Affect to Agassiz
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
affect, v. (37)
Nat 1.29 18 ...this conversion of an outward
phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power
to affect us.
Nat 1.59 1 It appears that motion...and religion, all
tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world.
LE 1.156 6 ...when events occur of great import, I
count over these representatives of opinion, whom they will affect, as
if I were counting nations.
LT 1.277 19 Those who are urging with most ardor what
are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men, and
affect us as the insane do.
Tran 1.346 19 We affect to dwell with our friends in
their absence, but we do not;...
OS 2.278 27 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks
who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
Gts 3.165 1 I fear to breathe any treason against the
majesty of love, which is the genius and god of gifts, and to whom we
must not affect to prescribe.
Nat2 3.178 1 Literature, poetry, science are the
homage of man to this unfathomed secret [nature], concerning which no
sane man can affect an indifference or incuriosity.
UGM 4.13 22 If you affect to give me bread and fire,
I perceive that I pay for it the full price...
SwM 4.123 25 What earnestness and weightiness [in
Swedenborg]...a theoretic or speculative man, but whom no practical man
in the universe could affect to scorn.
MoS 4.185 27 ...throughout history, heaven seems to
affect low and poor means.
ShP 4.209 5 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded
convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every
heart...on the characters of men, and the influences, occult and open,
which affect their fortunes;...
ET1 5.5 14 ...I have copied the few notes I made of
visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too
transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery
of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities.
Wsp 6.238 6 The great class, they who affect our
imagination...suggest what they cannot execute.
CbW 6.263 19 In dealing with the drunken, we do not
affect to be drunk.
Ill 6.315 12 When the boys come into my yard for
leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the
permission reluctantly...
Boks 7.196 27 ...Never read any [books] but what you
like;, or, in Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure
te'en:/ In brief, sir, study what you most affect./
PC 8.219 17 The artist has always the masters in his
eye, though he affect to flout them.
PPo 8.243 6 ...for the most part, [the Persians]
affect short poems and epigrams.
Aris 10.52 19 Genius...the power to affect the
Imagination...has a royal right in all possessions and privileges...
Aris 10.55 12 What is it that makes the true knight?
Loyalty to his thought. That makes...the commanding port which all men
admire and which men not noble affect.
Prch 10.232 8 ...it were inhuman to affect ignorance
or indifference on Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our
countenance dejected Saturday or Monday.
LS 11.19 3 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's
Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us.
War 11.173 4 We are affected...by the appearance of a
few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own
keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and
virtue. In dangerous times they are presently tried, and therefore
their name is a flourish of trumpets. They, at least, affect us as a
reality.
Koss 11.399 7 ...you [Kossuth] are elected by God and
your genius to the task. We do not, therefore, affect to thank you.
PLT 12.12 11 I confess to a little distrust of that
completeness of system which metaphysicians are apt to affect.
II 12.67 25 ...when the eye cannot detect the
juncture of the skilful mosaic, the spirit is apprised of disunion,
simply by the failure to affect the spirit.
PPr 12.387 21 ...the sun and stars affect us only
grandly, because we cannot reach to their smoke and surfaces and say,
Is that all?
affectation, n. (10)
Exp 3.61 11 ...a thoughtful man...cannot without
affectation deny to any set of men and women a sensibility to
extraordinary merit.
ET17 5.295 7 Tennyson [Wordsworth] thinks a right
poetic genius, though with some affectation.
DL 7.111 1 [The citizen's] house ought to show us his
honest opinion of what makes his well-being when he...forgets all
affectation, compliance, and even exertion of will.
Edc1 10.141 8 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school
which forbids conceit, affectation, emphasis and dulness...
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.
affected, adj. (1)
MMEm 10.430 5 If one could choose, and without crime
be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away
by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and
crow...would...make no grimace of affected sympathy...
affected, v. (28)
Nat 1.38 6 The whole character and fortune of the
individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the
understanding;...
Nat 1.48 13 The frivolous make themselves merry with
the Ideal theory...as if it affected the stability of nature.
Tran 1.330 10 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm facts
not affected by the illusions of sense...
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;...
ET4 5.73 4 William the Conqueror being, says Camden,
better affected to beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and
punishments on those that should meddle with his game.
Wsp 6.203 7 Men as naturally make a state, or a
church, as caterpillars a web. If they were more refined...it would be
nervous, like that of the Shakers, who...it is said are affected in the
same way and the same time, to work and to play;...
Civ 7.34 6 ...if there be...a country...where the
position of the white woman is injuriously affected by the outlawry of
the black woman;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
Elo1 7.88 4 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a
task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was
there to represent a great reality,--the justice of states...which his
trifling talk nowise affected...
PI 8.44 7 This force of representation so plants [the
poet's] figures before him that he...is affected by them as by persons.
Comc 8.161 18 If the essence of the Comic be the
contrast in the intellect between the idea and the false performance,
there is good reason why we should be affected by the exposure.
PC 8.211 17 The correlation of forces and the
polarization of light...have affected an imaginative race like poetic
inspirations.
PC 8.233 22 ...in France, at one time, there was
almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by
distinction, society,-not a believer within the Church, and almost not
a theist out of it. In England the like spiritual disease affected the
upper class in the time of Charles II....
Chr2 10.109 16 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should
lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature, the causes by
which all the astronomic results are affected...I am persuaded
they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
LLNE 10.336 23 ...the religious nature in man was not
affected by these errors in his understanding.
EzRy 10.385 2 [Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope
I desire it) that the Lord would teach me suitably to resent this
Providence...and to be suitably affected with it.
MMEm 10.403 5 [Mary Moody Emerson] had a deep
sympathy with genius. When it was unhallowed, as in Byron, she had none
the less, whilst she deplored and affected to denounce him.
MMEm 10.417 21 It humbles me [Mary Moody Emerson]
beyond anything I have met, to find myself for a moment affected with
hope, fear, or especially anger, about interest.
War 11.172 23 We are affected...by the appearance of
a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own
keeping...
FSLC 11.180 5 There are men who are as sure indexes
of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the
air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented, for though they
snuff oppression and dishonor at a distance, it is because they are
more impressionable: the whole population will in a short time be as
painfully affected.
EPro 11.318 9 ...it became every day more apparent
what gigantic and what remote interests were to be affected by the
decision of the President [Lincoln]...
HCom 11.341 6 ...in these last years all opinions
have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which
Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the
children of this country...
SMC 11.362 5 [George Prescott] never remits his care
of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them
cheerful. For the first point, he...encourages a temperance society
which is formed in the camp. I have not had a man drunk, or affected by
liquor, since we came here.
CL 12.142 23 There is also an effect [of walking] on
beauty. De Quincey said, I have seen Wordsworth's eyes sometimes
affected powerfully in this respect.
affectedly, adv. (1)
Nat2 3.171 12 ...ever like a dear friend and brother
when we chat affectedly with strangers, comes in this honest face [of
nature], and takes a grave liberty with us...
affecting, adj. (14)
Nat 1.28 12 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting
analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of...
Prd1 2.229 25 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery (the
only great affecting picture which I have seen) is the quietest and
most passionless piece you can imagine;...
MoS 4.175 2 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin
the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our
nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my
imagination;...
Pow 6.81 10 I know no more affecting lesson to our
busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of the factories
with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States.
SovE 10.214 2 ...it seems as if whatever is most
affecting and sublime in our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our
losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life so extraordinary, and,
one might say, superhuman.
LS 11.20 1 ...I choose that my remembrances of
[Jesus] should be pleasing, affecting, religious.
HDC 11.33 1 Edward Johnson of Woburn has described in
an affecting narrative [the pilgrims'] labors by the way.
EWI 11.140 11 Not the least affecting part of this
history of abolition [in the West Indies] is the annihilation of the
old indecent nonsense about the nature of the negro.
SMC 11.363 26 When, afterwards, five of [George
Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans,
they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes.
It advertises, prayer-meeting at 7 o'clock, in cell No. 8, second
floor, and their own printed record is a proud and affecting narrative.
CPL 11.501 3 [Thoreau writes] I think the best parts
of Shakspeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and
affecting events.
FRep 11.531 1 Our national flag is not
affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United
States, but some...caucus;...
MAng1 12.231 8 ...is there not something affecting in
the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety
years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into
progressive execution...
affecting, v. (7)
YA 1.371 23 ...there is a sublime and friendly
Destiny by which the human race is guided...to results affecting masses
and ages.
SR 2.82 8 ...the rage of travelling is a symptom of a
deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.
Ctr 6.151 2 How the imagination is piqued by
anecdotes...of Napoleon affecting a plain suit at his glittering
levee;...
DL 7.107 8 The events that occur [in the home] are
more near and affecting to us than those which are sought in senates
and academies.
PC 8.209 2 The war gave us the abolition of slavery,
the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of
social science;...the search for just rules affecting labor;...
Thor 10.458 16 [Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his
opinion without affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the
company.
affection, n. (85)
Nat 1.22 20 The intellect searches out the absolute
order of things...without the colors of affection.
Nat 1.42 26 Who can guess...how much industry and
providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
Nat 1.46 8 We are associated in adolescent and adult
life with some friends...who, answering each to a certain affection of
the soul, satisfy our desire on that side;...
YA 1.366 27 ...this [inclination to withdraw from
cities] promised...the adorning of the country with every advantage and
ornament which... affection for a man's home could suggest.
Lov1 2.172 11 ...what fastens attention, in the
intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two
parties?
Lov1 2.174 21 ...it may seem to many men...that they
have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of
some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a
parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
Lov1 2.182 6 ...by this love [of beauty]
extinguishing the base affection... [the lovers] become pure and
hallowed.
Lov1 2.183 14 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes
into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection
of human nature...
Lov1 2.186 14 ...that which drew [lovers] to each
other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are
there, however eclipsed. They appear and reappear and continue to
attract; but the regard...quits the sign and attaches to the substance.
This repairs the wounded affection.
Fdsp 2.191 13 The effect of the indulgence of this
human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
OS 2.271 10 ...when [the soul] flows through [man's]
affection, it is love.
Cir 2.307 12 If [my friend] were high enough to
slight me, then could I... rise by my affection to new heights.
Pt1 3.15 19 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and
cultivation, who live with [nature]? No; but also hunters, farmers,
grooms and butchers, though they express their affection in their
choice of life and not in their choice of words.
Mrs1 3.137 12 Let us sit apart as the gods, talking
from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade
this religion.
NR 3.226 18 When I meet a pure intellectual force or
a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man;...
UGM 4.5 15 Our affection towards others creates a
sort of vantage or purchase which nothing will supply.
UGM 4.16 18 Genius...by acquainting us with new
fields of activity, cools our affection for the old.
SwM 4.114 27 Every particular idea of man, and every
affection...is an image and effigy of him.
SwM 4.115 1 Every particular idea of man, and...every
smallest part of his affection, is an image and effigy of him.
ET1 5.23 23 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems
as touched the affections, to any others; for...whatever combined a
truth with an affection was ktema es aei, good to-day and good forever.
ET5 5.99 16 Is it the smallness of the country, or is
it the pride and affection of race,--[the English] have solidarity, or
responsibleness...
ET5 5.99 26 These private, reserved, mute family-men
[of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat, and this
strength of affection makes the romance of their heroes.
ET7 5.117 21 Alfred, whom the affection of the nation
makes the type of [the English] race, is called by a writer at the
Norman Conquest, the truth-speaker;...
ET9 5.151 11 ...whenever an abatement of their power
is felt, [the English] have not conciliated the affection on which to
rely.
ET13 5.218 1 From this slow-grown [English] church
important reactions proceed; much for culture, much for giving a
direction to the nation's affection and will to-day.
F 6.29 18 ...insight is not will, nor is affection
will.
F 6.47 18 ...when a man is the victim of his fate,
has...a strut in his gait and a conceit in his affection;...he is to
rally on his relation to the Universe...
Wth 6.113 10 ...the betrothed maiden by one secure
affection is relieved from a system of slaveries...
Ctr 6.135 4 ...if a man seeks a companion who can
look at objects for their own sake and without affection or
self-reference, he will find the fewest who will give him that
satisfaction;...
Ctr 6.158 19 Bonaparte, like Caesar...could look at
every object for itself, without affection.
Bty 6.283 25 ...we prize very humble utilities, a
prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value,
his intellect, his affection...
Ill 6.316 3 Too pathetic, too pitiable, is the region
of affection...
SS 7.6 20 Even Swedenborg, whose theory of the
universe is based on affection...is constrained to make an
extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live
consociated...
Clbs 7.225 10 ...thought...pure...soon burns up the
bone-house of man, unless tempered with affection and coarse practice
in the material world.
Clbs 7.228 1 Conversation is the laboratory and
workshop of the student. The affection or sympathy helps.
Clbs 7.245 2 The man of thought...the man of manners
and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing
to be found. Each wishes to open his thought, his knowledge, his social
skill to the daylight in your company and affection;...
OA 7.336 9 ...the inference from the working of
intellect...affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral
sentiment.
PI 8.16 14 Swedenborg saw gravity to be only an
external of the irresistible attractions of affection and faith.
PI 8.69 3 Vexatious to find poets, who are by
excellence the thinking and feeling of the world, deficient in truth of
intellect and of affection.
SA 8.93 5 If every one recalled his experiences, he
might find the best in the speech of superior women;--which...carried
ingenuity, character, wise counsel and affection...
SA 8.104 24 The consolation and happy moment of
life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart...
SA 8.107 4 Any other affection between men than this
geometric one of relation to the same thing, is a mere mush of
materialism.
Dem1 10.9 8 We learn [from dreams] that actions whose
turpitude is very differently reputed proceed from one and the same
affection.
Aris 10.34 12 If one thinks of the interest which all
men have in beauty of character and manners; that it is of the last
importance to the imagination and affection...certainly, if culture, if
laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it
would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were
taken...
Plu 10.310 25 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying
that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also
the inclination to society and affection to the State...
LLNE 10.325 20 It is not easy to date these eras of
activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself
remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It seemed a war
between intellect and affection;...
HDC 11.45 6 I esteem it the happiness of this country
that its settlers...were united by personal affection.
HDC 11.61 9 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety
and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward...
HDC 11.76 27 ...the eye of affection and veneration
follows you [veterans of the battle of Concord].
HDC 11.77 11 William Emerson, the pastor [of
Concord], had a hereditary claim to the affection of the people...
ACiv 11.297 20 ...a man coins himself into his labor;
turns his day, his strength, his thought, his affection into some
product which remains as the visible sign of his power;...
EPro 11.324 5 The [Civil] war...brought with it the
immense benefit of... disinfecting us of our habitual proclivity,
through the affection of trade and the traditions of the Democratic
party, to follow Southern leading.
Wom 11.413 25 The first thing men think of, when they
love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of
their affection.
Wom 11.418 5 There are plenty of people who...do not
see the use of contemplative men, or how ignoble would be the world
that wanted them. And so without the affection of women.
Scot 11.463 15 ...no modern writer has inspired his
readers with such affection to his own personality [as Scott].
FRep 11.544 16 ...the height of reason, the noblest
affection...will find their home in our institutions...
PLT 12.44 22 Affection blends, intellect disjoins
subject and object.
Bost 12.198 12 ...no depth of affection that does not
rise to a religious sentiment, can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of
bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial
conversation.
Milt1 12.254 3 There is something pleasing in the
affection with which we can regard a man [Milton] who died a hundred
and sixty years ago...
Milt1 12.268 8 ...the religious sentiment warmed
[Milton's] writings and conduct with the highest affection of faith.
Trag 12.413 19 Whilst a man is not grounded in the
divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of
affection to society...
affectionate, adj. (24)
Tran 1.343 3 ...[Transcendentalists] are not stockish
or brute,-but joyous, susceptible, affectionate;...
Lov1 2.173 12 ...without any coquetry the happy,
affectionate nature of woman flows out in this pretty gossip.
Hsm1 2.257 26 Epaminondas, brave and affectionate,
does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon...
ET4 5.67 10 The fair Saxon man...domestic,
affectionate, is not the wood out of which cannibal, or inquisitor, or
assassin is made...
ET4 5.67 16 [The English] are rather manly than
warlike. When the war is over, the mask falls from the affectionate and
domestic tastes...
ET4 5.68 6 Lord Collingwood, [Nelson's] comrade, was
of a nature the most affectionate and domestic.
ET6 5.107 13 ...being of an affectionate and loyal
temper, [the Englishman] dearly loves his house.
ET6 5.108 13 ...as the [English] men are affectionate
and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.
ET12 5.199 23 [The Oxford students'] affectionate and
gregarious ways reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge
men...
Bhr 6.194 20 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the
correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when...he
complained that he missed in Napoleon's letters the affectionate tone
which had marked their childish correspondence.
DL 7.120 21 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate
delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each
one after the early separations which school or business require;...
Cour 7.271 21 If opportunity allowed, [Governor Wise
and John Brown] would...desert their former companions. Enemies would
become affectionate.
PI 8.52 10 The best thoughts run into the best words;
imaginative and affectionate thoughts into music and metre.
Plu 10.309 7 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch]
it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and
those who came to them for instruction. This teaching was...strict,
sincere and affectionate.
LLNE 10.344 8 Theodore Parker was...in frank and
affectionate communication with the best minds of his day...
EzRy 10.395 3 Not speculative, but
affectionate;...[Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily...the creed and
catechism of the fathers...
Thor 10.456 13 ...no equal companion stood in
affectionate relations with one so pure and guileless [as Thoreau].
Thor 10.465 12 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young
men of sensibility] was never affectionate, but superior...
GSt 10.501 20 Known until that time in no very wide
circle as a man...of retiring and affectionate habits;...[George
Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to
scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
GSt 10.506 17 For a year or two, the most
affectionate and domestic of men [George Stearns] became almost a
stranger in his beautiful home.
LS 11.7 1 ...we must suppose that the expression,
This do in remembrance of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some
disciple who was present. What did it really signify? It is a prophetic
and affectionate expression.
TPar 11.287 15 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when,
to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the
most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless, and he, with something
less of affectionate attachment to the old, or with more vigorous
logic, rejected them.
CPL 11.505 15 I have found several humble men and
women who gave as affectionate, if not as judicious testimony to their
readings.
FRep 11.519 5 The partisan on moral...questions, will
choose a proven rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest,
affectionate, noble gentleman;...
affectionately, adv. (8)
NR 3.245 23 ...each man's genius being nearly and
affectionately explored, he is justified in his individuality...
ET16 5.290 17 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was
unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble
hands and patted them affectionately...
Civ 7.32 19 ...when I see how much each virtuous and
gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores
of excellent people...I see what cubic values America has...
Plu 10.310 18 [Plutarch's] humanity stooped
affectionately to trace the virtues which he loved in the animals also.
LS 11.12 24 ...[the disciples] were bound together by
the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than that this
eventful evening [of the Last Supper] should be affectionately
remembered by them;...
HDC 11.78 12 [Concord] spends profusely,
affectionately, in the service [of the American Revolution].
SMC 11.350 4 ...we shall cling affectionately to our
houses, our river and pastures...
affections, n. (57)
Nat 1.34 25 ...day and night...are what they are by
virtue of preceding affections in the world of spirit.
Nat 1.63 8 [If Idealism only deny the existence of
matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to
wander without end. Then the heart resists it, because it balks the
affections...
Nat 1.74 22 ...when a faithful
thinker...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest
affections, then will God go forth anew...
AmS 1.113 2 ...[Swedenborg] saw and showed the
connection between nature and the affections of the soul.
LE 1.177 23 [The scholar's]...affections...are keys
that open to him the beautiful museum of human life.
LE 1.186 26 Make yourself necessary to the world, and
mankind will give you bread...such as shall not take away your
property...in all men's affections...
Con 1.325 12 I depend on my honor, my labor, and my
dispositions for my place in the affections of mankind...
SR 2.49 13 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.
Fdsp 2.193 19 The moment we indulge our affections,
the earth is metamorphosed;...
Fdsp 2.195 14 It is almost dangerous to me to crush
the sweet poison of misused wine of the affections.
Int 2.326 9 In the fog of good and evil affections it
is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line.
NMW 4.223 14 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy, if any
man is found to carry with him the power and affections of vast
numbers, if Napoleon is France...it is because the people whom he sways
are little Napoleons.
NMW 4.228 23 Napoleon renounced, once for all,
sentiments and affections...
ET1 5.23 20 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems
as touched the affections, to any others;...
ET10 5.155 2 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the
higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was
not so among the lower orders.
Wsp 6.232 15 Life is hardly respectable...if it
has...no duties or affections that constitute a necessity of existing.
Elo1 7.67 2 There is a tablet [in the audience] for
every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the
highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;
narrow brows expand with enlarged affections;...
Elo1 7.79 2 A supreme commander over all his passions
and affections; but the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than
that.
Elo1 7.99 19 In its right exercise, [eloquence] is an
elastic, unexhausted power...expanding with the expansion of our
interests and affections.
DL 7.127 4 The secret power of form over the
imagination and affections transcends all our philosophy.
Cour 7.265 22 Our affections and wishes for the
external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears
and outcries...
Suc 7.300 18 ...the affections make some little web
of cottage and fireside populous, important...
SA 8.80 12 The staple figure in novels is the
man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never
sharing their affections or debilities, hurls his word like a bullet
when occasion requires...
Imtl 8.327 5 ...Swedenborg...described the moral
faculties and affections of man, with the hard realism of an astronomer
describing the suns and planets of our system...
Imtl 8.340 21 Lord Bacon said: Some of the
philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit
of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might
remain after death; which were only those of the understanding, and not
of the affections;...
Chr2 10.119 25 There is a fear that pure truth, pure
morals, will not make a religion for the affections.
Edc1 10.128 18 ...here [in the household] labor
drudges, here affections glow...
MMEm 10.409 8 As a traveller enters some fine palace
and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some
avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the
cradle over the apartments of social affections...
Thor 10.456 10 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first
instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient
was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit...is a
little chilling to the social affections;...
LVB 11.89 5 Before any acts contrary to his own
judgment or interest have repelled the affections of any man, each may
look with trust and living anticipation to your [Van Buren's]
government.
War 11.165 21 The standing army, the arsenal, the
camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man. They only serve as an
index to show where man is now;...how his affections halt;...
EdAd 11.391 27 Is the age we live in unfriendly...to
that blending of the affections with the poetic faculty which has
distinguished the Religious Ages?
Wom 11.412 27 The passion [of love], with all its
grace and poetry, is profane to that which follows it. All these
affections are only introductory to that which is beyond, and to that
which is sublime.
Mem 12.104 25 Sampson Reed says, The true way to
store the memory is to develop the affections.
CInt 12.123 26 ...the idea of a college is an
assembly of such men, obedient each to this pure light [of thought],
and drawing from it illumination to that science or art to which his
constitution and affections draw him.
Trag 12.414 26 ...new hopes spring, new affections
twine, and the broken is whole again.
affects, v. (19)
Nat 1.28 10 ...the most trivial of these [natural]
facts...in any way associated to human nature, affects us in the most
lively...manner.
Prd1 2.232 2 The man of talent affects to call his
transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial...
Mrs1 3.143 5 Fashion, which affects to be honor, is
often...only a ballroom code.
Wth 6.123 14 The farmer affects to take his orders;
but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an
opinion concerning the mode of building my wall...but the ball will
rebound to you.
Art2 7.42 27 Let us now consider this [natural] law
as it affects the works that have beauty for their end...
Art2 7.48 6 Let us proceed to the consideration of
the law stated in the beginning of this essay, as it affects the purely
spiritual part of a work of art.
PI 8.20 17 This power is in the image because this
power is in Nature. It so affects, because it so is.
PI 8.67 5 [A good poem] affects the characters of its
readers by formulating their opinions and feelings...
Comc 8.169 11 The lie [in poverty] is in the
surrender of the man to his appearance; as if a man should neglect
himself and treat his shadow on the wall with marks of infinite
respect. It affects us oddly...
Supl 10.163 13 There is a superlative
temperament...which affects the manners of those who share it with a
certain desperation.
FSLN 11.217 23 My own habitual view is to the
well-being of students or scholars. And it is only when the public
event affects them, that it very seriously touches me.
Wom 11.407 5 In this ship of humanity, Will is the
rudder, and Sentiment the sail: when Woman affects to steer, the rudder
is only a masked sail.
PLT 12.31 23 There is no property or relation in that
immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last
found who affects this...
affinities, n. (19)
Nat 1.54 22 The perception of real affinities between
events...enables the poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
Nat 1.54 23 The perception of real affinities between
events (that is to say, of ideal affinities, for those only are real),
enables the poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
Hist 2.37 13 One may say a gravitating solar system
is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind. Not less does the
brain of Davy or of Gay-Lussac, from childhood exploring the affinities
and repulsions of particles, anticipate the laws of organization.
Hist 2.40 9 ...every history should be written in a
wisdom which divined the range of our affinities...
SL 2.151 13 Nothing is more deeply punished than the
neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed...
Lov1 2.184 4 Cause and effect, real
affinities...predominate later...
Cir 2.314 10 Has the naturalist or chemist learned
his craft, who has explored the gravity of atoms and the elective
affinities, who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is
only a partial or approximate statement...
Mrs1 3.151 19 [Lilla] was...like air or water, an
element of such a great range of affinities that it combines readily
with a thousand substances.
SwM 4.122 23 Instead of a religion which visited
[Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching
which accompanied him...into society, and showed by what affinities he
was girt to his equals and his counterparts;...
Ctr 6.137 1 Culture is the suggestion...that a man
has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of
any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale...
SS 7.14 17 ...[people in conversation]
separate...each seeking his like; and any interference with the
affinities would produce constraint and suffocation.
WD 7.184 2 There are people...who love at first sight
and hate at first sight; discern the affinities and repulsions;...
Suc 7.302 10 The world is enlarged for us, not by new
objects, but by finding more affinities and potencies in those we have.
Edc1 10.134 8 ...if [a man] is one to cement society
by his all-reconciling affinities, oh! hasten their action!
EPro 11.325 11 ...the aim of the war on our part
is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes
it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow
its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis. Then new affinities
will act...
affinity, n. (31)
DSA 1.123 20 The good, by affinity, seek the good;...
DSA 1.123 21 ...the vile, by affinity, [seek] the
vile.
Hist 2.16 17 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.
Comp 2.96 25 Polarity, or action and reaction, we
meet in every part of nature;...in the electricity, galvanism, and
chemical affinity.
Comp 2.102 3 The value of the universe contrives to
throw itself into every point. If the good is there, so is the evil; if
the affinity, so the repulsion;...
Fdsp 2.194 18 ...by the divine affinity of virtue
with itself, I find [my friends]...
Fdsp 2.195 8 ...the Genius of my life being thus
social, the same affinity will exert its energy on whomsoever is as
noble as these men and women...
Mrs1 3.124 19 The rulers of society must be...men of
the right Caesarian pattern, who have great range of affinity.
Mrs1 3.125 20 Money is not essential, but this wide
affinity [between power and money] is...
Mrs1 3.127 22 The strong men usually give some
allowance even to the petulances of fashion, for that affinity they
find in it.
Nat2 3.171 10 ...as water to our thirst, so is the
rock, the ground, to our eyes and hands and feet. It is firm water; it
is cold flame; what health, what affinity!
UGM 4.10 8 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral
and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the
charm of nature...the sureness of affinity...
PPh 4.67 19 Quite above us, beyond the will of you or
me, is this secret affinity or repulsion laid.
ET7 5.125 23 What influence the English have [in
Europe] is by brute force of wealth and power; that of the French by
affinity and talent.
SS 7.14 8 Society exists by chemical affinity, and
not otherwise.
DL 7.113 15 ...is there any calamity...that more
invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no
invitation to what is good in us, and no receptacle for what is
wise:--this is a great price to pay for...being defrauded of affinity,
of repose...
Farm 7.143 16 You cannot...strip off from [an atom]
the electricity, gravitation, chemic affinity...
PI 8.7 9 One of these vortices or self-directions of
thought is the impulse to search resemblance, affinity, identity, in
all its objects...
PerF 10.70 17 What agencies of electricity, gravity,
light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is...
PLT 12.63 4 Often there is so little affinity between
the man and his works that we think the wind must have writ them.
Bost 12.197 20 In the midst of [New England's]
laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall
not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...unites itself by
natural affinity to the highest minds of the world;...
affirm, v. (45)
AmS 1.102 25 Let [the scholar] not quit his belief
that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the
earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
LT 1.276 10 The Reformers affirm the inward life, but
they do not trust it...
Tran 1.330 10 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm facts
not affected by the illusions of sense...
YA 1.382 3 Here are Etzlers and mechanical
projectors, who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would
make every man rich;...
Fdsp 2.204 8 A friend...is a sort of paradox in
nature. I...who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with
equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my
being...reiterated in a foreign form;...
OS 2.295 26 We not only affirm that we have few great
men, but, absolutely speaking, that we have none;...
Exp 3.51 16 I knew a witty physician who...used to
affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a
Calvinist...
Mrs1 3.143 3 ...I will neither be driven from some
allowance to Fashion as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief
that love is the basis of courtesy. We must obtain that, if we can; but
by all means we must affirm this.
NER 3.260 27 ...much was to be resisted, much was to
be got rid of by those who were reared in the old, before they could
begin to affirm and to construct.
PPh 4.61 2 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor
in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato]; and when I die,
to die so. And I invite all other men...to this contest, which, I
affirm, surpasses all contests here.
MoS 4.151 11 It is not strange that these men
[predisposed to morals]... should affirm disdainfully the superiority
of ideas.
MoS 4.182 14 Even the doctrines dear to the hope of
man...[the spiritualist' s] neighbors can not put the statement so that
he shall affirm it.
ET11 5.172 16 Primogeniture is a cardinal rule of
English property and institutions. Laws, customs, manners...affirm it.
F 6.4 6 If we must accept Fate, we are not less
compelled to affirm liberty...
Ctr 6.166 15 ...we shall dare affirm that there is
nothing [the human being] will not overcome and convert...
Bty 6.300 8 ...petulant old gentlemen...affirm that
the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being
uninteresting.
Ill 6.312 13 [The boy] has no better friend or
influence than Scott, Shakspeare, Plutarch and Homer. The man lives to
other objects, but who dare affirm that they are more real?
Ill 6.320 19 We must work and affirm, but we have no
guess of the value of what we say or do.
Cour 7.274 2 As long as [the religious sentiment] is
cowardly insinuated, as with the wish...to make it affirm some
pragmatical tenet which our parish church receives to-day, it is not
imparted...
PI 8.24 7 ...the astronomy is in the mind: the senses
affirm that the earth stands still and the sun moves.
Schr 10.263 1 I think the peculiar office of
scholars...is to be...affirmers of the one law, yet as those who should
affirm it in music and dancing;...
Schr 10.264 16 One is tempted to affirm the office
and attributes of the scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a
frequent perversity of the class itself.
Plu 10.313 7 [Plutarch] cites Euripides to affirm, If
gods do aught dishonest, they are no gods...
HDC 11.37 24 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw
Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to
the English...
War 11.167 14 Since the peace question has been
before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have
naturally been met with objections more or less weighty.
FSLC 11.190 16 ...the great jurists...Mackintosh,
Jefferson, do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are
void].
FSLN 11.217 13 The one thing not to be forgiven to
intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this
want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's
watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For
they cannot affirm these from any original experience...
FSLN 11.227 3 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all
affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid]...
FSLN 11.238 27 Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but
comes surely. The proverbs of the nations affirm these delays, but
affirm the arrival.
JBB 11.270 3 It were bold to affirm that there is
within that broad commonwealth, at this moment, another citizen as
worthy to live, and as deserving of all public and private honor, as
this poor prisoner [John Brown].
TPar 11.292 8 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already
be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the
nature of the world will affirm to all men, in all times, that which
for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...
Koss 11.400 4 ...you [Kossuth], the foremost soldier
of freedom in this age, it is for us [the people of Concord] to crave
your judgment; who are we that we should dictate to you? You have won
your own. We only affirm it.
FRep 11.540 6 America should affirm and establish
that in no instance shall the guns go in advance of the present right.
PLT 12.31 5 The one thing not to be forgiven to
intellectual persons is that they believe in the ideas of others. From
this deference comes the imbecility and fatigue of their society, for
of course they cannot affirm these from the deep life;...
II 12.78 23 ...we must affirm and affirm, but neither
you nor I know the value of what we say;...
affirmation, n. (6)
Prch 10.233 20 Inspiration will have advance,
affirmation...
LVB 11.95 3 Our counsellors and old statesmen here
say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the
affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed;...
Milt1 12.266 9 Few men could be cited who have so
well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton],
and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic
affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws...
ACri 12.303 23 ...literature resounds with the music
of united vast ideas of affirmation and of moral truth.
affirmations, n. (5)
Exp 3.75 17 ...scepticisms...are limitations of the
affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in and
make affirmations outside of them...
PI 8.28 8 [Imagination] is the vision of an inspired
soul reading arguments and affirmations in all Nature of that which it
is driven to say.
PPo 8.250 11 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low
rioter, he turns short on you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most
unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the
world.
Chr2 10.104 1 [The religions we call false]...were
affirmations of the conscience correcting the evil customs of their
times.
affirmative, adj. (28)
LT 1.264 18 ...whatever is affirmative and now
advancing, contains [that which shall constitute the times to come].
Con 1.298 23 Reform is affirmative, conservatism
negative;...
Exp 3.45 21 Did our birth fall in some fit of
indigence and frugality in nature, that she was so sparing of her fire
and so liberal of her earth that it appears to us that we lack the
affirmative principle...
NER 3.260 19 I conceive...the indication of growing
trust in the private self-supplied powers of the individual, to be the
affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
MoS 4.177 21 ...the main resistance which the
affirmative impulse finds...is in the doctrine of the Illusionists.
ET13 5.216 5 [The priest...translated the sanctities
of old hagiology into English virtues on English ground. It was a
certain affirmative or aggressive state of the Caucasian races.
ET14 5.239 11 ...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.
Pow 6.57 13 This affirmative force [a broad, healthy,
massive understanding] is in one and is not in another...
Suc 7.308 14 We may apply this affirmative law to
letters, to manners...
OA 7.324 4 All men carry seeds of all distempers
through life latent, and we die without developing them; such is the
affirmative force of the constitution;...
SA 8.90 8 The life of these persons was conducted in
the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse.
Imtl 8.332 15 ...the impulse which drew these minds
to this inquiry [concerning immortality] through so many years was a
better affirmative evidence than their failure to find a confirmation
was negative.
Prch 10.234 27 ...the power of sympathy is always
great; and affirmative discourse, presuming assent, will often obtain
it when argument would fail.
Prch 10.235 20 The inevitable course of remark for
us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty,
is...simply the celebration of the power and beneficence amid which and
by which we live, not critical, but affirmative.
Plu 10.301 22 [Plutarch's] superstitions are poetic,
aspiring, affirmative.
LLNE 10.356 18 [Thoreau]...fortified you at all times
with an affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
Thor 10.478 3 Thoreau...might fortify the convictions
of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living. It was an
affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
ACiv 11.305 1 ...as long as we fight without any
affirmative step taken by the government...[the Southerners] and we
fight on the same side, for slavery.
ACiv 11.308 2 Why should not America be capable...of
an affirmative step in the interests of human civility...
Mem 12.94 16 'T is because of the believed
incompatibility of the affirmative and advancing attitude of the mind
with tenacious acts of recollection that people are often reproached
with living in their memory.
affirmative, n. (8)
Prch 10.219 3 A thousand negatives [the oracle]
utters...on all sides; but the sacred affirmative it hides in the
deepest abyss.
Plu 10.310 20 Knowing and not knowing is the
affirmative or negative of the dog; knowing you is to be your friend;
not knowing you, your enemy.
affirmatively, adv. (2)
HDC 11.64 26 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook,
in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one
of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now
chosen in the work of the ministry? Voted affirmatively.
II 12.78 16 ...[the writer] should write
affirmatively, not polemically...
affirmatives, n. (4)
affirmed, v. (18)
MN 1.222 13 Emanuel Swedenborg affirmed that it was
opened to him that the spirits who knew truth in this life, but did it
not, at death shall lose their knowledge.
Con 1.299 22 ...it may be safely affirmed of these
two metaphysical antagonists [Conservatism and Reform], that each is a
good half, but an impossible whole.
YA 1.394 6 ...in England, the fact seems to me
intolerable, what is commonly affirmed, that 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.
SL 2.138 10 Every man sees that he is that middle
point whereof every thing may be affirmed and denied with equal reason.
Pt1 3.35 24 When some of [Swedenborg's] angels
affirmed a truth, the laurel twig which they held blossomed in their
hands.
NR 3.245 18 All the universe over, there is but one
thing, this old Two-Face... right-wrong, of which any proposition may
be affirmed or denied.
PPh 4.61 24 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the
earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored...that of which every thing
can be affirmed and denied...
PPh 4.62 7 Having paid his homage, as for the human
race, to the Illimitable, [Plato] then stood erect, and for the human
race affirmed, And yet things are knowable!...
Cour 7.273 26 ...whenever the religious sentiment is
adequately affirmed, it must be with dazzling courage.
Imtl 8.324 8 ...The Egyptians are the first of
mankind who have affirmed the immortality of the soul.
EWI 11.106 12 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the
case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the
slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
EWI 11.136 12 Granville Sharpe filled the ear of the
judges with the sound principles that had from time to time been
affirmed by the legal authorities...
ChiE 11.472 24 When Socrates heard that the oracle
declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that
other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew
nothing. Confucius had already affirmed this of himself...
PLT 12.38 14 The thought, the doctrine, the right
hitherto not affirmed is published in set propositions...
affirmers, n. (1)
affirming, adj. (2)
Boks 7.195 9 ...all books that get fairly into the
vital air of the world were written...by the affirming and advancing
class...
Insp 8.294 16 What is best in literature is the
affirming, prophesying, spermatic words of men-making poets.
affirming, v. (10)
LT 1.286 15 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.
Pt1 3.12 20 Oftener it falls that this winged man,
who will carry me into the heaven...leaps and frisks about with me as
it were from cloud to cloud, still affirming that he is bound
heavenward;...
Pt1 3.13 8 ...let us...observe how nature, by
worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of
announcement and affirming...
SwM 4.104 26 ...Linnaeus, [Swedenborg's]
contemporary, was affirming... that Nature is always like herself...
SwM 4.119 21 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some
account of the modus of the new state, affirming that his presence in
the spiritual world is attended with a certain separation, but only as
to the intellectual part of his mind, not as to the will part;...
PI 8.29 4 ...imagination [is] a perception and
affirming of a real relation between a thought and some material fact.
Edc1 10.135 21 In affirming that the moral nature of
man is the predominant element and should therefore be mainly consulted
in the arrangements of a school, I am very far from wishing that it
should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
PLT 12.40 12 Insight assimilates the thing seen. Is
it only another way of affirming and illustrating this to say that it
sees nothing alone, but sees each particular object in just
connections,-sees all in God?
PLT 12.55 13 There is in all students a distrust of
truth, a timidity about affirming it;...
affirms, v. (41)
DSA 1.136 20 Where now sounds the persuasion,
that...imparadises my heart, and so affirms its own origin in heaven?
Hsm1 2.250 4 Towards all this external evil the man
within the breast... affirms his ability to cope single-handed with the
infinite army of enemies.
Hsm1 2.264 6 ...the love that will be annihilated
sooner than treacherous... affirms itself no mortal but a native of the
deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being.
PPh 4.48 21 Urged by an opposite necessity, the mind
returns from the one to that which is not one, but other or many;...and
affirms the necessary existence of variety...
PPh 4.74 16 When accused before the judges of
subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the
soul...
PNR 4.83 26 The eye attested that justice was best,
as long as it was profitable; Plato affirms that it is profitable
throughout;...
SwM 4.119 24 ...[Swedenborg] affirms that he sees,
with the internal sight, the things that are in another life, more
clearly than he sees the things which are here in the world.
MoS 4.170 25 We love whatever affirms, connects,
preserves;...
F 6.26 3 A man speaking from insight affirms of
himself what is true of the mind: seeing its immortality, he says, I am
immortal;...
CbW 6.254 1 Plutarch affirms that the cruel wars
which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language
and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
Farm 7.148 24 The chemist...now affirms that this
dreary space occupied by the farmer is needless;...
OA 7.336 9 ...the inference from the working of
intellect...affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral
sentiment.
PI 8.32 13 ...the poet affirms the laws, prose busies
itself with exceptions...
PI 8.37 16 The trait and test of the poet is that he
builds, adds and affirms.
Imtl 8.332 27 The skeptic affirms that the universe
is a nest of boxes with nothing in the last box.
Chr2 10.97 15 The excellence of Jesus...is, that he
affirms the Divinity in him and in us...
Chr2 10.103 7 [The moral sentiment] affirms not only
its truth, but its supremacy.
Chr2 10.121 22 ...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.
Prch 10.230 26 ...over all, let [the young preacher]
value the sensibility that receives, that loves, that dares, that
affirms.
Schr 10.271 22 ...[genius and virtue] are the First
Good, of which Plato affirms that all things are for its sake...
HDC 11.36 26 Roger Williams affirms that he has known
[Indians] run between eighty and a hundred miles in a summer's day...
EWI 11.147 24 The sentiment of Right...pronounces
Freedom. The Power that built this fabric of things affirms it in the
heart;...
TPar 11.292 14 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already
be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the
nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you
valiantly spoke;...that the sea which bore your mourners home affirms
it...
PLT 12.41 14 My percipiency affirms the presence and
perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs.
II 12.66 24 I know, of course, all the grounds on
which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul.
CL 12.160 4 I hold all these opinions on the power of
the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them;...
CL 12.160 5 I hold all these opinions on the power of
the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them; the religious
man, going abroad, affirms them;...
CL 12.160 7 I hold all these opinions on the power of
the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them;...the patriot
on his mountains or his prairie affirms them;...
CL 12.160 8 I hold all these opinions on the power of
the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them;...the
contemplative man affirms them.
EurB 12.370 17 A critical friend of ours affirms that
the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition
to begin where their fathers ended;...
affix, v. (2)
Art2 7.47 4 We hesitate at doing Spenser so great an
honor as to think that he intended by his allegory the sense we affix
to it.
PI 8.23 2 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of
many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who
felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds, without any attempt to
draw a moral or affix a meaning.
afflatus, n. (1)
Hist 2.27 25 ...men of God have from time to
time...made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the
commonest hearer. Hence evidently the tripod, the priest, the priestess
inspired by the divine afflatus.
afflict, v. (5)
Comp 2.100 3 Has [the man of genius] all that the
world loves and admires and covets?--he must...afflict them by
faithfulness to his truth...
Ctr 6.138 6 ...here is a pedant that cannot...conceal
his wrath at interruption by the best, if their conversation do not fit
his impertinency,--here is he to afflict us with his personalities.
Prch 10.233 26 Only let there be a deep observer, and
he will make light of new shop and new circumstance that afflict
you;...
LVB 11.95 11 ...the steps of this crime [the
relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick
time, that the millions of virtuous citizens...must shut their eyes
until the last howl and wailing of these tormented villages and tribes
shall afflict the ear of the world.
CInt 12.129 16 Only bring a deep observer, and he
will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances
that afflict you.
afflicted, adj. (2)
OA 7.324 8 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted
citizens lose their sick-headaches.
MMEm 10.418 14 Shut up in this severe weather with
careful, infirm, afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody
Emerson's] spirits...
afflicted, v. (11)
Int 2.342 26 When Socrates speaks, Lysis and
Menexenus are afflicted by no shame that they do not speak.
NMW 4.228 7 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own
sense, when...he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the
worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
ET5 5.77 22 A man of that [English] brain thinks and
acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of
brain...thinks the same thing...
Ctr 6.135 7 ...most men are afflicted with a
coldness, an incuriosity, as soon as any object does not connect with
their self-love.
Ill 6.314 6 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the
charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy...who is afflicted with a
tendency to trace home the glittering miscellany of fruits and flowers
to one root.
Cour 7.263 13 [The soldier] sees how much is the
risk, and is not afflicted with imagination;...
Suc 7.287 10 The ancient Norse ballads describe [the
Norseman] as afflicted with this inextinguishable thirst of victory.
HDC 11.65 3 The charges of education and of
legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town
[Concord];...
afflicting, v. (2)
CbW 6.263 14 I figure [sickness] as
a...phantom...afflicting other souls with meanness and mopings...
Bost 12.206 19 ...here [in Boston] was...a living
mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious
novelty or other;...
affliction, n. (4)
ET19 5.312 3 ...I think it just, in this time of
gloom and commercial disaster, of affliction and beggary in these
districts, that...you should not fail to keep your literary
anniversary.
PI 8.28 14 Lear, mad with his affliction, thinks
every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own.
MMEm 10.407 5 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody
Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing
who...is looked up to as a specimen of genius. I performed a mission in
secretly undermining his vanity, or trying to. Alas! never done but by
mortifying affliction.
ALin 11.332 14 ...[Lincoln] had a vast good
nature...affable, and not sensible to the affliction which the
innumerable visits paid to him when President would have brought to any
one else.
afflictions, n. (1)
ACiv 11.309 23 This is the consolation on which we
rest in the darkness of the future and the afflictions of to-day, that
the government of the world is moral...
affluence, n. (3)
NER 3.274 6 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty
at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world.
Boks 7.211 24 Now and then out of that affluence of
[the German's] learning comes a fine sentence from Theophrastus, or
Seneca, or Boethius...
EdAd 11.382 20 ...[the elements] shove us from them,
yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet
affluence of love and song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/
Of man and earth, of world beloved and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia
are withheld./
affluent, adj. (4)
CbW 6.260 8 Charles James Fox said of England, The
history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in
affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which
the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
LLNE 10.333 3 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the
reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.
WSL 12.340 18 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and
ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an affluent and ready
memory familiar with all chosen books...we wish to thank a benefactor
of the reading world.
afford, v. (65)
DSA 1.148 1 ...slight [the commanders], as you can
well afford to do, by high and universal aims, and they instantly
feel...that it is in lower places that they must shine.
MR 1.229 13 It will afford no security from the new
ideas, that the old nations...are built on other foundations.
LT 1.278 7 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...
Con 1.310 17 [Existing institutions] really have so
much flexibility as to afford your talent and character...the same
chance of demonstration and success which they might have if there was
no law and no property.
Fdsp 2.215 11 In the great days, presentiments hover
before me in the firmament. ... Then, though I prize my friends, I
cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my
own.
Fdsp 2.215 19 ...next week I shall have languid
moods, when I can well afford to occupy myself with foreign objects;...
Cir 2.312 2 The use of literature is to afford us a
platform whence we may command a view of our present life...
Chr1 3.107 4 ...some natures are too good to be
spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into
the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn
them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of
trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
Mrs1 3.154 13 The king of Schiraz could not afford to
be so bountiful as the poor Osman who dwelt at his gate.
Pol1 3.218 27 If a man found himself so rich-natured
that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and
sweetness of his behavior, could he afford to circumvent the favor of
the caucus and the press, and covet relations so hollow and pompous as
those of a politician?
NR 3.235 20 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries,
that all the agents with which we deal are subalterns, which we can
well afford to let pass,...
SwM 4.119 19 ...to a reader who can make due
allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's]
peculiarities, the results are...a more striking testimony to the
sublime laws he announced than any that balanced dulness could afford.
MoS 4.160 2 [The skeptic] is the
considerer...believing that a man has too many enemies than that he can
afford to be his own foe;...
GoW 4.282 22 That a man has spent years on Plato and
Proclus, does not afford a presumption that he holds heroic opinions...
ET5 5.94 12 [England's] short rivers do not afford
water-power, but the land shakes under the thunder of the mills.
ET5 5.96 8 No man [in England] can afford to walk,
when the parliamentary-train carries him for a penny a mile.
ET7 5.117 16 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a
cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on
digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in
pieces. English veracity seems to result on a sounder animal structure,
as if they could afford it.
ET10 5.156 16 If [the English] cannot pay, they do
not buy;...and they say without shame, I cannot afford it.
ET11 5.183 21 ...with such interests at stake, how
can these men [English peers] afford to neglect them?
ET14 5.257 1 ...if this religion is in the poetry, it
raises us to some purpose, and we can well afford some staidness or
hardness...
F 6.30 16 We can afford to allow the limitation, if
we know it is the meter of the growing man.
Pow 6.53 19 ...[a man] can well afford to let events
and possessions and the breath of the body go, if their value has been
added to him in the shape of power.
Pow 6.63 23 The senators who dissented from Mr.
Polk's Mexican war were...those who from political position could
afford it;...
Wth 6.91 12 ...when one observes in the hotels and
palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that
when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity
are frightfully diminished; as if virtue were coming to be a luxury
which few could afford...
Wth 6.92 12 He can well afford not to conciliate,
whose faithful work will answer for him.
Wth 6.119 4 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer
got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his
aid;...well knowing that no man could afford to hire labor without
selling his land.
Elo1 7.69 8 The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer
melodramatic exhibition [of eloquence] than the table d'hote of his inn
will afford him in the conversation of the joyous guests.
Farm 7.141 25 We commonly say that the rich man...can
afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;...
Boks 7.193 27 The inspection of the catalogue [of the
Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard
writers who are on every private shelf; and to these it can afford only
the most slight and casual additions.
Boks 7.209 10 The annals of bibliography afford many
examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go...
Cour 7.261 14 Each [new soldier] whispers to
himself:...only will the benignant Heaven save me from disgracing
myself and my friends and my State. Die! O yes, I can well die; but I
cannot afford to misbehave;...
OA 7.325 15 Little by little [age] has amassed such a
fund of merit that it can very well afford to go on its credit when it
will.
PI 8.5 8 ...somewhat was murmured in our
ear...that...the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses,
and we can afford to leave it one day.
PC 8.213 18 We cannot yet afford to drop Homer, nor
Aeschylus...
PPo 8.259 21 ...nothing in [Hafiz's] religious or in
his scientific traditions is too sacred or too remote to afford a token
of his mistress.
Grts 8.313 13 No aristocrat...can begin to compare
with the self-respect of the saint. Why is he so lowly, but that he
knows that he can well afford it, resting on the largeness of God in
him?
SlHr 10.447 25 ...Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge
Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four
common men, before common men would find it out.
HDC 11.39 17 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say
with Higginson...that... all Europe is not able to afford to make so
great fires as New England.
HDC 11.39 19 A poor servant [in Concord], that is to
possess but fifty acres, may afford to give more wood for fire as good
as the world yields, than many noblemen in England.
HDC 11.54 21 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared,
that the new plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large
accommodations...
JBB 11.271 11 [The judges] assume that the United
States can protect its witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts
that is true, but the moment he is carried out of the bounds of
Massachusetts, the United States, it is notorious, afford no protection
at all;...
TPar 11.285 21 He whose voice will not be heard here
again [Theodore Parker] could well afford to tell his experiences;...
HCom 11.343 3 [Our young men] said, It is not in me
to resist. I go [to war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall
never forgive myself if I decline. ... Only one thing is certain, I can
well die but i cannot afford to misbehave.
SMC 11.364 24 [George Prescott writes] I told
Lieutenant Bowers, this morning, that I could afford to be sick from
bringing the tent-poles...
FRep 11.514 17 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. Our times easily afford you very good examples.
FRep 11.520 5 Our politics are full of adventurers,
who...think they can afford to join the devil's party.
PLT 12.7 11 Seek the literary circles...the men of
splendor, of bon-mots, will they afford me satisfaction?
ACri 12.296 6 We can't afford to take the horse out
of [Montaigne's] Essays; it would take the rider too.
AgMs 12.360 18 [Farmers] could not afford to follow
such advice as is given here [in the Agricultural Survey];...
afforded, v. (10)
AmS 1.92 9 But for the evidence thence afforded to
the philosophical doctrine of the identity of all minds, we should
suppose some preestablished harmony...
Tran 1.338 9 ...of a purely spiritual life, history
has afforded no example.
Pt1 3.41 23 Thou [O poet] shalt lie close hid with
nature, and canst not be afforded to the Capitol or the Exchange.
ET7 5.117 7 In the nobler kinds [of animals], where
strength could be afforded, [Nature's] races are loyal to truth...
ET17 5.296 13 Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth]
to me...for having afforded to his country-neighbors an example of a
modest household where comfort and culture were secured without any
display.
Ctr 6.155 2 Wordsworth was praised to me in
Westmoreland for having afforded to his country neighbors an example of
a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without
display.
Civ 7.29 14 ...the astronomer, having by an
observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as
waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put
the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and
his second, and this line afforded him a respectable base for his
triangle.
Comc 8.171 10 More food for the Comic is afforded
whenever the personal appearance, the face, form and manners, are
subjects of thought with the man himself.
Thor 10.468 5 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of
the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset, or five minutes' day
after six months, a splendid fact, which Annursnuc had never afforded
him.
Bost 12.199 21 What should hinder that this
America...glimpses being afforded which spoke to the imagination, yet
the firm shore hid until science and art should be ripe to propose it
as a fixed aim...should have its happy ports...
affording, v. (2)
NER 3.255 22 ...the country is frequently affording
solitary examples of resistance to the government...
Ill 6.309 4 We traversed, through spacious galleries
affording a solid masonry foundation for the town and county overhead,
the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth
Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
affords, v. (13)
Nat 1.15 20 ...the stimulus [light] affords to the
sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath...make all matter gay.
LE 1.178 17 This lesson is taught with emphasis in
the life of the great actor of this age, and affords the explanation of
his success.
Chr1 3.93 4 ...[the natural merchant] inspires
respect and the wish to deal with him...for the intellectual pastime
which the spectacle of so much ability affords.
GoW 4.286 14 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung
und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with
us a Life of Goethe;...
Bty 6.306 13 ...there is a climbing scale of culture,
from the first agreeable sensation which a sparkling gem or a scarlet
stain affords the eye...
Art2 7.51 5 ...the delight which a work of art
affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed
Nature...
PI 8.21 15 I think the use or value of poetry to be
the suggestion it affords of the flux or fugaciousness of the poet.
PPo 8.244 14 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes
of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic, that
sometimes affords a deeper glance at Nature than belongs to either of
these bards.
PPo 8.246 12 Harems and wine-shops only give [Hafiz]
a new ground of observation, whence to draw sometimes a deeper moral
than regulated sober life affords...
EWI 11.121 26 The legislature [of Jamaica]...say, The
peaceful demeanor of the emancipated population...affords a proof of
their continued comfort and prosperity.
FSLN 11.238 6 The habit of mind of traders in power
would not be esteemed favorable to delicate moral perception. American
slavery affords no exception to this rule.
affray, n. (1)
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