Banshee to Bears
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
Banshee, n. (1)
ET5 5.93 21 [The English] are a family to which a
destiny attaches, and the Banshee has sworn that a male heir shall
never be wanting.
banshees, n. (1)
Dem1 10.22 11 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a
feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce
his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts.
banter, n. (2)
Clbs 7.231 3 Amidst all the gay banter, sentiment
cannot profane itself and venture out.
bantling, n. (4)
Ctr 6.137 13 It is not a compliment but a
disparagement...whenever [a man] appears, considerately to turn the
conversation to the bantling he is known to fondle.
Elo2 8.113 23 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the
Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling
to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned
in driving cattle to the hills...
War 11.170 16 Men who love that bloated vanity called
public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling
through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings...
banyan [banian], n. (1)
Comp 2.127 3 ...the man or woman who would have
remained a sunny garden-flower...by the falling of the walls and the
neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest...
banyan [banian tree], n. (1)
Bost 12.209 6 ...thus our little city [Boston]
thrives and enlarges... propagating itself like a banyan over the
continent.
Banyan [Banian] tree, n. (1)
CW 12.174 18 Plant the Banian, the Sandal-tree, the
Lotus...
baptism, n. (2)
Chr2 10.109 2 When once Selden had said that the
priests seemed to him to be baptizing their own fingers, the rite of
baptism was getting late in the world.
SovE 10.203 6 [Our religion] visits us only on some
exceptional and ceremonial occasion, on a wedding or a baptism...
baptismal, adj. (1)
ET1 5.13 8 When I rose to go, [Coleridge] said...I
will repeat some verses I lately made on my baptismal anniversary...
Baptist, adj. (2)
EWI 11.111 17 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians,
and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the
West Indies] and cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were
persecuted by the planters...
EWI 11.119 12 ...[Sir Lionel Smith] defended the
Baptist preachers and the stipendiary magistrates [in Jamaica]...
Baptist, John, n. (1)
TPar 11.289 7 It was [Theodore Parker's] merit,
like...Latimer, and John Baptist, to speak tart truth...
Baptist, John the, n. (1)
LLNE 10.345 8 The clergyman who would live in the
city may have piety, but must have taste, whilst there was often
coming, among these, some John the Baptist, wild from the woods...
Baptistery, Florence, Italy (1)
MAng1 12.243 18 ...there [in Florence], the tradition
of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ...
Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery, with their high reliefs,
cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were
fit to be the gates of Paradise.
Baptists, John, n. (1)
Elo1 7.95 24 Wild men, John Baptists...utter the
savage sentiment of Nature in the heart of commercial capitals.
Baptists, Seventh-day, n. (1)
CSC 10.374 22 ...Groaners, Agrarians, Seventh-day
Baptists...all successively...seized their moment [at the Chardon
Street Convention]...
baptize, v. (3)
NR 3.240 16 Here is a new enterprise of Brook
Farm...why so impatient to baptize them Essenes...or by any known and
effete name?
ET9 5.152 24 Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at
Seville...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus and baptize
half the earth with his own dishonest name.
baptized, v. (2)
NMW 4.245 8 When soldiers have been baptized in the
fire of a battle-field [said Napoleon], they have all one rank in my
eyes.
ET11 5.174 5 The Norwegian pirate got what he could
and held it for his eldest son. The Norman noble, who was the Norwegian
pirate baptized, did likewise.
baptizes, v. (1)
baptizing, v. (2)
Chr2 10.109 1 When once Selden had said that the
priests seemed to him to be baptizing their own fingers, the rite of
baptism was getting late in the world.
SovE 10.202 21 Shall I make the mistake of baptizing
the daylight, and time, and space, by the name of John or Joshua, in
whose tent I chance to behold daylight, and space, and time?
bar, n. (24)
Fdsp 2.210 15 Should not the society of my friend be
to me...great as nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane
in comparison with yonder bar of cloud...
OS 2.271 26 ...as there is no screen or ceiling
between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall
in the soul...
Exp 3.54 11 Temperament is the veto or
limitation-power in the constitution...absurdly offered as a bar to
original equity.
Mrs1 3.148 27 Once or twice in a lifetime we are
permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners, in the presence of a man
or woman who have no bar in their nature...
NMW 4.228 17 It is an advantage, within certain
limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety,
gratitude and generosity; since what was an impassable bar to us, and
still is to others, becomes a convenient weapon for our purposes;...
ET4 5.70 13 [The English] eat and drink, and live
jolly in the open air, putting a bar of solid sleep between day and
day.
Art2 7.49 7 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by
our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear
on the spade, axe or bar.
Elo1 7.63 17 Who can wonder at the
attractiveness...of...the bar, for our ambitious young men...
PI 8.32 1 ...[men of the world] admit the general
truth, but they and their affair always constitute a case in bar of the
statute.
Elo2 8.115 13 We reckon the bar, the senate,
journalism and the pulpit, peaceful professions;...
Elo2 8.125 15 ...when any orator at the bar or in the
Senate rises in his thought, he descends in his language...
QO 8.183 8 Thirty years ago, when Mr. Webster at the
bar or in the Senate filled the eyes and minds of young men, you might
often hear cited as Mr. Webster's three rules: first, never to do
to-day what he could defer till to-morrow;...
Dem1 10.12 6 ...do [Watt and Fulton] not make an iron
bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand
skilful mechanics?
Aris 10.42 21 The [ancient] chief is taller by a head
than any of his tribe. Douglas can throw the bar a greater cast.
Supl 10.172 9 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the
late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring
on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken
the whole English language three times over in his speech.
SovE 10.193 7 All the tyrants and proprietors and
monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar
[of Divine justice].
SlHr 10.442 6 For a long term of years, [Samuel Hoar]
was at the head of the bar in Middlesex...
SlHr 10.442 10 ...[Samuel Hoar's] influence
was...sometimes complained of as a bar to public justice.
SlHr 10.447 29 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for
Mr. Webster's ability, with whom he had often occasion to try his
strength at the bar...
Shak1 11.447 19 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a
painful disappointment...that...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the
infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
bar, v. (4)
MN 1.223 23 Nothing can bar [these qualities] out, or
shut them in...
Insp 8.288 17 ...it is almost impossible for a
house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude
interruptions and even necessary orders, though I bar out by system all
I can...
SHC 11.428 17 ...Prison thy soul from malice, bar out
pride,/ Nor these pale flowers nor this still field deride:/...
Mem 12.90 17 The sparrow, the ant, the worm, have the
same memory as we. If you bar their path...they make one or two trials,
and then once for all avoid it.
barb, n. (1)
Barbadoes, n. (2)
SR 2.51 12 If an angry bigot...comes to me with his
last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, Go love thy
infant;...
EWI 11.144 10 ...now, the arrival in the world of
such men as Toussaint... or of the leaders of [the negro] race in
Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and
American humanity.
barbarian, adj. (1)
barbarian, n. (1)
DL 7.116 3 Aristides was made general receiver of
Greece, to collect the tribute which each state was to furnish against
the barbarian.
barbarians, n. (6)
PPh 4.47 7 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the
immigrations from Asia, bringing with them the dreams of barbarians;...
Imtl 8.326 11 ...the barbarians who received the
cross took the doctrine of the resurrection as the Egyptians took it.
Dem1 10.14 18 As I was once travelling by the Red
Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named
Masollam...according to the testimony of all the Greeks and barbarians,
a very skilful archer.
War 11.172 23 We are affected, as boys and barbarians
are, by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take
their honor into their own keeping...
barbaric, adj. (3)
Art1 2.361 1 ...in my younger days...I fancied the
great pictures would be... a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold...
PPh 4.47 18 At last comes Plato, the distributor, who
needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping;...
PI 8.49 4 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes,
namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...they do not longer
value...barbaric word-jingle.
barbarism, n. (15)
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.
LT 1.281 26 Other times have had...a barbarism,
domestic or bordering, as their antagonism.
Con 1.316 25 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer
who strolled...in the infancy and barbarism of the old
world;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the
instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
Pt1 3.37 17 We have yet had no genius in
America...which...saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times,
another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in
Homer;...
UGM 4.32 19 The reputations of the nineteenth century
will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism.
MoS 4.177 16 What can I do...against climate, against
barbarism, in my country?
ET13 5.215 18 England felt the full heat of the
Christianity which fermented Europe, and drew, like the chemistry of
fire, a firm line between barbarism and culture.
Ctr 6.152 17 Can it be that the American forest has
refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out...
Chr2 10.106 4 ...in the hands...of fierce Gauls,
[Christianity's] creeds were tainted with their barbarism.
Chr2 10.108 16 I suspect, that, when the theology was
most florid and dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people...
EWI 11.126 15 ...[British merchants] saw further that
the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern
Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers...
War 11.161 19 ...a universal peace is as sure as is
the prevalence of civilization over barbarism...
FRep 11.514 26 There have been revolutions which were
not in the interest of feudalism and barbarism, but in that of society.
barbarities, n. (1)
EWI 11.122 3 There are many styles of civilization,
and not one only. Ours is full of barbarities.
barbarity, n. (1)
EWI 11.108 20 The shipmasters in [the slave] trade
were...guilty of every barbarity to their own crews.
barbarous, adj. (37)
Con 1.304 6 The system of property and law goes back
for its origin to barbarous and sacred times;...
Con 1.304 10 There is a natural sentiment and
prepossession in favor...of barbarous and aboriginal usages...
Hist 2.21 17 ...the Persian court in its magnificent
era never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes...
UGM 4.23 21 ...I find [a master] greater when he can
abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of
reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power so
great that the potentate is nothing. Then he is a...pontiff
who...releases his servants from their barbarous homages;...
MoS 4.166 13 [Montaigne]...is so nervous, by
factitious life, that he thinks the more barbarous man is, the better
he is.
ET4 5.60 18 [The Normans] had lost their own language
and learned the Romance or barbarous Latin of the Gauls...
ET13 5.214 16 In the barbarous days of a nation, some
cultus is formed or imported;...
F 6.20 6 If we are brute and barbarous, the fate
takes a brute and dreadful shape.
Wth 6.85 6 Society is barbarous until every
industrious man can get his living without dishonest customs.
Civ 7.19 17 A nation that has no clothing...no
abstract thought, we call barbarous.
Civ 7.34 12 ...if there be...a country...where the
suffrage is not free or equal;--that country is...not civil, but
barbarous;...
Elo1 7.90 4 ...nothing so works on the human mind,
barbarous or civil, as a trope.
Res 8.140 16 The marked events in history...each of
these events...supples the tough barbarous sinew...
PC 8.230 16 Here you are set down, scholars and
idealists, as in a barbarous age;...
Schr 10.263 17 The scholar is here...to affirm noble
sentiments; to hear them wherever spoken...out of the obscurities of
barbarous life...
Schr 10.271 10 There could always be traced, in the
most barbarous tribes... some vestiges of a faith in genius...
Plu 10.303 12 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another
example of...the benign Providence which uses the violence of war, of
earthquakes and changed water-courses, to save underground through
barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
Plu 10.310 7 You may cull from [Plutarch's] record of
barbarous guesses of shepherds and travellers, statements that are
predictions of facts established in modern science.
HDC 11.51 23 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached
his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban,
Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him.
There under the rubbish and ruins of barbarous life, the human heart
heard the voice of love, and awoke as from a sleep.
EWI 11.145 26 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest
and the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure
any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members. America is
not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.
War 11.153 22 [Alexander's conquest of the East]
carried the arts and language and philosophy of the Greeks into the
sluggish and barbarous nations of Persia, Assyria and India.
War 11.159 4 ...our American annals have preserved
the vestiges of barbarous warfare down to more recent times.
FSLC 11.192 1 Those governors of places who bravely
refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous
Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised;...
FSLC 11.213 1 Every Englishman...in whatever
barbarous country their forts and factories have been set
up,-represents London...
FSLN 11.229 26 A barbarous tribe of good stock will,
by means of their best heads, secure substantial liberty.
AsSu 11.247 5 I do not see how a barbarous community
and a civilized community can constitute one state.
Wom 11.423 9 As for the unsexing and contamination
[of women in politics],-that only...shows how barbarous we are...
Wom 11.424 3 Let the laws be purged of every
barbarous remainder, every barbarous impediment to women.
Wom 11.424 4 Let the laws be purged of every
barbarous remainder, every barbarous impediment to women.
Mem 12.99 12 Plato deplores writing as a barbarous
invention which would weaken the memory by disuse.
barbarous, n. (1)
barber, n. (4)
Comc 8.172 5 ...Timur scratched his head, since the
hour of the barber was come...
Comc 8.172 8 Whilst [Timur] was shaven, the barber
gave him a looking-glass in his hand.
LLNE 10.350 21 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty
men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties; that is, to be sure
that you have got...a barber, a poet, a judge...and so on.
barberry, n. (1)
SHC 11.431 26 In cultivated grounds one sees the
picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs, barberry, lilac,
privet and thorns...
barber's, n. (1)
Ctr 6.153 8 The countryman finds the town a
chop-house, a barber's shop.
Barbour, John, n. (1)
OA 7.322 6 ...if the life be true and noble, we have
quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely
old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty
their houses to gaze at and obey them: as at...Bruce, as Barbour
reports him;...
Barcena the Jesuit, n. (1)
Grts 8.313 14 I have read in an old book that Barcena
the Jesuit confessed to another of his order that when the Devil
appeared to him in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he
rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he
was more worthy to sit there than himself.
Barclay, Robert, n. (1)
Elo2 8.122 8 ...there are persons of natural
fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their
style;...like...Barclay, Fox...
bard, n. (25)
Nat 1.70 15 I shall...conclude this essay with some
traditions of man and nature...which, as they...perhaps reappear to
every bard, may be both history and prophecy.
AmS 1.108 3 ...each bard, each actor has only done
for me...what one day I can do for myself.
DSA 1.146 5 Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy
Ghost, cast behind you all conformity...
Hist 2.34 5 The universal nature, too strong for the
petty nature of the bard, sits on his neck and writes through his
hand;...
Pt1 3.24 5 So far the bard taught me, using his freer
speech.
F 6.1 2 Delicate omens traced in air,/ To the lone
bard true witness bare;/...
F 6.21 16 God may consent, but only for a time, said
the bard of Spain.
Bty 6.303 14 ...the Welsh bard warns his
countrywomen, Half of their charms with Cadwallon shall die./
SS 7.1 25 ...As if in [Seyd] the welkin walked,/ The
winds took flesh, the mountains talked,/ And he the bard, a crystal
soul,/ Sphered and concentric with the whole./
Elo1 7.71 7 ...every literature contains these high
compliments to the art of the orator and the bard...
PI 8.55 2 ...the masters sometimes rise above
themselves to strains...which neither any competitor could outdo, nor
the bard himself again equal.
PI 8.57 7 It costs the early bard little talent to
chant more impressively than the later, more cultivated poets.
PI 8.59 10 Another bard in like tone says,--I am
possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat;...
PI 8.72 27 The inexorable rule in the muses' court,
either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his
supreme moments.
QO 8.199 17 ...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 8.202 16 A phrase or a single word is adduced,
with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding
all argument, because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke
not his own, but the words of some god.
PPo 8.239 16 When the bard improvised an amatory
ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond
control.
RBur 11.438 5 Praise to the bard! his words are
driven,/ Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath
the sky of heaven,/ The birds of fame have flown./ Halleck.
Milt1 12.252 14 We think we have seen and heard
criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have
more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson...
MLit 12.319 22 ...imagination, the original,
authentic fire of the bard, [Shelley] has not.
MLit 12.321 12 ...more than any other contemporary
bard [Wordsworth] is pervaded with a reverence of somewhat higher than
(conscious) thought.
Bard, n. (1)
Fdsp 2.195 1 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers,
who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are new poetry of
the first Bard...
bardic, adj. (1)
PI 8.57 21 I find or fancy more true poetry...in the
Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in
many volumes of British Classics.
bards, n. (19)
DSA 1.126 18 What these holy bards said, all sane men
found agreeable and true.
DSA 1.133 21 ...with yet more entire consent of my
human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have
sung of the true God in all ages.
LE 1.162 2 ...the immortal bards of philosophy,-that
which they have written out...makes me bold.
SR 2.45 21 A man should learn to detect and watch
that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more
than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
Pt1 3.2 1 Olympian bards who sung/ Divine ideas
below,/ Which always find us young,/ And always keep us so./
Pt1 3.27 20 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this
instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest,
and the metamorphosis is possible. This is the reason why bards love
wine...
Pt1 3.32 2 The ancient British bards had for the
title of their order, Those who are free throughout the world.
ET14 5.248 24 Coleridge...with eyes looking before
and after to the highest bards and sages...is one of those who save
England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to
appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
ET18 5.308 6 [England] is the land of patriots,
martyrs, sages and bards...
Cour 7.277 22 Men have done brave deeds,/ And bards
have sung them well:/ I of good George Nidiver/ Now the tale will
tell./
PI 8.33 23 We want design, and do not forgive the
bards if they have only the art of enamelling.
PPo 8.244 16 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes
of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic, that
sometimes affords a deeper glance at Nature than belongs to either of
these bards.
Schr 10.271 13 There could always be traced...some
vestiges of a faith in genius, as in the exemption of a priesthood or
bards or artists from taxes and tolls levied on other men;...
MMEm 10.402 22 Nobody can...recall the conversation
of old-school people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a
religious authority in their mind, and nowise the slight, merely
entertaining quality of modern bards.
CInt 12.112 1 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when
they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When
they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The
riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./
Bards, n. (1)
PI 8.57 5 Bards and Trouveurs.--The metallic force of
primitive words makes the superiority of the remains of the rude ages.
Bards, Welsh, n. (1)
PI 8.38 12 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh
Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...
bare, adj. (22)
YA 1.392 15 ...to imaginative persons in this country
there is somewhat bare and bald in our short history and unsettled
wilderness.
Hist 2.20 22 In the woods in a winter afternoon one
will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the
colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches
of the forest.
PPh 4.56 19 ...The physical philosophers had sketched
each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in
their genius. Plato...feels these...to be no theories of the world but
bare inventories and lists.
SwM 4.116 15 ...if we choose to express any natural
truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to
convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we
shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma, in place of the
physical truth or precept: although no mortal would have predicted that
any thing of the kind could possibly arise by bare literal
transposition;...
ET16 5.276 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a
carriage to Amesbury, passing by Old Sarum, a bare, treeless hill...
Wth 6.85 15 Nor can [a man] do justice to his genius
without making some larger demand on the world than a bare subsistence.
Bty 6.304 21 ...there is a joy in perceiving the
representative or symbolic character of a fact, which no bare fact or
event can ever give.
Farm 7.143 17 You cannot...strip off from [an
atom]...the relation to light and heat and leave the atom bare.
Chr2 10.109 13 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should
lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...I am
persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
MMEm 10.425 21 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo
earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when
dignified with arts and industry...
HDC 11.33 12 ...[the pilgrims] meet a scorching
plain, yet not so plain but that the ragged bushes scratch their legs
foully, even to wearing their stockings to their bare skin in two or
three hours.
EWI 11.135 27 The lives of the advocates [of
emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness, and the
connection of the eminent senators with this question constitutes the
immortalizing moments of those men's lives. The bare enunciation of the
theses at which the lawyers and legislators arrived, gives a glow to
the heart of the reader.
FSLC 11.185 5 I thought none, that was not ready to
go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are
upright men...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but
canting fanaticism...
bare, v. (1)
F 6.1 2 Delicate omens traced in air,/ To the lone
bard true witness bare;/...
bare-faced, adj. (1)
EWI 11.109 19 These debates [on West Indian slavery]
are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed
and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come
to the attack. On the other part are found cold prudence, bare-faced
selfishness and silent votes.
barefoot, adj. (2)
WD 7.155 2 Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,/
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,/ And marching single in an
endless file,/ Bring diadems and fagots in their hands./
barefooted, adj. (2)
PPh 4.72 25 [Socrates] wore no under garment; his
upper garment was the same for summer and winter, and he went
barefooted;...
JBS 11.277 20 ...[John Brown] went bareheaded and
barefooted, and clothed in buskskin.
bareheaded, adj. (1)
JBS 11.277 20 ...[John Brown] went bareheaded and
barefooted, and clothed in buskskin.
bareleg, adj. (1)
barely, adv. (1)
LT 1.290 10 ...men seem to fear and to shun [the
Moral Sentiment] when it comes barely to view in our immediate
neighborhood.
bareness, n. (6)
SS 7.10 14 A man must be clothed with society, or we
shall feel a certain bareness and poverty...
Res 8.152 15 If I go into the woods in winter, and am
shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in
Massachusetts, I learn that...though insignificant enough in the
general bareness of the forest, yet a great change takes place in them
between fall and spring;...
Schr 10.287 19 I invite you [scholars]...to bareness,
to power, to enthusiasm...
LLNE 10.357 6 [Thoreau said] What you call bareness
and poverty, is to me simplicity.
Baresarks, n. (1)
ET6 5.104 4 Nothing but the most serious business
could give one any counterweight to these Baresarks [the English]...
bargain, n. (12)
MoS 4.149 14 [A man] drives his bargain in the
street; but it occurs that he also is bought and sold.
ET5 5.78 26 ...in a bargain, no prospect of advantage
is so dear to the [English] merchant as the thought of being tricked is
mortifying.
Wth 6.108 27 One might say...that nothing is cheap or
dear, and that the apparent disparities that strike us are only a
shopman's trick of concealing the damage in your bargain.
Prch 10.228 6 Christianity taught the capacity, the
element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal
happiness.
MMEm 10.418 1 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has
been the means of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for
that. He was honestly seeking his own. But at last, this very night,
the bargain is closed...
MMEm 10.418 4 Happy beginning of my [Mary Moody
Emerson's] bargain, though the sale of the place [Elm Vale] appears to
me one of the worst things for me at this time.
HDC 11.38 6 ...after the bargain [for Concord] was
concluded, Mr. Simon Willard, pointing to the four corners of the
world, declared that they had bought three miles from that place, east,
west, north and south.
EWI 11.116 24 In some places [in the West Indies],
[the negroes] waited to see their master, to know what bargain he would
make;...
War 11.158 7 Only in Elizabeth's time, out of the
European waters, piracy was all but universal. The proverb was,-No
peace beyond the line; and the seaman shipped on the buccaneer's
bargain, No prey, no pay.
CW 12.171 2 When I bought my farm, I did not know
what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, bobolinks and thrushes, which
were not charged in the bill;...
bargain, v. (2)
Chr2 10.96 8 ...there is no man who will bargain to
sell his life, say at the end of a year, for a million or ten millions
of gold dollars in hand...
bargains, n. (2)
SovE 10.187 12 The civil history of men might be
traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral
generalizations;...bargains of kings with peoples of certain rights to
certain classes, then of rights to masses...
barilla, n. (1)
LE 1.184 23 ...in the counting-room the merchant
cares little whether the cargo be hides or barilla;...be it what it
may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
bark, adj. (1)
Thor 10.473 20 [Thoreau's] visits to Maine were
chiefly for love of the Indian. He had the satisfaction of seeing the
manufacture of the bark canoe...
bark, n. (12)
Nat 1.20 27 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore
of America;...can we separate the man from the living picture?
MoS 4.186 12 If my bark sink, 't is to another sea./
ET13 5.222 8 [The English] value a philosopher as
they value an apothecary who brings bark or a drench;...
F 6.32 5 ...trim your bark, and the wave which
drowned it will be cloven by it...
F 6.39 3 The vegetable eye makes leaf, pericarp,
root, bark, or thorn, as the need is;...
Boks 7.219 17 [The communications of the sacred
books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form
of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...
Res 8.153 2 ...the cow, the rabbit, the insect, bite
the sweet and tender bark [of the willow];...
Comc 8.162 23 The victim who has just received the
discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a
stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea; and though it does not
split it, the poor bark is for the moment critically staggered.
PerF 10.74 15 ...if [man] should fight the sea and
the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails,
and swamp his bark;...
CL 12.149 20 ...what countless uses [of the forest]
that we know not! How an Indian helps himself...hemlock bark for his
roof, hair-moss or fern for his bed.
CL 12.150 5 [The Indian] consults by way of natural
compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees...(2) ant-hills...(3)
aspens, whose bark is rough on the north and smooth on the south side.
bark, v. (5)
Hsm1 2.249 10 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...
GoW 4.269 23 ...how can [the writer] be
honored...when he must sustain with shameless advocacy some bad
government, or must bark, all the year round, in opposition;...
Elo1 7.69 11 ...[the Sicilians] crow, squeal, hiss,
cackle, bark, and scream like mad...
barkeeper, n. (1)
Pow 6.67 12 [Boniface]...united in his person the
functions of bully, incendiary, swindler, barkeeper, and burglar.
bar-keepers, n. (1)
Exp 3.76 15 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives
off as bubbles, at once take form as...shopmen or bar-keepers in
hotels...
barking, v. (1)
Bhr 6.173 7 Society is infested with
rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good
manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and
private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a
dog of honor to growl at any passer-by and do the honors of the house
by barking him out of sight.
barks, n. (1)
Pow 6.57 5 So a broad, healthy, massive understanding
seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers, of unseen oceans, which are
covered with barks that night and day are drifted to this point.
barley, adj. (2)
YA 1.383 24 One man...with [a dime]...buys...pen,
ink, and paper, or a painter's brush, by which he can communicate
himself to the human race as if he were fire; and the other buys barley
candy.
barley, n. (5)
MR 1.251 16 [The Arabs] conquered Asia, and Africa,
and Spain, on barley.
MR 1.251 26 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go
to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...with a bottle of
water and two sacks, one holding barley and the other dried fruits.
ET4 5.69 18 ...Tacitus found the English beer already
in use among the Germans: They make from barley or wheat a drink
corrupted into some resemblance to wine.
RBur 11.443 14 ...the corn, barley, and bulrushes
hoarsely rustle [Burns's songs]...
Barleycorn, John [Burns, J (1)
barn, n. (14)
LE 1.186 21 Why should you renounce your right to
traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of
an acre, house, and barn?
ET10 5.165 12 Sir Edward Boynton...on a precipice of
incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a
window on the prospect side.
DL 7.120 8 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy
with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...in barn or
wood-shed with scraps of poetry or song...
WD 7.176 6 ...in our history, Jesus is born in a
barn...
SA 8.101 22 In America, the necessity of...building
every house and barn and fence...exhausted such means as the Pilgrims
brought...
EzRy 10.393 2 [Ezra Ripley] watched with
interest...the orchard, the house and the barn...
HDC 11.60 6 Two young farmers, Abraham and Isaac
Shepherd, had set their sister Mary, a girl of fifteen years, to watch
whilst they threshed grain in the barn.
SMC 11.369 25 [George Prescott writes] We laid
[Lieutenant Barrow] in two double blankets, and then sent off a long
distance and got boards off a barn to make the best coffin we could...
Milt1 12.266 27 [Milton] advises that in country
places, rather than to trudge many miles to a church, public worship be
maintained nearer home, as in a house or barn.
Milt1 12.267 4 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the
gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may
be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger
disdains not to be preached in a barn.
ACri 12.296 13 [Herrick] found his subject where he
stood, between his feet, in his house, pantry, barn, poultry-yard...
Barnabas, St., n. (1)
Supl 10.164 10 Controvert [the man with the
superlative temperament's] opinion and he cries Persecution! and
reckons himself with Saint Barnabas, who was sawn in two.
barnacles, n. (1)
Barnard Castle, England, n. (1)
ET11 5.182 6 From Barnard Castle I rode on the
highway twenty-three miles...through the estate of the Duke of
Cleveland.
barn-chamber, n. (1)
Prd1 2.227 18 In the rainy day [the good
husband]...gets his tool-box set in the corner of the barn-chamber...
barn-door, adj. (1)
Dem1 10.7 16 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to
see not only a glance of Abdiel, so grand and keen, but also in other
faces the features of the mink, of the bull, of the rat and the
barn-door fowl.
Barnes, General, n. (1)
SMC 11.370 13 ...Word was sent by General Barnes,
that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods.
Barnes, Thomas, n. (1)
ET15 5.266 13 The staff of The [London] Times has
always been made up of able men. Old Walter...Barnes, Alsiger, Horace
Twiss...have contributed to its renown...
barns, n. (4)
Prd1 2.223 7 Once in a long time, a man...sees and
enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on
this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and
barns thereon...
MoS 4.167 4 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 house and barns;...
Aris 10.52 11 ...if the dressed and perfumed
gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill
examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his
barns...
barn-yard, n. (1)
Hist 2.32 11 Every animal of the barn-yard, the field
and the forest...has contrived...to leave the print of its features and
form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
barometer, n. (10)
GoW 4.270 22 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in
the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have
come in. There is...no Columbus, but hundreds of post-captains, with
transit-telescope, barometer...
ET10 5.169 8 ...in the influx of tons of gold and
silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found
[in England]...that...the dreadful barometer of the poor-rates was
touching the point of ruin.
Wth 6.102 12 [The dollar] is the finest barometer of
social storms, and announces revolutions.
WD 7.158 15 Our century to be sure had inherited a
tolerable apparatus. We had the compass, the printing-press, watches,
the spiral spring, the barometer, the telescope.
Insp 8.283 17 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more
easily when the barometer is high than when it is low.
Insp 8.283 19 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more
easily when the barometer is high than when it is low. Since I know
this, I endeavor, when the barometer is low, to counteract the
injurious effect by greater exertion...
LLNE 10.328 27 In science the French savant...with
barometer, crucible, chemic test and calculus in hand, travels into all
nooks and islands...
FSLC 11.179 24 There are men who are as sure indexes
of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the
air...
CL 12.160 13 It does not need a barometer to find the
height of mountains. The line of snow is surer than the barometer;...
CL 12.160 15 It does not need a barometer to find the
height of mountains. The line of snow is surer than the barometer;...
baron, n. (9)
ET5 5.75 11 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane
arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the
kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...forced the baron
to dictate Saxon terms to Norman kings;...
ET5 5.77 24 A man of that [English] brain thinks and
acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of
brain, though he is...called a baron or a duke, thinks the same
thing...
ET11 5.175 7 ...I make no doubt that...baron, knight
and tenant often had their memories refreshed, in regard to the service
by which they held their lands.
ET11 5.191 5 ...when the baron, educated only for
war, with his brains paralyzed by his stomach, found himself idle at
home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry brute.
Bhr 6.170 8 Genius invents fine manners, which the
baron and the baroness copy very fast...
Dem1 10.22 2 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a
feudal baron may fancy that the mountains and lakes were made specially
for him Donald, or him Tecumseh;...
War 11.172 16 What makes the attractiveness of that
romantic style of living which is the material of ten thousand plays
and romances...the feudal baron, the French, the English nobility...
War 11.174 4 I regard no longer those names that so
tingled in my ear. [The man of principle] is a baron of a better
nobility and a stouter stomach.
baroness, n. (1)
Bhr 6.170 8 Genius invents fine manners, which the
baron and the baroness copy very fast...
baronet, n. (1)
LLNE 10.363 24 An English baronet, Sir John Caldwell,
was a frequent visitor [at Brook Farm]...
Baroni, Leonora, n. (1)
Milt1 12.258 15 The form and the voice of Leonora
Baroni seemed to have captivated [Milton] in Rome...
baronial, adj. (1)
ET5 5.77 27 A man of that [English] brain thinks and
acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of
brain...is ready to allow the justice of the thought and act in his
retainer or tenant, though sorely against his baronial or ducal will.
barons, n. (6)
ET6 5.111 2 The favorite phrase of [the Englishmen's]
law is, a custom whereof the memory of man runneth not back to the
contrary. The barons say, Nolumus mutari;...
ET11 5.189 15 The English barons, in every period,
have been brave and great...
Ill 6.312 7 The boy, how sweet to him is his fancy!
how dear the story of barons and battles!
PI 8.61 9 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] Whilst I
served King Arthur, I was well known by you, and by other barons...
Barons of England, n. (1)
Aris 10.33 1 The Golden Book of Venice...the Barons
of England...is each a transcript of the decigrade or centigraded Man.
barrack, n. (1)
Comc 8.167 2 A classification or nomenclature used by
the scholar... confessedly...a bivouac for a night...becomes through
indolence a barrack and a prison...
barracks, n. (3)
ShP 4.190 18 [A great man] finds a war raging: it
educates him, by trumpet, in barracks, and he betters the instruction.
MoL 10.251 11 I chanced lately to be at West Point,
and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into
the barracks.
CInt 12.115 4 ...either science and literature is a
hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then...turn your college into
barracks and warehouses...
barrel, n. (6)
Exp 3.52 10 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and
we presume there is impulse in them. In the moment it seems impulse; in
the year, in the lifetime, it turns out to be a certain uniform tune
which the revolving barrel of the music-box must play.
SwM 4.145 1 In the shipwreck, some cling to running
rigging, some to cask and barrel...
FSLN 11.233 10 You relied on the constitution. It has
not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown...that, with
provisions so vague for an object not named, and which could not be
availed of to claim a barrel of sugar or a barrel of corn, the robbing
of a man and of all his posterity is effected.
FSLN 11.233 11 You relied on the constitution. It has
not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown...that, with
provisions so vague for an object not named, and which could not be
availed of to claim a barrel of sugar or a barrel of corn, the robbing
of a man and of all his posterity is effected.
CL 12.147 1 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of
apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and
Cow-apple...and Beware-of-this. Apples of a kind which I remember in
boyhood, each containing a barrel of wind and half a barrel of cider.
barrels, n. (1)
barren, adj. (25)
Nat 1.23 7 The beauty of nature re-forms itself in
the mind, and not for barren contemplation...
Comp 2.98 4 The barren soil does not breed fevers,
crocodiles, tigers or scorpions.
Exp 3.59 5 Unspeakably sad and barren does life look
to those who a few months ago were dazzled with the splendor of the
promise of the times.
ET1 5.13 26 [Coleridge said] There were only three
things which the government had brought into that garden of delights
[Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine. Whereas in Malta, the force of
law and mind was seen, in making that barren rock of semi-Saracen
inhabitants the seat of population and plenty.
ET5 5.76 15 ...to set [the Saxon] at work and to
begin to draw his monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor,
fret and barrier must be removed...
ET5 5.77 7 Nobody landed on this spellbound island
[England] with impunity. The enchantments of barren shingle and rough
weather transformed every adventurer into a laborer.
ET5 5.95 13 Chat Moss and the fens of Lincolnshire
and Cambridgeshire are unhealthy and too barren to pay rent.
ET5 5.98 11 The manners and customs of [English]
society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a
work of art;--a cold, barren, almost arctic isle being made the most
fruitful, luxurious and imperial land in the whole earth.
CbW 6.272 17 Here [in conversation] are oracles
sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren
hours.
WD 7.170 13 Yesterday not a bird peeped; the world
was barren, peaked and pining...
Boks 7.192 21 It seems...as if some charitable
soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been
bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren
oceans...
Clbs 7.227 6 The experience of retired men is
positive,--that we lose our days and are barren of thought for want of
some person to talk with.
OA 7.330 5 ...especially we have a certain insulated
thought, which haunts us, but remains insulated and barren.
Shak1 11.452 2 There are periods fruitful of great
men; others, barren;...
Scot 11.462 7 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, and
so...illustrated every hidden corner of a barren and disagreeable
territory.
II 12.71 1 In the healthy mind, the thought is not a
barren thesis...
II 12.86 1 Work and learn in evil days, in barren
days, in days of depression and calamity.
CInt 12.129 3 When you say the times, the persons are
prosaic...where [is] the Romish or the Calvinistic religion, which made
a kind of poetry in the air for Milton, or Byron, or Belzoni? but to us
it is barren,-you expose your atheism.
CL 12.139 5 ...if...we would, manlike, see what
grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...plant its miles and miles of
barren waste with oak and pine...we were better patriots and happier
men.
CW 12.177 19 ...the naturalist has no barren places,
no winter, and no night...
CW 12.177 21 ...the naturalist has no barren places,
no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches in the sea, in the
ground, in barren moors, in the night even...
barrenness, n. (1)
Hist 2.20 16 No one can walk in a road cut through
pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of
the grove, especially in winter, when the barrenness of all other trees
shows the low arch of the Saxons.
barren-witted, adj. (1)
Clbs 7.229 11 ...the days come when we are alarmed,
and say there are no thoughts. What a barren-witted pate is mine! the
student says;...
Barrett, Colonel, n. (2)
HDC 11.73 18 When [British troops] entered Concord,
they found the militia and minute-men assembled under the command of
Colonel Barrett and Major Buttrick.
HDC 11.73 23 This little battalion [of
minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other
bank of the river, to wait for reinforcement. Colonel Barrett ordered
the troops not to fire, unless fired upon.
Barrett, n. (1)
HDC 11.30 16 Here are still around me the lineal
descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here
is...Wood, Hosmer, Barrett, Wheeler...
Barrett, Richard, n. (1)
SMC 11.365 24 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery
company of this town [Concord] was reorganized, and Captain Richard
Barrett received a commission in March, 1862, from the state, as its
commander.
Barretts, n. (1)
HDC 11.85 24 Why need I remind you of our
own...Cumings, Barretts, Beattons, the departed benefactors of the town
[Concord]?
barricades, n. (2)
Wth 6.93 6 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious
that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use
of wealth, and, whatever is pretended, it ends in cosseting. But if
this were the main use of surplus capital, it would bring us to
barricades, burned towns and tomahawks, presently.
barrier, n. (6)
AmS 1.108 15 The human mind cannot be enshrined in a
person who shall set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded,
unboundable empire.
NMW 4.228 20 ...the river which was a formidable
barrier, winter transforms into the smoothest of roads.
ET5 5.76 16 ...to set [the Saxon] at work and to
begin to draw his monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor,
fret and barrier must be removed...
MMEm 10.417 18 It is difficult, when we have no kind
of barrier, to command our feelings.
ACiv 11.303 16 ...there have been days in American
history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been
blocked by an immoveable barrier...
Barriere de Passy, n. (1)
Carl 10.497 3 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for
in the ignominy of Europe, when...every one ran away in a coucou, with
his head shaved, through the Barriere de Passy, one man remained who
believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
barriers, n. (10)
AmS 1.113 15 Every thing that tends to insulate the
individual, - to surround him with barriers of natural respect...tends
to true union as well as greatness.
AmS 1.115 1 ...thousands of young men as hopeful now
crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the
single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts...the huge world
will come round to him.
Nat2 3.170 9 ...we see what majestic beauties daily
wrap us in their bosom. How willingly we would escape the barriers
which render them comparatively impotent...
ET4 5.50 7 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and
Tartar should mix, when we...know that the barriers of races are not so
firm but that some spray sprinkles us from the antediluvian seas.
ET18 5.306 13 The feudal system survives [in
England]...in the social barriers which confine patronage and promotion
to a caste...
Civ 7.24 10 Another measure of culture is the
diffusion of knowledge, overrunning all the old barriers of caste...
PLT 12.11 6 The wonder of the science of Intellect is
that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active
quality that it intoxicates all who approach it. Gloves on the
hands...are no defence against this virus, which comes in as secretly
as gravitation into and through all barriers.
barring, v. (1)
Ill 6.322 21 In this kingdom of illusions we grope
eagerly for stays and foundations. There is none but a strict and
faithful dealing at home and a severe barring out of all duplicity or
illusion there.
barrister, n. (7)
ET7 5.122 24 The [English] barrister refuses the silk
gown of Queen's Counsel, if his junior have it one day earlier.
ET8 5.142 8 ...[the English] hold in esteem the
barrister engaged in the severer studies of the law.
Ill 6.311 23 ...the barrister with the jury, the
belle at the ball...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment,
which they themselves give it.
SS 7.10 21 When a young barrister said to the late
Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the
veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law.
Elo1 7.80 2 A barrister in England is reputed to have
made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the
claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons.
QO 8.196 19 ...many men can write better under a mask
than for themselves; as...I doubt not, many a young barrister in
chambers in London...
barrister's, n. (1)
MoL 10.256 7 Very little reliance must be put on the
common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great
barrister's learning...
barroom, adj. (1)
bar-room, n. [barroom,] (4)
Exp 3.61 25 ...leave me alone and I should relish
every hour, and what it brought me, the potluck of the day, as heartily
as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.
MoS 4.153 23 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the
tavern bar-room, thinks that the use of money is sure and speedy
spending.
Clbs 7.246 12 I knew a scholar...who said that he
liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories...
bar-rooms, n. (5)
EdAd 11.388 12 The young intriguers who drive in
bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the
country into the position of an overgrown bully...
FRep 11.518 26 The country is governed in bar-rooms,
and in the mind of bar-rooms.
ACri 12.295 23 Montaigne must have the credit of
giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low
speech...
Barrow, Isaac, n. (1)
WSL 12.347 10 [Landor's] Dialogue between Barrow and
Newton is the best of all criticisms on the essays of Bacon.
Barrow, Lieutenant, n. (1)
SMC 11.369 14 Another incident [reported by George
Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not
treat his body with respect...
Barrow's, Isaac, n. (1)
WSL 12.339 10 ...nor will [Landor] persuade us to
burn Plato and Xenophon, out of our admiration of...Lucas on Happiness,
or Lucas on Holiness, or even Barrow's Sermons.
barrows, n. (4)
Art1 2.349 1 Give to barrows, trays, and pans/ Grace
and glimmer of romance/...
Pt1 3.4 17 ...we are not pans and barrows, nor even
porters of the fire and torch-bearers...
ET16 5.276 14 On the broad downs...not a house was
visible, nothing but Stonehenge...Stonehenge and the barrows...
ET16 5.277 9 It was pleasant to see that just this
simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]--two upright stones and
a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of
the planet: these, and the barrows...
bars, n. (4)
Nat 1.13 23 To diminish friction, [man] paves the
road with iron bars...
Supl 10.178 20 Our modern improvements have been in
the invention...of the famous two parallel bars of iron;...
barter, v. (2)
LLNE 10.368 9 People cannot live together in any but
necessary ways. The only candidates who will present themselves will be
those who have tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and
have failed; and none others will barter for the most comfortable
equality the chance of superiority.
HDC 11.35 1 For flesh, [the pilgrims] looked not for
any, in those times, unless they could barter with the Indians for
venison and raccoons.
bartering, v. (1)
Nat 1.50 25 The men, the women, - talking, running,
bartering, fighting... are unrealized at once [when seen from a
coach]...
Bartholomew, St., Massacre (1)
FSLC 11.192 3 Those governors of places who bravely
refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous
Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised;...
Bartholomew, St., massacres (1)
Cour 7.276 4 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a
taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...St.
Bartholomew massacres, devilish lives...
Barton, Sir Andrew [Ballad (1)
PI 8.25 18 Give [people]...Sir Andrew Barton, or Sir
Patrick Spens...and they like these well enough.
basalts, n. (1)
ET13 5.215 14 ...plainly there has been great power
of sentiment at work in this island [England], of which these
[religious] buildings are the proofs; as volcanic basalts show the work
of fire which has been extinguished for ages.
base, adj. (43)
Nat 1.37 21 ...debt...which so cripples and
disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor
whose lessons cannot be foregone...
AmS 1.96 20 Henceforth [the new deed] is an object of
beauty, however base its origin...
DSA 1.127 21 ...the base doctrine of the majority of
voices usurps the place of the doctrine of the soul.
MN 1.214 14 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the
place of Friendship... It is that. All other meanings which base men
have put on it are conjectural and false.
Con 1.323 10 The man of courage and resources is
shown [in war or anarchy], and the effeminate and base person.
SR 2.54 11 If you...spread your table like base
housekeepers...I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are...
Comp 2.95 11 The blindness of the preacher consisted
in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a
manly success...
Comp 2.106 12 ...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.
Comp 2.113 19 He is base,--and that is the one base
thing in the universe,-- to receive favors and render none.
SL 2.149 14 Introduce a base person among gentlemen,
it is all to no purpose;...
SL 2.156 24 When [a man] has base ends and speaks
falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.
Lov1 2.182 6 ...by this love [of beauty]
extinguishing the base affection... [the lovers] become pure and
hallowed.
Pt1 3.17 11 ...the distinctions which we make in
events and in affairs, of... honest and base, disappear when nature is
used as a symbol.
Pt1 3.17 16 What would be base, or even obscene, to
the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connection of
thought.
Exp 3.55 2 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth,
or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor, and at
one whisper of these high powers we awake from ineffectual struggles
with this nightmare [of science]. We...cannot again contract ourselves
to so base a state.
Mrs1 3.124 14 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.
ET1 5.20 24 [Wordsworth] was against taking off the
tax on newspapers in England...for this reason, that they would be
inundated with base prints.
Bhr 6.172 22 We prize [manners] for their
rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks
and habits;...teach them to stifle the base and choose the generous
expression...
Wsp 6.210 8 What proof of skepticism like the base
rate at which the highest mental and moral gifts are held?
CbW 6.259 21 ...there is...no plant that is not fed
from manures. We only insist...that the plant grow upward and convert
the base into the better nature.
PPo 8.250 4 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent
to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;
and lays the emphasis on these to mark his scorn of sanctimony and base
prudence.
Imtl 8.324 13 ...where this belief [in immortality]
once existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a
pure form for the wise;...
Aris 10.56 13 I know nothing which induces so base
and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities...
EWI 11.139 21 The tendency of things runs steadily to
this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally
exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base
persons...shudder at the change...
War 11.160 14 The eternal germination of the better
has unfolded new powers, new instincts, which were really concealed
under this rough and base rind.
War 11.169 14 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace
embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one...which has
a friend in the bottom of the heart of every man, even of the violent
and the base;...
War 11.174 9 If peace is sought to be defended or
preserved for the safety of the luxurious and the timid, it is a sham,
and the peace will be base.
FSLC 11.201 1 The words of John Randolph...have been
ringing onimously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the
heat of the Missouri debate. ... Ay, we will drive you to the wall, and
when we have you there once more, we will keep you there and nail you
down like base money.
FSLC 11.212 8 The behavior of Boston was the reverse
of what it should have been: it was supple and officious, and it put
itself into the base attitude of pander to the crime [the Fugitive
Slave Law].
TPar 11.291 25 ...every sound heart loves a
responsible person, one who does not in generous company say generous
things, and in mean company base things...
Wom 11.403 1 The politics are base,/ The letters do
not cheer,/ And 't is far in the deeps of history,/ The voice that
speaketh clear./
base, n. (19)
Cir 2.312 14 The astronomer must have his diameter of
the earth's orbit as a base to find the parallax of any star.
Pt1 3.9 13 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand
out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line, running
up from a torrid base through all the climates of the globe...
Exp 3.71 19 When I converse with a profound mind...I
am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new...region of life. By
persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of
itself...in sudden discoveries...as if the clouds that covered it
parted...and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains,
with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base...
NR 3.240 3 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit
that there should be two stupidities! It is like that brute advantage
so essential to astronomy, of having the diameter of the earth's orbit
for a base of its triangles.
PPh 4.54 8 Metaphysics and natural philosophy
expressed the genius of Europe; [Plato] substructs the religion of
Asia, as the base.
PNR 4.85 7 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...delighted in
revealing the real at the base of the accidental;...
ET7 5.120 11 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his
military works at Lisbon, and from this base at last extended his
gigantic lines to Waterloo...
Bhr 6.176 12 The obstinate prejudice in favor of
blood, which lies at the base of the feudal and monarchical fabrics of
the Old World, has some reason in common experience.
Civ 7.29 6 ...on a planet so small as ours, the want
of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt...
Civ 7.29 15 ...the astronomer, having by an
observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as
waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put
the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and
his second, and this line afforded him a respectable base for his
triangle.
Elo2 8.109 7 Not on its base Monadnoc surer stood,/
Than [the patriot] to common sense and common good/...
PPo 8.262 23 In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is
found;/ Thine the star-pointing- roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is
one half depicted with colors less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart
blazes with light!/
Imtl 8.331 8 There is a profound melancholy at the
base of men of active and powerful talent, seldom suspected.
EPro 11.320 15 The first condition of success is
secured in putting ourselves right. We have...planted ourselves on a
law of Nature:-If that fail,/ The pillared firmament is rottenness,/
And earth's base built on stubble./
PLT 12.20 16 Without identity at base, chaos must be
forever.
base-ball, adj. [baseball,] (2)
Cour 7.261 6 Tender, amiable boys, who had never
encountered any rougher play than a base-ball match...were suddenly
drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
Plu 10.309 9 The part of each of the class [of the
Greek philosophers] is as important as that of the master. They are
like the baseball players, to whom the pitcher, the bat, the catcher
and the scout are equally important.
baseball, n. (2)
SMC 11.363 14 [George Prescott's] next point is to
keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of
baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre...
based [strong-based], adj. (1)
based, v. (11)
LT 1.269 8 The leaders of the crusades against
War...Government based on force...are the right successors of Luther,
Knox...
Art1 2.357 11 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal
picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and
children...capped and based by heaven, earth, and sea.
NR 3.227 5 I observe a person who makes a good public
appearance, and conclude thence the perfection of his private
character, on which this is based;...
SwM 4.112 12 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to
uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in
the depths of her laboratory; whilst the picture comes recommended by
the hard fidelity with which it is based on practical anatomy.
ET4 5.49 17 These limitations of the formidable
doctrine of race suggest others which threaten to undermine it, as not
sufficiently based.
ET6 5.108 16 ...nothing [can be] more firm and based
in nature and sentiment than the courtship and mutual carriage of the
sexes [in England].
SS 7.6 20 Even Swedenborg, whose theory of the
universe is based on affection...is constrained to make an
extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live
consociated...
SovE 10.181 4 These rules were writ in human heart/
By Him who built the day;/ The columns of the universe/ Not firmer
based than they./
Thor 10.460 3 In every part of Great Britain,
[Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the
Romans...their dwellings. But New England, at least, is not based on
any Roman ruins.
CL 12.136 17 Linnaeus, early in life, read a
discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in
one's own country, based on the conviction that Nature was
inexhaustibly rich...
basement, adj. (1)
Farm 7.150 9 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we
did not know, and have found...that Massachusetts has a basement story
more valuable... than all the superstructure.
baseness, n. (3)
MR 1.245 26 Parched corn eaten to-day, that I may
have roast fowl to my dinner Sunday, is a baseness;...
PC 8.232 13 The community of scholars...dishearten
each other by tolerating political baseness in their members.
baser, adj. (3)
Pt1 3.28 18 ...a great number of such as were
professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont
to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...and...as it was an
emancipation not into the heavens but into the freedom of baser places,
they were punished for that advantage they won, by a dissipation and
deterioration.
Ctr 6.151 21 An old poet says,--Go far and go
sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you
appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./
bases, n. (2)
PI 8.51 12 ...they adorned the sepulchres of the
dead, and, planting thereon lasting bases, defied the crumbling touches
of time...
SA 8.107 7 These are the bases of civil and polite
society; namely, manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public
action;...
bashful, adj. (1)
SR 2.48 20 Bashful or bold then, [the youth] will
know how to make us seniors very unnecessary.
bashfulness, n. (1)
Fdsp 2.200 14 Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk
in which a delicate organization is protected from premature ripening.
Basilica, St. Peter's, Rom (10)
Nat 1.68 2 The American who has been confined...to
the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on
entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these
structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
DL 7.106 3 St. Peter's cannot have the magical power
over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book
possessed.
MAng1 12.216 5 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of
near ninety years... was engaged in executing his grand conceptions in
the ineffaceable architecture of Saint Peter's.
MAng1 12.229 26 In Saint Peter's, is [Michelangelo's]
Pieta, or dead Christ in the arms of his mother.
MAng1 12.231 2 Of [Michelangelo's] genius for
architecture it is sufficient to say that he built Saint Peter's...
MAng1 12.235 5 Not until he was in the seventy-thrid
year of his age, [Michelangelo] undertook the building of Saint
Peter's.
MAng1 12.236 18 In answer to the importunate
solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence,
[Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in
which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty
of a great sin;...
MAng1 12.239 9 [Michelangelo] said of his
predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of
Saint Peter's, clear, insulated, luminous, with fit design for a vast
structure.
MAng1 12.239 15 ...it is said that when
[Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome, to build Saint Peter's, he
turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of
the cathedral (build by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you,
I will not build; better than you I cannot.
basilisks, n. (1)
MN 1.212 27 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set
their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child...
basin, n. (3)
UGM 4.31 13 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent
person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a
lake by cutting a lower basin.
Farm 7.147 17 [The tree] did not grow on a ridge, but
in a basin...
Farm 7.148 11 In September, when the pears hang
heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest
fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the
Sequoias...surrounded the orchard with a nursery of birches and
evergreens. Thus he had the mountain basin in miniature;...
basins, n. (1)
ET4 5.62 4 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions
[of Northmen], when...in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the
entire Danish fleet, as it lay in the basins...
basis, n. (54)
YA 1.390 27 ...as if the Union had any other real
basis than the good pleasure of a majority of the citizens to be
united.
Exp 3.67 14 To-morrow again every thing looks real
and angular...common-sense is as rare as genius,--is the basis of
genius...
Mrs1 3.143 1 ...I will neither be driven from some
allowance to Fashion as a symbolic institution, nor from the belief
that love is the basis of courtesy.
Gts 3.161 18 ...it restores society in so far to the
primary basis, when a man' s biography is conveyed in his gift...
Pol1 3.219 22 The power of love, as the basis of a
State, has never been tried.
PPh 4.65 26 [Plato] said, Culture; but he first
admitted its basis, and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages
of nature.
PNR 4.81 3 It seems as if nature, in regarding the
geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had
turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was
no wise discontented with the result. ... These were...a good basis for
further proceeding.
ET15 5.267 24 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the
London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by
older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled
views of policy, supplied the writers with the basis of fact and the
object to be attained...
F 6.17 6 It is a rule that the most casual and
extraordinary events, if the basis of population is broad enough,
become matter of fixed calculation.
Pow 6.64 10 The same elements are always present,
only sometimes these conspicuous, and sometimes those; what was
yesterday foreground, being to-day background;--what was surface,
playing now a not less effective part as basis.
Ctr 6.134 14 This individuality is not only not
inconsistent with culture, but is the basis of it.
Ctr 6.158 11 I must have children...I must have a
social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or
basis.
CbW 6.253 27 In the twenty-fourth year of his reign
[Edward I] decreed that no tax should be levied without consent of
Lords and Commons;-- which is the basis of the English Constitution.
Civ 7.22 1 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into
a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one
of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges,
now let senates take heed! for here is one who opening these fine
tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all
their laurels in his strong hands.
Art2 7.45 10 A very coarse imitation of the human
form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the
uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture
of Titian. And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian,
these...are the basis on which the fine spirit rears a higher
delight...
Cour 7.257 16 ...[the child's] utter ignorance and
weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of
capital compel every by-stander to take his part.
Cour 7.274 16 There are ever appearing in the world
men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe
of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the
Brothers Bollandi, who collected the lives of twenty-five thousand
martyrs, confessors, ascetics and self-tormentors. There is much of
fable, but a broad basis of fact.
PI 8.31 15 ...if your verse has not a necessary and
autobiographic basis...it shall not waste my time.
QO 8.199 27 ...[the individual] is no more to be
credited with the grand result [of language] than the acaleph which
adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.
Imtl 8.330 4 Plutarch, in Greece, has a deep faith
that the doctrine of the Divine Providence and that of the immortality
of the soul rest on one and the same basis.
Chr2 10.94 22 We have no idea of power so simple and
so entire as this [general mind]. It is the basis of thought, it is the
basis of being.
Plu 10.313 23 [Plutarch] believes that the doctrine
of the Divine Providence, and that of the immortality of the soul, rest
on one and the same basis.
LS 11.17 19 ...the service [the Lord's Supper] does
not stand upon the basis of a voluntary act, but is imposed by
authority.
FSLC 11.189 17 I thought it was this fair mystery,
whose foundations are hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human
society, and of law;...
ACiv 11.309 16 The end of all political struggle is
to establish morality as the basis of all legislation.
EPro 11.325 11 ...the aim of the war on our part
is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes
it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow
its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis.
SMC 11.354 12 The secret architecture of things
begins to disclose itself; the fact that all things were made on a
basis of right;...
EdAd 11.383 2 The material basis [of America] is of
such extent that no folly of man can quite subvert it;...
EdAd 11.390 2 The State, like the individual, should
rest on an ideal basis.
FRO1 11.479 19 ...as soon as every man is apprised of
the Divine Presence within his own mind,-is apprised...that the basis
of duty, the order of society...draw their essence from this moral
sentiment, then we have a religion that exalts...
FRO1 11.480 6 ...it is only on the basis of active
duty, that worship finds expression.
FRep 11.540 25 The end of all political struggle is
to establish morality as the basis of all legislation.
II 12.72 23 The reformer comes with many plans of
melioration, and the basis on which he wishes to build his new world, a
great deal of money.
Milt1 12.262 13 ...as basis or fountain of his rare
physical and intellectual accomplishments, the man Milton was just and
devout.
PPr 12.385 16 Worst of all for the party attacked,
[Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy,
by...impressing the reader with the conviction that the satirist
himself has...a genuine respect for the basis of truth in those whom he
exposes.
bask, v. (7)
Nat2 3.169 8 There are days which occur in this
climate...when, in these bleak upper sides of the planet...we bask in
the shining hours of Florida and Cuba;...
Suc 7.298 8 We bask in the day, and the mind finds
somewhat as great as itself.
PPo 8.236 4 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi]
seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than
still to entertain his ear/...
basked, v. (1)
ET14 5.248 10 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an
element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges,
that he is impressive...
basket, n. (8)
Comp 2.93 10 The documents...from which the doctrine
[of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands, the
bread in our basket...
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.
Gts 3.160 11 If a man should send to me to come a
hundred miles to visit him and should set before me a basket of fine
summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the
labor and the reward.
Civ 7.24 13 Another measure of culture is the
diffusion of knowledge...by the cheap press, bringing the university to
every poor man's door in the news-boy's basket.
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...
EzRy 10.391 5 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra
Ripley's] beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion; he bore the
insult, and the next day his basket for the beggar, his horse and
chaise for the cripple, were at their door.
basket-maker, n. (1)
baskets, n. (1)
CbW 6.267 9 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to
be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and
happiness,--whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords...
Basle, St., n. (2)
Bhr 6.193 18 It is related by the monk Basle, that
being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge
of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...
Bhr 6.194 12 At last the escorting angel returned
with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that
no phlegethon could be found that would burn him; for that in whatever
condition, Basle remained incorrigibly Basle.
bas-reliefs, n. (1)
MAng1 12.230 4 Several statues [by Michelangelo] of
less fame, and bas-reliefs, are in Rome and Florence and Paris.
bass-tree, n. (1)
Thor 10.481 16 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with
special regard, and, over all, the pond-lily...and a bass-tree which he
visited every year when it bloomed...
bastard, n. (1)
bastards, n. (1)
ET11 5.191 11 Prostitutes taken from the theatres
were made duchesses, their bastards dukes and earls.
bastion, n. (1)
MAng1 12.224 13 On the 24th of October, 1529, the
Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills
surrounding the city [Florence], and his first operation was to throw
up a rampart to storm the bastion of San Miniato.
bastions, n. (1)
War 11.163 16 This vast apparatus of artillery,...of
stone bastions and trenches and embankments; this incessant patrolling
of sentinels;...seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will
not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful
of friends of peace.
Bat, Jul, Rev., n. (1)
Mrs1 3.144 9 ...here is...Reverend Jul Bat, who has
converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school;...
bat, n. (3)
Clbs 7.245 9 There are those who have the instinct of
a bat to fly against any lighted candle and put it out...
QO 8.188 26 In every kind of parasite, when Nature
has finished an aphis, a teredo or a vampire bat...the self-supplying
organs wither and dwindle...
Plu 10.309 10 The part of each of the class [of the
Greek philosophers] is as important as that of the master. They are
like the baseball players, to whom the pitcher, the bat, the catcher
and the scout are equally important.
bat-balls, n. (1)
Bateman's Pond, n. (1)
Thor 10.480 9 ...the blockheads were not born in
Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to
be born in London, or Paris, or Rome; but...they did what they could,
considering that they never saw Bateman's Pond...
bates, v. (1)
Aris 10.58 23 ...I know no such unquestionable badge
and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose
which...bates no jot of heart or hope...
Bath, Knights of the, n. (1)
bath, n. (6)
Nat2 3.171 18 We go out daily and nightly to feed the
eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water
for our bath.
Wth 6.99 3 I think sometimes, could I only have music
on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go
whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that
were a bath and a medicine.
DL 7.106 16 The first ride into the country, the
first bath in running water... are new chapters of joy [to the child].
Plu 10.309 12 ...Plutarch thought, with Ariston, that
neither a bath nor a lecture served any purpose, unless they were
purgative.
MAng1 12.230 23 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most
celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath
and arming themselves;...
bathe, v. (2)
MN 1.214 15 You cannot bathe twice in the same river,
said Heraclitus;...
Bty 6.303 9 The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in
it the beauty forsakes all the near water.
bathed, v. (9)
Nat 1.10 6 Standing on the bare ground - my head
bathed by the blithe air...all mean egotism vanishes.
Nat2 3.173 7 ...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... We penetrate bodily this
incredible beauty;...our eyes are bathed in these lights and forms.
UGM 4.17 18 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious
mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word
dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads
are bathed with galaxies...
ET4 5.56 7 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again,
the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them, his eyes bathed in
tears.
Wsp 6.217 5 ...such persons [of higher moral
sentiment] are nearer to the secret of God than others; are bathed by
sweeter waters;...
PPo 8.258 2 Presently we have [in Hafiz's
poetry],-All day the rain/ Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The
flood may pour from morn to night/ Nor wash the pretty Indians white./
bathes, v. (4)
Lov1 2.185 24 The union which is thus effected [by
love] and which adds a new value to every atom in nature--for
it...bathes the soul in a new and sweeter element--is yet a temporary
state.
PLT 12.15 18 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an
ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet
which it bathes.
Mem 12.103 14 The poor short lone fact dies at the
birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal
waters.
bathing, v. (2)
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...
Wth 6.122 18 When a citizen...comes out and buys land
in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his
windows;...a sunset every day, bathing the shoulder of Blue Hills...
baths, n. (3)
CbW 6.267 16 In childhood we...doubted not by distant
travel we should reach the baths of the descending sun and stars.
CbW 6.274 5 It makes no difference, in looking back
five years...whether you have gardens and baths...
LLNE 10.351 4 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties
and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...what
gardens, what baths!
bath-tub, n. (1)
Bathurst, Allen, Earl, n. (1)
NER 3.273 4 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that
the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner,
they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
baton, n. (1)
NER 3.275 13 ...a naval and military honor...a
marshal's baton...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable
him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before
whom he felt himself inferior.
bats, n. (5)
Lov1 2.177 4 Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/
Places which pale passion loves,/ Moonlight walks, when all the fowls/
Are safely housed, save bats and owls,/ A midnight bell, a passing
groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
Mrs1 3.119 24 In the deserts of Borgoo the
rock-Tibboos still dwell in caves, like cliff-swallows, and the
language of these negroes is compared by their neighbors to the
shrieking of bats and to the whistling of birds.
Bhr 6.179 20 The confession of a low, usurping devil
is there made [in the eyes], and the observer shall seem to feel the
stirring of owls and bats and horned hoofs...
PI 8.55 18 Welcome, folded arms and fixed
eyes,/...Midnight walks, when all the fowls/ Are warmly housed, save
bats and owls;/...
battalion, n. (5)
ET5 5.85 23 In war, the Englishman looks to his
means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as
holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;--a sentence
which Bonaparte unconsciously translated, when he said that he had
noticed that Providence always favored the heaviest battalion.
Bty 6.291 18 What a difference in effect between a
battalion of troops marching to action, and one of our independent
companies on a holiday!
Civ 7.23 1 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax
or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes
to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon
as a fine meter of civilization.
HDC 11.73 19 This little battalion [of
minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other
bank of the river...
Humb 11.457 24 There is no book like [Humboldt's
Cosmos]; none indicating such a battalion of powers.
battalions, n. (2)
Boks 7.192 6 ...as the enchanter has dressed [books],
like battalions of infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the
thousand and ten thousand, your chance of hitting on the right one is
to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and
Combination...
Aris 10.45 17 He who understands the art of war,
reckons the hostile battalions and cities, opportunities and spoils.
batten, v. (1)
Cour 7.276 3 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a
taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...
batter, v. (2)
PPo 8.244 27 [Hafiz] says,-I batter the wheel of
heaven/ When it rolls not rightly by;/ I am not one of the snivellers/
Who fall thereon and die./
Milt1 12.273 24 ...it would not be matter of rational
wonder [Milton said], if the wethers of our country should be born with
horns that could batter down cities and towns.
battered, adj. (1)
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 with torn sheets and
battered sides...
battered, v. (1)
Int 2.327 3 As a ship aground is battered by the
waves, so man...lies open to the mercy of coming events.
batteries, n. (2)
ET15 5.272 12 If only [the London Times] dared
to...feed its batteries from the central heart of humanity...
battering, v. (1)
Thor 10.466 3 ...what accusing silences, and what
searching and irresistible speeches, battering down all defences,
[Thoreau's] companions can remember!
battery, n. (17)
NMW 4.234 10 Sire, General Clarke can not combine
with General Junot, for the dreadful fire of the Austrian battery.
NMW 4.234 11 Sire, General Clarke can not combine
with General Junot, for the dreadful fire of the Austrian battery.--Let
him carry the battery.
Wsp 6.208 18 There is faith...in the steam-engine,
galvanic battery...but not in divine causes.
Wsp 6.221 25 ...the globe is a battery, because every
atom is a magnet;...
Farm 7.142 16 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal
proportions; the diameter of the water-wheel, the arms of the levers,
the power of the battery, are out of all mechanic measure;...
Cour 7.261 8 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly
drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
PI 8.72 2 One would say of the force in the works of
Nature, all depends on the battery.
PI 8.73 11 The high poetry which shall...bring in the
new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is...longer
postponed than was...the finding of steam or of the galvanic battery.
Res 8.139 7 Our Copernican globe is a great factory
or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides.
The machine is of colossal size; the diameter of the water-wheel, the
arms of the levers and the volley of the battery out of all mechanic
measure;...
Dem1 10.20 26 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply
mischievous. A new or private language...the steam battery...are of
this kind.
PerF 10.80 6 ...[Bonaparte's] will is an immense
battery discharging irresistible volleys of power...
Shak1 11.448 14 What shocks of surprise and
sympathetic power, this battery, which [Shakespeare] is, imparts to
every fine mind that is born!
battery-wires, n. (1)
Pow 6.70 24 The luxury...of electricity [is], not
volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the
battery-wires.
battle, adj. (1)
SMC 11.371 4 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second
Regiment saw hard service...at Baltimore, in Virginia, where they were
drawn up in battle order for ten days successively...
battle, n. (66)
Tran 1.350 19 All that the brave Xanthus brings home
from his wars is the recollection that at the storming of Samos, in the
heat of the battle, Pericles smiled on me, and passed on to another
detachment.
Hist 2.22 3 ...in these late and civil countries of
England and America these propensities [Nomadism and Agriculture] still
fight out the old battle...
Prd1 2.237 18 Entire self-possession may make a
battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils...
Hsm1 2.248 6 In the Harleian Miscellanies there is an
account of the battle of Lutzen which deserves to be read.
Hsm1 2.255 8 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell
on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of
Euripides...
Hsm1 2.260 26 A simple manly character...should
regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion, when he admitted
that the event of the battle was happy, yet did not regret his
dissuasion from the battle.
Hsm1 2.260 27 A simple manly character...should
regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion, when he admitted
that the event of the battle was happy, yet did not regret his
dissuasion from the battle.
Chr1 3.90 20 When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I
might see him offer battle...
NER 3.274 21 Caesar, just before the battle of
Pharsalia, discourses with the Egyptian priest concerning the fountains
of the Nile...
SwM 4.107 5 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the
Identity-philosophy... which he experimented with and established
through years of labor, with the heart and strength of the rudest
Viking that his rough Sweden ever sent to battle.
NMW 4.234 16 Seruzier, a colonel of artillery,
gives...the following sketch of a scene after the battle of Austerlitz.
NMW 4.236 9 To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at
Lobenstein, two days before the battle of Jena, Napoleon said, My lads,
you must not fear death;...
NMW 4.238 11 ...[Napoleon said] I have observed that
it is always these quarters of an hour that decide the fate of a
battle.
NMW 4.238 11 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte
thought little about what he should do in case of success...
NMW 4.241 9 The best document of [Napoleon's]
relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the
battle of Austerlitz...
NMW 4.241 14 The best document of [Napoleon's]
relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the
battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he
will keep his person out of reach of fire. This declaration, which is
the reverse of that ordinarily made by generals and sovereigns on the
eve of a battle, sufficiently explains the devotion of the army to
their leader.
NMW 4.246 10 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible
resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange
situations!...drawing up his army for battle in sight of the
Pyramids...
NMW 4.246 18 [Napoleon's] army, on the night of the
battle of Austerlitz... presented him with a bouquet of forty standards
taken in the fight.
ET4 5.59 18 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in
battle, as long as he can stand...
ET5 5.86 10 ...the English can put more men into the
rank, on the day of action, on the field of battle, than any other
army.
ET11 5.197 13 Now, said Nelson, when clearing for
battle, a peerage, or Westminster Abbey!
ET19 5.313 16 I see [England]...with a kind of
instinct...that in storm of battle and calamity she has a secret vigor
and a pulse like a cannon.
Bhr 6.183 22 ...if [the enthusiast] finds the scholar
apart from his companions...the scholar has no defence, but must deal
on his terms. Now they must fight the battle out on their private
strength.
Clbs 7.233 1 ...there are the gladiators, to whom
[conversation] is always a battle;...
Suc 7.284 21 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon,
which I cannot do by my own hands. ... The details of working [cannons]
in battle, if it is necessary to teach, I shall teach them.
Suc 7.287 15 The [Norse] mother says to her
son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which
is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/ In struggle
with man, in battle with brute:--/...
Suc 7.308 18 I do not find...grisly photographs of
the field on the day after the battle, fit subjects for cabinet
pictures.
SA 8.96 5 The great gain is...to find a companion who
knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter
destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will ride to battle
horsed on the very logic which you found irresistible.
Elo2 8.111 2 I do not know any kind of history,
except the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest
than to any anecdote of eloquence;...
Elo2 8.111 4 I do not know any kind of history,
except the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest
than to any anecdote of eloquence; and the wise think it better than a
battle.
Elo2 8.115 26 [The orator's speech] is action, as the
general's word of command or chart of battle is action.
Res 8.145 14 ...the Corsicans at the battle of
Golo...made use of the bodies of their dead to form an intrenchment.
PerF 10.85 5 ...a military genius, instead of using
that to defend his country, he says, I will fight the battle so as to
give me place and political consideration;...
Prch 10.220 22 ...the sober eye finds something
ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the
triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to
battle;...
MoL 10.257 19 Battle, with the sword, has cut many a
Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of Northern
and Border statesmen could not untie.
MMEm 10.428 21 Saladin caused his shroud to be made,
and carried it to battle as his standard.
HDC 11.58 16 ...[Simon Willard] fought with
disadvantage against an enemy who must be hunted before every battle.
HDC 11.76 23 ...having quit you like men in the
battle, you [veterans of the battle of Concord] have quit yourselves
like men in your virtuous families;...
War 11.156 17 To men...in whom is any knowledge or
mental activity, the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and
revolting.
FSLN 11.235 4 To make good the cause of Freedom, you
must draw off from all foolish trust in others. You must be...the
charter, the battle and the victory.
SMC 11.357 11 I have a note of a conversation that
occurred in our first company, the morning before the battle of Bull
Run.
SMC 11.368 14 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July,
1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part,
was in line of battle seventy-two hours...
SMC 11.368 16 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July,
1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part,
was in line of battle seventy-two hours...
SMC 11.371 20 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been
in the front and centre since the battle begun...
SMC 11.371 25 Every day, for the last eight days,
there has been a terrible battle the whole length of the line.
SMC 11.373 2 Early in the morning of the eighteenth
[the Thirty-second Regiment] went to the front, formed line of
battle...
SMC 11.374 9 On the first of April, the
[Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry, near the
Five Forks, and took an important part in that battle which opened
Petersburg and Richmond...
CInt 12.114 17 Milton congratulates the Parliament
that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...and battle oft rumored to
be marching up to her walls and suburb trenches,-yet then are the
people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of
highest and most important matters to be reformed...
Milt1 12.251 24 ...deeply as that peculiar state of
society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in
the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes
everything local and personal in Nature; and the accidental facts on
which a battle of principles was fought have already passed, or are
fast passing, into oblivion.
Pray 12.353 28 If but this tedious battle could be
fought,/ Like Sparta's heroes at one rocky pass,/ One day be spent in
dying, men had sought/ The spot, and been cut down like mower's grass./
Battle of Culloden Moor, S (1)
Battle of Leipsic, n. (1)
Humb 11.458 17 One of [Germany's] writers warns his
countrymen that it is not the Battle of Leipsic, but the Leipsic Fair
Catalogue, which raises them above the French.
battle-days, n. (1)
ALin 11.335 8 In four years,-four years of
battle-days,-[Lincoln's] endurance, his fertility of resources, his
magnanimity, were sorely tried...
battle-field, n. (6)
NMW 4.245 8 When soldiers have been baptized in the
fire of a battle-field [said Napoleon], they have all one rank in my
eyes.
MMEm 10.423 14 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson]
of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a few days of
agony...compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished
away?
EPro 11.323 21 Give [the Confederacy] Washington, and
they would have assumed the army and navy, and, through these,
Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. It looks as if the battle-field
would have been at least as large in that event as it is now.
SMC 11.368 5 How would Concord people, [George
Prescott] asks, like to pass the night on the battle-field, and hear
the dying cry for help, and not be able to go to them.
Let 12.400 1 Is [Germany] not like some battle-field,
where hands and arms and all members lie scattered about, whilst the
life-blood runs away into the sand?
battle-fields, n. (1)
battle-ground, n. (2)
ET4 5.56 20 Bonaparte's art of war, namely of
concentrating force on the point of attack, must always be theirs who
have the choice of the battle-ground.
battle-pieces, n. (1)
battles, n. (19)
LT 1.284 1 ...we begin to doubt if that great
revolution in the art of war, which has made it a game of posts instead
of a game of battles, has not operated on Reform;...
Prd1 2.237 17 The Latin proverb says, In battles the
eye is first overcome.
NMW 4.248 26 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the
way in which battles are gained.
NMW 4.248 27 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the
way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when
the bravest troops... feel inclined to run.
NMW 4.251 21 I admire [Bonaparte's] simple, clear
narrative of his battles;...
ET6 5.109 11 Wellington governed India and Spain and
his own troops, and fought battles...
Ill 6.312 8 The boy, how sweet to him is his fancy!
how dear the story of barons and battles!
Elo2 8.131 1 ...great generals do not fight many
battles, but conquer by tactics...
MoL 10.245 21 A French prophet of our age, Fourier,
predicted that one day, instead of by battles and Oecumenical Councils,
the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's excellence in
the manufacture of little cakes.
Plu 10.315 5 [Plutarch] thinks it was by superior
virtue that Alexander won his battles in Asia and Africa...
War 11.153 1 The [early] leaders, picked men of a
courage and vigor tried and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to
distinguish themselves above each other by new merits...
SMC 11.367 12 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at
last...to an excellent reputation, attested by the names of the thirty
battles they were authorized to inscribe on their flag...
FRep 11.521 24 The American marches with a careless
swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can
have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race,
bought with battles and revolutions and religion...
MAng1 12.227 25 The midnight battles, the forced
marches, the winter campaigns of Julius Caesar or Charles XII. do not
indicate greater strength of body or of mind [than Michelangelo's].
AgMs 12.358 23 As I drew near this brave laborer
[Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling
for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the
soil...not like Napoleon, hero of sixty battles, but of six thousand...
battling, v. (1)
HCom 11.339 12 We grudge them not, our dearest,
bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is
Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with
her visor down./ Holmes.
bauble, n. (2)
baubles, n. (3)
NMW 4.248 2 I think all men...know that the
institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles;...
DL 7.106 3 What art can paint or gild any object in
afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of
childhood!
baulked, v. (4)
NMW 4.231 5 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and
such a man was born;...of a perception which did not suffer itself to
be baulked or misled by any pretences of others...
NMW 4.258 14 It was...the eternal law of man and of
the world which baulked and ruined [Napoleon];...
bawble, n. (1)
Ill 6.313 13 Children, youths, adults and old men,
all are led by one bawble or another.
bawbles, n. (1)
Nat2 3.174 20 ...it is the magical lights of the
horizon and the blue sky for the background which save all our works of
art, which were otherwise bawbles.
bay, adj. (1)
Thor 10.476 9 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse
and a turtle-dove...
Bay, Boston, n. (3)
Hist 2.22 14 In America and Europe the nomadism is of
trade and curiosity; a progress, certainly, from the gad-fly of
Astaboras to the Anglo and Italomania of Boston Bay.
Hsm1 2.257 18 Massachusetts, Connecticut River and
Boston Bay you think paltry places...
Bost 12.183 7 The sea returning day by day/ Restores
the world-wide mart;/ So let each dweller on the Bay/ Fold Boston in
his heart./
Bay, Botany, Australia, n. (1)
Pol1 3.211 5 ...the children of the convicts of
Botany Bay are found to have as healthy a moral sentiment as other
children.
Bay, Grace, Antigua, n. (1)
EWI 11.116 12 At Grace Bay, [the day following
emancipation in the West Indies] the people, all dressed in white,
formed a procession...
Bay, Massachusetts, Colony, (2)
HDC 11.61 18 When the Dutch, or the French, or the
English royalist disagreed with the [Massachusetts Bay] Colony, there
was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,-an earnest
minority,-to keep things from extremity.
hDC 11.63 9 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother,
Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of
deputies in 1676. The following year, he was sent to England...as agent
for the colony;...
Bay, Massachusetts, Company (2)
HDC 11.42 27 The charter gave to the freemen of the
Company of Massachusetts Bay the election of the Governor and Council
of Assistants.
Bay, Massachusetts, n. (1)
HDC 11.44 11 ...it was the river, or the winter, or
famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through [the townsmen] to the
Governor and the Council of Massachusetts Bay.
bay, n. (10)
Pow 6.63 9 ...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...
Civ 7.17 14 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful
traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he
hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played
with master's hand./ Well done! he cries; the bear is kept at bay/...
Civ 7.21 17 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate
than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house
being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay.
Cour 7.272 21 The best act of the marvellous genius
of Greece was...in the instinct which, at Thermopylae, held Asia at
bay...
HDC 11.84 20 [Our fathers] stint and higgle on the
price of a pew, that they may send 200 soldiers to General Washington
to keep Great Britain at bay.
CL 12.157 8 Can you bring home...the sunny shores of
your own bay, and the low Indian hills of Rhode Island?...
Bost 12.190 17 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good
boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State
House...
Bost 12.190 25 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with
its shores trending steadily from the two arms which the capes of
Massachusetts stretch out to sea, down to the bottom of the bay where
the city domes and spires sparkle through the haze,-a good boatman can
easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
Bost 12.191 16 ...the next colony planted itself at
Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these
men...wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of
a deep and islanded bay...
Bay, Narragansett, n. (1)
HDC 11.58 6 From Narragansett to the Connecticut
River, the scene of war was shifted as fast as these red hunters could
traverse the forest.
Bay of Naples, Italy, n. (1)
SA 8.94 13 ...[Madame de Stael] said...If it were not
for respect to human opinions, I would not open my window to see the
Bay of Naples for the first time...
Bay of Naples, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.144 12 ...here is...Signor Torre del Greco,
who extinguished Vesuvius by pouring into it the Bay of Naples;...
Bay, Tor, England, n. (1)
ET3 5.42 15 In the variety of surface, Britain is a
miniature of Europe, having...delicious landscape in Dovedale,
delicious sea-view at Tor Bay...
Bayard, Pierre Terrail de, (1)
Hsm1 2.258 10 The pictures which fill the imagination
in reading the actions of...Bayard...teach us how needlessly mean our
life is;...
Bayard's, Pierre Terrail de (1)
Bayle, Pierre, n. (1)
QO 8.180 25 Whoso knows Plutarch, Lucian, Rabelais,
Montaigne and Bayle will have a key to many supposed originalities.
Bayles, n. (1)
Boks 7.192 25 It seems...as if some charitable
soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been
bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This
would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to
time appear,--the...Mirandolas, Bayles, Johnsons...
bayonet, adj. (1)
Cour 7.261 7 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly
drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
bayonet, n. (3)
Pol1 3.220 7 ...let not the most conservative and
timid fear anything from a premature surrender of the bayonet and the
system of force.
Cour 7.264 27 ...the...shining helmets, beard and
moustache of the soldier have conquered you long before his sword or
bayonet reaches you.
War 11.166 16 ...bayonet and sword must first retreat
a little from their ostentatious prominence;...
bayonets, n. (6)
Chr1 3.90 14 [The man of character's] victories are
by demonstration of superiority, and not by crossing of bayonets.
NMW 4.233 1 The weavers strike for bread, and the
king and his ministers...meet them with bayonets.
Pow 6.72 13 The men whom in peaceful communities we
hold if we can with iron at their legs...this man [Napoleon] dealt with
hand to hand...and won his victories by their bayonets.
Bhr 6.181 3 The military eye I meet, now darkly
sparkling under clerical, now under rustic brows. 'T is the city of
Lacedaemon; 't is a stack of bayonets.
War 11.165 22 He who loves the bristle of bayonets
only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart.
Bayonne, France, n. (1)
FSLC 11.192 6 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of
Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to
your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have
found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
Bayreuth [Baireuth], German (1)
bays, n. (1)
CL 12.153 19 ...whenever we find a coast broken up
into bays and harbors, we find an instant effect on the intellect and
the industry of the people.
bazaars, n. (2)
Prd1 2.233 14 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful
drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of
Constantinople...
Prd1 2.233 16 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful
drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of
Constantinople, who skulk about all day...and at evening, when the
bazaars are open, slink to the opium-shop, swallow their morsel and
become tranquil and glorified seers.
beach, n. (9)
Nat 1.21 1 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore
of America; - before it the beach lined with savages...can we separate
the man from the living picture?
LT 1.266 16 ...when we stand by the seashore...a wave
comes up the beach far higher than any foregoing one, and recedes;...
Nat2 3.180 22 The whirling bubble on the surface of a
brook admits us to the secret of the mechanics of the sky. Every shell
on the beach is a key to it.
NER 3.259 1 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the
colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek
and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high and dry on the
beach...
Bty 6.282 4 The boy had juster views when he gazed at
the shells on the beach or the flowers in the meadow, unable to call
them by their names, than the man in the pride of his nomenclature.
Boks 7.219 18 [The communications of the sacred
books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form
of life. I read them on lichens and bark; I watch them on waves on the
beach;...
EzRy 10.384 23 Then again, May 5th [1735, Joseph
Emerson writes]: Went to the beach with three of the children.
Beach, Nantasket, Massachus (1)
YA 1.368 11 ...[the farmer] is so contented with his
alleys, woodlands, orchards and river, that Niagara...and Nantasket
Beach, are superfluities.
beaches, n. (1)
CL 12.136 19 Linnaeus, early in life, read a
discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in
one's own country, based on the conviction...that in every district
were swamps, or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which...were capable
of yielding immense benefit.
beach-grass, n. (2)
CL 12.137 13 [Linnaeus] discovered that the arundo
arenaris, or beach-grass, had long firm roots...
bead, adj. (1)
DL 7.108 20 We are sure that the sacred form of man
is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies...bead eyes...
bead, n. (3)
MoS 4.184 12 ...to each man is administered a single
drop, a bead of dew of vital power, per day...
WD 7.170 24 'T is pitiful the things by which we are
rich or poor...the fashion of a cloak or hat; like the luck of naked
Indians, of whom one is proud in the possession of a glass bead or a
red feather...
WD 7.171 10 ...the treasures which Nature spent
itself to amass...these, not like a glass bead, or the coins or
carpets, are given immeasurably to all.
beadles, n. (2)
PI 8.3 8 Poverty, frost, famine, disease, debt, are
the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense.
Bost 12.202 6 [The Massachusetts colonists could say
to themselves] London is a long way off, with beadles and pursuivants
and horse-guards.
beads, n. (11)
MoS 4.170 12 We are persuaded that a thread runs
through all things: all worlds are strung on it, as beads;...
Ctr 6.152 19 Can it be that the American forest has
refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die
out,--the love...of beads and tinsel?
PI 8.70 23 Every man may be...lifted to a platform
whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that
mood...strings worlds like beads upon his thought.
QO 8.187 22 ...if we learn how old are...the fret,
the beads, and other ornaments on our walls...we shall think very well
of the first men, or ill of the latest.
Imtl 8.329 3 A man of thought is willing to die,
willing to live; I suppose because he has seen the thread on which the
beads are strung...
Imtl 8.344 26 Do you think that the eternal chain of
cause and effect... which threads the globes as beads on a
string...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a
waif and a caprice...
Pray 12.356 5 ...we must not tie up the rosary on
which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a
pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint
Augustine.
beak, n. (1)
Bhr 6.182 3 The nose of Julius Caesar, of Dante, and
of Pitt, suggest the terrors of the beak.
beam, n. (13)
Con 1.324 21 ...the stars in heaven shall glow with a
kindlier beam, that I have lived.
NER 3.249 3 In the suburb, in the town,/ On the
railway, in the square,/ Came a beam of goodness down/ Doubling
daylight everywhere/...
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.
Civ 7.27 13 You have seen a carpenter on a ladder
with a broad-axe chopping upward chips from a beam.
PPo 8.262 19 A painter in China once painted a hall;/
Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush
with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the
sun;/...
Schr 10.266 1 ...[the poet's] achievement
is...letting in a beam of the pure eternity which burns up this limbo
of shadows and chimeras in which we dwell.
MMEm 10.430 9 I [Mary Moody Emerson] pray to die,
though happier myriads and mine own companions press nearer to the
throne. His coldest beam will purify and render me forever holy.
EWI 11.110 21 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even
seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe, being
made just broad enough on the beam to keep the sea.
CL 12.145 15 [The farmer] makes every cloud in the
sky, and every beam of the sun, serve him.
MAng1 12.237 7 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep
contempt...of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all
places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in
the universe.
Beam upon You, The Faery [ (1)
PI 8.55 27 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his
Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and
appetency for it. It appears in Ben Jonson's songs, including certainly
The Faery beam upon you...
beam, v. (3)
SwM 4.146 4 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the
trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the
realities of being which beam and blaze through him...
Bty 6.279 20 In dens of passion, and pits of woe,
[Seyd] saw strong Eros struggling through,/ To sun the dark and solve
the curse,/ And beam to the bounds of the universe./
beamed, v. (4)
PPo 8.264 7 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./
PPo 8.264 9 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./
EWI 11.120 20 Though joy beamed on every countenance,
[emancipation day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn
thankfulness to God...
beaming, adj. (1)
Suc 7.296 9 We assume...that there is but one Homer,
but one Shakspeare, one Newton, one Socrates. But the soul in her
beaming hour does not acknowledge these usurpations.
beams, n. (18)
SR 2.64 27 ...when we discern truth, we do nothing of
ourselves, but allow a passage to [universal intelligence's] beams.
Mrs1 3.133 4 [A man] should preserve in a new company
the same attitude of mind and reality of relation which his daily
associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams...
Wsp 6.241 15 There will be a new church founded on
moral science;...it will have heaven and earth for its beams and
rafters;...
Ill 6.318 23 What if you shall come to discern that
the play and playground of all this pompous history are radiations from
yourself, and that the sun borrows his beams?
Civ 7.30 14 It was a great instruction, said a saint
in Cromwell's war, that the best courages are but beams of the
Almighty.
Elo1 7.98 13 It is only to these simple strokes [of
the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs,--when a weak human
hand touches...the eternal beams and rafters on which the whole
structure of Nature and society is laid.
WD 7.182 9 Fancy defines herself:--Forms that men
spy/ With the half-shut eye/ In the beams of the setting sun, am I./
Cour 7.273 24 The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some
passages in the defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a
great instruction that the best and highest courages are beams of the
Almighty.
Imtl 8.333 20 Here is this wonderful thought. But
whence came it? Who put it in the mind? It was not I, it was not you;
it is elemental,-belongs to thought and virtue, and whenever we have
either we see the beams of this light.
Dem1 10.11 8 ...the atmosphere of a summer morning is
filled with innumerable gossamer threads running in every direction,
revealed by the beams of the rising sun!
Schr 10.263 24 [Intellect] is the power that makes
the world incarnated in man, and laying again the beams of heaven and
earth...
MMEm 10.424 8 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley
work, on which frightful Gorgons are at play, spite of holy ghosts. 'T
is already moth-eaten and its shuttles quaver, as the beams of the loom
are shaken.
SlHr 10.448 26 With beams December planets dart,/
[Samuel Hoar's] cold eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his
sunny heart,/ October in his liberal hand./
EWI 11.144 22 The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who
has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were the
color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine
through, with attractive beams.
Pray 12.357 2 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak
sight upon myself, shooting out beams upon me after a vehement
manner;...
beams, v. (4)
Lov1 2.170 17 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its
first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges
until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women...
MMEm 10.412 12 ...when Nature beams with such excess
of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author...it exults,
too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.
MAng1 12.244 22 ...[Michelangelo] was a brother and a
friend to all who acknowledge the beauty that beams in universal
Nature...
bean, n. (1)
NMW 4.248 5 Bonaparte relied on his own sense, and
did not care a bean for other people's.
bean-poles, n. (1)
Thor 10.468 12 [Thoreau]...noticed, with pleasure,
that the willow bean-poles of his neighbor had grown more than his
beans.
beans, n. (6)
Wth 6.114 8 Pride...can eat potato, purslain, beans,
lyed corn...
Thor 10.468 13 [Thoreau]...noticed, with pleasure,
that the willow bean-poles of his neighbor had grown more than his
beans.
Thor 10.480 23 Pounding beans is good to the end of
pounding empires one of these days; but if, at the end of years, is it
still only beans!
Milt1 12.263 11 [Milton] tells us...that he who would
write an epic to the nations must eat beans and drink water.
Beanstalk, Jack and his, n. (1)
QO 8.186 22 There are many fables which...are said to
be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...Jack and
his Beanstalk...
Bear, Great, n. (1)
Civ 7.30 19 Let us not lie and steal. No god will
help. We shall find all their teams going the other way,--Charles's
Wain, Great Bear...every god will leave us.
Bear Mountain, n. (1)
MMEm 10.401 18 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm]
was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where
she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years. It was...within
sight of the White Mountains, with a little lake in front at the foot
of a high hill called Bear Mountain.
bear, n. (10)
Nat2 3.182 22 The smoothest curled courtier in the
boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a
white bear...
Civ 7.17 14 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful
traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he
hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played
with master's hand./ Well done! he cries; the bear is kept at bay/...
Farm 7.151 24 ...when [the first planter] is hungry,
he cannot always kill and eat a bear...
Farm 7.151 25 ...when [the first planter] is hungry,
he cannot always kill and eat a bear,--chances of war,--sometimes the
bear eats him.
Cour 7.279 21 The hunter met [the bear's] gaze,/ Nor
yet an inch gave way;/ The bear turned slowly round,/ And slowly moved
away./
Elo2 8.114 8 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty
of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and
perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the
lessons taught him in earlier days...when he was...a hunter of the
bear.
Edc1 10.127 7 Certain nations...have made such
progress as to compare with these [savages] as these compare with the
bear and the wolf.
PLT 12.58 24 No wonder the children...play horse,
play soldier, play school, play bear...
bear, v. (82)
AmS 1.92 25 ...great and heroic men have existed who
had almost no other information than by the printed page. I only would
say that it needs a strong head to bear that diet.
AmS 1.115 13 Is it not the chief disgrace in the
world...not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to
bear...
DSA 1.123 17 ...the very roots of the grass
underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
MR 1.227 16 ...the community in which we live will
hardly bear to be told that every man should be open to ecstacy or a
divine illumination...
LT 1.273 13 Fain [the wealthy man] would have the
name to be religious; fain he would bear up with his neighbors in that.
Tran 1.347 26 ...unwillingly [Transcendentalists]
bear their part of the public and private burdens;...
Fdsp 2.214 3 Whatever correction of our popular views
we make from insight, nature will be sure to bear us out in...
Hsm1. 2.252 2 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the
last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that
can be inflicted by evil agents.
Exp 3.60 4 Life itself is a mixture of power and
form, and will not bear the least excess of either.
Exp 3.66 14 You who see the artist, the orator, the
poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for
man, but are disease. Yet nature will not bear you out.
Chr1 3.103 1 New actions are the only apologies and
explanations of old ones which the noble can bear to offer or to
receive.
Mrs1 3.148 17 Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and
great ladies, had some right to complain of the absurdity that had been
put in their mouths before the days of Waverley; but neither does
Scott's dialogue bear criticism.
Gts 3.164 13 Compared with that good-will I bear my
friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.
Pol1 3.219 26 We must not imagine that all things are
lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to
bear his part in certain social conventions;...
NR 3.225 13 The man momentarily stands for the
thought, but will not bear examination;...
NER 3.251 22 The spirit of protest and of detachment
drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear
testimony against the Church...
NER 3.265 24 The candidate my party votes for is not
to be trusted with a dollar, but he will be honest in the Senate, for
we can bring public opinion to bear on him.
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.
SwM 4.146 1 If the glory was too bright for
[Swedenborg's] eyes to bear... the more excellent is the spectacle he
saw...
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.
MoS 4.186 5 ...let [a man] learn to bear the
disappearance of things he was wont to reverence without losing his
reverence;...
ShP 4.192 26 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is the
Tale of Troy, which the audience will bear hearing some part of, every
week;...
ShP 4.213 25 [Shakespeare]...finishes an eyelash or a
dimple as firmly as he draws a mountain; yet these, like nature's, will
bear the scrutiny of the solar microscope.
ET5 5.83 14 The bias of the nation [England] is a
passion for utility. They love the lever...the sea and the wind to bear
their freight ships.
ET5 5.87 9 ...[the English] fundamentally believe
that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close
alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him...
ET5 5.94 22 The Mark-Lane Express, or the Custom
House Returns, bear out to the letter the vaunt of Pope...
ET7 5.116 5 The German name has a proverbial
significance of sincerity and honest meaning. The arts bear testimony
to it.
ET15 5.272 16 If only [the London Times] dared to
cleave to the right...it might now and then bear the brunt of
formidable combinations, but no journal is ruined by wise courage.
F 6.32 15 Cold and sea will train an imperial Saxon
race, which nature cannot bear to lose...
Pow 6.65 16 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see,
against the unanimous declarations of the people, how much crime the
people will bear;...
Ctr 6.155 27 Solitude...is to genius...the cold,
obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than
suns and stars.
CbW 6.243 13 ...thou, Cyndyllan's son! beware/
Ponderous gold and stuffs to bear/...
SS 7.6 1 Those constitutions which can bear in open
day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average
structure such as iron and salt...
Art2 7.42 14 All powerful action is performed by
bringing the forces of Nature to bear upon our objects.
Art2 7.42 23 ...in our handiwork...we place ourselves
in such attitudes as to bring the force of gravity...to bear upon the
spade or the axe we wield.
Art2 7.42 26 ...in all our operations we seek not to
use our own, but to bring a quite infinite force to bear.
Art2 7.49 6 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by
our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear
on the spade, axe or bar.
Elo1 7.96 27 ...if the pupil be of a texture to bear
it, the best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is
the gauntlet of the mobs.
DL 7.117 13 ...a house should bear witness in all its
economy that human culture is the end to which it is built and
garnished.
SA 8.103 23 ...I said to myself, How little this man
[an American to be proud of] suspects...that he is not likely, in any
company, to meet a man superior to himself. And I think this is a good
country that can bear such a creature as he is.
QO 8.186 16 Hafiz...furnished Moore with the original
of the piece,- When in death I shall calm recline,/ Oh, bear my heart
to my mistress dear,/ etc.
PerF 10.70 3 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating
to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this
arsenal, and see...how many arms better than Springfield muskets, we
can bring to bear.
SovE 10.206 25 We in America are charged...that...we
look at and will bear nothing above us in the state...
MoL 10.256 9 Very little reliance must be put on the
common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great
barrister's learning, their Greek, their varied literature. That ice
won't bear.
MoL 10.257 19 We will not again disparage America,
now that we have seen what men it will bear.
Schr 10.287 11 [The scholar] shall not submit to
degradation, but shall bear these crosses with what grace he can.
LLNE 10.331 18 [Everett] had a great talent for
collecting facts, and for bringing those he had to bear with ingenious
felicity on the topic of the moment.
EzRy 10.388 5 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is
to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues. There is none
of that large family left but you, and it rests with you to bear up the
good name and usefulness of your ancestors.
EzRy 10.390 22 We remember the remark made by the old
farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the
Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
Travellers from the West and North and South bear the like testimony.
MMEm 10.420 1 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars
a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been
needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of
earning my home. That ten dollars my dear father earned, and one
hundred dollars remain, and I can't bear to take it...
Thor 10.478 14 [Thoreau] thought that without
religion or devotion of some kind nothing great was ever accomplished:
and he thought that the bigoted sectarian had better bear this in mind.
Carl 10.490 16 [Carlyle]...is a very national figure,
and would by no means bear transplantation.
HDC 11.76 19 ...you, my fathers [veterans of battle
of Concord]...may well bear a chief part in keeping this peaceful
birthday of our town.
EWI 11.124 17 [The negroes] seemed created by
Providence to bear the heat and the whipping, and make these fine
articles.
FSLC 11.199 20 ...Mr. Webster can judge whether this
sort of solar microscope brought to bear on his law is likely to make
opposition less.
FSLC 11.208 23 It is really the great task fit for
this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as
the British nation bought the West Indian slaves. I say buy...that we
may...bear a countryman's share in relieving [the planter];...
AsSu 11.250 3 I have heard that some of [Charles
Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in
refusing...to bear his part in the labor which party organization
requires.
HCom 11.345 3 We shall not again disparage America,
now that we have seen what men it will bear.
ChiE 11.473 16 I am sure that gentlemen around me
bear in mind the bill which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has
twice attempted to carry through Congress, requiring that candidates
for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary
qualifications for the same.
CPL 11.506 11 [Kepler writes] ...I have stolen the
golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far
away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice; if you
are angry, I can bear it;...
PLT 12.19 22 So works the poor little blockhead
manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can.
At last he must be able to tell you it, or write it, translate it all
clumsily enough into the new sky-language he calls thought. He cannot
help it, the irresistible meliorations bear him forward.
II 12.82 7 Trust entirely the thought. Lean upon it,
it will bear up thee and thine...
CL 12.150 2 [The Indian] consults by way of natural
compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees, which bear more
numerous branches on their southern side; (2) ant-hills...(3) aspens...
Milt1 12.272 1 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of
literary liberty... insisting that a book shall come into the world as
freely as a man, so only it bear the name of author or printer...
Pray 12.353 10 These duties are not the life, but the
means which enable us to show forth the life. So must I take up this
cross, and bear it willingly.
Let 12.394 7 ...to fifteen letters on Communities,
and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated
class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the
writers...should be dissatisfied with the life they lead, and with
their company. They...will not bear it much longer.
Let 12.400 27 Full of love, talent and hope spring up
the darlings of the muse among the Germans; some seven years later,
and...they are like a soil which an enemy has sown with poison, that it
will not bear a blade of grass.
bear-baiting, n. (1)
ET4 5.63 9 The brutality of the manners in the
[English] lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting,
cock-fighting, love of executions...
beard, n. (8)
Exp 3.53 6 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim
of another, who...by such cheap signboards as the color of his beard or
the slope of his occiput, reads the inventory of his fortunes and
character.
Mrs1 3.154 19 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep
that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to
disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never...some fool who had cut
off his beard...but fled at once to him;...
NMW 4.247 2 We can not...sufficiently congratulate
ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who took occasion
by the beard...
Cour 7.264 25 ...the...shining helmets, beard and
moustache of the soldier have conquered you long before his sword or
bayonet reaches you.
OA 7.322 5 ...if the life be true and noble, we have
quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely
old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty
their houses to gaze at and obey them: as at My Cid, with the fleecy
beard, in Toledo;...
Thor 10.461 13 [Thoreau] was...of light complexion,
with strong, serious blue eyes, and a grave aspect,-his face covered in
the late years with a becoming beard.
MAng1 12.220 27 ...one of the last drawings in
[Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling; for it
is a sketch of an old man with a long beard, in a go-cart, with an
hour-glass before him; and the motto, Ancora imparo, I still learn.
bearded, adj. (2)
LE 1.169 8 ...the pines, bearded with savage
moss...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
SS 7.11 6 ...the power to charm the disguised soul
that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is [the
scholar's] rent and ration.
beards, n. (2)
ET12 5.212 26 ...I should as soon think of
quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile
sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors for not
admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and
Aristotle...
CSC 10.374 21 Madmen, madwomen, men with beards...all
successively... seized their moment [at the Chardon Street
Convention]...
beare, v. (1)
Aris 10.29 9 Take fire and beare it into the derkest
hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the
dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As
twenty thousand men might it behold;/...
bearer, n. (2)
SMC 11.369 6 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had
several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which
the bearer had in his hand.
bearers, n. (2)
Ctr 6.146 8 Some men are made for...missionaries,
bearers of despatches...
CL 12.149 4 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated
the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of
access. ... Maruts, as you have vigor, invigorate mankind! Aswins
(Waters), long-armed, good-looking Aswins! bearers of wealth...harness
your car!
bear-gardens, n. (1)
bearing, n. (14)
OS 2.291 20 ...what rebuke [simple souls'] plain
fraternal bearing casts on the mutual flattery with which authors
solace each other...
Mrs1 3.149 20 I have seen an individual...who shook
off the captivity of etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing...
MoS 4.178 24 Reason...is apprehended, now and then,
for a serene and profound moment amidst the hubbub of cares and works
which have no direct bearing on it;...
ET6 5.106 6 ...[the Englishman's] bearing, on being
introduced, is cold...
ET9 5.148 10 [This little superfluity of self-regard
in the English brain]... encourages a frank and manly bearing...
Bhr 6.175 24 We had in Massachusetts an old statesman
who had sat all his life...in chairs of state without overcoming an
extreme irritability of face, voice and bearing;...
Bhr 6.182 20 A calm and resolute bearing, a polished
speech...are essential to the courtier;...
Farm 7.153 9 Put [the farmer] on a new planet and he
would know where to begin; yet there is no arrogance in his bearing...
PI 8.44 17 This power [of characterization] appears
not only in the outline or portrait of [Shakespeare's] actors, but also
in the bearing and behavior and style of each individual.
TPar 11.286 13 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of
duty, or accepted nobly that assigned him in his rare constitution.
Wonderful acquisition of knowledge, a rapid wit that heard all, and
welcomed all that came, by seeing its bearing.
II 12.88 1 These studies [of the Intellect] seem to
me to derive an importance from their bearing on the universal question
of modern times, the question of Religion.
Bost 12.198 14 No external advantages...can bestow
that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind
accustomed to celestial conversation.
bearing, v. (2)
WD 7.161 4 The chain of Western railroads from
Chicago to the Pacific has planted cities and civilization in less time
than it costs to bring an orchard into bearing.
JBS 11.276 2 A man there came, whence none could
tell,/ Bearing a touchstone in his hand,/ And tested all things in the
land/ By its unerrring spell./
bearings, n. (4)
Tran 1.358 26 ...it may not be without its advantage
that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men, to...verify
our bearings from superior chronometers.
Prd1 2.239 23 The thought...[in dispute]...does not
show itself proportioned and in its true bearings...
PNR 4.80 6 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial
Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion
to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this
fixed star;...
GoW 4.265 21 ...let one man have the comprehensive
eye that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood
and bearings...
bears, n. (5)
Pow 6.70 16 ...who cares for fallings-out of
assassins and fights of bears or grindings of icebergs?
Cour 7.263 26 The hunter is not alarmed by bears,
catamounts or wolves...
Cour 7.278 17 ...They see two grizzly bears/ With
hunger fierce and fell/ Rush at them unawares/ Right down the narrow
dell./
Mem 12.99 7 ...there is a sound sleep of children and
of savages, profound as the hibernation of bears, which never visits
the eyes of civil gentlemen...
Bost 12.191 23 ...[the planters of Massachusetts]
exaggerated their troubles. Bears and wolves were many; but early, they
believed there were lions;...
bears, v. (24)
AmS 1.91 6 Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of
genius by over-influence. The literature of every nation bears me
witness.
MR 1.252 26 ...we enact the part of the selfish noble
and king from the foundation of the world. See, this tree always bears
one fruit.
Prd1 2.239 24 The thought...[in dispute]...bears
extorted, hoarse, and half witness.
Cir 2.310 10 The things which are dear to men at this
hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental
horizon, and which cause the present order of things, as a tree bears
its apples.
SwM 4.141 18 [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.
ET4 5.61 16 The continued draught of the best men in
Norway, Sweden and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted
those countries, like a tree which bears much fruit when young...
Wsp 6.231 15 He is great whose eyes are opened to see
that the reward of actions cannot be escaped, because he is transformed
into his action, and taketh its nature, which bears its own fruit...
Farm 7.143 12 Nature works on a method of all for
each and each for all. The strain that is made on one point bears on
every arch and foundation of the structure.
PI 8.58 18 [The wind] was not born, it sees not,/ And
is not seen; it does not come when desired;/ It has no form, it bears
no burden,/ For it is void of sin./
QO 8.200 25 My work [said Goethe] is an aggregation
of beings taken from the whole of Nature; it bears the name of Goethe.
PPo 8.242 1 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh
the annals...of Karun (the Persian Croesus)...who, with all his
treasures, lies buried not far from the Pyramids, in the sea which
bears his name;...
PerF 10.83 26 ...[the world's energies] work together
on a system of mutual aid...the strain made on one point bears on every
arch and foundation of the structure.
EWI 11.131 17 If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping
of freeborn negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with
impunity, let the Governor break the broad seal of the State; he bears
the sword in vain.
War 11.167 9 At a still higher stage, [man] comes
into the region of holiness;...being attacked, he bears it and turns
the other cheek...
SMC 11.351 11 The sense of the town, the eloquent
inscriptions the shaft now bears...will go on clothing this shaft [the
Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
NHI 12.2 3 Power that by obedience grows,/ Knowledge
that its source not knows,/ Wave which severs whom it bears/ From the
things which he compares./
ACri 12.303 25 Classic art is the art of necessity;
organic; modern or romantic bears the stamp of caprice or chance.
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