Budgets to Byzantium

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

budgets, n. (2)

    Comp 2.115 13 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible to get anything without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...
    Wth 6.106 21 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.

buds, n. (7)

    Nat 1.16 9 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...buds...
    DSA 1.119 3 ...the buds burst...
    LE 1.185 25 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then once more perish the buds of art...
    Fdsp 2.197 25 Is it not that the soul puts forth friends as the tree puts forth leaves, and presently, by the germination of new buds, extrudes the old leaf?
    CL 12.150 25 [The man] went forth again after the rain; in the cold swamp, the buds are swollen...
    CW 12.177 26 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little...and there is a perpetual push of buds...
    Bost 12.209 6 ...thus our little city [Boston] thrives and enlarges...sending out boughs and buds...

buds, v. (1)

    PI 8.60 8 [The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when] Pons de Capdeuil declares,--Since the air renews itself and softens, so must my heart renew itself, and what buds in it buds and grows outside of it.

Buena Esperanca, Cape of, n (1)

    War 11.158 15 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world, entering in at the Strait of Magellan, and returning by the Cape of Buena Esperanca;...

buffalo, n. (3)

    MoS 4.179 9 ...when a man comes into the room it does not appear whether he has been fed on yams or buffalo...
    ET3 5.43 3 Let buffalo gore buffalo, and the pasture to the strongest!
    Thor 10.463 12 ...Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter, saying that the man who shoots the buffalo lives better than the man who boards at the Graham House.

Buffalo, New York, n. (3)

    GSt 10.503 13 In 1863 [George Stearns] began to recruit colored soldiers in Buffalo...
    FSLN 11.224 26 ...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.
    EdAd 11.383 22 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys...with telegraphic despatches not yet fifty minutes old from Buffalo and Cincinnati.

buffalo-hunter, n. (1)

    Pow 6.63 12 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions, will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter...

buffalo-hunting, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.19 21 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...then a buffalo-hunting explorer...

buffalo-robe, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.346 6 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep...on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed...
    LLNE 10.346 8 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep...on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed,-or under the stars, when the farmer denied the shed and the buffalo-robe.

buffalo-trail, n. (1)

    Wth 6.122 12 ...travellers and Indians know the value of a buffalo-trail...

buffets, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.237 25 The drover, the sailor, buffets it all day...

Buffon, Georges Leclerc, C (1)

    ET4 5.71 25 The horse has more uses than Buffon noted.

Buffon, Georges Louis de, n (1)

    ACri 12.285 2 Le style c'est l'homme, said Buffon;...

Buffon's, Georges Leclerc d (1)

    Nat 1.28 5 ...all Linnaeus' and Buffon's volumes, are dry catalogues of facts;...

buffoonery, n. (1)

    Comc 8.173 24 ...explore the whole of Nature, the farce and buffoonery in the yard below, as well as the lessons of poets and philosophers upstairs in the hall...

buffoons, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.243 3 ...Rose and vine-leaf deck buffoons;/...
    F 6.5 6 Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons...

Buford, Colonel, n. (1)

    Pow 6.77 18 At West Point, Colonel Buford...pounded with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off.

bug, n. (2)

    Pow 6.60 12 A good tree that agrees with the soil will grow in spite of blight, or bug...
    LLNE 10.350 9 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system;...

bugbears, n. (1)

    MoS 4.175 10 ...though philosophy extirpates bugbears, yet it supplies the natural checks of vice, and polarity to the soul.

bugle, n. (2)

    QO 8.187 1 The popular incident of Baron Munchausen, who hung his bugle up by the kitchen fire and the frozen tune thawed out, is found in Greece in Plato's time.
    Schr 10.265 8 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...

bugs, n. (4)

    AmS 1.106 14 ...men in the world of to-day, are bugs...
    Bty 6.282 20 Bugs and stamens and spores...are not finalities;...
    MMEm 10.422 16 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles.
    EWI 11.143 6 We do not wish a world of bugs or of birds;...

build, n. (2)

    OS 2.286 24 If [a man] have not found his home in God...the build, shall I say, of all his opinions will involuntarily confess it...
    FRep 11.537 21 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish. Freer swing his arms;...more forward and forthright his whole build and rig than the Englishman's...

build, v. (84)

    Nat 1.20 12 All those things for which men plough, build, or sail, obey virtue;...
    Nat 1.64 6 ...spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us...
    Nat 1.67 21 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is...no ray...to show the relation of the forms of flowers, shells, animals, architecture, to the mind, and build science upon ideas.
    Nat 1.76 17 Build therefore your own world.
    AmS 1.99 27 Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new...
    LE 1.164 7 Say to the man of letters that he cannot...build a steamboat...and he will not seem to himself depreciated.
    Con 1.305 18 You quarrel with my conservatism, but it is to build up one of your own;...
    Con 1.306 20 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my pleasant ground where to build my cabin.
    Con 1.309 8 My genius leads me to build a different manner of life from any of yours.
    Con 1.317 7 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Con 1.321 4 The corporation were advised to...build a Catholic chapel...
    YA 1.374 25 We build railroads, we know not for what or for whom;...
    YA 1.374 27 ...we who build will receive the very smallest share of benefit.
    YA 1.375 7 ...we build stone houses...for remote generations.
    Hist 2.21 25 ...the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of a market had induced to build towns.
    Comp 2.100 6 It is in vain to build or plot or combine against [Compensation].
    Prd1 2.223 7 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon...
    Pt1 3.30 24 What a joyful sense of freedom we have when Vitruvius announces the old opinion of artists that no architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy.
    Pol1 3.197 11 Out of dust to build/ What is more than dust,--/ Walls Amphion piled/ Phoebus stablish must./
    Pol1 3.200 12 ...they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity;...
    Pol1 3.210 20 ...[the conservative party] does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts...
    NER 3.276 23 ...[those who reject us] build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed...
    PPh 4.61 14 [Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have: but he has also what they have not,--this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the appearances of the world, and build a bridge from the streets of cities to the Atlantis.
    SwM 4.93 17 Others may build cities; [the philosopher] is to understand them...
    MoS 4.160 11 ...when we build a house, the rule is to set it not too high nor too low...
    ShP 4.198 8 ...poor Gower [Chaucer] uses as if he were only a brick-kiln or stone-quarry out of which to build his house.
    ET3 5.42 27 Nature held counsel with herself and said, My Romans are gone. To build my new empire, I will choose a rude race, all masculine, with brutish strength.
    ET5 5.85 5 [The English] build roads, aqueducts;...
    ET7 5.119 11 [The English] build of stone...
    ET12 5.213 12 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford, to mould the opinions of cities, to build their houses as simply as birds their nests...
    ET16 5.274 19 In these days, [Carlyle] thought, it would become an architect to...say, I can build you a coffin for such dead persons as you are, and for such dead purposes as you have, but you shall have no ornament.
    F 6.36 26 Christopher Wren said of the beautiful King's College chapel, that if anybody would tell him where to lay the first stone, he would build such another.
    F 6.38 12 ...If you want a fort, build a fort...
    F 6.43 4 Each of these men, if they were transparent, would seem to you... walking cities, and wherever you put them they would build one.
    F 6.44 5 The whole world is the flux of matter over the wires of thought to the poles or points where it would build.
    F 6.48 6 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity...
    F 6.48 24 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity.
    F 6.49 5 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity...
    F 6.49 15 Let us build to the Beautiful Necessity...
    Wth 6.83 12 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To build in matter home for mind./
    Wth 6.121 3 I know not how to build or to plant;...
    Wth 6.123 1 The stone-mason who should build the well thinks he shall have to dig forty feet;...
    Bhr 6.167 2 Grace, Beauty, and Caprice/ Build this golden portal/...
    Bty 6.302 8 ...if a man can build a plain cottage with such symmetry as to make all the fine palaces look cheap and vulgar;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Art2 7.41 18 You cannot build your house or pagoda as you will, but as you must.
    Art2 7.42 16 ...we build a mill in such position as to set the north wind to play upon our instrument...
    Art2 7.55 17 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower.
    DL 7.104 15 Out of blocks, thread-spools, cards and checkers, [the child] will build his pyramid...
    DL 7.110 8 Do not ask [the scholar] to...join a company to build a factory or a fishing-craft.
    DL 7.126 15 ...Nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.
    Cour 7.254 4 Men admire...the man who can build the boat...
    Suc 7.284 2 ...Erwin of Steinbach could build a minster;...
    Suc 7.291 19 'T is clownish to insist on doing all with one's own hands, as if every man should build his own clumsy house...
    PI 8.3 5 ...we must feed, wash, plant, build.
    PI 8.26 22 You must...find one faculty here, one there, to build the true poet withal.
    PI 8.67 8 If [the readers of a good poem] build ships, they write Ariel or Prospero or Ophelia on the ship's stern...
    SA 8.81 13 In the most delicate natures, fine temperament and culture build this impassable wall [of manners].
    Res 8.140 1 See how children build up a language;...
    PPo 8.263 7 ...quarry thy stones from the crystal All,/ And build the dome that shall not fall./
    Imtl 8.331 7 ...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with...a taste for abstract truth, for the moral laws, does not build up faith or lead to content.
    Imtl 8.336 12 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne of Russia, call together all the architectural genius of the Empire to build and finish and furnish a palace of snow...
    Imtl 8.348 11 How ill agrees this majestical immortality of our religion with the frivolous population! Will you build magnificently for mice?
    Dem1 10.17 5 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power to which we build churches...
    Schr 10.271 4 Will [wealth] build its fences very high...
    LLNE 10.359 9 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself helped, he knows not how, into all these merits of detail...
    Thor 10.482 15 The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon...and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
    Thor 10.482 17 The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon...and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
    HDC 11.38 15 [The Puritans] proceeded to build...their first dwellings.
    EWI 11.126 9 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses...
    War 11.165 9 ...when a truth appears...it will build ships;...
    War 11.165 9 ...when a truth appears...it will build fleets;...
    ALin 11.331 3 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly. It seemed too rash, on a purely local reputation, to build so grave a trust in such anxious times;...
    CPL 11.506 9 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.
    PLT 12.47 22 By and by comes a facility; some one that can move the mountain and build of it a causeway through the Dismal Swamp, as easily as he carries the hair on his head.
    II 12.70 9 Even those we call great men build substructures...
    II 12.72 24 The reformer comes with many plans of melioration, and the basis on which he wishes to build his new world, a great deal of money.
    CInt 12.122 20 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and better than he could do it; whether it be to build, engineer, carve, paint...
    CL 12.141 17 We might say, the Rock of Ages dissolves himself into the mineral air to build up this mystic constitution of man's mind and body.
    CW 12.171 18 ...I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.
    CW 12.173 23 In the orchard, we build monuments to Van Mons annually.
    MAng1 12.234 4 [Michelangelo] did not only build a divine temple, and paint and carve saints and prophets. He lived out the same inspiration.
    MAng1 12.239 15 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome, to build Saint Peter's, he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
    MAng1 12.239 19 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
    WSL 12.337 13 [John Bull] wonders that the Americans should build with wood...

builded, adj. (2)

    Con 1.316 17 What you say of your planted, builded and decorated world is true enough...
    Hist 2.15 1 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once more in their architecture, a beauty...limited to the straight line and the square,--a builded geometry.

builded, v. (8)

    Nat 1.53 7 No, [my passion] was builded far from accident;/...
    DSA 1.134 22 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded;...
    ET5 5.75 2 ...the Saxon seriously settled in the land [England], builded, tilled, fished and traded...
    ET5 5.92 2 The nation [England] sits in the immense city they have builded...
    ET5 5.92 22 [The English] have tilled, builded, forged, spun and woven.
    PI 8.51 21 The traveller as he paceth through those deserts asketh of [Oblivion], who builded [Memphis and Thebes]?...
    PLT 12.20 11 It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and fitting and identity in their frame.
    Let 12.403 12 From Massachusetts to Illinois the land is fenced in and builded over...

builder, n. (9)

    Hist 2.12 1 ...we apply ourselves to the history of [the Gothic cathedral's] production. We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder.
    Hist 2.20 26 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder...
    Wsp 6.204 11 The builder of heaven has not so ill constructed his creature as that the religion, that is, the public nature, should fall out...
    Civ 7.21 13 ...the effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity, power and refinement of the builder.
    Art2 7.46 27 The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us
    Art2 7.56 6 The Gothic cathedrals were built when the builder and the priest and the people were overpowered by their faith.
    DL 7.110 14 Another man is...a builder of ships...and could achieve nothing if he should dissipate himself on books...
    PerF 10.74 24 [Man] is a planter...a lawgiver, a builder of towns;-and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    Mem 12.91 1 The builder of the mind found it not less needful that it should have retroaction...

Builder, n. (1)

    PPo 8.246 19 The Builder of heaven/ Hath sundered the earth,/ So that no footway/ Leads out of it forth./

builders, n. (4)

    DSA 1.120 5 ...the astronomers, the builders of cities, and the captains, history delights to honor.
    Wsp 6.221 3 ...we are the builders of our fortunes;...
    Bost 12.204 13 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...builders of mills and forges...
    Bost 12.204 14 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...builders of roads...

building, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.41 23 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop... and Governor Winthrop selected as a building spot the land near the house of Captain Humphrey Hunt.

building, n. (20)

    YA 1.363 14 This rage of road building is beneficent for America...
    Hsm1 2.253 17 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building...
    Chr1 3.108 18 [Character] needs perspective, as a great building.
    ShP 4.194 17 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was projected from the wall; the groups being still arranged with reference to the building...
    ET12 5.203 26 The oldest building here [at Oxford] is two hundred years younger than the frail manuscript brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt.
    ET13 5.223 18 [The Anglican Church]...spends a world of money in music and building...
    ET16 5.290 11 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation...
    F 6.45 5 Moller...taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful...
    Ctr 6.158 20 ...[Bonaparte] could criticise...a building...and give a just opinion.
    Bty 6.295 25 In our cities an ugly building is soon removed and is never repeated...
    Bty 6.295 26 In our cities...any beautiful building is copied and improved upon...
    Art2 7.45 17 ...how much is there that is not original in every particular building...
    Art2 7.53 6 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it is spiritually organic;...
    DL 7.126 14 [One] perceives that Nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building...
    Imtl 8.335 4 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long...
    LLNE 10.359 6 ...if one must study all the strokes to be laid, all the faults to be shunned in a building or work of art...there would be no end.
    MMEm 10.425 11 The wonderful inhabitant of the building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where the Creator had put his own lighted candle...
    Wom 11.410 2 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;-a fine building is lost in a dark lane;...
    CPL 11.496 3 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library, which adds by the beauty of the building...a quite new attraction...
    FRep 11.533 21 See the secondariness and aping of foreign and English life, that runs through this country, in building, in dress...

building, v. (35)

    LT 1.259 15 The Times are...the quarry out of which the genius of to-day is building up the Future.
    Con 1.320 26 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers quarrelsome...
    Tran 1.341 17 ...to [many intelligent and religious persons'] lofty dream the writing of Iliads or Hamlets, or the building of cities or empires seems drudgery.
    YA 1.365 1 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto.
    YA 1.378 24 We complain...of [trade's] building up a new aristocracy on the ruins of the aristocracy it destroyed.
    Hist 2.39 7 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the building of the Temple...
    SR 2.52 15 ...the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand;...though...I sometimes...give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    Hsm1 2.256 17 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities...
    Cir 2.320 10 We do not guess to-day...the power, of to-morrow, when we are building up our being.
    ShP 4.189 5 If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original.
    ET5 5.84 13 [The English] study use and fitness in their building...
    ET10 5.169 2 In the culmination of national prosperity, in the...building of ships, depots, towns;...it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...
    ET11 5.177 25 ...[the English aristocracy] concentrate the love and labor of many generations on the building, planting and decoration of their homesteads.
    ET15 5.266 2 The old press [the London Times] were then using printed five or six thousand sheets per hour; the new machine, for which they were then building an engine, would print twelve thousand per hour.
    Wth 6.109 26 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which...brought into the country an immense prosperity...the building of cities and of states...
    Wth 6.123 18 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of building my wall...but the ball will rebound to you.
    Wsp 6.223 14 If you spend for show, on building or gardening...it will so appear.
    Wsp 6.223 19 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.
    Bty 6.291 3 ...our taste in building rejects paint, and all shifts...
    Bty 6.291 10 ...the carpenter building a ship...is becoming to the wise eye.
    Art2 7.39 25 The useful arts comprehend not only those that lie next to instinct, as agriculture, building, weaving, etc., but also navigation, practical chemistry...
    Art2 7.45 19 ...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is national or usual; as the usage of building all Roman churches in the form of a cross...
    PI 8.23 23 Every healthy mind is a true Alexander or Sesostris, building a universal monarchy.
    SA 8.101 21 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence...exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
    Res 8.140 11 The marked events in history...the building of a large ship;... each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    QO 8.199 23 Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone;...
    Schr 10.273 15 Other men are planting and building...
    Thor 10.453 4 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him, as building a boat or a fence...
    SMC 11.354 18 ...whatever may happen in this hour or that, the years and the centuries are always pulling down the wrong and building up the right.
    SMC 11.371 21 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...and is now building breastworks on the Fredericksburg road.
    Wom 11.415 21 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil; the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite character, in the age of Louis XIV,-commonly dated from the building of the Hotel de Rambouillet.
    Bost 12.199 7 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...building their empire by due degrees.
    MAng1 12.225 24 In Rome, Michael Angelo was consulted by Pope Paul III. in building the fortifications of San Borgo.
    MAng1 12.235 4 Not until he was in the seventy-third year of his age, [Michelangelo] undertook the building of Saint Peter's.
    PPr 12.390 11 We have been civilizing very fast, building London and Paris...and it has not appeared in literature;...

building-materials, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.8 3 ...[the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants;...as assistants who bring building-materials to an architect.

buildings, n. (13)

    Nat 1.67 27 The American who has been confined...to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    YA 1.368 25 The land...looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.
    NMW 4.224 2 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave, which labor is now entombed in money stocks, or in land and buildings owned by idle capitalists,--and the interests of living labor...
    NMW 4.224 5 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor...and the interests of living labor, which seeks to possess itself of land and buildings and money stocks.
    NMW 4.228 26 [Napoleon] is a worker in brass...in buildings...
    ET1 5.3 17 ...the public and private buildings wore a more native and wonted front.
    ET3 5.39 22 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...poison many plants and corrode the monuments and buildings.
    ET7 5.119 12 [The English] build of stone: public and private buildings are massive and durable.
    ET13 5.215 13 ...plainly there has been great power of sentiment at work in this island [England], of which these [religious] buildings are the proofs;...
    ET16 5.290 13 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation, and what is left of Alfred's body now lies covered by modern buildings, or buried in the ruins of the old.
    Wth 6.119 14 You think farm buildings and broad acres a solid property;...
    AgMs 12.361 13 ...our [New England] people...do not wish to spend too much on their buildings.
    AgMs 12.363 10 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who...have... reduced a stubborn soil to a good farm, although their buildings are many of them shabby, are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...

builds, v. (30)

    Nat 1.3 1 [Our age] builds the sepulchres of the fathers.
    Nat 1.76 5 Every spirit builds itself a house...
    MR 1.238 17 A man...who builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy to caulk it...
    SL 2.129 4 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ Quarrying man's rejected hours,/ Builds there with eternal towers;/...
    Prd1 2.227 16 In the rainy day [the good husband] builds a work-bench...
    Cir 2.303 1 ...that which builds is better than that which is built.
    MoS 4.149 18 [A man] builds his fortunes...but he asks himself, Why? and whereto?
    ShP 4.190 16 The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps, and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a cathedral needed by her chants and processions.
    NMW 4.227 11 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] builds the road.
    ET6 5.107 15 ...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house. If he is rich, he buys a demesne and builds a hall;...
    ET14 5.250 7 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is to heroism...
    ET16 5.283 3 On hints like these, Stukeley builds again the grand colonnade [Stonehenge] into historic harmony...
    F 6.30 22 ...when the boy grows to man...he pulls down that wall and builds a new and bigger.
    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 sells the horse but builds the school;...
    Wsp 6.204 18 God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
    Bty 6.281 12 ...does [the geologist] know what effect passes into the man who builds his house in [the strata]?...
    Art2 7.47 24 Nature...builds the best part of the house...
    Art2 7.52 15 Raphael paints wisdom...Wren builds it...
    Farm 7.141 8 He who...builds a durable house...makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    WD 7.164 18 A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master...
    OA 7.329 12 The conchologist builds his cabinet whilst as yet he has few shells.
    PI 8.37 16 The trait and test of the poet is that he builds, adds and affirms.
    PPo 8.259 5 Jami says,-A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,/ So much the kindlier shows him than before;/ Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,/ He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor./
    Imtl 8.326 24 The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold;/ The Earth goes to the Earth sooner than it wold;/ The Earth builds on the Earth castles and towers;/ The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours./
    Aris 10.42 3 [Ulysses] builds the boat with which he leaves Calypso's isle...
    Aris 10.42 6 Epeus builds the wooden horse.
    PLT 12.5 3 ...the Intellect builds the universe and is the key to all it contains.
    II 12.81 3 ...the force of method and the force of will...builds towns.
    CL 12.154 9 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;...
    EurB 12.371 5 [Tennyson] is not the husband who builds the homestead after his own necessity...

built, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.290 26 The dancing-master can never teach a badly built man to walk well.

built, v. (139)

    Nat 1.14 4 The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him.
    Nat 1.48 22 We are not built like a ship, to be tossed...
    AmS 1.89 6 Colleges are built on [a book].
    DSA 1.129 15 ...churches are not built on [Jesus's] principles, but on his tropes.
    DSA 1.130 23 ...by this eastern monarchy of a Christianity, which indolence and fear have built, the friend of man is made the injurer of man.
    MN 1.222 22 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character, as islands and continents were built by invisible infusories...
    MR 1.229 16 It will afford no security from the new ideas, that...the property and institutions of a hundred cities, are built on other foundations.
    MR 1.250 16 Look, [the practical man] says, at the tools with which this world of yours is to be built.
    MR 1.251 22 [Caliph Omar's] palace was built of mud;...
    LT 1.288 18 ...where but in that Thought through which we communicate with absolute nature, and are made aware that whilst we shed the dust of which we are built...the law which clothes us with humanity remains anew?...shall we learn the Truth?
    LT 1.290 9 ...histories are written of [the Moral Sentiment]...statues, tombs, churches, built to its honor;...
    Tran 1.332 21 ...[the materialist] will perceive that his mental fabric is built up on just as strange and quaking foundations as his proud edifice of stone.
    Hist 2.29 4 The fact teaches [the child]...how the Pyramids were built...
    SR 2.62 2 ...the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these.
    SR 2.80 9 ...the luminaries of heaven seem to [the unbalanced mind] hung on the arch their master built.
    SR 2.82 14 Our houses are built with foreign taste;...
    SR 2.85 5 The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
    SL 2.134 14 ...[men of an extraordinary success] have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian.
    SL 2.137 1 Our society is encumbered by ponderous machinery, which resembles the endless aqueducts which the Romans built over hill and dale...
    Lov1 2.187 18 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together...had a prospective end, like the scaffolding by which the house was built;...
    Fdsp 2.201 23 Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built...to entertain him a single day.
    OS 2.284 27 ...all unawares the advancing soul has built and forged for itself a new condition...
    Cir 2.302 19 The new continents are built out of the ruins of an old planet;...
    Cir 2.303 1 ...a little waving hand built this huge wall...
    Cir 2.303 2 ...that which builds is better than that which is built.
    Cir 2.303 3 The hand that built [the wall] can topple it down much faster.
    Chr1 3.100 20 Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public, indicate...heads...which must see a house built before they can comprehend the plan of it.
    Pol1 3.219 27 We must not...doubt that roads can be built, letters carried, and the fruit of labor secured, when the government of force is at an end.
    SwM 4.123 16 [Swedenborg's] thought dwells in essential resemblances, like the resemblance of a house to the man who built it.
    MoS 4.156 2 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights...in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment...
    MoS 4.161 2 ...the body of man is the type after which a dwelling-house is built.
    NMW 4.235 10 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said; and he built his perfect roads...
    GoW 4.275 17 Man and the higher animals are built up through the vertebrae, the powers being concentrated in the head [wrote Goethe].
    GoW 4.283 26 The old Eternal Genius who built the world has confided himself more to this man [the writer] than to any other.
    ET1 5.18 14 ...[Carlyle]...saw how every event affects all the future. Christ died on the tree; that built Dunscore kirk yonder; that brought you and me together.
    ET2 5.27 16 Since the ship was built, it seems, the master never slept but in his day-clothes whilst on board.
    ET4 5.56 11 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship.
    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 5.98 16 Man in England submits to be a product of political economy. On a bleak moor a mill is built...and men come in as water in a sluice-way...
    ET6 5.111 15 A sea-shell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish of the men.
    ET8 5.128 19 ...I suppose never nation built their party-walls so thick, or their garden-fences so high [as the English].
    ET10 5.162 18 Scandinavian Thor, who once...built galleys by lonely fiords, in England has advanced with the times...
    ET10 5.163 18 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the temples and pleasure-houses which Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren built;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET10 5.165 11 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.
    ET11 5.172 10 Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations. The proprietor never saw them, or never lived in them. Primogeniture built these sumptuous piles...
    ET11 5.181 22 The Marquis of Westminster built within a few years the series of squares called Belgravia.
    ET13 5.214 18 In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or imported; altars are built...
    ET13 5.215 10 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say...This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
    ET13 5.219 23 Good churches are not built by bad men;...
    ET13 5.219 26 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.
    ET14 5.233 6 ...[the Englishman] has built the engine he uses.
    ET16 5.283 20 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons...nor did they think they were doing anything remarkable. I suppose there were as good men a thousand years ago. And we wonder how Stonehenge was built and forgotten.
    ET16 5.285 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...
    ET16 5.290 4 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part of the crypt...was built fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.
    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.
    ET18 5.299 3 ...[England] is an old pile built in different ages...
    F 6.42 25 We know in Massachusetts who built New Bedford...
    F 6.42 25 We know in Massachusetts...who built Lynn...
    Pow 6.58 27 A feeble man can see...the houses that are built.
    Wth 6.84 16 ...Then docks were built, and crops were stored,/ And ingots added to the hoard./
    Wth 6.94 1 ...how did our factories get built?...except by the importunity of these orators who dragged all the prudent men in?
    Wth 6.111 14 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it, and therein resembles the hideous animalcules of which our bodies are built up...
    Wth 6.113 2 Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
    Wth 6.123 6 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for the sun and wind...
    Wsp 6.205 18 Laomedon, in his anger at Neptune and Apollo, who had built Troy for him and demanded their price, does not hesitate to menace them...
    CbW 6.254 4 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;... built seventy cities...
    CbW 6.256 24 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
    Bty 6.294 10 The cell of the bee is built at that angle which gives the most strength with the least wax;...
    SS 7.14 25 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched. 'T is an extempore Sing-Sing built in a parlor.
    Civ 7.31 27 ...it is not New York streets, built by the confluence of workmen and wealth of all nations...that make the real estimation.
    Art2 7.41 3 Smeaton built Eddystone Lighthouse on the model of an oak-tree...
    Art2 7.41 8 Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a piece of stronger timber for the middle of the under-surface...
    Art2 7.54 6 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also.
    Art2 7.55 20 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower. Then it became a point of family pride,--and for more pride the novelty of a leaning tower was built.
    Art2 7.56 5 The Gothic cathedrals were built when the builder and the priest and the people were overpowered by their faith.
    DL 7.113 4 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted; they are many and great. Nor are they to be disposed of by any criticism or amendment of particulars taken one at a time, but only by the arrangement of the household to a higher end than those to which our dwellings are usually built and furnished.
    DL 7.117 15 ...a house should bear witness in all its economy that human culture is the end to which it is built and garnished.
    Farm 7.148 8 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias, built a high wall...
    WD 7.162 16 ...ships were built capacious enough to carry the people of a county.
    Suc 7.284 13 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he...writ the comedy and built the theatre.
    PI 8.4 21 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements (the supposed little cubes or prisms of which all matter was built up), we should...find...spherules of force.
    Elo2 8.119 27 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice, and exulted in the opportunity given her in the great halls she found sometimes built over a railroad depot.
    Res 8.139 25 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity, millions of lives of men to collect the first observations on which our astronomy is built;...
    PPo 8.241 10 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built, against her arrival, a palace...
    PPo 8.242 4 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace, built by demons on Alburz, gold and silver and precious stones were used so lavishly that in the brilliancy produced by their combined effect, night and day appeared the same;...
    Imtl 8.325 17 ...[the Greek] built no more of those doleful mountainous tombs.
    Imtl 8.325 24 [The Greek] carried his arts to Rome, and built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii.
    Aris 10.35 14 The manners, the pretension, which annoy me so much, are... built on a real distinction in the nature of my companion.
    PerF 10.81 2 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart, so neatly built...
    PerF 10.87 19 ...the world is built by [our moral sentiment]...
    Chr2 10.94 9 On the perpetual conflict between the dictate of this universal mind and the wishes and interests of the individual, the moral discipline of life is built.
    Chr2 10.102 23 ...when used with emphasis, [character] points to what no events can change, that is, a will built on the reason of things.
    SovE 10.181 2 These rules were writ in human heart/ By Him who built the day;/ The columns of the universe/ Not firmer based than they./
    SovE 10.189 23 The inevitabilities are always sapping every seeming prosperity built on a wrong.
    MoL 10.243 22 The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a scale which dwarfs our art...
    Schr 10.270 22 Genius is a poor man and has no house, but see, this proud landlord who has built the palace...opens it to him...
    LLNE 10.359 26 An old house on the place [Brook Farm] was enlarged, and three new houses built.
    LLNE 10.362 4 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth...came and built a house on [Brook] farm...
    EzRy 10.379 2 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God/...
    MMEm 10.397 15 On this altar God hath built/ I lay my vanity and guilt;/...
    Thor 10.457 25 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond...
    Thor 10.461 10 [Thoreau] was of short stature, firmly built...
    HDC 11.56 18 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay built ships...
    EWI 11.110 16 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built sharp for swiftness...
    EWI 11.110 20 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe...
    EWI 11.137 18 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground of interest...
    EWI 11.147 23 The sentiment of Right...pronounces Freedom. The Power that built this fabric of things affirms it in the heart;...
    War 11.154 1 [Alexander's conquest of the East] built seventy cities...
    War 11.164 1 It is really a thought that built this portentous war-establishment...
    War 11.164 21 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar.
    War 11.165 25 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.
    FSLN 11.240 27 ...the inconsistency of slavery with the principles on which the world is built guarantees its downfall...
    JBB 11.270 2 ...it is the reductio ad absurdum of Slavery, when the governor of Virginia is forced to hang a man [John Brown] whom he declares to be a man of the most integrity, truthfulness and courage he has ever met. Is that the kind of man the gallows is built for?
    EPro 11.320 15 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right. We have...planted ourselves on a law of Nature:-If that fail,/ The pillared firmament is rottenness,/ And earth's base built on stubble./
    SMC 11.352 19 This new [Concord] Monument is built to mark the arrival of the nation at the new principle...
    CPL 11.496 18 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the country, of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and hospitals, but have themselves built them...
    FRep 11.511 21 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...domestic and sacrificial vessels of all kinds. They built great works...
    FRep 11.513 13 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...
    PLT 12.34 8 We feel as if one man wrote all the books, painted, built, in dark ages;...
    PLT 12.34 10 We feel as if one man wrote all the books, painted, built, in dark ages; and we are sure that it can do more than ever was done. It was the same mind that built the world.
    PLT 12.57 18 The men we know, poets, wits, writers, deal with their thoughts as jewellers with jewels, which they sell but must not wear. Like the carpenter, who gives up the key of the fine house he has built, and never enters it again.
    PLT 12.59 23 Inspiration is the continuation of the divine effort that built the man.
    CInt 12.122 23 We feel as if one man wrote all the books, painted, built, in dark ages...
    CInt 12.122 26 We feel as if one man wrote all the books...in dark ages, and we are sure we can do more than ever was done. It was the same mind that built the world.
    CL 12.144 4 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable like a park, and not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills having each one side at forty-five degrees...
    CL 12.150 16 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night.
    Bost 12.190 16 How easy it is, after the city is built, to see where it ought to stand.
    Bost 12.204 20 [Liberty] was to be built on Religion, the Emancipator;...
    MAng1 12.225 25 [Michelangelo] built the stairs of Ara Celi...
    MAng1 12.226 1 ...[Michelangelo] arranged the piazza of the Capitol [Rome], and built its porticos.
    MAng1 12.226 16 [The Pons Palatinus] fell, five years after it was built...
    MAng1 12.231 2 Of [Michelangelo's] genius for architecture it is sufficient to say that he built Saint Peter's...
    MAng1 12.231 20 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's]. At last he began to model it very small in wax. When it was finished, he had it copied larger in wood, and by this model it was built.
    MAng1 12.239 18 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
    MAng1 12.243 22 Here [in Florence] is the church, the palace, the Laurentian library, [Michelangelo] built.
    ACri 12.297 25 ...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover it with mats.
    ACri 12.301 9 I fell in with one of the founders [of New City] who showed its advantages and its river and port and the capabilities: Sixty houses, sir, were built in a night, like tents.
    MLit 12.317 9 ...the street seems to be built, and the men and women in it moving, not in reference to pure and grand ends, but rather to very short and sordid ones.
    AgMs 12.361 6 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction, and after a man has built at great cost a stone house, a new road is opened, and he finds himself a mile or two from the highway.

Bukharia, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.253 16 Ibn Haukal, the Arabian geographer, describes a heroic extreme in the hospitality of Sogd, in Bukharia.

bulb, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.35 1 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader. But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of...a gardener and his bulb...

bulbul, n. (1)

    PPo 8.257 18 [The rose] was of her beauty proud,/ And prouder of her youth,/ The while unto her flaming heart/ The bulbul gave his truth./

bulk, n. (7)

    SR 2.85 26 There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk.
    Art1 2.352 11 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting, his love of nature, but a still finer success,--all the weary miles and tons of space and bulk left out...
    GoW 4.286 13 This idea [that a man exists for culture] reigns in [Goethe's] Dichtung und Wahrheit and directs the selection of incidents; and nowise... the bulk of incomes.
    F 6.31 3 The bulk of mankind believe in two gods.
    OA 7.335 22 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk...
    LLNE 10.336 25 The religious sentiment made nothing of bulk or size, or far or near;...
    FRep 11.526 16 ...the bulk of the population is poor.

Bulkeley, Edward, n. (3)

    HDC 11.61 9 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward...
    HDC 11.63 4 Edward Bulkeley was the pastor [in Concord], until his death, in 1696.
    HDC 11.77 13 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord], had a hereditary claim to the affection of the people, being descended in the fourth generation from Edward Bulkeley, son of Peter.

Bulkeley, John, n. (1)

    CPL 11.498 23 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642...

Bulkeley, n. (2)

    HDC 11.27 1 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    HDC 11.30 21 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is Blood...Miles,-the names of the inhabitants for the first thirty years; and the family is in many cases represented, when the name is not. If the name of Bulkeley is wanting, the honor you have done me this day, in making me your organ, testifies your persevering kindness to his blood.

Bulkeley, Peter, n. (12)

    HDC 11.31 18 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister...Rev. Peter Bulkeley...
    HDC 11.31 23 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.
    HDC 11.32 10 ...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.
    HDC 11.37 21 It is said that the covenant made with the Indians, by Mr. [Peter] Bulkeley and Major [Simon] Willard, was made under a great oak, formerly standing near the site of the Middlesex Hotel [Concord].
    HDC 11.41 14 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate...
    HDC 11.51 9 Early efforts were made to instruct [the Indians], in which Mr. Bulkeley, Mr. Flint, and Captain Willard, took an active part.
    HDC 11.56 2 Mr. Bulkeley dissuaded his people from removing...
    HDC 11.61 6 The elder Bulkeley [Peter] was gone.
    HDC 11.77 13 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord], had a hereditary claim to the affection of the people, being descended in the fourth generation from Edward Bulkeley, son of Peter.
    CPL 11.498 3 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of their pastor and leader, Rev. Peter Bulkeley...testify the ardent sentiment which they shared.
    CPL 11.498 22 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642...
    Bost 12.192 2 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;...

Bulkeley, Peter [2nd], n. (1)

    HDC 11.63 5 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord...

bulky, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.127 23 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade (a bulky folio...) was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.

Bull, John, n. (3)

    Bost 12.200 9 If John Bull interest you at home, come and see him under new conditions...
    Bost 12.200 11 If John Bull interest you at home, come and see him under new conditions, come and see the Jonathanization of John.
    WSL 12.337 8 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach, he speaks quick and strong;...

bull, n. (4)

    Hist 2.35 17 We may all shoot a wild bull that would toss the good and beautiful...
    Chr1 3.98 5 What have I gained, that I no longer immolate a bull to Jove...
    Cour 7.263 27 The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts or wolves, nor the grazier by his bull...
    Dem1 10.7 15 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see not only a glance of Abdiel, so grand and keen, but also in other faces the features of the mink, of the bull, of the rat and the barn-door fowl.

Bull, n. (1)

    PI 8.46 10 Who would hold the order of the almanac so fast but for the ding-dong,--Thirty days hath September, etc.;--or of the Zodiac, but for The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, etc.?

Bull Run, Virginia, n. (2)

    SMC 11.357 11 I have a note of a conversation that occurred in our first company, the morning before the battle of Bull Run.
    SMC 11.365 8 In the disastrous battle of Bull Run this [Massachusetts] company behaved well...

bull-baiting, n. (1)

    War 11.155 25 Bull-baiting, cockpits and the boxer's ring are the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

bull-dog, adj. (2)

    SMC 11.371 27 Every day, for the last eight days, there has been a terrible battle the whole length of the line. One day they drove us; but it has been regular bull-dog fighting.
    Mem 12.98 12 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us...that what his mind grasps it does not let go. 'T is the bull-dog bite; you must cut off the head to loosen the teeth.

bull-dog, n. (1)

    Pow 6.66 10 The most amiable of country gentlemen has a certain pleasure in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his orchard.

bullet, n. (5)

    Tran 1.332 5 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away... a bit of bullet...
    ET6 5.115 1 ...the usage of a dress-dinner every day at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing good [in table-talk]. Much attrition has worn every sentence into a bullet.
    Elo1 7.93 18 This terrible earnestness [of the eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's blood.
    SA 8.80 13 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities, hurls his word like a bullet when occasion requires...
    SMC 11.369 5 [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.

bulletin, n. (1)

    PNR 4.80 7 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion...to add a bulletin, like the journals, of Plato at the latest dates.

bulletins, n. (1)

    NMW 4.254 3 The official paper, [Napoleon's] Moniteur, and all his bulletins, are proverbs for saying what he wished to be believed;...

bullets, n. (5)

    Hsm1 2.262 15 It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob...
    MoS 4.166 10 ...[Montaigne] has stayed in-doors till he is deadly sick; he will to the open air, though it rain bullets.
    MoS 4.168 18 ...blacksmiths and teamsters do not trip in their speech; it is a shower of bullets.
    Wsp 6.232 7 A poor, tender, painful body, [man] can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
    SMC 11.368 27 Here [at the battle of Gettysburg] Francis Buttrick... Sergeant Appleton...were fatally wounded. The Colonel [George Prescott] was hit by three bullets.

bullied, v. (3)

    Hist 2.8 19 [Each man] must...not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires...
    ET8 5.132 25 ...[young Englishmen]...translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins;...
    EWI 11.133 18 There is a scandalous rumor...that members [of Congress] are bullied into silence by Southern gentlemen.

bullies, n. (4)

    ET4 5.69 2 ...the bullies of the costermongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials and Spitalfield, [the English] know how to wake up.
    Elo1 7.96 8 [The sturdy countryman] is fit to meet the barroom wits and bullies;...
    Cour 7.267 2 In every school there are certain fighting boys;...in every town, bravoes and bullies...
    AsSu 11.251 15 ...this noble head [Charles Sumner]...must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs.

bullies, v. (1)

    Pow 6.63 27 This power [in American politics]...is not clothed in satin. 'T is the power...of soldiers and pirates; and it bullies the peaceable and loyal.

bullion, n. (3)

    Nat 1.30 10 ...a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults.
    Boks 7.199 16 ...who can overestimate the images [in Plato]...which pass like bullion in the currency of all nations?
    WSL 12.349 3 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed. All our great debt to the Oriental world is of this kind, not utensils and statues of the precious metal, but bullion and gold-dust.

bull's, n. (1)

    ET4 5.59 13 If [the Northman] cannot pick any other quarrel, he will get himself comfortably gored by a bull's horns...

bully, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.251 23 The coxcomb and bully and thief class are allowed as proletaries...

bully, n. (5)

    ET4 5.71 27 The horse has more uses than Buffon noted. If you go into the streets, every driver in 'bus or dray is a bully...
    Pow 6.67 12 [Boniface]...united in his person the functions of bully, incendiary, swindler, barkeeper, and burglar.
    Elo1 7.96 8 [The sturdy countryman] is fit to meet the barroom wits and bullies; he is a wit and a bully himself, and something more;...
    PerF 10.86 24 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.
    EdAd 11.388 16 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully...

bully, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.238 14 Far off, men swell, bully and threaten;...

bullying, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.270 20 As for the bullying drunkards of which armies are usually made up, [John Brown] thought cholera, small-pox and consumption as valuable recruits.

bulrushes, n. (1)

    RBur 11.443 15 ...the corn, barley, and bulrushes hoarsely rustle [Burns's songs]...

bulwarks, n. (2)

    ET2 5.33 13 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks.
    WD 7.172 24 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...

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Geor (2)

    ET2 5.31 24 We found on board [the Washington Irving] the usual cabin library; Basil Hall, Dumas, Dickens, Bulwer, Balzac and Sand were our sea-gods.
    ET14 5.246 21 Bulwer, an industrious writer, with occasional ability, is distinguished for his reverence of intellect as a temporality...

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, n. (2)

    EurB 12.368 3 We have poets who write the poetry of society...and others who, like Byron and Bulwer, write the poetry of vice and disease.
    EurB 12.373 16 ...we have read Mr. Bulwer enough to see that the story is rapid and interesting;...

Bulwer-Lytton's, Edward, n. (2)

    EurB 12.373 5 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America.
    EurB 12.374 23 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of literature...

Buncombe, n. (1)

    Carl 10.491 26 [Young men] wish freedom of the press, and [Carlyle] thinks the first thing he would do, if he got into Parliament, would be to turn out the reporters, and stop all manner of mischievous speaking to Buncombe, and wind-bags.

bundle, n. (4)

    Hist 2.36 12 A man is a bundle of relations...
    UGM 4.26 4 Viewed from any high point...the Western civilization, would seem a bundle of insanities.
    MoS 4.154 13 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans; our life is like an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being carried before him;...
    MoS 4.154 15 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans; our life is like an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being carried before him; he sees nothing but the bundle of hay.

bundles, n. (3)

    Wsp 6.214 7 Souls are not saved in bundles.
    Dem1 10.12 1 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words, and it stood up and brought him water, and turned a spit, and carried bundles...
    MAng1 12.238 3 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did not use wax candles, but a better sort made of the tallow of goats. He therefore sent him four bundles of them...

bungler, n. (1)

    Aris 10.44 11 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you...whether he shall be a bungler, driveller, unlucky, heavy and tedious.

bunglers, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.77 20 ...any swindlers we have known are novices and bunglers...

Bunker Hill, Massachusetts, (3)

    Pt1 3.16 16 See the great ball which they roll from Baltimore to Bunker Hill!
    Cour 7.256 5 What a memory of Poitiers and Crecy, and Bunker Hill, and Washington's endurance!
    CInt 12.118 19 ...I note that we had a vast self-esteem on the subject of Bunker Hill, Yorktown and New Orleans.

Bunker's Hill, Massachusett (1)

    FSLN 11.221 17 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill.

Bunting, Ben [Byron, The (1)

    SL 2.164 15 Byron says of Jack Bunting,--He knew not what to say, and so he swore.

Bunting, Jack [Byron, The (1)

    SL 2.164 15 Byron says of Jack Bunting,--He knew not what to say, and so he swore.

bunting, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.16 24 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...

Bunyan, John, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.35 15 ...Ravenswood Castle [is] a fine name for proud poverty...and the foreign mission of state only a Bunyan disguise for honest industry.

Bunyan, John, n. (9)

    SwM 4.97 10 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Bunyan...will readily come to mind.
    ET13 5.216 21 ...George Fox, Penn, Bunyan are the democrats, as well as the saints of their times.
    ET14 5.234 2 Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar speech. Donne, Bunyan, Milton...wrote it.
    PI 8.28 20 Bunyan, in pain for his soul, wrote Pilgrim's Progress;...
    Aris 10.54 13 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery, to...win smiles and tears from many generations. The eminent examples are...Bunyan, Burns, Scott....
    Prch 10.227 21 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit which now fires you. So with Cudworth, More, Bunyan.
    MoL 10.244 20 In Puritanism, how the whole Jewish history became flesh and blood in those men, let Bunyan show.
    Bost 12.193 17 [The Massachusetts colonists] read Milton, Thomas a Kempis, Bunyan and Flavel with religious awe and delight...
    Bost 12.194 5 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even, without feeling how rich and expansive a culture... they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...

Buonarotti, Lionardo, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.242 13 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by [Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari, who had informed him of the rejoicings made at the house of his nephew Lionardo, at Florence, over the birth of another Buonarotti.

Buonarotti [Michelangelo], n (1)

    PC 8.216 20 Michel Angelo was the conscience of Italy.

Buonarotti, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.242 14 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by [Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari, who had informed him of the rejoicings made at the house of his nephew Lionardo, at Florence, over the birth of another Buonarotti.

Buonarrati, Michelangelo, n. (2)

    PC 8.218 17 Some Dante or Angelo...is always allowed.
    Imtl 8.329 23 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said;...

Buonarroti, Michelangelo, n. (29)

    Nat 1.43 24 Michael Angelo maintained, that, to an architect, a knowledge of anatomy is essential.
    Nat 1.58 23 ...[the theosophists] might all say of matter, what Michael Angelo said of external beauty...
    LE 1.175 1 Pindar, Raphael, Angelo, Dryden, De Stael, dwell in crowds it may be,
    SL 2.155 3 Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue, said Michel Angelo to the young sculptor;...
    Lov1 2.183 2.183 Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages. The doctrine is not old, nor is it new. If Plato, Plutarch and Apuleius taught it, so have Petrarch, Angelo and Milton.
    Art1 2.356 7 A dog, drawn by a master...is a reality not less than the frescoes of Angelo.
    Art1 2.361 23 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the place... That fact I saw again in the Academmia at Naples...and yet again when I came to Rome and to the paintings of...Angelo...
    NR 3.227 15 ...there are no such men as we fable; no Jesus...nor Angelo... such as we have made.
    PNR 4.88 6 Michael Angelo is a Platonist in his sonnets...
    PNR 4.89 20 Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo and Socrates by village scales.
    SwM 4.137 4 [Swedenborg] is like Michael Angelo, who, in his frescoes, put the cardinal who had offended him to roast under a mountain of devils;...
    ET1 5.7 26 [Landor] prefers John of Bologna to Michael Angelo;...
    ET12 5.202 20 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo.
    Pow 6.72 17 When Michel Angelo was forced to paint the Sistine Chapel in fresco...he went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    Pow 6.73 2 Michel [Angelo] was wont to draw his figures first in skeleton...
    Pow 6.74 20 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness. Many an artist, lacking this, lacks all; he sees the masculine Angelo or Cellini with despair.
    Bhr 6.178 19 An artist, said Michael Angelo, must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye;...
    Bty 6.294 14 [Beauty] is the purgation of superfluities, said Michael Angelo.
    SS 7.7 20 Michel Angelo had a sad, sour time of it.
    DL 7.131 6 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo...
    Boks 7.206 2 When we come to Michel Angelo, his Sonnets and Letters must be read...
    Boks 7.218 1 The Greek fables...the Sonnets of Michel Angelo...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    Suc 7.290 27 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
    Suc 7.302 21 The great doctors of this science [of sensibility] are the greatest men,--Dante, Petrarch, Michel Angelo and Shakspeare.
    OA 7.322 16 We still feel the force...of Michel Angelo...
    PI 8.13 11 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift, even when the thought is of no great scope, as when Michel Angelo, praising the terra cottas, said, If this earth were to become marble, woe to the antiques!
    PI 8.14 9 The aged Michel Angelo indicates his perpetual study as in boyhood,--I carry my satchel still.
    PI 8.39 23 Michel Angelo is largely filled with the Creator that made and makes men.
    PC 8.219 17 Michel Angelo is thinking of Da Vinci, and Raffaelle is thinking of Michel Angelo.

Buonarroti's, Michelangelo, (2)

    Suc 7.291 12 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success,--that we shall...take Michel Angelo's course, to confide in one's self, and be something of worth and value.
    OA 7.326 26 Michel Angelo's head is full of masculine and gigantic figures as gods walking...

Buonaventura, St., n. (1)

    QO 8.181 10 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.

buoyancy, n. (1)

    Pow 6.61 7 ...if [children] have the buoyancy and resistance that preoccupies them with new interest in the new moment,--the wounds cicatrize and the fibre is the tougher for the hurt.

buoyant, adj. (2)

    Bhr 6.189 26 ...if the man is self-possessed, happy and at home, his house is...indefinitely large and interesting, the roof and dome buoyant as the sky.
    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.

buoys, n. (1)

    Bost 12.190 21 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...

burden, n. (10)

    DSA 1.134 17 If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man.
    Con 1.304 2 ...plainly the burden of proof must lie with the projector.
    NMW 4.240 23 ...some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road, and Mrs. Balcombe desired them, in rather an angry tone, to keep back. Napoleon interfered, saying Respect the burden, Madam.
    GoW 4.281 21 If [the writer] can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the burden on his mind,--the burden of truth to be declared...
    Wsp 6.225 24 In every variety of human employment...there are the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
    PI 8.58 18 [The wind] was not born, it sees not,/ And is not seen; it does not come when desired;/ It has no form, it bears no burden,/ For it is void of sin./
    Elo2 8.123 26 At no hour of your life will the love of letters ever oppress you as a burden...
    CL 12.155 7 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden.
    MLit 12.314 1 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will help them to be delivered from some burden...
    MLit 12.332 18 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but its old eternal burden is not relieved;...

burden, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.103 6 If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he...has doubled his power to serve you, and ere you can rise up again will burden you with blessings.

burdened, v. (1)

    PLT 12.8 21 ...was there ever prophet burdened with a message to his people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his own mind of private folly with his public wisdom?

burdens, n. (6)

    Tran 1.347 27 ...unwillingly [Transcendentalists] bear their part of the public and private burdens;...
    Comp 2.123 4 I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn...knowing that it brings with it new burdens.
    ET7 5.122 6 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...all but four voting the income tax,--which was an ill-judged concession of the government, relieving Irish property from the burdens charged on English.
    PI 8.65 6 ...when we speak of the Poet in any high sense, we are driven to such examples as...St. John and Menu, with their moral burdens.
    HDC 11.78 9 The number of [Concord's] troops constantly in service [in the American Revolution] is very great. Its pecuniary burdens are out of all proportion to its capital.
    PPr 12.391 18 ...[Carlyle] is full of rhythm, not only in the perpetual melody of his periods, but in the burdens, refrains, and grand returns of his sense and music.

burdensome, adj. (2)

    NMW 4.238 26 It was a whimsical economy of the same kind which dictated [Bonaparte's] practice, when general in Italy, in regard to his burdensome correspondence.
    Art2 7.38 6 The more profound the thought, the more burdensome.

Bureau, Freedman's, n. (1)

    GSt 10.503 11 In 1862, on the President's first or preliminary Proclamation of Emancipation, [George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau...

Bureau, Freedmen's, n. (1)

    PC 8.208 24 The war gave us...the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau.

bureau, n. (3)

    MR 1.235 12 ...will you...set every man to make his own shoes, bureau, knife, wagon, sails, and needle?
    NMW 4.227 7 [A man of Napoleon's stamp]...comes to be a bureau for all the intelligence, wit and power of the age and country.
    ET5 5.92 25 [The English] have made...London a shop, a law-court, a record-office and scientific bureau...

bureaus, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.328 18 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no...said the landlord;...what should these fellows keep the highway for, when they can rob just as effectually, and much more at their ease, in the bureaus of office?

burgesses, n. (2)

    Pow 6.66 6 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...are only possible by installing Judas as steward. The rest of the offices may be filled by good burgesses.
    Aris 10.42 14 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff...of every city [is to cause] two citizens, and of every borough, two burgesses, such as have greatest skill in shipping and merchandising, to be returned.

burglar, n. (3)

    MR 1.252 11 We make, by our distrust, the...burglar...
    F 6.24 19 Go face...the burglar in your own [house]...knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.
    Pow 6.67 13 [Boniface]...united in his person the functions of bully, incendiary, swindler, barkeeper, and burglar.

burglars, n. (2)

    Pow 6.72 8 Of the sixty thousand men making [Napoleon's] army at Eylau, it seems some thirty thousand were thieves and burglars.
    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...

burglar's, n. (1)

    EurB 12.374 21 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy, inasmuch as the power...is a power for London; a divine power converted into a burglar's false key...

Burgundies, n. (1)

    Aris 10.38 2 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages!

burial, n. (4)

    Imtl 8.325 3 ...the polity of the Egyptians...respected burial.
    Plu 10.304 23 Early this morning, asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect...
    EzRy 10.393 7 The usual experiences of men, birth, marriage, sickness, death, burial;...[Ezra Ripley] studied them all...
    SMC 11.369 26 [George Prescott writes] We laid [Lieutenant Barrow] in two double blankets, and then sent off a long distance and got boards off a barn to make the best coffin we could, and gave him burial.

Burial, New, Ground, n. (1)

    SHC 11.432 11 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground, to the New Burial Ground...

burial-fees, n. (1)

    ET18 5.300 22 Men and women were convicted [in England] of poisoning scores of children for burial-fees.

burial-service, n. (1)

    PI 8.54 2 The prayers of nations are rhythmic, have iterations and alliterations, like the marriage-service and burial-service in our liturgies.

buried, adj. (6)

    Con 1.300 27 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts that bank of foliage into the air...is the gift and legacy of dead and buried years.
    Comp 2.123 3 I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn, for example to find a pot of buried gold...
    SwM 4.111 10 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to the day...
    WD 7.179 18 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar, not who can unearth for me the buried dynasties of Sesostris and Ptolemy...
    Plu 10.303 6 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from...buried cities...
    Mem 12.101 24 With every new fact a ray of light shoots up from the long buried years.

buried, v. (16)

    Nat 1.27 11 ...the blue sky in which the private earth is buried...is the type of Reason.
    MN 1.223 20 ...these qualities did not now begin to exist, cannot be sick with my sickness, nor buried in any grave;...
    PPh 4.65 22 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated which is blinded and buried by studies of another kind;...
    NMW 4.235 5 ...in less than no time we buried some thousands of Russians and Austrians under the waters of the lake.
    ET16 5.289 25 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York. Here was Canute buried...
    ET16 5.289 26 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York. Here was Canute buried, and here Alfred the Great was crowned and buried...
    ET16 5.290 6 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there...
    ET16 5.290 14 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation, and what is left of Alfred's body now lies covered by modern buildings, or buried in the ruins of the old.
    PPo 8.241 27 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Karun (the Persian Croesus)...who, with all his treasures, lies buried not far from the Pyramids...
    Imtl 8.325 9 The chief end of man being to be buried well, the arts most in request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming...
    Imtl 8.326 3 ...the modern Greeks, in their songs, ask that they may be buried where the sun can see them...
    Edc1 10.145 25 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil.
    Thor 10.483 15 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 11.56 25 The General Court, in 1647, to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    Bost 12.195 14 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    MAng1 12.243 25 Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he might be buried in that church [Santa Croce]...

buries, v. (1)

    PLT 12.19 6 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of larger scope...

Burke, Edmund, n. (41)

    LE 1.163 20 Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable, obliterated past, what it cannot tell,-the details of that nature, of that day, called Byron, or Burke;...
    LT 1.268 12 No Burke, no Metternich has yet done full justice to the side of conservatism.
    Hist 2.10 21 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before an oration of Burke...
    Comp 2.110 20 No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, said Burke.
    Art1 2.355 4 This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminency of an object,--so remarkable in Burke...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
    Mrs1 3.141 27 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons;...
    ET1 5.8 16 [Landor]...undervalued Burke...
    ET5 5.90 17 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and when they find one, like...Ashley, Burke, Thurlow...there is nothing too good or too high for him.
    ET11 5.197 16 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds of passage in this House of Commons...
    ET14 5.244 22 Burke was addicted to generalizing...
    ET14 5.249 7 ...as Burke had striven to idealize the English State, so Coleridge narrowed his mind in the attempt to reconcile the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church, with eternal ideas.
    ET18 5.306 26 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox, Burke, Pitt...were by this means sent to Parliament...
    Wth 6.91 12 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished; as if virtue were coming to be a luxury...as Burke said, at a market almost too high for humanity.
    Ctr 6.161 15 Burke descended from a higher sphere when he would influence human affairs.
    Ctr 6.163 27 All that class of the severe and restrictive virtues, said Burke, are almost too costly for humanity.
    Elo1 7.95 7 Some of [the eloquent men] were writers, like Burke;...
    Farm 7.140 18 Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly connected with abundance of food; or, as Burke said, Man breeds at the mouth.
    Boks 7.209 1 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Burke, shedding floods of light on his times;...
    Clbs 7.244 2 ...we owe to Boswell our knowledge of the club of Dr. Johnson...Burke...
    PI 8.14 14 To the Parliament debating how to tax America, Burke exclaimed, Shear the wolf.
    PI 8.50 14 Thomas Moore had the magnanimity to say, If Burke and Bacon were not poets...he did not know what poetry meant.
    Elo2 8.124 15 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the patriotism of Cicero, Demosthenes and Burke...
    QO 8.178 11 He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding, said Burke, doubles his own;...
    QO 8.194 25 ...Milton's prose, and Burke even, have their best fame within [this century].
    Schr 10.271 1 Where is the palace in England whose tenants are not too happy if it can make a home for...Swift or Burke...
    Schr 10.276 25 As Burke said, it is not only our duty to make the right known, but to make it prevalent.
    EWI 11.109 8 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce, and supported by him and by Fox and Burke and Pitt...
    EWI 11.137 1 All the great geniuses of the British senate, Fox, Pitt, Burke... ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...
    FSLC 11.190 15 ...the great jurists...Vattel, Burke...do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void].
    FSLN 11.227 2 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid]...
    FSLN 11.228 2 Burke said he would pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
    AsSu 11.250 27 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of Burke...
    Scot 11.465 26 [Scott] saw...in the historical aristocracy the benefits to the state which Burke claimed for it;...
    Mem 12.98 2 The way in which Burke or Sheridan or Webster or any orator surprises us is by his always having a sharp tool that fits the present use.
    CInt 12.120 6 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry, and of what was best in Cicero and Burke;...
    Milt1 12.249 1 [Milton's tracts] are not effective, like similar productions of Swift and Burke;...
    Milt1 12.269 15 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions of historical prescription...[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...
    ACri 12.285 23 ...one must learn from Burke how to be severe without being unparliamentary.
    ACri 12.286 11 He who would be powerful must have the terrible gift of familiarity...Burke, O'Connell, Patrick Henry;...
    PPr 12.379 5 In its first aspect [Carlyle's Past and Present] is a political tract, and since Burke, since Milton, we have had nothing to compare with it.
    PPr 12.390 2 Plato is the purple ancient, and Bacon and Milton the moderns of the richest strains. Burke sometimes reaches to that exuberant fulness, though deficient in depth.

Burke's, Edmund, n. (3)

    Elo1 7.73 12 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.
    Elo1 7.89 25 By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and magnificence wherever he goes. Such a power was Burke's...
    PI 8.12 15 A figurative statement...is remembered and repeated. How often has a phrase of this kind made a reputation. Pythagoras's Golden Sayings were such...and Burke's...

Burkes, n. (1)

    F 6.13 23 ...strong natures...Burkes...are inevitable patriots...

Burlamaqui, Jean Jacques, n (2)

    FSLC 11.190 14 ...the great jurists...Burlamaqui, Montesquieu...do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void].
    FSLN 11.227 2 ...Blackstone, Burlamaqui, Vattel...do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid]...

Burleigh, Lord [William Ce (1)

    ET10 5.156 23 Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life...

Burleighs, n. (1)

    ShP 4.202 11 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which...all eyes are turned; the care with which it registers every trifle touching...the Essexes, Leicesters, Burleighs and Buckinghams;...

burlesque, adj. (1)

    LVB 11.95 17 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.

burlesque, n. (2)

    Nat 1.48 13 The frivolous make themselves merry with the Ideal theory, as if its consequences were burlesque;...
    Tran 1.355 12 [Our virtue's respresentatives] are still liable to that slight taint of burlesque which in our strange world attaches to the zealot.

Burley, Scotland, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.247 29 ...Scott will sometimes draw a [heroic] stroke like the portrait of Lord Evandale given by Balfour of Burley.

Burlingame, Anson, n. (2)

    ChiE 11.474 14 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
    ChiE 11.474 16 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York...that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce.

Burlington House, London, (1)

    ET11 5.181 12 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly, Burlington House, Devonshire House...

Burlington, Vermont ("), n. (1)

    CbW 6.268 8 The farm is near this, 't is near that; [the young people] have got far from Boston, but 't is...near Burlington...

burly, adj. (8)

    MoS 4.180 11 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may find small good in tea...
    ET6 5.104 16 [The Englishman's] vivacity betrays itself...in his manners, in...the inarticulate noises he makes in clearing the throat;--all significant of burly strength.
    ET8 5.129 22 The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England]. So is the burly farmer;...
    ET8 5.134 22 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
    Pow 6.66 27 I knew a burly Boniface who for many years kept a public-house in one of our rural capitals.
    Carl 10.489 20 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people.
    II 12.82 4 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension. 'T is a strong paddy, who, with his burly elbows, is making place and way for him.
    PPr 12.391 15 Carlyle is a poet who is altogether too burly in his frame and habit to submit to the limits of metre.

burn, v. (44)

    Nat 1.38 14 Water is good to drink, coal to burn...
    MN 1.221 16 [The intellect] will burn up all profane literature...as in a moment of time.
    Tran 1.357 22 [The Transcendentalists'] heart is the ark in which the fire is concealed which shall burn in a broader and universal flame.
    YA 1.392 19 ...it is not strange that our youths and maidens should burn to see the picturesque extremes of an antiquated country.
    Fdsp 2.216 18 ...thou art enlarged by thy own shining, and...dost soar and burn with the gods of the empyrean.
    Prd1 2.227 7 The domestic man, who loves no music so well as...the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.
    OS 2.295 7 ...when I burn with pure love, what can Calvin or Swedenborg say?
    Pt1 3.31 17 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
    Exp 3.49 13 The Indian who was laid under a curse that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all.
    Nat2 3.188 24 After some time has elapsed, [the young person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience [of keeping a diary], and with hesitation, yet with firmness, exposes the pages to his eye. Will they not burn his eyes?
    PPh 4.39 3 Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
    NMW 4.258 24 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property...it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick;...and our wine will burn our mouth.
    ET4 5.59 8 King Ingiald finds it vastly amusing to burn up half a dozen kings in a hall...
    ET11 5.190 11 Penshurst still shines for us, and its Christmas revels, where logs not burn, but men.
    Wth 6.87 20 Wealth begins...in dry sticks to burn...
    Ctr 6.145 27 Do you suppose there is any country where they do not...burn the brushwood...
    Bhr 6.194 11 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him;...
    Wsp 6.238 2 Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not. With eyes open, he makes the choice...of religion which churches stop their discords to burn and exterminate;...
    Civ 7.24 15 ...in every house we hesitate to burn a newspaper until we have looked it through.
    Civ 7.25 8 The skill that pervades complex details;...the chimney taught to burn its own smoke;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    Farm 7.140 8 ...[the farmer] has...wood to burn great fires...
    Farm 7.145 10 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again.
    Farm 7.145 13 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.
    Farm 7.145 17 Nations burn with internal fire of thought and affection...
    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.
    Res 8.142 4 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    Res 8.146 11 [Tissenet] assured [the Indians] that if they should provoke him he would burn up their ri