Consubstantiation to Contriving

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

Consubstantiation, n. (1)

    LS 11.4 7 The doctrine of the Consubstantiation taught by Luther was denied by Calvin.

Consuelo [George Sand], n. (3)

    GoW 4.278 24 George Sand, in Consuelo and its continuation, has sketched a truer and more dignified picture [than has Goethe in Wilhelm Meister].
    Boks 7.214 13 ...Jeanne and Consuelo...are great steps from the novel of one termination...
    Boks 7.215 1 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...

Consuelo [Sand, Consuelo], (1)

    Bhr 6.170 4 Consuelo, in the romance, boasts of the lessons she had given the nobles in manners, on the stage;...

consuetudes, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.212 16 Late,--very late,--we perceive that...no consuetudes or habits of society would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire...
    Prd1 2.240 13 Let us suck the sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us.

consul, n. (5)

    MR 1.231 26 In the Spanish islands, every agent or factor of the Americans, unless he be a consul, has taken oath that he is a Catholic...
    Chr1 3.109 26 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears like a consul, from whom the fasces are not to depart with the year;...
    ET12 5.203 18 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...and had the doors locked and sealed by the consul.
    Plu 10.293 19 ...[Plutarch]...was not consul in Rome...
    SlHr 10.441 11 ...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest Milton's picture of John Bradshaw, that he was a consul from whom the fasces did not depart with the year...

consular, adj. (1)

    Plu 10.293 14 [Plutarch] has been represented...as having received from Trajan the consular dignity...

Consulates, n. (1)

    Hist 2.40 15 What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being?

consuls, n. (1)

    Aris 10.41 13 ...the effect of freer institutions in England and America, has robbed the title of king of all its romance, as that of our commercial consuls as compared with the ancient Roman.

consul's, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.153 25 Are you...rich enough to make...the itinerant with his consul' s paper which commends him To the charitable...feel the noble exception f your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...

consulships, n. (1)

    WD 7.179 20 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar, not who can unearth for me the buried dynasties of Sesostris and Ptolemy...the Olympiads and consulships...

consult, v. (12)

    ET2 5.32 17 It has been said that the King of England would consult his dignity by giving audience to foreign ambassadors in the cabin of a man-of-war.
    ET12 5.212 5 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a book, can consult it...
    ET16 5.274 18 In these days, [Carlyle] thought, it would become an architect to consult only the grim necessity...
    Wth 6.98 8 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess...
    Ctr 6.137 10 It is not a compliment but a disparagement to consult a man only on horses...
    OA 7.330 1 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace...but have searched all probable and improbable books for it in vain. We consult the reading men: but, strangely enough, they who know everything know not this.
    SA 8.99 11 When men consult you, it is not that they wish you to stand tiptoe and pump your brains...
    QO 8.183 19 ...we find in Grimm's Memoires that Sheridan got [his rules] from the witty D'Argenson; who, no doubt, if we could consult him, could tell of whom he first heard them told.
    Grts 8.304 26 When [young men] have learned that the parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in their choice of place.
    Aris 10.48 11 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;... what it would be I could not determine yet; I must look round me a little and consult my friends...
    FSLC 11.206 12 If [the North and the South] continue to have a binding interest, they will be pretty sure to find it out: if not, they will consult their peace in parting.
    Wom 11.419 26 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?

consultation, n. (1)

    GSt 10.503 16 [George Stearns] passed his time in incessant consultation with all men whom he could reach...

consulted, v. (9)

    SwM 4.100 15 [Swedenborg's] duties had brought him into intimate acquaintance with King Charles XII., by whom he was much consulted and honored.
    ET11 5.185 23 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men... and...have been consulted in the conduct of every important action.
    Wsp 6.228 3 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy, and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the wonderful powers shown by her novice. The Pope did not well know what to make of these new claims, and Philip coming in from a journey one day, he consulted him.
    DL 7.108 5 Is it not plain that...in the dwelling-house must the true character and hope of the time be consulted?
    Aris 10.50 7 When old writers are consulted by young writers who have written their first book, they say, Publish it by all means; so only can you certainly know its quality.
    Edc1 10.135 23 In affirming that the moral nature of man is the predominant element and should therefore be mainly consulted in the arrangements of a school, I am very far from wishing that it should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
    PLT 12.60 12 That wonderful oracle [the divine soul] will reply when it is consulted...
    MAng1 12.225 23 In Rome, Michael Angelo was consulted by Pope Paul III. in building the fortifications of San Borgo.
    Trag 12.408 4 [Belief in Fate] is discriminated from the doctrine of Philosophical Necessity herein: that the last is an Optimism, and therefore the suffering individual finds his good consulted in the good of all, of which he is a part.

consulting, v. (3)

    ShP 4.212 23 [A man of talents] crams this part and starves that other part, consulting not the fitness of the thing, but his fitness and strength.
    NMW 4.232 15 In 1796 [Bonaparte] writes to the Directory: I have conducted the campaign without consulting any one.
    EWI 11.105 22 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him.

consults, v. (8)

    LE 1.179 15 ...[Napoleon] belonged to a class...who think that what a man can do is his greatest ornament, and that he always consults his dignity by doing it.
    MN 1.217 11 Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom...in which the individual is no longer his own foolish master...and consults every omen in nature with tremulous interest?
    SL 2.141 9 ...the more truly [a man] consults his own powers, the more difference will his work exhibit from the work of any other.
    ET6 5.105 5 Every man in this polished country [England] consults only his convenience...
    Elo1 7.84 18 Especially [the orator] consults his power by making instead of taking his theme.
    PI 8.36 13 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to Rome, or to Persia, for his fable. But I believe nobody knows better than he that herein he consults his ease rather than his strength or his desire.
    Grts 8.307 25 ...in this self-respect or hearkening to the privatest oracle, [a man] consults his ease...
    CL 12.149 27 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels...

consume, v. (5)

    Nat 1.20 19 ...when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Farm 7.143 8 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the plants absorb.
    LLNE 10.350 17 All these [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] shall be redressed by human culture, and the useful goat and dog and innocent poetical moth, or the wood-tick to consume decomposing wood, shall take their place.
    HDC 11.71 1 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...neither to buy nor consume any merchandise imported from Great Britain...
    ACri 12.302 22 ...when we came, in the woods, to a clump of goldenrod,- Ah! [Channing] says, here they are! these things consume a great deal of time. I don't know but they are of more importance than any other of our investments.

consumed, v. (13)

    Lov1 2.176 7 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when the day was not long enough, but the night too must be consumed in keen recollections;...
    Cir 2.317 4 The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues...into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices...
    PPh 4.41 23 Plato...like every great man, consumed his own times.
    ET1 5.8 25 A great man, [Landor] said, should...kill his hundred oxen without knowing whether they would be consumed by gods and heroes...
    Wth 6.106 16 ...for all that is consumed so much less remains in the basket and pot...
    Wth 6.118 24 When men now alive were born, the farm yielded everything that was consumed on it.
    Civ 7.25 9 The skill that pervades complex details;...the farm made to produce all that is consumed on it;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    MMEm 10.431 2 I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe thus much, that [the greatest geniuses'] large perception consumed their egotism...
    HDC 11.33 26 Johnson...intimates that [the pilgrims] consumed many days in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.
    HDC 11.55 1 The country [around Concord] already began to yield more than was consumed by the inhabitants.
    FSLC 11.189 14 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life, the excuse and indemnity for the errors and calamities which sadden it. In long years consumed in trifles, they remember these moments, and are consoled.
    Bost 12.202 27 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which consumed all opposition...
    Milt1 12.250 7 We could be well content if the flames to which [Milton's Defence of the English People] was condemned at Paris, at Toulouse, and at London, had utterly consumed it.

consumer, n. (4)

    Mrs1 3.120 7 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these cannibals and man-stealers;...
    Wth 6.85 9 Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer.
    Res 8.143 24 ...every manufacturer and producer in the North has an interest in protecting the negro as the consumer of his wares.
    QO 8.189 15 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow;...

consumes, v. (2)

    Nat 1.37 19 ...debt, which consumes so much time...is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    Wth 6.119 8 Now, the farmer buys almost all he consumes...

consuming, v. (1)

    Comc 8.174 9 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive melancholy, which was rapidly consuming his life.

consummate, adj. (6)

    Nat2 3.179 18 [Efficient Nature] publishes itself in creatures...arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap.
    ET15 5.267 12 [The London Times's] consummate discretion and success exhibit the English skill of combination.
    Pow 6.78 7 Stumping it through England for seven years made Cobden a consummate debater.
    Elo1 7.67 12 This range of many powers in the consummate speaker...leads us to consider the successive stages of oratory.
    Prch 10.215 2 Ascending through just degrees/ To a consummate holiness,/ As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching all souls like the sun./
    Milt1 12.260 1 [Milton's] lore of foreign tongues added daily to his consummate skill in the use of his own.

consummated, v. (2)

    GSt 10.503 8 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits, but as an earnest of the dedication of his heart and hand to the interests of the sufferers [in Kansas],-a pledge kept until the success he wrought and prayed for was consummated.
    LVB 11.94 12 ...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether...so vast an outrage upon the Cherokee Nation and upon human nature shall be consummated.

consummation, n. (3)

    LE 1.178 21 Bonaparte represents truly a great recent revolution, which we in this country...shall carry to its farthest consummation.
    Fdsp 2.207 1 ...I find this law of one to one peremptory for conversation, which is the practice and consummation of friendship.
    FSLC 11.196 5 [The Fugitive Slave Law] offers a bribe in its own clauses for the consummation of the crime.

consumption, n. (10)

    MR 1.231 19 How many articles of daily consumption are furnished us from the West Indies;...
    ShP 4.190 21 [A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad.
    ET3 5.40 3 It is...pretended that the enormous consumption of coal in the island [England] is also felt in modifying the general climate.
    ET5 5.95 19 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too, which was already believed to have become milder and drier by the enormous consumption of coal, is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
    ET10 5.163 9 ...all that can succor the talent or arm the hands of the intelligent middle class, who never spare in what they buy for their own consupmtion;...is in open market [in England].
    Farm 7.145 12 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption.
    Boks 7.189 16 The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares.
    Cour 7.270 22 As for the bullying drunkards of which armies are usually made up, [John Brown] thought cholera, small-pox and consumption as valuable recruits.
    Suc 7.302 6 Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting, which only ask receptivity in you, and no strained exertion and cankering ambition, overstimulating...to have distinction and laurels and consumption!
    Let 12.404 24 Many of the best must die of consumption, many of despair... before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.

contact, n. (12)

    Exp 3.48 17 [Grief], like all the rest...never introduces me into the reality, for contact with which we would even pay the costly price of sons and lovers.
    Exp 3.48 20 Was it Boscovich who found out that bodies never come in contact?
    Exp 3.77 23 Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point, and whilst they remain in contact all other points of each of the spheres are inert;...
    NR 3.245 13 ...All things are in contact;...
    PPh 4.54 4 ...the infinitude of the Asiatic soul and the defining, result-loving, machine-making, surface-seeking, opera-going Europe,--Plato came to join, and, by contact, to enhance the energy of each.
    PPh 4.55 21 ...the taste of two metals in contact;...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    PPh 4.76 10 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess. There is an interval; and to cohesion, contact is necessary.
    Ctr 6.150 1 The head of a commercial house or a leading lawyer or politician is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all parts of the country...
    Insp 8.289 8 The seashore and the taste of two metals in contact...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    MMEm 10.409 1 It is so universal with all classes to avoid contact with me [writes Mary Moody Emerson] that I blame none.
    MMEm 10.429 23 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] irk under contact with forms of depravity...
    PLT 12.23 24 ...A body in the act of combination or decomposition enables another body, with which it may be in contact, to enter into the same state.

contadino, n. (1)

    ACri 12.288 20 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the Sia ammazato! of the Italian contadino...

contagion, n. (4)

    UGM 4.25 12 There needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise, so rapid is the contagion.
    Pow 6.60 18 If we will make bread, we must have contagion, yeast, emptyings, or what not, to induce fermentation into the dough;...
    Cour 7.272 1 See too what good contagion belongs to [courage].
    Elo2 8.130 18 It was said of Robespierre's audience, that though they understood not the words, they understood a fury in the words, and caught the contagion.

contagious, adj. (6)

    UGM 4.13 11 Activity is contagious.
    CbW 6.246 21 ...vigor is contagious...
    PC 8.229 16 All vigor is contagious...
    Insp 8.293 3 ...intellectual activity is contagious.
    PLT 12.23 19 ...what a modern experimenter calls the contagious influence of chemical action is so true of mind that I have only to read the law that its application may be evident...
    PLT 12.23 25 ...if one remembers how contagious are the moral states of men, how much we are braced by the presence and actions of any Spartan soul, it does not need vigor of our own kind...

contain, v. (25)

    Nat 1.61 2 It is essential to a true theory of nature and of man, that it should contain somewhat progressive.
    Nat 1.70 4 ...we learn to prefer...sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
    DSA 1.151 12 The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain immortal sentences...
    Hist 2.37 6 ...were [Talbot's] whole frame here,/ It is of such a spacious, lofty pitch,/ Your roof were not sufficient to contain it./
    SR 2.45 6 The sentiment [original lines] instil is of more value than any thought they may contain.
    SR 2.70 18 All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain.
    SL 2.153 3 The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.
    Chr1 3.94 26 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L'Ouverture...
    Mrs1 3.122 16 The usual words...must be respected; they will be found to contain the root of the matter.
    NER 3.258 13 The ancient languages...contain wonderful remains of genius...
    PPh 4.39 5 [Plato's] sentences contain the culture of nations;...
    PPh 4.49 14 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly...in the Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu Purana. Those writings contain little else than this idea...
    ET3 5.39 12 ...at one season, the country people [of England] say, the lakes contain one part water and two parts fish.
    ET4 5.44 20 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848) 222,000, 000 souls...
    ET11 5.182 4 A multitude of town palaces [in London] contain inestimable galleries of art.
    Pow 6.68 24 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet, who, when the wind blew a gale, could not contain his joy;...
    Boks 7.196 14 ...the scholar knows that the famed books contain, first and last, the best thoughts and facts.
    Comc 8.168 5 I think there is malice in a very trifling story...which I should not take any notice of, did I not suspect it to contain some satire upon my brothers of the Natural History Society.
    Comc 8.172 26 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night?
    Prch 10.218 3 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow,-I see in them character, but skepticism;...
    Thor 10.454 5 [Thoreau] was a protestant a outrance, and few lives contain so many renunciations.
    HDC 11.48 20 The matters there debated [in Concord town-meetings] are such as to invite very small considerations. The ill-spelled pages of the Town Records contain the result.
    HDC 11.54 22 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that the new plantations of Dedham and Concord...will contain abundance of people.
    SMC 11.361 12 ...[George Prescott's letters] contain the sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.
    CPL 11.495 13 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who cannot wait for the slow growth of the population to make these advantages adequate to the desires of the people...

contained, v. (23)

    AmS 1.84 11 In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the theory of [the scholar's] office is contained.
    DSA 1.128 9 The truth contained in [the Christian church], you...are now setting forth to teach.
    Lov1 2.185 3 Night, day, studies, talents, kingdoms, religion, are all contained in [the lover's] form full of soul, in this soul which is all form.
    OS 2.268 23 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that Unity, that Over-Soul, within which every man's particular being is contained...
    Pt1 3.30 19 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition; as when Aristotle defines space to be an immovable vessel in which things are contained;...
    MoS 4.186 10 ...let [a man] learn...that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause...
    ShP 4.219 2 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained.
    ET12 5.204 6 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college...
    F 6.38 24 Do you suppose [the new-born man]...is contained in his skin...
    Elo2 8.123 18 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture...contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends...
    PPo 8.243 9 Gnomic verses, rules of life conveyed...especially in an image addressed to the eye and contained in a single stanza, were always current in the East;...
    Dem1 10.8 8 ...in the act is contained the counteraction.
    LLNE 10.344 3 ...[The Dial] contained some noble papers by Margaret Fuller...
    LLNE 10.351 25 [Fourierism] contained so much truth, and promised in the attempts that shall be made to realize it so much valuable instruction, that we are engaged to observe every step of its progress.
    HDC 11.55 7 In 1644, the town [Concord] contained sixty families.
    HCom 11.344 8 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard.
    CPL 11.502 13 [Thought] cannot be contained in any cup...
    II 12.66 1 't is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects.
    II 12.74 7 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it, and perhaps his only concern with it is some copyright of an edition in which certain pages...are contained.
    CL 12.141 6 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the future.
    MAng1 12.241 11 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper...by the Italian scholar, in the Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo, contained in the volume of his poems published by Biagioli...
    MAng1 12.242 10 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by [Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari...
    Milt1 12.269 27 [Milton] preferred his own English...to the Latin, which contained all the treasures of his memory.

container, n. (2)

    Pow 6.80 23 ...every man is efficient only as he is a container or vessel of this force [spirit]...
    Ctr 6.151 5 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of...any container of transcendent power, passing for nobody;...

containing, v. (16)

    Hist 2.5 26 Human life, as containing [the universal nature], is mysterious and inviolable...
    SwM 4.116 20 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for which they are to be substituted.
    ET11 5.182 21 An agriculturist bought lately the island of Lewes, in Hebrides, containing 500,000 acres.
    ET12 5.210 14 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...containing the tasks which many competitors had victoriously performed...
    ET16 5.276 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury, passing by Old Sarum, a bare, treeless hill, once containing the town which sent two members to Parliament...
    Ctr 6.141 20 Books, as containing the finest records of human wit, must always enter into our notion of culture.
    Boks 7.201 6 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind...containing that ironical eulogy of Socrates which is the source from which all the portraits of that philosopher current in Europe have been drawn.
    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.
    Cour 7.266 3 ...there is no separate essence called courage...no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue;...
    SlHr 10.442 16 ...what Middlesex jury, containing any God-fearing men in it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar believed to be just?
    Thor 10.461 23 From a box containing a bushel or more of loose pencils, [Thoreau] could take up with his hands fast enough just a dozen pencils at every grasp.
    EWI 11.114 11 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In the island of Antigua, containing 37,000 people, 30,000 being negroes, these objections had such weight that the legislature rejected the apprenticeship system...
    EWI 11.132 7 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts], containing a population of a million freemen, 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.
    CL 12.146 27 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and Cow-apple...and Beware-of-this. Apples of a kind which I remember in boyhood, each containing a barrel of wind and half a barrel of cider.
    MAng1 12.238 3 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did not use wax candles, but a better sort made of the tallow of goats. He therefore sent him four bundles of them, containing forty pounds.
    Milt1 12.271 13 ...that which [Milton] desired was the liberty of the wise man, containing itself in the limits of virtue.

contains, v. (32)

    AmS 1.90 5 ...[the active soul] every man contains within him...
    LT 1.264 19 ...whatever is affirmative and now advancing, contains [that which shall constitute the times to come].
    LT 1.272 14 ...the origin of all reform is in that mysterious fountain of the moral sentiment in man, which, amidst the natural, ever contains the supernatural for men.
    Comp 2.101 3 Every thing in nature contains all the powers of nature.
    OS 2.271 22 [This pure nature] is undefinable, unmeasurable; but we know that it pervades and contains us.
    OS 2.275 13 This is the law of moral and of mental gain. The simple rise as by specific levity not into a particular virtue, but into the region of all the virtues. They are in the spirit which contains them all.
    Cir 2.318 24 That central life is somewhat...superior to knowledge and thought, and contains all its circles.
    Int 2.329 16 If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical. The first contains the second, but virtual and latent.
    Int 2.343 3 ...a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates;...
    Pol1 3.209 26 Of the two great parties which at this hour almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men.
    SwM 4.97 4 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
    ShP 4.196 4 ...the play [Henry VIII] contains through all its length unmistakable traits of Shakspeare's hand...
    F 6.40 3 ...the soul contains the event that shall befall it;...
    Bhr 6.196 14 Special precepts are not to be thought of; the talent of well-doing contains them all.
    Elo1 7.71 5 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard...
    Elo1 7.88 17 Each of Mansfield's famous decisions contains a level sentence or two which hit the mark.
    Boks 7.197 25 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 2. Herodotus, whose history contains inestimable anecdotes...
    Boks 7.198 18 [Plato] contains the future, as he came out of the past.
    Suc 7.293 12 The fame of each discovery rightly attaches to the mind that made the formula which contains all the details...
    PPo 8.252 6 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza. Almost every one of several hundreds of poems of Hafiz contains his name thus interwoven more or less closely with the subject of the piece.
    Dem1 10.9 24 The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it...
    Edc1 10.131 4 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...
    SovE 10.193 17 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart.
    Carl 10.494 24 [Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every noble nature...contains, if savage passions, also fit checks and grand impulses...
    ALin 11.329 19 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward on its long march through mourning states...we might well be silent...
    FRO2 11.490 22 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls who enjoy the luxury of a religion that does not degrade;...
    PLT 12.5 4 ...the Intellect builds the universe and is the key to all it contains.
    Bost 12.201 16 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence.
    Bost 12.208 1 I know that this history [of Massachusetts] contains many black lines of cruel injustice;...
    MAng1 12.215 15 Whilst [Michelangelo's] name belongs to the highest class of genius, his life contains in it no injurious influence.
    Milt1 12.260 18 The world, no doubt, contains many of that class of men whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets...
    Pray 12.354 21 The last of the four orisons...contains this petition;-My Father: I now come to thee with a desire to thank thee for the continuance of our love...

contaminate, v. (2)

    ET3 5.39 21 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...contaminate the air...
    Edc1 10.137 10 ...jealous provision seems to have been made in [the new man's] constitution that you shall not invade and contaminate him with the worn weeds of your language and opinions.

contaminated, v. (2)

    FSLC 11.197 16 Every person who touches this business [the Fugitive Slave Law] is contaminated.
    Wom 11.421 10 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;-that...if they become good politicians they are worse clergymen. So of women, that they cannot enter this arena without being contaminated and unsexed.

contamination, n. (4)

    FSLN 11.235 8 ...no man has a right to hope that the laws of New York will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he has made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New York, but to his own sense and spirit.
    Wom 11.421 14 Here are two or three objections [to women's voting]: first, a want of practical wisdom; second, a too purely ideal view; and, third, the danger of contamination.
    Wom 11.423 7 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only accuses our existing politics...
    Wom 11.423 14 ...there is contamination enough [in politics]...

Contarini, Andrea, n. (1)

    PC 8.216 25 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era, namely, Savonarola, Vittoria Colonna, Contarini, Pole, Occhino;...

contemn, v. (2)

    Nat 1.58 14 ...Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world;...
    Mrs1 3.131 10 We contemn in turn every other gift of men of the world;...

contemplate, v. (9)

    Nat 1.35 21 A new interest surprises us, whilst...we contemplate the fearful extent and multitude of objects;...
    Lov1 2.182 2 ...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
    OS 2.273 27 ...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.
    PPh 4.49 3 ...each [Unity and Variety] so fast slides into the other that we can never say what is one, and what it is not. The Proteus is as nimble... when we contemplate the one, the true, the good,--as in the surfaces and extremities of matter.
    PPh 4.49 25 Men contemplate distinctions, because they are stupefied with ignorance.
    Comc 8.159 4 Separate any object...from the connection of things, and contemplate it alone...it becomes at once comic;...
    PLT 12.44 24 For weal or woe we clear ourselves from the thing we contemplate.
    MLit 12.315 23 [The selfish] invited us to contemplate Nature, and showed us an abominable self.
    MLit 12.327 22 We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.

contemplated, v. (5)

    Exp 3.78 21 ...[murder] is an act quite easy to be contemplated;...
    Mrs1 3.122 19 The point of distinction in all this class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated.
    MoS 4.171 12 ...though the town and state and way of living, which our counsellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity, yet men rightly go for him...
    LS 11.19 21 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
    PLT 12.30 27 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character. The benefit to others is contingent and not contemplated by the doer.

contemplates, v. (3)

    Art1 2.355 7 This...power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone. The power depends on the depth of the artist's insight of that object he contemplates.
    PI 8.21 3 The poet contemplates the central identity...
    QO 8.178 13 ...he that uses [the understanding] of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.

contemplating, v. (5)

    Lov1 2.181 17 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person...
    Elo1 7.93 5 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole...
    PLT 12.43 21 Genius is not a lazy angel contemplating itself and things.
    MAng1 12.222 22 There are now in Italy, both on canvas and in marble, forms and faces which the imagination is enriched by contemplating.
    MAng1 12.232 22 ...contemplating ever with love the idea of absolute beauty, [Michelangelo] was still dissatisfied with his own work.

contemplation, n. (25)

    Nat 1.23 8 The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation...
    Nat 1.60 9 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...as one vast picture which God paints on the instant eternity for the contemplation of the soul.
    Nat 1.66 9 Empirical science is apt...by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole.
    Con 1.317 1 ...the contemplation of some Scythian Anacharsis;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Hist 2.28 13 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation...begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
    SR 2.77 17 Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
    OS 2.273 1 Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. Every man parts from that contemplation with the feeling that it rather belongs to ages than to mortal life.
    Int 2.327 15 What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us...
    Art1 2.354 14 Until one thing comes out from the connection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.
    NER 3.282 27 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we miss, we have the fact. Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.
    PPh 4.64 6 ...the notion of virtue is not to be arrived at except through direct contemplation of the divine essence.
    GoW 4.266 20 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.
    ET4 5.50 26 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter, contemplation and practical skill;...
    ET5 5.80 7 [The English] are impatient...of minds addicted to contemplation...
    ET11 5.175 11 The De Veres, Bohuns, Mowbrays and Plantagenets were not addicted to contemplation.
    ET14 5.248 10 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges, that he is impressive...
    F 6.23 22 The too much contemplation of these limits induces meanness.
    Art2 7.51 15 ...the contemplation of a work of great art draws us into a state of mind which may be called religious.
    Elo1 7.93 6 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is...inflamed by the contemplation of the whole...
    Comc 8.159 25 ...the best of all jokes is the sympathetic contemplation of things by the understanding from the philosopher's point of view.
    Insp 8.294 24 We...cannot control and domesticate at will the high states of contemplation and continuous thought.
    Prch 10.219 26 ...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must react upon. It is resisted and corrupted by that obstinate tendency to personify and bring under the eyesight what should be the contemplation of Reason alone.
    Prch 10.235 22 All civil mankind have agreed in leaving one day for contemplation against six for practice.
    Schr 10.277 23 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he...alternates the contemplation of the fact in pure intellect, with the total conversion of the intellect into energy;...
    MAng1 12.217 3 ...in proportion as man rises above the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is most beautiful, and that, by the contemplation of such objects, he is taught and exalted.

contemplative, adj. (20)

    AmS 1.96 15 In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself from the life like a ripe fruit...
    DSA 1.126 14 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East;...
    MR 1.242 20 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias...to the contemplative life, that man...ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    LT 1.265 5 Let us paint the agitator...the contemplative girl...
    PNR 4.87 6 The gods are [to Plato] the ideas. Pan is speech, or manifestation; Saturn, the contemplative; Jove, the regal soul;...
    PNR 4.89 2 As the poet...[Plato] is only contemplative.
    SwM 4.132 18 An ardent and contemplative young man...might read once these books of Swedenborg...and then throw them aside for ever.
    ET1 5.23 16 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public, but more contemplative readers preferred the first books of the Excursion, and the Sonnets.
    ET14 5.260 9 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...one studious, contemplative, experimenting; the other, the ungrateful pupil, scornful of the source whilst availing itself of the knowledge for gain;...
    PPo 8.262 12 The following passages exhibit the strong tendency of the Persian poets to contemplative and religious poetry and to allegory.
    Imtl 8.331 5 ...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with a certain contemplative turn...does not build up faith or lead to content.
    Chr2 10.93 14 ...the high, contemplative, all-commanding vision...is alike in all.
    LLNE 10.337 22 On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came Mesmerism, which...attempted the explanation of miracle and prophecy, as well as of creation. What could be more revolting to the contemplative philosopher!
    LLNE 10.341 22 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man quite too cold and contemplative for the alliances of friendship...
    MMEm 10.421 20 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means;...
    Thor 10.480 13 Had [Thoreau's] genius been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life...
    Wom 11.418 3 There are plenty of people who...do not see the use of contemplative men...
    Shak1 11.450 12 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket.
    PLT 12.47 11 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression.
    CL 12.160 7 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them;...the contemplative man affirms them.

contemporaneous, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.31 4 A man conversing in earnest...will find that a material image... arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought...
    Wth 6.102 25 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston. Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town, thanks to...the contemporaneous growth of New York and the whole country.
    PC 8.226 3 At any time, it only needs the contemporaneous appearance of a few superior and attractive men to give a new and noble turn to the public mind.

contemporaneousness, n. (1)

    F 6.44 17 Certain ideas are in the air. ... This explains the curious contemporaneousness of inventions and discoveries.

contemporaries, n. (59)

    AmS 1.81 8 We do not meet...for the advancement of science, like our contemporaries in the British and European capitals.
    AmS 1.88 15 ...neither can any artist entirely...write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient...to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries...
    DSA 1.133 16 ...when I see among my contemporaries a true orator...I see beauty that is to be desired.
    LE 1.167 2 ...to have as much learning as our contemporaries...satisfies us.
    LT 1.276 1 These reforms are our contemporaries;...
    Tran 1.341 26 ...it would not misbecome us to inquire nearer home, what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and do...
    SR 2.47 15 Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries...
    SR 2.48 20 It seems [the youth] knows how to speak to his contemporaries.
    Prd1 2.239 10 ...neither should you put yourself in a false position with your contemporaries by indulging a vein of hostility and bitterness.
    Hsm1 2.249 4 The violations of the laws of nature by our predecessors and our contemporaries are punished in us also.
    Art1 2.353 11 ...[a man] is necessitated by...the idea on which he and his contemporaries live and toil, to share the manner of his times...
    Pt1 3.5 11 [The poet] is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art...
    Mrs1 3.126 5 I use these old names [Diogenes, Socrates, Epaminondas], but the men I speak of are my contemporaries.
    UGM 4.7 3 One man answers some question which none of his contemporaries put, and is isolated.
    UGM 4.24 10 The worthless and offensive members of society...never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.
    UGM 4.25 17 Men resemble their contemporaries even more than their progenitors.
    UGM 4.26 8 The shield against the stingings of conscience is the universal practice, or our contemporaries.
    UGM 4.26 10 We learn of our contemporaries what they know without effort...
    UGM 4.26 19 The great, or such as...transcend fashions by their fidelity to universal ideas...defend us from our contemporaries.
    PPh 4.41 12 ...wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works.
    PPh 4.41 15 ...these [great] men magnetize their contemporaries...
    PPh 4.42 2 What is a great man but one...who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables, as his food? ... Hence his contemporaries tax him with plagiarism.
    SwM 4.98 13 This man [Swedenborg], who appeared to his contemporaries a visionary...no doubt led the most real life of any man then in the world...
    MoS 4.161 19 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...proof...that he has evinced the temper, stoutness and the range of qualities which, among his contemporaries and countrymen, entitle him to fellowship and trust.
    ShP 4.190 10 A great man...finds himself in the river of the thoughts and events, forced onward by the ideas and necessities of his contemporaries.
    GoW 4.265 27 [The scholar]...must also wish with other men to stand well with his contemporaries.
    ET4 5.47 16 How came such men as...Francis Bacon, George Herbert, Henry Vane, to exist here [in England]? What made these delicate natures? was it the air? was it the sea? was it the parentage? For it is certain that these men are samples of their contemporaries.
    ET12 5.211 3 In seeing these youths [at Oxford] I believed I saw already an advantage in vigor and color and general habit, over their contemporaries in the American colleges.
    Ctr 6.147 14 ...of the six or seven teachers whom each man wants among his contemporaries, it often happens that one or two of them live on the other side of the world.
    Ctr 6.164 9 What forests of laurel we bring...to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
    Wsp 6.208 3 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries...succumb to a great despair...
    Bty 6.296 24 French memoires of the sixteenth century celebrate the name of Pauline de Viguier, a...maiden who so fired the enthusiasm of her contemporaries by her enchanting form, that the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel her to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
    Art2 7.48 18 The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired, not by his...contemporaries, but by all men...must disindividualize himself...
    DL 7.109 2 Let us go to the sitting-room, the table-talk and the expenditure of our contemporaries.
    Boks 7.196 2 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...Erasmus, More, will be superior to the average intellect. In contemporaries, it is not so easy to distinguish betwixt notoriety and fame.
    Boks 7.202 21 Of Plotinus, we have eulogies by Porphyry and Longinus, and the favor of the Emperor Gallienus, indicating the respect he inspired among his contemporaries.
    Boks 7.206 14 Ximenes...Henry IV. of France, are [Charles V's] contemporaries.
    Boks 7.207 22 [Jonson] has written verses to or on all his notable contemporaries;...
    Clbs 7.237 7 One of the best records of the great German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
    PI 8.36 6 Many of the fine poems of Herrick, Jonson and their contemporaries had this casual origin.
    PC 8.215 20 ...a certain enormity of culture makes a man invisible to his contemporaries.
    Dem1 10.18 24 Seldom or never do [demonic individuals] meet their match among their contemporaries;...
    Schr 10.269 7 We are all contemporaries and bones of one body.
    Schr 10.275 10 The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he disesteems old age, and lands, and money, and power...
    Plu 10.294 17 ...this neglect by [Plutarch's] contemporaries has been compensated by an immense popularity in modern nations.
    Plu 10.296 18 ...recently, there has been a remarkable revival, in France, in the taste for Plutarch and his contemporaries;...
    LLNE 10.362 25 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...
    EzRy 10.384 1 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence...
    SlHr 10.444 11 ...was it only the lot of excellence, that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of life alone, as it were, unknown to those who were his contemporaries and familiars?
    FSLN 11.221 4 Mr. Webster had a natural ascendancy of aspect and carriage which distinguished him over all his contemporaries.
    CInt 12.132 4 ...old men cannot see...the institutions, the laws under which they have lived, passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of your high calling...
    MAng1 12.221 8 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his contemporaries inform us, were made with a pen...
    MAng1 12.232 5 The impulse of [Michelangelo's] grand style was instantaneous upon his contemporaries.
    MAng1 12.238 22 Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect sympathy. They stand in the attitude rather of appeal from their contemporaries to their race.
    Milt1 12.248 17 ...[Milton]...obtained great respect from his contemporaries as an accomplished scholar and a formidable pamphleteer.
    Milt1 12.253 18 Leaving out of view the pretensions of our contemporaries...we think no man can be named whose mind still acts on the cultivated intellect of England and America with an energy comparable to that of Milton.
    Milt1 12.254 18 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely, to raise the idea of Man in the minds of his contemporaries and of posterity...
    EurB 12.367 14 ...[Wordsworth's] poems evince a power of diction that is no more rivalled by his contemporaries than is his poetic insight.
    Let 12.402 8 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class...perhaps is the more violent that whilst our work is imposed by the soil and the sea, our culture is the tradition of Europe. But we cannot share the desperation of our contemporaries;...

contemporary, adj. (13)

    Pt1 3.9 10 ...we were obliged to confess that [a recent writer of lyrics] is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man.
    Mrs1 3.152 12 ...this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque to those who look at the contemporary facts for science or for entertainment, is not equally pleasant to all spectators.
    SwM 4.111 22 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg], throw all the contemporary philosophy of England into shade...
    ET14 5.237 20 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare;...and the apathy proved by the absence of all contemporary panegyric,--seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.
    ET16 5.273 10 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker, and one whose influence may be traced in every contemporary book.
    Art2 7.47 11 Especially have we this infirmity of faith in contemporary genius.
    Cour 7.256 25 Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.
    PI 8.35 4 This contemporary insight is transubstantiation...
    Grts 8.315 15 How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of whom...we have learned...to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
    Milt1 12.250 1 The Defence of the People of England, on which [Milton's] contemporary fame was founded, is...the worst of his works.
    MLit 12.321 12 ...more than any other contemporary bard [Wordsworth] is pervaded with a reverence of somewhat higher than (conscious) thought.
    PPr 12.380 9 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present] makes great approaches to true contemporary history...
    PPr 12.383 2 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...

contemporary, n. (9)

    Int 2.346 25 ...what marks [Greek philosophers' thought's] elevation and has even a comic look to us, is the innocent serenity with which these babe-like Jupiters...from age to age prattle to each other and to no contemporary.
    SwM 4.104 26 ...Linnaeus, [Swedenborg's] contemporary, was affirming... that Nature is always like herself...
    GoW 4.272 20 Still [Goethe] is a poet,--poet of a prouder laurel than any contemporary...
    Plu 10.294 7 ...though the contemporary...of Persius, Juvenal, Lucan and Seneca...[Plutarch] does not cite them...
    Plu 10.311 11 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca, who...was for many years his contemporary...
    HDC 11.35 17 The hardships of the journey and of the first encampment are certainly related by [the pilgrims'] contemporary with some air of romance...
    Shak1 11.452 13 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each other, and Cervantes was his exact contemporary...
    MLit 12.321 25 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor...
    PPr 12.387 7 ...if you should ask the contemporary, he would tell you...that he had [no superstitions].

contempt, n. (36)

    Nat 1.11 15 Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend.
    LE 1.178 5 ...out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    LE 1.181 14 Let [the scholar] know that...in a contempt for the gabble of to-day's opinions the secret of the world is to be learned...
    YA 1.385 16 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this...by the gradual contempt into which official government falls...
    SR 2.56 5 If this aversion had its origin in contempt and resistance like [the nonconformist's] own he might well go home with a sad countenance;...
    Fdsp 2.202 10 ...all the speed in that contest [of friendship] depends on intrinsic nobleness and the contempt of trifles.
    Hsm1 2.250 8 [Heroism's] rudest form is the contempt for safety and ease...
    Hsm1 2.251 23 ...every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good.
    Hsm1 2.258 22 ...[many extraordinary young men] seem to throw contempt on our entire polity and social state;...
    Pol1 3.221 17 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable...men of talent and women of superior sentiments cannot hide their contempt.
    NR 3.247 1 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth...insinuating a treachery and contempt for all we had so long loved and wrought in ourselves and others.
    NMW 4.228 9 The advocates of liberty and of progress are ideologists;--a word of contempt often in [Napoleon's] mouth;...
    NMW 4.239 16 ...[Napoleon]...made no secret of his contempt for the born kings...
    NMW 4.243 22 ...[Napoleon] said to one of his oldest friends, Men deserve the contempt with which they inspire me.
    ET5 5.80 8 [The English]...cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of thought...
    ET14 5.245 25 [Hallam] passes in silence, or dismisses with a kind of contempt, the profounder masters...
    Clbs 7.240 3 What can you do with an eloquent man? No rules of debate, no contempt of court...can be contrived that his first syllable will not set aside...
    PI 8.52 4 With...the first strain of a song,...we pour contempt on the prose you so magnify;...
    PPo 8.250 12 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the world.
    Dem1 10.17 23 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... Only in the impossible it seemed to delight, and the possible to repel with contempt.
    Aris 10.52 13 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt?
    Aris 10.62 19 ...[the gentleman] will find...in English palaces the London twist...contempt of the masses, contempt of Ireland...
    Chr2 10.93 1 ...courage is contempt of danger in the determination to see this good of the whole enacted;...
    Edc1 10.139 19 ...I desire to be saved from [boys'] contempt.
    SovE 10.201 23 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men, but... we hate to have them treated with contempt.
    Schr 10.269 11 Able men may sometimes affect a contempt for thought...
    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.
    Thor 10.459 18 ...[Thoreau's] aversation from English and European manners and tastes almost reached contempt.
    Carl 10.491 9 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...
    HDC 11.70 9 ...if any person or persons...shall...be factors for the East India Company, we will treat them......with contempt and detestation.
    FSLN 11.233 20 You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to protect their citizens. They are driven with contempt out of the courts and out of the territory of the Slave States...
    PLT 12.62 2 Sensibility is the secret readiness to believe in all kinds of power, and the contempt of any experience we have not is the opposite pole.
    CInt 12.117 4 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear;...
    MAng1 12.235 2 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied...the characters I have painted were...holy men, with whom gold was an object of contempt.
    MAng1 12.237 3 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt of the vulgar...
    WSL 12.338 18 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...with a profound contempt for all that he does not understand;...

contemptible, adj. (4)

    SA 8.87 5 Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in his contemptible squeals of joy.
    Elo2 8.128 20 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...that I wish [a boy's] guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Dem1 10.4 19 ...[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.
    PLT 12.52 11 ...because [men] know one thing, we defer to them in another, and find them really contemptible.

contempts, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.162 17 ...let the populace bestow on you their coldest contempts.

contemptuous, adj. (2)

    ET8 5.137 24 ...the English press [is] never timorous about French opinion, but arrogant and contemptuous.
    WSL 12.343 27 [Landor's] love of beauty...betrays itself in all petulant and contemptuous expressions.

contend, v. (11)

    Prd1 2.239 1 If they set out to contend, Saint Paul will lie and Saint John will hate.
    Chr1 3.105 13 It is of no use to ape [character] or to contend with it.
    UGM 4.5 12 We must not contend against love...
    Elo1 7.72 25 ...when...his words fell like the winter snows, not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses;...
    Cour 7.264 19 Courage...consists in the conviction that the agents with whom you contend are not superior in strength of resources or spirit to you.
    Suc 7.311 13 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get, urging him...to ride, run, argue and contend...
    MMEm 10.420 26 Hard to contend for a health which is daily used in petition for a final close.
    LS 11.23 1 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital importance,-really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper]...
    HDC 11.75 23 [The minute-men] never dreamed their children would contend who had done the most.
    EWI 11.145 3 I esteem the occasion of this jubilee [of emancipation in the West Indies] to be the proud discovery that the black race can contend with the white...
    ACiv 11.300 2 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions...

contended, v. (5)

    Comp 2.117 11 ...no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it...
    ET2 5.33 3 ...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main: As if, said they, we contended for the drops of the sea, and not for its situation...
    ET12 5.208 4 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly;...
    Clbs 7.238 9 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words.
    LLNE 10.334 21 When Massachusetts was full of [Everett's] fame it was not contended that he had thrown any truths into circulation.

contending, adj. (4)

    Clbs 7.239 27 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.
    Aris 10.41 21 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages...
    PerF 10.69 8 ...man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can...help him in every kind. Each by itself has a certain omnipotence, but all, like contending kings and emperors, in the presence of each other, are antagonized and kept polite...
    EdAd 11.392 11 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious constitution...

contending, v. (5)

    F 6.29 16 A little whim of will to be free gallantly contending against the universe of chemistry.
    Ctr 6.163 10 [The ancients] preferred the noble vessel...contending with winds and waves...to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns firing.
    Ill 6.321 1 That story of Thor...describes us, who are contending, amid these seeming trifles, with the supreme energies of nature.
    SA 8.96 24 The main point is to...say, with Newton, There's no contending against facts.
    Koss 11.398 20 ...[the sympathy of Americans] is a living soul contending with living souls.

contends, v. (1)

    Tran 1.330 4 ...the idealist contends that his way of thinking is in higher nature.

content, adj. (44)

    Nat 1.23 12 Others have the same love [of nature] in such excess, that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms.
    AmS 1.106 20 All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being, - ripened; yes, and are content to be less...
    AmS 1.107 1 [The poor and the low] are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person...
    DSA 1.147 16 ...almost all men are content with [society's] easy merits;...
    LE 1.164 13 Concede to [the man of letters] genius...and he is content;...
    LE 1.186 14 Be content with a little light, so it be your own.
    MR 1.228 6 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a benefactor, not content to slip along through the world like a footman or a spy...
    Tran 1.350 8 A great man will be content to have indicated in any the slightest manner his perception of the reigning Idea of his time...
    Comp 2.99 15 ...[the President] is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Comp 2.120 15 I learn to be content.
    Fdsp 2.193 26 Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
    Prd1 2.222 5 [Prudence] is content to seek health of body by complying with physical conditions...
    OS 2.288 25 Humanity shines in Homer...in Milton. They are content with truth.
    OS 2.297 11 [Man] will...be content with all places and with any service he can render.
    Pt1 3.41 18 God wills also [O poet]...that thou be content that others speak for thee.
    Exp 3.74 16 [Just persons] refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office.
    Exp 3.84 16 I am very content with knowing, if only I could know.
    Chr1 3.90 18 O Iole! how did you know that Hercules was a god? Because, answered Iole, I was content the moment my eyes fell on him.
    Chr1 3.106 3 I was content with the simple rural poverty of my own;...
    Gts 3.164 20 We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one;...
    SwM 4.118 21 ...Swedenborg was not content with the culinary use of the world.
    MoS 4.183 19 [The man of thought] is content with just and unjust...
    ET1 5.7 18 ...[Landor]...is well content to impress, if possible, his English whim upon the immutable past.
    ET5 5.89 19 A nation of laborers, every [English] man is trained to some one art or detail, and aims at perfection in that; not content unless he has something in which he thinks he surpasses all other men.
    ET16 5.281 9 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position. In the silence of tradition, this one relation to science becomes an important clew; but we [Emerson and Carlyle] were content to leave the problem with the rocks.
    CbW 6.266 14 The Turkish cadi said to Layard, After the fashion of thy people, thou hast wandered from one place to another, until thou art happy and content in none.
    Ill 6.311 1 ...we must be content to be pleased without too curiously analyzing the occasions.
    Suc 7.294 17 I pronounce that young man happy who is content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at...
    PI 8.63 24 ...none of your carpet poets, who are content to amuse, will satisfy us.
    SA 8.89 1 Thus much for manners: but we are not content with pantomime;...
    Grts 8.304 9 A sensible man...is content with putting his fact or theme simply on its ground.
    Dem1 10.13 13 I am content and occupied with such miracles as I know...
    Supl 10.166 19 I...am content that [my eyes] should see the real world...
    MMEm 10.430 20 Those economists (Adam Smith) who say...that, whatever disposition of virtue may exist, unless something is done for society, deserves no fame,-why, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am content with such paradoxical kind of facts;...
    Thor 10.485 4 It seems...a kind of indignity to so noble a soul [as Thoreau] that he should depart out of Nature before yet he has been really shown to his peers for what he is. But he, at least, is content.
    LS 11.24 17 I am content that [the Lord's Supper] stand to the end of the world...
    HCom 11.340 3 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
    SMC 11.375 11 I am sure I need not bespeak your gratitude to these fellow citizens and neighbors of ours [veterans of the Civil War]. I hope they will be content with the laurels of one war.
    Shak1 11.448 1 We are all content to let Shakspeare speak for himself.
    CL 12.144 9 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back. The more reason we have to be content with the felicity of our slopes in Massachusetts...
    Milt1 12.250 5 We could be well content if the flames to which [Milton's Defence of the English People] was condemned at Paris, at Toulouse, and at London, had utterly consumed it.
    Milt1 12.276 18 Perhaps we speak to no fact, but to mere fables, of an idle mendicant Homer, and of a Shakspeare content with a mean and jocular way of life.
    MLit 12.312 18 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see how Fair hangs the apple from the rock...
    MLit 12.332 9 [Goethe] was content to fall into the track of vulgar poets...

content, n. (10)

    Hist 2.23 11 The home-keeping wit...is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil;...
    Fdsp 2.200 3 It makes no difference how many friends I have, and what content I can find in conversing with each, if there be one to whom I am not equal.
    DL 7.128 27 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    SA 8.99 8 ...What we want is...your content to be a vehicle of the simple truth.
    QO 8.177 4 Whoever looks...at flies, aphides, gnats and innumerable parasites...must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction...
    PPo 8.253 22 I have no hoarded treasure,/ Yet have I rich content;/ The first from Allah to the Shah,/ The last to Hafiz went./
    Imtl 8.331 7 ...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with...a taste for abstract truth, for the moral laws, does not build up faith or lead to content.
    MMEm 10.397 10 Ah me! it was my childhood's thought,/ If He should make my web a blot/ On life's fair picture of delight,/ My heart's content would find it right./
    MMEm 10.412 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked. To-day cannot recall an error, nor scarcely a sacrifice, but more fulness of content in the labors of a day never was felt.
    ACri 12.286 5 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all.

content, v. (18)

    MN 1.195 17 Great men do not content us.
    MN 1.212 15 Every star in heaven is discontented and insatiable. Gravitation and chemistry cannot content them.
    MR 1.232 12 I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade...is a system of selfishness;...
    Lov1 2.185 27 Not always can...even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
    Pt1 3.16 2 No imitation or playing of these things [of nature] would content [the coachman or the hunter];...
    Chr1 3.112 2 ...if we could abstain from asking anything of [men]...and content us with compelling them through the virtue of the eldest laws!
    Gts 3.162 15 We ask the whole. Nothing less will content us.
    Nat2 3.186 20 The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed...
    UGM 4.34 18 ...at last we shall cease to look in men for completeness, and shall content ourselves with their social and delegated quality.
    NMW 4.244 23 The characters which [Napoleon] has drawn of several of his marshals...though they did not content the insatiable vanity of French officers, are no doubt substantially just.
    Wth 6.88 22 ...will a man content himself with a hut and a handful of dried pease?
    CbW 6.271 5 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...and the like.
    Suc 7.307 23 No historical person begins to content us.
    PI 8.63 8 We are sometimes apprised that...the high poets, that Homer, Milton, Shakspeare, do not fully content us.
    Aris 10.58 7 Prosperity and pound-cake are for very young gentlemen, whom such things content;...
    HDC 11.68 4 It would be impossible on this occasion to recite all these patriotic papers [of Concord]. I must content myself with a few brief extracts.
    FSLC 11.190 22 I...shall content myself with reading a single passage.
    ACiv 11.300 4 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions, and you still content yourself with parrying the blows it aims...

contented, adj. (13)

    YA 1.368 8 ...[the farmer] is so contented with his alleys, woodlands, orchards and river, that Niagara and the Notch of the White Hills...are superfluities.
    SL 2.162 11 A good man is contented.
    Mrs1 3.141 18 The favorites of society...are able men...who exactly fill the hour and the company; contented and contenting, at a marriage or a funeral...
    MoS 4.169 8 [Montaigne's] writing has no enthusiasms, no aspiration; contented, self-respecting and keeping the middle of the road.
    Bhr 6.189 1 A man who is sure of his point, carries a broad and contented expression...
    Bhr 6.194 5 ...such was the contented spirit of the monk [Basle] that he found something to praise in every place and company...
    Grts 8.301 17 ...we ought not to be and shall not be contented with any goal we have reached.
    Plu 10.311 26 Cannot the simple lover of truth enjoy the virtues of those he meets, and the virtues suggested by them, so to find himself at some time purely contented?
    LLNE 10.332 20 ...even the coarsest [auditors] were contented to go punctually to listen, for [Everett's] manner, when they had found out that the subject-matter was not for them.
    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 and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented.
    EWI 11.118 25 The child will sit in your arms contented, provided you do nothing.
    Bost 12.202 19 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but...the men who are never contented and never to be contented with the work actually accomplished...
    Bost 12.202 20 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but...the men who are never contented and never to be contented with the work actually accomplished...

contented, v. (26)

    LE 1.167 25 Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets] contented themselves with the passing chirp of a bird...
    Pt1 3.4 7 ...even the poets are contented with a civil and conformed manner of living...
    UGM 4.16 10 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence. This honor...genius perpetually pays; contented if now and then in a century the proffer is accepted.
    ET2 5.31 1 If sailors were contented...I should respect them.
    ET4 5.59 23 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea, the tiller shipped and the sails spread; being left alone he sets fire to some tar-wood and lies down contented on deck.
    ET8 5.128 8 As compared with the Americans, I think [the English] cheerful and contented.
    ET10 5.156 7 [The English] are contented with slower steamers, as long as they know that swifter boats lose money.
    ET16 5.274 7 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give...a little [time] to scientific clubs and museums, which, at this moment, make London very attractive. But my philosopher [Carlyle] was not contented.
    ET16 5.275 26 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that England...must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.
    ET18 5.304 3 Canada and Australia have been contented with substantial independence.
    Wth 6.107 25 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that the weeds will grow with the potatoes...
    Wth 6.111 6 ...we have to pay, not what would have contented [the immigrants] at home, but what they have learned to think necessary here;...
    Wth 6.114 10 Pride...can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented in fine saloons.
    CbW 6.250 20 In mankind [nature] is contented if she yields one master in a century.
    Ill 6.312 23 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state or in society; weighs what he says; perhaps he never comes nearer to him for that, but dies at last better contented for this amusement of his eyes and his fancy.
    Boks 7.199 3 ...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in Plato]. If the student wish to see...the supremacy of truth and the religious sentiment, he shall be contented also.
    Suc 7.287 6 I don't know but we and our race elsewhere set a higher value on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other men...are less easily contented.
    PI 8.16 16 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;--yes, so long as they are contented to be such...
    PC 8.207 12 We may be well contented with our fair inheritance.
    PPo 8.244 2 On earth's wide thoroughfares below/ Two only men contented go:/ Who knows what 's right and what 's forbid,/ And he from whom is knowledge hid./
    Grts 8.317 19 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it;...
    EzRy 10.382 1 ...when fitted for college, the son [Ezra Ripley] could not be contented with teaching...
    JBS 11.277 9 ...as soon as [people] read [John Brown's] own speeches and letters they are heartily contented...
    PLT 12.13 25 The adepts value only the pure geometry, the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason. I am fully contented if you tell me where are the two termini.
    II 12.83 11 All we ask of any man is to be contented with his own work.
    Milt1 12.274 25 ...Bacon's imagination was said to be the noblest that ever contented itself to minister to the understanding...

contenting, v. (3)

    SL 2.138 26 ...by contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine.
    Mrs1 3.141 18 The favorites of society...are able men...who exactly fill the hour and the company; contented and contenting, at a marriage or a funeral...
    Suc 7.302 2 Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting...

contention, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.187 18 ...the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.
    Schr 10.285 8 [Men of talent] have talents for contention...

contentment, n. (7)

    SR 2.60 20 Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times...
    SL 2.139 23 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...and you are without effort impelled...to right and a perfect contentment.
    Exp 3.61 5 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. If these are mean and malignant, their contentment, which is the last victory of justice, is a more satisfying echo to the heart than the voice of poets...
    ET14 5.254 14 Squalid contentment with conventions...betray the ebb of life and spirit [in English students].
    LLNE 10.361 5 Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were... persons impatient of...the uniformity, perhaps they would say the squalid contentment of society around them...
    HDC 11.49 11 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam, hath been...altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair. A general contentment is the result.
    MAng1 12.241 17 ...[Michelangelo] knew that his spirit could only enjoy contentment after death.

contents, n. (3)

    SL 2.154 27 The permanence of all books is fixed...by...the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.
    PI 8.54 16 ...the verse must be...inseparable from its contents...
    QO 8.183 24 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he turned to the table of contents...

Contents, n. (1)

    Aris 10.41 15 We shall come to add Kings in the Contents of the Directory, as we do Physicians, Brokers, etc.

contents, v. (4)

    OS 2.296 2 we have...no record of any character or mode of living that entirely contents us.
    ET14 5.257 25 [Tennyson] contents himself with describing the Englishman as he is...
    Wth 6.121 17 How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position;...
    PLT 12.11 24 ...he who who contents himself with dotting a fragmentary curve...follows a system also...

contest, n. (16)

    Con 1.303 23 The contest between the Future and the Past is one between Divinity entering and Divinity departing.
    Fdsp 2.200 5 If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly.
    Fdsp 2.202 9 ...all the speed in that contest [of friendship] depends on intrinsic nobleness...
    Chr1 3.90 22 ...Hercules did not wait for a contest;...
    NR 3.241 20 ...in the contest we are now considering, the players are also the game...
    NER 3.255 5 There is observable throughout [the practical activities of New England], the contest between mechanical and spiritual methods...
    NER 3.278 25 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors...
    PPh 4.61 2 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato]; and when I die, to die so. And I invite all other men...to this contest, which, I affirm, surpasses all contests here.
    NMW 4.257 14 [Napoleon] left France smaller, poorer, feebler, than he found it; and the whole contest for freedom was to be begun again.
    CbW 6.254 10 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely, as Henry VIII. in the contest with the Pope;...
    Boks 7.210 6 ...the contest [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] proceeded...
    Edc1 10.129 11 No dollar of property can be created without...some acquisition of knowledge and practical force. It is a constant contest with the active faculties of men...
    SlHr 10.437 15 The Homeric heroes, when they saw the gods mingling in the fray, sheathed their swords. So did not [Samuel Hoar] feel any call to make it a contest of personal strength with mobs or nations;...
    HDC 11.78 7 [Concord's] little population of 1300 souls behaved like a party to the contest [the American Revolution].
    FSLN 11.220 24 ...of course, [vulgar politicians] can drive out from the contest any honorable man.
    CL 12.147 2 ...there was a contest between the old orchard and the invading forest-trees...

contest, v. (1)

    DSA 1.128 5 These general views, which, while they are general, none will contest, find abundant illustration in the history of religion...

contested, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.73 8 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...many obscure and yet contested facts, now arranged under the name of Animal Magnetism;...

contested, v. (2)

    Ctr 6.163 8 Open your Marcus Antoninus. In the opinion of the ancients he was the great man...who contested the frowns of fortune.
    MLit 12.317 7 It is not to be contested that selfishness and the senses write the laws under which we live...

contests, n. (3)

    LT 1.280 20 ...how trivial seem the contests of the abolitionist...
    Fdsp 2.202 3 He [who offers himself a candidate for the covenant of friendship] proposes himself for contests where Time, Want, Danger, are in the lists...
    PPh 4.61 2 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato]; and when I die, to die so. And I invite all other men...to this contest, which, I affirm, surpasses all contests here.

context, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.87 11 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words...like a schoolmaster puzzled by a hard sum, who reads the context with emphasis.

contexture, n. (1)

    GoW 4.264 24 [The scholar] is...one of the estates of the realm, provided and prepared...in the knitting and contexture of things.

contiguous, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.131 18 ...any excess of power in one part is usually paid for at once by some defect in a contiguous part.

continence, n. (3)

    Hist 2.23 11 The home-keeping wit...is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil;...
    ShP 4.194 21 ...when at last the greatest freedom of style and treatment was reached [in Egypt and Greece], the prevailing genius of architecture still enforced a certain calmness and continence in the statue.
    ET6 5.106 23 ...[the English] have as much energy, as much continence of character as they ever had.

continent, adj. (2)

    MR 1.255 20 He who would help himself and others should...be...a continent, persisting, immovable person...
    Nat2 3.177 21 Frivolity is a most unfit tribute to Pan, who ought to be represented in the mythology as the most continent of gods.

Continent, American, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.221 13 I think [people] looked at [Webster] as the representative of the American Continent.

continent, n. (42)

    AmS 1.81 16 Perhaps the time is already come when...the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids...
    LE 1.156 25 Men looked...that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans, who should laugh and leap in the continent...
    MN 1.223 4 Who shall dare think he has...missed anything excellent in the past, who seeth...the yet untouched continent of hope glittering...in the vast West?
    YA 1.364 23 The bountiful continent is ours...
    YA 1.365 16 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere...
    YA 1.365 26 The continent we inhabit is to be physic and food for our mind, as well as our body.
    YA 1.369 11 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will render a service to the whole face of this continent...
    YA 1.372 14 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...the form...required to prevent the protuberances of the continent... from continually deranging the axis of the earth.
    Pt1 3.22 6 ...the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules...
    ShP 4.190 4 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life, I will go to sea and find an Antarctic continent...
    ET3 5.41 20 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory...so near that it can see the harvests of the continent...
    ET10 5.155 25 During the war from 1789 to 1815, whilst they complained that they...by dint of enormous taxes were subsidizing all the continent against France, the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
    ET11 5.176 26 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor having travelled on the continent...became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.
    ET13 5.220 24 When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him...
    ET16 5.288 21 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...
    Wsp 6.233 5 It is related of William of Orange, that whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman sent to him on public business came to his camp...
    CbW 6.262 9 What had been, ever since our memory, solid continent, yawns apart and discloses its composition and genesis.
    Elo1 7.82 24 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes.
    Suc 7.283 12 We have discovered the Antarctic continent.
    SA 8.104 15 We have come...to know the vast resources of the continent...
    QO 8.199 27 ...[the individual] is no more to be credited with the grand result [of language] than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.
    PC 8.207 16 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?...the hungry cry for men which goes up from the wide continent;...
    Imtl 8.341 22 [The thinker] is but as a fly or a worm to this mountain, this continent, which his thoughts inhabit.
    PerF 10.72 1 When the continent sinks, the opposite continent...rises.
    PerF 10.72 2 When the continent sinks, the opposite continent...rises.
    MoL 10.250 8 [Nature says to the American] See to it that you hold and administer the continent for mankind.
    MoL 10.258 12 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain...one generation might well be sacrificed; perhaps it will; that this continent be purged...
    FSLC 11.199 11 A measure of pacification and union. What is [the Fugitive Slave Law's] effect? To make one sole subject for conversation and painful thought throughout the continent, namely, slavery.
    ACiv 11.306 13 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent...
    EPro 11.322 14 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which...neutralized hitherto all the vast capabilities of this continent,-then this taxation...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    ALin 11.335 17 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people];...the true representative of this continent;...
    EdAd 11.382 12 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./
    EdAd 11.386 17 ...who can see the continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    Koss 11.401 4 You [Kossuth] have got your story told in every palace and log hut and prairie camp, throughout the continent.
    Humb 11.458 11 When [Humboldt] was stopped in Spain and could not get away, he turned round and interpreted their mountain system, explaining the past history of the continent of Europe.
    FRep 11.526 8 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...
    FRep 11.531 19 In this country...there is, at present...a headlong devotion... to the conquest of the continent...
    FRep 11.542 25 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...hinders the inroads of the sea on the continent...
    Bost 12.201 11 The future historian will regard the detachment of the Puritans without aristocracy...as great a gain to mankind as the opening of this continent.
    Bost 12.209 7 ...thus our little city [Boston] thrives and enlarges... propagating itself like a banyan over the continent.
    MAng1 12.244 15 The traveller from a distant continent, who gazes on that marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in the foreign church;...
    PPr 12.390 25 How like an air-balloon or bird of Jove does [Carlyle] seem to float over the continent...

Continent, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.369 23 I please myself with the thought that our American mind... is beginning to show a quiet power, drawn from wide and abundant sources, proper to a Continent and to an educated people.

continental, adj. (3)

    YA 1.370 2 ...the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind...
    ET15 5.267 8 The tone of [the London Times's] articles has often been the occasion of comment from the official organs of the continental courts...
    ET18 5.301 10 [The foreign policy of England] has a principal regard to the interest of trade, checked however by the aristocratic bias of the ambassador, which usually puts him in sympathy with the continental Courts.

Continental, adj. (3)

    HDC 11.50 2 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented...to the Continental nations as a lesson of humanity and love.
    HDC 11.79 7 In June [1776], the General Assembly of Massachusetts resolved to raise 5000 militia for six months, to reinforce the Continental army.
    CInt 12.119 1 The emigration into America of British, as well as of Continental people, is the eulogy of America...

continents, n. (6)

    MN 1.222 21 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character, as islands and continents were built by invisible infusories...
    Cir 2.302 18 The new continents are built out of the ruins of an old planet;...
    ET3 5.43 16 [Nature made] An island,--but not so large, the people [of England] not so many as to glut the great markets and depress one another, but proportioned to the size of Europe and the continents.
    ET18 5.303 8 ...[Englishmen's] colonization annexes archipelagoes and continents...
    FSLC 11.211 3 Europe, the least of all the continents, has almost monopolized for twenty centuries the genius and power of them all.
    CL 12.154 9 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;...

contingences, n. (1)

    SwM 4.134 11 The thousand-fold relation of men is no