Class to Cloisters

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

class, adj. (3)

    Aris 10.64 11 No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people, as correcting the modes and over-refinements and class prejudices of the lettered men of the world.
    EPro 11.315 7 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs, when...the political leaders of the day break the else insurmountable routine of class and local legislation...
    Wom 11.422 20 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand: a reasonable result is had. Now there is no lack, I am sure...of the interests of trade or of imperative class interests being neglected.

class, n. (287)

    Nat 1.14 13 ...there is no need of specifying particulars in this class of uses [of the useful arts].
    Nat 1.69 22 The perception of this class of [spiritual] truths makes the attraction which draws men to science...
    AmS 1.86 11 The ambitious soul...one after another reduces...all new powers, to their class and their law...
    AmS 1.89 18 Hence the book-learned class, who value books, as such;...
    AmS 1.94 13 I have heard it said that the clergy, - who are always, more universally than any other class, the scholars of their day, - are addressed as women;...
    AmS 1.104 10 It is a shame to [the scholar] if his tranquillity...arise from the presumption that...his is a protected class;...
    AmS 1.109 26 I look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere announcement of the fact that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers...
    AmS 1.110 20 ...the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in literature a very marked...aspect.
    LE 1.179 13 ...[Napoleon] belonged to a class fast growing in the world...
    MN 1.192 19 ...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of handicrafts and mechanics, how splendid soever the result, any more than I admire the routine of the scholars or clerical class.
    MN 1.192 25 ...I would not have the laborer sacrificed to my convenience and pride, nor to that of a great class of such as me.
    MN 1.221 8 The lovers of goodness have been one class...
    MR 1.233 3 The sins of our trade belong to no class...
    MR 1.241 14 ...in the experience of all men of that class [the learned professions], the amount of manual labor which is necessary to the maintenance of a family, indisposes and disqualifies for intellectual exertion.
    MR 1.242 12 ...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy ...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
    MR 1.250 1 ...no class more faithless than the scholars or intellectual men.
    LT 1.268 14 ...this [conservative] class...blends itself with the brute forces of nature...
    LT 1.268 22 Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes...
    LT 1.279 14 The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is around them until they see it in some gross form, as in a class of intemperate men...
    LT 1.281 19 Quitting now the class of actors, let us turn to see how it stands with the other class of which we spoke, namely, the students.
    LT 1.281 21 ...let us turn to see how it stands with the other class of which we spoke, namely, the students.
    LT 1.284 21 I have seen the same gloom on the brow even of those adventurers from the intellectual class who had dived deepest and with most success into active life.
    LT 1.286 14 The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this, that they have believed;...
    Con 1.320 20 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will upset the fair pageant of Judicature...
    Tran 1.329 15 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;...
    Tran 1.329 16 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists;...the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses...
    Tran 1.329 18 ...the second class [Idealists] perceive that the senses are not final...
    Tran 1.340 5 ...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired;...
    Tran 1.340 13 ...whatever belongs to the class of intuitive thought is popularly called at the present day Transcendental.
    Tran 1.345 16 In looking at the class of counsel, and power...of the land... one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these?
    Tran 1.354 16 ...this class [Transcendentalists] are not sufficiently characterized if we omit to add that they are lovers and worshippers of Beauty.
    Tran 1.355 27 There is...a great deal of well-founded objection to be spoken or felt against the sayings and doings of this class [Transcendentalists]...
    Tran 1.358 6 Society also has its duties in reference to this class [Transcendentalists]...
    YA 1.368 24 ...the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, and the country is cultivated by a so much inferior class.
    YA 1.382 19 It was a noble thought of Fourier...to distinguish in his Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band...
    Hist 2.26 7 [Vases, tragedies, statues] have continued to be made in all ages...but, as a class, from their superior organization, [the Greeks] have surpassed all.
    SR 2.52 10 There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold;...
    SR 2.86 8 Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes, are great men, but they leave no class.
    SR 2.86 9 He who is really of [Phocion's, Socrates's] class will not be called by their name...
    SL 2.143 27 A man's genius...the susceptibility to one class of influences... determines for him the character of the universe.
    Prd1 2.222 20 One class live to the utility of the symbol...
    Prd1 2.222 22 Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol...
    Prd1 2.222 25 A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified;...
    Prd1 2.222 27 The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third, spiritual perception.
    Hsm1 2.255 19 ...that which takes my fancy most in the heroic class, is the good-humor and hilarity they exhibit.
    OS 2.287 13 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    OS 2.287 15 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    OS 2.288 4 ...the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame...
    Int 2.331 10 At last comes the era of reflection...when we keep the mind's eye open...whilst we act, intent to learn the secret law of some class of facts.
    Int 2.345 23 ...I cannot recite...laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class who have been its prophets and oracles...
    Pt1 3.16 10 The inwardness and mystery of this attachment [to nature] drive men of every class to the use of emblems.
    Exp 3.68 14 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely...
    Chr1 3.97 16 Men of character like to hear of their faults; the other class do not like to hear of faults;...
    Chr1 3.107 23 There is a class of men...so eminently endowed with insight and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine...
    Mrs1 3.121 21 Comme il faut, is the Frenchman's description of good society: as we must be. It is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class who have most vigor...
    Mrs1 3.122 17 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 3.123 20 Power first, or no leading class.
    Mrs1 3.124 4 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits. The ruling class must have more, but they must have these...
    Mrs1 3.124 8 The society of the energetic class...is full of courage...
    Mrs1 3.126 9 ...every collection of men furnishes some example of the class [of gentlemen];...
    Mrs1 3.126 15 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste.
    Mrs1 3.127 18 There exists a strict relation between the class of power and the exclusive and polished circles.
    Mrs1 3.128 15 The class of power...see that [fashion] is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they;...
    Mrs1 3.129 10 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top...
    Mrs1 3.129 12 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top...
    Mrs1 3.129 15 ...if the people should destroy class after class, until two men only were left, one of these would be the leader and would be involuntarily served and copied by the other.
    Mrs1 3.130 10 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it, a meeting of merchants...a college class...
    Mrs1 3.133 19 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. ... But do not measure the importance of this class by their pretension...
    Mrs1 3.139 3 The average spirit of the energetic class is good sense...
    Mrs1 3.140 26 ...society demands in its patrician class another element... which it significantly terms good-nature...
    Nat2 3.191 23 ...this is the ridicule of the [wealthy] class, that they arrive with pains and sweat and fury nowhere;...
    Pol1 3.218 21 Like one class of forest animals, [senators and presidents] have nothing but a prehensile tail; climb they must, or crawl.
    NR 3.232 15 The world is full...of secret and public legions of honor; that of scholars, for example; and that of gentlemen, fraternizing with the upper class of every country and every culture.
    NR 3.236 14 What you say in your pompous distribution only distributes you into your class and section.
    NER 3.261 3 Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish; and that makes the offensiveness of the class.
    NER 3.270 7 When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened...
    NER 3.270 17 I do not recognize, beside the class of the good and the wise, a permanent class of sceptics...
    NER 3.270 18 I do not recognize...a permanent class of sceptics...
    NER 3.270 18 I do not recognize...a class of conservatives...
    NER 3.275 20 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself...
    UGM 4.17 26 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds, even in arithmeticians of the first class...
    UGM 4.18 1 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...especially in meditative men of an intuitive habit of thought. This class serve us, so that they have the perception of identity and the preception of reaction.
    UGM 4.19 16 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him.
    UGM 4.20 2 I must not forget that we have a special debt to a single class.
    PPh 4.61 11 [Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have...
    PNR 4.88 1 ...a very well-marked class of souls...are said to Platonize.
    SwM 4.93 2 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers...
    SwM 4.93 7 A higher class...are the poets...
    SwM 4.93 19 ...there is a class who lead us into another region,--the world of morals and of will.
    SwM 4.95 6 The Koran makes a distinct class of those who are by nature good...
    SwM 4.95 8 The Koran makes a distinct class of those...whose goodness has an influence on others, and pronounces this class to be the aim of creation...
    MoS 4.150 4 One class [predisposed to Sensation] has the perception of difference...
    MoS 4.150 8 Another class [predisposed to Morals] have the perception of identity...
    MoS 4.150 17 The literary class is usually proud and exclusive.
    MoS 4.155 20 The studious class are their own victims;...
    MoS 4.171 18 ...the skeptical class, which Montaigne represents, have reason...
    MoS 4.181 7 The last class must needs have a reflex or parasite faith;...
    ShP 4.189 19 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's] production, but sweet and sad earnest...pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.
    NMW 4.224 5 The first [conservative] class is timid, selfish, illiberal...
    NMW 4.224 8 The second [democratic] class is selfish also...
    NMW 4.224 13 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues: the class of business men in America...
    NMW 4.224 14 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all, and to multiply avenues...the class of industry and skill.
    NMW 4.224 17 The instinct of active, brave, able men, throughout the middle class every where, has pointed out Napoleon as the incarnate Democrat.
    NMW 4.227 26 Bonaparte wrought, in common with that great class he represented, for power and wealth...
    NMW 4.230 12 [Bonaparte] had the virtues of his class...
    NMW 4.232 25 [Kings and governors] are a class of persons much to be pitied...
    NMW 4.239 25 [Bonaparte's] remarks and estimates discover the information and justness of measurement of the middle class.
    NMW 4.242 4 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied and the land sucked of its nourishment, by a small class of legitimates...
    NMW 4.252 13 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney of the middle class of modern society;...
    NMW 4.253 5 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him... and the instinct of the young, ardent and active men every where, which pointed him out as the giant of the middle class, make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    GoW 4.264 12 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers, who see connection where the multitude see fragments...
    GoW 4.268 11 The robust gentlemen who stand at the head of the practical class, share the ideas of the time...
    GoW 4.268 12 The robust gentlemen who stand at the head of the practical class...have too much sympathy with the speculative class.
    GoW 4.269 2 Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
    ET1 5.20 9 ...I [Wordsworth] fear [the Americans] lack a class of men of leisure...
    ET1 5.20 12 I [Wordsworth] am told that things are boasted of in the second class of society there [in America], which, in England,--God knows, are done in England every day, but would never be spoken of.
    ET4 5.63 9 The brutality of the manners in the [English] lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting, cock-fighting, love of executions...
    ET6 5.109 1 Sir Samuel Romilly could not bear the death of his wife. Every class [in England] has its noble and tender examples.
    ET8 5.129 27 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained. It easily happens that this class should characterize England to the foreigner...
    ET8 5.132 27 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the terror they cause. These travellers are of every class...
    ET10 5.163 7 ...all that can succor the talent or arm the hands of the intelligent middle class...is in open market [in England].
    ET10 5.166 3 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe...
    ET11 5.185 10 If one asks...what service this class [English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago.
    ET11 5.187 21 The jealousy of every class to guard itself is a testimony to the reality they have found in life.
    ET11 5.196 5 The revolution in society has reached this class [the English nobility].
    ET11 5.196 11 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class.
    ET11 5.197 22 Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle class [in England], the badge is discredited...
    ET11 5.198 8 A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality, and outstripping them, as often, in the race of honor and influence. That cultivated class is large and ever enlarging.
    ET13 5.216 18 The priest came out of the people and sympathized with his class.
    ET13 5.226 10 Like the Quakers, [the wise legislator] may resist the separation of a class of priests...
    ET13 5.226 19 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. The class certain to be excluded from all preferment are the religious...
    ET13 5.228 4 ...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods, and on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
    ET13 5.228 16 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe: in view of the educated class, generally, it was not a fact to front the sun;...
    ET13 5.230 9 False position introduces cant, perjury, simony and ever a lower class of mind and character into the [English] clergy...
    ET14 5.236 16 There is a...closeness to the matter in hand, even in the second and third class of [English] writers;...
    ET14 5.239 9 ...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one with a larger class...
    ET14 5.239 10 ...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one with a larger class, discerned beyond the lesser class with which it has been conversant.
    ET14 5.240 1 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists, and that the dull men will be Lockists. Then politics and commerce will absorb from the educated class men of talents without genius, precisely because such have no resistance.
    ET14 5.242 22 I cite these generalizations...merely to indicate a class.
    ET14 5.251 7 ...there is no end to the graces and amenities, wit, sensibility and erudition of the learned class [in England].
    ET14 5.260 6 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise...
    ET15 5.270 9 [The London Times] gives the argument, not of the majority, but of the commanding class.
    ET15 5.270 12 ...[the editors of the London Times] give a voice to the class who at the moment take the lead;...
    ET15 5.270 16 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
    ET15 5.271 13 [Punch's] sketches are...the delight of every class...
    ET18 5.303 4 [The English people's] many-headedness is owing to the advantageous position of the middle class...
    Pow 6.55 26 With adults, as with children, one class enter cordially into the game...
    Pow 6.58 2 ...in both men and women [there is] a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.
    Pow 6.58 3 ...in both men and women [there is] a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.
    Pow 6.61 3 When [children] are hurt by us...or go to the bottom of the class...they have a serious check.
    Pow 6.68 9 The rule for this whole class of [natural] agencies is,--all plus is good; only put it in the right place.
    Pow 6.72 3 The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind.
    Wth 6.104 17 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad...would not the dollar... presently find it out?
    Wth 6.113 19 Let a man who belongs to the class of nobles, namely who have found out that they can do something, relieve himself of all vague squandering on objects not his.
    Ctr 6.140 18 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years. ... But even these can understand pitchforks and the cry of Fire! and I have noticed in some of this class a marked dislike of earthquakes.
    Ctr 6.142 14 You send [your boy] to the Latin class, but much of his tuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop-windows.
    Ctr 6.144 11 Each class fixes its eyes on the advantages it has not;...
    Ctr 6.146 25 California and the Pacific Coast is now the university of this class [of poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut]...
    Ctr 6.163 26 All that class of the severe and restrictive virtues, said Burke, are almost too costly for humanity.
    Bhr 6.173 13 I have seen...the pitiers of themselves, a perilous class;...
    Bhr 6.197 22 ...'t is a thousand to one that [the young girl's] air and manner will at once betray...that there is some other one or many of her class to whom she habitually postpones herself.
    Wsp 6.211 9 See what allowance vice finds in the respectable and well-conditioned class.
    Wsp 6.213 5 The religion of the cultivated class now...consists in an avoidance of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to assume.
    Wsp 6.220 3 ...look where we will...a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward. And this appears in a class of facts which concerns all men, within and above their creeds.
    Wsp 6.238 6 The great class...suggest what they cannot execute.
    CbW 6.248 18 Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast...
    CbW 6.251 23 The coxcomb and bully and thief class are allowed as proletaries...
    CbW 6.265 26 When the political economist reckons up the unproductive classes, he should put at the head this class of pitiers of themselves...
    CbW 6.273 16 With the first class of men our friendship or good understanding goes quite behind all accidents of estrangement...
    Elo1 7.74 25 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil.
    Boks 7.195 9 ...all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class...
    Boks 7.195 9 ...all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written...by the affirming and advancing class...
    Boks 7.208 14 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies], and of like interest, are those which may be called Table-Talks...
    Boks 7.208 22 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites...
    Boks 7.211 1 Another class [of books] I distinguish by the term Vocabularies.
    Boks 7.212 3 There is another class [of books], more needful to the present age...
    Boks 7.218 9 ...I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean the Bibles...
    Clbs 7.241 5 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment almost inevitably guides into the vortex of ambition... whom we now consider.
    Cour 7.270 1 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class...
    Suc 7.302 5 Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting, which only ask receptivity in you, and no strained exertion and cankering ambition, overstimulating to be at the head of your class and the head of society...
    Suc 7.304 25 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric.
    OA 7.329 7 Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes. His seventh class has not one.
    OA 7.329 11 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
    SA 8.80 16 Napoleon is the type of this class [of men of aplomb] in modern history;...
    SA 8.87 25 ...quite another class of our own youth I should remind, of dress in general, that some people need it and others need it not.
    SA 8.101 2 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class...
    SA 8.101 9 In Europe...it has been attempted to secure the existence of a superior class by hereditary nobility...
    Elo2 8.112 6 It is an old proverb that Every people has its prophet; and every class of the people has.
    Elo2 8.112 17 ...the political questions...find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures...
    Elo2 8.123 13 When, on his return from Washington, [John Quincy Adams] resumed his lectures in Cambridge, his class attended...
    Elo2 8.123 18 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture, in taking leave of his class, contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends...
    Elo2 8.123 22 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture...contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends... which made a profound impression on the class.
    Elo2 8.130 18 [Eloquence] leads us to the high class...
    QO 8.177 18 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire?...
    QO 8.178 9 We expect a great man to be a good reader; or in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power. And though such are a more difficult and exacting class, they are not less eager.
    PC 8.210 22 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions...have evoked!-all implying...the rapid addition to our society of a class of true nobles...
    PC 8.218 20 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim, or whatever wit of the old inimitable class, is always allowed.
    PC 8.233 13 ...I draw new hope...from the avowed aims and tendencies of the educated class.
    PC 8.233 22 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it. In England the like spiritual disease affected the upper class in the time of Charles II....
    PC 8.233 25 ...it honorably distinguishes the educated class here, that they believe in the succor which the heart yields to the intellect...
    PC 8.234 1 ...when I say the educated class, I know what a benignant breadth that word has...
    PC 8.234 6 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    PC 8.234 10 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...and that the most distinguished by genius and culture are in this class of benefactors,-I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    Grts 8.314 7 Scintillations of greatness...are by no means confined to the cultivated and so-called moral class.
    Grts 8.318 23 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen...
    Dem1 10.25 5 The peculiarity of the history of Animal Magnetism is that it drew in as inquirers and students a class of persons never on any other occasion known as students and inquirers.
    Aris 10.38 19 The existence of an upper class is not injurious, so long as it is dependent on merit.
    Aris 10.38 26 Aristocracy is the class eminent by personal qualities...
    Aris 10.40 2 I enumerate the claims by which men enter the superior class.
    Aris 10.49 22 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...better than any statute elevating...any class to sacerdotal education and power.
    Aris 10.51 7 The expectation and claims of mankind indicate the duties of this class [public respresentatives].
    Chr2 10.116 16 ...every church divides itself into a liberal and expectant class, on one side, and an unwilling and conservative class on the other.
    Chr2 10.116 17 ...every church divides itself into a liberal and expectant class, on one side, and an unwilling and conservative class on the other.
    Chr2 10.117 9 There will always be a class of imaginative youths...
    Edc1 10.139 8 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the engine-house. They are there only for fun, and not knowing that they are at school...quite as much and more than they were, an hour ago, in the arithmetic class.
    Edc1 10.158 3 ...if one [pupil] has brought in a Plutarch or Shakspeare or Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good book, and understands what he reads, put him at once at the head of the class.
    Edc1 10.158 9 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
    MoL 10.243 11 It is the perpetual tendency of wealth to draw on the spiritual class...
    MoL 10.249 22 As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down, from class to class...
    MoL 10.249 23 As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down, from class to class...
    MoL 10.252 3 Where there is no vision, the people perish. The fault lies with the educated class...
    Schr 10.264 18 One is tempted to affirm the office and attributes of the scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a frequent perversity of the class itself.
    Schr 10.265 16 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees.
    Schr 10.266 19 It was superstitious to exact too much from philosophers and the literary class.
    Schr 10.267 21 All the best of this [busy] class, all who have any insight or generosity of spirit are frequently disgusted...
    Plu 10.309 8 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction. This teaching was...strict, sincere and affectionate. The part of each of the class is as important as that of the master.
    LLNE 10.330 11 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg; a man...exerting a singular power over an important intellectual class;...
    LLNE 10.344 27 The vulgar politician disposed of this circle [of Transcendentalists] cheaply as the sentimental class.
    LLNE 10.346 11 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class.
    LLNE 10.354 20 [The Fourier marriage] was...ignorant how serious and how moral [women's] nature always is; how chaste is their organization; how lawful a class.
    EzRy 10.382 18 Many of the students [at Harvard] entered the [Revolutionary] army, and [Ezra Ripley's] class never returned to Cambridge.
    EzRy 10.382 21 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...
    SlHr 10.447 16 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so called under an impression that the style is passing away, but which, I suppose, is an optical illusion, as there is always a few more of the class remaining...
    Thor 10.460 11 ...idealist as he was...[Thoreau] found himself not only unrepresented in actual politics, but almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.
    Thor 10.464 11 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau], proper to a rare class of men...
    LS 11.23 17 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter. There is one on which I had intended to say a few words; I mean the unfavorable relation in which it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from disinclination to the rite.
    HDC 11.48 2 Not a complaint occurs in all the volumes of our Records [of Concord], of any inhabitant...suffering from any violence or usurpation of any class.
    EWI 11.117 21 The governors [of Jamaica], Lord Belmore, the Earl of Sligo, and afterwards Sir Lionel Smith (a governor of their own class who had been sent out to gratify the planters), threw themselves on the side of the oppressed...
    EWI 11.134 17 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out that these neglected victims are poor and without weight;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    EWI 11.140 4 ...the self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men, fear no competition or superiority.
    War 11.174 25 ...if the desire of a large class of young men for a faith and hope, intellectual and religious, such as they have not yet found, be an omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.179 20 [Massachusetts laws] never came near me to any discomfort before. I find the like sensibility...in that class who take no interest in the ordinary questions of party politics.
    FSLC 11.198 13 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its incumbents must rank with a class from which the turnkey, the hangman and the informer are taken...
    FSLN 11.218 1 ...every man speaks mainly to a class whom he works with and more or less fully represents.
    FSLN 11.218 6 ...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a class which comprises in some sort all mankind...
    FSLN 11.218 7 ...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a class which comprises in some sort all mankind...
    FSLN 11.218 12 Owing to the silent revolution which the newspaper has wrought, this class [students and scholars] has come in this country to take in all classes.
    FSLN 11.241 15 I wish to see the instructed class here know their own flag...
    FSLN 11.242 27 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing.
    SMC 11.355 23 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were...as arrogant as the negroes on the Gambia River; and...it looks as if the editors of the Southern press were in all times selected from this class.
    SMC 11.362 8 At one time [George Prescott] finds his company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class...
    RBur 11.440 4 ...Robert Burns, the poet of the middle class, represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
    RBur 11.440 6 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
    Shak1 11.452 25 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it! but, being advanced to a higher class, they are just as much in their element as before...
    Humb 11.459 5 ...we have lived to see now, for the second time in the history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class [Humboldt]...
    Scot 11.465 21 By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and graces of that class...
    Scot 11.466 5 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...
    FRO2 11.490 23 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls who enjoy the luxury of a religion that does not degrade;...
    CPL 11.498 23 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642...
    FRep 11.518 3 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians...
    FRep 11.529 11 The government...knows the leading men in the middle class...
    FRep 11.529 12 The government...knows the leaders of the humblest class.
    FRep 11.535 24 The class of which I speak make themselves merry without duties.
    PLT 12.3 19 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied to a higher class of facts;...
    PLT 12.20 25 ...a well-ordered mind brings to the study of every new fact or class of facts a certain divination of that which it shall find.
    PLT 12.21 21 ...the lowest only means incipient form, and over it is a higher class in which its rudiments are opened...
    PLT 12.40 1 ...the mind discovers some essential copula binding this [new] fact or change to a class of facts or changes...
    CInt 12.121 24 ...in the class called intellectual the men are no better than the uninstructed.
    CL 12.136 24 ...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on excursions on foot into the country...
    Bost 12.206 19 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious novelty or other;...
    Bost 12.209 2 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...and where is the middle class so able, virtuous and instructed?
    MAng1 12.215 14 Whilst [Michelangelo's] name belongs to the highest class of genius, his life contains in it no injurious influence.
    MAng1 12.238 18 Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect sympathy.
    Milt1 12.260 19 The world, no doubt, contains many of that class of men whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets...
    WSL 12.341 2 Mr. Landor is one of the foremost of that small class who make good in the nineteenth century the claims of pure literature.
    WSL 12.343 19 Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty...belongs to this sacred class;...
    AgMs 12.363 18 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and inconspicuous to State Commissioners. So with these premiums to farms, and premiums at cattle-shows. The class that I describe [the poor farmers] must pay the premium which is awarded to the rich.
    EurB 12.372 18 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry...
    EurB 12.372 21 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation. Oenone was a sketch of the same kind. One of the best specimens we have of the class is Wordsworth's Laodamia...
    EurB 12.373 14 ...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class.
    EurB 12.375 4 In this class [novel of costume or of circumstance], the hero, without any particular character, is in a very particular circumstance;...
    EurB 12.377 9 The novels of Fashion, of Disraeli, Mrs. Gore, Mr. Ward, belong to the class of novels of costume...
    Let 12.394 2 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer?
    Let 12.397 11 Regrets and Bohemian castles and aesthetic villages are not a very self-helping class of productions...
    Let 12.399 5 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing...
    Let 12.399 6 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class...
    Let 12.402 4 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class must be freely admitted...

class, v. (2)

    PI 8.21 7 The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared. He can class them so audaciously because he is sensible of the sweep of the celestial stream...
    Edc1 10.152 11 It is difficult to class [pupils], some are too young, some are slow, some perverse.

classed, v. (3)

    PNR 4.88 17 ...'t is the magnitude only of Shakspeare's proper genius that hinders him from being classed as the most eminent of this [Platonic] school.
    CInt 12.124 20 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed...by some available plan that will give weekly and annual results;...
    ACri 12.283 5 The secondary services of literature may be classed under the name of Rhetoric...

classes, n. (89)

    Nat 1.12 5 Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result. They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes: Commodity; Beauty; Language; and Discipline.
    Nat 1.40 2 ...[man] is learning the secret that he can reduce under his will not only particular events but great classes...
    AmS 1.94 19 As far as this is true of the studious classes, it is not just and wise.
    DSA 1.122 5 ...let me guide your eye to the precise objects of the sentiment [of virtue] by an enumeration of some of those classes of facts in which this element is conspicuous.
    LT 1.268 24 ...the movement party divides itself into two classes...
    YA 1.393 11 The aristocracy...degrades life for the unprivileged classes.
    SR 2.56 13 It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes.
    Comp 2.99 5 Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters, who are getting along in the dame's classes at the village school...
    Comp 2.112 1 ...our cultivated classes are timid.
    OS 2.275 2 ...by every throe of growth the man expands there where he works, passing, at each pulsation, classes, populations, of men.
    Int 2.330 26 Every man...finds his curiosity inflamed concerning the modes of living and thinking of other men, and especially of those classes whose minds have not been subdued by the drill of school education.
    Mrs1 3.125 22 Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between power and money] is, which...makes itself felt by men of all classes.
    Mrs1 3.143 22 Fashion has many classes and many rules of probation and admission...
    Mrs1 3.148 12 Scott is praised for the fidelity with which he painted the demeanor and conversation of the superior classes.
    NR 3.231 23 The property will be found where the labor, the wisdom and the virtue have been...in classes...
    NER 3.270 20 I do not believe in two classes.
    NER 3.270 27 I believe not in two classes of men...
    UGM 4.22 26 I admire great men of all classes...
    PPh 4.53 4 [The Greeks] saw before them...no pitiless subdivision of classes...
    SwM 4.95 9 The Koran makes a distinct class of those...whose goodness has an influence on others, and pronounces this class to be the aim of creation: the other classes are admitted to the feast of being, only as following in the train of this.
    SwM 4.142 12 Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who denotes classes of souls as a botanist disposes of a carex...
    NMW 4.223 20 In our society there is a standing antagonism between the conservative and the democratic classes;...
    NMW 4.243 3 In 1814, when advised to rely on the higher classes, Napoleon said to those around him, Gentlemen...my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs.
    NMW 4.252 24 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    ET4 5.63 12 The brutality of the manners in the lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting...and in the readiness for a set-to in the streets, delightful to the English of all classes.
    ET5 5.97 7 [English] social classes are made by statute.
    ET5 5.100 7 In Germany there is one speech for the learned, and another for the masses, to that extent that, it is said, no sentiment or phrase from the works of any great German writer is ever heard among the lower classes.
    ET7 5.118 21 The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer. The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait...
    ET8 5.129 18 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen].
    ET8 5.130 5 ...these [lower] classes are the right English stock...
    ET9 5.150 8 The habit of brag runs through all classes [in England]...
    ET10 5.159 13 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule; a creation, the delight of mill-owners, and destined, they said, to restore order among the industrious classes;...
    ET10 5.162 13 Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the competition...in the application of steam to agriculture, and sometimes into trade. But it also introduces large classes into the same competition;...
    ET10 5.169 10 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that...the dreadful barometer of the poor-rates was touching the point of ruin. The poor-rate was sucking in the solvent classes and forcing an exodus of farmers and mechanics.
    ET11 5.184 3 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in England] were for the first time actively interesting themselves in their own defence...
    ET11 5.186 15 The upper classes have only birth, say the people here [in England], and not thoughts.
    ET11 5.186 21 [The English upper classes] have the sense of superiority, the absence of all the ambitious effort which disgusts in the aspiring classes...
    ET12 5.209 13 These seminaries [English public schools] are finishing schools for the upper classes...
    ET13 5.229 16 ...the religion of the day [in England] is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and hypocrisy create satire. ... Nature revenges herself more summarily by the heathenism of the lower classes.
    ET14 5.243 25 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws...
    ET14 5.247 5 The brilliant Macaulay, who expresses the tone of the English governing classes of the day, explicitly teaches that good means good to eat, good to wear...
    ET15 5.272 9 The [London] Times shares all the limitations of the governing classes...
    ET18 5.300 1 [Englishmen] cannot see beyond England, nor in England can they transcend the interests of the governing classes.
    ET18 5.300 7 In England, the strong classes check the weaker.
    ET18 5.306 17 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the submissive ideas pervading these people. The fagging of the schools is repeated in the social classes.
    ET19 5.311 17 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes...
    Ctr 6.139 6 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...with classes of society...
    Bhr 6.174 21 If you look at the pictures of patricians and of peasants of different periods and countries, you will see how well they match the same classes in our towns.
    CbW 6.248 17 Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors.
    CbW 6.259 27 ...all great men come out of the middle classes.
    CbW 6.265 25 When the political economist reckons up the unproductive classes, he should put at the head this class of pitiers of themselves...
    Elo1 7.94 13 The preacher enumerates his classes of men and I do not find my place therein; I suspect then that no man does.
    Boks 7.211 5 [Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an inventory to remind us how many classes and species of facts exist...
    Cour 7.259 4 ...the protection which a house...even the first accumulation of savings gives, go in all times to generate this taint of the respectable classes.
    OA 7.329 5 Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
    OA 7.329 7 Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
    OA 7.329 14 [The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty.
    OA 7.330 24 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...with nothing to break his leisure after the three hours of his daily classes...
    PC 8.210 3 When classes are exasperated against each other, the peace of the world is always kept by striking a new note.
    Grts 8.318 9 ...degrees of intellect interest only classes of men who pursue the same studies...
    Grts 8.318 15 A great style of hero draws equally all classes...
    Grts 8.320 14 With self-respect...there must be in the aspirant the strong fellow feeling, the humanity, which makes men of all classes warm to him as their leader and representative.
    Aris 10.35 4 The young adventurer finds that the relations of society, the position of classes, irk and sting him...
    Aris 10.40 19 Every survey of the dignified classes...imprints universal lessons...
    Aris 10.53 19 Here [in a village] are classes which day by day have no intercourse...
    Edc1 10.123 3 With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
    Edc1 10.150 20 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...
    Edc1 10.153 6 ...[the teacher] cannot delight in personal relations with young friends, when...twenty classes are to be dealt with before the day is done.
    Edc1 10.158 13 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.
    SovE 10.187 13 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...bargains of kings with peoples of certain rights to certain classes, then of rights to masses...
    Prch 10.217 24 I see in those classes and those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress...character, but skepticism;...
    Prch 10.230 3 The clergy are always in danger of becoming wards and pensioners of the so-called producing classes.
    MoL 10.251 11 I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks.
    LLNE 10.327 18 College classes, military corps, or trades-unions may fancy themselves indissoluble for a moment, over their wine;...
    LLNE 10.348 17 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women, and classes of every character.
    MMEm 10.409 1 It is so universal with all classes to avoid contact with me [writes Mary Moody Emerson] that I blame none.
    FSLC 11.186 10 There is always something in the very advantages of a condition which hurts it. Africa has its malformation;...Germany its hatred of classes;...
    FSLN 11.218 13 Owing to the silent revolution which the newspaper has wrought, this class [students and scholars] has come in this country to take in all classes.
    FSLN 11.240 3 ...torpor exists here throughout the active classes on the subject of domestic slavery and its appalling aggressions.
    SMC 11.357 8 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...men hitherto of narrow opportunities of knowing the world, but well taught in the grammar-schools. But perhaps in every one of these classes were idealists...
    EdAd 11.388 10 We see that reckless and destructive fury which characterizes the lower classes of American society...
    FRO1 11.477 20 ...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites all classes...to unite in a movement of benefit to men...
    CPL 11.498 24 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642, and two sons to later classes.
    FRep 11.529 10 The government is acquainted with the opinions of all classes...
    CInt 12.125 6 ...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    MAng1 12.218 19 In relation to this element of Beauty, the minds of men divide themselves into two classes.
    MAng1 12.237 6 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.
    PPr 12.384 14 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present]...
    Trag 12.411 12 The most exposed classes, soldiers, sailors, paupers, are nowise destitute of animal spirits.

classes, v. (1)

    FRO2 11.488 6 The point of difference that still remains between churches, or between classes, is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical.

class-feeling, n. (1)

    FRep 11.529 21 The men, the women, all over this land shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is unbecoming in the government...not on the class-feeling which narrows the perception of English, French, German people at home.

classic, adj. (11)

    Hsm1 2.257 19 ...the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography.
    ET15 5.267 18 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University, and perhaps reading law in chambers in London. Hence the academic elegance and classic allusion which adorns its columns.
    QO 8.196 12 ...Cardinal de Retz...described himself in an extemporary Latin sentence, which he pretended to quote from a classic author...
    MoL 10.256 25 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge. But the President of the Bank...relates that at Virginia Springs this idol of the forum exhausted a trunkful of classic authors.
    LLNE 10.331 7 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person, of a classic style...
    Thor 10.476 25 [Thoreau's] classic poem on Smoke suggests Simonides...
    RBur 11.442 15 ...[Burns] has made the Lowland Scotch a Doric dialect of fame. It is the only example in history of a language made classic by the genius of a single man.
    Scot 11.464 19 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep and use, but without any ambition to write a high poem after a classic model.
    Milt1 12.253 2 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told...that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible; the perception and enjoyment of...his perfect fusion of the classic and the English styles.
    ACri 12.303 7 I designed to speak of one point more, the touching a principal question in criticism in recent times-the Classic and Romantic, or what is classic?
    ACri 12.304 9 The democratic, when the power proceeds organically from the people and is responsible to them, are classic politics.

Classic, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.26 26 ...the vaunted distinction...between Classic and Romantic schools, seems superficial and pedantic.

Classic age, n. (1)

    AmS 1.109 4 ...there are data for marking the genius of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or Philosophical age.

Classic, Chinese, 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.

classic, n. (5)

    ACri 12.303 24 Classic art is the art of necessity;...
    ACri 12.304 9 The classic unfolds, the romantic adds.
    ACri 12.304 10 The classic should, the modern would.
    ACri 12.304 11 The classic is healthy, the romantic is sick.
    ACri 12.304 12 The classic draws its rule from the genius of that which it does, and not from by-ends.

Classic, n. (2)

    ACri 12.303 6 I designed to speak of one point more, the touching a principal question in criticism in recent times-the Classic and Romantic, or what is classic?
    ACri 12.303 24 What is the Classic?

Classic, Senior, n. (1)

    ET12 5.206 25 ...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton] can quote correctly from the Corpus Poetarum...

classical, adj. (5)

    ET13 5.217 14 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
    Art2 7.45 22 ...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is national or usual; as...the custom of draping a statue in classical costume.
    QO 8.194 4 Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals...
    LLNE 10.331 16 The word that [Everett] spoke, in the manner in which he spoke it, became current and classical in New England.
    LLNE 10.335 21 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham, an excellent classical and German scholar, had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism.

Classics, British, n. (1)

    PI 8.57 23 I find or fancy more true poetry...in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.

classics, n. (1)

    ET2 5.31 15 Classics which at home are drowsily read, have a strange charm in a country inn...

classification, n. (15)

    AmS 1.85 15 Classification begins.
    AmS 1.85 27 ...what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic...
    LT 1.263 24 ...an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches. To be sure he would;...but he must be...able to supplant our method and classification by the superior beauty of his own.
    SR 2.79 12 Every new mind is a new classification.
    SR 2.79 15 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon activity and power...it imposes its classification on other men...
    SR 2.80 4 ...in all unbalanced minds the classification is idolized...
    Cir 2.310 5 Much more obviously is history and the state of the world at any one time directly dependent on the intellectual classification then existing in the minds of men.
    SwM 4.134 10 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man...because he defies all dogmatizing and classification...
    ET4 5.54 9 We must use the popular category, as we do the Linnaean classification, for convenience...
    PI 8.29 7 Imagination uses an organic classification.
    Comc 8.166 27 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar only as a memorandum of his last lesson in the laws of Nature...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...
    Comc 8.168 15 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind, seizing a classification to help it to a sincerer knowledge of the fact, stops in the classification;...
    Comc 8.168 16 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind, seizing a classification to help it to a sincerer knowledge of the fact, stops in the classification;...
    LLNE 10.337 27 ...[Mesmerism] affirmed unity and connection between remote points, and as such was excellent criticism on the narrow and dead classification of what passed for science;...
    Mem 12.96 23 This thread or order of remembering, this classification, distributes men...

classifications, n. (2)

    SR 2.79 20 ...[creeds and churches] are also classifications of some powerful mind...
    MLit 12.311 23 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind,-meditations, history, classifications...

classified, v. (1)

    Cir 2.303 26 ...[a man] has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified.

classifier, n. (2)

    LE 1.170 17 Since Carlyle wrote French History, we see that no history that we have is safe, but a new classifier shall give it new and more philosophical arrangement.
    Aris 10.44 10 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be...of a secure hand, of a scientific memory, a right classifier;...

classifiers, n. (2)

    SwM 4.118 18 ...there is no comet...or fungus, that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    Civ 7.17 2 We flee away from cities, but we bring/ The best of cities with us, these learned classifiers/...

classifies, v. (3)

    Nat 1.67 9 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom, as it is to know whence and whereto is this tyrannizing unity in his constitution, which evermore separates and classifies things...
    LE 1.172 4 A profound thought, anywhere, classifies all things...
    Tran 1.329 10 ...thought only appears in the objects it classifies.

classify, v. (2)

    Hist 2.12 14 Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance;...
    GoW 4.273 16 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition, accumulating a glut of facts and fruits too fast for any hitherto-existing savans to classify,--this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.

classifying, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.287 20 Not only low style, but the lowest classifying words outvalue arguments;...

classifying, n. (1)

    AmS 1.85 26 ...since the dawn of history there has been a constant accumulation and classifying of facts.

classifying, v. (4)

    Int 2.333 20 Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we should...be conscious...only that he possessed a strange skill of using, of classifying his facts, which we lacked.
    OA 7.329 3 The instinct of classifying marks the wise and healthy mind.
    PerF 10.77 24 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he chiefly brings...is...his way of classifying and seeing things...
    Edc1 10.131 5 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...

class-leader, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.118 23 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...no class-leader admonishes him of absences...

class-legislation, n. (2)

    ET4 5.51 2 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter... aggressive freedom and hospitable law with bitter class-legislation;...
    ET18 5.300 12 A bitter class-legislation gives power [in England] to those who are rich enough to buy a law.

classmate, n. (3)

    EzRy 10.395 12 My classmate at Cambridge...told me...that in college [Ezra Ripley] was called Holy Ripley.
    EzRy 10.395 14 My classmate at Cambridge...told me from Governor Gore, who was the Doctor's classmate, that in college [Ezra Ripley] was called Holy Ripley.
    HCom 11.339 1 Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our Commencement Day?/

clatter, n. (1)

    NMW 4.250 19 One fine night, on deck, amid a clatter of materialism, Bonaparte pointed to the stars, and said, You may talk as long as you please, gentlemen, but who made all that?

clatter, v. (2)

    DSA 1.139 8 ...[the vain words] clatter and echo unchallenged.
    Trag 12.411 8 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs,-are terrors that make...the teeth clatter, but are no tragedy...

Claude-Lorraines, n. (1)

    Ill 6.315 27 [Women] see through Claude-Lorraines.

clause, n. (4)

    ShP 4.214 19 ...like the tone of voice of some incomparable person, so [are Shakespeare's sonnets] a speech of poetic beings, and any clause as unproducible now as a whole poem.
    GoW 4.282 13 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...
    Elo2 8.129 7 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament in favor of that clause of the bill which allowed the prisoner the benefit of counsel, fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
    SlHr 10.441 22 ...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements, adding clause on clause to do justice to all his conviction.

clauses, n. (4)

    ShP 4.200 12 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ...
    FSLC 11.196 4 [the Fugitive Slave Law] offers a bribe in its own clauses for the consummation of the crime.
    Wom 11.425 14 Let us have the true woman...and no lawyer need be called in to write...the cunning clauses of provision...
    Humb 11.457 22 How [Humboldt] reaches...from law to law, folding away moons and asteroids and solar systems in the clauses and parentheses of his encyclopaedic paragraphs!

Claverhouse, Lord [John Gr (1)

    Bhr 6.175 11 Claverhouse is a fop...

claw, n. (2)

    Nat 1.16 7 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...the lion's claw...
    F 6.14 26 Lodged in the parent animal...[the vesicle] unlocks itself to fish, bird, or quadruped...eye and claw.

clawing, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.210 8 Leave this touching and clawing.

claws, n. (3)

    ET18 5.305 10 There is cramp limitation in [Englishmen's] habit of thought...and a tortoise's instinct to hold hard to the ground with his claws...
    Ctr 6.136 25 ...our talents are as mischievous as if each had been seized upon by some bird of prey...some zeal, some bias, and only when he was now gray and nerveless was it relaxing its claws...
    EWI 11.143 20 [Nature] appoints no police to guard the lion but his teeth and claws;...

clay, adj. (2)

    Wsp 6.237 19 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him. And not in vain have they worn their clay coat...if they have truly learned thus much wisdom.
    Art2 7.44 17 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.

Clay, Henry, n. (2)

    Elo2 8.122 8 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...like...Barclay, Fox and Henry Clay.
    Grts 8.318 18 A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such examples in this country, in Daniel Webster, Henry Clay...

clay, n. (20)

    Tran 1.359 23 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... shall abide in beauty and strength...to invest themselves anew in other, perhaps higher endowed and happier mixed clay than ours...
    Lov1 2.186 1 Not always can...even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
    Art1 2.358 3 ...with each moment [the artist] alters the whole air, attitude and expression of his clay.
    SwM 4.97 16 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This beatitude comes...with shocks to the mind of the receiver. It o'erinforms the tenement of clay,/ and drives the man mad;...
    SwM 4.98 9 If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser: instead of porcelain they are potter's earth, clay, or mud.
    ShP 4.189 4 If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original.
    ET1 5.5 21 [Greenough's] face was so handsome and his person so well formed that he might be pardoned, if, as was alleged, the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay, were idealizations of his own.
    ET3 5.39 3 [England] has plenty...of potter's clay, of coal...
    Pow 6.60 8 Here is question, every spring, whether to graft with wax, or whether with clay;...
    CbW 6.249 27 Clay and clay differ in dignity...
    DL 7.127 3 ...let the hearts [our friends] have agitated witness what power has lurked in the traits of these structures of clay that pass and repass us!
    WD 7.175 2 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian, nor Teutonic, nor local at all...
    WD 7.175 8 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands...
    MMEm 10.409 24 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate?
    ALin 11.328 6 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./
    Wom 11.404 5 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
    Wom 11.411 8 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?
    FRep 11.512 2 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood];...
    PLT 12.49 7 I once found Page the painter modelling his figures in clay... before he painted them on canvas.
    MAng1 12.222 12 ...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.

clay, v. (1)

    Wth 6.121 8 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the wood-lot, when bought. Never fear; it is all settled how it shall be, long beforehand, in the custom of the country,--whether to sand or whether to clay it...

clayed, adj. (1)

    Civ 7.17 17 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./

Clay's, Henry, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.207 25 Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest counsel of her own? I have never heard in twenty years any project except Mr. Clay's.

clays, n. (1)

    ET11 5.180 8 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford, are neither forgetting nor forgotten...

clean, adj. (30)

    Comp 2.93 16 ...in [Compensation] might be shown men...the present action of the soul of this world, clean from all vestige of tradition;...
    SL 2.132 3 The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful if man will live the life of nature...
    Prd1 2.235 6 [Our Yankee trade] takes bank-notes, good, bad, clean, ragged, and saves itself by the speed with which it passes them off.
    Pt1 3.28 25 The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body.
    ET6 5.107 7 A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.
    ET6 5.107 8 A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.
    ET6 5.111 21 The keeping of the proprieties is [in England] as indispensable as clean linen.
    ET16 5.287 20 ...'t is certain as God liveth, the gun that does not need another gun, the law of love and justice alone, can effect a clean revolution.
    F 6.8 15 ...it is of no use...to dress up that terrific benefactor [Providence] in a clean shirt...
    Pow 6.60 16 We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.
    Bhr 6.172 20 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits; compel them to be clean;...
    CbW 6.247 10 [Fine society] is...an affair of clean linen and coaches...
    CbW 6.247 13 There are other measures of self-respect for a man than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
    SS 7.7 2 We have known many fine geniuses with that imperfection that they cannot do anything useful, not so much as write one clean sentence.
    DL 7.112 19 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If the linens and hangings are clean and fine and the furniture good, the yard, the garden, the fences are neglected.
    DL 7.125 26 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations...
    DL 7.133 18 He who shall bravely and gracefully...show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages;...will restore the life of man to splendor...
    WD 7.169 15 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep,--a clean page, which the wise may inscribe with truth...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    PI 8.44 8 Vast is the difference between writing clean verses for magazines, and creating these new persons and situations...
    PerF 10.75 14 [Labor] surprises in the perfect form and condition of trees clean of caterpillars and borers...
    SovE 10.195 15 We need not always be stipulating for our clean shirt and roast joint per diem.
    MoL 10.247 9 A scholar defending the cause...of the oppressor, is a traitor to his profession. He has ceased to be a scholar. He is not company for clean people.
    Carl 10.491 8 It needs something more than a clean shirt and reading German to visit [Carlyle].
    FRep 11.526 27 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...an unbuttoned comfort, not clean, not thoughtful...
    CW 12.178 4 I admire in trees the creation of property so clean of tears, or crime, or even care.
    Bost 12.204 20 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but...corn with thanks to the Giver of corn; and the best thanks, namely, obedience to his law; this was the office imposed on our Founders and people; liberty, clean and wise.
    Bost 12.211 18 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;...
    MLit 12.317 13 Perhaps no considerable minority, no one man, leads a quite clean and lofty life.
    MLit 12.323 4 ...[Goethe] was clean from all narrowness;...
    MLit 12.335 26 [The Genius of the time] will describe...the now unbelieved possibility...of clean and noble relations with men.

clean, adv. (6)

    AmS 1.90 2 I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit...
    LE 1.161 7 ...see how much you would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...
    Comp 2.104 1 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless;...
    Hsm1 2.251 21 All prudent men see that the [heroic] action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity;...
    LVB 11.92 24 Sir [Van Buren], does this government think that the people of the United States are become savage and mad? From their mind are the sentiments of love and a good nature wiped clean out?
    ACri 12.288 7 I envy the boys the force of the double negative...though clean contrary to our grammar rules...

clean, n. (1)

    Con 1.319 21 ...leprosy has grown cunning, has got into the ballot-box; the lepers outvote the clean;...

cleaned, v. (2)

    PPo 8.264 3 The bird-soul was ashamed;/ [The birds'] body was quite annihilated;/ They had cleaned themselves from the dust,/ And were by the light ensouled./ What was, and was not,-the Past,-/ Was wiped out from their breast./
    MMEm 10.412 3 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked.

cleaner, adj. (2)

    MN 1.215 24 Tell me not how great your project is...cleaner diet...
    CInt 12.122 10 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...need to have their corrupt voting and violence corrected by the cleaner and wiser suffrages of poor farmers.

cleanliness, n. (3)

    NMW 4.251 13 Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia [said Bonaparte].
    DL 7.111 11 The progress of domestic living has been in cleanliness, in ventilation...
    CInt 12.118 11 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery. Thus...at the introduction...of cleanliness and comfort into penitentiaries.

cleanly, adj. (1)

    ET6 5.106 27 [The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal...

cleanse, v. (2)

    Ctr 6.138 10 Cleanse with healthy blood [the scholar's] parchment skin.
    Supl 10.173 26 ...these raptures of fire and frost, which indeed cleanse pedantry out of conversation...would cost me the days of well-being which are now so cheap to me, yet so valued.

cleansed, v. (2)

    Cir 2.313 9 Cleansed by the elemental light and wind...we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.
    EPro 11.326 1 Happy are the young, who find the pestilence [slavery] cleansed out of the earth...

cleanses, v. (1)

    Insp 8.294 18 Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

cleansing, v. (1)

    ET14 5.249 23 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate. In comparison with all this rottenness [in England], any check, any cleansing, though by fire, seemed desirable and beautiful.

clear, adj. (76)

    MN 1.219 24 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein the sequent Revolution, which was...the overflowing of the sense of natural right in every clear and active spirit of the period.
    MR 1.247 17 If we...say,-I will [not]...deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still.
    SR 2.48 19 ...in the next room [the youth's] voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic.
    SR 2.75 3 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart...clear his sight...
    SL 2.131 15 If in the hours of clear reason we should speak the severest truth, we should say that we had never made a sacrifice.
    SL 2.156 24 When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens.
    Prd1 2.223 4 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly, then also has a clear eye for its beauty...
    Art1 2.354 6 We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
    Pt1 3.14 23 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions;...
    Chr1 3.100 19 Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public, indicate...heads which are not clear...
    Mrs1 3.133 16 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. ... They are clear in their office, nor could they be thus formidable without their own merits.
    Mrs1 3.151 26 ...no princess could surpass [Lilla's] clear and erect demeanor on each occasion.
    Nat2 3.167 6 Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's] laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear from east to west./
    Nat2 3.190 25 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
    NER 3.281 1 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
    UGM 4.4 6 ...I do not travel to find...clear sky...
    PNR 4.81 2 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. ... These were a clear amelioration of trilobite and saurus...
    PNR 4.83 14 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction...
    NMW 4.251 21 I admire [Bonaparte's] simple, clear narrative of his battles;...
    ET1 5.10 14 ...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick old man, with bright blue eyes and fine clear complexion...
    ET4 5.59 24 The wind blew off the land, the ship flew, burning in clear flame, out between the islets into the ocean, and there was the right end of King Hake.
    ET4 5.69 7 A clear skin, a peach-bloom complexion and good teeth are found all over the island [England].
    CbW 6.258 9 Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.
    Boks 7.200 25 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters...is as clear as the voice of a fife...
    Boks 7.215 12 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.
    Suc 7.289 3 Lord Brougham's single duty of counsel is, to get the prisoner clear.
    Suc 7.293 8 So far from the performance being the real success, it is clear that the success was much earlier than that, namely, when all the feats that make our civility were the thoughts of good heads.
    PI 8.71 25 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms. Hence the shudder of joy with which in each clear moment we recognize the metamorphosis, because it is always a conquest, a surprise from the heart of things.
    Elo2 8.117 12 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are clear perceptions; memory; power of statement; logic; imagination...
    Res 8.135 3 ...Where [the wise man's] clear spirit leads him, there 's his road/ By God's own light illumined and foreshowed./
    PC 8.221 9 [The scholar] has accosted this immeasurable Nature, and got clear answers.
    PPo 8.254 2 High heart, O Hafiz! though not thine/ Fine gold and silver ore;/ More worth to thee the gift of song,/ And the clear insight more./
    Insp 8.271 2 In happy moments [thought]...carries out what were rude suggestions...to clear and grand conclusions.
    Insp 8.276 13 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if...a genial companion, or a new thought suggested in book or conversation could... wake the fancy and the clear perception.
    Grts 8.306 19 ...one fact is clear to me, that diamagnetism is a law of the mind...
    Imtl 8.346 20 ...only by rare integrity...can the vision of [immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.
    Aris 10.62 5 ...[the true man] is to know...that...wherever found, the old renown attaches to the virtues of simple faith and stanch endurance and clear perception and plain speech...
    Edc1 10.145 8 Baffled for want of language and methods to convey his meaning, not yet clear to himself, [the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    SovE 10.201 13 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. ... Let him know by your security that your conviction is clear and sufficient...
    Prch 10.218 6 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow...a clear enough perception of the inadequacy of the popular religious statement to the wants of their heart and intellect...
    Prch 10.219 2 A thousand negatives [the oracle] utters, clear and strong...
    Prch 10.219 16 Perhaps there must be austere elections and determinations before any clear vision.
    Prch 10.224 27 ...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true, it is clear mathematically...that this will tell in the result...
    Schr 10.274 19 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message; if his voice is clear, then clearly;...
    Plu 10.311 6 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly...to the study of the Beautiful and Good. Hence...his clear convictions of the high destiny of the soul.
    Plu 10.320 17 ...in recent reading of the old text [of Plutarch's Morals], on coming on anything absurd or unintelligible, I referred to the new text and found a clear and accurate statement in its place.
    SlHr 10.439 8 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...with a clear perception of justice...
    SlHr 10.444 25 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of his case.
    Thor 10.470 16 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks...whose fine clear note Thoreau compared to that of a tanager which has got rid of its hoarseness.
    GSt 10.504 13 I have heard...that [George Stearns] had great executive skill, a clear method and a just attention to all the details of the task in hand.
    EWI 11.99 4 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization; a day of reason; of the clear light;...
    FSLC 11.202 26 [Webster] has been by his clear perceptions and statements in all these years the best head in Congress...
    FSLN 11.216 3 We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/
    FSLN 11.223 13 What gratitude does every man feel to him who...who translates truth into language entirely plain and clear!
    FSLN 11.243 2 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing.
    EdAd 11.382 6 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men,/ Were unitarians of the united world,/ And, wheresoever their clear eye-beams fell,/ They caught the footsteps of the Same./
    EdAd 11.388 5 We are more solicitous than others to make our politics clear and healthful...
    SHC 11.428 22 ...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...
    Humb 11.459 5 ...we have lived to see now, for the second time in the history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class, with a clear head and an inflexible will [Humboldt].
    PLT 12.31 17 ...[a man's] aptitude, if he would obey it, would prove a telescope to bring under his clear vision what was blur to everybody else.
    Mem 12.93 20 We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass, which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear plate every image that passes;...
    Mem 12.95 11 This command of old facts, the clear beholding at will of what is best in our experience, is our splendid privilege.
    Mem 12.106 26 ...we remember best when the head is clear...
    Bost 12.194 3 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine, a man of as clear a sight as almost any other; of Thomas a Kempis...without feeling how rich and expansive a culture...they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
    MAng1 12.239 9 [Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's, clear, insulated, luminous, with fit design for a vast structure.
    Milt1 12.261 23 ...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a secondary power, and he respected the mysterious source whence it had its spring; namely, clear conceptions and a devoted heart.
    Milt1 12.265 5 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and not lumpish obedience to the mind...
    Milt1 12.268 21 Thus chosen...for the clear perception of all that is graceful and all that is great in man, Milton was not less happy in his times.
    ACri 12.285 15 ...[George Borrow] had one clear perception, that the key to every country was command of the language of the common people.
    ACri 12.304 26 A clear or natural expression by word or deed is that which we mean when we love and praise the antique.
    Pray 12.354 9 Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf/ Than that I may not disappoint myself,/ That in my action I may soar as high,/ As I can now discern with this clear eye./
    PPr 12.389 18 ...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...
    Trag 12.409 16 ...it is natures not clear...imperfect characters from which somewhat is hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.

clear, adv. (3)

    LLNE 10.359 11 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself...steering clear, though in the dark, of those dangers which might have shipwrecked him.
    FSLN 11.232 24 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear, the worthlessness of good tools to bad workmen;...
    Wom 11.403 4 The politics are base,/ The letters do not cheer,/ And 't is far in the deeps of history,/ The voice that speaketh clear./

clear, v. (14)

    MR 1.247 19 ...we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit;...
    MR 1.248 7 ...we are...to clear ourselves of every usage which has not its roots in our own mind.
    Int 2.328 24 We do not determine what we will think. We only...clear away as we can all obstruction from the fact, and suffer the intellect to see.
    UGM 4.25 13 Great men are...a collyrium to clear our eyes from egotism...
    Wsp 6.237 2 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...and, now sickening, was like to be bedridden on her hands. Should she keep her, or should she dismiss her? But Benedict said, why ask? One thing will clear itself as the thing to be done...
    CbW 6.254 18 Wars, fires, plagues...clear the ground of rotten races and dens of distemper...
    Bty 6.298 4 [Women] refine and clear [the most serious student's] mind;...
    Farm 7.151 15 The first planter, the savage...takes poor land. The better lands are loaded with timber, which he cannot clear;...
    Farm 7.152 8 As [the first planter's] family thrive, and other planters come up around him, he begins to fell trees and clear good land;...
    Clbs 7.228 3 The wish to speak to the want of another mind assists to clear your own.
    Suc 7.290 6 ...war, cannons and executions are used to clear the ground of bad, lumpish, irreclaimable savages, but always to the damage of the conquerors.
    HDC 11.43 14 ...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    PLT 12.44 23 For weal or woe we clear ourselves from the thing we contemplate.
    Let 12.392 6 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter...

cleared, v. (6)

    MR 1.233 20 ...by coming out of trade you have not cleared yourself.
    PPh 4.46 2 As soon as, with culture, things have cleared up a little...[men and women] desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
    Elo1 7.97 9 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight. Let him see...that when he has spoken he...has cleared his own skirts...
    WD 7.185 1 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space left.
    HDC 11.43 22 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed;...the pastures to be cleared;...
    EurB 12.376 22 ...a probity, a justice was to be [the society in Wilhelm Meister's] element, symbolized by the insisting that each property should be cleared of privilege,

clearer, adj. (9)

    Nat 1.54 17 ...so their rising senses/ Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle/ Their clearer reason./
    MR 1.227 23 ...we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with the spiritual nature.
    Hist 2.12 18 The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes...
    Lov1 2.182 17 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world...
    SA 8.91 25 ...in the effort to unfold our thought to a friend we make it clearer to ourselves...
    Elo2 8.121 11 In moments of clearer thought or deeper sympathy, the voice will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much as the auditor;...
    Insp 8.280 24 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new begun;/ White thoughts stand luminous and firm,/ Like statues in the sun;/ Refreshed from supersensuous founts,/ The soul to clearer vision mounts./
    Insp 8.297 15 All our power, all our happiness consists in our reception of [the soul's] hints, which ever become clearer and grander as they are obeyed.
    ACri 12.304 24 When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek vase, I incline to accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits than any other people.

clearest, adj. (3)

    PI 8.6 2 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense side of religion and literature, which are all founded on low nature,--on the clearest and most economical mode of administering the material world, considered as final.
    PPo 8.264 8 The sun from near-by beamed/ Clearest light into [the birds'] soul;/ The resplendence of the Simorg beamed/ As one back from all three./ They knew not, amazed, if they/ Were either this or that./
    Supl 10.176 3 The old and the modern sages of clearest insight are plain men...

clearest, adv. (1)

    DSA 1.134 24 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...but clearest and most permanent, in words.

cleareth, v. (1)

    Suc 7.289 5 Fuller says 't is a maxim of lawyers that a crown once worn cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof.

clear-grained, adj. (1)

    ALin 11.328 15 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by his clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/

clear-headed, adj. (3)

    Dem1 10.18 22 In vain do the clear-headed part of mankind discredit [demonic individuals] as deceivers or deceived,-the mass is attracted.
    Wom 11.409 15 I like women, said a clear-headed man of the world; they are so finished.
    PLT 12.61 13 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections...

clearing, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.38 3 Our log-rolling...the western clearing...are yet unsung.
    Wth 6.86 11 One man has stronger arms or longer legs; another sees by the course of streams and the growth of markets where land will be wanted, makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and wakes up rich.
    Res 8.152 6 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must...go...to the clearing and the brook.

clearing, v. (9)

    SR 2.74 13 You may fulfil your round of duties by clearing yourself in the direct, or in the reflex way.
    ET5 5.98 2 For the administration of justice [in England], Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of business in Chancery was, the Chancellor's staying away entirely from his court.
    ET6 5.104 15 [The Englishman's] vivacity betrays itself...in...the inarticulate noises he makes in clearing the throat;...
    ET11 5.197 12 Now, said Nelson, when clearing for battle, a peerage, or Westminster Abbey!
    Pow 6.68 19 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood] are made...for mining, hunting and clearing;...
    OA 7.331 17 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in...clearing their titles...
    SA 8.101 20 In America, the necessity of clearing the forest...exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
    LLNE 10.354 26 Unless [the leader of a community] have a Cossack roughness of clearing himself of what belongs not, charlatan he must be.
    HDC 11.38 20 I seem to see [the settlers of Concord], with their pious pastor, addressing themselves to the work of clearing the land.

clearly, adv. (15)

    Tran 1.351 18 All that is clearly due to-day is not to lie.
    Pol1 3.214 25 ...when a quarter of the human race assume to tell me what I must do, I may be too much disturbed by the circumstances to see so clearly the absurdity of their command.
    SwM 4.119 26 ...[Swedenborg] affirms that he sees, with the internal sight, the things that are in another life, more clearly than he sees the things which are here in the world.
    ET1 5.21 28 Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most obscurely. He was clever and deep, but he defied the sympathies of every body. Even Mr. Coleridge wrote more clearly...
    PI 8.33 16 There is no choice of words for him who clearly sees the truth.
    PC 8.205 7 ...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant,/ Not clearly voiced, but waking a new sense/ Inviting to new knowledge, one with old./
    Schr 10.274 20 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message; if his voice is clear, then clearly;...
    LS 11.15 13 In this manner we may see clearly enough how this ancient ordinance [the Lord's Supper] got its footing among the early Christians...
    LS 11.24 5 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to administer it. I am clearly of opinion I ought not.
    HDC 11.77 19 [William Emerson], at least, saw clearly the pregnant consequences of the 19th April [1775].
    ACiv 11.301 16 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...
    FRep 11.538 12 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people. No...but whether we shall be...the guide and lawgiver of all nations, as having clearly chosen and firmly held the simplest and best rule of political society.
    PLT 12.12 4 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he... only draws that arc which he clearly sees...
    MAng1 12.234 15 [Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find occasion for devotion in the same figures.
    MLit 12.319 23 [Shelley] is clearly modern...

clearness, n. (9)

    DSA 1.144 16 The stationariness of religion;...the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man; - indicate with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology.
    Int 2.331 24 We say I will walk abroad, and the truth will take form and clearness to me.
    ET15 5.262 15 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs, expressing with clearness and courage their opinion on any person or performance.
    F 6.27 24 ...when souls reach a certain clearness of perception they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness.
    SA 8.102 7 I often hear the business of a little town...discussed with a clearness and thoroughness...that would have satisfied me had it been in one of the larger capitals.
    Elo2 8.112 27 There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected,--that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes.
    SlHr 10.448 4 There was no elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] reading or tastes beyond the crystal clearness of his mind.
    War 11.161 2 [The idea that there can be peace as well as war] is expounded, illustrated, defined, with different degrees of clearness;...
    II 12.81 19 The haberdashers and brokers and attorneys are idealists and only differ in the amount and clearness of their perception.

clears, v. (3)

    ET8 5.138 18 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage, but the temper of the nation...settles itself soon and easily, as, in this temperate zone, the sky after whatever storms clears again...
    Ill 6.325 25 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal]. And when...for an instant, the air clears...there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones,--they alone with him alone.
    Civ 7.21 7 ...the change of shores and population clears [a man's] head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

clear-sighted, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.93 14 Power is what [men of sense] want...power to execute their design...which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists...

cleave, v. (11)

    SR 2.61 13 ...millions of minds so grow and cleave to [Christ's] genius that he is confounded with virtue...
    SR 2.73 18 If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions;...
    Comp 2.92 7 Laurel crowns cleave to deserts/...
    SwM 4.145 16 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of Indian legend, who says Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God.
    GoW 4.267 9 The fiery reformer embodies his aspiration in some rite or covenant, and he and his friends cleave to the form and lose the aspiration.
    ET8 5.130 12 [Englishmen's] habits and instincts cleave to nature.
    ET15 5.272 10 If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right...
    Wsp 6.230 7 ...cleave to the truth...and you gain a station from which you cannot be dislodged.
    CbW 6.244 1 Cleave to thine acre; the round year/ Will fetch all fruits and virtues here/...
    FSLC 11.205 23 The people cleave to the Union, because they see their advantage in it...
    PLT 12.6 20 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is...that [the student] shall see in [the mind] the source of all traditions, and shall see each one of them as better or worse statement of its revelations; shall come to trust it entirely, as the only true; to cleave to God against the name of God.

cleaves, v. (8)

    SL 2.148 22 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids another, according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself...
    Lov1 2.171 26 ...grief cleaves to names and persons and the partial interests of to-day and yesterday.
    DL 7.106 6 St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination cleaves to the warm glories of that tinsel even now!
    OA 7.336 4 I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution.
    Plu 10.304 5 ...[Plutarch]...cleaves to the security of prose narrative...
    PLT 12.35 23 The mythology cleaves close to Nature;...
    Bost 12.209 21 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America.
    Trag 12.406 9 Melancholy cleaves to the English mind in both hemispheres as closely as to the strings of an Aeolian harp.

cleaving, v. (1)

    ET11 5.178 25 This long descent of [English] families and this cleaving through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination.

cleft, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.20 12 The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees, with all their boughs, to a festal or solemn arcade; as the bands about the cleft pillars still indicate the green withes that tied them.

cleft, n. (1)

    Cour 7.278 13 One day as through the cleft/ Between two mountains steep,/ Shut in both right and left,/ Their questing way they keep,/...

clefts, n. (1)

    Cir 2.302 13 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining, as we see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts in June and July.

clemency, n. (1)

    War 11.153 2 The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above each other by new merits, as clemency, hospitality, splendor of living.

Cleomenes, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.89 8 The Gracchi, Agis, Cleomenes, and others of Plutarch's heroes, do not in the record of facts equal their own fame.

Cleopatra, n. (4)

    NER 3.274 24 Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia...offers to quit the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, if [the Egyptian priest] will show him those mysterious sources [of the Nile].
    NER 3.276 16 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time...with Caesar to take in his hand the army, the empire and Cleopatra, and say, All these will I relinquish, if you will show me the fountains of the Nile.
    ET14 5.237 7 ...nature, to pique the more, sometimes works up deformities into beauty in some rare Aspasia or Cleopatra...
    Boks 7.215 23 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party. A person of commanding individualism will answer it as...Cleopatra, as Milton, as George Sand do...

clergy, n. (30)

    AmS 1.94 12 I have heard it said that the clergy...are addressed as women;...
    DSA 1.141 2 I know and honor the purity and strict conscience of numbers of the clergy.
    YA 1.392 23 Would [our youths and maidens] like tithes to the clergy...
    SwM 4.100 23 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the added fame...of extraordinary religious knowledge and gifts, drew to him queens, nobles, clergy...
    SwM 4.100 26 The clergy interfered a little with the importation and publication of [Swedenborg's] religious works...
    ET7 5.116 6 The faces of clergy and laity in old sculptures and illuminated missals are charged with earnest belief.
    ET11 5.173 17 The Anglican clergy are identified with the aristocracy.
    ET13 5.216 12 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals.
    ET13 5.217 12 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
    ET13 5.219 11 The [English] universities also are parcel of the ecclesiastical system, and their first design is to form the clergy.
    ET13 5.219 11 ...the clergy for a thousand years have been the scholars of the nation [England].
    ET13 5.223 3 ...the Anglican clergy are identified with the aristocracy.
    ET13 5.223 15 The Anglican Church is marked...by the manly grace of its clergy.
    ET13 5.230 10 False position introduces cant, perjury, simony and ever a lower class of mind and character into the [English] clergy...
    Ctr 6.140 16 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years. They are past the help of surgeon or clergy.
    Bty 6.284 25 The clergy have bronchitis, which does not seem a certificate of spiritual health.
    Bty 6.285 21 ...the clergy are not victims of their pursuits more than others.
    Elo2 8.127 10 Dr. Charles Chauncy was...a man of marked ability among the clergy of New England.
    Chr2 10.107 21 So of the changed position and manners of the clergy.
    Chr2 10.115 23 ...in every period of intellectual expansion, the Church ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest and freest minds...
    Chr2 10.116 13 ...the simple and free minds among our clergy have not resisted the voice of Nature...
    Prch 10.229 15 The clergy are as like as peas.
    Prch 10.230 1 The clergy are always in danger of becoming wards and pensioners of the so-called producing classes.
    MoL 10.249 5 Coleridge traces three silent revolutions, of which the first was when the clergy fell from the Church.
    EzRy 10.384 1 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries, the old New England clergy, were believers in what is called a particular providence...
    HDC 11.72 3 The clergy of New England were, for the most part, zealous promoters of the Revolution.
    EWI 11.115 22 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged, seizing the opportunity to enlighten the people on all the duties and responsibilities of their new relation...
    FSLN 11.228 2 ...the decision of Webster [for the Fugitive Slave Law] was accompanied with everything offensive to freedom and good morals. There was something like an attempt to debauch the moral sentiment of the clergy and of the youth.
    FSLN 11.241 17 We should not forgive the clergy for taking on every issue the immoral side;...
    Bost 12.207 10 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in...contravening the counsel of the clergy;...

clergyman, n. (15)

    NER 3.253 12 [Other reformers] assailed particular vocations, as...that...of the clergyman...
    ET13 5.217 15 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
    ET13 5.223 5 They say here [in England], that if you talk with a clergyman, you are sure to find him well-bred, informed and candid...
    ET13 5.223 8 ...[the English clergyman] entertains your thought or your project with sympathy and praise. But if a second clergyman come in, the sympathy is at an end...
    ET13 5.223 11 ...whenever it comes to action, the [English] clergyman invariably sides with his church.
    CbW 6.263 22 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town, who were his companions?...
    Clbs 7.227 10 The clergyman walks from house to house all day all the year to give people the comfort of good talk.
    Grts 8.305 26 ...there is not a piece of Nature in any kind but a man is born who...aims...to dedicate himself to that. Then there is the poet...the clergyman...
    Chr2 10.107 25 ...the distinctions of the true clergyman are not less decisive.
    Chr2 10.116 22 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel in France...he might leave them locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons...
    Supl 10.174 12 I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he would go when the interesting Sundays were over.
    Schr 10.264 21 The men committed by profession as well as by bias to study, the clergyman, the chemist, the astronomer, the metaphysician...talk hard and worldly...
    LLNE 10.332 26 In the pulpit (for he was then a clergyman)...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.
    LLNE 10.345 5 The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety, but must have taste...
    EzRy 10.387 11 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain.

Clergymen, Episcopal, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.181 4 I met the smoothest of Episcopal Clergymen the other day...

clergymen, n. (12)

    Chr2 10.107 9 Fifty or a hundred years ago...an exact observance of the Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of clergymen.
    Chr2 10.116 18 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions...
    Chr2 10.116 26 The orthodox clergymen hold a little firmer to [their traditions]...
    Prch 10.234 14 The supposed embarrassments to young clergymen exist only to feeble wills.
    MoL 10.243 8 ...stray clergymen kept the bar in saloons [in California];...
    LLNE 10.369 4 [Brook Farm] was a close union...of clergymen, young collegians, merchants, mechanics, farmers' sons and daughters...
    Thor 10.458 24 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books...to clergymen who were alumni...
    HDC 11.31 16 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister of Woodhill, in Bedfordshire...
    Wom 11.421 5 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;...
    Wom 11.421 6 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;-that if they are good clergymen they are unacquainted with the expediencies of politics...
    Wom 11.421 9 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;-that...if they become good politicians they are worse clergymen.
    CPL 11.499 8 I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody Emerson], native of this town [Concord] (and descended from three of its clergymen), who removed into Maine...

clerical, adj. (3)

    MN 1.192 19 ...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of handicrafts and mechanics, how splendid soever the result, any more than I admire the routine of the scholars or clerical class.
    SwM 4.101 12 [Swedenborg] is described, when in London, as a man of a quiet, clerical habit...
    Bhr 6.181 2 The military eye I meet, now darkly sparkling under clerical, now under rustic brows.

clerisy, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.144 19 The artist, the scholar, and, in general, the clerisy, win their way up into these places [of fashion] and get represented here, somewhat on this footing of conquest.
    GoW 4.266 2 ...there is a certain ridicule...thrown on the scholars or clerisy...
    MoL 10.254 21 The clerisy, the spiritual guides...have been false to their trust.

Clerk, John. (1)

    ET5 5.86 14 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.

clerk, n. (6)

    NER 3.255 26 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers...who reply to the assessor and to the clerk of court that they do not know the State...
    ET1 5.24 8 ...[Wordsworth] led me into the enclosure of his clerk...
    ET6 5.106 3 [The Englishman] withholds his name. At the hotel, he is hardly willing to whisper it to the clerk at the book-office.
    Pow 6.79 22 To have learned the use of the tools, by thousands of manipulations; to have learned the arts of reckoning, by endless adding and dividing, is the power of the mechanic and the clerk.
    FSLC 11.199 13 There is not a clerk but recites [slavery's] statistics;...
    ACiv 11.302 19 Government must not be a parish clerk...

clerks, n. (11)

    AmS 1.107 19 Wake [men] and they shall...leave governments to clerks and desks.
    Mrs1 3.123 22 In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
    ET4 5.71 21 Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians [in England] like the company of horses better than the company of professors.
    ET8 5.134 12 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture; war-class as well as clerks;...
    ET13 5.220 2 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men; plenty of clerks and bishops, who, out of their gowns, would turn their backs on no man.
    ET18 5.302 27 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness! What courage in war...what clerks and scholars!
    F 6.41 3 Ducks take to the water...clerks to counting-rooms...
    Pow 6.58 14 ...the lawyer's authorities are hunted up by clerks;...
    Elo1 7.88 12 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift, being...in lawyers nothing technical, but always some piece of common sense, alike interesting to laymen as to clerks.
    Boks 7.215 8 ...I often see traces of the Scotch or the French novel in the courtesy and brilliancy of young midshipmen, collegians and clerks.
    HDC 11.84 7 The old town clerks did not spell very correctly...

clerk's, n. (2)

    Wth 6.102 8 ...the clerk's [dollar] is light and nimble;...
    HDC 11.64 9 Some interesting peculiarities in the manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books. Proposals of marriage were made by the parents of the parties, and minutes of such private agreements sometimes entered on the clerk's records.

Cleveland, Duke of [William (1)

    ET11 5.182 10 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three miles...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.

clever, adj. (7)

    GoW 4.270 24 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no Chatham, but any number of clever parliamentary and forensic debaters;...
    ET1 5.21 26 Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most obscurely. He was clever and deep, but he defied the sympathies of every body.
    ET6 5.114 10 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of clever projects...
    ET8 5.140 11 Haldor...told his opinion bluntly and was obstinate and hard: and this could not please the king, who had many clever people about him...
    ET15 5.262 13 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs...
    ET15 5.262 21 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal, as they make speeches in Parliament and on the hustings...
    Wth 6.86 14 A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam;...

cleverer, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.278 16 I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.

cleverness, n. (2)

    MMEm 10.413 7 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday five or more miles...just fit for the society I went into, all mildness and the most commonplace virtue. The lady is celebrated for her cleverness, and she was never so good to me.
    PLT 12.57 2 If a man show cleverness...people clap their hands without asking more.

clew, n. (2)

    ET16 5.281 8 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position. In the silence of tradition, this one relation to science becomes an important clew;...
    OA 7.329 22 We carry in memory important anecdotes, and have lost all clew to the author from whom we had them.

client, n. (11)

    SR 2.72 6 Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door...
    SL 2.157 3 I have heard an experienced counsellor say that he never feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict.
    Chr1 3.99 14 I revere the person who is riches; so that I cannot think of him as alone, or poor, or exiled, or unhappy, or a client...
    F 6.45 24 Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious nature] has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client...
    CbW 6.245 19 The lawyer advises the client, and tells his story to the jury and leaves it with them...
    CbW 6.245 21 The lawyer...is as gay and as much relieved as the client if it turns out that he has a verdict.
    OA 7.326 2 Thirty years ago it was a serious concern to [the lawyer] whether his pleading was good and effective. Now it is of importance to his client, but of none to himself.
    SlHr 10.442 15 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
    EWI 11.136 7 I was a slave, said the counsel of [George] Somerset, speaking for his client, for I was in America...
    FSLN 11.225 20 Who doubts the power of any fluent debater to defend... any client in our courts?
    EPro 11.318 6 ...when we see how the great stake which foreign nations hold in our affairs has recently brought every European power as a client into this court...one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation] was too long.

clients, n. (6)

    SR 2.61 10 ...posterity seem to follow [a true man's] steps as a train of clients.
    Wsp 6.235 4 [Benedict said] I seem to fail in my friends and clients, too.
    Elo1 7.80 6 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons. His clients pay not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments...
    PC 8.230 23 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry politicians...pledged to parties, pledged to clients...
    GSt 10.502 26 [George Stearns] did not hesitate to become the banker of his clients...
    Let 12.404 7 We must refer our clients back to themselves, believing that every man knows in his heart the cure for the disease he so ostentatiously bewails.

client's, n. (1)

    Aris 10.50 7 When the lawyer tries his case in court...his own merits appear as well as his client's.

clientship, n. (1)

    Wth 6.90 17 ...no system of clientship suits [the Saxons];...

cliff, n. (3)

    MN 1.220 19 Shall we not...betake ourselves to some desert cliff of Mount Katahdin...
    ET11 5.179 16 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on...
    CL 12.156 3 ...a view from a cliff over a wide country undoes a good deal of prose...

clifflike, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.15 10 [Carlyle] was tall and gaunt, with a clifflike brow...

cliffs, n. (2)

    Thor 10.484 10 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...
    Thor 10.484 15 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter... climbs the cliffs to gather...

cliff-swallows, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.119 22 In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in caves, like cliff-swallows...

climate, n. (81)

    Nat 1.22 6 Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in our memory with the geography and climate of Greece.
    Nat 1.36 5 Space...climate...give us sincerest lessons...whose meaning is unlimited.
    LT 1.261 26 We do not think the sky will be bluer...or our climate more temperate...
    Tran 1.353 2 I wish to exchange...this fever-glow for a benign climate.
    SR 2.82 27 ...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done by him, considering the climate...he will create a house in which [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
    Comp 2.98 2 The influences of climate and soil in political history is another [instance of Compensation].
    Comp 2.98 3 The cold climate invigorates.
    Prd1 2.224 20 ...our existence...so susceptible to climate and to country... reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    Prd1 2.225 2 [Prudence] respects...climate, want, sleep...
    Prd1 2.226 1 ...climate is a great impediment to idle persons;...
    Prd1 2.234 1 Health, bread, climate, social position, have their importance...
    Hsm1 2.258 4 A great man makes his climate genial in the imagination of men...
    Cir 2.311 14 The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday,-- property, climate...and the like, have strangely changed their proportions.
    Nat2 3.169 1 There are days which occur in this climate...wherein the world reaches its perfection;...
    UGM 4.4 2 You say...in Valencia the climate is delicious;...
    UGM 4.35 10 It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song, that climate, corn, animals, men, may be milder...
    MoS 4.177 16 What can I do...against climate, against barbarism, in my country?
    ET3 5.38 14 The climate [in England] is warmer by many degrees than it is entitled to by latitude.
    ET3 5.39 25 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.
    ET3 5.40 5 It is...pretended that the enormous consumption of coal in the island [England] is also felt in modifying the general climate.
    ET3 5.40 6 Factitious climate, factitious position [in England].
    ET4 5.48 2 Race is a controlling influence in the Jew, who, for two millenniums, under every climate, has preserved the same character and employments.
    ET4 5.53 17 In Ireland are the same climate and soil as in England, but less food...
    ET5 5.94 2 The climate and geography [of England], I said, were factitious...
    ET5 5.95 17 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too...is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
    ET6 5.107 11 Born in a harsh and wet climate...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house.
    ET8 5.135 20 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...catching from their savage climate every fine hint...
    ET10 5.159 24 England already had this laborious race, rich soil...and favorable climate.
    ET11 5.196 17 Here [in England] at last were climate and condition friendly to the working faculty.
    F 6.7 15 The planet is liable to...alterations of climate...
    F 6.7 21 ...the sword of the climate in the west of Africa...cut off men like a massacre.
    F 6.9 4 ...so is sex; so is climate; so is the reaction of talents imprisoning the vital power in certain directions.
    F 6.30 14 ...we gladly forget numbers, money, climate, gravitation...
    F 6.31 7 ...in dealing with steam and climate...[men] think they come under another [dominion];...
    Pow 6.56 23 [A strong pulse] is like the climate, which easily rears a crop which no glass, or irrigation, or tillage, or manures can elsewhere rival.
    Wth 6.86 27 ...coal is a portable climate.
    Bty 6.282 13 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true and divine...that climate, century, remote natures as well as near, are part of [the soul's] biography.
    Civ 7.25 25 Climate has much to do with this melioration.
    Civ 7.26 6 High degrees of moral sentiment control the unfavorable influences of climate;...
    Civ 7.26 11 These feats are measures or traits of civility; and temperate climate is an important influence...
    Civ 7.34 13 ...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous; and no advantages of soil, climate or coast can resist these suicidal mischiefs.
    Elo1 7.68 13 Climate has much to do with [eloquence],--climate and race.
    Elo1 7.69 1 Our Southern people are almost all speakers, and have every advantage over the New England people, whose climate is so cold that 't is said we do not like to open our mouths very wide.
    DL 7.112 4 The shortest enumeration of our wants in this rugged climate appalls us by the multitude of things not easy to be done.
    DL 7.133 10 These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the household is instituted and the roof-tree stands. If these are sought and in any good degree attained...can climate...yield anything better, or half as good"
    Farm 7.148 14 ...this shelter creates a new climate.
    Farm 7.149 16 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation...
    WD 7.177 13 That is good which commends to me my country, my climate, my means and materials, my associates.
    Res 8.141 7 Ah! what a plastic little creature [man] is!...he making himself comfortable in every climate, in every condition.
    Res 8.150 17 In this country we have not learned how to repair the exhaustions of our climate.
    PC 8.207 18 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?...the hungry cry for men which goes up from the wide continent; the answering facility of immigration, permitting every wanderer to choose his climate and government.
    PPo 8.239 5 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization...
    Imtl 8.324 17 The credence of men, more than race or climate, makes their manners and customs;...
    Imtl 8.337 22 I have seen what glories of climate...
    Supl 10.176 13 ...the expression of character...is, in great degree, a matter of climate.
    EWI 11.119 3 The planter...has contracted in his indolent and luxurious climate the need of excitement by irritating and tormenting his slave.
    EWI 11.125 13 It was shown to the planters...that their estates were ruining them, under the finest climate;...
    FSLC 11.206 6 It is not slavery that severs [the North and the South], it is climate and temperament.
    EdAd 11.387 12 ...every acre on the globe, every family of men, every point of climate, has its distinguishing virtues.
    SHC 11.432 9 ...how much more are [parks] needed by us...to stanch and appease that fury of temperament which our climate bestows!
    CL 12.139 11 We have the finest climate in the world, for this purpose [listening to Nature], in Massachusetts.
    CL 12.139 17 New England has a good climate...
    CL 12.139 21 Our climate is a series of surprises...
    CL 12.139 25 The [Massachusetts] climate needs...to be corrected by a little anthracite coal...
    CL 12.140 7 ...we cannot overpraise the comfort and the beauty of the [Massachusetts] climate in the best days of the year.
    CL 12.152 13 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully ripe...
    CL 12.152 15 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully ripe, and...acquires fine color, whilst, in Europe, the damper climate decomposes it too soon.
    CL 12.153 18 Shores in sight of each other in a warm climate make boat-builders;...
    Bost 12.183 17 There is the climate of the Sahara: a climate where the sunbeams are vertical;...
    Bost 12.183 24 Such is the assimilating force of the Indian climate that Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.
    Bost 12.184 14 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air...
    Bost 12.185 10 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...
    Bost 12.185 19 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows rather, of east winds and changing skies; visited by icebergs, which, floating by, nip with their cool breath our blossoms. Not a luxurious climate...
    Bost 12.185 21 Give me a climate where people think well and construct well,-I will spend six months there, and you may have all the rest of my years.
    Bost 12.186 17 New England is a sort of Scotland. 'T is hard to say why. Climate is much;...
    Bost 12.205 20 The power of labor which belongs to the English race fell here into a climate which befriended it...
    Bost 12.208 22 The climate [of Boston] is electric, good for wit and good for character.
    MLit 12.318 26 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany... finds a most genial climate in the American mind.
    MLit 12.324 25 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as growing out of the Italian climate;...

climates, n. (25)

    Nat 1.13 1 What angels invented...this striped coat of climates...
    Prd1 2.226 20 ...the inhabitants of these [northern] climates have always excelled the southerner in force.
    Prd1 2.236 9 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither, and, by persistency, make the paltry force of one man reappear to redeem its pledge after months and years in the most distant climates.
    Cir 2.311 17 ...literatures, cities, climates, religions, leave their foundations...
    Pt1 3.9 14 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line, running up from a torrid base through all the climates of the globe...
    Nat2 3.179 23 A little heat...is all that differences the...deadly cold poles of the earth from the prolific tropical climates.
    ET8 5.127 3 I do not know that [the English] have sadder brows than their neighbors of northern climates.
    ET18 5.303 22 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates...
    Wth 6.88 3 ...here we must recite the iron law which nature thunders in these northern climates.
    Wth 6.89 22 ...fruits of all climates;...are [man's] natural playmates...
    CbW 6.264 21 'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs nothing, such are its preserving qualities in damp climates.
    DL 7.112 3 ...the wealth and multiplication of conveniences embarrass us, especially in northern climates.
    WD 7.160 10 What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha, which make...rain-proof coats for all climates...
    Clbs 7.225 11 Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects...are the necessity of this exigent system of ours.
    Aris 10.32 19 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars who sit indifferently in all climates...
    Edc1 10.127 6 Certain nations...usually in more temperate climates, have made such progress as to compare with these [savages] as these compare with the bear and the wolf.
    Supl 10.176 13 In the temperate climates there is a temperate speech...
    Supl 10.176 14 In the temperate climates there is a temperate speech, in torrid climates an ardent one.
    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.
    EdAd 11.386 19 ...who can see the continent with...its temperate climates... without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    CL 12.140 3 I own I prefer the solar to the polar climates.
    CL 12.145 11 ...whole zones and climates [Nature] has concentrated into apples.
    Bost 12.183 3 The old physiologists...watched the effect of different climates.
    Bost 12.185 6 Who lives one year in Boston ranges through all the climates of the globe.
    Bost 12.196 25 ...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.

climax, n. (2)

    ET9 5.145 21 When [the Englishman] adds epithets of praise, his climax is, so English;...
    Comc 8.165 20 The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual Church is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious sentiment...

climb, v. (11)

    Hist 2.36 20 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let his faculties find...no Alps to climb...and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
    Art1 2.349 25 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of one element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/...
    Exp 3.62 17 We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science...
    Pol1 3.218 22 Like one class of forest animals, [senators and presidents] have nothing but a prehensile tail; climb they must, or crawl.
    MoS 4.159 9 ...let us learn and get and have and climb.
    CbW 6.243 15 ...Only the light-armed climb the hill./
    Art2 7.55 2 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills...
    DL 7.101 2 I reached the middle of the mount/ Up which the incarnate soul must climb/...
    MMEm 10.422 16 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles. Sometimes they climb, sometimes creep into the meanest holes...
    Thor 10.469 26 [Thoreau] wore a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers...to climb a tree for a hawk's or a squirrel's nest.
    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.

climbed, v. (5)

    Pol1 3.218 14 Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough...
    ET16 5.285 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...climbed to the lonely sculptured summer-house...
    Pow 6.72 23 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them with glue and water with his own hands, and having after many trials at last suited himself, climbed his ladders, and painted away...the sibyls and prophets.
    PLT 12.58 10 The expansions [of the Intellect] are the invitations from heaven to try...a higher pitch than we have yet climbed...
    CL 12.155 17 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...

climbers, n. (1)

    ET14 5.238 9 [British] minds...were...climbers on the staircase of unity.

climbing, adj. (3)

    Exp 3.63 22 ...the exclusion...reaches the climbing, flying, gliding, feathered and four-footed man.
    Bty 6.306 11 ...there is a climbing scale of culture...
    ACiv 11.304 18 On the climbing scale of progress, [the Southerner] is just up to war...

climbing, v. (7)

    NMW 4.235 11 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said; and he built his perfect roads, climbing by graded galleries their steepest precipices...
    ET2 5.30 18 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to England. The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock...and he is climbing nimbly about after them;...
    Ctr 6.143 24 ...skating, climbing...are lessons in the art of power...
    Bhr 6.192 6 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing...
    Aris 10.59 17 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant...that there is no...stern exclusive Legion of Honor, to be entered only by long and real service and patient climbing up all the steps.
    SMC 11.373 7 After driving the enemy from the railroad, crossing it, and climbing the farther bank to continue the charge, [George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball...
    EurB 12.369 8 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...from the lessons which the country muse taught a stout pedestrian climbing a mountain...

climbs, v. (7)

    SwM 4.109 8 ...every thing at the end of one use is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.
    ET14 5.257 24 ...[Tennyson] wants a subject, and climbs no mount of vision to bring its secrets to the people.
    Wth 6.126 13 [The liquor of life] passes through the sacred fermentations, by that law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms...
    WD 7.162 21 Civilization mounts and climbs.
    Thor 10.484 15 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter... climbs the cliffs to gather...
    War 11.161 15 The star once risen...will mount and mount, until it...climbs the zenith of all eyes.
    II 12.70 4 The star climbs for a time the heaven, but never reaches its zenith;...

clime, n. (3)

    DL 7.111 13 The progress of domestic living has been...in the concentration of all the utilities of every clime in each house.
    Farm 7.153 21 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature...
    RBur 11.438 4 He was the music to whose tone/ The common pulse of man keeps time/ In cot or castle's mirth or moan,/ In cold or sunny clime./

clinch, v. (3)

    ET5 5.88 27 I know not from which of the tribes and temperaments that went to the composition of the people [of England] this tenacity was supplied, but they clinch every nail they drive.
    Mem 12.107 14 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning. Only I should give extension to this rule and say, Yes, drive the nail this week and clinch it the next...
    Mem 12.107 15 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning. Only I should give extension to this rule and say, Yes, drive the nail this week and clinch it the next, and drive it this year and clinch it the next.

clinching, v. (1)

    Mem 12.107 12 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.

cling, v. (14)

    SwM 4.144 25 [Swedenborg] elected goodness as the clue to which the soul must cling in all this labyrinth of nature.
    SwM 4.144 27 In the shipwreck, some cling to running rigging, some to cask and barrel...
    NMW 4.252 27 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave, who in their despair...would cling to red-hot iron...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    ET1 5.5 3 I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will dispose fast enough of these impediments...
    ET13 5.228 26 The English...cling to the last rag of form, and are dreadfully given to cant.
    F 6.6 14 Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town.
    CbW 6.267 20 ...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy of a protecting domestic horizon.
    OA 7.316 5 Cicero makes no reference to the illusions which cling to the element of time...
    PI 8.12 19 Imaginative minds cling to their images...
    QO 8.187 18 If we observe the tenacity with which nations cling to their first types of costume...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    MoL 10.244 6 ...[the Hebrew nation's] poems and histories cling to the soil of this globe like the primitive rocks.
    JBS 11.277 13 ...I mean, in the few remarks I have to make, to cling to [John Brown's] history...
    SMC 11.350 4 ...we shall cling affectionately to our houses, our river and pastures...
    SHC 11.431 17 Shadows haunt [trees]; all that ever lived about them cling to them.

clinging, v. (7)

    SwM 4.128 13 I know how delicious is this cup of love...but it is a child's clinging to his toy;...
    ET1 5.15 13 [Carlyle] was...self-possessed...clinging to his northern accent with evident relish;...
    ET14 5.258 19 For a self-conceited modish life...clinging to a corporeal civilization...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.
    Grts 8.308 5 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of Nature which he knows, [the commander] makes no mistakes...
    Prch 10.229 5 ...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions, as betrayed in the clinging to a form of devotion or a theological dogma;...
    FRep 11.535 6 ...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions... we should feel this...absurdly out of place.
    PLT 12.36 3 [Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains...clinging to his behemoth ways.

clings, v. (8)

    Ctr 6.150 24 [The man of the world's] conversation clings to the weather and the news...
    Bhr 6.191 10 ...when a man does not write his poetry it...clings to his form and manners...
    CbW 6.277 7 How respectable the life that clings to its objects!
    Farm 7.139 20 [The farmer]...clings to his land as the rocks do.
    WD 7.157 14 The apprentice clings to his foot-rule;...
    Chr2 10.114 2 The Church...clings to the miraculous...
    Schr 10.285 19 Genius has truth and clings to it...
    Trag 12.413 18 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...

Clinton, Massachusetts, n. (1)

    F 6.42 26 We know in Massachusetts...who built...Clinton...

Clio, n. (1)

    Insp 8.287 10 I confide that my reader...has perhaps Slighted Minerva's learned tongue,/ But leaped with joy when on the wind the shell of Clio rung./

clipped, v. (1)

    Plu 10.315 2 At Rome [Plutarch] thinks [Fortune's] wings were clipped...

clique, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.125 20 Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between power and money] is, which transcends the habits of clique and caste...

Clissold, Augustus, n. (1)

    SwM 4.111 18 This startling reappearance of Swedenborg...is not the least remarkable fact in his history. Aided it is said by the munificence of Mr. Clissold, and also by his literary skill, this piece of poetic justice is done.

cloak, n. (10)

    Fdsp 2.197 22 Thou [my friend] hast come to me lately, and already thou art seizing thy hat and cloak.
    NR 3.227 6 [A person who makes a good public appearance] is a graceful cloak or lay-figure for holidays.
    DL 7.123 1 In the old fables we used to read of a cloak brought from fairy-land as a gift for the fairest and purest in Prince Arthur's court.
    WD 7.170 22 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...the fashion of a cloak or hat;...
    Cour 7.268 20 The beautiful voice at church...covers up in its volume, as in a cloak, all the defects of the choir.
    Suc 7.297 20 ...[the youth] can read Plato, covered to his chin with a cloak in a cold upper chamber...
    Res 8.144 27 See how Nature keeps the lakes warm by tucking them up under a blanket of ice, and the ground under a cloak of snow.
    Dem1 10.5 11 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer;...
    Dem1 10.25 15 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of...the travelling cloak, the shoes of swiftness and the sword of sharpness...
    Mem 12.104 4 In low or bad company you fold yourself in your cloak... recall and surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of your life...

Cloak, Travelling, n. (1)

    QO 8.186 21 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...The Travelling Cloak...

cloak, v. (1)

    Wth 6.111 20 We must use the means, and yet, in our most accurate using somehow screen and cloak them...

cloaks, n. (2)

    DSA 1.137 17 We are fain to wrap our cloaks about us, and secure...a solitude that hears not.
    Fdsp 2.197 13 ...I see well that, for all his purple cloaks, I shall not like [the party you praise], unless he is at least a poor Greek like me.

cloak-string, n. (1)

    ET4 5.59 4 The sight of a tent-cord or a cloak-string puts [Norsemen] on hanging somebody...

clock, n. (15)

    Nat 1.18 22 The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides, which makes the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours, will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
    Nat 1.38 1 ...Property...is the surface action of internal machinery, like the index on the face of a clock.
    Prd1 2.227 6 The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock...has solaces which others never dream of.
    Cir 2.311 12 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god...and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which shrouded all things, and the meaning...of chair and clock and tester, is manifest.
    Art1 2.349 14 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels, starry wings/...
    UGM 4.21 27 I go to a convention of philanthropists. Do what I can, I cannot keep my eyes off the clock.
    UGM 4.22 9 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me; I forget the clock.
    PI 8.7 6 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...and goes whirling off...in a direction self-chosen, by law of thought and not by law of kitchen clock or county committee.
    PI 8.23 26 The senses imprison us, and we help them with metres as limitary,--with a pair of scales and a foot-rule and a clock.
    SA 8.84 5 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage, as the lapse of time tells itself on the face of a clock.
    PC 8.212 24 The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen clock...
    Edc1 10.153 6 ...[the teacher] cannot delight in personal relations with young friends, when his eye is always on the clock...
    MMEm 10.433 5 Shall we not keep Flamsteed and Herschel in the observatory, though it should even be proved that they neglected to rectify their own kitchen clock?
    HDC 11.49 15 ...in the clock on the church, [the people of Concord] read their own power...
    EWI 11.114 23 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at midnight, when the clock struck twelve, on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became men;...

clocks, n. (1)

    PC 8.214 22 ...[The Middle Ages']...mariner's compass, gunpowder, glass, paper and clocks;...are the delight and tuition of ours.

clod, n. (4)

    UGM 4.9 12 The earth rolls; every clod and stone comes to the meridian...
    SovE 10.194 16 A man should be...a guest in his own thought. He is there to speak for truth; but who is he? Some clod the truth has snatched from the ground, and with fire has fashioned to a momentary man.
    SovE 10.194 19 A man should be...a guest in his own thought. He is there to speak for truth; but who is he? Some clod the truth has snatched from the ground, and with fire has fashioned to a momentary man. Without the truth, he is a clod again.
    WSL 12.339 2 ...[Landor] delights to throw a clod of dirt on the table, and cry, Gentlemen, there is a better man than all of you.

clods, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.178 11 ...Fate's grass grows rank in valley clods,/ And rankly on the castled steep,-/ Speak it firmly, these [Eternal Rights] are gods,/ Are all ghosts beside./

clogs, n. (1)

    F 6.36 5 Liberation of the will from the sheaths and clogs of organization... is the end and aim of this world.

clogs, v. (1)

    ET18 5.300 16 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state...

cloister, n. (2)

    ET16 5.284 24 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall], and a quadrangle cloister full of antique and modern statuary...yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
    Schr 10.261 8 ...the society of lettered men is a university which does not bound itself with the walls of one cloister or college...

cloistered, adj. (1)

    Hsm1 2.259 10 ...why should a woman...think, because...the cloistered souls who have had genius and cultivation do not satisfy the imagination and the serene Themis, none can,--certainly not she?

cloistered, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.106 8 ...nature advertises me in such [nonconforming] persons that in democratic America she will not be democratized. How cloistered and constitutionally sequestered from the market and from scandal!

cloisters, n. (1)

    ET12 5.199 17 My new friends [at Oxford] showed me their cloisters...

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