Cones to Consciousnesses

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

cones, n. (1)

    HDC 11.39 1 The useful pine lifted its cones into the frosty air.

confectioner, n. (1)

    CL 12.146 7 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels, in a manner which no confectioner can approach...

confectioners, n. (2)

    UGM 4.16 13 The indicators of the values of matter are degraded to a sort of cooks and confectioners, on the appearance of the indicators of ideas.
    Ill 6.314 16 ...I remember the quarrel of another youth with the confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the best comfits in the shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he could find only three flavors, or two.

confectioners', n. (1)

    DL 7.111 15 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops...

confectionery, n. (1)

    Boks 7.216 23 [The novel] is only confectionery, not the raising of new corn.

Confederacy, n. (1)

    EPro 11.323 14 Give the Confederacy New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore.

Confederate, Congress, n. (1)

    EPro 11.325 18 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim.

confer, v. (4)

    Cir 2.317 14 ...these [divine] moments confer a sort of omnipresence and omnipotence...
    Cour 7.271 17 If Governor Wise is a superior man, or inasmuch as he is a superior man, he distinguishes John Brown. As they confer, they understand each other swiftly;...
    HDC 11.79 10 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will not confer with flesh and blood...
    Mem 12.106 7 Talk of memory and cite me these fine examples of Grotius and Daguesseau, and I think how awful is that power and what privilege and tyranny it must confer.

conference, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.84 4 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...on his return from a conference, I did never observe how much easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than in him;...

conferences, n. (1)

    HDC 11.64 1 ...the [Concord] Town Records of that day [April 18, 1689] confine themselves...to conferences with the neighboring towns to run boundary lines.

conferred, v. (7)

    Pt1 3.41 6 O poet! a new nobility is conferred in groves and pastures...
    SwM 4.95 22 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together;...
    ET6 5.113 15 ...[the English] think, says the Venetian traveller of 1500, no greater honor can be conferred or received, than to invite others to eat with them, or to be invited themselves...
    Bty 6.285 8 The king, on the next day, conferred the sovereignty on [Tisso]...
    CPL 11.495 21 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture, as in the act we are met to witness and acknowledge to-day [opening of the Concord Library]. I think we cannot easily overestimate the benefit conferred.
    Bost 12.189 11 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory-conferred on the patentees in absolute property...extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...
    AgMs 12.363 26 [Edmund Hosmer]...was incorrigible in his skepticism concerning the benefits conferred by legislatures on the agriculture of Massachusetts.

conferring, v. (1)

    Aris 10.34 19 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken, the pains incurred. No taxation...no conferring of privileges never so exalted would be a price too large.

confers, v. (7)

    LE 1.174 19 It is the noble, manlike, just thought, which is the superiority demanded of you, and not crowds but solitude confers this elevation.
    Tran 1.337 13 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man exerts the sovereign right which the majesty of his being confers on him;...
    Comp 2.113 18 He is great who confers the most benefits.
    Wsp 6.217 8 We believe that holiness confers a certain insight, because not by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of things.
    Bty 6.299 19 ...we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands...she confers a favor on the world.
    Chr2 10.120 9 [Character] confers perpetual insight.
    LLNE 10.348 2 Fourier...has put men under the obligation which a generous mind always confers...

confess, v. (48)

    DSA 1.149 27 I confess, all attempts to project and establish a Cultus with new rites and forms, seem to me vain.
    MR 1.235 15 ...I confess I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society...
    MR 1.249 15 ...if...a woman or a child discovers...a juster way of thinking than mine, I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience...
    Con 1.305 27 ...before this personal appeal, the innovator must confess his weakness...
    Con 1.306 1 ...before this personal appeal, the innovator...must confess that no man is to be found good enough to be entitled to stand champion for the principle.
    Tran 1.342 5 Our American literature and spiritual history are, we confess, in the optative mood;...
    Tran 1.350 23 New, [Transcendentalists] confess, and by no means happy, is our condition...
    SR 2.52 18 ...I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar...
    Lov1 2.169 22 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints, which every youth and maid should confess to be true to their throbbing experience, one must not be too old.
    Lov1 2.187 4 If there be virtue, all the vices are known as such; they confess and flee.
    Fdsp 2.195 11 I confess to an extreme tenderness of nature on this point [of friendship].
    Prd1 2.239 5 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls! They will...feign to confess here, only that they may brag and conquer there...
    OS 2.286 25 If [a man] have not found his home in God...the build, shall I say, of all his opinions will involuntarily confess it...
    OS 2.287 27 ...if a man do not speak from within the veil, where the word is one with that it tells of, let him lowly confess it.
    Pt1 3.9 10 ...we were obliged to confess that [a recent writer of lyrics] is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man.
    Exp 3.73 17 In our more correct writing we give to this generalization the name of Being, and thereby confess that we have arrived as far as we can go.
    NER 3.255 17 I confess, the motto of the Globe newspaper is so attractive to me that I can seldom find much appetite to read what is below it in its columns...
    NER 3.277 26 ...we hold on to our little properties...although they confess that our being does not flow through them.
    NER 3.281 7 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess that his creative imagination gave him no deep advantage...
    MoS 4.165 21 When I the most strictly and religiously confess myself, [says Montaigne,] I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice;...
    MoS 4.175 2 [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;...
    ET15 5.270 4 Who would care for [the London Times], if it surmised, or dared to confess...
    F 6.34 23 Very odious, I confess, are the lessons of Fate.
    Bhr 6.180 7 You can read in the eyes of your companion whether your argument hits him, though his tongue will not confess it.
    CbW 6.245 2 ...I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder than of didactics.
    DL 7.132 23 Does the consecration of Sunday confess the desecration of the entire week?
    DL 7.132 25 Does the consecration of the church confess the profanation of the house?
    Cour 7.271 7 ...men who wish to inspire terror seem thereby to confess themselves cowards.
    Comc 8.157 15 I confess, [Aristotle's] definition [of the ridiculous]...does not satisfy me...
    PC 8.212 10 We confess that in America everything looks new and recent.
    Grts 8.311 16 This day-labor of ours, we confess, has hitherto a certain emblematic air...
    Grts 8.316 6 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it in boys...as in more orderly examples.
    Imtl 8.342 27 I confess that everything connected with our personality fails.
    Edc1 10.156 23 I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching.
    SovE 10.203 24 I confess our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calvinist age.
    Plu 10.303 24 ...I confess that, in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars...
    Plu 10.321 1 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
    HDC 11.59 14 I confess what chiefly interests me, in the annals of [King Philip's] war, is the grandeur of spirit exhibited by a few of the Indian chiefs.
    HDC 11.67 9 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word...
    FSLC 11.188 13 I had thought, I confess, what must come at last would come at first, a banding of all men against the authority of this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    Wom 11.417 3 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject; from Aristophanes, in whose comedies I confess my dulness to find good joke, to Rabelais...
    PLT 12.12 9 I confess to a little distrust of that completeness of system which metaphysicians are apt to affect.
    Bost 12.203 26 I confess I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...
    MAng1 12.238 24 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others...
    Milt1 12.267 7 [Wrote Milton] Albeit I must confess to be half in doubt whether I should bring it forth or no, it being so contrary to the eye of the world, that I shall endanger either not to be regarded, or not to be understood. For who is there, almost, that measures wisdom by simplicity...
    ACri 12.288 8 ...I confess to some titillation of my ears from a rattling oath.
    MLit 12.332 22 Humanity must...confess as this man [Goethe] goes out that they have served it better, who assured it out of the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this majestic Artist...
    WSL 12.337 10 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach...he is very ready to confess his ignorance of everything about him...

confessed, adj. (1)

    Con 1.298 13 Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations...

confessed, v. (9)

    ET11 5.194 13 A man of wit [in England]...confessed to his friend that he could not enter [noblemen's] houses without being made to feel that they were great lords, and he a low plebeian.
    ET17 5.295 22 I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not...
    Clbs 7.241 27 Even Montesquieu confessed that in conversation, if he perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from that moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
    Clbs 7.246 4 [A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense] confessed he liked low company.
    QO 8.198 19 ...what dismay when the good Matilda, pleased with [the author's] pleasure, confessed she had written the criticism...
    Grts 8.313 15 ...Barcena the Jesuit confessed to another of his order that when the Devil appeared to him in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
    Thor 10.471 24 [Thoreau] confessed that he sometimes felt like a hound or a panther...
    Carl 10.498 5 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has...made himself a power confessed by all men...
    MAng1 12.232 16 ...inimitable as his works are, [Michelangelo's] whole life confessed that his hand was all inadequate to express his thought.

confessedly, adv. (2)

    Comc 8.166 29 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... confessedly a makeshift...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...
    Let 12.404 6 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst...the religious, civil and judicial forms of the country are confessedly effete and offensive.

confesses, v. (6)

    MR 1.233 5 The sins of our trade belong...to no individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats. Every body partakes, every body confesses...
    Comp 2.100 25 Under the primeval despots of Egypt, history honestly confesses that man must have been as free as culture could make him.
    Comc 8.167 5 The physiologist Camper humorously confesses the effect of his studies in dislocating his ordinary associations.
    QO 8.188 16 Quotation confesses inferiority.
    Dem1 10.6 2 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon. This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...
    Aris 10.35 23 ...every man confesses that the highest good which the universe proposes to him is the highest society.

confessing, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.177 18 It almost violates the proprieties if we say above the breath here what the confessing eyes do not hesitate to utter to every street passenger.

confessing, v. (1)

    HDC 11.48 21 I shall be excused for confessing that I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records]...

confession, n. (19)

    MR 1.233 6 The sins of our trade belong...to no individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats. Every body partakes, every body confesses,-with cap and knee volunteers his confession...
    Hist 2.30 2 [The advancing man] finds...that universal man wrote by [the poet's] pen a confession true for one and true for all.
    Comp 2.106 22 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them... A plain confession of the in-working of the All and of its moral aim.
    SL 2.159 5 There is confession in the glances of our eyes...
    OS 2.284 14 These questions which we lust to ask about the future are a confession of sin.
    OS 2.291 11 Nothing can pass [in the soul]...but...dealing man to man in... plain confession...
    Art1 2.359 7 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral nature...breathes from them all.
    Art1 2.362 23 ...we must end with a frank confession that the arts, as we know them, are but initial.
    Pt1 3.10 9 ...the experience of each new age requires a new confession...
    Pol1 3.217 15 The gladiators in the lists of power feel...the presence of worth. I think the very strife of trade and ambition is confession of this divinity;...
    NER 3.279 24 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession...
    ET7 5.125 25 ...tortures, it is said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret.
    Ctr 6.136 14 Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!
    Bhr 6.179 16 We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes...make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.
    Bhr 6.179 18 The confession of a low, usurping devil is there made [in the eyes]...
    Wsp 6.224 11 People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
    Schr 10.268 23 There is confession in [the practical men's] eyes...
    SMC 11.358 11 I doubt not many of our soldiers could repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the [Civil] war...
    CPL 11.506 7 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.

Confession of Augsburg, n. (2)

    EPro 11.315 17 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg, the plantation of America...
    RBur 11.440 22 The Confession of Augsburg, the Declaration of Independence...are not more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns.

Confession of Faith, n. (1)

    Prch 10.219 27 The Understanding will write out the vision in a Confession of Faith.

confessional, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.118 23 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...no confessor reports that he has neglected the confessional...

confessionals, n. (1)

    SR 2.74 11 There are two confessionals...

Confessions [Jean Jacques (2)

    ET1 5.17 5 Rousseau's Confessions had discovered to [Carlyle] that he was not a dunce;...
    Boks 7.208 10 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Rousseau's Confessions;...

confessions, n. (3)

    AmS 1.103 18 The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions...
    MoS 4.164 27 ...[Montaigne] has anticipated all censure by the bounty of his own confessions.
    SS 7.3 9 In the conversation that followed, my new friend made some extraordinary confessions.

Confessions [Saint Augustin (1)

    Pray 12.356 7 ...we must not tie up the rosary on which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint Augustine.

Confessions [St. Augustine] (1)

    Boks 7.208 7 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as, St. Augustine's Confessions;......

confessor, n. (4)

    Elo1 7.65 16 Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and, be they...with their opinions in the keeping of a confessor, or with their opinions in their bank-safes,--he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
    Chr2 10.118 22 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...no confessor reports that he has neglected the confessional...
    Edc1 10.136 20 The old man thinks the young man has no distinct purpose, for he could never get anything intelligible and earnest out of him. Perhaps the young man does not think it worth his while to explain himself to so hard and inapprehensive a confessor.
    Thor 10.478 9 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend...almost worshipped by those few persons who resorted to him as their confessor and prophet...

confessors, n. (2)

    ET13 5.217 22 [The English Church] has the seal of martyrs and confessors;...
    Cour 7.274 14 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the Brothers Bollandi, who collected the lives of twenty-five thousand martyrs, confessors, ascetics and self-tormentors.

confest, v. (2)

    HCom 11.339 11 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.
    SHC 11.428 24 ...Forget man's littleness, deserve the best,/ God's mercy in thy thought and life confest./ William Ellery Channing.

confide, v. (17)

    YA 1.390 21 It is for us to confide in the beneficent Supreme Power...
    Pt1 3.12 2 With what joy I begin to read a poem which I confide in as an inspiration!
    Mrs1 3.150 14 ...I confide so entirely in [woman's] inspiring and musical nature, that I believe only herself can show us how she shall be served.
    PNR 4.89 18 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts of two kinds:...secondly, those who by eminence of nature and desert are out of reach of your rewards. ... We confide them to themselves;...
    MoS 4.161 23 Men do not confide themselves to boys...
    ShP 4.207 14 Did Shakspeare confide to any notary or parish recorder...the genesis of that delicate creation [A Midsummer Night's dream]?
    ET7 5.119 19 [The English] confide in each other...
    Wsp 6.239 7 'T is a higher thing to confide that if it is best we should live, we shall live...
    Suc 7.291 5 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
    Suc 7.291 12 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success,--that we shall...take Michel Angelo's course, to confide in one's self, and be something of worth and value.
    PPo 8.252 26 Out of the East, and out of the West, no man understands me;/ O, the happier I, who confide to none but the wind!/
    Insp 8.287 6 ...[from Nature] are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the October woods! I confide that my reader knows these delicious secrets...
    Imtl 8.337 18 All the comfort I have found teaches me to confide that I shall not have less in times and places that I do not yet know.
    Plu 10.322 9 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of Plutarch]. If we could keep the secret, and communicate it only to a few chosen aspirants, we might confide that, by this noble infiltration, they would easily carry the victory over all competitors.
    Thor 10.476 18 [Thoreau's] riddles were worth the reading, and I confide that if at any time I do not understand the expression, it is yet just.
    AsSu 11.252 3 ...if our arms at this distance cannot defend [Charles Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious to all honorable men and true patriots...
    EPro 11.320 27 We confide that Mr. Lincoln is in earnest...

confided, adj. (1)

    Pol1 3.215 21 ...the less government we have the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power.

confided, v. (16)

    SR 2.47 16 Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age...
    GoW 4.272 15 [Goethe's Helena] are...elaborate forms to which the poet has confided the results of eighty years of observation.
    GoW 4.283 26 The old Eternal Genius who built the world has confided himself more to this man [the writer] than to any other.
    ET4 5.60 11 ...the old fossil world shows that the first steps of reducing the chaos were confided to saurians and other huge and horrible animals...
    ET5 5.101 7 Every man [in England]...knows what is confided to him...
    ET7 5.120 18 ...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.
    ET15 5.266 3 Our entertainer [at the London Times] confided us to a courteous assistant to show us the establishment...
    Ctr 6.139 21 We know that an army which can be confided in may be formed by discipline;...
    Farm 7.140 12 [The farmer] has grave trusts confided to him.
    Boks 7.220 20 ...[the French Institute and the British Association] divide the whole body into sections, each of which sits upon and reports of certain matters confided to it...
    Cour 7.261 20 I knew a young soldier...who confided to his sister that he had made up his mind to volunteer for the war.
    Aris 10.49 11 I should like to see...every man made acquainted with the true number and weight of every adult citizen, and that he be placed where he belongs, with so much power confided to him as he could carry and use.
    LS 11.24 25 As it is the prevailing opinion and feeling in our religious community that it is an indispensable part of the pastoral office to administer this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], I am about to resign into your hands that office which you have confided to me.
    JBS 11.280 12 ...if [John Brown] traded in wool, he was a merchant prince, not in the amount of wealth, but in the protection of the interests confided to him.
    SMC 11.358 14 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister that he was naturally a coward...
    SHC 11.429 2 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...

confidence, n. (51)

    AmS 1.102 13 ...it becomes [the scholar] to feel all confidence in himself...
    AmS 1.114 7 ...this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs...to the American Scholar.
    DSA 1.146 22 By trusting your own heart, you shall gain more confidence in other men.
    LE 1.158 8 The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the Intellect.
    LE 1.180 6 ...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in the sallies of courage...
    Con 1.314 17 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty, when approached in the confidence of conversation...has also his gracious and relenting moments...
    YA 1.379 10 Every line of history inspires a confidence that we shall not go far wrong;...
    SL 2.152 19 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company. If we had reason to expect such a confidence we should go through all inconvenience and opposition.
    Mrs1 3.142 14 Fox thanked the man for his confidence and paid him...
    PPh 4.69 15 ...beauty is the most lovely of all things, exciting hilarity and shedding desire and confidence through the universe wherever it enters...
    NMW 4.232 20 I have gained some advantages over superior forces and when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte writes to the Directory], because, in the persuasion that your confidence was reposed in me, my actions were as prompt as my thoughts.
    NMW 4.233 12 ...[Napoleon] inspires confidence and vigor by the extraordinary unity of his action.
    NMW 4.249 3 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own courage...
    NMW 4.249 5 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own courage, and it only requires a slight opportunity, a pretence, to restore confidence to them.
    GoW 4.266 21 If I were to compare action of a much higher strain with a life of contemplation, I should not venture to pronounce with much confidence in favor of the former.
    ET6 5.111 7 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer; Chatham, that confidence was a plant of slow growth;...
    ET9 5.144 22 [The Englishman's] confidence in the power and performance of his nation makes him provokingly incurious about other nations.
    ET14 5.250 24 ...a master should inspire a confidence that he will adhere to his convictions...
    ET15 5.268 25 ...[the English] like [the London Times]...above all, for the nationality and confidence of its tone.
    Pow 6.61 22 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can against the coming ruin. But after this has been foretold with equal confidence fifty times...he discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.
    Bhr 6.176 16 Every man...looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child...
    Bhr 6.192 17 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret that...the greatest success is confidence...
    SS 7.9 6 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years...is at last justified by victorious proof of probity...
    Elo1 7.78 25 The confidence of men in [Caesar] is lavish...
    Cour 7.277 12 ...if...you have no confidence in any foreign mind, then be brave...
    SA 8.88 19 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily find that performance an addition of confidence...
    QO 8.177 19 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire?...
    Imtl 8.342 1 ...courage or confidence in the mind comes to those who know by use its wonderful forces and inspirations and returns.
    Aris 10.49 14 In the absence of such anthropometer I have a perfect confidence in the natural laws.
    Supl 10.175 27 The men whom [Nature] admits to her confidence...are uniformly marked by absence of pretension...
    SovE 10.188 26 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
    MMEm 10.413 1 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] shall delight to return to God. His name my fullest confidence.
    MMEm 10.418 26 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars? Never was I so much ashamed. Did I say with what rapture I might dispose of them to the poor? Pho! self-preservation, dignity, confidence in the future, contempt of trifles! Alas, I am disgraced.
    LS 11.14 25 ...there is a material circumstance which diminishes our confidence in the correctness of the Apostle's [St. Paul's] view [of the Lord' s Supper];...
    HDC 11.58 11 The inactivity of Major [Simon] Willard, in Ninigret's war, had lost him no confidence.
    LVB 11.89 11 Each has the highest right to call your [Van Buren's] attention to such subjects as are of a public nature, and properly belong to the chief magistrate; and the good magistrate will feel a joy in meeting such confidence.
    FSLC 11.180 20 In Boston, we have said with such lofty confidence, no fugitive slave can be arrested...
    FSLC 11.180 23 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here;...
    FSLC 11.193 4 There is not a manly Whig, or a manly Democrat, of whom if a slave were hidden in one of our houses from the hounds, we should not ask with confidence to lend his wagon in aid of his escape, and he would lend it.
    FSLC 11.197 20 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLN 11.230 21 [Reasonably men] answered that they had no confidence in their strength to resist the Democratic party;...
    TPar 11.285 11 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends.
    ALin 11.331 19 [Lincoln] had a face and manner...which inspired confidence...
    SHC 11.436 20 The being that can share a thought and feeling so sublime as confidence in truth is no mushroom.
    FRep 11.521 22 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race...
    FRep 11.531 21 In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity...
    FRep 11.544 8 ...in seeing this felicity without example that has rested on the Union thus far, I find new confidence for the future.
    PLT 12.13 4 Metaphysics is dangerous as a single pursuit. We should feel more confidence in the same results from the mouth of a man of the world.
    CInt 12.114 25 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...and the fact argues a just confidence in the grandeur and self-subsistency of the cause of religious liberty which made all material war an impertinence.
    WSL 12.347 17 ...the minuteness of [Landor's] verbal criticism gives a confidence in his fidelity when he speaks the language of meditation or of passion.
    Let 12.392 9 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and several who have honored us...with their confidence...

confidences, n. (1)

    Suc 7.296 19 ...in every book [a good reader] finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.

confident, adj. (7)

    YA 1.382 7 The science is confident...
    SR 2.69 25 Inasmuch as the soul is present there will be power not confident but agent.
    Chr1 3.91 16 ...the most confident and the most violent persons learn that here [in a man of character] is resistance on which both impudence and terror are wasted...
    ET9 5.149 12 ...the prestige of the English name warrants a certain confident bearing...
    Cour 7.269 23 When a confident man comes into a company magnifying this or that author he has freshly read, the company grow silent and ashamed of their ignorance.
    Suc 7.303 3 [The greatest men] may well speak in this uncertain manner of their knowledge, and in this confident manner of their will...
    War 11.172 26 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping, defy the world, so confident are they of their courage and strength...

confidential, adj. (2)

    NR 3.247 26 How sincere and confidential we can be, saying all that lies in the mind...
    Aris 10.48 25 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a superior slave, a confidential secretary and manager...

confidently, adv. (2)

    Exp 3.83 6 I can very confidently announce one or another law...
    CSC 10.376 17 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which accompanies...a man...who...awaits confidently the new emergency for the new counsel.

confiding, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.173 16 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations;...

confiding, v. (2)

    Pol1 3.213 21 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts...to secure the advantages of efficiency and internal peace by confiding the government to one, who may himself select his agents.
    UGM 4.32 15 Nature never sends a great man into the planet without confiding the secret to another soul.

confine, v. (10)

    MN 1.205 9 Confine [the ocean] by granite rocks...and it is filled with expression;...
    Int 2.342 25 ...if I speak, I define, I confine and am less.
    SwM 4.112 16 It is remarkable that this sublime genius [Swedenborg]...in a book [The Animal Kingdom] whose genius is a daring poetic synthesis, claims to confine himself to a rigid experience.
    ET18 5.306 13 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the social barriers which confine patronage and promotion to a caste...
    Cour 7.264 7 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together;...and by raking with the hoe a long but little trench, confine to a patch the fire which would easily spread over a hundred acres.
    QO 8.180 4 If we confine ourselves to literature, 't is easy to see that the debt is immense to past thought.
    HDC 11.63 27 ...the [Concord] Town Records of that day [April 18, 1689] confine themselves to descriptions of lands...
    FSLC 11.207 6 What shall we do? First, abrogate this [Fugitive Slave] law; then, proceed to confine slavery to slave states...
    PLT 12.11 16 I confine my ambition to true reporting of [intellect's] play in natural action...
    CInt 12.116 3 ...[the college] deals with a force which it cannot monopolize or confine;...

confined, adj. (2)

    Mrs1 3.153 4 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities...
    Bost 12.200 19 ...a gold-mine, a new country...offer swing and play to the confined powers.

confined, v. (22)

    Nat 1.33 12 These propositions [in physics] have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.
    Nat 1.67 26 The American who has been confined...to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    YA 1.392 12 We are full of vanity, of which the most signal proof is our sensitiveness to foreign and especially English censure. One cause of this is our immense reading, and that reading chiefly confined to the productions of the English press.
    Prd1 2.237 24 The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlor and the cabin.
    SwM 4.124 14 ...what is real and universal cannot be confined to the circle of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius...
    GoW 4.283 22 ...your interest in the writer is not confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has performed his task creditably...
    ET11 5.192 14 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation; are instructive, and make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET11 5.196 10 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class.
    ET13 5.229 1 The English (and I wish it were confined to them, but 't is a taint in the Anglo-Saxon blood in both hemispheres),--the English and the Americans cant beyond all other nations.
    ET17 5.293 9 It is not in distinguished circles that wisdom and elevated characters are usually found, or, if found, they are not confined thereto;...
    CbW 6.271 24 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come down to the shore of the sea...
    PI 8.37 26 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined in a narrow and trivial lot...
    PI 8.61 25 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...never other person will be able to discover this place...neither shall I ever go out from hence, for in the world there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined;...
    Insp 8.270 22 The Hunterian law of arrested development is not confined to vegetable and animal structure...
    Grts 8.314 6 Scintillations of greatness...are by no means confined to the cultivated and so-called moral class.
    Thor 10.483 19 We are strictly confined to our men to whom we give liberty.
    FRO1 11.478 21 ...in churches, every healthy and thoughtful mind finds itself in something less; it is checked, cribbed, confined.
    FRO2 11.487 6 [Thought] cannot be confined or hid.
    Mem 12.103 18 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches;...
    CL 12.135 5 [Earth-hunger] is not less visible in that branch of the family which inhabits America. Nor is it confined to farmers, speculators, and filibusters, or conquerors.
    MAng1 12.223 23 Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades...
    WSL 12.342 16 Let us thankfully allow every faculty and art which opens new scope to a life so confined as ours.

confinement, n. (3)

    ET2 5.28 27 The confinement, cold, motion, noise and odor [at sea] are not to be dispensed with.
    Wth 6.108 18 The price of coal shows...a compulsory confinement of the miners to a certain district.
    CL 12.140 23 We are very sensible of this [power of the air]...when, after much confinement to the house, we go abroad into the landscape...

confines, n. (3)

    Nat 1.16 17 The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty.
    WD 7.171 16 The sky is...the verge or confines of matter and spirit.
    CPL 11.506 10 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.

confines, v. (4)

    ET14 5.252 21 A good Englishman shuts himself out of three fourths of his mind and confines himself to one fourth.
    F 6.9 7 Every spirit makes its house; but afterwards the house confines the spirit.
    Suc 7.295 19 ...talent confines, but the central life puts us in relation to all.
    PLT 12.59 4 I cannot conceive any good in a thought which confines and stagnates.

confining, v. (4)

    ET1 5.16 7 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.
    ET5 5.90 3 Sir Samuel Romilly refused to speak in popular assemblies, confining himself to the House of Commons...
    Schr 10.288 10 I had perhaps wiselier adhered to my first purpose of confining my illustration [of the scholar] to a single topic...
    FRO1 11.478 8 We are all very sensible...of the feeling...that a technical theology no longer suits us. It is not the ill will of people...but the incapacity for confining themselves there.

confirm, v. (9)

    Int 2.329 9 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it.
    Clbs 7.230 12 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated. Then they confirm and adorn each other;...
    Grts 8.310 8 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... It is not an oracle...but such as it is, it is something which the contradiction of all mankind could not shake, and which the consent of all mankind could not confirm.
    HDC 11.76 15 We...confirm from living lips the sealed records of time.
    AKan 11.255 18 The testimony of the telegraphs from St. Louis and the border confirm the worst details.
    II 12.81 8 ...the real credentials by which man...lays his hand on those advantages which confirm and consolidate rank, are intellectual and moral.
    Mem 12.92 6 What was an isolated, unrelated belief or conjecture, our later experience instructs us how to place in just connection with other views which confirm and expand it.
    Pray 12.353 19 Let the purpose for which I live be always before me; let every thought and word go to confirm and illuminate that end;...
    EurB 12.369 16 What [Wordsworth] said, [many others] were prepared to hear and confirm.

confirmation, n. (8)

    Chr1 3.98 24 It is disgraceful to fly to events for confirmation of our truth and worth.
    Pow 6.79 23 I remarked in England, in confirmation of a frequent experience at home, that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    Art2 7.51 3 ...we arrive at this conclusion, which I offer as a confirmation of the whole view, that the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature...
    Clbs 7.239 24 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of the contending parties.
    Suc 7.310 16 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation...
    Imtl 8.332 16 ...the impulse which drew these minds to this inquiry [concerning immortality] through so many years was a better affirmative evidence than their failure to find a confirmation was negative.
    LVB 11.92 8 We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees].
    PPr 12.391 24 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning...is sure to return...now as threat, now as confirmation...

confirmatory, adj. (1)

    LE 1.167 7 We assume that...what we say we only throw in as confirmatory of this supposed complete body of literature.

confirmed, v. (8)

    Comp 2.94 3 I was lately confirmed in these desires [to write on Compensation] by hearing a sermon at church.
    ET5 5.75 14 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential securities of civil liberty invented and confirmed.
    PerF 10.77 6 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources]...
    Chr2 10.101 19 I am in the habit of thinking...confirmed by what I notice in many lives-that to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    LLNE 10.336 19 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence. This correction of our superstitions was confirmed by the new science of Geology...
    HDC 11.44 27 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable, but they soon chose their own selectmen, and very early assessed taxes; a power at first resisted, but speedily confirmed to them.
    EWI 11.108 23 The facts [of the slave trade] confirmed [Thomas Clarkson' s] sentiment, that Providence had never made that to be wise which was immoral...
    ALin 11.331 19 [Lincoln] had a face and manner...which confirmed good will.

confirming, v. (2)

    PI 8.67 3 A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men, who...carry it to their reasonable neighbors. Thus it draws to it the wise and generous souls, confirming their secret thoughts...
    Schr 10.263 13 The scholar is here to fill others with love and courage by confirming their trust in the love and wisdom which are at the heart of all things;...

confirms, v. (3)

    PPh 4.66 7 In the doctrine of the organic character and disposition is the origin of caste. ... The East confirms itself, in all ages, in this faith.
    QO 8.190 16 There is none so eminent and wise but he knows minds whose opinion confirms or qualifies his own...
    Imtl 8.343 24 ...as soon as virtue glows, this belief [in immortality] confirms itself.

confiscate, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.400 20 One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks, it appears, was to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff, who might come to confiscate the spoons...

confiscation, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.221 1 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things, to persuade them...that the private citizen might be reasonable and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.

conflagration, n. (4)

    Cir 2.308 21 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city...
    Bty 6.286 12 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty; and perhaps some sparks from it may yet light a conflagration in the other.
    Farm 7.145 27 Whilst all thus burns...it needs a perpetual tempering...to check the fury of the conflagration;...
    MMEm 10.423 3 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which corrupts old worlds? How much better, more honest, are storming and conflagration of towns!

conflict, n. (12)

    LT 1.284 5 ...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be not...a paper blockade, in which each party is to display the utmost resources of his spirit and belief, and no conflict occur...
    Pol1 3.201 11 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war...
    Pol1 3.209 7 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle; as the planting interest in conflict with the commercial;...
    MoS 4.160 4 [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.
    ET14 5.242 12 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Hegel's study of civil history, as the conflict of ideas and the victory of the deeper thought;...
    Chr2 10.94 7 On the perpetual conflict between the dictate of this universal mind and the wishes and interests of the individual, the moral discipline of life is built.
    EWI 11.101 23 The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
    FSLN 11.224 10 Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical moments in history...when the powers of right and wrong are mustered for conflict...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    PLT 12.57 19 There is a conflict between a man's private dexterity or talent and his access to the free air and light which wisdom is;...
    PLT 12.60 16 Man was made for conflict...
    II 12.88 8 The Buddhist who...reads the issue of the conflict beforehand in the rank of the actors, is calm.
    II 12.88 12 The old Greek was respectable...who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should...

conflict, v. (2)

    SwM 4.144 26 Many opinions conflict as to the true centre.
    FRep 11.523 11 ...[Americans...say, One vote can do no harm! and vote for something which they do not approve, because their party or set votes for it. Of course this puts them in the power of any party having a steady interest to promote which does not conflict manifestly with the pecuniary interest of the voters.

conflicting, adj. (2)

    MoS 4.156 17 [The skeptic says] If there is a wish for immortality, and no evidence, why not say just that? If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them?
    PLT 12.64 1 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all.

conflicts, n. (1)

    II 12.85 11 I think the reason why men fail in their conflicts is because they wear other armor than their own.

confluence, n. (4)

    Civ 7.31 27 ...it is not New York streets, built by the confluence of workmen and wealth of all nations...that make the real estimation.
    Thor 10.466 11 The river on whose banks [Thoreau] was born and died he knew from its springs to its confluence with the Merrimack.
    EdAd 11.386 20 ...who can see the continent with...its confluence of races so favorable to the highest energy...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    ACri 12.301 10 After Chicago had secured the confluence of the railroads to itself, I chanced to meet my founder [of New City] again...

conform, v. (9)

    Nat 1.40 3 ...[man] is learning the secret that he can...conform all facts to his character.
    Nat 1.40 16 Sensible objects conform to the premonitions of Reason...
    Nat 1.75 4 We make fables to hide the baldness of the fact and conform it... to the higher law of the mind.
    Nat 1.76 18 As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.
    SR 2.48 10 Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it;...
    Fdsp 2.202 25 Sincerity is the luxury allowed...only to the highest rank; that being permitted to speak truth, as having none above it to court or conform unto.
    ET8 5.139 10 Even the scale of expense on which people live, and to which scholars and professional men conform, proves the tension of [English] muscle...
    DL 7.104 26 ...[the child] conforms to nobody, all conform to him;...
    HDC 11.52 25 ...here [at Concord] [Tahattawan and Waban] entered, by [John Eliot's] assistance, into an agreement to twenty-nine rules, all breathing a desire to conform themselves to English customs.

conformation, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.138 11 The flower of courtesy does not very well bide handling, but if we dare to open another leaf and explore what parts go to its conformation, we shall find also an intellectual quality.

conformed, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.4 7 ...even the poets are contented with a civil and conformed manner of living...

conformed, v. (3)

    Art2 7.41 14 [Our works] must be conformed to [Nature's] law...
    OA 7.318 22 ...looking at age under an aspect more conformed to the common sense, if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
    Milt1 12.278 2 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry, not finding the actual world exactly conformed to its idea of good and fair, seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...

conforming, v. (4)

    SR 2.54 5 The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.
    NMW 4.232 17 In 1796 [Bonaparte] writes to the Directory: I have conducted the campaign without consulting any one. I should have done no good if I had been under the necessity of conforming to the notions of another person.
    Pow 6.54 18 All the great captains, said Bonaparte, have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of the art...
    MMEm 10.432 1 What a timid, ungrateful creature! Fear the deepest pitfalls of age, when pressing on...to Him...with whom all miseries and irregularities are conforming to universal good!

conformists, n. (2)

    ET13 5.225 22 [Religion] is endogenous, like the skin and other vital organs. A new statement every day. The prophet and apostle knew this, and the nonconformist confutes the conformists, by quoting the texts they must allow.
    ET13 5.227 26 ...you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists.

conformities, n. (1)

    ET17 5.298 1 ...[Wordsworth] had conformities to English politics and traditions;...

conformity, n. (14)

    DSA 1.146 6 ...cast behind you all conformity...
    MR 1.244 5 Our expense is almost all for conformity.
    SR 2.50 4 The virtue in most request is conformity.
    SR 2.54 18 A man must consider what a blind-man's-buff is this game of conformity.
    SR 2.55 7 This conformity makes [men] not false in a few particulars...but false in all particulars.
    SR 2.59 10 Your conformity explains nothing.
    SR 2.60 10 I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency.
    NER 3.257 5 I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.
    ET1 5.24 23 To judge from a single conversation, [Wordsworth] made the impression...of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity.
    ET1 5.24 28 It is not very rare to find persons loving sympathy and ease, who expatiate their departure from the common in one direction, by their conformity in every other.
    ET13 5.227 25 ...you must pay for conformity.
    OA 7.329 11 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
    FRep 11.521 1 The very glaciers are viscous, or relegate into conformity...
    MAng1 12.218 13 A beautiful person...appears to have truer conformity to all pleasing objects in external Nature than another.

conforms, v. (5)

    Nat 1.52 5 The sensual man conforms thoughts to things;...
    Nat 1.52 6 ...the poet conforms things to his thoughts.
    SR 2.48 9 Infancy conforms to nobody;...
    DL 7.104 25 ...[the child] conforms to nobody, all conform to him;...
    PerF 10.79 27 In each talent is the perception...of an order and series which preexisted in Nature, and which this mind sees and conforms to.

confound, v. (7)

    Pol1 3.206 2 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily confound the arithmetic of statists...
    NMW 4.244 4 [Napoleon] could not confound Fox and Pitt, Carnot, Lafayette and Bernadotte, with the danglers of his court;...
    Elo1 7.77 25 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound merchant, banker, judge...
    Imtl 8.342 17 Ignorant people confound reverence for the intuitions with egotism.
    FSLC 11.189 20 I thought it was this fair mystery, whose foundations are hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was to confound all distinctions...
    FSLN 11.220 18 In what I have to say of Mr. Webster I do not confound him with vulgar politicians before or since.
    FRO2 11.489 14 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man, for then you confound it with the fables of every popular religion...

confounded, v. (7)

    SR 2.61 14 ...millions of minds so grow and cleave to [Christ's] genius that he is confounded with virtue...
    ET4 5.54 10 We must use the popular category...for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise we are presently confounded when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.
    Elo1 7.74 7 There are all degrees of power [in eloquence]...but they must not be confounded.
    PI 8.28 6 The words [Fancy and Imagination] are often used, and the things confounded.
    Res 8.146 2 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him. He said to them, Will you scalp me? Here is my scalp, and confounded them by lifting a little periwig he wore.
    PPo 8.249 24 ...the love or the wine of Hafiz is not to be confounded with vulgar debauch.
    MLit 12.313 20 ...the single soul feels its right to be no longer confounded with numbers...

confounding, n. (1)

    PLT 12.8 23 ...was there ever prophet burdened with a message to his people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his own mind of private folly with his public wisdom?

confounding, v. (9)

    Exp 3.78 23 ...in its sequel [murder] turns out to be a horrible jangle and confounding of all relations.
    SwM 4.140 13 Strictly speaking, Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes...
    ET5 5.80 26 All the steps [the English] orderly take; but with the high logic of never confounding the minor and major proposition;...
    DL 7.109 9 There should be nothing confounding and conventional in economy...
    PI 8.22 4 Men are imaginative, but not overpowered by it to the extent of confounding its suggestions with external facts.
    FSLC 11.213 6 ...it is confounding distinctions to speak of the geographic sections of this country as of equal civilization.
    FSLN 11.222 11 ...[Webster] knew perfectly well how to make such exordiums, episodes and perorations as might give perspective to his harangues without in the least embarrassing his march or confounding his transitions.
    PLT 12.62 26 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego...rhetoric or offset to his grand spiritual Ego, without...ever confounding them.
    EurB 12.367 8 ...Wordsworth...though confounding his accidental with the universal consciousness...is really a master of the English language...

confounds, v. (7)

    SR 2.69 22 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that... confounds the saint with the rogue...
    Comp 2.109 26 Bad counsel confounds the adviser.
    Pt1 3.7 19 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which... confounds [poets] with those whose province is action but who quit it to imitate the sayers.
    SwM 4.137 12 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip. Swedenborg confounds us not less with the pains of Melancthon and Luther and Wolfius...
    Elo1 7.77 15 A man succeeds because he has more power of eye than another, and so coaxes or confounds him.
    Aris 10.51 19 The day is darkened...when genius grows...reckless of its fine duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer to its humble fellows, balks their respect and confounds their understanding by silly extravagances.
    LVB 11.93 6 ...a crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] is projected that confounds our understandings by its magnitude...

confront, v. (8)

    OS 2.292 2 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them, a king to a king...
    F 6.24 25 ...if Fate is so prevailing, man also is part of it, and can confront fate with fate.
    Pow 6.81 21 Let a man dare go to a loom and see if he be equal to it. Let machine confront machine, and see how they come out.
    Ctr 6.150 12 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe...that the poet, the mystic and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
    Bhr 6.171 8 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them; but when these have mastered her secret they learn to confront her...
    PC 8.225 20 The highest flight to which the muse of Horace ascended was in that triplet of lines in which he described the souls which can calmly confront the sublimity of Nature...
    FSLC 11.210 6 Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison [slavery]...
    ACiv 11.305 23 Instantly, the armies that now confront you must run home to protect their estates...

confronted, v. (2)

    OS 2.285 25 ...confronted face to face...men offer themselves to be judged.
    Thor 10.454 2 [Thoreau] could easily solve the problems of the surveyor, but he was daily beset with graver questions, which he manfully confronted.

confronting, v. (3)

    Comp 2.95 13 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of confronting and convicting the world from the truth;...
    ET11 5.198 5 A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality...
    ET16 5.275 7 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run away to France...instead of...confronting Englishmen and acquiring their culture...

confronts, v. (3)

    Chr1 3.110 7 The virtuous prince confronts the gods, without any misgivings.
    Chr1 3.110 9 He who confronts the gods, without any misgiving, knows heaven;...
    Res 8.147 20 Disorganization [good sense] confronts with organization...

Confucius, n. (22)

    SL 2.159 23 Confucius exclaimed,--How can a man be concealed? How can a man be concealed?
    ET16 5.274 25 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    ET16 5.274 26 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    ET16 5.275 1 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    Boks 7.194 15 ...Hafiz was the eminent genius of the Persians, Confucius of the Chinese, Cervantes of the Spaniards;...
    Boks 7.218 20 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius.
    SA 8.78 2 I have heard my master say that a man cannot fully exhaust the abilities of his nature.--Confucius.
    SA 8.85 27 Eat at your table as you would eat at the table of the king, said Confucius.
    SA 8.100 13 The old Confucius in China admitted the benefit [of riches], but stated the limitation...
    QO 8.182 21 ...when Confucius and the Indian scriptures were made known, no claim to monopoly of ethical wisdom [in Christianity] could be thought of;...
    PC 8.214 10 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish,-as Zoroaster, Confucius...
    Insp 8.275 17 Socrates, Menu, Confucius, Zertusht,-we recognize in all of them this ardor to solve the hints of thought.
    Chr2 10.117 21 Confucius said, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
    Chr2 10.120 15 Confucius said one day to Ke Kang: Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.
    Chr2 10.120 22 Ke Kang, distressed about the number of thieves in the state, inquired of Confucius how to do away with them.
    Chr2 10.120 23 Ke Kang, distressed about the number of thieves in the state, inquired of Confucius how to do away with them. Confucius said, If you, sir, were not covetous, although you should reward them to do it, they would not steal.
    ChiE 11.472 18 Confucius has not yet gathered all his fame.
    ChiE 11.472 23 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing. Confucius had already affirmed this of himself...
    ChiE 11.472 25 ...what we call the GOLDEN RULE of Jesus, Confucius had uttered in the same terms five hundred years before.
    Bost 12.195 3 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton, Fenelon, to our devotion. Of these writers, of this spirit which deified them, I will say with Confucius, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
    ACri 12.295 13 The Chinese have got on so long with their solitary Confucius and Mencius;...
    MLit 12.316 26 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact...that Moses and Confucius, Montaigne and Leibnitz, are not so much individuals as they are parts of man and parts of me, and my intelligence proves them my own,-literature is far the best expression.

confuse, v. (1)

    Supl 10.169 19 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets, coaches, dinners, wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you...

confused, adj. (4)

    Hist 2.24 12 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities, wherein the face is a confused blur of features...
    NMW 4.232 5 [Bonaparte] is...terrific to all talkers and confused truth-obscuring persons.
    PPo 8.265 17 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./
    Chr2 10.98 1 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...that it distances and degrades all statements of whatever saints, heroes, poets, as obscure and confused stammerings before its silent revelation.

confused, v. (1)

    Schr 10.279 16 ...the young...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...

confusion, n. (37)

    Nat 1.5 7 In inquiries so general as our present one...no confusion of thought will occur.
    Hist 2.27 16 When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to [the student]...a prayer of his youth, he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition...
    SR 2.72 10 ...come not into their confusion.
    Prd1 2.228 18 ...the discomfort...of confusion of thought about facts...is of no nation.
    Exp 3.79 14 Saints are sad, because they behold sin...from the point of view of the conscience, and not of the intellect; a confusion of thought.
    Chr1 3.115 6 This is confusion, this the right insanity, when the soul no longer knows its own, nor where its allegiance, its religion, are due.
    Mrs1 3.137 15 If [lovers] forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
    Pol1 3.219 24 We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions;...
    NR 3.241 5 To embroil the confusion and make it impossible to arrive at any general statement,--when we have insisted on the imperfection of individuals, our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor...
    PPh 4.47 8 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...a confusion of crude notions of morals and of natural philosophy...
    PPh 4.73 24 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...so careless and ignorant as to disarm the wariest and draw them, in the pleasantest manner, into horrible doubts and confusion.
    ShP 4.209 13 Who ever read the volume of [Shakespeare's] Sonnets without finding that the poet had there revealed...the confusion of sentiments in the most susceptible, and, at the same time, the most intellectual of men?
    Wth 6.124 14 The good merchant [finds] large gains, ships, stocks and money. The good poet [finds] fame and literary credit; but not either the other. Yet there is commonly a confusion of expectations on these points.
    Wsp 6.207 3 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. Such is Chaucer's extraordinary confusion of heaven and earth in the picture of Dido...
    Ill 6.324 23 ...the unities of Truth and of Right are not broken by the disguise. There need never be any confusion in these.
    DL 7.128 2 Happy will that house be...in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.
    Elo2 8.129 12 ...[Lord Ashley] drew such an argument from his own confusion as more advantaged his cause that all the powers of eloquence could have done.
    Res 8.137 19 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature;...by seeing that every healthy and resolute man is...a method coming into a confusion and drawing order out of it.
    Comc 8.160 5 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man...who, sympathizing with the philosopher's scrutiny, sympathizes also with the confusion and indignation of the detected, skulking institutions.
    Comc 8.161 5 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...cooly ignoring the Reason, whilst he invokes its name...only to make the fun perfect by enjoying the confusion betwixt Reason and the negation of Reason...
    Comc 8.168 21 ...the same confusion of the sympathies because a pretension is not made good, points the perpetual satire against poverty...
    PPo 8.259 11 The same confusion of high and low...is habitual to [Hafiz].
    Imtl 8.342 18 Ignorant people confound reverence for the intuitions with egotism. There is no confusion in the things themselves.
    Dem1 10.4 3 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows, wherein time, space, persons, cities, animals, should dance before us in merry and mad confusion;...
    Dem1 10.4 18 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter...to rake with confusion in memory among the gibbering nonsense to find the motive of this contemptible cachinnation.
    Dem1 10.27 1 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. We have...come into the realm or chaos of chance and pretty or ugly confusion;...
    Edc1 10.140 15 ...Caesar in Gaul, Sherman in Savannah, and hazing in Holworthy, dance through [the boy's] narrative in merry confusion, yet the logic is good.
    MoL 10.243 1 America at large exhibited such a confusion as California showed in 1849...
    CSC 10.374 17 ...a great deal of confusion, eccentricity and freak appeared [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    Carl 10.497 14 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question for wise men...to address themselves to the problem of society. This confusion is the inevitable end of such falsehoods and nonsense as they have been embroiled with.
    LS 11.17 6 It has seemed to me that the use of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] tends to produce confusion in our views of the relation of the soul to God.
    LS 11.17 10 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity...that such confusion was introduced into the soul that an undivided worship was given nowhere.
    LS 11.17 16 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
    FSLC 11.213 16 Here let there be no confusion in our ideas.
    EPro 11.324 2 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... preventing the whole force of Southern connection and influence throughout the North from distracting every city with endless confusion...
    PLT 12.61 16 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections...and in the confusion asks the polarity of intellect.
    CInt 12.123 17 ...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with petty advantage that it...sets up for itself, and makes confusion.

confusions, n. (2)

    UGM 4.9 3 ...the makers of tools;...the musician,--severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    ACri 12.293 2 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...as a general thing; after all. Confusions of lie and lay, sit and set, shall and will.

confutation, n. (2)

    Comp 2.121 19 There is no stunning confutation of [the criminal's] nonsense before men and angels.
    UGM 4.27 16 They cry up the virtues of George Washington,--Damn George Washington! is the poor Jacobin's whole speech and confutation.

confuted, v. (4)

    NER 3.278 8 We wish to hear ourselves confuted.
    PPh 4.73 12 ...[Socrates] is...a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth...
    PPh 4.73 13 ...[Socrates] is...a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth, and who willingly confuted others asserting what was false;...
    PPh 4.73 14 ...[Socrates] is...a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth, and who willingly confuted others asserting what was false; and not less pleased when confuted than when confuting;...

confuters, n. (1)

    Farm 7.150 13 These [drainage] tiles are political economists, confuters of Malthus and Ricardo;...

confutes, v. (3)

    OS 2.268 27 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents...
    ET13 5.225 22 [Religion] is endogenous, like the skin and other vital organs. A new statement every day. The prophet and apostle knew this, and the nonconformist confutes the conformists, by quoting the texts they must allow.
    Edc1 10.148 17 The natural method [of education] forever confutes our experiments...

confuting, v. (1)

    PPh 4.73 15 ...[Socrates] is...a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth, and who willingly confuted others asserting what was false; and not less pleased when confuted than when confuting;...

conge, n. (1)

    ET13 5.227 17 The [English] Bishop is elected by the Dean and Prebends of the cathedral. The Queen sends these gentlemen a conge d'elire, or leave to elect;...

congeal, v. (1)

    ET13 5.225 4 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament.

congener, n. (1)

    ET4 5.46 24 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...

congenial, adj. (3)

    SL 2.139 19 For you there is...a fit place and congenial duties.
    CbW 6.274 17 ...all those who are native, congenial, and by many an oath of the heart sacramented to you, are gradually and totally lost.
    ACri 12.284 7 There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.

congenially, adv. (1)

    Milt1 12.259 21 ...probably no traveller ever entered that country of history [Italy] with better right to its hospitality [than Milton], none upon whom its influences could have fallen more congenially.

congestion, n. (1)

    PLT 12.33 7 As soon as our accumulation [of knowledge] overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,- congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

congratulate, v. (6)

    Fdsp 2.213 9 We may congratulate ourselves that the period of nonage...is passed in solitude...
    Hsm1 2.260 17 ...congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
    NMW 4.246 27 We can not, in the universal imbecility, indecision and indolence of men, sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon]...
    Wsp 6.218 19 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius... The vulgar are sensible of the change in you, and of your descent, though they clap you on the back and congratulate you on your increased common-sense.
    LLNE 10.357 3 [Thoreau said] Again and again I congratulate myself on my so-called poverty...
    Koss 11.400 24 Sir [Kossuth]...we congratulate you that you have known how to convert calamities into powers...

congratulated, v. (2)

    ET10 5.168 24 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing. They congratulated each other on ruinous expedients.
    Thor 10.451 24 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence...he returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune.

congratulates, v. (2)

    Hsm1 2.263 23 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already wrapped in his shroud...
    CInt 12.114 14 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...

congratulation, n. (1)

    MoL 10.241 17 I offer perpetual congratulation to the scholar;...

congratulations, n. (5)

    MN 1.191 1 Let us exchange congratulations on the enjoyments and the promises of this literary anniversary.
    OA 7.332 15 We...told [John Adams] he must let us join our congratulations to those of the nation on the happiness of his house.
    OA 7.332 19 [John Adams said] The time of gratulation and congratulations is nearly over with me;...
    EWI 11.99 2 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...
    ACri 12.298 19 ...one would think...a sympathizing and much-reading America would make a new treaty or send a minister extraordinary to offer congratulations of honoring delight to England in acknowledgment of such a donation [as Carlyle's History of Frederick II];...

congregation, n. (9)

    Comp 2.94 13 [The preacher]...urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties [the wicked and the good] in the next life. No offence appeared to be taken by the congregation at this doctrine.
    ET13 5.225 15 The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind; so that when you came to read the liturgy to a modern congregation, it was almost absurd in its unfitness...
    Elo1 7.83 22 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
    OA 7.335 16 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer...insisted on repairing to the meeting-house, and proclaimed it aloud to the congregation...
    Prch 10.229 18 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious.
    EzRy 10.384 7 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence...following the narrowness of King David and the Jews, who thought the universe existed only or mainly for their church and congregation.
    EzRy 10.386 22 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but the Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor, as with an air that said to all the congregation, This is no time for you young Cambridge men; the affair, sir, is getting serious. I will pray myself.
    HDC 11.66 9 In 1741, the celebrated Whitfield preached here [in Concord], in the open air, to a great congregation.
    HDC 11.86 3 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Whitfield, whose silver voice melted his great congregation into tears;...

Congress, Act of, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.192 26 You know that the Act of Congress of September 18, 1850, is a law which every one of you will break on the earliest occasion.

Congress, American, n. (2)

    Elo1 7.90 13 A popular assembly, like...the American Congress, is commanded by these two powers,--first by a fact, then by skill of statement.
    Milt1 12.249 3 [Milton's tracts] are not effective...like what became also controversial tracts, several masterly speeches in the history of the American Congress.

Congress, Congress, n. (1)

    EPro 11.325 19 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim.

Congress, International, n. (1)

    ET15 5.272 25 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] it would have the authority which is claimed for that dream of good men not yet come to pass, an International Congress;...

congress, n. (5)

    NER 3.252 4 [The Sabbath and Bible Conventions] defied each other, like a congress of kings...
    GoW 4.272 12 ...if one should chance to be at a congress of kings, the eye would take liberties with the peculiarities of each.
    ET16 5.286 27 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged, I bethought myself neither of caucuses nor congress...
    FRep 11.521 14 John Quincy Adams was a man of an audacious independence that always kept the public curiosity alive in regard to what he might do. None could predict his word, and a whole congress could not gainsay it when it was spoken.
    FRep 11.529 4 A congress is a standing insurrection...

Congress, n. (40)

    LT 1.265 4 Let us paint the agitator...and the member of Congress...
    LT 1.270 15 The political questions touching...the Congress of nations; are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    SR 2.76 10 A sturdy lad...who...goes to Congress...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    Chr1 3.91 11 [The people] cannot come at their ends by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
    ET1 5.20 20 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are atrocious, and accuse members of Congress of stealing spoons!
    ET18 5.307 18 Congress is not wiser or better than Parliament.
    Pow 6.61 13 A timid man, listening to the alarmists in Congress and in the newspapers...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Pow 6.65 6 ...churchmen and men of refinement, it seems agreed, are not fit persons to send to Congress.
    Elo1 7.63 16 Who can wonder at the attractiveness...of Congress...for our ambitious young men...
    Elo1 7.75 2 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil. Add a little sarcasm and prompt allusion to passing occurrences, and you have the mischievous member of Congress.
    Cour 7.259 24 When we get an advantage, as in Congress the other day, it is because our adversary has committed a fault...
    Imtl 8.331 25 When my friend at last left Congress, [the two men] parted...
    Aris 10.35 9 ...neither...the Congress, nor the mob...can avail to outlaw...or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.
    Aris 10.49 24 ...the town-meeting, the Congress, will not fail to find out legislative talent.
    MoL 10.244 18 Parliaments of Love and Poesy served [the people of the Middle Ages], instead of the House of Commons, Congress and the newspapers.
    EzRy 10.382 22 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776: Christopher Gore, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator in Congress;...
    SlHr 10.443 8 I am sorry to say [Samuel Hoar] could not be elected to Congress a second time from Middlesex.
    GSt 10.505 25 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views,-with...members of Congress...
    EWI 11.132 9 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied.
    EWI 11.132 14 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...
    War 11.170 24 The next season...the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...
    FSLC 11.184 14 ...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
    FSLC 11.186 17 Let me remind you a little in detail how the natural retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.
    FSLC 11.195 6 By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it is piracy and murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.
    FSLC 11.195 9 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America.
    FSLC 11.203 1 [Webster] has been by his clear perceptions and statements in all these years the best head in Congress...
    AsSu 11.249 9 In Congress, [Charles Sumner] did not rush into party position.
    JBS 11.280 15 I am not a little surprised at the easy effrontery with which political gentlemen, in and out of Congress, take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.
    ACiv 11.304 2 ...the one [power] strong enough to bring all the civility up to the height of that which is best, prays now at the door of Congress for leave to move.
    ACiv 11.305 15 Congress can, by edict...abolish slavery...
    ACiv 11.305 17 Congress can...as a part of the military defence which it is the duty of Congress to provide, abolish slavery...
    ACiv 11.310 10 ...President Lincoln has proposed to Congress that the government shall cooperate with any state that shall enact a gradual abolishment of slavery.
    ACiv 11.310 17 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year. The American Executive ranges itself for the first time on the side of freedom. If Congress has been backward, the President has advanced.
    ACiv 11.310 25 If Congress accords with the President, it is not yet too late to begin the emancipation;...
    EPro 11.316 2 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the passage of the Homestead Bill in the last Congress...
    Wom 11.423 18 The fairest names in this country...have gone into Congress and come out dishonored.
    ChiE 11.473 18 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has twice attempted to carry through Congress, requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
    FRep 11.523 24 If a customer looks grave at [the peoples'] newspaper, or damns their member of Congress, they take another newspaper, and vote for another man.
    CInt 12.117 1 ...[the scholars]...played the sycophant to presidents and generals and members of Congress...
    ACri 12.291 23 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress...might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...

Congress of Nations, n. (1)

    War 11.175 14 The proposition of the Congress of Nations is undoubtedly that at which the present fabric of our society and the present course of events do point.

Congress of Vienna, n. (1)

    ET9 5.146 25 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will...impose Wapping on the Congress of Vienna...

Congress, Provincial, n. (4)

    HDC 11.71 25 In October [1774], the Provincial Congress met in Concord.
    HDC 11.72 10 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson, the chaplain of the Provincial Congress, preached to the people.
    HDC 11.78 26 When...the poor of Boston were quartered by the Provincial Congress on the neighboring country, Concord received 82 persons to its hospitality.
    HDC 11.86 4 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Hancock, and his compatriots of the Provincial Congress;...

congresses, n. (3)

    PC 8.209 7 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the incipient series of international congresses;...
    SlHr 10.441 2 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or congresses to sit down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in the town-house...
    FRep 11.518 10 ...liberal congresses and legislatures ordain...equivocal, interested and vicious measures.

Congressional, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.134 6 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders.

Congressional Libraries, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 16 It is the interest of all men that there should be...Congressional Libraries.

congressmen, n. (1)

    Tran 1.348 20 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest...as if they thought that by sitting very grand in their chairs, the very brokers, attorneys, and congressmen would see the error of their ways, and flock to them.

congruent, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.47 12 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations...

congruity, n. (2)

    Nat 1.68 6 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world;...
    ET6 5.112 24 Sir Philip Sidney is one of the patron saints of England, of whom Wotton said, His wit was the measure of congruity.

conical, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.466 24 ...the conical heaps of small stones on the river-shallows, the huge nests of small fishes...were all known to [Thoreau]...

conies, n. (1)

    Pow 6.66 21 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle;...as if poor decayed formalists of law and order cannot run like wild goats, wolves, and conies;...

conjectural, adj. (1)

    MN 1.214 14 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship... It is that. All other meanings which base men have put on it are conjectural and false.

conjecture, n. (3)

    PPh 4.69 6 To these four sections [images, objects, opinions, truths], the four operations of the soul correspond,--conjecture, faith, understanding, reason.
    GoW 4.274 12 [Goethe] had an extreme impatience of conjecture and of rhetoric.
    Mem 12.92 3 What was an isolated, unrelated belief or conjecture, our later experience instructs us how to place in just connection with other views which confirm and expand it.

conjectured, v. (1)

    ET12 5.206 17 The income of the nineteen colleges [at Oxford] is conjectured at 150,000 pounds a year.

conjectures, n. (2)

    PPh 4.63 24 The misery of man is to be baulked of the sight of essence and to be stuffed with conjectures;...
    PC 8.211 20 We have been taught...to wont ourselves to daring conjectures.

conjugal, adj. (1)

    DL 7.129 18 Beyond its primary ends of the conjugal, parental and amicable relations, the household should cherish the beautiful arts and the sentiment of veneration.

Conjugal Love [Emanuel Swe (3)

    PNR 4.88 19 Swedenborg, throughout his prose poem of Conjugal Love, is a Platonist.
    SwM 4.127 1 In the Conjugal Love, [Swedenborg] has unfolded the science of marriage.
    SwM 4.128 23 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth.

conjugating, v. (1)

    NER 3.259 25 ...I will omit this conjugating [of Greek and Latin], and go straight to affairs.

conjunction, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.14 24 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions; being moved in conjunction with the unapparent periods of intellectual natures.
    HDC 11.69 22 ...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we will risk our fortunes, and even our lives, in defence of his majesty, King George the Third, his person, crown and dignity;...
    Scot 11.467 15 Under what rare conjunction of stars was this man [Scott] born, that, wherever he lived, he found superior men...

conjure, v. (1)

    NER 3.259 20 Some intelligent persons said or thought, Is that Greek and Latin some spell to conjure with...

conjuring, v. (1)

    NER 3.259 23 Conjuring is gone out of fashion...

conjuror, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.13 1 Nature never works like a conjuror...

conjurors, n. (1)

    SwM 4.130 6 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. Philosophers are, therefore, vipers...and flying serpents; literary men are conjurors and charlatans.

conjuror's, n. (1)

    F 6.40 22 At the conjuror's, we detect the hair by which he moves his puppet...

connate, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.10 17 In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages.
    OS 2.274 2 ...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms is at hand, and the like, when we mean that in the nature of things one of the facts we contemplate is external and fugitive, and the other is permanent and connate with the soul.

connect, v. (5)

    Nat 1.29 22 A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol... depends on the simplicity of his character...
    Cir 2.301 23 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn]... may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    ShP 4.215 1 ...every subordinate invention, by which [Shakespeare] helps himself to connect some irreconcilable opposites, is a poem too.
    Ctr 6.135 8 ...most men are afflicted with a coldness, an incuriosity, as soon as any object does not connect with their self-love.
    PLT 12.45 25 There are men...who easily entertain ideas, but...cannot connect or arrange their thoughts so as effectively to report them.

connected, v. (15)

    YA 1.366 15 This inclination [to cultivate the soil] has appeared...in those connected with the liberal professions.
    UGM 4.9 4 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature...
    SwM 4.119 1 ...[Swedenborg's] ecstasy connected itself with just this office of explaining the moral import of the sensible world.
    ShP 4.204 10 ...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German, by Lessing...that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.
    NMW 4.231 9 My hand of iron, [Bonaparte] said...was immediately connected with my head.
    Farm 7.140 17 Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly connected with abundance of food;...
    Cour 7.273 2 Napoleon said well, My hand is immediately connected with my head;...
    Cour 7.273 4 ...the sacred courage is connected with the heart.
    PPo 8.240 9 The Persian poetry rests on a mythology whose few legends are connected with the Jewish history and the anterior traditions of the Pentateuch.
    Imtl 8.342 27 ...everything connected with our personality fails.
    MMEm 10.412 25 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs ov