem/ Even to those who thee should love/ And thy behavior approve;/...

LVB 11.92 27 ...the justice, the mercy that is in the heart's heart of all men...does abhor this business [the relocation of the Cherokees].

MAng1 12.233 9 [Michelangelo] never made but one portrait...because he abhorred to draw a likeness unless it were of infinite beauty.

Hsm1 2.248 13 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor, with admiration all the more evident on the part of the narrator that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence.

Cir 2.316 4 One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty...

ET13 5.227 7 Brougham...said, How will the reverend bishops...be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...

CSC 10.374 8 These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...were spoken of in different circles in every note of hope, of sympathy, of joy, of alarm, of abhorrence and of merriment.

Comc 8.164 9 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead.

HCom 11.342 16 [The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men, to whose life war and discord were abhorrent.

MoS 4.164 12 ...abhorring to be deceived or to deceive, [Montaigne] was esteemed in the country for his sense and probity.

ET13 5.228 24 The English, abhorring change in all things...are dreadfully given to cant.

ET13 5.228 25 The English, abhorring change in all things, abhorring it most in matters of religion...are dreadfully given to cant.

Aris 10.63 16 Let [the man of honor] accept the position of armed neutrality, abhorring the crimes of the Chartist...

Aris 10.63 17 Let [the man of honor] accept the position of armed neutrality...abhorring the selfishness of the rich...

Cir 2.319 4 Nature abhors the old...

NR 3.239 8 ...Nature, who abhors mannerism, has set her heart on breaking up all styles and tricks...

UGM 4.25 22 Nature abhors these complaisances which threaten to melt the world into a lump...

Milt1 12.272 22 ...with his whole heart [Milton] abhors licentiousness and loves chastity.

AmS 1.115 3 ...if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Tran 1.359 20 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... not only by what they did, but by what they forbore to do, shall abide in beauty and strength...

SR 2.46 3 [Great works of art] teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression...

SR 2.84 5 Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life...

Fdsp 2.192 6 See, in any house where virtue and self-respect abide, the palpitation which the approach of a stranger causes.

Hsm1 2.255 17 [Greatness] does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.

Hsm1 2.260 7 ...when you have chosen your part, abide by it...

OS 2.271 2 A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

UGM 4.33 26 The genius of humanity is the right point of view of history. The qualities abide; the men who exhibit them have now more, now less, and pass away;...

ET5 5.82 4 ...[Englishmen] want a working plan...and will...abide by the issue...

SS 7.2 1 That each should in his house abide,/ Therefore was the world so wide./

Suc 7.301 9 Whilst [the moral sensibilities] abide with us we shall not think amiss.

SA 8.90 19 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which a wise freedom, an ideal republic of sense, simplicity, knowledge and thorough good meaning abide,--doubles the value of life.

PPo 8.244 24 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.

MoL 10.249 3 Every man...does not need any one good so much as this of right thought. Calm pleasures here abide, majestic pains./

Schr 10.286 3 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which society cannot dispose of or forget, but which abide there...

FSLC 11.178 8 ...[Eternal Rights] reach no term, they never sleep,/ In equal strength through space abide;/...

FRep 11.514 10 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that he must often face and resist the party, and abide by his resistance...

Let 12.401 21 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...all hearts become pious and great, and it adds fire to heroes. The home of all men is with such a people, and there will the stranger gladly abide.

SR 2.74 10 ...the law of consciousness abides.

Cir 2.318 22 Whilst the eternal generation of circles proceeds, the eternal generator abides.

Exp 3.58 5 Like a bird which alights nowhere, but hops perpetually from bough to bough, is the Power which abides in no man and in no woman, but for a moment speaks from this one, and for another moment from that one.

NER 3.282 26 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we miss, we have the fact. Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

ShP 4.215 17 In the poet's mind the fact has gone quite over into the new element of thought, and has lost all that is exuvial. This generosity abides with Shakspeare.

GoW 4.283 21 [Goethe] has the formidable independence which converse with truth gives: hear you, or forbear, his fact abides;...

Grts 8.300 1 True dignity abides with him alone/ Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,/ Can still suspect, and still revere himself,/ In lowliness of heart./ Wordsworth.

Mem 12.91 9 Memory...holds together past and present...existing in both, abides in the flowing...

Imtl 8.342 16 He that doeth the will of God abideth forever.

PPh 4.45 12 This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art; since the author of it...abode by real and abiding traits.

Imtl 8.340 7 I know not whence we draw the assurance...of a life which shoots the gulf we call death and takes hold of what is real and abiding, by so many claims as from our intellectual history.

Edc1 10.150 26 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police. But what doth such a school to form a great and heroic character? What abiding Hope can it inspire?

SwM 4.125 25 [To Swedenborg] The covetous seem to themselves to be abiding in cells where their money is deposited...

NMW 4.247 14 [Napoleon's] power does not consist...in any...singular power of persuasion; but in the exercise of common-sense on each emergency, instead of abiding by rules and customs.

Elo2 8.117 16 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are... logic; imagination...and then a grand will, which, when legitimate and abiding, we call character...

Mrs1 3.141 24 England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox, who added to his great abilities the most social disposition and real love of men.

ET8 5.139 16 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England]; Gentlemen, as Charles I. said of Strafford, whose abilities might make a prince rather afraid than ashamed in the greatest affairs of state;...

CbW 6.251 7 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...if he do not violently decline the duties that fall to him, this amount of helpfulness will in one way or another be brought home to him. This is the tax which his abilities pay.

SS 7.3 18 [My new friend] had good abilities...

SA 8.78 2 I have heard my master say that a man cannot fully exhaust the abilities of his nature.--Confucius.

Elo2 8.129 19 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it?

Aris 10.61 16 ...all comparison with neighboring abilities and reputations, is the road to mediocrity.

War 11.153 8 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues and abilities...

AmS 1.113 24 The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time...

DSA 1.147 13 Can we not...pierce the deep solitudes of absolute ability and worth?

LE 1.155 6 A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.

LT 1.278 13 To the youth diffident of his ability...the temptation is always great to lend himself to public movements...

Con 1.312 8 ...every whim is anticipated and served by the best ability of the whole population of each country.

SL 2.158 15 ...there need never be any doubt concerning the respective ability of human beings.

SL 2.161 19 The epochs of our life are...in a thought which...says,--Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus. And all our after years...according to their ability execute its will.

Fdsp 2.208 25 The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

Hsm1 2.250 5 Towards all this external evil the man within the breast... affirms his ability to cope single-handed with the infinite army of enemies.

Chr1 3.93 4 ...[the natural merchant] inspires respect and the wish to deal with him...for the intellectual pastime which the spectacle of so much ability affords.

Pol1 3.218 11 Most persons of ability meet in society with a kind of tacit appeal.

MoS 4.152 14 In England...property stands for more, compared with personal ability, than in any other.

NMW 4.246 2 Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

ET4 5.45 20 [The English] give the bias to the current age; and that...by the number of individuals among them of personal ability.

ET4 5.73 9 ...rich Englishmen have followed [William the Conqueror's] example, according to their ability...in encroaching on the tillage and commons with their game-preserves.

ET5 5.92 21 [The English] have...justified their occupancy of the centre of habitable land, by their supreme ability and cosmopolitan spirit.

ET5 5.100 27 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture...or in literature and antiquities. A great ability...poured into the general mind...

ET5 5.101 4 ...[the English] are more bound in character than differenced in ability or in rank.

ET9 5.149 7 ...the natural disposition is fostered by the respect which [the English] find entertained in the world for English ability.

ET9 5.151 9 [The English] govern by their arts and ability;...

ET10 5.157 2 The ambition to create value evokes every kind of ability [in England];...

ET11 5.185 23 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men... and, when men of any ability or ambition, have been consulted in the conduct of every important action.

ET11 5.198 5 A multitude of English...bred into their society with manners, ability and the gifts of fortune, are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality...

ET14 5.246 22 Bulwer, an industrious writer, with occasional ability, is distinguished for his reverence of intellect as a temporality...

ET15 5.262 12 The tendency in England towards social and political institutions like those of America, is inevitable, and the ability of its journals is the driving force.

ET15 5.262 27 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal...as they shoot and ride. It is a quite accidental and arbitrary direction of their general ability.

ET15 5.263 20 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen...prodigal intellectual ability...

ET15 5.268 1 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.

Wsp 6.226 3 He who has acquired the ability may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated...

CbW 6.263 23 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town...what men of ability he saw?

Bty 6.288 4 ...everybody knows people...who, with all degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency.

DL 7.111 18 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability.

WD 7.181 25 We do not want factitious men, who can...turn their ability indifferently in any particular direction by the strong effort of will.

Clbs 7.242 4 I have known persons of rare ability who were heavy company to good social men...

Elo2 8.127 10 Dr. Charles Chauncy was...a man of marked ability among the clergy of New England.

Elo2 8.132 24 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and persuasion...reaching...into a vast future, and so compelling the best thought and noblest administrative ability that the citizen can offer.

Aris 10.39 21 I wish...men...who would find their fellows in persons of real elevation of whatever kind of speculative or practical ability.

Aris 10.64 20 The habit of directing large affairs generates a nobility of thought in every mind of average ability.

PerF 10.76 15 ...[man's] his ability and performance are according to his reception of these various streams of force.

Supl 10.170 26 Men of the world value truth, in proportion to their ability;...

LLNE 10.343 19 ...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the company gave it some notoriety...

LLNE 10.351 19 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends...commanded our attention and respect.

SlHr 10.440 2 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in...the common incidents of rural life. It was just as easy for him to meet on the same floor, and with the same plain courtesy, men of distinction and large ability.

SlHr 10.444 25 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of his case.

SlHr 10.446 2 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was admirable...

SlHr 10.447 28 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr. Webster's ability...

Thor 10.480 15 ...with his energy and practical ability [Thoreau] seemed born for great enterprise and for command;...

LS 11.25 1 [The pastoral office] has some [duties] which it will always be my delight to discharge according to my ability...

HDC 11.65 12 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June; and if any scholar shall come, within the said time, for larning exceeding his son's ability, the said Captain doth agree to instruct them himself in the tongues, till the above said time be fulfilled;...

EWI 11.109 9 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce, and supported by him and by Fox and Burke and Pitt, with the utmost ability and faithfulness;...

War 11.165 14 We surround ourselves always, according to our freedom and ability, with true images of ourselves in things...

FSLN 11.224 2 ...with a general ability which impresses all the world, there is not a single general remark...that can pass into literature from [Webster' s] writings.

FSLN 11.224 24 ...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed.

AsSu 11.249 26 [Charles Sumner] has gone beyond the large expectation of his friends in his increasing ability and his manlier tone.

ACiv 11.304 12 I shall not attempt to unfold the details of the project of emancipation. It has been stated with great ability by several of its leading advocates.

SMC 11.360 2 [George Prescott] was a Puritan in the army, with traits that remind one of John Brown,-an integrity incorruptible, and an ability that always rose to the need.

Shak1 11.447 6 We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our seniors, on whom the ordinary lead of literary and social action falls-and falls because of their ability-to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse...

FRep 11.522 12 In proportion to the personal ability of each man, [the American] feels the invitation and career which the country opens to him.

CInt 12.118 3 Never was pure valor-and almost I might say, never pure ability-shown in a bad cause.

CInt 12.121 2 Need enough there is of such a band of priests of intellect and knowledge; and great is the office, and well deserving and well paying the last sacrifices and the highest ability.

MAng1 12.226 19 Versatility of talent in men of undoubted ability always awakens the liveliest interest;...

MAng1 12.235 11 Michael Angelo, who believed in his own ability as a sculptor, but distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied.

Milt1 12.255 4 Lord Bacon, who has written much and with prodigious ability on this science [of human nature], shrinks and falters before the absolute and uncourtly Puritan [Milton].

Lov1 2.177 23 Into the most pitiful and abject [love] will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world...

Clbs 7.247 15 I remember a social experiment...wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by, and could tolerate, each other. Nay, the tendency to extreme self-respect which hesitated to join in a club was running rapidly down to abject admiration of each other, when the club was broken up by new combinations.

MAng1 12.237 5 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.

Thor 10.469 19 [Thoreau] knew every track in the snow or on the ground, and what creature had taken this path before him. One must submit abjectly to such a guide...

Pol1 3.220 12 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...can be answered.

Nat 1.32 16 Whilst we use this grand cipher to expedite the affairs of our pot and kettle, we feel that we have not yet put it to its use, neither are able.

AmS 1.113 21 ...no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.

LE 1.164 27 Able men, in general, have good dispositions...

LE 1.165 2 ...an able man is nothing else than a good, free, vascular organization...

LT 1.263 23 ...an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches. To be sure he would;...but he must be...able to supplant our method and classification by the superior beauty of his own.

YA 1.390 12 More than our good-will we may not be able to give.

Comp 2.105 25 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man...is able to see the sensual allurement of an object and not see the sensual hurt;...

SL 2.132 21 It is quite another thing that [a man] should be able to give account of his faith...

SL 2.135 14 ...whenever we get this vantage-ground of...a wiser mind in the present, we are able to discern that we are begirt with laws which execute themselves.

SL 2.144 12 Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in [a man's] memory without his being able to say why, remain because they have a relation to him not less real for being as yet unapprehended.

SL 2.146 14 Men feel and act the consequences of your doctrine without being able to show how they follow.

Lov1 2.182 19 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world, and is able to point it out...

Lov1 2.182 20 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world, and is able to point it out, and this with mutual joy that they are now able, without offence, to indicate blemishes and hindrances in each other...

Fdsp 2.215 25 ...if you come, perhaps you will fill my mind...not with yourself but with your lustres, and I shall not be able any more than now to converse with you.

OS 2.279 27 ...It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;...

OS 2.280 1 ...to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

Int 2.325 13 ...what man has yet been able to mark the steps and boundaries of that transparent essence [Intellect]?

Pt1 3.42 4 ...thou [O poet] shalt not be able to rehearse the names of thy friends in thy verse, for an old shame before the holy ideal.

Pt1 3.42 25 ...though thou [O poet] shouldst walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.

Exp 3.82 6 A man should not be able to look other than directly and forthright.

Chr1 3.101 23 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand.

Mrs1 3.141 15 The favorites of society...are able men...

Pol1 3.210 16 ...the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able and cultivated part of the population, is timid...

NER 3.265 17 I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to prevail on myself to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy...

UGM 4.25 22 It is observed in old couples...that they grow like, and if they should live long enough we should not be able to know them apart.

UGM 4.34 15 Happy, if a few names remain so high that we have not been able to read them nearer...

PPh 4.45 17 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve. This could not have happened without a...man, able to honor, at the same time, the ideal, or laws of the mind, and fate, or the order of nature.

PPh 4.63 2 The sciences...are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

PPh 4.75 18 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates...

SwM 4.96 10 The soul having been often born...having beheld the things which are here, those which are in heaven and those which are beneath, there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge: no wonder that she is able to recollect, in regard to any one thing, what formerly she knew.

SwM 4.101 25 No one man is perhaps able to judge of the merits of [Swedenborg's] works on so many subjects.

MoS 4.158 27 ...once let [the savage] read in the book, and he is no longer able not to think of Plutarch's heroes.

ShP 4.195 7 ...it appears that Shakspeare...was able to use whatever he found;...

ShP 4.210 9 Some able and appreciating critics think no criticism on Shakspeare valuable that does not rest purely on the dramatic merit;...

NMW 4.224 16 The instinct of active, brave, able men, throughout the middle class every where, has pointed out Napoleon as the incarnate Democrat.

NMW 4.244 1 [Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an oblique tribute of respect to those able persons who commanded his regard...

GoW 4.268 24 Able men do not care in what kind a man is able, so only that he is able.

GoW 4.268 25 Able men do not care in what kind a man is able, so only that he is able.

GoW 4.271 9 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... able and happy to cope with this rolling miscellany of facts and sciences...

GoW 4.271 14 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind, unembarrassed by the variety of coats of convention with which life had got encrusted, easily able by his subtlety to pierce these...

ET4 5.62 27 The nation [England] has a tough, acrid, animal nature, which centuries of churching and civilizing have not been able to sweeten.

ET8 5.139 14 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...

ET9 5.146 6 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God...that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language.

ET10 5.159 19 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago.

ET12 5.210 22 Oxford sends out yearly twenty or thirty very able men...

ET13 5.225 4 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament.

ET13 5.227 7 Brougham...said, How will the reverend bishops...be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...

ET15 5.266 12 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men.

ET16 5.288 20 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...and on it man seems not able to make much impression.

ET18 5.307 5 ...[England] has yielded more able men in five hundred years than any other nation;...

ET18 5.307 16 ...the American people do not yield better or more able men...than the English.

Pow 6.75 5 One of the high anecdotes of the world is the reply of Newton to the inquiry how he had been able to achieve his discoveries?--By always intending my mind.

Wth 6.97 27 There are many articles good for occasional use, which few men are able to own.

Clbs 7.233 10 Able people, if they do not know how to make allowance for [men of a delicate sympathy], paralyze them.

Suc 7.288 7 The Arabian sheiks...do not want [American arts]; yet...are easily able to impress the Frenchman or the American who visits them with the respect due to a brave and sufficient man.

PI 8.61 16 [Sir Gawaine said to Merlin] I pray you appear before me so that I may be able to recognize you.

PI 8.61 21 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...when you shall have departed from this place, I shall nevermore speak to you, nor to any other person, save only my mistress; for never other person will be able to discover this place for anything which may befall;...

PI 8.62 19 Well, said Merlin, [my captivity] must be borne, for never will [King Arthur] see me...neither will any one speak with me again after you, it would be vain to attempt it; for you yourself, when you have turned away, will never be able to find the place...

Elo2 8.124 24 Ought not the scholar to be able to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the porter or truckman uses to convey his?

Elo2 8.129 9 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...

Res 8.143 14 The disgust of California has not been able to drive nor kick the Chinaman back to his home;...

Comc 8.163 1 The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright man, able to stand without movement of muscle whole broadsides of this Greek fire.

Comc 8.172 26 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night?

QO 8.195 22 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep...

PC 8.232 15 ...wherever high society exists it is very well able to exclude pretenders.

Insp 8.280 25 A man must be able to escape from his cares and fears...

Imtl 8.339 8 Every really able man...considers his work...as far short of what it should be.

Dem1 10.18 14 ...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...

Aris 10.52 6 ...if those who merely sit in [the right aristocrats'] places and are not, like them, able; if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...

PerF 10.74 2 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...

Chr2 10.109 18 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they whould not be able to suppress a feeling of mortification, and would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?

Edc1 10.135 4 ...we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great-hearted men.

Edc1 10.138 11 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still; such are able and fertile for heroic action;...

Edc1 10.146 13 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...

Supl 10.169 19 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets... wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you...

SovE 10.197 12 What is this intoxicating sentiment...that makes this doll... able to spurn all outward advantages...

SovE 10.208 2 ...the most accomplished culture, or rapt holiness, never exhausted the claim of these lowly duties,-never...was able to look behind their source.

MoL 10.242 17 ...nothing has been able to resist the tide with which the material prosperity of America in years past has beat down the hope of youth...

Schr 10.269 10 Able men may sometimes affect a contempt for thought...

Schr 10.269 12 Able men may sometimes affect a contempt for thought, which no able man ever feels.

Plu 10.295 27 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt. By this favor of his we dare now speak and write. The ladies are able to read to schoolmasters.

Plu 10.314 25 [Plutarch] thinks that the inhabitants of Asia came to be vassals to one, only for not having been able to pronounce one syllable; which is, No.

Plu 10.315 12 To erect a trophy in the soul against anger is that which none but a great and victorious puissance is able to achieve.

EzRy 10.381 16 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father wished him to be qualified to teach a grammar school, not thinking himself able to send one son to college without injury to his other children.

Thor 10.455 26 There was somewhat military in [Thoreau's] nature... always manly and able...

HDC 11.31 25 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him.

HDC 11.39 17 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say with Higginson...that... all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.

HDC 11.57 5 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school, the masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.

HDC 11.78 14 ...say the plaintive records, General Washington, at Cambridge, is not able to give but 24s. per cord for wood, for the army;...

EWI 11.129 12 ...in the last few days that my attention has been occupied with this history [of emancipation in the West Indies], I have not been able to read a page of it without the most painful comparisons.

War 11.169 1 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men.

FSLC 11.186 6 ...of the corrupt society that exists we have never been able to combine any pure prosperity.

FSLN 11.220 13 I saw that a great man [Webster], deservedly admired for his powers and their general right direction, was able...when he failed...to carry parties with him.

FSLN 11.235 13 He only who is able to stand alone is qualified for society.

FSLN 11.238 8 No excess of good nature or of tenderness in individuals has been able to give a new character to the system [of slavery]...

AKan 11.258 17 He only who is able to stand alone is qualified to be a citizen.

SMC 11.368 6 How would Concord people, [George Prescott] asks, like to pass the night on the battle-field, and hear the dying cry for help, and not be able to go to them.

SMC 11.372 20 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth of June comes at last a respite for a short space, during which...the officers were able to send to the wagons and procure a change of clothes...

EdAd 11.388 1 We have not been able to escape our national and endemic habit, and to be liberated from interest in the elections and in public affairs.

Shak1 11.447 17 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot...whose American devotion through forty or fifty years to the affairs of a bank, has not been able to bury the fires of his genius,-Mr. Charles Sprague,- pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.

Shak1 11.449 12 Men were so astonished and occupied by [Shakespeare's] poems that they have not been able to see his face and condition...

Humb 11.456 3 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able to compare older states of knowledge with that which now exists...

PLT 12.5 11 Our metaphysics should be able to follow the flying force through all transformations...

PLT 12.19 18 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can. At last he must be able to tell you it, or write it, translate it all clumsily enough into the new sky-language he calls thought.

PLT 12.62 22 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego,-I have a desk, I have an office...

II 12.88 10 The old Greek was respectable and we are not yet able to forget his dramas,-who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should...

CInt 12.114 3 ...[Archimedes] was willing to show [the king] that he was quite able in rude matters, if he could condescend to them...

Bost 12.195 21 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that...where any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar School, the Masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.

Bost 12.209 2 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...and where is the middle class so able, virtuous and instructed?

MAng1 12.232 26 The things proposed to [Michelangelo] in his imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to express so grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work.

Milt1 12.252 21 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...more welcome to the poet than the general and vague acknowledgment of his genius by those able but unsympathizing critics.

ACri 12.287 9 ...all able men have known how to import the petulance of the street into correct discourse.

ACri 12.298 2 What [Carlyle] has said shall be proverb, nobody shall be able to say it otherwise.

WSL 12.340 10 ...we...have no wish, if we were able, to put an argument in the mouth of [Landor's] critics.

Pray 12.355 10 I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on earth...and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by; thou hast not done this, and then left me here to myself, a poor, weak man, scarcely able to earn my bread.

Pray 12.356 10 And being admonished to reflect upon myself, I entered into the very inward parts of my soul, by thy conduct; and I was able to do it, because now thou wert become my helper.

PPr 12.387 1 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle the calm daylight, which always shows every individual man in balance with his age, and able to work out his own salvation from all the follies of that...

AmS 1.101 7 ...[the scholar] must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able...

NER 3.264 16 ...it may easily be questioned whether such a community will draw, except in its beginnings, the able and the good;...

CbW 6.250 25 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...

MR 1.242 14 Better that the book should not be quite so good, and the book-maker abler and better...

Prd1 2.226 8 The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitant of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

ET15 5.263 16 I asked one of [the London Times's] old contributors whether it had once been abler than it is now? Never, he said;...

Nat 1.20 14 The winds and waves, said Gibbon, are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Wth 6.99 1 I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a medicine.

LLNE 10.342 11 ...a sympathizing Englishman...interrupted with the question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me desires to inquire whether omnipotence abnegates attribute?

NR 3.235 7 ...these abnormal insights of the adepts ought to be normal, and things of course.

SwM 4.118 25 ...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous opinion...that he was an abnormal person...

PI 8.27 16 William Blake, whose abnormal genius, Wordsworth said, interested him more than the conversation of Scott or of Byron, writes thus...

Tran 1.354 3 What am I? What but a thought of serenity and independence, an abode in the deep blue sky?

YA 1.368 2 A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be...grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.

Comp 2.120 5 Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode;...

ET8 5.140 14 Haldor remained a short time with the king, and then came to Iceland, where he took up his abode in Hiardaholt...

Bhr 6.194 2 ...even good angels came from far to see [the monk Basle], and take up their abode with him.

PPo 8.260 14 ...what a nest has [Hafiz] found for his bonny bird to take up her abode in!

SovE 10.187 7 The geologic world is chronicled by the growing ripeness of the strata from lower to higher, as it becomes the abode of more highly-organized plants and animals.

HDC 11.34 2 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter...

Bost 12.200 1 What should hinder that this America...what should hinder that this New Atlantis should have...its gardens fit for human abode...

LE 1.156 8 ...even if his results...abode in his own spirit; the intellect hath somewhat so sacred in its possessions that the fact of [the scholar's] existence and pursuits would be a happy omen.

PPh 4.45 12 This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art; since the author of it...abode by real and abiding traits.

Hist 2.19 16 By surrounding ourselves with the original circumstances we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture, as we see how each people merely decorated its primitive abodes.

Art2 7.54 3 ...[all the known orders of architecture] were the idealizing of the primitive abodes of each people.

Art2 7.54 5 There was no wilfulness in the savages in this perpetuating of their first rude abodes.

Shak1 11.451 3 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are shabby imitations and caricatures of [Shakespeare's]...

CL 12.134 7 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./ Wonderful verse of the gods,/ Of one import, of varied tone;/ They chant the bliss of their abodes/ To man imprisoned in his own./

YA 1.378 23 ...the historian will see that...trade...will abolish slavery.

Prd1 2.231 23 ...society is officered by men of parts, as they are properly called, and not by divine men. These use their gift to refine luxury, not to abolish it.

Cir 2.317 8 It is the highest power of divine moments that they abolish our contritions also.

Mrs1 3.135 6 It were unmerciful, I know, quite to abolish the use of these screens...

Mrs1 3.149 9 ...by the moral quality radiating from his countenance [a man] may abolish all considerations of magnitude...

NR 3.245 5 The end and the means...life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers, whose marriage appears beforehand monstrous, as each denies and tends to abolish the other.

UGM 4.23 13 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes...

ShP 4.206 13 It is the essence of poetry...to abolish the past and refuse all history.

Ctr 6.160 15 ...sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry.

SA 8.84 17 Credit is to be abolished? Can't you abolish faces and character...

SovE 10.202 18 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth; to do so you must abolish in your mind the lessons of all the centuries from the ninth to the nineteenth.

EWI 11.109 6 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce...

ACiv 11.305 18 Congress can...abolish slavery...

FRO1 11.480 17 The soul of our late war...was, first, the desire to abolish slavery in this country...

FRO1 11.480 18 The soul of our late war...was...secondly, to abolish the mischief of the war itself, by healing and saving the sick and wounded soldiers...

MLit 12.331 25 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones...which...abolish the old heavens and the old earth before the free will or Godhead of man.

SL 2.158 20 Pretension never...abolished slavery.

NER 3.281 7 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear...that a perfect understanding, a like receiving, a like perceiving, abolished differences;...

ET18 5.301 15 [The English] have abolished slavery in the West Indies...

ET18 5.307 19 France has abolished its suffocating old regime, but is not recently marked by any more wisdom or virtue.

SA 8.84 12 We say, in these days, that credit is to be abolished in trade; is it?

SA 8.84 16 Credit is to be abolished? Can't you abolish faces and character...

LLNE 10.351 13 Poverty shall be abolished [by Fourierism];...

HDC 11.45 8 Members of a church before whose searching covenant all rank was abolished, [the settlers of Concord] stood in awe of each other, as religious men.

EWI 11.109 27 ...in 1807, on the 25th March, the bill passed, and the slave-trade was abolished.

EWI 11.113 7 ...be it enacted...that from and after the first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies...

EWI 11.119 21 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton...demanded that the emancipation [in the West Indies] should be hastened, and the apprenticeship abolished.

EWI 11.126 19 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day;...

War 11.157 22 The increase of civility has abolished the use of poison and of torture...

OS 2.272 13 ...[the soul] abolishes time and space.

LT 1.282 11 ...the Religion is an abolishing criticism.

SR 2.87 5 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...

ACiv 11.310 12 ...President Lincoln has proposed to Congress that the government shall cooperate with any state that shall enact a gradual abolishment of slavery.

DL 7.125 10 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;... in a sixth, his coming forth from the abolition organizations;...

AKan 11.256 9 ...these details that have come from Kansas are so horrible, that the hostile press have but one word in reply, namely, that...'t is an Abolition lie.

Nat 1.73 5 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the achievements of a principle, as in...the abolition of the slave-trade;...

Tran 1.348 3 ...[Transcendentalists] do not willingly share...in the abolition of the slave-trade...

Pol1 3.209 13 Parties of principle, as...the party...of abolition of slavery... degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.

Pol1 3.209 14 Parties of principle, as...the party...of abolition of capital punishment,--degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.

Pol1 3.210 3 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for the abolition of legal cruelties in the penal code...

ET18 5.305 15 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...the abolition of slavery, of impressment, penal code and entails.

PC 8.208 22 The war gave us the abolition of slavery...

PC 8.208 25 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science; the abolition of capital punishment and of imprisonment for debt;...

Aris 10.34 23 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe. By the abolition of kingship and aristocracy, tyranny, inequality and poverty would end.

Thor 10.460 7 ...idealist as he was, standing for abolition of slavery, abolition of tariffs, almost for abolition of government, it is needless to say [Thoreau] found himself...almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.

Thor 10.460 8 ...idealist as he was, standing for abolition of slavery, abolition of tariffs, almost for abolition of government, it is needless to say [Thoreau] found himself...almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.

LS 11.7 23 ...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the living generation, beyond the abolition of the festival he was celebrating...

EWI 11.110 3 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade...

EWI 11.110 15 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built sharp for swiftness...

EWI 11.140 12 Not the least affecting part of this history of abolition [in the West Indies] is the annihilation of the old indecent nonsense about the nature of the negro.

JBB 11.269 3 ...[John Brown] conceives that the only obstruction to the Union is Slavery, and for that reason, as a patriot, he works for its abolition.

ALin 11.336 9 Had [Lincoln] not lived long enough to keep the greatest promise that ever man made to his fellow men,-the practical abolition of slavery?

Tran 1.349 5 Each cause as it is called,-say Abolition, Temperance... becomes speedily a little shop...

SR 2.51 11 If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition... why should I not say to him, Go love thy infant;...

SR 2.61 18 An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as... Abolition, of Clarkson.

Ctr 6.136 17 The causes to which we have sacrificed...Whigism or Abolition...would show like roots of bitterness...

SL 2.135 22 When we come out of...the Abolition-convention...[nature] says to us, So hot? my little Sir.

SMC 11.355 1 ...it was found, contrary to all popular belief, that the country was at heart abolitionist...

Thor 10.460 21 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The Republican Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was premature, and not advisable.

MR 1.232 2 The abolitionist has shown us our dreadful debt to the southern negro.

LT 1.280 21 ...how trivial seem the contests of the abolitionist...

YA 1.390 19 ...to one thing we are bound...not to throw stumbling-blocks in the way of the abolitionist...

Farm 7.141 19 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.

AsSu 11.250 20 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States, with discourtesy. Then, that he is an abolitionist;...

AsSu 11.250 22 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States, with discourtesy. Then, that he is an abolitionist; as if every sane human being were not an abolitionist...

JBS 11.281 12 Who makes the abolitionist? The slave-holder.

SMC 11.354 21 Every man was an abolitionist by conviction, but did not believe that his neighbor was.

Chr2 10.114 20 It is only yesterday that our American churches, so long... notoriously hostile to the Abolitionist, wheeled in line for Emancipation.

NER 3.251 12 [The observer of New England's] attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party...is appearing... in movements of abolitionists and of socialists;...

ACiv 11.300 24 [People] bring their opinion [of slavery] into the world. If they have a comatose tendency in the brain, they are pro-slavery while they live; if of a nervous sanguineous temperament, they are abolitionists.

CSC 10.374 23 ...Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians and Philosophers,-all came successively to the top [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

SwM 4.131 15 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest...than this seer of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit, each more abominable than the last, round every new crew of offenders.

MLit 12.315 23 [The selfish] invited us to contemplate Nature, and showed us an abominable self.

LLNE 10.344 23 I habitually apply to [Theodore Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory.

War 11.175 8 ...if the rising generation can be provoked to think it unworthy to nestle into every abomination of the past...then war has a short day...

MR 1.232 4 In the island of Cuba, in addition to the ordinary abominations of slavery, it appears only men are bought for the plantations...

Carl 10.491 22 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they praise moral suasion, he goes for murder, money, capital punishment and other pretty abominations of English law.

LE 1.169 4 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...

Con 1.304 10 There is a natural sentiment and prepossession in favor...of barbarous and aboriginal usages...

SR 2.63 25 What is the aboriginal Self...

SR 2.84 26 ...the white man has lost his aboriginal strength.

Comp 2.121 1 Under all this running sea of circumstance...lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being.

OS 2.276 11 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the centre of the world...

Art1 2.358 8 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...

Mrs1 3.132 9 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and...stand on their head, or what else soever, in a new and aboriginal way;...

Nat2 3.182 21 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear...

Nat2 3.184 23 That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system...

Pol1 3.199 2 In dealing with the State we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal...

Pow 6.69 27 Cut off the connection between any of our works and this aboriginal source, and the work is shallow.

Pow 6.72 14 This aboriginal might gives a surprising pleasure when it appears under conditions of supreme refinement...

Elo1 7.95 27 [The woods and mountains] send us every year some piece of aboriginal strength...

Insp 8.270 4 The aboriginal man...is not an engaging figure.

LVB 11.90 1 The interest always felt in the aboriginal population...has been heightened in regard to this tribe [Cherokee].

ALin 11.330 11 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a quite native, aboriginal man...

EdAd 11.385 15 Where is...the voice of aboriginal nations opening new eras with hymns of lofty cheer?

PLT 12.26 4 ...not less in human history aboriginal races are incapable of improvement;...

PLT 12.35 8 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth... aboriginal, old as Nature...

Comc 8.158 9 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion is also a function of Nature...

LE 1.161 21 In spite of all the rueful abortions that squeak and gibber in the street...have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...

Comc 8.158 9 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion is also a function of Nature...

CInt 12.119 8 I love results and hate abortions.

Art1 2.363 14 [The arts] are abortive births of an imperfect or vitiated instinct.

HDC 11.69 12 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America, for the sole purpose of raising a revenue from hence; to render the design abortive, we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea...

EurB 12.372 7 The poem of all the poetry of the present age for which we predict the longest term is Abou ben Adhem, of Leigh Hunt.

LE 1.183 1 Snares and bribes abound to mislead [the student];...

YA 1.395 7 Here stars, here woods, here hills, here animals, here men abound...

Pol1 3.199 23 Republics abound in young civilians who believe that the laws make the city...

ET11 5.192 27 Dismal anecdotes abound...of [English] dukes served by bailiffs...

Wth 6.85 24 ...the mind acts in bringing things from where they abound to where they are wanted;...

SA 8.107 18 ...I believe...that intelligence, manly enterprise, good education, virtuous life and elegant manners have been and are found here, and, we hope, in the next generation will still more abound.

QO 8.186 2 In romantic literature examples of this vamping abound.

LLNE 10.351 15 Poverty shall be abolished [by Fourierism]; deformity, stupidity and crime shall be no more. Genius, grace, art, shall abound...

Thor 10.473 12 Indian relics abound in Concord...

FRO1 11.479 13 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship, but only through favor of his Son. These mortifying puerilities abound in religious history.

Let 12.403 13 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;...

Wsp 6.201 20 I have no sympathy with a poor man I knew, who, when suicides abounded, told me he dared not look at his razor.

LLNE 10.333 8 [Everett] abounded in sentences, in wit, in satire...

HDC 11.36 17 ...in winter, [the Indians] sat around holes in the ice, catching salmon, pickeral, breams and perch, with which our river abounded.

Hist 2.24 11 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities...

PPh 4.59 11 ...[Plato] abounds in the surprises of a literary master.

SwM 4.123 11 ...[Swedenborg] abounds in assertions...

ET3 5.39 4 The land [in England] naturally abounds with game;...

F 6.17 25 This kind of talent so abounds...as if it adhered to the chemic atoms;...

Wth 6.87 15 The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing from where it abounds to where it is costly.

PI 8.69 8 Faust abounds in the disagreeable.

PPo 8.245 9 ...[Hafiz] abounds in pregnant sentences...

Wth 6.83 8 Wings of what wind the lichen bore,/ Wafting the puny seeds of power,/ Which, lodged in rock, the rock abrade?/

Hist 2.39 6 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the calling of Abraham...

CPL 11.504 16 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte, in hastening out of France to join his army in Germany, tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...

SR 2.76 13 [A sturdy lad from Vermont] walks abreast with his days...

OS 2.265 2 Space is ample, east and west,/ But two cannot go abreast,/ Cannot travel in it two/...

Art1 2.363 8 Art has not yet come to its maturity if it do not put itself abreast with the most potent influences of the world...

Pt1 3.14 26 ...science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man...

PI 8.41 15 Our science is always abreast of our self-knowledge.

Boks 7.209 19 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days,--we abridge the story from Dibdin...

Milt1 12.275 24 ...in Paradise Regained, we have the most distinct marks of the progress of the poet's mind, in the revision and enlargement of his religious opinions. This may be thought to abridge his praise as a poet.

Cir 2.305 7 The result of to-day...will presently be abridged into a word...

Art1 2.352 1 What is that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual activity, but itself the creative impulse?...

Civ 7.24 18 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts...

MN 1.218 10 Genius...draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience and spectator...

MR 1.229 23 That secret which you would fain keep,-as soon as you go abroad, lo' there is one standing on the doorstep to tell you the same.

LT 1.274 9 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises... and after the malmsey...his religion walks abroad at eight...

SR 2.71 17 ...[man's genius] goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men.

SR 2.77 11 Prayer looks abroad...

SR 2.81 14 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe...so that the man...does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows.

SR 2.84 9 As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society.

OS 2.284 11 ...the man in whom [the soul] is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite...

Int 2.328 17 You cannot with your best deliberation and heed come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you, whilst you...walk abroad in the morning after meditating the matter before sleep on the previous night.

Int 2.331 23 We say I will walk abroad, and the truth will take form and clearness to me.

Chr1 3.110 18 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences.

Pol1 3.218 6 [What we do] may throw dust in [our companions'] eyes, but does not...give us the tranquillity of the strong when we walk abroad.

PPh 4.74 11 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates], whose strange conceits, drollery and bonhommie diverted the young patricians, whilst the rumor of his sayings and quibbles gets abroad every day,--turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...

PPh 4.77 23 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large. Boa constrictor has good will to eat it, but he is foiled. He falls abroad in the attempt;...

SwM 4.102 17 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg] lies vast abroad on his times...

SwM 4.128 20 ...once abroad again, we pity those who can forego the magnificence of nature for candle-light and cards.

MoS 4.159 7 Let us go abroad;...

ShP 4.216 7 ...Saadi says, It was rumored abroad that I was penitent; but what had I to do with repentance?

NMW 4.233 9 Few men have any next; they...after each action wait for an impulse from abroad.

ET3 5.38 22 Charles the Second said, [English temperature] invited men abroad more days in the year and more hours in the day than another country.

ET6 5.109 13 Wellington...could not stir abroad for fear of public creditors.

ET8 5.129 17 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen].

ET13 5.224 18 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys piously, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and praise God...

ET14 5.244 12 [The English] do not look abroad into universality...

Ctr 6.145 20 He that does not fill a place at home, cannot abroad.

Wsp 6.222 4 The countryman leaving his native village for the first time and going abroad, finds all his habits broken up.

Wsp 6.235 20 When I went abroad [said Benedict], I kept company with every man on the road...

DL 7.105 27 What a holiday is the first snow in which Twoshoes can be trusted abroad!

WD 7.169 5 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...and do you not recall that life...threw itself into nervous knots of glittering hours...and not spread itself abroad an equable felicity?

Clbs 7.244 19 If [my friend] were sure to find at No. 2000 Tremont Street what scholars were abroad after the morning studies were ended, Boston would shine as the New Jerusalem in his eyes.

Clbs 7.249 19 If...[l'homme de lettres] dare not speak of fairy gold, he will yet tell...what men write and read abroad.

Suc 7.281 6 Who bides at home, nor looks abroad,/ Carries the eagles and masters the sword./

Suc 7.297 11 When the scholar or the writer has pumped his brain for thoughts and verses, and then comes abroad into Nature, has he never found that there is a better poetry hinted in a boy's whistle...than in all his literary results?

Suc 7.304 11 When [the lover] went abroad, he met, by wonderful casualties, the one person he sought.

OA 7.330 15 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought, because it cast no light abroad, is suddenly matched in our mind by its twin...

Insp 8.276 20 We are waiting until some tyrannous idea emerging out of heaven shall seize and bereave us of this liberty with which we are falling abroad.

Insp 8.291 25 Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your book-shelf and your task.

Aris 10.57 24 ...amid the levity and giddiness of people one looks round... on some self-dependent mind, who does not go abroad for an estimate...

Aris 10.59 26 The youth...falls abroad with too much freedom.

Chr2 10.100 12 ...it is only as fast as this hearing [of these high communications] from another is authorized by its consent with [a man's] own, that it is pure and safe to each; and all receiving from abroad must be controlled by this immense reservation.

SovE 10.204 9 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind, giving it concentration and force. A rude people were kept respectable by the determination of thought on the eternal world. Now men fall abroad...

EWI 11.107 14 Public attention...was drawn that way [to the West Indies], and the methods of the stealing and the transportation [of slaves] from Africa became noised abroad.

EWI 11.113 9 ...be it enacted...that from and after the first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies, plantations, and possessions abroad.

War 11.173 23 ...the man who...without any notice of his action abroad... takes in solitude the right step uniformly...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.

AKan 11.263 15 Send home every one who is abroad...

TPar 11.292 25 ...amiable and blameless at home, feared abroad as the standard-bearer of liberty...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave...

EPro 11.324 11 The popular statement of the opponents of the [Civil] war abroad is the impossibility of our success.

CPL 11.502 3 A river of thought is always running out of the invisible world into the mind of man. Shall not they who received the largest streams spread abroad the healing waters?

PLT 12.55 4 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours, this immense ground-juniper falling abroad and not gathered up into any columnar tree, is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...

CL 12.140 24 We are very sensible of this [power of the air]...when, after much confinement to the house, we go abroad into the landscape...

CL 12.160 5 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them; the religious man, going abroad, affirms them;...

CW 12.172 16 ...our people are vain, when abroad, of having the freedom of foreign cities presented to them in a gold box.

NER 3.263 13 ...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself...by the new quality of character it shall put forth it shall abrogate that old condition, law, or school in which it stands...

Elo1 7.78 1 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily...might...abrogate any constitution in Europe and America.

FSLC 11.207 5 What shall we do? First, abrogate this [Fugitive Slave] law;...

FSLC 11.212 18 [The Fugitive Slave Law] must be abrogated and wiped out of the statute-book;...

Bty 6.292 24 This is the theory of dancing, to recover continually in changes the lost equilibrium, not by abrupt and angular but by gradual and curving movements.

Elo1 7.92 25 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It... perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation. Then it rushes from him as in short, abrupt screams...

Nat 1.76 3 The immobility or bruteness of nature is the absence of spirit;...

DSA 1.127 7 ...the absence of this primary faith is the presence of degradation.

MN 1.196 27 In the absence of man, we turn to nature...

LT 1.289 11 [The Moral Sentiment] makes by its presence or absence right and wrong...

Tran 1.339 10 ...genius and virtue predict in man the same absence of private ends and of condescension to circumstances...

Tran 1.346 20 We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not;...

YA 1.389 21 The timidity of our public opinion is our disease, or, shall I say, the publicness of opinion, the absence of private opinion.

SR 2.65 3 [The soul's] presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

Comp 2.121 7 Vice is the absence or departure of [Essence, or God].

Comp 2.122 17 Our instinct uses more and less in application to man, of the presence of the soul, and not of its absence;...

Int 2.329 19 We want in every man a long logic; we cannot pardon the absence of it...

Exp 3.56 22 That immobility and absence of elasticity which we find in the arts, we find with more pain in the artist.

Exp 3.79 18 The intellect names [sin]...absence of light...

Mrs1 3.137 18 ...coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

Nat2 3.178 21 ...nature...serves as a differential thermometer, detecting the presence or absence of the divine sentiment in man.

Nat2 3.193 8 It is the same among the men and women as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence...

SwM 4.97 2 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with their structure and law. This path is difficult, secret and beset with terror. The ancients called it ecstasy or absence...

MoS 4.178 19 ...The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearance of reconciliation between the theory and practice of life.

GoW 4.270 18 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in.

ET6 5.113 6 [The English] value themselves on the absence of every thing theatrical in the public business...

ET9 5.151 14 Coarse local distinctions...are useful in the absence of real ones;...

ET11 5.186 20 [The English upper classes] have the sense of superiority, the absence of all the ambitious effort which disgusts in the aspiring classes...

ET14 5.237 20 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare;...and the apathy proved by the absence of all contemporary panegyric,--seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.

ET14 5.244 5 The absence of the faculty [of generalization] in England is shown by the timidity which accumulates mountains of facts...

ET14 5.255 15 In the absence of the highest aims...there is [in England] the suppression of the imagination...

ET15 5.268 8 The [London] Times never...cripples itself by apology for the absence of the editor...

ET19 5.309 17 Mr. Dickens's letter of apology for his absence [from the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] was read.

Wth 6.91 7 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals...the absence of bonds, clanship, fellow-feeling of any kind,--he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished;...

Ctr 6.150 17 The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension.

Wsp 6.209 16 ...in the momentary absence of any religious genius that could offset the immense material activity, there is a feeling that religion is gone.

DL 7.127 15 We see on the lip of our companion the presence or absence of the great masters of thought and poetry to his mind.

Comc 8.161 25 We feel the absence of [a perception of the Comic] as a defect in the noblest and most oracular soul.

Comc 8.164 10 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead.

Aris 10.49 13 In the absence of such anthropometer I have a perfect confidence in the natural laws.

Aris 10.61 4 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well; but in the absence of his colleagues and in the presence of mean people he is tempted to accept the low customs of towns.

Chr2 10.92 15 All violence...is not power but the absence of power.

Supl 10.175 6 In all the years that I have sat in town and forest, I never saw...a talking fish, but ever the strictest regard to rule, and an absence of all surprises.

Supl 10.176 1 The men whom [Nature] admits to her confidence...are uniformly marked by absence of pretension...

Schr 10.287 15 [The scholar] is still to decline how many glittering opportunities, and to retreat, and wait. So shall you find in this penury and absence of thought a purer splendor than ever clothed the exhibitions of wit.

Thor 10.474 27 [Thoreau] could not be deceived as to the presence or absence of the poetic element in any composition...

FSLC 11.184 21 Nothing proves...the absence of standard in men's minds, more than the dominion of party.

AKan 11.255 1 I regret, with all this company, the absence of Mr. Whitman of Kansas...

JBB 11.266 7 ...There [John Brown] spoke aloud for Freedom, and the Border strife grew warmer/ Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the night;/...

Shak1 11.447 21 We [The Saturday Club] regret also the absence of our members Sumner and Motley.

Mem 12.107 1 When the body is in a quiescent state in the absence of passions...it yields itself a willing medium to the intellect.

ACri 12.295 21 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider...they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet; as the camel in the desert is fed by his humps, in long absence from food.

MLit 12.328 20 ...what shall we think of that absence of the moral sentiment, that singular equivalence to him of good and evil in action, which discredit [Goethe's] compositions to the pure?

DL 7.120 24 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each one after the early separations which school or business require; the foresight with which, during such absences, they hive the honey which opportunity offers, for the ear and imagination of others;...

Chr2 10.118 24 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;...no class-leader admonishes him of absences...

DSA 1.147 7 Discharge to men the priestly office, and, present or absent, you shall be followed with their love...

MR 1.237 21 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the cotton of the cotton. They have got the education, I only the commodity. This were all very well if I were necessarily absent...

Tran 1.346 13 [A man] ought to be...a great influence...so that though absent he should never be out of my mind...

SR 2.89 27 ...the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits...

Lov1 2.187 13 [Lovers]...exchange the passion which once could not lose sight of its object, for a cheerful disengaged furtherance, whether present or absent, of each other's designs.

Fdsp 2.202 8 The gifts of fortune may be present or absent...

Hsm1 2.257 24 ...friends, angels and the Supreme Being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

Exp 3.63 6 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them; to say nothing of...the sculpture of the human body never absent.

Mrs1 3.128 7 Great men are not commonly in [fashion's] halls; they are absent in the field...

Elo1 7.81 17 ...it is not powers of speech that we primarily consider under this word eloquence, but the power that...being absent, leaves them a merely superficial value.

DL 7.126 24 ...beauty is never quite absent from our eyes.

Aris 10.60 4 ...there is an order of men, never quite absent, who enroll no names in their archives but such as are capable of truth.

EWI 11.133 20 It is so easy to omit to speak, or even to be absent when delicate things are to be handled.

SA 8.98 25 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company. Tact...never intrudes...the vices of the absent...

CbW 6.275 23 A lady complained to me that of her two maidens, one was absent-minded and the other was absent-bodied.

Let 12.404 15 In Cambridge orations and elsewhere there is much inquiry for that great absentee American Literature.

CbW 6.275 23 A lady complained to me that of her two maidens, one was absent-minded and the other was absent-bodied.

Nat 1.22 18 The intellect searches out the absolute order of things...

Nat 1.44 24 Every such truth is the absolute Ens seen from one side.

Nat 1.48 2 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...galaxy balancing galaxy, throughout absolute space, - or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?

Nat 1.49 6 ...whilst we acquiesce entirely in the permanence of natural laws, the question of the absolute existence of nature still remains open.

Nat 1.49 16 To the senses and the unrenewed understanding, belongs a sort of instinctive belief in the absolute existence of nature.

Nat 1.55 10 The problem of philosophy...is, for all that exists conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute.

Nat 1.64 14 ...being admitted to behold the absolute natures of justice and truth...we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator...

AmS 1.90 8 The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates.

DSA 1.122 22 A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility.

DSA 1.124 5 Evil is merely privative, not absolute...

DSA 1.124 7 Benevolence is absolute and real.

DSA 1.124 20 ...absolute badness is absolute death.

DSA 1.124 21 ...absolute badness is absolute death.

DSA 1.147 13 Can we not...pierce the deep solitudes of absolute ability and worth?

LE 1.164 25 ...we must...pass...by assiduous love and watching, into the visions of absolute truth.

MR 1.247 12 I do not wish to push my criticism on the state of things around me to that extravagant mark that shall compel me...to an absolute isolation from the advantages of civil society.

LT 1.288 16 ...where but in that Thought through which we communicate with absolute nature...shall we learn the Truth?

Con 1.302 19 ...although the commands of the Conscience are essentially absolute, they are historically limitary.

SR 2.74 4 ...all persons have their moments...when they look out into the region of absolute truth;...

Comp 2.109 2 Still more striking is the expression of this fact [of Compensation] in the proverbs of all nations, which are always...the statements of an absolute truth without qualification.

Comp 2.115 7 The absolute balance of Give and Take...is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...

Comp 2.116 18 The good man has absolute good...

Comp 2.122 22 There is no tax on the good of virtue, for that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence...

Fdsp 2.207 22 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. ... Now this convention...destroys the high freedom of great conversation, which requires an absolute running of two souls into one.

Fdsp 2.214 5 Let us feel if we will the absolute insulation of man.

Hsm1 2.250 1 ...let [a man]...with perfect urbanity dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech...

Hsm1 2.264 7 ...the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous... affirms itself no mortal but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being.

OS 2.282 21 The nature of these revelations is the same; they are perceptions of the absolute law.

Exp 3.54 24 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor...

Exp 3.54 25 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor...

Exp 3.77 4 The great and crescive self, rooted in absolute nature, supplants all relative existence...

Mrs1 3.139 22 ...fashion is not good sense absolute, but relative;...

Pol1 3.213 9 ...absolute right is the first governor;...

PPh 4.48 12 The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects; then for the cause of that; and again the cause...self-assured that it shall arrive at an absolute and sufficient one...

PPh 4.55 3 ...[Plato] saved himself by propounding the most popular of all principles, the absolute good...

PPh 4.68 17 After [Plato] has illustrated the relation between the absolute good and true and the forms of the intelligible world, he says: Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts.

PNR 4.89 9 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur.

MoS 4.175 14 ...the wiser a man is, the more stupendous he finds the natural and moral economy, and lifts himself to a more absolute reliance.

ShP 4.195 17 ...the proceeding investigation hardly leaves a single drama of [Shakespeare's] absolute invention.

NMW 4.227 1 Much more absolute and centralizing was the successor to Mirabeau's popularity...

GoW 4.289 1 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power. The idea of absolute, eternal truth...is higher.

ET1 5.15 7 Carlyle was...as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London.

ET8 5.131 18 Of absolute stoutness no nation has more or better examples [than England].

ET10 5.153 1 There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth [as England].

ET10 5.163 24 The present possessors [in England] are to the full as absolute as any of their fathers in choosing and procuring what they like.

ET10 5.164 20 ...absolute possession gives the smallest freeholder [in England] identity of interest with the duke.

ET10 5.164 23 High stone fences and padlocked garden-gates announce the absolute will of the [English] owner to be alone.

ET14 5.241 11 ...[Pericles] meeting with Anaxagoras...he attached himself to him, and nourished himself with sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence;...

ET17 5.298 5 ...let us say of [Wordsworth] that, alone in his time, he treated the human mind well, and with an absolute trust.

Wsp 6.205 10 These [prophetic souls] announce absolute truths...

Ill 6.325 2 In a crowded life of many parts and performers...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer, and, according to his election, he fixes his fortune in absolute Nature.

SS 7.16 3 ...a sound mind will derive its principles from insight, with ever a purer ascent to the sufficient and absolute right...

Civ 7.25 23 In man [the organs] are all unbound and full of joyful action. With this unswaddling he receives the absolute illumination we call Reason...

Art2 7.37 14 On one side in primary communication with absolute truth through thought and instinct, the human mind on the other side tends...to the publication and embodiment of its thought...

Art2 7.51 19 Proceeding from absolute mind...the great works [of art] are always attuned to moral nature.

Elo1 7.61 13 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...and a fifth [needs] nothing less than the grandeur of absolute ideas...

Elo1 7.91 18 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man who, in prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his ideas...

Comc 8.159 5 Separate any object...and contemplate it alone, standing there in absolute nature, it becomes at once comic;...

QO 8.190 18 ...men of extraordinary genius acquire an almost absolute ascendant over their nearest companions.

PC 8.229 11 Men say, Ah! if a man could impart his talent, instead of his performance, what mountains of guineas would be paid! Yes, but in the measure of his absolute veracity he does impart it.

PPo 8.239 3 [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.

PPo 8.248 13 [The mind] indicates this respect to absolute truth by the use it makes of the symbols that are most stable and reverend...

Insp 8.288 13 I have found my advantage in going...in winter to a city hotel, with a task which would not prosper at home. I thus secured a more absolute seclusion;...

Imtl 8.340 3 ...all our intellectual action...bestows a feeling of absolute existence.

PerF 10.72 18 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides-and hides through absolute transparency-the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.

Chr2 10.94 12 The [interest of the individual] craves a private benefit, which [the dictate of the universal mind] requires him to renounce out of respect to the absolute good.

Chr2 10.114 16 Men will learn...to make morals the absolute test...

Edc1 10.159 5 Work straight on in absolute duty, and you lend an arm and an encouragement to all the youth of the universe.

Supl 10.163 6 ...it is a long way from the Maine Law to the heights of absolute self-command...

Supl 10.175 19 To every question an abstemious but absolute reply.

SovE 10.209 24 [The religious feeling] prepares to rise out of all forms to an absolute justice and healthy perception.

SovE 10.210 22 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another in whom he discovers absolute honesty;...

Thor 10.477 18 ...[Thoreau] was a person of a rare, tender and absolute religion...

GSt 10.507 20 ...there is to my mind somewhat so absolute in the action of a good man that we do not, in thinking of him, so much as make any question of the future.

EWI 11.114 14 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In the island of Antigua...these objections had such weight that the legislature... adopted absolute emancipation.

EWI 11.118 15 ...experience...shows the existence, beside the covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery]...the voluptuousness of holding a human being in his absolute control.

EWI 11.138 9 ...we are indebted mainly to this movement [for emancipation in the West Indies] and to the continuers of it, for...reference of every question to the absolute standard.

War 11.172 17 What makes the attractiveness of that romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays and romances...the Warwicks, the Plantagenets? It is their absolute self-dependence.

ACiv 11.302 21 [Government] has, of necessity, in any crisis of the state, the absolute powers of a dictator.

EPro 11.321 4 We confide that...as [Lincoln]...has resisted the importunacy of parties and of events to the latest moment, he will be as absolute in his adhesion [to Emancipation].

RBur 11.440 14 [Robert Burns's] organic sentiment was absolute independence...

Shak1 11.447 19 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.

PLT 12.5 17 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides (and hides through absolute transparency) the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.

PLT 12.61 18 ...all great minds and all great hearts have mutually allowed the absolute necessity of the twain.

II 12.67 2 [Instinct's] property is absolute science and an implicit reliance is due to it.

II 12.87 1 [The probity of the Intellect] consists in an absolute devotion to truth...

Bost 12.189 12 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory-conferred on the patentees in absolute property...extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...

MAng1 12.232 23 ...contemplating ever with love the idea of absolute beauty, [Michelangelo] was still dissatisfied with his own work.

MAng1 12.235 19 [Michelangelo] required...that he should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's]...

Milt1 12.255 5 Lord Bacon...shrinks and falters before the absolute and uncourtly Puritan [Milton].

Milt1 12.270 26 Toland tells us, As [Milton] looked upon true and absolute freedom to be the greatest happiness of this life, whether to societies or single persons, so he thought constraint of any sort to be the utmost misery;...

Milt1 12.272 16 [Milton] sought absolute truth, not accomodating truth.

Milt1 12.274 12 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./

ACri 12.289 14 The Devil in philosophy is absolute negation...

MLit 12.319 5 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end...a life nourished on absolute beatitudes...

MLit 12.327 8 ...without adverting to absolute standards, we claim for [Goethe] the praise of truth...

Nat 1.57 17 ...we learn the difference between the absolute and the conditional or relative.

Nat 1.57 19 We apprehend the absolute.

Nat 1.61 13 [Nature] suggests the absolute.

Fdsp 2.201 6 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation which is a kind of absolute...

PI 8.3 15 The common sense which does not meddle with the absolute... believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees with ourselves...

MoS 4.149 22 This head and this tail [Sensation and Morals] are called, in the language of philosophy...Relative and Absolute;...