Chilblain to Christ's Jesus

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

chilblain, n. (1)

    SMC 11.359 6 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... tender as a woman in his care for a cough or a chilblain in his men;...

child, n. (165)

    Nat 1.8 27 The sun...shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
    Nat 1.9 24 In the woods, too, a man...is always a child.
    Nat 1.21 27 Willingly does [nature]...bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child.
    Nat 1.75 2 What is a child?
    AmS 1.111 2 The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child...are the topics of the time.
    DSA 1.119 10 Man under [the stars] seems a young child...
    DSA 1.121 16 The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of light...
    DSA 1.136 24 Where shall I hear words such as in elder ages drew men to leave all and follow...wife and child?
    DSA 1.138 20 ...of the bad preacher, it could not be told from his sermon... whether he had a father or a child;...
    MN 1.194 4 ...come forth, thou curious child!...
    MN 1.195 6 In the bottom of the heart it is said; I am, and by me, O child! this fair body and world of thine stands and grows.
    MN 1.206 5 The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child.
    MN 1.213 2 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child...
    MR 1.249 13 ...if...a woman or a child discovers a sentiment of piety...I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience...
    MR 1.253 26 Every child that is born must have a just chance for his bread.
    MR 1.254 15 ...it would warm the heart to see how fast...the impotence of... lines of defence, would be superseded by this unarmed child [Love].
    LT 1.279 22 ...if every child was brought into the Sunday School, would the wounds of the world heal...
    LT 1.287 21 ...the Time is the child of the Eternity.
    Con 1.326 14 It is much that this old and vituperated system of things has borne so fair a child.
    Tran 1.334 26 You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.
    YA 1.392 25 Would [our youths and maidens] like...grief when a child is born...
    Hist 2.13 7 Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure? The soul knows them not, and genius, obeying its law, knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches.
    Hist 2.16 20 A painter told me that nobody could...draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely...
    Hist 2.26 12 The attraction of [the Greek] manners is that they belong to man, and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child;...
    Hist 2.28 20 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... is a familiar fact...
    Hist 2.28 25 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... is a familiar fact, explained to the child when he becomes a man, only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.
    Hist 2.28 27 ...the oppressor of [the child's] youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.
    Hist 2.37 22 Do not the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society?
    Hist 2.41 2 The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.
    SR 2.50 22 ...if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.
    SR 2.66 18 Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being?
    SR 2.71 25 Why should we assume the faults of our friend...or child, because they sit around our hearth...
    SR 2.72 7 Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door...
    Comp 2.92 5 Fear not, then, thou child infirm,/ There 's no god dare wrong a worm./
    Comp 2.99 27 [The man of genius] must hate father and mother, wife and child.
    Lov1 2.172 24 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes running into the entry and meets one fair child disposing her satchel;...
    Fdsp 2.214 21 [A friend] is the child of all my foregoing hours...
    Prd1 2.228 12 Dr. Johnson is reported to have said,--If the child says he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,--whip him.
    Prd1 2.231 14 Genius should be the child of genius and every child should be inspired;...
    Prd1 2.231 15 Genius should be the child of genius and every child should be inspired; but now it is not to be predicted of any child...
    OS 2.275 20 To the well-born child all the virtues are natural...
    OS 2.279 6 In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek...stead me nothing;...
    Int 2.325 17 ...the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.
    Int 2.335 11 [The thought] is...a child of the old eternal soul...
    Int 2.337 5 A child knows if an arm or a leg be distorted in a picture;...
    Art1 2.361 17 [At Naples] I...said to myself--Thou foolish child, hast thou come out hither...to find that which was perfect to thee there at home?
    Pt1 3.1 1 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes/...
    Pt1 3.34 27 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader. But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of a mother and child...
    Exp 3.50 26 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown...if he...has gotten a child in his boyhood?
    Exp 3.56 11 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like the story as well as when you told it me yesterday?
    Exp 3.56 13 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like the story as well as when you told it me yesterday? Alas! child, it is even so with the oldest cherubim of knowledge.
    Exp 3.68 23 ...the moral sentiment is well called the newness, for it is never other; as new to the oldest intelligence as to the young child;...
    Exp 3.78 4 The soul...though revealing itself as child in time, child in appearance, is of a fatal and universal power, admitting no co-life.
    Exp 3.78 5 The soul...though revealing itself as child in time, child in appearance, is of a fatal and universal power, admitting no co-life.
    Mrs1 3.127 23 Napoleon, child of the revolution...never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain;...
    Nat2 3.185 24 The child with his sweet pranks...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    Pol1 3.215 3 If I put myself in the place of my child, and we stand in one thought and see that things are thus or thus, that perception is law for him and me.
    NR 3.223 8 Not less are summer mornings dear/ To every child they wake/...
    UGM 4.22 20 Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first.
    SwM 4.99 11 [Swedenborg] was a scholar from a child...
    MoS 4.178 10 ...through all the offices, learned, civil and social, [I] can detect the child.
    MoS 4.184 7 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child...
    ShP 4.211 14 ...[Shakespeare] could divide the mother's part from the father's part in the face of the child...
    ET4 5.50 14 A child blends in his face the faces of both parents...
    ET12 5.208 11 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank and to the child of upstart wealth, an evenhanded justice...
    ET12 5.208 12 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank and to the child of upstart wealth, an evenhanded justice...
    Wth 6.84 23 ...Still, through [Matter's] motes and masses, draw/ Electric thrills and ties of Law,/ Which bind the strengths of Nature wild/ To the conscience of a child./
    Wth 6.123 25 Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress, servant and child...
    Ctr 6.142 12 You send your child to the school-master, but 't is the schoolboys who educate him.
    Ctr 6.163 25 ...every brave heart must treat society as a child...
    Bhr 6.176 17 Every man...looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child...
    Bhr 6.176 18 Every man...looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child which he would not dare to presume in the child of a stranger.
    Bhr 6.183 3 There are people who come in ever like a child with a piece of good news.
    Bty 6.285 15 At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated? He answered, From the horror of death. The monarch rejoined, Live, my child, and be wise.
    Bty 6.287 21 [The ancients] thought the same genius, at the death of its ward, entered a new-born child...
    Bty 6.289 23 In the true mythology Love is an immortal child...
    Ill 6.312 4 The child walks amid heaps of illusions...
    Civ 7.22 13 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field.
    Civ 7.22 20 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand? But the mother said, Put it away, my child; we must begone out of this land, for these people will dwell in it.
    Art2 7.37 20 The child not only suffers, but cries;...
    Art2 7.38 15 The sucking child is an unconscious actor.
    Art2 7.38 23 From the first imitative babble of a child to the despotism of eloquence;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Art2 7.57 14 ...that Eternal Spirit whose triple face [beauty, truth and goodness] are, moulds from them forever, for his mortal child, images to remind him of the Infinite and Fair.
    Elo1 7.71 21 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast.
    Elo1 7.82 13 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor...
    DL 7.103 16 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high, or, more beautiful, the sobbing child...soften all hearts to pity...
    DL 7.105 4 The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance...
    DL 7.107 7 The household is the home of the man, as well as of the child.
    DL 7.111 20 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability. With these ends...[housekeeping] cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child;...
    Farm 7.153 3 The great elements with which [the farmer] deals cannot leave him...unconscious of his ministry; but their influence somewhat resembles that which the same Nature has on the child,--of subduing and silencing him.
    WD 7.172 26 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties and straps,--a rattle, a doll, an apple, for a child;...
    WD 7.175 2 Poor child! that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian, nor Teutonic, nor local at all...
    Boks 7.212 21 The child asks you for a story, and is thankful for the poorest.
    Clbs 7.227 1 ...a child will long for his companions, but among them plays by himself.
    Clbs 7.227 24 Thought is the child of the intellect...
    Clbs 7.227 25 Thought is the child of the intellect, and this child is conceived with joy and born with joy.
    Cour 7.255 1 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...looks at all men as wax for his hands; takes command of them...as the mother does of the child;...
    Cour 7.257 12 ...mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.
    Cour 7.257 13 The terrors of the child are quite reasonable...
    Cour 7.262 20 The child is as much in danger from a staircase...as the soldier from a cannon...
    Cour 7.278 24 The boy turned round with screams,/ And ran with terror wild;/ One of the pair of savage beasts/ Pursued the shrieking child./
    OA 7.327 7 The throes continue until the child is born.
    OA 7.333 10 [John Adams said] [John Quincy Adams] has always been laborious, child and man, from infancy.
    PI 8.3 3 [The perception of matter] was the cradle, this the go-cart, of the human child.
    PI 8.42 18 Anything, child, that the mind covets...thou mayest obtain, by keeping the law of thy members and the law of thy mind.
    PI 8.45 10 Music and rhyme are among the earliest pleasures of the child...
    SA 8.81 22 Who teaches manners...of grace, of humility,--who but the adoring aunts and cousins that surround a young child?
    SA 8.104 26 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love of the mother for her child; of the child for its mate;...
    Elo2 8.128 22 In England they send the most delicate and protected child from his luxurious home to learn to rough it with boys in the public schools.
    QO 8.190 9 The child quotes his father, and the man quotes his friend.
    QO 8.199 1 Swedenborg threw a formidable theory into the world, that every soul existed in a society of souls, from which all its thoughts passed into it, as the blood of the mother circulates in her unborn child;...
    PC 8.213 10 ...the child is in his playthings working incessantly at problems of natural philosophy...
    PC 8.226 15 The inquisitiveness of the child to hear runs to meet the eagerness of the parent to explain.
    PC 8.230 21 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...among violent proprietors, to check self-interest...by considerations of humanity to the workman and to his child;...
    Insp 8.279 2 [Bonaparte said] I am like a woman with child, and when my resolution is taken, all is forgot except whatever can make it succeed.
    Imtl 8.330 18 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end. What! will it never stop? the child said;...
    Imtl 8.348 20 The youth puts off the illusions of the child...
    PerF 10.84 8 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God.
    Chr2 10.98 27 There was a time when Christianity existed in one child. But if the child had been killed by Herod, would the element have been lost?
    Chr2 10.99 9 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...
    Chr2 10.119 4 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor: the child fears and cries, but achieves the feat...
    Edc1 10.125 23 The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost, the rudiments of knowledge...
    Edc1 10.137 18 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune;...
    Edc1 10.137 20 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune; an expectation which the child, if justice is done him, will nobly disappoint.
    Edc1 10.143 21 Respect the child.
    Edc1 10.143 23 Respect the child.
    Edc1 10.144 1 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion...would you leave the young child to the mad career of his own passions and whimsies...
    Edc1 10.144 4 ...Respect the child, respect him to the end, but also respect yourself.
    Edc1 10.144 19 Here are the two capital facts [of education], Genius and Drill. The first is the inspiration in the well-born healthy child...
    Edc1 10.145 13 Happy this child with a bias...
    Edc1 10.147 10 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy...
    Edc1 10.147 20 Letter by letter, syllable by syllable, the child learns to read...
    Edc1 10.148 20 The child is as hot to learn as the mother is to impart.
    Edc1 10.151 19 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue? So to regard the young child, the young man, requires, no doubt, a rare patience...
    Edc1 10.156 4 Can you not baffle the impatience and passion of the child by your tranquillity?
    Edc1 10.156 10 ...he is,-every child, a new style of man;...
    Edc1 10.156 12 Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs.
    Edc1 10.158 10 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact about astronomy...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.
    SovE 10.192 7 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early,-sometimes in the nursery, to a rare child;...
    MoL 10.250 23 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic; no spoiled child, no drone, no epicure...
    Plu 10.295 19 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast.
    LLNE 10.367 15 Don't you see, [Fourier] cried, that nothing so delights the young Caucasian child as dirt?
    MMEm 10.400 7 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the the American army at Ticonderoga: he carried his infant daughter, before he went, to his mother in Malden and told her to keep the child until he returned.
    MMEm 10.401 5 Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary [Moody Emerson], and persuaded the family to give the child up to her as a daughter...
    MMEm 10.408 16 Was there thought and eloquence, [Mary Moody Emerson] would listen like a child.
    SlHr 10.441 1 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...left...the strength of a chief united to the modesty of a child.
    LS 11.18 15 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act... Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.
    HDC 11.37 5 [The Indian] was open as a child to kindness and justice.
    EWI 11.118 25 The child will sit in your arms contented, provided you do nothing.
    EWI 11.119 1 The planter is the spoiled child of his unnatural habits...
    JBS 11.279 19 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...quiet and gentle as a child in the house.
    SHC 11.433 20 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that every child may be shown growing, side by side, the eleven oaks of Massachusetts;...
    Shak1 11.448 16 We say to the young child in the cradle, Happy, and defended against Fate! for here is Nature, and here is Shakspeare, waiting for you!
    FRO1 11.478 15 The child, the young student, finds scope in his mathematics...because he finds a truth larger than he is;...
    PLT 12.30 21 When, moved by love, a man teaches his child...it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
    PLT 12.35 16 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born child to the breast.
    PLT 12.60 6 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth; as if...the access to rare truths, closed at two or three years in the child...
    PLT 12.64 12 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting ourselves on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands...and ties the will of a child to the love of the First Cause.
    Bost 12.198 20 ...these [religious] thoughts are as if angels had talked with the child.
    Bost 12.211 16 Let every child that is born of her and every child of her adoption see to it to keep the name of Boston as clean as the sun;...
    MAng1 12.242 17 Michael [Angelo] admonishes [Vasari]...that we ought not to show that joy when a child is born, which should be reserved for the death of one who has lived well.
    MLit 12.318 14 The very child in the nursery prattles mysticism...
    Pray 12.355 13 ...thou art my Father, and I will love thee, for thou didst first love me, and lovest me still. We will ever be parent and child.
    AgMs 12.359 23 [Edmund Hosmer's] laugh rings with the sweetness and hilarity of a child;...
    PPr 12.390 18 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long.

Child, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.230 1 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine; a couple of saints who worship the Virgin and Child.

Child of Destiny, the, n. (1)

    NMW 4.231 16 ...[Bonaparte] pleased himself, as well as the people, when he styled himself the Child of Destiny.

childhood, n. (41)

    Nat 1.8 7 The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of [the wise spirit's] best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.
    AmS 1.96 5 The actions and events of our childhood and youth are now matters of calmest observation.
    MN 1.220 4 What a debt is ours to that old religion, which, in the childhood of most of us, still dwelt like a sabbath morning in the country of New England...
    MR 1.231 8 ...if [the young man] would thrive in [the employments of commerce]...he must forget the prayers of his childhood...
    LT 1.271 20 Nature, literature, science, childhood, appear to us beautiful;...
    Tran 1.344 21 [Transcendentalists] prolong their privilege of childhood in this wise;...
    YA 1.367 17 ...sculpture, painting, and religious and civil architecture have...passed into second childhood.
    Hist 2.26 10 [The Greeks] combine the energy of manhood with the engaging unconsciousness of childhood.
    Hist 2.37 13 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind. Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay-Lussac, from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles, anticipate the laws of organization.
    Hist 2.39 4 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood the Age of Gold...
    SL 2.136 18 It is natural and beautiful that childhood should inquire and maturity should teach;...
    Prd1 2.227 20 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel. Herein he tastes an old joy of youth and childhood...
    OS 2.277 4 Childhood and youth see all the world in [persons].
    Int 2.334 17 ...our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood...
    NR 3.238 21 In his childhood and youth [the recluse] has had many checks and censures...
    UGM 4.3 2 If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes...it would not surprise us.
    ET4 5.64 21 From childhood, [the English] dabbled in water...
    ET19 5.312 10 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was no lotus-garden...
    CbW 6.267 14 In childhood we fancied ourselves walled in by the horizon...
    Ill 6.311 6 ...rainbows and Northern Lights are not quite so spheral as our childhood thought them...
    Elo1 7.70 22 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
    Elo1 7.96 14 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went through, in childhood, the drill of Calvinism...
    DL 7.103 1 The perfection of the providence for childhood is easily acknowledged.
    DL 7.105 3 The childhood, said Milton, shows the man...
    DL 7.106 3 What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood!
    OA 7.316 23 ...the venerable forms that so awed our childhood were just such impostors.
    QO 8.178 1 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift? What but the book that shall come...that shall be to their mature eyes what many a tinsel-covered toy pamphlet was to their childhood...
    Dem1 10.4 6 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...antic comedy alternating with horrid pictures. Sometimes the forgotten companions of childhood reappear...
    Dem1 10.25 13 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of magicians and fairies and lamps of Aladdin...
    Edc1 10.148 22 The joy of our childhood in hearing beautiful stories from some skilful aunt who loves to tell them, must be repeated in youth.
    SovE 10.201 20 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men...
    MMEm 10.414 3 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    MMEm 10.414 8 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for herself...
    MMEm 10.415 12 'T was I who soothed your thorny childhood, though you knew me not...
    MMEm 10.432 20 It was the privilege of certain boys to have [Mary Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood;...
    War 11.155 20 The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded...only in the childhood and imbecility of the other instincts...
    JBB 11.269 8 [John Brown's] own speeches to the court have interested the nation in him. What magnanimity, what innocent pleading, as of childhood!
    Mem 12.91 26 Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it means more and serves you better as an illustration;...
    Mem 12.98 20 We gathered up what a rolling snow-ball as we came along... as capital stock of knowledge. Where is it now? Look behind you. I cannot see that your train is any longer than it was in childhood.
    MAng1 12.220 12 Michael Angelo dedicated himself, from his childhood to his death, to a toilsome observation of Nature.
    Trag 12.408 1 ...[this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will] disappears with civilization, and can no more be reproduced than the fear of ghosts after childhood.

childhood's, n. (2)

    DL 7.101 8 Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair mother's arms,/ Fronted the sun with hope as bright,/ And greeted God with childhood's psalms./
    MMEm 10.397 7 Ah me! it was my childhood's thought,/ If He should make my web a blot/ On life's fair picture of delight,/ My heart's content would find it right./

childish, adj. (18)

    Nat 1.12 14 The misery of man appears like childish petulance...
    Fdsp 2.200 25 Let us not have this childish luxury in our regards...
    Art1 2.364 7 [Sculpture] was originally a useful art...and among a people possessed of a wonderful perception of form this childish carving was refined to the utmost splendor of effect.
    SwM 4.103 14 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature;...
    ET9 5.151 6 ...this childish [English] patriotism costs something...
    ET11 5.192 10 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the sneer at the childish indiscretion of quarrelling with ten thousand a year;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    Bhr 6.194 20 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when...he complained that he missed in Napoleon's letters the affectionate tone which had marked their childish correspondence.
    Wsp 6.207 21 I do not find the religions of men at this moment very creditable to them, but either childish and insignificant or unmanly and effeminating.
    Ill 6.322 25 I look upon the simple and childish virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in character.
    Civ 7.20 10 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say,--childish illusions passing daily away...is made by tribes.
    QO 8.185 24 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth...
    SovE 10.199 14 You may sometimes talk with the gravest and best citizen, and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he runs into a childish superstition.
    SovE 10.205 11 ...the mass of the community indolently follow the old forms with childish scrupulosity...
    Prch 10.217 18 ...the mind, haughty with its sciences, disdains the religious forms as childish.
    War 11.155 23 It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part.
    FRO1 11.479 4 There is an element of childish infatuation in [the histories of the Church] which does not exalt our respect for man.
    FRO2 11.489 1 If you are childish, and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled.
    Mem 12.91 25 Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it means more and serves you better as an illustration;...

childless, adj. (2)

    FSLN 11.239 10 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of the unjust, that at its close it begets itself an offspring and does not die childless, and...there sprouts forth for posterity every-ravening calamity...
    Bost 12.210 23 Bacon, Newton and Washington were childless.

childlike, adj. (4)

    Hist 2.26 14 A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek...
    SR 2.47 17 Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age...
    SlHr 10.446 13 [Samuel Hoar] had a childlike innocence and a native temperance...
    Thor 10.456 20 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people whom he loved...

children, n. (215)

    Nat 1.26 5 Most of the process by which this transformation [from thing to word] is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed; but the same tendency may be daily observed in children.
    Nat 1.26 5 Children and savages use only nouns or names of things...
    Nat 1.59 19 Children, it is true, believe in the external world.
    Nat 1.73 11 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the wisdom of children.
    AmS 1.104 9 It is a shame to [the scholar] if his tranquillity...arise from the presumption that like children and women his is a protected class;...
    MN 1.209 14 As children in their play run behind each other, and seize one by the ears and make him walk before them, so is the spirit our unseen pilot.
    MN 1.221 1 ...we also can bask in the great morning which rises forever out of the eastern sea, and be ourselves the children of the light.
    MR 1.234 22 ...we all involve ourselves in [the evil of property] the deeper by forming connections, by wives and children...
    LT 1.260 18 ...all the children of men attack the colossus [Conservatism] in their youth...
    Con 1.301 17 ...men are...very foolish children...
    Con 1.312 16 Now can your children be educated...
    Con 1.315 12 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers with their babes at their breasts, who told him how much love they bore their children...
    Con 1.315 21 These are stories of godly children...
    Tran 1.346 22 These exacting children advertise us of our wants.
    Tran 1.348 25 On the part of these children it is replied that life and their faculty seem to them gifts too rich to be squandered on such trifles as you propose to them.
    YA 1.363 6 America is beginning to assert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children...
    YA 1.375 17 Fathers wish to be fathers of the minds of their children...
    YA 1.375 21 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This feeling, which all their love and pride in the powers of their children cannot subdue, becomes petulance and tyranny when the head of the clan...deals with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.
    Hist 2.26 2 [Greek] Adults acted with the simplicity and grace of children.
    SR 2.48 2 What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children, babes, and even brutes!
    SR 2.65 19 If I see a trait, my children will see it after me...
    SR 2.67 26 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames...
    Comp 2.111 2 The senses would make things of all persons; of women, of children, of the poor.
    SL 2.136 15 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn;...the children will bring flowers.
    SL 2.136 22 Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.
    SL 2.148 9 My children, said an old man to his boys scared by a figure in the dark entry, my children, you will never see anything worse than yourselves.
    SL 2.148 11 My children, said an old man to his boys scared by a figure in the dark entry, my children, you will never see anything worse than yourselves.
    Lov1 2.185 17 ...the lot of humanity is on these children [young lovers].
    Prd1 2.238 13 ...the peace of society is often kept, because, as children say, one is afraid and the other dares not.
    Hsm1 2.256 25 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together...
    OS 2.284 21 By this veil which curtains events [the soul] instructs the children of men to live in to-day.
    Int 2.329 3 We are the prisoners of ideas. They...so fully engage us that we...gaze like children...
    Art1 2.349 18 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ .../ His fathers shining in bright fables,/ His children fed at heavenly tables./
    Art1 2.357 7 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...
    Pt1 3.4 18 ...we are...children of the fire...
    Pt1 3.6 19 ...the Universe has three children...
    Pt1 3.9 22 Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.
    Pt1 3.29 7 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses;...
    Pt1 3.30 7 We seem to be touched by a wand which makes us dance and run about happily, like children.
    Pt1 3.36 15 Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg] describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the children who were at some distance, like dead horses;...
    Exp 3.57 25 The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense.
    Exp 3.59 21 Nature hates peeping, and our mothers speak her very sense when they say, Children, eat you victuals, and say no more of it.
    Exp 3.64 9 [Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful, are not children of our law;...
    Chr1 3.105 23 Two persons lately, very young children of the most high God, have given me occasion for thought.
    Chr1 3.108 7 Nature never rhymes her children...
    Chr1 3.109 21 Plato said it was impossible not to believe in the children of the gods...
    Mrs1 3.119 5 ...[the Feejee islanders] are said to eat their own wives and children.
    Mrs1 3.128 4 [Fashion] does not often caress the great, but the children of the great...
    Mrs1 3.128 9 Fashion is made up of [great men's] children;...
    Mrs1 3.132 7 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and...sit in a chair or sprawl with children on the floor...in a new and aboriginal way;...
    Mrs1 3.145 25 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...he never forgot his children;...
    Mrs1 3.151 6 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said;...we were children playing with children in a wide field of flowers.
    Mrs1 3.151 7 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said;...we were children playing with children in a wide field of flowers.
    Gts 3.159 21 Nature does not cocker us; we are children, not pets;...
    Nat2 3.182 7 Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us: we have had our day; now let the children have theirs.
    Nat2 3.191 8 ...wealth was good as it...kept the children and the dinner-table in a different apartment.
    Pol1 3.211 5 ...the children of the convicts of Botany Bay are found to have as healthy a moral sentiment as other children.
    Pol1 3.211 7 ...the children of the convicts of Botany Bay are found to have as healthy a moral sentiment as other children.
    NR 3.246 2 ...the least of [our earth's] rational children, the most dedicated to his private affair, works out, though as it were under a disguise, the universal problem.
    NR 3.246 17 We are as ungrateful as children.
    NER 3.272 8 ...we are all the children of genius...
    NER 3.272 9 ...we are all the children of genius, the children of virtue...
    UGM 4.3 15 We call our children and our lands by [great men's] names.
    UGM 4.29 2 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world...where children seem so much at the mercy of their foolish parents...
    UGM 4.29 5 We rightly speak of the guardian angels of children.
    UGM 4.30 9 Children think they cannot live without their parents.
    PPh 4.40 12 No wife, no children had [Plato]...
    PPh 4.43 18 If [Plato] had lover, wife, or children, we hear nothing of them.
    PPh 4.45 21 Children cry, scream and stamp with fury, unable to express their desires.
    SwM 4.101 13 [Swedenborg] is described, when in London, as a man of a quiet, clerical habit...and kind to children.
    SwM 4.124 18 The world has a sure chemistry, by which it extracts what is excellent in its children...
    MoS 4.149 19 [A man] builds his fortunes...cherishes his children; but he asks himself, Why? and whereto?
    MoS 4.178 2 We have been sopped and drugged...with food, with woman, with children...
    NMW 4.228 3 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth,--but Bonaparte, specially, without any scruple as to the means. All the sentiments which embarrass men's pursuit of these objects, he set aside. The sentiments were for women and children.
    NMW 4.242 5 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates, secluded from all community with the children of the soil...
    NMW 4.242 11 ...a man of [the French people] held, in the Tuileries, knowledge and ideas like their own, opening of course to them and their children all places of power and trust.
    GoW 4.267 23 The Hindoos write in their sacred books, Children only, and not the learned, speak of the speculative and the practical faculties as two.
    ET4 5.62 16 It is a medical fact that the children of the blind see;...
    ET4 5.62 17 ...the children of felons have a healthy conscience.
    ET4 5.67 13 ...[the fair Saxon man] is moulded for...civility, marriage, the nurture of children...
    ET4 5.72 10 The [Tartar] children were fed on mares' milk.
    ET6 5.109 21 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...followed by a long brood of children.
    ET8 5.128 13 [The English] are...not so easily amused as the southerners, and are among them as grown people among children...
    ET10 5.154 25 When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill forbidding parish officers to bind children apprentices at a greater distance than forty miles from their home, Peel opposed...
    ET10 5.162 9 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston...creates new measures and new necessities for the culture of [the duke's] children.
    ET11 5.181 7 Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The wolves are here in such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the streets;...
    ET11 5.195 26 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men.
    ET13 5.214 15 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he is asked what he thinks...of the right relations of the sexes? I should have much to say, he might reply, if the question were open, but I have a wife and children, and all question is closed for me.
    ET13 5.226 25 The [English] curates are ill paid, and the prelates are overpaid. This abuse draws into the church the children of the nobility and other unfit persons who have a taste for expense.
    ET14 5.235 4 The [English] children and laborers use the Saxon unmixed.
    ET16 5.275 27 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that England...must one day be contented...to be strong only in her children.
    ET18 5.300 19 In [English] cities, the children are trained to beg, until they shall be old enough to rob.
    ET18 5.300 22 Men and women were convicted [in England] of poisoning scores of children for burial-fees.
    F 6.30 18 We stand against Fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house...
    F 6.40 8 Events are the children of [each man's] body and mind.
    Pow 6.55 26 With adults, as with children, one class enter cordially into the game...
    Pow 6.60 27 We watch in children with pathetic interest the degree in which they possess recuperative force.
    Pow 6.64 22 ...conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
    Pow 6.75 17 ...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.
    Wth 6.104 6 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the schools will feel it, the children will bring home their little dose of the poison;...
    Wth 6.113 6 We are sympathetic, and, like children, want everything we see.
    Wth 6.124 10 Good husbandry finds wife, children and household.
    Ctr 6.133 10 ...we have seen children who finding themselves of no account when grown people come in, will cough until they choke, to draw attention.
    Ctr 6.158 9 I must have children, I must have events...or my thinking and speaking want body or basis.
    Wsp 6.229 6 Even children are not deceived by the false reasons which their parents give in answer to their questions...
    Wsp 6.229 12 When the parent...puts them off with a traditional or a hypocritical answer, the children perceive that it is traditional or hypocritical.
    Wsp 6.235 2 [Benedict said] My children may be worsted.
    CbW 6.259 4 ...as soon as the children are good, the mothers are scared...
    CbW 6.259 25 The youth is charmed with the fine air and accomplishments of the children of fortune.
    Bty 6.286 27 The delicious faces of children...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Ill 6.313 12 Children, youths, adults and old men, all are led by one bawble or another.
    Ill 6.315 18 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday;...
    Ill 6.315 21 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune...
    Ill 6.316 14 We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
    SS 7.14 15 ...[people in conversation] separate...as children from old people...
    Art2 7.54 9 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also. This form becomes immediately sacred in the eyes of their children...
    Elo1 7.70 2 [The right eloquence] draws the children from their play...
    Elo1 7.70 26 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
    DL 7.112 11 If the children...are considered, dressed...then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...
    DL 7.131 11 I wish to bring home to my children and my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and prophets]...
    DL 7.131 17 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets], where I and my children can see it from time to time...
    Farm 7.138 12 Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves: Well, my children...shall go back to the land...
    Farm 7.140 27 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers...
    Farm 7.154 1 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in animals and in young children belongs to [the farmer]...
    Suc 7.311 23 ...we have powers, connection, children, reputations, professions;...
    OA 7.327 14 [Man] wants...wife and children, honor and fame;...
    PI 8.12 21 ...children resent your showing them that their doll Cinderella is nothing but pine wood and rags;...
    SA 8.79 19 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start; and this makes the value of wise forethought to give ourselves and our children as much as possible the habit of cultivated society.
    SA 8.82 8 The attitudes of children are gentle, persuasive, royal...
    Elo2 8.116 27 [the orator]...surprises [the people]...with...his steady gaze at the new and future event whereof they had not thought, and they are interested like so many children...
    Res 8.140 1 See how children build up a language;...
    Res 8.148 25 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect how much design goes to it...
    QO 8.187 15 ...now it appears that [English and American nursery-tales]... have been warbled and babbled between nurses and children for unknown thousands of years.
    QO 8.199 22 Our benefactors are as many as the children who invented speech...
    PC 8.208 1 Land without price is offered to the settler, cheap education to his children.
    PC 8.228 2 If [men in Kansas and California] are made as [the wise man] is, if they...have wives and children, he knows that their joy or resentment rises to the same point as his own.
    PC 8.229 14 ...when [a man] talks to men with the unrestrained frankness which children use with each other, he communicates himself, and not his vanity.
    PPo 8.239 15 Layard has given some details of the effect which the improvvisatori produced on the children of the desert.
    Imtl 8.330 16 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end.
    Imtl 8.336 15 Will you...educate your children to be adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
    Dem1 10.3 10 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms...
    Dem1 10.15 27 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form...that children and young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved dangerous to wiser people.
    Aris 10.52 12 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...insult his children...
    Chr2 10.107 5 ...in many a house in country places the poor children found seven sabbaths in a week.
    Chr2 10.109 10 Mankind at large always resemble frivolous children;...
    Chr2 10.111 9 Duty grows everywhere, like children, like grass;...
    Edc1 10.151 16 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?
    Edc1 10.157 24 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the rules of the school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk; but if one of the young people says a wise thing, greet it, and let all the children clap their hands.
    Edc1 10.158 16 Of course you [teachers] will insist on modesty in the children...
    Supl 10.174 6 Children and thoughtless people like exaggerated event and activity;...
    SovE 10.205 26 We delight in children because of that religious eye which belongs to them;...
    Prch 10.221 25 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action, warm-hearted, providing for their children...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
    Prch 10.233 1 Our children will be here, if we are not; and their children's history will be colored by our action.
    Prch 10.233 3 But if we have no children...there is yet a deeper fact;...
    Prch 10.236 4 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us be the children of liberty, of reason, of hope;...
    Schr 10.280 25 The objection of men of the world to what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense...
    Plu 10.305 11 ...I had rather a great deal that men should say, There was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat up his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.
    Plu 10.315 18 There is no treasure, [Plutarch] says, parents can give to their children, like a brother;...
    LLNE 10.325 3 Children had been repressed and kept in the background;...
    LLNE 10.325 9 ...[the witty physician] said, It was a misfortune to have been born when children were nothing, and to live till men were nothing.
    LLNE 10.360 8 They had good scholars among them [at Brook Farm], and so received pupils for their education. The parents of the children in some instances wished to live there, and were received as boarders.
    LLNE 10.367 16 Don't you see, [Fourier] cried, that nothing so delights the young Caucasian child as dirt? See the mud-pies that all children will make if you will let them.
    LLNE 10.367 19 The children from six to eight [said Fourier]...shall do this last function of civilization [the dirty work].
    EzRy 10.381 3 [Ezra Ripley] was the fifth of the nineteen children of Noah and Lydia (Kent) Ripley.
    EzRy 10.381 5 Seventeen of [Noah Ripley's] nineteen children married...
    EzRy 10.381 6 ...it is stated that the mother [Lydia Kent Ripley] died leaving nineteen children...
    EzRy 10.381 17 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father wished him to be qualified to teach a grammar school, not thinking himself able to send one son to college without injury to his other children.
    EzRy 10.383 3 [Ezra Ripley] married, November 16, 1780, Mrs. Phebe (Bliss) Emerson, then a widow of thirty-nine, with five children.
    EzRy 10.383 4 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children...
    EzRy 10.384 24 Then again, May 5th [1735, Joseph Emerson writes]: Went to the beach with three of the children.
    HDC 11.32 25 [The pilgrims] must...with their axes cut a road for their teams, with their women and children and their household stuff...
    HDC 11.57 2 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    HDC 11.75 23 [The minute-men] never dreamed their children would contend who had done the most.
    HDC 11.86 25 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither. In a war of principle, it delivered their sons. And so long as a spark of this faith survives among the children's children so long shall the name of Concord be honest and venerable.
    EWI 11.102 17 These men [negro slaves]...producers of comfort and luxury for the civilized world,-there seated in the finest climates of the globe, children of the sun,-I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
    EWI 11.103 6 For the negro...no right to the children of his body;...
    EWI 11.113 2 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid...shall be absolutely and forever manumitted; and that the children thereafter born to any such persons, and the offspring of such children, shall, in like manner, be free, from their birth;...
    EWI 11.113 4 ...be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid...shall be absolutely and forever manumitted; and that the children thereafter born to any such persons, and the offspring of such children, shall, in like manner, be free, from their birth;...
    EWI 11.115 27 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged...urging [the people] to the attainment of that higher liberty with which Christ maketh his children free.
    EWI 11.118 16 We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them...
    EWI 11.125 17 [The planters] were full of vices; their children were lumps of pride, sloth, sensuality and rottenness.
    FSLC 11.181 26 ...a man looks gloomily at his children, and thinks, What have I done that you should begin life in dishonor?
    FSLC 11.199 5 [Webster's] pacification has brought...all scrupulous and good-hearted men, all women, and all children, to accuse the law.
    FSLC 11.209 11 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The mechanics will give, the needle-women will give; the children will have cent-societies.
    AKan 11.255 15 We hear the screams of hunted wives and children answered by the howl of the butchers.
    AKan 11.260 4 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man...and the earnings of all that shall come from him, his children's children forever.
    JBB 11.268 23 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence; and he used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that a whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this country.
    JBB 11.269 12 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in behalf of...the intelligent, the so-called great, or any of their friends, parents, wives or children, it would all have been right.
    ACiv 11.298 15 In every house...the children ask the serious father,-What is the news of the war to-day...
    HCom 11.341 9 ...in these last years all opinions have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...
    Wom 11.407 15 ...[women]...lose themselves eagerly in the glory of their husbands and children.
    Wom 11.408 12 The part [women] play...in the care of the young and the tuition of older children, is their organic office in the world.
    SHC 11.430 22 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time...wishing to make one spot tender to our children...
    SHC 11.435 11 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank [Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...
    FRep 11.517 13 ...the cries of children and debt are always holding the masses hard to the essential duties.
    FRep 11.527 5 ...here that same great body [of the people] has arrived at a sloven plenty...the man...disposed to give his children a better education than he received.
    FRep 11.541 10 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful...for the training of children...
    PLT 12.48 25 I have heard that idiot children are known from their birth by the circumstance that their hands do not close round anything.
    PLT 12.58 22 No wonder the children love masks and costumes...
    PLT 12.58 25 The children have only the instinct of the universe, in which becoming somewhat else is the perpetual game of Nature...
    II 12.75 11 How shall I educate my children?
    II 12.75 17 ...Nature is stronger than your will, and were you never so vigilant, you may rely on it, your nature and genius will certainly give your vigilance the slip though it had delirium tremens, and will educate the children by the inevitable infusions of its quality.
    II 12.86 20 Michael Angelo must paint Sistine ceilings till he can no longer read, except by holding the book over his head. Nature deals with all her children so.
    Mem 12.99 5 ...there is a sound sleep of children and of savages...which never visits the eyes of civil gentlemen...
    Mem 12.99 9 ...there is a wild memory in children and youth which makes what is early learned impossible to forget;...
    Mem 12.108 13 How in the right are children, said Margaret Fuller, to forget name and date and place.
    CInt 12.128 21 ...if the Latin, Greek, Algebra or Art were in the parents, it will be in the children...
    CW 12.178 20 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to...the man who lives in the presence of Nature.
    Bost 12.195 17 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    ACri 12.303 21 ...whilst the world is made of youthful, helpless children of a day, literature resounds with the music of united vast ideas of affirmation and or moral truth.
    MLit 12.334 18 Are there no lonely, anxious, wondering children, who must tell their tale?
    EurB 12.371 26 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields...stuck...with ferns and pond-lilies which the children have gathered.
    EurB 12.374 11 For this reason, children delight in fairy tales. Nature is described in them as the servant of man, which they feel ought to be true.
    Let 12.393 17 When children come into the library, we put the inkstand and the watch on the high shelf...
    Let 12.399 8 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who...educate their own children in the same courses...

Children, Training of [Plut (1)

    Plu 10.315 16 [Plutarch] has a tenderness almost to tears when he writes... on the Training of Children...

children's, n. (4)

    Prch 10.233 2 Our children will be here, if we are not; and their children's history will be colored by our action.
    HDC 11.27 5 Each of these landlords walked amidst his farm/ Saying, 't is mine, my children's and my name's./
    HDC 11.86 25 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither. In a war of principle, it delivered their sons. And so long as a spark of this faith survives among the children's children so long shall the name of Concord be honest and venerable.
    AKan 11.260 4 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man...and the earnings of all that shall come from him, his children's children forever.

child's, n. (11)

    Nat 1.39 24 From the child's successive possession of his several senses... he is learning the secret that he can...conform all facts to his character.
    Nat 1.59 7 I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it.
    Tran 1.352 19 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which...made me aware...that to me belonged trust, a child's trust, and obedience, and the worship of ideas...
    SwM 4.128 13 I know how delicious is this cup of love...but it is a child's clinging to his toy;...
    ET10 5.159 14 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...a machine requiring only a child's hand to piece the broken yarns.
    F 6.49 1 If we thought men were free in the sense that in a single exception one fantastical will could prevail over the law of things, it were all one as if a child's hand could pull down the sun.
    Suc 7.304 19 ...the man of sensibility counts it a delight only to hear a child' s voice fully addressed to him...
    PI 8.56 25 ...[Newton] only shows...that the poetry which satisfies more youthful souls is not such to a mind like his, accustomed to grander harmonies;--this being a child's whistle to his ear;...
    Edc1 10.144 3 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion...would you leave the young child to the mad career of his own passions and whimsies, and call this anarchy a respect for the child's nature?
    FSLC 11.192 20 Against a principle like this [that immoral laws are void], all the arguments of Mr. Webster are the spray of a child's squirt against a granite wall.
    EdAd 11.392 27 The health which we call Virtue...resembles those rocking stones which a child's finger can move, and a weight of many hundred tons cannot overthrow.

Chili, n. (1)

    War 11.158 19 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain...

chill, adj. (1)

    Prch 10.221 27 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to this chill, houseless, fatherless, aimless Cain, the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?

chill, n. (3)

    Insp 8.290 2 George Sand says, I have no enthusiasm for Nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
    Carl 10.493 25 [Carlyle's] firm, victorious, scoffing vituperation strikes [literary, fashionable, political men] with chill and hesitation.
    CL 12.140 4 I have no enthusiasm for Nature, said a French writer, which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

chill, v. (3)

    LT 1.264 23 ...that only is real which men love and rejoice in;...what they embrace and avow, and not the things which chill, benumb, and terrify them.
    Suc 7.310 12 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty...but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
    Trag 12.409 15 ...suspicions, half-knowledge and mistakes, darken the brow and chill the heart of men.

chilled, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.171 23 There is...the wood-fire to which the chilled traveller rushes for safety,--and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.

chilled, v. (4)

    Prd1 2.233 21 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless...
    PPh 4.52 27 European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results. Pericles, Athens, Greece, had been working in this element with the joy of genius not yet chilled by any foresight of the detriment of an excess.
    Bhr 6.183 15 The enthusiast is introduced to polished scholars in society and is chilled and silenced by finding himself not in their element.
    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.

chilling, adj. (2)

    Imtl 8.323 11 Driven by the chilling tempest, a little sparrow enters at one door...
    Thor 10.456 9 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit...is a little chilling to the social affections;...

chilling, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.170 2 The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savor of a mature philosophy, as chilling with age and pedantry their purple bloom.

chills, n. (1)

    Farm 7.151 23 ...[the first planter] coughs, he has a stitch in his side, he has a fever and chills;...

chills, v. (2)

    Fdsp 2.191 3 Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.
    Cour 7.258 23 Cowardice...chills the heart.

Chimborazo, Mount, Ecuador, (1)

    Pt1 3.9 12 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line...

chime, n. (1)

    Bty 6.279 16 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/ From centred and from errant sphere./ The quaking earth did quake in rhyme,/ Seas ebbed and flowed in epic chime./

chime, v. (1)

    Schr 10.265 1 The poet with poets betrays no amiable weakness. They all chime in, and are as inexorable as bankers on the subject of real life.

chimera, n. (1)

    Suc 7.293 21 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera;...

chimeras, n. (2)

    MoS 4.159 7 Come, no chimeras!
    Schr 10.266 3 ...[the poet's] achievement is...letting in a beam of the pure eternity which burns up this limbo of shadows and chimeras in which we dwell.

chimerical, adj. (1)

    YA 1.387 24 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general justice and humanity, at the risk of being called...chimerical and fantastic.

chimes, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.41 14 ...the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes...
    PI 8.49 26 Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of a writer. If unskilful, he is at once detected by the poverty of his chimes.
    RBur 11.443 18 ...the hand-organs of the Savoyards in all cities repeat [Burns's songs], and the chimes of bells ring them in the spires.

chimes, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.171 26 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want, and we do not let our taste or feeling stand in the way. But this activity over, we...wish for...those...whose social tone chimes with ours.

chimney, n. (8)

    Nat2 3.191 5 ...wealth was good as it...cured the smoky chimney...
    PPh 4.43 20 As a good chimney burns its smoke, so a philosopher converts the value of all his fortunes into his intellectual performances.
    ET3 5.39 26 The London fog...sometimes justifies the epigram on the climate by an English wit, in a fine day, looking up a chimney; in a foul day, looking down one.
    ET9 5.149 27 ...at last it was agreed that [the Frenchman and the Englishman] should fight alone, in the dark, and with pistols: the candles were put out, and the Englishman, to make sure not to hit any body, fired up the chimney,--and brought down the Frenchman.
    Civ 7.25 7 The skill that pervades complex details;...the chimney taught to burn its own smoke;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    Insp 8.281 8 ...wine, no doubt, and all fine food, as of delicate fruits, furnish some elemental wisdom. And the fire, too, as it burns in the chimney;...
    HDC 11.49 15 ...in the smokes of the poor-house chimney...[the people of Concord] read their own power...
    FSLC 11.202 4 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney.

chimney-corner, adj. (1)

    SovE 10.208 11 We are thrown back on rectitude...to mend one; that is all we can do. But that the zealot stigmatizes as a sterile chimney-corner philosophy.

chimneys, n. (2)

    Hist 2.23 2 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health and flowing spirits]...associates as happily as beside his own chimneys.
    Chr2 10.117 14 Religion is as inexpugnable as the use...of chimneys.

chimney-side, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.249 1 Seen from the nook and chimney-side of prudence, [life] wears a ragged and dangerous front.

chimney-tax, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.209 4 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? We will have a chimney-tax.

chimney-tiles, n. (1)

    ET4 5.65 22 The pictures on the chimney-tiles of [the American's] nursery were pictures of these [English] people.

chimney-top, n. (1)

    EurB 12.371 7 [Tennyson] is not the husband who builds the homestead after his own necessity, from foundation-stone to chimney-top and turret...

chimpanzee, n. (2)

    CbW 6.251 26 The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.
    FSLN 11.238 17 ...when the Southerner points to the anatomy of the negro, and talks of chimpanzee,-I recall Montesquieu's remark, It will not do to say that negroes are men, lest it should turn out that whites are not.

chin, n. (4)

    ET5 5.84 17 The Englishman wears a sensible coat buttoned to the chin...
    Bty 6.292 13 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. Any fixedness, heaping or concentration on one feature,--a long nose, a sharp chin, a hump-back,--is the reverse of flowing, and therefore deformed.
    Suc 7.297 20 ...[the youth] can read Plato, covered to his chin with a cloak in a cold upper chamber...
    WSL 12.344 7 [Landor] is buttoned in English broadcloth to the chin.

China, Emperor of, n. (1)

    Grts 8.311 18 This day-labor of ours...has hitherto a certain emblematic air, like the annual ploughing and sowing of the Emperor of China.

China, n. (18)

    DSA 1.126 16 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East; not alone in Palestine...but...in China.
    ET9 5.146 24 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will force his island by-laws down the throat of great countries, like India, China, Canada, Australia...
    SA 8.100 13 The old Confucius in China admitted the benefit [of riches], but stated the limitation...
    Res 8.142 17 We have seen China opened to European and American ambassadors and commerce;...
    Res 8.143 17 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has sent home to China American food and tools and luxuries...
    QO 8.179 7 ...movable types, the kaleidoscope, the railway, the power-loom, etc., have been many times found and lost, from Egypt, China and Pompeii down;...
    PPo 8.262 16 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
    PerF 10.77 16 Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China...
    EWI 11.123 2 ...[the civility] of China and Japan [lay] in the last exaggeration of decorum and etiquette.
    ChiE 11.471 14 We had said of China...Her strength is to sit still.
    ChiE 11.471 22 China is old, not in time only, but in wisdom...
    ChiE 11.472 3 ...China had the magnet centuries before Europe;...
    ChiE 11.473 14 China interests us at this moment in a point of politics.
    ChiE 11.473 21 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same. Well, China has preceded us...
    ChiE 11.473 24 ...the like high esteem of education appears in China in social life...
    ChiE 11.474 7 [Asian immigrants] send back to their friends, in China, money, new products of art...
    ChiE 11.474 15 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
    ChiE 11.474 22 It appears that the ambassadors [from the United States and from England to China] were emulous in their magnanimity. It is certainly the best guaranty for the interests of China and of humanity.

China, Sacred Book of, n. (1)

    Wom 11.414 25 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...

china-closet, n. (1)

    FRep 11.512 5 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood]; sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe, and formed the taste of the world. It was a renaissance of the breakfast-table and china-closet.

Chinaman, n. (1)

    Res 8.143 15 The disgust of California has not been able to drive nor kick the Chinaman back to his home;...

Chinese, adj. (9)

    Con 1.322 26 ...[war] breaks up the Chinese stagnation of society...
    Hist 2.19 18 The Chinese pagoda is plainly a Tartar tent.
    SL 2.137 4 [Our society] is a Chinese wall which any nimble Tartar can leap over.
    Art1 2.353 20 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race. This circumstance gives a value...to the Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols...
    Exp 3.73 4 The Chinese Mencius has not been the least successful in his generalization.
    Mrs1 3.137 17 It is easy to push this deference to a Chinese etiquette;...
    UGM 4.14 16 ...I accept the saying of the Chinese Mencius: A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
    PPh 4.57 11 The mind of Plato is not to be exhibited by a Chinese catalogue...
    QO 8.188 2 Is...all art Chinese imitation?...

Chinese Classic, n. (1)

    Boks 7.218 19 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius.

Chinese, n. (11)

    Chr1 3.110 5 I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.
    ET3 5.36 3 The Turk and Chinese also are making awkward efforts to be English.
    ET5 5.96 17 [The English] make ponchos for the Mexican...ginseng for the Chinese...
    F 6.18 15 Mahometan and Chinese know what we know of leap-year...
    Civ 7.19 22 The Chinese and Japanese...is different from the man of Madrid...
    WD 7.162 13 ...German, Chinese, Turk, Russ and Kanaka were putting out to sea, and intermarrying race with race;...
    Boks 7.194 15 ...Hafiz was the eminent genius of the Persians, Confucius of the Chinese, Cervantes of the Spaniards;...
    PI 8.17 26 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images. Then...Parthian, Mede, Chinese, Spaniard and Indian hear their own tongue.
    EPro 11.318 17 Better is virtue in the sovereign than plenty in the season, say the Chinese.
    CW 12.173 8 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden]...unless I am very much mistaken, what is far more beautiful than...vases of the Chinese.
    ACri 12.295 12 The Chinese have got on so long with their solitary Confucius and Mencius;...

chink, n. (3)

    Prd1 2.223 9 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon,--reverencing the splendor of the God which he sees bursting through each chink and cranny.
    Cir 2.318 4 I own I am gladdened...not less by beholding in morals that unrestrained inundation of the principle of good into every chink and hole that selfishness has left open...
    Pow 6.53 15 ...there is no chink or crevice in which [power] is not lodged...

chip, adj. (1)

    Art2 7.38 25 ...from [the child's] first pile of toys or chip bridge to the masonry of Minot Rock Lighthouse or the Pacific Railroad;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.

chip, n. (6)

    Nat2 3.186 1 The child...abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    F 6.48 4 When a god wishes to ride, any chip...will...serve him for a horse.
    CbW 6.264 27 You may rub the same chip of pine to the point of kindling a hundred times;...
    Res 8.146 17 ...taking up a chip of dry pine, [Tissenet] drew a burning-glass from his pocket and set the chip on fire.
    Res 8.146 18 ...taking up a chip of dry pine, [Tissenet] drew a burning-glass from his pocket and set the chip on fire.
    PC 8.224 13 The asteroids are the chips of an old star, and a meteoric stone is a chip of an asteroid.

chipping, n. (1)

    Nat 1.5 13 ...[man's] operations taken together are so insignificant, a little chipping, baking, patching, and washing...

chips, n. (4)

    MoS 4.160 22 An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters in this storm of many elements.
    ET2 5.26 16 ...we crept along through the floating drift of boards, logs and chips, which the rivers of Maine and New Brunswick pour into the sea after a freshet.
    Civ 7.27 13 You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad-axe chopping upward chips from a beam.
    PC 8.224 12 The asteroids are the chips of an old star...

Chirons, n. (1)

    Hist 2.33 16 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind.

chirp, n. (1)

    LE 1.167 26 Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets] contented themselves with the passing chirp of a bird...

chirp, v. (1)

    SR 2.80 15 Let [unbalanced minds] chirp awhile and call [the light] their own.

chirping, n. (1)

    LVB 11.94 4 ...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question whether justice shall be done by the race of civilized to the race of savage man...

chirrup, v. (1)

    DL 7.104 27 ...[the child] conforms to nobody...all caper and make mouths and babble and chirrup to him.

chirurgeon, n. (1)

    ACri 12.286 3 Bacon, if he could out-cant a London chirurgeon, must have possessed the Romany under his brocade robes.

chisel, n. (11)

    DSA 1.134 21 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...sometimes with chisel on stone...
    Hist 2.20 26 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder, and that his chisel, his saw and plane still reproduced its ferns...
    SR 2.83 24 There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias...
    Prd1 2.227 19 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel.
    Art1 2.353 16 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand...
    Art1 2.366 10 The old tragic Necessity...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    Pt1 3.24 18 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity, and lo! his chisel had fashioned out of marble the form of a beautiful youth...
    Exp 3.66 22 ...what are these millions who read and behold, but incipient writers and sculptors? Add a little more of that quality which now reads and sees, and they will seize the pen and chisel.
    ET16 5.278 11 On almost every stone [at Stonehenge] we [Emerson and Carlyle] found the marks of the mineralogist's hammer and chisel.
    OA 7.327 1 Michel Angelo's head is full of masculine and gigantic figures as gods walking, which make him savage until his furious chisel can render them into marble;...
    MAng1 12.215 23 A purity severe and even terrible goes out from the lofty productions of [Michelangelo's] pencil and his chisel...

chisel-edge, n. (1)

    Comp 2.115 18 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics which sparkle on his chisel-edge...do recommend to him his trade...

chisels, n. (4)

    Art1 2.358 4 Away with your nonsense...of marble and chisels;...
    ET10 5.160 26 The wise, versatile, all-giving machinery makes chisels, roads, locomotives, telegraphs.
    Thor 10.473 13 Indian relics abound in Concord,-arrow-heads, stone chisels, pestles and fragments of pottery;...
    MAng1 12.227 14 ...[Michelangelo] made with his own hand...the chisels and all other irons and instruments which he needed in sculpture;...

Chiser, n. (1)

    PPo 8.242 21 These legends [of Persian kings], with Chiser, the fountain of life, Tuba, the tree of life;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.

chivalries, n. (1)

    Aris 10.57 10 The true aristocrat is he who is at the head of his own order, and disloyalty is to mistake other chivalries for his own.

chivalrous, adj. (1)

    ACiv 11.304 16 The war is welcome to the Southerner; a chivalrous sport to him...

chivalry, n. (24)

    Hist 2.18 4 The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy.
    Hist 2.27 8 The student interprets the age of chivalry by his own age of chivalry...
    Hist 2.27 9 The student interprets the age of chivalry by his own age of chivalry...
    OS 2.290 21 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...has...no chivalry...
    Mrs1 3.120 23 What fact more conspicuous in modern history than the creation of the gentleman? Chivalry is that, and loyalty is that...
    Mrs1 3.122 18 The point of distinction in all this class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated.
    Mrs1 3.131 14 ...the habit even in little and the least matters of not appealing to any but our own sense of propriety, constitutes the foundation of all chivalry.
    Mrs1 3.147 19 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference, as to its inner and imperial court; the parliament of love and chivalry.
    Mrs1 3.150 10 A certain awkward consciousness of inferiority in the men may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of Woman's Rights.
    Mrs1 3.152 10 ...this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion...is not equally pleasant to all spectators.
    Nat2 3.174 27 A boy hears a military band play on the field at night, and he has kings and queens and famous chivalry palpably before him.
    NR 3.225 16 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture, for example, chivalry or beauty of manners;...
    ET4 5.57 25 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have weapons which they use in a determined manner, by no means for chivalry, but for their acres.
    ET9 5.152 13 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England, patron of chivalry...
    ET11 5.173 25 The taste of the [English] people is conservative. They are proud of the castles, and of the language and symbol of chivalry.
    ET18 5.302 21 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!
    Civ 7.26 19 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes the point of honor, as in the institution of chivalry;...
    Aris 10.32 27 The Golden Book of Venice, the scale of European chivalry... is each a transcript of the decigrade or centigraded Man.
    War 11.171 23 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through...the jousts of chivalry, the shock of hosts...
    FSLN 11.244 4 ...Liberty is...the Epic Poetry, the new religion, the chivalry of all gentlemen.
    Bost 12.193 26 In our own age we are learning to look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which makes the genius of St. Bernard, Latimer, Scougal...
    Milt1 12.265 17 [Milton's native honor] engaged his interest in chivalry, in courtesy...
    Milt1 12.269 16 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions...of royalty, of chivalry...[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...
    PPr 12.381 26 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the assumption throughout the book, that a new chivalry and nobility, namely, the dynasty of labor, is replacing the old nobilities.

Chivalry, n. (1)

    AKan 11.259 27 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man and the earnings of his little girl and boy...

chlorine, n. (2)

    DSA 1.125 1 [The religious sentiment] is myrrh and storax, and chlorine and rosemary.
    UGM 4.11 22 Animated chlorine knows of chlorine...

Choctaw Indian, n. (1)

    SA 8.87 3 Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in his contemptible squeals of joy.

Chodscha, n. (5)

    Comc 8.172 4 One day when Chodscha was with him, Timur scratched his head...
    Comc 8.172 11 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to weep;...
    Comc 8.172 16 Timur ceased weeping, but Chodscha ceased not...
    Comc 8.172 18 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly.
    Comc 8.172 24 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night?

choice, adj. (2)

    Comc 8.165 25 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse/...
    CL 12.162 4 Where are the best hazel-nuts, chestnuts and shagbarks? Where the white grapes? Where are the choice apple-trees?

choice, n. (73)

    LE 1.186 2 The hour of that choice [between the world and intellect] is the crisis of your history...
    MR 1.235 23 Who could regret to see...a purer taste exercising a sensible effect on young men in their choice of occupation...
    Tran 1.342 27 ...if any one will take pains to talk with [these separators], he will find that this part is chosen...with some unwillingness...and as a choice of the less of two evils;...
    YA 1.364 17 ...in this country [the railroad] has...anticipated by fifty years... the choice of water privileges...
    SL 2.140 8 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act...and not a whole act of the man.
    SL 2.140 9 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act, the choice of the hands...and not a whole act of the man.
    SL 2.140 12 ...that which I call right or goodness, is the choice of my constitution;...
    SL 2.140 18 We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession.
    SL 2.161 12 The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling...
    Hsm1 2.259 23 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness.
    Int 2.336 23 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states, without which no production is possible. It is a conversion of all nature into the rhetoric of thought...with a strenuous exercise of choice.
    Int 2.341 24 God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
    Pt1 3.15 20 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and cultivation, who live with [nature]? No; but also hunters, farmers, grooms and butchers, though they express their affection in their choice of life and not in their choice of words.
    Exp 3.67 19 Power keeps quite another road than the turnpikes of choice and will;...
    Exp 3.84 14 Life wears to me a visionary face. Hardest roughest action is visionary also. It is but a choice between soft and turbulent dreams.
    Pol1 3.213 18 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance; as...by a double choice to get the representation of the whole;...
    SwM 4.128 4 [Swedenborg]...though he finds false marriages on earth, fancies a wiser choice in heaven.
    SwM 4.145 12 ...with a tenacity that never swerved in all his studies, inventions, dreams, [Swedenborg] adheres to this brave choice [of goodness].
    MoS 4.169 22 [Montaigne says] Most of my actions are guided by example, not choice.
    ShP 4.190 1 There is no choice to genius.
    NMW 4.230 16 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it; the delight...in the choice, simplification and combining of means;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    GoW 4.269 14 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... He wrote without levity and without choice.
    ET4 5.51 22 ...I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as [the Englishman's] lineal progenitors.
    ET4 5.56 20 Bonaparte's art of war, namely of concentrating force on the point of attack, must always be theirs who have the choice of the battle-ground.
    ET5 5.83 9 ...in high departments [the English] are cramped and sterile. But the unconditional surrender to facts, and the choice of means to reach their ends, are as admirable as with ants and bees.
    ET8 5.136 19 On deliberate choice and from grounds of character, [the English hero] has elected his part to live and die for...
    ET10 5.167 22 ...in these crises [of political enconomy] all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought and of new choice...
    ET13 5.227 22 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop];...
    ET14 5.234 7 Defoe has no insecurity or choice.
    ET16 5.279 2 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance, so whimsical in its choice of objects, which leaves its own Stonehenge...to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.
    ET17 5.298 2 ...[Wordsworth] had egotistic puerilities in the choice and treatment of his subjects;...
    Pow 6.59 24 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him; for this is an affair...of aplomb: the opponent has...in every cast, the choice of weapon and mark;...
    Wsp 6.222 2 ...there is...no margin for choice.
    Wsp 6.237 27 Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not. With eyes open, he makes the choice of virtue which outrages the virtuous;...
    Art2 7.50 20 ...every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate: no room was there for choice...
    Elo1 7.82 4 In the assembly, you shall find the orator and the audience in perpetual balance; and the predominance of either is indicated by the choice of topic.
    DL 7.124 8 In men, it is their...choice of an employment...or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement...
    Boks 7.192 11 ...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination,--not a choice out of three caskets, but out of half a million caskets, all alike.
    Boks 7.195 12 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye.
    Boks 7.204 20 For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome.
    Cour 7.280 2 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave heart./
    PI 8.33 15 There is no choice of words for him who clearly sees the truth.
    SA 8.90 27 [The highly organized person] of all men would keep the right of choice sacred...
    QO 8.203 16 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the most civilized countries, and with...no sentimentality yet about wild life, healthily receive and report what they saw,-seeing what they must, and using no choice;...
    Grts 8.304 27 When [young men] have learned that the parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in their choice of place.
    Imtl 8.345 4 ...we live by choice;...
    Imtl 8.349 13 Yama, the lord of Death, promised Nachiketas, the son of Gautama, to grant him three boons at his own choice.
    Chr2 10.92 1 [The man] has his life in Nature, like a beast: but choice is born in him;...
    SovE 10.196 21 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice...
    SovE 10.211 25 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice from the circumstance to the cause;...
    Prch 10.235 8 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject;...
    Schr 10.286 27 Let those come [to scholarship]...who see that there is no choice here...
    CSC 10.373 8 The [Chardon Street] Convention organized itself by the choice of Edmund Quincy as Moderator...
    MMEm 10.408 26 To be singular of choice, without singular talents and virtues, is as ridiculous as ungrateful.
    MMEm 10.419 6 It was the choice of the Eternal that gave the glowing seraph his joys, and to me [Mary Moody Emerson] my vile imprisonment.
    HDC 11.46 20 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty...in the choice of their deputy to the house of representatives;...
    EWI 11.103 17 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes...
    EWI 11.145 27 These considerations [of emancipation in the West Indies] seem to leave no choice for the action of the intellect and the conscience of the country.
    War 11.173 24 ...the man who...takes in solitude the right step uniformly, on his private choice and disdaining consequences,-does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    JBS 11.280 2 ...[John Brown] had all the skill of a shepherd by choice of breed and by wise husbandry to obtain the best wool...
    EPro 11.322 20 Whilst we have pointed out the opportuneness of the [Emancipation] Proclamation, it remains to be said that the President had no choice.
    SMC 11.348 16 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
    FRep 11.518 19 We do not choose our own candidate, no, nor any other man's first choice...
    FRep 11.524 7 The record of the election now and then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler.
    PLT 12.21 1 This reduction to a few laws, to one law, is not a choice of the individual...
    PLT 12.61 22 If the first rule is to obey your genius, in the second place the good mind is known by the choice of what is positive...
    CL 12.144 7 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back.
    Milt1 12.260 9 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument...
    Milt1 12.268 17 [Milton's] views of choice of profession, and choice in marriage, equally expect a divine leading.
    Milt1 12.268 18 [Milton's] views of choice of profession, and choice in marriage, equally expect a divine leading.
    WSL 12.348 4 The dense writer has yet ample room and choice of phrase...
    AgMs 12.361 18 The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to sell their cattle and their hay in the fall, and buy again in the spring. But we farmers always know what our interest dictates, and do accordingly. We have no choice in this matter;...
    EurB 12.367 25 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision. The choice he had made in his will manifested itself in every line to be real.

choices, n. (4)

    PPh 4.73 26 No escape; [Socrates] drives [his opponents] to terrible choices by his dilemmas...
    Ill 6.324 27 In a crowded life of many parts and performers...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer...
    PI 8.67 15 The ballad and romanc