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

copy, n. (19)

    MN 1.218 3 ...what is Genius but finer love...a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same?
    Hist 2.15 17 A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk...
    Art1 2.351 18 ...[the painter] will come to value the expression of nature and not nature itself, and so exalt in his copy the features that please him.
    Pt1 3.25 4 ...[the poet's thoughts], sharing the aspiration of the whole universe, tend to paint a far more delicate copy of their essence on his mind.
    Chr1 3.108 26 Every trait which the artist recorded in stone he had seen in life, and better than his copy.
    MoS 4.163 16 I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered autographs of William Shakspeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of Montaigne.
    MoS 4.163 20 ...the duplicate copy of Florio...turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
    ET7 5.121 2 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
    Ctr 6.136 8 All conversation is at an end when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities...which make up our American existence. Nor do we expect anybody to be other than a faint copy of these heroes.
    Bty 6.295 15 Burns writes a copy of verses and sends them to a newspaper, and the human race take charge of them that they shall not perish.
    Farm 7.135 19 What these strong masters [farmers] wrote at large in miles,/ I followed in small copy in my acre;/...
    Boks 7.209 21 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many curiosities was a copy of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471;...
    Boks 7.209 23 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many curiosities was a copy of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471; the only perfect copy of this edition.
    Boks 7.210 27 ...M. Van Praet groped in vain among the royal alcoves in Paris, to detect a copy of the famed Valdarfer Boccaccio.
    PI 8.9 16 Nature gives [the student]...a copy of every humor and shade in his character and mind.
    Schr 10.288 21 ...[the scholar] should read a little proudly, as one who knows the original, and cannot therefore very highly value the copy.
    MMEm 10.411 9 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost...[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    AsSu 11.251 20 ...I wish, sir, that the high respects of this meeting shall be expressed to Mr. Sumner; that a copy of the resolutions that have been read may be forwarded to him.
    FRep 11.534 3 A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a far-off copy of Osborne House or the Elysee.

copy, v. (9)

    AmS 1.98 13 Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.
    SR 2.82 22 ...why need we copy the Doric or the Gothic model?
    Chr1 3.104 25 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character], and we are painting the lightning with charcoal; but in these long nights and vacations I like to console myself so. Nothing but itself can copy it.
    ET4 5.47 4 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to...copy heedfully the training...
    ET10 5.163 14 Whatever is excellent and beautiful...in fountain, garden, or grounds,--the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at home.
    Bhr 6.170 8 Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast...
    QO 8.196 25 ...it is not rare to find...people who copy drawings with admirable skill, but are incapable of any design.
    EWI 11.122 20 ...the villages copy Boston.
    EurB 12.370 26 ...[modern painters] copy the technics of their predecessors...

copying, v. (2)

    F 6.17 18 [Man] helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure...
    CL 12.164 18 What is the merit of Thomson's Seasons but copying a few of the pictures out of this vast book [of Nature] into words...

Copyright Bill, n. (1)

    EurB 12.366 18 In the debates on the Copyright Bill, in the English Parliament, Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision...

copyright, n. (7)

    Exp 3.64 23 Law of copyright and international copyright is to be discussed...
    Exp 3.64 24 Law of copyright and international copyright is to be discussed...
    PPh 4.77 19 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world.
    ShP 4.193 15 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.
    ET3 5.36 17 ...a sensible Englishman once said to me, As long as you do not grant us copyright, we shall have the teaching of you.
    PPo 8.252 1 The Persians had a mode of establishing copyright the most secure of any contrivance with which we are acquainted.
    II 12.74 6 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it, and perhaps his only concern with it is some copyright of an edition in which certain pages...are contained.

coquetry, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.173 11 ...without any coquetry the happy, affectionate nature of woman flows out in this pretty gossip.

Cor Gawr [Choir Gaur], n. (1)

    ET16 5.279 3 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge or Choir Gaur to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.

coral, adj. (1)

    QO 8.199 26 ...[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.

coral, n. (2)

    MN 1.202 3 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments...as fast as the madrepores make coral...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    Gts 3.161 15 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...the sailor, coral and shells;...

Corax the Naxian, n. (1)

    Plu 10.313 18 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./

cord, n. (11)

    MN 1.207 23 [a man] cannot read, or think, or look but he unites the hitherto separated strands into a perfect cord.
    Comp 2.110 14 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat...
    Pt1 3.13 14 ...the carpenter's stretched cord, if you hold your ear close enough, is musical in the breeze.
    Nat2 3.188 20 This is the man-child that is born to the soul, and her life still circulates in the babe. The umbilical cord has not yet been cut.
    SwM 4.143 15 ...[Swedenborg] could never break the umbilical cord which held him to nature...
    ET8 5.130 20 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence, as if somebody were fumbling at the umbilical cord and might stop their supplies.
    ET11 5.194 20 When Julia Grisi and Mario sang at the houses of the Duke of Wellington and other grandees, a cord was stretched between the singer and the company.
    PerF 10.82 13 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood. But these are...only the hint of its power on a keener sense. It is a stroke on a loose or tense cord.
    Chr2 10.99 19 In its companions [the soul] sees other truths honored, and successively finds their foundation also in itself. Then it cuts the cord...
    HDC 11.78 14 ...say the plaintive records, General Washington, at Cambridge, is not able to give but 24s. per cord for wood, for the army;...
    HDC 11.78 17 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither;...

cordage, n. (3)

    ET4 5.56 12 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship.
    PI 8.74 2 In the mire of the sensual life...even [poets'] novel and newspaper, nay, their superstitions also, are...a cordage of ropes that hold them up out of the slough.
    SovE 10.204 14 ...cordage and machinery never supply the place of life.

corded, v. (1)

    Suc 7.298 26 The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored trees, and says...they should be cut and corded before spring.

cordial, adj. (15)

    Nat 1.43 11 The fable of Proteus has a cordial truth.
    Fdsp 2.191 13 The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
    Hsm1 2.245 15 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is so earnest and cordial...that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.
    GoW 4.269 3 ...men are cordial in their recognition and welcome of the intellectual accomplishments.
    ET4 5.51 9 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes...nothing can be praised in it without damning exceptions, and nothing denounced without salvos of cordial praise.
    ET15 5.272 15 If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right... genius would be its cordial and invincible ally;...
    Pow 6.67 9 ...with his honor the Judge [Boniface] was very cordial...
    CbW 6.243 23 The music that can deepest reach,/ And cure all ill, is cordial speech/...
    Elo1 7.67 27 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with a substantial cordial man...
    Farm 7.135 21 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in a single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    PPo 8.251 6 Every song of Hafiz affords new proof of the unimportance of your subject to success, provided only the treatment be cordial.
    Insp 8.281 22 ...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to a thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
    CInt 12.127 1 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights; the noblest tasks to the Muse proposed and the most cordial and honoring rewards;...
    CW 12.170 2 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in the single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    ACri 12.298 13 Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History of Friedrich...a book that, one would think, the English people would rise up in a mass to thank [Carlyle] for, by cordial acclamation...

cordial, n. (3)

    Nat 1.9 17 In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue.
    Clbs 7.234 24 ...beside its comfort as medicine and cordial, once in the right company, new and vast values do not fail to appear.
    ChiE 11.472 13 I need not mention [China's] useful arts...its tea, the cordial of nations.

cordially, adv. (3)

    ET1 5.8 5 I could not make [Landor] praise Mackintosh, nor my more recent friends; Montaigne very cordially,--and Charron also...
    Pow 6.55 26 With adults, as with children, one class enter cordially into the game...
    Imtl 8.332 7 Slowly [the two men] advanced towards each other as they could, through the brilliant company, and at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially.

cordials, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.225 17 ...of all the cordials known to us, the best, safest and most exhilarating...is society;...

cords, n. (5)

    PI 8.5 18 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in embryo and man; everything undressing and stealing away from its old into new form, and nothing fast but those invisible cords which we call laws...
    PI 8.5 21 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...
    HDC 11.45 16 The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony], whilst [the settlers] untied the great cords of authority to examine their soundness...
    HDC 11.63 23 ...nothing would satisfy [the country people] but that the governor must be bound in chains or cords...
    HDC 11.78 19 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither; and 210 cords of wood were carried.

core, n. (11)

    MN 1.196 5 Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line, and will...pierce to the core of things.
    Tran 1.331 27 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity, red-hot or white-hot perhaps at the core...
    F 6.19 23 We cannot trifle with...this cropping-out in our planted gardens of the core of the world.
    Bhr 6.187 27 'T is hard to keep the what from breaking through this pretty painting of the how. The core will come to the surface.
    Elo1 7.97 19 It is not the people that are in fault for not being convinced, but he that cannot convince them. He should mould them, armed as he is with the reason and love which are also the core of their nature.
    DL 7.109 5 An increased consciousness of the soul, you say, characterizes the period. Let us see if it has not only arranged the atoms at the circumference, but the atoms at the core.
    PI 8.29 24 ...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know that this correspondence of things to thoughts...is elemental, or in the core of things.
    Chr2 10.117 16 The Sunday is the core of our civilization...
    Prch 10.237 5 The old intellect still lives, to pierce the shows to the core.
    FSLN 11.242 10 The [American] universities are not, as in Hobbes's time, the core of rebellion...
    ALin 11.332 8 ...this man [Lincoln] was sound to the core...

Corinna, n. (1)

    Bty 6.297 20 ...why need we console ourselves with the fames of Helen of Argos, or Corinna...

Corinne [Madame de Stael], (1)

    MMEm 10.408 4 As by seeing a high tragedy, reading a true poem, or a novel like Corinne, so, by society with [Mary Moody Emerson], one's mind is electrified and purged.

Corinthian, adj. (2)

    Pow 6.71 4 In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage...and you have Pericles and Phidias, not yet passed over into the Corinthian civility.
    Bhr 6.185 19 Nothing can be more excellent in kind than the Corinthian grace of Gertrude's manners...

Corinthians, Epistle to the, (2)

    LS 11.13 24 I am of opinion that it is wholly upon the Epistle to the Corinthians...that the ordinance [the Lord's Supper] stands.
    LS 11.14 2 The end which [St. Paul] has in view, in the eleventh chapter of the first Epistle [to the Corinthians], is not to enjoin upon his friends to observe the [Lord's] Supper, but to censure their abuse of it.

Coriolanus, n. (1)

    UGM 4.15 11 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and Gracchus down to Pitt...

Cork, Ireland, n. (1)

    ET2 5.33 15 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks. To-day...we measure by Kinsale, Cork, Waterford and Ardmore.

corks, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.119 5 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...without corks...

cormorants, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.236 25 ...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke of Tuscany]...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...if, he adds, I do not commit a great crime by disappointing the cormorants who are daily hoping to get rid of me.

Corn Laws, n. (2)

    YA 1.380 13 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner. Witness...the English League against the Corn Laws;...
    ET15 5.264 4 [The London Times] adopted the League against the Corn Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it announced his triumph.

corn, n. (80)

    Nat 1.13 2 Beasts, fire, water, stones, and corn serve [man].
    Nat 1.41 24 The first and gross manifestation of this truth [of the doctrine of Use] is our inevitable and hated training in values and wants, in corn and meat.
    Nat 1.59 8 I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
    Nat 1.65 13 We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple...
    DSA 1.119 14 The corn and the wine have been freely dealt to all creatures...
    LE 1.169 27 Undoubtedly the changes of geology have a relation to the prosperous sprouting of the corn and peas in my kitchen garden;...
    MR 1.245 25 Parched corn eaten to-day, that I may have roast fowl to my dinner Sunday, is a baseness;...
    MR 1.245 27 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment, that I may be free of all perturbations...is frugality for gods and heroes.
    Con 1.306 19 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my field where to plant my corn...
    Tran 1.337 8 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like Epaminondas and John de Witt;...I would commit sacrilege with David; yea, and pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath, for no other reason than that I was fainting for lack of food.
    YA 1.374 12 ...the selfishness which hoards the corn for high prices is the preventive of famine;...
    YA 1.381 25 On one side is agricultural chemistry...offering, by means of a teaspoonful of artificial guano, to turn a sandbank into corn;...
    YA 1.383 7 ...it is proposed to plant corn and to bake bread by companies.
    YA 1.383 21 One man...with [a dime]...buys corn enough to feed the world;...
    Hist 2.7 23 [The true aspirant] hears the commendation...of that character he seeks...in the running river and the rustling corn.
    SR 2.46 16 ...no kernel of nourishing corn can come to [man] but through his toil...
    SR 2.68 15 When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as...the rustle of the corn.
    SR 2.87 8 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...until...the soldier should receive his supply of corn...and bake his bread himself.
    Comp 2.97 14 There is somewhat that resembles...man and woman...in a kernel of corn...
    SL 2.136 13 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn;...
    Int 2.333 26 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the the corn-flags...
    Gts 3.161 14 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...the farmer, corn;...
    Pol1 3.205 4 Corn will not grow unless it is planted and manured;...
    Pol1 3.206 9 A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity.
    NR 3.240 22 We came this time for condiments, not for corn.
    NER 3.254 20 It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the act to be original...
    NER 3.283 21 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work...it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...
    UGM 4.9 19 Justice has already been done to steam...to corn and cotton;...
    UGM 4.35 10 It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song, that climate, corn, animals, men, may be milder...
    SwM 4.93 5 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers...they have not cultivated corn, nor made bread;...
    SwM 4.93 11 A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which raise men out of the world of corn and money...
    ShP 4.205 15 About the time when [Shakespeare] was writing Macbeth, he sues Philip Rogers...for thirty-five shillings, ten pence, for corn delivered to him at different times;...
    ShP 4.217 1 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples, and corn another than for meal...
    ET5 5.82 8 In politics [the English] put blunt questions, which must be answered; Who is to pay the taxes? What will you do for trade? What for corn?
    ET8 5.135 3 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again, who...threshes The corn/ That ten day-laborers could not end,/ but it is done in the dark and with muttered maledictions.
    F 6.16 27 [The Germans and Irish] are...carted over America...to make corn cheap...
    Wth 6.103 6 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy...
    Wth 6.103 7 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly, not for the corn or house-room, but for Athenian corn, and Roman house-room...
    Wth 6.103 8 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly, not for the corn or house-room, but for Athenian corn, and Roman house-room...
    Wth 6.114 8 Pride...can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn...
    Wth 6.115 8 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is choking the young corn, and finds there are two;...
    Wth 6.115 25 ...every hill of melons, row of corn [on a man's land]...stand in his way...when he would go out of his gate.
    Wth 6.121 10 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the wood-lot, when bought. Never fear; it is all settled how it shall be, long beforehand, in the custom of the country...how to dress, whether to grass or to corn;...
    Civ 7.28 19 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn...
    Art2 7.42 15 We do not grind corn or lift the loom by our own strength...
    Farm 7.137 16 If [a man] have not...some product for which the farmer will give him corn, he must himself return into his due place among the planters.
    Farm 7.150 25 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an arithmetical;...
    Farm 7.152 5 The sun-stroke which knocks [the first planter] down brings his corn up.
    Boks 7.216 24 [The novel] is only confectionery, not the raising of new corn.
    PI 8.24 19 The atoms of the body were once nebulae, then rock, then loam, then corn, then chyme, then chyle, then blood;...
    PerF 10.75 18 ...[labor] grows in the corn;...
    Chr2 10.95 14 The moral element invites man...to find his satisfaction...not in much corn or wool, but in its communication.
    Edc1 10.125 17 ...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Schr 10.276 1 We cannot eat the granite nor drink hydrogen. They must be decompounded and recompounded into corn and water before they can enter our flesh.
    LLNE 10.345 21 [The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for himself, were it corn, or paper, or cloth, or boot-jacks, he should give of the commodity to any applicant...
    LLNE 10.366 15 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent. Thus Mr. Ripley told Theodore Parker, There is your accomplished friend---: he would hoe corn all Sunday if I would let him, but all Massachusetts could not make him do it on Monday.
    HDC 11.27 3 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    HDC 11.30 1 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river...mow the grass and reap the corn, shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.
    HDC 11.35 2 Indian corn, even the coarsest, made as pleasant meal as rice.
    HDC 11.35 7 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]... make a jest of pumpkins, for with this fruit the Lord was pleased to feed his people until their corn and cattle were increased.
    HDC 11.37 2 A little pounded parched corn or no-cake sufficed [Indians] on the march.
    HDC 11.43 23 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed;...corn to be raised;...
    HDC 11.55 16 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet summer blighted the corn;...
    HDC 11.60 16 ...his corn cut down...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
    HDC 11.63 3 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers...make good advantage by their corn, cattle, poultry, butter and cheese.
    HDC 11.75 25 [the minute-men] supposed they had a right to their corn and their cattle...
    EWI 11.102 13 These men [negro slaves], our benefactors, as they are producers of corn and wine...I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
    FSLN 11.233 11 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown...that, with provisions so vague for an object not named, and which could not be availed of to claim a barrel of sugar or a barrel of corn, the robbing of a man and of all his posterity is effected.
    Wom 11.410 19 ...[the horse and ox] run...to the corn when hungry...
    RBur 11.443 14 ...the corn, barley, and bulrushes hoarsely rustle [Burns's songs]...
    CPL 11.501 17 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what grinds corn...is anything worth, I have little to say.
    FRep 11.530 7 ...if there is fate in corn and cotton, so is there fate in thought...
    FRep 11.535 16 ...it is the rule of the universe that corn shall serve man, and not man corn.
    FRep 11.535 17 ...it is the rule of the universe that corn shall serve man, and not man corn.
    CL 12.151 20 In August, when the corn is grown to be a resort and protection to woodcocks and small birds...we observe already that the leaf is sere...
    CW 12.172 8 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers... when witch-grass and nettles grew, causing a forest of apple-trees or miles of corn and rye to thrive.
    Bost 12.189 24 [John Smith writes (1624)] Here [in New England] are many isles planted with corn, groves, mulberries, salvage gardens and good harbours.
    Bost 12.204 15 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world.
    Bost 12.204 16 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but honest corn; corn with thanks to the Giver of corn;...
    Bost 12.204 17 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but honest corn; corn with thanks to the Giver of corn;...

Corn, [William Spence], n. (1)

    ET9 5.150 15 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...

corn-cakes, n. (1)

    FRep 11.526 25 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty,-ham and corn-cakes...enough have been attained;...

corn-chambers, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.227 21 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel. Herein he tastes... the cat-like love of garrets, presses and corn-chambers...

corn-eaters, n. (1)

    Exp 3.64 6 ...the ascetics, Gentoos and corn-eaters, [nature] does not distinguish by any favor.

corner, n. (27)

    Nat 1.20 7 ...[man] may creep into a corner...
    MN 1.193 25 ...the sturdiest defender of existing institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air which condenses heat in every corner...
    MN 1.199 10 We can never surprise nature in a corner;...
    Con 1.317 20 Yonder peasant, who sits neglected there in a corner, carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head...
    Tran 1.351 10 ...I can sit in a corner and perish (as you call it), but I will not move until I have the highest command.
    Hist 2.6 22 All that Shakspeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
    SR 2.47 23 ...we are...not minors and invalids in a protected corner...
    SR 2.49 1 ...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them on their merits...
    Prd1 2.227 17 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box set in the corner of the barn-chamber...
    Art1 2.360 18 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear, in the gray unpainted wood cabin, on the corner of a New Hampshire farm...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Art1 2.364 15 ...in the works of our plastic arts and especially of sculpture, creation is driven into a corner.
    ET8 5.132 13 [Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every nook and corner of the earth their turbulent sense;...
    ET9 5.148 23 ...an ex-governor of Illinois, said to me, If the man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest;...
    ET15 5.261 10 There is no corner and no night. A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...
    F 6.10 14 At the corner of the street you read the possibility of each passenger in the facial angle...
    Pow 6.70 12 ...when you espouse an Orleans party...or any other but an organic party...you have a personality instead of a principle, which will inevitably drag you into a corner.
    Ctr 6.154 8 What is odious but...people...who intrigue to secure a padded chair and a corner out of the draught.
    Ill 6.317 13 ...[men who make themselves felt in the world] never deeply interest us unless they lift a corner of the curtain...
    Elo1 7.73 27 [Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing through the streets, which...is forgotten as soon as it has turned the next corner;...
    Elo1 7.86 27 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. ... [The prisoner's counsel] drove the attorney for the state from corner to corner...
    Elo1 7.87 1 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. ... [The prisoner's counsel] drove the attorney for the state from corner to corner...
    Dem1 10.28 6 The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner?
    PerF 10.86 24 A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of streets and of school education.
    Edc1 10.145 24 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone...
    Plu 10.308 17 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher not to hide in a corner...
    War 11.175 21 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...
    Scot 11.462 7 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon, and so...illustrated every hidden corner of a barren and disagreeable territory.

Corner, Nine Acre, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.387 17 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family.

Corner, Nine-Acre, n. (1)

    Thor 10.480 10 ...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or Paris, or Rome; but...they did what they could, considering that they never saw...Nine-Acre Corner...

cornered, v. (1)

    Cour 7.255 22 Animal resistance, the instinct of the male animal when cornered, is no doubt common;...

corners, n. (10)

    LE 1.176 10 Let us live in corners...
    YA 1.370 27 A heterogeneous population crowding on all ships from all corners of the world to the great gates of North America...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    Mrs1 3.139 24 [Society] hates corners and sharp points of character...
    ET3 5.38 7 ...[England] is stuffed full, in all corners and crevices, with towns, towers, churches, villas, palaces, hospitals and charity-houses.
    Bhr 6.187 16 Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
    Ill 6.314 10 ...the scientific whim is lurking in all corners.
    Elo1 7.95 13 [Eloquence] is always dying out of famous places and appearing in corners.
    Suc 7.305 15 As our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims, so the like sensibility...has eyes and hospitality for merit in corners.
    HDC 11.38 8 ...after the bargain [for Concord] was concluded, Mr. Simon Willard, pointing to the four corners of the world, declared that they had bought three miles from that place, east, west, north and south.
    Bost 12.201 13 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you may hear in the corners of streets...I 'm as good as you be...

corner-stone, n. (1)

    Wth 6.122 24 [The citizen from Dock Square] proceeds at once...to fix the spot for his corner-stone.

corner-stones, n. (1)

    PPh 4.39 6 ...[Plato's sentences] are the corner-stones of schools;...

cornfield, n. (1)

    AgMs 12.358 4 In an afternoon in April...I...found the Farmer in his cornfield.

cornfields, n. (2)

    HDC 11.76 25 ...you [veterans of the battle of Concord] have quit yourselves like men in your virtuous families; in your cornfields;...
    Bost 12.189 27 [John Smith writes (1624)] The seacoast, as you pass, shows you all along large cornfields...

corn-flags, n. (1)

    Int 2.334 3 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the corn-flags...

Cornhill, n. (1)

    Wth 6.119 20 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with it...but a blunderhead comes out of Cornhill, tries his hand, and it all leaks away.

cornhusk, n. (1)

    EWI 11.104 10 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides, and hot rum poured on, superinduced with brine or pickle, rubbed in with a cornhusk... we too should wince.

cornice, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.224 19 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall.

corn-lawed, v. (1)

    PPr 12.390 19 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe, tunnelled, graded, corn-lawed...and America...have never before been conquered in literature.

corn-laws, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.210 27 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade.

Corn-Laws, n. (1)

    EPro 11.315 23 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the repeal of the Corn-Laws...

Cornwall, Barry, n. (1)

    ET17 5.292 23 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...Milnes, Milman, Barry Cornwall...

Cornwall, Earl of [Richard] (1)

    ET4 5.64 8 Henry III. mortgaged all the Jews in the kingdom to his brother the Earl of Cornwall...

Cornwall, England, n. (3)

    ET3 5.41 13 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...
    ET3 5.42 13 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...mines in Cornwall;...
    ET11 5.180 7 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle, the kail of Cornwall...are neither forgetting nor forgotten...

Cornwall, n. (1)

    Hist 2.35 9 ...all the postulates of elfin annals...I find true in Concord, however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne.

corollary, n. (1)

    MoS 4.154 23 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal: and the natural corollary is pretty sure to follow, The world lives by humbug, and so will I.

coronation, adj. (2)

    MN 1.224 7 Pusillanimity and fear [the soul] refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who puts on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.
    ET13 5.218 26 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect.

coronation, n. (4)

    Pol1 3.216 5 That which...which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character; that is the end of Nature, to reach unto this coronation of her king.
    ShP 4.196 6 ...some passages [in Shakespeare's Henry VIII], as the account of the coronation, are like autographs.
    ET6 5.110 1 [The English] repeated the ceremonies of the eleventh century in the coronation of the present Queen.
    Art2 7.55 12 Heraldry...and the ceremonies of a coronation, are a dignified repetition of the occurrences that might befall a dragoon and his footboy.

coroner, n. (2)

    EurB 12.366 19 In the debates on the Copyright Bill, in the English Parliament, Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision...
    EurB 12.366 25 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward for writing such stuff. Homer, Horace, Milton and Chaucer would defy the coroner.

coronet, n. (4)

    NER 3.275 13 ...a naval and military honor...a ducal coronet...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    ET11 5.177 11 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet...
    ET11 5.178 2 Some of [the English aristocracy]...as Sheridan said of Coke, disdain to hide their head in a coronet;...
    SMC 11.348 8 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ ... In fields their boyish feet had known?/ In trees their fathers' hands had set,/ And which with them had grown,/ Widening each year their leafy coronet?/

corpora, n. (1)

    FRep 11.533 4 Corpora non agunt nisi soluta;...

corporal, adj. (2)

    Edc1 10.152 24 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...corporal punishment...
    Edc1 10.154 19 ...only to think of using [simple discipline and the following of nature] implies character and profoundness; to enter on this course of discipline is to be good and great. It is precisely analogous to the difference between the use of corporal punishment and the methods of love.

corporate, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.42 16 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history, implying...the exercise of a sovereign power, and connected with all the immunities and powers of a corporate town in Massachusetts.

corporation, n. (5)

    Con 1.308 19 I cannot occupy the bleakest crag of the White Hills or the Alleghany Range, but some man or corporation steps up to me to show me that it is his.
    Con 1.321 3 The corporation were advised to call off the police...
    GoW 4.282 10 In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some moneyed corporation...
    ET10 5.157 3 The ambition to create value evokes every kind of ability [in England]; government becomes a manufacturing corporation...
    HDC 11.84 16 ...it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.

corporations, n. (2)

    ET11 5.183 4 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by 250,000 corporations and proprietors;...
    HDC 11.42 21 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

corporation-works, n. (1)

    PI 8.36 21 What are [the poet's] garland and singing-robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow, or the timber-yard and corporation-works of a nest of pismires is event enough for him...

corporeal, adj. (6)

    Nat 1.17 1 ...in other hours, Nature satisfies...without any mixture of corporeal benefit.
    SwM 4.115 8 The lowest form is angular, or the terrestrial and corporeal.
    ET14 5.258 19 For a self-conceited modish life...clinging to a corporeal civilization...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.
    ET18 5.304 15 [The English]...occupy themselves...on a corporeal civilization...
    SS 7.5 6 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting to shuffle off my corporeal jacket...
    PI 8.28 1 [Blake wrote] I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight.

corporeal, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.18 1 ...every demoniacal property can manifest itself in the corporeal and incorporeal...

corps, esprit de, n. (1)

    Civ 7.26 23 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...the cabalism or esprit de corps of a masonic or other association of friends.

corps, esprit du, n. (1)

    ET2 5.28 10 ...that wonderful esprit du corps by which we adopt into our self-love every thing we touch, makes us all champions of [a ship's] sailing qualities.

corps, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.130 10 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it, a meeting of merchants, a military corps...
    Res 8.145 18 Malus...was captain of a corps of engineers in Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign...
    LLNE 10.327 18 College classes, military corps, or trades-unions may fancy themselves indissoluble for a moment, over their wine;...

Corps, Ninth, n. (1)

    SMC 11.366 9 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick...saw hard service in the Ninth Corps, under General Burnside.

corpse, n. (9)

    Nat 1.16 1 Even the corpse has its own beauty.
    Nat 1.28 15 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of, in all discourse, up to the voice of Paul, who calls the human corpse a seed...
    Nat 1.56 10 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches...had already transferred nature into the mind, and left matter like an outcast corpse.
    Hist 2.31 26 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus. What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last night like a corpse, and this morning stood and ran?
    SR 2.57 2 Why drag about this corpse of your memory...
    SL 2.131 12 Even the corpse that has lain in the chambers has added a solemn ornament to the house.
    Imtl 8.325 11 The chief end of man being to be buried well, the arts most in request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming, to give imperishability to the corpse.
    Imtl 8.327 1 ...the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of eternity, which dissolved the poor corpse and nature also...
    SHC 11.431 5 A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.

corpses, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.119 19 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres, among the corpses and rags of an ancient nation which they know nothing of.
    FRep 11.519 22 We have seen the great party of property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away...the dearest hopes of mankind;...imbecile as corpses when evil was to be prevented.

corpus, habeas, n. (1)

    JBB 11.272 24 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance...

Corpus Poetarum, n. (1)

    ET12 5.206 26 ...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton] can quote correctly from the Corpus Poetarum...

correct, adj. (10)

    LE 1.179 21 [Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity performed their exploits only by correct combinations...
    Exp 3.73 16 In our more correct writing we give to this generalization the name of Being...
    NR 3.232 26 I looked into Pope's Odyssey yesterday: it is as correct and elegant after our canon of to-day as if it were newly written.
    PPh 4.65 16 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...and that having thus learned, and being naturally possessed of a correct reasoning faculty, we might...set right our own wanderings and blunders.
    ET14 5.245 22 Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth which lies in the mystics, and which often outvalues as a seed of power and a source of revolution all the correct writers and shining reputations of their day.
    Comc 8.167 24 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I inquired. O, I saw him this morning; it is the most correct apoplexy I have ever seen;...
    LLNE 10.331 13 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...a voice...that...was the most mellow and beautiful and correct of all the instruments of the time.
    LS 11.16 25 If the view which I have taken of the history of the institution [the Lord's Supper] be correct, then the claim of authority should be dropped in administering it.
    ACri 12.287 10 ...all able men have known how to import the petulance of the street into correct discourse.
    MLit 12.327 5 It is all design with [Goethe], just...analogies, allusion, illustration, which knowledge and correct thinking supply;...

correct, v. (17)

    LE 1.175 24 Digest and correct the past experience;...
    LT 1.279 20 ...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that if that abuse were redressed all would go well, and they fill the land with clamor to correct it.
    Int 2.329 11 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it. It is called truth. But the moment we...attempt to correct and contrive, it is not truth.
    UGM 4.20 26 These [great] men correct the delirium of the animal spirits...
    MoS 4.168 19 It is Cambridge men who correct themselves and begin again at every half sentence...
    Wsp 6.236 19 ...[Benedict] would correct his conduct, in that respect in which he had faulted, to the next person he should meet.
    Elo1 7.94 21 If you would correct my false view of facts,--hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought...
    DL 7.116 25 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must correct the whole system of our social living.
    Grts 8.315 17 How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of whom...we have learned to correct our old estimates, and to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
    Aris 10.36 26 ...a new respect for the sacredness of the individual man, is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...
    Chr2 10.119 21 No evil can come from reform which a deeper thought will not correct.
    Edc1 10.158 23 By simple living, by an illimitable soul...you correct...all.
    Plu 10.306 8 The plain speaking of Plutarch...in our new tendencies of civilization, may tend to correct a false delicacy.
    FSLC 11.213 14 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost, that the well-known sentiment of her people was not expressed. Let us correct this error.
    AKan 11.258 20 Next to the private man, I value the primary assembly, met to watch the government and to correct it.
    FRep 11.525 7 After every practical mistake out of which any disaster grows, the [American] people wake and correct it with energy.
    FRep 11.530 22 We have much to learn, much to correct...

corrected, v. (14)

    YA 1.363 4 ...our people have their intellectual culture from one country and their duties from another. This false state of things is newly in a way to be corrected.
    NER 3.261 10 It is of little moment that one or two or twenty errors of our social system be corrected...
    ET1 5.23 11 [Wordsworth] replied he never was in haste to publish; partly because he corrected a good deal...
    F 6.5 1 Any excess of emphasis on one part would be corrected...
    SS 7.10 10 ...this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can make right or tolerable. This result is so against nature...that it must be corrected by a common sense and experience.
    Plu 10.296 21 M. Octave Greard, in a critical work on [Plutarch's] Morals, has carefully corrected the popular legends...
    SMC 11.353 2 The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South; but first the North had to be reconstructed. Its own theory and practice of liberty had got sadly out of gear, and must be corrected.
    Wom 11.422 25 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...
    PLT 12.9 1 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society, where the manners and estimate of the world have corrected this folly...
    PLT 12.13 6 The inward analysis must be corrected by rough experience.
    PLT 12.50 19 The excess of individualism, when it is not corrected...makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea...
    CInt 12.122 10 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...need to have their corrupt voting and violence corrected by the cleaner and wiser suffrages of poor farmers.
    CL 12.139 26 The [Massachusetts] climate needs...to be corrected by a little anthracite coal...
    Bost 12.187 7 I think the Potomac water is a little acrid, and should be corrected by copious infusions of these provincial streams.

correcting, v. (8)

    AmS 1.101 3 ...[the scholar]...correcting still his old records; must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    DSA 1.122 27 See how this rapid intrinsic energy worketh everywhere... correcting appearances...
    Exp 3.75 24 ...we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are...
    DL 7.117 8 ...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of housekeeping], correcting a few evils and letting the rest stand, we shall soon give up in despair.
    OA 7.335 1 [John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences...but carries them invariably to a conclusion, without correcting a word.
    Aris 10.64 10 No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people, as correcting the modes and over-refinements and class prejudices of the lettered men of the world.
    Chr2 10.104 1 [The religions we call false]...were affirmations of the conscience correcting the evil customs of their times.
    FRep 11.525 15 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden, undated perception of eternal right coming into and correcting things that were wrong;...

correction, n. (10)

    MR 1.247 24 ...we must not cease to tend to the correction of flagrant wrongs...
    SL 2.161 20 This revisal or correction is a constant force...
    Fdsp 2.214 1 Whatever correction of our popular views we make from insight, nature will be sure to bear us out in...
    SwM 4.124 4 The moral insight of Swedenborg, the correction of popular errors...take him out of comparison with any other modern writer...
    Edc1 10.136 25 I call our system [of education] a system of despair, and I find all the correction, all the revolution that is needed...in one word, in Hope.
    Edc1 10.155 3 ...the correction of this quack practice is to import into Education the wisdom of life.
    Plu 10.320 19 The correction [in the 1871 edition of Plutarch's Morals] is not only of names of authors and of places grossly altered or misspelled...
    LLNE 10.336 19 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence. This correction of our superstitions was confirmed by the new science of Geology...
    ChiE 11.473 22 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same. Well, China has preceded us...in this essential correction of a reckless usage;...
    MAng1 12.221 11 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his contemporaries inform us, were made...in the style of an engraving on copper or wood; a manner more expressive but not admitting of correction.

corrections, n. (1)

    UGM 4.6 14 ...[other than great men] must make painful corrections...

corrective, n. (1)

    PI 8.32 18 ...inestimable is the criticism of memory as a corrective to first impressions.

correctly, adv. (5)

    Nat 1.67 12 ...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
    Prd1 2.229 21 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity...
    Exp 3.73 12 This vigor is...in the highest degree unbending. Nourish it correctly and do it no injury, and it will fill up the vacancy between heaven and earth.
    ET12 5.206 26 ...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton] can quote correctly from the Corpus Poetarum...
    HDC 11.84 8 The old town clerks did not spell very correctly...

correctness, n. (4)

    Int 2.337 10 A child knows...if the attitude [in a picture] be natural or grand or mean; though he has never received any instruction in drawing or heard any conversation on the subject, nor can himself draw with correctness a single feature.
    Elo2 8.129 24 These are ascending stairs [to eloquence],--a good voice, winning manners, plain speech, chastened...by the schools into correctness;...
    LS 11.14 25 ...there is a material circumstance which diminishes our confidence in the correctness of the Apostle's [St. Paul's] view [of the Lord' s Supper];...
    EPro 11.325 20 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim.

corrector, n. (2)

    Plu 10.321 1 In spite of its carelessness and manifold faults, which, I doubt not, have tried the patience of its present learned editor and corrector, I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
    II 12.66 9 None of the metaphysicians have prospered in describing this power [consciousness], which...is the corrector of private excesses and mistakes;...

corrects, v. (4)

    DSA 1.125 13 [The sentiment of virtue] corrects the capital mistake of the infant man...
    ET15 5.268 13 [The London Times] draws from any number of learned and skilful contributors; but a more learned and skilful person supervises, corrects, and co-ordinates.
    Ctr 6.131 4 Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power...culture corrects the theory of success.
    PC 8.228 13 Science corrects the old creeds;...

Correggio, Antonio Allegri (1)

    Milt1 12.259 14 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy, where he beheld...the rival works of Raphael, Michael Angelo and Correggio;...

correlation, n. (5)

    F 6.39 12 The ulterior aim...the correlation by which planets subside and crystallize...will not stop but will work into finer particulars...
    F 6.45 3 The correlation is shown in defects.
    F 6.45 26 This correlation really existing can be divined.
    PC 8.211 15 The correlation of forces and the polarization of light have carried us to sublime generalizations...
    PC 8.222 1 When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise;...

correlative, adj. (2)

    Mrs1 3.122 9 The word gentleman has not any correlative abstract to express the quality.
    Edc1 10.151 26 If [the young man] has his own vice, he has its correlative virtue.

correlative, n. (3)

    Hist 2.35 26 ...[man] is also the correlative of nature.
    Hist 2.38 14 ...in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and written.
    Comp 2.101 14 Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is...a correlative of every other.

correlatively, adv. (1)

    Lov1 2.187 24 Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman, so variously and correlatively gifted, are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...

correpondences, n. (1)

    SwM 4.120 22 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth]...was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.

correspond, v. (8)

    Nat 1.47 16 In my utter impotence...to know whether the impressions [my senses] make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
    Hist 2.5 4 The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible.
    PPh 4.62 15 [Things] are knowable, because being from one, things correspond.
    PPh 4.69 6 To these four sections [images, objects, opinions, truths], the four operations of the soul correspond,--conjecture, faith, understanding, reason.
    SwM 4.116 4 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing things which occur... which correspond so entirely to supreme and spiritual things that one would swear that the physical world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world;...
    PI 8.41 25 ...the poet sees...the large effect of laws which correspond to the inward laws which he knows...
    SA 8.81 27 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs.
    Dem1 10.10 17 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary; and then first we notice that the spots of light...correspond to the changed figure of the sun.

corresponded, v. (2)

    NR 3.230 19 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not meet in either of those nations a single individual who corresponded with the type.
    PPh 4.52 10 To this partiality [of unity and diversity] the history of nations corresponded.

correspondence, n. (42)

    Nat 1.29 3 Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts, savages...converse in figures.
    YA 1.377 14 [Traders'] information, their wealth, their correspondence, have made them quite other men than left their native shore.
    Fdsp 2.216 9 It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.
    PPh 4.62 16 There is a scale; and the correspondence of heaven to earth...is our guide.
    SwM 4.106 16 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature;...the version or conversion of each into other, and so the correspondence of all the parts;...
    SwM 4.117 22 ...[mankind] had sciences, religions, philosophies, and yet had failed to see the correspondence of meaning between every part and every other part.
    SwM 4.120 12 The correspondence between thoughts and things henceforward occupied [Swedenborg].
    MoS 4.150 18 The correspondence of Pope and Swift describes mankind around them as monsters;...
    MoS 4.163 5 ...in prosecuting my correspondence [with John Sterling], I found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...
    ShP 4.198 27 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes; the crowd of practical and knowing men, who, by correspondence or conversation, are feeding him with evidence, anecdotes and estimates...
    NMW 4.238 26 It was a whimsical economy of the same kind which dictated [Bonaparte's] practice, when general in Italy, in regard to his burdensome correspondence.
    NMW 4.239 2 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks, and then observed with satisfaction how large a part of the correspondence had thus disposed of itself...
    GoW 4.286 16 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...no correspondence...
    ET3 5.35 5 ...the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...and reads quietly the Times newspaper, which, by its immense correspondence and reporting seems to have machinized the rest of the world for his occasion.
    ET11 5.192 4 The Selwyn correspondence, in the reign of George III., discloses a rottenness in the aristocracy which threatened to decompose the state.
    ET15 5.263 23 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen...a towering assurance, backed by...its world-wide network of correspondence and reports.
    Wth 6.89 10 The same correspondence that is between thirst in the stomach and water in the spring, exists between the whole of man and the whole of nature.
    Bhr 6.194 16 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph...
    Bhr 6.194 21 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when...he complained that he missed in Napoleon's letters the affectionate tone which had marked their childish correspondence.
    Clbs 7.249 9 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...
    Suc 7.300 22 The fundamental fact in our metaphysic constitution is the correspondence of man to the world...
    Suc 7.300 27 The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law which...make the order of Nature; and in the perfection of this correspondence or expressiveness, the health and force of man consist.
    OA 7.326 25 [The youth] is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.
    OA 7.327 20 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession.
    OA 7.331 2 In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy and epistolary correspondence.
    PI 8.9 25 Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities.
    PI 8.29 21 ...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know that this correspondence of things to thoughts is far deeper than they can penetrate...
    PI 8.48 27 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
    Res 8.150 24 It was a pleasing trait in Goethe's romance, that Makaria retires from society to astronomy and her correspondence.
    Grts 8.317 24 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine.
    Grts 8.318 1 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of the Olympian genius. It is more plainly seen in the correspondence between Voltaire and Frederick of Prussia.
    Edc1 10.141 3 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to... a correspondence year by year with his wisest and best friends.
    SovE 10.200 8 Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought harmoniously organized into correspondence with the universe of mind and matter.
    LLNE 10.352 26 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual, they seek to realize in the surrounding world. The value of Fourier's system is that it is a statement of such an order...carried outward into its correspondence in facts.
    LLNE 10.362 8 Margaret Fuller...was often a guest [at Brook Farm], and always in correspondence with her friends.
    SlHr 10.437 22 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina... pending his correspondence with the governor and the legal officers, he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...
    GSt 10.505 12 When one remembers...the wide correspondence, presently enlarged by printed circulars, then by newspapers established wholly or partly at [George Stearns's] own cost;...I think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    HDC 11.32 1 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him. They arrived in Boston in 1634. Probably there had been a previous correspondence with Governor Winthrop...
    HDC 11.68 7 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    SMC 11.361 27 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...urges their correspondence with their friends;...
    PLT 12.22 4 If man has organs...for reproduction and love and care of his young, you shall find all the same in the muskrat. There is a perfect correspondence;...
    Let 12.392 3 ...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our correspondence;...

Correspondence, n. (1)

    SwM 4.105 19 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views the doctrine of Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine of Influx, the doctrine of Correspondence.

correspondences, n. (2)

    SwM 4.116 19 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences [between the natural and spiritual worlds]...
    PC 8.224 17 The good wit finds the law from a single observation,-the law, and its limitations, and its correspondences...

Correspondences, n. (1)

    SwM 4.115 26 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat of both these symbolical and typical resemblances...

correspondency, n. (1)

    Hist 2.38 11 I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency.

correspondent, adj. (6)

    Nat 1.76 20 A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.
    Con 1.295 20 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution.
    Gts 3.163 4 The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.
    Insp 8.271 4 The poet cannot see a natural phenomenon which does not express to him a correspondent fact in his mental experience;...
    SovE 10.199 3 While the immense energy of the sentiment of duty and the awe of the supernatural exert incomparable influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted, and the tradition received with awe, but without correspondent action of the receiver.
    CPL 11.497 24 The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told you how old is the foundation of our village library, and we think we can trace in our modest records a correspondent effect of culture amidst our citizens.

correspondent, n. (6)

    ET17 5.291 19 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester correspondent awaiting me...
    SMC 11.362 1 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...writes news of them home, urging his own correspondent to visit their families...
    Let 12.392 15 ...in regard to the writer who has given us his speculations on Railroads and Air-roads, our correspondent shall have his own way.
    Let 12.393 5 ...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we have no longer the smallest taper-light of credible information and experience left...
    Let 12.395 9 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!-so heedless is our correspondent of putting all the dough into one pan, and all the leaven into another.
    Let 12.397 13 Especially to one importunate correspondent we must say that there is no chance for the aesthetic village.

correspondents, n. (5)

    SL 2.164 11 How dare I read Washington's campaigns when I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents?
    ShP 4.203 9 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances, the following persons: Theodore Beza, Isaac Casaubon...
    ET15 5.266 21 [The London Times] has mercantile and political correspondents in every foreign city...
    Milt1 12.258 24 In a letter to one of his foreign correspondents...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.
    Let 12.404 10 As far as our correspondents have entangled their private griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage themselves as fast as possible.

corresponding, adj. (9)

    Pt1 3.15 5 ...if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is because the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
    SwM 4.116 10 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...
    Ctr 6.166 14 ...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert...
    Bhr 6.175 6 A prince who is accustomed every day to be courted and deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires a corresponding expectation...
    PI 8.53 26 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people...the mind allowing itself range, and therewith is ever a corresponding freedom in the style...
    PPo 8.247 20 ...quick perception and corresponding expression...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    Dem1 10.15 19 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success...influences all joint action of commerce and affairs, and a corresponding assurance in the individuals so distinguished meets and justifies the expectation of others by a boundless self-trust.
    Thor 10.472 16 ...no academy made [Thoreau] its corresponding secretary...
    Wom 11.422 17 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand...

corresponding, v. (8)

    Tran 1.331 25 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last, not on a cube corresponding to the angles of his structure, but on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    Hist 2.8 14 There is no...mode of action in history to which there is not somewhat corresponding in [each man's] life.
    SwM 4.114 25 Man is a kind of very minute heaven, corresponding to the world of spirits and to heaven.
    PerF 10.73 6 The brain of man has methods and arrangements corresponding to these material powers...
    HDC 11.32 7 ...on the 2d of September, 1635, corresponding in New Style to 12th September...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    Mem 12.101 14 ...because all Nature has one law and meaning,-part corresponding to part,-all we have known aids us continually to the knowledge of the rest of Nature.
    MAng1 12.215 3 Few lives of eminent men are harmonious; few that furnish, in all the facts, an image corresponding with their fame.
    MAng1 12.218 21 ...all men have an organization corresponding more or less to the entire system of Nature...

corresponds, v. (10)

    Nat 1.9 12 ...every hour and change [in nature] corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind...
    Nat 1.26 15 Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind...
    Nat 1.71 25 ...[the structure] once fitted [man], now it corresponds to him from far and on high.
    Hist 2.23 17 Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind...
    SR 2.62 1 ...the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these.
    Schr 10.279 15 ...the young...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...
    War 11.164 5 Every nation and every man instantly surround themselves with a material apparatus which exactly corresponds to their moral state...
    FRO1 11.479 16 ...as soon as every man...is apprised that the perfect law of duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, of vegetation, of astronomy, as face to face in a glass;...then we have a religion that exalts...
    PLT 12.20 1 There is in Nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available.
    CInt 12.124 5 Here [in a good teacher] is sympathy; here is an order that corresponds to that in [a young man's] own mind...

corroborated, v. (1)

    Milt1 12.257 1 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had not been in part furnished or corroborated by political enemies, would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal...

corrode, v. (1)

    ET3 5.39 22 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...poison many plants and corrode the monuments and buildings.

corrugated, v. (1)

    ET17 5.296 10 [Wordsworth] had a healthy look, with a weather-beaten face, his face corrugated...

corrupt, adj. (10)

    YA 1.389 26 The private mind has the access to the totality of goodness and truth that it may be a balance to a corrupt society;...
    Pt1 3.25 18 ...herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith that the poems are a corrupt version of some text in nature with which they ought to be made to tally.
    Pol1 3.208 3 Every actual State is corrupt.
    Wsp 6.202 4 If the Divine Providence has hid from men neither disease nor deformity nor corrupt society...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely as they stand...
    WD 7.165 22 Politics were never more corrupt and brutal;...
    MMEm 10.423 12 War devastates the conscience of men, yet corrupt peace does not less.
    FSLC 11.186 5 ...of the corrupt society that exists we have never been able to combine any pure prosperity.
    CInt 12.122 1 There are bad books and false teachers and corrupt judges;...
    CInt 12.122 9 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...need to have their corrupt voting and violence corrected by the cleaner and wiser suffrages of poor farmers.
    MAng1 12.234 15 [Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find occasion for devotion in the same figures.

corrupt, v. (3)

    Comp 2.113 26 Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms.
    SS 7.13 27 Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to the assembly in our own garb and speech...
    Aris 10.52 10 ...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 burn his barns...

corrupted, v. (14)

    Pol1 3.208 27 A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.
    ET4 5.57 21 The heroes of the [Norse] Sagas are not the knights of South Europe. No vaporing of France and Spain has corrupted them.
    ET4 5.69 19 ...Tacitus found the English beer already in use among the Germans: They make from barley or wheat a drink corrupted into some resemblance to wine.
    Wth 6.111 23 The rabble are corrupted by their means;...
    Wsp 6.208 5 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries...have corrupted into a timorous conservatism and believe in nothing.
    SA 8.101 18 ...wealth and ease corrupted the race [of the hereditary nobility].
    Dem1 10.19 17 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...
    Chr2 10.104 20 Every particular instruction...is accommodated to humble and gross minds, and corrupted.
    Prch 10.219 23 ...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.
    EWI 11.137 17 By a certain fatality, none but the vilest arguments were brought forward [against emancipation in the West Indies], which corrupted the very persons who used them.
    FSLC 11.180 26 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here; at least we can brag thus until to-morrow, when the farmers also may be corrupted.
    FSLN 11.242 24 I [Robert Winthrop] am, as you see, a man virtuously inclined, and only corrupted by my profession of politics.
    SMC 11.352 15 ...this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison, which in eighty years corrupted the whole overgrown body politic...
    Mem 12.92 11 [Memory] does not lie, cannot be corrupted...

corruptible, n. (1)

    AmS 1.96 18 In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself...to become a thought of the mind. Instantly it is raised, transfigured; the corruptible has put on incorruption.

corrupting, v. (3)

    Cour 7.272 23 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was...in the instinct which, at Thermopylae...kept Asia out of Europe,--Asia with its antiquities and organic slavery,--from corrupting the hope and new morning of the West.
    SA 8.97 27 ...beware of jokes; too much temperance cannot be used: inestimable for sauce, but corrupting for food, we go away hollow and ashamed.
    Dem1 10.20 2 [Belief in the demonological] is a midsummer madness, corrupting all who hold the tenet.

corruption, n. (12)

    Nat 1.29 26 The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.
    Nat 1.29 27 The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.
    Con 1.315 3 ...[Friar Bernard]...set forth to go to Rome to reform the corruption of mankind.
    Int 2.327 13 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal. ... A better art than that of Egypt has taken fear and corruption out of it.
    SwM 4.132 3 Except Rabelais and Dean Swift nobody ever had such science of filth and corruption [as did Swedenborg].
    Bhr 6.196 24 ...if you have headache...or thunderstroke, I beseech you...to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning...by corruption and groans.
    Grts 8.315 13 It is difficult to find greatness pure. Well, I please myself with its diffusion; to find a spark of true fire amid much corruption.
    Imtl 8.340 13 A sort of absoluteness attends all perception of truth,-no smell of age, no hint of corruption.
    PerF 10.86 16 ...it begins to be doubtful whether our corruption in this country has not gone a little over the mark of safety...
    Schr 10.274 24 It is the corruption of our generation that men value a long life...
    FSLN 11.223 17 Whether evil influences and the corruption of politics, or whether original infirmity, it was the misfortune of his country that with this large understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect...
    TPar 11.292 19 ...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights...rot and are forgotten with their double tongue saying all that is sordid for the corruption of man.

corruptions, n. (2)

    PC 8.217 3 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...the radicals of the hour, banded
    TPar 11.289 25 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over municipal corruptions...it is a hypocrisy...

corrupts, v. (7)

    AmS 1.88 27 ...love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue.
    DSA 1.130 12 Historical Christianity has fallen into the error that corrupts all attempts to communicate religion.
    PPh 4.60 10 ...philosophy is an elegant thing, if any one modestly meddles with it [said Plato]; but if he is conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts the man.
    Bhr 6.191 18 ...when [a man] opens [his thought] for show, it corrupts him.
    WD 7.177 21 Zoologists may deny that horse-hairs in the water change to worms, but I find that whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
    MMEm 10.423 1 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which corrupts old worlds?
    MMEm 10.423 4 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which corrupts old worlds? How much better, more honest, are storming and conflagration of towns! They are but letting blood which corrupts into worms and dragons.

corsairs, n. (1)

    CbW 6.261 26 Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard, have been taken by corsairs...and know the realities of human life.

corse, n. (1)

    ShP 4.207 4 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost: What may this mean,/ That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel/ Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon?/

Corsicans, n. (1)

    Res 8.145 13 ...the Corsicans at the battle of Golo...made use of the bodies of their dead to form an intrenchment.

Cortes, n. (1)

    ET8 5.137 13 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...in the West Indies, the edicts of the Spanish Cortes;...

Cortez, Hernando, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.128 16 The class of power, the working heroes, the Cortez...see that [fashion] is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they;...

cortical, adj. (2)

    ET8 5.138 9 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous;...
    CL 12.140 17 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...

Corvisart des Marets, Jean (1)

    NMW 4.251 1 Of medicine too [Bonaparte] was fond of talking, and with those of its practitioners whom he most esteemed,--with Corvisart at Paris...

Corvisart des Martes, Jean (1)

    NMW 4.251 8 Covisart candidly agreed with me [said Bonaparte] that all your filthy mixtures are good for nothing.

Cosdami [Borrow, The Zinca (1)

    ET13 5.229 27 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted...not an individual present but squinted; the genteel Pepa, the good-humored Chicharona, the Cosdami, all squinted;...

cosmetic, n. (2)

    PPo 8.242 26 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    Aris 10.55 5 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself. Is there...any cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air presupposing so undoubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs?

cosmetics, n. (1)

    Bost 12.198 17 No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation. All else is coarse and external; all else is tailoring and cosmetics beside this;...

cosmic, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.542 27 ...the cosmic results will be the same, whatever the daily events may be.

cosmical, adj. (7)

    Bty 6.303 18 The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is a certain cosmical quality...
    Res 8.140 8 What power does Nature not owe to her duration, of amassing infinitesimals into cosmical forces!
    PC 8.211 27 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    Dem1 10.22 15 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts. What more facile than to project this exuberant selfhood into the region where individuality is forever bounded by generic and cosmical laws?
    PerF 10.85 13 I find the survey of these cosmical powers a doctrine of consolation...
    Thor 10.479 24 [Thoreau] referred every minute fact to cosmical laws.
    TPar 11.285 17 ...the political rule is a cosmical rule, that if a man is not strong in his own district, he is not a good candidate elsewhere.

cosmically, adv. (1)

    ET14 5.242 10 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of Swedenborg, so cosmically applied by him, that the man makes his heaven and hell;...

cosmogonies, n. (1)

    GoW 4.286 24 ...certain whimsical opinions, cosmogonies and religions of his own invention...these [Goethe] magnifies.

cosmogony, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.32 20 All the value which attaches to...Oken, or any other who introduces questionable facts into his cosmogony...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.

Cosmogony, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.425 18 ...[the earth's] youthful charms as decked by the hand of Moses' Cosmogony, will linger about the heart, while Poetry succumbs to Science.

cosmology, n. (2)

    SwM 4.105 4 ...the largest application of principles, had been exhibited by Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology;...
    SwM 4.106 8 [Swedenborg] was apt for cosmology...

cosmopolitan, adj. (3)

    YA 1.371 8 ...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    ET5 5.92 21 [The English] have...justified their occupancy of the centre of habitable land, by their supreme ability and cosmopolitan spirit.
    ET17 5.297 27 ...there is something hard and sterile in [Wordsworth's] poetry...want of due catholicity and cosmopolitan scope...

Cosmos [Alexander von Humbo (3)

    Wth 6.94 26 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...
    WD 7.172 10 ...with great propriety, Humboldt entitles his book, which recounts the last results of science, Cosmos.
    Humb 11.457 15 With great propriety, [Humboldt] named his sketch of the results of science Cosmos.

Cosmos, n. (1)

    PLT 12.48 4 Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created to fetch it,-a vessel of honor or of dishonor. 'T is of instant use in the economy of the Cosmos...

Cossack, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.354 26 Unless [the leader of a community] have a Cossack roughness of clearing himself of what belongs not, charlatan he must be.

cosset, v. (1)

    F 6.6 23 ...Nature...does not cosset or pamper us.

cosseted, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.325 5 Children had been repressed and kept in the background; now they were considered, cosseted and pampered.

cosseting, n. (1)

    EurB 12.375 24 ...this reward granted [the novels of costume or of circumstance] is property, all-excluding property...a preference and cosseting which is rude and insulting to all but the minion.

cosseting, v. (1)

    Wth 6.93 4 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth, and, whatever is pretended, it ends in cosseting.

cost, n. (37)

    MN 1.202 22 None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself...will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and defective person was at last procured.
    MR 1.245 18 It is better to go without [the conveniences of life], than to have them at too great a cost.
    Hist 2.29 6 The fact teaches [the child]...how the Pyramids were built, better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile.
    Cir 2.314 15 ...the goods which belong to you gravitate to you and need not be pursued with pains and cost?
    GoW 4.287 15 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line...gives pleasure when Iphigenia and Faust do not, without any cost of invention comparable to that of Iphigenia and Faust.
    ET11 5.193 23 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year.
    Pow 6.60 20 ...the torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost...
    Wth 6.98 17 ...pictures, engravings, statues and casts, beside their first cost, entail expenses, as of galleries and keepers for the exhibition;...
    Wth 6.110 18 The cost of the crime and the expense of courts and of prisons we must bear...
    Wth 6.110 21 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute.
    Wth 6.122 1 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...and so arriving at his end, at great pleasure to geometers, but with cost to his company.
    Ctr 6.131 15 If [nature] wants a thumb, she makes one at the cost of arms and legs...
    Ctr 6.141 14 ...a large part of our cost and pains is thrown away.
    Ctr 6.144 27 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic, which they are not; and a free admission to them on an equal footing...would be worth ten times its cost, by undeceiving him.
    SS 7.9 27 We must infer that the ends of thought were peremptory, if they were to be secured at such ruinous cost.
    Civ 7.26 2 Where the banana grows the animal system is...pampered at the cost of higher qualities...
    DL 7.112 23 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If all are well attended, then must the master and mistress be studious of particulars at the cost of their own accomplishments and growth;...
    DL 7.118 26 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bed-chamber made ready at too great a cost.
    Imtl 8.336 15 Will you, with vast cost and pain, educate your children to be adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
    Edc1 10.125 24 The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost, the rudiments of knowledge...
    Edc1 10.148 10 It s curious...what vast pains and cost we incur to do wrong.
    Edc1 10.151 13 Is it not manifest...that wise men...heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life;...
    Edc1 10.153 24 ...there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind and to govern by steam. But it is at frightful cost.
    MoL 10.258 7 ...the issues already appearing overpay the cost.
    Thor 10.452 17 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to...keep his solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends...
    Thor 10.465 22 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost to the Yellowstone River...
    GSt 10.505 15 When one remembers...the wide correspondence, presently enlarged by printed circulars, then by newspapers established wholly or partly at [George Stearns's] own cost;...I think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    GSt 10.506 17 ...these public benefits were purchased [by George Stearns] at a severe cost.
    HDC 11.35 9 The great cost of cattle, and the sickening of [the pilgrims'] cattle upon such wild fodder as was never cut before;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    HDC 11.81 3 ...whilst the town [Concord] had its own full share of the public distress, it was very far from desiring relief at the cost of order and law.
    EWI 11.123 27 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips.
    War 11.152 6 ...in the infancy of society...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    War 11.163 15 ...one is scared to find at what a cost the peace of the globe is kept.
    FSLC 11.196 2 A wicked law cannot be executed by good men, and must be by bad. Flagitious men must be employed, and every act of theirs is a stab at the public peace. It cannot be executed at such a cost...
    CW 12.178 15 ...[trees] grow, when you wake and when you sleep, at nobody's cost...
    Milt1 12.265 23 [Milton]...deliberately undertakes the defence of the English people, when advised by his physicians that he does it at the cost of sight.
    AgMs 12.361 6 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction, and after a man has built at great cost a stone house, a new road is opened, and he finds himself a mile or two from the highway.

cost, v. (26)

    MN 1.206 2 An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen.
    Comp 2.99 12 ...the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace...
    Chr1 3.104 14 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold.
    UGM 4.4 6 ...I do not travel to find...ingots that cost too much.
    Civ 7.29 2 The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.
    WD 7.175 2 ...to ascertain the discoverers of America needs as much voyaging as the discovery cost.
    WD 7.182 1 ...what has been best done in the world,--the works of genius,-- cost nothing.
    Boks 7.196 11 ...good travellers stop at the best hotels; for though they cost more, they do not cost much more...
    Clbs 7.225 4 We need tonics, but must have those that cost little or no reaction.
    PI 8.24 1 It cost thousands of years only to make the motion of the earth suspected.
    Supl 10.174 1 ...these raptures of fire and frost, which...make the speech salt and biting, wo