Attitude to Autobiography
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
attitude, n. (43)
Hist 2.16 24 ...by watching for a time [a child's]
motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw
him at will in every attitude.
SR 2.48 26 The nonchalance of boys who...would
disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the
healthy attitude of human nature.
SL 2.151 18 Take the place and attitude which belong
to you, and all men acquiesce.
OS 2.268 15 When I watch that flowing river, which,
out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I
see...that I desire and look up and put myself in the attitude of
reception...
Int 2.331 26 It seems as if we needed only the
stillness and composed attitude of the library to seize the thought.
Art1 2.358 2 ...with each moment [the artist] alters
the whole air, attitude and expression of his clay.
Mrs1 3.133 2 [A man] should preserve in a new company
the same attitude of mind and reality of relation which his daily
associates draw him to...
MoS 4.171 26 Skepticism is the attitude assumed by
the student in relation to the particulars which society adores, but
which he sees to be reverend only in their tendency and spirit.
ShP 4.199 2 Show us the constituency, and the now
invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their
wishes;...and it will bereave his fine attitude and resistance of
something of their impressiveness.
NMW 4.225 24 [The man in the street] finds
[Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible
merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all
those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal
and deny:...the standing in the attitude of a benefactor to all persons
about him...
Pow 6.59 22 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the
facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him; for this is an
affair...of attitude...
Bhr 6.169 10 Nature tells every secret once. Yes, but
in man she tells it all the time, by form, attitude...
Bhr 6.182 10 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice,
the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical.
Wsp 6.219 18 Religion or worship is the attitude of
those who see this unity, intimacy and sincerity [in nature];...
CbW 6.278 4 The man,--it is his attitude...
Elo1 7.82 13 The audience [if there be personality in
the orator] is thrown into the attitude of pupil...
Cour 7.259 14 ...the aggressive attitude of men who
will have right done... that part, the part of the leader and soul of
the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
PI 8.44 27 In dreams we are true poets; we create the
persons of the drama;...they are perfect in their organs, attitude,
manners;...
SA 8.96 9 The attitude, the tone is all.
Elo2 8.115 17 [The true orator's] attitude in the
rostrum, on the platform, requires that he counterbalance his auditory.
Elo2 8.131 3 [Eloquence] is the attitude taken...that
a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him.
Res 8.146 20 A determined man, by his very
attitude...puts a stop to defeat...
CSC 10.376 9 ...[these men and women at the Chardon
Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it, in the
attitude taken by the individuals of their number of resistance to the
insane routine of parliamentary usage;...
Carl 10.497 18 Carlyle has, best of all men in
England, kept the manly attitude of his time.
FSLC 11.212 8 The behavior of Boston was the reverse
of what it should have been: it was supple and officious, and it put
itself into the base attitude of pander to the crime [the Fugitive
Slave Law].
FSLN 11.222 2 ...the perfection of [Webster's]
elocution, and all that thereto belongs,-voice, accent, intonation,
attitude, manner,- we shall not soon find again.
Koss 11.399 2 We [people of Concord] have seen...that
there is nothing accidental in your [Kossuth's] attitude.
PLT 12.3 8 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's
explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one
could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the
attitude of the naturalist;...
Mem 12.94 16 'T is because of the believed
incompatibility of the affirmative and advancing attitude of the mind
with tenacious acts of recollection that people are often reproached
with living in their memory.
MAng1 12.238 21 Michael Angelo was of that class of
men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full
and perfect sympathy. They stand in the attitude rather of appeal from
their contemporaries to their race.
PPr 12.388 6 ...nothing is more excellent in
[Carlyle's Past and Present] as in all Mr. Carlyle's works than the
attitude of the writer.
attitudes, n. (8)
Nat2 3.186 10 [Nature]...has secured the symmetrical
growth of the [the child's] bodily frame by all these attitudes and
exertions...
CbW 6.270 12 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid
fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates
[of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one
malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away
with...everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous
attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
Art2 7.42 21 ...in our handiwork...we place ourselves
in such attitudes as to bring the force of gravity...to bear upon the
spade or the axe we wield.
Elo1 7.62 9 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas]
in turn exhibits similar symptoms...delirious attitudes...
SA 8.81 26 ...trying experiments, and at perfect
leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe]
throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs.
SA 8.82 7 The attitudes of children are gentle,
persuasive, royal...
EWI 11.102 1 In the oldest temples of Egypt, negro
captives are painted on the tombs of kings, in such attitudes as to
show that they are on the point of being executed;...
PLT 12.45 17 The primary rule for the conduct of
Intellect is to have control of the thoughts without losing their
natural attitudes and action.
attitudinizes, v. (1)
attorney, n. (13)
Nat 1.16 21 ...the attorney comes out of the din and
craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.
MR 1.230 10 That fancy [the scholar] had, and
hesitated to utter because you would laugh,-the broker, the attorney,
the market-man are saying the same thing.
Wsp 6.201 10 I have no fears of being forced in my
own despite to play as we say the devil's attorney.
Elo1 7.80 1 He who has points to carry must hire, not
a skilful attorney, but a commanding person.
Elo1 7.86 27 I remember long ago being
attracted...into the court-room. ... [The prisoner's counsel] drove the
attorney for the state from corner to corner...
Elo1 7.87 13 ...all this flood not serving the
cuttle-fish to get away in, the horrible shark of the district attorney
being still there...the poor court pleaded its inferiority.
Suc 7.312 1 This tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing
soul is...no attorney...
attorneys, n. (5)
Tran 1.348 20 The good, the illuminated, sit apart
from the rest...as if they thought that by sitting very grand in their
chairs, the very brokers, attorneys, and congressmen would see the
error of their ways, and flock to them.
Ctr 6.161 2 The orator who has once seen things in
their divine order...will come to affairs as from a higher ground,
and...he will have...an incapableness of being dazzled or frighted,
which will distinguish his handling from that of attorneys and factors.
Edc1 10.135 4 ...we aim to make accountants,
attorneys, engineers;...
CInt 12.127 21 ...I thought a college was a place not
to train talents, not to train attorneys, and those who say what they
please, but to adorn Genius...
attract, v. (10)
Lov1 2.186 11 ...that which drew [lovers] to each
other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are
there, however eclipsed. They appear and reappear and continue to
attract;...
Pol1 3.205 14 Cover up a pound of earth never so
cunningly...it will always attract and resist other matter by the full
virtue of one pound weight...
Bty 6.296 19 Nature wishes that woman should attract
man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm,
which seems to say, Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a
little better kind of man than any I yet behold.
Bty 6.296 20 Nature wishes that woman should attract
man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm,
which seems to say, Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a
little better kind of man than any I yet behold.
Cour 7.253 2 I observe that there are three qualities
which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of
mankind...disinterestedness...practical power...courage...
PI 8.13 6 When some familiar truth or fact appears in
a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is
like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as when a boy
finds that his pocket-knife will attract steel filings...
HDC 11.38 26 The little flower which at this season
stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract
even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble
beauty.
PLT 12.44 13 If you cut or break in two a block or
stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring
the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall
attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
attracted, v. (14)
SwM 4.101 7 ...[Swedenborg] went several times to
England, where he does not seem to have attracted any attention
whatever from the learned or the eminent;...
Wth 6.110 6 Britain, France and Germany...send out,
attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then
their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
Elo1 7.86 22 I remember long ago being attracted, by
the distinction of the counsel...into the court-room.
Cour 7.255 8 The third excellence is courage, the
perfect will...which is attracted by frowns or threats or hostile
armies...
Dem1 10.18 23 In vain do the clear-headed part of
mankind discredit [demonic individuals] as deceivers or deceived,-the
mass is attracted.
Aris 10.34 21 The old French Revolution attracted to
its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in
Europe.
LLNE 10.360 10 Many persons, attracted by the beauty
of the place [Brook Farm] and the culture and ambition of the
community, joined them as boarders...
CSC 10.374 5 These meetings [of the Chardon Street
Convention] attracted a great deal of public attention...
MMEm 10.405 25 None but was attracted or piqued by
[Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with
books and with eminent names.
MMEm 10.406 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] surprised,
attracted, chided and denounced her companion by turns...
CL 12.143 11 ...De Quincey prefixes to this
description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has
not attracted more attention.
attracting, v. (1)
attraction, n. (38)
Nat 1.69 23 The perception of this class of
[spiritual] truths makes the attraction which draws men to science...
AmS 1.90 2 I had better never see a book than to be
warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit...
DSA 1.120 2 ...in the powers and path of light, heat,
attraction, and life, [the world] is well worth the pith and heart of
great men to subdue and enjoy it.
LT 1.268 18 ...this [conservative] class...is
respectable only as nature is; but the individuals have no attraction
for us.
LT 1.289 5 To a true scholar the attraction of the
aspects of nature...is simply the information they yield him of this
supreme nature which lurks within all.
Lov1 2.174 22 ...it may seem to many men...that they
have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of
some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft,
surpassing the deep attraction of its own truth, to a parcel of
accidental and trivial circumstances.
Cir 2.322 9 Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium
and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius,
and hence their dangerous attraction for men.
Chr1 3.105 7 Thence [from character] comes a new
intellectual exaltation, to be again rebuked by some new exhibition of
character. Strange alternation of attraction and repulsion!
Pol1 3.205 10 [Persons and property] exert their
power, as steadily as matter its attraction.
ShP 4.206 1 ...[researches concerning Shakespeare's
condition] can shed no light upon that infinite invention which is the
concealed magnet of his attraction for us.
ET1 5.4 9 ...my narrow and desultory reading had
inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers...and I
suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe...it was
mainly the attraction of these persons.
ET2 5.26 7 I wanted a change and a tonic, and England
was proposed to me. Besides, there were at least the dread attraction
and salutary influences of the sea.
ET16 5.273 5 It had been agreed between my friend Mr.
Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion
together to Stonehenge, which neither of us had seen; and the project
pleased my fancy with the double attraction of the monument and the
companion.
Wth 6.90 3 ...according to the excellence of the
machinery in each human being is his attraction for the instruments he
is to employ.
Ctr 6.134 6 This goitre of egotism is so frequent
among notable persons that we must infer some strong necessity in
nature which it subserves; such as we see in the sexual attraction.
Ctr 6.148 12 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it
may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it
draws, and, in a city, the total attraction of all the citizens is sure
to conquer, first or last, every repulsion...
Wsp 6.218 16 The moment of your...acceptance of the
lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of
genius...and the inevitable loss of attraction to other minds.
CbW 6.277 3 [The happy conditions of life's]
attraction for you is the pledge that they are within your reach.
Dem1 10.27 14 ...the attraction which this topic
[demonology] has had for me...is precisely because I think the
numberless forms in which this superstition has reappeared in every
time and every people indicates the inextinguishableness of wonder in
man...
Aris 10.47 22 Whoever wants more power than is the
legitimate attraction of his faculty, is a politician...
MoL 10.250 3 Nature says to the American: I
understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the balance of
attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally
the powers you need.
CPL 11.496 4 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and
lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a
noble library, which adds...a quite new attraction...
CPL 11.496 9 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and
lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a
noble library...offering a strong attraction to strangers who are
seeking a country home to sit down here.
Mem 12.99 26 As deep as the thought, so great is the
attraction.
Milt1 12.247 8 ...the new-found book having in itself
less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the
public as quickly subsided...
attractions, n. (16)
MN 1.197 13 ...our arm is no more as strong as the
frost, nor our will equivalent to gravity and the elective attractions.
NR 3.238 5 ...our economical mother...gathering up
into some man every property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold
occult mutual attractions among her offspring...
MoS 4.183 26 Charles Fourier announced that the
attractions of man are proportioned to his destinies;...
MoS 4.184 24 Each man woke in the morning with...a
spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion
to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not
serve him. He was an emperor deserted by his states...and still the
sirens sang, The attractions are proportioned to the destinies.
Ctr 6.139 4 The antidotes against this organic
egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by
acquaintance with the world...
PI 8.16 14 Swedenborg saw gravity to be only an
external of the irresistible attractions of affection and faith.
Comc 8.161 10 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute
understanding, who sees the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the
heyday of youth feels also the full attractions of pleasure...
Plu 10.299 4 Thought defends [Plutarch] from any
degradation. He does not lose his way, for the attractions are from
within, not from without.
Milt1 12.269 15 Susceptible as Burke to the
attractions of historical prescription...[Milton] threw himself...on
the side of the reeking conventicle;...
attractive, adj. (32)
Hist 2.33 24 ...although that poem [Goethe's Helena]
be as vague and fantastic as a dream, yet is it much more attractive
than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author...
Lov1 2.188 25 That which is so beautiful and
attractive as these relations [of love], must be succeeded and
supplanted only by what is more beautiful, and so on for ever.
NER 3.255 18 ...the motto of the Globe newspaper is
so attractive to me that I can seldom find much appetite to read what
is below it in its columns...
MoS 4.158 14 Remember the open question between the
present order of competition and the friends of attractive and
associated labor.
ET16 5.274 6 I thought it natural that [travelling
Americans] should give...a little [time] to scientific clubs and
museums, which, at this moment, make London very attractive.
Elo1 7.69 17 ...eloquence must be attractive, or it
is none.
DL 7.120 17 ...who can see unmoved...the cautious
comparison of the attractive advertisement of the arrival of Macready,
Booth or Kemble...with the expense of the entertainment;...
Boks 7.199 7 Here [in Plato] is that which is so
attractive to all men,--the literature of aristocracy shall I call
it?...
Boks 7.220 24 ...how attractive is the whole
literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science
of the French Troubadours!
Clbs 7.246 6 [A man of irreproachable behavior and
excellent sense] said the fact was incontestable that the society of
gypsies was more attractive than that of bishops.
PI 8.43 17 Barthold Niebuhr said well, There is
little merit in inventing a happy idea or attractive situation, so long
as it is only the author's voice which we hear.
Res 8.151 14 Natural history is, in the country, most
attractive;...
PC 8.226 4 At any time, it only needs the
contemporaneous appearance of a few superior and attractive men to give
a new and noble turn to the public mind.
Imtl 8.334 3 After science begins, belief of
permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive, designs
so wise...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
Aris 10.31 1 There is an attractive topic, which
never goes out of vogue...
Aris 10.38 16 ...we wish to see those to whom
existence is most adorned and attractive, foremost to peril it for
their object...
SovE 10.209 1 ...Stoicism, always attractive to the
intellectual and cultivated, has now no temples...
Prch 10.228 15 Of course a hero so attractive to the
hearts of millions [as Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into
his train...
LLNE 10.332 10 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and
weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived
beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys from
Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts...this learning instantly
took the highest place to our imagination...
EWI 11.136 22 One feels very sensibly in all this
history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and
soul are behind there...infinitely attractive to every person according
to the degree of reason in his own mind...
EWI 11.138 2 This moral force perpetually reinforces
and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West
Indies]. It...gave that superiority in reason, in imagery, in
eloquence, which makes in all countries anti-slavery meetings so
attractive...
EWI 11.144 21 The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who
has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were the
color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine
through, with attractive beams.
CPL 11.495 6 That town is attractive to its native
citizens and to immigrants which has a healthy site, good land, good
roads...
PLT 12.11 10 Let me have your attention to this
dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will
cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake,
so attractive, so delusive.
Bost 12.194 18 ...how much more attractive and true
that this [Christian] piety should be the central trait and the stern
virtues follow than that Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on
his defence.
WSL 12.347 2 ...it is not from the highest Alps or
Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape
is commanded...
PPr 12.386 1 ...[Carlyle's] fancies are more
attractive and more credible than the sanity of duller men.
Attractive Industry, n. (2)
LLNE 10.351 16 ...it is not to be doubted but that in
the reign of Attractive Industry all men will speak in blank verse.
attractiveness, n. (6)
Hsm1 2.250 9 [Heroism's] rudest form is the contempt
for safety and ease, which makes the attractiveness of war.
War 11.172 13 What makes the attractiveness of that
romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays
and romances...
attracts, v. (4)
Comp 2.97 2 If the south attracts, the north repels.
OA 7.328 21 Youth has an excess of sensibility,
before which every object glitters and attracts.
attributable, adj. (2)
MR 1.242 11 ...the faults and vices of our literature
and philosophy ...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits
of the literary class.
attribute, n. (5)
SwM 4.97 26 Indeed, it takes/ From our achievements,
when performed at height,/ The pith and marrow of our attribute./
Art2 7.44 7 Eloquence...is modified how much by the
material organization of the orator...the play of the eye and
countenance. All this is so much deduction from the purely spiritual
pleasure, as so much deduction from the merit of Art, and is the
attribute of Nature.
LLNE 10.342 12 ...a sympathizing
Englishman...interrupted with the question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me
desires to inquire whether omnipotence abnegates attribute?
attribute, v. (4)
Nat 1.49 11 It is the uniform effect of culture on
the human mind...to attribute necessary existence to spirit;...
Exp 3.77 14 The subject is the receiver of Godhead,
and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic
might. Though not in energy, yet by presence, this magazine of
substance cannot be otherwise than felt; nor can any force of intellect
attribute to the object the proper deity which sleeps or wakes forever
in every subject.
Art2 7.46 26 The highest praise we can attribute to
any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed
the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us
attributed, v. (12)
Mrs1 3.121 7 ...the steady interest of mankind in
[the name gentleman] must be attributed to the valuable properties
which it designates.
ET4 5.46 15 Every body likes to know that his
advantages cannot be attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local
wealth...
QO 8.184 21 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron
Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has
Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of
everything.
Edc1 10.152 3 Every mind should be allowed to make
its own statement in action, and its balance will appear. In these
judgments one needs that foresight which was attributed to an eminent
reformer...
SovE 10.186 8 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech
of scholars (at least it is attributed to many) that...of Nathaniel
Carpenter... It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much
courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and
mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
HDC 11.61 2 Concord suffered little from the [King
Philip's] war. This is to be attributed no doubt, in part, to the fact
that troops were generally quartered here...
ChiE 11.474 13 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to
Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of
foreign governments to China.
Milt1 12.274 20 The perception we have attributed to
Milton, of a purer ideal of humanity, modifies his poetic genius.
PPr 12.386 24 It was perhaps inseparable from the
attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that
a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear,-producing
on the reader a feeling of forlornness by the excess of value
attributed to circumstances.
attributes, n. (26)
AmS 1.105 8 As the world was plastic and fluid in the
hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to
it.
LE 1.158 8 The resources of the scholar are
proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the Intellect.
LE 1.162 15 The impoverishing philosophy of ages has
laid stress on the distinctions of the individual, and not on the
universal attributes of man.
Hist 2.37 22 Do not the lovely attributes of the
maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society?
Comp 2.99 13 ...the President has paid dear for his
White House. It has commonly cost him...the best of his manly
attributes.
Comp 2.122 11 There can be no excess to love...none
to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.
Lov1 2.169 16 The introduction to this felicity [of
Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one,
which...seizes on man at one period...and... adds to his character
heroic and sacred attributes...
OS 2.283 20 To truth, justice, love, the attributes
of the soul, the idea of immutableness is essentially associated.
OS 2.283 26 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments
[truth, justice, love]... never made the separation of the idea of
duration from the essence of these attributes...
Art1 2.359 1 The best of beauty is...a wonderful
expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest
and simplest attributes of our nature...
Art1 2.359 3 The best of beauty is...a wonderful
expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest
and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible
at last to those souls which have these attributes.
Pol1 3.205 15 ...the attributes of a person...will
exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force...
NR 3.242 15 If we were not kept among surfaces,
everything would be large and universal; now the excluded attributes
burst in on us with the more brightness that they have been excluded.
ET12 5.208 20 The German Huber, in describing to his
countrymen the attributes of an English gentleman, frankly admits that
in Germany, we have nothing of the kind.
Ill 6.314 26 [I knew a humorist who] shocked the
company by maintaining that the attributes of God were two,--power and
risibility...
WD 7.172 20 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory
energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes.
PPo 8.244 12 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes
of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic...
Chr2 10.93 15 ...the sense of Right and Wrong, is
alike in all. Its attributes are self-existence, eternity, intuition
and command.
Schr 10.264 16 One is tempted to affirm the office
and attributes of the scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a
frequent perversity of the class itself.
LVB 11.94 8 ...[the question of currency and trade]
is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether
all the attributes of reason, of civility, of justice, and even of
mercy, shall be put off by the American people...
Milt1 12.255 23 The genius of France has not...yet
culminated in any one head...into such perception of all the attributes
of humanity as to entitle it to any rivalry in these lists [with
Milton].
attributes, v. (3)
ET6 5.109 16 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge
popularity of Perceval, prime minister in 1810, to the fact that he was
wont to go to church every Sunday...
Ill 6.319 7 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...
attributing, v. (2)
Schr 10.273 20 Other men are...heaving and carrying,
each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all
are helped. Shall [the scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from
far with reverence, attributing to him the delving in great fields of
thought...
MAng1 12.222 3 There needs no better proof of our
instinctive feeling of the immense expression of which the human figure
is capable than the uniform tendency which the religion of every
country has betrayed towards Anthropomorphism, or attributing to the
Deity the human form.
attrition, n. (2)
ET6 5.115 1 ...the usage of a dress-dinner every day
at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing
good [in table-talk]. Much attrition has worn every sentence into a
bullet.
ACri 12.296 3 Montaigne must have the credit of
giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low
speech...words...that have neatness and necessity, through their use in
the vocabulary of work and appetite, like the pebbles which the
incessant attrition of the sea has rounded.
attuned, v. (2)
MMEm 10.424 23 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who
stretched thy warp from long ages...has attuned [man's] mind in such
unison with the harp of the universe, that he is never without some
chord of hope's music.
Aubrey, John, n. (8)
ShP 4.208 22 ...with Shakspeare for biographer,
instead of Aubrey and Rowe, we have really the information [about
Shakespeare] which is material;...
Ctr 6.148 24 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas
Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there
was a good library...
Boks 7.208 26 There is a class [of books] whose value
I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's
Chronicles;...Aubrey;...
Clbs 7.243 25 We know well the Mermaid Club...of
Shakspeare... Beaumont and Fletcher;...many allusions to their suppers
are found in Jonson, Herrick and in Aubrey.
Milt1 12.257 7 Aubrey says [of Milton], This
harmonical and ingenuous soul dwelt in a beautiful, well-proportioned
body.
Milt1 12.257 13 Aubrey adds a sharp trait, [Milton]
pronounced the letter R very hard, a certain sign of satirical genius.
WSL 12.342 1 A charm attaches to the most inferior
names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers
of the House of Fame... to...Aubrey and Spence.
Aubrey's, John, n. (3)
ET11 5.190 6 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from
the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...down to Aubrey's
passages of the life of Hobbes in the house of the Earl of Devon, are
favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
ET12 5.201 15 Here indeed [at Oxford] was the Olympia
of all Antony Wood's and Aubrey's games and heroes...
Boks 7.208 17 Another class of books closely allied
to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks:
of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Aubrey's Lives;...
auction, n. (4)
Exp 3.63 7 A collector recently bought at public
auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an
autograph of Shakspeare;...
ET10 5.163 21 The taste and science of thirty
peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
LLNE 10.356 4 ...the men of science, art, intellect,
are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on
wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then...we
suddenly find...that in the circumstances, the best wisdom were an
auction or a fire.
FSLC 11.197 7 Philadelphia...in this auction of the
rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery.
auctioneer, n. (2)
Elo1 7.75 6 These accomplishments [of eloquence] are
of the same kind, and only a degree higher than the coaxing of the
auctioneer...
QO 8.194 11 ...you can easily pronounce, from the use
and relevancy of the sentence, whether it had not done duty many times
before,-whether your jewel was got from the mine or from an auctioneer.
auctioneers, n. (1)
EdAd 11.385 13 There is no speech heard but that of
auctioneers, newsboys, and the caucus.
auctioneer's, n. (1)
auction-platform, n. (1)
LT 1.269 24 The fury with which the slave-trader
defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a trumpet to
alarm the ear of mankind...
audacious, adj. (5)
Imtl 8.343 20 ...wherever man ripens, this audacious
belief [in immortality] presently appears...
audaciously, adv. (1)
PI 8.21 8 The poet contemplates the central
identity...and, following it, can detect essential resemblances in
natures never before compared. He can class them so audaciously because
he is sensible of the sweep of the celestial stream...
audacities, n. (2)
NR 3.247 18 ...the most sincere and revolutionary
doctrine...shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...and the same
immeasurable credulity demanded for new audacities.
ShP 4.194 8 [Popular tradition]...in furnishing so
much work done to his hand, leaves [the poet] at leisure and in full
strength for the audacities of his imagination.
audacity, n. (5)
Wth 6.89 17 The sea...offers its perilous aid and the
power and empire that follow it...to [man's] craft and audacity.
Schr 10.266 10 [Nature]...comes in with a new
ravishing experience and makes the old time ridiculous. Every poet
knows the unspeakable hope, and represents its audacity.
LLNE 10.338 5 ...while society remained in doubt
between the indignation of the old school and the audacity of the new,
a higher note sounded.
Audate, n. (1)
SR 2.78 5 Caratach...when admonished to inquire the
mind of the god Audate, replies,--His hidden meaning lies in our
endeavours;/...
audibilities, n. (1)
ET8 5.133 27 No man can claim to usurp more than a
few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room...
audible, adj. (2)
AmS 1.113 4 [Swedenborg] pierced the emblematic or
spiritual character of the visible, audible, tangible world.
SwM 4.143 1 ...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some
sort, love is greater than God, his heart beats so high that the
thumping against his leathern coat is audible across the centuries.
audience, adj. (1)
EPro 11.316 22 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when
an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles
involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly...
audience, n. (57)
MN 1.218 10 Genius...draws its means and the style of
its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience and
spectator...
Tran 1.339 24 It is well known to most of my audience
that the Idealism of the present day acquired the name of
Transcendental from the use of that term by Immanuel Kant...
NR 3.226 12 ...the audience, who have only to hear
and not to speak, judge very wisely and superiorly how wrongheaded and
unskilful is each of the debaters to his own affair.
ShP 4.192 19 The secure possession, by the stage, of
the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for
it. He loses no time in idle experiments. Here is audience and
expectation prepared.
ShP 4.192 26 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is the
Tale of Troy, which the audience will bear hearing some part of, every
week;...
ShP 4.197 1 [The poet in illiterate times]
is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived;...from
whatever source, they are equally welcome to his uncritical audience.
ET2 5.32 17 It has been said that the King of England
would consult his dignity by giving audience to foreign ambassadors in
the cabin of a man-of-war.
ET7 5.125 16 I knew a very worthy man...who went to
the opera to see Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across
a ruined bridge. Mr. B. arose and mildly yet firmly called the
attention of the audience and the performers to the fact that, in his
judgment, the bridge was unsafe!
ET13 5.218 16 It was strange to hear the pretty
pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the
world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th
January, 1848, to the decorous English audience...
Elo1 7.62 13 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas]
in turn exhibits similar symptoms...a selfish enjoyment of his
sensations, and loss of perception of the sufferings of the audience.
Elo1 7.65 8 That...which eloquence ought to reach,
is...a taking sovereign possession of the audience.
Elo1 7.65 13 Bring [the master orator] to his
audience, and...he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
Elo1 7.66 19 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment,
the attention [of the audience] deepens, a new and highest audience now
listens...
Elo1 7.66 22 There is...something excellent in every
audience,--the capacity of virtue.
Elo1 7.67 23 When each auditor...shudders with cold
at the thinness of the morning audience...mere energy and mellowness
[in the orator] are then inestimable.
Elo1 7.70 13 It is said that the Khans or
story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a
controlling power over their audience...
Elo1 7.75 4 ...a ruffian touch in his rhetoric, will
do [the member of Congress] no harm with his audience.
Elo1 7.82 2 In the assembly, you shall find the
orator and the audience in perpetual balance;...
Elo1 7.82 7 If the talents for speaking exist, but
not the strong personality, then there are good speakers who perfectly
receive and express the will of the audience...
Elo1 7.82 12 The audience [if there be personality in
the orator] is thrown into the attitude of pupil...
Elo1 7.82 26 This balance between the orator and the
audience is expressed in what is called the pertinence of the speaker.
Elo1 7.83 26 I have heard it reported of an eloquent
preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which
overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite
lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...carried audience,
mourners and mourning along with him...
Elo1 7.90 6 Condense some daily experience into a
glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.
Elo1 7.91 8 ...all these talents [of oratory]...have
an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
PI 8.30 13 ...the moment the orator loses command of
his audience, the audience commands him.
PI 8.40 21 These successes are not less admirable and
astonishing to the poet than they are to his audience.
Elo2 8.112 3 ...[in a debate] much power is to be
exhibited which is not yet called into existence, but is to be
suggested on the spot...by the exhibition of an unlooked-for bias in
the judges or in the audience.
Elo2 8.114 17 ...you may find [the orator] in some
lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who conquers his audience by
infusing his soul into them...
Elo2 8.118 26 ...deep interest or sympathy...will
carry the cold and fearful presently into self-possession and
possession of the audience.
Elo2 8.125 7 ...[the man in the street]...can always
get the ear of an audience to the exclusion of everybody else.
Elo2 8.125 19 ...when [the orator] rises to any
height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with
the ear of all his audience.
Elo2 8.127 2 If [some men] are to put a thing in
proper shape, fit for the occasion and the audience, their mind is a
blank.
Elo2 8.130 15 It was said of Robespierre's audience,
that though they understood not the words, they understood a fury in
the words, and caught the contagion.
Insp 8.277 3 Garrick said that on the stage his great
paroxysms surprised himself as much as his audience.
Grts 8.309 6 ...the rule of the orator begins...when
his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey
that conviction to his audience,- when these shine and burn in his
address;...
Aris 10.53 16 The best feat of genius is to bring all
the varieties of talent and culture into its audience;...
LLNE 10.331 22 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what
occasion soever, a fact had always just transpired which composed, with
some other fact well known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy
coincidence.
SlHr 10.441 20 ...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his
audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements...
Thor 10.457 1 Talking, one day, of a public
discourse, Henry [Thoreau] remarked that whatever succeeded with the
audience was bad.
FSLN 11.218 4 It is to [students and scholars] I am
beforehand related and engaged, in this audience or out of it...
EPro 11.316 23 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when
an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles
involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly,-an
audience hitherto passive and unconcerned...
FRO2 11.485 4 Friends: I wish I could deserve
anything of the kind expression of my friend, the President [of the
Free Religious Association], and the kind good will which the audience
signifies...
FRO2 11.485 8 ...quite against my design and my will,
I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written
remarks...
CInt 12.120 9 ...I value [talent] more...when the
talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is
the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...strong by the
strength of the facts themselves. Then the orator is still one of the
audience, persuaded by the same reasons which persuade them;...
CL 12.158 1 There are probably many in this audience
who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as
to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.
ACri 12.283 20 In this art [writing] modern society
has introduced a new element, by introducing a new audience.
audience-hall, n. (1)
PPo 8.250 15 Bring wine; for in the audience-hall of
the soul's independence, what is sentinel or Sultan?...
audiences, n. (8)
Elo1 7.66 19 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment,
the attention [of the audience] deepens, a new and highest audience now
listens, and the audiences of the fun and of facts and of the
understanding are all silenced and awed.
Elo1 7.67 13 This range of many powers in the
consummate speaker, and of many audiences in one assembly, leads us to
consider the successive stages of oratory.
Elo1 7.94 3 The orator is thereby an orator, that he
keeps his feet ever on a fact. Thus only is he invincible. No
gifts...will make any amends for want of this. All audiences are just
to this point.
Suc 7.286 11 We have seen an American woman write a
novel...which... was read with equal interest to three audiences,
namely, in the parlor, in the kitchen and in the nursery of every
house.
FSLN 11.242 18 ...if audiences forget themselves,
statesmen do not.
ACri 12.284 3 Chiefly in this country, the common
school has added two or three audiences [for the writer]: once, we had
only the boxes; now, the galleries and the pit.
auditor, n. (5)
Elo1 7.67 20 When each auditor feels himself to make
too large a part of the assembly...mere energy and mellowness [in the
orator] are then inestimable.
Elo1 7.80 20 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses
the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table
where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism. Each
auditor puts a final stroke to the discourse by exclaiming, Can he
mesmerize me?
Elo2 8.121 14 In moments of clearer thought or deeper
sympathy, the voice will attain a music and penetration which surprises
the speaker as much as the auditor;...
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.
LLNE 10.332 27 In the pulpit...[Everett] made amends
to himself and his auditor for the self-denial of the professor's
chair, and...he gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent
fancy.
auditors, n. (4)
MR 1.227 20 ...none of my auditors will deny that we
ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines and courses as
will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with the spiritual
nature.
Elo1 7.62 18 ...the like regret is suggested to all
the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall
hear worse orators than themselves.
Plu 10.310 2 Except as historical curiosities, little
can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions
of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs. They are...very
crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that
Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors...
auditory, n. (4)
Int 2.347 6 ...nor do [the Greek philosophers]
ever...testify the least displeasure or petulance at the dulness of
their amazed auditory.
Elo2 8.115 18 [The true orator's] attitude in the
rostrum, on the platform, requires that he counterbalance his auditory.
TPar 11.287 10 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore
Parker's] treatment both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity, and
sympathized with the pain of many good people in his auditory...
Audley Street, London, Eng (1)
auger, n. (1)
Augereau, Pierre Francois (1)
aught, n. (13)
SR 2.48 25 The nonchalance of boys who...would
disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the
healthy attitude of human nature.
Comp 2.125 27 We linger in the ruins of the old
tent...nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again.
We cannot again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful.
Lov1 2.174 9 ...the coldest philosopher cannot
recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the
power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to
nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.
Fdsp 2.212 4 There are innumerable degrees of folly
and wisdom, and for you to say aught is to be frivolous.
Pol1 3.197 8 Boded Merlin wise,/ Proved Napoleon
great,--/ Nor kind nor coinage buys/ Aught above its rate./
UGM 4.29 21 Compromise thy egotism. Who cares for
that, so thou gain aught wider and nobler?
GoW 4.285 13 Enemy of [Goethe] you may be,--if so you
shall teach him aught which your good-will can not...
ET5 5.79 19 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that
syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ...
Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do
aught beyond this...he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of
simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the
model of it.
Wsp 6.199 16 [Fate] is the oldest, and best known,/
More near than aught thou call'st thy own/...
PI 8.75 7 ...the involuntary part of [men's] life is
so much as to...leave them no countenance to say aught of what is so
trivial as their selfish thinking and doing.
Edc1 10.125 10 We have already taken...(for aught I
know for the first time in the world), the initial step...this, namely,
that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the
rich, and say, You shall educate me...
Plu 10.313 7 [Plutarch] cites Euripides to affirm, If
gods do aught dishonest, they are no gods...
MMEm 10.404 8 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her
nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... If I had been in aught but dreary
deserts, I should have idolized my friends, despised the world and been
haughty.
augment, v. (2)
Pol1 3.212 2 It makes no difference how many tons'
weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure
resists it within the lungs. Augment the mass a thousand-fold, it
cannot begin to crush us, as long as reaction is equal to action.
augmentation, n. (1)
PC 8.207 8 The heart still beats with the public
pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which
threatened its existence, and thrills with the vast augmentation of
strength which it draws from this proof.
augmented, adj. (1)
War 11.153 7 New territory, augmented numbers and
extended interests call out new virtues...
augmented, v. (5)
Int 2.341 22 [The scholar] must...choose defeat and
pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.
ShP 4.196 12 If [Shakespeare] lost any credit of
design, he augmented his resources;...
Pow 6.64 14 The faster the ball falls to the sun, the
force to fly off is by so much augmented.
Civ 7.22 23 Another success is the post-office, with
its educating energy augmented by cheapness...
War 11.152 27 The [early] leaders, picked men of a
courage and vigor tried and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to
distinguish themselves above each other by new merits...
augmenting, adj. (3)
ET10 5.169 16 Such a wealth has England earned, ever
new, bounteous and augmenting.
WD 7.162 25 Malthus...forgot to say...that the
augmenting wants of society would be met by an augmenting power of
invention.
WD 7.162 27 Malthus...forgot to say...that the
augmenting wants of society would be met by an augmenting power of
invention.
augmenting, v. (1)
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.
augments, v. (1)
Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung (1)
ACri 12.304 17 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung
deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation.
Augsburg, Confession of, n. (2)
EPro 11.315 18 Such moments of expansion [of liberty]
in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg, the plantation of
America...
RBur 11.440 22 The Confession of Augsburg, the
Declaration of Independence...are not more weighty documents in the
history of freedom than the songs of Burns.
augur, n. (3)
Dem1 10.14 20 ...while the whole multitude was on the
way, an augur called out to them to stand still...
Dem1 10.14 22 ...this man [Masollam] inquired the
reason of [the multitude's] halting. The augur showed him a bird, and
told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for
them all to remain;...
Dem1 10.14 27 The augur showed [Masollam] a bird, and
told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for
them all to remain; if he flew on, they might proceed; but if he flew
back, they must return. The Jew said nothing, but bent his bow and shot
the bird to the ground. This act offended the augur and some others...
augured, v. (1)
ET7 5.120 3 [Wellington] augured ill of the
[Napoleonic] empire as soon as he saw that it was mendacious...
auguries, n. (6)
NER 3.283 1 If the auguries of the prophesying heart
shall make themselves good in time, the man who shall be born...is one
who shall enjoy his connection with a higher life...
F 6.1 3 Birds with auguries on their wings/ Chanted
undeceiving things,/ [The bard] to beckon, him to warn;/...
Farm 7.150 19 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land,
make it sweet and friable; have made English Chat Moss a garden, and
will now do as much for the Dismal Swamp. But beyond this benefit they
are the text of better opinions and better auguries for mankind.
PC 8.222 4 When the correlation of the sciences was
announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise; we were
found already prepared for it. The fact stated accorded with the
auguries or divinations of the human mind.
Dem1 10.9 2 Why...should not symptoms, auguries,
forebodings be...
PLT 12.15 4 First I wish to speak of the excellence
of that element [Intellect], and the great auguries that come from
it...
augury, n. (4)
ET14 5.254 8 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the
[English] student...
Imtl 8.346 10 A conclusion, an inference, a grand
augury [of immortality], is ever hovering...
august, adj. (7)
Exp 3.71 26 I clap my hands in infantine joy and
amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...
Exp 3.84 18 I am very content with knowing, if only I
could know. That is an august entertainment...
PerF 10.82 24 The imagination enriches [the man], as
if there were no other; the memory opens all her cabinets and
archives;...Poetry her splendor and joy and the august circles of
eternal law.
CPL 11.508 4 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes,
all books, all past acts are...huddled aside as impertinent in the
august presence of the creator.
August, adj. (1)
EzRy 10.386 24 One August afternoon, when I was in
[Ezra Ripley's] hayfield helping him with his man to rake up his hay, I
well remember his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when
the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay.
August, n. (23)
ET1 5.10 7 From London, on the 5th August [1833], I
went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge...
ET1 5.19 3 On the 28th August [1833] I went to Rydal
Mount, to pay my respects to Mr. Wordsworth.
ET12 5.201 27 [At Oxford] on August 27, 1660, John
Milton's Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio and Iconoclastes were committed
to the flames.
Insp 8.274 2 In June the morning is noisy with birds;
in August they are already getting old and silent.
EzRy 10.383 4 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children:
Sarah, born August 18, 1781; Samuel...Daniel...
EzRy 10.383 6 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children:
Sarah...Samuel... Daniel Bliss, born August 1, 1784.
HDC 11.71 4 In August [1774], a County Convention met
in this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public
affairs...
EWI 11.112 7 The scheme of the
Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the
West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as
apprenticed laborers...
EWI 11.112 23 ...Be it enacted, that all and every
person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery
within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and
after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes
free...
EWI 11.112 26 ...Be it enacted, that all and every
person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery
within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and
after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes
free...
EWI 11.113 6 ...be it enacted...that from and after
the first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and
forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British
colonies...
EWI 11.115 18 The first of August [1834] came on
Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies]
until the next Monday.
EWI 11.117 3 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord
Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that now for
ten months, from 1st August, 1834, no injury or violence had been
offered to any white [in the West Indies]...
EWI 11.120 2 ...the great island of
Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
EWI 11.120 5 ...on the 1st August, 1838, the shackles
dropped from every British slave.
EWI 11.120 13 The First of August, 1838, was observed
in Jamaica as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
EWI 11.140 8 The First of August [1834] marks the
entrance of a new element into modern politics, namely, the
civilization of the negro.
EWI 11.147 25 The sentiment of Right...pronounces
Freedom. The Power that built this fabric of things...in the history of
the First of August [1834], has made a sign to the ages, of his will.
SMC 11.366 7 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant
in this [Forty-seventh] regiment...went out again in August, 1864...
SMC 11.366 15 In August, 1862, on the new requisition
for troops...twelve men, including [Sylvester Lovejoy], were enlisted
for three years...
CL 12.151 19 In August, when the corn is grown to be
a resort and protection to woodcocks and small birds...we observe
already that the leaf is sere...
Augustan, adj. (1)
Augustine, St., n. (17)
Cir 2.301 5 St. Augustine described the nature of God
as a circle whose centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere.
PPh 4.40 3 St. Augustine, Copernicus...are likewise
[Plato's] debtors...
PI 8.51 1 St. Augustine complains to God of his
friends offering him the books of the philosophers...
Imtl 8.347 4 Read Plato, or any seer of the interior
realities. Read St. Augustine, Swedenborg, Immanuel Kant.
SovE 10.203 19 The Church of Rome had its saints, and
inspired the conscience of Europe-St. Augustine, and Thomas a Kempis,
and Fenelon;...
Prch 10.227 18 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe
the very spirit which now fires you.
Plu 10.306 25 Let others wrangle, said St. Augustine;
I will wonder.
Plu 10.319 7 What a fruit and fitting monument of
[Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace
or home of Plotinus, St. Augustine...
Carl 10.489 12 If you would know precisely how
[Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found
leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and
Shakspeare, Augustine and Calvin...
FRO2 11.486 13 We have had not long since presented
to us by Max Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine...
FRO2 11.486 16 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is
now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients...
II 12.74 19 ...I believe it is true in the experience
of all men...that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them,
and not they in us. How they entered into me, let them say if they can;
for I have gone over all the avenues of my flesh, and cannot find by
which they entered, said Saint Augustine.
Bost 12.194 3 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of
Saint Augustine...of Thomas a Kempis...without feeling how rich and
expansive a culture...they owed to the promptings of this [Christian]
sentiment;...
MLit 12.309 19 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine,
and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...
MLit 12.311 19 How can the age be a bad one which
gives me...Saint Augustine, Spinoza, Chapman...beside its own riches?
MLit 12.327 24 We think, when we contemplate the
stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man
merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who
pleases, I will wonder.
Pray 12.356 7 ...we must not tie up the rosary on
which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a
pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint
Augustine.
auld, adj. (1)
SwM 4.138 26 Burns, with the wild humor of his
apostrophe to poor auld Nickie Ben...has the advantage of the
vindictive theologian.
Auld lang synes, n. (1)
RBur 11.442 4 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson
my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses
been applied to!
auncestrie, n. (1)
Aris 10.30 2 ...he that wol have prize of his
genterie,/ For he was boren of a gentil house,/ And had his elders
noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe
his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is not gentil, be he duke
or erl;/...
Aunt B--, n. (1)
MEm 10.412 21 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane
aunt] was brought here [to Malden].
Aunt Mary, n. (2)
MMEm 10.408 2 [Mary Moody Emerson's] nephew [C. C.
Emerson] wrote of her: I am glad the friendship with Aunt Mary is
ripening.
MMEm 10.410 14 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth
Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with
Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost...
aunt, n. (11)
Res 8.148 19 See the dexterity of the good aunt in
keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted
without knowing it...
Edc1 10.148 23 The joy of our childhood in hearing
beautiful stories from some skilful aunt who loves to tell them, must
be repeated in youth.
MMEm 10.400 21 Later, another aunt [of Mary Moody
Emerson], who had become insane, was brought hither [to Malden] to end
her days.
MMEm 10.412 21 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane
aunt] was brought here [to Malden].
MMEm 10.414 6 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I
remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in
childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things than their
individual fault. It was from being early impressed by my poor
unpractical aunt, that Providence and Prayer were all in all.
MMEm 10.415 24 This morning rich in existence; the
remembrance of past destitution in the deep poverty of my [Mary Moody
Emerson's] aunt...
MMEm 10.419 22 Could I [Mary Moody Emerson] but live
free from calculation, as in the first half of life, when my poor aunt
lived.
MMEm 10.431 19 No object of science or observation
ever was pointed out to me [Mary Moody Emerson] by my poor aunt, but
[God's] Being and commands;...
Aunt, n. (1)
Dem1 10.19 22 The insinuation [of belief in the
demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are
sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...as if the laws
of the Father of the universe were sometimes balked and eluded by a
meddlesome Aunt of the universe for her pets.
aunts, n. (5)
ET4 5.65 21 The American [in England] has arrived at
the old mansion-house, and finds himself among uncles, aunts and
grandsires.
DL 7.104 24 ...uncles, aunts, grandsires, grandams,
fall an easy prey [to the young enchanter]...
SA 8.81 21 Who teaches manners...of grace, of
humility,--who but the adoring aunts and cousins that surround a young
child?
Let 12.395 2 One of the [letter] writers relentingly
says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me?...
Let 12.395 7 One of the [letter] writers relentingly
says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires
distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of
concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful
village by themselves!...
aura, n. (1)
Pt1 3.26 15 The condition of true naming, on the
poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes
through forms, and accompanying that.
Aurelius, of England, n. (1)
ET7 5.117 25 Geoffrey of Monmouth says of King
Aurelius, uncle of Arthur, that above all things he hated a lie.
auricular, adj. (1)
aurique, n. (1)
SwM 4.113 22 Ex aurique putat micis consistere posse/
Aurum, et de terris terram concrescere parvis;/...
aurora. (1)
OS 2.282 5 A certain tendency to insanity has always
attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been
blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates...the aurora of
Behmen...are of this kind.
Aurora Borealis, n. (1)
Insp 8.288 7 Perhaps you can recall a delight like
[the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have
stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of
wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples,-so
sudden, so slight, so spiritual, that it was more like the rippling of
the Aurora Borealis at night than any spectacle of day.
Aurora [Michelangelo], n. (1)
MAng1 12.230 3 In the mausoleum of the Medici at
Florence are the tombs of Lorenzo and Cosmo, with the grand statues of
Night and Day, and Aurora and Twilight.
aurora, n. (2)
Comp 2.120 1 [The mob] resembles the prank of boys,
who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the
stars.
Aurora, n. (3)
Comp 2.106 26 Aurora forgot to ask youth for her
lover, and though Tithonus is immortal, he is old.
Insp 8.285 1 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me
pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my
quiet industry./
Insp 8.285 20 ...the love-filled singers
[nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet
melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/ Roused tender new longings/ In my
lately touched bosom/ And so the night passed,/ And Aurora found me
sleeping;/ Yea, hardly did the sun wake me./
Aurora, Rospigliosi [Guido (1)
auroras, n. (1)
Pt1 3.11 7 ...behold! all night, from every pore,
these fine auroras have been streaming.
aurum, n. (1)
SwM 4.113 23 Ex aurique putat micis consistere posse/
Aurum, et de terris terram concrescere parvis;/...
auspicious, adj. (3)
MoS 4.181 25 It is the rule of mere comity and
courtesy...to turn your sentence with something auspicious...
ChiE 11.471 8 All share the surprise and pleasure
when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the
fellowship of nations. This auspicious event...marks a new era...
austere, adj. (14)
DSA 1.142 20 The Puritans in England and America
found...in the dogmas inherited from Rome, scope for their austere
piety...
LE 1.176 9 Let us sit with our hands on our mouths, a
long, austere, Pythagorean lustrum.
MoS 4.175 25 We go forth austere, dedicated...
LLNE 10.332 6 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and
weightily communicated...adorned with so many simple and austere
beauties of expression ...that...this learning instantly took the
highest place to our imagination...
FSLN 11.236 6 ...our education is not conducted by
toys and luxuries, but by austere and rugged masters...
MLit 12.329 25 [We can fancy Goethe saying to
himself] To a profound soul is not austere truth the sweetest
flattery??
austerely, adv. (1)
austerest, adj. (1)
Fdsp 2.200 26 Let us not have this childish luxury in
our regards, but the austerest worth;...
austerity, n. (6)
LE 1.176 13 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce
deep into the grandeur and secret of our being...
Hsm1 2.254 20 ...[the hero] loves [his temperance]
for its elegancy, not for its austerity.
Hsm1 2.261 15 To speak the truth, even with some
austerity...seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would
appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...
DL 7.121 4 What is the hoop that holds [the eager,
blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity...
Thor 10.478 18 It was easy to trace to the inexorable
demand on all for exact truth that austerity which made this willing
hermit [Thoreau] more solitary even than he wished.
War 11.175 9 ...if the rising generation...shall feel
the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short
day...
Austerlitz, Czechoslovakia, (3)
NMW 4.234 16 Seruzier, a colonel of artillery,
gives...the following sketch of a scene after the battle of Austerlitz.
NMW 4.241 10 The best document of [Napoleon's]
relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the
battle of Austerlitz...
NMW 4.246 18 [Napoleon's] army, on the night of the
battle of Austerlitz... presented him with a bouquet of forty standards
taken in the fight.
Austin, Lucy [Countess of (1)
Comc 8.171 26 Lord C., said the Countess of Gordon,
O, he is a perfect comb, all teeth and back.
Australia, n. (9)
ET4 5.70 26 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of
the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game
that is in nature.
ET9 5.146 24 ...so help him God! [the Englishman]
will force his island by-laws down the throat of great countries, like
India, China, Canada, Australia...
ET11 5.198 2 [Titles of lordship...may be
advantageously consigned...to the dignitaries of Australia and
Polynesia.
F 6.16 9 We see the English, French, and Germans
planting themselves on every shore and market of America and
Australia...
WD 7.161 22 When commerce is vastly enlarged,
California and Australia expose the gold it needs.
WD 7.161 24 When Europe is over-populated, America
and Australia crave to be peopled;...
PI 8.73 10 The high poetry which shall...bring in the
new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is...longer
postponed than was America or Australia...
FSLC 11.212 27 Every Englishman in Australia, in
South Africa, in India... represents London...
Australian, adj. (1)
ET18 5.300 26 During the Australian emigration [from
England], multitudes were rejected by the commissioners as being too
emaciated for useful colonists.
Austria, n. (7)
SL 2.145 18 All the terrors of the French Republic,
which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy.
NMW 4.252 22 ...Rome and Austria, centres of
tradition and genealogy, opposed [Napoleon].
NMW 4.253 2 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse
and deceive him, of the emperor of Austria to bribe him;...make
[Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
ET15 5.270 10 [The London Times's] editors know
better than to defend Russia, or Austria...on abstract grounds.
War 11.163 13 The reference to any foreign register
will inform us of the number of thousand or million men that are now
under arms in the vast colonial system...of Russia, Austria and
France;...
EPro 11.324 14 If you could add, say [foreign
critics], to your strength the whole army of England, of France and of
Austria, you could not coerce eight millions of people to come under
this government against their will.
Austrian, adj. (3)
Nat 1.20 24 ...when Arnold Winkelried...gathers in
his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades;
are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the
beauty of the deed?
NMW 4.234 10 Sire, General Clarke can not combine
with General Junot, for the dreadful fire of the Austrian battery.
NMW 4.238 6 At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered
Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse, and with these he
separated the six thousand Hungarian grenadiers, before the very eyes
of the Austrian cavalry.
Austrian, n. (2)
EPro 11.324 18 This is an odd thing for an
Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers Europe of
the last seventy years...
Austrians, n. (4)
NMW 4.235 6 ...in less than no time we buried some
thousands of Russians and Austrians under the waters of the lake.
NMW 4.236 18 [Napoleon] was flung into the marsh at
Arcola. The Austrians were between him and his troops...
NMW 4.247 7 The Austrians, [Napoleon] said, do not
know the value of time.
WSL 12.344 8 [Landor] hates the Austrians, the
Italians, the French, the Scotch and the Irish.
authentic, adj. (14)
AmS 1.93 13 The discerning will read, in
his...Shakspeare...only the authentic utterances of the oracle;...
LT 1.284 23 I have seen the authentic sign of anxiety
and perplexity on the greatest forehead of the State.
Con 1.314 10 Under the richest robes...the strong
heart will beat...with the desire to achieve its own fate and make
every ornament it wears authentic and real.
Hist 2.30 16 Beside its primary value as the first
chapter of the history of Europe (the mythology thinly veiling
authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic arts and the migration
of colonies,) [the story of Prometheus] gives the history of
religion...
SL 2.166 14 We know the authentic effects of the true
fire through every one of its million disguises.
OS 2.285 13 In that other [man]...authentic signs had
yet passed, to signify that he might be trusted as one who had an
interest in his own character.
NER 3.279 14 The reason why any one refuses his
assent to your opinion... is in you: he refuses to accept you as a
bringer of truth, because though you think you have it, he feels that
you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.
PPh 4.41 21 ...after some time it is not easy to say
what is the authentic work of the master and what is only of his
school.
Cour 7.255 15 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the
mythology of every nation; and in authentic history, a Leonidas, a
Scipio...
QO 8.198 15 We once knew a man overjoyed at the
notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the
very voice of the refined and discerning public, inviting merit at last
to consent to fame, and come up and take place in the reserved and
authentic chairs!
TPar 11.288 16 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons
of Theodore Parker...that the true temper and the authentic record of
these days will be read.
Wom 11.420 2 ...bring together a cultivated society
of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a
question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity
or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?
MLit 12.319 22 ...imagination, the original,
authentic fire of the bard, [Shelley] has not.
authenticating, v. (1)
ACri 12.296 4 Every historic autobiographic trait
authenticating the man [Montaigne] adds to the value of the book.
authenticity, n. (1)
Nat 1.47 14 In my utter impotence to test the
authenticity of the report of my senses...what difference does it make,
whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in
the firmament of the soul?
author, n. (45)
Hist 2.33 25 ...although that poem [Goethe's Helena]
be as vague and fantastic as a dream, yet is it much more attractive
than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author...
Fdsp 2.204 26 My author says,--I offer myself faintly
and bluntly to those whose I effectually am...
Pt1 3.32 8 An imaginative book renders us much more
service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards
when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
NR 3.233 16 It is a greater joy to see the author's
author, than himself.
PPh 4.45 10 This perpetual modernness is the measure
of merit in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by
any thing short-lived or local...
ShP 4.195 13 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's]
indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in
regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out
of 6043 lines, 1771 were written by some author preceding Shakspeare...
ET7 5.124 7 The old Italian author of the Relation of
England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when
the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for
good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm
might befall them.
Art2 7.46 25 It is a curious proof of our conviction
that the artist...is as much surprised at the effect as we are, that we
are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the
author.
WD 7.169 25 One author is good for winter, and one
for the dog-days.
Clbs 7.239 1 It happened many years ago that an
American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of
Manchester, England, the author of the theory of atomic proportions...
Cour 7.269 24 When a confident man comes into a
company magnifying this or that author he has freshly read, the company
grow silent and ashamed of their ignorance.
OA 7.329 22 We carry in memory important anecdotes,
and have lost all clew to the author from whom we had them.
QO 8.194 1 ...people quote so differently: one
finding only what is gaudy and popular; another, the heart of the
author...
QO 8.195 15 It is curious what new interest an old
author acquires by official canonization in Tiraboschi...or other
historian of literature.
QO 8.196 12 ...Cardinal de Retz...described himself
in an extemporary Latin sentence, which he pretended to quote from a
classic author...
QO 8.197 2 In hours of high mental activity we
sometimes do the book too much honor, reading out of it better things
than the author wrote...
Plu 10.293 1 It is remarkable that of an author so
familiar as Plutarch...not even the dates of his birth and death,
should have come down to us.
Plu 10.299 19 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a
mathematician to leave some of his readers...respectfully skipping to
the next chapter. But this scholastic omniscience of our author engages
a new respect, since they hope he understands his own diagram.
Plu 10.321 21 We owe to these translators [of
Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their
author...
HDC 11.83 9 I have been greatly indebted, in
preparing this sketch [of Concord], to the printed but unpublished
History of this town, furnished me by the unhesitating kindness of its
author [Lemuel Shattuck]...
HDC 11.83 11 I hope that History [of Concord] will
not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck] has done us and
posterity a kindness...
EWI 11.136 3 Lord Chancellor Northington is the
author of the famous sentence, As soon as any man puts his foot on
English ground, he becomes free.
FSLC 11.202 12 ...we must use the introducer and
substantial author of the [Fugitive Slave] bill as an illustration of
the history.
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