Ails to Almira
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
ails, v. (1)
aim, n. (95)
Nat 1.4 10 All science has one aim, namely, to find a
theory of nature.
Nat 1.55 16 The true philosopher and the true poet
are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is
the aim of both.
LE 1.182 18 ...to the [crowd], [the man of genius]
must owe his aim.
MN 1.216 8 A man adorns himself with prayer and love,
as an aim adorns an action.
MR 1.227 4 ...the aim of each young man in this
association is the very highest that belongs to a rational mind.
MR 1.233 14 ...all such ingenuous souls as feel
within themselves the irrepressible strivings of a noble aim...find
these ways of trade unfit for them...
MR 1.245 21 Economy is...a sacrament, when its aim is
grand;...
Tran 1.350 2 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found
that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there
is a spirit of cowardly compromise and seeming which intimates...an
activity without an aim.
YA 1.388 22 The 'opposition' papers, so called, are
on the same side. They attack the great capitalist, but with the aim to
make a capitalist of the poor man.
Comp 2.106 23 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders;
Minerva keeps the key of them... A plain confession of the in-working
of the All and of its moral aim.
SL 2.160 3 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold
the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved.
One knows it,--himself,--and is pledged by it...to nobleness of aim...
SL 2.161 22 The object of the man, the aim of these
moments, is to make daylight shine through him...
Lov1 2.183 17 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes
into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection
of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a
housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.
Lov1 2.185 1 Life, with this pair [Romeo and Juliet],
has no other aim, asks no more, than Juliet,--than Romeo.
Art1 2.351 6 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the
production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the
useful and fine arts, if we employ the popular distinction of works
according to their aim either at use or beauty.
Art1 2.351 8 ...in our fine arts, not imitation but
creation is the aim.
Exp 3.82 10 A preoccupied attention is the only
answer to the importunate frivolity of other people; an attention, and
to an aim which makes their wants frivolous.
Mrs1 3.122 20 The point of distinction in all this
class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that
the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated. It
is beauty which is the aim this time, and not worth.
Nat2 3.185 21 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of
fairer forms, of lordlier youths, with a little more excess of
direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...
NER 3.251 6 Whoever has had opportunity of
acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five
years, with those middle and those leading sections that may constitute
any just representation of the character and aim of the community, will
have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
PPh 4.57 25 With the palatial air there is [in
Plato], for the direct aim of several of his works...a certain
earnestness...
SwM 4.95 9 The Koran makes a distinct class of
those...whose goodness has an influence on others, and pronounces this
class to be the aim of creation...
ShP 4.189 19 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic
in [the poet's] production, but sweet and sad earnest...pointed with
the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.
ShP 4.215 23 One more royal trait properly belongs to
the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a
poet,--for beauty is his aim.
NMW 4.224 20 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes']
virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim.
NMW 4.233 16 [Napoleon] is firm, sure...sacrificing
every thing...to his aim;...
NMW 4.258 18 Every experiment...that has a sensual
and selfish aim, will fail.
GoW 4.267 17 ...in those lower activities, which have
no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more
cowardly...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
GoW 4.285 5 Piety itself is no aim [said Goethe], but
only as a means whereby through purest inward peace we may attain to
highest culture.
GoW 4.288 26 In this aim of culture, which is the
genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power.
ET15 5.267 20 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the
London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by
older engineers;...
F 6.11 20 If, later, [these drones] give birth to
some superior individual, with force enough to add to this animal a new
aim...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
F 6.30 8 One way is right to go; the hero sees it,
and moves on that aim...
Wsp 6.232 21 A high aim reacts on the means, on the
days, on the organs of the body.
Wsp 6.232 22 A high aim is curative, as well as
arnica.
CbW 6.262 27 Men achieve a certain greatness
unawares, when working to another aim.
Art2 7.39 20 If we follow the popular distinction of
works according to their aim, we should say, the Spirit, in its
creation, aims at use or at beauty...
DL 7.113 9 ...is there any calamity...that more
invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find in the
housemates no aim;...
DL 7.117 12 ...our social forms are very far from
truth and equity. But the way to set the axe at the root of the tree is
to raise our aim.
DL 7.118 5 With a change of aim has followed a change
of the whole scale by which men and things were wont to be measured.
Cour 7.263 19 ...the frontiersman [loses fear], when
he has a perfect rifle and has acquired a sure aim.
Cour 7.278 3 In Californian mountains/ A hunter bold
was he [George Nidiver]:/ Keen his eye and sure his aim/ As any you
should see./
Cour 7.280 1 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice
of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave
heart./
Suc 7.310 8 ...to educate [man's] feeling and
judgment so that he shall scorn himself for a bad action, that is the
only aim.
OA 7.324 19 [With age] The passions have answered
their purpose: that slight but dread overweight with which in each
instance Nature secures the execution of her aim, drops off.
PI 8.52 13 ...we talk of our work, our tools and
material necessities, in prose; that is, without any elevation or aim
at beauty;...
QO 8.192 20 In so far as the receiver's aim is on
life, and not on literature, will be his indifference to the source.
Grts 8.301 3 There is a prize which we are all aiming
at, and the more power and goodness we have, so much more the energy of
that aim.
Grts 8.306 23 ...every mind has...a new direction of
its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind;...
PerF 10.86 3 That band which ties [cosmical laws]
together...is universal good, saturating all with one being and aim...
Schr 10.278 18 It seems as if two or three persons
coming who should add to a high spiritual aim great constructive
energy, would carry the country with them.
LLNE 10.339 2 ...the humanity which was the aim of
all the multitudinous works of Dickens;...was all on the side of the
people.
EPro 11.325 4 ...the aim of the war on our part is
indicated by the aim of the President's [Emancipation] Proclamation...
EPro 11.325 5 ...the aim of the war on our part is
indicated by the aim of the President's [Emancipation] Proclamation...
EPro 11.325 20 The malignant cry of the Secession
press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate
Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's]
efficiency and correctness of aim.
EdAd 11.390 7 ...[man] lives in such connection with
Thought and Fact that his bread is surely involved as one element
thereof, but is not its end and aim.
FRO2 11.486 9 ...we find parity, identity of design,
through Nature, and benefit to be the uniform aim...
PLT 12.48 10 ...the whole ponderous machinery of the
state has really for its aim just to place this skill of each.
PLT 12.55 2 The natural remedy against this
miscellany of knowledge and aim...is to substitute realism for
sentimentalism;...
II 12.82 19 If [a man] is wrong, increase his
determination to his aim, and he is right again.
II 12.83 15 Him we account the fortunate man whose
determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt.
Bost 12.199 23 What should hinder that this
America...the firm shore hid until science and art should be ripe to
propose it as a fixed aim...should have its happy ports...
MAng1 12.217 15 Like Truth, [Beauty] is an ultimate
aim of the human being.
Milt1 12.250 3 Only its general aim, and a few
elevated passages, can save [Milton's Defence of the English People].
MLit 12.335 20 [The Genius of the time] will write in
a higher spirit and a wider knowledge and with a grander practical aim
than ever yet guided the pen of poet.
EurB 12.377 10 The novels of Fashion, of Disraeli,
Mrs. Gore, Mr. Ward, belong to the class of novels of costume, because
the aim is purely external success.
aim, v. (25)
AmS 1.93 21 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us
when they aim not to drill, but to create;...
AmS 1.114 16 The mind of this country, taught to aim
at low objects, eats upon itself.
LE 1.172 14 I by no means aim in these remarks to
disparage the merit of these or of any existing compositions;...
MN 1.198 9 In treating a subject so large, in which
we must...aim much more to suggest than to describe, I know it is not
easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
MN 1.214 21 He who aims at progress should aim at an
infinite, not at a special benefit.
MN 1.215 27 ...there is no end to which your
practical faculty can aim...that if pursued for itself, will not at
last become carrion...
Hist 2.11 2 ...we aim to master intellectually the
steps and reach the same height or the same degradation that our
fellow, our proxy has done.
SL 2.136 7 Our Sunday-schools and churches and
pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. ... There are natural ways of
arriving at the same ends at which these aim, but do not arrive.
Exp 3.48 22 An innavigable sea washes with silent
waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with.
MoS 4.158 5 ...shall the young man aim at a leading
part in law, in politics, in trade? It will not be pretended that a
success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best
and inmost in his mind.
Civ 7.29 16 All our arts aim to win this vantage. We
cannot bring the heavenly powers to us, but if we will only choose our
jobs in directions in which they travel, they will undertake them with
the greatest pleasure.
Art2 7.49 9 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by
our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear
on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to this, in the fine
arts, is the manner of our intellectual work. We aim to hinder our
individuality from acting.
Chr2 10.94 13 Every hour puts the individual in a
position where his wishes aim at something which the sentiment of duty
forbids him to seek.
Edc1 10.135 3 ...we aim to make accountants,
attorneys, engineers;...
II 12.78 11 ...before the good we aim at, all history
is symptomatic...
Milt1 12.259 3 ...as far as possible [writes Milton],
I aim to show myself equal in thought and speech to what I have
written, if I have written anything well.
aime, v. (1)
Insp 8.289 20 La Nature aime les croisements, says
Fourier.
aimed, v. (11)
YA 1.384 7 ...the Communities aimed at a higher
success in securing to all their members an equal and thorough
education.
Ctr 6.146 11 ...if...nature has aimed to make a
legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must follow her
hint...
Wsp 6.225 14 The American workman who strikes ten
blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is
as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and
told on his person.
Suc 7.294 18 I pronounce that young man happy who is
content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at...
Prch 10.224 9 ...all that saints and churches and
Bibles...have aimed at, is to suppress this impertinent
surface-action...
HCom 11.343 18 Here...in this little nest of New
England republics [enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed
at Sumter.
FRep 11.515 9 When the cannon is aimed by ideas, when
men with religious convictions are behind it...the better code of laws
at last records the victory.
PLT 12.31 14 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing
or doing somewhat which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on
that, that it seems a sort of obtuseness to everything else.
MAng1 12.230 16 ...[Michelangelo] aimed exclusively
[in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to
express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
aiming, v. (11)
Prd1 2.223 21 ...culture...aiming at the perfection
of the man as the end, degrades every thing else...into means.
Pol1 3.213 12 The idea after which each community is
aiming to make and mend its law, is the will of the wise man.
NMW 4.252 15 I call Napoleon the agent or
attorney...of the throng who fill the markets, shops, counting-houses,
manufactories, ships, of the modern world, aiming to be rich.
Pow 6.76 21 The good judge is not he who does
hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at
substantial justice, rules something intelligible for the guidance of
suitors.
Wth 6.96 2 ...if men should...leave off aiming to be
rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of
power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
Thor 10.452 25 [Thoreau] declined to give up his
large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or
profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of
living well.
SMC 11.361 23 [George Prescott] never remits his care
of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits...
Wom 11.422 4 For the other point, of [women]...aiming
at abstract right without allowance for circumstances,-that is not a
disqualification, but a qualification [for voting].
aimless, adj. (8)
Nat2 3.192 2 The appearance strikes the eye
everywhere of an aimless society, of aimless nations.
SwM 4.110 20 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a
leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has
given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and
a beating heart.
ET7 5.122 14 ...[Englishmen] hate the Irish, as
aimless;...
Wsp 6.208 11 How is it people manage to live on,--so
aimless as they are?
Prch 10.221 27 To see men pursuing in faith their
varied action...what are they to this chill, houseless, fatherless,
aimless Cain, the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in
God's resplendent creation?
MoL 10.245 5 We have...restless, gossiping, aimless
activity.
aimless, n. (1)
aims, n. (75)
DSA 1.148 2 ...slight [the commanders]...by high and
universal aims, and they instantly feel...that it is in lower places
that they must shine.
DSA 1.149 18 So it is...in aims which put sympathy
out of question, that the angel is shown.
LT 1.287 17 ...we think the Genius of this Age more
philosophical than any other has been, righter in its aims...
Con 1.305 16 You [reformers] are not only identical
with us [conservatives] in your needs, but also in your methods and
aims.
Tran 1.338 14 ...we have yet no man...who, working
for universal aims, found himself fed, he knew not how;...
Tran 1.346 4 We easily predict a fair future to each
new candidate who enters the lists, but...by low aims and ill example
do what we can to defeat this hope.
YA 1.366 10 The habit of living in the presence of
these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral
sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and
aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
YA 1.384 10 ...one may say that aims so generous and
so forced on [the Communities] by the times, will not be relinquished,
even if these attempts fail...
Comp 2.101 11 Each new form repeats not only the main
character of the type, but part for part...all the aims...
SL 2.142 22 Foolish, whenever you take the meanness
and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the
obedient spiracle of your character and aims.
SL 2.150 2 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now
avails...how Roman his mien and manners, if his heart and aims are in
the senate...
SL 2.150 4 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now
avails...how Roman his mien and manners, if...she has no aims, no
conversation that can enchant her graceful lord?
Lov1 2.178 2 [The lover] is a new man, with...a
religious solemnity of character and aims.
Lov1 2.187 22 Looking at these aims with which two
persons, a man and a woman...are shut up in one house to spend in the
nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis
with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
Nat2 3.191 16 ...it was known that men of thought and
virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in
winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these
inconveniences...the old aims have been lost sight of...
Nat2 3.195 19 They say that by electro-magnetism your
salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for
dinner; it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors...
Pol1 3.208 14 Parties...have better guides to their
own humble aims than the sagacity of their leaders.
NMW 4.223 5 ...Bonaparte...owes his predominance to
the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of thought and belief,
the aims of the masses of active and cultivated men.
NMW 4.241 21 [Napoleon's] real strength lay in [the
people's] conviction that he was their representative in his genius and
aims...
NMW 4.257 2 The counter-revolution...still waits for
its organ and representative, in a lover and a man of truly public and
universal aims.
GoW 4.270 8 I described Bonaparte as a representative
of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century.
ET3 5.35 23 The culture of the day, the thoughts and
aims of men, are English thoughts and aims.
ET10 5.170 16 [England's] prosperity, the splendor
which so much manhood and talent and perseverance has thrown upon
vulgar aims, is the very argument of materialism.
ET10 5.171 2 ...not the aims of a manly life, but the
means of meeting a certain ponderous expense, is that which is
considered by a youth in England emerging from his minority.
ET14 5.246 21 [Dickens] is a painter of English
details, like Hogarth; local and temporary in his tints and style, and
local in his aims.
ET14 5.255 15 In the absence of the highest
aims...there is [in England] the suppression of the imagination...
Bhr 6.181 16 Whoever looked on [a complete man] would
consent to his will, being certified that his aims were generous and
universal.
Wsp 6.208 12 After [the people's] pepper-corn aims
are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them
together...
Bty 6.285 26 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant
dedicate themselves to their own details, and do not come out men of
more force. Have they... grand aims...which we demand in man...
SS 7.13 18 So many men whom I know are degraded by
their sympathies; their native aims being high enough, but their
relation all too tender to the gross people about them.
DL 7.117 27 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly
descend from the mountains...to be...a hall...whose inmates...do not
ask your house how theirs should be kept. They have aims;...
DL 7.123 22 ...every man is provided in his thought
with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily,
not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of
the model. Neither does the measurer himself;...neither do...the heroes
of the race. When he inspects them critically, he discovers that their
aims are low...
DL 7.133 12 Beside these aims [of the household],
Society is weak...
Cour 7.273 9 ...it is not the means on which we
draw...that count, but the aims only.
PI 8.73 9 The high poetry which shall...bring in the
new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is deeper hid...
PPo 8.247 17 An air...of incompetence to their proper
aims, belongs to many who have both experience and wisdom.
Imtl 8.332 19 ...though men of good minds, [the two
friends] were both pretty strong materialists in their daily aims and
way of life.
Chr2 10.108 5 ...So far the religion is now where it
should be. Persons...are discriminated according to their aims, and not
by these ritualities.
Edc1 10.132 1 ...truly the population of the globe
has its origin in the aims which their existence is to serve;...
Prch 10.237 26 ...how rare and lofty, how
unattainable, are the aims [the Church] labors to set before men!
LLNE 10.343 21 ...the intelligence and character and
varied ability of the company...perhaps waked curiosity as to its aims
and results.
LLNE 10.353 25 ...in a day of small, sour and fierce
schemes, one is admonished and cheered by a project of such friendly
aims [as Fourier's]...
MMEm 10.409 27 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on
my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every
actual case, 't is hard, and we lose sight of the first necessity,-here
too amid works red with default in all great and grand and infinite
aims.
SlHr 10.444 9 ...was it only the lot of excellence,
that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of
life alone...
Thor 10.454 20 I am often reminded, [Thoreau] wrote
in his journal, that if I had bestowed on me the wealth of Croesus, my
aims must be still the same, and my means essentially the same.
AsSu 11.250 13 [Sumner's] opponents accuse him
neither of drunkenness... nor personal aims of any kind.
SMC 11.350 10 ...the virtues we are met to honor were
directed on aims which command the sympathy of every loyal American
citizen...
CInt 12.127 14 You all well know...the facility with
which men renounce their youthful aims and say, the labor is too
severe, the prize too high for me;...
EurB 12.368 14 [Wordsworth] once for all forsook the
styles and standards and modes of thinking of London and Paris, and the
books read there and the aims pursued...
EurB 12.374 8 Whoever looked on the hero [the
complete man] would consent to his will, being certified that his aims
were universal, not selfish;...
PPr 12.381 2 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the
vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people...
Let 12.396 16 How joyfully we have felt the
admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits...
Let 12.396 23 ...whilst this aspiration [to improve
society] has always made its mark in the lives of men of thought, in
vigorous individuals it...is satisfied along with the satisfaction of
other aims.
Let 12.398 3 There is...a paralysis of the active
faculties, which falls on young men of this country...which strips them
of all manly aims...
Let 12.404 1 Apathies and total want of work...never
will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden;
not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can
find no field for his energies, whilst the colossal wrongs of the
Indian, of the Negro, of the emigrant, remain unmitigated...
aims, v. (25)
AmS 1.83 5 In the divided or social state these
functions [of priest, scholar, statesman, producer, and soldier] are
parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the
joint work...
MN 1.214 20 He who aims at progress should aim at an
infinite, not at a special benefit.
MR 1.229 8 It is when your facts and persons grow
unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that the scholar flies for
refuge to the world of ideas, and aims to recruit and replenish nature
from that source.
LT 1.280 21 ...how trivial seem the contests of the
abolitionist, whilst he aims merely at the circumstance of the slave.
Int 2.339 21 Is it any better if the student...aims
to make a mechanical whole of history...by a numerical addition of all
the facts that fall within his vision.
UGM 4.28 23 ...whilst every individual strives...to
impose the law of its being on every other creature, Nature steadily
aims to protect each against every other.
ET5 5.89 18 A nation of laborers, every [English] man
is trained to some one art or detail, and aims at perfection in
that;...
ET13 5.224 2 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is
hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The
church has not been the founder...of the Free School, of whatever aims
at diffusion of knowledge.
Art2 7.37 23 Every thought that arises in the mind,
in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act;...
Art2 7.39 21 ...the Spirit, in its creation, aims at
use or at beauty...
Elo1 7.73 21 ...the power of detaining the ear by
pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits. Thus separated,
as this fascination of discourse aims only at amusement...it is yet a
juggle...
PI 8.47 8 ...human passion, seizing these
constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words...
Grts 8.305 23 ...there is not a piece of Nature in
any kind but a man is born who...aims...to dedicate himself to that.
ACiv 11.300 5 The evil you contend with has taken
alarming proportions, and you still content yourself with parrying the
blows it aims...
air, n. (311)
Nat 1.5 9 Nature, in the common sense, refers to
essences unchanged by man;...the air...
Nat 1.9 16 In good health, the air is a cordial of
incredible virtue.
Nat 1.10 7 Standing on the bare ground - my head
bathed by the blithe air...all mean egotism vanishes.
Nat 1.13 27 ...[man] paves the road with iron bars,
and mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise
behind him, he darts... from town to town, like an eagle or a swallow
through the air.
Nat 1.21 8 Ever does natural beauty steal in like
air, and envelope great actions.
Nat 1.44 7 The river, as it flows, resembles the air
that flows over it;...
Nat 1.51 24 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates,
as on air, the sun...lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
Nat 1.53 4 ...The ornament of beauty is Suspect,/ A
crow which flies in heaven's sweetest air./
Nat 1.54 9 A solemn air, and the best comforter/ To
an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains/...
Nat 1.64 13 Once inhale the upper air...and we learn
that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator...
LE 1.168 7 ...the fall of swarms of flies, in autumn,
from combats high in the air...the angry hiss of the wood-birds;...all,
are alike unattempted [by poets].
MN 1.193 24 ...the sturdiest defender of existing
institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air...
MN 1.212 6 ...there is a certain infatuating air in
woods and mountains which draws on the idler to want and misery.
LT 1.275 2 Grimly the same spirit [of
Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless
providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men...
LT 1.278 9 You have set your heart and face against
society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown.
Excellent: now can you afford to forget it, reckoning all your action
no more than the passing of your hand through the air...
LT 1.285 9 By the side of these men [of the
intellectual class], the hot agitators have a certain cheap and
ridiculous air;...
Con 1.300 25 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts
that bank of foliage into the air...is the gift and legacy of dead and
buried years.
Tran 1.332 2 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his
banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and
solidity...which...lies floating in soft air...
Hist 2.13 2 Upborne and surrounded as we are by this
all-creating nature, soft and fluid as a cloud or the air, why should
we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms?
Hist 2.36 21 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let
his faculties find...no stake to play for, and he would beat the air,
and appear stupid.
SR 2.62 5 To [the man in the street] a palace, a
statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air...
Comp 2.92 12 ...all that Nature made thy own,/
Floating in air or pent in stone,/ Will rive the hills and swim the
sea/ And, like thy shadow, follow thee./
Comp 2.111 11 Whilst I stand in simple relations to
my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet...as two
currents of air mix...
SL 2.140 5 If we would not be mar-plots with our
miserable interferences... the heaven...still predicted from the bottom
of the heart, would organize itself, as do now the rose and the air and
the sun.
SL 2.164 4 ...the least [action] admits of being
inflated with the celestial air until it eclipses the sun and moon.
Lov1 2.176 11 In the noon and the afternoon of life
we still throb at the recollection of days...when...the air was coined
into song;...
Prd1 2.225 15 ...we are poisoned by the air that is
too cold or too hot, too dry or too wet.
Prd1 2.238 27 If you meet a sectary or a hostile
partisan...meet on what common ground remains...the area will widen
very fast, and ere you know it, the boundary mountains on which the eye
had fastened have melted into air.
Hsm1 2.258 5 A great man makes his climate genial in
the imagination of men, and its air the beloved element of all delicate
spirits.
Hsm1 2.258 19 We have seen or heard of many
extraordinary young men... whose performance in actual life was not
extraordinary. When we see their air and mien...we admire their
superiority;...
OS 2.275 5 With each divine impulse the mind...comes
out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air.
OS 2.291 7 The simplest utterances are worthiest to
be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the
infinite riches of the soul it is like...bottling a little air in a
phial...
Int 2.338 9 ...when we write with ease and come out
into the free air of thought, we seem to be assured that nothing is
easier than to continue this communication at pleasure.
Int 2.339 7 ...if a man fasten his attention on a
single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time,
the truth becomes...not itself but falsehood; herein resembling the
air, which is our natural element...but if a stream of the same be
directed on the body for a time, it causes cold, fever, and even death.
Art1 2.349 7 ...Let spouting fountains cool the air,/
Singing in the sun-baked square./
Art1 2.353 10 ...[a man] is necessitated by the air
he breathes...to share the manner of his times...
Art1 2.355 21 I should think fire the best thing in
the world, if I were not acquainted with air, and water, and earth.
Art1 2.358 2 ...with each moment [the artist] alters
the whole air, attitude and expression of his clay.
Pt1 3.8 7 ...whenever we are so finely organized that
we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those
primal warblings and attempt to write them down...
Pt1 3.12 26 ...the all-piercing, all-feeding and
ocular air of heaven that man shall never inhabit.
Pt1 3.25 12 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist
or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odors in the air...
Pt1 3.40 24 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes
pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again
to people a new world. This is like the stock of air for our
respiration or for the combustion of our fireplace;...
Exp 3.73 1 The baffled intellect must still kneel
before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to
represent by some emphatic symbol, as...Anaximenes by air...
Chr1 3.103 12 Love is inexhaustible, and if its
estate is wasted...still cheers and enriches, and the man...seems to
purify the air and his house...
Mrs1 3.140 17 Society loves...sleepy languishing
manners, so that they cover...the air of drowsy strength...
Mrs1 3.149 24 The open air and the fields, the street
and public chambers are the places where Man executes his will;...
Mrs1 3.151 18 [Lilla] was...like air or water, an
element of such a great range of affinities that it combines readily
with a thousand substances.
Nat2 3.169 4 There are days which occur in this
climate...when the air, the heavenly bodies and the earth, make a
harmony...
Nat2 3.172 10 The fall of snowflakes in a still
air...the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water...these are the
music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
Nat2 3.175 23 The muse herself betrays her son [the
poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty
by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the
road...
Nat2 3.175 26 The muse herself betrays her son [the
poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty
by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the
road,--a certain haughty favor, as if from patrician genii to
patricians, a kind of aristocracy in nature, a prince of the power of
the air.
NER 3.274 20 The heroes of ancient and modern
fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully
played, but the stake not to be so valued but that any time it could be
held as a trifle light as air...
UGM 4.7 9 Certain men affect us as rich
possibilities, but helpless to themselves and to their times,--the
sport perhaps of some instinct that rules in the air;...
UGM 4.20 13 We swim...on a river of delusions and are
effectually amused with houses and towns in the air...
UGM 4.26 1 ...the ideas of the time are in the air,
and infect all who breathe it.
PPh 4.47 15 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise
Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and
ethics: then the partialists,-- deducing the origin of things from flux
or water, or from air, or from fire, or from mind.
PPh 4.50 12 As one diffusive air, passing through the
perforations of a flute, is distinguished as the notes of a scale, so
the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold
[said Krishna]...
SwM 4.101 17 There is a common portrait of
[Swedenborg] in antique coat and wig, but the face has a wandering or
vacant air.
SwM 4.106 6 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge
makes his style lustrous...and resembling one of those winter mornings
when the air sparkles with crystals.
SwM 4.109 11 Creative force, like a musical composer,
goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...
SwM 4.118 1 One would say that as soon as men had the
first hint that every sensible object,--animal, rock, river,
air...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings
and duties, other science would be put by...
SwM 4.131 8 There is an air of infinite grief and the
sound of wailing all over and through [Swedenborg's] lurid universe.
SwM 4.142 18 [Swedenborg] goes up and down the world
of men...and with nonchalance and the air of a referee, distributes
souls.
MoS 4.159 11 Men...like trees, receive a great part
of their nourishment from the air.
MoS 4.166 10 ...[Montaigne] has stayed in-doors till
he is deadly sick; he will to the open air, though it rain bullets.
ShP 4.207 17 The forest of Arden, the nimble air of
Scone Castle...where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has
kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
ShP 4.213 6 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is
strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by
the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air...
NMW 4.245 21 ...as intellectual beings we feel the
air purified by the electric shock, when material force is overthrown
by intellectual energies.
NMW 4.248 25 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the
most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is
then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches, the real and
only danger to be apprehended in the Alps. On these high mountains
there are often very fine days in December...with an extreme calmness
in the air.
NMW 4.251 13 Water, air and cleanliness are the chief
articles in my pharmacopoeia [said Bonaparte].
GoW 4.261 20 The air is full of sounds; the sky, of
tokens;...
GoW 4.270 11 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is
Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century, breathing its air...
ET1 5.21 20 [Wordsworth] proceeded to abuse Goethe's
Wilhelm Meister heartily. It was full of all manner of fornication. It
was like the crossing of flies in the air.
ET3 5.39 21 In the manufacturing towns [of England],
the fine soot or blacks...contaminate the air...
ET4 5.46 15 Every body likes to know that his
advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local
wealth...
ET4 5.47 14 How came such men as...Francis Bacon,
George Herbert, Henry Vane, to exist here [in England]? What made these
delicate natures? was it the air?...
ET4 5.65 24 The pictures on the chimney-tiles of [the
American's] nursery were pictures of these [English] people. Here they
are in the identical costumes and air which so took him.
ET4 5.70 13 [The English] eat and drink, and live
jolly in the open air...
ET5 5.77 10 Each vagabond that arrived [in England]
bent his neck to the yoke of gain, or found the air too tense for him.
ET6 5.103 15 A terrible machine has possessed itself
of the ground, the air, the men and women [in England]...
ET6 5.112 15 When Thalberg the pianist was one
evening performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the
Queen accompanied him with her voice. The circumstance took air, and
all England shuddered from sea to sea.
ET8 5.134 6 ...however derived,--whether a happier
tribe or mixture of tribes, the air, or what circumstance that mixed
for them the golden mean of temperament,--here [in England] exists the
best stock in the world...
ET8 5.141 20 Does the early history of each tribe
show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its
activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters? The early
history shows it, as the musician plays the air which he proceeds to
conceal in a tempest of variations.
ET9 5.147 16 ...it must be admitted, the island
[England] offers a daily worship to the old Norse god Brage, celebrated
among our Scandinavian forefathers for his eloquence and majestic air.
ET9 5.148 9 [This little superfluity of self-regard
in the English brain] takes away a dodging, skulking, secondary air...
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.
ET9 5.149 8 It was said of Louis XIV., that his gait
and air were becoming enough in so great a monarch, yet would have been
ridiculous in another man;...
ET10 5.158 3 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it
would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of
wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds.
ET10 5.161 9 Already [steam] is ruddering the
balloon, and the next war will be fought in the air.
ET11 5.186 13 ...[English nobles] have that
simplicity and that air of repose which are the finest ornament of
greatness.
ET11 5.192 19 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let
down from a window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air,
was a scandal to Europe...
ET14 5.252 15 The tone of colleges and of scholars
and of literary society [in England] has this mortal air.
ET16 5.285 16 The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was
finished six hundred years ago, has even a spruce and modern air...
ET18 5.303 27 ...who would see...the explosion of
their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now
for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon
seed, with its instinct...for arts and for thought,--acquiring under
some skies a more electric energy than the native air allows...
ET19 5.312 15 ...I was given to understand in my
childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came
was...a cold, foggy, mournful country, where nothing grew well in the
open air but robust men and virtuous women...
F 6.1 1 Delicate omens traced in air,/ To the lone
bard true witness bare;/...
F 6.17 27 This kind of talent so abounds, this
constructive tool-making efficiency...as if the air [a man] breathes
were made of Vaucansons...
F 6.25 2 We should be crushed by the atmosphere, but
for the reaction of the air within the body.
F 6.25 21 If the air come to our lungs, we breathe
and live;...
F 6.32 21 ...the ductility of metals, the chariot of
the air, the ruddered balloon are awaiting you.
Pow 6.64 23 ...conservatism, ever more timorous and
narrow, disgusts the children and drives them for a mouthful of fresh
air into radicalism.
Ctr 6.132 4 The air, said Fouche, is full of
poniards.
Ctr 6.152 4 A shrewd foreigner said of the Americans
that whatever they say has a little the air of a speech.
Bhr 6.177 2 If [the human body] were made of glass,
or of air...it could not publish more truly its meaning than now.
Bhr 6.183 1 It is reported of one prince that his
head had the air of leaning downwards, in order not to humble the
crowd.
Bhr 6.183 6 It was said of the late Lord Holland that
he always came down to breakfast with the air of a man who had just met
with some signal good fortune.
Bhr 6.184 24 ...the high-born Turk who came hither
[to a dress circle] fancied...that all the talkers were brained and
exhausted by the deoxygenated air;...
Bhr 6.185 6 Look on this woman. There is not
beauty...but all see her gladly; her whole air and impression are
healthful.
Bhr 6.189 3 ...you cannot rightly train one to an air
and manner, except by making him the kind of man of whom that manner is
the natural expression.
Bhr 6.197 20 ...'t is a thousand to one that [the
young girl's] air and manner will at once betray that she is not
primary...
CbW 6.265 11 ...I find the gayest castles in the air
that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the
dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling,
discontented people.
CbW 6.265 13 ...I find the gayest castles in the air
that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the
dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling,
discontented people.
Bty 6.279 6 Beauty chased [Seyd] everywhere,/ In
flame, in storm, in clouds of air./
Bty 6.287 2 ...the lofty air of well-born, well-bred
boys...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and
enlarge us.
Bty 6.288 5 ...everybody knows people...who, with all
degrees of ability, never impress us with the air of free agency.
Ill 6.325 25 Every moment new changes and new showers
of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal]. And when...for
an instant, the air clears...there are the gods still sitting around
him on their thrones,--they alone with him alone.
SS 7.6 4 Those constitutions which can bear in open
day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average
structure such as... atmospheric air and water.
Civ 7.29 25 ...[the heavenly powers] swerve never
from their foreordained paths,--neither the sun, nor the moon, nor a
bubble of air, nor a mote of dust.
Art2 7.48 23 The artist who is to produce a work
which is to be admired... by all men...must...be...one through whom the
soul of all men circulates as the common air through his lungs.
DL 7.122 10 ...[the most polite and accurate men of
Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity
of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...that they frequently resorted and
dwelt with him, as in a college situated in a purer air;...
Farm 7.142 24 Who are the farmer's servants? Not the
Irish...but...the quarry of the air, the water of the brook...
Farm 7.144 14 The tree can draw on the whole air, the
whole earth...
Farm 7.144 17 The plant is all
suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by
its leaves, with all its might.
Farm 7.145 11 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and
decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again.
Farm 7.148 19 The high wall reflecting the heat back
on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine,--Enclosing
in the garden square/ A dead and standing pool of air/...
Farm 7.149 19 See what the farmer accomplishes by a
cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which
kept the land cold through constant evaporation, and allows the warm
rain to bring down into the roots the temperature of the air and of the
surface soil;...
WD 7.169 9 In college terms, and in years that
followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary
returned, though he were in a swamp, would...find the air faintly
echoing with plausive academic thunders.
WD 7.171 5 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself
to amass...the intellectual, temperamenting air;...are given
immeasurably to all.
Boks 7.195 8 ...all books that get fairly into the
vital air of the world were written by the successful class...
Boks 7.210 20 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand
two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the
assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There
ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the
hammer fall, he paused; the ivory instrument swept the air;...
Clbs 7.225 6 The flame of life burns too fast in pure
oxygen, and Nature has tempered the air with nitrogen.
Clbs 7.226 21 Opinions are accidental in
people,--have a poverty-stricken air.
Cour 7.266 19 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who
tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi, though
she...inhaled the air of the cavern standing on the tripod, fell into
convulsions and died.
Suc 7.298 2 We remember when in early youth the earth
spoke and the heavens glowed; when an evening, any evening...was enough
us; the houses were in the air.
OA 7.325 25 A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the
Supreme Court, and I was struck with a certain air of levity and
defiance which vastly became him.
PI 8.15 12 As the bird alights on the bough, then
plunges into the air again, so the thoughts of God pause but for a
moment in any form.
PI 8.18 27 Our indeterminate size is a delicious
secret which [the act of imagination] reveals to us. The mountains
begin to dislimn, and float in the air.
PI 8.57 15 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do
to the Indian, or the hunter, or miner, each of whom represents his
facts as accurately as the cry of the wolf or the eagle tells of the
forest or the air they inhabit.
PI 8.60 7 [The Crusades brought out the genius of
France, in the twelfth century, when] Pons de Capdeuil declares,--Since
the air renews itself and softens, so must my heart renew itself...
PI 8.60 23 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of
one groaning on his right hand; looking that way, he could see nothing
save a kind of smoke which seemed like air...
PI 8.61 26 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir
Gawaine]...neither shall I ever go out from hence, for in the world
there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined; and it is
neither of wood, nor of iron, nor of stone, but of air...
SA 8.85 5 ...Do not go to ask your debtor the payment
of a debt on the day when you have no other resource. He will learn by
your air and tone how it is with you, and will treat you as a beggar.
Elo2 8.128 9 ...the French say of Guizot, what Guizot
learned this morning he has the air of having known from all eternity.
Comc 8.162 21 The victim who has just received the
discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a
stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea;...
QO 8.187 5 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends,
laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the
air as soon as they were pronounced...
QO 8.192 5 ...Voltaire usually imitated, but with
such superiority that Dubuc said: He is like the false Amphitryon;
although the stranger, it is always he who has the air of being master
of the house.
PC 8.212 18 Geology...has had the effect to throw an
air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.
PC 8.226 16 The air does not rush to fill a vacuum
with such speed as the mind to catch the expected fact.
PC 8.227 14 ...the air and water that hang invisibly
around us hasten to become solid in the oak and the animal.
PC 8.228 1 If [men in Kansas and California] are made
as [the wise man] is, if they breathe the like air...he knows that
their joy or resentment rises to the same point as his own.
PPo 8.254 15 To the vizier returning from Mecca
[Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune.
Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor
has any man inhaled...from the musky morning wind that sweet air which
I am permitted to breathe every hour of the day.
PPo 8.255 27 Either world inhabits [the phoenix],/
Sees oft below him planets roll;/ His body is all of air compact,/ Of
Allah's love his soul./
Insp 8.279 26 Health is the first muse, comprising
the magical benefits of air, landscape and bodily exercise, on the
mind.
Insp 8.284 9 Plutarch affirms that souls are
naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and the chief cause
that excites this faculty and virtue is a certain temperature of air
and winds.
Grts 8.319 9 What are these [heroes] but the promise
and the preparation of a day when the air of the world shall be
purified by nobler society...
Imtl 8.340 4 ...all our intellectual action...bestows
a feeling of absolute existence. We are taken out of time and breathe a
purer air.
Dem1 10.21 4 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply
mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the
guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...flying through the air...can
well be spared.
Dem1 10.21 19 The best are never demoniacal or
magnetic; leave this limbo to the Prince of the power of the air.
Aris 10.55 6 He is beautiful in face, in port, in
manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be
superior to himself. Is there...any cosmetic or any blood that can
obtain homage like that security of air presupposing so undoubtingly
the sympathy of men in his designs?
PerF 10.70 5 Ah, if you knew what was in the air.
PerF 10.71 13 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is
full of peaches, full of oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of
keys to unlock and combine its virtues;...and by and by it has lifted
into the air its full weight in golden fruit.
PerF 10.73 27 It is curious to see how a creature so
feeble and vulnerable as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild
beasts...none for a fog, or a damp air...is yet able to subdue to his
will these terrific [natural] forces...
PerF 10.76 5 ...a man draws on all the air for his
occasions, as if there were no other breather;...
PerF 10.84 20 [Men] wish to pocket land and water and
fire and air and all fruits of these, for property...
PerF 10.88 19 ...as the bird on the air...so do
nations of men and their institutions rest on thoughts.
Supl 10.167 26 [People of English stock's] houses
are...not designed to... blow about through the air much in
hurricanes...
SovE 10.206 19 ...[the Orientals] will not turn on
their heel to avoid famine, plague or the sword of the enemy. That is
great, and gives a great air to the people.
MoL 10.247 19 Air, water, fire, iron, gold, wheat,
electricity, animal fibre, have not lost a particle of power...
Schr 10.276 5 There is plenty of air, but it is worth
nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and
service to carry us and our cargo across the sea.
Plu 10.301 26 A poet might rhyme all day with hints
drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion
for the modern reader owes much to the foreign air...
LLNE 10.344 25 I habitually apply to [Theodore
Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of
Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory. His vast lungs
breathe independence with the air of the mountains and the woods.
LLNE 10.348 9 A man is entitled to pure air, and to
the air of good conversation in his bringing up...
EzRy 10.386 21 Some of those around me will remember
one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr.
Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of
leading in prayer; but the Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor,
as with an air that said to all the congregation, This is no time for
you young Cambridge men; the affair, sir, is getting serious. I will
pray myself.
SlHr 10.439 20 The severity of [Samuel Hoar's] logic
might have inspired fear, had it not been restrained by his natural
reverence, which made him modest and courteous, though his courtesy had
a grave and almost military air.
Thor 10.466 19 Every fact which occurs in the bed [of
the Concord River], on the banks or in the air over it;...[was] all
known to [Thoreau]...
Thor 10.466 21 ...the shad-flies which fill the air
on a certain evening once a year...were all known by [Thoreau]...
GSt 10.501 3 High virtue has such an air of nature
and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise the water
for flowing...
HDC 11.35 18 The hardships of the journey and of the
first encampment are certainly related by [the pilgrims'] contemporary
with some air of romance...
HDC 11.39 12 ...if...[the settlers of Concord] found
the air of America very cold, they might say with
Higginson...that...all Europe is not able to afford to make so great
fires as New England.
HDC 11.66 9 In 1741, the celebrated Whitfield
preached here [in Concord], in the open air, to a great congregation.
EWI 11.107 9 [Lord Mansfield's] decision established
the principle that the air of England is too pure for any slave to
breathe...
FSLC 11.180 1 There are men who are as sure indexes
of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the
air...
EdAd 11.391 20 Will [a journal] venture into the thin
and difficult air of that school where the secrets of structure are
discussed under the topics of mesmerism and the twilights of
demonology?
Wom 11.410 4 Position, Wren said, is essential to the
perfecting of beauty;...a statue should stand in the air;...
Wom 11.423 15 ...there is contamination enough [in
politics], but it rots the men now, and fills the air with stench.
SHC 11.428 2 No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral
stoops,/ No winding torches paint the midnight air;/...
SHC 11.435 16 ...when these acorns, that are falling
at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote
century...heroes, poets, beauties, sanctities, benefactors, will have
made the air timeable and articulate.
Shak1 11.446 8 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/
The sense and bound of Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him
became/ Poets, for the air was fame./
PLT 12.22 7 A fish in like manner is man furnished to
live in the sea; a thrush, to fly in the air;...
PLT 12.26 23 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids,
neither warm fireside nor fresh air, walking or riding, avail at all to
resist the palsy of mis-association.
PLT 12.32 19 The air rings with sounds, but only a
few vibrations can reach our tympanum.
PLT 12.57 20 There is a conflict between a man's
private dexterity or talent and his access to the free air and light
which wisdom is;...
II 12.76 14 That is the quality of [the moral sense],
that it commands, and is not commanded. And rarely, and suddenly, and
without desert, we are let into the serene upper air.
II 12.81 24 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church,
or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants,
lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day, as leaves and
wood are made of air, an idea fashioned them...
CInt 12.129 2 When you say the times, the persons are
prosaic...where [is] the Romish or the Calvinistic religion, which made
a kind of poetry in the air for Milton, or Byron, or Belzoni?...you
expose your atheism.
CL 12.133 1 The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/
And all through which it blows;/...
CL 12.138 21 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible
distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was
occasioned by an animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or
hand, or other uncovered part...
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.
CL 12.140 26 The power of the air was the first
explanation offered by the early philosophers of the mutual
understanding that men have.
CL 12.141 2 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul,
and the essence of life.
CL 12.141 5 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul,
and the essence of life. By breathing it, we become intelligent, and,
because we breathe the same air, understand one another.
CL 12.141 10 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the
knowledge of the future. If it be true that souls are naturally endowed
with the faculty of prediction, and that the chief cause that excites
that faculty is a certain temperature of the air and winds, etc.
CL 12.141 12 Even Lord Bacon said, The Stars inject
their imagination or influence into the air.
CL 12.141 17 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.
CL 12.145 27 [The pear]...could live, like an Arab,
on air and water.
CL 12.152 3 ...[in October] all the trees are
wind-harps, filling the air with music;...
Bost 12.183 2 The old physiologists said, There is in
the air a hidden food of life;...
Bost 12.183 4 [The old physiologists] believed the
air of mountains and the seashore a potent predisposer to rebellion.
Bost 12.183 5 [The old physiologists] believed the
air of mountains and the seashore a potent predisposer to rebellion.
The air was a good republican...
Bost 12.186 1 What Vasari said...of the republican
city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and
honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place...
Bost 12.186 9 What Vasari said...of the republican
city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and
honor is powerfully generates by the air of that place...whereby...all
labor by every means to be foremost. We find no less stimulus in our
native air;...
Bost 12.196 20 New England lies in the cold and
hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and
heated rooms a large part of the year...takes from the muscles their
suppleness, from the skin its exposure to the air;...
Bost 12.196 23 ...the New Englander...lacks that
beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the
activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to
produce in climates nearer to the sun.
MAng1 12.229 20 In the Piazza del Gran Duca at
Florence, stands, in the open air, [Michelangelo's] David...
Milt1 12.258 8 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons
of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and
sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches...
ACri 12.299 21 ...the secret interior wits and hearts
of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less
surely. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire,
or of the blessing of love, and yet, I suppose, they are sensible of
these...
MLit 12.309 20 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine,
and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...
MLit 12.325 16 We are provoked with...the patronizing
air with which [Goethe] vouchsafes to tolerate the genius and
performances of other mortals...
MLit 12.331 14 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver
with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to
get a draft of sweet air and a gaze at the magnificence of summer, but
dares not break from his slavery...
WSL 12.346 9 [Landor] exercises with a grandeur of
spirit the office of writer, and carries it with an air of old and
unquestionable nobility.
EurB 12.370 16 Otto-of-roses is good, but wild air is
better.
PPr 12.385 1 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and
Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every
lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism
tossed like a football into the air...
PPr 12.385 2 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and
Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every
lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism
tossed like a football into the air, and kept in the air, with
merciless kicks and rebounds...
PPr 12.385 6 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present]
has eluded all official zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim
waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it
inflicts.
Let 12.393 12 Our friend suggests so many
inconveniences from piracy out of the high air...that we have not the
heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these
details.
air-ball, n. (1)
air-balloon, n. (1)
PPr 12.390 24 How like an air-balloon or bird of Jove
does [Carlyle] seem to float over the continent...
air-balloons, n. (1)
Pow 6.62 25 The commerce of rivers...and who knows
but the commerce of air-balloons, must add an American extension to the
pond-hole of admiralty.
air-borne, adj. (1)
PI 8.53 3 The poet, like a delighted boy, brings you
heaps of rainbow-bubbles, opaline, air-borne...instead of a few drops
of soap and water.
air-castle, n. (1)
Pt1 3.4 3 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to
talk of the spiritual meaning of a ship or a cloud...
air-chamber, n. (1)
Supl 10.178 20 Our modern improvements have been in
the invention...of the famous two parallel bars of iron; then of the
air-chamber of Watt, and of the judicious tubing of the engine, by
Stephenson...
aired, v. (1)
ET11 5.193 22 [English noblemen]...keep [their
houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of
four or five thousand pounds a year.
air-fed, adj. (1)
MN 1.198 13 I do not wish in attempting to paint a
man, to describe an air-fed... ghost.
air-line, adj. (1)
Thor 10.453 18 A natural skill for mensuration,
growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances
of objects which interested him... the height of mountains and the
air-line distance of his favorite summits,- this, and his intimate
knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the
profession of land-surveyor.
air-lord, n. (1)
Pt1 3.42 16 ...thou [O poet] shalt possess that
wherein others are only tenants and boarders. Thou true land-lord!
sea-lord! air-lord!
air-pictures, n. (1)
Pol1 3.221 13 I do not call to mind a single human
being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple
ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained
except avowedly as air-pictures.
air-pump, n. (1)
Air-roads, n. (1)
Let 12.392 14 ...in regard to the writer who has
given us his speculations on Railroads and Air-roads, our correspondent
shall have his own way.
airs, n. (12)
Prd1 2.227 6 The domestic man, who loves no music so
well as...the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the
hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.
ET15 5.269 7 [The London Times] attacks a duke as
readily as a policeman, and with the most provoking airs of
condescension.
Imtl 8.346 18 ...only by rare integrity, by a man
permeated and perfumed with airs of heaven...can the vision [of
immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.
LLNE 10.349 23 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di
Roma, the frozen Polar circles, which by their pestilential or hot or
cold airs poison the temperate regions, accuse man.
Bost 12.202 5 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say
to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of
courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck. We are a little too close to wolf
and famine than that anybody should give himself airs here in the
swamp.
air's, n. (1)
CbW 6.243 19 Live in the sunshine, swim the sea,/
Drink the wild air's salubrity/...
airth, n. (1)
Carl 10.493 2 [Carlyle] saw once, as he told me,
three or four miles of human beings, and fancied that the airth was
some great cheese, and these were mites.
air-tight, adj. (1)
YA 1.388 4 In America, out-of-doors all seems a
market; in-doors an air-tight stove of conventionalism.
airy, adj. (5)
Art1 2.349 15 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy
behind the city clock/ Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels,
starry wings/...
ShP 4.194 1 The rude warm blood of the living England
circulated in the play, as in street-ballads, and gave body which
[Shakespeare] wanted to his airy and majestic fancy.
OA 7.313 2 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/
Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me
with the wonted spell./
Elo2 8.110 6 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed
with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity
to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would
speak, his words...like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about
him at command...
Milt1 12.262 10 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever
is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with
the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when
such a man would speak, his words...like so many nimble and airy
servitors, trip about him at command...
airy, n. (1)
MoS 4.159 6 ...we ought to secure those advantages
which we can command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and
unattainable.
aisles, n. (2)
DSA 1.134 22 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his
dream] with solemn joy...sometimes in towers and aisles of granite...
NER 3.263 9 In the midst of abuses...in the aisles of
false churches... wherever, namely, a just and heroic soul finds
itself, there it will do what is next at hand...
Aix, France, n. (1)
SA 8.94 19 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged
circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party
returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix...
ajar, adj. (2)
ALin 11.335 2 If ever a man was fairly tested,
[Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of
ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets;...such multitudes
had to be trusted, that no secret could be kept. Every door was ajar...
Ajax [Homer, Iliad], n. (2)
Comp 2.107 24 ...the belt which Ajax gave Hector
dragged the Trojan hero over the fields at the wheels of the car of
Achilles...
Akenside, Mark, n. (1)
MMEm 10.402 12 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading
was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards...
Akhlak-y-Jalaly, n. (1)
PPh 4.40 24 Mahometanism draws all its philosophy, in
its hand-book of morals, the Akhlak-y-Jalaly, from [Plato].
akimbo, adj. (1)
akin, adj. (2)
Ctr 6.148 5 Akin to the benefit of foreign travel,
the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and
country life...
MLit 12.316 17 Another element of the modern poetry
akin to this subjective tendency...is the Feeling of the Infinite.
Alabama, n. (2)
LT 1.280 10 [This denouncing philanthropist] is the
state of Georgia, or Alabama...walking here on our north-eastern
shores.
AKan 11.260 15 Can any citizen of Massachusetts
travel in honor through Kentucky and Alabama and speak his mind?
Alabama River, n. (1)
Bost 12.186 26 I do not know that Charles River or
Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or
Alabama rivers...
alabaster, n. (1)
EurB 12.370 11 In [Tennyson's] boudoirs of damask and
alabaster, one is farther off from stern Nature and human life than in
Lalla Rookh and the Loves of the Angels.
alacrity, n. (3)
Elo1 7.83 23 I have heard it reported of an eloquent
preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which
overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with
more than his usual alacrity...
HDC 11.79 11 The numbers [of of men for the
Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are
large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their
brethren...will...with the utmost alacrity and despatch, fill up the
numbers proportioned to the several towns.
War 11.167 7 At a still higher stage, [man] comes
into the region of holiness;...he...accepts with alacrity wearisome
tasks of denial and charity;...
Aladdin [Arabian Nights'], (1)
Res 8.142 8 ...we have found the Taurida in
Pennsylvania and Ohio. If they have not the lamp of Aladdin, they have
the Aladdin oil.
Aladdin [Arabian Nights], n (2)
Dem1 10.25 14 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again
that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of magicians
and fairies and lamps of Aladdin...
LLNE 10.351 10 Aladdin and his magician, or the
beautiful Scheherezade can alone, in these prosaic times before the
[Fourierist] sight, describe the material splendors collected there [in
the Golden Horn].
Aladdin [Arabian Nights'], (1)
Res 8.142 7 ...we have found the Taurida in
Pennsylvania and Ohio. If they have not the lamp of Aladdin, they have
the Aladdin oil.
Aladdin, [Arabian Nights], (1)
Edc1 10.126 5 All the fairy tales of Aladdin or the
invisible Gyges...are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of
intellectual enlargement.
Aladdin's [Arabian Nights], (1)
PerF 10.84 21 [Men]...would like to have Aladdin's
lamp to compel darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and
lions and serpents to serve them like footmen.
alar, adj. (2)
Bty 6.294 12 ...the bone or the quill of the bird
gives the most alar strength with the least weight.
Alaric, n. (3)
Con 1.317 5 ...the vigor of...Alaric the
Goth...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the
instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
Suc 7.304 26 To-day at the school examination the
professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and
Alaric.
Alaric, Norway [Sturluson, (1)
ET4 5.59 3 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on
a morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits
out of their horses' mouths and crush each other's heads with them, as
did Alaric and Eric.
alarm, n. (8)
Hist 2.38 5 Who knows himself before he...has shared
the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm?
ET4 5.56 4 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of
Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen
cruising in the Mediterranean. They even entered the port of the town
where he was, causing no small alarm and sudden manning and arming of
his galleys.
PI 8.6 10 The admission, never so covertly, that this
[material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our
little sir...suspects that some one is doing him, and at this alarm
everything is compromised;...
CSC 10.374 8 These meetings [of the Chardon Street
Convention]...were spoken of in different circles in every note of
hope, of sympathy, of joy, of alarm, of abhorrence and of merriment.
HDC 11.72 18 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson]
preached to a very full assembly, taking for his text, 2 Chronicles
xiii.12, And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his
priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you.
FRep 11.533 11 If a temperate wise man should look
over our American society, I think the first danger that would excite
his alarm would be the European influences on this country.
PLT 12.6 23 ...if [the student] finds at first with
some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or
the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his
insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may
cost him.
alarm, v. (2)
LT 1.269 25 The fury with which the slave-trader
defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a trumpet to
alarm the ear of mankind...
PI 8.35 21 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer
is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and
suffocate his fancy...
alarm-bell, n. (1)
CInt 12.115 26 [The college] is essentially the most
radiating and public of agencies, like, but better than...the
alarm-bell...
alarmed, v. (8)
Pol1 3.211 7 Citizens of feudal states are alarmed at
our democratic institutions lapsing into anarchy...
Boks 7.198 2 ...in these days, when it is
found...that we need not be alarmed though we should find it not dull,
[Herodotus's history] is regaining credit.
Clbs 7.229 10 ...the days come when we are alarmed,
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