Amazed to Amounts

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

amazed, adj. (2)

    Int 2.347 6 ...nor do [the Greek philosophers] ever...testify the least displeasure or petulance at the dulness of their amazed auditory.

    PPo 8.265 16 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./

amazed, v. (2)

    Cour 7.279 13 George Nidiver stood still/ And looked [the bear] in the face;/ The wild beast stopped amazed,/ Then came with slackening pace./

    PPo 8.264 11 The sun from near-by beamed/ Clearest light into [the birds'] soul;/ The resplendence of the Simorg beamed/ As one back from all three./ They knew not, amazed, if they/ Were either this or that./

amazement, n. (2)

    Exp 3.71 25 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...

    Dem1 10.25 2 Men who had never wondered at anything...have been unable to suppress their amazement at the disclosures of the somnambulist.

amazing, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.50 27 ...the secret of [the Indian's] amazing skill seemed to be that he partook of the nature and fierce instincts of the beasts he slew.

amazingly, adv. (1)

    Edc1 10.130 5 Whatever the man does, or whatever befalls him, opens another chamber in his soul,-that is, he has got a new feeling, a new thought, a new organ. Do we not see how amazingly for this end man is fitted to the world?

ambassador, n. (9)

    YA 1.376 2 ...a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter...

    YA 1.393 23 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy...

    YA 1.393 25 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy, whilst he debated some point of honor with the French ambassador;...

    YA 1.393 27 [Philip II's] ambassador replied, Your Majesty's self is but a ceremony.

    Mrs1 3.144 13 ...here is...Spahi, the Persian ambassador;...

    ET18 5.301 9 [The foreign policy of England] has a principal regard to the interest of trade, checked however by the aristocratic bias of the ambassador...

    MoL 10.250 16 The ambassador is held to maintain the dignity of the Republic which he represents.

    EWI 11.139 1 What happened notoriously to an American ambassador in England, that he found himself compelled to palter and to disguise the fact that he was a slave-breeder, happens to men of state.

    PLT 12.5 27 [When I look at the tree or the river] I feel as if I stood by an ambassador charged with the message of his king...

ambassadors, n. (4)

    ET2 5.32 18 It has been said that the King of England would consult his dignity by giving audience to foreign ambassadors in the cabin of a man-of-war.

    Clbs 7.235 20 In the old time conundrums were sent from king to king by ambassadors.

    Res 8.142 18 We have seen China opened to European and American ambassadors and commerce;...

    ChiE 11.474 19 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York...that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce. It appears that the ambassadors were emulous in their magnanimity.

ambassador's, n. (1)

    ET13 5.220 25 When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him...

amber, n. (3)

    Lov1 2.175 10 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when...the most trivial circumstance associated with one form is put in the amber of memory;...

    ET5 5.94 25 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees adorn./

    PPo 8.244 8 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./

ambient, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.55 25 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud.

ambiguity, n. (1)

    MLit 12.313 17 There is a pernicious ambiguity in the use of the term subjective.

ambition, n. (64)

    DSA 1.145 6 None assayeth the stern ambition to be the Self of the nation and of nature...

    LE 1.173 15 Having thus spoken of the resources and the subject of the scholar, out of the same faith proceeds also the rule of his ambition and life.

    MN 1.194 9 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart, which hast not yet found...any wares which thou couldst buy or sell,-so large is thy love and ambition...

    LT 1.285 22 The revolutions that impend over society are not now from ambition and rapacity...

    YA 1.381 8 ...[these communists] thought that the farm, as we manage it, did not satisfy the right ambition of man.

    SR 2.51 16 ...never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off.

    SR 2.75 18 ...we see that most natures...have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force...

    SL 2.141 11 [A man's] ambition is exactly proportioned to his powers.

    Prd1 2.240 21 If not the Deity but our ambition hews and shapes the new relations, their virtue escapes...

    Int 2.339 1 The intellect...demands integrity in every work. This is resisted equally by a man's devotion to a single thought and by his ambition to combine too many.

    Pol1 3.205 1 ...there are limitations beyond which the folly and ambition of governors cannot go.

    Pol1 3.217 15 The gladiators in the lists of power feel...the presence of worth. I think the very strife of trade and ambition is confession of this divinity;...

    NER 3.275 25 Is [a man's] ambition pure? then will his laurels and his possessions seem worthless...

    PPh 4.77 20 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism.

    PPh 4.78 13 No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. But there is an injustice in assuming this ambition for Plato.

    MoS 4.183 22 [The man of thought] can behold with serenity the yawning gulf between the ambition of man and his power of performance...

    NMW 4.237 12 My ambition, [Napoleon] says, was great, but was of a cold nature.

    ET8 5.141 25 Glory, a career, and ambition, the words familiar to the longitude of Paris, are seldom heard in English speech.

    ET10 5.156 19 [In England] An economist, or a man who can proportion his means and his ambition...without embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a freeman.

    ET10 5.157 1 The ambition to create value evokes every kind of ability [in England];...

    ET11 5.185 23 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men... and, when men of any ability or ambition, have been consulted in the conduct of every important action.

    ET14 5.245 11 Mr. Hallam...has written the history of European literature for three centuries,--a performance of great ambition...

    ET14 5.246 24 Bulwer...appeals to the worldly ambition of the student.

    ET16 5.282 23 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to obtain possession of this wise stone.

    F 6.42 14 As once [man] found himself among toys, so now...his growth is declared in his ambition...

    Ctr 6.131 1 The word of ambition at the present day is Culture.

    Wsp 6.218 1 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent. Hence the extraordinary blunders and final wrong-head into which men spoiled by ambition usually fall.

    DL 7.119 21 There was never a country in the world...where intellectual entertainment is so within reach of youthful ambition.

    DL 7.122 15 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to be a master of living well...

    Clbs 7.241 7 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment almost inevitably guides into the vortex of ambition... whom we now consider.

    Suc 7.302 4 Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting, which only ask receptivity in you, and no strained exertion and cankering ambition...

    OA 7.319 8 [The cup of time]...fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science...

    Elo2 8.126 4 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered. This style is to be sought in the common intercourse of life among those who speak...without ambition of elegance.

    Elo2 8.133 1 Is it not worth the ambition of every generous youth to train and arm his mind with all the resources of knowledge, of method, of grace and of character, to serve such a constituency [as the United States]"

    PC 8.232 25 We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste...

    Insp 8.276 27 See how the passions augment our force,-anger, love, ambition!...

    Insp 8.296 2 Books of natural science...all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.

    Dem1 10.23 17 ...the main ambition and genius being bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids within [a man's] sphere will follow.

    Aris 10.59 14 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant that we have no prizes offered to the ambition of virtuous young men;...

    Prch 10.218 16 ...elegance of taste and of manners and pursuit, a boundless ambition of intellect...all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...

    Schr 10.273 4 The labor of ambition and avarice will appear fumbling beside [the scholar's].

    Schr 10.279 9 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character... so that presently...talent is mistaken for genius...ambition for greatness...

    LLNE 10.343 11 ...perhaps those persons who were mutually the best friends...had no ambition of publishing their letters, diaries or conversation.

    LLNE 10.360 11 Many persons, attracted by the beauty of the place [Brook Farm] and the culture and ambition of the community, joined them as boarders...

    LLNE 10.368 8 People cannot live together in any but necessary ways. The only candidates who will present themselves will be those who have tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and have failed;...

    SlHr 10.446 19 No person was more keenly alive to the stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar].

    Thor 10.452 23 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession...

    Thor 10.480 19 ...I cannot help counting it a fault in [Thoreau] that he had no ambition.

    FSLC 11.196 11 No government ever found it hard to pick up tools for base actions. If you cannot find them in the huts of the poor, you shall find them in the palaces of the rich. Vanity can buy some, ambition others, and money others.

    FSLN 11.220 19 There is always base ambition enough...

    FSLN 11.241 11 Possession is sure to throw its stupid strength for existing power, and appetite and ambition will go for that.

    Scot 11.464 18 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep and use, but without any ambition to write a high poem after a classic model.

    FRO2 11.485 17 I am glad...that we are likely one day to forget our obstinate polemics in the ambition to excel each other in good works.

    FRep 11.542 1 I hope America will come to have its pride in being a nation of servants, and not of the served. How can men have any other ambition where the reason has not suffered a disastrous eclipse?

    PLT 12.11 17 I confine my ambition to true reporting of [intellect's] play in natural action...

    PLT 12.26 20 No ambition, no opposition...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.

    CInt 12.118 3 ...ambition makes insane.

    CInt 12.126 23 ...a college should have no mean ambition...

    CInt 12.130 15 ...know that, next to being [intellect's] minister...is the profound reception and sympathy, without ambition, which secularizes and trades it.

    Bost 12.186 10 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...not less ambition in our blood...

    ACri 12.284 12 This [national] style is probably to be sought...among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.

    MLit 12.332 16 ...the ambition of creation [Goethe] refused.

    WSL 12.341 4 In these busy days of avarice and ambition...a faithful scholar...is a friend and consoler of mankind.

    EurB 12.370 19 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition to begin where their fathers ended;...

Ambition, n. (1)

    Bty 6.279 24 While thus to love [Seyd] gave his days/ In loyal worship, scorning praise,/ How spread their lures for him, in vain,/ Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain!/

ambitions, n. (4)

    Tran 1.341 9 ...[many intelligent and religious persons] prefer to ramble in the country and perish of ennui, to the degradation of such charities and such ambitions as the city can propose to them.

    QO 8.200 14 Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair,-all these we never made...

    EzRy 10.393 8 The usual experiences of men...the common ambitions,- [Ezra Ripley] studied them all...

    TPar 11.289 25 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions...it is a hypocrisy...

ambitious, adj. (19)

    AmS 1.86 9 The ambitious soul sits down before each refractory fact;...

    OS 2.290 9 The ambitious vulgar show you their spoons and brooches and rings...

    Mrs1 3.152 15 The constitution of our society makes it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth who have not found their names enrolled in its Golden Book...

    Nat2 3.171 4 We come to our own [in the woods], and make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise.

    ET11 5.186 20 [The English upper classes] have the sense of superiority, the absence of all the ambitious effort which disgusts in the aspiring classes...

    ET14 5.251 16 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men...who were driven by tastes and modes they found in vogue into their several careers. So, at this moment, every ambitious young man studies geology...

    ET14 5.257 8 [Wordsworth's] verse is the voice of sanity in a worldly and ambitious age.

    ET18 5.301 5 The foreign policy of England, though ambitious and lavish of money, has not often been generous or just.

    Bhr 6.172 4 When we reflect on...how manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth;...we see what range the subject has...

    Bhr 6.175 16 ...perhaps the ambitious youth thinks he has got the whole secret when he has learned that disengaged manners are commanding.

    Elo1 7.63 17 Who can wonder at the attractiveness...of...the bar, for our ambitious young men...

    WD 7.177 2 Do not refuse the employment which the hour brings you, for one more ambitious.

    Suc 7.310 22 Which of [the most sanguine] has not...blundered where they were most ambitious of success?...

    Plu 10.304 5 Many examples might be cited [in Plutarch] of nervous expression and happy allusion, that indicate a poet and an orator, though he is not ambitious of these titles...

    Plu 10.322 4 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...

    MMEm 10.406 21 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?

    EWI 11.134 16 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out that these neglected victims are poor and without weight;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...

    PLT 12.58 18 Each talent is ambitious and self-asserting;...

    Milt1 12.255 7 Bacon's Essays are the portrait of an ambitious and profound calculator...

ambitious, n. (2)

    GoW 4.265 10 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...

    Prch 10.228 16 Of course a hero so attractive to the hearts of millions [as Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into his train...

Ambleside, England, n. (1)

    ET17 5.294 8 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau...

Ambresbury, England, n. (1)

    ET16 5.282 4 ...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the magnet; laid their courses by it; their cardinal points in Stonehenge, Ambresbury, and elsewhere...followed the variations of the compass.

ambrosia, n. (2)

    EdAd 11.382 23 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of world beloved and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./

    CL 12.149 5 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins (Waters)...harness your car! Ambrosia is in you...

Ambrosia, n. (1)

    Thor 10.468 21 [Thoreau] says, [Weeds] have brave names, too,- Ambrosia, Stellaria, Amelanchier, Amaranth, etc.

ambrosial, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.35 27 If a few grand natures should come to us and weave duties and offices between us and them, it would make our bread ambrosial.

Ambrosian Libraries, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 16 It is the interest of all men that there should be...Ambrosian... Libraries.

ambush, n. (2)

    Cour 7.262 22 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from...an ambush.

    PPo 8.245 16 On every side is an ambush laid by the robber-troops of circumstance;...

Amelanchier, n. (1)

    Thor 10.468 21 [Thoreau] says, [Weeds] have brave names, too,- Ambrosia, Stellaria, Amelanchier, Amaranth, etc.

amelioration, n. (7)

    MR 1.254 1 Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich...

    LT 1.281 16 ...Pestalozzi...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.

    YA 1.372 24 Remark the unceasing effort throughout nature at... amelioration in nature...

    YA 1.372 25 Remark the unceasing effort throughout nature at... amelioration in nature, which alone permits and authorizes amelioration in mankind.

    SR 2.84 16 ...this change [in society] is not amelioration.

    UGM 4.35 7 The destiny of organized nature is amelioration...

    PNR 4.81 2 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. ... These were a clear amelioration of trilobite and saurus...

ameliorations, n. (1)

    ShP 4.213 17 This [power of expression] is that which throws [Shakespeare] into natural history...as announcing new eras and ameliorations.

amenable, adj. (1)

    SL 2.140 17 We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession.

amend, v. (1)

    YA 1.382 15 [The Associations]...proposed to amend the condition of men by substituting harmonious for hostile industry.

amended, v. (1)

    Res 8.142 16 ...we have seen the most healthful revolution in the politics of the nation,--the Constitution not only amended, but construed in a new spirit.

amendment, n. (3)

    LT 1.272 7 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.

    Exp 3.51 10 Of what use to make heroic vows of amendment, if the same old law-breaker is to keep them?

    DL 7.113 1 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted; they are many and great. Nor are they to be disposed of by any criticism or amendment of particulars taken one at a time...

amends, n. (9)

    AmS 1.106 26 The poor and the low find some amends to their immense moral capacity...

    Comp 2.106 13 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of so bad a god.

    Pol1 3.217 16 ...successes in those fields [of trade and ambition] are the poor amends, the fig-leaf with which the shamed soul attempts to hide its nakedness.

    Elo1 7.94 3 The orator is thereby an orator, that he keeps his feet ever on a fact. Thus only is he invincible. No gifts...will make any amends for want of this.

    Boks 7.213 21 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre...make such amends as they can.

    QO 8.180 2 In this delay and vacancy of thought we must make the best amends we can...

    LLNE 10.332 27 In the pulpit...[Everett] made amends to himself and his auditor for the self-denial of the professor's chair, and...he gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.

    RBur 11.441 20 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters...finding amends for want and obscurity in books and thoughts.

    Trag 12.415 5 Our human being is wonderfully plastic; if it cannot win this satisfaction here, it makes itself amends by running out there and winning that.

amenities, n. (2)

    ET10 5.170 2 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with; and a part to repair the wrongs of this intemperate weaving, by hospitals, savings-banks, Mechanics' Institutes, public grounds, and other charities and amenities.

    ET14 5.251 6 ...there is no end to the graces and amenities, wit, sensibility and erudition of the learned class [in England].

amenity, n. (1)

    ET13 5.223 20 [The Anglican Church] has a general good name for amenity and mildness.

America, Central, n. (2)

    Suc 7.283 13 We interfere in Central and South America...

    AKan 11.259 23 ...the adding of Cuba and Central America to the slave marts is enlarging the area of Freedom.

America, English, n. (1)

    Bost 12.190 15 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston]...within a few years after the first settlement it grew to be the metropolis of the whole English America.

America, History of [Willia (1)

    ET1 5.17 5 Tristram Shandy was one of [Carlyle's] first books after Robinson Crusoe, and Robertson's America an early favorite.

America, n. (185)

    Nat 1.21 1 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America;...can we separate the man from the living picture?

    DSA 1.131 3 ...the language that describes Christ to Europe and America is not the style of friendship...

    DSA 1.142 18 The Puritans in England and America found in the Christ of the Catholic Church...scope for their austere piety...

    LE 1.156 18 ...the importunity, with which society presses its claim upon young men, tends to pervert the views of youth in respect to the culture of the intellect. Hence the historical failure, on which Europe and America have so freely commented.

    MN 1.191 13 ...it is a common calamity if [the scholars] neglect their post in a country where the material interest is so predominant as it is in America.

    MN 1.206 22 England, France, and America read Parliamentary Debates, which no high genius now enlivens;...

    LT 1.268 27 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who, at least in America...compose the visible church of the existing generation.

    Tran 1.340 12 The extraordinary profoundness and precision of that man's [Kant's] thinking have given vogue to his nomenclature, in Europe and America...

    YA 1.363 4 America is beginning to assert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children...

    YA 1.363 15 This rage of road building is beneficent for America...

    YA 1.368 19 In America we have hitherto little to boast in this kind [of beautiful gardens].

    YA 1.371 10 It seems so easy for America to inspire and express the most expansive and humane spirit;...

    YA 1.378 21 ...the historian will see that...trade planted America and destroyed Feudalism;...

    YA 1.388 3 In America, out-of-doors all seems a market;...

    YA 1.391 23 ...here in America, is the home of man.

    YA 1.394 27 ...Let us live in America, too thankful for our want of feudal institutions.

    Hist 2.4 2 ...Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

    Hist 2.22 2 ...in these late and civil countries of England and America these propensities [Nomadism and Agriculture] still fight out the old battle...

    Hist 2.22 11 In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity;...

    SR 2.59 27 [Virtue] is it which throws...America into Adams's eye.

    Art1 2.368 6 Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece.

    Pt1 3.19 27 The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of Life...to which the belt of wampum and the commerce of America are alike.

    Pt1 3.37 15 We have yet had no genius in America...which knew the value of our incomparable materials...

    Pt1 3.38 4 ...America is a poem in our eyes;...

    Exp 3.72 5 I am ready...be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West...

    Exp 3.80 25 What imports it whether it is...Columbus and America...or puss with her tail?

    Exp 3.82 3 In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides.

    Chr1 3.100 13 ...[the uncivil, unavailable man] puts America and Europe in the wrong...

    Chr1 3.106 7 ...nature advertises me in such [nonconforming] persons that in democratic America she will not be democratized.

    Chr1 3.107 11 I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?...

    NR 3.230 10 It is even worse in America, where, from the intellectual quickness of the race, the genius of the country is more splendid in its promise and more slight in its performance.

    UGM 4.12 18 Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

    ShP 4.211 7 ...[Shakespeare] drew the man of England and Europe; the father of the man in America;...

    NMW 4.224 13 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues: the class of business men in America...

    GoW 4.280 21 In England and in America there is a respect for talent;...

    GoW 4.282 19 In England and America, one may be an adept in the writings of a Greek or Latin poet, without any poetic taste or fire.

    GoW 4.289 5 ...compared with any motives on which books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work] is very truth...

    ET1 5.12 19 I took advantage of a pause to say that [Coleridge] had many readers of all religious opinions in America...

    ET1 5.16 16 At one time [Carlyle] had inquired and read a good deal about America.

    ET1 5.19 14 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America...

    ET1 5.20 1 [Wordsworth] has even said, what seemed a paradox, that they needed a civil war in America, to teach the necessity of knitting the social ties stronger.

    ET1 5.20 3 There may be, [Wordsworth] said, in America some vulgarity in manner, but that 's not important.

    ET1 5.20 15 In America I [Wordsworth] wish to know not how many churches or schools, but what newspapers?

    ET1 5.20 18 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are atrocious...

    ET3 5.41 22 As America, Europe and Asia lie, these Britons have precisely the best commercial position in the whole planet...

    ET4 5.52 17 ...England tends to accumulate her liberals in America...

    ET4 5.70 25 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island to America, to Asia...to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature.

    ET5 5.98 23 A landlord who owns a province [in England] says, The tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep. He unroofs the houses and ships the population to America.

    ET6 5.114 18 English stories, bon-mots and the recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the French. In America, we are apt scholars...

    ET9 5.146 2 I suppose that all men of English blood in America, Europe or Asia, have a secret feeling of joy that they are not French natives.

    ET9 5.147 3 Lord Chatham goes for liberty and no taxation without representation;--for that is British law; but not a hobnail shall they dare make in America, but buy their nails in England;--for that also is British law;...

    ET9 5.147 6 ...the fact that British commerce was to be re-created by the independence of America, took [the English] all by surprise.

    ET9 5.151 1 America is the paradise of the [English] economists;...

    ET9 5.152 18 Strange...that broad America must wear the name of a thief.

    ET10 5.153 2 In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits the evidences of large property...

    ET10 5.156 12 Every [English] household exhibits an exact economy, and nothing of that uncalculated headlong expenditure which families use in America.

    ET12 5.205 16 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...

    ET14 5.249 15 But for Coleridge...one would say that in Germany and in America is the best mind in England rightly respected.

    ET15 5.261 2 The power of the newspaper is familiar in America...

    ET15 5.262 11 The tendency in England towards social and political institutions like those of America, is inevitable...

    ET16 5.275 19 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...

    ET16 5.287 2 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged, I bethought myself...neither of presidents nor of cabinet-ministers, nor of such as would make of America another Europe.

    ET16 5.288 14 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping, overgrowing, almost conscious...

    F 6.5 4 Our America has a bad name for superficialness.

    F 6.16 9 We see the English, French, and Germans planting themselves on every shore and market of America and Australia...

    F 6.16 26 [The Germans and Irish] are ferried over the Atlantic and carted over America...

    Pow 6.69 6 There are Oregons, Californias and Exploring Expeditions enough appertaining to America to find [men of this surcharge of arterial blood] in files to gnaw and in crocodiles to eat.

    Wth 6.99 11 ...in America, where democratic institutions divide every estate into small portions after a few years, the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.

    Wsp 6.210 13 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...

    Wsp 6.210 15 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce...that after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

    CbW 6.256 7 In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not...

    CbW 6.266 16 All America seems on the point of embarking for Europe.

    CbW 6.266 21 One day we shall cast out the passion for Europe by the passion for America.

    Bty 6.284 14 Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory...

    Civ 7.32 23 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people who are not known far from home, and perhaps with great reason reckons these people his superiors in virtue and in the symmetry and force of their qualities,--I see what cubic values America has...

    Elo1 7.70 21 Scheherezade tells these stories [in the Arabian Nights] to save her life, and the delight of young Europe and young America in them proves that she fairly earned it.

    Elo1 7.70 27 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?

    Elo1 7.78 2 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily...might...abrogate any constitution in Europe and America.

    Elo1 7.92 7 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see; and as he cannot dispose of it, it disposes of him. The history of public men and affairs in America will readily furnish tragic examples of this fatal force.

    WD 7.161 24 When Europe is over-populated, America and Australia crave to be peopled;...

    WD 7.175 1 ...to ascertain the discoverers of America needs as much voyaging as the discovery cost.

    WD 7.180 5 This mendicant America...will take off its dusty shoes...

    WD 7.180 6 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will take off its dusty shoes...

    Boks 7.214 6 ...books that...distribute things, not after the usages of America and Europe but after the laws of right reason...put us on our feet again...

    OA 7.331 24 America is the country of young men...

    PI 8.14 14 To the Parliament debating how to tax America, Burke exclaimed, Shear the wolf.

    PI 8.73 10 The high poetry which shall...bring in the new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is...longer postponed than was America or Australia...

    SA 8.85 14 ...youth in America is wont to be poor and hurried...

    SA 8.100 19 There is in America a general conviction in the minds of all mature men, that every young man of good faculty and good habits can by perseverance attain to an adequate estate;...

    SA 8.101 20 In America, the necessity of clearing the forest...exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...

    SA 8.103 24 The young men in America at this moment take little thought of what men in England are thinking or doing.

    Res 8.141 8 Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who wield all these wonderful machines...

    Res 8.142 8 Resources of America! why, one thinks of Saint-Simon's saying, The Golden Age is not behind, but before you.

    Res 8.143 2 America is such a garden of plenty...that at her shores all the common rules of political economy utterly fail.

    Res 8.154 5 ...the resources of America and its future will be immense only to wise and virtuous men.

    QO 8.187 10 It is only within this century that England and America discovered that their nursery-tales were old German and Scandinavian stories;...

    PC 8.207 14 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?...

    PC 8.212 10 ...in America everything looks new and recent.

    PC 8.232 19 It has been our misfortune that the politics of America have been often immoral.

    Dem1 10.16 24 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith in incantations and philters was in old Rome...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.

    Aris 10.40 17 It only needs to look at the social aspect of England and America and France, to see the rank which original practical talent commands.

    Aris 10.41 11 ...the effect of freer institutions in England and America, has robbed the title of king of all its romance...

    Aris 10.59 12 I know the feeling of the most ingenious and excellent youth in America;...

    Aris 10.62 24 In America [the gentleman] shall find deprecation of purism on all questions touching the morals of trade and of social customs...

    Chr2 10.111 17 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory. 'T is Judaea, not England, which is the ground. So with the mordant Calvinism of Scotland and America.

    Chr2 10.112 2 The constitution and law in America must be written on ethical principles...

    Chr2 10.112 15 ...in America, where are no legal ties to churches, the looseness appears dangerous.

    SovE 10.206 20 We in America are charged with a great deficiency in worship;...

    SovE 10.212 13 America shall introduce a pure religion.

    MoL 10.242 18 ...nothing has been able to resist the tide with which the material prosperity of America in years past has beat down the hope of youth...

    MoL 10.243 1 America at large exhibited such a confusion as California showed in 1849...

    MoL 10.246 6 Dickens complained that in America, as soon as he arrived in any of the Western towns, a committee waited on him and invited him to deliver a temperance lecture.

    MoL 10.248 19 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as Columbus, with America in his log-book;...

    MoL 10.257 18 We will not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear.

    Schr 10.266 25 ...practical people in America give themselves wonderful airs.

    Schr 10.277 17 I delight in men...who could alone, or with a few like them, reproduce Europe and America, the result of our civilization.

    Schr 10.277 27 Perhaps I value power of achievement a little more because in America there seems to be a certain indigence in this respect.

    Plu 10.314 16 ...Walter Scott took hold of boys and young men, in England and America, and through them of their fathers.

    LLNE 10.339 25 ...all America would have been impoverished in wanting [Channing].

    LLNE 10.358 11 Society in England and in America is trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces...

    CSC 10.375 27 If there was not parliamentary order [at the Chardon Street Convention], there was...assurance of that constitutional love for religion and religious liberty which...characterizes the inhabitants of this part of America.

    EzRy 10.383 17 ...[Ezra Ripley] and his coevals seemed the rear guard of the great camp and army of the Puritans, which...in the heyday of its strength had planted and liberated America.

    Thor 10.467 23 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...

    Thor 10.480 20 ...instead of engineering for all America, [Thoreau] was the captain of a huckleberry-party.

    Carl 10.490 10 ...no mortal in America could pretend to talk with Carlyle...

    HDC 11.39 13 ...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 11.69 10 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America...

    HDC 11.69 16 ...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea, or any other tea, whilst there is a duty for raising a revenue thereon in America;...

    HDC 11.69 23 ...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we will risk our fortunes, and even our lives, in defence of his majesty, King George the Third, his person, crown and dignity;...

    EWI 11.136 7 I was a slave, said the counsel of [George] Somerset, speaking for his client, for I was in America...

    EWI 11.145 25 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members. America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

    War 11.159 18 This valuable person [Assacombuit], on his return to America, took to killing his own neighbors and kindred...

    War 11.175 26 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope; but in this broad America of God and man...

    FSLC 11.186 11 ...America, the most prosperous country in the Universe, has the greatest calamity in the Universe, negro slavery.

    FSLC 11.194 16 You can commit no crime, for [men] are created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it; and unless you can suppress the newspaper, pass a law against book-shops, gag the English tongue in America, all short of this is futile.

    FSLC 11.195 12 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America.

    FSLN 11.239 22 In 1825 Greece found America deaf, Poland found America deaf...

    FSLN 11.242 8 ...[scholars and literary men] are lukewarm lovers of the liberty of America in 1854.

    TPar 11.288 26 The vice charged against America is the want of sincerity in leading men.

    TPar 11.292 12 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke; that the winds of Italy murmur the same truth over your grave; the winds of America over these bereaved streets;...

    ACiv 11.298 13 At this moment in America the aspects of political society absorb attention.

    ACiv 11.299 23 America is another word for Opportunity.

    ACiv 11.307 26 Why should not America be capable of a second stroke for the well-being of the human race...

    EPro 11.315 18 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg, the plantation of America...

    EPro 11.317 18 [Lincoln] has been permitted to do more for America than any other American man.

    EPro 11.318 19 Life in America had lost much of its attraction in the later years.

    EPro 11.320 6 The President [Lincoln] by this act [the Emancipation Proclamation] has paroled all the slaves in America;...

    ALin 11.329 14 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement; and this...because of the mysterious hopes and fears which, in the present day, are connected with the name and institutions of America.

    HCom 11.345 2 We shall not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear.

    SMC 11.349 17 We are thankful...that the heroes of old and of recent date, who made and kept America free and united, were not rare or solitary growths...

    EdAd 11.385 5 At least as far as the purpose and genius of America is yet reported in any book, it is a sterility and no genius.

    Koss 11.401 1 ...this new crusade which you [Kossuth] preach to willing and to unwilling ears in America is a seed of armed men.

    Koss 11.401 5 ...as the shores of Europe and America approach every month...when the crisis arrives it will find us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...

    ChiE 11.474 17 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York, in his last visit to America, that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce.

    FRep 11.515 23 ...the culmination of these triumphs of humanity...is the planting of America.

    FRep 11.515 27 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None will doubt that America occupies this place in the opinion of nations...

    FRep 11.516 19 The new conditions of mankind in America are really favorable to progress...

    FRep 11.528 18 America was opened after the feudal mischief was spent...

    FRep 11.531 8 I wish to see America, not like the old powers of the earth...

    FRep 11.533 18 America is provincial.

    FRep 11.535 11 Let the passion for America cast out the passion for Europe.

    FRep 11.535 18 They who find America insipid-they for whom London and Paris have spoiled their own homes-can be spared to return to those cities.

    FRep 11.536 3 [The class of which I speak] complain of the flatness of American life; America has no illusions, no romance.

    FRep 11.537 10 ...the Genius or Destiny of America is no log or sluggard...

    FRep 11.540 6 America should affirm and establish that in no instance shall the guns go in advance of the present right.

    FRep 11.540 14 ...the Constitution and the law in America must be written on ethical principles...

    FRep 11.541 26 I hope America will come to have its pride in being a nation of servants, and not of the served.

    CInt 12.118 23 The English newspapers and some writers of reputation disparage America.

    CInt 12.118 27 The emigration into America of British...people is the eulogy of America...

    CInt 12.119 1 The emigration into America of British...people is the eulogy of America...

    CL 12.135 5 [Earth-hunger] is not less visible in that branch of the family which inhabits America.

    CL 12.138 12 When Kalm returned from America, Linnaeus was laid up with severe gout.

    Bost 12.189 11 On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated forty of his subjects...the council...for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America.

    Bost 12.199 10 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America only to trade and fish...

    Bost 12.199 18 What should hinder that this America...should have its happy ports...

    Bost 12.200 4 America is growing like a cloud...

    Bost 12.209 24 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America.

    Milt1 12.253 21 ...no man can be named whose mind still acts on the cultivated intellect of England and America with an energy comparable to that of Milton.

    ACri 12.290 23 There is hardly danger in America of excess of condensation;...

    ACri 12.298 17 ...one would think...a sympathizing and much-reading America would make a new treaty or send a minister extraordinary to offer congratulations of honoring delight to England in acknowledgment of such a donation [as Carlyle's History of Frederick II];...

    MLit 12.312 12 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world, reacting with great energy on England and America.

    WSL 12.337 22 [John Bull] has never seen a good horse in America...

    EurB 12.369 25 ...[Wordsworth's influence's] effect may be traced on all the poetry both of England and America.

    EurB 12.373 7 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America.

    PPr 12.390 21 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe...and America...have never before been conquered in literature.

America, North, n. (3)

    YA 1.371 1 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.

    Wth 6.94 2 ...how did North America get netted with iron rails, except by the importunity of these orators who dragged all the prudent men in?

    Bost 12.188 25 ...Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.

America, South, n. (3)

    Pow 6.69 15 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...riding alligators in South America with Waterton;...

    Suc 7.283 13 We interfere in Central and South America...

    Thor 10.465 23 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to South America.

America, Spanish, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.227 13 [The Fugitive Slave Law] was the question...whether the Negro shall be, as the Indians were in Spanish America, a piece of money?

America, United States of, (1)

    ET4 5.45 3 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...

America [Yacht], n. (1)

    PC 8.215 15 The war-proa of the Malays in the Japanese waters struck Commodore Perry by its close resemblance to the yacht America.

American, adj. (128)

    AmS 1.94 3 ...our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year.

    AmS 1.114 11 The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid...

    LE 1.156 27 ...the mark of American merit in painting...seems to be a certain grace without grandeur...

    LE 1.157 13 ...the diffidence of mankind in the soul has crept over the American mind;...

    LE 1.169 3 The noonday darkness of the American forest...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...

    LT 1.261 7 The fact of aristocracy...is as commanding a feature of...the American republic as of old Rome...

    LT 1.274 18 ...the compromise made with the slaveholder...every day appears more flagrant mischief to the American constitution.

    Con 1.314 6 ...in the darlings of the selectest circles of European or American aristocracy, the strong heart will beat with love of mankind...

    Tran 1.342 4 Our American literature and spiritual history are...in the optative mood;...

    YA 1.364 8 ...I hasten to speak of the utility of these improvements in creating an American sentiment.

    YA 1.364 11 An unlooked-for consequence of the railroad is the increased acquaintance it has given the American people with the boundless resources of their own soil.

    YA 1.370 4 ...we shall yet have an American genius.

    YA 1.391 16 ...the development of our American internal resources, the extension to the utmost of the commercial system...are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...

    SR 2.82 25 ...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done by him...he will create a house in which [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...

    Prd1 2.228 14 Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate perception...

    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.

    Cir 2.312 8 We...install ourselves the best we can...in Roman houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.

    Mrs1 3.150 5 Our American institutions have been friendly to [woman]...

    Pol1 3.210 11 The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless...

    NER 3.273 3 I cannot help recalling the fine anecdote which Warton relates of Bishop Berkeley, when he was preparing to leave England with his plan of planting the gospel among the American savages.

    PPh 4.41 5 ...Plato seems to a reader in New England an American genius.

    PPh 4.44 21 ...our Jewish Bible has implanted itself in the table-talk and household life of every man and woman in the European and American nations...

    GoW 4.271 3 The world extends itself like American trade.

    GoW 4.281 6 The German intellect wants...the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure;...

    ET1 5.3 8 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground, with my companion, an American artist...

    ET1 5.5 17 At Florence, chief among artists I found Horatio Greenough, the American sculptor.

    ET1 5.16 18 Landor's principle was mere rebellion; and that [Carlyle] feared was the American principle.

    ET3 5.36 10 The American is only the continuation of the English genius into new conditions, more or less propitious.

    ET4 5.48 12 ...I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans of the Hercynian forest, and our Hoosiers, Suckers, and Badgers of the American woods.

    ET4 5.53 5 ...the figures in Punch's drawings of the public men or of the club-houses, the prints in the shop-windows, are distinctive English and not American...

    ET7 5.119 14 In comparing [the English] ships' houses and public offices with the American, it is commonly said that they spend a pound where we spend a dollar.

    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, in American politics...

    ET9 5.150 24 The English dislike the American structure of society...

    ET12 5.211 4 In seeing these youths [at Oxford] I believed I saw already an advantage in vigor and color and general habit, over their contemporaries in the American colleges.

    ET16 5.286 25 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?--any with an American idea...

    ET16 5.288 11 On the way to Winchester...my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses...

    ET17 5.295 18 I told [Wordsworth] it was not creditable that no one in all the country knew anything of Thomas Taylor, the Platonist, whilst in every American library his translations are found.

    ET18 5.307 14 The American system is more democratic [than the English]...

    ET18 5.307 15 ...the American people do not yield better or more able men...than the English.

    Pow 6.62 25 The commerce of rivers...must add an American extension to the pond-hole of admiralty.

    Pow 6.66 3 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...the American communities at New Harmony, at Brook Farm...are only possible by installing Judas as steward.

    Wth 6.109 18 When the European wars threw the carrying-trade of the world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms, a seizure was now and then made of an American ship.

    Wth 6.109 20 When the European wars threw the carrying-trade of the world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms, a seizure was now and then made of an American ship.

    Ctr 6.136 7 All conversation is at an end when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities...which make up our American existence.

    Ctr 6.150 16 It is the foible especially of American youth,--pretension.

    Ctr 6.152 16 Can it be that the American forest has refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out...

    Bhr 6.174 3 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable particulars.

    Wsp 6.212 22 It has been charged that a want of sincerity in the leading men is a vice general throughout American society.

    Wsp 6.225 11 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.

    CbW 6.275 16 Do not make life hard to any. This point is acquiring new importance in American social life.

    Civ 7.31 3 What a benefit would the American government...render to itself...if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition!

    WD 7.163 18 [Man] sees the skull of the English race changing from its Saxon type under the exigencies of American life.

    Clbs 7.238 26 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...

    Suc 7.283 1 Our American people cannot be taxed with slowness in performance or in praising their performance.

    Suc 7.286 7 We have seen an American woman write a novel of which a million copies were sold...

    Suc 7.289 19 I could point to men in this country, of indispensable importance to the carrying on of American life, of this [egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare;...

    Suc 7.292 24 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature a quotation; and hence... that furrow of care, said to mark every American brow.

    PI 8.35 3 American life storms about us daily, and is slow to find a tongue.

    SA 8.79 2 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners.

    SA 8.104 21 We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages of...education and religious culture, and their determination to hold these fast, and, by them, to hold fast the country and penetrate every square mile of it with this American civilization.

    Res 8.142 18 We have seen China opened to European and American ambassadors and commerce;...

    Res 8.142 27 American energy is overriding every venerable maxim of political science.

    Res 8.143 17 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has sent home to China American food and tools and luxuries...

    PC 8.208 12 I will not say that American institutions have given a new enlargement to our idea of a finished man...

    PC 8.219 22 Agassiz and Owen and Huxley affect to address the American and English people...

    PC 8.233 12 ...I draw new hope...from the healthy sentiment of the American people...

    Chr2 10.114 19 It is only yesterday that our American churches...wheeled in line for Emancipation.

    SovE 10.205 2 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, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds. I will not now explore the causes of the result, but the fact must be conceded...and never more evident than in our American church.

    Plu 10.322 15 ...as it was the desire of these old patriots to fill with their majestic spirit all Sparta or Rome...we hasten to offer them to the American people.

    LLNE 10.332 17 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination in our unoccupied American Parnassus.

    LLNE 10.335 19 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is...becoming a national institution. I am quite certain that this purely literary influence was of the first importance to the American mind.

    LLNE 10.340 9 ...[Channing] is yet one of those men who vindicate the power of the American race to produce greatness.

    LLNE 10.342 26 ...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 and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and sympathy. Otherwise, their education and reading...had the American superficialness...

    LLNE 10.365 1 In the American social communities, the gossip found such vent and sway as to become despotic.

    LLNE 10.369 20 I please myself with the thought that our American mind is not now eccentric or rude in its strength...

    MMEm 10.400 4 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the the American army at Ticonderoga...

    GSt 10.504 26 I look upon [George Stearns] as a type of the American republican.

    HDC 11.38 23 ...[the settlers of Concord] beheld, with curiosity, all the pleasing features of the American forest.

    HDC 11.68 17 ...We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those...rights, that we are obliged to no power, under heaven, for the enjoyment of; as they are the fruit of the heroic enterprises of the first settlers of these American colonies.

    LVB 11.90 9 In common with the great body of the American people, we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of eternal inferiority...

    LVB 11.91 16 Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is not our act. Behold us. Here are we. Do not mistake that handful of deserters for us; and the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives, neither hear these men nor see them...

    LVB 11.94 10 ...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether all the attributes of reason, of civility, of justice, and even of mercy, shall be put off by the American people...

    LVB 11.94 26 Will the American government steal? Will it lie? Will it kill?-We ask triumphantly.

    EWI 11.108 3 [The English Quakers] made friends and raised money for the slave; they interested their Yearly Meeting; and all English and all American Quakers.

    EWI 11.110 11 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.

    EWI 11.115 3 Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West Indies]...

    EWI 11.139 1 What happened notoriously to an American ambassador in England, that he found himself compelled to palter and to disguise the fact that he was a slave-breeder, happens to men of state.

    EWI 11.144 12 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint... or of the leaders of [the negro] race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

    War 11.159 3 ...our American annals have preserved the vestiges of barbarous warfare down to more recent times.

    FSLC 11.183 17 The popular assumption that all men loved freedom, and believed in the Christian religion, was found hollow American brag;...

    FSLC 11.187 9 It is not easy to parallel the wickedness of this American law [the Fugitive Slave Law].

    FSLC 11.194 23 ...unless you can draw a sponge over those seditious Ten Commandments which are the root of our European and American civilization;...your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.

    FSLC 11.201 14 The fairest American fame ends in this filthy [Fugitive Slave] law.

    FSLN 11.226 18 ...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.

    FSLN 11.238 6 The habit of mind of traders in power would not be esteemed favorable to delicate moral perception. American slavery affords no exception to this rule.

    ACiv 11.300 7 If the American people hesitate, it is not for want of warning or advices.

    ACiv 11.303 14 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...

    ACiv 11.307 18 Now, [the Southern people's] interest is in keeping out white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they must pay wages, their interest will be...to get the best labor, and, if they fear their blacks, to invite Irish, German and American laborers.

    EPro 11.317 18 [Lincoln] has been permitted to do more for America than any other American man.

    EPro 11.319 11 ...all men of African descent who have faculty enough to find their way to our lines are assured of the protection of American law.

    ALin 11.330 8 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...

    ALin 11.334 4 [The Gettyburg Address] and one other American speech, that of John Brown to the court that tried him, and a part of Kossuth's speech at Birmingham, can only be compared with each other...

    ALin 11.335 14 [Lincoln] is the true history of the American people in his time.

    HCom 11.345 7 We see...a new era...worth to the world the lives of all this generation of American men, if they had been demanded.

    SMC 11.350 11 ...the virtues we are met to honor were directed on aims which command the sympathy of every loyal American citizen...

    EdAd 11.383 1 The American people are fast opening their own destiny.

    EdAd 11.385 26 We hearken in vain for any profound voice speaking to the American heart...

    EdAd 11.388 10 We see that reckless and destructive fury which characterizes the lower classes of American society...

    Koss 11.397 16 ...you [Kossuth] could not take all your steps in the pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen with your eyes the ruins of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers opened our Revolution.

    Wom 11.411 6 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?

    Wom 11.417 8 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject; from Aristophanes... down to English Comedy, and, in our day, to Tennyson, and the American newspapers.

    Shak1 11.447 15 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot...whose American devotion through forty or fifty years to the affairs of a bank, has not been able to bury the fires of his genius,-Mr. Charles Sprague,- pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.

    FRO1 11.478 21 ...the statistics of the American, the English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and extemporized...

    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 11.531 27 That repose which is the ornament and ripeness of man is not American.

    FRep 11.533 10 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.

    FRep 11.536 3 [The class of which I speak] complain of the flatness of American life;...

    FRep 11.536 10 The felon is the logical extreme of the epicure and coxcomb. Selfish luxury is the end of both, though in one it is decorated with refinements, and in the other brutal. But my point now is, that this spirit is not American.

    CL 12.145 8 The American sun paints itself in these glowing balls [apples]...

    Bost 12.200 20 The American idea, Emancipation, appears in our freedom of intellection...

    Bost 12.201 17 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence.

    ACri 12.285 27 Whitman is our American master...

    ACri 12.292 9 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.

    MLit 12.318 26 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany... finds a most genial climate in the American mind.

    WSL 12.337 9 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach, he speaks quick and strong;...

    Let 12.397 26 There is an American disease, a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on young men of this country as soon as they have finished their college education...

    Let 12.403 24 Apathies and total want of work, and reflection on the imaginative character of American life...are like seasickness...

    Trag 12.415 12 A tender American girl doubts of Divine Providence whilst she reads the horrors of the middle passage;...

American Anti-Slavery Soci (1)

    EWI 11.115 10 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball, the commissioners sent out...by the American Anti-Slavery Society, describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua.

American Church, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.339 17 Dr. Channing, whilst he lived, was the star of the American Church...

American Congress, n. (2)

    Elo1 7.90 13 A popular assembly, like...the American Congress, is commanded by these two powers,--first by a fact, then by skill of statement.

    Milt1 12.249 3 [Milton's tracts] are not effective...like what became also controversial tracts, several masterly speeches in the history of the American Congress.

American Constitution, n. (1)

    Art2 7.39 2 ...from the simplest expedient of private prudence to the American Constitution;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.

American Continent, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.221 12 I think [people] looked at [Webster] as the representative of the American Continent.

American Executive, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.310 15 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year. The American Executive ranges itself for the first time on the side of freedom.

American Independence, Decl (2)

    ET12 5.202 7 I do not know whether this learned body [at Oxford] have yet heard of the Declaration of American Independence...

    EPro 11.315 20 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the Declaration of American Independence in 1776...

American Isthmus, n. (1)

    WD 7.160 15 What of the grand tools with which we engineer, like kobolds and enchanters...canalling the American Isthmus...

American Literature, n. (2)

    Let 12.404 11 As far as our correspondents have entangled their private griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage themselves as fast as possible.

    Let 12.404 15 In Cambridge orations and elsewhere there is much inquiry for that great absentee American Literature.

American Minister, n. (1)

    ET17 5.292 10 My visit [to England] fell in the fortunate days when Mr. [George] Bancroft was the American Minister in London...

American, n. (32)

    Nat 1.67 26 The American...is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.

    LT 1.284 17 ...before the young American is put into jacket and trowsers, he says, I want something which I never saw before...

    YA 1.365 9 ...prudent men have begun to see that every American should be educated with a view to the values of land.

    YA 1.367 7 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...

    YA 1.370 18 ...the uprise and culmination of the new and anti-feudal power of Commerce is the political fact of most significance to the American at this hour.

    YA 1.393 6 One thing...the beauties of aristocracy, we commend to the study of the travelling American.

    YA 1.393 9 The English...are not sensible of the restraint [of aristocracy], but an American would seriously resent it.

    SR 2.84 20 What a contrast between the...thinking American...and the naked New Zealander...

    ET3 5.35 17 ...an American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain.

    ET4 5.65 19 The American [in England] has arrived at the old mansion-house...

    ET7 5.121 24 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M. Guizot; and the altered position of the man as an illustrious exile and a guest in the country, makes no difference to him, as it would instantly to an American.

    ET8 5.138 7 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American...

    ET11 5.179 17 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on,--a sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American...

    ET12 5.206 2 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford]...he would dance for joy.

    ET12 5.211 10 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics...the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...

    ET19 5.311 1 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race...

    F 6.44 11 The quality of the thought differences...the Austrian and the American.

    Wsp 6.210 11 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...

    DL 7.104 19 ...chiefly...the young American studies new and speedier modes of transportation.

    Suc 7.288 7 The Arabian sheiks...do not want [American arts]; yet...are easily able to impress the Frenchman or the American who visits them with the respect due to a brave and sufficient man.

    SA 8.103 2 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of.

    Aris 10.66 2 ...the American who would serve his country must learn the beauty and honor of perseverance...

    MoL 10.249 25 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.

    Thor 10.459 14 No truer American existed than Thoreau.

    FSLC 11.202 17 Simply [Webster] was the one eminent American of our time, whom we could produce as a finished work of Nature.

    AKan 11.263 13 I wish we could send the sergeant-at-arms to stop every American who is about to leave the country.

    Koss 11.400 15 ...I speak the sense not only of every generous American, but the law of mind, when I say that it is not those who live idly in the city called after his name, but those who...think and act like him, who can claim to explain the sentiment of Washington.

    FRep 11.516 17 ...the nature and habits of the American, may well occupy us...

    FRep 11.521 19 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...

    FRep 11.527 10 It is rare to find a born American who cannot read and write.

    CInt 12.119 7 ...I too am an American, and value practical talent.

    Bost 12.200 26 European and American are each ridiculous out of his sphere.

American Republic, n. (1)

    JBB 11.267 17 [John Brown] was happily a representative of the American Republic.

American Revolution, n. (12)

    MN 1.219 21 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein the sequent Revolution...

    ET5 5.87 26 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American Revolution, are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner...

    Swp 6.204 2 The stern old faiths have all pulverized. ... 'T is as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms as that which existed in Massachusetts in the Revolution...

    MMEm 10.399 24 Mary Moody Emerson was born just before the outbreak of the Revolution.

    HDC 11.67 20 The planting of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony was the effect of religious principle. The Revolution was the fruit of another principle,-the devouring thirst for justice.

    HDC 11.72 4 The clergy of New England were, for the most part, zealous promoters of the Revolution.

    HDC 11.76 13 ...we see what manner of persons they were who stood in the worst perils of the [American] Revolution.

    FSLC 11.180 15 ...The Boston of the American Revolution...Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...

    AKan 11.262 26 I think the American Revolution bought its glory cheap.

    RBur 11.440 8 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...that uprising which worked politically in the American and French Revolutions...

    Bost 12.210 12 We praised with a certain adulation the invariable valor of the old war-gods and war-councillors of the Revolution.

    Bost 12.211 4 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./

American Scholar, n. (2)

    AmS 1.82 12 ...I accept the topic which not only usage but the nature of our association seem to prescribe to this day, - the AMERICAN SCHOLAR.

    AmS 1.114 9 ...this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs...to the American Scholar.

American Slavery, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.219 2 I have lived all my life without suffering any known inconvenience from American Slavery.

American State, n. (2)

    AKan 11.258 21 That is the theory of the American State, that it exists to execute the will of the citizens...

    Bost 12.207 15 The Massachusetts colony grew and filled its own borders with a denser population than any other American State...

American Union, n. (2)

    FSLC 11.205 8 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop...

    FRep 11.528 12 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into atoms is so much as the smallest end be shivered off.

American, Young, n. (1)

    YA 1.387 27 Who should lead the leaders, but the Young American?

Americanism, n. (1)

    Suc 7.290 9 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit...

Americanisms, n. (1)

    ACri 12.291 26 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress and writers of books might repair, and learn...to gazette those Americanisms which offend us in all journals.

Americanized, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.147 9 One use of travel is to recommend the books and works of home,--we go to Europe to be Americanized;...

Americanizing, adj. (1)

    YA 1.370 12 ...I think we must regard the land as...the sanative and Americanizing influence...

Americans, n. (39)

    MR 1.231 26 In the Spanish islands, every agent or factor of the Americans...has taken oath that he is a Catholic...

    MR 1.240 14 Only such persons interest us...Americans, who have stood in the jaws of need, and have by their own wit and might extricated themselves...

    MR 1.249 18 The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope.

    MR 1.249 24 The Americans have little faith.

    SR 2.80 25 It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling... retains its fascination for all educated Americans.

    Pol1 3.206 5 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily...achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as...the Americans...have done.

    ET1 5.20 26 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans to cultivate the moral, the conservative, etc., etc....

    ET3 5.35 19 ...an American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain. In all that is done or begun by the Americans towards right thinking or practice, we are met by a civilization already settled and overpowering.

    ET4 5.54 19 I found plenty of well-marked English types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that constitution. Others who might be Americans...

    ET4 5.65 9 [The English] are bigger men than the Americans.

    ET4 5.65 11 I suppose a hundred English taken at random out of the street weigh a fourth more than so many Americans.

    ET8 5.128 7 As compared with the Americans, I think [the English] cheerful and contented.

    ET8 5.138 22 Our swifter Americans, when they first deal with English, pronounce them stupid;...

    ET9 5.151 4 America is the paradise of the [English] economists;...but when he speaks directly of the Americans the islander forgets his philosophy and remembers his disparaging anecdotes.

    ET13 5.229 4 ...the English and the Americans cant beyond all other nations.

    ET16 5.273 23 There was much to say [to Carlyle]...of the travelling Americans and their usual objects in London.

    ET16 5.275 3 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English...

    ET16 5.286 24 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?--any with an American idea...

    F 6.39 9 Dante and Columbus...would be Russians or Americans to-day.

    Wth 6.110 2 ...the Americans grew rich and great. But the pay-day comes round.

    Ctr 6.145 11 All educated Americans...go to Europe;...

    Ctr 6.152 3 A shrewd foreigner said of the Americans that whatever they say has a little the air of a speech.

    WD 7.168 3 Czar Alexander...wished to call the Pacific my ocean; and the Americans were obliged to resist his attempts to make it a close sea.

    Suc 7.289 7 Rien ne reussit mieux que le succes. And we Americans are tainted with this insanity...

    SA 8.100 2 In every million of Europeans or of Americans there shall be thousands who would be valuable on any spot on the globe.

    Res 8.141 13 We Americans have got suppled into the state of melioration.

    Aris 10.40 24 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators...and great Americans inculcate...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.

    Thor 10.466 8 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with such entire love to the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them known and interesting to all reading Americans...

    Carl 10.490 14 ...though no mortal in America could pretend to talk with Carlyle...yet neither would he in any manner satisfy us (Americans)...

    HDC 11.73 9 There [at the Concord bridge] the Americans first shed British blood.

    HDC 11.74 10 ...when the smoke began to rise from the village where the British were burning cannon-carriages and military stores, the Americans resolved to force their way into town.

    HDC 11.74 12 The English beginning to pluck up some of the planks of the [Concord] bridge, the Americans quickened their pace...

    HDC 11.74 23 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and gave the command to fire, which was repeated in a simultaneous cry by all his men. The Americans fired, and killed two men and wounded eight.

    FSLC 11.180 14 ...Boston, whose citizens, intelligent people in England told me they could always distinguish by their culture among Americans;... Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...

    FSLN 11.224 16 It is remarked of the Americans that they value dexterity too much, and honor too little;...

    SMC 11.352 6 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence.

    SHC 11.432 7 ...how much more are [parks] needed by us, anxious, overdriven Americans...

    FRep 11.536 5 [The class of which I speak] complain of the flatness of American life; America has no illusions, no romance. They have no perception of its destiny. They are not Americans.

    WSL 12.337 13 [John Bull] wonders that the Americans should build with wood...

American's, n. (1)

    ET6 5.104 7 [The Englishman's] elocution is stomachic,--as the American' s is labial.

Americans, Young, n. (1)

    Farm 7.150 14 These [drainage] tiles are political economists, confuters of Malthus and Ricardo; they are so many Young Americans announcing a better era,--more bread.

Ames, Fisher, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.211 17 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely...

Amesbury, England, n. (3)

    ET16 5.273 19 On Friday, 7th July, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the South Western Railway through Hampshire to Salisbury, where we found a carriage to convey us to Amesbury.

    ET16 5.276 5 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the train at Salisbury and took a carriage to Amesbury...

    ET16 5.276 8 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury... and, arriving at Amesbury, stopped at the George Inn.

amethyst, n. (1)

    ACri 12.293 14 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers...golden, diamond, amethyst...

amiable, adj. (27)

    Pt1 3.14 7 So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And hath in it the more of heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth procure/ To habit in, and it more fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace and amiable sight./

    Chr1 3.101 22 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform...

    ET9 5.150 16 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...

    ET14 5.250 7 ...where impatience of the tricks of men makes Nemesis amiable...the inevitable recoil is to heroism...

    ET17 5.297 6 ...[in London] you will hear from different literary men that Wordsworth had no personal friend, that he was not amiable...

    F 6.6 18 ...now and then an amiable parson...believes in a pistareen-Providence...

    Pow 6.66 9 The most amiable of country gentlemen has a certain pleasure in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his orchard.

    Cour 7.261 4 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.

    Dem1 10.13 9 For Spiritism, it shows that no man, almost, is fit to give evidence. Then I say to the amiable and sincere among them, these matters are quite too important than that I can rest them on any legends.

    Aris 10.47 5 All right activity is amiable.

    Edc1 10.142 19 ...the most genial and amiable of men must alternate society with solitude...

    Prch 10.231 7 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ... The others are very amiable and promising, but they are only neuters in the hive...

    Schr 10.264 27 The poet with poets betrays no amiable weakness.

    Plu 10.298 7 ...[Plutarch] is a chief example of the illumination of the intellect by the force of morals. Though the most amiable of boon companions, this generous religion gives him apercus like Goethe's.

    Plu 10.298 11 Plutarch was...a self-respecting, amiable man...

    Plu 10.315 10 [Plutarch] is the most amiable of men.

    LLNE 10.346 21 ...Robert Owen...read lectures or held conversations wherever he found listeners; the most amiable, sanguine and candid of men.

    MMEm 10.401 26 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...to those who may hereafter read her letters, will make its obscure acres amiable.

    EWI 11.133 23 ...whilst our very amiable and very innocent representatives...at Washington are accomplished lawyers and merchants... there is a disastrous want of men from New England.

    EWI 11.134 12 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders. What if we should send thither representatives who were a particle less amiable and less innocent?

    FSLC 11.187 24 [Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is not going crusading into Virginia and Georgia after slaves, who, it is alleged, are very comfortable where they are:-that amiable argument falls to the ground...

    TPar 11.292 24 ...amiable and blameless at home, feared abroad as the standard-bearer of liberty...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave...

    ACiv 11.304 7 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy, puts the whole people in healthy, productive, amiable position...

    HCom 11.342 14 [The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men...

    SMC 11.358 26 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... the most amiable, sensible, unpretending of men;...

    SMC 11.359 17 [George Prescott] was...the most modest and amiable of men...

    FRep 11.536 20 ...I dread to hear of well-born, gifted and amiable men, that they have this indifference, disposing them to this despair.

amiableness, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.163 14 ...mere amiableness must not take rank with high aims and self-subsistency.

amicable, adj. (2)

    NR 3.245 3 The end and the means...life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers...

    DL 7.129 19 Beyond its primary ends of the conjugal, parental and amicable relations, the household should cherish the beautiful arts and the sentiment of veneration.

Amici, Giovanni Battista, n (1)

    ET1 5.8 27 I had visited Professor Amici, who had shown me his microscopes...

amiss, adv. (2)

    Suc 7.296 18 ...a good head cannot read amiss...

    Suc 7.301 10 Whilst [the moral sensibilities] abide with us we shall not think amiss.

amity, n. (5)

    Nat 1.68 23 ...head with foot hath private amity/...

    Fdsp 2.205 21 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display...

    Chr1 3.111 4 What is so excellent as strict relations of amity, when they spring from this deep root?

    Dem1 10.11 12 Head with foot hath private amity,/ And both with moons and tides./

    Schr 10.261 10 ...the society of lettered men is a university which...gathers in the distant and solitary student into its strictest amity.

Ammonius, n. (1)

    Plu 10.319 7 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace or home of...Ammonius, Jamblichus...

ammunition, n. (5)

    NMW 4.235 17 [Napoleon] risked every thing and spared nothing, neither ammunition, nor money, nor troops...

    NMW 4.236 2 [Bonaparte] never economized his ammunition...

    Grts 8.314 24 ...one fights with cannon as with fists; when once the fire is begun, the least want of ammunition renders what you have done already useless.

    PerF 10.70 1 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this arsenal, and see how many rounds of ammunition...we can bring to bear.

    HDC 11.71 21 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one or more companies of minute-men...to provide arms and ammunition...

Amomum, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 22 Plant...Haemony, Moly, Spikenard, Amomum.

amor, n. (1)

    PLT 12.61 24 Quantus amor tantus animus.

amount, n. (53)

    Nat 1.42 18 The moral influence of nature upon every individual is that amount of truth which it illustrates to him.

    AmS 1.87 17 ...perhaps we shall...learn the amount of this influence more conveniently, by considering [books'] value alone.

    MR 1.241 14 ...the amount of manual labor which is necessary to the maintenance of a family, indisposes and disqualifies for intellectual exertion.

    Con 1.302 2 ...we must...suffer men...to pair off into insane parties, and learn the amount of truth each knows by the denial of an equal amount of truth.

    Con 1.302 3 ...we must...suffer men...to pair off into insane parties, and learn the amount of truth each knows by the denial of an equal amount of truth.

    Tran 1.333 5 The materialist respects sensible masses...every mass, whether majority of numbers...or amount of objects...

    Prd1 2.228 4 There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

    Hsm1 2.249 17 Unhappily no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin...

    Exp 3.75 26 ...we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors.

    Chr1 3.103 15 We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscription to soup-societies.

    Mrs1 3.151 13 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She was an elemental force, and astonished me by her amount of life...

    Pol1 3.213 3 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 3.264 10 The scheme [of the new communities] offers...to make every member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.

    NER 3.281 17 I believe it is the conviction of the purest men that the net amount of man and man does not much vary.

    SwM 4.98 21 As happens in great men, [Swedenborg] seemed, by the variety and amount of his powers, to be a composition of several persons...

    SwM 4.124 13 That slow but commanding influence which [Swedenborg] has acquired, like that of other religious geniuses, must...have its tides, before it subsides into a permanent amount.

    ShP 4.195 8 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI....

    ET12 5.204 16 [The English] know the use of a tutor, as they know the use of a horse; and they draw the greatest amount of benefit out of both.

    ET12 5.210 26 The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain amount of old Norse power.

    F 6.38 20 Life is freedom,-life in the direct ratio of its amount.

    Pow 6.55 7 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...

    Pow 6.60 23 ...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life... it...will be found at last in harmony with moral laws.

    Pow 6.74 13 ...you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing.

    Pow 6.77 14 ...in human action, against the spasm of energy we offset the continuity of drill. We spread the same amount of force over much time, instead of condensing it into a moment.

    Wth 6.104 2 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital, the rates of insurance will indicate it;...

    Wth 6.108 16 You may not see that the fine pear costs you a shilling, but it costs the community so much. The shilling represents the number of enemies the pear has, and the amount of risk in ripening it.

    Wth 6.110 16 [Immigrants] go into the poor-rates, and though we refuse wages, we must now pay the same amount in the form of taxes.

    Wth 6.110 23 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800.

    Wth 6.117 4 The secret of success lies never in the amount of money...

    Wsp 6.211 20 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one; and no amount of evidence of his crimes will prevent them giving him ovations...

    Wsp 6.217 21 ...the heart is at once aware of the state of health or disease, which is the controlling state, that is, of sanity or of insanity; prior of course to all question of...the amount of facts...

    CbW 6.251 5 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...if he do not violently decline the duties that fall to him, this amount of helpfulness will in one way or another be brought home to him.

    SS 7.7 27 ...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.

    WD 7.173 7 Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not...

    WD 7.185 11 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done...

    Boks 7.196 18 If you should transfer the amount of your reading day by day from the newspaper to the standard authors----But who dare speak of such a thing?

    Cour 7.260 14 ...the measure of our sincerity and therefore of the respect of men, is the amount of health and wealth we will hazard in the defence of our right.

    Suc 7.307 27 The searching tests to apply to every new pretender are amount and quality...

    PI 8.17 17 The poet squanders on the hour an amount of life that would more than furnish the seventy years of the man that stands next him.

    SA 8.102 14 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...

    PerF 10.71 4 The coal on your grate gives out in decomposing to-day exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian tree.

    PerF 10.77 2 Our stock in life, our real estate, is that amount of thought which we have had...

    LLNE 10.354 14 The Fourier marriage was a calculation how to secure the greatest amount of kissing that the infirmity of human constitution admitted.

    LLNE 10.360 21 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of daily labor.

    GSt 10.502 6 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee, by means of which a large amount of money was obtained for the free-state men...

    HDC 11.72 21 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord]...

    JBS 11.280 10 ...if [John Brown] traded in wool, he was a merchant prince, not in the amount of wealth, but in the protection of the interests confided to him.

    PLT 12.7 19 There is really a grievous amount of unavailableness about men of wit.

    II 12.81 19 The haberdashers and brokers and attorneys are idealists and only differ in the amount and clearness of their perception.

    Mem 12.100 22 A man would think twice about learning a new science or reading a new paragraph, if he believed the magnetism was only a constant amount, and that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained.

    Mem 12.110 2 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint...that there must be a proportion between the power of memory and the amount of knowables;...

    Milt1 12.255 15 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson, students...of the same subject [human nature], cannot, taken together, make any pretension to the amount or the quality of Milton's inspirations.

    Milt1 12.273 25 Learn to estimate great characters [wrote Milton], not by the amount of animal strength, but by the habitual justice and temperance of their conduct.

amount, v. (1)

    SwM 4.110 24 I own with some regret that [Swedenborg's] printed works amount to about fifty stout octavos...

amounted, v. (2)

    HDC 11.79 20 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.

    HDC 11.82 15 The public expenses [of Concord], for the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars;...

amounting, v. (2)

    ET4 5.46 2 ...it remains to be seen whether [the English] can make good the exodus of millions from Great Britain, amounting in 1852 to more than a thousand a day.

    HDC 11.73 26 The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge, posted two companies, amounting to about one hundred men, to guard the bridge...

amounts, n. (11)

    Nat 1.28 19 The motion of the earth round its axis and round the sun, makes the day and the year. These are certain amounts of brute light and heat.

    ET5 5.90 11 The high civil and legal offices [in England] are...posts which exact frightful amounts of mental labor.

    ET6 5.108 2 Incredible amounts of plate are found in good houses [in England]...

    ET8 5.139 7 There is an adipocere in [Englishmen's] constitution, as if they...could perform vast amounts of work without damaging themselves.

    Pow 6.73 15 ...a man cannot return into his mother's womb and be born with new amounts of vivacity...

    Wth 6.85 22 ...a better order is equivalent to vast amounts of brute labor.

    Chr2 10.96 24 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./ Such is the difference of the action of the heart within and of the senses without. One is enthusiasm, and the other more or less amounts of horse-power.

    Prch 10.235 4 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid!

    FSLC 11.209 20 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted; vast amounts of old labor disused;...

    FSLC 11.210 12 ...grant that the heart of financiers...shrinks within them at these colossal amounts, and the embarrassments which complicate the problem [abolition];...

    Let 12.402 14 A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe... and cheaply bought by any amounts of hard fare and false social position.

amounts, v. (2)

    F 6.19 12 The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency... amounts to little more than a criticism or protest made by a minority of one...

    Elo1 7.69 24 ...the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to fascination...


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