B--, Aunt to Banquets
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
B--, Aunt, n. (1)
MEm 10.412 21 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane
aunt] was brought here [to Malden].
B., Mr., n. [B,] (2)
ET7 5.125 14 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!
EzRy 10.392 22 Mr. N. F. is dead, and I expect to
hear of the death of Mr. B. It is cruel to separate old people from
their wives in this cold weather.
B, n. (2)
Comc 8.168 9 That letter is A, said the teacher; A,
drawled the boy. That is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and
so on.
Comc 8.168 10 That letter is A, said the teacher; A,
drawled the boy. That is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and
so on.
Babbage, Charles, n. (2)
ET17 5.293 2 Every day in London gave me new
opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I
saw...among the men of science...Babbage and Edward Forbes.
WD 7.159 19 ...taught by Mr. Babbage, [steam] must
calculate interest and logarithms.
babble, n. (2)
Art2 7.38 23 From the first imitative babble of a
child to the despotism of eloquence;...Art is the spirit's voluntary
use and combination of things to serve its end.
Prch 10.231 11 There are always plenty of young,
ignorant people... wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual
averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ...
It does not signify what [the others] say or think to-day; 't is the
cry and the babble of the nursery...
babble, v. (2)
DL 7.104 27 ...[the child] conforms to nobody...all
caper and make mouths and babble and chirrup to him.
babbled, v. (1)
QO 8.187 14 ...now it appears that [English and
American nursery-tales]... have been warbled and babbled between nurses
and children for unknown thousands of years.
babbles, v. (1)
babe, n. (11)
Nat2 3.188 20 This is the man-child that is born to
the soul, and her life still circulates in the babe.
Wsp 6.237 8 [Benedict said] Thrust the [sick] woman
out, and you thrust your babe out of doors...
Wsp 6.241 11 There will be a new church founded on
moral science; at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again...
CbW 6.247 23 The babe in arms is a channel through
which the energies we call fate, love and reason, visibly stream.
OA 7.317 14 ...in our old British legends of Arthur
and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a
babe found exposed in a basket by the river-side...
Chr2 10.119 3 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more
than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his
first walk across the nursery-floor...
Babel, adj. (1)
PI 8.51 14 ...they adorned the sepulchres of the
dead, and, planting thereon lasting bases, defied...the misty
vaporousness of oblivion. Yet all were but Babel vanities.
Babel, n. (1)
ALin 11.334 19 ...in the Babel of counsels and
parties, this man [Lincoln] wrought incessantly...laboring to find what
the people wanted, and how to obtain that.
babe-like, adj. (1)
Int 2.346 23 ...what marks [Greek philosophers'
thought's] elevation and has even a comic look to us, is the innocent
serenity with which these babe-like Jupiters sit in their clouds...
babes, n. (9)
SR 2.48 2 What pretty oracles nature yields us on
this text in the face and behavior of children, babes, and even brutes!
SL 2.138 7 We pass in the world...for erudition and
piety, and we are all the time jejune babes.
Hsm1 2.249 11 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back
to his heels; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and
babes;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
Exp 3.62 10 In the morning I awake and find the old
world, wife, babes and mother...not far off.
SA 8.84 18 As long as men are born babes they will
live on credit for the first fourteen or eighteen years of their life.
War 11.168 7 Will you stick to your principle of
non-resistance...when your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered
in your sight?
FSLC 11.194 5 ...the womb conceives and the breasts
give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the
image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...
SMC 11.356 13 ...when the Border raids were let loose
on [Kansas] villages, these people...on witnessing the butchery done by
the Missouri riders on women and babes, were so beside themselves with
rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most
determined avengers.
baboon, n. (2)
ET4 5.50 6 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and
Tartar should mix, when we see the rudiments of tiger and baboon in our
human form...
Wsp 6.206 6 Christianity, in the romantic ages,
signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab
forest. And to marry a pagan wife or husband was...voluntarily to take
a step backwards towards the baboon...
baby, n. (1)
ET11 5.187 4 The economist of 1855 who asks, Of what
use are the [English] lords? may learn of Franklin to ask, Of what use
is a baby?
baby-houses, n. (1)
MoS 4.175 4 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin
the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our
nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my
imagination; for it seems to concern the shattering of baby-houses and
crockery-shops.
babyish, adj. (2)
Wth 6.92 27 Society in large towns is babyish, and
wealth is made a toy.
Schr 10.280 17 Society is babyish, and is dazzled and
deceived by the weapon [of talent]...
baby-jumper, n. (1)
Pow 6.67 22 ...[Boniface] introduced the new
horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that
Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens.
Babylon, n. (2)
Hist 2.9 8 Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, and even
early Rome are passing already into fiction.
Hist 2.21 19 ...the Persian court...travelled from
Ecbatana, where the spring was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon
for the winter.
Babylonia, n. (1)
PPh 4.44 9 It is said [Plato] went farther, into
Babylonia: this is uncertain.
Babylonian, adj. (1)
CW 12.173 8 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy
Garden]...unless I am very much mistaken, what is far more beautiful
than Babylonian robes...
Bac, Rue de, Paris, France (1)
SA 8.94 9 When they showed [Madame de Stael] the
beautiful Lake Leman, she exclaimed, O for the gutter of the Rue de
Bac!...
Bacchae [Euripides, Bacchae (1)
Comc 8.163 25 ...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though
unprovided of iron weapons...wounded their invaders with the boughs of
trees which they carried...
bacchanalian, adj. (1)
PPo 8.249 19 We do not wish to...try to make mystical
divinity out of the Song of Solomon, much less out of the erotic and
bacchanalian songs of Hafiz.
Bacchus, n. (2)
PI 8.70 12 O celestial Bacchus!--drive them
mad,--this multitude of vagabonds, hungry for eloquence...
FRep 11.512 26 As Bacchus of the vine, Ceres of the
wheat...so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant.
bachelor, n. (6)
ET12 5.206 6 If a young American...were offered a
home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical
palaces [at Oxford], and a thousand dollars a year, as long as he chose
to remain a bachelor, he would dance for joy.
CbW 6.251 3 I once counted in a little neighborhood
and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen
persons dependent on him for material aid...nor does it seem to make
much difference whether he is bachelor or patriarch;...
OA 7.330 21 We remember our old Greek Professor at
Cambridge, an ancient bachelor...
EzRy 10.393 24 Was a man a sot...or too long time a
bachelor...the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that
point...
Thor 10.454 13 [Thoreau] chose, wisely no doubt for
himself, to be the bachelor of thought and Nature.
EurB 12.371 8 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who
collects quaint staircases and groined ceilings.
bachelors, n. (2)
MR 1.232 7 In the island of Cuba...it appears only
men are bought for the plantations, and one dies in ten every year, of
these miserable bachelors, to yield us sugar.
Nat2 3.182 8 The flowers jilt us, and we are old
bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.
Bachelor's, n. (1)
ET12 5.210 18 I looked over the Examination Papers of
the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at
Oxford]...and I believed they would prove too severe tests for the
candidates for a Bachelor's degree in Yale or Harvard.
back, adj. (6)
Chr1 3.104 17 The true charity of Goethe is to be
inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he
had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold.
Half a million of my own money... the large income derived from my
writings for fifty years back, have been expended to instruct me in
what I now know.
SS 7.5 7 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such
great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting...to slip away into
the back stars...
LS 11.23 6 ...now...Christians must contend that it
is...really a duty, to commemorate [Jesus] by a certain form [the
Lord's Supper], whether that form be agreeable to their understandings
or not. Is not this to make vain the gift of God? Is not this to turn
back the hand on the dial?
CW 12.171 11 ...every house on that long street [in
Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the
river-bank...
back, adv. (152)
Nat 1.29 6 As we go back in history, language becomes
more picturesque...
Nat 1.58 20 [The Manichean and Plotinus] distrusted
in themselves any looking back to these flesh-pots of Egypt.
Nat 1.62 11 [Nature] is the organ through which the
universal spirit speaks to the individual, and strives to lead back the
individual to it.
AmS 1.104 20 Let [the scholar] look into [fear's] eye
and...inspect its origin...which lies no great way back;...
LE 1.161 14 I console myself...in the malignity and
dulness of the nations, by falling back on these sublime
recollections...
MN 1.204 10 With this conception of the genius or
method of nature, let us go back to man.
MR 1.235 13 ...will you...set every man to make his
own shoes, bureau, knife, wagon, sails, and needle? This would be to
put men back into barbarism by their own act.
Con 1.304 5 The system of property and law goes back
for its origin to barbarous and sacred times;...
Hist 2.13 8 Genius...far back in the womb of things
sees the rays parting from one orb, that diverge...by infinite
diameters.
SR 2.87 2 ...Napoleon conquered Europe by the
bivouac, which consisted of falling back on naked valor...
Comp 2.105 7 Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes
running back.
Lov1 2.171 12 Let any man go back to those delicious
relations which make the beauty of his life...he will shrink and moan.
Hsm1 2.249 9 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back
to his heels; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and
babes;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
Hsm1 2.253 11 ...the soul of a better quality thrusts
back the unreasonable economy into the vaults of life...
Hsm1 2.253 18 When I was in Sogd I saw a great
building, like a palace, the gates of which were...fixed back to the
wall with large nails.
Hsm1 2.260 15 If you would serve your brother,
because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words
when you find that prudent people do not commend you.
Cir 2.308 15 By going one step farther back in
thought, discordant opinions are reconciled...
Cir 2.313 12 ...steeped in the sea of beautiful forms
which the field offers us, we may chance to cast a right glance back
upon biography.
Cir 2.315 16 Think how many times we shall fall back
into pitiful calculations before we take up our rest in the great
sentiment...
Art1 2.359 10 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and
Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they
speak. A confession of moral nature...breathes from them all. That
which we carry to them, the same we bring back more fairly illustrated
in the memory.
Art1 2.367 6 Art must not be a superficial talent,
but must begin farther back in man.
Chr1 3.113 1 Society is spoiled...if the associates
are brought a mile to meet. And if it be not society, it is a
mischievous, low, degrading jangle, though made up of the best. All the
greatness of each is kept back...
Mrs1 3.128 21 The class of power, the working
heroes...see...that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just
such busy names as their own...
Gts 3.163 15 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful,
as all beneficiaries hate all Timons, not at all considering the value
of the gift but looking back to the greater store it was taken from,--I
rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord
Timon.
Nat2 3.173 20 ...I go with my friend to the shore of
our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a
delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... ... I am over-instructed for
my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please. I cannot go back to
toys.
NER 3.282 5 We would persuade our fellow to this or
that; another self within our eyes dissuades him. That which we keep
back, this reveals.
UGM 4.15 23 This pleasure of full expression to that
which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and
obstructed...is the secret of the reader's joy in literary genius.
Nothing is kept back.
MoS 4.174 10 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable
friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly
insight, and sends back the votary orphaned.
NMW 4.240 22 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs.
Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road,
and Mrs. Balcombe desired them, in rather an angry tone, to keep back.
GoW 4.273 6 The Greeks said that Alexander went as
far as Chaos; Goethe went, only the other day, as far; and one step
farther he hazarded, and brought himself safe back.
GoW 4.289 8 ...compared with any motives on which
books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work]...has the
power to inspire which belongs to truth. Thus has he brought back to a
book some of its ancient might and dignity.
ET1 5.10 4 ...year after year the scholar must still
go back to Landor for a multitude of elegant sentences;...
ET2 5.30 20 ...here on the second day of our voyage,
stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself
whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to
England. The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock...and
he...likes the work first-rate, and if the captain will take him, means
now to come back again in the ship.
ET4 5.62 14 It took many generations to trim and comb
and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into...most noble
Knights of the Garter; but every sparkle of ornament dates back to the
Norse boat.
ET6 5.111 1 The favorite phrase of [the Englishmen's]
law is, a custom whereof the memory of man runneth not back to the
contrary.
ET13 5.228 14 The English Church, undermined by
German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism.
ET16 5.280 12 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound
[Stonehenge] in the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we
were met by little showers...
ET17 5.293 10 ...my recollections of the best hours
go back to private conversations in different parts of the kingdom
[England]...
ET17 5.297 15 [A London gentleman] said he once
showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth, who took it in one hand, then
drew out his own watch and held it up with the other, before the
company, but no one making the expected remark, he put back his own in
silence.
ET19 5.313 1 Is it not true, sir, that the wise
ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the
port, but only that brave sailor which came back with torn sheets and
battered sides...
ET19 5.314 3 ...if the courage of England goes with
the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of
Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the
old race are all gone...
Pow 6.69 3 The roisters who are destined for infamy
at home, if sent to Mexico will...come back heroes and generals.
Pow 6.81 26 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a
shred...is traced back to the girl that wove it, and lessens her wages.
Wth 6.110 24 The cost of education of the posterity
of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross
amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net
gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800.
Wth 6.126 2 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and
invest;...the scraps and filings must be gathered back into the
crucible;...
Ctr 6.145 4 ...men run away to other countries
because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own
because they pass for nothing in the new places.
Ctr 6.155 18 There is a great deal of self-denial and
manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and
country...that...pays off the mortgage on the paternal farm, and then
goes back cheerfully to work again.
Wsp 6.215 1 That which is signified by the words
moral and spiritual, is a lasting essence, and, with whatever illusions
we have loaded them, will certainly bring back the words...to their
ancient meaning.
Wsp 6.227 1 What I am and what I think is conveyed to
you, in spite of my efforts to hold it back.
Wsp 6.228 15 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg,
all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
The young nun...drew back with anger...
Wsp 6.228 24 We need not much mind what people please
to say, but what...their natures say, though their...understandings try
to hold back and choke that word...
CbW 6.251 14 All the marked events of our day...may
be traced back to their origin in a private brain.
CbW 6.269 2 When joy or calamity or genius shall show
[the youth his purpose], then woods...then city shopmen...will mirror
back to him its unfathomable heaven...
CbW 6.272 2 ...if one comes who can...show
[men]...what gifts they have... he wakes in them the feeling of
worth... ... 'T is wonderful the effect on the company. They are not
the men they were. They have all been to California and all have come
back millionaires.
CbW 6.272 17 Here [in conversation] are oracles
sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren
hours.
CbW 6.274 1 It makes no difference, in looking back
five years, how you have been dieted or dressed;...
Ill 6.312 2 We fancy that our civilization has got on
far, but we still come back to our primers.
Art2 7.55 2 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...
Elo1 7.94 24 If you would correct my false view of
facts,--hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought, and
I cannot go back from the new conviction.
DL 7.123 12 [The women of Arthur's court]...said that
the devil was in the mantle, for really the truth was in the mantle,
and was exposing the ugliness which each would fain conceal. All drew
back with terror from the garment.
Farm 7.138 13 Poisoned by town life and town vices,
the sufferer resolves: Well, my children, whom I have injured, shall go
back to the land...
Farm 7.148 16 The high wall reflecting the heat back
on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...
WD 7.171 9 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself
to amass...the eye that looketh into the deeps, which again look back
to the eye, abyss to abyss;-- these...are given immeasurably to all.
Boks 7.193 25 The inspection of the catalogue [of the
Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard
writers who are on every private shelf;...
Boks 7.206 20 [The scholar] can look back for the
legends and mythology to the Younger Edda and the Heimskringla of
Snorro Sturleson...
Boks 7.221 4 ...how attractive is the whole
literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science
of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time for that? But one
of our company...shall study and master it...shall give us the sincere
result as it lies in his mind, adding nothing, keeping nothing back.
Suc 7.284 8 ...Ojeda could run out swiftly on a plank
projected from the top of a tower, turn round swiftly and come back;...
Suc 7.299 3 Wordsworth writes of the delights of the
boy in Nature:--For never will come back the hour/ Of splendor in the
grass, of glory in the flower./
Suc 7.304 13 If in his walk [the lover] chanced to
look back, his friend was walking behind him.
PI 8.17 2 ...the poet listens to conversation and
beholds all objects in Nature, to give back, not them, but a new and
transcendent whole.
PI 8.32 25 Later, the thought, the happy image which
expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to
mind, and sends me back in search of the book.
PI 8.66 19 I count the genius of Swedenborg and
Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry
back to Nature...
PI 8.73 16 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of
every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of
an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life.
SA 8.98 10 ...On the day of resurrection, those who
have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and
have it shut in their faces when they reach it. Again, on their turning
back, they will be called to another door, and again, on reaching it,
will see it closed against them...
Res 8.143 15 The disgust of California has not been
able to drive nor kick the Chinaman back to his home;...
QO 8.186 6 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of
The Drowned Lovers-Thou art roaring ower loud, Clyde water,/ Thy
streams are ower strang;/ Make me thy wrack when I come back,/ But
spare me when I gang/-is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and
Leander...
QO 8.199 16 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in
a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first geometer,
bard, mason, carpenter, planter, shepherd...
QO 8.199 18 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in
a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first negro,
who...gave a shriller sound or name for the thing he saw and dealt
with?
PC 8.231 10 We wish...to ordain...universal suffrage,
believing that it will not carry us to mobs, or back to kings again.
PC 8.233 3 [A man] cannot go from the good to the
evil at pleasure, and then back again to the good.
PPo 8.251 12 In general what is more tedious than
dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees? Yet in the Divan you
would not skip them, since [Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him
better:-What lovelier forms things wear,/ Now that the Shah comes
back!/...
PPo 8.264 10 The sun from near-by beamed/ Clearest
light into [the birds'] soul;/ The resplendence of the Simorg beamed/
As one back from all three./ They knew not, amazed, if they/ Were
either this or that./
Insp 8.268 8 ...if with bended head I grope/
Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More
anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/
Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/
Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
Insp 8.291 26 Perhaps if you were successful abroad
in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your
book-shelf and your task.
Imtl 8.326 6 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs,
ask...that a little window may be cut in the sepulchre, from which the
swallow might be seen when it comes back in the spring.
Dem1 10.4 27 When newly awaked from lively
dreams...give us...one hint, and we should repossess the whole; hours
of this strange entertainment would come trooping back to us;...
Dem1 10.14 25 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.
Aris 10.37 3 From the folly of too much association
we must come back to the repose of self-reverence and trust.
Aris 10.38 8 From the most accumulated culture we are
always running back to the sound of any drum and fife.
Aris 10.63 2 Pay [money], and you may play the tyrant
at discretion and never look back to the fatal question,-where had you
the money that you paid?
PerF 10.68 4 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My
oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives
back the bending heavens in dew./
PerF 10.70 26 ...the strata were deposited and uptorn
and bent back...to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
Chr2 10.104 8 Chateaubriand said...If God made man in
his image, man has paid him well back.
Chr2 10.111 20 ...with every repeater something of
creative force is lost, as we feel when we go back to each original
moralist.
Edc1 10.146 3 [Fellowes] went back to England, bought
a Greek grammar and learned the language;...
Edc1 10.148 18 The natural method [of education]
forever confutes our experiments, and we must still come back to it.
Supl 10.179 8 If it come back...to the question of
final superiority, it is too plain that there is no question that the
star of empire rolls West...
SovE 10.208 8 We are thrown back on rectitude forever
and ever, only rectitude,-to mend one;...
Plu 10.300 12 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de
la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch.
Thor 10.469 11 [Thoreau] knew how to sit
immovable...until the bird, the reptile, the fish, which had retired
from him, should come back and resume its habits...
LS 11.14 8 To make [his friends'] enormity plainer,
[St. Paul] goes back to the origin of this religious feast [the Lord's
Supper] to show what sort of feast that was...
LS 11.22 4 ...although for the satisfaction of others
I have labored to show by the history that this rite [the Lord's
Supper] was not intended to be perpetual; although I have gone back to
weigh the expressions of Paul, I feel that here is the true point of
view.
HDC 11.37 1 Roger Williams affirms that he has known
[Indians] run between eighty and a hundred miles in a summer's day, and
back again within two days.
EWI 11.142 19 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and
advances from the whites that they will be gladly received...as members
of this or that committee of trust. They hold back, and say to each
other that social position is not to be gained by pushing.
FSLC 11.188 6 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of
a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of
Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch, and send back again to the
dog-hutch he fled from.
FSLC 11.189 4 I thought that every time a man goes
back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...
FSLC 11.191 15 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the
slave Somerset, wherein the dicta of Lords Talbot and Hardwicke had
been cited, to the effect of carrying back the slave to the West
Indies, said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however
eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
TPar 11.290 18 Two days...the days of the rendition
of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most
remarkable discourses. He kept nothing back.
ACiv 11.306 21 ...what kind of peace shall at that
moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for
it,-will give up the slaves, and the whole torment of the past
half-century will come back to be endured anew.
ACiv 11.306 25 Neither do I doubt, is such a
composition should take place, that the Southerners will come back
quietly and politely...
SMC 11.360 14 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think
carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or
mothers may fall back;...
SMC 11.370 14 ...Word was sent by General Barnes,
that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods.
Scot 11.463 16 I can well remember as far back as
when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston...
Scot 11.465 13 The tone of strength in Waverley...was
more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances,
up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for
a counterpart as a painting of Fate...
ChiE 11.474 7 [Asian immigrants] send back to their
friends, in China, money, new products of art...
FRep 11.516 5 ...when the adventurers [to America]
have planted themselves and looked about, they send back all the money
they can spare to bring their friends.
FRep 11.531 25 In this country...there is, at
present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity, which
becomes, whilst successful, a scornful materialism,-but with the fault,
of course, that it has...no reserved force whereon to fall back when a
reverse comes.
PLT 12.34 27 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact
to light which is no man's invention, but the common instinct, making
the revolutions that never go back.
PLT 12.38 11 The point of interest is here, that
these gates [spiritual facts], once opened, never swing back.
PLT 12.42 26 The highest measure of poetic power is
such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall
make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the
man finds himself, so that he...no longer looks back to Hebrew or Greek
or English use or tradition in religion, laws or life...
Mem 12.95 14 He who calls what is vanished back again
into being enjoys a bliss like that of creating, says Neibuhr.
CL 12.144 8 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not
like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on
three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the
choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way
back.
Bost 12.203 25 ...there is always [in
Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor
with but cannot silence. Some new light... some noble protestant,
who...will stand for liberty and justice, if alone, until all come back
to him.
MAng1 12.236 6 When the Pope...sent [Michelangelo]
one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them
back.
MAng1 12.238 9 [Vasari's] servant brought [the
candles] after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo]. Michael
Angelo refused to receive them. Look you, Messer Michael Angelo,
replied the man, these candles have well-nigh broken my arm, and I will
not carry them back;...
MLit 12.331 19 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver
with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to
get a draft of sweet air...but dares not...lead a man's life in a man's
relation to Nature, In that which should be his own place, he feels
like a truant, and is scourged back presently to his task and his cell.
Let 12.404 7 We must refer our clients back to
themselves, believing that every man knows in his heart the cure for
the disease he so ostentatiously bewails.
back, n. (31)
Comp 2.107 5 [Siegfried]...is not quite immortal, for
a leaf fell on his back whilst he was bathing in the dragon's blood...
Hsm1 2.246 27 ...Now I'll kneel,/ But with my back
toward thee: 't is the last duty/ This trunk can do the gods./
Cir 2.318 16 ...I simply experiment, an endless
seeker with no Past at my back.
Mrs1 3.135 23 ...Napoleon...was not great enough,
with eight hundred thousand troops at his back, to face a pair of
freeborn eyes...
Nat2 3.169 23 The knapsack of custom falls off [the
man of the world's] back with the first step he takes into these
precincts [of the forest].
SwM 4.126 22 [According to Swedenborg] It is never
permitted to any one, in heaven, to stand behind another and look at
the back of his head;...
ET1 5.14 7 ...Montague, still talking with his back
to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it...
ET4 5.68 18 ...Sir Edward Parry said of Sir John
Franklin, that if he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for
he was a man who never turned his back on a danger...
ET5 5.84 6 A manufacturer [in England] sits down to
dinner in a suit of clothes which was wool on a sheep's back at
sunrise.
ET11 5.175 3 He that will be a head, let him be a
bridge, said the Welsh chief Benegridran, when he carried all his men
over the river on his back.
ET16 5.288 5 As I had thus taken in the conversation
the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out
before me,--he was altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the
wall...
ET18 5.305 11 There is cramp limitation in
[Englishmen's] habit of thought...and a tortoise's instinct to hold
hard to the ground with his claws, lest he should be thrown on his
back.
F 6.47 12 A man must ride alternately on the horses
of his private and his public nature, as the equestrians in the
circus...plant one foot on the back of one [horse] and the other foot
on the back of the other.
F 6.47 13 A man must ride alternately on the horses
of his private and his public nature, as the equestrians in the
circus...plant one foot on the back of one [horse] and the other foot
on the back of the other.
Wth 6.86 21 The steam puffs and expands as before,
but this time it is dragging all Michigan at its back to hungry New
York and hungry England.
Wth 6.116 20 Sir David Brewster gives exact
instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and
hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc.
Wsp 6.218 19 The moment of your...acceptance of the
lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius...
The vulgar are sensible of the change in you, and of your descent,
though they clap you on the back and congratulate you on your increased
common-sense.
CbW 6.246 16 ...it is only as [a man] turns his back
on us and on all men... that any good can come to him.
Bty 6.295 11 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or
figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued
from danger...
PI 8.14 17 Our Kentuckian orator [Davy Crockett] said
of his dissent from his companion, I showed him the back of my hand.
Comc 8.169 27 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat
a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...
Comc 8.171 27 Lord C., said the Countess of Gordon,
O, he is a perfect comb, all teeth and back.
Insp 8.273 23 To-day the electric machine will not
work, no spark will pass; then presently the world is all a cat's back,
all sparkle and shock.
Insp 8.288 27 I envy the abstraction of some scholars
I have known, who could sit on a curbstone in State Street, put up
their back, and solve their problem.
EdAd 11.388 25 ...we have seen the best
understandings of New England... clapped on the back by comfortable
capitalists from all sections, and persuaded to say, We are too old to
stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
Trag 12.415 25 The market-man never damned the lady
because she had not paid her bill, but the stout Irishman has to take
that once a month. She, however, never feels weakness in her back
because of the slave-trade.
back, v. (4)
Nat2 3.174 5 Only as far as the masters of the world
have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of
magnificence. This is the meaning of their...parks and preserves, to
back their faulty personality with these strong accessories.
ET9 5.144 11 Every individual [in England] has his
particular way of living, which he pushes to folly, and the decided
sympathy of his compatriots is engaged to back up Mr. Crump's whim by
statutes and chancellors and horse-guards.
Ill 6.323 21 The permanent interest of every man
is...to have the weight of nature to back him in all that he does.
FSLC 11.185 1 I thought none, that was not ready to
go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law.
backbone, n. (2)
ET6 5.104 22 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which
results from...the obedience of all the powers to the will; as if the
axes of his eyes were united to his backbone, and only moved with the
trunk.
FRep 11.537 23 The new times need a new man...whom
plainly this country must furnish. Freer swing his arms;...more forward
and forthright his whole build and rig than the Englishman's, who, we
see, is much imprisoned in his backbone.
backed, v. (2)
ET15 5.263 21 [The London Times] has shown those
qualities which are dear to Englishmen...a towering assurance, backed
by the perfect organization in its printing-house...
ET16 5.285 8 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a
bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...climbed to the lonely
sculptured summer-house, on a hill backed by a wood;...
backer, n. (1)
CbW 6.251 1 I once counted in a little neighborhood
and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen
persons dependent on him for material aid,--to whom he is to be...for
backer and sponsor...
background, n. (9)
Nat 1.18 4 The leafless trees become spires of flame
in the sunset, with the blue east for their background...
Comp 2.121 9 Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as
the great Night or shade on which as a background the living universe
paints itself forth...
OS 2.270 22 All goes to show that the soul in
man...is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect
and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie...
Nat2 3.174 19 ...it is the magical lights of the
horizon and the blue sky for the background which save all our works of
art...
PNR 4.80 13 Modern science...by the simple expedient
of lighting up the vast background, generates a feeling of complacency
and hope.
Pow 6.64 9 The same elements are always present, only
sometimes these conspicuous, and sometimes those; what was yesterday
foreground, being to-day background;...
Boks 7.199 13 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the
best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of...Protagoras,
Anaxagoras and Socrates, with the lovely background of the Athenian and
suburban landscape.
TPar 11.284 3 There 's a background of God to each
hard-working feature,/ Every word that [Parker] speaks has been fierily
furnaced/ In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest/...
backs, n. (6)
ET13 5.220 3 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.
Boks 7.189 18 ...after reading to weariness the
lettered backs [of books], we leave the shop with a sigh...
EWI 11.129 26 I could not see the great vision of the
patriots and senators who have adopted the slave's cause:-they turned
their backs on me.
FRep 11.520 19 We feel toward [politicians] as the
minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the
spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land
wants manure. 'T is virtue which they want, and wanting it,/ Honor no
garment to their backs can fit./
backs, v. (3)
NER 3.266 17 ...when with one hand [the individual]
rows and with the other backs water, what concert can be?
Prch 10.224 20 Now every man...with one hand rows,
and with the other backs water.
backsliders, n. (1)
LLNE 10.330 2 The popular religion of our fathers had
received many severe shocks from the new times; from the Arminians,
which was the current name of the backsliders from Calvinism...
backsliding, n. (1)
NER 3.253 26 No doubt there was plentiful vaporing,
and cases of backsliding might occur.
back-stroke, n. (1)
Comp 2.107 13 It would seem there is always this
vindictive circumstance... this back-stroke...certifying that the law
is fatal;...
backward, adj. (1)
ACiv 11.310 17 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual
abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year. The American
Executive ranges itself for the first time on the side of freedom. If
Congress has been backward, the President has advanced.
backward, adv. (19)
Con 1.297 11 ...[Saturn] feared again; and nature
froze, the things that were made went backward...
Tran 1.330 19 Every materialist will be an idealist;
but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.
SR 2.58 11 A character is like an acrostic or
Alexandrian stanza;-read it forward, backward, or across, it still
spells the same thing.
SR 2.66 14 If...a man...carries you backward to the
phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country, in another
world, believe him not.
Lov1 2.174 24 In looking backward [many men] may find
that several things which were not the charm have more reality to this
groping memory than the charm itself which embalmed them.
ET16 5.283 4 On hints like these,
Stukeley...computing backward by the known variations of the compass,
bravely assigns the year 406 before Christ for the date of the temple
[Stonehenge].
Elo1 7.72 20 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and
stood...and neither moved his sceptre backward nor forward...you would
say it was some angry or foolish man;...
DL 7.132 26 Does the consecration of the church
confess the profanation of the house? Let us read the incantation
backward.
Schr 10.282 11 [Truth] shines backward and forward,
diminishes and annihilates everybody...
II 12.70 6 The star climbs for a time the heaven, but
never reaches its zenith; it culminates low, and goes backward whence
it came.
Mem 12.90 23 It is essential to a locomotive that it
can...run backward and forward with equal celerity.
Mem 12.110 15 When we live...by obedience to the law
of the mind instead of by passion...the light of to-day will shine
backward and forward.
backward-creeping, adj. (1)
backwards, adv. (4)
Comp 2.126 6 ...we walk ever with reverted eyes, like
those monsters who look backwards.
PPh 4.51 9 If speculation tends thus to a terrific
unity...action tends directly backwards to diversity.
Wsp 6.206 5 Christianity, in the romantic ages,
signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab
forest. And to marry a pagan wife or husband was...voluntarily to take
a step backwards towards the baboon...
Trag 12.407 21 ...universally, in uneducated and
unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition
[belief in Fate]:...if you spill the salt;...if you say the Lord's
prayer backwards;...
backwoods, n. (1)
Art1 2.360 19 ...that house and weather and manner of
living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious
and so dear...in the log-hut of the backwoods...will serve as well as
any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself
indifferently through all.
backwoodsman, n. (2)
Nat 1.29 20 It is this [dependence of language upon
nature] which gives that piquancy to the conversation of
a...backswoodsman...
SS 7.11 27 A backwoodsman...told me that when he
heard the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he
reckoned himself a boor; but whenever he caught them apart, and had one
to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.
backwoodsmen, n. (1)
F 6.13 22 ...strong natures, backwoodsmen...are
inevitable patriots...
Bacon, Delia, n. (1)
QO 8.197 25 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that
Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for
her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read
under this light;...
Bacon, Francis, n. [Bacon,] (61)
Nat 1.34 16 [The relation between mind and matter] is
the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of
every fine genius since the world began; from the era of the
Egyptians...to that...of Bacon...
AmS 1.89 13 Meek young men grow up in libraries,
believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke,
which Bacon, have given;...
AmS 1.89 14 Meek young men grow up in
libraries...forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men
in libraries when they wrote these books.
LE 1.172 12 ...the first word [a man of genius]
utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large. Then
Plato, Bacon, Kant, and the Eclectic Cousin condescend instantly to be
men and mere facts.
Int 2.344 26 The Bacon, the Spinoza...is only a more
or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness...
Exp 3.55 20 Once I took such delight in Montaigne
that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in
Shakspeare;...at one time in Bacon;...
UGM 4.18 14 Especially when a mind of powerful method
has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of
Aristotle...the credit of...Bacon...are in point.
PPh 4.40 19 How many great men Nature is incessantly
sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists!...Sir Thomas
More...Lord Bacon...
SwM 4.102 20 A colossal soul,
[Swedenborg]...suggests, as Aristotle, Bacon...that a certain vastness
of learning...is possible.
ShP 4.203 12 ...I find, among [Wotton's]
correspondents and acquaintances...Lord Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh...
ShP 4.218 15 ...had [Shakespeare] reached only the
common measure of great authors, of Bacon, Milton, Tasso, Cervantes, we
might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate...
ET4 5.47 12 How came such men as...Francis Bacon,
George Herbert...
ET5 5.94 5 Bacon said, Rome was a state not subject
to paradoxes;...
ET5 5.100 15 ...[the English people's] language seems
drawn from the Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare,
Bacon, Milton, Pope, Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott.
ET6 5.111 6 Bacon told [the English], Time was the
right reformer;...
ET14 5.238 16 ...Britain had many disciples of
Plato;--More, Hooker, Bacon...
ET14 5.239 13 Bacon, in the structure of his mind,
held of the analogists...
ET14 5.239 21 Locke is as surely the influx of
decomposition and of prose, as Bacon and the Platonists of growth.
ET14 5.240 3 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to
ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality...
ET14 5.241 20 A few generalizations always circulate
in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the
Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these may be
traced usually to Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, or Hooker...
ET14 5.243 2 ...[the Elizabethan age was] a period
almost short enough to justify Ben Jonson's remark on Lord
Bacon,--About his time, and within his view, were born all the wits
that could honor a nation, or help study.
ET14 5.244 15 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful
at the fountain of the First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not
go to the spring-head. Bacon, who said this, is almost unique among his
countrymen in that faculty;...
ET14 5.248 5 It is very certain...that if Lord Bacon
had been only the sensualist his critic pretends, he would never have
acquired the fame which now entitles him to this patronage.
ET14 5.248 16 Sir David Brewster sees the high place
of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a
mistake. Bacon occupies it by specific gravity or levity...
ET15 5.266 12 The staff of The [London] Times has
always been made up of able men. Old Walter, Sterling, Bacon...have
contributed to its renown...
CbW 6.253 1 [Good men] find...the governments, the
churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men
have met this obstruction in their times...like Bacon, with life-long
dissimulation;...
SS 7.13 6 ...Bacon said of manners, To obtain them,
it only needs not to despise them...
Elo1 7.83 16 ...let Bacon speak and wise men would
rather listen though the revolution of kingdoms was on foot.
Boks 7.194 19 ...perhaps, the human mind would be a
gainer if all the secondary writers were lost,--say, in England, all
but Shakspeare, Milton and Bacon...
Boks 7.196 1 ...I know beforehand that
Pindar...Bacon...More, will be superior to the average intellect.
Boks 7.218 4 The Greek fables...and even the prose of
Bacon and Milton... have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
Suc 7.301 19 Aristotle or Bacon or Kant propound some
maxim which is the key-note of philosophy thenceforward.
PI 8.20 1 Bacon expressed the same sense in his
definition, Poetry accommodates the shows of things to the desires of
the mind;...
PI 8.50 15 Thomas Moore had the magnanimity to say,
If Burke and Bacon were not poets...he did not know what poetry meant.
PI 8.53 8 Lord Bacon, we are told, loved not to see
poesy go on other feet than poetical dactyls and spondees;...
QO 8.188 19 If Lord Bacon appears already in the
preface, I go and read the Instauration instead of the new book.
QO 8.195 27 ...Hallam cites a sentence from Bacon or
Sidney...and straightway it commends itself to us...
QO 8.197 27 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that
Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits,-by Sir Walter
Raleigh, Lord Bacon and others...had plainly for her the charm of the
superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
Imtl 8.340 15 Lord Bacon said: Some of the
philosophers who were least divine denied generally the immortality of
the soul...
Dem1 10.22 27 Lord Bacon uncovers the magic when he
says, Manifest virtues procure reputation; occult ones, fortune.
Dem1 10.24 8 Read a page of Cudworth or of Bacon, and
we are exhilarated...
Plu 10.296 14 In England, Sir Thomas North translated
[Plutarch's] Lives in 1579, and Holland the Morals in 1603, in time to
be...read by Bacon, Dryden and Cudworth.
FSLN 11.243 18 Having...professed his adoration for
liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded
with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day,
much in the tone and spirit in which Lord Bacon prosecuted his
benefactor Essex.
Shak1 11.449 18 ...we have already seen the most
fantastic theories plausibly urged, that Raleigh and Bacon were the
authors of [Shakespeare' s] plays.
Shak1 11.452 15 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great
wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when
Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each
other...and, in short space before and after, Montaigne, Bacon,
Spenser, Raleigh and Jonson.
CL 12.141 11 Even Lord Bacon said, The Stars inject
their imagination or influence into the air.
Bost 12.210 22 Bacon, Newton and Washington were
childless.
ACri 12.286 2 Bacon, if he could out-cant a London
chirurgeon, must have possessed the Romany under his brocade robes.
WSL 12.347 12 [Landor's] Dialogue between Barrow and
Newton is the best of all criticisms on the essays of Bacon.
PPr 12.390 1 Plato is the purple ancient, and Bacon
and Milton the moderns of the richest strains.
bacon, n. (2)
ET4 5.58 3 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have herds
of cows, and malt, wheat, bacon, butter and cheese.
ET9 5.152 3 George of Cappadocia...was a low parasite
who got a lucrative contract to supply the army with bacon.
Bacon, Roger, n. (9)
GoW 4.287 5 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal...and
the historical part of his Theory of Colors, have the same interest. In
the last, he rapidly notices Kepler, Roger Bacon...
GoW 4.287 10 ...the charm of this portion of the book
[Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the
relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and
himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from
Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton.
ET4 5.47 9 How came such men as King Alfred, and
Roger Bacon...
ET10 5.157 17 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon
explained the precession of the equinoxes...
ET10 5.158 4 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it
would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of
wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds. But the secret
slept with Bacon.
PC 8.214 20 [The Middle Ages'] Dante and Alfred and
Wickliffe and Abelard and Bacon;...are the delight and tuition of ours.
PC 8.214 25 Six hundred years ago Roger Bacon
explained the precession of the equinoxes and the necessity of reform
in the calendar;...
MoL 10.248 15 You [scholars] are here as the carriers
of the power of Nature,-as Roger Bacon, with his secret of gunpowder...
FRep 11.513 12 Our sleepy civilization, ever since
Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole
art of war...on that one compound...
Baconian, adj. (1)
ET14 5.247 12 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive
merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic,
its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and
all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and
a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
Bacon's, Francis, n. (11)
SwM 4.111 10 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a
pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... a philosophic critic, with a coequal vigor of
understanding and imagination comparable only to Lord Bacon's...
ET14 5.241 24 A few generalizations always circulate
in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the
Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all
have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind
is Lord Bacon's sentence, that Nature is commanded by obeying her;...
QO 8.185 26 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan
which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence
the dreams of his youth, and earlier, Bacon's Consilia juventutis plus
divinitatis habent.
QO 8.192 13 On the whole, we like the valor of
[quotation]. 'T is on Marmontel's principle...and on Bacon's broader
rule, I take all knowledge to be my province.
Plu 10.305 7 ...here is [Plutarch's] sentiment on
superstition, somewhat condensed in Lord Bacon's citation of it...
Plu 10.310 15 The explanation of the rainbow, of the
floods of the Nile, and of the remora, etc. [in Plutarch], are just;
and the bad guesses are not worse than many of Lord Bacon's.
NHI 12.1 1 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth
was that nothing should be in the globe of matter which was not also in
the globe of crystal;...
Milt1 12.274 24 ...Bacon's imagination was said to be
the noblest that ever contented itself to minister to the
understanding...
Milt1 12.277 27 ...according to Lord Bacon's
definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks to accommodate the shows of
things to the desires of the mind...
bacon-seller, n. (1)
ET9 5.152 28 ...[The Americans and the English] are
equally badly off in our founders; and the false pickle-dealer is an
offset to the false bacon-seller.
bad, adj. (187)
Nat 1.60 22 [The soul] is not hot and passionate at
the appearance of what it calls its own good or bad fortune...
DSA 1.138 18 ...of the bad preacher, it could not be
told from his sermon what age of the world he fell in;...
Con 1.298 2 The castle which conservatism is set to
defend is the actual state of things, good and bad.
Tran 1.347 11 [Transcendentalists] say to themselves,
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
YA 1.381 27 On one side is agricultural
chemistry...and on the other, the farmer, not only eager for the
information, but with bad crops and in debt and bankruptcy, for want of
it.
SR 2.49 4 ...looking out from his corner on such
people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them...as
good, bad, interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome.
Comp 2.99 1 Is a man...by temper and position a bad
citizen...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...
Comp 2.106 14 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme
Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they
involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of so bad a
god.
SL 2.152 9 There is no teaching until the pupil is
brought into the same state or principle in which you are;...then is a
teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite
lose the benefit.
Prd1 2.235 6 [Our Yankee trade] takes bank-notes,
good, bad, clean, ragged, and saves itself by the speed with which it
passes them off.
Prd1 2.238 4 In the occurrence of unpleasant things
among neighbors, fear comes readily to heart and magnifies the
consequence of the other party; but it is a bad counsellor.
OS 2.280 6 To the bad thought which I find in [the
book I read], the same soul becomes a discerning, separating sword, and
lops it away.
Art1 2.367 17 [Men] eat and drink, that they may
afterwards execute the ideal. Thus is art vilified; the name conveys to
the mind its secondary and bad senses;...
Exp 3.47 12 ...the men ask, What's the news? as if
the old were so bad.
Exp 3.48 9 People grieve and bemoan themselves, but
it is not half so bad with them as they say.
Exp 3.76 13 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives
off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the
street...
Exp 3.79 17 ...seen from the conscience or will,
[sin] is pravity or bad.
Chr1 3.98 11 What have I gained...that I do not
tremble before...the Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake...at the
threat of...bad neighbors...
Mrs1 3.155 5 It is easy to see that what is called by
distinction society and fashion has good laws as well as bad...
Mrs1 3.155 7 Too good for banning, and too bad for
blessing, [society] reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology,
in any attempt to settle its character.
Mrs1 3.155 12 I overheard Jove, one day, said
Silenus, talking of destroying the earth; he said it had failed; they
were all rogues and vixens, who went from bad to worse...
Mrs1 3.155 18 Minerva said...if you called [men] bad,
they would appear so; if you called them good, they would appear so;...
Mrs1 3.155 22 Minerva said...there was no one person
or action among [men] which would not puzzle her owl, much more all
Olympus, to know whether it was fundamentally bad or good.
Pol1 3.221 8 ...there never was in any man sufficient
faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of
renovating the State on the principle of right and love. All those who
have pretended this design...have admitted in some manner the supremacy
of the bad State.
PPh 4.73 2 ...it is said that to procure the
pleasure, which he loves, of talking at his ease all day with the most
elegant and cultivated young men, [Socrates] will now and then return
to his shop and carve statues, good or bad, for sale.
SwM 4.125 10 [To Swedenborg] Each Satan appears to
himself a man; to those as bad as he, a comely man;...
SwM 4.141 21 [Swedenborg's] spiritual world bears the
same relation to the generosities and joys of truth of which human
souls have already made us cognizant, as a man's bad dreams bear to his
ideal life.
MoS 4.174 15 Bad as was to me this detection by San
Carlo [that all direct ascension leads to ghastly insight]...there was
still a worse, namely the cloy or satiety of the saints.
MoS 4.182 4 It is vain to complain of the leaf or the
berry; cut it off, it will bear another just as bad.
ShP 4.196 8 ...some passages [in Shakespeare's Henry
VIII], as the account of the coronation, are like autographs. What is
odd, the compliment to Queen Elizabeth is in the bad rhythm.
NMW 4.238 22 ...when you bring bad news [Bonaparte
told his secretary], rouse me instantly, for then there is not a moment
to be lost.
GoW 4.269 22 ...how can [the writer] be
honored...when he must sustain with shameless advocacy some bad
government...
GoW 4.279 14 Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm
Meister]...keeps such bad company, that the sober English public...were
disgusted.
ET2 5.30 9 Such discomfort and such danger as the
narratives of the captain and mate disclose are bad enough as the
costly fee we pay for entrance to Europe;...
ET2 5.31 14 'T is a good rule in every journey to
provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad
weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
ET5 5.74 22 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in
England]...presently he heard bad news from Italy...
ET5 5.95 15 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha
tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been
drained...
ET6 5.111 24 'T is in bad taste, is the most
formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.
ET8 5.133 12 It was no bad description of the Briton
generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular
Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came
into his mind...
ET14 5.244 7 ...a bad general wants myriads of men
and miles of redoubts to compensate the inspirations of courage and
conduct.
ET18 5.300 17 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the
[English] state, and in hard times becomes hideous. In bad seasons, the
porridge was diluted.
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.
Wth 6.100 8 [The right merchant] is thoroughly
persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the
man, for his good or bad fortune...
Wth 6.102 18 In California, the country where [the
dollar] grew,--what would it buy? A few years since, it would buy a
shanty, dysentery, hunger, bad company and crime.
Wth 6.104 19 ...if you should take out of the
powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred
bad...would not the dollar... presently find it out?
Wth 6.106 2 Open the doors of opportunity to talent
and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not
be in bad hands.
Wth 6.114 18 ...if a man have a genius for painting,
poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and
an ill provider...
Wth 6.115 22 No land is bad, but land is worse.
Ctr 6.143 19 Landor said, I have suffered more from
my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life
put together.
Bhr 6.174 5 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly
undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable
particulars. I think the lesson... held bad manners up, so that the
churls could see the deformity.
Bhr 6.182 1 The sculptor and Winckelmann and Lavater
will tell you...how [the nose's] forms express...good or bad temper.
Wsp 6.215 16 I can best indicate by examples those
reactions by which every part of nature replies to the purpose of the
actor,--beneficently to the good, penally to the bad.
Wsp 6.239 25 ...[men] suffer from politics, or bad
neighbors...and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed
from the duties of life.
Wsp 6.242 1 No good fame can help, no bad fame can
hurt [man].
CbW 6.252 14 To say then, the majority are wicked,
means no malice, no bad heart in the observer...
CbW 6.255 22 Some of [the people] went [to
California] with honest purposes, some with very bad ones...
CbW 6.259 2 A man of sense and energy...said to me, I
want none of your good boys,--give me the bad ones.
CbW 6.259 9 Passion, though a bad regulator, is a
powerful spring.
CbW 6.262 17 In our life and culture everything is
worked up and comes in use,--passion, war, revolt, bankruptcy, and not
less...insult, ennui and bad company.
CbW 6.271 10 The success which will content [men] is
a bargain...a legacy and the like. With these objects, their
conversation deals with surfaces... exaggerated bad news and the rain.
CbW 6.274 15 ...it is who lives near us of equal
social degree,--a few people at convenient distance, no matter how bad
company,--these, and these only, shall be your life's companions;...
Bty 6.299 11 The man is physically as well as
metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from
good and bad ancestors...
Civ 7.27 27 We had letters to send:
couriers...foundered their horses; bad roads in spring, snowdrifts in
winter, heats in summer;...
Elo1 7.67 24 When each auditor...shudders...with fear
lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and
mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable.
Elo1 7.77 23 ...any swindlers we have known are
novices and bunglers, as is attested by their ill name. A greater power
of face would...with the rest of their takings, take away the bad name.
DL 7.132 17 Will [man] not see...that his economy,
his labor, his good and bad fortune, his health and manners are all a
curious and exact demonstration in miniature of the Genius of the
Eternal Providence?
Farm 7.139 6 The lesson one learns in fishing,
yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience
with...bad weather...
Boks 7.189 1 It is easy to accuse books, and bad ones
are easily found;...
Boks 7.205 1 The poet Horace is the eye of the
Augustan age;...and Martial will give [the student] Roman manners,--and
some very bad ones,--in the early days of the Empire...
Clbs 7.245 13 There are those who go only to talk,
and those who go only to hear: both are bad.
Cour 7.258 27 The political reigns of terror have
been...a total perversion of opinion; society is upside down, and its
best men are thought too bad to live.
Suc 7.290 6 ...war, cannons and executions are used
to clear the ground of bad, lumpish, irreclaimable savages, but always
to the damage of the conquerors.
Suc 7.310 8 ...to educate [man's] feeling and
judgment so that he shall scorn himself for a bad action, that is the
only aim.
PI 8.56 12 Gray avows that he thinks even a bad verse
as good a thing or better than the best observation that was ever made
on it.
SA 8.86 20 The attitude is the main point, assuring
your companion that, come good news or come bad, you remain in good
heart and good mind...
SA 8.90 25 ...the best society has often been spoiled
to [the highly organized person] by the intrusion of bad companions.
SA 8.93 12 Shenstone gave no bad account of this
influence [of women] in his description of the French woman...
SA 8.106 6 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes
his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of
realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your
bad road with diamonds.
Elo2 8.118 21 We have all attended meetings called
for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest. Every
speaker rose unwillingly, and even his speech was a bad excuse;...
Res 8.148 11 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer
at Leeds, was to preside at a Free Trade festival in that city; it was
threatened that the operatives, who were in bad humor, would break up
the meeting by a mob.
PC 8.230 25 Here you are set down, scholars and
idealists...you are...under bad governments to force on them, by your
persistence, good laws.
PC 8.232 3 Bad kings and governors help us, if only
they are bad enough.
PC 8.232 4 Bad kings and governors help us, if only
they are bad enough.
Grts 8.317 9 William Blake the artist frankly says, I
never knew a bad man in whom there was not something very good.
Aris 10.53 26 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain
come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round
him...interested the whole village, good and bad, bright and stupid, in
his facts;...
PerF 10.79 18 [The manufacturer's] friends dissuaded
him, advised him to give up the work, which was not suited to the
country. Why throw good money after bad?
Edc1 10.140 27 [The boy's] hunting and campings-out
have given him an indispensable base: I wish to add a taste for good
company through his impatience of bad.
Edc1 10.145 16 Happy this child...with a thought
which...leads him, now into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an
idea. Let him follow it in good and in evil report, in good or bad
company;...
Edc1 10.154 4 The advantages of this system of
emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...it is so energetic on
slow and on bad natures...that it is not strange that this calomel of
culture should be a popular medicine.
Edc1 10.155 1 ...the familiar observation of the
universal compensations might suggest the fear that so summary a stop
of a bad humor [striking a bad boy] was more jeopardous than its
continuance.
Supl 10.171 7 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say
the truth, was bad;...
SovE 10.190 1 ...all the instincts of man, good and
bad, work...
SovE 10.196 1 We answer, when they tell us of the bad
behavior of Luther or Paul: Well, what if he did?
MoL 10.247 23 Bad times,-what are bad times?
MoL 10.247 24 Bad times,-what are bad times?
Plu 10.310 14 The explanation of the rainbow, of the
floods of the Nile, and of the remora, etc. [in Plutarch], are just;
and the bad guesses are not worse than many of Lord Bacon's.
LLNE 10.334 4 ...every young scholar could recite
brilliant sentences from [Everett's] sermons, with mimicry, good or
bad, of his voice.
LLNE 10.350 12 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the
bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system; the good
Fourier knew what those creatures should have been, had not the mould
slipped, through the bad state of the atmosphere;...
EzRy 10.386 6 ...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of
the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the
time of his predecessor, and showed me how every one of the nine had
come to bad fortune or to a bad end.
Thor 10.457 1 Talking, one day, of a public
discourse, Henry [Thoreau] remarked that whatever succeeded with the
audience was bad.
Thor 10.461 5 It was said of Plotinus that he was
ashamed of his body, and 't is very likely he had good reason for
it,-that his body was a bad servant...
Thor 10.464 2 At Mount Washington...Thoreau had a bad
fall, and sprained his foot.
EWI 11.103 2 For the negro, was the slave-ship to
begin with...bad food, and insufficiency of that;...
EWI 11.125 20 [The planters] were full of vices;
their children were lumps of pride, sloth, sensuality and rottenness.
The position of woman was nearly as bad as it could be;...
EWI 11.126 4 ...[slavery] does not increase the white
population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay. For
these reasons the islands [of the West Indies] proved bad customers to
England.
EWI 11.143 11 Who cares for oppressing whites, or
oppressed blacks, twenty centuries ago, more than for bad dreams?
War 11.165 19 The standing army, the arsenal, the
camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man. They only serve as an
index to show where man is now; what a bad, ungoverned temper he
has;...
FSLC 11.180 1 There are men who are as sure indexes
of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the
air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented...
FSLC 11.184 14 ...what is the use of constitutions,
if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the
protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress
finds a willing commissioner?
FSLC 11.195 26 A wicked law cannot be executed by
good men, and must be by bad.
FSLN 11.232 25 The events of this month are teaching
one thing plain and clear, the worthlessness of good tools to bad
workmen;...
AKan 11.260 17 ...can any citizen of the Southern
country who happens to think kidnapping a bad thing, say so?
EPro 11.318 24 The virtues of a good
magistrate...seem vastly more potent than the acts of bad governors...
ALin 11.332 4 In a host of young men that start
together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each
fails on trial; one by bad health, one by conceit...
SMC 11.362 9 At one time [George Prescott] finds his
company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite
another class,-'t is profanity all the time; yet instead of a bad
influence on our men, I think it works the other way,-it disgusts them.
EdAd 11.387 21 Bad as it is, this freedom [in
America] leads onward and upward...
EdAd 11.389 6 We have a bad war, many victories, each
of which converts the country into an immense chanticleer;...
CPL 11.503 3 ...when you sprain your mind, by gloomy
reflection on your failures and vexations, you come to have a bad
opinion of life.
PLT 12.7 21 A plain man finds [men of wit] so heavy,
dull, and oppressive, with bad jokes and conceit and stupefying
individualism, that he comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great
man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.
II 12.73 12 ...really the capital discovery of modern
agriculture is that it costs no more to keep a good tree than a bad
one.
Mem 12.100 24 A man would think twice about...reading
a new paragraph, if he believed...that he lost a word or a thought for
every word he gained. But the experience is not quite so bad.
Mem 12.104 3 In low or bad company you fold yourself
in your cloak... recall and surround yourself with the best associates
and fairest hours of your life...
Mem 12.107 6 ...the true river Lethe is the body of
man, with its belly and uproar of appetite and mountains of indigestion
and bad humors and quality of darkness.
CInt 12.126 17 ...that which [Harvard College] exists
for, to be...a Delphos uttering warning and ravishing oracles to lift
and lead mankind,-that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of.
On the contrary, every generosity of thought is suspect and gets a bad
name.
CInt 12.127 8 ...these two [the College and the
Church] should be counterbalancing to the bad politics and selfish
trade.
Bost 12.200 22 The American idea, Emancipation,
appears in our freedom of intellection, in our reforms and in our bad
politics;...
Bost 12.206 11 A house in Boston was worth as much
again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people, because
here the neighbors would defend each other against bad governors and
against troops;...
MLit 12.311 18 How can the age be a bad one which
gives me Plato and Paul and Plutarch...beside its own riches?
WSL 12.338 12 Transfer these traits to a very elegant
and accomplished mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter
Savage Landor...
PPr 12.380 27 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the
calamity of the times, not in bad bills of Parliament...but the vice in
false and superficial aims of the people...
Trag 12.410 4 Come bad chance,/ And we add it to our
strength,/ And we teach it art and length,/ Itself o'er us to advance./
Trag 12.415 14 A tender American girl doubts of
Divine Providence whilst she reads the horrors of the middle passage;
and they are bad enough at the mildest;...
bad [bad-hearted], adj. (1)
Wsp 6.217 14 Given the equality of two
intellects,--which will form the most reliable judgments, the good, or
the bad hearted?
bad, n. (8)
DSA 1.143 1 [Public worship] has lost its grasp on
the affection of the good and the fear of the bad.
Con 1.310 14 ...[existing institutions] are really
friendly to the good, unfriendly to the bad;...
YA 1.381 15 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages
and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse.
Mrs1 3.139 20 That makes the good and bad of manners,
namely what helps or hinders fellowship.
Bad, n. (1)
bade, v. (2)
SwM 4.112 20 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the
flowing of nature, and how wise was that old answer of Amasis to him
who bade him drink up the sea, Yes, willingly, if you will stop the
rivers that flow in.
ET16 5.281 1 I stood on the last [the sacrificial
stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or
rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice
that its top ranged with the sky-line.
badge, n. (19)
LE 1.181 4 Let [the scholar] not, too eager to grasp
some badge of reward, omit the work to be done.
YA 1.380 15 In Paris, the blouse, the badge of the
operative, has begun to make its appearance in the salons.
SL 2.163 21 The poor mind does not seem to itself to
be any thing unless it have an outside badge...
Fdsp 2.204 17 We are holden to men by every sort of
tie...by every circumstance and badge and trifle...
Mrs1 3.124 15 The courage which girls exhibit is
like...a sea-fight. The intellect relies on memory to make some
supplies to face these extemporaneous squadrons. But memory is a base
mendicant with basket and badge, in the presence of these sudden
masters.
Mrs1 3.127 13 ...a fine sense of propriety is
cultivated with the more heed that it becomes a badge of social and
civil distinctions.
ET11 5.176 11 In the same line of Warwick, the
successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of
Henry VI. and Edward IV. Few esteemed themselves in the mode, whose
heads were not adorned with the black ragged staff, his badge.
ET11 5.197 23 Whilst the privileges of nobility are
passing to the middle class [in England], the badge is discredited...
F 6.35 13 The sufferance which is the badge of the
Jew, has made him, in these days, the ruler of the rulers of the earth.
Ill 6.314 2 ...everybody is drugged with his own
frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and
badge.
Grts 8.312 6 The day will come when no badge, uniform
or medal will be worn;...
Aris 10.58 20 ...I know no such unquestionable badge
and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose
which...changes never...
Aris 10.62 9 ...[the true man] is to know...that
there is a master grace and dignity communicated by exalted sentiments
to a human form, to which utility and even genius must do homage. And
it is the sign and badge of this nobility, the drawing his counsel from
his own breast.
HDC 11.77 3 To you [veterans of the battle of
Concord] belongs a better badge than stars and ribbons.
SMC 11.375 9 I hope the disuse of such medals or
badges in this country only signifies that everybody knows these men
[veterans of the Civil War], and carries their deeds in such lively
remembrance that they require no badge or reminder.
SHC 11.432 5 I do not wonder that [parks] are the
chosen badge and point of pride of European nobility.
Badger, n. (1)
Pow 6.63 3 ...let these rough riders--legislators in
shirt-sleeves, Hoosier, Sucker, Wolverine, Badger...drive as they may,
and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow
promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and
authority and majesty of manners.
Badgers, n. (1)
ET4 5.48 12 ...I found abundant points of resemblance
between the Germans of the Hercynian forest, and our Hoosiers, Suckers,
and Badgers of the American woods.
badges, n. (8)
LT 1.260 14 Here is this great fact of
Conservatism...which has planted its... various signs and badges of
possession, over every rood of the planet...
Hist 2.14 3 In man we still trace the remains or
hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races;...
Pt1 3.16 14 In our political parties, compute the
power of badges and emblems.
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;...
Aris 10.32 21 It will not pain me...if it should turn
out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but
so few, so heedless of badges... that their names and doings are not
recorded in any Book of Peerage...
SMC 11.375 4 Those who went through those dreadful
fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all
the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields,
and returned alive...in other countries, would wear distinctive badges
of honor as long as they lived.
SMC 11.375 6 I hope the disuse of such medals or
badges in this country only signifies that everybody knows these men
[veterans of the Civil War]...
bad-hearted, adj. (1)
UGM 4.27 11 Perhaps Voltaire was not bad-hearted, yet
he said of the good Jesus, even, I pray you, let me never hear that
man's name again.
badly, adv. (13)
Wsp 6.225 23 In every variety of human
employment...there are, among the numbers who do their task...just to
pass, and as badly as they dare...the working men, on whom the burden
of the business falls;...
Clbs 7.232 23 Some men love only to talk where they
are masters. ... They go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly
or do not listen to the comment or to the thought by which the company
strive to repay them;...
MoL 10.254 21 The country complains loudly of the
inefficiency of the army. It was badly led. But, before this, it was
not the army alone, is was the population that was badly led.
EWI 11.105 12 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made
acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter
had brought with him to London, and had beaten with a pistol on his
head, so badly that his whole body became diseased...
ACiv 11.299 7 ...the rude and early state of society
does not work well with the later, nay, works badly...
SMC 11.369 5 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had
several holes made, and were badly torn.
EdAd 11.389 15 Men reason badly, but Nature and
Destiny are logical.
FRep 11.528 3 Our institutions, of which the town is
the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of
the public...because it is thought to be, on the whole, the verdict,
though badly spoken, of the greatest number.
Mem 12.97 23 A knife with a good spring...a watch,
the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the
same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference
between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who
witnesses the same facts...
badness, n. (1)
baffle, v. (2)
Ill 6.325 23 Every moment new changes and new showers
of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal].
baffled, adj. (6)
Fdsp 2.199 23 After interviews have been compassed
with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled
blows...in the heydey of friendship and thought.
Nat2 3.167 3 Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The
secret of [world's] laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's
throbbing breast,/ And all is clear from east to west./
baffled, v. (6)
ET14 5.233 17 [The Englishman's] mind must stand on a
fact. He will not be baffled, or catch at clouds...
Clbs 7.230 18 Nothing seems so cheap as the benefit
of conversation; nothing is more rare. 'T is wonderful how you are
balked and baffled.
Edc1 10.145 6 Baffled for want of language and
methods to convey his meaning, not yet clear to himself, [the child]
conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other
house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the
rules and instruments to execute his will.
PLT 12.63 15 ...[Socrates] utilized his humanity
chiefly as a better eye-glass to penetrate the vapors that baffled the
vision of other men.
Mem 12.95 10 Never was truer fable than that of the
Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference
between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness
flies after and recollects the flying leaves...and the envious Fate is
baffled.
baffles, v. (4)
OA 7.336 5 I have heard that whenever the name of man
is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his
constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit...
Dem1 10.5 4 There is a strange wilfulness in the
speed with which [a dream] disperses and baffles our grasp.
GSt 10.504 9 [George Stearns's] examination before
the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is
a chapter well worth reading, as a shining example of the manner in
which a truth-speaker baffles all statecraft...
FRO1 11.476 7 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language
falters under it,/ It leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor
power, nor toil can find/ The measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn
nor prayer nor church./
Bag, Acherontian, n. (1)
ACri 12.289 27 Goethe...professed to point his guest
to his...Acherontian Bag, in which, he said, he put all his dire hints
and images...
bag, n. (11)
Nat 1.13 21 ...by means of steam, [man] realizes the
fable of Aeolus's bag...
Comp 2.110 12 [Every opinion] is a thread-ball thrown
at a mark, but the other end remains in the thrower's bag.
NER 3.257 14 ...we are shut up in schools, and
colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out
at last with a bag of wind...
ET5 5.95 6 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep
and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was
omitted but what is economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the
ox to his sirloin.
Chr2 10.110 2 Paganism...carries the bag, spends the
treasure...
Supl 10.177 16 A bag of sequins, a jewel...constitute
an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one
desirous of concealable and convertible property.
EzRy 10.391 19 ...all will remember that even in
[Ezra Ripley's] old age, if the firebell was rung, he was instantly on
horseback with his buckets, and bag.
EPro 11.314 6 Pay ransom to the owner/ And fill the
bag to the brim./ Who is the owner? The slave is the owner,/ And ever
was. Pay him./
baggage, n. (3)
Mem 12.108 17 This past memory is the baggage, but
where is the troop?
CL 12.155 24 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst
I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these
two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the
inconveniences of the road, although they were both loaded heavily
enough with my baggage.
baggages, n. (1)
Bost 12.206 27 From...the Quaker women who for a
testimony walked naked into the streets, and as the record tells us
were arrested and publicly whipped,-the baggages that they were;...down
to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of
dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
Baghdad [Bagdat], Iraq, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.144 4 ...that is my Lord Ride, who came
yesterday from Bagdat;...
Baglioni, Malatesta, n. (1)
MAng1 12.225 17 By the treachery...of the general of
the Republic, Malatesta Baglioni, all [Michelangelo's] skill was
rendered unavailing...
bagman, n. (1)
ET16 5.276 18 Far and wide a few shepherds with their
flocks sprinkled the [Salisbury] plain, and a bagman drove along the
road.
bagmen, n. (1)
ET8 5.129 25 In every [English] inn is the
Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and
solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained.
bags, n. (1)
ET18 5.305 7 I have sometimes seen [Englishmen] walk
with my countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage, and
their companions seemed bags of bones.
Bailey, Mr. (?), n. (1)
ET15 5.266 14 The staff of The [London] Times has
always been made up of able men. Old Walter...Jones Lloyd, John
Oxenford, Mr. Mosely, Mr. Bailey, have contributed to its renown...
Bailey, Philip James, n. (2)
ET17 5.292 25 Every day in London gave me new
opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I
saw...Wilkinson, Bailey, Kenyon and Forster...
MoL 10.245 3 The great poem of the age is the
disagreeable poem of Faust,-of which the Festus of Bailey and the
Paracelsus of Browning are English variations.
Bailey's, Nathan, n. (1)
Pt1 3.18 3 ...it is related of Lord Chatham that he
was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to
speak in Parliament.
bailiffs, n. (2)
Baillie, Joanna, n. (1)
ET17 5.293 4 It was my privilege also [in London] to
converse with Miss Baillie, with Lady Morgan, with Mrs. Jameson and
Mrs. Somerville.
Baireuth [Bayreuth], German (1)
bairn, n. (1)
Elo1 7.71 12 ...every literature contains these high
compliments to the art of the orator and the bard, from the Hebrew and
the Greek down to the Scottish Glenkindie, who ...harpit a fish out o'
saut-water,/ Or water out of a stone,/ Or milk out of a maiden's
breast/ Who bairn had never none./
bait, n. (3)
DL 7.114 25 The wise man angles with himself only,
and with no meaner bait.
bake, v. (5)
SR 2.87 9 The Emperor held it impossible to make a
perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...until...the
soldier should...bake his bread himself.
Prd1 2.223 17 The world is filled with the proverbs
and acts and winkings of a base prudence...a prudence which...asks but
one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?
Prd1 2.226 15 [The northerner] must brew, bake, salt
and preserve his food...
Suc 7.291 20 'T is clownish to insist on doing all
with one's own hands, as if every man should...bake his dough;...
baked, adj. (1)
ET5 5.94 19 The French Comte de Lauraguais said, No
fruit ripens in England but a baked apple;...
baked, v. (3)
Con 1.305 10 The past has baked your loaf, and in the
strength of its bread you would break up the oven.
MMEm 10.412 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in
my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light
every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked.
EurB 12.375 23 ...this reward granted [the novels of
costume or of circumstance] is property, all-excluding property, a
little cake baked for them to eat and for none other...
baker, n. (5)
GoW 4.283 24 ...your interest in the writer is not
confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has
performed his task creditably, as a baker when he has left his loaf;...
ET11 5.191 24 In logical sequence of these dignified
revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was
reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the baker
will not bring bread any longer.
FRep 11.534 10 [A man's life] is manufactured for
him. The tailor makes your dress; the baker your bread...
baker's, n. (2)
ET1 5.18 23 The baker's boy brings muffins to the
window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or
wishes to know on the subject.
F 6.18 24 In a large city...things whose beauty lies
in their casualty, are produced as punctually...to order as the baker's
muffin for breakfast.
baker's-shop, n. (1)
ShP 4.192 11 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by
all causes, a national interest...not a whit less considerable because
it was cheap and of no account, like a baker's-shop.
bakery, n. (1)
CInt 12.129 5 Is...an insurance office, bank or
bakery...further from God than a sheep-pasture or a clam-bank?
bakes, v. (1)
Aris 10.34 1 ...I notice also that [the finer
qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock, by painting and
repainting them on every individual, until at last Nature adopts them
and bakes them into her porcelain.
Bakewell, Robert, n. (2)
ET11 5.189 2 Arthur Young, Bakewell, Mechi have made
[British dukes] agricultural.
baking, adj. (1)
Tran 1.358 10 In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be
not only...baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments...
baking, n. (1)
Nat 1.5 13 ...[man's] operations taken together are
so insignificant, a little chipping, baking, patching, and washing...
baking, v. (1)
balance, n. (55)
LE 1.166 16 ...[the speaker] finds it just as easy
and natural to speak,-to speak...with rhythmical balance of
sentences,-as it was to sit silent;...
YA 1.365 21 ...it now appears that we must estimate
the native values of this broad region to redress the balance of our
own judgments...
YA 1.372 5 [That Genius] indicates itself by...a
small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.
YA 1.389 25 The private mind has the access to the
totality of goodness and truth that it may be a balance to a corrupt
society;...
YA 1.392 4 ...after all the deduction is made for our
frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity
and liberty, which, when it loses its balance, redresses itself
presently...
Hist 2.5 19 ...crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance
and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the
zodiac...
Hist 2.15 2 ...we have [the Greek national mind
expressed] once again in sculpture, the tongue on the balance of
expression...
Comp 2.112 12 The terror of cloudless noon...the
instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a
noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the
balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
Comp 2.115 7 The absolute balance of Give and
Take...is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the
budgets of states...
Comp 2.120 27 Under all this running sea of
circumstance, whose waters ebb and flow with perfect balance, lies the
aboriginal abyss of real Being.
SL 2.139 17 Certainly there is a possible right for
you that precludes the need of balance and wilful election.
Prd1 2.224 4 If a man lose his balance and immerse
himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good
wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.
Int 2.334 26 In the intellect constructive...we
observe the same balance of two elements as in intellect receptive.
Int 2.339 13 How wearisome...any possessed mortal
whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic.
Pt1 3.6 13 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses
have sufficient force to arrive at the senses, but not enough
to...compel the reproduction of themselves in speech. The poet is the
person in whom these powers are in balance...
SwM 4.119 13 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce
the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable. Modern
psychology offers no similar example of a deranged balance.
MoS 4.155 4 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. He finds both wrong by
being in extremes. He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the
balance.
MoS 4.156 26 [The skeptic says] I am here to
consider, skopein, to consider how it is. I will try to keep the
balance true.
ShP 4.216 19 ...how stands the account of man with
this bard and benefactor [Shakespeare], when, in solitude...we seek to
strike the balance?
GoW 4.266 26 ...a headiness and loss of balance, is
the tax which all action must pay.
ET18 5.307 10 ...retrospectively, we may strike the
balance and prefer one Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney,
one Raleigh, one Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.
F 6.5 2 Any excess of emphasis on one part would be
corrected, and a just balance would be made.
F 6.14 5 ...if you could weigh bodily the tonnage of
any hundred of the Whig and the Democratic party in a town on the
Dearborn balance...you could predict with certainty which party would
carry it.
F 6.37 2 ...where shall we find the first atom in
this house of man, which is all consent, inosculation and balance of
parts?
F 6.43 9 ...matter and mind are in perpetual tilt and
balance, so.
Wsp 6.219 12 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and
projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter
projection rule not less tyrannically in human history, and keep the
balance of power from age to age unbroken.
Elo1 7.82 3 In the assembly, you shall find the
orator and the audience in perpetual balance;...
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 11 This balance [between the orator and the
occasion] is observed in the privatest intercourse.
Aris 10.46 2 Dull people think it Fortune that makes
one rich and another poor. Is it? Yes, but the fortune was...in the
balance or adjustment between devotion to what is agreeable to-day and
the forecast of what will be valuable to-morrow.
PerF 10.69 10 ...man in Nature is surrounded by a
gang of friendly giants who can...help him in every kind. Each by
itself has a certain omnipotence, but all...in the presence of each
other...own the balance of power.
Chr2 10.102 16 Character denotes...a balance not to
be overset or easily disturbed by outward events and opinion...
Edc1 10.152 1 Every mind should be allowed to make
its own statement in action, and its balance will appear.
MoL 10.250 2 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.
Plu 10.319 11 If Plutarch...held the balance between
the severe Stoic and the indulgent Epicurean, his humanity shines not
less in his intercourse with his personal friends.
LLNE 10.329 12 [The new age] marked itself by a
certain predominance of the intellect in the balance of powers.
LLNE 10.361 9 ...impulse was the rule in the society
[at Brook Farm], without centripetal balance;...
EWI 11.128 19 The extent of the [British] empire, and
the magnitude and number of other questions crowding into court, keep
this one [slavery] in balance...
EWI 11.144 13 ...now, the arrival in the world of
such men as Toussaint... outweighs in good omen all the English and
American humanity. The anti-slavery of the whole world is dust in the
balance before this...
EdAd 11.391 16 Here is the balance to be adjusted
between the exact French school of Cuvier, and the genial catholic
theorists, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Goethe, Davy and Agassiz.
PLT 12.56 19 There are two theories of life;... One
is activity... The other is trust...the worship of ideas. This is
solitary, grand, secular. They are in perpetual balance and strife.
II 12.66 10 None of the metaphysicians have prospered
in describing this power [consciousness], which...is the corrector of
private excesses and mistakes;...of a balance which is never lost, not
even in the insane.
PPr 12.386 27 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle
the calm daylight, which always shows every individual man in balance
with his age...
balance, v. (11)
Con 1.322 10 ...not to balance reasons for and
against the establishment any longer, and if it still be asked in this
necessity of partial organization, which party...has the highest claims
on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart...
YA 1.365 18 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking
a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great
tract of land in the western hemisphere, to balance the known extent of
land in the eastern;...
Prd1 2.221 21 ...it would be hardly honest in me not
to balance these fine lyric words of Love and Friendship with words of
coarser sound...
ET18 5.307 7 ...we must not play Providence and
balance the chances of producing ten great men against the comfort of
ten thousand mean men...
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.
PC 8.223 10 I shall never believe that centrifugence
and centripetence balance, unless mind heats and meliorates...
MoL 10.253 1 The exertions of this force [intellect]
are the eminent experiences,-out of a long life all that is worth
remembering. These are the moments that balance years.
balanced, adj. (7)
MN 1.200 10 ...in balanced beauty, the dance of the
hours goes forward still.
PPh 4.54 9 Metaphysics and natural philosophy
expressed the genius of Europe; [Plato] substructs the religion of
Asia, as the base. In short, a balanced soul was born, perceptive of
the two elements.
PPh 4.55 1 ...the union of impossibilities, which
reappears in every object;, its real and its ideal power,--was now also
transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato]. The balanced
soul came.
SwM 4.119 19 ...to a reader who can make due
allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's]
peculiarities, the results are...a more striking testimony to the
sublime laws he announced than any that balanced dulness could afford.
Supl 10.173 16 The expressors are the gods of the
world, but the men whom these expressors revere are the solid,
balanced, undemonstrative citizens...
balanced, v. (1)
MoL 10.243 14 It is charged that all vigorous
nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental
activity...
balances, n. (3)
MoS 4.171 23 Every superior mind...will know how to
avail himself of the checks and balances in nature...
balances, v. (5)
Comp 2.97 20 ...in the animal kingdom the
physiologist has observed that... a certain compensation balances every
gift and every defect.
Comp 2.102 15 The world looks like a
multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how
you will, balances itself.
NER 3.280 10 The familiar experiment called the
hydrostatic paradox, in which a capillary column of water balances the
ocean, is a symbol of the relation of one man to the whole family of
men.
PC 8.217 7 I find the single mind equipollent to a
multitude of minds...as a drop of water balances the sea;...
balance-wheel, n. (2)
ShP 4.194 26 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...
Comc 8.161 22 ...a perception of the Comic seems to
be a balance-wheel in our metaphysical structure.
balancing, v. (2)
Nat 1.48 2 ...what is the difference,
whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...galaxy
balancing galaxy...or whether, without relations of time and space, the
same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
Pow 6.63 8 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping
at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions,
will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our
buffalo-hunter...
Balcombe, Mrs., n. (2)
NMW 4.240 19 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs.
Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road...
NMW 4.240 21 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs.
Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road,
and Mrs. Balcombe desired them, in rather an angry tone, to keep back.
balcony, n. (1)
Bty 6.297 1 ...the citizens of her native city of
Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline
de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
bald, adj. (12)
YA 1.392 15 ...to imaginative persons in this country
there is somewhat bare and bald in our short history and unsettled
wilderness.
Hist 2.16 4 I have seen the head of an old sachem of
the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit...
Nat2 3.179 21 A little heat...is all that differences
the bald, dazzling white and deadly cold poles of the earth from the
prolific tropical climates.
MoS 4.167 6 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy
opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble
and prose about what I certainly know...my old lean bald pate;...
ET9 5.147 26 If one of [the English] have a bald, or
a red, or a green head... he has persuaded himself that there is
something modish and becoming in it...
DL 7.108 20 We are sure that the sacred form of man
is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies, bald heads...
OA 7.316 17 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with
even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a
gray or a bald head...
OA 7.332 13 The old President [John Adams] sat in a
large stuffed arm-chair... a cotton cap covered his bald head.
LLNE 10.344 15 What [Theodore Parker] said was mere
fact, almost offended you, so bald and detached;...
MMEm 10.398 4 On earth I dream;-I die to be:/ Time!
shake not thy bald head at me./ I challenge thee to hurry past,/ Or for
my turn to fly too fast./
Scot 11.462 5 Our concern is only with the residue,
where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with
beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon...
Balder, n. (1)
Clbs 7.238 4 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but
himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son
Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile?
Balder's, n. (1)
PI 8.64 10 Bring us...poetry which, like the verses
inscribed on Balder's columns in Breidablik, is capable of restoring
the dead to life;...
Balderstones, Caleb, n. (1)
Scot 11.466 12 In his own household and neighbors
[Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...came with these
into real ties of mutual help and good will. From these originals he
drew so genially his... Caleb Balderstones and Fairservices...
baldest, adj. (1)
baldness, n. (1)
baled, v. (1)
bales, n. (1)
Balfour, John [Scott, Old (1)
Hsm1 2.247 29 ...Scott will sometimes draw a [heroic]
stroke like the portrait of Lord Evandale given by Balfour of Burley.
balk, v. (3)
SL 2.133 10 ...education often wastes its effort in
attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism...
OS 2.268 6 The most exact calculator has no
prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next
moment.
Trag 12.407 17 ...universally, in uneducated and
unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition
[belief in Fate]: If you balk water you will be drowned the next
time;...
balked, v. (9)
Pt1 3.40 10 Stand there, [O poet,] balked and
dumb...stand and strive...
Bhr 6.187 23 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy
of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy
ghost. 'T is a great destitution to both that this should not be
entertained with large leisures, but contrariwise should be balked by
importunate affairs.
Wsp 6.221 6 ...cant and lying and the attempt to
secure a good which does not belong to us, are, once for all, balked
and vain.
Clbs 7.230 18 Nothing seems so cheap as the benefit
of conversation; nothing is more rare. 'T is wonderful how you are
balked and baffled.
Dem1 10.19 21 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.
Balkh, Afghanistan, n. (1)
Chr1 3.109 12 When the Yunani sage arrived at
Balkh...Gushtasp appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every country
should assemble...
balking, v. (2)
balks, v. (2)
Nat 1.63 8 [If Idealism only deny the existence of
matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to
wander without end. Then the heart resists it, because it balks the
affections...
Aris 10.51 19 The day is darkened...when genius
grows...reckless of its fine duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer
to its humble fellows, balks their respect and confounds their
understanding by silly extravagances.
Ball, Alexander, n. (2)
Cour 7.262 5 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of
an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied
Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to
attack...I was overpowered with fear...
Cour 7.262 8 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of
an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied
Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to
attack...I was ready to faint away. Lieutenant Ball seeing
me...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or
so;...
ball, n. (36)
Nat 1.12 17 The misery of man appears like childish
petulance, when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has
been made for his support and delight on this green ball...
Prd1 2.237 23 Examples are cited by soldiers of men
who have seen the cannon pointed and the fire given to it, and who have
stepped aside from the path of the ball.
Pt1 3.32 25 That also is the best success in
conversation, the magic of liberty, which puts the world like a ball in
our hands.
Mrs1 3.131 27 The maiden at her first ball...believes
that there is a ritual according to which every act and compliment must
be performed...
Mrs1 3.141 19 The favorites of society...are able
men...who exactly fill the hour and the company; contented and
contenting, at...a ball or a jury...
Nat2 3.184 11 Once heave the ball from the hand, and
we can show how all this mighty order grew.
Nat2 3.184 25 That famous aboriginal push propagates
itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of
every ball;...
SwM 4.108 8 At the top of the column [the spine]
[Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over, as
a span-worm, into a ball...
ShP 4.217 2 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew
that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the
earth, than for tillage and roads...
Pow 6.64 13 The faster the ball falls to the sun, the
force to fly off is by so much augmented.
Pow 6.77 17 'T is the same ounce of gold here in a
ball, and there in a leaf.
Wth 6.83 3 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away
in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and
suns?/
Wth 6.123 19 The farmer affects to take his orders;
but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an
opinion concerning the mode of...laying out my acre, but the ball will
rebound to you.
Wsp 6.203 2 ...whether your community is made...of
saints or of wreckers, it coheres in a perfect ball.
Wsp 6.219 8 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and
projection keep their craft, and the ball never loses its way in its
wild path through space,--a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection
rule not less tyrannically in human history...
Ill 6.311 24 ...the barrister with the jury, the
belle at the ball...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment,
which they themselves give it.
Elo1 7.90 17 Put the argument...into an image,--some
hard phrase, round and solid as a ball...and the cause is half won.
WD 7.173 10 Hume's doctrine was that...the girl
equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from
the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant
excitement.
Cour 7.263 9 It is the veteran soldier, who, seeing
the flash of the cannon, can step aside from the path of the ball.
Cour 7.279 2 The hunter raised his gun,--/ He knew
one charge was all,--/ And through the boy's pursuing foe/ He sent his
only ball./
Elo2 8.128 15 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is
so common a result of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk
from the games of ball and skates...that I wish his guardians to
consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part
when he is full-grown.
Res 8.142 25 ...we begin to perforate and mould the
old ball, as a carpenter does with wood.
Prch 10.222 9 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you
take away the purpose that animates him. The ball...is there, but his
power to cheer...is gone forever.
Plu 10.315 3 At Rome [Plutarch] thinks [Fortune's]
wings were clipped: she stood no longer on a ball, but on a cube as
large as Italy.
LLNE 10.362 27 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and
philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his
exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and
playing ball or bird-hunting;...
HDC 11.74 16 ...the British fired one or two shots up
the river (our ancient friend here, Master Blood, saw the water struck
by the first ball);...
HDC 11.74 16 ...the British fired one or two shots up
the river...then a single gun, the ball from which wounded Luther
Blanchard and Jonas Brown...
AsSu 11.248 5 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was
challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps,
his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing
was not to be thought of; Mr. Webster's life...was not to be risked on
the turn of a vagabond's ball.
ACri 12.302 26 ...this is the ball that is tossed in
every court of law, in every legislature and in literature...by
sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or
belief.
ballad, n. (13)
AmS 1.111 16 The meal in the firkin;...the ballad in
the street;...show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
Art1 2.349 10 Let statue, picture, park and hall,/
Ballad, flag and festival,/ The past restore, the day adorn/ And make
each morrow a new morn./
ShP 4.192 2 ...as we could not hope to suppress
newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king,
prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was
ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the
same time.
Pow 6.78 14 No genius can recite a ballad at first
reading so well as mediocrity can at the fifteenth or twentieth
reading.
Cour 7.277 18 I am permitted to enrich my chapter by
adding an anecdote of pure courage from real life, as narrated in a
ballad by a lady to whom all the particulars of the fact are exactly
known.
Res 8.148 22 See the dexterity of the good aunt in
keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted
without knowing it...the ballad, the game...
QO 8.186 3 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of
The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and
Leander...
QO 8.196 17 ...many men can write better under a mask
than for themselves; as Chatterton in archaic ballad...
Scot 11.464 15 Just so much thought, so much
picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad
required...[Scott] would keep and use...
ballad-grinding, n. (1)
PI 8.74 15 Poems!--we have no poem. Whenever that
angel shall be organized and appear on earth, the Iliad will be
reckoned a poor ballad-grinding.
ballads, n. (13)
SwM 4.141 8 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street
ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is
sounded...
MoS 4.166 8 ...[Montaigne] will talk with sailors and
gipsies, use flash and street ballads;...
Boks 7.197 20 English history is best known through
Shakspeare; how much through Merlin, Robin Hood and the Scottish
ballads!...
Cour 7.256 9 ...any man who puts his life in peril in
a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very
nursery-books, the ballads which delight boys...may testify.
Suc 7.287 9 The ancient Norse ballads describe [the
Norseman] as afflicted with this inextinguishable thirst of victory.
PI 8.48 12 So in our songs and ballads the refrain
skilfully used, and deriving some novelty or better sense in each of
many verses...
PI 8.57 18 ...the direct smell of the earth or the
sea, is in these ancient poems...the songs and ballads of the English
and Scotch.
PPo 8.240 1 He who would understand the influence of
the Homeric ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which
similar compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
PPo 8.243 15 ...the connection between the stanzas of
[the Persians'] longer odes is much like that between the refrain of
our old English ballads...
Mem 12.106 10 ...I come to a bright school-girl
who...carries thousands of nursery rhymes and all the poetry in all the
readers, hymn-books, and pictorial ballads in her mind;...
Ballads, n. (1)
ShP 4.207 27 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all
great works of art...in... the Ballads of Spain and Scotland,--Genius
draws up the ladder after him...
ballast, n. (1)
Exp 3.60 21 [Life] is a tempest of fancies, and the
only ballast I know is a respect to the present hour.
ballasting, v. (1)
MoS 4.167 20 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why
should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the
best I can, this dancing balloon?
balloon, n. (16)
Tran 1.332 8 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his
banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and
solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with
it... And this wild balloon...is a just symbol of his whole state and
faculty.
Mrs1 3.144 8 ...here is...Monsieur Jovaire, who came
down this morning in a balloon;...
Nat2 3.195 14 We anticipate a new era from the
invention of a locomotive, or a balloon;...
MoS 4.167 21 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why
should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the
best I can, this dancing balloon?
ET10 5.168 10 The machinery has proved, like the
balloon, unmanageable...
Pow 6.74 9 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties,
talents, flatteries, hopes,-- all are distractions which cause
oscillations in our giddy balloon...
WD 7.161 21 The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton,
the very fuel he wants for his balloon.
Dem1 10.21 1 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply
mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the
guided balloon, are of this kind.
PerF 10.78 6 It would be easy to awake wonder by
sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the
Fancy, which sends its gay balloon aloft into the sky...
MoL 10.248 17 You [scholars] are here as the carriers
of the power of Nature,-as Roger Bacon...with his secret of the balloon
and of steam;...
ballooning, adj. (1)
PI 8.13 2 When some familiar truth or fact
appears...equipped with a grand pair of ballooning wings, we cannot
enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
balloons, n. (1)
WD 7.164 12 ...we must look deeper for our salvation
than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy.
ballot, n. (7)
ET5 5.78 23 ...no breach of truth and plain
dealing,--not so much as secret ballot, is suffered in the island
[England].
Pow 6.61 17 A timid man...observing...sectional
interests...with a mind made up to desperate extremities, ballot in one
hand and rifle in the other,-- might easily believe that he and his
country have seen their best days...
MoL 10.258 5 ...on each new threat of faction, the
ballot of the people has been unexpectedly right.
HDC 11.48 3 The negative ballot of a ten-shilling
freeholder [in Concord] was as fatal as that of the honored owner of
Blood's Farms or Willard's Purchase.
FRep 11.525 11 In each new threat of faction the
ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive.
CInt 12.126 8 Harvard College has no voice in Harvard
College, but State Street votes it down on every ballot.
ballot-box, n. (3)
Con 1.319 20 ...leprosy has grown cunning, has got
into the ballot-box;...
PPh 4.53 21 The Roman legion...the steam-mill,
steamboat, steam-coach, may all be seen in perspective; the
town-meeting, the ballot-box...
Wom 11.421 27 ...if any man will take the trouble to
see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of
the polls, give every innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in...and
how the innocent citizen, without further demur, goes and drops it in
the ballot-box,-I cannot but think he will agree that most women might
vote as wisely.
balloting, v. (1)
Cour 7.260 18 An old farmer...when I ask him if he is
not going to town-meeting, says: No, 't is no use balloting, for it
will not stay;...
ballotings, n. (1)
MoS 4.152 3 The ward meetings, on election days, are
not softened by any misgiving of the value of these ballotings.
ballots, n. (2)
FSLN 11.219 12 ...under the shadow of [Webster's]
great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for
[the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law.
FRep 11.524 10 The record of the election now and
then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a
brawler. But how was it done? What lawless mob burst into the polls and
threw in these hundreds of ballots in defiance of the magistrates?
ballroom, adj. (1)
ball-room, n. (5)
Art1 2.365 26 ...a ball-room makes us feel that we
are all paupers in the almshouse of this world...
Bhr 6.170 27 We send girls of a timid, retreating
disposition...to the ball-room, or wheresoever they can come into
acquaintance and nearness of leading persons of their own sex;...
Bhr 6.188 19 ...the sad realist knows these fellows
[of position] at a glance, and they know him; as when in Paris the
chief of the police enters a ball-room, so many diamonded pretenders
shrink...
EurB 12.373 9 ...we can easily believe that the
behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some
addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the
imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative
class.
balls, n. (12)
LE 1.175 16 [Society's] foolish routine, an
indefinite multiplication of balls...can teach you no more than a few
can.
Comp 2.91 9 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That
hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/
Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the
neutral Dark./
Nat2 3.184 19 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for
the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the
balls rolled.
PPh 4.74 2 No escape; [Socrates] drives [his
opponents] to terrible choices by his dilemmas, and tosses the
Hippiases and Gorgiases with their grand reputations, as a boy tosses
his balls.
NMW 4.234 26 In vain several officers and myself were
placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect: their balls and
mine rolled upon the ice without breaking it up.
NMW 4.236 4 [Bonaparte]...on a hostile position,
rained a torrent of iron,-- shells, balls, grape-shot...
Ctr 6.144 22 Balls, riding, wine-parties and
billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic...
Ill 6.318 12 You play with jackstraws,
balls...estates and politics; but there are finer games before you.
CL 12.145 22 [The apple trees] look as if they were
arms and fingers, holding out to you balls of fire and gold.
balm, n. (3)
F 6.5 17 On the first [the appointed day], neither
balm nor physician can save/...
Clbs 7.226 3 ...the staple of conversation is widely
unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...sometimes it is love,
and makes the balm of our early and of our latest days;...
SovE 10.198 16 From the obscurity and casualty of
those which I know, I infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm
and consolation and immortality in a thousand homes which I do not
know...
balm-of-Gilead, n. (1)
balsam, n. (2)
Supl 10.177 17 A bag of sequins...a
balsam...constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions
make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.
Wom 11.413 14 This is the victory of Griselda, her
supreme humility. And it is when love has reached this height that all
our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning. When we see that...it is
balsam in the heart.
balsams, n. (1)
Schr 10.266 5 ...[Nature] has balsams for our hurts,
and hellebores for our insanities.
Baltic Sea, n. (1)
ET5 5.86 12 Before the bombardment of the Danish
forts in the Baltic, Nelson spent day after day, himself, in the boats,
on the exhausting service of sounding the channel.
Baltimore, Maryland, adj. (1)
FRep 11.531 3 Our national flag is not
affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United
States, but some Baltimore or Chicago...caucus;...
Baltimore, Maryland, n. (6)
Con 1.320 26 The contractors who were building a road
out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers quarrelsome...
EzRy 10.392 11 We remember the remark of a gentleman
who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation at the
time when the Doctor was perparing to go to Baltimore and Washington,
that a man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and
John Quincy Adams.
EPro 11.323 16 Give the Confederacy New Orleans,
Charleston, and Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and
Baltimore.
SMC 11.369 21 Another incident [reported by George
Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not
treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. ...
There was no place nearer than Baltimore where we could have got a
coffin...
SMC 11.371 3 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second
Regiment saw hard service...at Baltimore, in Virginia...
Balzac, Honore de, n. [Balzac,] (4)
ET2 5.31 24 We found on board [the Washington Irving]
the usual cabin library; Basil Hall, Dumas, Dickens, Bulwer, Balzac and
Sand were our sea-gods.
boks 7.213 16 The novel is that allowance and frolic
the imagination finds. Everything else pins it down, and men flee for
redress to...Sand, Balzac...
SA 8.81 14 Balzac finely said: Kings themselves
cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance to capitulate...
ban, n. (4)
GoW 4.267 21 ...in...actions that...put a ban on
reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
FSLC 11.198 17 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the
bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its
incumbents must rank with a class from which the turnkey, the hangman
and the informer are taken, necessary functionaries...to whom the
dislike and the ban of society universally attaches.
TPar 11.284 2 Here comes Parker, the Orson of
parsons, a man/ Whom the Church undertook to put under her ban.-/
banana, n. (1)
Bancroft, George, n. (1)
ET17 5.292 10 My visit [to England] fell in the
fortunate days when Mr. [George] Bancroft was the American Minister in
London...
band, n. (14)
Int 2.346 7 This band of grandees, Hermes...and the
rest, have somewhat... so primary in their thinking, that it seems
antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and
literature...
Nat2 3.174 25 A boy hears a military band play on the
field at night, and he has kings and queens and famous chivalry
palpably before him.
ET10 5.161 26 ...now that a telegraph line runs
through France and Europe from London, every message it transmits makes
stronger by one thread the band which war will have to cut.
F 6.20 22 When the gods in the Norse heaven were
unable to bind the Fenris Wolf with steel...they put round his foot a
limp band...and this held him;...
F 6.21 1 Neither brandy...nor genius, can get rid of
this limp band [of Fate].
DL 7.121 3 What is the hoop that holds [the eager,
blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band of poverty...
HDC 11.38 3 Wibbacowet, the husband of Squaw Sachem,
received a suit of cloth, a hat, a white linen band, shoes, stockings
and a greatcoat;...
FSLC 11.212 24 It was the praise of Athens, She could
not lead countless armies into the field, but she knew how with a
little band to defeat those who could.
JBB 11.266 15 Then [John Brown] grasped his trusty
rifle, and boldly fought for Freedom;/ Smote from border unto border
the fierce invading band/...
FRO1 11.480 27 I wish...that within this little band
that has gathered here to-day [Free Religious Association], should grow
friendship.
Band, Sacred, n. (2)
YA 1.382 20 It was a noble thought of Fourier...to
distinguish in his Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band...
LLNE 10.327 17 Anciently, society was in the course
of things. There was a Sacred Band...
Band, Theban, n. (1)
Aris 10.59 15 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant
that we have no prizes offered to the ambition of virtuous young men;
that there is no Theban Band;...
bandage, n. (2)
EzRy 10.393 21 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley]
had...in uncovering the bandage from a sore place, and applying the
surgeon's knife with a truly surgical spirit.
bandages, n. (3)
DSA 1.146 10 Look to it...that fashion, custom,
authority, pleasure, and money...are not bandages over your eyes...
LE 1.156 22 Men looked, when all feudal straps and
bandages were snapped asunder, that nature...should reimburse itself by
a brood of Titans...
bandannas, n. (1)
ET5 5.96 16 [The English] make ponchos for the
Mexican, bandannas for the Hindoo...
banded, v. (2)
NER 3.264 27 ...a grand phalanx of the best of the
human race, banded for some catholic object; yes, excellent;...
PC 8.217 2 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you
would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the
era...the radicals of the hour, banded against the corruptions of
Rome...
Bandinel, Bulkeley, n. (1)
ET12 5.203 8 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel
showed me the manuscript Plato...
banding, n. (1)
FSLC 11.188 15 I had thought, I confess, what must
come at last would come at first, a banding of all men against the
authority of this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].
bandit, n. (1)
bands, n. (6)
Hist 2.20 12 The Gothic church plainly originated in
a rude adaptation of the forest trees, with all their boughs, to a
festal or solemn arcade; as the bands about the cleft pillars still
indicate the green withes that tied them.
ET11 5.191 22 In logical sequence of these dignified
revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was
reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and but three
bands to his neck...
Elo1 7.71 25 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear
child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks
broader in his shoulders and breast. His arms lie on the ground, but
he, like a leader, walks about the bands of the men.
PPo 8.246 18 To be wise the dull brain so earnestly
throbs,/ Bring bands of wine for the stupid head./
HDC 11.45 14 The bands of love and reverence, held
fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony]...
FRO1 11.480 20 The soul of our late
war...was...secondly, to abolish the mischief of the war itself, by
healing and saving the sick and wounded soldiers,-and this by the
sacred bands of the Sanitary Commission.
Bands, Sacred, n. (1)
FRO1 11.480 9 What is best in the ancient religions
was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands...
bandy, v. (2)
bane, n. (1)
Bangor, Maine, n. (1)
Res 8.145 3 ...no matter how remote from camp or
city, [the old forester] carries Bangor with him.
banish, v. (1)
OA 7.314 5 ...Lowly faithful, banish fear,/ Right
onward drive unharmed;/ The port, well worth the cruise, is near,/ And
every wave is charmed./
banished, adj. (1)
Nat 1.72 22 This is such a resumption of power as if
a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch...
banished, v. (1)
ET4 5.64 1 Flogging, banished from the armies of
Western Europe, remains here [in England] by the sanction of the Duke
of Wellington.
banishing, v. (1)
LLNE 10.346 13 These [19th Century] reformers were a
new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans, bent
on...banishing the Romanist, these were gentle souls...
banishment, n. (3)
ET1 5.6 25 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of
structure...the entire and immediate banishment of all make-shift and
make-believe.
Suc 7.304 7 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and
his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How
delicious the belief that he could...hold instant and sempiternal
communication! In solitude, in banishment, the hope returned...
bank, adj. (5)
Boks 7.189 20 ...after reading to weariness the
lettered backs [of books], we...learn, as I did without surprise of a
surly bank director, that in bank parlors they estimate all stocks of
this kind as rubbish.
Boks 7.189 21 ...after reading to weariness the
lettered backs [of books], we...learn, as I did without surprise of a
surly bank director, that in bank parlors they estimate all stocks of
this kind as rubbish.
ACri 12.287 11 ...when a great bank president was
expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent
circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks!
ACri 12.287 13 ...when a great bank president was
expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent
circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks!
ACri 12.287 16 ...when a great bank president was
expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent
circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks!
The whole party were surprised and cheered, except the bank
president...
Bank, Dublin, n. (1)
ET7 5.124 21 ...when the Rochester rappings began to
be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in
the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all
somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the
number of his note should have the money.
bank, n. (14)
Con 1.300 25 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts
that bank of foliage into the air...is the gift and legacy of dead and
buried years.
Tran 1.332 3 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his
banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and
solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with
it...
SL 2.135 22 When we come out of...the bank...[nature]
says to us, So hot? my little Sir.
Nat2 3.192 19 The pine-tree, the river, the bank of
flowers before [the poet] does not seem to be nature.
HDC 11.73 22 This little battalion [of
minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other
bank of the river...
HDC 11.74 25 A head-stone and a foot-stone, on this
bank of the river, mark the place where these first victims [of the
American Revolution] lie.
SMC 11.360 15 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think
carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or
mothers may fall back; upon the little account in the savings bank...
SMC 11.373 7 After driving the enemy from the
railroad, crossing it, and climbing the farther bank to continue the
charge, [George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball...
SHC 11.435 12 ...when these acorns, that are falling
at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century,
this mute green bank [Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...
Shak1 11.447 17 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a
painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored
compatriot...whose American devotion through forty or fifty years to
the affairs of a bank, has not been able to bury the fires of his
genius,-Mr. Charles Sprague,- pleads the infirmities of age as an
absolute bar to his presence with us.
PLT 12.16 18 In my thought I seem to stand on the
bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream, floating
objects of all shapes, colors and natures; nor can I much detain them
as they pass except by running beside them a little way along the bank.
CInt 12.129 5 Is...an insurance office, bank or
bakery...further from God than a sheep-pasture or a clam-bank?
Trag 12.415 7 [Our human being] is like a stream of
water, which, if dammed up on one bank, overruns the other, and flows
equally at its own convenience over sand, or mud, or marble.
Bank, of England, n. [Bank] (3)
Supl 10.172 19 At the Bank of England they put a
scrap of paper that is worth a million pounds sterling into the hands
of the visitor to touch.
Bank, President of the, n. (1)
MoL 10.256 23 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his
dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge.
But the President of the Bank nods to the President of the Insurance
Office, and relates that at Virginia Springs this idol of the forum
exhausted a trunkful of classic authors.
bank-clerk, n. (1)
Ctr 6.138 27 A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk and
a dancer could not exchange functions.
bank-days, n. (1)
banker, n. (12)
Tran 1.332 3 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his
banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and
solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with
it...
YA 1.380 9 ...the swelling cry of voices for the
education of the people indicates that Government has other offices
than those of banker and executioner.
ET5 5.75 26 ...the banker, with his seven per cent.,
drives the earl out of his castle.
Pow 6.76 3 Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said
this to young Buxton), and you will be the great brewer of London. Be
brewer, and banker, and merchant, and manufacturer, and you will soon
be in the Gazette.
Wth 6.100 25 Napoleon was fond of telling the story
of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor...Young man, you are
too young to understand how masses are formed;...
Ctr 6.159 2 A man known to us only as a celebrity in
politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he
has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn...of a living
banker, his success in poetry;...
Elo1 7.77 25 A greater power of carrying the thing
loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound merchant, banker,
judge...
LLNE 10.347 5 [Robert Owen] said that Fourier learned
of him all the truth he had; the rest of his system was imagination,
and the imagination of a banker.
MMEm 10.433 8 ...every banker, shopkeeper and
wood-sawer has a stake in the elevation of the moral code by saint and
prophet.
Thor 10.470 9 [Thoreau] drew out of his breast-pocket
his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on
this day, whereof he kept account as a banker when his notes fall due.
Banker's Gazette, n. (1)
ACri 12.294 6 ...[Shakespeare's] very sonnets are as
solid and close to facts as the Banker's Gazette;...
bankers, n. (2)
Schr 10.265 1 The poet with poets betrays no amiable
weakness. They all chime in, and are as inexorable as bankers on the
subject of real life.
II 12.81 22 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church,
or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants,
lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea
fashioned them...
banker's, n. (2)
Wth 6.100 27 Napoleon was fond of telling the story
of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor, surprised at the
contrast between the splendor of the banker's chateau and hospitality
and the meanness of the counting-room in which he had seen him,--Young
man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
banking, adj. (1)
NR 3.238 27 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob, into a
banking house...and in each new place he is no better than an idiot;...
banking, n. (1)
YA 1.383 5 The Community is only the continuation of
the same movement which made the joint-stock companies for
manufactures, mining, insurance, banking, and so forth.
banking-house, n. (2)
Tran 1.331 23 The sturdy capitalist, no matter how
deep and square on blocks of Quincy granite he lays the foundations of
his banking-house or Exchange, must set it ...on a mass of unknown
materials and solidity...
ET5 5.98 16 Man in England submits to be a product of
political economy. On a bleak moor a mill is built, a banking-house is
opened, and men come in as water in a sluice-way...
bank-messenger, n. (1)
Dem1 10.21 6 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply
mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the
guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...descending...on...the
bank-messenger in the country, can well be spared.
Bank-Note Detector, n. (1)
bank-notes, n. [banknotes,] (2)
Prd1 2.235 6 [Our Yankee trade] takes bank-notes,
good, bad, clean, ragged, and saves itself by the speed with which it
passes them off.
bankrupt, adj. (3)
Exp 3.67 17 To-morrow again every thing looks real
and angular...and experience is hands and feet to every
enterprise;--and yet, he who should do his business on this
understanding would be quickly bankrupt.
Wth 6.112 25 ...society can never prosper but must
always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to
do.
PPr 12.386 15 One can hardly credit, whilst under the
spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same
bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us...
bankrupt, n. (2)
YA 1.381 11 The farmer...turns out often a bankrupt,
like the merchant.
Edc1 10.133 9 If I have renounced the search of
truth...I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of
prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as a bankrupt to
whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain.
bankrupt, v. (2)
Chr1 3.102 23 ...[the hero] is again on his road,
adding...new claims on your heart, which will bankrupt you if you have
loitered about the old things...
PC 8.231 8 We wish...to ordain free trade, and
believe that it will not bankrupt us;...
bankruptcies, n. (4)
SR 2.88 12 ...what the man acquires, is living
property, which does not wait the beck of...bankruptcies...
Wth 6.106 10 ...artifice or legislation punishes
itself by reactions, gluts and bankruptcies.
Suc 7.289 8 Rien ne reussit mieux que le succes. And
we Americans are tainted with this insanity, as our bankruptcies...may
show.
Prch 10.232 3 ...it is impossible to pay no
regard...to bankruptcies, famines and desolations.
bankruptcy, n. (16)
YA 1.374 19 ...we repair commerce with unlimited
credit, and are presently visited with unlimited bankruptcy.
YA 1.382 1 On one side is agricultural
chemistry...and on the other, the farmer, not only eager for the
information, but with bad crops and in debt and bankruptcy, for want of
it.
Exp 3.48 27 If to-morrow I should be informed of the
bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a
great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave
me as it found me...
NMW 4.253 26 [Napoleon] is unjust to his
generals;...intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in hopeless
bankruptcy...
ET1 5.17 16 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums
paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing. Hence it comes
that...the booksellers are on the eve of bankruptcy.
CbW 6.254 21 ...the war or revolution or bankruptcy
that shatters a rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural
order.
CbW 6.262 6 As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be
played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged
patriotism, so is...national bankruptcy or revolution more rich in the
central tones than languid years of prosperity.
CbW 6.262 16 In our life and culture everything is
worked up and comes in use,--passion, war, revolt, bankruptcy...
WD 7.165 25 ...Trade...ends in shameful defaulting,
bubble and bankruptcy...
QO 8.189 18 The capitalist of either kind [mental or
pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the
transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower
than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy.
Supl 10.174 9 Children and thoughtless people...like
to talk of a marriage, of a bankruptcy, of a debt, of a crime.
EWI 11.125 15 It was shown to the planters...that
they needed the severest monopoly laws at home to keep them from
bankruptcy.
FRep 11.532 7 See how fast [our people] extend the
fleeting fabric of their trade,-not at all considering the remote
reaction and bankruptcy...
CL 12.159 27 ...the speculators who rush for
investment...are all more or less mad,-I need not say it now in the
crash of bankruptcy;...
bankrupts, n. (1)
Farm 7.138 8 All men keep the farm in reserve as an
asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who
knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way from the
bankrupts of trade...
bankrupts, v. (3)
Hist 2.23 8 ...this intellectual nomadism, in its
excess, bankrupts the mind...
UGM 4.22 6 ...if there should appear in the company
some gentle soul who...certifies me of the equity which...bankrupts
every self-seeker...that man liberates me;...
banks, n. (19)
Con 1.321 14 ...if priest and church-member should
fail...the presidents of the banks...would muster with fury to
[religious institutions'] support.
ET15 5.270 15 ...[the editors of the London Times]
have an instinct for finding where the power now lies, which is
eternally shifting its banks.
Wth 6.104 4 If you take out of State Street the ten
honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same
amount of capital...the soundness of banks will show it;...
Bhr 6.173 22 In the hotels on the banks of the
Mississippi they print...that No gentleman can be permitted to come to
the public table without his coat;...
PI 8.42 5 Better men saw heavens and earths; saw
noble instruments of noble souls. We see railroads, mills and banks...
LLNE 10.327 4 ...[the new race] hate tolls, taxes,
turnpikes, banks...
Thor 10.466 9 The river on whose banks [Thoreau] was
born and died he knew from its springs to its confluence with the
Merrimack.
Thor 10.466 18 Every fact which occurs in the bed [of
the Concord River], on the banks or in the air over it;...[was] all
known to [Thoreau]...
Thor 10.467 2 ...the snake, muskrat, otter, woodchuck
and fox, on the banks [of the Concord River];...were all known to
[Thoreau]...
Thor 10.467 3 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket,
which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to
[Thoreau]...
HDC 11.29 19 The river, by whose banks most of us
were born, every winter, for ages, has spread its crust of ice over the
great meadows which, in ages, it had formed.
HDC 11.30 1 ...the little society of men who now, for
a few years, fish in this river...shortly shall hurry from its banks as
did their forefathers.
TPar 11.290 11 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on
the years when Southern slavery broke over its old banks...
FRep 11.522 18 [The American] is easily fed with
wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer
draughts, by political power and by the power in the railroad board, in
the mills, or the banks.
PLT 12.16 22 ...I have a suspicion that, as
geologists say every river makes its own valley, so does this mystic
stream. It makes its valley, makes its banks and makes perhaps the
observer too.
Mem 12.96 17 In the minds of most men memory is
nothing but a farm-book or a pocket-diary. On such a day I paid my
note;...on the next the banks suspended payment.
Bost 12.194 25 These ancient men, like great gardens
with great banks of flowers, send out their perfumed breath across the
great tracts of time.
Banks, n. (3)
LT 1.270 11 The political questions touching the
Banks;...are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
ET2 5.27 2 ...[the good ship] has reached the
Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around;
no fishermen; she has passed the Banks...
bank-safes, n. (1)
Elo1 7.65 17 Bring [the master orator] to his
audience, and, be they...with their opinions in the keeping of a
confessor, or with their opinions in their bank-safes,--he will have
them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
bank-stock, n. (2)
Comp 2.94 24 What did the preacher mean by saying
that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it...that a
compensation is to be made to these last [the good] hereafter, by
giving them the like gratifications another day,--bank-stock and
doubloons, venison and champagne?
Nat2 3.190 23 ...this bank-stock and file of
mortgages;...all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
banner, n. (2)
Ill 6.314 2 ...everybody is drugged with his own
frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and
badge.
bannered, adj. (1)
Bhr 6.192 8 We watched sympathetically [in earlier
novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the
wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the
bannered portal...
banners, n. (2)
ET19 5.313 2 Is it not true, sir, that the wise
ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the
port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her
banners, but having ridden out the storm?
Bty 6.291 21 In the midst of...a festal procession
gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting
under a wall, and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning
and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away
attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
banning, v. (1)
Mrs1 3.155 7 Too good for banning, and too bad for
blessing, [society] reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology,
in any attempt to settle its character.
bannocks, n. (1)
Hsm1 2.254 15 ...[the great soul's] own majesty can
lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city
feasts.
banns, n. (1)
PI 8.47 15 ...human passion, seizing these
constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or
marry music to thought, believing...that for every thought its proper
melody or rhyme exists, though the odds are immense against our finding
it, and only genius can rightly say the banns.
banquet, n. (5)
Fdsp 2.197 1 ...I must hazard the production of the
bald fact amidst these pleasing reveries, though it should prove an
Egyptian skull at our banquet.
SwM 4.95 13 ...the Persian poet exclaims to a soul of
this kind [of goodness],--Go boldly forth, and feast on being's
banquet;/ Thou art the called,--the rest admitted with thee./
Clbs 7.235 21 In the old time conundrums were sent
from king to king by ambassadors. The seven wise masters at Periander's
banquet spent their time in answering them.
Clbs 7.248 10 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have
celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data
of the viands;...
Clbs 7.248 24 ...it was when things went
prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the
Cid, that the guests all were joyful...
Banquet, n. (1)
ET19 5.309 3 A few days after my arrival at
Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual
Banquet...
Banquet [Symposium], [Plato (2)
PPh 4.70 4 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in
the same spirit [of ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial,
and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense
lake of beauty it exists to seek.
SwM 4.127 5 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to
be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet;...
banquet-halls, n. (1)
Aris 10.46 14 I know how steep the contrast of
condition looks;...such despotism of wealth and comfort in
banquet-halls, whilst death is in the pots of the wretched...
banquets, n. (2)
Banquets, n. (1)
Boks 7.200 21 An inestimable trilogy of ancient
social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon
and Plutarch.
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