Bonny to Bosses
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
bonny, adj. (2)
PI 8.48 15 Busk thee, busk thee, my bonny bonny
bride,/ Busk thee, busk thee, my winsome marrow./ Hamilton.
Bonny Doons, n. (1)
RBur 11.442 3 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson
my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses
been applied to!
Boo, Le, Prince, n. (1)
CPL 11.507 20 The imagination...if it has not
had...Prince Le Boo...has drawn equal delight and terror from haunts
and passages which you will hear of with envy.
Book, Commonplace [Robert (1)
QO 8.184 1 ...we find in Southey's Commonplace Book
this said of the Earl of Strafford: I learned one rule of him, says Sir
G. Radcliffe, which I think worthy to be remembered.
Book, Domesday, n. (2)
ET7 5.116 22 Private men [in England] keep their
promises, never so trivial. Down goes the flying word on the tablets,
and is indelible as Domesday Book.
HDC 11.49 21 The British government has recently
presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of
the splendid edition of the Domesday Book...
Book, First [Wordsworth, T (1)
MLit 12.321 2 ...the interest of the poem
[Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the
influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book.
Book, Golden, n. (1)
Mrs1 3.152 17 The constitution of our society makes
it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth who have not found their
names enrolled in its Golden Book...
book, n. (281)
AmS 1.88 26 The writer was a just and wise spirit:
henceforward it is settled the book is perfect;...
AmS 1.89 5 The sluggish and perverted mind of the
multitude...having once received this book, stands upon it...
AmS 1.90 1 I had better never see a book than to be
warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit...
AmS 1.90 12 The book, the college...stop with some
past utterance of genius.
LE 1.167 3 ...to have written a book that is read,
satisfies us.
LE 1.185 1 ...you shall get your lesson out of the
hour, and the object...even in reading a dull book...
MN 1.196 14 The new book says, I will give you the
key to nature...
MN 1.196 21 ...a man lasts but a very little while,
for his monomania becomes insupportably tedious in a few months. It is
so with every book and person...
MR 1.242 13 Better that the book should not be quite
so good, and the book-maker abler and better...
Tran 1.347 17 ...a book...can give
[Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall
seem real, and society the illusion.
Tran 1.357 11 ...church and old book mumble and
ritualize to an unheeding, preoccupied and advancing mind...
SR 2.62 5 To [the man in the street] a palace, a
statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air...
SL 2.146 21 A man cannot bury his meanings so deep in
his book but time and like-minded men will find them.
SL 2.149 7 Take the book into your two hands and read
your eyes out, you will never find what I find.
SL 2.149 11 If any ingenious reader would have a
monopoly of the wisdom or delight he gets, he is as secure now the book
is Englished, as if it were imprisoned in the Pelews' tongue.
SL 2.154 5 They who make up the final verdict upon
every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it
appears...
SL 2.154 12 ...presentation-copies to all the
libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic
date.
SL 2.154 23 No book, said Bentley, was ever written
down by any but itself.
Lov1 2.174 20 ...it may seem to many men...that they
have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of
some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a
parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
Fdsp 2.200 11 The valiant warrior famoused for
fight,/ After a hundred victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of
honor razed quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toiled./
Hsm1 2.248 24 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of
the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that
book its immense fame.
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.
OS 2.280 4 In the book I read, the good thought
returns to me...the image of the whole soul.
OS 2.294 3 ...every book...that belongs to thee for
aid or comfort, will surely come home through open or winding passages.
Cir 2.313 25 ...the instinct of man...gladly arms
itself against the dogmatism of bigots with this generous word out of
the book itself.
Pt1 3.32 5 An imaginative book renders us much more
service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards
when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
Exp 3.55 18 Once I took such delight in Montaigne
that I thought I should not need any other book;...
Exp 3.56 7 A deduction must be made from the opinion
which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence.
Exp 3.80 26 What imports it whether it is...a reader
and his book, or puss with her tail?
Chr1 3.101 9 I read in a book of English memoirs, Mr.
Fox (afterwards Lord Holland) said, he must have the Treasury; he had
served up to it, and would have it.
Chr1 3.106 19 How captivating is [children's]
devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in
that book;...
Nat2 3.189 5 Days and nights...of communion with
angels of darkness and of light have engraved their shadowy characters
on that tear-stained book.
NR 3.242 7 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took
up this book of Helena, and found him an Indian of the wilderness...
NER 3.254 20 It is right and beautiful in any man to
say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of
yours,--in whom we see the act to be original...
UGM 4.17 16 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious
mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and a sentence
in a book...sets free our fancy...
PPh 4.39 4 Among secular books, Plato only is
entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said,
Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
PNR 4.89 22 In his eighth book of the Republic,
[Plato] throws a little mathematical dust in our eyes.
SwM 4.94 16 ...the instincts presently teach that the
problem of essence must take precedence of all others;--the questions
of Whence? What? and Whither? and the solution of these must be in a
life, and not in a book.
SwM 4.112 15 It is remarkable that this sublime
genius [Swedenborg]...in a book [The Animal Kingdom] whose genius is a
daring poetic synthesis, claims to confine himself to a rigid
experience.
SwM 4.117 1 The fact [of Correspondence] thus
explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of
language. Plato knew it, as is evident from his twice bisected line in
the sixth book of the Republic.
SwM 4.127 2 Of this book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love]
one would say that with the highest elements it has failed of success.
SwM 4.127 11 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love]
had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted...
MoS 4.158 27 ...once let [the savage] read in the
book, and he is no longer able not to think of Plutarch's heroes.
MoS 4.162 19 A single odd volume of Cotton's
translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my
father's library, when a boy. It lay long neglected, until, after many
years...I read the book...
MoS 4.163 17 [Montaigne's Essays] is the only book
which we certainly know to have been in the poet's [Shakespeare's]
library.
MoS 4.168 11 I know not anywhere the book that seems
less written [than Montaigne's Essays]. It is the language of
conversation transferred to a book.
MoS 4.169 25 This book of Montaigne the world has
endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five
editions of it in Europe;...
MoS 4.175 27 ...a book...shoots a spark through the
nerves, and we suddenly believe in will...
ShP 4.211 3 ...the occasion which gave the saint's
meaning the form...of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the
universality of its application. So it fares with the wise Shakspeare
and his book of life.
GoW 4.274 14 [Goethe] had an extreme impatience of
conjecture and of rhetoric. I have guesses enough of my own; if a man
write a book, let him set down only what he knows.
GoW 4.278 2 I suppose no book of this century can
compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...
GoW 4.278 9 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister is] A very
provoking book to the curiosity of young men of genius...
GoW 4.279 15 Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm
Meister]...keeps such bad company, that the sober English public, when
the book was translated, were disgusted.
GoW 4.279 20 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]
remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must even let it go its
way...
GoW 4.280 5 No generous youth can escape this charm
of reality in the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]...
GoW 4.280 8 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized
the book [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and
prosaic;...
GoW 4.282 14 ...through every clause and part of
speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of
men;...
GoW 4.285 25 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the
expression of the idea...a novelty to England, Old and New, when the
book appeared--that a man exists for culture;...
GoW 4.286 14 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung
und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with
us a Life of Goethe;...
GoW 4.287 6 ...the charm of this portion of the book
[Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the
relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and
himself;...
GoW 4.289 8 ...compared with any motives on which
books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work]...has the
power to inspire which belongs to truth. Thus has he brought back to a
book some of its ancient might and dignity.
ET1 5.10 26 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book,
which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three
pages written by himself in the fly-leaves...
ET1 5.14 15 ...I...find it impossible to recall the
largest part of [Coleridge' s] discourse, which was often like so many
printed paragraphs in his book...
ET1 5.16 20 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that
when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown
across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast
turkey.
ET1 5.21 22 [Wordsworth] had never gone farther than
the first part [of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]; so disgusted was he that
he threw the book across the room.
ET1 5.21 24 [Wordsworth] had never gone farther than
the first part [of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]; so disgusted was he that
he threw the book across the room. I deprecated this wrath, and said
what I could for the better parts of the book...
ET4 5.44 1 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has
written a book to prove that races are imperishable...
ET5 5.79 12 Sir Kenelm wrote a book...in which he
propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of
man's life.
ET5 5.93 11 There is no department of literature, of
science, or of useful art, in which [the English] have not produced a
first-rate book.
ET8 5.131 6 [The English] are headstrong believers
and defenders of their opinion, and not less resolute in maintaining
their whim and perversity. Hezekiah Woodward wrote a book against the
Lord's Prayer.
ET11 5.175 4 He shall have the book, said the mother
of Alfred, who can read it;...
ET12 5.212 5 ...the rich libraries collected at every
one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to
be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more
and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a
book, can consult it...
ET13 5.218 4 The carved and pictured chapel...made
the parish-church [in England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's
eye.
ET14 5.245 12 Mr. Hallam...has written the history of
European literature for three centuries,--a performance of great
ambition, inasmuch as a judgment was to be attempted on every book.
ET16 5.273 11 It seemed a bringing together of
extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in
company with her latest thinker, and one whose influence may be traced
in every contemporary book.
ET17 5.295 21 I said, if Plato's Republic were
published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find
any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not...
F 6.9 1 The menagerie, or forms and powers of the
spine, is a book of fate;...
Wth 6.101 14 Political Economy is as good a book
wherein to read the life of man...as any Bible which has come down to
us.
Wth 6.124 2 ...'t is very well that the poor husband
reads in a book of a new way of living...let him go home and try it, if
he dare.
Bhr 6.174 6 Unhappily the book [Dickens, American
Notes] had its own deformities.
Wsp 6.219 2 ...to [man] the book of history, the book
of love...are opened;...
CbW 6.253 3 [Good men] find...the governments, the
churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men
have met this obstruction in their times...like Erasmus, with his book,
The Praise of Folly;...
CbW 6.272 2 ...if one comes who can...show
[men]...what gifts they have... he wakes in them the feeling of
worth... ... 'T is wonderful the effect on the company. They are not
the men they were. ... There is no book and no pleasure in life
comparable to it.
Bty 6.286 16 [Knowledge of men, knowledge of manners,
the power of form and our sensibility to personal influence] are facts
of a science which we study without book...
Civ 7.19 9 Mr. Guizot, writing a book on the subject
[Civilization], does not [attempt a definition].
DL 7.110 10 How could such a book as Plato's
Dialogues have come down, but for the sacred savings of scholars...
WD 7.164 23 A man makes a picture or a book, and, if
it succeeds, 't is often the worse for him.
WD 7.170 4 The scholar must look long for the right
hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early
dawn...and in its wide leisures we dare open that book.
WD 7.172 9 ...with great propriety, Humboldt entitles
his book, which recounts the last results of science, Cosmos.
Boks 7.187 2 The reader and the book,--either without
the other is naught.
Boks 7.193 1 ...private readers, reading purely for
love of the book, would serve us by leaving each the shortest note of
what he found.
Boks 7.194 24 Dr. Johnson said: Whilst you stand
deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read
both...
Boks 7.197 4 ...I find certain books vital and
spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was: he shuts the book a
richer man.
Boks 7.200 11 ...it signifies little where you open
[Plutarch's] book, you find yourself at the Olympian tables.
Boks 7.204 11 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German,
Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can
procure in a good version.
Boks 7.204 22 If [the student] can read Livy, he has
a good book;...
Boks 7.209 13 The annals of bibliography afford many
examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go, when
the legitimate delight in a book is transferred to a rare edition or to
a manuscript.
Boks 7.217 8 [In the novel] A thousand thoughts
awoke; great rainbows seemed to span the sky...but we close the book
and not a ray remains in the memory of evening.
Boks 7.217 15 ...this passion for romance, and this
disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry:
that which shall show us...a like impression made by a just book and by
the face of Nature.
Boks 7.221 14 Another member [of the literary club]
meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British
mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...a fourth,
on Mysteries, Early Drama, Gesta Romanorum, Collier, and Dyce, and the
Camden Society. Each shall give us his grains of gold...and every other
shall then decide whether this is a book indispensable to him also.
Clbs 7.228 18 How sweet those hours when the day was
not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual
jewels,--the favorite passages of each book...
Clbs 7.240 8 You may condemn [the eloquent man's]
book, but can you fight against his thought?
Cour 7.269 17 ...out of love of the reality [the
scholar] is an expert judge how far the book has approached it...
Cour 7.269 21 In all applications [courage] is the
same power,--the habit of reference to one's own mind...which can
easily dispose of any book because it can very well do without all
books.
Cour 7.270 3 ...I remember the old professor, whose
searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class,
when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have
never read that book;...
Cour 7.270 4 ...I remember the old professor, whose
searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class,
when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have
never read that book; instantly the book lost credit...
Suc 7.296 18 ...in every book [a good reader] finds
passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and
unmistakably meant for his ear.
PI 8.15 27 ...the book, the landscape or the
personality which...penetrated to the inward sense, agitates us, and is
not forgotten.
PI 8.32 16 I require that the poem should impress me
so that after I have shut the book it shall recall me to itself...
PI 8.32 25 Later, the thought, the happy image which
expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to
mind, and sends me back in search of the book.
PI 8.34 7 No matter what [your subject] is...if it
has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart
of it: then it will...as fully represent the central law...as if it
were the book of Genesis or the book of Doom.
PI 8.34 8 No matter what [your subject] is...if it
has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart
of it: then it will...as fully represent the central law...as if it
were the book of Genesis or the book of Doom.
QO 8.177 20 Of a large and powerful class we might
ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift?
What but the book that shall come, which...shall speak to the
imagination?
QO 8.180 15 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book
out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new
researches in its native country to discover its foregoers...
QO 8.183 24 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he
turned to the table of contents...
QO 8.183 27 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he
turned to the table of contents, took a pen, and sketched a sheet of
matters and topics...before he read the book.
QO 8.184 8 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a
well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon
the same argument, inventing and disposing what seemed fit to be said
upon that subject, before he read the book;...
QO 8.188 16 In opening a new book we often discover,
from the unguarded devotion with which the writer gives his motto or
text, all we have to expect from him.
QO 8.188 21 If Lord Bacon appears already in the
preface, I go and read the Instauration instead of the new book.
QO 8.195 19 It is curious what new interest an old
author acquires by official canonization in...Hallam, or other
historian of literature. Their registration of his book...carries the
sentimental value of a college diploma.
PC 8.219 13 Every book is written with a constant
secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer
believes to exist in the million.
Insp 8.272 5 When I wish to write on any topic, 't is
of no consequence what kind of book or man gives me a hint or a
motion...
Insp 8.276 12 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat;
as if...a genial companion, or a new thought suggested in book or
conversation could fire the train...
Insp 8.295 4 ...I find a mitigation or solace by
providing always a good book for my journeys...some book which lifts me
quite out of prosaic surroundings...
Insp 8.295 11 You shall not read...Montaigne, nor the
newest French book.
Grts 8.313 14 I have read in an old book that Barcena
the Jesuit confessed to another of his order that when the Devil
appeared to him in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he
rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he
was more worthy to sit there than himself.
Dem1 10.27 23 [Man] is sure no book, no man has told
him all.
Aris 10.50 9 When old writers are consulted by young
writers who have written their first book, they say, Publish it by all
means; so only can you certainly know its quality.
Chr2 10.90 1 For what need I of book or priest/ Or
Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/...
Edc1 10.134 17 ...what teaching, what book of this
day appeals to the Vast?
Edc1 10.158 1 ...if one [pupil] has brought in a
Plutarch or Shakspeare or Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good
book, and understands what he reads, put him at once at the head of the
class.
SovE 10.209 7 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not
now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with song
and book...
Schr 10.280 15 When a man begins to dedicate himself
to a particular function...the advance of his character and genius
pauses;...seal the book;...
Schr 10.284 8 ...the sure months are bringing [the
scholar] to an examination-day...for which no tutor, no book, no
lectures, and almost no preparation can be of the least avail.
Plu 10.294 7 ...[Plutarch]...with one or two doubtful
exceptions, never quotes a Latin book;...
Plu 10.295 18 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put
this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the
breast.
Plu 10.295 25 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had
been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt.
Plu 10.298 20 ...[Plutarch]...declares in a letter
written to his wife that he finds scarcely an erasure, as in a book
well-written, in the happiness of his life.
Plu 10.300 16 I do not know where to find a book-to
borrow a phrase of Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch]...
Plu 10.311 18 ...when we have shut [Seneca's] book,
we forget to open it again.
Plu 10.320 15 Professor Goodwin is a silent
benefactor to the book [Plutarch's Morals], wherever I have compared
the editions. I did not know how careless and vicious in parts the old
book was...
Plu 10.322 4 It is a service to our Republic to
publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read the Laconic
Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
MMEm 10.411 13 In her solitude of twenty years, with
fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost,
without covers or title-page, so that later, when she heard much of
Milton and sought his work, she found it was her very book which she
knew so well,-[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her
companion and solace.
MMEm 10.412 2 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in
my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light
every morn;...read in a little book,-Cicero's Letters,-a few...
EWI 11.118 26 The child will sit in your arms
contented, provided you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he
commences hostile operations.
EWI 11.125 27 ...[slavery] does not love...a book or
a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks;...
EdAd 11.385 6 At least as far as the purpose and
genius of America is yet reported in any book, it is a sterility and no
genius.
EdAd 11.391 9 ...the current year has witnessed the
appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's]
manuscripts. Here is an unsettled account in the book of Fame;...
EdAd 11.393 11 The name [Massachusetts Quarterly
Review] might convey the impression of a book of criticism...
SHC 11.433 18 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may
establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein
may be planted, by the taste of every citizen, one tree, with its name
recorded in a book;...
RBur 11.443 12 The memory of Burns,-every man's,
every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs, and they
say them by heart, and, what is strangest of all, never learned them
from a book...
Shak1 11.450 13 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.
Scot 11.463 19 I can well remember as far back as
when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston, in 1815,-my
own and my school-fellows' joy in the book.
CPL 11.497 11 Every faculty casts itself into an art,
and memory into the art of writing, that is, the book.
CPL 11.499 26 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] I think
that you never enjoy so much as in solitude with a book that meets the
feelings...
CPL 11.500 7 ...events so important have occurred in
the forty years since that book [Shattuck, History of Concord] was
published, that it now needs a second volume.
CPL 11.503 13 ...what omniscience has music! so
absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow
reached. Yet to a scholar the book is as good or better.
CPL 11.506 12 [Kepler writes] ...I have stolen the
golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far
away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice;...the
book is written;...
FRep 11.534 11 [A man's life] is manufactured for
him. The tailor makes your dress;...the upholsterer, from an imported
book of patterns, your furniture;...
II 12.67 13 ...we can only judge safely of a
discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of
mind it induces...
II 12.86 19 Michael Angelo must paint Sistine
ceilings till he can no longer read, except by holding the book over
his head.
Mem 12.91 16 ...a book I read...has a value at this
moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
CInt 12.119 5 ...the book written against fame and
learning has the author's name on the title-page.
CL 12.164 19 What is the merit of Thomson's Seasons
but copying a few of the pictures out of this vast book [of Nature]
into words...
CW 12.176 18 ...it is much better to learn the
elements of geology, of botany...by word of mouth from a companion than
dully from a book.
Bost 12.204 2 ...I do not find in our [New England]
people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of
thought;-not any remarkable book of wisdom;...
Milt1 12.247 7 ...the new-found book having in itself
less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the
public as quickly subsided...
Milt1 12.268 10 The memorable covenant, which in his
youth, in the second book of the Reason of Church Government, [Milton]
makes with God and his reader, expressed the faith of his old age.
Milt1 12.271 27 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of
literary liberty... insisting that a book shall come into the world as
freely as a man...
ACri 12.296 5 Every historic autobiographic trait
authenticating the man [Montaigne] adds to the value of the book.
ACri 12.298 2 What [Carlyle] has said shall be
proverb, nobody shall be able to say it otherwise. No book can any
longer be tolerable in the old husky Neal-on-the-Puritans model.
ACri 12.298 11 Here has come into the country, three
months ago, a History of Friedrich, infinitely the wittiest book that
ever was written;...
ACri 12.298 11 Here has come into the country, three
months ago, a History of Friedrich...a book that, one would think, the
English people would rise up in a mass to thank [Carlyle] for...
ACri 12.298 21 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II
is] a book holding so many memorable and heroic facts, working directly
on practice;...
ACri 12.299 11 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II
is] withal a book that is a judgment-day for its moral verdict on the
men and nations and manners of modern times.
ACri 12.299 16 ...this book [Carlyle's History of
Frederick II] makes no noise. I have hardly seen a notice of it...and
you would think there was no such book.
MLit 12.310 2 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and
read a few sentences or pages, and lo!...secrets of magnanimity and
grandeur invite us on every hand, life is made up of them. Such is our
debt to a book.
MLit 12.310 20 [The library of the Present Age] can
hardly be characterized by any species of book...
MLit 12.327 14 In these days and in this country...it
seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as
the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this
man...
WSL 12.340 5 [Landor] has capital enough to have
furnished the brain of fifty stock authors, yet has written no book.
WSL 12.342 3 From the moment of entering a library
and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear.
Pray 12.356 6 ...we must not tie up the rosary on
which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a
pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint
Augustine.
EurB 12.375 27 Except in the stories of Edgeworth and
Scott, whose talent knew how to give to the book a thousand
adventitious graces, the novels of costume are all one...
EurB 12.376 12 Everything good in such a story [novel
of character] remains with the reader when the book is closed.
PPr 12.380 9 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present]
makes great approaches to true contemporary history...
PPr 12.380 16 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the
merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining
before it was eloquent...
PPr 12.380 23 The scholar shall read and write, the
farmer and mechanic shall toil, with new resolution, nor forget the
book [Carlyle's Past and Present] when they resume their labor.
PPr 12.381 25 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's
Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain
truths;...the assumption throughout the book, that a new chivalry and
nobility, namely, the dynasty of labor, is replacing the old
nobilities.
PPr 12.382 3 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's
Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain
truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the
morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters, and of no modern book.
PPr 12.384 25 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and
Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat...
PPr 12.385 18 We are at some loss how to state what
strikes us as the fault of this remarkable book [Carlyle's Past and
Present]...
PPr 12.386 20 It was perhaps inseparable from the
attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that
a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...
Book, n. (2)
AmS 1.92 18 I would not be hurried...by any
exaggeration of instincts, to underrate the Book.
ACri 12.299 23 ...the secret interior wits and hearts
of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less
surely. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire,
or of the blessing of love, and yet, I suppose, they are sensible of
these, and not less of this Book, which is like these.
Book of Epistles, n. (1)
SMC 11.361 16 If Marshal Montluc's Memoirs are the
Bible of soldiers, as Henry IV. of France said, Colonel Prescott might
furnish the Book of Epistles.
Book of Job, n. (1)
Boks 7.198 7 The Prometheus [of Aeschylus] is a poem
of the like dignity and scope as the Book of Job...
Book of Peerage, n. (1)
Aris 10.32 24 It will not pain me...if it should turn
out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but
so few...that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of
Peerage...
Book of the Church [Robert (1)
Cour 7.274 12 There are ever appearing in the world
men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe
of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look at...Southey's Book of
the Church...
Book of Venice, Golden, n. (1)
Aris 10.32 26 The Golden Book of Venice, the scale of
European chivalry... is each a transcript of the decigrade or
centigraded Man.
Book, Pirate's Own, n. (1)
WD 7.165 17 I believe they have ceased to publish the
Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family
newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the
horror of their records of crime.
Book, Sacred, of China, n. (1)
Wom 11.414 25 When a daughter is born, says the
Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...
bookbinder, n. (1)
GoW 4.288 3 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama
or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides,
and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal
refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties,
leaves from their journals, and the like. A great deal still is left
that will not find any place. This the bookbinder alone can give any
cohesion to;...
book-clubs, n. (1)
GoW 4.271 1 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the
absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have
come in. There is...no learned man, but...reading-rooms and book-clubs
without number.
book-fancying, v. (1)
Boks 7.209 11 The annals of bibliography afford many
examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go...
booking, v. (1)
Thor 10.470 26 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which
he called that of the night-warbler, a bird he had never
identified...the only bird which sings indifferently by night and by
day. I told him he must beware of finding and booking it, lest life
should have nothing more to show him.
book-keeper, n. (2)
book-learned, adj. (1)
AmS 1.89 18 Hence the book-learned class, who value
books, as such;...
book-maker, n. (1)
MR 1.242 14 Better that the book should not be quite
so good, and the book-maker abler and better...
book-makers, n. (2)
Pow 6.79 25 I remarked in England...that in literary
circles, the men of trust and consideration, book-makers,
editors...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
Schr 10.265 7 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves,
and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers.
bookmaking, n. (1)
book-office, n. (1)
ET6 5.106 3 [The Englishman] withholds his name. At
the hotel, he is hardly willing to whisper it to the clerk at the
book-office.
book-read, adj. (1)
NR 3.230 6 In the parliament, in the play-house, at
dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich,
ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men...
Books, Blue, n. (1)
books, n. (357)
AmS 1.89 16 Meek young men grow up in
libraries...forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men
in libraries when they wrote these books.
AmS 1.89 19 Hence the book-learned class, who value
books, as such;...
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.
AmS 1.98 17 ...the final value of action, like that
of books, and better than books, is that it is a resource.
AmS 1.99 5 ...when...books are a weariness, - [the
artist] has always the resource to live.
AmS 1.108 5 The books which once we valued more than
the apple of the eye, we have quite exhausted.
DSA 1.144 7 When a man comes, all books are
legible...
LE 1.163 27 Be lord of a day, through wisdom and
justice, and you can put up your history books.
LE 1.177 22 [The scholar] must work with men in
houses, and not with their names in books.
MR 1.227 10 ...some of those offices and functions
for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society that the
memory of them is only kept alive in old books...
MR 1.238 26 ...when [a man] comes to give all the
goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his
son,-house...books...the son finds his hands full...
LT 1.275 10 By the books [the Times] reads and
translates, judge what books it will presently print.
LT 1.275 11 By the books [the Times] reads and
translates, judge what books it will presently print.
Con 1.315 17 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle
mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how
they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them.
What! he said, and this...on marble floors, with...piles of books about
you?
Con 1.315 19 Look at our pictures and books, [the
mothers] said...
Con 1.316 16 ...[riches] take somewhat for everything
they give. I look bigger, but I am less; I have...more books, but less
wit.
Hist 2.7 11 Books, monuments, pictures,
conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the
lineaments he is forming.
Hist 2.8 3 The student is...to esteem his own life
the text [of history], and books the commentary.
Hist 2.40 2 What connection do the books show between
the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras?
SR 2.45 16 ...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses,
Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions...
SR 2.71 7 Let us stun and astonish the intruding
rabble of...books...by a simple declaration of the divine fact.
SR 2.76 24 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself,
tossing...the books... out of the window, we pity him no more...
Comp 2.109 3 Proverbs, like the sacred books of each
nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.
SL 2.132 9 Let [a man] do and say what strictly
belongs to him, and though very ignorant of books, his nature shall not
yield him any intellectual obstructions and doubts.
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.
SL 2.144 17 [Those facts, words, persons, which dwell
in a man's memory without his being able to say why] are symbols of
value to him as they can interpret parts of his consciousness which he
would vainly seek words for in the conventional images of books and
other minds.
SL 2.164 17 I may say it of our preposterous use of
books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.
Lov1 2.172 25 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes
running into the entry and meets one fair child disposing her satchel;
he holds her books to help her, and instantly it seems to him as if she
removed herself from him infinitely...
Fdsp 2.195 27 Every thing that is [our
friend's],--his name, his form, his dress, books and
instruments,--fancy enhances.
Fdsp 2.204 24 I find very little written directly to
the heart of this matter [of friendship] in books.
Fdsp 2.214 7 We are sure that we have all in us. We
go to Europe...or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these
will call it out...
Fdsp 2.214 11 We go to Europe, or we pursue persons,
or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us
to ourselves. Beggars all. The persons are such as we; the Europe, an
old faded garment of dead persons; the books, their ghosts.
Prd1 2.224 24 ...our existence...so fond of splendor
and so tender to hunger and cold and debt, reads all its primary
lessons out of these books.
Hsm1 2.248 25 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of
the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that
book its immense fame. We need books of this tart cathartic virtue...
Hsm1 2.248 26 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of
the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that
book its immense fame. We need books of this tart cathartic virtue more
than books of political science...
Hsm1 2.258 20 ...when we hear [many extraordinary
young men] speak of society, of books, of religion, we admire their
superiority;...
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 2.286 19 Neither his age...nor books...can hinder
[a man] from being deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
Int 2.338 23 ...there are many competent judges of
the best book, and few writers of the best books.
Int 2.344 15 [One soul] must treat things and books
and sovereign genius as itself also a sovereign.
Pt1 3.18 8 Day and night, house and garden, a few
books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all
spectacles.
Exp 3.64 25 Law of copyright and international
copyright is to be discussed, and in the interim we will sell our books
for the most we can.
Chr1 3.101 26 I knew an amiable and accomplished
person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find
in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. He adopted it by ear and
by the understanding from the books he had been reading.
Mrs1 3.134 27 Everybody we know surrounds himself
with a fine house, fine books...
NR 3.225 12 ...how few particulars of [the genius of
the Platonists] can I detach from all their books.
NR 3.232 18 I am very much struck in literature by
the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...
NR 3.246 27 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at
ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair
girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature
of the fair earth, not dissipated or too early ripened by books,
philosophy, religion, society, or care!...
NER 3.259 8 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is
parsing Greek and Latin, and as soon as he leaves the University...he
shuts those books for the last time.
PPh 4.39 1 Among secular books, Plato only is
entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said,
Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
SwM 4.101 27 ...[Swedenborg's] books on mines and
metals are held in the highest esteem by those who understand these
matters.
SwM 4.103 7 ...in Swedenborg, whose who are best
acquainted with modern books will most admire the merit of mass.
SwM 4.105 21 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views
the doctrine of Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine
of Influx, the doctrine of Correspondence. His statement of these
doctrines deserves to be studied in his books.
SwM 4.105 27 ...the Economy of the Animal Kingdom is
one of those books which...is an honor to the human race.
SwM 4.111 11 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a
pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to
the day...
SwM 4.120 1 Having adopted the belief that certain
books of the Old and New Testaments were exact
allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating
from the literal, the universal sense.
SwM 4.122 1 Swedenborg styles himself in the
title-page of his books, Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ;...
SwM 4.123 2 [Swedenborg's] disciples allege that
their intellect is invigorated by the study of his books.
SwM 4.132 19 An ardent and contemplative young
man...might read once these books of Swedenborg...and then throw them
aside for ever.
SwM 4.136 24 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the
heavens are opened, so that he...utters again in his books...the
indisputable secrets of moral nature...remains the Lutheran bishop's
son;...
SwM 4.137 14 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's
parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the
day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip.
Swedenborg confounds us not less with...his own books, which he
advertises among the angels.
SwM 4.144 5 ...was it that [Swedenborg] saw the
vision [of heavenly society] intellectually, and hence that chiding of
the intellectual that pervades his books?
MoS 4.165 1 In [Montaigne's] times, books were
written to one sex only...
ShP 4.199 8 ...there were fountains around Homer,
Menu, Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;--friends, lovers, books,
traditions, proverbs,--all perished...
ShP 4.199 19 Is there at last in [the writer's]
breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether
it be verily so, yea or nay? and to have answer, and to rely on that?
All the debts which such a man could contract to other wit would never
disturb his consciousness of originality; for the ministrations of
books and of other minds are a whiff of smoke to that most private
reality with which he has conversed.
ShP 4.200 27 The translation of Plutarch gets its
excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time
when there was none. All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are
kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away. Something
like the same process had gone on, long before, with the originals of
these books.
NMW 4.225 21 [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: good society, good books...
GoW 4.267 23 The Hindoos write in their sacred books,
Children only, and not the learned, speak of the speculative and the
practical faculties as two.
GoW 4.276 26 ...[Goethe]...instead of looking in
books and pictures, looked for [the Devil] in his own mind...
GoW 4.289 5 ...compared with any motives on which
books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work] is very
truth...
GoW 4.289 12 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized
time and country, when original talent was oppressed under the load of
books and mechanical auxiliaries...taught men how to dispose of this
mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
GoW 4.290 20 The secret of genius is...in arts, in
sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality and a
purpose;...
ET1 5.9 14 ...Mr. H[are], one of the guests, told me
that Mr. Landor gives away his books...
ET1 5.17 15 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums
paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing. Hence it comes
that...no books are bought...
ET1 5.23 17 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the
favorite poem with the public, but more contemplative readers preferred
the first books of the Excursion, and the Sonnets.
ET2 5.31 19 ...some of the happiest and most valuable
hours I have owed to books, passed, many years ago, on shipboard.
ET3 5.41 10 It is not down in the books...that
fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus
which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...
ET6 5.110 8 Holdship has been with me, said Lord
Eldon, eight-and-twenty years, knows all my business and books.
ET7 5.123 16 [The English] are very liable in their
politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe what stands
recorded in the gravest books, that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was
urged or assisted by foreigners...
ET8 5.127 21 Religion, the theatre and the reading
the books of [the Englishman's] country all feed and increase his
natural melancholy.
ET8 5.142 19 ...[the English] like well to have the
world served up to them in books, maps, models...
ET9 5.150 13 ...in books of science, one is surprised
[in England] by the most innocent exhibition of unflinching
nationality.
ET10 5.154 15 ...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's
Athenae Oxonienses], as in most English books, are, first, disloyalty
to Church and State, and, second, to be born poor, or come to poverty.
ET12 5.203 15 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr.
Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...
ET12 5.204 6 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is
the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each
several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles
of books contained in the library of that college...
ET12 5.204 8 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is
the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each
several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles
of books contained in the library of that college,--the theory being
that the Bodleian has all books.
ET12 5.204 9 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent
during the last year (1847), for the purchase of books, 1668 pounds.
ET12 5.209 10 ...so eminent are the members that a
glance at the calendars will show that in all the world one cannot be
in better company than on the books of one of the larger Oxford or
Cambridge colleges.
ET12 5.212 6 ...the rich libraries collected at every
one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to
be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more
and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a
book, can consult it, than by one who is on the quest, for years, and
reads inferior books because he cannot find the best.
ET13 5.229 7 What is so odious as the polite bows to
God, in our books and newspapers?
ET16 5.278 8 The sacrificial stone [at
Stonehenge]...as I read in the books, must have been brought one
hundred and fifty miles.
ET18 5.307 17 ...the American people do not
yield...more inventions or books or benefits than the English.
Pow 6.74 7 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties,
talents, flatteries, hopes,-- all are distractions...
Wth 6.87 23 Wealth begins...in tools to work with, in
books to read;...
Ctr 6.134 17 ...the student we speak to must have a
mother-wit...which uses all books, arts, facilities, and elegancies of
intercourse...
Ctr 6.137 11 It is not a compliment but a
disparagement to consult a man only...on eating, or on books...
Ctr 6.139 8 The antidotes against this organic
egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by
acquaintance with the world...with the high resources of philosophy,
art and religion; books, travel, society, solitude.
Ctr 6.143 2 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod,
horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers; and so are dancing,
dress and the street talk; and provided only the boy...is of a noble
and ingenuous strain, these will not serve him less than the books.
Ctr 6.148 27 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas
Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there
was a good library and books enough for him...
Ctr 6.149 2 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes
say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a
good library and books enough for him, and his lordship stored the
library with what books he thought fit to be bought.
Ctr 6.152 6 ...one of the traits down in the books as
distinguishing the Anglo-Saxon is a trick of self-disparagement.
Bhr 6.191 22 Novels are the journal or record of
manners, and the new importance of these books derives from the fact
that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface and treat this part
of life more worthily.
Bhr 6.195 3 How much we forgive to those who yield us
the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of
books...
Wsp 6.214 23 Forget your books and traditions, and
obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
Wsp 6.221 13 We owe to the Hindoo Scriptures a
definition of Law, which compares well with any in our Western books.
CbW 6.271 19 ...if one comes who can...show
[men]...what gifts they have...his suggestions require new ways of
living, new books, new men, new arts and sciences;...
Ill 6.316 25 I, who have all my life...read poems and
miscellaneous books... am still the victim of any new page;...
Civ 7.17 6 We praise the guide, we praise the forest
life:/ But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts
and trained experiment/...
Art2 7.56 18 Who cares, who knows what works of art
our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol? They are a mere
flourish to please the eye of persons who have associations with books
and galleries.
Elo1 7.95 6 We are slenderly furnished with anecdotes
of these men [Chatham, Pericles, Luther], nor can we help ourselves by
those heavy books in which their discourses are reported.
DL 7.106 19 The first ride into the country...the
books of the nursery, are new chapters of joy [to the child].
DL 7.108 9 It is easier...to criticise [a
territory's] polity, books, art, than to come to the persons and
dwellings of men and read their character...
DL 7.109 26 ...some things each man buys without
hesitation; if it were only...books that are written to his
condition...
DL 7.110 16 Another man is...a builder of ships...and
could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books...
DL 7.121 10 Ah! short-sighted students of books, of
Nature and of man!...
WD 7.174 20 History of ancient art, excavated cities,
recovery of books and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and
the history worth knowing;...
Boks 7.189 4 ...certainly there is dilettanteism
enough, and books that are merely neutral and do nothing for us.
Boks 7.189 13 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The
shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his
passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...certainly knowing that his
passengers are the same and in no respect better than when he took them
on board. So is it with books, for the most part;...
Boks 7.189 23 ...there are books which are of that
importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the
fables of Cornelius Agrippa...
Boks 7.190 3 ...there are books which are of that
importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the
fables...of the old Orpheus of Thrace,--books which take rank in our
life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences...
Boks 7.190 7 ...there are...books which are the work
and the proof of faculties so comprehensive...that though one shuts
them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his
way of living.
Boks 7.191 8 College education is the reading of
certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will
represent the science already accumulated.
Boks 7.191 17 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to
be heard on the questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is
familiar with the books of Plato, where all his pert objections have
once for all been disposed of.
Boks 7.191 23 ...the colleges, whilst they provide us
with libraries, furnish no professor of books;...
Boks 7.192 17 It seems...as if some charitable soul,
after losing a great deal of time among the false books and alighting
upon a few true ones which made him happy and wise, would do a right
act in naming those which have been bridges or ships to carry him
safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
Boks 7.192 23 It seems...as if some charitable
soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been
bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This
would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to
time appear...
Boks 7.193 3 There are books; and it is practicable
to read them, because they are so few.
Boks 7.193 7 In 1858, the number of printed books in
the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand
volumes...
Boks 7.194 2 The crowds and centuries of books are
only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of these few
great voices of time.
Boks 7.195 7 ...all books that get fairly into the
vital air of the world were written by the successful class...
Boks 7.196 14 ...the scholar knows that the famed
books contain, first and last, the best thoughts and facts.
Boks 7.197 1 Montaigne says, Books are a languid
pleasure;...
Boks 7.197 7 ...I will venture...to count the few
books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.
Boks 7.197 9 Of the old Greek books, I think there
are five which we cannot spare...
Boks 7.203 16 The reader of these books [of the
Platonists] makes new acquaintance with his own mind;...
Boks 7.204 1 I do not hesitate to read all the books
I have named, and all good books, in translations.
Boks 7.204 5 ...in our Bible, and other books of
lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and
music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
Boks 7.204 18 I should as soon think of swimming
across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my
books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother
tongue.
Boks 7.208 14 Another class of books closely allied
to these [Autobiographies], and of like interest, are those which may
be called Table-Talks...
Boks 7.211 19 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of
Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to
be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time. Like the modern
Germans, they read a literature while other mortals read a few books.
Boks 7.214 2 ...books that treat the old pedantries
of the world...with a certain freedom... put us on our feet again...
Boks 7.217 18 If our times are sterile in genius, we
must cheer us with books of rich and believing men...
Boks 7.218 10 ...I might as well not have begun as to
leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean the Bibles...
Boks 7.218 11 ...I might as well not have begun as to
leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean...the sacred
books of each nation...
Boks 7.218 14 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures,
which constitute the sacred books of Christendom, [the sacred books]
are, the Desatir of the Persians, and the Zoroastrian Oracles;...
Boks 7.218 19 After the Hebrew and Greek
Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the books of the Buddhists;...
Boks 7.218 20 After the Hebrew and Greek
Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four
books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius.
Boks 7.218 21 After the Hebrew and Greek
Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four
books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other
books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world...
Boks 7.220 13 In comparing the number of good books
with the shortness of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had
good proxies;...
Clbs 7.229 8 Later, when books tire, thought has a
more languid flow;...
Clbs 7.249 18 If...[l'homme de lettres] dare not
speak of fairy gold, he will yet tell what new books he has found...
Cour 7.269 22 In all applications [courage] is the
same power,--the habit of reference to one's own mind...which can
easily dispose of any book because it can very well do without all
books.
Suc 7.297 18 What is so admirable as the health of
youth?--with his long days because...he loves books that speak to the
imagination;...
OA 7.313 8 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The
total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed
mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/
And stony pathway to the wood./
OA 7.329 27 We have an admirable line worthy of
Horace...but have searched all probable and improbable books for it in
vain.
PI 8.25 10 When people tell me they do not relish
poetry, and bring me Shelley...to show that it has no charm, I am quite
of their mind. But this dislike of the books only proves their liking
of poetry.
PI 8.51 2 St. Augustine complains to God of his
friends offering him the books of the philosophers...
PI 8.65 8 The Muse [of Poetry] shall be the
counterpart of Nature, and equally rich. I find her not often in books.
Comc 8.168 2 ...in the country we cannot find every
day a case that agrees with the diagnosis of the books.
Comc 8.168 17 The pedantry of literature belongs to
the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases
there is a lie, when the mind... learning languages and reading books
to the end of a better acquaintance with man, stops in the languages
and books;...
Comc 8.168 19 The pedantry of literature belongs to
the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases
there is a lie, when the mind... learning languages and reading books
to the end of a better acquaintance with man, stops in the languages
and books;...
QO 8.177 17 In every man's memory, with the hours
when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his
views.
QO 8.178 5 If we encountered a man of rare intellect,
we should ask him what books he read.
QO 8.181 12 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas
Aquinas...whose books made the sufficient culture of these ages, Dante
absorbed, and he survives for us.
QO 8.185 17 Goethe's favorite phrase, the open
secret, translates Aristotle' s answer to Alexander, These books are
published and not published.
QO 8.188 12 As they do by books, so [people] quote
the sunset and the star...
QO 8.194 7 Most of the classical citations you shall
hear or read in the current journals or speeches were...drawn...from
previous quotations in English books;...
PC 8.222 9 We are told that in posting his books,
after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian,
when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that
empirical one, his hand shook...
PPo 8.237 13 That for which mainly books exist is
communicated in these rich extracts [from Persian poetry].
PPo 8.239 12 The Persians and the Arabs, with great
leisure and few books, are exquisitely sensible to the pleasures of
poetry.
Insp 8.289 19 ...Montaigne travelled with his books,
but did not read in them.
Insp 8.293 16 In enlarged conversation we have
suggestions that require... new books, new men, new arts...
Insp 8.295 22 Fact-books, if the facts be well and
thoroughly told, are much more nearly allied to poetry than many books
are that are written in rhyme.
Insp 8.295 25 Books of natural science...all the
better if written without literary aim or ambition.
Imtl 8.328 5 Sixty years ago, the books read...were
all directed on death.
Imtl 8.328 10 The emphasis of all the good books
given to young people [sixty years ago] was on death.
Imtl 8.338 9 I have a house, a closet which holds my
books, a table, a garden, a field...
Aris 10.45 6 ...the man's associations, fortunes,
love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will
traverse are predetermined in his organism.
Chr2 10.106 19 ...'t is incredible to us, if we look
into the religious books of our grandfathers, how they held themselves
in such a pinfold.
Edc1 10.140 16 If [a boy] can turn his books to such
picturesque account in his fishing and hunting, it is easy to see how
his reading and experience... will interpenetrate each other.
Edc1 10.142 23 There comes the period of the
imagination to each, a later youth; the power of beauty, the power of
books, of poetry.
Edc1 10.153 16 ...[the gentle teacher, who wished to
be a Providence to youth's]...love of learning is lost in the routine
of grammars and books of elements.
Supl 10.165 16 The books say, It made my hair stand
on end! Who, in our municipal life, ever had such an experience?
MoL 10.256 12 Reading!-do you mean that this senator
or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws,
was a reader of Greek books?
Schr 10.265 6 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves,
and talk themselves hoarse over the mischief of books...
Schr 10.283 11 [Whosoever looks with heed into his
thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than
he does...a mother-wit which does not learn by experience or by books,
but knew it all already;...
Schr 10.288 17 ...[the scholar's] use of books is
occasional, and infinitely subordinate;...
Plu 10.293 12 [Plutarch] has been represented as
having been the tutor of the Emperor Trajan, as dedicating one of his
books to him...
Plu 10.298 14 ...a master of ancient culture,
[Plutarch] read books with a just criticism;...
Plu 10.302 21 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a
multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost;...
Plu 10.318 4 [Plutarch's] delight in magnanimity and
self-sacrifice has made his books...a bible for heroes;...
Plu 10.321 11 I hope the Commission of the
Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the
1718 edition of Plutarch], which show the wealth of their tongue to
greater advantage than many books of more renown as models.
LLNE 10.341 21 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and
many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's
houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a pure
idealist, not...a writer of books;...
LLNE 10.354 6 It argued singular courage, the
adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent, with his books
lying before the world only defended by the thin veil of the French
language.
EzRy 10.381 23 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with
the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...and
to have him labor during the time sufficiently to pay for his
instruction, clothing and books.
EzRy 10.392 24 With a very limited acquaintance with
books, [Ezra Ripley' s] knowledge was an external experience...
MMEm 10.405 15 ...the minister found quickly that
[Mary Moody Emerson] knew all his books and many more...
MMEm 10.405 26 None but was attracted or piqued by
[Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with
books and with eminent names.
MMEm 10.406 22 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion
were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on
which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop
the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
MMEm 10.411 9 In her solitude of twenty years, with
fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise
Lost...[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and
solace.
MMEm 10.411 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in
my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light
every morn; visited from necessity once, and again for books;...
SlHr 10.445 5 [Samuel Hoar] saw what was essential,
and refused whatever was not, so that no man embarrassed himself less
with a needless array of books and evidences of contingent value.
Thor 10.458 23 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President
[of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which
permitted the loan of books to resident graduates...
Thor 10.459 5 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President
[of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of
books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books...
Thor 10.459 7 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President
[of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of
books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books...
Carl 10.489 15 If you would know precisely how
[Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found
leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and
Shakspeare, Augustine and Calvin, remaining Hugh Whelan all the time,
should talk scornfully of all this nonsense of books...
HDC 11.48 24 ...I have set a value upon any symptom
of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique
books [Concord Town Records]...
HDC 11.64 6 Some interesting peculiarities in the
manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books.
HDC 11.84 6 These soiled and musty books [the Concord
Town Records] are luminous and electric within.
War 11.165 15 We surround ourselves always...with
true images of ourselves in things, whether it be ships or books or
cannons or churches.
War 11.175 5 ...if the search of the sublime laws of
morals and the sources of hope and trust, in man, and not in books, in
the present, and not in the past, proceed;...then war has a short
day...
FSLC 11.189 26 All arts, customs, societies, books,
and laws, are good as they foster and concur with this spiritual
element...
ACiv 11.300 18 Neither was anything concealed of the
theory or practice of slavery. To what purpose make more big books of
these statistics?
HCom 11.340 2 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's
best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for
guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
HCom 11.343 25 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's]
influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States,
and now, by her teachers, preachers journalists and books...the
diffuser of religious, literary and political opinion;...I think the
little state bigger than I knew.
EdAd 11.386 17 Here are no books, but who can see the
continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose
for which this muster of nations...is made?
RBur 11.441 21 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear
society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters...finding amends for
want and obscurity in books and thoughts.
Scot 11.465 4 [Scott] apprehended in advance the
immense enlargement of the reading public, which almost dates from the
era of his books...
Scot 11.465 4 [Scott] apprehended in advance the
immense enlargement of the reading public...which his books and Byron's
inaugurated;...
CPL 11.497 1 If you consider what has befallen you
when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested
you...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all
towns equal...
CPL 11.497 6 Robinson Crusoe, could he have had a
shelf of our books, could almost have done without his man Friday...
CPL 11.498 2 The town [Concord] was settled by a
pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of
their pastor and leader... testify the ardent sentiment which they
shared.
CPL 11.499 20 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her
diary...perhaps a greater variety of internal emotions would be felt by
remaining with books in one place than pursuing the waves which are
ever the same.
CPL 11.500 15 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a
man...more widely known as the writer of some of the best books which
have been written in this country...
CPL 11.500 27 [Thoreau writes] It is a relief to read
some true books wherein all are equally dead, equally alive.
CPL 11.504 9 There is a wonderful agreement among
eminent men of all varieties of character and condition in their
estimate of books.
CPL 11.504 20 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that
Bonaparte...tossed his journals and books out of his travelling
carriage as fast as he had read them...
CPL 11.505 20 One curious witness [to the value of
reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the
Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's
Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he
knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
CPL 11.507 24 In saying these things for books, I do
not for a moment forget that they are secondary...
CPL 11.508 3 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes,
all books...are forgotten...
CPL 11.508 8 [Books'] costliest benefit is that they
set us free from themselves; for they wake the imagination and the
sentiment,-and in their inspirations we dispense with books.
FRep 11.533 16 We import trifles, dancers, singers,
laces, books of patterns...
FRep 11.533 22 See the secondariness and aping of
foreign and English life, that runs through this country...in eating,
in books.
II 12.71 5 In the healthy mind, the
thought...appears...in art, in books.
II 12.80 19 Whence came all these tools, inventions,
books, laws, parties, kingdoms?
II 12.88 15 Our books are full of generous
biographies of Saints, who knew not that they were such;...
Mem 12.98 23 The facts of the last two or three days
or weeks are all you have with you,-the reading of the last month's
books.
Mem 12.102 18 ...I would rather have a perfect
recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high
activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
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