Charlatan to Chiffinch, William

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

charlatan, n. (4)

    Pol1 3.219 3 Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere.
    LLNE 10.354 27 Unless [the leader of a community] have a Cossack roughness of clearing himself of what belongs not, charlatan he must be.
    EzRy 10.389 19 [Ezra Ripley] was the easy dupe of any tonguey agent, whether...charlatan of iron combs, or tractors, or phrenology, or magnetism, who went by.
    PLT 12.48 18 To hammer out phalanxes must be done by smiths; as soon as the scholar attempts it, he is half a charlatan.

charlatanism, n. (3)

    PNR 4.89 8 All [Plato's] painting in the Republic must be esteemed mythical, with intent to bring out...his thought. You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
    ET8 5.142 11 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton shrinks from public life as charlatanism...
    II 12.79 19 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness, and no repentance. But the moment they attempt to say these things by memory, charlatanism begins.

charlatans, n. (3)

    SwM 4.130 7 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. Philosophers are, therefore, vipers...and flying serpents; literary men are conjurors and charlatans.
    LLNE 10.354 22 It is the worst of community that it must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders...
    Wom 11.425 4 ...let [new opinions] make their way by the upper road, and not by the way of manufacturing public opinion, which...makes charlatans.

Charlemagne, n. (1)

    ET4 5.55 27 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean.

Charles I, of England [Cha (1)

    Milt1 12.250 19 What under heaven had...the manner of living of Saumaise...or his niceties of diction, to do with the solemn question whether Charles Stuart had been rightly slain?

Charles I, of England, n. (4)

    ET5 5.79 3 Sir Kenelm Digby, a courtier of Charles and James...was a model Englishman in his day.
    ET8 5.139 15 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England]; Gentlemen, as Charles I. said of Strafford, whose abilities might make a prince rather afraid than ashamed in the greatest affairs of state;...
    ET12 5.211 23 Charles I. said that he understood English law as well as a gentleman ought to understand it.
    Milt1 12.273 2 [Milton] defends the slaying of the king, because a king is a king no longer than he governs by the laws; It would be right to kill Philip of Spain making an inroad into England, and what right the king of Spain hath to govern us at all, the same hath the king Charles to govern tyranically.

Charles II, of England, n. (4)

    Nat 1.21 13 Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of London, caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets of the city...
    OS 2.291 24 I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand Turk.
    ET3 5.38 21 Charles the Second said, [English temperature] invited men abroad more days in the year and more hours in the day than another country.
    PC 8.233 23 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it. In England the like spiritual disease affected the upper class in the time of Charles II....

Charles II's, of England, (1)

    ET11 5.173 1 In spite of...the devastation of society by the profligacy of the court, we take sides as we read for the loyal England, and King Charles's return to his right with his Cavaliers,

Charles IX, of France, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.192 2 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised;...

Charles River, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.186 24 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers...

Charles River, Massachusett (2)

    Boks 7.204 16 I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
    HDC 11.32 20 [The pilgrims] could cross the Massachusetts or Charles River, by the ferry at Newtown;...

Charles River, n. (1)

    Bost 12.187 4 ...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water of the Charles River...

Charles Town [Charlestown], (1)

    JBS 11.278 26 ...I incline to accept [John Brown's] own account of the matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little older, when he said, This was all settled millions of years before the world was made.

Charles V, Emperor, n. (3)

    LE 1.162 22 ...[the youth] has read the story of Emperor Charles the Fifth...
    MAng1 12.224 2 When the Florentines united themselves with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and Engineer, to superintend the erection of the necessary works.
    MAng1 12.224 10 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence]...

Charles V, Life of... [W. (1)

    Boks 7.206 9 The Life of the Emperor Charles V., by the useful Robertson, is still the key of the following age.

Charles V, of France, n. (1)

    Schr 10.277 10 I am apt to believe, with the Emperor Charles V., that as many languages as a man knows, so many times is he a man.

Charles V, of Spain, n. (1)

    UGM 4.23 3 I like...Charles V., of Spain;...

Charles V's, Emperor, n. (1)

    LE 1.163 10 ...in the great idea and the puny execution;-behold Charles the Fifth's day;...

Charles X, of Sweden [Gust (2)

    SR 2.63 2 Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus?
    Aris 10.57 13 It was objected to Gustavus that he did not better distinguish between the duties of a carabine and a general...

Charles XII, of Sweden, n (5)

    UGM 4.23 3 I like...Charles XII., of Sweden;...
    SwM 4.99 14 At the age of twenty-eight [Swedenborg] was made Assessor of the Board of Mines by Charles XII.
    SwM 4.100 14 [Swedenborg's] duties had brought him into intimate acquaintance with King Charles XII....
    Cour 7.267 5 Swedenborg has left this record of his king: Charles XII. of Sweden did not know what that was which others called fear...
    MAng1 12.227 27 The midnight battles, the forced marches, the winter campaigns of Julius Caesar or Charles XII. do not indicate greater strength of body or of mind [than Michelangelo's].

Charles's Wain, n. (1)

    Civ 7.30 18 Let us not lie and steal. No god will help. We shall find all their teams going the other way,--Charles's Wain, Great Bear...every god will leave us.

Charleston, South Carolina, (1)

    Chr2 10.118 9 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the reform of convicts and harlots,-as the war created the Hilton Head and Charleston missions...

Charleston, South Carolina, (7)

    ET3 5.40 27 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was...by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure...by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.
    SlHr 10.437 22 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina... whilst staying in Charleston...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...
    SlHr 10.438 12 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    EWI 11.132 15 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...
    ACiv 11.301 14 Here is a woman who has no other property [but slaves],- like a lady in Charleston I knew of, who owned fifteen sweeps and rode in her carriage.
    EPro 11.323 14 Give the Confederacy New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore.
    ALin 11.336 12 [Lincoln] had seen Savannah, Charleston and Richmond surrendered;...

Charlestown Jail, West Vir (1)

    JBB 11.270 11 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises his brave fellow sufferers in the Charlestown Jail;...

Charlestown, West Virginia, (1)

    Elo2 8.125 20 ...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience. It is the merit of John Brown and of Abraham Lincoln--one at Charlestown, one at Gettysburg...

charm, n. (91)

    Nat 1.17 20 Not less excellent...was the charm...of a January sunset.
    Nat 1.54 13 Again; The charm dissolves apace/...
    Nat 1.55 17 Is not the charm of one of Plato's or Aristotle's definitions strictly like that of the Antigone of Sophocles?
    DSA 1.133 24 Now do not degrade the life and dialogues of Christ out of the circle of this charm...
    DSA 1.146 2 The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm.
    Hist 2.25 18 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons speak simply...
    SR 2.48 14 So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm...
    Lov1 2.174 26 In looking backward [many men] may find that several things which were not the charm have more reality to this groping memory than the charm itself which embalmed them.
    Lov1 2.174 27 In looking backward [many men] may find that several things which were not the charm have more reality to this groping memory than the charm itself which embalmed them.
    Lov1 2.179 4 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form?
    Hsm1 2.259 20 Let the maiden, with erect soul...search in turn all the objects that solicit her eye, that she may learn the power and the charm of her new-born being...
    Int 2.332 27 Every trivial fact in [the writer's] private biography...delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.
    Art1 2.352 20 The Genius of the Hour sets his ineffaceable seal on the work [of art] and gives it an inexpressible charm for the imagination.
    Art1 2.353 14 ...that which is inevitable in the work [of art] has a higher charm than individual talent can ever give...
    Art1 2.358 23 The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces... can ever teach...
    Art1 2.359 6 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak.
    Pt1 3.30 16 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics...but it is felt in every definition;...
    Chr1 3.105 26 Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought. When I explored the source of their sanctity and charm for the imagination, it seemed as if each answered, From my non-conformity...
    Mrs1 3.148 26 Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners...
    Nat2 3.193 12 The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him.
    NR 3.234 5 ...the wonder and charm of [art] is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
    UGM 4.10 7 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...
    UGM 4.13 13 Looking where others look, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them.
    PPh 4.56 2 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    MoS 4.152 16 After dinner, a man believes less, denies more: verities have lost some charm.
    GoW 4.280 4 No generous youth can escape this charm of reality in the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]...
    GoW 4.287 6 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself;...
    ET2 5.31 16 Classics which at home are drowsily read, have a strange charm in a country inn...
    ET5 5.101 17 The charm in Nelson's history is the unselfish greatness, the assurance of being supported to the uttermost by those whom he supports to the uttermost.
    ET14 5.232 17 [The plain style] imports into [English] songs and ballads the smell of the earth...and, like a Dutch painter, seeks a household charm...
    ET14 5.253 5 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;...
    Ctr 6.158 16 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions, which pass for more to the people than to me. We see this abstraction in scholars, as a matter of course; but what a charm it adds when observed in practical men.
    Ctr 6.159 16 [People] do not know the charm with which all moments and objects can be embellished...
    Ctr 6.159 18 [People] do not know the charm with which all moments and objects can be embellished, the charm of manners, of self-command, of benevolence.
    Bhr 6.192 23 That is the charm in all good novels...that the heroes mutually understand, from the first...
    Bhr 6.192 24 That is the charm in all good novels, as it is the charm in all good histories, that the heroes mutually understand, from the first...
    Wsp 6.216 22 ...any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
    Bty 6.290 1 ...the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our perception that not one ornament was added for ornament...
    Bty 6.292 20 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry, and to watch the steps through which it is attained. This is the charm of running water...
    Ill 6.317 15 'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play...
    Civ 7.24 3 ...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
    Civ 7.28 16 ...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...and it went like a charm.
    Art2 7.53 15 The gayest charm of beauty has a root in the constitution of things.
    DL 7.126 12 One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature, when he...sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm...
    Farm 7.137 18 ...the profession [of farming] has in all eyes its ancient charm, as standing nearest to God, the first cause.
    Clbs 7.226 14 Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts...others lay criticism asleep by a charm.
    Clbs 7.231 9 ...who can resist the charm of talent?
    Clbs 7.236 17 ...[Dr. Johnson's] conversation...has a lasting charm.
    Cour 7.272 15 The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions...
    PI 8.5 11 Thin or solid, everything is in flight. I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry...
    PI 8.11 11 Seas, forests, metals, diamonds and fossils interest the eye, but 't is only with some preparatory or predicting charm.
    PI 8.25 3 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure. Every one of a million times we find a charm in the metamorphosis.
    PI 8.25 8 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me Shelley...to show that it has no charm, I am quite of their mind.
    PI 8.45 18 ...no matter what objects are near [water]...they become beautiful by being reflected. It is rhyme to the eye, and explains the charm of rhyme to the ear.
    PI 8.45 25 In society you have this figure [of rhyme] in a bridal company, where a choir of white-robed maidens give the charm of living statues;...
    PI 8.46 26 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be...derived from the human pulse, and to be therefore not proper to one nation, but to mankind. I think you will also find a charm heroic, plaintive, pathetic, in these cadences...
    PI 8.67 19 Do you think Burns...has opened no eyes and ears to...the dignity of man and the charm and excellence of woman?
    SA 8.79 9 Who does not delight in fine manners? Their charm cannot be predicted or overstated.
    Elo2 8.120 11 A good voice has a charm in speech as in song;...
    QO 8.191 13 ...the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm.
    QO 8.193 10 There is...a new charm in such intellectual works as, passing through long time, have had a multitude of authors and improvers.
    QO 8.193 21 Every word in the language has once been used happily. The ear, caught by that felicity, retains it, and it is used again and again, as if the charm belonged to the word and not to the life of thought which so enforced it.
    QO 8.198 2 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
    QO 8.203 11 The earliest describers of savage life...have a charm of truth...
    Grts 8.305 7 Others find a charm and a profession in the natural history of man and the mammalia or related animals;...
    PerF 10.79 1 The power of persistence...is one of these [mental] forces which never loses its charm.
    Chr2 10.115 27 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    Chr2 10.116 1 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm of poetry...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    Edc1 10.128 10 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant. He too must come into this magic circle of relations, and know...the charm of riches, the charm of power.
    Edc1 10.130 25 ...what is the charm which every ore, every new plant... possess for Humboldt?
    Edc1 10.137 11 The charm of life is this variety of genius...
    Prch 10.226 27 ...the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of men.
    Plu 10.300 26 ...twilights, shadows, omens and spectres have a charm for [Plutarch].
    MMEm 10.414 24 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me, Even these leaves you use to think my better emblem have lost their charm on me too...
    Thor 10.475 6 ...[Thoreau] would have detected every live stanza or line in a volume [of poetry] and knew very well where to find an equal poetic charm in prose.
    Carl 10.494 20 A strong nature has a charm for [Carlyle]...
    War 11.171 18 The manhood that has been in war must be transferred to the cause of peace, before war can lose its charm...
    War 11.173 13 This self-subsistency is the charm of war;...
    JBS 11.276 24 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.
    TPar 11.287 4 The old religions have a charm for most minds which it is a little uncanny to disturb.
    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.
    Shak1 11.450 9 ...such [is] the charm of [Shakespeare's] speech, that he still agitates the heart in age as in youth...
    FRO2 11.490 16 ...the charm of the study is in finding the agreements, the identities, in all the religions of men.
    PLT 12.64 4 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all. Our poetry, our religion are its skirts and penumbrae. Yet the charm of life is the hints we derive from this.
    CL 12.166 20 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form;...
    MAng1 12.216 21 It is a happiness to find...a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty. So shall not the indescribable charm of the natural world...want observers.
    Milt1 12.263 1 The victories of the conscience in [Milton] are gained by the commanding charm which all the severe and restrictive virtues have for him.
    ACri 12.303 15 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm...
    MLit 12.335 2 A charm as radiant as beauty ever beamed...is new to-day.
    WSL 12.341 23 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame...
    EurB 12.374 16 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect, because he speedily betrays that he does not see the true limitations of the charm;...

charm, v. (12)

    DSA 1.124 25 Wonderful is [the religious sentiment's] power to charm and to command.
    DSA 1.137 2 The test of the true faith, certainly, should be its power to charm and command the soul...
    ET12 5.213 13 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...to give veracity to art and charm mankind...
    ET14 5.237 11 ...these [English poets] were so quick and vital that they could charm and enrich by mean and vulgar objects.
    Bhr 6.181 7 The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
    SS 7.11 5 ...the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is [the scholar's] rent and ration.
    PI 8.54 27 ...the masters sometimes rise above themselves to strains which charm their readers...
    SA 8.80 4 ...a few natures are central and forever unfold, and these alone charm us.
    SovE 10.200 11 Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought harmoniously organized into correspondence with the universe of mind and matter. What narrative of wonders coming down from a thousand years ought to charm his attention like this?
    SovE 10.209 17 ...the inspirations we catch of this [moral] law are...joyful sparkles...and that is their priceless good to men, that they charm and uplift...
    Plu 10.300 13 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch. These distant friendships charm us...
    Plu 10.302 1 Thebes, Sparta, Athens and Rome charm us away from the disgust of the passing hour.

charmed, adj. (1)

    MN 1.193 21 Into our charmed circle, power cannot enter;...

charmed, v. (15)

    Comp 2.93 7 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn, charmed my fancy...
    ShP 4.197 20 ...in the whole society of English writers, a large unacknowledged debt [to Chaucer] is easily traced. One is charmed with the opulence which feeds so many pensioners.
    ET16 5.281 19 The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley], charmed with the geometric perfections of his ruin, connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and religion of the world...
    CbW 6.259 24 The youth is charmed with the fine air and accomplishments of the children of fortune.
    WD 7.174 14 An everlasting Now reigns in Nature, which hangs the same roses on our bushes which charmed the Roman and the Chaldaean in their hanging-gardens.
    Cour 7.256 22 Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions...
    OA 7.314 8 ...Lowly faithful, banish fear,/ Right onward drive unharmed;/ The port, well worth the cruise, is near,/ And every wave is charmed./
    Aris 10.33 14 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation, or rumor, or influence of good and fair...superficially touched, yet charmed by these shadows:-and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...
    Aris 10.39 17 I wish...men who are charmed by the beautiful Nemesis as well as by the dire Nemesis...
    Plu 10.296 3 Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares, I am always charmed with Plutarch;...
    Wom 11.411 15 There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman, who charmed beholders by this new expression...
    Scot 11.464 8 [Scott's] own ear had been charmed by old ballads...
    CPL 11.508 12 ...read proudly; put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed,- but I shall not make believe I am charmed.
    CPL 11.508 13 ...read proudly; put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed,- but I shall not make believe I am charmed.
    MLit 12.330 15 In reading [Wilhelm] Meister, I am charmed with the insight;...

Charmides [Plato], n. (1)

    Pt1 3.30 26 ...Socrates, in Charmides, 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;...

charming, adj. (12)

    Nat 1.8 14 The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms.
    Lov1 2.180 17 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself when it dissatisfies us with any end;...
    ET4 5.58 23 ...crowbars, peat-knives and hay-forks are tools valued by [the Norsemen] all the more for their charming aptitude for assassinations.
    ET16 5.285 2 I had not seen more charming grounds [than at Wilton Hall].
    Bhr 6.188 8 ...nothing is more charming than to recognize the great style which runs through the actions of such [persons of character].
    WD 7.182 15 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy]. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers; as was said of the letters of the Frenchwoman,--the charming accident of their more charming existence.
    WD 7.182 16 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy]. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers; as was said of the letters of the Frenchwoman,--the charming accident of their more charming existence.
    Boks 7.200 24 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters is a charming portraiture of ancient manners and discourse...
    MoL 10.243 27 The Greek was so perfect in action and in imagination, his poems...so charming in form and so true to the human mind, that we cannot forget or outgrow their mythology.
    LLNE 10.367 11 The question which occurs to you had occurred much earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to be done?
    MAng1 12.217 12 Can this charming element [Beauty] be so abstracted by the human mind as to become a distinct and permanent object?
    Milt1 12.275 9 ...the Comus [is] a transcript, in charming numbers, of that philosophy of chastity, which, in the Apology for Smectymnuus, and in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] declares to be his defence and religion.

charming, v. (4)

    Bty 6.301 14 This is the triumph of expression...charming us with a power so fine and friendly and intoxicating that it makes admired persons insipid...
    Elo1 7.91 7 ...all these talents [of oratory], so potent and charming, have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
    DL 7.103 22 [The child's] ignorance is more charming than all knowledge...
    OA 7.315 20 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute], charming by its uniform rhetorical merit;...

charms, n. (6)

    SL 2.150 13 Persons approach us...worthy of all wonder for their charms and gifts;...with very imperfect result.
    Lov1 2.187 16 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together...that magical play of charms,--was deciduous...
    ShP 4.216 2 Epicurus relates that poetry hath such charms that a lover might forsake his mistress to partake of them.
    Bty 6.303 16 ...the Welsh bard warns his countrywomen, Half of their charms with Cadwallon shall die./
    MMEm 10.425 17 ...[the earth's] youthful charms as decked by the hand of Moses' Cosmogony, will linger about the heart, while Poetry succumbs to Science.
    SMC 11.348 1 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/

charms, v. (5)

    Pt1 3.39 18 ...by and by [the poet] says something which is original and beautiful. That charms him.
    Chr1 3.94 7 When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it, as man charms down the resistance of the lower animals.
    Boks 7.200 9 Plutarch charms by the facility of his associations;...
    PerF 10.81 22 See how rich life is; rich in private talents, each of which charms us in turn...
    CW 12.175 18 ...the word park always charms me.

charnel-breath, n. (1)

    SwM 4.144 18 [Swedenborg's] laurel so largely mixed with cypress, a charnel-breath so mingles with the temple incense, that boys and maids will shun the spot.

Charon, n. (1)

    SwM 4.133 20 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon ferries them all over in his boat;...

Charron, Pierre, n. (1)

    ET1 5.8 5 I could not make [Landor] praise Mackintosh, nor my more recent friends; Montaigne very cordially,--and Charron also...

chart, n. (8)

    UGM 4.12 18 Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
    ET2 5.32 13 Reckoned from the time when we left soundings, our speed was such that the captain [of the Washington Irving] drew the line of his course in red ink on his chart...
    ET3 5.40 20 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
    Wth 6.96 24 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer for the chart.
    Civ 7.24 19 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship steered by compass and chart...
    Elo2 8.115 26 [The orator's speech] is action, as the general's word of command or chart of battle is action.
    Res 8.137 5 We are...each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart...
    PLT 12.16 25 Who has found the boundaries of human intelligence? Who has made a chart of its channel...

Charta, Magna, n. [Charta] (4)

    ET18 5.301 21 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct to go out and come into England...
    ET18 5.308 1 Magna Charta, said Rushworth, is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.
    CbW 6.253 18 ...savage forest laws and crushing despotism made possible the inspirations of Magna Charta under John.
    PC 8.214 20 ...[The Middle Ages'] Magna Charta, decimal numbers...are the delight and tuition of ours.

charted, v. (1)

    Bost 12.190 22 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its waters bounded and marked by lighthouses, buoys and sea-marks; every foot sounded and charted;...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...

charter, n. (10)

    ET5 5.81 25 Is it a machine, is it a charter...the universe of Englishmen will suspend their judgment until the trial can be had.
    ET11 5.196 20 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England],--that intellect and personal force should make the law;...
    ET18 5.306 1 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters...
    PC 8.218 14 Wit has a great charter.
    PPo 8.249 15 Love is a leveller, and Allah becomes a groom, and heaven a closet, in [Hafiz's] daring hymns to his mistress or to his cupbearer. This boundless charter is the right of genius.
    HDC 11.42 26 The charter gave to the freemen of the Company of Massachusetts Bay the election of the Governor and Council of Assistants.
    HDC 11.50 13 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians, and to win them to the knowledge of the true God. This indeed, in so many words, is expressed in the charter of the colony as one of its ends;...
    FSLN 11.235 3 To make good the cause of Freedom, you must draw off from all foolish trust in others. You must be...the charter, the battle and the victory.
    CInt 12.115 3 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then resign your charter to the Legislature, turn your college into barracks and warehouses...
    Bost 12.189 3 A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay] from all other colonies was that the persons composing it consented to come on the one condition that the charter should be transferred from the company in England to themselves;...

Charter, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.239 25 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of the contending parties.

charter-box, n. (1)

    ET5 5.81 15 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from year to year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance, with calculations and estimates. But, meantime, he is drawing numbers and money to his opinion, resolved that if all remedy fails, right of revolution is at the bottom of his charter-box.

chartered, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.45 23 The Governor [of the Massachusetts Bay Colony] conspires with [the settlers] in limiting his claims to their obedience, and values much more their love than his chartered authority.

charters, n. (3)

    ET5 5.75 22 The power of the Saxon-Danes...so vivacious as to extort charters from the kings, stood on the strong personality of these people.
    ET11 5.172 21 In spite of...stolen charters...we take sides as we read for the loyal England...
    FRep 11.521 23 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race...

chartism, n. (1)

    ET11 5.196 20 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England],--that intellect and personal force should make the law;...

Chartism, n. (2)

    ET9 5.150 26 The English dislike the American structure of society, whilst yet trade, mills, public education and Chartism are doing what they can to create in England the same social condition.
    II 12.81 21 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them...

Chartist, adj. (2)

    ET11 5.184 2 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in England] were for the first time actively interesting themselves in their own defence...
    ET15 5.270 18 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour, yet being apprised of...every Chartist resolution...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.

Chartist, n. (4)

    Aris 10.62 20 ...[the gentleman] will find...in English palaces the London twist...contempt of the masses, contempt of Ireland, dislike of the Chartist.
    Aris 10.63 9 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw?
    Aris 10.63 16 Let [the man of honor] accept the position of armed neutrality, abhorring the crimes of the Chartist...
    Carl 10.497 21 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people, for the Chartist, for the pauper...

chartists, n. (1)

    ET4 5.51 6 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes,--dukes and chartists, Bishops of Durham and naked heathen colliers;...

Chartists, n. (1)

    ET15 5.264 10 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England, until it had enrolled 200,000 special constables to watch the Chartists...

charts, n. (1)

    Wth 6.98 10 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess, such as cyclopedias, dictionaries, tables, charts, maps and other public documents;...

Chase, Chevy [Ballad], n. (1)

    PI 8.25 19 Give [people]...Chevy Chase, or Tam O'Shanter, and they like these well enough.

chase, n. (6)

    Fdsp 2.198 9 The instinct of affection revives the hope of union with our mates, and the returning sense of insulation recalls us from the chase.
    ET2 5.27 5 ...they say at sea a stern chase is a long race...
    ET4 5.70 10 [The English] think...with the Arabs, that the days spent in the chase are not counted in the length of life.
    PPo 8.262 7 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./ To me, appointed to the chase,/ The king's hand gives the grouse's breast;/ Whilst a chatterer like thee/ Must gnaw worms in the thorn. Farewell!/
    Insp 8.280 2 The Arabs say that Allah does not count from life the days spent in the chase...
    CW 12.174 9 ...[a man in his wood-lot] remembers that Allah in his allotment of life does not count the time which the Arab spends in the chase.

chase, v. (4)

    Nat 1.54 16 ...so their rising senses/ Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle/ Their clearer reason./
    Chr1 3.113 4 We chase some flying scheme...
    Civ 7.17 18 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
    Dem1 10.8 9 If I strike, I am struck; if I chase, I am pursued.

chased, v. (1)

    Bty 6.279 5 Beauty chased [Seyd] everywhere/...

chasing, n. (1)

    PPr 12.389 7 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons, like a showery south wind with its sunbursts and rapid chasing of lights and glooms over the landscape...

chasing, v. (1)

    Exp 3.80 12 Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail?

chasm, n. (6)

    DSA 1.145 15 ...the chasm yawns to that breadth, that men can scarcely be convinced there is in them anything divine.
    MoS 4.184 27 In every house...this chasm is found,--between the largest promise of ideal power, and the shabby experience.
    ET2 5.29 21 To the geologist...the land is in perpetual flux and change, now blown up like a tumor, now sunk in a chasm...
    Wsp 6.238 26 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely...the terror of its being taken away... The whole revelation that is vouchsafed us is the gentle trust, which, in our experience, we find will cover also with flowers the slopes of this chasm.
    MoL 10.244 12 See the activity of the imagination in the Crusades...the chasm was bridged over;...
    Let 12.394 24 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity. They believe that this society would fill up the terrific chasm of ennui...

chasms, n. (3)

    Nat 1.60 18 ...not at all disturbed by chasms of historical evidence, [the soul] accepts from God the phenomenon [Christianity], as it finds it...
    UGM 4.32 22 The genius of humanity is the real subject whose biography is written in our annals. We must infer much, and supply many chasms in the record.
    ET2 5.29 17 In our graveyards we scoop a pit, but this aggressive water opens mile-wide pits and chasms...

chaste, adj. (9)

    SR 2.71 21 How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look...
    SR 2.73 4 I shall endeavor...to be the chaste husband of one wife...
    Pt1 3.28 25 The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body.
    ET8 5.130 23 [The English]...shake their heads if [a man] is particularly chaste.
    Elo1 7.66 15 If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence [in the audience] of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede; a more chaste and wise attention takes place.
    Chr2 10.108 23 ...the stern determination...to be chaste and humble, was substantially the same, whether under a self-respect, or under a vow made on the knees at the shrine of Madonna.
    LLNE 10.354 19 [The Fourier marriage] was...ignorant how serious and how moral [women's] nature always is; how chaste is their organization;...
    MAng1 12.240 11 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see [Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed; and they all breathe a chaste and divine regard, unparalleled in any amatory poetry except that of Dante and Petrarch.
    Milt1 12.263 7 [Milton] was...chaste...

chasten, v. (1)

    ET14 5.235 12 A good [English] writer, if he has indulged in a Roman roundness, makes haste to chasten and nerve his period by English monosyllables.

chastened, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.129 23 These are ascending stairs [to eloquence],--a good voice, winning manners, plain speech, chastened...by the schools into correctness;...

chastised, v. (1)

    Bost 12.186 11 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...not less ambition in our blood, which Puritanism has not sufficiently chastised;...

chastity, n. (9)

    SwM 4.127 21 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total; and chastity not a local, but a universal virtue;...
    Cour 7.270 24 [John Brown] held the belief that courage and chastity are silent concerning themselves.
    PI 8.32 4 Chastity, [men of the world] admit, is very well,--but then think of Mirabeau's passion and temperament!
    SovE 10.187 11 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;-virtue meaning physical courage, then chastity and temperance, then justice and love;...
    Bost 12.193 11 ...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology, which yet conceals some grand commandment; as...honesty, or chastity and generosity.
    Milt1 12.264 8 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight;...
    Milt1 12.265 12 [Milton's native honor] is the spirit of Comus, the loftiest song in the praise of chastity that is in any language.
    Milt1 12.272 23 ...with his whole heart [Milton] abhors licentiousness and loves chastity.
    Milt1 12.275 10 ...the Comus [is] a transcript, in charming numbers, of that philosophy of chastity, which, in the Apology for Smectymnuus, and in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] declares to be his defence and religion.

Chat Moss, England, n. (1)

    ET5 5.95 12 Chat Moss and the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are unhealthy and too barren to pay rent.

Chat Moss, English, n. (1)

    Farm 7.150 16 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land, make it sweet and friable; have made English Chat Moss a garden...

chat, n. (4)

    Fdsp 2.203 15 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets...
    Fdsp 2.210 11 I can get politics and chat and neighborly conveniences from cheaper companions [than my friend].
    Chr1 3.104 20 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character]...
    Clbs 7.232 17 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 they...please themselves by sallies and chat...

chat, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.171 12 ...ever like a dear friend and brother when we chat affectedly with strangers, comes in this honest face [of nature], and takes a grave liberty with us...

chateau, n. (3)

    MoS 4.163 7 ...in prosecuting my correspondence [with John Sterling], I found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...
    Wth 6.100 27 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor, surprised at the contrast between the splendor of the banker's chateau and hospitality and the meanness of the counting-room in which he had seen him,--Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Wth 6.113 17 Montaigne said, When he was a younger brother, he went brave in dress and equipage, but afterward his chateau and farms might answer for him.

Chateaubriand, Francois Ren (2)

    QO 8.203 18 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until Chateaubriand, or Moore, or Campbell, or Byron, or the artists, arrive...
    MLit 12.319 24 [Shelley]...shares with Richter, Chateaubriand, Manzoni and Wordsworth the feeling of the Infinite...

Chateaubriand, Francois Ren (1)

    Chr2 10.104 6 Chateaubriand said...If God made man in his image, man has paid him well back.

chateaux, n. (2)

    NMW 4.257 24 ...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new conscriptions; and they who had toiled so desperately were never nearer to the reward,--they could not...strut in their chateaux,--they deserted [Napoleon].
    ET11 5.180 24 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy: their chateaux will be reduced to ashes and their blood be spilt in torrents.

Chatham, Earl of [William (30)

    MN 1.207 2 When Chatham leads the debate, men may well listen, because they must listen.
    Pt1 3.18 2 ...it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to speak in Parliament.
    Chr1 3.89 1 I have read that those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man than anything which he said.
    NMW 4.244 4 [Napoleon] could not confound Fox and Pitt, Carnot, Lafayette and Bernadotte, with the dangler of his court;...
    GoW 4.270 24 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no Chatham, but any number of clever parliamentary and forensic debaters;...
    ET4 5.68 25 ...[the English] know where their war-dogs lie. Cromwell, Blake, Marlborough, Chatham, Nelson and Wellington are not to be trifled with...
    ET5 5.90 12 Many of the great [English] leaders, like Pitt, Canning, Castlereagh...are soon worked to death.
    ET5 5.90 17 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and when they find one, like...Mansfield, Pitt, Eldon...there is nothing too good or too high for him.
    ET6 5.111 7 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer; Chatham, that confidence was a plant of slow growth;...
    ET9 5.146 27 Lord Chatham goes for liberty and no taxation without representation;...
    ET10 5.168 20 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.
    ET18 5.306 26 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox, Burke, Pitt...were by this means sent to Parliament...
    Ctr 6.152 26 Mr. Pitt...thought the title of Mister good against any king in Europe.
    Bhr 6.182 2 The nose of Julius Caesar, of Dante, and of Pitt, suggest the terrors of the beak.
    Elo1 7.63 12 [The orator's audience] come to get justice done to that ear and intuition which no Chatham and no Demosthenes has begun to satisfy.
    Elo1 7.85 4 ...the splendid weapons which went to the equipment...of Fox, of Pitt...deserve a special enumeration.
    Elo1 7.94 25 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this strength of character...
    Elo1 7.99 8 To stand on one's own feet, Heeren finds the key-note to the discourses of Demosthenes, as of Chatham.
    DL 7.103 13 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...his lips touched with persuasion which Chatham and Pericles in manhood had not.
    Cour 7.253 22 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown...of Chatham...
    Elo2 8.113 9 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.
    Elo2 8.117 18 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression, like Chatham, Erskine, Patrick Henry, Webster, or Phillips, all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...
    PC 8.218 8 If [a man] has...administrative faculty, like Chatham or Bismarck, he is the king's king.
    Aris 10.51 23 To a right aristocracy...to Sir Robert Walpole, to Fox, Chatham...everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    EWI 11.109 8 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce and supported by him and by Fox and Burke and Pitt...
    EWI 11.128 2 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.137 1 All the great geniuses of the British senate, Fox, Pitt, Burke... ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...
    EWI 11.141 6 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...pipe-bowls and trinkets. These he showed to Mr. Pitt...
    AsSu 11.250 27 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of Chatham...
    ACri 12.286 11 He who would be powerful must have the terrible gift of familiarity,-Mirabeau, Chatham, Fox...

Chatham, Lord [William Pit (1)

    EWI 11.109 3 Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were drawn into the generous enterprise [emancipation of West Indian slaves].

Chatham's, Earl of [William (2)

    LE 1.163 11 ...in the great idea and the puny execution;...behold Chatham' s...day...
    SR 2.59 26 [Virtue] is it which throws thunder into Chatham's voice...

Chatsworth, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.193 18 The respectable Duke of Devonshire...is reported to have said that he cannot live at Chatsworth but one month in the year.

chattels, n. (1)

    MR 1.239 10 ...[the heir] is converted from the owner into a watchman or a watch-dog to this magazine of old and new chattels.

chatter, n. (4)

    Nat2 3.171 5 We come to our own [in the woods], and make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise.
    ET13 5.225 10 The chatter of French politics, the steam-whistle...had quite put most of the old legends out of mind;...
    DL 7.113 9 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to hear an endless chatter and blast;...
    Suc 7.309 17 When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop.

chatterer, n. (1)

    PPo 8.262 9 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./ To me, appointed to the chase,/ The king's hand gives the grouse's breast;/ Whilst a chatterer like thee/ Must gnaw worms in the thorn. Farewell!/

chattering, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.267 6 Young men, I warn you...against chattering, meddlesome, rich and official people.

chatters, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.229 4 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said, with their will or against their will. We do not care for you, let us pretend what we may,--we are always looking through you to the dim dictator behind you. Whilst your habit or whim chatters, we civilly and impatiently wait until that wise superior shall speak again.

Chatterton, Thomas, n. (1)

    QO 8.196 16 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as Chatterton in archaic ballad...

chatting, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.340 24 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were chatting agreeably on indifferent matters...

chatty, adj. (1)

    PI 8.18 8 The savans are chatty and vain...

Chaucer, Geoffrey, n. (24)

    AmS 1.91 27 We read the verses of one of the great English poets, of Chaucer...with the most modern joy...
    Hist 2.30 8 One after another [the advancing man] comes up in his private adventures with every fable...of Chaucer...
    OS 2.288 24 Humanity shines...in Chaucer...
    Pt1 3.31 13 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire...
    Pt1 3.41 1 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael, have obviously no limits to their works except the limits of their lifetime...
    ShP 4.197 8 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone, and puts it in high place, wherever he finds it. Such is the happy position of Homer perhaps; of Chaucer, of Saadi.
    ShP 4.197 15 The influence of Chaucer is conspicuous in all our early literature;...
    ShP 4.197 21 ...Chaucer is a huge borrower.
    ShP 4.197 22 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di Colonna...
    ShP 4.216 5 ...Chaucer is glad and erect;...
    ShP 4.216 24 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer, saw the splendor of meaning that plays over the visible world;...
    ET12 5.200 26 Chaucer found [Oxford] as firm as if it had always stood;...
    ET14 5.256 7 How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed! We want the miraculous;...the beauty of which Chaucer and Chapman had the secret.
    F 6.6 9 For certainly, our appetites here,/ Be it of warre, or pees, or hate, or love,/ All this is ruled by the sight above./ Chaucer: The Knight's Tale.
    F 6.46 2 If the threads are there, thought can follow and show them. Especially when a soul is quick and docile, as Chaucer sings...
    Ctr 6.132 7 Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the Canon Yeman's Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4, against alchemy.
    PI 8.25 14 ...read to [people] from Chaucer, and they reckon him an honest fellow.
    PPo 8.252 11 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry: that of Chaucer, in the House of Fame...
    Insp 8.295 13 You may read Chaucer, Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Milton...
    Aris 10.30 7 Than cometh our very gentillesse of grace,/ It was no thing bequethed us with our place./ Chaucer, The Knighte's Tale.
    Plu 10.297 13 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what Chaucer is among English poets...
    CL 12.136 8 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./
    ACri 12.296 11 Herrick is a remarkable example of the low style. He is, therefore, a good example of the modernness of an old English writer. So Latimer, so Chaucer, so the Bible.
    EurB 12.366 24 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward for writing such stuff. Homer, Horace, Milton and Chaucer would defy the coroner.

Chaucerian, adj. (1)

    LE 1.168 21 ...when I see the daybreak I am not reminded of these... Chaucerian pictures.

Chaucer's, Geoffrey, n. (2)

    ET14 5.234 10 Chaucer's hard painting of his Canterbury pilgrims satisfies the senses.
    Wsp 6.207 3 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. Such is Chaucer's extraordinary confusion of heaven and earth in the picture of Dido...

Chauncy, Charles, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.127 9 Dr. Charles Chauncy was...a man of marked ability among the clergy of New England.

chaunt, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.37 7 We do not with sufficient plainness or sufficient profoundness address ourselves to life, nor dare we chaunt our own times and social circumstance.

cheap, adj. (78)

    Nat 1.17 11 How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements!
    MN 1.207 25 Is it for [a man] to account himself cheap and superfluous...
    LT 1.285 8 By the side of these men [of the intellectual class], the hot agitators have a certain cheap and ridiculous air;...
    Tran 1.346 18 ...in our experience, man is cheap...
    YA 1.367 1 ...with cheap land...everything invites to the arts of agriculture...
    Hist 2.39 21 I hold our actual knowledge very cheap.
    SR 2.78 3 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends.
    Lov1 2.178 18 ...[the maiden] extrudes all other persons from [the lover's] attention as cheap and unworthy...
    Fdsp 2.213 14 Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons...
    Hsm1 2.255 23 ...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by petitions...
    OS 2.291 4 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground...
    Pt1 3.32 26 How cheap even the liberty then seems;...when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature;...
    Exp 3.53 6 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who...by such cheap signboards as the color of his beard or the slope of his occiput, reads the inventory of his fortunes and character.
    Chr1 3.111 16 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which...makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
    PPh 4.53 22 The Roman legion...the steam-mill, steamboat, steam-coach, may all be seen in perspective;...the newspaper and cheap press.
    PNR 4.80 4 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...we esteem one of the chief benefits the cheap press has yielded...
    PNR 4.81 4 With this artist [nature], time and space are cheap...
    ShP 4.192 10 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national interest...not a whit less considerable because it was cheap and of no account...
    ShP 4.196 16 There was no literature for the million [in Shakespeare's day]. The universal reading, the cheap press, were unknown.
    GoW 4.270 27 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no learned man, but learned societies, a cheap press...
    ET5 5.94 20 ...oranges and pine-apples are as cheap in London as in the Mediterranean.
    ET13 5.217 24 [The English Church] has the seal of...a ritual marked by the same secular merits, nothing cheap or purchasable.
    F 6.16 27 [The Germans and Irish] are...carted over America...to make corn cheap...
    Pow 6.70 19 ...fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap.
    Wth 6.107 17 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap.
    Wth 6.108 24 One might say...that nothing is cheap or dear...
    Wth 6.109 5 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap.
    Wth 6.109 12 ...power and pleasure are not cheap.
    Wth 6.122 22 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing...the peaks of Monadnoc and Uncanoonuc. What, thirty acres, and all this magnificence for fifteen hundred dollars! It would be cheap at fifty thousand.
    Ctr 6.148 22 In the country [a man] can find...cheap living and his old shoes;...
    Bhr 6.184 3 [The successful man of the world] knows that troops behave as they are handled at first; that is his cheap secret;...
    Wsp 6.223 20 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.
    Wsp 6.230 5 Wit is cheap, and anger is cheap;...
    CbW 6.247 16 I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred.
    Bty 6.283 2 Men hold themselves cheap and vile;...
    Bty 6.301 4 If a man...can make bread cheap...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    Bty 6.302 10 ...if a man can build a plain cottage with such symmetry as to make all the fine palaces look cheap and vulgar;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Civ 7.24 11 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge...by the cheap press, bringing the university to every poor man's door...
    DL 7.126 3 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society. Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so cheap and humble a result.
    DL 7.129 4 [Friendship] is the happiness which...makes politics and commerce and churches cheap.
    Farm 7.135 12 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain,/ They thank the spring-flood for its fertile slime,/ And on cheap summit-levels of the snow/ Slide with the sledge to inaccessible woods/ O'er meadows bottomless./
    WD 7.177 18 I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation who thought it an honor to wash his own face. He seemed to me more sane than those who hold themselves cheap.
    Boks 7.199 27 ...this book [Plutarch's Lives] has taken care of itself, and the opinion of the world is expressed in the innumerable cheap editions...
    Clbs 7.230 16 Nothing seems so cheap as the benefit of conversation; nothing is more rare.
    Suc 7.302 2 Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting...
    Suc 7.310 9 'T is cheap and easy to destroy.
    PI 8.35 24 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy, and the result is that one of the partners offers a poem in a new style that hints at a new literature. Yet the writer holds it cheap...
    Elo2 8.118 14 It does not surprise us...to learn from Plutarch what great sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of rhetoric; and if the pupils got what they paid for, the lessons were cheap.
    Res 8.143 10 It was thought that the immense production of gold would make gold cheap as pewter.
    PC 8.208 1 Land without price is offered to the settler, cheap education to his children.
    PC 8.215 22 If [your public] are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better.
    PC 8.231 21 A strenuous soul hates cheap successes.
    Insp 8.271 15 ...[the man] can see and do this or that cheap task, at will, but it steads him not beyond.
    Imtl 8.345 1 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as...altogether cheap and common...
    Edc1 10.125 2 A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
    Supl 10.174 2 ...these raptures of fire and frost, which...make the speech salt and biting, would cost me the days of well-being which are now so cheap to me, yet so valued.
    Supl 10.178 15 The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is established...in having water cheap and pure...
    MoL 10.244 23 Now it is agreed...that with universal cheap education we have stringent theology, but religion is low.
    Schr 10.287 17 I invite you [scholars] not to cheap joys...
    LLNE 10.358 3 The cheap way is to make every man do what he was born for.
    LLNE 10.358 13 Society in England and in America is trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces, in cooperative associations, in cheap eating-houses...
    LLNE 10.358 14 Society in England and in America is trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces, in cooperative associations, in cheap eating-houses, as well as in the economies of club-houses and in cheap reading-rooms.
    EWI 11.122 10 Our culture is very cheap and intelligible.
    FSLC 11.210 9 Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison [slavery],-bore, blast, excavate, pulverize, and shovel it once for all, down into the bottomless Pit. A thousand millions were cheap.
    FSLN 11.240 15 Liberty is never cheap.
    ACiv 11.302 1 ...imposts are the cheap and right taxation;...
    EdAd 11.383 9 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from the expansions effected by public schools, cheap postage and a cheap press...
    EdAd 11.383 10 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from the expansions effected by public schools, cheap postage and a cheap press...
    Wom 11.417 1 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject;...
    Wom 11.419 22 It is very cheap wit that finds it so droll that a woman should vote.
    Wom 11.420 15 On the questions that are important...whether the unlimited sale of cheap liquors shall be allowed;-[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
    CPL 11.501 16 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what grinds corn...is anything worth, I have little to say.
    PLT 12.22 8 ...a mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations...
    PLT 12.41 26 Do not trifle with your perceptions, or hold them cheap.
    CL 12.166 23 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must know [Nature's] simple, cheap pleasures...
    AgMs 12.361 3 ...why this recommendation [in the Agricultural Survey] of stone houses? They are not so cheap, not so dry, and not so fit for us [New England farmers].
    AgMs 12.361 20 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November;...
    EurB 12.373 1 ...the novels, which come to us in every ship from England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation through the new cheap press...

cheap, adv. (3)

    Exp 3.73 26 ...information is given us not to sell ourselves cheap;...
    Pow 6.65 9 Men in power...may be had cheap for any opinion...
    AKan 11.262 27 I think the American Revolution bought its glory cheap.

cheapened, v. (1)

    MR 1.231 25 ...in the Spanish islands...no article passes into our ships which has not been fraudulently cheapened.

cheaper, adj. (11)

    YA 1.383 5 It has turned out cheaper to make calico by companies;...
    Fdsp 2.210 12 I can get politics and chat and neighborly conveniences from cheaper companions [than my friend].
    ET5 5.96 7 Artificial aids of all kinds are cheaper [in England] than the natural resources.
    ET5 5.96 10 Gas-burners are cheaper than daylight in numberless floors in the cities [of England].
    ET13 5.230 19 But the religion of England...is it the sects? no; they...are to the Established Church as cabs are to a coach, cheaper and more convenient, but really the same thing.
    Wth 6.107 11 The manufacturer says he will furnish you with just that thickness or thinness [of paper] you want;...here is his schedule;--any variety of paper, as cheaper or dearer, with the prices annexed.
    Farm 7.140 10 ...for sleep, [the farmer] has cheaper and better and more of it than citizens.
    Thor 10.455 22 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking hundreds of miles...buying a lodging in farmers' and fishermen's houses, as cheaper, and more agreeable to him...
    HDC 11.80 13 ...the country towns thought it would be cheaper if [the government] were removed from the capital.
    EWI 11.101 7 If there be any man...who would not so much as part with his ice-cream, to save [a race of men] from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.
    EWI 11.101 19 ...the oldest planters of Jamaica are convinced that it is cheaper to pay wages than to own the slave.

cheaper, adv. (1)

    EzRy 10.391 9 ...[Ezra Ripley] loved to buy dearer and sell cheaper than others.

cheapest, adj. (3)

    Comp 2.114 2 Cheapest, say the prudent, is the dearest labor.
    Wth 6.122 6 Mr. Stephenson...turned out to be the safest and cheapest engineer.
    FSLC 11.196 23 I wonder that our acute people who have learned that the cheapest police is dear schools, should not find out that an immoral law costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.

cheaply, adv. (6)

    DSA 1.147 15 Society's praise can be cheaply secured...
    UGM 4.15 5 What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us? We will never more think cheaply of ourselves...
    Schr 10.278 23 [The scholar] is not cheaply equipped.
    LLNE 10.344 27 The vulgar politician disposed of this circle [of Transcendentalists] cheaply as the sentimental class.
    CL 12.157 21 Every acquisition we make in the science of beauty is so sweet that I think it is cheaply paid for by what accompanies it, of course, the prating and affectation of connoisseurship.
    Let 12.402 14 A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe... and cheaply bought by any amounts of hard fare and false social position.

cheapness, n. (2)

    UGM 4.31 1 The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
    Civ 7.22 23 Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness...

Cheapside, London, England, (1)

    ET1 5.3 9 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground... from the Tower up through Cheapside and the Strand...

cheat, n. (3)

    Comp 2.114 23 The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative.
    Ill 6.323 8 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances;...
    ALin 11.328 14 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by his clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/

cheat, v. (5)

    Comp 2.119 14 The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature...
    Wsp 6.215 21 Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him.
    Wsp 6.215 22 ...a day comes when [a man] begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor.
    EWI 11.140 16 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...
    AgMs 12.358 11 ...[Edmund Hosmer] always needs to be watched lest he should cheat himself.

cheated, v. (12)

    DSA 1.138 3 [The preacher] had no one word intimating that he...had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined.
    Comp 2.118 27 Men suffer all their life under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated.
    Comp 2.119 1 ...it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
    Nat2 3.195 21 ...nature cannot be cheated;...
    UGM 4.19 2 ...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated;...
    UGM 4.20 20 We have been cheated of our reason;...
    NMW 4.255 14 ...[Napoleon] cheated at cards;...
    ET11 5.192 1 ...the English Channel was swept and London threatened by the Dutch fleet, manned too by English sailors, who, having been cheated of their pay for years by the king, enlisted with the enemy.
    WD 7.158 8 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate.
    Boks 7.216 20 We are [in the novel] cheated into laughter or wonder by feats which only oddly combine acts that we do every day.
    Dem1 10.4 15 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter...
    II 12.67 21 The ear is not to be cheated.

cheating, n. (1)

    TPar 11.290 1 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...the cheating of Indians...it is a hypocrisy...

cheating, v. (2)

    Comp 2.114 14 ...in labor as in life there can be no cheating.
    ET11 5.192 9 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title; lewdness, gaming, smuggling, bribery and cheating;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.

cheats, v. (2)

    LE 1.165 20 ...in [men] this disease of an excess of organization cheats them of equal issues.
    Con 1.309 16 To the end of your power you will serve this lie which cheats you.

Check, Internal, n. (1)

    SwM 4.140 7 The Hindoos have denominated the Supreme Being, the Internal Check.

check, n. (17)

    Nat 1.71 9 [The world] is kept in check by death and infancy.
    DSA 1.139 26 ...this docility is a check upon the mischief from the good and devout.
    YA 1.373 26 That serene Power interposes the check upon the caprices and officiousness of our wills.
    Hist 2.22 17 ...stringent laws and customs tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers;...
    ET8 5.133 5 The Saxon melancholy in the vulgar rich and poor appears as gushes of ill-humor, which every check exasperates into sarcasm and vituperation.
    ET11 5.192 23 Under the present reign the perfect decorum of the Court is thought to have put a check on the gross vices of the [English] aristocracy;...
    ET13 5.216 18 The church was the mediator, check and democratic principle, in Europe.
    ET13 5.228 23 Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church into sects, which instantly rise to credit and hold the Establishment in check.
    ET14 5.249 23 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate. In comparison with all this rottenness [in England], any check, any cleansing, though by fire, seemed desirable and beautiful.
    ET18 5.302 9 ...this perfunctory hospitality puts...no check on that puissant nationality which makes their existence incompatible with all that is not English.
    Pow 6.61 7 When [children] are hurt by us...or are beaten in the game,--if they lose heart and remember the mischance in their chamber at home, they have a serious check.
    SA 8.86 6 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. It has the effect to...introduce a moment of relfection. ... What a check to the violent manners which sometimes come to the table...
    HDC 11.56 4 Even this check which befell [the people of Concord] acquaints us with the rapidity of their growth...
    HDC 11.56 17 The check [to Concord] was but momentary.
    FSLN 11.219 4 ...I never felt the check on my free speech and action, until, the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his personal influence, brought the Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
    FRep 11.523 21 ...it is useless to rely on [the people] to go to a meeting, or to give a vote, if any check from this must-have-the-money side arises.
    ACri 12.294 7 ...the only check on the detail of each of [Shakespeare's] portraits is his own universality...

check, v. (24)

    LT 1.269 17 ...[modern reform movements] not only check the special abuses...
    SR 2.72 21 Check this lying hospitality and lying affection.
    OS 2.283 8 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall exist...who shall be their company, adding names and dates and places. But we must pick no locks. We must check this low curiosity.
    Nat2 3.189 13 ...perhaps the discovery...that though we should hold our peace the truth would not the less be spoken, might check injuriously the flames of our zeal.
    ET1 5.3 12 For the first time for many months we were forced to check the saucy habit of travellers' criticism...
    ET18 5.300 4 England, Scotland and Ireland combine to check the [English] colonies.
    ET18 5.300 5 England and Scotland combine to check Irish manufactures and trade.
    ET18 5.300 7 England rallies at home to check Scotland.
    ET18 5.300 8 In England, the strong classes check the weaker.
    CbW 6.249 18 If government knew how, I should like to see it check...the population.
    Farm 7.145 27 Whilst all thus burns...it needs a perpetual tempering...to check the fury of the conflagration;...
    Farm 7.146 1 Whilst all thus burns...it needs...a hoarding to check the spending...
    Suc 7.310 16 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation, and they check that eager courageous pace...
    PC 8.230 19 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...among violent proprietors, to check self-interest...
    Edc1 10.158 6 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
    Supl 10.171 26 If man loves the conditioned, he also loves the unconditioned. We don't wish...to check the invention of wit or the sally of humor.
    Supl 10.179 4 The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of thinking, which go to check the pedantry of our inventions...
    Prch 10.236 22 That should be the use of the Sabbath,-to check this headlong racing...
    MoL 10.245 9 ...those who would check and guide have a dreary feeling that in the change and decay of the old creeds and motives there was no offset to supply their place.
    MoL 10.247 13 Disease alarms the family, but the physician sees in it a temporary mischief, which he can check and expel.
    Schr 10.267 24 ...I do not wish to check your impulses to action...
    JBS 11.276 14 And since they could not so avail/ To check his unrelenting quest,/ They seized him, saying, Let him test/ How real is our jail!/
    EPro 11.322 9 Is it feared that taxes will check immigration?
    EurB 12.378 17 We must here check our gossip in mid-volley...

checked, v. (10)

    LT 1.285 1 What has checked in this age the animal spirits which gave to our forefathers their bounding pulse?
    Chr1 3.99 7 That exultation [in events] is only to be checked by the foresight of an order of things so excellent as to throw all our prosperities into the deepest shade.
    ET13 5.215 20 The power of the religious sentiment [in England] put an end to human sacrifices, checked appetite...
    ET15 5.264 7 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England...
    ET18 5.301 8 [The foreign policy of England] has a principal regard to the interest of trade, checked however by the aristocratic bias of the ambassador...
    Elo1 7.83 15 Poor Tom never knew the time when the present occurrence was so trivial that he could tell what was passing in his mind without being checked for unseasonable speech;...
    Edc1 10.136 22 ...let not the sallies of [the young man's] petulance or folly be checked with disgust or indignation or despair.
    SovE 10.210 18 Such experiments as we recall are those in which some sect or dogma made the tie [with the moral principle], and that was an artificial element, which chilled and checked the union.
    FRO1 11.478 20 ...in churches, every healthy and thoughtful mind finds itself in something less; it is checked, cribbed, confined.
    PLT 12.25 20 The commonest remark, if the man could only extend it a little, would make him a genius; but the thought is prematurely checked...

checkers, n. (1)

    DL 7.104 14 Out of blocks, thread-spools, cards and checkers, [the child] will build his pyramid...

checking, v. (1)

    PPh 4.60 5 What moderation and understatement and checking [Plato's] thunder in mid volley!

checkmates, v. (1)

    UGM 4.22 5 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...

checks, n. (21)

    Comp 2.100 8 Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist...
    Comp 2.100 9 Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist...
    Nat2 3.195 15 ...the new engine brings with it the old checks.
    Nat2 3.195 23 In these checks and impossibilities...we find our advantage, not less than in the impulses.
    NR 3.238 21 In his childhood and youth [the recluse] has had many checks and censures...
    UGM 4.19 3 ...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guaranties of condition.
    UGM 4.27 8 Ah! yonder in the horizon is our help;--other great men, new qualities, counterweights and checks on each other.
    MoS 4.171 23 Every superior mind...will know how to avail himself of the checks and balances in nature...
    MoS 4.175 11 ...though philosophy extirpates bugbears, yet it supplies the natural checks of vice, and polarity to the soul.
    ET12 5.206 9 ...these young men [at Oxford] thus happily placed, and paid to read, are impatient of their few checks...
    F 6.20 8 As we refine, our checks become finer.
    Pow 6.60 24 ...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life... it has its own checks and purifications, and will be found at last in harmony with moral laws.
    Wth 6.105 19 Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances.
    Wth 6.110 12 ...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and stoppages.
    Cour 7.276 14 Wolf, snake and crocodile are not inharmonious in Nature, but are made useful as checks, scavengers and pioneers;...
    PC 8.231 5 We wish...to offer liberty instead of chains, and see whether liberty will not disclose its proper checks;...
    PC 8.231 10 I believe that the checks are as sure as the springs.
    PerF 10.88 6 ...the cause of right for which we labor...can afford many checks...
    Chr2 10.119 19 To nations or to individuals the progress of opinion is... simply a change from coarser to finer checks.
    Carl 10.494 25 [Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every noble nature...contains, if savage passions, also fit checks and grand impulses...
    II 12.84 8 This determination of Genius in each is so strong that, if it were not guarded with powerful checks, it would have made society impossible.

checks, v. (7)

    MN 1.195 4 It is God in us which checks the language of petition by a grander thought.
    ET7 5.118 25 An Englishman...checks himself in compliments...
    F 6.13 15 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection...who, as soon as he begins to die, checks his forward play...
    F 6.45 17 ...as every man is...vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.
    Clbs 7.234 16 ...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself. He checks the flow of his opinion...
    PI 8.73 3 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments. It teaches the enormous force of a few words, and in proportion to the inspiration checks loquacity.
    MMEm 10.431 9 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...

cheek, n. (13)

    SL 2.159 11 [A man's] vice...cuts lines of mean expression in his cheek...
    Chr1 3.91 27 The constituency at home hearkens to [men of characters'] words, watches the color of their cheek...
    MoS 4.169 11 In speaking of [Socrates], for once [Montaigne's] cheek flushes and his style rises to passion.
    GoW 4.288 22 There is a slight blush of shame on the cheek of good men and aspiring men...
    Boks 7.219 11 [The sacred books'] communications are not to be given or taken with the lips and the end of the tongue, but out of the glow of the cheek, and with the throbbing heart.
    PI 8.41 2 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which...the human cheek, the living rock...were painted.
    PPo 8.243 2 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    PPo 8.251 19 Take my heart in thy hand, O beautiful boy of Shiraz!/ I would give for the mole on thy cheek Samarcand and Buchara!/
    PPo 8.258 9 O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    PPo 8.259 24 The Moon thought she knew her own orbit well enough; but when she saw the curve on Zuleika's cheek, she was at a loss...
    War 11.167 10 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...being attacked, he bears it and turns the other cheek...
    SMC 11.358 27 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... fair, blond, the rose lived long in his cheek;...
    MLit 12.311 1 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books which take the rose out of the cheek of him that wrote them...

cheeks, n. (4)

    Lov1 2.184 24 Her pure and eloquent blood/ Spoke in her cheeks.../
    NMW 4.255 25 [Napoleon] had the habit of pulling [women's] ears and pinching their cheeks when he was in good humor...
    OA 7.320 24 Universal convictions are not to be shaken...by the sentimental fears of girls who would keep the infantile bloom on their cheeks.
    SA 8.77 6 He forbids to despair;/ His cheeks mantle with mirth;/ And the unimagined good of men/ Is yeaning at the birth./

cheep, v. (1)

    MLit 12.309 17 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...frogs pipe, mice cheep, and wagons creak along the road.

cheer, n. (10)

    Con 1.315 27 Then came in the men, and they said, What cheer, brother?
    Art1 2.363 12 Art has not yet come to its maturity...if it do not make the poor and uncultivated feel that it addresses them with a voice of lofty cheer.
    Exp 3.51 12 What cheer can the religious sentiment yield, when that is suspected to be secretly dependent on the seasons of the year...
    Exp 3.68 17 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely...one gets the cheer of their light without paying too great a tax.
    ET4 5.71 14 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed, a wealthy, juicy, broad-chested creature, steeped in ale and good cheer...
    SA 8.83 14 One man can, by his voice, lead the cheer of a regiment; another will have no following.
    Prch 10.226 20 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-...Time,/ Pleased with your triumphs o'er his brother brother Space,/ Accepts from your bold hands the proffered crown/ Of hope and smiles on you with cheer sublime./
    EdAd 11.385 16 Where is...the voice of aboriginal nations opening new eras with hymns of lofty cheer?
    SHC 11.433 6 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...
    AgMs 12.359 3 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...and here he stands, with Atlantic strength and cheer, invincible still.

cheer, v. (17)

    AmS 1.99 15 Let the beauty of affection cheer [the great soul's] lowly roof.
    AmS 1.100 18 The office of the scholar is to cheer...
    DSA 1.151 4 What hinders that now...you speak the very truth...and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men...
    LT 1.280 9 This denouncing philanthropist is himself a slaveholder in every word and look. Does he free me? Does he cheer me?
    Tran 1.351 16 Your virtuous projects, so called, do not cheer me.
    Tran 1.351 17 I know that which shall come will cheer me.
    GoW 4.264 25 Presentiments, impulses, cheer [the scholar].
    ET7 5.123 10 The radical mob at Oxford cried after the tory Lord Eldon, There's old Eldon; cheer him; he never ratted.
    Boks 7.217 18 If our times are sterile in genius, we must cheer us with books of rich and believing men...
    OA 7.313 20 ...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me with a shining cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by old,/ Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the best./
    Comc 8.174 10 The physician endeavored to cheer [his melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
    Insp 8.282 4 Another consideration...will cheer the heart of older scholars, namely that there is diurnal and secular rest.
    Prch 10.222 10 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. The ball...is there, but his power to cheer...is gone forever.
    LLNE 10.370 1 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our cities and this country to-day...
    EWI 11.111 19 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...
    Wom 11.403 2 The politics are base,/ The letters do not cheer,/ And 't is far in the deeps of history,/ The voice that speaketh clear./
    Pray 12.355 4 When nought on earth seemeth pleasant to me, thou...dost cheer my travels on.

cheered, v. (16)

    AmS 1.83 21 The planter...is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry.
    LE 1.168 24 ...[when I see the daybreak] I am cheered by the moist, warm, glittering, budding, melodious hour...
    Hsm1 2.260 3 Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. Not in vain you live, for every passing eye is cheered and refined by the vision.
    GoW 4.271 22 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when Germany played no such leading part in the world's affairs as to swell the bosom of her sons with any metropolitan pride, such as might have cheered a French, or English... genius.
    ET17 5.291 10 My journeys [in England] were cheered by so much kindness from new friends, that my impression of the island is bright with agreeable memories...
    OA 7.335 18 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer...insisted on repairing to the meeting-house, and proclaimed it aloud to the congregation, who were so overjoyed that they rose in their seats and cheered thrice.
    Res 8.137 20 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature;...by seeing that every healthy and resolute man is...a method coming into a confusion and drawing order out of it. We are touched and cheered by every such example.
    Edc1 10.140 21 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative, cheered with so much humor and street rhetoric, should be carried into the habit of the young man...
    LLNE 10.324 2 For Joy and Beauty planted it/ With faerie gardens cheered,/ And boding Fancy haunted it/ With men and women weird./
    LLNE 10.353 24 ...in a day of small, sour and fierce schemes, one is admonished and cheered by a project of such friendly aims [as Fourier's]...
    MMEm 10.400 25 [Mary Moody Emerson]...lived in entire solitude with these old people, very rarely cheered by short visits from her brothers and sisters.
    AsSu 11.249 19 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore...the pity of the indifferent, cheered by the love and respect of good men with whom he acted;...
    CPL 11.503 8 ...if you can kindle the imagination by a new thought... instantly you expand,-are cheered, inspired...
    ACri 12.287 16 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks! The whole party were surprised and cheered...
    MLit 12.331 1 ...we are not [in Wilhelm Meister] transported out of the dominion of the senses, or cheered with an infinite tenderness...
    Pray 12.352 22 ...O my Father...my heart is cheered and at rest with thy presence...

cheerful, adj. (42)

    AmS 1.105 17 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men by the cheerful serenity of their carrying the matter, that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...
    DSA 1.133 27 Let [the life and dialogues of Christ] lie as they befell...part... of the cheerful day.
    SR 2.66 26 ...history is an impertinence and an injury if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.
    Lov1 2.187 12 [Lovers]...exchange the passion which once could not lose sight of its object, for a cheerful disengaged furtherance, whether present or absent, of each other's designs.
    Fdsp 2.193 26 Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
    Cir 2.321 4 Character makes...a cheerful, determined hour...
    Cir 2.321 15 People say sometimes, See what I have overcome; see how cheerful I am;...
    Art1 2.349 20 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part/...
    Pt1 3.14 7 So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And hath in it the more of heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth procure/ To habit in, and it more fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace and amiable sight./
    Pt1 3.31 24 ...when Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;--we take the cheerful hint of the immortality of our essence and its versatile habit and escapes...
    Nat2 3.196 26 ...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood;...it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor;...
    ShP 4.209 20 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the gentleman and the king...his delight...in cheerful giving.
    ShP 4.216 5 ...the true bards have been noted for their firm and cheerful temper.
    ShP 4.216 9 Not less sovereign and cheerful,--much more sovereign and cheerful, is the tone of Shakspeare.
    ShP 4.216 10 Not less sovereign and cheerful,--much more sovereign and cheerful, is the tone of Shakspeare.
    GoW 4.289 21 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...tasked himself with stints for a giant...
    ET8 5.128 8 As compared with the Americans, I think [the English] cheerful and contented.
    ET8 5.128 11 The English have...a ringing cheerful voice.
    ET8 5.134 17 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...
    Ctr 6.133 23 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to...exclude him from the great world of God's cheerful fallible men and women.
    Ctr 6.159 24 A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture...
    Bhr 6.190 2 Under the humblest roof, the commonest person in plain clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable...
    Wsp 6.230 16 I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so many problems will bring the answers also in due time. Very rich, very potent, very cheerful Giver that he is, he shall have it all his own way, for me.
    CbW 6.278 23 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;... independence and cheerful relation...
    DL 7.105 19 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...yet warm, cheerful and with good appetite the little sovereign subdues them without knowing it;...
    Boks 7.200 8 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates...On Love; and thank anew...the cheerful domain of ancient thinking.
    Clbs 7.241 15 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man...to expose to him the grand and cheerful secrets perhaps never opened to their daily companions...
    Cour 7.276 8 [The hideous facts in history] are not cheerful facts, but they do not disturb a healthy mind;...
    Suc 7.295 21 How often it seems the chief good to be born with a cheerful temper...
    Res 8.146 23 ...they can conquer who believe they can. Every one hears gladly that cheerful voic