Caron, Pierre Augustin to Catholics

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

Caron, Pierre Augustin [Be (3)

    Clbs 7.240 12 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent advocate?
    Clbs 7.240 16 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent advocate? The court appoints another censor, who shall crush it this time. Beaumarchais persuades him to defend it.
    Clbs 7.240 18 The court successively appoints three more severe inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of the play which is to bring in the Revolution.

carp, v. (1)

    ET12 5.213 3 It is easy to carp at colleges...

carpenter, n. (14)

    Nat 1.49 1 The broker...the carpenter...are much displeased at the intimation [that nature is more short-lived than spirit].
    SL 2.147 3 A chemist may tell his most precious secrets to a carpenter, and he shall be never the wiser...
    UGM 4.12 20 Every carpenter who shaves with a fore-plane borrows the genius of a forgotten inventor.
    ShP 4.201 6 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men. In the composition of such works...the mason, the carpenter, the merchant, the farmer, the fop, all think for us.
    Bty 6.291 10 ...the carpenter building a ship...is becoming to the wise eye.
    Civ 7.27 12 You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad-axe chopping upward chips from a beam.
    WD 7.157 21 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...
    Res 8.142 25 ...we begin to perforate and mould the old ball, as a carpenter does with wood.
    QO 8.199 17 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first geometer, bard, mason, carpenter, planter, shepherd...
    Aris 10.42 3 Ulysses in Homer is represented as a very skilful carpenter.
    Aris 10.48 23 In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand; if a mechanic, as carpenter or smith, twelve hundred or two thousand.
    CPL 11.501 21 There are utilitarians who prefer that Jesus should have wrought as a carpenter...
    PLT 12.57 16 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.
    MAng1 12.227 10 [Michelangelo] gave this model [of a movable platform] to a carpenter...

Carpenter, Nathaniel, n. (1)

    SovE 10.186 10 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter... It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).

Carpenter, William Benjamin (2)

    ET17 5.293 2 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...among the men of science...De la Beche, Hooker, Carpenter...
    F 6.12 18 ...with high magnifiers...Dr. Carpenter might come to distinguish in the embryo...this is a Whig...

carpenters, n. (3)

    ET5 5.76 22 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls... divine stevedores, carpenters, reapers, smiths and masons...
    ET5 5.80 14 ...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is...the logic of cooks, carpenters and chemists...
    Bty 6.296 1 ...all masons and carpenters work to repeat and preserve the agreeable forms...

carpenters', n. [carpenter's,] (4)

    MR 1.250 18 ...we cannot make a planet...by means of the best carpenters'... tools...
    Tran 1.358 9 In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only...carpenters' planes...but also some few finer instruments...
    Pt1 3.13 14 ...the carpenter's stretched cord, if you hold your ear close enough, is musical in the breeze.
    Bhr 6.189 18 No carpenter's rule...will measure the dimensions of any house or house-lot;...

carpentry, n. (2)

    Nat 1.63 2 Idealism is a hypothesis to account for nature by other principles than those of carpentry and chemistry.
    CL 12.160 26 When I look at natural structures...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry which has no sham...

carpet, adj. (1)

    PI 8.63 23 ...none of your carpet poets...will satisfy us.

carpet, n. (4)

    ET12 5.204 13 Oxford is a Greek factory, as Wilton mills weave carpet and Sheffield grinds steel.
    PPo 8.240 27 When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of green silk...
    PPo 8.241 4 When all [the troops and spirits] were in order, the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased...
    CW 12.179 8 ...when [the man] sees this annual reappearance of beautiful forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic...

carpet-bag, n. (1)

    Civ 7.28 9 Only one doubt occurred, one staggering objection,-- [Electricity] had no carpet-bag...

carpeted, v. (1)

    Wth 6.95 14 The world is his who has money to go over it. He arrives at the seashore and a sumptuous ship has floored and carpeted for him the stormy Atlantic...

carpeting, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.277 17 Within the enclosure [of Stonehenge] grow buttercups, nettles, and all around, wild thyme, daisy, meadowsweet, goldenrod, thistle and the carpeting grass.

carpet-mill, n. (1)

    FRep 11.511 12 The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic perfection; the carpet-mill, of mordants and dyes which exhaust the skill of the chemist;...

carpets, n. (11)

    MR 1.238 25 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...carpets...the son finds his hands full...
    MR 1.244 20 [Our friend] is accustomed to carpets...
    MR 1.244 23 [Our friend] is accustomed to carpets...and so we pile the floor with carpets.
    Con 1.315 15 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this on rich embroidered carpets...
    Nat2 3.183 11 ...let us be men instead of woodchucks and the oak and the elm shall gladly serve us, though we sit in chairs of ivory on carpets of silk.
    UGM 4.4 25 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets.
    WD 7.170 21 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor,--a matter of coins, coats and carpets...
    WD 7.171 10 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...these, not like a glass bead, or the coins or carpets, are given immeasurably to all.
    Supl 10.169 18 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets, coaches, dinners, wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you...
    FRep 11.539 26 ...if we have taught the river to make shoes and nails and carpets...let these wonders work for honest humanity...
    PLT 12.29 2 To the miller [Nature's] rivers whirl the wheel and weave carpets and broadcloth.

carping, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.357 7 [The strong spirits'] thought and emotion...quite withdraws them from all notice of these carping critics;...

carriage, adj. (1)

    ET10 5.158 7 Two centuries ago...the carriage wheels ran on wooden axles;...

carriage, n. (24)

    Lov1 2.175 15 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when the youth becomes...studious of a glove, a veil, a ribbon, or the wheels of a carriage;...
    Mrs1 3.138 17 Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs.
    UGM 4.15 17 [The people] delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk! What a front! what eyes! Atlantean shoulders, and the whole carriage heroic...
    ET1 5.15 3 ...being intent on delivering a letter which I had brought from Rome, [I] inquired for Craigenputtock. It was a farm in Nithsdale, in the parish of Dunscore, sixteen miles distant. No public coach passed near it, so I took a private carriage from the inn.
    ET6 5.108 17 ...nothing [can be] more firm and based in nature and sentiment than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes [in England].
    ET8 5.129 6 A Yorkshire mill-owner told me he had ridden more than once all the way from London to Leeds, in the first-class carriage, with the same persons, and no word exchanged.
    ET16 5.273 18 On Friday, 7th July, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the South Western Railway through Hampshire to Salisbury, where we found a carriage to convey us to Amesbury.
    ET16 5.276 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the train at Salisbury and took a carriage to Amesbury...
    ET16 5.286 19 At Bishopstoke we [Emerson and Carlyle] stopped, and found Mr. H[elps]., who received us in his carriage...
    Bhr 6.169 12 The visible carriage or action of the individual...we call manners.
    Wsp 6.203 13 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same instant, and the horses come up with the family carriage unbespoken to the door.
    CbW 6.266 26 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever?
    CbW 6.270 9 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away with,--not only the foolish pilot or driver, but everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
    Elo1 7.77 18 The newspapers, every week, report the adventures of some impudent swindler, who, by steadiness of carriage, duped those who should have known better.
    SA 8.84 4 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage...
    Comc 8.163 10 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity...
    Aris 10.40 11 ...if the finders of parallax, of new planets, of steam power for boat and carriage...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    SlHr 10.438 17 ...when...a deputation of gentlemen waited upon him in the hall to say they had come with the unanimous voice of the State to remove him by force, and the carriage was at the door, [Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    SlHr 10.443 25 Such was, in old age, the beauty of [Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made the same impression of probity on all beholders.
    Thor 10.465 27 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered than his refusals, they remind one...of that fop Brummel's reply to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will you ride, then?...
    FSLN 11.221 3 Mr. Webster had a natural ascendancy of aspect and carriage which distinguished him over all his contemporaries.
    ACiv 11.301 15 Here is a woman who has no other property [but slaves],- like a lady in Charleston I knew of, who owned fifteen sweeps and rode in her carriage.
    CPL 11.504 20 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte...tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...
    Milt1 12.257 10 [Milton's] manners and his carriage did him no injustice.

carriage-maker's, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.149 13 I have seen a carriage-maker's shop emptied of all its workmen into the street, to scrutinize a new pattern from New York.

carriages, n. (6)

    SR 2.87 6 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our...commissaries and carriages...
    ET10 5.157 25 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced...that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do; nor would they need anything but a pilot to steer them. Carriages also might be constructed to move with an incredible speed...
    DL 7.109 25 ...some things each man buys without hesitation; if it were only...conveyance in carriages and boats...
    PC 8.215 5 ...[Roger Bacon] announced...carriages, to move with incredible speed, without aid of animals;...
    MMEm 10.407 12 ...in the country, we converse so much more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else. The very sound of your bells and the rattling of the carriages have a tendency to divert selfishness.
    CW 12.175 17 Horses and carriages are costly toys...

carried, v. (92)

    SR 2.62 13 That popular fable of the sot...carried to the duke's house... symbolizes...the state of man...
    SL 2.152 21 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company. If we had reason to expect such a confidence we should go through all inconvenience and opposition. The sick would be carried in litters.
    Pt1 3.3 20 We were put into our bodies, as fire is put into a pan to be carried about;...
    Pt1 3.17 27 ...we choose the smallest box or case in which any needful utensil can be carried.
    Pt1 3.31 15 ...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;...
    Pt1 3.32 10 If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought...let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.
    Pt1 3.41 4 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael... resemble a mirror carried through the street, ready to render an image of every created thing.
    Chr1 3.102 1 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. ... All his action was tentative, a piece of the city carried out into the fields, and was the city still...
    Mrs1 3.149 17 I have seen an individual...who did not need the aid of a court-suit but carried the holiday in his eye;...
    Pol1 3.201 10 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war...
    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.
    NR 3.247 12 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine, put as if the ark of God were carried forward some furlongs, and planted there for the succor of the world, shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...
    NER 3.277 12 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine good, so that his fear, his coldness, his custom may be...melted and carried away in the great stream of good will.
    SwM 4.101 14 [Swedenborg] wore a sword when in full velvet dress, and, whenever he walked out, carried a gold-headed cane.
    MoS 4.154 14 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 4.185 14 ...by knaves as by martyrs the just cause is carried forward.
    ShP 4.213 21 [Shakespeare] carried his powerful execution into minute details...
    ET3 5.40 27 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was...by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure...by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.
    ET4 5.62 6 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when...in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet...and all the equipments from the Arsenal, and carried them to England.
    ET5 5.81 16 [The English] are bound to see their measure carried...
    ET5 5.90 4 Sir Samuel Romilly refused to speak in popular assemblies, confining himself to the House of Commons, where a measure can be carried by a speech.
    ET6 5.103 5 Machinery has been applied to all work [in England], and carried to such perfection that little is left for the men but to mind the engines...
    ET6 5.109 9 Nothing so much marks [Englishmen's] manners as the concentration on their household ties. This domesticity is carried into court and camp.
    ET10 5.160 2 The Norman historians recite that in 1067, William carried with him into Normandy, from England, more gold and silver than had ever before been seen in Gaul.
    ET11 5.175 2 He that will be a head, let him be a bridge, said the Welsh chief Benegridran, when he carried all his men over the river on his back.
    ET11 5.180 11 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford...know the man who...like the long line of his fathers, had carried that crag, that shore, dale, fen, or woodland, in his blood and manners.
    ET15 5.263 25 In 1820, [the London Times] adopted the cause of Queen Caroline, and carried it against the king.
    Wth 6.87 10 When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.
    Wth 6.90 6 ...[the human being] is successful, or his education is carried on just so far, as is the marriage of his faculties with nature...
    CbW 6.274 5 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you...have been carried in a neat equipage or in a ridiculous truck...
    Civ 7.22 17 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran and picked him up... and carried them to her mother...
    Elo1 7.71 15 ...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator...carried through a series of adventures furnishing brilliant opportunities to his talent?
    Elo1 7.83 26 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...carried audience, mourners and mourning along with him...
    Boks 7.219 27 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. ... These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry...to Siberia, Japan, Timbuctoo. Yet he will find that the spirit which is in them...was there already long before him. The missionary must be carried by it, and find it there, or he goes in vain.
    Clbs 7.238 26 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...
    Suc 7.286 3 Dr. Benjamin Rush, in Philadelphia, carried that city heroically through the yellow fever of the year 1793.
    Suc 7.286 5 Leverrier carried the Copernican system in his head...
    OA 7.331 3 Goethe himself carried this completion of studies to the highest point.
    PI 8.14 22 This belief that the higher use of the material world is to furnish us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind, is carried to its logical extreme by the Hindoos...
    PI 8.54 15 ...a verse is not a vehicle to carry a sentence as a jewel is carried in a case...
    PI 8.65 21 Dante was faithful [to Nature] when not carried away by his fierce hatreds.
    SA 8.93 4 If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in the speech of superior women;--which...carried ingenuity, character, wise counsel and affection...
    Elo2 8.116 27 [the orator]...surprises [the people]...with...his steady gaze at the new and future event whereof they had not thought, and they are... carried off out of all recollection of their malignant considerations...
    Res 8.146 5 [Tissenet]...explained to [the Indians]...that they did great wrong in wishing to harm him, who carried them all in his heart.
    Res 8.150 2 ...we learn that our doctrine of resources must be carried into higher application...
    Comc 8.163 27 ...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though unprovided of iron weapons...wounded their invaders with the boughs of trees which they carried...
    QO 8.198 15 [The man] carried the journal [containing the review of his pamphlet] with haste to the sympathizing Cousin Matilda...
    QO 8.198 20 ...what dismay when the good Matilda, pleased with [the author's] pleasure, confessed she had written the criticism, and carried it with her own hands to the post-office!
    PC 8.211 16 The correlation of forces and the polarization of light have carried us to sublime generalizations...
    Imtl 8.325 23 [The Greek] carried his arts to Rome, and built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii.
    Imtl 8.339 3 Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform,- suggesting a design still to be carried out;...
    Dem1 10.7 3 It was in this glance [at an animal] that Ovid got the hint of his metamorphoses; Calidasa of his transmigration of souls. For these fables are our own thoughts carried out.
    Dem1 10.8 18 [Dreams] are the maturation often of opinions not consciously carried out to statements...
    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...
    Aris 10.35 1 We...put faith...in the Republican principle carried out to the extremes of practice in universal suffrage...
    Edc1 10.140 22 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative...should be carried into the habit of the young man...
    Supl 10.175 23 Life could not be carried on except by fidelity and good earnest;...
    MoL 10.243 18 The subtle Hindoo, who carried religion to ecstasy and philosophy to idealism, produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
    Plu 10.318 24 That prince [Alexander] kept Homer's poems not only for himself under his pillow in his tent, but carried these for the delight of the Persian youth...
    LLNE 10.348 13 Fourier carried a whole French Revolution in his head...
    LLNE 10.352 26 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual, they seek to realize in the surrounding world. The value of Fourier's system is that it is a statement of such an order...carried outward into its correspondence in facts.
    LLNE 10.353 3 [Fourier's] mistake is that this particular order and series is to be imposed...on all men, and carried into rigid execution.
    LLNE 10.357 2 [Thoreau] was a good Abbot Samson, and carried a counsel in his breast.
    EzRy 10.388 3 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues.
    MMEm 10.400 5 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the the American army at Ticonderoga: he carried his infant daughter, before he went, to his mother in Malden...
    MMEm 10.428 21 Saladin caused his shroud to be made, and carried it to battle as his standard.
    SlHr 10.448 23 [Samuel Hoar] carried ceremony finely to the last.
    Thor 10.469 21 Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old music-book to press plants;...
    Carl 10.490 26 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle...
    Carl 10.498 4 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has carried himself erect...
    HDC 11.60 8 [Mary Shepherd] was carried captive into the Indian country...
    HDC 11.76 5 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
    HDC 11.78 19 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither; and 210 cords of wood were carried.
    HDC 11.84 14 If, at any time, in common with most of our towns, [our fathers] have carried this economy to the verge of a vice, it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.
    EWI 11.110 18 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe...
    War 11.153 20 [Alexander's conquest of the East] carried the arts and language and philosophy of the Greeks into the sluggish and barbarous nations of Persia, Assyria and India.
    War 11.170 27 This [aspiration towards peace] is not to be carried by public opinion...
    War 11.171 13 Nor...is the peace principle to be carried into effect by fear.
    JBB 11.271 10 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts that is true, but the moment he is carried out of the bounds of Massachusetts, the United States, it is notorious, afford no protection at all;...
    ALin 11.337 11 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which, with a slow but stern justice, carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...
    SMC 11.364 9 It looked very much like a severe thunder-storm, writes the captain [George Prescott] and I knew the men would all have to sleep out of doors, unless we carried [tent-poles].
    SMC 11.365 2 [George Prescott writes] The major had tried to discourage me;-said, perhaps, if I carried [tent-poles] over, some other company would get them;...
    SMC 11.373 10 [George Prescott] was carried off the field to the division hospital...
    Wom 11.420 6 ...all my points would sooner be carried in the State if women voted.
    FRO2 11.487 7 [Thought] is easily carried; it takes no room;...
    FRep 11.518 17 No [legislative] measure is attempted for itself, but the opinion of the people is courted in the first place, and the measures are perfunctorily carried through as secondary.
    FRep 11.529 3 We...are are defended from shocks now for a century by the facility with which through popular assemblies every necessary measure of reform can instantly be carried.
    II 12.80 5 All intellectual virtue consists in a reliance on Ideas. It must be carried with a certain magnificence.
    Mem 12.93 19 We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass, which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear plate every image that passes;...
    Bost 12.203 1 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which... fed the party and carried it...to victory.
    MAng1 12.239 24 It is more commendation to say, This was Michael Angelo's favorite, than to say, This was carried to Paris by Napoleon.
    ACri 12.288 12 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies.

carrier, n. (4)

    F 6.33 15 There's nothing [man] will not make his carrier.
    SA 8.92 20 You are to be missionary and carrier of all that is good and noble.
    Plu 10.318 20 The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the refinement of his pure tastes, making him the carrier of civilization into the East...endeared him to Plutarch.
    Trag 12.414 13 Time the consoler, Time the rich carrier of all changes, dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures...on our eye, new voices on our ear.

carriers, n. (4)

    MR 1.237 14 It is Smith himself, and his carriers...who have intercepted the sugar of the sugar...
    MoL 10.248 14 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...
    MoL 10.248 24 You [scholars] are carriers of ideas which are to fashion the mind and so the history of this breathing world, so as they shall be, and not otherwise.
    SMC 11.355 10 The armies mustered in the North were as much missionaries to the mind of the country as they were carriers of material force...

carries, v. (75)

    Nat 1.13 21 ...by means of steam, [man]...carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat.
    Nat 1.56 1 In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the memory...carries centuries of observation in a single formula.
    Nat 1.64 22 This [spiritual] view...carries upon its face the highest certificate of truth...
    LE 1.173 1 ...nothing is great,-not mighty Homer and Milton, beside the infinite Reason. It carries them away as a flood.
    Con 1.317 20 Yonder peasant...carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head...
    SR 2.58 20 The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also.
    SR 2.66 14 If...a man...carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him not.
    SR 2.81 21 [The traveller] carries ruins to ruins.
    Comp 2.121 21 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature.
    Lov1 2.169 13 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... carries him with a new sympathy into nature...
    OS 2.289 11 Shakspeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own;...
    OS 2.297 14 [Man] will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it...
    Cir 2.320 19 [The new position of the advancing man] carries in its bosom all the energies of the past...
    Art1 2.360 3 [Personal relations] were [the artist's] inspirations, and these are the effects he carries home to your heart and mind.
    Pt1 3.27 14 As the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world.
    Nat2 3.177 5 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity:...he carries a fowling-piece or a fishing-rod.
    Nat2 3.183 14 Man carries the world in his head...
    NER 3.284 5 ...the good globe is faithful, and carries us securely through the celestial spaces...
    SwM 4.135 13 Swedenborg and Behmen both failed by attaching themselves to the Christian symbol, instead of to the moral sentiment, which carries innumerable christianities, humanities, divinities, in its bosom.
    SwM 4.137 2 [Swedenborg] carries his controversial memory with him in his visits to the souls.
    ShP 4.190 15 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.
    ShP 4.202 15 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note...the man who carries the Saxon race in him by the inspiration which feeds him...
    ET1 5.9 16 Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of freak which the English delight to indulge...
    ET1 5.22 7 ...of poetry [Wordsworth] carries even hundreds of lines in his head before writing them.
    ET5 5.85 4 The admirable equipment of [Englishmen's] arctic ships carries London to the pole.
    ET5 5.96 9 No man [in England] can afford to walk, when the parliamentary-train carries him for a penny a mile.
    ET5 5.101 6 Every man [in England] carries the English system in his brain...
    ET5 5.101 9 The chancellor carries England on his mace...
    ET11 5.176 23 I have met somewhere with a historiette, which...carries a general truth.
    ET14 5.233 15 When [the Englishman] is intellectual, and a poet or a philosopher, he carries the same hard truth and the same keen machinery into the mental sphere.
    F 6.27 23 I know not whether there be...in the upper region of our atmosphere, a permanent westerly current which carries with it all atoms which rise to that height...
    Pow 6.65 25 In trade also this energy usually carries a trace of ferocity.
    Wth 6.86 27 [Coal] carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle;...
    Wth 6.87 5 ...coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta;...
    Wth 6.92 14 The mechanic at his bench carries a quiet heart and assured manners...
    Ctr 6.138 21 When [nature] has points to carry, she carries them.
    Ctr 6.146 4 ...let [the traveler] go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
    Bhr 6.181 10 ...each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men...
    Bhr 6.188 27 A man who is sure of his point, carries a broad and contented expression...
    Wsp 6.217 24 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.
    Wsp 6.223 25 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat...
    CbW 6.247 26 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with him...
    Ill 6.319 21 The intellect sees that every atom carries the whole of nature;...
    Elo1 7.90 10 [A trope] is a wonderful aid to the memory, which carries away the image and never loses it.
    Farm 7.152 22 [The farmer] carries out this cumulative preparation of means to their last effect.
    Suc 7.281 7 Who bides at home, nor looks abroad,/ Carries the eagles and masters the sword./
    OA 7.334 27 [John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences...but carries them invariably to a conclusion...
    PI 8.4 2 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person...never...carries a torch into a powder-mill...
    SA 8.80 14 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities...knows his way and carries his points.
    Res 8.145 2 ...no matter how remote from camp or city, [the old forester] carries Bangor with him.
    Res 8.149 16 In the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the torches which each traveller carries make a dismal funeral procession...
    QO 8.195 20 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in...Hallam, or other historian of literature. Their... citation of a passage, carries the sentimental value of a college diploma.
    PC 8.218 11 If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in spite of the Emperor;...
    PC 8.223 19 Mind carries the law;...
    PC 8.230 14 The Divine Nature carries on its administration by good men.
    Insp 8.271 1 In happy moments [thought]...carries out what were rude suggestions to larger scope...
    Grts 8.312 7 The day will come...when the eye, which carries in it planetary influences from all the stars, will indicate rank fast enough by exerting power.
    Grts 8.320 24 The man...who carries fate in his eye;-he it is whom we seek...
    Dem1 10.3 11 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms, and carries them asunder by wide spaces of land and sea...
    Chr2 10.110 2 Paganism...carries the bag, spends the treasure...
    Chr2 10.120 2 [Character] carries a superiority to all the accidents of life.
    Schr 10.277 7 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained:...the craft of mathematical combination, which carries a working-plan of the heavens and of the earth in a formula.
    Schr 10.277 21 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he is not only widely intelligent, but carries a council in his breast for the emergency of to-day;...
    MMEm 10.416 26 If more liberal views of the divine government make me [Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.
    Thor 10.483 1 The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
    HDC 11.85 14 Every moment carries us farther from the two great epochs of public principle, the Planting, and the Revolution of the colony [of Massachusetts Bay].
    EWI 11.144 3 ...if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him...
    FSLC 11.213 5 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their forts and factories have been set up,-represents London, represents the art, power and law of Europe. Every man educated at the Northern school carries the like advantages into the South.
    SMC 11.375 7 I hope the disuse of such medals or badges in this country only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil War], and carries their deeds in such lively remembrance that they require no badge or reminder.
    RBur 11.443 10 The memory of Burns,-every man's, every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs...
    PLT 12.47 23 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.
    Mem 12.106 8 ...I come to a bright school-girl who...carries thousands of nursery rhymes and all the poetry in all the readers, hymn-books, and pictorial ballads in her mind;...
    Mem 12.106 11 [The bright school-girl] carries [what she has memorized] so carelessly, it seems like the profusion of hair on the shock heads of all the village boys and village dogs;...
    ACri 12.304 2 Classic art is the art of necessity; organic; modern or romantic bears the stamp of caprice or chance. One is the product of inclination, of caprice, of haphazard; the other carries its law and necessity within itself.
    WSL 12.346 9 [Landor] exercises with a grandeur of spirit the office of writer, and carries it with an air of old and unquestionable nobility.

carrion, adj. (1)

    Comp 2.111 25 [Fear] is a carrion crow...

carrion, n. (4)

    MN 1.216 1 ...there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim...that if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion...
    SwM 4.125 11 [To Swedenborg] Each Satan appears to himself a man;...to the purified, a heap of carrion.
    SwM 4.138 21 ...the carrion in the sun will convert itself to grass and flowers;...
    Cour 7.276 2 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...

carry, v. (152)

    Nat 1.33 20 ...'T is hard to carry a full cup even;...
    Nat 1.77 3 As when the summer comes...the face of the earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit...carry with it the beauty it visits...
    AmS 1.93 1 ...He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
    AmS 1.106 6 I might not carry with me the feeling of my audience in stating my own belief.
    LE 1.178 20 Bonaparte represents truly a great recent revolution, which we in this country...shall carry to its farthest consummation.
    LE 1.183 16 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find...that he cannot make of his infrequent illumination a portable taper to carry whither he would...
    Tran 1.348 23 ...the good and wise must...carry salvation to the combatants and demagogues in the dusty arena below.
    YA 1.369 23 The vast majority of the people of this country live by the land, and carry its quality in their manners and opinions.
    SR 2.51 1 A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he.
    SR 2.81 17 He who travels...to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself...
    Comp 2.123 14 ...the harm that I sustain I carry about with me...
    Fdsp 2.194 25 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who carry out the world for me to new and noble depths...
    Fdsp 2.211 23 What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can.
    Fdsp 2.216 8 It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.
    OS 2.269 26 My words do not carry [the soul's] august sense;...
    Int 2.329 8 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result...
    Art1 2.358 22 Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
    Art1 2.359 9 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral nature...breathes from them all. That which we carry to them, the same we bring back more fairly illustrated in the memory.
    Art1 2.365 22 A true announcement of the law of creation...would carry art up into the kingdom of nature...
    Pt1 3.12 17 Oftener it falls that this winged man, who will carry me into the heaven, whirls me into mists...
    Pt1 3.17 9 ...there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
    Pt1 3.23 20 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...a fearless, vivacious offspring, clad with wings...which carry them fast and far...
    Exp 3.49 10 I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
    Exp 3.53 24 I carry the keys of my castle in my hand...
    Exp 3.66 2 ...to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.
    Exp 3.85 26 ...in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him.
    Chr1 3.91 20 The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say...
    Mrs1 3.132 25 A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him...
    Mrs1 3.133 7 If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his tail on!-But Vich Ian Vohr must always carry his belongings in some fashion...
    NER 3.253 2 ...the man must walk, wherever boats and locomotives will not carry him.
    NER 3.276 8 If [a man's constitution] cannot carry itself as it ought...it is time to undervalue what he has valued...
    UGM 4.23 11 Sword and staff, or talents sword-like or staff-like, carry on the work of the world.
    PPh 4.51 24 ...if we dare carry these generalizations a step higher, and name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization...and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...
    SwM 4.130 18 It is hard to carry a full cup;...
    SwM 4.140 14 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is to carry the law of surface into the plane of substance...
    SwM 4.140 16 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is...to carry individualism and its fopperies into the realm of essences and generals...
    MoS 4.151 13 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power, [men predisposed to morals] say, Why cumber ourselves with superfluous realizations?...
    NMW 4.223 13 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy, if any man is found to carry with him the power and affections of vast numbers, if Napoleon is France...it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
    NMW 4.234 11 Sire, General Clarke can not combine with General Junot, for the dreadful fire of the Austrian battery.--Let him carry the battery.
    ET4 5.60 27 [The Normans] were all alike, they took everything they could carry...
    ET5 5.90 8 Sir Robert Peel knew the Blue Books by heart. His colleagues and rivals carry Hansard in their heads.
    ET7 5.124 6 The Englishman who visits Mount Etna will carry his teakettle to the top.
    ET8 5.129 25 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained.
    ET8 5.132 12 [Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every nook and corner of the earth their turbulent sense;...
    ET9 5.149 13 ...the prestige of the English name warrants a certain confident bearing, which a Frenchman or Belgian could not carry.
    ET9 5.151 22 ...to wave our own flag at the dinner table or in the University is to carry the boisterous dulness of a fire-club into a polite circle.
    ET11 5.176 15 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...and who had any acquaintance in his family should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.
    F 6.14 7 ...if you could weigh bodily the tonnage of any hundred of the Whig and the Democratic party in a town on the Dearborn balance...you could predict with certainty which party would carry it.
    F 6.32 7 ...trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will...carry it like its own foam...
    F 6.33 20 Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should...carry the house away.
    Pow 6.53 5 There are men who by their sympathetic attractions carry nations with them...
    Pow 6.56 3 With adults, as with children, one class...whirl with the whirling world; the others...are only dragged in by the humor and vivacity of those who can carry a dead weight.
    Ctr 6.138 20 When [nature] has points to carry, she carries them.
    Ctr 6.163 20 Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who chides her disregard of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our poor Frankfort, I shall not carry things far.
    Ctr 6.165 15 We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization.
    Bhr 6.177 10 [Men] carry the liquor of life flowing up and down in these beautiful bottles...
    CbW 6.258 6 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on...some trade or politics of the hour, he...seems inspired and a godsend to those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.
    Bty 6.304 5 ...[chosen men and women's] face and manners carry a certain grandeur...
    Ill 6.315 9 We must not carry comity too far...
    Ill 6.316 19 Teague and his jade...learn something, and would carry themselves wiselier if they were now to begin.
    SS 7.8 1 ...each of these potentates [Dante, Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw well the reason of his exclusion. Solitary was he? Why, yes; but his society was limited only by the amount of brain nature appropriated in that age to carry on the government of the world.
    Civ 7.28 7 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity, and always going our way,--just the way we wanted to send [our letters]. Would he take a message? Just as lief as not;...would carry it in no time.
    Civ 7.28 10 Only one doubt occurred, one staggering objection,-- [Electricity] had...not so much as a mouth, to carry a letter.
    Civ 7.28 14 ...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
    Civ 7.31 12 Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies...
    Civ 7.33 7 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    Elo1 7.65 19 Bring [the master orator] to his audience...and they shall carry and execute that which he bids them.
    Elo1 7.79 27 He who has points to carry must hire, not a skilful attorney, but a commanding person.
    Elo1 7.90 18 Put the argument...into an image,--some hard phrase...which [the assembly] can...carry home with them,--and the cause is half won.
    Elo1 7.94 5 Fame of voice or of rhetoric will carry people a few times to hear a speaker;...
    DL 7.104 8 Carry [the nestler] out of doors,--he is overpowered by the light...
    Farm 7.141 11 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside... makes a fortune which he cannot carry away with him...
    Farm 7.146 6 ...there is no porter like Gravitation, who will bring down any weights which man cannot carry...
    WD 7.162 16 ...ships were built capacious enough to carry the people of a county.
    WD 7.168 15 ...if we do not use the gifts [the days] bring, they carry them as silently away.
    WD 7.181 24 We do not want factitious men, who can do any literary or professional feat, as, to...carry a measure, for money;...
    Boks 7.192 20 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    Boks 7.219 22 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry over prairie, desert and ocean...
    Cour 7.267 22 The llama that will carry a load if you caress him, will refuse food and die if he is scourged.
    Suc 7.292 17 ...we do not carry a counsel in our breasts, or do not know it;...
    Suc 7.308 4 Your theory is unimportant; but what new stock you can add to humanity, or how high you can carry life?
    OA 7.324 2 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent...
    OA 7.329 20 We carry in memory important anecdotes...
    PI 8.14 10 The aged Michel Angelo indicates his perpetual study as in boyhood,--I carry my satchel still.
    PI 8.31 4 Every writer is a skater, and must go partly where he would, and partly where the skates carry him;...
    PI 8.39 5 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry out and complete the metamorphosis...
    PI 8.54 14 ...a verse is not a vehicle to carry a sentence as a jewel is carried in a case...
    PI 8.67 1 A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men, who...carry it to their reasonable neighbors.
    Elo2 8.118 24 ...deep interest or sympathy...will carry the cold and fearful presently into self-possession and possession of the audience.
    Res 8.140 23 By his machines man...can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift;...
    Comc 8.173 11 ...what is fitter than that we should espouse and carry a principle against all opposition?
    PC 8.212 3 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    PC 8.231 9 We wish...to ordain...universal suffrage, believing that it will not carry us to mobs, or back to kings again.
    PC 8.232 6 In England, it was the game-laws which exasperated the farmers to carry the Reform Bill.
    Insp 8.271 6 ...[the poet] is made aware of a power to carry on and complete the metamorphosis of natural into spiritual facts.
    Insp 8.282 1 The wealth of the mind in this respect of seeing is like that of a looking-glass, which is never tired or worn by any multitude of objects which it reflects. You may carry it all round the world, it is ready and perfect as ever for new millions.
    Grts 8.309 15 If we should ask ourselves what is this self-respect, it would carry us to the highest problems.
    Imtl 8.333 21 When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.
    Imtl 8.344 5 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality...
    Aris 10.39 5 I wish catholic men...who carry the world in their thoughts;...
    Aris 10.49 11 I should like to see...every man made acquainted with the true number and weight of every adult citizen, and that he be placed where he belongs, with so much power confided to him as he could carry and use.
    Aris 10.50 23 ...[the public] forgot to ask the fourth question...without which the others do not avail. Has [the candidate] a will? Can he carry his points against opposition?
    Aris 10.53 7 A man who has that possession of his means and that magnetism that he can at all times carry the convictions of a public assembly, we must respect...
    Aris 10.61 3 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well;...
    PerF 10.74 18 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark; but by cunningly dividing the force, tapping the tempest for a little side-wind, he uses the monsters, and they carry him where he would go.
    Chr2 10.116 20 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly.
    SovE 10.213 23 A man who has accustomed himself...to carry his possessions, his relations to persons, and even his opinions, in his hand... has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
    Prch 10.236 3 ...we should...retire a moment to the grand secret we carry in our bosom, of inspiration from heaven.
    Schr 10.276 7 There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and our cargo across the sea.
    Schr 10.278 18 It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country with them.
    Schr 10.281 25 ...as we see the effrontery with which money and power carry their ends and ride over honesty and good meaning, patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts.
    Plu 10.303 25 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars, and carry a faint memory of the argument or general design of the chapter;...
    Plu 10.322 11 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of Plutarch]. If we could keep the secret, and communicate it only to a few chosen aspirants, we might confide that, by this noble infiltration, they would easily carry the victory over all competitors.
    MMEm 10.420 25 ...sometimes I [Mary Moody Emerson] fancy that I am emptied and peeled to carry some seed to the ignorant...
    Thor 10.465 21 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost to the Yellowstone River...
    Thor 10.472 11 ...[Thoreau] would carry you to the heron's haunt...
    HDC 11.78 18 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither;...
    War 11.165 10 ...when a truth appears...it will build fleets; it will carry over half Spain and half England;...
    War 11.167 22 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace] for better, for worse, carry it out to the end, and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle...
    War 11.168 26 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men.
    War 11.169 7 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them...men whose very look and voice carry the sentence of honor and shame;...
    War 11.170 24 The next season...the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...
    War 11.174 13 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand...
    FSLC 11.179 11 I wake in the morning with a painful sensation, which I carry about all day, and which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts...
    FSLC 11.201 18 [Webster] must learn...that those who have no points to carry that are not identical with public morals and generous civilization... disown him...
    FSLN 11.218 15 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city...
    FSLN 11.220 15 I saw that a great man [Webster]...was able,-fault of the total want of stamina in public men,-when he failed...to carry parties with him.
    AKan 11.260 24 Are there no women in that [Southern] country,-women, who always carry the conscience of a people?
    EPro 11.314 19 Come, East and West and North,/ By races, as snow-flakes,/ And carry my purpose forth,/ Which neither halts nor shakes./
    HCom 11.342 8 The revolutions carry their own points...
    SMC 11.364 12 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men, and unless he ordered me not to carry them, I should do so.
    SMC 11.364 18 [George Prescott writes] We only had about twelve men... and some of them have their heavy knapsacks and guns to carry, so could not carry any poles.
    SMC 11.369 19 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. I think we were very fortunate to save it at all, for...we had to carry him and all our wounded nearly two miles in blankets.
    Shak1 11.450 12 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket.
    ChiE 11.473 18 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has twice attempted to carry through Congress, requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
    FRep 11.517 17 One hundred years ago the American people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection.
    FRep 11.517 21 [The American people] are now proceeding...to carry out, not the bill of rights, but the bill of human duties.
    FRep 11.530 25 The spread eagle...must keep his wings to carry the thunderbolt when he is commanded.
    FRep 11.543 12 It is our part to carry out to the last the ends of liberty and justice.
    PLT 12.18 22 [The perceptions of the soul] are detached from their parent, they pass into other minds; ripened and unfolded by many they hasten to incarnate themselves in action, to take body, only to carry forward the will which sent them out.
    PLT 12.56 4 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to...carry a point.
    CW 12.175 7 ...a common spy-glass, which you carry in your pocket, will show the satellites of Jupiter...
    CW 12.176 20 A man should carry Nature in his head...
    CW 12.176 27 This is my ideal of the powers of wealth. Find out what lake or sea Agassiz wishes to explore, and offer to carry him there...
    CW 12.177 3 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...what district Dr. Gray has not found the plants of,-carry him;...
    Bost 12.203 15 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some John Adams and Josiah Quincy and Governor Andrew to undertake and carry the defence of patriots in the courts against the uproar of all the province;...
    Bost 12.209 10 [Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown, so long as [other cities] carry forward its life of civil and religious freedom...
    MAng1 12.238 9 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles] after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo]. Michael Angelo refused to receive them. Look you, Messer Michael Angelo, replied the man, these candles have well-nigh broken my arm, and I will not carry them back;...
    Milt1 12.278 13 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] was a sally of the extravagant spirit of the time...eager to carry on the standard of truth to new heights.
    Milt1 12.279 9 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who,...endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...
    ACri 12.291 21 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress...might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...
    PPr 12.380 20 Every reader [of Carlyle's Past and Present] shall carry away something.

carrying, v. (31)

    AmS 1.105 17 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men by the cheerful serenity of their carrying the matter, that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...
    MN 1.205 23 ...O rich and various Man!...carrying in thy senses the morning and the night and the unfathomable galaxy;...
    Lov1 2.178 19 ...[the maiden] indemnifies [the lover] by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal, large, mundane...
    Pol1 3.209 21 The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they... lash themselves to fury in the carrying of some local and momentary measure...
    Pol1 3.215 6 ...if, without carrying [my child] into the thought, I look over into his plot, and, guessing how it is with him, ordain this or that, he will never obey me.
    PNR 4.81 21 [Plato] represents...the power...of carrying up every fact to successive platforms...
    SwM 4.110 16 These grand rhymes or returns in nature,--the dear, best-known face startling us at every turn...and carrying up the semblance into divine forms,--delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    NMW 4.240 19 When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs. Balcombe, some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road...
    ET16 5.283 8 For the difficulty of handling and carrying stones of this size [of Stonehenge], the like is done in all cities, every day, with no other aid than horse-power.
    ET18 5.303 23 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon seed, with its instinct for liberty...
    F 6.28 6 Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.
    Pow 6.71 23 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world...
    Wth 6.109 22 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on;...
    Wth 6.120 23 The rule is not to dictate nor to insist on carrying out each of your schemes by ignorant wilfulness...
    Elo1 7.77 24 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound merchant, banker, judge...
    Farm 7.146 14 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and pores. By this agency, carrying in solution elements needful to every plant, the vegetable world exists.
    Suc 7.289 18 I could point to men in this country, of indispensable importance to the carrying on of American life, of this [egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare;...
    Grts 8.314 21 When one of his favorite schemes missed, [Napoleon] had the faculty of taking up his genius, as he said, and of carrying it somewhere else.
    Chr2 10.120 16 Confucius said one day to Ke Kang: Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.
    Edc1 10.130 13 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power;...and finding and carrying their law in his mind, can, as it were, see his simple idea realized up yonder in giddy distances...
    Schr 10.273 16 Other men are...heaving and carrying...
    Schr 10.277 4 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained: this memory carrying in its caves the pictures of all the past...
    EzRy 10.389 2 [Ezra Ripley] had...the patient, continuing courtesy, carrying out every respectful attention to the end, which marks what is called the manners of the old school.
    HDC 11.58 5 Philip...revenged his humiliation a few years after, by carrying fire and tomahawk into the English villages.
    FSLC 11.191 15 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset, wherein the dicta of Lords Talbot and Hardwicke had been cited, to the effect of carrying back the slave to the West Indies, said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    SMC 11.355 11 The armies mustered in the North...had the vast advantage of carrying whither they marched a higher civilization.
    SHC 11.429 3 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...
    FRep 11.538 24 ...if the spirit...could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful...lovers of men, filled...with the simple and sublime purpose of carrying out in private and in public action the desire and need of mankind.
    PLT 12.15 16 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes.
    Bost 12.202 24 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but the theorists and extremists...these men will...never tire in carrying their point.
    MAng1 12.231 10 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...

carrying-on, n. (1)

    PLT 12.59 25 The same course continues itself in the mind which we have witnessed in Nature, namely the carrying-on and completion of the metamorphosis from grub to worm, from worm to fly.

carrying-trade, n. (1)

    Wth 6.109 17 When the European wars threw the carrying-trade of the world, from 1800 to 1812, into American bottoms, a seizure was now and then made of an American ship.

cars, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.19 9 Nature adopts [the factory-village and the railway] very fast into her vital circles, and the gliding train of cars she loves like her own.
    ET10 5.156 17 Gentlemen do not hesitate to ride in the second-class cars [in England]...
    Wth 6.120 13 ...how can Cockayne, who has no pastures, and leaves his cottage daily in the cars at business hours, be pothered with fatting and killing oxen?
    EWI 11.123 13 ...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to trade. We peddle...we ride in cars...to market, and for the sale of goods.

cart, n. (10)

    Nat 1.51 8 In a camera obscura, the butcher's cart, and the figure of one of our own family amuse us.
    AmS 1.83 23 [The planter] sees his bushel and his cart...
    Prd1 2.235 3 ...keep the rake, says the haymaker, as nigh the scythe as you can, and the cart as nigh the rake.
    NER 3.252 27 The ox must be taken from the plough and the horse from the cart...
    ET8 5.135 1 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again, who lifts the cart out of the mire...but it is done in the dark and with muttered maledictions.
    ET11 5.196 13 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach, toil can travel in his cart.
    Bty 6.295 18 ...the flute is heard farther than the cart...
    Elo2 8.113 14 Whether he speaks in the Capitol or on a cart, [the orator] is the benefactor that lifts men above themselves...
    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...
    Thor 10.466 26 ...the conical heaps of small stones on the river-shallows, the huge nests of small fishes, one of which will sometimes overfill a cart;... were all known to [Thoreau]...

carte, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.452 7 [Periods fruitful of great men] are like the great wine years...which are not only noted in the carte of the table d'hote, but which, it is said, are always followed by new vivacity in the politics of Europe.

carted, v. (1)

    F 6.16 26 [The Germans and Irish] are ferried over the Atlantic and carted over America...

Cartesian, n. (1)

    UGM 4.29 26 Be another:...not a naturalist, but a Cartesian;...

cartilage, n. (2)

    ET6 5.108 9 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.
    Boks 7.211 13 ...[a dictionary] is full of suggestion,--the raw material of possible poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting, ligature and cartilage.

cartilages, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.110 24 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;--another, and he cannot speak, and the bones of his body seem to lose their cartilages;...

carting, v. (1)

    PerF 10.75 5 [The farmer] put his days into carting from the distant swamp the mountain of muck which has been trundled about until it now makes the cover of fruitful soil.

cart-load, n. (1)

    Farm 7.149 15 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles...

cart-loads, n. (1)

    ET12 5.201 14 I saw [at Oxford] the Ashmolean Museum, whither Elias Ashmole in 1682 sent twelve cart-loads of rarities.

cartoon, n. (2)

    MAng1 12.230 22 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming themselves;...
    MAng1 12.233 7 [Michelangelo] never made but one portrait (a cartoon of Messer Tommaso di Cavalieri)...

cartoons, n. (2)

    ET12 5.202 19 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo.
    MAng1 12.233 4 A little before he died, [Michelangelo] burned a great number of designs, sketches and cartoons made by him...

cart-path, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.114 9 The soul...finds in every cart-path of labor ways to heaven...

cartridges, n. (1)

    FRep 11.515 16 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then the cannon articulates its explosions with the voice of a man, then the rifle seconds the cannon and the fowling-piece the rifle, and the women make cartridges...and the better code of laws at last records the victory.

carts, n. (1)

    LVB 11.91 20 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to drag them over mountains and rivers...

cart-wheel, n. (1)

    Res 8.152 25 ...the cart-wheel in the road may crush [the willows];...

cart-wheels, n. (1)

    ACri 12.287 5 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk, his gallipots, and cook, and trencher, and cart-wheels...

Cartwright [Wheelwright, C. (1)

    Boks 7.201 26 Aristophanes is now very accessible...through the labors of Mitchell and Cartwright.

carve, v. (9)

    Con 1.312 26 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert,-acre, if you need land;-acre's worth, if you prefer to...carve...to the tilling of the soil.
    Art1 2.354 8 We carve and paint...as students of the mystery of Form.
    Art1 2.363 22 A man should find in [art] an outlet for his whole energy. He may paint and carve only as long as he can do that.
    PPh 4.73 2 ...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men, [Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or bad, for sale.
    ET4 5.48 23 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form.
    Pow 6.78 20 The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy learns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it...
    FRep 11.531 20 In this country...there is, at present...a headlong devotion... to the conquest of the continent,-to each man as large a share of the same as he can carve for himself...
    CInt 12.122 21 [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...
    MAng1 12.234 5 [Michelangelo] did not only build a divine temple, and paint and carve saints and prophets. He lived out the same inspiration.

carved, adj. (4)

    Con 1.315 16 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this...on marble floors, with...carved wood...about you?
    ET13 5.218 2 The carved and pictured chapel...made the parish-church [in England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.
    PC 8.215 12 Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage... vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their...boats and carved war-clubs.
    Edc1 10.145 24 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone...

carved, v. (9)

    Art1 2.354 9 We carve and paint, or we behold what is carved and painted, as students of the mystery of Form.
    ShP 4.194 14 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments...
    GoW 4.269 14 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... Every word was carved before his eyes into the earth and the sky;...
    ET6 5.107 17 ...within, [the Englishman's house] is wainscoted, carved, curtained...
    ET10 5.163 18 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the wood that Gibbons carved;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET13 5.215 3 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like removing it.
    SS 7.3 6 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that...he was convinced that the sculptor who carved it intended it for Memory...
    Art2 7.56 2 Who carved marble? The believing man, who wished to symbolize their gods to the waiting Greeks.
    Imtl 8.325 26 [The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers for immortal spirits.

Carver, John, n. (1)

    Bost 12.191 2 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can...wonder that Governor Carver had not better eyes than to stop on the Plymouth Sands.

carves, v. (4)

    Wth 6.97 14 They should own who can administer...they whose work carves out work for more...
    Art2 7.47 23 Nature...carves the best part of the statue...
    Art2 7.52 14 Raphael paints wisdom...Phidias carves it...
    Aris 10.42 5 [Ulysses]...carves a bedstead out of the trunk of a tree...

carving, n. (2)

    Hist 2.12 5 ...the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral.
    Art1 2.364 7 [Sculpture] was originally a useful art...and among a people possessed of a wonderful perception of form this childish carving was refined to the utmost splendor of effect.

carving, v. (3)

    AmS 1.97 17 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving shepherds...went out one day...and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees.
    YA 1.385 5 ...many people have a native skill for carving out business for many hands;...
    Hist 2.12 5 ...the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral.

Cary, Lucius [Lord Falklan (3)

    Mrs1 3.124 20 I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland...
    UGM 4.14 12 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden...of Falkland...
    DL 7.121 25 Nor can I resist the temptation of quoting so trite an instance as the noble housekeeping of Lord Falkland in Clarendon...

Caryatides, n. (1)

    Let 12.398 6 ...the noblest youths are in a few years converted into pale Caryatides...

Casaubon, Isaac, n. (2)

    ShP 4.203 11 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Theodore Beza, Isaac Casaubon...
    ET12 5.201 10 Isaac Casaubon...was admitted to Christ-Church [College, Oxford], in July, 1613.

cascade, n. (1)

    Comc 8.169 27 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...

cascades, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.414 27 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me...I weary of my pilgrimage,-tired that I must again be clothed in the grandeurs of winter, and anon be bedizened in flowers and cascades.

case, n. (59)

    Nat 1.37 6 Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided, - a care pretermitted in no single case.
    YA 1.368 15 ...the selection of a fit house-lot has the same advantage over an indifferent one, as the selection to a given employment of a man who has a genius for that work. In the last case the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice his equal...
    Hist 2.8 27 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself, and not deny his conviction that he is the court, and if England or Egypt have anything to say to him he will try the case;...
    Comp 2.124 25 ...the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case...
    Prd1 2.232 25 Tasso's is no unfrequent case in modern biography.
    OS 2.282 8 What was in the case of these remarkable persons a ravishment, has, in innumerable instances in common life, been exhibited in less striking manner.
    Pt1 3.17 26 ...we choose the smallest box or case in which any needful utensil can be carried.
    Exp 3.79 2 ...the intellect qualifies in our own case the moral judgments.
    Pol1 3.199 7 ...every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case;...
    Pol1 3.203 9 Gift, in one case, makes [property] as really the new owner's as labor made it the first owner's...
    Pol1 3.203 11 ...in the other case, of patrimony, the law makes an ownership which will be valid in each man's view according to the estimate which he sets on the public tranquillity.
    MoS 4.156 24 [The skeptic says] I neither affirm nor deny. I stand here to try the case.
    ShP 4.192 20 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it. He loses no time in idle experiments. Here is audience and expectation prepared. In the case of Shakspeare there is much more.
    NMW 4.238 13 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought little about what he should do in case of success...
    NMW 4.238 14 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought...a great deal about what he should do in case of a reverse of fortune.
    ET4 5.64 23 In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be accounted maritime;...
    ET7 5.125 3 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel...
    Pow 6.73 17 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the case admits.
    Wth 6.92 20 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust...but the determined youth saw in it an aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...
    CbW 6.270 13 For remedy, while the case [of the blockhead] is yet mild, I recommend phlegm and truth;...
    CbW 6.270 17 ...when the case [of the blockhead] is seated and malignant, the only safety is in amputation;...
    Farm 7.138 5 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum where, in case of mischance, to hide their poverty...
    Clbs 7.235 25 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man of eloquent tongue...
    Cour 7.268 27 The judge puts his mind to the tangle of contradictions in the case...and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
    Suc 7.292 14 The gravest and learnedest courts in this country...will wait months and years for a case to occur that can be tortured into a precedent...
    PI 8.32 1 ...[men of the world] admit the general truth, but they and their affair always constitute a case in bar of the statute.
    PI 8.32 10 ...so extreme were the times and manners of mankind, that you must admit miracles, for the times constituted a case.
    PI 8.54 15 ...a verse is not a vehicle to carry a sentence as a jewel is carried in a case...
    Elo2 8.129 18 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it?
    Comc 8.168 1 ...in the country we cannot find every day a case that agrees with the diagnosis of the books.
    Aris 10.50 5 When the lawyer tries his case in court he himself is also on trial...
    Edc1 10.152 15 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair. Each single case, the more it is considered, shows more to be done;...
    MMEm 10.404 16 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool. This in general, one case or so excepted, and even this is a relation to God through you.
    MMEm 10.409 24 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every actual case, 't is hard...
    MMEm 10.413 15 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction? But that is not the case, I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe.
    SlHr 10.442 9 [Samuel Hoar] had one side or the other of every important case...
    SlHr 10.444 26 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of his case.
    Carl 10.489 22 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people. That, and all his qualities, have a certain virulence, coupled though it be in his case with the utmost impatience of Christendom and Jewdom...
    EWI 11.102 20 [The negro slaves'] case was left out of the mind and out of the heart of their brothers.
    EWI 11.106 10 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
    EWI 11.106 19 ...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned again and again...
    EWI 11.106 27 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost; and in a case so odious as the condition of slaves, must be taken strictly...
    EWI 11.132 5 If the State has no power to defend its own people in its own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government? Are those men dumb? I am no lawyer, and cannot indicate the forms applicable to the case, but here is something which transcends all forms.
    EWI 11.140 14 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...
    EWI 11.140 23 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity? For they had no doubt...that the case of slaves was the same as if horses had been thrown overboard.
    EWI 11.140 25 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea...the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners: they had a right to do what they had done. Lord Mansfield is reported to have said on the bench, The matter left to the jury is,-Was it from necessity? For they had no doubt...that the case of slaves was the same as if horses had been thrown overboard. It is
    FSLC 11.191 12 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLC 11.198 8 What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly defined his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a reputable citizen to hold?
    AsSu 11.250 26 ...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...
    AKan 11.255 13 There is this peculiarity about the case of Kansas, that all the right is on one side.
    AKan 11.257 18 ...I submit that, in a case like this...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    ACiv 11.301 4 You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy. Why, The Edinburgh Review...made its case, forty years ago.
    ACiv 11.310 4 ...there is perpetual march and progress to ideas. But in either case [natural philsophy and history], no link of the chain can drop out.
    ALin 11.331 24 ...[Lincoln]...was excellent...in arguing his case and convincing you fairly and firmly.
    ALin 11.332 18 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember;...
    CInt 12.120 7 ...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...not the making a plausible case...
    ACri 12.291 15 Never say, I beg not to be misunderstood. It is only graceful in the case when you are afraid that what is called a better meaning will be taken, and you wish to insist on a worse;...
    AgMs 12.360 22 ...this [Agricultural Survey] was written for the literary men. But in that case, the state should not be taxed to pay for it.
    Trag 12.413 15 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge...who puts Nature and fortune on their merits: he will hear the case out, and then decide.

case-hardened, adj. (1)

    Carl 10.496 8 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men...so that when they come forth of them, they say... we have gone through all the degrees, and are case-hardened against the veracities of the Universe;...

Casella, Alfredo [Dante, D (1)

    SwM 4.127 6 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love, which, Dante says, Casella sang among the angels in Paradise;...

cases, n. (31)

    Nat 1.51 14 In these cases, by mechanical means, is suggested the difference between the observer and the spectacle...
    Nat 1.55 19 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles], that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature;...
    MR 1.233 17 ...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them, and they come forth from it. Such cases are becoming more numerous every year.
    Chr1 3.93 26 In all cases [character] is an extraordinary and incomputable agent.
    NER 3.253 26 No doubt there was plentiful vaporing, and cases of backsliding might occur.
    NER 3.265 25 The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a dollar, but he will be honest in the Senate, for we can bring public opinion to bear on him. Thus concert was the specific in all cases.
    ET17 5.291 5 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them.
    Pow 6.77 5 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day. There are cases where little can be said, and much must be done.
    Wsp 6.233 1 It is incredible what force the will has in such cases;...
    CbW 6.248 21 A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die,--quantities...of cases for a gun.
    SS 7.5 25 These conversations [with my friend] led me somewhat later to the knowledge of similar cases...
    Elo1 7.74 14 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be, in so many cases, nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly;...
    Elo1 7.87 7 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words... supposing cases...
    Elo1 7.92 18 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
    DL 7.103 4 The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and the father's house.
    PI 8.52 25 We do not enclose watches in wooden, but in crystal cases...
    Elo2 8.129 5 Lord Ashley, in 1696, while the bill for regulating trials in cases of high treason was pending, attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
    Comc 8.168 14 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie...
    Comc 8.170 17 Alike in all these cases...the majesty of man is violated.
    QO 8.189 19 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy. On the contrary, in far the greater number of cases the transaction is honorable to both.
    MMEm 10.413 22 The feverish lust of notice perhaps in all these cases would injure the heart of common refinement and virtue.
    HDC 11.30 20 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.
    EWI 11.104 12 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills; and, in cases of passion, a planter throwing his negro into a copper of boiling cane-juice,-if we saw these things with eyes, we too should wince.
    War 11.167 16 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the curious,-moral problems...
    War 11.169 20 In the second place, as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man;...
    War 11.169 21 ...as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man;...
    HCom 11.344 21 ...in how many cases it chanced, when the hero had fallen, they who came by night to his funeral, on the morrow returned to the war-path...
    FRep 11.521 8 ...we can all count the few cases...when a public man ventured to act as he thought...
    PLT 12.52 3 I am familiar with cases...wherein the vital force being insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared;...
    II 12.67 10 ...we must form the habit of preferring in all cases this guidance [of instinct], which is given as it is used.
    Let 12.402 18 In all the cases we have ever seen where people were supposed to suffer from too much wit...it turned out that they had not wit enough.

cashier, n. (1)

    Pow 6.58 13 The merchant works by book-keeper and cashier;...

cashmere, n. (1)

    F 6.10 20 You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere...

cask, n. (2)

    SwM 4.145 1 In the shipwreck, some cling to running rigging, some to cask and barrel...
    Wth 6.119 17 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask.

caskets, n. (2)

    Boks 7.192 11 ...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination,--not a choice out of three caskets, but out of half a million caskets, all alike.
    Boks 7.192 12 ...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination,--not a choice out of three caskets, but out of half a million caskets, all alike.

Cass, Lewis, n. (2)

    Imtl 8.332 9 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert. Any light, Lewis? None, replied he.
    AKan 11.255 23 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion; but his supporters in the Senate, Mr. Cass, Mr. Geyer, Mr. Hunter, speak out, and declare the intolerable atrocity of the code.

Cassandra, n. (3)

    MMEm 10.432 23 Cassandra uttered, to a frivolous, skeptical time, the arcana of the Gods...
    MMEm 10.432 25 ...it is easy to believe that Cassandra domesticated in a lady's house would have proved a troublesome boarder.
    FSLN 11.244 10 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...

Cassandras, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.188 25 I had received, said a sibyl, I had received at birth the fatal gift of penetration; and these Cassandras are always born.

Cassibelaunus, n. (1)

    ET4 5.48 18 ...the Briton of to-day is a very different person from Cassibelaunus or Ossian.

cassock, n. (1)

    Prch 10.228 24 ...Is a rich rogue made to feel his roguery among divines or literary men? No? Then 't is rogue again under the cassock.

cast, adj. (1)

    HCom 11.340 4 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./

cast, n. (11)

    AmS 1.109 21 ...the time is...Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought./
    Con 1.303 22 [The existing world] will stand until a better cast of the dice is made.
    Hsm1 2.245 12 In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...
    Exp 3.66 18 You love the boy...gazing at a drawing or a cast;...
    Pow 6.59 24 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him; for this is an affair...of aplomb: the opponent has...in every cast, the choice of weapon and mark;...
    Pow 6.65 14 These Hoosiers and Suckers are really better than the snivelling opposition. Their wrath is at least of a bold and manly cast.
    CbW 6.246 25 We have a debt...to those who have put life and fortune on the cast of an act of justice;...
    SS 7.3 2 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa...
    QO 8.189 7 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say;...
    Aris 10.42 21 The [ancient] chief is taller by a head than any of his tribe. Douglas can throw the bar a greater cast.
    Chr2 10.116 19 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions...

cast, v. (56)

    AmS 1.107 7 [The poor and the low] cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of a hero...
    DSA 1.146 6 ...cast behind you all conformity...
    MN 1.195 10 The festival of the intellect and the return to its source cast a strong light on the always interesting topics of Man and Nature.
    MN 1.215 6 To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the disciple]...meditates to cast himself into the arms of that society and manner of life which he had newly abandoned...
    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 1.256 18 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to cast all things behind...
    Tran 1.329 4 The first thing we have to say respecting what are called new views here in New England...is, that they are...the very oldest of thoughts cast into the mould of these new times.
    YA 1.372 15 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...the form...required to prevent the protuberances...even of lesser mountains cast up at any time by earthquakes, from continually deranging the axis of the earth.
    SR 2.44 1 Cast the bantling on the rocks.../
    SR 2.66 19 Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being?
    SR 2.74 27 ...it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity...
    Comp 2.100 2 Has [the man of genius] all that the world loves and admires and covets?--he must cast behind him their admiration...
    Comp 2.116 22 ...the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies became friends...
    SL 2.145 2 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards. ... Let them have their weight, and do not...cast about for illustration and facts more usual in literature.
    Fdsp 2.203 5 We cover up our thought from [our fellow-man] under a hundred folds. I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy cast off this drapery...
    Fdsp 2.210 27 Let [your friend] be to thee for ever...not a trivial conveniency to be soon outgrown and cast aside.
    Fdsp 2.211 26 Who set you to cast about what