Centuries to Chances

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

centuries, n. (80)

    Nat 1.56 1 In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the memory...carries centuries of observation in a single formula.
    Nat 1.70 22 In the cycle of the universal man...centuries are points...
    DSA 1.145 14 ...now, for centuries...men can scarcely be convinced there is in them anything divine.
    MR 1.229 14 It will afford no security from the new ideas, that...the laws of centuries...are built on other foundations.
    Tran 1.351 13 If no call should come for years, for centuries, then I know that the want of the Universe is the attestation of faith by my abstinence.
    Hist 2.4 12 There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.
    Hist 2.24 3 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...in all its periods from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later?
    Hist 2.28 10 I have seen the first monks and anchorets, without crossing seas or centuries.
    SR 2.66 20 The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
    SR 2.69 10 ...long intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account.
    SR 2.86 6 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago.
    SR 2.86 25 It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing of means and machinery which were introduced with loud laudation a few years or centuries before.
    OS 2.273 11 See how the deep divine thought reduces centuries and millenniums...
    OS 2.295 15 The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority.
    Pt1 3.38 11 If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.
    Mrs1 3.121 2 The word gentleman, which, like the word Christian, must hereafter characterize the present and the few preceding centuries by the importance attached to it, is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties.
    Mrs1 3.147 25 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review...we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
    NER 3.258 19 Once (say two centuries ago), Latin and Greek had a strict relation to all the science and culture there was in Europe...
    SwM 4.118 14 ...whether it be that these things will not be intellectually learned, or that many centuries must elaborate and compose so rare and opulent a soul,--there is no comet, rock-stratum...that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    SwM 4.143 1 ...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some sort, love is greater than God, his heart beats so high that the thumping against his leathern coat is audible across the centuries.
    MoS 4.185 7 The lesson of life is practically...to believe what the years and the centuries say, against the hours;...
    MoS 4.186 1 Through the years and the centuries...a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
    ShP 4.200 2 ...centuries and churches brought [our English Bible] to perfection.
    ShP 4.204 2 ...not until two centuries had passed, after [Shakespeare's] death, did any criticism which we think adequate begin to appear.
    NMW 4.241 26 ...when allusion was made to the precious blood of centuries...[Napoleon] suggested, Neither is my blood ditch-water.
    NMW 4.246 12 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...drawing up his army for battle in sight of the Pyramids, and saying to his troops, From the tops of those pyramids, forty centuries look down on you;...
    ET3 5.35 25 A nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert, [England] has, in the last centuries, obtained the ascendent...
    ET4 5.61 11 England yielded to the Danes and Northmen in the tenth and eleventh centuries...
    ET4 5.62 26 The nation [England] has a tough, acrid, animal nature, which centuries of churching and civilizing have not been able to sweeten.
    ET4 5.66 18 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later...
    ET4 5.72 18 Two centuries ago the English horse never performed any eminent service beyond the seas;...
    ET10 5.157 21 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon...announced (as if looking from his lofty cell, over five centuries, into ours) that machines can be constructed to drive ships more rapidly than a whole galley of rowers could do;...
    ET10 5.158 6 Two centuries ago the sawing of timber was done by hand;...
    ET13 5.216 24 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...
    ET13 5.220 10 Heats and genial periods arrive in history...as in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and again in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [in England]...
    ET14 5.235 23 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic.
    ET14 5.236 10 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries.
    ET14 5.238 21 [Bacon's] centuries of observations on useful science, and his experiments, I suppose, were worth nothing.
    ET14 5.245 10 Mr. Hallam, a learned and elegant scholar, has written the history of European literature for three centuries...
    F 6.17 24 There are scores and centuries of [inventors].
    Wth 6.83 13 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low and wide/...
    Wsp 6.239 10 'T is a higher thing to confide that if it is best we should live, we shall live,--'t is higher to have this conviction than to have the lease of indefinite centuries and millenniums and aeons.
    CbW 6.247 17 I wish the days to be as centuries...
    Bty 6.295 15 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper...in proportion to the beauty of the lines drawn, will be kept for centuries.
    Farm 7.147 13 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it lives fifteen centuries...
    WD 7.158 24 ...one might say that the inventions of the last fifty years counterpoise those of the fifty centuries before them.
    WD 7.164 1 No matter how many centuries of culture have preceded, the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos...
    Boks 7.192 2 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...and though they...have been waiting two, ten, or twenty centuries for us...it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to;...
    Boks 7.194 2 The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of these few great voices of time.
    Boks 7.197 11 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who in spite of Pope and all the learned uproar of centuries, has really the true fire...
    Boks 7.202 14 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have, six or seven centuries later, the Platonists, who also cannot be skipped...
    PI 8.64 20 Bring us...poetry...that shall...mould itself into religions and mythologies, and impart its quality to centuries;...
    SA 8.98 5 Mahomet seems to have borrowed by anticipation of several centuries a leaf from the mind of Swedenborg...
    PPo 8.237 6 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets who wrote during a period of five and a half centuries...
    SovE 10.191 19 ...the spasms of Nature are years and centuries...
    SovE 10.202 19 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth; to do so you must abolish in your mind the lessons of all the centuries from the ninth to the nineteenth.
    MoL 10.242 2 [The scholar]...is born one or two centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he is thrown.
    Plu 10.300 10 It is one of the felicities of literary history, the tie which inseparably couples these two names [Plutarch and Montaigne] across fourteen centuries.
    LLNE 10.327 23 The structures of old faith in every department of society a few centuries have sufficed to destroy.
    EWI 11.143 11 Who cares for oppressing whites, or oppressed blacks, twenty centuries ago...
    War 11.157 14 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to dismantle their castles...
    War 11.163 23 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    FSLC 11.211 4 Europe, the least of all the continents, has almost monopolized for twenty centuries the genius and power of them all.
    FSLN 11.238 23 ...the spasms of Nature are centuries and ages...
    AsSu 11.247 4 The events of the last few years and months and days have taught us the lessons of centuries.
    SMC 11.354 17 ...whatever may happen in this hour or that, the years and the centuries are always pulling down the wrong and building up the right.
    Koss 11.399 15 ...hitherto, you [Kossuth] have had in all centuries and in all parties only the men of heart.
    Shak1 11.446 5 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/ The sense and bound of Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him became/ Poets, for the air was fame./
    Shak1 11.450 3 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he has kept the theatre now for three centuries...he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    ChiE 11.472 3 ...China had the magnet centuries before Europe;...
    ChiE 11.472 8 ...China...thirty centuries before New York, had the custom of New Year's calls of comity and reconciliation.
    FRO1 11.479 7 ...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar.
    FRO2 11.484 1 Thou metest him by centuries,/ And lo! he passes like the breeze;/...
    CPL 11.502 21 ...every one of these [words] is the contribution of the wit of one and another sagacious man in all the centuries of time.
    CPL 11.508 20 It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
    CInt 12.121 17 ...a larger angle of vision, commands centuries of facts...
    CW 12.174 16 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea...and set it on its way of ten or fifteen centuries.
    MAng1 12.232 9 Sir Joshua Reynolds, two centuries later, declared to the British Institution, I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as [Michelangelo] intended to excite.
    MLit 12.329 14 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] The age, that can damn [Wilhelm Meister] as false and falsifying, will see that it is deeply one with the genius and history of all the centuries.
    MLit 12.332 12 [Goethe]...has declined the office proffered to now and then a man in many centuries in the power of his genius, of a Redeemer of the human mind.

Century Aloes, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 19 Plant...the Upas, Ebony, Century Aloes...

century, n. (103)

    Nat 1.68 16 A perception of this mystery inspires the muse of George Herbert, the beautiful psalmist of the seventeenth century.
    AmS 1.106 15 In a century...one or two men;...
    LE 1.168 10 ...the pine throwing out its pollen for the benefit of the next century; the turpentine exuding from the tree...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    LT 1.261 7 The fact of aristocracy...is as commanding a feature of the nineteenth century...as of old Rome...
    LT 1.278 26 ...a consent to solitude and inaction which proceeds out of an unwillingness to violate character, is the century which makes the gem.
    Con 1.300 7 ...the superior beauty is with the oak which stands with its hundred arms against the storms of a century...
    Hist 2.28 15 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
    SR 2.86 4 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes...
    SL 2.155 8 The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear.
    Exp 3.64 22 Whilst the debate goes forward on the equity of commerce, and will not be closed for a century or two, New and Old England may keep shop.
    Mrs1 3.141 22 England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox...
    NER 3.255 2 There was in all the practical activities of New England for the last quarter of a century, a gradual withdrawal of tender consciences from the social organizations.
    UGM 4.16 11 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence. This honor...genius perpetually pays; contented if now and then in a century the proffer is accepted.
    UGM 4.32 18 The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism.
    SwM 4.102 3 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...
    SwM 4.111 6 Swedenborg printed these scientific books in the ten years from 1734 to 1744...and now, after their century is complete, he has at last found a pupil in Mr Wilkinson...
    MoS 4.174 27 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    ShP 4.204 1 It took a century to make [Shakespeare's genius] suspected;...
    ShP 4.204 11 It was not until the nineteenth century...that the tragedy of Hamlet could find such wondering readers.
    NMW 4.223 2 Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth century, Bonaparte is far the best known...
    NMW 4.226 1 ...precisely what is agreeable to the heart of every man in the nineteenth century, this powerful man [Napoleon] possessed.
    NMW 4.249 18 This deputy of the nineteenth century [Napoleon] added to his gifts a capacity for speculation on general topics.
    GoW 4.270 9 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century.
    GoW 4.270 10 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century. Its other half, its poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...
    GoW 4.273 12 [Goethe] was the soul of his century.
    GoW 4.278 2 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...
    GoW 4.288 24 ...this man [Goethe] was entirely at home and happy in his century and the world.
    ET2 5.30 1 A rising of the sea...say an inch in a century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind...
    ET5 5.75 7 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon had the most bottom and longevity...
    ET6 5.110 1 [The English] repeated the ceremonies of the eleventh century in the coronation of the present Queen.
    ET10 5.154 7 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer. You shall find this sentiment...deeply implied in the novels and romances of the present century...
    ET11 5.194 26 The education of a soldier is a simpler affair than that of an earl in the nineteenth century.
    ET12 5.202 16 ...gifts of all values, from a hall or a fellowship or a library, down to a picture or a spoon, are continually accruing [at Oxford], in the course of a century.
    ET12 5.203 11 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me the manuscript Plato...a manuscript Virgil of the same century;...
    ET13 5.221 27 The English, in common perhaps with Christendom in the nineteenth century, do not respect power, but only performance;...
    ET14 5.236 24 I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth.
    ET15 5.271 15 It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and humor of England...have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
    ET19 5.310 26 I am...here...to speak...of that which is good in holidays and working-days, the same in one century and in another century.
    ET19 5.310 27 I am...here...to speak...of that which is good in holidays and working-days, the same in one century and in another century.
    Wsp 6.206 18 What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the twelfth century, may show.
    CbW 6.250 21 In mankind [nature] is contented if she yields one master in a century.
    CbW 6.254 15 The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvests of a century...
    Bty 6.282 13 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true and divine...that climate, century, remote natures as well as near, are part of [the soul's] biography.
    Bty 6.295 10 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together, simply because the tallow-man gave it the form of a rabbit; and I suppose it may continue to be lugged about unchanged for a century.
    Bty 6.296 22 French memoires of the sixteenth century celebrate the name of Pauline de Viguier...
    Bty 6.297 4 Not less in England in the last century was the fame of the Gunnings...
    Farm 7.149 26 The town of Concord is one of the oldest towns in this country, far on now in its third century.
    WD 7.157 1 Our nineteenth century is the age of tools.
    WD 7.158 13 Our century to be sure had inherited a tolerable apparatus.
    WD 7.159 4 ...the immense productions of the laboratory, are new in this century...
    WD 7.178 15 A third illusion haunts us, that a long duration, as a year, a decade, a century, is valuable.
    Boks 7.195 22 ...[the pamphlet or political chapter] is winnowed by all the winds of opinion, and what terrific selection has not passed on it before it can be reprinted after twenty years;--and reprinted after a century!...
    Boks 7.209 15 This mania [for rare editions of books] reached its height about the beginning of the present century.
    Clbs 7.237 8 One of the best records of the great German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
    Clbs 7.244 5 ...we have records of the brilliant society that Edinburgh boasted in the first decade of this century.
    OA 7.317 24 The mind stretches an hour to a century...
    OA 7.332 21 [John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was ninety in the following October);...
    PI 8.34 16 The...measure of poetic genius is the power...to convert those [superstitions] of the nineteenth century and of the existing nations into universal symbols.
    PI 8.35 3 'T is boyish in Swedenborg to cumber himself with the dead scurf of Hebrew antiquity, as if the Divine creative energy had fainted in his own century.
    PI 8.60 1 The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century...
    Elo2 8.122 25 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams... was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.
    QO 8.181 12 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...of the thirteenth century...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
    QO 8.181 15 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work...
    QO 8.181 18 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work, until Grimm found fragments of another original a century older.
    QO 8.187 9 It is only within this century that England and America discovered that their nursery-tales were old German and Scandinavian stories;...
    QO 8.194 24 The passages of Shakspeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century;...
    PC 8.211 13 Great strides have been made [in Natural Science] within the present century.
    PC 8.220 26 ...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science.
    Imtl 8.335 11 What lasts a century pleases us in comparison with what lasts an hour.
    Imtl 8.335 13 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent;...
    Chr2 10.106 7 How unlike our habitual turn of thought was that of the last century in this country!
    Chr2 10.107 22 [The clergy] have dropped, with the sacerdotal garb and manners of the last century, many doctrines and practices once esteemed indispensable to their order.
    Supl 10.165 6 Horace Walpole relates that in the expectation, current in London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided themselves with dresses for the occasion.
    Supl 10.168 2 [People of English stock's] houses are...designed...to stand as commodious, rentable tenements for a century or two.
    SovE 10.202 15 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to...the future state of the soul; every variety of opinion, and rapid revolution in opinions, in the last half century.
    SovE 10.202 17 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth;...
    SovE 10.203 27 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world...
    MoL 10.243 20 The subtle Hindoo...produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
    Plu 10.294 23 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated and printed in Latin, thence into Italian, French and English, more than a century before the original Works were yet printed.
    LLNE 10.337 7 ...there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    EzRy 10.392 27 ...[Ezra Ripley's] knowledge was...the observation of such facts as country life for nearly a century could supply.
    LS 11.3 18 In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]; and since the ninth century the laity receive the bread only, the cup being reserved to the priesthood.
    HDC 11.29 2 Fellow Citizens: The town of Concord begins, this day, the third century of its history.
    HDC 11.54 10 Such was, for half a century, the success of the general enterprise [conversion of the Indians], that, in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians...
    HDC 11.64 18 From the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century, our records indicate no interruption of the tranquility of the inhabitants [of Concord]...
    AKan 11.262 24 A harder task will the new revolution of the nineteenth century be than was the revolution of the eighteenth century.
    AKan 11.262 25 A harder task will the new revolution of the nineteenth century be than was the revolution of the eighteenth century.
    EPro 11.315 2 In so many arid forms which states encrust themselves with, once in a century...a poetic act and record occur.
    EPro 11.319 25 [Slavery] cannot be introduced as an improvement of the nineteenth century.
    Wom 11.415 10 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
    Wom 11.424 20 The aspiration of this century will be the code of the next.
    SHC 11.430 23 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time...wishing to make one spot tender to our children, who shall come hither in the next century to read the dates of these lives.
    SHC 11.435 11 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank [Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...
    Shak1 11.451 23 The egotism of men is immense. It concealed Shakspeare for a century.
    Scot 11.463 11 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled-perhaps he alone among literary men of this century is entitled...
    FRO1 11.479 10 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship...
    CPL 11.499 3 ...Concord counted fourteen graduates of Harvard in its first century...
    CPL 11.506 14 [Kepler writes] [The book] may well wait a century for a reader...
    FRep 11.529 1 We...are are defended from shocks now for a century by the facility with which through popular assemblies every necessary measure of reform can instantly be carried.
    FRep 11.534 15 In the planters of this country, in the seventeenth century, the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence...
    Mem 12.102 19 ...I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
    Milt1 12.248 5 The aspect of Milton, to this generation, will be part of the history of the nineteenth century.
    WSL 12.341 3 Mr. Landor is one of the foremost of that small class who make good in the nineteenth century the claims of pure literature.

Century, n. (1)

    Aris 10.62 2 ...[the true man] is to know...that not Louis Quatorze, not Chesterfield, nor Byron, nor Bonaparte is the model of the Century...

century-clock, n. (1)

    OA 7.318 14 ...if we did not find the reflection of ourselves in the eyes of the young people, we could not know that the century-clock had struck seventy instead of twenty.

Cerberus, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.201 5 Some of my friends have complained...that we...gave...too many cakes to Cerberus;...

ceremonial, adj. (2)

    SovE 10.203 6 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...
    Prch 10.225 24 All positive rules, ceremonial, ecclesiastical, distinctions of race or of person, are perishable;...

ceremonies, n. (11)

    Chr1 3.99 20 Society...shreds...its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.
    Mrs1 3.138 7 The compliments and ceremonies of our breeding should recall...the grandeur of our destiny.
    ET6 5.109 27 [The English] repeated the ceremonies of the eleventh century in the coronation of the present Queen.
    ET8 5.132 6 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates... splendor in ceremonies...
    Bhr 6.187 15 Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects...
    Ill 6.316 2 ...how dare any one, if he could, pluck away the coulisses, stage effects and ceremonies, by which [women] live.
    Art2 7.55 11 Heraldry...and the ceremonies of a coronation, are a dignified repetition of the occurrences that might befall a dragoon and his footboy.
    Suc 7.304 5 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could elude all guards, precautions, ceremonies, means and delays...
    War 11.164 9 Observe how every truth and every error...clothes itself with...language, ceremonies, newspapers.
    Wom 11.409 18 All these ceremonies that hedge our life around are not to be despised...
    Wom 11.409 23 [Women's] genius delights in ceremonies...

ceremony, n. (18)

    LT 1.290 17 I wish to speak of the...religion around us without ceremony or false deference.
    YA 1.393 26 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy, whilst he debated some point of honor with the French ambassador; You have left a business of importance for a ceremony.
    YA 1.394 1 [Philip II's] ambassador replied, Your Majesty's self is but a ceremony.
    SR 2.62 16 That popular fable of the sot...laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke...symbolizes... the state of man...
    Mrs1 3.124 21 I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland (that for ceremony there must go two to it; since a bold fellow will go through the cunningest forms)...
    MoS 4.168 2 The Essays...are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into [Montaigne's] head; treating every thing without ceremony, yet with masculine sense.
    ET13 5.219 15 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church; the liturgy, ceremony, architecture;...
    SS 7.1 10 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/ Princely women hard to please,/ Fenced by form and ceremony/...
    Clbs 7.232 19 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to any one. On these terms...the talker is at his ease and jolly, for he can walk out without ceremony when he pleases.
    OA 7.320 3 Age is comely...in chairs of state and ceremony...
    Comc 8.164 24 In religion, the sentiment is all; the ritual or ceremony indifferent.
    Comc 8.164 27 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did; it goes through the ceremony omitting only the will...
    SlHr 10.448 23 [Samuel Hoar] carried ceremony finely to the last.
    LS 11.9 2 ...the leading circumstances in the Gospels are only a faithful account of that ceremony [the Passover].
    LS 11.9 17 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony...
    Wom 11.409 17 Form and ceremony are [women's] realm.
    CW 12.172 26 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...
    PPr 12.384 27 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism tossed like a football into the air...

Ceremony, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.128 24 Here [in the household] is Economy, and Glee, and Hospitality, and Ceremony, and Frankness, and Calamity, and Death, and Hope.

Ceres, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.180 8 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil, and opened the door for the remote Flora, Fauna, Ceres, and Pomona to come in.
    FRep 11.512 26 As Bacchus of the vine, Ceres of the wheat...so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant.
    Milt1 12.263 21 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.

certain, adj. (469)

    Nat 1.7 19 The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible;...
    Nat 1.11 4 ...it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature...
    Nat 1.28 19 The motion of the earth round its axis and round the sun, makes the day and the year. These are certain amounts of brute light and heat.
    Nat 1.46 8 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...who, answering each to a certain affection of the soul, satisfy our desire on that side;...
    Nat 1.47 11 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations...
    Nat 1.50 15 Certain mechanical changes, a small alteration in our local position, apprizes us of a dualism.
    Nat 1.58 18 Some theosophists have arrived at a certain hostility and indignation towards matter...
    Nat 1.67 23 ...we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
    Nat 1.70 2 Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect...
    Nat 1.70 13 I shall...conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet sang to me;...
    DSA 1.121 13 The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws.
    DSA 1.134 13 It is very certain that it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love.
    DSA 1.142 16 ...there have been periods when, from the inactivity of the intellect on certain truths, a greater faith was possible in names and persons.
    DSA 1.148 18 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit...
    LE 1.157 2 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace without grandeur...
    MN 1.212 6 ...there is a certain infatuating air in woods and mountains which draws on the idler to want and misery.
    MN 1.215 10 ...[the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices, as the denial of certain appetites in certain specified indulgences...
    MN 1.215 11 ...[the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices, as the denial of certain appetites in certain specified indulgences...
    MN 1.217 4 Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom...
    MR 1.233 25 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes...
    MR 1.233 26 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a certain dapperness and compliance...
    MR 1.242 25 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that man...respecting the compensations of the Universe, ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    LT 1.266 27 As the solar system moves forward in the heavens, certain stars open before us, and certain stars close up behind us;...
    LT 1.282 13 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all cultivated persons, a certain imbecility in the best spirits...
    LT 1.285 8 By the side of these men [of the intellectual class], the hot agitators have a certain cheap and ridiculous air;...
    Con 1.297 23 There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism...
    Con 1.297 24 There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
    Con 1.301 24 Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.
    Con 1.303 3 We have all a certain intellection or presentiment of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character...
    Tran 1.332 10 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...that figures do not lie;...
    Tran 1.341 3 ...many intelligent and religious persons...betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living...
    Tran 1.349 15 ...the philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
    Tran 1.352 12 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience...
    YA 1.374 27 ...one thing is certain, that we who build will receive the very smallest share of benefit.
    YA 1.378 2 [Trade] calls out all force of a certain kind that slumbered in the former dynasties.
    YA 1.382 23 At least an economical success seemed certain for the enterprise [the Associations]...
    Hist 2.16 15 If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he will see how deep is the chain of affinity.
    Hist 2.17 1 In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very diverse works.
    SR 2.45 24 ...[our rejected thoughts] come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
    Comp 2.97 19 ...in the animal kingdom the physiologist has observed that... a certain compensation balances every gift and every defect.
    Comp 2.106 5 How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied providence certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!
    Comp 2.118 13 As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success.
    Comp 2.123 7 The gain [in external goods] is apparent; the tax is certain.
    SL 2.142 27 We think greatness entailed or organized...in certain offices or occasions...
    Lov1 2.169 10 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...like a certain divine rage and enthusiasm, seizes on man at one period...
    Lov1 2.171 10 Each man sees over his own experience a certain stain of error...
    Fdsp 2.191 13 The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
    Fdsp 2.203 5 We cover up our thought from [our fellow-man] under a hundred folds. I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy cast off this drapery...
    Fdsp 2.215 13 It would...give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking...
    Prd1 2.229 13 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    Prd1 2.229 23 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity, and have a certain swimming and oscillating appearance.
    Prd1 2.230 17 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature...
    Hsm1 2.245 12 In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...
    Hsm1 2.247 26 ...Wordsworth's Laodamia, and the ode of Dion, and some sonnets, have a certain noble music;...
    Hsm1 2.249 13 ...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
    OS 2.273 24 ...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms is at hand...
    OS 2.274 23 The growths of genius are of a certain total character...
    OS 2.276 21 I live...with persons who...express a certain obedience to the great instincts to which I live.
    OS 2.277 23 There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest...
    OS 2.281 18 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul].
    OS 2.281 27 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men...
    Int 2.332 2 A certain wandering light appears, and is the distinction, the principle, we wanted.
    Int 2.336 18 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states...
    Art1 2.352 24 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it will retain a certain grandeur...
    Art1 2.354 21 It is the habit of certain minds to give an all-excluding fulness to the object...they alight upon...
    Art1 2.364 16 ...there is a certain appearance of paltriness...in sculpture.
    Pt1 3.22 15 What we call nature is a certain self-regulated motion or change;...
    Pt1 3.22 20 ...nature...does not leave another to baptize her but baptizes herself; and this through the metamorphosis again. I remember that a certain poet described it to me thus...
    Pt1 3.30 4 The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men.
    Pt1 3.30 27 ...Socrates...tells us that the soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations, and that these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls;...
    Pt1 3.36 13 Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg] describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the children who were at some distance, like dead horses;...
    Pt1 3.39 3 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions...and each presently feels the new desire.
    Exp 3.52 10 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them. In the moment it seems impulse; in the year, in the lifetime, it turns out to be a certain uniform tune which the revolving barrel of the music-box must play.
    Exp 3.56 26 Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas which they never pass or exceed.
    Exp 3.69 1 There is a certain magic about [a man's] properest action which stupefies your powers of observation...
    Chr1 3.90 1 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force...
    Chr1 3.94 3 Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a certain sleep.
    Chr1 3.97 18 Men of character like to hear of their faults; the other class do not like to hear of faults; they worship events; secure to them...a certain chain of circumstances, and they will ask no more.
    Chr1 3.97 25 ...prosperity belongs to a certain mind, and will introduce that power and victory which is its natural fruit, into any order of events.
    Mrs1 3.121 15 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men. It seems a certain permanent average;...
    Mrs1 3.128 13 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to work, yet high power to enjoy.
    Mrs1 3.129 7 Aristocracy and fashion are certain inevitable results.
    Mrs1 3.133 9 There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation...
    Mrs1 3.138 22 ...a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.
    Mrs1 3.139 4 The average spirit of the energetic class is good sense, acting under certain limitations and to certain ends.
    Mrs1 3.139 5 The average spirit of the energetic class is good sense, acting under certain limitations and to certain ends.
    Mrs1 3.141 7 The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
    Mrs1 3.150 8 A certain awkward consciousness of inferiority in the men may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of Woman's Rights.
    Nat2 3.175 24 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road,--a certain haughty favor, as if from patrician genii to patricians...
    Nat2 3.192 8 There is in woods and waters a certain enticement and flattery...
    Pol1 3.199 11 Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men and institutions rooted like oak-trees to the centre...
    Pol1 3.206 9 A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity.
    Pol1 3.218 9 ...we are constrained to reflect on our splendid moment with a certain humiliation...
    Pol1 3.219 26 We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions;...
    NR 3.225 15 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture...
    NR 3.239 13 In every conversation, even the highest, there is a certain trick...
    NER 3.258 15 The ancient languages...contain wonderful remains of genius, which draw, and always will draw, certain like-minded men...
    NER 3.270 3 [A canine appetite for knowledge] gave the scholar certain powers of expression...
    NER 3.275 21 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself...
    NER 3.278 26 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors...
    NER 3.284 13 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing.
    UGM 4.7 5 Certain men affect us as rich possibilities...
    UGM 4.16 7 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence.
    UGM 4.28 6 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men...
    PPh 4.44 25 ...the writings of Plato have preoccupied...every church, every poet,--making it impossible to think, on certain levels, except through him.
    PPh 4.57 26 With the palatial air there is [in Plato]...a certain earnestness...
    PPh 4.65 20 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated which is blinded and buried by studies of another kind;...
    PPh 4.71 11 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect temper and a knowledge of his man...which laid the companion open to certain defeat in any debate...
    PPh 4.73 3 ...it is certain that [Socrates] had grown to delight in nothing else than this conversation;...
    SwM 4.97 17 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This beatitude comes...with shocks to the mind of the receiver. It...gives a certain violent bias which taints his judgment.
    SwM 4.102 20 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...suggests...that a certain vastness of learning...is possible.
    SwM 4.119 22 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus of the new state, affirming that his presence in the spiritual world is attended with a certain separation, but only as to the intellectual part of his mind, not as to the will part;...
    SwM 4.120 1 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
    SwM 4.130 17 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to combination, as when gases will combine in certain fixed rates, but not at any rate.
    SwM 4.140 27 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who... could hint to human ears the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul. But it is certain that it must tally with what is best in nature.
    MoS 4.150 7 One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is conversant with... cities and persons, and the bringing certain things to pass;...
    MoS 4.161 14 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have a certain solid and intelligible way of living of his own;...
    MoS 4.165 3 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only... so that in a humorist a certain nakedness of statement was permitted...
    MoS 4.184 5 [Young and ardent minds] accuse the divine Providence of a certain parsimony.
    ShP 4.194 21 ...when at last the greatest freedom of style and treatment was reached [in Egypt and Greece], the prevailing genius of architecture still enforced a certain calmness and continence in the statue.
    ShP 4.195 3 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials...which had a certain excellence which no single genius...could hope to create.
    ShP 4.198 17 A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts;...
    ShP 4.212 19 [A man of talents] has certain observations, opinions, topics, which have some accidental prominence...
    ShP 4.217 5 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind... conveying in all their natural history a certain mute commentary on human life.
    NMW 4.227 22 There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics...
    NMW 4.228 14 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity;...
    GoW 4.264 25 There is a certain heat in the breast which attends the perception of a primary truth...
    GoW 4.265 27 ...there is a certain ridicule...thrown on the scholars or clerisy...
    GoW 4.266 25 A certain partiality...is the tax which all action must pay.
    GoW 4.272 9 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into...geology, chemistry, astronomy; and every one of these kingdoms assuming a certain aerial and poetic character, by reason of the multitude.
    GoW 4.275 24 [Goethe]...has a certain gravitation towards truth.
    GoW 4.281 7 ...[the German intellect] has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance...
    GoW 4.283 10 ...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and France, adopt their study and their side with a certain levity...
    GoW 4.286 21 ...certain love affairs [of Goethe] that came to nothing, as people say, have the strangest importance...
    GoW 4.286 23 ...certain whimsical opinions, cosmogonies and religions of his own invention...these [Goethe] magnifies.
    ET1 5.14 16 ...I...find it impossible to recall the largest part of [Coleridge' s] discourse, which was often like so many printed paragraphs in his book... so readily did he fall into certain commonplaces.
    ET1 5.18 27 ...[Carlyle] named certain individuals...whom London had well served.
    ET4 5.47 15 How came such men as...Francis Bacon, George Herbert, Henry Vane, to exist here [in England]? What made these delicate natures? was it the air? was it the sea? was it the parentage? For it is certain that these men are samples of their contemporaries.
    ET4 5.48 24 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective;...
    ET4 5.51 26 ...certain temperaments marry well...
    ET4 5.52 2 ...[the English character] is not so much a history of one or of certain tribes of Saxons, Jutes, or Frisians...
    ET4 5.52 6 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...
    ET4 5.69 22 Lord Chief Justice Fortescue, in Henry VI.'s time, says, The inhabitants of England drink no water, unless at certain times on a religious score and by way of penance.
    ET4 5.72 1 Add a certain degree of refinement to the vivacity of these [English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality which makes the men and women of polite society formidable.
    ET5 5.76 25 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of Alfred, Bede, Caxton...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
    ET6 5.107 8 A certain order and complete propriety is found in [the Englishman's] dress and in his belongings.
    ET6 5.111 26 There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen.
    ET9 5.149 11 ...the prestige of the English name warrants a certain confident bearing...
    ET10 5.156 26 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, since the extraordinary will be certain to absorb the other third.
    ET10 5.171 3 ...the means of meeting a certain ponderous expense, is that which is considered by a youth in England emerging from his minority.
    ET12 5.206 25 ...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton] can quote correctly from the Corpus Poetarum...
    ET12 5.207 5 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...the atmosphere is loaded with Greek learning; the whole river has reached a certain height...
    ET12 5.210 25 The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain amount of old Norse power.
    ET13 5.216 5 [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.
    ET13 5.226 19 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. The class certain to be excluded from all preferment are the religious...
    ET14 5.239 24 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists...
    ET14 5.242 4 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of Berkeley, that we have no certain assurance of the existence of matter;...
    ET14 5.248 4 It is very certain...that if Lord Bacon had been only the sensualist his critic pretends, he would never have acquired the fame which now entitles him to this patronage.
    ET16 5.287 17 ...'t is certain as God liveth, the gun that does not need another gun, the law of love and justice alone, can effect a clean revolution.
    ET16 5.288 17 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...too much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse...
    ET17 5.295 3 [The Edinburgh Review] had...changed the tone of its literary criticism from the time when a certain letter was written to the editor by Coleridge.
    ET18 5.301 17 At home [the English] have a certain statute hospitality.
    ET19 5.311 18 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes,--the electing of worthy persons to a certain fraternity...
    F 6.9 6 ...so is sex; so is climate; so is the reaction of talents imprisoning the vital power in certain directions.
    F 6.11 15 In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force...
    F 6.13 2 ...There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity...
    F 6.27 24 ...when souls reach a certain clearness of perception they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness.
    F 6.28 18 ...when a strong will appears, it usually results from a certain unity of organization...
    F 6.31 14 To a certain point, [men] believe themselves the care of a Providence.
    F 6.44 13 Certain ideas are in the air.
    Pow 6.54 24 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility; imbecility...even in heroes in all but certain eminent moments;...
    Pow 6.60 22 ...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life... it...will be found at last in harmony with moral laws.
    Pow 6.66 10 The most amiable of country gentlemen has a certain pleasure in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his orchard.
    Pow 6.73 11 Success goes...invariably with a certain plus or positive power...
    Wth 6.92 11 It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.
    Wth 6.97 22 The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing benefits...can be enjoyed by all.
    Wth 6.99 9 In Europe, where the feudal forms secure the permanence of wealth in certain families, those families buy and preserve these things [works of art] and lay them open to the public.
    Wth 6.99 23 An infinite number of shrewd men, in infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of doing...
    Wth 6.100 18 Probity and closeness to the facts are the basis, but the masters of the art [of commerce] add a certain long arithmetic.
    Wth 6.107 1 ...every man has a certain satisfaction whenever his dealing touches on the inevitable facts;...
    Wth 6.108 19 The price of coal shows...a compulsory confinement of the miners to a certain district.
    Wth 6.117 6 ...after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.
    Ctr 6.136 27 Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale...
    Ctr 6.137 25 'T is a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
    Ctr 6.138 22 To wade in marshes and sea-margins is the destiny of certain birds...
    Ctr 6.147 17 ...there is in every constitution a certain solstice when the stars stand still in our inward firmament...
    Ctr 6.151 13 I have heard that throughout this country a certain respect is paid to good broadcloth;...
    Ctr 6.151 20 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./
    Ctr 6.154 16 The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.
    Ctr 6.156 11 'T is very certain that Plato, Plotinus...did not live in a crowd...
    Ctr 6.160 19 There is a certain loftiness of thought and power to marshal and adjust particulars, which can only come from an insight of their whole connection.
    Ctr 6.160 26 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order... will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and...he will have a certain mastery in dealing with them...
    Ctr 6.161 13 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty.
    Bhr 6.170 17 There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he or she must be considered...
    Bhr 6.178 3 The jockeys say of certain horses that they look over the whole ground.
    Bhr 6.181 10 It is very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men...
    Wsp 6.201 13 ...I am sure that a certain truth will be said through me...
    Wsp 6.204 6 Nature has self-poise in all her works; certain proportions in which oxygen and azote combine...
    Wsp 6.210 25 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade.
    Wsp 6.216 6 It is certain that worship stands in some commanding relation to the health of man...
    Wsp 6.217 8 We believe that holiness confers a certain insight, because not by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of things.
    Wsp 6.227 25 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy...
    Wsp 6.229 23 Physiognomy and phrenology are...declarations of the soul that it is aware of certain new sources of information.
    Wsp 6.238 13 If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another and will be more.
    CbW 6.246 11 ...'t is certain that not by strength of ours, or of the old sayings, but only on strength of his own, unknown to us or to any, [the youth] must stand or fall.
    CbW 6.262 26 Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
    CbW 6.274 24 ...it is certain that there is a great deal of good in us that does not know itself...
    Bty 6.288 15 ...the beauty which certain objects have for [man] is the friendly fire which expands the thought...
    Bty 6.296 14 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. Some favors of condition must go with it, since a certain serenity is essential...
    Bty 6.303 18 The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is a certain cosmical quality...
    Bty 6.304 5 ...[chosen men and women's] face and manners carry a certain grandeur...
    Ill 6.311 24 ...the barrister with the jury, the belle at the ball...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
    Ill 6.317 11 Men who make themselves felt in the world avail themselves of a certain fate in their constitution which they know how to use.
    Ill 6.317 17 'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play...
    SS 7.6 13 To the culture of the world an Archimedes, a Newton is indispensable; so [nature] guards them by a certain aridity.
    SS 7.10 14 A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty...
    SS 7.11 15 Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
    SS 7.15 2 A higher civility will reestablish in our customs a certain reverence which we have lost.
    Civ 7.19 1 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found...is called Civilization.
    Civ 7.19 5 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found...a cannibal, and eater of pounded snails, worms and offal,--a certain degree of progress from this extreme is called Civilization.
    Civ 7.22 24 Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy... guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind;...
    Art2 7.41 22 The veranda or pagoda roof can curve upward only to a certain point.
    Art2 7.51 14 ...a certain analogy reigns throughout the wonders of both [Nature and works of art];...
    Elo1 7.63 3 [An audience's] sympathy gives them a certain social organism...
    Elo1 7.67 18 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health...
    Elo1 7.69 24 ...the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to fascination...
    Elo1 7.90 1 The orator must be, to a certain extent, a poet.
    Elo1 7.92 21 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
    Elo1 7.93 12 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness...and the orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
    WD 7.172 25 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps...
    WD 7.177 15 I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation who thought it an honor to wash his own face.
    Boks 7.191 8 College education is the reading of certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated.
    Boks 7.197 2 ...I find certain books vital and spermatic...
    Boks 7.201 10 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...
    Boks 7.208 6 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies;...
    Boks 7.213 22 The imagination infuses a certain volatility and intoxication.
    Boks 7.214 5 ...books that treat...our times, places, professions, customs, opinions, histories, with a certain freedom...put us on our feet again...
    Boks 7.220 19 ...[the French Institute and the British Association] divide the whole body into sections, each of which sits upon and reports of certain matters confided to it...
    Clbs 7.227 4 ...one thing is certain,--at some rate, intercourse we must have.
    Clbs 7.227 18 'T is certain that money does not more burn in a boy's pocket than a piece of news burns in our memory until we can tell it.
    Clbs 7.228 3 A certain truth possesses us which we in all ways strive to utter.
    Clbs 7.242 19 'T is certain there was liberal and refined conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the Middle Age.
    Clbs 7.250 5 There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time...
    Cour 7.261 9 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery. Of course they must each go into that action with a certain despair.
    Cour 7.265 8 'T is certain that the threat is sometimes more formidable than the stroke...
    Cour 7.266 25 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which...does not feel itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in...cats. The like vein appears in certain races of men and in individuals of every race.
    Cour 7.266 27 In every school there are certain fighting boys;...
    Cour 7.268 17 A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of faculty.
    Cour 7.268 18 A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of faculty.
    Cour 7.272 27 The statue, the architecture, were the later and inferior creation of the same [Greek] genius. In view of this moment of history, we recognize a certain prophetic instinct, better than wisdom.
    Suc 7.285 3 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...
    Suc 7.302 22 The wise Socrates treats this matter [of sensibility] with a certain archness...
    OA 7.319 19 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to resign, alleging that he perceived a certain decay in his faculties;...
    OA 7.320 8 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors, a certain concealed sense of injury...
    OA 7.321 5 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain Young Men's Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under seventy.
    OA 7.324 14 ...be it as it may with the sick-headache,--'t is certain that graver headaches and heart-aches are lulled once for all as we come up with certain goals of time.
    OA 7.324 16 ...be it as it may with the sick-headache,--'t is certain that graver headaches and heart-aches are lulled once for all as we come up with certain goals of time.
    OA 7.324 22 To perfect the commissariat, [Nature] implants in each a certain rapacity to get the supply, and a little oversupply, of his wants.
    OA 7.325 25 A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the Supreme Court, and I was struck with a certain air of levity and defiance which vastly became him.
    OA 7.329 7 Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
    OA 7.330 3 ...especially we have a certain insulated thought, which haunts us, but remains insulated and barren.
    PI 8.6 16 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...a certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts...
    PI 8.6 21 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 8.18 22 [The act of imagination] infuses a certain volatility and intoxication into all Nature.
    PI 8.21 12 In certain hours we can almost pass our hand through our own body.
    PI 8.55 23 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill;...
    SA 8.83 17 Whilst certain faces are illumined with intelligence...others are marked with warnings...
    SA 8.83 20 ...certain voices are hoarse and truculent;...
    SA 8.87 13 I know that there go two to this game [of laughter], and, in the presence of certain formidable wits, savage nature must sometimes rush out in some disorder.
    SA 8.87 19 No nation is dressed with more good sense than ours. And everybody sees certain moral benefit in it.
    SA 8.89 25 One of my friends said in speaking of certain associates, There is not one of them but I can offend at any moment.
    SA 8.91 22 It is very certain that sincere and happy conversation doubles our powers;...
    SA 8.99 22 ...[manners and talk] require certain material conditions...
    SA 8.99 25 ...[manners and talk] require...plenty and ease,--since only so can certain finer and finest powers appear and expand.
    SA 8.101 14 That method [of hereditary nobility] secured...a certain external culture and good taste;...
    SA 8.102 13 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...
    Elo2 8.112 24 There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected...
    Elo2 8.119 15 What is peculiar in [eloquence] is a certain creative heat...
    Elo2 8.119 18 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat, and moreover a certain control of it...
    Elo2 8.121 27 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with certain frankness...in their style;...
    Elo2 8.125 26 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
    Elo2 8.126 19 Men differ so much in control of their faculties! You can find in many, and indeed in all, a certain fundamental equality.
    QO 8.177 17 In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
    QO 8.189 10 ...there are certain considerations which go far to qualify a reproach too grave [to quotation].
    QO 8.195 5 ...another's thoughts have a certain advantage with us simply because they are another's.
    QO 8.204 11 'T is certain that thought has its own proper motion...
    PC 8.213 9 ...I find not only this equality between new and old countries... but also a certain equivalence of the ages of history;...
    PC 8.215 16 As we find thus a certain equivalence in the ages, there is also an equipollence of individual genius to the nation which it represents.
    PC 8.215 19 ...a certain enormity of culture makes a man invisible to his contemporaries.
    PC 8.219 1 Even manners are a distinction which...are not to be overborne... even by other eminent talents, since they too proceed from a certain deep innate perception of fit and fair.
    PC 8.233 15 ...in certain historic periods there have been times of negation...
    PPo 8.241 19 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost the seal of Solomon...
    Insp 8.269 3 'T is certain that the one thing we wish to know is, where power is to be bought.
    Insp 8.274 19 Of the modus of inspiration we have no knowledge. But in the experience of meditative men there is a certain agreement as to the conditions of reception.
    Insp 8.276 7 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...the whole armory of means are all present, but a certain heat that once used not to fail, refuses its office...
    Insp 8.279 5 There are...certain risks in this presentiment of the decisive perception...
    Insp 8.284 9 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.
    Insp 8.290 4 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted...
    Insp 8.290 15 Certain localities...are excitants of the muse.
    Grts 8.301 16 It is very certain that we ought not to be and shall not be contented with any goal we have reached.
    Grts 8.303 1 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet; a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa? What of Menu? what...of Franklin? There are certain points of identity in which these masters agree.
    Grts 8.306 11 ...[Faraday] showed us various experiments on certain gases...
    Grts 8.309 12 There is a certain transfiguration; all great orators have it...
    Grts 8.310 9 You are rightly fond of certain books or men...
    Grts 8.311 17 This day-labor of ours...has hitherto a certain emblematic air...
    Imtl 8.329 17 I think all sound minds rest on a certain preliminary conviction, namely, that if it be best that conscious personal life shall continue, it will continue; if not best, then it will not;...
    Imtl 8.330 17 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end.
    Imtl 8.331 5 ...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with a certain contemplative turn...does not build up faith or lead to content.
    Dem1 10.5 21 In sleep one shall travel certain roads in stage-coaches or gigs, which he recognizes as familiar...
    Dem1 10.7 21 Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
    Dem1 10.8 22 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem preposterous...
    Dem1 10.12 20 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement. It is not the incredibility of the fact, but a certain want of harmony between the action and the agents.
    Dem1 10.15 25 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form,-that often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success;...
    Dem1 10.21 11 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and moral with a certain terror;...
    Aris 10.43 1 ...it is certain that a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions;...
    Aris 10.44 27 ...the well-built head supplies all the steps, one as perfect as the other, in the series. Seeing this working head in him, it becomes to me as certain that he will have the direction of estates, as that there are estates.
    Aris 10.47 20 A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of faculty.
    Aris 10.64 13 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize.
    PerF 10.69 7 ...man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can...help him in every kind. Each by itself has a certain omnipotence...
    PerF 10.71 19 [The winds, the clouds, the fire] all have certain properties which adhere to them...
    PerF 10.77 13 Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China...
    PerF 10.86 14 ...a certain personal virtue is essential to freedom;...
    Chr2 10.93 12 Certain biases, talents, executive skills, are special to each individual;...
    Chr2 10.99 11 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 10.100 23 Men are forced by their own self-respect to give [some souls] a certain attention.
    Chr2 10.110 5 There is a certain secular progress of opinion, which, in civil countries, reaches everybody.
    Chr2 10.116 9 It is certain that each inspired master will gain instantly by the separation from the idolatry of ages.
    Edc1 10.127 4 Certain nations...have made such progress as to compare with these [savages] as these compare with the bear and the wolf.
    Edc1 10.130 17 If Newton come and...perceive that not alone certain bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Edc1 10.130 18 If Newton come and...perceive that not alone certain bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Edc1 10.133 26 A treatise on education...affects us with a slight paralysis and a certain yawning of the jaws.
    Edc1 10.136 13 It is very certain that the coming age and the departing age seldom understand each other.
    Edc1 10.147 13 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy, because they require exactitude of performance; it is made certain that the lesson is mastered...
    Supl 10.163 14 There is a superlative temperament...which affects the manners of those who share it with a certain desperation.
    SovE 10.187 13 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...bargains of kings with peoples of certain rights to certain classes, then of rights to masses...
    SovE 10.193 26 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence leaves them...
    SovE 10.207 8 ...in all churches a certain decay of ancient piety is lamented...
    Prch 10.219 7 It is certain that many dark hours...will occur.
    Prch 10.236 10 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...
    MoL 10.258 14 Who would not, if it could be made certain that the new morning of universal liberty should rise on our race by the perishing of one generation, who would not consent to die?
    Schr 10.261 2 The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica.
    Schr 10.278 1 Perhaps I value power of achievement a little more because in America there seems to be a certain indigence in this respect.
    Schr 10.283 7 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does, a certain dumb life in life;...
    Schr 10.284 10 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off.
    Plu 10.311 19 There is a certain violence in [Seneca's] opinions...
    Plu 10.312 14 [Seneca] was Buddhist in his cold abstract virtue, with a certain impassibility beyond humanity.
    LLNE 10.325 2 There grew a certain tenderness on the people...
    LLNE 10.329 11 [The new age] marked itself by a certain predominance of the intellect in the balance of powers.
    LLNE 10.330 9 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg; a man of prodigious mind, though as I think tainted with a certain suspicion of insanity...
    LLNE 10.335 17 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is...becoming a national institution. I am quite certain that this purely literary influence was of the first importance to the American mind.
    LLNE 10.336 17 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence.
    LLNE 10.337 7 ...there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    LLNE 10.337 15 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show. The attempt...had a certain truth in it;...
    LLNE 10.337 23 ...a certain success attended [Mesmerism], against all expectation.
    LLNE 10.342 15 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to establish certain opinions...
    LLNE 10.364 11 It is certain that freedom from household routine, variety of character...did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.365 25 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction; their knowledge was increased, their manners refined,-but they became in that proportion averse to labor, and were charged by the heads of the departments with a certain indolence and selfishness.
    LLNE 10.366 11 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent.
    CSC 10.375 8 The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and earnestness...
    MMEm 10.403 21 ...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her afterwards...
    MMEm 10.427 4 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...
    MMEm 10.432 19 It was the privilege of certain boys to have [Mary Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood;...
    SlHr 10.444 2 [Samuel Hoar's] beauty was pathetic and touching in these latest days, and, as now appears, it awakened a certain tender fear in all who saw him, that the costly ornament of our homes and halls and streets was speedily to be removed.
    SlHr 10.447 21 ...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration was commanded by certain heroes of the [legal] profession...
    Thor 10.464 14 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol. This discovery, which sometimes yields to poets a certain casual and interrupted light...was in him an unsleeping insight;...
    Thor 10.466 21 ...the shad-flies which fill the air on a certain evening once a year...were all known by [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.477 15 Whilst [Thoreau] used in his writings a certain petulance of remark in reference to churches or churchmen, he was a person of a rare, tender and absolute religion...
    Thor 10.479 7 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings...
    Thor 10.479 25 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety...
    Thor 10.481 14 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard...
    Carl 10.489 21 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people. That, and all his qualities, have a certain virulence...
    LS 11.23 3 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper]...
    HDC 11.31 6 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy...
    HDC 11.43 27 The nature of man and his condition in the world, for the first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formation of the State [in Massachusetts].
    HDC 11.44 5 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court...to certain purposes, sovereign powers.
    HDC 11.46 12 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston, with certain rights of their own...
    EWI 11.112 11 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers, and to acquire thereby all the rights and privileges of freemen, subject to the restriction of laboring under certain conditions.
    EWI 11.137 15 By a certain fatality, none but the vilest arguments were brought forward [against emancipation in the West Indies]...
    War 11.158 16 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...in which voyage, I have either discovered or brought certain intelligence of all the rich places of the world...
    War 11.166 25 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights...
    War 11.166 27 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights, if he be of sound body and mind. At a certain higher stage, he makes no offensive demonstration...
    FSLC 11.188 20 I thought that all men of all conditions had been made sharers of a certain experience, that in certain rare and retired moments they had been made to see how man is man...
    FSLC 11.206 13 ...one thing appears certain to me, as soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion.
    FSLC 11.212 5 The great game of the government has been to win the sanction of Massachusetts to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law]. Hitherto they have succeeded only so far as to win Boston to a certain extent.
    FSLC 11.213 24 It is very certain from the perfect guaranties in the constitution...that there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for the spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
    FSLN 11.230 18 The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union. I went to certain serious men, who had a little more reason than the rest, and inquired why they took this part?
    FSLN 11.236 24 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is...no liberty but his invincible will to do right,-then certain aids and allies will promptly appear...
    AsSu 11.248 18 If...Massachusetts could send to the Senate a better man than Mr. Sumner, his death would be only so much the more quick and certain.
    JBB 11.271 26 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
    ACiv 11.297 12 ...for two or three ages [slavery] has lasted, and has yielded a certain quantity of rice, cotton and sugar.
    ACiv 11.301 22 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...and those less interested are...averse to innovation. It is like free trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat;...
    ACiv 11.308 5 It is very certain that 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.
    ALin 11.333 12 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but as jests;...
    ALin 11.335 25 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture.
    ALin 11.337 12 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which, with a slow but stern justice, carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...
    HCom 11.342 2 Even Divine Providence...always seems to work after a certain military necessity.
    HCom 11.343 2 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if I decline. ... Only one thing is certain, I can well die but i cannot afford to misbehave.
    SMC 11.351 17 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...mixes with surrounding nature...
    EdAd 11.384 25 The aspect this country presents is a certain maniacal activity...
    Wom 11.414 2 There is much in [women's] nature, much in their social position which gives them a certain power of divination.
    Wom 11.426 4 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
    FRep 11.523 26 ...a certain style of living fast becomes necessary;...
    FRep 11.526 2 The history of civilization, or the refining of certain races to wonderful power of performance, is analogous;...
    FRep 11.534 19 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading.
    FRep 11.537 24 'T is certain that our civilization is yet incomplete...
    FRep 11.542 20 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...
    PLT 12.9 26 ...what we really want is...a certain piety toward the source of action and knowledge.
    PLT 12.10 1 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled...
    PLT 12.20 9 It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and fitting and identity in their frame.
    PLT 12.20 25 ...a well-ordered mind brings to the study of every new fact or class of facts a certain divination of that which it shall find.
    PLT 12.27 18 There is no permanent wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company or other favorable conditions, become wise...
    PLT 12.27 22 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms...
    PLT 12.28 1 An individual mind...is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up...
    PLT 12.31 12 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing or doing somewhat which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on that, that it seems a sort of obtuseness to everything else.
    PLT 12.34 23 [Instinct] is that source of thought and feeling which acts on masses of men, on all men at certain times with resistless power.
    PLT 12.43 18 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. In like mood an old verse, or certain words, gleam with rare significance.
    PLT 12.43 26 We believe that certain persons add to the common vision a certain degree of control over these states of mind;...
    PLT 12.43 27 We believe that certain persons add to the common vision a certain degree of control over these states of mind;...
    PLT 12.47 8 The new sect stands for certain thoughts.
    PLT 12.47 12 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression.
    PLT 12.51 8 ...all concentration involves of necessity a certain narrowness.
    PLT 12.55 6 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern.
    PLT 12.62 9 We have all of us by nature a certain divination and parturient vaticination in our minds of some higher good and perfection than either power or knowledge.
    II 12.65 8 We have a certain blind wisdom...
    II 12.65 11 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...which seems to sheathe a certain omniscience;...
    II 12.65 23 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects.
    II 12.66 14 All men are, in respect to this source of truth [consciousness], on a certain footing of equality...
    II 12.67 17 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces, as whether that be large and serene, or dispiriting and degrading. Then we get a certain habit of the mind as the measure;...
    II 12.72 25 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money.
    II 12.74 7 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it, and perhaps his only concern with it is some copyright of an edition in which certain pages...are contained.
    II 12.76 24 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...
    II 12.76 26 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid...and, at certain privileged moments, emerge unaccountably into light.
    II 12.79 12 ...there are certain problems one would not willingly open, except when the irresistible oracles broke silence.
    II 12.80 5 All intellectual virtue consists in a reliance on Ideas. It must be carried with a certain magnificence.
    CInt 12.121 7 A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of truth.
    CInt 12.121 8 A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of truth.
    CInt 12.124 11 ...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges...
    CInt 12.124 26 ...of necessity, a certain hostility and jealousy of genius grows up in the masters of routine...
    CInt 12.125 3 ...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    CInt 12.131 5 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived...
    CL 12.138 4 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...
    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.
    CL 12.146 9 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian...
    CL 12.158 20 Dr. Johnson said, Few men know how to take a walk, and it is certain that Dr. Johnson was not one of the few.
    Bost 12.184 20 Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers attach...
    Bost 12.192 26 ...in that time [of the settlement of Massachusetts]...a certain degree of terror still clouded the idea of God in the mind of the purest.
    Bost 12.202 26 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which consumed all opposition...
    Bost 12.208 9 ...there is yet in every city a certain permanent tone;...
    Bost 12.210 10 We praised with a certain adulation the invariable valor of the old war-gods and war-councillors of the Revolution.
    MAng1 12.218 24 ...certain minds...possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things...
    MAng1 12.228 21 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...seeking that there should be in the composition a certain universal grace such as Nature makes...
    Milt1 12.257 15 Aubrey adds a sharp trait, [Milton] pronounced the letter R very hard, a certain sign of satirical genius.
    Milt1 12.263 27 ...[Milton] declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.
    Milt1 12.264 15 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.
    ACri 12.284 6 There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
    ACri 12.288 10 ...'t is certain that some men swear with genius.
    ACri 12.293 5 Persons have been named from their abuse of certain phrases, as Pyramid Lambert...
    MLit 12.310 6 I have just been reading poems which now in memory shine with a certain steady, warm, autumnal light.
    MLit 12.310 11 Over every true poem lingers a certain wild beauty, immeasurable;...
    MLit 12.312 16 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn...
    MLit 12.318 8 [The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature, which is courted in a certain moody and exploring spirit...
    MLit 12.324 15 ...a certain greatness encircles every fact [Goethe] treats;...
    WSL 12.339 20 In Mr. Landor's coarseness there is a certain air of defiance...
    WSL 12.345 16 What is the quality of the persons who...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...
    PPr 12.385 23 ...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.
    PPr 12.386 21 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...
    Let 12.402 24 It is very certain that speculation is no succedaneum for life.
    Trag 12.416 1 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.
    Trag 12.416 4 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.

certain, n. (1)

    MoS 4.159 14 ...let us know what we know, for certain;...

certainly, adv. (85)

    DSA 1.137 1 The test of the true faith, certainly, should be its power to charm and command the soul...
    DSA 1.142 15 Certainly there have been periods when...a greater faith was possible in names and persons.
    LT 1.264 11 ...in the wild hope of a mountain boy, called by city boys very ignorant, because they do not know what his hope has certainly apprized him shall be;...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    LT 1.265 19 Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours. Certainly I think if this were done there would be much to admire as well as to condemn;...
    LT 1.271 24 This beauty which the fancy finds in everything else, certainly accuse