Eligible to Employs
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
eligible, adj. (1)
OA 7.321 6 A man of great employments and excellent
performance used
to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was
sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain
Young Men's
Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under
seventy.
Eliot, John, n. (9)
Hsm1 2.254 26 John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, drank
water...
HDC 11.51 18 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his
first sermon in
the Indian language at Noonantum;...
HDC 11.52 2 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws
apart, the wife
of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my
husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he
saith?...
HDC 11.52 21 Tahattawan and his son-in-law Waban,
besought [John] Eliot to come and preach to them at Concord...
HDC 11.53 25 Their forefathers, the Indians told [John]
Eliot, did know
God, but after this, they fell into a deep sleep...
HDC 11.54 1 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651,
[the Indians'] desire
was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog
Pond... became an Indian town...
HDC 11.54 8 Wilson relates that, at their meetings, the
Indians sung a
psalm, made Indian by [John] Eliot...
HDC 11.85 26 On the village green [of Concord] have
been the steps...of
John Eliot...
Bost 12.206 23 From Roger Williams and Eliot and
Robinson...down to
Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of
dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
elire, v. (1)
ET13 5.227 18 The [English] Bishop is elected by the
Dean and Prebends
of the cathedral. The Queen sends these gentlemen a conge d'elire, or
leave
to elect;...
Elise, n. (1)
Bhr 6.185 8 Here is Elise, who caught cold in coming
into the world and
has always increased it since.
elixir, n. (3)
SwM 4.98 14 This man [Swedenborg], who appeared to his
contemporaries
a visionary and elixir of moonbeams, no doubt led the most real life of
any
man then in the world...
F 6.10 3 ...sometimes...the rank unmitigated
elixir...is drawn off in a
separate individual...
Pow 6.53 22 If [a man] have secured the elixir, he can
spare the wide
gardens from which it was distilled.
Elizabeth I, of England, n. (7)
ShP 4.196 8 ...some passages [in Shakespeare's Henry
VIII], as the account
of the coronation, are like autographs. What is odd, the compliment to
Queen Elizabeth is in the bad rhythm.
ShP 4.202 10 There is somewhat touching in the madness
with which the
passing age mischooses the object on which...all eyes are turned; the
care
with which it registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth and King
James...
ET7 5.119 6 [The English] read gladly in old Fuller
that a lady in the reign
of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of
false
stones...
ET11 5.195 5 Elizabeth extended her thought to the
future;...
ET12 5.201 8 Albert Alaskie...who visited England to
admire the wisdom
of Queen Elizabeth, was entertained with stage-plays in the Refectory
of
Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in 1583.
Boks 7.206 13 Ximenes...Elizabeth...are [Charles V's]
contemporaries.
Shak1 11.452 18 ...Shakspeare...simply by his colossal
proportions, dwarfs
the geniuses of Elizabeth...
Elizabeth I's, of England, (2)
ET11 5.189 25 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from
the pen of Queen
Elizabeth's archbishop Parker; Lord Herbert of Cherbury's
autobiography;... are favorable pictures of a romantic style of
manners.
War 11.158 4 Only in Elizabeth's time, out of the
European waters, piracy
was all but universal.
Elizabethan, adj. (4)
ET14 5.242 26 Not these particulars, but the mental
plane or the
atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the
writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age...
Boks 7.206 27 ...in the Elizabethan era [the scholar]
is at the richest period
of the English mind...
SovE 10.208 24 ...a new crop of geniuses like those of
the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age...
Mem 12.108 7 I...can drop easily many poets out of the
Elizabethan
chronology, but not Shakspeare.
Elizabethan Age, n. (1)
Elo2 8.131 20 ...in the Elizabethan Age there was a
dramatic zymosis...
Elizabethans, n. (1)
PPh 4.40 17 How many great men Nature is incessantly
sending up out of
night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists! the Alexandrians, a
constellation of
genius; the Elizabethans, not less;...
Elizabeths, n. (1)
Shak1 11.451 8 The real Elizabeths, Jameses and Louises
were painted
sticks before this magician [Shakespeare].
elk, n. (1)
Bty 6.285 3 An Indian prince, Tisso, one day riding in
the forest, saw a
herd of elk sporting.
elks, n. (1)
Bty 6.285 4 See how happy, [Tisso] said, these browsing
elks are!
ellipse, n. (2)
MoL 10.249 26 Nature says to the American: I understand
mensuration and
numbers; I compute the ellipse of the moon...the balance of attraction
and
recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you
need.
PLT 12.12 3 ...he who who contents himself
with...recording only what
facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other,
though he
does not interfere with its vast curves by prematurely forcing them
into a
circle or ellipse...
elliptical, adj. (1)
WSL 12.348 3 [Landor] knows the wide difference between
compression
and an obscure elliptical style.
Ellis's, George, n. (1)
Boks 7.206 23 [The scholar] can look back for the
legends and mythology... to Ellis's Metrical Romances...
elm, n. (4)
LT 1.284 26 The canker worms have crawled to the topmost
bough of the
wild elm...
Hist 2.21 1 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old
piles of Oxford and
the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the
mind
of the builder, and that his chisel, his saw and plane still
reproduced...its
locust, elm, oak, pine, fir and spruce.
Comp 2.92 1 Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine/...
Nat2 3.183 9 ...let us be men instead of woodchucks and
the oak and the
elm shall gladly serve us...
Elm Vale, n. (3)
MMEm 10.401 22 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes
about this
farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...interest like a romance...
MMEm 10.408 22 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes: August,
1847: Vale.- My oddities were never designed...
MMEm 10.410 13 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth
Hoar, was at the
Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece,
Aunt
Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost...
elm-tree, n. (2)
PI 8.13 19 ...if the elm-tree thinks the same thing, if
running water, if
burning coal...say what I say, it must be true.
Thor 10.456 17 I love Henry, said one of [Thoreau's]
friends, but I cannot
like him; and as for taking his arm, I should as soon think of taking
the arm
of an elm-tree.
elocution, n. (3)
ET5 5.79 7 ...[Kenelm Digby] had so graceful elocution
and noble address, that, had he been dropt out of the clouds in any
part of the world, he would
have made himself respected;...
ET6 5.104 6 [The Englishman's] elocution is
stomachic...
FSLN 11.222 1 ...the perfection of [Webster's]
elocution...we shall not
soon find again.
eloquence, n. (97)
Nat 1.29 13 ...the idioms of all languages approach each
other in passages
of the greatest eloquence and power.
Nat 1.73 10 Such examples [of the action of man upon
nature with his
entire force] are...eloquence;...
AmS 1.95 24 ...exasperation, want, are instructors in
eloquence and wisdom.
DSA 1.147 21 There are...persons...who disdain
eloquence;...
LE 1.157 2 ...the mark of American merit...in
eloquence, seems to be a
certain grace without grandeur...
MN 1.211 3 What is best in any work of art but...that
which flows from the
hour and the occasion, like the eloquence of men in a tumultuous
debate?
LT 1.290 6 ...[the Moral Sentiment] rides the stormy
eloquence of the
senate, sole victor;...
SR 2.70 20 ...war, eloquence, personal weight, are
somewhat...
SL 2.153 8 ...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;...
Fdsp 2.205 3 I wish that friendship should have feet,
as well as eyes and
eloquence.
Fdsp 2.208 6 A man is reputed to have thought and
eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his
uncle.
Int 2.333 24 ...notwithstanding our utter incapacity to
produce anything
like Hamlet and Othello, see the perfect reception this wit and immense
knowledge of life and liquid eloquence find in us all.
Pt1 3.39 23 ...the poet knows well that [what he says]
not his; that it is as
strange and beautiful to him as to you; he would fain hear the like
eloquence at length.
Chr1 3.90 11 What others effect by talent or by
eloquence, this man [of
character] accomplishes by some magnetism.
Chr1 3.110 26 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad
without
encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him
and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray
must be
yielded;...the entrance of a friend adds grace, boldness and eloquence
to
him;...
NER 3.273 11 Berkeley, having listened to the many
lively things [Lord
Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an
astonishing
and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they were struck
dumb...
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...
SwM 4.142 3 A man should not tell me that he has walked
among the
angels; his proof is that his eloquence makes me one.
ShP 4.196 3 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII]
was written by a
superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and
know
well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene
with
Cromwell, where...the verse has even a trace of pulpit eloquence.
GoW 4.263 16 ...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes
of eloquence, they
might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some
Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in
the
muscles of the neck.
ET9 5.147 15 ...it must be admitted, the island
[England] offers a daily
worship to the old Norse god Brage, celebrated among our Scandinavian
forefathers for his eloquence and majestic air.
ET15 5.267 26 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the
London Times] suggests
the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if
persons
of exact information, and with settled views of policy...availed
themselves
of [the writers'] younger energy and eloquence to plead the cause.
Wth 6.86 3 ...the mind acts...in the creation of finer
values...by eloquence...
Ctr 6.160 17 ...culture must reinforce from higher
influx the empirical
skills of eloquence, or of politics...
Bhr 6.193 22 ...such was the eloquence and good humor
of the monk [Basle], that wherever he went he was received gladly and
civilly treated...
Bty 6.296 13 A beautiful woman is a practical
poet...planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she
approaches.
Bty 6.300 12 If...eloquence...exist in the most
deformed person, all the
accidents that usually displease, please...
Art2 7.38 24 From the first imitative babble of a child
to the despotism of
eloquence;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of
things to
serve its end.
Art2 7.43 10 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting,
Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts.
I omit Rhetoric, which only
respects the form of eloquence and poetry.
Art2 7.43 11 Architecture and eloquence are mixed
arts...
Art2 7.44 1 Eloquence...is modified how much by the
material organization
of the orator...
Art2 7.46 7 The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest
part owing often to the
stimulus of the occasion which produces it...
Art2 7.49 19 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the
art are when the orator
is lifted above himself;...
Elo1 7.61 17 The eloquence of one [man] stimulates all
the rest...
Elo1 7.62 4 Our county conventions often exhibit a
small-pot-soon-hot
style of eloquence.
Elo1 7.63 23 The definitions of eloquence describe its
attraction for young
men.
Elo1 7.64 20 ...the end of eloquence is...to alter in a
pair of hours...the
convictions and habits of years.
Elo1 7.65 3 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is
not a particular skill
in telling a story...
Elo1 7.68 7 I do not rate this animal eloquence very
highly;...
Elo1 7.69 17 ...eloquence must be attractive, or it is
none.
Elo1 7.69 27 The right eloquence needs no bell to call
the people together...
Elo1 7.75 12 ...we may say of such collectively that
the habit of oratory is
apt to disqualify them for eloquence.
Elo1 7.76 12 ...eloquence is attractive as an example
of the magic of
personal ascendency...
Elo1 7.81 15 ...it is not powers of speech that we
primarily consider under
this word eloquence...
Elo1 7.81 18 Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the
highest personal
energy.
Elo1 7.89 1 ...all that is called eloquence seems to me
of little use for the
most part to those who have it...
Elo1 7.90 25 ...rapid generalization, humor, pathos,
are keys which the
orator holds; and yet these fine gifts are not eloquence...
Elo1 7.92 2 There is for every man a statement possible
of that truth which
he is most unwilling to receive,--a statement possible, so broad and so
pungent that he cannot get away from it, but must either bend to it or
die of
it. Else there would be no such word as eloquence, which means this.
Elo1 7.92 12 In transcendent eloquence, there was ever
some crisis in
affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the cause he pleads...
Elo1 7.93 21 Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest
narrative.
Elo1 7.95 11 ...the conditions for eloquence always
exist.
Elo1 7.97 22 The highest platform of eloquence is the
moral sentiment.
Elo1 7.99 9 Eloquence...rests on laws the most exact
and determinate.
Cour 7.256 10 ...any man who puts his life in peril in
a cause which is
esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...the
favorite topics of eloquence...may testify.
Cour 7.272 10 Poetry and eloquence catch the hint [of
courage]...
PI 8.30 12 It is a rule in eloquence, that the moment
the orator loses
command of his audience, the audience commands him.
PI 8.70 14 O celestial Bacchus!--drive them mad,--this
multitude of
vagabonds, hungry for eloquence...
Elo2 8.110 1 True eloquence I find to be none but the
serious and hearty
love of truth;...
Elo2 8.111 3 I do not know any kind of history, except
the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest than
to any anecdote of
eloquence;...
Elo2 8.112 22 Eloquence shows the power and possibility
of man.
Elo2 8.113 12 ...recall the delight that sudden
eloquence gives...
Elo2 8.115 1 ...how every listener gladly consents to
be nothing in [the
orator's] presence...and be steeped and ennobled in the new wine of
this
eloquence!
Elo2 8.117 11 No act indicates more universal health
than eloquence.
Elo2 8.119 1 Go into an assembly well excited, some
angry political
meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as
natural
as swimming...
Elo2 8.122 12 What must have been the discourse of St.
Bernard, when
mothers hid their sons...lest they should be led by his eloquence to
join the
monastery.
Elo2 8.125 22 ...when [the orator] rises to any height
of thought or of
passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his
audience. It is the merit of John Brown and of Abraham Lincoln--one at
Charlestown, one at Gettysburg--in the two best specimens of eloquence
we have had in
this country.
Elo2 8.126 11 ...all these are the gymnastics, the
education of eloquence, and not itself.
Elo2 8.129 13 ...[Lord Ashley] drew such an argument
from his own
confusion as more advantaged his cause that all the powers of eloquence
could have done.
Elo2 8.130 3 Eloquence is the power to translate a
truth into language
perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
Elo2 8.131 2 ...all eloquence is a war of posts.
Elo2 8.132 2 The historian Paterculus says of Cicero,
that only in Cicero's
lifetime was any great eloquence in Rome;...
Elo2 8.132 15 If there ever was a country where
eloquence was a power, it
is the United States.
QO 8.196 24 ...it is not rare to find great powers of
recitation, without the
least original eloquence...
PC 8.218 2 Eloquence a hundred times has turned the
scale of war and
peace at will.
Insp 8.293 18 By sympathy, each [party in good
conversation] opens to the
eloquence...
Grts 8.308 4 ...to each his own method, style, wit,
eloquence.
Grts 8.320 10 ...the difference of level...makes
eloquence, indignation, poetry, in him who finds there is much to
communicate.
Aris 10.53 5 The first example [of Genius] that occurs
is an extraordinary
gift of eloquence.
Prch 10.227 7 [The theologian] is to claim for his own
whatever eloquence
of St. Chrysostom or St. Jerome or St. Bernard he has felt.
Schr 10.282 18 The spiritual nature exhibits itself so
in its counteraction to
any accumulation of material force. There is no mass that can be a
counterweight for it. This makes one man good against mankind. This is
the
secret of eloquence...
Schr 10.282 19 ...it is the end of eloquence...to
persuade a multitude of
persons to renounce their opinions, and change the course of life.
Schr 10.283 17 ...[Mother-wit's] grand Ay and its grand
No are more
musical than all eloquence.
CSC 10.376 3 There was a great deal of wearisome
speaking in each of
those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention], but
relieved
by signal passages of pure eloquence...
MMEm 10.408 16 Was there thought and eloquence, [Mary
Moody
Emerson] would listen like a child.
EWI 11.137 27 This moral force perpetually reinforces
and dignifies the
friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that
superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which makes in all
countries anti-slavery meetings so attractive...
EWI 11.138 3 This moral force perpetually reinforces
and dignifies the
friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that
superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which...has made it a
proverb in Massachusetts, that eloquence is dog-cheap at the
anti-slavery
chapel.
FSLC 11.185 19 The learning of the universities...the
eloquence of the
Christian pulpit...are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy].
FSLC 11.202 20 We delighted...in [Webster's]
eloquence...
FSLN 11.223 10 Great is the privilege of eloquence.
JBS 11.277 5 ...the best orators who have added their
praise to his fame,- and I need not go out of this house to find the
purest eloquence in the
country,-have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN
BROWN.
Koss 11.397 8 ...[the people of Concord]...have been
hungry to see the man
whose extraordinary eloquence is seconded by the splendor and solidity
of
his actions [Kossuth].
SHC 11.433 11 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...patriotic
eloquence...
CL 12.153 7 The freedom [of the sea] makes the observer
feel as a slave. Our expression is so thin and cramped! Can we not
learn here a generous
eloquence?
CW 12.169 7 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Nor
wit, nor
eloquence,-no, nor even the song/ Of any woman that is now alive,-/
Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the
happy
past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist
roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
Bost 12.211 3 The elder Otis could hardly excel the
popular eloquence of
the younger Otis;...
Milt1 12.262 2 ...[Milton] said...I cannot say that I
am...unacquainted with
those examples which the prime authors of eloquence have written in any
learned tongue...
Milt1 12.262 3 ...[Milton] said...true eloquence I find
to be none but the
serious and hearty love of truth;...
Eloquence, n. (2)
Art2 7.43 7 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting,
Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts.
PerF 10.78 12 It would be easy to awake wonder by
sketching the
performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Imagination,
which
turns every dull fact into pictures and poetry, by making it an emblem
of
thought. What a power, when, combined with the analyzing understanding,
it makes Eloquence;...
eloquent, adj. (38)
LE 1.183 26 ...let [the scholar]...wait in patience,
knowing that truth can
make even silence eloquent and memorable.
LT 1.263 18 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of
order here in
Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect
soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
LT 1.263 23 ...an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect
soever,-would
be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches. To be sure he
would; and not only in ours but in any church, mosque, or temple on the
planet; but he must be eloquent...
Hist 2.38 3 Who knows himself before he...has heard an
eloquent tongue...
SR 2.49 5 ...looking out from his corner on such people
and facts as pass
by, [the boy] tries and sentences them...as good, bad, interesting,
silly, eloquent, troublesome.
SR 2.83 27 Not possibly will the soul, all rich, all
eloquent...deign to repeat
itself;...
Lov1 2.184 23 Her pure and eloquent blood/ Spoke in her
cheeks.../
Int 2.343 4 ...a true and natural man contains and is
the same truth which an
eloquent man articulates;...
Int 2.343 5 ...a true and natural man contains and is
the same truth which an
eloquent man articulates; but in the eloquent man, because he can
articulate
it, it seems something the less to reside...
Art1 2.365 1 Sculpture may serve to teach the
pupil...how purely the spirit
can translate its meanings into that eloquent dialect [of form].
Chr1 3.107 5 I remember the indignation of an eloquent
Methodist at the
kind admonitions of a Doctor of Divinity...
Nat2 3.174 10 These bribe and invite; not kings, not
palaces, not men, not
women, but these tender and poetic stars, eloquent of secret promises.
UGM 4.23 8 I like a master standing firm on legs of
iron, well-born, rich, handsome, eloquent...
MoS 4.153 12 [The men of the senses] believe that...a
man will be
eloquent, if you give him good wine.
ET1 5.5 23 Greenough was a superior man, ardent and
eloquent...
Elo1 7.61 3 ...probably every man is eloquent once in
his life.
Elo1 7.75 14 One of our statesmen said, The curse of
this country is
eloquent men.
Elo1 7.83 19 I have heard it reported of an eloquent
preacher...that, on
occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation
with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
Elo1 7.91 1 ...the truly eloquent man is a sane man
with power to
communicate his sanity.
Elo1 7.92 20 ...in cases where profound conviction has
been wrought, the
eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
Clbs 7.235 25 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the
lawgiver was in each
case some man of eloquent tongue...
Clbs 7.240 2 What can you do with an eloquent man?
Elo2 8.128 4 I should add what is told of [Dr. Charles
Chauncy],--that he so
disliked the sensation preaching of his time, that he had once prayed
that he
might never be eloquent;...
PPo 8.256 29 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause enow
for
mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?/ Know
that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./
Aris 10.54 9 The more familiar examples of this power
[of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh,
and weep, in their
eloquent closets...
LLNE 10.334 10 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such
throbbing hearts
and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go
his
hearers when the church was dismissed, but the bright image of that
eloquent form followed the boy home to his bed-chamber;...
MMEm 10.403 2 When I read Dante...and his paraphrases
to signify with
more adequateness Christ or Jehovah, whom do you think I was reminded
of? Whom but Mary Emerson and her eloquent theology?
EWI 11.100 8 The subject [emancipation] is said to have
the property of
making dull men eloquent.
EWI 11.133 25 ...whilst our very amiable and very
innocent
representatives...at Washington are...very eloquent at dinners and at
caucuses, there is a disastrous want of men from New England.
EWI 11.134 2 ...you will not suffer me to forget one
eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams], in whose veins the blood of
Massachusetts rolls...
FSLN 11.219 17 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great
name inferior
men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave
Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts
of...men of
eloquent speech, but men without self-respect...
SMC 11.351 10 The sense of the town, the eloquent
inscriptions the shaft
now bears...will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with
daily beauty and spiritual life.
Wom 11.416 11 Was never a University of Oxford or
Gottingen that made
such students. [Antagonism to Slavery] took a man from the plough and
made him acute, eloquent, and wise to the silencing of the doctors.
CInt 12.119 18 I wish you to be eloquent...
Bost 12.208 25 What public souls have lived here [in
Boston]...what
eloquent preachers...
MAng1 12.241 6 An eloquent vindication of
[Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper by Signor
Radici in the London
Retrospective Review...
Pray 12.352 28 The next [prayer] is a voice out of a
solitude as strict and
sacred as that in which Nature had isolated this eloquent mute...
PPr 12.380 17 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the
merit which belongs to
every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent...
eloquent, n. (2)
Hist 2.7 14 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations,
are portraits in
which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming. The silent and
the
eloquent praise him and accost him...
Elo2 8.109 10 ...No mimic; from [the patriot's] breast
his counsel drew,/ Believed the eloquent was aye the true;/...
eloquently, adv. (1)
SS 7.14 20 I know that my friend can talk eloquently;...
else, adj. (103)
AmS 1.81 15 Perhaps the time is already come when [our
holiday] ought to
be, and will be, something else;...
DSA 1.146 2 In the imitator something else is
natural...
LE 1.159 9 Every presentiment of the mind is executed
somewhere in a
gigantic fact. What else is Greece, Rome, England, France, St. Helena?
LE 1.159 10 Every presentiment of the mind is executed
somewhere in a
gigantic fact. ... What else are churches, literatures, and empires?
LE 1.165 2 ...an able man is nothing else than a good,
free, vascular
organization...
LE 1.170 10 What else do these volumes of extracts and
manuscript
commentaries, that every scholar writes, indicate?
LE 1.180 20 ...always remained [Napoleon's] total trust
in the prodigious
revolutions of fortune which his reserved Imperial Guard were capable
of
working, if, in all else, the day was lost.
MN 1.203 10 ...total nature...is becoming somewhat
else;...
MR 1.228 22 ...now...all things else hear the trumpet,
and must rush to
judgment...
MR 1.251 1 To principles something else is possible
that transcends all the
power of expedients.
LT 1.271 24 This beauty which the fancy finds in
everything else, certainly
accuses the manner of life we lead.
Hist 2.31 25 The philosophical perception of identity
through endless
mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus. What else am I who
laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last night like a corpse, and this
morning stood and ran?
SR 2.61 2 Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us
of somewhat else...
SR 2.61 4 Character, reality, reminds you of nothing
else;...
Comp 2.94 26 What did the preacher mean by saying that
the good are
miserable in the present life? Was it...that a compensation is to be
made to
these last [the good] hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications
another
day,--bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne? This must be the
compensation intended; for what else?
Comp 2.98 14 For every thing you have missed, you have
gained
something else;...
Comp 2.115 10 ...the doctrine that every thing has its
price,--and if that
price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained...is
not less
sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...
SL 2.145 8 Everywhere [the man] may take what belongs
to his spiritual
estate, nor can he take anything else...
SL 2.157 23 If a man know that he can do any
thing,--that he can do it
better than any one els,--he has a pledge of the acknowledgement of
that
fact by all persons.
Lov1 2.179 21 What else did Jean Paul Richter signify,
when he said to
music, Away! away! thou speakest to me of things which in all my
endless
life I have not found and shall not find.
Fdsp 2.197 18 I cannot deny it, O friend, that the vast
shadow of the
Phenomenal includes...thee also, compared with whom all else is shadow.
Prd1 2.223 22 ...culture...aiming at the perfection of
the man as the end, degrades every thing else...into means.
Hsm1 2.251 17 ...every man must be supposed to see a
little farther on his
own proper path than any one else.
OS 2.276 25 ...these other souls, these separated
selves, draw me as nothing
else can.
Cir 2.302 14 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as
if it had been
statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining,
as we
see flecks and scraps of snow left in cold dells and mountain clefts in
June
and July. For the genius that created it creates now somewhat else.
Pt1 3.39 19 ...by and by [the poet] says something
which is original and
beautiful. That charms him. He would say nothing else but such things.
Chr1 3.92 18 In the new objects we recognize the old
game, the habit of
fronting the fact, and not dealing with it...through the perceptions of
somebody else.
Mrs1 3.132 8 ...good sense and character make their own
forms every
moment, and...stand on their head, or what else soever, in a new and
aboriginal way;...
Pol1 3.214 22 I can see well enough a great difference
between my setting
myself down to a self-control, and my going to make somebody else act
after my views;...
NR 3.236 25 Nick Bottom cannot play all the parts, work
it how he may; there will be somebody else, and the world will be
round.
PPh 4.42 17 Plato absorbed the learning of his
times,--Philolaus, Timaeus, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and what else;...
PPh 4.49 14 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of
devotion lose all being in
one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly...in
the
Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu Purana. Those writings
contain
little else than this idea...
PPh 4.63 27 ...courage is nothing else than
knowledge;...
PPh 4.73 4 ...it is certain that [Socrates] had grown
to delight in nothing
else than this conversation;...
SwM 4.93 23 Wherever the sentiment of right comes in,
it takes precedence
of every thing else.
MoS 4.158 17 The generous minds embrace the proposition
of labor shared
by all;...nothing else is safe.
GoW 4.267 22 ...in...actions that...put a ban on reason
and sentiment, there
is nothing else but drawback and negation.
GoW 4.276 9 ...what [Goethe] says of religion...or
whatever else, refuses to
be forgotten.
ET1 5.7 24 [Landor] prefers the Venus to everything
else...
ET5 5.79 16 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that
syllogisms do breed, or
rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth
nothing
else but weave such chains.
ET7 5.124 16 ...[Englishmen] affirm the one small fact
they know, with the
best faith in the world that nothing else exists.
ET11 5.196 25 This is the charter, or the chartism,
which fogs and seas and
rains proclaimed [in England]...that work should wear the crown. I know
that not this, but something else is pretended.
Pow 6.70 18 Physical force has no value where there is
nothing else.
Wth 6.102 20 There are wide countries, like Siberia,
where [the dollar] would buy little else to-day than some petty
mitigation of suffering.
Bhr 6.183 10 In Notre Dame, the grandee took his place
on the dias with
the look of one who is thinking of something else.
Wsp 6.240 25 The religion which is to guide and fulfil
the present and
coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual.
CbW 6.277 15 The individuals are...in the act of
becoming something else, and irresponsible.
Bty 6.279 13 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/
From centred and
from errant sphere./
SS 7.7 13 ...there is no remedy that can reach the
heart of the disease but
either habits of self-reliance that should go in practice to making the
man
independent of the human race, or else a religion of love.
Civ 7.28 6 ...we found out that the air and earth were
full of Electricity, and
always going our way,--just the way we wanted to send [our letters].
Would
he take a message? Just as lief as not; had nothing else to do;...
Elo1 7.91 13 ...these talents [of oratory] are quite
something else when they
are subordinated and serve [the man];...
Elo1 7.97 27 ...[the moral sentiment] conveys a hint of
our eternity, when [the hearer] feels himself addressed on grounds
which will remain when
everything else is taken...
DL 7.109 27 Let [a man] never buy anything else than
what he wants...
Boks 7.213 14 The novel is that allowance and frolic
the imagination finds. Everything else pins it down...
Clbs 7.231 26 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the
company of those who have
convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be
something else than they were;...
Cour 7.252 1 Peril around, all else appalling,/ Cannon
in front and leaden
rain,/ Him duty, through the clarion calling/ To the van, called not in
vain./
Suc 7.290 19 I hate this shallow Americanism which
hopes...to learn... power through...wealth by fraud. They think they
have got it, but they have
got something else...
Suc 7.296 19 ...in every book [a good reader] finds
passages which seem
confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for
his
ear.
Suc 7.311 19 ...[the inner live] loves right, it knows
nothing else;...
OA 7.320 13 We do not count a man's years, until he has
nothing else to
count.
PI 8.4 14 ...the creation is...in transit, always
passing into something else...
PI 8.36 18 [The poet] is very well convinced that the
great moments of life
are those in which...the tritest and nearest ways and words and things
have
been illuminated into prophets and teachers. What else is it to be a
poet?
PI 8.61 26 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir
Gawaine]...neither shall I ever go out
from hence, for in the world there is no such strong tower as this
wherein I
am confined; and it is neither of wood, nor of iron, nor of stone, but
of air, without anything else;...
SA 8.90 5 ...to the company I am now considering, were
no terrors, no
vulgarity. All topics were broached...myself, thyself, all selves, and
whatever else...
SA 8.92 1 It may happen that each hears from the other
a better wisdom
than any one else will ever hear from either.
Elo2 8.116 11 [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 8.125 8 ...[the man in the street]...can always
get the ear of an
audience to the exclusion of everybody else.
Elo2 8.128 16 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is
so common a result
of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk from the
games...and
whatever else would lead him and keep him on even terms with
boys...that i
wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play
a
contemptible part when he is full-grown.
Res 8.152 19 ...long before anything else is ready,
these osiers hang out
their joyful flowers in contrast to all the woods.
QO 8.202 23 All spontaneous thought is irrespective of
all else.
Insp 8.273 11 ...[most men] say to-day what occurs to
them, and something
else to-morrow.
Insp 8.283 5 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert] signalizes
his delight in this
skill [of writing verse], and his pain that the Herricks, Lovelaces and
Marlowes, or whoever else, should use the like genius in language to
sensual purpose...
Grts 8.310 27 The shoemaker makes a good shoe because
he makes
nothing else.
Imtl 8.331 24 [One of the men] said that when he
entered the Senate he
became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and...they
daily... spent much time in conversation on the immortality of the soul
and other
intellectual questions, and cared for little else.
Chr2 10.91 12 ...the moral cause of the world lies
behind all else in the
mind.
Chr2 10.94 3 The antagonist nature is the
individual...with appetites which
take from everybody else what they appropriate to themselves...
Edc1 10.144 23 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms...or
believes
practicable in mechanics or possible in political society, which no one
else
sees or hears or believes.
Edc1 10.151 25 ...you see [the young man's] want of
those tastes and
perceptions which make the power and safety of your character. Very
likely. But he has something else.
MMEm 10.407 10 ...in the country, we converse so much
more with
ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else.
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 10.443 19 ...in his own town, if some important
end was to be gained... all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the
Legislature...and, of course
also...we elected somebody else at the next term.
Thor 10.464 21 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other
world is all my art;... my jack-knife will cut nothing else;...
Thor 10.484 5 You can only ask of the metals that they
be tender to the fire
that melts them. To nought else can they be tender.
Thor 10.484 27 It seems an injury that [Thoreau] should
leave in the midst
his broken task which none else can finish...
FSLC 11.189 19 I thought it was this fair mystery,
whose foundations are
hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of law;
and
that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was
the end
of living, was to confound all distinctions...
FSLN 11.215 5 All else is gone; from those great eyes/
The soul has fled:/ When faith is lost, when honor dies,/ The man is
dead!/ Whittier, Ichabod!
ACiv 11.304 5 [Emancipation] is a principle; all else
is an intrigue.
ALin 11.332 16 ...[Lincoln] had a vast good
nature...affable, and not
sensible to the affliction which the innumerable visits paid to him
when
President would have brought to any one else.
EdAd 11.393 17 ...good readers know that inspired pages
are not written to
fill a space, but for inevitable utterance; and to such our journal is
freely
and solicitously open, even though everything else be excluded.
Wom 11.404 6 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/
And sun and
moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of
its
dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all
else
decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work
succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
RBur 11.441 11 It was indifferent-they thought who saw
him-whether [Burns] wrote verse or not: he could have done anything
else as well.
CPL 11.500 23 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau]
writes, Do you read
any noble verses? For my part, they have been the only things I
remembered...when all things else were blurred and defaced.
PLT 12.31 15 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing or
doing somewhat
which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on that, that it seems
a sort
of obtuseness to everything else.
PLT 12.31 18 ...[a man's] aptitude, if he would obey
it, would prove a
telescope to bring under his clear vision what was blur to everybody
else.
PLT 12.35 24 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they
represented in Pan, god of the shepherds, who was not yet completely
finished in godlike form...
PLT 12.59 1 The children have only the instinct of the
universe, in which
becoming somewhat else is the perpetual game of Nature...
II 12.82 20 What is the use of trying to be somewhat
else?
CL 12.152 12 The dry leaves rustle so loud, as we go
rummaging through
them, that we can hear nothing else.
CW 12.178 18 Lord Abercorn, when some one praised the
rapid growth of
his trees, replied, Sir, they have nothing else to do!
Bost 12.198 16 No external advantages...can bestow that
delicacy and
grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial
conversation. All else is coarse and external; all else is tailoring
and
cosmetics beside this;...
MLit 12.314 5 ...in all ages, and now more, the
narrow-minded have no
interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will
help
them...to prolong or to sweeten life, is sure of their interest; and
nothing
else.
WSL 12.342 27 It is vain to call [the literary spirit]
a luxury, and as saints
and reformers are apt to do, decry it as a species of day-dreaming.
What
else are sanctities, and reforms, and all other things?
WSL 12.343 11 Each kind of excellence takes place for
its hour and
excludes everything else.
else, adv. (19)
DSA 1.137 21 Men go, thought I, where they are wont to
go, else had no
soul entered the temple in the afternoon.
MN 1.207 15 A link was wanting between two craving
parts of nature, and [man] was hurled into being as...the mediator
betwixt two else
unmarriageable facts.
SR 2.51 22 Your goodness must have some edge to
it,-else it is none.
GoW 4.288 19 All the geniuses are usually so
ill-assorted and sickly that
one is ever wishing them somewhere else.
ET4 5.51 21 In the impossibility of arriving at
satisfaction on the historical
question of race, and...the indisputable Englishman before me, himself
very
well marked and nowhere else to be found,--I fancied I could leave
quite
aside the choice of a tribe as his lineal progenitors...
ET11 5.176 1 ...the duel, which in peace still held
[French and English
nobles] to the risks of war, diminished the envy that in trading and
studious
nations would else have pried into their title.
F 6.25 23 If the light come to our eyes, we see; else
not.
CbW 6.266 23 Culture will give gravity and domestic
rest to those who
now travel only as not knowing how else to spend money.
Elo1 7.92 1 There is for every man a statement possible
of that truth which
he is most unwilling to receive,--a statement possible, so broad and so
pungent that he cannot get away from it, but must either bend to it or
die of
it. Else there would be no such word as eloquence, which means this.
DL 7.125 2 We...are still villagers, who think that
every thing in their petty
town is a little superior to the same thing anywhere else.
SA 8.88 21 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is
perhaps a wise economy to
go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily
find
that performance...a fortification that...allows him to go gayly into
conversations where else he had been dry and embarrassed.
PPo 8.249 2 We would do nothing but good [says Hafiz],
else would shame
come to us on the day when the soul must hie hence;...
Grts 8.314 21 When one of his favorite schemes missed,
[Napoleon] had
the faculty of taking up his genius, as he said, and of carrying it
somewhere
else.
MMEm 10.404 14 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her
nephew Charles
Emerson, in 1833... I never expected connections and matrimony. My
taste
was formed in romance, and I knew I was not destined to please. I love
God
and his creation as I never else could.
FSLN 11.231 20 There are two forces in Nature, by whose
antagonism we
exist; the power of Fate...or however else we choose to phrase it...on
the
one hand,-and Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.
EPro 11.315 6 These [poetic acts] are the jets of
thought into affairs, when...the political leaders of the day break the
else insurmountable routine
of class and local legislation...
CInt 12.126 25 ...here [in the college], if nowhere
else in the world, genius
should find its home;...
ACri 12.287 7 Into the exquisite refinement of his
Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple
diction by his
perverse talk...and steadily kept this coarseness to flavor a dish else
too
luscious.
EurB 12.376 15 [Wilhelm Meister] gave the hint of a
cultivated society
which we found nowhere else.
elsewhere, adv. (30)
LE 1.157 14 ...men here, as elsewhere, are indisposed to
innovation...
Con 1.306 15 ...[the youth] is met by warnings on every
hand that this thing
and that thing have owners, and he must go elsewhere.
SR 2.89 11 He who knows...that he is weak because he
has looked for good
out of him and elsewhere...instantly rights himself...
Fdsp 2.213 6 ...a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful
heart, that
elsewhere...souls are now acting...which can love us and which we can
love.
Nat2 3.192 21 The pine-tree, the river, the bank of
flowers before [the poet] does not seem to be nature. Nature is still
elsewhere.
NR 3.225 8 Could any man conduct into me the pure
stream of that which
he pretends to be! Long afterwards I find that quality elsewhere which
he
promised me.
UGM 4.29 14 ...if we indulge [children] to folly, they
learn the limitation
elsewhere.
MoS 4.166 16 [Montaigne] likes his saddle. You may read
theology, and
grammar, and metaphysics elsewhere.
ET5 5.96 15 The English trade does not exist for the
exportation of native
products, but on its manufactures, or the making well every thing which
is
ill-made elsewhere.
ET9 5.144 5 Property is so perfect [in England] that it
seems the craft of
that race, and not to exist elsewhere.
ET11 5.188 16 I pardoned high park-fences [in England],
when I saw that... these have preserved...breeds of cattle elsewhere
extinct.
ET12 5.209 3 The race of English gentlemen presents an
appearance of
manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among an equal number of
persons.
ET15 5.272 3 It is usually pretended, in Parliament and
elsewhere, that the
English press has a high tone...
ET16 5.282 5 ...here is the high point of the theory:
the Druids had the
magnet; laid their courses by it; their cardinal points in Stonehenge,
Ambresbury, and elsewhere...followed the variations of the compass.
Pow 6.56 25 [A strong pulse] is like the climate, which
easily rears a crop
which no glass, or irrigation, or tillage, or manures can elsewhere
rival.
Wth 6.117 11 ...in ordinary, as means increase,
spending increases faster, so that large incomes, in England and
elsewhere, are found not to help
matters;...
Bty 6.297 15 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere,
flock to see the
Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to
see her
get into her post-chaise next morning.
Cour 7.260 4 One heard much cant of peace-parties long
ago in Kansas and
elsewhere...
Suc 7.287 3 I don't know but we and our race elsewhere
set a higher value
on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other
men...
PPo 8.240 4 Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and flowers
are the wine and
spirits of the Arab;...
Imtl 8.338 12 I have a house, a closet which holds my
books, a table, a
garden, a field: are these...a reason for refusing the angel who
beckons me
away,-as if there were no room or skill elsewhere that could reproduce
for
me as my like or my enlarging wants may require?
Aris 10.39 25 ...the basis of all aristocracy must be
truth,-the doing what
elsewhere is pretended to be done.
LS 11.15 4 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive
Church] that at that
time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with
fire...
AKan 11.257 3 This aid must be sent [to Kansas], and
this is not to be
doled out as an ordinary charity; but bestowed...as has been elsewhere
said, on the scale of a national action.
TPar 11.285 18 ...the political rule is a cosmical
rule, that if a man is not
strong in his own district, he is not a good candidate elsewhere.
EPro 11.323 4 [The Civil War] might have begun
otherwise or elsewhere...
CL 12.152 25 The influence of the ocean on the love of
liberty, I have
mentioned elsewhere.
Bost 12.185 9 ...if the character of the people [of
Boston] has a larger range
and greater versatility, causing them to exhibit equal dexterity in
what are
elsewhere reckoned incompatible works, perhaps they may thank their
climate of extremes...
Bost 12.200 15 There are always men ready for
adventures-more in an
over-governed, over-peopled country...than elsewhere.
Let 12.404 14 In Cambridge orations and elsewhere there
is much inquiry
for that great absentee American Literature.
elucidate, v. (1)
ShP 4.206 19 Betterton, Garrick, Kemble, Kean and
Macready dedicate
their lives to this genius [Shakespeare]; him they crown, elucidate,
obey
and express.
elucidation, n. (2)
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.
CSC 10.374 1 This [Chardon Street] Convention never
printed any report
of its deliberations...the professed objects of those persons who felt
the
greatest interest in its meetings being simply the elucidation of truth
through free discussion.
elude, v. (4)
DSA 1.121 23 [These divine laws] elude our persevering
thought;...
Comp 2.100 19 The true life and satisfactions of man
seem to elude the
utmost rigors or felicities of condition...
Chr1 3.95 8 Is there no love, no reverence. Is there
never a glimpse of right
in a poor slave-captain's mind; and cannot these be supposed available
to
break or elude or in any manner overmatch the tension of an inch or two
of
iron ring?
Suc 7.304 4 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and
his beloved] might
somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief
that he could elude all guards, precautions, ceremonies, means and
delays...
eluded, v. (2)
Dem1 10.19 21 The insinuation [of belief in the
demonological] is that the
known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or
evaded by this gypsy principle...as if the laws of the Father of the
universe
were sometimes balked and eluded by a meddlesome Aunt of the universe
for her pets.
PPr 12.385 4 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present]
has eluded all official
zeal;...
eludes, v. (2)
LLNE 10.352 18 [Fourier]...skips the faculty of
life...which eludes all
conditions;...
MLit 12.310 9 [Poems' light] is not in their
grammatical construction
which they give me. If I analyze the sentences, it eludes me...
elusive, adj. (2)
Mrs1 3.135 4 Does it not seem as if man was of a very
sly, elusive nature...
MoS 4.157 7 [The skeptic says] Why pretend that life is
so simple a game, when we know how subtle and elusive the Proteus is?
Elysee, Champs, Paris, Fra (1)
FRep 11.534 4 A man is coming, here as [in England], to
value himself on
what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a
far-off copy
of Osborne House or the Elysee.
Elysian, adj. (2)
Fdsp 2.196 18 Shall we fear to cool our love by mining
for the
metaphysical foundation of this Elysian temple?
WSL 12.342 8 From the moment of entering a library and
opening a
desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless
leisure!...an Elysian light tinges all objects...
Elysian Fields, n. (2)
Bhr 6.194 23 I am sorry, replies Napoleon [to his
brother Joseph], you
think you shall find your brother again only in the Elysian Fields.
Boks 7.203 5 The imaginative scholar will find few
stimulants to his brain
like these writers [the Platonists]. He has entered the Elysian
Fields;...
Elysium, n. (3)
LT 1.262 25 How [persons]...lap us in Elysium to
soothing dreams and
castles in the air!
LLNE 10.367 11 The question which occurs to you had
occurred much
earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to
be
done?
CW 12.173 4 You know [said Linnaeus]...that I live
entirely in the
Academy Garden; here is my Vale of Tempe, say rather my Elysium.
emaciated, adj. (4)
Prd1 2.233 15 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful
drivellers whom
travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who
skulk
about all day, yellow, emaciated, ragged, sneaking; and at
evening...slink to
the opium-shop, swallow their morsel and become tranquil and glorified
seers.
ET18 5.300 27 During the Australian emigration [from
England], multitudes were rejected by the commissioners as being too
emaciated for
useful colonists.
Bty 6.285 13 At the end of the seventh day the king
inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated?
Bty 6.300 16 The great orator was an emaciated,
insignificant person, but
he was all brain.
emanate, v. (2)
ET14 5.242 24 Not these particulars, but the mental
plane or the
atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the
writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age...
Wsp 6.231 26 ...as soon as the man is right, assurances
and previsions
emanate from the interior of his body and his mind;...
emanates, v. (3)
MN 1.199 18 Every natural fact is an emanation, and that
from which it
emanates is an emanation also...
Fdsp 2.216 3 [My friends] shall give me that which
properly they cannot
give, but which emanates from them.
Mrs1 3.149 1 Once or twice in a lifetime we are
permitted to enjoy the
charm of noble manners, in the presence of a man or woman...whose
character emanates freely in their word and gesture.
emanation, n. (9)
MN 1.199 17 Every natural fact is an emanation...
MN 1.199 18 Every natural fact is an emanation, and
that from which it
emanates is an emanation also...
MN 1.199 19 ...from every emanation is a new emanation.
MN 1.199 20 ...from every emanation is a new emanation.
SwM 4.125 16 [To Swedenborg] Bird and beast
is...emanation and effluvia
of the minds and wills of men there present.
Elo2 8.114 27 ...how every listener gladly consents to
be nothing in [the
orator's] presence, and to share this surprising emanation...
Prch 10.224 6 The health and welfare of man consist in
ascent...from self-activity
of talents...to the controlling and reinforcing of talents by the
emanation of character.
Schr 10.285 2 These questions [of life] speak...to
Genius, which is an
emanation of that it tells of;...
PLT 12.10 9 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which
all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every
way forwarded. Practical
men...cannot arrive at this. Something very different has to be
done,-the
availing ourselves of every impulse of genius, an emanation of the
heaven it
tells of...
emanations, n. (2)
Wsp 6.232 3 ...a beautiful atmosphere is generated from
the planet by the
averaged emanations from all its rocks and soils.
Art2 7.37 7 [All the departments of life] are sublime
when seen as
emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from the vulgar Fate by
being instant and alive...
emancipate, v. (6)
Nat 1.50 15 Nature is made to conspire with spirit to
emancipate us.
Art1 2.353 1 No man can quite emancipate himself from
his age and
country...
Pol1 3.210 22 ...[the conservative party] does
not...emancipate the slave...
Aris 10.56 19 Man should emancipate man.
EWI 11.120 1 ...the great island of
Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate
absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
ALin 11.336 11 [Lincoln] had seen Tennessee, Missouri
and Maryland
emancipate their slaves.
emancipated, adj. (4)
EWI 11.115 16 ...I must be indulged in quoting a few
sentences...narrating
the behavior of the emancipated people [of the West Indies] on the next
day.
EWI 11.120 26 The Queen, in her speech to the Lords and
Commons, praised the conduct of the emancipated population [of
Jamaica]...
EWI 11.121 5 All those who are acquainted with the
state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are
as free...as any that we
know of in any country.
EWI 11.121 24 The legislature [of Jamaica]...say, The
peaceful demeanor
of the emancipated population redounds to their own credit...
emancipates, v. (2)
Cir 2.310 23 When each new speaker [in a
conversation]...emancipates us
from the oppression of the last speaker to oppress us with the
greatness and
exclusiveness of his own thought...we seem to recover our rights, to
become men.
Suc 7.306 25 What delights, what emancipates...is wise
and good in speech
and in the arts.
emancipating, adj. (1)
EdAd 11.387 15 ...though it may not be easy to define
[America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...
emancipation, n. (25)
Pt1 3.28 17 ...a great number of such as were
professionally expressers of
Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and
indulgence;...and...as it was an emancipation not into the heavens but
into
the freedom of baser places, they were punished for that advantage they
won, by a dissipation and deterioration.
Pt1 3.30 4 The use of symbols has a certain power of
emancipation and
exhilaration for all men.
Pt1 3.33 24 [The poet] unlocks our chains and admits us
to a new scene. This emancipation is dear to all men...
Chr1 3.98 2 We boast our emancipation from many
superstitions;...
ShP 4.216 11 [Shakespeare's] name suggests joy and
emancipation to the
heart of men.
ET18 5.305 14 There is [in England] a drag of inertia
which resists reform
in every shape;...extension of suffrage, Jewish franchise, Catholic
emancipation...
PI 8.36 25 [The poet's] wreath and robe
is...emancipation from other men's
questions and glad study of his own;...
Res 8.143 20 The emancipation has brought a whole
nation of negroes as
customers...
PC 8.232 8 It was what we call plantation manners which
drove peaceable
forgiving New England to emancipation without phrase.
PPo 8.249 7 His complete intellectual emancipation
[Hafiz] communicates
to the reader.
Prch 10.225 7 The lessons of the moral sentiment
are...an emancipation
from that anxiety which takes the joy out of all life.
EWI 11.112 7 The scheme of the Minister, with such
modification as it
received in the legislature, proposed gradual emancipation [in the West
Indies];...
EWI 11.113 26 The apprenticeship system [in the West
Indies] is
understood to have proceeded from Lord Brougham, and was by him urged
on his colleagues, who, it is said, were inclined to the policy of
immediate
emancipation.
EWI 11.114 15 It was feared that the interest of the
master and servant [in
the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In
the island of Antigua...these objections had such weight that the
legislature... adopted absolute emancipation.
EWI 11.119 20 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton...demanded
that the
emancipation [in the West Indies] should be hastened...
EWI 11.125 22 Many planters have said, since the
emancipation [in the
West Indies], that, before that day, they were the greatest slaves on
the
estates.
EWI 11.138 14 Men have become aware, through the
emancipation [in the
West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence of powers which, in
their
days of darkness, they had overlooked.
EWI 11.141 26 The emancipation [in the West Indies] is
observed, in the
islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a
thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun.
FSLC 11.208 2 Everything invites emancipation.
ACiv 11.304 3 Emancipation is the demand of
civilization.
ACiv 11.304 11 I shall not attempt to unfold the
details of the project of
emancipation.
ACiv 11.311 1 ...it is not yet too late to begin the
emancipation;...
EPro 11.315 21 Such moments of expansion [of liberty]
in modern history
were the Confession of Augsburg...the British emancipation of slaves in
the
West Indies...
Wom 11.414 14 ...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...
CInt 12.118 9 Society is always taken by surprise at
any new example of
common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery. Thus,
at... Garibaldi's emancipation of Italy for Italy's sake;...
Emancipation, n. (6)
Chr2 10.114 21 It is only yesterday that our American
churches...wheeled
in line for Emancipation.
EWI 11.112 4 ...in 1833, on the 14th May, Lord Stanley,
Minister of the
Colonies, introduced into the House of Commons his bill for the [West
Indian] Emancipation.
ACiv 11.307 12 The power of Emancipation is this, that
it alters the atomic
social constitution of the Southern people.
ACiv 11.307 20 ...whilst Slavery makes and keeps
disunion, Emancipation
removes the whole objection to union.
ACiv 11.307 21 Emancipation at one stroke elevates the
poor-white of the
South...
Bost 12.200 20 The American idea, Emancipation, appears
in our freedom
of intellection...
Emancipation Proclamation, n (4)
EPro 11.316 3 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in
modern history
were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President
Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation...
EPro 11.322 19 Whilst we have pointed out the
opportuneness of the [Emancipation] Proclamation, it remains to be said
that the President had
no choice.
EPro 11.325 6 ...the aim of the war on our part is
indicated by the aim of
the President's [Emancipation] Proclamation...
EPro 11.326 11 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race
which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of
the dejection
sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...
Emancipation, Proclamation o (1)
GSt 10.503 9 In 1862, on the President's first or
preliminary Proclamation
of Emancipation, [George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing
the
Freedman's Bureau...
emancipator, n. (1)
PI 8.71 17 The poet is representative,--whole man,
diamond-merchant, symbolizer, emancipator;...
Emancipator, n. (1)
Bost 12.204 21 [Liberty] was to be built on Religion,
the Emancipator;...
embalmed, adj. (2)
Plu 10.302 22 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a
multitude of precious
sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed
fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind.
CPL 11.506 22 With [books] many of us spend the most of
our life...these
tractable prophets, historians, and singers, whose embalmed life is the
highest feat of art;...
embalmed, v. (2)
Lov1 2.174 27 In looking backward [many men] may find
that several
things which were not the charm have more reality to this groping
memory
than the charm itself which embalmed them.
Int 2.327 11 ...any record of our fancies or
reflections, disentangled from
the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and
immortal. It is the past restored, but embalmed.
embalmer, n. (1)
DSA 1.124 26 [The religious sentiment] is the embalmer
of the world.
embalmers, n. (1)
Imtl 8.325 17 [The Greek] drove away the embalmers;...
embalming, n. (1)
Imtl 8.325 10 The chief end of man being to be buried
well, the arts most
in request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming...
embankments, n. (1)
War 11.163 17 This vast apparatus of artillery,...of
stone bastions and
trenches and embankments; this incessant patrolling of
sentinels;...seem to
us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries
to the
feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
embark, v. (3)
LT 1.268 20 It is...the aspirant, who is quitting this
ancient domain [of
conservatism] to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest.
SR 2.81 26 I...embark on the sea...
Exp 3.46 23 Embark, and the romance quits our vessel...
embarked, v. (2)
LE 1.166 12 Once embarked...[the speaker] finds it just
as easy and natural
to speak...as it was to sit silent;...
Tran 1.332 9 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his
banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and
solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with
it... And this wild balloon, in which his
whole venture is embarked, is a just symbol of his whole state and
faculty.
embarking, adj. (1)
ET13 5.225 12 The chatter of French politics...and the
noise of embarking
emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind;...
embarking, v. (3)
CbW 6.266 17 All America seems on the point of embarking
for Europe.
Suc 7.309 26 Good will makes insight, as one finds his
way to the sea by
embarking on a river.
Bost 12.187 13 In...the farthest colonies...a
middle-aged gentleman is just
embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and
spend his
old age in Paris;...
embarrass, v. (8)
MR 1.238 20 What [a man] gets only as fast as he wants
for his own ends, does not embarrass him...
LT 1.264 15 ...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...
YA 1.385 8 ...many people...are never happier than when
difficult practical
questions, which embarrass other men, are to be solved.
Comp 2.108 19 The name and circumstance of
Phidias...embarrass when
we come to the highest criticism.
NER 3.255 27 ...the country is frequently affording
solitary examples of
resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers...who...embarrass the
courts
of law by non-juring...
NMW 4.228 1 Bonaparte wrought...for power and
wealth,--but Bonaparte, specially, without any scruple as to the means.
All the sentiments which
embarrass men's pursuit of these objects, he set aside.
DL 7.112 2 ...the wealth and multiplication of
conveniences embarrass us...
Wom 11.419 4 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in
the minds of well-meaning
persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this:...that, if
the laws and customs were modified in the manner proposed, it would
embarrass and pain gentle and lovely persons with duties which they
would
find irksome and distasteful.
embarrassed, v. (11)
AmS 1.109 16 ...we are embarrassed with second
thoughts;...
Con 1.321 1 The contractors who were building a road
out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers...refractory to a degree
that embarrassed the agents...
YA 1.376 10 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have
said to his council, The age is embarrassed with new opinions;...
MoS 4.159 3 ...true fortitude of understanding consists
in not letting what
we know be embarrassed by what we do not know...
NMW 4.231 3 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and
such a man was
born;...a man not embarrassed by any scruples;...
ET11 5.193 14 Even peers who are men of worth and
public spirit [in
England] are overtaken and embarrassed by their vast expense.
SA 8.88 22 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is
perhaps a wise economy to
go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily
find
that performance...a fortification that...allows him to go gayly into
conversations where else he had been dry and embarrassed.
SlHr 10.445 4 [Samuel Hoar] saw what was essential, and
refused
whatever was not, so that no man embarrassed himself less with a
needless
array of books and evidences of contingent value.
War 11.161 26 That the project of peace should appear
visionary to great
numbers of sensible men;...should appear to the grave and good-natured
to
be embarrassed with extreme practical difficulties,-is very natural.
II 12.68 8 ...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or
other works of fine art, the
eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences.
Mem 12.100 14 Sir Isaac Newton was embarrassed when the
conversation
turned on his discoveries and results; he could not recall them;...
embarrasses, v. (1)
Chr2 10.93 23 The extreme simplicity of this [moral]
intuition embarrasses
every attempt at analysis.
embarrassing, adj. (2)
Art1 2.354 11 The virtue of art lies...in sequestering
one object from the
embarrassing variety.
WD 7.162 3 Another result of our arts is the new
intercourse which is
surprising us with new solutions of the embarrassing political
problems.
embarrassing, v. (3)
Chr1 3.102 5 Had there been something latent in the man,
a terrible
undemonstrated genius agitating and embarrassing his demeanor, we had
watched for its advent.
ET10 5.156 21 [In England] An economist, or a man who
can...bring the
year round with expenditure which expresses his character without
embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a
freeman.
FSLN 11.222 11 ...[Webster] knew perfectly well how to
make such
exordiums, episodes and perorations as might give perspective to his
harangues without in the least embarrassing his march or confounding
his
transitions.
embarrassments, n. (4)
Prch 10.218 26 ...when we have extricated ourselves from
all the
embarrassments of the social problem, the oracle does not yet emit any
light
on the mode of individual life.
Prch 10.234 13 The supposed embarrassments to young
clergymen exist
only to feeble wills.
FSLC 11.210 12 ...grant that the heart of
financiers...shrinks within them
at...the embarrassments which complicate the problem [abolition];...
EPro 11.317 21 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most
indulgent
construction. Forget...every mistake, every delay. In the extreme
embarrassments of his part, call these endurance, wisdom,
magnanimity;...
embassy, n. (2)
Elo1 7.72 6 ...once the wise Ulysses came hither on an
embassy, with
Menelaus, beloved by Mars.
ChiE 11.471 3 Mr. Mayor: I suppose we are all of one
opinion on this
remarkable occasion of meeting the embassy sent from the oldest Empire
in
the world to the youngest Republic.
embedded, v. (1)
Mem 12.90 4 Memory is...the cement, the bitumen, the
matrix in which the
other faculties are embedded;...
embellish, v. (5)
Fdsp 2.206 7 [Friends] are to dignify to each other the
daily needs and
offices of man's life, and embellish it by courage, wisdom and unity.
OS 2.290 7 The vain traveller attempts to embellish his
life by quoting my
lord and the prince and the countess...
Mrs1 3.147 23 ...within the ethnical circle of good
society there is a
narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of
pride
and reference... And this is constituted of those persons in whom
heroic
dispositions are native; with the love of beauty, the delight in
society and
the power to embellish the passing day.
Edc1 10.158 24 By simple living, by an illimitable
soul...you embellish all.
Wom 11.409 18 [Women] embellish trifles.
embellished, v. (1)
Ctr 6.159 17 [People] do not know the charm with which
all moments and
objects can be embellished...
embellishment, n. (4)
NMW 4.240 25 In the time of the empire [Napoleon]
directed attention to
the improvement and embellishment of the markets of the capital.
Bhr 6.182 21 A calm and resolute bearing...an
embellishment of trifles...are
essential to the courtier;...
Bty 6.290 17 ...all beauty must be organic;...outside
embellishment is
deformity.
DL 7.130 20 The man, the woman, needs not the
embellishment of canvas
and marble...
embers, n. (1)
Lov1 2.170 14 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its
first embers in the narrow
nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges...
embitter, v. (2)
Lov1 2.171 16 but infinite compunctions embitter in
mature life the
remembrances of budding joy...
Wth 6.114 20 ...if a man have a genius for painting,
poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he...should not...fetter
himself with duties which
will embitter his days...
embittered, adj. (3)
YA 1.393 12 It is a questionable compensation to the
embittered feeling of
a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop...is himself also an
aspirant
excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
FSLC 11.184 26 Here are humane people who have tears
for misery, an
open purse for want; who should have been the defenders of the poor
man, are found his embittered enemies...merely from party ties.
II 12.68 2 One often sees in the embittered acuteness
of critics snuffing
heresy from afar, their own unbelief...
embitters, v. (1)
Let 12.398 17 ...[American youths] are educated above
the work of their
times and country, and disdain it. Many of the more acute minds pass
into a
lofty criticism of these things, which only embitters their sensibility
to the
evil...
emblazon, v. (1)
Chr2 10.111 15 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George
Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using
their fine fancy to
emblazon their memory.
emblem, n. (12)
Nat 1.42 7 ...[a farm] is a sacred emblem...
Con 1.300 1 Nature does not give the crown of its
approbation, namely, beauty, to any action or emblem or actor but to
one which combines both
these elements [Conservatism and Reform];...
Comp 2.101 15 Every occupation, trade, art,
transaction, is...a correlative
of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human life;...
Cir 2.301 4 [The circle] is the highest emblem in the
cipher of the world.
Pt1 3.33 12 The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded
and lost in the
snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door,
is an
emblem of the state of man.
Mrs1 3.153 12 The worth of the thing signified must
vindicate our taste for
the emblem.
ET9 5.152 13 ...this precious knave [George of
Cappadocia] became, in
good time, Saint George of England...emblem of victory and civility...
ET13 5.218 3 The carved and pictured chapel--its entire
surface animated
with image and emblem--made the parish-church [in England] a sort of
book and Bible to the people's eye.
PerF 10.78 10 It would be easy to awake wonder by
sketching the
performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Imagination,
which
turns every dull fact into pictures and poetry, by making it an emblem
of
thought.
SovE 10.185 1 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by
yielding itself to
Nature, goes blameless through its low part...expands into a beautiful
form
with rainbow wings, and makes a part of the summer day. The Greeks
called it Psyche, a manifest emblem of the soul.
MMEm 10.414 23 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out
this
afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me,
Even
these leaves you use to think my better emblem have lost their charm on
me
too...
ACiv 11.296 8 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up
with it once
more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and
red
which the nations adore!/ It was down at half-mast/ For a grief-that is
past!/ To the emblem of glory no sorrow can last!/
emblematic, adj. (8)
Nat 1.26 12 It is not words only that are emblematic;...
Nat 1.26 13 ...it is things which are emblematic.
Nat 1.32 25 The world is emblematic.
AmS 1.113 3 [Swedenborg] pierced the emblematic or
spiritual character of
the visible, audible, tangible world.
SwM 4.142 21 The warm, many-weathered,
passionate-peopled world is to [Swedenborg]...an emblematic freemason's
procession.
MoS 4.166 22 Over his name [Montaigne] drew an
emblematic pair of
scales, and wrote Que scais je? under it.
Grts 8.311 17 This day-labor of ours...has hitherto a
certain emblematic
air...
PLT 12.35 27 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they
represented in Pan... who was not yet completely finished in godlike
form...had emblematic
horns and feet?
Emblems [Francis Quarles], (1)
PI 8.28 22 ...Quarles, after he was quite cool, wrote
Emblems.
emblems, n. (11)
Nat 1.32 24 Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no
significance but
what we consciously give them when we employ them as emblems of our
thoughts?
Pt1 3.16 11 The inwardness and mystery of this
attachment [to nature] drive men of every class to the use of emblems.
Pt1 3.16 15 In our political parties, compute the power
of badges and
emblems.
Pt1 3.16 21 See the power of national emblems.
Pt1 3.17 6 ...we are apprised of the divineness of this
superior use of things, whereby the world is a temple whose walls are
covered with emblems...of
the Deity,--in this, that there is no fact in nature which does not
carry the
whole sense of nature;...
Pt1 3.20 9 ...birth and death...are emblems;...
UGM 4.34 5 The vessels on which you read sacred emblems
turn out to be
common pottery;...
SwM 4.116 26 The fact [of Correspondence] thus
explicitly stated [by
Swedenborg] is implied...in the use of emblems...
ShP 4.217 4 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew
that a tree had
another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for
tillage and
roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind,
being
emblems of its thoughts...
Ill 6.318 1 Since our tuition is through emblems and
indirections, it is well
to know that there is method in it...
PI 8.36 23 What are [the poet's] garland and
singing-robes? What but a
sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow, or the timber-yard
and
corporation-works of a nest of pismires is event enough for him,--all
emblems and personal appeals to him.
embodied, v. (14)
Con 1.318 18 The objection to conservatism, when
embodied in a party, is
that in its love of acts it hates principles;...
SL 2.148 6 We see our evil affections embodied in bad
physiognomies.
Lov1 2.181 5 ...[the ancient writers] said that the
soul of man, embodied
here on earth, went roaming up and down in quest of that other world of
its
own out of which it came into this...
Lov1 2.184 22 Passion beholds its object as a perfect
unit. The soul is
wholly embodied...
Nat2 3.195 10 These [universal laws]...stand around us
in nature forever
embodied...
UGM 4.20 6 Mankind have in all ages attached themselves
to a few
persons who...by the quality of that idea they embodied...were entitled
to
the position of leaders and law-givers.
ET5 5.100 19 Men [in England] quickly embodied what
Newton found out, in Greenwich observatories...
ET17 5.295 25 I said, if Plato's Republic were
published in England as a
new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth]
confessed it would not: and yet, he added after a pause...and yet we
have
embodied it all.
F 6.49 13 Why should we be afraid of Nature, which is
no other than
philosophy and theology embodied?
Comc 8.160 25 ...whilst the presence of the ideal
discovers the difference [between rule and fact], the comedy is
enhanced whenever that ideal is
embodied visibly in a man.
Dem1 10.8 27 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in
certain actions which
seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile...he is a poltroon. It turns
out
prophecy a year later. But it was already in my mind as character, and
the
sibyl dreams merely embodied it in fact.
Chr2 10.104 18 Every particular instruction is speedily
embodied in a
ritual...
War 11.164 13 Observe the ideas of the present
day...see how each of these
abstractions has embodied itself in an imposing apparatus in the
community;...
SMC 11.365 26 This [old artillery] company, chiefly
recruited here [in
Concord], was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment,
Massachusetts Volunteers...
embodies, v. (5)
Nat 1.27 17 ...man in all ages and countries embodies
[Spirit] in his
language as the FATHER.
MN 1.193 3 The weaver should not be bereaved of...his
knowledge that the
product or the skill is of no value, except so far as it embodies his
spiritual
prerogatives.
GoW 4.267 7 The fiery reformer embodies his aspiration
in some rite or
covenant...
Boks 7.198 21 In Plato you explore...all that in
thought, which the history
of Europe embodies or has yet to embody.
SovE 10.190 3 ...every wish, appetite and passion
rushes into act and
embodies itself in usages...
embodiment, n. (2)
ShP 4.201 13 ...the generic catholic genius who is not
afraid or ashamed to
owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with the next age
as the
recorder and embodiment of his own.
Art2 7.37 16 On one side in primary communication with
absolute truth
through thought and instinct, the human mind on the other side tends,
by an
equal necessity, to the publication and embodiment of its thought...
embody, v. (16)
Nat 1.23 13 Others have the same love [of nature] in
such excess, that... they seek to embody it in new forms.
Nat 1.52 17 [Shakspeare's] imperial muse...uses [the
creation] to embody
any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind.
AmS 1.98 7 Years are well spent...to the one end of
mastering...a language
by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
LT 1.275 19 See how daring is the reading, the
speculation, the
experimenting of the time. If now some genius shall arise who could
unite
these scattered rays! And always such a genius does embody the ideas of
each time.
Hist 2.3 17 ...the human spirit goes forth from the
beginning to embody
every faculty...which belongs to it, in appropriate events.
Pol1 3.203 15 It was not...found easy to embody the
readily admitted
principle that property should make law for property...
MoS 4.151 4 [The genius] has a conception of beauty
which the sculptor
cannot embody.
MoS 4.156 5 If you come near [the studious classes] and
see what conceits
they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights...in expecting the
homage
of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute...of
all
energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.
GoW 4.278 18 We had an English romance
here...professing to embody the
hope of a new age...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in
Parliament and a peerage.
Boks 7.198 22 In Plato you explore...all that in
thought, which the history
of Europe embodies or has yet to embody.
Aris 10.60 16 There is...no sentiment or thought that
will not sometime
embody itself in the form of a friend.
Prch 10.220 1 Art will embody this vanishing Spirit in
temples, pictures, sculptures and hymns.
PLT 12.38 20 The thought, the doctrine, the right
hitherto not affirmed is
published...in conversation...of men of the world, and at last in the
very
choruses of songs. The young hear it, and...they accept it, vote for it
at the
polls, embody it in the laws.
PLT 12.41 19 It is [a perception's] nature...to rush to
embody itself.
MAng1 12.229 16 [Michelangelo's Moses]...is designed to
embody the
Hebrew Law.
Milt1 12.260 6 Very early in life [Milton] became
conscious that he had
more to say to his fellow men than they had fit words to embody.
embodying, v. (3)
F 6.5 8 The Spartan, embodying his religion in his
country, dies before its
majesty without a question.
EWI 11.127 24 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council
report of evidence
on the [slave] trade (a bulky folio embodying all the facts which the
London Committee had been engaged for years in collecting...) was
presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the
discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other
gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the
country to
read the report.
EdAd 11.391 25 What will easily seem to many a far
higher question than
any other is that which respects the embodying of the Conscience of the
period.
embosomed, v. (6)
Nat 1.3 10 Embosomed for a season in nature...why should
we grope
among the dry bones of the past...
SL 2.131 4 ...we discover that our life is embosomed in
beauty.
NER 3.285 4 That which befits us, embosomed in beauty
and wonder as we
are, is cheerfulness and courage...
PC 8.225 7 Look out into the July night and see the
broad belt of silver
flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the
bonfires
of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its
enormous age, lasting as space and time, embosomed in time and space.
Dem1 10.13 2 Nature...works...by infinite graduation;
so that we live
embosomed in sounds we do not hear...
SovE 10.185 14 A thought is embosomed in a sentiment...
embosoms, v. (2)
MR 1.248 12 What is a man born for but to be...a
restorer of truth and
good, imitating that great Nature which embosoms us all...
PPr 12.388 19 ...[Carlyle] cannot keep his eye off from
that gracious
Infinite which embosoms us.
embossed, adj. (1)
ET14 5.233 13 [The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop,
with perfect
security and convenience in the eating of it, to the chances of the
amplest
and Frenchiest bill of fare, engraved on embossed paper.
embowered, adj. (1)
SMC 11.348 2 Think you these felt no charms/ In their
gray homesteads
and embowered farms?/
embrace, n. (1)
OS 2.294 8 Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but
the great and
tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace.
embrace, v. (18)
Nat 1.21 23 Nature stretches out her arms to embrace
man...
AmS 1.83 9 ...the individual, to possess himself, must
sometimes return
from his own labor to embrace all the other laborers.
AmS 1.111 10 ...I embrace the common...
LE 1.165 17 The hero is great by means of the
predominance of the
universal nature;...he has only to be forced to act, and it acts. All
men... embrace the deed...
LE 1.173 21 [The scholar] must embrace solitude as a
bride.
LT 1.264 22 ...that only is real which men love and
rejoice in;...what they
embrace and avow...
SR 2.81 26 I...embrace my friends...
Fdsp 2.194 5 ...I embrace solitude...
Pt1 3.17 14 The vocabulary of an omniscient man would
embrace words
and images excluded from polite conversation.
NER 3.276 2 ...instead of avoiding these men who make
his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him and seek their
society only, woo and
embrace this his humiliation and mortification...
PPh 4.66 12 Those of you who were the worthy ones in
the state of
ignorance, will be the worthy ones in the state of faith, as soon as
you
embrace it.
MoS 4.158 15 The generous minds embrace the proposition
of labor shared
by all;...
ET1 5.11 19 [Coleridge] was very sorry that Dr.
Channing...should
embrace such [Unitarian] views.
ET5 5.99 20 [The English] embrace their cause with more
tenacity than
their life.
Prch 10.226 16 ...when [the railroads] came into his
poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite
of all that Beauty may
disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful
offspring
in man's art/...
Plu 10.303 24 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the
particulars...
PLT 12.61 23 We must embrace the affirmative.
MAng1 12.218 5 This great Whole the understanding
cannot embrace.
embraced, v. (6)
ET2 5.25 6 The occasion of my second visit to England
was an invitation
from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in
1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty
towns
and cities...
ET9 5.152 5 [George of Cappadocia] saved his money,
embraced
Arianism, collected a library...
Thor 10.467 22 [Thoreau] remarked that the Flora of
Massachusetts
embraced almost all the important plants of America...
EWI 11.114 25 On the night of the 31st July [1834],
[the negroes of the
West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at
midnight...on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became men;
they
rose and embraced each other;...
War 11.168 18 ...no man, it may be presumed, ever
embraced the cause of
peace and philanthropy for the sole end and satisfaction of being
plundered
and slain.
War 11.169 10 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace
embraced by a
nation, we may be assured it will not be one that invites injury;...
embraces, v. (3)
SR 2.78 23 Our love goes out to [the self-helping man]
and embraces him...
PPh 4.63 7 [Dialectic] is of that rank [said Plato]
that no intellectual man
will enter on any study for its own sake, but only with a view to
advance
himself in that one sole science which embraces all.
Suc 7.307 10 The good mind...embraces the affirmative.
embracing, v. (2)
PPh 4.48 8 Oneness and otherness. It is impossible to
speak or to think
without embracing both.
MMEm 10.401 6 Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary
[Moody
Emerson], and persuaded the family to give the child up to her as a
daughter, on some terms embracing a care of her future interests.
embroidered, adj. (1)
Con 1.315 15 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle
mothers...who told him
how much love they bore their children, and how they were
perplexed...lest
they should fail in their duty to them. What! he said, and this on rich
embroidered carpets...
embroidery, n. (1)
Ctr 6.152 20 The Italians are fond of red clothes,
peacock plumes and
embroidery;...
embroil, v. (2)
Con 1.304 26 You who...are willing to embroil all, and
risk the indisputable
good that exists, for the chance of better, live, move, and have your
being in
this [society]...
NR 3.241 5 To embroil the confusion and make it
impossible to arrive at
any general statement,--when we have insisted on the imperfection of
individuals, our affections and our experience urge that every
individual is
entitled to honor...
embroiled, v. (2)
Plu 10.315 24 A brother, embroiled with his brother,
going to seek in the
street a stranger who can take his place, resembles him who will cut
off his
foot to give himself one of wood.
Carl 10.497 16 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question
for wise men...to
address themselves to the problem of society. This confusion is the
inevitable end of such falsehoods and nonsense as they have been
embroiled with.
embryo, adj. (1)
MMEm 10.425 22 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo
earth may give the
idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and
industry...
embryo, n. (8)
MN 1.203 10 The embryo does not more strive to be man,
than yonder burr
of light we call a nebula tends to be a ring, a comet, a globe, and
parent of
new stars.
Hist 2.37 16 Does not the eye of the human embryo
predict the light?...
Exp 3.54 18 I see not, if one be once caught in this
trap of so-called
sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of
physical
necessity. Given such an embryo, such a history must follow.
Exp 3.70 12 In the growth of the embryo, Sir Everard
Home I think noticed
that the evolution was not from one central point...
F 6.12 19 ...with high magnifiers...Dr. Carpenter might
come to distinguish
in the embryo...this is a Whig...
Cour 7.257 4 Break the egg of the young
[snapping-turtle], and the little
embryo...bites fiercely;...
PI 8.5 15 I believe this conviction makes the charm of
chemistry,--that we
have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of
the
old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in embryo and
man;...
Imtl 8.339 6 Franklin said, Life is rather a state of
embryo, a preparation
for life.
embryonic, adj. (1)
ET6 5.110 25 Every Englishman is an embryonic
chancellor...
emendators, n. (1)
AmS 1.89 23 Hence the restorers of readings, the
emendators...
emerald, n. (1)
Comp 2.112 9 The terror of cloudless noon, the emerald
of Polycrates...are
the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of
man.
emerge, v. (4)
Pow 6.64 2 ...all kinds of power usually emerge at the
same time;...
Ctr 6.166 2 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get
free, man needs all the
music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with
tears
and joy;...by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls and
let the
new creature emerge erect and free,--make way and sing paean!
EWI 11.145 16 ...now let [the black race] emerge,
clothed and in their own
form.
II 12.76 27 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is
very certain that
these things have been hid...and, at certain privileged moments, emerge
unaccountably into light.
emerged, v. (6)
LT 1.270 9 Anti-masonry had a deep right and wrong,
which gradually
emerged to sight out of the turbid controversy.
Cir 2.310 8 The things which are dear to men at this
hour are so on account
of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon...
Mrs1 3.123 11 ...every man's name that emerged at all
from the mass in the
feudal ages rattles in our ear like a flourish of trumpets.
NER 3.253 27 ...in each of these [reform] movements
emerged a good
result...
ET18 5.308 7 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged
should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island famous
for immortal laws...
PPo 8.264 20 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/
Themselves in the
eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him
among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw
themselves in the Simorg./ A single look grouped the two parties,/ The
Simorg emerged, the Simorg vanished,/ This in that and that in this, As
the
world has never heard./
emergence, n. (3)
GoW 4.265 2 There is a certain heat in the
breast...which is the shining of
the spiritual sun down into the shaft of the mine. Every thought which
dawns on the mine, in the moment of its emergence announces its own
rank...
Elo1 7.66 11 There are many audiences in every public
assembly, each one
of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you
shall see
the emergence of the boys and rowdies...
PPr 12.390 16 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of
all this wealth and
labor with which the world has gone with child so long.
emergencies, n. (7)
AmS 1.102 5 Whatsoever oracles the human heart, in all
emergencies...has
uttered...these [the scholar] shall receive and impart.
NER 3.256 27 Am I not defrauded of my best culture in
the loss of those
gymnastics which manual labor and the emergencies of poverty
constitute?
NER 3.260 13 One tendency appears alike in the
philosophical speculation
and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely,
to...arrive at
short methods; urged, as I suppose, by an intuition that the human
spirit is
equal to all emergencies alone...
ET6 5.104 17 ...[the Englishman] can take the
initiative in emergencies.
Insp 8.283 12 ...what is will for, if it cannot help us
in emergencies?
Schr 10.268 7 I should wish your energy to run in works
and emergencies
growing out of your personal character.
FRep 11.534 21 In the planters of this country...the
conditions of the
country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a
certain
heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the
solitudes of
the West, where a man is made a hero by the varied emergencies of his
lonely farm...
emergency, n. (14)
MoS 4.183 17 This faith avails to the whole emergency of
life and objects. The world is saturated with deity and with law.
NMW 4.233 3 ...Napoleon understood his business. Here
was a man who in
each moment and emergency knew what to do next.
NMW 4.247 13 [Napoleon's] power does not consist...in
any...singular
power of persuasion; but in the exercise of common-sense on each
emergency...
ET11 5.184 10 ...why need [English peers] sit out the
debate? Has not the
Duke of Wellington, at this moment, their proxies...in his pocket, to
vote
for them if there be an emergency?
F 6.17 18 [Man] helps himself on each emergency by
copying or
duplicating his own structure...
Elo1 7.83 4 The emergency which has convened the
meeting is usually of
more importance than anything the debaters have in their minds...
Schr 10.277 22 It is excellent when the individual is
ripened to that degree
that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he is
not only
widely intelligent, but carries a council in his breast for the
emergency of to-day;...
CSC 10.376 18 ...[these men and women at the Chardon
Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of
it...in...the prophetic dignity and
transfiguration which accompanies...a man...who...awaits confidently
the
new emergency for the new counsel.
Thor 10.457 25 ...[Thoreau]...used an original judgment
on each
emergency.
HDC 11.46 16 ...Concord and the other plantations found
themselves
separate and independent of Boston...enjoying, at the same time, a
strict and
loving fellowship with Boston, and sure of advice and aid, on every
emergency.
FSLC 11.200 4 ...it is cheering to behold what
champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor
black boy;...
FRep 11.535 2 ...the land and sea educate the people,
and bring out
presence of mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed activity. These are
the
people for an emergency.
CInt 12.128 18 I would have you rely on Nature
ever,-wise, omnific, thousand-handed Nature, equal to each emergency...
Trag 12.413 7 When two strangers meet in the highway,
what each
demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm
mind...prepared
alike to give death or to give life, as the emergency of the next
moment
may require.
emerges, v. (3)
UGM 4.32 16 One gracious fact emerges from these
studies,--that there is
true ascension in our love.
Prch 10.218 25 ...I see not how the great God prepares
to satisfy the heart
in the new order of things. No Church, no State emerges;...
PPr 12.383 10 Time stills the loud noise of opinions,
sinks the small, raises
the great, so that the true emerges without effort and in perfect
harmony to
all eyes;...
emerging, adj. (1)
Nat2 3.173 12 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our
little river, and with
one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and
moonlight... A holiday...establishes itself on the instant. These
sunset
clouds, these delicately emerging stars...signify it and proffer it.
emerging, v. (4)
LT 1.271 3 There is a perfect chain...of reforms
emerging from the
surrounding darkness...
ET10 5.171 5 ...the means of meeting a certain
ponderous expense, is that
which is considered by a youth in England emerging from his minority.
Insp 8.276 18 We are waiting until some tyrannous idea
emerging out of
heaven shall seize and bereave us of this liberty with which we are
falling
abroad.
CSC 10.375 5 The still-living merit of the oldest New
England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the
founders of families, fresh merit, emerging...
emerods, n. (1)
SwM 4.135 20 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows
itself [in
Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What
have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and
chalcedony;...what
with lepers and emerods;...
Emerson, Charles, n. (3)
MMEm 10.404 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew
Charles
Emerson, in 1833: I could never have adorned a garden.
MMEm 10.408 1 [Mary Moody Emerson's] nephew [C. C.
Emerson] wrote of her: I am glad the friendship with Aunt Mary is
ripening.
MMEm 10.422 20 To her nephew Charles [Mary Moody
Emerson writes]: War; what do I think of it? Why in your ear I think it
so much better than
oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it
would be an omen of high and glorious import.
Emerson, Edward Bliss, n. (1)
OA 7.333 27 E[dward] said [to John Adams]: I suppose,
sir, you would not
have taken [Mr. Lechmere's] place, even to walk as well as he.
Emerson, Mary Moody, n. (7)
MMEm 10.399 23 Mary Moody Emerson was born just before
the
outbreak of the Revolution.
MMEm 10.400 9 ...Mary [Moody Emerson] remained at
Malden with her
grandmother...
MMEm 10.401 4 Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary
[Moody
Emerson]...
MMEm 10.403 2 When I read Dante...and his paraphrases
to signify with
more adequateness Christ or Jehovah, whom do you think I was reminded
of? Whom but Mary Emerson and her eloquent theology?
MMEm 10.408 2 [Mary Moody Emerson's] nephew [C. C.
Emerson] wrote of her: I am glad the friendship with Aunt Mary is
ripening.
MMEm 10.410 14 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth
Hoar, was at the
Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece,
Aunt
Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost...
MMEm 10.410 27 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has
given you
a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures.
Go
instantly and call Elizabeth till you find [Elizabeth Hoar and her
niece]. The
man...having found them apologized for calling thus, by telling what
Miss
Emerson had said to him.
Emerson, Phebe Bliss, n. (1)
EzRy 10.383 2 [Ezra Ripley] married, November 16, 1780,
Mrs. Phebe (Bliss) Emerson...
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, n. (1)
LVB 11.96 16 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray
with one voice more
that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen
millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which
threatens the Cherokee tribe. With great respect, sir, I am your fellow
citizen, RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
Emerson, William, n. (2)
HDC 11.72 10 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in
Concord] for the
enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson, the chaplain of the
Provincial Congress, preached to the people.
HDC 11.77 10 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord],
had a hereditary
claim to the affection of the people...
Emerson's, Ralph Waldo, n. (1)
MMEm 10.420 13 In 1830...[Mary Moody Emerson] reproaches
herself
with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends
in
the city, where she had lived for a while with her brother [Mr.
Emerson's
father] and afterwards with his widow.
emigrant, adj. (2)
War 11.176 2 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of
benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of
hope; but in this
broad America...where the forest is only now falling, or yet to fall,
and the
green earth opened to the inundation of emigrant men from all quarters
of
oppression and guilt;...
Wom 11.422 23 ...if in your city the uneducated
emigrant vote numbers
thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...
Emigrant Aid Society, n. (1)
GSt 10.502 3 As early as 1855 the Emigrant Aid Society
was formed;...
emigrant, n. (3)
SA 8.87 20 When the young European emigrant...puts on
for the first time a
new coat, he puts on much more.
EPro 11.322 7 The territory of the Union shines to-day
with a lustre which
every European emigrant can discern from far;...
Let 12.404 4 Apathies and total want of work...never
will obtain any
sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention
the
graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his
energies, whilst the colossal wrongs of the Indian, of the Negro, of
the
emigrant, remain unmitigated...
emigrants, n. (8)
ET11 5.179 20 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red
cliff; and so on,--a
sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American, whose country
is
whitewashed all over by unmeaning names, the cast-off clothes of the
country from which its emigrants came;...
ET13 5.225 12 The chatter of French politics...and the
noise of embarking
emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind;...
CbW 6.261 19 ...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise
counsel in a court of
law. Now plant him down among farmers, firemen, Indians and emigrants.
PC 8.212 12 Our towns are still rude, the makeshifts of
emigrants...
War 11.166 14 ...the least change in the man will
change his
circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every
man
was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works
with
right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the
most
striking changes of external things...the marching regiment would be a
caravan of emigrants...
AKan 11.257 12 I know people who are making haste to
reduce their
expenses and pay their debts...in preparation to save and earn for the
benefit
of the Kansas emigrants.
Bost 12.199 6 When one thinks of the enterprises that
are attempted in the
heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid,
well-calculated
scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...
Let 12.403 5 A friend of ours went five years ago to
Illinois to buy a farm
for his son. Though there were crowds of emigrants in the roads, the
country was open on both sides...
emigrate, v. (4)
Hist 2.22 7 The nomads of Africa were constrained to
wander, by the
attacks of the gad-fly, which drives the cattle mad, and so compels the
tribe
to emigrate in the rainy season...
ET10 5.159 5 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether
it were not possible
to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate?
CL 12.135 21 ...Nature has impressed on savage men
periodical or secular
impulses to emigrate...
Bost 12.207 20 We [New Englanders] are willing to see
our sons emigrate, as to see our hives swarm.
emigrated, v. (2)
AKan 11.257 20 ...I submit that, in a case like this,
where citizens of
Massachusetts...have emigrated to national territory...I submit that
the
governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they
have
found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers
[in
Kansas]...
JBS 11.277 18 When [John Brown] was five years old his
father emigrated
to Ohio...
emigrating, v. (1)
CInt 12.118 24 The English newspapers and some writers
of reputation
disparage America. Meantime I note that the British people are
emigrating
hither by thousands...
emigration, n. (7)
ET10 5.158 27 ...about 1829-30, much fear was felt [in
England] lest the [textile] trade would be drawn away by...the
emigration of the spinners to
Belgium and the United States.
ET10 5.161 12 ...[the Bank of England] refuses loans,
and emigration
empties the country;...
ET18 5.300 26 During the Australian emigration [from
England], multitudes were rejected by the commissioners as being too
emaciated for
useful colonists.
Res 8.140 9 The marked events in history, as the
emigration of a colony to
a new and more delightful coast; the building of a large ship;...each
of these
events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
HDC 11.31 14 ...some of these [suspended
ministers]...were punished with
imprisonment or mutilation. This severity brought some of the best men
in
England to overcome that natural repugnance to emigration which holds
the
serious and moderate of every nation to their own soil.
HDC 11.85 2 ...the natural increase of [Concord's]
population is drained by
the constant emigration of the youth.
CInt 12.118 27 The emigration into America of
British...people is the
eulogy of America...
Emilia [Shakespeare, Othell (3)
Tran 1.336 14 In the play of Othello, the expiring
Desdemona absolves her
husband of the murder, to her attendant Emilia.
Tran 1.336 14 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him with
the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not I./
Tran 1.336 17 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him with
the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not I./
Emilia replies, The more angel she, and thou the blacker devil./
eminence, n. (8)
YA 1.394 8 ...in England...no man of letters, be his
eminence what it may, is received into the best society, except as a
lion and a show.
Comp 2.99 21 He who by force of will or of thought is
great and overlooks
thousands, has the charges of that eminence.
PNR 4.89 15 It was a high scheme, his absolute
privilege for the best...as
the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts
of two kinds:...secondly, those who by eminence of nature and desert
are
out of reach of your rewards.
ET11 5.184 19 This monopoly of political power has
given [the English
peers] their intellectual and social eminence in Europe.
Pow 6.62 17 A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he
wished it were a
penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this
country...
Elo1 7.84 13 ...the occasion always yields to the
eminence of the speaker;...
SlHr 10.439 11 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...of a strong
understanding, precise and methodical, which gave him great eminence in
the legal
profession.
TPar 11.292 21 The sudden and singular eminence of Mr.
Parker, the
importance of his name and influence, are the verdict of his country to
his
virtues.
eminency, n. (1)
Art1 2.355 3 This rhetoric, or power to fix the
momentary eminency of an
object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
eminent, adj. (80)
DSA 1.141 11 ...the exceptions are not so much to be
found in a few
eminent preachers...
DSA 1.145 9 ...each would be an easy secondary
to...some eminent man.
MN 1.202 19 ...we feel not much otherwise if, instead
of beholding foolish
nations, we take...the eminent souls, and narrowly inspect their
biography.
YA 1.387 20 In every age of the world there has been a
leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the
interests of general
justice and humanity...
SR 2.45 2 I read the other day some verses written by
an eminent painter
which were original...
SR 2.70 6 We fancy it rhetoric when we speak of eminent
virtue.
Art1 2.362 8 The Transfiguration, by Raphael, is an
eminent example of
this peculiar merit [simplicity].
Mrs1 3.123 8 In times of violence, every eminent person
must fall in with
many opportunities to approve his stoutness and worth;...
Mrs1 3.132 21 ...any deference to some eminent man or
woman of the
world, forfeits all privilege of nobility.
Mrs1 3.135 7 It were unmerciful, I know, quite to
abolish the use of these
screens, which are of eminent convenience...
NER 3.268 17 ...the ground on which eminent public
servants urge the
claims of popular education is fear;...
NER 3.275 10 The consideration of an eminent
citizen...a naval and
military honor...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable
him to
walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he
felt himself inferior.
NER 3.275 14 ...a naval and military honor...and,
anyhow procured, the
acknowledgment of eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate
that
they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some
persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
UGM 4.17 25 The high functions of the intellect are so
allied that some
imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...
PNR 4.86 15 [Plato] has indicated every eminent point
in speculation.
PNR 4.88 17 ...'t is the magnitude only of Shakspeare's
proper genius that
hinders him from being classed as the most eminent of this [Platonic]
school.
SwM 4.93 1 Among eminent persons, those who are most
dear to men are
not of the class which the economist calls producers...
ShP 4.211 25 Shakspeare is as much out of the category
of eminent
authors, as he is out of the crowd.
NMW 4.223 1 Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth
century, Bonaparte is far the best known...
GoW 4.261 6 [The writer's] office is a reception of the
facts into the mind, and then a selection of the eminent and
characteristic experiences.
GoW 4.262 14 The facts do not lie in [the memory]
inert; but some subside
and others shine; so that we soon have a new picture, composed of the
eminent experiences.
ET4 5.72 19 Two centuries ago the English horse never
performed any
eminent service beyond the seas;...
ET12 5.209 7 ...so eminent are the members that a
glance at the calendars
will show that in all the world one cannot be in better company than on
the
books of one of the larger Oxford or Cambridge colleges.
ET14 5.247 19 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid
advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only
good. The eminent benefit of
astronomy is the better navigation it creates to enable the fruit-ships
to
bring home their lemons and wine to the London grocer.
ET17 5.292 14 At the house of Mr. Carlyle, I met
persons eminent in
society and in letters.
Pow 6.54 24 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility;
imbecility...even in heroes
in all but certain eminent moments;...
Wth 6.121 21 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent
construction of
railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight from terminus to
terminus...
Ctr 6.133 14 Eminent spiritualists shall have an
incapacity of putting their
act or word aloof from them...
Ctr 6.133 25 Religious literature has eminent examples
[of egotism]...
Ctr 6.139 7 The antidotes against this organic egotism
are the range and
variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...with
eminent persons...
Ctr 6.145 14 An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea
of a girl's education
is, whatever qualifies her for going to Europe.
Boks 7.194 14 ...Hafiz was the eminent genius of the
Persians...
PI 8.10 21 The poet gives us the eminent experiences
only...
PI 8.50 21 Richard Owen, the eminent paleontologist,
said:--All hitherto
observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly
operating
geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak,
spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before
inhabited.
PI 8.63 15 There is something...the eminent scholars of
England, historians
and reviewers, romancers and poets included, might deny and blaspheme
it,--which is setting us and them aside...and planting itself.
SA 8.94 1 Madame de Stael...was the most extraordinary
converser that
was known in her time, and it was a time full of eminent men and
women;...
Elo2 8.120 24 I have heard an eminent preacher say that
he learns from the
first tones of his voice on a Sunday morning whether he is to have a
successful day.
Res 8.148 8 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at
Leeds, was to
preside at a Free Trade festival in that city;...
Comc 8.170 11 The same astonishment of the intellect at
the disappearance
of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun that circulates
concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
QO 8.190 15 There is none so eminent and wise but he
knows minds whose
opinion confirms or qualifies his own...
PC 8.218 27 Even manners are a distinction which...are
not to be
overborne...even by other eminent talents...
PPo 8.237 17 Many qualities go to make a good
telescope...but the one
eminent value is the space-penetrating power;...
Grts 8.301 14 ...we admire eminent men, not for
themselves, but as
representatives.
Aris 10.35 6 ...[the young adventurer] lends himself to
each malignant
party that assails what is eminent.
Aris 10.38 26 Aristocracy is the class eminent by
personal qualities...
Aris 10.45 9 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love,
hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will
traverse are predetermined in
his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature.
Aris 10.54 12 The more familiar examples of this power
[of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh,
and weep, in their
eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge
whispering-gallery, to...win smiles and tears from many generations.
The eminent examples are
Shakspeare, Cervantes...
Chr2 10.115 2 ...I find in the eminent experiences in
all times a substantial
agreement.
Edc1 10.152 3 Every mind should be allowed to make its
own statement in
action, and its balance will appear. In these judgments one needs that
foresight which was attributed to an eminent reformer...
Supl 10.167 2 Doctor Channing's piety and wisdom had
such weight that, in Boston, the popular idea of religion was whatever
this eminent divine
held.
Supl 10.167 7 An eminent French journalist paid a high
compliment to the
Duke of Wellington...
MoL 10.252 26 The exertions of this force [intellect]
are the eminent
experiences...
Schr 10.279 2 It was said of an eminent Frenchman, that
he was drowned
in his talents.
Plu 10.296 19 ...recently, there has been a remarkable
revival, in France, in
the taste for Plutarch and his contemporaries; led...by the eminent
critic
Sainte-Beuve.
Plu 10.297 8 Whatever is eminent in fact or in
fiction...drew [Plutarch's] attention...
Plu 10.302 10 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the
ports of every
nation, enter into every private property, and do not stop to
discriminate
owners, but give him the praise of all. 'T is all Plutarch, by right of
eminent
domain...
EzRy 10.393 17 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had in
saying difficult and
unspeakable things;...
MMEm 10.398 9 They whom [Lucy Percy] is pleased to
choose are such
as are of the most eminent condition...
MMEm 10.405 27 None but was attracted or piqued by
[Mary Moody
Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with
eminent names.
MMEm 10.413 17 A mediocrity does seem to me [Mary Moody
Emerson] more distant from eminent virtue than the extremes of
station;...
HDC 11.70 7 ...if any person or persons...shall...be
factors for the East
India Company, we will treat them, in an eminent degree, as enemies to
their country...
EWI 11.99 13 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the
settlement...of... [a question] which for many years absorbed the
attention of the best and
most eminent of mankind.
EWI 11.135 25 The lives of the advocates [of
emancipation in the West
Indies] are pages of greatness, and the connection of the eminent
senators
with this question constitutes the immortalizing moments of those men's
lives.
FSLC 11.191 17 Lord Mansfield...said, I care not for
the supposed dicta of
judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
FSLC 11.202 17 Simply [Webster] was the one eminent
American of our
time, whom we could produce as a finished work of Nature.
FSLN 11.221 7 ...[Webster] was, without effort, as
superior to his most
eminent rivals as they were to the humblest;...
AKan 11.261 21 ...I borrow the language of an eminent
man...If that be
law, let the ploughshare be run under the foundations of the
Capitol;...
Wom 11.423 20 ...when I read the list of...giants in
law, or eminent
scholars...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted
for, I
think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
Scot 11.463 4 If only as an eminent antiquary who has
shed light on the
history of Europe and of the English race, [Scott] had high claims to
our
regard.
Scot 11.465 22 By nature, by his reading and taste an
aristocrat, in a time
and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues
and
graces of that class, and by his eminent humanity and his love of labor
escaped its harm.
Scot 11.466 2 ...Scott's eminent humanity delighted in
the sense and virtue
and wit of the common people.
FRO2 11.486 14 We have had not long since presented to
us by Max
Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine, not at all
extraordinary in
itself, but only as coming from that eminent Father in the Church...
CPL 11.504 7 There is a wonderful agreement among
eminent men of all
varieties of character and condition in their estimate of books.
FRep 11.511 16 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely
took the sculptor
Flaxman to counsel...
Mem 12.95 23 ...the power [of memory] exists in some
marked and
eminent degree in men of an ideal determination.
CL 12.161 24 Is it not an eminent convenience to have
in your town a
person who knows where arnica grows...
CW 12.173 26 The place where a thoughtful man in the
country feels the
joy of eminent domain is in his wood-lot.
MAng1 12.215 1 Few lives of eminent men are
harmonious;...
MAng1 12.216 8 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in
the four fine arts...
ACri 12.285 14 You know the history of the eminent
English writer on
gypsies, George Borrow;...
eminent, n. (2)
SwM 4.101 8 ...[Swedenborg] went several times to
England, where he
does not seem to have attracted any attention whatever from the learned
or
the eminent;...
Ctr 6.164 2 Who wishes to resist the eminent and
polite, in behalf of the
poor, and low, and impolite?
eminently, adv. (11)
Pt1 3.35 17 Swedenborg...stands eminently for the
translator of nature into
thought.
Chr1 3.107 24 There is a class of men...so eminently
endowed with insight
and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine...
NMW 4.237 22 ...[Napoleon] did not hesitate to declare
that he was himself
eminently endowed with this two-o'clock-in-the-morning courage...
Boks 7.203 20 ...Pythagoras was eminently a practical
person...
Elo2 8.112 3 [Debate] is eminently the art which only
flourishes in free
countries.
Elo2 8.120 10 ...there are physical advantages,--some
eminently leading to
this art [of eloquence].
Comc 8.161 11 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute
understanding, who sees
the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the heyday of youth feels
also the
full attractions of pleasure, and is thus eminently qualified to enjoy
the joke.
Insp 8.286 22 ...eminently thoughtful men...have
insisted on an hour of
solitude every day...
Plu 10.298 15 ...eminently social, [Plutarch] was a
king in his own house...
EzRy 10.394 26 [Ezra Ripley] was eminently loyal in his
nature...
EPro 11.316 3 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in
modern history
were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President
Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation...
emir, n. (1)
Bhr 6.176 21 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir
Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it
for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns.
emissions, n. (1)
Trag 12.412 17 ...in life, actions are few, opinions
even few, prayers few; loves, hatreds, or any emissions of the soul.
emit, v. (5)
LE 1.157 7 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence,
seems...a vase of
fair outline...which does not, like the charged cloud...emit lightnings
on all
beholders.
SR 2.58 25 Men...do not see that virtue or vice emit a
breath every moment.
Bty 6.282 23 ...man, when his powers unfold in order,
will...emit light into
all [nature's] recesses.
Prch 10.218 27 ...when we have extricated ourselves
from all the
embarrassments of the social problem, the oracle does not yet emit any
light
on the mode of individual life.
Wom 11.412 14 [Women] emit from their pores a colored
atmosphere...
emitted, v. (2)
F 6.42 9 A man will see his character emitted in the
events that seem to
meet...him.
Bty 6.305 13 ...when the second-sight of the mind is
opened, now one color
or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more
interior
ray had been emitted...
emitting, v. (1)
LE 1.183 12 They [whom the student's thoughts have
entertained or
inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man...nowise emitting a
continuous stream of light...
emoluments, n. (1)
PNR 4.85 18 Ethical science was new and vacant when
Plato could write
thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time,
no
one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise
than as
respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
emotion, n. (32)
Nat 1.11 2 [The waving of the boughs'] effect is like
that of a higher
thought or a better emotion coming over me...
Nat 1.25 20 We say the heart to express emotion...
Nat 1.25 21 ...thought and emotion are words borrowed
from sensible
things...
DSA 1.129 1 [Jesus] said, in this jubilee of sublime
emotion, I am divine.
LE 1.166 11 Presently [the listener's] own emotion
rises to his lips...
Con 1.314 21 ...he who sets his face like a flint
against every novelty...has
also his gracious and relenting moments, and espouses for the time the
cause of man; and even if this be a shortlived emotion, yet the
remembrance
of it in private hours mitigates his selfishness...
Tran 1.357 5 [The strong spirits'] thought and emotion
comes in like a
flood...
Hist 2.3 18 ...the human spirit goes forth from the
beginning to embody... every emotion which belongs to it, in
appropriate events.
SR 2.65 12 ...the idlest reverie, the faintest native
emotion, command my
curiosity and respect.
SL 2.148 19 Every quality of [a man's] mind is
magnified in some one
acquaintance, and every emotion of his heart in some one.
SL 2.165 17 If the poet write a true drama, then he is
Caesar...then the
selfsame strain of thought, emotion as pure...these all are his...
Lov1 2.172 14 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before
and never shall
meet them again. But we see them...betray a deep emotion, and we are no
longer strangers.
Lov1 2.179 8 Who can analyze the nameless charm which
glances from
one and another face and form? We are touched with emotions of
tenderness and complacency, but we cannot find whereat this dainty
emotion, this wandering gleam, points.
Lov1 2.185 10 Does that other [lover]...feel the same
emotion, that now
delights me?
Prd1 2.239 8 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical
people an argument on
religion will make of the pure and chosen souls! They will shuffle and
crow...and not a thought has enriched either party, and not an emotion
of
bravery, modesty, or hope.
OS 2.281 3 These [announcements of the soul] are always
attended by the
emotion of the sublime.
OS 2.281 24 ...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...
Pt1 3.30 3 The metamorphosis excites in the beholder an
emotion of joy.
Pt1 3.32 27 ...how mean to study, when an emotion
communicates to the
intellect the power to sap and upheave nature;...
Exp 3.56 5 I have had good lessons from pictures which
I have since seen
without emotion or remark.
Chr1 3.105 22 Care is taken that the greatly-destined
shall slip up into life
in the shade, with no thousand-eyed Athens to watch and blazon...every
blushing emotion of young genius.
SwM 4.142 23 ...[Behmen] is tremulous with emotion...
SwM 4.144 6 ...[Swedenborg's] books have...no
emotion...
ET6 5.105 20 [The Englishman] is never betrayed into
any curiosity or
unbecoming emotion.
Wsp 6.241 8 Let us not be pestered...with emotion and
snuffle.
Art2 7.38 13 The utterance of thought and emotion in
speech and action
may be conscious or unconscious.
DL 7.106 23 ...Pilgrim's Progress,--what mines of
thought and emotion... are in this encyclopaedia of young thinking!
SovE 10.198 4 ...Religion is the accompanying emotion,
the emotion of
reverence which the presence of the universal mind ever excites in the
individual.
MMEm 10.430 12 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest
place of
acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy
would be too strong for that rapt emotion, that severe delight which I
crave;...
HDC 11.53 14 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the
twenty tribes of
Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with
which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the
new
hope they had conceived...
Milt1 12.260 22 ...Milton's mind seems to have no
thought or emotion
which refused to be recorded.
Trag 12.411 23 [A man...should keep as much as possible
the reins in his
own hands, rarely giving way to extreme emotion of joy or grief.
emotions, n. (15)
Nat 1.17 4 I see the spectacle of morning...with
emotions which an angel
might share.
Nat 1.39 6 What noble emotions dilate the mortal as he
enters into the
councils of the creation...
DSA 1.140 2 In a large portion of the community, the
religious service
gives rise to quite other thoughts and emotions.
Lov1 2.179 6 Who can analyze the nameless charm which
glances from
one and another face and form? We are touched with emotions of
tenderness and complacency...
Fdsp 2.191 14 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 2.276 25 ...these other souls, these separated
selves, draw me as nothing
else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion;...
Art1 2.362 21 [The work of art] was not painted for
[picture dealers], it
was painted for you; for such as had eyes capable of being touched by
simplicity and lofty emotions.
Exp 3.79 10 ...[the intellect] leaves out praise and
blame and all weak
emotions.
Chr1 3.91 23 The men who carry their points...are
themselves the country
which they represent; nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant
and
true as in them;...
Gts 3.162 21 We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and
both emotions are
unbecoming.
SS 7.9 9 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in
a moral union of two
superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years...is at
last
justified by victorious proof of probity...causing joyful emotions,
tears and
glory...
PI 8.52 4 With...the first strain of a song,
we...launch on the sea of ideas
and emotions...
MMEm 10.426 2 How grand [the earth's] preparation for
souls,-souls
who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had dissected the
emotions...
LS 11.19 8 We are not accustomed to express our
thoughts or emotions by
symbolical actions.
CPL 11.499 19 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her
diary...perhaps a
greater variety of internal emotions would be felt by remaining with
books
in one place than pursuing the waves which are ever the same.
emotive, adj. (2)
Wth 6.125 25 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol
of the soul's
economy. ... It is to invest income; that is to say, to take up
particulars into
generals; days into integral eras,--literary, emotive, practical,--of
its life...
Prch 10.219 6 We do not see that heroic resolutions
will save men from
those tides which a most fatal moon heaps and levels in the moral,
emotive
and intellectual nature.
Empedocles, n. (4)
MN 1.198 24 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of
thought, when he
said, I am God;...
Int 2.346 8 This band of grandees...Empedocles...and
the rest, have
somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to
all the
ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
Pt1 3.4 14 ...the highest minds of the world have never
ceased to explore
the...manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact; Orpheus, Empedocles...
F 6.18 9 No one can read the history of astronomy
without perceiving that
Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales...
Empedocles...had anticipated them;...
emperor, n. (11)
YA 1.375 23 Fathers...behold with impatience a new
character and way of
thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This
feeling...becomes petulance and tyranny when...the emperor of an
empire, deals with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.
YA 1.385 27 It would be but an easy extension of our
commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services...
Pt1 3.7 13 ...the poet...is emperor in his own right.
Mrs1 3.149 22 I have seen an individual...who shook off
the captivity of
etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing, good-natured and free as Robin
Hood;,--yet with the port of an emperor, if need be...
UGM 4.23 21 ...I find [a master] greater when he can
abolish himself and
all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts,
destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is
nothing. Then he is...an emperor who can spare his empire.
MoS 4.184 21 Each man woke in the morning with...a
spirit for action and
passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his
strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him. He
was an emperor
deserted by his states...
NMW 4.239 22 Bonaparte...was citizen before he was
emperor...
NMW 4.253 2 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse
and deceive him, of
the emperor of Austria to bribe him;...make [Napoleon's] history bright
and
commanding.
ET4 5.56 6 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the
emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them...
Plu 10.302 11 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the
ports of every
nation, enter into every private property, and do not stop to
discriminate
owners, but give him the praise of all. 'T is all Plutarch...and all
property
vests in this emperor.
Shak1 11.446 3 England's genius filled all measure/ Of
heart and soul, of
strength and pleasure,/ Gave to mind its emperor/ And life was larger
than
before;/...
Emperor, n. (4)
LE 1.179 7 The English officers and men...inquired if
such familiarity was
usual with the Emperor.
NMW 4.246 19 [Napoleon's] army, on the night of the
battle of Austerlitz, which was the anniversary of his inauguration as
Emperor, presented him
with a bouquet of forty standards taken in the fight.
ET11 5.175 14 Of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick,
the Emperor told
Henry V. that no Christian king had such another knight for wisdom,
nurture and manhood...
PC 8.218 12 If a theologian of deep convictions and
strong understanding
carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran,
in
spite of the Emperor;...
Emperor [Napoleon], n. (1)
SR 2.87 4 The Emperor held it impossible to make a
perfect army, says Las
Casas, without abolishing our arms...
Emperor of China, n. (1)
Grts 8.311 18 This day-labor of ours...has hitherto a
certain emblematic air, like the annual ploughing and sowing of the
Emperor of China.
emperors, n. (6)
Nat 1.17 13 Give me health and a day, and I will make
the pomp of
emperors ridiculous.
Mrs1 3.136 1 ...emperors and rich men are by no means
the most skilful
masters of good manners.
MoS 4.184 23 Each man woke in the morning with...a
spirit for action and
passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his
strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him. He
was an
emperor...left to whistle by himself, or thrust into a mob of emperors,
all
whistling...
GoW 4.285 19 [Goethe] can not hate anybody; his time is
worth too much. Temperamental antagonisms may be suffered, but like
feuds of emperors, who fight dignifiedly across kingdoms.
PerF 10.69 9 ...man in Nature is surrounded by a gang
of friendly giants
who can...help him in every kind. Each by itself has a certain
omnipotence, but all, like contending kings and emperors, in the
presence of each other, are antagonized and kept polite...
FRep 11.515 5 No interest not attaches...to the wars of
German, French and
Spanish emperors...
emperor's, n. (1)
PPo 8.262 17 A painter in China once painted a hall;/
Such a web never
hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors
did
run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/...
emphasis, n. (42)
LE 1.157 25 ...of what worth the world is, and with what
emphasis it
accosts the soul of man, such is the worth, such the call of the
scholar.
LE 1.178 16 This lesson is taught with emphasis in the
life of the great
actor of this age...
MN 1.200 27 ...the equal serving of innumerable ends
without the least
emphasis or preference to any...allows the understanding no place to
work.
MR 1.236 10 ...quite apart from the emphasis which the
times give to the
doctrine that the manual labor of society ought to be shared among all
the
members, there are reasons proper to every individual why he should not
be
deprived of it.
MR 1.243 20 The duty that every man...should call the
institutions of
society to account...gains in emphasis if we look at our modes of
living.
SL 2.144 24 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in
your memory out of all
proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the
ordinary standards.
SL 2.145 4 The soul's emphasis is always right.
Lov1 2.187 26 ...I do not wonder at the emphasis with
which the heart
prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
OS 2.273 14 The emphasis of facts and persons in my
thought has nothing
to do with time.
Exp 3.55 24 ...each [picture] will bear an emphasis of
attention once...
Mrs1 3.123 25 ...whenever used in strictness and with
any emphasis, the
name [gentleman] will be found to point at original energy.
Nat2 3.187 25 The strong, self-complacent Luther
declares with an
emphasis not to be mistaken, that God himself cannot do without wise
men.
SwM 4.104 20 Malpighi...had given emphasis to the dogma
that nature
works in leasts...
ShP 4.213 3 [Shakespeare] is wise without emphasis or
assertion;...
GoW 4.266 4 In this country, the emphasis of
conversation and of public
opinion commends the practical man;...
ET1 5.6 20 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of
structure...an emphasis of
features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color
and
ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic
laws...
ET1 5.13 9 ...[Coleridge] recited with strong emphasis,
standing, ten or
twelve lines beginning,--Born unto God in Christ--/
ET10 5.153 15 [The English] are under the Jewish law,
and read with
sonorous emphasis that their days shall be long in the land...
F 6.5 1 Any excess of emphasis on one part would be
corrected...
Wsp 6.209 13 ...[Christ] standing on his genius as a
moral teacher, it is
impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...
Elo1 7.87 11 ...[the state's attorney] revenged
himself...on the judge, by
requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried
words...like
a schoolmaster puzzled by a hard sum, who reads the context with
emphasis.
Elo1 7.97 4 He who will train himself to mastery in
this science of
persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and
insight.
DL 7.119 9 Certainly, let the board be spread and let
the bed be dressed for
the traveller; but let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in these
things.
Cour 7.256 11 ...any man who puts his life in peril in
a cause which is
esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...the
thunderous emphasis which orators give to every martial defiance and
passage of arms, and which the people greet, may testify.
PI 8.17 19 The term genius, when used with emphasis,
implies
imagination;...
PI 8.44 11 Vast is the difference between writing clean
verses for
magazines, and creating these new persons and situations,--new language
with emphasis and reality.
QO 8.202 13 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with
honoring
emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument,
because thus had they said...
PC 8.223 14 On...this all-dissolving unity, the
emphasis of heaven and
earth is laid.
PC 8.226 9 The benefactors we have indicated
were...great because
exceptional. The question which the present age urges with increasing
emphasis...is, whether the high qualities which distinguished them can
be
imparted.
PPo 8.250 3 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to
his immense hilarity
and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy; and lays the emphasis
on
these to mark his scorn of sanctimony and base prudence.
Grts 8.310 19 How grateful to find in man or woman a
new emphasis of
their own.
Imtl 8.328 10 The emphasis of all the good books given
to young people [sixty years ago] was on death.
Imtl 8.344 21 My idea of heaven is that there is no
melodrama in it at all; that it is wholly real. Here is the emphasis of
conscience and experience;...
Chr2 10.102 21 ...when used with emphasis, [character]
points to what no
events can change, that is, a will built on the reason of things.
Chr2 10.114 11 Men will learn to put back the emphasis
peremptorily on
pure morals...
Edc1 10.141 8 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which
forbids conceit, affectation, emphasis and dulness...
SovE 10.195 5 The emphasis of that blessed doctrine [of
Trust] lay in
lowliness.
FSLN 11.232 6 Each [party] wishes to cover the whole
ground; to hold fast
and to advance. Only, one lays the emphasis on keeping, and the other
on
advancing.
CPL 11.507 16 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read
the book your mates
have read...so that...you shall understand their allusions to it, and
not give it
more or less emphasis than they do.
II 12.88 21 ...there is a religion which...is
worshipped and pronounced with
emphasis again and again by some holy person;...
ACri 12.297 17 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...in loud
emphasis, in undertones...
PPr 12.386 21 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...
emphasize, v. (1)
Prch 10.235 8 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring
of all that you
reject;...
emphasized, v. (1)
ACiv 11.306 1 We fancy that the endless debate,
emphasized by the crime
and by the cannons of this war, has brought the free states to some
conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of
slavery
remains in our politics...
emphatic, adj. (8)
Hist 2.9 26 We are always coming up with the emphatic
facts of history in
our private experience...
SR 2.48 19 ...in the next room [the youth's] voice is
sufficiently clear and
emphatic.
SR 2.72 6 At times the whole world seems to be in
conspiracy to importune
you with emphatic trifles.
Exp 3.72 27 The baffled intellect must still kneel
before this...ineffable
cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some
emphatic
symbol...
PNR 4.89 10 It was a high scheme, his absolute
privilege for the best (which, to make emphatic, he expressed by
community of women), as the
premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur.
LS 11.9 21 ...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.
Milt1 12.266 8 Few men could be cited who have so well
understood what
is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it
has
brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of
spiritual laws...
Trag 12.412 26 There is a fire in some men which
demands an outlet in
some rude action; they betray their impatience of quiet...by irregular,
faltering, disturbed speech, too emphatic for the occasion.
Empire, British, n. (2)
ET4 5.44 20 The British Empire is reckoned to contain
(in 1848) 222,000, 000 souls...
War 11.163 13 The reference to any foreign register
will inform us of the
number of thousand or million men that are now under arms in the vast
colonial system of the British Empire...
Empire, Eastern, n. (1)
OA 7.322 10 ...if the life be true and noble, we have
quite another sort of
seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who
appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and
obey
them:...as blind old Dandolo...elected at the age of ninety-six to the
throne
of the Eastern Empire...
Empire, French, n. (1)
ET15 5.264 12 [The London Times] first denounced and
then adopted the
new French Empire...
empire, n. (48)
Nat 1.55 7 ...the philosopher...postpones the apparent
order and relations of
things to the empire of thought.
AmS 1.108 17 The human mind cannot be enshrined in a
person who shall
set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded, unboundable empire.
MR 1.251 7 Every great and commanding moment in the
annals of the
world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs
after
Mahomet, who...established a larger empire than that of Rome, is an
example.
YA 1.375 24 Fathers...behold with impatience a new
character and way of
thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This
feeling...becomes petulance and tyranny when...the emperor of an
empire, deals with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.
YA 1.375 27 An empire is an immense egotism.
YA 1.376 6 When a French ambassador mentioned to Paul
of Russia that a
man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some
matter, the Czar interrupted him,-There is no man of consequence in
this
empire but he with whom I am actually speaking;...
Hist 2.4 4 ...camp, kingdom, empire...are merely the
application of [the first
man's] manifold spirit to the manifold world.
Hist 2.36 7 In old Rome the public roads beginning at
the Forum
proceeded...to the centre of every province of the empire...
SL 2.137 7 [Our society] is a graduated, titled, richly
appointed empire...
Prd1 2.234 8 ...as much wisdom may be expended on a
private economy as
on an empire...
Cir 2.304 9 ...it is the inert effort of each thought,
having formed itself into
a circular wave of circumstance,--as for instance an empire...to heap
itself
on that ridge...
Chr1 3.110 13 ...the virtuous prince moves, and for
ages shows empire the
way.
NER 3.274 24 Caesar, just before the battle of
Pharsalia...offers to quit the
army, the empire, and Cleopatra, if [the Egyptian priest] will show him
those mysterious sources [of the Nile].
NER 3.276 16 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper
makes the sweetness
and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no
longer,--it is time...with Caesar to take in his hand the army, the
empire and
Cleopatra, and say, All these will I relinquish, if you will show me
the
fountains of the Nile.
UGM 4.23 22 ...I find [a master] greater when he can
abolish himself and
all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts,
destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is
nothing. Then he is...an emperor who can spare his empire.
SwM 4.94 23 Almost with a fierce haste [the moral
sentiment] lays its
empire on the man.
MoS 4.171 4 One man appears whose nature is to all
men's eyes
conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered
society, agriculture, trade, large institutions and empire.
NMW 4.240 24 In the time of the empire [Napoleon]
directed attention to
the improvement and embellishment of the markets of the capital.
ET2 5.33 6 ...the English did not stick to claim the
channel, or the bottom
of all the main: As if, said they, we contended for the drops of the
sea, and
not for...the bed of those waters. The sea is bounded by his majesty's
empire.
ET3 5.37 17 As soon as you enter England...this little
land stretches by an
illusion to the dimensions of an empire.
ET3 5.40 23 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to
show that the city
of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the
same
belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
ET3 5.42 27 Nature held counsel with herself and said,
My Romans are
gone. To build my new empire, I will choose a rude race, all masculine,
with brutish strength.
ET4 5.55 24 The English come mainly from the
Germans...a people about
whom in the old empire the rumor ran there was never any that meddled
with them that repented it not.
ET4 5.66 25 ...[the blonde race's] accession to empire
marks a new and
finer epoch...
ET5 5.90 24 Private persons [in England] exhibit...the
same pertinacity as
the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against
the
empire of Bonaparte...
ET5 5.93 14 ...in the complications of the trade and
politics of their vast
empire, [the English] have been equal to every exigency...
ET6 5.109 5 The motive and end of [Englishmen's] trade
and empire is to
guard the independence and privacy of their homes.
ET7 5.120 3 [Wellington] augured ill of the
[Napoleonic] empire as soon as
he saw that it was mendacious...
ET8 5.137 10 ...[the English] administer, in different
parts of the world, the
codes of every empire and race;...
ET10 5.155 19 The British empire is solvent;...
ET17 5.298 10 New means were employed, and new realms
added to the
empire of the muse, by [Wordsworth's] courage.
ET18 5.303 23 ...who would see...the explosion of their
well-husbanded
forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred
years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and
planted
through all climates, mainly following the belt of empire...
ET18 5.304 2 [England's] colonial policy, obeying the
necessities of a vast
empire, has become liberal.
Wth 6.89 16 The sea...offers its perilous aid and the
power and empire that
follow it...to [man's] craft and audacity.
Bty 6.285 9 The king...conferred the sovereignty on
[Tisso], saying, Prince, administer this empire for seven days;...
Suc 7.296 27 ...the powers of this busy brain are
miraculous and illimitable. Therein are the rules and formulas by which
the whole empire of matter is
worked.
PI 8.74 20 We too shall know how to take up all this
industry and empire... into thought...
PPo 8.238 20 My father's empire, said Cyrus to
Xenophon, is so large that
people perish with cold at one extremity whilst they are suffocated
with
heat at the other.
PPo 8.248 12 ...it is only a few delicate spirits who
are sufficient to see... that the mind suffers no religion and no
empire but its own.
Dem1 10.3 9 The witchcraft of sleep divides with truth
the empire of our
lives.
Supl 10.179 10 ...there is no question that the star of
empire rolls West...
Carl 10.497 5 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for
in the ignominy of
Europe...one man remained who believed he was put there by God
Almighty to govern his empire...
EWI 11.128 17 The extent of the [British] empire, and
the magnitude and
number of other questions crowding into court, keep this one [slavery]
in
balance...
HCom 11.344 4 When her blood is up, [Massachusetts] has
a fist big
enough to knock down an empire.
Humb 11.458 23 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants;
that Germany has
furnished the greatest number;...because in that empire there is no
canton
without some well-informed person capable of making researches and
publishing interesting results.
Humb 11.459 2 I know that we have been accustomed to
think...that in a
crisis no plan-maker was to be found in the [German] empire;...
Bost 12.199 8 When one thinks of the enterprises that
are attempted in the
heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid,
well-calculated
scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...building their empire by
due
degrees.
MAng1 12.235 26 When importuned to claim some
compensation of the
empire for the important services he had rendered it, [the ancient
Persian] demanded that he and his should neither command nor obey, but
should be
free.
Empire, n. (3)
Imtl 8.336 12 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne of
Russia, call
together all the architectural genius of the Empire to build and finish
and
furnish a palace of snow...
EWI 11.99 9 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the
settlement, as far
as a great Empire was concerned, of a question on which almost every
leading citizen in it had taken care to record his vote;...
ChiE 11.471 4 Mr. Mayor: I suppose we are all of one
opinion on this
remarkable occasion of meeting the embassy sent from the oldest Empire
in
the world to the youngest Republic.
Empire, Roman, n. (4)
SR 2.61 12 A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we
have a Roman
Empire.
CbW 6.254 7 The barbarians who broke up the Roman
Empire did not
arrive a day too soon.
Boks 7.205 2 The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan
age;...and Martial
will give [the student] Roman Manners--and some very bad ones,--in the
early days of the Empire...
PC 8.213 21 ...each European nation, after the breaking
up of the Roman
Empire, had its romantic era...
empires, n. (13)
LE 1.159 11 Every presentiment of the mind is executed
somewhere in a
gigantic fact. ... What else are churches, literatures, and empires?
Tran 1.341 17 ...to [many intelligent and religious
persons'] lofty dream
the writing of Iliads or Hamlets, or the building of cities or empires
seems
drudgery.
Hist 2.8 19 [Each man] must...not suffer himself to be
bullied by kings or
empires...
ET15 5.272 7 ...as with other empires, [the English
press's] tone is prone to
be official, and even officinal.
Wth 6.106 21 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.
PC 8.212 19 The oldest empires...now that we have true
measures of
duration [in Geology], show like creations of yesterday.
Imtl 8.348 12 Will you offer empires to such as cannot
set a house or
private affairs in order?
Aris 10.65 15 ...it suffices...that...[the man of
generous spirit] has an
elevation of habit which ministers of empires will be forced to see and
to
remember.
PerF 10.84 7 Obedience alone gives the right to
command. It is like the
village operator who taps the telegraph-wire and surprises the secrets
of
empires as they pass to the capital.
Chr2 10.112 6 The laws of old empires stood on the
religious convictions.
Chr2 10.112 8 The laws of old empires stood on the
religious convictions. Now that their religions are outgrown, the
empires lack strength.
Plu 10.301 13 [Plutarch] gossips...of love and fate and
empires.
Thor 10.480 22 Pounding beans is good to the end of
pounding empires
one of these days;...
empirical, adj. (5)
Nat 1.66 6 Empirical science is apt to cloud the
sight...
NR 3.229 2 Human life and its persons are poor
empirical pretensions.
ET14 5.242 20 ...the very announcement...even of
Dalton's doctrine of
definite proportions, finds a sudden response in the mind, which
remains a
superior evidence to empirical demonstrations.
Ctr 6.160 17 ...culture must reinforce from higher
influx the empirical
skills of eloquence, or of politics...
PC 8.222 12 We are told that in posting his books,
after the French had
measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that
his
theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand
shook...
empiricism, n. (2)
Exp 3.85 13 ...far be from me the despair which
prejudges the law by a
paltry empiricism;...
Prch 10.220 19 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly
in this [religious] empiricism.
employ, v. (18)
Nat 1.32 23 Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no
significance but
what we consciously give them when we employ them as emblems of our
thoughts?
Lov1 2.186 16 ...as life wears on, it proves a game of
permutation and
combination of all possible positions of the parties, to employ all the
resources of each...
Art1 2.351 5 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the
production of a new and
fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and fine arts,
if we
employ the popular distinction of works according to their aim either
at use
or beauty.
Art1 2.352 15 ...the artist must employ the symbols in
use in his day...
Chr1 3.94 16 What means did you employ? was the
question asked of the
wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of Mary of Medici;...
PPh 4.65 12 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the
highest employment of the
eyes. By us it is asserted that God invented and bestowed sight on us
for
this purpose,--that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the
heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...
ET5 5.81 2 All the steps [the English] orderly
take;...keeping their eye on
their aim, in all the complicity and delay incident to the several
series of
means they employ.
ET11 5.179 24 ...the English are those barbarians of
Jamblichus, who... firmly continue to employ the same words, which are
also dear to the gods.
Wth 6.90 4 ...according to the excellence of the
machinery in each human
being is his attraction for the instruments he is to employ.
Wth 6.110 8 Britain, France and Germany...send
out...their millions of poor
people, to share the crop. At first we employ them, and increase our
prosperity;...
Wth 6.110 13 ...in the artificial system of society and
of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come
presently checks and
stoppages. Then we refuse to employ these poor [immigrant] men.
CbW 6.248 26 Franklin said...[mankind] have capacities,
if they would
employ them.
WD 7.176 26 A general, said Bonaparte, always has
troops enough, if he
only knows how to employ those he has, and bivouacs with them.
Chr2 10.102 19 We sometimes employ the word [character]
to express the
strong and consistent will of men of mixed motive...
FSLC 11.192 12 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of
Bayonne, in his
letter...both [the inhabitants and soldiers] and I must humbly entreat
your
majesty to be pleased to employ your arms and lives in things that are
possible...
TPar 11.286 14 Such was the largeness of [Theodore
Parker's] reception of
facts and his skill to employ them that it looked as if he were some
president of council to whom a score of telegraphs were ever bringing
in
reports;...
EdAd 11.384 8 [The traveller] reflects on the power
which each of these
plain republicans can employ;...
EdAd 11.386 27 We hesitate to employ a word so much
abused as
patriotism...
employed, v. (29)
Nat 1.30 9 ...a paper currency is employed, when there
is no bullion in the
vaults.
LT 1.283 6 It is not that men do not wish to act; they
pine to be employed...
YA 1.395 9 If only the men are employed in conspiring
with the designs of
the Spirit who led us hither and is leading us still, we shall quickly
enough
advance out of all hearing of others' censures...
Hist 2.16 25 I knew a draughtsman employed in a public
survey who found
that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological structure was
first
explained to him.
Pol1 3.219 21 A man has a right to be employed...
SwM 4.99 24 [Swedenborg]...from this time [1716] for
the next thirty years
was employed in the composition and publication of his scientific
works.
SwM 4.120 4 Having adopted the belief that certain
books of the Old and
New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his
remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
SwM 4.139 11 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the
Indian Vishnu,--I
am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways are altogether evil
serve
me alone...he is altogether well employed;...
ShP 4.217 7 Shakspeare employed [the things of nature]
as colors to
compose his picture.
GoW 4.285 10 [Goethe's] affections help him, like women
employed by
Cicero to worm out the secret of conspirators.
ET5 5.78 7 The people [of England] have that nervous
bilious temperament
which is known by medical men to resist every means employed to make
its
possessor subservient to the will of others.
ET15 5.266 5 Our entertainer [at the London Times]
confided us to a
courteous assistant to show us the establishment, in which, I think,
they
employed a hundred and twenty men.
ET17 5.298 9 New means were employed, and new realms
added to the
empire of the muse, by [Wordsworth's] courage.
Wsp 6.238 27 Of immortality, the soul when well
employed is incurious.
CbW 6.251 8 The good men are employed for private
centres of use...
Civ 7.23 13 So true is Dr. Johnson's remark that men
are seldom more
innocently employed than when they are making money.
WD 7.172 24 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory
energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this
gale of warring elements
which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners
in a
tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship, and Nature
employed certain illusions as her ties and straps...
Comc 8.167 6 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six
months on the
Cetacea;...
Thor 10.473 2 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a
surveyor soon
discovered his rare accuracy and skill...
EWI 11.109 1 The facts [of the slave trade] confirmed
[Thomas Clarkson'
s] sentiment...that it was found peculiarly fatal to those employed in
it.
FSLC 11.185 15 Because of this preoccupied mind, the
whole wealth and
power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor
black
boy...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him.
FSLC 11.195 27 A wicked law cannot be executed by good
men, and must
be by bad. Flagitious men must be employed...
HCom 11.344 18 These [Harvard] men...were always in the
front and
always employed.
SMC 11.366 3 This [old artillery] company...was later
embodied in the
Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers...and sent to New
Orleans, where they were employed in guard duty during their term of
service.
SHC 11.431 23 ...there is no ornament, no architecture
alone, so sumptuous
as well disposed woods and waters, where art has been employed only to
remove superfluities...
CInt 12.124 20 The necessity of a mechanical system [of
education] is not
to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed...by some
available
plan that will give weekly and annual results;...
MAng1 12.234 21 As [Michelangelo] refused to undo his
work [The Last
Judgment], Daniel di Volterra was employed to clothe the figures;...
Milt1 12.271 5 Toland tells us...[Milton] used to tell
those about him the
entire satisfaction of his mind that he had constantly employed his
strength
and faculties in the defence of liberty...
WSL 12.346 3 It is a sufficient proof of the extreme
delicacy of this
element [character]...that it has so seldom been employed in the drama
and
in novels.
employer, n. (2)
Pow 6.82 4 Are you so cunning, Mr. Profitloss, and do
you expect to
swindle your master and employer, in the web you weave?
PLT 12.10 16 What is life but what a man is thinking of
all day? This is his
fate and his employer.
employers, n. (2)
SovE 10.206 4 The poor Irish laborer one sees with
respect, because he
believes in something, in his church, and in his employers.
CInt 12.131 13 ...the men and women of your time, the
circle of your
friends and employers...are the interrogators.
employing, v. (3)
PPh 4.69 26 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the
fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according
to the same; and, employing a
model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must
follow
that his production should be beautiful.
NMW 4.224 22 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes']
virtues and their
vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is
material, pointing at a sensual success and employing the richest and
most various
means to that end;...
CL 12.137 26 [Linnaeus] showed [the people of Tornea]
that the whole evil [of dying cattle] might be prevented by employing a
woman for a month to
eradicate the noxious plants [water-hemlock].
employment, n. (31)
LE 1.184 27 ...you shall get your lesson out of the
hour, and the object, whether it be a concentrated or a wasteful
employment...
MN 1.208 7 What patron shall [a man] ask for employment
and reward?
MR 1.236 7 ...when the majority shall admit the
necessity of reform in all
these institutions [commerce, law, state]...a man may select the
fittest
employment for his peculiar talent again, without compromise.
YA 1.364 3 ...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot
every day across the
thousand various threads of national descent and employment...
YA 1.368 14 ...the selection of a fit house-lot has the
same advantage over
an indifferent one, as the selection to a given employment of a man who
has
a genius for that work.
NER 3.253 24 ...there were changes of employment
dictated by conscience.
PPh 4.65 8 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the highest
employment of the
eyes.
Ctr 6.150 22 [The man of the world] calls his
employment by its lowest
name...
Wsp 6.225 19 In every variety of human
employment...there are the
working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
Wsp 6.232 9 [Man] feels the insurance of a just
employment.
CbW 6.267 8 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be
born with a bias to
some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness...
CbW 6.271 5 The success which will content [men] is a
bargain, a lucrative
employment...and the like.
Ill 6.311 25 ...the barrister with the jury, the belle
at the ball...ascribe a
certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
DL 7.124 8 In men, it is their...choice of an
employment...or some other
magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement...
WD 7.177 1 Do not refuse the employment which the hour
brings you...
OA 7.327 12 [Man] wants friends, employment,
knowledge...
PI 8.19 18 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose
employment consists in
speaking to the Father and to matter;...
PI 8.23 8 Your condition, your employment, is the fable
of you.
Res 8.149 4 [The good aunt] relies on the same
principle that makes the
strength of Newton,--alternation of employment.
Res 8.149 10 ...when the mind has exhausted its
energies for one
employment, it is still fresh and capable of a different task.
Chr2 10.117 27 The churches already indicate the new
spirit in adding to
the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities,-as in
creating... offices of employment for the poor...
LLNE 10.362 23 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a man of no
employment or
practical aims...
MMEm 10.398 10 They whom [Lucy Percy] is pleased to
choose are such
as are of the most eminent condition both for power and employment...
Thor 10.452 13 ...whilst all his companions
were...eager to begin some
lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts
should be
exercised on the same question...
Thor 10.453 26 [Thoreau's] accuracy and skill in this
work [surveying] were readily appreciated, and he found all the
employment he wanted.
EWI 11.123 15 The national aim and employment streams
into our ways of
thinking...
EWI 11.130 3 ...I see...poor black men of obscure
employment as mariners, cooks or stewards, in ships, yet citizens of
this our Commonwealth of
Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of
South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels
in
which they visited those ports...
War 11.154 13 ...[war] has been the principal
employment of the most
conspicuous men;...
Wom 11.407 10 ...there is usually no employment or
career which [women] will not with their own applause and that of
society quit for a suitable
marriage.
Wom 11.416 24 ...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...
II 12.72 16 It is this employment of new means...that
denotes the inspired
man.
employments, n. (21)
MR 1.230 19 The young man...finds the way to lucrative
employments
blocked with abuses.
MR 1.230 23 The employments of commerce are not
intrinsically unfit for
a man...
MR 1.247 27 ...the idea which now begins to agitate
society has a wider
scope than our daily employments...
LT 1.271 15 We arraign our daily employments.
LT 1.271 18 ...we find ourselves apologizing for our
employments;...
Tran 1.349 16 As to the general course of living, and
the daily
employments of men, [Transcendentalists] cannot see much virtue in
these...
OS 2.283 16 Men ask concerning...the employments of
heaven...
Pol1 3.200 2 Republics abound in young civilians who
believe...that grave
modifications of the policy and modes of living and employments of the
population...may be voted in or out;...
GoW 4.286 17 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und
Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us
a Life of
Goethe;...no details of offices or employments...
ET4 5.48 3 Race is a controlling influence in the Jew,
who, for two
millenniums...has preserved the same character and employments.
Ill 6.323 26 ...we transcend the circumstance
continually and taste the real
quality of existence; as in our employments, which only differ in the
manifestations but express the same laws;...
Clbs 7.228 27 We remember the time...on a long journey
in the old stage-coach, where, each passenger being forced to know
every other, and other
employments being out of question, conversation naturally flowed...
OA 7.321 1 A man of great employments and excellent
performance used
to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was
sixty;...
PI 8.38 2 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed,
confined...in mean
employments...
Imtl 8.327 12 Swedenborg described an intelligible
heaven, by continuing
the like employments in the like circumstances as those we know;...
Schr 10.279 13 ...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...
LLNE 10.360 3 There were many employments more or less
lucrative
found for, or brought hither by these members [of Brook Farm]...
EWI 11.142 13 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of
Philippo, are very
explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and
the
black population [in the West Indies] in employments of skill, of
profit and
of trust;...
CInt 12.127 16 You all well know...the facility with
which men renounce
their youthful aims...and they accept the employments of the market.
MLit 12.333 16 What is Austria? What is England? What
is our graduated
and petrified social scale of ranks and employments?
Let 12.398 13 As soon as [American youths] have arrived
at this term, there are no employments to satisfy them...
employs, v. (4)
Nat 1.30 24 ...picturesque language is at once a
commanding certificate that
he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
Pt1 3.21 11 The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry,
vegetation and
animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as
signs.
Elo1 7.85 1 The several talents which the orator
employs...deserve a special
enumeration.
PI 8.21 12 ...[the poet's] personality [is] as fugitive
as the trope he employs.
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