Arbiters to Army
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
arbiters, n. (1)
CInt 12.119 2 The emigration into America of
British...people is the eulogy of America by the most competent and
sincere arbiters.
arbitrament, n. (1)
Con 1.322 16 ...if it still be asked in this
necessity of partial organization, which party, on the whole, has the
highest claims on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart,
where all such questions must have their final arbitrament.
arbitrarily, adv. (2)
Art2 7.50 6 The first time you hear [good poetry], it
sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal
mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.
Art2 7.53 12 We feel, in seeing a noble building,
which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it...was
one of the possible forms in the Divine mind, and is now only
discovered and executed by the artist, not arbitrarily composed by him.
arbitrary, adj. (15)
OS 2.284 16 It is not in an arbitrary decree of
God...that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow;...
SwM 4.132 25 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams
[to those of Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to
it. But these pictures are to be held...as a quite arbitrary and
accidental picture of the truth,--not as the truth.
ET15 5.262 26 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres
and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays,
make poems, or short essays for a journal...as they shoot and ride. It
is a quite accidental and arbitrary direction of their general ability.
F 6.40 21 ...of all the drums and rattles by which
men...are led out solemnly every morning to parade,-the most admirable
is this by which we are brought to believe that events are arbitrary...
Bty 6.293 1 I have been told by persons of experience
in matters of taste that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and
are never arbitrary.
Art2 7.52 25 Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is
insulated in beauty.
PI 8.20 23 The selection of the image is no more
arbitrary than the power and significance of the image.
MoL 10.247 6 A scholar defending the cause...of
arbitrary government...is a traitor to his profession.
War 11.167 24 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept
this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else,
if you pretend to set an arbitrary limit...give up the principle...
Wom 11.410 14 The spiritual force of man is as much
shown...in his fancy and imagination,-attaching deep meanings to things
and to arbitrary inventions of no real value,-as in his perception of
truth.
FRO2 11.489 5 If you are childish, and exhibit your
saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled. That
claim...permits official and arbitrary senses to be grafted on the
teachings.
FRep 11.534 16 In the planters of this country...the
conditions of the country, combined with the impatience of arbitrary
power which they brought from England, forced them to a wonderful
personal independence...
MAng1 12.215 11 ...[Michelangelo's] character and his
works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the
human will.
MLit 12.319 27 ...all [Shelley's] lines are
arbitrary, not necessary.
Trag 12.407 23 ...universally, in uneducated and
unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition
[belief in Fate]...a several penalty, nowise grounded in the nature of
the thing, but on an arbitrary will.
arboretum, n. (2)
CW 12.174 11 If you can add to the garden a noble
luxury, let it be an arboretum.
Arboretum, n. (1)
SHC 11.433 16 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may
establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum...
arc, n. (7)
Comp 2.96 14 I shall attempt...to record some facts
that indicate the path of the law of Compensation; happy beyond my
expectation if I shall truly draw the smallest arc of this circle.
SL 2.146 15 Show us an arc of the curve, and a good
mathematician will find out the whole figure.
NR 3.226 1 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete
the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it
seemed to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just
that fragment of an arc which we first beheld.
PNR 4.87 22 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the
centre that we see the sphere illuminated, and can distinguish...every
arc and node...
F 6.20 2 A man's power is hooped in by a necessity
which...he touches on every side until he learns its arc.
PLT 12.12 4 ...he who who contents himself
with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system
as grand as any other, though he... only draws that arc which he
clearly sees...
arcade, n. (1)
Hist 2.20 11 The Gothic church plainly originated in
a rude adaptation of the forest trees, with all their boughs, to a
festal or solemn arcade;...
Arcadia [Philip Sidney], n. (2)
ET16 5.284 7 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton
and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney, where he
wrote the Arcadia;...
Arcadian, adj. (3)
Wth 6.114 23 We had in this region, twenty years ago,
among our educated men, a sort of Arcadian fanaticism...
Plu 10.315 21 The Arcadian prophet, of whom Herodotus
speaks, was obliged to make a wooden foot in place of that which had
been chopped off.
LLNE 10.346 2 ...[the pilgrim] had the courage which
so stern a return to Arcadian manners required...
Arcana Coelestia [Emanuel (1)
SwM 4.120 18 A man is in general and in particular an
organized... selfishness or gratitude. And the cause of this harmony
[Swedenborg] assigned in the Arcana...
arcana, n. (1)
MMEm 10.432 24 Cassandra uttered, to a frivolous,
skeptical time, the arcana of the Gods...
arcanum, n. (2)
ET8 5.132 24 ...[young Englishmen]...translate and
send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering
Bramins;...
arch, adj. (1)
arch, n. (9)
Hist 2.20 17 No one can walk in a road cut through
pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of
the grove, especially in winter, when the barrenness of all other trees
shows the low arch of the Saxons.
SR 2.80 9 ...the luminaries of heaven seem to [the
unbalanced mind] hung on the arch their master built.
Fdsp 2.201 24 Happy is the house that shelters a
friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to
entertain him a single day.
NER 3.271 22 The Iliad...the Roman arch...when they
are ended, the master casts behind him.
F 6.48 14 ...the rainbow and the curve of the horizon
and the arch of the blue vault are only results from the organism of
the eye.
Farm 7.143 13 Nature works on a method of all for
each and each for all. The strain that is made on one point bears on
every arch and foundation of the structure.
PPo 8.255 19 Once flees [the phoenix] upward, he will
perch/ On Tuba's golden bough;/ His home is on that fruited arch/ Which
cools the blest below.
PerF 10.83 26 ...[the world's energies] work together
on a system of mutual aid...the strain made on one point bears on every
arch and foundation of the structure.
Mem 12.101 21 They say in Architecture, An arch never
sleeps;....
arch-abolitionist, n. (1)
JBS 11.281 21 ...the arch-abolitionist, older than
[John] Brown, and older than the Shenandoah Mountains, is Love...
archaic, adj. (1)
QO 8.196 17 ...many men can write better under a mask
than for themselves; as Chatterton in archaic ballad...
archangel, n. (2)
Hist 2.18 19 The man who has seen the rising moon
break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel
at the creation of light and of the world.
War 11.149 1 The archangel Hope/ Looks to the azure
cope,/ Waits through dark ages for the morn,/ Defeated day by day, but
unto Victory born./
archangels, n. (6)
UGM 4.24 11 Our globe discovers its hidden virtues,
not only in heroes and archangels, but in gossips and nurses.
SwM 4.142 4 Shall the archangels be less majestic and
sweet than the figures that have actually walked the earth?
QO 8.180 8 There is imitation, model and suggestion,
to the very archangels, if we knew their history.
Imtl 8.345 15 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself
the immortality of the soul. That knowledge is hidden very cunningly.
Perhaps the archangels cannot find the secret of their existence...
Chr2 10.106 9 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.
archangel's, n. (1)
Nat2 3.194 6 [Nature's] mighty orbit vaults like the
fresh rainbow into the deep, but no archangel's wing was yet strong
enough to follow it and report of the return of the curve.
archbishop, n. (2)
ET11 5.189 25 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury,
from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker; Lord Herbert of
Cherbury's autobiography;... are favorable pictures of a romantic style
of manners.
ET13 5.218 10 In York minster, on the day of the
enthronization of the new archbishop, I heard the service of evening
prayer read and chanted in the choir.
Archbishop of Canterbury, n. (2)
ET11 5.197 15 I have no illusion left, said Sidney
Smith, but the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Plu 10.317 5 In his dedication of the work
[Plutarch's Morals] to the Archbishop of Canterbury...[Morgan] tells
the Primate that Plutarch was the wisest man of his age, and, if he had
been a Christian, one of the best too;...
arched, v. (3)
Fdsp 2.189 11 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ Through
thee alone the sky is arched,/...
Wsp 6.199 10 ...Bound to the stake, no flames
appalled,/ But arched o'er him an honoring vault./
WD 7.171 22 ...could a power open our eyes to behold
millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should
find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched
above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me
now...
archer, n. (1)
Dem1 10.14 19 As I was once travelling by the Red
Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named
Masollam...according to the testimony of all the Greeks and barbarians,
a very skilful archer.
archery, n. (2)
Ctr 6.142 24 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod,
horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers;...
Ctr 6.143 24 ...archery, swimming...are lessons in
the art of power...
arches, n. (3)
Nat 1.56 7 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of
arches...had already transferred nature into the mind...
ET16 5.290 3 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part
of the crypt into which we went down and saw the Saxon and Norman
arches of the old church on which the present stands, was built
fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.
PLT 12.13 24 The adepts value only the pure geometry,
the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and
abutments of pure reason.
arches, v. (1)
OS 2.277 17 ...in groups where debate is
earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property
in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they
were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought...
archetype, n. (2)
Nat 1.68 4 The American...is surprised on entering
York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these
structures are imitations also, - faint copies of an invisible
archetype.
archetypes, n. (1)
GoW 4.273 1 In the menstruum of this man's [Goethe's]
wit, the past and the present ages...are dissolved into archetypes and
ideas.
Archidamus, of Sparta, n. (1)
Elo1 7.73 3 ...Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of
Sparta, asked him which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied,
When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very
spectators to believe him.
Archimedes, n. (16)
ET14 5.252 24 ...a faith in the laws of the mind like
that of Archimedes;... the modern English mind repudiates.
Ctr 6.156 12 ...Archimedes, Hermes...did not live in
a crowd...
Ctr 6.161 8 Archimedes will look through your
Connecticut machine at a glance, and judge of its fitness.
SS 7.6 11 To the culture of the world an Archimedes,
a Newton is indispensable;...
WD 7.165 10 Every new step in improving the engine
restricts one more act of the engineer,--unteaches him. Once it took
Archimedes; now it only needs a fireman, and a boy to know the
coppers...
WD 7.183 9 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise
and majestic. So was it in Archimedes...
Cour 7.264 15 The school-boy is daunted before his
tutor by a question of arithmetic, because he does not yet command the
simple steps of the solution which the boy beside him has mastered.
These once seen, he is as cool as Archimedes...
Cour 7.270 7 Every creature has a courage of his
constitution fit for his duties:--Archimedes, the courage of a geometer
to stick to his diagram...
Cour 7.270 10 Every creature has a courage of his
constitution fit for his duties:--Archimedes, the courage of a geometer
to stick to his diagram, heedless of the siege and sack of the city;
and the Roman soldier his faculty to strike at Archimedes.
Edc1 10.131 24 ...[man] is to be the stalwart
Archimedes...of the physic, metaphysic and ethics of the design of the
world.
CInt 12.113 21 You shall not put up in your Academy
the statue of Caesar or Pompey...but of Archimedes...
arching, v. (2)
SA 8.92 14 ...we are easily great with the loved and
honored associate. We... see the great dome arching over us;...
SHC 11.434 20 ...I think sometimes that the vault of
the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of
Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
Archipelago, Indian, n. (1)
Nat 1.21 4 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore
of America;...the purple mountains of the Indian Archipelago around,
can we separate the man from the living picture?
archipelagoes, n. (1)
Architect and Engineer, Mil (1)
MAng1 12.224 3 When the Florentines united themselves
with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor
Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and
Engineer, to superintend the erection of the necessary works.
architect, n. (26)
Nat 1.24 7 The poet...the architect, seek each to
concentrate this radiance of the world on one point...
Nat 1.43 25 Michael Angelo maintained, that, to an
architect, a knowledge of anatomy is essential.
YA 1.386 1 It would be but an easy extension of our
commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we
pay an architect...
SL 2.129 2 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/
House at once and architect/...
Pt1 3.8 4 ...[the poet] writes primarily what will
and must be spoken, reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries
also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants;...as assistants
who bring building-materials to an architect.
Pt1 3.30 24 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.
PPh 4.42 5 ...society is glad to forget the
innumerable laborers who ministered to this architect...
ET16 5.274 18 In these days, [Carlyle] thought, it
would become an architect to consult only the grim necessity...
Pow 6.81 23 The world-mill is more complex than the
calico-mill, and the architect stooped less.
Art2 7.55 5 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any
one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see
any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a
circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so
make a cup of which the object of attention occupies the hollow area.
The architect put benches in this, and enclosed the cup with a
wall,--and behold a Coliseum!
Suc 7.284 9 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini, the
Florentine sculptor, architect, painter and poet...gave a public opera,
wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues...
PI 8.33 24 We want design, and do not forgive the
bards if they have only the art of enamelling. We want an architect,
and they bring us an upholsterer.
QO 8.185 21 Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen
music is borrowed from Goethe's dumb music, which is Vitruvius's rule,
that the architect must not only understand drawing, but music.
Grts 8.305 21 ...there is the boy who is born with a
taste for the sea... another will be a lawyer;...another, a painter,
sculptor, architect or engineer.
LLNE 10.359 8 ...the architect, acting under a
necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself helped, he
knows not how, into all these merits of detail...
EWI 11.142 7 ...[the negro] is now the principal if
not the only mechanic in the West Indies; and is, besides, an
architect, a physician, a lawyer...
SMC 11.351 3 The art of the architect and the sense
of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument]
speak;...
MAng1 12.227 1 Michael [Angelo] demanded of San
Gallo, the pope!s architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel
ceiling] were to be repaired in the picture.
MAng1 12.231 25 Benedict XIV., during one of these
panics, sent for the architect Marchese Polini to come to Rome and
examine [St. Peter's dome].
MAng1 12.235 5 On the death of San Gallo, the
architect of the church [St. Peter's], Paul III. first entreated, then
commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this
great work...
MAng1 12.235 12 Michael Angelo, who...distrusted his
capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and
then reluctantly complied.
MAng1 12.239 8 [Michelangelo] said of his
predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of
Saint Peter's, clear, insulated, luminous, with fit design for a vast
structure.
architectural, adj. (8)
Hist 2.19 10 I have seen a snow-drift along the sides
of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common
architectural scroll to abut a tower.
Hist 2.20 15 No one can walk in a road cut through
pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of
the grove...
ET13 5.223 19 [The Anglican Church]...spends a world
of money...in buying Pugin and architectural literature.
F 6.11 25 Now and then one has a new cell or
camarilla opened in his brain,-an architectural, a musical, or a
philological knack;...
DL 7.104 13 ...presently begins his use of his
fingers, and [the nestler] studies power, the lesson of his race. First
it appears in no great harm, in architectural tastes.
OA 7.327 2 Michel Angelo's head is full...of
architectural dreams, until a hundred stone-masons can lay them in
courses of travertine.
Imtl 8.336 12 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...
Trag 12.412 11 To this architectural stability of the
human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty...
architecturally, adv. (1)
Civ 7.31 25 I see the immense material
prosperity...California quartz-mountains dumped down in New York to be
repiled architecturally alongshore from Canada to Cuba...
Architecture, German... [Ge (1)
F 6.45 4 Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught
that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would
turn out to be beautiful...
architecture, n. (75)
Nat 1.43 20 ...architecture is called frozen music,
by De Stael and Goethe.
Nat 1.67 21 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...
LE 1.172 21 The inundation of the spirit sweeps away
before it all our little architecture of wit and memory...
YA 1.367 4 ...with cheap land...everything invites to
the arts...of gardening, and domestic architecture.
YA 1.367 16 ...sculpture, painting, and religious and
civil architecture have become effete...
YA 1.369 5 ...these [European estates] make model
farms, and model architecture...
Hist 2.19 14 By surrounding ourselves with the
original circumstances we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of
architecture...
Hist 2.19 25 The custom of making houses and tombs in
the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal
character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form
which it assumed.
Hist 2.21 14 ...the Persian imitated in the slender
shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the
lotus and palm...
Pt1 3.10 1 ...it is not metres, but a metre-making
argument that makes a poem,--a thought so passionate and alive
that...it has an architecture of its own...
Mrs1 3.120 12 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and
the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way
into...countries where man... honors himself with architecture;...
Nat2 3.178 15 It is when...the house is filled with
grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people to find relief in the
majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
NR 3.232 9 The Eleusinian mysteries, the Egyptian
architecture...show that there always were seeing and knowing men in
the planet.
UGM 4.10 22 The table of logarithms is one thing, and
its vital play in botany, music, optics and architecture another.
UGM 4.10 23 There are advancements to numbers,
anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first...
ShP 4.190 7 A great man does not wake up on some fine
morning and say, I am full of life...I have a new architecture in my
mind...
ShP 4.194 20 ...when at last the greatest freedom of
style and treatment was reached [in Egypt and Greece], the prevailing
genius of architecture still enforced a certain calmness and continence
in the statue.
ShP 4.194 27 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor
found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found
in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already
wonted...
ShP 4.207 24 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all
great works of art,--in the Cyclopaean architecture of Egypt and
India...the Genius draws up the ladder after him...
GoW 4.288 11 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's]
tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. It was the
infirmity of an admirable scholar...who knew where libraries,
galleries, architecture, laboratories, savans and leisure were to be
had...
ET1 5.6 14 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture,
published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr.
Ruskin on the morality in architecture...
ET10 5.163 12 Whatever is excellent and beautiful in
civil, rural, or ecclesiastic architecture...the English noble crosses
sea and land to see and to copy at home.
ET12 5.205 12 The number of students and of residents
[at English universities]...the history and the architecture...justify
a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in
America...
ET13 5.215 23 The power of the religious sentiment
[in England]...created the religious architecture...
ET13 5.219 15 The [English] national temperament
deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church; the
liturgy, ceremony, architecture;...
ET13 5.220 4 These [English] minsters were neither
built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned,
industrious or devoted men; plenty of clerks and bishops, who, out of
their gowns, would turn their backs on no man. Their architecture still
glows with faith in immortality.
ET16 5.274 13 As soon as men begin to talk of art,
architecture and antiquities, nothing good comes of it [according to
Carlyle].
ET16 5.285 27 I know not why in real architecture the
hunger of the eye for length of line is so rarely gratified.
Wth 6.114 17 ...if a man have a genius for painting,
poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and
an ill provider...
Wsp 6.209 4 In creeds never was such levity;... The
architecture, the music, the prayer, partake of the madness;...
CbW 6.276 18 ...whatever art you
select...architecture, poems...all are attainable...on the same terms
of selecting that for which you are apt;...
Civ 7.31 23 I see the immense material
prosperity...wealth piled in the massive architecture of cities...
Art2 7.44 10 In sculpture and in architecture the
material...and in architecture the mass, are sources of great pleasure
quite independent of the artificial arrangement.
Art2 7.44 11 In sculpture and in architecture the
material...and in architecture the mass, are sources of great pleasure
quite independent of the artificial arrangement.
Art2 7.54 1 ...each work of art...took its form from
the broad hint of Nature. Beautiful in this wise is the obvious origin
of all the known orders of architecture;...
Cour 7.268 12 There is a courage in the treatment of
every art by a master in architecture, in sculpture...
Cour 7.272 25 The statue, the architecture, were the
later and inferior creation of the same [Greek] genius.
OA 7.322 17 We still feel the force...of Michel
Angelo, wearing the four crowns of architecture, sculpture, painting
and poetry;...
PI 8.45 20 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of
rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts in a colonnade...
PI 8.52 26 ...rhyme is the transparent frame that
allows almost the pure architecture of thought to become visible to the
mental eye.
QO 8.187 18 If we observe the tenacity with which
nations cling to their first types...of architecture...we shall think
very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
PC 8.214 23 ...[the Middle Ages'] Gothic
architecture, their painting, are the delight and tuition of ours.
Imtl 8.335 4 The mind delights in immense
time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long...
LLNE 10.351 1 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties
and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side,-what
tillage, what architecture, what refectories...
EdAd 11.383 12 ...this energetic race [Americans]
derive an unprecedented material power...from domestic architecture,
chemical agriculture...
Wom 11.408 20 ...there is an art which is better than
painting, poetry, music, or architecture...namely Conversation.
Wom 11.410 25 ...[man] invented...architecture,
curtains, dress...
SHC 11.431 21 ...there is no ornament, no
architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters...
FRep 11.533 17 We import trifles...manuels of Gothic
architecture, steam-made ornaments.
FRep 11.533 23 Every village, every city, has its
architecture, its costume... from England.
PLT 12.12 25 ...just in proportion to the activity of
thoughts on the study of outward objects, as architecture, or
farming...in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy
growth;...
CInt 12.128 26 When you say the times, the persons
are prosaic, where is the feudal, or the Saracenic, or Egyptian
architecture?...you expose your atheism.
CL 12.160 25 When I look at natural structures...I
know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry which has no
sham...
MAng1 12.216 5 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of
near ninety years... was engaged in executing his grand conceptions in
the ineffaceable architecture of Saint Peter's.
MAng1 12.231 1 Of [Michelangelo's] genius for
architecture it is sufficient to say that he built Saint Peter's...
ACri 12.291 3 In architecture the beauty is increased
in the degree in which the material is safely diminished;...
MLit 12.325 1 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 Doric architecture, and the
Gothic;...
MLit 12.325 11 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 domestic rural
architecture in Italy;...
Architecture, n. (4)
ET1 5.6 11 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture,
published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr.
Ruskin on the morality in architecture...
Art2 7.43 8 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting,
Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts.
Mem 12.101 21 They say in Architecture, An arch never
sleeps;....
MAng1 12.216 9 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in
the four fine arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Poetry.
architectures, n. (1)
ET11 5.188 15 I pardoned high park-fences [in
England], when I saw that... these have preserved...monastic
architectures...
archives, n. (3)
Aris 10.60 4 ...there is an order of men, never quite
absent, who enroll no names in their archives but such as are capable
of truth.
PerF 10.82 22 The imagination enriches [the man], as
if there were no other; the memory opens all her cabinets and
archives;...
archness, n. (1)
Arch-Phalanx, n. (1)
LLNE 10.351 8 There, in the Golden Horn, will the
Arch-Phalanx be established;...
Arcole [Arcola], Italy, n. (2)
arcs, n. (2)
Int 2.340 7 ...at last we discover that our curve is
a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.
PLT 12.12 7 ...he who who contents himself
with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system
as grand as any other, though he... only draws that arc which he
clearly sees...and waits for a new opportunity, well assured that these
observed arcs will consist with each other.
arctic, adj. (3)
ET2 5.31 6 The water-laws, arctic frost, the
mountain, the mine, only shatter cockneyism;...
ET5 5.98 11 The manners and customs of [English]
society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a
work of art;--a cold, barren, almost arctic isle being made the most
fruitful, luxurious and imperial land in the whole earth.
Arctic, adj. (2)
ET5 5.91 10 The [English] Admiralty sent out the
Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin...
CL 12.139 20 ...Massachusetts...is on the northern
slope, towards the Arctic circle, and the Pole.
Arctic Voyage [Elisha Kent (1)
Thor 10.467 26 [Thoreau] returned Kane's Arctic
Voyage to a friend of whom he had borrowed it, with the remark, that
Most of the phenomena noted might be observed in Concord.
Arcturus, n. (1)
PPo 8.251 15 Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike
down,/ Poises Arcturus aloft morning and evening his spear./
Arden, Forest of, n. (1)
ShP 4.207 17 The forest of Arden, the nimble air of
Scone Castle...where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has
kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
ardent, adj. (27)
LE 1.162 19 ...in a remote village, the ardent youth
loiters and mourns.
LT 1.281 13 The sad Pestalozzi, who shared with all
ardent spirits the hope of Europe on the outbreak of the French
Revolution...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward
circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental
and moral improvement.
Prd1 2.232 26 A man of genius, of an ardent
temperament...becomes presently unfortunate, querulous...
PPh 4.46 10 The same weakness and want, on a higher
plane, occurs daily in the education of ardent young men and women.
SwM 4.132 17 An ardent and contemplative young
man...might read once these books of Swedenborg...and then throw them
aside for ever.
NMW 4.253 3 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse
and deceive him... and the instinct of the young, ardent and active men
every where...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
GoW 4.280 7 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized
the book [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and
prosaic;...
ET1 5.5 23 Greenough was a superior man, ardent and
eloquent...
Boks 7.213 5 We must have...some swing and verge for
the creative power...driving ardent natures to insanity and crime if it
do not find vent.
Clbs 7.240 14 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who
converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play
into an ardent advocate?
Elo2 8.116 9 [The people] have sent their best men;
the young and ardent... went at the first draft, or the second...
Aris 10.59 21 A grand style of culture, which,
without injury, an ardent youth can propose to himself...does not
exist...
Edc1 10.150 15 ...the instruction [in colleges] seems
to require skilful tutors...rather than ardent and inventive masters.
Supl 10.166 16 I hear without sympathy the complaint
of young and ardent persons that they find life no region of romance...
Supl 10.176 14 In the temperate climates there is a
temperate speech, in torrid climates an ardent one.
SovE 10.199 16 When I talked with an ardent
missionary, and pointed out to him that his creed found no support in
my experience, he replied, It is not so in your experience, but is so
in the other world.
SovE 10.205 3 To a self-denying, ardent church,
delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual
race...
Prch 10.230 11 [The man of practice or worldly force]
is sincere and ardent in his vocation, and plunged in it. Let priest or
poet be as good in theirs.
MMEm 10.419 10 It was His will that gives my [Mary
Moody Emerson's] superiors to shine in wisdom, friendship, and ardent
pursuits...
GSt 10.506 21 ...the excessive toil and anxieties,
into which [George Stearns's] ardent spirit led him, overtasked his
strength...
EWI 11.147 4 I am sure that the good and wise elders,
the ardent and generous youth, will not permit what is incidental and
exceptional to withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent
characters of the question [of emancipation].
CPL 11.498 5 The town [Concord] was settled by a
pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of
their pastor and leader... testify the ardent sentiment which they
shared.
Let 12.395 12 Another objection [to Communities]
seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate.
Ardmore, Ireland, n. (1)
ET2 5.33 15 Yesterday every passenger had measured
the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks.
To-day...we measure by Kinsale, Cork, Waterford and Ardmore.
ardor, n. (7)
LT 1.277 17 Those who are urging with most ardor what
are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men...
ET14 5.235 27 The ardor and endurance of [English]
study, the boldness and facility of their mental
construction...astonish...
QO 8.177 8 If we go into a library or newsroom, we
see the same function [of suction] of a higher plane, performed with
like ardor...
Insp 8.275 18 Socrates, Menu, Confucius, Zertusht,-we
recognize in all of them this ardor to solve the hints of thought.
Chr2 10.114 1 The Church, in its ardor for beloved
persons, clings to the miraculous...
JBB 11.268 17 [John Brown] joins that perfect Puritan
faith which brought his fifth ancestor to Plymouth Rock with his
grandfather's ardor in the Revolution.
ardors, n. (1)
Exp 3.69 7 The ardors of piety agree at last with the
coldest scepticism,-- that nothing is of us or our works,--that all is
of God.
arduous, adj. (2)
SR 2.53 21 This rule [of self-reliance], equally
arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole
distinction between greatness and meanness.
SMC 11.353 11 War, says the poet,...is the arduous
strife,/ To which the triumph of all good is given./
area, n. (6)
YA 1.370 23 To men legislating for the area betwixt
the two oceans... somewhat of the gravity of nature will infuse itself
into the code.
Prd1 2.238 25 If you meet a sectary or a hostile
partisan...meet on what common ground remains...the area will widen
very fast...
ET3 5.37 19 As soon as you enter England, which, with
Wales, is no larger than the State of Georgia, this little land
stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire. Add South
Carolina, and you have more than an equivalent for the area of
Scotland.
Art2 7.55 4 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any
one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see
any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a
circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so
make a cup of which the object of attention occupies the hollow area.
AKan 11.259 24 ...the adding of Cuba and Central
America to the slave marts is enlarging the area of Freedom.
areas, n. (1)
arena, n. (4)
Tran 1.348 24 ...the good and wise must...carry
salvation to the combatants and demagogues in the dusty arena below.
CbW 6.246 10 We accompany the youth with sympathy and
manifold old sayings of the wise to the gate of the arena...
FSLN 11.242 15 I listened, lately, on one of those
occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons
returning from the political arena...
Wom 11.421 10 The objection to [women's] voting is
the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in
politics;-that...if they become good politicians they are worse
clergymen. So of women, that they cannot enter this arena without being
contaminated and unsexed.
arenaris, Arundo, n. (1)
CL 12.137 12 [Linnaeus] discovered that the arundo
arenaris, or beach-grass, had long firm roots...
arenas, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.123 19 The competition is transferred from war
to politics and trade, but the personal force appears readily enough in
these new arenas.
Areopagitica [John Milton], (1)
Arethusa, n. (1)
CPL 11.497 19 ...I always remember with satisfaction
that I saw that venerable plant [Papyrus] in 1833, growing wild at
Syracuse, in Sicily, near the fountain of Arethusa.
Argenson, Marc Antoine d', (1)
QO 8.183 18 ...we find in Grimm's Memoires that
Sheridan got [his rules] from the witty D'Argenson;...
Argenson's, Marc Antoine d' (1)
QO 8.184 20 ...a lady having expressed in his
presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington]
replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great
victory,-excepting a great defeat. But this speech is also
D'Argenson's...
Argo, n. (1)
ET16 5.282 26 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was
the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in
the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition
of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to
obtain possession of this wise stone. Hence the fable that the ship
Argo was loquacious and oracular.
Argonautic Expedition, n. (1)
Argos. (1)
PPh 4.41 3 ...they say that Helen of Argos had that
universal beauty that every body felt related to her...
Argos, Helen of, n. (1)
Bty 6.297 20 ...why need we console ourselves with
the fames of Helen of Argos, or Corinna...
argue, v. (9)
Wth 6.88 19 ...every thought of every hour opens a
new want to [a man] which it concerns his power and dignity to gratify.
It is of no use to argue the wants down...
Wsp 6.230 6 ...if you cannot argue or explain
yourself to the other party, cleave to the truth...and you gain a
station from which you cannot be dislodged.
Bty 6.293 22 ...the circumstances may be easily
imagined in which woman may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and
drive a coach...if only it come by degrees.
Suc 7.311 12 There is an external life, which
is...taught to grasp all the boy can get, urging him...to ride, run,
argue and contend...
LS 11.22 9 In the midst of considerations as to what
Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is
time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and
John, respecting any form.
LVB 11.93 4 ...would it not be a higher indecorum
coldly to argue a matter like [the relocation of the Cherokees]?
argued, v. (6)
LLNE 10.354 4 It argued singular courage, the
adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent...
LS 11.11 25 ...if we had found [washing of the feet]
an established rite in our churches, on grounds of mere authority, it
would have been impossible to have argued against it.
EWI 11.127 18 It was a stately spectacle, to see the
cause of human rights argued with so much patience and
generosity...before that powerful people [the English].
Koss 11.398 24 As you [Kossuth] see, the love you win
[from Americans] is worth something; for it has been argued through;...
ACri 12.301 22 When Samuel Dexter...argued the claims
of South Boston Bridge, he had to meet loud complaints of the shutting
out of the coasting-trade by the proposed improvements.
argues, v. (8)
Chr1 3.115 5 When at last that which we have always
longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be critical...argues
a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
Cour 7.254 24 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes
of men, knows how to come at their end; whispers to this friend, argues
down that adversary...
QO 8.179 19 The highest statement of new philosophy
complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest
learning. There is something mortifying in this perpetual circle. This
extreme economy argues a very small capital of invention.
CInt 12.114 25 Milton congratulates the Parliament
that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the
people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of
highest and most important matters to be reformed...and the fact argues
a just confidence in the grandeur and self-subsistency of the cause of
religious liberty which made all material war an impertinence.
Milt1 12.252 9 ...if we skip the pages of Paradise
Lost where God the Father argues like a school divine, so did the next
age to [Milton's] own.
arguing, v. (4)
Elo1 7.65 6 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is
not a particular skill in...arguing logically...
SA 8.97 3 When Molyneux fancied that the observations
of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of
gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac, who only
answered, It may be so, there's no arguing against facts and
experiments.
ALin 11.331 24 ...[Lincoln]...was excellent...in
arguing his case and convincing you fairly and firmly.
EdAd 11.390 19 Let [a journal] now show its
astuteness by...arguing diffusely every point on which men are long ago
unanimous.
argument, n. (71)
MN 1.194 27 Not exhortation, not argument becomes our
lips...
LT 1.268 10 Here is the innumerable multitude of
those who accept the state and the church from the last generation, and
stand on no argument but possession.
LT 1.269 27 The fury with which the slave-trader
defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a
trumpet...to...drive all neutrals...to listen to the argument and the
verdict.
SL 2.153 13 The argument which has not power to reach
my own practice, I may well doubt will fail to reach yours.
Prd1 2.227 25 One might find argument for optimism in
the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every
suburb and extremity of the good world.
Prd1 2.239 3 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical
people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls!
OS 2.267 7 ...the argument which is always
forthcoming to silence those who conceive extraordinary hopes of man,
namely the appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain.
Int 2.347 3 ...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to
thesis, without a moment's heed of the universal astonishment of the
human race below, who do not comprehend their plainest argument;...
Pt1 3.9 23 The argument [in modern poetry] is
secondary, the finish of the verses is primary.
Pt1 3.9 26 ...it is not metres, but a metre-making
argument that makes a poem...
NR 3.234 20 Lively boys write to their ear and eye,
and the cool reader finds nothing but sweet jingles in it. When they
grow older, they respect the argument.
SwM 4.105 5 ...the largest application of principles,
had been exhibited by Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology;
whilst Locke and Grotius had drawn the moral argument.
GoW 4.279 25 The argument [in Goethe's Wilhelm
Meister] is the passage of a democrat to the aristocracy...
ET4 5.49 19 The fixity or inconvertibleness of races
as we see them is a weak argument for the eternity of these frail
boundaries...
ET7 5.124 18 ...as [Englishmen's] own belief in
guineas is perfect, they readily, on all occasions, apply the pecuniary
argument as final.
ET10 5.170 17 [England's] prosperity, the splendor
which so much manhood and talent and perseverance has thrown upon
vulgar aims, is the very argument of materialism.
ET12 5.211 21 ...pamphleteer or journalist, reading
for an argument for a party...must read meanly and fragmentarily.
ET14 5.242 6 In England these [generalizations]...do
all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this
kind is...Doctor Samuel Clarke's argument for theism from the nature of
space and time;...
ET15 5.261 23 No antique privilege, no comfortable
monopoly, but sees surely that its days are counted; the people are
familiarized with the reason of reform, and, one by one, take away
every argument of the obstructives.
ET15 5.270 8 [The London Times] gives the argument,
not of the majority, but of the commanding class.
Pow 6.70 2 The people lean on this [aboriginal
source], and the mob is not quite so bad an argument as we sometimes
say, for it has this good side.
Bhr 6.176 1 ...when [the old Massachusetts statesman]
spoke, his voice would not serve him; it cracked, it broke, it wheezed,
it piped;--little cared he; he knew that it had got to pipe, or wheeze,
or screech his argument and his indignation.
Bhr 6.190 19 Another opposes [a man who is already
strong] with sound argument, but the argument is scouted until by and
by it gets into the mind of some weighty person; then it begins to tell
on the community.
Wsp 6.201 7 Some of my friends have complained...that
we ran Cudworth' s risk of making...the argument of atheism so strong
that he could not answer it.
Wsp 6.205 25 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to
Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which
burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in
excellent faith. Another argument was an adder put into the mouth of
the reluctant disciple Raud, who refused to believe.
Bty 6.294 4 ...this demand in our thought for an ever
onward action is the argument for the immortality.
WD 7.160 25 ...there is no argument of theism better
than the grandeur of ends brought about by paltry means.
Clbs 7.226 10 Unless there be an argument, [some men]
think nothing is doing.
SA 8.99 16 When men consult you, it is...that they
wish you...to apply your habitual view, your wisdom, to the present
question, forbearing...the very name of argument;...
Elo2 8.129 12 ...[Lord Ashley] drew such an argument
from his own confusion as more advantaged his cause that all the powers
of eloquence could have done.
Elo2 8.131 10 Your argument is ingenious...but your
major proposition palpably absurd. Will you establish a lie?
QO 8.184 6 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a
well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon
the same argument...
QO 8.202 15 A phrase or a single word is adduced,
with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding
all argument, because thus had they said...
Imtl 8.332 25 Where there is depravity there is a
slaughter-house style of thinking. One argument of future life is the
recoil of the mind in such company...
Imtl 8.346 9 We cannot prove our faith [in
immortality] by syllogisms. The argument refuses to form in the mind.
Imtl 8.351 13 [Yama said to Nachiketas] That
knowledge for which thou hast asked [concerning immortality] is not to
be obtained by argument.
Supl 10.172 10 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the
late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring
on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken
the whole English language three times over in his speech.
Prch 10.217 2 In the history of opinion, the pinch of
falsehood shows itself first, not in argument and formal protest, but
in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of the Church...
Prch 10.235 1 ...the power of sympathy is always
great; and affirmative discourse, presuming assent, will often obtain
it when argument would fail.
Plu 10.303 26 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the
particulars, and carry a faint memory of the argument or general design
of the chapter;...
Plu 10.314 12 I can easily believe that an anxious
soul may find in Plutarch' s...Letter to his Wife Timoxena, a more
sweet and reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of
Plato;...
LLNE 10.358 1 The large cities are phalansteries; and
the theorists drew all their argument from facts already taking place
in our experience.
EWI 11.128 9 For months and years the bill [on
emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...by the first citizens
of England, the foremost men of the earth; every argument was
weighed...
FSLC 11.187 24 [Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law]
is not going crusading into Virginia and Georgia after slaves, who, it
is alleged, are very comfortable where they are:-that amiable argument
falls to the ground...
FSLN 11.222 15 ...in his argument [Webster] was
intellectual,-stated his fact pure of all personality...
FSLN 11.233 6 You relied on the constitution. It has
not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown that it
would not warrant the crimes that are done under it;...
ACiv 11.300 12 The journals have not suppressed the
extent of the calamity. Neither was there any want of argument or of
experience.
ACiv 11.302 6 In this national crisis, it is not
argument that we want...
Wom 11.416 21 ...the times are marked by the new
attitude of Woman; urging, by argument and by association, her rights
of all kinds...
Mem 12.98 7 [The orator] has an old story, an odd
circumstance, that illustrates the point he is now proving, and is
better than an argument.
Milt1 12.249 19 Eager to do fit justice to each
thought, [Milton] does not subordinate it so as to project the main
argument.
Milt1 12.249 22 ...the piece [a tract by Milton]
shows all the rambles and resources of indignation, but he has never
integrated the parts of the argument in his mind.
Milt1 12.250 22 ...as an historical argument,
[Milton's Defence of the English People] cannot be valued with similar
disquisitions of Robertson and Hallam...
Milt1 12.251 15 [Milton's Areopagitica] is valuable
in history as an argument addressed to a government to produce a
practical end...
Milt1 12.260 9 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses
his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave
trifles for a grave argument...
Milt1 12.277 26 Of [Milton's] prose in general, not
the style alone but the argument also is poetic;...
MLit 12.321 8 Here [in the First Book of Wordsworth's
The Excursion] was...a sure index where the subtle muse was about to
pitch her tent and find the argument of her song.
arguments, n. (18)
Pt1 3.32 15 If a man is inflamed and carried away by
his thought...let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments
and histories and criticism.
Chr1 3.109 23 Plato said it was impossible not to
believe in the children of the gods, though they should speak without
probable or necessary arguments.
PNR 4.85 14 Ethical science was new and vacant when
Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of
the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised
justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments
arising therefrom;...
PNR 4.88 26 [Plato's] writings have...the sempiternal
youth of poetry. For their arguments, most of them, might have been
couched in sonnets...
MoS 4.157 5 [The skeptic says] Why so talkative in
public, when each of my neighbors can pin me to my seat by arguments I
cannot refute?
F 6.29 9 A text of heroism, a name and anecdote of
courage, are not arguments but sallies of freedom.
Wsp 6.217 15 The heart has its arguments, with which
the understanding is not acquainted.
Wsp 6.217 20 ...the heart is at once aware of the
state of health or disease, which is the controlling state, that is, of
sanity or of insanity; prior of course to all question of the ingenuity
of arguments...
PI 8.28 8 [Imagination] is the vision of an inspired
soul reading arguments and affirmations in all Nature of that which it
is driven to say.
LLNE 10.334 16 ...boys filled their mouths with
arguments to prove that the orator [Everett] had a heart.
EWI 11.137 16 By a certain fatality, none but the
vilest arguments were brought forward [against emancipation in the West
Indies]...
FSLC 11.192 19 Against a principle like this [that
immoral laws are void], all the arguments of Mr. Webster are the spray
of a child's squirt against a granite wall.
FSLC 11.213 25 It is very certain from...the high
arguments of the defenders of liberty, which the occasion [the Fugitive
Slave Law] called out, that there is sufficient margin in the statute
and the law for the spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
ACri 12.287 21 Not only low style, but the lowest
classifying words outvalue arguments;...
Let 12.396 4 We shall hardly trust ourselves to reply
to arguments by which we would gladly be persuaded.
Argus-eyed, adj. (1)
Argyle, Scotland, n. (1)
ET11 5.180 6 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the
token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in
London,--the crags of Argyle, the kail of Cornwall...are neither
forgetting nor forgotten...
Ariadne's, n. (1)
Hsm1 2.246 5 My Dorigen,/ Yonder, above, 'bout
Ariadne's crown,/ My spirit shall hover for thee. Prithee, haste./
Arianism, n. (1)
ET9 5.152 6 [George of Cappadocia] saved his money,
embraced Arianism, collected a library...
arid, adj. (3)
Bty 6.286 9 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by
side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an
enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
SS 7.12 18 The capital defect of cold, arid natures
is the want of animal spirits.
EPro 11.315 1 In so many arid forms which states
encrust themselves with, once in a century...a poetic act and record
occur.
aridity, n. (1)
SS 7.6 13 To the culture of the world an Archimedes,
a Newton is indispensable; so [nature] guards them by a certain
aridity.
Ariel, n. (1)
PI 8.67 8 If [the readers of a good poem] build
ships, they write Ariel or Prospero or Ophelia on the ship's stern...
Ariel [Shakespeare, Tempest (1)
PI 8.43 14 Better examples [of poetry] are
Shakspeare's Ariel, his Caliban...
Ariel [Shakespeare, The Te (1)
aright, adv. (6)
MR 1.247 25 ...we must not cease to tend to the
correction of flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.
Hist 2.8 7 I have no expectation that any man will
read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age...has
any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
SL 2.142 19 ...whatever in his apprehension is worth
doing, that let [a man] communicate, or men will never know and honor
him aright.
Suc 7.303 26 ...[the lover] reads omens on the
flower, and cloud, and face, and form, and gesture, and reads them
aright.
HDC 11.51 17 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of
Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their
desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
Arion, n. (1)
PerF 10.82 14 The story of Orpheus, of Arion, of the
Arabian minstrel, are not fables...
Ariosto, Ludovico, n. (2)
Hist 2.30 7 One after another [the advancing man]
comes up in his private adventures with every fable...of Ariosto...
arise, v. (21)
Nat 1.27 7 Man is conscious of a universal soul
within or behind his individual life, wherein...the natures of Justice,
Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine.
Nat 1.59 22 ...with culture this faith [that the
external world is appearance] will as surely arise on the mind as did
the first.
Nat 1.63 21 ...when...we come to inquire, Whence is
matter? and Whereto? many truths arise to us...
AmS 1.82 3 Events, actions arise, that must be
sung...
AmS 1.104 4 Free should the scholar be, - free and
brave. Free even to the definition of freedom, without any hindrance
that does not arise out of his own constitution.
AmS 1.104 9 It is a shame to [the scholar] if his
tranquillity...arise from the presumption that...his is a protected
class;...
MR 1.230 15 It cannot be wondered at that this
general inquest into abuses should arise in the bosom of society...
MR 1.236 6 ...when the majority shall admit the
necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law,
state]...the way will be open again to the advantages which arise from
the division of labor...
LT 1.275 18 See how daring is the reading, the
speculation, the experimenting of the time. If now some genius shall
arise who could unite these scattered rays!
Lov1 2.186 7 The soul which is in the soul of each
[lover], craving a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects
and disproportion in the behaviour of the other. Hence arise surprise,
expostulation and pain.
Pt1 3.40 18 Nothing walks, or creeps, or grows, or
exists, which must not in turn arise and walk before [the poet] as
exponent of his meaning.
Pol1 3.202 20 ...if question arise whether additional
officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac,
and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the
rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who...eats
their bread and not his own?
Pol1 3.203 4 ...so long as it comes to the owners in
the direct way, no other opinion would arise in any equitable community
than that property should make the law for property, and persons the
law for persons.
NER 3.285 1 ...only by the freest activity in the way
constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man...
UGM 4.21 6 Ever their phantoms arise before us,/ Our
loftier brothers, but one in blood;/...
SwM 4.116 14 ...if we choose to express any natural
truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to
convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we
shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma, in place of the
physical truth or precept: although no mortal would have predicted that
any thing of the kind could possibly arise by bare literal
transposition;...
Art2 7.51 5 ...the delight which a work of art
affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed
Nature...
Elo1 7.79 1 ...histories, poems and new philosophies
arise to account for [Caesar].
Clbs 7.245 6 ...the club must be self-protecting, and
obstacles arise at the outset.
EWI 11.141 10 On sight of these [African artifacts],
says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into
[William Pitt's] mind, some of which he expressed; and hence appeared
to arise a project which was always dear to him, of the civilization of
Africa...
WSL 12.339 21 In Mr. Landor's coarseness...the rude
word seems sometimes to arise from a disgust at niceness and
over-refinement.
arisen, v. (3)
Pol1 3.203 27 ...doubts have arisen whether too much
weight had not been allowed in the laws to property...
WSL 12.342 8 From the moment of entering a library
and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What
boundless leisure!...the old constellations have set, new and brighter
have arisen;...
arises, v. (16)
Nat 1.51 17 Hence arises a pleasure mixed with
awe;...a low degree of the sublime is felt, from the fact...that man is
hereby apprized that...something in himself is stable.
DSA 1.142 22 ...[the Puritans'] creed is passing
away, and none arises in its room.
LT 1.260 24 Meantime, on the other part, arises
Reform...
Comp 2.112 22 Has [a man] gained by borrowing,
through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or
money? There arises on the deed the instant acknowledgment of benefit
on the one part and of debt on the other;...
OS 2.292 21 How dear, how soothing to man, arises the
idea of God...
NR 3.227 12 Our exaggeration of all fine characters
arises from the fact that we identify each in turn with the soul.
MoS 4.154 27 The abstractionist and the materialist
thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the
worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle
ground between these two, the skeptic, namely.
ET2 5.33 9 As we neared the land [England], its
genius was felt. This was inevitably the British side. In every man's
thought arises now a new system...
ET4 5.71 18 [The Englishman's] attachment to the
horse arises from the courage and address required to manage it.
Art2 7.37 23 Every thought that arises in the mind,
in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act;...
Insp 8.274 4 In June the morning is noisy with birds;
in August they are already getting old and silent. Hence arises the
question, Are these moods in any degree within control?
War 11.170 1 The question naturally arises, How is
this new aspiration of the human mind [towards peace] to be made
visible and real?
FRep 11.523 22 ...it is useless to rely on [the
people] to go to a meeting, or to give a vote, if any check from this
must-have-the-money side arises.
arising, v. (5)
Nat 1.15 8 ...the primary forms...give us...a
pleasure arising from outline, color, motion, and grouping.
PPh 4.50 15 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is
single, though its forms be manifold, arising from the consequences of
acts [said Krishna].
PNR 4.85 18 Ethical science was new and vacant when
Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of
the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised
justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments
arising therefrom;...
Art2 7.52 23 Arising out of eternal Reason...whatever
is beautiful rests on the foundation of the necessary.
HDC 11.57 24 ...Major [Simon] Willard...incurred the
censure of the Commissioners, who write to their loving friend Major
Willard, that they leave to his consideration the inconveniences
arising from his non-attendance to his commission.
Aristarchus, n. (1)
F 6.18 9 No one can read the history of astronomy
without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of
men, but that Thales... Aristarchus...had anticipated them;...
Aristides, n. (4)
Cour 7.253 19 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown of
the heroes of Greece and Rome,--of Socrates, Aristides and Phocion;...
Plu 10.314 21 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty
lead him...to...his love...of heroes like Aristides, Phocion and Cato.
Plu 10.318 11 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the
legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or
verse,-there will Plutarch, who told the story of Leonidas...of
Aristides, Phocion...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
aristocracy, n. (51)
LT 1.261 5 The fact of aristocracy...is as commanding
a feature of the nineteenth century...as of old Rome...
Con 1.314 6 ...in the darlings of the selectest
circles of European or American aristocracy, the strong heart will beat
with love of mankind...
YA 1.378 25 We complain...of [trade's] building up a
new aristocracy on the ruins of the aristocracy it destroyed.
YA 1.393 5 One thing...the beauties of aristocracy,
we commend to the study of the travelling American.
YA 1.394 2 In the East, where the religious sentiment
comes in to the support of the aristocracy...there is a grain of
sweetness in the tyranny;...
SL 2.145 23 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de
Narbonne...saying that it was indispensable to send to the old
aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection...
Mrs1 3.120 16 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and
the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way
into...countries where man... establishes a select society, running
through all the countries of intelligent men, a self-constituted
aristocracy...
Mrs1 3.143 26 There is not only the right of
conquest, which genius pretends,--the individual demonstrating his
natural aristocracy best of the best;--but less claims will pass for
the time;...
Mrs1 3.146 21 The persons who constitute the natural
aristocracy are not found in the actual aristocracy...
Mrs1 3.146 22 The persons who constitute the natural
aristocracy are not found in the actual aristocracy...
Mrs1 3.147 25 If the individuals who compose the
purest circles of aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review...we
might find no gentleman and no lady;...
Nat2 3.175 25 The muse herself betrays her son [the
poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty
by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the
road,--a certain haughty favor, as if from patrician genii to
patricians, a kind of aristocracy in nature...
NER 3.263 21 ...the revolt against the spirit of
commerce, the spirit of aristocracy...did not appear possible to
individuals;...
NMW 4.239 14 In his later days [Napoleon] had the
weakness of wishing to add to his crowns and badges the prescription of
aristocracy;...
GoW 4.279 26 The argument [in Goethe's Wilhelm
Meister] is the passage of a democrat to the aristocracy...
ET4 5.70 23 Every season turns out the [the English]
aristocracy into the country to shoot and fish.
ET11 5.180 23 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from
England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the
aristocracy...
ET11 5.187 24 When a man once knows that he has done
justice to himself, let him dismiss all terrors of aristocracy as
superstitions...
ET11 5.192 5 The Selwyn correspondence, in the reign
of George III., discloses a rottenness in the aristocracy which
threatened to decompose the state.
ET11 5.192 24 Under the present reign the perfect
decorum of the Court is thought to have put a check on the gross vices
of the [English] aristocracy;...
ET12 5.200 18 ...out of twelve hundred young men [at
Oxford], comprising the most spirited of the aristocracy, a duel has
never occurred.
Boks 7.199 8 Here [in Plato] is that which is so
attractive to all men,--the literature of aristocracy shall I call
it?...
Aris 10.32 18 It will not pain me...if it should turn
out, what is true, that I am describing a real aristocracy...
Aris 10.34 24 The old French Revolution attracted to
its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in
Europe. By the abolition of kingship and aristocracy, tyranny,
inequality and poverty would end.
Aris 10.35 22 ...not the hardest utilitarian will
question the value of an aristocracy if he love himself.
Aris 10.36 3 ...inequalities exist...in the powers of
expression and action; a primitive aristocracy;...
Aris 10.41 4 An aristocracy is composed of simple and
sincere men for whom Nature and ethics are strong enough...
Carl 10.498 1 ...in England, where the morgue of
aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle]
has carried himself erect...
Scot 11.465 25 [Scott] saw...in the historical
aristocracy the benefits to the state which Burke claimed for it;...
FRep 11.517 8 ...a court or an aristocracy, which
must always be a small minority, can more easily run into follies than
a republic...
FRep 11.518 6 Hitherto government has been that of
the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to
resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the
government...of an inferior class of professional politicians,
who...thrust their unworthy minority into the place of the old
aristocracy on the one side...
Bost 12.201 4 European critics regret the detachment
of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy;...
Bost 12.201 9 The future historian will regard the
detachment of the Puritans without aristocracy the supreme fortune of
the colony;...
Aristocracy, n. (2)
Aris 10.31 4 There is an attractive topic, which...is
impertinent in no community,-the permanent traits of the Aristocracy.
aristocrat, n. (7)
Mrs1 3.125 22 If the aristocrat is only valid in
fashionable circles and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in
fashion;...
Bhr 6.174 22 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn in
Titian's Venetian doges and in Roman coins and statues...
Aris 10.41 19 In simple communities, in the heroic
ages, a man was chosen for his knack;...and the best of the best was
the aristocrat or king.
Scot 11.465 19 By nature, by his reading and taste an
aristocrat, in a time and country which easily gave him that bias,
[Scott] had the virtues and graces of that class...
aristocratic, adj. (13)
YA 1.368 27 In Europe, where society has an
aristocratic structure, the land is full of men of the best stock...
SL 2.149 23 Gertrude is enamored of Guy; how high,
how aristocratic, how Roman his mien and manners!...
SL 2.150 1 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now
avails...how aristocratic...his mien and manners, if his heart and aims
are in the senate...
GoW 4.279 1 In the progress of the story, the
characters of the hero and heroine [of Sand's Consuelo] expand at a
rate that shivers the porcelain chess-table of aristocratic
convention...
ET5 5.74 8 ...the Norman has come popularly to
represent in England the aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic
principle.
ET11 5.191 4 War is a foul game, yet war is not the
worst part of aristocratic history.
ET18 5.301 9 [The foreign policy of England] has a
principal regard to the interest of trade, checked however by the
aristocratic bias of the ambassador...
ET19 5.311 7 It is this [sense of right and wrong]
which lies at the foundation of that aristocratic character...which, if
it should lose this, would find itself paralyzed;...
Aris 10.39 27 ...the basis of all aristocracy must be
truth,-the doing what elsewhere is pretended to be done. One would
gladly see all our institutions rightly aristocratic in this wise.
Carl 10.493 8 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's]
hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea
of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own
father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the
aristocratic mind.
EPro 11.325 1 ...in the Southern States, the tenure
of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a
democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...
aristocratical, adj. (1)
ET6 5.113 9 In an aristocratical country like
England, not the Trial by Jury, but the dinner, is the capital
institution.
Ariston, n. (2)
Plu 10.302 27 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a
multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and
these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind. I
hope it is only my immense ignorance that makes me believe that they do
not survive out of his pages,-not only...Ariston, Evenus...
Plu 10.309 11 ...Plutarch thought, with Ariston, that
neither a bath nor a lecture served any purpose, unless they were
purgative.
Aristophanes, n. (6)
Boks 7.201 6 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian
manners] has merits of every kind,--being...a picture of a feast of
wits, not less descriptive than Aristophanes;...
Boks 7.201 18 ...we must read the Clouds of
Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for, to
learn our way in the streets of Athens...
Boks 7.201 21 ...we must read the Clouds of
Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for...to
know the tyranny of Aristophanes...
Wom 11.417 2 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had
its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this
subject; from Aristophanes... to Rabelais...
WSL 12.346 17 [Landor] loves...Aristophanes,
Demosthenes, Virgil...
Aristotelian, adj. (1)
Aristotle, n. (32)
LE 1.160 5 ...neither Greece nor Rome, nor the three
Unities of Aristotle... is to command any longer.
SL 2.146 25 ...Aristotle said of his works, They are
published and not published.
Pt1 3.30 18 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine
that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the
charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but
it is felt in every definition; as when Aristotle defines space to be
an immovable vessel in which things are contained;...
NR 3.244 12 Jesus is not dead; he is very well alive:
nor John, nor Paul, nor Mahomet, nor Aristotle;...
UGM 4.18 12 Especially when a mind of powerful method
has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of
Aristotle, the Ptolemaic astronomy...are in point.
SwM 4.102 19 A colossal soul,
[Swedenborg]...suggests, as Aristotle, Bacon...that a certain vastness
of learning...is possible.
ET8 5.136 2 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of
a nature originally melancholy.
ET12 5.212 27 ...I should as soon think of
quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile
sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors for not
admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and
Aristotle...
ET14 5.243 24 The later English want the faculty of
Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight
of general laws...
Bhr 6.190 4 Neither Aristotle, nor Leibnitz, nor
Junius, nor Champollion has set down the grammar-rules of this dialect
[of behavior]...
Art2 7.39 17 [Art] was defined by Aristotle, The
reason of the thing, without the matter.
Elo1 7.88 14 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of
common sense. It is the same quality we admire in Aristotle...
DL 7.110 4 All [the scholar's] expense is for
Aristotle, Fabricius, Erasmus and Petrarch.
WD 7.157 3 Man is the meter of all things, said
Aristotle;...
WD 7.176 9 'T is the very principle of science that
Nature shows herself best in leasts; it was the maxim of Aristotle and
Lucretius;...
Suc 7.301 19 Aristotle or Bacon or Kant propound some
maxim which is the key-note of philosophy thenceforward.
PI 8.3 12 The restraining grace of common sense is
the mark of all the valid minds,--of Aesop, Aristotle...
Insp 8.292 7 Not Aristotle, not Kant or Hegel, but
conversation, is the right metaphysical professor.
MoL 10.249 15 ...let us have masculine and divine
men, formidable lawgivers, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle...
Plu 10.297 21 [Plutarch] is...not a metaphysician,
like Parmenides, Plato or Aristotle;...
Plu 10.306 11 We are always interested in the man who
treats the intellect well. We expect it from the philosopher,-from
Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza and Kant;...
Plu 10.307 25 [Plutarch] thinks that Alexander
invaded Persia with greater assistance from Aristotle than from his
father Philip.
MMEm 10.402 22 ...Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus,-how
venerable and organic as Nature they are in [Mary Moody Emerson's]
mind!
Thor 10.477 23 ...the same isolation which belonged
to his original thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social
religious forms. This is neither to be censured nor regretted.
Aristotle long ago explained it, when he said, One who surpasses his
fellow citizens in virtue is no longer a part of the city. Their law is
not for him, since he is a law to himself.
Humb 11.457 2 Humboldt was one of those wonders of
the world, like Aristotle...
PLT 12.62 15 ...Aristotle declares that the origin of
reason is not reason, but something better.
CInt 12.130 13 ...know that, next to being
[intellect's] minister, like Aristotle...is the profound reception and
sympathy, without ambition, which secularizes and trades it.
Milt1 12.278 1 ...according to Lord Bacon's
definition of poetry, following that of Aristotle, Poetry...seeks to
accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
Aristotle's, n. (4)
Nat 1.55 17 Is not the charm of one of Plato's or
Aristotle's definitions strictly like that of the Antigone of
Sophocles?
Comc 8.157 12 Aristotle's definition of the
ridiculous is, what is out of time and place, without danger.
QO 8.185 16 Goethe's favorite phrase, the open
secret, translates Aristotle' s answer to Alexander, These books are
published and not published.
Edc1 10.147 3 The very definition of the intellect is
Aristotle's: that by which we know terms or boundaries.
arithmetic, adj. (1)
Edc1 10.139 8 ...[boys] know everything that befalls
in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the
rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull
the handles when it goes to the engine-house. They are there only for
fun, and not knowing that they are at school...quite as much and more
than they were, an hour ago, in the arithmetic class.
arithmetic, n. (30)
MN 1.203 1 When we are dizzied with the arithmetic of
the savant toiling to compute the length of [Nature's] line...we are
steadied by the perception that a great deal is doing;...
SR 2.48 4 ...that distrust of a sentiment because our
arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose,
[children, babes, and brutes] have not.
Hsm1 2.253 7 Citizens, thinking after the laws of
arithmetic, consider the inconvenience of receiving strangers at their
fireside...
OS 2.274 16 After its own law and not by arithmetic
is the rate of [the soul' s] progress to be computed.
Cir 2.316 12 For you, O broker, there is no other
principle but arithmetic.
Chr1 3.93 17 I see [in the natural merchant], with
the pride of art and skill of masterly arithmetic and power of remote
combination, the consciousness of being an agent and playfellow of the
original laws of the world.
Pol1 3.206 3 A nation of men unanimously bent on
freedom or conquest can easily confound the arithmetic of statists...
PPh 4.39 8 A discipline [Plato] is in logic,
arithmetic, taste, symmetry, poetry, language, rhetoric, ontology,
morals or practical wisdom.
PPh 4.79 1 ...when we praise the style, or the common
sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys...
MoS 4.152 16 After dinner, arithmetic is the only
science...
Pow 6.80 21 ...[spirit] is as much a subject of exact
law and arithmetic as fluids and gases are;...
Wth 6.100 19 Probity and closeness to the facts are
the basis, but the masters of the art [of commerce] add a certain long
arithmetic.
Wsp 6.220 15 Strong men believe in cause and effect.
The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of
him and of his deed; and by looking narrowly you shall see...it was all
a problem in arithmetic...
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