Age to Aikin's, John
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
age, Classic, n. (1)
AmS 1.109 4 ...there are data for marking the genius
of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or
Philosophical age.
Age, Elizabethan, n. (1)
Age, Golden, n. (1)
Res 8.142 10 Resources of America! why, one thinks of
Saint-Simon's saying, The Golden Age is not behind, but before you.
Age, Greek, n. (2)
Clbs 7.242 20 ...there was liberal and refined
conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the middle Age.
Clbs 7.243 16 ...a history of clubs from early
antiquity...through the Greek and Roman to the Middle Age...would be an
important chapter in history.
Age, Middle, n. (6)
Hist 2.34 11 All the fictions of the Middle Age
explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in
grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve.
Pt1 3.37 20 We have yet had no genius in
America...which...saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times,
another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in
Homer; then in the Middle Age;...
Boks 7.205 24 There is Dante's poem, to open the
Italian Republics of the Middle Age;...
Clbs 7.242 21 ...there was liberal and refined
conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the Middle Age.
Clbs 7.243 16 ...a history of clubs from early
antiquity...through the Greek and Roman to the Middle Age...would be an
important chapter in history.
age, n. (355)
Nat 1.34 18 There sits the Sphinx at the road-side,
and from age to age, as each prophet comes by, he tries his fortune at
reading her riddle.
Nat 1.43 7 Xenophanes complained in his old age,
that...all things hastened back to Unity.
AmS 1.88 16 ...neither can any artist
entirely...write a book of pure thought, that shall be as
efficient...to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to
the second age.
AmS 1.110 6 If there is any period one would desire
to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution;...
DSA 1.129 11 The understanding...said, in the next
age, This was Jehovah come down out of heaven...
DSA 1.138 19 ...of the bad preacher, it could not be
told from his sermon what age of the world he fell in;...
DSA 1.144 12 The stationariness of religion; the
assumption that the age of inspiration is past...indicate...the
falsehood of our theology.
MN 1.221 4 It is the office...of this age to annul
that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has
effected between the intellect and holiness.
LT 1.261 21 If you speak of the age, you mean your
own platoon of people...
LT 1.264 8 ...I find the Age walking about...in
strong eyes and pleasant thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer
so, than...in the investments of capital, which rather celebrate with
mournful music the obsequies of the last age.
LT 1.269 2 The actors constitute that great army of
martyrs who...occupy the ground which Calvinism occupied in the last
age...
LT 1.269 4 The present age will be marked by its
harvest of projects for the reform of domestic, civil, literary, and
ecclesiastical institutions.
LT 1.272 22 The new voices in the wilderness...have
revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet, in some distant
age...be executed by the hands.
LT 1.285 2 What has checked in this age the animal
spirits which gave to our forefathers their bounding pulse?
Con 1.300 3 Nature does not give the crown of its
approbation, namely, beauty...to the rock which resists the waves from
age to age...
Con 1.300 4 Nature does not give the crown of its
approbation, namely, beauty...to the rock which resists the waves from
age to age...
Con 1.300 9 ...the superior beauty is with...the
river which ever flowing yet is found in the same bed from age to
age;...
YA 1.376 10 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to
have said to his council, The age is embarrassed with new opinions;...
Hist 2.5 3 Every reform was once a private opinion,
and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem
of the age.
Hist 2.8 8 I have no expectation that any man will
read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age...has
any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
Hist 2.8 12 There is no age or state of society...to
which there is not somewhat corresponding in [each man's] life.
Hist 2.10 7 What the former age has epitomized into a
formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the
good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule.
Hist 2.24 2 What is the foundation of that interest
all men feel in Greek history...in all its periods from the Heroic or
Homeric age...
SR 2.61 7 Every true man is a cause, a country, and
an age;...
Lov1 2.170 2 The delicious fancies of youth reject
the least savor of a mature philosophy, as chilling with age and
pedantry their purple bloom.
Lov1 2.174 11 ...the celestial rapture falling out of
heaven seizes only upon those of tender age...
Fdsp 2.194 22 ...by the divine affinity of virtue
with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me
and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual
character, relation, age, sex, circumstance...
Fdsp 2.203 23 To stand in true relations with men in
a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
Hsm1 2.245 5 In the elder English dramatists...there
is a constant recognition of gentility, as if a noble behavior were as
easily marked in the society of their age as color is in our American
population.
Hsm1 2.260 20 ...congratulate yourself if you have
done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a
decorous age.
OS 2.265 11 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/
Night and Day 've been tampered with/ Every quality and pith/
Surcharged and sultry with a power/ That works its will on age and
hour./
OS 2.286 19 Neither his age, nor his breeding...can
hinder [a man] from being deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
Cir 2.319 8 ...fever, intemperance, insanity,
stupidity and crime; they are all forms of old age;...
Int 2.345 26 ...I cannot recite...laws of the
intellect, without remembering... the expounders of the principles of
thought from age to age.
Int 2.346 24 ...what marks [Greek philosophers'
thought's] elevation and has even a comic look to us, is the innocent
serenity with which these babe-like Jupiters...from age to age prattle
to each other and to no contemporary.
Art1 2.363 1 He has conceived meanly of the resources
of man, who believes that the best age of production is past.
Art1 2.364 2 Already History is old enough to witness
the old age and disappearance of particular arts.
Pt1 3.23 9 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought
him to ripe age, she will no longer run the risk of losing this wonder
at a blow...
Chr1 3.98 15 Our proper vice takes form in one or
another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the
person...
Chr1 3.106 14 They are a relief from
literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and
sentiment; as we read, in an age of polish and criticism, the first
lines of written prose and verse of a nation.
Pol1 3.204 25 [The young] believe their own
newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.
Pol1 3.208 1 ...our institutions, though in
coincidence with the spirit of the age, have not any exemption from the
practical defects which have discredited other forms.
NR 3.246 12 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he
were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as
agitator.
NER 3.254 4 ...it was directly in the spirit and
genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured
and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...
UGM 4.34 16 Happy, if a few names remain so high
that...age and comparison have not robbed them of a ray.
SwM 4.99 12 At the age of twenty-eight [Swedenborg]
was made Assessor of the Board of Mines by Charles XII.
SwM 4.101 19 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was to
penetrate the science of the age with a far more subtle
science;...began its lessons in quarries and forges...
SwM 4.132 11 ...when [Swedenborg's] visions become
the stereotyped language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age
and capacity, they are perverted.
MoS 4.169 13 Montaigne died of a quinsy, at the age
of sixty, in 1592.
MoS 4.169 16 At the age of thirty-three, [Montaigne]
had been married.
ShP 4.201 12 ...the generic catholic genius who is
not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all,
stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.
ShP 4.202 7 There is somewhat touching in the madness
with which the passing age mischooses the object on which all candles
shine...
ShP 4.208 2 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all
great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the
creative age goes up to heaven...
ShP 4.208 3 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all
great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the
creative age...gives way to a new age...
NMW 4.227 8 [A man of Napoleon's stamp]...comes to be
a bureau for all the intelligence, wit and power of the age and
country.
NMW 4.250 3 One day [Napoleon] asked whether the
planets were inhabited? On another, what was the age of the world?
NMW 4.253 20 The highest-placed individual in the
most cultivated age and population of the world,--[Napoleon] has not
the merit of common truth and honesty.
NMW 4.254 6 ...[Napoleon] sat, in his premature old
age...coldly falsifying facts and dates and characters...
NMW 4.256 24 Bonaparte may be said to represent the
whole history of this [democrat] party, its youth and its age;...
GoW 4.270 3 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when
he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any
rate write...without recurrence...to the sources of inspiration? Some
reply to these questions may be furnished by looking over the list of
men of literary genius in our age.
GoW 4.273 24 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and
prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...
GoW 4.278 19 We had an English romance
here...professing to embody the hope of a new age...in which the only
reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage.
ET4 5.52 19 The Scandinavians in [the English] race
still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean;...
ET4 5.59 17 Odin died in his bed, in Sweden; but it
was a proverb of ill condition to die the death of old age.
ET4 5.62 19 Many a mean, dastardly boy is, at the age
of puberty, transformed into a serious and generous youth.
ET6 5.108 7 An English family consists of a few
persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet
of each other...
ET8 5.140 15 Haldor remained a short time with the
king, and then came to Iceland, where he took up his abode in
Hiardaholt and dwelt in that farm to a very advanced age.
ET10 5.157 14 [The English] have reinforced their own
productivity by the creation of that marvellous machinery which
differences this age from any other age.
ET12 5.201 22 On every side, Oxford is redolent of
age...
ET12 5.213 16 ...the best poetry of England of this
age, in the old forms, comes from two graduates at Cambridge.
ET13 5.217 17 ...the gradation of the clergy [in
England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to
the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered
peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
ET13 5.220 12 ...the age of the Wicliffes, Cobhams,
Arundels, Beckets;...is gone.
ET13 5.225 8 The new age has new desires, new
enemies, new trades, new charities...
ET14 5.237 13 A man must think that age well taught
and thoughtful, by which masques and poems, like those of Ben
Jonson...were received with favor.
ET14 5.242 26 Not these particulars, but the mental
plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and
element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the
Elizabethan age...
ET16 5.279 8 ...a thousand years hence, men will
thank this age for the accurate history [of Stonehenge].
ET17 5.298 9 The Ode on Immortality is the high-water
mark which the intellect has reached in this age.
ET19 5.311 20 This conscience is one element [which
attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man
to man, running through all classes,--the electing of worthy
persons...to acts of kindness and warm and stanch support...from youth
to age...
ET19 5.313 18 I see [England] in her old age, not
decrepit, but young and still daring to believe in her power of
endurance and expansion.
F 6.39 19 The times, the age, what is that but a few
profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
F 6.46 27 ...what we wish for in youth, comes in
heaps on us in old age...
Pow 6.54 20 The key to the age may be this, or that,
or the other, as the young orators describe;...
Pow 6.64 20 In politics...red republicanism in the
father is a spasm of nature to engender an intolerable tyrant in the
next age.
Bhr 6.179 2 [Eyes]...ask no leave of age, or rank;...
Wsp 6.205 9 In all ages, souls...are born, who are
rather related to the system of the world than to their particular age
and locality.
Wsp 6.215 1 That which is signified by the words
moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions
we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words, age after
age, to their ancient meaning.
Wsp 6.215 2 That which is signified by the words
moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions
we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words, age after
age, to their ancient meaning.
Wsp 6.219 12 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and
projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter
projection rule not less tyrannically in human history, and keep the
balance of power from age to age unbroken.
Ill 6.319 9 There is the illusion of love, which
attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his
or her family, sex, age or condition...
SS 7.8 1 ...each of these potentates [Dante,
Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw well the reason of his exclusion. Solitary
was he? Why, yes; but his society was limited only by the amount of
brain nature appropriated in that age to carry on the government of the
world.
Art2 7.48 22 The artist who is to produce a work
which is to be admired... by all men...must...be a man of no party and
no manner and no age...
Art2 7.57 8 ...as far as [popular institutions]
accelerate the end of political freedom and national education, they
are preparing the soil of man for fairer flowers and fruits in another
age.
DL 7.104 23 The small enchanter nothing can
withstand,--no seniority of age...
DL 7.107 14 If a man wishes to acquaint
himself...with the spirit of the age, he must not go first to the
state-house or the court-room.
DL 7.116 19 Another age may divide the manual labor
of the world more equally on all the members of society...
DL 7.123 26 To each occurs, soon after the age of
puberty, some event or society...which becomes the crisis of life...
DL 7.124 6 ...it is pitiful to date and measure all
the facts and sequel of an unfolding life from such a youthful and
generally inconsiderate period as the age of courtship and marriage.
DL 7.132 7 The language of a ruder age has given to
common law the maxim that every man's house is his castle...
Farm 7.143 23 Nature...has a forelooking tenderness
and equal regard to the next and the next, and the fourth and the
fortieth age.
WD 7.158 3 ...such is the mechanical determination of
our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not
dulled our joy and pride in them;...
WD 7.167 18 [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of
economies for Grecian life, noting the proper age for marriage...
Boks 7.190 22 A company of the wisest and wittiest
men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years
have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of
their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and
inaccessible...but the thought which they did not uncover to their
bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the
strangers of another age.
Boks 7.206 11 The Life of the Emperor Charles V., by
the useful Robertson, is still the key of the following age.
Boks 7.212 4 There is another class [of books], more
needful to the present age...
Boks 7.217 21 Every good fable...every biography from
a religious age... when they proceed from an intellectual
integrity...have the imaginative element.
Suc 7.303 8 Who is he in youth or in maturity or even
in old age, who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which turn
curled heads round at church...
Suc 7.310 18 Despondency comes readily enough to the
most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter
confirmation, and they...go home with heavier step and premature age.
Suc 7.311 21 ...[the inner life]...is just the same
now in maturity and hereafter in age, [as] it was in youth.
OA 7.317 1 ...if the essence of age is not present,
these signs, whether of Art or Nature, are counterfeit and
ridiculous;...
OA 7.317 19 Wherever there is power, there is age.
OA 7.318 17 How many men habitually believe that each
chance passenger with whom they converse is of their own age...
OA 7.318 21 ...looking at age under an aspect more
conformed to the common sense, if the question be the felicity of age,
I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
OA 7.318 23 ...if the question be the felicity of
age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
OA 7.318 27 ...seen from the streets and markets and
the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low...
OA 7.320 1 Age, like woman, requires fit
surroundings.
OA 7.320 2 Age is comely in coaches, in churches...
OA 7.322 9 ...if the life be true and noble, we have
quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely
old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty
their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo...elected
at the age of ninety-six to the throne of the Eastern Empire...
OA 7.323 8 Under the general assertion of the
well-being of age, we can easily count particular benefits of that
condition.
OA 7.325 12 I count it another capital advantage of
age, this, that a success more or less signifies nothing.
OA 7.327 22 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's]
soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish
and his possession. This makes the value of age...
OA 7.332 7 I have lately found in an old note-book a
record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the
election of his son to the Presidency. It...reports a moment in the
life of a heroic person, who, in extreme old age, appeared still erect
and worthy of his fame.
OA 7.333 6 ...[John Adams]...added...what effect age
may work in diminishing the power of [John Quincy Adams's] mind, I do
not know;...
OA 7.333 11 When Mr. J. Q. Adams's age was mentioned,
[John Adams] said, He is now fifty-eight...
OA 7.333 24 [John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere, whom
he well remembered to have seen come down daily, at great age, to walk
in the old town-house...
OA 7.335 20 When life has been well spent, age is a
loss of what it can well spare...
PI 8.1 17 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly
to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human
age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
PI 8.13 9 When some familiar truth or fact appears in
a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is
like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as...when the
old horse-block in the yard is found to be a Torso Hercules of the
Phidian age.
PI 8.14 27 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the
central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no
real existence,--is only phenomenal. Youth, age, property, condition,
events, persons,--self, even,-- are successive maias (deceptions)
through which Vishnu mocks and instructs the soul.
PI 8.58 13 [The wind] is in the field, it is in the
wood,/ Without hand, without foot,/ Without age, without season/...
PI 8.58 14 ...[The wind] is always of the same age
with the ages of ages,/ And of equal breadth with the surface of the
earth./
PI 8.63 21 To true poetry we shall sit down as the
result and justification of the age in which it appears...
PI 8.64 17 Bring us...poetry which...is the gift to
men of new images and symbols, each the ensign and oracle of an age;...
SA 8.101 11 ...in the last age, this system [of
hereditary nobility] has been on its trial...
Elo2 8.122 18 ...I never heard [John Quincy Adams]
speak in public until his fine voice was much broken by age.
Elo2 8.124 7 In social converse with the mighty dead
of ancient days, you will never smart under the galling sense of
dependence upon the mighty living of the present age.
Elo2 8.132 8 ...when a great sentiment...makes itself
deeply felt in any age or country, then great orators appear.
PC 8.209 15 ...[the coxcomb] has found that this
country and this age belong to the most liberal persuasion;...
PC 8.210 2 Mark...the large resources...of a scholar,
in this age.
PC 8.215 26 ...from time to time in history, men are
born a whole age too soon.
PC 8.225 7 Look out into the July night and see the
broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh
and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of
numbers cannot compute its enormous age...
PC 8.226 8 The benefactors we have indicated
were...great because exceptional. The question which the present age
urges with increasing emphasis...is, whether the high qualities which
distinguished them can be imparted.
PC 8.227 3 Great men,-the age goes on their
credit;...
PC 8.230 16 Here you are set down, scholars and
idealists, as in a barbarous age;...
Insp 8.282 18 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert]
says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and
write;/...
Insp 8.282 27 I understand The Harbingers to refer to
the signs of age and decay which [Herbert] detects in himself...
Imtl 8.340 13 A sort of absoluteness attends all
perception of truth,-no smell of age, no hint of corruption.
Dem1 10.16 4 We do not think the young will be
forsaken; but he is fast approaching the age when the sub-miraculous
external protection and leading are withdrawn and he is committed to
his own care.
Aris 10.54 15 In the fine arts, I find none in the
present age who have any popular power...
Chr2 10.110 7 One service which this age has rendered
is, to make the life and wisdom of every past man accessible and
available to all.
Chr2 10.112 22 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another
sieve for the religious tradition...
Chr2 10.116 6 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of
suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its
connection with a church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss, and the
office of this age is to put all these writings on the eternal footing
of equality of origin in the instincts of the human mind.
Edc1 10.130 9 Why does [man] track in the midnight
heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch wandering from age to age...
Edc1 10.136 26 I call our system [of education] a
system of despair, and I find all the correction, all the revolution
that is needed and that the best spirits of this age, promise, in one
word, in Hope.
SovE 10.191 14 An Eastern poet, in describing the
golden age, said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of
Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue
vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
SovE 10.194 24 Let [a man]...find...in the passing
hour, the age of ages.
SovE 10.203 26 ...our later generation appears
ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calvinist
age.
SovE 10.204 22 I will not now go into the metaphysics
of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by
an age of criticism...
SovE 10.205 18 I do not think the summit of this age
truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion
and philosophy reached in any former age.
SovE 10.205 20 I do not think the summit of this age
truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion
and philosophy reached in any former age.
SovE 10.208 24 ...a new crop of geniuses like those
of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age...
SovE 10.208 25 ...a new crop of geniuses like those
of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age...
SovE 10.213 12 The man of this age must be
matriculated in the university of sciences and tendencies flowing from
all past periods.
Prch 10.220 16 ...the virtuous sentiment appears
arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as
unbelievers, and burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so
far as to take tacit part with them, to cast off reverence for the
Church; and there follows an age of unbelief.
Prch 10.222 27 The next age will behold God in the
ethical laws-as mankind begins to see them in this age, self-equal,
self-executing, instantaneous and self-affirmed;...
Prch 10.223 17 I find myself always struck and
stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do
not find that the age or country makes the least difference;...
MoL 10.245 20 A French prophet of our age, Fourier,
predicted that one day...the rival portions of humanity would dispute
each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.
MoL 10.254 26 ...every age...has problems to solve,
insoluble by the last age.
Schr 10.275 12 The hero rises out of all comparison
with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he disesteems old
age, and lands, and money, and power...
Schr 10.283 13 [Whosoever looks with heed into his
thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than
he does...makes no progress, but was wise in youth as in age.
Plu 10.294 8 ...though the contemporary, in his youth
or in his old age, of Persius, Juvenal, Lucan and Seneca...[Plutarch]
does not cite them...
Plu 10.317 7 In his dedication of the work
[Plutarch's Morals] to the Archbishop of Canterbury...[Morgan] tells
the Primate that Plutarch was the wisest man of his age, and, if he had
been a Christian, one of the best too;...
LLNE 10.328 21 The most remarkable literary work of
the age has for its hero and subject precisely this introversion: I
mean the poem of Faust.
LLNE 10.338 25 The result [of Modern Science] in
literature and the general mind was a return to law;...as distinguished
from the profligate manners and politics of earlier times. The age was
moral.
LLNE 10.352 8 ...we could not exempt [Fourierism]
from the criticism which we apply to so many projects for reform with
which the brain of the age teems.
LLNE 10.357 17 I regard these philanthropists as
themselves the effects of the age in which we live...
LLNE 10.361 2 There was no doubt great variety of
character and purpose in the members of the community [Brook Farm]. It
consisted in the main of young people-few of middle age, and none old.
EzRy 10.381 21 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with
the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college by the
time he should be twenty-one years of age...
EzRy 10.391 17 ...all will remember that even in
[Ezra Ripley's] old age, if the firebell was rung, he was instantly on
horseback with his buckets, and bag.
EzRy 10.395 16 ...in his old age, when all the
antique Hebraism and its customs are passing away, it is fit that [Ezra
Ripley] too should depart...
MMEm 10.399 5 I wish to meet the invitation with
which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real
life. It is a representative life...of an age now past...
MMEm 10.399 20 I report some of the thoughts and
soliloquies of a country girl [Mary Moody Emerson]...growing from youth
to age amid slender opportunities and usually very humble company.
MMEm 10.410 11 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said,
Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are
shut. Yes, Madam, I have observed it. Perhaps you would like to know
the reasons? Yes, I should. I don't like to see a person of your age
guilty of such levity in her dress.
MMEm 10.414 8 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my
aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for
herself...
MMEm 10.415 25 This morning rich in existence; the
remembrance...of bitterer days of youth and age...
MMEm 10.418 15 Shut up in this severe weather with
careful, infirm, afflicted age, it is wonderful, my [Mary Moody
Emerson's] spirits...
MMEm 10.421 20 Our civilization is not always mending
our poetry. It... lacks somewhat of the grandeur that belongs to a
Doric and unphilosophical age.
MMEm 10.430 1 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?
MMEm 10.431 25 What a timid, ungrateful creature!
Fear the deepest pitfalls of age, when pressing on...to Him with whom a
day is a thousand years...
SlHr 10.439 2 ...when the votes of the Free
States...had...betrayed the cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar] considered
the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
SlHr 10.440 24 The strength and the beauty of the man
[Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind,
which, in manhood and in old age...left an infantile innocence...
SlHr 10.443 24 Such was, in old age, the beauty of
[Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made
the same impression of probity on all beholders.
HDC 11.70 22 On the 27th June [1774], near three
hundred persons, upwards of twenty-one years of age, inhabitants of
Concord, entered into a covenant...
HDC 11.77 26 I have found within a few days, among
some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...and at the
close of the month [April], he writes, This month remarkable for the
greatest events of the present age.
EWI 11.122 8 ...that faculty which is paramount in
any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines
the civility of that age...
EWI 11.143 2 Our planet, before the age of written
history, had its races of savages...
War 11.173 5 [Shakespeare's lords] are not shams, but
the substance of which that age and world is made.
War 11.173 15 ...another age comes, a truer religion
and ethics open...
FSLN 11.219 19 ...it was strange to see that office,
age, fame, talent...all count for nothing.
FSLN 11.240 7 ...that is the stern edict of
Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...age on
age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale...
FSLN 11.241 26 It is a potent support and ally to a
brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that
better men in other parts of the country...will rightly report him to
his own and the next age.
FSLN 11.243 21 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name
and aspect under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in
this age and country...
TPar 11.292 5 Ah, my brave brother [Theodore Parker]!
it seems as if, in a frivolous age, our loss were immense...
EPro 11.326 9 Incertainties now crown themselves
assured,/ And Peace proclaims olives of endless age./
EPro 11.326 17 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race
which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of
the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a
race...whose very miseries sprang from their great talent for
usefulness, which, in a more moral age, will not only defend their
independence, but will give them a rank among nations.
ALin 11.332 4 In a host of young men that start
together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each
fails on trial;...
SMC 11.348 22 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/
Beneath Time's changeful sky,/ And, where it lightened once, from age
to age,/ Men come to learn, in grateful pilgrimage,/ That length of
days is knowing when to die./ Lowell, Concord Ode.
SMC 11.351 2 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord
Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of
Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything,
as war does the age.
Koss 11.400 1 ...you [Kossuth], the foremost soldier
of freedom in this age, it is for us [the people of Concord] to crave
your judgment;...
Wom 11.415 20 A second epoch for Woman was in
France,-entirely civil; the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite
character, in the age of Louis XIV...
Wom 11.416 4 Another step [for Woman] was the effect
of the action of the age in the antagonism to Slavery.
SHC 11.430 14 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I
call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life
every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never
spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old
arts of preserving.
Shak1 11.447 19 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a
painful disappointment...that...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the
infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
Scot 11.467 22 [Scott] found himself in his youth and
manhood and age in the society of Mackintosh, Horner, Jeffrey...
FRO2 11.486 15 We have had not long since presented
to us by Max Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine, not at all
extraordinary in itself, but only as coming from that eminent Father in
the Church, and at that age...
FRep 11.524 24 These [the good and wise] we just join
to wake, for these are of the strain/ That justice dare defend, and
will the age maintain./
FRep 11.539 8 It is not possible to extricate
yourself from the questions in which your age is involved.
PLT 12.7 17 Bring the best wits together, and they
are so impatient of each other, so vulgar, there is so much more than
their wit,-such follies, gluttonies, partialities, age, care, and
sleep, that you shall have no academy.
PLT 12.16 7 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder.
To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and
Nature. The wonder subsists, and age, though of eternity, could not
approach a solution.
PLT 12.18 14 There are...[other minds] that deposit
their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time
and be brooded in other minds, and the shell not be broken until the
next age...
II 12.74 2 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all
memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age.
What does the writer know of that?
Mem 12.92 2 Some fact that had a childish
significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when
riper intelligence recalls it...perhaps in your age has new meaning.
Mem 12.102 22 ...when age and calamity have bereaved
[those who have used their days well] of their limbs or organs, then
they retreat on mental faculty...
Bost 12.187 14 In...the farthest colonies...a
middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil
the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris;...
Bost 12.193 25 In our own age we are learning to
look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which
makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...
Bost 12.210 6 In an age of trade and material
prosperity, we have stood a little stupefied by the elevation of our
ancestors.
MAng1 12.222 14 Not easily in this age will any man
acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the
human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias...
MAng1 12.235 4 Not until he was in the seventy-third
year of his age, [Michelangelo] undertook the building of Saint
Peter's.
MAng1 12.237 12 ...[Michelangelo]...in old age speaks
with extreme pleasure of his residence with the hermits in the
mountains of Spoleto;...
MAng1 12.241 23 At the age of eighty years,
[Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari, sending him various spiritual sonnets
he had written...
Milt1 12.247 17 ...it is...true that [Milton] has
gained, in this age, some increase of permanent praise.
Milt1 12.248 6 There is no name in English literature
between [Milton's] age and ours that rises into any approach to his
own.
Milt1 12.252 10 ...if we skip the pages of Paradise
Lost where God the Father argues like a school divine, so did the next
age to [Milton's] own.
Milt1 12.256 18 Nor is there in literature a more
noble outline of a wise external education than that which [Milton]
drew up, at the age of thirty-six, in his Letter to Samuel Hartlib.
Milt1 12.263 16 [Milton] acknowledges to his friend
Diodati, at the age of twenty-one, that he is enamoured...of moral
perfection...
Milt1 12.268 13 The memorable covenant, which in his
youth...[Milton] makes with God and his reader, expressed the faith of
his old age.
Milt1 12.269 4 It is said that no opinion, no civil,
religious, moral dogma can be produced that was not broached in the
fertile brain of that age [of Milton].
Milt1 12.271 15 [Milton] pushed, as far as any in
that democratic age, his ideas of civil liberty.
Milt1 12.278 26 We have offered no apology for
expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John
Milton; who, in old age, in solitude, in neglect, and blind, wrote
Paradise Lost;...
Milt1 12.279 7 ...are not all men fortified by the
remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who, in a
revolutionary age... endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new
heights of spiritual grace and dignity...
ACri 12.294 26 We cannot find that anything in
[Shakespeare's] age was more worth expression than anything in ours;...
MLit 12.311 9 In order to any complete view of the
literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it
quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write.
MLit 12.311 17 How can the age be a bad one which
gives me Plato and Paul and Plutarch...beside its own riches?
MLit 12.311 24 Our presses groan every year with new
editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...which the
age adopts by quoting them.
MLit 12.311 26 If we should designate favorite
studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great
mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two
instances would be conspicuous.
MLit 12.313 24 ...the single soul feels its
right...to summon all facts and parties before its tribunal. And in
this sense the age is subjective.
MLit 12.315 15 The great lead us to Nature, and in
our age to metaphysical Nature...
MLit 12.316 11 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature
because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or
is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a
talent...which...would not make itself intelligible to the wise man of
another age or country?
MLit 12.322 14 Whatever the age inherited or
invented, [Goethe] has made his own.
MLit 12.323 2 ...in [Goethe] this encyclopaedia of
facts, which it has been the boast of the age to compile, wrought an
equal effect.
MLit 12.328 18 Does [Goethe] represent, not only the
achievement of that age in which he lived, but that which it would be
and is now becoming?
MLit 12.329 12 [We can fancy Goethe saying to
himself] The age, that can damn [Wilhelm Meister] as false and
falsifying, will see that it is deeply one with the genius and history
of all the centuries.
MLit 12.334 10 The very depth of the sentiment...is
guarantee for the riches of science and of song in the age to come.
MLit 12.334 11 He who doubts whether this age or this
country can yield any contribution to the literature of the world only
betrays his own blindness to the necessities of the human soul.
WSL 12.343 20 Whoever writes for the love of truth
and beauty...belongs to this sacred class; and among these, few men of
the present age have a better claim to be numbered than Mr. Landor.
Pray 12.351 25 ...what led us to these remembrances
[of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately
brought us acquainted with two or three diaries...
EurB 12.369 1 ...with a complete satisfaction
[Wordsworth]...celebrated his own [life] with the religion of a true
priest. Hence the antagonism which was immediately felt between his
poetry and the spirit of the age...
EurB 12.372 6 The poem of all the poetry of the
present age for which we predict the longest term is Abou ben Adhem, of
Leigh Hunt.
EurB 12.374 26 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have
given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of
literature, supposed to be the natural fruit and expression of the age.
PPr 12.386 27 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle
the calm daylight, which always shows every individual man in balance
with his age...
PPr 12.388 15 One excellence [Carlyle] has in an age
of Mammon and of criticism, that he never suffers the eye of his wonder
to close.
Age, n. (10)
LT 1.262 4 What is the reason to be given for this
extreme attraction which persons have for us, but that they are the
Age?...
LT 1.271 8 The conscience of the Age demonstrates
itself in this effort to raise the life of man by putting it in harmony
with his idea of the Beautiful and the Just.
LT 1.287 3 I do not wish to be guilty of the
narrowness and pedantry of inferring the tendency and genius of the Age
from a few and insufficient facts or persons.
LT 1.287 14 At the manifest risk of repeating what
every other Age has thought of itself, we might say we think the Genius
of this Age more philosophical than any other has been...
OA 7.316 10 Wellington, in speaking of military men,
said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! I have often
detected the like deception in the...wig, spectacles and padded chair
of Age.
OA 7.316 14 Nature lends herself to these illusions
[of time], and adds dim sight...short memory and sleep. These also are
masks, and all is not Age that wears them.
Age of Gold, n. (2)
Chr1 3.87 8 He spoke, and words more soft than rain/
Brought the Age of Gold again:/...
Age of Reason, n. (1)
Age, Old, Apology for, n. (1)
Age, Old, n. (1)
OA 7.320 16 ...the creed of the street is, Old Age is
not disgraceful, but immensely disadvantageous.
age, Philosophical, n. (1)
AmS 1.109 5 ...there are data for marking the genius
of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or
Philosophical age.
Age, Present, n. (1)
MLit 12.310 17 In looking at the library of the
Present Age, we are first struck with the fact of the immense
miscellany.
age, Reflective, n. (1)
AmS 1.109 5 ...there are data for marking the genius
of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or
Philosophical age.
Age, Roman, n. (2)
Clbs 7.242 20 ...there was liberal and refined
conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the Middle Age.
Clbs 7.243 16 ...a history of clubs from early
antiquity...through the Greek and Roman to the Middle Age...would be an
important chapter in history.
age, Romantic, n. (1)
AmS 1.109 4 ...there are data for marking the genius
of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or
Philosophical age.
Age, Spirit of the, n. (1)
Schr 10.269 2 Talk frankly with [the practical men]
and you learn...that the Spirit of the Age has been before you with
influences impossible to parry or resist.
age, v. (1)
aged, adj. (8)
Nat 1.60 7 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of
persons and things...not as painfully accumulated...in an aged creeping
Past...
NER 3.272 15 [Men] are conservatives...when they are
sick, or aged.
MoS 4.162 27 ...when in Paris, in 1833...in the
cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon, who
died in 1830, aged sixty-eight years...
ET19 5.313 4 Is it not true, sir, that the wise
ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the
port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her
banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so... I feel in regard to
this aged England...
PI 8.14 9 The aged Michel Angelo indicates his
perpetual study as in boyhood,--I carry my satchel still.
Plu 10.319 1 [Alexander] persuaded the Sogdians not
to kill, but to cherish their aged parents;...
HDC 11.76 7 The presence of these aged men who were
in arms on that day [battle of Concord] seems to bring us nearer to it.
MAng1 12.235 7 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III.
first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to
assume the charge of this great work...
aged, n. (2)
Lov1 2.170 11 ...this passion of which we speak
[love]...makes the aged participators of it not less than the tender
maiden...
HDC 11.83 2 Concord has always been noted for its
ministers. The living need no praise of mine. Yet it is among the
sources of satisfaction and gratitude, this day, that the aged [Ezra
Ripley] with whom is wisdom, our fathers' counsellor and friend, is
spared to counsel and intercede for the sons.
agencies, n. (8)
Pow 6.68 9 The rule for this whole class of [natural]
agencies is,--all plus is good; only put it in the right place.
CbW 6.256 10 The agencies by which events so grand as
the opening of California, of Texas, or Oregon...are effected, are
paltry...
Civ 7.33 9 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in
modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are
casual facts which...elevate the rule of life. In the presence of these
agencies it is frivolous to insist on the invention of printing or
gunpowder...
Dem1 10.17 2 This faith...in the particular of lucky
days and fortunate persons...this supposed power runs athwart the
recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
PerF 10.70 17 What agencies of electricity, gravity,
light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is...
agency, n. (10)
Nat 1.49 24 Until this higher agency intervened, the
animal eye sees...sharp outlines and colored surfaces.
UGM 4.35 5 ...within the limits of human education
and agency, we may say great men exist that there may be greater men.
SwM 4.133 10 There is an immense chain of
intermediation [in Swedenborg's system of the world]...which bereaves
every agency of all freedom and character.
SwM 4.134 16 Though the agency of the Lord is in
every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive.
Bty 6.288 5 ...everybody knows people...who, with all
degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency.
Farm 7.146 14 Water...transports vast boulders of
rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends
on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and
pores. By this agency, carrying in solution elements needful to every
plant, the vegetable world exists.
SovE 10.195 4 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot
on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one
proviso,-that I know it is his agency.
MMEm 10.428 12 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody
Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of,
with one proviso,- [God's] agency.
agent, adj. (2)
agent, n. (23)
MR 1.231 25 In the Spanish islands, every agent or
factor of the Americans...has taken oath that he is a Catholic...
LT 1.261 16 The reason and influence of wealth...the
fuller development and the freer play of Character as a social and
political agent;-these and other related topics will in turn come to be
considered.
Tran 1.355 7 ...the justice which is now claimed for
the black...is for a necessity to the soul of the agent, not of the
beneficiary.
Comp 2.114 9 It is best...to buy...in your agent,
good sense applied to accounts and affairs.
Chr1 3.92 20 Nature seems to authorize trade, as soon
as you see the natural merchant, who appears not so much a private
agent as her factor and Minister of Commerce.
Chr1 3.93 19 I see [in the natural merchant]...the
consciousness of being an agent and playfellow of the original laws of
the world.
NER 3.283 17 [The Law] rewards actions after their
nature, and not after the design of the agent.
UGM 4.9 5 Each man is by secret liking connected with
some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is;...
SwM 4.138 14 That pure malignity can exist is the
extreme proposition of unbelief. It is not to be entertained by a
rational agent;...
Pow 6.77 12 ...the galvanic stream, slow but
continuous, is equal in power to the electric spark, and is, in our
arts, a better agent.
Wsp 6.240 5 The weight of the universe is pressed
down on the shoulders of each moral agent to hold him to his task.
Schr 10.264 8 This, gentlemen, is the topic on which
I shall speak,-the natural and permanent function of the Scholar, as he
is...an organic agent in nature.
HDC 11.63 9 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother,
Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of
deputies in 1676. The following year, he was sent to England...as agent
for the Colony;...
LVB 11.91 2 The newspapers now inform us that...a
treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was
pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with
some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
FRO2 11.487 22 I think wise men wish their religion
to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...
CInt 12.122 16 Instinct is the name for...that
feeling which each has that what is done by any man or agent is done by
the same wit as his.
agents, n. (31)
Con 1.321 2 The contractors who were building a road
out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers...refractory to a degree
that embarrassed the agents...
Hsm1. 2.252 3 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the
last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that
can be inflicted by evil agents.
Chr1 3.114 19 ...the mind requires...a force of
character...which will rule animal and mineral virtues, and blend with
the courses of sap, of rivers, of winds, of stars, and of moral agents.
Pol1 3.213 22 The wise man [the community] cannot
find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts...to secure
the advantages of efficiency and internal peace by confiding the
government to one, who may himself select his agents.
NR 3.235 19 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries,
that all the agents with which we deal are subalterns...
ShP 4.207 8 That imagination which dilates the closet
[Shakespeare] writes in to the world's dimension, crowds it with agents
in rank and order, as quickly reduces the big reality to be the
glimpses of the moon.
ShP 4.217 22 Are the agents of nature, and the power
to understand them, worth no more than a street serenade...
Civ 7.30 25 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots
by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can
harness also evil agents...
DL 7.110 7 Do not ask [the scholar] to help with his
savings...eager agents to lobby in legislatures...
Farm 7.152 21 ...we cannot enumerate the incidents
and agents of the farm without reverting to their influence on the
farmer.
Cour 7.264 18 Courage...consists in the conviction
that the agents with whom you contend are not superior in strength of
resources or spirit to you.
PI 8.66 18 I count the genius of Swedenborg and
Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy...
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 10.16 20 In the popular belief, ghosts are a
selecting tribe, avoiding millions, speaking to one. In our traditions,
fairies, angels and saints show the like favoritism; so do the agents
and the means of magic...
Dem1 10.22 10 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a
feudal baron may fancy...that...when he acts, unheard-of success
evinces the presence of rare agents;...
Aris 10.45 13 ...the man's associations, fortunes,
love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will
traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he
is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too
early. Let him not hurry or hesitate. Though millions are already
arrived, his seat is reserved. Though millions attend, they only
multiply his friends and agents.
Aris 10.65 9 There is no need that [a man of generous
spirit] should count the pounds of property or the numbers of agents
whom his influence touches;...
Chr2 10.96 4 Before [the moral sentiment] what are
persons, prophets, or seraphim but its passing agents...
HDC 11.83 15 I hope that History [of Concord] will
not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck]...has wisely
enriched his pages with the resolutions, addresses and instructions to
its agents...
LVB 11.95 8 ...the steps of this crime [the
relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick
time, that the millions of virtuous citizens, whose agents the
government are, have no place to interpose...
EWI 11.138 18 Men have become aware, through the
emancipation [in the West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence
of powers which, in their days of darkness, they had overlooked.
Virtuous men will not again rely on political agents.
CL 12.140 15 The importance to the intellect of
exposing the body and brain to the fine mineral and imponderable agents
of the air makes the chief interest in the subject.
MAng1 12.236 9 Amidst endless annoyances from the
envy and interest of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he
had displaced, [Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast
ideas.
Ages, Dark, n. (3)
PC 8.214 15 In modern Europe, the Middle Ages were
called the Dark Ages.
Ages, Middle [Henry Hallam (1)
Boks 7.206 6 For the Church and the Feudal
Institution, Mr. Hallam's Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet
readable and conceivable outlines.
Ages, Middle, n. (8)
GoW 4.271 4 We conceive...life in the Middle Ages, to
be a simple and comprehensible affair;...
PC 8.214 14 In modern Europe, the Middle Ages were
called the Dark Ages.
Schr 10.262 24 I think the peculiar office of
scholars...is to be (as the poets were called in the Middle Ages)
Professors of the Joyous Science...
RBur 11.439 20 At the first announcement...that the
25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep
the festival. We are here to hold our parliament with love and poesy,
as men were wont to do in the Middle Ages.
FRep 11.513 18 Our sleepy civilization, ever since
Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole
art of war...on that one compound...and reckons Greeks and Romans and
Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times.
Bost 12.193 13 ...these Englishmen [who settled
Massachusetts], with the Middle Ages still obscuring their reason, were
filled with Christian thought.
ages, n. (205)
AmS 1.105 19 They are the kings of the world
who...persuade men...that this thing which they do is the apple which
the ages have desired to pluck...
DSA 1.129 7 ...what a distortion did [Jesus's]
doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in the next, and the following
ages!
DSA 1.130 14 ...as it has appeared for ages,
[Christianity] is not the doctrine of the soul...
DSA 1.133 22 ...with yet more entire consent of my
human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have
sung of the true God in all ages.
LE 1.162 14 The impoverishing philosophy of ages has
laid stress on the distinctions of the individual...
MN 1.193 26 ...the sturdiest defender of existing
institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air which
condenses heat in every corner that may restore to the elements the
fabric of ages.
MN 1.207 8 Follow the great man, and you shall see
what the world has at heart in these ages.
MN 1.221 6 It is the office...of this age to annul
that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has
effected between the intellect and holiness.
LT 1.265 17 Could we indicate the indicators...we
should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages
the color and quality of ours.
LT 1.272 25 The new voices in the wilderness...have
revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by
the hands. ... For some ages, these ideas have been consigned to the
poet and musical composer...
Con 1.301 6 If we read the world historically, we
shall say, Of all the ages, the present hour and circumstance is the
cumulative result;...
Con 1.313 17 Thank the rude foster-mother
[Necessity], though she has... set hopes in your heart which shall be
history in the next ages.
Con 1.317 22 Yonder peasant...carries a whole
revolution of man and nature in his head, which shall be a sacred
history to some future ages.
YA 1.370 13 ...I think we must regard the land
as...the sanative and Americanizing influence. which promises to
disclose new virtues for ages to come.
YA 1.371 23 ...there is a sublime and friendly
Destiny by which the human race is guided...to results affecting masses
and ages.
Hist 2.26 5 [Vases, tragedies, statues] have
continued to be made in all ages...
Hist 2.30 20 ...[the story of Prometheus] gives the
history of religion, with some closeness to the faith of later ages.
Hist 2.37 26 A mind might ponder its thoughts for
ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall
teach it in a day.
SR 2.61 11 A man Caesar is born, and for ages after
we have a Roman Empire.
SR 2.86 2 A singular equality may be observed between
the great men of the first and of the last ages;...
SL 2.146 19 We are always reasoning from the seen to
the unseen. Hence the perfect intelligence that subsists between wise
men of remote ages.
Fdsp 2.201 14 ...after so many ages of experience,
what do we know of nature or of ourselves?
OS 2.273 3 Some thoughts always find us young, and
keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal
beauty. Every man parts from that contemplation with the feeling that
it rather belongs to ages than to mortal life.
Cir 2.302 27 You admire this tower of granite,
weathering the hurts of so many ages.
Cir 2.311 1 O, what truths profound and executable
only in ages and orbs, are supposed in the announcement of every truth!
Int 2.329 9 As far as we can recall these ecstasies
[of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and
all men and all the ages confirm it.
Art1 2.359 22 [The traveller who visits the Vatican
galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful
remains, but forgets that these works...are the contributions of many
ages and many countries;...
Pt1 3.35 16 Swedenborg, of all men in the recent
ages, stands eminently for the translator of nature into thought.
Exp 3.71 27 I clap my hands in infantine joy and
amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence,
old with the love and homage of innumerable ages...
Exp 3.83 9 I can very confidently announce one or
another law...but I am too young yet by some ages to compile a code.
Chr1 3.110 8 [The virtuous prince] waits a hundred
ages till a sage comes, and does not doubt.
Chr1 3.110 11 ...he who waits a hundred ages until a
sage comes, without doubting, knows men.
Chr1 3.110 13 ...the virtuous prince moves, and for
ages shows empire the way.
Mrs1 3.123 12 ...every man's name that emerged at all
from the mass in the feudal ages rattles in our ear like a flourish of
trumpets.
Pol1 3.208 6 What satire on government can equal the
severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages
has signified cunning...
UGM 4.20 4 Mankind have in all ages attached
themselves to a few persons who...were entitled to the position of
leaders and law-givers.
PPh 4.66 7 In the doctrine of the organic character
and disposition is the origin of caste. ... The East confirms itself,
in all ages, in this faith.
PPh 4.78 19 How many ages have gone by, and [Plato]
remains unapproached!
PNR 4.87 24 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the
centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so
modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this
rhythmic structure...
SwM 4.117 9 The poets, in as far as they are poets,
use [Correspondence]; but it is known to them only as the magnet was
known for ages, as a toy.
SwM 4.124 8 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the
announcement of ethical laws...entitle him to a place, vacant for some
ages, among the lawgivers of mankind.
MoS 4.177 4 The word Fate...expresses the sense of
mankind, in all ages, that the laws of the world do not always
befriend...us.
MoS 4.185 23 We see, now, events forced on which seem
to retard or retrograde the civility of ages.
ShP 4.202 18 There is somewhat touching in the
madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching
Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note...the
man...on whose thoughts the foremost people of the world are now for
some ages to be nourished...
NMW 4.254 20 Laws, institutions, monuments, nations,
all fall [said Napoleon]; but the noise [of a great
reputation]...resounds in after ages.
GoW 4.272 26 In the menstruum of this man's
[Goethe's] wit, the past and the present ages...are dissolved into
archetypes and ideas.
GoW 4.277 12 ...[Goethe] flung into literature, in
his Mephistopheles, the first organic figure that has been added for
some ages...
GoW 4.290 8 We shall learn to draw rents and revenues
from the immense patrimony of the old and the recent ages.
ET1 5.11 9 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that
after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St.
Paul...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny
it...
ET3 5.34 12 The solidity of the structures that
compose the [English] towns speaks the industry of ages.
ET4 5.46 11 ...[the Englishmen's] success is not
sudden or fortunate, but they have maintained constancy and
self-equality for many ages.
ET5 5.81 17 [The English] are bound to see their
measure carried, and stick to it through ages of defeat.
ET5 5.91 9 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself
for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the
southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;.--a
work whose value does not begin until thirty years have elapsed, and
thenceforward a record to all ages of the highest import.
ET5 5.101 20 Whilst [the English] are some ages ahead
of the rest of the world in the art of living;...this vanguard of
civility and power they coldly hold...
ET10 5.163 22 The taste and science of thirty
peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England], and the
hereditary principle heaps on the owner of to-day the benefit of ages
of owners.
ET11 5.178 26 This long descent of [English] families
and this cleaving through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates
the imagination.
ET12 5.200 9 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the
upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals,
which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages...
ET13 5.215 3 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche
or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried
and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above
your strength, like removing it.
ET13 5.215 15 ...plainly there has been great power
of sentiment at work in this island [England], of which these
[religious] buildings are the proofs; as volcanic basalts show the work
of fire which has been extinguished for ages.
ET13 5.216 7 [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. Man
awoke refreshed by the sleep of ages.
ET16 5.279 21 The spot, the gray blocks [of
Stonehenge] and their rude order...suggested to [Carlyle] the flight of
ages...
ET18 5.299 10 ...[the English] have earned their
vantage ground and held it through ages of adverse possession.
F 6.15 16 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of
granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate;...
F 6.15 17 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of
granite;...a thousand ages, and a measure of coal;...
F 6.15 18 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of
granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...
Wth 6.83 15 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The
matted thicket low and wide,/ This must the leaves of ages strew/ The
granite slab to clothe and hide,/ Ere wheat can wave its golden pride./
Ctr 6.148 4 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If
I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be
consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human
race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
Wsp 6.205 6 In all ages, souls out of time...are
born...
Wsp 6.206 1 Christianity, in the romantic ages,
signified European culture...
Wsp 6.213 17 There is...a simple...presence, dwelling
very peacefully in us...and to this homage there is a consent of all
thoughtful and just men in all ages and conditions.
Wsp 6.219 7 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and
projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter
projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
Wsp 6.238 10 The great class...the rapt, the lost,
the fools of ideas...suggest what they cannot execute. They speak to
the ages...
Wsp 6.240 25 The religion which is to guide and
fulfil the present and coming ages...must be intellectual.
SS 7.5 10 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in
such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting...to slip away
into the back stars...there to wear out ages in solitude...
DL 7.116 11 ...this voice of communities and ages,
Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious...
Farm 7.142 27 Long before [the farmer] was born, the
sun of ages decomposed the rocks...
Farm 7.152 24 This crust of soil which ages have
refined [the farmer] refines again for the feeding of a civil and
instructed people.
PI 8.2 11 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is
done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/ Making free with time and
size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/
So to repeat/ No word or feat/ Crowds in a day the sum of ages,/ And
blushing Love outwits the sages./
PI 8.39 6 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry
out and complete the metamorphosis, which, in the imperfect kinds
arrested for ages, in the perfecter proceeds rapidly in the same
individual.
PI 8.57 7 The metallic force of primitive words makes
the superiority of the remains of the rude ages.
PI 8.58 14 ...[The wind] is always of the same age
with the ages of ages,/ And of equal breadth with the surface of the
earth./
PI 8.74 11 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the
truth and reports it, and his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb
for ages...
SA 8.77 2 When the old world is sterile/ And the ages
are effete,/ He will from wrecks and sediment/ The fairer world
complete./
QO 8.181 13 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas
Aquinas...whose books made the sufficient culture of these ages, Dante
absorbed, and he survives for us.
QO 8.182 7 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches,
are...of this slow growth,-a fagot of selections gathered through
ages...
PC 8.213 9 ...I find not only this equality between
new and old countries... but also a certain equivalence of the ages of
history;...
PC 8.215 17 As we find thus a certain equivalence in
the ages, there is also an equipollence of individual genius to the
nation which it represents.
PPo 8.236 10 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi]
seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than
still to entertain his ear/ And pass the burning summer-time/ In the
palm-grove with a rhyme;/ Heedless that each cunning word/ Tribes and
ages overheard/...
PPo 8.240 2 He who would understand the influence of
the Homeric ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which
similar compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
Grts 8.301 10 I might call [the prize] completeness,
but that is later,- perhaps adjourned for ages.
Grts 8.302 24 Who can doubt the potency of an
individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races-torpid for
ages-by Mahomet;...
Imtl 8.327 3 The most remarkable step in the
religious history of recent ages is that made by the genius of
Swedenborg...
Imtl 8.328 25 ...spend yourself on the work before
you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will
be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it...
Imtl 8.348 16 Here are people who cannot dispose of a
day;...and will you offer them rolling ages without end?
Dem1 10.11 3 Belzoni describes the three marks which
led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh. What thousands had
beheld the same spot for so many ages, and seen no three marks.
Dem1 10.22 5 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a
feudal baron may fancy...that the one question for history is the
pedigree of his house, and future ages will be busy with his renown;...
Aris 10.38 3 How sturdy seem to us in the history,
those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages!
Aris 10.41 17 In simple communities, in the heroic
ages, a man was chosen for his knack;...
Aris 10.41 27 In the heroic ages, as we call them,
the hero uniformly has some real talent.
Chr2 10.97 5 In all ages, to all men, [the moral
force] saith, I am;...
Chr2 10.100 14 It happens now and then, in the ages,
that a soul is born which has no weakness of self...
Chr2 10.116 11 ...each inspired master will gain
instantly by the separation from the idolatry of ages.
Edc1 10.152 9 Try your design on the best school. The
scholars are of all ages and temperaments and capacities.
SovE 10.184 5 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt
the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals;...
SovE 10.191 4 These threads [of Necessity] are
Nature's pernicious elements...the orphan's tears, the vices of men,
lust, cruelty and pitiless avarice. These make the gloomy warp of ages.
SovE 10.194 24 Let [a man]...find...in the passing
hour, the age of ages.
SovE 10.209 19 [The moral law] has not yet its first
hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages
must roll...
SovE 10.212 7 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up,
in shallow hours or ages, with legends, traditions and forms...
Prch 10.219 19 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...
MoL 10.243 17 It is charged that all vigorous
nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity,
and especially by the imagination...the angel of earnest and believing
ages.
Schr 10.259 4 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought
is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages/...
Schr 10.262 2 ...in the worldly habits which harden
us, we find with some surprise...that those excellent influences which
men in all ages have called the Muse, or by some kindred name, come in
to keep us warm and true;...
Schr 10.263 16 The scholar is here...to affirm noble
sentiments; to hear them wherever spoken, out of the deeps of ages...
Schr 10.272 24 [The scholar] is the attorney of the
world, and can never be superfluous where so vast a variety of
questions are ever coming up to be solved, and for ages.
Schr 10.275 11 The hero rises out of all comparison
with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he disesteems old
age, and lands, and money, and power...
Plu 10.303 12 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another
example of...the benign Providence which uses the violence of war, of
earthquakes and changed water-courses, to save underground through
barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
LLNE 10.329 18 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made
the strength of past ages...warm negro ages of sentiment and
vegetation,-all gone;...
EzRy 10.383 26 I am sure all who remember both will
associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the
old...meeting-house... with long prayers, rich with the diction of
ages;...
MMEm 10.424 18 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who
stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw
his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many
a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...
MMEm 10.425 11 The wonderful inhabitant of the
building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of
Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where
the Creator had put his own lighted candle...
MMEm 10.425 25 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo
earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when
dignified with arts and industry:-its oceans, when beating the symbols
of ceaseless ages, than when covered with cargoes of war and
oppression.
MMEm 10.433 11 Very rightly...the Christian ages,
proceeding on a grand instinct, have said: Faith alone, Faith alone.
LS 11.16 14 On every other subject [than the Lord's
Supper] succeeding times have learned to form a judgment more in
accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the
early ages.
HDC 11.29 20 The river...every winter, for ages, has
spread its crust of ice over the great meadows which, in ages, it had
formed.
HDC 11.29 22 The river...every winter, for ages, has
spread its crust of ice over the great meadows which, in ages, it had
formed.
EWI 11.141 22 ...the white has, for ages, done what
he could to keep the negro in that hoggish state.
EWI 11.147 26 The sentiment of Right...pronounces
Freedom. The Power that built this fabric of things...in the history of
the First of August [1834], has made a sign to the ages, of his will.
War 11.149 3 The archangel Hope/ Looks to the azure
cope,/ Waits through dark ages for the morn,/ Defeated day by day, but
unto Victory born./
War 11.154 9 [Alexander's conquest of the East]
brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at
first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage. It
would be very easy to show analogous benefits that have resulted from
military movements of later ages.
War 11.160 1 For ages...the human race has gone on
under the tyranny...of this first brutish form of their effort to be
men;...
War 11.160 1 ...ideas work in ages, and animate vast
societies of men...
FSLC 11.184 13 ...what is the use of constitutions,
if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the
protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress
finds a willing commissioner?
FSLC 11.198 22 These resistances [to the Fugitive
Slave Law] appear...in the retributions which speak so loud in every
part of this business, that I think a tragic poet will know how to make
it a lesson for all ages.
FSLC 11.210 17 ...granting...that these evils [of
slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in
ages...still the question recurs, What must we do?
FSLN 11.226 26 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was
like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue,
I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here
was a question of an immoral law; a question agitated for ages...
JBB 11.272 2 ...the use of a judge is to secure good
government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the
federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local
government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we
should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts...stained to all
ages...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
EPro 11.326 12 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race
which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of
the dejection sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...
ALin 11.337 8 Easy good nature has been the dangerous
foible of the Republic, and it was necessary that its enemies
should...drive us to unwonted firmness, to secure the salvation of this
country in the next ages.
HCom 11.339 9 These boys we talk about like ancient
sages/ Are the same men we read of in old pages-/ The bronze recast of
dead heroic ages!/
Shak1 11.449 7 ...[Shakespeare] is...the genius
which, in upoetic ages, keeps poetry in honor...
FRO1 11.477 18 ...we began [the Free Religious
Association] many years ago,-yes, and many ages before that.
FRep 11.516 14 We are in these days settling for
ourselves and our descendants questions which...will make the peace and
prosperity or the calamity of the next ages.
FRep 11.530 16 ...the great interests of mankind,
being at every moment through ages in favor of justice and the largest
liberty, will always...gain on the adversary and at last win the day.
PLT 12.18 25 [The perceptions of the soul] take to
themselves...ships and cities and nations and armies of men and ages of
duration;...
PLT 12.34 8 We feel as if one man wrote all the
books, painted, built, in dark ages;...
PLT 12.51 21 Nature having for capital this rill [of
thought], drop by drop, as it trickles from the rock of ages...she
husbands and hives...
PLT 12.60 1 The same course continues itself in the
mind which we have witnessed in Nature, namely the carrying-on and
completion of the metamorphosis from grub to worm, from worm to fly. In
human thought this process is often arrested for years and ages.
CL 12.135 2 The Teutonic race have been marked in all
ages by a trait which has received the name of Earth-hunger...
Bost 12.182 17 A blessing through the ages thus/
Shield all thy roofs and towers!/ GOD WITH THE FATHERS, SO WITH US,/
Thou darling town of ours [Boston]1/
Bost 12.211 18 ...in distant ages [Boston's] motto
shall be the prayer of millions on all the hills that gird the town, As
with our Fathers, so God be with us!
Milt1 12.253 4 ...every masterpiece of art goes on
for some ages reconciling the world into itself...
Milt1 12.254 13 ...no man in these later ages, and
few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character
[as Milton].
Milt1 12.261 19 ...Milton was conscious of possessing
this intellectual voice, penetrating through ages...
Milt1 12.268 13 For the first time since many ages,
the invocations of the Eternal Spirit in the commencement of [Milton's]
books are not poetic forms, but are thoughts...
ACri 12.295 3 We cannot...give any account of
[Shakespeare's] existence, but only the fact that there was a wonderful
symbolizer and expressor, who has no rival in all ages...
ACri 12.295 19 ...if the English island had been
larger and the Straits of Dover wider, to keep it at pleasure a little
out of the imbroglio of Europe, they might have managed to feed on
Shakspeare for some ages yet;...
MLit 12.313 25 ...in all ages, and now more, the
narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their
personality.
MLit 12.318 11 [The educated and susceptible] betray
this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and
philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature,
which is courted in a certain moody and exploring spirit, as if they
anticipated a more intimate union of man with the world than has been
known in recent ages.
MLit 12.321 9 [Wordsworth's The Excursion] was the
human soul in these last ages striving for a just publication of
itself.
WSL 12.341 8 In these busy days...a faithful scholar,
receiving from past ages the treasures of wit and enlarging them by his
own love, is a friend and consoler of mankind.
PPr 12.386 16 One can hardly credit, whilst under the
spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same
bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us...
PPr 12.391 25 Whatever thought or motto has once
appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning...is sure to return...in
gigantic reverberation, as if the hills, the horizon, and the next ages
returned the sound.
Ages, Religious, n. (1)
EdAd 11.392 2 Is the age we live in unfriendly...to
that blending of the affections with the poetic faculty which has
distinguished the Religious Ages?
Ages, Rock of, n. (1)
CL 12.141 16 We might say, the Rock of Ages dissolves
himself into the mineral air to build up this mystic constitution of
man's mind and body.
Agesilaus, n. (1)
Plu 10.318 11 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the
legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or
verse,-there will Plutarch, who told the story of Leonidas, of
Agesilaus...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
agglutinations, n. (1)
UGM 4.25 25 Nature abhors these complaisances which
threaten to melt the world into a lump, and hastens to break up such
maudlin agglutinations.
aggrandize, v. (1)
ET4 5.57 8 In Norway, no Persian masses fight and
perish to aggrandize a king...
aggrandized, v. (1)
Cour 7.275 15 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials
beyond the endurance of common humanity; but to the hero whose
intellect is aggrandized by the soul...these terrors vanish as darkness
at sunrise.
aggrandizes, v. (1)
aggravates, v. (1)
aggregate, adj. (1)
aggregate, n. (3)
Nat 1.14 1 By the aggregate of these aids [of the
useful arts], how is the face of the world changed...
F 6.43 21 What is the city in which we sit here, but
an aggregate of incongruous materials which have obeyed the will of
some man?
aggregated, v. (1)
Int 2.330 11 What you have aggregated in a natural
manner surprises and delights when it is produced.
aggregates, n. (1)
aggregates, v. (1)
aggregation, n. (2)
Int 2.340 9 Neither by detachment, neither by
aggregation is the integrity of the intellect transmitted to its
works...
aggression, n. (1)
War 11.170 22 The next season...an aggression on our
commerce by Malays; or the party this man votes with have an
appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the
other way...
aggressions, n. (1)
FSLN 11.240 4 ...torpor exists here throughout the
active classes on the subject of domestic slavery and its appalling
aggressions.
aggressive, adj. (17)
ET2 5.29 16 In our graveyards we scoop a pit, but
this aggressive water opens mile-wide pits and chasms...
ET4 5.51 1 Everything English is a fusion of distant
and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of
thought are counter... aggressive freedom and hospitable law with
bitter class-legislation;...
ET9 5.147 9 ...I am afraid that English nature is so
rank and aggressive as to be a little incompatible with every other.
ET13 5.216 6 [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.
Bhr 6.180 24 There are eyes...that give no more
admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and
deep...others are aggressive and devouring...
CbW 6.269 23 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints
the reason of a household.
Cour 7.259 13 ...the aggressive attitude of men who
will have right done... that part, the part of the leader and soul of
the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
Chr2 10.105 23 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia
in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings.
Carl 10.493 18 [Carlyle] has a vivacious, aggressive
temperament, and unimpressionable.
FSLN 11.226 11 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery, and
that...when [the aspect of the institution] was strong, aggressive, and
threatening an illimitable increase.
FSLN 11.229 3 ...[the Fugitive Slave Law] discloses
the secret of the new times, that Slavery...was become aggressive and
dangerous.
EPro 11.325 2 ...those [Southern] states have shown
every year a more hostile and aggressive temper...
Wom 11.416 2 ...another important step [for Woman]
was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who...showed
the difference of sex to run through nature and through thought. Of all
Christian sects this is at this moment the most vital and aggressive.
RBur 11.440 19 [Burns's] muse and teaching was common
sense, joyful, aggressive, irresistible.
aggressor, n. (1)
LVB 11.96 3 However feeble the sufferer and however
great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should
recoil upon the aggressor.
aggrieved, adj. (1)
aggrieved, v. (1)
LE 1.164 14 ...concede [the man of letters] talents
never so rare, denying him genius, and he is aggrieved.
aghast, adj. (1)
ET10 5.167 24 England is aghast at the disclosure of
her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...
agile, adj. (1)
MN 1.205 18 See the play of thoughts!...what
saurians, what palaiotheria shall be named with these agile movers?
agility, n. (1)
SA 8.93 19 Shenstone gave no bad account of this
influence [of women] in his description of the French woman:... She
strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives
unexpected vigor and agility to fancy...
Agiochook, Mount, n. (1)
LE 1.170 3 ...not less is there a relation of beauty
between my soul and the dim crags of Agiochook up there in the clouds.
Agiocochook, Mount, n. (1)
Insp 8.287 13 Do you want Monadnoc, Agiocochook...in
your closet?
Agis, n. (2)
Chr1 3.89 8 The Gracchi, Agis, Cleomenes, and others
of Plutarch's heroes, do not in the record of facts equal their own
fame.
Elo1 7.79 13 [The Grecian States] did not send to
Lacedaemon for troops, but they said, Send us a commander;
and...Brasidas, or Agis, was despatched by the Ephors.
agitate, v. (6)
MR 1.247 26 ...the idea which now begins to agitate
society has a wider scope than our daily employments...
NER 3.263 19 Doubts such as those I have intimated
drove many good persons to agitate the questions of social reform.
Elo1 7.63 10 No one can survey the face of an excited
assembly, without... being agitated to agitate.
Elo2 8.112 16 ...the political questions, which
agitate millions, find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit
to discuss and deal with these measures...
MMEm 10.404 15 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her
nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of
this life enough to agitate the pool.
agitated, adj. (2)
Insp 8.279 13 Aristotle said: No great genius was
ever without some mixture of madness, nor can anything grand or
superior to the voice of common mortals be spoken except by the
agitated soul.
Milt1 12.268 24 [Milton's] birth fell upon the
agitated years when the discontents of the English Puritans were fast
drawing to a head against the tyranny of the Stuarts.
agitated, v. (12)
LT 1.269 20 How can such a question as the
Slave-trade be agitated for forty years...without throwing great light
on ethics into the general mind?
Pt1 3.24 23 The poet also resigns himself to his
mood, and that thought which agitated him is expressed...
NMW 4.246 15 On the shore of Ptolemais, gigantic
projects agitated [Napoleon].
ET3 5.36 22 ...we have the same difficulty in making
a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in
drawing a jury to try some cause which has agitated the whole
community...
Elo1 7.63 9 No one can survey the face of an excited
assembly, without... being agitated to agitate.
DL 7.127 1 ...let the hearts [our friends] have
agitated witness what power has lurked in the traits of these
structures of clay that pass and repass us!
PC 8.222 13 We are told that in posting his books,
after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian,
when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that
empirical one...he was so agitated that he was forced to call in an
assistant to finish the computation.
PC 8.222 15 We are told that in posting his books,
after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian,
when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that
empirical one...he was so agitated that he was forced to call in an
assistant to finish the computation. Why agitated?...
Dem1 10.4 24 When newly awaked from lively dreams, we
are so near them, still agitated by them...give us one syllable...and
we should repossess the whole;...
LVB 11.93 26 ...to us the questions upon which the
government and the people have been agitated during the past
year...seem but motes in comparison [with the relocation of the
Cherokees].
FSLN 11.226 26 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was
like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue,
I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here
was a question of an immoral law; a question agitated for ages...
EurB 12.370 24 ...[modern painters] will not paint
for their times, agitated by the spirit which agitates their
country;...
agitates, v. (8)
LT 1.272 5 It is the interior testimony to a fairer
possibility of life and manners which agitates society every day with
the offer of some new amendment.
Con 1.295 13 The war [between Conservatism and
Innovation]...agitates every man's bosom with opposing advantages every
hour.
OS 2.281 8 Every distinct apprehension of this
central commandment [of the soul] agitates men with awe and delight.
Elo1 7.92 22 ...in cases where profound conviction
has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a
certain belief. It agitates and tears him...
PI 8.16 2 ...the book, the landscape or the
personality which...penetrated to the inward sense, agitates us, and is
not forgotten.
EurB 12.370 24 ...[modern painters] will not paint
for their times, agitated by the spirit which agitates their
country;...
agitating, adj. (1)
HDC 11.77 7 The agitating events of those days [of
the battle of Concord] were duly remembered in the church.
agitating, v. (2)
Chr1 3.102 5 Had there been something latent in the
man, a terrible undemonstrated genius agitating and embarrassing his
demeanor, we had watched for its advent.
agitation, n. (7)
Nat 1.31 23 Long hereafter, amidst agitation and
terror in national councils...these solemn images shall reappear in
their morning lustre...
ET7 5.123 22 [The English] are very liable in their
politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the
movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners: which,
to be sure, is paralleled by the democratic whimsy in this
country...that the English are at the bottom of the agitation of
slavery...
Wth 6.105 16 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and
there is peace and the harvests are saved. He takes it, and there
is...an agitation through a large portion of mankind...
Ctr 6.140 23 ...we begin the uphill agitation for
repeal of that of which we ought to have prevented the enacting.
Insp 8.278 27 Bonaparte said: There is no man more
pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan. I magnify...all the
possible mischances. I am in an agitation utterly painful.
EWI 11.107 16 In [the Quakers'] plain meeting-houses
and prim dwellings this dismal agitation [against slavery] got
entrance.
FSLN 11.228 7 [Webster] told the people at
Boston...that agitation of the subject of Slavery must be suppressed.
agitations, n. (2)
MMEm 10.423 25 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou, whose
might has laid low the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy
hoary throne, with like potency over thy agitations and thy graves.
agitator, n. (3)
NR 3.246 14 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he
were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as
agitator.
agitators, n. (3)
LT 1.269 10 ...the agitators on the system of
Education and the laws of Property, are the right successors of Luther,
Knox...
LT 1.285 8 By the side of these men [of the
intellectual class], the hot agitators have a certain cheap and
ridiculous air;...
CL 12.148 15 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated
the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of
access. Stable is their birthplace in the sky, but they are agitators
of heaven and earth...
Aglaia, n. (1)
PNR 4.87 8 The gods are [to Plato] the ideas. ...
Venus is proportion; Calliope, the soul of the world; Aglaia,
intellectual illustration.
aglow, adj. (2)
Insp 8.273 25 Sometimes there is no sea-fire, and
again the sea is aglow to the horizon.
II 12.70 2 Here are we with...the spontaneous
impressions of Nature and men, and original oracles,-all ready to be
uttered, if only we could be set aglow.
Agni, n. (1)
CL 12.149 7 The Hindoos called fire Agni, born in the
woods...
ago, adj. (77)
AmS 1.92 6 There is some awe mixed with the joy of
our surprise, when this poet, who lived...two or three hundred years
ago, says that which lies close to my own soul...
LT 1.263 15 I remember, some years ago, somebody
shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that
an eloquent man...would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan
churches.
Con 1.320 27 The contractors who were building a road
out of Baltimore, some years ago, found the Irish laborers
quarrelsome...
SR 2.86 6 ...nor can all the science, art, religion,
and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men
than Plutarch's heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago.
Exp 3.48 24 In the death of my son, now more than two
years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate...
Exp 3.59 6 Unspeakably sad and barren does life look
to those who a few months ago were dazzled with the splendor of the
promise of the times.
Exp 3.83 13 I am not the novice I was fourteen, nor
yet seven years ago.
Mrs1 3.128 22 The class of power, the working
heroes...see...that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just
such busy names as their own, fifty or sixty years ago.
NER 3.258 19 Once (say two centuries ago), Latin and
Greek had a strict relation to all the science and culture there was in
Europe...
NER 3.279 21 It is yet in all men's memory that, a
few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic
church denied to them the name of Christian.
ET1 5.19 12 ...[Wordsworth] had broken a tooth by a
fall, when walking with two lawyers, and had said that he was glad it
did not happen forty years ago;...
ET2 5.31 20 ...some of the happiest and most valuable
hours I have owed to books, passed, many years ago, on shipboard.
ET4 5.72 18 Two centuries ago the English horse never
performed any eminent service beyond the seas;...
ET8 5.133 14 It was no bad description of the Briton
generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular
Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came
into his mind...
ET10 5.157 17 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon
explained the precession of the equinoxes...
ET10 5.159 22 The power of machinery in Great
Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men,
one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required
two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago.
ET16 5.277 21 Over us [at Stonehenge], larks were
soaring and singing;-- as my friend [Carlyle] said, the larks which
were hatched last year, and the wind which was hatched many thousand
years ago.
ET16 5.283 11 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at
work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston...
ET16 5.283 19 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at
work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the
largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men
were common masons...nor did they think they were doing anything
remarkable. I suppose there were as good men a thousand years ago.
ET16 5.285 15 The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was
finished six hundred years ago, has even a spruce and modern air...
ET16 5.290 5 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part
of the crypt...was built fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.
F 6.3 1 It chanced during one winter a few years ago,
that our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age.
Wth 6.102 22 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy
much in Boston.
Wth 6.114 22 We had in this region, twenty years ago,
among our educated men, a sort of Arcadian fanaticism...
Bty 6.286 8 At the birth of Winckelmann, more than a
hundred years ago, side by side with this arid, departmental, post
mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
Boks 7.214 15 ...Jeanne and Consuelo, of George Sand,
are great steps from the novel of one termination, which we all read
twenty years ago.
Clbs 7.238 25 It happened many years ago that an
American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of
Manchester, England...
OA 7.325 26 Thirty years ago it was a serious concern
to [the lawyer] whether his pleading was good and effective.
PI 8.7 13 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter
a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the
poetic key to Natural Science...
Elo2 8.113 3 By leading [people's] thought [the
eloquent man] leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an
hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all...
Elo2 8.127 9 Dr. Charles Chauncy was, a hundred years
ago, a man of marked ability among the clergy of New England.
QO 8.183 8 Thirty years ago...you might often hear
cited as Mr. Webster's three rules: first, never to do to-day what he
could defer till to-morrow;...
QO 8.185 8 A pleasantry which ran through all the
newspapers a few years since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...
PC 8.211 2 Every one who was in Italy thirty-five
years ago will remember the caution with which his host or guest in any
house looked around him, if a political topic were broached.
PC 8.214 25 Six hundred years ago Roger Bacon
explained the precession of the equinoxes and the necessity of reform
in the calendar;...
PPo 8.263 20 From this poem [Ferideddin Attar's Bird
Conversations], written five hundred years ago, we cite the following
passage...
Insp 8.290 9 Some of us may remember, years ago...the
petition...against the license of the organ-grinders...
Imtl 8.328 5 Sixty years ago, the books read...were
all directed on death.
Imtl 8.331 10 Many years ago, there were two men in
the United States Senate...
Chr2 10.107 6 Fifty or a hundred years ago, prayers
were said, morning and evening, in all families;...
Edc1 10.139 8 ...[boys] know everything that befalls
in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the
rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull
the handles when it goes to the engine-house. They are there only for
fun, and not knowing that they are at school...quite as much and more
than they were, an hour ago, in the arithmetic class.
Supl 10.165 6 Horace Walpole relates that in the
expectation, current in London a century ago, of a great earthquake,
some people provided themselves with dresses for the occasion.
LLNE 10.330 3 The popular religion of our fathers had
received many severe shocks from the new times; from the Arminians,
which was the current name of the backsliders from Calvinism, sixty
years ago;...
HDC 11.32 8 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...two
hundred years ago this day, leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid
was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families
more.
LVB 11.95 2 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;...
EWI 11.135 6 ...as an omen and assurance of success,
I point to you the bright example which England set you [in
emancipation in the West Indies], on this day, ten years ago.
EWI 11.143 11 Who cares for oppressing whites, or
oppressed blacks, twenty centuries ago...
FSLC 11.186 17 Let me remind you a little in detail
how the natural retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive
Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.
FSLC 11.190 6 A few months ago, in my dismay at
hearing that the Higher Law was reckoned a good joke in the courts, I
took pains to look into a few law-books.
FSLN 11.224 7 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster,
most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
FSLN 11.244 12 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It
is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...years
ago;...
AsSu 11.247 22 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was
challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps,
his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing
was not to be thought of;...
AKan 11.262 5 California, a few years ago...had the
best government that ever existed.
ACiv 11.301 4 You wish to satisfy people that slavery
is bad economy. Why, The Edinburgh Review...made its case, forty years
ago.
ACiv 11.308 1 Why should not America be capable of a
second stroke for the well-being of the human race, as eighty or ninety
years ago she was for the first...
SMC 11.371 20 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been
in the front and centre since the battle begun, eight and a half days
ago...
FRO1 11.477 17 ...we began [the Free Religious
Association] many years ago,-yes, and many ages before that.
FRep 11.517 16 One hundred years ago the American
people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost
ideal perfection.
FRep 11.538 15 ...if the spirit which years ago armed
this country against rebellion...could be waked to the conserving and
creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a
great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
PLT 12.8 12 ...is it pretended discoveries of new
strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This
professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...
CInt 12.125 11 In the romance Spiridion a few years
ago, we had what it seems was a piece of accurate autobiography...
CL 12.144 13 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin
the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it
was impossible to walk in the country...
CL 12.145 18 [The Farmer] saves every drop of sap, as
if it were wine. A few years ago those trees were whipsticks. Now,
every one of them is worth a hundred dollars.
Bost 12.185 24 What Vasari said, three hundred years
ago, of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...
MAng1 12.243 19 ...there [in Florence], the tradition
of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ...
Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery...cast by Ghiberti five
hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates
of Paradise.
Milt1 12.247 23 It was very easy to remark an altered
tone in the criticism when Milton reappeared as an author, fifteen
years ago...
Milt1 12.254 5 There is something pleasing in the
affection with which we can regard a man [Milton] who died a hundred
and sixty years ago...
ACri 12.298 10 Here has come into the country, three
months ago, a History of Friedrich, infinitely the wittiest book that
ever was written;...
AgMs 12.358 14 I still remember with some shame that
in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund
Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been
looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.
ago, adv. (24)
Mrs1 3.129 3 The city would have died out, rotted and
exploded, long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields.
NR 3.237 18 ...if we saw the real from hour to hour,
we should...have been burned or frozen long ago.
NMW 4.223 23 In our society there is a standing
antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of
hands long ago still in the grave... and the interests of living
labor...
GoW 4.278 18 We had an English romance here, not long
ago...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a
peerage.
ET11 5.185 11 If one asks...what service this class
[English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have
perished long ago.
Elo1 7.86 22 I remember long ago being attracted, by
the distinction of the counsel...into the court-room.
OA 7.328 12 [The veteran] beholds the feats of the
juniors with complacency, but as one who having long ago known these
games, has refined them into results and morals.
SA 8.103 1 ...I have seen examples of new grace and
power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long
ago, with my eyes directed on this subject, to fall in with an American
to be proud of.
PPo 8.255 9 My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in
the sky-vault's cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of
life's hope./
Insp 8.270 9 We are very glad...that [the aboriginal
man's] doleful experiences were got through with so very long ago.
Aris 10.57 25 ...amid the levity and giddiness of
people one looks round... on some self-dependent mind, who...has long
ago made up its conclusion that it is impossible to fail.
LLNE 10.367 12 The question which occurs to you had
occurred much earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the
dirty work to be done? And long ago Fourier had exclaimed, Ah! I have
it, and jumped with joy.
Thor 10.476 9 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse
and a turtle-dove...
Thor 10.477 23 ...the same isolation which belonged
to his original thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social
religious forms. This is neither to be censured nor regretted.
Aristotle long ago explained it, when he said, One who surpasses his
fellow citizens in virtue is no longer a part of the city. Their law is
not for him, since he is a law to himself.
EdAd 11.390 21 Let [a journal] now show its
astuteness by...arguing diffusely every point on which men are long ago
unanimous.
FRep 11.532 17 ...as soon as the success stops and
the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him; already they
remember that they long ago suspected his judgment...
II 12.74 5 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all
memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age.
What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his
opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it...
a-going, v. (1)
GoW 4.266 14 It is believed...the running up and down
to procure a company of subscribers to set a-going five or ten thousand
spindles...is practical and commendable.
agonies, n. (1)
Supl 10.165 3 Every favorite is not a cherub...nor
agonies, excruciations nor ecstasies our daily bread.
Agonistes, Samson [John Mi [Agonistes,] (2)
PI 8.48 11 A little onward lend thy guiding hand,/ To
these dark steps a little farther on./ Samson.
Milt1 12.275 14 The Samson Agonistes is too broad an
expression of [Milton's] private griefs to be mistaken...
agony, n. (1)
MMEm 10.423 16 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson]
of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a few days of
agony...compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished
away?
Agrarians, n. (1)
CSC 10.374 22 ...Groaners, Agrarians, Seventh-day
Baptists...all successively...seized their moment [at the Chardon
Street Convention]...
agree, v. (30)
SR 2.50 1 Society is a joint-stock company, in which
the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each
shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
Exp 3.69 7 The ardors of piety agree at last with the
coldest scepticism,-- that nothing is of us or our works,--that all is
of God.
Pol1 3.214 5 Whilst I do what is fit for me, and
abstain from what is unfit, my neighbor and I shall often agree in our
means...
NMW 4.235 24 ...if fighting be the best mode of
adjusting national differences, (as large majorities of men seem to
agree,) certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
NMW 4.250 11 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with
Fournier, bishop of Montpellier, on matters of theology. There were two
points on which they could not agree...
ET13 5.221 20 The torpidity on the side of religion
of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can
agree in one brain.
ET13 5.227 23 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the
cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in
their choice [of a Bishop]; and...invariably find that the dictates of
the Holy Ghost agree with the recommendations of the Queen.
Wsp 6.211 17 ...if an adventurer...procure himself to
be elected to a post of trust...by the same arts as we detest in the
house-thief,--the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the
private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect
to the public one;...
PI 8.13 18 If you agree with me, or if Locke or
Montesquieu agree, I may yet be wrong;...
PI 8.58 27 [Taliessin] says of his hero, Cunedda,--He
will assimilate, he will agree with the deep and the shallow.
Grts 8.303 2 Who can doubt the potency of an
individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet;
a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa? What of Menu? what...of
Franklin? There are certain points of identity in which these masters
agree.
Imtl 8.342 13 ...the one doctrine in which all
religions agree is that new light is added to the mind in proportion as
it uses that which it has.
Supl 10.173 9 ...it would seem the whole human race
agree to value a man precisely in proportion to his power of
expression;...
Prch 10.227 21 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe
the very spirit which now fires you. So with Cudworth, More, Bunyan. I
agree with them more than I disagree.
Prch 10.227 22 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe
the very spirit which now fires you. So with Cudworth, More, Bunyan. I
agree with them more than I disagree. I agree with their heart and
motive;...
HDC 11.53 22 It is piteous to see [the Indians']
self-distrust in...their unanimous entreaty to Captain Willard, to be
their Recorder, being very solicitous that what they did agree upon
might be faithfully kept without alteration.
HDC 11.65 13 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with
Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the
school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d
June; and if any scholar shall come, within the said time, for larning
exceeding his son's ability, the said Captain doth agree to instruct
them himself in the tongues, till the above said time be fulfilled;...
War 11.162 17 All admit that [peace] would be the
best policy...if all would agree to accept this rule.
FSLC 11.191 25 All authors who have any conscience or
modesty agree that a person ought not to obey such commands as are
evidently contrary to the laws of God.
TPar 11.291 5 There are men of good powers who have
so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in
sympathy. If you don't agree with them, they know they only injure the
truth by speaking.
Wom 11.422 1 ...if any man will take the trouble to
see how our people vote...I cannot but think he will agree that most
women might vote as wisely.
Milt1 12.264 5 ...[Milton] declares that a certain
niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a
modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which
he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.
Pray 12.351 17 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this
petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant...that those
external things which I have may be such as may best agree with a right
internal disposition of mine;...
agreeable, adj. (55)
Nat 1.28 11 ...the most trivial of these [natural]
facts...in any way associated to human nature, affects us in the
most...agreeable manner.
Nat 1.51 12 Turn the eyes upside down, by looking at
the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture...
DSA 1.126 19 What these holy bards said, all sane men
found agreeable and true.
YA 1.367 8 There is no feature of the old countries
that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the
beautiful gardens of Europe;...
SL 2.145 5 Over all things that are agreeable to his
nature and genius the man has the highest right.
Lov1 2.173 15 The girls may have little beauty, yet
plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most
agreeable, confiding relations;...
Mrs1 3.121 10 An element which unites all the most
forcible persons of every country, makes them intelligible and
agreeable to each other...must be an average result of the character
and faculties universally found in men.
Mrs1 3.126 19 The manners of this class [of doers]
are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. The association
of these masters with each other and with men intelligent of their
merits, is mutually agreeable and stimulating.
Pol1 3.218 16 Senators and presidents have climbed so
high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially
agreeable, but as an apology for real worth...
UGM 4.10 12 ...solid, liquid, and gas...by their
agreeable quarrel, beguile the day of life.
NMW 4.225 27 ...precisely what is agreeable to the
heart of every man in the nineteenth century, this powerful man
[Napoleon] possessed.
ET9 5.149 5 Their culture generally enables the
travelled English to avoid any ridiculous extremes of this
self-pleasing, and to give it an agreeable air.
ET17 5.291 12 ...my impression of the island
[England] is bright with agreeable memories both of public societies
and of households...
F 6.4 25 ...by firmly stating all that is agreeable
to experience on one [topic], and doing the same justice to the
opposing facts in the others, the true limitations will appear.
Ctr 6.148 10 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it
may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it
draws...
Ctr 6.160 3 When our higher faculties are in
activity...awkwardness and discomfort give place to natural and
agreeable movements.
Bty 6.306 12 ...there is a climbing scale of culture,
from the first agreeable sensation which a sparkling gem or a scarlet
stain affords the eye...
Ill 6.309 1 Some years ago, in company with an
agreeable party, I spent a long summer day in exploring the Mammoth
Cave in Kentucky.
SS 7.4 15 The most agreeable compliment you could pay
[my new friend] was to imply that you had not observed him in a house
or a street where you had met him.
Art2 7.53 24 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of
Shakspeare...were made...in tears and smiles of suffering and loving
men. Viewed from this point the history of Art becomes...one of the
most agreeable studies.
Suc 7.311 12 There is an external life, which
is...taught to grasp all the boy can get, urging him...to make himself
useful and agreeable in the world...
PI 8.15 25 The poet accounts all productions and
changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively,
too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary
meaning. Every new object so seen gives a shock of agreeable surprise.
Comc 8.158 19 The whole of Nature is agreeable to the
whole of thought, or to the Reason;...
Imtl 8.339 16 The fable of the Wandering Jew is
agreeable to men, because they want more time and land in which to
execute their thoughts.
Aris 10.46 3 Dull people think it Fortune that makes
one rich and another poor. Is it? Yes, but the fortune was...in the
balance or adjustment between devotion to what is agreeable to-day and
the forecast of what will be valuable to-morrow.
Aris 10.51 25 To a right aristocracy...to the men,
that is, who are incomparably superior to the populace in ways
agreeable to the populace... everything will be permitted and
pardoned...
Plu 10.295 11 King Henry IV. wrote to his wife...you
could not have sent me anything which could be more agreeable than the
news of the pleasure you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].
Plu 10.313 3 When you are persuaded in your mind that
you cannot either offer or perform anything more agreeable to the gods
than the entertaining a right notion of them, you will then avoid
superstition as a no less evil than atheism.
Plu 10.317 20 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of
Noble Commanders is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of
Plutarch; but the matter...is so agreeable to his taste and genius,
that if he had found it, he would have adopted it.
LLNE 10.364 9 The Founders of Brook Farm should have
this praise, that they made what all people try to make, an agreeable
place to live in.
Thor 10.453 4 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted
money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him...
Thor 10.455 22 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the
railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the
present purpose, walking hundreds of miles...buying a lodging in
farmers' and fishermen's houses, as cheaper, and more agreeable to
him...
LS 11.19 23 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was
enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated
making permanent this mode of commemoration, every way agreeable to an
Eastern mind, and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings,
I should not adopt it.
LS 11.23 4 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify
and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms
were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and
now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to
commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that
form be agreeable to their understandings or not.
EWI 11.129 22 As I have walked in the pastures and
along the edge of woods, I could not keep my imagination on those
agreeable figures, for other images that intruded on me.
War 11.162 25 ...what is true-that is, what is at
bottom fit and agreeable to the constitution of man-must at last
prevail over all obstruction and all opposition.
FSLN 11.232 8 I too think the musts are a safe
company to follow, and even agreeable.
Wom 11.425 24 Every woman being the...wife, daughter,
sister, mother, of a man, she can never be very far from his ear, never
not of his counsel, if she has really something to urge that is good in
itself and agreeable to nature.
SHC 11.433 15 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may
establish that most agreeable of all museums, and agreeable to the
temper of our times,-an Arboretum...
SHC 11.436 14 Why is the fable of the Wandering Jew
agreeable to men, but because they want more time and land to execute
their thoughts in?
PLT 12.46 5 Wishing is castle-building; the dreaming
about things agreeable to the senses, but to which we have no right.
WSL 12.347 4 ...as it is not from the highest Alps or
Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape
is commanded, so is Mr. Landor the most useful and agreeable of
critics.
EurB 12.373 24 The story of Zanoni was one of those
world-fables which is so agreeable to the human imagination that it is
found in some form in the language of every country...
EurB 12.377 12 Of the tales of fashionable life, by
far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey.
agreeably, adv. (6)
Mrs1 3.136 11 I have just been reading...Montaigne's
account of his journey into Italy, and am struck with nothing more
agreeably than the self-respecting fashions of the time.
SA 8.82 7 An awkward man is graceful...when hard at
work, or agreeably amused.
LLNE 10.340 24 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a
well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were
chatting agreeably on indifferent matters...
HDC 11.41 3 Agreeably to the custom of the times, a
large portion [of land in Concord] was reserved to the public...
CL 12.144 1 In Massachusetts, our land is agreeably
broken...
Let 12.398 25 ...companies of the best-educated young
men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for
Europe;...simply because they shall so be...agreeably entertained for
one or two years...
agreed, adj. (8)
Exp 3.76 23 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which
makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity, with the
name of hero or saint. Jesus... is a good man on whom many people are
agreed that these optical laws shall take effect.
Wth 6.93 3 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious
that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use
of wealth...
PC 8.213 15 We are all agreed that we have not on the
instant better men to show than Plutarch's heroes.
Supl 10.168 6 All our manner of life is on a secure
and moderate pattern, such as can last. Violence and extravagance
are...distasteful; competence, quiet, comfort, are the agreed welfare.
LS 11.4 22 ...so far from the [Lord's] Supper being a
tradition in which men are fully agreed, there has always been the
widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular.
FSLC 11.188 17 I thought it a point on which all sane
men were agreed, that the law must respect the public morality.
PLT 12.55 9 The natural remedy against...this
desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for
sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws
which...pervade and govern. You will say this is quite axiomatic and a
little too true. I do not find it an agreed point.
agreed, v. (31)
Hist 2.9 16 What is history, said Napoleon, but a
fable agreed upon?
Fdsp 2.203 9 I knew a man who under a certain
religious frenzy...spoke to the conscience of every person he
encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first...all men
agreed he was mad.
Mrs1 3.143 10 ...it is not to be supposed that men
have agreed to be the dupes of anything preposterous;...
Pol1 3.200 20 The statute stands there to say,
Yesterday we agreed so and so, but how feel ye this article to-day?
NER 3.273 6 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that
the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner,
they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
NMW 4.251 8 Corvisart candidly agreed with me [said
Bonaparte] that all your filthy mixtures are good for nothing.
ET16 5.273 1 It had been agreed between my friend Mr.
Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion
together to Stonehenge...
Pow 6.54 4 All successful men have agreed in one
thing,--they were causationists.
Pow 6.65 5 ...churchmen and men of refinement, it
seems agreed, are not fit persons to send to Congress.
Clbs 7.248 25 ...it was when things went
prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the
Cid, that the guests all...agreed in one thing,--that they had not
eaten better for three years.
Clbs 7.249 6 It is agreed that in the sections of the
British Association more information is mutually and effectually
communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary
correspondence...
PPo 8.254 6 O Hafiz! speak not of thy need;/ Are not
these verses thine?/ Then all the poets are agreed,/ No man can less
repine./
Prch 10.235 21 All civil mankind have agreed in
leaving one day for contemplation against six for practice.
Schr 10.270 10 ...all the human race have agreed to
value a man according to his power of expression.
LLNE 10.342 22 ...there was no concert, and only here
and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone,
with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon
Coleridge and Wordsworth...with pleasure and sympathy.
LLNE 10.345 17 [The pilgrim]...explained with simple
warmth the belief of himself and five or six young men with whom he
agreed in opinion, of the vast mischief of our insidious coin.
EzRy 10.381 18 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with
the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...
HDC 11.57 15 In 1654, the four united New England
Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret,
Sachem of the Niantics...
HDC 11.65 7 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with
Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the
school-house for the town of Concord...
EWI 11.110 1 The [English] assailants of slavery had
early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the
abolition of the trade...
FSLC 11.204 9 [Webster] adheres to the letter.
Happily he was born late,- after the independence had been declared,
the Union agreed to, and the constitution settled.
FSLC 11.207 20 Since it is agreed by all sane men of
all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself
never offer the smallest counsel of her own?
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.
agreeing, v. (1)
SwM 4.141 6 [The scenery and circumstance of the
newly parted soul] must be...stabler than mountains, agreeing with
flowers...
agreement, n. (12)
Mrs1 3.130 22 Each man's rank in that perfect
graduation [of fashion] depends on some symmetry in his structure or
some agreement in his structure to the symmetry of society.
Pol1 3.213 1 Every man finds a sanction for his
simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls
Truth and Holiness. In these decisions all the citizens find a perfect
agreement...
PC 8.221 10 [The scholar] has accosted this
immeasurable Nature, and got clear answers. He understood what he read.
He found agreement with himself.
Insp 8.274 19 Of the modus of inspiration we have no
knowledge. But in the experience of meditative men there is a certain
agreement as to the conditions of reception.
LLNE 10.365 15 It was a curious experience of the
patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm], in which the
agreement with many parties was that they should give so many hours of
instruction...that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves
keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
HDC 11.32 2 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate
into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to
persuade a good number of planters to join him. They arrived in Boston
in 1634. Probably there had been a previous correspondence with
Governor Winthrop, and an agreement that they should settle at
Musketaquid.
HDC 11.52 23 ...here [at Concord] [Tahattawan and
Waban] entered, by [John Eliot's] assistance, into an agreement to
twenty-nine rules...
CPL 11.504 7 There is a wonderful agreement among
eminent men of all varieties of character and condition in their
estimate of books.
agreements, n. (3)
Prch 10.227 1 ...the charm of the study is in finding
the agreements and identities in all the religions of men.
HDC 11.64 8 Some interesting peculiarities in the
manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books.
Proposals of marriage were made by the parents of the parties, and
minutes of such private agreements sometimes entered on the clerk's
records.
FRO2 11.490 17 ...the charm of the study is in
finding the agreements, the identities, in all the religions of men.
agrees, v. (10)
Lov1 2.181 3 [What we love] is that which you know
not in yourself and can never know. This agrees well with that high
philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in;...
ET19 5.309 9 In looking over recently a
newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I
incline to reprint it, as fitly expressing the feeling with which I
entered England, and which agrees well enough with the more deliberate
results of better acquaintance recorded in the foregoing pages.
Boks 7.191 9 College education is the reading of
certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will
represent the science already accumulated.
PI 8.3 18 The common sense which...takes...things as
they appear,-- believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees
with ourselves...
Comc 8.168 2 ...in the country we cannot find every
day a case that agrees with the diagnosis of the books.
Imtl 8.348 9 How ill agrees this majestical
immortality of our religion with the frivolous population!
EWI 11.133 2 ...the Union already is at an end when
the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged. Is it an union and
covenant in which the State of Massachusetts agrees to be imprisoned,
and the State of Carolina to imprison?
agricultural, adj. (15)
MR 1.235 19 ...I should not be pained at a change
which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of
society, if it proceeded from a preference of the agricultural life out
of the belief that our primary duties as men could be better discharged
in that calling.
YA 1.381 5 These communists preferred the
agricultural life as the most favorable condition for human culture;...
YA 1.381 21 On one side is agricultural chemistry,
coolly exposing the nonsense of our spendthrift agriculture...
YA 1.382 24 At least an economical success seemed
certain for the enterprise [the Associations], and that agricultural
association must...fix the price of bread...
ET4 5.53 8 As you go north into the manufacturing and
agricultural districts...the world's Englishman is no longer found.
ET4 5.59 14 If [the Northman] cannot pick any other
quarrel, he will get himself...slain by a land-slide, like the
agricultural King Onund.
ET11 5.189 3 Arthur Young, Bakewell, Mechi have made
[British dukes] agricultural.
ET13 5.217 10 All maxims of prudence or shop or farm
are fixed and dated by the [English] church. Hence its strength in the
agricultural districts.
DL 7.110 17 Another man is...a builder of ships...and
could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books or on
horses. Another is a farmer, an agricultural foundation...and the same
rule holds for all.
Cour 7.254 22 Men admire...the power of better
combination and foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or
whether...Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand; suggesting that
one day a wiser geology shall make...the volcano an agricultural
resource.
Supl 10.171 5 ...I had been present...in the country
at a cattle-show dinner, which followed an agricultural discourse
delivered by a farmer...
LLNE 10.358 6 One merchant to whom I described the
Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that
agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread...
HDC 11.83 22 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a
pleasing picture of a community almost exclusively agricultural...
Agricultural Society's, n. (1)
SHC 11.432 11 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery]
fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...
Agricultural Survey of the (1)
AgMs 12.360 4 [Edmund Hosmer] had been reading the
report of the Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth...
Agricultural Surveyor, n. (2)
AgMs 12.362 26 The way in which men who have farms
grow rich is either by other resources...or by other methods of which I
[Edmund Hosmer] could tell you many sad anecdotes. What does the
Agricultural Surveyor know of all this?
agriculture, n. (29)
Nat 1.72 19 [Man's] relation to nature, his power
over it, is through the understanding, as by...the economic use
of...chemical agriculture;...
YA 1.366 17 ...the walks of trade were crowded,
whilst that of agriculture cannot easily be...
YA 1.381 22 On one side is agricultural chemistry,
coolly exposing the nonsense of our spendthrift agriculture...
Hist 2.21 26 Agriculture [in Asia and Africa]...was a
religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.
MoS 4.171 3 One man appears whose nature is to all
men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a
well-ordered society, agriculture, trade, large institutions and
empire.
ET5 5.83 25 [The English] apply themselves to
agriculture, to draining...
ET5 5.96 3 The markets created by the manufacturing
population [in England] have erected agriculture into a great thriving
and spending industry.
ET5 5.100 25 The boys [in England] know all that
Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies,
once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in
agriculture, or in trade...
ET6 5.114 14 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come
all manner of... political, literary and personal news; railroads,
horses, diamonds, agriculture, horticulture, pisciculture and wine.
ET7 5.120 6 If war do not bring in its sequel new
trade, better agriculture and manufactures...no prosperity could
support it;...
ET8 5.142 12 ...the calm, sound and most British
Briton...respects an economy founded on agriculture, coal-mines,
manufactures or trade...
ET10 5.162 12 Of course [steam] draws the [English]
nobility into the competition...in the application of steam to
agriculture...
Civ 7.22 9 Another step in civility is the change
from war, hunting and pasturage, to agriculture.
Art2 7.39 25 The useful arts comprehend not only
those that lie next to instinct, as agriculture, building, weaving,
etc., but also navigation, practical chemistry...
Suc 7.293 20 It is the dulness of the multitude that
they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model
of the projector. Whilst it is a thought, though it were...the creation
of agriculture...it is a chimera;...
PC 8.210 17 Consider...what masters, each in his
several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as
agriculture...have evoked!...
PC 8.221 3 [The benefits of devotion to natural
science] are felt in navigation, in agriculture...
Insp 8.295 27 Books of natural science...geography,
botany, agriculture... all the better if written without literary aim
or ambition.
Edc1 10.128 2 The necessities imposed by this most
irritable and all-related texture have taught Man...agriculture,
commerce...
Supl 10.178 15 The European civility, or that of the
positive degree, is established...by agriculture for bread-stuffs, and
manufacture of coarse and family cloths.
EdAd 11.383 13 ...this energetic race [Americans]
derive an unprecedented material power...from domestic architecture,
chemical agriculture...
PLT 12.18 27 [The perceptions of the soul] take to
themselves...agriculture, trade, commerce;...
II 12.73 11 ...really the capital discovery of modern
agriculture is that it costs no more to keep a good tree than a bad
one.
AgMs 12.363 27 [Edmund Hosmer]...was incorrigible in
his skepticism concerning the benefits conferred by legislatures on the
agriculture of Massachusetts.
EurB 12.376 19 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] was
founded on power to do what was necessary, each person finding it an
indispensable qualification of membership that he could do something
useful, as in mechanics or agriculture or other indispensable art;...
Agriculture, n. (3)
LT 1.259 3 ...the present aspects of our social
state...Natural Science, Agriculture...have their root in an invisible
spiritual reality.
Hist 2.21 21 In the early history of Asia and Africa,
Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts.
agriculturist, n. (4)
Prd1 2.234 15 There is nothing [a man] will not be
the better for knowing, were it only...the thrift of the agriculturist,
to stick a tree between whiles, because it will grow whilst he
sleeps;...
ET11 5.182 20 An agriculturist bought lately the
island of Lewes, in Hebrides...
OA 7.331 15 Much wider is spread the pleasure which
old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist
his experiments...
Agrippa von Nettsheim, Henr (3)
Pt1 3.32 17 All the value which attaches
to...Cornelius Agrippa...is the certificate we have of departure from
routine, and that here is a new witness.
Boks 7.190 2 ...there are books which are of that
importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the
fables of Cornelius Agrippa...
Boks 7.211 14 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of
Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to
be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time.
aground, adj. (1)
Int 2.327 2 As a ship aground is battered by the
waves, so man...lies open to the mercy of coming events.
ague, n. (5)
Civ 7.17 16 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood,
the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin
spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice
to chase./
Aris 10.38 5 How sturdy seem to us in the history,
those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly
believe...that an ague or fever...ended them.
War 11.152 2 ...in the infancy of society...when
hunger, thirst, ague and frozen limbs universally take precedence of
the wants of the mind and the heart, the necessities of the strong will
certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
PLT 12.62 24 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I
think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes.
And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his
biographical Ego,-I have a desk...I had an ague...
ague, quartan, n. (1)
Elo2 8.122 3 ...there are persons of natural
fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;
like Bouillon, who could almost persuade you that a quartan ague was
wholesome;...
agunt, v. (1)
ahead, adj. (1)
Elo2 8.115 22 [The orator's] speech must be just
ahead of the assembly, ahead of the whole human race, or it is
superfluous.
ahead, adv. (5)
Comp 2.93 4 ...it seemed to me when very young that
on this subject [Compensation] life was ahead of theology...
ET5 5.101 20 Whilst [the English] are some ages ahead
of the rest of the world in the art of living;...this vanguard of
civility and power they coldly hold...
Elo1 7.74 26 These talkers [who repeat the
newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated
schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil.
Elo2 8.117 5 [The orator] knew very well beforehand
that [the people] were looking behind and that he was looking ahead...
Ahriman, n. (1)
SovE 10.213 5 Once men thought Spirit divine, and
Matter diabolic; one Ormuzd, the other Ahriman.
aiblins, adv. (1)
ACri 12.289 6 Burns took [the Devil] into compassion
and expressed a blind wish for his reformation. Ye aiblins might, I
dinna ken,/ Still have a stake./
Aid, Emigrant, Society, n. (1)
aid, n. (75)
Nat 1.35 10 ...we must summon the aid of subtler and
more vital expositors to make [the doctrine] plain.
LE 1.166 5 ...the moment [men] desert the tradition
for a spontaneous thought, then ...virtue, learning, anecdote all flock
to their aid.
MR 1.237 27 ...now I feel some shame before my
wood-chopper...and my cook, for...they can contrive without my aid to
bring the day and year round...
Tran 1.350 24 New, [Transcendentalists] confess, and
by no means happy, is our condition: if you want the aid of our labor,
we ourselves stand in greater want of the labor.
YA 1.376 19 The king is compelled to call in the aid
of his brothers and cousins and remote relations...
YA 1.376 24 ...this club of noblemen...combine to
brave the sovereign, and call in the aid of the people.
Lov1 2.170 26 ...it is to be hoped that by patience
and the Muses' aid we may attain to that inward view of the law which
shall describe a truth ever young and beautiful...
Fdsp 2.205 26 [Friendship] is for aid and comfort
through all the relations and passages of life and death.
OS 2.294 4 ...every byword that belongs to thee for
aid or comfort, will surely come home through open or winding passages.
Cir 2.322 10 ...[men] ask the aid of wild
passions...to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the
heart.
Mrs1 3.149 16 I have seen an individual...who did not
need the aid of a court-suit but carried the holiday in his eye;...
Nat2 3.174 1 Only as far as the masters of the world
have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of
magnificence.
Pol1 3.213 4 Every man finds a sanction for his
simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls
Truth and Holiness. In these decisions all the citizens find a perfect
agreement, and only in these; not in what...what amount of land or of
public aid each is entitled to claim.
NER 3.279 9 The reason why any one refuses...his aid
to your benevolent design, is in you...
UGM 4.7 27 Direct giving is agreeable to the early
belief of men; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid...
UGM 4.17 7 ...we thus [through the acts of the
intellect]...learn to choose men by their truest marks, taught, with
Plato, to choose those who can, without aid from the eyes or any other
sense, proceed to truth and to being.
UGM 4.25 3 ...in the midst of this chuckle of
self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and
admire. This is he that should marshal us the way we were going. There
is no end to his aid.
ET2 5.25 12 The request [to lecture in England] was
urged...with...every assurance of aid and comfort...
ET10 5.157 27 Six hundred years ago, Roger
Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships
more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do; nor would they
need anything but a pilot to steer them. Carriages also might be
constructed to move with an incredible speed, without the aid of any
animal.
ET10 5.159 20 The power of machinery in Great
Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men,
one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required
two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago.
ET11 5.174 12 The selfishness of the [English] nobles
comes in aid of the interest of the nation to require signal merit.
ET13 5.222 10 [The English] value a philosopher as
they value an apothecary who brings bark or a drench; and inspiration
is only some blowpipe, or a finer mechanical aid.
ET14 5.257 7 [Wordsworth] wrote a poem, says Landor,
without the aid of war.
ET16 5.283 10 For the difficulty of handling and
carrying stones of this size [of Stonehenge], the like is done in all
cities, every day, with no other aid than horse-power.
Wth 6.89 15 The sea...offers its perilous aid and the
power and empire that follow it...to [man's] craft and audacity.
Wth 6.118 27 The farm yielded no money, and the
farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his
aid;...
Ctr 6.131 9 A topical memoray makes [a man] an
almanac;...a skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar.
Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers
against the dominant talent...
Ctr 6.132 15 A freemason, not long since, set out to
explain to this country that the principal cause of the success of
General Washington was the aid he derived from the freemasons.
CbW 6.250 27 I once counted in a little neighborhood
and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen
persons dependent on him for material aid...
CbW 6.263 21 In dealing with the drunken, we do not
affect to be drunk. We must treat the sick with the same firmness,
giving them of course every aid,--but withholding ourselves.
Bty 6.296 26 ...the citizens of her native city of
Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline
de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
SS 7.12 22 The recluse witnesses what others perform
by their aid, with a kind of fear.
Civ 7.27 11 ...all our strength and success in the
work of our hands depend on our borrowing the aid of the elements.
Art2 7.48 1 ...all the advantages to which I have
adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce. He relied
on their aid...
Art2 7.48 2 ...all the advantages to which I have
adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce. He...put
himself in the way to receive aid from some of them;...
Farm 7.146 7 ...there is no porter like Gravitation,
who will bring down any weights which man cannot carry, and if he wants
aid, knows where to find his fellow laborers.
Farm 7.148 22 The chemist comes to [the farmer's] aid
every year by following out some new hint drawn from Nature...
WD 7.160 2 How excellent are the mechanical aids we
have applied to the human body, as...in the beautiful aid of ether...
Cour 7.270 27 [John Brown] said, As soon as I hear
one of my men say, Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring
him down, I don't expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
QO 8.178 10 He that borrows the aid of an equal
understanding, said Burke, doubles his own;...
PC 8.215 6 ...[Roger Bacon] announced...carriages, to
move with incredible speed, without aid of animals;...
Insp 8.289 26 ...the machine with which we are
dealing is of such an inconceivable delicacy that whims also must be
respected. Fire must lend its aid.
Dem1 10.24 18 ...[occult facts] are merely
physiological, semi-medical... and no aid on the superior problems why
we live, and what we do.
Edc1 10.145 5 This is the perpetual romance of new
life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for
something which is not there, but which ought to be there...he makes
wild attempts to explain himself and invoke the aid and consent of the
bystanders.
Edc1 10.146 27 Always genius...desires nothing so
much as...to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.
Prch 10.232 27 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us
so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the
world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must. But be that
event for us soon or late, we are not excused from playing our short
part in the best manner we can, no matter how insignificant our aid may
be.
MMEm 10.397 6 The yesterday doth never smile,/ To-day
goes drudging through the while,/ Yet in the name of Godhead, I/ The
morrow front and can defy;/ Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,/
Cannot withhold his conquering aid./
SlHr 10.441 26 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of
putting his statement with all his might, and now and then borrowing
the aid of a good story...
HDC 11.46 16 ...Concord and the other plantations
found themselves separate and independent of Boston...enjoying, at the
same time, a strict and loving fellowship with Boston, and sure of
advice and aid, on every emergency.
LVB 11.94 25 On the broaching of this question [of
the moral character of government], a general expression of
despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance
on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we
naturally turn for aid and counsel.
EWI 11.123 26 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we
could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost
of whips.
FSLC 11.181 3 The only haste in Boston, after the
rescue of Shadrach, last February, was, who should first put his name
on the list of volunteers in aid of the marshal.
FSLC 11.193 5 There is not a manly Whig, or a manly
Democrat, of whom if a slave were hidden in one of our houses from the
hounds, we should not ask with confidence to lend his wagon in aid of
his escape, and he would lend it.
FSLN 11.241 11 Let the aid of virtue, intelligence
and education be cast where they rightfully belong.
AKan 11.257 14 We must have aid [for Kansas] from
individuals,-we must also have aid from the state.
AKan 11.257 15 We must have aid [for Kansas] from
individuals,-we must also have aid from the state. I know that the last
legislature refused that aid.
AKan 11.258 3 ...the governor and legislature should
neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send
effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
PLT 12.14 6 I observe with curiosity [the
Intellect's] risings and settings... that I may learn to...court its
aid...
Milt1 12.266 8 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...
aid, v. (13)
LE 1.184 7 ...out of this superior frankness and
charity you shall learn higher secrets of your nature, which gods will
bend and aid you to communicate.
Pt1 3.38 9 If I have not found that excellent
combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid
myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in
Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.
ET3 5.37 1 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession
of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing
with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west...
ET10 5.163 9 ...all that can aid science, gratify
taste, or soothe comfort, is in open market [in England].
Elo1 7.82 20 The audience [if there be personality in
the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has
to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid...Columbus,
being introduced, was interrogated whether his geographical knowledge
could aid the cabinet;...
DL 7.116 19 ...many things betoken a revolution of
opinion and practice in regard to manual labor that may go far to aid
our practical inquiry.
LLNE 10.340 18 [Channing] had earlier talked with Dr.
John Collins Warren on the like purpose [of bringing thoughtful people
together], who admitted the wisdom of the design and undertook to aid
him in making the experiment.
MMEm 10.415 8 Vital, I feel not: not active, but
passive, and cannot aid the creatures which seem my progeny,-myself.
HDC 11.71 16 On the 26th of the month [September,
1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of
safety...to aid all untainted magistrates in the execution of the laws
of the land.
JBB 11.266 22 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Said,
Boys, the Lord will aid us! and he shoved his ramrod down./ Edmund
Clarence Stedman, John Brown.
JBB 11.273 8 I hope...that, in administering relief
to John Brown's family, we shall...not forget to aid him in the best
way, by securing freedom and independence in Massachusetts.
II 12.73 6 ...he will instruct and aid us who shows
us how the young may be taught without degrading the old;...
aided, v. (5)
Int 2.328 11 I have been floated into hour...by
secret currents of might and mind, and my ingenuity and wilfulness have
not thwarted, have not aided to an appreciable degree.
SwM 4.111 17 This startling reappearance of
Swedenborg...is not the least remarkable fact in his history. Aided it
is said by the munificence of Mr. Clissold, and also by his literary
skill, this piece of poetic justice is done.
Boks 7.207 17 The [scholar's] task is aided by the
strong mutual light which these [Elizabethan] men shed on each other.
SMC 11.350 12 ...the virtues we are met to
honor...were exerted for the protection of our common country, and
aided its triumph.
MLit 12.323 9 ...since the earth as we said had
become a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have aided
[Goethe] to be that resolute realist he is...
aiding, v. (1)
OA 7.315 10 [Josiah Quincy]...aiding himself by notes
in his hand, made a sort of running commentary on Cicero's chapter De
Senectute.
aids, n. (24)
Nat 1.14 1 By the aggregate of these aids [of the
useful arts], how is the face of the world changed...
LE 1.174 23 ...it is only as...the forest, and the
rock, are a sort of mechanical aids to [independence of spirit], that
they are of value.
SR 2.87 3 ...Napoleon conquered Europe by the
bivouac, which consisted of falling back on naked valor and
disencumbering it of all aids.
Lov1 2.181 13 ...the Deity sends the glory of youth
before the soul, that it may avail itself of beautiful bodies as aids
to its recollection of the celestial good and fair;...
NER 3.256 20 ...if I had not that commodity
[money]...man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only
certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each
asked of the other.
NER 3.260 17 I conceive this gradual casting off of
material aids...to be the affirmative principle of the recent
philosophy...
NMW 4.257 7 Never was such a leader so endowed and so
weaponed [as Napoleon]; never leader found such aids and followers.
Boks 7.212 9 Poetry, with its aids of Mythology and
Romance, must be well allowed for an imaginative creature.
Cour 7.262 19 Knowledge is the antidote to
fear,--Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
Dem1 10.23 19 ...the main ambition and genius being
bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids
within [a man's] sphere will follow.
MMEm 10.419 25 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars
a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been
needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of
earning my home.
FSLN 11.236 15 The insight of the religious sentiment
will disclose to [man] unexpected aids in the nature of things.
FSLN 11.236 24 Whenever a man has come to this mind,
that there is...no liberty but his invincible will to do right,-then
certain aids and allies will promptly appear...
PLT 12.26 22 ...no wine, music or exhilarating
aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.
CInt 12.122 7 ...it happens often that the wellbred
and refined...dwelling amidst...lectures, poets, libraries, newspapers,
and other aids supposed intellectual, are more vicious and malignant
than the rude country people...
CInt 12.124 3 No books, no aids...can compare with [a
good teacher].
MAng1 12.230 16 Slighting the secondary arts of
coloring, and all the aids of graceful finish, [Michelangelo] aimed
exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern
designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
Milt1 12.276 21 ...the genius and office of Milton
were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a
higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.
Aids to Reflection [S. T. (1)
ET1 5.11 3 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book,
which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three
pages written by himself in the fly-leaves,--passages, too, which, I
believe, are printed in the Aids to Reflection.
aids, v. (4)
Wom 11.414 8 There is much that tends to give [women]
a religious height which men do not attain. Their sequestration from
affairs and from the injury to the moral sense which affairs often
inflict, aids this.
Mem 12.100 27 Apprehension of the whole sentence aids
to fix the precise meaning of a particular word...
Mem 12.101 15 ...because all Nature has one law and
meaning...all we have known aids us continually to the knowledge of the
rest of Nature.
Aikin's, John, n. (1)
PI 8.25 7 When people tell me they do not relish
poetry, and bring me... Aiken's Poets...I am quite of their mind.
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