Diminish to Discovery

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

diminish, v. (3)

    Nat 1.13 22 To diminish friction, [man] paves the road with iron bars...
    F 6.37 19 [The animal] is not allowed to diminish in numbers...
    Supl 10.169 24 The common people diminish...

diminished, adj. (1)

    ET18 5.300 25 In Irish districts [of England], men deteriorated in size and shape...with diminished brain and brutal form.

diminished, v. (7)

    NER 3.267 8 Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished in his proportion;...
    ET11 5.175 26 ...the duel, which in peace still held [French and English nobles] to the risks of war, diminished the envy that in trading and studious nations would else have pried into their title.
    Wth 6.91 10 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished;...
    Elo1 7.82 22 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes.
    SovE 10.184 13 ...all the animals show the same good sense in their humble walk that the man who is their enemy or friend does; and, if it be in smaller measure, yet it is not diminished, as his often is, by freak and folly.
    ACri 12.291 4 In architecture the beauty is increased in the degree in which the material is safely diminished;...
    WSL 12.340 2 ...[Landor's] eccentricity is too decided not to have diminished his greatness

diminishes, v. (3)

    Schr 10.282 11 [Truth] shines backward and forward, diminishes and annihilates everybody...
    LS 11.14 25 ...there is a material circumstance which diminishes our confidence in the correctness of the Apostle's [St. Paul's] view [of the Lord' s Supper];...
    MLit 12.330 11 The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree diminishes the transparency of things...

diminishing, v. (3)

    AmS 1.85 21 ...[the young mind] goes on...diminishing anomalies...
    Elo1 7.64 5 Isocrates described his art as the power of magnifying what was small and diminishing what was great...
    OA 7.333 7 ...[John Adams]...added...what effect age may work in diminishing the power of [John Quincy Adams's] mind, I do not know;...

diminution, n. (2)

    Exp 3.79 16 Sin, seen from the thought, is a diminution, or less;...
    Trag 12.405 19 There is a simultaneous diminution of memory and hope.

diminutives, n. (1)

    Supl 10.164 4 Like the French, [those with the superlative temperament] are enchanted, they are desolate, because you have got or have not got a shoe-string or a wafer you happen to want,-not perceiving that superlatives are diminutives, and weaken;...

dim-lighted, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.252 8 He delighted to fascinate Josephine and her ladies, in a dim-lighted apartment, by the terrors of a fiction to which his voice and dramatic power lent every addition.

dimly, adv. (1)

    Int 2.331 22 We all but apprehend, we dimly forebode the truth.

dimmed, v. (2)

    ET8 5.135 24 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...and when he saw that the splendor of one of his pictures in the Exhibition dimmed his rival's that hung next it, secretly took a brush and blackened his own.
    PerF 10.68 1 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives back the bending heavens in dew./

dimmest, adj. (1)

    EurB 12.366 1 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante...have...the eye to see the dimmest star that glimmers in the Milky Way...

dimness, n. (2)

    FRO2 11.490 8 I find something stingy in the unwilling and disparaging admission of these foreign opinions...by our churchmen, as if only to enhance by their dimness the superior light of Christianity.
    PPr 12.387 13 ...[each age's] limitation assumes the poetic form of a beautiful superstition, as the dimness of our sight clothes the objects in the horizon with mist and color.

dimple, n. (1)

    ShP 4.213 23 [Shakespeare]...finishes an eyelash or a dimple as firmly as he draws a mountain;...

dimpled, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.186 7 The child...delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic.

dimples, n. (2)

    DL 7.105 12 Fast--almost too fast for the wistful curiosity of the parents, studious of the witchcraft of curls and dimples and broken words--the little talker grows to a boy.
    OA 7.317 20 Don't be deceived by dimples and curls.

din, n. (8)

    Nat 1.16 21 ...the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.
    DSA 1.136 10 ...this ill-suppressed murmur of all thoughtful men against the famine of our churches...should be heard...over the din of routine.
    MN 1.220 15 How all that is called talents and success, in our noisy capitals, becomes buzz and din before this man-worthiness!
    Tran 1.353 24 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead...never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then...
    Cir 2.312 11 ...we see literature best...from the din of affairs...
    NER 3.253 20 With this din of opinion and debate there was a keener scrutiny of institutions and domestic life than any we had known;...
    Ill 6.312 25 ...the din of life is never hushed.
    Edc1 10.126 12 ...when one and the same man...leaves the din of trifles...to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits disappear.

dine, v. (7)

    Prd1 2.231 19 We call partial half-lights, by courtesy, genius;...talent which glitters to-day that it may dine and sleep well to-morrow;...
    Hsm1 2.255 14 [The heroic soul] does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm.
    ET5 5.84 6 You dine with a gentleman [in England] on venison, pheasant, quail, pigeons, poultry, mushrooms and pine-apples, all the growth of his estate.
    Ctr 6.154 5 What is odious but...people...who live to dine...
    DL 7.119 6 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read...your thought and will...which he may...dine sparely and sleep hard in order to behold.
    Plu 10.307 11 These men [who revere the spiritual power]...are not the parasites of wealth. Perhaps they sometimes compromise, go out to dine... but they keep open the source of wisdom and health.
    FSLC 11.197 27 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law]. We poor men in the country who might once have thought it an honor...to dine at their boards, would now shrink from their touch, nor could they enter our humblest doors.

dined, v. (6)

    Mrs1 3.144 25 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees...being...perfumed, and dined, and introduced...
    ET1 5.7 3 On the 15th May [1833] I dined with Mr. Landor.
    F 6.7 8 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed...there is complicity...
    Pow 6.75 14 During the whole period of his administration [Pericles] never dined at the table of a friend.
    PPo 8.236 1 God only knew how Saadi dined;/ Roses he ate, and drank the wind./
    FRep 11.524 5 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table; and presently because they have got the taste, and do not feel that they have dined without it.

diners-out, n. (1)

    PLT 12.9 11 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars to be courtiers and diners-out...

dines, v. (2)

    Hist 2.22 27 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health and flowing spirits]...dines with as good appetite...as beside his own chimneys.
    Hsm1 2.254 24 A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses;...

ding-dong, n. (1)

    PI 8.46 7 Who would hold the order of the almanac so fast but for the ding-dong,-- Thirty days hath September, etc.;...

ding-dongs, n. (1)

    PI 8.49 4 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...

dingy, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.22 9 ...a mollusk is a cheap edition [of man]...designed for dingy circulation...

dining, v. (1)

    ET1 5.16 23 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.

Dinmonts, n. (1)

    Scot 11.466 11 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of mutual help and good will. From these originals he drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts and Edie Ochiltrees...

dinner, adj. (2)

    MR 1.228 20 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something,-church or state... the dinner table...
    ET9 5.151 21 ...to wave our own flag at the dinner table or in the University is to carry the boisterous dulness of a fire-club into a polite circle.

dinner, n. (48)

    MR 1.245 26 Parched corn eaten to-day, that I may have roast fowl to my dinner Sunday, is a baseness;...
    SR 2.48 24 The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner...is the healthy attitude of human nature.
    SR 2.60 12 Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
    Fdsp 2.192 14 ...[the good hearts that would welcome a stranger] must get up a dinner if they can.
    Fdsp 2.193 11 Now, when [the stranger] comes, he may get the order, the dress and the dinner...
    Mrs1 3.119 3 Our Exploring Expedition saw the Feejee islanders getting their dinner off human bones;...
    Mrs1 3.131 27 ...the countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
    Nat2 3.195 18 They say that by electro-magnetism your salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner;...
    NER 3.272 14 [Men] are conservatives after dinner...
    NER 3.273 5 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
    MoS 4.152 15 After dinner, a man believes less, denies more...
    MoS 4.152 16 After dinner, arithmetic is the only science...
    NMW 4.249 24 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it.
    ET4 5.58 24 A pair of [Norse] kings, after dinner, will divert themselves by thrusting each his sword through the other's body...
    ET5 5.84 5 A manufacturer [in England] sits down to dinner in a suit of clothes which was wool on a sheep's back at sunrise.
    ET5 5.87 27 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American Revolution, are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner...
    ET6 5.113 10 In an aristocratical country like England, not the Trial by Jury, but the dinner, is the capital institution.
    ET6 5.113 23 [In London] Every one dresses for dinner...
    ET6 5.113 27 The English dinner is precisely the model on which our own are constructed in the Atlantic cities.
    ET8 5.128 23 [The English] are just as cold, quiet and composed, at the end, as at the beginning of dinner.
    ET8 5.135 14 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...who never gave a dinner to any man...
    ET16 5.276 9 After dinner we [Emerson and Carlyle] walked to Salisbury Plain.
    ET16 5.288 2 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked.
    ET16 5.289 1 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother, long since driven away from the trim hedge-rows and over-cultivated garden of England. And, in England, I am quite too sensible of this. Every one is on his good behavior and must be dressed for dinner at six.
    F 6.6 20 ...now and then an amiable parson...believes in a pistareen-Providence, which, whenever the good man wants a dinner, makes that somebody shall knock at his door and leave a half-dollar.
    Pow 6.78 17 The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same dinner every day throughout the year.
    Wth 6.109 6 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap. But he pays for the one convenience of a better dinner, by the loss of some of the richest social and educational advantages.
    CbW 6.273 12 [Friendship] is...not a postilion's dinner to be eaten on the run.
    SS 7.7 20 Dante...was never invited to dinner.
    DL 7.118 24 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate...
    Clbs 7.227 14 The physician helps [people] mainly...by healthy talk giving a right tone to the patient's mind. The dinner, the walk, the fireside, all have that for their main end.
    Clbs 7.247 23 ...it was explained to me...that it was impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner.
    Clbs 7.248 13 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands; and it is to be believed that an indifferent tavern dinner in such society was more relished by the convives than a much better one in worse company.
    OA 7.315 5 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.
    SA 8.95 10 What a good trait is that recorded of Madame de Maintenon, that, during dinner, the servant slipped to her side, Please, madame, one anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day.
    Res 8.148 17 ...[James Marshall] had the pipes laid from the water-works of his mill, with a stop-cock by his chair from which he could discharge a stream that would knock down an ox, and sat down very peacefully to his dinner...
    QO 8.188 4 Is...all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like, a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities?
    QO 8.197 11 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.
    Aris 10.56 9 Others I meet...who denude and strip one of all attributes but material values. As much health and muscle as you have, as much land, as much house-room and dinner, avails.
    Supl 10.170 11 I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary by functionaries...
    Supl 10.170 25 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence. He was answered again by officials. Pity, thought I, they should lie so about their keen sensibility...to the commonplace compliment of a dinner.
    Supl 10.171 5 ...I had been present...in the country at a cattle-show dinner...
    Supl 10.171 8 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer.
    Thor 10.455 6 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he could not meet the individuals to any purpose. They make their pride, he said, in making their dinner cost much;...
    Thor 10.455 7 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he could not meet the individuals to any purpose. They make their pride, he said, in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little.
    Thor 10.471 2 [Thoreau] said, What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner.
    Carl 10.490 24 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle...
    MLit 12.327 13 In these days and in this country...where men read easy books and sleep after dinner, it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...

dinner-parties, n. (1)

    Thor 10.455 3 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties...

dinners, n. (6)

    Fdsp 2.205 23 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter... by...dinners at the best taverns.
    Exp 3.85 21 We dress our garden, eat our dinners...and these things make no impression...
    NMW 4.225 22 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...dress, dinners, servants without number...
    Wsp 6.211 21 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one; and no amount of evidence of his crimes will prevent them giving him...complimentary dinners...
    Supl 10.169 18 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets, coaches, dinners, wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you...
    EWI 11.133 26 ...whilst our very amiable and very innocent representatives...at Washington are...very eloquent at dinners and at caucuses, there is a disastrous want of men from New England.

dinner-table, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.191 8 ...wealth was good as it...kept the children and the dinner-table in a different apartment.
    FSLC 11.199 24 [The Fugitive Slave Law] has turned every dinner-table into a debating-club...

dinner-tables, n. (1)

    NR 3.230 5 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...

dint, n. (10)

    SL 2.137 17 All our manual labor and works of strength, as prying, splitting, digging, rowing and so forth, are done by dint of continual falling...
    ET5 5.76 12 [These Saxons] are the wealth-makers,--and by dint of mental faculty which has its own conditions.
    ET10 5.155 24 During the war from 1789 to 1815, whilst they complained that they...by dint of enormous taxes were subsidizing all the continent against France, the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
    ET10 5.161 15 By dint of steam and of money, war and commerce are changed.
    ET15 5.265 17 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill; but...by dint of some transmission of cards, we were at last conducted into the parlor of Mr. Morris...
    Pow 6.78 24 A humorous friend of mine thinks that the reason why Nature... gets up such inconceivably fine sunsets, is that she has learned how, at last, by dint of doing the same thing so very often.
    CbW 6.257 24 We see those who surmount, by dint of some egotism or infatuation, obstacles from which the prudent recoil.
    PerF 10.74 25 [Man] is a planter...a lawgiver, a builder of towns;-and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    Edc1 10.155 16 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his. By dint of obstinate sitting still, reptile, fish...begin to return.
    PLT 12.55 22 We see those who surmount by dint of egotism or infatuation obstacles from which the prudent recoil.

Diodati, Charles, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.263 15 [Milton] acknowledges to his friend Diodati, at the age of twenty-one, that he is enamoured...of moral perfection...

Diogenes, n. (5)

    SR 2.86 7 Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes, are great men...
    Mrs1 3.126 1 Diogenes, Socrates, and Epaminondas, are gentlemen of the best blood...
    NER 3.280 14 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws...
    Ill 6.324 6 Diogenes of Apollonia said that unless the atoms were made of one stuff, they could never blend and act with one another.
    Plu 10.308 25 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist.

Diomed [Homer, Iliad], n. (1)

    Hist 2.25 1 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances. Such are the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer...

Dion, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.248 16 To [Plutarch] we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminondas, the Scipio of old...
    PPh 4.44 3 [Plato]...accepted the invitations of Dion and of Dionysius to the court of Sicily...

Dion [William Wordsworth], (2)

    Hsm1 2.247 26 ...Wordsworth's Laodamia, and the ode of Dion, and some sonnets, have a certain noble music;...
    PI 8.33 21 I find [great design] in the poems of Wordsworth,--Laodamia, and the Ode to Dion...

Dionysia, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.104 12 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome...are examples of this perversion.

Dionysius, n. (1)

    PPh 4.44 4 [Plato]...accepted the invitations of Dion and of Dionysius to the court of Sicily...

Dios, n. (1)

    Comp 2.102 12 Aei gar eu piptousin oi Dios kuboi...

dip, v. (5)

    Nat2 3.173 6 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... We penetrate bodily this incredible beauty; we dip our hands in this painted element;...
    Wsp 6.201 17 I dip my pen in the blackest ink...
    CbW 6.271 25 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come down to the shore of the sea, and dip our hands in its miraculous waves.
    PI 8.41 1 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which birds, flowers, the human cheek, the living rock, the broad landscape, the ocean and the eternal sky were painted.
    FSLN 11.242 17 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena, believing that senators and statesmen would be glad to throw off the harness and to dip again in the Castalian pools.

diploma, n. (2)

    QO 8.195 20 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in...Hallam, or other historian of literature. Their... citation of a passage, carries the sentimental value of a college diploma.
    Thor 10.472 15 No college ever offered [Thoreau] a diploma...

diplomacy, n. (3)

    MR 1.254 12 ...it would warm the heart to see how fast the vain diplomacy of statesmen...would be superseded by this unarmed child [Love].
    SL 2.145 19 All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy.
    Pow 6.56 27 [A strong pulse] is like the opportunity of a city like New York or Constantinople, which needs no diplomacy to force capital or genius or labor to it.

diplomas, n. (1)

    Aris 10.49 27 The prerogatives of a right physician are determined, not by his diplomas, but by the health he restores to body and mind;...

diplomatic, adj. (1)

    ET15 5.267 9 The tone of [the London Times's] articles has often been the occasion of comment from the official organs of the continental courts, and sometimes the ground of diplomatic complaint.

diplomatically, adv. (1)

    SwM 4.122 15 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him all day...

diplomatist, n. (1)

    Supl 10.170 14 I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary by functionaries,-men of law, state and trade. The guest was a great man in his own country and an honored diplomatist in this.

diplomatists, n. (4)

    Exp 3.67 21 It is ridiculous that we are diplomatists...
    NMW 4.229 22 [Bonaparte] knew the properties...of troops and diplomatists...
    Supl 10.171 1 Men of the world value truth...not by its sacredness, but for its convenience. Of such, especially of diplomatists, one has a right to expect wit and ingenuity to avoid the lie if they must comply with the form.
    Supl 10.171 12 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer. The caution of the toast did honor to our village father. I wish great lords and diplomatists had as much respect for truth.

dipped, v. (3)

    ShP 4.206 8 We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip...it seems as if, had we dipped at random into the Modern Plutarch and read any other life there, it would have fitted [Shakespeare's] poems as well.
    Elo1 7.93 19 This terrible earnestness [of the eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's blood.
    MoL 10.251 3 I wish the youth to be...a man dipped in the Styx of human experience, and made invulnerable so,-self-helping.

dipping, n. (1)

    ET14 5.254 10 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student... but only a casual dipping here and there...

dips, v. (1)

    F 6.25 19 This beatitude dips from on high down on us and we see.

dire, adj. (3)

    Aris 10.39 18 I wish...men who are charmed by the beautiful Nemesis as well as by the dire Nemesis...
    ACri 12.290 1 Goethe...professed to point his guest to his...Acherontian Bag, in which, he said, he put all his dire hints and images...
    PPr 12.385 5 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet these dire jokes...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.

dire, v. (1)

    ACri 12.290 13 The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring you is that of telling all,-Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire;...

direct, adj. (34)

    MN 1.197 21 ...we explore the face of the sun in a pool, when our eyes cannot brook his direct splendors.
    SR 2.74 14 You may fulfil your round of duties by clearing yourself in the direct, or in the reflex way.
    Exp 3.49 26 Direct strokes [nature] never gave us power to make;...
    Exp 3.68 15 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely and not by the direct stroke;...
    Exp 3.74 12 [The spirit] has plentiful powers and direct effects.
    Mrs1 3.140 4 ...the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
    Gts 3.164 19 We can rarely strike a direct stroke...
    Gts 3.164 22 ...we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit which is directly received.
    Pol1 3.203 3 ...so long as it comes to the owners in the direct way, no other opinion would arise in any equitable community than that property should make the law for property, and persons the law for persons.
    UGM 4.7 25 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men;...
    UGM 4.7 26 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid...
    UGM 4.8 5 ...in strictness, we are not much cognizant of direct serving.
    PPh 4.57 24 With the palatial air there is [in Plato], for the direct aim of several of his works...a certain earnestness...
    PPh 4.64 6 ...the notion of virtue is not to be arrived at except through direct contemplation of the divine essence.
    PPh 4.75 19 ...[Plato] was able, in the direct way...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates...
    MoS 4.174 8 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly insight...
    MoS 4.178 24 Reason...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment amidst the hubbub of cares and works which have no direct bearing on it;...
    F 6.38 19 Life is freedom,-life in the direct ratio of its amount.
    Pow 6.65 3 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage. Fierce and unscrupulous, they are usually frank and direct and above falsehood.
    Elo1 7.95 15 ...wherever the fresh moral sentiment, the instinct of freedom and duty, come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of gain, the spark will pass.
    Suc 7.308 8 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success.
    PI 8.57 16 ...the direct smell of the earth or the sea, is in these ancient poems...
    Comc 8.165 21 The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual Church is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious sentiment...
    Aris 10.64 25 Virtue and genius are always on the direct way to the control of the society in which they are found.
    Edc1 10.129 9 No dollar of property can be created without some direct communication with Nature...
    Prch 10.225 4 ...it is clear...is it not, that...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true...this...will give...not more facts, nor new combinations, but divination, or direct intuition of the state of men and things?
    Schr 10.281 21 Matter, says Plutarch, is a privation. Let the man of ideas at this hour be as direct, and as fully committed.
    MMEm 10.427 10 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being, assurance of whose direct dealing with her she incessantly invokes...
    EWI 11.139 15 There are now other energies than force, other than political, which no man in future can allow himself to disregard. There is direct conversation and influence.
    AKan 11.261 2 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery. The judges give cowardly interpretations to the law, in direct opposition to the known foundation of all law, that every immoral statute is void.
    ACiv 11.302 3 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
    EdAd 11.387 18 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...in the direct roads by which grievances are reached and redressed...
    SHC 11.432 26 Certainly the living need [a garden] more than the dead; indeed...it is given to the dead for the reaction of benefit on the living. But if the direct regard to the living be thought expedient, that is also in your power.
    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 direct opposition to slavery.

direct, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.142 22 ...you are not fit to direct [your boy's] bringing-up if your theory leaves out his gymnastic training.

direct, v. (9)

    MN 1.211 16 This ecstatical state seems to direct a regard to the whole, and not to the parts;...
    Pol1 3.209 5 [Party leaders] reap the rewards of the docility and zeal of the masses which they direct.
    ET1 5.17 20 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do.
    ET8 5.142 22 [The English]...can direct and fill their own day...
    Suc 7.291 22 ...[every man] is to dare to do what he can do best; not help others as they would direct him, but as he knows his helpful power to be.
    Dem1 10.25 11 [Animal Magnetism] becomes...a black art. The uses of the thing, the commodity, the power...direct the course of inquiry.
    Aris 10.65 4 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit will not need...to direct large interests of trade...
    LLNE 10.358 18 It chanced that here in one family were two brothers, one a brilliant and fertile inventor, and close by him his own brother, a man of business, who knew how to direct his faculty and make it instantly and permanently lucrative.
    PLT 12.7 3 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him. He from whose hand it came will guide and direct it.

directed, v. (26)

    LT 1.281 12 By new infusions alone of the spirit by which he is made and directed, can [man] be re-made and reinforced.
    YA 1.386 25 In every society some men are born to rule and some to advise. Let the powers be well directed, directed by love, and they would everywhere be greeted with joy and honor.
    Int 2.335 25 When the spiritual energy is directed on something outward, then it is a thought.
    Int 2.339 9 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes...not itself but falsehood; herein resembling the air, which is...the breath of our nostrils, but if a stream of the same be directed on the body for a time, it causes cold, fever, and even death.
    NER 3.259 16 ...is not this absurd, that the whole liberal talent of this country should be directed in its best years on studies which lead to nothing?
    NER 3.269 27 A canine appetite for knowledge was generated...and this knowledge, not being directed on action, never took the character of substantial, humane growth...
    NMW 4.238 26 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks...
    NMW 4.240 9 [Napoleon's] grand weapon, namely the millions whom he directed, he owed to the representative character which clothed him.
    NMW 4.240 24 In the time of the empire [Napoleon] directed attention to the improvement and embellishment of the markets of the capital.
    ET13 5.222 25 The action of the university...is directed more on producing an English gentleman, than a saint or a psychologist.
    ET15 5.261 9 The celebrated Lord Somers knew of no good law proposed and passed in his time, to which the public papers had not directed his attention.
    ET15 5.267 21 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers;...
    Pow 6.71 2 In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on his opening sense of beauty...
    Civ 7.34 23 ...the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
    DL 7.121 6 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity, which...has directed their activity in safe and right channels...
    Suc 7.285 3 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April, and he directed that during ten days at that season the logs should be immersed under water in the docks;...
    SA 8.79 1 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners.
    SA 8.103 1 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago, with my eyes directed on this subject, to fall in with an American to be proud of.
    Imtl 8.328 7 Sixty years ago...the habits and thought of religious persons, were all directed on death.
    Plu 10.305 2 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons.
    SlHr 10.445 14 ...the vigor of [Samuel Hoar's] understanding was directed on the ordinary domestic and municipal well-being.
    HDC 11.80 25 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury.
    SMC 11.350 9 ...the virtues we are met to honor were directed on aims which command the sympathy of every loyal American citizen...
    Wom 11.418 2 There are plenty of people who believe that the world is governed by men of dark complexions, that affairs are only directed by such...
    CL 12.138 5 ...[Linnaeus] directed that during ten days...the logs should be immersed under the water...
    MAng1 12.224 16 Michael [Angelo] made such good resistance that the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato].

directing, v. (4)

    NMW 4.252 3 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon appears as a man of genius directing on abstract questions the native appetite for truth...he was wont to show in war.
    Wth 6.86 1 ...the mind acts...in directing the practice of the useful arts...
    Wsp 6.233 9 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners...
    Aris 10.64 18 The habit of directing large affairs generates a nobility of thought in every mind of average ability.

direction, n. (110)

    LE 1.164 17 ...the soul has assurance...of all power in the direction of its ray...
    MN 1.196 7 ...as soon as [the grand inquisitor] probes the crust, behold gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction...
    Con 1.303 7 We have all a certain intellection or presentiment of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character, and those who throw themselves blindly on this lose themselves. Whatever they attempt in that direction, fails...
    Con 1.311 22 ...for thee roads have been cut in every direction across the land...
    YA 1.366 10 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    YA 1.370 9 Without looking...into those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction...I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen...
    Hist 2.34 20 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness...the power...of understanding the voices of birds, are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.
    SL 2.140 24 There is one direction in which all space is open to [each man].
    SL 2.155 18 [The things the great man did] are the demonstrations in a few particulars of the genius of nature; they show the direction of the stream.
    OS 2.278 7 The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.
    Cir 2.306 25 ...yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much;...
    Int 2.328 21 Our truth of thought is...vitiated as much by too violent direction given by our will, as by too great negligence.
    Int 2.331 19 ...a man explores the basis of civil government. Let him intend his mind without respite, without rest, in one direction.
    Int 2.339 18 I cannot see what you see, because I am caught up by a strong wind and blown so far in one direction that I am out of the hoop of your horizon.
    Art1 2.356 10 From this succession of excellent objects [of art] we learn at last...the opulence of human nature, which can run out to infinitude in any direction.
    Pt1 3.27 7 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks...with the intellect...suffered to take its direction from its celestial life;...
    Exp 3.74 1 ...in particulars, our greatness is always in a tendency or direction...
    Exp 3.80 8 The partial action of each strong mind in one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed.
    Chr1 3.114 3 We shall one day see...that...grandeur of character acts in the dark, and succors them who never saw it. What greatness has yet appeared is beginnings and encouragements to us in this direction.
    Mrs1 3.148 8 There must be romance of character, or the most fastidious exclusion of impertinencies will not avail. It must be genius which takes that direction: it must be not courteous, but courtesy.
    Nat2 3.181 14 The direction is forever onward...
    Nat2 3.185 5 ...to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path...
    Nat2 3.185 9 ...without this violence of direction which men and women have...no excitement, no efficiency.
    Nat2 3.185 20 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths, with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...
    Nat2 3.185 22 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths...makes them a little wrong-headed in that direction in which they are rightest...
    Pol1 3.214 8 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I overstep the truth...
    Pol1 3.219 10 The tendencies of the times...leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution; which work with more energy than we believe whilst we depend on artificial restraints. The movement in this direction has been very marked in modern history.
    NR 3.243 20 ...the divine Providence which keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the persons that do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
    NR 3.244 24 Love shows me the opulence of nature, by disclosing to me in my friend a hidden wealth, and I infer an equal depth of good in every other direction.
    UGM 4.26 25 ...we feed on genius...and exult in the depth of nature in that direction in which he leads us.
    PNR 4.82 14 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision, and by this second sight discovering the long lines of law which shoot in every direction.
    SwM 4.120 27 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth]...was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.
    MoS 4.152 4 The ward meetings, on election days, are not softened by any misgiving of the value of these ballotings. Hot life is streaming in a single direction.
    MoS 4.170 14 We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things...and men, and events, and life...pass and repass only that we may know the direction and continuity of that line.
    ShP 4.190 13 [A great man] stands where all the eyes of men look one way, and their hands all point in the direction in which he should go.
    ShP 4.215 4 [Shakespeare] is not reduced to dismount and walk because his horses are running off with him in some distant direction...
    ET1 5.24 27 It is not very rare to find persons loving sympathy and ease, who expatiate their departure from the common in one direction, by their conformity in every other.
    ET3 5.36 5 ...the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion take, is the natural genius of the British mind.
    ET11 5.173 13 The hopes of the commoners [in England] take the same direction with the interest of the patricians.
    ET12 5.205 22 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself...where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
    ET12 5.212 18 The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
    ET13 5.214 20 In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or imported; altars are built...priests ordained. The education and expenditure of the country take that direction...
    ET13 5.218 1 From this slow-grown [English] church important reactions proceed; much for culture, much for giving a direction to the nation's affection and will to-day.
    ET13 5.226 15 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day.
    ET14 5.247 8 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches...that the glory of modern philosophy is its direction on fruit;...
    ET15 5.262 26 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal...as they shoot and ride. It is a quite accidental and arbitrary direction of their general ability.
    ET15 5.271 18 It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and humor of England...have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
    F 6.15 8 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...violent direction;...
    F 6.28 1 A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary.
    F 6.28 20 ...when a strong will appears, it usually results from a certain unity of organization, as if the whole energy of body and mind flowed in one direction.
    F 6.35 21 The direction of the whole and of the parts is toward benefit...
    Wth 6.112 21 Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life;...
    Wsp 6.210 2 What [proof of infidelity], like the direction of education?
    Wsp 6.214 5 ...the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction.
    Bty 6.282 18 Alchemy, which sought...to arm with power,--that was in the right direction.
    Bty 6.286 19 So inveterate is our habit of criticism that much of our knowledge in this direction belongs to the chapter of pathology.
    Bty 6.293 2 The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode...
    Ill 6.315 10 We must not carry comity too far, but we all have kind impulses in this direction.
    DL 7.109 15 A man's money should not follow the direction of his neighbor's money...
    WD 7.181 26 We do not want factitious men, who can...turn their ability indifferently in any particular direction by the strong effort of will.
    Boks 7.212 5 There is another class [of books], more needful to the present age, because the currents of custom run now in another direction...
    Clbs 7.247 8 I remember a social experiment in this direction, wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable.
    Cour 7.270 19 ...the right men will give a permanent direction to the fortunes of a state.
    Suc 7.286 19 ...there is no limit to these varieties of talent. These are arts to be thankful for,--each one as it is a new direction of human power.
    Suc 7.293 6 It is enough if you work in the right direction.
    PI 8.7 5 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...and goes whirling off...in a direction self-chosen...
    PI 8.23 21 Whatever one act we do, whatever one thing we learn, we are doing and learning all things,--marching in the direction of universal power.
    Elo2 8.131 21 ...in the Elizabethan Age there was a dramatic zymosis, when all the genius ran in that direction...
    PC 8.231 20 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering. It was walled round with iron tube with that purpose, to give it irresistible force in one direction.
    Insp 8.277 21 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit...
    Grts 8.306 22 ...every mind has...a new direction of its own...
    Grts 8.307 18 [A man's bias] is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path...
    Imtl 8.339 9 Every really able man, in whatever direction he work... considers his work...as far short of what it should be.
    Dem1 10.10 26 The long waves indicate to the instructed mariner that there is no near land in the direction from which they come.
    Dem1 10.11 8 ...the atmosphere of a summer morning is filled with innumerable gossamer threads running in every direction...
    Dem1 10.23 18 ...the main ambition and genius being bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids within [a man's] sphere will follow.
    Aris 10.45 1 ...the well-built head supplies all the steps, one as perfect as the other, in the series. Seeing this working head in him, it becomes to me as certain that he will have the direction of estates, as that there are estates.
    PerF 10.73 13 ...in man that bias or direction of his constitution is often as tyrannical as gravity.
    PerF 10.74 10 If a straw be held still in the direction of the ocean-current, the sea will pour through it as through Gibraltar.
    PerF 10.79 3 The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction.
    PerF 10.83 11 We arrive at virtue by taking its direction instead of imposing ours.
    PerF 10.84 3 ...if you wish the force of the intellect, the force of the will, you must take their divine direction...
    Chr2 10.92 17 Morals is the direction of the will on universal ends.
    Edc1 10.141 1 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to games, charades...
    Edc1 10.142 7 There is no want of example of great men, great benefactors, who have been monks and hermits in habit. The bias of mind is sometimes irresistible in that direction.
    Edc1 10.144 16 The two points in a boy's training are...to...keep his nature and arm it with knowledge in the very direction in which it points.
    LLNE 10.369 15 ...the lady or the romantic scholar [at Brook Farm] saw the continuous strength and faculty in people who would have disgusted them but that these powers were now spent in the direction of their own theory of life.
    SlHr 10.439 13 It was rather his reputation for severe method in his intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University...
    FSLN 11.220 13 I saw that a great man [Webster], deservedly admired for his powers and their general right direction, was able...when he failed...to carry parties with him.
    EPro 11.315 8 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs, when...the political leaders of the day...take a step forward in the direction of catholic and universal interests.
    EdAd 11.388 21 In hours when it seemed only to need one just word from a man of honor...to have given a true direction to the first steps of a nation, we have seen the best understandings of New England...say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    EdAd 11.389 20 ...we...should be sincerely pleased if we could give a direction to the Federal politics...
    FRep 11.513 26 ...if this is true in all the useful and in the fine arts, that the direction must be drawn from a superior source or there will be no good work, does it hold less in our social and civil life?
    FRep 11.516 16 ...the direction of talent, of character...may well occupy us...
    FRep 11.517 19 One hundred years ago the American people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection. They have made great strides in that direction since.
    FRep 11.518 9 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians, who...win the posts of power and give their direction to affairs.
    FRep 11.539 23 Power can be generous. The very grandeur of the means which offer themselves to us should suggest grandeur in the direction of our expenditure.
    FRep 11.543 5 Pennsylvania coal-mines and New York shipping and free labor, though not idealists, gravitate in the ideal direction.
    PLT 12.12 22 ...the natural direction of the intellectual powers is from within outward...
    PLT 12.13 2 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects...in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth; but a study in the opposite direction had a damaging effect on the mind.
    PLT 12.33 15 In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains, and which, by its qualities and structure, determines both the nature of the waters and the direction in which they flow.
    PLT 12.42 10 The universe is traversed by paths or bridges or stepping-stones across the gulfs of space in every direction.
    PLT 12.54 3 ...without the violence of direction that men have...no excitement, no efficiency.
    PLT 12.56 7 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to...carry a point. 'T is the difference between progress by railroad and by walking across the broken country. Immense speed, but only in one direction.
    PLT 12.56 14 There are two theories of life;... One is activity...in this direction lie usefulness, comfort, society...
    II 12.65 7 In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have their fountains, which by its qualities and structure determines both the nature of the waters, and the direction in which they flow.
    MAng1 12.217 8 ...we shall endeavor by sketches from [Michelangelo's] life to show the direction and limitations of his search after this element [Beauty].
    MLit 12.316 18 Another element of the modern poetry akin to this subjective tendency, or rather the direction of that same on the question of resources, is the Feeling of the Infinite.
    AgMs 12.361 5 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction...
    Let 12.399 1 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...simply because they shall so be...agreeably entertained for one or two years, with some lurking hope...that something may turn up to give them a decided direction.

directions, n. (13)

    NER 3.281 19 Each [man] is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions has added to his fitness for his own work.
    ShP 4.195 7 ...it appears that Shakspeare did owe debts in all directions...
    ShP 4.204 24 The Shakspeare Society have inquired in all directions...and with what result?
    ET5 5.101 22 ...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold...
    ET12 5.210 20 ...in general, here [at Oxford] was proof of a more searching study in the appointed directions...
    F 6.9 6 ...so is sex; so is climate; so is the reaction of talents imprisoning the vital power in certain directions.
    Civ 7.29 18 ...if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which [the heavenly powers] travel, they will undertake them with the greatest pleasure.
    Elo1 7.81 24 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it...works actively in all directions...
    PC 8.214 7 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius in their several directions not since surpassed...
    Dem1 10.15 4 ...[Masollam] replied...Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird? How could this fowl give us any wise directions respecting our journey...
    Chr2 10.92 25 ...we sat it...with Vauvenargues, the mercenary sacrifice of the public good to a private interest is the eternal stamp of vice. All the virtues are special directions of this motive;...
    SovE 10.210 9 If these [public actions] are tokens of the steady currents of thought and will in these directions, one might well anticipate a new nation.
    FRep 11.544 12 ...I see in all directions the light breaking.

directly, adv. (32)

    AmS 1.91 13 When [the scholar] can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
    LE 1.155 17 [The scholar's] duties lead him directly into the holy ground...
    YA 1.369 15 I look on such improvements [gardens] also as directly tending to endear the land to the inhabitant.
    Fdsp 2.204 23 I find very little written directly to the heart of this matter [of friendship] in books.
    Cir 2.310 4 Much more obviously is history and the state of the world at any one time directly dependent on the intellectual classification then existing in the minds of men.
    Art1 2.361 8 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...pierced directly to the simple and true;...
    Art1 2.362 11 A calm benignant beauty shines over all this picture [Raphael, Transfiguration], and goes directly to the heart.
    Pt1 3.24 12 I knew in my younger days the sculptor who made the statue of the youth which stands in the public garden. He was...unable to tell directly what made him happy or unhappy, but by wonderful indirections he could tell.
    Exp 3.74 10 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is...the universal impulse to believe, that is...the principal fact in the history of the globe. Shall we describe this cause as that which works directly?
    Exp 3.75 23 ...we do not see directly, but mediately...
    Exp 3.82 7 A man should not be able to look other than directly and forthright.
    Chr1 3.89 23 This is that which we call Character,--a reserved force, which acts directly by presence and without means.
    Gts 3.164 22 ...we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit which is directly received.
    Nat2 3.176 25 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive. One can hardly speak directly of it without excess.
    Nat2 3.182 23 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace...is directly related...to Himmaleh mountain-chains and the axis of the globe.
    NER 3.254 3 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...
    PPh 4.51 9 If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity...action tends directly backwards to diversity.
    SwM 4.94 18 ...Moses, Menu, Jesus, work directly on this problem [of essence].
    ET6 5.102 22 ...[the English] hate the practical cowards who cannot in affairs answer directly yes or no.
    ET9 5.151 3 America is the paradise of the [English] economists;...but when he speaks directly of the Americans the islander forgets his philosophy and remembers his disparaging anecdotes.
    CbW 6.275 10 ...we live...with those who serve us directly, and for money.
    Art2 7.40 10 We find that the question, What is Art? leads us directly to another,--Who is the Artist?
    Boks 7.203 19 Jamblichus's Life of Pythagoras works more directly on the will than the others [of the Platonists];...
    Insp 8.277 27 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it...
    PerF 10.74 20 Look at [man]; you can give no guess at what power is in him. It never appears directly...
    LLNE 10.363 26 An English baronet, Sir John Caldwell, was a frequent visitor [at Brook Farm], and more or less directly interested in the leaders and the success.
    SMC 11.358 19 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister...that he had long trained himself by forcing himself, on the suspicion of any near danger, to go directly up to it...
    SMC 11.375 14 ...let me, in behalf of this assembly, speak directly to you, our defenders [veterans of the Civil War]...
    ACri 12.298 22 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book holding so many memorable and heroic facts, working directly on practice;...
    ACri 12.303 9 The art of writing is the highest of those permitted to man as drawing directly from the soul...
    MLit 12.333 3 The criticism, which is not so much spoken as felt in reference to Goethe, instructs us directly in the hope of literature.
    WSL 12.345 21 ...[character] works directly and without means...

directness, n. (8)

    NMW 4.230 17 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it;...the directness and thoroughness of his work;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    NMW 4.232 3 [Bonaparte] had a directness of action never before combined with so much comprehension.
    ET5 5.85 6 ...[the English] have impressed their directness and practical habit on modern civilization.
    Bhr 6.193 6 In all the superior people I have met I notice directness...
    Cour 7.266 7 [Courage] is directness,--the instant performing of that which [a man] ought.
    Aris 10.55 10 What is it that makes the true knight? Loyalty to his thought. That makes...the directness...which all men admire...
    Supl 10.171 16 ...whilst thus everything recommends simplicity and temperance of action; the utmost directness, the positive degree, we mean thereby that rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument.
    LLNE 10.351 22 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends, the comprehensiveness of their theory, its apparent directness of proceeding to the end they would secure...commanded our attention and respect.

director, n. (1)

    Boks 7.189 20 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we...learn, as I did without surprise of a surly bank director, that in bank parlors they estimate all stocks of this kind as rubbish.

Directory, n. (2)

    NMW 4.232 14 In 1796 [Bonaparte] writes to the Directory: I have conducted the campaign without consulting any one.
    Aris 10.41 15 We shall come to add Kings in the Contents of the Directory, as we do Physicians, Brokers, etc.

directs, v. (4)

    SR 2.56 9 ...the...faces of the multitude...are put on and off as...a newspaper directs.
    GoW 4.286 11 This idea [that a man exists for culture] reigns in [Goethe's] Dichtung und Wahrheit and directs the selection of incidents;...
    PI 8.54 17 ...the verse must be...inseparable from its contents, as the soul of man inspires and directs the body...
    PLT 12.62 14 Knowledge is plainly to be preferred before power, as being that which guides and directs its blind force and impetus;...

dirge, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.397 18 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./

dirk, n. (1)

    ET5 5.101 10 The chancellor carries England on his mace, the midshipman at the point of his dirk...

dirt, n. (6)

    MoS 4.160 13 ...when we build a house, the rule is to set it...under the wind, but out of the dirt.
    Edc1 10.145 26 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes scraped away the dirt...
    Plu 10.295 25 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt.
    LLNE 10.367 15 Don't you see, [Fourier] cried, that nothing so delights the young Caucasian child as dirt?
    PLT 12.55 17 To science there is no poison; to botany no weed; to chemistry no dirt.
    WSL 12.339 2 ...[Landor] delights to throw a clod of dirt on the table, and cry, Gentlemen, there is a better man than all of you.

dirt-cars, n. (1)

    Farm 7.146 4 The railroad dirt-cars are good excavators...

dirty, adj. (2)

    Pow 6.60 16 We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.
    LLNE 10.367 11 The question which occurs to you had occurred much earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to be done?

disabled, adj. (1)

    Res 8.144 8 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road. Many men stepped forward, searched in the water, found the hidden rails, laid the track, put the disabled engine together and continued their journey.

disabled, v. (2)

    Elo1 7.77 2 ...how is it on the Atlantic, in a storm,--do you understand how to infuse your reason into men disabled by terror, and to bring yourself off safe then?...
    SMC 11.365 16 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered. The colonel was, early in the day, disabled by a casualty;...

disables, v. (1)

    Chr2 10.111 18 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory. 'T is Judaea, not England, which is the ground. So with the mordant Calvinism of Scotland and America. But this quoting distances and disables them...

disabling, adj. (1)

    ALin 11.332 1 ...everybody has some disabling quality.

disabuse, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.257 11 The first step of worthiness will be to disabuse us of our superstitious associations with places and times...

disabused, v. (1)

    Prch 10.237 19 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose to be disabused of appearances...

disadvantage, n. (13)

    Hsm1 2.261 6 Has nature covenanted with me that I should never appear to disadvantage...
    ET4 5.65 26 It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky, and the women have that disadvantage...
    ET9 5.146 15 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company...
    CbW 6.261 11 'T is a fatal disadvantage to be cockered and to eat too much cake.
    Bty 6.298 22 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner; and long stilts again put him at perpetual disadvantage...
    Civ 7.27 14 You have seen a carpenter on a ladder with a broad-axe chopping upward chips from a beam. How awkward! at what disadvantage he works!
    Schr 10.287 1 Let those come [to scholarship]...who see that there is no choice here, no advantage and no disadvantage compared with other careers.
    HDC 11.58 15 ...[Simon Willard] fought with disadvantage against an enemy who must be hunted before every battle.
    AKan 11.259 13 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...illustrating the fatal effects of a false position to...put the best people always at a disadvantage;...
    SMC 11.367 8 ...though suffering at first some disadvantage from change of commanders, and from severe losses, [the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation...
    Wom 11.419 11 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished,- because they feel the same rudeness and disadvantage which offends you,- that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
    CPL 11.507 11 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...
    Let 12.399 3 ...[a stay in Europe] is only a postponement of [American youths'] proper work, with the additional disadvantage of a two years' vacation.

disadvantageous, adj. (1)

    OA 7.320 16 ...the creed of the street is, Old Age is not disgraceful, but immensely disadvantageous.

disadvantages, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.114 23 In society, high advantages are set down to the possessor as disadvantages.
    GoW 4.290 10 Goethe teaches...that the disadvantages of any epoch exist only to the faint-hearted.
    MoL 10.241 19 The very disadvantages of [the scholar's] condition point at superiorities.

disagree, v. (1)

    Prch 10.227 21 Augustine, a Kempis, Fenelon, breathe the very spirit which now fires you. So with Cudworth, More, Bunyan. I agree with them more than I disagree.

disagreeable, adj. (20)

    Nat 1.76 21 A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable appearances...vanish;...
    LE 1.184 14 When [the scholar] sees how much thought he owes to the disagreeable antagonism of various persons who pass and cross him, he can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word, no act, no record, would be.
    YA 1.382 20 It was a noble thought of Fourier...to distinguish in his Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band, by whom whatever duties were disagreeable and likely to be omitted, were to be assumed.
    SR 2.55 26 The muscles...grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.
    Prd1 2.237 9 ...in regard to disagreeable and formidable things, prudence does not consist in evasion or in flight, but in courage.
    Pt1 3.18 27 ...the poet, who re-attaches things to nature and the Whole... disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts.
    PI 8.69 15 ...[Goethe's Faust] is a very disagreeable chapter of literature...
    PI 8.69 17 Shakspeare could no doubt have been disagreeable...
    Elo2 8.116 4 You go to a town-meeting where the people are called to some disagreeable duty...
    Elo2 8.121 18 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud...
    MoL 10.245 2 The great poem of the age is the disagreeable poem of Faust...
    LLNE 10.364 5 No friend who knew Margaret Fuller could recognize her rich and brilliant genius under the dismal mask which the public fancied was meant for her in that disagreeable story [Blithedale Romance].
    SlHr 10.437 10 ...[Samuel Hoar] was willing to face every disagreeable duty...
    SlHr 10.447 5 [Samuel Hoar] never shrunk from a disagreeable duty.
    LS 11.19 24 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
    EWI 11.124 6 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa? That was a great way off; and the scenes could be endured by some sturdy, unscrupulous fellows, who...need not trouble our ears with the disagreeable particulars.
    JBB 11.269 24 ...if [John Brown] must suffer, he must drag official gentlemen into an immortality most undesirable, of which they have already some disagreeable forebodings.
    Scot 11.462 7 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon, and so...illustrated every hidden corner of a barren and disagreeable territory.
    Mem 12.90 18 The sparrow, the ant, the worm, have the same memory as we. If you...offer them somewhat disagreeable to their senses, they make one or two trials, and then once for all avoid it.
    WSL 12.348 6 There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the dense writer's] sentence...

disagreeable, n. (1)

    PI 8.69 8 Faust abounds in the disagreeable.

disagreeably, adv. (2)

    SwM 4.143 4 Swedenborg is disagreeably wise...
    Elo2 8.119 9 The most...disagreeably restless...companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator.

disagreed, v. (1)

    HDC 11.61 18 When the Dutch, or the French, or the English royalist disagreed with the [Massachusetts Bay] Colony, there was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,-an earnest minority,-to keep things from extremity.

disappear, v. (15)

    SR 2.66 12 ...in the universal miracle petty and particular miracles disappear.
    Cir 2.302 8 Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it this train of cities and institutions. Let us rise into another idea; they will disappear.
    Cir 2.321 18 True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and disappear...
    Pt1 3.17 11 ...the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs... disappear when nature is used as a symbol.
    Pt1 3.33 3 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature; how great the perspective! nations, times, systems, enter and disappear...
    Mrs1 3.127 1 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate; but once matched by the skill of the other party, they drop the point of the sword,--points and fences disappear...
    ET5 5.95 21 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too...is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
    OA 7.324 12 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches. I hope this hegira is not as movable a feast as that one I annually look for, when the horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our gardens disappear on the tenth of July;...
    OA 7.325 11 We learn the fatal compensations that wait on every act. Then, one after another, this riotous time-destroying crew [of passions] disappear.
    Res 8.142 13 We have seen slavery disappear like a painted scene in a theatre;...
    QO 8.181 5 ...[Swedenborg's, Behmen's, Spinoza's] originality will disappear to such as are either well read or thoughtful;...
    Edc1 10.126 15 ...when one and the same man...leaves...the stupor of the senses, to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits disappear.
    LLNE 10.355 10 ...like the dreams of poetic people on the first outbreak of the old French Revolution, so [the Fourierist community] would disappear in a slime of mire and blood.
    Thor 10.476 15 I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud;...
    ACiv 11.305 25 Instantly, the armies that now confront you must run home to protect their estates, and must stay there, and your enemies will disappear.

disappearance, n. (5)

    Art1 2.364 2 Already History is old enough to witness the old age and disappearance of particular arts.
    MoS 4.186 6 ...let [a man] learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence without losing his reverence;...
    PI 8.60 15 After the disappearance of Merlin from King Arthur's court he was seriously missed...
    Comc 8.170 6 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
    Thor 10.484 24 The scale on which [Thoreau's] studies proceeded was so large as to require longevity, and we were the less prepared for his sudden disappearance.

disappearing, v. (1)

    AKan 11.261 27 I am glad to see that the terror at disunion and anarchy is disappearing.

disappears, v. (9)

    Fdsp 2.199 18 ...the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.
    UGM 4.33 21 If the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each, even more swiftly the seeming injustice disappears when we ascend to the central identity of all the individuals...
    SwM 4.113 5 ...as often as [nature] betakes herself upward from visible phenomena...she instantly as it were disappears, while no one knows what has become of her...
    ET4 5.57 6 The [Norse] Sagas describe a monarchical republic like Sparta. The government disappears before the importance of citizens.
    SS 7.10 4 [The ends of thought] reach down to that depth where society itself originates and disappears;...
    EWI 11.147 20 The Intellect, with blazing eye, looking through history from the beginning onward, gazes on this blot [slavery] and it disappears.
    Milt1 12.276 3 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare...that...the poet towers to the sky, whilst the man quite disappears.
    PPr 12.389 3 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable Sauerteig...says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.
    Trag 12.407 26 ...[this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will] disappears with civilization...

disappoint, v. (10)

    SR 2.56 27 ...the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them.
    OS 2.285 10 ...[a man's friends'] acts and words do not disappoint him.
    Chr1 3.108 11 When we see a great man we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune; a result which he is sure to disappoint.
    Edc1 10.137 21 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.
    MMEm 10.420 15 Do I [Mary Moody Emerson] yearn to be in Boston? 'T would fatigue, disappoint;...
    Thor 10.457 24 In any circumstance it interested all bystanders to know what part Henry [Thoreau] would take, and what he would say; and he did not disappoint expectation...
    FSLN 11.221 14 [Webster] was there in his Adamitic capacity, as if he alone of all men did not disappoint the eye and the ear...
    Humb 11.458 6 ...you could not disappoint [Humboldt], for at any point on land or sea he found the objects of his researches.
    Pray 12.354 7 Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf/ Than that I may not disappoint myself,/ That in my action I may soar as high,/ As I can now discern with this clear eye./
    Pray 12.354 11 And next in value, which thy kindness lends,/ That I may greatly disappoint my friends,/ Howe'er they think or hope that it may be,/ They may not dream how thou'st distinguished me./

disappointed, adj. (2)

    Clbs 7.234 4 ...men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature...
    Imtl 8.345 24 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed;...

disappointed, v. (6)

    Exp 3.62 1 I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe and is disappointed when anything is less than the best...
    GoW 4.278 13 ...those who look in [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] for the entertainment they find in a romance, are disappointed.
    Elo2 8.113 20 The orator is he whom every man is seeking when he goes... into any popular assembly,--though often disappointed, yet never giving over the hope.
    Schr 10.266 17 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority. If this were only the reaction from excessive expectations from literature, now disappointed, it were a just censure.
    MMEm 10.406 26 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist no companion...
    SlHr 10.438 26 ...when the votes of the Free States...had disappointed the hopes of mankind...[Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...

disappointing, v. (2)

    Thor 10.452 17 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to...keep his solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends...
    MAng1 12.236 25 ...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke of Tuscany]...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...if, he adds, I do not commit a great crime by disappointing the cormorants who are daily hoping to get rid of me.

disappointment, n. (9)

    Tran 1.344 25 [Transcendentalists] make us feel the strange disappointment which overcasts every human youth.
    Comp 2.126 10 ...a cruel disappointment...seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable.
    Fdsp 2.199 20 What a perpetual disappointment is actual society...
    Nat2 3.192 10 This disappointment is felt in every landscape.
    Boks 7.217 10 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry...
    Elo2 8.124 3 In the mortifications of disappointment, [Science's] soothing voice shall whisper serenity and peace.
    Chr2 10.109 20 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    ALin 11.330 21 All of us remember...the surprise and disappointment of the country at [Lincoln's] first nomination by the convention at Chicago.
    Shak1 11.447 9 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment that Bryant and Whittier as guests, and our own Hawthorne,-with the best will to come,-should have found it impossible at last;...

disappointments, n. (2)

    OS 2.292 23 How dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of God... effacing the scars of our mistakes and disappointments!
    Thor 10.476 7 All readers of Walden will remember [Thoreau's] mythical record of his disappointments...

disappoints, v. (1)

    Art1 2.362 13 The sweet and sublime face of Jesus [in Raphael's Transfiguration] is beyond praise, yet how it disappoints all florid expectations!

disapprobation, n. (1)

    SR 2.78 26 We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate [the self-helping man] because he...scorned our disapprobation.

disapproves, v. (1)

    ET15 5.268 6 The [London] Times never disapproves of what itself has said...

disarm, v. (1)

    PPh 4.73 22 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...so careless and ignorant as to disarm the wariest and draw them, in the pleasantest manner, into horrible doubts and confusion.

disarmed, v. (2)

    GSt 10.504 3 ...[George Stearns's] plain good sense, courage, adherence, and his romantic generosity disarmed...all gainsayers.
    ALin 11.331 18 [Lincoln] had a face and manner which disarmed suspicion...

disarms, v. (3)

    Mrs1 3.140 17 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...the air of drowsy strength, which disarms criticism;...
    Wsp 6.232 20 The lightning-rod that disarms the cloud of its threat is [man' s] body in its duty.
    Clbs 7.247 26 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it disarms all parties...

disaster, n. (8)

    Comp 2.118 21 The same guards which protect us from disaster, defect and enmity, defend us, if we will, from selfishness and fraud.
    Exp 3.48 1 What opium is instilled into all disaster!
    ET15 5.271 26 [The London Times's] existence honors the people who...do not wish to be flattered by hiding the extent of the public disaster.
    ET19 5.312 2 ...I think it just, in this time of gloom and commercial disaster...that...you should not fail to keep your literary anniversary.
    Elo1 7.83 21 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
    Edc1 10.132 27 ...the event of each moment, the shower, the steamboat disaster...are all tests to try our theory [of life]...
    FRep 11.525 7 After every practical mistake out of which any disaster grows, the [American] people wake and correct it with energy.
    Let 12.401 26 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate...drunkenness comes with a disaster;...

disasters, n. (14)

    Comp 2.116 23 ...as the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies became friends, so disasters of all kinds...prove benefactors...
    F 6.8 17 Will you say, the disasters which threaten mankind are exceptional...
    Ctr 6.153 14 Life [in the city] is dragged down to a fracas of pitiful cares and disasters.
    CbW 6.266 1 When the political economist reckons up the unproductive classes, he should put at the head this class of...cravers of sympathy, bewailing imaginary disasters.
    PerF 10.86 10 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 10.164 13 Especially we note this tendency to extremes in the pleasant excitement of horror-mongers. Is there something so delicious in disasters and pain?
    SovE 10.210 2 Here is contribution of money on a more extended and systematic scale than ever before to repair public disasters at a distance...
    MoL 10.246 26 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought. Niebuhr has given striking examples of that fatal portent; as in the loss of power of thought that followed the disasters of the Athenians in Sicily.
    GSt 10.504 17 Plainly [George Stearns] was...a man whom disasters, which dishearten other men, only stimulated to new courage and endeavor.
    HDC 11.35 14 The great cost of cattle...and the fear of the Pequots; are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    ACiv 11.300 9 The telegraph has been swift enough to announce our disasters.
    EPro 11.320 2 With a victory like this [the Emancipation Proclamation], we can stand many disasters.
    ALin 11.337 19 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...makes no account of disasters...
    Scot 11.467 10 Disasters only drove [Scott] to immense exertion.

disastrous, adj. (7)

    HDC 11.75 10 The British, as soon as they were rejoined by the plundering detachment, began that disastrous retreat to Boston...
    EWI 11.133 26 ...whilst our very amiable and very innocent representatives...at Washington are...very eloquent at dinners and at caucuses, there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
    FSLN 11.223 14 The history of this country has given a disastrous importance to the defects of this great man's [Webster's] mind.
    FSLN 11.229 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.
    SMC 11.365 8 In the disastrous battle of Bull Run this [Massachusetts] company behaved well...
    FRep 11.542 2 I hope America will come to have its pride in being a nation of servants, and not of the served. How can men have any other ambition where the reason has not suffered a disastrous eclipse?
    MAng1 12.216 23 It is a happiness to find...a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty. So shall not...the great spectacle of morn and evening which shut and open the most disastrous day, want observers.

disbelief, n. (1)

    LVB 11.94 22 On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.

disburden, v. (3)

    SR 2.68 11 When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
    DL 7.120 27 ...who can see unmoved...the unrestrained glee with which [the eager, blushing boys] disburden themselves of their early mental treasures when the holidays bring them again together?
    Boks 7.211 20 [The Germans] read voraciously, and must disburden themselves;...

disburses, v. (1)

    SwM 4.97 27 Shall we say, that the economical mother disburses so much earth and so much fire...to make a man, and will not add a pennyweight...

disburthens, v. (1)

    Nat 1.55 26 In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars...

discern, v. (20)

    Nat 1.12 2 Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result.
    Tran 1.330 17 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which it only needs a retirement from the senses to discern.
    SR 2.64 25 When we discern justice...we do nothing of ourselves...
    SR 2.64 26 ...when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves...
    SR 2.68 23 ...when you have life in yourself...you shall not discern the footprints of any other;...
    SL 2.135 15 ...whenever we get this vantage-ground of...a wiser mind in the present, we are able to discern that we are begirt with laws which execute themselves.
    OS 2.280 1 ...to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
    Chr1 3.115 19 ...there are many [eyes] that can discern Genius on his starry track...
    UGM 4.19 3 ...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guaranties of condition.
    ShP 4.209 16 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the gentleman and the king, what forms and humanities pleased him;...
    GoW 4.282 9 In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form;...
    ET2 5.33 19 There lay the green shore of Ireland, like some coast of plenty. We could see towns, towers, churches, harvests; but the curse of eight hundred years we could not discern.
    ET14 5.246 9 How can [English genius] discern and hail the new forms that are looming up on the horizon...
    CbW 6.275 27 Few people discern that it rests with the master or the mistress what service comes from the man or the maid;...
    Ill 6.318 20 What if you shall come to discern that the play and playground of all this pompous history are radiations from yourself...
    WD 7.184 2 There are people...who love at first sight and hate at first sight; discern the affinities and repulsions;...
    Thor 10.477 7 I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./
    HDC 11.75 14 In all the anecdotes of that day's [April 19, 1775] events we may discern the natural action of the people.
    EPro 11.322 7 The territory of the Union shines to-day with a lustre which every European emigrant can discern from far;...
    Pray 12.354 9 Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf/ Than that I may not disappoint myself,/ That in my action I may soar as high,/ As I can now discern with this clear eye./

discerned, v. (6)

    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 3.12 12 ...now I shall see men and women, and know the signs by which they may be discerned from fools and satans.
    ET14 5.239 9 ...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one with a larger class, discerned beyond the lesser class with which it has been conversant.
    MoL 10.252 20 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men, is master of all other men so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    CInt 12.121 10 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men is master of all other men, so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    Pray 12.356 11 I [Augustine] entered and discerned with the eye of my soul...even beyond my soul and mind itself, the Light unchangeable.

discerners, n. (1)

    OS 2.285 20 We are all discerners of spirits.

discernible, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.45 6 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well, in its long history of arts and arms; here are all its traits, already discernible in the mind of Plato...

discerning, adj. (3)

    OS 2.280 7 To the bad thought which I find in [the book I read], the same soul becomes a discerning, separating sword, and lops it away.
    Int 2.338 20 ...the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative...
    QO 8.198 13 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and discerning public...

discerning, n. (1)

    AmS 1.93 11 The discerning will read, in his Plato...only that least part...

discernment, n. (5)

    PNR 4.82 24 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small;...
    Wsp 6.227 21 There was a wise, devout man who is called in the Catholic Church, St. Philip Neri, of whom many anecdotes touching his discernment and benevolence are told at Naples and Rome.
    SovE 10.184 7 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals; but a better discernment finds that the difference is only of less and more.
    Scot 11.466 17 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn; and meantime without one word of brag of this discernment...
    CW 12.176 5 If you use a good and skilful companion [on a tramp], you shall see through his eyes; if they be of great discernment, you will learn wonderful secrets.

discerns, v. (3)

    Int 2.326 6 Intellect...discerns [the fact] as if it existed for its own sake.
    ET6 5.108 25 The romance does not exceed the height of noble passion in Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns through the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.
    Trag 12.414 7 If any perversity or profligacy break out in society, [the man who is centred] will join with others to avert the mischief, but it will not arouse resentment or fear, because he discerns its impassable limits.

discharge, n. (3)

    Farm 7.149 21 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...
    Cour 7.262 6 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack, amid a discharge of musketry, I was overpowered with fear...
    Comc 8.162 20 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea;...

discharge, v. (9)

    DSA 1.128 15 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian church's] administration...
    DSA 1.147 6 Discharge to men the priestly office, and...you shall be followed with their love...
    SR 2.74 22 ...if I can discharge [my own perfect circle's] debts it enables me to dispense with the popular code.
    Lov1 2.187 10 [Lovers] resign each other without complaint to the good offices which man and woman are severally appointed to discharge in time...
    Pt1 3.38 19 ...I am not wise enough for a national criticism, and must use the old largeness a little longer, to discharge my errand from the muse to the poet concerning his art.
    Mrs1 3.135 27 ...Napoleon...was wont, when he found himself observed, to discharge his face of all expression.
    DL 7.131 26 Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum].
    Res 8.148 15 ...[James Marshall] had the pipes laid from the water-works of his mill, with a stop-cock by his chair from which he could discharge a stream that would knock down an ox...
    LS 11.25 1 [The pastoral office] has some [duties] which it will always be my delight to discharge according to my ability...

discharged, v. (12)

    DSA 1.136 12 This great and perpetual office of the preacher is not discharged.
    MN 1.208 11 Hereto was [a man] born...to do an office which nature could not forego, nor he be discharged from rendering...
    MN 1.211 25 There is no office or function of man but is rightly discharged by this divine method...
    MR 1.235 20 ...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society, if it proceeded from a preference of the agricultural life out of the belief that our primary duties as men could be better discharged in that calling.
    ET15 5.272 22 ...[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;...
    Ctr 6.136 5 All conversation is at an end when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities...
    Bhr 6.179 6 What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another, through [the eyes]!
    SlHr 10.438 18 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    EWI 11.107 7 We cannot say the cause set forth by this return is allowed or approved of by the laws of this kingdom [England]; and therefore the man [George Somerset] must be discharged.
    EWI 11.112 27 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be...discharged of and from all manner of slavery...
    SMC 11.376 2 A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War], and with such immense results of good...that, though the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.
    Milt1 12.254 16 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely, to raise the idea of Man in the minds of his contemporaries and of posterity...

discharging, v. (2)

    DL 7.119 26 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys discharging as they can their household chores...
    PerF 10.80 6 ...[Bonaparte's] will is an immense battery discharging irresistible volleys of power...

disciple, n. (11)

    MN 1.215 2 To every reform...early disgusts are incident, so that the disciple is surprised at the very hour of his first triumphs with chagrins, and sickness, and a general distrust;...
    Comp 2.95 2 The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was,--We are to have such a good time as the sinners have now;...
    PPh 4.78 4 The acutest German, the lovingest disciple, could never tell what Platonism was;...
    Wsp 6.205 27 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in excellent faith. Another argument was an adder put into the mouth of the reluctant disciple Raud, who refused to believe.
    QO 8.177 13 He who has once known [a book's] satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. Like Plato's disciple who has perceived a truth, he is preserved from harm until another period.
    PPo 8.253 5 ...I heard the harp of the planet Venus, and it said in the early morning, I am the disciple of the sweet-voiced Hafiz!
    Chr2 10.103 4 ...the memory and tradition of such a [steadfast] leader is preserved in some strange way by those who only half understand him, until a true disciple comes, who apprehends and interprets every word.
    LLNE 10.346 26 ...being asked, Well, Mr. Owen, who is your disciple? How many men are there possessed of your views who will remain after you are gone to put them in practice? Not one, was his reply.
    LS 11.6 1 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially, the beloved disciple...has quite omitted such a notice.
    LS 11.6 26 ...we must suppose that the expression, This do in remembrance of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some disciple who was present.
    LS 11.18 21 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully;...

disciples, n. (27)

    OS 2.284 1 It was left to [Christ's] disciples to sever duration from the moral elements...
    UGM 4.7 20 ...each legitimate idea makes its own channels and welcome... disciples to explain it.
    PPh 4.76 18 The dearest defenders and disciples [of Plato] are at fault.
    SwM 4.123 1 [Swedenborg's] disciples allege that their intellect is invigorated by the study of his books.
    ET14 5.238 15 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...
    Boks 7.202 13 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have...the Platonists, who also cannot be skipped...
    Imtl 8.326 26 ...the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of eternity...
    Chr2 10.115 9 ...in [Jesus's] disciples, admiration of him runs away with their reverence for the human soul...
    LS 11.5 1 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples;...
    LS 11.5 7 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples is given by the four Evangelists...
    LS 11.5 11 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples...
    LS 11.5 24 Two of the Evangelists...were of the twelve disciples, and were present on that occasion [the Last Supper].
    LS 11.7 4 Jesus is a Jew, sitting with his countrymen, celebrating their national feast [the Passover]. He thinks of his own impending death, and wishes the minds of his disciples to be prepared for it.
    LS 11.7 19 ...I can readily imagine that [Jesus] was willing and desirous, when his disciples met, his memory should hallow their intercourse;...
    LS 11.8 4 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to remember him...
    LS 11.9 4 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover. He did with his disciples exactly what every master of a family in Jerusalem was doing at the same hour with his household.
    LS 11.10 5 [Jesus] admonished his disciples respecting the leaven of the Pharisees.
    LS 11.10 9 [Jesus] washed the feet of his disciples.
    LS 11.10 12 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was for his interment. He washed the feet of his disciples. These are admitted to be symbolical actions and expressions. Here [at the Last Supper], in like manner, he calls the bread his body, and bids the disciples eat.
    LS 11.11 10 Jesus washed the feet of his disciples...
    LS 11.12 15 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...
    LS 11.12 20 The disciples lived together;...
    LS 11.13 12 Many persons consider this fact, the observance of such a memorial feast [the Lord's Supper] by the early disciples, decisive of the question whether it ought to be observed by us.
    LS 11.15 8 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire... so slow were the disciples...to receive the idea which we receive, that his second coming was a spiritual kingdom...
    LS 11.19 20 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
    FRO1 11.480 10 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples.
    FRO1 11.480 13 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions probably grew from the like origin. The close association which bound the first disciples of Jesus is another example;...

discipline, n. (34)

    Nat 1.36 3 ...nature is a discipline.
    Nat 1.36 18 Nature is a discipline of the understanding in intellectual truths.
    Nat 1.39 21 Passing by many particulars of the discipline of nature, we must not omit to specify two.
    DSA 1.142 7 [The soul of the community] wants nothing so much as a stern, high, stoical, Christian discipline...
    LE 1.158 5 What I have to say on that doctrine [of Literary Ethics] distributes itself under the topics of the resources, the subject, and the discipline of the scholar.
    LE 1.180 16 ...everything [was] expected from the valor and discipline of every platoon, in flank and centre [in Napoleon's army]...
    LE 1.181 18 ...by this discipline, the usurpation of the senses is overcome...
    Hist 2.25 16 Who does not see that [Xenophon's army] is a gang of great boys, with such a code of honor and such lax discipline as great boys have?
    PPh 4.39 7 A discipline [Plato] is in logic, arithmetic, taste, symmetry, poetry, language, rhetoric, ontology, morals or practical wisdom.
    PPh 4.52 19 ...[Europe's] philosophy was a discipline;...
    SwM 4.142 7 These angels that Swedenborg paints give us no very high idea of their discipline and culture...
    ET4 5.63 25 Such is the ferocity of the [English] army discipline that a soldier, sentenced to flogging, sometimes prays that his sentence may be commuted to death.
    Ctr 6.139 21 We know that an army which can be confided in may be formed by discipline;...
    Ctr 6.139 22 ...by systematic discipline all men may be made heroes...
    Wsp 6.214 22 I do not think [skepticism] can be cured or stayed by any modification of theologic creeds, much less by theologic discipline.
    CbW 6.252 21 ...this beast-force, whilst it makes the discipline of the world...has provoked in every age the satire of wits...
    Aris 10.60 23 [Self-reliance] is so prized a jewel that it is sure to be tested. The rules and discipline are ordered for that.
    Chr2 10.94 9 On the perpetual conflict between the dictate of this universal mind and the wishes and interests of the individual, the moral discipline of life is built.
    Edc1 10.143 27 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion:- Would you verily throw up the reins of public and private discipline;...
    Edc1 10.150 23 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police.
    Edc1 10.154 11 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher.
    Edc1 10.154 17 ...only to think of using [simple discipline and the following of nature] implies character and profoundness; to enter on this course of discipline is to be good and great.
    Edc1 10.156 17 Your teaching and discipline must have the reserve and taciturnity of Nature.
    EzRy 10.391 23 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment...which, under a better discipline, might have ripened into a Bentley or a Porson.
    MMEm 10.412 11 The rapture of feeling I [Mary Moody Emerson] would part from, for days more devoted to higher discipline.
    MMEm 10.423 9 War is among the means of discipline...
    SMC 11.363 15 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre, whilst part of the military discipline is sham fights.
    Wom 11.415 13 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
    CPL 11.501 23 Every attainment and discipline which increases a man's acquaintance with the invisible world lifts his being.
    II 12.67 13 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces...
    CInt 12.126 23 ...a college...should aim at a reverent discipline and invitation of the soul...
    MAng1 12.243 7 ...are we not authorized to say that...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened...which, to see and enjoy, demands the severest discipline of all the physical, intellectual and moral faculties of the individual?
    Milt1 12.259 7 [Milton's] endowments received the benefit of a careful and happy discipline.
    Milt1 12.264 16 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.

Discipline, n. (2)

    Nat 1.12 6 Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result. They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes: Commodity; Beauty; Language; and Discipline.
    Nat 1.47 4 To this one end of Discipline, all parts of nature conspire.

...Discipline of Divorce [J (1)

    Milt1 12.275 16 The Samson Agonistes is too broad an expression of [Milton's] private griefs to be mistaken, and is a version of the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.

disciplines, n. (4)

    MR 1.227 22 ...we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with the spiritual nature.
    Chr1 3.107 17 ...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would divide some share of credit...[Nature] goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong.
    NER 3.269 12 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education.
    PPh 4.65 20 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated which is blinded and buried by studies of another kind;...

disclaim, v. (2)

    Prch 10.221 22 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;-no, the bird...would disclaim his sympathy...
    LVB 11.88 3 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame,/ Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim,/ And guard the way of life from all offence/...

disclaims, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.326 21 The public speaker disclaims speaking for any other;...

disclose, v. (12)

    YA 1.370 13 ...I think we must regard the land as...the sanative and Americanizing influence. which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.
    Hist 2.27 20 Rare, extravagant spirits come by us at intervals, who disclose to us new facts in nature.
    Prd1 2.227 3 Time is always bringing the occasions that disclose [facts!] value.
    Cir 2.304 22 Every general law [is] only a particular fact of some more general law presently to disclose itself.
    ET2 5.30 9 Such discomfort and such danger as the narratives of the captain and mate disclose are bad enough as the costly fee we pay for entrance to Europe;...
    Ctr 6.156 10 In the morning,--solitude; said Pythagoras;...that [nature's] favorite may make acquaintance with those divine strengths which disclose themselves to serious and abstracted thought.
    Farm 7.135 16 So, year by year,/ [Farmers] fight the elements with elements,/ And by the order in the field disclose/ The order regnant in the yeoman's brain./
    PC 8.213 2 ...the rocks of Nahant or the dikes of the White Hills disclose that the world is a crystal...
    PC 8.231 5 We wish...to offer liberty instead of chains, and see whether liberty will not disclose its proper checks;...
    FSLN 11.236 15 The insight of the religious sentiment will disclose to [man] unexpected aids in the nature of things.
    SMC 11.354 11 The secret architecture of things begins to disclose itself;...
    MAng1 12.219 25 The symptoms disclose the constitution to the physician;...

disclosed, v. (5)

    Bty 6.301 25 When the delicious beauty of lineaments loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared; that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.
    PI 8.55 23 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill;...
    LVB 11.94 17 One circumstance lessens the reluctance with which I intrude at this time on your [Van Buren's] attention my conviction that the government ought to be admonished of a new historical fact, which the discussion of this question [the relocation of the Cherokees] has disclosed...
    SMC 11.359 21 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott] a strong good sense...
    CL 12.157 23 The facts disclosed by Winkelmann, Goethe, Bell...are joyful possessions...

discloses, v. (11)

    PNR 4.82 18 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses.
    ET8 5.142 24 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence...
    ET11 5.192 5 The Selwyn correspondence, in the reign of George III., discloses a rottenness in the aristocracy which threatened to decompose the state.
    F 6.48 22 ...the indwelling necessity...discloses the central intention of Nature to be harmony and joy.
    Ctr 6.152 12 In an English party a man...with a face like red dough, unexpectedly discloses wit, learning, a wide range of topics...
    CbW 6.262 9 What had been, ever since our memory, solid continent, yawns apart and discloses its composition and genesis.
    PC 8.228 16 Science...necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses.
    FSLN 11.229 1 ...[the Fugitive Slave Law] discloses the secret of the new times, that Slavery was no longer mendicant...
    PLT 12.4 27 ...[science] adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears; and this discloses that the mind as it opens, the mind as it shall be, comprehends and works thus;...
    MAng1 12.221 22 ...reflection discloses evermore a closer analogy between the finite [human] form and the infinite inhabitant.
    ACri 12.303 12 [Writing] discloses to [man] the variety and splendor of his resources.

disclosing, v. (10)

    NR 3.244 21 Love shows me the opulence of nature, by disclosing to me in my friend a hidden wealth...
    PNR 4.81 22 [Plato] represents...the power...of carrying up every fact to successive platforms and so disclosing in every fact a germ of expansion.
    ET2 5.31 10 ...the sea is not slow in disclosing inestimable secrets to a good naturalist.
    ET4 5.44 6 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law, disclosing their ideal or metaphysical necessity;...
    Wsp 6.224 5 A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought...
    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.
    Res 8.149 23 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave], disclosing its starry splendor...
    Edc1 10.151 3 What discoverer of Nature's laws will [the college] prompt to enrich us by disclosing in the mind the statute which all matter must obey?
    HDC 11.50 23 The man of the woods might well draw on himself the compassion of the planters. His erect and perfect form, though disclosing some irregular virtues, was found joined to a dwindled soul.
    CW 12.173 10 Here [in the Academy Garden] I [Linnaeus] admire the wisdom of the Supreme Artist, disclosing Himself by proofs of every kind...

disclosure, n. (2)

    OS 2.282 27 Revelation is the disclosure of the soul.
    ET10 5.167 25 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...

disclosures, n. (2)

    Dem1 10.25 3 Men who had never wondered at anything...have been unable to suppress their amazement at the disclosures of the somnambulist.
    CL 12.157 27 The facts disclosed by...Greenough, Ruskin, Garbett, Penrose, are joyful possessions...which we rank close beside the disclosures of natural history.

discolor, v. (1)

    ET3 5.39 20 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...discolor the human saliva...

discoloration, n. (1)

    Supl 10.165 26 ...there is an inverted superlative...which...finds the rainbow a discoloration;...

discolored, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.298 24 The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored trees...

discomfits, v. (1)

    Exp 3.67 10 ...presently comes a day...which discomfits the conclusions of nations and of years!

discomfort, n. (4)

    Prd1 2.228 17 ...the discomfort of unpunctuality...is of no nation.
    ET2 5.30 7 Such discomfort and such danger as the narratives of the captain and mate disclose are bad enough as the costly fee we pay for entrance to Europe;...
    Ctr 6.160 2 When our higher faculties are in activity...awkwardness and discomfort give place to natural and agreeable movements.
    FSLC 11.179 18 [Massachusetts laws] never came near me to any discomfort before.

discomfortable, adj. (1)

    Prd1 2.233 1 A man of genius...self-indulgent, becomes presently...a discomfortable cousin...

disconcert, v. (2)

    DL 7.117 24 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be...a hall which shines with...a demeanor impossible to disconcert;...
    HCom 11.342 6 ...revolutions disconcert and outwit all the insurgents.

disconcerted, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.363 8 [Charles Newcomb was] A fine, subtle, inward genius...yet with an aplomb like a general, never disconcerted.

disconcerted, v. (3)

    SR 2.48 9 ...when we look in [children's] faces we are disconcerted.
    Elo1 7.78 21 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging...and in a short time, was master of all on board. A man this is who cannot be disconcerted...
    Res 8.148 1 ...we have noted examples among our orators, who have... handled and controlled, and...converted a malignant mob...by a wit which disconcerted and at last delighted the ring-leaders.

disconcerts, v. (3)

    ET14 5.258 21 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness. That astonishes and disconcerts English decorum.
    Wth 6.92 17 The artist has made his picture so true that it disconcerts criticism.
    Wsp 6.199 18 [Fate] is the oldest, and best known,/ More near than aught thou call'st thy own,/ Yet greeted in another's eyes,/ Disconcerts with glad surprise./

disconsolate, adj. (3)

    DSA 1.137 14 Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper...disconsolate.
    Exp 3.64 13 If we will be strong with [nature's] strength we must not harbor such disconsolate consciences...
    Suc 7.309 11 Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher.

discontent, n. (15)

    Nat 1.53 9 No, [my passion] was builded far from accident;/ It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls/ Under the brow of thralling discontent;/...
    AmS 1.109 25 I look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere announcement of the fact that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers...
    Hist 2.31 3 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which...seems the self-defence of man against this untruth, namely a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists...
    SR 2.56 10 Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college.
    SR 2.78 9 Discontent is the want of self-reliance...
    SL 2.163 10 Shall I...imagine my being here impertinent?...and that the soul did not know its own needs? Besides, without any reasoning on the matter, I have no discontent.
    OS 2.267 15 What is the ground...of this old discontent?
    NER 3.251 20 In these [reform] movements nothing was more remarkable than the discontent they begot in the movers.
    NER 3.251 24 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church, and immediately afterwards to declare their discontent with these Conventions...
    Prch 10.227 23 ...my discontent is with [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] limitations and surface and language.
    FSLC 11.187 10 ...that is the head and body of this discontent, that [the Fugitive Slave] law is immoral.
    MLit 12.318 3 All over the modern world the educated and susceptible have betrayed their discontent with the limits of our municipal life...
    WSL 12.340 6 ...we have spoken all our discontent [with Landor].
    Let 12.396 5 The more discontent, the better we like it.
    Let 12.397 8 ...discontent and the luxury of tears will bring nothing to pass.

Discontent, n. (1)

    MLit 12.335 8 Man is not so far lost but that he suffers ever the great Discontent which is the elegy of his loss and the prediction of his recovery.

discontented, adj. (5)

    MN 1.212 14 Every star in heaven is discontented and insatiable.
    PNR 4.80 23 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    CbW 6.265 14 ...I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.
    CbW 6.268 9 [The young people] explore a farm, but the house is small, old, thin; discontented people lived there and are gone;...
    FSLC 11.180 2 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented...

discontents, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.268 25 [Milton's] birth fell upon the agitated years when the discontents of the English Puritans were fast drawing to a head against the tyranny of the Stuarts.

discontinuity, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.196 7 The reality is more excellent than the report. Here is...no discontinuity...
    PLT 12.44 8 This slight discontinuity which perception effects between the mind and the object paralyzes the will.
    PLT 12.44 18 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.

discontinuous, adj. (1)

    II 12.67 22 A continuous effect cannot be produced by discontinuous thought...

discord, n. (10)

    Nat 1.65 17 ...[the landscape] may show us what discord is between man and nature...
    MR 1.243 15 ...attempting to drive along the ecliptic with one horse of the heavens and one horse of the earth, there is only discord and ruin and downfall to chariot and charioteer.
    NR 3.245 7 We must reconcile the contradictions [between the end and the means] as we can, but their discord and their concord introduce wild absurdities into our thinking and speech.
    SwM 4.130 20 ...this man [Swedenborg]...early fell into dangerous discord with himself.
    ET14 5.260 15 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations, of genius and of animal force...forever by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.
    Bty 6.293 7 It is necessary in music, when you strike a discord, to let down the ear by an intermediate note or two to the accord again;...
    Prch 10.224 24 ...it is as if [a man] were ten or twenty less men than himself, acting at discord with one another...
    EWI 11.114 10 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them.
    HCom 11.342 15 [The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men, to whose life war and discord were abhorrent.
    Let 12.401 11 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, truly, life is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius...

discordant, adj. (3)

    Cir 2.308 11 Each new step we take in thought reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts...
    Cir 2.308 15 ...discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle...
    AKan 11.260 26 Are there no women in that [Southern] country,-women, who always carry the conscience of a people? Yet we have not heard one discordant whisper.

discords, n. (5)

    Gts 3.164 3 The reason of these discords I conceive to be that there is no commensurability between a man and any gift.
    Wsp 6.238 2 Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not. With eyes open, he makes the choice...of religion which churches stop their discords to burn and exterminate;...
    Art2 7.55 16 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower.
    HDC 11.66 7 Mr. Whiting was succeeded in the pastoral office [in Concord] by Rev. Daniel Bliss, in 1738. Soon after his ordination, the town seems to have been divided by ecclesiastical discords.
    Milt1 12.261 7 ...[Milton]...searched the kennel and jakes as well as the palaces of sound for the harsh discords of his polemic wrath.

discountenance, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.211 17 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...

discourage, v. (2)

    Schr 10.286 21 I think much may be said to discourage and dissuade the young scholar from his career.
    SMC 11.365 2 [George Prescott writes] The major had tried to discourage me;-said, perhaps, if I carried [tent-poles] over, some other company would get them;...

discouraged, v. (1)

    CbW 6.248 24 Franklin said, Mankind...begin upon a thing, but, meeting with a difficulty, they fly from it discouraged;...

discouragement, n. (1)

    EWI 11.107 26 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to consider what step they should take...for the discouragement of the slave-trade on the coast of Africa.

discouraging, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.264 3 The forest on fire looks discouraging enough to a citizen...

Discourse [Benedetto Varchi (1)

    MAng1 12.241 10 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper...by the Italian scholar, in the Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo...

discourse, n. (72)

    Nat 1.28 14 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of, in all discourse...
    Nat 1.30 25 The moment our discourse rises above the ground line of familiar facts...it clothes itself in images.
    Nat 1.31 6 ...good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories.
    Nat 1.77 6 ...[the advancing spirit] shall draw...wise discourse...
    AmS 1.95 22 [Action] is pearls and rubies to [a man's] discourse.
    DSA 1.138 13 ...yet was there not a surmise, a hint, in all the discourse, that [the preacher] had ever lived at all.
    Hist 2.7 17 A true aspirant therefore never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse.
    Comp 2.93 2 Ever since I was a boy I have wished to write a discourse on Compensation;...
    Lov1 2.183 11 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages with words that take hold of the upper world, whilst one eye is prowling in the cellar; so that its gravest discourse has a savor of hams and powdering-tubs.
    Fdsp 2.207 4 You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several times with two several men...
    Fdsp 2.207 10 In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone.
    Cir 2.311 20 Good as is discourse, silence is better...
    Cir 2.311 21 The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer.
    Mrs1 3.145 12 What if the false gentleman contrives so to address his companion as civilly to exclude all others from his discourse, and also to make them feel excluded?
    NER 3.282 24 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we miss, we have the fact. Every discourse is an approximate answer...
    UGM 4.7 24 Our common discourse respects two kinds of use or service from superior men.
    SwM 4.103 13 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are bonmots, and not parts of natural discourse;...
    MoS 4.180 23 Some minds are incapable of skepticism. The doubts they profess to entertain are rather a civility or accommodation to the common discourse of their company.
    ET1 5.14 14 ...I...find it impossible to recall the largest part of [Coleridge' s] discourse...
    ET1 5.15 26 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse.
    ET11 5.191 14 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses, their bastards dukes and earls. The young men sat uppermost, the old serious lords were out of favor. The discourse that the king's companions had with him was poor and frothy.
    ET13 5.229 20 George Borrow summons the Gypsies to hear his discourse on the Hebrews in Egypt...
    ET14 5.235 10 Mixture is a secret of the English island; in their dialect, the male principle is the Saxon, the female, the Latin; and they are combined in every discourse.
    ET14 5.249 14 But for Coleridge, and a lurking taciturn minority uttering itself in occasional criticism, oftener in private discourse, one would say that in Germany and in America is the best mind in England rightly respected.
    ET16 5.286 22 On Sunday we had much discourse, on a very rainy day.
    F 6.3 4 ...four or five noted men were each reading a discourse...on the Spirit of the Times.
    Wsp 6.234 13 I recall some traits of a remarkable person whose life and discourse betrayed many inspirations of this [moral] sentiment.
    CbW 6.263 1 If now in this connection of discourse we should venture on laying down the first obvious rules of life, I will not here repeat the first rule of economy...
    Elo1 7.64 22 ...the end of eloquence is...to alter...perhaps in a half hour's discourse, the convictions and habits of years.
    Elo1 7.69 24 ...the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to fascination...
    Elo1 7.73 21 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits. Thus separated, as this fascination of discourse aims only at amusement...it is yet a juggle...
    Elo1 7.80 20 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. Each auditor puts a final stroke to the discourse by exclaiming, Can he mesmerize me?
    DL 7.120 19 ...who can see unmoved...the cautious comparison of the attractive advertisement...of the discourse of a well-known speaker, with the expense of the entertainment;...
    Boks 7.200 25 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters is a charming portraiture of ancient manners and discourse...
    Clbs 7.230 20 ...serious, happy discourse, avoiding personalities, dealing with results, is rare...
    Clbs 7.231 13 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety, grasp of memory, luck, splendor and speed; such exploits of discourse, such feats of society!
    Clbs 7.233 23 ...[Holmes (?)]...is of such genial temper that he disposes all others irresistibly to good humor and discourse.
    Clbs 7.248 2 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. All are in good humor and at leisure, which are the first conditions of discourse;...
    Clbs 7.250 15 Discourse, when it rises highest...is between two.
    OA 7.315 16 [Josiah Quincy's] was a discourse full of dignity...
    PI 8.63 13 [The high poets] have touched this heaven and retain afterwards some sparkle of it: they betray their belief that such discourse is possible.
    SA 8.90 9 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse.
    SA 8.96 14 A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse...
    Elo2 8.122 9 What must have been the discourse of St. Bernard, when mothers hid their sons...lest they should be led by his eloquence to join the monastery.
    Insp 8.292 17 ...in discourse with a friend, our thought...detaches itself...
    Grts 8.304 8 A sensible man...omits himself as habitually as another man obtrudes himself in the discourse...
    Grts 8.308 26 ...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
    Grts 8.308 27 ...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
    Aris 10.36 12 Every mark and scutcheon of [Nature's] indicates constitutional qualities. In science...in social discourse...it is the same thing.
    Aris 10.57 3 I will not protract this discourse by describing the duties of the brave and generous.
    Chr2 10.105 3 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors...
    Chr2 10.116 21 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they are never obtruded.
    Supl 10.171 5 ...I had been present...in the country at a cattle-show dinner, which followed an agricultural discourse delivered by a farmer...
    Supl 10.171 6 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad;...
    Prch 10.234 27 ...the power of sympathy is always great; and affirmative discourse, presuming assent, will often obtain it when argument would fail.
    Schr 10.282 19 ...it is the end of eloquence in a half-hour's discourse...to persuade a multitude of persons to renounce their opinions, and change the course of life.
    LLNE 10.335 5 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer...
    LLNE 10.342 8 ...at a knotty point in the discourse, a sympathizing Englishman...interrupted...
    EzRy 10.391 20 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment...which make the distinction of the scholar...
    Thor 10.456 26 Talking, one day, of a public discourse, Henry [Thoreau] remarked that whatever succeeded with the audience was bad.
    LS 11.10 16 The reason why St. John does not repeat [Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...
    LS 11.10 27 [Jesus] closed his discourse [at Capernaum] with these explanatory expressions: The flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life.
    LS 11.24 5 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to administer it. I am clearly of opinion I ought not. This discourse has already been so far extended that I can only say that the reason of my determination is shortly this: It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my
    FSLN 11.225 4 ...I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh of March discourse and those others...
    FSLN 11.242 21 ...in one part of the discourse the orator [Robert Winthrop] allowed to transpire, rather against his will, a little sober sense.
    Shak1 11.450 5 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he...like a street-bible, furnishes sayings to the market, courts of law, the senate, and common discourse,-he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    PLT 12.8 4 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject...
    II 12.77 11 ...all beauty of discourse or of manners lies in launching on the thought, and forgetting ourselves;...
    CL 12.136 15 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country...
    Milt1 12.251 4 The other piece is [Milton's] Areopagitica, the discourse... in favor of removing the censorship of the press; the most splendid of his prose works.
    ACri 12.286 23 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen. A well-chosen series of stereoscopic views would have served a better purpose, which they can explore at home, sauced with joyful discourse...
    ACri 12.287 11 ...all able men have known how to import the petulance of the street into correct discourse.

discourse, v. (3)

    Bhr 6.193 25 ...when [the monk Basle] came to discourse with [uncivil angels], instead of contradicting or forcing him, they took his part...
    MMEm 10.398 18 Of Love freely will [Lucy Percy] discourse...
    MAng1 12.240 23 Condivi, his friend, has left this testimony; I have often heard Michael Angelo reason and discourse upon love, but never heard him speak otherwise than upon platonic love.

discoursed, v. (3)

    Con 1.315 25 ...our husbands and brothers discoursed sadly on what we could save and give in the hard times.
    PPh 4.74 3 ...Meno has discoursed a thousand times, at length, on virtue...
    CInt 12.114 24 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed,-they reasoning, reading, inventing, discoursing, even to a rarity and admiration, things not before discoursed or written...

discourses, n. (15)

    Lov1 2.173 27 I have been told that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations.
    Lov1 2.182 3 ...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
    PPh 4.64 25 The whole of life, O Socrates, said Glauco, is, with the wise, the measure of hearing such discourses as these.
    PPh 4.75 2 The fame of this prison [of Socrates], the fame of the discourses there and the drinking of the hemlock are one of the most precious passages in the history of the world.
    SwM 4.111 20 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg], throw all the contemporary philosophy of England into shade...
    ET5 5.79 22 ...[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. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
    Elo1 7.95 6 We are slenderly furnished with anecdotes of these men [Chatham, Pericles, Luther], nor can we help ourselves by those heavy books in which their discourses are reported.
    Elo1 7.99 7 To stand on one's own feet, Heeren finds the key-note to the discourses of Demosthenes...
    WD 7.179 7 I am of the opinion of Glauco, who said, The measure of life, O Socrates, is, with the wise, the speaking and hearing such discourses as yours.
    Plu 10.305 20 There is...a wide difference of time in the writing of these discourses [of Plutarch]...
    LLNE 10.332 13 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys...than exegetical discourses in the style of Voss and Wolff and Ruhnken...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.339 21 [Channing] could never be reported, for his eye and voice could not be printed, and his discourses lose their best in losing them.
    EzRy 10.394 8 [Ezra Ripley] was the more competent to these searching discourses from his knowledge of family history.
    LS 11.20 5 A passage read from [Christ's] discourses...I call a worthy, a true commemoration.
    TPar 11.290 18 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses.

discourses, v. (1)

    NER 3.274 22 Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia, discourses with the Egyptian priest concerning the fountains of the Nile...

discoursing, v. (2)

    Clbs 7.236 3 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people on life and duty...
    CInt 12.114 23 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed,-they reasoning, reading, inventing, discoursing, even to a rarity and admiration, things not before discoursed or written...

discourtesy, n. (1)

    AsSu 11.250 20 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States, with discourtesy.

discover, v. (34)

    LE 1.167 22 Further inquiry will discover that nobody...knew anything sincere of these handsome natures they so commended;...
    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.
    MR 1.240 24 ...where a man does not yet discover in himself any fitness for one work more than another, [the husbandman's] may be preferred.
    Tran 1.353 26 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead...never meet and measure each other...and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.
    SR 2.81 23 Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
    SL 2.131 3 ...we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.
    Lov1 2.187 14 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together...was deciduous...
    Hsm1 2.261 13 We tell our charities...for our justification. It is a capital blunder; as you discover when another man recites his charities.
    Int 2.334 13 It is long ere we discover how rich we are.
    Int 2.340 6 ...at last we discover that our curve is a parabola...
    PPh 4.64 11 ...[said Plato] the persuasion that we must search that which we do not know, will render us, beyond comparison, better, braver and more industrious than if we thought it impossible to discover what we do not know, and useless to search for it.
    SwM 4.125 23 [To Swedenborg] Such as have deprived themselves of charity, wander and flee: the societies which they approach discover their quality and drive them away.
    MoS 4.171 9 The nonconformist and the rebel...discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.
    MoS 4.174 20 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...
    MoS 4.179 4 A method in the world we do not see, but this parallelism of great and little, which never...discover the smallest tendency to converge.
    ShP 4.202 1 ...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
    NMW 4.239 24 [Bonaparte's] remarks and estimates discover the information and justness of measurement of the middle class.
    NMW 4.253 10 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it is treacherous...
    Ctr 6.158 24 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill;...
    CbW 6.250 1 Clay and clay differ in dignity, as we discover by our preferences every day.
    SS 7.4 27 [My friend] went to Vienna, to Smyrna, to London. In all the variety of costumes...to his horror he could never discover a man in the street who wore anything like his own dress.
    OA 7.317 6 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that here is one who knows already what you would go about with much pains to teach him;...
    OA 7.317 17 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise...though an infant of only a few days, speaks articulately to those who discover him...
    OA 7.319 15 ...we one day discover that our literary talent was a youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
    PI 8.16 8 ...whenever you enunciate a natural law you discover that you have enunciated a law of the mind.
    PI 8.58 5 ...Discover thou what it is,/ The strong creature from before the flood,/ Without flesh, without bone, without head, without feet,/ It will neither be younger nor older than at the beginning;/...
    PI 8.61 22 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...when you shall have departed from this place, I shall nevermore speak to you, nor to any other person, save only my mistress; for never other person will be able to discover this place for anything which may befall;...
    QO 8.180 17 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native country to discover its foregoers...
    QO 8.188 17 In opening a new book we often discover, from the unguarded devotion with which the writer gives his motto or text, all we have to expect from him.
    Insp 8.294 2 We esteem nations important, until we discover that a few individuals much more concern us;...
    Dem1 10.13 6 Nature...works...by infinite graduation; so that we live embosomed...by innumerable impressions so softly laid on that though important we do not discover them until our attention is called to them.
    SovE 10.190 15 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order...
    EWI 11.132 20 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime, and should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons...may now be.
    Trag 12.407 16 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...

discoverable, adj. (2)

    MoS 4.176 25 ...is no community of sentiment discoverable in distant times and places?
    ShP 4.213 1 ...[Shakespeare] has no discoverable egotism...

discovered, adj. (1)

    OS 2.274 26 The growths of genius are of a certain total character, that does not advance the elect individual first over John, then Adam, then Richard, and give to each the pain of discovered inferiority...

discovered, v. (33)

    AmS 1.97 20 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving...went out one day...and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees.
    YA 1.371 25 [Destiny] is not discovered in [men's] calculated and voluntary activity...
    Hist 2.10 12 Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known. The better for him.
    SR 2.86 19 Galileo, with an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid series of celestial phenomena than any one since.
    Exp 3.46 11 In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished...
    SwM 4.127 22 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total; and chastity not a local, but a universal virtue; unchastity being discovered as much in the trading, or planting, or speaking, or philosophizing, as in generation;...
    ET1 5.17 6 Rousseau's Confessions had discovered to [Carlyle] that he was not a dunce;...
    ET7 5.120 1 Wellington discovered the ruin of Bonaparte's affairs, by his own probity.
    Ctr 6.135 13 ...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with his family, or a few companions...
    Bty 6.288 10 We fancy, could we pronounce the solving word and disenchant [beridden people]...the little rider would be discovered and unseated...
    SS 7.7 23 Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
    Art2 7.53 11 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it...was one of the possible forms in the Divine mind, and is now only discovered and executed by the artist...
    Farm 7.150 2 ...in this very year, a large quantity of land has been discovered and added to the town [of Concord] without a murmur of complaint from any quarter.
    Boks 7.216 9 I remember when some peering eyes of boys discovered that the oranges hanging on the boughs of an orange-tree in a gay piazza were tied to the twigs by thread.
    Suc 7.283 12 We have discovered the Antarctic continent.
    QO 8.187 10 It is only within this century that England and America discovered that their nursery-tales were old German and Scandinavian stories;...
    Dem1 10.14 8 The poor ship-master discovered a sound theology, when in the storm at sea he made his prayer to Neptune, O God, thou mayst save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayst destroy me; but, however, I will hold my rudder true.
    Dem1 10.17 10 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction...
    Aris 10.54 1 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole village...in his facts;...the stupid had discovered that they were not stupid;...
    SovE 10.197 5 I have not discovered, until this blessed ray flashed just now through my soul, that there dwelt any power in Nature that would relieve me of my load.
    MoL 10.256 2 Sincerity is, in dangerous times, discovered to be an immeasurable advantage.
    MMEm 10.405 10 [Mary Moody Emerson]...now and then in her migrations from town to town in Maine and Massachusetts...discovered some preacher with sense or piety, or both.
    Thor 10.459 27 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...
    Thor 10.472 25 ...as [Thoreau] discovered everywhere among doctors some leaning of courtesy, it discredited them.
    Thor 10.473 3 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered his rare accuracy and skill...
    War 11.158 16 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...in which voyage, I have either discovered or brought certain intelligence of all the rich places of the world...
    War 11.158 18 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...in which voyage, I have either discovered or brought certain intelligence of all the rich places of the world, which were ever discovered by any Christian.
    War 11.158 23 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure.
    SMC 11.354 26 The opinions of masses of men...the [Civil] war discovered;...
    FRO2 11.487 27 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...only humble and docile before the source of the wisdom he has discovered within him.
    FRep 11.512 24 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered...
    PLT 12.25 27 The botanist discovered long ago that Nature loves mixtures...
    CL 12.137 12 [Linnaeus] discovered that the arundo arenaris, or beach-grass, had long firm roots...

discoverer, n. (7)

    Nat2 3.183 18 Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore is [man] the prophet and discoverer of her secrets.
    UGM 4.28 2 The best discovery the discoverer makes for himself.
    SwM 4.123 12 ...[Swedenborg] is a rich discoverer...
    Comc 8.165 5 Captain John Smith, the discoverer of New England, was not wanting in humor.
    Edc1 10.151 1 What discoverer of Nature's laws will [the college] prompt to enrich us by disclosing in the mind the statute which all matter must obey?
    Thor 10.472 17 ...no academy made [Thoreau]...its discoverer...
    MAng1 12.227 18 ...not only was this discoverer of Beauty [Michelangelo]...rooted and grounded in those severe laws of practical skill, which genius can never teach...but he was one of the most industrious men that ever lived.

discoverers, n. (3)

    Ctr 6.146 6 Naturalists, discoverers and sailors are born.
    WD 7.174 27 ...to ascertain the discoverers of America needs as much voyaging as the discovery cost.
    Bost 12.191 22 The planters of Massachusetts do not appear to have been hardy men, rather, comfortable citizens, not at all accustomed to the rough task of discoverers;...

discoveries, n. (22)

    AmS 1.112 15 This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries.
    Hist 2.6 24 We sympathize...in the great discoveries...because there law was enacted...for us...
    Exp 3.71 15 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose...
    UGM 4.8 8 The aid we have from others is mechanical compared with the discoveries of nature in us.
    PNR 4.81 25 The naturalist would never help us to [the expansions of facts] by any discoveries of the extent of the universe...
    SwM 4.102 11 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated...in anatomy, the discoveries of Schlichting, Monro and Wilson;...
    SwM 4.102 14 [Swedenborg's] excellent English editor magnanimously lays no stress on his discoveries...
    SwM 4.103 1 Over and above the merit of [Swedenborg's] particular discoveries, is the capital merit of his self-equality.
    ET9 5.148 25 ...an ex-governor of Illinois, said to me, If the man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock that he goes bustling up and down and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
    ET13 5.225 7 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament. The heavens journey still and sojourn not, and arts, wars, discoveries and opinion go onward at their own pace.
    F 6.44 17 Certain ideas are in the air. ... This explains the curious contemporaneousness of inventions and discoveries.
    Pow 6.75 6 One of the high anecdotes of the world is the reply of Newton to the inquiry how he had been able to achieve his discoveries?--By always intending my mind.
    Clbs 7.250 1 One likes...to make in an old acquaintance unexpected discoveries of scope and power through the advantage of an inspiring subject.
    Res 8.145 17 Malus, known for his discoveries in the polarization of light, was captain of a corps of engineers in Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign...
    Grts 8.306 5 ...Sir Humphry Davy said, when he was praised for his important discoveries, my best discovery was Michael Faraday.
    Imtl 8.334 21 ...the naturalist works...for the believing mind, which turns his discoveries to revelations...
    LLNE 10.336 21 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence. This correction of our superstitions was confirmed by the new science of Geology, and the whole train of discoveries in every department.
    Wom 11.406 9 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them never. That is to say, all wisdoms Woman knows; though she... does not explain them as discoveries, like the understanding of man.
    CPL 11.508 19 It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
    PLT 12.8 9 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...
    PLT 12.33 18 The healthy mind...sees things in place, or makes discoveries.
    Mem 12.100 15 Sir Isaac Newton was embarrassed when the conversation turned on his discoveries and results; he could not recall them;...

Discoveries, Timber, or [Be (1)

    Boks 7.207 24 ...what with...the portrait sketches in his Discoveries... [Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time...

discovering, v. (5)

    AmS 1.85 22 ...[the young mind] goes on...discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.
    Lov1 2.185 13 ...adding up costly advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering that...they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
    PNR 4.82 13 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision, and by this second sight discovering the long lines of law which shoot in every direction.
    PNR 4.85 8 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...delighted...in discovering connection, continuity and representation everywhere...
    PLT 12.4 18 In all sciences the student is discovering that Nature...is always working...after the laws of the human mind.

discovers, v. (18)

    AmS 1.86 3 The astronomer discovers that geometry...is the measure of planetary motion.
    MN 1.219 15 What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty;... and a third discovers that the motive force was plantation and trade.
    MR 1.249 13 ...if...a woman or a child discovers a sentiment of piety...I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience...
    Hist 2.29 24 The advancing man discovers how deep a property he has in literature...
    Prd1 2.221 8 ...whosoever sees my garden discovers that I must have some other garden.
    OS 2.277 5 Childhood and youth see all the world in [persons]. But the larger experience of man discovers the identical nature appearing through them all.
    Nat2 3.184 2 The common sense of Franklin, Dalton, Davy and Black is the same common sense which made the arrangements which now it discovers.
    UGM 4.24 10 Our globe discovers its hidden virtues, not only in heroes and archangels, but in gossips and nurses.
    ET16 5.274 11 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it:--and he thinks he discovers that old Goethe found this out...
    Pow 6.61 24 ...[a timid man] discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.
    DL 7.123 22 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model. Neither does the measurer himself;...neither do...the heroes of the race. When he inspects them critically, he discovers that their aims are low...
    PI 8.23 3 The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols;...
    Comc 8.160 23 ...whilst the presence of the ideal discovers the difference [between rule and fact], the comedy is enhanced whenever that ideal is embodied visibly in a man.
    SovE 10.191 25 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment...
    SovE 10.210 22 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another in whom he discovers absolute honesty;...
    Plu 10.316 18 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire. It is moved and nourished by itself, and by its brightness, like the soul, discovers and makes everything apparent...
    PLT 12.39 27 ...the mind discovers some essential copula binding this [new] fact or change to a class of facts or changes...
    Let 12.397 2 The loneliest man, after twenty years, discovers that he stood in a circle of friends...

discovery, n. (53)

    MN 1.221 13 I will that we...live a life of discovery and performance.
    Hist 2.29 5 The fact teaches [the child]...how the Pyramids were built, better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile.
    Hist 2.39 9 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the discovery of new lands...
    Comp 2.124 9 ...he that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves. Thereby I make the discovery that my brother is my guardian...
    SL 2.137 3 Our society is encumbered by ponderous machinery, which resembles the endless aqueducts which the Romans built...and which are superseded by the discovery of the law that water rises to the level of its source.
    Cir 2.317 1 The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues...
    Art1 2.355 16 ...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself. For the time, it is the only thing worth naming to do that,--be it a sonnet...the plan of a...voyage of discovery.
    Exp 3.56 17 ...thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular? The reason of the pain this discovery causes us...is the plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to persons, to friendship and love.
    Exp 3.75 20 It is very unhappy...the discovery we have made that we exist.
    Exp 3.75 21 It is very unhappy...the discovery we have made that we exist. That discovery is called the Fall of Man.
    Nat2 3.189 10 ...perhaps the discovery that wisdom has other tongues and ministers than we...might check injuriously the flames of our zeal.
    NR 3.226 20 When I meet a pure intellectual force or a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man; and am presently mortified by the discovery that this individual is no more available to his own or to the general ends than his companions;...
    UGM 4.9 26 In the history of discovery, the ripe and latent truth seems to have fashioned a brain for itself.
    UGM 4.28 1 The best discovery the discoverer makes for himself.
    SwM 4.102 4 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated, in astronomy, the discovery of the seventh planet...
    ET8 5.138 8 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous;...
    ET14 5.240 12 [Bacon] held this element [prima philosophia] essential... believing that no perfect discovery can be made in a flat or level, but you must ascend to a higher science.
    F 6.10 22 You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere, as expect...a chemical discovery from that jobber.
    F 6.14 13 All we know of the egg, from each successive discovery, is, another vesicle;...
    Pow 6.57 8 [A broad, healthy, massive understanding]...anticipates everybody's discovery;...

discovery, n.

    Wth 6.113 8 ...it is a large stride to independence, when a man, in the discovery of his proper talent, has sunk the necessity for false expenses.
    Ctr 6.147 26 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain... rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...
    Wsp 6.222 13 ...after a little experience [the countryman] makes the discovery that there are no large cities...
    SS 7.5 26 These conversations [with my friend] led me...to the discovery that [similar cases] are not of very infrequent occurrence.
    WD 7.175 2 ...to ascertain the discoverers of America needs as much voyaging as the discovery cost.
    Boks 7.202 6 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
    Clbs 7.232 23 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei their equals, and then as for their own convenience simply, making too much haste to introduce and impart their new whim or discovery;...
    Suc 7.285 22 [Columbus told the King and Queen] I assert that [the pilots] can give no other account than that they went to lands where there was abundance of gold, but they...would be obliged to go on a voyage of discovery as much as if they had never been there before.
    Suc 7.293 11 The fame of each discovery rightly attaches to the mind that made the formula which contains all the details...
    OA 7.322 23 We still feel the force...of Newton, who made an important discovery for every one of his eighty-five years;...
    SA 8.87 9 It is necessary for the purification of drawing-rooms that these entertaining explosions [of laughter] should be under strict control. Lord Chesterfield had early made this discovery...
    Res 8.137 4 We are...each sailing out on a voyage of discovery...
    Res 8.140 11 The marked events in history...the discovery of the mariner's compass...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    PC 8.222 6 ...if we should analyze Newton's discovery, we should say that if it had not been anticipated by him, it would not have been found.
    Insp 8.271 9 Everything which we hear for the first time was expected by the mind; the newest discovery was expected.
    Grts 8.306 5 ...Sir Humphry Davy said...my best discovery was Michael Faraday.
    Dem1 10.21 1 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind.
    Supl 10.166 13 Think how much pains astronomers and opticians have taken to procure an achromatic lens. Discovery in the heavens has waited for it; discovery on the face of the earth not less.
    SovE 10.183 1 Since the discovery of Oersted that galvanism and electricity and magnetism are only forms of one and the same force...we have continually suggested to us a larger generalization...
    SovE 10.192 6 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early,-sometimes in the nursery, to a rare child;...
    SovE 10.192 20 Nothing is allowed to exceed or absorb the rest; if it do, it is disease, and is quickly destroyed. It was an early discovery of the mind,- this beneficent rule.
    MMEm 10.422 11 Dissolve the body...and we measure duration...by the activity of reason, the discovery of truths...
    MMEm 10.428 16 ...[Mary Moody Emerson]...delighted herself with the discovery of the figure of a coffin made every evening on their sidewalk, by the shadow of a church tower which adjoined the house.
    Thor 10.464 13 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol. This discovery... was in him an unsleeping insight;...
    EWI 11.145 3 I esteem the occasion of this jubilee [of emancipation in the West Indies] to be the proud discovery that the black race can contend with the white...
    CPL 11.505 24 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun...
    FRep 11.513 21 Our sleepy civilization...has built its whole art of war...on that one compound [gunpowder]...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times. As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could change the art of war again...
    PLT 12.40 2 ...the mind discovers some essential copula binding this [new] fact or change to a class of facts or changes, and enjoys the discovery as if coming to its own again.
    II 12.66 4 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects. Here alone is the field of metaphysical discovery...
    II 12.73 10 ...really the capital discovery of modern agriculture is that it costs no more to keep a good tree than a bad one.
    II 12.89 1 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent...renew life for [a man].
    CInt 12.118 7 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery.
    Milt1 12.247 1 The discovery of the lost work of Milton, the treatise Of the Christian Doctrine, in 1823, drew a sudden attention to his name.

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