Boston Advertiser to Brazier

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey 

Boston Advertiser, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.197 9 Philadelphia...in this auction of the rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery. And the Boston Advertiser, and the Courier, in these weeks, urge the same course on the people of Massachusetts.

Boston Bay, n. (3)

    Hist 2.22 14 In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity; a progress, certainly, from the gad-fly of Astaboras to the Anglo and Italomania of Boston Bay.
    Hsm1 2.257 17 Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places...
    Bost 12.182 7 The sea returning day by day/ Restores the world-wide mart;/ So let each dweller on the Bay/ Fold Boston in his heart./

Boston Common, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.127 16 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned...

Boston Courier, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.197 10 Philadelphia...in this auction of the rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery. And the Boston Advertiser, and the Courier, in these weeks, urge the same course on the people of Massachusetts.

Boston Globe, n. (1)

    NER 3.255 18 ...the motto of the Globe newspaper is so attractive to me that I can seldom find much appetite to read what is below it in its columns...

Boston Harbor, Massachusett (1)

    CbW 6.259 1 A man of sense and energy, the late head of the Farm School in Boston Harbor, said to me, I want none of your good boys,--give me the bad ones.

Boston, Massachusetts, adj. (6)

    Mrs1 3.130 4 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man...
    EzRy 10.387 13 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
    HDC 11.38 17 [The Puritans] proceeded to build, under the shelter of the hill that extends for a mile along the north side of the Boston road, their first dwellings.
    EWI 11.122 19 ...the Boston merchant rivals his brother of New York;...
    TPar 11.289 18 [Theodore Parker] was capable...of the most unmeasured eulogies on those he esteemed, especially if he had any jealousy that they did not stand with the Boston public as highly as they ought.
    CInt 12.126 9 Everything will be permitted there [at Harvard College] which goes to adorn Boston Whiggism...

Boston, Massachusetts, Athe (2)

    Pow 6.68 14 Men of this surcharge of arterial blood...cannot satisfy all their wants at the Thursday Lecture or the Boston Athenaeum.
    Bhr 6.174 15 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with canes. But even in the perfect civilization of this city [Boston] such cautions are not quite needless in the Athenaeum and City Library.

Boston, Massachusetts, City (1)

    Bhr 6.174 16 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with canes. But even in the perfect civilization of this city [Boston] such cautions are not quite needless in the Athenaeum and City Library.

Boston, Massachusetts, n. (121)

    MR 1.249 24 We use these words as if they were as obsolete as Selah and Amen. And yet they have...the most cogent application to Boston in this year.
    LT 1.263 16 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    YA 1.371 2 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America, namely Boston, New York, and New Orleans...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    SR 2.76 3 If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards in the...suburbs of Boston... it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened...
    OS 2.274 6 ...Boston, London, are facts as fugitive as any institution past...
    Art1 2.361 26 ...that which I fancied I had left in Boston was here in the Vatican...
    Pt1 3.10 22 Boston seemed to be at twice the distance it had the night before...
    Pt1 3.29 23 If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York...thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods.
    Exp 3.62 11 In the morning I awake and find the old world...Concord and Boston...not far off.
    Nat2 3.191 18 ...Boston, London, Vienna, and now the governments generally of the world, are cities and governments of the rich;...
    NER 3.260 4 ...in a few months the most conservative circles of Boston and New York had quite forgotten who of their gownsmen was college-bred, and who was not.
    UGM 4.21 19 I go to Boston or New York and run up and down on my affairs...
    SwM 4.107 1 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy, which he held not idly, as the dreamers of Berlin or Boston...
    MoS 4.175 6 What flutters the Church...of Boston, may yet be very far from touching any principle of faith.
    ET1 5.21 13 Of Cousin (whose lectures we had all been reading in Boston), [Wordsworth] knew only the name.
    ET2 5.26 9 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847.
    ET2 5.27 7 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles.
    ET2 5.28 17 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now, at night, seems to hear the steamer behind her, which left Boston to-day at two;...
    ET3 5.41 1 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was...by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure...by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.
    ET16 5.283 13 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston...
    ET16 5.287 26 ...I insisted...that as to our secure tenure of our mutton-chop and spinach in London or in Boston, the soul might quote Talleyrand, Monsieur, je n'en vois pas la necessite.
    ET19 5.310 7 ...the political, the social, the parietal wit of Punch go duly every fortnight to every boy and girl in Boston and New York.
    F 6.3 5 ...four or five noted men were each reading a discourse to the citizens of Boston or New York, on the Spirit of the Times.
    F 6.17 10 It would not be safe to say when...a navigator like Bowditch would be born in Boston;...
    Wth 6.102 23 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston.
    Wth 6.108 10 If, in Boston, the best securities offer twelve per cent. for money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.
    Wth 6.122 7 We say the cows laid out Boston.
    Ctr 6.135 18 In Boston the question of life is the names of some eight or ten men.
    CbW 6.268 7 The farm is near this, 't is near that; [the young people] have got far from Boston, but 't is near Albany...
    Ill 6.312 26 ...in Boston, in San Francisco, the carnival, the maquerade is at its height.
    Civ 7.32 5 ...it is not New York streets...though stretching...northward until they touch New Haven, Hartford, Springfield, Worcester and Boston,--that make the real estimation.
    DL 7.116 9 What kind of a house was kept...by Samuel Adams in Boston...
    WD 7.163 24 Tantalus...has been seen again lately. He is in Paris, in New York, in Boston.
    Boks 7.204 17 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 7.220 27 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time for that?
    Clbs 7.244 20 If [my friend] were sure to find at No. 2000 Tremont Street what scholars were abroad after the morning studies were ended, Boston would shine as the New Jerusalem in his eyes.
    Elo2 8.123 7 I remember, when, long after, I entered college, hearing the story of the numbers of coaches in which his friends came from Boston to hear [John Quincy Adams].
    Elo2 8.123 11 ...[John Quincy Adams] took such ground in the debates of the following session as to lose the sympathy of many of his constituents in Boston.
    Elo2 8.123 14 When, on his return from Washington, [John Quincy Adams] resumed his lectures in Cambridge...the coaches from Boston did not come...
    Elo2 8.127 12 ...when once going to preach the Thursday lecture in Boston...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned...
    Insp 8.291 21 Allston...had two or three rooms in different parts of Boston, where he could not be found.
    Grts 8.319 16 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village: O yes, If I lived in...Boston...there might be fit society;...
    Chr2 10.105 12 ...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken, and the like consternation was in the city as if, in Boston, all the Orthodox churches should be burned in one night.
    Chr2 10.118 19 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects.
    Supl 10.167 1 Doctor Channing's piety and wisdom had such weight that, in Boston, the popular idea of religion was whatever this eminent divine held.
    MoL 10.246 10 Bowditch translated Laplace, and when he removed to Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that he should make their tables of annuities.
    LLNE 10.331 6 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...
    LLNE 10.335 12 By a series of lectures largely and fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing...
    LLNE 10.341 3 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper...and so ended the first attempt to establish aesthetic society in Boston.
    LLNE 10.342 14 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to establish certain opinions...
    CSC 10.373 3 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston...
    EzRy 10.387 10 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain.
    MMEm 10.420 14 Do I [Mary Moody Emerson] yearn to be in Boston?
    Thor 10.451 21 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston...
    HDC 11.31 26 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him. They arrived in Boston in 1634.
    HDC 11.32 13 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more. A month later, Rev. John Jones and a large number of settlers destined for the new town arrived in Boston.
    HDC 11.37 16 The faithful dealing and brave good will, which, during the life of the friendly Massasoit, [the English] uniformly experienced at Plymouth and at Boston, went to their hearts.
    HDC 11.43 11 ...when, presently, the design of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony began to fulfil itself, by the settlement of new plantations in the vicinity of Boston...the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    HDC 11.43 15 ...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.
    HDC 11.43 18 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid?
    HDC 11.46 12 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston...
    HDC 11.46 15 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston...enjoying, at the same time, a strict and loving fellowship with Boston...
    HDC 11.54 17 ...Concord increased in territory and population. The lands were divided; highways were cut from farm to farm, and from this town to Boston.
    HDC 11.55 21 ...whilst many of the colonists at Boston thought to remove, or did remove to England, the Concord people became uneasy, and looked around for new seats.
    HDC 11.58 20 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston;...
    HDC 11.58 23 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston; adding, what me will, me do. He did burn Groton, but before he had executed the remainder of his threat he was hanged, in Boston...
    HDC 11.63 19 ...the country people came armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...
    HDC 11.68 8 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    HDC 11.70 12 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...
    HDC 11.70 27 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...to suspend all commercial intercourse with Great Britain, until the act for blocking the harbor of Boston be repealed;...
    HDC 11.73 12 Eight hundred British soldiers...had marched from Boston to Concord;...
    HDC 11.75 11 The British, as soon as they were rejoined by the plundering detachment, began that disastrous retreat to Boston...
    HDC 11.78 21 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...
    HDC 11.78 25 When...the poor of Boston were quartered by the Provincial Congress on the neighboring country, Concord received 82 persons to its hospitality.
    EWI 11.122 20 ...the villages copy Boston.
    EWI 11.130 24 ...the private interference of two excellent citizens of Boston has, I have ascertained, rescued several natives of this State from these Southern prisons.
    EWI 11.131 19 The Governor of Massachusetts is a trifler; the State-House in Boston is a play-house;...if they make laws which they cannot execute.
    FSLC 11.180 9 Every hour brings us from distant quarters of the Union the expression of mortification at the late events in Massachusetts, and at the behavior of Boston.
    FSLC 11.180 10 Boston, of whose fame for spirit and character we have all been so proud;...Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    FSLC 11.180 11 ...Boston, whose citizens, intelligent people in England told me they could always distinguish by their culture among Americans;... Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    FSLC 11.180 14 ...The Boston of the American Revolution...Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    FSLC 11.180 17 ...Boston, spoiled by prosperity, must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    FSLC 11.180 20 In Boston, we have said with such lofty confidence, no fugitive slave can be arrested...
    FSLC 11.181 1 The only haste in Boston, after the rescue of Shadrach, last February, was, who should first put his name on the list of volunteers in aid of the marshal.
    FSLC 11.184 19 Who could have believed it, if foretold that a hundred guns would be fired in Boston on the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill?
    FSLC 11.185 9 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime...
    FSLC 11.185 12 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy, whom the fame of Boston had reached in the recesses of a vile swamp...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him.
    FSLC 11.185 16 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him. The famous town of Boston is his master's hound.
    FSLC 11.197 5 New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go for slavery, and posted the names of merchants who would not. Boston, alarmed, entered into the same design.
    FSLC 11.212 4 The great game of the government has been to win the sanction of Massachusetts to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law]. Hitherto they have succeeded only so far as to win Boston to a certain extent.
    FSLC 11.212 5 The behavior of Boston was the reverse of what it should have been...
    FSLN 11.224 27 ...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed. His speeches on the seventh of March, and at Albany, at Buffalo, at Syracuse and Boston are cited in justification.
    FSLN 11.228 6 [Webster] told the people at Boston they must conquer their prejudices;...
    TPar 11.288 6 'T is plain to me...that [Theodore Parker] has so woven himself in these few years into the history of Boston, that he can never be left out of your annals.
    TPar 11.290 16 Two days, bitter in the memory of Boston, the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses.
    EPro 11.323 20 Give [the Confederacy] Washington, and they would have assumed the army and navy, and, through these, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston.
    SMC 11.353 27 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...burns as hotly in Kansas and California as in Boston...
    SMC 11.374 20 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment was mustered out in the field, at Washington, on the twenty-eighth of June, and arrived in Boston on the first of July.
    Wom 11.420 17 On the questions that are important...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
    Shak1 11.447 14 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot, who first in Boston wrote elegant verse...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
    Scot 11.463 17 I can well remember as far back as when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston...
    CPL 11.496 11 ...I am not sure that when Boston learns the good deed of Mr. Munroe [building of Concord Library], it will not be a little envious...
    PLT 12.43 3 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...sees so truly the omnipresence of eternal cause that he can convert the daily and hourly event of New York, of Boston, into universal symbols.
    II 12.75 26 ...in spite of Boston and London...the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.
    Bost 12.182 4 The rocky nook with hilltops three/ Looked eastward from the farms,/ And twice each day the flowing sea/ Took Boston in its arms./
    Bost 12.182 8 The sea returning day by day/ Restores the world-wide mart;/ So let each dweller on the Bay/ Fold Boston in his heart./
    Bost 12.185 5 Who lives one year in Boston ranges through all the climates of the globe.
    Bost 12.185 26 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...
    Bost 12.188 12 This town of Boston has a history.
    Bost 12.188 22 ...Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
    Bost 12.190 9 In sixty-eight years after the foundation of Boston, Dr. Mather writes of it, The town hath indeed three elder Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all...
    Bost 12.192 3 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful odor of the stweefern in the sun;...
    Bost 12.203 3 Boston never wanted a good principle of rebellion in it...
    Bost 12.206 8 A house in Boston was worth as much again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people...
    Bost 12.206 12 A house in Boston was worth as much again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people...quite naturally house-rents rose in Boston.
    Bost 12.206 15 ...youth and health like a stirring town, above a torpid place where nothing is doing. In Boston they were sure to see something going forward before the year was out.
    Bost 12.208 16 Boston too is sometimes pushed into a theatrical attitude of virtue...
    Bost 12.208 18 ...the genius of Boston is seen in her real independence, productive power and northern acuteness of mind...
    Bost 12.210 23 ...in Boston, Nature is more indulgent, and has given good sons to good sires...
    Bost 12.211 17 Let every child that is born of her and every child of her adoption see to it to keep the name of Boston as clean as the sun;...
    MLit 12.309 9 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature, but, alas, not the fact and fortune of this low Massachusetts and Boston...

Boston, Old, England, n. (1)

    Bost 12.190 12 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston], The town hath indeed three elder Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all, and her mother, Old Boston in England, also;...

Boston, South, Bridge, n. (1)

    ACri 12.301 22 When Samuel Dexter...argued the claims of South Boston Bridge, he had to meet loud complaints of the shutting out of the coasting-trade by the proposed improvements.

Boston Stone, n. (1)

    Bost 12.201 20 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this was at the bottom of Plymouth Rock, and of Boston Stone;...

Boston Unitarianism, n. (1)

    SovE 10.204 19 Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the pope if he suspected that he was bringing on with all his might the pale negations of Boston Unitarianism.

Boswell, James, n. (4)

    MN 1.208 18 Why then goest thou as some Boswell or listening worshipper to this saint or to that?
    Clbs 7.236 17 ...[Dr. Johnson's] conversation as reported by Boswell has a lasting charm.
    Clbs 7.244 1 ...we owe to Boswell our knowledge of the club of Dr. Johnson, Goldsmith...
    Plu 10.301 16 ...[Plutarch] is no courtier, and no Boswell...

Boswellism, n. (2)

    UGM 4.29 22 Serve the great. ... Never mind the taunt of Boswellism...
    PI 8.68 4 ...our overpraise and idealization of famous masters is not in its origin a poor Boswellism...

Boswell's, James, n. (1)

    Boks 7.208 18 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Boswell's Life of Johnson;...

botanic, adj. (3)

    UGM 4.10 5 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...
    ET17 5.293 19 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days, one at Kew, where Sir William Hooker showed me all the riches of the vast botanic garden;...
    CL 12.159 6 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; where the best botanic ground;...these we call professors.

botanical, adj. (2)

    Thor 10.472 12 ...[Thoreau] would carry you...even to his most prized botanical swamp...
    Thor 10.480 2 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety...

botanist, n. (8)

    SwM 4.142 13 Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who denotes classes of souls as a botanist disposes of a carex...
    ET14 5.253 22 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions... perhaps of Robert Brown, the botanist;...
    Bty 6.281 8 ...what does the botanist know of the virtues of his weeds?
    PI 8.11 2 [Goethe] was himself conscious of [imagination's] help, which made him a prophet among the doctors. From this vision he gave brave hints to the zoologist, the botanist and the optician.
    Grts 8.319 25 The good botanist will find flowers between the street pavements...
    FRep 11.512 21 ...what is cotton? One plant out of some two hundred thousand known to the botanist...
    PLT 12.25 27 The botanist discovered long ago that Nature loves mixtures...
    CL 12.150 10 I am a very indifferent botanist...

botanists, n. (3)

    MoL 10.246 16 Linnaeus or Robert Brown must not be set to raise gooseberries and cucumbers, though they be excellent botanists.
    Thor 10.484 7 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...
    Thor 10.484 17 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains... It is called by botanists the Gnaphalium leontopodium, but by the Swiss Edelweisse...

botanist's, n. (1)

    PLT 12.3 6 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...

Botany Bay, Australia, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.211 5 ...the children of the convicts of Botany Bay are found to have as healthy a moral sentiment as other children.

botany, n. (25)

    Nat 1.67 19 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is...no ray upon the metaphysics...of botany...to the mind...
    AmS 1.105 23 Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies...
    SR 2.79 26 The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby.
    UGM 4.10 21 The table of logarithms is one thing, and its vital play in botany, music, optics and architecture another.
    ShP 4.190 6 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life...I will ransack botany and find a new food for man...
    GoW 4.275 4 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of modern botany, that a leaf or the eye of a leaf is the unit of botany...
    GoW 4.275 5 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of modern botany, that a leaf or the eye of a leaf is the unit of botany...
    Wsp 6.219 23 It is a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those...of botany, and so forth.
    Bty 6.281 6 Our botany is all names, not powers...
    Bty 6.290 8 'T is a law of botany that in plants the same virtues follow the same forms.
    PI 8.7 19 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science, of which the theories...of Agassiz and Owen and Darwin in zoology and botany, are the fruits...
    PI 8.8 9 Identity of law...perfect parallelism between the laws of Nature and the laws of thought exist. In botany we have the like...
    Comc 8.158 9 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion is also a function of Nature...
    PC 8.220 3 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science, art or function are...always known to the adepts; as Robert Brown in botany, and Gauss in mathematics.
    Insp 8.295 27 Books of natural science...geography, botany, agriculture... all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
    Aris 10.39 10 I wish...men...whom the mystery of botany allures, and the mineral laws;...
    Thor 10.452 7 [Thoreau] resumed his endless walks and miscellaneous studies...though as yet never speaking of zoology or botany...
    Thor 10.472 1 [Thoreau] confessed that he...if born among Indians, would have been a fell hunter. But, restrained by his Massachusetts culture, he played out the game in this mild form of botany and ichthyology.
    Wom 11.408 21 ...there is an art...better than botany, geology, or any science; namely, Conversation.
    PLT 12.55 16 To science there is no poison; to botany no weed; to chemistry no dirt.
    PLT 12.57 26 Peter is the mould into which everything is poured like warm wax, and be it astronomy or railroads or French revolution or theology or botany, it comes out Peter.
    CInt 12.127 26 ...I thought...a college was to teach you...chemistry, botany, zoology, the streaming of thought into form, and the precipitation of atoms which Nature is.
    CL 12.145 4 The Rosaceous tribe in botany...are coeval with man.
    CW 12.176 16 ...it is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany...by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
    MLit 12.324 9 With the sharpest eye for form, color, botany...[Goethe] never stopped at surface...

Botany, n. (3)

    ET12 5.199 11 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford, where I had introductions to Dr. Daubeny, Professor of Botany, and to the Regius Professor of Divinity [William Jacobson]...
    PI 8.49 5 Astronomy, Botany, Chemistry, Hydraulics and the elemental forces have their own periods and returns...
    LLNE 10.338 12 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...

botching, n. (1)

    PPh 4.77 1 Here is the world...perfect...not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought;...

bothered, v. (3)

    ET7 5.125 2 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money. He let it lie there six months...and he said, Now let me never be bothered more with this proven lie.
    Cour 7.259 15 ...the aggressive attitude of men who...will no longer be bothered with burglars and ruffians in the streets...that part, the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
    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 that he had been bothered with...

bottle, n. (6)

    MR 1.251 26 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...with a bottle of water and two sacks, one holding barley and the other dried fruits.
    LT 1.288 9 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...who have... floated to us some letter in a bottle from far.
    Bty 6.281 24 ...the skin or skeleton you show me is no more a heron than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.
    Bty 6.284 24 [The collector] has got all snakes and lizards in his phials, but science...has put the man into a bottle.
    PPo 8.240 6 Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and flowers are the wine and spirits of the Arab; a couplet is equal to a bottle, and a rose to a dram...
    FRep 11.524 2 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table;...

bottle, v. (2)

    WD 7.163 25 [Tantalus] is now in great spirits;...thinks he shall bottle the wave.
    CL 12.157 10 Can you bottle the efflux of a June noon...

bottled, adj. (1)

    PPo 8.249 16 We do not wish to strew sugar on bottled spiders...

bottled, v. (1)

    Schr 10.276 18 There is plenty of wild wrath, but it steads not until we can get it racked off...and bottled into persons;...

bottles, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.177 12 [Men] carry the liquor of life flowing up and down in these beautiful bottles...
    Prch 10.233 23 ...[inspiration] will invent its own methods: the new wine will make the bottles new.

bottling, v. (1)

    OS 2.291 6 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is like...bottling a little air in a phial...

bottom, adj. (1)

    CL 12.144 19 One more inconveniency [to walking], I remember, they showed me in Illinois, that, in the bottom lands, the grass was fourteen feet high.

bottom, n. (38)

    MN 1.195 5 In the bottom of the heart it is said; I am, and by me, O child! this fair body and world of thine stands and grows.
    SR 2.56 19 ...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    SL 2.140 4 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences... the heaven...still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize itself...
    OS 2.297 16 [Man] will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it and so hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart.
    Pol1 3.211 22 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely... saying that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom;...
    NR 3.238 13 ...[Nature] has hellebore at the bottom of the cup.
    NER 3.274 6 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world.
    ET2 5.33 2 ...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...
    ET4 5.68 27 ...the brutal strength which lies at the bottom of society...[the English] know how to wake up.
    ET5 5.75 8 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon had the most bottom and longevity...
    ET5 5.81 15 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from year to year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance, with calculations and estimates. But, meantime, he is drawing numbers and money to his opinion, resolved that if all remedy fails, right of revolution is at the bottom of his charter-box.
    ET5 5.87 10 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him, until you or he go to the bottom.
    ET5 5.91 19 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom.
    ET6 5.102 4 [The English] have in themselves what they value in their horses,--mettle and bottom.
    ET7 5.123 21 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners: which, to be sure, is paralleled by the democratic whimsy in this country...that the English are at the bottom of the agitation of slavery...
    ET7 5.124 13 ...[Englishmen's] eyes seem to be set at the bottom of a tunnel...
    ET12 5.207 20 [English students] have bottom, endurance, wind.
    Pow 6.61 3 When [children] are hurt by us...or go to the bottom of the class...they have a serious check.
    Bhr 6.181 18 The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
    CbW 6.257 12 ...[the gentleman] replied...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys; 't was dangerous water, but he thought they would soon touch bottom, and then swim to the top.
    Bty 6.304 16 Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning. What! has my stove and pepper-pot a false bottom?
    Ill 6.323 7 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances;...
    Elo1 7.93 25 ...first and last, [eloquence] must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.
    Clbs 7.239 13 To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man,--to touch bottom every time.
    PC 8.231 27 Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times, which search till they find resistance and bottom.
    Chr2 10.110 18 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...without offence: since, at bottom, those men mean honestly...
    SovE 10.189 1 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
    Prch 10.226 4 As the earth we stand upon...is chemically resolvable into gases and nebulae, so is the universe an infinite series of planes, each of which is a false bottom;...
    Thor 10.483 16 How did these beautiful rainbow-tints get into the shell of the fresh-water clam, buried in the mud at the bottom of our dark river?
    HDC 11.33 7 Sometimes passing through thickets...and [the pilgrims'] feet clambering over the crossed trees, which when they missed, they sunk into an uncertain bottom in water...
    War 11.162 25 ...what is true-that is, what is at bottom fit and agreeable to the constitution of man-must at last prevail over all obstruction and all opposition.
    War 11.163 27 ...always we are daunted by the appearances; not seeing that their whole value lies at bottom in the state of mind.
    War 11.169 13 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one...which has a friend in the bottom of the heart of every man...
    RBur 11.442 17 ...[Burns] had that secret of genius to draw from the bottom of society the strength of its speech...
    Bost 12.190 25 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its shores trending steadily from the two arms which the capes of Massachusetts stretch out to sea, down to the bottom of the bay where the city domes and spires sparkle through the haze,-a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    Bost 12.191 15 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...
    Bost 12.201 19 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this was at the bottom of Plymouth Rock...
    Trag 12.411 18 ...the frailest glass bell will support a weight of a thousand pounds of water at the bottom of a river or sea, if filled with the same.

Bottom, Nick [Shakespeare, (1)

    NR 3.236 24 Nick Bottom cannot play all the parts, work it how he may;...

bottomed, v. (1)

    MoS 4.155 18 ...if we uncover the last facts of our knowledge...you are bottomed and capped and wrapped in delusions.

bottomless, adj. (4)

    Comp 2.104 2 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless;...
    Ill 6.309 11 [In the Mammoth Cave] I saw high domes and bottomless pits;...
    Farm 7.135 14 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain,/ They thank the spring-flood for its fertile slime,/ And on cheap summit-levels of the snow/ Slide with the sledge to inaccessible woods/ O'er meadows bottomless./
    FSLC 11.210 8 Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison [slavery],-bore, blast, excavate, pulverize, and shovel it once for all, down into the bottomless Pit.

bottoms, n. (1)

    Wth 6.109 19 When the European wars threw the carrying-trade of the world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms, a seizure was now and then made of an American ship.

boudoir, n. (1)

    Bty 6.293 13 I suppose the Parisian milliner who dresses the world from her imperious boudoir will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by interposing the just gradations.

boudoirs, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.144 27 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees...being...perfumed, and dined, and introduced, and properly grounded in all the biography and politics and anecdotes of the boudoirs.
    Nat2 3.182 20 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature...
    EurB 12.370 11 In [Tennyson's] boudoirs of damask and alabaster, one is farther off from stern Nature and human life than in Lalla Rookh and the Loves of the Angels.

Boufflers, Louis Francois, (1)

    CbW 6.253 6 They were the fools who cried against me...wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers to Grimm;...

bough, n. (9)

    LE 1.180 11 ...they say the bough of the tree has the character of the leaf...
    LE 1.180 12 ...they say the bough of the tree has the character of the leaf, and the whole tree of the bough...
    LT 1.284 26 The canker worms have crawled to the topmost bough of the wild elm...
    Art1 2.355 26 A squirrel leaping from bough to bough...is beautiful...
    Exp 3.58 4 Like a bird which alights nowhere, but hops perpetually from bough to bough, is the Power which abides in no man and in no woman, but for a moment speaks from this one, and for another moment from that one.
    Wth 6.87 12 When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.
    PI 8.8 17 In geology, what a useful hint was given to the early inquirers on seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree which was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
    PI 8.15 12 As the bird alights on the bough, then plunges into the air again, so the thoughts of God pause but for a moment in any form.
    PPo 8.255 18 Once flees [the phoenix] upward, he will perch/ On Tuba's golden bough;/ His home is on that fruited arch/ Which cools the blest below.

boughs, n. (13)

    Nat 1.10 25 The waving of the boughs in the storm is new to me and old.
    Hist 2.20 11 The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees, with all their boughs, to a festal or solemn arcade;...
    Lov1 2.176 17 Every bird on the boughs of the tree sings now to [the lover' s] heart and soul.
    Int 2.334 2 If you gather apples in the sunshine...and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see apples hanging in the bright light with boughs and leaves thereto...
    Exp 3.45 13 ...night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
    Pol1 3.197 19 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    ET8 5.132 17 [Young Englishmen] chew hasheesh;...swing their hammock in the boughs of the Bohon Upas;...
    Boks 7.216 10 I remember when some peering eyes of boys discovered that the oranges hanging on the boughs of an orange-tree in a gay piazza were tied to the twigs by thread.
    Cour 7.264 5 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together; with pine boughs they can mop out the flame...
    Comc 8.163 27 ...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though unprovided of iron weapons...wounded their invaders with the boughs of trees which they carried...
    PerF 10.71 6 The coal on your grate gives out in decomposing to-day exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian tree.
    Bost 12.209 5 ...thus our little city [Boston] thrives and enlarges...sending out boughs and buds...
    EurB 12.371 24 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields...stuck with boughs of hemlock and sweetbriar...

bought, v. (44)

    DSA 1.138 9 This man had ploughed and planted and talked and bought and sold;...
    MR 1.232 5 In the island of Cuba...it appears only men are bought for the plantations...
    MR 1.249 9 I ought not to allow any man, because he has broad lands, to feel that he is rich in my presence. I ought to make him feel...that I cannot be bought...
    SR 2.52 12 There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold;...
    Comp 2.122 2 Neither can it be said...that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss.
    Fdsp 2.197 4 [A man who stands united in his thought] is conscious of a universal success, even though bought by uniform particular failures.
    Exp 3.63 7 A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakspeare;...
    Gts 3.165 7 ...I like to see that we cannot be bought and sold.
    NER 3.256 7 Who gave me the money with which I bought my coat?
    MoS 4.149 15 [A man] drives his bargain in the street; but it occurs that he also is bought and sold.
    MoS 4.152 27 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world. I don't know how great men you may be, said the Guinea man, but I don't like your looks. I have often bought a man much better than both of you, all muscles and bones, for ten guineas.
    ShP 4.205 7 It appears...that [Shakespeare] bought an estate in his native village with his earnings as writer and shareholder;...
    NMW 4.234 1 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history, of the price at which he bought his successes;...
    NMW 4.253 11 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it...is bought by the breaking or weakening of the sentiments;...
    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...
    ET11 5.182 20 An agriculturist bought lately the island of Lewes, in Hebrides...
    ET12 5.203 15 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...
    F 6.28 26 Alaric and Bonaparte must believe they rest on a truth, or their will can be bought or bent.
    Wth 6.120 7 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his work;...
    Wth 6.121 5 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the wood-lot, when bought.
    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.
    SS 7.4 10 When [my new friend] bought a house, the first thing he did was to plant trees.
    DL 7.111 25 ...a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
    SA 8.104 14 We have come to feel that by ourselves our safety must be bought;...
    Res 8.143 22 The emancipation has brought a whole nation of negroes as customers to buy all the articles which once their few masters bought...
    Insp 8.269 5 ...the one thing we wish to know is, where power is to be bought.
    Grts 8.303 25 There is somewhat in the true scholar which he cannot...be terrified or bought off from.
    Edc1 10.146 4 [Fellowes] went back to England, bought a Greek grammar and learned the language;...
    Supl 10.173 23 Superlatives must be bought by too many positives.
    LLNE 10.359 17 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841, by a society of members...who bought a farm in West Roxbury...
    EzRy 10.384 13 The minister [Joseph Emerson] writes against January 31st [1735]: Bought a shay for 27 pounds, 10 shillings.
    Thor 10.477 12 Now chiefly is my natal hour,/ And only now my prime of life;/ I will not doubt the love untold,/ Which not my worth nor want have bought,/ Which wooed me young, and wooes me old,/ And to this evening hath me brought./
    HDC 11.38 9 ...after the bargain [for Concord] was concluded, Mr. Simon Willard, pointing to the four corners of the world, declared that they had bought three miles from that place, east, west, north and south.
    HDC 11.49 9 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam, hath been...altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.
    FSLC 11.194 7 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe; too many to be bought off;...
    FSLC 11.208 20 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves.
    FSLC 11.213 21 Let us know that not by the public, but by ourselves, our safety must be bought.
    AKan 11.262 26 I think the American Revolution bought its glory cheap.
    EPro 11.321 12 What right has any one to read in the journals tidings of victories, if he has not bought them by his own valor, treasure, personal sacrifice...
    Wom 11.423 12 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only...shows...that our policies are...made up of things...to be understood only by wink and nudge; this man to be coaxed, that man to be bought, and that other to be duped.
    FRep 11.521 24 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race, bought with battles and revolutions and religion...
    CW 12.171 1 When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, bobolinks and thrushes, which were not charged in the bill;...
    AgMs 12.359 10 [Edmund Hosmer] borrowed the money with which he bought his farm...
    Let 12.402 14 A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe... and cheaply bought by any amounts of hard fare and false social position.

Bouillon, Henri de la Tour, (1)

    Elo2 8.122 2 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style; like Bouillon, who could almost persuade you that a quartan ague was wholesome;...

Bouillon, Henri de, n. (1)

    Bty 6.300 18 Cardinal De Retz says of De Bouillon, With the physiognomy of an ox, he had the perspicacity of an eagle.

boulder, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.228 10 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T is pulley and lever and screw. To fairly disengage the mass, and send it jingling down, a good boulder...is a wonderful relief.

boulders, n. (2)

    PPh 4.39 15 Great havoc makes [Plato] among our originalities. We have reached the mountain from which all these drift boulders were detached.
    Farm 7.146 10 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles.

boulevards, n. (1)

    GoW 4.274 4 [Goethe] sought [Proteus]...in boulevards and hotels;...

Boulogne, France, n. (1)

    ET1 5.3 3 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London...

bounce, adv. (1)

    PPr 12.380 19 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent, and so...as the country people say of good preaching, comes bounce down into every pew.

bound, n. (14)

    DSA 1.120 25 [Man] learns that his being is without bound;...
    MN 1.193 18 ...we set a bound to the respectability of wealth...
    MN 1.193 19 ...we set...a bound to the pretensions of the law and the church.
    Prd1 2.225 4 There revolve, to give bound and period to [man's] being on all sides, the sun and moon...
    Hsm1 2.263 13 It may calm the apprehension of calamity in the most susceptible heart to see how quick a bound Nature has set to the utmost infliction of malice.
    Pt1 3.30 21 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition; as when...Plato defines...a figure to be a bound of solid;...
    Chr1 3.108 5 [Divine persons] are usually received with ill-will...because they set a bound to the exaggeration that has been made of the personality of the last divine person.
    Chr1 3.114 20 If we cannot attain at a bound to these grandeurs [of character], at least let us do them homage.
    ET9 5.144 3 Individual right is pushed [in England] to the uttermost bound compatible with public order.
    F 6.22 1 [Fate] is everywhere bound or limitation.
    Art2 7.41 19 You cannot build your house or pagoda as you will, but as you must. There is a quick bound set to your caprice.
    Schr 10.263 27 ...[intellect] sees no bound to the eternal proceeding of law forth into nature.
    Schr 10.265 24 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last, which will give him at one bound a universal dominion.
    Shak1 11.446 6 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/ The sense and bound of Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him became/ Poets, for the air was fame./

bound, v. (33)

    LT 1.288 4 ...from what port did we sail? Who knows? Or to what port are we bound?
    LT 1.290 21 ...we are bound on our entrance into nature to speak for [reality].
    Con 1.318 13 ...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    YA 1.390 17 We cannot give our life to the cause...of the pauper, as another is doing; but to one thing we are bound, not to blaspheme the sentiment and the work of that man...
    SR 2.55 4 ...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief...
    Lov1 2.175 9 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when a single tone of one voice could make the heart bound...
    Cir 2.310 14 In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the common of silence on every side.
    Cir 2.320 2 No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.
    Int 2.326 18 Nature shows all things formed and bound.
    Pt1 3.12 20 Oftener it falls that this winged man, who will carry me into the heaven...leaps and frisks about with me as it were from cloud to cloud, still affirming that he is bound heavenward;...
    SwM 4.137 17 Under the same theologic cramp, many of [Swedenborg's] dogmas are bound.
    ET1 5.11 6 When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I interposed that whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I was born and bred a Unitarian.
    ET4 5.54 22 I found plenty of well-marked English types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that constitution. Others who might be Americans, for any thing that appeared in their complexion or form; and their speech was much less marked and their thought much less bound.
    ET5 5.81 16 [The English] are bound to see their measure carried...
    ET5 5.101 3 ...[the English] are more bound in character than differenced in ability or in rank.
    ET6 5.112 7 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs, bound in gold vellum...but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.
    ET8 5.128 1 [The police in England] thinks itself bound in duty to respect the pleasures and rare gayety of this inconsolable nation;...
    Wsp 6.199 9 ...Bound to the stake, no flames appalled,/ But arched o'er him an honoring vault./
    Ill 6.315 5 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community...who held themselves bound to sign every temperance pledge...
    DL 7.122 5 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland], so infinite a fancy, bound in by a most logical ratiocination...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    Insp 8.296 12 ...now one, now another landscape, form, color, or companion...strikes the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...
    Imtl 8.342 8 [Said Goethe] If I work incessantly till my death, Nature is bound to give me another form of existence...
    Aris 10.58 19 ...that is [the horseman's] business,-to ride...to ride unto the place whither he is bound.
    MoL 10.250 14 [Nature says to the American] Other things you have begun to do,-to strike off the chains which snuffling hypocrites had bound on a weaker race.
    MoL 10.254 12 The scholar is bound to stand for all the virtues and all the liberties...
    Schr 10.261 8 ...the society of lettered men is a university which does not bound itself with the walls of one cloister or college...
    MMEm 10.415 5 I am not infinite, nor have I power or will, but bound and imprisoned...
    SlHr 10.442 3 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement with all his might, and now and then borrowing the aid of...a farmer's phrase, whose force had imprinted it on his memory, and, by the same token, his hearers were bound to remember his point.
    LS 11.12 21 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ...
    HDC 11.63 23 ...nothing would satisfy [the country people] but that the governor must be bound in chains or cords...
    FSLC 11.191 4 ...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that human law;...
    FRO1 11.480 13 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions probably grew from the like origin. The close association which bound the first disciples of Jesus is another example;...
    CL 12.166 19 ...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found...answers our purpose still better. Striking the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...

boundaries, n. (16)

    LT 1.272 9 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect. ... If we would make more strict inquiry concerning its origin, we find ourselves rapidly approaching the inner boundaries of thought...
    Comp 2.97 17 The reaction, so grand in the elements, is repeated within these small boundaries.
    Comp 2.123 11 I contract the boundaries of possible mischief.
    Int 2.325 14 ...what man has yet been able to mark the steps and boundaries of that transparent essence [Intellect]?
    Pt1 3.42 20 ...wherever are forms with transparent boundaries...there is Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
    Exp 3.52 5 In truth [men] are all creatures of given temperament, which will appear in a given character, whose boundaries they will never pass;...
    Pol1 3.205 22 The boundaries of personal influence it is impossible to fix...
    UGM 4.28 12 There is somewhat deceptive about the intercourse of minds. The boundaries are invisible, but they are never crossed.
    PPh 4.52 21 If the East loved infinity, the West delighted in boundaries.
    ET3 5.37 26 The innumerable details [in England]...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET4 5.49 20 The fixity or inconvertibleness of races as we see them is a weak argument for the eternity of these frail boundaries...
    Farm 7.149 27 The selectmen [of Concord] have once in every five years perambulated the boundaries...
    Edc1 10.147 4 The very definition of the intellect is Aristotle's: that by which we know terms or boundaries.
    Supl 10.176 20 ...[Nature] appoints us to keep within the sharp boundaries of form as the condition of our strength...
    PLT 12.16 24 Who has found the boundaries of human intelligence?
    MLit 12.328 6 What [Goethe] said of Lavater, may truelier said of him, that it was fearful to stand in the presence of one before whom all the boundaries within which Nature has circumscribed our being were laid flat.

boundary, adj. (3)

    Prd1 2.238 26 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains...the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it, the boundary mountains on which the eye had fastened have melted into air.
    Aris 10.53 27 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole village...in his facts; the iron boundary lines had all faded away;...
    HDC 11.64 2 ...the [Concord] Town Records of that day [April 18, 1689] confine themselves...to conferences with the neighboring towns to run boundary lines.

Boundary, adj. (1)

    LT 1.270 14 The political questions touching...the Boundary wars;...are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...

boundary, n. (5)

    Cir 2.304 13 ...if the soul is quick and strong it bursts over that boundary on all sides...
    Pt1 3.21 23 ...the poet is the Namer or Language-maker...giving to every [thing] its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.
    PPh 4.59 5 [Plato's] strength is like the momentum of a falling planet, and his discretion the return of its due and perfect curve,--so excellent is his Greek love of boundary and his skill in definition.
    Res 8.141 22 When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was suddenly in parts found covered with gold and silver...
    Mem 12.101 18 ...all the facts in this chest of memory are property at interest. And who shall set a boundary to this mounting value?

bounded, v. (9)

    MN 1.205 8 Who would value any number of miles of Atlantic brine bounded by lines of latitude and longitude?
    Hist 2.36 25 Transport [Napoleon] to...complex interests and antagonist power, and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon.
    ET2 5.33 5 ...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main: As if, said they, we contended for the drops of the sea, and not for...the bed of those waters. The sea is bounded by his majesty's empire.
    Bty 6.292 4 Nothing interests us which is stark or bounded...
    Bty 6.305 6 Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat immeasurable and divine, and just as much into form bounded by outlines... as into tones of music or depths of space.
    Dem1 10.22 15 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts. What more facile than to project this exuberant selfhood into the region where individuality is forever bounded by generic and cosmical laws?
    SovE 10.206 6 Superstitious persons we see with respect, because their whole existence is not bounded by their hats and their shoes...
    Bost 12.190 20 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its waters bounded and marked by lighthouses, buoys and sea-marks;...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    Bost 12.191 17 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...where a bold shore was bounded by a country of rich undulating woodland.

bounding, adj. (2)

    LT 1.285 3 What has checked in this age the animal spirits which gave to our forefathers their bounding pulse?
    SovE 10.195 20 Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding fawns in the forest...

boundless, adj. (22)

    Nat 1.40 18 All things...in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
    AmS 1.85 10 Therein [nature] resembles [the scholar's] own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he never can find, - so entire, so boundless.
    MN 1.200 14 ...like a sleep, [the dance of the hours] is inexact and boundless.
    LT 1.275 1 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men...
    YA 1.364 11 An unlooked-for consequence of the railroad is the increased acquaintance it has given the American people with the boundless resources of their own soil.
    Hist 2.25 10 Throughout [Xenophon's] army exists a boundless liberty of speech.
    Art1 2.357 1 ...as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art [of painting], I see the boundless opulence of the pencil...
    Nat2 3.179 24 All changes [in Efficient Nature] pass without violence, by reason of the two cardinal conditions of boundless space and boundless time.
    Nat2 3.179 25 All changes [in Efficient Nature] pass without violence, by reason of the two cardinal conditions of boundless space and boundless time.
    NMW 4.254 2 [Napoleon] is a boundless liar.
    CbW 6.262 22 Life is a boundless privilege...
    Art2 7.57 3 Popular institutions...and the immense harvest of economical inventions, are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    Clbs 7.235 5 Yonder is a man who can answer the questions which I cannot. Is it so? Hence comes to me boundless curiosity to know his experiences and his wit.
    PI 8.58 25 In one of his poems [Taliessin] asks:--Is there but one course to the wind?/ But one to the water of the sea?/ Is there but one spark in the fire of boundless energy?/
    PC 8.210 25 Take as a type the boundless freedom here in Massachusetts.
    PPo 8.249 15 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a groom, and heaven a closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer. This boundless charter is the right of genius.
    Dem1 10.15 21 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success...influences all joint action of commerce and affairs, and a corresponding assurance in the individuals so distinguished meets and justifies the expectation of others by a boundless self-trust.
    Prch 10.218 15 ...elegance of taste and of manners and pursuit, a boundless ambition of intellect...all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...
    MoL 10.247 23 ...no decay has crept over the spiritual force which gives bias and period to boundless Nature.
    LS 11.21 14 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality, its boundless charity...
    MLit 12.320 5 ...whilst every line of the true poet will be genuine, he is in a boundless power and freedom to say a million things.
    WSL 12.342 5 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless leisure!...

boundless, n. (2)

    Supl 10.176 23 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless;...
    ChiE 11.470 2 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless...

Boundless, n. (1)

    FRO1 11.476 3 In many forms we try/ To utter God's infinity,/ But the Boundless has no form,/ And the Universal Friend/ Doth as far transcend/ An angel as a worm./

bounds, n. (24)

    Nat 1.64 12 Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man?
    Tran 1.355 2 In politics, it has often sufficed, when they treated of justice, if they kept the bounds of selfish calculation.
    Prd1 2.231 26 ...[the finer souls] find beauty in rites and bounds that resist [appetite].
    Cir 2.303 21 Moons are no more bounds to spiritual power than bat-balls.
    Exp 3.69 13 I would gladly be moral and keep due metes and bounds...
    UGM 4.17 21 ...we are entitled to these enlargements [of the imagination], and once having passed the bounds shall never again be quite the miserable pedants we were.
    PPh 4.73 18 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...the bounds of whose conquering intelligence no man had ever reached;...
    SwM 4.101 20 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was...to pass the bounds of space and time...began its lessons in quarries and forges...
    MoS 4.184 17 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds;...
    ET4 5.44 9 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...nor did he...count with precision the existing races and settle the true bounds;...
    ET5 5.79 23 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
    ET11 5.192 14 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation; are instructive, and make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET13 5.215 22 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...set bounds to serfdom and slavery...
    ET14 5.259 3 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...
    F 6.21 21 ...we must...show the natural bounds or essential distinctions...
    Bty 6.279 20 In dens of passion, and pits of woe, [Seyd] saw strong Eros struggling through,/ To sun the dark and solve the curse,/ And beam to the bounds of the universe./
    Clbs 7.236 16 ...having a large heart, mother-wit and good sense which impatiently overleaped his customary bounds, [Dr. Johnson's] conversation...has a lasting charm.
    Grts 8.315 23 [Diderot's] humanity knew no bounds.
    Schr 10.261 3 The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica.
    Schr 10.263 27 Intellect is the science of metes and bounds;...
    MMEm 10.406 16 ...if [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion was dull, her impatience knew no bounds.
    HDC 11.52 27 [The Indians] requested to have a town given them within the bounds of Concord...
    LVB 11.93 2 In speaking thus the sentiments of my neighbors and my own, perhaps I overstep the bounds of decorum.
    JBB 11.271 10 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts that is true, but the moment he is carried out of the bounds of Massachusetts, the United States, it is notorious, afford no protection at all;...

bounds, v. (1)

    HDC 11.62 12 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/...

bounteous, adj. (2)

    ET10 5.169 16 Such a wealth has England earned, ever new, bounteous and augmenting.
    PPo 8.242 10 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Afrasiyab...whose heart was bounteous as the ocean...

bounties, n. (3)

    MN 1.221 26 [Man's] nobility needs the assurance of this inexhaustible reserved power. How great soever have been its bounties, they are a drop to the sea whence they flow.
    Wth 6.105 24 Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms.
    HDC 11.65 27 ...bounties of twenty shillings are given as late as 1735, to Indians and whites, for the heads of these animals [wolves and wildcats]...

bountiful, adj. (3)

    YA 1.364 23 The bountiful continent is ours...
    SR 2.51 11 If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition... why should I not say to him, Go love thy infant;...
    Mrs1 3.154 13 The king of Schiraz could not afford to be so bountiful as the poor Osman who dwelt at his gate.

bounty, n. (7)

    DSA 1.119 17 ...the never-broken silence with which the old bounty goes forward has not yielded yet one word of explanation.
    OS 2.291 15 Souls such as these treat you as gods would...accepting without any admiration...your bounty...
    MoS 4.164 27 ...[Montaigne] has anticipated all censure by the bounty of his own confessions.
    WD 7.172 12 ...the earth is the cup, the sky is the cover, of the immense bounty of Nature which is offered us for our daily aliment;...
    Plu 10.316 8 There is really no limit to [Plutarch's] bounty...
    SlHr 10.448 25 ...[Samuel Hoar's] heart was all gentleness, gratitude and bounty.
    HDC 11.62 8 ...a few vagrant [Indian] families, that are now pensioners on the bounty of Massachusetts, are all that is left of the twenty tribes.

bouquet, n. (1)

    NMW 4.246 20 [Napoleon's] army, on the night of the battle of Austerlitz... presented him with a bouquet of forty standards taken in the fight.

Bourbon, adj. (1)

    Pow 6.70 9 ...when you espouse...a Bourbon or a Montalembert party...you have a personality instead of a principle, which will inevitably drag you into a corner.

Bourbon-Conde, Louis de [D (1)

    NMW 4.241 27 ...when allusion was made to the precious blood of centuries, which was spilled by the killing of the Duc d:Enghien, [Napoleon] suggested, Neither is my blood ditch-water.

Bourbons, n. (1)

    NMW 4.239 18 ...[Napoleon]...made no secret of his contempt...for the hereditary asses, as he coarsely styled the Bourbons.

Bourrienne, Louis Antoine (1)

    NMW 4.238 27 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks...

bout, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.261 11 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/...

bow, adj. (1)

    ET9 5.147 27 If one of [the English] have...bow legs...he has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...

bow, n. (12)

    ET5 5.86 17 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling, or stationing his ships one on the outer bow and another on the outer quarter of each of the enemy's, were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
    ET16 5.282 10 Hercules, in the legend, drew his bow at the sun, and the sun-god gave him a golden cup, with which he sailed over the ocean.
    CbW 6.243 25 ...Mask thy wisdom with delight,/ Toy with the bow, yet hit the white./
    Ill 6.312 20 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state or in society;...
    WD 7.184 26 Apollo stretched his bow and shot his arrow into the extreme west.
    WD 7.185 4 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space left. So the bowman's prize was adjudged to him who drew no bow.
    PI 8.31 11 ...[the amateur] draws the bow with his fingers and the [poet] with the strength of his body;...
    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.
    Aris 10.37 13 We like cool people, who...seem to have many strings to their bow...
    SHC 11.431 18 You can almost see behind these pines the Indian with bow and arrow lurking...
    PLT 12.52 11 ...because [men] know one thing, we defer to them in another, and find them really contemptible. We can't make a half bow and say, I honor and despise you.
    CL 12.149 19 ...what countless uses [of the forest] that we know not! How an Indian helps himself...making his bow of hickory, birch, or even a fir-bough, at a pinch;...

bow, v. (8)

    LT 1.260 19 ...all the children of men attack the colossus [Conservatism] in their youth, and all, or all but a few, bow before it when they are old.
    SR 2.60 13 Let us never bow and apologize more.
    SL 2.161 2 Common men are apologies for men; they bow the head...
    SwM 4.95 3 The realms of being to no other bow,/ Not only all are thine, but all are Thou./
    SwM 4.124 3 ...this mystic [Swedenborg] is awful to Caesar. Lycurgus himself would bow.
    PPo 8.257 4 The willows, [Hafiz] says, bow themselves to every wind out of shame for their unfruitfulness.
    EWI 11.138 21 Up to this day...we bow low to [statesmen] as to the great.
    FSLC 11.180 18 ...Boston, spoiled by prosperity, must bow its ancient honor in the dust...

bow-and-arrow, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.513 19 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times.

Bowditch, Nathaniel, n. (2)

    F 6.17 10 It would not be safe to say when...a navigator like Bowditch would be born in Boston;...
    MoL 10.246 9 Bowditch translated Laplace, and when he removed to Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that he should make their tables of annuities.

Bowdoin Square, Boston, Ma (1)

    ET16 5.283 12 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston...

bowed, v. (3)

    PI 8.47 17 Another form of rhyme is iterations of phrase, At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
    PI 8.47 18 Another form of rhyme is iterations of phrase, At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
    Comc 8.170 8 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...as if truth and virtue should be bowed out of creation by the clothes they wore, is the secret of all the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...

bowels, n. (4)

    ShP 4.189 4 If we require the originality which consists in weaving, like a spider, their web from their own bowels;...no great men are original.
    ET10 5.166 19 The English...seem to have established a tap-root in the bowels of the planet, because they are constitutionally fertile and creative.
    War 11.151 16 War, which to sane men at the present day begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels,-when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...
    FSLC 11.192 24 How can a law be enforced that fines pity, and imprisons charity? As long as men have bowels, they will disobey.

bower, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.197 18 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds of passage in this House of Commons, and then added...they have their best bower anchor in the House of Lords.

bower, n. (4)

    MN 1.205 27 ...O rich and various Man!...carrying...in thy heart, the bower of love and the realms of right and wrong.
    Lov1 2.188 2 ...I do not wonder...at the profuse beauty with which the instincts deck the nuptial bower...
    Fdsp 2.201 24 Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day.
    Clbs 7.223 3 Yet Saadi loved the race of men,--/ No churl, immured in cave or den;/ In bower and hall/ He wants them all;/...

Bower, Serena's, Mammoth C (1)

    Ill 6.309 10 We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to...a niche or grotto...called, I believe, Serena' s Bower.

Bowers, Charles, E., n. [Bowers,] (4)

    SMC 11.358 1.358 ...the captain [George Prescott] writes home of another of his men, B[owers] comes from a sense of duty and love of country...
    SMC 11.364 24 [George Prescott writes] I told Lieutenant Bowers, this morning, that I could afford to be sick from bringing the tent-poles...
    SMC 11.367 1 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers, and Captain Bowers another.
    SMC 11.368 12 ...at Fredericksburg...Lieutenant-Colonel Prescott loudly expressed his satisfaction at his comrades, now and then particularizing names: Bowers, Shepard and Lauriat are as brave as lions.

bowers, n. (2)

    YA 1.370 6 How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
    Suc 7.298 15 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz...

bowie-knife, n. (1)

    Schr 10.274 9 Is a man only the breech of a gun or the haft of a bowie-knife?

bowl, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.29 4 Milton says that...the epic poet...must drink water out of a wooden bowl.
    Mrs1 3.129 14 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top, as certainly as cream rises in a bowl of milk...
    ET5 5.101 11 The chancellor carries England on his mace...the cook in the bowl of his spoon;...
    WD 7.159 10 Why need I speak of steam...which is made in hospitals to bring a bowl of gruel to a sick man's bed...

bowler, n. (1)

    PerF 10.81 27 ...if we go to the regatta, we forget the bowler for the stroke oar;...

bowling, v. (1)

    Res 8.150 19 Games, fishing, bowling, hunting, gymnastics, dancing,--are not these needful to you?

bowls, n. (1)

    Ill 6.318 12 You play with...bowls, horse and gun, estates and politics; but there are finer games before you.

bowman's, n. (1)

    WD 7.185 3 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space left. So the bowman's prize was adjudged to him who drew no bow.

bows, n. (6)

    ET13 5.229 6 What is so odious as the polite bows to God, in our books and newspapers?
    Art2 7.42 2 It is the law of fluids that prescribes the shape of the boat,-- keel, rudder and bows...
    PC 8.215 11 Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage... vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their yam-cloths, pipes, bows...
    FSLN 11.228 9 [Webster] did as immoral men usually do, made very low bows to the Christian Church...
    FSLN 11.242 19 The low bows to all the crockery gods of the day were duly made...
    FRep 11.513 16 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...and is very scornful about bows and arrows...

bows, v. (2)

    Mrs1 3.145 9 What if the false gentleman almost bows the true out of the world?
    FSLC 11.213 9 Every nation and every man bows, in spite of himself, to a higher mental and moral existence;...

bowstring, n. (1)

    HDC 11.36 11 The moose was still trotting in the country, and of his sinews [the Indians] made their bowstring.

box, n. (14)

    Pt1 3.17 26 ...we choose the smallest box or case in which any needful utensil can be carried.
    ET7 5.124 21 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.
    ET10 5.164 17 The Bank [of England] is a strong box to which the king has no key.
    Farm 7.148 26 ...[the farmer] will concentrate his kitchen-garden into a box of one or two rods square...
    Clbs 7.227 9 The understanding can no more empty itself by its own action than can a deal box.
    Imtl 8.333 2 The skeptic affirms that the universe is a nest of boxes with nothing in the last box.
    EzRy 10.383 24 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house, with its four iron-gray deacons in their little box under the pulpit...
    Thor 10.461 23 From a box containing a bushel or more of loose pencils, [Thoreau] could take up with his hands fast enough just a dozen pencils at every grasp.
    EWI 11.103 19 The buckra box was full up with pen, paper and whip, and the negro box with hoe and bill;...
    EWI 11.103 20 The buckra box was full up with pen, paper and whip, and the negro box with hoe and bill;...
    FSLC 11.188 2 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending...on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being...suffocated in a wooden box, to get away from his driver...
    PLT 12.8 7 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject: Does the gentleman speak of anatomy? Who peeped into a box at the Custom House and then published a drawing of my rat?
    II 12.85 1 ...all parties acquiesce, at last, each in a private box, with the whole play performed before himself solus.
    CW 12.172 17 ...our people are vain, when abroad, of having the freedom of foreign cities presented to them in a gold box.

box, v. (2)

    ET4 5.70 11 [The English] box, run, shoot, ride, row, and sail from pole to pole.
    ET15 5.262 20 The English do this [write for journals], as they write poetry, as they ride and box, by being educated to it.

box-coat, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.151 12 There are advantages in the old hat and box-coat.
    Ctr 6.151 16 ...the box-coat is like wine, it unlocks the tongue...

boxer, n. (1)

    ET5 5.81 25 ...is it a boxer in the ring, is it a candidate on the hustings, the universe of Englishmen will suspend their judgment until the trial can be had.

boxer's, n. (1)

    War 11.155 26 Bull-baiting, cockpits and the boxer's ring are the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

boxes, n. (6)

    NMW 4.240 20 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs. Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road...
    Boks 7.191 27 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes;...
    Imtl 8.333 1 The skeptic affirms that the universe is a nest of boxes with nothing in the last box.
    EWI 11.103 17 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes...
    FRep 11.512 2 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood]; sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe...
    ACri 12.284 3 Chiefly in this country, the common school has added two or three audiences [for the writer]: once, we had only the boxes; now, the galleries and the pit.

boxing, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.71 6 The people at home [in England] are addicted to boxing, running, leaping and rowing matches.

boxing, v. (1)

    ET4 5.63 9 The brutality of the manners in the [English] lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting, cock-fighting, love of executions...

box-turtle, n. (1)

    ET13 5.222 23 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church. After that, you talk with a box-turtle.

Boy and the Mantle, The, n. (1)

    Hist 2.35 1 In the story of the Boy and the Mantle even a mature reader may be surprised with a glow of virtuous pleasure at the triumph of the gentle Genelas;...

boy, n. (123)

    AmS 1.104 15 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he seek a temporary peace by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions...as a boy whistles to keep his courage up.
    AmS 1.109 10 The boy is a Greek; the youth, romantic; the adult, reflective.
    AmS 1.110 3 ...a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he can swim.
    LE 1.155 10 ...I am not less glad or sanguine at the meeting of scholars, than when, a boy, I first saw the graduates of my own College assembled at their anniversary.
    LT 1.264 9 ...in the wild hope of a mountain boy...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    Tran 1.345 7 ...this masterpiece is the result of such an extreme delicacy that the most unobserved flaw in the boy will neutralize the most aspiring genius, and spoil the work.
    YA 1.393 2 Instead of the open future expanding here before the eye of every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to a narrow slit of sky...
    Hist 2.6 22 All that Shakspeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
    Hist 2.41 3 The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.
    SR 2.48 26 A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse;...
    Comp 2.93 1 Ever since I was a boy I have wished to write a discourse on Compensation;...
    SL 2.158 8 A stranger comes from a distant school...with airs and pretensions; an older boy says to himself, It's of no use; we shall find him out to-morrow.
    Lov1 2.172 21 The rude village boy teases the girls about the school-house door;...
    Lov1 2.173 15 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations;...
    Lov1 2.173 22 By and by that boy wants a wife, and very truly and heartily will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate...
    Hsm1 2.257 2 ...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.
    Exp 3.66 17 You love the boy reading in a book...
    Nat2 3.174 25 A boy hears a military band play on the field at night, and he has kings and queens and famous chivalry palpably before him.
    NER 3.257 23 The Roman rule was to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.
    UGM 4.8 2 The boy believes there is a teacher who can sell him wisdom.
    PPh 4.74 1 No escape; [Socrates] drives [his opponents] to terrible choices by his dilemmas, and tosses the Hippiases and Gorgiases with their grand reputations, as a boy tosses his balls.
    SwM 4.99 6 Such a boy [as Swedenborg] could not whistle or dance...
    MoS 4.162 17 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy.
    MoS 4.184 27 ...in the heart of each maiden and of each boy...this chasm is found,--between the largest promise of ideal power, and the shabby experience.
    ShP 4.202 1 ...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
    ET1 5.18 23 The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject.
    ET2 5.30 13 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port...
    ET4 5.62 19 Many a mean, dastardly boy is, at the age of puberty, transformed into a serious and generous youth.
    ET16 5.274 24 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    ET16 5.274 27 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    ET19 5.310 7 ...the political, the social, the parietal wit of Punch go duly every fortnight to every boy and girl in Boston and New York.
    F 6.30 20 ...when the boy grows to man...he pulls down that wall...
    Pow 6.59 3 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    Ctr 6.139 14 A boy, says Plato, is the most vicious of all wild beasts;...
    Ctr 6.139 16 ...the old English poet Gascoigne says, A boy is better unborn than untaught.
    Ctr 6.142 10 ...books are good only as far as a boy is ready for them.
    Ctr 6.142 21 [Your boy] hates the grammar and Gradus, and loves guns, fishing-rods, horses and boats. Well, the boy is right...
    Ctr 6.142 27 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 has resources...these will not serve him less than the books.
    Ctr 6.143 4 [The boy] learns chess, whist, dancing and theatricals. The father observes that another boy has learned algebra and geometry in the same time.
    Ctr 6.143 5 ...the first boy has acquired much more than these poor games along with them.
    Ctr 6.143 22 Provided always the boy is teachable...football, cricket...are lessons in the art of power...
    Ctr 6.144 15 One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
    Ctr 6.144 23 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic...
    Ctr 6.146 17 The boy grown up on a farm...is said in the country to have had no chance...
    Ctr 6.155 4 ...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and outgrown coat, that he may secure the coveted place in college...is educated to some purpose.
    Ctr 6.155 14 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that goes rusty and educates the boy;...
    Ctr 6.156 21 The high advantage of university life is often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and fire,--which parents will allow the boy without hesitation at Cambridge, but do not think needful at home.
    Bhr 6.170 21 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
    Bhr 6.191 27 The novels used to lead us on to a foolish interest in the fortunes of the boy and girl they described.
    Bhr 6.192 1 The boy [in earlier novels] was to be raised from a humble to a high position.
    CbW 6.257 9 ...[the gentleman] replied that he knew so much mischief when he was a boy...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys;...
    Bty 6.282 3 The boy had juster views when he gazed at the shells on the beach or the flowers in the meadow, unable to call them by their names, than the man in the pride of his nomenclature.
    Bty 6.284 18 The boy is not attracted [to science].
    Bty 6.291 22 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting under a wall, and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    Ill 6.312 6 The boy, how sweet to him is his fancy!...
    Ill 6.314 4 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe the show in due glory...
    Civ 7.20 9 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth...is made by tribes.
    Elo1 7.64 16 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person...will hurl a sentence worthy of attention...so that he who converses with him will appear to be in no respect superior to a boy.
    DL 7.105 13 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents... the little talker grows to a boy.
    Farm 7.142 5 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder.
    WD 7.165 11 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,--unteaches him. Once it took Archimedes; now it only needs a fireman, and a boy to know the coppers...
    WD 7.172 27 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps...skates, a river, a boat, a horse, a gun, for the growing boy;...
    Boks 7.194 25 Dr. Johnson said: Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both...
    Clbs 7.246 8 The girl deserts the parlor for the kitchen; the boy, for the wharf.
    Cour 7.262 11 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so;...
    Cour 7.264 13 The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of arithmetic, because he does not yet command the simple steps of the solution which the boy beside him has mastered.
    Cour 7.278 5 A little Indian boy/ Followed him [George Nidiver] everywhere,/ Eager to share the hunter's joy,/ The hunter's meal to share./
    Cour 7.278 11 And when the bird or deer/ Fell by the hunter's skill,/ The boy was always near/ To help with right good will./
    Cour 7.278 21 The boy turned round with screams,/ And ran with terror wild;/ One of the pair of savage beasts/ Pursued the shrieking child./
    Suc 7.298 10 Remember what befalls a city boy who goes for the first time into the October woods.
    Suc 7.299 1 Wordsworth writes of the delights of the boy in Nature...
    Suc 7.310 10 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty...but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
    Suc 7.311 10 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get...
    PI 8.10 16 The Indian, the hunter, the boy with his pets, have sweeter knowledge of these [animal forms] than the savant.
    PI 8.13 6 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as when a boy finds that his pocket-knife will attract steel filings...
    PI 8.48 19 The boy liked the drum...
    PI 8.53 2 The poet, like a delight