C., Lord to Came
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
C., Lord, n. (1)
Comc 8.171 25 Lord C., said the Countess of Gordon,
O, he is a perfect comb, all teeth and back.
caaba, n. (1)
cabal, n. (1)
FRep 11.524 18 Whilst each cabal urges its
candidate...the good and wise are hidden in their active retirements...
cabalism, n. (3)
Civ 7.26 22 There can be no high civility without a
deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but
sometimes...the cabalism or esprit de corps of a masonic or other
association of friends.
Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georg (1)
MoS 4.153 21 The nerves, says Cabanis, they are the
man.
cabdrivers, n. (1)
CbW 6.269 1 When joy or calamity or genius shall show
[the youth his purpose]...then city shopmen and cabdrivers...will
mirror back to him its unfathomable heaven...
cabin, adj. (2)
ET19 5.310 10 ...when I came to sea, I found the
History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table...
cabin, n. (15)
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.
Hist 2.19 17 The Doric temple preserves the semblance
of the wooden cabin in which the Dorian dwelt.
Art1 2.360 17 ...that house and weather and manner of
living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious
and so dear, in the gray unpainted wood cabin...will serve as well as
any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself
indifferently through all.
Pt1 3.36 5 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions,
seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons, and seemed in darkness;
but to each other they appeared as men, and when the light from heaven
shone into their cabin, they complained of the darkness...
ET2 5.32 18 It has been said that the King of England
would consult his dignity by giving audience to foreign ambassadors in
the cabin of a man-of-war.
ET10 5.156 18 Gentlemen do not hesitate to ride in
the second-class cars [in England], or in the second cabin.
SS 7.1 4 ...[Seyd] Loved harebells nodding on a
rock,/ A cabin hung with curling smoke/...
Civ 7.17 12 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful
traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he
hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played
with master's hand./
Clbs 7.228 25 We remember the time when the best gift
we could ask of fortune was to fall in with a valuable companion in a
ship's cabin...
Chr2 10.97 22 It would instantly indispose us to any
person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature, the setting forth
any fact or law which we did not find in our consciousness. We should
say with Heraclitus: Come into this smoky cabin; God is here also:
approve yourself to him.
LLNE 10.369 4 [Brook Farm] was a close union, like
that in a ship's cabin...
SlHr 10.441 8 ...if one had met [Samuel Hoar] in a
cabin or in a forest he must still seem a public man...
cabined, v. (1)
PI 8.37 26 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed,
confined in a narrow and trivial lot...
cabinet, adj. (1)
Suc 7.308 18 I do not find...grisly photographs of
the field on the day after the battle, fit subjects for cabinet
pictures.
cabinet, n. (10)
Nat 1.67 22 In a cabinet of natural history, we
become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard
to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
Nat 1.69 9 The whole is either our cupboard of food,/
Or cabinet of pleasure./
SL 2.145 27 M. de Narbonne in less than a fortnight
penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.
Elo1 7.82 20 The audience [if there be personality in
the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has
to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid...Columbus,
being introduced, was interrogated whether his geographical knowledge
could aid the cabinet;...
WD 7.164 26 I saw a brave man...constructing his
cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds.
Elo2 8.118 6 If the performance of the advocate
reaches any high success it is paid in England with dignities in the
professions, and in the state with seats in the cabinet...
PLT 12.22 13 If we go through...any cabinet where is
some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature, we are surprised
with occult sympathies;...
Cabinet, n. (2)
ET11 5.184 13 ...the existence of the House of Peers
as a branch of the government entitles them to fill half the
Cabinet;...
LVB 11.91 17 Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand
up and say, This is not our act. Behold us. Here are we. Do not mistake
that handful of deserters for us; and the American President and the
Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives, neither hear
these men nor see them...
cabinet-makers, n. (1)
Clbs 7.233 25 Diderot said of the Abbe Galiani: He
was a treasure in rainy days; and if the cabinet-makers made such
things, everybody would have one in the country.
cabinet-ministers, n. (1)
ET16 5.287 1 My friends asked, whether there were any
Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus
challenged, I bethought myself...neither of presidents nor of
cabinet-ministers...
cabinets, n. (3)
Wsp 6.234 16 [Benedict] had hoarded nothing from the
past, neither in his cabinets, neither in his memory.
PerF 10.82 22 The imagination enriches [the man], as
if there were no other; the memory opens all her cabinets and
archives;...
MMEm 10.409 8 As a traveller enters some fine palace
and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some
avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the
cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy...
cabins, n. (2)
Con 1.315 5 ...the cabins of the peasants and the
castles of the lords supplied [Friar Bernard's] few wants.
PNR 4.85 11 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...appears like
the god of wealth among the cabins of vagabonds...
cable, n. (1)
Hist 2.9 7 No anchor, no cable, no fences avail to
keep a fact a fact.
cab-man, n. (1)
F 6.9 9 ...the cab-man is phrenologist so far, he
looks in your face to see if his shilling is sure.
cabmen, n. (1)
cabs, n. (1)
ET13 5.230 19 But the religion of England...is it the
sects? no; they...are to the Established Church as cabs are to a
coach...
cache, n. (1)
ET7 5.117 11 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a
cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on
digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in
pieces.
cachinnation, n. (1)
Dem1 10.4 20 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by
spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter...to rake with
confusion in memory among the gibbering nonsense to find the motive of
this contemptible cachinnation.
cackle, v. (1)
Elo1 7.69 11 ...[the Sicilians] crow, squeal, hiss,
cackle, bark, and scream like mad...
cadence, n. (1)
ShP 4.195 23 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry
VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I
can mark his lines, and know well their cadence.
cadences, n. (3)
Pt1 3.8 13 ...we hear those primal warblings and
attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse
and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men
of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully...
PI 8.47 1 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the
common English metres... you can easily believe these metres to
be...derived from the human pulse, and to be therefore not proper to
one nation, but to mankind. I think you will also find a charm heroic,
plaintive, pathetic, in these cadences...
PI 8.64 15 Bring us...poetry which finds its rhymes
and cadences in the rhymes and iterations of Nature...
Cadenham, England, n. (1)
ET10 5.165 10 Sir Edward Boynton, at Spic Park at
Cadenham, on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a
long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side.
Cadet, n. (1)
MoL 10.251 14 I asked the first [West Point] Cadet,
Who makes your bed? I do.
cadets, n. (1)
ET4 5.63 22 Medwin, in the Life of Shelley, relates
that at a military school they rolled up a young man in a snowball, and
left him in his room while the other cadets went to church;...
cadi, n. (1)
CbW 6.266 11 The Turkish cadi said to Layard, After
the fashion of thy people, thou hast wandered from one place to
another, until thou art happy and content in none.
Cadmus, n. (3)
Exp 3.80 1 Hermes, Cadmus, Columbus, Newton,
Bonaparte, are the mind' s ministers.
Civ 7.20 22 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco
Capac at the beginning of each improvement...
caducous, adj. (2)
Exp 3.49 9 ...something which I fancied was a part of
me...falls off from me and leaves no scar. It was caducous.
ET8 5.138 10 If anatomy is reformed according to
national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in
the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one
from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this
organ will be found to be cortical and caducous;...
Cadwallon, n. (1)
Insp 8.287 15 Do you want...Helvellyn, or Plinlimmon,
dear to English song, in your closet? Caerleon, Provence, Ossian and
Cadwallon?
Cadwallon [Scott, Dying Ba (1)
Bty 6.303 16 ...the Welsh bard warns his
countrywomen, Half of their charms with Cadwallon shall die./
caenobite, n. (1)
MR 1.243 1 For privileges so rare and grand, let [the
man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] not stint to pay a
great tax. Let him be a caenobite...
Caerleon, England, n. (1)
Insp 8.287 14 Do you want...Helvellyn, or Plinlimmon,
dear to English song, in your closet? Caerleon, Provence, Ossian and
Cadwallon?
Caesar, Julius, n. [Caesar] (35)
Nat 1.76 10 All that Adam had, all that Caesar could,
you have and can do.
Nat 1.76 12 ...Caesar called his house, Rome;...
SL 2.165 9 The poet uses the names of Caesar, of
Tamerlane...
SL 2.165 15 If the poet write a true drama, then he
is Caesar...
SL 2.165 16 If the poet write a true drama, then he
is Caesar, and not the player of Caesar;...
Lov1 2.180 22 ...personal beauty is then first
charming and itself...when [the beholder] cannot feel his right to it,
though he were Caesar;...
Prd1 2.233 6 The scholar shames us by his bifold
life. ... Yesterday, Caesar was not so great; to-day, the felon at the
gallows' foot is not more miserable.
Chr1 3.94 21 Cannot Caesar in irons shuffle off the
irons and transfer them to the person of Hippo or Thraso the turnkey?
Mrs1 3.125 10 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe
have been of this strong type; Saladin...Julius Caesar...
NER 3.274 17 The heroes of ancient and modern fame,
Cimon...Caesar, have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and
skilfully played...
NER 3.274 21 Caesar, just before the battle of
Pharsalia, discourses with the Egyptian priest concerning the fountains
of the Nile...
NER 3.276 15 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper
makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and
accompany him no longer,--it is time...with Caesar to take in his hand
the army, the empire and Cleopatra, and say, All these will I
relinquish, if you will show me the fountains of the Nile.
ShP 4.192 27 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...the
Death of Julius Caesar, and other stories out of Plutarch, which [the
audience] never tire of;...
Ctr 6.141 23 The best heads that ever
existed...Julius Caesar, Shakspeare... were well-read, universally
educated men...
Ctr 6.158 17 Bonaparte, like Caesar, was
intellectual...
Bhr 6.182 1 The nose of Julius Caesar, of Dante, and
of Pitt, suggest the terrors of the beak.
Ill 6.317 20 Bonaparte is intellectual, as well as
Caesar;...
Elo1 7.77 10 Face to face with a highwayman...can you
bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?--a
problem easy enough to Caesar or Napoleon.
Elo1 7.78 9 Julius Caesar said to Metellus, when that
tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury,
Young man, it is easier for me to put you to death than to say that I
will;...
Cour 7.255 16 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the
mythology of every nation; and in authentic history, a Leonidas...a
Caesar...
Res 8.137 11 ...whether searched by the plough of
Adam, the sword of Caesar...or the submarine telegraph,--to every one
of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.
Edc1 10.140 12 ...Caesar in Gaul, Sherman in
Savannah, and hazing in Holworthy, dance through [the boy's] narrative
in merry confusion, yet the logic is good.
Supl 10.172 26 The arithmetic of Newton...the
versatility of Julius Caesar... are sure of commanding interest and awe
in every company of men.
Plu 10.318 13 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the
legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or
verse,-there will Plutarch, who told the story of
Leonidas...of...Epaminondas, Caesar, Cato and the rest, sit
as...laureate of the ancient world.
CPL 11.504 9 Julius Caesar, when shipwrecked, and
forced to swim for life, did not gather his gold, but took his
Commentaries between his teeth and swam for the shore.
MAng1 12.227 27 The midnight battles, the forced
marches, the winter campaigns of Julius Caesar or Charles XII. do not
indicate greater strength of body or of mind [than Michelangelo's].
AgMs 12.358 19 As I drew near this brave laborer
[Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling
for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the
soil...
Caesarian, adj. (1)
Caesar's, Julius, n. (4)
Hist 2.2 3 I am owner of the sphere,/ .../ Of
Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain/...
NMW 4.251 22 I admire [Bonaparte's] simple, clear
narrative of his battles;--good as Caesar's;...
ET1 5.8 14 [Landor] entertained us at once with
reciting half a dozen hexameter lines of Julius Caesar's!...
Caesars, n. (2)
EdAd 11.384 18 A man [in America] who has a hundred
dollars to dispose of...is rich beyond the dreams of the Caesars.
cafes, n. (1)
cage, n. (2)
PPo 8.255 11 My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in
the sky-vault's cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of
life's hope./
Plu 10.314 5 The soul, incapable of death, suffers in
the same manner in the body, as birds that are kept in a cage.
Cain, n. (1)
Prch 10.221 27 To see men pursuing in faith their
varied action...what are they to this chill, houseless, fatherless,
aimless Cain, the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in
God's resplendent creation?
Cain, Tubal, n. (1)
cake, n. (7)
SwM 4.132 1 ...[Swedenborg] saw...the hell of the
revengeful, whose faces resembled a round, broad cake...
MoS 4.184 16 Each man woke in the morning with an
appetite that could eat the solar system like a cake;...
ACri 12.287 25 I remember when a venerable divine
[Dr. Osgood] called the young preacher's sermon patty cake.
EurB 12.375 22 ...this reward granted [the novels of
costume or of circumstance] is property, all-excluding property, a
little cake baked for them to eat and for none other...
cakes, n. (6)
Tran 1.349 9 Each cause as it is called...becomes
speedily a little shop, where the article...is now made up into
portable and convenient cakes...
WD 7.168 25 Remember what boys think in the
morning...of Thanksgiving or Christmas. The very stars in their courses
wink to them of nuts and cakes...
Comc 8.163 14 Dost thou think, because thou art
virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
MoL 10.245 24 A French prophet of our age, Fourier,
predicted that one day...the rival portions of humanity would dispute
each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.
calamities, n. (14)
ET10 5.167 24 ...in these crises [of political
enconomy] all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable
of...the application of their talent to new labor. Then again come in
new calamities.
F 6.35 17 ...if calamities, oppositions, and weights
are wings and means,- we are reconciled.
SA 8.104 9 Amidst the calamities which war has
brought on our country this one benefit has accrued,--that our
eyes...look homeward.
Prch 10.231 27 ...it is impossible to pay no
regard...to the calamities and prosperities of our town and country;...
FSLC 11.189 13 I thought that every time a man goes
back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and
that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life, the
excuse and indemnity for the errors and calamities which sadden it.
FSLN 11.240 24 ...mountains of difficulty must be
surmounted...dangers, healed by a quarantine of calamities to measure
his strength, before [man] dare say, I am free.
AKan 11.256 20 In these calamities under which they
suffer...the people of Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men...
ACiv 11.303 17 ...there have been days in American
history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been
blocked...and our recent calamities forever precluded.
Koss 11.400 25 Sir [Kossuth]...we congratulate you
that you have known how to convert calamities into powers...
FRep 11.544 3 Such and so potent is this high method
by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the
mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse
ingenuity prevent the blessing.
calamitous, adj. (3)
PNR 4.84 6 Plato affirms...that ignorance, or the
involuntary lie, was more calamitous than involuntary homicide;...
JBB 11.271 27 ...the use of a judge is to secure good
government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the
federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local
government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we
should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the
dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
PPr 12.383 25 ...when the political aspects are so
calamitous that the sympathies of the man overpower the habits of the
poet, a higher than literary inspiration may succor him.
calamity, n. (44)
Nat 1.10 4 There [in the woods] I feel that nothing
can befall me in life...no calamity...which nature cannot repair.
Nat 1.11 13 To a man laboring under calamity, the
heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
AmS 1.95 23 Drudgery, calamity...are instructors in
eloquence and wisdom.
MN 1.191 11 ...it is a common calamity if [the
scholars] neglect their post in a country where the material interest
is so predominant as it is in America.
Hist 2.35 20 Lucy Ashton is another name for
fidelity, which is always beautiful and always liable to calamity in
this world.
Comp 2.124 18 Jesus and Shakspeare are fragments of
the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own
conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot
be made mine, it is not wit. Such also is the natural history of
calamity.
Hsm1 2.263 11 It may calm the apprehension of
calamity in the most susceptible heart to see how quick a bound Nature
has set to the utmost infliction of malice.
Exp 3.49 5 If to-morrow I should be informed of the
bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a
great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave
me as it found me,--neither better nor worse. So is it with this
calamity [the death of my son]; it does not touch me;...
MoS 4.170 17 A book or statement which goes to show
that there is no line, but...a calamity out of nothing...dispirits us.
GoW 4.263 7 In conversation, in calamity, [the
writer] finds new materials;...
ET19 5.313 16 I see [England]...with a kind of
instinct...that in storm of battle and calamity she has a secret vigor
and a pulse like a cannon.
Wsp 6.234 10 In the greatest destitution and calamity
[the moral] surprises man with a feeling of elasticity which makes
nothing of loss.
CbW 6.268 26 When joy or calamity or genius shall
show [the youth his purpose], then woods, then farms...will mirror back
to him its unfathomable heaven...
DL 7.113 5 ...is there any calamity more grave...than
this?--to go from chamber to chamber and see no beauty;...
QO 8.177 13 He who has once known [a book's]
satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Chr2 10.92 11 It were an unspeakable calamity if any
one should think he had the right to impose a private will on others.
MoL 10.257 8 All of us have shared the new enthusiasm
of country and of liberty which swept like a whirlwind through all
souls at the outbreak of war, and brought, by ennobling us, an offset
for its calamity.
FSLC 11.186 13 ...America, the most prosperous
country in the Universe, has the greatest calamity in the Universe,
negro slavery.
FSLC 11.200 10 ...it is cheering to behold what
champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor
black boy;...above all, with what earnestness and dignity the advocates
of freedom were inspired. It was one of the best compensations of this
calamity.
FSLC 11.208 23 It is really the great task fit for
this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as
the British nation bought the West Indian slaves. I say buy...that we
may acknowledge the calamity of [the planter's] position...
FSLN 11.224 21 It is remarked of Americans...that
they think they praise a man more by saying that he is smart than by
saying that he is right. Whether the defect be national or not, it is
the defect and calamity of Mr. Webster...
FSLN 11.239 12 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of
the unjust, that at its close...there sprouts forth for posterity
every-ravening calamity...
ACiv 11.298 10 ...who is this who tosses his empty
head at this blessing in disguise...and insults the faithful workman at
his daily toil? I see...for such calamity no solution but servile
war...
ALin 11.329 1 We meet under the gloom of a calamity
[death of Lincoln] which darkens down over the minds of good men in all
civil society...
EdAd 11.385 22 What more serious calamity can befall
a people than a constitutional dulness and limitation?
FRep 11.516 14 We are in these days settling for
ourselves and our descendants questions which...will make the peace and
prosperity or the calamity of the next ages.
II 12.86 2 Work and learn in evil days, in barren
days, in days of depression and calamity.
Mem 12.102 22 ...when age and calamity have bereaved
[those who have used their days well] of their limbs or organs, then
they retreat on mental faculty...
PPr 12.380 26 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the
calamity of the times...in false and superficial aims of the people...
Let 12.399 11 ...this class [of over-educated youth]
is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who...use
all possible endeavors to secure to [their children] the same result.
Certainly we are not insensible to this calamity...
Let 12.402 10 ...least of all should we think a
preternatural enlargement of the intellect a calamity.
Trag 12.406 3 The riches of body or of mind which we
do not need to-day are the reserved fund against the calamity that may
arrive to-morrow.
Trag 12.410 25 In phlegmatic natures calamity is
unaffecting, in shallow natures it is rhetorical.
Trag 12.411 15 The spirit...learns to live in what is
called calamity as easily as in what is called felicity;...
Calamity, n. (1)
Edc1 10.128 25 Here [in the household] is Economy,
and Glee, and Hospitality, and Ceremony, and Frankness, and Calamity,
and Death, and Hope.
calculable, adj. (2)
SR 2.64 1 What is the nature and power of that
science-baffling star... without calculable elements...
F 6.19 4 Famine, typhus, frost, war, suicide and
effete races must be reckoned calculable parts of the system of the
world.
calculate, v. (4)
WD 7.159 20 ...taught by Mr. Babbage, [steam] must
calculate interest and logarithms.
calculated, adj. (2)
calculated, v. (8)
ET10 5.156 1 It is [Englishmen's] maxim that the
weight of taxes must be calculated, not by what is taken, but by what
is left.
ET15 5.270 2 One would think the world was on its
knees to The [London] Times office for its daily breakfast. But this
arrogance is calculated.
Pow 6.65 17 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see...how
much crime the people will bear;...they have calculated but too justly
upon their Excellencies the New England governors, and upon their
Honors the New England legislators.
PI 8.69 12 The egotism, the wit, is [in Faust]
calculated.
HDC 11.75 16 In all the anecdotes of that day's
[April 19, 1775] events we may discern the natural action of the
people. It...might have been calculated on by any one acquainted with
the spirits and habits of our community.
Let 12.395 14 Another objection [to Communities]
seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate. Is it, he
writes, a too great wilfulness and intermeddling with life,-which is
better accepted than calculated?
Trag 12.416 13 Napoleon said to one of his friends at
St. Helena, Nature seems to have calculated that I should have great
reverses to endure, for she has given me a temperament like a block of
marble.
calculating, adj. (1)
Elo1 7.80 11 ...among our cool and calculating
people...there is a good deal of skepticism as to extraordinary
influence.
calculation, n. (15)
Tran 1.337 1 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless
person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation,
would lie as the dying Desdemona lied;...
Tran 1.355 2 In politics, it has often sufficed, when
they treated of justice, if they kept the bounds of selfish
calculation.
Exp 3.67 3 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we
might...adjust ourselves, once for all, to the perfect calculation of
the kingdom of known cause and effect.
Exp 3.70 5 The ancients, struck with this
irreducibleness of the elements of human life to calculation, exalted
Chance into a divinity;...
Pol1 3.205 27 Under the dominion of an idea which
possesses the minds of multitudes...the powers of persons are no longer
subjects of calculation.
NMW 4.237 10 [Napoleon's] very attack was never the
inspiration of courage, but the result of calculation.
NMW 4.254 11 Like all Frenchmen [Napoleon] has a
passion for stage effect. Every action that breathes of generosity is
poisoned by this calculation.
ET5 5.88 4 Whilst they are thus instinct with a
spirit of order and of calculation, it must be owned [the English] are
capable of larger views;...
F 6.17 7 It is a rule that the most casual and
extraordinary events, if the basis of population is broad enough,
become matter of fixed calculation.
LLNE 10.354 13 The Fourier marriage was a calculation
how to secure the greatest amount of kissing that the infirmity of
human constitution admitted.
MMEm 10.432 9 Shame on me [Mary Moody
Emerson]...resigned...to the loss of that character which I once
thought and felt so sure of, without ever being conscious of acting
from calculation.
Let 12.395 20 It were fit to forbid concert and
calculation in this particular, if that were our system...
calculations, n. (6)
LE 1.179 25 The vulgar call good fortune that which
really is produced by the calculations of genius.
Cir 2.315 17 Think how many times we shall fall back
into pitiful calculations before we take up our rest in the great
sentiment...
GoW 4.288 8 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's]
tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture.
ET5 5.81 12 ...when [English] courts and parliament
are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon
of defence from year to year is the obstinate reproduction of the
grievance, with calculations and estimates.
MMEm 10.431 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe thus
much, that [the greatest geniuses'] large perception...made it
impossible for them to make small calculations.
calculator, n. (4)
OS 2.268 5 The most exact calculator has no
prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next
moment.
EWI 11.125 6 ...that which the head and the heart
demand is found to be, in the long run, for what the grossest
calculator calls his advantage.
CInt 12.123 4 [The Understanding] is the power which
the world of men adopt and educate. He is the calculator, he is the
merchant, the politician, the worker in the useful;...
calculators, n. (2)
Mrs1 3.150 22 ...by the firmness with which she
treads her upward path, [woman] convinces the coarsest calculators that
another road exists than that which their feet know.
calculus, n. (3)
Res 8.149 6 See how [Newton] refreshed himself,
resting from the profound researches of the calculus by astronomy;...
LLNE 10.329 1 In science the French savant...with
barometer, crucible, chemic test and calculus in hand, travels into all
nooks and islands...
Calcutta, India, n. (2)
Wth 6.87 7 ...coal carries coal, by rail and by boat,
to make Canada as warm as Calcutta;...
CL 12.140 9 In summer, we have for weeks a sky of
Calcutta...
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro (2)
Ctr 6.159 7 ...if in travelling in the dreary
wildernesses of Arkansas or Texas we should observe on the next seat a
man reading...Calderon, we should wish to hug him.
LLNE 10.363 14 [Charles Newcomb's] reading lay in
Aeschylus, Plato, Dante, Calderon, Shakspeare...
Caldwell, John, n. (1)
LLNE 10.363 24 An English baronet, Sir John Caldwell,
was a frequent visitor [at Brook Farm]...
calendar, adj. (2)
Exp 3.46 17 We never got [wisdom, poetry, virtue] on
any dated calendar day.
calendar, n. (8)
SR 2.85 14 ...the whole bright calendar of the year
is without a dial in [the man in the street's] mind.
ET10 5.157 19 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon
explained the precession of the equinoxes, the consequent necessity of
the reform of the calendar;...
ET12 5.201 18 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, or
calendar of the writers of Oxford for two hundred years, is a lively
record of English manners and merits...
OA 7.331 22 ...there is a calendar of [a man's]
years, so of his performances.
PC 8.214 27 Six hundred years ago Roger Bacon
explained the precession of the equinoxes and the necessity of reform
in the calendar;...
CW 12.174 23 Make a calendar...of the year, that you
may never miss your favorites [among the plants] in their month.
EurB 12.365 2 It was a brighter day than we have
often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a
single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by
Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.
Calendar, Newgate, n. (1)
WD 7.165 17 I believe they have ceased to publish the
Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family
newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the
horror of their records of crime.
calendar-day, n. (1)
MoS 4.173 11 I mean to...celebrate the calendar-day
of our Saint Michel de Montaigne, by counting and describing these
doubts or negations.
calendared, v. (1)
WD 7.169 2 Cannot memory still descry the old
school-house and its porch...and do you not recall that life was then
calendared by moments...
calendars, n. (2)
ET4 5.63 5 The crimes recorded in [English] calendars
leave nothing to be desired in the way of cold malignity.
ET12 5.209 8 ...so eminent are the members that a
glance at the calendars will show that in all the world one cannot be
in better company than on the books of one of the larger Oxford or
Cambridge colleges.
calf, n. (4)
Thor 10.461 22 ...[Thoreau] could estimate the weight
of a calf or a pig, like a dealer.
CL 12.149 1 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated
the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of
access. ... The lightning roars like a parent cow that bellows for its
calf, and the rain is set free by the Maruts.
MAng1 12.229 18 [Michelangelo's Moses]...is designed
to embody the Hebrew Law. The law-giver is supposed to gaze upon the
worshippers of the golden calf.
calf-skin, n. (2)
Cour 7.258 14 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop
Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who
attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would
burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no
bigger than a calf-skin.
Calhoun, John Caldwell, n. [Calhoun, Calhoun,] (4)
F 6.39 22 The times, the age, what is that but a few
profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the
times?--...Calhoun...and the rest.
Pow 6.63 24 The senators who dissented from Mr.
Polk's Mexican war were...those who from political position could
afford it; not Webster, but Benton and Calhoun.
FSLN 11.240 13 ...all the statesmen, Guizot,
Palmerston, Webster, Calhoun, are sure to be found befriending liberty
with their words, and crushing it with their votes.
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 Calhoun...
Caliban [Shakespeare, Tempe (1)
PI 8.43 14 Better examples [of poetry] are
Shakspeare's Ariel, his Caliban...
calibre, n. (3)
SwM 4.105 6 What was left for a genius of the largest
calibre but to go over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite?
Thor 10.465 1 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his
companion, and... could very well report his weight and calibre.
calices, n. (1)
calico, adj. (1)
FRep 11.511 14 The manufacturers rely on turbines of
hydraulic perfection;...the calico print, on designers of genius...
calico, n. (1)
calicoes, n. (1)
Prd1 2.235 9 Iron cannot rust...nor calicoes go out
of fashion...in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any
one of them to remain in his possession.
calico-mill, n. (1)
Pow 6.81 23 The world-mill is more complex than the
calico-mill, and the architect stooped less.
Calidasa [Kalidasa], n. (1)
Dem1 10.7 1 It was in this glance [at an animal] that
Ovid got the hint of his metamorphoses; Calidasa of his transmigration
of souls.
California, adj. (1)
Civ 7.31 23 I see the immense material
prosperity...California quartz-mountains dumped down in New York to be
repiled architecturally alongshore from Canada to Cuba...
California, n. (23)
GoW 4.265 13 The ambitious and mercenary bring their
last new mumbo-jumbo, whether tariff, Texas...or California;
and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
ET14 5.254 11 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the
[English] student... but only a casual dipping here and there, like
diggers in California prospecting for a placer that will pay.
Wth 6.102 15 In California, the country where [the
dollar] grew,--what would it buy?
Ctr 6.146 24 California and the Pacific Coast is now
the university of this class [of poor country boys of Vermont and
Connecticut]...
Wsp 6.203 1 ...whether your community is made in
Jerusalem or in California...it coheres in a perfect ball.
CbW 6.255 18 I do not think very respectfully of the
designs or the doings of the people who went to California in 1849.
CbW 6.255 26 California gets peopled and subdued,
civilized in this immoral way...
CbW 6.256 11 The agencies by which events so grand as
the opening of California, of Texas, or Oregon...are effected, are
paltry...
CbW 6.272 1 ...if one comes who can...show
[men]...what gifts they have... he wakes in them the feeling of
worth... ... 'T is wonderful the effect on the company. They are not
the men they were. They have all been to California and all have come
back millionaires.
Ill 6.324 26 ...in the obscurest hamlet in Maine or
California, the same elements offer the same choices to each new
comer...
Civ 7.31 26 I see the immense material
prosperity...California quartz-mountains dumped down in New York to be
repiled architecturally alongshore from Canada to Cuba, and thence
westward to California again.
WD 7.161 22 When commerce is vastly enlarged,
California and Australia expose the gold it needs.
Res 8.143 14 The disgust of California has not been
able to drive nor kick the Chinaman back to his home;...
PC 8.227 25 To know in each social crisis how men
feel in Kansas, in California, the wise man waits for no mails, reads
no telegrams.
Grts 8.304 22 Young men think that the manly
character requires that they should go to California...
Grts 8.317 13 Bret Harte has pleased himself with
noting and recording the sudden virtue blazing in the wild reprobates
of the ranches and mines of California.
Thor 10.473 26 [Thoreau] was inquisitive about the
making of the stone arrow-head, and in his last days charged a youth
setting out for the Rocky Mountains to find an Indian who could tell
him that: It was well worth a visit to California to learn it.
War 11.158 27 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast
of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and
sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and
towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled. And had I not been
discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure. The
matter of most profit to me was a great ship of the king's, which I
took at California...
FSLC 11.201 2 [John Randolph's] words resounding ever
since from California to Oregon...come down now like the cry of Fate...
AKan 11.262 4 California, a few years ago...had the
best government that ever existed.
SMC 11.353 26 ...when you replace the love of family
or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the
state-line...burns as hotly in Kansas and California as in Boston...
SHC 11.433 24 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may
establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein
may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...and here
the vast firs of California and Oregon.
Californian, adj. (1)
Cour 7.278 1 In Californian mountains/ A hunter bold
was he [George Nidiver]:/ Keen his eye and sure his aim/ As any you
should see./
Californias, n. (1)
Pow 6.69 4 There are Oregons, Californias and
Exploring Expeditions enough appertaining to America to find [men of
this surcharge of arterial blood] in files to gnaw and in crocodiles to
eat.
Caliph Ali, n. (4)
MN 1.222 16 If knowledge, said Ali the Caliph,
calleth unto practice, well; if not, it goeth away.
Con 1.317 5 ...the vigor of...Mahomet, Ali and Omar
the Arabians... sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and
in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
SR 2.88 15 Thy lot or portion of life, said the
Caliph Ali, is seeking after thee;...
Aris 10.58 26 In his consciousness of deserving
success, the caliph Ali constantly neglected the ordinary means of
attaining it...
Caliph, n. (1)
Comc 8.172 21 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I
have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly. Thereat I grieved,
because, although I am Caliph...yet still I am so ugly; therefore have
I wept.
Caliph Omar, n. (1)
Con 1.317 5 ...the vigor of...Mahomet, Ali and Omar
the Arabians... sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and
in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
Caliph Omar's, n. (1)
MR 1.251 17 The Caliph Omar's walking-stick struck
more terror into those who saw it than another man's sword.
Caliph, Wacic the, n. (1)
Pray 12.351 20 Wacic the Caliph...ended his
life...with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity
one whose dignity is so transient.
call, n. (27)
Nat 1.31 27 At the call of a noble sentiment, again
the woods wave...
LE 1.157 27 ...of what worth the world is, and with
what emphasis it accosts the soul of man, such is the worth, such the
call of the scholar.
MR 1.228 3 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each
person whom I address has felt his own call to cast aside all evil
customs...
MR 1.249 2 The power which is at once spring and
regulator in all efforts of reform is the conviction that there is an
infinite worthiness in man, which will appear at the call of worth...
Tran 1.349 26 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found
that...from the courtesies of the academy and the college to the
conventions of the cotillon-room and the morning call, there is a
spirit of cowardly compromise...
Tran 1.351 12 If no call should come for years, for
centuries, then I know that the want of the Universe is the attestation
of faith by my abstinence.
Tran 1.356 15 Grave seniors insist on
[Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or morning or
evening call, which they resist as what does not concern them.
YA 1.386 17 Where is he who seeing a thousand
men...making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious
himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to
go and be their king?
SL 2.141 16 Every man has this call of the power to
do somewhat unique, and no man has any other call.
SL 2.141 17 The pretence that [a man] has another
call, a summons by name and personal election...is fanaticism...
ET12 5.213 6 Genius exists there [in the college]
also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of
Commons.
Ctr 6.163 2 If there is any great and good thing in
store for you, it will not come at the first or the second call...
SA 8.91 8 That every well-dressed lady or gentleman
should be at liberty to exceed ten minutes in his or her call on
serious people, shows a civilization still rude.
Elo2 8.126 26 ...we have all of us known men who
lose...their fancy, at any sudden call.
Schr 10.275 13 The hero rises out of all comparison
with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he...will oppose all
mankind at the call of that private and perfect Right and Beauty in
which he lives.
CSC 10.373 4 In the month of November, 1840, a
Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled...in obedience to a
call in the newspapers...
SlHr 10.437 15 The Homeric heroes, when they saw the
gods mingling in the fray, sheathed their swords. So did not [Samuel
Hoar] feel any call to make it a contest of personal strength with mobs
or nations;...
HDC 11.47 18 In these assemblies [New England
town-meetings], the public weal; the call of interest, duty, religion,
were heard;...
SMC 11.358 10 None of us can have forgotten how sharp
a test to try our peaceful people with, was the first call for troops
[in the Civil War].
FRO1 11.477 7 I came [to the Free Religious
Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee
meeting...and I supposed myself no longer subject to your call when I
saw this house.
Mem 12.106 18 [The bright school-girl's] is a
bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge, heaped together in a
huge hamper, without method, yet securely held, and ready to come at
call;...
call, v. (237)
Nat 1.24 15 The world thus exists to the soul to
satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end.
Nat 1.27 14 That which intellectually considered we
call Reason, considered in relation to nature, we call Spirit.
Nat 1.27 15 That which intellectually considered we
call Reason, considered in relation to nature, we call Spirit.
Nat 1.38 21 ...what is not hateful, [the foolish]
call the best.
Nat 1.47 10 It is a sufficient account of that
Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind...
Nat 1.47 12 It is a sufficient account of that
Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so
makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations,
which we call sun and moon...
Nat 1.61 21 Of that ineffable essence which we call
Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.
Nat 1.68 22 Each part may call the farthest,
brother;/...
Nat 1.76 13 ...you perhaps call [your house], a
cobbler's trade;...
DSA 1.124 23 The perception of this law of laws
awakens in the mind a sentiment which we call the religious
sentiment...
DSA 1.147 21 There are...persons...to whom all we
call art and artist, seems too nearly allied to show and by-ends...
DSA 1.148 8 ...[the commanders] with you are open to
the influx of the all-knowing Spirit, which annihilates...the little
shades and gradations of intelligence in compositions we call wiser and
wisest.
LE 1.155 3 The invitation to address you this
day...was a call so welcome that I made haste to obey it.
LE 1.179 24 The vulgar call good fortune that which
really is produced by the calculations of genius.
MN 1.203 12 The embryo does not more strive to be
man, than yonder burr of light we call a nebula tends to be a ring, a
comet, a globe, and parent of new stars.
MN 1.204 8 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that
impression nature makes on us is this, that...the whole...obeys that
redundancy or excess of life which in conscious beings we call ecstasy.
MN 1.210 24 ...as far as we can trace the natural
history of the soul, its health consists in the fulness of its
reception?-call it piety, call it veneration...
MR 1.243 18 The duty that every man...should call the
institutions of society to account...gains in emphasis if we look at
our modes of living.
LT 1.278 20 I must get with truth, though I should
never come to act, as you call it, with effect.
LT 1.284 9 ...we must pay for being too intellectual,
as they call it.
Con 1.308 16 I find this vast network, which you call
property, extended over the whole planet.
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.
Tran 1.334 3 [The idealist's] experience inclines him
to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing
perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...
Tran 1.335 7 I-this thought which is called I-is the
mould into which the world is poured like melted wax. The mould is
invisible, but the world betrays the shape of the mould. You call it
the power of circumstance, but it is the power of me.
Tran 1.349 1 What you call your fundamental
institutions...seem to [Transcendentalists] great abuses...
Tran 1.351 11 ...I can sit in a corner and perish (as
you call it), but I will not move until I have the highest command.
Tran 1.355 18 We call the Beautiful the highest,
because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the
good and the heartlessness of the true.
YA 1.376 19 The king is compelled to call in the aid
of his brothers and cousins and remote relations...
YA 1.376 24 ...this club of noblemen...combine to
brave the sovereign, and call in the aid of the people.
YA 1.387 17 I call upon you, young men, to obey your
heart and be the nobility of this land.
SR 2.64 6 The inquiry leads us to that source, at
once the essence of genius, of virtue, of life, which we
call...Instinct.
Comp 2.102 20 What we call retribution is the
universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears.
SL 2.140 11 ...that which I call right or goodness,
is the choice of my constitution;...
SL 2.140 13 ...that which I call heaven...is the
state or circumstance desirable to my constitution;...
SL 2.143 7 What we call obscure condition or vulgar
society is that condition and society whose poetry is not yet
written...
SL 2.161 6 We call the poet inactive, because he is
not a president...
Fdsp 2.194 3 Shall I not call God the Beautiful, who
daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts?
Fdsp 2.214 8 We are sure that we have all in us. We
go to Europe...or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these
will call it out...
Prd1 2.231 16 We call partial half-lights, by
courtesy, genius;...
Prd1 2.232 2 The man of talent affects to call his
transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial...
OS 2.268 9 I am constrained every moment to
acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
OS 2.271 2 What we commonly call man...does
not...represent himself, but misrepresents himself.
OS 2.276 26 ...these other souls, these separated
selves, draw me as nothing else can. They stir in me the new emotions
we call passion;...
OS 2.288 10 ...[scholars and authors] have a light
and know not whence it comes and call it their own;...
Cir 2.319 6 ...old age seems the only disease; all
others run into this one. We call it by many names...
Art1 2.367 12 [Men] reject life as prosaic, and
create a death which they call poetic.
Pt1 3.6 25 ...the Universe has three children...which
reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which
we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer.
Pt1 3.11 23 All that we call sacred history attests
that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
Pt1 3.21 13 [The poet] knows why the plain or meadow
of space was strown with these flowers we call suns and moons and
stars;...
Exp 3.46 15 All our days are so unprofitable while
they pass, that 't is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of
this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue.
Exp 3.57 12 We do what we must, and call it by the
best names we can...
Exp 3.73 8 I fully understand language, [Mencius]
said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor. I beg to ask what you
call vast-flowing vigor? said his companion.
Chr1 3.89 22 This is that which we call Character,--a
reserved force, which acts directly by presence and without means.
Chr1 3.98 10 What have I gained...that I do not
tremble before...the Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake at opinion,
the public opinion as we call it;...
Chr1 3.106 2 Two persons lately...have given me
occasion for thought. When I explored the source of their sanctity and
charm for the imagination, it seemed as if each answered, From my
non-conformity; I never listened to your people's law, or to what they
call their gospel...
Nat2 3.172 1 ...we receive glances from the heavenly
bodies, which call us to solitude...
Nat2 3.175 13 That [the rich] have some high-fenced
grove which they call a park; that they live in larger and
better-garnished saloons than he has visited...these make the
groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of
romance...
Pol1 3.221 8 I do not call to mind a single human
being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple
ground of his own moral nature.
NER 3.251 16 ...that the Church, or religious
party...is appearing...in very significant assemblies called Sabbath
and Bible Conventions;...meeting to call in question the authority of
the Sabbath...
NER 3.282 20 I am not pained that I cannot frame a
reply to the question, What is the operation we call Providence?
UGM 4.31 21 As to what we call the masses, and common
men,--there are no common men.
PPh 4.62 22 ...there is a science of sciences,--I
call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and
the true.
PNR 4.86 11 ...the fact of knowledge and ideas
reveals to [Plato] the fact of eternity; and the doctrine of
reminiscence he offers as the most probable particular explication.
Call that fanciful,--it matters not...
SwM 4.110 1 What we call gravitation, and fancy
ultimate, is one fork of a mightier stream for which we have yet no
name.
SwM 4.125 12 [To Swedenborg] Nothing can resist
states: every thing gravitates: like will to like: what we call poetic
justice takes effect on the spot.
MoS 4.183 11 I play with the miscellany of facts, and
take those superficial views which we call skepticism;...
NMW 4.230 21 That common-sense which no sooner
respects any end than it finds the means to effect it;...the prudence
with which all was seen and the energy with which all was done, make
[Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from
its extent, the modern party.
ET1 5.10 11 From London...I went to Highgate, and
wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to
him. It was near noon. Mr Coleridge sent a verbal message that he was
in bed, but if I would call after one o'clock he would see me.
ET1 5.20 28 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political
aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans...never
to call into action the physical strength of the people...
ET4 5.54 22 I found plenty of well-marked English
types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that
constitution. Others who might be Americans, for any thing that
appeared in their complexion or form; and their speech was much less
marked and their thought much less bound. We will call them Saxons.
ET13 5.229 18 Lord Shaftesbury calls the poor thieves
together and reads sermons to them, and they call it gas.
ET14 5.239 4 The rules of [idealism's] genesis or its
diffusion are not known. That knowledge...would supersede all that we
call science of the mind.
ET14 5.242 26 Not these particulars, but the mental
plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and
element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the
Elizabethan age...
F 6.19 8 These [laws of repression]...show a kind of
mechanical exactness... in what we call casual...events.
F 6.20 4 The element running through entire nature,
which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation.
Wth 6.100 4 The right merchant is one who has the
just average of faculties we call common-sense;...
Ctr 6.156 20 The high advantage of university life is
often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and
fire...
Bhr 6.169 14 The visible carriage or action of the
individual, as resulting from his organization and his will combined,
we call manners.
Bhr 6.180 24 There are eyes...that give no more
admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and
deep...others...seem to call out the police...
Wsp 6.212 5 ...they who pay this homage [to the
public sinner] have said to themselves, On the whole, we don't know
about this that you call honesty;...
Wsp 6.221 10 In us, [the law] is inspiration; out
there in nature we see its fatal strength. We call it the moral
sentiment.
CbW 6.246 5 We do what we must, and call it by the
best names.
CbW 6.247 24 The babe in arms is a channel through
which the energies we call fate, love and reason, visibly stream.
CbW 6.253 21 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles,
and as much as he could get. It was necessary to call the people
together by shorter, swifter ways,--and the House of Commons arose.
Bty 6.282 5 The boy had juster views when he gazed at
the shells on the beach or the flowers in the meadow, unable to call
them by their names, than the man in the pride of his nomenclature.
Bty 6.289 20 ...the mythologists tell us that Vulcan
was painted lame and Cupid blind, to call attention to the fact that
one was all limbs, and the other all eyes.
Civ 7.19 17 A nation that has no clothing...no
abstract thought, we call barbarous.
Civ 7.19 20 ...after many arts are invented or
imported, as among the Turks and Moorish nations, it is often a little
complaisant to call them civilized.
Civ 7.25 23 In man [the organs] are all unbound and
full of joyful action. With this unswaddling he receives the absolute
illumination we call Reason...
Civ 7.26 17 There can be no high civility without a
deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name...
Art2 7.50 10 In sculpture, did ever anybody call the
Apollo a fancy piece?
Elo1 7.65 9 Him we call an artist who shall play on
an assembly of men as a master on the keys of the piano...
DL 7.128 19 It has been finely added by Landor to his
definition of the great man, It is he who can call together the most
select company when it pleases him.
Farm 7.143 24 The eternal rocks, as we call them,
have held their oxygen or lime undiminished...
WD 7.183 23 ...the least acceleration of thought and
the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of
vast duration. We call it time; but when that acceleration and that
deepening take effect, it acquires another and higher name.
Boks 7.199 8 Here [in Plato] is that which is so
attractive to all men,--the literature of aristocracy shall I call
it?...
Boks 7.220 2 Is there any geography in these things
[sacred thoughts]? We call them Asiatic, we call them primeval;...
Boks 7.220 3 Is there any geography in these things
[sacred thoughts]? We call them Asiatic, we call them primeval;...
Suc 7.297 15 ...has [the scholar or writer] never
found that there is a better poetry hinted...in the piping of a
sparrow, than in all his literary results? We call it health.
OA 7.316 15 Whilst we yet call ourselves young...one
good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head...
OA 7.317 4 ...the essence of age is intellect.
Wherever that appears, we call it old.
OA 7.319 8 [The cup of time]...fills us with exalted
dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science...
PI 8.4 10 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of
matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay
here;...a warning that this magnificent hotel and conveniency we call
Nature is not final.
PI 8.5 18 I believe this conviction makes the charm
of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic,
without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not
less, as...in embryo and man; everything undressing and stealing away
from its old into new form, and nothing fast but those invisible cords
which we call laws...
PI 8.14 25 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the
central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no
real existence...
PI 8.28 13 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul...at
leisure plays with the resemblances and types, for amusement, and not
for its moral end, we call its action Fancy.
SA 8.105 12 Now society in towns is infested by
persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the
expression of them. These we call sentimentalists...
Elo2 8.117 16 The special ingredients of this force
[of eloquence] are... logic; imagination...and then a grand will,
which, when legitimate and abiding, we call character...
Elo2 8.121 3 In the church I call him only a good
reader who can read sense and poetry into any hymn in the hymn-book.
Elo2 8.124 2 In the vain and foolish exultation of
the heart...the pensive portress of Science shall call you to the sober
pleasures of her holy cell.
Elo2 8.125 4 The speech of the man in the street is
invariably strong, nor can you mend it by making it what you call
parliamentary.
Comc 8.158 2 ...the break of continuity in the
intellect, is comedy, and it announces itself physically in the
pleasant spasms we call laughter.
Comc 8.158 9 ...if there be phenomena in botany which
we call abortions, the abortion is also a function of Nature...
QO 8.190 4 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser
men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine?
Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher...
PC 8.214 15 In modern Europe, the Middle Ages were
called the Dark Ages. Who dares to call them so now?
PC 8.215 8 Even the races that we still call savage
or semi-savage... vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they
make their yam-cloths, pipes, bows...
PC 8.221 15 The first quality we know in matter is
centrality,-we call it gravity...
PC 8.222 14 We are told that in posting his books,
after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian,
when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that
empirical one...he was so agitated that he was forced to call in an
assistant to finish the computation.
PC 8.232 7 It was what we call plantation manners
which drove peaceable forgiving New England to emancipation without
phrase.
PPo 8.256 11 O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life
is thy perch;/ This nook of grief fits thee ill for a nest./ Hearken!
they call to thee down from the ramparts of heaven;/ I cannot divine
what holds thee here in a net./
Grts 8.301 11 I might call [the prize] completeness,
but that is later,- perhaps adjourned for ages. I prefer to call it
Greatness.
Grts 8.302 15 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or
Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not
the strong hand, but...the creation of laws, institutions, letters and
art. These we call by distinction the humanities;...
Grts 8.307 5 ...there is a teaching for [every man]
from within...and, the more it is trusted, separates and signalizes
him, while it makes him more important and necessary to society. We
call this specialty the bias of each individual.
Imtl 8.336 11 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 8.336 17 Will you...educate your children to be
adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce
a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
Imtl 8.340 6 I know not whence we draw the
assurance...of a life which shoots the gulf we call death...by so many
claims as from our intellectual history.
Dem1 10.8 4 We call the phantoms that rise [in
dreams], the creation of our fancy...
Dem1 10.12 14 The lovers...of what we call the occult
and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because
we are slow to accept their statement.
Dem1 10.26 18 [Adepts in occult facts] are...by laws
of kind,-dunces seeking dunces in the dark of what they call the
spiritual world,-preferring snores and gastric noises to the voice of
any muse.
Aris 10.41 27 In the heroic ages, as we call them,
the hero uniformly has some real talent.
Aris 10.66 1 Call it man of honor, or call it Man,
the American who would serve his country must learn the beauty and
honor of perseverance...
PerF 10.73 10 Whilst these [natural] forces act on us
from the outside and we are not in their counsel, we call them Fate.
PerF 10.73 14 ...in man that bias or direction of his
constitution is often as tyrannical as gravity. We call it
temperament...
Chr2 10.94 23 Compare all that we call
ourselves...with this deep of moral nature in which we lie...
Chr2 10.98 21 In the ever-returning hour of
reflection, [a man] says: I stand here glad at heart of all the
sympathies I can awaken and share...yet knowing that it is not in the
power of all who surround me to take from me the smallest thread I call
mine.
Chr2 10.103 21 ...the private or social practices we
establish in [the moral sentiment's] honor we call religion.
Edc1 10.132 17 Day creeps after day, each full of
facts...that we cannot enough despise,-call heavy, prosaic and desert.
Edc1 10.133 3 ...the event of each moment...the
passing of a beautiful face, the apoplexy of our neighbor, are all
tests to try our theory [of life], the approximate result we call
truth...
Edc1 10.144 2 ...I hear the outcry which replies to
this suggestion...would you leave the young child to the mad career of
his own passions and whimsies, and call this anarchy a respect for the
child's nature?
Supl 10.170 7 The farmers in the region do not call
particular summits... mountains, but only them 'ere rises...
SovE 10.193 22 To good men, as we call good men, this
doctrine of Trust is an unsounded secret.
SovE 10.193 26 ...[good men] have accepted the notion
of a mechanical supervision of human life, by which that certain
wonderful being whom they call God does take up their affairs where
their intelligence leaves them...
SovE 10.197 17 ...the good of the whole, or what I
call the right, makes me invulnerable.
Prch 10.224 7 All that we call religion, all that
saints and churches and Bibles...have aimed at, is to suppress this
impertinent surface-action...
Schr 10.280 22 The objection of men of the world to
what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at
present, is...that the idealistic views unfit their children for
business in their sense...
Plu 10.303 8 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another
example of the sacred care which...has drawn attention to what an
ancient might call the politeness of Fate...
LLNE 10.357 6 [Thoreau said] What you call bareness
and poverty, is to me simplicity.
EzRy 10.388 18 When Put Merriam...had the effrontery
to call on the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] as an old acquaintance, in the
midst of general conversation Mr. Frost came in...
MMEm 10.410 23 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God
has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your
fellow creatures. Go instantly and call Elizabeth till you find
[Elizabeth Hoar and her niece].
MMEm 10.422 5 We call [Time] by every name of
fleeting, dreaming, vaporing imagery.
Thor 10.456 3 [Thoreau]...required a little sense of
victory...to call his powers into full exercise.
Thor 10.479 16 It was so dry, you might call it wet.
LS 11.20 9 ...any act or meeting which tends to
awaken a pure thought, a flow of love, an original design of virtue, I
call a worthy, a true commemoration [of Jesus].
LVB 11.89 8 Each has the highest right to call your
[Van Buren's] attention to such subjects as are of a public nature...
LVB 11.93 8 ...how could we call the conspiracy that
should crush these poor [Cherokee] Indians our government...
EWI 11.145 5 ...in the great anthem which we call
history...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can
strike in with effect...
War 11.153 8 New territory, augmented numbers and
extended interests call out new virtues...
War 11.160 3 For ages...the human race has gone on
under the tyranny- shall I so call it?-of this first brutish form of
their effort to be men;...
FSLC 11.207 16 Shall we call a new Convention, or
will any expert statesman furnish us a plan for the summary or gradual
winding up of slavery, so far as the Republic is its patron?
FSLC 11.213 18 Let us not lie, not steal, nor help to
steal, and let us not call stealing by any fine name, as Union or
Patriotism.
AKan 11.259 26 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom,
fine names for an ugly thing. They call it otto of rose and lavender,-I
call it bilge-water.
AKan 11.259 27 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom,
fine names for an ugly thing. They call it otto of rose and lavender,-I
call it bilge-water.
AKan 11.259 27 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom,
fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I
call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man and the earnings of
his little girl and boy...
AKan 11.260 1 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom,
fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I
call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man and the earnings of
his little girl and boy...
ACiv 11.297 8 ...now here comes this conspiracy of
slavery,-they call it an institution, I call it a destitution...
EPro 11.317 22 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most
indulgent construction. Forget...every mistake, every delay. In the
extreme embarrassments of his part, call these endurance, wisdom,
magnanimity;...
SMC 11.372 15 If those writers could be here and
fight all day, and sleep in the trenches, and be called up several
times in the night by picket-firing, they would not call [the Army of
the Potomac] inactive.
SHC 11.429 7 Citizens and Friends: The committee to
whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town
[Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit
to call the inhabitants together...
SHC 11.430 10 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I
call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life
every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never
spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old
arts of preserving.
SHC 11.434 19 ...when I think of the mystery of
life...the speed of the changes of that glittering dream we call
existence,-I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there
upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insea of
foot-paths;...
ChiE 11.472 24 ...what we call the GOLDEN RULE of
Jesus, Confucius had uttered in the same terms five hundred years
before.
FRep 11.530 20 Never country had such a fortune, as
men call fortune, as this...
PLT 12.10 1 ...there is a certain beatitude,-I can
call it nothing less,-to which all men are entitled...
PLT 12.36 19 [Pan]...was not represented by any
outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such
homage did the Greek... pay to unscrutable force we call Instinct...
PLT 12.38 1 At a moment in our history the mind's eye
opens and we become aware...of rights, of duties, of thoughts,-a
thousand faces of one essence. We call the essence Truth;...
PLT 12.38 2 At a moment in our history the mind's eye
opens and we become aware...of rights, of duties, of thoughts,-a
thousand faces of one essence. We call the essence Truth; the
particular aspects of it we call thoughts.
CL 12.158 27 ...I have sometimes thought it would be
well to publish an Art of Walking, with Easy Lessons for Beginners.
These we call apprentices.
CL 12.159 8 Those who persist [in walking] from year
to year...and know... where the noblest landscapes are seen, and are
learning all the time;-these we call professors.
ACri 12.299 26 After Low Style and Compression what
the books call Metonomy is a principal power of rhetoric.
called, adj. (1)
SwM 4.95 14 ...the Persian poet exclaims to a soul of
this kind [of goodness],--Go boldly forth, and feast on being's
banquet;/ Thou art the called,--the rest admitted with thee./
called, v. (263)
Nat 1.15 3 The ancient Greeks called the world
kosmos, beauty.
Nat 1.43 21 ...architecture is called frozen music,
by De Stael and Goethe.
Nat 1.57 25 ...religion and ethics, which may be
fitly called the practice of ideas...have an analogous effect with all
lower culture...
Nat 1.58 26 ...[external beauty] is the frail and
weary weed, in which God dresses the soul which he has called into
time.
Nat 1.76 11 Adam called his house, heaven and
earth;...
Nat 1.76 12 ...Caesar called his house, Rome;...
AmS 1.98 26 ...these fits of easy transmission and
reflection, as Newton called them, are the law of nature...
AmS 1.107 14 Men...very naturally seek money or
power;...the spoils, so called, of office.
AmS 1.110 20 ...the same movement which effected the
elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in
literature a very marked...aspect.
DSA 1.140 5 Alas for the unhappy man that is called
to stand in the pulpit, and not give bread of life.
LE 1.163 19 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;...
LE 1.185 18 If...God have called any of you to
explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true.
MN 1.220 13 How all that is called talents and
success, in our noisy capitals, becomes buzz and din before this
man-worthiness!
MR 1.233 11 That is the vice,-that no one feels
himself called to act for man...
MR 1.240 5 ...we have now a puny, protected person,
guarded by walls and curtains...and he is now what is called a rich
man...
MR 1.248 20 If there are inconveniences and what is
called ruin in the way...yet it would be like dying of perfumes to sink
in the effort to re-attach the deeds of every day to the
holy...recesses of life.
LT 1.261 23 ...Dante and Milton painted in colossal
their platoons, and called them Heaven and Hell.
LT 1.264 9 ...in the wild hope of a mountain boy,
called by city boys very ignorant...is to be found that which shall
constitute the times to come...
LT 1.277 17 Those who are urging with most ardor what
are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are narrow...men...
Con 1.308 25 ...I feel called upon in behalf of
rational nature...to declare to you my opinion that if the Earth is
yours so also is it mine.
Tran 1.329 2 The first thing we have to say
respecting what are called new views here in New England...is, that
they are not new...
Tran 1.329 11 What is popularly called
Transcendentalism among us, is Idealism;...
Tran 1.335 4 I-this thought which is called I-is the
mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.
Tran 1.340 14 ...whatever belongs to the class of
intuitive thought is popularly called at the present day
Transcendental.
Tran 1.347 14 ...it is really...the wish to find
society for their hope and religion,-which prompts [Transcendentalists]
to shun what is called society.
Tran 1.351 16 Your virtuous projects, so called, do
not cheer me.
YA 1.380 14 ...the swelling cry of voices for the
education of the people indicates that Government has other offices
than those of banker and executioner. Witness...the whole Industrial
Statistics, so called.
YA 1.387 23 In every age of the world there has been
a leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for
the interests of general justice and humanity, at the risk of being
called...chimerical and fantastic.
YA 1.388 20 The 'opposition' papers, so called, are
on the same side.
SR 2.61 19 Scipio, Milton called the height of
Rome;...
SR 2.69 14 This which I think and feel underlay every
former state of life and circumstances, as it does underlie...what is
called life and what is called death.
SR 2.75 8 If any man consider the present aspects of
what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these
ethics.
SR 2.86 9 He who is really of [Phocion's, Socrates's]
class will not be called by their name...
Comp 2.106 10 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme
Mind;...
SL 2.140 8 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure
of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice
among men, and which is a partial act...and not a whole act of the man.
SL 2.155 14 ...now, every thing [the great man]
did...is called an institution.
Prd1 2.231 21 ...society is officered by men of
parts, as they are properly called...
OS 2.296 14 [The soul] is not called religious, but
it is innocent.
Int 2.329 10 As far as we can recall these ecstasies
[of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and
all men and all the ages confirm it. It is called truth.
Pt1 3.6 22 ...the Universe has three children...which
reappear under different names in every system of thought, whether they
be called cause, operation and effect; or, more poetically, Jove,
Pluto, Neptune;...
Pt1 3.26 5 This insight, which expresses itself by
what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing...
Exp 3.75 21 It is very unhappy...the discovery we
have made that we exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Man.
Mrs1 3.120 2 Again, the Bornoos have no proper names;
individuals are called after their height, thickness, or other
accidental quality...
Mrs1 3.153 13 Everything that is called fashion and
courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love.
Mrs1 3.155 4 It is easy to see that what is called by
distinction society and fashion has good laws as well as bad...
Mrs1 3.155 17 Minerva said...if you called [men] bad,
they would appear so; if you called them good, they would appear so;...
Mrs1 3.155 18 Minerva said...if you called [men] bad,
they would appear so; if you called them good, they would appear so;...
Nat2 3.174 1 Only as far as the masters of the world
have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of
magnificence.
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