First to Fitting

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

first, adj. (627)

    Nat 1.15 18 ...light is the first of painters.
    Nat 1.16 13 First, the simple perception of natural forms is a delight.
    Nat 1.24 13 Thus in art does Nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works.
    Nat 1.29 14 ...as [idiomatic language] is the first language, so is it the last.
    Nat 1.35 5 Material objects...are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator, which must always preserve an exact relation to their first origin;...
    Nat 1.38 25 The first steps in Agriculture...teach that Nature's dice are always loaded;...
    Nat 1.38 26 The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take), teach that Nature's dice are always loaded;...
    Nat 1.40 24 ...every change of vegetation from the first principle of growth in the eye of a leaf...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat 1.41 12 Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use.
    Nat 1.41 21 The first and gross manifestation of this truth [of the doctrine of Use] is our inevitable and hated training in values and wants...
    Nat 1.42 7 ...[a farm] is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.
    Nat 1.49 20 The first effort of thought tends to relax this despotism of the senses which binds us to nature as if we were a part of it...
    Nat 1.50 12 Our first institution in the Ideal philosophy is a hint from Nature herself.
    Nat 1.57 19 We apprehend the absolute. As it were, for the first time, we exist.
    Nat 1.58 7 The first and last lesson of religion is, The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal.
    Nat 1.59 22 ...with culture this faith [that the external world is appearance] will as surely arise on the mind as did the first.
    Nat 1.62 18 The first of these questions only [What is matter?], the ideal theory answers.
    AmS 1.84 23 The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature.
    AmS 1.86 25 ...when he has learned...to see that the natural philosophy that now is, is only the first gropings of [the soul's] gigantic hand, [the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    AmS 1.87 20 The scholar of the first age received into him the world around;...
    AmS 1.103 17 The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions...
    AmS 1.115 25 A nation of men will for the first time exist...
    DSA 1.130 10 ...we become sensible of the first defect of historical Christianity.
    DSA 1.134 3 The second defect of the traditionary and limited way of using the mind of Christ is a consequence of the first;...
    DSA 1.135 17 The office [of priest] is the first in the world.
    DSA 1.145 18 Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone;...
    DSA 1.146 7 ...acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
    DSA 1.150 12 The remedy to [the old forms'] deformity is first, soul, and second, soul, and evermore, soul.
    DSA 1.150 16 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath...
    DSA 1.150 23 Let [the Sabbath] stand forevermore, a temple which new love, new faith, new sight shall restore to more than its first splendor...
    LE 1.167 10 Poetry has scarce chanted its first song.
    LE 1.168 14 The man...who rambles in the woods, seems to be the first man that ever...entered a grove.
    LE 1.171 23 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man...
    LE 1.172 10 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large.
    LE 1.185 15 You will hear that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name.
    MN 1.199 11 We can...never tell where to set the first stone.
    MN 1.215 2 To every reform...early disgusts are incident, so that the disciple is surprised at the very hour of his first triumphs with chagrins, and sickness, and a general distrust;...
    MR 1.238 5 Consider further the difference between the first and second owner of property.
    MR 1.248 18 Let [a man]...put all his practices back on their first thoughts...
    LT 1.274 17 ...the compromise made with the slaveholder, not much noticed at first, every day appears more flagrant mischief to the American constitution.
    LT 1.291 9 ...all the tongues of to-day will of course at first defame what is noble;...
    Con 1.295 17 ...now [Conservatism], now [Innovation] gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time...
    Con 1.306 12 In his first consideration how to feed, clothe, and warm himself, [the youth] is met by warnings on every hand that this thing and that thing have owners...
    Con 1.313 11 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a...progressive necessity, which, from the first pulsation in the first animal life...has advanced thus far.
    Con 1.313 12 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a...progressive necessity, which, from the first pulsation in the first animal life...has advanced thus far.
    Con 1.315 9 ...on the first day [Friar Bernard] saw and talked with gentle mothers with their babes at their breasts...
    Tran 1.329 1 The first thing we have to say respecting what are called new views here in New England...is, that they are not new...
    Tran 1.329 15 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;...
    Tran 1.329 16 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists;...the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses...
    Tran 1.330 13 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which in their first appearance to us assume a native superiority to material facts...
    Tran 1.330 16 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which in their first appearance to us assume a native superiority to material facts, degrading these into a language by which the first are to be spoken;...
    Tran 1.349 7 Each cause as it is called...say Calvinism, or Unitarianism- becomes speedily a little shop, where the article, let it have been at first never so subtle and ethereal, is now made up into portable and convenient cakes...
    Tran 1.357 15 ...[strong spirits] by happiness of greater momentum lose no time, but take the right road at first.
    YA 1.382 11 The science is confident, and surely the poverty is real. If any means could be found to bring these two together! This was one design of the projectors of the Associations which are now making their first feeble experiments.
    YA 1.383 9 Undoubtedly, abundant mistakes will be made by these first adventurers [the Communities]...
    Hist 2.4 3 ...Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
    Hist 2.4 25 Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind...
    Hist 2.6 5 ...instinctively we at first hold to [property] with swords and laws and wide and complex combinations.
    Hist 2.12 2 We remember the forest-dwellers, the first temples, the adherence to the first type...
    Hist 2.28 9 I have seen the first monks and anchorets, without crossing seas or centuries.
    Hist 2.28 16 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century...the first Capuchins.
    Hist 2.30 15 Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe...[the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
    Hist 2.33 20 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind. So far then are they...as real to-day as in the first Olympiad.
    Hist 2.38 9 No man can...guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock, any more than he can draw to-day the face of a person whom he shall see to-morrow for the first time.
    SR 2.45 12 ...our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
    SR 2.75 25 If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises they lose all heart.
    SR 2.80 21 ...the immortal light...will beam over the universe as on the first morning.
    SR 2.81 22 Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
    SR 2.86 2 A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages;...
    Comp 2.126 25 [The death of a friend] permits or constrains...the reception of new influences that prove of the first importance to the next years;...
    Lov1 2.169 4 Nature...in the first sentiment of kindness anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.
    Lov1 2.170 14 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges...
    Lov1 2.170 23 He who paints [love] at the first period will lose some of its later...traits.
    Lov1 2.171 4 ...the first condition is that we must leave a too close and lingering adherence to facts...
    Lov1 2.184 11 ...even love...must become more impersonal every day. Of this at first it gives no hint.
    Lov1 2.187 15 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together...was deciduous...
    Fdsp 2.193 6 ...as soon as the stranger begins to intrude...his defects, into the conversation, it is all over. He has heard the first, the last and best he will ever hear from us.
    Fdsp 2.194 27 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are new poetry of the first Bard...
    Fdsp 2.203 9 I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first he was resisted...
    Fdsp 2.211 17 To those whom we admire and love, at first we cannot [speak on even terms].
    Prd1 2.222 27 The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third, spiritual perception.
    Prd1 2.233 10 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. ... Yesterday, radiant with the light of an ideal world in which he lives, the first of men; and now oppressed by wants and by sickness, for which he must thank himself.
    Prd1 2.233 24 Is it not better that a man should accept the first pains and mortifications of this sort...as hints that he must expect no other good than the just fruit of his own labor and self-denial?
    Hsm1 2.257 10 The first step of worthiness will be to disabuse us of our superstitious associations with places and times...
    Hsm1 2.259 6 The lesson [many extraordinary young men] gave in their first aspirations is yet true;...
    Hsm1 2.262 9 [Culture] will not now run against an axe at the first step out of the beaten track of opinion.
    Cir 2.301 1 The eye is the first circle;...
    Cir 2.301 8 We are all our lifetime reading the copious sense of this first of forms [the circle].
    Cir 2.304 17 ...in its first and narrowest pulses [the heart] already tends outward with a vast force...
    Cir 2.304 20 Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series.
    Cir 2.305 2 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere. Then already is our first speaker not man, but only a first speaker.
    Cir 2.305 3 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere. Then already is our first speaker not man, but only a first speaker.
    Cir 2.320 23 Now for the first time seem I to know any thing rightly.
    Int 2.325 15 The first questions are always to be asked...
    Int 2.329 16 If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical. The first contains the second, but virtual and latent.
    Int 2.332 1 It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed attitude of the library to seize the thought. But we come in, and are as far from it as at first.
    Int 2.335 5 To genius must always go two gifts, the thought and the publication. The first is revelation...
    Int 2.335 10 [The thought] is...a form of thought now for the first time bursting into the universe...
    Int 2.337 3 Who is the first drawing-master?
    Int 2.342 1 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed...he meets...
    Int 2.342 2 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept...the first philosophy...he meets...
    Int 2.342 2 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept...the first political party he meets...
    Int 2.343 21 A new doctrine seems at first a subversion of all our opinions, tastes, and manner of living.
    Art1 2.355 18 Presently we pass to some other object, which rounds itself into a whole as did the first;...
    Art1 2.356 12 ...what astonished and fascinated me in the first work [of art], astonished me in the second work also;...
    Pt1 3.7 15 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men...
    Pt1 3.19 18 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder.
    Pt1 3.22 1 ...each word was at first a stroke of genius...
    Pt1 3.22 3 ...each word...obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer.
    Pt1 3.22 14 This expression or naming is not art, but a second nature, grown out of the first...
    Pt1 3.32 6 An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
    Pt1 3.34 26 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader. But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of a mother and child...
    Exp 3.64 18 So many things are unsettled which it is of the first importance to settle;...
    Exp 3.71 11 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life.
    Exp 3.71 25 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...
    Exp 3.72 9 Since neither now nor yesterday began/ These thoughts, which have been ever, nor yet can/ A man be found who their first entrance knew./
    Exp 3.82 2 A wise and hardy physician will say, Come out of that, as the first condition of advice.
    Exp 3.84 6 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make the account square, for if I should die I could not make the account square. The benefit overran the merit the first day, and has overrun the merit ever since.
    Chr1 3.100 4 It is much that [the ingenious man] does not accept the conventional opinions and practices. That non-conformity will remain a goad and remembrancer, and every inquirer will have to dispose of him, in the first place.
    Chr1 3.106 14 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment; as we read...the first lines of written prose and verse of a nation.
    Chr1 3.111 21 ...when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor...it should be a festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol...
    Mrs1 3.123 3 ...the word [gentleman] denotes good-nature or benevolence; manhood first, and then gentleness.
    Mrs1 3.123 20 Power first, or no leading class.
    Mrs1 3.125 18 A plentiful fortune is reckoned necessary...to the completion of this man of the world; and it is a material deputy which walks through the dance which the first [power] has led.
    Mrs1 3.127 20 There exists a strict relation between the class of power and the exclusive and polished circles. The last are always filled or filling from the first.
    Mrs1 3.131 27 The maiden at her first ball...believes that there is a ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
    Mrs1 3.133 24 ...the first thing man requires of man is reality...
    Mrs1 3.134 6 ...[a gentleman's] eyes look straight forward, and he assures the other party, first of all, that he has been met.
    Mrs1 3.136 5 ...the first point of courtesy must always be truth...
    Mrs1 3.142 20 ...Napoleon said of [Charles James Fox]...Mr. Fox will always hold the first place in an assembly at the Tuileries.
    Mrs1 3.143 18 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.
    Mrs1 3.147 13 ...For 't is the eternal law/ That first in beauty shall be first in might./
    Gts 3.160 22 ...as it is always pleasing to see a man eat bread, or drink water, in the house or out of doors, so it is always a great satisfaction to supply these first wants.
    Nat2 3.169 24 The knapsack of custom falls off [the man of the world's] back with the first step he takes into these precincts [of the forest].
    Nat2 3.176 8 In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock as well as from the top of the Alleghanies.
    Nat2 3.180 6 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil...
    Nat2 3.180 15 It is a long way from granite to the oyster; farther yet to Plato and the preaching of the immortality of the soul. Yet all must come, as surely as the first atom has two sides.
    Nat2 3.180 17 Motion or change and identity or rest are the first and second secrets of nature...
    Nat2 3.181 16 ...the artist still goes back for materials and begins again with the first elements on the most advanced stage;...
    Nat2 3.181 26 The men, though young, having tasted the first drop from the cup of thought, are already dissipated...
    Nat2 3.183 26 Common sense...recognizes the fact at first sight in chemical experiment.
    Nat2 3.186 11 [Nature]...has secured the symmetrical growth of the [the child's] bodily frame by all these attitudes and exertions,--an end of the first importance...
    Nat2 3.193 17 What shall we say of this omnipresent appearance of that first projectile impulse...
    Pol1 3.203 10 Gift...makes [property] as really the new owner's as labor made it the first owner's...
    Pol1 3.213 8 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to...the protection of life and property. Their first endeavors, no doubt, are very awkward.
    Pol1 3.213 10 ...absolute right is the first governor;...
    NR 3.248 7 My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation until all is said which words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first...
    NER 3.254 13 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...the threatened individual immediately excommunicated the church, in a public and formal process. This...was excellent when it was done the first time...
    NER 3.266 5 ...let there be one man, let there be truth in two men, in ten men, then is concert for the first time possible;...
    NER 3.282 12 This open channel to the highest life is the first and last reality...
    UGM 4.3 7 In the legends of the Gautama, the first men ate the earth and found it deliciously sweet.
    UGM 4.10 4 If we limit ourselves to the first advantages, a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...
    UGM 4.10 14 The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things,--He saw that they were good.
    UGM 4.10 24 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first...
    UGM 4.17 26 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds, even in arithmeticians of the first class...
    UGM 4.22 21 Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first.
    UGM 4.23 2 I like the first Caesar;...
    PPh 4.45 19 The first period of a nation, as of an individual, is the period of unconscious strength.
    PPh 4.51 9 The first [unity] is the course or gravitation of mind;...
    PPh 4.52 4 Each student adheres, by temperament and by habit, to the first or to the second of these gods of the mind [unity or diversity].
    PPh 4.65 26 [Plato] said, Culture; but he first admitted its basis, and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages of nature.
    PPh 4.66 16 In the Republic [Plato] insists on the temperaments of the youth, as first of the first.
    PNR 4.89 13 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: first, those who by demerit have put themselves below protection,--outlaws;...
    SwM 4.105 15 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty...of proving...the first birth and annunciation of one of the laws of nature.
    SwM 4.112 26 [Swedenborg] noted that in [nature] proceeding from first principles through her several subordinations, there was no state through which she did not pass...
    SwM 4.115 23 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences, to unlock the meaning of the world? In the first volume of the Animal Kingdom, he broaches the subject in a remarkable note...
    SwM 4.117 27 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    SwM 4.128 16 I know how delicious is this cup of love...but it is a child's clinging to his toy; an attempt...to keep the picture-alphabet through which our first lessons are prettily conveyed.
    SwM 4.145 22 By the science of experiment and use, [Swedenborg] made his first steps...
    SwM 4.145 27 ...ascending by just degrees from events to their summits and causes, [Swedenborg] was fired with piety at the harmonies he felt, and abandoned himself to his joy and worship. This was his first service [to mankind].
    SwM 4.146 7 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered to obscure; and he renders a second passive service to men, not less than the first, perhaps, in the great circle of being...
    MoS 4.150 23 The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object.
    MoS 4.153 4 The first [men of ideas] had leaped to conclusions not yet ripe, and say more than is true;...
    MoS 4.160 20 We want some coat woven of elastic steel, stout as the first and limber as the second.
    MoS 4.173 27 The first dangerous symptom I report is, the levity of intellect;...
    MoS 4.174 25 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first;...
    MoS 4.184 19 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.
    ShP 4.191 9 Choose any other thing...out of the national feeling and history, and...[the great man's] powers would be expended in the first preparations.
    ShP 4.192 17 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it.
    ShP 4.194 13 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments...
    ShP 4.195 10 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI....
    ShP 4.195 21 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear.
    ShP 4.203 1 Ben Jonson...had no suspicion of the elastic fame whose first vibrations [Shakespeare] was attempting.
    NMW 4.224 5 The first [conservative] class is timid, selfish, illiberal...
    NMW 4.233 10 Napoleon had been the first man of the world, if his ends had been purely public.
    GoW 4.267 5 The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
    GoW 4.269 9 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...the first hymns...
    GoW 4.277 11 ...[Goethe] flung into literature, in his Mephistopheles, the first organic figure that has been added for some ages...
    GoW 4.277 21 Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every sense, the first of its kind...
    GoW 4.289 27 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...without relaxation or rest... worked on for eighty years with the steadiness of his first zeal.
    GoW 4.290 22 The secret of genius is...first, last, midst and without end, to honor every truth by use.
    ET1 5.3 7 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground...
    ET1 5.3 11 For the first time for many months we were forced to check the saucy habit of travellers' criticism...
    ET1 5.5 3 I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will dispose fast enough of these impediments...
    ET1 5.17 4 Tristram Shandy was one of [Carlyle's] first books after Robinson Crusoe...
    ET1 5.21 21 [Wordsworth] had never gone farther than the first part [of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister];...
    ET1 5.22 24 [Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] alludes to the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music; the first to the circumstance of its being visited by the promiscuous company of the steamboat.
    ET1 5.23 3 This recitation [of his sonnets by Wordsworth] was so unlooked for and surprising...that I at first was near to laugh;...
    ET1 5.23 17 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public, but more contemplative readers preferred the first books of the Excursion, and the Sonnets.
    ET4 5.54 27 The sources from which tradition derives [the English] stock are mainly three. And first they are of the oldest blood of the world,--the Celtic.
    ET4 5.60 10 ...the old fossil world shows that the first steps of reducing the chaos were confided to saurians and other huge and horrible animals...
    ET4 5.62 11 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into royal highnesses...
    ET4 5.65 16 I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at Liverpool;...
    ET4 5.71 11 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed...
    ET5 5.94 9 ...from first to last [England] is a museum of anomalies.
    ET7 5.123 1 Lord Collingwood would not accept his medal for victory on 14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for victory on 1st June, 1794;...
    ET8 5.137 22 Compare the tone of the French and of the English press: the first querulous, captious, sensitive about English opinion;...
    ET10 5.154 15 ...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's Athenae Oxonienses]...are, first, disloyalty to Church and State, and, second, to be born poor, or come to poverty.
    ET10 5.168 12 Steam from the first hissed and screamed to warn him; it was dreadful with its explosion, and crushed the engineer.
    ET11 5.174 25 The things these English have done were not done...without wisdom and conduct; and the first hands...were often challenged to show their right to their honors...
    ET11 5.178 9 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire...
    ET11 5.184 3 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in England] were for the first time actively interesting themselves in their own defence...
    ET12 5.203 11 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me...the first Bible printed at Mentz...
    ET13 5.219 10 The [English] universities also are parcel of the ecclesiastical system, and their first design is to form the clergy.
    ET13 5.224 6 The doctrine of the Old Testament is the religion of England. The first leaf of the New Testament it does not open.
    ET13 5.224 19 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys piously, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and praise God...
    ET14 5.240 4 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality...
    ET14 5.258 2 There are all degrees in poetry, and we must be thankful for every beautiful talent. But it is only a first success, when the ear is gained.
    ET14 5.260 13 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations, of genius and of animal force, though the first consist of only a dozen souls and the second of twenty millions, forever by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.
    ET15 5.265 23 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the daily printing [of the London Times] was then 35,000 copies; that on the 1st March, 1848, the greatest number ever printed--54,000--were issued;...
    ET15 5.266 16 ...[the London Times] has never wanted the first pens for occasional assistance.
    ET15 5.269 25 Every slip of an Oxonian or Cantabrigian who writes his first leader assumes that we subdued the earth before we sat down to write this particular [London] Times.
    ET15 5.270 19 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour, yet being apprised of every ground-swell...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
    ET16 5.282 15 This cup or little boat, in which the magnet was made to float on water and so show the north, was probably [the compass's] first form...
    ET17 5.294 16 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr. Wordsworth asleep on the sofa. He was at first silent and indisposed...
    ET17 5.295 8 [Wordsworth] had thought an elder brother of Tennyson at first the better poet...
    ET18 5.304 5 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits; first, in works for the irrigation of the peninsula...
    ET19 5.312 20 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that [Englishmen's] virtues did not come out until they quarrelled; they did not strike twelve the first time;...
    F 6.3 19 In our first steps to gain our wishes we come upon immovable limitations.
    F 6.5 17 On the first [the appointed day], neither balm nor physician can save/...
    F 6.15 20 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...
    F 6.35 25 The first and worse races are dead.
    F 6.36 26 Christopher Wren said of the beautiful King's College chapel, that if anybody would tell him where to lay the first stone, he would build such another.
    F 6.36 27 ...where shall we find the first atom in this house of man...
    F 6.39 4 ...the first cell converts itself into stomach, mouth, nose, or nail, according to the want;...
    Pow 6.54 8 [All successful men] believed...that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.
    Pow 6.56 4 The first wealth is health.
    Pow 6.60 2 The second man is as good as the first,--perhaps better;...
    Pow 6.60 3 The second man is as good as the first,--perhaps better; but has not stoutness or stomach, as the first has...
    Pow 6.73 17 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the case admits. The first is the stopping off decisively our miscellaneous activity...
    Pow 6.78 6 All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
    Pow 6.78 14 No genius can recite a ballad at first reading so well as mediocrity can at the fifteenth or twentieth reading.
    Pow 6.81 4 ...we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach...
    Wth 6.85 2 As soon as a stranger is introduced into any company, one of the first questions which all wish to have answered, is, How does that man get his living?
    Wth 6.98 17 ...pictures, engravings, statues and casts, beside their first cost, entail expenses, as of galleries and keepers for the exhibition;...
    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 6.111 26 The first of these measures [of economy] is that each man's expense must proceed from his character.
    Wth 6.122 16 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...
    Wth 6.126 16 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits;...
    Ctr 6.143 5 ...the first boy has acquired much more than these poor games along with them.
    Ctr 6.163 1 If there is any great and good thing in store for you, it will not come at the first or the second call...
    Ctr 6.164 26 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found, after the first heats of youth, to be a careful husband...
    Bhr 6.172 13 [Manners'] first service is very low...
    Bhr 6.180 4 When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first.
    Bhr 6.184 2 [The successful man of the world] knows that troops behave as they are handled at first;...
    Bhr 6.186 6 Society is very swift in its instincts, and, if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked;...
    Bhr 6.190 9 Men take each other's measure, when they meet for the first time...
    Bhr 6.192 25 That is the charm in all good novels, as it is the charm in all good histories, that the heroes mutually understand, from the first...
    Wsp 6.222 4 The countryman leaving his native village for the first time and going abroad, finds all his habits broken up.
    Wsp 6.241 11 There will be a new church founded on moral science; at first cold and naked...
    CbW 6.248 18 Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast, the first a handful.
    CbW 6.253 13 ...the first lesson of history is the good of evil.
    CbW 6.259 14 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which...overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds and first addresses in society...
    CbW 6.263 2 If now in this connection of discourse we should venture on laying down the first obvious rules of life, I will not here repeat the first rule of economy...
    CbW 6.263 3 ...I will not here repeat the first rule of economy...
    CbW 6.273 16 With the first class of men our friendship or good understanding goes quite behind all accidents of estrangement...
    CbW 6.274 3 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you have been lodged on the first floor or the attic;...
    Bty 6.288 12 ...the first step into thought lifts this mountain of necessity.
    Bty 6.294 25 Veracity first of all, and forever.
    Bty 6.306 12 ...there is a climbing scale of culture, from the first agreeable sensation which a sparkling gem or a scarlet stain affords the eye...
    Bty 6.306 24 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Ill 6.311 16 Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
    SS 7.4 10 When [my new friend] bought a house, the first thing he did was to plant trees.
    SS 7.10 5 [The ends of thought] reach down to that depth...where the question is, Which is first, man or men?...
    SS 7.11 10 As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
    Civ 7.29 13 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    Art2 7.38 4 Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.
    Art2 7.38 23 From the first imitative babble of a child to the despotism of eloquence;...Art is the spirit's combination of things to serve its end.
    Art2 7.38 24 ...from [the child!s] first pile of toys or chip bridge to the masonry of Minot Rock Lighthouse or the Pacific Railroad;...Art is the Spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Art2 7.39 3 ...from its first to its last works, Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Art2 7.40 20 ...to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind. In the first place let us consider this in reference to the useful arts.
    Art2 7.41 12 The first and last lesson of the useful arts is that Nature tyrannizes over our works.
    Art2 7.50 3 The first time you hear [good poetry], it sounds...as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind...
    Art2 7.54 5 There was no wilfulness in the savages in this perpetuating of their first rude abodes.
    Art2 7.54 5 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also.
    Art2 7.54 6 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also.
    Art2 7.54 27 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...
    Elo1 7.64 11 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians, he will at first find him despicable in conversation...
    Elo1 7.67 5 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits...who now hear their own native language for the first time...
    Elo1 7.68 11 ...as we must be fed and warmed before we can do any work well,--even the best,--so is this semi-animal exuberance [in the orator], like a good stove, of the first necessity in a cold house.
    Elo1 7.73 1 ...[Homer] does not fail to arm Ulysses at first with this power of overcoming all opposition by the blandishments of speech.
    Elo1 7.85 9 The orator...must be a substantial personality. Then, first, he must have power of statement...
    Elo1 7.93 25 ...first and last, [eloquence] must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.
    DL 7.105 26 What a holiday is the first snow in which Twoshoes can be trusted abroad!
    DL 7.106 3 What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood!
    DL 7.106 5 St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.
    DL 7.106 16 The first ride into the country, the first bath in running water... are new chapters of joy [to the child].
    DL 7.106 17 The first ride into the country...the first time the skates are put on...are new chapters of joy [to the child].
    DL 7.106 18 The first ride into the country...the first game out of doors in moonlight...are new chapters of joy [to the child].
    DL 7.111 6 ...what idea predominates in our houses? Thrift first, then convenience and pleasure.
    DL 7.118 13 The great make us feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances.
    DL 7.120 14 ...who can see unmoved...the first solitary joys of literary vanity...
    DL 7.127 5 The first glance we meet may satisfy us that matter is the vehicle of higher powers than its own...
    DL 7.129 14 In the progress of each man's character, his relations to the best men, which at first seem only the romances of youth, acquire a graver importance;...
    DL 7.131 4 I go to Rome and see on the walls of the Vatican the Transfiguration, painted by Raphael, reckoned the first picture in the world;...
    Farm 7.137 6 The first farmer was the first man...
    Farm 7.137 7 The first farmer was the first man...
    Farm 7.137 19 ...the profession [of farming] has in all eyes its ancient charm, as standing nearest to God, the first cause.
    Farm 7.139 23 In the town where I live...most of the first settlers (in 1635), should they reappear on the farms to-day, would find their own blood and names still in possession.
    Farm 7.144 1 No particle of oxygen can rust or wear, but has the same energy as on the first morning.
    Farm 7.147 11 Set out a pine-tree, and it dies in the first year...
    Farm 7.151 3 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that...the plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing, because the first comers take up the best lands;...
    Farm 7.151 11 The first planter...takes poor land.
    WD 7.161 9 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...whose sudden performance astonished mankind as if the intellect were...shooting the first thrills of life and thought through the unwilling brain?
    WD 7.161 13 There does not seem any limit to these new informations of the same Spirit that made the elements at first...
    WD 7.168 10 The days are ever divine as to the first Aryans.
    WD 7.173 10 Hume's doctrine was that...the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    WD 7.184 1 There are people...who love at first sight and hate at first sight;...
    WD 7.184 2 There are people...who love at first sight and hate at first sight;...
    Boks 7.193 18 It is easy...to demonstrate that though [a man] should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves [of the libraries].
    Boks 7.195 7 In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class...
    Boks 7.198 5 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 3. Aeschylus...who has given us under a thin veil the first plantation of Europe.
    Boks 7.199 10 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners, by the first master...
    Clbs 7.236 1 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man...whose sympathy brought him face to face with the extremes of society. Jesus, Menu, the first Buddhist, Mahomet, Zertusht, Pythagoras, are examples.
    Clbs 7.237 8 One of the best records of the great German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
    Clbs 7.240 5 What can you do with an eloquent man? No rules of debate... no gag-laws can be contrived that his first syllable will not set aside...
    Clbs 7.243 2 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first got the horses out of and the scholars into the palaces...
    Clbs 7.244 5 ...we have records of the brilliant society that Edinburgh boasted in the first decade of this century.
    Clbs 7.245 3 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found. Each wishes...to exchange his gifts for yours; and the first hint of a select and intelligent company is welcome.
    Clbs 7.248 1 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. All are in good humor and at leisure, which are the first conditions of discourse;...
    Cour 7.256 1 I need not show how much [courage] is esteemed, for the people give it the first rank.
    Cour 7.259 2 ...the protection which a house...even the first accumulation of savings gives, go in all times to generate this taint of the respectable classes.
    Cour 7.262 3 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he, in his first boat expedition... accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was overpowered with fear...
    Cour 7.265 20 The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers. The torments are illusory. The first suffering is the last suffering...
    Cour 7.271 13 Governor Wise of Virginia, in the record of his first interviews with his prisoner [John Brown], appeared to great advantage.
    Cour 7.272 19 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was its first act;...
    Suc 7.287 7 The Saxon is taught from his infancy to wish to be first.
    Suc 7.288 25 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people...who detect the first moment of decline and throw themselves on the instant on the winning side.
    Suc 7.291 10 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success...
    Suc 7.292 25 Self-trust is the first secret of success...
    Suc 7.298 11 Remember what befalls a city boy who goes for the first time into the October woods.
    Suc 7.299 14 Is the old church which gave you the first lessons of religious life...only boards or brick and mortar?
    Suc 7.301 5 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is...not new dogmas, and a logical exposition of the world, that are our first need;...
    Suc 7.311 20 ...[the inner life] makes no progress; was as wise in our first memory of it as now;...
    OA 7.318 23 ...if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
    PI 8.3 6 ...we must feed, wash, plant, build. These are ends of necessity, and first in the order of Nature.
    PI 8.6 7 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir, from his first tottering steps...does not like to be practised upon...
    PI 8.11 6 First the fact; second its impression...
    PI 8.22 1 This union of first and second sight reads Nature to the end of delight and of moral use.
    PI 8.32 19 ...inestimable is the criticism of memory as a corrective to first impressions.
    PI 8.32 20 We are dazzled at first by new words and brilliancy of color...
    PI 8.39 14 ...we demand of [the poet] what he demands of himself,-- veracity, first of all.
    PI 8.52 1 With the first note of the flute or horn...we quit the world of common sense...
    PI 8.52 2 With...the first strain of a song, we quit the world of common sense...
    PI 8.65 16 Literature warps away from life, though at first it seems to bind it.
    PI 8.68 24 By successive states of mind all the facts of Nature are for the first time interpreted.
    SA 8.79 23 'T is an inestimable hint that I owe to a few persons of fine manners, that they make behavior the very first sign of force...
    SA 8.84 19 As long as men are born babes they will live on credit for the first fourteen or eighteen years of their life.
    SA 8.87 21 When the young European emigrant, after a summer's labor, puts on for the first time a new coat, he puts on much more.
    SA 8.94 13 ...[Madame de Stael] said...If it were not for respect to human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time...
    SA 8.94 19 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix, on the way to Coppet. The first coach had many rueful accidents to relate...
    SA 8.99 19 Manners first, then conversation.
    SA 8.106 3 ...what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment? Was ever one converted? The innocence and ignorance of the patient is the first difficulty;...
    Elo2 8.115 9 ...I think every one of us can remember when our first experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper of the first master of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear in the court-house or in the caucus.
    Elo2 8.115 10 ...I think every one of us can remember when our first experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper of the first master of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear in the court-house or in the caucus.
    Elo2 8.116 10 [The people] have sent their best men; the young and ardent... went at the first draft, or the second...
    Elo2 8.118 22 We have all attended meetings called for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest. Every speaker rose unwillingly, and even his speech was a bad excuse; but it is only the first plunge which is formidable;...
    Elo2 8.120 25 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.
    Elo2 8.123 1 When [John Quincy Adams] read his first lectures in 1806, not only the students heard him with delight...
    Res 8.138 27 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming...for the first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.
    Res 8.139 24 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity, millions of lives of men to collect the first observations on which our astronomy is built;...
    Res 8.149 24 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave], disclosing its starry splendor, and showing for the first time what that plaything was good for.
    Res 8.151 16 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself...
    Res 8.152 17 ...in the first relentings of March [the willow] hasten...
    Comc 8.165 18 Smith...sent out a party into the swamp, caught an Indian, and sent him home in the first ship to London...
    QO 8.180 9 The first book tyrannizes over the second.
    QO 8.187 18 If we observe the tenacity with which nations cling to their first types of costume...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    QO 8.187 24 ...if we learn how old are...the alternate lotus-bud and leaf-stem of our iron fences,-we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    QO 8.187 26 ...shall we say that only the first men were well alive...
    QO 8.191 16 Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
    QO 8.199 17 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first geometer, bard, mason, carpenter, planter, shepherd...
    QO 8.199 18 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first negro, who...gave a shriller sound or name for the thing he saw and dealt with?
    QO 8.201 23 Genius is in the first instance, sensibility...
    QO 8.203 7 He that comes second must needs quote him that comes first.
    QO 8.203 21 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the first narrative appears.
    PC 8.221 14 The first quality we know in matter is centrality,-we call it gravity...
    PC 8.221 26 ...the first measure of a mind is its centrality...
    PC 8.225 9 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems, which we ponder all our lives through, and leave where we found them;...
    PC 8.226 18 Every artist was first an amateur.
    PPo 8.240 13 Solomon had three talismans: first, the signet-ring by which he commanded the spirits...
    PPo 8.253 23 I have no hoarded treasure,/ Yet have I rich content;/ The first from Allah to the Shah,/ The last to Hafiz went./
    PPo 8.255 5 ...Hafiz does not appear to have set any great value on his songs, since his scholars collected them for the first time after his death.
    PPo 8.258 6 This picture of the first days of Spring...seems to belong to Hafiz:-O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    Insp 8.269 12 Our money is only a second best. We would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will. That is first best.
    Insp 8.271 8 Everything which we hear for the first time was expected by the mind;...
    Insp 8.272 8 Power is the first good.
    Insp 8.279 25 Health is the first muse...
    Insp 8.280 7 I honor health as the first muse...
    Insp 8.285 23 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./
    Grts 8.305 5 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men: to geology...men, with a taste for mountains and rocks, a quick eye for differences and for chemical changes. Give such, first a course in chemistry, and then a geological survey.
    Grts 8.310 19 ...if the first rule is to obey your native bias...the second rule is concentration...
    Imtl 8.324 1 In the first records of a nation in any degree thoughtful and cultivated, some belief in the life beyond life would...be suggested.
    Imtl 8.324 7 ...The Egyptians are the first of mankind who have affirmed the immortality of the soul.
    Imtl 8.324 27 ...the whole life of man in the first ages was ponderously determined on death;...
    Imtl 8.333 25 ...proceeding to the enumeration of the few simple elements of the natural faith, the first fact that strikes us is our delight in permanence.
    Imtl 8.336 14 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, to melt again to water in the first thaw.
    Imtl 8.349 17 Nachiketas...said, O Death! let Gautama...forget his anger against me: this I choose for the first boon.
    Dem1 10.5 1 ...we cannot get our hand on the first link or fibre [of a dream]...
    Aris 10.34 22 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe.
    Aris 10.50 8 When old writers are consulted by young writers who have written their first book, they say, Publish it by all means; so only can you certainly know its quality.
    Aris 10.53 4 The first example [of Genius] that occurs is an extraordinary gift of eloquence.
    Aris 10.56 26 When a man begins to speak, the churl will take him up by disputing his first words...
    Aris 10.59 24 The youth, having got through the first thickets that oppose his entrance into life...is left to himself...
    PerF 10.71 24 ...gravity is as adhesive...water as medicinal as on the first day.
    PerF 10.81 25 ...if we fall in with a cricket-club and see the game masterly played, the best player is the first of men;...
    Chr2 10.93 9 ...our first experiences in moral, as in intellectual nature, force us to discriminate a universal mind...
    Chr2 10.99 15 ...slowly the soul unfolds itself in the new man. It is partial at first...
    Chr2 10.101 23 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    Chr2 10.119 3 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor...
    Chr2 10.119 7 At first [the infant soul] is forlorn, homeless;...
    Edc1 10.125 11 We have already taken...(for aught I know for the first time in the world), the initial step...this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Edc1 10.130 16 If Newton come and first of men perceive that not alone certain bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Edc1 10.144 18 Here are the two capital facts [of education], Genius and Drill. The first is the inspiration in the well-born healthy child...
    Edc1 10.154 7 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...and tutor or schoolmaster in his first term can apply it,-that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    Edc1 10.157 11 Sympathy, the female force, which they must use who have not the first [will, the male power]...is more subtle and lasting and creative.
    Supl 10.168 24 The first valuable power in a reasonable mind, one would say, was the power of plain statement...
    SovE 10.188 21 We see the steady aim of Benefit in view from the first.
    SovE 10.200 26 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding...as to exhaust wonder...
    SovE 10.202 17 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth;...
    SovE 10.208 12 ...the first position I make is that natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds.
    SovE 10.209 18 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn.
    Prch 10.220 19 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like hunters on the scent...
    Prch 10.230 3 [The clergy's] first duty is self-possession founded on knowledge.
    Prch 10.237 8 Here is thought and love and truth and duty, new as on the first day of Adam and of angels.
    MoL 10.249 5 Coleridge traces three silent revolutions, of which the first was when the clergy fell from the Church.
    MoL 10.251 14 I asked the first [West Point] Cadet, Who makes your bed? I do.
    MoL 10.251 17 I asked the first [West Point] Cadet, Who makes your bed? I do. Who fetches your water? I do. Who blacks your shoes? I do. It was so in every room. These are first steps to power.
    Schr 10.271 19 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that genius and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread, because they have...a first mortgage that takes effect before the right of the present proprietor.
    Schr 10.279 22 Order is heaven's first law.
    Schr 10.288 10 I had perhaps wiselier adhered to my first purpose of confining my illustration [of the scholar] to a single topic...
    Plu 10.294 27 ...the first printed edition of the Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572.
    Plu 10.297 15 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what Chaucer is among English poets, a repertory for those who want the story without searching for it at first hand...
    Plu 10.313 13 [Plutarch] cites...the memorable words of Antigone, in Sophocles, concerning the moral sentiment:-For neither now nor yesterday began/ These thoughts, which have been ever, nor yet can/ A man be found who their first entrance knew./
    LLNE 10.330 20 [Everett] made us for the first time acquainted with Wolff' s theory of the Homeric writings...
    LLNE 10.335 4 ...works of genius in their first and slightest form are still wholes.
    LLNE 10.335 18 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is...becoming a national institution. I am quite certain that this purely literary influence was of the first importance to the American mind.
    LLNE 10.337 6 ...there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    LLNE 10.339 11 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review.
    LLNE 10.341 2 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper...and so ended the first attempt to establish aesthetic society in Boston.
    LLNE 10.355 8 ...like the dreams of poetic people on the first outbreak of the old French Revolution, so [the Fourierist community] would disappear in a slime of mire and blood.
    LLNE 10.364 20 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their life...their first acquaintance with the riches of conversation...
    EzRy 10.381 10 The father [Noah Ripley] was born at Hingham [Connecticut], on the farm purchased by his ancestor, William Ripley, of England, at the first settlement of the town;...
    MMEm 10.409 25 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every actual case, 't is hard, and we lose sight of the first necessity...
    MMEm 10.415 15 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing.
    MMEm 10.415 20 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I...from the solitary heart taught thee to say, at first womanhood, Alive with God is enough,-'t is rapture.
    MMEm 10.419 21 Could I [Mary Moody Emerson] but live free from calculation, as in the first half of life...
    Thor 10.456 6 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it...
    Thor 10.460 15 Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...
    Thor 10.464 4 At Mount Washington...Thoreau had a bad fall, and sprained his foot. As he was in the act of getting up from his fall, he saw for the first time the leaves of the Arnica mollis.
    Thor 10.464 25 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion...
    Carl 10.491 23 [Young men] wish freedom of the press, and [Carlyle] thinks the first thing he would do, if he got into Parliament, would be to turn out the reporters...
    Carl 10.493 24 The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed, sure of a welcome, and are struck with despair at the first onset.
    GSt 10.502 20 For the relief of Kansas, in 1856-57, [George Stearns's] own contributions were the largest and the first.
    GSt 10.503 1 [George Stearns's] first donations were only entering-wedges of his later;...
    GSt 10.503 8 In 1862, on the President's first or preliminary Proclamation of Emancipation, [George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau...
    GSt 10.503 10 In 1862, on the President's first or preliminary Proclamation of Emancipation, [George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau...
    LS 11.14 2 The end which [St. Paul] has in view, in the eleventh chapter of the first Epistle [to the Corinthians], is not to enjoin upon his friends to observe the [Lord's] Supper, but to censure their abuse of it.
    LS 11.15 20 We arrive, then, at this conclusion: first, that it does not appear from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;...
    LS 11.21 5 ...if miracles may be said to have been [Christianity's] evidence to the first Christians, they are not its evidence to us, but the doctrines themselves;...
    HDC 11.29 8 You have thought it becoming to commemorate the planting of the first inland town [Concord].
    HDC 11.30 14 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord].
    HDC 11.30 19 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is Blood...Miles,-the names of the inhabitants for the first thirty years;...
    HDC 11.34 1 [The pilgrims'] first temporary accommodation was rude enough.
    HDC 11.34 3 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter...
    HDC 11.34 19 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth...tearing up the roots and bushes from the ground, which, the first year, yielded them a lean crop...
    HDC 11.35 16 The hardships of the journey and of the first encampment are certainly related by [the pilgrims'] contemporary with some air of romance...
    HDC 11.38 17 [The Puritans] proceeded to build, under the shelter of the hill that extends for a mile along the north side of the Boston road, their first dwellings.
    HDC 11.40 21 ...as we are informed, the edge of [the settlers of Concord's] appetite was greater to spiritual duties at their first coming, in time of wants, than afterwards.
    HDC 11.40 23 The original [Concord] Town Records, for the first thirty years, are lost.
    HDC 11.41 7 ...it appears from a petition of some newcomers, in 1643, that a part [of the land in Concord] had been divided among the first settlers without price...
    HDC 11.41 11 ...in the first years [of Concord], the land would not pay the necessary public charges...
    HDC 11.41 25 The first record [of Concord] now remaining is that of a reservation of land for the minister...
    HDC 11.42 11 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history...
    HDC 11.43 7 ...the Company [of Massachusetts Bay] removed to New England; more than one hundred freemen were admitted the first year...
    HDC 11.43 26 The nature of man and his condition in the world, for the first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formation of the State [in Massachusetts].
    HDC 11.45 11 [The settlers of Concord] bore to John Winthrop, the Governor, a grave but hearty kindness. For the first time, men examined the powers of the chief whom they loved and revered.
    HDC 11.45 13 [The settlers of Concord] bore to John Winthrop, the Governor, a grave but hearty kindness. For the first time, men examined the powers of the chief whom they loved and revered. For the first time, the ideal social compact was real.
    HDC 11.51 19 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum;...
    HDC 11.54 23 In 1639, our first selectmen [from Concord]...were appointed.
    HDC 11.59 13 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house, or a village; but...in the first blast of [the white men's] trumpet we already hear the flourish of victory.
    HDC 11.68 16 ...We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those...rights, that we are obliged to no power, under heaven, for the enjoyment of; as they are the fruit of the heroic enterprises of the first settlers of these American colonies.
    HDC 11.73 1 In these peaceful fields [of Concord], for the first time since a hundred years, the drum and alarm-gun were heard...
    HDC 11.73 8 In the field where the western abutment of the old bridge [in Concord] may still be seen...the first organized resistance was made to the British arms.
    HDC 11.74 16 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river (our ancient friend here, Master Blood, saw the water struck by the first ball);...
    HDC 11.74 26 A head-stone and a foot-stone, on this bank of the river, mark the place where these first victims [of the American Revolution] lie.
    EWI 11.112 7 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers...
    EWI 11.112 23 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...
    EWI 11.112 26 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...
    EWI 11.113 6 ...be it enacted...that from and after the first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies...
    EWI 11.115 18 The first of August [1834] came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies] until the next Monday.
    EWI 11.117 3 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that now for ten months, from 1st August, 1834, no injury or violence had been offered to any white [in the West Indies]...
    EWI 11.120 2 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
    EWI 11.120 5 ...on the 1st August, 1838, the shackles dropped from every British slave.
    EWI 11.127 22 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.128 7 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...by the first citizens of England...
    EWI 11.132 23 The Congress...should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons [freemen of Massachusetts], brought into slavery by these local [Southern] laws at any time heretofore, may now be. That first;...
    EWI 11.132 27 ...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged.
    EWI 11.140 17 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...
    War 11.152 8 ...in the first dawnings of the religious sentiment, that blends itself with [savages'] passions...
    War 11.155 13 ...whilst this principle [of self-help], necessarily, is inwrought into the fabric of every creature, yet it is but one instinct; and though a primary one, or we may say the very first, yet the appearance of the other instincts immediately modifies and controls this;...
    War 11.160 4 For ages...the human race has gone on under the tyranny...of this first brutish form of their effort to be men;...
    War 11.162 19 In the first place, we answer that we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment...
    War 11.170 5 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly, in the first place, in the way of routine and mere forms...
    FSLC 11.184 8 What is the use of courts, if...no judge...recurs to first principles?
    FSLC 11.195 18 ...the crime which the second law [the Fugitive Slave Law] ordains is greater than the crime which the first law forbids under penalty of the gibbet.
    FSLC 11.196 12 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating;...
    FSLC 11.201 10 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster]...the first man of the North...
    FSLC 11.207 5 What shall we do? First, abrogate this [Fugitive Slave] law;...
    FSLN 11.232 17 Events roll...the result is the enforcing of some of those first commandments which we heard in the nursery.
    FSLN 11.232 19 Events roll...the result is the enforcing of some of those first commandments which we heard in the nursery. We never get beyond our first lesson...
    AsSu 11.251 5 When the same reproach [of writing his speeches] was cast on the first orator of ancient times by some caviller of his day, he said, I should be ashamed to come with one unconsidered word before such an assembly.
    AsSu 11.251 24 I wish that [Charles Sumner] may know the shudder of terror which ran through all this community on the first tidings of this brutal attack.
    AKan 11.258 16 I esteem [governments] only good in the moment when they are established. I set the private man first.
    AKan 11.258 24 First, the private citizen, then the primary assembly, and the government last.
    ACiv 11.308 2 Why should not America be capable of a second stroke for the well-being of the human race, as eighty or ninety years ago she was for the first...
    ACiv 11.310 16 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year. The American Executive ranges itself for the first time on the side of freedom.
    EPro 11.320 9 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right.
    ALin 11.329 23 ...that first despair [at Lincoln's death] was brief...
    ALin 11.330 22 All of us remember...the surprise and disappointment of the country at [Lincoln's] first nomination by the convention at Chicago.
    ALin 11.331 16 [Lincoln] offered no shining qualities at the first encounter;...
    HCom 11.344 14 One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first negro regiment, If he accepts it, I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot.
    SMC 11.351 13 ...the memories of these martyrs, the noble names which yet have gathered only their first fame...will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    SMC 11.352 1 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to signalize the first Revolution...
    SMC 11.355 3 ...cities of men are the first effects of civilization...
    SMC 11.356 16 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers. And the first events of the war of the Rebellion gave the like training to the new recruits.
    SMC 11.357 10 I have a note of a conversation that occurred in our first company, the morning before the battle of Bull Run.
    SMC 11.358 10 None of us can have forgotten how sharp a test to try our peaceful people with, was the first call for troops [in the Civil War].
    SMC 11.358 22 Our first company was led by an officer who had grown up in this village from a boy.
    SMC 11.360 22 After the first marches [in the Civil War] there is no letter-paper, there are no envelopes, no postage-stamps...
    SMC 11.361 25 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he keeps up a constant acquaintance with them;...
    SMC 11.372 9 We [Thirty-second Regiment] have been in the first line twenty-six days...
    SMC 11.372 22 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth of June comes at last a respite for a short space, during which...the officers were able to send to the wagons and procure a change of clothes, for the first time in five weeks.
    SMC 11.373 23 On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment made itself comfortable in log huts...
    SMC 11.374 7 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry...
    SMC 11.374 21 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment was mustered out in the field, at Washington, on the twenty-eighth of June, and arrived in Boston on the first of July.
    EdAd 11.388 21 In hours when it seemed only to need one just word from a man of honor...to have given a true direction to the first steps of a nation, we have seen the best understandings of New England...say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    EdAd 11.391 7 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts.
    Wom 11.405 18 ...according to the rule, take [women's] first advice, not the second...
    Wom 11.406 22 ...any remarkable opinion or movement shared by woman will be the first sign of revolution.
    Wom 11.411 13 There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman...
    Wom 11.413 23 The first thing men think of, when they love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of their affection.
    Wom 11.414 3 ...women know, at first sight, the characters of those with whom they converse.
    Wom 11.421 12 Here are two or three objections [to women's voting]: first, a want of practical wisdom; second, a too purely ideal view; and, third, the danger of contamination.
    RBur 11.439 13 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival.
    Shak1 11.448 8 Wherever there are men, and in the degree in which they are civil...[Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first poet of the world.
    Humb 11.459 5 ...we have lived to see now, for the second time in the history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class [Humboldt]...
    FRO1 11.480 13 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions probably grew from the like origin. The close association which bound the first disciples of Jesus is another example;...
    FRO1 11.480 16 The soul of our late war...was, first, the desire to abolish slavery in this country...
    FRO2 11.486 3 ...I am ready to give...the first simple foundation of my belief...
    CPL 11.494 4 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...but the poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening.
    CPL 11.497 13 The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold. Its first use for writing is between three and four thousand years old...
    CPL 11.498 23 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642...
    CPL 11.499 3 ...Concord counted fourteen graduates of Harvard in its first century...
    CPL 11.506 2 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...
    CPL 11.507 7 ...the book is a sure friend, always ready at your first leisure...
    CPL 11.507 8 ...the book is a sure friend...opens to the very page you desire, and shuts at your first fatigue...
    FRep 11.518 16 No [legislative] measure is attempted for itself, but the opinion of the people is courted in the first place...
    FRep 11.518 19 We do not choose our own candidate, no, nor any other man's first choice...
    FRep 11.532 26 Young men at thirty and even earlier...if they fail in their first enterprise throw up the game.
    FRep 11.533 10 If a temperate wise man should look over our American society, I think the first danger that would excite his alarm would be the European influences on this country.
    PLT 12.18 4 [Thoughts or intellections] again all mimic in their sphericity the first mind...
    PLT 12.25 6 In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the first summer heat, and stop.
    PLT 12.25 24 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step.
    PLT 12.25 26 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enchance immensely the value of your first.
    PLT 12.35 17 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born child to the breast. There is somewhat awful in that first approach.
    PLT 12.38 24 This is the first property of the Intellect I am to point out; the mind detaches.
    PLT 12.41 9 The first fact is the fate in every mental perception,-that my seeing this or that, and that I see it so or so, is as much a fact in the natural history of the world as is the freezing of water at thirty-two degrees of Fahrenheit.
    PLT 12.50 7 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line...
    PLT 12.61 20 If the first rule is to obey your genius, in the second place the good mind is known by the choice of what is positive...
    II 12.66 2 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects.
    II 12.73 27 Here is a famous Ode, which is the first performance of the British mind and lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that?
    Mem 12.94 5 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza.
    Mem 12.106 25 He is a skilful doctor who can give me a recipe for the cure of a bad memory. And yet we have some hints from experience on this subject. And first, health.
    CL 12.140 20 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...
    CL 12.140 27 The power of the air was the first explanation offered by the early philosophers of the mutual understanding that men have.
    CL 12.151 1 The mallows the Greeks held sacred as giving the first sign of the sympathy of the earth with the celestial influences.
    CL 12.151 5 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool, and a new activity among the hardy birds...and the first northward flight of the geese...
    CL 12.151 27 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us, when, after the first frosts, a steady shower of gold falls in the strong south wind from the chestnuts, maples and hickories;...
    CL 12.160 20 The earthquake is the first chemist, goldsmith and brazier...
    CL 12.166 10 [Man] can dispose in his thought of more worlds, just as readily as of few, or one. It is his relation to one, to the first, that imports.
    Bost 12.190 13 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston]...within a few years after the first settlement it grew to be the metropolis of the whole English America.
    Bost 12.191 1 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    Bost 12.191 14 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men, instead of jumping on to the first land that offered, wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...
    Bost 12.195 8 I trace to this deep religious sentiment and to its culture great and salutary results to the people of New England; first, namely, the culture of the intellect...
    Bost 12.203 19 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some champion of first principles of humanity against the rich and luxurious;...
    Bost 12.207 2 From...Ann Hutchinson, and Whitfield, and Mother Ann, the first Shaker, down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
    Bost 12.210 1 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...her troops will be the first in the field to vindicate the majesty of a free nation, and remain last on the field to secure it.
    MAng1 12.218 20 In the first place, all men have an organization corresponding more or less to the entire system of Nature...
    MAng1 12.220 13 Michael Angelo dedicated himself...to a toilsome observation of Nature. The first anecdote recorded of him shows him to be already on the right road.
    MAng1 12.224 12 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence], and his first operation was to throw up a rampart to storm the bastion of San Miniato.
    MAng1 12.233 26 ...as, in the first place, [Michelangelo] sought to approach the Beautiful by the study of the True, so he failed not to make the next step of progress, and to seek Beauty in its highest form, that of Goodness.
    MAng1 12.239 9 [Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's, clear, insulated, luminous, with fit design for a vast structure.
    Milt1 12.265 25 There is a forbearance even in [Milton's] polemics. He opens the war and strikes the first blow.
    Milt1 12.268 13 For the first time since many ages, the invocations of the Eternal Spirit in the commencement of [Milton's] books are not poetic forms, but are thoughts...
    Milt1 12.274 3 Was there not a fitness in the undertaking of such a person [as Milton] to write a poem on the subject of Adam, the first man?
    ACri 12.289 17 The Devil in philosophy is absolute negation...in the popular mind, the Devil is a malignant person. Yet all our speech expresses the first sense.
    ACri 12.289 25 Goethe, who had collected all the diabolical hints in men and nature for traits for his Walpurgis Nacht, continued the humor of collecting such horrors after this first occasion had passed...
    ACri 12.294 17 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece;...
    ACri 12.301 15 [The founder of New City] had transferred to that city [Chicago] the magnificent dreams which he had once communicated to me, and no longer remembered his first emporium.
    MLit 12.311 16 In the first place [the Present Age] has all books.
    MLit 12.311 22 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...
    MLit 12.312 3 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous. First; the prodigious growth and influence of the genius of Shakspeare...
    MLit 12.312 6 ...the prodigious growth and influence of the genius of Shakspeare, in the last one hundred and fifty years, is itself a fact of the first importance.
    MLit 12.313 11 [Subjectiveness] is founded on...the need to recognize one nature in all the variety of objects, which always characterizes a genius of the first order.
    MLit 12.314 13 Nor is the distinction between these two habits [of subjectiveness] to be found in the circumstance of using the first person singular...
    WSL 12.346 14 [Landor] was one of the first to pronounce Wordsworth the great poet of the age...
    Pray 12.352 3 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries, which attest...the eternity of the sentiment and its equality to itself through all the variety of expression. The first is the prayer of a deaf and dumb boy...
    AgMs 12.360 11 The First Report, [Edmund Hosmer] said, is better than the last, as I observe the first sermon of a minister is often his best...
    EurB 12.375 1 ...the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds: first, the novels of costume or of circumstance...
    PPr 12.379 4 In its first aspect [Carlyle's Past and Present] is a political tract...
    PPr 12.390 9 Carlyle is the first domestication of the modern system, with its infinity of details, into style.
    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.
    PPr 12.390 23 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe...and America...have never before been conquered in literature. This is the first invasion and conquest.
    PPr 12.390 27 [Carlyle's style] is the first experiment, and something of rudeness and haste must be pardoned to so great an achievement.
    Let 12.392 13 ...first, in regard to the writer who has given us his speculations on Railroads and Air-roads, our correspondent shall have his own way.
    Let 12.392 17 To the railway, we must say,-like the courageous lord mayor at his first hunting, when told the hare was coming,-Let it come, in Heaven's name, I am not afraid on 't.
    Trag 12.406 13 Men and women at thirty years, and even earlier...if they fail in their first enterprises, they throw up the game.

First, adj. (3)

    EWI 11.120 13 The First of August, 1838, was observed in Jamaica as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
    EWI 11.140 8 The First of August [1834] marks the entrance of a new element into modern politics, namely, the civilization of the negro.
    EWI 11.147 25 The sentiment of Right...pronounces Freedom. The Power that built this fabric of things...in the history of the First of August [1834], has made a sign to the ages, of his will.

first, adv. (142)

    Nat 1.33 22 ...Long-lived trees make roots first;...
    AmS 1.108 10 First, one, then another, we drain all cisterns...
    DSA 1.125 13 Through [the sentiment of virtue], the soul first knows itself.
    DSA 1.146 7 Look to it first and only, that fashion, custom...are nothing to you...
    LE 1.155 10 ...I am not less glad or sanguine at the meeting of scholars, than when, a boy, I first saw the graduates of my own College assembled at their anniversary.
    LE 1.181 3 [The scholar] is a revealer of things. Let him first learn the things.
    MR 1.244 15 ...we are first thoughtless, and then find that we are moneyless.
    MR 1.244 17 We are first sensual, and then must be rich.
    LT 1.259 6 To appear in these aspects, [the present aspects of our social state] must first exist...
    Tran 1.329 8 The light...falls on a great variety of objects, and by so falling is first revealed to us, not in its own form...but in theirs;...
    Hist 2.17 1 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.
    SR 2.64 16 We first share the life by which things exist...
    SR 2.81 14 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe...so that the man is first domesticated...
    Comp 2.102 27 Every act rewards itself...in a twofold manner; first in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly in the circumstance, or in apparent nature.
    Comp 2.113 10 ...first or last you must pay your entire debt.
    Lov1 2.180 8 The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not. Then first it ceases to be a stone.
    Lov1 2.180 16 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself when it dissatisfies us with any end;...
    Lov1 2.183 23 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...
    Lov1 2.184 17 The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.
    Fdsp 2.202 13 There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship, each so sovereign that I can detect...no reason why either should be first named.
    Prd1 2.237 17 The Latin proverb says, In battles the eye is first overcome.
    OS 2.273 14 Is the teaching of Christ less effective now than it was when first his mouth was opened?
    OS 2.274 24 The growths of genius are of a certain total character, that does not advance the elect individual first over John, then Adam, then Richard...
    Cir 2.309 17 We learn first to play with [idealism] academically...
    Cir 2.316 8 ...that second man...asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor?...
    Int 2.330 2 You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge...
    Int 2.335 26 The relation between [a thought] and you first makes you, the value of you, apparent to me.
    Art1 2.367 4 The art that thus separates is itself first separated.
    Mrs1 3.124 1 In a good lord there must first be a good animal...
    Nat2 3.194 20 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find the peace of the morning dwelling first in our hearts...
    NR 3.226 1 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it seemed to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we first beheld.
    UGM 4.5 19 I can say to you what I cannot first say to myself.
    UGM 4.8 20 Men are...representative; first, of things, and secondly, of ideas.
    PPh 4.62 8 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored...
    PPh 4.65 25 [Plato] said, Culture; but he first admitted its basis, and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages of nature.
    PNR 4.86 23 ...[Plato's] forerunners had mapped out each a farm or a district or an island, in intellectual geography, but...Plato first drew the sphere.
    SwM 4.102 12 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...and first demonstrated the office of the lungs.
    SwM 4.117 10 Swedenborg first put the fact [of Correspondence] into a detached and scientific statement...
    MoS 4.151 5 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind...
    ShP 4.193 11 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know. All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright, and the prompter has the soiled and tattered manuscripts. It is now no longer possible to say who wrote them first.
    ShP 4.215 6 The finest poetry was first experience;...
    GoW 4.263 1 [The writer] believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last;...
    ET4 5.47 3 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to examine the pedigree...
    ET5 5.86 1 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without;...
    ET6 5.102 9 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies; and what I heard first I heard last...
    ET6 5.110 21 [The English] have difficulty in bringing their reason to act, and on all occasions use their memory first.
    ET8 5.138 22 Our swifter Americans, when they first deal with English, pronounce them stupid;...
    ET13 5.230 21 Where dwells the religion [of England]? Tell me first where dwells electricity...
    ET15 5.264 11 [The London Times] first denounced and then adopted the new French Empire...
    ET15 5.264 25 [The London Times] will kill all but that paper which is diametrically in opposition; since many papers, first and last, have lived by their attacks on the leading journal.
    ET16 5.288 7 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the wall, and our host [Arthur Helps] wittily rescued us from the dilemma, by saying he was the wickedest and would walk out first, then Carlyle followed, and I went last.
    ET17 5.296 17 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare;...
    F 6.44 16 Certain ideas are in the air. We are...all impressionable, but some more than others, and these first express them.
    F 6.44 19 The truth is in the air, and the most impressionable brain will announce it first...
    F 6.45 23 Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious nature] has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first...
    F 6.46 15 ...what their companion prepares to say to [some people], they first say to him;...
    Pow 6.56 16 One man...is in sympathy with the course of things; can predict it. Whatever befalls, befalls him first;...
    Pow 6.63 19 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with Mexico...than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson, who first conquers his own government and then uses the same genius to conquer the foreigner.
    Pow 6.73 3 Michel [Angelo] was wont to draw his figures first in skeleton...
    Wth 6.88 3 First [nature] requires that each man should feed himself.
    Wth 6.110 6 Britain, France and Germany...send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
    Ctr 6.145 12 All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe;...
    Ctr 6.148 13 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws, and, in a city, the total attraction of all the citizens is sure to conquer, first or last, every repulsion...
    CbW 6.243 3 Say not, the chiefs who first arrive/ Usurp the seats for which all strive;/...
    Ill 6.308 8 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Ill 6.316 8 ...this especial trap [marriage] is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last.
    SS 7.12 9 ...if we recall the rare hours when we encountered the best persons, we then found ourselves, and then first society seemed to exist.
    Elo1 7.81 23 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it seems first to become truly human...
    Elo1 7.90 14 A popular assembly...is commanded by these two powers,-- first by a fact, then by skill of statement.
    Elo1 7.93 19 This terrible earnestness [of the eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's blood.
    DL 7.104 12 ...presently begins his use of his fingers, and [the nestler] studies power, the lesson of his race. First it appears in no great harm...
    DL 7.107 14 If a man wishes to acquaint himself...with the spirit of the age, he must not go first to the state-house or the court-room.
    DL 7.108 25 The history of your fortunes is written first in your life.
    WD 7.184 26 Mars shook the lots in his helmet, and that of Apollo leaped out first.
    Boks 7.194 25 Dr. Johnson said: Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both...
    Boks 7.196 14 ...the scholar knows that the famed books contain, first and last, the best thoughts and facts.
    Boks 7.199 21 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first because he is so readable...
    Boks 7.202 7 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery, owed first to Wolff and later to Boeckh, that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
    Clbs 7.230 8 Every metaphysician must have observed...that...thoughts commonly go in pairs; though the related thoughts first appeared in his mind at long distances of time.
    Cour 7.262 12 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way.
    Suc 7.286 23 For success, to be sure we esteem it a test in other people, since we do first in ourselves.
    Suc 7.299 16 Is...the college where you first knew the dreams of fancy and joys of thought, only boards or brick and mortar?
    PI 8.4 10 First innuendoes, then broad hints, then smart taps are given, suggesting that nothing stands still in Nature but death;...
    PI 8.21 26 Poetry must first be good sense, though it is something better.
    PI 8.22 11 Charles James Fox thought...that men first found out they had minds, by making and tasting poetry.
    Elo2 8.126 13 ...all these are the gymnastics, the education of eloquence, and not itself. They cannot be too much considered and practised as preparation, but the powers are those I first named.
    Comc 8.172 17 Timur ceased weeping, but Chodscha ceased not, but began now first to weep amain...
    QO 8.183 11 Thirty years ago...you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster' s three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could defer till to-morrow;...
    QO 8.183 20 ...we find in Grimm's Memoires that Sheridan got [his rules] from the witty D'Argenson; who, no doubt, if we could consult him, could tell of whom he first heard them told.
    PPo 8.253 12 No one has unvailed thoughts like Hafiz, since the locks of the World-bride were first curled.
    Dem1 10.10 15 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary; and then first we notice that the spots of light have become crescents...
    PerF 10.76 11 ...first or last [man] exhausts by his use all the harvests...
    Prch 10.217 2 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of the Church...
    MoL 10.243 3 America at large exhibited such a confusion as California showed in 1849, when the cry of gold was first raised.
    MoL 10.249 21 As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down...
    Schr 10.263 7 ...a true talent delights the possessor first.
    Schr 10.285 17 ...[Genius]...flings itself on real elemental things...which first subsist, and then resist unweariably forevermore all that opposes.
    LLNE 10.343 4 I suppose all of [the supposed conspirators] were surprised at this rumor of a school or sect, and certainly at the name of Transcendentalism, given nobody knows by whom, or when it was first applied.
    MMEm 10.403 27 ...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her afterwards, and she would vindicate herself as having said to Dr. Ripley or Uncle Lincoln [Ripley] so and so, at such a period of her life. But they were intensely true when first spoken.
    MMEm 10.405 12 ...on her arrival at any new home [Mary Moody Emerson] was likely to steer first to the minister's house and pray his wife to take a boarder;...
    Carl 10.491 1 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something. Carlyle began to talk, first to the waiters, and then to the walls...in a manner that frightened the whole company.
    GSt 10.504 3 ...[George Stearns's] plain good sense, courage, adherence, and his romantic generosity disarmed, first or last, all gainsayers.
    HDC 11.44 16 As early as 1633, the office of townsman or selectman appears [in New England], who seems first to have been appointed by the General Court...
    HDC 11.50 14 ...this design [the conversion of the Indians] is named first in the printed Considerations, that inclined Hampden, and determined Winthrop and his friends, to come hither [to New England].
    HDC 11.73 10 There [at the Concord bridge] the Americans first shed British blood.
    War 11.160 23 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is...the rising of the general tide in the human soul,-and rising highest, and first made visible, in the most simple and pure souls...
    War 11.166 17 ...bayonet and sword must first retreat a little from their ostentatious prominence;...
    FSLC 11.181 2 The only haste in Boston, after the rescue of Shadrach, last February, was, who should first put his name on the list of volunteers in aid of the marshal.
    FSLC 11.194 9 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or last every feeling of the heart.
    FSLN 11.243 11 I [Robert Winthrop] give you my word, not without regret, that I was first for you;...
    AKan 11.258 5 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas], or else should resign their seats to those who can. But first let them hang the halls of the state-house with black crape...
    JBS 11.280 7 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct, which...should secure...an honest reward, first to the farmer, and afterwards to the dealer.
    SMC 11.352 26 The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South; but first the North had to be reconstructed.
    SMC 11.359 13 ...[George Prescott] knew that his men had found out, first that he was captain, then that he was colonel...
    Wom 11.409 6 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference;...
    Wom 11.415 12 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
    Shak1 11.447 14 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot, who first in Boston wrote elegant verse...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
    Scot 11.463 17 I can well remember as far back as when The Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston...
    ChiE 11.473 19 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
    FRep 11.524 1 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table;...
    PLT 12.15 3 First I wish to speak of the excellence of that element [Intellect]...
    PLT 12.19 4 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of larger scope...
    PLT 12.25 1 The mind is first only receptive.
    PLT 12.29 27 If [a man] could attain full size he would take up, first or last, atom by atom, all the world into a new form.
    PLT 12.36 19 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek... pay to unscrutable force we call Instinct, or Nature when it first becomes intelligent.
    CL 12.137 20 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow into which they were first turned out to grass...
    CL 12.144 25 ...'t is a commonplace, which I have frequently heard spoken in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of the Divine Providence that the New England states should have been first settled before the Western country was known, or they would never have been settled at all.
    CL 12.164 1 Nature speaks to the imagination; first, through her grand style...
    CL 12.164 9 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure; and always for this double reason: first, because they are so excellent in their primary fact...
    Bost 12.204 12 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first, planters of towns...
    MAng1 12.221 12 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton;...
    MAng1 12.230 7 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation...
    MAng1 12.235 6 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work...
    MAng1 12.239 7 Michael Angelo said of Masaccio's pictures that when they were first painted they must have been alive.
    Milt1 12.252 26 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told, in the diamond sharpness of every articulation, that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible;...
    Milt1 12.264 27 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier...
    MLit 12.310 18 In looking at the library of the Present Age, we are first struck with the fact of the immense miscellany.
    Pray 12.355 12 ...thou art my Father, and I will love thee, for thou didst first love me, and lovest me still.
    Pray 12.356 27 Thee [God] when I first knew, thou liftedst me up that I might see, there was what I might see, and that I was not yet such as to see.
    EurB 12.367 1 Coleridge excellently said of poetry, that poetry must first be good sense;...
    EurB 12.367 2 ...a palace might well be magnificent, but first it must be a house.
    PPr 12.391 4 [Carlyle's style] is the first experiment, and something of rudeness and haste must be pardoned to so great an achievement. It will be done again and again, sharper, simpler; but fortunate is he who did it first...

First Book [Wordsworth, Th (1)

    MLit 12.321 1 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book.

First Cause, n. (7)

    Exp 3.72 15 The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body;...
    UGM 4.35 3 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect. Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will. The opaque self becomes transparent with the light of the First Cause.
    Pow 6.74 21 [Many an artist] is up to nature and the First Cause in his thought.
    Art2 7.39 11 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no art; for what they do they do instinctively; but relatively to the Supreme Being, they have. And the same is true of all unconscious action: relatively to the doer, it is instinct, relatively to the First Cause, it is Art.
    WD 7.179 24 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday. Can he uncover the ligaments...which attach the dull men and things we know to the First Cause?
    Imtl 8.349 2 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God, God into him, until the last garment of egotism falls, and he is with God,-shares the will and the immensity of the First Cause.
    PLT 12.64 13 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting ourselves on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands...and ties the will of a child to the love of the First Cause.

First Good, n. (1)

    Schr 10.271 21 ...[genius and virtue] are the First Good...

first, n. (29)

    Lov1 2.187 21 ...the purification of the intellect and the heart from year to year is the real marriage, foreseen and prepared from the first...
    Art1 2.367 19 ...[art] stands in the imagination as somewhat...struck with death from the first.
    PPh 4.66 17 In the Republic [Plato] insists on the temperaments of the youth, as first of the first.
    PPo 8.254 26 ...[Hafiz's] claim [as a bard and inspired man of his people] has been admitted from the first.
    LLNE 10.359 26 William Allen was at first and for some time the head farmer [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.361 24 George W. Curtis of New York, and his brother, of English Oxford, were members of the family [at Brook Farm] from the first.
    LLNE 10.363 22 Rev. William Henry Channing...was from the first a student of Socialism in France and England...
    CSC 10.376 24 ...not [the Chardon Street Convention's] least instructive lesson was the gradual but sure ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit, in spite of the incredulity and derision with which he is at first received...
    MMEm 10.408 24 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes...My oddities were never designed,-effect of an uncalculating constitution, at first...
    Thor 10.473 1 [Thoreau] grew to be revered and admired by his townsmen, who had at first known him only as an oddity.
    HDC 11.44 26 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable, but they soon chose their own selectmen, and very early assessed taxes; a power at first resisted, but speedily confirmed to them.
    HDC 11.68 2 From...1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit, so bold from the first as hardly to admit of increase.
    War 11.154 6 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage.
    FSLC 11.188 15 I had thought, I confess, what must come at last would come at first, a banding of all men against the authority of this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.195 21 ...it is a greater crime to reenslave a man who has shown himself fit for freedom, than to enslave him at first, when it might be pretended to be a mitigation of his lot as a captive in war.
    ALin 11.329 16 In this country, on Saturday, every one was struck dumb, and saw at first only deep below deep, as he meditated on the ghastly blow [Lincoln's death].
    ALin 11.333 13 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but as jests;...
    SMC 11.367 8 ...though suffering at first some disadvantage from change of commanders, and from severe losses, [the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation...
    FRep 11.514 5 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd, however at first making his obedient apprenticeship in party tactics...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...
    FRep 11.525 19 ...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance from less to more.
    PLT 12.6 23 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
    PLT 12.23 10 Every scholar knows that he applies himself coldly and slowly at first to his task...
    PLT 12.43 24 Our thoughts at first possess us.
    MAng1 12.235 13 Michael Angelo, who...distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied.
    Milt1 12.253 6 The opposition to [a masterpiece of art], always greatest at first, continually decreases...
    Milt1 12.278 9 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience. Such certainly is the explanation of Milton's tracts. Such is the apology to be entered for the plea for freedom of divorce; an essay, which, from the first, until now, has brought a degree of obloquy on his name.
    MLit 12.320 13 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature, when it is considered how hostile his genius at first seemed to the reigning taste...
    Pray 12.353 27 I know that sorrow comes not at once only. We cannot meet it and say, now it is overcome, but again, and yet again, its flood pours over us, and as full as at first.
    AgMs 12.360 14 ...every man has one thing which he specially wishes to say, and that comes out at first.

First Person, n. (1)

    FRO1 11.479 10 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship...

First Philosophy, n. (2)

    ET14 5.244 14 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful at the fountain of the First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head.
    WSL 12.346 23 Only from a mind conversant with the First Philosophy can definitions be expected.

First Report, n. (1)

    AgMs 12.360 10 The First Report, [Edmund Hosmer] said, is better than the last...

first-born, n. (3)

    Fdsp 2.202 1 He who offers himself a candidate for that covenant [of friendship] comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games where the first-born of the world are the competitors.
    Fdsp 2.213 21 [By persisting in your path] You...draw to you the first-born of the world...
    Art2 7.52 3 These [ancient sculptures] are the countenances of the first-born...

first-class, adj. (4)

    ET4 5.69 12 Beef, mutton, wheat-bread and malt-liquors are universal among the first-class laborers [in England].
    ET8 5.129 6 A Yorkshire mill-owner told me he had ridden more than once all the way from London to Leeds, in the first-class carriage, with the same persons, and no word exchanged.
    Wth 6.109 3 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel...
    CbW 6.261 3 The first-class minds...had the poor man's feeling and mortification.

first-rate, adj. (3)

    ET5 5.93 10 There is no department of literature, of science, or of useful art, in which [the English] have not produced a first-rate book.
    Aris 10.41 24 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages, and in reality each to adopt from the other a first-rate man...
    AsSu 11.251 1 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of every first-rate speaker that ever lived.

first-rate, adv. (1)

    ET2 5.30 19 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to England. The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock...and he...likes the work first-rate...

fir-tree, n. (1)

    Exp 3.45 14 ...night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

fish, adj. (1)

    PI 8.72 3 One would say of the force in the works of Nature, all depends on the battery. If it give one shock, we shall get to the fish form, and stop;...

fish, n. (37)

    Nat 1.67 25 ...we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
    MN 1.212 5 Is [man's work in the world] for use? nature is debased, as if one looking at the ocean can remember only the price of fish.
    MR 1.239 18 ...instead of...that mighty and prevailing heart, which the father had...whom...beast and fish seemed all to know and to serve,-we have now a puny, protected person...
    Hist 2.18 3 ...every spine and tint in the sea-shell preexists in the secreting organs of the fish.
    Hist 2.36 16 ...the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists...
    Comp 2.101 7 ...the naturalist...regards a horse as a running man, a fish as a swimming man...
    Pt1 3.12 24 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his skill to rise like a fowl or a flying fish...
    PNR 4.80 19 [The human being's] arts and sciences...look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of...fish.
    SwM 4.118 17 ...there is no comet...fish...that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    ShP 4.190 20 [A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad.
    ET2 5.26 24 The good ship darts through the water all day, all night, like a fish;...
    ET3 5.39 8 The rivers [in England] and the surrounding sea spawn with fish;...
    ET3 5.39 13 ...at one season, the country people [of England] say, the lakes contain one part water and two parts fish.
    ET11 5.189 9 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced...the artificial replenishment of lakes and ponds with fish...
    F 6.14 25 Lodged in the parent animal...[the vesicle] unlocks itself to fish, bird, or quadruped...
    F 6.15 21 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals, zoophyte, trilobium, fish;...
    F 6.41 19 ...the woolly aphides on the apple perspire their own bed, and the fish its shell.
    Wth 6.119 9 Now, the farmer buys almost all he consumes,--tinware, cloth, sugar, tea, coffee, fish, coal, railroad tickets and newspapers.
    Ctr 6.146 1 Do you suppose there is any country where they do not...broil the fish?
    Ill 6.309 14 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...paddled three quarters of a mile in the deep Echo River, whose waters are peopled with the blind fish;...
    Elo1 7.71 9 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard, from the Hebrew and the Greek down to the Scottish Glenkindie, who ...harpit a fish out o' saut-water,/ Or water out of a stone,/ Or milk out of a maiden's breast/ Who bairn had never none./
    PPo 8.241 12 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built...a palace, of which the floor or pavement was of glass, laid over running water, in which fish were swimming.
    Aris 10.44 4 I think he'll be to Rome/ As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it/ By sovereignty of nature./
    Edc1 10.148 26 The boy wishes to learn...to catch a fish in the brook...
    Edc1 10.155 12 ...when [the naturalist] goes to the river-bank, the fish and the reptile swim away...
    Edc1 10.155 17 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his. By dint of obstinate sitting still, reptile, fish...begin to return.
    Supl 10.175 5 In all the years that I have sat in town and forest, I never saw...a talking fish...
    Thor 10.469 10 [Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable...until the bird, the reptile, the fish, which had retired from him, should come back and resume its habits...
    Thor 10.482 12 The chub is a soft fish, and tastes like boiled brown paper salted.
    HDC 11.34 24 ...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the pilgrims] great store of fish in the spring-time...
    HDC 11.55 11 The fish, which had been the abundant manure of the settlers, was found to injure the land.
    HDC 11.56 20 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay...found the way to the West Indies, with pipe-staves, lumber and fish;...
    PLT 12.22 6 A fish in like manner is man furnished to live in the sea;...
    Mem 12.97 2 Nature interests [the intellectual man]; a plant, a fish...in their own method and law.
    CL 12.154 4 ...[the sea] is one vast rolling bed of life, and every sparkle is a fish.
    Bost 12.192 1 John Smith was stung near to death by the most poisonous tail of a fish, called a sting-ray.
    MAng1 12.220 19 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.

fish, v. (6)

    NER 3.257 27 ...it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events...
    ET4 5.58 3 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] fish in the fiord and hunt the deer.
    ET4 5.70 24 Every season turns out the [the English] aristocracy into the country to shoot and fish.
    HDC 11.29 23 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river...shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.
    PLT 12.22 20 Is it not a little startling to see...with what genius some people fish...
    Bost 12.199 10 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America only to trade and fish...

fished, v. (4)

    ET5 5.75 3 ...the Saxon seriously settled in the land [England], builded, tilled, fished and traded...
    ET5 5.91 20 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom. He had them all fished up by divers...
    ET5 5.95 9 The rivers, lakes and ponds [in England], too much fished, or obstructed by factories, are artificially filled with the eggs of salmon, turbot and herring.
    HDC 11.36 10 Tahattawan, the Sachem [of the Massachusetts Indians]... lived near Nashawtuck, now Lee's Hill. Their tribe, once numerous, the epidemic had reduced. Here they planted, hunted and fished.

fisher, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.433 6 It is essential to the safety of every mackerel fisher that latitudes and longitudes should be astronomically ascertained;...

fisheries, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.37 26 Our log-rolling...our fisheries...are yet unsung.
    LLNE 10.362 1 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth, a plain man formerly engaged through many years in the fisheries with success...came and built a house on [Brook] farm...

fisherman, n. (5)

    Nat 1.42 21 Who can guess how much firmness the sea-beaten rock has taught the fisherman?...
    Hist 2.40 19 ...what food or experience or succor have [Olympiads and Consulates]...for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?
    Ill 6.311 19 ...the fisherman dripping all day over a cold pond, the switchman at the railway intersection...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
    Elo2 8.114 11 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman...
    Res 8.145 11 The boat is full of water, and resists all your strength to drag it ashore and empty it. The fisherman looks about him, puts a round stick of wood underneath, and it rolls as on wheels at once.

fishermen, n. (4)

    ET2 5.27 2 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around; no fishermen; she has passed the Banks...
    WD 7.176 6 ...in our history, Jesus is born in a barn, and his twelve peers are fishermen.
    Scot 11.466 7 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class, with whom he established the best relation,- small farmers and tradesmen, shepherds, fishermen, gypsies...
    FRep 11.526 19 In Massachusetts, every twelfth man is a shoemaker, and the rest, millers, farmers, sailors, fishermen.

fishermen's, n. (1)

    Thor 10.455 21 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking hundreds of miles...buying a lodging in farmers' and fishermen's houses...

fishers, n. (1)

    HDC 11.28 3 I will have never a noble,/ No lineage counted great;/ Fishers and choppers and ploughmen/ Shall constitute a state./

fisher's, n. [fishers',] (4)

    WD 7.175 27 In the Norse legend of our ancestors, Odin dwells in a fisher' s hut...
    PC 8.212 4 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb, to...the miner's shanty and the fisher's boat, the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    War 11.166 13 ...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 cannon would become street-posts; the pikes, a fisher's harpoon;...
    MLit 12.325 3 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the Venetian music of the gondolier, originating in the habit of the fishers' wives of the Lido singing on shore to their husbands on the sea;...

fishery, n. (1)

    ET5 5.83 27 [The English] apply themselves...to fishery, to manufacture of indispensable staples...

fishes, n. (17)

    Nat 1.17 6 The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light.
    Pt1 3.36 17 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me...
    Pt1 3.36 19 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me...
    UGM 4.19 20 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...then a student of fishes...
    ET4 5.64 22 From childhood, [the English] dabbled in water, they swam like fishes...
    Wth 6.98 11 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess...pictures also of birds, beasts, fishes, shells, trees, flowers, whose names he desires to know.
    PPo 8.252 21 [Hafiz] says, The fishes shed their pearls, out of desire and longing as soon as the ship of Hafiz swims the deep.
    Insp 8.270 7 We are very glad that [the aboriginal man] ate his fishes and snails and marrow-bones out of our sight and hearing...
    Grts 8.305 9 Others find a charm and a profession in the natural history of man and the mammalia or related animals; others in ornithology, or fishes, or insects;...
    Edc1 10.155 9 Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets...of fishes...
    Thor 10.466 19 ...the fishes [in the Concord River], and their spawning and nests, their manners, their food;...were all known to [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.466 22 ...the shad-flies which fill the air on a certain evening once a year, and which are snapped at by the fishes so ravenously that many of these die of repletion;...were all known by [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.466 25 ...the conical heaps of small stones on the river-shallows, the huge nests of small fishes...were all known to [Thoreau]...
    Thor 10.472 6 ...the fishes swam into [Thoreau's] hand, and he took them out of the water;...
    CL 12.138 26 [Linnaeus]...examined fishes, insects, birds, quadrupeds;...
    CL 12.165 1 Agassiz studies year after year fishes and fossil anatomy of saurian, and lizard, and pterodactyl. But whatever he says, we know very well what he means.
    CW 12.177 1 This is my ideal of the powers of wealth. Find out what lake or sea Agassiz wishes to explore, and offer to carry him there, and he will make you acquainted with all its fishes...

fishing, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.261 6 Tender, amiable boys, who had never encountered any rougher play than a...fishing excursion, were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.

fishing, v. (5)

    Int 2.334 17 ...our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond;...
    Farm 7.139 3 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...
    Res 8.150 19 Games, fishing, bowling, hunting, gymnastics, dancing,--are not these needful to you?
    Edc1 10.140 17 If [a boy] can turn his books to such picturesque account in his fishing and hunting, it is easy to see how his reading and experience... will interpenetrate each other.
    CL 12.135 23 The Indians go in summer to the coast, for fishing;...

fishing-boats, n. (1)

    SR 2.86 16 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin...

fishing-cobble, n. (1)

    RBur 11.442 8 ...the farm-work, the country holiday, the fishing-cobble are still [Burns's] debtors to-day.

fishing-craft, n. (1)

    DL 7.110 8 Do not ask [the scholar] to...join a company to build a factory or a fishing-craft.

fishing-rod, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.177 6 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity:...he carries a fowling-piece or a fishing-rod.
    Ctr 6.142 24 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers;...
    Ctr 6.144 3 ...the gun, fishing-rod, boat and horse, constitute, among all who use them, secret freemasonries.

fishing-rods, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.142 20 [Your boy] hates the grammar and Gradus, and loves guns, fishing-rods, horses and boats.

fishing-smack, n. (1)

    EWI 11.131 3 The poorest fishing-smack that floats under the shadow of an iceberg in the Northern seas...should be encompassed by [Massachusetts' s] laws with comfort and protection...

fish-market, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.220 18 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.

fishmongers, n. (1)

    PPh 4.55 10 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...from...the shops of... butchers and fishmongers.

fish-ponds, n. (1)

    CW 12.173 17 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens...with their...fish-ponds, sculptured summer-houses and grottoes;...

fish's, n. (1)

    Con 1.300 18 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life;...

fish-worms, n. (1)

    WD 7.182 27 [The savant's] performance is a memoir to the Academy on fish-worms, tadpoles, or spiders' legs;...

fishy, adj. (1)

    F 6.22 16 [Man] betrays his relation to what is below him...fishy... quadruped ill-disguised...

fissure, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.132 10 ...the Andes and Alleghanies indicate the line of the fissure in the crust of the earth along which they were lifted...

fist, n. (2)

    Res 8.140 25 By his machines man...can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder;...
    HCom 11.344 4 When her blood is up, [Massachusetts] has a fist big enough to knock down an empire.

fists, n. (3)

    ET4 5.63 14 The coster-mongers of London streets hold cowardice in loathing:--we must work our fists well;...
    ET4 5.63 15 The coster-mongers of London streets hold cowardice in loathing...we are all handy with our fists.
    Grts 8.314 23 ...one fights with cannon as with fists;...

fit, adj. (103)

    Nat 1.21 7 Does not the New World clothe [Columbus's] form with her palm-groves and savannahs as fit drapery?
    Nat 1.31 26 Long hereafter...these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre, as fit symbols and words of the thoughts which the passing events shall awaken.
    AmS 1.97 11 ...he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.
    MN 1.191 4 The land we live in has no interest so dear...as the fit consecration of days of reason and thought.
    MN 1.194 7 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart, which hast not yet found any place in the world's market fit for thee;...
    MR 1.231 5 Has [the young man] genius and virtue? the less does he find [the employments of commerce] fit for him to grow in...
    Tran 1.347 15 [Transcendentalists] feel that they are never so fit for friendship as when they have quitted mankind...
    YA 1.368 12 ...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.
    Comp 2.119 21 [The mob's] fit hour of activity is night.
    SL 2.139 18 For you there is...a fit place and congenial duties.
    SL 2.144 1 A man's genius...the selection of what is fit for him...determines for him the character of the universe.
    SL 2.153 18 That statement only is fit to be made public which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.
    Fdsp 2.206 1 [Friendship] is fit for serene days...
    Fdsp 2.209 6 He only is fit for this society [of friendship] who is magnanimous;...
    Hsm1 2.247 10 Dor. O star of Rome! what gratitude can speak/ Fit words to follow such a deed as this?/
    Hsm1 2.260 14 If you would serve your brother, because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you.
    Int 2.334 11 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not; and a thrill of passion flashes light on their dark chamber, and the active power seizes instantly the fit image, as the word of its momentary thought.
    Pt1 3.17 13 Thought makes everything fit for use.
    Mrs1 3.139 1 The same discrimination of fit and fair runs out, if with less rigor, into all parts of life.
    Mrs1 3.149 23 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,--calm, serious and fit to stand the gaze of millions.
    Gts 3.159 15 Flowers and fruits are always fit presents;...
    Gts 3.161 24 This is fit for kings, and rich men who represent kings...to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering...
    Pol1 3.202 16 It seemed fit that Laban and Jacob should have equal rights to elect the officer who is to defend their persons...
    Pol1 3.214 3 Whilst I do what is fit for me, and abstain from what is unfit, my neighbor and I shall often agree in our means...
    NR 3.227 24 It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.
    PPh 4.49 21 You are fit (says the supreme Krishna to a sage) to apprehend that you are not distinct from me.
    PPh 4.59 17 ...the rich man...has that one dress, or equipage, or instrument, which is fit for the hour and the need;...
    PPh 4.59 19 ...Plato, in his plenty, is never restricted, but has the fit word.
    PPh 4.66 3 Such as were fit to govern, into their composition the informing Deity mingled gold;...
    PPh 4.68 5 Plato...attempted as if on the part of human intellect, once for all to do it adequate homage,--homage fit for the immense soul to receive...
    SwM 4.99 10 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes...prying into...physiology, mathematics and astronomy, to find images fit for the measure of his versatile and capacious brain.
    MoS 4.162 5 ...some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    MoS 4.172 17 ...neither is [the wise skeptic] fit to work with any democratic party that ever was constituted;...
    ShP 4.212 14 ...few real men have left such distinct characters as [Shakespeare's] fictions. And they spoke in language as sweet as it was fit.
    GoW 4.288 25 ...this man [Goethe] was entirely at home and happy in his century and the world. None was so fit to live, or more heartily enjoyed the game.
    ET5 5.84 22 [The English] think him the best dressed man whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
    ET5 5.99 23 Though not military, yet every common subject [in England] by the poll is fit to make a soldier of.
    ET6 5.112 9 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs...fit for the hands of ladies and princes, but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.
    ET14 5.232 12 ...[the English] delight in strong earthy expression...and though spoken among princes, equally fit and welcome to the mob.
    ET14 5.255 25 Pope and his school wrote poetry fit to put round frosted cake.
    Pow 6.65 5 ...churchmen and men of refinement, it seems agreed, are not fit persons to send to Congress.
    Wth 6.84 7 ...when the quarried means were piled,/ All is waste and worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/ And, out of slime and chaos, Wit/ Draws the threads of fair and fit./
    Ctr 6.142 22 ...you are not fit to direct [your boy's] bringing-up if your theory leaves out his gymnastic training.
    Ctr 6.149 2 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library and books enough for him, and his lordship stored the library with what books he thought fit to be bought.
    Ctr 6.165 12 ...Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place;...
    Bhr 6.193 21 It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...
    Wsp 6.239 13 Immortality will come to such as are fit for it...
    CbW 6.274 12 ...it is marriage, fit or unfit, that makes our home...
    SS 7.7 3 ...no man is fit for society who has fine traits.
    SS 7.11 25 It by no means follows that we are not fit for society, because soirees are tedious and because the soiree finds us tedious.
    Elo1 7.96 7 [The sturdy countryman] is fit to meet the barroom wits and bullies;...
    Cour 7.270 7 Every creature has a courage of his constitution fit for his duties...
    Suc 7.306 23 Everything lasting and fit for men the Divine Power has marked with this stamp [of beauty].
    Suc 7.308 18 I do not find...grisly photographs of the field on the day after the battle, fit subjects for cabinet pictures.
    Suc 7.308 25 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately, sternly fit for all his functions;...
    OA 7.320 1 Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.
    PI 8.44 13 The humor of Falstaff, the terror of Macbeth, have each their swarm of fit thoughts and images...
    Elo2 8.112 18 ...the political questions...find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures...
    Elo2 8.127 1 If [some men] are to put a thing in proper shape, fit for the occasion and the audience, their mind is a blank.
    QO 8.184 7 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument, inventing and disposing what seemed fit to be said upon that subject, before he read the book;...
    QO 8.200 15 Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair,-all these we never made...
    PC 8.219 1 Even manners are a distinction which...are not to be overborne... even by other eminent talents, since they too proceed from a certain deep innate perception of fit and fair.
    PPo 8.244 17 He only [Hafiz] says, is fit for company, who knows how to prize earthly happiness at the value of a night-cap.
    PPo 8.253 18 Fit for the Pleiads' azure chord/ The songs I sung, the pearls I bored./
    Insp 8.281 11 ...I fancy that my logs...are a kind of muses. So of all the particulars of health and exercise and fit nutriment and tonics.
    Grts 8.310 16 ...there is for each a Best Counsel which enjoins the fit word and the fit act for every moment.
    Grts 8.319 17 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village: O yes, If I lived in...Andover, there might be fit society;...
    Dem1 10.13 9 For Spiritism, it shows that no man, almost, is fit to give evidence.
    Dem1 10.15 24 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything.
    Dem1 10.21 7 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...descending...on...the bank-messenger in the country, can well be spared. Men are not fit to be trusted with these talismans.
    Aris 10.44 18 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for orchard, tillage...
    Supl 10.173 6 ...fit expression is so rare that mankind have a superstitious value for it...
    LLNE 10.332 10 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    EzRy 10.395 18 ...in his old age, when all the antique Hebraism and its customs are passing away, it is fit that [Ezra Ripley] too should depart,- most fit that in the fall of laws a loyal man should die.
    MMEm 10.413 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday five or more miles...just fit for the society I went into...
    Thor 10.458 2 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years alone, a life of labor and study. This action was quite native and fit for him.
    Carl 10.494 25 [Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every noble nature...contains, if savage passions, also fit checks and grand impulses...
    HDC 11.29 6 ...the people of New England...as the second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe the day.
    HDC 11.36 2 ...the rough welcome which the new land gave [the pilgrims] was a fit introduction to the life they must lead in it.
    War 11.162 25 ...what is true-that is, what is at bottom fit and agreeable to the constitution of man-must at last prevail over all obstruction and all opposition.
    FSLC 11.195 20 ...it is a greater crime to reenslave a man who has shown himself fit for freedom, than to enslave him at first, when it might be pretended to be a mitigation of his lot as a captive in war.
    FSLC 11.208 1 [Abolition] is really the project fit for this country to entertain and accomplish.
    FSLC 11.208 18 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property [slaves] of the planters...
    FSLN 11.221 15 [Webster] was there in his Adamitic capacity, as if he alone of all men...was a fit figure in the landscape.
    TPar 11.286 5 Theodore Parker was...a man of study, fit for a man of the world;...
    SMC 11.350 14 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square.
    EdAd 11.393 4 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal.
    Wom 11.409 26 [Women] are, in their nature, more relative; the circumstance must always be fit;...
    Wom 11.411 20 [Women] should be found in fit surroundings...
    SHC 11.428 6 ...Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops/ Along the modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of the season spread their plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our tombs./
    SHC 11.429 7 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    SHC 11.434 5 ...[Sleepy Hollow] was inevitably chosen by [the people of Concord] when the design of a new cemetery was broached...as the fit place for their final repose.
    FRep 11.535 4 ...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. They...can find a way out of any peril. This rough and ready force...makes them fit citizens and civilizers.
    PLT 12.32 19 Though the world is full of food we can take only the crumbs fit for us.
    Bost 12.200 1 What should hinder that this America...what should hinder that this New Atlantis should have...its gardens fit for human abode...
    MAng1 12.239 10 [Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's...with fit design for a vast structure.
    MAng1 12.243 20 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery...cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.
    Milt1 12.249 17 Eager to do fit justice to each thought, [Milton] does not subordinate it so as to project the main argument.
    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.
    Milt1 12.260 11 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument,-Such as may make thee search thy coffers round,/ Before thou clothe my fancy in fit sound;/...
    AgMs 12.361 4 ...why this recommendation [in the Agricultural Survey] of stone houses? They are not so cheap, not so dry, and not so fit for us [New England farmers].
    Let 12.393 10 ...we think the population is not yet quite fit for [flying-machines]...
    Let 12.395 19 It were fit to forbid concert and calculation in this particular, if that were our system...

fit, n. (5)

    AmS 1.99 1 The mind now thinks, now acts, and each fit reproduces the other.
    Fdsp 2.203 23 To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
    Exp 3.45 18 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature...
    Bhr 6.176 3 When [the old Massachusetts statesman] sat down, after speaking, he seemed in a sort of fit...
    Cour 7.266 16 Hear what women say of doing a task by sheer force of will: it costs them a fit of sickness.

fit, v. (30)

    AmS 1.88 19 The books of an older period will not fit this.
    Lov1 2.186 24 The person love does to us fit,/ Like manna, has the taste of all in it./
    Mrs1 3.141 10 A man who is not happy in the company cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion.
    MoS 4.160 24 An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters in this storm of many elements. No, it must be tight, and fit to the form of man, to live at all;...
    NMW 4.226 12 It struck Dumont that he could fit [Mirabeau's speech] with a peroration...
    ET12 5.209 15 The definition of a public school [in England] is a school which excludes all that could fit a man for standing behind a counter.
    F 6.42 17 [Man] looks like a piece of luck, but is...the mosaic, angulated and ground to fit into the gap he fills.
    Wth 6.93 20 Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples as cowardly landsmen until they dare fit him out.
    Ctr 6.138 5 ...here is a pedant that cannot...conceal his wrath at interruption by the best, if their conversation do not fit his impertinency...
    CbW 6.273 25 We know that all our training is to fit us for [friendship]...
    Bty 6.298 18 ...our bodies do not fit us...
    Bty 6.299 24 Abbe Menage said of the President Le Bailleul that he was fit for nothing but to sit for his portrait.
    Art2 7.42 5 Man seems to have no option about his tools, but merely the necessity to learn from Nature what will fit best...
    DL 7.123 4 In the old fables we used to read of a cloak brought from fairy-land as a gift for the fairest and purest in Prince Arthur's court. It was to be her prize whom it would fit.
    DL 7.123 5 Every one was eager to try [the fairy cloak] on, but it would fit nobody...
    WD 7.169 20 ...in the common experience of the scholar, the weathers fit his moods.
    QO 8.191 12 ...the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm.
    Dem1 10.5 10 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem not to fit us...
    Plu 10.320 5 [Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in his own breast, and all the pleasantness that would fit an entertainment, would have pipes and harps play...
    EzRy 10.381 20 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...
    Thor 10.457 16 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture...was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care about. Henry turned to her...and, I saw, was trying to believe that he had matter that might fit her and her brother...
    Shak1 11.452 23 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...
    Scot 11.464 24 ...[Scott] had the...skill to fit his verse to his topic...
    FRep 11.520 19 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure. 'T is virtue which they want, and wanting it,/ Honor no garment to their backs can fit./
    PLT 12.20 5 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit.
    Mem 12.97 21 A knife with a good spring...a watch, the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    CL 12.149 22 [The Indian] goes to a white birch-tree, and can fit his leg with a seamless boot, or a hat for his head.
    Milt1 12.256 5 [Milton] defined the object of education to be, to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
    WSL 12.347 23 [Landor] hates false words, and seeks with care, difficulty and moroseness those that fit the thing.
    Trag 12.414 10 Particular reliefs...fit themselves to human calamities;...

Fitchburg, Massachusetts, n. (2)

    F 6.42 26 We know in Massachusetts...who built...Fitchburg...
    AKan 11.256 17 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? ... Is it an exaggeration, that...Mr. Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of Berkshire, have been murdered? That Mr. Robinson of Fitchburg has been imprisoned?

fitly, adv. (9)

    Nat 1.22 5 Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in our memory with the geography and climate of Greece.
    Nat 1.57 25 ...religion and ethics, which may be fitly called the practice of ideas...have an analogous effect with all lower culture...
    LE 1.177 2 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language...only fitly used as the weapon of thought and of justice,-learn to enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine...
    MN 1.218 20 Behold! there is the sun, and the rain, and the rocks; the old sun, the old stones. How easy were it to describe all this fitly; yet no word can pass.
    NR 3.245 19 Very fitly therefore I assert that every man is a partialist;...
    GoW 4.287 25 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can.
    ET17 5.291 15 ...what is nowhere better found than in England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the best.
    ET19 5.309 7 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it, as fitly expressing the feeling with which I entered England...
    SHC 11.434 8 In all the multitudes of woodlands and hillsides, which within a few years have been laid out with a similar design [as a cemetery], I have not known one so fitly named. Sleepy Hollow.

fitness, n. (23)

    AmS 1.103 18 The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions...
    MR 1.240 24 ...where a man does not yet discover in himself any fitness for one work more than another, [the husbandman's] may be preferred.
    MR 1.243 19 The duty that every man...should call the institutions of society to account, and examine their fitness to him, gains in emphasis if we look at our modes of living.
    Gts 3.163 10 I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny? Hence the fitness of beautiful, not useful things, for gifts.
    NER 3.281 20 Each [man] is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions has added to his fitness for his own work.
    ShP 4.212 23 [A man of talents] crams this part and starves that other part, consulting not the fitness of the thing, but his fitness and strength.
    ShP 4.212 24 [A man of talents] crams this part and starves that other part, consulting not the fitness of the thing, but his fitness and strength.
    ET5 5.84 12 [The English] study use and fitness in their building...
    F 6.37 16 Eyes are found in light;...and each creature where it was meant to be, with a mutual fitness.
    F 6.39 24 The same fitness must be presumed between a man and the time and event, as between the sexes...
    Ctr 6.161 10 Archimedes will look through your Connecticut machine at a glance, and judge of its fitness.
    Wsp 6.204 8 Nature has...certain proportions in which oxygen and azote combine, and not less a harmony in faculties, a fitness in the spring and the regulator.
    Bty 6.290 12 ...in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.
    Art2 7.53 3 Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty that it has been taken for it.
    QO 8.203 6 Our pleasure in seeing each mind take the subject to which it has a proper right is seen in mere fitness in time.
    Dem1 10.8 24 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem...out of all fitness.
    Dem1 10.23 10 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who...waits his time, and without effort acts when the need is. If to this you add a fitness to the society around him, you have the elements of fortune;...
    Thor 10.461 16 [Thoreau's] senses were acute...his hands strong and skilful in the use of tools. And there was a wonderful fitness of body and mind.
    War 11.175 20 There is the highest fitness in the place and time in which this enterprise [Congress of Nations] is begun.
    EPro 11.316 16 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator...having run over the superficial fitness and commodities of the measure he urges... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    Wom 11.424 26 When new opinions appear, they will be entertained and respected, by every fair mind, according to their reasonableness, and not according to...their fitness to shock our customs.
    RBur 11.439 10 ...I must trust to the inspirations of the theme [of the Burns Festival] to make a fitness which does not otherwise exist.
    Milt1 12.274 1 Was there not a fitness in the undertaking of such a person [as Milton] to write a poem on the subject of Adam...

fits, n. (5)

    AmS 1.98 24 ...these fits of easy transmission and reflection...are the law of nature...
    Hsm1 2.260 5 All men have...fits and starts of generosity.
    Exp 3.68 12 ...the mind...never prospers but by fits.
    Res 8.150 6 ...the law of light, which Newton said proceeded by fits of easy reflection and transmission...is the law of mind;...
    Schr 10.280 2 ...society, in which we live, is subject to fits of frenzy;...

fits, v. (16)

    Nat 1.9 15 Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece.
    Nat 1.71 23 [Man] sees that the structure still fits him, but fits him colossally.
    MR 1.248 7 ...we are to see that the world not only fitted the former men, but fits us...
    SL 2.142 5 The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into...
    SwM 4.121 15 In the transmission of the heavenly waters, every hose fits every hydrant.
    SwM 4.122 12 [Swedenborg's religion]...fits every part of life...
    ET9 5.147 17 The English have a steady courage that fits them for great attempts and endurance...
    F 6.38 2 ...[every creature] has predisposing power that bends and fits what is near him to his use.
    F 6.40 7 [The event] fits you like your skin.
    Pow 6.59 16 The weaker party finds that none of his information or wit quite fits the occasion.
    WD 7.168 17 How the day fits itself to the mind...clothing all its fancies!
    Boks 7.216 13 Nature has a magic by which she fits the man to his fortunes...
    PPo 8.256 10 O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life is thy perch;/ This nook of grief fits thee ill for a nest./
    Dem1 10.5 15 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer;...and if it served no other purpose would show us how accurately Nature fits man awake.
    PLT 12.20 13 It is necessary to suppose that every hose in Nature fits every hydrant;...
    Mem 12.98 4 The way in which...any orator surprises us is by his always having a sharp tool that fits the present use.

fitted, adj. (2)

    MMEm 10.403 15 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism...would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron' s] imagination.
    HDC 11.57 6 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school, the masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.

fitted, v. (16)

    Nat 1.71 24 Say, rather, [the structure] once fitted [man]...
    MR 1.248 6 ...we are to see that the world not only fitted the former men, but fits us...
    SR 2.83 4 ...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done by him...he will create a house in which all these [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
    ShP 4.206 10 We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip...it seems as if, had we dipped at random into the Modern Plutarch and read any other life there, it would have fitted [Shakespeare's] poems as well.
    ET13 5.216 25 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system, close fitted to the manners and genius of the country...
    F 6.45 5 Moller...taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful...
    Clbs 7.233 7 It does not help that you find as good or a better man than yourself, if he is not timed and fitted to you.
    Insp 8.278 13 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/...
    Edc1 10.130 6 Whatever the man does, or whatever befalls him, opens another chamber in his soul,-that is, he has got a new feeling, a new thought, a new organ. Do we not see how amazingly for this end man is fitted to the world?
    LLNE 10.330 17 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820, when Edward Everett...brought to Cambridge his rich results, which no one was so fitted by natural grace and the splendor of his rhetoric to introduce and recommend.
    LLNE 10.336 5 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...and thus fitted to be the platform on which the Drama of the Divine Judgment was played before the assembled Angels of Heaven...
    EzRy 10.381 24 ...when fitted for college, the son [Ezra Ripley] could not be contented with teaching...
    Thor 10.480 14 Had [Thoreau's] genius been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life...
    ALin 11.334 17 [Lincoln's] mind mastered the problem of the day; and as the problem grew, so did his comprehension of it. Rarely was man so fitted to the event.
    Bost 12.189 23 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere; and if it did not maintain itself, were we but once indifferently well fitted, let us starve.
    Bost 12.195 22 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that...where any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar School, the Masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.

fitter, adj. (3)

    Pol1 3.207 16 [Our political institutions] are not better, but only fitter for us.
    Comc 8.173 10 ...what is fitter than that we should espouse and carry a principle against all opposition?
    Grts 8.308 14 ...Nelson, said, I feel that I am fitter to do the action than to describe it.

fittest, adj. (3)

    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.
    Pt1 3.11 21 ...the phrase will be the fittest, most musical, and the unerring voice of the world for that time.
    PPh 4.75 11 ...the figure of Socrates by a necessity placed itself in the foreground of the scene, as the fittest dispenser of the intellectual treasures [Plato] had to communicate.

fitting, adj. (2)

    Bty 6.291 16 How beautiful are ships on the sea! but ships in the theatre,-- or ships kept for picturesque effect on Virginia Water by George IV., and men hired to stand in fitting costumes at a penny an hour!
    Plu 10.319 4 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria...

fitting, n. (1)

    PLT 12.20 11 It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and fitting and identity in their frame.

fitting, v. (1)

    Art2 7.42 6 Man seems to have no option about his tools, but merely the necessity to learn from Nature what will fit best, as if he were fitting a screw or a door.

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