Become to Behaviours
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
become, v. (212)
Nat 1.19 13 The shows of day...if too eagerly hunted,
become shows merely...
Nat 1.29 2 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to
extend from [the ant] to man...then all its habits...become sublime.
Nat 1.46 17 ...when [our friend] has...become an
object of thought...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
Nat 1.50 5 If the Reason be stimulated to more
earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent...
Nat 1.57 20 We become immortal, for we learn that
time and space are relations of matter;...
Nat 1.67 23 ...we become sensible of a certain occult
recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric
forms of beast, fish, and insect.
AmS 1.87 10 ...the ancient precept, Know thyself, and
the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
AmS 1.96 17 In some contemplative hour [the new deed]
detaches itself...to become a thought of the mind.
DSA 1.127 10 Let this faith depart, and...the things
it made become false...
DSA 1.150 11 ...if once you are alive, you shall find
[the old forms] shall become plastic and new.
LE 1.157 21 The scholar may lose himself...in words,
and become a pedant;...
LE 1.173 26 And why must the student be solitary and
silent? That he may become acquainted with his thoughts.
MN 1.216 1 ...there is no end to which your practical
faculty can aim...that if pursued for itself, will not at last become
carrion...
MR 1.231 17 ...it is only necessary to ask a few
questions as to the progress of the articles of commerce from the
fields where they grew, to our houses, to become aware that we eat and
drink and wear perjury and fraud...
MR 1.241 7 ...he only can become a master, who learns
the secrets of labor...
LT 1.275 13 A great deal of the profoundest thinking
of antiquity, which had become as good as obsolete for us, is now
re-appearing in extracts and allusions...
LT 1.283 20 Thinking, which was a rage, is become an
art.
Con 1.297 1 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus]...thou
art become an evil eye;...
Con 1.324 15 Whatsoever streams of power and
commodity flow to me, shall...become fountains of safety.
Con 1.325 15 ...if I...become idle and dissolute, I
quickly come to love the protection of a strong law...
YA 1.367 16 ...sculpture, painting, and religious and
civil architecture have become effete...
YA 1.371 8 ...it cannot be doubted that the
legislation of this country should become more catholic and
cosmopolitan than that of any other.
Hist 2.5 5 We, as we read, must become Greeks,
Romans, Turks...
Hist 2.25 22 The costly charm of the ancient
tragedy...is that the persons... speak as persons who have great good
sense without knowing it, before yet the reflective habit has become
the predominant habit of the mind.
SR 2.54 6 The objection to conforming to usages that
have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.
SR 2.75 10 ...we are become timorous, desponding
whimperers.
SR 2.81 20 In Thebes, in Palmyra, [the traveller's]
will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they.
Comp 2.100 3 Has [the man of genius] all that the
world loves and admires and covets?--he must...afflict them by
faithfulness to his truth and become a byword and a hissing.
Comp 2.103 8 The retribution in the circumstance...is
often spread over a long time and so does not become distinct until
after many years.
SL 2.146 8 If a teacher have any opinion which he
wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into
that as into any which he publishes.
SL 2.157 5 If [the lawyer] does not believe [his
client's innocence] his unbelief will appear to the jury...and will
become their unbelief.
Lov1 2.182 8 ...by this love [of beauty]
extinguishing the base affection... [the lovers] become pure and
hallowed.
Prd1 2.233 18 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful
drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of
Constantinople, who skulk about all day...and at evening...slink to the
opium-shop, swallow their morsel and become tranquil and glorified
seers.
Prd1 2.236 21 ...every fact hath its roots in the
soul, and if the soul were changed would cease to be, or would become
some other thing...
Hsm1 2.249 16 Unhappily no man exists who has not in
his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin...
OS 2.269 4 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the
past and the present... is...that overpowering reality...which evermore
tends to pass into our thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue
and power and beauty.
OS 2.277 13 ...in groups where debate is
earnest...the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal
level in all bosoms...
OS 2.277 17 ...in groups where debate is
earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property
in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they
were.
OS 2.290 26 ...the soul that ascends to worship the
great God...dwells...in the earnest experience of the common day,--by
reason of the present moment and the mere trifle having become porous
to thought...
OS 2.296 25 [The soul saith] More and more the surges
of everlasting nature enter into me, and I become public and human in
my regards...
Cir 2.310 27 When each new speaker [in a
conversation] strikes a new light...we seem to recover our rights, to
become men.
Cir 2.318 18 ...this incessant movement and
progression which all things partake could never become sensible to us
but by contrast to some principle of fixture or stability in the soul.
Cir 2.319 20 Let [the man and woman of seventy] then
become organs of the Holy Ghost;...and their eyes are uplifted;...
Int 2.332 23 Each truth that a writer acquires is a
lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in
his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his
garret become precious.
Pt1 3.8 14 ...we hear those primal warblings and
attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse
and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men
of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and
these transcripts...become the songs of the nations.
Pt1 3.24 21 [The sculptor] rose one day...before
dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to
express this tranquillity, and lo! his chisel had fashioned out of
marble the form of a beautiful youth, Phosphorus, whose aspect is such
that it is said all persons who look on it become silent.
Exp 3.73 3 The baffled intellect must still kneel
before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to
represent by some emphatic symbol...and the metaphor of each has become
a national religion.
Chr1 3.111 24 Those relations to the best men, which,
at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress
of the character, the most solid enjoyment.
Nat2 3.179 7 Astronomy to the selfish becomes
astrology;...and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and
palmistry.
NER 3.261 16 ...society gains nothing whilst a man,
not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has
become tediously good in some particular but negligent or narrow in the
rest;...
NER 3.264 20 ...it may easily be questioned...whether
such a retreat [to associations] does not promise to become an asylum
to those who have tried and failed...
UGM 4.14 19 ...A sage is the instructor of a hundred
ages. When the manners of Loo are heard of, the stupid become
intelligent...
UGM 4.25 9 ...with the great, our thoughts and
manners easily become great.
UGM 4.27 5 [The great man's] attractions warp us from
our place. We have become underlings and intellectual suicides.
UGM 4.28 15 There is such good will to impart, and
such good will to receive, that each threatens to become the other;...
PPh 4.45 24 As soon as [children] can speak and tell
their want and the reason of it, they become gentle.
PPh 4.46 25 There is a moment in the history of every
nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not
yet become microscopic...
PPh 4.55 15 [Plato's] argument and his sentence are
self-poised and spherical. The two poles appear; yes, and become two
hands, to grasp and appropriate their own.
PPh 4.77 17 ...elements, planet itself, laws of
planet and of men, have passed through this man [Plato] as bread into
his body, and become no longer bread, but body...
PPh 4.77 18 ...elements, planet itself, laws of
planet and of men, have passed through this man [Plato] as bread into
his body, and become no longer bread, but body: so all this mammoth
morsel has become Plato.
SwM 4.113 6 ...as often as [nature] betakes herself
upward from visible phenomena...she instantly as it were disappears,
while no one knows what has become of her...
SwM 4.129 17 You love the worth in me; then I am your
husband; but it is not me, but the worth, that fixes the love; and that
worth is a drop of the ocean of worth that is beyond me. Meantime I
adore the greater worth in another, and so become his wife.
SwM 4.132 7 It is dangerous to sculpture these
evanescing images of thought. True in transition, they become false if
fixed.
SwM 4.132 9 ...when [Swedenborg's] visions become the
stereotyped language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age and
capacity, they are perverted.
ShP 4.192 5 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by
all causes, a national interest...
NMW 4.243 25 I have only to put some gold-lace on the
coat of my virtuous republicans [said Napoleon] and they immediately
become just what I wish them.
GoW 4.273 13 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If
that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition...this man's mind
had ample chambers for the distribution of all.
ET4 5.50 12 As the scale mounts, the organizations
become complex.
ET5 5.95 18 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha
tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been
drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass.
The climate too, which was already believed to have become milder and
drier by the enormous consumption of coal, is so far reached by this
new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
ET13 5.221 10 A great duke said on the occasion of a
victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had
not been well used by them, and that it would become their magnanimity,
after so great successes, to take order that a proper acknowledgement
be made.
ET14 5.248 13 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an
element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges,
that he...has become a potentate not to be ignored.
ET14 5.254 27 ...having attempted to domesticate and
dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the
English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will
sweep their system away. The artists say, Nature puts them out; the
scholars have become unideal.
ET14 5.259 8 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to
prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all
references to such sentiments or manners as are become the standards of
propriety for opinion and action in our own modes...
ET16 5.274 18 In these days, [Carlyle] thought, it
would become an architect to consult only the grim necessity...
ET18 5.304 2 [England's] colonial policy, obeying the
necessities of a vast empire, has become liberal.
F 6.17 7 It is a rule that the most casual and
extraordinary events, if the basis of population is broad enough,
become matter of fixed calculation.
F 6.20 8 As we refine, our checks become finer.
F 6.42 24 ...in each town there is some man who
is...an explanation of the... ways of living and society of that town.
If you do not chance to meet him, all that you see will leave you a
little puzzled; if you see him it will become plain.
Wth 6.111 2 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant]
people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported. That has
become an inevitable element of our politics;...
Wsp 6.228 14 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg,
all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
The young nun, who had become the object of much attention and respect,
drew back with anger...
Bty 6.285 13 At the end of the seventh day the king
inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated?
Bty 6.292 9 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives
the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones,
so that they...become tender or sublime with expression.
Ill 6.308 3 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../
...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And
phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is
law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild
turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to
endurance./
SS 7.11 11 As soon as the first wants are satisfied,
the higher wants become imperative.
Civ 7.27 5 Hear the definition which Kant gives of
moral conduct: Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may
become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.
Art2 7.42 10 [Man] seems to take his task so minutely
from intimations of Nature that his works become as it were hers...
Art2 7.48 10 ...in useful art, so far as it is
useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature,
so as to become a sort of continuation... of Nature;...
Elo1 7.81 23 ...when [personal ascendency] is
weaponed with a power of speech, it seems first to become truly
human...
Elo1 7.89 16 Every fact gains consequence by [the
orator's] naming it, and trifles become important.
Elo1 7.99 13 If [eloquence] do not so become an
instrument, but aspires to be somewhat of itself, and to glitter for
show, it is false and weak.
DL 7.132 3 Obviously, it would be easy for every town
to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum]. Every
one of us would gladly contribute his share; and the more gladly, the
more considerable the institution had become.
WD 7.170 10 There are days which are the carnival of
the year. The angels assume flesh, and repeatedly become visible.
Boks 7.202 4 ...Winckelmann, a Greek born out of due
time, has become essential to an intimate knowledge of the Attic
genius.
Clbs 7.250 6 There is no permanently wise man, but
men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other
favorable conditions, become wise for a short time...
Cour 7.256 19 We have had examples of men who, for
showing effective courage on a single occasion, have become a favorite
spectacle to nations...
Cour 7.262 16 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage,
my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same
when I first went out in this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me.
... But I dare not think what would have become of me, if, at that
moment, he had scoffed and exposed me.
Cour 7.271 21 If opportunity allowed, [Governor Wise
and John Brown] would...desert their former companions. Enemies would
become affectionate.
Cour 7.271 24 ...General Daumas and Abdel-Kader,
become aware that they are nearer and more alike than any other two...
Cour 7.276 19 ...we must have a scope as large as
Nature's to...foresee in the secular melioration of the planet how
these [beast-like men] will become unnecessary and will die out.
Suc 7.291 6 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who
writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in
one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and
safest course.
PI 8.13 13 Vivacity of expression may indicate this
high gift, even when the thought is of no great scope, as when Michel
Angelo, praising the terra cottas, said, If this earth were to become
marble, woe to the antiques!
PI 8.18 10 ...hold [the savans] hard to principle and
definition, and they become mute and near-sighted.
PI 8.43 2 None any work can frame,/ Unless himself
become the same./
PI 8.52 27 ...rhyme is the transparent frame that
allows almost the pure architecture of thought to become visible to the
mental eye.
SA 8.100 16 ...If the search for riches were sure to
be successful, though I should become a groom with whip in hand to get
them, I will do so.
Res 8.141 20 ...we have seen the snowy deserts on the
northwest, seats of Esquimaux, become lands of promise.
Comc 8.160 21 ...all falsehoods, all vices...seen
from the point where our moral sympathies do not interfere, become
ludicrous.
QO 8.202 4 ...if the thinker...recognizes the
perpetual suggestion of the Supreme Intellect, the oldest thoughts
become new and fertile whilst he speaks them.
QO 8.204 7 ...the sole terms on which [the Past] can
become ours are its subordination to the Present.
PC 8.226 26 There is anything but humiliation in the
homage men pay to a great man; it is...the expression of their hope of
what they shall become...
PC 8.227 15 ...the air and water that hang invisibly
around us hasten to become solid in the oak and the animal.
PC 8.227 19 In our daily intercourse, we...become the
victims of our own arts and implements...
Insp 8.285 22 At last it has become summer,/ And at
the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my
sweet slumber./
Insp 8.297 15 All our power, all our happiness
consists in our reception of [the soul's] hints, which ever become
clearer and grander as they are obeyed.
Grts 8.313 6 [Fame] is...that fine element by which
the good become partners of the greatness of their superiors.
Dem1 10.3 24 ...the astonishment remains that one
should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...
Dem1 10.10 16 ...under every tree in the speckled
sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect
image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary;
and then first we notice that the spots of light have become
crescents...
Aris 10.33 25 ...I notice also that [the finer
qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock...
Edc1 10.127 19 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants',
animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man]...fast loses
sight of the fact...that they become noxious, when he becomes their
slave.
Edc1 10.146 20 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct,
in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic
trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by
iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task
he had...become associated with distinguished scholars...
SovE 10.194 12 [Good men] do not see that particulars
are sacred to [God]...that these passages of daily life are his work;
that in the moment when they desist from interference, these
particulars...become the language of mighty principles.
SovE 10.209 11 It accuses us...that pure ethics is
not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with
brick and stone. Why have not those who believe in it and love
it...dedicated themselves to write out its scientific scriptures to
become its Vulgate for millions?
Prch 10.222 15 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if
you take away the purpose that animates him. ... The words, great,
venerable, have lost their meaning; every thought loses all its depth
and has become mere surface.
MoL 10.241 5 You go to be teachers, to become
physicians, lawyers, divines;...
Schr 10.279 16 ...the young...finding that nothing
outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul...become skeptical
and forlorn.
Schr 10.288 26 [The scholar] is here to know the
secret of Genius; to become, not a reader of poetry, but Homer, Dante,
Milton...
Plu 10.322 18 If over-read in this decade, so that
his anecdotes and opinions become commonplace...[Plutarch's] sterling
values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...
LLNE 10.326 4 The key to the period [1820 and
following] appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself.
LLNE 10.338 16 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in
Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...the branch of a tree is
nothing but a leaf whose serratures have become twigs.
LLNE 10.365 2 In the American social communities, the
gossip found such vent and sway as to become despotic.
EzRy 10.382 8 ...now that he had become a professor
of religion [Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the
gospel.
MMEm 10.400 21 Later, another aunt [of Mary Moody
Emerson], who had become insane, was brought hither [to Malden] to end
her days.
Thor 10.471 4 [Thoreau] said, What you seek in vain
for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at
dinner. You seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it you become
its prey.
HDC 11.46 8 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the
freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once
in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies. And the General
Court, thus constituted, only needed to go into separate session from
the Council, as they did in 1644, to become essentially the same
assembly they are to this day.
LVB 11.92 22 Sir [Van Buren], does this government
think that the people of the United States are become savage and mad?
EWI 11.112 26 ...Be it enacted, that all and every
person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery
within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and
after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes
free...
EWI 11.138 14 Men have become aware, through the
emancipation [in the West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence
of powers which, in their days of darkness, they had overlooked.
War 11.153 5 The strong tribe, in which war has
become an art, attack and conquer their neighbors...
War 11.160 26 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This
thought is...the rising of the general tide in the human soul,-and
rising highest, and first made visible, in the most simple and pure
souls, who have therefore announced it to us beforehand; but presently
we all see it. It has now become so distinct as to be a social
thought...
War 11.161 6 ...the fact that [the idea that there
can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number
of persons as to become a subject of prayer and hope...that is the
commanding fact.
War 11.161 7 ...the fact that [the idea that there
can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number
of persons as to become a subject of prayer and hope...that is the
commanding fact.
War 11.166 12 ...the least change in the man will
change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel
that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as
left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this
feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the
cannon would become street-posts;...
War 11.173 11 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in
their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word,
peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field. Take away that
principle of responsibleness, and they become pirates and ruffians.
FSLN 11.226 21 ...a ghastly result of all those years
of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the
foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that
Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their
conscience and become kidnappers for it.
FSLN 11.228 23 There was an old fugitive law, but it
had become, or was fast becoming, a dead letter...
FSLN 11.229 3 ...[the Fugitive Slave Law] discloses
the secret of the new times, that Slavery...was become aggressive and
dangerous.
ALin 11.333 18 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had
ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become
mythological in a very few years...
Wom 11.409 20 All these ceremonies that hedge our
life around...when we have become habituated to them, cannot be
dispensed with.
Wom 11.421 8 The objection to [women's] voting is the
same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in
politics;-that...if they become good politicians they are worse
clergymen.
Scot 11.465 6 [Scott] apprehended in advance the
immense enlargement of the reading public...which, though until then
unheard of, has become familiar to the present time.
CPL 11.494 5 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's
friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...but the
poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening. And I
verily believe I should have become insane, says Petrarch, if my mind
had longer been deprived of its necessary nourishment.
CPL 11.503 8 ...if you can kindle the imagination by
a new thought... instantly you expand...and become wise, and even
prophetic.
PLT 12.27 19 There is no permanent wise man, but men
capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company or other
favorable conditions, become wise...
PLT 12.37 19 ...Perception is the armed eye. A
civilization has tamed and ripened this savage wit, and he is a Greek.
His Aye and No have become nouns and verbs and adverbs.
PLT 12.37 25 At a moment in our history the mind's
eye opens and we become aware of spiritual facts...
PLT 12.50 10 One would say [Shakespeare] must have
been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly
is his thought familiar to him, and has such scope and so solidly
worded, as if it were already a proverb and not hereafter to become
one.
PLT 12.61 2 ...each [mind and heart] is easily
exalted in our thoughts till it serves to fill the universe and become
the synonym of God...
Mem 12.93 5 [Memory] is a scripture written day by
day from the birth of the man; all its records full of meanings which
open as he lives on... expanding their sense as he advances, until it
shall become the whole law of Nature and life.
CInt 12.116 11 If the colleges...really...had the
power of imparting...truths which become powers...we should all rush to
their gates;...
CInt 12.116 12 If the colleges...really...had the
power of imparting... thoughts which become talents...we should all
rush to their gates;...
CInt 12.116 13 ...if [colleges] could cause that a
mind not profound should become profound,-we should all rush to their
gates;...
CInt 12.120 17 [Demosthenes said] If it please you to
note it, my counsels to you are not such whereby I should grow great
among you, and you become little among the Grecians;...
CL 12.141 4 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul,
and the essence of life. By breathing it, we become intelligent...
CL 12.152 4 ...[in October] all the trees are
wind-harps, filling the air with music; and all men become poets...
MAng1 12.216 3 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of
near ninety years, had not yet become old...
MAng1 12.217 13 Can this charming element [Beauty] be
so abstracted by the human mind as to become a distinct and permanent
object?
ACri 12.290 17 What the poet omits exalts every
syllable that he writes. In good hands it will never become sterility.
ACri 12.294 20 ...Shakspeare must have been a
thousand years old when he wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his
thought familiar to him, so solidly worded, as if it were already a
proverb, and not only hereafter to become one.
MLit 12.323 7 ...since the earth as we said had
become a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have aided
[Goethe] to be that resolute realist he is...
MLit 12.336 5 Religion will bind again these that
were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies...into a joyful reverence
for the circumambient Whole, and that which was ecstasy shall become
daily bread.
Pray 12.353 20 ...let every thought and word go to
confirm and illuminate that end; namely, that I must become near and
dear to thee [My Father];...
Pray 12.356 11 And being admonished to reflect upon
myself, I entered into the very inward parts of my soul, by thy
conduct; and I was able to do it, because now thou wert become my
helper.
Let 12.401 18 Where a people honors genius in its
artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...all
hearts become pious and great...
Let 12.404 16 In Cambridge orations and elsehwere
there is much inquiry for that great absentee American Literature. What
can have become of it?
Trag 12.416 25 [The intellect] yields the joys of
conversation, of letters and of science. Hence also the torments of
life become tuneful tragedy...
becomes, v. (172)
Nat 1.22 15 There is still another aspect under which
the beauty of the world may be viewed, namely, as it becomes an object
of the intellect.
Nat 1.29 7 As we go back in history, language becomes
more picturesque...
Nat 1.35 24 That which was unconscious truth,
becomes...a part of the domain of knowledge...
Nat 1.77 1 As when the summer comes...the face of the
earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit create its
ornaments along its path...
MN 1.194 18 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the
highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite,-but
glad and conspiring reception,-reception that becomes giving in its
turn...
MN 1.194 27 Not exhortation, not argument becomes our
lips...
MN 1.196 20 ...a man lasts but a very little while,
for his monomania becomes insupportably tedious in a few months.
MN 1.209 26 If [a man] listen with insatiable
ears...he becomes careless of his food and of his house...
MN 1.220 14 How all that is called talents and
success, in our noisy capitals, becomes buzz and din before this
man-worthiness!
MR 1.252 6 We must be lovers, and at once the
impossible becomes possible.
LT 1.272 10 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs
the effort at the Perfect. ... If we would make more strict inquiry
concerning its origin, we find ourselves rapidly approaching...that
term where speech becomes silence...
LT 1.288 26 ...we do not know that...only as much as
the law enters us, becomes us, are we living men...
Tran 1.349 6 Each cause as it is called...say
Calvinism, or Unitarianism- becomes speedily a little shop...
YA 1.375 22 Fathers...behold with impatience a new
character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son
or daughter. This feeling...becomes petulance and tyranny when the head
of the clan...deals with the same difference of opinion in his
subjects.
Hist 2.21 11 ...all public facts are to be
individualized, all private facts are to be generalized. Then at once
History becomes fluid and true, and Biography deep and sublime.
Hist 2.28 25 The cramping influence of a hard
formalist on a young child... is a familiar fact, explained to the
child when he becomes a man, only by seeing that the oppressor of his
youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and
forms of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.
Lov1 2.175 13 ...no man ever forgot the visitations
of that power to his heart and brain...when the youth becomes a watcher
of windows...
Lov1 2.180 18 ...personal beauty is then first
charming and itself...when it becomes a story without an end;...
Lov1 2.187 7 ...losing in violence what it gains in
extent, [love] becomes a thorough good understanding.
Fdsp 2.194 9 Who hears me, who understands me,
becomes mine...
Fdsp 2.200 6 If I have shrunk unequal from one
contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly.
Prd1 2.232 27 A man of genius...self-indulgent,
becomes presently unfortunate, querulous...
OS 2.267 21 Why do men feel that the natural history
of man has never been written, but he is always leaving behind what you
have said of him, and it becomes old, and books of metaphysics
worthless?
OS 2.275 7 With each divine impulse the mind...comes
out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It...becomes
conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian than with persons
in the house.
OS 2.275 22 Speak to his heart, and the man becomes
suddenly virtuous.
OS 2.280 7 To the bad thought which I find in [the
book I read], the same soul becomes a discerning, separating sword, and
lops it away.
OS 2.280 24 ...the soul's communication of truth is
the highest event in nature, since it then does not give somewhat from
itself, but it...passes into and becomes that man whom it
enlightens;...
OS 2.292 17 The simplest person who in his integrity
worships God, becomes God;...
Int 2.325 21 ...[the mind] melts will into
perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other.
Int 2.327 10 ...any record of our fancies or
reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes
an object impersonal and immortal.
Int 2.331 2 This instinctive action...becomes richer
and more frequent in its informations through all states of culture.
Int 2.332 24 Every trivial fact in [the writer's]
private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle...
Int 2.339 6 ...if a man fasten his attention on a
single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time,
the truth becomes distorted...
Pt1 3.13 9 ...let us...observe how nature, by
worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of
announcement and affirming, namely by the beauty of things, which
becomes a new and higher beauty when expressed.
Pt1 3.17 17 What would be base, or even obscene, to
the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connection of
thought.
Pt1 3.34 15 Here is the difference betwixt the poet
and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a
true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false.
Exp 3.85 20 It takes...a very little time to
entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.
Mrs1 3.127 12 ...a fine sense of propriety is
cultivated with the more heed that it becomes a badge of social and
civil distinctions.
Nat2 3.196 10 Nature is the incarnation of a thought,
and turns to a thought again, as ice becomes water and gas.
Pol1 3.200 22 Our statute is a currency which we
stamp with our own portrait, it soon becomes unrecognizable...
UGM 4.28 27 Nothing is more marked than the power by
which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world where every
benefactor becomes so easily a malefactor only by continuation of his
activity into places where it is not due;...
UGM 4.30 7 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the
monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals.
UGM 4.30 16 ...great men:--the word is injurious. Is
there caste? is there fate? What becomes of the promise to virtue?
UGM 4.35 2 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to
help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect. Then he
appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will. The opaque self
becomes transparent with the light of the First Cause.
PNR 4.82 17 Everywhere [Plato] stands on a path
which...runs continuously round the universe. Therefore every word
becomes an exponent of nature.
SwM 4.134 17 Though the agency of the Lord is in
every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive.
NMW 4.226 5 ...a man of Napoleon's truth of
adaptation to the mind of the masses around him, becomes not merely
representative but actually a monopolizer and usurper of other minds.
NMW 4.228 18 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;...
NMW 4.245 10 When a natural king becomes a titular
king, every body is pleased and satisfied.
GoW 4.267 6 The first act, which was to be an
experiment, becomes a sacrament.
ET5 5.100 11 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres
[in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the
language becomes idiomatic;...
ET8 5.136 9 Each of [the English] has an opinion
which he feels it becomes him to express all the more that it differs
from yours.
ET10 5.157 2 The ambition to create value evokes
every kind of ability [in England]; government becomes a manufacturing
corporation...
ET16 5.281 8 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises
exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at
the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in
the same relative position. In the silence of tradition, this one
relation to science becomes an important clew;...
ET18 5.300 16 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the
[English] state, and in hard times becomes hideous.
F 6.13 16 In England there is always some man of
wealth and large connection...who, as soon as he begins to
die...becomes conservative.
Wth 6.126 14 [The liquor of life] passes through the
sacred fermentations, by that law of nature whereby...bodily vigor
becomes mental and moral vigor.
Wth 6.126 16 The bread [a man] eats is first strength
and animal spirits; it becomes, in higher laboratories, imagery and
thought;...
Ctr 6.157 23 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to
[praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic.
But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies...
Bhr 6.189 17 Not only is [your companion] larger,
when at ease and his thoughts generous, but everything around him
becomes variable with expression.
Ill 6.322 14 Like sick men in hospitals, we change
only from bed to bed, from one folly to another; and it cannot signify
much what becomes of such castaways...
SS 7.9 3 ...the moment we meet with anybody, each
becomes a fraction.
Civ 7.23 11 The division of labor...fills the State
with useful and happy laborers;...and what a police and ten
commandments their work thus becomes.
Art2 7.40 24 Nature is the representative of the
universal mind, and the law becomes this,--that Art must be a
complement to Nature...
Art2 7.53 23 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of
Shakspeare...were made...in tears and smiles of suffering and loving
men. Viewed from this point the history of Art becomes intelligible...
Art2 7.54 8 The first form in which [savages] built a
house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice
also. This form becomes immediately sacred in the eyes of their
children...
Elo1 7.68 6 When each auditor...shudders...with fear
lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and
mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning
would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of
harangue, which...makes all safe and secure, so that any and every sort
of good speaking becomes at once practicable.
Elo1 7.76 4 ...this precious person makes a speech
which is printed and read all over the Union, and he at once becomes
famous...
Elo1 7.83 7 The emergency which has convened the
meeting is usually of more importance than anything the debaters have
in their minds, and therefore becomes imperative to them.
DL 7.105 22 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the
new knowledge is taken up into the life of to-day and becomes the means
of more.
DL 7.111 26 If we look at this matter [of
housekeeping] curiously, it becomes dangerous.
DL 7.124 1 To each occurs, soon after the age of
puberty, some event or society or way of living, which becomes the
crisis of life...
DL 7.132 22 When [man] perceives the Law, he ceases
to despond. Whilst he sees it, every thought and act is raised, and
becomes an act of religion.
WD 7.164 15 The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a
machine.
Cour 7.256 7 ...any man who puts his life in peril in
a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men.
Suc 7.283 8 ...we survey our map, which becomes old
in a year or two.
OA 7.329 16 [The conchologist] labels shelves for
classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty. But every year
fills some blanks, and with accelerating speed as he becomes knowing
and known.
PI 8.28 18 ...[Lear] becomes fanciful with Tom,
playing with the superficial resemblances of objects.
PI 8.41 16 ...all becomes poetry, when we look from
the centre outward...
PI 8.53 6 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in
verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant...
PI 8.53 7 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in
verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant: the iron
becomes steel.
PI 8.53 27 Outside of the nursery the beginning of
literature is the prayers of a people...the mind allowing itself range,
and therewith is ever a corresponding freedom in the style, which
becomes lyrical.
PI 8.74 10 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the
truth and reports it, and his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb
for ages...
SA 8.82 27 An intellectual man...is instantly
reinforced by being put into the company of scholars, and, to the
surprise of everybody, becomes a lawgiver.
SA 8.106 19 As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and
necessity to the man, I see no limit to the horizon which opens before
me.
Elo2 8.114 10 ...you may find [the orator] in some
lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and
wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman...
Elo2 8.125 26 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every
nation a style which never becomes obsolete...
Comc 8.157 14 Aristotle's definition of the
ridiculous is, what is out of time and place, without danger. If there
be pain and danger, it becomes tragic; if not, comic.
Comc 8.159 5 Separate any object...and contemplate it
alone, standing there in absolute nature, it becomes at once comic;...
Comc 8.167 1 A classification or nomenclature used by
the scholar... confessedly...a bivouac for a night...becomes through
indolence a barrack and a prison...
PC 8.218 12 If a theologian of deep convictions and
strong understanding carries his country with him, like Luther, the
state becomes Lutheran, in spite of the Emperor;...
PPo 8.249 12 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a
groom, and heaven a closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress
or to his cupbearer.
Insp 8.292 12 ...[conversation is] the college where
you learn what thoughts are, what powers lurk in those fugitive gleams,
and what becomes of them;...
Imtl 8.348 23 ...the man puts off the ignorance and
tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of
manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul.
Aris 10.44 27 ...the well-built head supplies all the
steps, one as perfect as the other, in the series. Seeing this working
head in him, it becomes to me as certain that he will have the
direction of estates, as that there are estates.
PerF 10.79 3 [A man] becomes acquainted with the
resistances, and with his own tools;...
Chr2 10.94 26 Compare...all our private and personal
venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie,
and our private good becomes an impertinence...
Edc1 10.127 20 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants',
animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man]...fast loses
sight of the fact...that they become noxious, when he becomes their
slave.
Edc1 10.132 11 Whilst thus the world exists for the
mind;...it becomes the office of a just education to awaken [man] to
the knowledge of this fact.
Edc1 10.152 19 Whatever becomes of our method [of
teaching], the conditions stand fast...
Edc1 10.157 21 Set this law up, whatever becomes of
the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less
talk;...
SovE 10.187 6 The geologic world is chronicled by the
growing ripeness of the strata from lower to higher, as it becomes the
abode of more highly-organized plants and animals.
SovE 10.204 25 I will not now go into the metaphysics
of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by
an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of
which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least
religious minds.
SovE 10.207 10 It becomes us to consider whether we
cannot have a real faith and real objects in lieu of these false ones.
Prch 10.220 8 In proportion to a man's want of
goodness...the Deity becomes more objective, until finally flat
idolatry prevails.
Schr 10.282 9 The orator too becomes a fool and a
shadow before this light which lightens through him.
LLNE 10.328 11 ...government itself becomes the
resort of those whom government was invented to restrain.
LLNE 10.350 2 By concert and the allowing each
laborer to choose his own work, it becomes pleasure.
LLNE 10.353 13 ...it would be better to say, Let us
be lovers and servants of that which is just, and straightway every man
becomes a centre of a holy and beneficent republic...
LLNE 10.353 17 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ]
the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized...
LS 11.24 4 My brethren...have recommended,
unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I
have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to
administer it.
EWI 11.136 5 Lord Chancellor Northington is the
author of the famous sentence, As soon as any man puts his foot on
English ground, he becomes free.
War 11.156 17 To men...in whom is any knowledge or
mental activity, the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and
revolting.
War 11.161 14 The star once risen...will mount and
mount, until it becomes visible to other men...
FSLN 11.230 2 ...where...[liberty] becomes in a
degree matter of concession and protection from their stronger
neighbors, the incompatibility and offensiveness of the wrong will of
course be most evident to the most cultivated.
SMC 11.351 23 'T is certain that a plain stone like
this [the Concord Monument]...becomes a sentiment, a poet, a prophet,
an orator...
Shak1 11.450 14 Young men of a contemplative turn
carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade
of any tree, a room in any inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to
sit out their happiest hours.
FRO2 11.487 20 All education is to accustom [man] to
trust himself...until he...becomes a benefactor.
FRep 11.531 22 In this country...there is, at
present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity, which
becomes, whilst successful, a scornful materialism...
FRep 11.535 4 ...the land and sea educate the people,
and bring out presence of mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed
activity. These are the people for an emergency. They...can find a way
out of any peril. This rough and ready force becomes them...
PLT 12.23 11 Every scholar knows that he applies
himself coldly and slowly at first to his task, but, with the progress
of the work, the mind itself becomes heated, and sees far and wide as
it approaches the end...
PLT 12.36 19 [Pan]...was not represented by any
outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such
homage did the Greek... pay to unscrutable force we call Instinct, or
Nature when it first becomes intelligent.
PLT 12.38 22 ...the perception [of spiritual facts]
thus satisfied reacts on the senses, to clarify them, so that it
becomes more indisputable.
PLT 12.45 3 ...if [we converse] with high
things...the interval becomes a gulf and we cannot enter into the
highest good.
PLT 12.51 1 We are forced to treat a great part of
mankind as if they were a little deranged. We detect their mania and
humor it, so that conversation soon becomes a tiresome effort.
Mem 12.94 7 You say the first words of the old song,
and I finish the line and stanza. But where I have them, or what
becomes of them when I am not thinking of them...never any man...could
turn himself inside out quick enough to find.
ACri 12.284 6 There is, in every nation, a style
which never becomes obsolete...
PPr 12.379 19 ...the topic of English politics
becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent
thinking...
PPr 12.391 21 Whatever thought or motto has once
appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning, becomes an omen to him
henceforward...
Let 12.402 1 ...where the divine nature and the
artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men
deteriorate...with the wantonness of the tongue and with the anxiety
for a livelihood the blessing of every year becomes a curse...
becometh, v. (2)
AmS 1.91 22 ...A fig tree, looking on a fig tree,
becometh fruitful.
SwM 4.139 11 ...we feel the more generous spirit of
the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways
are altogether evil serve me alone...he soon becometh of a virtuous
spirit...
becoming, adj. (13)
AmS 1.86 27 ...[the scholar] shall look forward to an
ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
NR 3.244 18 ...let us...infer the genius of nature
from the best particulars with a becoming charity.
PPh 4.60 10 ...philosophy is an elegant thing, if any
one modestly meddles with it [said Plato]; but if he is conversant with
it more than is becoming, it corrupts the man.
ET9 5.148 3 If one of [the English] have...a
squeaking or a raven voice, he has persuaded himself that there is
something modish and becoming in it...
ET9 5.149 8 It was said of Louis XIV., that his gait
and air were becoming enough in so great a monarch, yet would have been
ridiculous in another man;...
Bhr 6.175 7 A prince who is accustomed every day to
be courted and deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires...a
becoming mode of receiving and replying to this homage.
Bty 6.291 12 ...the smith at his forge, or whatever
useful labor, is becoming to the wise eye.
Boks 7.215 13 ...'t is pity [people] should not read
novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear,
firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which
love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious
personages.
SA 8.87 22 [The young European emigrant's] good and
becoming clothes put him on thinking that he must behave like people
who are so dressed;...
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.
HDC 11.29 7 You have thought it becoming to
commemorate the planting of the first inland town [Concord].
becoming, n. (1)
SR 2.66 27 ...history is an impertinence and an
injury if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of
my being and becoming.
becoming, v. (27)
Nat 1.57 8 ...no man touches these divine natures
[ideas], without becoming, in some degree, himself divine.
MN 1.217 16 He who is in love is wise, and is
becoming wiser...
MR 1.233 17 ...all such ingenuous souls...who by the
law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for
them, and they come forth from it. Such cases are becoming more
numerous every year.
Con 1.300 21 Each of the convolutions of the
sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life; what was the mouth of
the shell for one season...becoming an ornamental node.
Hist 2.16 19 A painter told me that nobody could draw
a tree without in some sort becoming a tree;...
Comp 2.125 3 ...in some happier mind [these
revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely
about him, becoming as it were a transparent fluid membrane through
which the living form is seen...
PPh 4.68 6 Plato...attempted as if on the part of
human intellect, once for all to do it adequate homage,--homage fit for
the immense soul to receive, and yet homage becoming the intellect to
render.
ET4 5.64 20 As soon as this land [England]...got a
hardy people into it, they could not help becoming the sailors and
factors of the globe.
ET14 5.260 2 I can well believe what I have often
heard, that there are two nations in England; but it is not the Poor
and the Rich, nor is it...the Celt and the Goth. These are each always
becoming the other;...
ET15 5.269 2 When I see [the English] reading [the
London Times's] columns, they seem to me becoming every moment more
British.
CbW 6.277 15 The individuals are...in the act of
becoming something else, and irresponsible.
Farm 7.146 12 Water...transports vast boulders of
rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends
on its talent of becoming little...
WD 7.170 3 The scholar must look long for the right
hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early
dawn,--a few lights conspicuous in the heaven, as of a world just
created and still becoming...
WD 7.172 5 Kinde was the old English term,
which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its
delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born, or what German
philosophy denotes as a becoming.
Imtl 8.334 9 After science begins, belief of
permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the
secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive
generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance
and adjustment...of a moss, to its wants, growth and perpetuation; all
these adjustments becoming perfectly intelligible to our study,-and the
contriver of it all forever hidden!
Edc1 10.136 2 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the
man...he does not yet know his wealth. He is in danger of becoming
merely devout...
Prch 10.230 1 The clergy are always in danger of
becoming wards and pensioners of the so-called producing classes.
LLNE 10.335 16 ...[Everett] made a beginning of
popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at
least had important results. It is...becoming a national institution.
EzRy 10.387 20 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a
house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a
family. He mentioned to me on the way his fears that the oldest
son...was becoming intemperate.
EWI 11.145 11 The civility of the world has reached
that pitch that [the black race's] more moral genius is becoming
indispensable...
FSLN 11.228 23 There was an old fugitive law, but it
had become, or was fast becoming, a dead letter...
SMC 11.366 16 In August, 1862...when it was becoming
difficult to meet the draft...twelve men, including [Sylvester
Lovejoy], were enlisted for three years...
PLT 12.54 10 Nonsense will not keep its unreason if
you come into the humorist's point of view, but unhappily we find it is
fast becoming sense...
PLT 12.59 1 The children have only the instinct of
the universe, in which becoming somewhat else is the perpetual game of
Nature...
MLit 12.316 21 Of the perception now fast becoming a
conscious fact,- that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and
privileges which lie in any, lie in all...literature is far the best
expression.
MLit 12.328 19 Does [Goethe] represent, not only the
achievement of that age in which he lived, but that which it would be
and is now becoming?
bed, n. (43)
Nat 1.13 4 The field is at once [man's] floor, his
work-yard, his play-ground, his garden, and his bed.
LE 1.186 22 Truth also has its roof, and bed, and
board.
MR 1.237 1 When I go into my garden with a spade, and
dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration...that I discover that I have
been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I
should have done with my own hands.
Con 1.300 9 ...the superior beauty is with...the
river which ever flowing yet is found in the same bed from age to
age;...
Con 1.314 27 ...rising one morning before day from
his bed of moss and dry leaves, [Friar Bernard] gnawed his roots and
berries...
SR 2.62 15 That popular fable of the sot...washed and
dressed and laid in the duke's bed ...symbolizes...the state of man...
Int 2.328 17 You cannot with your best deliberation
and heed come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall
bring you, whilst you rise from your bed...after meditating the matter
before sleep on the previous night.
Pt1 3.33 6 ...dream delivers us to dream, and while
the drunkenness lasts we will sell our bed, our philosophy, our
religion, in our opulence.
Mrs1 3.119 10 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants
of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault. To set up their housekeeping
nothing is requisite but two or three earthen pots, a stone to grind
meal, and a mat which is the bed.
UGM 4.21 8 Ever their phantoms arise before us,/ Our
loftier brothers, but one in blood;/ At bed and table they lord it o'er
us/ With looks of beauty and words of good./
ShP 4.202 5 ...[the antiquaries] have left no
bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy
Shakspeare poached or not...and why he left in his will only his
second-best bed to Ann Hathaway, his wife.
ET1 5.10 11 From London...I went to Highgate, and
wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to
him. It was near noon. Mr Coleridge sent a verbal message that he was
in bed, but if I would call after one o'clock he would see me.
ET2 5.33 4 ...the English did not stick to claim the
channel, or the bottom of all the main: As if, said they, we contended
for the drops of the sea, and not for...the bed of those waters.
ET4 5.59 15 Odin died in his bed, in Sweden;...
ET4 5.68 3 Nelson, dying at Trafalgar...like an
innocent schoolboy that goes to bed, says Kiss me, Hardy, and turns to
sleep.
ET4 5.70 1 Wood the antiquary, in describing the
poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not
deny him beer. He says, His bed was under a thatching, and the way to
it up a ladder; his fare was coarse; his drink, a penny a gawn, or
gallon.
F 6.15 17 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of
granite; then a thousand ages, and a bed of slate;...
Ctr 6.154 23 How can you mind diet, bed, dress, or
salutes or compliments...when you think how paltry are the machinery
and the workers?
CbW 6.262 13 We learn geology the morning after the
earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains,
and the dry bed of the sea.
Ill 6.322 12 Like sick men in hospitals, we change
only from bed to bed, from one folly to another;...
Ill 6.322 13 Like sick men in hospitals, we change
only from bed to bed, from one folly to another;...
Ill 6.322 16 Like sick men in hospitals, we change
only from bed to bed, from one folly to another; and it cannot signify
much what becomes of such...wailing, stupid, comatose creatures, lifted
from bed to bed...
DL 7.119 8 Certainly, let the board be spread and let
the bed be dressed for the traveller;...
WD 7.159 10 Why need I speak of steam...which is made
in hospitals to bring a bowl of gruel to a sick man's bed...
QO 8.199 2 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his
bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by
persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the
other side of a proposition;...
PPo 8.263 10 What need, cries the mystic Feisi, of
palaces and tapestry? What need even of a bed?
Insp 8.286 18 I remember a capital prudence of old
President Quincy, who told me that he never went to bed at night until
he had laid out the studies for the next morning.
Aris 10.42 25 The Cid has a prevailing health that
will let him nurse the leper, and share his bed without harm.
MoL 10.251 15 I asked the first [West Point] Cadet,
Who makes your bed? I do.
LLNE 10.346 5 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to
sleep, on cold nights, when the farmer at whose door he knocked
declined to give him a bed, on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe
under the shed...
MMEm 10.418 18 Not a prospect but is dark on earth,
as to knowledge and joy from externals: but the prospect of a dying bed
reflects lustre on all the rest.
MMEm 10.423 18 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson]
of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a vulture being the bier,
tomb and parson of a hero, compared to the long years of sticking on a
bed and wished away?
Thor 10.466 18 Every fact which occurs in the bed [of
the Concord River], on the banks or in the air over it;...[was] all
known to [Thoreau]...
JBS 11.281 2 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John
Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and
perfumed handkerchiefs, but men...who, like the Cid, give the outcast
leper a share of their bed;...
FRep 11.532 10 See how fast [our people] extend the
fleeting fabric of their trade...with the same abandonment to the
moment and the facts of the hour as the Esquimau who sells his bed in
the morning.
CL 12.149 21 ...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.
bedaubed, v. (1)
AgMs 12.358 9 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always
impresses me with respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances;
excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock
bedaubed with the soil of the field;...
bedaubs, v. (1)
bed-chamber, n. (3)
Con 1.309 23 ...the moon and the north star you would
quickly have occasion for in your closet and bed-chamber.
DL 7.118 25 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to
cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman
who has alighted at our gate, nor a bed-chamber made ready at too great
a cost.
LLNE 10.334 11 ...he [Everett] who was heard with
such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded
churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed, but
the bright image of that eloquent form followed the boy home to his
bed-chamber;...
Bede, St., n. (1)
ET5 5.76 27 Certain Trolls or working brains, under
the names of Alfred, Bede, Caxton...dwell in the troll-mounts of
Britain...
Bede, Venerable, n. (1)
Boks 7.206 25 [The scholar] can look back for the
legends and mythology... to Asser's Life of Alfred and Venerable
Bede...
Bedford, Duke of [John Rus (3)
Bedford, Massachusetts, n. (2)
HDC 11.62 21 ...Concord then [in 1666] included the
greater part of the towns of Bedford, Acton, Lincoln and Carlisle.
HDC 11.74 2 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and
Carlisle...arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that
Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at
the bridge.
Bedford, New, Massachusetts (3)
Bedford Square, London, En (1)
ET11 5.181 20 The Duke of Bedford includes or
included...the land occupied by Woburn Square, Bedford Square, Russell
Square.
Bedfordshire, England, n. (1)
HDC 11.31 17 Among the silenced [English] clergymen
was a distinguished minister of Woodhill, in Bedfordshire...
bedizened, v. (1)
MMEm 10.414 27 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked
out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper
to me...I weary of my pilgrimage,-tired that I must again be clothed in
the grandeurs of winter, and anon be bedizened in flowers and cascades.
bedlam, n. (1)
Dem1 10.27 2 [The demonologic] is a lawless world.
...no guilt and no virtue, but a droll bedlam...
Bedouin, n. (1)
Pow 6.69 16 ...when [the young English] have no wars
to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous
as war...utilizing Bedouin, Sheik and Pacha, with Layard;...
Bedouins, n. (1)
PPo 8.239 18 When the bard improvised an amatory
ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond
control. The other Bedouins were scarcely less moved by these rude
measures...
bedrid, adj. (1)
Comc 8.166 24 ...[the saints] maturely having
weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that
served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to
spare him; yet to do/ The Indian Hoghan Moghan too/ Impartial justice,
in his stead did/ Hang an old weaver that was bedrid./
bedridden, adj. (1)
Wsp 6.236 26 Mira came to ask what she should do with
the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...and, now
sickening, was like to be bedridden on her hands.
beds, n. (9)
Nat 1.19 3 In July, the blue pontederia...blooms in
large beds...
MR 1.239 21 ...we have now a puny, protected person,
guarded by...stoves and down beds...
Elo1 7.92 17 For the explosions and eruptions, there
must be...beds of ignited anthracite at the centre.
PI 8.45 23 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of
rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts...in a row of windows, or in
wings; gardens by the symmetric contrasts of the beds and walks.
PPo 8.257 7 By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I
found the grove in the morning pure,/ In the concert of the
nightingales/ My drunken brain to cure./
SovE 10.195 18 We do not believe the less in
astronomy and vegetation, because we are writhing and roaring in our
beds with rheumatism.
Bost 12.205 16 ...good men are as the green plain of
the earth is, as the rocks, and the beds of river are, the foundation
and flooring and sills of the state.
bedstead, n. (1)
bee, n. (9)
Tran 1.338 20 The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee
gathers honey, without knowing what they do...
Wsp 6.235 17 Wherever a squirrel or a bee can go with
security, I can go [said Benedict].
Bty 6.294 9 The cell of the bee is built at that
angle which gives the most strength with the least wax;...
Art2 7.39 6 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the
bird, the beaver, have no art;...
PI 8.12 2 Note our incessant use of the word
like...like thunder, like a bee...
PI 8.16 23 The bee flies among the flowers, and gets
mint and marjoram, and generates a new product...
Prch 10.231 9 There are always plenty of young,
ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual
averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ...
The others...are only neuters in the hive,-every one a possible royal
bee, but not now significant.
CL 12.162 14 The true naturalist can go wherever
woods or waters go; almost where a squirrel or a bee can go, he can;...
beech, adj. (2)
Insp 8.286 3 Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek
the beloved Muses,/ Find them in the beech grove,/ Pleased to receive
me;/...
Bost 12.202 8 [The Massachusetts colonists could say
to themselves] Here in the clam-banks and the beech and chestnut
forest, I shall take leave to breathe and think freely.
beech, n. (4)
Thor 10.467 25 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of
Massachusetts embraced almost all the important plants of America...the
ash, the maple, the beech, the nuts.
SHC 11.433 22 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may
establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein
may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that
every child may be shown growing...the beech, which we have allowed to
die out of the eastern counties;...
CL 12.162 6 Where is the Norway pine, where the
beech...
beechmast, n. (1)
Supl 10.175 15 Plant beechmast and it comes up, or it
does not come up.
beef, n. (4)
ET4 5.69 11 Beef, mutton, wheat-bread and
malt-liquors are universal among the first-class laborers [in England].
Carl 10.491 16 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with
contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he is a
Scotchman who thinks English national character has a pure enthusiasm
for beef and mutton...
HDC 11.79 18 For these men [in the Continental army]
[Concord] was continually providing shoes, stockings, shirts, coats,
blankets and beef.
JBB 11.268 2 [John Brown's] father...became a
contractor to supply the army with beef, in the war of 1812...
beehive, n. (1)
Pt1 3.19 6 ...the poet sees [the factory-village and
the railway] fall within the great Order not less than the beehive or
the spider's geometrical web.
bee-hunters, n. (1)
Exp 3.63 17 The imagination delights in the woodcraft
of Indians, trappers and bee-hunters.
bee-line, n. (1)
Cour 7.274 8 There are ever appearing in the world
men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to the rack
of the inquisitor...
Beelzebub, n. (1)
Prch 10.228 27 What sort of respect can these
preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and
saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if
Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in
the public opinion?
beer, n. (10)
Prd1 2.234 22 ...beer, if not brewed in the right
state of the atmosphere, will sour;...
Prd1 2.235 8 Iron cannot rust, nor beer sour...in the
few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain
in his possession.
ET4 5.70 1 Wood the antiquary, in describing the
poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not
deny him beer.
ET5 5.88 14 Heavy fellows, steeped in beer and
fleshpots, [the English] are hard of hearing and dim of sight.
ET10 5.164 5 [The English] have...drowsy habitude,
daily dress-dinners, wine and ale and beer and gin and sleep.
ET16 5.289 7 Just before entering Winchester we
stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and after looking through the
quaint antiquity, we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer...
Wth 6.106 14 Whoever knows what happens in the
getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all
of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
OA 7.323 20 The humorous thief who drank a pot of
beer at the gallows blew off the froth because he had heard it was
unhealthy;...
Res 8.150 14 In England men of letters drink
wine;...in Germany, beer.
bees, n. (14)
Prd1 2.228 24 If the hive be disturbed by rash and
stupid hands, instead of honey it will yield us bees.
UGM 4.9 6 Each man is by secret liking connected with
some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Huber,
of bees;...
PPh 4.54 21 ...whether a swarm of bees settled on his
lips, or not;--a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was
born.
ET5 5.83 10 ...in high departments [the English] are
cramped and sterile. But the unconditional surrender to facts, and the
choice of means to reach their ends, are as admirable as with ants and
bees.
ET5 5.84 3 [The English] apply themselves...to
fishery, to manufacture of indispensable staples,--salt, plumbago,
leather, wool, glass, pottery and brick,--to bees and silkworms;...
Farm 7.135 23 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/
Ascends as gladly in a single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with
bees;/...
Farm 7.137 22 ...the tranquillity and innocence of
the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts,--the care of
bees, of poultry...all men acknowledge.
Insp 8.275 2 Like bees, [the artists] must put their
lives into the sting they give.
Plu 10.310 26 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying
that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also
the inclination to society and affection to the State, which continue
even in ants and bees to the very last.
Thor 10.472 4 [Thoreau's] intimacy with animals
suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that
either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.
Thor 10.472 5 [Thoreau's] intimacy with animals
suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that
either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.
AKan 11.262 20 ...the Saxon man, when he is well
awake, is...a citizen... and links himself naturally to his brothers,
as bees hook themselves to one another and to their queen in a loyal
swarm.
CL 12.162 9 [Is it not an eminent convenience to have
in your town a person who knows]...where trout, woodcocks, wild bees,
pigeons, where the bittern (stake-driver) can be seen and heard...
CW 12.170 4 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/
Ascends as gladly in the single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant
with bees;/...
Beethoven, Ludwig van, n. (4)
Ctr 6.151 4 How the imagination is piqued by
anecdotes...of Beethoven or Wellington...passing for nobody;...
PI 8.56 27 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music
must rise to a loftier strain, up to Handel, up to Beethoven...
Bost 12.197 26 In the midst of [New England's]
laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall
not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...gave a hospitality in
this country to the spirit of Coleridge and Wordsworth, and to the
music of Beethoven, before yet their genius had found a hearty welcome
in Great Britain.
MLit 12.318 18 The music of Beethoven is said...to
labor with vaster conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted
before.
Beethoven's, Ludwig van, n. (1)
Civ 7.17 12 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./
beetle, n. (1)
Civ 7.22 18 There was once a giantess who had a
daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then
she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort
of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand?
beetling, v. (1)
Elo1 7.88 3 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a
task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was
there to represent a great reality,--the justice of states, which we
could well enough see beetling over his head...
befall, v. (18)
Nat 1.10 3 There [in the woods] I feel that nothing
can befall me in life... which nature cannot repair.
Exp 3.53 24 I had fancied that the value of life
lay...in the fact that I never know, in addressing myself to a new
individual, what may befall me.
NER 3.277 17 ...surely the greatest good fortune that
could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say,
Take me and all mine...
PPh 4.64 1 ...the fairest fortune that can befall man
is to be guided by his daemon to that which is truly his own.
ET7 5.124 12 The old Italian author of the Relation
of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that
when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek
for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what
harm might befall them.
Wth 6.83 1 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away
in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and
suns?/
Art2 7.55 13 Heraldry...and the ceremonies of a
coronation, are a dignified repetition of the occurrences that might
befall a dragoon and his footboy.
PI 8.61 22 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir
Gawaine]...when you shall have departed from this place, I shall
nevermore speak to you, nor to any other person, save only my mistress;
for never other person will be able to discover this place for anything
which may befall;...
Dem1 10.22 10 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a
feudal baron may fancy...that...what is to befall him, omens and
coincidences foreshow;...
Supl 10.168 26 The first valuable power in a
reasonable mind, one would say, was...the power to receive things as
they befall...
SovE 10.206 16 The Orientals believe in Fate. That
which shall befall them is written on the iron leaf;...
EdAd 11.385 22 What more serious calamity can befall
a people than a constitutional dulness and limitation?
MLit 12.329 16 [We can fancy Goethe saying to
himself] I have let mischance befall [in Wilhelm Meister] instead of
good fortune. [Men] do so daily.
befallen, v. (9)
Hist 2.3 7 What Plato has thought, he [that is once
admitted to the right of reason] may think;...what at any time has
befallen any man, he can understand.
Hist 2.5 12 What befell Asdrubal or Caesar Borgia is
as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what
has befallen us.
Pt1 3.6 8 Every man should be so much an artist that
he could report in conversation what had befallen him.
ET17 5.296 2 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French,
English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little
anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family...
PI 8.24 17 [The intellect] knows that these
transfigured results are not the brute experiences, just as souls in
heaven are not the red bodies they once animated. Many transfigurations
have befallen them.
SA 8.84 11 In Borrow's Lavengro, the gypsy instantly
detects, by his companion's face and behavior, that some good fortune
has befallen him...
QO 8.188 6 A more subtle and severe criticism might
suggest that some dislocation has befallen the race;...
FSLN 11.244 11 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It
is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...
CPL 11.496 23 If you consider what has befallen you
when reading a poem, or a history...you will easily admit the wonderful
property of books to make all towns equal...
befalls, v. (19)
DSA 1.140 6 Everything that befalls, accuses [the
poor preacher].
YA 1.371 27 [Destiny] is not discovered in [men's]
calculated and voluntary activity, but in what befalls, with or without
their design.
ET10 5.169 12 What befalls from the violence of
financial crises, befalls daily in the violence of artificial
legislation.
ET10 5.169 13 What befalls from the violence of
financial crises, befalls daily in the violence of artificial
legislation.
Pow 6.56 16 One man...is in sympathy with the course
of things; can predict it. Whatever befalls, befalls him first;...
Pow 6.59 6 When a new boy comes into school...that
happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture
where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the
best pair of horns and the new-comer...
Res 8.140 16 The marked events in history...each of
these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
QO 8.181 27 ...what we daily observe in regard to the
bon-mots that circulate in society,-that every talker helps a story in
repeating it, until, at last, from the slenderest filament of fact a
good fable is constructed,-the same growth befalls mythology...
PPo 8.256 22 Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy
brow from thy locks;/ Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;/...
Aris 10.43 23 In a thousand cups of life, only one is
the right mixture,-a fine adjustment to the existing elements. When
that befalls...then no gift need be bestowed on him...
Edc1 10.130 2 Whatever the man does, or whatever
befalls him, opens another chamber in his soul...
PLT 12.4 13 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and
universal part [of Nature] which interests us, when we shall read in a
true history what befalls in that kingdom where a thousand years is as
one day...
PLT 12.40 19 The game of Intellect is the perception
that whatever befalls or can be stated is a universal proposition;...
PLT 12.60 4 This premature stop, I know not how,
befalls most of us in early youth;...
CInt 12.125 10 ...unless...the professor has a
generous sympathy with genius...the best scholar, he for whom colleges
exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein. 'T is precisely
analogous to what befalls in religious societies.
befell, v. (10)
Hist 2.5 9 What befell Asdrubal or Caesar Borgia is
as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what
has befallen us.
PI 8.71 4 In good society...is not everything spoken
in fine parable, and not so servilely as it befell to the sense?
Insp 8.283 13 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness
that befell him, The thought of my father...restrained me;...
Thor 10.463 20 [Thoreau] noted what repeatedly befell
him, that, after receiving from a distance a rare plant, he would
presently find the same in his own haunts.
HDC 11.56 5 Even this check which befell [the people
of Concord] acquaints us with the rapidity of their growth...
TPar 11.288 13 It will not be in the acts of city
councils, nor of obsequious mayors;...that coming generations will
study what really befell [in Boston];...
ALin 11.335 2 If ever a man was fairly tested,
[Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of
ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets;...such multitudes
had to be trusted, that no secret could be kept. Every door was ajar,
and we know all that befell.
Mem 12.92 12 [Memory...reports to you not what you
wish, but what really befell.
Bost 12.192 5 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley
and his company through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted
from the powerful odor of the stweefern in the sun;-like what befell,
still earlier, Biorn and Thorfinn, Northmen, in their expedition to the
same coast;...
befits, v. (2)
Milt1 12.274 18 The tone of [Adam's] thought and
passion is as healthful, as even and as vigorous as befits the new and
perfect model of a race of gods.
beforehand, adv. (27)
SR 2.54 22 Do I not know beforehand that not possibly
can [the preacher] say a new and spontaneous word?
OS 2.278 4 [The best minds]...do not label or stamp
[truth] with any man's name, for it is theirs long beforehand...
OS 2.287 22 Jesus speaks always from within, and in a
degree that transcends all others. In that is the miracle. I believe
beforehand that it ought so to be.
NR 3.245 4 The end and the means...life is made up of
the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers, whose
marriage appears beforehand monstrous...
Pow 6.77 3 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all
names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce
beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each
domestic day.
Wth 6.121 7 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor
what to do with...the wood-lot, when bought. Never fear; it is all
settled how it shall be, long beforehand, in the custom of the
country...
Boks 7.195 26 ...I know beforehand that
Pindar...More, will be superior to the average intellect.
Elo2 8.117 3 [The orator] knew very well beforehand
that [the people] were looking behind and that he was looking ahead...
Elo2 8.118 20 We have all attended meetings called
for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest.
Aris 10.49 4 Time was, in England, when the state
stipulated beforehand what price should be paid for each citizen's
life, if he was killed.
Edc1 10.137 1 Nature, when she sends a new mind into
the world, fills it beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes
it to know and do.
LLNE 10.332 9 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and
weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived
beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys from
Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts...this learning instantly
took the highest place to our imagination...
LLNE 10.366 6 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm]
that people on whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost
reliance were not responsible.
LVB 11.95 18 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van
Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain
obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of
some of my friends. I, sir, will not beforehand treat you with the
contumely of this distrust.
War 11.160 25 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This
thought is...the rising of the general tide in the human soul,-and
rising highest, and first made visible, in the most simple and pure
souls, who have therefore announced it to us beforehand;...
War 11.165 23 He who loves the bristle of bayonets
only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart.
Koss 11.397 13 ...as Concord is one of the monuments
of freedom; we knew beforehand that you [Kossuth] could not go by
us;...
Koss 11.401 8 ...when the crisis arrives it will find
us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...
II 12.77 16 ...we can take sight beforehand of a
state of being wherein the will shall penetrate and control what it
cannot now reach.
II 12.81 14 ...the races of men rise out of the
ground...divided beforehand into parties ready armed and angry to fight
for they know not what.
II 12.88 8 The Buddhist who...reads the issue of the
conflict beforehand in the rank of the actors, is calm.
PPr 12.385 10 Worst of all for the party attacked,
[Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all
sympathy...
Trag 12.414 4 If a man is centred, men and events
appear to him a fair image or reflection of that which he knoweth
beforehand in himself.
befriend, v. (4)
Nat 1.69 18 In every path,/ [Man] treads down that
which doth befriend him/...
MoS 4.177 5 The word Fate...expresses the sense of
mankind...that the laws of the world do not always befriend...us.
DL 7.105 17 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the
domestics, who like rude foster-mothers befriend and feed him...
befriended, v. (3)
Pol1 3.211 25 No forms can have any dangerous
importance whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.
Bost 12.205 21 The power of labor which belongs to
the English race fell here into a climate which befriended it...
befriending, v. (2)
FSLC 11.187 25 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave
Law] is befriending in our own State, on our own farms, a man who has
taken the risk of being shot...to get away from his driver...
FSLN 11.240 14 ...all the statesmen...are sure to be
found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their
votes.
befriends, v. (2)
SR 2.47 11 A man is relieved and gay when he has put
his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done
otherwise shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not
deliver. In the attempt...no muse befriends;...
beg, v. (7)
SR 2.77 25 As soon as the man is at one with God, he
will not beg.
Exp 3.73 8 I fully understand language, [Mencius]
said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor. I beg to ask what you
call vast-flowing vigor? said his companion.
ET18 5.300 20 In [English] cities, the children are
trained to beg, until they shall be old enough to rob.
Res 8.147 7 ...it is the principal thing you are to
beg at the hands of Almighty God, to preserve your understanding
entire;...
ACri 12.291 14 Never say, I beg not to be
misunderstood.
began, v. (46)
Nat 1.34 14 [The relation between mind and matter] is
the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of
every fine genius since the world began;...
DSA 1.149 14 ...then, when the dead began to fall in
ranks around him, awoke [Massena's] powers of combination...
Hist 2.25 8 ...Xenophon arose naked, and taking an
axe, began to split wood;...
Comp 2.105 22 ...when the disease began in the will,
of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected...
Exp 3.66 23 ...if one remembers how innocently he
began to be an artist, he perceives that nature joined with his enemy.
Exp 3.72 7 Since neither now nor yesterday began/
These thoughts, which have been ever, nor yet can/ A man be found who
their first entrance knew./
SwM 4.100 2 In 1743, when [Swedenborg] was fifty-four
years old, what is called his illumination began.
SwM 4.101 22 The genius [of Swedenborg] which
was...to...attempt to establish a new religion in the world,--began its
lessons in quarries and forges...
MoS 4.162 13 ...I will...offer...a word or two to
explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip
[Montaigne].
ShP 4.194 24 As soon as the statue was begun for
itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to
decline...
ET7 5.124 19 ...when the Rochester rappings began to
be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in
the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all
somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the
number of his note should have the money.
Ctr 6.165 10 ...Nature began with rudimental forms
and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their
dwelling-place;...
Cour 7.258 17 ...I remember when a pair of Irish
girls who had been run away with in a wagon by a skittish horse, said
that when he began to rear, they were so frightened that they could not
see the horse.
Suc 7.291 3 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who
writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in
one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and
safest course.
Comc 8.172 10 Timur saw himself in the mirror and
found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep;...
Comc 8.172 13 Timur saw himself in the mirror and
found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha
also set himself to weep; and so they wept for two hours. On this, some
courtiers began to comfort Timur...
Comc 8.172 16 Timur ceased weeping, but Chodscha
ceased not, but began now first to weep amain...
Dem1 10.15 1 The Jew [Masollam]...bent his bow and
shot the bird to the ground. This act offended the augur and some
others, and they began to utter imprecations against the Jew.
PerF 10.79 13 [The manufacturer] undertook the charge
of [the chemical works] himself, began at the beginning...
Plu 10.313 11 [Plutarch] cites...the memorable words
of Antigone, in Sophocles, concerning the moral sentiment:-For neither
now nor yesterday began/ These thoughts, which have been ever, nor yet
can/ A man be found who their first entrance knew./
LLNE 10.341 11 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing
opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited
a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present.
Though I recall the fact, I do not retain...any connection between
[this attempt] and the new zeal of the friends who at that time began
to be drawn together by sympathy of studies and of aspiration.
MMEm 10.419 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked to
Captain Dexter's. Sick. Promised never to put that ring on. Ended
miserably the month which began so worldly.
Thor 10.473 7 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a
surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge of their lands...which enabled
him to tell every farmer more than he knew before of his own farm; so
that he began to feel a little as if Mr. Thoreau had better rights in
his land than he.
Carl 10.490 27 Forster of Rawdon described to me a
dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried
Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something. Carlyle began
to talk, first to the waiters, and then to the walls...in a manner that
frightened the whole company.
HDC 11.43 10 ...when, presently, the design of the
[Massachusetts Bay] colony began to fulfil itself, by the settlement of
new plantations in the vicinity of Boston...the Governor and freemen in
Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and
practices of these farmers.
HDC 11.50 10 About ten years after the planting of
Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians...
HDC 11.54 27 The country [around Concord] already
began to yield more than was consumed by the inhabitants.
HDC 11.58 1 In 1670, the Wampanoags began to grind
their hatchets...
HDC 11.74 8 ...when the smoke began to rise from the
village where the British were burning cannon-carriages and military
stores, the Americans resolved to force their way into town.
HDC 11.75 10 The British, as soon as they were
rejoined by the plundering detachment, began that disastrous retreat to
Boston...
EWI 11.108 13 [Thomas Clarkson] began to ask himself
if these things [facts about slavery in the West Indies] could be true;
and if they were, he could no longer rest.
FSLC 11.203 3 ...as the activity and growth of
slavery began to be offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the
senator became less sensitive to these evils.
SMC 11.352 6 ...after the quarrel [American
Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for
political independence.
SMC 11.374 17 The brigade of which the Thirty-second
Regiment formed part was detailed to receive the formal surrender of
the rebel arms. The homeward march began on the thirteenth...
FRO1 11.479 10 ...in the thirteenth century the First
Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in
sculpture, for worship...
FRO2 11.486 21 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is
now called the Christian religion...never did not exist from the
planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh, at which
time the true religion which already existed began to be called
Christianity.
FRep 11.528 20 America was opened after the feudal
mischief was spent, and so the people made a good start. We began well.
FRep 11.528 27 We began with freedom, are are
defended from shocks now for a century by the facility with which
through popular assemblies every necessary measure of reform can
instantly be carried.
MAng1 12.229 1 At near eighty years, [Michelangelo]
began in marble a group of four figures for a dead Christ...
MAng1 12.231 17 Very slowly came [Michelangelo],
after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's]. At last he began
to model it very small in wax.
beget, v. (3)
Nat 1.56 12 Intellectual science has been observed to
beget invariably a doubt of the existence of matter.
DSA 1.134 14 ...it is the effect of conversation with
the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others
the same knowledge and love.
begets, v. (1)
FSLN 11.239 9 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of
the unjust, that at its close it begets itself an
offspring...and...there sprouts forth for posterity every-ravening
calamity...
beggar, n. (17)
Nat 1.50 26 ...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are
unrealized at once [when seen from a coach]...
Con 1.306 10 There [the youth] stands, newly born on
the planet, a universal beggar...
Mrs1 3.154 12 Without the rich heart, wealth is a
ugly beggar.
NER 3.263 6 When we see...a special reformer, we feel
like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue? Is
virtue piecemeal? This is a jewel amidst the rags of a beggar.
ET10 5.153 23 The last term of insult [in England]
is, a beggar.
Wth 6.88 9 ...by making his wants less or his gains
more, [a man] must draw himself out of that state of pain and insult in
which [nature] forces the beggar to lie.
Ctr 6.131 8 ...a skill to get money makes [a man] a
miser, that is, a beggar.
Wsp 6.237 7 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether
to put [the sick woman] into the street? Just as much whether to thrust
the little Jenny on your arm into the street. The milk and meal you
give the beggar will fatten Jenny.
Bty 6.282 8 Astrology interested us, for it tied man
to the system. Instead of an isolated beggar, the farthest star felt
him and he felt the star.
WD 7.173 7 Hume's doctrine was...that the beggar
cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by
in his chariot;...had different means, but the same quantity of
pleasant excitement.
SA 8.85 7 ...Do not go to ask your debtor the payment
of a debt on the day when you have no other resource. He will learn by
your air and tone how it is with you, and will treat you as a beggar.
Supl 10.177 15 The [Oriental] diver dives a beggar,
and rises with the price of a kingdom in his hand.
EzRy 10.391 6 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.
Scot 11.466 19 From these originals [Scott] drew so
genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots
on which the plots of his stories turn; and meantime without one word
of brag of...this extreme sympathy reaching down to every beggar and
beggar's dog, and horse and cow.
Let 12.400 20 It is heartrending to see your [German]
poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster
the Beautiful. The Good! They...are like the patient Ulysses whilst he
sat in the guise of a beggar at his own door...
beggarly, adj. (5)
Con 1.316 23 ...the thoughts of some beggarly
Homer...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the
instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
ET11 5.191 19 In logical sequence of these dignified
revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was
reduced...
DL 7.133 19 He who shall bravely and
gracefully...show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life
amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages;...will restore
the life of man to splendor...
Beggar's Bush, n. (1)
Aris 10.56 12 Of course a man is a poor bag of bones.
There is no gracious interval, not an inch allowed. Bone rubs against
bone. Life is thus a Beggar' s Bush.
beggars, n. (8)
Fdsp 2.214 9 We go to Europe...or we read books, in
the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us to ourselves. Beggars
all.
Art1 2.357 7 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal
picture which nature paints in the street, with...beggars and fine
ladies...
Nat2 3.190 27 ...trade to all the world,
country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little
conversation, high, clear and spiritual! Could it not be had as well by
beggars on the highway?
Nat2 3.191 1 ...trade to all the world, country-house
and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high,
clear and spiritual! Could it not be had as well by beggars on the
highway? No, all these things came from successive efforts of these
beggars to remove friction from the wheels of life...
UGM 4.4 16 ...enormous populations, if they be
beggars, are disgusting...
MoS 4.151 15 Having at some time seen that the happy
soul will carry all the arts in power...like dreaming beggars [men
predisposed to morals] assume to speak and act as if these values were
already substantiated.
Wth 6.97 14 They should own who can administer...not
they who, the greater proprietors they are, are only the greater
beggars...
Thor 10.478 24 [Thoreau] detected paltering as
readily in dignified and prosperous persons as in beggars...
beggar's, n. (4)
QO 8.188 3 Is...all art Chinese imitation? our life a
custom, and our body borrowed, like, a beggar's dinner, from a hundred
charities?
JBS 11.276 8 A thousand transformations rose/ From
fair to foul, from foul to fair:/ The golden crown he did not spare,/
Nor scorn the beggar's clothes./
Scot 11.466 19 From these originals [Scott] drew so
genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots
on which the plots of his stories turn; and meantime without one word
of brag of...this extreme sympathy reaching down to every beggar and
beggar's dog, and horse and cow.
beggars, v. (1)
OS 2.289 13 Shakspeare carries us to such a lofty
strain of intelligent activity as to suggest a wealth which beggars his
own;...
beggary, n. (3)
ET19 5.312 3 ...I think it just, in this time of
gloom and commercial disaster, of affliction and beggary in these
districts, that...you should not fail to keep your literary
anniversary.
WD 7.158 11 ...we pity our fathers for dying
before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half
their human estate. These arts open great gates of a future,
promising...to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and
power.
Aris 10.55 19 If you deal with the vulgar, life is
reduced to beggary indeed.
begged, v. (4)
NER 3.273 9 Berkeley, having listened to the many
lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say, begged to be heard
in his turn...
Wsp 6.228 9 [St. Philip Neri] told the abbess the
wishes of his Holiness, and begged her to summon the nun without delay.
MMEm 10.410 16 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth
Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with
Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost, and
found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them.
HDC 11.55 27 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part
of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr.
Jones, and settled Fairfield. Weakened by this loss, the people begged
to be released from a part of their rates...
begging, n. (1)
Nat2 3.184 14 The astronomers said, Give us matter
and a little motion and we will construct the universe. ... A very
unreasonable postulate, said the metaphysicians, and a plain begging of
the question.
begging, v. (2)
Hist 2.28 13 More than once some individual has
appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation, a haughty
beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth
century Simeon the Stylite...
Wth 6.118 22 A farm is a good thing when it...does
not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main
link in the chain-ring. If the non-conformist or aesthetic farmer
leaves out the cattle and does not also leave out the want which the
cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by begging or stealing.
begin, v. (112)
Nat 1.54 16 ...so their rising senses/ Begin to chase
the ignorant fumes that mantle/ Their clearer reason./
DSA 1.137 16 We shrink as soon as the prayers begin,
which do not uplift...
MR 1.235 2 If the accumulated wealth of the past
generation is thus tainted...we must begin to consider if it were not
the nobler part to renounce it...
MR 1.250 24 ...the believer not only beholds his
heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist...
LT 1.283 25 ...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;...
Tran 1.356 10 [Transcendentalists] complain that
everything around them must be denied; and if feeble, it takes all
their strength to deny, before they can begin to lead their own life.
Lov1 2.170 9 ...this passion of which we speak
[love], though it begin with the young, yet forsakes not the old...
Lov1 2.173 20 The girls may have little beauty, yet
plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most
agreeable, confiding relations; what with their fun and their earnest,
about...when the singing-school would begin...
Fdsp 2.199 14 We are armed all over with subtle
antagonisms, which, as soon as we meet, begin to play...
Prd1 2.241 4 ...begin where we will, we are pretty
sure in a short space to be mumbling our ten commandments.
Hsm1 2.246 17 Mar. Dost know what 't is to die?/
Soph. Thou dost not, Martius,/ And, therefore, not what 't is to live;
to die/ Is to begin to live..../
Int 2.334 19 ...we begin to suspect that the
biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing
less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the
Universal History.
Art1 2.367 6 Art must not be a superficial talent,
but must begin farther back in man.
Art1 2.367 20 Would it not be better to begin higher
up,--to serve the ideal before [men] eat and drink;...
Exp 3.62 3 ...I begin at the other extreme, expecting
nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
Chr1 3.103 22 ...when [your friends]...must suspend
their judgment for years to come, you may begin to hope.
Nat2 3.177 17 ...ordinarily...as soon as men begin to
write on nature, they fall into euphuism.
Pol1 3.212 3 It makes no difference how many tons'
weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure
resists it within the lungs. Augment the mass a thousand-fold, it
cannot begin to crush us, as long as reaction is equal to action.
NR 3.246 13 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he
were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as
agitator.
NR 3.246 14 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he
were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as
agitator.
NER 3.257 3 I begin to suspect myself to be a
prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury.
NER 3.260 27 ...much was to be resisted, much was to
be got rid of by those who were reared in the old, before they could
begin to affirm and to construct.
NER 3.272 24 In the circle of the rankest
tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very
quickly...these hopeless will begin to hope...
NER 3.272 25 In the circle of the rankest
tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very
quickly...these haters will begin to love...
NER 3.272 26 In the circle of the rankest
tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very
quickly...these immovable statues will begin to spin and revolve.
UGM 4.5 12 If now we proceed to inquire into the
kinds of service we derive from others, let us be warned of the danger
of modern studies, and begin low enough.
PPh 4.68 12 All things are in a scale; and begin
where we will, ascend and ascend.
PPh 4.71 18 [Socrates] can drink, too;...and after
leaving the whole party under the table, goes away...to begin new
dialogues with somebody that is sober.
MoS 4.171 4 One man appears whose nature is to all
men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a
well-ordered society, agriculture, trade, large institutions and
empire. If these did not exist, they would begin to exist through his
endeavors.
MoS 4.182 5 It is vain to complain of the leaf or the
berry; cut it off, it will bear another just as bad. You must begin
your cure lower down.
ShP 4.204 3 ...not until two centuries had passed,
after [Shakespeare's] death, did any criticism which we think adequate
begin to appear.
GoW 4.278 14 ...those who begin [Goethe's Wilhelm
Meister] with the higher hope to read in it a worthy history of
genius...have also reason to complain.
ET4 5.47 3 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or
litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches
as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin.
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 5.76 17 ...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, and then his energies begin to play.
ET5 5.91 7 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself
for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the
southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;.--a
work whose value does not begin until thirty years have elapsed...
ET16 5.274 13 As soon as men begin to talk of art,
architecture and antiquities, nothing good comes of it [according to
Carlyle].
F 6.4 1 We must begin our reform earlier still,-at
generation...
Wth 6.104 16 An apple-tree, if you take out every day
for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its
roots, will find it out. An apple-tree is a stupid kind of creature,
but if this treatment be pursued for a short time I think it would
begin to mistrust something.
Wth 6.110 24 The cost of education of the posterity
of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross
amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net
gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800.
Ctr 6.140 23 ...we begin the uphill agitation for
repeal of that of which we ought to have prevented the enacting.
Ctr 6.141 2 What we call our root-and-branch
reforms...is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up,
namely in Education.
Ctr 6.154 9 Suffer [people who scream and bewail]
once to begin the enumeration of their infirmities and the sun will go
down on the unfinished tale.
CbW 6.248 23 Franklin said, Mankind...begin upon a
thing, but, meeting with a difficulty, they fly from it discouraged;...
Bty 6.306 18 Wherever we begin, thither our steps
tend...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
Ill 6.316 20 Teague and his jade...learn something,
and would carry themselves wiselier if they were now to begin.
Civ 7.21 9 Where shall we begin or end the list of
those feats of liberty and wit, each of which feats made an epoch of
history?
Civ 7.21 19 ...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. He is safe from the
teeth of wild animals, from frost, sun-stroke and weather; and fine
faculties begin to yield their fine harvest.
Elo1 7.94 6 ...[people] soon begin to ask, What is
[the speaker] driving at?...
DL 7.117 7 ...if we begin by reforming particulars of
our present system [of housekeeping]...we shall soon give up in
despair.
Clbs 7.231 25 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the
company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet,
to be sure they begin to be something else than they were;...
OA 7.318 8 ...as long as one is alone by himself, he
is not sensible of the inroads of time, which always begin at the
surface-edges.
PI 8.18 26 Our indeterminate size is a delicious
secret which [the act of imagination] reveals to us. The mountains
begin to dislimn, and float in the air.
PI 8.38 15 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh
Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols,
and not as ends. With such guides [men] begin to see that what they had
called pictures are realities...
PI 8.65 1 [Poetry] is the piety of the intellect.
Thus saith the Lord, should begin the song.
PI 8.70 10 In the dance of God there is not one of
the chorus but can and will begin to spin...whenever the music and
figure reach his place and duty.
SA 8.106 10 Another cure [for the disease of
sentimentalism] would be to fight fire with fire, to match a
sentimentalist with a sentimentalist. I think each might begin to
suspect that something was wrong.
Elo2 8.126 15 If I should make the shortest list of
the qualifications of the orator, I should begin with manliness;...
Res 8.142 24 ...we begin to perforate and mould the
old ball, as a carpenter does with wood.
Insp 8.270 12 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's]
tail, set him on end, sent him to school and made him pay taxes, before
he could begin to write his sad story...
Edc1 10.150 1 Happy the natural college thus
self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men of Athens
around Socrates...in short the natural sphere of every leading mind.
But the moment this is organized, difficulties begin.
Edc1 10.155 18 These creatures [in nature] have no
value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on
his. By dint of obstinate sitting still...bird and beast...begin to
return.
SovE 10.196 17 ...when we have conversed with
navigators who know the coast, we may begin to put out an oar and trim
a sail.
MMEm 10.408 17 Was there thought and eloquence, [Mary
Moody Emerson] would listen like a child. Her aspiration and prayer
would begin...
Thor 10.452 12 ...whilst all his companions
were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that
[Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question...
Carl 10.490 14 ...though no mortal in America could
pretend to talk with Carlyle...yet neither would he in any manner
satisfy us (Americans), or begin to answer the questions which we ask.
HDC 11.32 8 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave
to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon
Willard, and about twelve families more.
EWI 11.102 27 For the negro, was the slave-ship to
begin with...
EWI 11.118 24 It is vain to get rid of [spoiled
children] by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed,
they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find
the experiment succeeds, and they begin again.
FSLC 11.181 27 ...a man looks gloomily at his
children, and thinks, What have I done that you should begin life in
dishonor?
ACiv 11.305 10 ...next winter we must begin at the
beginning, and conquer [the South] over again.
ALin 11.331 12 The profound good opinion which the
people of Illinois and of the West had conceived of [Lincoln]...was not
rash, though they did not begin to know the riches of his worth.
FRep 11.514 20 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions
begin in the best heads and run steadily down to the populace.
PLT 12.6 14 My belief in the use of a course of
philosophy is that the student...shall learn [the mind's] subtle but
immense power, or shall begin to learn it;...
PLT 12.18 14 There are...[other minds] that deposit
their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time
and be brooded in other minds, and the shell not be broken until the
next age, for them to begin, as new individuals, their career.
PLT 12.33 7 As soon as our accumulation [of
knowledge] overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of
intellectual gluttony begin...
II 12.68 12 ...long after we have quitted the place
[the art gallery], the objects begin to take a new order;...
II 12.70 13 ...Goethe, Fourier, Schelling, Coleridge,
they all begin...
CL 12.158 23 No man is suddenly a good walker. Many
men begin with good resolution, but they do not hold out...
MAng1 12.221 12 When Michael Angelo would begin a
statue, he made first on paper the skeleton;...
ACri 12.292 17 Dangerous words in like kind
are...circumstances, commence for begin.
EurB 12.370 19 A critical friend of ours affirms that
the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition
to begin where their fathers ended;...
PPr 12.386 18 One can hardly credit, whilst under the
spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same
bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us-as of a failed world just
re-collecting its old withered forces to begin again and try to do a
little business.
Let 12.395 6 One of the [letter] writers relentingly
says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires
distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of
concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful
village by themselves!...
beginners, n. (1)
CL 12.158 27 ...I have sometimes thought it would be
well to publish an Art of Walking, with Easy Lessons for Beginners.
beginning, n. (42)
AmS 1.82 19 It is one of those fables which out of an
unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the
beginning, divided Man into men...
AmS 1.85 6 There is never a beginning, there is never
an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God...
AmS 1.85 9 Therein [nature] resembles [the scholar's]
own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he never can find...
MR 1.251 7 Every great and commanding moment in the
annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of
the Arabs after Mahomet, who...from a small and mean beginning,
established a larger empire than that of Rome, is an example.
Con 1.305 19 You quarrel with my conservatism, but it
is to build up one of your own; it will have a new beginning, but the
same course and end...
Con 1.314 14 ...there is...no man who from the
beginning to the end of his life maintains the defective
institutions;...
Hist 2.3 16 ...the human spirit goes forth from the
beginning to embody every faculty...which belongs to it, in appropriate
events.
SL 2.140 3 If we would not be mar-plots with our
miserable interferences... the heaven predicted from the beginning of
the world...would organize itself...
Mrs1 3.141 21 England...furnished, in the beginning
of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world
loves, in Mr. Fox...
Nat2 3.180 27 ...so poor is nature with all her
craft, that from the beginning to the end of the universe she has but
one stuff...
MoS 4.157 18 Is not marriage an open question, when
it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the
institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
ET3 5.42 24 ...there is such an artificial
completeness in this nation of artificers [England] as if there were a
design from the beginning to elaborate a bigger Birmingham.
ET4 5.55 5 ...the Celts or Sidonides are an old
family, of whose beginning there is no memory...
ET8 5.128 23 [The English] are just as cold, quiet
and composed, at the end, as at the beginning of dinner.
Bhr 6.172 14 [Manners'] first service is very
low,--when they are the minor morals; but 't is the beginning of
civility...
Civ 7.20 23 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco
Capac at the beginning of each improvement...
WD 7.158 20 ...Leibnitz said of Newton, that if he
reckoned all that had been done by mathematicians from the beginning of
the world down to Newton, and what had been done by him, his would be
the better half...
Boks 7.209 15 This mania [for rare editions of books]
reached its height about the beginning of the present century.
PI 8.58 8 ...Discover thou what it is,/ The strong
creature from before the flood,/ Without flesh, without bone, without
head, without feet,/ It will neither be younger nor older than at the
beginning;/...
PPo 8.240 20 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the
all-wise fowl who had lived ever since the beginning of the world...
PerF 10.79 14 [The manufacturer] undertook the charge
of [the chemical works] himself, began at the beginning...
Edc1 10.156 13 Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell
you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a
revolution as great as theirs.
SovE 10.188 14 In the pre-adamite [Nature] bred valor
only; by and by she gets on to man, and adds tenderness, and thus
raises virtue piecemeal. When we trace from the beginning, that
ferocity has uses;...
Prch 10.224 8 ...all that saints and churches and
Bibles from the beginning of the world have aimed at, is to suppress
this impertinent surface-action...
LLNE 10.335 13 By a series of lectures largely and
fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a
beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing...
MMEm 10.418 3 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 11.64 17 From the beginning to the middle of the
eighteenth century, our records indicate no interruption of the
tranquility of the inhabitants [of Concord]...
EWI 11.103 15 Very sad was the negro tradition, that
the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved
better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes...
EWI 11.136 27 One feels very sensibly in all this
history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and
soul are behind there...so that this cause has had the power to draw to
it every particle of talent and of worth in England, from the
beginning.
EWI 11.147 19 The Intellect, with blazing eye,
looking through history from the beginning onward, gazes on this blot
[slavery] and it disappears.
ACiv 11.305 10 ...next winter we must begin at the
beginning, and conquer [the South] over again.
SMC 11.358 12 I doubt not many of our soldiers could
repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the
[Civil] war...
SHC 11.434 17 ...when I think of the mystery of
life...our ignorance of its beginning or its end...I think sometimes
that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy
Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
Mem 12.99 11 ...there is a wild memory in children
and youth which makes what is early learned impossible to forget; and
perhaps in the beginning of the world it had most vigor.
beginning, v. (22)
AmS 1.100 3 I hear therefore with joy whatever is
beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every
citizen.
DSA 1.143 3 It is already beginning to indicate
character and religion to withdraw from the religious meetings.
Tran 1.329 16 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided
into two sects, Materialists and Idealists;...the first class beginning
to think from the data of the senses...
YA 1.363 5 America is beginning to assert herself to
the senses and to the imagination of her children...
YA 1.365 4 The task of surveying, planting, and
building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment
commensurate thereto. A consciousness of this fact is beginning to take
the place of the purely trading spirit and education which sprang up
whilst all the population lived on the fringe of sea-coast.
Hist 2.36 5 In old Rome the public roads beginning at
the Forum proceeded north, south, east, west...
SwM 4.145 20 Swedenborg has rendered a double service
to mankind, which is now only beginning to be known.
ET1 5.13 10 ...[Coleridge] recited with strong
emphasis, standing, ten or twelve lines beginning,--Born unto God in
Christ--/
Cour 7.257 23 A large majority of men...beginning
early to be occupied day by day with some routine of safe industry,
never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier
or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.
LLNE 10.336 1 ...the paramount source of the
religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus...
LLNE 10.369 21 I please myself with the thought that
our American mind... is beginning to show a quiet power...
HDC 11.40 25 We have records of marriages and deaths,
beginning nineteen years after the settlement [of Concord];...
HDC 11.65 10 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with
Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the
school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d
June;...
HDC 11.74 11 The English beginning to pluck up some
of the planks of the [Concord] bridge, the Americans quickened their
pace...
War 11.154 25 What does all this war, beginning from
the lowest races and reaching up to man, signify?
EPro 11.317 14 ...great as the popularity of the
President [Lincoln] has been, we are beginning to think that we have
underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has
made an instrument of benefit so vast.
SMC 11.370 4 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth
[Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just
beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott
notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all
gone.
SMC 11.370 6 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth
[Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just
beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment: it always was a
good regiment, and people are just beginning to find it out; Colonel
Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before
it was all gone.
PPr 12.388 20 As a literary artist [Carlyle] has
great merits, beginning with the main one that he never wrote one dull
line.
beginnings, n. (9)
Chr1 3.114 2 We shall one day see...that...grandeur
of character acts in the dark, and succors them who never saw it. What
greatness has yet appeared is beginnings and encouragements to us in
this direction.
NER 3.264 15 ...it may easily be questioned whether
such a community will draw, except in its beginnings, the able and the
good;...
PPh 4.47 12 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise
Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and
ethics...
PI 8.5 9 The ends of all are moral, and therefore the
beginnings are such.
SovE 10.187 3 'T is a long scale...from the
gorilla...to the sanctities of religion...the summits of science, art
and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an
always-accelerated march.
begins, v. (82)
MR 1.230 13 ...Wall Street doubts, and begins to
prophesy'
MR 1.247 26 ...the idea which now begins to agitate
society has a wider scope than our daily employments...
LT 1.264 27 Whilst the Daguerreotypist...begins now
to traverse the land, let us set up our Camera also...
Fdsp 2.193 4 ...as soon as the stranger begins to
intrude his partialities... into the conversation, it is all over.
Fdsp 2.202 27 Every man alone is sincere. At the
entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
OS 2.272 1 ...as there is no screen or ceiling
between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall
in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins.
Nat2 3.181 16 ...the artist still goes back for
materials and begins again with the first elements on the most advanced
stage;...
Nat2 3.188 21 After some time has elapsed, [the young
person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience
[of keeping a diary]...
Pol1 3.208 22 Our quarrel with [political parties]
begins when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some
leader...
UGM 4.34 26 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to
help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect.
SwM 4.98 18 ...now, when the royal and ducal
Frederics, Christians and Brunswicks of that day have slid into
oblivion, [Swedenborg] begins to spread himself into the minds of
thousands.
ShP 4.206 21 The recitation [of Shakespeare] begins;
one golden word leaps out immortal from all this painted pedantry and
sweetly torments us with invitations to its own inaccessible homes.
GoW 4.263 25 A new thought or a crisis of passion
apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is
exoteric,--is not the fact, but some rumor of the fact. What then? Does
he throw away the pen? No; he begins again to describe in the new light
which has shined on him...
F 6.13 15 In England there is always some man of
wealth and large connection...who, as soon as he begins to die, checks
his forward play...
Pow 6.57 22 Import into any stationary district...a
colony of hardy Yankees...and everything begins to shine with values.
Pow 6.81 15 A man hardly knows how much he is a
machine until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press and locomotive,
in his own image.
Wth 6.117 8 ...after expense has been fixed at a
certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so
small, being added, wealth begins.
Bhr 6.190 21 Another opposes [a man who is already
strong] with sound argument, but the argument is scouted until by and
by it gets into the mind of some weighty person; then it begins to tell
on the community.
Bhr 6.191 23 Novels are the journal or record of
manners, and the new importance of these books derives from the fact
that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface and treat this part
of life more worthily.
DL 7.104 11 ...presently begins his use of his
fingers, and [the nestler] studies power...
DL 7.116 15 ...this voice of communities and ages,
Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious, and
leaves the whole difficulty untouched. It is better, certainly, in this
form, Give us your labor, and the household begins.
Farm 7.152 7 As [the first planter's] family thrive,
and other planters come up around him, he begins to fell trees and
clear good land;...
Clbs 7.229 16 [The student] seeks intelligent
persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old
motion begins in his brain...
PI 8.7 2 ...as soon as once thought begins, it
refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...
PI 8.19 4 In the presence and conversation of a true
poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person,
his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes. And thus begins that
deification which all nations have made of their heroes in every
kind...
PI 8.40 27 Now at this rare elevation above his usual
sphere, [the poet] has come into new circulations...the opulence of
forms begins to pour into his intellect...
SA 8.83 10 When a man meets his accurate mate,
society begins...
Res 8.146 21 A determined man, by his very
attitude...begins to conquer.
Comc 8.157 11 ...it is in comparing fractions with
essential integers or wholes that laughter begins.
Comc 8.158 22 ...separate any part of Nature and
attempt to look at it as a whole by itself, and the feeling of the
ridiculous begins.
Insp 8.293 18 By sympathy, each [party in good
conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes
of his mind.
Grts 8.309 3 ...the rule of the orator begins...when
his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey
that conviction to his audience,- when these shine and burn in his
address;...
Imtl 8.334 2 After science begins, belief of
permanence must follow in a healthy mind.
Aris 10.56 25 When a man begins to speak, the churl
will take him up by disputing his first words...
PerF 10.86 15 ...it begins to be doubtful whether our
corruption in this country has not gone a little over the mark of
safety...
SovE 10.186 25 It is the stomach of plants that
development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe.
Prch 10.222 26 The next age will behold God in the
ethical laws-as mankind begins to see them in this age, self-equal,
self-executing, instantaneous and self-affirmed;...
Schr 10.280 10 When a man begins to dedicate himself
to a particular function...the advance of his character and genius
pauses;...
HDC 11.29 2 Fellow Citizens: The town of Concord
begins, this day, the third century of its history.
War 11.151 13 War, which to sane men at the present
day begins to look like an epidemic insanity...when seen in the remote
past...appears a part of the connection of events...
War 11.159 1 ...the good [Thomas] Cavendish piously
begins this statement,-It hath pleased Almighty God.
FSLC 11.193 21 ...when justice is violated, anger
begins.
FSLN 11.232 21 ...the world exists...to teach the
science of liberty, which begins with liberty from fear.
EPro 11.321 22 In the light of this event [the
Emancipation Proclamation] the public distress begins to be removed.
Wom 11.413 12 This is the victory of Griselda, her
supreme humility. And it is when love has reached this height that all
our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning.
CPL 11.502 27 If you sprain your foot, you will
presently come to think that Nature has sprained hers. Everything
begins to look so slow and inaccessible.
FRep 11.533 4 Blessed is all that agitates the mass,
breaks up this torpor, and begins motion.
PLT 12.25 3 The moment a man begins not to be
convinced, that moment he begins to convince.
PLT 12.25 4 The moment a man begins not to be
convinced, that moment he begins to convince.
PLT 12.35 18 The Instinct begins at this low point,
at the surface of the earth...
II 12.79 20 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say
only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness,
and no repentance. But the moment they attempt to say these things by
memory, charlatanism begins.
CL 12.152 6 ...[in October] all the trees are
wind-harps, filling the air with music; and all men...walk to the
measure of rhymes they make or remember. The dullest churl begins to
quaver.
CW 12.177 27 ...the naturalist has no barren places,
no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because,
remove the snow a little...and there is a perpetual push of buds, so
that it is impossible to say when vegetation begins.
Milt1 12.269 24 The humanity which warms [Milton's]
pages begins, as it should, at home.
begirt, v. (2)
SR 2.71 22 How far off, how cool, how chaste the
persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
begone, v. (1)
Civ 7.22 21 There was once a giantess who had a
daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then
she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort
of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand? But the mother
said, Put it away, my child; we must begone out of this land, for these
people will dwell in it.
begot, v. (2)
Chr1 3.89 20 ...somewhat resided in these men which
begot an expectation that outran all their performance.
NER 3.251 20 In these [reform] movements nothing was
more remarkable than the discontent they begot in the movers.
begotten, adj. (1)
begotten, v. (2)
Comp 2.121 11 Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as
the great Night or shade on which as a background the living universe
paints itself forth, but no fact is begotten by it;...
beguile, v. (4)
Con 1.320 4 [Conservatism's] religion is just as
bad;...a dolorous tune to beguile the distemper;...
NR 3.235 16 The reason of idleness and of crime is
the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting we beguile the time
with jokes...
UGM 4.10 12 ...solid, liquid, and gas...by their
agreeable quarrel, beguile the day of life.
OA 7.313 4 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/
Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me
with the wonted spell./
beguiled, v. (4)
MoS 4.178 17 The Eastern sages owned the goddess
Yoganidra, the great illusory energy of Vishnu, by whom, as utter
ignorance, the whole world is beguiled.
OA 7.313 3 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/
Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me
with the wonted spell./
CInt 12.111 1 By Sybarites beguiled,/ He shall no
task decline;/...
beguiling, adj. (1)
Nat2 3.174 15 ...we knew of [the rich man's] villa,
his grove, his wine and his company, but the provocation and point of
the invitation came out of these beguiling stars.
begun, v. (36)
MN 1.219 21 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement]
was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein
the sequent Revolution, which was not begun in Concord, or Lexington,
or Virginia...
YA 1.365 8 ...prudent men have begun to see that
every American should be educated with a view to the values of land.
YA 1.380 16 In Paris, the blouse, the badge of the
operative, has begun to make its appearance in the salons.
Exp 3.46 13 In times when we thought ourselves
indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished and
much was begun in us.
Gts 3.164 11 The service a man renders his friend is
trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood
in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his
friend, and now also.
ShP 4.194 22 As soon as the statue was begun for
itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to
decline...
NMW 4.229 16 ...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the
natural and the intellectual power, as if the sea and land had taken
flesh and begun to cipher.
NMW 4.242 24 ...even when the majority of the people
had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the
exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the
whole talent of the country...took his part...
NMW 4.257 15 [Napoleon] left France smaller, poorer,
feebler, than he found it; and the whole contest for freedom was to be
begun again.
GoW 4.279 23 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]
remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must...be willing to get
what good from it we can, assured that it has only begun its office...
ET3 5.35 19 ...an American has more reasons than
another to draw him to Britain. In all that is done or begun by the
Americans towards right thinking or practice, we are met by a
civilization already settled and overpowering.
ET15 5.264 5 [The London Times] adopted the League
against the Corn Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it
announced his triumph.
Wth 6.101 6 ...a mass is an immense centre of motion
[said the Marseilles banker], but it must be begun, it must be kept
up...
Wth 6.101 8 ...a mass is an immense centre of motion
[said the Marseilles banker], but it must be begun, it must be kept
up:--and he might have added that the way in which it must be begun and
kept up is by obedience to the law of particles.
CbW 6.259 16 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat
which...gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue when once it
is begun.
Elo1 7.63 13 [The orator's audience] come to get
justice done to that ear and intuition which no Chatham and no
Demosthenes has begun to satisfy.
DL 7.107 3 ...by beautiful traits...the little
pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly
begun.
Boks 7.218 9 ...I might as well not have begun as to
leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean the Bibles...
PI 8.2 5 For Fancy's gift/ Can mountains lift;/ The
Muse can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just
begun;/...
Insp 8.280 20 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/
The world seems new begun;/...
Grts 8.314 24 ...one fights with cannon as with
fists; when once the fire is begun, the least want of ammunition
renders what you have done already useless.
Supl 10.169 9 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and
gods use a short and positive speech. They are never off their centres.
As soon as they swell and paint and find truth not enough for them,
softening of the brain has already begun.
Supl 10.175 22 Nature is always serious,-does not
jest with us. Where we have begun in folly, we are brought quickly to
plain dealing.
MoL 10.250 12 [Nature says to the American] Other
things you have begun to do,-to strike off the chains which snuffling
hypocrites had bound on a weaker race.
Schr 10.288 9 ...gentlemen, there is plainly no end
to these expansions [on the scholar]. I have exhausted your patience,
and I have only begun.
LLNE 10.353 4 ...what is true and good must not only
be begun by life, but must be conducted to its issues by life.
War 11.175 21 There is the highest fitness in the
place and time in which this enterprise [Congress of Nations] is begun.
EPro 11.322 1 The cause of disunion and war has been
reached and begun to be removed [by the Emancipation Proclamation].
SMC 11.371 20 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been
in the front and centre since the battle begun...
FRO1 11.477 15 ...it does great honor to the
sensibility of the committee [of the Free Religious Association] that
they have felt the universal demand in the community for just the
movement they have begun.
PLT 12.23 14 ...it is the common remark of the
student, Could I only have begun with the same fire which I had on the
last day, I should have done something.
II 12.70 15 ...Goethe, Fourier, Schelling, Coleridge,
they all begin: we, credulous bystanders, believe, of course, that they
can finish as they begun.
CInt 12.120 23 You, gentlemen, are selected out of
the great multitude of your mates, out of those who begun life with
you...
behalf, n. (14)
Con 1.308 26 ...I feel called upon in behalf of
rational nature...to declare to you my opinion that if the Earth is
yours so also is it mine.
YA 1.390 2 If a humane measure is propounded in
behalf of the slave...that sentiment...will have the homage of the
hero.
Mrs1 3.150 10 A certain awkward consciousness of
inferiority in the men may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of
Woman's Rights.
PPh 4.58 5 ...the anecdotes that have come down from
the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his
master's behalf...
MoS 4.165 15 There is no man, in [Montaigne's]
opinion, who has not deserved hanging five or six times; and he
pretends no exception in his own behalf.
NMW 4.228 5 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own
sense, when in behalf of the Senate he addressed him,--Sire, the desire
of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
Wth 6.96 27 We are all richer for the measurement of
a degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer
for the chart. How intimately our knowledge of the system of the
Universe rests on that!--and a true economy in a state or an individual
will forget its frugality in behalf of claims like these.
Ctr 6.164 3 Who wishes to resist the eminent and
polite, in behalf of the poor, and low, and impolite?
Plu 10.309 23 Except as historical curiosities,
little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's]
Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs.
EWI 11.100 10 It has been in all men's experience a
marked effect of the enterprise in behalf of the African, to generate
an overbearing and defying spirit.
JBB 11.269 9 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I
had interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have
been right.
ACiv 11.299 26 Our whole history appears like a last
effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race;...
SMC 11.375 13 ...let me, in behalf of this assembly,
speak directly to you, our defenders [veterans of the Civil War]...
behave, v. (5)
NER 3.256 15 ...I am prone to count myself relieved
of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person whom I
pay with money;...
Bhr 6.184 1 [The successful man of the world] knows
that troops behave as they are handled at first;...
Cour 7.261 4 I am much mistaken if every man who went
to the army in the late war had not a lively curiosity to know how he
should behave in action.
SA 8.87 23 [The young European emigrant's] good and
becoming clothes put him on thinking that he must behave like people
who are so dressed;...
behaved, v. (4)
Tran 1.351 20 In other places other men have
encountered sharp trials, and behaved themselves well.
HDC 11.78 6 [Concord's] little population of 1300
souls behaved like a party to the contest [the American Revolution].
TPar 11.288 19 ...[the next generation] will care
little for fine gentlemen who behaved shabbily;...
behaves, v. (2)
ET2 5.28 7 It is impossible not to personify a ship;
every body does, in every thing they say:--she behaves well;...
Edc1 10.156 2 ...as [the naturalist] is still
immovable, [the creatures of nature]...volunteer some degree of
advances towards fellowship and good understanding with a biped who
behaves so civilly and well.
behavior, n. (76)
LE 1.179 19 Means to ends, is the motto of all
[Napoleon's] behavior.
Tran 1.344 8 If you do not need to hear my thought,
because you can read it in my face and behavior, then I will tell it
you from sunrise to sunset.
SR 2.48 2 What pretty oracles nature yields us on
this text in the face and behavior of children, babes, and even brutes!
Lov1 2.186 6 The soul which is in the soul of each
[lover], craving a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects
and disproportion in the behaviour of the other.
Hsm1 2.245 4 In the elder English dramatists...there
is a constant recognition of gentility, as if a noble behavior were as
easily marked in the society of their age as color is in our American
population.
Hsm1 2.250 2 ...let [a man]...with perfect urbanity
dare the gibbet and the mob by...the rectitude of his behavior.
Pt1 3.33 21 ...we love the poet, the inventor, who in
any form, whether in an ode or in an action or in looks and behavior,
has yielded us a new thought.
Mrs1 3.122 26 The gentleman is...lord of his own
actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior;...
Mrs1 3.146 15 Even the line of heroes is not utterly
extinct. ... These are the creators of Fashion, which is an attempt to
organize beauty of behavior.
Mrs1 3.147 28 If the individuals who compose the
purest circles of aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review, in
such manner as that we could at leisure and critically inspect their
behavior, we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
Mrs1 3.150 1 Woman, with her instinct of behavior,
instantly detects in man a love of trifles...
Pol1 3.218 26 If a man found himself so rich-natured
that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and
sweetness of his behavior, could he...covet relations so hollow and
pompous as those of a politician?
NER 3.256 18 ...if I had not that commodity [money],
I should be put on my good behavior in all companies...
NMW 4.238 16 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte
thought...a great deal about what he should do in case of a reverse of
fortune. The same prudence and good sense mark all his behavior.
ET8 5.129 21 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of
different classes [of Englishmen]. The choleric Welshman, the fervid
Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the
perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in
England].
ET8 5.133 2 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own
strength by the terror they cause. These travellers are of every
class...and it may easily happen that those of rudest behavior are
taken notice of and remembered.
ET11 5.186 1 ...when it happens that the spirit of
the earl meets his rank and duties, we have the best examples of
behavior.
ET16 5.288 27 There, in that great sloven continent
[America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother, long
since driven away from the trim hedge-rows and over-cultivated garden
of England. And, in England, I am quite too sensible of this. Every one
is on his good behavior and must be dressed for dinner at six.
Bhr 6.169 17 What are [manners] but
thought...controlling the movements of the body, the speech and
behavior?
Bhr 6.170 7 ...in real life, Talma taught Napoleon
the arts of behavior.
Bhr 6.173 20 ...these [bad manners] are social
inflictions...which must be entrusted to the restraining force
of...familiar rules of behavior impressed on young people in their
school-days.
Bhr 6.175 12 Claverhouse is a fop, and under the
finish of dress and levity of behavior hides the terror of his war.
Bhr 6.185 16 In the shallow company, easily excited,
easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard; the Alleghanies do not
express more repose than his behavior.
Bhr 6.196 5 There is no beautifier of complexion, or
form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
CbW 6.265 5 It is an old commendation of right
behavior, Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi, which our English proverb
translates, Be merry and wise.
SS 7.13 10 For behavior, men learn it, as they take
diseases, one of another.
DL 7.119 2 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in
your accent and behavior, read your heart and earnessness...
Farm 7.153 27 That uncorrupted behavior which we
admire in animals and in young children belongs to [the farmer]...
Boks 7.200 16 [Plutarch's] memory is like the
Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by the forms
and behavior of heroes...
Clbs 7.245 27 A man of irreproachable behavior and
excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel
for company...
Suc 7.282 6 But if thou do thy best,/ Without
remission, without rest,/ And invite the sunbeam,/ And abhor to feign
or seem/ Even to those who thee should love/ And thy behavior
approve;/...
OA 7.328 3 In old persons...we often observe a fair,
plump, perennial, waxen complexion, which indicates that all the
ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and
behavior.
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.
SA 8.79 22 'T is an inestimable hint that I owe to a
few persons of fine manners, that they make behavior the very first
sign of force...
SA 8.79 23 'T is an inestimable hint that I owe to a
few persons of fine manners, that they make behavior the very first
sign of force,--behavior, and not performance...
SA 8.84 10 In Borrow's Lavengro, the gypsy instantly
detects, by his companion's face and behavior, that some good fortune
has befallen him...
SA 8.87 25 [The young European emigrant's] good and
becoming clothes put him on thinking that he must behave like people
who are so dressed; and silently and steadily his behavior mends.
SA 8.103 5 ...I have seen examples of new grace and
power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long
ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was
such...good action, combined with such domestic lovely behavior...
Aris 10.56 2 I am acquainted with persons who go
attended with this ambient cloud. ... Their manners and behavior in the
house and in the field are those of men at rest...
Edc1 10.137 16 ...there is a perpetual hankering to
violate this individuality, to warp [the new man's] ways of thinking
and behavior to resemble or reflect your thinking and behavior.
Edc1 10.137 17 ...there is a perpetual hankering to
violate this individuality, to warp [the new man's] ways of thinking
and behavior to resemble or reflect your thinking and behavior.
Edc1 10.139 27 Everybody delights in the energy with
which boys deal and talk with each other;...the good-natured yet
defiant independence of a leading boy's behavior in the school-yard.
SovE 10.196 1 We answer, when they tell us of the bad
behavior of Luther or Paul: Well, what if he did?
MoL 10.257 16 We do not often have a moment of
grandeur in these hurried, slipshod lives, but the behavior of the
young men [in the war] has taught us much.
Plu 10.316 4 This courteous, gentle and benign
disposition and behavior is not so acceptable, so obliging or
delightful to any of those with whom we converse, as it is to those who
have it.
LLNE 10.334 1 The smallest anecdote of [Everett's]
behavior or conversation was eagerly caught and repeated...
LLNE 10.364 22 There is agreement in the testimony
that [Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their
life...their training in behavior.
EzRy 10.394 1 Was a man a sot...or was there any
cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor
[Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...
Carl 10.490 7 [Carlyle]...understands his own value
quite as well as Webster, of whom his behavior sometimes reminds me...
EWI 11.115 16 ...I must be indulged in quoting a few
sentences...narrating the behavior of the emancipated people [of the
West Indies] on the next day.
War 11.171 26 The attractiveness of war shows one
thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that a man
should be himself responsible, with goods, health and life, for his
behavior;...
FSLC 11.180 9 Every hour brings us from distant
quarters of the Union the expression of mortification at the late
events in Massachusetts, and at the behavior of Boston.
FSLN 11.221 25 [Webster's appearance at Bunker Hill]
was a place for behavior more than for speech...
SMC 11.355 16 ...we have all heard passages of
generous and exceptional behavior exhibited by individuals there [in
the South] to our officers and men...
PLT 12.62 17 ...the highest behavior, consists in the
identification of the Ego with the universe;...
CW 12.178 19 That uncorrupted behavior which we
admire in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to...the man
who lives in the presence of Nature.
Bost 12.192 15 [The Massachusett colonists'
experience] seems to have been the last outrage ever committed by the
sting-rays or by the sweetfern or by the fox-grapes; they have been of
peaceable behavior ever since.
Bost 12.198 6 We can show [in New England] native
examples...who possess all the elements of noble behavior.
WSL 12.345 2 ...in the character of Pericles [Landor]
has found full play for beauty and greatness of behavior...
EurB 12.373 9 ...we can easily believe that the
behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some
addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the
imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative
class.
EurB 12.377 5 ...high behavior fraternized with high
behavior [in the society in Wilhelm Meister]...
EurB 12.377 6 ...high behavior fraternized with high
behavior [in the society in Wilhelm Meister]...
behaviors, n. (2)
Bhr 6.171 7 The power of a woman of fashion to lead
and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that
she knows resources and behaviors not known to them;...
Bhr 6.172 24 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, and make them know how much happier the generous behaviors
are.
behaviours, n. (1)
Chr2 10.90 7 For what need I of book or priest/ Or
Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/ I
count as many as there are/ Cinquefoils or violets in the grass,/ So
many saints and saviours,/ So many high behaviours./
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