Catilinarian to Centuples

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

Catilinarian, adj. (1)

    Trag 12.412 25 There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in some rude action; they betray their impatience of quiet by an irregular Catilinarian gait;...

Catiline, n. (1)

    Hist 2.5 22 ...I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon, Alcibiades, and Catiline.

cat-like, adj. (1)

    Prd1 2.227 21 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel. Herein he tastes... the cat-like love of garrets, presses and corn-chambers...

Cato, n. (6)

    Tran 1.337 6 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like Epaminondas and John de Witt; I would resolve on suicide like Cato;...
    DL 7.116 6 How was it with Aemilius and Cato?
    Cour 7.253 20 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown of the heroes of Greece and Rome...of Quintus Curtius, Cato and Regulus;...
    PC 8.220 9 In politics, mark the importance of minorities of one, as of... Cato...
    Plu 10.314 22 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him...to...his love...of heroes like Aristides, Phocion and Cato.
    Plu 10.318 13 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch, who told the story of Leonidas...of...Epaminondas, Caesar, Cato and the rest, sit as...laureate of the ancient world.

Catonis, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.437 19 ...when [Samuel Hoar] saw the day and the gods went against him, he withdrew, but with an unaltered belief. All was conquered praeter atrocem animum Catonis.

Catos, n. (2)

    Tran 1.339 16 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on despotic times, made patriot Catos and Brutuses;...
    Plu 10.291 4 ...Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,/ The Catos, the wise patriots of Rome,/ Shall flock to you and tarry by your side/ And comfort you with their high company./

cats, n. (4)

    PNR 4.89 27 Plato plays Providence a little with the baser sort, as people allow themselves with their dogs and cats.
    Cour 7.266 24 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which...does not feel itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in...cats.
    LLNE 10.348 12 A man is entitled...to the air of good conversation in his bringing up, and not, as we or so many of us, to the poor-smell and musty chambers, cats and fools.
    War 11.155 25 Idle and vacant minds want excitement, as all boys kill cats.

cat's, n. (1)

    Insp 8.273 23 To-day the electric machine will not work, no spark will pass; then presently the world is all a cat's back, all sparkle and shock.

cats'-cradles, n. (1)

    Hsm1. 2.252 12 What shall [heroism] say then to the sugar-plums and cats'-cradles... which rack the wit of all society?

Catskill Mountains, n. (1)

    Supl 10.170 4 Under the Catskill Mountains the boy in the steamboat said, Come up here, Tony; it looks pretty out-of-doors.

cattle, n. (41)

    Nat 1.32 2 At the call of a noble sentiment, again...the cattle low upon the mountains...
    MR 1.238 11 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as...a planted field by...the inroad of cattle;...
    MR 1.238 11 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as...a stock of cattle by hunger;...
    MR 1.238 24 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...cattle...the son finds his hands full...
    Hist 2.22 6 The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly, which drives the cattle mad...
    Hist 2.22 8 The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly, which drives the cattle mad, and so compels the tribe...to drive off the cattle to the higher sandy regions.
    Nat2 3.169 11 There are days which occur in this climate...when...the cattle that lie on the ground seem to have great and tranquil thoughts.
    Pol1 3.202 20 It seemed fit...that Laban and not Jacob should elect the officer who is to guard the sheep and cattle.
    NR 3.237 24 ...the frugal farmer takes care that his cattle shall eat down the rowen...
    ET5 5.95 1 The native [English] cattle are extinct, but the island is full of artificial breeds.
    ET5 5.95 7 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his sirloin. Stall-feeding makes sperm-mills of the cattle...
    ET11 5.188 16 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved...breeds of cattle elsewhere extinct.
    ET14 5.232 16 [The plain style] imports into [English] songs and ballads the smell of the earth, the breath of cattle...
    Pow 6.59 8 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    Wth 6.118 18 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring.
    Wth 6.118 20 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring. If the non-conformist or aesthetic farmer leaves out the cattle and does not also leave out the want which the cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by begging or stealing.
    Wth 6.118 21 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring. If the non-conformist or aesthetic farmer leaves out the cattle and does not also leave out the want which the cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by begging or stealing.
    CbW 6.274 5 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you have...good cattle and horses...
    OA 7.324 1 When the pleuro-pneumonia of the cows raged, the butchers said that...there never was a time when this disease did not occur among cattle.
    Elo2 8.113 25 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned in driving cattle to the hills...
    Elo2 8.114 7 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days...when he was the companion of the mountain cattle...
    PC 8.224 18 The good wit finds the law from a single observation,-the law, and its limitations, and its correspondences,-as the farmer finds his cattle by a footprint.
    Imtl 8.350 10 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose herds of cattle;...
    Dem1 10.28 10 The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste...unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.
    MoL 10.246 2 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support. After some time the question was, to know how many great cattle it would feed.
    HDC 11.35 8 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]... make a jest of pumpkins, for with this fruit the Lord was pleased to feed his people until their corn and cattle were increased.
    HDC 11.35 9 The great cost of cattle, and the sickening of [the pilgrims'] cattle upon such wild fodder as was never cut before;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    HDC 11.35 10 The great cost of cattle, and the sickening of [the pilgrims'] cattle upon such wild fodder as was never cut before;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    HDC 11.63 3 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers...make good advantage by their corn, cattle, poultry, butter and cheese.
    HDC 11.75 25 [the minute-men] supposed they had a right to their corn and their cattle...
    JBS 11.277 19 When [John Brown] was five years old his father emigrated to Ohio, and the boy was there set...to look after cattle and dress skins;...
    JBS 11.278 6 ...it chanced that in Pennsylvania, where he was sent by his father to collect cattle, [John Brown] fell in with a boy whom he heartily liked...
    JBS 11.278 15 ...[John Brown] was much considered in the family where he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.
    SHC 11.431 9 ...[trees] keep the earth habitable; their roots run down, like cattle, to the water-courses;...
    CL 12.137 17 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle...
    CL 12.148 6 Some English reformers thought the cattle made all this wide space necessary between house and house...
    ACri 12.305 5 Once in the fields with the lowing cattle...and I cannot tell whether this is Thessaly and Enna, or whether Concord and Acton.
    AgMs 12.361 15 The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to sell their cattle and their hay in the fall...
    AgMs 12.361 22 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November; but for me [Edmund Hosmer] to sell my cattle and my produce in the fall would be to sell my farm, for I should have no manure to renew a crop in the spring.

cattle-show, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.171 4 ...I had been present...in the country at a cattle-show dinner...

cattle-show, n. (2)

    Edc1 10.139 6 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the engine-house. They are there only for fun, and not knowing that they are at school, in the court-house, or the cattle-show, quite as much and more than they were, an hour ago, in the arithmetic class.
    PLT 12.25 14 I never hear a good speech at caucus or at cattle-show but it helps me...

cattle-shows, n. (1)

    AgMs 12.363 17 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and inconspicuous to State Commissioners. So with these premiums to farms, and premiums at cattle-shows.

Caucasian, adj. (5)

    Hist 2.39 25 Hear the rats in the wall, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus under foot, the lichen on the log. ... As old as the Caucasion man,--perhaps older,--these creatures have kept their counsel beside him...
    ET4 5.62 24 ...the rudiment of a structure matured in the tiger is said to be still found unabsorbed in the Caucasian man.
    ET13 5.216 6 [The priest...translated the sanctities of old hagiology into English virtues on English ground. It was a certain affirmative or aggressive state of the Caucasian races.
    LLNE 10.367 15 Don't you see, [Fourier] cried, that nothing so delights the young Caucasian child as dirt?
    LVB 11.90 14 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees]...to borrow and domesticate in the tribe the arts and customs of the Caucasian race.

Caucasus Mountains, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.31 16 ...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;...
    Aris 10.29 10 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...

caucus, n. (18)

    Tran 1.341 2 ...many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
    SL 2.135 21 When we come out of the caucus...[nature] says to us, So hot? my little Sir.
    Pt1 3.37 21 ...the newspaper and caucus...are flat and dull to dull people...
    Pol1 3.218 27 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and sweetness of his behavior, could he afford to circumvent the favor of the caucus and the press, and covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    ShP 4.192 3 ...as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king, prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the same time.
    GoW 4.266 15 It is believed...the negotiations of a caucus and the practising on the prejudices and facility of country-people to secure their votes in November,--is practical and commendable.
    Pow 6.64 26 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage.
    Clbs 7.235 13 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared; whether in...the caucus...or the chamber of science...
    Suc 7.290 16 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...a packed jury or caucus...
    Elo2 8.115 12 ...I think every one of us can remember when our first experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper of the first master of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear in the court-house or in the caucus.
    Aris 10.35 9 ...[the young adventurer] lends himself to each malignant party that assails what is eminent. He will one day know that...that neither the caucus, nor the newspaper...can avail to outlaw...or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.
    AsSu 11.249 1 [Charles Sumner] had not taken his degrees in the caucus and in hack politics.
    EdAd 11.385 13 There is no speech heard but that of auctioneers, newsboys, and the caucus.
    FRep 11.511 4 It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics that you must have a source higher than your tap. The mills, the shops, the theatre and the caucus...have all found out this secret.
    FRep 11.529 13 The government...knows the leaders of the humblest class. The President comes near enough to these; if he does not, the caucus does...
    FRep 11.531 4 Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United States, but some...caucus;...
    PLT 12.25 14 I never hear a good speech at caucus or at cattle-show but it helps me...
    CInt 12.120 12 ...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...strong by the strength of the facts themselves. Then the orator is still one of the audience, persuaded by the same reasons which persuade them;...not a wire-puller paid to manage the lobby and caucus.

caucuses, n. (5)

    ET16 5.286 27 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged, I bethought myself neither of caucuses nor congress...
    Edc1 10.138 17 I like...boys, who have the same liberal ticket of admission to all...town-meetings, caucuses, mobs, target-shootings, as flies have;...
    EWI 11.133 26 ...whilst our very amiable and very innocent representatives...at Washington are...very eloquent at dinners and at caucuses, there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
    SMC 11.354 24 The opinions of masses of men, which the tactics of primary caucuses and the proverbial timidity of trade had concealed, the [Civil] war discovered;...
    FRep 11.518 4 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians, who by means of newspapers and caucuses really thrust their unworthy minority into the place of the old aristocracy on the one side...

caught, v. (37)

    Nat 1.42 16 ...this moral sentiment...is caught by man...
    Nat 1.42 27 Who can guess...how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
    Nat 1.68 26 Nothing hath got so far/ But man hath caught and kept it as his prey;/...
    DSA 1.129 9 The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's lips...
    DSA 1.146 27 ...[all men] love to be caught up into the vision of principles.
    MN 1.209 19 That well-known voice...governs all men, and none ever caught a glimpse of its form.
    Comp 2.117 8 ...when the hunter came, [the stag's] feet saved him, and afterwards, caught in the thicket, his horns destroyed him.
    SL 2.132 18 These [problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like] are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping-coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe the cure.
    Lov1 2.170 15 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom, caught from a wandering spark out of another private heart, glows and enlarges...
    Int 2.339 17 I cannot see what you see, because I am caught up by a strong wind and blown so far in one direction that I am out of the hoop of your horizon.
    Pt1 3.26 26 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by...suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him; then he is caught up into the life of the Universe...
    Exp 3.54 15 I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity.
    Mrs1 3.126 16 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste.
    SwM 4.121 9 [Swedenborg...poorly tethers every symbol to a several ecclesiastic sense. The slippery Proteus is not so easily caught.
    NMW 4.256 3 It does not appear that [Napoleon] listened at key-holes, or at least that he was caught at it.
    ET1 5.12 9 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more, of which I only caught this, that the will was that by which a person is a person;...
    Ctr 6.164 21 ...these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.
    Bhr 6.185 9 Here is Elise, who caught cold in coming into the world and has always increased it since.
    CbW 6.256 4 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is rooted and grown. 'T is a decoy-duck; 't is tubs thrown to amuse the whale; but real ducks, and whales that yield oil, are caught.
    SS 7.12 4 A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned himself a boor; but whenever he caught them apart, and had one to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.
    PI 8.6 22 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against...
    PI 8.40 13 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception of means and materials...hitherto utterly unknown to him...
    Elo2 8.130 17 It was said of Robespierre's audience, that though they understood not the words, they understood a fury in the words, and caught the contagion.
    Comc 8.165 17 Smith...sent out a party into the swamp, caught an Indian, and sent him home in the first ship to London...
    QO 8.192 6 Wordsworth, as soon as he heard a good thing, caught it up...
    QO 8.193 20 Every word in the language has once been used happily. The ear, caught by that felicity, retains it...
    LLNE 10.334 2 The smallest anecdote of [Everett's] behavior or conversation was eagerly caught and repeated...
    MMEm 10.404 1 All [Mary Moody Emerson's] language was happy, but... unattainable by talent, as if caught from some dream.
    LS 11.6 21 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established...in a manner so slight, that the intention of commemorating it should not appear...to have caught the ear...of the only two among the twelve who wrote down what happened.
    FSLN 11.216 3 We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/
    EdAd 11.382 7 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men,/ Were unitarians of the united world,/ And, wheresoever their clear eye-beams fell,/ They caught the footsteps of the Same./
    FRep 11.522 27 [Americans] are carless of politics, because they do not entertain the possibility of being seriously caught in meshes of legislation.
    CInt 12.132 5 ...old men cannot see...the institutions, the laws under which they have lived, passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of your high calling...
    MLit 12.317 5 A selfish commerce and government have caught the eye and usurped the hand of the masses.
    MLit 12.333 22 ...all the hints of omnipresence and energy which we have caught, this man [the poet] should unfold, and constitute facts.
    Pray 12.351 5 Many men have contributed a single expression, a single word to the language of devotion, which is immediately caught and stereotyped in the prayers of their church and nation.
    EurB 12.375 15 Again and again we have been caught in that old foolish trap [the novel of costume of circumstance].

cauldron, n. (1)

    PI 8.59 5 [Taliessin says] Of an enemy,--The cauldron of the sea was bordered round by his land, but it would not boil the food of a coward./

caulk, v. (1)

    MR 1.238 18 A man...who builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy to caulk it...

causal, adj. (8)

    Hist 2.13 8 Genius studies the causal thought...
    Comp 2.103 3 The causal retribution is in the thing and is seen by the soul.
    ET14 5.245 4 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation...that the term cause and effect was loosely or gratuitously applied to what we know only as consecutive, not at all as causal.
    Ill 6.319 20 ...who has...come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series?
    PC 8.223 3 Shall we study the mathematics of the sphere, and not its causal essence also?
    Dem1 10.10 5 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few insignificant hints, when all are inspired with the same sense. As if one should exhaust his astonishment at the economy of his thumb-nail, and overlook the central causal miracle of his being a man.
    Thor 10.475 22 ...[Thoreau] have not the poetic temperament, he never lacks the causal thought...
    CInt 12.113 23 Archimedes disdained to apply himself to the useful arts, only to the liberal or the causal arts.

causal, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.8 27 [The poet] is...an utterer of the necessary and causal.

causality, n. (1)

    Pow 6.54 9 A belief in causality...characterizes all valuable minds...

causation, n. (4)

    SR 2.69 6 The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation...
    MoS 4.176 13 Are the opinions of a man...on fate and causation, at the mercy of a broken sleep or an indigestion?
    ET5 5.82 23 Their self-respect, their faith in causation...have given [the English] the leadership of the modern world.
    F 6.42 16 [Man] looks like a piece of luck, but is a piece of causation;...

causationists, n. (2)

    MoS 4.171 18 ...we are natural conservers and causationists...
    Pow 6.54 5 All successful men have agreed in one thing,--they were causationists.

Cause, Eternal, n. (1)

    MoS 4.186 11 ...let [a man] learn...that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause...

Cause, Final, n. (1)

    Nat 1.47 7 A noble doubt perpetually suggests itself, - whether this end [Discipline] be not the Final Cause of the Universe;...

Cause, First, n. (7)

    Exp 3.72 15 The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body;...
    UGM 4.35 3 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect. Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will. The opaque self becomes transparent with the light of the First Cause.
    Pow 6.74 21 [Many an artist] is up to nature and the First Cause in his thought.
    Art2 7.39 11 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no art; for what they do they do instinctively; but relatively to the Supreme Being, they have. And the same is true of all unconscious action: relatively to the doer, it is instinct, relatively to the First Cause, it is Art.
    WD 7.179 24 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday. Can he uncover the ligaments...which attach the dull men and things we know to the First Cause?
    Imtl 8.349 2 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God, God into him, until the last garment of egotism falls, and he is with God,-shares the will and the immensity of the First Cause.
    PLT 12.64 13 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting ourselves on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands...and ties the will of a child to the love of the First Cause.

cause, n. (211)

    Nat 1.12 1 Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result.
    Nat 1.24 26 [Beauty in nature] must stand...not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.
    Nat 1.35 19 ...every form [shall be] significant of [the world's] hidden life and final cause.
    Nat 1.61 12 ...[nature] is faithful to the cause whence it had its origin.
    Nat 1.69 15 All things unto our flesh are kind,/ In their descent and being; to our mind,/ In their ascent and cause./
    AmS 1.111 20 ...show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking...in these suburbs and extremities of nature;...
    AmS 1.111 25 ...let me see...the shop, the plough, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates...
    MN 1.199 25 Not the cause, but an ever novel effect, nature descends always from above.
    MN 1.200 17 Away, profane philosopher! seekest thou in nature the cause?
    MN 1.201 21 ...if...it be assumed that the final cause of the world is to make holy or wise or beautiful men, we see that it has not succeeded.
    MN 1.211 17 This ecstatical state seems to direct a regard...to the cause and not to the ends;...
    MN 1.213 8 By piety alone, by conversing with the cause of nature, is [man] safe and commands it.
    MN 1.214 5 ...because ecstasy is the law and cause of nature, you cannot interpret it in too high and deep a sense.
    MN 1.218 3 [Genius] looks to the cause and life...
    LT 1.276 13 [The Reformers] do not rely on precisely that strength which wins me to their cause;...
    LT 1.285 15 ...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness.
    LT 1.290 6 ...[the Moral Sentiment] wins the cause with juries;...
    Con 1.304 7 ...[the system of property and law] is the fruit of the same mysterious cause as the mineral or animal world.
    Con 1.314 20 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments, and espouses for the time the cause of man;...
    Con 1.320 15 The cause of education is urged in this country with the utmost earnestness...
    Tran 1.349 4 Each cause as it is called...becomes speedily a little shop...
    YA 1.390 15 We cannot give our life to the cause of the debtor...as another is doing;...
    YA 1.392 11 We are full of vanity, of which the most signal proof is our sensitiveness to foreign and especially English censure. One cause of this is our immense reading...
    Hist 2.12 17 Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance; others by...the relation of cause and effect.
    Hist 2.12 25 ...every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause...
    Hist 2.14 14 There is, at the surface [of history], infinite variety of things; at the centre there is simplicity of cause.
    SR 2.51 11 If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition... why should I not say to him, Go love thy infant;...
    SR 2.52 3 Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company.
    SR 2.56 8 ...the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause...
    SR 2.61 7 Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age;...
    SR 2.64 19 We first share the life by which things exist and afterwards... forget that we have shared their cause.
    SR 2.66 11 All things are dissolved to their centre by their cause...
    SR 2.71 6 ...let us sit at home with the cause.
    Comp 2.103 14 Cause and effect...cannot be severed;...
    Comp 2.103 16 Cause and effect...cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause...
    Lov1 2.181 20 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person, because it suggests to him the presence of that which indeed is within the beauty, and the cause of the beauty.
    Lov1 2.184 4 Cause and effect...predominate later...
    Fdsp 2.215 1 We must...admit or exclude [society] on the slightest cause.
    Prd1 2.228 9 If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
    Prd1 2.236 24 ...the proper administration of outward things will always rest on a just apprehension of their cause and origin;...
    OS 2.268 13 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I...not a cause but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water;...
    OS 2.272 1 ...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins.
    OS 2.284 20 ...the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect.
    Cir 2.303 6 ...ever, behind the coarse effect, is a fine cause...
    Cir 2.303 8 ...ever, behind the coarse effect, is a fine cause, which, being narrowly seen, is itself the effect of a finer cause.
    Cir 2.303 16 Nature...has a cause like all the rest;...
    Cir 2.305 27 The new statement...to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism. But the eye soon gets wonted to it, for the eye and it are effects of one cause;...
    Cir 2.314 21 Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
    Pt1 3.6 22 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought, whether they be called cause, operation and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune;...
    Exp 3.67 4 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we might...adjust ourselves, once for all, to the perfect calculation of the kingdom of known cause and effect.
    Exp 3.70 17 ...that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.
    Exp 3.70 26 Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts; they will one day be members, and obey one will. On that one will, on that secret cause, they nail our attention and hope.
    Exp 3.72 24 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this cause...
    Exp 3.72 25 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this cause, which refuses to be named,--ineffable cause...
    Exp 3.74 9 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is...the universal impulse to believe, that is...the principal fact in the history of the globe. Shall we describe this cause as that which works directly?
    Exp 3.83 20 The effect is deep and secular as the cause.
    Mrs1 3.122 8 There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation, because...the last effect is assumed by the senses as the cause.
    Mrs1 3.153 14 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before the cause and fountain of honor...namely the heart of love.
    Nat2 3.177 17 ...ordinarily, whether we are too clumsy for so subtle a topic, or from whatever cause, as soon as men begin to write on nature, they fall into euphuism.
    Nat2 3.179 11 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature... the quick cause before which all forms flee as the driven snows;...
    Nat2 3.187 17 ...the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans...
    Pol1 3.209 26 Of the two great parties which at this hour almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men.
    UGM 4.34 26 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect.
    PPh 4.48 9 The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects;...
    PPh 4.48 10 The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects; then for the cause of that;...
    PPh 4.48 11 The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects; then for the cause of that; and again the cause...
    PPh 4.48 20 Urged by an opposite necessity, the mind returns from the one to that which is not one, but other or many; from cause to effect;...
    PPh 4.56 22 To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose the universe.
    PPh 4.57 1 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer] wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself. Whosoever, taught by wise men, shall admit this as the prime cause of the origin and foundation of the world, will be in the truth.
    PPh 4.57 4 All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of every thing beautiful. This dogma animates and impersonates [Plato's] philosophy.
    PPh 4.71 3 Socrates, a man...of a personal homeliness so remarkable as to be a cause of wit in others...
    SwM 4.113 10 The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final cause gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing [of Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.120 17 A man is in general and in particular an organized... selfishness or gratitude. And the cause of this harmony [Swedenborg] assigned in the Arcana...
    MoS 4.149 17 [A man] sees the beauty of a human face, and searches the cause of that beauty, which must be more beautiful.
    MoS 4.170 9 Truth, or the connection between cause and effect, alone interests us.
    MoS 4.185 14 ...by knaves as by martyrs the just cause is carried forward.
    ET3 5.36 21 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause which has agitated the whole community...
    ET4 5.46 13 Is this [English] power due to their race, or to some other cause?
    ET4 5.63 18 The [English] public schools are charged with being bear-gardens of brutal strength, and are liked by the people for that cause.
    ET5 5.79 22 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
    ET5 5.99 21 [The English] embrace their cause with more tenacity than their life.
    ET6 5.104 1 It requires, men say, a good constitution to travel in Spain. I say as much of England, for other cause, simply on account of the vigor and brawn of the people.
    ET7 5.118 11 ...the cause is damaged in the [English] public opinion, on which any paltering can be fixed.
    ET10 5.166 10 The cause and spring of [England's wealth] is the wealth of temperament in the people.
    ET13 5.219 21 ...the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to [the Church's] support, from its inextricable connection with the cause of public order, with politics and with the funds.
    ET14 5.240 17 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied; and this I [Bacon] take to be a great cause that has hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage.
    ET14 5.245 1 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation, that no copula had been detected between any cause and effect, either in physics or in thought;...
    ET14 5.245 2 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation...that the term cause and effect was loosely or gratuitously applied to what we know only as consecutive, not at all as causal.
    ET14 5.248 19 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it... as an effect of the same cause which showed itself more pronounced afterwards in Hooke, Boyle and Halley.
    ET15 5.263 25 In 1820, [the London Times] adopted the cause of Queen Caroline, and carried it against the king.
    ET15 5.267 26 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy...availed themselves of [the writers'] younger energy and eloquence to plead the cause.
    ET15 5.271 4 ...the aspirants see that The [London] Times is one of the goods of fortune, not to be won but by winning their cause.
    F 6.33 3 ...every other pest is not less in the chain of cause and effect...
    F 6.40 25 ...we have not eyes sharp enough to descry the thread that ties cause and effect.
    Wth 6.100 13 [The right merchant] knows that all goes on the old road...for every effect a perfect cause...
    Ctr 6.132 14 A freemason, not long since, set out to explain to this country that the principal cause of the success of General Washington was the aid he derived from the freemasons.
    Bhr 6.186 12 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second...is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily found. People grow up and grow old under this infliction, and never suspect the truth, ascribing the solitude which acts on them very injuriously to any cause but the right one.
    Wsp 6.220 10 Strong men believe in cause and effect.
    Wsp 6.220 19 Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
    Bty 6.285 13 At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated?
    Elo1 7.76 16 ...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency,--a total and resultant power, and rare, because it requires a rich coincidence of powers, intellect, will, sympathy, organs and...good fortune in the cause.
    Elo1 7.86 1 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three or four stubborn words or phrases...which sink into the ear of all parties, and stick there, and determine the cause.
    Elo1 7.86 24 I remember long ago being attracted, by...the local importance of the cause, into the court-room.
    Elo1 7.90 19 Put the argument...into an image...and the cause is half won.
    Elo1 7.92 14 In transcendent eloquence, there was ever some crisis in affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the cause he pleads...
    Farm 7.137 19 ...the profession [of farming] has in all eyes its ancient charm, as standing nearest to God, the first cause.
    WD 7.181 24 We do not want factitious men, who can do any literary or professional feat, as, to...advocate a cause...for money;...
    Cour 7.256 7 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men.
    Cour 7.273 17 There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause...
    Cour 7.276 25 There is scope and cause and resistance enough for us in our proper work and circumstance.
    Suc 7.288 18 Cause and effect are a little tedious;...
    Suc 7.288 21 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...
    Suc 7.292 27 Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause...
    OA 7.324 5 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and we die without developing them...but if you are enfeebled by any cause, these sleeping seeds start and open.
    OA 7.325 24 A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the Supreme Court...
    PI 8.3 2 The perception of matter is made the common sense, and for cause.
    PI 8.28 7 Imagination respects the cause.
    PI 8.28 15 Lear...thinks every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own.
    PI 8.50 25 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    Elo2 8.129 13 ...[Lord Ashley] drew such an argument from his own confusion as more advantaged his cause that all the powers of eloquence could have done.
    Elo2 8.130 20 [Eloquence] leads us to...the men of character...and the cause they maintain borrows importance from an illustrious advocate.
    Elo2 8.130 23 If the cause be unfashionable, [the eloquent man] will make it fashionable.
    Elo2 8.131 8 [Eloquence] is...the unmistakable sign, never so casually given, in tone of voice, or manner, or word, that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him. But I say, provided your cause is really honest.
    PC 8.223 16 Nature is brute but as this soul quickens it; Nature, always the effect, mind the flowing cause.
    PC 8.230 3 Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
    PPo 8.236 12 ...[Saadi's] idle catches told the laws/ Holding Nature to her cause./
    PPo 8.256 26 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause enow for mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?/ Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./
    Insp 8.284 8 Plutarch affirms that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and the chief cause that excites this faculty and virtue is a certain temperature of air and winds.
    Grts 8.320 22 The man...who sees longevity in his cause;...he it is whom we seek...
    Imtl 8.344 24 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect which pervades Nature...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
    Dem1 10.8 7 ...every act, every thought, every cause, is bipolar...
    PerF 10.85 9 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will pay best...
    PerF 10.86 8 ...every change, every cause in Nature is nothing but a disguised missionary.
    PerF 10.88 5 ...the cause of right for which we labor never dies...
    Chr2 10.91 12 ...the moral cause of the world lies behind all else in the mind.
    Chr2 10.96 14 ...there is...many a man who does not hesitate to lay down his life...in the cause of his country...
    SovE 10.188 22 The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.
    SovE 10.211 26 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice from the circumstance to the cause;...
    Prch 10.232 20 We shall not very long have any part or lot in this earth... where we feel and speak so energetically of our country and our cause.
    Prch 10.234 2 ...new shop, or old cathedral, it is all one to [the deep observer]. He will find...as deep a cloud of mystery on the cause...
    Prch 10.238 2 We [in the Church] come...to open the upper eyes to the deep mystery of cause and effect...
    MoL 10.247 5 A scholar defending the cause of slavery...is a traitor to his profession.
    Schr 10.264 12 [The scholar] is...here to revere the dominion of a serene necessity and be its pupil and apprentice by tracing everything home to a cause;...
    Schr 10.271 23 ...[genius and virtue] are the First Good, of which Plato affirms that...it is the cause of everything beautiful.
    Schr 10.280 18 Society...is dazzled and deceived by the weapon [of talent], without inquiring into the cause for which it is drawn;...
    Schr 10.285 7 [Men of talent]...noisily persuade society that this thing which they do is the needful cause of all men.
    Plu 10.307 18 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who does not hesitate to say...The Sun is the cause that all men are ignorant of Apollo, by sense withdrawing the rational intellect from that which is to that which appears.
    LLNE 10.344 11 Theodore Parker was...the stout Reformer to urge and defend every cause of humanity with and for the humblest of mankind.
    CSC 10.375 2 The most daring innovators and the champions-until-death of the old cause sat side by side [at the Chardon Street Convention].
    SlHr 10.438 27 ...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
    SlHr 10.442 21 ...[Samuel Hoar]...would not argue a rotten cause;...
    SlHr 10.448 15 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to unpaid services of...the cause of Education, and specially of the University...
    Thor 10.457 21 [Thoreau] was a speaker and actor of the truth...and was ever running into dramatic situations from this cause.
    Carl 10.494 5 ...[Carlyle] detects in an instant if a man stands for any cause to which he is not born and organically committed.
    GSt 10.502 9 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown...
    GSt 10.504 23 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior, but never that his anger outlasted for a moment the mischief done or threatened to the good cause...
    GSt 10.505 18 When one remembers...his immovable convictions,-I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    HDC 11.61 5 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war. This is to be attributed no doubt, in part, to the fact that...it was the residence of many noted soldiers. Tradition finds another cause in the sanctity of its minister.
    HDC 11.76 21 If ever men in arms had a spotless cause, you [veterans of the battle of Concord] had.
    HDC 11.77 14 The cause of the Colonies was so much in [William Emerson's] heart that he did not cease to make it the subject of his preaching and his prayers...
    HDC 11.77 26 To promote the same cause [the American Revolution], [William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern army, at Ticonderoga...
    HDC 11.82 25 Two religious societies, of differing creed, dwell together [in Concord] in good understanding, both promoting, we hope, the cause of righteousness and love.
    LVB 11.95 25 A man [Van Buren] with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment.
    EWI 11.99 20 In this cause [emancipation], no man's weakness is any prejudice;...
    EWI 11.100 26 In this cause [emancipation], we must renounce our temper...
    EWI 11.107 5 We cannot say the cause set forth by this return is allowed or approved of by the laws of this kingdom [England];...
    EWI 11.127 18 It was a stately spectacle, to see the cause of human rights argued with so much patience and generosity...before that powerful people [the English].
    EWI 11.129 25 I could not see the great vision of the patriots and senators who have adopted the slave's cause...
    EWI 11.134 25 If the managers of our political parties are too prudent and too cold;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    EWI 11.136 24 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...so that this cause has had the power to draw to it every particle of talent and of worth in England...
    EWI 11.137 7 All men remember the subtlety and the fire of indignation which the Edinburgh Review contributed to the cause [of emancipation in the West Indies];...
    EWI 11.137 10 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
    EWI 11.137 24 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
    EWI 11.146 20 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes...those whose attention should be nailed to the grand objects of this cause [emancipation], so hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
    War 11.168 18 ...no man, it may be presumed, ever embraced the cause of peace and philanthropy for the sole end and satisfaction of being plundered and slain.
    War 11.171 3 ...the only hope of this cause [of peace] is in the increased insight...
    War 11.171 17 The manhood that has been in war must be transferred to the cause of peace...
    War 11.174 6 The cause of peace is not the cause of cowardice.
    FSLN 11.222 19 ...[Webster's] splendid wrath...was the wrath of the fact and the cause he stood for.
    FSLN 11.234 27 To make good the cause of Freedom, you must draw off from all foolish trust in others.
    AKan 11.255 20 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion;...
    TPar 11.287 26 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind, in which they beheld their own opinions combined with zeal in every cause of love and humanity, they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them...
    TPar 11.288 23 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston]; who threw himself into the cause of humanity...
    TPar 11.291 11 I can readily forgive [silence], only not the other, the false tongue which makes the worse appear the better cause.
    ACiv 11.300 6 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions, and you still...abstain from striking at the cause.
    ACiv 11.308 19 ...this action [emancipation]...rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery], the cause of war and ruin to nations.
    EPro 11.321 27 The cause of disunion and war has been reached and begun to be removed [by the Emancipation Proclamation].
    EPro 11.325 12 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis. Then...the cause of war being removed, Nature and trade may be trusted to establish a lasting peace.
    SMC 11.359 25 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...a serious devotion to the cause of the country that never swerved...
    Koss 11.399 3 We [people of Concord] have seen that you [Kossuth] are organically in that cause you plead.
    Scot 11.466 1 [Scott] saw...in his own reading and research such store of legend and renown as won his imagination to their cause.
    FRO2 11.488 21 ...[miraculous dispensation] is contrary to that law of Nature which all wise men recognize; namely, never to require a larger cause than is necessary to the effect.
    CPL 11.508 21 ...I am pleading a cause which in the event of this day [opening of the Concord Library] has already won...
    FRep 11.520 7 You rally to the support of old charities and the cause of literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of politicians].
    PLT 12.28 12 Wherever there is health, that is, consent to the cause and constitution of the universe, there is perception and power.
    PLT 12.43 2 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...sees so truly the omnipresence of eternal cause that he can convert the daily and hourly event of New York, of Boston, into universal symbols.
    Mem 12.96 9 The mind disposes all its experience...to its ruling end; one man by puns and one by cause and effect...
    Mem 12.96 27 ...one [man] rarely takes an interest in how the facts really stand, in the order of cause and effect, without self-reference. This is an intellectual man.
    CInt 12.113 10 Here [in the college], is, or should be, the majesty of reason and the creative cause;...
    CInt 12.114 26 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...and the fact argues a just confidence in the grandeur and self-subsistency of the cause of religious liberty which made all material war an impertinence.
    CInt 12.118 3 Never was pure valor...shown in a bad cause.
    CInt 12.120 14 [Demosthenes] wins his cause honestly.
    CInt 12.122 3 There are bad books and false teachers and corrupt judges; and in the institutions of education a want of faith in their own cause.
    CInt 12.129 18 Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances that afflict you. He will find the circumstances not altered; as deep a cloud of mystery on the cause...
    CL 12.141 9 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the future. If it be true that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and that the chief cause that excites that faculty is a certain temperature of the air and winds, etc.
    Bost 12.184 16 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air, when, as true philosophers, we must believe that chemical atoms also have their spiritual cause why they are thus and not other;...
    Milt1 12.265 6 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion and our country' s liberty...
    MLit 12.324 19 This is the secret of that deep realism, which went about among all objects [Goethe] beheld, to find the cause why they must be what they are.
    MLit 12.329 24 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...every keen beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister], and will acquit me of prejudging the cause of humanity by painting it with this morose fidelity.
    Let 12.398 20 From this cause, companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...
    Let 12.404 11 As far as our correspondents have entangled their private griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage themselves as fast as possible.

Cause, n. (9)

    SR 2.89 21 ...do thou...deal with Cause and Effect...
    Imtl 8.334 12 To breathe, to sleep, is wonderful. But never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will!
    Dem1 10.9 5 We are let by this experience [of dreams] into the high region of Cause...
    MMEm 10.415 17 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I led thee when thou knewest not a syllable of my active Cause...to that Cause;...
    MMEm 10.415 19 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I led thee when thou knewest not a syllable of my active Cause...to that Cause;...
    Thor 10.477 2 [Thoreau's] habitual thought makes all his poetry a hymn to the Cause of causes...
    Carl 10.487 2 Hold with the Maker, not the Made,/ Sit with the Cause, or grim or glad./
    Wom 11.416 6 ...that Cause [antagonism to Slavery] turned out to be a great scholar.
    ACri 12.293 11 We are now offended with Standpoint, Myth, Subjective, the Good and the True and the Cause.

Cause of Causes, n. (1)

    Res 8.138 24 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things...we are full of good will and gratitude to the Cause of Causes.

Cause, Original, n. (1)

    Nat 1.31 10 [This imagery] is the working of the Original Cause through the instruments he has already made.

Cause, Supreme, n. (1)

    SR 2.70 15 Self-existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause...

cause, v. (20)

    LE 1.161 9 ...see how much you would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...and cause them not to be.
    MN 1.213 2 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child, and, if they can, cause their nature to pass through his wondering eyes into him...
    YA 1.368 5 A little grove, which any farmer can find or cause to grow near his house, will in a few years make cataracts...quite unnecessary to his scenery;...
    Cir 2.310 9 The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon, and which cause the present order of things...
    ShP 4.202 14 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 founder of another dynasty, which alone will cause the Tudor dynasty to be remembered...
    ET8 5.132 27 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the terror they cause.
    ET11 5.195 27 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men.
    Pow 6.74 8 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,-- all are distractions which cause oscillations in our giddy balloon...
    Insp 8.273 19 A fuller inspiration should cause the point to flow and become a line...
    Aris 10.42 11 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights...to be returned.
    LLNE 10.350 6 Attractive Industry...would...cause the earth to yield healthy imponderable fluids to the solar system...
    HDC 11.28 9 I cause from every creature/ His proper good to flow:/ As much as he is and doeth,/ So much he shall bestow./
    EWI 11.118 20 We sometimes observe that spoiled children...seem to measure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause.
    War 11.166 9 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...
    ALin 11.329 9 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...
    CInt 12.116 12 ...if [colleges] could cause that a mind not profound should become profound,-we should all rush to their gates;...
    CL 12.156 21 Where is he who is to save the perfect moment, and cause that this beauty shall not be lost?
    Milt1 12.265 1 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read...
    MLit 12.317 22 There are facts...which drive young men into gardens and solitary places, and cause extravagant gestures, starts, distortions of the countenance and passionate exclamations;...
    MLit 12.331 22 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones which cause to vibrate the sun and the moon...

caused, v. (23)

    Nat 1.21 14 Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of London, caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets of the city...
    AmS 1.92 2 We read the verses of one of the great English poets...with a pleasure...which is in great part caused by the abstraction of all time from their verses.
    MN 1.208 25 Whilst a necessity so great caused the man to exist, his health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act.
    MR 1.232 1 In the Spanish islands, every agent or factor of the Americans... has taken oath that he is a Catholic, or has caused a priest to make that declaration for him.
    MoS 4.169 14 When [Montaigne] came to die he caused the mass to be celebrated in his chamber.
    ET5 5.96 21 The Board of Trade [of England] caused the best models of Greece and Italy to be placed within the reach of every manufacturing population.
    ET5 5.96 23 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to be translated from foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most approved works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.
    ET11 5.175 16 Of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, the Emperor told Henry V. that no Christian king had such another knight for wisdom, nurture and manhood, and caused him to be named, Father of curtesie.
    ET12 5.202 4 I saw the school-court or quadrangle [at Oxford] where, in 1683, the Convocation caused the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes to be publicly burnt.
    ET13 5.220 7 Heats and genial periods arrive in history, or, shall we say, plenitudes of Divine Presence, by which high tides are caused in the human spirit...
    ET16 5.284 9 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...where he conversed with Lord Brooke...who caused to be engraved on his tombstone, Here lies Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, the friend of Sir Philip Sidney.
    Imtl 8.328 17 A wise man in our time caused to be written on his tomb, Think on living.
    MoL 10.255 22 We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the artist, which caused him to make it so as he did, and not otherwise;...
    LLNE 10.350 13 ...the good Fourier knew what those creatures [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] should have been, had not the mould slipped, through the bad state of the atmosphere; caused no doubt by the same vicious imponderable fluids.
    MMEm 10.428 20 Saladin caused his shroud to be made, and carried it to battle as his standard.
    SlHr 10.439 14 It was rather his reputation for severe method in his intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University...
    HDC 11.55 14 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress...
    FSLN 11.224 13 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster...caused by his personal and official authority the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill.
    ALin 11.329 8 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...
    ALin 11.329 9 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...
    CPL 11.494 3 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...but the poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening.
    Bost 12.199 15 John Smith says...nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth; whose humorous ignorances caused them for more than a year to endure a wonderful deal of misery, with an infinite patience.
    PPr 12.385 24 ...we may easily fail in expressing the general objection [to Carlyle's Past and Present] which we feel. It appears to us as a certain disproportion in the picture, caused by the obtrusion of the whims of the painter.

causeless, adj. (1)

    EdAd 11.387 14 ...this country does not lie here in the sun causeless;...

causelessly, adv. (1)

    Pray 12.352 7 ...soon I am weary of spending my time causelessly and unimproved...

Causes, Cause of, n. (1)

    Res 8.138 24 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things...we are full of good will and gratitude to the Cause of Causes.

Causes Celebres, n. (1)

    ET11 5.193 12 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre, and now and then darker scandals break out, ominous as the new chapters added under the Orleans dynasty to the Causes Celebres in France.

causes, n. (44)

    Nat 1.50 6 If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision...causes and spirits are seen through [outlines and surfaces].
    DSA 1.143 17 ...in these two errors...I find the causes of a decaying church...
    LE 1.157 11 I will not lose myself in the desultory questions, what are the limitations, and what the causes of the fact.
    LE 1.163 23 ...the more quaintly you inspect...its spiritual causes...so much the more you master the biography of this hero...
    Tran 1.349 2 What you call...your great and holy causes, seem to [Transcendentalists] great abuses...
    YA 1.391 19 ...the development of our American internal resources...and the appearance of new moral causes which are to modify the State, are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
    Hist 2.12 18 The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes...
    OS 2.276 14 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the centre of the world, where...we see causes, and anticipate the universe...
    Nat2 3.187 16 Great causes are never tried on their merits;...
    Nat2 3.194 24 The uneasiness which the thought of our helplessness in the chain of causes occasions us, results from looking too much at one condition of nature, namely, Motion.
    PPh 4.47 16 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics: then the partialists,-- deducing the origin of things from flux or water, or from air, or from fire, or from mind. All mix with these causes mythologic pictures.
    PPh 4.56 18 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato... studious of all natural laws and causes, feels these...to be no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
    PPh 4.56 19 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato... studious of all natural laws and causes, feels these, as second causes, to be no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
    SwM 4.145 24 ...ascending by just degrees from events to their summits and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he felt...
    MoS 4.151 2 In powerful moments, [the genius's] thought has dissolved the works of art and nature into their causes...
    MoS 4.151 25 The trade in our streets believes in no metaphysical causes...
    ShP 4.192 6 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national interest...
    ET14 5.249 26 [Carlyle] saw little difference in the gladiators, or the causes for which they combated;...
    F 6.31 26 Fate then is a name...for causes which are unpenetrated.
    F 6.32 3 Fate is unpenetrated causes.
    Ctr 6.136 15 The causes to which we have sacrificed...would show like roots of bitterness...
    Wsp 6.208 19 There is faith...in public opinion, but not in divine causes.
    Wsp 6.242 8 Honor and fortune exist to him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great,--always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
    Bty 6.293 22 ...the circumstances may be easily imagined in which woman may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and drive a coach...if only it come by degrees.
    Civ 7.32 16 ...when I...see...the invitation which experience and permanent causes open to youth and labor...I see what cubic values America has...
    Boks 7.198 20 In Plato you explore modern Europe in its causes and seed...
    Cour 7.276 12 ...[the hideous facts in history] require of us...an unresting exploration of final causes.
    Suc 7.300 6 ...the sand floor is...bent to be a...part of the astonishing astronomy, and existing at last to moral ends and from moral causes.
    PI 8.50 23 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    PPo 8.240 17 Solomon had three talismans...second, the glass in which he saw the secrets of his enemies and the causes of all things, figured;...
    PerF 10.73 19 ...we see the causes of evils and learn to parry them and use them as instruments, by knowledge...
    Chr2 10.95 21 [The moral sentiment] puts us...in the cabinet of science and of causes...
    Chr2 10.109 15 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature, the causes by which all the astronomic results are affected...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    Edc1 10.126 16 ...when one and the same man...leaves...the stupor of the senses, to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits disappear. No horizon shuts down. He sees things in their causes...
    SovE 10.204 26 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds. I will not now explore the causes of the result, but the fact must be conceded as of frequent occurrence...
    Prch 10.237 16 ...the upper eyes behold causes and the connection of things.
    EzRy 10.388 23 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us.
    Thor 10.477 2 [Thoreau's] habitual thought makes all his poetry a hymn to the Cause of causes...
    EWI 11.128 22 There are causes in the composition of the British legislature...which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other legislative assemblies.
    SMC 11.355 4 ...cities of men are the first effects of civilization, and also instantly causes of more civilization...
    Wom 11.424 22 The aspiration of this century will be the code of the next. It holds of high and distant causes...
    Mem 12.94 25 Memory was called by the schoolmen vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge, in distinction from the command of the future which we have by the knowledge of causes, and which they called matutina cognitio, or morning knowledge.
    MLit 12.330 7 An interchangeable Truth, Beauty and Goodness, each wholly interfused in the other, must make the humors of that eye which would see causes reaching to their last effect...
    Trag 12.409 19 ...it is...imperfect characters from which somewhat is hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.

causes, v. (13)

    Nat 1.20 1 Every heroic act...causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
    LT 1.289 2 Underneath all these appearances lies...that which causes.
    SR 2.65 2 ...if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault.
    Comp 2.98 7 Every excess causes a defect;...
    Fdsp 2.192 7 See, in any house where virtue and self-respect abide, the palpitation which the approach of a stranger causes.
    Int 2.339 10 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes...not itself but falsehood; herein resembling the air, which is...the breath of our nostrils, but if a stream of the same be directed on the body for a time, it causes cold, fever, and even death.
    Exp 3.56 17 ...thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular? The reason of the pain this discovery causes us...is the plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to persons, to friendship and love.
    Exp 3.66 3 ...nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.
    Mrs1 3.136 18 When [Montaigne] leaves any house in which he has lodged for a few weeks, he causes his arms to be painted and hung up as a perpetual sign...
    CbW 6.258 18 In the high prophetic phrase, He causes the wrath of man to praise him...
    Farm 7.137 6 The food which was not, [the farmer] causes to be.
    PI 8.17 6 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which causes it to exist;...
    PI 8.17 8 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to see that the object is always flowing away, whilst the spirit or necessity which causes it subsists.

causeway, n. (1)

    PLT 12.47 22 By and by comes a facility; some one that can move the mountain and build of it a causeway through the Dismal Swamp, as easily as he carries the hair on his head.

causing, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.73 15 These are examples of...an instantaneous in-streaming causing power.
    LT 1.289 9 That reality, that causing force is moral.

causing, v. (9)

    LT 1.283 2 ...the criticism which is levelled at the laws and manners, ends in thought, without causing a new method of life.
    Cir 2.321 18 True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and disappear...
    Pol1 3.213 16 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance; as by causing the entire people to give their voices on every measure;...
    ET4 5.56 4 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean. They even entered the port of the town where he was, causing no small alarm and sudden manning and arming of his galleys.
    Bty 6.302 14 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him;...causing the sun and moon to seem only the decorations of his estate;--this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    SS 7.9 9 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years...is at last justified by victorious proof of probity...causing joyful emotions, tears and glory...
    MMEm 10.417 1 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.
    CW 12.172 7 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers... when witch-grass and nettles grew, causing a forest of apple-trees or miles of corn and rye to thrive.
    Bost 12.185 8 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility, causing them to exhibit equal dexterity in what are elsewhere reckoned incompatible works, perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...

caution, n. (11)

    LE 1.180 3 A man of infinite caution, [Napoleon] neglected never the least particular of preparation...
    Mrs1 3.154 11 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;... What is gentle, but to allow [their claim], and give their heart and yours a holiday from the national caution?
    SwM 4.132 4 [Swedenborg's] books should be used with caution.
    F 6.47 2 ...hence the high caution, that since we are sure of having what we wish, we beware to ask only for high things.
    Pow 6.75 22 It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune [said Rothschild]...
    Bhr 6.174 8 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution to strangers not to speak loud;...
    PC 8.211 3 Every one who was in Italy thirty-five years ago will remember the caution with which his host or guest in any house looked around him, if a political topic were broached.
    Insp 8.291 2 These indulgences [in favorite places of retirement] are to be used with great caution.
    Grts 8.308 24 ...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
    Supl 10.168 12 ...I do not know any advantage more conspicuous which a man owes to his experience in markets and the Exchange, or politics, than the caution and accuracy he acquires in his report of facts.
    Supl 10.171 10 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer. The caution of the toast did honor to our village father.

cautions, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.174 14 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with canes. But even in the perfect civilization of this city [Boston] such cautions are not quite needless in the Athenaeum and City Library.

cautious, adj. (7)

    Pol1 3.211 9 ...the older and more cautious among ourselves are learning from Europeans to look with some terror at our turbulent freedom.
    DL 7.120 17 ...who can see unmoved...the cautious comparison of the attractive advertisement of the arrival of Macready, Booth or Kemble...with the expense of the entertainment;...
    Farm 7.143 19 Nature, like a cautious testator, ties up her estate so as not to bestow it all on one generation...
    SlHr 10.441 19 So cautious was [Samuel Hoar], and tender of the truth, that he sometimes wearied his audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements...
    LS 11.16 2 We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own.
    ACiv 11.311 9 More and better than the President has spoken shall, perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be,- but...not more or better than he hoped in his heart, when...he penned these cautious words.
    WSL 12.337 5 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;-a man nowise cautious to conceal his name or that of his native country...

cautiously, adv. (2)

    Ctr 6.155 20 We can ill spare the commanding social benefits of cities; they must be used, yet cautiously and haughtily...
    PLT 12.11 8 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake...

Cavaillon, France, n. (1)

    CPL 11.494 1 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...

Cavalieri, Tommaso di, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.233 8 [Michelangelo] never made but one portrait (a cartoon of Messer Tommaso di Cavalieri)...

cavaliers, n. (1)

    SwM 4.133 21 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon ferries them all over in his boat; kings, counsellors, cavaliers, doctors...

Cavaliers, n. (2)

    ET11 5.173 2 In spite of...the devastation of society by the profligacy of the court, we take sides as we read for the loyal England, and King Charles's return to his right with his Cavaliers,
    Cour 7.273 22 The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some passages in the defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a great instruction that the best and highest courages are beams of the Almighty.

cavalry, adj. (1)

    SA 8.105 17 [Sentimentalists] have, they tell you, an intense love of Nature; poetry,--O, they adore poetry...and the cavalry regiment and the governor;...

cavalry, n. (9)

    LE 1.180 9 ...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in the sallies of courage...which, at the right moment...demolished cavalry, infantry, king, and kaisar...
    MR 1.251 11 The naked Derar, horsed on an idea, was found an overmatch for a troop of Roman cavalry.
    NMW 4.238 6 At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse, and with these he separated the six thousand Hungarian grenadiers, before the very eyes of the Austrian cavalry.
    NMW 4.238 7 This [Austrian] cavalry was half a league off...
    ET4 5.72 16 In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses where they landed, and were at once converted into a body of expert cavalry.
    Elo2 8.111 9 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...they see the cannon, the musketry, the cavalry...
    MoL 10.253 10 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square.
    SMC 11.374 8 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry...
    SMC 11.374 12 On the ninth, [the Thirty-second Regiment] marched in support of the cavalry...

Cave, Fingal's, Hebrides, n (1)

    ET1 5.22 11 [Wordsworth] had just returned from a visit to Staffa, and within three days had made three sonnets on Fingal's Cave...

Cave, Lady...Rising in the, (1)

    QO 8.186 24 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...the Lady Diving in the Lake and Rising in the Cave...

Cave, Mammoth, Kentucky, n. (5)

    Ill 6.309 3 Some years ago...I spent a long summer day in exploring the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
    Ill 6.310 1 The mysteries and scenery of the [Mammoth] cave had the same dignity that belongs to all natural objects...
    Ill 6.310 10 ...the best thing which the [Mammoth] cave had to offer was an illusion.
    Ill 6.310 25 I own I did not like the [Mammoth] cave so well for eking out its sublimities with this theatrical trick.
    Res 8.149 15 In the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the torches which each traveller carries make a dismal funeral procession...

cave, n. (9)

    MN 1.205 15 So must we admire in man...the cave of memory.
    Pt1 3.30 8 We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air.
    PNR 4.83 6 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves; the cave of Trophonius;...
    ET1 5.22 23 [Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] alludes to the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music;...
    Civ 7.21 14 A man in a cave or in a camp...will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.
    Farm 7.151 18 ...[the first planter]...lives in a cave or a hutch...
    Boks 7.203 11 [In the Platonists] The acolyte has mounted the tripod over the cave at Delphi;...
    Clbs 7.223 2 Yet Saadi loved the race of men,--/ No churl, immured in cave or den;/...
    PLT 12.35 4 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...

Cave of Music, n. (1)

    ET1 5.22 23 [Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] alludes to the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music;...

Cavendish, Spencer [Duke of (2)

    ET11 5.182 15 The Duke of Devonshire...owns 96,000 acres in the County of Derby.
    ET11 5.193 15 The respectable Duke of Devonshire...is reported to have said that he cannot live at Chatsworth but one month in the year.

Cavendish, Thomas, n. (2)

    War 11.158 8 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus to Lord Hunsdon...It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...
    War 11.158 27 ...the good [Thomas] Cavendish piously begins this statement,-It hath pleased Almighty God.

Cavendish, William [Duke of (1)

    Boks 7.209 25 Among the distinguished company which attended the sale [of the Duke of Roxburgh's library] were the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Spencer, and the Duke of Marlborough...

Cavendish, William [Earl of (2)

    ET11 5.190 8 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...down to Aubrey's passages of the life of Hobbes in the house of the Earl of Devon, are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    Boks 7.207 15 [The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon,-- not if he read...all the Letters (especially those to the Earl of Devonshire, explaining the Essex business)...

Cavendish's, William [Earl (1)

    Ctr 6.148 26 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library...

cavern, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.278 3 ...the situation [of Stonehenge is] fixed astronomically,--the grand entrances...being placed exactly northeast, as all the gates of the old cavern temples are.

cavern, n. (2)

    Ill 6.309 7 We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
    Cour 7.266 20 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi, though she...inhaled the air of the cavern standing on the tripod, fell into convulsions and died.

caverned, v. (1)

    CbW 6.265 13 ...I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.

caverns, n. (2)

    Hist 2.19 27 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses...
    PerF 10.72 16 The laws of material nature run up into the invisible world of the mind, and hereby we acquire a key to those sublimities which skulk and hide in the caverns of human consciousness.

caves, n. (6)

    Mrs1 3.119 22 In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in caves...
    ET3 5.42 13 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...caves in Matlock and Derbyshire;...
    SS 7.1 17 In caves and hollow trees [Seyd] crept/...
    Civ 7.19 3 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found,--a dweller in caves...is called Civilization.
    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...
    SHC 11.434 13 What is the Earth itself but a surface scooped into nooks and caves of slumber...

cavil, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.308 7 ...the statesman who shall break through the cobwebs of doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will be greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.

cavil, v. (1)

    SA 8.80 19 ...we chide, lament, cavil and recriminate.

caviller, n. (1)

    AsSu 11.251 5 When the same reproach [of writing his speeches] was cast on the first orator of ancient times by some caviller of his day, he said, I should be ashamed to come with one unconsidered word before such an assembly.

cavils, n. (2)

    CbW 6.252 7 [The sane man's] existence is a perfect answer to all sentimental cavils.
    Elo1 7.96 19 [The sturdy countryman] has not only the documents in his pocket to answer all cavils and to prove all his positions...

cavils, v. (1)

    Wth 6.123 4 ...the practical neighbor cavils at the position of the barn;...

caw caw, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.430 3 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow would caw caw...

cawing, n. (1)

    PLT 12.43 13 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.

Caxton, William, n. (2)

    ShP 4.197 23 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually, through Lydgate and Caxton, from Guido di Colonna...
    ET5 5.76 27 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of Alfred, Bede, Caxton...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...

Cayenne, n. (1)

    F 6.7 22 ...the sword of the climate...at Cayenne...cut off men like a massacre.

cease, v. (23)

    DSA 1.126 26 ...the oracles of this truth cease never...
    LE 1.169 1 That is morning, to cease for a bright hour to be a prisoner of this sickly body...
    MN 1.193 20 The bigot must cease to be a bigot to-day.
    MR 1.247 23 ...we must not cease to tend to the correction of flagrant wrongs...
    Con 1.321 21 ...men are misled into a reliance on institutions, which, the moment they cease to be the instantaneous creations of the devout sentiment, are worthless.
    Fdsp 2.208 19 Let [my friend] not cease an instant to be himself.
    Prd1 2.236 21 ...every fact hath its roots in the soul, and if the soul were changed would cease to be, or would become some other thing...
    OS 2.297 10 [Man] will cease from what is base and frivolous in his life...
    Cir 2.308 1 How often must we learn this lesson? Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.
    Int 2.329 10 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it. It is called truth. But the moment we cease to report...it is not truth.
    Gts 3.165 4 There are persons from whom we always expect fairy-tokens; let us not cease to expect them.
    UGM 4.34 17 ...at last we shall cease to look in men for completeness...
    DL 7.133 2 Let religion cease to be occasional;...
    Imtl 8.328 19 Cease from this antedating of your experience.
    SovE 10.193 21 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart. It did itself create and distribute all that is created and distributed, and, trusting to its power, we cease to care for what it will certainly order well.
    Plu 10.302 4 In [Plutarch's] immense quotation and allusion we quickly cease to discriminate between what he quotes and what he invents.
    MMEm 10.415 3 Oh, if there be a power superior to me...when will He let...my tides cease to an eternal ebb?
    HDC 11.77 16 The cause of the Colonies was so much in [William Emerson's] heart that he did not cease to make it the subject of his preaching and his prayers...
    War 11.175 11 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day, and human blood will cease to flow.
    EPro 11.321 18 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor... we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind. We shall cease to be hypocrites and pretenders...
    EPro 11.325 12 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis. Then...the old repulsion will cease...
    Mem 12.104 26 Remember me means, Do not cease to love me.
    WSL 12.342 3 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear.

ceased, v. (26)

    OS 2.292 24 When we have...ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence.
    Pt1 3.4 11 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning...of every sensuous fact;...
    Pt1 3.22 10 ...language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.
    Mrs1 3.127 25 Napoleon...never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain;...
    Gts 3.157 3 Gifts of one who loved me,--/ 'T was high time they came;/ When he ceased to love me,/ Time they stopped for shame./
    SwM 4.100 4 [Swedenborg] ceased to publish any more scientific books...
    ET14 5.252 11 ...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is mechanical in its structure, as if inspiration had ceased...
    ET17 5.292 9 An equal good fortune attended many later accidents of my journey [in England], until the sincerity of English kindness ceased to surprise.
    Bty 6.285 16 Thou hast ceased to take recreation, saying to thyself, In seven days I shall be put to death.
    DL 7.118 4 The diet of the house does not create its order, but knowledge, character, action, absorb so much life and yield so much entertainment that the refectory has ceased to be so curiously studied.
    WD 7.165 16 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.
    Comc 8.172 15 Timur ceased weeping...
    Comc 8.172 16 Timur ceased weeping, but Chodscha ceased not...
    PPo 8.237 9 The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus...have ceased to be empty names;...
    Insp 8.281 16 When we have ceased for a long time to have any fulness of thoughts that once made a diary a joy as well as a necessity...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to thought...that costs no effort...
    MoL 10.247 8 A scholar defending the cause...of the oppressor, is a traitor to his profession. He has ceased to be a scholar.
    Thor 10.458 13 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released. The like annoyance was threatened the next year. But as his friends paid the tax...I believe he ceased to resist.
    HDC 11.55 9 ...in 1640, all immigration [to Concord] ceased...
    HDC 11.79 25 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted; but years passed, after the peace, before the debt was paid. As soon as danger and injury ceased, the people were left at leisure to consider their poverty and their debts.
    HDC 11.81 17 The grievances [in Concord] ceased with the adoption of the Federal Constitution.
    EWI 11.116 2 In every quarter [of Antigua], we were assured, the day [after emancipation] was like a Sabbath. Work had ceased.
    EWI 11.121 11 All disqualifications and distinctions of color have ceased [in Jamaica];...
    MLit 12.334 15 Has the power of poetry ceased, or the need?
    MLit 12.334 15 Has the power of poetry ceased, or the need? Have the eyes ceased to see that which they would have, and which they have not?
    MLit 12.334 17 Has the power of poetry ceased, or the need? Have the eyes ceased to see that which they would have, and which they have not? Have they ceased to see other eyes?
    EurB 12.365 10 We have ceased to expect that which [Wordsworth] cannot give.

ceaseless, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.425 25 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry:-its oceans, when beating the symbols of ceaseless ages, than when covered with cargoes of war and oppression.

ceases, v. (15)

    Nat 1.30 7 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth...new imagery ceases to be created...
    SR 2.69 16 Power ceases in the instant of repose;...
    Comp 2.105 24 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man ceases to see God whole in each object...
    Comp 2.124 4 The heart and soul of all men being one, this bitterness of His and Mine ceases.
    Lov1 2.180 8 The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not. Then first it ceases to be a stone.
    OS 2.271 27 ...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins.
    Int 2.331 1 This instinctive action never ceases in a healthy mind...
    UGM 4.34 26 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect.
    NMW 4.227 5 ...a man of Napoleon's stamp almost ceases to have a private speech and opinion.
    DL 7.132 20 When [man] perceives the Law, he ceases to despond.
    Chr2 10.99 12 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...but on [a man's] arrival at a certain maturity, it ceases...
    Chr2 10.115 23 ...in every period of intellectual expansion, the Church ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest and freest minds...
    Shak1 11.450 11 ...[Shakespeare] still agitates the heart in age as in youth, and will, until it ceases to beat.
    FRO2 11.487 20 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself...until he ceases to be an underling...
    CInt 12.117 6 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the college... ceases to be a school;...

ceasing, v. (6)

    Pow 6.71 1 In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage...
    Civ 7.20 15 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes. ... It implies...the ceasing from fixed ideas.
    Comc 8.172 24 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly. Thereat I grieved, because, although I am Caliph...yet still I am so ugly; therefore have I wept. But, thou, why weepest thou without ceasing?
    Imtl 8.344 4 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live;...
    Schr 10.286 12 [The scholar] must...ride at anchor and vanquish every enemy whom his small arms cannot reach, by the grand resistance of submission, of ceasing to do.
    FRep 11.519 6 The partisan on moral...questions, will choose a proven rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest, affectionate, noble gentleman; the partisan ceasing to be a man that he may be a sectarian.

Cecil, Robert [Earl of Sal (1)

    Grts 8.311 10 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh.

Cecil, William [Lord Burle (1)

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

Cecile, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.185 17 Here are the sweet following eyes of Cecile; it seemed always that she demanded the heart.

Cecil's, Robert [Earl of S (1)

    UGM 4.14 4 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch.

cedar, n. (2)

    Nat 1.54 6 Ariel. The strong based promontory/ Have I made shake, and by the spurs plucked up/ The pine and cedar./
    PPo 8.256 30 The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the olive and fig-tree...are never wanting in these musky verses [of