Angrily to Apparently
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
angrily, adv. (2)
JBS 11.276 9 Then angrily the people cried,/ The loss
outweighs the profit far;/ Our goods suffice us as they are:/ We will
not have them tried./
angry, adj. (17)
LE 1.168 8 ...the fall of swarms of flies...pattering
down on the leaves like rain; the angry hiss of the wood-birds;...all,
are alike unattempted [by poets].
SR 2.51 10 If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful
cause of Abolition... why should I not say to him, Go love thy
infant;...
NMW 4.240 21 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs.
Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road,
and Mrs. Balcombe desired them, in rather an angry tone, to keep back.
GoW 4.263 14 ...as the good Luther writes, When I am
angry, I can pray well and preach well...
F 6.44 8 The races of men rise out of the
ground...and divides into parties... angry to fight for this
metaphysical abstraction.
Elo1 7.72 22 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood
and looked down... you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
Clbs 7.234 4 ...men are all of one pattern. We
readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if
we find that we are premature...
Cour 7.259 20 ...the part of the leader and soul of
the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men who are
really angry and determined.
Elo2 8.118 27 Go into an assembly well excited, some
angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis.
PC 8.230 21 Here you are set down, scholars and
idealists...amongst angry politicians swelling with self-esteem...
PPo 8.261 7 Plunge in yon angry waves,/ Renouncing
doubt and care;/ The flowing of the seven broad seas/ Shall never wet
thy hair./
EWI 11.117 24 The governors [of Jamaica]...were at
constant quarrel with the angry and bilious island legislature.
CPL 11.506 11 [Kepler writes] ...I have stolen the
golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far
away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice; if you
are angry, I can bear it;...
II 12.81 15 ...the races of men rise out of the
ground...divided beforehand into parties ready armed and angry to fight
for they know not what.
MAng1 12.236 6 When the Pope...sent [Michelangelo]
one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them
back. The Pope was angry, but the artist was immovable.
angular, adj. (5)
SwM 4.115 7 The lowest form is angular, or the
terrestrial and corporeal.
MoS 4.160 21 An angular, dogmatic house would be rent
to chips and splinters in this storm of many elements.
Bty 6.292 24 This is the theory of dancing, to
recover continually in changes the lost equilibrium, not by abrupt and
angular but by gradual and curving movements.
angularity, n. (1)
angulated, v. (1)
F 6.42 17 [Man] looks like a piece of luck, but
is...the mosaic, angulated and ground to fit into the gap he fills.
animal, adj. (86)
Nat 1.40 26 ...every animal function from the sponge
up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and
wrong...
Nat 1.49 24 Until this higher agency intervened, the
animal eye sees...sharp outlines and colored surfaces.
MN 1.200 2 In all animal and vegetable forms, the
physiologist concedes that no chemistry...can account for the facts...
LT 1.285 2 What has checked in this age the animal
spirits which gave to our forefathers their bounding pulse?
Con 1.304 8 ...[the system of property and law] is
the fruit of the same mysterious cause as the mineral or animal world.
Con 1.313 12 Consider [the order of things] as the
work of a...progressive necessity, which, from the first pulsation in
the first animal life...has advanced thus far.
Tran 1.329 23 The materialist insists...on the force
of circumstances and the animal wants of man;...
Comp 2.96 21 Polarity, or action and reaction, we
meet in every part of nature;...in the equation of quantity and quality
in the fluids of the animal body;...
Comp 2.97 15 There is somewhat that resembles...man
and woman...in each individual of every animal tribe.
Comp 2.97 18 ...in the animal kingdom the
physiologist has observed that no creatures are favorites...
Fdsp 2.199 25 After interviews have been compassed
with long foresight we must be tormented presently...by epilepsies of
wit and of animal spirits, in the heydey of friendship and thought.
Pt1 3.21 3 All the facts of the animal economy...are
symbols of the passage of the world into the soul of man...
Pt1 3.27 23 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this
instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest,
and the metamorphosis is possible. This is the reason why bards love
wine...the fumes of sandalwood and tobacco, or whatever other procurers
of animal exhilaration.
Pt1 3.28 2 All men avail themselves of such means as
they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and
to this end they prize... animal intoxication...
Chr1 3.114 17 ...the mind requires...a force of
character...which will rule animal and mineral virtues...
Mrs1 3.124 3 In a good lord there must first be a
good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable
advantage of animal spirits.
Nat2 3.187 1 The excess of fear with which the animal
frame is hedged round...protects us...from some one real danger at
last.
NER 3.252 23 [Other reformers] attacked the system of
agriculture, the use of animal manures in farming...
MoS 4.151 19 On the other part, the men of toil and
trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world...weigh
heavily on the other side.
NMW 4.229 13 ...Bonaparte superadded to this mineral
and animal force, insight and generalization...
ET4 5.49 24 Any the least and solitariest fact in our
natural history, such as the melioration of fruits and animal stocks,
has the worth of a power in the opportunity of geologic periods.
ET4 5.60 9 ...the reader of the Norman history must
steel himself by holding fast the remote compensations which result
from animal vigor.
ET4 5.62 25 The nation [England] has a tough, acrid,
animal nature...
ET4 5.71 15 Men of animal nature rely, like animals,
on their instincts.
ET7 5.117 15 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a
cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on
digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in
pieces. English veracity seems to result on a sounder animal
structure...
ET8 5.130 18 [The English] are full of coarse
strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect
any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which
reflects on this animal existence...
ET14 5.260 13 ...the two complexions, or two styles
of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise, interacting
mutually...these two nations, of genius and of animal force...forever
by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.
F 6.12 10 The new talent draws off so rapidly the
vital force that not enough remains for the animal functions...
Wth 6.126 25 The true thrift is always to spend on
the higher plane; to invest and invest...that he may spend in spiritual
creation and not in augmenting animal existence.
Wth 6.127 1 Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the
old experiments of animal sensation;...
Bhr 6.172 19 We prize [manners] for their
rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks
and habits;...
SS 7.12 19 The capital defect of cold, arid natures
is the want of animal spirits.
SS 7.13 8 ...we say of animal spirits that they are
the spontaneous product of health and of a social habit.
SS 7.13 23 ...[men] adjust themselves by their
demerits,--by their love of gossip, or by sheer tolerance and animal
good nature.
Elo1 7.67 20 Perhaps it is the lowest of the
qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief
importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or,--shall I
say?--great volumes of animal heat.
Elo1 7.68 4 When each auditor...shudders...with fear
lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and
mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning
would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of
harangue, which inundates the assembly with a flood of animal
spirits...
Elo1 7.69 15 ...in every constitution some large
degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the
higher qualities of the art [of eloquence].
PI 8.5 14 I believe this conviction makes the charm
of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic,
without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not
less, as in grub and fly...
PI 8.8 4 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or
progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms,
the higher to the highest...as if the whole animal world were only a
Hunterian museum to exhibit the genesis of mankind.
PI 8.10 14 The metaphysician, the poet, only sees
each animal form as an inevitable step in the path of the creating
mind.
PPo 8.250 24 A saint might lend an ear to the riotous
fun of Falstaff; for it is not created to excite the animal
appetites...
Insp 8.270 22 The Hunterian law of arrested
development is not confined to vegetable and animal structure...
Dem1 10.23 24 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism,
omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds.
Aris 10.33 15 The terrible aristocracy that is in
Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of
taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and
thoughtless, the animal man...
SovE 10.183 7 ...each of the great departments of
Nature-chemistry, vegetation, the animal life-exhibits the same laws on
a different plane;...
SovE 10.183 13 That convertibility we so admire in
plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are
subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this
self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which
works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...
MoL 10.247 20 Air, water, fire, iron, gold, wheat,
electricity, animal fibre, have not lost a particle of power...
Schr 10.263 5 I think the peculiar office of
scholars...is to be...expressors themselves of that firm and cheerful
temper...which reigns through the kingdoms of chemistry, vegetation and
animal life.
LLNE 10.337 12 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a
rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...
EWI 11.104 6 ...if we saw...pregnant women set in the
treadmill for refusing to work; when, not they, but the eternal law of
animal nature refused to work;...we too should wince.
War 11.155 27 Bull-baiting, cockpits and the boxer's
ring are the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone
has been developed.
FSLC 11.204 2 ...[Webster's] finely developed
understanding only works truly and with all its force, when it stands
for animal good; that is, for property.
Wom 11.422 25 ...if in your city the uneducated
emigrant vote numbers thousands, representing a brutal ignorance and
mere animal wants, it is to be corrected by an educated and religious
vote...
PLT 12.17 12 ...as man is conscious of the law of
vegetable and animal nature, so is he aware of an Intellect which
overhangs his consciousness...
PLT 12.37 1 In its lower function, when it deals with
the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the
performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health.
PLT 12.59 18 Routine, the rut, is the path of
indolence...of sluggish animal life;...
Mem 12.96 10 The mind disposes all its
experience...to its ruling end;...one [man] to heroic benefit and one
to wrath and animal desire.
CL 12.138 27 [Linnaeus]...distributed the animal,
vegetable and mineral kingdoms.
Milt1 12.273 26 Learn to estimate great characters
[wrote Milton], not by the amount of animal strength, but by the
habitual justice and temperance of their conduct.
ACri 12.293 26 I do not mean that
[Shakespeare]...exults in bringing the street itself, uproarious with
laughter and animal joy, on the scene...
Let 12.398 4 There is...a paralysis of the active
faculties, which falls on young men of this country...which...bereaves
them of animal spirits;...
Trag 12.411 13 The most exposed classes, soldiers,
sailors, paupers, are nowise destitute of animal spirits.
Animal Kingdom [Emanuel Sw (4)
SwM 4.105 25 ...the Economy of the Animal Kingdom is
one of those books which...is an honor to the human race.
SwM 4.115 24 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as
Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all
sciences, to unlock the meaning of the world? In the first volume of
the Animal Kingdom, he broaches the subject in a remarkable note...
SwM 4.130 21 In his Animal Kingdom [Swedenborg]
surprised us by declaring that he loved analysis, and not synthesis;...
Animal Magnetism [J. C. C (1)
Dem1 10.24 10 Read demonology or Colquhoun's Report,
and we are bewildered...
Animal Magnetism, n. (4)
Nat 1.73 10 Such examples [of the action of man upon
nature with his entire force] are...many obscure and yet contested
facts, now arranged under the name of Animal Magnetism;...
Hist 2.10 26 We must in ourselves see the necessary
reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So
stand...before...the Animal Magnetism in Paris...
Dem1 10.25 4 The peculiarity of the history of Animal
Magnetism is that it drew in as inquirers and students a class of
persons never on any other occasion known as students and inquirers.
animal, n. (58)
Nat 1.15 7 ...the primary forms, as...the animal,
give us delight in and for themselves;...
Con 1.300 21 Each of the convolutions of the
sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life; what was the mouth of
the shell for one season, with the addition of new matter by the growth
of the animal, becoming an ornamental node.
Tran 1.339 6 Man owns the dignity of the life which
throbs around him, in chemistry, and tree, and animal...
Hist 2.12 24 ...every animal in its growth, teaches
the unity of cause...
Hist 2.32 11 Every animal of the barn-yard, the field
and the forest...has contrived...to leave the print of its features and
form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
SR 2.71 2 ...the vital resources of every animal and
vegetable, are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
OS 2.269 16 We see the world piece by piece, as the
sun, the moon, the animal, the tree;...
Pt1 3.10 1 ...it is not metres, but a metre-making
argument that makes a poem,--a thought so passionate and alive that
like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its
own...
Pt1 3.12 14 This day shall be better than my
birthday: then I became an animal; now I am invited into the science of
the real.
Pt1 3.27 13 ...the traveller who has lost his way
throws his reins on his horse's neck and trusts to the instinct of the
animal to find his road...
Pt1 3.27 14 As the traveller who has lost his way
throws his reins on his horse's neck and trusts to the instinct of the
animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who
carries us through this world.
Nat2 3.181 11 [Nature] arms and equips an animal to
find its place and living in the earth, and at the same time she arms
and equips another animal to destroy it.
UGM 4.30 6 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the
monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals.
SwM 4.107 18 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra,
or a spine of vertebrae...
SwM 4.118 1 One would say that as soon as men had the
first hint that every sensible object,--animal, rock, river,
air...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings
and duties, other science would be put by...
MoS 4.151 20 On the other part, the men of toil and
trade and luxury,--the animal world, including the animal in the
philosopher and poet also, and the practical world...weigh heavily on
the other side.
NMW 4.258 4 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the
torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes
hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so
that the man can not open his fingers; and the animal inflicts new and
more violent shocks, until he paralyzes and kills his victim.
GoW 4.261 12 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on
the mountain;...the animal its bones in the stratum;...
ET3 5.40 18 ...the Greeks fancied Delphi the navel of
the earth, in their favorite mode of fabling the earth to be an animal.
ET4 5.71 11 If in every efficient man there is first
a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed...
ET10 5.157 27 Six hundred years ago, Roger
Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships
more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do; nor would they
need anything but a pilot to steer them. Carriages also might be
constructed to move with an incredible speed, without the aid of any
animal.
F 6.11 11 ...[a man] is an adulterer before he has
yet looked on the woman, by the superfluity of animal...in his
constitution.
F 6.11 20 If, later, [these drones] give birth to
some superior individual, with force enough to add to this animal a new
aim...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
F 6.14 22 ...a vesicle lodged in darkness, Oken
thought, became animal;...
F 6.14 23 Lodged in the parent animal, [the vesicle]
suffers changes which end in unsheathing miraculous capability in the
unaltered vesicle...
F 6.35 3 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in
his...pelvis, all the vices of a...Celtic race, which will be sure to
pull him down...into a...dodging animal?
F 6.38 14 ...nature makes every creature do its own
work...is it planet, animal or tree.
F 6.49 8 Let us build altars to the Beautiful
Necessity, which secures that all is made of one piece; that...animal
and planet...are of one kind.
Art2 7.53 3 The plumage of the bird...has a reaon for
its rich colors in the constitution of the animal.
Farm 7.145 11 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and
decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal
burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption.
Boks 7.212 14 Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly
habit, wherein everything that is not ciphering, that is, which does
not serve the tyrannical animal, is hustled out of sight.
Cour 7.255 22 Animal resistance, the instinct of the
male animal when cornered, is no doubt common;...
OA 7.325 3 ...these temporary stays and shifts for
the protection of the young animal are shed as fast as they can be
replaced by nobler resources.
PI 8.5 22 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws
show their well-known virtue through every variety, be it animal, or
plant, or planet...
PI 8.8 27 There is one animal, one plant, one matter
and one force.
QO 8.188 27 In every kind of parasite, when Nature
has finished an aphis, a teredo or a vampire bat,-an excellent
sucking-pipe to tap another animal...the self-supplying organs wither
and dwindle...
PC 8.227 16 ...the air and water that hang invisibly
around us hasten to become solid in the oak and the animal.
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. It is the height of the animal; below the
region of the divine.
Edc1 10.127 14 [Man's] continual tendency, his great
danger, is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher, and
the nature of sun and moon, plant and animal only means of arousing his
interior activity.
SovE 10.192 23 The strength of the animal to eat and
to be luxurious and to usurp is rudeness and imbecility.
Plu 10.316 21 ...nothing so resembles an animal as
fire. It is moved and nourished by itself, and...in its quenching shows
some power that seems to proceed from a vital principle, for it makes a
noise and resists, like an animal dying...
FRep 11.542 13 A fruitless plant, an idle animal,
does not stand in the universe.
PLT 12.40 5 The animal, the low degrees of intellect,
know only individuals.
CInt 12.118 14 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The
seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the
farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not
lie that he had been abused.
CL 12.164 10 Every new perception of the method and
beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure; and always
for this double reason: first, because they are so excellent in their
primary fact, as frost, or cloud, or fire, or animal;...
animalcule, n. (2)
CL 12.138 20 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible
distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was
occasioned by an animalcule...
animalcules, n. (3)
Pt1 3.22 7 ...the limestone of the continent consists
of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules...
Wth 6.111 14 ...the subject [of economy] is tender,
and we may easily have too much of it, and therein resembles the
hideous animalcules of which our bodies are built up...
EWI 11.143 4 Our planet, before the age of written
history, had its races of savages, like...the animalcules that wiggle
and bite in a drop of putrid water.
animalized, n. (1)
PLT 12.24 7 ...the nervous and hysterical and
animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you...
animals, n. (86)
Nat 1.8 5 The flowers, the animals, the mountains,
reflected the wisdom of [the wise spirit's] best hour...
Nat 1.13 25 ...[man] paves the road with iron bars,
and mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise
behind him, he darts through the country...
Nat 1.22 26 ...[the intellectual and the active
powers] are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in
animals;...
Nat 1.67 20 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in
details, so long as there is...no ray...to show the relation of the
forms of flowers, shells, animals, architecture, to the mind...
DSA 1.119 24 ...in its animals;...[the world] is well
worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
Tran 1.338 17 Only in the instinct of the lower
animals we find the suggestion of the methods of [the purely spiritual
life]...
YA 1.373 1 The population of the world is a
conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could
live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals...
YA 1.395 7 Here stars, here woods, here hills, here
animals, here men abound...
Comp 2.96 20 Polarity, or action and reaction, we
meet in every part of nature;...in the inspiration and expiration of
plants and animals;...
Prd1 2.230 26 We do not know the properties of plants
and animals and the laws of nature, through our sympathy with the
same;...
Int 2.337 20 ...as soon as we let our will go and let
the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are! We
entertain ourselves with wonderful forms...of animals...
Pt1 3.21 14 [The poet] knows...why the great deep is
adorned with animals, with men, and gods;...
Pt1 3.27 2 ...there is a great public power on which
[the intellectual man] can draw, by...suffering the ethereal tides to
roll and circulate through him; then he is caught up into the life of
the Universe...his words are universally intelligible as the plants and
animals.
Pt1 3.29 10 We fill the hands and nurseries of our
children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses; withdrawing their
eyes from the plain face and sufficing objects of nature...the
animals...which should be their toys.
Pt1 3.41 15 ...in nature the universal hours are
counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants...
Chr1 3.94 8 When the high cannot bring up the low to
itself, it benumbs it, as man charms down the resistance of the lower
animals.
Pol1 3.218 21 Like one class of forest animals,
[senators and presidents] have nothing but a prehensile tail; climb
they must, or crawl.
UGM 4.30 7 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the
monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals.
UGM 4.35 10 It is for man...on every side, whilst he
lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song, that climate, corn,
animals, men, may be milder...
PPh 4.50 27 As if [Krishna] had said, All is for the
soul, and the soul is Vishnu; and animals and stars are transient
paintings;...
PPh 4.69 1 You will have, for one of the sections of
the visible world, images, that is, both shadows and reflections;--for
the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants,
animals, and the works of art and nature.
NMW 4.248 12 What creates great difficulty,
[Napoleon] remarks, in the profession of the land-commander, is the
necessity of feeding so many men and animals.
GoW 4.275 17 Man and the higher animals are built up
through the vertebrae, the powers being concentrated in the head [wrote
Goethe].
ET4 5.60 12 ...the old fossil world shows that the
first steps of reducing the chaos were confided to saurians and other
huge and horrible animals...
ET4 5.71 16 Men of animal nature rely, like animals,
on their instincts.
F 6.15 20 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of
granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first
misshapen animals...
F 6.37 5 ...it was found that whilst some animals
became torpid in winter, others were torpid in summer...
F 6.39 27 The same fitness must be presumed between a
man and the time and event, as...between a race of animals and the food
it eats...
CbW 6.247 26 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries
man carries with him, of animals, plants, stones, gases and
imponderable elements.
Bty 6.292 22 The interruption of equilibrium
stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry, and to watch
the steps through which it is attained. This is the charm of...the
locomotion of animals.
Civ 7.21 18 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate
than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house
being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. He is safe from the
teeth of wild animals, from frost...
Art2 7.41 26 It is only within narrow limits that the
discretion of the architect may range: gravity, wind, sun, rain, the
size of men and animals, and such like, have more to say than he.
Farm 7.143 8 Science has shown...the manner in which
marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the
oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the
plants absorb.
Farm 7.143 9 Science has shown...the manner in which
marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the
oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the
plants absorb.
Farm 7.144 7 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We
have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our
trust, and now...take the gas we have hoarded, mingle it with water,
and let it be free to grow in plants and animals and obey the thought
of man.
Farm 7.154 1 That uncorrupted behavior which we
admire in animals and in young children belongs to [the farmer]...
Cour 7.256 24 Men are so charmed with valor that they
have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and
dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic
formations.
PI 8.9 7 ...[the student] observes that all things in
Nature, the animals, the mountain...have a mysterious relation to his
thoughts and his life;...
PI 8.19 25 ...mountains, crystals, plants, animals,
are seen; that which makes them is not seen...
Comc 8.158 14 ...if there be phenomena in botany
which we call abortions, the abortion...assumes to the intellect the
like completeness with the further function to which in different
circumstances it had attained. The same rule holds true of the animals.
QO 8.200 5 The old animals have given their bodies to
the earth to furnish through chemistry the forming race...
PC 8.215 6 ...[Roger Bacon] announced...carriages, to
move with incredible speed, without aid of animals;...
Grts 8.305 8 Others find a charm and a profession in
the natural history of man and the mammalia or related animals;...
Imtl 8.335 25 ...the nebular theory threatens [the
sun's and the star's] duration also...and will make a shift to eke out
a sort of eternity by succession, as plants and animals do.
Dem1 10.4 2 ...the astonishment remains that one
should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows,
wherein time, space, persons, cities, animals, should dance before
us...
SovE 10.184 6 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt
the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals;...
SovE 10.184 10 ...all the animals show the same good
sense in their humble walk that the man who is their enemy or friend
does;...
SovE 10.184 15 St. Pierre says of the animals that a
moral sentiment seems to have determined their physical organization.
SovE 10.187 8 The geologic world is chronicled by the
growing ripeness of the strata from lower to higher, as it becomes the
abode of more highly-organized plants and animals.
Prch 10.221 18 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the
solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To wander all
day in the sunlight among the tribes of animals, unrelated to anything
better;...
Plu 10.310 19 [Plutarch's] humanity stooped
affectionately to trace the virtues which he loved in the animals also.
LLNE 10.348 17 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into
stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women...
Thor 10.472 2 [Thoreau's] intimacy with animals
suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that
either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.
HDC 11.66 2 ...bounties of twenty shillings are given
as late as 1735, to Indians and whites, for the heads of these animals
[wolves and wildcats]...
FSLC 11.188 23 ...whilst animals have to do with
eating the fruits of the ground, men have to to with rectitude, with
benefit, with truth...
JBS 11.279 24 A shepherd and herdsman, [John Brown]
learned the manners of animals...
JBS 11.279 25 A shepherd and herdsman, [John
Brown]...knew the secret signals by which animals communicate.
PLT 12.5 5 It is not then...animals, or globes that
any longer commands us, but only man;...
PLT 12.12 26 ...just in proportion to the activity of
thoughts on the study of outward objects, as...natural history, ships,
animals, chemistry,-in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a
healthy growth;...
CL 12.137 23 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people
suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by
some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a
year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow...and found it a bog,
where the water-hemlock grew in abundance, and had evidently been
cropped plentifully by the animals in feeding.
CL 12.153 27 ...what strength and fecundity [in the
sea], from the sea-monsters, hugest of animals, to the primary forms of
which it is the immense cradle...
CL 12.159 15 ...it was the practice...of the
Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the
towns, into the desert, and, if they liked, to associate with wild
animals.
CW 12.177 23 ...the naturalist has no barren places,
no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in the night even,
because the woods exhibit a whole new world of nocturnal animals;...
CW 12.178 20 That uncorrupted behavior which we
admire in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to...the man
who lives in the presence of Nature.
WSL 12.348 27 Many of [Landor's sentences] will
secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly
considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the
genetical atoms of which both are composed.
animate, adj. (1)
Dem1 10.17 10 I believed that I discovered in nature,
animate and inanimate...somewhat which manifested itself only in
contradiction...
animate, v. (19)
LT 1.285 26 The revolutions that impend over society
are...from new modes of thinking...which shall animate labor by love
and science...
Hist 2.18 26 ...my companion pointed out to me a
broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over
churches,--a round block in the centre, which it was easy to animate
with eyes and mouth...
ET13 5.220 20 The spirit that dwelt in this [English]
church has glided away to animate other activities...
F 6.39 13 The ulterior aim...the correlation by which
planets subside and crystallize, then animate beasts and men,-will not
stop but will work into finer particulars...
Wth 6.97 7 Some men are born to own, and can animate
all their possessions.
Wsp 6.242 3 ...the good Laws themselves are
alive...they animate [man] with the leading of great duty...
Civ 7.32 7 ...when I look over this constellation of
cities which animate and illustrate the land, and see how little the
government has to do with their daily life...I see what cubic values
America has...
Supl 10.179 6 There is no writing which has more
electric power to unbind and animate the torpid intellect than the bold
Eastern muse.
Prch 10.224 10 ...all that saints and churches and
Bibles...have aimed at, is to...animate man to central and entire
action.
Schr 10.273 3 The scholar, when he comes, will be
known by an energy that will animate all who see him.
Thor 10.476 25 [Thoreau's] poem entitled Sympathy
reveals the tenderness under that triple steel of stoicism, and the
intellectual subtility it could animate.
War 11.160 1 ...ideas work in ages, and animate vast
societies of men...
TPar 11.285 2 At the death of a good and admirable
person [Theodore Parker] we meet to console and animate each other by
the recollection of his virtues.
PLT 12.19 3 [The perceptions of the soul] take to
themselves...agriculture, trade, commerce;-these are the ponderous
instrumentalities into which the nimble thoughts pass, and which they
animate and alter...
Mem 12.92 27 Memory is...a guardian angel set there
within you to record your life; and by recording to animate you to
uplift it.
animated, adj. (5)
SwM 4.107 25 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; and between the lines of this mystical
quadrant all animated beings find their place...
Bhr 6.169 3 The soul which animates nature is not
less significantly published in the figure, movement and gesture of
animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech.
animated, v. (12)
Pt1 3.12 8 That will reconcile me to life and
renovate nature, to see trifles animated by a tendency...
ET3 5.39 6 The land [in England] naturally abounds
with game; immense heaths and downs are paved with quails, grouse and
woodcock, and the shores are animated by water-birds.
ET13 5.218 3 The carved and pictured chapel--its
entire surface animated with image and emblem--made the parish-church
[in England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.
Bhr 6.187 12 ...[Aspasia] adds good-humoredly, the
movers and masters of our souls have surely a right to throw out their
limbs as carelessly as they please...before the creatures they have
animated.
CbW 6.248 19 A person seldom falls sick but the
bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die...
CbW 6.264 18 ...whoever sees the law which
distributes things...is animated to great desires and endeavors.
DL 7.104 2 Infancy, said Coleridge, presents body and
spirit in unity: the body is all animated.
PI 8.24 16 [The intellect] knows that these
transfigured results are not the brute experiences, just as souls in
heaven are not the red bodies they once animated.
Chr2 10.114 25 I am far from accepting the opinion
that the revelations of the moral sentiment are insufficient, as if it
furnished a rule only, and not the spirit by which the rule is
animated.
LS 11.22 14 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to
be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who
have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion...
FSLN 11.223 1 After [Webster's] talents have been
described, there remains that perfect propriety which animated all the
details of the action or speech with the character of the whole...
animates, v. (16)
SL 2.139 20 Place yourself in the middle of the
stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats...
OS 2.270 17 All goes to show that the soul in man is
not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs;...
PPh 4.57 5 All things are for the sake of the good,
and it is the cause of every thing beautiful. This dogma animates and
impersonates [Plato's] philosophy.
Bhr 6.169 1 The soul which animates nature is not
less significantly published in the figure...of animated bodies, than
in its last vehicle of articulate speech.
SovE 10.188 24 The wars which make history so dreary
have served the cause of truth and virtue. There is always an
instinctive sense of right, an obscure idea which animates either
party...
Prch 10.222 9 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you
take away the purpose that animates him.
CL 12.142 1 Walking, said Rousseau, has something
which animates and vivifies my ideas.
animating, adj. (1)
NER 3.273 11 Berkeley, having listened to the many
lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan
with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and
enthusiasm that they were struck dumb...
animating, v. (2)
animation, n. (8)
LE 1.168 12 ...indeed any vegetation, any
animation...are alike unattempted [by poets].
Pt1 3.21 10 The poet alone knows astronomy,
chemistry, vegetation and animation...
SwM 4.113 10 The pursuing the inquiry under the light
of an end or final cause gives wonderful animation, a sort of
personality to the whole writing [of Swedenborg].
ET1 5.22 17 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a
few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire
sonnets with great animation.
Aris 10.56 17 I know nothing which induces so base
and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our
utilities...starving the imagination and the sentiment. In this
impoverishing animation, I seem to meet a Hunger, a wolf.
PLT 12.20 15 It is necessary to suppose that every
hose in Nature fits every hydrant; so only is combination, chemistry,
vegetation, animation, intellection possible.
animosities, n. (2)
PI 8.38 2 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed,
confined...in personal animosities...
MMEm 10.422 26 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but
does he know those of a worse war,-private animosities...
animum, n. (1)
SlHr 10.437 19 ...when [Samuel Hoar] saw the day and
the gods went against him, he withdrew, but with an unaltered belief.
All was conquered praeter atrocem animum Catonis.
animus, n. (1)
aniquity, n. (1)
PC 8.224 25 How cunningly [Nature] hides every
wrinkle of her inconceivable aniquity under roses and violets and
morning dew!
Ann, Cape, Massachusetts, n (1)
EWI 11.131 8 The poorest fishing-smack that...hunts
whale in the Southern ocean, should be encompassed by [Massachusetts's]
laws with comfort and protection, as much as within the arms of Cape
Ann or Cape Cod.
Ann, Mother [Ann Lee], n. (1)
Bost 12.207 2 From...Ann Hutchinson, and Whitfield,
and Mother Ann, the first Shaker, down to Abner Kneeland...there never
was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy
to prick the sides of conservatism.
Ann, n. (1)
CL 12.165 9 [Agassiz] talks about lizard, shell-fish
and squid, he means John and Mary, Thomas and Ann.
Anna Matilda, n. (1)
Ill 6.319 11 There is the illusion of love, which
attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his
or her family, sex, age or condition, nay, with the human mind itself.
'T is these which the lover loves, and Anna Matilda gets the credit of
them.
Anna, North, River, Virgin (1)
SMC 11.372 4 On the twenty-third, [the Thirty-second
Regiment] crossed the North Anna, and achieved a great success.
annals, n. (19)
MR 1.251 4 Every great and commanding moment in the
annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
Hist 2.9 3 [Each man] must attain and maintain that
lofty sight where... poetry and annals are alike.
Fdsp 2.211 9 To my friend I write a letter and from
him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It
is a spiritual gift... ... In these warm lines the heart will...pour
out the prophecy of a godlier existence than all the annals of heroism
have yet made good.
Boks 7.201 14 Of course a certain outline should be
obtained of Greek history...but the shortest is the best, and if one
lacks stomach for Mr. Grote' s voluminous annals, the old slight and
popular summary of Goldsmith or of Gillies will serve.
Boks 7.209 10 The annals of bibliography afford many
examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go...
PPo 8.241 24 Firdusi, the Persian Homer, has written
in the Shah Nameh the annals of the fabulous and heroic kings of the
country...
Plu 10.303 16 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another
example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness...the
deciphering of forgotten languages, so to complete the annals of the
forefathers of Asia, Africa and Europe.
HDC 11.59 15 ...what chiefly interests me, in the
annals of [King Philip's] war, is the grandeur of spirit exhibited by a
few of the Indian chiefs.
War 11.152 14 The student of history acquiesces the
more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals...when he
learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...
War 11.159 3 ...our American annals have preserved
the vestiges of barbarous warfare down to more recent times.
TPar 11.288 7 'T is plain to me...that [Theodore
Parker] has so woven himself in these few years into the history of
Boston, that he can never be left out of your annals.
ChiE 11.471 19 ...the wars and revolutions that occur
in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the
pacific ocean of her history...
Annapolis, Maryland, n. (1)
Res 8.144 2 At Annapolis a regiment, hastening to
join the army, found the locomotives broken, the railroad destroyed,
and no rails.
Anne, Empress of Russia, n. (1)
Imtl 8.336 11 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne
of Russia, call together all the architectural genius of the Empire to
build and finish and furnish a palace of snow...
Anne, of England, n. (1)
Shak1 11.452 19 ...Shakspeare...simply by his
colossal proportions, dwarfs the geniuses of Elizabeth as easily as the
wits of Anne...
Anne's, Queen, of England, (1)
annexation, n. (1)
ET10 5.169 2 In the culmination of national
prosperity, in the annexation of countries;...it was found [in England]
that bread rose to famine prices...
annexed, v. (3)
Wth 6.107 11 The manufacturer says he will furnish
you with just that thickness or thinness [of paper] you want;...here is
his schedule;--any variety of paper, as cheaper or dearer, with the
prices annexed.
Aris 10.29 17 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/
Is not annexed to possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway,
as doth the fire, lo, in his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often
find/ A lorde's son do shame and vilanie./
CPL 11.496 13 ...I am not sure that when Boston
learns the good deed of Mr. Munroe [building of Concord Library], it
will not...rest until it has annexed Concord to the city.
annexes, v. (1)
annexing, v. (1)
Elo1 7.82 23 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one
party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished
and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large
as six or seven Europes.
annihilate, v. (2)
NMW 4.236 4 [Bonaparte]...on a hostile position,
rained a torrent of iron... to annihilate all defence.
annihilated, v. (3)
Hsm1 2.264 5 ...the love that will be annihilated
sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible...
PPo 8.264 2 The bird-soul was ashamed;/ [The birds']
body was quite annihilated;/ They had cleaned themselves from the
dust,/ And were by the light ensouled./ What was, and was not,-the
Past,-/ Was wiped out from their breast./
annihilates, v. (2)
DSA 1.148 6 ...[the commanders] with you are open to
the influx of the all-knowing Spirit, which annihilates...the little
shades and gradations of intelligence...
Schr 10.282 12 [Truth] shines backward and forward,
diminishes and annihilates everybody...
annihilation, n. (2)
EWI 11.140 12 Not the least affecting part of this
history of abolition [in the West Indies] is the annihilation of the
old indecent nonsense about the nature of the negro.
Trag 12.405 17 ...how the spirit seems already to
contract its domain... leaving its planted fields to erasure and
annihilation.
anniversaries, n. (3)
PI 8.48 25 Omen and coincidence show the rhythmical
structure of man; hence the taste for signs, sortilege, prophecy and
fulfilment, anniversaries...
CInt 12.115 16 At this season, the colleges keep
their anniversaries...
anniversary, n. (15)
LE 1.155 12 ...I am not less glad or sanguine at the
meeting of scholars, than when, a boy, I first saw the graduates of my
own College assembled at their anniversary.
LE 1.158 2 The want of the times and the propriety of
this anniversary concur to draw attention to the doctrine of Literary
Ethics.
MN 1.191 3 Let us exchange congratulations on the
enjoyments and the promises of this literary anniversary.
NMW 4.246 18 [Napoleon's] army, on the night of the
battle of Austerlitz, which was the anniversary of his inauguration as
Emperor, presented him with a bouquet of forty standards taken in the
fight.
ET1 5.13 8 When I rose to go, [Coleridge] said...I
will repeat some verses I lately made on my baptismal anniversary...
ET19 5.312 5 ...I think it just, in this time of
gloom and commercial disaster...that...you should not fail to keep your
literary anniversary.
WD 7.169 7 In college terms, and in years that
followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary
returned, though he were in a swamp, would see a festive light...
OA 7.315 1 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was
received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.
LS 11.7 15 In years to come [says Jesus to his
disciples], as long as your people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep
this feast [the Passover], the connection which has subsisted between
us will give a new meaning in your eyes to the national festival, as
the anniversary of my death.
HDC 11.29 5 ...the people of New England...as the
second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived,
have seen fit to observe the day.
EWI 11.99 3 We are met to exchange congratulations on
the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...
SMC 11.349 3 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord
doubly our calendar day, as being the anniversary of the invasion of
the town by the British troops in 1775, and of the departure of the
company of voluteers for Washington, in 1861.
RBur 11.439 15 At the first announcement...that the
25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep
the festival.
Scot 11.463 7 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial
anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...
annotator, n. (1)
ET14 5.250 13 Wilkinson...the annotator of
Fourier...has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native
vigor...
announce, v. (18)
AmS 1.82 7 ...the star in the constellation
Harp...astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star...
Con 1.304 1 You are welcome...if you can, to displace
the actual order by that ideal republic you announce...
SR 2.54 20 I hear a preacher announce for his text
and topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church.
Prd1 2.231 4 ...the boldest lyric
inspiration...should announce and lead the civil code and the day's
work.
Chr1 3.100 26 The wise man not only leaves out of his
thought the many, but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved,
the absorbed, the commander because he is commanded, the assured, the
primary,--they are good; for these announce the instant presence of
supreme power.
Chr1 3.111 20 ...when men shall meet as they ought,
each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things
announce.
SwM 4.119 10 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce
the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable.
ET10 5.164 23 High stone fences and padlocked
garden-gates announce the absolute will of the [English] owner to be
alone.
F 6.44 19 The truth is in the air, and the most
impressionable brain will announce it first...
F 6.44 20 The truth is in the air, and the most
impressionable brain will announce it first, but all will announce it a
few minutes later.
PI 8.73 24 ...even partial ascents to poetry and
ideas are forerunners, and announce the dawn.
Dem1 10.22 12 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a
feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce
his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts.
Thor 10.460 24 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most
houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition
and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people
to come. The Republican Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him
word that it was premature, and not advisable. He replied,-I did not
send to you for advice, but to announce that I am to speak.
announced, v. (19)
PPh 4.70 20 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the
greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to
that central figure which he has established in his Academy as the
organ through which every considered opinion shall be announced...
SwM 4.119 18 ...to a reader who can make due
allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's]
peculiarities, the results are...a more striking testimony to the
sublime laws he announced than any that balanced dulness could afford.
MoS 4.183 26 Charles Fourier announced that the
attractions of man are proportioned to his destinies;...
ET1 5.6 12 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture,
published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr.
Ruskin on the morality in architecture...
ET10 5.157 20 Six hundred years ago, Roger
Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships
more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do;...
ET15 5.264 5 [The London Times] adopted the League
against the Corn Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it
announced his triumph.
ET16 5.288 2 As I had thus taken in the conversation
the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out
before me,--he was altogether too wicked.
ET19 5.309 18 Mr. Jerrold, who had been announced [at
the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], did not appear.
OA 7.336 3 I have heard that whenever the name of man
is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced;...
PC 8.215 1 ...[Roger Bacon] announced that machines
can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of
rowers could do...
PC 8.222 1 When the correlation of the sciences was
announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise;...
LLNE 10.337 18 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a
rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging
down every sacred secret to a street show. The attempt...was a leading
to a truth which had not yet been announced.
EWI 11.141 14 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to
the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have
obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition
of their human nature...
War 11.160 25 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This
thought is...the rising of the general tide in the human soul,-and
rising highest, and first made visible, in the most simple and pure
souls, who have therefore announced it to us beforehand;...
ALin 11.330 27 ...when the new and comparatively
unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the
result coldly and sadly.
EurB 12.365 4 It was a brighter day than we have
often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a
single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by
Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.
announcement, n. (9)
AmS 1.109 26 I look upon the discontent of the
literary class as a mere announcement of the fact that they find
themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers...
SR 2.88 20 ...with each new uproar of
announcement...the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by
a new thousand of eyes and arms.
Cir 2.311 2 O, what truths profound and executable
only in ages and orbs, are supposed in the announcement of every truth!
Art1 2.365 20 A true announcement of the law of
creation...would carry art up into the kingdom of nature...
Pt1 3.13 8 ...let us...observe how nature, by
worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of
announcement and affirming...
SwM 4.124 5 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the
announcement of ethical laws, take him out of comparison with any other
modern writer...
ET14 5.242 16 ...the very announcement of the theory
of gravitation...finds a sudden response in the mind...
ALin 11.329 9 ...I doubt if any death has caused so
much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on
its announcement;...
RBur 11.439 13 At the first announcement...that the
25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep
the festival.
announcements, n. (3)
ET15 5.269 17 ...I read, among the daily
announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty
pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and
title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...
ET18 5.308 9 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged
should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island
famous...for the announcements of original right which make the stone
tables of liberty.
announces, v. (12)
DSA 1.127 4 What [another soul] announces, I must
find true in me, or reject;...
YA 1.388 25 ...who announces to us in journal, or in
pulpit...the secret of heroism?
Pt1 3.11 19 Mankind in good earnest have availed so
far in understanding themselves and their work, that the foremost
watchman on the peak announces his news.
Pt1 3.30 23 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.
UGM 4.22 3 ...if there should appear in the company
some gentle soul who knows little...of Carolina or Cuba, but who
announces a law that disposes these particulars, and so certifies me of
the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates
me;...
GoW 4.265 3 There is a certain heat in the
breast...which is the shining of the spiritual sun down into the shaft
of the mine. Every thought which dawns on the mine, in the moment of
its emergence announces its own rank...
Wth 6.102 13 [The dollar] is the finest barometer of
social storms, and announces revolutions.
Comc 8.158 1 ...the break of continuity in the
intellect, is comedy, and it announces itself physically in the
pleasant spasms we call laughter.
EPro 11.316 18 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when
an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles
involved;...
EPro 11.317 10 ...so fair a mind...so reticent...the
firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor
to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think
that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine
Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
announcing, v. (12)
Nat 1.70 7 A wise writer will feel that the ends of
study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered
regions of thought...
Tran 1.345 25 ...Where are they who represented
genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? ... ...did
the high idea die out of them, and leave their unperfumed body as its
tomb and tablet, announcing to all that the celestial inhabitant, who
once gave them beauty, had departed?
Comp 2.95 14 The blindness of the preacher consisted
in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a
manly success, instead of... announcing the presence of the soul;...
PNR 4.82 7 In ascribing to Plato the merit of
announcing [the expansions of facts], we only say, Here was a more
complete man, who could apply to nature the whole scale of the senses,
the understanding and the reason.
ShP 4.213 16 This [power of expression] is that which
throws [Shakespeare] into natural history...as announcing new eras and
ameliorations.
ET10 5.165 25 ...[the Englishman's] English name and
accidents are like a flourish of trumpets announcing him.
Bhr 6.177 12 [Men] carry the liquor of life flowing
up and down in these beautiful bottles and announcing to the curious
how it is with them.
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.
Dem1 10.10 8 Every man goes through the world
attended with innumerable facts prefiguring (yes, distinctly
announcing) his fate...
EPro 11.326 6 Do not let the dying die: hold them
back to this world, until you have charged their ear and heart with
this message to other spiritual societies, announcing the melioration
of our planet...
EdAd 11.386 1 We hearken in vain for any profound
voice...intelligently announcing duties which clothe life with joy...
FRep 11.540 20 [The Constitution and the law in
America] should be mankind's...Royal Proclamation of the
Intellect...announcing its good pleasure that now...the world shall be
governed by common sense and law of morals.
annoy, n. (1)
Suc 7.305 7 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was
defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated than give
her a moment's annoy.
annoy, v. (7)
PPh 4.67 16 As if [Socrates] had said... ... If there
is love between us, inconceivably delicious and profitable will our
intercourse be; if not...you will only annoy me.
ET6 5.105 1 Each man [in England]...in every manner
acts and suffers without reference to the bystanders, in his own
fashion, only careful not to interfere with them or annoy them;...
DL 7.113 22 Give me the means, says the wife, and
your house shall not annoy your taste...
Aris 10.35 13 The manners, the pretension, which
annoy me so much, are not superficial...
Prch 10.227 14 Be not betrayed into undervaluing the
churches which annoy you by their bigoted claims.
HDC 11.75 8 The militia and minute-men...ran...into
the east quarter of the town [Concord], to waylay the enemy, and annoy
his retreat.
annoyance, n. (3)
Thor 10.458 11 In 1847, not approving some uses to
which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his
town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he
was released. The like annoyance was threatened the next year.
SMC 11.374 6 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second
Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major
Shepard was taken prisoner. The lines were held until the tenth, with
more than usual suffering from snow and hail and intense cold, added to
the annoyance of the artillery fire.
annoyances, n. (5)
Nat 1.37 8 ...what continual reproduction of
annoyances, inconveniences, dilemmas;...
Mrs1 3.140 21 Society loves...sleepy languishing
manners, so that they cover...an ignoring eye, which does not see the
annoyances, shifts and inconveniences that cloud the brow and smother
the voice of the sensitive.
ET2 5.29 9 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously,
upset...suffocated with bilge, mephitis and stewing oil. We get used to
these annoyances at last [at sea]...
MAng1 12.236 7 Amidst endless annoyances from the
envy and interest of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he
had displaced, [Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast
ideas.
annoyed, v. (3)
ET1 5.16 4 When too much praise of any genius annoyed
[Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig.
ET16 5.280 18 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was
only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought
us three drops. My friend [Carlyle] was annoyed...
annoying, adj. (2)
Insp 8.286 5 Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek
the beloved Muses,/ Find them in the beech grove,/ Pleased to receive
me;/ And I thank the annoying insect/ For many a golden hour./
annoying, v. (1)
EWI 11.118 16 We sometimes observe that spoiled
children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have
charge of them...
annoys, v. (1)
SA 8.106 14 Would we codify the laws that should
reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies
us...we must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices.
annual, adj. (11)
ET19 5.309 3 A few days after my arrival at
Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual
Banquet...
ET19 5.312 9 I seem to hear you say, that for all
that is come and gone yet, we will not reduce by one chaplet or one
oak-leaf the braveries of our annual feast.
Bty 6.294 1 To this streaming or flowing belongs the
beauty that all circular movement has; as...the annual wave of
vegetation...
Boks 7.193 9 In 1858, the number of printed books in
the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand
volumes, with an annual increase of twelve thousand volumes;...
Grts 8.311 17 This day-labor of ours...has hitherto a
certain emblematic air, like the annual ploughing and sowing of the
Emperor of China.
EWI 11.113 11 The Ministers, having estimated the
slave products of the colonies in annual exports of sugar, rum and
coffee, at 1,500,000 pounds per annum, estimated the total value of the
slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
CPL 11.502 5 It was the symbolical custom of the
ancient Mexican priests, after the annual extinction of the household
fires of their land, to procure in the temple fire from the sun...
CInt 12.124 22 The necessity of a mechanical system
[of education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and
employed...by some available plan that will give weekly and annual
results;...
CW 12.179 7 ...when [the man] sees this annual
reappearance of beautiful forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry
of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the
hieroglyphic...
Annual Register, n. (1)
annually, adv. (3)
OA 7.324 10 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted
citizens lose their sick-headaches. I hope this hegira is not as
movable a feast as that one I annually look for, when the
horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our gardens disappear
on the tenth of July;...
CW 12.173 24 In the orchard, we build monuments to
Van Mons annually.
Bost 12.196 10 ...New England supplies annually a
large detachment of preachers and schoolmasters and private tutors to
the interior of the South and West.
annuities, n. (2)
MoL 10.246 12 Bowditch translated Laplace, and when
he removed to Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that
he should make their tables of annuities.
FRep 11.512 13 The marine insurance office has its
mathematical counsellor to settle averages; the life-assurance, its
table of annuities.
annul, v. (2)
MN 1.221 4 It is the office...of this age to annul
that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has
effected between the intellect and holiness.
Clbs 7.240 6 What can you do with an eloquent man? No
rules of debate... no gag-laws can be contrived that his first syllable
will not...overstep and annul.
annular, adj. (1)
Dem1 10.10 17 ...under every tree in the speckled
sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect
image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary;
and then first we notice that the spots of light have
become...annular...
annulling, v. (1)
LE 1.164 12 Concede to [the man of letters] genius,
which is a sort of Stoical plenum annulling the comparative, and he is
content;...
annuls, v. (1)
annum, n. (3)
Elo1 7.80 4 A barrister in England is reputed to have
made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the
claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons.
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.
EWI 11.113 12 The Ministers, having estimated the
slave products of the colonies...at 1,500,000 pounds per annum,
estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at
30,000,000 pounds sterling...
annunciation, n. (1)
SwM 4.105 16 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one
or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg
another example of the difficulty...of proving...the first birth and
annunciation of one of the laws of nature.
Annursnuc, Mount, Massachus (1)
Thor 10.468 5 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of
the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset, or five minutes' day
after six months, a splendid fact, which Annursnuc had never afforded
him.
anodynes, n. (1)
Con 1.320 6 [Conservatism's] religion is just as
bad;...mitigations of pain by pillows and anodynes;...
anoint, v. (1)
anointed, v. (1)
LS 11.10 8 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed,
declaring that it was for his interment.
anomalies, n. (3)
anomalous, adj. (6)
Tran 1.331 3 This [idealistic] manner of looking at
things transfers every object in nature from an independent and
anomalous position without there, into the consciousness.
Art1 2.366 5 The old tragic Necessity,
which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous
figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature...no longer dignifies the
chisel or the pencil.
SwM 4.139 14 For the anomalous pretension of
Revelations of the other world,--only [Swedenborg's] probity and genius
can entitle it to any serious regard.
Wsp 6.207 1 The religion of the early English poets
is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath.
anomaly, n. (2)
Wsp 6.220 27 ...[a man] does not see...that relation
and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and
always; no miscellany, no exemption, no anomaly...
FRO2 11.489 22 Whoever thinks a story gains...by
adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds. It is no
longer an example...but an exhibition, a wonder, an anomaly...
anon, adv. (7)
LT 1.289 18 ...in all the details of our domestic or
civil life is hidden the elemental reality, which ever and anon comes
to the surface...
Pt1 3.8 10 ...whenever we are so finely organized
that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear
those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever
and anon a word or a verse...
ET1 5.24 13 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a
better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile,
talking and ever and anon stopping short to impress the word or the
verse...
OA 7.329 26 We have an admirable line worthy of
Horace, ever and anon resounding in our mind's ear...
EzRy 10.391 22 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his
fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment, softening
ever and anon into elegancy, which make the distinction of the
scholar...
MMEm 10.414 27 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked
out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper
to me...I weary of my pilgrimage,-tired that I must again be clothed in
the grandeurs of winter, and anon be bedizened in flowers and cascades.
PPr 12.389 15 ...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon,
as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him
in clear level tone the very word...
answer, n. (40)
LE 1.183 22 Hence the temptation to the scholar...to
hear the question...to make an answer of words in lack of the oracle of
things.
SR 2.50 14 I remember an answer which when quite
young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser...
SR 2.55 22 There is a mortifying experience in
particular...I mean...the forced smile which we put on...in answer to
conversation which does not interest us.
OS 2.284 15 These questions which we lust to ask
about the future are a confession of sin. God has no answer for them.
OS 2.284 23 The only mode of obtaining an answer to
these questions of the senses is to forego all low curiosity...
OS 2.285 2 ...all unawares the advancing soul has
built and forged for itself a new condition, and the question and the
answer are one.
Exp 3.82 8 A preoccupied attention is the only answer
to the importunate frivolity of other people;...
Exp 3.82 11 A preoccupied attention is the only
answer to the importunate frivolity of other people; an attention, and
to an aim which makes their wants frivolous. This is a divine answer,
and leaves no appeal...
Chr1 3.94 19 What means did you employ? was the
question asked of the wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of
Mary of Medici; and the answer was, Only that influence which every
strong mind has over a weak one.
NER 3.282 24 Every time we converse we seek to
translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we
miss, we have the fact. Every discourse is an approximate answer...
SwM 4.112 19 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the
flowing of nature, and how wise was that old answer of Amasis to him
who bade him drink up the sea, Yes, willingly, if you will stop the
rivers that flow in.
ShP 4.199 16 Is there at last in [the writer's]
breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether
it be verily so, yea or nay? and to have answer, and to rely on that?
ShP 4.209 1 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded
convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...
NMW 4.239 4 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave
all letters unopened for three weeks, and then observed with
satisfaction how large a part of the correspondence...no longer
required an answer.
ET17 5.295 5 [The Edinburgh Review] had...changed the
tone of its literary criticism from the time when a certain letter was
written to the editor by Coleridge. Mrs. W[ordsworth]. had the Editor's
answer in her possession.
Wsp 6.229 7 Even children are not deceived by the
false reasons which their parents give in answer to their questions...
Wsp 6.229 11 When the parent...puts them off with a
traditional or a hypocritical answer, the children perceive that it is
traditional or hypocritical.
Wsp 6.233 11 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange]
directing the operation of his gunners, and having explained his errand
and received his answer, the king said, Do you not know, sir, that
every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life?
Clbs 7.235 17 He that can define, he that can answer
a question so as to admit of no further answer, is the best man.
Clbs 7.239 22 When Edward I. claimed to be
acknowledged by the Scotch (1292) as lord paramount, the nobles of
Scotland replied, No answer can be made while the throne is vacant.
QO 8.185 17 Goethe's favorite phrase, the open
secret, translates Aristotle' s answer to Alexander, These books are
published and not published.
PPo 8.264 29 So remained [the birds], sunk in
wonder,/ Thoughtless in deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of
themselves./ Speechless prayed they to the Highest/ To open this
secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./ There came an answer without
tongue.-/
LLNE 10.356 20 Thoreau was in his own person a
practical answer...to the theories of the socialists.
EzRy 10.386 15 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...are well
remembered, and his own entire faith that these petitions
were...entitled to a favorable answer.
HDC 11.66 16 I find, in the [Concord] Church Records,
the charges preferred against [Daniel Bliss], his answer thereto, and
the result of the Council.
HDC 11.66 20 The charges seem to have been made by
the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a
favorer of religious excitements. His answer to one of the counts
breathes such true piety that I cannot forbear to quote it.
HDC 11.68 6 ...in answer to letters received from the
united committees of correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the
town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference
the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those
rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
Wom 11.418 21 The answer that lies, silent or spoken,
in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [of rights for
women], is this: that though their mathematical justice is not be be
denied, yet the best women do not wish these things;...
PLT 12.16 12 Who are we, and what is Nature, have one
answer in the life that rushes into us.
MAng1 12.236 15 In answer to the importunate
solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence,
[Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in
which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty
of a great sin;...
Pray 12.350 16 ...we seldom have the prayer otherwise
than it can be inferred from the man and his fortunes, which are the
answer to the prayer...
Let 12.394 2 ...to fifteen letters on Communities,
and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated
class,-what answer?
answer, v. (70)
AmS 1.82 22 It is one of those fables which out of an
unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the
gods...divided Man into men...just as the hand was divided into
fingers, the better to answer its end.
MN 1.219 17 What brought the pilgrims here? One man
says, civil liberty;... and a third discovers that the motive force was
plantation and trade. But if the Puritans could rise from the dust they
could not answer.
LT 1.288 13 Over all [the sailors']
speaking-trumpets, the gray sea and the loud winds answer, Not in us;
not in Time.
Tran 1.352 2 ...to [Transcendentalists] it seems a
very easy matter to answer the objections of the man of the world...
Hist 2.32 22 As near and proper to us is also that
old fable of the Sphinx, who was said to sit in the road-side and put
riddles to every passenger. If the man could not answer, she swallowed
him alive.
Hist 2.32 27 Those men who cannot answer by a
superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them.
Comp 2.98 11 Every faculty which is a receiver of
pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse. It is to answer for its
moderation with its life.
SL 2.137 8 [Our society] is a graduated, titled,
richly appointed empire, quite superfluous when town-meetings are found
to answer just as well.
Exp 3.56 15 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like
the story as well as when you told it me yesterday? Alas! child, it is
even so with the oldest cherubim of knowledge. But will it answer thy
question to say, Because thou wert born to a whole and this story is a
particular?
Chr1 3.107 13 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?--or, prior to
that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
UGM 4.7 1 ...there are persons who, in their
character and actions, answer questions which I have not skill to put.
UGM 4.7 5 One man answers some question which none of
his contemporaries put, and is isolated. The past and passing religions
and philosophies answer some other question.
SwM 4.140 21 No imprudent, no sociable angel ever
dropt an early syllable to answer the longings of saints, the fears of
mortals.
ET6 5.102 22 ...[the English] hate the practical
cowards who cannot in affairs answer directly yes or no.
ET9 5.150 2 [The English] have no curiosity about
foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh,
Oh!...
ET12 5.213 5 Genius exists there [in the college]
also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of
Commons.
ET16 5.288 13 On the way to Winchester...my friends
asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests,
houses,--my house, for example. It is not easy to answer these queries
well.
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