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)
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