Compliance to Conducts

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

compliance, n. (6)

    MR 1.233 26 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a certain dapperness and compliance...
    Con 1.314 23 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments, and espouses for the time the cause of man; and even if this be a shortlived emotion, yet the remembrance of it in private hours mitigates his...compliance with custom.
    SL 2.150 25 We foolishly think in our days of sin that we must court friends by compliance to the customs of society...
    Fdsp 2.208 18 I am equally balked by antagonism and by compliance.
    Exp 3.82 5 In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power of being greatly useful.
    DL 7.111 2 [The citizen's] house ought to show us his honest opinion of what makes his well-being when he...forgets all affectation, compliance, and even exertion of will.

compliances, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.115 25 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
    NR 3.228 17 The acts which you praise, I praise not, since they are departures from [the man's] faith, and are mere compliances.
    SovE 10.210 27 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for another who, underneath his compliances with artificial society, would dearly like to serve somebody...

complicate, v. (2)

    Wth 6.111 9 ...we have to pay, not what would have contented [the immigrants] at home, but what they have learned to think necessary here; so that opinion, fancy and all manner of moral considerations complicate the problem.
    FSLC 11.210 13 ...grant that the heart of financiers...shrinks within them at...the embarrassments which complicate the problem [abolition];...

complications, n. (1)

    ET5 5.93 13 ...in the complications of the trade and politics of their vast empire, [the English] have been equal to every exigency...

complicity, n. (2)

    ET5 5.80 27 All the steps [the English] orderly take;...keeping their eye on their aim, in all the complicity and delay incident to the several series of means they employ.
    F 6.7 11 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed...there is complicity...

complied, v. (2)

    HDC 11.57 8 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school, the masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University. With these requirements Concord... complied...
    MAng1 12.235 13 Michael Angelo, who...distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied.

compliment, n. (33)

    LT 1.291 12 ...the highest compliment man ever receives from heaven is the sending to him its disguised and discredited angels.
    Con 1.322 8 What a compliment we pay to the good SPIRIT with our superserviceable zeal!
    Tran 1.346 23 There is no compliment, no smooth speech with [youths];...
    Tran 1.346 25 ...[youths] pay you only this one compliment, of insatiable expectation;...
    SL 2.164 21 I can think of nothing to fill my time with, and I find the Life of Brant. It is a very extravagant compliment to pay to Brant...
    Fdsp 2.203 6 I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...omitting all compliment and commonplace, spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered...
    OS 2.292 11 Deal so plainly with man and woman as to...destroy all hope of trifling with you. It is the highest compliment you can pay.
    Chr1 3.112 7 Could we not pay our friend the compliment of truth, of silence, of forbearing?
    Chr1 3.115 27 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it is to own it.
    Mrs1 3.132 2 ...the countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
    Gts 3.161 8 ...our tokens of compliment and love are for the most part barbarous.
    UGM 4.16 4 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence.
    PPh 4.39 2 Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
    ShP 4.196 8 ...some passages [in Shakespeare's Henry VIII], as the account of the coronation, are like autographs. What is odd, the compliment to Queen Elizabeth is in the bad rhythm.
    ET5 5.74 23 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England]...at last, he made a handsome compliment of roads and walls, and departed.
    ET8 5.136 1 [The English] have that phlegm or staidness which it is a compliment to disturb.
    ET9 5.145 23 ...when [the Englishman] wishes to pay you the highest compliment, he says, I should not know you from an Englishman.
    ET17 5.296 6 ...perhaps it is a high compliment to the cultivation of the English generally, when we find such a man [as Wordsworth] not distinguished.
    Ctr 6.137 9 It is not a compliment but a disparagement to consult a man only on horses...
    Ill 6.312 20 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state or in society;...
    SS 7.4 15 The most agreeable compliment you could pay [my new friend] was to imply that you had not observed him in a house or a street where you had met him.
    Clbs 7.241 13 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man to deal with him as an intellect...
    Suc 7.302 14 This sensibility appears...when we see eyes that are a compliment to the human race...
    OA 7.332 14 We made our compliment [to John Adams]...
    Comc 8.171 24 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure, as well as to her republican opinions; the Countess retaliated by calling Madame the Venus of the Pere-Lachaise, a compliment to her skeleton which did not fail to circulate.
    PPo 8.251 17 It is told of Hafiz, that, when he had written a compliment to a handsome youth...the verses came to the ears of Timour in his palace.
    Supl 10.167 8 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington...
    Supl 10.170 24 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence. He was answered again by officials. Pity, thought I, they should lie so about their keen sensibility...to the commonplace compliment of a dinner.
    AsSu 11.251 2 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of every first-rate speaker that ever lived. It is the high compliment he pays to the intelligence of the Senate and of the country.
    ACiv 11.302 26 [The existing administration] is to be thanked for its angelic virtue, compared with any executive experiences with which we have been familiar. But the times will not allow us to indulge in compliment.
    Milt1 12.258 25 ...in reply apparently to some compliment on his powers of conversation, [Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.
    ACri 12.292 26 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...considerable-it is considerable of a compliment...
    MLit 12.328 13 ...that we may not...pay a great man so ill a compliment as to praise him only in the conventional and comparative speech, let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].

compliment, v. (3)

    DSA 1.148 23 You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.
    EWI 11.123 19 The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for...
    JBB 11.272 7 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.

complimentary, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.211 21 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one; and no amount of evidence of his crimes will prevent them giving him...complimentary dinners...

complimented, v. (4)

    SL 2.160 25 ...why need you torment yourself and friend by secret self-reproaches that you have not...complimented him with gifts and salutations heretofore?
    ET7 5.120 17 ...the chairman [of a St. George's festival in Montreal] complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    F 6.42 6 ...a man likes better to be complimented on his position...than on his merits.
    SMC 11.370 1 After Gettysburg, Colonel Prescott remarks that our [Thirty-second] regiment is highly complimented.

compliments, n. (15)

    Fdsp 2.203 1 We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments...
    Hsm1. 2.252 13 What shall [heroism] say then...to the toilet, compliments, quarrels, cards and custard, which rack the wit of all society?
    OS 2.290 11 The ambitious vulgar...preserve their cards and compliments.
    Mrs1 3.138 6 The compliments and ceremonies of our breeding should recall...the grandeur of our destiny.
    NMW 4.255 22 ...[Napoleon]...listened after the hurrahs and the compliments of the street...
    ET7 5.118 25 An Englishman...checks himself in compliments...
    ET19 5.310 20 ...these things are not for me to say; these compliments, though true, would better come from one who felt and understood these merits more.
    Ctr 6.154 24 How can you mind diet, bed, dress, or salutes or compliments...when you think how paltry are the machinery and the workers?
    Elo1 7.71 6 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard...
    Farm 7.138 18 ...you cannot make pretty compliments to fate and gravitation, whose minister [the farmer] is.
    OA 7.315 7 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect. He replied to these compliments in a speech...
    Plu 10.307 12 These men [who revere the spiritual power]...are not the parasites of wealth. Perhaps they sometimes compromise...make and take compliments; but they keep open the source of wisdom and health.
    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...
    EPro 11.316 14 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator, having ended the compliments and pleasantries with which he conciliated attention...announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    AgMs 12.362 7 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth. The good Commissioner [Henry Colman]...repeats his compliments as often as their names are introduced.

comply, v. (2)

    Supl 10.171 3 Men of the world value truth...not by its sacredness, but for its convenience. Of such, especially of diplomatists, one has a right to expect wit and ingenuity to avoid the lie if they must comply with the form.
    EWI 11.119 8 Sir Lionel Smith defended the poor negro girls, prey to the licentiousness of the [Jamaican] planters; they shall not be whipped with tamarind rods if they do not comply with their master's will;...

complying, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.222 5 [Prudence] is content to seek health of body by complying with physical conditions...

comport, v. (1)

    F 6.4 17 We are sure that...necessity does comport with liberty...

comports, v. (1)

    PLT 12.32 9 Teach me never so much and I hear or retain only...what comports with my experience and my desire.

compose, v. (22)

    Nat 1.15 16 ...where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting, the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical.
    LT 1.267 13 Slowly...it steals on us, the new fact, that we who were pupils or aspirants...do compose a portion of that head and heart we are wont to think worthy of all reverence and heed.
    LT 1.269 3 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...compose the visible church of the existing generation.
    Con 1.318 14 ...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    Lov1 2.170 5 ...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love.
    Exp 3.69 20 The persons who compose our company converse...and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
    Mrs1 3.147 24 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review...we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
    NER 3.282 6 In vain we compose our faces and our words;...
    UGM 4.11 25 Animated chlorine knows of chlorine, and incarnate zinc, of zinc. Their quality makes [man's] career; and he can variously publish their virtues, because they compose him.
    UGM 4.33 2 No man, in all the procession of famous men, is reason or illumination or that essence we were looking for; but is an exhibition, in some quarter, of new possibilities. Could we one day complete the immense figure which these flagrant points compose!
    PPh 4.56 23 To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose the universe.
    SwM 4.118 15 ...whether it be that these things will not be intellectually learned, or that many centuries must elaborate and compose so rare and opulent a soul,--there is no comet, rock-stratum...that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    ShP 4.217 7 Shakspeare employed [the things of nature] as colors to compose his picture.
    ET3 5.34 11 The solidity of the structures that compose the [English] towns speaks the industry of ages.
    ET4 5.45 14 The British census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half millions in the home countries. What makes this census important is the quality of the units that compose it.
    ET10 5.160 16 A thousand million of pounds sterling are said to compose the floating money of commerce [of England].
    Wth 6.111 15 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it, and therein resembles the hideous animalcules of which our bodies are built up,--offensive in the particular, yet compose valuable and effective masses.
    Elo1 7.63 2 An audience is not a simple addition of the individuals that compose it.
    Elo1 7.65 12 Him we call an artist...who, seeing the people furious, shall soften and compose them...
    PerF 10.70 10 One half the avoirdupois of the rocks which compose the solid crust of the globe consists of oxygen.
    SMC 11.355 7 ...armies...lift the spirit of the soldiers who compose them to the boiling point.
    MAng1 12.219 20 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface and, if beautiful, only the result of interior harmonies, which, to him who knows them, compose the image of higher beauty.

composed, adj. (2)

    Int 2.331 26 It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed attitude of the library to seize the thought.
    ET8 5.128 22 [The English] are just as cold, quiet and composed, at the end, as at the beginning of dinner.

composed, v. (25)

    Nat 1.4 24 Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.
    Hist 2.24 13 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of incorrupt, sharply defined and symmetrical features...
    SR 2.87 12 The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
    Pol1 3.210 15 ...the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able and cultivated part of the population, is timid...
    NER 3.251 15 ...that the Church, or religious party...is appearing...in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions; composed of ultraists...
    NER 3.264 12 These new associations are composed of men and women of superior talents and sentiments;...
    ShP 4.200 12 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ...
    NMW 4.223 10 It is Swedenborg's theory that...the lungs are composed of infinitely small lungs;...
    GoW 4.262 13 The facts do not lie in [the memory] inert; but some subside and others shine; so that we soon have a new picture, composed of the eminent experiences.
    ET1 5.22 4 [Wordsworth] led me out into his garden, and showed me the gravel walk in which thousands of his lines were composed.
    Wth 6.101 4 ...the true and only power, whether composed of money, water or men; it is all alike [said the Marseilles banker];...
    CbW 6.251 27 The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee. But the units whereof this mass is composed, are neuters, every one of which may be grown to a queen-bee.
    Art2 7.50 6 The first time you hear [good poetry], it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.
    Art2 7.53 12 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it...was one of the possible forms in the Divine mind, and is now only discovered and executed by the artist, not arbitrarily composed by him.
    Elo1 7.67 8 ...all these several audiences...which successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the orator], are really composed out of the same persons;...
    Suc 7.284 12 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he...invented the engines, composed the music...
    PI 8.45 6 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
    SA 8.82 1 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs. Are they humble? he is composed.
    Aris 10.41 4 An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men for whom Nature and ethics are strong enough...
    LLNE 10.331 21 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what occasion soever, a fact had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
    HDC 11.71 26 This body [the Provincial Congress] was composed of the foremost patriots...
    SMC 11.375 25 A gloom gathers on this assembly, composed as it is of kindred men and women...
    CL 12.144 14 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it was impossible to walk in the country...
    ACri 12.300 26 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses. When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem...
    WSL 12.349 1 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed.

composer, n. (6)

    Nat 1.15 18 ...as the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters.
    LT 1.272 26 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands. ... For some ages, these ideas have been consigned to the poet and musical composer...
    Pt1 3.38 26 The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly...
    SwM 4.109 10 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...
    CInt 12.119 17 I value dearly...the composer with his score.
    MLit 12.322 23 ...radical, painter, composer,-all worked for [Goethe]...

composes, v. (2)

    F 6.22 24 On one side elemental order...and on the other part thought, the spirit which composes and decomposes nature...
    Wth 6.116 5 [The land-owner] believes he composes easily on the hills.

composing, v. (5)

    ET1 5.22 11 [Wordsworth] had just returned from a visit to Staffa, and within three days had made three sonnets on Fingal's Cave, and was composing a fourth when he was called in to see me.
    Ill 6.318 9 ...[Columbus] found the illusion of arriving from the east at the Indies more composing to his lofty spirit than any tobacco.
    LVB 11.91 7 ...out of eighteen thousand souls composing the [Cherokee] nation, fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-eight have protested against the so-called treaty.
    Mem 12.96 2 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already...
    Bost 12.189 1 A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay] from all other colonies was that the persons composing it consented to come on the one condition that the charter should be transferred from the company in England to themselves;...

composite, adj. (5)

    GoW 4.290 4 Man is the most composite of all creatures;...
    ET4 5.50 20 The English composite character betrays a mixed origin.
    Elo1 7.66 2 [Eloquence] is a power...requiring a large composite man...
    WD 7.170 27 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass,--the secular, refined, composite anatomy of man...are given immeasurably to all.
    MLit 12.319 18 [Shelley's] muse is uniformly imitative; all his poems composite.

composition, n. (27)

    Nat 1.70 6 A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought...
    LT 1.266 3 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough: bloated promises, which end in nothing or little. And then truly great men, but with some defect in their composition which neutralizes their whole force.
    Tran 1.329 6 The light is always identical in its composition...
    Fdsp 2.202 11 There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship...
    Int 2.337 25 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well; its composition is full of art...
    Mrs1 3.121 17 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men. It seems a certain permanent average; as the atmosphere is a permanent composition...
    Nat2 3.187 13 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition...
    PPh 4.66 4 Such as were fit to govern, into their composition the informing Deity mingled gold;...
    SwM 4.98 21 As happens in great men, [Swedenborg] seemed...to be a composition of several persons...
    SwM 4.99 25 [Swedenborg]...from this time [1716] for the next thirty years was employed in the composition and publication of his scientific works.
    ShP 4.201 4 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men. In the composition of such works the time thinks...
    ET5 5.88 26 I know not from which of the tribes and temperaments that went to the composition of the people [of England] this tenacity was supplied, but they clinch every nail they drive.
    CbW 6.262 10 What had been, ever since our memory, solid continent, yawns apart and discloses its composition and genesis.
    QO 8.200 4 The old forest is decomposed for the composition of the new forest.
    Insp 8.290 5 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted...
    Edc1 10.128 14 Here [in the household] is the sincere thing, the wondrous composition for which day and night go round.
    Edc1 10.130 27 ...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact touching...the secrets of chemical composition and decomposition possess for Humboldt?
    LLNE 10.359 7 ...if one must study all the strokes to be laid, all the faults to be shunned in a building or work of art, of its keeping, its composition... there would be no end.
    CSC 10.374 9 The composition of the assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was rich and various.
    Thor 10.475 1 [Thoreau] could not be deceived as to the presence or absence of the poetic element in any composition...
    EWI 11.128 23 There are causes in the composition of the British legislature...which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other legislative assemblies.
    ACiv 11.306 23 Neither do I doubt, is such a composition should take place, that the Southerners will come back quietly and politely...
    MAng1 12.228 20 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...seeking that there should be in the composition a certain universal grace such as Nature makes...
    Milt1 12.254 20 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely...to draw after Nature a life of man, exhibiting such a composition of grace, of strength and of virtue, as poet had not described nor hero lived.
    Milt1 12.256 11 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem; a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things...
    MLit 12.314 22 ...the criterion which discriminates these two habits [of subjectiveness] in the poet's mind is the tendency of his composition;...
    MLit 12.326 3 The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the nature in this piece [Goethe's journal]; I liked the sly art in the composition...still better.

compositions, n. (15)

    DSA 1.126 10 The expressions of this [moral] sentiment affect us more than all other compositions.
    DSA 1.148 8 ...[the commanders] with you are open to the influx of the all-knowing Spirit, which annihilates...the little shades and gradations of intelligence in compositions we call wiser and wisest.
    LE 1.172 16 I by no means aim in these remarks to disparage the merit of these or of any existing compositions;...
    LE 1.182 9 If [the scholar] have this twofold goodness,-the drill and the inspiration...then...the perfection of his endowment will appear in his compositions.
    Hist 2.16 9 ...there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages.
    OS 2.289 9 The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions.
    PPo 8.240 3 He who would understand the influence of the Homeric ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which similar compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
    Milt1 12.248 23 These tracts [by Milton] are remarkable compositions.
    Milt1 12.258 27 ...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.
    Milt1 12.266 16 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood. They give an inexhaustible truth to all his compositions.
    Milt1 12.277 22 The lover of Milton reads one sense in his prose and in his metrical compositions;...
    MLit 12.326 12 This subtle element of egotism in Goethe certainly does not seem to deform his compositions...
    MLit 12.328 22 ...what shall we think of that absence of the moral sentiment, that singular equivalence to him of good and evil in action, which discredit [Goethe's] compositions to the pure?
    EurB 12.367 8 ...Wordsworth...though setting a private and exaggerated value on his compositions;...is really a master of the English language...
    EurB 12.371 2 Tennyson's compositions are not so much poems as studies in poetry...

compost, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.222 8 ...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.

composure, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.132 12 All that fashion demands is composure and self-content.
    Trag 12.416 6 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death. Yet these wards are not the least remarkable for the composure and cheerfulness of their inmates.

compotes, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.185 2 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men, compotes mentis...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...

compound, adj. (6)

    Nat 1.64 2 ...one and not compound [nature] does not act upon us from without...
    Comp 2.119 11 ...compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.
    Hsm1 2.249 8 The disease and deformity around us certify the infraction of natural, intellectual and moral laws, and often violation on violation to breed such compound misery.
    Mrs1 3.121 27 [Good society]...is a compound result into which every great force enters as an ingredient...
    SwM 4.114 6 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...
    Wth 6.126 19 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance. This is the right compound interest;...

compound, n. (2)

    SwM 4.114 14 The unities of each organ are so many little organs, homogeneous with their compound...
    FRep 11.513 15 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...all drill and military education, on that one compound...

compound, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.181 3 Compound it how [nature] will, star, sand, fire, water, tree, man, it is still one stuff...
    ET10 5.165 7 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he transforms his paling into stone-masonry...and all Europe cannot prevail on him to sell or compound for an inch of the land.

compounded, v. (1)

    ACri 12.305 10 A man of genius or a work of love or beauty...can't be compounded by the best rules...

compounding, v. (1)

    CInt 12.113 11 ...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to suffer the flash of swords and the boyish strife of passion and feebleness of military strength to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence of Intellectual Law.

comprehend, v. (10)

    Cir 2.303 17 Nature...has a cause like all the rest; and when once I comprehend that, will these fields stretch so immovably wide...
    Int 2.347 2 ...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis, without a moment's heed of the universal astonishment of the human race below, who do not comprehend their plainest argument;...
    Pt1 3.12 6 ...from the heaven of truth I shall see and comprehend my relations.
    Chr1 3.92 14 See [the man fortunate in trade] and you will know as easily why he succeeds, as, if you see Napoleon, you would comprehend his fortune.
    Chr1 3.100 20 Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public, indicate...heads...which must see a house built before they can comprehend the plan of it.
    PPh 4.63 9 The essence or peculiarity of man is to comprehend a whole [said Plato];...
    Art2 7.39 24 The useful arts comprehend not only those that lie next to instinct...but also navigation, practical chemistry...
    LS 11.10 22 ...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.
    LS 11.13 18 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity.
    II 12.84 18 If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene, and, slower or faster, endeavors to comprehend what you say.

comprehended, v. (3)

    AmS 1.104 1 In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.
    EWI 11.137 22 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground...of sordid gain, in opposition to every motive that had reference to humanity, justice, and religion, or to that great principle which comprehended them all.
    MAng1 12.220 3 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface.

comprehendeth, v. (1)

    AmS 1.108 1 ...a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.

comprehending, v. (3)

    Edc1 10.131 22 Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import, fetching away...solstice, period, comet and binal star, by comprehending their relation and law.
    SovE 10.200 27 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding,-a miracle comprehending all the universe of miracles to which your intelligent life gives you access,-as to exhaust wonder...
    MAng1 12.216 15 Beauty...comprehending grandeur as a part, and reaching to goodness as its soul,-this to receive and this to impart, was [Michelangelo's] genius.

comprehends, v. (5)

    LE 1.157 22 ...when [the scholar] comprehends his duties he above all men is a realist...
    PPh 4.46 12 The same weakness and want, on a higher plane, occurs daily in the education of ardent young men and women. ah! you don't undertand me; I have never met with any one who comprehends me...
    ET14 5.244 4 The Germans generalize: the English cannot interpret the German mind. German science comprehends the English.
    Bhr 6.184 6 ...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one instantly perceives ...that his will comprehends the other's will...
    PLT 12.5 1 ...[science] adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears; and this discloses that the mind as it opens, the mind as it shall be, comprehends and works thus;...

comprehensible, adj. (2)

    PPh 4.52 25 European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results.
    GoW 4.271 5 We conceive...life in the Middle Ages, to be a simple and comprehensible affair;...

comprehension, n. (8)

    AmS 1.104 21 ...[the scholar] will...find in himself a perfect comprehension of [fear's] nature and extent;...
    DSA 1.149 9 There are...men to whom a crisis...demanding... comprehension...comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
    SwM 4.119 5 To a right perception...of the order of nature, [Swedenborg] added the comprehension of the moral laws in their widest social aspects;...
    NMW 4.232 4 [Bonaparte] had a directness of action never before combined with so much comprehension.
    ET12 5.207 18 The men [English students] have learned accuracy and comprehension, logic, and pace, or speed of working.
    ALin 11.334 17 [Lincoln's] mind mastered the problem of the day; and as the problem grew, so did his comprehension of it.
    II 12.82 3 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension.
    MLit 12.323 16 ...[Goethe] is of that comprehension which can see the value of truth.

comprehensive, adj. (8)

    LT 1.287 9 Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society which to great mechanical invention and the best institutions of property adds the most daring theories;...
    GoW 4.265 20 ...let one man have the comprehensive eye that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings...
    Boks 7.190 8 ...there are...books which are the work and the proof of faculties so comprehensive...that though one shuts them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.
    Prch 10.233 11 The author...sees the sweep of a more comprehensive tendency than others are aware of;...
    LLNE 10.349 8 The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was...that it...was coherent and comprehensive of facts to a wonderful degree.
    LLNE 10.355 2 It was easy to see what must be the fate of this fine system [of Fourier's] in any serious and comprehensive attempt to set it on foot in this country.
    Thor 10.452 25 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living well.
    II 12.82 1 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension.

comprehensively, adv. (1)

    Civ 7.20 11 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say,--childish illusions passing daily away and he seeing things really and comprehensively,--is made by tribes.

comprehensiveness, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.351 21 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends, the comprehensiveness of their theory...commanded our attention and respect.

compression, n. (4)

    Pow 6.71 15 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts...
    ACri 12.290 6 Dante is the professor that shall teach both the noble low style...also the sculpture of compression.
    ACri 12.290 7 The next virtue of rhetoric is compression...
    WSL 12.348 2 [Landor] knows the wide difference between compression and an obscure elliptical style.

Compression, n. (1)

    ACri 12.299 25 After Low Style and Compression what the books call Metonomy is a principal power of rhetoric.

comprise, v. (3)

    Nat 1.44 23 [Every universal truth] is like a great circle on a sphere, comprising all possible circles; which, however, may be drawn and comprise it in like manner.
    Exp 3.75 11 The new statement will comprise the scepticisms as well as the faiths of society...
    ET4 5.44 22 The British Empire is reckoned...to comprise a territory of 5, 000,000 square miles.

comprised, v. (2)

    AmS 1.100 17 [The scholar's duties] may all be comprised in self-trust.
    PPh 4.63 10 The essence or peculiarity of man [said Plato] is to comprehend...that which in the diversity of sensations can be comprised under a rational unity.

comprises, v. (3)

    FSLN 11.218 7 ...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a class which comprises in some sort all mankind...
    FSLN 11.218 8 ...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a class which...comprises every man in the best hours of his life;...
    JBB 11.270 10 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises his brave fellow sufferers in the Charlestown Jail;...

comprising, v. (5)

    Nat 1.44 22 [Every universal truth] is like a great circle on a sphere, comprising all possible circles;...
    ET12 5.200 17 ...out of twelve hundred young men [at Oxford], comprising the most spirited of the aristocracy, a duel has never occurred.
    Insp 8.279 25 Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape and bodily exercise, on the mind.
    EWI 11.141 3 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom, weapons...
    CL 12.135 17 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers...all that is called the love of Nature, comprising the largest use and the whole beauty of a farm or landed estate.

Compromise, Missouri, n. (2)

    FSLN 11.233 17 You relied on the Missouri Compromise. That is ridden over.
    TPar 11.290 14 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery...wrung from the weakness or treachery of Northern people fatal concessions in...the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.

compromise, n. (17)

    MR 1.234 1 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.
    MR 1.236 8 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state]...a man may select the fittest employment for his peculiar talent again, without compromise.
    LT 1.274 16 ...the compromise made with the slaveholder...every day appears more flagrant mischief to the American constitution.
    Con 1.313 19 You are yourself the result of this manner of living, this foul compromise...
    Tran 1.349 26 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise...
    Fdsp 2.199 16 All association must be a compromise...
    NER 3.264 24 ...it may easily be questioned...whether the members [of associations] will not necessarily be fractions of men, because each finds that he cannot enter it without some compromise.
    ET4 5.49 14 Whatever influences add to mental or moral faculty, take men out of nationality...and make the national life a culpable compromise.
    Wth 6.97 9 Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning...seems to be a compromise of their character;...
    Wth 6.100 23 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts...so as to arrive at gigantic results, without any compromise of safety.
    War 11.174 1 [The man of principle] is willing to be hanged at his own gate, rather than consent to any compromise of his freedom...
    JBS 11.279 15 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...living to ideal ends, without any mixture of self-indulgence or compromise...
    ACiv 11.303 18 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...and our recent calamities forever precluded. The free states yielded, and every compromise was surrender...
    FRep 11.543 10 Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. No monopoly must be foisted in...no coward compromise conceded to a strong partner.
    II 12.84 13 [Men] are not timed each to the other: they cannot keep step, and life requires too much compromise.
    CInt 12.123 6 [The Understanding] is the power which the world of men adopt and educate. He is...the worker in the useful; he works by shifts, by compromise...
    CL 12.136 13 ...in the country, Nature is always inviting to the compromise of walking as soon as we are released from severe labor.

compromise, v. (4)

    Nat 1.48 15 God...will not compromise the end of nature by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
    UGM 4.29 19 Compromise thy egotism.
    Plu 10.307 11 These men [who revere the spiritual power]...are not the parasites of wealth. Perhaps they sometimes compromise...but they keep open the source of wisdom and health.
    FRep 11.521 2 ...the stiffest patriots falter and compromise;...

compromised, v. (3)

    Pt1 3.10 20 Society seemed to be compromised.
    PI 8.6 10 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...suspects that some one is doing him, and at this alarm everything is compromised;...
    PLT 12.45 1 If we converse with low things...we are not compromised.

compromises, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.212 9 Even well-disposed, good sort of people...for brave, straightforward action, use half-measures and compromises.

compromises, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.115 27 I must feel that the speaker compromises himself to his auditory...

compulsion, n. (1)

    F 6.19 13 The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency... amounts to little more than a criticism or protest made by a minority of one, under compulsion of millions.

compulsory, adj. (2)

    Wth 6.108 18 The price of coal shows...a compulsory confinement of the miners to a certain district.
    PLT 12.27 23 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms, which, after performing compulsory duty to this enchanted statue, are released again to flow in the currents of the world.

compunction, n. (2)

    LT 1.278 13 To the youth...full of compunction at his unprofitable existence, the temptation is always great to lend himself to public movements...
    Nat2 3.178 26 We see the foaming brook with compunction...

compunctions, n. (2)

    Lov1 2.171 16 ...infinite compunctions embitter in mature life the remembrances of budding joy...
    SwM 4.138 3 No man can afford to waste his moments in compunctions.

computation, n. (3)

    YA 1.377 27 [Trade] displaces physical strength, and instals computation, combination, information, science, in its room.
    F 6.18 12 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales... Oenipodes...each had the same tense geometrical brain, apt for the same vigorous computation...
    PC 8.222 15 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one...he was so agitated that he was forced to call in an assistant to finish the computation.

computations, n. (2)

    ShP 4.195 10 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI....
    PC 8.217 22 If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his nation cannot spare him; nor if he know...the secret of geometry, of algebra; on which the computations of astronomy, of navigation, of machinery, rest.

compute, v. (12)

    MN 1.203 2 When we are dizzied with the arithmetic of the savant toiling to compute the length of [Nature's] line...we are steadied by the perception that a great deal is doing;...
    LT 1.270 20 The student of history will hereafter compute the singular value of our endless discussion of questions to the mind of the period.
    Cir 2.317 12 [When these waves of God flow into me] I no longer poorly compute my possible achievement by what remains to me of the month or the year;...
    Pt1 3.16 14 In our political parties, compute the power of badges and emblems.
    MoS 4.178 26 If we compute it in time, we may, in fifty years, have half a dozen reasonable hours.
    Wth 6.83 20 What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/ (In dizzy aeons dim and mute/ The reeling brain can ill compute)/ Copper and iron, lead, and gold?/
    Wth 6.110 23 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute.
    DL 7.108 7 It is easier to...compute the square extent of a territory...than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
    PC 8.225 6 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age...
    MoL 10.249 26 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    CInt 12.122 21 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and better than he could do it; whether it be to build...sing, heal or compute...
    Bost 12.187 9 Of great cities you cannot compute the influences.

computed, v. (6)

    SR 2.48 5 ...that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, [children, babes, and brutes] have not.
    OS 2.274 17 After its own law...is the rate of [the soul's] progress to be computed.
    ET10 5.159 18 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men...
    ET11 5.198 9 It is computed that, with titles and without, there are seventy thousand of these people coming and going in London, who make up what is called high society.
    CbW 6.265 2 ...the power of happiness of any soul is not to be computed or drained.
    Boks 7.192 9 ...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...

computing, v. (5)

    MN 1.201 27 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments without end into her wide common...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    SR 2.56 26 ...the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts...
    Exp 3.75 26 ...we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors.
    ET16 5.283 4 On hints like these, Stukeley...computing backward by the known variations of the compass, bravely assigns the year 406 before Christ for the date of the temple [Stonehenge].
    FSLC 11.199 18 There is...not an economist but is computing [slavery's] profit and loss...

comrade, n. (4)

    ET1 5.4 26 It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern...when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
    ET4 5.68 5 Lord Collingwood, [Nelson's] comrade, was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic.
    Cour 7.276 23 I do not wish to...urge [any man] to ape the courage of his comrade.
    Res 8.145 7 ...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout roof.

comrades, n. (7)

    Nat 1.20 24 ...when Arnold Winkelried...gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    ShP 4.193 21 Shakspeare, in common with his comrades, esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock...
    Comc 8.169 26 ...[Astley's] comrades playfully forced off his coat...
    FSLN 11.241 16 I wish to see the instructed class here...not fire on their comrades.
    SMC 11.361 12 Always devoted...sometimes full of joy at the deportment of his comrades, [George Prescott's letters] contain the sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.
    SMC 11.368 11 ...at Fredericksburg...Lieutenant-Colonel Prescott loudly expressed his satisfaction at his comrades...
    SMC 11.373 16 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades... writing to his own family, uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle.

Comus [John Milton], n. (4)

    ET11 5.190 16 I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which Milton's Comus was written...
    PI 8.48 8 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.
    Milt1 12.265 11 [Milton's native honor] is the spirit of Comus...
    Milt1 12.275 9 ...the Comus [is] a transcript, in charming numbers, of that philosophy of chastity, which, in the Apology for Smectymnuus, and in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] declares to be his defence and religion.

concatenate, v. (1)

    Mem 12.100 1 An act of the understanding will marshal and concatenate a few facts;...

concave, adj. (5)

    SL 2.151 26 [The world] will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being...whether you see your work produced to the concave sphere of the heavens...
    OS 2.273 22 ...we habitually refer the immensely sundered stars to one concave sphere.
    Exp 3.51 1 Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave...
    UGM 4.32 2 Each is uneasy until he has produced his private ray unto the concave sphere...
    Supl 10.166 3 ...a face magnified in a concave mirror loses its expression.

conceal, v. (21)

    SL 2.146 8 If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
    SL 2.146 23 What secret can [Plato] conceal from the eyes of Bacon?...
    PNR 4.84 1 The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was profitable; Plato affirms that...profit is intrinsic, though the just conceal his justice from gods and men;...
    NMW 4.225 20 [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...
    ET5 5.80 7 [The English]...cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of thought...
    ET8 5.141 21 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? The early history shows it, as the musician plays the air which he proceeds to conceal in a tempest of variations.
    Pow 6.82 7 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece;...
    Wth 6.97 12 They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal;...
    Ctr 6.138 4 ...here is a pedant that cannot...conceal his wrath at interruption by the best, if their conversation do not fit his impertinency...
    Bhr 6.193 8 In all the superior people I have met I notice directness, truth spoken more truly, as if everything of obstruction, of malformation, had been trained away. What have they to conceal?
    Wsp 6.223 25 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat...
    SS 7.4 12 [My new friend] could not enough conceal himself.
    DL 7.123 11 [The women of Arthur's court]...said that the devil was in the mantle, for really the truth was in the mantle, and was exposing the ugliness which each would fain conceal.
    Clbs 7.235 10 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared;...
    PI 8.56 10 I know the pride of mathematicians and materialists, but they cannot conceal from me their capital want.
    SA 8.82 13 No art can contravene [thought] or conceal it.
    Aris 10.56 4 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. ... Their manners and behavior in the house and in the field are those of men at rest: what have they to conceal? what have they to exhibit?
    Supl 10.166 7 ...I can well spare the exaggerations which appear to me screens to conceal ignorance.
    Schr 10.277 13 I like to see a man of that virtue that no obscurity or disguise can conceal...
    FSLC 11.206 2 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself. As much real union as there is, the statutes will be sure to express; as much disunion as there is, no statute can long conceal.
    WSL 12.337 5 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;-a man nowise cautious to conceal his name or that of his native country...

concealable, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.177 19 A bag of sequins...a single horse, constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.

concealed, adj. (3)

    ShP 4.205 27 ...[researches concerning Shakespeare's condition] can shed no light upon that infinite invention which is the concealed magnet of his attraction for us.
    OA 7.320 8 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors, a certain concealed sense of injury...
    Edc1 10.129 26 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all...unlock for us the concealed faculties of the mind?

concealed, v. (29)

    Nat 1.39 2 ...in [Nature's] heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.
    DSA 1.139 14 There is poetic truth concealed in all the commonplaces of prayer and of sermons...
    LE 1.177 18 [Human life's] laws are concealed under the details of daily action.
    LT 1.289 21 The granite is curiously concealed under a thousand formations and surfaces...
    Tran 1.357 22 [The Transcendentalists'] heart is the ark in which the fire is concealed which shall burn in a broader and universal flame.
    Comp 2.103 14 Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens with the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.
    SL 2.159 24 Confucius exclaimed,--How can a man be concealed? How can a man be concealed?
    SL 2.159 25 Confucius exclaimed,--How can a man be concealed? How can a man be concealed?
    Lov1 2.167 1 I was as a gem concealed;/ Me my burning ray revealed./ Koran.
    Mrs1 3.145 15 ...nor is it to be concealed that living blood and a passion of kindness does at last distinguish God's gentleman from Fashion's.
    NR 3.243 2 Whatever does not concern us is concealed from us.
    NR 3.243 4 As soon as a person is no longer related to our present well-being, he is concealed, or dies, as we say.
    PNR 4.85 20 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...as respects either of them in itself...concealed both from gods and men, no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
    ET11 5.186 4 ...beneficent power...gives a majesty which cannot be concealed or resisted.
    F 6.7 9 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed...there is complicity...
    Wsp 6.224 23 To every creature is his own weapon, however skilfully concealed from himself, a good while.
    Wsp 6.229 15 To a sound constitution the defect of another is at once manifest; and the marks of it are only concealed from us by our own dislocation.
    Bty 6.288 22 Goethe said, The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us.
    Farm 7.136 3 [The farmer] planted where the deluge ploughed,/ His hired hands were wind and cloud;/ His eyes detect the Gods concealed/ In the hummock of the field./
    WD 7.179 22 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday. Can he uncover the ligaments concealed from all but piety...
    MMEm 10.424 3 In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds...
    Thor 10.465 6 [Thoreau]...saw the limitations and poverty of those he talked with, so that nothing seemed concealed from such terrible eyes.
    Thor 10.481 21 [Thoreau] thought the scent a more oracular inquisition than the sight,-more oracular and trustworthy. The scent, of course, reveals what is concealed from the other senses.
    War 11.160 14 The eternal germination of the better has unfolded new powers, new instincts, which were really concealed under this rough and base rind.
    ACiv 11.300 17 Neither was anything concealed of the theory or practice of slavery.
    SMC 11.354 25 The opinions of masses of men, which the tactics of primary caucuses and the proverbial timidity of trade had concealed, the [Civil] war discovered;...
    Shak1 11.451 23 The egotism of men is immense. It concealed Shakspeare for a century.
    PLT 12.44 6 It is not to be concealed that the gods have guarded this privilege [of sensibility] with costly penalty.
    MLit 12.326 5 The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the nature in this piece [Goethe's journal]; I liked the sly art in the composition...still better. It is a true poem, so concealed is the art too.

concealing, v. (5)

    NR 3.228 3 The men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude...or by an acid worldly manner; each concealing as he best can his incapacity for useful association...
    SwM 4.103 20 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;-- being some curiosity or oddity...purposely framed to excite surprise, as jugglers do by concealing their means.
    F 6.15 22 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...rude forms... concealing under these unwieldy monsters the fine type of her coming king.
    Wth 6.108 26 One might say...that nothing is cheap or dear, and that the apparent disparities that strike us are only a shopman's trick of concealing the damage in your bargain.
    SS 7.7 8 One protects himself [from society] by solitude...and one by an acid, worldly manner,--each concealing how he can the thinness of his skin...

concealment, n. (3)

    MR 1.232 20 ...the general system of our trade...is a system...of concealment...
    SL 2.159 4 Concealment avails [a man] nothing, boasting nothing.
    Wsp 6.222 17 There is no concealment...

concealments, n. (1)

    SovE 10.195 24 Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship...

conceals, v. (7)

    LE 1.187 4 ...Ask not...Who is the better for the philosopher who conceals his accomplishments...
    NR 3.243 20 ...the divine Providence which keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the persons that do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
    Wsp 6.223 26 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat...
    Wsp 6.223 27 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he conceals.
    Grts 8.312 19 ...[the great man] conceals his learning, conceals his charity.
    Prch 10.228 20 I fear that what is called religion, but is perhaps pew-holding, not obeys but conceals the moral sentiment.
    Bost 12.193 10 ...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology, which yet conceals some grand commandment;...

concede, v. (10)

    LE 1.164 11 Concede to [the man of letters] genius...and he is content;...
    LE 1.164 13 ...concede [the man of letters] talents never so rare, denying him genius, and he is aggrieved.
    NER 3.260 22 I readily concede that in this, as in every period of intellectual activity, there has been a noise of denial and protest;...
    ET12 5.211 12 I should readily concede these [physical] advantages...if I did not find also that [Oxford men] read better than we, and write better.
    ET16 5.275 11 I told Carlyle that I...was accustomed to concede readily all that an Englishman would ask;...
    CbW 6.249 9 I wish not to concede anything to [masses]...
    PI 8.32 2 Free trade, [men of the world] concede, is very well as a principle...
    Schr 10.271 7 I incline to concede the isolation which [wealth] asks...
    MLit 12.313 3 We can easily concede that a steadfast tendency of this sort [toward subjectiveness] appears in modern literature.
    MLit 12.317 14 Perhaps no considerable minority, no one man, leads a quite clean and lofty life. What then? We concede in sadness the fact.

conceded, v. (6)

    ShP 4.203 2 [Jonson] no doubt thought the praise he has conceded to [Shakespeare] generous...
    ShP 4.219 12 It must be conceded that these are half-views of half-men.
    Ctr 6.141 12 ...it is conceded that much of our training fails of effect;...
    Bty 6.293 19 All that is a little harshly claimed by progressive parties may easily come to be conceded without question, if this rule [of gradation] be observed.
    SovE 10.204 27 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds. I will not now explore the causes of the result, but the fact must be conceded as of frequent occurrence...
    FRep 11.543 10 Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. No monopoly must be foisted in...no coward compromise conceded to a strong partner.

concedes, v. (4)

    MN 1.200 3 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that no chemistry...can account for the facts...
    Con 1.316 7 The reformer concedes that these mitigations exist...
    Con 1.319 1 The conservative party in the universe concedes that the radical would talk sufficiently to the purpose, if we were still in the garden of Eden;...
    Tran 1.330 5 [The idealist] concedes all that [the materialist] affirms...

conceding, v. (3)

    Thor 10.465 14 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young men of sensibility] was...didactic, scorning their petty ways,-very slowly conceding, or not conceding at all, the promise of his society at their houses...
    FSLC 11.208 21 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves. I say buy,-never conceding the right of the planter to own, but that we may acknowledge the calamity of his position...
    EdAd 11.386 10 Conceding these unfavorable appearances, it would yet be a poor pedantry to read the fates of this country from these narrow data.

conceit, n. (18)

    Comp 2.118 4 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented, defeated...he...is cured of the insanity of conceit;...
    ET2 5.29 14 Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over [the sea], each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit...
    ET6 5.112 2 There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen. There is a knell in the conceit and externality of their voice, which seems to say, Leave all hope behind.
    ET7 5.125 27 The Italian is subtle, the Spaniard treacherous: tortures, it is said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret. None of these traits belong to the Englishman. His choler and conceit force every thing out.
    ET9 5.150 6 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance, for any help he will offer. There are really no limits to this conceit...
    F 6.47 18 ...when a man is the victim of his fate, has...a strut in his gait and a conceit in his affection;...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
    Ctr 6.132 19 ...nature has secured individualism by giving the private person a high conceit of his weight in the system.
    Ctr 6.137 20 Culture kills...[man's] conceit of his village or his city.
    Ctr 6.154 12 Let these triflers [who scream and bewail] put us out of conceit with petty comforts.
    Ill 6.324 15 Dispel, O Lord of all creatures! the conceit of knowledge which proceeds from ignorance.
    SA 8.95 25 The great gain is...not to conquer your companion,--then you learn nothing but conceit...
    SA 8.107 3 They only can give the key and leading to better society: those... who, by their joy and homage to these [eternal laws], are made incapable of conceit...
    Edc1 10.141 8 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which forbids conceit, affectation, emphasis and dulness...
    ALin 11.332 5 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial; one by bad health, one by conceit...
    SMC 11.359 15 [George Prescott] was a man without conceit...
    PLT 12.7 22 A plain man finds [men of wit] so heavy, dull, and oppressive, with bad jokes and conceit and stupefying individualism, that he comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.
    II 12.76 15 Is it that we are such mountains of conceit that Heaven cannot enough mortify and snub us...
    CL 12.159 10 Nature kills egotism and conceit;...

conceited, adj. (5)

    LT 1.277 18 Those who are urging with most ardor what are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are...conceited men...
    MoS 4.160 6 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.
    Clbs 7.233 12 One of those conceited prigs who value Nature only as it feeds and exhibits them is equally a pest with the roysterers.
    SMC 11.355 20 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were the narrowest and most conceited of mankind...
    PLT 12.61 11 Intellect...runs down into talent...conceited, ostentatious and malignant.

conceits, n. (4)

    PPh 4.74 9 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates], whose strange conceits, drollery and bonhommie diverted the young patricians...turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...
    MoS 4.155 25 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they are abstractionists...
    F 6.24 9 Let [man] empty his breast of his windy conceits...
    PC 8.209 13 A great many full-blown conceits have burst [in America].

conceivable, adj. (5)

    Pow 6.81 3 ...we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach...
    Boks 7.206 7 For the Church and the Feudal Institution, Mr. Hallam's Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet readable and conceivable outlines.
    Insp 8.272 16 A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.
    Insp 8.275 26 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain, and the mode precisely as conceivable and familiar to higher intelligence as the index-making of the literary hack.
    SovE 10.195 12 I hope it is conceivable that a man may go to ruin gladly, if he see that thereby no shade falls on that he loves and adores.

conceivably, adv. (1)

    ShP 4.211 26 [Shakespeare] is inconceivably wise; the others, conceivably.

conceive, v. (24)

    MN 1.209 11 I conceive a man as always spoken to from behind...
    YA 1.379 18 I conceive that the office of statute law should be to express and not to impede the mind of mankind.
    OS 2.267 8 ...the argument which is always forthcoming to silence those who conceive extraordinary hopes of man, namely the appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain.
    Gts 3.164 3 The reason of these discords I conceive to be that there is no commensurability between a man and any gift.
    NR 3.230 15 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius...
    NER 3.260 16 I conceive this gradual casting off of material aids...to be the affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
    NER 3.274 8 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world. They...conceive a disgust at the indigence of nature...
    SwM 4.115 21 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences...
    GoW 4.271 3 We conceive Greek or Roman life...to be a simple and comprehensible affair;...
    Bhr 6.173 4 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by...
    Ill 6.324 11 ...the Hindoos...express the liveliest feeling, both of the essential identity and of that illusion which they conceive variety to be.
    Art2 7.48 24 [The artist] must work in the spirit in which we conceive a prophet to speak...
    Boks 7.203 1 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he... will conceive new gratitude to his fellow men...
    PI 8.3 18 The common sense which...takes...things as they appear,-- believes in the existence of matter, not because we can touch it or conceive of it, but because it agrees with ourselves...
    PC 8.230 10 ...I conceive that, in this economical world...the transcendent powers of mind were not meant to be disused.
    Chr2 10.98 5 When I think of Reason, of Truth, of Virtue, I cannot conceive them as lodged in your soul and lodged in my soul...
    Chr2 10.108 14 The mind of this age has fallen away from theology to morals. I conceive it an advance.
    FSLC 11.207 3 ...I conceive it demonstrated,-the necessity of common sense and justice entering into the laws.
    FSLN 11.235 25 I conceive that thus to detach a man and make him feel that he is to owe all to himself is the way to make him strong and rich;...
    PLT 12.20 9 It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and fitting and identity in their frame.
    PLT 12.59 4 I cannot conceive any good in a thought which confines and stagnates.
    CInt 12.126 22 I conceive that a college should have no mean ambition...
    EurB 12.374 27 We conceive that the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds...
    Let 12.399 25 I cannot conceive of a people more disjoined than the Germans.

conceived, v. (16)

    MN 1.201 2 Nature can only be conceived as existing to a universal and not to a particular end;...
    Cir 2.313 26 The natural world may be conceived of as a system of concentric circles...
    Art1 2.362 27 He has conceived meanly of the resources of man, who believes that the best age of production is past.
    Chr1 3.89 24 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force...
    MoS 4.166 5 [Montaigne] has been in courts so long as to have conceived a furious disgust at appearances;...
    Ctr 6.149 4 ...though [Thomas Hobbes] conceived he could order his thinking as well as another, yet he found a great defect.
    Wsp 6.215 7 The true meaning of spiritual is...that law...which cannot be conceived as not existing.
    Clbs 7.227 25 Thought is the child of the intellect, and this child is conceived with joy and born with joy.
    LLNE 10.332 9 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    HDC 11.53 16 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...
    ALin 11.331 8 The profound good opinion which the people of Illinois and of the West had conceived of [Lincoln]...was not rash...
    FRO2 11.491 1 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who have conceived an infinite hope for mankind;...
    PLT 12.17 24 ...the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether...
    II 12.72 12 One master could so easily be conceived as writing all the books of the world.
    MAng1 12.232 20 He alone, [Michelangelo] said, is an artist whose hands can perfectly execute what his mind has conceived;...
    Milt1 12.260 18 Michael Angelo calls him alone an artist, whose hands can execute what his mind has conceived.

conceiver, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.353 6 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also believed that a similar model lay in every mind...

conceives, v. (5)

    MN 1.198 17 ...one who conceives the true order of nature...cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice.
    Fdsp 2.197 2 A man who stands united with his thought conceives magnificently of himself.
    Edc1 10.145 8 ...[the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    FSLC 11.194 3 ...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;...
    JBB 11.268 27 ...[John Brown] conceives that the only obstruction to the Union is Slavery...

conceiving, v. (2)

    PI 8.51 10 Of their living habitations they made little account, conceiving of them but as hospitia, or inns...
    LLNE 10.348 2 Fourier...has put men under the obligation...of conceiving magnificent hopes and making great demands as the right of man.

concentrate, v. (7)

    Nat 1.24 7 The poet...the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point...
    Hist 2.38 16 Thus in all ways does the soul concentrate and reproduce its treasures for each pupil.
    Cir 2.316 16 For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can i...concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.
    Art1 2.354 20 Love and all the passions concentrate all existence around a single form.
    ET11 5.177 24 ...[the English aristocracy] concentrate the love and labor of many generations on the building, planting and decoration of their homesteads.
    Farm 7.148 25 ...[the farmer] will concentrate his kitchen-garden into a box of one or two rods square...
    Mem 12.102 24 ...when age and calamity have bereaved [those who have used their days well] of their limbs or organs, then they retreat on mental faculty, and concentrate on that.

concentrated, adj. (3)

    AmS 1.93 24 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us...when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
    LE 1.184 27 ...you shall get your lesson out of the hour, and the object, whether it be a concentrated or a wasteful employment...
    GoW 4.270 22 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no Columbus, but hundreds of post-captains, with...concentrated soup and pemmican;...

concentrated, v. (6)

    MR 1.256 3 It is better that joy should be spread over all the day in the form of strength, than that it should be concentrated into ecstasies...
    NMW 4.236 6 On any point of resistance [Bonaparte] concentrated squadron on squadron in overwhelming numbers...
    GoW 4.275 18 Man and the higher animals are built up through the vertebrae, the powers being concentrated in the head [wrote Goethe].
    Bhr 6.173 1 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach...
    CL 12.145 11 ...whole zones and climates [Nature] has concentrated into apples.
    ACri 12.283 13 On the writer the choicest influences are concentrated...

concentrates, v. (5)

    SR 2.71 5 Thus all concentrates...
    Art1 2.355 11 ...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself.
    WD 7.178 24 Life culminates and concentrates;...
    Chr2 10.95 18 [The moral sentiment] centres, it concentrates us.
    Schr 10.288 4 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] may live on a heath without trees; sometimes hungry, sometimes rheumatic with cold. The fire retreats and concentrates within into a pure flame...

concentrating, v. (5)

    ET4 5.56 18 Bonaparte's art of war, namely of concentrating force on the point of attack, must always be theirs who have the choice of the battle-ground.
    Pow 6.73 19 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the case admits. The first is...concentrating our force on one or a few points;....
    Elo1 7.64 26 The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude, and concentrating their valors and powers...
    FSLC 11.199 12 There is not a man of thought or of feeling but is concentrating his mind on [slavery].
    Let 12.395 7 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!...

concentration, n. (29)

    MN 1.205 14 So must we admire in man...the concentration of the vast...
    MR 1.234 13 ...to earn money enough to buy [a farm] requires a sort of concentration toward money...
    Mrs1 3.147 16 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle, concentration of its light...
    NER 3.281 23 ...every hinderance operates as a concentration of [a man's] force.
    UGM 4.17 1 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds; as...the transmutings of the imagination, even versatility and concentration...
    ET5 5.80 5 [The English] are jealous of minds that have much facility of association, from an instinctive fear that the seeing many relations to their thought might impair this serial continuity and lucrative concentration.
    ET5 5.86 20 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
    ET6 5.109 8 Nothing so much marks [Englishmen's] manners as the concentration on their household ties.
    Pow 6.73 26 The one prudence in life is concentration;...
    Pow 6.75 1 Concentration is the secret of strength in politics...
    Wth 6.116 23 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going out of the body to think!
    Ctr 6.131 19 Our efficiency depends so much on our concentration, that nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world, overloads him with bias...
    Bty 6.292 12 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. Any fixedness, heaping or concentration on one feature...is the reverse of flowing, and therefore deformed.
    Elo1 7.93 11 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness...and the orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
    DL 7.111 13 The progress of domestic living has been...in the concentration of all the utilities of every clime in each house.
    Suc 7.289 14 Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men...
    Insp 8.269 8 ...every reasonable man would give any price...for condensation, concentration and the recalling at will of high mental energy.
    Grts 8.310 23 ...if the first rule is...to accept the work for which you were inwardly formed,-the second rule is concentration...
    Supl 10.172 27 The arithmetic of Newton...the concentration of Bonaparte... are sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.
    SovE 10.202 3 [A man] may throw himself upon...some verbal creed, with such concentration as to hide the universe from him: but the stars roll above;...
    SovE 10.204 6 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind, giving it concentration and force.
    Schr 10.274 16 ...the thoughtful man needs no armor but this- concentration.
    FSLC 11.202 21 We delighted...in [Webster's] concentration...
    PLT 12.51 7 The secret of power, intellectual or physical, is concentration...
    PLT 12.51 8 ...all concentration involves of necessity a certain narrowness.
    PLT 12.52 22 Such concentration of experiences is in every great work...
    PLT 12.58 12 Present power...requires concentration on the moment...
    Let 12.394 18 [The correspondents] do not wish a township or any large expenditure or incorporated association, but simply a concentration of chosen people.
    Let 12.395 6 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!...

concentrations, n. (1)

    PLT 12.58 7 The daily history of the Intellect is this alternating of expansions and concentrations.

concentrative, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.116 12 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks; the other is diffuse strength;...

concentric, adj. (4)

    MN 1.195 27 ...our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata...
    Cir 2.313 27 The natural world may be conceived of as a system of concentric circles...
    UGM 4.33 10 A new quality of mind travels...in concentric circles from its origin...
    SS 7.1 26 ...As if in [Seyd] the welkin walked,/ The winds took flesh, the mountains talked,/ And he the bard, a crystal soul,/ Sphered and concentric with the whole./

concentrical, adj. (1)

    MN 1.195 25 The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe.

conception, n. (7)

    MN 1.204 9 With this conception of the genius or method of nature, let us go back to man.
    PPh 4.49 7 In all nations there are minds which incline to dwell in the conception of the fundamental Unity.
    MoS 4.151 3 [The genius] has a conception of beauty which the sculptor cannot embody.
    PC 8.224 5 Here stretches...out of conception even, this vast Nature...
    Dem1 10.6 10 Animals have been called the dreams of Nature. Perhaps for a conception of their consciousness we may go to our own dreams.
    Dem1 10.17 13 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception...
    Milt1 12.254 14 ...no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].

conceptions, n. (8)

    Chr2 10.111 4 When the highest conceptions...are imported, the nation is not culminating...
    MAng1 12.216 4 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years... was engaged in executing his grand conceptions in the ineffaceable architecture of Saint Peter's.
    MAng1 12.230 18 ...[Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
    MAng1 12.231 12 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...
    MAng1 12.232 27 The things proposed to [Michelangelo] in his imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to express so grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work.
    MAng1 12.236 12 The combined desire to fulfil, in everlasting stone, the conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to Almighty God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with unbroken spirit.
    Milt1 12.261 23 ...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a secondary power, and he respected the mysterious source whence it had its spring; namely, clear conceptions and a devoted heart.
    MLit 12.318 19 The music of Beethoven is said...to labor with vaster conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted before.

concern, n. (10)

    Con 1.321 9 If you do not value the Sabbath, or other religious institutions, give yourself no concern about maintaining them.
    ET6 5.105 9 I know not where any personal eccentricity is so freely allowed [as in England], and no man gives himself any concern with it.
    OA 7.325 27 Thirty years ago it was a serious concern to [the lawyer] whether his pleading was good and effective.
    Elo2 8.129 15 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it?
    QO 8.191 27 ...Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.
    Aris 10.31 7 My concern with [Aristocracy] is that concern which all well-disposed persons will feel, that there should be model men...
    Scot 11.462 2 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty every sheet of water... he looked upon...
    II 12.74 6 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it, and perhaps his only concern with it is some copyright of an edition in which certain pages...are contained.
    MAng1 12.225 8 The news of [Michelangelo's] departure occasioned a general concern in Florence...
    Let 12.404 17 A literature is no man's private concern...

concern, v. (13)

    Tran 1.356 15 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or morning or evening call, which they resist as what does not concern them.
    SR 2.57 21 [The great soul] may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
    Pt1 3.11 9 Every one has some interest in the advent of the poet, and no one knows how much it may concern him.
    Nat2 3.182 5 Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us...
    NR 3.243 1 Whatever does not concern us is concealed from us.
    NR 3.243 21 ...the divine Providence which keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the persons that do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
    MoS 4.175 3 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination; for it seems to concern the shattering of baby-houses and crockery-shops.
    F 6.8 2 Without uncovering what does not concern us...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    Insp 8.294 3 We esteem nations important, until we discover that a few individuals much more concern us;...
    Grts 8.312 21 ...the highest wisdom does not concern itself with particular men...
    LS 11.12 6 ...the Passover was local too, and does not concern us...
    HDC 11.44 19 In 1635, the [General] Court say, whereas particular towns have many things which concern only themselves, it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.
    AKan 11.261 17 A very remarkable speech from a Democratic President to his fellow citizens, that they are not to concern themselves with institutions which they alone are to create and determine.

concerned, v. (11)

    ET11 5.187 25 When a man once knows that he has done justice to himself, let him dismiss all terrors of aristocracy as superstitions, so far as he is concerned.
    ET17 5.291 7 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them.
    OA 7.325 19 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth, then sixty-three years old, he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth, and when his companions were much concerned for the mischance, he had replied that he was glad it had not happened forty years before.
    PC 8.232 23 ...it is not by easy virtue, where the public is concerned, that heroic results are obtained.
    Aris 10.55 21 The astronomers are very eager to know whether the moon has an atmosphere; I am only concerned that every man have one.
    MoL 10.252 22 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men, is master of all other men so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    EzRy 10.394 7 In all such passages [with people] [Ezra Ripley] justified himself to the conscience, and commonly to the love, of the persons concerned.
    MMEm 10.403 20 It was ever the will and not the phrase that concerned [Mary Moody Emerson].
    EWI 11.99 9 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement, as far as a great Empire was concerned, of a question on which almost every leading citizen in it had taken care to record his vote;...
    AKan 11.261 14 The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people respecting institutions which they need not have concerned themselves about.
    CInt 12.121 12 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men is master of all other men, so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.

concerning, v. (6)

    Plu 10.313 9 [Plutarch] cites...the memorable words of Antigone, in Sophocles, concerning the moral sentiment...
    HDC 11.46 1 It was on doubts concerning their own power, that, in 1634, a committee repaired to [John Winthrop] for counsel...
    HDC 11.62 26 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers are numerous and wealthy...
    HDC 11.63 17 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros. A company marched to the capital...forming a part of that body concerning which we are informed, the country people came armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...
    HDC 11.67 26 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the Representative any instructions about any important affair to be transacted by the General Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
    LVB 11.89 20 ...my communication respects the sinister rumors that fill this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.

concernment, n. (2)

    SR 2.56 22 ...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    Exp 3.63 11 ...for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

concerns, v. (11)

    Tran 1.331 1 [The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table, this chair...but he looks at these things...as...each being a sequel or completion of a spiritual fact which nearly concerns him.
    SR 2.53 20 What I must do is all that concerns me...
    Prd1 2.236 17 Prudence concerns the present time, persons, property and existing forms.
    Int 2.326 15 He who is immersed in what concerns person or place cannot see the problem of existence.
    Wth 6.88 18 ...every thought of every hour opens a new want to [a man] which it concerns his power and dignity to gratify.
    Wsp 6.220 4 ...look where we will...a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward. And this appears in a class of facts which concerns all men, within and above their creeds.
    Bty 6.282 24 The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes...
    Prch 10.231 5 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. It is only that person who concerns me...
    JBB 11.273 7 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall remember all those whom his fate concerns...
    FRep 11.525 1 ...we know, all over this country, men of integrity...with the deepest sympathy in all that concerns the public...
    Milt1 12.252 6 It is the aspect which [Milton] presents to this generation, that alone concerns us.

concert, n. (29)

    NR 3.233 18 It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself. A higher pleasure of the same kind I found lately at a concert, where I went to hear Handel's Messiah.
    NER 3.252 5 [The Sabbath and Bible Conventions] defied each other, like a congress of kings, each of whom had...a way of his own that made concert unprofitable.
    NER 3.263 25 ...to do battle...against concert [individuals] relied on new concert.
    NER 3.263 26 ...to do battle...against concert [individuals] relied on new concert.
    NER 3.265 9 ...to [the men of less faith], concert appears the sole specific of strength.
    NER 3.265 24 The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a dollar, but he will be honest in the Senate, for we can bring public opinion to bear on him. Thus concert was the specific in all cases.
    NER 3.265 25 ...concert is neither better nor worse...than individual force.
    NER 3.266 5 ...let there be one man, let there be truth in two men, in ten men, then is concert for the first time possible;...
    NER 3.266 9 What is the use of the concert of the false and the disunited?
    NER 3.266 10 There can be no concert in two, where there is no concert in one.
    NER 3.266 11 There can be no concert in two, where there is no concert in one.
    NER 3.266 17 ...when with one hand [the individual] rows and with the other backs water, what concert can be?
    NER 3.267 14 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul; he will go up and down doing the works of a true member [of a union], and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.
    SwM 4.103 4 There is beauty of a concert, as well as of a flute;...
    ET15 5.268 5 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom. But the parts are kept in concert...
    F 6.37 24 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...his companions arrived...awaiting him with...concert...
    Pow 6.56 22 The advantage of a strong pulse is not to be supplied by any labor, art or concert.
    SS 7.11 14 Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
    PI 8.57 4 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear