Decline to Defying
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
decline, n. (11)
LT 1.267 8 The change and decline of old reputations are
the gracious
marks of our own growth.
OS 2.295 13 The reliance on authority measures the
decline of religion...
Wsp 6.204 9 The decline of the influence of
Calvin...need give us no
uneasiness.
Suc 7.288 25 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is
victory, without
regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people...who
detect the first moment of decline and throw themselves on the instant
on
the winning side.
PC 8.233 17 ...in certain historic periods there have
been times of
negation...and a consequent national decline;...
War 11.157 13 ...[all history] is the record of the
mitigation and decline of
war.
War 11.158 2 By all these means, war has been steadily
on the decline;...
War 11.159 24 All history is the decline of war...
War 11.159 25 All history is the decline of war, though
the slow decline.
ACri 12.283 21 The decline of the privileged orders,
all over the world; the
advance of the Third Estate; the transformation of the laborer into
reader
and writer has compelled the learned and the thinkers to address them.
MLit 12.313 7 [Subjectiveness] is the uprise of the
soul, and not the decline.
decline, v. (12)
SL 2.151 2 ...only that soul can be my friend which I
encounter on the line
of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline and which does not
decline to me...
SL 2.151 3 ...only that soul can be my friend which I
encounter on the line
of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline and which does not
decline to me...
SL 2.163 13 I will not meanly decline the immensity of
good...
ShP 4.194 24 As soon as the statue was begun for
itself, and with no
reference to the temple or palace, the art began to decline...
CbW 6.251 4 I once counted in a little neighborhood and
found that every
able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him
for material aid...if he do not violently decline the duties that fall
to him, this amount of helpfulness will in one way or another be
brought home to
him.
SS 7.5 23 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his
theory of the
moon as his letter to Collins, in which he forbade him to insert his
name
with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Transactions: It
would
perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to
decline.
SS 7.12 13 A cold sluggish blood thinks it...must
decline its turn in the
conversation.
Schr 10.274 11 Let [men of thought] decline
henceforward foreign
methods and foreign courages.
Schr 10.287 13 [The scholar] is still to decline how
many glittering
opportunities...
FSLN 11.242 2 [The single defender of the right] may
well say, If my
countrymen do not care to be defended, I too will decline the
controversy...
HCom 11.342 26 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to
resist. I go [to
war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if
I
decline.
CInt 12.111 2 By Sybarites beguiled,/ He shall no task
decline;/...
declined, v. (12)
LT 1.266 23 ...we are not permitted to stand as
spectators of the pageant
which the times exhibit; we are parties also, and have a responsibility
which
is not be be declined.
ET4 5.72 17 In the Danish invasions the marauders
seized upon horses
where they landed, and were at once converted into a body of expert
cavalry. At one time this skill seems to have declined.
Pow 6.61 23 A timid man...might easily believe that he
and his country
have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can
against the
coming ruin. But after this has been foretold with equal confidence
fifty
times, and government six per cents have not declined a quarter of a
mill, he discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are
here in play
make our politics unimportant.
Pow 6.75 11 [Pericles] declined all invitations to
banquets...
WD 7.166 9 'T is sometimes questioned whether morals
have not declined
as the arts have ascended.
OA 7.322 11 ...if the life be true and noble, we have
quite another sort of
seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who
appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and
obey
them:...as blind old Dandolo...elected at the age of ninety-six to the
throne
of the Eastern Empire, which he declined...
LLNE 10.346 4 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep,
on cold nights, when
the farmer at whose door he knocked declined to give him a bed, on a
wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed...
MMEm 10.410 19 When...Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale,
and had gone
out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody
Emerson]...found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look
for them. The man went and returned saying that he could not find them.
Go and cry, Elizabeth. The man rather declined this service, as he did
not
know Miss Hoar.
Thor 10.452 23 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large
ambition of
knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession...
Thor 10.455 2 [Thoreau] declined invitations to
dinner-parties...
Thor 10.465 20 Visits were offered [Thoreau] from
respectful parties, but
he declined them.
MLit 12.332 11 [Goethe]...has declined the office
proffered to now and
then a man in many centuries in the power of his genius, of a Redeemer
of
the human mind.
declines, v. (2)
Bty 6.302 20 The radiance of the human form, though
sometimes
astonishing...in most, rapidly declines.
AKan 11.255 22 When pressed to look at the cause of the
mischief in the
Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion;...
declining, v. (5)
ET3 5.37 13 ...the English interest us a little less
within a few years; and
hence the impression that the British power...is in solstice, or
already
declining.
ET7 5.122 23 [The English] love stoutness...in
declining money or
promotion that costs any concession.
Wth 6.112 19 The crime which bankrupts men and states
is...declining
from your main design, to serve a turn here or there.
EzRy 10.383 16 ...[Ezra Ripley] and his coevals seemed
the rear guard of
the great camp and army of the Puritans, which, however in its last
days
declining into formalism, in the heyday of its strength had planted and
liberated America.
EdAd 11.392 8 The Jewish cultus is declining;...
decompose, v. (7)
ShP 4.201 27 Elated with success and piqued by the
growing interest of the
problem, [the antiquaries] have left...no file of old yellow accounts
to
decompose in damp and worms, so keen was the hope to discover whether
the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
ET11 5.192 6 The Selwyn correspondence, in the reign of
George III., discloses a rottenness in the aristocracy which threatened
to decompose the
state.
Bty 6.283 16 A deep man...believes that the orator will
decompose his
adversary;...
Farm 7.145 10 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and
decompose their own
bodies into the air and earth again.
Farm 7.145 14 The earth burns, the mountains burn and
decompose, slower, but incessantly.
PerF 10.70 14 ...the marble column, the brazen
statue...would soon
decompose if their molecular structure, disturbed by the raging
sunlight, were not restored by the darkness of the night.
PerF 10.88 10 ...[wrath and petulance] quickly reach
their brief date and
decompose...
decomposed, v. (5)
Art2 7.54 21 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any
stone wall, on a
fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have
resisted
the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest.
Farm 7.142 27 Long before [the farmer] was born, the
sun of ages
decomposed the rocks...
Res 8.142 5 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told
us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha
(or petroleum) obtain, by
merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the
upper
end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
QO 8.200 3 The old forest is decomposed for the
composition of the new
forest.
PLT 12.19 8 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts
which [the
perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons
and
daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of
larger
scope, whilst the old instrumentalities and incarnations are decomposed
and
recomposed into new.
decomposes, v. (3)
F 6.22 25 On one side elemental order...and on the other
part thought, the
spirit which composes and decomposes nature...
QO 8.204 19 The divine gift is ever the instant life,
which...can well bury
the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest
for recomposition.
CL 12.152 15 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully
ripe, and...acquires fine
color, whilst, in Europe, the damper climate decomposes it too soon.
decomposing, adj. (2)
LLNE 10.350 17 All these [the hyaena, the jackal, the
gnat, the bug, the
flea] shall be redressed by human culture, and the useful goat and dog
and
innocent poetical moth, or the wood-tick to consume decomposing wood,
shall take their place.
SHC 11.430 12 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I
call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life
every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never
spared,-have impressed on the
mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.
decomposing, v. (1)
PerF 10.71 3 The coal on your grate gives out in
decomposing to-day
exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the
sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian
tree.
decomposition, n. (10)
Cir 2.302 20 ...the new races [are] fed out of the
decomposition of the
foregoing.
PNR 4.82 22 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a
second sense, and
ulterior senses. His perception of the generation of contraries, of
death out
of life and life out of death,--that law by which, in nature,
decomposition is
recomposition...
ET14 5.239 20 Locke is as surely the influx of
decomposition and of prose, as Bacon and the Platonists of growth.
ET14 5.249 19 In the decomposition and asphyxia that
followed all this
materialism [in England], Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the
pettiness
and the cant, into the preaching of Fate.
OA 7.323 19 When the old wife says, Take care of that
tumor in your
shoulder, perhaps it is cancerous,--[the man of sixty] replies, I am
yielding
to a surer decomposition.
PC 8.213 4 ...the rocks of Nahant or the dikes of the
White Hills disclose
that...the soil of the valleys and plains [is] a continual
decomposition and
recomposition.
Edc1 10.131 1 ...what is the charm which every
ore...every new fact
touching...the secrets of chemical composition and decomposition
possess
for Humboldt?
MoL 10.248 4 All decomposition is recomposition.
LLNE 10.329 5 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of
matter, has taught us
that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas. The same
decomposition has changed the whole face of physics;...
PLT 12.23 23 ...A body in the act of combination or
decomposition enables
another body, with which it may be in contact, to enter into the same
state.
decompounded, v. (2)
Mrs1 3.121 18 An element which unites all the most
forcible persons of
every country...must be an average result of the character and
faculties
universally found in men. It seems a certain permanent average; as the
atmosphere is a permanent composition, whilst so many gases are
combined only to be decompounded.
Schr 10.275 27 We cannot eat the granite nor drink
hydrogen. They must
be decompounded and recompounded into corn and water before they can
enter our flesh.
decorated, adj. (4)
Con 1.316 17 What you say of your planted, builded and
decorated world is
true enough...
ET3 5.37 21 The innumerable details [in England], the
crowded succession
of towns, cities, cathedrals, castles and great and decorated
estates...hide all
boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
Bty 6.291 26 In the midst of...a festal procession gay
with banners, I saw a
boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on the top of a stick, he set
it
turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and
drew
away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
FRep 11.535 25 [The class of which I speak] sit in
decorated club-houses
in the cities, and burn tobacco and play whist;...
decorated, v. (6)
YA 1.394 24 ...the system [of English aristocracy] is an
invasion of the
sentiment of justice and the native rights of men, which, however
decorated, must lessen the value of English citizenship.
Hist 2.19 15 By surrounding ourselves with the original
circumstances we
invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture, as we see how
each people merely decorated its primitive abodes.
Bty 6.306 5 Gross and obscure natures, however
decorated, seem impure
shambles;...
SA 8.83 18 Whilst certain faces are...decorated with
invitation, others are
marked with warnings...
FRep 11.536 8 The felon is the logical extreme of the
epicure and
coxcomb. Selfish luxury is the end of both, though in one it is
decorated
with refinements, and in the other brutal.
PLT 12.63 11 We need all our resources to live in the
world which is to be
used and decorated by us.
decorating, v. (1)
Wom 11.409 23 [Women's] genius delights...in decorating
life with
manners...
decoration, n. (8)
Nat 1.21 27 Willingly does [nature]...bend her lines of
grandeur and grace
to the decoration of her darling child.
LT 1.275 26 Here is great variety and richness of
mysticism, [which]... when it shall be taken up as the garniture of
some profound and all-reconciling
thinker, will appear the rich and appropriate decoration of his
robes.
YA 1.367 24 ...the whole force of all the arts goes to
facilitate the
decoration of lands and dwellings.
Hist 2.12 3 We remember the forest-dwellers, the first
temples, the
adherence to the first type, and the decoration of it as the wealth of
the
nation increased;...
ET11 5.177 25 ...[the English aristocracy] concentrate
the love and labor of
many generations on the building, planting and decoration of their
homesteads.
QO 8.187 19 If we observe the tenacity with which
nations cling to their
first types...of decoration...we shall think very well of the first
men, or ill of
the latest.
EWI 11.101 2 If there be any man who thinks the ruin of
a race of men a
small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his
own
comfort...I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his
cream
and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair
footing than by robbing them.
Wom 11.410 10 ...[Women] are always making...that state
of art, of
decoration...in which they best appear.
decorations, n. (7)
Hist 2.37 23 Do not the lovely attributes of the maiden
child predict the
refinements and decorations of civil society?
Mrs1 3.134 9 ...what is it that we seek, in so many
visits and hospitalities? Is it your draperies, pictures and
decorations?
Wth 6.113 23 Let [the realist] delegate to others the
costly courtesies and
decorations of social life.
Bty 6.302 15 ...if a man...can take such advantages of
nature that all her
powers serve him;...causing the sun and moon to seem only the
decorations
of his estate;--this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
Suc 7.308 15 We may apply this affirmative law to
letters...to the
decorations of our houses...
PerF 10.81 2 One day I found [the stupid farmer's]
little boy of four years
dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart, so neatly
built, and
with decorations too...
CL 12.148 20 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated
the winds as the
conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because
they
drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their
chariot; they
are coming with weapons, war-cries and decorations.
decorous, adj. (4)
SR 2.56 14 It is easy enough for a firm man who knows
the world to brook
the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and
prudent...
Hsm1 2.260 20 ...congratulate yourself if you have done
something strange
and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
ET13 5.218 15 It was strange to hear the pretty
pastoral of the betrothal of
Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with
circumstantiality
in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English
audience...
MAng1 12.241 2 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know
very well, that in
a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single
word
that was not perfectly decorous...
decorous, n. (1)
AmS 1.114 18 There is no work for any but the decorous
and the
complaisant.
decorum, n. (23)
Nat 1.9 26 Within these plantations of God, a decorum
and sanctity reign...
AmS 1.102 16 Some great decorum...is cried up by half
mankind and cried
down by the other half...
Hist 2.15 8 ...we have [the Greek national mind
expressed] once again in
sculpture...a multitude of forms...like votaries performing some
religious
dance before the gods, and, though in convulsive pain or mortal combat,
never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance.
Comp 2.95 22 ...our popular theology has gained in
decorum, and not in
principle...
Pol1 3.212 8 Want of liberty, by strengthening law and
decorum, stupefies
conscience.
NR 3.235 24 I wish to speak with all respect of
persons, but sometimes I
must pinch myself to keep awake and preserve the due decorum.
ET6 5.107 6 All the world praises the comfort and
private appointments of
an English inn, and of English households. You are sure of neatness and
of
personal decorum.
ET6 5.112 11 A severe decorum rules the court and the
cottage [in
England].
ET11 5.185 7 In general, all that is required of
[English nobility] is...to give
the example of that decorum so dear to the British heart.
ET11 5.192 22 Under the present reign the perfect
decorum of the Court is
thought to have put a check on the gross vices of the [English]
aristocracy;...
ET14 5.258 21 For a self-conceited modish life...there
is no remedy like the
Oriental largeness. That astonishes and disconcerts English decorum.
Wsp 6.207 13 The religion of the early English poets is
anomalous, so
devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. ... With these
grossnesses, we complacently compare our own taste and decorum.
Wsp 6.222 10 In a new nation and language, [the
countryman's] sect...is
lost. ... He misses...the commanding eye of his neighborhood, which
held
him to decorum.
CbW 6.247 10 [Fine society] is an unprincipled
decorum;...
DL 7.111 11 The progress of domestic living has been in
cleanliness...in
decorum...
PI 8.44 19 Ben Jonson told Drummond that Sidney did not
keep a decorum
in making every one speak as well as himself.
Comc 8.162 25 The peace of society and the decorum of
tables seem to
require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic
bolt-upright
man...
Carl 10.495 1 Nor can that decorum which is the idol of
the Englishman... win from [Carlyle] any obeisance.
LVB 11.93 3 In speaking thus the sentiments of my
neighbors and my own, perhaps I overstep the bounds of decorum.
EWI 11.120 17 Sir Lionel Smith, the governor, writes to
the British
Ministry, It is impossible for me to do justice to the good order,
decorum
and gratitude which the whole laboring population [in Jamaica]
manifested
on that happy occasion [emancipation].
EWI 11.123 3 ...[the civility] of China and Japan [lay]
in the last
exaggeration of decorum and etiquette.
Wom 11.411 18 Society, conversation, decorum...are
[women's] homes
and attendants.
EurB 12.378 13 [The English fashionist's] highest
triumph is...to have the
courage to offend against every restraint of decorum...
decorums, n. (1)
FSLN 11.228 11 [Webster] did as immoral men usually
do...went through
all the Sunday decorums;...
decoy, n. (1)
PPh 4.51 3 As if [Krishna] had said, All is for the
soul, and the soul is
Vishnu;...and heaven itself a decoy.
decoy, v. (1)
MMEm 10.424 5 In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no
fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds, none
of thy Arachnean webs, which decoy and destroy.
decoy-duck, n. (1)
CbW 6.256 1 California gets peopled and subdued,
civilized in this
immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is rooted and grown.
'T is
a decoy-duck;...
decreases, v. (1)
Milt1 12.253 7 The opposition to [a masterpiece of art],
always greatest at
first, continually decreases...
decreasing, adj. (1)
Wsp 6.227 10 In the progress of the character, there
is...a decreasing faith
in propositions.
decree, n. (3)
OS 2.284 17 It is not in an arbitrary decree of
God...that a veil shuts down
on the facts of to-morrow;...
MMEm 10.409 13 ...so have I [Mary Moody Emerson]
wandered from the
cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses
of
ancient and modern lore. All say-Forbear to enter the pales of the
initiated
by birth, wealth, talents and patronage. I submit with delight, for it
is the
echo of a decree from above;...
MLit 12.332 7 That Goethe had not a moral perception
proportionate to his
other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease; since,
lacking this, he...with divine endowments, drops by irreversible decree
into the common
history of genius.
decreed, v. (5)
LT 1.290 8 ...histories are written of [the Moral
Sentiment], holidays
decreed to it;...
CbW 6.253 25 In the twenty-fourth year of his reign
[Edward I] decreed
that no tax should be levied without consent of Lords and Commons;...
MMEm 10.427 23 ...if it were in the nature of things
possible He could
withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith...
that...my death, too, however long and tediously delayed to prayer,-was
decreed, was fixed.
LS 11.3 21 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was
decreed that any believer
should communicate at least once in a year...
Wom 11.404 6 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/
And sun and
moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of
its
dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all
else
decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work
succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
Decrees of Clarendon, n. (1)
ET16 5.286 17 We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the
train Clarendon
Park, but could see little but the edge of a wood, though Carlyle had
wished
to pay closer attention to the birthplace of the Decrees of Clarendon.
decrepit, adj. (3)
ET19 5.313 18 I see [England] in her old age, not
decrepit, but young and
still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion.
CInt 12.126 18 ...all the youth come out [of Harvard
College] decrepit
citizens;...
Let 12.395 4 One of the [letter] writers relentingly
says, What shall my
uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood
not
to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the
mud
of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...
decry, v. (1)
WSL 12.342 26 It is vain to call [the literary spirit] a
luxury, and as saints
and reformers are apt to do, decry it as a species of day-dreaming.
dedes, n. (3)
Aris 10.29 7 Look who that is most virtuous alway,/
Prive and apert, and
most entendeth aye/ To do the gentil dedes that he can,/ And take him
for
the greatest gentilman./
Aris 10.30 1 ...he that wol have prize of his
genterie,/ For he was boren of a
gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill
hinselven
do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He
n' is
not gentil, be he duke or erl;/...
Aris 10.30 4 ...he that wol have prize of his
genterie,/ For he was boren of a
gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill
hinselven
do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He
n' is
not gentil, be he duke or erl;/ For vilaines' sinful dedes make a
churl./
Dedham, Massachusetts, n. (1)
HDC 11.54 21 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that
the new
plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large accommodations...
dedicate, v. (9)
SL 2.150 13 Persons...dedicate their whole skill to the
hour and the
company,--with very imperfect result.
Fdsp 2.215 6 In the great days, presentiments hover
before me in the
firmament. I ought then to dedicate myself to them.
Cir 2.316 21 If a man should dedicate himself to the
payment of notes, would not this be injustice?
MoS 4.178 11 ...through all the offices, learned, civil
and social, can
detect the child. We are not the less necessitated to dedicate life to
them.
ShP 4.206 18 Betterton, Garrick, Kemble, Kean and
Macready dedicate
their lives to this genius [Shakespeare];...
Bty 6.285 23 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant
dedicate themselves
to their own details...
Grts 8.305 24 ...there is not a piece of Nature in any
kind but a man is born
who...aims...to dedicate himself to that.
Grts 8.315 25 A poor scribbler who had written a
lampoon against him and
wished to dedicate it to a pious Duc d'Orleans, came with it in his
poverty
to Diderot...
Schr 10.280 10 When a man begins to dedicate himself to
a particular
function...the advance of his character and genius pauses;...
dedicated, adj. (2)
MoS 4.175 25 We go forth austere, dedicated...
HCom 11.344 9 A single company in the Forty-fourth
Massachusetts
Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as
I
the story of these dedicated men...
dedicated, v. (11)
Comp 2.103 23 The ingenuity of man has always been
dedicated to the
solution of one problem...
NR 3.246 3 ...the least of [our earth's] rational
children, the most dedicated
to his private affair, works out, though as it were under a disguise,
the
universal problem.
Chr2 10.117 16 The Sunday is the core of our
civilization, dedicated to
thought and reverence.
Edc1 10.142 8 The [solitary] man is, as it were, born
deaf and dumb, and
dedicated to a narrow and lonely life.
SovE 10.209 9 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not
now formulated and
concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with brick and stone. Why have
not
those who believe in it and love it...dedicated themselves to write out
its
scientific scriptures to become its Vulgate for millions?
Plu 10.293 18 ...[Plutarch]...dedicated no book to
[Trajan]...
Thor 10.466 5 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with
such entire love to
the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them
known and
interesting to all reading Americans...
EWI 11.122 25 [The civility] of Athens...lay in an
intellect dedicated to
beauty.
MAng1 12.217 10 In considering a life dedicated to the
study of Beauty, it
is natural to inquire, what is Beauty?
MAng1 12.220 11 Michael Angelo dedicated himself...to a
toilsome
observation of Nature.
Milt1 12.254 25 Many philosophers in England, France
and Germany have
formally dedicated their study to this problem [human nature];...
dedicating, v. (1)
Plu 10.293 11 [Plutarch] has been represented as having
been the tutor of
the Emperor Trajan, as dedicating one of his books to him...
dedication, n. (7)
Exp 3.55 13 Dedication to one thought is quickly odious.
ET10 5.170 23 Who can propose to youth poverty and
wisdom...when
English success has grown out of the very renunciation of principles,
and
the dedication to outsides?
ET12 5.205 14 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain
in what is done
there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the
undergraduate
such as cannot easily be in America...
Grts 8.315 27 A poor scribbler who had written a
lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot, and
Diderot, pitying the creature, wrote the dedication for him...
Plu 10.317 4 In his dedication of the work [Plutarch's
Morals] to the
Archbishop of Canterbury...[Morgan] tells the Primate that Plutarch was
the
wisest man of his age, and, if he had been a Christian, one of the best
too;...
GSt 10.503 5 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to
excuse his entire
preoccupation in his own pursuits, but as an earnest of the dedication
of his
heart and hand to the interests of the sufferers [in Kansas]...
PLT 12.51 12 The horse goes better with blinders, and
the man for
dedication to his task.
dedications, n. (1)
PPo 8.251 7 In general what is more tedious than
dedications or panegyrics
addressed to grandees?
deduced, v. (2)
Cir 2.301 9 One moral we have already deduced in
considering the circular
or compensatory character of every human action.
ET14 5.243 26 The later English want the faculty of
Plato and Aristotle, of
grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws, so deep
that
the rule is deduced with equal precision from few subjects...
deducible, adj. (1)
PPh 4.40 7 ...it is fair to credit the broadest
generalizer [Plato] with all the
particulars deducible from his thesis.
deducing, v. (1)
PPh 4.47 14 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters,
and we have
the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics: then the
partialists,-- deducing the origin of things from flux or water, or
from air, or from fire, or from mind.
deduct, v. (1)
Ill 6.311 12 In admiring the sunset we do not yet deduct
the rounding, coordinating, pictorial powers of the eye.
deduction, n. (18)
DSA 1.135 18 [The office of priest] is of that reality
that it cannot suffer the
deduction of any falsehood.
YA 1.392 2 ...after all the deduction is made for our
frivolities and
insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
Comp 2.121 26 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the
malignity and the lie
with him he so far deceases from nature. In some manner there will be a
demonstration of the wrong to the understanding also; but, should we
not
see it, this deadly deduction makes square the eternal account.
Prd1 2.232 8 [The man of talent's] art is less for
every deduction from his
holiness...
Cir 2.314 27 ...all [the great man's] prudence will be
so much deduction
from his grandeur.
Exp 3.56 5 A deduction must be made from the opinion
which even the
wise express on a new book or occurrence.
PPh 4.40 1 Even the men of grander proportion suffer
some deduction from
the misfortune (shall I say?) of coming after this exhausting
generalizer [Plato].
PPh 4.76 5 It is almost the sole deduction from the
merit of Plato that his
writings have not...the vital authority which the screams of
prophets... possess.
NMW 4.251 17 [Bonaparte's] memoirs...have great value,
after all the
deduction that it seems is to be made from them on account of his known
disingenuousness.
Art2 7.43 5 A great deduction is to be made before we
can know [a man's] proper contribution to [his work of art].
Art2 7.44 5 Eloquence...is modified how much by the
material organization
of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance. All this is so
much
deduction from the purely spiritual pleasure...
Art2 7.44 6 Eloquence...is modified how much by the
material organization
of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance. All this is so
much
deduction from the purely spiritual pleasure, as so much deduction from
the
merit of Art...
Art2 7.44 22 There is a still larger deduction to be
made from the genius of
the artist in favor of Nature than I have yet specified.
Art2 7.45 13 Another deduction from the genius of the
artist is what is
conventional in his art...
PLT 12.44 17 If you cut or break in two a block or
stone and press the two
parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near,
but
never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can
take up
the block as one. That indescribably small interval...has forever
severed the
practical unity. Such is the immense deduction from power by
discontinuity.
CL 12.161 2 ...in all works of human art there is
deduction to be made for
blunder and falsehood.
Milt1 12.249 13 [Milton's tracts'] rhetorical
excellence must also suffer
some deduction.
PPr 12.386 5 [Carlyle's] habitual exaggeration of the
tone wearies whilst it
stimulates. It is felt to be so much deduction from the universality of
the
picture.
deductions, n. (4)
YA 1.391 24 After all the deductions which are to be
made for our pitiful
politics...there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
SwM 4.123 5 There is no such problem for criticism as
[Swedenborg's] theological writings, their merits are so commanding,
yet such grave
deductions must be made.
Art2 7.45 27 One consideration more exhausts I believe
all the deductions
from the genius of the artist in any given work.
War 11.168 13 In reply to this charge of absurdity on
the extreme peace
doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that
such
deductions consider only one half of the fact.
deed, n. (33)
Nat 1.20 26 ...are not these heroes entitled to add the
beauty of the scene to
the beauty of the deed?
AmS 1.96 13 The new deed is yet a part of life...
DSA 1.122 13 He who does a good deed is instantly
ennobled.
DSA 1.122 14 He who does a mean deed is by the action
itself contracted.
DSA 1.125 22 ...when he chooses...the good and great
deed; then, deep
melodies wander through [man's] soul from Supreme Wisdom.
LE 1.165 17 The hero is great by means of the
predominance of the
universal nature;...he has only to be forced to act, and it acts. All
men... embrace the deed...
MN 1.215 15 ...the soul can be appeased not by a deed
but by a tendency.
LT 1.283 4 The genius of the day does not incline to a
deed, but to a
beholding.
Tran 1.337 24 The Buddhist...who, in his conviction
that every good deed
can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the
benefactor by
pretending that he has done more than he should, is a
Transcendentalist.
Tran 1.346 21 ...when deed, word, or letter comes not,
[our friends] let us
go.
Comp 2.112 22 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through
indolence or
cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? There arises on the
deed the instant acknowledgment of benefit on the one part and of debt
on
the other;...
Comp 2.113 24 ...the benefit we receive must be
rendered again...deed for
deed...
SL 2.134 19 ...the wonders of which [men of
extraordinary success] were
the visible conductors seemed to the eye their deed.
SL 2.156 2 The most fugitive deed and word...expresses
character.
SL 2.166 10 ...lo! suddenly the great soul has
enshrined itself in some other
form and done some other deed...
Lov1 2.176 9 In the noon and the afternoon of life we
still throb at the
recollection of days...when the head boiled all night on the pillow
with the
generous deed it resolved on;...
Hsm1 2.247 10 Dor. O star of Rome! what gratitude can
speak/ Fit words
to follow such a deed as this?/
Hsm1 2.251 3 ...for the hero that thing he does is the
highest deed...
Exp 3.72 18 The consciousness in each man is a sliding
scale, which
identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his
body; life above life, in infinite degrees. The sentiment from which it
sprung
determines the dignity of any deed...
Mrs1 3.146 20 The beautiful and the generous are, in
the theory, the
doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]: Scipio...and
Washington, and every pure and valiant heart who worshipped Beauty by
word and by
deed.
Wsp 6.220 12 Strong men believe in cause and effect.
The man was born to
do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of his
deed;...
Cour 7.263 4 It is he who has done the deed once who
does not shrink from
attempting it again.
SA 8.80 4 He whose word or deed you cannot
predict...that man rules.
Dem1 10.9 11 Sleep...arms us with terrible freedom, so
that every will
rushes to a deed.
HDC 11.75 21 Those poor farmers who came up, that day
[April 19, 1775], to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest
instincts. They did not
know it was a deed of fame they were doing.
EWI 11.114 18 The reception of [emancipation] by the
negro population [of the West Indies] was equal in nobleness to the
deed.
HCom 11.340 19 Where faith made whole with deed/
Breathes its
awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and
mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look
proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
CPL 11.496 11 ...I am not sure that when Boston learns
the good deed of
Mr. Munroe [building of Concord Library], it will not be a little
envious...
II 12.86 24 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now
fixed to the wall or the
tree, exhausted and presently blown away. Men likewise, they put their
lives into their deed.
Mem 12.91 3 The builder of the mind found it not less
needful that it
should have retroaction, and command its past act and deed.
Mem 12.92 21 ...in the history of character the day
comes when you are
incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion]. Then...you
look
on it...with wonder at the deed...
ACri 12.304 27 A clear or natural expression by word or
deed is that which
we mean when we love and praise the antique.
Let 12.400 9 ...in good earnest, and in all love, let
[a man] be that which he
is; then there is a soul in his deed.
deeds, n. (24)
MR 1.248 24 ...it would be like dying of perfumes to
sink in the effort to re-attach
the deeds of every day to the holy and mysterious recesses of life.
Con 1.305 1 You who quarrel with the arrangements of
society...live, move, and have your being in this, and your deeds
contradict your words
every day.
Hist 2.18 14 A lady with whom I was riding in the
forest said to me that the
woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them
suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward;...
SL 2.140 19 It is not an excuse any longer for [a
man's] deeds that they are
the custom of his trade.
Pt1 3.8 18 Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes
of the divine
energy.
Chr1 3.89 12 Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of Essex, Sir
Walter Raleigh, are
men of great figure and of few deeds.
Chr1 3.103 27 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who
has written the
memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good
deeds...
Chr1 3.111 18 ...when men shall meet as they ought,
each a benefactor... clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with
accomplishments, it should be a
festival of nature which all things announce.
Pol1 3.212 26 Every man finds a sanction for his
simplest claims and
deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
NR 3.230 10 In the parliament, in the play-house, at
dinner-tables [in
England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read,
conventional, proud men,--many old women,--and not anywhere the
Englishman who...did the bold and nervous deeds.
F 6.12 25 It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this
despotism of race with
liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds
committed in a prior state of existence.
F 6.24 10 Let [man]...show his lordship by manners and
deeds on the scale
of nature.
DL 7.119 15 Honor to the house where they are simple to
the verge of
hardship, so that there...honor and courtesy flow into all deeds.
DL 7.129 7 ...when men shall meet as they should...each
a benefactor...so
rich with deeds...it shall be the festival of Nature...
WD 7.177 22 The reverence for the deeds of our
ancestors is a treacherous
sentiment.
Cour 7.277 21 Men have done brave deeds,/ And bards
have sung them
well:/ I of good George Nidiver/ Now the tale will tell./
OA 7.328 15 The Indian Red Jacket, when the young
braves were boasting
their deeds, said, But the sixties have all the twenties and forties in
them.
Plu 10.301 19 ...[Plutarch]...would be welcome to the
sages and warriors he
reports, as one having a native right to admire and recount these
stirring
deeds and speeches.
HDC 11.29 11 We will review the deeds of our fathers...
FSLC 11.193 14 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my
presence, and I
accuse your cruelty, can I help it? In the words of Electra...'T is you
that
say it, not I. You do the deeds, and your ungodly deeds find me the
words.
FSLC 11.193 15 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my
presence, and I
accuse your cruelty, can I help it? In the words of Electra...'T is you
that
say it, not I. You do the deeds, and your ungodly deeds find me the
words.
SMC 11.375 7 I hope the disuse of such medals or badges
in this country
only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil
War], and carries their deeds in such lively remembrance that they
require no
badge or reminder.
MAng1 12.232 13 A man of such habits and such deeds [as
Michelangelo] made good his pretensions to a perception and to
delineation of external
beauty.
Milt1 12.251 2 ...the peroration [of Milton's Defence
of the English
People], in which he implores his countrymen to refute this adversary
[Saumaise] by their great deeds, is in a just spirit.
deem, v. (2)
Suc 7.306 19 The old trouveur, Pons Capdueil,
wrote,--Oft have I heard, and deem the witness true,/ Whom man delights
in, God delights in too./
Elo2 8.124 9 ...in your struggles with the world,
should a crisis ever occur
when even friendship may deem it prudent to desert you...seek
refuge...in
the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
deemed, v. (2)
Nat 1.11 2 [The waving of the boughs'] effect is like
that of a higher
thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was
thinking
justly...
HDC 11.69 20 ...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.
deep, adj. (139)
DSA 1.125 22 ...deep melodies wander through [man's]
soul from Supreme
Wisdom.
DSA 1.147 12 Can we not...pierce the deep solitudes of
absolute ability and
worth?
LE 1.169 4 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal
woods...this beauty...has never
been recorded by art...
MN 1.214 7 ...because ecstasy is the law and cause of
nature, you cannot
interpret it in too high and deep a sense.
LT 1.270 8 Anti-masonry had a deep right and wrong...
LT 1.278 23 ...a brave and cold neglect of the offices
which prudence
exacts, so it be done in a deep upper piety;...is the century which
makes the
gem.
LT 1.287 21 ...every new thought drives us to the deep
fact that the Time is
the child of the Eternity.
Con 1.304 21 ...so deep is the foundation of the
existing social system, that
it leaves no one out of it.
Tran 1.331 22 The sturdy capitalist, no matter how deep
and square on
blocks of Quincy granite he lays the foundations of his banking-house
or
Exchange, must set it ...on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
Tran 1.346 19 ...in our experience, man is cheap and
friendship wants its
deep sense.
Tran 1.352 24 My life...takes no root in the deep
world;...
Tran 1.354 3 What am I? What but a thought of serenity
and independence, an abode in the deep blue sky?
Hist 2.16 17 If any one will but take pains to observe
the variety of actions
to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those to
which he is averse, he will see how deep is the chain of affinity.
Hist 2.21 12 ...all public facts are to be
individualized, all private facts are
to be generalized. Then at once History becomes fluid and true, and
Biography deep and sublime.
Hist 2.29 24 The advancing man discovers how deep a
property he has in
literature...
Hist 2.34 15 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a
deep presentiment of
the powers of science.
SR 2.56 8 ...the sour faces of the multitude, like
their sweet faces, have no
deep cause...
SR 2.64 8 In that deep force...all things find their
common origin.
SR 2.73 13 I will so trust that what is deep is holy,
that I will do strongly... whatever inly rejoices me...
Comp 2.91 3 Mountain tall and ocean deep/ Trembling
balance duly keep./
Comp 2.103 27 The ingenuity of man has always been
dedicated to the
solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual
strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep,
the
moral fair;...
Comp 2.126 13 ...the sure years reveal the deep
remedial force that
underlies all facts.
Lov1 2.172 14 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before
and never shall
meet them again. But we see them...betray a deep emotion, and we are no
longer strangers.
Lov1 2.174 22 ...it may seem to many men...that they
have no fairer page in
their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein
affection contrived to give a witchcraft, surpassing the deep
attraction of its
own truth, to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
Fdsp 2.209 4 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two
large, formidable
natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared, before yet they recognize
the
deep identity which...unites them.
Fdsp 2.211 20 There can never be deep peace between two
spirits...until in
their dialogue each stands for the whole world.
Hsm1 2.245 16 ...there is in [the elder English
dramatists'] plays a certain
heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on
such deep
grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional
incident
in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.
OS 2.269 10 ...this deep power in which we exist...is
not only self-sufficing
and perfect in every hour...
OS 2.273 10 See how the deep divine thought reduces
centuries and
millenniums...
Art1 2.353 24 [Indian, Chinese and Mexican
idols]...were not fantastic, but
sprung from a necessity as deep as the world.
Art1 2.364 27 Sculpture may serve to teach the pupil
how deep is the secret
of form...
Pt1 3.15 7 No wonder then, if these waters be so deep,
that we hover over
them with a religious regard.
Exp 3.57 6 A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which
has no lustre as you
turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it
shows deep
and beautiful colors.
Exp 3.63 25 ...hawk and snipe and bittern...have no
more root in the deep
world than man...
Exp 3.83 20 The effect is deep and secular as the
cause.
Chr1 3.111 4 What is so excellent as strict relations
of amity, when they
spring from this deep root?
Mrs1 3.154 15 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep
that although his
speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the
dervishes, yet was there never a poor outcast...but fled at once to
him;...
Pol1 3.208 23 Our quarrel with [political parties]
begins when they quit this
deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader...
Pol1 3.209 19 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...
NER 3.281 9 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse
with the most
commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess that his
creative
imagination gave him no deep advantage...
GoW 4.266 22 Mankind have such a deep stake in inward
illumination, that
there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life
of
thought and prayer.
ET1 5.6 9 [Greenough] was an accurate and a deep man.
ET1 5.21 26 Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most
obscurely. He was
clever and deep, but he defied the sympathies of every body.
ET5 5.101 26 ...whilst in some directions [the English]
do not represent the
modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power
they
coldly hold, marching in phalanx, lockstep, foot after foot, file after
file of
heroes, ten thousand deep.
ET8 5.130 11 [The English] are...in all things very
much steeped in their
temperament, like men hardly awaked from deep sleep, which they enjoy.
ET8 5.134 3 ...it is in the deep traits of race that
the fortunes of nations are
written...
ET8 5.140 17 The slow, deep English mass smoulders with
fire...
ET14 5.243 26 The later English want the faculty of
Plato and Aristotle, of
grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws, so deep
that
the rule is deduced with equal precision from few subjects...
ET14 5.244 25 Hume's abstractions are not deep or wise.
ET14 5.245 20 Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth
which lies in the
mystics...
ET16 5.284 8 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton
and to Wilton
Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...where he conversed with
Lord Brooke, a man of deep thought...
F 6.43 25 Iron was deep in the ground and well combined
with stone, but
could not hide from [man's] fires.
Bhr 6.180 23 There are eyes...that give no more
admission into the man
than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...
Bhr 6.189 12 So deep are the sources of this
surface-action that even the
size of your companion seems to vary with his freedom of thought.
CbW 6.267 27 The young people do not like the town, do
not like the sea-shore, they will...find a dear cottage deep in the
mountains...
CbW 6.268 14 The youth aches for solitude. When he
comes to the house
he passes through the house. That does not make the deep recess he
sought.
CbW 6.268 16 The youth aches for solitude. When he
comes to the house
he passes through the house. That does not make the deep recess he
sought. Ah! now I perceive, he says, it must be deep with persons;...
Bty 6.283 14 A deep man believes in miracles...
Bty 6.288 23 ...the working of this deep instinct makes
all the excitement... about works of art...
Bty 6.305 13 ...when the second-sight of the mind is
opened, now one color
or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more
interior
ray had been emitted, disclosing its deep holdings in the frame of
things.
Ill 6.309 13 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...paddled three
quarters of a mile in
the deep Echo River...
Ill 6.316 12 ...the mighty Mother...insinuates into the
Pandora-box of
marriage some deep and serious benefits...
Ill 6.319 17 There is the illusion of time, which is
very deep;...
Civ 7.26 16 There can be no high civility without a
deep morality...
Elo1 7.61 8 One man is brought to the boiling-point by
the excitement of
conversation in the parlor. The waters, of course, are not very deep.
DL 7.127 12 ...we see heads that seem to turn on a
pivot as deep as the axle
of the world...
Farm 7.147 18 [The tree] did not grow on a ridge, but
in a basin, where it
found deep soil...
WD 7.171 6 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself
to amass...the heaven
deep with worlds;...are given immeasurably to all.
WD 7.175 12 [That flexile clay of which these old
brothers moulded their
admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...
WD 7.178 18 We ask for long life, but 't is deep life,
or grand moments, that signify.
WD 7.180 9 ...this curious, peering, itinerant,
imitative America...will...sit
at home with repose and deep joy on its face.
Clbs 7.236 22 [Dr. Johnson's] obvious religion or
superstition, his deep
wish that they should think so or so, weighs with [his company]...
Suc 7.301 16 A deep sympathy is what we require for any
student of the
mind;...
Suc 7.303 4 [The greatest men] may well speak in this
uncertain manner of
their knowledge, and in this confident manner of their will, for the
secret of
it is hard to detect, so deep it is;...
Suc 7.305 27 Send a deep man into any town, and he will
find another deep
man there...
Suc 7.306 1 Send a deep man into any town, and he will
find another deep
man there...
PI 8.17 21 A deep insight will always, like Nature,
ultimate its thought in a
thing.
PI 8.58 27 [Taliessin] says of his hero, Cunedda,--He
will assimilate, he
will agree with the deep and the shallow.
Elo2 8.118 23 ...deep interest or sympathy thaws the
ice...
Res 8.139 20 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she
is million fathoms
deep.
Comc 8.160 1 There is no joke so true and deep in
actual life as when some
pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society,
attended
by a man who knows the world...
QO 8.182 25 ...the surprising results of the new
researches into the history
of Egypt have opened to us the deep debt of the churches of Rome and
England to the Egyptian hierology.
QO 8.195 22 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry
unless it becomes deep...
PC 8.218 10 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;...
PC 8.219 1 Even manners are a distinction which...are
not to be overborne... even by other eminent talents, since they too
proceed from a certain deep
innate perception of fit and fair.
Insp 8.280 16 A man is spent by his work, starved,
prostrate;...he can never
think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth...
Insp 8.284 21 Often in deep midnights/ I called on the
sweet muses./
Insp 8.285 11 When now the Spring stirred,/ I said to
the nightingales:/ Dear nightingales, trill/ Early, O, early before my
lattice,/ Wake me out of
the deep sleep/ Which mightily chains the young man./
Insp 8.296 4 The deep book...helps us best.
Grts 8.309 4 ...the rule of the orator begins...when
his deep conviction, and
the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his
audience,- when these shine and burn in his address;...
Grts 8.309 17 [Self-respect] has its deep foundations
in religion.
Imtl 8.330 2 Plutarch, in Greece, has a deep faith that
the doctrine of the
Divine Providence and that of the immortality of the soul rest on one
and
the same basis.
Imtl 8.347 25 ...an admiration, a deep love, a strong
will, arms us above
fear.
Dem1 10.11 19 ...all productions of man are so
anthropomorphous that not
possibly can he invent any fable that shall not have a deep moral...
Aris 10.38 22 These distinctions [in men] exist, and
they are deep...
Aris 10.60 27 The Golden Table never lacks members; all
its seats are kept
full; but with this strange provision, that the members are carefully
withdrawn into deep niches...
Aris 10.65 20 I do not know whether that word
Gentleman...is a
sufficiently broad generalization to convey the deep and grave fact of
self-reliance.
Supl 10.174 3 I like no deep stakes.
Prch 10.231 23 We come to church properly...for
approach to principles to
see how it stands with us, with the deep and dear facts of right and
love.
Prch 10.233 25 Only let there be a deep observer, and
he will make light of
new shop and new circumstance that afflict you;...
Prch 10.234 2 ...new shop, or old cathedral, it is all
one to [the deep
observer]. He will find...as deep a cloud of mystery on the cause...
Prch 10.238 1 We [in the Church] come...to open the
upper eyes to the
deep mystery of cause and effect...
MoL 10.244 25 There is much criticism, not on deep
grounds, but an
affirmative philosophy is wanting.
MoL 10.257 23 I learn with joy and with deep respect
that this college has
sent its full quota to the field.
Schr 10.272 3 The scholar has a deep ideal interest in
the moving show
around him.
Plu 10.313 15 [Plutarch's] faith in the immortality of
the soul is another
measure of his deep humanity.
MMEm 10.398 19 ...[Lucy Percy]...will take a deep
interest for persons of
celebrity.
MMEm 10.403 3 [Mary Moody Emerson] had a deep sympathy
with
genius.
MMEm 10.415 23 This morning rich in existence; the
remembrance of past
destitution in the deep poverty of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt...
SlHr 10.445 10 It is singular that [Samuel Hoar's]
character should make
so deep an impression...
SlHr 10.448 1 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr.
Webster's ability... and a proportionately deep regret at Mr. Webster's
political course in his
later years.
Thor 10.478 5 A truth-speaker [Thoreau], capable of the
most deep and
strict conversation;...
Thor 10.478 10 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a
friend...almost worshipped
by those few persons who...knew the deep value of his mind and great
heart.
LS 11.21 15 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is
its reality...its deep
interior life...
HDC 11.53 26 Their forefathers, the Indians told [John]
Eliot, did know
God, but after this, they fell into a deep sleep...
HDC 11.72 5 A deep religious sentiment sanctified the
thirst for liberty.
HDC 11.72 19 It is said that all the services of that
day [March 13, 1775] made a deep impression on the people [of
Concord]...
FSLN 11.223 26 ...[Webster] wanted that deep source of
inspiration.
EPro 11.316 9 These measures [for liberty]...are
received into a sympathy
so deep as to apprise us that mankind are greater and better than we
know.
SMC 11.367 22 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula,
in July, 1862, it is
all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one
mile
through mud, without exaggeration, one foot deep...
Wom 11.410 14 The spiritual force of man is as much
shown...in his fancy
and imagination,-attaching deep meanings to things and to arbitrary
inventions of no real value,-as in his perception of truth.
CPL 11.497 25 A deep religious sentiment is...an
inspirer of the intellect...
PLT 12.30 1 ...our deep conviction of the riches proper
to every mind does
not allow us to admit of much looking over into one another's virtues.
PLT 12.31 5 The one thing not to be forgiven to
intellectual persons is that
they believe in the ideas of others. From this deference comes the
imbecility and fatigue of their society, for of course they cannot
affirm
these from the deep life;...
Mem 12.99 26 As deep as the thought, so great is the
attraction.
CInt 12.129 14 Only bring a deep observer, and he will
make light of the
new shop or old cathedral...
CInt 12.129 17 Only bring a deep observer, and he will
make light of the
new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances that afflict you. He
will
find the circumstances not altered; as deep a cloud of mystery on the
cause...
CL 12.151 19 Man...pumps the sap of all this forest
through his arteries;... and the immensity of life seems to make the
world deep and wide.
Bost 12.190 18 In our beautiful [Boston] bay, with its
broad and deep
waters covered with sails from every port...a good boatman can easily
find
his way for the first time to the State House...
Bost 12.191 16 ...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...
Bost 12.195 6 I trace to this deep religious sentiment
and to its culture great
and salutary results to the people of New England;...
Bost 12.209 5 ...thus our little city [Boston] thrives
and enlarges, striking
deep roots...
MAng1 12.223 14 ...[Michelangelo's] love of beauty is
made solid and
perfect by his deep understanding of the mechanic arts.
MAng1 12.237 3 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep
contempt of the
vulgar...
MAng1 12.244 14 The forehead of the bust [of
Michelangelo]...is furrowed
with eight deep wrinkles one above another.
Milt1 12.250 11 The lover of [Milton's] genius will
always regret that he
should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not...have
written
from the deep convictions of love and right...
Milt1 12.260 12 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses
his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave
trifles for a grave argument... Such where the deep transported mind
may soar/ Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door/ Look in, and
see each blissful deity,/ How he before
the thunderous throne doth lie./
ACri 12.288 20 What traveller has not listened to the
vigor of...the deep
stomach of an English drayman's execration.
MLit 12.324 18 This is the secret of that deep realism,
which went about
among all objects [Goethe] beheld, to find the cause why they must be
what
they are.
deep, adv. (7)
LE 1.176 13 Silence, seclusion, austerity, may pierce
deep into the
grandeur and secret of our being...
SL 2.146 20 A man cannot bury his meanings so deep in
his book but time
and like-minded men will find them.
ET11 5.174 19 The foundations of these [noble English]
families lie deep
in Norwegian exploits by sea and Saxon sturdiness on land.
ET18 5.302 14 We cannot go deep enough into the
biography of the spirit
who never throws himself entire into one hero...
Bty 6.283 11 'T is curious that we only believe as deep
as we live.
PerF 10.81 4 One day I found [the stupid farmer's]
little boy of four years
dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned
that
Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle
art and
taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to
draw
out into day;...
Thor 10.471 6 [Thoreau's] interest in the flower or the
bird lay very deep
in his mind...
deep, n. (14)
Nat 1.48 1 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds
revolve and
intermingle without number or end - deep yawning under deep...or
whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are
inscribed in the constant faith of man?
Nat 1.57 1 ...[Ideas] were there;...when [the Supreme
Being] strengthened
the fountains of the deep.
Nat 1.74 8 Deep calls unto deep.
MN 1.195 2 ...we are too nearly related in the deep of
the mind to that we
honor.
Cir 2.301 18 ...under every deep a lower deep opens.
Cir 2.304 14 ...if the soul is quick and strong
it...expands another orbit on
the great deep...
Int 2.342 23 The waters of the great deep have ingress
and egress to the
soul.
Pt1 3.21 14 [The poet] knows...why the great deep is
adorned with animals, with men, and gods;...
Nat2 3.194 5 [Nature's] mighty orbit vaults like the
fresh rainbow into the
deep...
WD 7.169 15 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour
dawns out of the
deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to
our
solitude.
PPo 8.252 23 [Hafiz] says, The fishes shed their
pearls, out of desire and
longing as soon as the ship of Hafiz swims the deep.
Chr2 10.94 25 Compare...all our private and personal
venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie...
ALin 11.329 16 In this country, on Saturday, every one
was struck dumb, and saw at first only deep below deep, as he meditated
on the ghastly blow [Lincoln's death].
ALin 11.329 17 In this country, on Saturday, every one
was struck dumb, and saw at first only deep below deep, as he meditated
on the ghastly blow [Lincoln's death].
deep-chested, adj. (1)
Farm 7.140 4 This hard work [of the farm] will always be
done...by men of
endurance,--deep-chested, long-winded, tough, slow and sure, and
timely.
deepening, adj. (1)
SL 2.141 3 ...[each man] sweeps serenely over a
deepening channel into an
infinite sea.
deepening, v. (1)
WD 7.183 24 ...the least acceleration of thought and the
least increase of
power of thought, make life to seem and to be of vast duration. We call
it
time; but when that acceleration and that deepening take effect, it
acquires
another and higher name.
deepens, v. (4)
PPh 4.78 25 [Plato's] sense deepens, his merits
multiply, with study.
Elo1 7.66 18 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment,
the attention [of the
audience] deepens...
Farm 7.149 20 See what the farmer accomplishes by a
cart-load of tiles: he
alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold
through
constant evaporation...and he deepens the soil, since the discharge of
this
standing water allows the roots of his plants to penetrate below the
surface
to the subsoil...
PLT 12.15 25 What but thought deepens life...
deeper, adj. (46)
AmS 1.106 4 For this self-trust, the reason is deeper
than can be fathomed...
MN 1.219 1 Genius...advertises us that it flows out of
a deeper source than
the foregoing silence...
MN 1.222 20 The only way into nature is to enact our
best insight. Instantly
we...can speak a deeper law.
Hist 2.8 9 I have no expectation that any man will read
history aright who
thinks that what was done in a remote age...has any deeper sense than
what
he is doing to-day.
Hist 2.17 4 By a deeper apprehension...the artist
attains the power of
awakening other souls to a given activity.
SR 2.82 8 ...the rage of travelling is a symptom of a
deeper unsoundness...
Comp 2.120 23 There is a deeper fact in the soul than
compensation, to wit, its own nature.
Prd1 2.230 2 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is
the quietest and most
passionless piece you can imagine; a couple of saints who worship the
Virgin and Child. it awakens a deeper impression than the contortions
of
ten crucified martyrs.
Cir 2.314 11 Has the naturalist or chemist learned his
craft...who has not
yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or
approximate
statement...
Pt1 3.18 26 ...the poet, who re-attaches things to
nature and the Whole,--re-attaching
even artificial things and violation of nature, to nature, by a
deeper insight,--disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts.
Exp 3.70 17 ...that which is coexistent, or ejaculated
from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own
tendency.
Chr1 3.87 4 Fixed on the enormous galaxy,/ Deeper and
older seemed his
eye:/...
NER 3.255 7 There is observable throughout [the
practical activities of
New England]...a steady tendency of the thoughtful and virtuous to a
deeper
belief and reliance on spiritual facts.
MoS 4.168 4 There have been men with deeper insight
[than Montaigne'
s];...
MoS 4.176 15 Is [a man's] belief in God and Duty no
deeper than a
stomach evidence?
ET8 5.136 23 This [English] race has added new elements
to humanity and
has a deeper root in the world.
ET10 5.170 4 ...the evil [of England's wealth] requires
a deeper cure...
ET14 5.242 13 In England these [generalizations]...do
all have a kind of
filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Hegel's
study of
civil history, as the conflict of ideas and the victory of the deeper
thought;...
Pow 6.57 27 ...in both men and women [there is] a
deeper and more
important sex of mind, namely the inventive or creative class of both
men
and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.
Wsp 6.233 21 Thus can the faithful student reverse all
the warnings of his
early instinct, under the guidance of a deeper instinct.
Bty 6.289 24 In the true mythology Love is an immortal
child, and Beauty
leads him as a guide: nor can we express a deeper sense than when we
say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
SS 7.8 5 ...the necessity of solitude is deeper than we
have said...
SS 7.10 1 [The ends of thought] are deeper than can be
told...
Art2 7.51 25 The galleries of ancient sculpture in
Naples and Rome strike
no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the
severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and
grossness
of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
WD 7.174 10 ...every man in moments of deeper thought
is apprised that he
is repeating the experiences of the people in the streets of Thebes or
Byzantium.
PI 8.9 26 Every correspondence we observe in mind and
matter suggests a
substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities.
PI 8.22 20 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the
forest, [man] finds facts
adequate and as large as he. As his thoughts are deeper than he can
fathom, so also are these.
PI 8.29 22 ...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know
that this
correspondence of things to thoughts is far deeper than they can
penetrate...
Elo2 8.121 11 In moments of clearer thought or deeper
sympathy, the voice
will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much
as
the auditor;...
Comc 8.161 18 We have no deeper interest than our
integrity...
QO 8.197 7 Our best thought came from others. We heard
in their words a
deeper sense than the speakers put into them...
PPo 8.244 14 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of
Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic, that
sometimes affords a deeper
glance at Nature than belongs to either of these bards.
PPo 8.246 11 Harems and wine-shops only give [Hafiz] a
new ground of
observation, whence to draw sometimes a deeper moral than regulated
sober life affords...
Chr2 10.115 5 The [moral] sentiment...disowns every
superiority other
than of deeper truth.
Chr2 10.119 20 No evil can come from reform which a
deeper thought will
not correct.
Prch 10.233 6 ...if the events in which we have taken
our part shall not see
their solution until a distant future, there is yet a deeper fact;...
Carl 10.495 15 There is nothing deeper in [Carlyle's]
constitution than his
humor...
FSLC 11.200 1 When a moral quality comes into
politics...the discussion
draws on deeper sources: general principles are laid bare...
FSLN 11.217 4 I have...spirits in deeper prisons, whom
no man visits if I
do not.
Shak1 11.448 12 ...Shakspeare taught us that the little
world of the heart is
vaster, deeper and richer than the spaces of astronomy.
Shak1 11.449 25 I see, among the lovers of this
catholic genius [Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper
knowledge invites me to
hazard an article of my literary creed;...
PLT 12.4 8 [These higher laws]...may be numbered and
recorded, like
stamens and vertebrae. At the same time they have a deeper interest...
Mem 12.110 6 With every broader generalization which
the mind makes, with every deeper insight, its retrospect is also
wider.
Bost 12.209 19 ...the deeper principle will always
prevail over whatever
material accumulations.
MLit 12.315 9 The more [the great] draw us to them, the
farther from them
or more independent of them we are, because they have brought us to the
knowledge of somewhat deeper than both them and us.
PPr 12.391 23 Whatever thought or motto has once
appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning...is sure to return with
deeper tones and weightier
import...
deeper, adv. (8)
Nat 1.66 22 ...a dream may let us deeper into the secret
of nature than a
hundred concerted experiments.
AmS 1.103 22 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his
privatest, secretest
presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable...
MR 1.234 21 ...we all involve ourselves in [the evil of
property] the deeper
by forming connections...
Hist 2.23 3 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow,
[a man of rude health
and flowing spirits]...associates as happily as beside his own
chimneys. Or
perhaps his facility is deeper seated, in the increased range of his
faculties
of observation...
Hist 2.40 20 Broader and deeper we must write our
annals...
WD 7.164 11 ...we must look deeper for our salvation
than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy.
PI 8.73 9 The high poetry which shall...bring in the
new thoughts, the
sanity and heroic aims of nations, is deeper hid...
Imtl 8.348 26 ...the man puts off the ignorance and
tumultuous passions of
youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes
at
last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the
outer relations
and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God...
deepest, adj. (13)
Art1 2.359 1 The best of beauty is...a wonderful
expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest
and simplest attributes of our
nature...
Chr1 3.99 9 That exultation [in events] is only to be
checked by the
foresight of an order of things so excellent as to throw all our
prosperities
into the deepest shade.
ET14 5.250 20 There is in the action of [James
Wilkinson's] mind a long
Atlantic roll not known except in deepest waters...
F 6.28 8 ...he whose thought is deepest will be the
strongest character.
CbW 6.260 4 ...nothing is so indicative of deepest
culture as a tender
consideration of the ignorant.
Bty 6.299 20 ...it is not beauty that inspires the
deepest passion.
Res 8.144 20 The sailor by his boat and sail makes a
ford out of deepest
waters.
PPo 8.264 24 So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/
Thoughtless in
deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless
prayed
they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./
Dem1 10.22 16 The deepest flattery...is the flattery of
omens.
Chr2 10.105 14 The greatest dominion will be to the
deepest thought.
Prch 10.219 3 A thousand negatives [the oracle]
utters...on all sides; but
the sacred affirmative it hides in the deepest abyss.
MMEm 10.431 25 What a timid, ungrateful creature! Fear
the deepest
pitfalls of age, when pressing on...to Him with whom a day is a
thousand
years...
FRep 11.525 1 ...we know, all over this country, men of
integrity...with the
deepest sympathy in all that concerns the public...
deepest, adv. (6)
Nat 1.66 5 That which seems faintly possible...is often
faint and dim
because it is deepest seated in the mind among the eternal verities.
DSA 1.126 13 This [moral] thought dwelled always
deepest in the minds of
men in the devout and contemplative East;...
LT 1.284 22 I have seen the same gloom on the brow even
of those
adventurers from the intellectual class who had dived deepest and with
most success into active life.
CbW 6.243 22 The music that can deepest reach,/ And
cure all ill, is
cordial speech/...
Farm 7.147 22 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems
of happiest
exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest...
Clbs 7.250 16 Discourse, when it...searches
deepest...is between two.
deep-founded, adj. (1)
Bhr 6.189 25 ...if the man is self-possessed, happy and
at home, his house
is deep-founded...
deep-laid, adj. (1)
SL 2.134 8 We impute deep-laid far-sighted plans to
Caesar and
Napoleon;...
deeply, adv. (29)
Nat 1.41 6 Prophet and priest...have drawn deeply from
this source [of
nature].
AmS 1.98 22 That great principle of Undulation in
nature, that shows
itself...as yet more deeply ingrained in every atom and every fluid, is
known to us under the name of Polarity...
DSA 1.132 25 ...[the simple] have not yet drunk so
deeply of [the great soul'
s] sense as to see that only by coming again to themselves...can they
grow
forevermore.
MN 1.219 2 Genius...advertises us...that it knows so
deeply and speaks so
musically, because it is itself a mutation of the thing it describes.
Tran 1.340 20 ...the tendency to respect the intuitions
and to give them, at
least in our creed, all authority over our experience, has deeply
colored the
conversation and poetry of the present day;...
SL 2.151 12 Nothing is more deeply punished than the
neglect of the
affinities by which alone society should be formed...
Hsm1 2.248 18 ...I must think we are more deeply
indebted to [Plutarch] than to all the ancient writers.
GoW 4.283 11 ...men distinguished for wit and learning,
in England and
France...are not understood to be very deeply engaged, from grounds of
character, to the topic or the part they espouse...
ET8 5.142 17 [The English] are intellectual and deeply
enjoy literature;...
ET10 5.154 6 ...one of [England's] recent writers
speaks...of the grave
moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer. You shall find
this
sentiment...deeply implied in the novels and romances of the present
century...
ET13 5.219 13 The [English] national temperament deeply
enjoys the
unbroken order and tradition of its church;...
Ill 6.317 13 ...[men who make themselves felt in the
world] never deeply
interest us unless they lift a corner of the curtain...
Elo1 7.92 14 In transcendent eloquence, there was ever
some crisis in
affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the cause he pleads...
Elo2 8.132 8 ...when a great sentiment...makes itself
deeply felt in any age
or country, then great orators appear.
PPo 8.246 15 Riot, [Hafiz] thinks, can snatch from the
deeply hidden lot
the veil that covers it...
PerF 10.87 4 ...a sensitive politician suffers his
ideas of the part New York
or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be
fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties. But we must not
gratify the rogues so deeply.
MoL 10.244 9 On the south and east shores of the
Mediterranean Mahomet
impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the manners, language and
poetry of Arabia and Persia!
MMEm 10.426 7 The mystic dream which is shed over the
season. O, to
dream more deeply;...
Thor 10.476 2 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought
into a symbol. The
fact you tell is of no value, but only the impression. For this reason
his
presence...always piqued the curiosity to know more deeply the secrets
of
his mind.
HDC 11.77 17 ...[William Emerson]...is said to have
deeply inspired many
of his people with his own enthusiasm [for the Revolution].
War 11.155 1 Is it not manifest that [war] covers a
great and beneficent
principle, which Nature had deeply at heart?
FSLN 11.231 12 I know how deeply founded [conservatism]
is in our
nature...
CPL 11.496 25 If you consider what has befallen you
when reading...a
tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested you...you will easily
admit
the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
Mem 12.100 10 ...men of great presence of mind...can
think in this moment
as well and deeply as in any past moment...
MAng1 12.240 4 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of
the most
accomplished lady of the time...
Milt1 12.251 19 ...deeply as that peculiar state of
society, in which and for
which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the
world, it
shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in
Nature;...
MLit 12.318 21 This feeling of the Infinite has deeply
colored the poetry of
the period.
MLit 12.329 13 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself]
The age, that can
damn [Wilhelm Meister] as false and falsifying, will see that it is
deeply
one with the genius and history of all the centuries.
PPr 12.388 2 ...we at this distance are not so far
removed from any of the
specific evils [of the English State], and are deeply participant in
too many, not to share the gloom and thank the love and courage of the
counsellor [Carlyle].
deeps, n. (14)
Nat 1.42 24 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has
been reflected to
man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds
forevermore
drive flocks of stormy clouds...
DSA 1.125 19 [The sentiment of virtue] corrects the
capital mistake of the
infant man...by showing...that he...is an inlet into the deeps of
Reason.
MN 1.213 18 ...we have, out of the deeps of
antiquity...a statement of this
fact...
Hist 2.27 14 When the voice of a prophet out of the
deeps of antiquity
merely echoes to [the student] a sentiment of his infancy...he then
pierces to
the truth through all the confusion of tradition...
Hsm1 2.264 7 ...the love that will be annihilated
sooner than treacherous... affirms itself no mortal but a native of the
deeps of absolute and
inextinguishable being.
OS 2.272 2 We lie open on one side to the deeps of
spiritual nature...
Pt1 3.24 4 ...the melodies of the poet ascend and leap
and pierce into the
deeps of infinite time.
Ctr 6.165 26 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get
free, man needs all the
music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with
tears
and joy;...if Science with her telegraphs through the deeps of space
and
time can set his dull nerves throbbing...make way and sing paean!
WD 7.171 8 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself
to amass...the eye that
looketh into the deeps, which again look back to the eye, abyss to
abyss;-- these...are given immeasurably to all.
Aris 10.65 24 To many the word [Gentleman]
expresses...only graceful
manners, and independence in trifles; but the fountains of that thought
are
in the deeps of man...
PerF 10.78 4 It would be easy to awake wonder by
sketching the
performance of each of these mental forces; as of the diving-bell of
the
Memory, which descends into the deeps of our past...
SovE 10.212 19 ...what deeps of grandeur and beauty are
known to us in
ethical truth...
Schr 10.263 16 The scholar is here...to affirm noble
sentiments; to hear
them wherever spoken, out of the deeps of ages...
Wom 11.403 3 The politics are base,/ The letters do not
cheer,/ And 't is far
in the deeps of history,/ The voice that speaketh clear./
deep-toned, adj. (1)
Suc 7.299 11 Does that deep-toned bell...render to you
nothing but acoustic
vibrations?
deer, n. (9)
Nat 1.65 11 The fox and the deer run away from us;...
ET4 5.58 4 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] fish in the
fiord and hunt the
deer.
ET4 5.73 7 William the Conqueror being, says Camden,
better affected to
beasts than to men, imposed heavy fines and punishments on those that
should meddle with his game. The Saxon Chronicle says he loved the tall
deer as if he were their father.
ET16 5.285 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge
[at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...watched the deer;...
Bty 6.290 25 The cat and the deer cannot move or sit
inelegantly.
Cour 7.278 9 And when the bird or deer/ Fell by the
hunter's skill,/ The
boy was always near/ To help with right good will./
Edc1 10.156 9 Can you not keep for [the child's] mind
and ways, for his
secret, the same curiosity you give to the squirrel...and the sheldrake
and
the deer?
HDC 11.62 12 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is
o'er,/ Their fires are out
from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The
plough
is on their hunting grounds;/...
CL 12.148 18 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated
the winds as the
conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Because
they
drive the clouds, they have harnessed the spotted deer to their
chariot;...
Deerfield, Massachusetts, n. (1)
AKan 11.256 14 Do the Committee of Investigation say
that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal
catalogue of private
tragedies show it? Do the private letters? Is it an exaggeration, that
Mr. Hopps of Somerville, Mr. Hoyt of Deerfield...have been murdered?
deface, v. (2)
SL 2.160 20 If you visit your friend, why need you
apologize for not
having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act?
ALin 11.328 25 Nothing of Europe here,/ Or, then, of
Europe fronting
mornward still,/ Ere any names of Serf and Peer/ Could Nature's equal
scheme deface;/...
defaced, v. (4)
Lov1 2.171 8 ...each man sees his own life defaced and
disfigured...
SwM 4.98 27 ...it is easier to see the reflection of
the great sphere in large
globes, though defaced by some crack or blemish, than in drops of
water...
Thor 10.479 8 A certain habit of antagonism defaced
[Thoreau's] earlier
writings...
CPL 11.500 24 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau]
writes, Do you read
any noble verses? For my part, they have been the only things I
remembered...when all things else were blurred and defaced.
defame, v. (2)
LT 1.291 9 ...all the tongues of to-day will of course
at first defame what is
noble;...
TPar 11.291 12 There were...multitudes to censure and
defame this truth-speaker [Theodore Parker].
default, n. (2)
Schr 10.265 4 [Poets] have no toleration for literature;
art is only a fine
word for appearance in default of matter.
MMEm 10.409 26 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on
my queer way
with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every actual case,
't is
hard, and we lose sight of the first necessity,-here too amid works red
with default in all great and grand and infinite aims.
defaulter, n. (1)
Comp 2.114 23 The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler,
cannot extort the
knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains
yield to the operative.
defaulting, n. (1)
WD 7.165 25 ...Trade...ends in shameful defaulting,
bubble and
bankruptcy...
defeat, n. (17)
Int 2.341 21 [The scholar] must...choose defeat and
pain...
Exp 3.86 1 ...in the solitude to which every man is
always returning, he has
a sanity and revelations which in his passage into new worlds he will
carry
with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat; up again, old
heart!--it seems to say...
Chr1 3.114 13 The ages have exulted in the manners of a
youth...who, by
the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts
of his
death which has transfigured every particular into an universal symbol
for
the eyes of mankind. This great defeat is hitherto our highest fact.
NER 3.272 3 From the triumphs of his art [the master]
turns with desire to
this greater defeat.
PPh 4.71 11 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his
humor a perfect
temper and a knowledge of his man...which laid the companion open to
certain defeat in any debate...
ET5 5.81 17 [The English] are bound to see their
measure carried, and stick
to it through ages of defeat.
ET11 5.190 27 Of course there is another side to this
gorgeous show [of
English aristocracy]. Every victory was the defeat of a party only less
worthy.
F 6.16 5 ...the steadiness with which victory adheres
to one tribe and defeat
to another, is as uniform as the superposition of strata.
Suc 7.311 4 ...to redeem defeat by new thought...that
is not easy...
SA 8.96 2 The great gain is...to find a companion who
knows what you do
not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all
your
logic and learning. There is a defeat that is useful.
Res 8.146 21 A determined man...puts a stop to
defeat...
QO 8.184 19 ...a lady having expressed in his presence
a passionate wish to
witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing
so
dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
PerF 10.78 26 The power...of enduring defeat and of
gaining victory by
defeats, is one of these [mental] forces which never loses its charm.
SovE 10.189 21 Savage war gives place to that of
Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code. This war
again gives place to the finer
quarrel of property, where the victory is wealth and the defeat
poverty.
SlHr 10.439 4 ...when the votes of the Free
States...had...betrayed the cause
of freedom, [Samuel Hoar]...had no longer the will to drag his days
through
the dishonors of the long defeat...
ALin 11.337 20 There is a serene Providence which rules
the fate of
nations, which...conquers alike by what is called defeat or by what is
called
victory...
Koss 11.400 26 Sir [Kossuth]...we congratulate you that
you have known
how to convert...present defeat into lasting victory.
defeat, v. (5)
Tran 1.346 5 We easily predict a fair future to each new
candidate who
enters the lists, but...by low aims and ill example do what we can to
defeat
this hope.
MoS 4.185 13 Things seem...to defeat the just;...
PerF 10.84 16 Things work to their ends...and will
certainly defeat any
adventurer who fights against this ordination.
Edc1 10.137 23 A low self-love in the parent desires
that his child should
repeat his character and fortune; an expectation which the child, if
justice is
done him, will nobly disappoint. By working on the theory that this
resemblance exists, we shall do what in us lies to defeat his proper
promise...
FSLC 11.212 24 It was the praise of Athens, She could
not lead countless
armies into the field, but she knew how with a little band to defeat
those
who could.
defeated, adj. (1)
GoW 4.271 18 ...[Goethe] lived...in a defeated state...
defeated, n. (1)
EdAd 11.386 1 We hearken in vain for any profound
voice...consoling the
defeated...
defeated, v. (16)
Comp 2.117 27 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented,
defeated, he has
a chance to learn something;...
NER 3.283 24 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse...so
only it be honest
work...no matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
SwM 4.120 26 This design of exhibiting such
correpondences [between
heaven and earth]...was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively
theologic
direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.
ET5 5.90 25 Private persons [in England] exhibit...the
same pertinacity as
the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against
the
empire of Bonaparte, one after the other defeated...
Wsp 6.234 23 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal
people to whom I
have no skill to reply. They think they have defeated me.
Wsp 6.234 24 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal
people to whom I
have no skill to reply. They think they have defeated me. It is so
published
in society, in the journals; I am defeated in this fashion, in all
men's sight...
Elo1 7.97 11 Let [the man who will train himself to
mastery in this science
of persuasion] look on opposition as opportunity. He cannot be defeated
or
put down.
Suc 7.304 27 To-day at the school examination the
professor interrogates
Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric. Sylvina can't
remember, but suggests that Odoacer was defeated;...
Suc 7.305 1 To-day at the school examination the
professor interrogates
Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric. Sylvina can't
remember, but suggests that Odoacer was defeated; and the professor
tartly
replies, No, he defeated the Romans.
Suc 7.305 5 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was
defeated, why he had better a
great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy.
Suc 7.305 6 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was
defeated, why he had better a
great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy.
Suc 7.305 9 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was
defeated, why he had better a
great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy. Odoacer,
if
there was a particle of the gentleman in him, would have said, Let me
be
defeated a thousand times.
SA 8.96 5 The great gain is...to find a companion who
knows what you do
not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all
your
logic and learning. ... You will adopt the art of war that has defeated
you.
Aris 10.58 11 ...a hero's, a man's success is made up
of failures, because he
experiments and ventures every day...defeated all the time and yet to
victory born.
EWI 11.109 13 During the next sixteen years, ten times,
year after year, the
attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery] was renewed by Mr.
Wilberforce, and ten times defeated by the planters.
War 11.149 4 The archangel Hope/ Looks to the azure
cope,/ Waits
through dark ages for the morn,/ Defeated day by day, but unto Victory
born./
defeats, n. (7)
CbW 6.260 22 ...by defeats...learn a wider truth and
humanity than that of a
fine gentleman.
PerF 10.78 27 The power...of enduring defeat and of
gaining victory by
defeats, is one of these [mental] forces which never loses its charm.
PerF 10.88 7 ...the cause of right for which we
labor...gains by our defeats...
MMEm 10.424 15 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are
prolific numbers of
the same sad hour, colored by the memory of defeats in virtue...
Thor 10.480 26 ...these foibles [of Thoreau], real or
apparent, were fast
vanishing in the incessant growth of a spirit...which effaced its
defeats with
new triumphs.
ACiv 11.306 16 There does exist, perhaps, a popular
will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole
breadth of the continent, and
from Canada to the Gulf. But since this is the rooted belief and will
of the
people, so much the more are they in danger, when impatient of defeats,
or
impatient of taxes, to go with a rush for some peace;...
EPro 11.319 27 [The Emancipation Proclamation] makes a
victory of our
defeats.
defeats, v. (2)
Prch 10.224 18 Now every man defeats his own action...
FSLN 11.237 15 A man who commits a crime defeats the
end of his
existence.
defect, n. (48)
DSA 1.130 10 ...we become sensible of the first defect
of historical
Christianity.
DSA 1.134 1 The second defect of the traditionary and
limited way of using
the mind of Christ is a consequence of the first;...
MN 1.198 21 There is an intrinsic defect in the organ.
LT 1.266 3 ...there will be fragments and hints of men,
more than enough: bloated promises, which end in nothing or little. And
then truly great men, but with some defect in their composition which
neutralizes their whole
force.
Hist 2.5 16 This [identification with history] remedies
the defect of our too
great nearness to ourselves.
Comp 2.97 20 ...in the animal kingdom the physiologist
has observed that... a certain compensation balances every gift and
every defect.
Comp 2.98 7 Every excess causes a defect;...
Comp 2.98 8 Every excess causes a defect; every defect
an excess.
Comp 2.117 2 The good are befriended even by weakness
and defect.
Comp 2.117 4 ...no man had ever a defect that was not
somewhere made
useful to him.
Comp 2.117 15 Has [a man] a defect of temper that
unfits him to live in
society? Thereby he is driven to entertain himself alone...
Comp 2.118 22 The same guards which protect us from
disaster, defect and
enmity, defend us, if we will, from selfishness and fraud.
Fdsp 2.211 18 ...the least defect of self-possession
vitiates...the entire
relation [of friendship].
Prd1 2.232 9 [The man of talent's] art is...less for
every defect of common
sense.
Exp 3.57 22 Something is earned...by conversing with so
much folly and
defect.
Exp 3.65 27 Each of these elements [power and form] in
excess makes a
mischief as hurtful as its defect.
Chr1 3.98 1 No change of circumstances can repair a
defect of character.
Mrs1 3.138 15 Defect in manners is usually the defect
of fine perceptions.
NER 3.263 17 If partiality was one fault of the
movement party, the other
defect was their reliance on Association.
UGM 4.24 1 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe,
but wherever she
mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies
plentifully on the bruise...
PPh 4.75 24 ...the defect of Plato in power is only
that which results
inevitably from his quality.
ET9 5.147 23 ...[the Englishman] hides no defect of his
form, features, dress, connection, or birthplace...
F 6.11 11 ...[a man] is an adulterer before he has yet
looked on the woman, by...the defect of thought in his constitution.
F 6.35 11 ...a defect pays [a man] revenues on the
other side.
Ctr 6.131 17 ...any excess of power in one part is
usually paid for at once
by some defect in a contiguous part.
Ctr 6.132 1 ...if a man have a defect, it is apt to
leave its impression on all
his performances.
Ctr 6.144 22 I knew a leading man in a leading city,
who, having set his
heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never
quite feel
himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither. His easy
superiority to multitudes of professional men could never quite
countervail
to him this imaginary defect.
Ctr 6.149 6 ...though [Thomas Hobbes] conceived he
could order his
thinking as well as another, yet he found a great defect.
Wsp 6.229 13 To a sound constitution the defect of
another is at once
manifest;...
CbW 6.260 16 ...what we ask daily, is to be
conventional. Supply, most
kind gods! this defect in my address...which puts me a little out of
the ring...
SS 7.3 19 ...[my new friend] had one defect,--he could
not speak in the tone
of the people.
SS 7.12 18 The capital defect of cold, arid natures is
the want of animal
spirits.
DL 7.105 6 The child realizes to every man his own
earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education...
SA 8.91 5 'T is a defect in our manners that they have
not yet reached the
prescribing a limit to visits.
Comc 8.159 24 ...a prophet...or a
philosopher...bring...the ideal whole, exposing all actual defect;...
Comc 8.161 26 We feel the absence of [a perception of
the Comic] as a
defect in the noblest and most oracular soul.
PerF 10.86 13 All our political disasters grow as
logically out of our
attempts in the past to do without justice, as the sinking of some part
of
your house comes of defect in the foundation.
Supl 10.176 17 ...in Western nations the superlative in
conversation is
tedious and weak, and in character is a capital defect...
SovE 10.198 23 ...it is not any sterility or defect in
ethics, but our
negligence of these fine monitors, of these world-embracing sentiments,
that makes religion cold and life low.
SovE 10.205 13 ...I hope the defect of faith with us is
only apparent.
MoL 10.245 20 Ernest Renan finds that Europe has thrice
assembled for
exhibitions of industry, and not a poem graced the occasion; and nobody
remarked the defect.
Schr 10.281 18 Body and its properties belong to the
region of nonentity, as if more of body was necessarily produced where
a defect of being
happens in a greater degree.
FSLN 11.224 20 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 the defect and calamity of
Mr. Webster...
FSLN 11.224 21 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 the defect and calamity of
Mr. Webster...
Mem 12.100 4 ...defect of memory is not always want of
genius.
MAng1 12.238 23 It has been the defect of some great
men that they did
not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of
others...
MAng1 12.239 3 It has been supposed that artists more
than others are
liable to this defect [lack of appreciation of the talents of others].
MLit 12.330 14 The least inequality of mixture [of
Truth, Beauty and
Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that
degree...makes
the world opaque to the observer, and destroys so far the value of his
experience. No particular gifts can countervail this defect.
defection, n. (1)
FSLN 11.229 6 The way in which the country was dragged
to consent to
this [Fugitive Slave Law], and the disastrous defection...of the men of
letters...was the darkest passage in the history.
defective, adj. (10)
Nat 1.45 25 Unfortunately every one of [the human
forms]...is marred and
superficially defective.
LE 1.182 21 If [the man of genius] be defective at
either extreme of the
scale, his philosophy will seem low and utilitarian...
MN 1.202 24 None of [the eminent souls] seen by
himself...will justify the
cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and
defective person was at last procured.
Con 1.314 15 ...there is...no man who from the
beginning to the end of his
life maintains the defective institutions;...
Exp 3.50 20 Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold
and defective nature?
ET18 5.302 17 We cannot go deep enough into the
biography of the spirit
who...delegates his energy in parts or spasms to vicious and defective
individuals.
Thor 10.475 17 [Thoreau's] own verses are often rude
and defective.
EWI 11.122 23 There have been nations elevated by great
sentiments. Such
was the civility of Sparta and the Dorian race, whilst it was defective
in
some of the chief elements of ours.
EWI 11.142 4 If before, [the negro] was taxed with such
stupidity, or such
defective vision, that he could not set a table square to the walls of
an
apartment, he is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the West
Indies;...
MAng1 12.223 21 ...even at Venice, on defective
evidence, [Michelangelo] is said to have given the plan of the bridge
of the Rialto.
defects, n. (27)
LE 1.179 9 ...that man [Napoleon], with whatever defects
or vices, represented performance in lieu of pretension.
Con 1.310 1 ...precisely the defence which was set up
for the British
Constitution, namely that with all its admitted defects...it worked
well...the
same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
YA 1.389 4 I shall not need to go into an enumeration
of our national
defects and vices which require this Order of Censors in the State.
Lov1 2.186 6 The soul which is in the soul of each
[lover], craving a
perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects and disproportion in
the
behaviour of the other.
Fdsp 2.193 5 ...as soon as the stranger begins to
intrude...his defects, into
the conversation, it is all over.
Pt1 3.18 15 ...we use defects and deformities to a
sacred purpose...
Pt1 3.18 19 In the old mythology...defects are ascribed
to divine natures...to
signify exuberances.
Exp 3.61 9 ...however a thoughtful man may suffer from
the defects and
absurdities of his company, he cannot without affectation deny to any
set of
men and women a sensibility to extraordinary merit.
Pol1 3.208 2 ...our institutions...have not any
exemption from the practical
defects which have discredited other forms.
Pol1 3.211 1 I do not for these defects despair of our
republic.
NER 3.268 6 We believe that the defects of so many
perverse and so many
frivolous people who make up society, are organic...
PNR 4.80 11 Modern science...has learned to indemnify
the student of man
for the defects of individuals by tracing growth and ascent in
races;...
ET9 5.148 12 A man's personal defects will commonly
have, with the rest
of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself.
F 6.13 18 All conservatives are such from personal
defects.
F 6.13 25 ...strong natures...are inevitable patriots,
until...their defects and
gout, palsy and money, warp them.
F 6.35 9 A man must thank his defects...
F 6.45 3 The correlation is shown in defects.
CbW 6.271 9 The success which will content [men] is a
bargain...a legacy
and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with
surfaces: politics...personal defects...
Cour 7.268 21 The beautiful voice at church...covers up
in its volume...all
the defects of the choir.
Suc 7.289 5 Fuller says 't is a maxim of lawyers that a
crown once worn
cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof.
PI 8.73 12 We must not conclude against poetry from the
defects of poets.
QO 8.184 10 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a
well-penned oration
or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument,
inventing and disposing what seemed fit to be said upon that subject,
before
he read the book; then, reading, compared his own with the author's,
and
noted his own defects and the author's art and fulness;...
Edc1 10.133 3 ...the event of each moment...the passing
of a beautiful face, the apoplexy of our neighbor, are all tests to try
our theory [of life]...and
reveal its defects.
FSLN 11.223 15 The history of this country has given a
disastrous
importance to the defects of this great man's [Webster's] mind.
SHC 11.430 7 In these times we see the defects of our
old theology;...
PLT 12.39 20 ...[an intellectual man's] defects and
delusions interest him
as much as his successes.
MAng1 12.233 5 A little before he died, [Michelangelo]
burned a great
number of designs, sketches and cartoons made by him, being impatient
of
their defects.
defence, n. (47)
AmS 1.115 24 The dread of man and the love of man shall
be a wall of
defence and a wreath of joy around all.
MR 1.254 14 ...it would warm the heart to see how
fast...the impotence of... lines of defence, would be superseded by
this unarmed child [Love].
Con 1.309 26 ...precisely the defence which was set up
for the British
Constitution, namely...that...it worked well...the same defence is set
up for
the existing institutions.
Con 1.310 6 ...precisely the defence which was set up
for the British
Constitution, namely that...it worked well...the same defence is set up
for
the existing institutions.
Mrs1 3.126 25 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of
defence to parry and
intimidate;...
Pol1 3.208 21 We might as wisely reprove the east wind
or the frost, as a
political party, whose members, for the most part...stand for the
defence of
those interests in which they find themselves.
Pol1 3.208 26 Our quarrel with [political parties]
begins when they quit this
deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader, and...throw
themselves
into the maintenance and defence of points nowise belonging to their
system.
NR 3.239 18 ...[each man] would impose his idea on
others; and their trick
is their natural defence.
UGM 4.27 17 ...it is human nature's indispensable
defence. The
centripetence augments the centrifugence. We balance one man with his
opposite...
MoS 4.158 1 ...great numbers dislike [the State] and
suffer conscientious
scruples to allegiance; and the only defence set up, is the fear of
doing
worse in disorganizing.
MoS 4.160 9 [Skepticism] is a position taken up for
better defence...
MoS 4.164 17 In the civil wars of the
League...Montaigne kept his gates
open and his house without defence.
NMW 4.236 5 [Bonaparte]...on a hostile position, rained
a torrent of iron... to annihilate all defence.
NMW 4.237 11 [Napoleon's] idea of the best defence
consists in being still
the attacking party.
NMW 4.251 6 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said...we had
better leave off all
these remedies: life is a fortress which neither you nor I know any
thing
about. Why throw obstacles in the way of its defence?
GoW 4.266 24 ...there is much to be said by the hermit
or monk in defence
of his life of thought and prayer.
ET5 5.81 10 ...when [English] courts and parliament are
both deaf, the
plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from
year to
year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance...
ET11 5.184 4 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848
(the day of the
Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in England] were for
the
first time actively interesting themselves in their own defence...
F 6.25 7 ...Fate against Fate is only parrying and
defence...
Bhr 6.183 21 ...if [the enthusiast] finds the scholar
apart from his
companions...the scholar has no defence, but must deal on his terms.
Cour 7.260 15 ...the measure of our sincerity and
therefore of the respect of
men, is the amount of health and wealth we will hazard in the defence
of
our right.
Cour 7.260 21 Nature has charged every one with his own
defence...
Cour 7.273 22 The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some
passages in the
defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a great instruction
that
the best and highest courages are beams of the Almighty.
SA 8.81 6 The perfect defence and isolation which
[manners] effect makes
an insuperable protection.
Grts 8.302 18 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or
Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind; not
the strong hand, but...the
creation of laws, institutions, letters and art. These...and not the
strong arm
and brave heart, which are also indispensable to their defence.
Schr 10.280 5 ...there is but one defence against this
principle of chaos...
LLNE 10.368 3 [The members of Brook Farm]
expressed...the conviction
that plain dealing was the best defence of manners and moral between
the
sexes.
SlHr 10.442 23 ...[Samuel Hoar]...refused very large
sums offered him to
undertake the defence of criminal persons.
HDC 11.61 11 A great defence [of Concord] undoubtedly
was the village
of Praying Indians...
HDC 11.69 24 ...in conjunction with our brethren in
America, we will risk
our fortunes, and even our lives, in defence of his majesty, King
George the
Third, his person, crown and dignity;...
EWI 11.119 23 Parliament was compelled to pass
additional laws for the
defence and security of the negro [in the West Indies]...
FSLC 11.183 5 ...you cannot rely on any man for the
defence of truth, who
is not constitutionally or by blood and temperament on that side.
FSLC 11.193 21 The very defence which the God of Nature
has provided
for the innocent against cruelty is the sentiment of indignation and
pity in
the bosom of the beholder.
FSLC 11.204 6 [Webster] looks at the Union as...a large
farm, and is
excellent in the completeness of his defence of it so far.
AsSu 11.252 3 ...if our arms at this distance cannot
defend [Charles
Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious to
all
honorable men and true patriots...
ACiv 11.305 16 Congress can...as a part of the military
defence which it is
the duty of Congress to provide, abolish slavery...
PLT 12.11 4 The wonder of the science of Intellect is
that the substance
with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it
intoxicates all
who approach it. Gloves on the hands...are no defence against this
virus...
PLT 12.22 2 If man has organs...for digesting, for
protection by house-building, by attack and defence...you shall find
all the same in the muskrat.
CInt 12.114 5 ...[Archimedes] was willing to show [the
king] that he was
quite able in rude matters, if he could condescend to them, and he
conducted the defence of Syracuse against the Romans.
Bost 12.194 21 ...how much more attractive and true
that this [Christian] piety should be the central trait and the stern
virtues follow than that
Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on his defence.
Bost 12.203 16 ...there is always [in Boston]...always
a heresiarch, whom
the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new
light... some John Adams and Josiah Quincy and Governor Andrew to
undertake
and carry the defence of patriots in the courts against the uproar of
all the
province;...
MAng1 12.225 14 Michael Angelo is represented as having
ordered his
defence [of Florence] so vigorously that the Prince [of Orange] was
compelled to retire.
Milt1 12.265 21 [Milton]...deliberately undertakes the
defence of the
English people, when advised by his physicians that he does it at the
cost of
sight.
Milt1 12.271 6 Toland tells us...[Milton] used to tell
those about him the
entire satisfaction of his mind that he had constantly employed his
strength
and faculties in the defence of liberty...
Milt1 12.275 13 ...the Comus [is] a transcript, in
charming numbers, of that
philosophy of chastity, which, in the Apology for Smectymnuus, and in
the
Reason of Church Government, [Milton] declares to be his defence and
religion.
Let 12.393 15 Our friend suggests so many
inconveniences from piracy out
of the high air to orchards and lone houses...and the total inadequacy
of the
present system of defence, that we have not the heart to break the
sleep of
the good public by the repetition of these details.
Trag 12.415 3 Nature proportions her defence to the
assault.
Defence...English People [ (2)
Milt1 12.248 20 [Milton's] prose writings, especially
the Defence of the
English People, seem to have been read with avidity.
Milt1 12.249 27 The Defence of the People of England,
on which [Milton'
s] contemporary fame was founded, is...the worst of his works.
defenceless, adj. (1)
War 11.169 3 If you have a nation of men who have risen
to that height of
moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you
have a
nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;
I
shall not find them defenceless...
defences, n. (5)
SL 2.146 3 ...a man may come to find that the strongest
of defences and of
ties,--that he has been understood;...
Pol1 3.204 18 If it be not easy to settle the equity of
this question [of
property], the peril is less when we take note of our natural defenses.
Thor 10.466 4 ...what accusing silences, and what
searching and irresistible
speeches, battering down all defences, [Thoreau's] companions can
remember!
Wom 11.426 11 Woman should find in man her guardian.
Silently she
looks for that, and when she finds that he is not, as she instantly
does, she
betakes her to her own defences...
PLT 12.29 13 [Man] has his own defences and his own
fangs;...
defend, v. (38)
MR 1.239 4 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods
he has year after
year collected, in one estate to his son...the son finds his hands
full,-not to
use these things, but to...defend them from their natural enemies.
Con 1.298 1 The castle which conservatism is set to
defend is the actual
state of things, good and bad.
SR 2.59 15 ...I must have done so much right before as
to defend me now.
Comp 2.118 22 The same guards which protect us from
disaster, defect and
enmity, defend us, if we will, from selfishness and fraud.
Pol1 3.202 17 It seemed fit that Laban and Jacob should
have equal rights
to elect the officer who is to defend their persons...
UGM 4.18 21 ...true genius seeks to defend us from
itself.
UGM 4.26 19 The great, or such as...transcend fashions
by their fidelity to
universal ideas...defend us from our contemporaries.
ET4 5.57 23 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are
substantial farmers whom
the rough times have forced to defend their properties.
ET6 5.109 26 The Knights of the Bath take oath to
defend injured ladies;...
ET11 5.180 26 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from
England, in 1784, If
revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy: their
chateaux
will be reduced to ashes and their blood be spilt in torrents. The
English
tenant would defend his lord to the last extremity.
ET15 5.270 10 [The London Times's] editors know better
than to defend
Russia, or Austria...on abstract grounds.
Bhr 6.173 18 ...these [bad manners] are social
inflictions which the
magistrate cannot cure or defend you from...
Wsp 6.212 16 Only those can help in counsel or conduct
who did not make
a party pledge to defend this or that...
Clbs 7.240 17 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who
converts the
censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent
advocate? The court appoints another censor, who shall crush it this
time. Beaumarchais persuades him to defend it.
Cour 7.260 1 Nature has made up her mind that what
cannot defend itself
shall not be defended.
Cour 7.273 13 The meal and water that are the
commissariat of the forlorn
hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy
Grail...
Elo2 8.129 19 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no
personal concern in
the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could
not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose
life
depended on his own abilities to defend it?
Insp 8.286 13 ...it is a primal rule to defend your
morning...
PerF 10.85 4 ...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 10.85 9 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of
debate, and says, I will
know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will pay best...
Schr 10.274 18 [The thoughtful man] is not there to
defend himself, but to
deliver his message;...
Schr 10.285 11 The gun [men of talent] have pointed can
defend nothing
but itself...
LLNE 10.344 11 Theodore Parker was...the stout Reformer
to urge and
defend every cause of humanity with and for the humblest of mankind.
HDC 11.70 1 ...we will...to the utmost of our power,
defend all our rights
inviolate to the latest posterity.
HDC 11.75 19 Those poor farmers who came up, that day
[April 19, 1775], to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest
instincts.
EWI 11.131 27 If the State has no power to defend its
own people in its
own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal
Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government?
EWI 11.135 1 ...government exists to defend the weak
and the poor and the
injured party;...
FSLC 11.204 11 What [Webster] finds already written, he
will defend.
FSLN 11.225 19 Who doubts the power of any fluent
debater to defend
either of our political parties...
FSLN 11.230 10 That is the distinction of the
gentleman, to defend the
weak and redress the injured...
FSLN 11.235 8 ...no man has a right to hope that the
laws of New York
will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he
has
made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New
York, but to his own sense and spirit.
AsSu 11.247 16 In [the slave state]...man is an
animal...spending his days
in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against
his
slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and
dangerous way.
AsSu 11.252 2 ...if our arms at this distance cannot
defend [Charles
Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious to
all
honorable men and true patriots...
AKan 11.258 8 ...the governor and legislature should
neither slumber nor
sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to
these
poor farmers [in Kansas], or else should resign their seats to those
who can. But first let them...order funeral service to be said for the
citizens whom
they were unable to defend.
EPro 11.326 17 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race
which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of
the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a
race...whose very
miseries sprang from their great talent for usefulness, which, in a
more
moral age, will not only defend their independence, but will give them
a
rank among nations.
FRep 11.524 24 These [the good and wise] we just join
to wake, for these
are of the strain/ That justice dare defend, and will the age
maintain./
II 12.86 16 The old Herschel must...defend his eyes for
nocturnal use.
Bost 12.206 10 A house in Boston was worth as much
again as a house just
as good in a town of timorous people, because here the neighbors would
defend each other against bad governors and against troops;...
defendant, n. (1)
F 6.49 7 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity,
which secures that
all is made of one piece; that plaintiff and defendant...are of one
kind.
defended, v. (23)
Comp 2.118 11 I hate to be defended in a newspaper.
Mrs1 3.135 17 Cardinal Caprara...defended himself from
the glances of
Napoleon by an immense pair of green spectacles.
NER 3.253 3 Even the insect world was to be defended...
UGM 4.27 22 Every genius is defended from approach by
quantities of
unavailableness.
NMW 4.243 1 ...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...defended him as its natural patron.
ET9 5.146 6 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public
thanks to God...that
he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the
French language.
Ctr 6.156 2 He who should inspire and lead his race
must be defended from
travelling with the souls of other men...
Bhr 6.195 11 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and
gravity, defended
himself in this manner...
Farm 7.147 19 [The tree]...defended itself from the sun
by growing in
groves...
Cour 7.260 1 Nature has made up her mind that what
cannot defend itself
shall not be defended.
Plu 10.306 19 The central fact is the superhuman
intelligence, pouring into
us from its unknown fountain, to be...defended from any mixture of our
will.
LLNE 10.354 6 It argued singular courage, the adoption
of Fourier's
system, to even a limited extent, with his books lying before the world
only
defended by the thin veil of the French language.
EWI 11.109 17 These debates [on West Indian slavery]
are instructive, as
they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended.
EWI 11.119 5 Sir Lionel Smith defended the poor negro
girls, prey to the
licentiousness of the [Jamaican] planters;...
EWI 11.119 9 ...[Sir Lionel Smith] defended the negro
women [in
Jamaica];...
EWI 11.119 11 ...[Sir Lionel Smith] defended the
Baptist preachers and the
stipendiary magistrates [in Jamaica]...
EWI 11.134 4 ...you will not suffer me to forget one
eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams]...who singly has defended the
freedom of speech, and the rights of the free, against the usurpation
of the slave-holder.
War 11.171 14 [The peace principle] can never be
defended, it can never
be executed, by cowards.
War 11.174 7 If peace is sought to be defended or
preserved for the safety
of the luxurious and the timid, it is a sham...
FSLN 11.242 1 [The single defender of the right] may
well say, If my
countrymen do not care to be defended, I too will decline the
controversy...
Shak1 11.448 17 We say to the young child in the
cradle, Happy, and
defended against Fate! for here is Nature, and here is Shakspeare,
waiting
for you!
FRep 11.528 27 We...are are defended from shocks now
for a century by
the facility with which through popular assemblies every necessary
measure
of reform can instantly be carried.
CInt 12.114 13 When the war came to his own city,
[Michaelangelo]... defended Florence as long as he was obeyed.
defender, n. (10)
MN 1.193 22 ...the sturdiest defender of existing
institutions feels the
terrific inflammability of this air...
ET15 5.272 20 ...[if the London Times would cleave to
the right] its proud
function, that of being...the defender of the exile and patriot against
despots, would be more effectually discharged;...
PC 8.231 22 It is the ardor of the assailant that makes
the vigor of the
defender.
Aris 10.62 13 The world waits for [the gentleman] as
its defender...
LLNE 10.334 15 ...not a sentence was written in
academic exercises...but
showed the omnipresence of [Everett's] genius to youthful heads. This
made every youth his defender...
SlHr 10.447 9 It seemed as if the New England church
had formed [Samuel
Hoar] to be its friend and defender;...
Carl 10.494 6 A natural defender of
anything...[Carlyle] respects;...
HCom 11.341 5 ...I think it is not in man to see,
without a feeling of pride
and pleasure...the armed defender of the right.
Bost 12.203 10 ...there is always [in Boston]...always
a heresiarch, whom
the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new
light... some Wheelwright or defender of Wheelwright;...
Bost 12.203 17 ...there is always [in Boston]...always
a heresiarch, whom
the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new
light... some defender of the slave against the politician and the
merchant;...
defenders, n. (11)
Con 1.322 18 How will every strong and generous mind
choose its
ground,-with the defenders of the old? or with the seekers of the new?
Pol1 3.208 11 The same benign necessity and the same
practical abuse
appear in the parties...of opponents and defenders of the
administration of
the government.
PPh 4.76 18 The dearest defenders and disciples [of
Plato] are at fault.
ET8 5.131 3 [The English] are headstrong believers and
defenders of their
opinion...
Elo2 8.118 10 ...the great and daily growing interests
at stake in this
country must pay proportional prices to their spokesmen and defenders.
SovE 10.195 26 Truth gathers itself spotless and
unhurt...never hurt by the
treachery or ruin of its best defenders...
EWI 11.146 22 ...some degree of despondency is
pardonable, when [the
negro] observes the men of conscience and intellect...hotly offended by
whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders
of the
negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the
human
race;...
FSLC 11.184 25 Here are humane people who have tears
for misery, an
open purse for want; who should have been the defenders of the poor
man, are found his embittered enemies...merely from party ties.
FSLC 11.213 26 It is very certain from...the high
arguments of the
defenders of liberty, which the occasion [the Fugitive Slave Law]
called
out, that there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for the
spirit of
the Magistrate to show itself...
HCom 11.344 27 Ah! young brothers, all honor and
gratitude to you,- you, manly defenders...
SMC 11.375 14 ...let me, in behalf of this assembly,
speak directly to you, our defenders [veterans of the Civil War]...
defending, adj. (1)
LT 1.260 7 Let us examine the pretensions of the
attacking and defending
parties.
defending, v. (4)
MR 1.238 14 ...whoever takes any of these things
[species of property] into
his possession, takes the charge of defending them from this troop of
enemies...
MoL 10.247 5 A scholar defending the cause of
slavery...is a traitor to his
profession.
EWI 11.137 15 ...every liberal mind...had had the
fortune to appear
somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the
other
part, appeared...a resistance which drew from Mr. Huddlestone in
Parliament the observation, That a curse attended this trade even in
the
mode of defending it.
EurB 12.367 19 Early in life...[Wordsworth] made his
election between
assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth
and a
position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly
genius;...
defends, v. (7)
LT 1.269 23 The fury with which the slave-trader defends
every inch of his
bloody deck...is a trumpet to alarm the ear of mankind...
Wsp 6.232 19 The conviction that his work is dear to
God and cannot be
spared, defends [a man].
Chr2 10.122 2 [A well-principled man] defends himself
against failure in
his main design by making every inch of the road to it pleasant.
Plu 10.299 2 Thought defends [Plutarch] from any
degradation.
Plu 10.299 26 Plutarch had a religion...which defends
him from
wantonness;...
Scot 11.467 14 [Humor] is a genius itself, and so
defends from the
insanities.
Milt1 12.272 23 [Milton] defends the slaying of the
king, because a king is
a king no longer than he governs by the laws;...
Defensio, Pro Populo Angli (1)
ET12 5.202 1 Here [at Oxford]...John Milton's Pro Populo
Anglicano
Defensio and Iconoclastes were committed to the flames.
defensive, adj. (5)
YA 1.390 9 That is [the hero's] nobility...always to
throw himself...on the
liberal, on the expansive side, never on the defensive, the conserving,
the
timorous, the lock-and-bolt system.
Pol1 3.210 17 ...the conservative party, composed of
the most moderate, able and cultivated part of the population,
is...merely defensive of property.
War 11.168 1 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this
principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or
else...give up the principle, and take
that limit...which distinguishes offensive war as criminal, defensive
war as
just.
EurB 12.378 16 [The English fashionist's] highest
triumph is...to invert the
relation in which our sex stand to women, so that they appear the
attacking, and he the passive or defensive party.
Trag 12.405 9 In the dark hours, our existence seems to
be a defensive
war...
defensive, n. (2)
F 6.13 21 [Conservatives]...can only, like invalids, act
on the defensive.
Cour 7.259 8 Those political parties which gather in
the well-disposed
portion of the community...always on the defensive...
defer, v. (4)
AmS 1.102 13 ...it becomes [the scholar]...to defer
never to the popular cry.
SL 2.165 13 ...the painter uses the conventional story
of the Virgin Mary, of Paul, of Peter. He does not therefore defer to
the nature of these
accidental men...
QO 8.183 12 Thirty years ago...you might often hear
cited as Mr. Webster'
s three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could defer till
to-morrow;...
PLT 12.52 10 ...because [men] know one thing, we defer
to them in
another...
deference, n. (16)
LT 1.290 17 I wish to speak of the politics, education,
business, and
religion around us without ceremony or false deference.
SR 2.63 1 Why all this deference to Alfred and
Scanderbeg and Gustavus?
Mrs1 3.132 21 ...any deference to some eminent man or
woman of the
world, forfeits all privilege of nobility.
Mrs1 3.136 23 ...that of all the points of
good-breeding I most require and
insist upon, is deference.
Mrs1 3.137 17 It is easy to push this deference to a
Chinese etiquette;...
Pow 6.62 20 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, so
pernicious had he found in his experience our deference to English
precedent.
Aris 10.36 15 ...all the deference of modern society to
this idea of the
Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love...
Aris 10.36 27 ...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 10.55 18 The service we receive from the great is
a mutual deference.
Aris 10.56 6 Others I meet, who have no deference...
EWI 11.138 22 Up to this day...we bow low to
[statesmen] as to the great. We cannot extend this deference to them
any longer.
PLT 12.31 3 The one thing not to be forgiven to
intellectual persons is that
they believe in the ideas of others. From this deference comes the
imbecility and fatigue of their society...
II 12.67 5 All true wisdom of thought and of action
comes of deference to
this instinct...
CL 12.148 4 I admire the taste which makes the avenue
to a house... through a wood; besides the beauty...it disposes the mind
of the inhabitant
and of his guests to the deference due to each.
CW 12.175 24 I admire the taste which makes the avenue
to the house... through a wood;-as it disposes the mind of the
inhabitant and of his guest
to the deference due to each.
EurB 12.368 19 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and
Windermere and the
dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least
attempt...to
show, with great deference to the superior judgment of dukes and earls,
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...
deferential, adj. (1)
OS 2.286 21 Neither his age...nor talents...can hinder
[a man] from being
deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
deferred, v. (3)
Int 2.333 7 I knew...a person who always deferred to
me;...
Bhr 6.175 5 A prince who is accustomed every day to be
courted and
deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires a corresponding
expectation...
ACiv 11.298 23 All the little hopes that heretofore
made the year pleasant
are deferred.
deferring, v. (3)
Comp 2.95 11 The blindness of the preacher consisted in
deferring to the
base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success...
NR 3.235 15 The reason of idleness and of crime is the
deferring of our
hopes.
Bhr 6.189 21 ...go into the house; if the proprietor is
constrained and
deferring, 't is of no importance how large his house...
defers, v. (2)
Int 2.343 1 [Socrates] likewise defers to [Lysis and
Menexenus], loves
them, whilst he speaks.
MoL 10.252 8 ...the scholar...defers to the men of this
world.
defiance, n. (12)
Hsm1. 2.252 1 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the
last defiance of
falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by
evil
agents.
Hsm1 2.256 22 Simple hearts...play their own game in
innocent defiance of
the Blue-Laws of the world;...
Pol1 3.206 23 What the owners wish to do, the whole
power of property
will do, either through the law or else in defiance of it.
Elo1 7.80 17 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the
same jealousy
and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is
recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism.
Cour 7.256 12 ...any man who puts his life in peril in
a cause which is
esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...the
thunderous emphasis which orators give to every martial defiance and
passage of arms, and which the people greet, may testify.
Cour 7.265 25 Our affections and wishes for the
external welfare of the
hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries: but we,
like him, subside into indifferency and defiance when we perceive how
short is the
longest arm of malice...
OA 7.325 25 A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the
Supreme Court, and
I was struck with a certain air of levity and defiance which vastly
became
him.
PI 8.33 15 In proportion always to [the writer's]
possession of his thought
is his defiance of his readers.
QO 8.202 23 Pindar uses this haughty defiance, as if it
were impossible to
find his sources: There are many swift darts within my quiver which
have a
voice for those with understanding;...
AKan 11.257 26 ...I submit that, in a case like this,
where...the whole world
knows that this is...a systematic war...in defiance of all laws and
liberties,- I submit that the governor and legislature should neither
slumber nor sleep
till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these
poor
farmers [in Kansas]...
FRep 11.524 10 The record of the election now and then
alarms people by
the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler. But how was it
done? What lawless mob burst into the polls and threw in these hundreds
of
ballots in defiance of the magistrates?
WSL 12.339 20 In Mr. Landor's coarseness there is a
certain air of
defiance...
defiant, adj. (1)
Edc1 10.139 26 Everybody delights in the energy with
which boys deal and
talk with each other;...the good-natured yet defiant independence of a
leading boy's behavior in the school-yard.
deficiencies, n. (1)
SA 8.95 8 Conversation...supplies all deficiencies.
deficiency, n. (3)
LT 1.260 22 ...a negative imposed on the will of man by
his condition, a
deficiency in [man's] force, is the foundation on which [Conservatism]
rests.
SovE 10.206 20 We in America are charged with a great
deficiency in
worship;...
MMEm 10.425 7 'T is a strange deficiency in Brougham's
title of a System
of Natural Theology, when the moral constitution of the being for whom
these contrivances were made is not recognized.
deficient, adj. (10)
ET5 5.79 18 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms
do breed, or
rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth
nothing
else but weave such chains. Whatsoever he doth, swarving from this
work, he doth as deficient from the nature of man;...
ET12 5.203 13 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel
showed me...the first
Bible printed at Mentz...and a duplicate of the same, which had been
deficient in about twenty leaves at the end.
ET12 5.203 20 On proceeding afterwards to examine his
purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz
Bible, in perfect
order;...
ET14 5.240 24 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part
of learning [universality] very deficient...
ET14 5.245 18 Hallam is uniformly polite, but with
deficient sympathy;...
PI 8.69 2 Vexatious to find poets, who are by
excellence the thinking and
feeling of the world, deficient in truth of intellect and of affection.
Edc1 10.157 11 Sympathy, the female force...deficient
in instant control
and the breaking down of resistance, is more subtle and lasting and
creative [than will, the male power].
SovE 10.183 15 That convertibility we so admire in
plants and animal
structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when
one
part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and
self-creation
proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest
and meanest structures by the same design...
PLT 12.61 9 Ideal and practical...are never parallel.
Each has...its proper
dangers, obvious enough when the opposite element is deficient.
PPr 12.390 3 Plato is the purple ancient, and Bacon and
Milton the
moderns of the richest strains. Burke sometimes reaches to that
exuberant
fulness, though deficient in depth.
defied, v. (6)
NER 3.252 3 [The Sabbath and Bible Conventions] defied
each other...
ET1 5.21 27 Carlyle [Wordsworth] said wrote most
obscurely. He was
clever and deep, but he defied the sympathies of every body.
WD 7.177 26 [Our ancestors'] merit was...to honor the
present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit
which they hated and
defied.
PI 8.51 12 ...they adorned the sepulchres of the dead,
and, planting thereon
lasting bases, defied the crumbling touches of time...
EzRy 10.394 22 Many and many a felicity [Ezra Ripley]
had in his prayer... which defied all the rules of all the
rhetoricians.
Thor 10.452 27 If [Thoreau] slighted and defied the
opinions of others, it
was only that he was more intent to reconcile his practice with his own
belief.
defier, n. (1)
Hist 2.30 26 ...where [the story of Prometheus] departs
from the Calvinistic
Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a
state of
mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in
a
crude, objective form...
defies, v. (4)
SwM 4.134 9 The thousand-fold relation of men is not
there [in
Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature
to
each man...because he defies all dogmatizing and classification...
ET8 5.136 19 There is an English hero superior to the
French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek. When he is brought to
the strife with fate, he
sacrifices a richer material possession, and on more purely
metaphysical
grounds. He is there with his own consent, face to face with fortune,
which
he defies.
Elo1 7.81 6 Does [any one] think that not possibly a
man may come to him
who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?... No, he
defies any one, every one.
Supl 10.178 8 The political economist defies us to show
any gold-mine
country that is traversed by good roads...
defile, n. (1)
Nat 1.20 21 ...when Leonidas and his three hundred
martyrs consume one
day in dying, and the sun and moon come each and look at them once in
the
steep defile of Thermopylae;...are not these heroes entitled to add the
beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
defile, v. (1)
Let 12.401 6 On earth all is imperfect! is an old
proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these
God-forsaken, that with them all is
imperfect only because they leave...nothing holy which they do not
defile
with their fumbling hands;...
define, v. (14)
Nat 1.62 2 ...when we try to define and describe [God],
both language and
thought desert us...
Int 2.342 25 ...if I speak, I define, I confine and am
less.
PPh 4.47 19 At last comes Plato, the distributor, who
needs no barbaric
paint, or tattoo, or whooping; for he can define.
PPh 4.47 22 He shall be as a god to me, who can rightly
divide and define.
PPh 4.68 9 We can define but a little way;...
ET7 5.118 14 Even Lord Chesterfield...when he came to
define a
gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction;...
Civ 7.19 13 In the hesitation to define what
[Civilization] is, we usually
suggest it by negations.
Elo1 7.87 4 ...[the state's attorney] revenged
himself...on the judge, by
requiring the court to define what salvage was.
Elo1 7.87 15 ...the horrible shark of the district
attorney being still there, grimly awaiting with his The court must
define,--the poor court pleaded its
inferiority.
Clbs 7.235 16 He that can define, he that can answer a
question so as to
admit of no further answer, is the best man.
PI 8.28 4 It is a problem of metaphysics to define the
province of Fancy
and Imagination.
PerF 10.76 17 We define Genius to be a sensibility to
all the impressions of
the outer world...
Chr2 10.98 24 We pretend not to define the way of [the
moral sentiment's] access to the private heart.
EdAd 11.387 15 ...though it may not be easy to define
[America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...
defined, v. (17)
Nat 1.35 25 That which was unconscious truth, becomes,
when interpreted
and defined in an object, a part of the domain of knowledge...
Nat 1.52 12 The Imagination may be defined to be the
use which the
Reason makes of the material world.
Tran 1.335 19 ...if you ask me, Whence am I? I feel
like other men my
relation to that Fact which cannot be spoken, or defined, or even
thought...
Hist 2.24 14 In [the Grecian state] existed those human
forms which
supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and
Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of incorrupt, sharply defined
and
symmetrical features...
Lov1 2.180 2 The statue is then beautiful...when
it...can no longer be
defined by compass and measuring-wand...
GoW 4.274 20 [Goethe] has defined art, its scope and
laws.
Bhr 6.185 26 Manners have been somewhat cynically
defined to be a
contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance.
Art2 7.39 16 [Art] was defined by Aristotle, The reason
of the thing, without the matter.
Thor 10.471 8 ...the meaning of Nature was never
attempted to be defined
by [Thoreau].
War 11.161 1 [The idea that there can be peace as well
as war] is
expounded, illustrated, defined, with different degrees of
clearness;...
FSLC 11.198 7 What shall we say of the functionary by
whom the recent
rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly
defined
his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the
prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a
reputable
citizen to hold?
FSLN 11.229 25 ...there are rights which rest on the
finest sense of justice, and, with every degree of civility, it will be
more truly felt and defined.
II 12.71 27 The muse may be defined, Supervoluntary
ends effected by
supervoluntary means.
MAng1 12.217 15 Beauty cannot be defined.
MAng1 12.218 7 Beauty may be felt. It may be produced.
But it cannot be
defined.
Milt1 12.256 5 [Milton] defined the object of education
to be, to fit a man
to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices, both
private
and public, of peace and war.
Milt1 12.271 17 [Milton] proposed to establish a
republic, of which the
federal power was weak and loosely defined...
definer, n. (2)
UGM 4.12 27 ...every man, inasmuch as he has any
science,--is a definer
and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition.
Comc 8.157 16 ...[Aristotle's] definition [of the
ridiculous], though by an
admirable definer, does not satisfy me...
definers, n. (1)
Supl 10.164 19 We are unskilful definers.
defines, v. (3)
Pt1 3.30 18 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine
that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the
charm of algebra and the
mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every
definition; as when Aristotle defines space to be an immovable vessel
in which things
are contained;...
Pt1 3.30 20 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine
that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the
charm of algebra and the
mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every
definition; as when...Plato defines a line to be a flowing point;...
WD 7.182 6 Fancy defines herself:--Forms that men spy/
With the half-shut
eye/ In the beams of the setting sun, am I./
defining, adj. (1)
PPh 4.53 27 ...the infinitude of the Asiatic soul and
the defining, result-loving, machine-making, surface-seeking,
opera-going Europe,--Plato came
to join...
defining, v. (4)
Nat 1.24 2 The standard of beauty is...the totality of
nature; which the
Italians expressed by defining beauty il piu nell' uno.
PPh 4.47 23 he shall be as a god to me, who can rightly
divide and define. This defining is philosophy.
PNR 4.83 4 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a
second sense, and
ulterior senses. His...beautiful definitions of ideas, of time, of
form, of
figure, of the line, sometimes hypothetically given, as his defining of
virtue, courage, justice, temperance;...
ET1 5.12 4 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather
refining...
definite, adj. (4)
MN 1.201 7 ...intention might be signified by a straight
line of definite
length.
SwM 4.116 8 ...if we choose to express any natural
truth in physical and
definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only
into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a
spiritual truth
or theological dogma...
ET14 5.242 18 ...the very announcement...even of
Dalton's doctrine of
definite proportions, finds a sudden response in the mind...
Trag 12.409 2 After we have enumerated...mutilation,
rack, madness and
loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element,
which is
Terror, and which does not respect definite evils but indefinite;...
definitely, adv. (1)
PLT 12.5 23 ...when I look at the tree or the river and
have not yet
definitely made out what they would say to me, they are by no means
unimpressive.
definitio, n. (1)
Clbs 7.238 18 Omnis definitio periculosa est...
definition, n. (32)
AmS 1.104 3 Free should the scholar be, - free and
brave. Free even to the
definition of freedom, without any hindrance that does not arise out of
his
own constitution.
Pt1 3.30 17 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine
that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the
charm of algebra and the
mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every
definition;...
Exp 3.53 13 ...the definition of spiritual should be,
that which is its own
evidence.
PPh 4.51 20 These two principles [unity and diversity]
reappear and
interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...
consciousness; the other, definition...
PPh 4.59 5 [Plato's] strength is like the momentum of a
falling planet, and
his discretion the return of its due and perfect curve,--so excellent
is his
Greek love of boundary and his skill in definition.
PNR 4.85 26 [Plato's] definition of ideas...marks an
era in the world.
SwM 4.104 8 The robust Aristotelian method...opening,
by its terminology
and definition, high roads into nature, had trained a race of athletic
philosophers.
ET12 5.209 14 The definition of a public school [in
England] is a school
which excludes all that could fit a man for standing behind a counter.
ET14 5.241 27 In England these [generalizations]...do
all have a kind of
filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the
Zoroastrian
definition of poetry, mystical, yet exact, apparent pictures of
unapparent
natures;...
Bhr 6.192 19 'T is a French definition of friendship,
rien que s'entendre, good understanding.
Wsp 6.221 11 We owe to the Hindoo Scriptures a
definition of Law, which
compares well with any in our Western books.
CbW 6.247 21 Is all we have to do to draw the breath in
and blow it out
again? Porphyry's definition is better; Life is that which holds matter
together.
Bty 6.289 7 I am warned by the ill fate of many
philosophers not to attempt
a definition of Beauty.
Civ 7.19 8 Nobody has attempted a definition [of
Civilization].
Civ 7.27 2 Hear the definition which Kant gives of
moral conduct: Act
always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal
rule for all intelligent beings.
Elo1 7.64 6 Isocrates described his art as the power of
magnifying what
was small and diminishing what was great,--an acute but partial
definition.
Elo1 7.64 16 Plato's definition of rhetoric is, the art
of ruling the minds of
men.
Elo1 7.87 21 ...the lawyers saved their rogue under the
fog of a definition.
Elo1 7.98 18 ...I do not accept that definition of
Isocrates, that the office of
his art [of eloquence] is to make the great small and the small
great;...
DL 7.128 18 It has been finely added by Landor to his
definition of the
great man, It is he who can call together the most select company when
it
pleases him.
WD 7.157 10 One definition of man is an intelligence
served by organs.
WD 7.185 20 ...this is the progress of every earnest
mind;...from local
skills...to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is
done... then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its
universality, or that its
roots are in eternity, not in time. Then it flows from character, that
sublime
health which...makes us great in all conditions, and as the only
definition
we have of freedom and power.
PI 8.18 9 ...hold [the savans] hard to principle and
definition, and they
become mute and near-sighted.
PI 8.19 15 Our best definition of poetry is one of the
oldest sentences...
PI 8.20 2 Bacon expressed the same sense in his
definition, Poetry
accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind;...
Comc 8.157 12 Aristotle's definition of the ridiculous
is, what is out of
time and place, without danger.
Comc 8.157 15 ...[Aristotle's] definition [of the
ridiculous]...does not
satisfy me...
Aris 10.58 4 ...All that depends on another gives pain;
all that depends on
himself gives pleasure; in these few words is the definition of
pleasure and
pain.
Edc1 10.147 3 The very definition of the intellect is
Aristotle's: that by
which we know terms or boundaries.
Plu 10.296 1 Montesquieu drew from [Plutarch] his
definition of law...
CSC 10.376 8 These men and women [at the Chardon Street
Convention] were in search of something better and more satisfying than
a vote or a
definition...
Milt1 12.277 27 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition
of poetry...Poetry... seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the
desires of the mind...
definitions, n. (10)
Nat 1.55 18 Is not the charm of one of Plato's or
Aristotle's definitions
strictly like that of the Antigone of Sophocles?
Fdsp 2.193 5 ...as soon as the stranger begins to
intrude...his definitions... into the conversation, it is all over.
Int 2.339 27 When we are young we spend much time and
pains in filling
our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry,
Politics, Art...
Pt1 3.15 25 ...[the coachman or the hunter] has no
definitions, but he is
commanded in nature by the living power which he feels to be there
present.
PNR 4.83 2 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a
second sense, and
ulterior senses. His...beautiful definitions of ideas...
Wsp 6.215 3 In our definitions we grope after the
spiritual by describing it
as invisible.
Elo1 7.63 23 The definitions of eloquence describe its
attraction for young
men.
ALin 11.333 25 ...the weight and penetration of many
passages in [Lincoln'
s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide
fame. What pregnant definitions; what unerring common sense;...
WSL 12.346 23 Only from a mind conversant with the
First Philosophy can
definitions be expected.
WSL 12.346 26 Mr. Landor's definitions are only
enumerations of
particulars;...
Defoe, Daniel, n. (5)
ET4 5.51 23 Defoe said in his wrath, the Englishman was
the mud of all
races.
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,/...
ET14 5.234 6 Defoe has no insecurity or choice.
Scot 11.466 23 In the number and variety of his
characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare. Other painters in verse or
prose have thrown into
literature a few type-figures; as Cervantes, De Foe...
ACri 12.286 12 He who would be powerful must have the
terrible gift of
familiarity...among the writers, Swift, De Foe, Carlyle.
deform, v. (1)
MLit 12.326 12 This subtle element of egotism in Goethe
certainly does
not seem to deform his compositions...
deformed, adj. (4)
NR 3.227 2 All persons exist to society by some shining
trait of beauty or
utility which they have. We borrow the proportions of the man from that
one fine feature, and finish the portrait symmetrically; which is
false, for
the rest of his body is small or deformed.
MoS 4.174 21 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet
risen from their
knees, [the saints] say, We discover that this our homage and beatitude
is
partial and deformed...
Bty 6.292 15 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if
the form were just
ready to flow into other forms. Any fixedness...is the reverse of
flowing, and therefore deformed.
Bty 6.300 13 If command...exist in the most deformed
person, all the
accidents that usually displease, please...
deformed, v. (2)
Dem1 10.5 8 A painful imperfection almost always attends
[dreams]. The
fairest forms...are deformed by some pitiful and insane circumstance.
SHC 11.434 27 ...every part of Nature is handsome when
not deformed by
bad Art.
deforming, v. (1)
Prch 10.226 13 ...when [the railroads] came into his
poetic Westmoreland... deforming every consecrated grove, [Wordsworth]
yet manned himself to
say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features,
Nature
doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
deformities, n. (4)
Pt1 3.18 15 ...we use defects and deformities to a
sacred purpose...
ET14 5.237 6 ...nature, to pique the more, sometimes
works up deformities
into beauty in some rare Aspasia or Cleopatra...
Bhr 6.174 7 Unhappily the book [Dickens, American
Notes] had its own
deformities.
Bty 6.301 11 If a man...can enlarge knowledge...his
deformities will come
to be reckoned ornamental and advantageous on the whole.
deformity, n. (13)
DSA 1.150 12 The remedy to [the old forms'] deformity is
first, soul, and
second, soul, and evermore, soul.
Tran 1.343 19 ...to behold the beauty lodged in a human
being, with such
vivacity of apprehension that I am instantly forced home to inquire if
I am
not deformity itself;...these are degrees on the scale of human
happiness to
which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
SL 2.131 14 The soul will not know either deformity or
pain.
Hsm1 2.249 5 The disease and deformity around us
certify the infraction of
natural, intellectual and moral laws...
Nat2 3.190 18 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager
pursuer. What is the
end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from
the
intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind.
UGM 4.23 26 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe,
but wherever she
mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies
plentifully on the bruise...
Bhr 6.174 6 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly
undertook the reformation
of our American manners in unspeakable particulars. I think the
lesson... held bad manners up, so that the churls could see the
deformity.
Wsp 6.202 3 If the Divine Providence has hid from men
neither disease nor
deformity nor corrupt society...let us not be so nice that we cannot
write
these facts down coarsely as they stand...
CbW 6.258 12 ...there is no moral deformity but is a
good passion out of
place;...
Bty 6.290 18 ...all beauty must be organic;...outside
embellishment is
deformity.
LLNE 10.339 1 Every immorality...is punished by natural
loss and
deformity.
LLNE 10.351 13 Poverty shall be abolished [by
Fourierism]; deformity, stupidity and crime shall be no more.
MMEm 10.430 4 If one could choose, and without crime be
gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by
age without
mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow...unconscious of any
deformity in the mutilated body, would relish their meal...
deforms, v. (1)
Pow 6.68 2 ...the energy for originating and executing
work deforms itself
by excess...
defraud, v. (2)
LE 1.159 21 ...a complaisance...to the wisdom of
antiquity, must not
defraud me of supreme possession of this hour.
EWI 11.139 25 The tendency of things runs steadily to
this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally
exerts,-no more, no
less. Of course, the timid and base persons...who owe all their place
to the
opportunities which the older order of things allowed them, to deceive
and
defraud men, shudder at the change...
defrauded, v. (6)
DSA 1.131 13 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a
creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right...
DSA 1.137 14 Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a
formalist, then is the
worshipper defrauded...
LE 1.174 16 ...[the public] wish the scholar to replace
to them those... divine experiences of which they have been defrauded
by dwelling in the
street.
Comp 2.121 15 We feel defrauded of the retribution due
to evil acts...
NER 3.256 25 Am I not defrauded of my best culture in
the loss of those
gymnastics which manual labor and the emergencies of poverty
constitute?
DL 7.113 14 ...is there any calamity...that more
invokes the best good will
to remove it, than this?...to find no invitation to what is good in us,
and no
receptacle for what is wise:--this is a great price to pay for...being
defrauded of affinity, of repose...
defrauding, v. (1)
MR 1.237 2 ...I discover that I have been defrauding
myself all this time in
letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
defrauds, v. (1)
Bost 12.196 17 New England lies in the cold and hostile
latitude, which by
shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of
the
year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to
external
nature;...
deft, adj. (2)
EdAd 11.386 7 It is a poor consideration...that
political interests on so
broad a scale as ours are administered...by deft partisans, good
cipherers;...
EurB 12.365 12 [Wordsworth] has the merit of just moral
perception, but
not that of deft poetic execution.
defy, v. (11)
AmS 1.104 24 ...[the scholar] will...find in himself a
perfect comprehension
of [fear's] nature and extent;...and can henceforth defy it and pass on
superior.
Lov1 2.177 24 Into the most pitiful and abject [love]
will infuse a heart and
courage to defy the world...
Fdsp 2.214 14 Let us even bid our dearest friends
farewell, and defy them...
ShP 4.209 7 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded
convictions on those
questions which knock for answer at every heart...on those mysterious
and
demoniacal powers which defy our science...
WD 7.160 11 What of this dapper caoutchouc and
gutta-percha, which
make...rain-proof coats for all climates, which teach us to defy the
wet...
PPo 8.249 20 We do not wish to...try to make mystical
divinity out of the
Song of Solomon, much less out of the erotic and bacchanalian songs of
Hafiz. Hafiz himself is determined to defy all such hypocritical
interpretation...
LLNE 10.356 10 ...a pent-house to fend the sun and rain
is the house which
lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts, and which he can
leave...and
defy the robber.
MMEm 10.397 4 The yesterday doth never smile,/ To-day
goes drudging
through the while,/ Yet in the name of Godhead, I/ The morrow front and
can defy;/ Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,/ Cannot withhold his
conquering aid./
War 11.172 26 We are affected...by the appearance of a
few rich and wilful
gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping, defy the
world...
FSLC 11.194 19 This dreadful English Speech is
saturated with songs, proverbs and speeches that flatly contradict and
defy every line of Mr. Mason's statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].
EurB 12.366 24 In the debates on the Copyright
Bill...Mr. Sergeant
Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked
the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward
for writing such stuff. Homer, Horace, Milton and Chaucer would defy
the
coroner.
defying, adj. (4)
Fdsp 2.210 19 That great defying eye, that scornful
beauty of [your friend'
s] mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but rather
fortify and
enhance.
Cir 2.303 24 Sturdy and defying though he looks, [a
man] has a helm
which he obeys...
LLNE 10.333 12 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of
defying experiment
of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or
Rabbinical words;...
EWI 11.100 11 It has been in all men's experience a
marked effect of the
enterprise in behalf of the African, to generate an overbearing and
defying
spirit.
defying, v. (3)
Lov1 2.179 20 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline
doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the
most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying
all attempts at appropriation
and use.
Hsm1 2.249 24 ...neither defying nor dreading the
thunder, let [a man] take
both reputation and life in his hand...
PI 8.29 23 ...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know
that this
correspondence of things to thoughts is far deeper than they can
penetrate,-- defying adequate expression;...
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