Comity to Commuted
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
comity, n. (4)
MoS 4.181 23 It is the rule of mere comity and courtesy
to agree where you
can...
ET11 5.176 20 ...the virtues of pirates gave way [in
England] to those of
planters, merchants, senators and scholars. Comity, social talent and
fine
manners, no doubt, have had their part also.
Ill 6.315 9 We must not carry comity too far...
ChiE 11.472 10 ...China...thirty centuries before New
York, had the custom
of New Year's calls of comity and reconciliation.
command, n. (61)
Nat 1.40 12 [Man] forges the...air...into...words, and
gives them wing as
angels of persuasion and command.
Con 1.312 5 ...to thy industry and thrift and small
condescension to the
established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command;...
Tran 1.351 12 ...I will not move until I have the
highest command.
YA 1.377 12 ...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in
ships or caravans... new command takes place, new servants and new
masters.
Hist 2.6 2 ...all [laws] express more or less
distinctly some command of this
supreme, illimitable essence [the universal nature].
Pt1 3.9 6 I took part in a conversation the other day
concerning a recent
writer of lyrics...whose skill and command of language we could not
sufficiently praise.
Exp 3.72 20 ...the question ever is, not what you have
done or forborne, but
at whose command you have done or forborne it.
Chr1 3.94 11 How often has the influence of a true
master realized all the
tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes
into
all those who beheld him...
Chr1 3.113 5 ...we are hunted by some fear or command
behind us.
Mrs1 3.119 16 If the house do not please [the
inhabitants of Gournou], they
walk out and enter another, as there are several hundreds at their
command.
Pol1 3.214 26 ...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.
PPh 4.56 1 ...the experience of poetic creativeness,
which is not found in
staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to
the
other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much
transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must
explain
the power and the charm of Plato.
PNR 4.87 13 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light,
had appeared often to
pious and to poetic souls; but this well-bred, all-knowing Greek
geometer
comes with command, gathers them all up into rank and gradation...
ShP 4.217 13 [Shakespeare] converted the elements which
waited on his
command, into entertainments.
ET1 5.15 12 [Carlyle] was...self-possessed and holding
his extraordinary
powers of conversation in easy command;...
ET6 5.102 18 ...Sydney Smith had made it a proverb that
little Lord John
Russell, the minister, would take command of the Channel fleet
to-morrow.
ET14 5.257 15 There is no finer ear, nor more command
of the keys of
language [than Tennyson's].
Pow 6.79 13 ...six hours a day at painting, only to
give command of the
odious materials...
Pow 6.79 17 The masters say that they know a master in
music, only by
seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;--so difficult and vital an
act is the
command of the instrument.
Wth 6.95 26 I have never seen a man...with an adequate
command of
nature.
Wth 6.96 6 Men are urged by their ideas to acquire the
command over
nature.
Ctr 6.153 27 We spawning, spawning myrmidons,/ Our turn
to-day! we
take command,/ Jove gives the globe into the hand/ Of myrmidons, of
myrmidons./
Bty 6.300 12 If command...exist in the most deformed
person, all the
accidents that usually displease, please...
Elo1 7.91 19 ...we...might well go round the world, to
see...a man who, in
prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of
representing his ideas...
WD 7.163 12 Man flatters himself that his command over
Nature must
increase.
Cour 7.254 27 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of
men, knows how to
come at their end;...looks at all men as wax for his hands; takes
command
of them as the wind does of clouds...
Cour 7.263 17 The sailor loses fear as fast as he
acquires command of sails
and spars and steam;...
Cour 7.266 18 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who
tried to prophesy
without command in the Temple at Delphi...fell into convulsions and
died.
PI 8.17 14 [Poetry] is a presence of mind that gives a
miraculous command
of all means of uttering the thought and feeling of the moment.
PI 8.30 13 ...the moment the orator loses command of
his audience, the
audience commands him.
Elo2 8.110 7 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed
with a fervent desire
to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the
knowledge
of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...like so
many
nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command...
Elo2 8.115 26 [The orator's speech] is action, as the
general's word of
command or chart of battle is action.
Elo2 8.129 11 ...having recovered his spirits and the
command of his
faculties, [Lord Ashley] drew such an argument from his own confusion
as
more advantaged his cause that all the powers of eloquence could have
done.
PPo 8.241 4 When all [the troops and spirits] were in
order, the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and
transported with all that
were upon it, whither he pleased...
Insp 8.281 20 When we...have come to believe that an
image or a happy
turn of expression is no longer at our command, in writing a letter to
a
friend we may find that we rise...to a cordial power of expression that
costs
no effort...
Chr2 10.93 17 ...the sense of Right and Wrong, is alike
in all. Its attributes
are self-existence, eternity, intuition and command.
Chr2 10.97 25 ...in all men is this majestic [moral]
perception and
command;...
Chr2 10.102 25 Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest
appear solitary, like a
general without his command...
Chr2 10.115 20 Every exaggeration of [person and
text]...inclines the
manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan
philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus
are
better, but that they do not invade his freedom; because they are only
suggestions, whilst the other adds the inadmissible claim...of an
external
command, where command cannot be.
Chr2 10.121 10 Command is exceptional, and marks some
break in the link
of reason;...
MoL 10.252 12 ...I am here to commend to you your art
and profession as
thinkers. It is real. It is the secret of power. It is the art of
command.
MMEm 10.428 9 The sickness of the last week was fine
medicine; pain
disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I [Mary Moody Emerson]
rose,-I felt that I...had promised [God] in youth that to be a blot on
this
fair world, at His command, would be acceptable.
Thor 10.480 16 ...[Thoreau] seemed born for great
enterprise and for
command;...
Carl 10.493 7 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's]
hatred of stump-oratory
and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier
who
will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his
officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
HDC 11.57 18 In 1654, the four united New England
Colonies agreed to
raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the
Niantics, and
appointed Major Simon Willard, of this town [Concord], to the command.
HDC 11.73 11 Eight hundred British soldiers, under the
command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Smith, had marched from Boston to
Concord;...
HDC 11.73 18 When [British troops] entered Concord,
they found the
militia and minute-men assembled under the command of Colonel Barrett
and Major Buttrick.
HDC 11.74 21 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and
gave the
command to fire...
FSLC 11.192 7 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of
Bayonne, in his
letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful
inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only
good
citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
HCom 11.344 14 One mother said, when her son was
offered the command
of the first negro regiment, If he accepts it, I shall be as proud as
if I had
heard that he was shot.
SMC 11.367 10 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at
last, under the
command of Colonel Prescott, to an excellent reputation...
SMC 11.370 24 Being informed that he misunderstood the
order, which
was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George
Prescott] was satisfied, and he and his command held their ground
manfully.
SMC 11.372 17 June fourth is marked in [George
Prescott's] diary as An
awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command;...
SMC 11.373 8 ...[George Prescott] was struck, in front
of his command, by
a musket-ball...
Mem 12.94 24 Memory was called by the schoolmen
vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge, in distinction from the command
of the future which
we have by the knowledge of causes, and which they called matutina
cognitio, or morning knowledge.
Mem 12.95 11 This command of old facts...is our
splendid privilege.
Bost 12.198 10 ...no habit of command...can bestow that
delicacy and
grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial
conversation.
Milt1 12.262 11 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is
fully possessed
with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity
to
infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak,
his words...trip about him at command...
Milt1 12.266 22 [Milton] told the bishops that instead
of showing the
reason of their lowly condition from divine example and command, they
seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.
ACri 12.285 16 ...[George Borrow] had one clear
perception, that the key
to every country was command of the language of the common people.
MLit 12.332 27 ...they have served [humanity] better,
who assured it out of
the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this
majestic Artist [Goethe], with all the treasuries of wit, of science,
and of
power at his command.
command, v. (48)
DSA 1.124 26 Wonderful is [the religious sentiment's]
power to charm and
to command.
DSA 1.137 2 The test of the true faith, certainly,
should be its power to
charm and command the soul...
DSA 1.141 9 What life the public worship retains, it
owes to the scattered
company of pious men...who...have...accepted...from their own heart,
the
genuine impulses of virtue, and so still command our love and awe...
LE 1.160 7 ...neither Greece nor Rome...is to command
any longer.
Con 1.307 16 [The youth says] Like the Persian noble of
old, I ask that I
may neither command nor obey.
Con 1.318 8 These considerations...must needs command
the sympathy of
all reasonable persons.
YA 1.384 22 These rising grounds which command the
champaign below, seem to ask for lords...
SR 2.62 10 The picture...is not to command me...
SR 2.65 12 ...the idlest reverie, the faintest native
emotion, command my
curiosity and respect.
SL 2.145 19 All the terrors of the French Republic,
which held Austria in
awe, were unable to command her diplomacy.
SL 2.158 25 The high, the generous, the self-devoted
sect will always
instruct and command mankind.
Cir 2.312 3 The use of literature is to afford us a
platform whence we may
command a view of our present life...
Cir 2.313 5 We have the same need to command a view of
the religion of
the world.
Chr1 3.99 6 The same transport which the occurrence of
the best events in
the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the
perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already
command those events I desire.
NER 3.278 2 ...we desire to be touched with that fire
which shall command
this ice to stream, and make our existence a benefit.
MoS 4.159 5 ...we ought to secure those advantages
which we can
command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and
unattainable.
ET8 5.142 15 [The English] wish neither to command nor
obey...
ET11 5.186 22 [The English upper classes] have...the
power to command... the presence of the most accomplished men in their
festive meetings.
ET11 5.198 l8 ...the rich Englishman goes over the
world at the present
day, drawing more than all the advantages which the strongest of his
kings
could command.
ET16 5.287 14 ...I opened the dogma of no-government
and non-resistance... and procured a kind of hearing for it. I said, it
is true that I have
never seen in any country a man of sufficient valor to stand for this
truth, and yet it is plain to me that no less valor than this can
command my
respect.
F 6.23 19 [Man's] sound relation to these facts is to
use and command...
Pow 6.57 9 [A broad, healthy, massive
understanding]...anticipates
everybody's discovery; and if it do not command every fact of the
genius
and the scholar, it is because it is large and sluggish...
Wth 6.122 17 When a citizen...comes out and buys land
in the country, his
first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows; his library must
command a western view;...
Bhr 6.187 17 Friendship requires more time than poor
busy men can
usually command.
Cour 7.264 12 The school-boy is daunted before his
tutor by a question of
arithmetic, because he does not yet command the simple steps of the
solution which the boy beside him has mastered.
Cour 7.267 15 It was told of the Prince of Conde that
there not being a
more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more
than just to make him civil, and to command in words of great
obligation to
his officers and men...
SA 8.85 20 Keep cool, and you command everybody, said
Saint-Just;...
SA 8.95 6 Madame de Tesse said, If I were Queen, I
should command
Madame de Stael to talk to me every day.
Elo2 8.124 19 The orator must command the whole scale
of the language...
Insp 8.274 6 In June the morning is noisy with birds;
in August they are
already getting old and silent. Hence arises the question, Are these
moods
in any degree within control? If we knew how to command them!
Insp 8.276 24 ...says the man...the favorable hour will
come when I can
command all my powers...
Insp 8.288 21 In the hotel...I command an astronomic
leisure.
Grts 8.308 5 It is easy for a commander to command.
Aris 10.45 19 Men are born to command...
PerF 10.69 24 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating
to enumerate the
resources we can command...
PerF 10.84 4 Obedience alone gives the right to
command.
SovE 10.208 5 ...by obedience we command...
MMEm 10.417 19 It is difficult, when we have no kind of
barrier, to
command our feelings.
FSLC 11.187 1 ...it is not to be presumed that [laws]
can so stultify
themselves as to command injustice.
SMC 11.350 10 ...the virtues we are met to honor were
directed on aims
which command the sympathy of every loyal American citizen...
Shak1 11.452 26 ...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, and easily command...
II 12.77 19 The old law of science, Imperat parendo, we
command by
obeying, is forever true;...
Mem 12.91 3 The builder of the mind found it not less
needful that it
should have retroaction, and command its past act and deed.
Bost 12.205 1 [The people of Massachusetts] knew, as
God knew, that
command of Nature comes by obedience to Nature;...
MAng1 12.236 1 When importuned to claim some
compensation of the
empire for the important services he had rendered it, [the ancient
Persian] demanded that he and his should neither command nor obey, but
should be
free.
MAng1 12.238 20 Michael Angelo was of that class of men
who are too
superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect
sympathy.
MLit 12.322 19 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the
magazines of the
world's ancient or modern wealth, which arts and intercourse and
skepticism could command,-he wanted them all.
WSL 12.342 23 Certainly there are heights in Nature
which command
this;...
commanded, v. (27)
DSA 1.130 5 Having seen that the law in us is
commanding, [Jesus] would
not suffer it to be commanded.
MN 1.207 1 ...when Napoleon unrolls his map, the eye is
commanded by
original power.
LT 1.260 20 A necessity not yet commanded...is the
foundation on which [Conservatism] rests.
Pt1 3.15 26 ...[the coachman or the hunter] has no
definitions, but he is
commanded in nature by the living power which he feels to be there
present.
Chr1 3.100 24 The wise man not only leaves out of his
thought the many, but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved,
the absorbed, the
commander because he is commanded, the assured, the primary,--they are
good;...
Nat2 3.185 25 The child...commanded by every sight and
sound...lies down
at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty
madness has incurred.
NER 3.251 8 [The observer of New England's] attention
must be
commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party, is falling
from
the Church nominal...
PPh 4.64 13 [Plato] secures a position not to be
commanded, by his passion
for reality;...
SwM 4.95 5 All men are commanded by the saint.
NMW 4.244 1 [Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an
oblique tribute of
respect to those able persons who commanded his regard...
ET5 5.94 27 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The
weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious
loads are borne,/ And
realms commanded which those trees adorn./
ET14 5.241 24 A few generalizations always circulate in
the world...and
these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian
theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial
retrospect
to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is Lord Bacon's sentence, that
Nature
is commanded by obeying her;...
ET16 5.289 8 Just before entering Winchester we stopped
at the Church of
Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer,
which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given
to
every one who should ask it at the gate.
Elo1 7.78 8 It was said of Sir William
Pepperell...that, put him where you
might, he commanded, and saw what he willed come to pass.
Elo1 7.90 13 A popular assembly...is commanded by these
two powers,-- first by a fact, then by skill of statement.
Comc 8.172 6 ...Timur...commanded that the barber
should be called.
PPo 8.240 14 Solomon had three talismans: first, the
signet-ring by which
he commanded the spirits...
Insp 8.283 15 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness
that befell him, The
thought of my father...restrained me; I commanded myself to live.
Grts 8.318 26 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most
remarkable example of
this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen,-a man...with a
spirit
and a practical vein in the times of terror that commanded the
admiration of
the wisest.
LLNE 10.351 25 The ability and earnestness of the
advocate [Fourier] and
his friends...commanded our attention and respect.
SlHr 10.447 20 ...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration
was commanded by
certain heroes of the [legal] profession...
FRep 11.530 26 The spread eagle...must keep his wings
to carry the
thunderbolt when he is commanded.
II 12.76 12 That is the quality of [the moral sense],
that it commands, and
is not commanded.
CInt 12.117 19 Two men cannot converse together on any
topic without
presently finding where each stands in moral judgment; and each learns
whether the other's view commands, or is commanded by, his own.
MAng1 12.235 7 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III.
first entreated, then
commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this
great work...
WSL 12.343 25 ...wherever freedom and justice are
threatened...[Landor's] interest is sure to be commanded.
WSL 12.347 3 ...it is not from the highest Alps or
Andes but from less
elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded...
commander, n. (14)
Chr1 3.100 24 The wise man not only leaves out of his
thought the many, but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved,
the absorbed, the
commander because he is commanded, the assured, the primary,--they are
good;...
Elo1 7.79 1 A supreme commander over all his passions
and affections; but
the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that.
Elo1 7.79 12 [The Grecian States] did not send to
Lacedaemon for troops, but they said, Send us a commander;...
DL 7.122 17 I honor that man whose ambition it is...not
to be a poet or a
commander, but to be a master of living well...
Res 8.144 5 The commander called for men in the ranks
who could rebuild
the road.
Grts 8.308 4 It is easy for a commander to command.
Dem1 10.8 6 We call the phantoms that rise [in dreams],
the creation of our
fancy, but they act like mutineers, and fire on their commander;...
Edc1 10.134 10 If [a man] is jovial...if he is...a
strong commander...society
has need of all these.
HDC 11.75 5 The militia and minute-men-every one from
that moment
being his own commander-ran over the hills opposite the battle-field...
SMC 11.359 23 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George
Prescott]...the
moral qualities of a commander...
SMC 11.365 25 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery
company of this town [Concord] was reorganized, and Captain Richard
Barrett received a
commission in March, 1862, from the state, as its commander.
SMC 11.370 12 Let me add an extract from the official
report of the
brigade commander...
SMC 11.372 25 ...from these incessant labors there was
now to be rest for
one head,-the honored and beloved commander [George Prescott] of the
[Thirty-second] regiment.
PPr 12.380 5 ...he is the commander who is always in
the mount...
Commander, n. (2)
CSC 10.376 16 ...[these men and women at the Chardon
Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of
it...in...the prophetic dignity and
transfiguration which accompanies...a man whose mind is made up to obey
the great inward Commander...
SMC 11.376 12 ...I do not like to omit the testimony to
the character of the
Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George
Prescott]...
commander-in-chief, n. (1)
NER 3.256 1 ...the country is frequently affording
solitary examples of
resistance to the government, solitary
nullifiers...who...embarrass...the
commander-in-chief of the militia by non-resistance.
Commanders, Great, Apothegm (1)
Plu 10.322 7 It is a service to our Republic to publish
a book that can force
ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of
Plutarch].
commanders, n. (4)
DSA 1.147 25 ...the commanders encroach on us only...by
our allowance
and homage.
Boks 7.201 23 ...we must read the Clouds of
Aristophanes, and what more
of that master we gain appetite for...to know the tyranny of
Aristophanes, requiring more genius and sometimes not less cruelty than
belonged to the
official commanders.
Clbs 7.241 8 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor
of their
accomplishment...makes them chancellors and commanders of council and
of action...whom we now consider.
SMC 11.367 8 ...though suffering at first some
disadvantage from change
of commanders, and from severe losses, [the Thirty-second Regiment]
grew
at last...to an excellent reputation...
Commanders, Noble, Apothegm (1)
Plu 10.317 18 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of
Noble Commanders
is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch;...
commanding, adj. (50)
Nat 1.30 23 ...picturesque language is at once a
commanding certificate that
he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
DSA 1.137 4 The test of the true faith...should be its
power to charm...the
soul...so commanding that we find pleasure and honor in obeying.
DSA 1.138 27 ...there is a commanding attraction in the
moral sentiment...
MR 1.251 3 Every great and commanding moment in the
annals of the
world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
LT 1.261 6 The fact of aristocracy...is as commanding a
feature of the
nineteenth century...as of old Rome...
Tran 1.335 10 Am I in harmony with myself? my position
will seem to you
just and commanding.
YA 1.370 11 ...I think we must regard the land as a
commanding and
increasing power on the citizen...
YA 1.394 19 Commanding worth and personal power must
sit crowned in
all companies...
Hist 2.28 12 More than once some individual has
appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation...begging in the
name of God, as made
good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
Prd1 2.224 2 Cultivated men always feel and speak...as
if a great fortune...a
graceful and commanding address, had their value as proofs of the
energy
of the spirit.
Mrs1 3.149 14 I have seen an individual whose manners,
though wholly
within the conventions of elegant society, were...original and
commanding...
NER 3.281 3 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;...
SwM 4.123 4 There is no such problem for criticism as
[Swedenborg's] theological writings, their merits are so commanding...
SwM 4.124 9 That slow but commanding influence which
[Swedenborg] has acquired, like that of other religious geniuses, must
be excessive also...
NMW 4.225 18 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon],
like himself, by
birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a
commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the
common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny...
NMW 4.253 6 ...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 4.269 6 ...the writer does not stand with us on any
commanding
ground.
ET1 5.9 18 Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of
freak which the
English delight to indulge, as if to signalize their commanding
freedom.
ET6 5.106 26 The power and possession which surround
[the English] are
their own creation, and they exert the same commanding industry at this
moment.
ET14 5.252 19 [The English] have lost all commanding
views in literature, philosophy and science.
ET15 5.270 9 [The London Times] gives the argument, not
of the majority, but of the commanding class.
ET19 5.311 3 That which lures a solitary American in
the woods with the
wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race,--its
commanding sense of right and wrong...
Ctr 6.155 19 We can ill spare the commanding social
benefits of cities;...
Wsp 6.216 6 It is certain that worship stands in some
commanding relation
to the health of man...
Wsp 6.222 8 In a new nation and language, [the
countryman's] sect...is
lost. ... He misses...the commanding eye of his neighborhood...
Elo1 7.80 1 He who has points to carry must hire, not a
skilful attorney, but
a commanding person.
Elo1 7.80 8 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,--for courage,
conduct
and a commanding social position...
Elo1 7.83 9 ...if one of [the debaters] have anything
of commanding
necessity in his heart, how speedily he will find vent for it...
Boks 7.215 22 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 Rochester
does...
Clbs 7.231 21 [The lover of letters among the men of
wit and learning] could not find that he was helped by so much as...one
commanding
impulse...
PI 8.34 26 ...to convert the vivid energies acting at
this hour in New York
and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a
subtile
and commanding thought.
PI 8.65 17 In the world of letters how few commanding
oracles!
SA 8.88 2 ...a king or a general does not need a fine
coat, and a
commanding person may save himself all solicitude on that point.
Elo2 8.120 5 ...give [an eloquent man] a commanding
occasion...and he
surprises by new and unlooked-for powers.
Grts 8.307 7 ...none of us will ever accomplish
anything excellent or
commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him
alone.
Aris 10.40 3 I enumerate the claims by which men enter
the superior class. 1. A commanding talent.
Aris 10.55 11 What is it that makes the true knight?
Loyalty to his thought. That makes...the commanding port which all men
admire...
SovE 10.209 3 ...Stoicism...has now...no commanding
Zeno or Antoninus.
SovE 10.212 4 The commanding fact which I never do not
see, is the
sufficiency of the moral sentiment.
MoL 10.255 19 ...[the work of art] should have a
commanding motive in
the time and condition in which it was made.
LLNE 10.332 3 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and
weightily
communicated from so commanding a platform...that...this learning
instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
LLNE 10.354 1 ...there is an intellectual courage and
strength in [Fourierism] which is superior and commanding;...
EWI 11.124 25 ...you could not get any poetry, any
wisdom, and beauty in
woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these
absurdities
would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for
justice, a
generosity for the weak and oppressed.
War 11.161 9 ...the fact that [the idea that there can
be peace as well as
war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become
a
subject...of concert and discussion,-that is the commanding fact.
JBB 11.267 4 This commanding event [John Brown's raid]
which has
brought us together, eclipses all others which have occurred for a long
time
in our history...
TPar 11.289 19 [Theodore Parker's] commanding merit as
a reformer is
this, that he insisted beyond all men in pulpits...that the essence of
Christianity is its practical morals;...
EdAd 11.389 23 ...the laws and governors cannot possess
a commanding
interest for any but vacant or fanatical people;...
CInt 12.131 25 ...it is the privilege of the moral
sentiment to be every
moment new and commanding...
Milt1 12.263 1 The victories of the conscience in
[Milton] are gained by
the commanding charm which all the severe and restrictive virtues have
for
him.
ACri 12.299 4 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II]
we see the eyes of
the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling,
with... shrugs, and long commanding glances...
commanding, v. (7)
DSA 1.130 4 Having seen that the law in us is
commanding, [Jesus] would
not suffer it to be commanded.
ET1 5.7 6 I found [Landor]...living in a cloud of
pictures at his Villa
Gherardesca, a fine house commanding a beautiful landscape.
Bhr 6.175 19 ...perhaps the ambitious youth thinks he
has got the whole
secret when he has learned that disengaged manners are commanding.
Ill 6.325 19 The mad crowd drives hither and thither,
now furiously
commanding this thing to be done, now that.
Aris 10.46 20 I only point in passing to the order of
the universe, which
makes a rotation,-not like the coarse policy of the Greeks, ten
generals, each commanding one day and then giving place to the next...
Supl 10.173 1 The arithmetic of Newton...the
inspiration of Shakspeare, are
sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.
Milt1 12.253 27 Milton stands erect, commanding...
commandment, n. (12)
Tran 1.336 11 In action [the Transcendentalist] easily
incurs the charge of
antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the Law-giver, may with
safety not only neglect, but even contravene every written commandment.
SR 2.74 24 If any one imagines that this law [of
self-reliance] is lax, let him
keep its commandment one day.
OS 2.281 7 Every distinct apprehension of this central
commandment [of
the soul] agitates men with awe and delight.
Insp 8.292 1 When the spirit chooses you for its scribe
to publish some
commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you...
Grts 8.309 22 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect],
it might be thus: I do
not pretend to any commandment or large revelation...
SovE 10.211 20 ...the old commandment, Thou shalt not
kill, holds down
New York, and London, and Paris...
Prch 10.225 13 [The moral sentiment] is a commandment
at every
moment...to do the duty of that moment...
Prch 10.225 17 ...[the moral sentiment] is so near and
inward and
constitutional to each, that no commandment can compare with it in
authority.
LS 11.10 26 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at
Capernaum] complained
that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added...that we
might
not think his body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we
should
live by his commandment.
LVB 11.93 20 You [Van Buren] will not do us the
injustice of connecting
this remonstrance [against the relocation of the Cherokees] with any
sectional and party feeling. It is in our hearts the simplest
commandment of
brotherly love.
FSLC 11.194 24 ...unless you can draw a sponge over
those seditious Ten
Commandments which are the root of our European and American
civilization; and over that eleventh commandment, Do unto others as you
would have them do to you, your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.
Bost 12.193 10 ...[the savage] goes muttering his rude
ritual or mythology, which yet conceals some grand commandment;...
commandments, n. (10)
Prd1 2.241 5 ...begin where we will, we are pretty sure
in a short space to
be mumbling our ten commandments.
Pt1 3.17 7 ...we are apprised of the divineness of this
superior use of things, whereby the world is a temple whose walls are
covered with... commandments of the Deity,--in this, that there is no
fact in nature which
does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
Exp 3.64 12 [Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong,
the beautiful...do not
come out of the Sunday School......nor punctually keep the
commandments.
Mrs1 3.145 4 Let the creed and commandments even have
the saucy
homage of parody.
ShP 4.219 3 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as
Shakespeare]: they
also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose?
The beauty straightway vanished; they read commandments...
ET6 5.103 1 ...[the English] will let you break all the
commandments, if
you do it natively and with spirit.
Wsp 6.219 3 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the
commandments of
duty are opened;...
Civ 7.23 11 The division of labor...fills the State
with useful and happy
laborers;...and what a police and ten commandments their work thus
becomes.
MMEm 10.408 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] is no statute-book
of practical
commandments...
FSLN 11.232 18 Events roll...the result is the
enforcing of some of those
first commandments which we heard in the nursery.
Commandments, Ten, n. (3)
Nat 1.41 2 ...every animal function from the sponge up
to Hercules, shall... echo the Ten Commandments.
Chr2 10.119 11 ...[the infant soul]...reads the
original of the Ten
Commandments...
FSLC 11.194 21 ...unless you can draw a sponge over
those seditious Ten
Commandments which are the root of our European and American
civilization;...your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.
commandons, v. (1)
Ctr 6.153 20 Mirmidons, race feconde,/ Mirmidons,/ Enfin
nous
commandons/...
commands, n. (5)
Con 1.302 18 ...although the commands of the Conscience
are essentially
absolute, they are historically limitary.
MMEm 10.431 20 No object of science or observation ever
was pointed
out to me [Mary Moody Emerson] by my poor aunt, but [God's] Being and
commands;...
FSLC 11.191 26 All authors who have any conscience or
modesty agree
that a person ought not to obey such commands as are evidently contrary
to
the laws of God.
RBur 11.439 6 ...I do not know by what untoward
accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst
Scotsman of all, to receive your
commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed
makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
PLT 12.64 11 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us
like perfumes from a
far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting
ourselves
on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands...
commands, v. (26)
DSA 1.135 12 ...the man who aims to speak...as interest
commands, babbles.
MN 1.213 9 By piety alone, by conversing with the cause
of nature, is [man] safe and commands it.
Con 1.302 15 Here is the fact which men call Fate...not
to be disposed of
by the consideration that the Conscience commands this or that...
SR 2.43 3 ...the soul that can/ Render an honest and a
perfect man,/ Commands all light.../
SR 2.89 14 He who knows that power is inborn...commands
his limbs...
SL 2.158 23 ...as much goodness as there is, so much
reverence it
commands.
OS 2.275 27 Those who are capable of humility, of
justice, of love, of
aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands the sciences and
arts...
Cir 2.303 27 [A man] can only be reformed by showing
him a new idea
which commands his own.
Int 2.346 19 ...[the Greek philosophers' thought]
commands the entire
schedule and inventory of things for its illustration.
Wth 6.111 23 That is the good head, which serves the
end and commands
the means.
PI 8.30 14 ...the moment the orator loses command of
his audience, the
audience commands him.
Elo2 8.118 16 ...this power [of eloquence] which so
fascinates and
astonishes and commands is only the exaggeration of a talent which is
universal.
Res 8.146 26 ...one man whose eye commands the end in
view and the
means by which it can be attained, is...victor over all mankind who do
not
see the issue and the means.
Grts 8.314 10 Napoleon commands our respect by his
enormous self-trust...
Aris 10.40 18 It only needs to look at the social
aspect of England and
America and France, to see the rank which original practical talent
commands.
Chr2 10.103 17 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment]
suggests-as when
it...sets [a man] on...some zeal to unite men to...establish some
reform or
charity which it commands-are the homage we render to this sentiment...
Chr2 10.121 5 In a sensible family...nobody commands,
and nobody
obeys...
EdAd 11.390 7 ...the insight which commands the laws
and conditions of
the true polity precludes forever all interest in the squabbles of
parties.
FRO1 11.479 23 ...as soon as every man is apprised of
the Divine Presence
within his own mind...then we have a religion...that commands all the
social
and all the private action.
PLT 12.5 6 It is not then...animals, or globes that any
longer commands us, but only man;...
II 12.76 12 That is the quality of [the moral sense],
that it commands...
CInt 12.117 19 Two men cannot converse together on any
topic without
presently finding where each stands in moral judgment; and each learns
whether the other's view commands, or is commanded by, his own.
CInt 12.121 16 ...a larger angle of vision, commands
centuries of facts...
Bost 12.188 22 ...Boston commands attention as the town
which was
appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North
America.
MAng1 12.224 8 [Michelangelo] visited Bologna to
inspect its celebrated
fortifications, and, on his return, constructed a fortification on the
heights of
San Miniato, which commands the city and environs of Florence.
WSL 12.342 25 Certainly there are heights in Nature
which command this; there are many more which this commands.
commas, n. (1)
GoW 4.282 16 ...through every clause and part of speech
of a right book I
meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...the commas and dashes
are
alive;...
commemorate, v. (2)
LS 11.23 2 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify
and send forth a
man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows.
This
man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must
contend
that it is...really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the
Lord's
Supper]...
HDC 11.29 7 You have thought it becoming to commemorate
the planting
of the first inland town [Concord].
commemorated, v. (2)
LS 11.5 13 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the
words of Jesus in
giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his
disciples, but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was
hereafter to be
commemorated.
LS 11.11 15 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's]
Supper to have
been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the
account of it in the other Gospels...
commemorating, v. (2)
LS 11.6 19 I have only brought these accounts [of the
Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a
solemn institution... would have been established...in a manner so
slight, that the intention of
commemorating it should not appear, from their narrative, to have
caught
the ear...of the only two among the twelve who wrote down what
happened.
LS 11.19 17 This mode of commemorating Christ [the
Lord's Supper] is
not suitable to me.
commemoration, n. (4)
LS 11.4 15 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud
and Wake
maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist,
or
sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...and Bishop Hoadley, that it was...a
simple commemoration.
LS 11.17 17 I appeal now to the convictions of
communicants [in the Lord'
s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally
conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to
God and the commemoration due to Christ.
LS 11.19 22 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was
enjoined by Jesus on his
disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of
commemoration...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own
feelings, I
should not adopt it.
LS 11.20 9 ...any act or meeting which tends to awaken
a pure thought, a
flow of love, an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true
commemoration [of Jesus].
Commemoration Ode [James R (2)
ALin 11.328 28 Here [in Lincoln] was a type of the true
elder race,/ And
one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face./ Lowell,
Commemoration
Ode.
HCom 11.340 25 Where faith made whole with deed/
Breathes its
awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and
mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look
proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
commemorations, n. (1)
LS 11.18 24 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the
light he gives most
thankfully; but the thanks he offers...are not compliments,
commemorations...
commence, v. (2)
Hsm1 2.246 18 ...[To die] is to end/ An old, stale,
weary work and to
commence/ A newer and a better..../
ACri 12.292 17 Dangerous words in like kind
are...circumstances, commence for begin.
commenced, v. (2)
MAng1 12.235 8 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III.
first entreated, then
commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this
great work, which, though commenced forty years before, was only
commenced by Bramante, and ill continued by San Gallo.
MAng1 12.235 9 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III.
first entreated, then
commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this
great work, which, though commenced forty years before, was only
commenced by Bramante, and ill continued by San Gallo.
Commencement, adj. (1)
WD 7.169 7 In college terms, and in years that followed,
the young
graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were
in a swamp, would see a festive light...
Commencement Day, n. (1)
HCom 11.339 2 Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our
Commencement
Day?/
commencement, n. (2)
EzRy 10.382 13 The commencement of the Revolutionary War
greatly
interrupted [Ezra Ripley's] education at college.
Milt1 12.268 15 ...the invocations of the Eternal
Spirit in the
commencement of [Milton's] books are not poetic forms, but are
thoughts...
commences, v. (1)
EWI 11.118 27 The child will sit in your arms contented,
provided you do
nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.
commencing, v. (1)
Nat 1.58 3 Ethics and religion differ herein; that the
one is the system of
human duties commencing from man; the other, from God.
commend, v. (6)
YA 1.393 6 One thing...the beauties of aristocracy, we
commend to the
study of the travelling American.
Lov1 2.171 2 ...it is to be hoped that...we may attain
to that inward view of
the law which shall describe a truth...so central that it shall commend
itself
to the eye at whatever angle beholden.
Hsm1 2.260 16 If you would serve your brother, because
it is fit for you to
serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent
people
do not commend you.
NMW 4.248 2 I think all men...know that the
institutions we so volubly
commend are go-carts and baubles;...
MoL 10.252 10 Gentlemen, I am here to commend to you
your art and
profession as thinkers.
Plu 10.308 17 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to
commend himself to
men of public regards and ruling genius...
commendable, adj. (4)
AmS 1.97 23 Authors we have, in numbers...who, moved by
a
commendable prudence, sail for Greece...to replenish their merchantable
stock.
GoW 4.266 18 It is believed...the negotiations of a
caucus and the
practising on the prejudices and facility of country-people to secure
their
votes in November,--is practical and commendable.
CbW 6.277 9 ...your theories and plans of life are fair
and commendable:-- but will you stick?
SovE 10.197 3 ...I have never until now dreamed that
this undertaking the
entire management of my own affairs was not commendable.
commendation, n. (4)
DSA 1.147 11 Can we not leave...the virtue that glitters
for the
commendation of society...
Hist 2.7 18 [The true aspirant] hears the commendation,
not of himself, but, more sweet, of that character he seeks, in every
word that is said concerning
character...
CbW 6.265 5 It is an old commendation of right
behavior, Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi, which our English proverb
translates, Be merry and wise.
MAng1 12.239 23 It is more commendation to say, This
was Michael
Angelo's favorite, than to say, This was carried to Paris by Napoleon.
commendatory, n. (1)
LT 1.273 24 To [some divine, the wealthy man]
adheres...and...esteems his
associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own
piety.
commended, adj. (2)
Fdsp 2.192 7 A commended stranger is expected and
announced...
Fdsp 2.192 15 Of a commended stranger, only the good
report is told by
others...
commended, v. (6)
DSA 1.138 3 [The preacher] had no one word intimating
that he...had been
commended, or cheated, or chagrined.
LE 1.167 25 Further inquiry will discover...that not
these chanting poets
themselves, knew anything sincere of these handsome natures they so
commended;...
SL 2.133 18 ...the question is everywhere vexed when a
noble nature is
commended, whether the man is not better who strives with temptation.
PNR 4.88 20 [Plato's] subtlety commended him to men of
thought.
GoW 4.263 3 Nothing so broad, so subtle, or so dear,
but comes... commended to [the writer's] pen, and he will write.
Thor 10.479 14 ...[Thoreau]...commended the wilderness
for resembling
Rome and Paris.
commending, v. (3)
DSA 1.148 23 ...let us study the grand strokes of
rectitude:...a certain
solidity of merit...which is so essentially and manifestly virtue,
that... nobody thinks of commending it.
Thor 10.475 10 [Thoreau] admired Aeschylus and Pindar;
but when some
one was commending them, he said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in
describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one.
Milt1 12.278 18 ...as many poems have been written upon
unfit society, commending solitude, yet have not been proceeded
against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that
charity which an angelic
soul...is entitled to.
commends, v. (8)
Chr1 3.88 2 Work of his hand/ He nor commends nor
grieves:/ Pleads for
itself the fact;/ As unrepenting Nature leaves/ Her every act./
Mrs1 3.153 25 Are you...rich enough to make...the
itinerant with his consul'
s paper which commends him To the charitable...feel the noble exception
f
your presence and your house from the general bleakness and
stoniness;...
GoW 4.266 5 In this country, the emphasis of
conversation and of public
opinion commends the practical man;...
WD 7.177 13 That is good which commends to me my
country, my
climate, my means and materials, my associates.
SA 8.93 22 ...Luther commends that accomplishment of
pure German
speech of his wife.
QO 8.196 1 ...Hallam...distinguishes a lyric of Edwards
or Vaux, and
straightway it commends itself to us...
Thor 10.462 9 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like
that which Rose
Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed],
commends in her father...
WSL 12.348 12 ...it is not as an artist that Mr. Landor
commends himself to
us.
commensurability, n. (1)
Gts 3.164 4 ...there is no commensurability between a
man and any gift.
commensurate, adj. (8)
YA 1.365 3 The task of surveying, planting, and building
upon this
immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate
thereto.
Cir 2.317 17 ...these [divine] moments confer a sort of
omnipresence and
omnipotence which...sees that the energy of the mind is commensurate
with
the work to be done...
Pol1 3.210 26 From neither party, when in power, has
the world any benefit
to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the
resources of the nation.
NMW 4.244 16 ...[Napoleon] could not hide his
satisfaction in receiving
from [his generals] a seconding and support commensurate with the
grandeur of his enterprise.
ET10 5.159 22 The power of machinery in Great Britain,
in mills, has been
computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid
of
steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to
accomplish fifty years ago. The production has been commensurate.
PC 8.228 15 Science...necessitates a faith commensurate
with the grander
orbits and universal laws which it discloses.
Edc1 10.135 6 The great object of Education should be
commensurate with
the object of life.
EdAd 11.386 14 ...we are persuaded that moral and
material values are
always commensurate.
comment, n. (4)
ET15 5.267 7 The tone of [the London Times's] articles
has often been the
occasion of comment from the official organs of the continental
courts...
Clbs 7.232 24 Some men love only to talk where they are
masters. ... They
go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly or do not listen to
the
comment or to the thought by which the company strive to repay them;...
MLit 12.328 1 Here was a man [Goethe] who, in the
feeling that the thing
itself was so admirable as to leave all comment behind, went up and
down, from object to object, lifting the veil from every one, and did
no more.
MLit 12.328 25 ...we may here set down by way of
comment of [Goethe's] genius the impressions recently awakened in us by
the story of Wilhelm
Meister.
Commentaries [Julius Caesar (1)
CPL 11.504 11 Julius Caesar, when shipwrecked, and
forced to swim for
life...took his Commentaries between his teeth and swam for the shore.
commentaries, n. (1)
LE 1.170 11 What else do these volumes of extracts and
manuscript
commentaries, that every scholar writes, indicate?
commentary, n. (7)
AmS 1.102 6 Whatsoever oracles the human heart...has
uttered as its
commentary on the world of actions, - these [the scholar] shall receive
and impart.
Hist 2.8 3 The student is...to esteem his own life the
text [of history], and
books the commentary.
ShP 4.217 6 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew
that a tree had
another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for
tillage and
roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind...
conveying in all their natural history a certain mute commentary on
human
life.
Boks 7.194 2 The crowds and centuries of books are only
commentary and
elucidation, echoes and weakeners of these few great voices of time.
Boks 7.201 25 Aristophanes is now very accessible, with
much valuable
commentary, through the labors of Mitchell and Cartwright.
OA 7.315 11 [Josiah Quincy]...made a sort of running
commentary on
Cicero's chapter De Senectute.
Milt1 12.278 25 We have offered no apology for
expanding to such length
our commentary on the character of John Milton;...
Commentary on Galatians [Ma (1)
Clbs 7.236 9 ...it is not [Luther's] theologic
works,--his Commentary on the
Galatians, and the rest, but his Table-Talk, which is still read by
men.
commentators, n. (2)
Art2 7.47 6 We grudge to Homer the wide human
circumspection his
commentators ascribe to him.
EdAd 11.385 21 We have taste, critical talent, good
professors, good
commentators, but a lack of male energy.
commented, v. (3)
LE 1.156 19 ...the importunity, with which society
presses its claim upon
young men, tends to pervert the views of youth in respect to the
culture of
the intellect. Hence the historical failure, on which Europe and
America
have so freely commented.
MMEm 10.412 1 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my
expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every
morn;...commented on the Scriptures;...
WSL 12.347 5 [Landor] has commented on a wide variety
of writers...
comments, n. (2)
ET17 5.291 1 In these comments on an old journey
[English Traits]...I have
abstained from reference to persons...
Ctr 6.157 15 Here is a new poem, which elicits a good
many comments in
the journals and in conversation.
Commerce, Minister of, n. (1)
Chr1 3.92 21 Nature seems to authorize trade, as soon as
you see the
natural merchant, who appears not so much a private agent as her factor
and
Minister of Commerce.
commerce, n. (68)
LE 1.181 11 Let [the scholar] know that...most in the
reverence of the
humble commerce and humble needs of life...the secret of the world is
to be
learned...
MN 1.191 15 We hear something too much of the results
of machinery, commerce, and the useful arts.
MN 1.192 6 I do not wish to look with sour aspect
at...the mart of
commerce.
MR 1.228 23 ...now...all things else hear the trumpet,
and must rush to
judgment,-Christianity...commerce...
MR 1.230 23 The employments of commerce are not
intrinsically unfit for
a man...
MR 1.231 16 ...it is only necessary to ask a few
questions as to the progress
of the articles of commerce from the fields where they grew, to our
houses, to become aware that we eat and drink and wear perjury and
fraud...
MR 1.235 25 Who could regret to see...a purer
taste...thinning the ranks of
competition in the labors of commerce...
Con 1.321 13 ...if priest and church-member should
fail, the chambers of
commerce...would muster with fury to [religious institutions'] support.
YA 1.374 17 ...we repair commerce with unlimited
credit, and are presently
visited with unlimited bankruptcy.
YA 1.375 13 The history of commerce is the record of
this beneficent
tendency.
SR 2.70 19 Commerce, husbandry...are somewhat...
Fdsp 2.205 24 The end of friendship is a commerce the
most strict and
homely that can be joined;...
Cir 2.316 12 For me, commerce is of trivial import;...
Art1 2.368 17 ...[genius] will raise to a divine
use...our commerce...
Pt1 3.19 26 The chief value of the new fact is to
enhance the great and
constant fact of Life...to which the belt of wampum and the commerce of
America are alike.
Exp 3.57 27 The plays of children are nonsense, but
very educative
nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with
commerce, government, church, marriage...
Exp 3.64 21 Whilst the debate goes forward on the
equity of commerce... New and Old England may keep shop.
Chr1 3.111 15 I know nothing which life has to offer so
satisfying as the
profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous
men, each of whom is sure of himself and sure of his friend. It is a
happiness which...makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
Pol1 3.200 2 Republics abound in young civilians who
believe...that
commerce, education and religion may be voted in or out;...
Pol1 3.220 14 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure
the code of force
they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...of commerce and
the exchange of property...can be answered.
NER 3.263 21 ...the revolt against the spirit of
commerce...did not appear
possible to individuals;...
MoS 4.172 25 [The wise skeptic's] politics are
those...of Krishna, in the
Bhagavat, There is none who is worthy of my love or hatred; whilst he
sentences law, physic, divinity, commerce and custom.
MoS 4.176 11 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we
say...look you,--on
the whole, selfishness...makes the best commerce and the best citizen.
NMW 4.225 3 Paris and London and New York, the spirit
of commerce... were also to have their prophet;...
ET7 5.116 9 Add to this hereditary [German] rectitude
the punctuality and
precise dealing which commerce creates, and you have the English truth
and credit.
ET8 5.129 17 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of
different classes [of
Englishmen].
ET8 5.141 19 Does the early history of each tribe show
the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity
into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
ET9 5.147 5 ...the fact that British commerce was to be
re-created by the
independence of America, took [the English] all by surprise.
ET10 5.159 25 Eight hundred years ago commerce had made
[England] rich...
ET10 5.160 17 A thousand million of pounds sterling are
said to compose
the floating money of commerce [of England].
ET10 5.161 16 By dint of steam and of money, war and
commerce are
changed.
ET10 5.163 2 All things precious, or useful, or
amusing, or intoxicating, are sucked into this commerce and floated to
London.
ET10 5.168 5 In true England all is false and forged.
This too is the
reaction of machinery, but of the larger machinery of commerce.
ET13 5.225 2 The bill for the naturalization of the
Jews [in England] (in
1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating
this
bill, as...extremely injurious to the interests and commerce of the
kingdom
in general...
ET14 5.239 27 '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.
ET16 5.282 19 ...as Britain was a Phoenician secret, so
they kept their
compass a secret, and it was lost with the Tyrian commerce.
ET18 5.306 1 You cannot account for [Englishmen's]
success by their
Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters...
F 6.16 10 We see the English, French, and
Germans...monopolizing the
commerce of [America and Australia].
Pow 6.62 21 The very word 'commerce' has only an
English meaning...
Pow 6.62 23 The commerce of rivers...must add an
American extension to
the pond-hole of admiralty.
Pow 6.62 24 The commerce of rivers, the commerce of
railroads...must add
an American extension to the pond-hole of admiralty.
Pow 6.62 25 The commerce of rivers...and who knows but
the commerce of
air-balloons, must add an American extension to the pond-hole of
admiralty.
Pow 6.71 25 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy
in carrying on the
world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of
commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it
dangerous and
destructive,--yet it cannot be spared...
Wth 6.100 1 Commerce is a game of skill...
CbW 6.276 18 ...whatever art you select...commerce,
politics,--all are
attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are
apt;...
Civ 7.21 3 ...chiefly the seashore has been the point
of departure, to
knowledge, as to commerce.
DL 7.108 3 Is it not plain that not in...chambers of
commerce, but in the
dwelling-house must the true character and hope of the time be
consulted?
DL 7.129 3 [Friendship] is the happiness which...makes
politics and
commerce and churches cheap.
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 commerce...yield anything better, or
half as
good"
WD 7.161 21 When commerce is vastly enlarged, California
and Australia
expose the gold it needs.
WD 7.162 15 ...German, Chinese, Turk, Russ and Kanaka
were putting out
to sea, and intermarrying race with race; and commerce took the hint...
Res 8.142 18 We have seen China opened to European and
American
ambassadors and commerce;...
Res 8.143 19 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has
sent home to China
American food and tools and luxuries...and a new market has grown up
for
our commerce.
Insp 8.269 6 ...we want a finer kind [of power] than
that of commerce;...
Imtl 8.331 2 ...what is called great and powerful
life-the administration of
large affairs, in commerce, in the courts, in the state,-is prone to
develop
narrow and special talent;...
Dem1 10.15 18 The belief that particular individuals
are attended by a good
fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of
uncertain success...influences all joint action of commerce and
affairs...
PerF 10.79 20 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and
after many years
succeeded in his production of the right article for commerce...
Edc1 10.128 2 The necessities imposed by this most
irritable and all-related
texture have taught Man...agriculture, commerce...
Supl 10.177 27 ...the Orientals excel in costly
arts...things which are the
poetry and superlative of commerce.
Carl 10.492 20 The navigation laws of England made its
commerce.
War 11.162 4 ...if a foreign nation should wantonly
insult or plunder our
commerce, or, worse yet, should land on our shores to rob and kill, you
would not have us sit, and be robbed and killed?
War 11.170 22 The next season...an aggression on our
commerce by
Malays; or the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry
through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...
ChiE 11.474 10 [Asian immigrants] send back to their
friends, in China... new tools, machinery, new foods, etc., and are
thus establishing a
commerce without limit.
PLT 12.18 27 [The perceptions of the soul] take to
themselves...agriculture, trade, commerce;...
Bost 12.197 7 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce
and of economy, the
religious spirit...was especially necessary to the culture of New
England.
ACri 12.301 26 Now, said [Samuel Dexter], I come to the
grand charge
that we have obstructed the commerce and navigation of Roxbury Ditch.
MLit 12.317 5 A selfish commerce and government have
caught the eye
and usurped the hand of the masses.
Let 12.403 20 Perhaps the adversities of our commerce
have not yet been
pushed to the wholesomest degree of severity.
Commerce, n. (3)
YA 1.370 17 ...the uprise and culmination of the new and
anti-feudal power
of Commerce is the political fact of most significance to the American
at
this hour.
Hist 2.9 19 This life of ours is stuck round
with...Church, Court and
Commerce, as with so many flowers...
MLit 12.322 15 [Goethe] has owed to Commerce and to the
victories of the
Understanding, all their spoils.
commercial, adj. (29)
Con 1.323 15 ...in peace and a commercial state we
depend, not as we
ought, on our knowledge and all men's knowledge that we are honest
men...
Tran 1.339 22 This [Transcendental] way of
thinking...falling on Unitarian
and commercial times, makes the peculiar shades of Idealism which we
know.
YA 1.369 25 We in the Atlantic states, by position,
have been commercial...
YA 1.382 27 ...agricultural association must, sooner or
later, fix the price of
bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence; as
the great
commercial and manufacturing companies had already done.
YA 1.385 25 We have feudal governments in a commercial
age.
YA 1.385 27 It would be but an easy extension of our
commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services...
YA 1.391 18 ...the development of our American internal
resources, the
extension to the utmost of the commercial system...are giving an aspect
of
greatness to the Future...
Pol1 3.209 7 Ordinarily our parties are parties of
circumstance, and not of
principle; as the planting interest in conflict with the commercial;...
SwM 4.111 13 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil
in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to the
day...to go round the
world in our commercial and conquering tongue.
ET3 5.41 23 ...these Britons have precisely the best
commercial position in
the whole planet...
ET5 5.92 9 The commercial relations of the world are so
intimately drawn
to London, that every dollar on earth contributes to the strength of
the
English government.
ET5 5.93 17 ...it is [Englishmen's] commercial
advantage that whatever
light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their
race.
ET6 5.106 17 I happened to arrive in England at the
moment of a
commercial crisis.
ET15 5.264 17 [TheLondon Times] has done bold and
seasonable service
in exposing frauds which threatened the commercial community.
ET19 5.312 2 ...I think it just, in this time of gloom
and commercial
disaster...that...you should not fail to keep your literary
anniversary.
ET19 5.314 2 ...if the courage of England goes with the
chances of a
commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my
own
Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
Wth 6.109 16 There is an example of the compensations
in the commercial
history of this country.
Ctr 6.149 26 The head of a commercial house or a
leading lawyer or
politician is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all
parts of
the country...
Elo1 7.95 26 Wild men...utter the savage sentiment of
Nature in the heart of
commercial capitals.
Elo2 8.132 19 Here [in the United States] is room for
every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending
stages,--that of useful speech, in
our commercial, manufacturing, railroad and educational conventions;
that
of political advice and persuasion...
Grts 8.304 11 You shall not tell me that your
commercial house, your
partners or yourself are of importance;...
Aris 10.37 23 What is the meaning of this invincible
respect for war, here
in the triumphs of our commercial civilization...
Aris 10.41 13 ...the effect of freer institutions in
England and America, has
robbed the title of king of all its romance, as that of our commercial
consuls
as compared with the ancient Roman.
LLNE 10.358 9 One merchant to whom I described the
Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that
agricultural association must
presently fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into
association in
self-defence, as the great commercial and manufacturing companies had
done.
HDC 11.70 25 On the 27th June [1774], near three
hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant,
solemnly engaging with
each other...to suspend all commercial intercourse with Great
Britain...
EWI 11.102 6 From the earliest time, the negro has been
an article of
luxury to the commercial nations.
FSLC 11.203 6 ...as the activity and growth of slavery
began to be
offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the senator became less
sensitive to these evils. They were not for him to deal with: he was
the
commercial representative.
EdAd 11.389 1 ...we have seen the best understandings
of New England... persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is
called a New England
sentiment any longer. Rely on us for commercial representatives, but
for
questions of ethics,-who knows what markets may be opened?
Wom 11.423 22 ...when I read the list of men...of
social distinction, leading
men of wealth and enterprise in the commercial community, and see what
they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community
was
ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
Commercial-Room, n. (1)
ET8 5.129 24 In every [English] inn is the
Commercial-Room...
Commines, Philippe de, n. (2)
ET5 5.82 10 Philip de Commines says, Now, in my opinion,
among all the
sovereignties I know in the world, that in which the public good is
best
attended to...is that of England.
Elo2 8.122 4 ...there are persons of natural
fascination, with...winning
manners, almost endearments in their style;...like Louis XI. of France,
whom Comines praises for the gift of managing all minds by his
accent...
commiseration, n. (2)
ET9 5.146 17 I have found that Englishmen have such a
good opinion of
England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the
disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by
the
instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company...
Trag 12.407 6 [Fate] is the terrible meaning
that...makes the Oedipus and
Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration.
commissariat, n. (2)
Cour 7.273 12 The meal and water that are the
commissariat of the forlorn
hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy
Grail...
OA 7.324 21 To perfect the commissariat, [Nature]
implants in each a
certain rapacity to get the supply, and a little oversupply, of his
wants.
commissaries, n. (2)
SR 2.87 6 The Emperor held it impossible to make a
perfect army, says Las
Casas, without abolishing our...commissaries and carriages...
NMW 4.248 13 If [the land-commander] allows himself to
be guided by
the commissaries [Napoleon remarks] he will never stir...
commission, n. (9)
DSA 1.136 1 ...any complaisance would be criminal which
told you, whose
hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith
of
Christ is preached.
LE 1.184 25 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares
little whether...the
transaction [be] a letter of credit or a transfer of stocks; be it what
it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
YA 1.385 1 How gladly would each citizen pay a
commission for the
support and continuation of good guidance.
Hist 2.27 22 ...men of God have from time to
time...made their commission
felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
NER 3.275 12 ...a naval and military honor, a general's
commission...have
this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and
unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself
inferior.
NMW 4.231 18 They charge me, [Bonaparte] said, with the
commission of
great crimes: men of my stamp do not commit crimes.
HDC 11.57 25 ...Major [Simon] Willard...incurred the
censure of the
Commissioners, who write to their loving friend Major Willard, that
they
leave to his consideration the inconveniences arising from his
non-attendance
to his commission.
HDC 11.78 1 ...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of
the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the
Northern
army, at Ticonderoga...
SMC 11.365 24 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery
company of this town [Concord] was reorganized, and Captain Richard
Barrett received a
commission in March, 1862, from the state, as its commander.
Commission of the Philologic (1)
Plu 10.321 7 I hope the Commission of the Philological
Society in
London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of
Plutarch]...
Commission, Sanitary, n. (4)
PC 8.208 23 The war gave us...the success of the
Sanitary Commission...
Chr2 10.118 9 The power that in other times
inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the reform of convicts and
harlots,-as the war created...the
Sanitary Commission...
FRO1 11.480 21 The soul of our late
war...was...secondly, to abolish the
mischief of the war itself, by healing and saving the sick and wounded
soldiers,-and this by the sacred bands of the Sanitary Commission.
FRep 11.538 18 ...if the spirit which...put forth such
gigantic energy in the
charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving
and
creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a
great
constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
commissioner, n. (1)
FSLC 11.184 15 ...what is the use of constitutions, if
all the guaranties
provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made
of no
effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
Commissioner, n. (3)
SlHr 10.437 21 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to
South Carolina as
the Commissioner of Massachusetts in 1844...he was repeatedly warned
that it was not safe for him to appear in public...
AgMs 12.361 14 The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises
the farmers to
sell their cattle and their hay in the fall...
AgMs 12.362 5 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias
Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the
Commonwealth. The good
Commissioner [Henry Colman] takes off his hat when he approaches
them...
Commissioner, Patent-Office (1)
QO 8.179 1 The Patent-Office Commissioner knows that all
machines in
use have been invented and re-invented over and over;...
commissioners, n. (5)
ET18 5.300 27 During the Australian emigration [from
England], multitudes were rejected by the commissioners as being too
emaciated for
useful colonists.
SlHr 10.443 12 ...in his own town, if some important
end was to be gained, as, for instance, when the county commissioners
refused to rebuild the
burned court-house...all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the
Legislature...
EWI 11.113 19 The Ministers...proposed to give the
[West Indian] planters...20,000,000 pounds sterling...to be distributed
to the owners of
slaves by commissioners...
EWI 11.115 8 I will not repeat to you the well-known
paragraph, in which
Messrs, Thome and Kimball, the commissioners sent out in the year
1837... describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the
island of
Antigua.
ACiv 11.308 12 A week before the two captive
commissioners were
surrendered to England, every one thought it could not be done...
Commissioners, n. (3)
HDC 11.57 22 This war [with the Niantic Indians] seems
to have been... eluctantly entered by Massachusetts. Accordingly, Major
[Simon] Willard
did the least he could, and incurred the censure of the
Commissioners...
HDC 11.58 3 Philip surrendered seventy guns to the
Commissioners in
Taunton Meeting-house...
HDC 11.59 1 [King Philip] stoutly declared to the
Commissioners that he
would not deliver up a Wampanoag...
Commissioners, State, n. (1)
AgMs 12.363 16 These [poor farmers] should be holden up
to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very
uninviting and
inconspicuous to State Commissioners.
Commissioners, Water, n. (1)
Thor 10.466 15 The result of the recent survey of the
Water
Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau] had
reached by his private experiments...
commissions, n. (2)
ShP 4.205 10 It appears...that [Shakespeare]...was
intrusted by his
neighbors with their commissions in London...
ET11 5.184 22 In the army, the [English] nobility fill
a large part of the
high commissions...
commit, v. (14)
LT 1.273 17 What does [the wealthy man]...but
resolve...to find himself out
some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing
of his religious affairs;...
Tran 1.337 7 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person
who, in opposition
to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like
Epaminondas and John de Witt;...I would commit sacrilege with David;...
Comp 2.116 3 Commit a crime, and the earth is made of
glass.
Comp 2.116 4 Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat
of snow fell on the
ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge...
NMW 4.231 19 They charge me, [Bonaparte] said, with the
commission of
great crimes: men of my stamp do not commit crimes.
Pow 6.67 5 There was no crime which [Boniface] did not
or could not
commit.
Ctr 6.151 15 ...dress makes a little restraint; men
will not commit
themselves.
Dem1 10.19 7 It would be easy in the political history
of every time to
furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which
without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... The crimes they
commit...are
strangely overlooked...
SovE 10.197 24 ...if I violate myself, if I commit a
crime, the lightning
loiters by the speed of retribution...
FSLC 11.191 3 ...if any human law should allow or
enjoin us to commit a
crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress
that
human law;...
FSLC 11.194 12 ...the womb conceives and the breasts
give suck to
thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your
statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express
first or
last every feeling of the heart. ... You can commit no crime, for they
are
created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it;...
ACiv 11.302 7 In this national crisis, it is not
argument that we want, but
that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle...
MAng1 12.236 25 ...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke
of Tuscany]...that
he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St.
Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be
interfered with...if, he
adds, I do not commit a great crime by disappointing the cormorants who
are daily hoping to get rid of me.
Trag 12.411 20 A man should not commit his tranquillity
to things...
commits, v. (3)
GoW 4.267 4 What [men who have acted] have done commits
and enforces
them to do the same again.
FSLN 11.237 15 A man who commits a crime defeats the
end of his
existence.
EPro 11.319 15 The force of the act [the Emancipation
Proclamation] is
that it commits the country to this justice...
committed, adj. (1)
SR 2.49 11 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken
with eclat he is a
committed person...
committed, v. (18)
MoS 4.172 19 ...parties wish every one committed...
GoW 4.268 16 It is not from men excellent in any kind
that disparagement
of any other is to be looked for. With such, Talleyrand's question is
ever
the main one; not, is he rich? is he committed?...but...does he stand
for
something?
GoW 4.276 16 Goethe would have no word that does not
cover a thing. The
same measure will still serve [with the Devil]: I have never heard of
any
crime which I might not have committed.
ET7 5.122 13 [Englishmen] like a man committed to his
objects.
ET12 5.202 2 Here [at Oxford]...John Milton's Pro
Populo Anglicano
Defensio and Iconoclastes were committed to the flames.
ET19 5.313 7 Is it not true, sir, that the wise
ancients did not praise the ship
parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor
which
came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And
so... I feel in regard to this aged England...irretrievably committed
as she now is
to many old customs which cannot be suddenly changed;...
F 6.11 9 Jesus said, When he looketh on her, he hath
committed adultery.
F 6.12 25 It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this
despotism of race with
liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds
committed in a prior state of existence.
Wth 6.110 18 ...it turns out that the largest
proportion of crimes are
committed by foreigners.
Cour 7.259 25 When we get an advantage...it is because
our adversary has
committed a fault...
Dem1 10.16 5 We do not think the young will be
forsaken; but he is fast
approaching the age when the sub-miraculous external protection and
leading are withdrawn and he is committed to his own care.
Edc1 10.158 21 ...to whatsoever beating heart I speak,
to you it is
committed to educate men.
Schr 10.264 20 The men committed by profession as well
as by bias to
study...talk hard and worldly...
Schr 10.281 21 Matter, says Plutarch, is a privation.
Let the man of ideas at
this hour be as direct, and as fully committed.
Carl 10.494 6 ...[Carlyle] detects in an instant if a
man stands for any cause
to which he is not born and organically committed.
EWI 11.131 15 If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of
freeborn
negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let
the
Governor break the broad seal of the State;...
Bost 12.192 13 [The Massachusett colonists' experience]
seems to have
been the last outrage ever committed by the sting-rays...
Let 12.397 15 ...there is no chance for the aesthetic
village. Every one of
the villagers has committed his several blunder;...
Committee, Abolitionist, n. (1)
Thor 10.460 22 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses
in Concord that he
would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John
Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The
Republican
Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was
premature, and not advisable.
committee, adj. (2)
TPar 11.288 15 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons of
Theodore Parker...in
legislative committee rooms, that the true temper and the authentic
record
of these days will be read.
FRO1 11.477 4 I came [to the Free Religious
Association], as I supposed
myself summoned, to a little committee meeting...
Committee, Hospital, n. (1)
Con 1.319 22 ...society has resolved itself into a
Hospital Committee...
Committee, Kansas, n. (1)
AKan 11.261 11 The President told the Kansas Committee
that the whole
difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people...
Committee, London, n. (2)
EWI 11.110 5 The [English] assailants of slavery had
early agreed to limit
their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade,
but
Granville Sharpe...whilst he acted as chairman of the London Committee,
felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation...
EWI 11.127 24 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council
report of evidence
on the [slave] trade (a bulky folio embodying all the facts which the
London Committee had been engaged for years in collecting...) was
presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the
discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other
gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the
country to
read the report.
Committee, Massachusetts St (1)
GSt 10.502 5 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the
Massachusetts State
Kansas Committee...
committee, n. (22)
OS 2.285 25 In full court, or in small committee...men
offer themselves to
be judged.
ET2 5.25 21 ...the proposal [to lecture in England]
offered an excellent
opportunity of seeing the interior of England and Scotland, by means of
a
home and a committee of intelligent friends awaiting me in every town.
ET7 5.116 19 ...any slipperiness in the [English]
government of political
faith...would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and
reform.
ET12 5.202 22 ...the committee charged with the affair
[the purchase of
Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand
pounds...
ET12 5.213 6 Genius exists there [in the college] also,
but will not answer
a call of a committee of the House of Commons.
Elo1 7.75 20 In a Senate or other business committee,
the solid result
depends on a few men with working talent.
Elo1 7.75 27 In a Senate or other business committee,
the solid result
depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they
can forward the work. But a new man comes there who...is insignificant,
and nobody in the committee...
WD 7.177 9 How wistfully, when we have promised to
attend the working
committee, we look at the distant hills and their seductions!
Cour 7.259 18 ...the part of the leader and soul of the
vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
PI 8.7 7 ...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.
MoL 10.246 8 Dickens complained that in America, as
soon as he arrived
in any of the Western towns, a committee waited on him and invited him
to
deliver a temperance lecture.
HDC 11.46 2 It was on doubts concerning their own
power, that, in 1634, a
committee repaired to [John Winthrop] for counsel...
HDC 11.71 14 On the 26th of the month [September,
1774], the whole
town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety...
EWI 11.142 19 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and
advances from the
whites that they will be gladly received...as members of this or that
committee of trust.
JBS 11.281 19 ...our blind statesmen go up and
down...hunting for the
origin of this new heresy [abolition]. They will need a very vigilant
committee indeed to find its birthplace...
SMC 11.356 8 Our farmers went to Kansas as peaceable,
God-fearing men
as the members of our school committee here.
SHC 11.429 1 Citizens and Friends: The committee to
whom was confided
the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening
the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the
inhabitants
together...
Humb 11.457 10 ...a man's natural powers are often a
sort of committee
that slowly...give their attention and action;...
FRO1 11.477 13 ...it does great honor to the
sensibility of the committee [of the Free Religious Association] that
they have felt the universal demand
in the community for just the movement they have begun.
FRO1 11.480 25 I wish that the various beneficent
institutions which are
springing up...all over this country, should all be remembered as
within the
sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...
CInt 12.131 6 ...'t is very certain that an examination
is yonder before us
and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived...
ACri 12.292 8 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before
the committee
of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing
a
debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short
and
graphic.
Committee, n. (1)
LLNE 10.353 9 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's]
design have also
believed...that the method of each associate might be trusted, as well
as that
of his particular Committee and General Office...
Committee of Investigation, (1)
AKan 11.256 9 Do the Committee of Investigation say that
the outrages [in
Kansas] have been overstated?
Committee on the Harper's F (1)
GSt 10.504 5 [George Stearns's] examination before the
United States
Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well
worth
reading...
Committee, Provincial, of S (1)
HDC 11.72 23 A large amount of military stores had been
deposited in this
town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety.
Committee, Republican, n. (1)
Thor 10.460 21 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses
in Concord that he
would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John
Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The
Republican
Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was
premature, and not advisable.
Committee-room, n. (1)
Ctr 6.153 3 [The English] have piqued themselves on
governing the whole
world in the poor, plain, dark Committee-room which the House of
Commons sat in, before the fire.
committees, n. (7)
Bhr 6.171 15 Your manners are always under examination,
and by
committees little suspected...
Wsp 6.225 9 The way to conquer the foreign artisan is,
not to kill him, but
to beat his work. And the Crystal Palaces and World Fairs, with their
committees and prizes on all kinds of industry, are the result of this
feeling.
Elo1 7.80 5 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.
LLNE 10.360 2 ...the work [at Brook Farm] was
distributed in orderly
committees to the men and women.
HDC 11.68 7 ...in answer to letters received from the
united committees of
correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the town [of Concord] say:
We
cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies
of
this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing
glory and
felicity of this land;...
JBS 11.281 16 ...our blind statesmen go up and down,
with committees of
vigilance and safety, hunting for the origin of this new heresy
[abolition].
FRep 11.534 25 In the planters of this country...the
conditions of the
country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a
certain
heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the
solitudes of
the West, where...neighborhoods must combine against the Indians...by
organizing themselves into committees of vigilance.
Committees of Safety, n. (1)
AKan 11.263 10 ...I think the towns should hold town
meetings, and
resolve themselves into Committees of Safety...
Committees', Union, n. (1)
FSLC 11.202 7 [Webster] must learn...that he who was
their pride in the
woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they
have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs
can
drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear. It will outwhisper all the
salvos of
the Union Committees' cannon.
committing, v. (1)
CL 12.155 9 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the
Norway Alps I
seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a
heavy
burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway, though
without committing the least excess, my languor or heaviness returned.
commodious, adj. (1)
Supl 10.168 1 [People of English stock's] houses
are...designed...to stand
as commodious, rentable tenements for a century or two.
commodities, n. (6)
MR 1.231 19 ...we eat and drink and wear perjury and
fraud in a hundred
commodities.
Gts 3.160 7 ...[fruits] are the flower of
commodities...
DL 7.111 3 [The citizen] brings home whatever
commodities and
ornaments have for years allured his pursuit...
HDC 11.69 4 ...the purchasing commodities subject to
such illegal taxation
is an explicit, though an impious and sordid resignation of the
liberties of
this free and happy people.
HDC 11.80 10 [The people of Concord] fell into a common
error...that the
remedy was, to forbid the great importation of foreign commodities...
EPro 11.316 16 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when
an orator...having
run over the superficial fitness and commodities of the measure he
urges... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles
involved;...
commodity, n. (18)
Nat 1.12 7 Under the general name of commodity, I rank
all those
advantages which our senses owe to nature.
Nat 1.16 17 The influence of the forms and actions in
nature is so needful
to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines
of
commodity and beauty.
Nat 1.41 16 ...the use of commodity, regarded by
itself, is mean and squalid.
LE 1.171 16 ...Truth is...so untransportable and
unbarrelable a commodity...
MR 1.237 20 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who
have intercepted...the
cotton of the cotton. They have got the education, I only the
commodity.
Con 1.324 13 Whatsoever streams of power and commodity
flow to me, shall of me acquire healing virtue...
SR 2.77 16 Prayer that craves a particular
commodity...is vicious.
Fdsp 2.205 7 We chide the citizen because he makes love
a commodity.
Int 2.342 4 [He in whom the love of repose
predominates] gets rest, commodity and reputation;...
Gts 3.163 2 ...if the gift pleases me overmuch, then I
should be ashamed
that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity,
and
not him.
Pol1 3.206 10 A cent is the representative of a certain
quantity of corn or
other commodity.
NER 3.256 17 ...if I had not that commodity [money], I
should be put on
my good behavior in all companies...
ET14 5.247 7 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly
teaches that good means... material commodity;
ET14 5.248 3 The critic [in England] hides his
skepticism under the
English cant of practical. To convince the reason, to touch the
conscience, is romantic pretension. The fine arts fall to the ground.
Beauty, except as
luxurious commodity, does not exist.
Bty 6.289 3 The most useful man in the most useful
world, so long as only
commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied.
Dem1 10.25 10 [Animal Magnetism] becomes...a black art.
The uses of the
thing, the commodity, the power, at once come to mind...
LLNE 10.345 22 [The pilgrim] thought every one should
labor at some
necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for
himself...he should give of the commodity to any applicant...
SlHr 10.446 3 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's]
respect to the ground-plan
and substructure of society a natural ability...and not for tickling
commodity, that it was admirable...
Commodity, n. (1)
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.
common, adj. (245)
Nat 1.5 4 In enumerating the values of nature...I shall
use the word...in its
common and in its philosophical import.
Nat 1.5 8 Nature, in the common sense, refers to
essences unchanged by
man;...
Nat 1.22 8 ...in common life whosoever has seen a
person of powerful
character...will have remarked how easily he took all things along with
him...
Nat 1.23 25 A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the ocean,
make an analogous
impression on the mind. What is common to them all...is beauty.
Nat 1.37 7 What tedious training...to form the common
sense;...
AmS 1.107 3 [The poor and the low] are content to be
brushed like flies
from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him
to that
common nature...
DSA 1.147 9 ...let us not aim at common degrees of
merit.
LE 1.177 20 [The scholar] must bear his share of the
common load.
MN 1.191 11 ...it is a common calamity if [the
scholars] neglect their post
in a country where the material interest is so predominant as it is in
America.
MR 1.227 7 ...our life, as we lead it, is common and
mean;...
MR 1.247 22 ...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 1.253 11 We complain that the politics of masses of
the people are... led in opposition to manifest justice and the common
weal...
Tran 1.341 1 ...many intelligent and religious persons
withdraw themselves
from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
Tran 1.342 2 ...it would not misbecome us to
inquire...what these
companions and contemporaries of ours think and do, at least so far as
these
thoughts and actions appear to be...common to many...
Tran 1.343 25 ...it is a fidelity to this sentiment
[Love] which has made
common association distasteful to [Transcendentalists.]
YA 1.374 10 ...we would have a common granary for the
poor;...
YA 1.380 23 These [Communities] proceeded...from an
impatience of
many usages in common life...
YA 1.384 2 Whether...the objection almost universally
felt by such women
in the community as were mothers, to an associate life, to a common
table... will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
YA 1.384 3 Whether...the objection almost universally
felt by such women
in the community as were mothers, to an associate life, to...a common
nursery, etc....will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
YA 1.389 15 ...the bold face and tardy repentance
permitted to this local
mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the
love
of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act
with
its natural force.
YA 1.391 22 One thing is plain for all men of common
sense and common
conscience...
YA 1.391 23 One thing is plain for all men of common
sense and common
conscience...
Hist 2.3 1 There is one mind common to all individual
men.
Hist 2.17 2 In a certain state of thought is the common
origin of very
diverse works.
Hist 2.17 8 ...common souls pay with what they do,
nobler souls with that
which they are.
Hist 2.19 10 I have seen a snow-drift along the sides
of the stone wall
which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to
abut a
tower.
SR 2.62 26 ...power and estate, are a gaudier
vocabulary than private John
and Edward in a...common day's work;...
SR 2.64 10 In that deep force...all things find their
common origin.
SR 2.74 27 ...it demands something godlike in him who
has cast off the
common motives of humanity...
Comp 2.114 5 What we buy in a broom, a mat, a wagon, a
knife, is some
application of good sense to a common want.
SL 2.141 19 The pretence that [a man] has another call,
a summons by... outward signs that mark him extraordinary and not in
the roll of common
men, is fanaticism...
SL 2.142 5 The common experience is that the man fits
himself as well as
he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into...
SL 2.161 1 Common men are apologies for men;...
Fdsp 2.191 14 In poetry and in common speech the
emotions of
benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened
to
the material effects of fire;...
Fdsp 2.201 8 ...I leave, for the time, all account of
subordinate social
benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred
relation...which
even leaves the language of love suspicious and common...
Fdsp 2.207 18 In good company the individuals merge
their egotism into a
social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there
present. ... Only he may then speak who can sail on the common thought
of
the party...
Prd1 2.222 27 The first class have common sense; the
second, taste; and
the third, spiritual perception.
Prd1 2.232 9 [The man of talent's] art is...less for
every defect of common
sense.
Prd1 2.233 5 The scholar shames us by his bifold life.
Whilst something
higher than prudence is active, he is admirable; when common sense is
wanted, he is an encumbrance.
Prd1 2.238 23 If you meet a sectary or a hostile
partisan...meet on what
common ground remains...
Hsm1. 2.252 8 [Heroism's] jest is the littleness of
common life.
Hsm1 2.255 20 It is a height to which common duty can
very well attain, to
suffer and to dare with solemnity.
Hsm1 2.258 26 ...[many extraordinary young men] enter
an active
profession and the forming Colossus shrinks to the common size of man.
Hsm1 2.261 18 ...to live with some rigor of temperance,
or some extremes
of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would
appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...
OS 2.268 24 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the
past and the present... is...that common heart of which all sincere
conversation is the worship...
OS 2.273 20 In common speech we refer all things to
time...
OS 2.276 23 I am certified of a common nature;...
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