Acted to Adepts
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
acted, v. (14)
DSA 1.138 4 If [the preacher] had ever lived and
acted, we were none the wiser for it.
Tran 1.335 14 Jesus acted so, because he thought so.
SL 2.162 16 Nor can you, if I am true, excite me to
the least uneasiness by saying, [Epaminondas] acted and thou sittest
still.
Exp 3.78 26 Especially the crimes that spring from
love seem right and fair from the actor's point of view, but when acted
are found destructive of society.
Art2 7.38 5 [Action] rises in thought, to the end
that it may uttered and acted.
PI 8.24 26 It was sensation;...when the mind acted,
it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
LLNE 10.326 7 The former generations acted under the
belief that a shining social prosperity was the beatitude of man...
HDC 11.51 18 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of
Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their
desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright; and the
General Court acted on their request.
HDC 11.75 19 Those poor farmers who came up, that day
[April 19, 1775], to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest
instincts.
EWI 11.110 4 The [English] assailants of slavery had
early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the
abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...whilst he acted as
chairman of the London Committee, felt constrained to record his
protest against the limitation...
AsSu 11.249 20 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore...the
pity of the indifferent, cheered by the love and respect of good men
with whom he acted;...
acting, adj. (1)
acting, n. (1)
MMEm 10.422 5 [Time] is a goodly name for our notions
of breathing, suffering, enjoying, acting.
acting, v. (20)
YA 1.370 8 Without looking...into those extraordinary
social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction...I
think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on
the citizen...
SR 2.79 21 ...[creeds and churches] are also
classifications of some powerful mind acting on the elemental thought
of duty...
Comp 2.124 10 ...my brother is my guardian, acting
for me with the friendliest designs...
Fdsp 2.213 7 ...a sublime hope cheers ever the
faithful heart, that elsewhere...souls are now acting...which can love
us and which we can love.
Mrs1 3.139 4 The average spirit of the energetic
class is good sense, acting under certain limitations and to certain
ends.
GoW 4.263 11 By acting rashly, [the writer] buys the
power of talking wisely.
ET16 5.285 26 The interior of the [Salisbury]
Cathedral is obstructed by the organ in the middle, acting like a
screen.
Civ 7.32 13 ...when I...see...man acting on man by
weight of opinion...I see what cubic values America has...
Art2 7.49 9 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by
our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear
on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to this, in the fine
arts, is the manner of our intellectual work. We aim to hinder our
individuality from acting.
Cour 7.275 6 [The man with sacres courage] wishes to
break every yoke all over the world which hinders his brother from
acting after his thought.
PI 8.34 24 ...to convert the vivid energies acting at
this hour in New York and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal
symbols, requires a subtile and commanding thought.
QO 8.185 23 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan
which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence
the dreams of his youth...
Prch 10.224 23 ...it is as if [a man] were ten or
twenty less men than himself, acting at discord with one another...
LLNE 10.353 21 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...acting in
strict concert with all others who followed their private light.
LLNE 10.359 8 ...the architect, acting under a
necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself helped, he
knows not how, into all these merits of detail...
MMEm 10.432 9 Shame on me [Mary Moody
Emerson]...resigned...to the loss of that character which I once
thought and felt so sure of, without ever being conscious of acting
from calculation.
PLT 12.31 10 The temptation is to patronize
Providence, to fall into the accepted ways of talking and acting of the
good sort of people.
action, n. (357)
Nat 1.3 12 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose
floods of life...invite us...to action proportioned to nature, why
should we grope among the dry bones of the past...
Nat 1.15 11 By the mutual action of [the eye's]
structure and of the laws of light, perspective is produced...
Nat 1.33 6 The axioms of physics translate the laws
of ethics. Thus... reaction is equal to action;...
Nat 1.72 26 ...there are not wanting...occasional
examples of the action of man upon nature with his entire force...
AmS 1.90 9 The soul active sees absolute truth and
utters truth, or creates. In this action it is genius;...
AmS 1.94 20 Action is with the scholar subordinate,
but it is essential.
AmS 1.95 2 ...the transition through which [thought]
passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action.
AmS 1.98 1 If it were only for a vocabulary, the
scholar would be covetous of action.
AmS 1.100 12 ...a man shall not for the sake of wider
activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of
action.
AmS 1.114 23 Young men...are hindered from action by
the disgust which the principles on which business is managed
inspire...
LE 1.178 10 Let [the scholar] endeavor...to solve the
problem of that life which is set before him. And this by punctual
action...
LE 1.182 27 The student...is great only by being
passive to the superincumbent spirit. Let this faith then dictate all
his action.
MN 1.204 25 ...the didactic morals of self-denial and
strife with sin, are in the view we are constrained by our constitution
to take of the fact seen from the platform of action;...
MN 1.216 8 A man adorns himself with prayer and love,
as an aim adorns an action.
MR 1.236 1 Who could regret to see...a purer
taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors...of state? ...
This would be great action...
LT 1.274 26 ...[Marriage] shall honor the man and the
woman, as much as the most diffusive and universal action.
LT 1.278 8 You have set your heart and face against
society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown.
Excellent: now can you afford to forget it, reckoning all your action
no more than the passing of your hand through the air...
LT 1.285 7 [The intellectual class's] unbelief arises
out of a greater Belief; their inaction out of a scorn of inadequate
action.
LT 1.286 16 The excellence of this class
[spiritualists] consists in this... that, affirming the need of new and
higher modes of living and action, they have abstained from the
recommendation of low methods.
Con 1.300 1 Nature does not give the crown of its
approbation, namely, beauty, to any action or emblem or actor but to
one which combines both these elements [Conservatism and Reform];...
Tran 1.333 13 Although in his action overpowered by
the laws of action... yet when he speaks...after the order of thought,
[the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives
of truths.
Tran 1.333 14 Although in his action overpowered by
the laws of action... yet when he speaks...after the order of thought,
[the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives
of truths.
Tran 1.336 8 In action [the Transcendentalist] easily
incurs the charge of antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the
Law-giver, may with safety not only neglect, but even contravene every
written commandment.
Tran 1.344 23 [Transcendentalists] prolong their
privilege of childhood in this wise; of doing nothing, but making
immense demands on all the gladiators in the lists of action and fame.
Tran 1.350 3 Unless the action is necessary, unless
it is adequate, I do not wish to perform it.
Tran 1.351 25 ...Cannot we...without complaint, or
even with good-humor, await our turn of action in the Infinite
Counsels?
Tran 1.354 25 A reference to Beauty in action
sounds...a little hollow and ridiculous in the ears of the old church.
Hist 2.8 13 There is no...mode of action in history
to which there is not somewhat corresponding in [each man's] life.
Hist 2.15 4 ...we have [the Greek national mind
expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms in the utmost
freedom of action and never transgressing the ideal serenity;...
SR 2.63 22 The magnetism which all original action
exerts is explained when we inquire the reason of self-trust.
SR 2.70 22 Commerce, husbandry...engage my respect as
examples of [virtue's] presence and impure action.
SR 2.82 9 ...the rage of travelling is a symptom of a
deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.
Comp 2.93 15 It seemed to me...that in [Compensation]
might be shown men...the present action of the soul of this world...
Comp 2.96 16 Polarity, or action and reaction, we
meet in every part of nature;...
Comp 2.115 14 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible
to get anything without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns
of a leger than...in the all the action and reaction of nature.
SL 2.138 26 ...only in our easy, simple, spontaneous
action are we strong...
SL 2.140 15 ...the action which I in all my years
tend to do, is the work for my faculties.
SL 2.155 5 ...the effect of every action is measured
by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.
SL 2.157 26 ...into every assembly that a man enters,
in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
SL 2.162 17 I see action to be good, when the need
is...
SL 2.163 24 The poor mind does not seem to itself to
be any thing unless it have an outside badge,--some Gentoo
diet...or...some wild contrasting action to testify that it is
somewhat.
Fdsp 2.192 20 Having imagined and invested [the
commended stranger], we ask how we should stand related in conversation
and action with such a man...
Fdsp 2.195 19 I have often had fine fancies about
persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy...yields no
fruit. Thought is not born of it; my action is very little modified.
Fdsp 2.210 20 ...that scornful beauty of [your
friend's] mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but
rather fortify and enhance.
Hsm1 2.251 2 ...a different breeding, different
religion and greater intellectual activity would have modified or even
reversed the particular action...
Hsm1 2.251 21 All prudent men see that the [heroic]
action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity;...
Hsm1 2.260 24 A simple manly character...should
regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion...
OS 2.268 26 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the
past and the present... is...that common heart...to which all right
action is submission;...
OS 2.271 7 ...the soul, whose organ [what we commonly
call man] is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our
knees bend.
OS 2.276 1 Those who are capable of humility, of
justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that
commands...action and grace.
OS 2.278 12 The action of the soul is oftener in that
which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any
conversation.
Cir 2.301 11 One moral we have already deduced in
considering the circular or compensatory character of every human
action.
Cir 2.312 25 ...some Petrarch or Ariosto...writes me
an ode or a brisk romance, full of daring thought and action.
Pt1 3.7 20 Criticism is infested with a cant of
materialism, which... confounds [poets] with those whose province is
action but who quit it to imitate the sayers.
Pt1 3.33 21 ...we love the poet, the inventor, who in
any form, whether in an ode or in an action...has yielded us a new
thought.
Exp 3.59 8 There is now no longer any right course of
action nor any self-devotion left among the Iranis.
Exp 3.68 5 All good conversation, manners and action
come from a spontaneity which forgets usages...
Exp 3.69 1 There is a certain magic about [a man's]
properest action which stupefies your powers of observation...
Exp 3.74 1 ...in particulars, our greatness is always
in a tendency or direction, not in an action.
Exp 3.74 19 [Just persons] believe...that no right
action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends...
Exp 3.80 7 The partial action of each strong mind in
one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed.
Exp 3.81 11 We must hold hard to this poverty...and
by more vigorous self-recoveries, after the sallies of action, possess
our axis more firmly.
Chr1 3.87 9 His action won such reverence sweet,/ As
hid all measure of the feat./
Chr1 3.93 24 This virtue [of character] draws the
mind more when it appears in action to ends not so mixed.
Chr1 3.96 14 [A man] encloses the world...as a
material basis for his character, and a theatre for action.
Chr1 3.97 7 Will is the north, action the south pole.
Chr1 3.101 27 I knew an amiable and accomplished
person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find
in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. ... All his action was
tentative...
Chr1 3.108 21 ...we should not require rash
explanation, either on the popular ethics, or on our own, of
[character's] action.
Mrs1 3.126 14 ...the politics of this country, and
the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and
irresponsible doers, who have...a broad sympathy which puts them in
fellowship with crowds, and makes their action popular.
Mrs1 3.155 20 Minerva said...there was no one person
or action among [men] which would not puzzle her owl...to know whether
it was fundamentally bad or good.
Gts 3.164 15 ...our action on each other, good as
well as evil, is so incidental and at random that we can seldom hear
the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit,
without some shame and humiliation.
Nat2 3.184 4 If the identity [in nature] expresses
organized rest, the counter action runs also into organization.
Pol1 3.212 4 It makes no difference how many tons'
weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure
resists it within the lungs. Augment the mass a thousand-fold, it
cannot begin to crush us, as long as reaction is equal to action.
NR 3.232 20 I am very much struck in literature by
the appearance that one person wrote all the books; as if the editor of
a journal planted his body of reporters in different parts of the field
of action...
NR 3.244 27 ...I would have...no speech, or action,
or thought, or friend, but the best.
NER 3.269 27 A canine appetite for knowledge was
generated...and this knowledge, not being directed on action, never
took the character of substantial, humane growth...
UGM 4.4 23 Our colossal theologies of
Judaism...Mahometism, are the necessary and structural action of the
human mind.
PPh 4.51 8 If speculation tends thus to a terrific
unity...action tends directly backwards to diversity.
SwM 4.109 17 Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is
good, but grander when we find...that the atomic theory shows the
action of chemistry to be mechanical also.
SwM 4.124 1 Plato is a gownsman; his garment...is an
academic robe, and hinders action with its voluminous folds.
SwM 4.140 9 The illuminated Quakers explained their
Light, not as somewhat which leads to any action...
MoS 4.150 8 One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is
conversant with... cities and persons, and the bringing certain things
to pass;--the men of talent and actio
MoS 4.167 23 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why
should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the
best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I...keep myself ready
for action...
MoS 4.174 14 My astonishing San Carlo thought the
lawgivers and saints infected. They found the ark empty; saw, and would
not tell; and tried to choke off their approaching followers, by
saying, Action, action, my dear fellows, is for you!
NMW 4.231 2 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and
such a man was born; a man...with the speed and spring of a tiger in
action;...
NMW 4.232 3 [Bonaparte] had a directness of action
never before combined with so much comprehension.
NMW 4.238 9 This [Austrian] cavalry...required a
quarter of an hour to arrive on the field of action...
NMW 4.254 9 Like all Frenchmen [Napoleon] has a
passion for stage effect. Every action that breathes of generosity is
poisoned by this calculation.
GoW 4.266 19 If I were to compare action of a much
higher strain with a life of contemplation, I should not venture to
pronounce with much confidence in favor of the former.
GoW 4.266 27 ...a headiness and loss of balance, is
the tax which all action must pay.
ET1 5.20 28 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political
aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans...never
to call into action the physical strength of the people...
ET4 5.58 18 These Norsemen are excellent persons in
the main, with...wise speech and prompt action.
ET5 5.86 10 ...the English can put more men into the
rank, on the day of action, on the field of battle, than any other
army.
ET5 5.95 20 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha
tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been
drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass.
The climate too...is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and
storms are said to disappear.
ET6 5.103 13 ...rule of court and shop-rule have
operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit
and action of men.
ET11 5.185 24 The English nobles are high-spirited,
active, educated men... and...have been consulted in the conduct of
every important action.
ET13 5.222 24 The action of the university...is
directed more on producing an English gentleman, than a saint or a
psychologist.
ET13 5.223 11 ...whenever it comes to action, the
[English] clergyman invariably sides with his church.
ET14 5.239 12 ...wherever the mind takes a step, it
is to put itself at one with a larger class, discerned beyond the
lesser class with which it has been conversant. Hence, all poetry and
all affirmative action comes.
ET14 5.250 18 There is in the action of [James
Wilkinson's] mind a long Atlantic roll not known except in deepest
waters...
ET14 5.258 15 ...[the Oxonian] does not value the
salient and curative influence of intellectual action...
ET14 5.259 9 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to
prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all
references to such sentiments or manners as are become the standards of
propriety for opinion and action in our own modes...
ET16 5.278 7 The sacrificial stone, as it is called,
is the only one in all these blocks [at Stonehenge] that can resist the
action of fire...
ET17 5.292 6 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added
to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie. There seemed a
pool of honey about his heart which lubricated all his speech and
action with fine jets of mead.
ET19 5.312 23 ...I was given to understand in my
childhood...that [Englishmen were]...good lovers, good haters, and you
could know little about them till you had seen them long, and little
good of them till you had seen them in action;...
F 6.43 5 History is the action and reaction of these
two,-Nature and Thought;...
Pow 6.76 14 A man who has that presence of mind which
can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a
dozen men who know as much but can only bring it to light slowly.
Pow 6.77 13 ...in human action, against the spasm of
energy we offset the continuity of drill.
Wth 6.103 27 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced
by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he
makes so much more equity in Massachusetts; and every acre in the state
is more worth, in the hour of his action.
Wth 6.121 19 How often we must remember the art of
the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with
releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the
action of the muscles.
Ctr 6.158 8 We must have an intellectual quality in
all property and in all action, or they are naught.
Bhr 6.169 11 Nature tells every secret once. Yes, but
in man she tells it all the time, by form...and by the whole action of
the machine.
Bhr 6.196 2 [Beautiful manners] must always show
self-control;...every gesture and action shall indicate power at rest.
Wsp 6.212 8 Even well-disposed, good sort of
people...for brave, straightforward action, use half-measures...
Wsp 6.213 11 There is a principle...which all speech
aims to say, and all action to evolve...
Wsp 6.222 15 ...the censors of action are as numerous
and as near in Paris as in Littleton or Portland;...
Wsp 6.226 25 It is our system that counts, not the
single word or unsupported action.
Wsp 6.231 14 He is great whose eyes are opened to see
that the reward of actions cannot be escaped, because he is transformed
into his action...
CbW 6.249 20 When [the population] reaches its true
law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
Bty 6.290 4 ...the forms and colors of nature have a
new charm for us in our perception that...each is a sign of some better
health or more excellent action.
Bty 6.291 19 What a difference in effect between a
battalion of troops marching to action, and one of our independent
companies on a holiday!
Bty 6.294 2 To this streaming or flowing belongs the
beauty that all circular movement has; as...the action and reaction of
nature;...
Bty 6.294 4 ...this demand in our thought for an ever
onward action is the argument for the immortality.
Civ 7.34 22 ...the highest proof of civility is that
the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the
greatest good of the greatest number.
Art2 7.38 2 Thought is the seed of action; but action
is as much its second form as thought is its first.
Art2 7.38 14 The utterance of thought and emotion in
speech and action may be conscious or unconscious.
Art2 7.38 22 The conscious utterance of thought, by
speech or action, to any end, is Art.
Art2 7.39 10 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the
bird, the beaver, have no art; for what they do they do instinctively;
but relatively to the Supreme Being, they have. And the same is true of
all unconscious action: relatively to the doer, it is instinct,
relatively to the First Cause, it is Art.
Art2 7.42 13 All powerful action is performed by
bringing the forces of Nature to bear upon our objects.
Art2 7.51 10 ...the delight which a work of art
affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed
Nature, again in active operation. It differs from the works of Nature
in this, that they are organically reproductive. This is not, but
spiritually it is prolific by its powerful action on the intellects of
men.
Art2 7.54 20 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any
stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone
which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed
the rest.
Elo1 7.97 7 He who will train himself to mastery in
this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on
character and insight. Let him see that his speech is not differenced
from action;...
DL 7.118 2 The diet of the house does not create its
order, but knowledge, character, action, absorb so much life and yield
so much entertainment that the refectory has ceased to be so curiously
studied.
Boks 7.207 2 ...in the Elizabethan era [the scholar]
is at the richest period of the English mind, with the chief men of
action and of thought which that nation has produced...
Clbs 7.241 8 ...it is not this class, whom the
splendor of their accomplishment...makes them chancellors and
commanders of council and of action...whom we now consider.
Cour 7.261 4 I am much mistaken if every man who went
to the army in the late war had not a lively curiosity to know how he
should behave in action.
Cour 7.261 9 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly
drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery. Of course they
must each go into that action with a certain despair.
Cour 7.264 17 Courage is equality to the problem, in
affairs...or in action;...
Suc 7.310 8 ...to educate [man's] feeling and
judgment so that he shall scorn himself for a bad action, that is the
only aim.
Suc 7.311 5 ...to redeem defeat by new thought, by
firm action, that is not easy...
PI 8.6 15 ...whilst the man is startled by this
closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the
independent action of the mind;...
PI 8.28 1 I assert for myself [wrote Blake] that I do
not behold the outward creation, and that to me it would be a
hindrance, and not action.
PI 8.28 13 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul...at
leisure plays with the resemblances and types, for amusement, and not
for its moral end, we call its action Fancy.
PI 8.49 2 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes,
namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...action and
reaction,--they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
PI 8.64 6 Is not poetry the little chamber in the
brain where is generated the explosive force which, by gentle shocks,
sets in action the intellectual world?
PI 8.67 7 [A good poem] affects the characters of its
readers by...inevitably prompting their daily action.
SA 8.103 4 ...I have seen examples of new grace and
power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long
ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was
such...good action, combined with such domestic lovely behavior...
SA 8.107 9 These are the bases of civil and polite
society; namely, manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public
action;...
Elo2 8.115 26 [The orator's speech] is action, as the
general's word of command or chart of battle is action.
Elo2 8.120 1 ...this is quite as true of the action
of the mind itself, that a man of this talent [of eloquence] sometimes
finds himself cold and slow in private company...
Comc 8.160 13 The presence of the ideal of right and
of truth in all action makes the yawning delinquencies of practice
remorseful to the conscience...
PC 8.211 6 Here...the freedom of action goes to the
brink, if not over the brink, of license.
Grts 8.308 14 ...Nelson, said, I feel that I am
fitter to do the action than to describe it.
Grts 8.314 15 Napoleon commands our respect...by the
speed and security of his action in the premises, always new.
Imtl 8.340 2 ...all our intellectual action, not
promises but bestows a feeling of absolute existence.
Imtl 8.340 25 ...Van Helmont...drew his sufficient
proof [of immortality] purely from the action of the intellect.
Imtl 8.347 18 [Future state] is not duration, but a
taking of the soul out of time, as all high action of the mind does...
Dem1 10.6 3 This feature of dreams deserves the more
attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling
experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that
particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in
the same order before...
Dem1 10.12 21 The lovers...of what we call the occult
and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because
we are slow to accept their statement. It is not the incredibility of
the fact, but a certain want of harmony between the action and the
agents.
Dem1 10.15 18 The belief that particular individuals
are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in
any enterprise of uncertain success...influences all joint action of
commerce and affairs...
PerF 10.78 23 ...on the signal occasions in our
career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and
protected and tenderly bred person... skilful in action...
Chr2 10.96 15 ...under the action of this sentiment
of the Right, [a man's] heart and mind expand above himself, and above
Nature.
Chr2 10.96 22 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/
There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/
When for the truth he ought to die./ Such is the difference of the
action of the heart within and of the senses without.
Chr2 10.100 25 Men are forced by their own
self-respect to give [some souls] a certain attention. Evil men shrink
and pay involuntary homage by hiding or apologizing for their action.
Edc1 10.129 13 No dollar of property can be created
without...some acquisition of knowledge and practical force. It is...a
study of the issues of one and another course of action...
Edc1 10.134 8 ...if [a man] is one to cement society
by his all-reconciling affinities, oh! hasten their action!
Edc1 10.138 11 ...let us have men whose manhood is
only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still; such
are able and fertile for heroic action;...
Edc1 10.140 20 ...every one desires that [the boy's]
pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative...should be carried into
the habit of the young man...
Supl 10.171 15 ...whilst thus everything recommends
simplicity and temperance of action; the utmost directness, the
positive degree, we mean thereby that rightly to be great is not to
stir without great argument.
Supl 10.171 19 Whenever the true objects of action
appear, they are to be heartily sought.
SovE 10.192 17 The idea of right...lays itself
out...in the level of the seas, in the action and reaction of forces.
SovE 10.199 3 While the immense energy of the
sentiment of duty and the awe of the supernatural exert incomparable
influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted, and the tradition
received with awe, but without correspondent action of the receiver.
SovE 10.199 26 When we ask simply, What is true in
thought? what is just in action? it is the yielding of the private
heart to the Divine mind...
Prch 10.219 20 No age and no person is destitute of
the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious
exhibitions are interrupted and periodical,-the ages of belief, of
heroic action...
Prch 10.221 24 To see men pursuing in faith their
varied action...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of
his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
Prch 10.224 11 ...all that saints and churches and
Bibles...have aimed at, is to...animate man to central and entire
action.
Prch 10.233 2 Our children will be here, if we are
not; and their children's history will be colored by our action.
MoL 10.243 26 The Greek was so perfect in action and
in imagination, his poems...so charming in form and so true to the
human mind, that we cannot forget or outgrow their mythology.
Schr 10.267 10 Action is legitimate and good; forever
be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...
Schr 10.267 17 Action is legitimate and good; forever
be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth
to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not...an
over-doing and busy-ness which pretends to the honors of action...
Schr 10.269 16 ...what alone in the history of this
world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but
truth...and brave obedience to it in right action?
CSC 10.376 17 ...[these men and women at the Chardon
Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of
it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which
accompanies...a man...who does not anticipate his own action...
CSC 10.376 26 ...although no decision was had, and no
action taken on all the great points mooted in the discussion, yet the
[Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...
MMEm 10.405 1 ...The chief witness which I have had
of a Godlike principle of action and feeling is in the disinterested
joy felt in others' superiority.
MMEm 10.426 14 Usefulness, if it requires action,
seems less like existence than the desire of being absorbed in God,
retaining consciousness.
SlHr 10.439 9 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...with a
clear perception of justice, and a perfect obedience thereto in his
action;...
Thor 10.452 24 [Thoreau] declined to give up his
large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or
profession...
Thor 10.458 1 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small
framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years
alone, a life of labor and study. This action was quite native and fit
for him.
Thor 10.480 17 ...I so much regret the loss of
[Thoreau's] rare powers of action, that I cannot help counting it a
fault in him that he had no ambition.
GSt 10.505 20 When one remembers...his immovable
convictions,-I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the
cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...of feebler and interrupted
action.
GSt 10.507 20 ...there is to my mind somewhat so
absolute in the action of a good man that we do not, in thinking of
him, so much as make any question of the future.
HDC 11.75 14 In all the anecdotes of that day's
[April 19, 1775] events we may discern the natural action of the
people.
EWI 11.110 2 The [English] assailants of slavery had
early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the
abolition of the trade...
EWI 11.127 12 These considerations, I doubt not, had
their weight [in emancipation in the West Indies]; the interest of
trade, the interest of the revenue, and...the good fame of the action.
EWI 11.146 1 These considerations [of emancipation in
the West Indies] seem to leave no choice for the action of the
intellect and the conscience of the country.
War 11.169 20 In the second place, as far as [the
charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual
action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or
never occur to the good and just man;...
War 11.173 22 ...the man who...without any notice of
his action abroad... takes in solitude the right step uniformly...does
not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
War 11.175 2 ...if the disposition to rely more, in
study and in action, on the unexplored riches of the human
constitution...proceed;...then war has a short day...
FSLC 11.181 8 I met the smoothest of Episcopal
Clergymen the other day, and allusion being made to Mr. Webster's
treachery, he blandly replied, Why, do you know I think that the great
action of his life.
FSLC 11.197 19 Every person who touches this business
[the Fugitive Slave Law] is contaminated. There has not been in our
lifetime another moment when public men were personally lowered by
their political action.
FSLN 11.219 4 ...I never felt the check on my free
speech and action, until, the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his
personal influence, brought the Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
FSLN 11.223 2 After [Webster's] talents have been
described, there remains that perfect propriety which animated all the
details of the action or speech with the character of the whole...
AKan 11.257 4 This aid must be sent [to Kansas], and
this is not to be doled out as an ordinary charity; but bestowed...on
the scale of a national action.
JBB 11.270 23 [John Brown] believed in his ideas to
that extent that he existed to put them all into action;...
ACiv 11.308 15 A week before the two captive
commissioners were surrendered to England, every one thought it could
not be done: it would divide the North. It was done, and in two days
all agreed it was the right action.
ACiv 11.308 16 ...this action [emancipation], which
costs so little...rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading
nuisance [slavery]...
ACiv 11.309 7 Time, say the Indian Scriptures,
drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to
be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.
ACiv 11.309 11 I hope it is not a fatal objection to
this policy [of emancipation] that it is simple and beneficent
thoroughly, which is the tribute of a moral action.
EPro 11.318 14 ...such was [Lincoln's] position, and
such the felicity attending the action [Emancipation Proclamation],
that he has replaced government in the good graces of mankind.
EPro 11.325 18 The malignant cry of the Secession
press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate
Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's]
efficiency and correctness of aim.
EdAd 11.392 6 We have a better opinion of the economy
of Nature than to fear that those varying phases which humanity
presents ever leave out any of the grand springs of human action.
Wom 11.405 6 Among those movements which seem to be,
now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on
society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the
position of Woman.
Wom 11.411 14 There is...no style adopted into the
etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some
brilliant woman...
Wom 11.416 3 Another step [for Woman] was the effect
of the action of the age in the antagonism to Slavery.
Shak1 11.447 5 We seriously endeavored, besides our
brothers and our seniors, on whom the ordinary lead of literary and
social action falls...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer
lovers of the muse...
Humb 11.457 11 ...a man's natural powers are often a
sort of committee that slowly, one at a time, give their attention and
action;...
FRO1 11.479 24 ...as soon as every man is apprised of
the Divine Presence within his own mind...then we have a
religion...that commands all the social and all the private action.
FRep 11.519 12 The spirit of our political action,
for the most part, considers nothing less than the sacredness of man.
FRep 11.524 26 ...we know, all over this country, men
of integrity, capable of action and of affairs...
FRep 11.538 25 ...if the spirit...could be waked to
the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it
were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful...lovers of men,
filled...with the simple and sublime purpose of carrying out in private
and in public action the desire and need of mankind.
PLT 12.13 12 Metaphysics...must be biography,-the
record of some law whose working was surprised by the observer in
natural action.
PLT 12.18 21 [The perceptions of the soul] are
detached from their parent, they pass into other minds; ripened and
unfolded by many they hasten to incarnate themselves in action...
PLT 12.23 8 The momentum, which increases by exact
laws in falling bodies, increases by the same rate in the intellectual
action.
PLT 12.23 20 ...what a modern experimenter calls the
contagious influence of chemical action is so true of mind that I have
only to read the law that its application may be evident...
PLT 12.41 22 [A perception] is impatient to put on
its sandals and be gone on its errand, which is to lead to a larger
perception, and so to new action.
PLT 12.45 17 The primary rule for the conduct of
Intellect is to have control of the thoughts without losing their
natural attitudes and action.
PLT 12.49 19 The difference is obvious enough in
Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's.
PLT 12.49 21 The difference is obvious enough in
Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's. In
debate, in legislature, not less in action;...
II 12.68 23 ...what is Inspiration? It is this
Instinct, whose normal state is passive, at last put in action.
II 12.71 14 Novelty in the means by which we arrive
at the old universal ends is the test of the presence of the highest
power, alike in intellectual and in moral action.
II 12.72 21 It is this employment of new means...that
denotes the inspired man. This is equally obvious...in action as well
as in fine arts.
Mem 12.90 7 ...[memory] is the thread on which the
beads of man are strung, making the personal identity which is
necessary to moral action.
Mem 12.98 23 The facts of the last two or three days
or weeks are all you have with you,-the reading of the last month's
books. Your conversation, action, your face and manners, report of no
more...
CL 12.152 19 We know the healing effect on the sick
of change of air,- the action of new scenery on the mind is not less
fruitful.
MAng1 12.220 6 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be
comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the
muscles...its action and counteraction learned;...
MLit 12.328 22 ...what shall we think of that absence
of the moral sentiment, that singular equivalence to him of good and
evil in action, which discredit [Goethe's] compositions to the pure?
Pray 12.354 8 Great God, I ask thee for no meaner
pelf/ Than that I may not disappoint myself,/ That in my action I may
soar as high,/ As I can now discern with this clear eye./
Let 12.398 11 [American youths] are in the state of
the young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and
said...there is now no longer any right course of action, nor any
self-devotion left among the Iranis.
Let 12.401 13 On earth all is imperfect! is an old
proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these
God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and anxious and
full of discord because they despise genius, which brings power and
nobleness into manly action...
Action, n. (1)
actions, n. (113)
Nat 1.16 15 The influence of the forms and actions in
nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to
lie on the confines of commodity and beauty.
Nat 1.20 2 We are taught by great actions that the
universe is the property of every individual in it.
Nat 1.21 9 Ever does natural beauty steal in like
air, and envelope great actions.
Nat 1.23 1 Therefore does beauty, which, in relation
to actions...comes unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit
of the intellect;...
AmS 1.82 3 Events, actions arise, that must be
sung...
AmS 1.87 24 [Nature] came to [the scholar]
short-lived actions; it went out from him immortal thoughts.
AmS 1.90 24 ...there are creative manners, there are
creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is,
indicative of no custom or authority...
AmS 1.96 5 The actions and events of our childhood
and youth are now matters of calmest observation.
AmS 1.96 8 [The actions and events of our childhood]
lie like fair pictures in the air. Not so with our recent actions...
AmS 1.97 11 ...he who has put forth his total
strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.
AmS 1.102 7 Whatsoever oracles the human heart...has
uttered as its commentary on the world of actions, - these [the
scholar] shall receive and impart.
LT 1.267 23 To-day always looks mean to the
thoughtless, in the face of an uniform experience that all good and
great and happy actions are made up precisely of these blank to-days.
LT 1.278 1 We do not want actions, but men;...
LT 1.278 3 We...want...the spirit that sheds and
showers actions, countless, endless actions.
Tran 1.342 1 ...it would not misbecome us to
inquire...what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and
do, at least so far as these thoughts and actions appear to be not
accidental and personal...
Hist 2.15 13 ...to the senses what more unlike than
an ode of Pindar, a marble centaur, the peristyle of the Parthenon, and
the last actions of Phocion?
Hist 2.16 14 If any one will but take pains to
observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in
certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he will see how
deep is the chain of affinity.
Hist 2.17 11 ...a profound nature awakens in us by
its actions and words... the same power and beauty that a gallery of
sculpture or of pictures addresses.
SR 2.53 13 ...for myself it makes no difference
whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent.
SR 2.59 1 ...of one will, the actions will be
harmonious...
SR 2.63 8 When private men shall act with original
views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to
those of gentlemen.
SR 2.64 3 What is the nature and power of that
science-baffling star...which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial
and impure actions...
Comp 2.106 12 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme
Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they
involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of so bad a
god.
SL 2.164 1 Let us, if we must have great actions,
make our own so.
SL 2.166 6 Let the great soul incarnated in some
woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...to sweep and
scour will instantly appear supreme and beautiful actions...
Lov1 2.182 3 ...if...the soul passes through the body
and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate
one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to
the true palace of beauty...
Hsm1 2.258 9 The pictures which fill the imagination
in reading the actions of Pericles...teach us how needlessly mean our
life is;...
Hsm1 2.260 11 ...we have the weakness to expect the
sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they
outrun sympathy...
OS 2.286 20 Neither his age...nor actions...can
hinder [a man] from being deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
OS 2.296 26 [The soul saith] More and more the surges
of everlasting nature enter into me, and I become public and human in
my regards and actions.
Cir 2.317 22 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some
reader exclaim, you have arrived...at an equivalence and indifferency
of all actions...
Pt1 3.8 19 Words are also actions, and actions are a
kind of words.
Pt1 3.18 8 Day and night, house and garden, a few
books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all
spectacles.
Pt1 3.41 22 Others shall be thy gentlemen and shall
represent all courtesy and worldly life for thee [O poet]; others shall
do the great and resounding actions also.
Exp 3.47 23 ...in this great society wide lying
around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions.
Exp 3.74 16 [Just persons] refuse to explain
themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that
office.
Chr1 3.102 26 New actions are the only apologies and
explanations of old ones which the noble can bear to offer or to
receive.
Nat2 3.194 8 ...it also appears that our actions are
seconded and disposed to greater conclusions than we designed.
Pol1 3.206 4 A nation of men unanimously bent on
freedom or conquest can easily...achieve extravagant actions, out of
all proportion to their means;...
NER 3.266 13 ...when [the individual's] thoughts look
one way and his actions another;...what concert can be?
NER 3.279 5 I suppose considerate observers, looking
at the masses of men in their blameless and in their equivocal actions,
will assent, that...the general purpose in the great number of persons
is fidelity.
UGM 4.7 1 ...there are persons who, in their
character and actions, answer questions which I have not skill to put.
MoS 4.169 21 [Montaigne says] Most of my actions are
guided by example, not choice.
MoS 4.178 6 The mathematics, 't is complained, leave
the mind where they find it...and so do all events and actions.
NMW 4.232 21 I have gained some advantages over
superior forces and when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte
writes to the Directory], because...my actions were as prompt as my
thoughts.
NMW 4.249 15 When a man has been present in many
actions [said Napoleon], he distinguishes that moment [of panic]
without difficulty...
NMW 4.253 24 [Napoleon] is unjust to his
generals;...meanly stealing the credit of their great actions from
Kellermann, from Bernadotte;...
GoW 4.267 15 ...although [the Quaker and the Shaker]
each prates of spirit, there is no spirit, but repetition, which is
anti-spiritual. But where are his new things of to-day? In actions of
enthusiasm this drawback appears...
GoW 4.267 19 ...in...actions that steal and lie,
actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty...there
is nothing else but drawback and negation.
GoW 4.274 7 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of
routine, a thread of mythology and fable spins itself...
ET5 5.79 21 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that
syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ...
Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do
aught beyond this, by breaking out into divers sorts of exterior
actions, he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple
discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of
it.
F 6.40 22 ...of all the drums and rattles by which
men...are led out solemnly every morning to parade,-the most admirable
is this by which we are brought to believe that events
are...independent of actions.
Ctr 6.159 22 ...the [Greek] heroes, in whatever
violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect;...
Bhr 6.188 9 ...nothing is more charming than to
recognize the great style which runs through the actions of such
[persons of character].
Wsp 6.218 10 If your eye is on the eternal...your
opinions and actions will have a beauty which no learning or combined
advantages of other men can rival.
Wsp 6.231 13 He is great whose eyes are opened to see
that the reward of actions cannot be escaped...
DL 7.124 12 In men, it is their...removal to the East
or to the West, or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian
movement, and all the after years and actions only derive interest from
their relation to that.
PPo 8.265 13 What you see is He not;/ What you hear
is He not./ The valleys which you traverse,/ The actions which you
perform,/ They lie under our treatment/ And among our properties./
Dem1 10.4 14 ...[in dreams] we seem busied...in
earnest dialogues, strenuous actions for nothings...
Dem1 10.9 7 We learn [from dreams] that actions whose
turpitude is very differently reputed proceed from one and the same
affection.
Dem1 10.17 4 Heeded though [the belief in luck] be in
many actions and partnerships, it is not the power to which we build
churches...
Dem1 10.23 6 ...the so-called fortunate man is
one...who, in actions of a low or common pitch, relies on his
instincts...
Aris 10.38 18 ...we wish to see those to whom
existence is most adorned and attractive...ready to answer for their
actions with their life.
Chr2 10.101 5 [The man of profound moral sentiment's]
actions are poetic and miraculous in [men's] eyes.
EzRy 10.395 10 All [Ezra Ripley's] opinions and
actions might be securely predicted by a good observer on short
acquaintance.
LS 11.10 10 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed,
declaring that it was for his interment. He washed the feet of his
disciples. These are admitted to be symbolical actions and expressions.
HDC 11.48 7 A man felt himself at liberty to exhibit,
at town-meeting, feelings and actions that he would have been ashamed
of anywhere but amongst his neighbors.
FSLC 11.184 17 The levity of the public mind has been
shown in the past year by the most extravagant actions.
Koss 11.397 9 ...[the people of Concord]...have been
hungry to see the man whose extraordinary eloquence is seconded by the
splendor and solidity of his actions [Kossuth].
PLT 12.24 1 ...if one remembers...how much we are
braced by the presence and actions of any Spartan soul, it does not
need vigor of our own kind...
PLT 12.45 3 ...if [we converse] with high things,
with heroic actions, with virtues, the interval becomes a gulf and we
cannot enter into the highest good.
Mem 12.109 2 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and
going through a great variety of actions and companies, and when we
start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are
surprised to find it was a short nap.
Milt1 12.273 12 And so, throughout all his actions
and opinions, is [Milton] a consistent spiritualist...
WSL 12.343 11 Do not brag of your actions, as if they
were better than Homer's verses or Raphael's pictures.
Trag 12.412 16 ...in life, actions are few, opinions
even few, prayers few;...
active, adj. (73)
Nat 1.23 5 Therefore does beauty, which...comes
unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect;
and then again, in its turn, of the active power.
Nat 1.48 25 ...so long as the active powers
predominate over the reflective, we resist...any hint that nature is
more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
AmS 1.90 4 The one thing in the world, of value, is
the active soul.
AmS 1.90 7 The soul active sees absolute truth and
utters truth, or creates.
MN 1.219 24 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement]
was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein
the sequent Revolution, which was...the overflowing of the sense of
natural right in every clear and active spirit of the period.
LT 1.284 23 I have seen the same gloom on the brow
even of those adventurers from the intellectual class who had dived
deepest and with most success into active life.
YA 1.366 11 The habit of living in the presence of
these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral
sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and
aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
Hist 2.22 21 The antagonism of the two tendencies
[Nomadism and Agriculture] is not less active in individuals...
Comp 2.108 12 That is the best part of each writer
which has nothing private in it;...that which flowed out of his
constitution and not from his too active invention;...
Lov1 2.180 3 The statue is then beautiful...when
it...demands an active imagination to go with it and say what it is in
the act of doing.
Fdsp 2.191 17 In poetry and in common speech the
emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others
are likened to the material effects of fire; so swift, or much more
swift, more active...are these fine inward irradiations.
Prd1 2.233 4 The scholar shames us by his bifold
life. Whilst something higher than prudence is active, he is admirable;
when common sense is wanted, he is an encumbrance.
Hsm1 2.258 24 ...[many extraordinary young men] enter
an active profession and the forming Colossus shrinks to the common
size of man.
Int 2.334 10 So lies the whole series of natural
images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory,
though you know it not; and a thrill of passion flashes light on their
dark chamber, and the active power seizes instantly the fit image, as
the word of its momentary thought.
Pt1 3.15 6 ...if any phenomenon remains brute and
dark it is because the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet
active.
NER 3.277 4 ...[every man at heart] wishes that the
same healing should not stop in his thought, but should penetrate his
will or active power.
SwM 4.138 4 That is active duty, say the Hindoos,
which is not for our bondage;...
NMW 4.223 6 ...Bonaparte...owes his predominance to
the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of thought and belief,
the aims of the masses of active and cultivated men.
NMW 4.224 16 The instinct of active, brave, able men,
throughout the middle class every where, has pointed out Napoleon as
the incarnate Democrat.
NMW 4.253 4 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse
and deceive him... and the instinct of the young, ardent and active men
every where...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
GoW 4.286 19 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung
und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with
us a Life of Goethe;...a period of ten years, that should be the most
active in his life, after his settlement at Weimar, in sunk in silence.
ET2 5.29 11 The sea is masculine, the type of active
strength.
ET4 5.50 26 Everything English is a fusion of distant
and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of
thought are counter... active intellect and dead conservatism;...
ET5 5.93 1 [The English] have made...London...such a
city that almost every active man, in any nation, finds himself at one
time or other forced to visit it.
ET11 5.185 18 The English nobles are high-spirited,
active, educated men...
F 6.39 21 The times, the age, what is that but a few
profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
Art2 7.51 7 ...the delight which a work of art
affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed
Nature, again in active operation.
Elo1 7.67 10 ...all these several audiences...which
successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the
orator], are really composed out of the same persons; nay, sometimes
the same individual will take active part in them all, in turn.
Clbs 7.232 6 No doubt [the shy hermit] does not make
allowance enough for men of more active blood and habit.
Insp 8.269 16 There are times when the intellect is
so active that everything seems to run to meet it.
Imtl 8.331 9 There is a profound melancholy at the
base of men of active and powerful talent, seldom suspected.
Imtl 8.331 14 Both [men] were men of distinction and
took an active part in the politics of their day and generation.
Dem1 10.16 16 [The young man] observes, with
pain...that his genius...is no longer present and active.
Edc1 10.129 12 No dollar of property can be created
without...some acquisition of knowledge and practical force. It is a
constant contest with the active faculties of men...
Edc1 10.136 4 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the
man...he does not yet know his wealth. He is in danger of
becoming...wearisome through the monotony of his thought. It is not
less necessary that the intellectual and the active faculties should be
nourished and matured.
SovE 10.192 2 The student discovers one day that he
lives in enchantment... all that he calls Nature, all that he calls
institutions, when once his mind is active are visions merely...
Prch 10.224 14 The human race are afflicted with a
St. Vitus's dance;... their senses, their talents, are superfluously
active...
Prch 10.235 2 ...the power of sympathy is always
great; and affirmative discourse, presuming assent, will often obtain
it when argument would fail. Such, too, is the active power of good
temperament.
MMEm 10.415 8 Vital, I feel not: not active, but
passive...
MMEm 10.415 17 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my
mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I led thee when
thou knewest not a syllable of my active Cause...to that Cause;...
SlHr 10.447 5 [Samuel Hoar] loved the dogmas and the
simple usages of his church; was always an honored and sometimes an
active member.
GSt 10.505 1 ...an active and intelligent
manufacturer and merchant... [George Stearns] became, in the most
natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
HDC 11.51 10 Early efforts were made to instruct [the
Indians], in which Mr. Bulkeley, Mr. Flint, and Captain Willard, took
an active part.
HDC 11.81 10 In 1786...a large party of armed
insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of
the Court of Common Pleas. But they found no countenance here. The same
people who had been active in a County Convention to consider
grievances, condemned the rebellion...
LVB 11.91 20 ...the American President and the
Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting
to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to
drag them over mountains and rivers...
War 11.167 6 At a still higher stage, [man] comes
into the region of holiness;...his warlike nature is all converted into
an active medicinal principle;...
War 11.168 22 A man does not come the length of the
spirit of martyrdom without some active purpose...
FSLN 11.240 2 ...torpor exists here throughout the
active classes on the subject of domestic slavery and its appalling
aggressions.
Wom 11.421 5 The objection to [women's] voting is the
same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in
politics;...
FRO1 11.480 6 ...it is only on the basis of active
duty, that worship finds expression.
CPL 11.498 21 The religious bias of our founders had
its usual effect to secure an education to read their Bible and
hymn-book, and thence the step was easy for active minds to an
acquaintance with history and with poetry.
FRep 11.524 22 Whilst each cabal...at last
brings...men whose names are a knell to all hope of progress, the good
and wise are hidden in their active retirements...
FRep 11.544 11 I could heartily wish that our will
and endeavor were more active parties to the work.
PLT 12.10 26 The wonder of the science of Intellect
is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active
quality that it intoxicates all who approach it.
CW 12.171 24 Still less did I know [when I bought my
farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now
known the country through for their learning, or subtlety, or active or
patriotic power...
MAng1 12.224 24 After an active and successful
service to the city [Florence] for six months, Michael Angelo was
informed of a treachery that was ripening within the walls.
WSL 12.345 15 What is the quality of the persons who,
without being public men, or literary men, or rich men, or active
men...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...
Let 12.397 27 There is...a paralysis of the active
faculties, which falls on young men of this country as soon as they
have finished their college education...
Let 12.399 6 ...this class [of over-educated youth]
is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class...
actively, adv. (7)
ET11 5.184 3 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848
(the day of the Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in
England] were for the first time actively interesting themselves in
their own defence...
Elo1 7.81 24 ...when [personal ascendency] is
weaponed with a power of speech, it...works actively in all
directions...
Edc1 10.129 25 [Is it not true] That...sickness,
sorrow, success, all work actively upon our being...
EWI 11.115 23 The clergy and missionaries throughout
the island [Antigua] were actively engaged, seizing the opportunity to
enlighten the people on all the duties and responsibilities of their
new relation...
War 11.152 16 The student of history acquiesces the
more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals, bloodshed
in God's name, too, when he learns that it...does actively forward the
culture of man.
activities, n. (13)
NER 3.255 1 There was in all the practical activities
of New England for the last quarter of a century, a gradual withdrawal
of tender consciences from the social organizations.
UGM 4.17 9 Foremost among these activities [of the
intellect] are the summersaults, spells and resurrections wrought by
the imagination.
GoW 4.267 16 ...in those lower activities, which have
no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more
cowardly...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
ET13 5.220 20 The spirit that dwelt in this [English]
church has glided away to animate other activities...
Farm 7.143 10 Science has shown...the manner in which
marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the
oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the
plants absorb. These activities are incessant.
Chr2 10.117 26 The churches already indicate the new
spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent
activities...
Schr 10.267 4 Young men, I warn you against the
clamors of these self-praising frivolous activities,-against these
busy-bodies;...
Schr 10.268 19 ...I prefer no action to misaction,
and I reject the abusive application of the term practical to those
lower activities.
SlHr 10.448 16 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel
Hoar's] self-dedication... to such political activities as a strong
sense of duty and the love of order and of freedom urged him to
forward.
EdAd 11.385 10 One would say there is nothing
colossal in the country but its geography and its material
activities;...
CInt 12.123 7 All [the Understanding's] activities
are to short, personal ends...
PPr 12.381 12 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's
Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain
truths;...the exposure of the progress of fraud into all parts and
social activities;...
Trag 12.417 2 ...higher still than the activities of
art, the intellect in its purity and the moral sense in its purity are
not distinguished from each other...
activity, n. (128)
Nat 1.22 22 The intellectual and the active powers
seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one
generates the exclusive activity of the other.
Nat 1.22 23 The intellectual and the active powers
seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one
generates the exclusive activity of the other.
Nat 1.61 9 ...all the uses of nature admit of being
summed in one, which yields the activity of man an infinite scope.
Nat 1.70 9 A wise writer will feel that the ends of
study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered
regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to
the torpid spirit.
AmS 1.100 10 ...a man shall not for the sake of wider
activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of
action.
LE 1.165 23 The vision of genius comes by renouncing
the too officious activity of the understanding...
MN 1.223 16 I cannot tell if these wonderful
qualities which house to-day in this mortal frame shall ever
re-assemble in equal activity in a similar frame...
Tran 1.350 1 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found
that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there
is a spirit of cowardly compromise and seeming which intimates...an
activity without an aim.
Hist 2.17 7 By a deeper apprehension...the artist
attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
SR 2.64 25 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence,
which makes us... organs of its activity.
SR 2.79 13 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon
activity and power...it imposes its classification on other men...
Comp 2.112 8 Of the like nature [to Fear] is that
expectation of change which instantly follows the suspension of our
voluntary activity.
Hsm1 2.250 27 ...a different breeding, different
religion and greater intellectual activity would have modified or even
reversed the particular action...
OS 2.273 3 The least activity of the intellectual
powers redeems us in a degree from the conditions of time.
OS 2.289 12 Shakspeare carries us to such a lofty
strain of intelligent activity as to suggest a wealth which beggars his
own;...
Int 2.332 12 ...now you must labor with your brains,
and now you must forbear your activity and see what the great Soul
showeth.
Art1 2.352 2 What is that abridgment and selection we
observe in all spiritual activity, but itself the creative impulse?...
Art1 2.365 3 ...the statue will look cold and false
before that new activity which needs to roll through all things...
Pt1 3.7 15 Criticism is infested with a cant of
materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first
merit of all men...
Exp 3.52 19 ...the individual texture holds its
dominion, if not to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of
activity and of enjoyment.
Chr1 3.113 1 Society is spoiled...if the associates
are brought a mile to meet. And if it be not society, it is a
mischievous, low, degrading jangle, though made up of the best. All the
greatness of each is kept back, and every foible in painful activity...
Pol1 3.212 6 The fact of two poles, of two forces,
centripetal and centrifugal, is universal, and each force by its own
activity develops the other.
NER 3.251 7 Whoever has had opportunity of
acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five
years...will have been struck with the great activity of thought and
experimenting.
NER 3.258 22 ...the Mathematics had a momentary
importance at some era of activity in physical science.
NER 3.260 24 ...in this, as in every period of
intellectual activity, there has been a noise of denial and protest;...
NER 3.284 27 ...only by the freest activity in the
way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man...
UGM 4.16 17 Genius...by acquainting us with new
fields of activity, cools our affection for the old.
UGM 4.29 1 Nothing is more marked than the power by
which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world where every
benefactor becomes so easily a malefactor only by continuation of his
activity into places where it is not due;...
GoW 4.281 10 A German public asks for a controlling
sincerity. Here is activity of thought; but what is it for?
ET3 5.35 26 ...[England] has, in the last
centuries...stamped the knowledge, activity and power of mankind with
its impress.
ET8 5.141 18 Does the early history of each tribe
show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its
activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
ET13 5.219 19 ...whilst [the Church] endears itself
thus to men of more taste than activity, the stability of the English
nation is passionately enlisted to its support...
ET16 5.275 23 I told Carlyle that...I like the
[English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I
return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that
no skill or activity can long compete with the prodigious natural
advantages of that country...
ET18 5.308 3 By this general activity and by this
sacredness of individuals, [the English] have in seven hundred years
evolved the principles of freedom.
F 6.45 18 ...as every man is...vexed by his own
disease, this checks all his activity.
Pow 6.53 6 There are men who by their sympathetic
attractions...lead the activity of the human race.
Pow 6.73 18 ...there are two economies which are the
best succedanea which the case admits. The first is the stopping off
decisively our miscellaneous activity...
Pow 6.80 3 I remarked in England...that in literary
circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low
and ordinary intellectuality, with a sort of mercantile activity and
working talent.
Bhr 6.171 22 In hours of business we go to him who
knows...that which we want, and we do not let our taste or feeling
stand in the way. But this activity over, we return to the indolent
state...
Wsp 6.209 18 ...in the momentary absence of any
religious genius that could offset the immense material activity, there
is a feeling that religion is gone.
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