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.
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