Acclimate to Acta Sanctorum
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
acclimate, v. (1)
Art1 2.349 21 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play
its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to
his fate/...
accommodate, v. (3)
Comp 2.101 17 ...each [occupation, trade, art,
transaction] must somehow accommodate the whole man and recite all his
destiny.
FRep 11.514 16 In our popular politics you may note
that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the
only title...to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the
real public interest, and to stand for that;-that is a principle, and
all the cheering and hissing of the crowd must by and by accommodate
itself to it.
Milt1 12.278 3 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition
of poetry...Poetry... seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the
desires of the mind...
accommodated, v. (1)
Chr2 10.104 19 Every particular instruction...is
accommodated to humble and gross minds...
accommodates, v. (2)
ET14 5.241 26 A few generalizations always circulate in
the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican
and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all have a
kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind
is...[Bacon's] doctrine of poetry, which accommodates the shows of
things to the desires of the mind...
PI 8.20 2 Bacon expressed the same sense in his
definition, Poetry accommodates the shows of things to the desires of
the mind;...
accommodating, adj. (1)
Milt1 12.272 16 [Milton] sought absolute truth, not
accomodating truth.
accommodation, n. (7)
Con 1.295 9 The battle...of old usage and accommodation
to new facts... reappears in all countries and times.
OS 2.275 17 ...there is a kind of descent and
accommodation felt when we leave speaking of moral nature to urge a
virtue which it enjoins.
MoS 4.180 23 Some minds are incapable of skepticism.
The doubts they profess to entertain are rather a civility or
accommodation to the common discourse of their company.
ET6 5.104 9 The Englishman is very petulant and precise
about his accommodation at inns and on the roads;...
CbW 6.267 4 Genial manners are good, and power of
accommodation to any circumstance;...
HDC 11.34 1 [The pilgrims'] first temporary
accommodation was rude enough.
HDC 11.54 22 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that
the new plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large
accommodations...
accommodations, n. (2)
ET14 5.249 7 Even in [Coleridge], the traditional
Englishman was too strong for the philosopher, and he fell into
accommodations;...
F 6.41 11 ...insane persons are indifferent to their
dress, diet, and other accommodations...
accompanied, v. (11)
Nat 1.45 19 ...the eye...is always accompanied by these
forms, male and female;...
SwM 4.122 19 Instead of a religion which visited
[Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching
which accompanied him all day, accompanied him even into sleep and
dreams;...
ET6 5.112 14 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening
performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen
accompanied him with her voice.
ET16 5.288 10 On the way to Winchester, whither our
host accompanied us in the afternoon, my friends asked many questions
respecting American landscape, forests, houses...
ET17 5.293 22 Among the privileges of London, I recall
with pleasure two or three signal days...one at the Museum...and still
another, on which Mr. [Richard] Owen accompanied my countryman Mr.
H[illard]. and myself through the Hunterian Museum.
ET17 5.294 11 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a
couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau, then newly returned from
her Egyptian tour. On Sunday afternoon I accompanied her to Rydal
Mount.
Cour 7.262 4 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an
officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir
Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to
attack...I was overpowered with fear...
QO 8.190 25 Original power is usually accompanied with
assimilating power...
PC 8.222 19 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an
apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the
centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by
which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...
FSLN 11.227 25 ...the decision of Webster [for the
Fugitive Slave Law] was accompanied with everything offensive to
freedom and good morals.
ACri 12.297 2 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a
perfect, plain style, from which he can soar to a fine, lyric delicacy,
or descend to coarsest sarcasm, without losing his firm footing. This
flower of speech is accompanied with an assurance of fame.
accompanies, v. (3)
Suc 7.295 25 How often it seems the chief good to be
born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race. Such a man feels
himself...conscious by his receptivity of an infinite strength. Like
Alfred, good fortune accompanies him like a gift of God.
CSC 10.376 14 ...[these men and women at the Chardon
Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of
it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which
accompanies...a man whose mind is made up to obey the great inward
Commander...
CL 12.157 22 Every acquisition we make in the science
of beauty is so sweet that I think it is cheaply paid for by what
accompanies it, of course, the prating and affectation of
connoisseurship.
accompaniment, n. (3)
SwM 4.97 12 All religious history contains traces of the
trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily
come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of
disease.
Art2 7.53 3 Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment
of beauty that it has been taken for it.
EWI 11.145 7 ...in the great anthem which we call
history...after playing a long time a very low and subdued
accompaniment, [the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can
strike in with effect...
accompany, v. (8)
Comp 2.103 10 The specific stripes may follow late after
the offence, but they follow because they accompany it.
NER 3.276 12 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper
makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and
accompany him no longer,--it is time to undervalue what he has
valued...
ET14 5.250 21 There is in the action of [James
Wilkinson's] mind a long Atlantic roll...only lacking what ought to
accompany such powers, a manifest centrality.
F 6.42 11 A man will see his character emitted in the
events...which exude from and accompany him.
Pow 6.53 8 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the
mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men
whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental
powers...
CbW 6.246 8 We accompany the youth with sympathy and
manifold old sayings of the wise to the gate of the arena...
Imtl 8.327 17 We shall pass to the future existence as
we enter into an agreeable dream. All nature will accompany us there.
Edc1 10.126 19 The animals that accompany and serve man
make no progress as races.
accompanying, adj. (1)
SovE 10.198 3 ...Religion is the accompanying emotion,
the emotion of reverence which the presence of the universal mind ever
excites in the individual.
accompanying, v. (1)
Pt1 3.26 16 The condition of true naming, on the poet's
part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes
through forms, and accompanying that.
accomplice, n. (2)
Fdsp 2.211 15 There is at least this satisfaction in
crime, according to the Latin proverb;--you can speak to your
accomplice on even terms.
Insp 8.268 9 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening
behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to
keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the
flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot
bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
accomplices, n. (1)
AKan 11.259 15 I do not know any story so gloomy as the
politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever
more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...and we free
statesmen, as accomplices to the guilt, ever in the power of the grand
offender.
accomplish, v. (17)
MR 1.254 16 Love...will accomplish that by imperceptible
methods...which force could never achieve.
LT 1.278 16 To the youth...the temptation is always
great to lend himself to public movements, and as one of a party
accomplish what he cannot hope to effect alone.
Con 1.324 3 [The hero's] greatness will shine and
accomplish itself unto the end...
SR 2.61 8 Every true man...requires infinite spaces and
numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;...
GoW 4.285 27 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the
expression of the idea... that a man exists...not for what he can
accomplish, but for what can be accomplished in him.
ET10 5.159 21 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.
ET14 5.249 3 ...the misfortune of [Coleridge's] life,
his vast attempts but most inadequate performings, failing to
accomplish any one masterpiece,-- seems to mark the closing of an era.
Civ 7.30 2 To accomplish anything excellent the will
must work for catholic and universal ends.
Elo1 7.77 21 ...any swindlers we have known are novices
and bunglers, as is attested by their ill name. A greater power of face
would accomplish anything...
Suc 7.290 2 ...Nature utilizes misers, fanatics,
show-men, egotists, to accomplish her ends;...
Grts 8.307 7 ...none of us will ever accomplish
anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper
which is heard by him alone.
LLNE 10.333 15 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of
defying experiment of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular
weight to Hebrew or Rabbinical words;-feats which no man could better
accomplish...
FSLC 11.208 2 [Abolition] is really the project fit for
this country to entertain and accomplish.
FSLC 11.208 18 It is really the great task fit for this
country to accomplish, to buy that property [slaves] of the planters...
Wom 11.426 19 ...whatever the woman's heart is prompted
to desire, the man's mind is simultaneously prompted to accomplish.
CInt 12.124 24 The necessity of a mechanical system [of
education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and
employed...by some available plan that will give weekly and annual
results; and a little violence must be done to private genius to
accomplish this.
MAng1 12.229 5 ...what did [Michelangelo] accomplish?
accomplished, adj. (26)
Tran 1.345 3 ...the richly accomplished [nature] will
have some capital absurdity;...
YA 1.387 3 It is only their dislike of the pretender,
which makes men sometimes unjust to the accomplished man.
OS 2.287 11 The great distinction...between men of the
world who are reckoned accomplished talkers...and a fervent mystic...is
that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
Int 2.340 23 We talk with accomplished persons who
appear to be strangers in nature.
Chr1 3.101 22 I knew an amiable and accomplished person
who undertook a practical reform...
MoS 4.163 4 ...I became acquainted with an accomplished
English poet, John Sterling;...
ET9 5.150 16 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable and
accomplished gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain,
according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass
ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of
the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
ET11 5.186 24 [The English upper classes] have...the
power to command... the presence of the most accomplished men in their
festive meetings.
ET11 5.187 14 [English nobility] is a romance adorning
English life with a larger horizon; a midway heaven, fulfilling to
their sense their fairy tales and poetry. This, just as far as the
breeding of the nobleman really made him brave, handsome, accomplished
and great-hearted.
Wsp 6.230 26 ...none is accomplished so long as any are
incomplete;...
CbW 6.249 15 I do not wish any mass at all, but honest
men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only...
Bty 6.296 23 French memoires of the sixteenth century
celebrate the name of Pauline de Viguier, a virtuous and accomplished
maiden...
Clbs 7.244 13 It was a pathetic experience when a
genial and accomplished person said to me, looking from his country
home to the capital of New England, There is a town of two hundred
thousand people, and not a chair for me.
Aris 10.31 23 It is not to be a man of rank, but a man
of honor, accomplished in all arts and generosities, which seems to
[the best young men] the right mark and the true chief of our modern
society.
SovE 10.207 27 ...the most accomplished culture, or
rapt holiness, never exhausted the claim of these lowly duties...
LLNE 10.363 18 There [at Brook Farm] was the
accomplished Doctor of Music [John S. Dwight]...
LLNE 10.366 14 No doubt there was in many [at Brook
Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent. Thus Mr.
Ripley told Theodore Parker, There is your accomplished friend---: he
would hoe corn all Sunday if I would let him, but all Massachusetts
could not make him do it on Monday.
EWI 11.133 24 ...whilst our very amiable and very
innocent representatives...at Washington are accomplished lawyers and
merchants... there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
FSLN 11.219 15 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great
name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the
Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were
all sorts of...accomplished men...but men without self-respect...
Wom 11.409 12 ...a refined and accomplished woman was a
being almost new to [Burns]...
RBur 11.439 4 ...I do not know by what untoward
accident it has chanced... that, in this accomplished circle, it should
fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to
respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the
occasion [the Burns Festival].
MAng1 12.240 5 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of
the most accomplished lady of the time...
Milt1 12.248 17 ...[Milton]...obtained great respect
from his contemporaries as an accomplished scholar and a formidable
pamphleteer.
MLit 12.330 19 I am [in Wilhelm Meister]...instructed
in the possibility of a highly accomplished society...
WSL 12.338 12 Transfer these traits to a very elegant
and accomplished mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter
Savage Landor...
PPr 12.379 11 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the
book of a powerful and accomplished thinker...
accomplished, v. (19)
LT 1.277 6 The young men who have been vexing society
for these last years with regenerative methods...all failed to see that
the Reform of Reforms must be accomplished without means.
SR 2.86 15 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in
their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin...
Exp 3.46 12 In times when we thought ourselves
indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished...
PPh 4.58 16 ...[Plato] believes that poetry, prophecy
and the high insight are from a wisdom of which man is not
master;...but by a celestial mania these miracles are accomplished.
NMW 4.239 8 There have been many working kings...but
none who accomplished a tithe of this man's [Napoleon's] performance.
NMW 4.247 3 We can not...sufficiently congratulate
ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who...showed us
how much may be accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all
men possess in less degrees;...
GoW 4.286 1 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the
expression of the idea...that a man exists...not for what he can
accomplish, but for what can be accomplished in him.
OA 7.320 26 ...he who has accomplished something in any
department alone deserves to be heard on that subject.
Insp 8.274 21 Plato...notes that the perception is only
accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect...
PerF 10.79 22 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and
after many years... brought up the stock of his mills to par, and then
sold out his interest, having accomplished the reform that was
required.
Edc1 10.127 10 Victory over things is the office of
man. Of course, until it is accomplished, it is the war and insult of
things over him.
Thor 10.478 13 [Thoreau] thought that without religion
or devotion of some kind nothing great was ever accomplished...
War 11.171 4 ...[peace] is to be accomplished by the
spontaneous teaching, of the cultivated soul, in its secret experience
and meditation,-that it is now time that it should pass out of the
state of beast into the state of man;...
ALin 11.330 4 ...acclamations of praise for the task
[Lincoln] had accomplished burst out into a song of triumph...
FRep 11.539 15 It is not by heads reverted...to George
Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the
United States at this time. I believe this cannot be accomplished by
dunces or idlers...
PLT 12.23 2 How lately the hunter was the poor
creature's organic enemy; a presumption inflamed, as the lawyers say,
by observing how many faces in the street still remind us of visages in
the forest,-the escape from the quadruped type not yet perfectly
accomplished.
Bost 12.202 21 The soul of a political party is by no
means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the
salaries. No, but...the men who are never contented and never to be
contented with the work actually accomplished...
MAng1 12.215 6 [Michelangelo] accomplished
extraordinary works;...
Milt1 12.258 6 ...in his essay on Education, [Milton]
doubts whether, in the fine days of spring, any study can be
accomplished by young men.
accomplishes, v. (2)
Chr1 3.90 11 What others effect by talent or by
eloquence, this man [of character] accomplishes by some magnetism.
Farm 7.149 15 See what the farmer accomplishes by a
cart-load of tiles...
accomplishing, v. (1)
Pray 12.355 15 Wilt thou give me strength to persevere
in this great work of redemption. Wilt thou show me the true means of
accomplishing it.
accomplishment, n. (8)
MN 1.203 5 ...remote aims are in active accomplishment.
PPh 4.64 20 [Plato] delighted in every
accomplishment...
DL 7.129 8 ...when men shall meet as they should...each
a benefactor...so rich with deeds, with thoughts, with so much
accomplishment,--it shall be the festival of Nature...
Clbs 7.241 6 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor
of their accomplishment almost inevitably guides into the vortex of
ambition... whom we now consider.
SA 8.93 23 ...Luther commends that accomplishment of
pure German speech of his wife.
LLNE 10.362 22 ...[Charles Newcomb's] mind [was] fed
and overfed by whatever is exalted in genius, whether...in Drama or
Music, or in social accomplishment and elegancy;...
FSLN 11.240 17 ...freedom is the accomplishment and
perfectness of man.
FRep 11.537 15 The flowering of civilization is the
finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment...
accomplishments, n. (28)
LE 1.164 21 In order to a knowledge of the resources of
the scholar, we must not rest in the use of slender accomplishments...
LE 1.177 23 [The scholar's]...accomplishments, are keys
that open to him the beautiful museum of human life.
LE 1.187 5 ...Ask not...Who is the better for the
philosopher who conceals his accomplishments...
MR 1.236 19 We must have a basis for our higher
accomplishments...in the work of our hands.
SL 2.150 12 Persons approach us, famous...for their
accomplishments... with very imperfect result.
Fdsp 2.195 20 I must feel pride in my friends's
accomplishments...
OS 2.279 7 In my dealing with my child...my
accomplishments and my money stead me nothing;...
Chr1 3.111 18 ...when men shall meet as they ought,
each a benefactor... clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with
accomplishments, it should be a festival of nature which all things
announce.
MoS 4.158 23 ...I cannot forgive you the want of
accomplishments;...
GoW 4.269 4 ...men are cordial in their recognition and
welcome of the intellectual accomplishments.
Ctr 6.143 13 These minor skills and
accomplishments...are tickets of admission to the dress-circle of
mankind...
Bhr 6.170 22 Give a boy address and accomplishments and
you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
CbW 6.259 25 The youth is charmed with the fine air and
accomplishments of the children of fortune.
Elo1 7.75 4 These accomplishments [of eloquence] are of
the same kind, and only a degree higher than the coaxing of the
auctioneer...
Elo1 7.80 7 A barrister in England is reputed to have
made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the
claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons.
His clients pay not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments...
DL 7.112 23 If the children...are...schooled and at
home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house
suffer;... ... If all are well attended, then must the master and
mistress be studious of particulars at the cost of their own
accomplishments and growth;...
SA 8.83 4 We think a man unable and desponding. It is
only that he is misplaced. Put him with new companions, and they will
find in him... unsuspected accomplishments...
SA 8.101 4 Every human society wants to be officered by
a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men,
adorned with dignity and accomplishments.
Supl 10.174 18 We are fond of dress, of ornament, of
accomplishments, of talents...
MoL 10.256 4 I distrust all the legends of great
accomplishments or performance of unprincipled men.
Schr 10.266 13 ...for the moment it appears as if in
former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to
the possessor greater rank and authority.
Schr 10.276 24 ...I own I love talents and
accomplishments;...
Schr 10.278 20 In making this claim of costly
accomplishments for the scholar, I chiefly wish to infer the dignity of
his work by the lustre of his appointments.
LLNE 10.362 14 In and around Brook Farm, whether as
members, boarders or visitors, were many remarkable persons, for
character, intellect or accomplishments.
MMEm 10.413 9 [I, Mary Moody Emerson] Met a lady in the
morning walk, a foreigner,-conversed on the accomplishments of Miss T.
ALin 11.330 13 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...no
frivolous accomplishments...
Milt1 12.262 14 ...as basis or fountain of his rare
physical and intellectual accomplishments, the man Milton was just and
devout.
MLit 12.322 1 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our
recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage
Landor,-a man... whose genius and accomplishments deserve a wiser
criticism than we have yet seen applied to them...
accord, n. (5)
ET14 5.260 15 ...the two complexions, or two styles of
mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise, interacting
mutually...these two nations, of genius and of animal force...forever
by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.
Bty 6.293 8 It is necessary in music, when you strike a
discord, to let down the ear by an intermediate note or two to the
accord again;...
Chr2 10.121 22 In perfect accord with [Goethe], Henry
James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its
hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the
secret inspiration of all past history.
LS 11.21 17 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is
its reality...the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all
its representation of God and His Providence;...
FRO1 11.477 11 I have listened with great pleasure to
the lessons which we have heard. To many...I have found so much in
accord with my own thought that I have little left to say.
accord, v. (3)
Pray 12.350 17 ...we seldom have the prayer otherwise
than it can be inferred from the man and his fortunes, which are the
answer to the prayer, and always accord with it.
Pray 12.354 5 The next [prayer] is in a metrical form.
It is the aspiration of a different mind, in quite other regions of
power and duty, yet they all accord at last.
Let 12.397 25 More letters we have on the subject of
the position of young men, which accord well enough with what we see
and hear.
accordance, n. (3)
ET15 5.261 2 The power of the newspaper is familiar in
America, and in accordance with our political system.
LS 11.16 12 On every other subject [than the Lord's
Supper] succeeding times have learned to form a judgment more in
accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the
early ages.
MLit 12.313 18 We say, in accordance with the general
view I have stated, that the single soul feels its right to be no
longer confounded with numbers...
accordant, adj. (1)
CInt 12.119 15 I value dearly the poet who knows his art
so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with
sympathetic song, just as a powerful note of an organ sets all tuned
strings in its neighborhood in accordant vibration...
accorded, v. (7)
YA 1.394 7 ...in England...such is the transcendent
honor accorded to wealth and birth, that no man of letters...is
received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.
ET7 5.123 2 Lord Collingwood would not accept his medal
for victory on 14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for victory
on 1st June, 1794; and the long withholden medal was accorded.
ET16 5.276 21 It looked as if the wide margin given in
this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by
the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all
their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
Ctr 6.157 19 The poet, as a craftsman, is only
interested in the praise accorded to him...
Art2 7.50 7 The first time you hear [good poetry], it
sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal
mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet. The feeling of all
great poets has accorded with this.
PC 8.222 4 When the correlation of the sciences was
announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise; we were
found already prepared for it. The fact stated accorded with the
auguries or divinations of the human mind.
FSLC 11.201 27 [Webster] must learn...that those to
whom his name was once dear and honored, as the manly statesman to whom
the choicest gifts of Nature had been accorded, disown him...
according, adv. (103)
Nat 1.55 8 The problem of philosophy, according to
Plato, is, for all that exists conditionally, to find a ground
unconditioned and absolute.
LT 1.273 27 ...a [wealthy] man may say his
religion...is become a dividual moveable, and goes and comes near him,
according as that good man frequents the house.
LT 1.286 25 We have come to that which is the spring of
all power...and who shall tell us according to what law its
inspirations and its informations are given or witholden?
Con 1.312 24 ...as soon as you put your gift to use,
you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of
desert...
Tran 1.337 11 ...I have assurance in myself that in
pardoning these faults according to the letter, man exerts the
sovereign right which the majesty of his being confers on him;...
Comp 2.112 27 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through
indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? ...
The transaction remains in the memory of himself and his neighbor; and
every new transaction alters according to its nature their relation to
each other.
SL 2.134 12 According to the faith of their times [men
of an extraordinary success] have built altars to Fortune, or to
Destiny...
SL 2.148 23 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids
another, according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself...
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.
Lov1 2.184 1 ...things are ever grouping themselves
according to higher or more interior laws.
Fdsp 2.211 14 There is at least this satisfaction in
crime, according to the Latin proverb;--you can speak to your
accomplice on even terms.
Art1 2.351 6 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the
production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the
useful and fine arts, if we employ the popular distinction of works
according to their aim either at use or beauty.
Art1 2.354 1 Shall I now add that the whole extant
product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke
drawn in the portrait of that fate...according to whose ordinations all
beings advance to their beatitude?
Pt1 3.21 7 [The poet] uses forms according to the life,
and not according to the form.
Pt1 3.24 14 [The sculptor] rose one day, according to
his habit, before dawn...
Exp 3.45 7 ...the Genius which according to the old
belief stands at the door by which we enter, and gives us the lethe to
drink, that we may tell no tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
Chr1 3.95 16 All individual natures stand in a scale,
according to the purity of this element [truth] in them.
Chr1 3.98 15 Our proper vice takes form in one or
another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the
person...
Chr1 3.101 5 All things work exactly according to their
quality and according to their quantity;...
Chr1 3.101 6 All things work exactly according to their
quality and according to their quantity;...
Chr1 3.108 13 None will ever solve the problem of his
character according to our prejudice...
Mrs1 3.132 1 ...the countryman at a city dinner,
believes that there is a ritual according to which every act and
compliment must be performed...
Nat2 3.182 10 ...according to the skill of the eye,
from any one object the parts and properties of any other may be
predicted.
Pol1 3.203 12 ...in the other case, of patrimony, the
law makes an ownership which will be valid in each man's view according
to the estimate which he sets on the public tranquillity.
Pol1 3.220 8 ...according to the order of nature...it
stands thus; there will always be a government of force where men are
selfish;...
NR 3.237 1 Everything must have its flower or effort at
the beautiful, coarser or finer according to its stuff.
NR 3.243 5 ...according to our nature [things and
persons] act on us not at once but in succession...
NER 3.271 2 I think, according to the good-hearted word
of Plato, Unwillingly the soul is deprived of truth.
PPh 4.57 21 According to the old sentence, If Jove
should descend to the earth, he would speak in the style of Plato.
PPh 4.69 25 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the
fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according
to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea
and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be
beautiful.
SwM 4.96 15 ...the soul having heretofore known all,
nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind, or according
to the common phrase has learned, one thing only, should of himself
recover all his ancient knowledge...
SwM 4.108 15 This new spine [the skull] is destined to
high uses. It is a new man on the shoulders of the last. It can almost
shed its trunk and manage to live alone, according to the Platonic idea
in the Timaeus.
SwM 4.125 2 [To Swedenborg] All things in the universe
arrange themselves to each person anew, according to his ruling love.
SwM 4.126 17 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which
express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as
nature descends. And the truly poetic account of the writing in the
inmost heaven, which, as it consists of inflexions according to the
form of heaven, can be read without instruction.
SwM 4.138 10 Evil, according to old philosophers, is
good in the making.
ShP 4.203 5 If it need wit to know wit, according to
the proverb, Shakspeare's time should be capable of recognizing it.
NMW 4.229 25 [The art of war] consisted, according to
[Bonaparte], in having always more forces than the enemy, on the point
where the enemy is attacked, or where he attacks...
ET1 5.11 11 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after
so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St.
Paul,--the doctrine of the Trinity, which was also according to Philo
Judaeus the doctrine of the Jews before Christ, this handful of
Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
ET2 5.32 10 Sea-days are long--these lack-lustre,
joyless days which whistled over us; but they were few--only fifteen,
as the captain counted, sixteen according to me.
ET3 5.41 6 The sea, which, according to Virgil's famous
line, divided the poor Britons utterly from the world, proved to be the
ring of marriage with all nations.
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.
ET8 5.138 4 If anatomy is reformed according to
national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in
the Englishman...
ET8 5.140 7 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony,
that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful
circumstances...for whatever turned up, he...never slept less nor more
on account of them, nor ate nor drank but according to his custom.
ET9 5.150 17 In a tract on Corn, a most
amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain,
according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass
ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of
the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
ET10 5.153 12 Haydon says, There is a fierce resolution
[in England] to make every man live according to the means he
possesses.
ET12 5.210 8 ...education, according to the English
notion of it, is arrived at [at Oxford].
F 6.21 3 ...if we give it the high sense in which the
poets use it, even thought itself is not above Fate; that too must act
according to eternal laws...
F 6.39 5 ...the first cell converts itself into
stomach, mouth, nose, or nail, according to the want;...
F 6.41 6 The pleasure of life is according to the man
that lives it...
F 6.41 7 The pleasure of life is...not according to the
work or the place.
Wth 6.90 2 ...according to the excellence of the
machinery in each human being is his attraction for the instruments he
is to employ.
CbW 6.258 14 ...according to the old oracle, the Furies
are the bonds of men;...
Ill 6.325 1 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.
Civ 7.23 5 ...the multiplication of the arts of peace,
which is nothing but a large allowance to each man to choose his work
according to his faculty... fills the State with useful and happy
laborers;...
Art2 7.39 20 If we follow the popular distinction of
works according to their aim, we should say, the Spirit, in its
creation, aims at use or at beauty...
WD 7.178 3 ...though many creatures eat from one dish,
each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the elements what
belongs to it...
Boks 7.215 21 The question there [in Jane Eyre]
answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated
according to the habit of the party.
SA 8.84 15 When a stranger comes to buy goods of you,
do you not look in his face and answer according to what you read
there?
Comc 8.163 12 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of
form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity,--they must walk
gingerly, according to the laws of ice...
Comc 8.168 24 ...according to Latin poetry and English
doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./
QO 8.193 1 It is no more according to Plato than
according to me.
QO 8.194 19 The profit of books is according to the
sensibility of the reader.
PC 8.220 12 ...power obeys reality, and not appearance;
according to quality, and not quantity.
PPo 8.254 23 Give me what you will; I eat thistles as
roses,/ And according to my food I grow and I give./
Insp 8.274 23 Plato...notes that the perception is only
accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect, and a
life according to the things themselves.
Insp 8.277 19 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote
here, nor was there any time to consider how to set it punctually down
according to the right understanding of the letters, but all was
ordered according to the direction of the spirit...
Insp 8.277 20 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote
here...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit...
Dem1 10.14 17 As I was once travelling by the Red Sea,
there was one among the horsemen that attended us named
Masollam...according to the testimony of all the Greeks and barbarians,
a very skilful archer.
PerF 10.76 16 ...[man's] his ability and performance
are according to his reception of these various streams of force.
PerF 10.84 13 ...this child of the dust throws himself
by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the
secret of God. Thus is the world delivered into your hand, but on two
conditions,-not for property, but for use, use according to the noble
nature of the gifts; and...not for self-indulgence.
Chr2 10.108 5 ...So far the religion is now where it
should be. Persons...are discriminated according to their aims, and not
by these ritualities.
Edc1 10.158 26 According to the depth from which you
draw your life, such is the depth not only of your strenuous effort,
but of your manners and presence.
SovE 10.197 27 ...every act is not hereafter but
instantaneously rewarded according to its quality.
Schr 10.270 11 ...all the human race have agreed to
value a man according to his power of expression.
LLNE 10.335 3 ...[works of talent] are more or less
matured in every degree of completeness according to the time bestowed
on them...
LLNE 10.352 22 There is an order in which in a sound
mind the faculties always appear, and which, according to the strength
of the individual, they seek to realize in the surrounding world.
LLNE 10.353 19 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ]
the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in
obedience to [a man's] most private being he finds himself, according
to his presentiment... acting in strict concert with all others who
followed their private light.
MMEm 10.421 11 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I
[Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing; according to Adam Smith's
idea of society, done nothing;...
LS 11.25 1 [The pastoral office] has some [duties]
which it will always be my delight to discharge according to my
ability...
EWI 11.110 10 In 1821, according to official documents
presented to the American government by the Colonization Society,
200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.
EWI 11.136 23 One feels very sensibly in all this
history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and
soul are behind there...infinitely attractive to every person according
to the degree of reason in his own mind...
War 11.161 4 [The idea that there can be peace as well
as war] is expounded, illustrated, defined, with different degrees of
clearness; and its actualization...predicted according to the light of
each seer.
War 11.165 13 We surround ourselves always, according
to our freedom and ability, with true images of ourselves in things...
FSLC 11.205 17 [The destiny of this country] is to be
administered according to what is, and is to be...
FSLC 11.205 18 [The destiny of this country] is to be
administered according to what is, and is to be, and not according to
what is dead and gone.
ALin 11.334 14 This man [Lincoln] grew according to the
need.
Wom 11.405 18 ...according to the rule, take [women's]
first advice, not the second...
Wom 11.424 12 If you do refuse [women] a vote, you will
also refuse to tax them,-according to our Teutonic principle, No
representation, no tax.
Wom 11.424 25 When new opinions appear, they will be
entertained and respected, by every fair mind, according to their
reasonableness...
Wom 11.424 26 When new opinions appear, they will be
entertained and respected, by every fair mind, according to their
reasonableness, and not according to their convenience...
SHC 11.434 13 What is the Earth itself but...according
to the Eastern fable, a bridge full of holes, into one or other of
which all passengers sink to silence?
FRep 11.521 5 We are all living according to custom;...
PLT 12.32 3 ...each tree can secrete from the soil the
elements that form a peach, a lemon, or a cocoa-nut, according to its
kind...
Mem 12.107 17 We forget also according to beautiful
laws.
CInt 12.124 20 The necessity of a mechanical system [of
education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed,
not according to the secret needs of each mind but by some available
plan that will give weekly and annual results;...
CInt 12.131 10 ...'t is very certain that an
examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot
be escaped or deceived, that every scholar...must hear the questions
proposed, and answer them by himself, and receive honor or dishonor
according to the fidelity shown.
CL 12.147 7 According to the common estimate of
farmers, the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....
Bost 12.183 14 ...from every stratum a different aroma
and air according to its quality.
Bost 12.183 14 According to quality and according to
temperature, [the air] must have effect on manners.
Bost 12.183 15 According to quality and according to
temperature, [the air] must have effect on manners.
Milt1 12.263 21 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according
to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing
solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of
the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.
Milt1 12.277 26 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition
of poetry...Poetry... seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the
desires of the mind...
PPr 12.387 8 ...if you should ask the contemporary, he
would tell you, with pride or with regret (according as he was
practical or poetic), that he had [no superstitions].
accordingly, adv. (9)
Mrs1 3.134 18 I may go into a cottage, and find a farmer
who feels that he is the man I have come to see, and fronts me
accordingly.
GoW 4.276 23 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this
imp [the Devil]. He shall be real;...or he shall not exist.
Accordingly, he stripped him of mythologic gear...and...looked for him
in his own mind...
CSC 10.373 12 In March [1841], accordingly, a
three-days' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in
the same place, on the subject of the Church...
CSC 10.373 16 In March [1841]...a three-day' session
[of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the
subject of the Church, and a third meeting fixed for the following
November, which was accordingly holden;...
HDC 11.57 20 This war [with the Niantic Indians] seems
to have been... eluctantly entered by Massachusetts. Accordingly, Major
[Simon] Willard did the least he could...
FSLC 11.190 13 I found, accordingly, that the great
jurists, Cicero, Grotius...do all affirm [the principle in law that
immoral laws are void].
MAng1 12.226 3 [Michelangelo] was charged with
rebuilding the Pons Palatinus over the Tiber. He prepared, accordingly,
a large quantity of blocks of travertine...
AgMs 12.361 17 ...we farmers always know what our
interest dictates, and do accordingly.
Trag 12.409 16 ...accordingly it is natures not
clear...imperfect characters from which somewhat is hidden that all
others see, who suffer most from these causes.
accords, v. (4)
Tran 1.337 14 ...I have assurance in myself that in
pardoning these faults according to the letter, man...sets the seal of
his divine nature to the grace he accords.
Exp 3.73 14 This vigor accords with and assists justice
and reason...
Pol1 3.207 22 Democracy is better for us, because the
religious sentiment of the present time accords better with it.
ACiv 11.310 26 If Congress accords with the President,
it is not yet too late to begin the emancipation;...
accost, v. (1)
Hist 2.7 14 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations,
are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is
forming. The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him...
accosted, v. (2)
Comc 8.167 21 ...I was hastening to visit an old and
honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his
physician, who accosted me in great spirits...
PC 8.221 8 [The scholar] has accosted this immeasurable
Nature, and got clear answers.
accosting, v. (1)
ET14 5.236 4 The ardor and endurance of [English]
study...the enterprise or accosting of new subjects...astonish...
accosts, v. (5)
LE 1.157 26 ...of what worth the world is, and with what
emphasis it accosts the soul of man, such is the worth, such the call
of the scholar.
Lov1 2.177 10 ...[the lover] accosts the grass and the
trees;...
Cour 7.268 27 The judge...squarely accosts the
question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common
arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
PC 8.205 6 ...as through dreams in watches of the
night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic
hint accosts the vigilant/...
PPo 8.244 16 [Hafiz] accosts all topics with an easy
audacity.
account, n. (111)
Nat 1.47 9 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance
we call the World, that God will teach a human mind...
AmS 1.85 15 ...Nature hastens to render account of
herself to the mind.
AmS 1.106 13 Men are become of no account.
DSA 1.121 3 He ought. [Man] knows the sense of that
grand word, though his analysis fails to render account of it.
LE 1.184 13 Let [the scholar] not grieve too much on
account of unfit associates.
MN 1.204 11 ...[man] pretends to give account of
himself to himself...
MN 1.204 14 What account can [man] give of his essence
more than so it was to be?
MR 1.243 19 The duty that every man...should call the
institutions of society to account...gains in emphasis if we look at
our modes of living.
Con 1.297 14 This [fable of Saturn and Uranus] may
stand for the earliest account of a conversation on politics between a
Conservative and a Radical which has come down to us.
Con 1.308 22 ...I am very peaceable, and on my private
account could well enough die...
YA 1.368 1 A well-laid garden makes the face of the
country of no account;...
Hist 2.9 21 This life of ours is stuck round
with...Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers and wild
ornaments grave and gay. I will not make more account of them.
Hist 2.13 4 Why should we make account of time...
Hist 2.14 20 We have the civil history of [the Greek]
people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it;
a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were and what
they did.
Hist 2.30 24 [Prometheus] stands between the unjust
justice of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals, and readily
suffers all things on their account.
SR 2.49 14 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken
with eclat he is... watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds,
whose affections must now enter into his account.
SR 2.69 11 ...long intervals of time, years, centuries,
are of no account.
Comp 2.121 26 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the
malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature. In some
manner there will be a demonstration of the wrong to the understanding
also; but, should we not see it, this deadly deduction makes square the
eternal account.
SL 2.132 21 It is quite another thing that [a man]
should be able to give account of his faith...
Fdsp 2.201 4 ...I leave, for the time, all account of
subordinate social benefit [of friendship]...
Hsm1 2.248 6 In the Harleian Miscellanies there is an
account of the battle of Lutzen which deserves to be read.
OS 2.289 20 Why...should I make account of Hamlet and
Lear, as if we had not the soul from which they fell as syllables from
the tongue?
OS 2.290 12 The more cultivated, in their account of
their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...
Cir 2.310 7 The things which are dear to men at this
hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental
horizon...
Exp 3.51 25 We see young men who owe us a new
world...but they never acquit the debt; they die young and dodge the
account;...
Exp 3.62 6 I find my account in sots and bores also.
Exp 3.84 4 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate
my body to make the account square...
Exp 3.84 5 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate
my body to make the account square, for if I should die I could not
make the account square.
Chr1 3.104 12 The true charity of Goethe is to be
inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he
had spent his fortune.
Mrs1 3.119 18 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to
whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in
sepulchres...
Mrs1 3.136 9 I have just been reading...Montaigne's
account of his journey into Italy...
Pol1 3.208 20 We might as wisely reprove the east wind
or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part,
could give no account of their position...
NER 3.254 6 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius
of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and
threatened to excommunicate one of its members on account of the
somewhat hostile part to the church which his conscience led him to
take in the anti-slavery business;...
PPh 4.47 24 Philosophy is the account which the human
mind gives to itself of the constitution of the world.
SwM 4.106 10 [Swedenborg] was apt for cosmology,
because of that native perception of identity which made mere size of
no account to him.
SwM 4.112 2 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an
anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry.
SwM 4.119 20 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some account
of the modus of the new state...
SwM 4.126 15 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which
express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as
nature descends. And the truly poetic account of the writing in the
inmost heaven, which, as it consists of inflexions according to the
form of heaven, can be read without instruction.
SwM 4.134 12 The thousand-fold relation of men is not
there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches
in nature to each man...because he defies all dogmatizing and
classification, so many allowances and contingences and futurities are
to be taken into account;...
MoS 4.170 18 A book or statement which goes to show
that there is no line, but...a prosperity and no account of
it...dispirits us.
MoS 4.181 19 Great believers are always reckoned
infidels...and really men of no account.
ShP 4.192 5 Probably king, prelate and puritan, all
found their own account in [the Elizabethan theatre].
ShP 4.192 10 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by
all causes, a national interest...not a whit less considerable because
it was cheap and of no account...
ShP 4.196 6 ...some passages [in Shakespeare's Henry
VIII], as the account of the coronation, are like autographs.
ShP 4.216 16 ...how stands the account of man with this
bard and benefactor [Shakespeare]...
NMW 4.248 26 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way
in which battles are gained.
NMW 4.251 18 [Bonaparte's] memoirs...have great value,
after all the deduction that it seems is to be made from them on
account of his known disingenuousness.
NMW 4.251 23 I admire...[Bonaparte's] good-natured and
sufficiently respectful account of Marshal Wurmser and his other
antagonists;...
ET2 5.31 5 ...the inconveniences and terrors of the sea
are not of any account to those whose minds are preoccupied.
ET6 5.104 1 It requires, men say, a good constitution
to travel in Spain. I say as much of England, for other cause, simply
on account of the vigor and brawn of the people.
ET8 5.140 6 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony,
that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful
circumstances...for whatever turned up, he...never slept less nor more
on account of them...
ET14 5.256 7 How many volumes of well-bred metre we
must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed! We want
the miraculous; the beauty which we can manufacture at no mill,--can
give no account of;...
F 6.8 19 Will you say...one need not lay his account
for cataclysms every day?
F 6.13 6 ...in the history of the individual is always
an account of his condition...
Ctr 6.133 10 ...we have seen children who finding
themselves of no account when grown people come in, will cough until
they choke, to draw attention.
CbW 6.278 4 ...to the grand interests, superficial
success is of no account.
Art2 7.41 2 It was said, in allusion to the great
structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their
Art was a Nature working to municiple ends. That is a true account of
all just works of useful art.
DL 7.108 23 The account of the body is to be sought in
the mind.
WD 7.163 8 ...we have the newspaper, which does its
best to make every square acre of land and sea give an account of
itself at your breakfast-table;...
Cour 7.261 11 Each [new soldier] whispers to himself:
My exertions must be of small account to the result;...
Suc 7.285 18 [Columbus told the King and Queen] I
assert that [the pilots] can give no other account than that they went
to lands where there was abundance of gold...
Suc 7.311 25 ...we have powers, connection, children,
reputations, professions; this [inner life] makes no account of them
all.
OA 7.319 20 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at
sixty proposed to resign...he was dissuaded by his friends, on account
of the public convenience at that time.
OA 7.333 21 We inquired when [John Adams] expected to
see Mr. [John Quincy] Adams.--He said: Never: Mr. Adams will not come
to Quincy but to my funeral. It would be a great satisfaction to me to
see him, but I don't wish him to come on my account.
PI 8.51 9 Of their living habitations they made little
account...
PI 8.72 22 A little more or less skill in whistling is
of no account.
SA 8.93 13 Shenstone gave no bad account of this
influence [of women] in his description of the French woman...
Comc 8.169 3 ...according to Latin poetry and English
doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./ In
this instance the halfness lies in the pretension of the parties to
some consideration on account of their condition.
QO 8.203 9 The earliest describers of savage life, as
Captain Cook's account of the Society Islands...have a charm of
truth...
QO 8.204 15 ...the words overheard at unawares by the
free mind, are trustworthy and fertile when obeyed and not perverted to
low and selfish account.
PC 8.216 16 I think I have seen two or three great men
who, for that reason, were of no account among scholars.
Imtl 8.349 8 The human mind takes no account of
geography...
Dem1 10.19 9 It would be easy in the political history
of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having
a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... The
crimes they commit...are strangely overlooked, or do more strangely
turn to their account.
Aris 10.59 2 ...to the grand interests, a superficial
success is of no account.
PerF 10.76 26 If we were truly to take account of stock
before the last Court of Appeals,-that were an inventory!
Edc1 10.140 16 If [a boy] can turn his books to such
picturesque account in his fishing and hunting, it is easy to see how
his reading and experience... will interpenetrate each other.
LLNE 10.365 11 Eggs might be hatched in ovens, but the
hen on her own account much preferred the old way.
Thor 10.470 9 [Thoreau] drew out of his breast-pocket
his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on
this day, whereof he kept account as a banker when his notes fall due.
LS 11.5 6 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with
his disciples is given by the four Evangelists...
LS 11.6 10 This material fact, that the occasion [the
Last Supper] was to be remembered, is found in Luke alone, who was not
present. There is no reason, however, that we know, for rejecting the
account of Luke.
LS 11.9 1 ...the leading circumstances in the Gospels
are only a faithful account of that ceremony [the Passover].
LS 11.11 16 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's]
Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go
and read the account of it in the other Gospels...
LS 11.11 18 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's]
Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go
and read the account of it in the other Gospels, and then compare with
it the account of this transaction [Christ's washing the disciples'
feet] in St. John...
LS 11.12 9 These views of the original account of the
Lord's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and
prophetic interest...
LS 11.14 17 ...St. Paul was living in the lifetime of
all the apostles who could give him an account of the transaction [the
Last Supper];...
LS 11.15 22 ...it does not appear from a careful
examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that
it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;...
HDC 11.41 2 ...the original distribution of the land
[in Concord], or an account of the principle on which it was divided,
are not preserved.
HDC 11.80 21 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the
person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should
receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time
he should bring to the town...
War 11.162 20 ...we never make much account of
objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this
moment...
JBS 11.278 25 ...I incline to accept [John Brown's] own
account of the matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little
older, when he said, This was all settled millions of years before the
world was made.
ALin 11.337 18 There is a serene Providence which rules
the fate of nations, which makes little account of time, little of one
generation or race...
ALin 11.337 19 There is a serene Providence which rules
the fate of nations, which...makes no account of disasters...
SMC 11.360 14 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think
carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or
mothers may fall back; upon the little account in the savings bank...
SMC 11.366 22 ...a very good account has been heard,
not only of the [Fortieth] regiment, but of the talents and virtues of
these men.
EdAd 11.391 8 ...the current year has witnessed the
appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's]
manuscripts. Here is an unsettled account in the book of Fame;...
Wom 11.408 26 Conversation is our account of ourselves.
FRep 11.524 13 [The election of a rogue and a brawler]
was done by the very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible,
best-natured people. The only account of this is, that they have been
scared or warped into some association in their mind of the candidate
with the interest of their trade or of their property.
FRep 11.532 22 It seems as if history gave no account
of any society in which despondency came so readily to heart as we see
it and feel it in ours.
PLT 12.26 17 A subject of thought to which we
return...from year to year, has always some ripeness of which we can
give no account.
CL 12.136 21 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse
at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own
country, based on the conviction...that in every district were swamps,
or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which...if explored, and turned to
account, were capable of yielding immense benefit.
CL 12.153 26 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic
with the coast! What wealth is here! Every wave is a fortune; one
thinks of Etzlers and great projectors who will yet turn all this waste
strength to account...
Bost 12.207 26 The towns or countries in which the man
lives and dies where he was born, and his son and son's son live and
die where he did, are of no great account.
MAng1 12.229 6 It does not fall within our design to
give an account of [Michelangelo's] works...
ACri 12.294 27 We cannot...give any account of
[Shakespeare's] existence, but only the fact that there was a wonderful
symbolizer and expressor...
MLit 12.310 16 ...they say every man walks environed by
his proper atmosphere, extending to some distance around him. This
beautiful result must be credited to literature also in casting its
account.
MLit 12.324 5 ...a sort of conscientious feeling
[Goethe] had to be up to the universe is the best account and apology
for many of [his stories].
AgMs 12.360 23 The account [in the Agricultural Survey]
of the maple sugar,-that is very good and entertaining...
EurB 12.378 6 I fear it was in part the influence of
such pictures [as in Vivian Grey] on living society which made the
style of manners of which we have so many pictures, as, for example, in
the following account of the English fashionist.
Let 12.392 7 ...we have thought that we might clear our
account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter...
Let 12.399 19 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of
Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the
following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany...
Trag 12.406 17 ...no theory of life can have any right
which leaves out of account the values of vice...fear and death.
account, v. (17)
Nat 1.63 1 Idealism is a hypothesis to account for
nature by other principles than those of carpentry and chemistry.
Nat 1.63 13 ...this [ideal] theory...does not account
for that consanguinity which we acknowledge to [nature].
MN 1.200 4 In all animal and vegetable forms, the
physiologist concedes that no chemistry, no mechanics, can account for
the facts...
MN 1.207 25 Is it for [a man] to account himself cheap
and superfluous...
PPh 4.44 15 We are to account for the supreme elevation
of this man [Plato] in the intellectual history of our race...
ShP 4.208 17 Read the antique documents extricated,
analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read
one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me...if the former
account in any manner for the latter;...
ET9 5.146 18 I have found that Englishmen have such a
good opinion of England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who
modestly laments the disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and
savages, is surprised by the instant and unfeigned commiseration of the
whole company, who plainly account all the world out of England a heap
of rubbish.
ET18 5.305 27 You cannot account for [Englishmen's]
success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law,
Parliament, or letters...
Elo1 7.79 1 ...histories, poems and new philosophies
arise to account for [Caesar].
DL 7.127 8 The first glance we meet may satisfy
us...that no laws of line or surface can ever account for the
inexhaustible expressiveness of form.
Grts 8.309 25 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect],
it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of
conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot
account for.
Imtl 8.343 17 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins
property, health, life itself, without hesitation, for its thought, and
all men justify the man by their praise for this act. And Mahomet in
the same mind declared, Not dead, but living, ye are to account all
those who are slain in the way of God.
Plu 10.308 10 ...[Plutarch] chiefly liked that
proportion which teaches us to account that which is just, equal; and
not that which is equal, just.
Thor 10.464 8 [Thoreau's] robust common sense, armed
with stout hands, keen perceptions and strong will, cannot yet account
for the superiority which shone in his simple and hidden life.
SMC 11.369 10 The Colonel [George Prescott] took
evident pleasure in the fact that he could account for all his men.
II 12.83 14 Him we account the fortunate man whose
determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt.
Pray 12.351 18 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this
petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant...that I may
account him to be rich, who is wise and just.
accountable, adj. (1)
MR 1.233 7 The sins of our trade belong...to no
individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats. Every body partakes,
every body confesses...yet none feels himself accountable.
accountants, n. (1)
Edc1 10.135 3 ...we aim to make accountants, attorneys,
engineers;...
accounted, v. (6)
Chr1 3.89 17 This inequality of the reputation to the
works or the anecdotes is not accounted for by saying that the
reverberation is longer than the thunder-clap...
NR 3.229 24 ...we are very sensible of an atmospheric
influence in men and in bodies of men, not accounted for in an
arithmetical addition of all their measurable properties.
ET4 5.64 26 In the case of the ship-money, the judges
delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland
shires therein are all to be accounted maritime;...
HDC 11.52 7 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws
apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray
when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like
what he saith?- which questions were accounted of by some, as part of
the whitenings of the harvest toward.
PLT 12.41 6 Every new impression on the mind is...to be
accounted for, and, until accounted for, registered as an indisputable
addition to our catalogue of natural facts.
Milt1 12.257 17 ...[Milton] was accounted an excellent
master of his rapier.
accounting, v. (1)
LT 1.279 25 ...the man of ideas, accounting the
circumstance nothing, judges of the commonwealth from the state of his
own mind.
accounts, n. (11)
LT 1.269 16 These [modern reform] movements are on all
accounts important;...
LT 1.273 9 A wealthy man...finds religion to be a
traffic...of so many piddling accounts, that of all mysteries he cannot
skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.
Comp 2.114 10 It is best...to buy...in your agent, good
sense applied to accounts and affairs.
Hsm1 2.256 2 Scipio, charged with peculation, refuses
to do himself so great a disgrace as to wait for justification, though
he had the scroll of his accounts in his hands...
NR 3.231 20 Property keeps the accounts of the world,
and is always moral.
PPh 4.60 21 I, therefore, Callicles, am persuaded by
these accounts [said Plato], and consider how I may exhibit my soul
before the judge in a healthy condition.
ShP 4.201 27 Elated with success and piqued by the
growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left...no file
of old yellow accounts to decompose in damp and worms, so keen was the
hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
ShP 4.207 21 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and
desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is...the chancellor's file
of accounts...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
ET19 5.312 4 ...I think it just, in this time of gloom
and commercial disaster, of affliction and beggary in these districts,
that, on these very accounts I speak of, you should not fail to keep
your literary anniversary.
LS 11.6 13 I have only brought these accounts [of the
Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a
solemn institution... would have been established in this slight
manner...
EWI 11.120 7 The accounts [of emancipation] which we
have from all parties [in the West Indies]...are of the most
satisfactory kind.
accounts, v. (2)
NR 3.238 26 When afterwards [the recluse] comes to
unfold [his endowment] in propitious circumstance...he...accounts
himself already the fellow of the great.
PI 8.15 20 The poet accounts all productions and
changes of Nature as the nouns of language...
accoutrements, n. (1)
ET5 5.86 2 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in
Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then
without;...
accredited, adj. (1)
LT 1.264 17 In the brain of a fanatic; in the wild hope
of a mountain boy... is to be found that which shall constitute the
times to come, more than in the now organized and accredited oracles.
accredited, v. (4)
Con 1.312 22 Providence takes care...that you are waited
for, and come accredited;...
YA 1.387 5 If society were transparent, the noble would
everywhere be gladly received and accredited...
Exp 3.68 16 The most attractive class of people are
those who are powerful obliquely and not by the direct stroke; men of
genius, but not yet accredited;...
War 11.170 10 How is [this new aspiration of the human
mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not,
certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...not by...going
through a course of resolutions and public manifestoes, and being thus
formally accredited to the public and to the civility of the
newspapers.
accredits, v. (1)
Nat2 3.177 25 The multitude of false churches accredits
the true religion.
accrue, v. (5)
Tran 1.358 7 Possibly some benefit may yet accrue from
[Transcendentalists] to the state.
YA 1.375 1 Benefit will accrue, [railroads] are
essential to the country...
NR 3.238 8 Great dangers undoubtedly accrue from this
incarnation and distribution of the godhead...
GoW 4.285 14 Enemy of [Goethe] you may be,--if so you
shall teach him aught which your good-will can not, were it only what
experience will accrue from your ruin.
LVB 11.94 23 On the broaching of this question [of the
moral character of government], a general expression of despondency, of
disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of
fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for
aid and counsel.
accrued, v. (4)
Ctr 6.141 19 ...though we must not omit any jot of our
system, we can seldom be sure that...as much good would not have
accrued from a different system.
SA 8.104 10 Amidst the calamities which war has brought
on our country this one benefit has accrued,--that our eyes...look
homeward.
HDC 11.55 11 ...in 1640, all immigration [to Concord]
ceased, and the country produce and farm-stock depreciated. Other
difficulties accrued.
FSLC 11.199 22 The only benefit that has accrued from
the [Fugitive Slave] law is its service to education.
accrues, v. (2)
ET13 5.226 13 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a
bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards...
Suc 7.286 27 Neither do we grudge to each of these
benefactors the praise or the profit which accrues from his industry.
accruing, v. (1)
ET12 5.202 16 ...gifts of all values, from a hall or a
fellowship or a library, down to a picture or a spoon, are continually
accruing [at Oxford]...
accumulate, v. (6)
SL 2.161 3 Common men are apologies for men;
they...accumulate appearances because the substance is not.
ET4 5.52 17 ...England tends to accumulate her liberals
in America...
Pow 6.74 13 ...you shall take what your brain can, and
drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate
which can make the step from knowing to doing.
Ctr 6.148 4 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If I
should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be
consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human
race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
SovE 10.186 23 ...[the moral powers] are thirsts for
action, and the more you accumulate, the more they mould and form.
EWI 11.134 14 I entreat you, sirs, let not this stain
attach, let not this misery accumulate any longer.
accumulated, adj. (10)
MR 1.234 27 If the accumulated wealth of the past
generation is thus tainted...we must begin to consider if it were not
the nobler part to renounce it...
SwM 4.143 5 Swedenborg...with all his accumulated
gifts, paralyzes and repels.
ShP 4.195 1 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor
found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found
in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already
wonted...
ET14 5.236 27 I could cite from the seventeenth century
[in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the
nineteenth. Their poets by simple force of mind equalized themselves
with the accumulated science of ours.
Wth 6.99 24 ...this accumulated skill in arts,
cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges,
constitutes the worth of our world to-day.
Elo1 7.75 19 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness
sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...then they observe the
disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most
solid and accumulated public service.
SA 8.102 2 I have been often impressed at our country
town-meetings with the accumulated virility, in each village, of five
or six or eight or ten men...
Aris 10.38 7 From the most accumulated culture we are
always running back to the sound of any drum and fife.
LLNE 10.369 1 ...what accumulated culture many of the
members owed to [Brook Farm]!
FRep 11.529 5 A congress...escapes the violence of
accumulated grievance.
accumulated, v. (9)
Nat 1.60 6 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of
persons and things...not as painfully accumulated...
NMW 4.240 4 When the expenses...of his palaces, had
accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors
himself...
Wth 6.95 2 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the
marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the
science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere
accumulated...
Farm 7.141 3 The men in cities who are the centres of
energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or
grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their
fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows...
Farm 7.143 3 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun
of ages... mellowed his land...and accumulated the sphagnum whose
decays made the peat of his meadow.
Farm 7.152 11 ...when...there is more skill, and tools
and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands,
where the wash of mountains has accumulated the best soil...
Boks 7.191 10 College education is the reading of
certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will
represent the science already accumulated.
FSLC 11.203 14 At last, at a fatal hour, [Webster's]
sluggishness accumulated to downright counteraction...
FSLN 11.240 9 ...that is the stern edict of Providence,
that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast
itself into the opposite scale, and not until liberty has slowly
accumulated weight enough to countervail and preponderate against all
this, can the sufficient recoil come.
accumulates, v. (2)
ET14 5.244 7 The absence of the faculty [of
generalization] in England is shown by the timidity which accumulates
mountains of facts...
Imtl 8.321 3 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What
rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/ Verdict which accumulates/ From
lengthening scroll of human fates/...
accumulating, v. (1)
GoW 4.273 15 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If
that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition, accumulating a
glut of facts and fruits too fast for any hitherto-existing savans to
classify,--this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of
all.
accumulation, n. (13)
AmS 1.85 26 ...since the dawn of history there has been
a constant accumulation and classifying of facts.
Int 2.340 16 ...no diligence can rebuild the universe
in a model by the best accumulation or disposition of details...
Chr1 3.107 27 There is a class of men...so eminently
endowed with insight and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted
as divine, and who seem to be an accumulation of that power [of
character] we consider.
SwM 4.110 20 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a leader
in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has given to
an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and a beating
heart.
Ctr 6.165 9 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a
subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified,
cured and refined; and will shun every expenditure of his forces on
pleasure or gain which will jeopardize this social and secular
accumulation.
Cour 7.259 2 ...the protection which a house...even the
first accumulation of savings gives, go in all times to generate this
taint of the respectable classes.
Edc1 10.129 14 No dollar of property can be created
without...some acquisition of knowledge and practical force. It is...an
accumulation of power...
MoL 10.252 24 Intellect measures itself by its
counteraction to any accumulation of material force.
Schr 10.282 15 The spiritual nature exhibits itself so
in its counteraction to any accumulation of material force.
Plu 10.312 4 Seneca...by...his own skill...of living
with men of business and emulating their address in affairs by great
accumulation of his own property, learned to temper his philosophy with
facts.
PLT 12.33 5 As soon as our accumulation [of knowledge]
overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual
gluttony begin...
II 12.85 24 A man must do the work with that faculty he
has now. But that faculty is the accumulation of past days.
Bost 12.186 18 New England is a sort of Scotland. 'T is
hard to say why. Climate is much; then, old accumulation of the
means,-books, schools, colleges, literary society;...
accumulations, n. (10)
Tran 1.358 16 ...in society...there must be a
few...persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest
accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.
Comp 2.111 20 ...all unjust accumulations of property
and power, are avenged in the same manner.
SL 2.166 13 We are the photometers...that measure the
accumulations of the subtle element.
Pol1 3.206 27 When the rich are outvoted...it is the
joint treasury of the poor which exceeds their accumulations.
ET5 5.88 6 ...it must be owned [the English] are
capable of larger views; but the indulgence...costs great crises, or
accumulations of mental power.
Wsp 6.202 23 We may well give skepticism as much line
as we can. The spirit will return and fill us. It drives the drivers.
It counterbalances any accumulations of power...
Elo1 7.92 17 For the explosions and eruptions, there
must be accumulations of heat somewhere...
LLNE 10.368 20 Some of [the partners] had spent on
[Brook Farm] the accumulations of years.
AKan 11.257 10 I know people who are making haste to
reduce their expenses and pay their debts, not with a view to new
accumulations, but in preparation to save and earn for the benefit of
the Kansas emigrants.
Bost 12.209 20 ...the deeper principle will always
prevail over whatever material accumulations.
accuracy, n. (21)
Nat 1.48 9 ...[nature] is ideal to me so long as I
cannot try the accuracy of my senses.
Nat 1.49 25 Until this higher agency intervened, the
animal eye sees, with wonderful accuracy, sharp outlines and colored
surfaces.
Mrs1 3.140 9 Accuracy is essential to beauty...
PPh 4.46 20 The progress is to accuracy, to skill, to
truth, from blind force.
PPh 4.47 20 ...[Plato] is the arrival of accuracy and
intelligence.
ET5 5.74 4 The Saxon and the Northman are both
Scandinavians. History does not allow us to fix the limits of the
application of these names with any accuracy...
ET12 5.207 18 The men [English students] have learned
accuracy and comprehension, logic, and pace, or speed of working.
F 6.17 12 ...on a population of twenty or two hundred
millions, something like accuracy may be had.
Wth 6.100 20 The problem [in commerce] is to combine
many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the
facts...
Wsp 6.213 21 It is the order of the world to educate
with accuracy the senses and the understanding;...
Elo1 7.74 15 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which
is sufficiently impressive...though it be...nothing more than a
facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks
and says more slowly;...
Boks 7.200 23 An inestimable trilogy of ancient social
pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon and
Plutarch. Plutarch's has the least approach to historical accuracy;...
OA 7.335 5 [John Adams] spoke of the new novels of
Cooper...and Saratoga, with praise, and named with accuracy the
characters in them.
Grts 8.304 19 I am...to infer your reading from the
wealth and accuracy of your conversation.
Edc1 10.147 2 Accuracy is essential to beauty.
Supl 10.168 12 ...I do not know any advantage more
conspicuous which a man owes to his experience in markets and the
Exchange, or politics, than the caution and accuracy he acquires in his
report of facts.
Plu 10.322 2 Were there not a sun, we might, for all
the other stars, pass our days in the Reverend Dark, as Heraclitus
calls it. I find a humor in the phrase which might well excuse its
doubtful accuracy.
Thor 10.453 24 [Thoreau's] accuracy and skill in this
work [surveying] were readily appreciated...
Thor 10.473 3 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a
surveyor soon discovered his rare accuracy and skill...
PLT 12.3 17 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of
distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied to a
higher class of facts;...
Bost 12.197 14 In the midst of [New England's]
laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...with great
accuracy in details, little spirit of society or knowledge of the
world, you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no
education and no habit of society can bestow;...
accurate, adj. (21)
Prd1 2.226 24 Let [a man] have accurate perceptions.
Prd1 2.228 15 Our American character is marked by a
more than average delight in accurate perception...
Pt1 3.3 21 We were put into our bodies...but there is
no accurate adjustment between the spirit and the organ...
NR 3.230 9 In the parliament, in the play-house, at
dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich,
ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men,--many old women,--and not
anywhere the Englishman who...combined the accurate engines...
PPh 4.77 5 Plato would willingly have a Platonism, a
known and accurate expression for the world...
PPh 4.77 6 Plato would willingly have a Platonism, a
known and accurate expression for the world, and it should be accurate.
SwM 4.144 8 In [Swedenborg's] profuse and accurate
imagery is no pleasure, for there is no beauty.
ET1 5.6 9 [Greenough] was an accurate and a deep man.
ET14 5.233 3 ...the Englishman has accurate
perceptions;...
ET16 5.279 8 ...a thousand years hence, men will thank
this age for the accurate history [of Stonehenge].
Wth 6.111 19 We must use the means, and yet, in our
most accurate using somehow screen and cloak them...
DL 7.122 2 [Lord Falkland's] house being within little
more than ten miles from Oxford, he contracted familiarity and
friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that University...
SA 8.83 9 When a man meets his accurate mate, society
begins...
Insp 8.277 25 ...[Behmen said] though I could have
written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire
often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten
directly after it...
Edc1 10.147 5 Give a boy accurate perceptions.
Edc1 10.150 14 ...the instruction [in colleges] seems
to require skilful tutors, of accurate and systematic mind, rather than
ardent and inventive masters.
Plu 10.293 4 It is remarkable that of an author so
familiar as Plutarch...no accurate memoir of his life, not even the
dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
Plu 10.320 17 ...in recent reading of the old text [of
Plutarch's Morals], on coming on anything absurd or unintelligible, I
referred to the new text and found a clear and accurate statement in
its place.
FSLN 11.229 18 ...I suppose that liberty is an accurate
index, in men and nations, of general progress.
PLT 12.36 17 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward
image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage
did the Greek- delighting in accurate form...pay to the unscrutable
force we call Instinct...
CInt 12.125 12 In the romance Spiridion a few years
ago, we had what it seems was a piece of accurate autobiography...
accurately, adv. (18)
LT 1.265 10 Could we...indicate those who most
accurately represent every good and evil tendency of the general
mind...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the
next ages the color and quality of ours.
Hist 2.18 24 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad
cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over
churches...
SL 2.158 2 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as
well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped
with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his
strength, speed and temper.
PPh 4.46 4 As soon as, with culture...[men and women]
see [things] no longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed,
they desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in
detail.
NMW 4.224 24 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes']
virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That
tendency is material... widely and accurately learned and skilful...
F 6.45 5 Moller...taught that the building which was
fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful...
Ctr 6.138 23 To wade in marshes and sea-margins is the
destiny of certain birds, and they are so accurately made for this that
they are imprisoned in those places.
WD 7.157 17 ...a good surveyor will pace sixteen rods
more accurately than another man can measure them by tape.
Suc 7.308 25 Nature lays the ground-plan of each
creature accurately...
PI 8.57 13 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do to
the Indian, or the hunter, or miner, each of whom represents his facts
as accurately as the cry of the wolf or the eagle tells of the forest
or the air they inhabit.
QO 8.201 22 [Originality] is...reporting accurately
what we see and are.
Dem1 10.5 15 The very landscape and scenery in a dream
seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and
encumber the wearer;...and if it served no other purpose would show us
how accurately Nature fits man awake.
Aris 10.48 21 In the South a slave was bluntly but
accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good
field-hand;...
PerF 10.76 20 We define Genius to be...a sensibility so
equal that it receives accurately all impressions...
Prch 10.229 12 The opinions of men lose all worth to
him who perceives that they are accurately predictable from the ground
of their sect.
Thor 10.461 17 [Thoreau] could pace sixteen rods more
accurately than another man could measure them with rod and chain.
PLT 12.23 17 The affinity of particles accurately
translates the affinity of thoughts...
Mem 12.97 20 A knife with a good spring, a forceps
whose lips accurately meet and match...describe to us the difference
between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who
witnesses the same facts...
accursed, adj. (2)
Chr2 10.110 11 ...Mahomet is no longer accursed;...
FSLC 11.209 13 Every man in the land will give a week's
work to dig away this accursed mountain of sorrow [slavery] once and
forever out of the world.
accursed, v. (1)
Ill 6.307 2 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed,
adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./
accusation, n. (3)
NER 3.280 1 ...the Church feels the accusation of [the
religious man's] presence and belief.
DL 7.113 17 It is a sufficient accusation of our ways
of living...that our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to
execute it.
PPo 8.248 15 [The mind] indicates this respect to
absolute truth by the use it makes of the symbols that are most stable
and reverend, and therefore is always provoking the accusation of
irreligion.
accusations, n. (1)
MR 1.228 18 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks,
Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham, in their accusations of
society, all respected something...
accuse, v. (16)
Con 1.301 11 If we see [the world] from the side of
Will, or the Moral Sentiment, we shall accuse the Past and the
Present...
Fdsp 2.208 7 A man is reputed to have thought and
eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his
uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame
the insignificance of a dial in the shade.
Cir 2.317 8 I accuse myself of sloth and
unprofitableness day by day;...
MoS 4.184 5 [Young and ardent minds] accuse the divine
Providence of a certain parsimony.
ET1 5.20 19 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton,
at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the
newspapers are atrocious, and accuse members of Congress of stealing
spoons!
Wsp 6.224 25 [Every creature's] work is sword and
shield. Let him accuse none, let injure him none.
Ill 6.313 5 ...we rightly accuse the critic who
destroys too many illusions.
Boks 7.189 1 It is easy to accuse books...
Boks 7.190 11 ...there are...books...so nearly equal to
the world which they paint, that though one shuts them with meaner
ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.
LLNE 10.349 24 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di
Roma, the frozen Polar circles...accuse man.
FSLC 11.193 8 ...it is absurd...to accuse the friends
of freedom in the North with being the occasion of the new stringency
of the Southern slave-laws.
FSLC 11.193 12 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my
presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it?
FSLC 11.199 5 [Webster's] pacification has
brought...all scrupulous and good-hearted men, all women, and all
children, to accuse the law.
FSLC 11.201 17 [Webster] must learn that those who make
fame accuse him with one voice;...
AsSu 11.250 11 [Sumner's] opponents accuse him neither
of drunkenness nor debauchery...
TPar 11.291 2 ...whilst I praise this frank speaker
[Theodore Parker], I have no wish to accuse the silence of others.
accused, adj. (2)
OS 2.285 26 ...confronted face to face, accuser and
accused, men offer themselves to be judged.
Trag 12.410 21 That which seems intolerable reproach or
bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman
appetite or sleep.
accused, v. (4)
PPh 4.74 15 When accused before the judges of subverting
the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul...
Bhr 6.195 8 Marcus Scaurus was accused by Quintus
Varius Hispanus, that he had excited the allies to take arms against
the Republic.
SS 7.14 13 Put any company of people together with
freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place
into sets and pairs. The best are accused of exclusiveness.
AsSu 11.250 17 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing
his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the
United States...
accuser, n. (1)
OS 2.285 26 ...confronted face to face, accuser and
accused, men offer themselves to be judged.
accusers, n. (1)
CbW 6.270 7 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid
fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates
[of his household] are soon perverted...into...accusers...of this one
malefactor;...
accuses, v. (12)
DSA 1.140 7 Everything that befalls, accuses [the poor
preacher].
LT 1.271 24 This beauty which the fancy finds in
everything else, certainly accuses the manner of life we lead.
LT 1.274 27 Grimly the same spirit [of
Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless
providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men...
Tran 1.342 18 ...[Society] saith, Whoso goes to walk
alone, accuses the whole world;...
Cir 2.307 10 The love of me accuses the other party.
F 6.43 18 If the wall remain adamant, it accuses the
want of thought.
PI 8.69 15 ...[Goethe's Faust]...accuses the author as
well as the times.
QO 8.179 22 ...the dearth of design accuses the penury
of intellect.
Grts 8.320 5 ...people are as those with whom they
converse? And if all or any are heavy to me, that fact accuses me.
SovE 10.209 4 ...Stoicism...has now...no commanding
Zeno or Antoninus. It accuses us that it has none...
Wom 11.423 8 As for the unsexing and contamination [of
women in politics],-that only accuses our existing politics...
CInt 12.125 19 Piety in a convent accuses every one,
from the novice to the abbess.
accusing, adj. (1)
Thor 10.466 2 ...what accusing silences, and what
searching and irresistible speeches, battering down all defences,
[Thoreau's] companions can remember!
accusing, v. (1)
NER 3.271 17 ...[every man] he puts himself on the side
of his enemies, listening gladly to what they say of him, and accusing
himself of the same things.
accustom, v. (2)
Wom 11.420 4 ...bring together a cultivated society of
both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a
question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity
or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions? If
not, then there need be none in a hundred companies, if you educate
them and accustom them to judge.
FRO2 11.487 16 All education is to accustom [man] to
trust himself...
accustomed, adj. (19)
MR 1.244 20 [Our friend] is accustomed to carpets...
SR 2.68 22 ...when you have life in yourself, it is not
by any known or accustomed way;...
ET5 5.86 21 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his
men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five
minutes, no vessel could resist them;...
ET5 5.98 24 The nation [England] is accustomed to the
instantaneous creation of wealth.
ET6 5.106 12 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated
to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase
which I had been accustomed to spin...
Insp 8.277 23 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote
here...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit,
which often went on haste,- so that the penman's hand, by reason he was
not accustomed to it, did often shake.
Prch 10.218 1 I see in those classes and those persons
in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress...character,
but skepticism;...
Thor 10.452 16 ...whilst all his companions
were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that
[Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it
required rare decision to refuse all the accustomed paths...
LS 11.19 7 We are not accustomed to express our
thoughts or emotions by symbolical actions.
FSLC 11.210 10 ...grant that the heart of financiers,
accustomed to practical figures, shrinks within them at these colossal
amounts, and the embarrassments which complicate the problem
[abolition];...
Humb 11.458 26 I know that we have been accustomed to
think [the Germans] were too good scholars...
Mem 12.103 26 At this hour the stream is still flowing,
though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed
life...
Bost 12.191 21 The planters of Massachusetts do not
appear to have been hardy men, rather, comfortable citizens, not at all
accustomed to the rough task of discoverers;...
Bost 12.192 16 Any geologist or engineer is accustomed
to face more serious dangers than any enumerated [by the Massachusetts
colonists], excepting the hostile Indians.
Bost 12.198 15 No external advantages...can bestow that
delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed
to celestial conversation.
MAng1 12.228 24 [Michelangelo] was accustomed to say,
Those figures alone are good from which the labor is scraped off when
the scaffolding is taken away.
MAng1 12.237 24 It seems that Michael [Angelo] was
accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his
head, into which he stuck a candle...
MLit 12.313 11 Accustomed always to behold the presence
of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at
any new part as a stranger...
WSL 12.338 4 Here [in America] is very good earth and
water and plenty of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow; to all
other gifts of Nature or man his eyes are sealed by the inexorable
demand for the precise conveniences to which he is accustomed in
England.
accustomed, v. (14)
Hist 2.20 1 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already
prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and
masses...
Pt1 3.18 3 ...it is related of Lord Chatham that he was
accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to
speak in Parliament.
SwM 4.132 12 The wise people of the Greek race were
accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young
men...through the Eleusinian mysteries...
MoS 4.154 20 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who
was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in
saying, Mankind is a damned rascal...
ET13 5.219 5 From his infancy, every Englishman is
accustomed to hear daily prayers for the Queen...
ET16 5.275 11 I told Carlyle that I...was accustomed to
concede readily all that an Englishman would ask;...
ET17 5.296 18 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping
at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his
friends bread and plainest fare;...
Pow 6.74 24 The poet Campbell said that a man
accustomed to work, was equal to any achievement he resolved on...
Ctr 6.149 23 ...it requires a great many cultivated
women...accustomed to ease and refinement...in order that you should
have one Madame de Stael.
Bhr 6.175 4 A prince who is accustomed every day to be
courted and deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires a
corresponding expectation...
Elo1 7.98 7 ...the men least accustomed to appeal to
these [moral] sentiments invariably recall them when they address
nations.
Cour 7.261 24 ...[the young soldier] had accustomed
himself always to go into whatever place of danger, and do whatever he
was afraid to do...
PI 8.56 24 ...[Newton] only shows...that the poetry
which satisfies more youthful souls is not such to a mind like his,
accustomed to grander harmonies;...
SovE 10.213 22 A man who has accustomed himself to look
at all his circumstances as very mutable...has put himself out of the
reach of all skepticism;...
ache, n. (1)
MLit 12.335 14 In [man's] heart he knows the ache of
spiritual pain...
ache, v. (1)
Wth 6.101 24 [The farmer's] bones ache with the days'
work that earned [his dollar].
Acherontian Bag, n. (1)
ACri 12.289 27 Goethe...professed to point his guest to
his...Acherontian Bag, in which, he said, he put all his dire hints and
images...
aches, v. (2)
DSA 1.138 11 ...[this man's] head aches...
CbW 6.268 12 The youth aches for solitude.
achieve, v. (13)
MR 1.254 18 Love...will accomplish that by imperceptible
methods...which force could never achieve.
Con 1.314 8 Under the richest robes...the strong heart
will beat...with the desire to achieve its own fate...
Hist 2.11 1 We must in ourselves see the necessary
reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. ... We assume
that we under like influence should be alike affected, and should
achieve the like;...
Hist 2.34 14 All the fictions of the Middle Age explain
themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave
earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve.
Pol1 3.206 3 A nation of men unanimously bent on
freedom or conquest can easily...achieve extravagant actions, out of
all proportion to their means;...
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