Easy to Effectually

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

easy, adj. (182)

    Nat 1.53 22 The wild beauty of this hyperbole...it would not be easy to match in literature.
    AmS 1.98 25 ...these fits of easy transmission and reflection...are the law of nature...
    DSA 1.145 8 ...each would be an easy secondary to some Christian scheme...
    DSA 1.147 16 ...almost all men are content with [society's] easy merits;...
    LE 1.166 14 ...[the speaker] finds it just as easy and natural to speak...as it was to sit silent;...
    LE 1.166 20 ...motion is as easy as rest.
    MN 1.198 11 In treating a subject so large...I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
    MN 1.218 20 Behold! there is the sun, and the rain, and the rocks; the old sun, the old stones. How easy were it to describe all this fitly; yet no word can pass.
    MR 1.235 26 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors...of state? It is easy to see that the inconvenience would last but a short time.
    MR 1.238 18 A man...who builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy to caulk it...
    Tran 1.331 16 ...how easy it is to show [the materialist] that he also is a phantom walking and working amid phantoms...
    Tran 1.350 7 Once possessed of the principle, it is equally easy to make four or forty thousand applications of it.
    Tran 1.352 2 ...to [Transcendentalists] it seems a very easy matter to answer the objections of the man of the world...
    Tran 1.352 3 ...to [Transcendentalists] it seems...not so easy to dispose of the doubts and objections that occur to themselves.
    YA 1.367 21 ...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of selection [of a seat], by making it easy to cultivate very distant tracts...
    YA 1.371 10 It seems so easy for America to inspire and express the most expansive and humane spirit;...
    YA 1.374 20 It is easy to see that the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence which in its working for coming generations, sacrifices the passing one;...
    YA 1.376 14 It is easy to see that this patriarchal or family management gets to be rather troublesome to all but the papa;...
    YA 1.385 26 It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services...
    Hist 2.18 26 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches,--a round block in the centre, which it was easy to animate with eyes and mouth...
    SR 2.53 26 It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion;...
    SR 2.54 1 ...it is easy in solitude to live after our own [opinion];...
    SR 2.56 12 It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes.
    SR 2.68 9 It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.
    SR 2.77 3 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...
    SL 2.138 25 ...only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong...
    SL 2.141 7 [A man] inclines to do something which is easy to him and good when it is done, but which no other man can do.
    SL 2.146 1 Nothing seems so easy as to speak and to be understood.
    Fdsp 2.213 2 The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.
    Prd1 2.240 14 These old shoes are easy to the feet.
    Cir 2.321 11 When we see the conqueror we do not think much of any one battle or success. We see that we had exaggerated the difficulty. It was easy to him.
    Art1 2.367 27 ...the distinction between the fine and the useful arts [must] be forgotten. If history were truly told...it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other.
    Exp 3.78 21 ...[murder] is an act quite easy to be contemplated;...
    Chr1 3.97 3 ...[the action's] moral element preexisted in the actor, and its quality as right or wrong it was easy to predict.
    Mrs1 3.124 6 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits. The ruling class must have more, but they must have these, giving in every company the sense of power, which makes things easy to be done which daunt the wise.
    Mrs1 3.137 16 It is easy to push this deference to a Chinese etiquette;...
    Mrs1 3.152 25 For the present distress...of those who are predisposed to suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy remedies.
    Mrs1 3.155 3 It is easy to see that what is called by distinction society and fashion has good laws as well as bad...
    Nat2 3.176 22 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive.
    Nat2 3.176 26 ...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. It is as easy to broach in mixed companies what is called the subject of religion.
    Nat2 3.188 27 The friend coldly turns [the pages of a young person's diary] over, and passes from the writing to conversation, with easy transition...
    Pol1 3.203 15 It was not...found easy to embody the readily admitted principle that property should make law for property...
    Pol1 3.204 16 If it be not easy to settle the equity of this question [of property], the peril is less when we take note of our natural defenses.
    NR 3.233 22 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices...
    NER 3.255 9 In politics...it is easy to see the progress of dissent.
    NER 3.271 9 It would be easy to show...that we are not so wedded to our paltry performances of every kind but that every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should do;...
    NER 3.279 17 If it were worth while to run into details this general doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church...
    UGM 4.6 6 It is easy to sugar to be sweet...
    UGM 4.9 2 ...the makers of tools;...the musician,--severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    UGM 4.26 9 ...it is very easy to be as wise and good as your companions.
    PPh 4.41 20 ...after some time it is not easy to say what is the authentic work of the master and what is only of his school.
    PPh 4.54 10 It is as easy to be great as to be small.
    PNR 4.80 16 [The human being's] arts and sciences, the easy issue of his brain, look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox...
    SwM 4.105 7 What was left for a genius of the largest calibre but to go over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite? It is easy to see, in these minds, the origin of Swedenborg's studies...
    MoS 4.150 22 It is easy to see how this arrogance [of the literary class] comes.
    MoS 4.173 4 It stands in [the wise skeptic's] mind that our life in this world is not of quite so easy interpretation as churches and school-books say.
    ShP 4.199 22 It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work...
    ShP 4.215 10 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history...
    NMW 4.249 16 When a man has been present in many actions [said Napoleon], he distinguishes that moment [of panic] without difficulty: it is as easy as casting up an addition.
    ET1 5.15 12 [Carlyle] was...self-possessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command;...
    ET4 5.49 8 It is easy to add to the counteracting forces to race.
    ET4 5.51 12 Neither do this people [the English] appear to be of one stem, but collectively a better race than any from which they are derived. Nor is it easy to trace it home to its original seats.
    ET10 5.166 6 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe,--whether for travel...or for mere comfort and easy healthy relation to people at home.
    ET12 5.211 13 I should readily concede these [physical] advantages, which would be easy to acquire, if I did not find also that [Oxford men] read better than we, and write better.
    ET12 5.213 3 It is easy to carp at colleges...
    ET14 5.232 2 A strong common sense, which it is not easy to unseat or disturb, marks the English mind for a thousand years;...
    ET14 5.236 2 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...their fancy and imagination and easy spanning of vast distances of thought...astonish...
    ET14 5.236 5 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...and, generally, the easy exertion of power,--astonish...
    ET14 5.251 1 It would be easy to add exceptions to the limitary tone of English thought...
    ET14 5.251 3 It would be easy to add exceptions to the limitary tone of English thought, and much more easy to adduce examples of excellence in particular veins;...
    ET16 5.288 13 On the way to Winchester...my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses,--my house, for example. It is not easy to answer these queries well.
    ET17 5.292 12 My visit [to England] fell in the fortunate days when Mr. [George] Bancroft was the American Minister in London, and at his house, or through his good offices, I had easy access to excellent persons and to privileged places.
    Pow 6.67 17 [Boniface] led the 'rummies' and radicals in town-meeting with a speech. Meantime, he was civil, fat, and easy, in his house, and precisely the most public-spirited citizen.
    Wth 6.91 1 ...Wall Street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word...
    Wth 6.100 21 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts which is easy in near and small transactions;...
    Ctr 6.144 20 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither. His easy superiority to multitudes of professional men could never quite countervail to him this imaginary defect.
    Ctr 6.157 16 Here is a new poem, which elicits a good many comments in the journals and in conversation. From these it is easy at last to gather the verdict which readers passed upon it;...
    Ctr 6.162 23 He who aims high must dread an easy home and popular manners.
    CbW 6.259 16 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which...gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue when once it is begun.
    CbW 6.265 8 I know how easy it is to men of the world to look grave and sneer at your sanguine youth and its glittering dreams.
    CbW 6.276 23 'T is as easy to twist iron anchors and braid cannons as to braid straw;...
    SS 7.11 17 ...it is so easy with the great to be great;...
    SS 7.11 18 ...it is...so easy to come up to an existing standard;...
    SS 7.11 19 ...it is...so easy to come up to an existing standard;--as easy as it is to the lover to swim to his maiden through waves so grim before.
    Art2 7.55 7 It would be easy to show of many fine things in the world...the origin in quite simple local necessities.
    Elo1 7.77 9 Face to face with a highwayman...can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?--a problem easy enough to Caesar or Napoleon.
    Elo1 7.79 15 It is easy to illustrate this overpowering personality by these examples of soldiers and kings;...
    DL 7.104 25 ...uncles, aunts, grandsires, grandams, fall an easy prey [to the young enchanter]...
    DL 7.112 5 The shortest enumeration of our wants in this rugged climate appalls us by the multitude of things not easy to be done.
    DL 7.131 26 Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum].
    WD 7.165 1 I saw a brave man...constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds. It was easy to see that he was amusing himself with making pretty links for his own limbs.
    WD 7.183 6 ...in Newton, science was as easy as breathing;...
    Boks 7.189 1 It is easy to accuse books...
    Boks 7.193 12 It is easy to count the number of pages which a diligent man can read in a day...
    Boks 7.196 3 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...Erasmus, More, will be superior to the average intellect. In contemporaries, it is not so easy to distinguish betwixt notoriety and fame.
    Boks 7.204 6 ...in our Bible...it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
    Clbs 7.225 21 ...every healthy and efficient mind passes a large part of life in the company most easy to him.
    Suc 7.288 1 These [boasted arts] are local conveniences, but how easy to go now to parts of the world where not only all these arts are wanting, but where they are despised.
    Suc 7.310 9 'T is cheap and easy to destroy.
    Suc 7.311 2 Yes, [cynicism] is easy;...
    Suc 7.311 5 ...to redeem defeat by new thought, by firm action, that is not easy...
    OA 7.315 20 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home--an easy task--Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...
    PI 8.34 18 'T is easy to repaint the mythology of the Greeks...
    PI 8.51 6 It would not be easy to refuse to Sir Thomas Browne's Fragment on Mummies the claim of poetry...
    Elo2 8.116 10 [The people] have sent their best men;...and it is not easy to see who else can be spared or can be induced to go.
    Elo2 8.118 7 ...it is easy to see that the great and daily growing interests at stake in this country must pay proportional prices to their spokesmen and defenders.
    Elo2 8.128 6 ...it would be easy to point to many masters [of eloquence] whose readiness is sure;...
    Res 8.150 6 ...the law of light, which Newton said proceeded by fits of easy reflection and transmission...is the law of mind;...
    Res 8.153 12 It is easy to see that there is no limit to the chapter of Resources.
    QO 8.180 4 If we confine ourselves to literature, 't is easy to see that the debt is immense to past thought.
    PC 8.207 23 [Men] come from crowded, antiquated kingdoms to the easy sharing of our simple forms.
    PC 8.220 22 ...[the true man] is the only great event, and it is easy to lift him into a mythological personage.
    PC 8.232 23 ...it is not by easy virtue, where the public is concerned, that heroic results are obtained.
    PPo 8.238 15 The prolific sun and the sudden and rank plenty which his heat engenders, make subsistence easy [in the East].
    PPo 8.239 6 The favor of the climate, making subsistence easy...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization...
    PPo 8.244 16 [Hafiz] accosts all topics with an easy audacity.
    PPo 8.252 9 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy.
    PPo 8.252 16 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...Cowley's,-The melancholy Cowley lay. But it is easy to Hafiz.
    Insp 8.276 25 ...says the man...the favorable hour will come...when that will be easy to do which is at this moment impossible.
    Grts 8.308 4 It is easy for a commander to command.
    Grts 8.311 5 No way has been found for making heroism easy...
    Grts 8.314 7 It is easy to draw traits [of greatness] from Napoleon...
    Grts 8.314 26 I find it easy to translate all [Napoleon's] technics into all of mine...
    Imtl 8.350 2 Yama said, For this question [of immortality], it was inquired of old, even by the gods; for it is not easy to understand it.
    Imtl 8.350 6 Nachiketas said, Even by the gods was it inquired [concerning immortality]. And as to what thou sayest, O Death, that it is not easy to understand it, there is no other speaker to be found like thee.
    Dem1 10.18 29 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing.
    Aris 10.61 2 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well;...
    PerF 10.78 1 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces;...
    Chr2 10.96 7 There is no labor or sacrifice to which [the moral sentiment] will not bring a man, and which it will not make easy.
    Edc1 10.140 17 If [a boy] can turn his books to such picturesque account in his fishing and hunting, it is easy to see how his reading and experience... will interpenetrate each other.
    Edc1 10.147 18 ...as mechanics say, when one has learned the use of tools, it is easy to work at a new craft.
    Edc1 10.153 17 A rule is so easy that it does not need a man to apply it;...
    Edc1 10.154 5 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...it...is of so easy application...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    Edc1 10.154 21 It is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow...
    Edc1 10.157 16 I assume that you [teachers] will keep the grammar, reading, writing and arithmetic in order; 't is easy and of course you will.
    Plu 10.309 3 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction.
    LLNE 10.325 16 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision...
    LLNE 10.351 5 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...what gardens, what baths! What is not in one will be in another, and many will be within easy distance.
    LLNE 10.355 1 It was easy to see what must be the fate of this fine system [of Fourier's] in any serious and comprehensive attempt to set it on foot in this country.
    EzRy 10.389 17 [Ezra Ripley] was the easy dupe of any tonguey agent... who went by.
    EzRy 10.395 8 [Ezra Ripley] was a man very easy to read...
    MMEm 10.400 14 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband...were getting old, and the husband a shiftless, easy man.
    MMEm 10.417 9 ...it is easy to see that [Mary Moody Emerson] could hardly promise herself sympathy in her religious abandonment with any but a rarely-found partner.
    MMEm 10.432 25 ...it is easy to believe that Cassandra domesticated in a lady's house would have proved a troublesome boarder.
    SlHr 10.439 22 ...it was perfectly easy for [Samuel Hoar] to associate with farmers...
    SlHr 10.439 27 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in...the common incidents of rural life. It was just as easy for him to meet on the same floor, and with the same plain courtesy, men of distinction and large ability.
    Thor 10.478 17 It was easy to trace to the inexorable demand on all for exact truth that austerity which made this willing hermit [Thoreau] more solitary even than he wished.
    EWI 11.126 5 It was very easy for manufacturers less shrewd than those of Birmingham and Manchester to see that if the state of things in the islands [of the West Indies] was altered, if the slaves had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses...
    EWI 11.133 20 It is so easy to omit to speak, or even to be absent when delicate things are to be handled.
    War 11.151 20 As far as history has preserved to us the slow unfoldings of any savage tribe, it is not easy to see how war could be avoided...
    War 11.154 7 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage. It would be very easy to show analogous benefits that have resulted from military movements of later ages.
    FSLC 11.187 8 It is not easy to parallel the wickedness of this American law [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    JBB 11.269 16 It is easy to see what a favorite [John Brown] will be with history...
    JBS 11.280 13 I am not a little surprised at the easy effrontery with which political gentlemen, in and out of Congress, take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.
    ACiv 11.306 8 ...we have too much experience of the futility of an easy reliance on the momentary good dispositions of the public.
    ALin 11.331 21 ...[Lincoln] had a strong sense of duty, which it was very easy for him to obey.
    ALin 11.337 3 Easy good nature has been the dangerous foible of the Republic...
    HCom 11.342 21 It is easy to recall the mood in which our young men... went to the war.
    SMC 11.375 15 ...it is easy to see that if danger should ever threaten the homes which you [veterans of the Civil War] guard, the knowledge of your presence will be a wall of fire for their protection.
    EdAd 11.387 14 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...
    Wom 11.410 5 We commonly say that easy circumstances seem somehow necessary to the finish of the female character...
    Wom 11.416 5 Another step [for Woman] was the effect of the action of the age in the antagonism to Slavery. It was easy to enlist Woman in this;...
    Wom 11.417 17 ...it would be easy for women to retaliate in kind, by painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape.
    Wom 11.417 21 ...it would be easy for women to retaliate in kind, by painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape. That they have not, is an eulogy on their taste and self-respect. The good easy world took the joke which it liked.
    Wom 11.423 13 It is easy to see that there is contamination enough [in politics]...
    SHC 11.434 1 [Sleepy Hollow's] seclusion from the village in its immediate neighborhood had made it to all the inhabitants an easy retreat on a Sabbath day...
    Scot 11.464 7 It is easy to see the origin of [Scott's] poems.
    FRO1 11.480 14 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; and it were easy to find more.
    CPL 11.496 21 ...it is not easy to exaggerate the utility of the beneficence which takes this form [building of a library].
    CPL 11.498 21 The religious bias of our founders had its usual effect to secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book, and thence the step was easy for active minds to an acquaintance with history and with poetry.
    FRep 11.522 19 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by political power and by the power in the railroad board, in the mills, or the banks. This...gives, of course, an easy self-reliance...
    PLT 12.56 13 There are two theories of life;... One is activity...the following of that practical talent which we have, in the belief that what is so natural, easy and pleasant to us...will surely lead us out safely;...
    II 12.81 12 It is easy to see that the races of men rise out of the ground preoccupied with a thought which rules them...
    CL 12.158 26 ...I have sometimes thought it would be well to publish an Art of Walking, with Easy Lessons for Beginners.
    CL 12.164 13 'T is not easy to say again what Nature says to us.
    Bost 12.190 16 How easy it is, after the city is built, to see where it ought to stand.
    Bost 12.210 17 The [American] heroes only shared this power of a sentiment, which, if it now breathes into us, will make it easy to us to understand them, and we shall no longer flatter them.
    Milt1 12.247 21 It was very easy to remark an altered tone in the criticism when Milton reappeared as an author, fifteen years ago...
    ACri 12.302 1 'T is very easy to call the gracious spring poor goody herb-wife...
    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...
    AgMs 12.360 6 ...it was easy to see that [Edmund Hosmer] felt toward the author [of the Agricultural Survey] much as soldiers do toward the historiographer who follows the camp...
    Let 12.399 2 It is easy to see that [a stay in Europe] is only a postponement of [American youths'] proper work...

easy, adv. (3)

    Supl 10.169 25 The common people diminish: a cold snap; it rains easy; good haying weather.
    Milt1 12.263 5 [Milton's] virtues remind us of what Plutarch said of Timoleon's victories, that they resembled Homer's verses, they ran so easy and natural.
    ACri 12.296 20 ...[Herrick] took what he knew, and took it easy, as we say.

eat, v. (87)

    LE 1.185 22 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let the learning and romantic expectations go...then dies the man in you;...
    MR 1.231 17 ...we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud in a hundred commodities.
    MR 1.243 2 Let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] learn to eat his meals standing...
    MR 1.245 2 We shall eat hard and lie hard...
    MR 1.247 14 If we...say,-I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent...we shall stand still.
    LT 1.274 13 Religion was not invited to eat or drink or sleep with us...
    Tran 1.347 4 ...what if [these youths] eat clouds, and drink wind...
    YA 1.373 24 Our condition is like that of the poor wolves: if one of the flock wound himself or so much as limp, the rest eat him up incontinently.
    SR 2.60 15 A great man is coming to eat at my house.
    Comp 2.99 15 ...[the President] is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Comp 2.104 3 The soul says, Eat; the body would feast.
    Comp 2.104 17 The particular man aims...in particulars...to eat that he may eat;...
    Comp 2.109 22 Who doth not work shall not eat.
    Prd1 2.225 13 We eat of the bread which grows in the field.
    Prd1 2.225 25 ...an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains, and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,-- these eat up the hours.
    Hsm1 2.249 11 A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels;... insanity that makes him eat grass;...indicate a certain ferocity in nature...
    Art1 2.367 14 [Men] eat and drink, that they may afterwards execute the ideal.
    Art1 2.367 21 Would it not be better...to serve the ideal before [men] eat and drink;...
    Exp 3.59 21 Nature hates peeping, and our mothers speak her very sense when they say, Children, eat you victuals, and say no more of it.
    Exp 3.85 17 It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep...
    Exp 3.85 21 We dress our garden, eat our dinners...and these things make no impression...
    Chr1 3.100 15 ...[the uncivil, unavailable man]...destroys the scepticism which says, Man is a doll, let us eat and drink, 't is the best we can do...
    Mrs1 3.119 4 ...[the Feejee islanders] are said to eat their own wives and children.
    Mrs1 3.138 24 I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws than with a sloven and unpresentable person.
    Gts 3.160 20 ...it is always pleasing to see a man eat bread, or drink water, in the house or out of doors...
    Gts 3.162 10 We sometimes hate the meat which we eat...
    Gts 3.165 16 [Men] eat your service like apples, and leave you out.
    Nat2 3.183 8 ...we think we shall be as grand as [natural objects] if we camp out and eat roots;...
    Nat2 3.186 17 ...we do not eat for the good of living...
    Nat2 3.190 8 Hunger and thirst lead us on to eat and to drink;...
    Pol1 3.213 2 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. In these decisions all the citizens find a perfect agreement, and only in these; not in what is good to eat...
    NR 3.227 20 ...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would eat too much gingerbread...
    NR 3.237 24 ...the frugal farmer takes care that his cattle shall eat down the rowen...
    NR 3.237 25 ...the frugal farmer takes care that...swine shall eat the waste of his house...
    NR 3.240 11 A new poet has appeared; a new character approached us; why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and section in our old army-files?
    NER 3.252 11 One apostle thought all men should go to farming...another that the mischief was in our diet, that we eat and drink damnation.
    NER 3.284 24 We wish to escape from subjection and a sense of inferiority, and we make self-denying ordinances...we eat grass...
    PPh 4.77 22 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large. Boa constrictor has good will to eat it, but he is foiled.
    MoS 4.153 14 Are you tender and scrupulous,--you must eat more mince-pie.
    MoS 4.167 7 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...what meats I eat and what drinks I prefer...
    MoS 4.184 15 Each man woke in the morning with an appetite that could eat the solar system like a cake;...
    ET1 5.8 26 A great man, [Landor] said, should...kill his hundred oxen without knowing whether they would be consumed by gods and heroes, or whether the flies would eat them.
    ET1 5.17 23 [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. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat...
    ET4 5.70 12 [The English] eat and drink, and live jolly in the open air...
    ET4 5.72 12 The pastures of Tartary were still remembered by the tenacious practice of the Norsemen to eat horseflesh at religious feasts.
    ET6 5.113 12 It is the mode of doing honor to a stranger [in England], to invite him to eat...
    ET6 5.113 16 ...[the English] think, says the Venetian traveller of 1500, no greater honor can be conferred or received, than to invite others to eat with them, or to be invited themselves...
    ET8 5.129 9 The [English] club-houses were established to cultivate social habits, and it is rare that more than two eat together...
    ET8 5.130 21 [The English] doubt a man's sound judgment if he does not eat with appetite...
    ET11 5.193 19 [English noblemen's] many houses eat them up.
    ET14 5.247 6 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches that good means good to eat, good to wear...
    Pow 6.69 7 There are Oregons, Californias and Exploring Expeditions enough appertaining to America to find [men of this surcharge of arterial blood] in files to gnaw and in crocodiles to eat.
    Wth 6.103 9 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly... for the wit, probity and power which we eat bread and dwell in houses to share and exert.
    Wth 6.114 7 Pride...can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn...
    Ctr 6.162 18 The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
    CbW 6.261 11 'T is a fatal disadvantage to be cockered and to eat too much cake.
    DL 7.133 21 ...whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor...
    Farm 7.151 24 ...when [the first planter] is hungry, he cannot always kill and eat a bear...
    WD 7.178 2 ...though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it...
    Clbs 7.234 10 We know beforehand that yonder man must think as we do. Has he not two hands,--two feet,--hair and nails? Does he not eat,--bleed,-- laugh,--cry?
    SA 8.81 9 Though the person so clothed [in manners]...lodge in the same chamber, eat at the same table, he is yet a thousand miles off...
    SA 8.85 26 Eat at your table as you would eat at the table of the king, said Confucius.
    SA 8.85 27 Eat at your table as you would eat at the table of the king, said Confucius.
    PC 8.228 1 If [men in Kansas and California] are made as [the wise man] is, if they...eat of the same wheat...he knows that their joy or resentment rises to the same point as his own.
    PPo 8.254 22 Give me what you will; I eat thistles as roses,/ And according to my food I grow and I give./
    PerF 10.69 2 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks...
    SovE 10.192 23 The strength of the animal to eat and to be luxurious and to usurp is rudeness and imbecility.
    Schr 10.275 26 We cannot eat the granite nor drink hydrogen.
    Schr 10.286 14 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and shod in insult...
    Plu 10.305 11 ...I had rather a great deal that men should say, There was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat up his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.
    Plu 10.319 4 [Alexander] persuaded...the Scythians to bury and not eat their dead parents.
    LLNE 10.328 10 The nobles...now, in another shape, as capitalists, shall in all love and peace eat [the churls] up as before.
    LLNE 10.329 4 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of matter, has taught us that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas.
    Thor 10.469 5 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction...that the best place for each is where he stands. He expressed it once in this wise: I think nothing is to be hoped from you, if this bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter to you to eat than any other in this world, or in any world.
    Carl 10.491 14 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he is a Scotchman who thinks English national character has a pure enthusiasm for beef and mutton...
    LS 11.9 23 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for you. Take; eat.
    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 11.10 19 [Jesus] there [at Capernaum] tells the Jews, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
    LS 11.19 10 To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
    HDC 11.55 17 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet summer blighted the corn; enormous flocks of pigeons beat down and eat up all sorts of English grain;...
    JBB 11.272 24 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia...sends to...Massachusetts, for a witness, it wants him for a witness? No...it wants him for meat to slaughter and eat.
    SMC 11.364 20 [George Prescott writes] We started and marched two miles without stopping to rest, not having had anything to eat...
    Mem 12.93 8 As every creature is furnished with teeth to seize and eat, and with stomach to digest its food, so the memory is furnished with a perfect apparatus.
    Milt1 12.263 11 [Milton] tells us...that he who would write an epic to the nations must eat beans and drink water.
    MLit 12.309 11 Our souls...do eat and drink of chemical water and wheat.
    EurB 12.375 23 ...this reward granted [the novels of costume or of circumstance] is property, all-excluding property, a little cake baked for them to eat and for none other...
    EurB 12.377 21 [The Vivian Greys] never sleep, go nowhere, stay nowhere, eat nothing, and know nobody...

eaten, v. (11)

    Nat 1.38 15 ...wool cannot be drunk, nor water spun, nor coal eaten.
    DSA 1.138 10 This man...had eaten and drunken;...
    MR 1.245 25 Parched corn eaten to-day, that I may have roast fowl to my dinner Sunday, is a baseness;...
    Tran 1.338 11 ...we have yet no man who has leaned entirely on his character, and eaten angel's food;...
    ET7 5.122 19 In February, 1848, [the English] said, Look, the French king and his party fell for want of a shot; they had not conscience to shoot, so entirely was the pith and heart of monarchy eaten out.
    ET11 5.176 12 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...
    CbW 6.273 13 [Friendship] is...not a postilion's dinner to be eaten on the run.
    Clbs 7.248 26 ...it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all...agreed in one thing,--that they had not eaten better for three years.
    Carl 10.495 4 [Carlyle] is eaten up with indignation against such as desire to make a fair show in the flesh.
    LS 11.10 25 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at Capernaum] complained that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added...that we might not think his body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
    Wom 11.420 12 On the questions that are important...whether men shall be holden in bondage, or shall be roasted alive and eaten, as in Typee, or shall be hunted with bloodhounds, as in this country...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.

eater, n. (4)

    SR 2.50 3 Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.
    SL 2.159 18 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he cannot keep his foolish counsel.
    F 6.49 8 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity, which secures that all is made of one piece; that...food and eater are of one kind.
    Civ 7.19 4 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found...a cannibal, and eater of pounded snails, worms and offal...is called Civilization.

eaters, n. (3)

    Farm 7.151 7 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that... the land is ever yielding less returns to enlarging hosts of eaters.
    EWI 11.143 12 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature;...
    Wom 11.411 8 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?

eating, adj. (2)

    OS 2.271 2 What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not...represent himself, but misrepresents himself.
    Wth 6.117 12 ...the eating quality of debt does not relax its voracity.

eating, n. (7)

    SwM 4.110 9 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens. Each law of nature has the like universality; eating, sleep or hybernation...
    ET7 5.124 11 The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
    ET12 5.204 18 The reading men [at Oxford] are kept, by hard walking, hard riding and measured eating and drinking, at the top of their condition...
    ET12 5.211 8 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics, with five miles more walking, or five ounces less eating...the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
    LS 11.8 18 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    FRep 11.533 22 See the secondariness and aping of foreign and English life, that runs through this country...in eating, in books.
    PLT 12.19 10 Our eating, trading, marrying, and learning are mistaken by us for ends and realities...

eating, v. (14)

    Nat 1.71 1 We are like Nebuchadnezzar...eating grass like an ox.
    SL 2.155 13 ...now, every thing [the great man] did, even to...the eating of bread, looks large...
    Art1 2.367 21 Would it not be better...to serve the ideal in eating and drinking...
    Exp 3.64 7 [Nature] comes eating and drinking and sinning.
    NR 3.235 17 The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting we beguile the time...with eating and with crimes.
    MoS 4.154 2 Life is eating us up.
    ET10 5.167 4 There should be temperance in making cloth, as well as in eating.
    ET14 5.233 11 [The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect security and convenience in the eating of it...
    Ctr 6.137 11 It is not a compliment but a disparagement to consult a man only...on eating, or on books...
    SS 7.14 4 Society we must have; but let it be society, and not exchanging news or eating from the same dish.
    Res 8.138 5 A philosophy...which says 't is all of no use, life is eating us up...dispirits us;...
    Schr 10.270 25 Genius is a poor man and has no house, but see, this proud landlord who has built the palace...beseeches him to make it honorable by entering there and eating bread.
    FSLC 11.188 24 ...whilst animals have to do with eating the fruits of the ground, men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth...
    ACiv 11.297 17 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce...the well-being of a man to consist in eating the fruit of other men's labor.

eating-house, n. (1)

    DL 7.118 21 Let a man...say...an eating-house and sleeping-house for travellers [my house] shall be, but it shall be much more.

eating-houses, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.358 13 Society in England and in America is trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces, in cooperative associations, in cheap eating-houses...

eats, v. (20)

    AmS 1.114 17 The mind of this country...eats upon itself.
    MR 1.233 4 The sins of our trade belong...to no individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats.
    Prd1 2.235 18 ...let [a man] put the bread he eats at his own disposal...
    Hsm1 2.243 8 ...The hero is not fed on sweets,/ Daily his own heart he eats;/...
    Pt1 3.35 23 The figs become grapes whilst [Swedenborg] eats them.
    Pol1 3.202 26 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who, because he is a youth and a traveller, eats their bread and not his own?
    SwM 4.109 24 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    SwM 4.109 27 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    ET4 5.48 15 Civilization is a re-agent, and eats away the old traits.
    ET6 5.104 25 Each man [in England] walks, eats, drinks, shaves...in his own fashion...
    ET8 5.129 10 The [English] club-houses were established to cultivate social habits, and it is rare that more than two eat together, and oftenest one eats alone.
    ET10 5.157 7 An Englishman, while he eats and drinks no more or not much more than another man, labors three times as many hours in the course of a year as another European;...
    F 6.39 27 The same fitness must be presumed between a man and the time and event, as...between a race of animals and the food it eats...
    Wth 6.126 15 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits;...
    Wsp 6.220 20 A man does not see that as he eats, so he thinks;...
    CbW 6.263 9 ...sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of...
    Art2 7.37 21 The child...not only hungers, but eats.
    Farm 7.151 25 ...when [the first planter] is hungry, he cannot always kill and eat a bear,--chances of war,--sometimes the bear eats him.
    Aris 10.52 13 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt? He eats their bread...
    II 12.83 3 Whilst [a man] serves his genius, he works when he stands, when he sits, when he eats and when he sleeps.

eaves, n. (1)

    RBur 11.443 6 The doves perching always on the eaves of the Stone Chapel opposite, may know something about [the memory of Burns].

eavesdrop, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.183 10 ...we must not peep and eavesdrop at palace doors.

eavesdropping, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.84 2 I find [in Concord annals]...no eavesdropping legislators...

eaves-dropping, v. (1)

    QO 8.188 1 Is all literature eaves-dropping...

ebb, n. (17)

    AmS 1.98 21 That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself...in the ebb and flow of the sea;..is known to us under the name of Polarity...
    DSA 1.127 9 As is the flood, so is the ebb.
    Hist 2.32 16 Ah! brother, stop the ebb of thy soul...
    Comp 2.96 18 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the ebb and flow of waters;...
    Comp 2.97 12 There is somewhat that resembles the ebb and flow of the sea...in a single needle of the pine...
    Fdsp 2.196 4 ...the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
    OS 2.281 5 [Revelation] is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life.
    Cir 2.307 2 Alas for...this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow!
    ET14 5.254 17 ...parochial and shop-till politics, and idolatry of usage, betray the ebb of life and spirit [in English students].
    Art2 7.42 19 ...we build a mill in such position as to set the north wind to play upon our instrument...or the ebb and flow of the sea.
    PPo 8.247 23 ...quick perception and corresponding expression...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    Insp 8.273 12 ...this quick ebb of power...tantalizes us.
    MoL 10.250 1 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the ebb and flow of waters...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    MMEm 10.415 4 Oh, if there be a power superior to me...when will He let...my tides cease to an eternal ebb?
    MMEm 10.429 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying. In the lowest ebb of health nothing is ominous;...
    JBS 11.281 11 Nothing is more absurd than...to complain of a party of men united in opposition to slavery. As well complain of...the ebb of the tide.
    TPar 11.289 14 One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he...sometimes vexed [his friends] with the importunity of his good opinion, whilst they knew better the ebb which follows unfounded praise.

ebb, v. (1)

    Comp 2.120 27 Under all this running sea of circumstance, whose waters ebb and flow with perfect balance, lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being.

ebbed, v. (4)

    SwM 4.134 3 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero; and when the soi disant Roman opens his mouth, Rome and eloquence have ebbed away...
    Bty 6.279 16 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/ From centred and from errant sphere./ The quaking earth did quake in rhyme,/ Seas ebbed and flowed in epic chime./
    WD 7.163 22 Tantalus, who in old times was seen vainly trying to quench his thirst with a flowing stream which ebbed whenever he approached it, has been seen again lately.
    PerF 10.86 20 The divine knowledge has ebbed out of us...

ebbing, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.26 20 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes...to the stars, rocks, mountains and waves, I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea.

ebbing, v. (1)

    Hist 2.32 17 Ah! brother, stop the ebb of thy soul,--ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid.

ebbs, v. (5)

    Con 1.296 17 Seest thou the great sea, how it ebbs and flows?...
    Con 1.296 18 ...my power ebbs;...
    F 6.13 25 ...strong natures...are inevitable patriots, until their life ebbs...
    Imtl 8.345 8 ...we live by choice;...by the vivacity of the laws which we obey, and obeying share their life,-or we die by sloth, by disobedience, by losing hold of life, which ebbs out of us.
    PLT 12.15 15 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea, which ebbs and flows...

eberywhere, adv. (1)

    ALin 11.332 23 The poor negro said of [Lincoln], on an impressive occasion, Massa Linkum am eberywhere.

Ebony, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 19 Plant...the Upas, Ebony, Century Aloes...

ebullition, n. (3)

    Elo1 7.61 9 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. The waters, of course, are not very deep. He has...a patty-pan ebullition.
    HDC 11.75 15 In all the anecdotes of that day's [April 19, 1775] events we may discern the natural action of the people. It was not an extravagant ebullition of feeling...
    Trag 12.414 9 [The man who is centred] sees already in the ebullition of sin the simultaneous redress.

Ecbatana, Media, n. (1)

    Hist 2.21 17 ...the Persian court...travelled from Ecbatana, where the spring was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter.

eccentric, adj. (7)

    Nat 1.67 25 ...we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
    LT 1.264 13 ...in the hair-splitting conscientiousness of some eccentric person who has found some new scruple to embarrass himself and his neighbors withal is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    ET12 5.213 7 Genius exists there [in the college] also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precarious, eccentric and darkling.
    Edc1 10.150 17 ...the youth of genius are eccentric...
    LLNE 10.362 2 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth, a plain man formerly engaged through many years in the fisheries with success, eccentric...came and built a house on [Brook] farm...
    LLNE 10.369 21 I please myself with the thought that our American mind is not now eccentric or rude in its strength...
    ACri 12.284 21 Goethe valued himself not on his learning or eccentric flights, but that he knew how to write German.

eccentric, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.100 12 ...the uncivil, unavailable man...to whom all parties feel related, both the leaders of opinion and the obscure and eccentric,--he helps;...
    Mrs1 3.153 23 What is rich? Are you rich enough...to succor the unfashionable and the eccentric?...
    Mrs1 3.154 18 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never a poor outcast, eccentric, or insane man...but fled at once to him;...

eccentricities, n. (1)

    QO 8.185 5 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since, taxing the eccentricities of a gifted family connection in New England, was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...

eccentricity, n. (8)

    SwM 4.99 2 ...men of large calibre, though with some eccentricity or madness...help us more than balanced mediocre minds.
    ShP 4.205 17 ...[Shakespeare]...in all respects appears as a good husband, with no reputation for eccentricity or excess.
    ET6 5.105 7 I know not where any personal eccentricity is so freely allowed [as in England]...
    Pow 6.81 8 Success has no more eccentricity than the gingham and muslin we weave in our mills.
    CSC 10.374 17 ...a great deal of confusion, eccentricity and freak appeared [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    MAng1 12.215 8 ...in [Michelangelo's] greatness was so little eccentricity... that his character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
    WSL 12.339 12 A less pardonable eccentricity [in Landor] is the cold and gratuitous obtrusion of licentious images...
    WSL 12.340 2 ...[Landor's] eccentricity is too decided not to have diminished his greatness

ecclesiastic, adj. (3)

    SwM 4.121 7 [Swedenborg...poorly tethers every symbol to a several ecclesiastic sense.
    ET10 5.163 12 Whatever is excellent and beautiful in civil, rural, or ecclesiastic architecture...the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at home.
    Wsp 6.204 1 The stern old faiths have all pulverized. ... 'T is as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms as that which existed in Massachusetts in the Revolution...

ecclesiastical, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.60 15 [The soul] sees something more important in Christianity than the scandals of ecclesiastical history...
    LT 1.269 6 The present age will be marked by its harvest of projects for the reform of domestic, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical institutions.
    Con 1.295 13 The war [between Conservatism and Innovation] rages not only...in national councils and ecclesiastical synods...
    Tran 1.341 22 ...in ecclesiastical history we take so much pains to know what the Gnostics...believed...
    NER 3.265 16 Many of us have differed in opinion, and we could find no man who could make the truth plain, but possibly a college, or an ecclesiastical council, might.
    ET13 5.219 9 The [English] universities also are parcel of the ecclesiastical system...
    ET16 5.276 23 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
    Prch 10.225 24 All positive rules, ceremonial, ecclesiastical, distinctions of race or of person, are perishable;...
    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 12.271 21 [Milton] maintained that a nation may try, judge and slay their king, if he be a tyrant. He pushed as far his views of ecclesiastical liberty.

echo, n. (11)

    Fdsp 2.208 24 Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
    Exp 3.61 6 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. If these are mean and malignant, their contentment, which is the last victory of justice, is a more satisfying echo to the heart than the voice of poets...
    Nat2 3.192 22 This or this [in nature] is but outskirt and a far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has passed by...
    Art2 7.47 17 Our arts are happy hits. We are...like a traveller surprised by a mountain echo...
    SA 8.90 16 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which every member returns a true echo...doubles the value of life.
    Grts 8.319 22 ...the world is an echo which returns to each of us what we say?
    SovE 10.191 23 Man...does not see that he only is real, and the world his mirror and echo.
    MMEm 10.409 13 ...so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses of ancient and modern lore. All say-Forbear to enter the pales of the initiated by birth, wealth, talents and patronage. I submit with delight, for it is the echo of a decree from above;...
    LS 11.21 16 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the echo it returns to my thoughts...
    FSLC 11.209 24 The sun paints; presently we shall organize the echo, as now we do the shadow.
    CInt 12.113 4 The brute noise of cannon has...a most poetic echo in these days when it is an intrument of freedom...

Echo River, Mammoth Cave, (1)

    Ill 6.309 13 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...paddled three quarters of a mile in the deep Echo River...

echo, v. (6)

    Nat 1.41 2 ...every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall... echo the Ten Commandments.
    DSA 1.139 8 ...[the vain words] clatter and echo unchallenged.
    Dem1 10.28 10 The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste...unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.
    EWI 11.121 23 The legislature [of Jamaica], in their reply, echo the governor's statement...
    PLT 12.30 11 Echo the leaders and they will fast enough see that you have nothing for them.
    PPr 12.391 13 [Carlyle's] jokes shake down Parliament House and Windsor Castle...and the future shall echo the dangerous peals.

echoes, n. (10)

    Nat2 3.175 1 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...
    Ill 6.309 16 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...plied with music and guns the echoes in these alarming galleries;...
    SS 7.10 7 ...this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can make right or tolerable.
    Boks 7.194 3 The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of these few great voices of time.
    PI 8.9 24 The privates of man's heart/ They speken and sound in his ear/ As tho' they loud winds were;/ for the universe is full of their echoes.
    PI 8.12 18 Genius thus [through figurative speech]...betrays the rhymes and echoes that pole makes with pole.
    Thor 10.481 23 [Thoreau] delighted in echoes...
    FSLC 11.200 19 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate.
    SMC 11.348 19 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
    SMC 11.376 5 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.

echoes, v. (2)

    Hist 2.27 14 When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to [the student] a sentiment of his infancy...he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition...
    SovE 10.211 14 Governments stand by [men's credence],-by the faith that the people share,-whether it comes from the religion in which they were bred, or from an original conscience in themselves, which the popular religion echoes.

echoing, adj. (2)

    LE 1.169 4 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    ET14 5.243 21 [Locke's] countrymen forsook the lofty sides of Parnassus, on which they had once walked with echoing steps...

echoing, v. (1)

    WD 7.169 9 In college terms, and in years that followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were in a swamp, would...find the air faintly echoing with plausive academic thunders.

Eckermann, Johann Peter, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.104 12 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune.
    Clbs 7.237 9 One of the best records of the great German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
    Insp 8.283 16 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low.

Eckermann's, Johann Peter, (1)

    Boks 7.208 19 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe;...

eclat, n. (5)

    SR 2.49 11 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person...
    NMW 4.254 8 ...[Napoleon] sat...in his lonely island, coldly falsifying facts and dates and characters, and giving to history a theatrical eclat.
    ET10 5.156 6 The Crystal Palace is not considered honest until it pays; no matter how much convenience, beauty, or eclat, it must be self-supporting.
    Ill 6.323 5 I prefer...to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe.
    MLit 12.316 9 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent...which derives all its eclat from our conventional education...

Eclectic, adj. (1)

    LE 1.172 12 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large. Then Plato, Bacon, Kant, and the Eclectic Cousin condescend instantly to be men and mere facts.

eclectic, n. (1)

    Plu 10.308 27 [Plutarch] is an eclectic in such sense as Montaigne was,- willing to be an expectant, not a dogmatist.

Eclecticism, French, n. (1)

    LE 1.171 8 Take for example the French Eclecticism...there is an optical illusion in it.

eclecticism, n. (2)

    Art1 2.352 9 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures,--nature's eclecticism?...
    Plu 10.308 23 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist.

Eclecticism, n. (1)

    LE 1.172 1 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man, that...shall take up Greece, Rome, Stoicism, Eclecticism...as mere data and food for analysis...

eclipse, n. (5)

    Wsp 6.218 27 ...the moment of an eclipse, can be determined to the fraction of a second.
    Insp 8.282 8 ...it sometimes if rarely happens that after a season of decay or eclipse...the faculties revive to their fullest force.
    ALin 11.329 6 We meet under the gloom of a calamity [death of Lincoln] which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society, as the fearful tidings travel...like the shadow of an uncalculated eclipse over the planet.
    FRep 11.542 3 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?
    PLT 12.14 4 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and its settings, illumination and eclipse;...that I may learn to live with it wisely...

eclipsed, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.186 10 ...that which drew [lovers] to each other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are there, however eclipsed.

eclipses, v. (4)

    SL 2.164 4 ...the least [action] admits of being inflated with the celestial air until it eclipses the sun and moon.
    NER 3.272 6 With silent joy [the master] sees himself to be capable of a beauty that eclipses all which his hands have done;...
    Dem1 10.10 15 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary;...
    JBB 11.267 6 This commanding event [John Brown's raid] which has brought us together, eclipses all others which have occurred for a long time in our history...

ecliptic, n. (2)

    MR 1.243 13 ...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.
    PLT 12.61 6 Ideal and practical, like eliptic and equator, are never parallel.

economic, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.72 17 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding, as by...the economic use of fire...
    ET13 5.222 2 The English, in common perhaps with Christendom in the nineteenth century...value ideas only for an economic result.
    Prch 10.217 5 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of...the scientific or political or economic institution for other better or worse forms.
    PLT 12.39 11 To us [a fact] had economic, but to the universe it has poetic relations...

economical, adj. (20)

    YA 1.382 23 At least an economical success seemed certain for the enterprise [the Associations]...
    Art1 2.368 19 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use...the prism, and the chemist's retort; in which we seek now only an economical use.
    Pt1 3.20 10 ...we sympathize with the symbols, and being infatuated with the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts.
    NR 3.237 26 ...our economical mother dispatches a new genius and habit of mind into every district and condition of existence...
    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...
    ET5 5.95 5 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is economical.
    ET12 5.205 9 At Cambridge, 750 dollars a year is economical...
    ET14 5.233 7 [The Englishman] is materialist, economical, mercantile.
    ET14 5.247 9 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches...that the glory of modern philosophy is...to yield economical inventions;...
    Wth 6.105 12 Not much otherwise the economical power touches the masses through the political lords.
    Wth 6.114 2 Pride is handsome, economical;...
    Art2 7.57 1 Popular institutions...and the immense harvest of economical inventions, are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    Farm 7.147 9 Nature suggests every economical expedient somewhere on a great scale.
    Boks 7.213 10 Whilst the prudential and economical tone of society starves the imagination, affronted Nature gets such indemnity as she may.
    PI 8.6 3 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense side of religion and literature, which are all founded on low nature,--on the clearest and most economical mode of administering the material world, considered as final.
    PC 8.230 11 ...in this economical world...the transcendent powers of mind were not meant to be disused.
    LLNE 10.340 5 ...there was no great public interest, political, literary or even economical...on which [Channing] did not leave some printed record of his brave and thoughtful opinion.
    LLNE 10.361 12 ...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm], without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say...an impatience of the formal, routinary character of our educational, religious, social and economical life in Massachusetts.
    Bost 12.197 12 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
    MAng1 12.223 16 Architecture is the bond that unites the elegant and the economical arts...

economics, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.226 27 ...let [a man] accept and hive every fact of chemistry, natural history and economics;...

economies, n. (9)

    NER 3.264 8 The scheme [of the new communities] offers, by the economies of associated labor and expense, to make every member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.
    UGM 4.20 17 We will know the meaning of our economies and politics.
    Pow 6.73 16 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the case admits.
    Pow 6.81 5 ...we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach, and has its own sublime economies by which it may be attained.
    Wth 6.116 27 There must be system in the economies.
    Farm 7.146 19 ...[the farmer] is habitually engaged in small economies...
    WD 7.167 17 [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of economies for Grecian life...
    MoL 10.250 23 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic;...
    LLNE 10.358 13 Society in England and in America is trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces, in cooperative associations, in cheap eating-houses, as well as in the economies of club-houses and in cheap reading-rooms.

economist, n. (9)

    SwM 4.93 3 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers...
    ET2 5.31 15 'T is a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
    ET10 5.156 18 [In England] An economist, or a man who can proportion his means and his ambition...without embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a freeman.
    ET11 5.187 2 The economist of 1855 who asks, Of what use are the [English] lords? may learn of Franklin to ask, Of what use is a baby?
    CbW 6.265 24 When the political economist reckons up the unproductive classes, he should put at the head this class of pitiers of themselves...
    WD 7.165 3 ...the political economist thinks 't is doubtful if all the mechanical inventions that ever existed have lightened the day's toil of one human being.
    Supl 10.178 8 The political economist defies us to show any gold-mine country that is traversed by good roads...
    FSLC 11.199 17 There is...not an economist but is computing [slavery's] profit and loss...
    FRep 11.526 21 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...

economists, n. (7)

    ET5 5.98 25 It is the maxim of [English] economists, that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
    ET9 5.151 1 America is the paradise of the [English] economists;...
    Wth 6.113 24 The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also.
    Farm 7.150 12 These [drainage] tiles are political economists...
    Aris 10.56 15 I know nothing which induces so base and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities, as economists do...
    MMEm 10.430 15 Those economists (Adam Smith) who say nothing is added to the wealth of a nation but what is dug out of the earth...why, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am content with such paradoxical kind of facts;...
    EdAd 11.386 8 It is a poor consideration...that political interests on so broad a scale as ours are administered...by...strict economists, quite empty of all superstition.

economize, v. (1)

    HDC 11.84 17 [Our fathers] economize, that they may sacrifice.

economized, v. (2)

    NMW 4.236 2 [Bonaparte] never economized his ammunition...
    SA 8.91 4 The hunger for company...must be economized.

economizing, v. (1)

    ET3 5.42 4 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom, giving...all the conveniency to trade that a people so skilful and sufficient in economizing water-front by docks, warehouses and lighters required.

economy, n. (91)

    MR 1.242 25 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that man...respecting the compensations of the Universe, ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    MR 1.243 25 I ought to be armed...by my economy...
    MR 1.245 19 Let us learn the meaning of economy.
    MR 1.245 19 Economy is a high, humane office...when its aim is grand;...
    MR 1.245 23 Much of the economy which we see in houses is of a base origin...
    Tran 1.335 3 Let any thought or motive of mine be different from that they are, the difference will transform my condition and economy.
    YA 1.373 12 ...Nature...uses a grinding economy...
    Fdsp 2.209 8 He only is fit for this society [of friendship]...who is sure that greatness and goodness are always economy;...
    Prd1 2.221 7 I have...no genius in my economy...
    Prd1 2.234 8 ...as much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire...
    Hsm1 2.248 27 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that book its immense fame. We need books of this tart cathartic virtue more than books...of private economy.
    Hsm1 2.253 11 ...the soul of a better quality thrusts back the unreasonable economy into the vaults of life...
    Pt1 3.21 3 All the facts of the animal economy...are symbols of the passage of the world into the soul of man...
    PPh 4.53 2 [The Greeks] saw before them no sinister political economy;...
    SwM 4.136 19 The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon...intrude themselves into [Swedenborg's] speculations upon the economy of the universe...
    MoS 4.164 10 [Montaigne] took up his economy in good earnest...
    MoS 4.175 13 ...the wiser a man is, the more stupendous he finds the natural and moral economy...
    ShP 4.190 25 ...[every master's] power lay...in his love of the materials he wrought in. What an economy of power!...
    ShP 4.209 25 What point...of economy...has [Shakespeare] not settled?
    NMW 4.238 24 It was a whimsical economy of the same kind which dictated [Bonaparte's] practice, when general in Italy, in regard to his burdensome correspondence.
    ET1 5.13 17 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy;...
    ET5 5.75 24 Sense and economy must rule in a world which is made of sense and economy...
    ET5 5.75 25 Sense and economy must rule in a world which is made of sense and economy...
    ET5 5.98 15 Man in England submits to be a product of political economy.
    ET8 5.142 12 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton...respects an economy founded on agriculture, coal-mines, manufactures or trade...
    ET9 5.150 12 In the gravest treatise on political economy...one is surprised [in England] by the most innocent exhibition of unflinching nationality.
    ET10 5.154 18 A natural fruit of England is the brutal political economy.
    ET10 5.156 10 Every [English] household exhibits an exact economy...
    ET10 5.167 19 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...or when commons are enclosed by landlords. Then society is admonished...that the best political economy is care and culture of men;...
    ET11 5.176 5 A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
    ET11 5.181 2 The English go to their estates for grandeur. The French live at court, and exile themselves to their estates for economy.
    ET16 5.283 27 ...I heard afterwards that it is not an economy to cultivate this land [Salisbury Plain]...
    ET17 5.296 13 Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth] to me not for his poetry, but for thrift and economy;...
    Pow 6.80 20 ...I hold that an economy may be applied to [spirit];...
    Wth 6.90 24 The subject of economy mixes itself with morals...
    Wth 6.96 26 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer for the chart. How intimately our knowledge of the system of the Universe rests on that!--and a true economy in a state or an individual will forget its frugality in behalf of claims like these.
    Wth 6.105 20 The basis of political economy is noninterference.
    Wth 6.106 20 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
    Wth 6.106 22 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy;...
    Wth 6.106 23 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy;...
    Wth 6.111 10 There are few measures of economy which will bear to be named without disgust;...
    Wth 6.112 14 Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work, and not its acceptableness. This is so much economy that...it is the sum of economy.
    Wth 6.112 15 Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work, and not its acceptableness. This is so much economy that...it is the sum of economy.
    Wth 6.118 14 A system must be in every economy...
    Wth 6.124 5 Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow...
    Wth 6.125 7 ...the royal rule of economy is that it should ascend...
    Wth 6.125 21 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy.
    Wth 6.125 22 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy.
    Bhr 6.177 7 The whole economy of nature is bent on expression.
    Wsp 6.225 1 Here is a low political economy plotting to cut the throat of foreign competition and establish our own;...
    CbW 6.263 4 ...I will not here repeat the first rule of economy...
    Bty 6.294 9 The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.
    Art2 7.40 4 The useful arts comprehend...the sciences, so far as they are made serviceable to political economy.
    DL 7.109 8 Do you see the man...in his economy?
    DL 7.109 10 There should be nothing confounding and conventional in economy...
    DL 7.117 14 ...a house should bear witness in all its economy that human culture is the end to which it is built and garnished.
    DL 7.121 20 In many parts of true economy a cheering lesson may be learned from the mode of life and manners of the later Romans...
    DL 7.132 16 Will [man] not see...that his economy, his labor, his good and bad fortune, his health and manners are all a curious and exact demonstration in miniature of the Genius of the Eternal Providence?
    Farm 7.138 21 It is the beauty of the great economy of the world that makes [the farmer's] comeliness.
    Farm 7.139 18 It were as false for farmers to use a wholesale and massy expense, as for states to use a minute economy.
    Farm 7.141 17 If it be true that...by the eternal laws of political economy, slaves are driven out of a slave state as fast as it is surrounded by free states, then the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    Farm 7.152 16 ...true political economy is not mean...
    WD 7.162 25 Malthus...forgot to say that the human mind was also a factor in political economy...
    WD 7.185 11 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done...
    WD 7.185 12 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done...
    Boks 7.195 24 'T is...an economy of time to read old and famed books.
    Suc 7.290 11 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology...
    PI 8.37 6 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage, as much as sunsets and souls;...
    PI 8.37 12 ...we shall never understand political economy until Burns or Beranger or some poet shall teach it in songs...
    SA 8.88 15 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably.
    Res 8.143 4 America is...such a magazine of power, that at her shores all the common rules of political economy utterly fail.
    QO 8.179 19 The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning. There is something mortifying in this perpetual circle. This extreme economy argues a very small capital of invention.
    Dem1 10.10 4 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few insignificant hints, when all are inspired with the same sense. As if one should exhaust his astonishment at the economy of his thumb-nail, and overlook the central causal miracle of his being a man.
    Aris 10.32 7 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in a gentleman: intellectually held, that is, for their own sake...not for economy...
    PerF 10.72 22 The husbandry learned in the economy of heat or light or steam or muscular fibre applies precisely to the use of wit.
    LLNE 10.368 13 Few people can live together on their merits. There must be kindred, or mutual economy...
    Carl 10.491 13 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they admire Cobden and free trade and he is a protectionist in political economy;...
    HDC 11.78 10 The economy so rigid, which marked [Concord's] earlier history, has all vanished.
    HDC 11.84 14 If, at any time, in common with most of our towns, [our fathers] have carried this economy to the verge of a vice, it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.
    HDC 11.84 21 For splendor, there must be somewhere rigid economy.
    ACiv 11.301 2 You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy.
    ACiv 11.301 9 A democratic statesman said to me...that, if he owned the state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction. Is this new? No, everybody knows it. As a general economy it is admitted.
    EdAd 11.392 3 We have a better opinion of the economy of Nature than to fear that those varying phases which humanity presents ever leave out any of the grand springs of human action.
    ChiE 11.474 6 [Asian immigrants'] power of continuous labor...their stoical economy, are unlooked-for virtues.
    FRep 11.511 1 It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics that you must have a source higher than your tap.
    FRep 11.519 8 The spirit of our political economy is low and degrading.
    FRep 11.542 16 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe. They are all toiling...to a use in the economy of the world;...
    PLT 12.48 3 Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created to fetch it,-a vessel of honor or of dishonor. 'T is of instant use in the economy of the Cosmos...
    Bost 12.197 8 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce and of economy, the religious spirit...was especially necessary to the culture of New England.
    MAng1 12.223 26 Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades, but a thorough acquaintance with all the secrets of the art [of architecture], with all the details of economy and strength.
    ACri 12.304 15 [The classic] does not make a novel to establish a principle of political economy.

Economy, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.128 23 Here [in the household] is Economy, and Glee, and Hospitality, and Ceremony, and Frankness, and Calamity, and Death, and Hope.

Economy, Political, n. (1)

    Wth 6.101 14 Political Economy is as good a book wherein to read the life of man...as any Bible which has come down to us.

ecstacy, n. (1)

    MR 1.227 17 ...every man should be open to ecstacy or a divine illumination...

ecstasies, n. (7)

    MR 1.256 3 It is better that joy should be spread over all the day in the form of strength, than that it should be concentrated into ecstasies...
    Int 2.329 7 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result...
    ET2 5.29 13 Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over [the sea], each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror...
    Pow 6.64 4 ...all kinds of power usually emerge at the same time;...the ecstasies of devotion with the exasperations of debauchery.
    Bty 6.299 1 Saadi describes a schoolmaster so ugly and crabbed that a sight of him would derange the ecstasies of the orthodox.
    PI 8.64 25 Bring us...poetry which tastes the world and reports of it, upbuilding the world again in the thought;--Not with tickling rhymes,/ But high and noble matter, such as flies/ From brains entranced, and filled with ecstasies./
    Supl 10.165 3 Every favorite is not a cherub...nor agonies, excruciations nor ecstasies our daily bread.

ecstasy, n. (23)

    MN 1.201 5 Nature can only be conceived as...a work of ecstasy...
    MN 1.204 8 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that...the whole...obeys that redundancy or excess of life which in conscious beings we call ecstasy.
    MN 1.214 5 ...because ecstasy is the law and cause of nature, you cannot interpret it in too high and deep a sense.
    Tran 1.335 25 ...[the Transcendentalist] believes in inspiration, and in ecstasy.
    OS 2.281 22 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion...
    PPh 4.49 8 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being.
    PPh 4.61 19 [Plato] never writes in ecstasy...
    SwM 4.97 2 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with their structure and law. This path is difficult, secret and beset with terror. The ancients called it ecstasy or absence...
    SwM 4.100 3 In 1743, when [Swedenborg] was fifty-four years old, what is called his illumination began. All his metallurgy and transportation of ships overland was absorbed into this ecstasy.
    SwM 4.119 1 ...[Swedenborg's] ecstasy connected itself with just this office of explaining the moral import of the sensible world.
    ET18 5.303 14 In the island [England]...there is...no abandonment or ecstasy of will or intellect...
    F 6.41 8 Life is an ecstasy.
    Wsp 6.213 20 ...our faith in ecstasy consists with total inexperience of it.
    Ill 6.311 18 Life is an ecstasy.
    Art2 7.38 16 The man in an ecstasy of fear or anger is an unconscious actor.
    Elo1 7.59 10 For whom the Muses smile upon/ .../ ...though he speak in midnight dark;/ In heaven no star, on earth no spark,--/ Yet before the listener's eye/ Swims the world in ecstasy/...
    Insp 8.275 19 I hold that ecstasy will be found normal...
    Aris 10.32 8 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in a gentleman: intellectually held, that is, for their own sake...not for economy...but not over-intellectually, that is, not to ecstasy,
    Supl 10.177 2 ...[Nature]...in the East...makes ecstasy an institution.
    MoL 10.243 18 The subtle Hindoo, who carried religion to ecstasy and philosophy to idealism, produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
    Thor 10.463 19 [Thoreau] said...Nature knows very well what sounds are worth attending to, and has made up her mind not to hear the railroad-whistle. But things respect the devout mind, and a mental ecstasy was never interrupted.
    ChiE 11.470 6 Nature...in the East...inculcates a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality, and makes ecstasy an institution.
    MLit 12.336 5 Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies...into a joyful reverence for the circumambient Whole, and that which was ecstasy shall become daily bread.

ecstatic, adj. (3)

    MN 1.213 11 ...as the power or genius of nature is ecstatic, so must its science or the description of it be.
    SwM 4.120 3 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories, or written in the angelic and ecstatic mode, [Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
    PI 8.68 22 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws, so that he easily...uses the ecstatic or poetic speech.

ecstatical, adj. (2)

    MN 1.210 9 [A man's] health and greatness consist...in the fulness in which an ecstatical state takes place in him.
    MN 1.211 16 This ecstatical state seems to direct a regard to the whole, and not to the parts;...

ecumenical, adj. (1)

    Carl 10.492 2 In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says, the only great Parliament, they sat...grave as an ecumenical council...

Edda, n. (3)

    Boks 7.198 8 The Prometheus [of Aeschylus] is a poem of the like dignity and scope as the Book of Job, or the Norse Edda.
    PI 8.13 24 The Vedas, the Edda, the Koran, are each remembered by their happiest figure.
    Wom 11.406 6 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them never.

Edda, Norse [Snorri Sturlu (2)

    Suc 7.303 18 Lofn is as puissant a divinity in the Norse Edda as Camadeva in the red vault of India...
    Aris 10.41 20 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages...

Edda, Younger [Snorri Stur (2)

    Boks 7.206 21 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology to the Younger Edda and the Heimskringla of Snorro Sturleson...
    Boks 7.217 26 The Greek fables...the Younger Edda of the Scandinavians... have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...

eddy, n. (1)

    PLT 12.27 26 An individual mind...is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up...

Eddystone Lighthouse, Engla (1)

    Art2 7.41 4 Smeaton built Eddystone Lighthouse on the model of an oak-tree...

Edelweisse, n. (1)

    Thor 10.484 18 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains... It is called by botanists the Gnaphalium leontopodium, but by the Swiss Edelweisse...

Eden, Garden of, n. (2)

    Hist 2.9 10 The Garden of Eden, the sun standing still in Gibeon, is poetry thenceforward to all nations.
    Res 8.142 11 Here [in America] is man in the Garden of Eden;...

Eden, n. (5)

    Con 1.319 4 The conservative party in the universe concedes that the radical would talk sufficiently to the purpose, if we were still in the garden of Eden;...
    SwM 4.128 17 The Eden of God is bare and grand...
    DL 7.105 24 ...the garden full of flowers is Eden over again to the small Adam;...
    Milt1 12.274 10 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden...
    Milt1 12.275 19 The most affecting passages in Paradise Lost are personal allusions; and when we are fairly in Eden, Adam and Milton are often difficult to be separated.

Edens, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.175 27 The moral sensibility which makes Edens and Tempes so easily, may not be always found, but the material landscape is never far off.

Edgar, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.173 17 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations; what with their fun and their earnest, about Edgar and Jonas and Almira...

edge, n. (22)

    Tran 1.332 7 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away... a bit of bullet, now glimmering, now darkling through a small cubic space on the edge of an unimaginable pit of emptiness.
    SR 2.51 21 Your goodness must have some edge to it...
    Hsm1 2.262 11 ...whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.
    Pt1 3.1 5 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ They overleapt the horizon's edge,/ Searched with Apollo's privilege;/...
    Exp 3.66 3 ...to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.
    Mrs1 3.146 23 The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy are not found in the actual aristocracy, or only on its edge;...
    NMW 4.236 14 In the fury of assault, [Napoleon] no more spared himself. He went to the edge of his possibility.
    NMW 4.237 3 We are always...just on the edge of destruction...
    ET2 5.27 3 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around; no fishermen; she has passed the Banks, left five sail behind her far on the edge of the west at sundown...
    ET14 5.236 25 I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth.
    ET16 5.286 15 We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the train Clarendon Park, but could see little but the edge of a wood...
    Pow 6.72 2 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it...must be had in that form, and absorbents provided to take off its edge.
    Civ 7.27 21 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall;...
    Cour 7.268 25 [Courage] gives the cutting edge to every profession.
    Suc 7.307 6 The edge of every surface is tinged with prismatic rays.
    Elo2 8.116 2 I must feel that the speaker...comes for something,--it is a cry on the perilous edge of the fight,--or let him be silent.
    HDC 11.40 20 ...as we are informed, the edge of [the settlers of Concord's] appetite was greater to spiritual duties at their first coming, in time of wants, than afterwards.
    EWI 11.129 21 As I have walked in the pastures and along the edge of woods, I could not keep my imagination on those agreeable figures, for other images that intruded on me.
    AKan 11.262 12 A bit of ground [in California] that your hand could cover was worth one or two hundred dollars, on the edge of your strip;...
    ALin 11.333 2 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to take off the edge of the severest decisions;...
    RBur 11.440 26 [Burns's] satire has lost none of its edge.
    PLT 12.42 16 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly; and to the astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as softly and playfully on its way as if, instead of being a line, narrow as the edge of a sword...it were a wide prairie.

edged, v. (2)

    PPh 4.57 19 [Plato's] patrician polish, his intrinsic elegance, edged by an irony so subtle that it stings and paralyzes, adorn the soundest health and strength of frame.
    PI 8.37 20 All [others'] pleasures are tinged with pain. All [the poet's] pains are edged with pleasure.

edges, n. (2)

    SL 2.154 10 Gilt edges...will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
    Exp 3.48 12 There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here at least we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth.

edge-tools, n. (2)

    WD 7.164 17 All tools are in one sense edge-tools...
    Dem1 10.20 18 It is curious to see what grand powers we have a hint of and are mad to grasp, yet how slow Heaven is to trust us with such edge-tools.

Edgeworth, Maria, adj. (1)

    EurB 12.375 11 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably. This is the problem to be solved in thousands of English romances, including the Porter novels and the more splendid examples of the Edgeworth and Scott romances.

Edgeworth, Maria, n. (1)

    EurB 12.375 26 Except in the stories of Edgeworth and Scott...the novels of costume are all one...

edible, adj. (1)

    NER 3.257 18 We do not know an edible root in the woods...

edict, n. (3)

    FSLN 11.240 5 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit...
    ACiv 11.305 16 Congress can, by edict...abolish slavery...
    EPro 11.325 24 It was well to delay the steamers at the wharves until this edict [the Emancipation Proclamation] could be put on board.

edicts, n. (1)

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

edifice, n. (4)

    Tran 1.332 22 ...[the materialist] will perceive that his mental fabric is built up on just as strange and quaking foundations as his proud edifice of stone.
    ShP 4.194 6 [Popular tradition]...supplies a foundation for [the poet's] edifice...
    Art2 7.54 7 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also.
    WD 7.156 1 This passing moment is an edifice/ Which the Omnipotent cannot rebuild/

edifices, n. (1)

    MR 1.245 5 ...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements, whilst our public edifices, like theirs, will be worthy for their proportion of the landscape in which we set them...

edified, v. (1)

    SovE 10.208 17 How is the new generation to be edified?

edify, v. (2)

    Con 1.322 20 Which is that state which promises to edify a great, brave, and beneficent man;...
    Pray 12.350 19 ...there are scattered about in the earth a few records of these devout hours [of prayer], which it would edify us to read...

Edinburgh Review, n. (6)

    LE 1.160 7 ...neither Greece nor Rome...nor the Edinburgh Review...is to command any longer.
    ET1 5.3 21 Like most young men at that time, I was much indebted to the men of Edinburgh and of the Edinburgh Review...
    ET17 5.294 27 The Edinburgh Review wrote what would tell and what would sell.
    LLNE 10.339 13 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review.
    EWI 11.137 6 All men remember the subtlety and the fire of indignation which the Edinburgh Review contributed to the cause [of emancipation in the West Indies];...
    ACiv 11.301 3 You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy. Why, The Edinburgh Review pounded on that string...forty years ago.

Edinburgh Reviewers, n. (1)

    ET17 5.294 24 [Wordsworth] detailed the two models, on one or the other of which all the sentences of the historian Robertson are framed. Nor could Jeffrey, nor the Edinburgh Reviewers write English...

Edinburgh, Scotland, n. (8)

    ET1 5.3 20 Like most young men at that time, I was much indebted to the men of Edinburgh and of the Edinburgh Review...
    ET1 5.14 22 From Edinburgh I went to the Highlands.
    ET17 5.294 2 At Edinburgh...I made the acquaintance of DeQuincey, of Lord Jeffrey...
    Clbs 7.244 4 ...we have records of the brilliant society that Edinburgh boasted in the first decade of this century.
    Elo2 8.117 25 A worthy gentleman...listening to the debates of the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Edinburgh...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    Elo2 8.131 17 An ingenious metaphysical writer, Dr. Stirling, of Edinburgh, has noted that intellectual works in any department breed each other...
    Wom 11.409 6 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference;...
    Scot 11.467 19 [Scott] was apprenticed at Edinburgh to a Writer to the Signet...

Edinburgh, University of, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.113 13 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty, and resting very much on the opinions of who may chance to be the leading doctors of Oxford or Edinburgh...

edit, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.74 19 It requires no special insight to edit one of our country newspapers.

edition, n. (9)

    SL 2.154 20 There are not in the world at any time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato,--never enough to pay for an edition of his works;...
    SwM 4.111 2 The scientific works [of Swedenborg] have just now been translated into English, in an excellent edition.
    MoS 4.163 14 That Journal of Mr. Sterling's...Mr. Hazlitt has reprinted in the Prolegomena to his edition of the Essays [of Montaigne].
    Boks 7.209 13 The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go, when the legitimate delight in a book is transferred to a rare edition or to a manuscript.
    Boks 7.209 23 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many curiosities was a copy of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471; the only perfect copy of this edition.
    Plu 10.294 27 ...the first printed edition of the Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572.
    HDC 11.49 20 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book...
    PLT 12.22 8 ...a mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations...
    II 12.74 6 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it, and perhaps his only concern with it is some copyright of an edition in which certain pages...are contained.

editions, n. (6)

    MoS 4.169 27 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe;...
    Boks 7.199 27 ...this book [Plutarch's Lives] has taken care of itself, and the opinion of the world is expressed in the innumerable cheap editions...
    MoL 10.256 21 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge.
    Plu 10.320 14 Professor Goodwin is a silent benefactor to the book [Plutarch's Morals], wherever I have compared the editions.
    Milt1 12.247 5 ...new editions of [Milton's] works, and new compilations of his life, were published.
    MLit 12.311 21 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...

editor, n. (12)

    LT 1.265 5 Let us paint the agitator...the formidable editor...
    NR 3.232 19 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books; as if the editor of a journal planted his body of reporters in different parts of the field of action...
    SwM 4.102 13 [Swedenborg's] excellent English editor magnanimously lays no stress on his discoveries...
    ET14 5.250 12 Wilkinson, the editor of Swedenborg...has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor...
    ET15 5.268 8 The [London] Times never...cripples itself by apology for the absence of the editor...
    ET17 5.292 2 ...the editor of a powerful local journal, [my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie.
    ET17 5.295 4 [The Edinburgh Review] had...changed the tone of its literary criticism from the time when a certain letter was written to the editor by Coleridge.
    Plu 10.316 27 I can almost regret that the learned editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved...the preface of Mr. Morgan...
    Plu 10.317 3 I can almost regret that the learned editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved...the preface of Mr. Morgan, the editor and in part writer of this Translation of 1718.
    Plu 10.321 1 In spite of its carelessness and manifold faults, which, I doubt not, have tried the patience of its present learned editor and corrector, I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
    EWI 11.142 8 ...[the negro] is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the West Indies; and is, besides...a magistrate, an editor, and a valued and increasing political power.
    FSLN 11.225 1 ...Mr. Webster's literary editor believes that it was his wish to rest his fame on the speech of the seventh of March.

Editor, n. (2)

    Plu 10.320 11 I cannot close these notes without expressing my sense of the valuable service which the Editor [of Plutarch's Morals] has rendered to his Author and to his readers.
    Plu 10.321 25 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author, sometimes even to the adding of the point. I notice one, which...the severer criticism of the Editor has not retained.

editorial, adj. (1)

    Let 12.392 4 ...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our correspondence; and a little more liable because in consequence of our editorial function we receive more epistles than our individual share...

editorially, adv. (1)

    ET15 5.268 17 No writer is suffered to claim the authorship of any paper [in the London Times]; everything good, from whatever quarter, comes out editorially;...

Editor's. (1)

    ET17 5.295 5 [The Edinburgh Review] had...changed the tone of its literary criticism from the time when a certain letter was written to the editor by Coleridge. Mrs. W[ordsworth]. had the Editor's answer in her possession.

editors, n. (7)

    ET15 5.270 9 [The London Times's] editors know better than to defend Russia, or Austria...on abstract grounds.
    Pow 6.79 26 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration, book-makers, editors...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    Ctr 6.136 2 Have you seen...two or three capitalists, two or three editors of newspapers?
    LLNE 10.359 21 Mr. George Ripley was the President [of the West Roxbury Association], and I think Mr. Charles Dana (afterwards well known as one of the editors of the New York Tribune) was the Secretary.
    FSLC 11.201 8 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared.
    SMC 11.355 22 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were...as arrogant as the negroes on the Gambia River; and...it looks as if the editors of the Southern press were in all times selected from this class.
    ACri 12.291 23 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress...might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...

editor's, n. (1)

    ET15 5.266 8 ...the editor's room [of the London Times], I did not see...

editorship, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.343 24 ...The Dial...under the editorship of Margaret Fuller... enjoyed its obscurity for four years.

edits, v. (1)

    SR 2.76 9 A sturdy lad...who...edits a newspaper...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.

educable, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.283 10 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...somewhat not educated or educable;...

educate, v. (32)

    Nat 1.36 8 [Natural facts] educate both the Understanding and the Reason.
    LT 1.269 17 ...[modern reform movements] educate the conscience and the intellect of the people.
    YA 1.384 17 ...Government must educate the poor man.
    SR 2.86 4 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes...
    Fdsp 2.216 14 Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.
    Art1 2.354 4 ...historically viewed, it has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty.
    Pol1 3.216 5 To educate the wise man the State exists...
    Pol1 3.216 22 [The wise man] has no personal friends, for he who has the spell to draw the prayer and piety of all men unto him needs not husband and educate a few to share with him a select and poetic life.
    NER 3.268 21 ...the ground on which eminent public servants urge the claims of popular education is fear; This country is filling up with thousands and millions of voters, and you must educate them to keep them from our throats.
    PPh 4.67 21 ...I educate, not by lessons, but by going about my business.
    Ctr 6.129 1 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/
    Ctr 6.140 2 Robert Owen said, Give me a tiger, and I will educate him.
    Ctr 6.142 13 You send your child to the school-master, but 't is the schoolboys who educate him.
    Wsp 6.213 21 It is the order of the world to educate with accuracy the senses and the understanding;...
    Suc 7.310 6 ...to educate [man's] feeling and judgment so that he shall scorn himself for a bad action, that is the only aim.
    PI 8.65 25 The supreme value of poetry is to educate us to a height beyond itself...
    Imtl 8.336 15 Will you...educate your children to be adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
    Edc1 10.125 19 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Edc1 10.127 24 This apparatus of wants and faculties, this craving body... educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy with light, with heat...
    Edc1 10.134 26 We scarce educate [boys'] bodies.
    Edc1 10.158 22 ...to whatsoever beating heart I speak, to you it is committed to educate men.
    Prch 10.237 27 We [in the Church] come to educate, come to isolate, to be abstractionists;...
    EWI 11.124 23 You could not educate [man]...but these absurdities would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a generosity for the weak and oppressed.
    SMC 11.355 26 The invasion of Northern...tradesmen, lawyers and students did more than forty years of peace had done to educate the South.
    Wom 11.419 23 Educate and refine society to the highest point,-bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?
    Wom 11.420 4 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions? If not, then there need be none in a hundred companies, if you educate them and accustom them to judge.
    FRep 11.534 26 ...the land and sea educate the people...
    PLT 12.30 19 ...I educate not by lessons but by going about my business.
    II 12.75 11 How shall I educate my children?
    II 12.75 17 ...Nature is stronger than your will, and were you never so vigilant, you may rely on it, your nature and genius will certainly give your vigilance the slip though it had delirium tremens, and will educate the children by the inevitable infusions of its quality.
    CInt 12.123 3 [The Understanding] is the power which the world of men adopt and educate.
    Let 12.399 8 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who...educate their own children in the same courses...

educated, adj. (25)

    Nat 1.75 27 [The world] shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect... and of the affections...by yielding itself passive to the educated Will.
    AmS 1.101 20 ...[the scholar] takes...the state of virtual hostility in which he seems to stand...especially to educated society.
    SR 2.80 25 It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling... retains its fascination for all educated Americans.
    NER 3.270 14 I resist the scepticism of our education and of our educated men.
    ET8 5.129 21 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen]. The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England].
    ET11 5.185 19 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men...
    ET13 5.228 16 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe: in view of the educated class, generally, it was not a fact to front the sun;...
    ET14 5.239 27 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists, and that the dull men will be Lockists. Then politics and commerce will absorb from the educated class men of talents without genius, precisely because such have no resistance.
    Wth 6.114 23 We had in this region, twenty years ago, among our educated men, a sort of Arcadian fanaticism...
    Ctr 6.141 24 The best heads that ever existed...were well-read, universally educated men...
    Ctr 6.145 11 All educated Americans...go to Europe;...
    DL 7.124 17 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation, and knowing his two or three main facts, anticipate what he thinks of each new topic that rises. It is scarcely less perceivable in educated men, so called, than in the uneducated.
    PC 8.230 5 I know well to what assembly of educated, reflecting, successful and powerful persons I speak.
    PC 8.233 13 ...I draw new hope...from the avowed aims and tendencies of the educated class.
    PC 8.233 25 ...it honorably distinguishes the educated class here, that they believe in the succor which the heart yields to the intellect...
    PC 8.234 1 ...when I say the educated class, I know what a benignant breadth that word has...
    PPo 8.256 2 Here is an ode [by Hafiz] which is said to be a favorite with all educated Persians...
    Grts 8.316 8 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes in people not normal, nor educated, nor presentable, nor church-members...as in more orderly examples.
    Aris 10.48 26 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a superior slave, a confidential secretary and manager, an educated slave;...
    Edc1 10.138 13 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still;...and not that sad spectacle with which we are too familiar, educated eyes in uneducated bodies.
    MoL 10.252 2 Where there is no vision, the people perish. The fault lies with the educated class...
    LLNE 10.369 24 I please myself with the thought that our American mind... is beginning to show a quiet power, drawn from wide and abundant sources, proper to a Continent and to an educated people.
    FSLN 11.229 8 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law], and the disastrous defection...of educated men... was the darkest passage in the history.
    EdAd 11.385 18 ...there is a fatal incuriosity and disinclination in our educated men to new studies and the interrogation of Nature.
    Wom 11.422 26 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...

educated, n. (1)

    MLit 12.318 2 All over the modern world the educated and susceptible have betrayed their discontent with the limits of our municipal life...

educated, v. (21)

    Con 1.312 16 Now can your children be educated...
    YA 1.365 9 ...prudent men have begun to see that every American should be educated with a view to the values of land.
    Int 2.344 18 ...[Aeschylus] has not yet done his office when he has educated the learned of Europe for a thousand years.
    Art1 2.356 22 When [dancing] has educated the frame to self-possession... the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten;...
    Pol1 3.204 13 ...there is an instinctive sense...that if men can be educated, the institutions will share their improvement...
    UGM 4.22 20 Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first.
    SwM 4.99 12 [Swedenborg]...was educated at Upsala.
    ShP 4.204 17 Our ears are educated to music by [Shakespeare's] rhythm.
    ET11 5.191 5 ...when the baron, educated only for war, with his brains paralyzed by his stomach, found himself idle at home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry brute.
    ET11 5.198 3 A multitude of English, educated at the universities...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality...
    ET15 5.262 20 The English do this [write for journals], as they write poetry, as they ride and box, by being educated to it.
    Ctr 6.155 7 ...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and outgrown coat, that he may secure the coveted place in college and the right in the library, is educated to some purpose.
    DL 7.119 21 The poor man's son is educated.
    Boks 7.199 4 Why should not young men be educated on this book [Plato]?
    Suc 7.311 8 There is an external life, which is educated at school...
    Aris 10.48 27 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a superior slave, a confidential secretary and manager, an educated slave; a man of genius, a Moses educated in Egypt?
    Prch 10.217 8 The venerable and beautiful traditions in which we were educated are losing their hold on human belief, day by day;...
    Schr 10.283 9 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...somewhat not educated or educable;...
    FSLC 11.213 4 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their forts and factories have been set up,-represents London, represents the art, power and law of Europe. Every man educated at the Northern school carries the like advantages into the South.
    ACri 12.289 2 We were educated in horror of Satan, but Goethe remarked that all men like to hear him named.
    Let 12.398 14 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times and country, and disdain it.

educates, v. (11)

    Hist 2.24 26 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances.
    ShP 4.190 17 [A great man] finds a war raging: it educates him, by trumpet, in barracks, and he betters the instruction.
    F 6.49 19 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception that there are no contingencies;...
    Pow 6.62 14 Power educates the potentate.
    Ctr 6.155 13 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that goes rusty and educates the boy;...
    Civ 7.24 4 ...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
    DL 7.107 1 ...by beautiful traits...provoking the love that watches and educates him, the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
    DL 7.129 23 ...what educates [the dweller's] eye, or ear, or hand...may well find place [in the household].
    War 11.152 17 War educates the senses...
    FRep 11.527 16 ...responsibility educates fast.
    CInt 12.121 5 The order of the world educates with care the senses and the understanding.

educating, adj. (1)

    Civ 7.22 23 Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness...

educating, v. (2)

    ET13 5.217 21 The English Church has many certificates to show of humble effective service...in cheering and refining men. feeding, healing and educating.
    EdAd 11.393 22 We rely on the talents and industry of good men known to us, but much more on the magnetism of truth, which is multiplying and educating advocates for itself and friends for us.

Education, Board of, n. (1)

    ACri 12.291 21 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress...might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...

Education Farm, n. (1)

    Exp 3.58 19 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy.

Education in Massachusetts, (1)

    FSLC 11.181 21 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news. When I look down the columns at the titles of paragraphs, Education in Massachusetts, Board of Trade...what bitter mockeries!

education, n. (205)

    Nat 1.41 18 ...[commodity] is to the mind an education in the doctrine of Use...
    Nat 1.46 4 It were a pleasant inquiry to follow into detail [the human forms'] ministry to our education...
    Nat 1.59 13 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man, wherein to establish man all right education tends;...
    AmS 1.99 25 Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant...to build the new...
    AmS 1.100 13 I have now spoken of the education of the scholar by nature...
    AmS 1.101 13 For the ease and pleasure of...accepting...the education...of society, [the scholar] takes the cross of making his own...
    MN 1.192 9 ...I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also.
    MN 1.215 23 Tell me not how great your project is...the establishment of public education...
    MR 1.234 26 Considerations of this kind have turned the attention of many...persons to the claims of manual labor, as a part of the education of every young man.
    MR 1.237 5 ...not only health, but education is in the work.
    MR 1.237 19 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the cotton of the cotton. They have got the education...
    MR 1.241 6 ...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world;...for this reason, that labor is God's education;...
    LT 1.290 16 I wish to speak of the...education...around us without ceremony or false deference.
    Con 1.320 15 The cause of education is urged in this country with the utmost earnestness...
    Tran 1.348 2 ...[Transcendentalists] do not willingly share...in the enterprises of education...
    YA 1.363 8 America is beginning to assert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children, and Europe is receding in the same degree. This their reaction on education gives a new importance to the internal improvements and to the politics of the country.
    YA 1.365 2 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto.
    YA 1.365 5 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto. A consciousness of this fact is beginning to take the place of the purely trading spirit and education which sprang up whilst all the population lived on the fringe of sea-coast.
    YA 1.366 3 The land...is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education...
    YA 1.369 6 ...these [European estates]...are a constant education to the eye of the surrounding population.
    YA 1.380 8 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner.
    YA 1.384 9 ...the Communities aimed at a higher success in securing to all their members an equal and thorough education.
    YA 1.393 10 The aristocracy, incorporated by law and education, degrades life for the unprivileged classes.
    Hist 2.6 9 Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of this fact is...the plea for education, for justice, for charity;...
    Hist 2.8 11 The world exists for the education of each man.
    SR 2.46 11 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;...
    SR 2.52 14 ...the education at college of fools;...though...I sometimes...give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    SR 2.77 6 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...in their education;...
    SR 2.82 10 ...our system of education fosters restlessness.
    SL 2.133 4 ...the years of academical and professional education have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
    SL 2.133 6 What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
    SL 2.133 9 ...education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism...
    Lov1 2.183 13 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women...
    OS 2.277 25 There is a certain wisdom of humanity...which our ordinary education often labors to silence and obstruct.
    Int 2.330 27 Every man...finds his curiosity inflamed concerning the modes of living and thinking of other men, and especially of those classes whose minds have not been subdued by the drill of school education.
    Art1 2.353 2 No man can...produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages and arts of his time shall have no share.
    Pol1 3.200 3 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that commerce, education and religion may be voted in or out;...
    Pol1 3.201 4 Meantime the education of the general mind never stops.
    NER 3.257 9 The popular education has been taxed with a want of truth and nature.
    NER 3.257 11 It was complained that an education to things was not given.
    NER 3.258 24 These things [Latin, Greek, Mathematics] became stereotyped as education...
    NER 3.262 5 Our marriage is no worse than our education...
    NER 3.264 7 [The new communities] aim...to unite a liberal culture with an education to labor.
    NER 3.267 24 In alluding just now to our system of education, I spoke of the deadness of its details.
    NER 3.268 3 Men do not believe in a power of education.
    NER 3.268 18 ...the ground on which eminent public servants urge the claims of popular education is fear;...
    NER 3.268 22 We do not believe that any education...will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind.
    NER 3.269 13 ...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.
    NER 3.270 14 I resist the scepticism of our education and of our educated men.
    UGM 4.8 6 Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding.
    UGM 4.35 4 ...within the limits of human education and agency, we may say great men exist that there may be greater men.
    PPh 4.46 10 The same weakness and want, on a higher plane, occurs daily in the education of ardent young men and women.
    PPh 4.64 19 [Plato] saw the institutions of Sparta and recognized...the hope of education.
    PPh 4.65 4 What value [Plato] gives to the art of gymnastic in education;...
    PNR 4.83 1 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; studying the state in the citizen and the citizen in the state; and leaving it doubtful whether he exhibited the Republic as an allegory on the education of the private soul;...
    SwM 4.132 14 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men, as part of their education, through the Eleusinian mysteries...
    SwM 4.135 3 Palestine is ever the more valuable as a chapter in universal history, and ever the less an available element in education.
    MoS 4.178 13 ...we may come to accept it as the fixed rule and theory of our state of education, that God is a substance, and his method is illusion.
    NMW 4.239 15 ...[Napoleon] knew his debt to his austere education...
    ET1 5.19 19 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America, the more that it gave occasion for his favorite topic,--that society is being enlightened by a superficial tuition, out of all proportion to its being restrained by moral culture. Schools do no good. Tuition is not education.
    ET1 5.19 20 [Wordsworth] thinks more of the education of circumstances than of tuition.
    ET5 5.98 4 [The English] system of education is factitious.
    ET8 5.130 7 ...these [lower] classes are the right English stock, and may fairly show the national qualities, before yet art and education have dealt with them.
    ET8 5.138 2 [The English] are...churlish as men sometimes please to be... who ask no favors and who will do what they like with their own. With education and intercourse, these asperities wear off...
    ET9 5.150 25 The English dislike the American structure of society, whilst yet trade, mills, public education and Chartism are doing what they can to create in England the same social condition.
    ET10 5.165 23 [The Englishman]...is armed by the best education...
    ET11 5.173 27 The superior education and manners of the [English] nobles recommend them to the country.
    ET11 5.194 25 The education of a soldier is a simpler affair than that of an earl in the nineteenth century.
    ET11 5.196 8 The tools of our time, namely steam, ships, printing, money and popular education, belong to those who can handle them;...
    ET12 5.210 8 ...education, according to the English notion of it, is arrived at [at Oxford].
    ET13 5.214 19 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 5.217 14 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
    ET13 5.230 11 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
    ET15 5.263 1 Rude health and spirits, an Oxford education and the habits of society are implied [by writing for English journals], but not a ray of genius.
    ET18 5.300 11 The Church [in England] punishes dissent, punishes education.
    Pow 6.54 2 ...the education of the will is the flowering and result of all this geology and astronomy.
    Wth 6.90 6 ...[the human being] is successful, or his education is carried on just so far, as is the marriage of his faculties with nature...
    Wth 6.110 22 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute.
    Ctr 6.139 13 The hardiest skeptic...who has visited...the exhibition of the Industrious Fleas, will not deny the validity of education.
    Ctr 6.140 4 'T is inhuman to want faith in the power of education...
    Ctr 6.140 20 Let us make our education brave and preventive.
    Ctr 6.140 26 We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education.
    Ctr 6.144 14 One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
    Ctr 6.144 17 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither.
    Ctr 6.145 15 An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education is, whatever qualifies her for going to Europe.
    Ctr 6.149 12 A great part of our education is sympathetic and social.
    Bhr 6.190 26 In this country, where school education is universal, we have a superficial culture...
    Wsp 6.210 3 What [proof of infidelity], like the direction of education?
    Wsp 6.210 14 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce...that after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.
    Bty 6.281 2 The spiral tendency of vegetation infects education also.
    Civ 7.26 15 ...one condition is essential to the social education of man, namely, morality.
    Art2 7.57 7 ...as far as [popular institutions] accelerate the end of political freedom and national education, they are preparing the soil of man for fairer flowers and fruits in another age.
    Elo1 7.97 5 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight.
    DL 7.105 6 The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education...
    DL 7.119 19 There was...never any [country in the world] where the state has made such efficient provision for popular education...
    DL 7.122 26 The vice of government, the vice of education, the vice of religion, is one with that of private life.
    DL 7.124 8 In men, it is their place of education...or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement...
    Boks 7.191 7 College education is the reading of certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated.
    Boks 7.213 17 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre...make such amends as they can.
    Clbs 7.249 5 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views, to come to an understanding on these points, and so that their united opinion shall have its just influence on public questions of education and politics.
    Cour 7.257 22 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet, learning how to meet and avoid his dangers, and thus every hour loses one terror more. But this education stops too soon.
    Cour 7.260 27 ...with this pacific education we have no readiness for bad times.
    Cour 7.275 10 ...the education of the will is the object of our existence.
    Suc 7.289 24 ...[egotists] have a long education to undergo to reach simplicity and plain-dealing...
    Suc 7.301 3 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is not propositions...that are our first need;...
    PI 8.22 9 Genius certifies its entire possession of its thought, by translating it into a fact which perfectly represents it, and is hereby education.
    SA 8.86 27 It seems to require several generations of education to train a squeaking or a shouting habit out of a man.
    SA 8.93 12 Steele said of his mistress, that to have loved her was a liberal education.
    SA 8.104 17 We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages of...education and religious culture...
    SA 8.107 15 ...I believe...that intelligence, manly enterprise, good education, virtuous life and elegant manners have been and are found here...
    Elo2 8.112 20 ...the political questions...find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures, and make them intelligible and acceptable to the electors. So of education, of art, of philanthropy.
    Elo2 8.126 10 ...all these are the gymnastics, the education of eloquence, and not itself.
    Elo2 8.129 2 It is this wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating and wrestling, that is the boast of English education...
    Res 8.143 6 Here [in America] is bread, and wealth, and power, and education for every man who has the heart to use his opportunity.
    QO 8.179 27 In a hundred years, millions of men, and...not an art of education that fulfils the conditions.
    PC 8.208 1 Land without price is offered to the settler, cheap education to his children.
    Insp 8.270 16 We must take [the aboriginal man] as we find him,-pretty well on in his education...
    Insp 8.297 10 These are some hints towards what is in all education a chief necessity,-the right government, or...the right obedience to the powers of the human soul.
    Grts 8.304 27 When [young men] have learned that the parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in their choice of place.
    Grts 8.307 11 A point of education that I can never too much insist upon is this tenet that every individual man has a bias which he must obey...
    Imtl 8.334 18 That the world is for [man's] education is the only sane solution of the enigma.
    Aris 10.49 22 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...better than any statute elevating...any class to sacerdotal education and power.
    PerF 10.86 26 A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of streets and of school education.
    Chr2 10.113 16 ...the education in the divinity colleges may well hesitate and vary.
    Chr2 10.118 6 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the education of the sailor and the vagabond boy...
    Edc1 10.125 9 ...I praise New England because it is the country in the world where is the freest expenditure for education.
    Edc1 10.132 12 Whilst thus the world exists for the mind;...it becomes the office of a just education to awaken [man] to the knowledge of this fact.
    Edc1 10.133 20 I have hope, said the great Leibnitz, that society may be reformed, when I see how much education may be reformed.
    Edc1 10.133 24 A treatise on education...affects us with slight paralysis...
    Edc1 10.133 25 ...a convention for education...affects us with slight paralysis...
    Edc1 10.134 1 Education should be as broad as man.
    Edc1 10.134 6 ...if [a man] be capable of dividing men by the trenchant sword of his thought, education should unsheathe and sharpen it;...
    Edc1 10.135 14 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to acquaint [the youthful man] with the resources of his mind...and to inflame him with a piety towards the Grand Mind in which he lives. Thus would education conspire with the Divine Providence.
    Edc1 10.146 20 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task he had achieved an excellent education...
    Edc1 10.148 12 Whilst we all know in our own experience and apply natural methods in our own business,-in education our common sense fails us...
    MoL 10.244 23 Now it is agreed...that with universal cheap education we have stringent theology, but religion is low.
    Schr 10.279 12 ...the young...looking around them at education, at the professions and employments...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...
    Plu 10.298 12 Plutarch was...a self-respecting, amiable man, who knew how to better a good education by travels...
    LLNE 10.326 11 The modern mind believed that the nation existed...for the guardianship and education of every man.
    LLNE 10.342 25 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and sympathy. Otherwise, their education and reading were not marked...
    LLNE 10.360 7 They had good scholars among them [at Brook Farm], and so received pupils for their education.
    LLNE 10.362 3 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth, a plain man...with a persevering interest in education...came and built a house on [Brook] farm...
    LLNE 10.364 18 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...education;...
    EzRy 10.382 4 [Ezra Ripley]...could not be satisfied without a public education.
    EzRy 10.382 14 The commencement of the Revolutionary War greatly interrupted [Ezra Ripley's] education at college.
    EzRy 10.395 1 By education, and still more by temperament, [Ezra Ripley] was engaged to the old forms of the New England Church.
    MMEm 10.417 4 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man of talents, education and good social position...
    MMEm 10.432 21 It was the privilege of certain boys to have [Mary Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood; a blessing which nothing else in education could supply.
    SlHr 10.446 28 [Samuel Hoar]...spent all his energy in creating purity of manners and careful education.
    Carl 10.496 4 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men...
    HDC 11.65 2 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord];...
    War 11.164 11 Observe the ideas of the present day...popular education, temperance, anti-masonry, anti-slavery;...
    FSLC 11.199 22 The only benefit that has accrued from the [Fugitive Slave] law is its service to education.
    FSLC 11.203 17 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850, in opposition to his education, association, and to all his own most explicit language for thirty years, [Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.
    FSLN 11.236 5 ...our education is not conducted by toys and luxuries...
    FSLN 11.241 12 Let the aid of virtue, intelligence and education be cast where they rightfully belong.
    FSLN 11.244 1 ...I put it...to every poetic, every heroic, every religious heart, that not so is...our education...to be declared.
    AsSu 11.247 10 In [the free state], [life] is adorned with education, with skilful labor...
    ACiv 11.298 20 ...boys and girls find their education, this year, less liberal and complete.
    SMC 11.357 2 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...young men...of excellent education and polished manners...
    Wom 11.408 2 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece. Till the new education and larger opportunities of very modern times, this position, with the fewest possible exceptions, has always been true.
    Wom 11.408 11 The part [women] play in education...is their organic office in the world.
    Wom 11.414 13 ...in the East...where the laws resist the education and emancipation of women...Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...
    Wom 11.416 23 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman; urging...her rights of all kinds...as the right to education, to avenues of employment...
    Wom 11.419 9 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women's rights] have been deprived of education...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.
    Wom 11.424 5 Let the public donations for education be equally shared by [women]...
    Wom 11.425 17 ...I think it impossible to separate the interests and education of the sexes.
    SHC 11.432 19 I suppose all of us will readily admit the value of parks and cultivated grounds to the pleasure and education of the people...
    SHC 11.433 10 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for games of education;...
    RBur 11.440 10 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...which, not in governments so much as in education and social order, has changed the face of the world.
    ChiE 11.473 24 ...the like high esteem of education appears in China in social life...
    FRO2 11.487 16 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself...
    CPL 11.495 17 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture...
    CPL 11.498 19 The religious bias of our founders had its usual effect to secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book...
    FRep 11.513 14 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...all drill and military education, on that one compound...
    FRep 11.519 17 We have seen the great party of property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away...every principle of humanity...
    FRep 11.520 2 Our politics are full of adventurers, who having by education and social innocence a good repute in the state, break away from the law of honesty...
    FRep 11.527 6 ...here that same great body [of the people] has arrived at a sloven plenty...the man...disposed to give his children a better education than he received.
    FRep 11.527 9 The steady improvement of the public schools in the cities and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious primary education.
    FRep 11.541 16 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of education...
    PLT 12.56 10 There are two theories of life; one for the demonstration of our talent, the other for the education of the man.
    II 12.71 21 [Our companion] exhibits an exotic culture, as if he had his education in another planet.
    II 12.75 10 [The inner mind] is one, it belongs to all: yet how to impart it? This makes the perpetual problem of education.
    II 12.76 4 Nature is forever over education;...
    II 12.82 27 ...[a man's] workbench is home, education, power and patron.
    CInt 12.115 17 At this season, the colleges keep their anniversaries, and in this country where education is a primary interest, every family has a representative in their halls...
    CInt 12.122 2 There are bad books and false teachers and corrupt judges; and in the institutions of education a want of faith in their own cause.
    CInt 12.124 7 Here [in a good teacher] is sympathy; here is...the hope and impulse imparted. And education is what it should be, a delightful unfolding of the faculties in right order.
    CInt 12.125 14 In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young saint who comes into a convent for her education...
    CL 12.157 19 Our schools and colleges strangely neglect the general education of the eye.
    Bost 12.195 25 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world.
    Bost 12.197 17 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
    Bost 12.204 1 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...
    Bost 12.206 22 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious novelty or other;...a reform in education, a philanthropy.
    Bost 12.209 11 [Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown, so long as [other cities] carry forward its life...of education, of social order, of loyalty to law.
    Bost 12.209 21 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America.
    Milt1 12.256 5 [Milton] defined the object of education to be, to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
    Milt1 12.256 17 Nor is there in literature a more noble outline of a wise external education than that which [Milton] drew up, at the age of thirty-six, in his Letter to Samuel Hartlib.
    Milt1 12.257 23 [Milton] insists that music shall make a part of a generous education.
    ACri 12.283 12 ...to [writing] the education is costliest.
    MLit 12.316 10 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent...which derives all its eclat from our conventional education...
    AgMs 12.359 11 [Edmund Hosmer]...has bred up a large family, given them a good education...
    AgMs 12.360 26 The story [in the Agricultural Survey] of the farmer's daughter, whom education had spoiled for everything useful on a farm,- that is good, too...
    PPr 12.381 17 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition...that the state shall provide at least schoolmaster's education for all the citizens;...
    Let 12.398 2 There is...a paralysis of the active faculties, which falls on young men of this country as soon as they have finished their college education...

Education, n. (13)

    LT 1.269 11 ...the agitators on the system of Education and the laws of Property, are the right successors of Luther, Knox...
    SR 2.84 8 As our Religion, our Education, our Art look abroad, so does our spirit of society.
    NER 3.257 8 The same insatiable criticism may be traced in the efforts for the reform of Education.
    Ctr 6.141 3 What we call our root-and-branch reforms...is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely in Education.
    Aris 10.32 14 In the sketches which I have to offer [on Aristocracy] I shall not be surprised if my readers should fancy that I am giving them...a chapter on Education.
    Edc1 10.133 23 It is ominous...that this word Education has so cold, so hopeless a sound.
    Edc1 10.135 6 The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life.
    Edc1 10.143 14 ...our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
    Edc1 10.153 24 Our modes of Education aim to expedite...
    Edc1 10.155 4 ...the correction of this quack practice is to import into Education the wisdom of life.
    SlHr 10.448 15 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to unpaid services of...the cause of Education, and specially of the University...
    FRep 11.516 15 The questions of Education, of Society, of Labor...may well occupy us...
    CInt 12.128 3 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul...with the living teacher...

Education, Of [John Milton (1)

    Milt1 12.258 5 ...in his essay on Education, [Milton] doubts whether, in the fine days of spring, any study can be accomplished by young men.

educational, adj. (4)

    Wth 6.109 7 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.
    Elo2 8.132 19 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech, in our commercial, manufacturing, railroad and educational conventions; that of political advice and persuasion...
    LLNE 10.361 11 ...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm], without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say...an impatience of the formal, routinary character of our educational, religious, social and economical life in Massachusetts.
    FRep 11.527 16 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are all educational...

educative, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.57 25 The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense.

educator, n. (2)

    WD 7.165 23 ...Trade...that educator of nations...ends in shameful defaulting, bubble and bankruptcy...
    CL 12.152 27 Its power on the mind in sharpening the perceptions has made the sea the famous educator of our race.

educators, n. (4)

    UGM 4.29 10 ...[children] are not at the mercy of such poor educators as we adults.
    Ctr 6.142 25 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers;...
    CbW 6.255 1 Passions, resistance, danger, are educators.
    CbW 6.258 22 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/ and great educators and lawgivers...mainly rely on this stuff...

educe, v. (1)

    Pol1 3.216 2 That which all things tend to educe;...is character.

Edward I, of England, n. (3)

    ET12 5.200 24 In the reign of Edward I., it is pretended, here [at Oxford] were thirty thousand students;...
    CbW 6.253 19 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles...
    Clbs 7.239 19 When Edward I. claimed to be acknowledged by the Scotch (1292) as lord paramount, the nobles of Scotland replied, No answer can be made while the throne is vacant.

Edward IV, of England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.176 8 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV.

Edward, n. (1)

    SR 2.62 25 ...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward...

Edwards, Jonathan, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.402 13 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards...

Edwards, Richard, n. (1)

    QO 8.196 1 ...Hallam...distinguishes a lyric of Edwards or Vaux, and straightway it commends itself to us...

Edwin [Eadwine], King of N (1)

    Imtl 8.323 1 ...when Edwin, the Anglo-Saxon king, was deliberating on receiving the Christian missionaries, one of his nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond... reminds me of one of your winter feasts...

e'er, adv. (1)

    Plu 10.313 20 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./

efface, v. (1)

    Mem 12.101 12 If new impressions sometimes efface old ones, yet we steadily gain insight;...

effaced, v. (3)

    ET4 5.62 22 The mildness of the following ages has not quite effaced these traits of Odin;...
    PC 8.212 15 Our towns are still rude...and the whole architecture tent-like when compared with the monumental solidity of medieval and primeval remains in Europe and Asia. But geology has effaced these distinctions.
    Thor 10.480 26 ...these foibles [of Thoreau], real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant growth of a spirit...which effaced its defeats with new triumphs.

effacing, v. (1)

    OS 2.292 22 How dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of God... effacing the scars of our mistakes and disappointments!

effect, n. (190)

    Nat 1.11 1 [The waving of the boughs'] effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me...
    Nat 1.46 19 ...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought, and, whilst his character retains all its unconscious effect, is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom, - it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    Nat 1.49 7 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind, not to shake our faith in the stability of particular phenomena...
    Nat 1.49 13 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind...to esteem nature as an accident and an effect.
    Nat 1.57 26 ...religion and ethics...have an analogous effect with all lower culture...
    Nat 1.61 14 [Nature] is a perpetual effect.
    DSA 1.123 12 The least admixture of a lie...will instantly vitiate the effect.
    DSA 1.134 13 ...it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love.
    DSA 1.147 17 ...the instant effect of conversing with God will be to put [society's easy merits] away.
    MN 1.199 25 Not the cause, but an ever novel effect, nature descends always from above.
    MN 1.201 7 Each effect strengthens every other.
    MR 1.235 23 Who could regret to see...a purer taste exercising a sensible effect on young men in their choice of occupation...
    LT 1.278 20 I must get with truth, though I should never come to act, as you call it, with effect.
    LT 1.281 17 ...Pestalozzi...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    YA 1.389 10 I fear little from the bad effect of Repudiation;...
    Hist 2.12 17 Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance; others by...the relation of cause and effect.
    Comp 2.103 14 Cause and effect...cannot be severed;...
    Comp 2.103 15 Cause and effect...cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause...
    SL 2.153 4 The effect of any writing on the public mind is mathematically measurable by its depth of thought.
    SL 2.153 9 ...if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men;...
    SL 2.155 5 ...the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.
    SL 2.157 1 I have heard an experienced counsellor say that he never feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict.
    Lov1 2.184 4 Cause and effect...predominate later...
    Fdsp 2.191 12 The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
    Prd1 2.228 9 If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
    Prd1 2.229 13 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    Prd1 2.229 21 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity...
    OS 2.267 3 There is a difference between one and another hour of life in their authority and subsequent effect.
    OS 2.271 27 ...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins.
    OS 2.276 16 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the centre of the world, where...we see causes, and anticipate the universe, which is but a slow effect.
    OS 2.284 20 ...the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect.
    Cir 2.303 6 ...ever, behind the coarse effect, is a fine cause...
    Cir 2.303 7 ...ever, behind the coarse effect, is a fine cause, which, being narrowly seen, is itself the effect of a finer cause.
    Cir 2.314 22 Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
    Art1 2.363 27 ...[art's] highest effect is to make new artists.
    Art1 2.364 4 The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect.
    Art1 2.364 8 [Sculpture] was originally a useful art...and among a people possessed of a wonderful perception of form this childish carving was refined to the utmost splendor of effect.
    Art1 2.368 22 Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to our great mechanical works...the effect of the mercenary impulses which these works obey?
    Pt1 3.6 4 ...there is some...excess of phlegm in our constitution which does not suffer [sun, stars, earth, water] to yield the due effect.
    Pt1 3.6 22 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought, whether they be called cause, operation and effect; or, more poetically, Jove, Pluto, Neptune;...
    Pt1 3.13 22 All form is an effect of character;...
    Pt1 3.30 9 We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles and all poetic forms.
    Exp 3.67 4 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we might...adjust ourselves, once for all, to the perfect calculation of the kingdom of known cause and effect.
    Exp 3.76 24 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity, with the name of hero or saint. Jesus... is a good man on whom many people are agreed that these optical laws shall take effect.
    Exp 3.83 16 This is a fruit,--that I should not ask for a rash effect from meditations, counsels and the hiving of truths.
    Exp 3.83 19 I should feel it pitiful to demand...an overt effect on the instant month and year.
    Exp 3.83 20 The effect is deep and secular as the cause.
    Exp 3.84 10 ...that hankering after an overt or practical effect seems to me an apostasy.
    Mrs1 3.122 7 There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation, because...the last effect is assumed by the senses as the cause.
    Nat2 3.174 22 When the rich tax the poor with servility and obsequiousness, they should consider the effect of men reputed to be the possessors of nature, on imaginative minds.
    Nat2 3.192 6 Quite analogous to the deceits in life, there is...a similar effect on the eye from the face of external nature.
    UGM 4.8 10 The aid we have from others is mechanical compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.
    UGM 4.34 27 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect.
    PPh 4.48 21 Urged by an opposite necessity, the mind returns from the one to that which is not one, but other or many; from cause to effect;...
    PPh 4.60 2 No orator can measure in effect with him who can give good nicknames.
    SwM 4.122 2 ...by force of intellect, and in effect, [Swedenborg] is the last Father in the Church...
    SwM 4.125 13 [To Swedenborg] Nothing can resist states: every thing gravitates: like will to like: what we call poetic justice takes effect on the spot.
    SwM 4.127 8 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love...which, as rightly celebrated, in its genesis, fruition and effect, might well entrance the souls...
    MoS 4.170 9 Truth, or the connection between cause and effect, alone interests us.
    NMW 4.226 23 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin. If you have shown it to Lord Elgin and to fifty persons beside, I shall still speak it to-morrow: and he did speak it, with much effect, at the next day's session.
    NMW 4.234 26 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect...
    NMW 4.235 3 The almost perpendicular fall of the heavy projectiles produced the desired effect.
    NMW 4.254 9 Like all Frenchmen [Napoleon] has a passion for stage effect.
    ET1 5.12 25 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation. He replied that it was really taken from a pamphlet in his possession entitled A Protest of one of the Independents, or something to that effect.
    ET3 5.36 10 The influence of France is a constituent of modern civility, but not enough opposed to the English for the most wholesome effect.
    ET5 5.74 6 ...from the residence of a portion of these [Scandinavian] people in France, and from some effect of that powerful soil on their blood and manners, the Norman has come popularly to represent in England the aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle.
    ET5 5.75 15 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential securities of civil liberty invented and confirmed. The genius of the race and the genius of the place conspired to this effect.
    ET8 5.128 21 Meat and wine produce no effect on [the English].
    ET11 5.196 9 The tools of our time, namely steam, ships, printing, money and popular education, belong to those who can handle them; and their effect has been that advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class.
    ET12 5.206 19 The effect of this drill [at Oxford] is the radical knowledge of Greek and Latin and of mathematics...
    ET13 5.219 1 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect.
    ET14 5.245 1 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation, that no copula had been detected between any cause and effect, either in physics or in thought;...
    ET14 5.245 2 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation...that the term cause and effect was loosely or gratuitously applied to what we know only as consecutive, not at all as causal.
    ET14 5.248 19 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it... as an effect of the same cause which showed itself more pronounced afterwards in Hooke, Boyle and Halley.
    ET18 5.302 3 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion...
    F 6.33 3 ...every other pest is not less in the chain of cause and effect...
    F 6.37 8 The long sleep is not an effect of cold...
    F 6.40 25 ...we have not eyes sharp enough to descry the thread that ties cause and effect.
    Wth 6.100 13 [The right merchant] knows that all goes on the old road...for every effect a perfect cause...
    Ctr 6.141 13 ...much of our training fails of effect;...
    Ctr 6.146 16 ...let us...allow to travel its full effect.
    Ctr 6.147 23 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain... rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...
    Ctr 6.160 10 Even a high dome, and the expansive interior of a cathedral, have a sensible effect on manners.
    Ctr 6.160 14 ...sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry.
    Bhr 6.189 6 What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect;...
    Bhr 6.189 7 What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect;...
    Wsp 6.220 10 Strong men believe in cause and effect.
    Wsp 6.220 19 Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
    Wsp 6.223 11 If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium and wine.
    Wsp 6.231 17 A great man cannot be hindered of the effect of his act...
    CbW 6.259 11 Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day...
    CbW 6.271 26 ...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. 'T is wonderful the effect on the company.
    CbW 6.272 10 Our conversation once and again has apprised us...that a mental power invites us whose generalizations are more worth for joy and for effect than anything that is now called philosophy or literature.
    CbW 6.274 8 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you...have been carried in a neat equipage or in a ridiculous truck: these things are forgotten so quickly, and leave no effect.
    Bty 6.281 11 ...does [the geologist] know what effect passes into the man who builds his house in [the strata]?...
    Bty 6.281 12 ...does [the geologist] know...what effect on the race that inhabits a granite shelf?...
    Bty 6.291 15 How beautiful are ships on the sea! but ships in the theatre,-- or ships kept for picturesque effect on Virginia Water by George IV., and men hired to stand in fitting costumes at a penny an hour!
    Bty 6.291 18 What a difference in effect between a battalion of troops marching to action, and one of our independent companies on a holiday!
    Ill 6.310 24 Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead [in the Mammoth Cave], reflecting the light of a half-hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect.
    Civ 7.21 11 ...the effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity, power and refinement of the builder.
    Art2 7.45 25 ...who will deny that the merely conventional part of the [artistic] performance contributes much to its effect?
    Art2 7.46 11 The effect of music belongs how much to the place...
    Art2 7.46 23 It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist...is as much surprised at the effect as we are, that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the author.
    Art2 7.47 13 We fear that Allston and Greenough did not foresee and design all the effect they produce on us.
    Elo1 7.69 25 ...the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to fascination, though it may have no lasting effect.
    Elo1 7.73 22 ...as this fascination of discourse aims only at amusement, though it be decisive in its momentary effect, it is yet a juggle...
    Farm 7.152 23 [The farmer] carries out this cumulative preparation of means to their last effect.
    WD 7.183 24 ...the least acceleration of thought and the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of vast duration. We call it time; but when that acceleration and that deepening take effect, it acquires another and higher name.
    Boks 7.215 5 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...
    Suc 7.288 18 Cause and effect are a little tedious;...
    Suc 7.294 22 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency.
    OA 7.333 6 ...[John Adams]...added...what effect age may work in diminishing the power of [John Quincy Adams's] mind, I do not know;...
    PI 8.16 12 The atomic theory is only...the effect of a foregone metaphysical theory.
    PI 8.41 24 ...the poet sees...the large effect of laws which correspond to the inward laws which he knows...
    SA 8.86 3 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. It has the effect to stop mirth...
    Elo2 8.113 10 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.
    Elo2 8.122 16 I have heard that no man could read the Bible with such powerful effect [as John Quincy Adams].
    Comc 8.167 5 The physiologist Camper humorously confesses the effect of his studies in dislocating his ordinary associations.
    QO 8.193 16 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...which is to be read...in the effect of a fixed or national style of pictures...on us.
    QO 8.196 13 It is a curious reflex effect of this enhancement of our thought by citing it from another, that many men can write better under a mask than for themselves;...
    PC 8.212 17 Geology...has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.
    PC 8.223 16 Nature is brute but as this soul quickens it; Nature, always the effect, mind the flowing cause.
    PC 8.232 20 It has been our misfortune that the politics of America have been often immoral. It has had the worst effect on character.
    PPo 8.239 14 Layard has given some details of the effect which the improvvisatori produced on the children of the desert.
    PPo 8.239 20 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control. The other Bedouins were scarcely less moved by these rude measures, which have the same kind of effect on the wild tribes of the Persian mountains.
    PPo 8.240 2 He who would understand the influence of the Homeric ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which similar compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
    PPo 8.240 7 Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and flowers are the wine and spirits of the Arab; a couplet is equal to a bottle, and a rose to a dram, without the evil effect of either.
    PPo 8.242 7 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace...gold and silver and precious stones were used so lavishly that in the brilliancy produced by their combined effect, night and day appeared the same;...
    PPo 8.257 3 The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the olive and fig-tree, the birds that inhabit them, and the garden flowers, are never wanting in these musky verses [of Hafiz], and are always named with effect.
    Insp 8.283 20 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low. Since I know this, I endeavor, when the barometer is low, to counteract the injurious effect by greater exertion...
    Insp 8.286 10 The French have a proverb to the effect that not the day only, but all things have their morning...
    Imtl 8.344 25 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect which pervades Nature...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
    Aris 10.41 10 ...the effect of freer institutions in England and America, has robbed the title of king of all its romance...
    Edc1 10.141 18 ...because of the disturbing effect of passion and sense...the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
    Prch 10.221 1 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle; but...when the enemy lies cold in his blood at our feet;...the face seems no longer that of an enemy. I say the effect is withering;...
    Prch 10.238 2 We [in the Church] come...to open the upper eyes to the deep mystery of cause and effect...
    Schr 10.271 20 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that genius and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread, because they have...a first mortgage that takes effect before the right of the present proprietor.
    Schr 10.278 14 ...when one observes how eagerly our people entertain and discuss a new theory...and how little thought operates how great an effect, one would draw a favorable inference as to their intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
    Plu 10.312 10 ...we owe to that wonderful moralist [Seneca] illustrious maxims; as if the scarlet vices of the times of Nero had the natural effect of driving virtue to its loftiest antagonisms.
    LLNE 10.328 19 In literature the effect [of detachment] appeared in the decided tendency of criticism.
    MMEm 10.408 23 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes...My oddities were never designed,-effect of an uncalculating constitution, at first...
    Thor 10.471 19 ...none knew better than [Thoreau] that it is not the fact that imports, but the impression or effect of the fact on your mind.
    Carl 10.490 23 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown, and set a-swinging... and, as in companies here (in England) no man is named or introduced, great is the effect and great the inquiry.
    LS 11.8 5 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to remember him, and that with good effect.
    LS 11.17 12 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity...that such confusion was introduced into the soul that an undivided worship was given nowhere. Is not that the effect of the Lord's Supper?
    LS 11.17 23 I fear it is the effect of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] to clothe Jesus with an authority which he never claimed...
    LS 11.20 13 The general object and effect of the ordinance [the Lord's Supper] is unexceptionable.
    HDC 11.67 19 The planting of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony was the effect of religious principle.
    EWI 11.100 10 It has been in all men's experience a marked effect of the enterprise in behalf of the African, to generate an overbearing and defying spirit.
    EWI 11.138 19 [Virtuous men] have found out the deleterious effect of political association.
    EWI 11.145 8 ...in the great anthem which we call history...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...
    War 11.153 17 [Alexander's conquest of the East] had the effect of uniting into one great interest the divided commonwealths of Greece...
    War 11.171 13 Nor...is the peace principle to be carried into effect by fear.
    FSLC 11.184 14 ...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
    FSLC 11.191 14 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset, wherein the dicta of Lords Talbot and Hardwicke had been cited, to the effect of carrying back the slave to the West Indies, said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLC 11.199 9 [Webster's pacification] has brought United States swords into the streets, and chains round the court-house. A measure of pacification and union. What is its effect?
    ACiv 11.311 5 More and better than the President has spoken shall, perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be...
    HCom 11.343 9 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect.
    Wom 11.416 3 Another step [for Woman] was the effect of the action of the age in the antagonism to Slavery.
    Wom 11.420 5 ...for the effect of [votes for women], I can say, for one, that all my points would sooner be carried in the State if women voted.
    SHC 11.431 26 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs...
    FRO2 11.488 21 ...[miraculous dispensation] is contrary to that law of Nature which all wise men recognize; namely, never to require a larger cause than is necessary to the effect.
    CPL 11.497 24 The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told you how old is the foundation of our village library, and we think we can trace in our modest records a correspondent effect of culture amidst our citizens.
    CPL 11.498 19 The religious bias of our founders had its usual effect to secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book...
    FRep 11.512 10 The theatre avails itself of the best talent of poet, of painter, and of amateur of taste, to make the ensemble of dramatic effect.
    FRep 11.516 26 ...while civil and social freedom exists [in America], nonsense even has a favorable effect.
    FRep 11.517 6 The lodging the power in the people...has the effect of holding things closer to common sense;...
    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 12.50 11 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, and has such scope and so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb and not hereafter to become one. Well, that millennium in effect is really only a little acceleration in his process of thought.
    PLT 12.54 17 [The tree or the brook]...makes one and the same impression and effect at all times.
    II 12.67 21 A continuous effect cannot be produced by discontinuous thought...
    Mem 12.96 9 The mind disposes all its experience...to its ruling end; one man by puns and one by cause and effect...
    Mem 12.96 27 ...one [man] rarely takes an interest in how the facts really stand, in the order of cause and effect, without self-reference. This is an intellectual man.
    CL 12.142 6 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience. For the living out of doors, and simple fare, and gymnastic exercises, and the morals of companions, produce the greatest effect on the way of virtue and of vice.
    CL 12.142 21 There is also an effect [of walking] on beauty.
    CL 12.148 3 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to a house... through a wood; besides the beauty, it has a positive effect on manners...
    CL 12.152 18 We know the healing effect on the sick of change of air...
    CL 12.153 20 ...whenever we find a coast broken up into bays and harbors, we find an instant effect on the intellect and the industry of the people.
    CL 12.158 12 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable...
    Bost 12.183 3 The old physiologists...watched the effect of different climates.
    Bost 12.183 16 According to quality and according to temperature, [the air] must have effect on manners.
    Bost 12.185 1 There is great testimony of discriminating persons to the effect that Rome is endowed with the enchanting property of inspiring a longing in men there to live and there to die.
    MAng1 12.215 17 Every line in [Michelangelo's] biography might be read to the human race with wholesome effect.
    MAng1 12.222 4 ...behold the effect of this familiar object [the human form] every day!
    ACri 12.283 11 Writing is the greatest of arts, the subtilest, and of most miraculous effect;...
    MLit 12.323 3 ...in [Goethe] this encyclopaedia of facts, which it has been the boast of the age to compile, wrought an equal effect.
    MLit 12.330 8 An interchangeable Truth, Beauty and Goodness, each wholly interfused in the other, must make the humors of that eye which would see causes reaching to their last effect...
    EurB 12.369 23 ...[Wordsworth's influence's] effect may be traced on all the poetry both of England and America.
    EurB 12.373 7 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America. The effect on manners cannot be less sensible...
    PPr 12.386 22 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...

Effect, n. (1)

    SR 2.89 21 ...do thou...deal with Cause and Effect...

effect, v. (10)

    AmS 1.89 26 What is the one end [of books] which all means go to effect?
    MR 1.250 11 ...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers, and what a house of cards their institutions are, and I see...what one great thought executed might effect.
    LT 1.278 17 To the youth...the temptation is always great to lend himself to public movements, and as one of a party accomplish what he cannot hope to effect alone.
    SR 2.77 21 ...prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft.
    Chr1 3.90 10 What others effect by talent or by eloquence, this man [of character] accomplishes by some magnetism.
    NMW 4.230 15 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it; the delight in the use of means;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    ET16 5.287 20 ...'t is certain as God liveth, the gun that does not need another gun, the law of love and justice alone, can effect a clean revolution.
    Bty 6.293 18 I need not say how wide the same law [of gradation] ranges, and how much it can be hoped to effect.
    SA 8.81 6 The perfect defence and isolation which [manners] effect makes an insuperable protection.
    EzRy 10.394 4 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...and whatever relief to the conscience of both parties plain speech could effect was sure to be procured.

effected, v. (13)

    AmS 1.110 19 ...the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in literature a very marked...aspect.
    MN 1.221 6 It is the office...of this age to annul that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has effected between the intellect and holiness.
    Lov1 2.185 21 The union which is thus effected [by love]...is yet a temporary state.
    F 6.38 9 Of what changes then in sky and earth, and in finer skies and earths, does the appearance of some Dante or Columbus apprise us! How is this effected?
    Wth 6.114 26 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits. Many effected their purpose and made the experiment...
    CbW 6.256 12 The agencies by which events so grand as...the junction of the two oceans, are effected, are paltry...
    Insp 8.275 25 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain...
    War 11.175 14 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day, and human blood will cease to flow. It is of little consequence in what manner...this purpose of mercy and holiness is effected.
    FSLC 11.211 27 The ancient maxim still holds that never was any injustice effected except by the help of justice.
    FSLN 11.233 12 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown...that, with provisions so vague for an object not named...the robbing of a man and of all his posterity is effected.
    EdAd 11.383 9 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from the expansions effected by public schools, cheap postage and a cheap press...
    II 12.72 1 The muse may be defined, Supervoluntary ends effected by supervoluntary means.
    AgMs 12.363 5 [The Agricultural Surveyor] is the victim of the Reports, which are sent him, of particular farms. He cannot go behind the estimates to know how the contracts were made, and how the sales were effected.

effecting, v. (1)

    ET4 5.50 18 ...navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer of nations.

effective, adj. (18)

    OS 2.273 13 Is the teaching of Christ less effective now than it was when first his mouth was opened?
    UGM 4.7 12 What is good is effective, generative;...
    ET3 5.40 9 England resembles a ship in its shape, and if it were one, its best admiral could not have worked it or anchored it in a more judicious or effective position.
    ET4 5.48 25 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective;...
    ET13 5.217 19 The English Church has many certificates to show of humble effective service in humanizing the people...
    ET14 5.256 15 ...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are still glowing and effective,--how few!
    ET17 5.291 22 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester correspondent awaiting me, a gentleman whose kind reception was followed by a train of friendly and effective attentions...
    Pow 6.64 10 The same elements are always present, only sometimes these conspicuous, and sometimes those; what was yesterday foreground, being to-day background;--what was surface, playing now a not less effective part as basis.
    Wth 6.111 16 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it, and therein resembles the hideous animalcules of which our bodies are built up,--offensive in the particular, yet compose valuable and effective masses.
    Bhr 6.186 7 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second is still more effective...
    Cour 7.256 18 We have had examples of men who, for showing effective courage on a single occasion, have become a favorite spectacle to nations...
    OA 7.326 1 Thirty years ago it was a serious concern to [the lawyer] whether his pleading was good and effective.
    Elo2 8.119 12 The most...thought-paralyzing companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator.
    Edc1 10.142 25 Culture makes [the youth's] books realities to him, their characters more brilliant, more effective on his mind, than his actual mates.
    Prch 10.227 11 [The theologian] sees that what is most effective in the writer is what is dear to his, the reader's, mind.
    ACiv 11.304 26 ...the South...is almost on a footing in effective war-population with the North.
    PLT 12.49 22 The difference is obvious enough in Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's. In debate, in legislature, not less in action; in war or in affairs, alike daring and effective.
    Milt1 12.248 27 [Milton's tracts] are not effective...

effectively, adv. (1)

    PLT 12.45 26 There are men...who easily entertain ideas, but...cannot connect or arrange their thoughts so as effectively to report them.

effects, n. (35)

    Nat 1.50 10 Let us proceed to indicate the effects of culture.
    Tran 1.334 25 Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects;...
    SL 2.166 15 We know the authentic effects of the true fire through every one of its million disguises.
    Fdsp 2.191 16 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire;...
    OS 2.296 22 [The soul saith] I am somehow receptive of the great soul, and thereby I do overlook the sun and the stars and feel them to be the fair accidents and effects which change and pass.
    Cir 2.305 26 The new statement...to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism. But the eye soon gets wonted to it, for the eye and it are effects of one cause;...
    Art1 2.360 3 [Personal relations] were [the artist's] inspirations, and these are the effects he carries home to your heart and mind.
    Exp 3.70 21 That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency. So is it with us, now sceptical or without unity, because immersed in forms and effects all seeming to be of equal yet hostile value, and now religious, whilst in the reception of spiritual law.
    Exp 3.74 12 [The spirit] has plentiful powers and direct effects.
    NR 3.228 11 ...as we grow older we value total powers and effects...
    NR 3.231 19 Money...is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
    PPh 4.48 10 The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects;...
    SwM 4.104 5 The robust Aristotelian method...conversant with series and degree, with effects and ends...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    Wth 6.106 6 The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy-battery exhibits the effects of electricity.
    Ctr 6.154 17 The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.
    Wsp 6.213 4 You say there is no religion now. 'T is like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of his superlative effects.
    Wsp 6.227 13 As we grow older we value total powers and effects...
    Ill 6.316 1 ...how dare any one, if he could, pluck away the coulisses, stage effects and ceremonies, by which [women] live.
    Elo1 7.62 27 Of all the musical instruments on which men play, a popular assembly is that...out of which, by genius and study, the most wonderful effects can be drawn.
    Elo1 7.82 1 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it...supplies the imagination with fine materials. This circumstance enters into every consideration of the power of orators, and is the key to all their effects.
    Suc 7.297 23 'T is the bane of life that natural effects are continually crowded out...
    Comc 8.164 9 ...the religious sentiment is...capable of the most prodigious effects...
    Dem1 10.9 6 We are...by this experience [of dreams]...acquainted with the identity of very unlike-seeming effects.
    Aris 10.39 11 I wish...men...who see general effects...
    PerF 10.74 21 Look at [man]; you can give no guess at what power is in him. It never appears directly, but follow him and see his effects, see his productions.
    PerF 10.75 27 ...surprising and admirable effects follow [man] like a creator.
    PerF 10.82 9 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood.
    PerF 10.82 11 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood. But these are the effects on dull subjects...
    Prch 10.237 15 The lower eyes see only surfaces and effects...
    LLNE 10.357 17 I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age in which we live...
    AKan 11.259 11 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 demoralize legislation...
    SMC 11.355 3 ...cities of men are the first effects of civilization...
    EdAd 11.385 10 One would say there is nothing colossal in the country but its geography and its material activities; that the moral and intellectual effects are not on the same scale with the trade and production.
    Wom 11.416 15 ...[antagonism to Slavery] has, among its other effects, given Woman a feeling of public duty...
    Let 12.392 20 Very unlooked-for political and social effects of the iron road are fast appearing.

effects, v. (2)

    Boks 7.215 14 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.
    PLT 12.44 8 This slight discontinuity which perception effects between the mind and the object paralyzes the will.

effectual, adj. (5)

    Tran 1.346 6 ...these youths bring us a rough but effectual aid.
    Aris 10.61 24 Effectual service in his own legitimate fashion distinguishes the true man.
    LS 11.19 26 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. I should choose other ways which, as more effectual upon me, he would approve more.
    AKan 11.258 2 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    ACiv 11.309 3 ...this measure [emancipation], to be effectual, must come speedily.

effectually, adv. (9)

    Fdsp 2.204 27 ...I offer myself faintly and bluntly to those whose I effectually am...
    NER 3.265 20 I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to prevail on myself to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy, but perhaps a pledge of total abstinence might effectually restrain us.
    UGM 4.20 12 We swim...on a river of delusions and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air...
    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;...
    Elo1 7.79 22 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life...who are felt wherever they go...men who...when they act, act effectually...
    Clbs 7.249 7 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...
    LLNE 10.328 17 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no...said the landlord;...what should these fellows keep the highway for, when they can rob just as effectually, and much more at their ease, in the bureaus of office?
    FSLC 11.207 7 What shall we do? First, abrogate this [Fugitive Slave] law; then, proceed to confine slavery to slave states, and help them effectually to make an end of it.
    PLT 12.9 2 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society, where the manners and estimate of the world have...effectually suppressed this overweening self-conceit.

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