Amphibious to Anglo-Saxons
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
amphibious, adj. (1)
amphibiously, adv. (1)
Amphion, n. (1)
Pol1 3.197 13 Out of dust to build/ What is more than
dust,--/ Walls Amphion piled/ Phoebus stablish must./
amphitheatre, n. (3)
MN 1.214 11 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the
place of Friendship,-those purple skies and lovely waters the
amphitheatre dressed and garnished only for the exchange of thought and
love of the purest souls? It is that.
Art2 7.54 24 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any
one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see
any fight, sickness, or odd appearance in the street.
MLit 12.325 5 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to
find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he
observed. Witness his explanation...of the amphitheatre...
Amphitryon, n. (2)
Mrs1 3.134 14 I may easily go into a great household
where there is... excellent provision for comfort, luxury and taste,
and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these
appendages.
QO 8.192 3 ...Voltaire usually imitated, but with
such superiority that Dubuc said: He is like the false Amphitryon;
although the stranger, it is always he who has the air of being master
of the house.
ample, adj. (13)
LE 1.184 10 If, with a high trust, [the scholar] can
thus submit himself, he will find that ample returns are poured into
his bosom...
Con 1.311 1 ...if in any one respect [existing
institutions] have come short, see what ample retribution of good they
have made.
OS 2.265 1 Space is ample, east and west,/ But two
cannot go abreast,/ Cannot travel in it two/...
ShP 4.209 17 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's]
ample pictures of the gentleman and the king, what forms and humanities
pleased him;...
NMW 4.244 9 ...ample acknowledgements are made by
[Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc...
GoW 4.273 17 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If
that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition...this man's mind
had ample chambers for the distribution of all.
ET16 5.289 20 In the [Winchester] Cathedral I was
gratified, at least by the ample dimensions.
PPo 8.239 24 Such [amatory] verses...will drive
[Persian] warriors to the combat...or prove an ample reward on their
return from the dangers of the ghazon, or the fight.
EdAd 11.384 5 ...the train...shows our traveller what
tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this
ample region...
WSL 12.340 15 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and
ample page...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
amplest, adj. (2)
LE 1.165 24 The vision of genius comes by...giving
leave and amplest privilege to the spontaneous sentiment.
ET14 5.233 12 [The Englishman]...prefers his hot
chop, with perfect security and convenience in the eating of it, to the
chances of the amplest and Frenchiest bill of fare...
amplification, n. (1)
Ctr 6.138 26 To the physician, each man, each woman,
is an amplification of one organ.
amplitude, n. (2)
ET11 5.181 15 In evidence of the wealth amassed by
ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown...lower down in the
city [London], a few noble houses which still withstand in all their
amplitude the encroachment of streets.
Boks 7.217 19 If our times are sterile in genius, we
must cheer us with books of rich and believing men who had atmosphere
and amplitude about them.
amplitudes, n. (2)
Prch 10.229 23 [The clergy] look into Plato, or into
the mind, and then try to make parish mince-meat of the amplitudes and
eternities, and the shock is noxious.
CL 12.156 7 ...we are glad to see the world, and what
amplitudes it has...
amply, adv. (2)
ET2 5.25 14 The request [to lecture in England] was
urged...by friendliest parties in Manchester, who, in the sequel, amply
redeemed their word.
amputated, v. (1)
Bty 6.301 11 If a man...can enlarge knowledge,--'t is
no matter...whether his legs are straight, or whether his legs are
amputated...
amputation, n. (2)
AmS 1.83 15 The state of society is one in which the
members have suffered amputation from the trunk...
CbW 6.270 18 ...when the case [of the blockhead] is
seated and malignant, the only safety is in amputation;...
Amsterdam, Holland, n. (2)
SwM 4.100 10 [Swedenborg]...devoted himself to the
writing and publication of his voluminous theological works, which were
printed...at Dresden, Leipsic, London, or Amsterdam.
Bost 12.199 13 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or
fifty sail went yearly in America...but nothing would be done for a
plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England,
Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth;...
amulets, n. (1)
Dem1 10.16 21 In the popular belief, ghosts are a
selecting tribe, avoiding millions, speaking to one. In our traditions,
fairies, angels and saints show the like favoritism; so do the agents
and the means of magic, as sorcerers and amulets.
Amurath [Murad] IV, of Pe (1)
GoW 4.263 17 ...if we knew the genesis of fine
strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan
Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician,
Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.
amusaient, v. (1)
ET8 5.128 18 [The English] sported sadly; ils
s'amusaient tristement, selon la coutume de leur pays, said
Froissart;...
amuse, v. (11)
Nat 1.51 9 In a camera obscura, the butcher's cart,
and the figure of one of our own family amuse us.
SwM 4.136 8 Of all absurdities, this of some
foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own,
and amuse me with pelican and stork, instead of thrush and
robin;...seems the most needless.
NMW 4.253 1 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse
and deceive him... make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
Bhr 6.184 20 ...to earnest persons...we cannot extol
[dress circles] highly. A well-dressed talkative company where each is
bent to amuse the other...
CbW 6.256 2 California gets peopled and subdued,
civilized in this immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is
rooted and grown. 'T is a decoy-duck; 't is tubs thrown to amuse the
whale;...
Bty 6.285 6 Why should not priests, lodged and fed
comfortably in the temples, also amuse themselves [said Tisso]?
PI 8.29 16 I do not wish...to find...that [my poet]
would kindle or amuse me with that which does not kindle or amuse him.
PI 8.29 17 I do not wish...to find...that [my poet]
would kindle or amuse me with that which does not kindle or amuse him.
PI 8.63 24 ...none of your carpet poets, who are
content to amuse, will satisfy us.
Comc 8.161 13 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute
understanding, who sees the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the
heyday of youth feels also the full attractions of pleasure, and is
thus eminently qualified to enjoy the joke. At the same time he is to
that degree under the Reason that it does not amuse him as much as it
amuses another spectator.
amused, v. (14)
Con 1.322 5 ...wherever he sees anything that will
keep men amused... [every honest fellow] must cry Hist-a-boy, and urge
the game on.
NER 3.268 16 A man of good sense but of little
faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and
churches, and other public amusements go on. I am afraid the
remark...comes from the same origin as the maxim of the tyrant, If you
would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
UGM 4.20 12 We swim...on a river of delusions and are
effectually amused with houses and towns in the air...
ET16 5.275 6 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle
complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the
English, and run away to France and go with their countrymen and are
amused...
Wsp 6.227 8 As men get on in life, they
acquire...somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused.
SA 8.82 7 An awkward man is graceful...when hard at
work, or agreeably amused.
TPar 11.286 24 [Theodore Parker]...often amused
himself with throwing his meaning into pretty apologues;...
PLT 12.9 13 ...'t is a great vice in all countries,
the sacrifice of scholars...to talk for the amusement of those who wish
to be amused...
amusement, n. (13)
Pt1 3.3 13 [The umpires of tastes'] knowledge of the
fine arts is...some limited judgment of color or form, which is
exercised for amusement or for show.
ShP 4.218 25 ...it must even go into the world's
history that the best poet [Shakespeare] led an obscure and profane
life, using his genius for the public amusement.
ET8 5.127 18 When [the Englishman] wishes for
amusement, he goes to work.
Ctr 6.144 8 There is also a negative value in these
[minor] arts. Their chief use to the youth is not amusement...
Ctr 6.148 3 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If
I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be
consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human
race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
Ill 6.312 24 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow
and compliment of some leader in the state or in society; weighs what
he says; perhaps he never comes nearer to him for that, but dies at
last better contented for this amusement of his eyes and his fancy.
Elo1 7.73 21 ...the power of detaining the ear by
pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits. Thus separated,
as this fascination of discourse aims only at amusement...it is yet a
juggle...
PI 8.28 12 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul...at
leisure plays with the resemblances and types, for amusement, and not
for its moral end, we call its action Fancy.
Res 8.149 12 We have not a toy or trinket for idle
amusement but somewhere it is the one thing needful...
Edc1 10.126 22 Those [animals] called domestic are
capable of learning of man a few tricks of utility or amusement...
PLT 12.9 12 ...'t is a great vice in all countries,
the sacrifice of scholars...to talk for the amusement of those who wish
to be amused...
amusements, n. (5)
NER 3.268 13 A man of good sense but of little
faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and
churches, and other public amusements go on.
Imtl 8.341 15 [The thinker] studies...in his
amusements, even in his sleep.
amuses, v. (5)
Bty 6.283 14 We do not think heroes can exert any
more awful power than that surface-play which amuses us.
Comc 8.161 14 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute
understanding, who sees the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the
heyday of youth feels also the full attractions of pleasure, and is
thus eminently qualified to enjoy the joke. At the same time he is to
that degree under the Reason that it does not amuse him as much as it
amuses another spectator.
amusing, adj. (5)
Pol1 3.217 25 ...each of us...can do somewhat useful,
or graceful, or formidable, or amusing, or lucrative.
ET10 5.163 1 All things precious, or useful, or
amusing, or intoxicating, are sucked into this commerce and floated to
London.
OA 7.316 21 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with
even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a
gray or a bald head, which... does deceive his juniors and the public,
who presently distinguish him with a most amusing respect;...
amusing, v. (2)
F 6.34 9 The opinion of the million was the terror of
the world, and it was attempted...to dissipate it, by amusing
nations...
WD 7.165 1 I saw a brave man...constructing his
cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds. It
was easy to see that he was amusing himself with making pretty links
for his own limbs.
Amyot's, Jacques, n. (1)
Anabasis [Xenophon], n. (1)
MLit 12.325 25 [Goethe's journal] was, says Wieland,
as good as Xenophon's Anabasis.
Anacharsis, n. (1)
Con 1.317 1 ...the contemplation of some Scythian
Anacharsis;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and
in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
anaconda, n. (1)
F 6.7 6 ...the crackle of the bones of his prey in
the coil of the anaconda,- these are in the system...
Anacreon, n. (1)
PPo 8.244 13 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes
of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic...
Anagunticook Indians, adj. (1)
War 11.159 7 I read in Williams's History of Maine,
that Assacombuit, the Sagamore of the Anagunticook tribe, was
remarkable for his turpitude and ferocity...
Anaitis, n. (1)
PPo 8.253 8 When Hafiz sings...Anaitis, leader of the
starry host, calls even the Messiah in heaven out to the dance.
analogical, adj. (1)
analogies, n. (6)
Nat 1.28 12 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting
analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of...
Art2 7.52 10 Herein is the explanation of the
analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the reappearance of
one mind, working in many materials...
Edc1 10.143 22 Nature loves analogies, but not
repetitions.
MLit 12.327 3 It is all design with [Goethe],
just...analogies, allusion, illustration...
analogist, n. (1)
analogists, n. (1)
ET14 5.239 14 Bacon, in the structure of his mind,
held of the analogists...
analogizing, v. (1)
analogons, n. (1)
Boks 7.217 14 ...this passion for romance, and this
disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry:
that which shall show us...in all the plight and circumstance of men,
the analogons of our own thoughts...
analogous, adj. (19)
Nat 1.23 24 A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the
ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind.
Nat 1.26 8 Children and savages use only nouns or
names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous
mental acts.
AmS 1.113 12 Another sign of our times, also marked
by an analogous political movement, is the new importance given to the
single person.
Nat2 3.192 5 Quite analogous to the deceits in life,
there is...a similar effect on the eye from the face of external
nature.
Pow 6.71 18 ...the compression and tension of these
stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest
arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some
analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.
Wth 6.125 13 ...the estate of a man is only a larger
kind of body, and admits of regimen analogous to his bodily
circulations.
Art2 7.49 7 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by
our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear
on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to this, in the fine
arts, is the manner of our intellectual work.
DL 7.117 17 [A house] stands there under the sun and
moon to ends analogous, and not less noble than theirs.
Comc 8.166 25 In science the jest at pedantry is
analogous to that in religion which lies against superstition.
Edc1 10.154 18 ...only to think of using [simple
discipline and the following of nature] implies character and
profoundness; to enter on this course of discipline is to be good and
great. It is precisely analogous to the difference between the use of
corporal punishment and the methods of love.
War 11.154 8 [Alexander's conquest of the East]
brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at
first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage. It
would be very easy to show analogous benefits that have resulted from
military movements of later ages.
FRep 11.526 3 The history of civilization, or the
refining of certain races to wonderful power of performance, is
analogous;...
CInt 12.125 9 ...unless...the professor has a
generous sympathy with genius...the best scholar, he for whom colleges
exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein. 'T is precisely
analogous to what befalls in religious societies.
CL 12.154 11 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes
old continents, and builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter
of the globe; and performs an analogous office in perpetual new
transplanting of the races of men over the surface...
PPr 12.390 14 We have been civilizing very fast...and
it has not appeared in literature; there has been no analogous
expansion and recomposition in books.
Trag 12.416 9 Analogous supplies are made to those
individuals whose character leads them to vast exertions of body and
mind.
analogy, n. (20)
Nat 1.36 17 ...Reason transfers all these lessons
into its own world of thought, by perceiving the analogy that marries
Matter and Mind.
Nat 1.43 17 Not only resemblances exist in things
whose analogy is obvious...but also in objects wherein there is great
superficial unlikeness.
AmS 1.86 8 ...science is nothing but the finding of
analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
Fdsp 2.196 4 ...the systole and diastole of the heart
are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
Cir 2.301 11 One moral we have already deduced in
considering the circular or compensatory character of every human
action. Another analogy we shall now trace...
NMW 4.223 13 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy, if any
man is found to carry with him the power and affections of vast
numbers, if Napoleon is France...it is because the people whom he sways
are little Napoleons.
ET14 5.252 12 ...even what is called philosophy and
letters [in England] is mechanical in its structure...as if no vast
hope, no religion, no song of joy, no wisdom, no analogy existed any
more.
ET14 5.254 5 [Natural science in England] stands in
strong contrast with the genius of the Germans, those semi-Greeks, who
love analogy...
Art2 7.51 14 ...a certain analogy reigns throughout
the wonders of both [Nature and works of art];...
OA 7.330 17 The day comes...when the lonely thought,
which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched
in our mind...by its sequence, or next related analogy...
PI 8.13 16 I had rather have a good symbol of my
thought, or a good analogy, than the suffrage of Kant or Plato.
Elo2 8.125 27 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.
Dem1 10.9 22 Goethe said: These whimsical pictures
[dreams]...may well have an analogy with our whole life and fate.
PLT 12.62 5 The measure of mental health is the
disposition to find good everywhere, good and order, analogy...
MAng1 12.221 23 ...reflection discloses evermore a
closer analogy between the finite [human] form and the infinite
inhabitant.
ACri 12.284 7 There is, in every nation...a certain
mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and
principles of its respective language as to remain settled and
unaltered.
Analogy of Religion [Joseph (1)
MMEm 10.411 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in
my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light
every morn;...read Butler's Analogy;...
analogy-loving, adj. (1)
QO 8.195 24 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry
unless it becomes deep, being always blind and deaf to imaginative and
analogy-loving souls...
analyses, n. (1)
EdAd 11.384 11 [The traveller] reflects on...what
levers, what pumps, what exhaustive analyses are applied to Nature [in
America] for the benefit of masses of men.
analysis, n. (33)
Nat 1.56 5 The astronomer, the geometer, rely on
their irrefragable analysis...
Nat 1.68 14 ...[man] is lord [of the world]...because
he...finds something of himself...in every new...fact of...atmospheric
influence which observation or analysis lays open.
DSA 1.121 3 He ought. [Man] knows the sense of that
grand word, though his analysis fails to render account of it.
LE 1.172 2 ...the first observation you make...may
open a new view of nature and of man, that...shall take up Greece,
Rome, Stoicism, Eclecticism...as mere data and food for analysis...
SR 2.64 9 In that deep force, the last fact behind
which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin.
Lov1 2.174 12 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis
or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see
after thirty years...
Fdsp 2.212 23 In the last analysis, love is only the
reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
OS 2.268 1 In [philosophy's] experiments there has
always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve.
Exp 3.47 23 ...in this great society wide lying
around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions.
PPh 4.59 22 There is indeed no weapon in all the
armory of wit which [Plato] did not possess and use,--epic, analysis,
mania, intuition, music, satire and irony...
SwM 4.130 22 In his Animal Kingdom [Swedenborg]
surprised us by declaring that he loved analysis, and not synthesis;...
ET11 5.197 5 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage
and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families...
Bty 6.303 2 Things are pretty, graceful, rich,
elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet
beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is still escaping out of all
analysis.
WD 7.167 23 ...[Hesiod] has not pushed his study of
days into such inquiry and analysis as they invite.
Insp 8.296 16 The day is good in which we have had
the most perceptions. The analysis is the more difficult, because
poppy-leaves are strewn when a generalization is made;...
Grts 8.302 20 ...the scholars represent...the
intellect and the moral sentiment,-which in the last analysis can never
be separated.
PerF 10.85 25 [This world] is a fagot of laws, and a
true analysis of these laws...would be a wholesome lesson for every
time and for this time.
Chr2 10.93 24 The extreme simplicity of this [moral]
intuition embarrasses every attempt at analysis.
Prch 10.220 17 ...the virtuous sentiment appears
arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as
unbelievers, and burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so
far as to take tacit part with them, to cast off reverence for the
Church; and there follows an age of unbelief. This analysis was
inevitable and useful.
Prch 10.221 11 The understanding...because it has
found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached,
sneers at veneration; so that analysis has run to seed in unbelief.
LLNE 10.328 25 In philosophy, Immanuel Kant has made
the best catalogue of the human faculties and the best analysis of the
mind.
LLNE 10.329 3 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of
matter, has taught us that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are
gas.
MMEm 10.426 2 How grand [the earth's] preparation for
souls,-souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science
had...applied its steely analysis to that state of being which
recognizes neither psychology nor element.
MLit 12.323 22 ...of [Goethe's] analysis, always
wholes were the result.
analyst, n. (1)
analytic, adj. (3)
SwM 4.112 14 It is remarkable that this sublime
genius [Swedenborg] decides peremptorily for the analytic, against the
synthetic method;...
analyze, v. (11)
Nat 1.46 11 We are associated in adolescent and adult
life with some friends...whom we lack power to put at such focal
distance from us, that we can mend or even analyze them.
PC 8.222 6 ...if we should analyze Newton's
discovery, we should say that if it had not been anticipated by him, it
would not have been found.
Edc1 10.146 9 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied
ancient art to explain his stones;...he called in the succor of Sir
Humphrey Davy to analyze the pigments;...
SovE 10.205 4 To a self-denying, ardent church,
delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual
race, who analyze the prayer and psalm of their forefathers...
LLNE 10.329 2 In science the French
savant......travels into all nooks and islands, to weigh, to analyze
and report.
PLT 12.12 13 All these exhaustive theories appear
indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal
Thought.
MLit 12.310 8 [Poems' light] is not in their
grammatical construction which they give me. If i If I analyze the
sentences, it eludes me...
MLit 12.315 20 ...the weak and wicked, led also to
analyze, saw nothing in thought but luxury.
Trag 12.410 14 [Tragedy] looks like an insupportable
load under which earth moans aloud. But analyze it;...it is always
another person who is tormented.
analyzed, v. (6)
Pt1 3.7 3 ...the Universe has three children...which
reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which
we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These stand
respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the
love of beauty. ... Each is that which he is, essentially, so that he
cannot be surmounted or analyzed...
ShP 4.208 11 Read the antique documents extricated,
analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read
one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me if they match;...
analyzer, n. (1)
analyzing, adj. (1)
PerF 10.78 11 It would be easy to awake wonder by
sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the
Imagination, which turns every dull fact into pictures and poetry, by
making it an emblem of thought. What a power, when, combined with the
analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence;...
analyzing, v. (1)
anamoured, v. (2)
PI 8.29 20 ...Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth, are
heartily enamoured of their sweet thoughts.
anarchists, n. (1)
LLNE 10.368 1 ...in [Brook] Farm...each was master or
mistress of his or her actions; happy, hapless anarchists.
anarchy, n. (9)
Pol1 3.211 8 Citizens of feudal states are alarmed at
our democratic institutions lapsing into anarchy...
NR 3.240 4 Democracy is morose, and runs to
anarchy...
Wsp 6.203 27 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...
Edc1 10.144 3 ...I hear the outcry which replies to
this suggestion...would you leave the young child to the mad career of
his own passions and whimsies, and call this anarchy a respect for the
child's nature?
AKan 11.262 1 Massachusetts, in its heroic day, had
no government-was an anarchy.
anatomic, adj. (1)
CW 12.177 4 This is my ideal of the power of wealth.
Find out...when Dr. Wyman wishes to find new anatomic structures or
fossil remains;...
anatomical, adj. (2)
ET8 5.138 8 If anatomy is reformed according to
national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in
the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one
from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this
organ will be found to be cortical and caducous;...
Wsp 6.229 16 An anatomical observer remarks that the
sympathies of the chest, abdomen and pelvis tell at last on the face...
anatomically, adv. (1)
ET4 5.51 16 Who can call by right names what races
are in Britain? Who can trace them historically? Who can discriminate
them anatomically, or metaphysically?
anatomist, n. (2)
SwM 4.107 22 A poetic anatomist, in our own day,
teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect
line, constitute a right angle;...
ET4 5.44 1 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has
written a book to prove that races are imperishable...
Anatomist of Melancholy, n. (1)
ET8 5.131 7 ...one can believe that Burton, the
Anatomist of Melancholy, having predicted from the stars the hour of
his death, slipped the knot himself round his own neck, not to falsify
his horoscope.
anatomists, n. (1)
PLT 12.3 18 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy
of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature and anatomists
in their descriptions, applied to a higher class of facts;...
anatomist's, n. (1)
SwM 4.112 2 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an
anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry.
anatomize, v. (1)
anatomizing, n. (1)
LLNE 10.329 26 The young men were born with...a
tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
anatomy, n. (26)
Nat 1.43 25 Michael Angelo maintained, that, to an
architect, a knowledge of anatomy is essential.
Art1 2.357 14 As picture teaches the coloring, so
sculpture the anatomy of form.
Pt1 3.30 26 What a joyful sense of freedom we have
when Vitruvius announces the old opinion of artists that no architect
can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy.
Nat2 3.179 6 Astronomy to the selfish becomes
astrology;...and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and
palmistry.
UGM 4.10 23 There are advancements to numbers,
anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first...
SwM 4.102 10 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated
much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated...in anatomy, the
discoveries of Schlichting, Monro and Wilson;...
SwM 4.104 25 Unrivalled dissectors...had left nothing
for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...
SwM 4.112 12 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to
uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in
the depths of her laboratory; whilst the picture comes recommended by
the hard fidelity with which it is based on practical anatomy.
ET8 5.138 4 If anatomy is reformed according to
national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in
the Englishman...
ET10 5.166 25 Man...is ever...adapting some secret of
his own anatomy in iron, wood and leather to some required function in
the work of the world.
WD 7.171 1 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself
to amass,--the secular, refined, composite anatomy of man...are given
immeasurably to all.
PI 8.7 26 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or
progessive ascent in each kind;...
FSLN 11.238 16 ...when the Southerner points to the
anatomy of the negro, and talks of chimpanzee,-I recall Montesquieu's
remark, It will not do to say that negroes are men, lest it should turn
out that whites are not.
PLT 12.4 2 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of
distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied...to
those laws...which are common to chemistry, anatomy...laws of the
world?
PLT 12.8 7 Go into the scientific club and harken.
Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only,
knows now or ever did know anything on the subject: Does the gentleman
speak of anatomy? Who peeped into a box at the Custom House and then
published a drawing of my rat?
CL 12.160 24 When I look at natural structures, as at
a tree...or the anatomy of an elephant, I know that I am seeing an
architecture and carpentry which has no sham...
CL 12.165 1 Agassiz studies year after year fishes
and fossil anatomy of saurian, and lizard, and pterodactyl. But
whatever he says, we know very well what he means.
CL 12.165 25 The geology, the astronomy, the anatomy,
are all good, but 't is all a half...
MAng1 12.219 27 ...to the artist it belongs by a
better knowledge of anatomy, and, within anatomy, of life and thought,
to acquire the power of true drawing.
MAng1 12.221 6 The depth of [Michelangelo's]
knowledge in anatomy has no parallel among the artists of modern times.
MAng1 12.230 14 Every one of these pieces [in the
Sistine Chapel ceiling]...is a study of anatomy and design.
Anatomy of Melancholy [Robe (1)
Anaxagoras, n. (6)
SR 2.86 7 Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes,
are great men...
Exp 3.73 1 The baffled intellect must still kneel
before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to
represent by some emphatic symbol, as...Anaxagoras by (Nous) thought...
ET14 5.241 8 ...[Pericles] meeting with
Anaxagoras...he attached himself to him, and nourished himself with
sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence;...
Ctr 6.161 14 ...a wise man who knows not only what
Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he
deals with to a certain majesty. Plato says Pericles owed this
elevation to the lessons of Anaxagoras.
Boks 7.199 12 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the
best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of...Protagoras,
Anaxagoras and Socrates...
Anaximander, n. (1)
Plu 10.310 11 Usually, when Thales, Anaximenes or
Anaximander are quoted [by Plutarch], it is really a good judgment.
Anaximenes, n. (4)
Exp 3.72 27 The baffled intellect must still kneel
before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to
represent by some emphatic symbol, as...Anaximenes by air...
F 6.18 8 No one can read the history of astronomy
without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of
men, but that Thales, Anaximenes...had anticipated them;...
Plu 10.310 10 Usually, when Thales, Anaximenes or
Anaximander are quoted [by Plutarch], it is really a good judgment.
CL 12.141 2 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul,
and the essence of life.
ancestor, n. (10)
ET4 5.46 27 ...we look to find in the son every
mental and moral property that existed in the ancestor.
ET4 5.50 16 A child blends in his face...some feature
from every ancestor whose face hangs on the wall.
ET5 5.85 18 In war, the Englishman looks to his
means. He is of the opinion of Civilis, his German ancestor, whom
Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the
strongest;...
ET11 5.176 25 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor having
travelled on the continent...became the companion of a foreign prince
wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.
OA 7.317 9 If we look into the eyes of the youngest
person we sometimes discover that...there is that in him which is the
ancestor of all around him;...
EzRy 10.381 9 The father [Noah Ripley] was born at
Hingham [Connecticut], on the farm purchased by his ancestor, William
Ripley, of England...
Thor 10.451 2 Henry David Thoreau was the last male
descendant of a French ancestor who came to this country from the Isle
of Guernsey.
JBB 11.268 16 [John Brown] joins that perfect Puritan
faith which brought his fifth ancestor to Plymouth Rock with his
grandfather's ardor in the Revolution.
ancestors, n. (21)
LE 1.173 5 Thus is justice done to each generation
and individual,- wisdom teaching man that he shall not...mimic his
ancestors;...
ET6 5.107 27 ...though [the Englishman] have no
gallery of portraits of his ancestors, he has of their punch-bowls and
porringers.
ET11 5.178 11 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke
of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire, where his
ancestors had chiefly continued about the space of four hundred
years...
F 6.10 12 In different hours a man represents each of
several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled
up in each man's skin,-seven or eight ancestors at least;...
F 6.11 22 If, later, [these drones] give birth to
some superior individual...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
Bhr 6.181 23 A man finds room in the few square
inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors;...
Wsp 6.209 7 Not knowing what to do, we ape our
ancestors;...
Bty 6.298 16 ...we see faces every day which have a
good type but have been marred in the casting; a proof that we are
all...should have been beautiful if our ancestors had kept the laws...
Bty 6.299 11 The man is physically as well as
metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from
good and bad ancestors...
DL 7.102 7 I detected many a god/ Forth already on
the road,/ Ancestors of beauty come/ In thy breast to make a home./
WD 7.175 27 In the Norse legend of our ancestors,
Odin dwells in a fisher' s hut...
Chr2 10.106 8 Our ancestors spoke continually of
angels and archangels with the same good faith as they would have
spoken of their own parents or their late minister.
EzRy 10.388 6 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is
to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues. There is none
of that large family left but you, and it rests with you to bear up the
good name and usefulness of your ancestors.
Wom 11.406 4 Among our Norse ancestors, Frigga was
worshipped as the goddess of women.
Bost 12.210 8 In an age of trade and material
prosperity, we have stood a little stupefied by the elevation of our
ancestors.
ancestral, adj. (1)
Con 1.311 10 Have we not atoned for this small
offence...of leaving you no right in the soil, by this splendid
indemnity of ancestral and national wealth?
ancestry, n. (3)
SwM 4.122 21 Instead of a religion which visited
[Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching
which...showed him through what a long ancestry his thoughts
descend;...
ET4 5.51 19 In the impossibility of arriving at
satisfaction on the historical question of race, and--come of whatever
disputable ancestry--the indisputable Englishman before me...I fancied
I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as his lineal
progenitors...
anchor, n. (6)
Hist 2.9 7 No anchor, no cable, no fences avail to
keep a fact a fact.
Pol1 3.211 14 It is said that...in the despotism of
public opinion, we have no anchor;...
ET11 5.197 19 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds
of passage in this House of Commons, and then added...they have their
best bower anchor in the House of Lords.
Aris 10.45 3 If we see tools in a magazine, as a
file, an anchor, a plough... we can predict well enough their
destination;...
Schr 10.286 10 [The scholar] must...ride at anchor
and vanquish every enemy whom his small arms cannot reach, by the grand
resistance of submission...
FSLC 11.192 18 The practitioners [of law] should
guard this dogma [that immoral laws are void] well...as the anchor in
the respect of mankind.
anchor, v. (3)
Exp 3.55 6 Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorage
is quicksand.
ET2 5.32 26 When their privilege was disputed by the
Dutch and other junior marines, on the plea that you could never anchor
on the same wave... the English did not stick to claim the channel, or
the bottom of all the main...
ET4 5.56 16 The men who have built a ship and
invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much
more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. For
if they have not numerical superiority where they anchor, they have
only to sail a mile or two to find it.
anchorage, n. (2)
Exp 3.55 6 Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorage
is quicksand.
Ill 6.307 4 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed,
adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./
anchored, v. (3)
ET3 5.40 9 England resembles a ship in its shape, and
if it were one, its best admiral could not have worked it or anchored
it in a more judicious or effective position.
Chr2 10.98 14 How can [a man] exist to weave
relations of joy and virtue with other souls, but because he is
inviolable, anchored at the centre of Truth and Being?
anchorets, n. (1)
Hist 2.28 9 I have seen the first monks and
anchorets, without crossing seas or centuries.
anchorite, n. (1)
Insp 8.284 10 My anchorite thought it sad that
atmospheric influences should bring to our dust the communion of the
soul with the Infinite.
anchors, n. (1)
ancient, adj. (89)
Nat 1.15 3 The ancient Greeks called the world
kosmos, beauty.
AmS 1.81 6 We do not meet...for the recitation of
histories, tragedies, and odes, like the ancient Greeks;...
AmS 1.87 8 ...the ancient precept, Know thyself, and
the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
DSA 1.127 24 ...poetry, the ideal life, the holy
life, exist as ancient history merely;...
LT 1.268 20 It is...the aspirant, who is quitting
this ancient domain [of conservatism]...who engages our interest.
Con 1.295 7 The conservative party established the
reverend hierarchies and monarchies of the most ancient world.
Tran 1.345 22 In looking at the class of
counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they
who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to
these? Are they...taken in early ripeness to the gods,-as ancient
wisdom foretold their fate?
Comp 2.107 16 ...in nature nothing can be given, all
things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis...
Lov1 2.181 4 [What we love] is that which you know
not in yourself and can never know. This agrees well with that high
philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in;...
Hsm1 2.248 19 ...I must think we are more deeply
indebted to [Plutarch] than to all the ancient writers.
Cir 2.312 5 We fill ourselves with ancient
learning...only that we may wiselier see French, English and American
houses and modes of living.
Int 2.343 8 The ancient sentence said, Let us be
silent, for so are the gods.
Pt1 3.32 2 The ancient British bards had for the
title of their order, Those who are free throughout the world.
Chr1 3.112 10 It was a tradition of the ancient world
that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god;...
Mrs1 3.119 20 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni,
to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live
in sepulchres, among the corpses and rags of an ancient nation which
they know nothing of.
Nat2 3.172 22 The fall of snowflakes in a still
air...the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames, or of pine
logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the
sitting-room;--these are the music and pictures of the most ancient
religion.
NER 3.258 12 The ancient languages, with great beauty
of structure, contain wonderful remains of genius...
NER 3.274 15 The heroes of ancient and modern
fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully
played...
SwM 4.96 17 ...the soul having heretofore known all,
nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing
only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
SwM 4.113 12 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces
[Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates,
that the brain is a gland;...
SwM 4.120 7 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the
fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling
nigher to the gods;...
SwM 4.132 17 The wise people of the Greek race were
accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young
men...through the Eleusinian mysteries, wherein...the highest truths
known to ancient wisdom were taught.
GoW 4.289 8 ...compared with any motives on which
books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work]...has the
power to inspire which belongs to truth. Thus has he brought back to a
book some of its ancient might and dignity.
ET11 5.178 8 [The English] proverb is, that fifty
miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;...but I doubt
that steam, the enemy of time as well as of space, will disturb these
ancient rules.
ET11 5.181 10 In evidence of the wealth amassed by
ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown the palaces in
Piccadilly...
ET11 5.189 20 The grand old halls scattered up and
down in England, are dumb vouchers to the state and broad hospitality
of their ancient lords.
ET12 5.200 8 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the
upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals...
ET14 5.243 10 ...we find stumps of vast trees in our
exhausted soils, and have received traditions of their ancient
fertility to tillage...
ET14 5.259 6 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to
prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all
rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...
ET18 5.301 26 In Magna Charta it was ordained that
all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by
the ancient allowed customs...
Wth 6.109 13 The ancient poet said, The gods sell all
things at a fair price.
Wsp 6.215 2 That which is signified by the words
moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions
we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words, age after
age, to their ancient meaning.
CbW 6.257 1 It is a sentence of ancient wisdom that
God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires.
Art2 7.40 27 It was said, in allusion to the great
structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their
Art was a Nature working to municiple ends.
Art2 7.51 24 The galleries of ancient sculpture in
Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the
contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads,
with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob
that gazes at them.
Elo1 7.93 17 This terrible earnestness [of the
eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that
the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's
blood.
DL 7.130 23 The man, the woman, needs not the
embellishment of canvas and marble, whose every act is a subject for
the sculptor, and to whose eye the gods and nymphs never appear
ancient...
Farm 7.137 18 ...the profession [of farming] has in
all eyes its ancient charm, as standing nearest to God, the first
cause.
WD 7.167 6 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us
the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun...indicating that
those ancient men, in their attempts to express the Supreme Power of
the universe, called him the Day...
WD 7.174 19 History of ancient art, excavated cities,
recovery of books and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and
the history worth knowing;...
Boks 7.200 8 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's
Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates...On Love; and thank
anew...the cheerful domain of ancient thinking.
Boks 7.200 20 An inestimable trilogy of ancient
social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon
and Plutarch.
Boks 7.200 25 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise
Masters is a charming portraiture of ancient manners and discourse...
Suc 7.287 9 The ancient Norse ballads describe [the
Norseman] as afflicted with this inextinguishable thirst of victory.
OA 7.330 20 We remember our old Greek Professor at
Cambridge, an ancient bachelor...
PI 8.36 9 ...there is entertainment and room for
talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects;...
PI 8.57 17 ...the direct smell of the earth or the
sea, is in these ancient poems...
SA 8.101 7 In Europe, ancient and modern, it has been
attempted to secure the existence of a superior class by hereditary
nobility...
Elo2 8.124 5 In social converse with the mighty dead
of ancient days, you will never smart under the galling sense of
dependence upon the mighty living of the present age.
Res 8.152 22 You cannot tell when [the willows] do
bud and blossom, these vivacious trees, so ancient...
Dem1 10.15 12 ...the faith in peculiar and alien
power takes another form in the modern mind, much more resembling the
ancient doctrine of the guardian genius.
Aris 10.40 19 Every survey of the dignified classes,
in ancient or modern history, imprints universal lessons...
Aris 10.41 13 ...the effect of freer institutions in
England and America, has robbed the title of king of all its romance,
as that of our commercial consuls as compared with the ancient Roman.
Edc1 10.138 7 ...we sacrifice the genius of the
pupil...to a neat and safe uniformity, as the Turks whitewash the
costly mosaics of ancient art...
Plu 10.298 14 ...a master of ancient culture,
[Plutarch] read books with a just criticism;...
Plu 10.303 12 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another
example of...the benign Providence which uses the violence of war, of
earthquakes and changed water-courses, to save underground through
barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
Plu 10.306 4 The plain speaking of Plutarch, as of
the ancient writers generally...has a great gain for brevity...
Plu 10.318 15 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the
legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or
verse,-there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
MMEm 10.409 9 As a traveller enters some fine palace
and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some
avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the
cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses
of ancient and modern lore.
LS 11.8 25 ...many persons are apt to imagine that
the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking
[at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal
purpose to found a festival. ... But this impression is removed by
reading any narrative of the mode in which the ancient or the modern
Jews have kept the Passover.
LS 11.15 14 In this manner we may see clearly enough
how this ancient ordinance [the Lord's Supper] got its footing among
the early Christians...
HDC 11.49 21 The British government has recently
presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of
the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public
records of England.
HDC 11.74 14 ...the British fired one or two shots up
the river (our ancient friend here, Master Blood, saw the water struck
by the first ball);...
FSLC 11.180 18 ...Boston, spoiled by prosperity, must
bow its ancient honor in the dust...
FSLC 11.211 26 The ancient maxim still holds that
never was any injustice effected except by the help of justice.
AsSu 11.251 5 When the same reproach [of writing his
speeches] was cast on the first orator of ancient times by some
caviller of his day, he said, I should be ashamed to come with one
unconsidered word before such an assembly.
HCom 11.339 7 These boys we talk about like ancient
sages/ Are the same men we read of in old pages-/ The bronze recast of
dead heroic ages!/
Wom 11.414 17 ...in the East...in the Mohammedan
faith, Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess,
that she has among the ancient Greeks...
ChiE 11.472 16 ...[China] has...historic records of
forgotten time, that have supplied important gaps in the ancient
history of the western nations.
CPL 11.496 1 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and
lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a
noble library...
CPL 11.502 4 It was the symbolical custom of the
ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the
sun...
II 12.74 20 ...the ancient Proclus seems to signify
his sense of the same fact, by saying, The parts in us are more the
property of wholes, and of things above us, than they are our property.
Bost 12.193 26 In our own age we are learning to
look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which
makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...
MAng1 12.216 24 The ancient Greeks called the world
kosmos, Beauty;...
MAng1 12.235 24 [Michelangelo] required...that he
should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's], free to
depart from the plans of San Gallo and to alter what had been already
done. This disinterestedness and spirit-no fee and no
interference-reminds one of the reward named by the ancient Persian.
Milt1 12.259 13 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant
learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy, where he beheld the remains of
ancient art...
Milt1 12.269 17 Susceptible as Burke to the
attractions...of an ancient church illustrated by old martyrdoms and
installed in cathedrals,-[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the
reeking conventicle;...
MLit 12.322 18 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the
magazines of the world's ancient or modern wealth...he wanted them all.
Trag 12.411 1 A panic such as frequently in ancient
or savage nations put a troop or an army to flight without an enemy; a
fear of ghosts...are no tragedy...
Ancient Greece [J. A. St. (1)
ancient, n. (6)
AmS 1.102 24 Let [the scholar] not quit his belief
that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the
earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
OS 2.297 1 ...revering the soul, and learning, as the
ancient said, that its beauty is immense, man will come to see that the
world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh...
NR 3.243 11 As the ancient said, the world is a
plenum or solid;...
Insp 8.289 18 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the
experience of poetic creativeness...these are the types or conditions
of this power [of novelty]. A ride near the sea, a sail near the shore,
said the ancient.
Plu 10.303 7 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another
example of the sacred care which...has drawn attention to what an
ancient might call the politeness of Fate...
Ancient of Days, n. (1)
II 12.71 10 The divine energy...casts its old garb,
and reappears, another creature;...the Ancient of Days in the dew of
the morning.
anciently, adv. (1)
LLNE 10.327 15 Anciently, society was in the course
of things.
anciently-reported, adj. (1)
ancients, n. (17)
Pt1 3.27 8 The poet knows that he speaks adequately
then only when he speaks...as the ancients were wont to express
themselves, not with intellect alone but with the intellect inebriated
by nectar.
Nat2 3.179 14 ...let us not longer omit our homage to
the Efficient Nature... itself secret, its works driven before it in
flocks and multitudes (as the ancients represented nature by Proteus, a
shepherd,)...
SwM 4.97 2 ...by being assimilated to the original
soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all
things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with
their structure and law. This path is difficult, secret and beset with
terror. The ancients called it ecstasy or absence...
ET19 5.312 26 Is it not true, sir, that the wise
ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the
port...
Ctr 6.163 6 Open your Marcus Antoninus. In the
opinion of the ancients he was the great man who scorned to shine...
Bty 6.287 14 The ancients believed that a genius or
demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him;...
Boks 7.201 4 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian
manners] has merits of every kind,--being a repertory of the wisdom of
the ancients on the subject of love;...
Insp 8.295 26 Books of natural science, especially
those written by the ancients...all the better if written without
literary aim or ambition.
Dem1 10.17 26 I believed that I discovered in
nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and
therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word.
... This, which seemed to insert itself between all other things...I
named the Demoniacal, after the example of the ancients...
Aris 10.42 17 The ancients were fond of ascribing to
their nobles gigantic proportions and strength.
ALin 11.337 9 The ancients believed in a serene and
beautiful Genius which rules in the affairs of nations;...
FRO2 11.486 18 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is
now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients...
PPr 12.387 19 The ancients are only venerable to us
because distance has destroyed what was trivial;...
ancillary, adj. (2)
ancora, adv. (1)
MAng1 12.221 2 ...one of the last drawings in
[Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling; for it
is a sketch of an old man with a long beard, in a go-cart, with an
hour-glass before him; and the motto, Ancora imparo, I still learn.
Ancre, Marquis d' [Concino (1)
Chr1 3.94 17 What means did you employ? was the
question asked of the wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of
Mary of Medici;...
Andersen's, Hans Christian, (1)
SA 8.80 20 I think Hans Andersen's story of the
cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible...must mean manners...
Anderson, John, my jo's, n. (1)
RBur 11.442 4 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson
my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses
been applied to!
Andes Mountains, adj. (1)
CbW 6.272 14 In excited conversation we have...hints
of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes
landscape...
Andes Mountains, n. (6)
LT 1.260 10 Here is this great fact of Conservatism,
entrenched in its immense redoubt, with Himmaleh for its front, and
Atlas for its flank, and Andes for its rear...
Fdsp 2.200 21 Respect the naturlangsamkeit
which...works in duration in which Alps and Andes come and go as
rainbows.
Elo2 8.132 9 ...the Andes and Alleghanies indicate
the line of the fissure in the crust of the earth along which they were
lifted...
SHC 11.435 3 ...though we make much ado in our
praises of Italy or Andes, Nature makes not so much difference.
WSL 12.347 1 ...it is not from the highest Alps or
Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape
is commanded...
Andover, Massachusetts, n. (1)
Grts 8.319 17 ...a very common [illusion] is the
opinion you hear expressed in every village: O yes, If I lived
in...Andover, there might be fit society;...
Andrew Barton, Sir [Ballad (1)
PI 8.25 18 Give [people]...Sir Andrew Barton, or Sir
Patrick Spens...and they like these well enough.
Andrew, Camp, Virginia, n. (1)
SMC 11.364 1 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was
encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching
orders came.
Andrew, John Albion, n. (1)
Bost 12.203 15 ...there is always [in
Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor
with but cannot silence. Some new light... some John Adams and Josiah
Quincy and Governor Andrew to undertake and carry the defence of
patriots in the courts against the uproar of all the province;...
Andrew, n. (2)
Mrs1 3.134 1 We pointedly, and by name, introduce the
parties to each other. Know you before all heaven and earth, that this
is Andrew, and this is Gregory...
ShP 4.215 12 Cultivated men often attain a good
degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through
their poems, their personal history: any one acquainted with the
parties can name every figure; this is Andrew and that is Rachel.
Andros, Edmund, n. (1)
HDC 11.63 15 In 1689, Concord partook of the general
indignation of the province against Andros.
ane, peau d', n. (1)
UGH 4.21 23 I remember the peau d'ane on which whoso
sat should have his desire, but a piece of the skin was gone for every
wish.
anecdote, n. (22)
LE 1.166 4 ...the moment [men] desert the tradition
for a spontaneous thought, then ...virtue, learning, anecdote all flock
to their aid.
Hsm1 2.248 23 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of
the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch]...
Mrs1 3.142 4 Another anecdote is so close to my
matter, that I must hazard the story.
ET4 5.66 15 The anecdote of the handsome captives
which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the
testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later...
ET17 5.296 22 [Harriet Martineau] said that in
[Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived,
he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare; if they
wanted anything more, they must pay him for their board. It was the
rule of the house. I replied that it evinced English pluck more than
any anecdote I knew.
F 6.29 8 A text of heroism, a name and anecdote of
courage, are not arguments but sallies of freedom.
Elo1 7.99 27 [Eloquence's] great masters...never
permitted any talent,-- neither voice, rhythm, poetic power, anecdote,
sarcasm--to appear for show;...
Cour 7.277 17 I am permitted to enrich my chapter by
adding an anecdote of pure courage from real life...
SA 8.95 11 What a good trait is that recorded of
Madame de Maintenon, that, during dinner, the servant slipped to her
side, Please, madame, one anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day.
Elo2 8.111 3 I do not know any kind of history,
except the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest
than to any anecdote of eloquence;...
Imtl 8.331 17 [Both men] were men of intellect, and
one of them, at a later period, gave to a friend this anecdote.
Prch 10.223 15 I find myself always struck and
stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait of heroism...
LLNE 10.334 1 The smallest anecdote of [Everett's]
behavior or conversation was eagerly caught and repeated...
EzRy 10.392 7 A man of anecdote, [Ezra Ripley's] talk
in the parlor was chiefly narrative.
MAng1 12.220 13 Michael Angelo dedicated himself...to
a toilsome observation of Nature. The first anecdote recorded of him
shows him to be already on the right road.
anecdotes, n. (62)
SL 2.144 22 A few anecdotes...have an emphasis in
your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you
measure them by the ordinary standards.
Chr1 3.89 17 This inequality of the reputation to the
works or the anecdotes is not accounted for by saying that the
reverberation is longer than the thunder-clap...
Mrs1 3.144 27 Another mode [of winning a place in
fashion] is to pass through all the degrees...being...perfumed, and
dined, and introduced, and properly grounded in all the biography and
politics and anecdotes of the boudoirs.
PPh 4.58 3 ...the anecdotes that have come down from
the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his
master's behalf...
ShP 4.199 1 Show us the constituency, and the now
invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes;
the crowd of practical and knowing men, who, by correspondence or
conversation, are feeding him with evidence, anecdotes and estimates...
NMW 4.225 7 Every one of the million readers of
anecdotes or memoirs or lives of Napoleon, delights in the page,
because he studies in it his own history.
ET1 5.7 8 I had inferred from [Landor's] books, or
magnified from some anecdotes, an impression of Achillean wrath...
ET7 5.125 10 Any number of delightful examples of
this English stolidity are the anecdotes of Europe.
ET9 5.151 5 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.
ET11 5.189 27 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury,
from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the anecdotes
preserved by the antiquaries Fuller and Collins;...are favorable
pictures of a romantic style of manners.
ET15 5.266 23 One hears anecdotes of the rise of [the
London Times's] servants, as of the functionaries of the India House.
ET17 5.296 2 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French,
English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little
anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family...
Pow 6.75 3 One of the high anecdotes of the world is
the reply of Newton to the inquiry how he had been able to achieve his
discoveries?--By always intending my mind.
Wsp 6.227 21 There was a wise, devout man who is
called in the Catholic Church, St. Philip Neri, of whom many anecdotes
touching his discernment and benevolence are told at Naples and Rome.
Elo1 7.80 19 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses
the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table
where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism.
Elo1 7.95 4 We are slenderly furnished with anecdotes
of these men [Chatham, Pericles, Luther]...
Boks 7.197 25 Of the old Greek books, I think there
are five which we cannot spare... ... 2. Herodotus, whose history
contains inestimable anecdotes...
Boks 7.198 1 ...in these days, when it is found that
what is most memorable of history is a few anecdotes...[Herodotus's
history] is regaining credit.
Boks 7.208 18 Another class of books closely allied
to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks:
of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Spence's anecdotes;...
Clbs 7.228 18 How sweet those hours when the day was
not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual
jewels...the proud anecdotes of our heroes...
OA 7.329 18 An old scholar finds keen delight in
verifying the impressive anecdotes and citations he has met with in
miscellaneous reading and hearing, in all the years of youth.
Res 8.143 27 The whole history of our civil war is
rich in a thousand anecdotes attesting the fertility of resource...of
our people.
QO 8.184 15 I remember to have heard Mr. Samuel
Rogers...relate, among other anecdotes of the Duke of Wellington, that
a lady having expressed...a passionate wish to witness a great victory,
[Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great
victory,-excepting a great defeat.
Chr2 10.113 6 [Morals] does not ask whether you are
wrong or right in your anecdotes of [past teachers and witnesses];...
SovE 10.212 17 ...all the religion we have is the
ethics of one or another holy person; as soon as character appears, be
sure love will, and veneration, and anecdotes and fables about him...
Plu 10.300 21 No poet could illustrate his thought
with more novel or striking similes or happier anecdotes [than does
Plutarch].
Plu 10.301 5 I admire [Plutarch's] rapid and crowded
style, as if he had such store of anecdotes of his heroes that he is
forced to suppress more than he recounts...
Plu 10.317 23 If [Plutarch] did not compile the piece
[Apothegms of Noble Commanders], many, perhaps most of the anecdotes
were already scattered in his works.
Plu 10.322 18 If over-read in this decade, so that
his anecdotes and opinions become commonplace...[Plutarch's] sterling
values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...
LLNE 10.345 27 ...we were curious to know how [the
pilgrim] sped in his experiments on the neighbor, and his anecdotes
were interesting...
EzRy 10.386 2 ...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of
the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the
time of his predecessor...
EzRy 10.394 13 In [Ezra Ripley] have perished more
local and personal anecdotes of this village and vicinity than are
possessed by any survivor.
MMEm 10.405 23 When [Mary Moody Emerson] met a young
person who interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate
with him or her at once...by anecdotes, by wit, by rebuke...
Thor 10.456 23 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily
and childlike into the company of young people...whom he delighted to
entertain...with the varied and endless anecdotes of his experiences by
field and river...
Thor 10.459 20 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news
or bonmots gleaned from London circles; and though he tried to be
civil, these anecdotes fatigued him.
HDC 11.75 13 In all the anecdotes of that day's
[April 19, 1775] events we may discern the natural action of the
people.
EWI 11.105 5 It became plain to all men, the more
this business was looked into, that the crimes and cruelties of the
slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated. The more it was
searched, the more shocking anecdotes came up...
EWI 11.111 1 There is no end to the tragic anecdotes
in the municipal records of the [West Indian] colonies.
TPar 11.288 21 ...[the next generation] will read
very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story, fortified with
exact anecdotes...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston];...
SMC 11.349 12 ...we can hardly expect a wide sympathy
for the names and anecdotes which we delight to record.
Mem 12.97 13 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in
and out of the house, and occasionally recites anecdotes of old times
and persons...
Mem 12.97 16 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in
and out of the house, and occasionally recites anecdotes of old times
and persons...and she being gone again I search in vain for any trace
of the anecdotes?
Mem 12.108 10 The universal sense of fables and
anecdotes is marked by our tendency to forget name and date and
geography.
Bost 12.208 4 I am afraid there are anecdotes of
poverty and disease in Broad Street that match the dismal statistics of
New York and London.
Milt1 12.256 26 Perfections of body and of mind are
attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes had
come down from a greater distance of time...would lead us to suspect
the portraits were ideal...
AgMs 12.362 26 The way in which men who have farms
grow rich is either by other resources...or by other methods of which I
[Edmund Hosmer] could tell you many sad anecdotes.
anemones, n. (1)
PPo 8.257 25 The lilies white prolonged/ Their
sworded tongue to the smell;/ The clustering anemones/ Their pretty
secrets tell./
anew, adv. (21)
Nat 1.74 22 ...when a faithful
thinker...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest
affections, then will God go forth anew...
DSA 1.128 27 [Jesus Christ] saw that God...evermore
goes forth anew to take possession of his World.
LE 1.170 15 Since the birth of Niebuhr and Wolf,
Roman and Greek history have been written anew.
LT 1.275 15 A great deal of the profoundest thinking
of antiquity...in twenty years will get all printed anew.
LT 1.288 20 ...where but in that Thought through
which we communicate with absolute nature, and are made aware
that...the law which clothes us with humanity remains anew?...shall we
learn the Truth?
Tran 1.359 22 ...the thoughts which these few hermits
strove to proclaim... shall abide in beauty and strength...to invest
themselves anew in other, perhaps higher endowed and happier mixed clay
than ours...
Hist 2.19 13 By surrounding ourselves with the
original circumstances we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of
architecture...
Lov1 2.175 4 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of
that power to his heart and brain, which created all things anew;...
SwM 4.125 2 [To Swedenborg] All things in the
universe arrange themselves to each person anew, according to his
ruling love.
ET11 5.189 12 Against the cry of the old tenantry and
the sympathetic cry of the English press, the [English nobility] have
rooted out and planted anew...
Boks 7.200 7 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's
Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates...On Love; and thank anew
the art of printing...
PC 8.221 11 [The devotion to natural science] taught
[the scholar] anew the reach of the human mind...
PerF 10.83 20 The last revelation of intellect and of
sentiment is that in a manner it...makes known to [the man]...that he
is to deal absolutely in the world, as if he alone were a system and a
state, and though all should perish could make all anew.
Edc1 10.126 24 Those [animals] called domestic are
capable of learning of man a few tricks of utility or amusement, but
they cannot communicate the skill to their race. Each individual must
be taught anew.
Schr 10.279 20 I declare anew from Heaven that truth
exists new and beautiful and profitable forevermore.
ACiv 11.306 22 ...what kind of peace shall at that
moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for
it,-will give up the slaves, and the whole torment of the past
half-century will come back to be endured anew.
Mem 12.103 22 ...confined now in populous streets you
behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the
solitary river...vibrate anew to the tenderness and dainty music of the
poetry your boyhood fed upon.
Angel Driving Heliodorus... (1)
Comc 8.170 23 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus
from the Temple, the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for
the extraordinary energy of the face, it would draw the eye too
much;...
angel, n. (44)
AmS 1.96 25 In its grub state...[the new deed] is a
dull grub. But suddenly, without observation, the selfsame thing...is
an angel of wisdom.
DSA 1.147 8 Discharge to men the priestly office,
and...you shall be followed with their love as by an angel.
DSA 1.148 25 You would compliment a coxcomb doing a
good act, but you would not praise an angel.
MR 1.234 9 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born
a saint...with the conscience and love of an angel, and he is to get
his living in the world;...
Tran 1.336 18 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him
with the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not
I./ Emilia replies, The more angel she, and thou the blacker devil./
Tran 1.341 19 ...every one must do after his kind, be
he asp or angel...
SL 2.134 2 When we see a soul whose acts are all
regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must...not turn sourly on the
angel...
NR 3.227 19 ...if an angel should come to chant the
chorus of the moral law, he would eat too much gingerbread...
NER 3.285 1 ...only by the freest activity in the way
constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man...
SwM 4.126 9 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings
which express with singular beauty the ethical laws; as when he uttered
that famed sentence, that In heaven the angels are advancing
continually to the springtime of their youth, so that the oldest angel
appears the youngest...
SwM 4.140 20 No imprudent, no sociable angel ever
dropt an early syllable to answer the longings of saints, the fears of
mortals.
Bhr 6.193 20 It is related by the monk Basle, that
being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge
of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...
Bhr 6.194 2 The angel that was sent to find a place
of torment for [the monk Basle] attempted to remove him to a worse
pit...
Bhr 6.194 8 At last the escorting angel returned with
his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no
phlegethon could be found that would burn him;...
CbW 6.275 21 A man of wit was asked, in the train,
what was his errand in the city. He replied, I have been sent to
procure an angel to do cooking.
Art2 7.48 25 [The artist] must work in the spirit in
which we conceive...an angel of the Lord to act;...
Cour 7.262 13 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage,
my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same
when I first went out in this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me.
PI 8.74 13 Poems!--we have no poem. Whenever that
angel shall be organized and appear on earth, the Iliad will be
reckoned a poor ballad-grinding.
Res 8.140 23 By his machines man...can see the system
of the universe like Uriel, the angel of the sun;...
Grts 8.310 2 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect],
it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of
conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot
account for. ... It is not an oracle, nor an angel, nor a dream, nor a
law;...
Imtl 8.338 11 I have a house, a closet which holds my
books, a table, a garden, a field: are these...a reason for refusing
the angel who beckons me away...
Dem1 10.21 20 The best are never demoniacal or
magnetic; leave this limbo to the Prince of the power of the air. The
lowest angel is better.
Dem1 10.22 7 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a
feudal baron may fancy...that he has a guardian angel;...
Prch 10.215 3 Ascending through just degrees/ To a
consummate holiness,/ As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching
all souls like the sun./
MoL 10.243 16 It is charged that all vigorous
nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity,
and especially by the imagination...the angel of earnest and believing
ages.
MMEm 10.397 24 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many
an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps
by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by
summer blooms./
MMEm 10.404 22 I used to propose that [Mary Moody
Emerson's] epitaph should be: Here lies the angel of Death.
MMEm 10.428 7 The sickness of the last week was fine
medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I [Mary
Moody Emerson] rose,-I felt that I had given to God more perhaps than
an angel could...
Koss 11.396 5 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I
suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of
the poor./ My angel,-his name is Freedom,-/ Choose him to be your
king;/ He shall cut pathways east and west,/ And fend you with his
wing./
FRO1 11.476 6 In many forms we try/ To utter God's
infinity,/ But the Boundless has no form,/ And the Universal Friend/
Doth as far transcend/ An angel as a worm./
PLT 12.15 23 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an
ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet
which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front. But
this force...is no fee or property of man or angel.
II 12.69 5 ...could we break the silence of this
oldest angel [Instinct], who was with God when the worlds were made!
Angel, n. (2)
MMEm 10.416 22 ...the simple principle which made me
[Mary Moody Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair
face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been
equalled, though it returns in the long life of destitution like an
Angel.
Wom 11.403 7 ...there in the parlor sits/ Some figure
in noble guise,-/ Our Angel in a stranger's form;/ Or Woman's pleading
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