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    FSLC 11.197 9 Philadelphia...in this auction of the rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery.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    FSLC 11.197 10 Philadelphia...in this auction of the rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery.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 delighted boy, brings you heaps of rainbow-bubbles... instead of a few drops of soap and water.
    SA 8.105 1 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...of the boy for sea-life, or for painting...
    Elo2 8.127 3 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only stammer out with hard literalness...
    Elo2 8.127 15 ...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...
    Elo2 8.127 22 ...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, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he implored the Divine Being to--to--to bless to them all the boy that was this morning drowned in Frog Pond.
    Elo2 8.128 14 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...neglecting to give [a youth] the rough training of a boy...that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Res 8.152 27 ...every boy cuts [the willows] for a whistle;...
    Comc 8.168 7 I think there is malice in a very trifling story...which I should not take any notice of, did I not suspect it to contain some satire upon my brothers of the Natural History Society. It is of a boy who was learning his alphabet.
    Comc 8.168 9 That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy.
    Comc 8.168 10 That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy. That is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and so on.
    Comc 8.168 12 That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy. That is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and so on. That is W, said the teacher. The devil! exclaimed the boy; is that W?
    PPo 8.251 18 Take my heart in thy hand, O beautiful boy of Shiraz!/ I would give for the mole on thy cheek Samarcand and Buchara!/
    Grts 8.305 16 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea...
    PerF 10.80 27 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...
    PerF 10.82 5 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater. And poetry and literature are disdainful of all these claims beside their own. Like the boy who thought in turn each one of the four seasons the best...
    PerF 10.86 23 A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of streets and of school education.
    Chr2 10.118 7 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the education of the sailor and the vagabond boy...
    Edc1 10.128 27 Every one has a trust of power,-every man, every boy a jurisdiction...
    Edc1 10.147 5 Give a boy accurate perceptions.
    Edc1 10.147 24 By many steps...the stammering boy...in the school debate, in college clubs...comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...
    Edc1 10.148 25 The boy wishes to learn to skate, to coast...
    Edc1 10.148 27 The boy wishes to learn to skate, to coast...and a boy a little older is just as well pleased to teach him these sciences.
    Edc1 10.154 21 It is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow...
    Edc1 10.158 5 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl, because the fire falls...take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
    Edc1 10.158 18 ...if the boy [in your school] stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
    Supl 10.170 4 Under the Catskill Mountains the boy in the steamboat said, Come up here, Tony; it looks pretty out-of-doors.
    MoL 10.256 18 [Senators and lawyers] read that they might know, did they not? Well, these men [who passed infamous laws] did not know. They blundered; they were utterly ignorant of that which every boy and girl of fifteen knows perfectly,-the rights of men and women.
    LLNE 10.334 10 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed, but the bright image of that eloquent form followed the boy home to his bed-chamber;...
    EzRy 10.385 26 I remember, when a boy, driving about Concord with [Ezra Ripley]...
    EWI 11.104 20 ...a good man or woman, a country boy or girl...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them.
    EWI 11.111 3 The [West Indian] boy was set to strip and flog his own mother to blood, for a small offence.
    War 11.156 5 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity.
    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...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him.
    FSLC 11.200 5 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...
    AKan 11.260 3 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man and the earnings of his little girl and boy...
    JBB 11.268 3 ...our Captain John Brown, then a boy, with his father was present and witnessed the surrender of General Hull.
    JBS 11.277 18 When [John Brown] was five years old his father emigrated to Ohio, and the boy was there set to keep sheep...
    JBS 11.278 6 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy whom he heartily liked...
    JBS 11.278 8 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave;...
    JBS 11.278 10 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave;...he saw that this boy had nothing better to look forward to in life...
    JBS 11.278 14 ...[John Brown] was much considered in the family where he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.
    JBS 11.278 16 ...the colored boy had no friend, and no future.
    SMC 11.358 23 Our first company was led by an officer who had grown up in this village from a boy.
    CL 12.147 24 ...the forest awakes in [the man growing old against his will] the same feeling it did when he was a boy...
    CL 12.164 16 A farmer's boy finds delight in reading the verses under the Zodiacal vignettes in the Almanac.
    MAng1 12.220 16 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.
    Pray 12.352 3 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries, which attest...the eternity of the sentiment and its equality to itself through all the variety of expression. The first is the prayer of a deaf and dumb boy...

Boy [Wordsworth, The Excur (1)

    MLit 12.321 1 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book.

boyhood, n. (9)

    MR 1.231 7 ...if [the young man] would thrive in [the employments of commerce], he must sacrifice all the brilliant dreams of boyhood and youth as dreams;...
    Exp 3.50 26 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown...if he...has gotten a child in his boyhood?
    Ctr 6.164 16 ...I observe that [scholars] lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
    Bhr 6.195 6 Here is a lesson which I brought along with me in boyhood from the Latin School...
    DL 7.107 5 [The little pilgrim] grows up the ornament and joy of the house...to rosy boyhood.
    PI 8.14 10 The aged Michel Angelo indicates his perpetual study as in boyhood,--I carry my satchel still.
    Edc1 10.138 10 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still;...
    Mem 12.103 23 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the solitary river...vibrate anew to the tenderness and dainty music of the poetry your boyhood fed upon.
    CL 12.146 27 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and Cow-apple...and Beware-of-this. Apples of a kind which I remember in boyhood...

boyish, adj. (4)

    PI 8.34 27 'T is boyish in Swedenborg to cumber himself with the dead scurf of Hebrew antiquity...
    SMC 11.348 5 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ ... In fields their boyish feet had known?/ In trees their fathers' hands had set,/ And which with them had grown,/ Widening each year their leafy coronet?/
    EdAd 11.387 3 We have no sympathy with that boyish egotism, hoarse with cheering for one side, for one state, for one town...
    CInt 12.113 13 ...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to suffer the flash of swords and the boyish strife of passion and feebleness of military strength to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence of Intellectual Law.

boyish, n. (1)

    OA 7.316 16 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head...

Boyle, Robert, n. (1)

    ET14 5.248 21 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it... as an effect of the same cause which showed itself more pronounced afterwards in Hooke, Boyle and Halley.

Boynton, Edward, n. (1)

    ET10 5.165 10 Sir Edward Boynton...on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side.

boys, n. (91)

    Nat 1.50 26 ...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach]...
    AmS 1.97 4 ...the fear of boys, and dogs, and ferules, the love of little maids and berries...are gone already;...
    LE 1.163 5 ...in the...boys...you meet...behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    LE 1.183 19 The scholar regrets to damp the hope of ingenuous boys;...
    LT 1.264 10 ...in the wild hope of a mountain boy, called by city boys very ignorant...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    Hist 2.25 15 Who does not see that [Xenophon's army] is a gang of great boys...
    Hist 2.25 17 Who does not see that [Xenophon's army] is a gang of great boys, with such a code of honor and such lax discipline as great boys have?
    SR 2.48 23 The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner...is the healthy attitude of human nature.
    SR 2.49 4 ...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them...in the swift, summary way of boys...
    Comp 2.119 26 [The mob] resembles the prank of boys...
    SL 2.148 10 My children, said an old man to his boys scared by a figure in the dark entry, my children, you will never see anything worse than yourselves.
    SL 2.157 27 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
    Fdsp 2.209 24 Leave it to girls and boys to regard a friend as property...
    NR 3.234 17 Lively boys write to their ear and eye...
    NER 3.258 26 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high and dry on the beach...
    PPh 4.79 1 ...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys...
    SwM 4.144 19 [Swedenborg's] laurel so largely mixed with cypress, a charnel-breath so mingles with the temple incense, that boys and maids will shun the spot.
    MoS 4.161 23 Men do not confide themselves to boys...
    ET2 5.30 22 The mate avers that this is the history of all sailors; nine out of ten are runaway boys;...
    ET5 5.100 21 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata...
    ET8 5.142 6 ...to appease diseased or inflamed talent, the [English] army and navy may be entered (the worst boys doing well in the navy);...
    ET9 5.150 11 The habit of brag runs through all classes [in England]... through Wordsworth, Carlyle, Mill and Sydney Smith, down to the boys of Eton.
    F 6.3 23 ...the boys and girls are not docile;...
    F 6.43 6 History is the action and reaction of these two,-Nature and Thought; two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement.
    Ctr 6.146 19 ...boys and men of that condition [who have grown up on a farm, which they have never left] look upon work on a railroad...as opportunity.
    Ctr 6.146 21 Poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut formerly owed what knowledge they had to their peddling trips to the Southern States.
    Ctr 6.149 13 Boys and girls who have been brought up with well-informed and superior people show in their manners an inestimable grace.
    Ctr 6.164 20 ...these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.
    CbW 6.257 11 ...[the gentleman] replied...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys;...
    CbW 6.259 2 A man of sense and energy...said to me, I want none of your good boys,--give me the bad ones.
    Bty 6.287 2 ...the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Ill 6.315 10 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game...
    Civ 7.21 26 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday.
    Elo1 7.65 25 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin, whose music...drew...women and boys...
    Elo1 7.66 11 There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence of the boys and rowdies...
    Elo1 7.66 16 If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence [in the audience] of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede; a more chaste and wise attention takes place. You would think the boys slept, and that the men have any degree of profoundness.
    DL 7.101 5 Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair mother's arms/...
    DL 7.106 13 [The child] has heard of wild horses and of bad boys...
    DL 7.119 26 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys discharging as they can their household chores...
    DL 7.121 6 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity, which, excluding them from the sensual enjoyments which make other boys too early old, has directed their activity in safe and right channels...
    DL 7.124 21 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.
    DL 7.124 25 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The...manhood and offices they brought thither at this return seemed mere ornamental masks; underneath they were boys yet.
    WD 7.168 21 Remember what boys think in the morning of Election day...
    Boks 7.216 8 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.
    Clbs 7.232 14 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go...to boys...
    Clbs 7.248 4 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. ...experienced men meet with the freedom of boys...
    Cour 7.256 9 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books, the ballads which delight boys...may testify.
    Cour 7.259 10 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community...always on the defensive, as if the lead were intrusted to the journals, often written in great part by women and boys...
    Cour 7.261 4 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
    Cour 7.266 27 In every school there are certain fighting boys;...
    PI 8.52 20 ...we have not done with music, no, nor with rhyme, nor must console ourselves with prose poets so long as boys whistle and girls sing.
    PI 8.67 11 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...
    Elo2 8.115 7 Uncommon boys follow uncommon men...
    Elo2 8.128 17 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk from the games...and whatever else would lead him and keep him on even terms with boys...that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Elo2 8.128 24 In England they send the most delicate and protected child from his luxurious home to learn to rough it with boys in the public schools.
    PPo 8.249 27 Hafiz praises...maidens, boys...to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
    Grts 8.316 7 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it in boys...as in more orderly examples.
    Edc1 10.134 23 We teach boys to be such men as we are.
    Edc1 10.138 14 I like boys...
    Edc1 10.138 15 I like...boys, who have the same liberal ticket of admission to all shops...as flies have;...
    Edc1 10.139 23 Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and talk with each other;...
    Edc1 10.157 5 The will, the male power...makes that military eye which controls boys as it controls men;...
    MoL 10.253 23 Pytheas of Aegina was victor in the Pancratium of the boys...
    MoL 10.258 3 The times develop the strength they need. Boys are heroes.
    Schr 10.280 19 Society...is dazzled and deceived by the weapon [of talent], without inquiring into the cause for which it is drawn; like boys by the drums and colors of the troops.
    Plu 10.314 16 ...Walter Scott took hold of boys and young men, in England and America, and through them of their fathers.
    LLNE 10.332 11 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.334 15 ...boys filled their mouths with arguments to prove that the orator [Everett] had a heart.
    LLNE 10.362 26 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...
    LLNE 10.363 2 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;... finding his delight in the petulant heroism of boys;...
    MMEm 10.432 19 It was the privilege of certain boys to have [Mary Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood;...
    SlHr 10.438 8 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He...refused the offers, saying that...he had rather the boys should troll his old head like a football in their streets, than that he should hide it.
    HDC 11.27 8 Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys/ Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs.
    War 11.155 25 Idle and vacant minds want excitement, as all boys kill cats.
    War 11.172 23 We are affected, as boys and barbarians are, by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...
    JBB 11.266 16 ...[John Brown] and his brave boys vowed-so might Heaven help and speed 'em-/ They would save those grand old prairies from the curse that blights the land;/...
    JBB 11.266 22 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Said, Boys, the Lord will aid us! and he shoved his ramrod down./ Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Brown.
    ACiv 11.298 18 The boys have no new clothes, no gifts, no journeys;...
    ACiv 11.298 20 ...boys and girls find their education, this year, less liberal and complete.
    HCom 11.339 3 Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our Commencement Day?/ Were we such boys as these at twenty? Nay,/ God called them to a nobler task than ours/...
    HCom 11.339 7 These boys we talk about like ancient sages/ Are the same men we read of in old pages-/ The bronze recast of dead heroic ages!/
    SMC 11.357 12 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence...
    Scot 11.461 1 Scott, the delight of generous boys.
    Scot 11.463 22 ...we still claim that [Scott's] poetry is the delight of boys.
    Scot 11.463 24 ...when we reopen these old books [of Scott's] we all consent to be boys again.
    Mem 12.106 13 [The bright school-girl] carries [what she has memorized] so carelessly, it seems like the profusion of hair on the shock heads of all the village boys and village dogs;...
    CL 12.155 21 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years, running and playing like boys, felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
    Milt1 12.268 5 [Milton] compiled a logic for boys;...
    ACri 12.288 5 I envy the boys the force of the double negative...
    AgMs 12.358 2 In an afternoon in April...I traversed an orchard where boys were grafting apple-trees...
    Let 12.393 22 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.

boy's, n. (8)

    Wsp 6.220 1 ...look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.
    Clbs 7.227 19 ...money does not more burn in a boy's pocket than a piece of news burns in our memory until we can tell it.
    Cour 7.279 1 The hunter raised his gun,--/ He knew one charge was all,--/ And through the boy's pursuing foe/ He sent his only ball./
    Suc 7.297 13 ...has [the scholar or writer] never found that there is a better poetry hinted in a boy's whistle of a tune...than in all his literary results?
    Edc1 10.139 27 Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and talk with each other;...the good-natured yet defiant independence of a leading boy's behavior in the school-yard.
    Edc1 10.144 12 The two points in a boy's training are, to keep his naturel and train off all but that...
    RBur 11.443 10 The memory of Burns,-every man's, every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs...
    PLT 12.43 14 There are times when...a boy's willow whistle...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.

brace, v. (1)

    F 6.32 12 The cold will brace your limbs and brain to genius...

braced, v. (2)

    AmS 1.93 3 When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
    PLT 12.24 1 ...if one remembers...how much we are braced by the presence and actions of any Spartan soul, it does not need vigor of our own kind...

braced-up, v. (1)

    Tran 1.356 25 [The Transcendentalist] is braced-up and stilted;...

Brackley, Lord, n. (1)

    ET19 5.309 14 Sir Archibald Alison, the historian, presided [at the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], and opened the meeting with a speech. He was followed by Mr. Cobden, Lord Brackley and others...

bract, n. (2)

    SwM 4.107 14 In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf, then to another leaf, with a power of transforming the leaf into radicle, stamen, pistil, petal, bract, sepal, or seed.
    PI 8.8 13 In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis,--that the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be transformed at pleasure into every part, as bract, leaf, petal, stamen, pistil or seed.

Bracton, Henry, n. (1)

    ET5 5.76 27 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of... Bracton, Camden, Drake...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...

Bradshaw, John, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.109 25 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears like a consul, from whom the fasces are not to depart with the year;...
    SlHr 10.441 11 ...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest Milton's picture of John Bradshaw...

Braes of Yarrow [William H (1)

    PI 8.48 17 Busk thee, busk thee, my bonny bonny bride,/ Busk thee, busk thee, my winsome marrow./ Hamilton.

brag, n. (9)

    Comp 2.105 11 Life invests itself with inevitable conditions...which one and another brags...that they do not touch him;--but the brag is on his lips...
    ET9 5.148 26 There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal.
    ET9 5.150 8 The habit of brag runs through all classes [in England]...
    Ctr 6.150 19 ...[the man of the world]...avoids all brag...
    Suc 7.291 11 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success,--that we shall drop the brag and the advertisement...
    Supl 10.174 24 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock...
    FSLC 11.183 17 The popular assumption that all men loved freedom, and believed in the Christian religion, was found hollow American brag;...
    Scot 11.466 17 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn; and meantime without one word of brag of this discernment...
    Bost 12.187 24 Each great city...comes to be the brag of its age and population.

brag, v. (5)

    Prd1 2.239 6 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls! They will...feign to confess here, only that they may brag and conquer there...
    Grts 8.304 5 A sensible man does not brag...
    EWI 11.131 25 ...the farmers may brag their democracy in the country, but they are disgraced men.
    FSLC 11.180 24 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here; at least we can brag thus until to-morrow...
    WSL 12.343 11 Do not brag of your actions, as if they were better than Homer's verses or Raphael's pictures.

Brage, n. (1)

    ET9 5.147 14 ...it must be admitted, the island [England] offers a daily worship to the old Norse god Brage...

bragged, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.355 25 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that what we bragged as triumphs were treacheries;...

Braghettone, Il, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.234 22 As [Michelangelo] refused to undo his work [The Last Judgment], Daniel di Volterra was employed to clothe the figures; hence ludicrously called Il Braghettone.

brags, v. (1)

    Comp 2.105 10 Life invests itself with inevitable conditions...which one and another brags that he does not know...

Brahma, n. (2)

    Imtl 8.351 19 [Yama said] Thee, O Nachiketas! I believe a house whose door is open to Brahma.
    Imtl 8.351 19 Brahma the supreme, whoever knows him obtains whatever he wishes.

Brahmanical [Braminical], ad (1)

    ET14 5.249 18 It is the surest sign of national decay, when the Bramins can no longer read or understand the Braminical philosophy.

Brahmans [Bramins], n. (3)

    SwM 4.96 2 If one should ask the reason of this intuition, the solution would lead us into that property which...is implied by the Bramins in the tenet of Transmigration.
    ET8 5.132 25 ...[young Englishmen]...translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins;...
    ET14 5.249 17 It is the surest sign of national decay, when the Bramins can no longer read or understand the Braminical philosophy.

Brahmin, n. (2)

    Hist 2.28 18 The priestcraft...of the Magian, Brahmin, Druid, and Inca, is expounded in the individual's private life.
    Aris 10.57 27 The great Indian sages had a lesson for the Brahmin, which every day returns to mind, All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on himself gives pleasure;...

Brahmins, n. (4)

    Nat 1.34 15 [The relation between mind and matter] is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius since the world began; from the era of the Egyptians and the Brahmins to that of Pythagoras...
    MN 1.216 24 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life;...
    Pt1 3.36 23 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me, and perchance to themselves appear upright men; and whether I appear as a man to all eyes. The Brahmins and Pythagoras propounded the same question...
    Aris 10.40 23 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators, Indian Brahmins... inculcate...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.

braid, v. (2)

    CbW 6.276 23 'T is as easy to twist iron anchors and braid cannons as to braid straw;...
    CbW 6.276 24 'T is as easy to twist iron anchors and braid cannons as to braid straw;...

braided, v. (1)

    Ill 6.321 14 ...if we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all but some galaxy which we braided...

braids, v. (1)

    ET10 5.161 2 Steam twines huge cannon into wreaths, as easily as it braids straw...

brain, n. (113)

    AmS 1.96 12 We no more feel or know [our recent actions] than we feel... the brain of our body.
    MN 1.205 25 ...O rich and various Man!...carrying...in thy brain, the geometry of the City of God;...
    LT 1.264 8 In the brain of a fanatic;...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    Hist 2.2 3 I am owner of the sphere,/ .../ Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain/...
    Hist 2.37 12 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind. Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay-Lussac... anticipate the laws of organization.
    Lov1 2.175 3 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain, which created all things anew;...
    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 3.51 4 Of what use [is genius], if the brain is too cold or too hot...
    Chr1 3.93 7 This immensely stretched trade, which makes the capes of the Southern Ocean his wharves and the Atlantic Sea his familiar port, centres in [the natural merchant's] brain only;...
    Mrs1 3.138 13 To the leaders of men, the brain as well as the flesh and the heart must furnish a proportion.
    Mrs1 3.154 21 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never...some fool...who...had a pet madness in his brain, but fled at once to him;...
    Nat2 3.183 17 Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore is [man] the prophet and discoverer of her secrets.
    Nat2 3.194 2 [Nature's] secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain.
    UGM 4.9 14 ...every organ, function, acid, crystal, grain of dust, has its relation to the brain.
    UGM 4.9 27 In the history of discovery, the ripe and latent truth seems to have fashioned a brain for itself.
    PPh 4.47 1 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant...with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.
    PPh 4.54 5 The excellence of Europe and Asia are in [Plato's] brain.
    PNR 4.80 17 [The human being's] arts and sciences, the easy issue of his brain, look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox...
    PNR 4.80 18 [The human being's] arts and sciences...look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox...
    SwM 4.98 7 If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser...
    SwM 4.99 11 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes...prying into...physiology, mathematics and astronomy, to find images fit for the measure of his versatile and capacious brain.
    SwM 4.108 22 Here in the brain is all the process of alimentation repeated...
    SwM 4.108 25 In the brain are male and female faculties;...
    SwM 4.113 13 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland;...
    SwM 4.130 13 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend on a happy adjustment of heart and brain;...
    MoS 4.161 11 Every thing that is excellent in mankind...a brain of resources...[the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
    ShP 4.210 15 [Shakespeare] was...a brain exhaling thoughts and images...
    ShP 4.212 1 A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain and think from thence; but not into Shakspeare's.
    ET1 5.9 19 [Landor] has a wonderful brain...
    ET4 5.46 18 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed...to laws and traditions, nor to fortune; but to superior brain...
    ET5 5.77 21 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...thinks the same thing...
    ET5 5.77 23 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...thinks the same thing...
    ET5 5.88 24 This highly destined race [the English], if it had not somewhere added the chamber of patience to its brain, would not have built London.
    ET5 5.93 17 Is it [English] luck, or is it in the chambers of their brain,--it is their commercial advantage that whatever light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their race.
    ET5 5.101 7 Every man [in England] carries the English system in his brain...
    ET9 5.148 6 ...this little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain is one of the secrets of their power and history.
    ET10 5.169 23 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with;...
    ET11 5.196 17 English history, wisely read, is the vindication of the brain of that people.
    ET12 5.207 26 ...[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills... and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture.
    ET13 5.221 20 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain.
    ET13 5.222 12 I suspect that there is in an Englishman's brain a valve that can be closed at pleasure...
    ET14 5.235 17 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius. The tablets of their brain...were finely sensible to the double glory.
    ET18 5.300 25 In Irish districts [of England], men deteriorated in size and shape...with diminished brain and brutal form.
    F 6.10 24 ...the fine organs of [the digger's] brain have been pinched by overwork and squalid poverty...
    F 6.11 25 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain...
    F 6.18 11 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales... Oenipodes...each had the same tense geometrical brain...
    F 6.23 1 ...here they are, side by side, god and devil...riding peacefully together in the eye and brain of every man.
    F 6.32 12 The cold will brace your limbs and brain to genius...
    F 6.42 19 ...in each town there is some man who is, in his brain and performance, an explanation of the...ways of living and society of that town.
    F 6.43 11 [Man] plants his brain and affections.
    F 6.44 19 The truth is in the air, and the most impressionable brain will announce it first...
    Pow 6.74 12 ...you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest.
    Wth 6.83 20 What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/ (In dizzy aeons dim and mute/ The reeling brain can ill compute)/ Copper and iron, lead, and gold?/
    Wth 6.116 3 Long free walks...free [the land-owner's] brain and serve his body.
    Wth 6.125 4 ...there is nothing in [a man's] brain which is not repeated in a higher sphere in his moral system.
    Ctr 6.145 18 Can we never extract this tape-worm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen?
    Ctr 6.152 2 It is odd that our people should have--not water on the brain, but a little gas there.
    Ctr 6.166 4 ...the age of the brain and of the heart is to come in.
    CbW 6.251 14 All the marked events of our day...may be traced back to their origin in a private brain.
    Bty 6.287 12 ...there are many beauties; as, of general nature...of brain or method...
    Bty 6.300 17 The great orator was an emaciated, insignificant person, but he was all brain.
    Bty 6.302 4 The lives of the Italian artists...prove how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
    SS 7.1 20 [Seyd] stood before the tumbling main/ With joy too tense for sober brain;/...
    SS 7.7 27 ...each of these potentates [Dante, Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw well the reason of his exclusion. Solitary was he? Why, yes; but his society was limited only by the amount of brain nature appropriated in that age to carry on the government of the world.
    Elo1 7.79 5 A supreme commander over all his passions and affections; but the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that. It is the power of Nature running without impediment from the brain and will into the hands.
    Farm 7.135 17 So, year by year,/ [Farmers] fight the elements with elements,/ And by the order in the field disclose/ The order regnant in the yeoman's brain./
    WD 7.161 10 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...whose sudden performance astonished mankind as if the intellect were...shooting the first thrills of life and thought through the unwilling brain?
    WD 7.166 19 Look up the inventors. Each has his own knack; his genius is in veins and spots. But the great, equal, symmetrical brain...you shall not find.
    WD 7.171 7 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...and the answering brain and nervous structure replying to these;...are given immeasurably to all.
    Boks 7.203 4 The imaginative scholar will find few stimulants to his brain like these writers [the Platonists].
    Clbs 7.229 16 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain...
    Cour 7.266 2 ...there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain...that make or give this virtue;...
    Suc 7.296 25 ...the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.
    Suc 7.297 10 When the scholar or the writer has pumped his brain for thoughts and verses, and then comes abroad into Nature, has he never found that there is a better poetry hinted in a boy's whistle...than in all his literary results?
    PI 8.6 6 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment...
    PI 8.7 3 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...
    PI 8.39 20 Is the solar system good art and architecture? the same wise achievement is in the human brain also...
    PI 8.64 4 Is not poetry the little chamber in the brain where is generated the explosive force which, by gentle shocks, sets in action the intellectual world?
    Res 8.141 13 Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who...have the power and habit of invention in their brain.
    Res 8.153 23 ...all these acquisitions are victories of the good brain and brave heart;...
    PPo 8.246 17 To be wise the dull brain so earnestly throbs,/ Bring bands of wine for the stupid head./
    PPo 8.257 10 By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I found the grove in the morning pure,/ In the concert of the nightingales/ My drunken brain to cure./
    Grts 8.312 2 Nature, when she adds difficulty, adds brain.
    Aris 10.43 9 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it;...
    Aris 10.44 7 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be poet, king...
    Aris 10.44 13 It were to dispute against the sun, to deny this difference of brain.
    Aris 10.53 21 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village], so full of his facts, so unable to suppress them, that he has poured out a river of knowledge to all comers...
    PerF 10.73 5 The brain of man has methods and arrangements corresponding to these material powers...
    Edc1 10.127 5 Certain nations, with a better brain...have made such progress as to compare with these [savages] as these compare with the bear and the wolf.
    Supl 10.169 9 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech. They are never off their centres. As soon as they swell and paint and find truth not enough for them, softening of the brain has already begun.
    MoL 10.250 7 [Nature says to the American] I give you...the forest and the mine, the elemental forces, nervous energy. When I add difficulty, I add brain.
    Schr 10.260 2 The sun and moon shall fall amain/ Like sowers' seeds into his brain,/ There quickened to be born again./
    Schr 10.272 20 ...the quality and essence of the universe is in [Union Pacific stock] also. Have we less interest...in any relation of life or custom of society? The scholar is to show, in each, identity and connexion; he is to show its origin in the brain of man...
    LLNE 10.329 25 The young men were born with knives in their brain...
    LLNE 10.352 7 ...we could not exempt [Fourierism] from the criticism which we apply to so many projects for reform with which the brain of the age teems.
    War 11.164 19 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths.
    FSLC 11.211 13 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery].
    ACiv 11.300 22 [People] bring their opinion [of slavery] into the world. If they have a comatose tendency in the brain, they are pro-slavery while they live;...
    ALin 11.333 9 ...[good humor]...is the protection of the overdriven brain against rancor and insanity.
    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./
    FRep 11.522 15 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts...
    PLT 12.33 8 As soon as our accumulation [of knowledge] overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,- congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.
    II 12.65 8 We have a certain blind wisdom, a brain of the brain...
    II 12.65 9 We have a certain blind wisdom, a brain of the brain...
    II 12.65 9 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...
    CL 12.133 3 The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/ And all through which it blows;/ If plant or brain, if egg or shell,/ Or bird or biped knows./
    CL 12.140 14 The importance to the intellect of exposing the body and brain to the fine mineral and imponderable agents of the air makes the chief interest in the subject.
    CL 12.140 19 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...
    Bost 12.182 12 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./
    Bost 12.186 25 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers...
    Milt1 12.269 4 It is said that no opinion, no civil, religious, moral dogma can be produced that was not broached in the fertile brain of that age [of Milton].
    MLit 12.310 12 Over every true poem lingers a certain wild beauty, immeasurable; a happiness lightsome and delicious fills the heart and brain...
    WSL 12.340 4 [Landor] has capital enough to have furnished the brain of fifty stock authors...

brained, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.184 24 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied...that all the talkers were brained and exhausted by the deoxygenated air;...

brains, n. (26)

    Nat 1.54 10 A solemn air, and the best comforter/ To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains/...
    Tran 1.342 6 ...whoso knows these seething brains...will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its mark.
    Prd1 2.225 23 ...the tax, and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains...these eat up the hours.
    Int 2.332 11 ...now you must labor with your brains, and now you must forbear your activity and see what the great Soul showeth.
    MoS 4.155 10 ...[the skeptic] stands for...a cool head and whatever serves to keep it cool;...no loss of brains in toil.
    MoS 4.167 15 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think...plain topics where I do not need to strain myself and pump my brains, the most suitable.
    ET5 5.76 26 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of Alfred, Bede, Caxton...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
    ET11 5.191 5 ...when the baron, educated only for war, with his brains paralyzed by his stomach, found himself idle at home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry brute.
    ET14 5.236 22 The more hearty and sturdy [English] expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norseman was not all gone. Their dynamic brains hurled off their words as the revolving stone hurls off scraps of grit.
    Pow 6.57 21 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees, with seething brains...and everything begins to shine with values.
    Pow 6.81 11 I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of the factories with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States.
    Elo1 7.61 24 The plight of these phlegmatic brains is better than that of those who prematurely boil...
    Clbs 7.246 16 A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains;...
    PI 8.39 27 In [Michelangelo] and the like perfecter brains the instinct [of creation] is resistless...
    PI 8.64 25 Bring us...poetry which tastes the world and reports of it, upbuilding the world again in the thought;--Not with tickling rhymes,/ But high and noble matter, such as flies/ From brains entranced, and filled with ecstasies./
    PI 8.74 6 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. But so many men are ill-born or ill-bred,--the brains are so marred...that the doctrine is imperfectly received.
    PI 8.74 7 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. But so many men are ill-born or ill-bred,--the brains are so marred...brains of the sons of fallen men, that the doctrine is imperfectly received.
    SA 8.99 13 When men consult you, it is not that they wish you to stand tiptoe and pump your brains...
    SlHr 10.447 26 ...Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common men would find it out.
    War 11.151 15 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...
    War 11.168 27 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation...of true, great and able men.
    FSLN 11.229 16 [Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law] showed...that while we reckoned ourselves a highly cultivated nation, our bellies had run away with our brains...
    ACiv 11.310 6 ...ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men...
    EPro 11.319 8 October, November, December will have passed over beating hearts and plotting brains...
    PLT 12.33 24 It does not need to pump your brains and force thought to think rightly.
    II 12.80 21 Whence came all these tools, inventions, books, laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains.

brakes, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.138 26 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company, the merits of every engine and of every man at the brakes...

Bramante, Donato d'Angnolo, (2)

    MAng1 12.235 9 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work, which, though commenced forty years before, was only commenced by Bramante, and ill continued by San Gallo.
    MAng1 12.239 8 [Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's, clear, insulated, luminous, with fit design for a vast structure.

Bramins [Brahmans], n. (1)

    eT8 5.132 25 ...[young Englishmen]...translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins;...

branch, n. (8)

    ET4 5.72 8 [The English] come honestly by their horsemanship, with Hengst and Horsa for their Saxon founders. The other branch of their race had been Tartar nomads.
    ET11 5.184 12 ...the existence of the House of Peers as a branch of the government entitles them to fill half the Cabinet;...
    F 6.16 12 We like the nervous and victorious habit of our own branch of the family.
    LLNE 10.338 15 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...the branch of a tree is nothing but a leaf whose serratures have become twigs.
    LS 11.16 1 One general remark before quitting this branch of this subject [the Lord's Supper].
    FSLC 11.182 6 ...real estate, every kind of wealth, every branch of industry, every avenue to power, suffers injury [from the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    CL 12.135 4 [Earth-hunger] is not less visible in that branch of the family which inhabits America.
    CL 12.145 20 [The Farmer] saves every drop of sap, as if it were wine. A few years ago those trees were whipsticks. Now, every one of them is worth a hundred dollars. Observe their form; not a branch nor a twig is to spare.

branch, v. (1)

    ET6 5.109 4 Domesticity is the taproot which enables the nation [England] to branch wide and high.

branches, n. (4)

    Nat 1.64 8 ...the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.
    Hist 2.20 22 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
    ET4 5.66 14 Both branches of the Scandinavian race are distinguished for beauty.
    CL 12.150 3 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels: (1) large pine-trees, which bear more numerous branches on their southern side; (2) ant-hills...(3) aspens...

brand, n. (1)

    AsSu 11.251 16 ...this noble head [Charles Sumner]...must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs. The murderer's brand shall stamp their foreheads wherever they may wander in the earth.

brands, v. (1)

    Pol1 3.210 19 ...[the conservative party] brands no crime...

brandy, n. (12)

    MR 1.251 15 [The Arabs] were Temperance troops. There was neither brandy nor flesh needed to feed them.
    NER 3.265 19 I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to prevail on myself to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy...
    ET8 5.132 9 [Young Englishmen] drink brandy like water...
    F 6.20 25 Neither brandy, nor nectar...can get rid of this limp band [of Fate].
    Civ 7.31 9 Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots?--he got five millions from the love of brandy...
    Elo1 7.74 2 ...unless this oiled tongue could, in Oriental phrase, lick the sun and moon away, it must take its place with opium and brandy.
    Res 8.146 13 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup...
    Res 8.146 15 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup, and lighting a straw at the fire in the wigwam, he kindled the brandy (which [the Indians] believed to be water), and burned it up before their eyes.
    Thor 10.467 10 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it were, townsmen and fellow creatures; so that he felt an absurdity or violence in any narrative of one of these by itself apart, and still more of... in...the specimen of a squirrel or a bird in brandy.
    EWI 11.102 14 These men [negro slaves], our benefactors, as they are producers...of cotton, of sugar, of rum and brandy;..I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
    EWI 11.124 13 The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it. The coffee was fragrant;...the brandy made nations happy;...
    CL 12.145 16 [The farmer's] trees are full of brandy.

Brant..., Joseph, Life of [ (1)

    SL 2.164 20 I can think of nothing to fill my time with, and I find the Life of Brant.

Brant, Joseph, n. (1)

    SL 2.164 21 I can think of nothing to fill my time with, and I find the Life of Brant. It is a very extravagant compliment to pay to Brant...

Brasenose College, Oxford, (1)

    ET12 5.207 2 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam, whether the Maud man or the Brasenose man be properly ranked or not;...

brash, n. (1)

    ET8 5.135 7 [The Englishman] is a churl with a soft place in his heart, whose speech is a brash of bitter waters...

Brasidas, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.248 16 To [Plutarch] we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminondas, the Scipio of old...
    Elo1 7.79 13 [The Grecian States] did not send to Lacedaemon for troops, but they said, Send us a commander; and...Brasidas, or Agis, was despatched by the Ephors.

brass, adj. (3)

    PNR 4.83 8 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... the golden, silver, brass and iron temperaments;...
    Schr 10.265 27 ...[the poet's] achievement is the piercing of the brass heavens of use and limitation...
    PLT 12.48 21 Most men's minds do not grasp anything. All slips through their fingers, like the paltry brass grooves that in most country houses are used to raise or drop the curtain...

brass, n. (7)

    PPh 4.66 6 Such as were fit to govern, into their composition the informing Deity mingled gold;...iron and brass for husbandmen and artificers.
    SwM 4.131 17 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that seemed of brass...
    MoS 4.181 4 Others there are to whom the heaven is brass...
    NMW 4.228 25 [Napoleon] is a worker in brass, in iron...
    ET9 5.150 19 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET14 5.254 13 A horizon of brass of the diameter of his umbrella shuts down around [the English student's] senses.
    Cour 7.254 3 Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass...

brassy, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.365 7 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community. It was to them like the brassy and lacquered life in hotels.

bravado, n. (1)

    Prch 10.236 13 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...infinitely removed from all vaporing and bravado...

brave, adj. (96)

    Nat 1.61 5 ...facts that end in the statement, cannot be all that is true of this brave lodging...
    AmS 1.104 2 Free should the scholar be, - free and brave.
    AmS 1.104 5 [The scholar should be] Brave; for fear is a thing which a scholar...puts behind him.
    DSA 1.148 21 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit...which is so essentially and manifestly virtue, that it is taken for granted that the right, the brave, the generous step will be taken by it...
    LE 1.161 27 ...I will thank my great brothers so truly for the admonition of their being, as to endeavor also to be just and brave...
    MN 1.216 10 ...what is energetic but the presence of a brave man?
    MR 1.228 9 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a brave and upright man...
    MR 1.250 10 ...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers, and what a house of cards their institutions are, and I see what one brave man...might effect.
    LT 1.278 22 ...a brave and cold neglect of the offices which prudence exacts, so it be done in a deep upper piety;...is the century which makes the gem.
    Con 1.310 9 ...in respect to you, personally, O brave young man! [existing institutions] cannot be justified.
    Con 1.322 20 Which is that state which promises to edify a great, brave, and beneficent man;...
    Tran 1.350 16 All that the brave Xanthus brings home from his wars is the recollection that at the storming of Samos, in the heat of the battle, Pericles smiled on me, and passed on to another detachment.
    SR 2.77 11 That which [men] call a holy office is not so much as brave and manly.
    SR 2.83 23 There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias...
    Comp 2.122 17 ...the brave man is greater than the coward;...
    SL 2.159 27 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved.
    Hsm1 2.254 11 The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies.
    Hsm1 2.257 25 Epaminondas, brave and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon...
    Hsm1 2.262 14 It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob...
    Cir 2.313 16 ...yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding had fallen into the Christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was not specially prized...
    Art1 2.368 9 [Beauty] will...spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
    SwM 4.145 12 ...with a tenacity that never swerved in all his studies, inventions, dreams, [Swedenborg] adheres to this brave choice [of goodness].
    MoS 4.180 6 Is life to be led in a brave or in a cowardly manner?...
    NMW 4.224 16 The instinct of active, brave, able men, throughout the middle class every where, has pointed out Napoleon as the incarnate Democrat.
    ET11 5.187 13 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon; a midway heaven, fulfilling to their sense their fairy tales and poetry. This, just as far as the breeding of the nobleman really made him brave, handsome, accomplished and great-hearted.
    ET11 5.189 16 The English barons, in every period, have been brave and great...
    ET16 5.290 18 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who built Windsor and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford.
    ET19 5.313 1 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back with torn sheets and battered sides...
    F 6.30 24 Every brave youth is in training to ride and rule this dragon.
    F 6.41 20 In youth we...go as brave as the zodiac.
    F 6.49 16 Let us build to the Beautiful Necessity, which makes man brave...
    Pow 6.73 5 Ah! said a brave painter to me...if a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working.
    Wth 6.92 4 The brave workman...must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done.
    Wth 6.113 16 Montaigne said, When he was a younger brother, he went brave in dress and equipage...
    Ctr 6.140 20 Let us make our education brave and preventive.
    Ctr 6.163 24 ...every brave heart must treat society as a child...
    Wsp 6.212 7 Even well-disposed, good sort of people...for brave, straightforward action, use half-measures...
    CbW 6.245 23 The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter...
    Ill 6.317 3 ...if...Moosehead, or any other, invent a new style or mythology, I fancy that the world will be all brave and right if dressed in these colors...
    SS 7.13 24 [Men] untune and dissipate the brave aspirant.
    WD 7.164 24 I saw a brave man the other day...constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds.
    Clbs 7.231 15 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety... But when he came home, his brave sequins were dry leaves.
    Cour 7.272 6 Heroic women offer themselves as nurses of the brave veteran.
    Cour 7.277 13 ...if...you have no confidence in any foreign mind, then be brave...
    Cour 7.277 21 Men have done brave deeds,/ And bards have sung them well:/ I of good George Nidiver/ Now the tale will tell./
    Cour 7.280 4 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave heart./
    Suc 7.288 8 The Arabian sheiks...do not want [American arts]; yet...are easily able to impress the Frenchman or the American who visits them with the respect due to a brave and sufficient man.
    OA 7.330 10 The day comes...when the brave speech returns straight to the hero who said it;...
    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.
    SA 8.88 13 Remember George Herbert's maxim, This coat with my discretion will be brave.
    SA 8.90 7 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...myself, thyself, all selves, and whatever else, with a security and vivacity which belonged to the nobility of the parties and to their brave truth.
    SA 8.95 18 ...there are...brave choices enough of taking the part of truth...in privatest circles.
    SA 8.101 4 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men...
    Res 8.153 6 When I see in these brave plants [the willows] this vigor and immortality in weakness, I find a sudden relief and pleasure in observing the mighty law of vegetation...
    Res 8.153 23 ...all these acquisitions are victories of the good brain and brave heart;...
    PPo 8.258 11 O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    Insp 8.278 23 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./ Thus enraged, my lines are hurled,/ Like the Sibyl's, through the world;/ Look how next the holy fire/ Either slakes, or doth retire;/ So the fancy cools,-till when/ That brave spirit comes again./
    Grts 8.302 17 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not the strong hand, but...the creation of laws, institutions, letters and art. These...and not the strong arm and brave heart...
    Dem1 10.14 17 As I was once travelling by the Red Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named Masollam, a brave and strong man...
    Edc1 10.134 22 [Our culture] does not make us brave or free.
    Edc1 10.158 10 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
    Schr 10.269 15 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth...and brave obedience to it in right action?
    Schr 10.274 2 [The scholar] is brave, because he sees the omnipotence of what which inspires him.
    Schr 10.274 6 I cannot manage sword and rifle; can I not therefore be brave?
    Schr 10.280 7 ...there is but one defence against this principle of chaos, and that is the principle of order, or brave return at all hours to an infinite common sense...
    LLNE 10.340 7 ...there was no great public interest...on which [Channing] did not leave some printed record of his brave and thoughtful opinion.
    LLNE 10.346 9 I think [the pilgrim] persisted for two years in his brave practice...
    Thor 10.468 21 [Thoreau] says, [Weeds] have brave names, too...
    HDC 11.37 13 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 11.73 14 Eight hundred British soldiers...at Lexington had fired upon the brave handful of militia...
    War 11.174 11 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...
    FSLC 11.185 4 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...open, generous, brave, who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...
    FSLC 11.192 5 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
    FSLC 11.192 10 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
    FSLN 11.241 21 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of the country appreciate the service...
    FSLN 11.244 3 ...Liberty is the Crusade of all brave and conscientious men...
    JBB 11.266 3 John Brown in Kansas settled, like a steadfast Yankee farmer,/ Brave and godly, with four sons-all stalwart men of might./
    JBB 11.266 16 ...[John Brown] and his brave boys vowed-so might Heaven help and speed 'em-/ They would save those grand old prairies from the curse that blights the land;/...
    JBB 11.270 10 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises his brave fellow sufferers in the Charlestown Jail;...
    TPar 11.291 21 ...[Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for sympathy-alike the brave slave-holder and the brave slave-rescuer.
    TPar 11.292 4 Ah, my brave brother [Theodore Parker]! it seems as if, in a frivolous age, our loss were immense...
    ACiv 11.310 7 ...ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men...
    ALin 11.328 16 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by his clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/
    SMC 11.368 13 ...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.
    SMC 11.369 7 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which the bearer had in his hand. The color-bearer is brave as a lion;...
    SMC 11.375 18 Brave men! you [veterans of the Civil War] will hardly be called to see again fields as terrible as those you have already trampled with your victories.
    Koss 11.397 18 ...you [Kossuth] could not take all your steps in the pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen with your eyes the ruins of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers opened our Revolution.
    RBur 11.440 21 Not Latimer, nor Luther struck more telling blows against false theology than did this brave singer [Burns].
    FRO2 11.487 25 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...an adult, self-searching soul, brave to assist or resist a world...
    FRep 11.512 5 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, and formed the taste of the world. It was a renaissance of the breakfast-table and china-closet. The brave manufacturers made their fortune.
    FRep 11.538 21 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...brave...obeyers of duty...
    PLT 12.6 26 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
    Milt1 12.269 21 [Milton's] muse was brave and humane, as well as sweet.
    MLit 12.323 4 [Goethe] was knowing; he was brave;...
    AgMs 12.358 17 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect.
    PPr 12.379 23 [Carlyle's Past and Present] is a brave and just book...

brave, adv. (1)

    HDC 11.84 22 That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad...

brave, n. (7)

    YA 1.389 19 The more need of...a resort to the fountain of right, by the brave.
    Comp 2.116 27 Winds blow and waters roll/ Strength to the brave and power and deity,/ Yet in themselves are nothing./
    Hsm1 2.263 27 Who does not sometimes envy the good and brave who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world...
    Wth 6.106 4 In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.
    Ctr 6.161 22 ...there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave.
    Aris 10.57 4 I will not protract this discourse by describing the duties of the brave and generous.
    TPar 11.291 13 ...the brave know the brave.

brave, v. (5)

    YA 1.376 23 ...this club of noblemen...combine to brave the sovereign...
    OS 2.286 26 If [a man] have not found his home in God...the build, shall I say, of all his opinions will involuntarily confess it, let him brave it out how he will.
    Mrs1 3.148 17 [Scott's] lords brave each other in smart epigrammatic speeches...
    NMW 4.236 11 To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at Lobenstein...Napoleon said, My lads, you must not fear death; when soldiers brave death, they drive him into the enemy's ranks.
    Thor 10.469 25 [Thoreau] wore a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers, to brave scrub-oaks and smilax...

bravely, adv. (10)

    LE 1.178 8 Let [the scholar] endeavor...bravely...to solve the problem of that life which is set before him.
    MR 1.235 7 ...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part...to take each of us bravely his part...
    ET16 5.283 5 On hints like these, Stukeley...bravely assigns the year 406 before Christ for the date of the temple [Stonehenge].
    Ctr 6.133 17 Eminent spiritualists shall have an incapacity of putting their act or word aloof from them and seeing it bravely for the nothing it is.
    DL 7.133 16 He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion...will restore the life of man to splendor...
    OA 7.334 26 [John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences...
    QO 8.183 3 A great man quotes bravely...
    MoL 10.239 1 On bravely through the sunshine and the showers,/ Time hath his work to do, and we have ours./
    FSLC 11.192 1 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised;...
    FRep 11.511 17 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel...

braver, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.64 9 ...[said Plato] the persuasion that we must search that which we do not know, will render us, beyond comparison, better, braver and more industrious than if we thought it impossible to discover what we do not know, and useless to search for it.

braveries, n. (2)

    ET19 5.312 8 I seem to hear you say, that for all that is come and gone yet, we will not reduce by one chaplet or one oak-leaf the braveries of our annual feast.
    QO 8.203 25 Only as braveries of too prodigal power can we pardon it, when the life of genius is so redundant that out of petulance it flings its fire into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and blushes again here in the street.

bravery, n. (4)

    Prd1 2.239 8 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls! They will shuffle and crow...and not a thought has enriched either party, and not an emotion of bravery, modesty, or hope.
    Pt1 3.37 8 If we filled the day with bravery, we should not shrink from celebrating it.
    ET4 5.61 26 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him; but Norway was so emptied then, that such men have not since been to find in the country, nor especially such a leader as King Harold was for wisdom and bravery.
    Milt1 12.279 5 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of the bravery...of this man [Milton]...

braves, n. (1)

    OA 7.328 14 The Indian Red Jacket, when the young braves were boasting their deeds, said, But the sixties have all the twenties and forties in them.

bravest, adj. (8)

    Tran 1.352 8 [Transcendentalists] are exercised in their own spirit with queries which acquaint them...with the trials of the bravest heroes.
    Cir 2.315 19 ...your bravest sentiment is familiar to the humblest men.
    NMW 4.249 1 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run.
    ET10 5.170 27 A civility of trifles...takes place [in England], and the putting as many impediments as we can between the man and his objects. Hardly the bravest among them have the manliness to resist it successfully.
    PI 8.31 1 All writings must be in a degree exoteric, written to a human should or would, instead of to the fatal is: this holds even of the bravest and sincerest writers.
    Dem1 10.11 21 ...all the bravest tales of Homer and the poets, modern philosophers can explain with profound judgment of law and state and ethics.
    HCom 11.339 10 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.
    SMC 11.356 14 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.

braving, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.263 7 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty, braving such penalties, whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incendiary.

bravoes, n. (1)

    Cour 7.267 1 In every school there are certain fighting boys;...in every town, bravoes and bullies...

bravos, n. (1)

    EPro 11.316 20 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;-the bravos and wits who greeted him loudly thus far are surprised and overawed;...

brawl, n. (1)

    AKan 11.257 25 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where...the whole world knows that this is no accidental brawl...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...

brawler, n. (1)

    FRep 11.524 8 The record of the election now and then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler.

brawls, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.161 18 ...Jefferson, Washington, stood on a fine humanity, before which the brawls of modern senates are but pot-house politics.

brawn, n. (2)

    ET6 5.104 2 It requires, men say, a good constitution to travel in Spain. I say as much of England, for other cause, simply on account of the vigor and brawn of the people.
    Grts 8.312 1 The scholar's courage should be as terrible as the Cid's, though it grow out of spiritual nature, not out of brawn.

brazen, adj. (4)

    PerF 10.70 13 ...the marble column, the brazen statue burn under the daylight...
    MoL 10.257 12 War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral aspects at once. In quiet times, custom...brings in the brazen devil, as by immemorial right.
    FRep 11.520 8 You rally to the support of old charities and the cause of literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of politicians].
    MAng1 12.229 25 In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ; an object of so much devotion to the people that the right foot has been shod with a brazen sandal to prevent it from being kissed away.

brazier, n. (2)

    F 6.33 18 Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover...
    CL 12.160 21 The earthquake is the first chemist, goldsmith and brazier...

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