Countries to Courses
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
countries, n. (78)
Nat 1.27 17 ...man in all ages and countries embodies
[Spirit] in his
language as the FATHER.
AmS 1.110 27 That which had been negligently trodden
under foot by
those who were harnessing and provisioning themselves for long journeys
into far countries, is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign
parts.
Con 1.295 11 The battle...of the rich and the poor,
reappears in all countries
and times.
YA 1.367 7 There is no feature of the old countries
that strikes an American
with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...
Hist 2.22 2 ...in these late and civil countries of
England and America these
propensities [Nomadism and Agriculture] still fight out the old
battle...
Hist 2.36 22 Transport [Napoleon] to large
countries...and you shall see
that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline,
is not
the virtual Napoleon.
OS 2.283 11 Do not require a description of the
countries towards which
you sail.
Art1 2.359 22 [The traveller who visits the Vatican
galleries] studies the
technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets that
these
works...are the contributions of many ages and many countries;...
Mrs1 3.120 7 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the
gold, for which these
horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the
purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these
cannibals and man-stealers;...
Mrs1 3.120 9 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the
gold, for which these
horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man
serves himself with metals, wood, stone, glass, gum, cotton, silk and
wool;...
Mrs1 3.120 15 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and
the gold, for which these
horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where
man... establishes a select society, running through all the countries
of intelligent
men...
Mrs1 3.137 7 We should meet each morning as from
foreign countries...
Mrs1 3.137 8 We should meet each morning as from
foreign countries, and, spending the day together, should depart at
night, as into foreign
countries.
Mrs1 3.153 17 Everything that is called fashion and
courtesy humbles itself
before...the heart of love. This is the royal blood, this the fire,
which, in all
countries and contingencies, will work after its kind and conquer and
expand all that approaches it.
NER 3.258 16 The ancient languages...contain wonderful
remains of
genius, which draw, and always will draw, certain like-minded men...in
all
countries, to their study;...
UGM 4.4 8 ...if there were any magnet that would point
to the countries
and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and
powerful, I
would sell all and buy it...
PPh 4.77 13 ...you shall feel that Alexander indeed
overran, with men and
horses, some countries of the planet;...
PPh 4.77 14 ...countries, and things of which countries
are made...have
passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no
longer bread, but body...
ShP 4.196 26 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little
solicitous whence his
thoughts have been derived; whether through translation...whether by
travel
in distant countries...
ShP 4.200 19 The nervous language of the Common
Law...and the
precision and substantial truth of the legal distinctions, are the
contribution
of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the
countries
where these laws govern.
GoW 4.280 27 ...in all these countries [England,
America and France], men
of talent write from talent.
ET3 5.34 2 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only
countries worth
living in;...
ET4 5.45 12 The British census proper reckons
twenty-seven and a half
millions in the home countries.
ET4 5.61 16 The continued draught of the best men in
Norway, Sweden
and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries...
ET4 5.65 4 As early as the [Norman] conquest it is
remarked...that [England's] merchants trade to all countries.
ET4 5.71 3 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of
the island...to
Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in
nature. These
men have written the game-books of all countries...
ET5 5.94 16 ...there is more gold in England than in
all other countries.
ET5 5.94 17 [England] is too far north for the culture
of the vine, but the
wines of all countries are in its docks.
ET7 5.124 5 This [English] dulness makes...their
adherence in all foreign
countries to home habits.
ET9 5.146 23 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will
force his island by-laws
down the throat of great countries, like India, China, Canada,
Australia...
ET10 5.169 2 In the culmination of national prosperity,
in the annexation
of countries;...it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine
prices...
ET11 5.188 7 ...[the English nobility] are they...who
gather and protect
works of art, dragged from amidst burning cities and revolutionary
countries...
F 6.16 11 We see the English, French, and
Germans...monopolizing the
commerce of these countries [America and Australia].
Pow 6.70 20 The luxury of ice is in tropical countries
and midsummer days.
Wth 6.89 10 He is the richest man who knows how to draw
a benefit from
the labors...of men in distant countries and in past times.
Wth 6.102 19 There are wide countries, like Siberia,
where [the dollar] would buy little else to-day than some petty
mitigation of suffering.
Ctr 6.145 2 ...men run away to other countries because
they are not good in
their own...
Ctr 6.145 24 The stuff of all countries is just the
same.
Ctr 6.152 8 ...in old, dense countries, among a million
of good coats a fine
coat comes to be no distinction...
Bhr 6.174 20 If you look at the pictures of patricians
and of peasants of
different periods and countries, you will see how well they match the
same
classes in our towns.
Bhr 6.178 15 ...in enumerating the names of persons or
of countries...the
eyes wink at each new name.
Civ 7.34 17 Montesquieu says: Countries are well
cultivated, not as they
are fertile, but as they are free;...
Elo1 7.79 25 In old countries a high money value is set
on the services of
men who have achieved a personal distinction.
WD 7.174 17 To what end, then, [man] asks, should I
study languages, and
traverse countries, to learn so simple truths?
Boks 7.190 15 A company of the wisest and wittiest men
that could be
picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the
smallest
chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and
wisdom.
Clbs 7.246 22 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and
shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come
from many zones; they have traversed wide countries;...
PI 8.20 9 ...[Swedenborg said]: Names, countries,
nations and the like are
not at all known to those who are in heaven;...
PI 8.62 15 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that
whereby she hath
imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free. Certes,
Merlin, replied Sir Gawain, of that I am right sorrowful, and so will
King Arthur, my uncle, be...who is making search after you throughout
all countries.
Elo2 8.112 4 [Debate] is eminently the art which only
flourishes in free
countries.
QO 8.203 13 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the
most civilized
countries...healthily receive and report what they saw...
PC 8.210 26 People have in all countries been burned
and stoned for saying
things which are commonplaces at all our breakfast-tables.
PC 8.213 8 ...I find not only this equality between new
and old countries... but also a certain equivalence of the ages of
history;...
Insp 8.296 25 I value literary biography for the hints
it furnishes from so
many scholars, in so many countries, of what hygiene, what
ascetic...their
experience suggested and approved.
Aris 10.41 9 The multiplication of monarchs known by
telegraph and daily
news from all countries to the daily papers...has robbed the title of
king of
all its romance...
Chr2 10.110 6 There is a certain secular progress of
opinion, which, in
civil countries, reaches everybody.
Edc1 10.135 18 A man is a little thing whilst he works
by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and
justice, is godlike, his
word is current in all countries;...
Supl 10.167 21 The people of English stock, in all
countries, are a solid
people...
Supl 10.170 17 [The guest's] health was drunk with some
acknowledgment
of his distinguished services to both countries...
Supl 10.177 18 A bag of sequins...a single horse,
constitute an estate in
countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of
concealable and convertible property.
Prch 10.234 18 ...the strength of old sects or timorous
literalists, since it is
not armed with prisons or fagots as in ruder times or countries, is not
worth
considering [by the young clergyman]...
MoL 10.248 9 Italy, France-a hundred times those
countries have been
trampled with armies and burned over...
LS 11.8 11 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples
would meet to
remember him, and that with good effect. It may have crossed his mind
that
this would be easily continued a hundred or a thousand years...and yet
have
been altogether out of his purpose to fasten it upon men in all times
and all
countries.
LS 11.12 3 That rite [washing of the feet] is used...by
the Sandemanians. It
has been very properly dropped by other Christians. Why? For two
reasons: (1) because it was a local custom, and unsuitable in western
countries;...
EWI 11.121 15 ...every man's position [in Jamaica] is
settled by the same
circumstances which regulate that point in other free countries...
EWI 11.126 16 ...[British merchants] saw further that
the slave-trade, by
keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them
of
countries and nations of customers...
EWI 11.138 1 This moral force perpetually reinforces
and dignifies the
friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that
superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which makes in all
countries anti-slavery meetings so attractive...
FSLC 11.210 27 ...countries have been great by ideas.
SMC 11.375 3 Those who went through those dreadful
fields [of the Civil
War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay.
But those also who went through the same fields, and returned
alive...in
other countries, would wear distinctive badges of honor as long as they
lived.
ChiE 11.474 1 It is gratifying to know that the
advantages of the new
intercourse between the two countries [China and the United States] are
daily manifest on the Pacific coast.
FRep 11.526 22 ...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...
FRep 11.542 22 ...man seems to play...a certain part
that even tells on the
general face of the planet...leads rivers into dry countries for their
irrigation...
PLT 12.9 10 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the
sacrifice of scholars to
be courtiers and diners-out...
Bost 12.183 20 There are countries, said Howell, where
the heaven is a
fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping sponge, most parts of
the
year.
Bost 12.207 23 The towns or countries in which the man
lives and dies
where he was born, and his son and son's son live and die where he did,
are
of no great account.
Milt1 12.254 26 ...we think it impossible to recall one
in those countries [England, France, Germany] who communicates the same
vibration of
hope, of self-reverence, of piety, of delight in beauty, which the name
of
Milton awakens.
ACri 12.285 20 [George Borrow]...mastered the patois of
the gypsies, called Romany, which is spoken by them in all countries
where they
wander...
AgMs 12.361 9 ...our [New England] people are not
stationary, like those
of old countries...
country, adj. (48)
Nat 1.18 9 The inhabitants of cities suppose that the
country landscape is
pleasant only half the year.
AmS 1.98 2 Years are well spent in country labors;...to
the one end of
mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our
perceptions.
YA 1.369 9 Whatever events in progress shall go
to...infuse into [men] the
passion for country life and country pleasures, will render a service
to the
whole face of this continent...
YA 1.369 10 Whatever events in progress shall go
to...infuse into [men] the
passion for country life and country pleasures, will render a service
to the
whole face of this continent...
SL 2.136 10 Why should all give dollars? It is very
inconvenient to us
country folk...
Lov1 2.173 7 ...who can avert his eyes from the
engaging...ways of school-girls
who go into the country shops...
Fdsp 2.206 2 [Friendship] is fit for...country
rambles...
SwM 4.142 8 These angels that Swedenborg paints...are
all country
parsons...
MoS 4.164 10 ...[Montaigne] loved the compass,
staidness and
independence of the country gentleman's life.
ShP 4.191 23 ...extemporaneous enclosures at country
fairs were the ready
theatres of strolling players.
ET1 5.3 16 ...our country names were on the
door-plates...
ET2 5.31 17 Classics which at home are drowsily read,
have a strange
charm in a country inn...
ET3 5.39 11 ...at one season, the country people [of
England] say, the lakes
contain one part water and two parts fish.
ET4 5.58 7 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in
some of our
country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered...
ET5 5.78 21 You shall trace these Gothic touches [in
England] at school, at
country fairs...
ET8 5.129 23 The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot,
the bilious resident
in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the
educated
and dignified man of family [in England]. So is the burly farmer; so is
the
country squire...
ET14 5.237 1 The country gentlemen [in England] had a
posset or drink
they called October;...
Pow 6.66 9 The most amiable of country gentlemen has a
certain pleasure
in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his orchard.
Ctr 6.146 21 Poor country boys of Vermont and
Connecticut formerly
owed what knowledge they had to their peddling trips to the Southern
States.
Ctr 6.148 7 ...the aesthetic value of railroads is to
unite the advantages of
town and country life...
Ctr 6.155 2 Wordsworth was praised to me in
Westmoreland for having
afforded to his country neighbors an example of a modest household
where
comfort and culture were secured without display.
Elo1 7.74 20 It requires no special insight to edit one
of our country
newspapers.
Clbs 7.244 15 It was a pathetic experience when a
genial and accomplished
person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New
England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a
chair
for me.
SA 8.102 2 I have been often impressed at our country
town-meetings with
the accumulated virility, in each village, of five or six or eight or
ten men...
Insp 8.288 11 I have found my advantage in going in
summer to a country
inn...with a task which would not prosper at home.
Chr2 10.107 4 ...in many a house in country places the
poor children found
seven sabbaths in a week.
LLNE 10.367 1 The country members [at Brook Farm]
naturally were
surprised to observe that one man ploughed all day and one looked out
of
the window all day...and both received at night the same wages.
EzRy 10.392 27 ...[Ezra Ripley's] knowledge was...the
observation of such
facts as country life for nearly a century could supply.
MMEm 10.399 19 I report some of the thoughts and
soliloquies of a
country girl [Mary Moody Emerson], poor, solitary...
SlHr 10.446 25 [Samuel Hoar] had his birth and breeding
in a little country
town...
HDC 11.55 10 ...in 1640, all immigration [to Concord]
ceased, and the
country produce and farm-stock depreciated.
HDC 11.56 20 The people on the [Massachusetts]
bay...found the way to
the West Indies...and the country people speedily learned to supply
themselves with sugar, tea and molasses.
HDC 11.62 27 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to
the English
government, concerning the country towns; The farmers are numerous and
wealthy...
HDC 11.63 18 ...the country people came armed into
Boston, on the
afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...
HDC 11.80 13 ...the country towns thought it would be
cheaper if [the
government] were removed from the capital.
EWI 11.104 19 ...a good man or woman, a country boy or
girl...once in a
while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the
indiscretion to
tell of them.
ALin 11.330 15 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a
flatboatman, a
captain in the Black Hawk War, a country lawyer...
EdAd 11.386 4 It is a poor consideration that the
country wit is
precocious...
RBur 11.442 7 ...the farm-work, the country holiday,
the fishing-cobble are
still [Burns's] debtors to-day.
CPL 11.496 9 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and
lasting prosperity to
this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble
library...offering a
strong attraction to strangers who are seeking a country home to sit
down
here.
PLT 12.48 22 Most men's minds do not grasp anything.
All slips through
their fingers, like the paltry brass grooves that in most country
houses are
used to raise or drop the curtain...
CInt 12.122 8 ...it happens often that the wellbred and
refined...are more
vicious and malignant than the rude country people...
CInt 12.129 26 ...it was in a mean country inn that
Burns found his fancy
so sprightly.
Bost 12.196 1 The universality of an elementary
education in New England
is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds
the
village lyceum,-now very general throughout all the country towns of
New England...
Milt1 12.266 24 [Milton] advises that in country
places, rather than to
trudge many miles to a church, public worship be maintained nearer
home, as in a house or barn.
EurB 12.368 23 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and
Windermere and the
dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least
attempt...to
show...that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet
Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to
the
country life...
EurB 12.369 8 ...the spirit of literature and the modes
of living and the
conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question
[by
Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...from the lessons which the country
muse taught a stout pedestrian climbing a mountain...
PPr 12.380 18 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the
merit which belongs to
every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent,
and
so...as the country people say of good preaching, comes bounce down
into
every pew.
country, n. (500)
Nat 1.13 26 ...[man] paves the road with iron bars, and
mounting a coach
with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts
through the country...
Nat 1.30 19 Hundreds of writers may be found...who feed
unconsciously on
the language created by the primary writers of the country...
Nat 1.51 3 What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a
face of country
quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the railroad car!
Nat 1.60 6 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle...of
country and religion...
Nat 1.67 27 The American who has been confined, in his
own country, to
the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on
entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these
structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
AmS 1.97 8 ...town and country...must also soar and
sing.
AmS 1.108 26 I ought not to delay longer to add what I
have to say of
nearer reference to the time and to this country.
AmS 1.114 16 The mind of this country...eats upon
itself.
DSA 1.141 16 ...tradition characterizes the preaching
of this country;...
DSA 1.143 1 In the country, neighborhoods, half
parishes are signing off, to use the local term.
LE 1.155 15 ...a scholar is...the excellency of his
country...
LE 1.156 2 The few scholars in each country...seem to
me not individuals
but societies;...
LE 1.156 14 ...a very different estimate of the
scholar's profession prevails
in this country...
LE 1.156 19 This country has not fulfilled what seemed
the reasonable
expectation of mankind.
LE 1.166 22 I pass now to consider the task offered to
the intellect of this
country.
LE 1.178 20 Bonaparte represents truly a great recent
revolution, which we
in this country...shall carry to its farthest consummation.
LE 1.185 10 ...I thought that standing...girt and ready
to go and assume
tasks, public and private, in your country, you would not be sorry to
be
admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
LE 1.186 12 ...the vice of the times and the country is
an excessive
pretension...
MN 1.191 12 ...it is a common calamity if [the
scholars] neglect their post
in a country where the material interest is so predominant as it is in
America.
MN 1.220 5 What a debt is ours to that old religion,
which, in the
childhood of most of us, still dwelt like a sabbath morning in the
country of
New England...
MR 1.240 3 ...we have now a puny, protected person,
guarded by walls and
curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that
he
has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him...to
the serving
of his country...
Con 1.312 9 ...every whim is anticipated and served by
the best ability of
the whole population of each country.
Con 1.320 16 The cause of education is urged in this
country with the
utmost earnestness...
Tran 1.341 8 ...[many intelligent and religious
persons] prefer to ramble in
the country and perish of ennui, to the degradation of such charities
and
such ambitions as the city can propose to them.
Tran 1.342 15 ...[Transcendentalists] incline...to live
in the country rather
than in the town...
YA 1.363 2 ...our people have their intellectual
culture from one country
and their duties from another.
YA 1.363 10 America is beginning to assert herself to
the senses and to the
imagination of her children, and Europe is receding in the same degree.
This their reaction on education gives a new importance to the internal
improvements and to the politics of the country.
YA 1.364 14 ...in this country [the railroad] has given
a new celerity to
time...
YA 1.365 23 ...it now appears that we must estimate the
native values of
this broad region to...appreciate the advantages opened to the human
race in
this country...
YA 1.366 25 ...this [inclination to withdraw from
cities] promised...the
adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which
labor... could suggest.
YA 1.367 27 A well-laid garden makes the face of the
country of no
account;...
YA 1.368 20 The cities drain the country of the best
part of its population...
YA 1.368 23 ...the flower of the youth, of both sexes,
goes into the towns, and the country is cultivated by a so much
inferior class.
YA 1.369 23 The vast majority of the people of this
country live by the
land...
YA 1.370 19 We cannot look on the freedom of this
country...without a
presentiment that here shall laws and institutions exist on some scale
of
proportion to the majesty of nature.
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.
YA 1.371 15 [America] is the country of the Future.
YA 1.371 18 ...[America] is a country of beginnings...
YA 1.375 2 Benefit will accrue, [railroads] are
essential to the country...
YA 1.384 18 Look across the country from any hill-side
around us...
YA 1.392 15 ...to imaginative persons in this country
there is somewhat
bare and bald in our short history and unsettled wilderness.
YA 1.392 17 [Imaginative persons in this country] ask,
who would live in a
new country that can live in an old?...
YA 1.392 20 ...it is not strange that our youths and
maidens should burn to
see the picturesque extremes of an antiquated country.
YA 1.394 14 ...[the English] need all and more than all
the resources of the
past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the
mortifications
prepared for him by the system of society...
SR 2.61 7 Every true man is a cause, a country, and an
age;...
SR 2.66 15 If...a man...carries you backward to the
phraseology of some
old mouldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him
not.
Prd1 2.224 21 ...our existence...so susceptible to
climate and to country... reads all its primary lessons out of these
books.
Hsm1 2.253 27 Nothing of the kind have I seen in any
other country.
Hsm1 2.258 6 That country is the fairest which is
inhabited by the noblest
minds.
Hsm1 2.262 7 The circumstances of man, we say, are
historically
somewhat better in this country and at this hour than perhaps ever
before.
Int 2.343 26 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion
of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living. Such has
Swedenborg...seemed to many young
men in this country.
Art1 2.353 2 No man can quite emancipate himself from
his age and
country...
Chr1 3.91 22 The men who carry their points...are
themselves the country
which they represent;...
Chr1 3.96 13 [A man] encloses the world, as the patriot
does his country, as a material basis for his character...
Chr1 3.109 13 When the Yunani sage arrived at
Balkh...Gushtasp
appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every country should assemble...
Mrs1 3.121 10 An element which unites all the most
forcible persons of
every country...must be an average result of the character and
faculties
universally found in men.
Mrs1 3.126 9 ...the politics of this country, and the
trade of every town, are
controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers...
Mrs1 3.128 27 The city is recruited from the country.
Mrs1 3.129 5 It is only country which came to town day
before yesterday
that is city and court to-day.
Mrs1 3.131 2 ...good-breeding and personal superiority
of whatever
country readily fraternize with those of every other.
Mrs1 3.150 8 ...at this moment I esteem it a chief
felicity of this country, that it excels in women.
Mrs1 3.154 23 ...[Osman's] great heart lay there so
sunny and hospitable in
the centre of the country, that it seemed as if the instinct of all
sufferers
drew them to his side.
Nat2 3.175 2 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a
hill country...
Pol1 3.207 10 In this country we are very vain of our
political institutions...
Pol1 3.209 17 The vice of our leading parties in this
country...is that they
do not plant themselves on the deep and necessary grounds to which they
are respectively entitled...
NR 3.230 12 It is even worse in America, where, from
the intellectual
quickness of the race, the genius of the country is more splendid in
its
promise and more slight in its performance.
NR 3.232 16 The world is full...of secret and public
legions of honor; that
of scholars, for example; and that of gentlemen, fraternizing with the
upper
class of every country and every culture.
NER 3.255 10 The country is full of rebellion;...
NER 3.255 11 ...the country is full of kings.
NER 3.255 21 ...the country is frequently affording
solitary examples of
resistance to the government...
NER 3.259 10 Some thousands of young men are graduated
at our colleges
in this country every year...
NER 3.259 16 ...is not this absurd, that the whole
liberal talent of this
country should be directed in its best years on studies which lead to
nothing?
NER 3.264 4 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of
St. Simon, of
Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in
Massachusetts on kindred plans, and many more in the country at large.
NER 3.268 19 ...the ground on which eminent public
servants urge the
claims of popular education is fear; This country is filling up with
thousands and millions of voters, and you must educate them to keep
them
from our throats.
UGM 4.22 7 ...if there should appear in the company
some gentle soul
who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or
time, or human body,--that man liberates me;...
UGM 4.30 20 Generous and handsome, [the thoughtful
youth] says, is your
hero; but look at yonder poor Paddy, whose country is his
wheelbarrow;...
PPh 4.52 11 The country of unity...is Asia;...
MoS 4.152 12 In England, the richest country that ever
existed, property
stands for more, compared with personal ability, than in any other.
MoS 4.164 14 ...[Montaigne] was esteemed in the country
for his sense and
probity.
MoS 4.177 17 What can I do...against climate, against
barbarism, in my
country?
ShP 4.189 15 A poet is...a heart in unison with his
time and country.
NMW 4.227 9 [A man of Napoleon's stamp]...comes to be a
bureau for all
the intelligence, wit and power of the age and country.
NMW 4.231 24 Nothing has been more simple than my
elevation [said
Bonaparte]...it was owing to the peculiarity of the times and to my
reputation of having fought well against the enemies of my country.
NMW 4.242 27 ...even when the majority of the people
had begun to ask
whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of
men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the
country...took his part...
GoW 4.266 3 In this country, the emphasis of
conversation and of public
opinion commends the practical man;...
GoW 4.289 11 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time
and country... taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany
and make it
subservient.
ET1 5.13 16 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and
Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what
he had said to the
Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an
excellent school of political economy;...
ET1 5.16 19 The best thing [Carlyle] knew of that
country [America] was
that in it a man can have meat for his labor.
ET1 5.17 18 [Carlyle] still returned to English
pauperism, the crowded
country...
ET1 5.18 5 We [Emerson and Carlyle] went out to walk
over long hills, and
looked at Criffel...and down into Wordsworth's country.
ET2 5.25 16 The remuneration [for lectures in England]
was equivalent to
the fees at that time paid in this country for the like services.
ET3 5.35 13 ...if there be one successful country in
the universe for the last
millennium, that country is England.
ET3 5.35 14 ...if there be one successful country in
the universe for the last
millennium, that country is England.
ET3 5.38 23 Charles the Second said, [English
temperature] invited men
abroad more days in the year and more hours in the day than another
country.
ET3 5.38 25 ...England has all the materials of a
working country except
wood.
ET4 5.45 15 [The English] are free forcible men, in a
country where life is
safe...
ET4 5.51 5 Everything English is a fusion of distant
and antagonistic
elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes...
ET4 5.53 14 In Scotland...the poverty of the country
makes itself
remarked...
ET4 5.58 12 ...[going into guest-quarters] was the only
way in which, in a
poor country, a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when
he
leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom.
ET4 5.61 24 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my
father, went westward
to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him; but Norway was so
emptied then, that such men have not since been to find in the
country...
ET4 5.70 24 Every season turns out the [the English]
aristocracy into the
country to shoot and fish.
ET5 5.82 19 Montesquieu said, England is the freest
country in the world.
ET5 5.94 10 This foggy and rainy country [England]
furnishes the world
with astronomical observations.
ET5 5.99 15 Is it the smallness of the country, or is
it the pride and
affection of race,--[the English] have solidarity, or
responsibleness...
ET6 5.103 22 ...[England] is no country for
fainthearted people;...
ET6 5.105 5 Every man in this polished country
[England] consults only
his convenience...
ET6 5.113 9 In an aristocratical country like England,
not the Trial by Jury, but the dinner, is the capital institution.
ET6 5.114 22 ...the range of nations from which London
draws, and the
steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society, as
broken
country makes picturesque landscape;...
ET7 5.121 22 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had
really made up his
mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M.
Guizot; and the altered position of the man as an illustrious exile and
a
guest in the country, makes no difference to him...
ET7 5.123 19 [The English] are very liable in their
politics to extraordinary
delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was
urged
or assisted by foreigners: which, to be sure, is paralleled by the
democratic
whimsy in this country...that the English are at the bottom of the
agitation
of slavery...
ET8 5.127 21 Religion, the theatre and the reading the
books of [the
Englishman's] country all feed and increase his natural melancholy.
ET8 5.128 9 As compared with the Americans, I think
[the English] cheerful and contented. Young people in this country are
much more prone
to melancholy.
ET9 5.144 21 [The Englishman] is intensely patriotic,
for his country is so
small.
ET9 5.145 20 A much older traveller...says... ...
...whenever [the English] partake of any delicacy with a foreigner,
they ask him whether such a thing
is made in his country.
ET9 5.146 15 I have found that Englishmen have such a
good opinion of
England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the
disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by
the
instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company...
ET10 5.153 1 There is no country in which so absolute a
homage is paid to
wealth [as England].
ET10 5.154 23 In 1809, the majority in Parliament
expressed itself by the
language of Mr. Fuller in the House of Commons, If you do not like the
country, damn you, you can leave it.
ET10 5.160 18 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that
the people of this
country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in
railways, in the last four years.
ET10 5.161 13 ...[the Bank of England] refuses loans,
and emigration
empties the country;...
ET10 5.168 23 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their
Parliaments...went to
their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which
they
were impoverishing.
ET11 5.174 2 The superior education and manners of the
[English] nobles
recommend them to the country.
ET11 5.179 2 This long descent of [English] families
and this cleaving
through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination. It
has
too a connection with the names of the towns and districts of the
country.
ET11 5.179 18 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red
cliff; and so on,--a
sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American, whose country
is
whitewashed all over by unmeaning names...
ET11 5.179 19 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red
cliff; and so on,--a
sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American, whose country
is
whitewashed all over by unmeaning names, the cast-off clothes of the
country from which its emigrants came;...
ET11 5.180 3 The English lords...call themselves after
their lands, as if the
man represented the country that bred him;...
ET11 5.180 19 The predilection of the patricians for
residence in the
country...makes the safety of the English hall.
ET11 5.182 5 In the country, the size of private
[English] estates is more
impressive.
ET11 5.185 20 The English nobles are high-spirited,
active, educated men... who have run through every country...
ET11 5.185 21 The English nobles are high-spirited,
active, educated men... who have...kept in every country the best
company...
ET12 5.212 2 ...the rich libraries collected at every
one of many thousands
of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth
in
this country...
ET13 5.214 20 In the barbarous days of a nation, some
cultus is formed or
imported; altars are built...priests ordained. The education and
expenditure
of the country take that direction...
ET13 5.216 26 The Catholic Church, thrown on this
toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a
massive system, close fitted
to the manners and genius of the country...
ET15 5.262 9 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of
Northumberland; mark
my words;...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of
Northumberland out of their titles and possessions, and the country out
of
its king.
ET16 5.275 13 I told Carlyle that...I saw everywhere in
the country [England] proofs of sense and spirit...
ET16 5.275 24 I told Carlyle that...I like the
[English] people;...but
meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I
shall
lapse at once into the feeling...that no skill or activity can long
compete
with the prodigious natural advantages of that country...
ET16 5.278 22 The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is,
that any mystery
should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument, in a
country on which all the muses have kept their eyes now for eighteen
hundred years.
ET16 5.286 26 My friends asked, whether there were any
Americans?--any
with an American idea,--any theory of the right future of that country?
ET16 5.287 12 ...I opened the dogma of no-government
and non-resistance... and procured a kind of hearing for it. I said, it
is true that I have
never seen in any country a man of sufficient valor to stand for this
truth...
ET17 5.292 1 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my
Manchester
correspondent awaiting me, a gentleman whose kind reception was
followed by a train of friendly and effective attentions which never
rested
whilst I remained in the country.
ET17 5.295 17 I told [Wordsworth] it was not creditable
that no one in all
the country knew anything of Thomas Taylor...
ET18 5.301 18 England keeps open doors, as a trading
country must, to all
nations.
ET19 5.312 14 ...I was given to understand in my
childhood that the British
island from which my forefathers came was...a cold, foggy, mournful
country...
F 6.5 9 The Spartan, embodying his religion in his
country, dies before its
majesty without a question.
Pow 6.61 19 A timid man...might easily believe that he
and his country
have seen their best days...
Pow 6.62 19 A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he
wished it were a
penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this
country...
Pow 6.63 15 Men expect from good whigs put into office
by the
respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with
Mexico...than
from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
Pow 6.66 12 Of the Shaker society it was formerly a
sort of proverb in the
country that they always sent the devil to market.
Wth 6.95 8 [The rich] include the country as well as
the town...in their
notion of available material.
Wth 6.102 16 In California, the country where [the
dollar] grew,--what
would it buy?
Wth 6.102 26 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy
much in Boston. Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town,
thanks to...the
contemporaneous growth of New York and the whole country.
Wth 6.109 16 There is an example of the compensations
in the commercial
history of this country.
Wth 6.109 21 Of course the loss [of an American ship]
was serious to the
owner, but the country was indemnified;...
Wth 6.109 25 ...we charged threepence a pound for
carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which...brought into
the country an
immense prosperity...
Wth 6.117 15 In England, the richest country in the
universe, I was
assured...that great lords and ladies had no more guineas to give away
than
other people;...
Wth 6.118 6 It is a general rule in that country
[England] that bigger
incomes do not help anybody.
Wth 6.120 2 When Mr. Cockayne takes a cottage in the
country, and will
keep his cow, he thinks a cow is a creature that is fed on hay and
gives a
pail of milk twice a day.
Wth 6.120 21 Help comes in the custom of the country...
Wth 6.121 2 The custom of the country will do it all.
Wth 6.121 7 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...
Wth 6.122 16 When a citizen fresh from Dock Square or
Milk Street comes
out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine
outlook from
his windows;...
Ctr 6.132 14 A freemason, not long since, set out to
explain to this country
that the principal cause of the success of General Washington was the
aid
he derived from the freemasons.
Ctr 6.139 18 The city breeds one kind of speech and
manners; the back
country a different style;...
Ctr 6.145 14 All educated Americans...go to Europe;
perhaps because it is
their mental home, as the invalid habits of this country might suggest.
Ctr 6.145 25 Do you suppose there is any country where
they do not scald
milk-pans...
Ctr 6.146 18 The boy grown up on a farm, which he has
never left, is said
in the country to have had no chance...
Ctr 6.147 6 A foreign country is a point of comparison
wherefrom to judge [a man's] own.
Ctr 6.148 21 In the country [a man] can find solitude
and reading...
Ctr 6.149 6 In the country, in long time, for want of
good conversation, one's understanding and invention contract a moss on
them...
Ctr 6.150 2 The head of a commercial house or a leading
lawyer or
politician is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all
parts of
the country...
Ctr 6.151 13 I have heard that throughout this country
a certain respect is
paid to good broadcloth;...
Ctr 6.155 10 There is a great deal of self-denial and
manliness in poor and
middle-class houses in town and country, that has not got into
literature...
Bhr 6.170 14 The nobility cannot in any country be
disguised...
Bhr 6.173 26 ...in the same country [on the banks of
the Mississippi], in the
pews of the churches little placards plead with the worshipper against
the
fury of expectoration.
Bhr 6.190 25 In this country...we have a superficial
culture...
Wsp 6.209 25 In this country the like stupefaction was
in the air...
Wsp 6.235 15 I spent, [Benedict] said, ten months in
the country.
CbW 6.248 26 Shall we then judge a country by the
majority, or by the
minority?
CbW 6.255 20 I do not think very respectfully of the
designs or the doings
of the people who went to California in 1849. It was...in the western
country, a general jail delivery of all the rowdies of the rivers.
CbW 6.260 7 Charles James Fox said of England, The
history of this
country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent
circumstances
the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons
would lose its greatest force and weight.
Ill 6.315 24 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the
children in the hovel I
saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery
romance... and talked of the dear cottage where so many joyful hours
had flown. Well, this thatching of hovels is the custom of the country.
Civ 7.20 5 The Indians of this country have not learned
the white man's
work;...
Civ 7.31 18 ...the true test of civilization is...the
kind of man the country
turns out.
Civ 7.31 19 I see the vast advantages of this
country...
Civ 7.33 23 ...if there be a country which cannot stand
any one of these
tests,--a country where knowledge cannot be diffused without perils of
mob
law and statute law;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
Civ 7.33 24 ...if there be...a country where knowledge
cannot be diffused
without perils of mob law and statute law;...that country is...not
civil, but
barbarous;...
Civ 7.34 11 ...if there be...a country...where the
suffrage is not free or
equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
Art2 7.56 21 In this country, at this time, other
interests than religion and
patriotism are predominant...
Elo1 7.75 14 One of our statesmen said, The curse of
this country is
eloquent men.
Elo1 7.86 9 In every company the man with the fact is
like the guide you
hire to lead your party...through a difficult country.
Elo1 7.95 18 The resistance to slavery in this country
has been a fruitful
nursery of orators.
Elo1 7.100 4 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave
men, who...esteemed
that object for which they toiled, whether the prosperity of their
country, or
the laws...as above the whole world, and themselves also.
DL 7.106 16 The first ride into the country, the first
bath in running water... are new chapters of joy [to the child].
DL 7.119 16 There was never a country in the world
which could so easily
exhibit this heroism as ours;...
Farm 7.140 24 The city is always recruited from the
country.
Farm 7.141 12 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by
the wayside... makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long
afterwards.
Farm 7.149 25 The town of Concord is one of the oldest
towns in this
country...
WD 7.169 11 In solitude and in the country, what
dignity distinguishes the
holy time!
WD 7.177 13 That is good which commends to me my
country, my
climate, my means and materials, my associates.
Boks 7.213 19 [Men's] education is neglected; but the
circulating library
and the theatre, as well as...the Adirondack country...make such amends
as
they can.
Clbs 7.233 27 Diderot said of the Abbe Galiani: He was
a treasure in rainy
days; and if the cabinet-makers made such things, everybody would have
one in the country.
Clbs 7.243 19 ...a history of clubs...tracing the clubs
and coteries in each
country, would be an important chapter in history.
Cour 7.270 16 ...for a settler in a new country, one
good, believing, strong-minded
man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
Suc 7.289 17 I could point to men in this country...of
this [egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare;...
Suc 7.292 13 The gravest and learnedest courts in this
country shudder to
face a new question...
OA 7.320 5 Age is becoming in the country.
OA 7.331 24 America is the country of young men...
PI 8.7 3 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses
to remember whose
brain it belongs to; what country, tradition or religion;...
PI 8.33 4 Homer has his own [important passages],--One
omen is best, to
fight for one's country;/...
SA 8.101 5 Every human society wants to be officered by
a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men,
adorned with dignity and
accomplishments. Every country wishes this...
SA 8.102 27 ...I have seen examples of new grace and
power in address that
honor the country.
SA 8.103 23 ...I said to myself, How little this man
[an American to be
proud of] suspects...that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a
man
superior to himself. And I think this is a good country that can bear
such a
creature as he is.
SA 8.104 10 Amidst the calamities which war has brought
on our country
this one benefit has accrued,--that our eyes...look homeward.
SA 8.104 20 We have come...to know...the good will that
is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages
of...education and religious
culture, and their determination to hold these fast, and, by them, to
hold fast
the country...
SA 8.105 2 The consolation and happy moment of
life...is...a flame of
affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its
object;--as the
love...of the boy...in the passion for his country;...
Elo2 8.109 6 He, when the rising storm of party
roared,/ Brought his great
forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with
fears
the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/ Seemed, when at
last
his clarion accents broke/ As if the conscience of the country spoke./
Elo2 8.118 8 ...the great and daily growing interests
at stake in this country
must pay proportional prices to their spokesmen and defenders.
Elo2 8.119 23 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country,
complained of concert-rooms
and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her
voice...
Elo2 8.124 10 ...in your struggles with the
world...when even your country
may seem ready to abandon herself and you...seek refuge...in the
precepts
and example of Him whose law is love...
Elo2 8.125 22 ...when [the orator] rises to any height
of thought or of
passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his
audience. It is the merit of John Brown and of Abraham Lincoln--one at
Charlestown, one at Gettysburg--in the two best specimens of eloquence
we have had in
this country.
Elo2 8.132 8 ...when a great sentiment...makes itself
deeply felt in any age
or country, then great orators appear.
Elo2 8.132 15 If there ever was a country where
eloquence was a power, it
is the United States.
Res 8.150 16 In this country we have not learned how to
repair the
exhaustions of our climate.
Res 8.151 8 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and
grounds, and mainly
one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country wants all
things on a
low tone...
Res 8.151 14 Natural history is, in the country, most
attractive;...
Res 8.151 17 The first care of a man settling in the
country should be to
open the face of the earth to himself...
Comc 8.168 1 ...in the country we cannot find every day
a case that agrees
with the diagnosis of the books.
QO 8.180 17 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book out
of our horizon of
thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its
native
country to discover its foregoers...
QO 8.200 14 Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions,
and our notions of
fit and fair,-all these we never made...
PC 8.207 3 We meet to-day under happy omens...to the
country and to
mankind.
PC 8.207 6 The heart still beats with the public pulse
of joy that the country
has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence...
PC 8.209 15 ...[the coxcomb] has found that this
country and this age
belong to the most liberal persuasion;...
PC 8.210 7 In this country the prodigious mass of work
that must be done
has either made new divisions of labor or created new professions.
PC 8.210 18 Consider...what masters, each in his
several province...the
novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...the foreign trade and
the
home trade (whose circuits in this country are as spacious as the
foreign)... have evoked!...
PC 8.218 11 If a theologian of deep convictions and
strong understanding
carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran,
in
spite of the Emperor;...
PPo 8.241 25 Firdusi, the Persian Homer, has written in
the Shah Nameh
the annals of the fabulous and heroic kings of the country...
Insp 8.288 15 ...it is almost impossible for a
house-keeper who is in the
country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions...
Insp 8.291 5 Allston rarely left his studio by day. An
old friend took him, one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the
country...
Grts 8.318 17 A great style of hero draws equally...all
the extremes of
society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such
examples in this country, in Daniel Webster, Henry Clay...
Dem1 10.13 24 When Hector is told that the omens are
unpropitious, he
replies,-One omen is the best, to fight for one's country./
Dem1 10.21 6 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply
mischievous. A new or
private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of
this
kind. Tramps...descending...on...the bank-messenger in the country, can
well be spared.
Dem1 10.21 25 Great men feel that they are so
by...falling back on what is
humane; in renouncing family, clan, country and each exclusive and
local
connection...
Aris 10.31 6 There is an attractive topic, which...is
impertinent in no
community,-the permanent traits of the Aristocracy. It is...to be found
in
every country and in every company of men.
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...
Aris 10.41 24 In the Norse Edda it appears as the
curious but excellent
policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages,
and in
reality each to adopt from the other a first-rate man, who thus
acquired a
new country; was at once made a chief.
Aris 10.66 2 ...the American who would serve his
country must learn the
beauty and honor of perseverance...
PerF 10.79 18 [The manufacturer's] friends dissuaded
him, advised him to
give up the work, which was not suited to the country.
PerF 10.85 5 ...a military genius, instead of using
that to defend his
country, he says, I will fight the battle so as to give me place and
political
consideration;...
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...
Chr2 10.96 14 ...there is...many a man who does not
hesitate to lay down
his life...in the cause of his country...
Chr2 10.106 7 How unlike our habitual turn of thought
was that of the last
century in this country!
Edc1 10.125 8 ...I praise New England because it is the
country in the
world where is the freest expenditure for education.
Edc1 10.125 15 We have already taken...the initial
step...thus deciding at
the start the destiny of this country,-this, namely, that the poor
man...is
allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall
educate me...
Supl 10.170 14 I once attended a dinner given to a
great state functionary
by functionaries,-men of law, state and trade. The guest was a great
man
in his own country and an honored diplomatist in this.
Supl 10.171 4 ...I had been present...in the country at
a cattle-show dinner...
Supl 10.178 9 The political economist defies us to show
any gold-mine
country that is traversed by good roads...
SovE 10.202 11 In the Christianity of this country
there is wide difference
of opinion in regard to inspiration, prophecy...
Prch 10.223 17 I find myself always struck and
stimulated by a good
anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do not find that the age
or country
makes the least difference;...
Prch 10.230 15 The simple fact...that all over this
country the people are
waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is
inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large
liberties.
Prch 10.232 1 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to
the calamities and
prosperities of our town and country;...
Prch 10.232 19 We shall not very long have any part or
lot in this earth... where we feel and speak so energetically of our
country and our cause.
MoL 10.242 20 The country was full of activity...
MoL 10.254 18 The country complains loudly of the
inefficiency of the
army.
MoL 10.257 5 All of us have shared the new enthusiasm
of country and of
liberty which swept like a whirlwind through all souls at the outbreak
of
war...
Schr 10.273 8 In this country we are fond of results
and of short ways to
them;...
Schr 10.278 19 It seems as if two or three persons
coming who should add
to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the
country
with them.
Schr 10.284 12 [The scholar] will have to answer
certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all
women...your country...are the
interrogators...
LLNE 10.333 6 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins
to his florid, quaint
and affluent fancy. Then was exhibited all the richness of a rhetoric
which
we have never seen rivalled in this country.
LLNE 10.339 12 I attribute much importance to two
papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were
the first
specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had
given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review.
LLNE 10.345 11 There was a pilgrim in those days
walking in the country
who stopped at every door...
LLNE 10.355 3 It was easy to see what must be the fate
of this fine system [of Fourier's] in any serious and comprehensive
attempt to set it on foot in
this country.
LLNE 10.355 18 In our free institutions...fortunes are
easily made by
thousands, as in no other country.
LLNE 10.369 19 I recall these few selected facts, none
of them of much
independent interest, but symptomatic of the times and country.
LLNE 10.370 1 ...I am not less aware of that excellent
and increasing circle
of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect
of our
cities and this country to-day...
EzRy 10.390 20 We remember the remark made by the old
farmer who
used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern
country
would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
MMEm 10.401 16 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was
sold, and its
price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a
boarder
with her sister, for many years. It was in a picturesque country...
MMEm 10.407 5 From the country [Mary Moody Emerson]
writes to her
sister in town, You cannot help saying that my epistle is a striking
specimen
of egotism.
MMEm 10.407 8 ...in the country, we converse so much
more with
ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else.
SlHr 10.443 5 I used to feel that [Samuel Hoar's]
conscience was a kind of
meter of the degree of honesty in the country...
Thor 10.451 3 Henry David Thoreau was the last male
descendant of a
French ancestor who came to this country from the Isle of Guernsey.
Thor 10.455 19 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the
railroad only to get over
so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose...
Thor 10.459 15 [Thoreau's] preference of his country
and condition was
genuine...
Thor 10.469 15 [Thoreau] knew the country like a fox or
a bird...
Thor 10.484 24 The country knows not yet, or in the
least part, how great a
son it has lost [in Thoreau].
Carl 10.492 25 If you boast of the growth of the
country, and show [Carlyle] the wonderful results of the census, he
finds nothing so depressing
as the sight of a great mob.
GSt 10.506 26 ...when I consider that [George Stearns]
lived long enough
to see with his own eyes the salvation of his country...I count him
happy
among men.
GSt 10.507 17 Almost I am ready to say to these
mourners [of George
Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you
remember...that...there is
hardly a man in this country worth knowing who does not hold his name
in
exceptional honor.
HDC 11.30 11 In the country...the agricultural life
favors the permanence
of families.
HDC 11.32 22 ...the Indian paths leading up and down
the country were a
foot broad.
HDC 11.33 26 Johnson...intimates that [the pilgrims]
consumed many days
in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.
HDC 11.35 25 A march of a number of families with their
stuff, through
twenty miles of unknown forest...must be...for those who were new to
the
country, a formidable adventure.
HDC 11.36 10 The moose was still trotting in the
country...
HDC 11.42 19 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.
HDC 11.43 13 ...when, presently...parties, with grants
of land, straggled
into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for
their own
benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable
nor
possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
HDC 11.45 3 I esteem it the happiness of this country
that its settlers...were
united by personal affection.
HDC 11.46 25 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns
learned...to
exercise the right of expressing an opinion on every question before
the
country.
HDC 11.49 20 The British government has recently
presented to the several
public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the
Domesday Book...
HDC 11.53 4 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a
town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country?
HDC 11.54 27 The country [around Concord] already began
to yield more
than was consumed by the inhabitants.
HDC 11.60 8 [Mary Shepherd] was carried captive into
the Indian country...
HDC 11.60 16 Beleaguered in his own country...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 11.62 23 In the great growth of the country,
Concord participated...
HDC 11.65 25 The country [near Concord] was not yet so
thickly settled
but that the inhabitants suffered from wolves and wildcats...
HDC 11.68 11 ...in answer to letters received from the
united committees
of correspondence...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;...
HDC 11.69 21 ...all such persons as shall purchase,
sell, or use any such
tea, shall, for the future, be deemed unfriendly to the happy
constitution of
this country.
HDC 11.69 27 ...in conjunction with our brethren in
America, we...will... with the same resolution, as [George III's]
freeborn subjects in this country, to the utmost of our power, defend
all our rights inviolate to the latest
posterity.
HDC 11.70 8 ...if any person or persons...shall...be
factors for the East
India Company, we will treat them...as enemies to their country...
HDC 11.76 18 ...you, my fathers [veterans of battle of
Concord], whom
God and the history of your country have ennobled, may well bear a
chief
part in keeping this peaceful birthday of our town.
HDC 11.77 4 To you [veterans of the battle of Concord]
belongs a better
badge than stars and ribbons. This prospering country is your
ornament...
HDC 11.78 26 When...the poor of Boston were quartered
by the Provincial
Congress on the neighboring country, Concord received 82 persons to its
hospitality.
HDC 11.85 5 ...in every part of this
country...[Concord's sons] plough the
earth...
LVB 11.89 20 ...my communication respects the sinister
rumors that fill
this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.
LVB 11.93 8 ...a crime [the relocation of the
Cherokees] is projected that
confounds our understandings by its magnitude,-a crime that really
deprives us as well as the Cherokees of a country?...
LVB 11.93 12 ...how could we call...the land that was
cursed by [the
Cherokees'] parting and dying imprecations our country, any more?
LVB 11.95 5 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say
that ten years ago
they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed
Indian measures could not be executed; that the unanimous country would
put them down.
EWI 11.100 21 When we consider what remains to be done
for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of
humanity make us tender of
such as are not yet persuaded.
EWI 11.109 3 More seamen died in [the slave] trade in
one year than in the
whole remaining trade of the country [England] in two.
EWI 11.116 4 In every quarter [of Antigua], we were
assured, the day [after emancipation] was like a Sabbath. Work had
ceased. The hum of
business was still: tranquillity pervaded the towns and country.
EWI 11.121 10 All those who are acquainted with the
state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population
are...as strongly sensible
of the blessings of liberty, as any that we know of in any country.
EWI 11.128 5 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council
report of evidence on
the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day
being
named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime
Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to
retire into the
country to read the report.
EWI 11.128 24 There are causes in the composition of
the British
legislature, and the relation of its leaders to the country and to
Europe, which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other
legislative
assemblies.
EWI 11.131 25 ...the farmers may brag their democracy
in the country, but
they are disgraced men.
EWI 11.136 8 I was a slave, said the counsel of
[George] Somerset, speaking for his client, for I was in America: I am
now in a country where
the common rights of mankind are known and regarded.
EWI 11.137 4 All the great geniuses of the British
senate...ranged
themselves on [emancipation's] side;...Franklin, Jefferson, Washington,
in
this country, all recorded their votes.
EWI 11.146 2 These considerations [of emancipation in
the West Indies] seem to leave no choice for the action of the
intellect and the conscience of
the country.
War 11.156 1 In some parts of this country...the
absorbing topic of all
conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped?
War 11.159 21 This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took
to killing his
own neighbors and kindred, with such appetite that his tribe...would
have
killed him had he not fled his country forever.
FSLC 11.180 17 ...The Boston of the American
Revolution, which figures
so proudly in John Adams's Diary, which the whole country has been
reading; Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
FSLC 11.180 22 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the
country, and say, with
a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here;...
FSLC 11.186 12 ...America, the most prosperous country
in the Universe, has the greatest calamity in the Universe, negro
slavery.
FSLC 11.197 25 ...here are gentlemen whose believed
probity was the
confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into
the
support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law]. We poor men in
the
country who might once have thought it an honor to shake hands with
them...would now shrink from their touch...
FSLC 11.203 20 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union,
on the 7th
March, 1850...[Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the
slavery party in this country.
FSLC 11.205 15 The destiny of this country is great and
liberal...
FSLC 11.208 1 [Abolition] is really the project fit for
this country to
entertain and accomplish.
FSLC 11.208 18 It is really the great task fit for this
country to accomplish, to buy that property [slaves] of the planters...
FSLC 11.209 6 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost
two thousand
millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so
enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The father of his country
shall wait, well pleased, a little longer for his monument;...
FSLC 11.211 9 Judaea was a petty country. Yet these
two, Greece and
Judaea, furnish the mind and the heart by which the rest of the world
is
sustained;...
FSLC 11.211 23 The immense power of rectitude is apt to
be forgotten in
politics. But they who have brought the great wrong [the Fugitive Slave
Law] on the country have not forgotten it.
FSLC 11.213 1 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous
country their
forts and factories have been set up,-represents London...
FSLC 11.213 8 ...it is confounding distinctions to
speak of the geographic
sections of this country as of equal civilization.
FSLN 11.218 13 Owing to the silent revolution which the
newspaper has
wrought, this class [students and scholars] has come in this country to
take
in all classes.
FSLN 11.219 7 ...I never felt the check on my free
speech and action, until, the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his
personal influence, brought the
Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
FSLN 11.223 14 The history of this country has given a
disastrous
importance to the defects of this great man's [Webster's] mind.
FSLN 11.223 18 ...it was the misfortune of his country
that with this large
understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect...
FSLN 11.225 24 ...in this country one sees that there
is always margin
enough in the statute for a liberal judge to read one way and a servile
judge
another.
FSLN 11.227 17 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for
the application to
these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law.
FSLN 11.227 21 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for
the application to
these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a
totally
different course from Mr. Webster. If any man had in that hour
possessed
the weight with the country which he had acquired, he could have
brought
the whole country to its senses.
FSLN 11.227 23 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for
the application to
these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a
totally
different course from Mr. Webster. If any man had in that hour
possessed
the weight with the country which he had acquired, he could have
brought
the whole country to its senses.
FSLN 11.229 5 The way in which the country was dragged
to consent to
this [Fugitive Slave Law]...was the darkest passage in the history.
FSLN 11.239 18 The national spirit in this country is
so drowsy...
FSLN 11.241 24 It is a potent support and ally to a
brave man standing
single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other
parts of
the country appreciate the service...
FSLN 11.243 22 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name
and aspect
under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in this age and
country...
AsSu 11.248 4 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was
challenged in
Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends
came
forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be
thought
of; Mr. Webster's life was the property of his friends and of the whole
country...
AsSu 11.251 4 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands
charged with, is, that his
speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must
be
true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of every first-rate speaker
that ever
lived. It is the high compliment he pays to the intelligence of the
Senate and
of the country.
AKan 11.258 26 In this country for the last few years
the government has
been the chief obstruction to the common weal.
AKan 11.259 6 I do not know any story so gloomy as the
politics of this
country for the last twenty years...
AKan 11.260 16 ...can any citizen of the Southern
country who happens to
think kidnapping a bad thing, say so?
AKan 11.260 24 Are there no women in that [Southern]
country,-women, who always carry the conscience of a people?
AKan 11.262 6 California, a few years ago, by the
testimony of all people
at that time in the country, had the best government that ever existed.
AKan 11.262 14 Every man throughout the country
[California] was armed
with knife and revolver...
AKan 11.263 14 I wish we could send the
sergeant-at-arms to stop every
American who is about to leave the country.
AKan 11.263 16 Send home every one who is abroad, lest
they should find
no country to return to.
AKan 11.263 17 Come home and stay at home, while there
is a country to
save.
JBB 11.268 25 [John Brown] believes in two
articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the
Declaration of Independence; and he
used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that
a
whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a
violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this
country.
JBS 11.277 5 ...the best orators who have added their
praise to his fame,- and I need not go out of this house to find the
purest eloquence in the
country,-have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN
BROWN.
TPar 11.292 23 The sudden and singular eminence of Mr.
Parker, the
importance of his name and influence, are the verdict of his country to
his
virtues.
ACiv 11.298 1 There is no interest in any country so
imperative as that of
labor;...
ACiv 11.298 12 ...who is this who tosses his empty head
at this blessing in
disguise...and insults the faithful workman at his daily toil? I
see...for such
calamity no solution but servile war and the Africanization of the
country
that permits it.
ACiv 11.298 23 The state of the country fills us with
anxiety and stern
duties.
ACiv 11.299 12 ...Why cannot the best civilization be
extended over the
whole country...
ACiv 11.299 13 ...Why cannot the best civilization be
extended over the
whole country, since the disorder of the less-civilized portion menaces
the
existence of the country?
ACiv 11.310 24 The message [Lincoln's proposal of
gradual abolition] has
been received throughout the country with praise...
EPro 11.317 4 ...[Lincoln's] long-avowed expectant
policy, as if he chose
to be strictly the executive of the best public sentiment of the
country...the
firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor
to
the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think
that
we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine
Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
EPro 11.319 15 The force of the act [the Emancipation
Proclamation] is
that it commits the country to this justice...
EPro 11.320 21 The government has assured itself of the
best constituency
in the world...the generosity of the cities, the health of the
country...all rally
to its support.
ALin 11.329 4 We meet under the gloom of a calamity
[death of Lincoln] which darkens down over the minds of good men in all
civil society, as the
fearful tidings travel...from country to country...
ALin 11.329 5 We meet under the gloom of a calamity
[death of Lincoln] which darkens down over the minds of good men in all
civil society, as the
fearful tidings travel...from country to country...
ALin 11.329 15 In this country, on Saturday, every one
was struck dumb... as he meditated on the ghastly blow [Lincoln's
death].
ALin 11.330 22 All of us remember...the surprise and
disappointment of
the country at [Lincoln's] first nomination by the convention at
Chicago.
ALin 11.334 11 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state
was a triumph...of
the public conscience. This middle-class country had got a middle-class
president, at last.
ALin 11.335 18 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before
[the American
people];...father of his country...
ALin 11.336 26 ...what if it should turn out, in the
unfolding of the web... that Heaven...shall make [Lincoln] serve his
country even more by his death
than by his life?
ALin 11.337 7 Easy good nature has been the dangerous
foible of the
Republic, and it was necessary that its enemies should...drive us to
unwonted firmness, to secure the salvation of this country in the next
ages.
HCom 11.341 9 ...in these last years all opinions have
been affected by the
magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has
offered
us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...
HCom 11.343 22 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's]
influence on the
country as a principal planter of the Western States...I think the
little state
bigger than I knew
SMC 11.350 12 ...the virtues we are met to honor...were
exerted for the
protection of our common country...
SMC 11.351 14 ...whatever good grows to the country out
of war...will go
on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and
spiritual life.
SMC 11.354 27 ...it was found, contrary to all popular
belief, that the
country was at heart abolitionist...
SMC 11.355 9 The armies mustered in the North were as
much
missionaries to the mind of the country as they were carriers of
material
force...
SMC 11.357 22 One of our later volunteers...said, I go
because I shall
always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.
SMC 11.358 6 ...the captain [George Prescott] writes
home of another of
his men, B[owers] comes from a sense of duty and love of country...
SMC 11.359 25 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George
Prescott]...a serious
devotion to the cause of the country that never swerved...
SMC 11.365 11 ...the regimental officers believed, what
is now the general
conviction of the country, that the misfortunes of the day [battle of
Bull
Run] were not so much owing to the fault of the troops as to the
insufficiency of the combinations by the general officers.
SMC 11.375 6 I hope the disuse of such medals or badges
in this country
only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil
War]...
SMC 11.376 6 A duty so severe has been discharged [in
the Civil War], and with such immense results of good...that, though
the cannon volleys
have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the
benedictions of their country and mankind.
EdAd 11.384 25 The aspect this country presents is a
certain maniacal
activity...
EdAd 11.385 9 One would say there is nothing colossal
in the country but
its geography and its material activities;...
EdAd 11.386 12 Conceding these unfavorable appearances,
it would yet be
a poor pedantry to read the fates of this country from these narrow
data.
EdAd 11.387 13 ...this country does not lie here in the
sun causeless;...
EdAd 11.387 25 Lovers of our country...we should
certainly be glad to give
good advice in politics.
EdAd 11.388 15 The young intriguers who drive in
bar-rooms and town-meetings
the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an
overgrown bully...
EdAd 11.389 7 We have a bad war, many victories, each
of which converts
the country into an immense chanticleer;...
EdAd 11.389 9 We have a bad war, many victories, each
of which converts
the country into an immense chanticleer; and a very insincere political
opposition. The country needs to be extricated from its delirium at
once.
Koss 11.397 12 ...it is the privilege of the people of
this town [Concord] to
keep a hallowed mound which has a place in the story of the country;...
Koss 11.398 17 ...I may say of the people of this
country at large, that their
sympathy is more worth, because it stands the test of party.
Koss 11.400 4 This country of workingmen greets in you
[Kossuth] a
worker.
Wom 11.420 13 On the questions that are
important...whether men shall be
holden in bondage, or shall be roasted alive and eaten, as in Typee, or
shall
be hunted with bloodhounds, as in this country...[women] would give, I
suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
Wom 11.423 17 The fairest names in this country...have
gone into
Congress and come out dishonored.
SHC 11.431 1 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.
Scot 11.462 5 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...
Scot 11.465 20 By nature, by his reading and taste an
aristocrat, in a time
and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues
and
graces of that class...
FRO1 11.480 17 The soul of our late war...was, first,
the desire to abolish
slavery in this country...
FRO1 11.480 24 I wish that the various beneficent
institutions which are
springing up...all over this country, should all be remembered as
within the
sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...
CPL 11.496 15 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has
found the many
admirable examples which have lately honored the country...
CPL 11.500 15 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a
man...more widely
known as the writer of some of the best books which have been written
in
this country...
FRep 11.515 24 At every moment some one country more
than any other
represents the sentiment and the future of mankind.
FRep 11.516 2 At every moment some one country more
than any other
represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None will doubt
that
America occupies this place in the opinion of nations, as is proved by
the
fact of the vast immigration into this country...
FRep 11.516 7 ...[immigrants] find this country just
passing through a great
crisis in its history...
FRep 11.517 27 Hitherto government has been that of the
single person or
of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these
elements, it is
asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of
professional politicians...
FRep 11.518 25 The country is governed in bar-rooms...
FRep 11.519 17 We have seen the great party of property
and education in
the country drivelling and huckstering away...every principle of
humanity...
FRep 11.522 7 [The American] sits secure in the
possession of his vast
domain...and feels the security that there can be no famine in a
country
reaching through so many latitudes...
FRep 11.522 10 [The American] sits secure in the
possession of his vast
domain...and feels the security that there can be...no danger from any
excess of importation of art or learning into a country of such native
strength...
FRep 11.522 14 In proportion to the personal ability of
each man, [the
American] feels the invitation and career which the country opens to
him.
FRep 11.524 25 ...we know, all over this country, men
of integrity...
FRep 11.525 19 The gracious lesson taught by science to
this country is
that the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance from
less to
more.
FRep 11.526 6 Ours is the country of poor men.
FRep 11.526 13 ...here is the human race poured out
over the continent to
do itself justice;...unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work,
when labor
is sure to pay. This through all the country.
FRep 11.527 8 The steady improvement of the public
schools in the cities
and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious
primary
education.
FRep 11.530 3 ...if the prosperity of this country has
been merely the
obedience of man to the guiding of Nature...yet is there fate above
fate, if
we choose to spread this language;...
FRep 11.530 19 Never country had such a fortune...as
this...
FRep 11.531 10 I wish to see America...a benefactor
such as no country
ever was...
FRep 11.531 16 In this country...there is, at present,
a great sensualism...
FRep 11.533 12 If a temperate wise man should look over
our American
society, I think the first danger that would excite his alarm would be
the
European influences on this country.
FRep 11.533 15 We buy much of Europe that does not make
us better men; and mainly the expensiveness which is ruining that
country.
FRep 11.533 21 See the secondariness and aping of
foreign and English
life, that runs through this country...
FRep 11.534 14 In the planters of this country...the
conditions of the
country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence...
FRep 11.534 15 In the planters of this country...the
conditions of the
country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence...
FRep 11.535 14 What this country longs for is
personalities...
FRep 11.535 27 ...in the country [the class of which I
speak] sit idle in
stores and bar-rooms...
FRep 11.537 19 The new times need a new man...whom
plainly this
country must furnish.
FRep 11.538 16 ...if the spirit which years ago armed
this country against
rebellion...could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of
making
the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of
religious...obeyers of duty...
FRep 11.540 3 Let us realize that this country...is the
great charity of God
to the human race.
FRep 11.541 14 The genius of the country has marked out
our true
policy,-opportunity.
PLT 12.27 5 A man has been in Spain. The facts and
thoughts which the
traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a
determinate heap of one size and form and not another.
PLT 12.33 12 In reckoning the sources of our mental
power it were fatal to
omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge
have
their fountains...
PLT 12.56 6 The right partisan is a heady man,
who...sees some one thing
with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow
men...seems
inspired and a god-send to those who wish to...carry a point. 'T is the
difference between progress by railroad and by walking across the
broken
country.
PLT 12.57 1 It is the levity of this country to forgive
everything to talent.
II 12.65 4 In reckoning the sources of our mental
power, it were fatal to
omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge
have
their fountains...
CInt 12.115 17 At this season, the colleges keep their
anniversaries, and in
this country where education is a primary interest, every family has a
representative in their halls...
CL 12.135 8 The land, the care of land, seems to be the
calling of the
people of this new country...
CL 12.136 12 ...in the country, Nature is always
inviting to the compromise
of walking as soon as we are released from severe labor.
CL 12.136 16 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse
at the University of
Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country...
CL 12.136 25 ...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go
with him on
excursions on foot into the country...
CL 12.143 19 For walking, you must have a broken
country.
CL 12.144 3 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable
like a park, and not
like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire...
CL 12.144 15 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the
pinery was
composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it was impossible
to
walk in the country...
CL 12.144 21 We may well enumerate what compensating
advantages we
have over that country [Illinois]...
CL 12.144 26 ...'t is a commonplace, which I have
frequently heard spoken
in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of the Divine Providence
that the
New England states should have been first settled before the Western
country was known, or they would never have been settled at all.
CL 12.145 7 In October, the country is covered with
[the apple's] ornamental harvests.
CL 12.146 19 I know a whole district...where the
apple-trees strive with
and hold their ground against the native forest-trees: the apple
growing with
profusion that mocks the pains taken by careful cockneys, who come out
into the country, plant young trees, and watch them dwindling.
CL 12.155 8 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon
the Norway Alps I
seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a
heavy
burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway...my
languor or heaviness returned.
CL 12.156 3 ...a view from a cliff over a wide country
undoes a good deal
of prose...
CL 12.159 2 Those who persist [in walking] from year to
year, and obtain
at last an intimacy with the country...these we call professors.
CW 12.171 23 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 for their learning...
CW 12.173 26 The place where a thoughtful man in the
country feels the
joy of eminent domain is in his wood-lot.
Bost 12.185 15 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or
of pictures;...
Bost 12.190 5 Massachusetts in particular, [John Smith]
calls the paradise
of these parts, notices its high mountain, and its river, which doth
pierce
many days' journey into the entrails of that country.
Bost 12.190 6 Morton arrived [in Massachusetts] in
1622, in June, beheld
the country, and the more he looked, the more he liked it.
Bost 12.191 18 ...the next colony planted itself at
Salem, and the next at
Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the
best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded
bay...where a
bold shore was bounded by a country of rich undulating woodland.
Bost 12.197 24 In the midst of [New England's]
laborious and economical
and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that
refinement...which...gave a hospitality in this country to the spirit
of
Coleridge and Wordsworth...before yet their genius had found a hearty
welcome in Great Britain.
Bost 12.200 14 There are always men ready for
adventures-more in an
over-governed, over-peopled country...
Bost 12.200 18 ...a gold-mine, a new country, speak to
the imagination...
Bost 12.201 4 European critics regret the detachment of
the Puritans to this
country without aristocracy;...
Bost 12.205 13 ...when within our memory some flippant
senator wished to
taunt the people of this country by calling them the mudsills of
society, he
paid them ignorantly a true praise;...
Bost 12.205 21 The power of labor which belongs to the
English race fell
here...into a maritime country made for trade...
MAng1 12.222 2 There needs no better proof of our
instinctive feeling of
the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the
uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed
towards
Anthropomorphism...
MAng1 12.237 11 ...[Michelangelo] had a passion for the
country...
MAng1 12.244 19 [Michelangelo] was not a citizen of any
country;...
Milt1 12.259 19 ...probably no traveller ever entered
that country of history [Italy] with better right to its hospitality
[than Milton]...
Milt1 12.267 23 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton...in
returning from Italy
because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.
Milt1 12.267 26 [Milton] returned into his
revolutionized country, and
assumed an honest and useful task...
Milt1 12.273 23 ...it would not be matter of rational
wonder [Milton said], if the wethers of our country should be born with
horns that could batter
down cities and towns.
ACri 12.284 2 Chiefly in this country, the common
school has added two
or three audiences [for the writer]: once, we had only the boxes; now,
the
galleries and the pit.
ACri 12.285 16 ...[George Borrow] had one clear
perception, that the key
to every country was command of the language of the common people.
ACri 12.298 9 Here has come into the country, three
months ago, a History
of Friedrich, infinitely the wittiest book that ever was written;...
MLit 12.316 11 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature
because his own soul
was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for
the
wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent...which...would not make
itself
intelligible to the wise man of another age or country?
MLit 12.322 7 ...the quality and energy of [Carlyle's]
influence on the
youth of this country will require at our hands, ere long, a distinct
and
faithful acknowledgment.
MLit 12.327 11 In these days and in this country...it
seems as if no book
could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of
Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
MLit 12.331 12 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver
with a passion for the
country;...
MLit 12.334 11 He who doubts whether this age or this
country can yield
any contribution to the literature of the world only betrays his own
blindness to the necessities of the human soul.
WSL 12.337 6 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New
England an
erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the
English
traveller;-a man nowise cautious to conceal his name or that of his
native
country...
WSL 12.337 8 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New
England an
erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the
English
traveller;-a man nowise cautious to conceal...his very slight esteem
for the
persons and the country that surround him.
EurB 12.369 22 In this country [Wordsworth's influence]
very early found
a stronghold...
EurB 12.370 24 ...[modern painters] will not paint for
their times, agitated
by the spirit which agitates their country;...
EurB 12.373 26 The story of Zanoni was one of those
world-fables which
is so agreeable to the human imagination that it is found in some form
in
the language of every country...
Let 12.398 1 There is...a paralysis of the active
faculties, which falls on
young men of this country as soon as they have finished their college
education...
Let 12.398 15 ...[American youths] are educated above
the work of their
times and country, and disdain it.
Let 12.398 23 ...companies of the best-educated young
men in the Atlantic
states every week take their departure for Europe; for no business that
they
have in that country...
Let 12.403 5 A friend of ours went five years ago to
Illinois to buy a farm
for his son. Though there were crowds of emigrants in the roads, the
country was open on both sides...
Let 12.404 5 Apathies and total want of work...never
will obtain any
sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention
the
graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his
energies, whilst...the religious, civil and judicial forms of the
country are
confessedly effete and offensive.
Country, n. (1)
CW 12.172 2 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...but whom I had the pleasure of knowing long before the
Country
did;...
country-boy, n. (1)
Pt1 3.19 17 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for
the first time, and the
complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder.
country-gentleman, n. (1)
ET11 5.195 10 Already...the English noble and squire
were preparing for
the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense.
country-house, n. (1)
Nat2 3.190 24 ...trade to all the world, country-house
and cottage by the
waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
country-life, n. (2)
Nat 1.31 13 These facts may suggest the advantage which
the country-life
possesses...
ET11 5.177 20 The [English] aristocracy are marked by
their predilection
for country-life.
countryman, n. (14)
DSA 1.138 22 ...of the bad preacher, it could not be
told from his sermon... whether he was a citizen or a countryman;...
Mrs1 3.131 27 ...the countryman at a city dinner,
believes that there is a
ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
Nat2 3.173 22 I am grown expensive and sophisticated. I
can no longer live
without elegance, but a countryman shall be my master of revels.
ET17 5.293 22 Among the privileges of London, I recall
with pleasure two
or three signal days...one at the Museum...and still another, on which
Mr. [Richard] Owen accompanied my countryman Mr. H[illard]. and myself
through the Hunterian Museum.
Ctr 6.153 7 The countryman finds the town a chop-house,
a barber's shop.
Wsp 6.222 3 The countryman leaving his native village
for the first time
and going abroad, finds all his habits broken up.
Elo1 7.96 4 [The woods and mountains] send us every
year...some some
sturdy countryman, on whom neither money, nor politeness...make any
impression.
Farm 7.137 21 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the
countryman...all men
acknowledge.
Supl 10.169 17 The poor countryman, having no
circumstance of carpets, coaches, dinners, wine and dancing in his head
to confuse him, is able to
look straight at you...
MoL 10.246 18 A shrewd broker out of State Street
visited a quiet
countryman possessed of all the virtues...
RBur 11.441 5 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in
close chain with the
greatest masters,-Rabelais, Shakspeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler,
and
Burns. If I should add another name, I find it only in a living
countryman of
Burns [Carlyle].
CL 12.145 1 The privilege of the countryman is the
culture of the land...
CW 12.177 9 ...the countryman, as I said, has more than
he paid for; the
landscape is his.
EurB 12.371 21 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a
harvest-home...
countryman's, n. (1)
FSLC 11.208 23 It is really the great task fit for this
country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the
British nation bought the West
Indian slaves. I say buy...that we may...bear a countryman's share in
relieving [the planter];...
countrymen, n. (38)
Con 1.323 24 Is there not something shameful that I
should owe my
peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my
countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other
reputable
persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in
good
odor?
YA 1.375 3 Benefit will accrue, [railroads] are
essential to the country, but
that will be felt not until we are no longer countrymen.
Pt1 3.38 8 If I have not found that excellent
combination of gifts in my
countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of
the
poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries
of
English poets.
Chr1 3.92 2 Our frank countrymen of the west and south
have a taste for
character...
MoS 4.161 20 The terms of admission to this spectacle
[of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...proof...that he has
evinced the temper, stoutness
and the range of qualities which, among his contemporaries and
countrymen, entitle him to fellowship and trust.
ET4 5.65 6 Other countrymen look slight and undersized
beside [the
English]...
ET6 5.112 1 There is a prose in certain Englishmen
which exceeds in
wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen.
ET7 5.120 13 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his
military works at
Lisbon...believing in his countrymen and their syllogisms above all the
rhodomontade of Europe.
ET7 5.123 27 A slow temperament makes [the English]
less rapid and
ready than other countrymen...
ET7 5.126 1 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says
of them,--In close
intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know,
they
speak,/...
ET8 5.135 17 Here [in England] was lately a
cross-grained miser [Joseph
Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever
existed, and profusely pouring over the cold mind of his countrymen
creations of grace and truth...
ET12 5.208 19 The German Huber, in describing to his
countrymen the
attributes of an English gentleman, frankly admits that in Germany, we
have nothing of the kind.
ET14 5.243 19 [Locke's] countrymen forsook the lofty
sides of Parnassus...
ET14 5.244 16 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful at
the fountain of the
First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head.
Bacon, who said this, is almost unique among his countrymen in that
faculty;...
ET14 5.259 1 I am not surprised...to find an Englishman
like Warren
Hastings...deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering
them
a translation of the Bhagvat.
ET16 5.275 6 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle
complained that
they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run
away to
France and go with their countrymen and are amused...
ET18 5.305 5 I have sometimes seen [Englishmen] walk
with my
countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage...
ET19 5.314 5 ...if the courage of England goes with the
chances of a
commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my
own
Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
Ctr 6.145 18 Can we never extract this tape-worm of
Europe from the brain
of our countrymen?
CbW 6.266 15 My countrymen are not less infatuated with
the rococo toy
of Italy.
DL 7.104 18 ...chiefly, like his senior countrymen, the
young American
studies new and speedier modes of transportation.
Thor 10.462 1 [Thoreau]...would probably outwalk most
countrymen in a
day's journey.
LS 11.7 2 Jesus is a Jew, sitting with his countrymen,
celebrating their
national feast [the Passover].
HDC 11.61 14 A great defence [of Concord] undoubtedly
was the village
of Praying Indians, until this settlement fell a victim to the
envenomed
prejudice against their countrymen.
FSLN 11.224 22 It is remarked of Americans...that they
think they praise a
man more by saying that he is smart than by saying that he is right.
Whether the defect be national or not...it is so far true of
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