Belus to Best-Settled
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
Belus, n. (1)
Belvedere Apollo, n. [Belvedere] (2)
Art2 7.50 11 In sculpture, did ever anybody call the
Apollo a fancy piece?
Belvoir, England, n. (1)
ET11 5.190 5 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from
the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the details which Ben
Jonson's masques (performed at Kenilworth, Althorpe, Belvoir and other
noble houses), record or suggest;...are favorable pictures of a
romantic style of manners.
Belzoni, Giovanni Battista, (5)
Hist 2.11 11 Belzoni digs and measures in the
mummy-pits and pyramids of Thebes until he can see the end of the
difference between the monstrous work and himself.
Mrs1 3.119 17 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni,
to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live
in sepulchres...
Wth 6.95 4 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows
the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the
science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated,
and who is using these to add to the stock. So it is with...Belzoni...
Dem1 10.10 27 Belzoni describes the three marks which
led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh.
CInt 12.129 2 When you say the times, the persons are
prosaic...where [is] the Romish or the Calvinistic religion, which made
a kind of poetry in the air for Milton, or Byron, or Belzoni?...you
expose your atheism.
bemoan, v. (3)
Exp 3.48 8 People grieve and bemoan themselves, but
it is not half so bad with them as they say.
Nat2 3.181 23 ...the trees...seem to bemoan their
imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
bemoaning, v. (1)
OA 7.327 11 All the functions of human duty irritate
and lash [man] forward, bemoaning and chiding...
Bench, Federal, n. (1)
FSLC 11.184 9 What is the use of a Federal Bench, if
its opinions are the political breath of the hour?
bench, n. (14)
SL 2.133 5 The regular course of studies...have not
yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the
Latin School.
Hsm1 2.257 3 ...the power of a romance over the boy
who grasps the forbidden book under his bench at school, our delight in
the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.
Wth 6.104 7 If you take out of State Street the ten
honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same
amount of capital...the judge will sit less firmly on the bench...
Cour 7.259 17 ...the aggressive attitude of men
who...will no longer be bothered with...thieves on the bench; that
part, the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must
be taken by stout and sincere men...
Elo2 8.111 19 Who knows before the debate
begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons,
the logic,--above all, the flame of passion and the continuous energy
of will which is presently to be let loose on this bench of
judges...all are invisible and unknown.
Edc1 10.158 5 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from
his bench, or a girl, because the fire falls...take away the medal from
the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
SlHr 10.441 4 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or
congresses to sit down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in
the town-house, on the plain wooden bench where honor came and sat down
beside him.
EWI 11.106 17 Very unwilling had that great lawyer
[Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery]; he
suggested twice from the bench, in the course of the trial [of George
Somerset], how the question might be got rid of...
EWI 11.140 20 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781,
whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into
the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and
owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is
reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was
it from necessity?
FSLC 11.198 11 What shall we say of the functionary
by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If
he has rightly defined his powers, and has no authority to try the
case, but only to prove the prisoner's identity, and remand him, what
office is this for a reputable citizen to hold? No man of honor can sit
on that bench.
JBB 11.271 3 Great wealth, great population, men of
talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right...
JBB 11.272 3 ...the use of a judge is to secure good
government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the
federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local
government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we
should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the
dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
Bench, n. (4)
EWI 11.129 16 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary
walks on the magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out
the benefit of the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide
realm [the West Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other
thoughts.
FSLC 11.185 19 The learning of the universities...the
majesty of the Bench...are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy].
FSLN 11.241 18 We should not forgive...the Bench, if
it put itself on the side of the culprit;...
Bench of Bishops, n. (1)
ET15 5.269 9 [The London Times] makes rude work with
the Board of Admiralty. The Bench of Bishops is still less safe.
benches, n. (2)
Art2 7.55 5 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any
one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see
any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a
circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so
make a cup of which the object of attention occupies the hollow area.
The architect put benches in this, and enclosed the cup with a
wall,--and behold a Coliseum!
Aris 10.45 15 It never troubles the Senator what
multitudes crack the benches and bend the galleries to hear.
bend, v. (23)
Nat 1.21 26 Willingly does [nature]...bend her lines
of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child.
LE 1.184 7 ...out of this superior frankness and
charity you shall learn higher secrets of your nature, which gods will
bend and aid you to communicate.
Con 1.299 12 Conservatism...believes...that for me it
avails not to trust in principles, they will fail me, I must bend a
little;...
Hist 2.34 23 The preternatural prowess of the hero,
the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of
the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the
mind.
OS 2.271 8 ...the soul, whose organ [what we commonly
call man] is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our
knees bend.
Art1 2.349 22 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to
play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile
to his fate/...
Elo1 7.91 27 There is for every man a statement
possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive,--a
statement possible, so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away
from it, but must either bend to it or die of it.
Farm 7.138 24 [The farmer] bends to the order of the
seasons, the weather, the soils and crops, as the sails of a ship bend
to the wind.
Insp 8.268 12 ...Time cannot bend a line which God
hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
Aris 10.45 15 It never troubles the Senator what
multitudes crack the benches and bend the galleries to hear.
PerF 10.73 3 The man must bend to the law, never the
law to him.
Chr2 10.120 19 The grass must bend, when the wind
blows across it.
SovE 10.197 23 If I will stand upright, the creation
cannot bend me.
AsSu 11.249 14 His friends, I remember, were told
that they would find Sumner a man of the world like the rest; 't is
quite impossible to be at Washington and not bend; he will bend as the
rest have done.
AsSu 11.249 15 His friends, I remember, were told
that they would find Sumner a man of the world like the rest; 't is
quite impossible to be at Washington and not bend; he will bend as the
rest have done. Well, he did not bend.
ChiE 11.473 12 ...[Confucius]...met the ingrained
prudence of his nation by saying always, Bend one cubit to straighten
eight.
CL 12.150 20 In January the new snow has changed the
woods so that [a man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals
in a night. In the familiar forest he finds Norway and Russia in the
masses of overloading snow which break all that they cannot bend.
Bost 12.182 14 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred
thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/
Make sunshine in her brain./ And each shall care for other,/ And each
to each shall bend,/ To the poor a noble brother,/ To the good an equal
friend./
bended, adj. (4)
Nat 1.61 17 Like the figure of Jesus, [Nature] stands
with bended head...
SR 2.70 27 The genesis and maturation of a
planet...the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind...are
demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
Insp 8.268 5 ...if with bended head I grope/
Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More
anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/
Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/
Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
bending, adj. (2)
AmS 1.86 16 ...to this schoolboy under the bending
dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one
root;...
PerF 10.68 4 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My
oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives
back the bending heavens in dew./
bending, v. (4)
PPo 8.261 12 Is Allah's face on thee/ Bending with
love benign,/ And thou not less on Allah's eye/ O fairest! turnest
thine./
FSLN 11.218 23 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical
sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs-and instantly the
entire rectangular assembly [in the railway car], fresh from their
breakfast, are bending as one man to their second breakfast.
CL 12.158 3 There are probably many in this audience
who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as
to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.
bends, v. (5)
Hist 2.13 24 Through the bruteness and toughness of
matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will.
Hsm1 2.249 9 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back
to his heels; hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and
babes;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
F 6.38 2 ...[every creature] has predisposing power
that bends and fits what is near him to his use.
MAng1 12.241 27 At the age of eighty years,
[Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him...that he is careful
where he bends his thoughts...
benedicat, v. (1)
ET12 5.200 10 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the
upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals,
which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages, Benedictus, benedicat;
benedicitur, benedicatur.
benedicatur, v. (1)
ET12 5.200 10 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the
upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals,
which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages, Benedictus, benedicat;
benedicitur, benedicatur.
benedicitur, v. (1)
ET12 5.200 10 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the
upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals,
which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages, Benedictus, benedicat;
benedicitur, benedicatur.
Benedict, XIV, Pope, n. [Benedict] (4)
Wsp 6.236 10 Benedict went out to seek his friend,
and met him on the way;...
Wsp 6.237 6.237 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. Should
she keep her, or should she dismiss her? But Benedict said, why ask?
MAng1 12.231 24 Benedict XIV., during one of these
panics, sent for the architect Marchese Polini to come to Rome and
examine [St. Peter's dome].
benediction, n. (2)
SL 2.160 26 ...why need you torment yourself and
friend by secret self-reproaches that you have not...complimented him
with gifts and salutations heretofore? Be a gift and a benediction.
HDC 11.86 19 The benediction of [the Concord
people's] prayers and of their principles lingers around us.
benedictions, n. (3)
Ill 6.325 12 The young mortal enters the hall of the
firmament; there is he alone with [the gods] alone, they pouring on him
benedictions and gifts...
GSt 10.507 15 Almost I am ready to say to these
mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you
remember that there is... not a Southern State in which the freedmen
will not learn to-day from their preachers that one of their most
efficient benefactors has departed, and will cover his memory with
benedictions;...
SMC 11.376 6 A duty so severe has been discharged [in
the Civil War], and with such immense results of good...that, though
the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear
through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.
benedictus, v. (1)
ET12 5.200 10 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the
upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals,
which, I suppose, has been in use here for ages, Benedictus, benedicat;
benedicitur, benedicatur.
benefaction, n. (2)
CbW 6.256 16 The benefaction derived in Illinois and
the great West from railroads is inestimable...
benefactor, n. (36)
MR 1.228 6 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each
person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a
benefactor...
Con 1.324 18 Whosoever hereafter shall name my name,
shall not record a malefactor but a benefactor in the earth.
Tran 1.337 25 The Buddhist...who...will not deceive
the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a
Transcendentalist.
Comp 2.118 17 In general, every evil to which we do
not succumb is a benefactor.
Chr1 3.99 15 I revere the person who is riches; so
that I cannot think of him as alone...but as perpetual patron,
benefactor and beatified man.
Chr1 3.111 17 ...when men shall meet as they ought,
each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things
announce.
NER 3.256 19 ...if I had not that commodity
[money]...man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only
certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each
asked of the other.
UGM 4.28 26 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;...
NMW 4.225 24 [The man in the street] finds
[Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible
merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all
those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal
and deny:...the standing in the attitude of a benefactor to all persons
about him...
Civ 7.22 5 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded
and bridged to a good road, there is a benefactor...
DL 7.128 6 Happy will that house be...in which
character marries... Then shall marriage be a covenant to secure to
either party the sweetness and honor of being a calm, continuing,
inevitable benefactor to the other.
DL 7.129 6 ...when men shall meet as they
should...each a benefactor...it shall be the festival of Nature...
WD 7.165 24 ...Trade...that benefactor in spite of
itself, ends in shameful defaulting, bubble and bankruptcy...
SA 8.103 7 ...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 modesty and persistent
preference for others. Wherever he moved, he was the benefactor.
QO 8.191 6 If we are fired and guided by these
[inspiring lessons], we know [the author] as a benefactor...
PC 8.230 4 Talent working with joy in the cause of
universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
Chr2 10.107 27 ...the distinctions of the true
clergyman are not less decisive. Men ask now, Is he serious? Is he a
sincere man, who lives as he teaches? Is he a benefactor?
Schr 10.284 21 Happy for more than yourself, a
benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of
wisdom, art or poetry;...
FSLN 11.243 19 Having...professed his adoration for
liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded
with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day,
much in the tone and spirit in which Lord Bacon prosecuted his
benefactor Essex.
ALin 11.336 26 ...what if it should turn out, in the
unfolding of the web... that Heaven, wishing to show the world a
completed benefactor, shall make [Lincoln] serve his country even more
by his death than by his life?
HCom 11.342 11 The proof that war...is a marked
benefactor in the hands of the Divine Providence, is its morale.
FRO2 11.487 21 All education is to accustom [man] to
trust himself...until he...becomes a benefactor.
CW 12.176 11 ...if one is so happy as to find the
company of a true artist, he is a perpetual holiday and benefactor...
WSL 12.340 26 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and
ample page...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
benefactors, n. (29)
Nat 1.13 19 The useful arts are reproductions or new
combinations by the wit of man, of the same natural benefactors.
Tran 1.337 22 The Buddhist...who says, Do not flatter
your benefactors...is a Transcendentalist.
SR 2.47 25 ...we are...guides, redeemers and
benefactors...
Comp 2.116 24 ...disasters of all kinds, as sickness,
offence, poverty, prove benefactors...
SL 2.164 9 Why need I go gadding into the scenes and
philosophy of Greek and Italian history before I have justified myself
to my benefactors?
Gts 3.164 1 It is a very onerous business, this of
being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap. A
golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the
Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, Do not flatter your
benefactors.
ShP 4.197 27 ...Petrarch, Boccaccio and the Provencal
poets are [Chaucer' s] benefactors...
ET12 5.202 10 As many sons [at Oxford], almost so
many benefactors.
Ctr 6.156 14 ...Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, did not
live in a crowd, but descended into it from time to time as
benefactors;...
CbW 6.248 17 Mankind divides itself into two
classes,--benefactors and malefactors.
CbW 6.273 27 We know that all our training is to fit
us for [friendship], and we do not take the step towards it. How long
shall we sit and wait for these benefactors?
Suc 7.286 26 Neither do we grudge to each of these
benefactors the praise or the profit which accrues from his industry.
PI 8.73 26 In the mire of the sensual life...[poets']
admiration of heroes and benefactors...are hosts of ideals...
PC 8.234 10 ...when I...consider the sound material
of which the cultivated class here is made up...and that the most
distinguished by genius and culture are in this class of benefactors,-I
cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
Edc1 10.142 4 There is no want of example of great
men, great benefactors, who have been monks and hermits in habit.
GSt 10.503 2 ...unlike other benefactors, [George
Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his
own pursuits...
GSt 10.507 14 Almost I am ready to say to these
mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you
remember that there is... not a Southern State in which the freedmen
will not learn to-day from their preachers that one of their most
efficient benefactors has departed...
HDC 11.85 24 Why need I remind you of our own
Hosmers, Minotts...the departed benefactors of the town [Concord]?
EWI 11.102 12 These men [negro slaves], our
benefactors...I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how
they are kept there.
War 11.169 1 If you have a nation of men who have
risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare
war or carry arms...you have a nation...of benefactors, of true, great
and able men.
FSLC 11.183 18 ...only persons who were known and
tried benefactors are found standing for freedom...
SHC 11.435 15 ...when these acorns, that are falling
at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote
century...heroes, poets, beauties, sanctities, benefactors, will have
made the air timeable and articulate.
CPL 11.496 16 Our founder [of the Concord Library]
has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the
country, of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and
hospitals...
Bost 12.208 25 What public souls have lived here [in
Boston], what social benefactors...
benefic, adj. (1)
Nat2 3.182 27 If we consider how much we are
nature's, we need not be superstitious about towns, as if that terrific
or benefic force did not find us there also...
beneficence, n. (6)
YA 1.374 21 ...the existing generation are conspiring
with a beneficence which in its working for coming generations,
sacrifices the passing one;...
OS 2.275 16 The soul...requires beneficence, but is
somewhat better;...
Art2 7.37 10 [All the departments of life] are
sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity...dissolving man as well
as his works in its flowing beneficence.
Prch 10.235 18 The inevitable course of remark for
us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty,
is...simply the celebration of the power and beneficence amid which and
by which we live...
CPL 11.496 22 ...it is not easy to exaggerate the
utility of the beneficence which takes this form [building of a
library].
beneficent, adj. (32)
Con 1.313 10 Consider [the order of things] as the
work of a great and beneficent and progressive necessity...
Con 1.322 20 Which is that state which promises to
edify a great, brave, and beneficent man;...
YA 1.371 25 ...the Genius or Destiny is not narrow,
but beneficent.
MoS 4.186 2 ...through toys and atoms, a great and
beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
ET15 5.261 5 In England...[the power of the
newspaper] is all the more beneficent succor against the secretive
tendencies of a monarchy.
ET15 5.272 27 ...[if the London Times would cleave to
the right] the least of its victories would be to give to England a new
millennium of beneficent power.
Ill 6.319 5 There are...the structural, beneficent
illusions of sentiment and of the intellect.
Cour 7.277 3 If you have no faith in beneficent power
above you...then reflect that the best use of fate is to teach us
courage...
Suc 7.284 25 It is recorded of Linnaeus, among many
proofs of his beneficent skill, that when the timber in the shipyards
of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to
find a remedy.
SA 8.107 13 ...I believe that with all liberal and
hopeful men there is a firm faith in the beneficent results which we
really enjoy;...
Dem1 10.17 16 I believed that I discovered in
nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and
therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. It
was...not devilish, since it was beneficent;...
Chr2 10.117 26 The churches already indicate the new
spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent
activities...
SovE 10.189 3 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the
bottom of the heart that...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always
bringing things right;...
SovE 10.192 21 Nothing is allowed to exceed or absorb
the rest; if it do, it is disease, and is quickly destroyed. It was an
early discovery of the mind,- this beneficent rule.
Prch 10.237 23 ...when we...come into the house of
thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see that
life...is...a growth after immutable laws under beneficent influences
the most immense.
Schr 10.267 11 Action is legitimate and good; forever
be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth
to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends.
LLNE 10.350 9 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the
bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system;...
LLNE 10.353 14 ...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...
FSLN 11.223 25 If [Webster's] moral sensibility had
been proportioned to the force of his understanding, what limits could
have been set to his genius and beneficent power?
ACiv 11.309 10 I hope it is not a fatal objection to
this policy [of emancipation] that it is simple and beneficent
thoroughly...
FRO1 11.480 22 I wish that the various beneficent
institutions which are springing up...all over this country, should all
be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free
Religious Association]...
Let 12.404 27 Many of the best must die of
consumption...and many be stupid and insane, before the one great and
fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty
and beneficent existence.
beneficently, adv. (1)
Wsp 6.215 15 I can best indicate by examples those
reactions by which every part of nature replies to the purpose of the
actor,--beneficently to the good, penally to the bad.
beneficiaries, n. (2)
Gts 3.163 13 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful,
as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the
beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
EzRy 10.391 3 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra
Ripley's] beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion;...
beneficiary, n. (5)
Tran 1.355 7 ...the justice which is now claimed for
the black...is for a necessity to the soul of the agent, not of the
beneficiary.
Tran 1.356 14 Grave seniors insist on
[Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or
beneficiary...which they resist as what does not concern them.
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...
Gts 3.163 13 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful,
as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the
beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
Gts 3.163 17 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful,
as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the
beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
benefit, n. (138)
Nat 1.17 2 ...in other hours, Nature
satisfies...without any mixture of corporeal benefit.
LE 1.168 9 ...the pine throwing out its pollen for
the benefit of the next century; the turpentine exuding from the
tree...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
MN 1.204 3 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that
impression nature makes on us is this, that it does not exist to any
one or to any number of particular ends, but to numberless and endless
benefit;...
MN 1.210 17 Are there not moments in the history of
heaven when the human race was not counted by individuals,
but...was...God rushing into multiform benefit?
MN 1.214 22 He who aims at progress should aim at an
infinite, not at a special benefit.
MR 1.228 13 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each
person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a
brave and upright man, who must...make it easier for all who follow him
to go in honor and with benefit.
MR 1.247 23 ...we must clear ourselves each one by
the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the
hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit;...
Tran 1.358 1 ...the path which the hero travels alone
is the highway of health and benefit to mankind.
YA 1.366 22 ...beside all the moral benefit which we
may expect from the farmer's profession...this [inclination to withdraw
from cities] promised the conquering of the soil...
YA 1.372 8 All the facts in any part of nature shall
be tabulated and the results shall indicate the same security and
benefit;...
YA 1.375 1 Benefit will accrue, [railroads] are
essential to the country...
YA 1.375 11 We should be mortified to learn that the
little benefit we chanced in our own persons to receive was the utmost
[the things we do] would yield.
YA 1.386 7 If any man has a talent...for combining a
hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the
county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
YA 1.387 7 If society were transparent, the
noble...would be felt as benefit, inasmuch as he was noble.
Comp 2.112 23 Has [a man] gained by borrowing,
through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or
money? There arises on the deed the instant acknowledgment of benefit
on the one part and of debt on the other;...
Comp 2.113 16 ...for every benefit which you receive,
a tax is levied.
SL 2.152 10 There is no teaching until the pupil is
brought into the same state or principle in which you are;...then is a
teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite
lose the benefit.
Fdsp 2.201 5 ...I leave, for the time, all account of
subordinate social benefit [of friendship]...
Fdsp 2.209 26 Leave it to girls and boys to regard a
friend as property, and to suck a short and all-confounding pleasure,
instead of the noblest benefit.
Cir 2.305 27 The new statement...to those dwelling in
the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism. But the eye soon gets
wonted to it...then its innocency and benefit appear...
Exp 3.84 5 When I receive a new gift, I do not
macerate my body to make the account square, for if I should die I
could not make the account square. The benefit overran the merit the
first day...
Chr1 3.104 6 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who
has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and
good deeds, as...two professors recommended to foreign universities;
etc., etc. The longest list of specifications of benefit would look
very short.
Mrs1 3.143 19 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if
we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply
these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the
individuals actually found there.
Gts 3.164 13 Compared with that good-will I bear my
friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.
Gts 3.164 18 ...we can seldom hear the
acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without
some shame and humiliation.
Gts 3.164 22 ...we seldom have the satisfaction of
yielding a direct benefit which is directly received.
Pol1 3.210 25 From neither party, when in power, has
the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all
commensurate with the resources of the nation.
NR 3.239 22 Hence the immense benefit of party in
politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the
intellectual force of the persons... could not have seen.
NR 3.239 27 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit
that there should be two stupidities!
NER 3.261 8 ...in the assault on the kingdom of
darkness [many reformers]...lose their sanity and power of benefit.
NER 3.277 7 The selfish man suffers more from his
selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important
benefit.
NER 3.278 3 ...we desire to be touched with that fire
which shall command this ice to stream, and make our existence a
benefit.
UGM 4.6 18 It costs a beautiful person no exertion to
paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit!
UGM 4.16 23 We go to the gymnasium and the
swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the
like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats
of all kinds;...
UGM 4.21 10 How to illustrate the distinctive benefit
of ideas, the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into
the general mind?...
UGM 4.31 14 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent
person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a
lake by cutting a lower basin. It seems a mechanical advantage, and
great benefit it is to each speaker...
UGM 4.34 24 We have never come at the true and best
benefit of any genius so long as we believe him an original force.
UGM 4.35 12 It is for man...on every side, whilst he
lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song, that...the germs of
love and benefit may be multiplied.
PPh 4.63 15 I announce the good of being
interpenetrated by the mind that made nature: this benefit, namely,
that it can understand nature, which it made and maketh.
PPh 4.67 9 Judge whether it is not safer to be
instructed by some one of those who have power over the benefit which
they impart to men [said Socrates], than by me, who benefit or not,
just as it may happen.
ET9 5.148 26 There is also this benefit in brag, that
the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal.
ET10 5.163 22 The taste and science of thirty
peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England], and the
hereditary principle heaps on the owner of to-day the benefit of ages
of owners.
ET11 5.194 1 Most of [the English noblemen] are only
chargeable with idleness, which, because it squanders such vast power
of benefit, has the mischief of crime.
ET12 5.204 16 [The English] know the use of a tutor,
as they know the use of a horse; and they draw the greatest amount of
benefit out of both.
ET14 5.247 19 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid
advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only
good.
ET14 5.247 20 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid
advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only
good. The eminent benefit of astronomy is the better navigation it
creates to enable the fruit-ships to bring home their lemons and wine
to the London grocer.
F 6.33 5 ...whilst art draws out the venom, it
commonly extorts some benefit from the vanquished enemy.
Pow 6.70 7 ...[the people's] instincts are a
finger-pointing of Providence, always turned toward real benefit.
Pow 6.81 4 ...we infer that all success and all
conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his
reach...
Wth 6.89 8 He is the richest man who knows how to
draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men...
Ctr 6.148 5 Akin to the benefit of foreign travel,
the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and
country life...
Ctr 6.166 19 [Man] will convert the Furies into
Muses, and the hells into benefit.
CbW 6.256 19 What is the benefit done by a good King
Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by
the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
Civ 7.31 2 What a benefit would the American
government...render to itself...if it would tax whiskey and rum almost
to the point of prohibition!
DL 7.114 3 The desire of gold is not for gold. It is
not the love of much wheat and wool and household stuff. It is the
means of freedom and benefit.
DL 7.115 15 [Man] should be visited in this his
prison...with no...mean offer of money as the utmost benefit...
Farm 7.150 18 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land,
make it sweet and friable; have made English Chat Moss a garden, and
will now do as much for the Dismal Swamp. But beyond this benefit they
are the text of better opinions and better auguries for mankind.
Clbs 7.244 12 Every scholar is surrounded by wiser
men than he--if they cannot write as well. Cannot they meet and
exchange results to their mutual benefit and delight?
OA 7.327 6 Michel Angelo's head is full...of
architectural dreams, until a hundred stone-masons can lay them in
courses of travertine. There is the like tempest in every good head in
which some great benefit for the world is planted.
OA 7.328 17 For a fourth benefit, age sets its house
in order...
PI 8.67 22 We are a little civil, it must be
owned...to Dante and Shakspeare, and give them the benefit of the
largest interpretation.
SA 8.87 19 No nation is dressed with more good sense
than ours. And everybody sees certain moral benefit in it.
SA 8.100 14 The old Confucius in China admitted the
benefit [of riches], but stated the limitation...
SA 8.104 10 Amidst the calamities which war has
brought on our country this one benefit has accrued,--that our
eyes...look homeward.
Elo2 8.129 8 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a
premeditated speech in Parliament in favor of that clause of the bill
which allowed the prisoner the benefit of counsel, fell into such a
disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
Grts 8.315 19 How many men, detested in contemporary
hostile history, of whom...we have learned to correct our old
estimates, and to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great
benefit.
Imtl 8.329 22 Schiller said, What is so universal as
death, must be benefit.
Chr2 10.91 16 ...it is for benefit, that all
subsists.
Chr2 10.91 22 ...the reason we must give for the
existence of the world is, that it is for the benefit of all being.
Chr2 10.93 3 ...love is delight in the preference of
that benefit redounding to another over the securing of our own
share;...
Chr2 10.93 6 ...humility is a sentiment of our
insignificance when the benefit of the universe is considered.
Chr2 10.94 10 The [interest of the individual] craves
a private benefit, which [the dictate of the universal mind] requires
him to renounce out of respect to the absolute good.
Chr2 10.100 18 It happens now and then, in the ages,
that a soul is born... which comes down into Nature as if only for the
benefit of souls...
Edc1 10.139 12 [Boys] detect weakness in your eye and
behavior a week before you open your mouth, and have given you the
benefit of their opinion quick as a wink.
Edc1 10.159 11 Consent yourself to be an organ of
your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you...are the fountain of an
energy that goes pulsing on with waves of benefit to the borders of
society...
SovE 10.201 25 The creeds into which we were
initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the
minds of thoughtful men, but... we hate to have them treated with
contempt. There is so much that we do not know, that we give these
suggestions the benefit of the doubt.
Prch 10.228 13 Mankind have been subdued to the
acceptance of [Jesus's] doctrine, and cannot spare the benefit of so
pure a servant of truth and love.
Prch 10.236 26 The Sabbath changes its forms from age
to age, but the substantial benefit endures.
MMEm 10.432 4 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson] who
have learned within three years to sit whole days in peace and
enjoyment without the least apparent benefit to any...
Thor 10.459 3 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President
[of Harvard University]...that the one benefit he owed to the College
was its library...
GSt 10.507 5 ...when I consider...that [George
Stearns]...beheld his work prosper for the joy and benefit of all
mankind,-I count him happy among men.
HDC 11.43 14 ...when, presently...parties, with
grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians
and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen
in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade
and practices of these farmers.
EWI 11.129 17 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary
walks on the magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out
the benefit of the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide
realm [the West Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other
thoughts.
EWI 11.141 27 The emancipation [in the West Indies]
is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as
sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun.
FSLC 11.188 25 ...whilst animals have to do with
eating the fruits of the ground, men have to to with rectitude, with
benefit, with truth...
FSLC 11.199 21 The only benefit that has accrued from
the [Fugitive Slave] law is its service to education.
FSLN 11.236 2 I conceive that thus to detach a man
and make him feel that he is to owe all to himself is the way to make
him strong and rich; and here the optimist must find, if anywhere, the
benefit of Slavery.
FSLN 11.237 16 A man who commits a crime defeats the
end of his existence. He was created for benefit, and he exists for
harm;...
AKan 11.257 12 I know people who are making haste to
reduce their expenses and pay their debts...in preparation to save and
earn for the benefit of the Kansas emigrants.
ACiv 11.302 17 We want men...who can open their
eyes...to considerations of benefit to the human race...
EPro 11.317 16 ...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.
EPro 11.323 25 The [Civil] war...brought with it the
immense benefit of drawing a line and rallying the free states to fix
it impassably...
EPro 11.325 16 We think we cannot overstate the
wisdom and benefit of this act of the government [the Emancipation
Proclamation].
EdAd 11.384 12 [The traveller] reflects on...what
levers, what pumps, what exhaustive analyses are applied to Nature [in
America] for the benefit of masses of men.
EdAd 11.387 7 ...the right patriotism consists in the
delight which springs from contributing our peculiar and legitimate
advantages to the benefit of humanity.
Wom 11.405 6 Among those movements which seem to be,
now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on
society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the
position of Woman.
SHC 11.431 6 A grove of trees,-what benefit or
ornament is so fair and great?...
SHC 11.432 25 Certainly the living need [a garden]
more than the dead; indeed...it is given to the dead for the reaction
of benefit on the living.
FRO1 11.478 2 ...[the Free Religious Association] has
prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious
men...in whatever relation they stand to the Christian Church, to unite
in a movement of benefit to men...
FRO2 11.486 8 ...we find parity, identity of design,
through Nature, and benefit to be the uniform aim...
FRO2 11.489 8 It is the praise of our New Testament
that its teachings go to the honor and benefit of humanity...
CPL 11.495 21 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens
who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture, as in the
act we are met to witness and acknowledge to-day [opening of the
Concord Library]. I think we cannot easily overestimate the benefit
conferred.
CPL 11.496 2 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and
lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a
noble library...
FRep 11.537 4 We want men...who can open their
eyes...to considerations of benefit to the human race...
FRep 11.544 18 ...the height of reason, the noblest
affection, the purest religion will...write our laws for the benefit of
men.
PLT 12.30 22 When, moved by love, a man...joins with
his neighbor in any act of common benefit...it is not done for others,
but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
PLT 12.30 26 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at
immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is
not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper
character. The benefit to others is contingent and not contemplated by
the doer.
PLT 12.40 27 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is
a truth held not from...any accidental benefit or recommendation it has
in our trade or circumstance...is of inestimable value.
PLT 12.62 6 The measure of mental health is the
disposition to find good everywhere, good and order, analogy, health
and benefit...
II 12.73 1 Certain young men or maidens are thus to
be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money.
Perhaps that is a benefit...
II 12.87 14 ...perception that the tendency of the
whole is to the benefit of the individual is the universal of faith.
II 12.88 17 Our books are full of generous
biographies...of men and of women who lived for the benefit and healing
of nature.
Mem 12.96 10 The mind disposes all its
experience...to its ruling end;...one [man] to heroic benefit and one
to wrath and animal desire.
CL 12.136 22 Linnaeus, early in life, read a
discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in
one's own country, based on the conviction...that in every district
were swamps, or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which...were capable
of yielding immense benefit.
CL 12.156 2 ...beside their sanitary and gymnastic
benefit, mountains are silent poets...
ACri 12.304 18 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung
deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation.
PPr 12.382 13 ...let [a man] see whether he so holds
his property that a benefit goes from it to all.
Let 12.394 7 ...to fifteen letters on Communities,
and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated
class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the
writers...should be dissatisfied with the life they lead, and with
their company. They have exhausted all its benefit...
Benefit, n. (1)
benefit, v. (1)
PPh 4.67 11 Judge whether it is not safer to be
instructed by some one of those who have power over the benefit which
they impart to men [said Socrates], than by me, who benefit or not,
just as it may happen.
benefited, v. (3)
PPh 4.66 26 Socrates declares that if some have grown
wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...he pretends
not to know the way of it. It is adverse to many, nor can those be
benefited by associating with me whom the Daemon opposes;...
PPh 4.67 3 With many...[said Socrates, the Daemon]
does not prevent me from conversing, who yet are not at all benefited
by associating with me.
benefits, n. (35)
MR 1.234 22 ...we all involve ourselves in [the evil
of property] the deeper by forming connections...by benefits and debts.
LT 1.277 17 Those who are urging with most ardor what
are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men...
Hist 2.39 13 [Each man] shall...bring with him into
humble cottages...all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth.
SR 2.63 17 The joyful loyalty with which men have
everywhere suffered the king...to...pay for benefits not with money but
with honor...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely
signified...the right of every man.
Comp 2.113 21 In the order of nature we cannot render
benefits to those from whom we receive them...
Gts 3.162 1 The law of benefits is a difficult
channel, which requires careful sailing, or rude boats.
PNR 4.80 3 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial
Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...we esteem one of the
chief benefits the cheap press has yielded...
GoW 4.279 7 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo],
who is the centre and fountain of an association for the rendering of
the noblest benefits to the human race, no longer answers to his own
titled name;...
ET18 5.307 17 ...the American people do not
yield...more inventions or books or benefits than the English.
Wth 6.89 4 Wealth requires...the benefits of science,
music and fine arts...
Wth 6.97 22 The socialism of our day has done good
service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing
benefits...can be enjoyed by all.
Ill 6.316 12 ...the mighty Mother...insinuates into
the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits...
Clbs 7.250 13 When we look for the highest benefits
of conversation, the Spartan rule of one to one is usually enforced.
OA 7.323 8 Under the general assertion of the
well-being of age, we can easily count particular benefits of that
condition.
PC 8.212 8 ...I say, Happy is the land wherein
benefits like these have grown trite and commonplace.
PC 8.221 1 ...one of the distinctions of our century
has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science. The
benefits thence derived to the arts and to civilization are signal and
immense.
Insp 8.279 26 Health is the first muse, comprising
the magical benefits of air, landscape and bodily exercise, on the
mind.
Imtl 8.337 24 ...I have enjoyed the benefits of all
this complex machinery of arts and civilization...
War 11.154 8 [Alexander's conquest of the East]
brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at
first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage. It
would be very easy to show analogous benefits that have resulted from
military movements of later ages.
Wom 11.405 5 Among those movements which seem to be,
now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on
society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the
position of Woman.
Scot 11.465 25 [Scott] saw...in the historical
aristocracy the benefits to the state which Burke claimed for it;...
FRep 11.544 3 Such and so potent is this high method
by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the
mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse
ingenuity prevent the blessing.
AgMs 12.363 26 [Edmund Hosmer]...was incorrigible in
his skepticism concerning the benefits conferred by legislatures on the
agriculture of Massachusetts.
benefits, v. (2)
F 6.47 20 ...when a man...is ground to powder by the
vice of his race;-he is to rally on his relation to the Universe, which
his ruin benefits.
Benegridran, n. (1)
ET11 5.175 2 He that will be a head, let him be a
bridge, said the Welsh chief Benegridran...
benevolence, n. (20)
DSA 1.124 8 So much benevolence as a man hath, so
much life hath he.
SR 2.81 13 I have no churlish objection to the
circumnavigation of the globe for the purposes...of...benevolence...
SL 2.135 19 [Nature] does not like our benevolence or
our learning much better than she likes our frauds and wars.
Lov1 2.169 5 Nature...anticipates already a
benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general
light.
Fdsp 2.191 15 In poetry and in common speech the
emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others
are likened to the material effects of fire;...
Chr1 3.99 22 ...if I go to see an ingenious man I
shall think myself poorly entertained if he give me nimble pieces of
benevolence and etiquette;...
Mrs1 3.142 23 We may easily seem ridiculous in our
eulogy of courtesy, whenever we insist on benevolence as its
foundation.
Ctr 6.159 19 [People] do not know the charm with
which all moments and objects can be embellished, the charm of manners,
of self-command, of benevolence.
Wsp 6.227 22 There was a wise, devout man who is
called in the Catholic Church, St. Philip Neri, of whom many anecdotes
touching his discernment and benevolence are told at Naples and Rome.
Dem1 10.16 15 [The young man] observes, with
pain...that his genius, whose invisible benevolence was tower and
shield to him, is no longer present and active.
MMEm 10.419 18 ...so poor are some of those allotted
to join me [Mary Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is
benevolence enjoins self-denial.
War 11.175 24 ...not in an antiquated appanage where
no onward step can be taken without rebellion, is this seed of
benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of
hope;...
II 12.85 7 Is there only one courage, one gratitude,
one benevolence?
benevolences, n. (1)
MoS 4.173 6 It stands in [the wise skeptic's] mind
that our life in this world is not of quite so easy interpretation as
churches and school-books say. He does not wish to take ground against
these benevolences...
benevolent, adj. (8)
Tran 1.354 23 In the eternal trinity of Truth,
Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the
sign and head. Something of the same taste is observable in all the
moral movements of the time, in the religious and benevolent
enterprises.
Comp 2.122 18 ...the true, the benevolent, the wise,
is more a man and not less, than the fool and knave.
Chr1 3.103 14 We know who is benevolent, by quite
other means than the amount of subscription to soup-societies.
NER 3.279 10 The reason why any one refuses...his aid
to your benevolent design, is in you...
SwM 4.141 25 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very
like...to the phenomena of dreaming, which nightly turns many an honest
gentleman, benevolent but dyspeptic, into a wretch...
HDC 11.53 13 We, who see in the squalid remnants of
the twenty tribes of Massachusetts, the final failure of this
benevolent enterprise, can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness
with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to
the new hope they had conceived...
JBS 11.279 15 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a
romantic character...living to ideal ends, without any mixture of
self-indulgence or compromise, such as lowers the value of benevolent
and thoughtful men we know;...
EPro 11.326 14 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race
which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of
the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a
race naturally benevolent, docile, industrious...
Bengal, adj. (1)
Ill 6.309 20 We shot Bengal lights into the vaults
and groins of the sparry cathedrals [in the Mammoth Cave]...
benign, adj. (7)
AmS 1.110 21 ...the same movement which effected the
elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in
literature...as benign an aspect.
Pol1 3.208 9 The same benign necessity and the same
practical abuse appear in the parties...of opponents and defenders of
the administration of the government.
Ctr 6.147 25 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect
of ether to lull pain... rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...
PPo 8.261 12 Is Allah's face on thee/ Bending with
love benign,/ And thou not less on Allah's eye/ O fairest! turnest
thine./
Plu 10.303 9 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another
example of the sacred care which...has drawn attention to what an
ancient might call the politeness of Fate,-we will say, more advisedly,
the benign Providence...
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.
benignant, adj. (5)
Art1 2.362 10 A calm benignant beauty shines over all
this picture [Raphael, Transfiguration]...
Cour 7.261 11 Each [new soldier] whispers to
himself:...only will the benignant Heaven save me from disgracing
myself and my friends and my State.
PC 8.234 2 ...when I say the educated class, I know
what a benignant breadth that word has...
HDC 11.76 9 The benignant Providence which has
prolonged their [veterans of battle of Concord's] lives to this hour
gratifies the strong curiosity of the new generation.
benison, n. (1)
Comc 8.159 1 The perpetual game of humor is to look
with considerate good nature at every object in existence...enjoying
the figure which each self-satisfied particular creature cuts in the
unrespecting All, and dismissing it with a benison.
bent, n. (2)
Lov1 2.172 1 The strong bent of nature is seen in the
proportion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the
conversation of society.
ET17 5.297 19 Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know
that in following the strong bent of his genius, he was careless of the
many, careless also of the few...
bent, v. (23)
Pt1 3.12 23 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in
perceiving that [the poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his
skill to rise like a fowl or a flying fish...
Pol1 3.206 1 A nation of men unanimously bent on
freedom or conquest can easily confound the arithmetic of statists...
ET4 5.70 15 [The English] walk and ride as fast as
they can, their head bent forward...
ET17 5.293 25 The like frank hospitality, bent on
real service, I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went
[in England];...
F 6.28 26 Alaric and Bonaparte must believe they rest
on a truth, or their will can be bought or bent.
Wth 6.115 4 With brow bent...the pale scholar leaves
his desk to draw a freer breath...in the garden-walk.
Bhr 6.184 20 ...to earnest persons...we cannot extol
[dress circles] highly. A well-dressed talkative company where each is
bent to amuse the other...
CbW 6.254 24 The sharpest evils are bent into that
periodicity which makes the errors of planets...self-limiting.
Boks 7.210 3 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]
stood at five hundred guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer.
And ten, added the Marquis [of Blandford]. You might hear a pin drop.
All eyes were bent on the bidders.
Dem1 10.14 26 The augur showed [Masollam] a bird, and
told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for
them all to remain; if he flew on, they might proceed; but if he flew
back, they must return. The Jew said nothing, but bent his bow and shot
the bird to the ground.
PerF 10.70 26 ...the strata were deposited and uptorn
and bent back...to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
Supl 10.179 11 ...there is no question...that the
warm sons of the Southeast have bent the neck under the yoke of the
cold temperament and the exact understanding of the Northwestern races.
Prch 10.228 4 [Christianity] is the record of a pure
and holy soul...bent on serving, teaching and uplifting men.
LLNE 10.346 12 These [19th Century] reformers were a
new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans, bent on hanging
the Quaker...these were gentle souls...
ALin 11.328 21 [The people] knew that outward grace
is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's
[Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent,
like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./
Milt1 12.261 4 ...[Milton]...bent [English] to
express every trait of beauty, every shade of thought;...
Trag 12.414 18 As the west wind lifts up again the
heads of the wheat which were bent down and lodged in the storm...so we
let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are
dark and wet and low bent.
Trag 12.414 22 As the west wind...combs out the
matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so
we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which
are dark and wet and low bent.
Bentham, Jeremy, n. (3)
MR 1.228 17 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks,
Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something...
SR 2.79 14 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon
activity and power...a Bentham...it imposes its classification on other
men...
QO 8.197 17 Dumont was exalted by being used by
Mirabeau, by Bentham and by Sir Philip Francis...
Bentley, Richard, n. (7)
SL 2.154 23 No book, said Bentley, was ever written
down by any but itself.
ET8 5.132 24 ...[young Englishmen]...translate and
send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering
Bramins;...
ET14 5.238 4 ...[English] scholars...Taylor, Burton,
Bentley, Brian Walton, acquired the solidity and method of engineers.
Grts 8.311 8 The world was created as an audience for
[the scholar]; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities. Read
the performance of Bentley, Gibbon...
EzRy 10.391 24 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his
fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment...which,
under a better discipline, might have ripened into a Bentley or a
Porson.
CInt 12.124 14 ...there is a certain shyness of
genius...in colleges, which is as old as the rejection...of Bentley by
the pedants of his time...
Bentley's, Dr., Club, Lond (1)
Clbs 7.243 26 Dr. Bentley's Club held Newton, Wren,
Evelyn and Locke;...
Bentleys, n. (1)
ET12 5.207 25 When born with good constitutions,
[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of
performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the
music-box;--Cokes, Mansfields, Seldens and Bentleys...
Benton, Thomas Hart, n. (1)
Pow 6.63 24 The senators who dissented from Mr.
Polk's Mexican war were...those who from political position could
afford it; not Webster, but Benton and Calhoun.
benumb, v. (2)
LT 1.264 23 ...that only is real which men love and
rejoice in;...what they embrace and avow, and not the things which
chill, benumb, and terrify them.
CbW 6.269 15 ...a blockhead makes a blockhead of his
companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
benumbs, v. (2)
Chr1 3.94 6 When the high cannot bring up the low to
itself, it benumbs it...
F 6.6 28 The cold, inconsiderate of persons...benumbs
your feet...
benzoin, laurus, n. (1)
bequeath, v. (1)
CPL 11.496 16 Our founder [of the Concord Library]
has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the
country, of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and
hospitals...
bequeathed, v. (3)
ET8 5.134 25 ...here [in England] exists the best
stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and
contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the
island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his
conqueror.
ET13 5.226 19 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy,
a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards,
who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of
course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the
people to whom it was bequeathed.
EWI 11.98 4 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning
ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./ Sole estate
his sire bequeathed/...
bequest, n. (1)
Wth 6.118 9 It is commonly observed that a sudden
wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor
family, does not permanently enrich.
bequethed, v. (1)
Aris 10.30 6 Than cometh our very gentillesse of
grace,/ It was no thing bequethed us with our place./ Chaucer, The
Knighte's Tale.
Beranger, Pierre Jean de, n (3)
OA 7.321 24 Beranger said, Almost all the good
workmen live long.
PI 8.37 12 ...we shall never understand political
economy until Burns or Beranger or some poet shall teach it in songs...
PC 8.218 18 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von
Arnim...is always allowed.
bereave, v. (7)
Nat 1.66 8 Empirical science is apt...by the very
knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the
manly contemplation of the whole.
Con 1.324 11 ...[the hero] will say, All the meanness
of my progenitors shall not bereave me of the power to make this hour
and company fair and fortunate.
SR 2.72 14 What we love that we have, but by desire
we bereave ourselves of the love.
ShP 4.199 2 Show us the constituency, and the now
invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their
wishes;...and it will bereave his fine attitude and resistance of
something of their impressiveness.
ET14 5.253 5 I fear the same fault [lack of
inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to
make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;...
CbW 6.269 10 Inestimable is he to whom we can say
what we cannot say to ourselves. Others...bereave us of the power of
thought...
Insp 8.276 19 We are waiting until some tyrannous
idea emerging out of heaven shall seize and bereave us of this liberty
with which we are falling abroad.
bereaved, adj. (2)
TPar 11.292 12 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already
be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the
nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you
valiantly spoke; that the winds of Italy murmur the same truth over
your grave; the winds of America over these bereaved streets;...
Trag 12.410 22 That which seems intolerable reproach
or bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman
appetite or sleep.
bereaved, v. (5)
DSA 1.136 7 ...this moaning of the heart because it
is bereaved of the consolation, the hope...that come alone out of the
culture of the moral nature, - should be heard...
Mem 12.102 23 ...when age and calamity have bereaved
[those who have used their days well] of their limbs or organs, then
they retreat on mental faculty...
CInt 12.111 5 ...Merlin's mighty line/ Extremes of
nature reconciled-/ Bereaved a tyrant of his will,/ And made the lion
mild./
EurB 12.370 18 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;...
bereavement, n. (1)
Trag 12.410 21 That which seems intolerable reproach
or bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman
appetite or sleep.
bereaves, v. (9)
DSA 1.124 17 In so far as [a man] roves from these
[good] ends, he bereaves himself of power...
SwM 4.133 10 There is an immense chain of
intermediation [in Swedenborg's system of the world]...which bereaves
every agency of all freedom and character.
Elo1 7.92 23 ...in cases where profound conviction
has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a
certain belief. It... perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of
articulation.
PC 8.225 17 ...the moral element in man counterpoises
this dismaying immensity and bereaves it of terror.
Imtl 8.335 23 ...the nebular theory threatens [the
sun's and the star's] duration also, bereaves them of this glory [of
stability]...
PPr 12.385 9 Worst of all for the party attacked,
[Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all
sympathy...
Let 12.398 3 There is...a paralysis of the active
faculties, which falls on young men of this country...which...bereaves
them of animal spirits;...
bereaveth, v. (1)
Bhr 6.167 15 Little [man] says to [graceful women,
chosen men]/, So dances his heart in his breast,/ Their tranquil mien
bereaveth him/ Of wit, of words, of rest./
bereaving, adj. (1)
bereaving, v. (1)
bereft, v. (1)
Bergamots, n. (1)
CL 12.146 6 It seems to me much that I have brought a
skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of
refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...
beridden, adj. (1)
Berkeley, George, n. (8)
Nat 1.58 11 [Religion] does that for the unschooled,
which philosophy does for Berkeley and Viasa.
NER 3.273 6 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that
the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner,
they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
NER 3.273 7 Berkeley, having listened to the many
lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say, begged to be heard
in his turn...
ET14 5.238 18 ...Britain had many disciples of
Plato;...Norris, Cudworth, Berkeley...
ET14 5.242 4 In England these [generalizations]...do
all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this
kind is...the theory of Berkeley, that we have no certain assurance of
the existence of matter;...
Plu 10.307 16 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist,
who does not hesitate to say, like another Berkeley, Matter is itself
privation;...
Berkeley's, George, n. (1)
ET9 5.150 18 In a tract on Corn, a most
amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain,
according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass
ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of
the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
Berkshire, Massachusetts, n. (2)
FSLC 11.212 17 We will never intermeddle with your
slavery,-but you can in no wise be suffered to bring it to Cape Cod and
Berkshire.
AKan 11.256 15 Do the Committee of Investigation say
that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal
catalogue of private tragedies show it? Do the private letters? Is it
an exaggeration, that...Mr. Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of
Berkshire, have been murdered?
Berkshire, n. (1)
CbW 6.268 3 [The young people] set forth on their
travels in search of a home: they reach Berkshire; they reach
Vermont;...
Berkshire Square, London, (1)
ET11 5.181 13 In evidence of the wealth amassed by
ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown...Lansdowne House in
Berkshire Square...
Berlin, Germany, n. (6)
SwM 4.107 1 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the
Identity-philosophy, which he held not idly, as the dreamers of Berlin
or Boston...
GoW 4.283 3 ...the [German] professor can not divest
himself of the fancy that the truths of philosophy have some
application to Berlin and Munich.
ET5 5.96 26 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to
be translated from foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate
drawings, the most approved works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.
ET15 5.267 11 What would The [London] Times say? is a
terror in Paris, in Berlin, in Vienna, in Copenhagen and in Nepaul.
Chr2 10.105 25 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia
in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No
leaf thereof could attain the liberty of being printed (in Berlin)
to-day.
Bermudas, n. (1)
NER 3.273 7 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that
the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner,
they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste (2)
NMW 4.244 5 [Napoleon] could not confound Fox and
Pitt, Carnot, Lafayette and Bernadotte, with the danglers of his
court;...
NMW 4.253 25 [Napoleon] is unjust to his
generals;...meanly stealing the credit of their great actions from
Kellermann, from Bernadotte;...
Bernard, Friar, n. (2)
Bernard, n. (1)
Bhr 6.185 15 In the shallow company, easily excited,
easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard;...
Bernard, St., n. (5)
Comp 2.123 12 I learn the wisdom of St.
Bernard,--Nothing can work me damage except myself;...
Elo2 8.122 9 What must have been the discourse of St.
Bernard, when mothers hid their sons...lest they should be led by his
eloquence to join the monastery.
Prch 10.227 8 [The theologian] is to claim for his
own whatever eloquence of St. Chrysostom or St. Jerome or St. Bernard
he has felt.
Prch 10.234 23 That gray deacon or respectable matron
with Calvinistic antecedents...could not have presented any obstacle to
the march of St. Bernard...
Bost 12.193 27 In our own age we are learning to
look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which
makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...
Bernini, Giovanni, n. (1)
Suc 7.284 8 ...Evelyn writes from Rome:
Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the
statues...
berries, n. (4)
AmS 1.97 5 ...the fear of boys, and dogs, and
ferules, the love of little maids and berries...are gone already;...
CL 12.159 5 Those who persist [in walking] from year
to year...and...know the lakes, the hills, where grapes, berries and
nuts, where the rare plants are;...these we call professors.
EurB 12.371 24 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a
harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields, loaded...with nuts
and berries...
berry, n. (2)
Exp 3.49 26 We may have the sphere for our
cricket-ball, but not a berry for our philosophy.
Berserker, adj. (1)
Berserkers, n. (1)
berth, n. (2)
ET2 5.26 8 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship
Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847.
Berthollet, Claude Louis, (1)
NMW 4.250 24 [Bonaparte] delighted in the
conversation of men of science, particularly of Monge and
Berthollet;...
Bertinazzi, Carlo-Antonio [ (3)
Comc 8.174 5 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with
laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some
remedy for excessive melancholy...
Comc 8.174 11 The physician endeavored to cheer [his
melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre
and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
Comc 8.174 12 The physician endeavored to cheer [his
melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre
and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
beryl, adj. (1)
beryl, n. (1)
SwM 4.135 18 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows
itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign
rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl
and chalcedony;...
beryls, n. (1)
SlHr 10.446 5 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's]
respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural
ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals, big beryls
weighing tons...not less perfect in their angles and structure, and
only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.
Berzeliuses, n. (1)
UGM 4.12 6 Shall we say that...the laboratory of the
atmosphere holds in solution I know not what Berzeliuses and Davys?
beseech, v. (2)
ET13 5.227 21 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the
cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in
their choice [of a Bishop];...
Bhr 6.196 21 ...if you have headache...or
thunderstroke, I beseech you...to hold your peace...
beseeches, v. (1)
Schr 10.270 24 Genius is a poor man and has no house,
but see, this proud landlord who has built the palace...beseeches him
to make it honorable by entering there and eating bread.
beseeching, adj. (1)
DL 7.103 7 ...[the nestler's] tiny beseeching
weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the
mother...
beseem, v. (1)
beset, v. (4)
SwM 4.97 1 ...by being assimilated to the original
soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all
things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with
their structure and law. This path is difficult, secret and beset with
terror.
Bhr 6.167 8 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle
every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/
He need not go to them, their forms/ Beset his solitude./
Thor 10.454 1 [Thoreau] could easily solve the
problems of the surveyor, but he was daily beset with graver questions,
which he manfully confronted.
FRep 11.539 14 It is not by heads reverted...to
George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that
beset the United States at this time.
besetting, adj. (1)
PLT 12.8 25 ...if you like to run away from this
besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism
by running into society...
besiege, v. (1)
War 11.156 13 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity]
into a circle of cultivated men, where the conversation broaches the
great questions that besiege the human reason, and he would be dumb and
unhappy...
besieged, v. (1)
CInt 12.114 15 Milton congratulates the Parliament
that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the
people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of
highest and most important matters to be reformed...
besieging, v. (1)
Wsp 6.233 5 It is related of William of Orange, that
whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman sent to
him on public business came to his camp...
besmirched, v. (1)
Dem1 10.24 11 Read demonology or Colquhoun's Report,
and we are bewildered and perhaps a little besmirched.
besotted, adj. (2)
LE 1.186 10 Bend to the persuasion which is flowing
to you from every object in nature...to show the besotted world how
passing fair is wisdom.
Mrs1 3.154 2 Are you...rich enough to make...even the
poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception
of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and
stoniness;...
besought, v. (1)
HDC 11.52 21 Tahattawan and his son-in-law Waban,
besought [John] Eliot to come and preach to them at Concord...
bespattered, v. (1)
Wsp 6.228 12 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg,
all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
bespeak, v. (3)
ET14 5.259 12 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak
indulgence to ornaments of fancy unsuited to our taste...
SMC 11.375 9 I am sure I need not bespeak your
gratitude to these fellow citizens and neighbors of ours [veterans of
the Civil War].
bespeaking, v. (1)
Milt1 12.257 12 Wood, [Milton's] political opponent,
relates that his deportment was affable, his gait erect and manly,
bespeaking courage and undauntedness.
bespoken, v. (1)
EPro 11.317 11 ...so fair a mind...so reticent...the
firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor
to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...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.
best, adj. (547)
Nat 1.8 6 The flowers, the animals, the mountains,
reflected the wisdom of [the wise spirit's] best hour...
Nat 1.15 18 ...as the eye is the best composer, so
light is the first of painters.
Nat 1.54 9 A solemn air, and the best comforter/ To
an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains/...
AmS 1.89 24 Books are the best of things, well
used;...
AmS 1.91 24 It is remarkable, the character of the
pleasure we derive from the best books.
DSA 1.143 10 What was once a mere circumstance, that
the best and the worst men in the parish...should meet one day as
fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going
thither.
LE 1.171 3 This starting, this warping of the best
literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in
philosophy.
MN 1.210 26 What is best in any work of art but that
part which the work itself seems to require and do;...
MN 1.218 26 When thought is best, there is most of
it.
MR 1.256 16 The opening of the spiritual senses
disposes men ever...to leave...their best means and skill of procuring
a present success...
LT 1.273 4 Milton, in his best tract, describes a
relation between religion and the daily occupations...
LT 1.276 18 The love which lifted men to the sight of
these better ends was the true and best distinction of this time...
LT 1.282 13 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on
the brow of all cultivated persons, a certain imbecility in the best
spirits...
LT 1.283 10 The inadequacy of the work to the
faculties is the painful perception which keeps [men] still. This
happens to the best.
LT 1.287 11 Is there not something comprehensive in
the grasp of a society which to great mechanical invention and the best
institutions of property adds the most daring theories;...
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