High to Hints

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

high, adj. (298)

    Nat 1.19 23 The high and divine beauty...is that which is found in combination with the human will.
    Nat 1.20 22 ...when Arnold Winkelried, in the high Alps...gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    DSA 1.127 27 Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight...
    DSA 1.129 10 The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's lips...
    DSA 1.133 2 ...it is a high benefit to enable me to do somewhat of myself.
    DSA 1.142 7 [The soul of the community] wants nothing so much as a stern, high, stoical, Christian discipline...
    DSA 1.148 1 ...slight [the commanders], as you can well afford to do, by high and universal aims, and they instantly feel...that it is in lower places that they must shine.
    DSA 1.148 10 In such high communion let us study the grand strokes of rectitude...
    LE 1.160 21 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were the...fruit of a cumulative culture...were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers;...
    LE 1.168 7 ...the fall of swarms of flies, in autumn, from combats high in the air...the angry hiss of the wood-birds;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    LE 1.184 9 If, with a high trust, [the scholar] can thus submit himself, he will find that ample returns are poured into his bosom...
    MN 1.206 23 England, France, and America read Parliamentary Debates, which no high genius now enlivens;...
    MN 1.214 7 ...because ecstasy is the law and cause of nature, you cannot interpret it in too high and deep a sense.
    MR 1.232 17 ...the general system of our trade...is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature;
    MR 1.235 21 Who could regret to see a high conscience...exercising a sensible effect on young men in their choice of occupation...
    MR 1.245 20 Economy is a high, humane office...when its aim is grand;...
    LT 1.277 7 The Reforms have their high origin in an ideal justice...
    LT 1.285 21 No man can compare the ideas and aspirations of the innovators of the present day with those of former periods, without feeling how great and high this criticism is.
    Con 1.313 13 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a...progressive necessity, which...up to the present high culture of the best nations, has advanced thus far.
    Con 1.326 2 ...to return from this alternation of partial views to the high platform of universal and necessary history, it is a happiness for mankind that innovation has got on so far...
    Tran 1.343 20 ...to behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures itself,-assures itself also to me against every possible casualty except my unworthiness;-these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    Tran 1.345 24 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? ... ...did the high idea die out of them...
    YA 1.368 1 A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high...you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.
    YA 1.374 12 ...the selfishness which hoards the corn for high prices is the preventive of famine;...
    YA 1.388 10 I find no expression...especially in our newspapers, of a high national feeling...
    SR 2.53 3 [Men's] works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world,-as invalids and the insane pay a high board.
    SR 2.75 2 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart...
    Comp 2.115 15 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant...do recommend to him his trade...
    SL 2.149 23 Gertrude is enamored of Guy; how high, how aristocratic, how Roman his mien and manners!...
    SL 2.150 1 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now avails how high...his mien and manners, if his heart and aims are in the senate...
    SL 2.158 24 The high, the generous, the self-devoted sect will always instruct and command mankind.
    SL 2.163 23 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet...or a high office...
    Lov1 2.181 3 [What we love] is that which you know not in yourself and can never know. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in;...
    Fdsp 2.194 24 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers...
    Fdsp 2.206 22 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its perfection...betwixt more than two. I am not quite so strict in my terms, perhaps because I have never known so high a fellowship as others.
    Fdsp 2.207 21 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. ... Now this convention...destroys the high freedom of great conversation...
    Fdsp 2.208 25 The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
    Fdsp 2.208 26 That high office [friendship] requires great and sublime parts.
    Prd1 2.223 20 ...culture, revealing the high origin of the apparent world... degrades every thing else...into means.
    Prd1 2.234 24 ...timber...if laid up high and dry, will strain, warp and dry-rot;...
    Hsm1 2.254 12 The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies.
    Hsm1 2.260 20 It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person...
    Hsm1 2.262 23 The unremitting retention of simple and high sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor...
    OS 2.277 13 ...in groups where debate is earnest, and especially on high questions, the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal level in all bosoms...
    OS 2.292 3 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them...and give a high nature the refreshment and satisfaction of resistance...
    Cir 2.304 15 ...if the soul is quick and strong it...expands another orbit on the great deep, which also runs up into a high wave...
    Cir 2.307 11 If [my friend] were high enough to slight me, then could I love him...
    Cir 2.307 20 I know and see too well...the speedy limits of persons called high and worthy.
    Cir 2.312 11 ...we see literature best...from a high religion.
    Art1 2.366 24 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. High beauty is no longer attainable by him in canvas or in stone...
    Pt1 3.9 15 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line...with belts of the herbage of every latitude on its high and mottled sides;...
    Pt1 3.17 11 ...the distinctions which we make in events and in affairs, of low and high...disappear when nature is used as a symbol.
    Pt1 3.26 5 This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing...
    Exp 3.54 2 Shall I preclude my future by taking a high seat...
    Exp 3.54 26 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor, and at one whisper of these high powers we awake from ineffectual struggles with this nightmare [of science].
    Chr1 3.105 24 Two persons lately, very young children of the most high God, have given me occasion for thought.
    Chr1 3.108 14 None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his own high unprecedented way.
    Chr1 3.114 22 In society, high advantages are set down to the possessor as disadvantages.
    Mrs1 3.125 14 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type; Saladin...Pericles, and the lordliest personages. They...were too excellent themselves, to value any condition at a high rate.
    Mrs1 3.128 15 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to work, yet high power to enjoy.
    Mrs1 3.143 14 ...the curiosity with which the details of high life are read, betray[s] the universality of the love of cultivated manners.
    Mrs1 3.148 9 High behavior is as rare in fiction as it is in fact.
    Gts 3.157 2 Gifts of one who loved me,--/ 'T was high time they came;/ When he ceased to love me,/ Time they stopped for shame./
    Nat2 3.190 25 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
    NER 3.259 1 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high and dry on the beach...
    NER 3.259 4 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it...was now creating and feeding other matters at other ends of the world. But in a hundred high schools and colleges this warfare against common-sense still goes on.
    NER 3.268 5 We renounce all high aims.
    NER 3.276 9 If [a man's constitution] cannot carry itself as it ought, high and unmatchable in the presence of any man;...it is time to undervalue what he has valued...
    NER 3.284 1 As soon as a man is wonted...to see how this high will prevails without an exception or an interval, he settles himself into serenity.
    UGM 4.3 5 All mythology opens with demigods, and the circumstance is high and poetic;...
    UGM 4.17 23 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...
    UGM 4.26 2 Viewed from any high point, this city of New York...would seem a bundle of insanities.
    UGM 4.34 15 Happy, if a few names remain so high that we have not been able to read them nearer...
    PPh 4.58 13 ...[Plato] believes that poetry, prophecy and the high insight are from a wisdom of which man is not master;...
    PNR 4.89 9 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur.
    SwM 4.104 8 The robust Aristotelian method...opening, by its terminology and definition, high roads into nature, had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    SwM 4.104 18 Malpighi, following the high doctrines of Hippocrates, Leucippus and Lucretius, had given emphasis to the dogma that nature works in leasts...
    SwM 4.108 12 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again...the fingers and toes being represented this time by upper and lower teeth. This new spine is destined to high uses.
    SwM 4.109 11 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low...
    SwM 4.139 27 The teachings of the high Spirit are abstemious...
    SwM 4.142 7 These angels that Swedenborg paints give us no very high idea of their discipline and culture...
    MoS 4.156 15 [The skeptic says] Why be an angel before your time? These strings, wound up too high, will snap.
    MoS 4.160 12 ...when we build a house, the rule is to set it not too high nor too low...
    ShP 4.197 6 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone, and puts it in high place, wherever he finds it.
    NMW 4.225 14 [Napoleon] is no saint...and he is no hero, in the high sense.
    NMW 4.248 23 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches, the real and only danger to be apprehended in the Alps. On these high mountains there are often very fine days in December...
    GoW 4.285 16 Enemy of [Goethe] you may be,--if so you shall teach him aught which your good-will can not, were it only what experience will accrue from your ruin. Enemy and welcome, but enemy on high terms.
    GoW 4.290 19 The secret of genius is...in the high refinement of modern life...to exact good faith, reality and a purpose;...
    ET1 5.10 24 ...[Coleridge] burst into a declamation on the folly and ignorance of Unitarianism,--its high unreasonableness;...
    ET2 5.31 1 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay. It is a little better with the mate, and not very much better with the captain. A hundred dollars a month is reckoned high pay.
    ET4 5.48 27 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...high bribes to talent and skill;...
    ET4 5.57 12 In Norway...the actors are bonders or landholders, every one of whom is named and personally and patronymically described, as the king's friend and companion. A sparce population gives this high worth to every man.
    ET5 5.80 25 All the steps [the English] orderly take; but with the high logic of never confounding the minor and major proposition;...
    ET5 5.83 7 ...in high departments [the English] are cramped and sterile.
    ET5 5.90 9 The high civil and legal offices [in England] are not beds of ease...
    ET5 5.90 19 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and when they find one...there is nothing too good or too high for him.
    ET8 5.128 21 ...I suppose never nation built their party-walls so thick, or their garden-fences so high [as the English].
    ET8 5.139 3 High and low, [the English] are of an unctuous texture.
    ET10 5.164 22 High stone fences and padlocked garden-gates announce the absolute will of the [English] owner to be alone.
    ET11 5.174 11 ...the terms of admission to this club [English aristocracy] are hard and high.
    ET11 5.184 22 In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the high commissions...
    ET11 5.188 11 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that besides does and pheasants, these have preserved Arundel marbles...
    ET11 5.198 12 It is computed that, with titles and without, there are seventy thousand of these people coming and going in London, who make up what is called high society.
    ET12 5.212 9 ...the great number of cultivated men [in England] keep each other up to a high standard.
    ET13 5.220 7 Heats and genial periods arrive in history, or, shall we say, plenitudes of Divine Presence, by which high tides are caused in the human spirit...
    ET13 5.229 15 Thackeray exposes the heartless high life.
    ET14 5.243 15 These heights [of the Elizabethan age] were followed by a meanness and a descent of the mind into lower levels; the loss of wings; no high speculation.
    ET14 5.244 18 Milton, who was the stair or high table-land to let down the English genius from the summits of Shakspeare, used this privilege [of generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose.
    ET14 5.248 14 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon...
    ET14 5.248 25 Coleridge...who wrote and spoke the only high criticism in his time, is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
    ET14 5.250 27 ...a master should inspire a confidence that he will adhere to his convictions and give his present studies always the same high place.
    ET14 5.258 6 The best office of the best poets has been to show...that only once or twice they have struck the high chord.
    ET15 5.263 6 [Writing for English journals] comes of the crowded state of the professions, the violent interest which all men take in politics, the facility of experimenting in the journals, and high pay.
    ET15 5.272 4 It is usually pretended...that the English press has a high tone...
    ET16 5.273 14 I was glad...to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man on whose genius I set a very high value [Carlyle]...
    ET16 5.274 7 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit.
    ET16 5.282 2 ...here is the high point of Stukeley's] theory [of Stonehenge]...
    ET16 5.284 18 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube, 30 feet high, by 30 feet wide, by 60 feet long...
    ET16 5.288 21 There, in that great sloven continent [America], in high Alleghany pastures...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...
    ET16 5.290 11 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there, but his remains were removed by Henry I. to the new Abbey in the meadows at Hyde, on the northern quarter of the city, and laid under the high altar.
    ET17 5.294 6 At Edinburgh...I made the acquaintance...of the Messrs. Chambers, and of a man of high character and genius, the short-lived painter, David Scott.
    ET17 5.296 6 ...perhaps it is a high compliment to the cultivation of the English generally, when we find such a man [as Wordsworth] not distinguished.
    F 6.12 17 ...with high magnifiers, Mr. Frauenhofer...might come to distinguish in the embryo...this is a Whig...
    F 6.21 1 ...if we give it the high sense in which the poets use it, even thought itself is not above Fate;...
    F 6.21 6 ...high over thought...Fate appears as vindicator...
    F 6.47 2 ...hence the high caution, that since we are sure of having what we wish, we beware to ask only for high things.
    F 6.47 4 ...hence the high caution, that since we are sure of having what we wish, we beware to ask only for high things.
    Pow 6.72 16 This aboriginal might gives a surprising pleasure when it appears under conditions of supreme refinement, as in the proficients in high art.
    Pow 6.75 3 One of the high anecdotes of the world is the reply of Newton to the inquiry how he had been able to achieve his discoveries?--By always intending my mind.
    Wth 6.91 13 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished; as if virtue were coming to be a luxury...as Burke said, at a market almost too high for humanity.
    Ctr 6.132 19 ...nature has secured individualism by giving the private person a high conceit of his weight in the system.
    Ctr 6.139 7 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...with the high resources of philosophy, art and religion;...
    Ctr 6.149 20 You cannot have one well-bred man without a whole society of such. They keep each other up to any high point.
    Ctr 6.150 6 ...we must remember the high social possibilities of a million of men.
    Ctr 6.156 18 The high advantage of university life is often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and fire...
    Ctr 6.160 9 Even a high dome, and the expansive interior of a cathedral, have a sensible effect on manners.
    Ctr 6.160 12 I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings and in spacious halls.
    Ctr 6.163 15 ...mere amiableness must not take rank with high aims and self-subsistency.
    Ctr 6.164 5 The high virtues are not debonair...
    Bhr 6.171 13 The mediocre circle learns to demand that which belongs to a high state of nature or of culture.
    Bhr 6.171 17 Your manners are always under examination, and by committees little suspected...who are awarding or denying you very high prizes when you least think of it.
    Bhr 6.172 8 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has...
    Bhr 6.182 18 Palaces interest us mainly in the exhibition of manners, which, in the idle and expensive society dwelling in them, are raised to a high art.
    Bhr 6.192 2 The boy [in earlier novels] was to be raised from a humble to a high position.
    Wsp 6.232 21 A high aim reacts on the means, on the days, on the organs of the body.
    Wsp 6.232 22 A high aim is curative, as well as arnica.
    Wsp 6.242 8 Honor and fortune exist to him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great,--always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
    CbW 6.258 17 In the high prophetic phrase, He causes the wrath of man to praise him...
    CbW 6.267 5 ...the high prize of life...is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds [a man] in employment and happiness...
    CbW 6.268 4 [The young people] set forth on their travels in search of a home...they look at the farms;--good farms, high mountain-sides;...
    CbW 6.277 13 ...when you tax [men] with treachery, and remind them of their high resolutions, they have forgotten that they made a vow.
    Bty 6.289 5 ...as fast as [a man] sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.
    Bty 6.294 23 ...in general, it is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
    Bty 6.300 27 Sir Philip Sidney...Ben Jonson tells us, was no pleasant man in countenance, his face being spoiled with pimples, and of high blood, and long.
    Bty 6.306 1 All high beauty has a moral element in it...
    Ill 6.309 11 [In the Mammoth Cave] I saw high domes and bottomless pits;...
    Ill 6.310 22 Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead [in the Mammoth Cave], reflecting the light of a half-hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect.
    SS 7.13 14 In society, high advantages are set down to the individual as disqualifications.
    SS 7.13 18 So many men whom I know are degraded by their sympathies; their native aims being high enough, but their relation all too tender to the gross people about them.
    Civ 7.25 16 The skill that pervades complex details; the man that maintains himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms and utilize evil which is the index of high civilization.
    Civ 7.26 4 High degrees of moral sentiment control the unfavorable influences of climate;...
    Civ 7.26 16 There can be no high civility without a deep morality...
    Elo1 7.64 1 No man has a prosperity so high or firm but two or three words can dishearten it.
    Elo1 7.71 6 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard...
    Elo1 7.79 24 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life...who are felt wherever they go...and these examples may be found on very humble platforms as well as on high ones.
    Elo1 7.79 25 In old countries a high money value is set on the services of men who have achieved a personal distinction.
    DL 7.103 9 ...[the nestler's] tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother, who is a sort of high reposing Providence toward it.
    DL 7.116 27 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must come with plain living and high thinking;...
    Farm 7.147 14 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it...grows three or four hundred feet high...
    Farm 7.148 8 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias, built a high wall...
    Farm 7.148 15 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...
    Boks 7.190 24 We owe to books those general benefits which come from high intellectual action.
    Boks 7.211 26 Now and then out of that affluence of [the German's] learning comes a fine sentence from Theophrastus, or Seneca, or Boethius, but no high method, no inspiring efflux.
    Clbs 7.241 22 ...the simple lover of truth, especially on very high grounds... finds himself a stranger and alien.
    Clbs 7.242 11 Does it never occur that we perhaps live with people too superior to be seen,--as there are musical notes too high for the scale of most ears?
    Cour 7.258 1 ...the high price of courage indicates the general timidity.
    Suc 7.288 11 These [American] feats have to be sure great difference of merit, and some of them involve power of a high kind.
    Suc 7.306 3 That is the great happiness of life,--to add to our high acquaintances.
    PI 8.13 10 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift...
    PI 8.31 6 ...high poetry exceeds the fact...
    PI 8.40 3 The reason we set so high a value on any poetry...is that it is a new work of Nature...
    PI 8.63 6 We are sometimes apprised that...the high poets...do not fully content us.
    PI 8.64 24 Bring us...poetry which tastes the world and reports of it, upbuilding the world again in the thought;--Not with tickling rhymes,/ But high and noble matter, such as flies/ From brains entranced, and filled with ecstasies./
    PI 8.65 4 ...when we speak of the Poet in any high sense, we are driven to such examples as Zoroaster and Plato...with their moral burdens.
    PI 8.73 5 The high poetry which shall thrill and agitate mankind...is deeper hid...
    PI 8.74 22 We too shall know how to take up...this Western civilization, into thought...but not by holding it high, but by holding it low.
    SA 8.82 4 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs. ... Are they encroaching? he is dignified and inexorable. And this scene is daily repeated in hovels as well as in high houses.
    SA 8.85 15 ...youth in America is wont to be...not in society where high behavior could be taught.
    Elo2 8.118 4 If the performance of the advocate reaches any high success it is paid in England with dignities in the professions...
    Elo2 8.129 3 It is this wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating and wrestling, that is the boast of English education, and of high importance to the matter in hand.
    Elo2 8.129 5 Lord Ashley, in 1696, while the bill for regulating trials in cases of high treason was pending, attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
    Elo2 8.130 18 [Eloquence] leads us to the high class...
    Res 8.152 1 ...the uses of the woods are many, and some of them for the scholar high and peremptory.
    Comc 8.169 13 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;... It affects us oddly, as...to see a man in a high wind run after his hat, which is always droll.
    Comc 8.171 19 A lady of high rank...had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure...
    QO 8.178 2 Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.
    QO 8.196 27 In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too much honor...
    QO 8.202 10 There is always in [originals] a style and weight of speech... which cannot be counterfeited. Hence the permanence of the high poets.
    PC 8.206 1 From high to higher forces/ The scale of power uprears/...
    PC 8.209 8 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...all, one may say, in a high degree revolutionary...
    PC 8.226 10 The benefactors we have indicated were...great because exceptional. The question which the present age urges...is whether the high qualities which distinguished them can be imparted.
    PC 8.227 16 ...the recurrence to high sources is rare.
    PC 8.232 14 ...wherever high society exists it is very well able to exclude pretenders.
    PC 8.234 6 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up,-what high personal worth, what love of men, what hope, is joined with rich information and practical power...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    PPo 8.249 10 Nothing is too high, nothing too low for [Hafiz's] occasion.
    PPo 8.253 26 High heart, O Hafiz! though not thine/ Fine gold and silver ore;/ More worth to thee the gift of song,/ And the clear insight more./
    PPo 8.260 20 I have sought for thee a costlier dome/ Than Mahmoud's palace high,/ And thou, returning, find thy home/ In the apple of Love's eye./
    Insp 8.269 9 ...every reasonable man would give any price...for condensation, concentration and the recalling at will of high mental energy.
    Insp 8.283 17 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low.
    Insp 8.294 23 We...cannot control and domesticate at will the high states of contemplation and continuous thought.
    Imtl 8.347 18 [Future state] is not duration, but a taking of the soul out of time, as all high action of the mind does...
    Dem1 10.9 4 We are let by this experience [of dreams] into the high region of Cause...
    Dem1 10.22 8 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that he...obeys a high family destiny;...
    Dem1 10.25 25 Mesmerism is high life below stairs;...
    Aris 10.38 14 ...they only prosper or they prosper best...who engineer in sword and cannon style, with energy and sharpness. Why, but because courage never loses its high price?
    Aris 10.59 9 ...we can only indicate [grand interests] to show how high is the range of the realm of Honor.
    Aris 10.65 5 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit...will use a high prudence in the conduct of life to guard himself from being dissipated on many things.
    Aris 10.65 11 ...it suffices that [a man of generous spirit's] aims are high...
    Chr2 10.90 7 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/ I count as many as there are/ Cinquefoils or violets in the grass,/ So many saints and saviours,/ So many high behaviours./
    Chr2 10.93 13 ...the high, contemplative, all-commanding vision...is alike in all.
    Chr2 10.95 1 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/...
    Chr2 10.100 8 Men appear from time to time who receive with more purity and fulness these high communications.
    Chr2 10.117 8 In the worst times, men of organic virtue are born...and indifferently in high and low conditions.
    Edc1 10.126 14 ...when one and the same man...leaves...the stupor of the senses, to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits disappear.
    Edc1 10.141 15 ...if circumstances do not permit the high social advantages, solitude has also its lessons.
    Supl 10.167 7 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington...
    SovE 10.185 12 The high intellect is absolutely at one with moral nature.
    MoL 10.241 17 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...in regard to the career of letters...its high office in evil times.
    MoL 10.249 8 ...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy, low as well as high...
    Schr 10.271 4 Will [wealth] build its fences very high...
    Schr 10.272 11 The unmentionable dollar itself has at last a high origin in moral and metaphysical nature.
    Schr 10.278 17 It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country with them.
    Plu 10.291 6 ...Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,/ The Catos, the wise patriots of Rome,/ Shall flock to you and tarry by your side/ And comfort you with their high company./
    Plu 10.298 17 ...eminently social, [Plutarch]...knew the high value of good conversation;...
    Plu 10.306 20 The central fact is the superhuman intelligence, pouring into us from its unknown fountain, to be...defended from any mixture of our will. But this high Muse comes and goes;...
    Plu 10.307 7 Whilst we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet, we praise it in...the man who lives on quiet terms with existing institutions, yet indicates his perception of these high oracles;...
    Plu 10.311 6 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly...to the study of the Beautiful and Good. Hence...his clear convictions of the high destiny of the soul.
    LLNE 10.338 7 Unexpected aid from high quarters came to inconoclasts.
    MMEm 10.397 20 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./
    MMEm 10.398 7 [Lucy Percy] is of too high a mind and dignity not only to seek, but almost to wish, the friendship of any creature.
    MMEm 10.401 17 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years. It was...within sight of the White Mountains, with a little lake in front at the foot of a high hill called Bear Mountain.
    MMEm 10.403 13 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism, with its high and mysterious elections to eternal bliss...would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron's] imagination.
    MMEm 10.408 3 As by seeing a high tragedy, reading a true poem...by society with [Mary Moody Emerson], one's mind is electrified and purged.
    MMEm 10.421 7 High, solemn, entrancing noon, prophetic of the approach of the Presiding Spirit of Autumn.
    MMEm 10.422 24 To her nephew Charles [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: War; what do I think of it? Why in your ear I think it so much better than oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it would be an omen of high and glorious import.
    MMEm 10.432 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] gave high counsels.
    MMEm 10.432 19 It was the privilege of certain boys to have [Mary Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood;...
    SlHr 10.439 6 [Samuel Hoar] was a very natural, but a very high character;...
    Thor 10.463 3 ...setting, like all highly organized men, a high value on his time, [Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town...
    Carl 10.492 22 [Carlyle says] St. John was insulted by the Dutch; he came home, got the law passed that foreign vessels should pay high fees, and it cut the throat of the Dutch, and made the English trade.
    Carl 10.498 3 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society,-a very few houses only in the high circles being ever opened to them,-[Carlyle] has carried himself erect...
    GSt 10.501 2 High virtue has such an air of nature and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise the water for flowing...
    HDC 11.73 22 This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river...
    EWI 11.124 5 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa? That was a great way off; and the scenes could be endured by some sturdy, unscrupulous fellows, who could go, for high wages, and bring us the men...
    War 11.155 16 ...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this; turns its energies into harmless, useful and high courses...
    FSLC 11.195 9 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America.
    FSLC 11.213 25 It is very certain from...the high arguments of the defenders of liberty, which the occasion [the Fugitive Slave Law] called out, that there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for the spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
    FSLN 11.219 15 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of...men of high station...but men without self-respect...
    FSLN 11.224 8 Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical moments in history...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    AsSu 11.251 2 ...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. It is the high compliment he pays to the intelligence of the Senate and of the country.
    AsSu 11.251 18 ...I wish, sir, that the high respects of this meeting shall be expressed to Mr. Sumner;...
    TPar 11.290 3 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...leaving your principles at home to follow on the high seas or in Europe a supple complaisance to tyrants,-it is a hypocrisy...
    TPar 11.290 20 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses. He kept nothing back. In terrible earnest he...meted out to every official, high and low, his due portion.
    Wom 11.424 21 The aspiration of this century will be the code of the next. It holds of high and distant causes...
    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 11.463 6 If only as an eminent antiquary who has shed light on the history of Europe and of the English race, [Scott] had high claims to our regard.
    Scot 11.464 18 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep and use, but without any ambition to write a high poem after a classic model.
    ChiE 11.473 23 ...the like high esteem of education appears in China in social life...
    FRep 11.520 6 Our politics are full of adventurers, who...think they can afford to join the devil's party. 'T is odious, these offenders in high life.
    FRep 11.544 1 Such and so potent is this high method by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse ingenuity prevent the blessing.
    PLT 12.30 25 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
    PLT 12.45 2 ...if [we converse] with high things...the interval becomes a gulf and we cannot enter into the highest good.
    PLT 12.60 5 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth; as if the growth of high powers...closed at two or three years in the child...
    II 12.77 25 ...one day, though far off, you will attain the control of these [higher] states;...you will do what now the muses only sing. That is the nobility and high prize of the world.
    Mem 12.96 11 This is the high difference, the quality of the association by which a man remembers.
    Mem 12.102 18 ...I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
    CInt 12.120 25 You, gentlemen, are...set apart through some strong persuasion of your own, or of your friends, that you were capable of the high privilege of thought.
    CInt 12.127 15 You all well know...the facility with which men renounce their youthful aims and say, the labor is too severe, the prize too high for me;...
    CInt 12.132 5 ...old men cannot see...the institutions, the laws under which they have lived, passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of your high calling...
    CL 12.144 20 One more inconveniency [to walking], I remember, they showed me in Illinois, that, in the bottom lands, the grass was fourteen feet high.
    CL 12.163 9 If we should now say a few words on the advantages that belong to the conversation with Nature, I might set them so high as to make it a religious duty.
    Bost 12.190 2 Massachusetts in particular, [John Smith] calls the paradise of these parts, notices its high mountain, and its river...
    Bost 12.202 17 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...fill the high seats...
    MAng1 12.243 18 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery, with their high reliefs, cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.
    Milt1 12.256 12 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
    Milt1 12.265 20 [Milton] accepts a high impulse at every risk...
    Milt1 12.266 13 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood.
    Milt1 12.266 22 [Milton] told the bishops that...they seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.
    MLit 12.326 24 ...[Goethe's] thinking is...not a succession of summits, but a high Asiatic table-land.
    MLit 12.332 6 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease; since, lacking this, he failed in the high sense to be a creator...
    WSL 12.348 13 ...[Landor] has not the high, overpowering method by which the master gives unity and integrity to a work of many parts.
    EurB 12.372 17 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry...
    EurB 12.377 5 ...high behavior fraternized with high behavior [in the society in Wilhelm Meister]...
    PPr 12.384 27 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism tossed like a football into the air...
    Let 12.393 12 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.
    Let 12.393 13 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air to orchards and lone houses, and also to other high fliers... that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.
    Let 12.393 19 When children come into the library, we put the inkstand and the watch on the high shelf...
    Let 12.393 21 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in plain sight and use, but laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some mad Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.

high, adv. (22)

    AmS 1.88 3 Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does [nature] soar...
    Comp 2.100 11 If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.
    Cir 2.322 5 A man, said Oliver Cromwell, never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.
    Exp 3.60 12 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics...to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
    Pol1 3.218 14 Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough...
    SwM 4.142 26 ...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some sort, love is greater than God, his heart beats so high that the thumping against his leathern coat is audible across the centuries.
    ET3 5.35 1 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball, high and low...
    ET6 5.109 4 Domesticity is the taproot which enables the nation [England] to branch wide and high.
    ET11 5.176 2 [French and English nobles] were looked on as men who played high for a great stake.
    Ctr 6.162 23 He who aims high must dread an easy home and popular manners.
    Civ 7.31 13 Tobacco and opium...will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
    Cour 7.279 16 Still firm the hunter stood,/ Although his heart beat high;/ Again the creature stopped,/ And gazed with wondering eye./
    Suc 7.308 4 Your theory is unimportant; but what new stock you can add to humanity, or how high you can carry life?
    Res 8.149 19 When now and then the vaulted roof [of the Mammoth Cave] rises high overhead...'t is but gloom on gloom.
    PerF 10.77 7 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources]...
    PLT 12.4 25 No matter how far or how high science explores, it adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears;...
    ACri 12.293 24 There is no such master of low style as [Shakespeare], and therefore none can securely soar so high.
    ACri 12.297 16 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly, now high, now low...
    Pray 12.354 8 Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf/ Than that I may not disappoint myself,/ That in my action I may soar as high,/ As I can now discern with this clear eye./
    EurB 12.369 14 ...that which rose in [Wordsworth] so high as to the lips, rose in many others as high as to the heart.
    EurB 12.369 15 ...that which rose in [Wordsworth] so high as to the lips, rose in many others as high as to the heart.
    PPr 12.385 6 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.

High Force, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.182 7 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three miles from High Force...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.

High, Most, n. (1)

    F 6.29 5 Each pulse from that heart [the moral sentiment] is an oath from the Most High.

high, n. (10)

    Nat 1.71 25 ...[the structure] once fitted [man], now it corresponds to him from far and on high.
    DSA 1.125 21 ...when he chooses, warned from on high, the good and great deed; then, deep melodies wander through [man's] soul from Supreme Wisdom.
    Chr1 3.94 5 When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it...
    F 6.21 8 ...high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low...
    F 6.25 19 This beatitude dips from on high down on us and we see.
    SS 7.1 2 Seyd melted the days like cups of pearl,/ Served high and low, the lord and churl/...
    DL 7.103 15 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high...soften all hearts to pity...
    PPo 8.259 11 The same confusion of high and low...is habitual to [Hafiz].
    FSLN 11.236 11 ...our education is...to know...that divine sentiments which are always soliciting us are breathed into us from on high...
    ACri 12.294 3 ...in the conduct of the play, and the speech of the heroes, [Shakespeare] keeps the level tone which is the tone of high and low alike...

high-born, adj. (3)

    Bhr 6.184 21 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied that every woman seemed to be suffering for a chair;...
    Boks 7.216 4 We admire parks, and high-born beauties...
    Edc1 10.151 17 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?

high-born, n. (1)

    CbW 6.260 2 Marcus Antoninus says that Fronto told him that the so-called high-born are for the most part heartless;...

high-bred, adj. (2)

    HCom 11.344 17 These [Harvard] men, thus tender, thus high-bred, thus peaceable, were always in the front and always employed.
    EurB 12.378 11 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...instead of a noble high-bred ease, to have the courage to offend against every restraint of decorum...

high-breeding, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.148 2 ...although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage [of the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe], in particulars we should detect offence.

higher, adj. (245)

    Nat 1.11 1 [The waving of the boughs'] effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me...
    Nat 1.19 21 The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to [nature's] perfection.
    Nat 1.34 11 ...the light of higher laws than [the universe's] own shines through it.
    Nat 1.49 24 Until this higher agency intervened, the animal eye sees...sharp outlines and colored surfaces.
    Nat 1.50 8 The best moments of life are these delicious awakenings of the higher powers...
    Nat 1.51 22 In a higher manner the poet communicates the same pleasure.
    Nat 1.75 5 We make fables to hide the baldness of the fact and conform it... to the higher law of the mind.
    Nat 1.75 8 ...when the fact is seen under the light of an idea, the gaudy fable fades and shrivels. We behold the real higher law.
    AmS 1.99 6 Character is higher than intellect.
    LE 1.155 21 [The scholar's] failures...are inlets to higher advantages.
    LE 1.184 6 ...out of this superior frankness and charity you shall learn higher secrets of your nature...
    MN 1.192 21 That splendid results ensue from the labors of stupid men, is the fruit of higher laws than their will...
    MN 1.217 23 ...if the object [beloved] be not itself a living and expanding soul, [the lover] presently exhausts it. But the love remains in his mind, and the wisdom it brought him; and it craves a new and higher object.
    MN 1.222 19 The only way into nature is to enact our best insight. Instantly we are higher poets...
    MR 1.236 19 We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments...in the work of our hands.
    LT 1.286 16 The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this... that, affirming the need of new and higher modes of living and action, they have abstained from the recommendation of low methods.
    Con 1.324 26 I am primarily engaged to myself...to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence and good will at the heart of things, and ever higher and yet higher leadings.
    Tran 1.330 4 ...the idealist contends that his way of thinking is in higher nature.
    Tran 1.338 19 Only in the instinct of the lower animals we find the suggestion of the methods of [the purely spiritual life], and something higher than our understanding.
    YA 1.384 3 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...setting a higher value on the private family...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    YA 1.384 7 ...the Communities aimed at a higher success in securing to all their members an equal and thorough education.
    YA 1.393 17 It is a questionable compensation to the embittered feeling of a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop...is himself also an aspirant excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
    Hist 2.22 9 The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly, which drives the cattle mad, and so compels the tribe...to drive off the cattle to the higher sandy regions.
    Hist 2.33 9 ...if the man...refuses the dominion of facts, as one that comes of a higher race;...then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...
    SL 2.138 23 ...a higher law than that of our will regulates events;...
    Lov1 2.184 1 ...things are ever grouping themselves according to higher or more interior laws.
    Lov1 2.184 8 ...the step backward from the higher to the lower relations is impossible.
    Fdsp 2.213 1 The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.
    Fdsp 2.214 18 ...thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform...
    Prd1 2.233 4 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. Whilst something higher than prudence is active, he is admirable; when common sense is wanted, he is an encumbrance.
    Prd1 2.235 14 Let [a man] learn a prudence of a higher strain.
    Hsm1 2.251 8 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he... knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists.
    Hsm1 2.263 19 ...in the hour when we are deaf to the higher voices, who does not envy those who have seen safely to an end their manful endeavor?
    OS 2.268 8 I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
    OS 2.277 22 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. ... All are conscious of attaining to a higher self-possession.
    OS 2.278 20 I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbors, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play...
    OS 2.286 21 Neither his age...nor talents...can hinder [a man] from being deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
    Cir 2.308 18 ...we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.
    Cir 2.314 17 Omnipresence is a higher fact.
    Cir 2.316 2 ...one man's wisdom [is] another's folly; as one beholds the same objects from a higher point.
    Cir 2.316 20 ...the progress of my character will liquidate all these debts without injustice to higher claims.
    Cir 2.320 3 No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.
    Art1 2.352 4 ...that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual activity...is the inlet of that higher illumination which teaches to convey a larger sense by simpler symbols.
    Art1 2.353 14 ...that which is inevitable in the work [of art] has a higher charm than individual talent can ever give...
    Art1 2.356 27 ...as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art [of painting], I see the boundless opulence of the pencil...
    Art1 2.363 13 There is higher work for Art than the arts.
    Art1 2.367 2 ...the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.
    Pt1 3.13 10 ...let us...observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming, namely by the beauty of things, which becomes a new and higher beauty when expressed.
    Pt1 3.20 26 ...[the poet]...perceives...that within the form of every creature is a force impelling it to ascend into a higher form;...
    Pt1 3.21 6 All the facts of the animal economy...are symbols of the passage of the world into the soul of man, to suffer there a change and reappear a new and higher fact.
    Pt1 3.24 6 ...nature has a higher end, in the production of new individuals, than security, namely ascension...
    Pt1 3.24 9 ...nature has a higher end, in the production of new individuals, than security, namely...the passage of the soul into higher forms.
    Pt1 3.25 5 Like the metamorphosis of things into higher organic forms is [the poet's thoughts'] change into melodies.
    Pt1 3.36 12 ...the same man or society of men may wear one aspect to themselves and their companions, and a different aspect to higher intelligences.
    Chr1 3.94 2 Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a certain sleep.
    Chr1 3.95 19 The will of the pure runs down from them into other natures, as water runs down from a higher into a lower vessel.
    Mrs1 3.147 15 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...
    Mrs1 3.149 5 ...[a beautiful behavior] gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures;...
    Nat2 3.187 22 The poet, the prophet, has a higher value for what he utters than any hearer...
    Pol1 3.206 17 ...by a higher law, the property will, year after year, write every statute that respects property.
    Pol1 3.219 18 [The movement toward self-government] promises a recognition of higher rights than those of personal freedom...
    NR 3.233 17 It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself. A higher pleasure of the same kind I found lately at a concert, where I went to hear Handel's Messiah.
    NER 3.270 10 Life must be lived on a higher plane.
    NER 3.270 11 We must go up to a higher platform...
    NER 3.277 8 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform...
    NER 3.281 25 ...man stands in strict connection with a higher fact never yet manifested.
    NER 3.283 5 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who shall enjoy his connection with a higher life...
    NER 3.285 9 The life of man is the true romance, which...will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
    UGM 4.6 10 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought...
    UGM 4.10 18 We are entitled...to higher advantages.
    UGM 4.16 23 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds;...
    PPh 4.41 11 ...wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works.
    PPh 4.43 4 Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
    PPh 4.46 9 The same weakness and want, on a higher plane, occurs daily in the education of ardent young men and women.
    SwM 4.93 6 A higher class...are the poets...
    SwM 4.95 16 The privilege of this caste [the saints] is an access to the secrets and structure of nature by some higher method than by experience.
    SwM 4.108 16 Within [the skull], on a higher plane, all that was done in the trunk repeats itself.
    SwM 4.108 18 Within [the skull], on a higher plane, all that was done in the trunk repeats itself. Nature recites her lesson once more in a higher mood.
    SwM 4.115 9 The second and next higher form is the circular...
    SwM 4.129 8 ...it is only when you leave and lose me by casting yourself on a sentiment which is higher than both of us, that I draw near and find myself at your side;...
    SwM 4.129 18 ...I adore the greater worth in another, and so become his wife. He aspires to a higher worth in another spirit, and is wife or receiver of that influence.
    SwM 4.133 15 Every thought [in Swedenborg's system of the world] comes into each mind by influence from a society of spirits that surround it, and into these from a higher society, and so on.
    NMW 4.243 3 In 1814, when advised to rely on the higher classes, Napoleon said to those around him, Gentlemen...my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs.
    GoW 4.264 10 This striving after imitative expression...is significant of the aim of nature, but is mere stenography. There are higher degrees...
    GoW 4.266 19 If I were to compare action of a much higher strain with a life of contemplation, I should not venture to pronounce with much confidence in favor of the former.
    GoW 4.267 17 ...in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
    GoW 4.275 17 Man and the higher animals are built up through the vertebrae, the powers being concentrated in the head [wrote Goethe].
    GoW 4.278 8 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with...so many unexpected glimpses into a higher sphere...
    GoW 4.278 14 ...those who begin [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] with the higher hope to read in it a worthy history of genius...have also reason to complain.
    GoW 4.283 6 ...almost all the valuable distinctions which are current in higher conversation have been derived to us from Germany.
    GoW 4.289 2 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power. The idea of absolute, eternal truth...is higher.
    GoW 4.289 4 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power. ... The surrender to the torrent of poetic inspiration is higher;...
    ET1 5.21 8 Lucretius [Wordsworth] esteems a far higher poet than Virgil;...
    ET4 5.56 21 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... Of course they come into the fight from a higher ground of power than the land-nations;...
    ET8 5.140 5 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...for whatever turned up, he was never in higher nor in lower spirits...
    ET10 5.155 1 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders.
    ET11 5.195 24 In the university, the [English] noblemen are exempted from the public exercises for the degree...by which they attain a degree called honorary. At the same time, the fees they have to pay for matriculation, and on all other occasions, are much higher.
    ET14 5.240 9 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality, or prima philosophia; the receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy, but are more common and of a higher stage.
    ET14 5.240 13 [Bacon] held this element [prima philosophia] essential... believing that no perfect discovery can be made in a flat or level, but you must ascend to a higher science.
    ET15 5.268 4 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom.
    F 6.34 6 It has not fared much otherwise with higher kinds of steam.
    F 6.36 1 The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of higher.
    F 6.36 14 The whole circle of animal life...until at last...the whole chemical mass is mellowed and refined for higher use-pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    Wth 6.125 5 ...there is nothing in [a man's] brain which is not repeated in a higher sphere in his moral system.
    Wth 6.125 9 ...the royal rule of economy is that...whatever we do must always have a higher aim.
    Wth 6.126 14 [The liquor of life] passes through the sacred fermentations, by that law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms...
    Wth 6.126 17 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes, in higher laboratories, imagery and thought;...
    Wth 6.126 18 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance.
    Wth 6.126 23 The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane;...
    Wth 6.127 3 Nor is the man enriched...unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.
    Ctr 6.160 1 When our higher faculties are in activity we are domesticated...
    Ctr 6.160 17 ...culture must reinforce from higher influx the empirical skills of eloquence, or of politics...
    Ctr 6.160 25 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order... will come to affairs as from a higher ground...
    Ctr 6.161 15 Burke descended from a higher sphere when he would influence human affairs.
    Ctr 6.161 20 ...there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices but for proficients.
    Ctr 6.165 14 The fossil strata show us that Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place; and that the lower perish as the higher appear.
    Bhr 6.177 26 In some respects the animals excel us. The birds have a longer sight, beside the advantage by their wings of a higher observatory.
    Wsp 6.209 27 In this country...the phrase higher law became a political gibe.
    Wsp 6.216 23 ...we very slowly admit in another man a higher degree of moral sentiment than our own...
    Wsp 6.239 7 'T is a higher thing to confide that if it is best we should live, we shall live...
    Wsp 6.239 8 'T is a higher thing to confide that if it is best we should live, we shall live,--'t is higher to have this conviction than to have the lease of indefinite centuries and millenniums and aeons.
    Wsp 6.239 11 Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving.
    Bty 6.299 8 Portrait painters say that most faces and forms are irregular and unsymmetrical;...the nose not straight, and one shoulder higher than another;...
    SS 7.11 10 As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
    SS 7.15 1 A higher civility will reestablish in our customs a certain reverence which we have lost.
    Civ 7.26 3 Where the banana grows the animal system is...pampered at the cost of higher qualities...
    Civ 7.27 8 Everything good in man leans on what is higher.
    Art2 7.45 11 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian. And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian, these...are the basis on which the fine spirit rears a higher delight...
    Elo1 7.66 14 There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede;...
    Elo1 7.69 16 ...in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art [of eloquence].
    Elo1 7.73 16 In these examples [of eloquence], higher qualities have already entered...
    Elo1 7.73 19 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits.
    Elo1 7.75 6 These accomplishments [of eloquence] are of the same kind, and only a degree higher than the coaxing of the auctioneer...
    Elo1 7.79 3 A supreme commander over all his passions and affections; but the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that.
    Elo1 7.88 8 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which requires immeasurably higher powers...
    Elo1 7.89 22 By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and magnificence wherever he goes.
    Elo1 7.94 20 If you would lift me you must be on higher ground.
    DL 7.102 3 Spirits of a higher strain/ Who sought thee once shall seek again./
    DL 7.111 9 Take off all the roofs...and we shall seldom find the temple of any higher god than Prudence.
    DL 7.113 3 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted; they are many and great. Nor are they to be disposed of by any criticism or amendment of particulars taken one at a time, but only by the arrangement of the household to a higher end than those to which our dwellings are usually built and furnished.
    DL 7.115 6 We owe to man higher succors than food and fire.
    DL 7.118 15 [The great] call into activity the higher perceptions...
    DL 7.118 16 ...the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere;...
    DL 7.127 7 The first glance we meet may satisfy us that matter is the vehicle of higher powers than its own...
    Farm 7.145 16 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly. It is almost inevitable to push the generalization up into higher parts of Nature...
    WD 7.159 23 Lord Chancellor Thurlow thought [steam] might be made to draw bills and answers in chancery. If that were satire, yet it is coming to render many higher services of a mechanico-intellectual kind...
    WD 7.183 25 ...the least acceleration of thought and the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of vast duration. We call it time; but when that acceleration and that deepening take effect, it acquires another and higher name.
    Boks 7.198 17 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...yet with no less security of bold and perfect song, when he cares to use it, and with some harp-strings fetched from a higher heaven.
    Clbs 7.227 21 ...in higher activity of mind, every new perception is attended with a thrill of pleasure...
    Cour 7.262 19 Knowledge is the antidote to fear,--Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
    Cour 7.275 9 There are degrees of courage, and each step upward makes us acquainted with a higher virtue.
    Suc 7.287 3 I don't know but we and our race elsewhere set a higher value on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other men...
    Suc 7.294 27 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency. He has thereby...got the appointment; but you have raised yourself into a higher school of art...
    PI 8.4 15 ...the creation is...in transit, always...streaming into something higher;...
    PI 8.8 1 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms...
    PI 8.8 2 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest...
    PI 8.8 26 Each animal or vegetable form remembers the next inferior and predicts the next higher.
    PI 8.14 20 This belief that the higher use of the material world is to furnish us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind, is carried to its logical extreme by the Hindoos...
    PI 8.21 25 [The poet] observes higher laws than he transgresses.
    PI 8.23 4 The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols;...
    PI 8.34 11 ...every word in language...becomes poetic in the hands of a higher thought.
    PI 8.38 25 ...there is a third step which poetry takes, and which seems higher than the others, namely, creation...
    PI 8.42 22 [Everything] suggests that there is higher poetry than we write or read.
    PI 8.47 4 ...in higher degrees, we know the instant power of music upon our temperaments to change our mood...
    PI 8.56 16 ...I honor the geometer, but he has before him higher power and happiness than he knows.
    SA 8.97 18 Here is...strong understanding, and the higher gifts...
    Elo2 8.113 16 ...[the orator]...creates a higher appetite than he satisfies.
    Elo2 8.121 14 In moments of clearer thought or deeper sympathy, the voice will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much as the auditor; he also is a sharer of the higher wind that blows over his strings.
    Res 8.150 2 ...we learn that our doctrine of resources must be carried into higher application...
    QO 8.177 7 If we go into a library or newsroom, we see the same function [of suction] of a higher plane...
    PC 8.206 1 From high to higher forces/ The scale of power uprears/...
    PPo 8.258 21 Ibn Jemin writes thus:-Whilst I disdain the populace,/ I find no peer in higher place./ Friend is a word of royal tone,/ Friend is a poem all alone./
    Insp 8.275 20 ...ecstasy will be found...only an example on a higher plane of the same gentle gravitation by which stones fall and rivers run.
    Insp 8.275 27 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain, and the mode precisely as conceivable and familiar to higher intelligence as the index-making of the literary hack.
    Insp 8.277 4 Garrick said that on the stage his great paroxysms surprised himself as much as his audience. If this is true on this low plane, it is true on the higher.
    Insp 8.293 4 If the tone of the companion is higher than ours, we delight in rising to it.
    Imtl 8.339 18 ...a higher poetic use must be made of the legend [of the Wandering Jew].
    Imtl 8.346 4 The real evidence [of immortality]...is higher than we can write down in propositions...
    Imtl 8.348 17 Within every man's thought is a higher thought...
    Imtl 8.348 19 Within every man's thought is a higher thought,-within the character he exhibits to-day, a higher character.
    Dem1 10.7 22 [Dreams'] extravagance from nature is yet within a higher nature.
    Aris 10.65 13 ...it suffices...that [the man of generous spirit] comes into what is called fine society from higher ground...
    PerF 10.72 12 Intellect and morals appear only the material forces on a higher plane.
    PerF 10.83 5 And so, one step higher, when [the susceptible man] comes into the realm of sentiment and will. He sees...the eternity that belongs to all moral nature.
    Edc1 10.129 14 ...if the higher faculties of the individual be from time to time quickened, he will gain wisdom and virtue from his business.
    Supl 10.163 9 I wish to point at some of [the doctrine of temperance's] higher functions as it enters into mind and character.
    SovE 10.185 9 ...presently...[the man down in Nature] is aware that he owes a higher allegiance to do and live as a good member of this universe.
    SovE 10.187 6 The geologic world is chronicled by the growing ripeness of the strata from lower to higher...
    SovE 10.187 10 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...
    SovE 10.187 26 Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage kills worms; but there is a higher muse there sitting where he durst not soar...
    SovE 10.189 13 The excellence of men consists in the completeness with which the lower system is taken up into the higher...
    Prch 10.219 21 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious exhibitions are interrupted and periodical,-the ages of belief...of men cast in a higher mould.
    Schr 10.262 12 I do not now refer to that intellectual conscience which... gives us many twinges for our sloth and unfaithfulness:-the influence I speak of is of a higher strain.
    Schr 10.276 16 There is plenty of wild azote and carbon unappropriated, but it is nought till we have made it up into loaves and soup. So we find it in higher relations.
    Schr 10.287 10 The practical aim is forever higher than the literary aim.
    LLNE 10.338 6 ...while society remained in doubt between the indignation of the old school and the audacity of the new, a higher note sounded.
    MMEm 10.412 11 The rapture of feeling I [Mary Moody Emerson] would part from, for days more devoted to higher discipline.
    MMEm 10.423 26 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou...restest on thy hoary throne... When will thy routines give way to higher and lasting institutions?
    HDC 11.52 14 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were taking for their good; for, said he, all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you?
    LVB 11.93 3 ...would it not be a higher indecorum coldly to argue a matter like [the relocation of the Cherokees]?
    EWI 11.115 26 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged...urging [the people] to the attainment of that higher liberty with which Christ maketh his children free.
    War 11.167 1 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights, if he be of sound body and mind. At a certain higher stage, he makes no offensive demonstration...
    War 11.167 3 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...
    FSLC 11.213 10 Every nation and every man bows, in spite of himself, to a higher mental and moral existence;...
    FSLN 11.228 14 ...when allusion was made to the question of duty and the sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly said, at Albany, Some higher law, something existing somewhere between here and the third heaven,-I do not know where.
    JBS 11.279 10 Our farmers...had learned that life was...a probation, to use their word, for a higher world...
    ACiv 11.298 26 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    HCom 11.340 12 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness:/ Their higher instinct knew/ Those love her best who to themselves are true;/ And what they dare to dream of, dare to do;/...
    SMC 11.352 6 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence.
    SMC 11.355 12 The armies mustered in the North...had the vast advantage of carrying whither they marched a higher civilization.
    SMC 11.357 27 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army; but there is a higher Power that tunes the hearts of men...
    EdAd 11.391 23 What will easily seem to many a far higher question than any other is that which respects the embodying of the Conscience of the period.
    Wom 11.407 20 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband...says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved, he was the author of that virtue he doted on...
    Shak1 11.452 25 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it! but, being advanced to a higher class, they are just as much in their element as before...
    FRO2 11.487 17 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself, discriminate between his higher and lower thoughts...
    FRep 11.511 3 It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics that you must have a source higher than your tap.
    FRep 11.526 1 Nature...spends individuals and races prodigally to prepare new individuals and races. The lower kinds are one after one extinguished; the higher forms come in.
    FRep 11.527 18 The town-meeting is, after the high-school, a higher school.
    FRep 11.539 17 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time. I believe this...requires docility, sympathy, and religious receiving from higher principles;...
    FRep 11.542 17 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe. They are all toiling...to a use in the economy of the world; the higher and more complex organizations to higher and more catholic service.
    FRep 11.542 18 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe. They are all toiling...to a use in the economy of the world; the higher and more complex organizations to higher and more catholic service.
    PLT 12.3 19 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied to a higher class of facts;...
    PLT 12.17 19 Above the thought is the higher truth...
    PLT 12.18 1 ...as the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether which slowly condensed into earths and moons, by a higher force of the same law the mind detaches minds...
    PLT 12.21 21 ...the lowest only means incipient form, and over it is a higher class in which its rudiments are opened...
    PLT 12.21 22 ...the lowest only means incipient form, and over it is a higher class in which its rudiments are...raised to higher powers;...
    PLT 12.24 15 Man seems a higher plant.
    PLT 12.58 9 The expansions [of the Intellect] are the invitations from heaven to try...a higher pitch than we have yet climbed...
    PLT 12.62 11 We have all of us by nature a certain divination and parturient vaticination in our minds of some higher good and perfection than either power or knowledge.
    II 12.77 9 The only comfort I can lay to my own sorrow is that we have a higher than a personal interest, which, in the ruin of the personal, is secured.
    II 12.79 21 I am sorry that we do not receive the higher gifts justly and greatly.
    Mem 12.101 19 Shall we not on higher stages of being remember and understand our early history better?
    Mem 12.105 26 ...in higher examples each man's memory is in the line of his action.
    Bost 12.194 7 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even, without feeling how rich and expansive a culture- not so much a culture as a higher life-they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
    Bost 12.198 21 By this [religious] instinct we are lifted to higher ground.
    MAng1 12.219 20 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface and, if beautiful, only the result of interior harmonies, which, to him who knows them, compose the image of higher beauty.
    MAng1 12.233 24 [Michelangelo] was conscious in his efforts of higher aims than to address the eye.
    Milt1 12.276 9 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret...that [the men]...were channels through which streams of thought flowed from a higher source, which they did not appropriate...
    Milt1 12.276 24 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.
    MLit 12.309 1 In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers.
    MLit 12.321 13 ...more than any other contemporary bard [Wordsworth] is pervaded with a reverence of somewhat higher than (conscious) thought.
    MLit 12.335 19 [The Genius of the time] will write in a higher spirit and a wider knowledge and with a grander practical aim than ever yet guided the pen of poet.
    Pray 12.356 3 Might [these prayers] be suggestion to many a heart of yet higher secret experiences which are ineffable!
    PPr 12.383 27 ...when the political aspects are so calamitous that the sympathies of the man overpower the habits of the poet, a higher than literary inspiration may succor him.
    Trag 12.417 2 ...higher still than the activities of art, the intellect in its purity and the moral sense in its purity are not distinguished from each other...

higher, adv. (12)

    LT 1.266 16 ...when we stand by the seashore...a wave comes up the beach far higher than any foregoing one, and recedes;...
    Tran 1.359 22 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... shall abide in beauty and strength...to invest themselves anew in other, perhaps higher endowed and happier mixed clay than ours...
    Art1 2.367 20 Would it not be better to begin higher up,--to serve the ideal before [men] eat and drink;...
    UGM 4.15 21 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed, runs...much higher...
    PPh 4.51 25 ...if we dare carry these generalizations a step higher, and name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization...and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...
    PNR 4.89 1 ...poetry has never soared higher than in the Timaeus and the Phaedrus.
    Ctr 6.141 2 What we call our root-and-branch reforms...is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely in Education.
    Bty 6.300 15 If command...exist in the most deformed person, all the accidents that usually displease...raise esteem and wonder higher.
    Chr2 10.122 11 [Character] extols humility,-by every self-abasement lifted higher in the scale of being.
    HDC 11.33 8 Sometimes passing through thickets...and [the pilgrims'] feet clambering over the crossed trees, which when they missed, they sunk into an uncertain bottom in water, and wade up to their knees, tumbling sometimes higher, sometimes lower.
    Wom 11.413 22 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./ What is thy tent, where dost thou dwell?/ My mansion is humility,/ Heaven's vastest capability./ The further it doth downward tend,/ The higher up it doth ascend./
    PLT 12.4 9 ...in the order of Nature [the higher laws] lie higher and are nearer to the mysterious seat of power and creation.

Higher Law, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.190 7 A few months ago, in my dismay at hearing that the Higher Law was reckoned a good joke in the courts, I took pains to look into a few law-books.

highest, adj. (201)

    Nat 1.24 25 [Beauty in nature] must stand...not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.
    Nat 1.64 22 This [spiritual] view...carries upon its face the highest certificate of truth...
    Nat 1.66 2 In inquiries respecting...the frame of things, the highest reason is always the truest.
    Nat 1.68 27 [Man's] eyes dismount the highest star/...
    AmS 1.101 22 [The scholar] is to find consolation in exercising the highest functions of human nature.
    AmS 1.107 16 Men...very naturally seek money or power;...the spoils, so called, of office. And why not? for they aspire to the highest, and this, in their sleep-walking, they dream is highest.
    AmS 1.111 20 ...show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking...in these suburbs and extremities of nature;...
    DSA 1.124 24 The perception of this law of laws awakens in the mind a sentiment...which makes our highest happiness.
    DSA 1.148 16 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...what is the highest form in which we know this beautiful element, a certain solidity of merit...
    DSA 1.148 27 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.
    LE 1.164 23 ...we must pay our vows to the highest power...
    MN 1.194 16 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite...
    MR 1.227 5 ...the aim of each young man in this association is the very highest that belongs to a rational mind.
    MR 1.249 4 Is it not the highest duty that man should be honored in us?
    MR 1.256 5 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man...
    LT 1.289 14 ...the granite comes to the surface and towers into the highest mountains...
    LT 1.291 12 ...the highest compliment man ever receives from heaven is the sending to him its disguised and discredited angels.
    Con 1.322 13 ...if it still be asked in this necessity of partial organization, which party, on the whole, has the highest claims on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart...
    Tran 1.343 9 ...[Transcendentalists] will own that love seems to them the last and highest gift of nature;...
    Tran 1.351 12 ...I will not move until I have the highest command.
    Tran 1.355 19 We call the Beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.
    SR 2.45 14 ...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they...spoke...what they thought.
    SR 2.47 22 ...we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny;...
    SR 2.68 16 ...the highest truth on this subject remains unsaid;...
    SR 2.77 18 Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
    Comp 2.106 3 How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens...O thou only great God...
    Comp 2.108 20 The name and circumstance of Phidias...embarrass when we come to the highest criticism.
    Comp 2.113 4 [The borrower] may soon come to see...that the highest price he can pay for a thing is to ask for it.
    SL 2.145 6 Over all things that are agreeable to his nature and genius the man has the highest right.
    SL 2.160 21 Let [your friend] feel that the highest love has come to see him, in thee its lowest organ.
    Lov1 2.181 16 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person...
    Lov1 2.182 27 ...separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends to the highest beauty...
    Fdsp 2.191 19 From the highest degree of passionate love to the lowest degree of good-will, [the emotions of benevolence and complacency] make the sweetness of life.
    Fdsp 2.202 23 Sincerity is the luxury allowed...only to the highest rank;...
    Prd1 2.230 5 ...beside all the resistless beauty of form, [the Raphael in the Dresden gallery] possesses in the highest degree the property of the perpendicularity of all the figures.
    Prd1 2.230 22 We must call the highest prudence to counsel...
    Hsm1 2.251 3 ...for the hero that thing he does is the highest deed...
    OS 2.280 22 ...the soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature...
    OS 2.292 11 Deal so plainly with man and woman as to...destroy all hope of trifling with you. It is the highest compliment you can pay.
    OS 2.292 12 [Men's] highest praising, said Milton, is not flattery...
    Cir 2.301 4 [The circle] is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.
    Cir 2.315 13 ...the highest prudence is the lowest prudence.
    Cir 2.317 7 It is the highest power of divine moments that they abolish our contritions also.
    Int 2.342 12 ...he [in whom the love of truth predominates]...respects the highest law of his being.
    Art1 2.353 26 ...the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value, as history;...
    Art1 2.358 9 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...
    Art1 2.359 6 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak.
    Art1 2.363 27 ...[art's] highest effect is to make new artists.
    Pt1 3.4 10 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning...of every sensuous fact;...
    Pt1 3.27 18 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest...
    Exp 3.63 10 ...for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.
    Exp 3.73 11 This vigor is...in the highest degree unbending.
    Chr1 3.96 20 [A healthy soul] is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.
    Chr1 3.105 12 Character is nature in the highest form.
    Chr1 3.114 13 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his death which has transfigured every particular into an universal symbol for the eyes of mankind. This great defeat is hitherto our highest fact.
    Mrs1 3.121 24 [Good society] is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class...who take the lead in the world at this hour, and though...far from constituting the gladdest and highest tone of human feeling, it is as good as the whole society permits it to be.
    Mrs1 3.128 14 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to work, yet high power to enjoy.
    Mrs1 3.140 1 ...[society] values all peculiarities as in the highest degree refreshing, which can consist with good fellowship.
    Mrs1 3.143 7 ...so long as [fashion] is the highest circle in the imagination of the best heads on the planet, there is something necessary and excellent in it;...
    Nat2 3.179 18 [Efficient Nature] publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spiculae through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries...
    Nat2 3.194 22 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find...the fathomless powers of gravity and chemistry, and, over them, of life, preexisting within us in their highest form.
    Pol1 3.204 11 ...there is an instinctive sense...that the highest end of government is the culture of men;...
    NR 3.239 13 In every conversation, even the highest, there is a certain trick...
    NER 3.282 12 This open channel to the highest life is the first and last reality...
    UGM 4.10 6 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature...
    UGM 4.21 2 The veneration of mankind selects these [great men] for the highest place.
    PPh 4.43 6 Plato...stands upon the highest place of the poet...
    PPh 4.49 2 ...each [Unity and Variety] so fast slides into the other that we can never say what is one, and what it is not. The Proteus is as nimble in the highest as in the lowest grounds;...
    PPh 4.49 10 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression in the religious writings of the East...
    PPh 4.52 1 ...if we dare...name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization,--pure science; and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...
    PPh 4.57 17 ...the birds of highest flight have the strongest alar bones.
    PPh 4.65 7 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the highest employment of the eyes.
    SwM 4.97 21 Must the highest good drag after it a quality which neutralizes and discredits it?
    SwM 4.102 1 ...[Swedenborg's] books on mines and metals are held in the highest esteem by those who understand these matters.
    SwM 4.111 26 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was written with the highest end...
    SwM 4.112 3 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry.
    SwM 4.115 7 Forms ascend in order from the lowest to the highest.
    SwM 4.127 3 Of this book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] one would say that with the highest elements it has failed of success.
    SwM 4.132 16 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries, wherein...the highest truths known to ancient wisdom were taught.
    NMW 4.225 11 Napoleon...at the highest point of his fortunes, has the very spirit of the newspapers.
    GoW 4.284 2 I dare not say that Goethe ascended to the highest grounds from which genius has spoken.
    GoW 4.284 3 [Goethe] has not worshipped the highest unity;...
    GoW 4.285 7 Piety itself is no aim [said Goethe], but only as a means whereby through purest inward peace we may attain to highest culture.
    GoW 4.290 2 ...the highest simplicity of structure is produced...by the highest complexity.
    GoW 4.290 3 ...the highest simplicity of structure is produced...by the highest complexity.
    ET3 5.37 9 ...some signs portend that [London] has reached its highest point.
    ET3 5.39 2 The constant rain...brings agricultural production [in England] up to the highest point.
    ET5 5.89 23 [The Englishman] would rather not do anything at all than not do it well. I suppose no people have such thoroughness;--from the highest to the lowest, every man meaning to be master of his art.
    ET5 5.91 9 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;.--a work whose value does not begin until thirty years have elapsed, and thenceforward a record to all ages of the highest import.
    ET9 5.145 23 ...when [the Englishman] wishes to pay you the highest compliment, he says, I should not know you from an Englishman.
    ET9 5.152 21 Amerigo Vespucci...whose highest naval rank was boatswain' s mate in an expedition that never sailed, managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...
    ET12 5.208 2 ...[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture.
    ET14 5.248 24 Coleridge...with eyes looking before and after to the highest bards and sages...is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
    ET14 5.250 16 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor, with a catholic perception of relations, equal to the highest attempts...
    ET14 5.255 15 In the absence of the highest aims...there is [in England] the suppression of the imagination...
    ET16 5.285 16 The [Salisbury] Cathedral, which was finished six hundred years ago, has even a spruce and modern air, and its spire is the highest in England.
    Wth 6.126 21 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance. This is the right compound interest; this is...man raised to his highest power.
    Wth 6.127 4 Nor is the man enriched...unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.
    Bhr 6.175 5 A prince who is accustomed every day to be courted and deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires a corresponding expectation...
    Bhr 6.192 20 The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is,--Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
    Wsp 6.210 8 What proof of skepticism like the base rate at which the highest mental and moral gifts are held?
    Wsp 6.210 10 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...
    Wsp 6.216 8 It is certain that worship stands in some commanding relation to the health of man and to his highest powers...
    Wsp 6.238 3 ...the highest virtue is always against the law.
    CbW 6.260 25 ...a West End householder, is not the highest style of man;...
    CbW 6.275 1 ...a habit of union and competition brings people up and keeps them up to their highest point;...
    Civ 7.25 26 The highest civility has never loved the hot zones.
    Civ 7.34 21 ...the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
    Art2 7.46 26 The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us
    Elo1 7.63 18 Who can wonder at the attractiveness...of...the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
    Elo1 7.66 19 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment, the attention [of the audience] deepens, a new and highest audience now listens...
    Elo1 7.66 27 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels.
    Elo1 7.81 19 Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.
    Elo1 7.97 22 The highest platform of eloquence is the moral sentiment.
    Elo1 7.98 12 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs...
    DL 7.126 27 Our friends are not their own highest form.
    DL 7.127 27 Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed... after the highest, and not after the lowest order;...
    DL 7.129 10 ...perhaps Love is only the highest symbol of Friendship...
    WD 7.176 15 In the Christian graces, humility stands highest of all...
    WD 7.177 2 The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near from every point...
    WD 7.184 14 There are people...who have no talents, or care not to have them,--being that which was before talent, and shall be after it, and of which talent seems only a tool: this is character, the highest name at which philosophy has arrived.
    Boks 7.218 23 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations.
    Clbs 7.241 13 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man to deal with him as an intellect...
    Clbs 7.250 13 When we look for the highest benefits of conversation, the Spartan rule of one to one is usually enforced.
    Cour 7.273 23 The pious Mrs. Hutchinson says of some passages in the defence of Nottingham against the Cavaliers, It was a great instruction that the best and highest courages are beams of the Almighty.
    Suc 7.301 12 We bring a welcome to the highest lessons of religion and of poetry out of all proportion beyond our skill to teach.
    OA 7.331 4 Goethe himself carried this completion of studies to the highest point.
    PI 8.7 15 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development, indicating the way upward from the invisible protoplasm to the highest organisms, gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
    PI 8.8 2 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest...
    PI 8.72 8 The number of successive saltations the nimble thought can make, measures the difference between the highest and lowest of mankind.
    Elo2 8.112 8 Our community runs through a long scale of mental power, from the highest refinement to the borders of savage ignorance and rudeness.
    Comc 8.157 7 ...as the lower nature does not jest, neither does the highest.
    Comc 8.163 20 ...it is the highest degree of injustice not to be just and yet seem so...
    QO 8.177 10 In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
    QO 8.177 11 In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
    QO 8.179 15 The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning.
    PC 8.225 18 The highest flight to which the muse of Horace ascended was in that triplet of lines in which he described the souls which can calmly confront the sublimity of Nature...
    PPo 8.240 21 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the all-wise fowl who had lived ever since the beginning of the world, and now lives alone on the highest summit of Mount Kaf.
    PPo 8.265 20 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./ Ye blot out my highest being,/ That ye may find yourselves on my throne;/ Forever ye blot out yourselves,/ As shadows in the sun./ Farewell!/
    Grts 8.302 12 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind;...
    Grts 8.309 15 If we should ask ourselves what is this self-respect, it would carry us to the highest problems.
    Grts 8.312 20 ...the highest wisdom does not concern itself with particular men...
    Grts 8.319 11 What are these [heroes] but the promise and the preparation of a day...when the measure of greatness shall be usefulness in the highest sense...
    Dem1 10.6 13 In a dream we have...the same torpidity of the highest power, the same unsurprised assent to the monstrous as these metamorphosed men [animals] exhibit.
    Aris 10.35 23 ...every man confesses that the highest good which the universe proposes to him is the highest society.
    Aris 10.35 25 ...every man confesses that the highest good which the universe proposes to him is the highest society.
    Aris 10.55 1 ...noble sentiment is the highest form of Beauty.
    Aris 10.60 17 That highest good of rational existence is always coming to such as reject mean alliances.
    Aris 10.64 13 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize.
    Chr2 10.101 24 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him in the lessons they have to impart. The highest of these not so much give particular knowledge...
    Chr2 10.111 4 When the highest conceptions...are imported, the nation is not culminating...
    Chr2 10.121 19 Goethe...maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives...
    Edc1 10.131 9 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena, of...subordinating them to a bright reason of its own, and so giving to man a sort of property,-yea, the very highest property in every district and particle of the globe.
    Edc1 10.159 8 Consent yourself to be an organ of your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you put all men in your debt...
    Supl 10.173 12 ...to the most expressive man that has existed, namely, Shakspeare, [mankind] have awarded the highest place.
    SovE 10.184 2 ...this unity exists...from lower type of man to the highest yet attained...
    SovE 10.184 22 The animal who is wholly kept down in Nature has no anxieties. By yielding, as he must do, to it, he is enlarged and reaches his highest point.
    Prch 10.219 11 It is certain that...many...periods of inactivity...will occur. In those hours, we can find comfort in reverence of the highest power, and only in that.
    Prch 10.225 9 [The moral sentiment] comes itself from the highest place.
    Plu 10.297 25 ...if [Plutarch] had not the highest powers, he was yet a man of rare gifts.
    Plu 10.314 22 [Plutarch] insists that the highest good is in action.
    Plu 10.321 19 there are, no doubt, many vulgar phrases [in the 1718 edition of Plutarch], and many blunders of the printer; but it is the speech of business and conversation, and in every tone, from lowest to highest.
    LLNE 10.332 16 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    MMEm 10.430 10 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong for that rapt emotion, that severe delight which I crave;...
    LS 11.25 6 ...I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising [the pastoral office's] highest functions.
    HDC 11.34 6 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest side.
    LVB 11.89 8 Each has the highest right to call your [Van Buren's] attention to such subjects as are of a public nature...
    EWI 11.142 27 [The blacks] won the pity and respect which they have received [in the West Indies], by their powers and native endowments. I think this a circumstance of the highest import.
    War 11.175 19 There is the highest fitness in the place and time in which this enterprise [Congress of Nations] is begun.
    ACiv 11.299 15 Is...this evolution of man to the highest powers, only to give him sensibility...
    HCom 11.342 10 The proof that war also is within the highest right...is its morale.
    EdAd 11.386 21 ...who can see the continent with...its confluence of races so favorable to the highest energy...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    EdAd 11.391 26 Is the age we live in unfriendly to the highest powers;...
    Wom 11.418 13 Nature's end, of maternity for twenty years, was of so supreme importance that it was to be secured at all events, even to the sacrifice of the highest beauty.
    Wom 11.419 24 Educate and refine society to the highest point,-bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?
    Scot 11.465 15 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for a counterpart as a painting of Fate-leaving on every reader the impression of the highest and purest tragedy.
    FRO2 11.490 25 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who think it the highest worship to expect of Heaven the most and the best;...
    CPL 11.506 23 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...these tractable prophets, historians, and singers, whose embalmed life is the highest feat of art;...
    PLT 12.42 20 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself...
    PLT 12.45 4 ...if [we converse] with high things...the interval becomes a gulf and we cannot enter into the highest good.
    PLT 12.62 17 ...the highest behavior, consists in the identification of the Ego with the universe;...
    II 12.71 13 Novelty in the means by which we arrive at the old universal ends is the test of the presence of the highest power...
    CInt 12.114 21 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...
    CInt 12.121 2 Need enough there is of such a band of priests of intellect and knowledge; and great is the office, and well deserving and well paying the last sacrifices and the highest ability.
    CInt 12.124 1 ...the very highest advantage which a young man of good mind can meet is to find such a teacher.
    CInt 12.127 2 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights;...here the highest duties be urged...
    Bost 12.197 20 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...unites itself by natural affinity to the highest minds of the world;...
    MAng1 12.215 14 Whilst [Michelangelo's] name belongs to the highest class of genius, his life contains in it no injurious influence.
    MAng1 12.221 24 Man is the highest, and indeed the only proper object of plastic art.
    MAng1 12.222 13 Our knowledge of [the human form's] highest expression we owe to the Fine Arts.
    MAng1 12.234 2 ...as...[Michelangelo] sought to approach the Beautiful by the study of the True, so he failed not...to seek Beauty in its highest form, that of Goodness.
    MAng1 12.242 22 ...this man [Michelangelo] was penetrated with the love of the highest beauty, that is, goodness;...
    Milt1 12.268 8 ...the religious sentiment warmed [Milton's] writings and conduct with the highest affection of faith.
    ACri 12.303 8 The art of writing is the highest of those permitted to man as drawing directly from the soul...
    WSL 12.345 5 [Landor's] portraits, though mere sketches, must be valued as attempts in the very highest kind of narrative...
    WSL 12.346 19 [Landor's] position is by no means the highest in literature...
    WSL 12.347 1 ...it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded...
    AgMs 12.358 19 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect.
    EurB 12.372 18 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined to be the highest...
    EurB 12.378 7 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is to appear with the most wooden manners...
    PPr 12.388 11 ...a continuer of the great line of scholars, [Carlyle] sustains their office in the highest credit and honor.

highest, adv. (3)

    Clbs 7.250 15 Discourse, when it rises highest...is between two.
    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...
    Milt1 12.277 23 The lover of Milton reads one sense in his prose and in his metrical compositions, and sometimes the muse soars highest in the former, because the thought is more sincere.

Highest Law, n. (1)

    OS 2.270 7 ...I desire...to report what hints I have collected of the transcendent simplicity and energy of the Highest Law.

highest, n. (3)

    Nat 1.63 23 We learn that the highest is present to the soul of man;...
    AmS 1.107 15 Men...very naturally seek money or power;...the spoils, so called, of office. And why not? for they aspire to the highest, and this...they dream is highest.
    Wsp 6.222 27 ...gossip is a weapon impossible to exclude from the privatest, highest, selectest.

Highest, n. (5)

    SR 2.79 23 ...[creeds and churches] are also classifications of some powerful mind acting on the elemental thought of...man's relation to the Highest.
    OS 2.294 17 ...the Highest dwells with [man];...
    PPo 8.264 26 So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/ Thoughtless in deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless prayed they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./
    PPo 8.264 30 The Highest is a sun-mirror;/ Who comes to Him sees himself therein,/ Sees body and soul, and soul and body;/...
    Imtl 8.349 5 It is curious to find the selfsame feeling, that it is...not duration, but a state of abandonment to the Highest, and so the sharing of His perfection,-appearing in the farthest east and west.

highest-placed, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.253 19 The highest-placed individual in the most cultivated age and population of the world,--[Napoleon] has not the merit of common truth and honesty.

high-fenced, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.175 12 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they live in larger and better-garnished saloons than he has visited...these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance...

highflown, adj. (1)

    ET6 5.113 2 [The English] hate nonsense, sentimentalism and highflown expression;...

high-flying, adj. (1)

    PPo 8.256 9 O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life is thy perch;/ This nook of grief fits thee ill for a nest./

Highgate, England, n. (1)

    ET1 5.10 8 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge...

high-holding, adj. (1)

    SHC 11.435 23 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less, the high-holding woodpecker, the meadow-lark...will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...

Highland, adj. (2)

    Dem1 10.22 1 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy that the mountains and lakes were made specially for him Donald, or him Tecumseh;...
    MoL 10.245 26 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support.

Highlander, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.411 6 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was...a quite clannish instrument...from which none but a native Highlander could draw music.

Highlands, n. (2)

    ET1 5.14 22 From Edinburgh I went to the Highlands.
    ET3 5.42 16 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...Highlands in Scotland, Snowdon in Wales...

highliest, adv. (1)

    NER 3.278 10 We are haunted with a belief that you [reformers] have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn...

highly, adv. (33)

    AmS 1.93 21 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us when they aim not to drill, but to create;...
    OS 2.276 3 ...whoso dwells in this moral beatitude already anticipates those special powers which men prize so highly.
    SwM 4.105 14 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty, even in a highly fertile genius, of proving originality...
    ShP 4.210 13 Some able and appreciating critics think...that [Shakespeare] is falsely judged as poet and philosopher. I think as highly as these critics of his dramatic merit, but still think it secondary.
    NMW 4.224 24 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material... highly intellectual...
    GoW 4.280 5 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is highly stimulating to intellect and courage.
    ET1 5.11 5 When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I interposed that whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I was born and bred a Unitarian.
    ET5 5.88 22 This highly destined race [the English], if it had not somewhere added the chamber of patience to its brain, would not have built London.
    ET5 5.94 1 A proof of the energy of the British people is the highly artificial construction of the whole fabric.
    ET8 5.131 25 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I think, at...any passive obedience, like jumping off a castle-roof at the word of a czar. Being both vascular and highly organized...and intellectual...
    ET10 5.155 5 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders. Better take [the children] away from those who might deprave them. And it was highly injurious to trade to stop binding to manufacturers...
    Ctr 6.132 8 Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the Canon Yeman's Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4, against alchemy.
    Bhr 6.184 19 ...to earnest persons...we cannot extol [dress circles] highly.
    Civ 7.19 10 [Civilization] implies the evolution of a highly organized man...
    Civ 7.25 17 Civilization is the result of highly complex organization.
    Civ 7.26 25 The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral;...
    Elo1 7.68 8 I do not rate this animal eloquence very highly;...
    SA 8.90 23 Every highly organized person knows the value of the social barriers...
    PPo 8.239 7 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization...
    Insp 8.286 8 ...I thank the annoying insect/ For many a golden hour./ Stand, then, for me, ye tormenting creatures,/ Highly praised by the poet/ As the true Musagetes./
    Schr 10.288 20 ...[the scholar] should read a little proudly, as one who knows the original, and cannot therefore very highly value the copy.
    Schr 10.288 25 [The scholar] shall think very highly of his destiny.
    LLNE 10.344 13 Highly refined persons might easily miss in [Theodore Parker] the element of beauty.
    LLNE 10.345 27 ...we were curious to know how [the pilgrim] sped in his experiments on the neighbor, and his anecdotes were...often highly creditable.
    MMEm 10.410 20 When...Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson]...found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them. The man went and returned saying that he could not find them. Go and cry, Elizabeth. The man rather declined this service, as he did not know Miss Hoar. She was highly offended...
    Thor 10.454 24 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau].
    Thor 10.463 2 ...setting, like all highly organized men, a high value on his time, [Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town...
    FSLN 11.229 14 [Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law] showed...that while we reckoned ourselves a highly cultivated nation, our bellies had run away with our brains...
    TPar 11.289 18 [Theodore Parker] was capable...of the most unmeasured eulogies on those he esteemed, especially if he had any jealousy that they did not stand with the Boston public as highly as they ought.
    SMC 11.370 1 After Gettysburg, Colonel Prescott remarks that our [Thirty-second] regiment is highly complimented.
    FRep 11.529 25 In this fact, that we are a nation of individuals, that we have a highly intellectual organization...in this is our hope.
    II 12.76 19 We shall not think of ourselves too highly.
    MLit 12.330 19 I am [in Wilhelm Meister]...instructed in the possibility of a highly accomplished society...

highly-organized, adj. (1)

    SovE 10.187 7 The geologic world is chronicled by the growing ripeness of the strata from lower to higher, as it becomes the abode of more highly-organized plants and animals.

high-minded, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.199 20 I saw several faithful, high-minded young men [at Oxford]...

Highminded Spaniard [Willia (1)

    ET1 5.23 25 [Wordsworth] cited the sonnet, On the feelings of a highminded Spaniard, which he preferred to any other...

highnesses, n. (1)

    ET4 5.62 12 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into royal highnesses...

high-priesthood, n. (1)

    Int 2.345 24 ...I cannot recite...laws of the intellect, without remembering... the high-priesthood of the pure reason...

high-school, n. (1)

    FRep 11.527 17 The town-meeting is, after the high-school, a higher school.

high-spirited, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.185 18 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men...

high-toned, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.208 7 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly;...

high-water, adj. (4)

    Cir 2.310 18 To-morrow [the parties in conversation] will have receded from this high-water mark.
    Chr1 3.101 17 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it; so equal, that it was not suspected to be a grand and inimitable exploit. Yet there stands that fact unrepeated, a high-water mark in military history.
    ET17 5.298 8 The Ode on Immortality is the high-water mark which the intellect has reached in this age.
    II 12.74 1 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that?

highway, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.409 14 ...from the highway hedges where I [Mary Moody Emerson] get lodging...I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.

highway, n. (15)

    Tran 1.352 13 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which surprised me in the highway or in the market...
    Tran 1.357 27 ...the path which the hero travels alone is the highway of health and benefit to mankind.
    Exp 3.62 16 Everything good is on the highway.
    Exp 3.62 23 ...in popular experience everything good is on the highway.
    Nat2 3.190 27 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual! Could it not be had as well by beggars on the highway?
    Pol1 3.220 14 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends of the post-office, of the highway...can be answered.
    ET11 5.182 7 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three miles...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.
    Wth 6.105 8 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills, the people at Manchester...are forced into the highway...
    PI 8.45 12 Every one may see, as he rides on the highway through an uninteresting landscape, how a little water instantly relieves the monotony...
    LLNE 10.328 16 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no...said the landlord;...what should these fellows keep the highway for, when they can rob just as effectually, and much more at their ease, in the bureaus of office?
    War 11.168 3 ...if you go for no war, then be consistent, and give up self-defence in the highway, in your own house.
    CPL 11.504 21 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte...tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them, and strewed the highway with pamphlets.
    CW 12.172 11 I did not know [when I bought my farm] what groups of interesting school-boys and fair school-girls were to greet me in the highway...
    AgMs 12.361 8 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction, and after a man has built at great cost a stone house, a new road is opened, and he finds himself a mile or two from the highway.
    Trag 12.413 3 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...

highwayman, n. (4)

    CbW 6.261 20 ...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise counsel in a court of law. Now plant him down among farmers, firemen, Indians and emigrants. Set a dog on him; set a highwayman on him;...
    Elo1 7.77 6 Face to face with a highwayman...can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?...
    Elo1 7.77 11 Face to face with a highwayman...can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?--a problem easy enough to Caesar or Napoleon. Whenever a man of that stamp arrives, the highwayman has found a master.
    CW 12.178 11 ...the top of the tree is also a tap-root thrust into the public pocket of the atmosphere. This is a highwayman, to be sure.

highwayman's, n. (1)

    EurB 12.374 21 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy, inasmuch as the power...is a power for London; a divine power converted into...a highwayman's pistol to rob and kill with.

highwaymen, n. (2)

    ET4 5.68 21 Even for [the English] highwaymen the same virtue is claimed, and Robin Hood comes described to us as mitissimus praedonum; the gentlest thief.
    AKan 11.257 22 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where citizens of Massachusetts...have emigrated to national territory...and are then set on by highwaymen...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...

highways, n. (12)

    Hist 2.36 10 ...out of the human heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature...
    NR 3.243 15 ...all things are pervious to [the soul] and like highways...
    ET3 5.34 18 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use, has found all the capabilities...the highways, the byways...
    Wth 6.104 4 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the highways will be less secure;...
    Wth 6.121 24 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...crossing highways...
    Dem1 10.21 3 ...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 are troublesome enough in the city and in the highways, but tramps flying through the air...can well be spared.
    Prch 10.226 24 ...we can keep our religion, despite of the violent railroads of generalization...that block and intersect our old parish highways.
    Schr 10.285 21 ...what [Genius] says and does is...on the great highways of Nature...
    HDC 11.42 5 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter...
    HDC 11.42 9 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter, and...in regard of the ease of the East quarter above the rest, in their highways, they are to allow the North quarter 3 pounds.
    HDC 11.54 15 ...Concord increased in territory and population. The lands were divided; highways were cut from farm to farm...
    CPL 11.495 5 The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political arrangement of towns, each...caring for its schools, its charities, its highways.

hilarious, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.211 11 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics...the American would arrives at as robust exegesis and cheery and hilarious tone.

hilarity, n. (8)

    Lov1 2.171 24 With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity...
    Hsm1 2.255 19 ...that which takes my fancy most in the heroic class, is the good-humor and hilarity they exhibit.
    PPh 4.69 14 ...beauty is the most lovely of all things, exciting hilarity and shedding desire and confidence through the universe wherever it enters...
    ShP 4.215 27 Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, [the poet] sheds over the universe.
    ET8 5.127 19 [The Englishman's] hilarity is like an attack of fever.
    Bty 6.296 7 Wherever [the human form] goes it creates joy and hilarity...
    PPo 8.250 2 Hafiz praises...birds, mornings and music, to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
    AgMs 12.359 23 [Edmund Hosmer's] laugh rings with the sweetness and hilarity of a child;...

hill, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.175 1 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...

Hill, Bunker, Massachusetts (3)

    Pt1 3.16 16 See the great ball which they roll from Baltimore to Bunker Hill!
    Cour 7.256 5 What a memory of Poitiers and Crecy, and Bunker Hill, and Washington's endurance!
    CInt 12.118 19 ...I note that we had a vast self-esteem on the subject of Bunker Hill, Yorktown and New Orleans.

Hill, Bunker's, Massachuset (1)

    FSLN 11.221 17 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill.

Hill, Grace, Antigua, n. (1)

    EWI 11.116 8 At Grace Hill, [the day after emancipation in the West Indies] there were at least a thousand persons around the Moravian Chapel who could not get in.

Hill, Laurel, Virginia, n. (1)

    SMC 11.371 17 On the twelfth [of May], at Laurel Hill, the [Thirty-second] regiment had twenty-one killed and seventy-five wounded...

Hill, Lee's, Massachusetts, (1)

    HDC 11.36 8 Tahattawan, the Sachem [of the Massachusetts Indians]... lived near Nashawtuck, now Lee's Hill.

hill, n. (16)

    Comp 2.119 15 The history of persecution is a history of endeavors...to make water run up hill...
    SL 2.137 2 Our society is encumbered by ponderous machinery, which resembles the endless aqueducts which the Romans built over hill and dale...
    NMW 4.234 25 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect...
    ET1 5.20 17 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are atrocious...
    ET4 5.73 20 A score or two of mounted gentlemen may frequently be seen [in England] running like centaurs down a hill nearly as steep as the roof of a house.
    ET16 5.276 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury, passing by Old Sarum, a bare, treeless hill...
    ET16 5.285 7 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...climbed to the lonely sculptured summer-house, on a hill backed by a wood;...
    Wth 6.115 25 ...every hill of melons, row of corn [on a man's land]...stand in his way...when he would go out of his gate.
    CbW 6.243 15 ...Only the light-armed climb the hill./
    MMEm 10.401 18 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years. It was...within sight of the White Mountains, with a little lake in front at the foot of a high hill called Bear Mountain.
    HDC 11.38 15 [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 11.62 11 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/...
    Scot 11.462 5 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon...
    CL 12.144 8 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back.
    MAng1 12.239 16 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
    ACri 12.299 6 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling... stereoscoping every figure that passes, and every hill, river, wood, hummock and pebble in the long perspective...

Hill, Strawberry, England, (1)

    ET10 5.165 13 Strawberry Hill of Horace Walpole, Fonthill Abbey of Mr. Beckford, were freaks;...

Hillard, George Stillman, n (1)

    ET17 5.293 23 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days...one at the Museum...and still another, on which Mr. [Richard] Owen accompanied my countryman Mr. H[illard]. and myself through the Hunterian Museum.

Hiller, Johann Adam, n. (1)

    MLit 12.325 18 We are provoked with...the patronizing air with which [Goethe] vouchsafes to tolerate the genius and performances of other mortals, the good Hiller, our excellent Kant...

hill-farm, n. (1)

    ET1 5.15 8 Carlyle was...as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London.

hillock, n. (1)

    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.

Hills, Blue, Massachusetts, (1)

    Wth 6.122 19 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing the shoulder of Blue Hills...

hills, n. (37)

    DSA 1.125 2 [The religious sentiment] makes the sky and the hills sublime...
    Tran 1.347 17 ...a favorite spot in the hills or the woods which they can people with the fair and worthy creation of the fancy, can give [Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem real, and society the illusion.
    YA 1.395 6 Here stars, here woods, here hills, here animals, here men abound...
    Comp 2.92 13 ...all that Nature made thy own,/ Floating in air or pent in stone,/ Will rive the hills and swim the sea/ And, like thy shadow, follow thee./
    Nat2 3.169 17 The day, immeasurably long, sleeps over the broad hills and warm wide fields.
    UGM 4.4 3 You say...in the hills of the Sacramento there is gold for the gathering.
    UGM 4.4 17 ...enormous populations, if they be beggars, are disgusting... like hills of ants or of fleas...
    ShP 4.191 3 The human race has gone out before [the great man], sunk the hills, filled the hollows and bridged the rivers.
    ET1 5.15 4 I found the house [Craigenputtock] amid desolate heathery hills...
    ET1 5.18 3 We [Emerson and Carlyle] went out to walk over long hills...
    ET3 5.34 13 Nothing [in England] is left as it was made. Rivers, hills, valleys, the sea itself, feel the hand of a master.
    ET6 5.110 11 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
    Wth 6.116 5 [The land-owner] believes he composes easily on the hills.
    Wth 6.122 10 Every pedestrian in our pastures has frequent occasion to thank the cows for cutting the best path through the thicket and over the hills;...
    Ctr 6.148 23 In the country [a man] can find...hills for geology...
    Ctr 6.153 9 [The countryman] has lost [in the city] the lines of grandeur of the horizon, hills and plains...
    WD 7.177 9 How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee, we look at the distant hills and their seductions!
    PI 8.26 3 [People] like to see sunsets on the hills...
    PI 8.53 20 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every fact:--the clouds clapped their hands,--the hills skipped...
    Elo2 8.113 25 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned in driving cattle to the hills...
    Elo2 8.128 15 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk from the games of ball and skates and coasting down the hills on his sled...that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Schr 10.265 9 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the dashing among the stones of a brook from the hills;...this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    Thor 10.466 6 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with such entire love to the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them known and interesting to all reading Americans...
    HDC 11.32 27 [The pilgrims] must...with their axes cut a road for their teams...forced to make long circuits too, to avoid hills and swamps.
    HDC 11.75 5 The militia and minute-men...ran over the hills opposite the battle-field...
    HDC 11.85 5 [Concord's sons'] wagons have rattled down the remote western hills.
    EWI 11.104 12 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills;...we too should wince.
    CL 12.144 4 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable like a park, and not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills having each one side at forty-five degrees...
    CL 12.154 19 ...the sea drives us back to the hills.
    CL 12.157 6 Can you bring home the summits of Wachusett, Greylock, and the New Hampshire hills?...
    CL 12.157 9 Can you bring home...the sunny shores of your own bay, and the low Indian hills of Rhode Island?...
    CL 12.159 4 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and...know the lakes, the hills...these we call professors.
    Bost 12.211 20 ...in distant ages [Boston's] motto shall be the prayer of millions on all the hills that gird the town, As with our Fathers, so God be with us!
    MAng1 12.224 11 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence]...
    PPr 12.391 25 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning...is sure to return...in gigantic reverberation, as if the hills, the horizon, and the next ages returned the sound.

Hills, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.201 7 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared.

Hills, Rocky, n. (1)

    PPr 12.390 21 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, with the Rocky Hills in the horizon, have never before been conquered in literature.

Hills, White, Massachusetts (5)

    LE 1.169 23 What mean...these pilgrims to the White Hills?
    Con 1.308 18 I cannot occupy the bleakest crag of the White Hills or the Alleghany Range, but some man or corporation steps up to me to show me that it is his.
    YA 1.368 10 ...[the farmer] is so contented with his alleys, woodlands, orchards and river, that Niagara and the Notch of the White Hills...are superfluities.
    Boks 7.213 20 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre, as well as...the tour...to the White Hills and the Ghauts, make such amends as they can.
    PC 8.213 2 ...the rocks of Nahant or the dikes of the White Hills disclose that the world is a crystal...

Hills, White, New Hampshir (1)

    Wth 6.95 9 [The rich] include...the ocean-side, the White Hills...in their notion of available material.

hill-side, n. [hillside,] (2)

    YA 1.384 18 Look across the country from any hill-side around us...
    HDC 11.34 4 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside...

hillsides, n. (1)

    SHC 11.434 6 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.

hilltop, n. (3)

    Nat 1.17 3 I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop...with emotions which an angel might share.
    CL 12.158 2 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.
    CL 12.158 7 My companion and I remarked from the hilltop the prevailing sobriety of color...

hilltops, n. (1)

    Bost 12.182 1 The rocky nook with hilltops three/ Looked eastward from the farms,/ And twice each day the flowing sea/ Took Boston in its arms./

Hilton Head, South Carolin (1)

    Chr2 10.118 8 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the reform of convicts and harlots,-as the war created the Hilton Head and Charleston missions...

Himmaleh Mountains, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.182 24 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace...is directly related...to Himmaleh mountain-chains and the axis of the globe.

Himmaleh Mountains, n. (3)

    LT 1.260 9 Here is this great fact of Conservatism, entrenched in its immense redoubt, with Himmaleh for its front, and Atlas for its flank, and Andes for its rear...
    SR 2.58 8 ...the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are insignificant in the curve of the sphere.
    Pow 6.69 12 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...wading up the snowy Himmaleh;...

hinder, v. (25)

    Con 1.324 27 ...how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?
    SL 2.145 10 Everywhere [the man] may take what belongs to his spiritual estate...nor can all the force of men hinder him from taking so much.
    OS 2.286 21 Neither his age...nor talents...can hinder [a man] from being deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
    ET16 5.289 14 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year...
    Wth 6.121 10 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the wood-lot, when bought. Never fear; it is all settled how it shall be, long beforehand, in the custom of the country...and you cannot help or hinder it.
    Art2 7.49 9 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to this, in the fine arts, is the manner of our intellectual work. We aim to hinder our individuality from acting.
    Elo1 7.78 10 Julius Caesar said to Metellus, when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury, Young man, it is easier for me to put you to death than to say that I will;...
    Elo1 7.90 26 ...rapid generalization, humor, pathos, are keys which the orator holds; and yet these fine gifts...do often hinder a man's attainment of [eloquence].
    WD 7.162 9 ...what can [our politics] help or hinder when from time to time the primal instincts are impressed on masses of mankind...
    Comc 8.160 17 The activity of our sympathies may for a time hinder our perceiving the fact intellectually...
    PC 8.231 17 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering.
    Grts 8.301 8 ...every aspirant, by his success in the pursuit [of greatness], does not hinder but helps his competitors.
    Grts 8.312 14 A man will say: I am born to this position; I must take it, and neither you nor I can help or hinder me.
    SovE 10.190 5 ...every wish, appetite and passion rushes into act and... protects itself with laws. Some of them are useful...and hinder none, help all...
    Schr 10.267 25 ...I do not wish to check your impulses to action: I would not hinder you of one swing of your arm.
    Plu 10.308 26 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist. That vice of theirs shall not hinder him from citing any good word they chance to drop.
    HDC 11.81 8 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas.
    PLT 12.10 23 The laws and powers of the Intellect have...a stupendous peculiarity, of being at once observers and observed. So that it is difficult to...hinder them from turning the professor out of his chair.
    PLT 12.39 3 A man is intellectual...so long as he has no engagement in any thought or feeling which can hinder him from looking at it as somewhat foreign.
    Bost 12.193 23 An old lady who remembered these pious people [the Massachusetts colonists] said of them that they had to hold on hard to the huckleberry bushes to hinder themselves from being translated.
    Bost 12.199 18 What should hinder that this America...should have its happy ports...
    Bost 12.199 26 What should hinder that this America...what should hinder that this New Atlantis should have its happy ports...
    MAng1 12.222 9 ...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.
    MLit 12.315 10 The great never hinder us;...
    MLit 12.335 16 What...shall hinder the Genius of the time from speaking its thought?

hinderance, n. (1)

    NER 3.281 22 ...every hinderance operates as a concentration of [a man's] force.

hindered, v. (15)

    AmS 1.114 23 Young men...are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire...
    SR 2.50 9 He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness...
    SR 2.79 8 Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother...
    Comp 2.108 22 We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period, and was hindered, or...modified in doing, by the interfering volitions of...the organ whereby man at the moment wrought.
    Art1 2.360 7 [The artist] must not be in any manner pinched or hindered by his material...
    NR 3.242 18 The universality being hindered in its primary form, comes in the secondary form of all sides;...
    UGM 4.27 25 [Geniuses] are very attractive, and seem at a distance our own: but we are hindered on all sides from approach.
    ET12 5.206 2 If a young American, loving learning and hindered by poverty, were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford]...he would dance for joy.
    ET14 5.240 17 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied; and this I [Bacon] take to be a great cause that has hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage.
    Wsp 6.231 16 A great man cannot be hindered of the effect of his act...
    Edc1 10.143 19 By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing [the pupil] may be hindered from his end...
    Carl 10.490 1 [Carlyle] talks like a very unhappy man...displeased and hindered by all men and things about him...
    HDC 11.31 9 Hindered from speaking, some of these [suspended ministers] dared to print the reasons of their dissent...
    HDC 11.48 1 Not a complaint occurs in all the volumes of our Records [of Concord], of any inhabitant being hindered from speaking...
    MAng1 12.231 14 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years...only hindered by the limits of life from fulfilling his designs?

hindering, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.187 20 If our resistance to this law [the Fugitive Slave Law] is not right, there is no right. This is not meddling with other people's affairs: this is hindering other people from meddling with us.

hinders, v. (13)

    DSA 1.150 27 What hinders that now...you speak the very truth...
    LE 1.165 7 ...what hinders [men] in the particular is the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth.
    MR 1.255 26 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a quality which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill, which...hinders [the motion] from falling unequally and suddenly in destructive shocks.
    Tran 1.339 1 Shall we say then that Transcendentalism is...the presentiment of a faith proper to man in his integrity, excessive only when his imperfect obedience hinders the satisfaction of his wish?
    Fdsp 2.195 15 A new person is to me a great event and hinders me from sleep.
    Exp 3.74 23 Why should I fret myself because a circumstance has occurred which hinders my presence where I was expected?
    Mrs1 3.139 21 That makes the good and bad of manners, namely what helps or hinders fellowship.
    PNR 4.88 17 ...'t is the magnitude only of Shakspeare's proper genius that hinders him from being classed as the most eminent of this [Platonic] school.
    SwM 4.96 14 ...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
    SwM 4.123 27 Plato is a gownsman; his garment...is an academic robe, and hinders action with its voluminous folds.
    Cour 7.275 6 [The man with sacres courage] wishes to break every yoke all over the world which hinders his brother from acting after his thought.
    FRep 11.537 17 The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power,-the gentleman. What hinders that he be born here?
    FRep 11.542 24 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...hinders the inroads of the sea on the continent...

hindhead, n. (1)

    AmS 1.90 18 ...the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead...

Hindoo, adj. (6)

    F 6.20 10 In the Hindoo fables, Vishnu follows Maya through all her ascending changes...
    WD 7.176 1 In the Hindoo legends, Hari dwells a peasant among peasants.
    PI 8.15 3 I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind...
    Insp 8.295 12 You may read Plutarch, Plato, Plotinus, Hindoo mythology and ethics.
    Bost 12.184 3 ...Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.
    ACri 12.290 25 In the Hindoo mythology, Viswaharman placed the sun on his lathe to grind off some of his effulgence, and in this manner reduced it to an eighth,-more was inseparable.

Hindoo, n. (6)

    Mrs1 3.142 16 ...friend of the Hindoo, friend of the African slave, [Charles James Fox] possessed a great personal popularity;...
    ET5 5.96 17 [The English] make ponchos for the Mexican, bandannas for the Hindoo...
    F 6.5 19 The Hindoo under the wheel is as firm.
    Chr2 10.111 22 ...the Stoics, the Hindoo...these speak originally;...
    MoL 10.243 17 The subtle Hindoo...produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
    PLT 12.35 14 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.

Hindoo Scriptures, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.221 11 We owe to the Hindoo Scriptures a definition of Law, which compares well with any in our Western books.

Hindoos, n. (16)

    DSA 1.139 22 The prayers and even the dogmas of our church are like...the astronomical monuments of the Hindoos...
    SwM 4.96 4 The soul having been often born, or, as the Hindoos say, travelling the path of existence through thousands of births...there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
    SwM 4.138 4 That is active duty, say the Hindoos, which is not for our bondage;...
    SwM 4.140 5 The Hindoos have denominated the Supreme Being, the Internal Check.
    GoW 4.267 23 The Hindoos write in their sacred books, Children only, and not the learned, speak of the speculative and the practical faculties as two.
    F 6.12 24 It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this despotism of race with liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    Ill 6.324 9 ...the Hindoos...express the liveliest feeling, both of the essential identity and of that illusion which they conceive variety to be.
    WD 7.172 18 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes.
    Boks 7.218 18 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Upanishads, the Vishnu Purana, the Bhagvat Geeta, of the Hindoos;...
    Boks 7.218 27 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations. Such are the Hermes Trismegistus...the Vishnu Sarma of the Hindoos;...
    PI 8.14 23 This belief that the higher use of the material world is to furnish us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind, is carried to its logical extreme by the Hindoos...
    PPo 8.239 9 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization,-leaving out of view, at present, the genius of the Hindoos...
    Chr2 10.104 14 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome...the Sradda of Hindoos...are examples of this perversion.
    Chr2 10.109 6 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India...do not wish to enlighten but to Christianize the Hindoos,-it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.
    CL 12.149 6 The Hindoos called fire Agni, born in the woods...
    Bost 12.184 1 ...Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.

hindrance, n. (4)

    AmS 1.104 4 Free should the scholar be, - free and brave. Free even to the definition of freedom, without any hindrance that does not arise out of his own constitution.
    PI 8.27 27 I assert for myself [wrote Blake] that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it would be a hindrance...
    PLT 12.9 17 What with egotism on one side and levity on the other, we shall have no Olympus. But there is still another hindrance, namely, practicality.
    Trag 12.408 17 There must always remain...the hindrance of our private satisfaction by the laws of the world.

hindrances, n. (4)

    Comp 2.101 11 Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type, but part for part...all the...hindrances...
    Comp 2.117 12 ...no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men until he has suffered from the one and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same.
    Lov1 2.182 21 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world, and is able to point it out, and this with mutual joy that they are now able, without offence, to indicate blemishes and hindrances in each other...
    Pow 6.81 17 ...in these [machines man] is forced to leave out his follies and hindrances...

hinges, v. (1)

    NMW 4.232 7 [Bonaparte] sees where the matter hinges...

Hingham, Connecticut, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.381 9 The father [Noah Ripley] was born at Hingham [Connecticut]...

hinging, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.363 9 [Charles Newcomb] lived and thought, in 1842, such worlds of life; all hinging on the thought of Being or Reality as opposed to consciousness;...

hint, n. (73)

    Nat 1.48 26 ...we resist with indignation any hint that nature is more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
    Nat 1.50 13 Our first institution in the Ideal philosophy is a hint from Nature herself.
    Nat 1.67 17 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is no hint to explain the relation between things and thoughts;...
    DSA 1.138 13 ...yet was there not a surmise, a hint, in all the discourse, that [the preacher] had ever lived at all.
    LE 1.175 18 ...accept the hint of shame...which true nature gives you...
    Lov1 2.181 26 ...if, accepting the hint of these visions and suggestions which beauty makes to [a man's] mind...the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
    Lov1 2.184 11 ...even love...must become more impersonal every day. Of this at first it gives no hint.
    Hsm1 2.259 17 Let the maiden, with erect soul...accept the hint of each new experience...
    Pt1 3.31 24 ...when Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;--we take the cheerful hint of the immortality of our essence and its versatile habit and escapes...
    Exp 3.73 23 Our life seems...not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast-flowing vigor.
    Mrs1 3.137 5 I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.
    Pol1 3.221 1 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things, to persuade them...that the private citizen might be reasonable and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.
    NR 3.225 3 Each [man] is a hint of the truth...
    NR 3.225 18 The least hint sets us on the pursuit of a character which no man realizes.
    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...
    ET6 5.103 21 ...he who goes among [the English] must have some weight of metal. At last, you take your hint from the fury of life you find, and say, one thing is plain, this is no country for fainthearted people;...
    ET8 5.130 17 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence...
    ET8 5.135 20 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...catching from their savage climate every fine hint...
    ET10 5.166 23 Man...is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure...
    ET13 5.219 3 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect. The minster and the music were made for each other. It was a hint of the part the church plays as a political engine.
    ET14 5.237 3 The country gentlemen [in England] had a posset or drink they called October; and the poets, as if by this hint, knew how to distil the whole season into their autumnal verses...
    ET14 5.238 23 One hint of Franklin, or Watt, or Dalton, or Davy...was worth all [Bacon's] lifetime of exquisite trifles.
    ET14 5.251 23 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint of the steam-whistle...
    ET14 5.259 21 ...there is at all times a minority of profound minds existing in the nation [England], capable of appreciating...every hint of tendency.
    ET15 5.269 12 [The London Times] addresses occasionally a hint to Majesty itself...
    ET15 5.269 13 [The London Times] addresses occasionally a hint to Majesty itself, and sometimes a hint which is taken.
    F 6.36 8 Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint;...
    Ctr 6.146 13 ...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must follow her hint...
    Wsp 6.213 25 ...we are never without a hint that these powers [of the senses and of the understanding] are mediate and servile...
    Bty 6.282 11 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true...
    Ill 6.321 27 From day to day the capital facts of human life are hidden from our eyes. Suddenly the mist rolls up and reveals them, and we think how much good time is gone that might have been saved had any hint of these things been shown.
    Art2 7.41 10 Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a piece of stronger timber for the middle of the under-surface, getting his hint from the structure of the shin-bone.
    Art2 7.53 26 ...each work of art...took its form from the broad hint of Nature.
    Art2 7.54 22 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest. This appearance certainly gave the hint of the hieroglyphics inscribed on [the Egyptians'] obelisk.
    Elo1 7.97 25 ...[the moral sentiment] conveys a hint of our eternity...
    Farm 7.148 7 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias, built a high wall...
    Farm 7.148 23 The chemist comes to [the farmer's] aid every year by following out some new hint drawn from Nature...
    WD 7.157 7 The human body is the magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint was taken.
    WD 7.162 15 ...German, Chinese, Turk, Russ and Kanaka were putting out to sea, and intermarrying race with race; and commerce took the hint...
    Boks 7.220 16 ...it would be well for sincere young men to borrow a hint from the French Institute and the British Association...
    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.
    Cour 7.272 10 Poetry and eloquence catch the hint [of courage]...
    Suc 7.301 2 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is not propositions...that are our first need;...
    Suc 7.310 15 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation...
    Suc 7.310 19 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation, and they...go home with heavier step and premature age. They will themselves quickly enough give the hint he wants to the cold wretch.
    PI 8.5 26 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets our politics, trade...
    PI 8.7 19 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...a hint whose power is not yet exhausted...
    PI 8.8 15 In geology, what a useful hint was given to the early inquirers on seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree which was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
    SA 8.79 21 '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...
    Res 8.144 24 Nature herself gives the hint and the example, if we have wit to take it.
    PC 8.205 6 ...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant/...
    PC 8.227 13 Every soliciting instinct is only a hint of a coming fact...
    Insp 8.272 6 When I wish to write on any topic, 't is of no consequence what kind of book or man gives me a hint or a motion...
    Insp 8.276 21 We are waiting until some tyrannous idea emerging out of heaven shall seize and bereave us of this liberty with which we are falling abroad. Well, we have the same hint or suggestion, day by day.
    Imtl 8.338 19 As a hint of endless being, we may rank that novelty which perpetually attends life.
    Imtl 8.340 13 A sort of absoluteness attends all perception of truth,-no smell of age, no hint of corruption.
    Dem1 10.4 25 When newly awaked from lively dreams...give us...one hint, and we should repossess the whole;...
    Dem1 10.6 27 It was in this glance [at an animal] that Ovid got the hint of his metamorphoses;...
    Dem1 10.20 17 It is curious to see what grand powers we have a hint of...
    Aris 10.34 4 ...I take this inextinguishable persuasion in men's minds [of hereditary transmission of qualities] as a hint from the outward universe to man to inlay as many virtues and superiorities as he can into this swift fresco of the day...
    PerF 10.82 12 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood. But these are...only the hint of its power on a keener sense.
    Thor 10.454 15 [Thoreau]...knew how to be poor without the least hint of squalor or inelegance.
    EWI 11.106 18 Very unwilling had that great lawyer [Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery]; he suggested twice from the bench, in the course of the trial [of George Somerset], how the question might be got rid of: but the hint was not taken;...
    Shak1 11.450 23 There never was a writer who, seeming to draw every hint from outward history, the life of cities and courts, owed them so little [as Shakespeare].
    FRep 11.520 24 ...the grasshopper on the turret of Faneuil Hall gives a proper hint of the men below.
    PLT 12.28 24 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar,-towers, hall, storeroom and cellar. If [man] takes her hint and uses her goods she speaks no word;...
    Mem 12.93 16 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged...by all sorts of mysterious hooks and eyes to catch and hold, and contrivances for giving a hint.
    Mem 12.109 25 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    CL 12.160 22 ...[the earthquake] wrought to purpose in craters, and we borrowed the hint in crucibles.
    CL 12.164 2 Nature speaks to the imagination; first, through her grand style,-the hint of immense force and unity which her works convey;...
    CL 12.164 20 What is the merit of Thomson's Seasons but copying a few of the pictures out of this vast book [of Nature] into words, without a hint of what they signify...
    MAng1 12.220 26 ...one of the last drawings in [Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling;...
    EurB 12.376 14 [Wilhelm Meister] gave the hint of a cultivated society which we found nowhere else.

hint, v. (7)

    Nat 1.40 27 ...every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Lov1 2.179 15 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society, but...to what roses and violets hint and foreshow.
    SwM 4.140 25 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who... could hint to human ears the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul.
    ET14 5.255 10 No [English] priest dares hint at a Providence which does not respect English utility.
    Clbs 7.248 27 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views...
    PI 8.30 20 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression, so that they only hint the matter, or allude to it...
    CW 12.174 6 [A man in his wood-lot] can fancy that...even the trees make little speeches or hint them.

hint-and-fragment, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.349 6 The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was...that it had not the partiality and hint-and-fragment character of most popular schemes...

hinted, v. (5)

    ET1 5.11 20 When [Coleridge] saw Dr. Channing he had hinted to him that he was afraid he loved Christianity for what was lovely and excellent...
    Ctr 6.166 12 ...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert...
    Suc 7.297 13 ...has [the scholar or writer] never found that there is a better poetry hinted in a boy's whistle of a tune...than in all his literary results?
    OA 7.319 21 At seventy it was hinted to [the Massachusetts judge] that it was time to retire;...
    Schr 10.275 16 The ends I have hinted at made the scholar or spiritual man indispensable to the Republic or Commonwealth of Man.

hints, n. (43)

    LT 1.265 27 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough...
    Con 1.321 7 Such hints, be sure, are too valuable to be lost.
    Hist 2.7 26 These hints, dropped as it were from sleep and night, let us use in broad day.
    Hist 2.14 2 In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races;...
    Prd1 2.233 25 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?
    OS 2.270 5 ...I desire...to report what hints I have collected of the transcendent simplicity and energy of the Highest Law.
    OS 2.270 14 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade...we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    Gts 3.160 6 ...what am I to whom these sweet hints [flowers] are addressed?
    GoW 4.261 23 ...the round is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent.
    GoW 4.278 6 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with...so many good hints for the conduct of life...
    ET1 5.5 15 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities.
    ET16 5.283 2 On hints like these, Stukeley builds again the grand colonnade [Stonehenge] into historic harmony...
    F 6.1 8 Well might then the poet scorn/ To learn of scribe or courtier/ Hints writ in vaster character;/...
    F 6.8 9 ...the forms of the shark...the weapons of the grampus...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    F 6.12 6 At last these hints and tendencies are fixed in one or in a succession.
    F 6.19 5 These [laws of repression] are...hints of the terms by which our life is walled up...
    CbW 6.257 7 ...the friends of a gentleman brought to his notice the follies of his sons, with many hints of their danger...
    CbW 6.272 12 In excited conversation we have...hints of power native to the soul...
    DL 7.127 20 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest a true and lofty life...especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
    Suc 7.298 18 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz...with so many hints to his astonished senses;...
    PI 8.4 7 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here;...
    PI 8.4 11 First innuendoes, then broad hints, then smart taps are given, suggesting that nothing stands still in Nature but death;...
    PI 8.11 2 [Goethe] was himself conscious of [imagination's] help, which made him a prophet among the doctors. From this vision he gave brave hints to the zoologist, the botanist and the optician.
    PI 8.12 7 God himself...communicates with us by hints, omens, inference...
    QO 8.204 12 ...the hints which flash from [thought]...are trustworthy and fertile when obeyed...
    Insp 8.275 18 Socrates, Menu, Confucius, Zertusht,-we recognize in all of them this ardor to solve the hints of thought.
    Insp 8.296 24 I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars...of what hygiene, what ascetic...their experience suggested and approved.
    Insp 8.297 9 These are some hints towards what is in all education a chief necessity,-the right government, or...the right obedience to the powers of the human soul.
    Insp 8.297 15 All our power, all our happiness consists in our reception of [the soul's] hints...
    Grts 8.307 22 [A man] is never happy nor strong until he...learns to watch the delicate hints and insights that come to him...
    Imtl 8.345 9 ...whilst I find the signatures, the hints and suggestions, noble and wholesome...yet it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul.
    Dem1 10.3 6 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which...deserve notice chiefly because every man has usually in a lifetime two or three hints in this kind which are specially impressive to him.
    Dem1 10.8 10 Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be thrown to the man...
    Dem1 10.10 2 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few insignificant hints...
    Plu 10.301 23 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch...
    Plu 10.310 6 Now and then there are hints of superior science [in Plutarch].
    EWI 11.142 16 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and advances from the whites that they will be gladly received as subscribers to the Exchange...
    PLT 12.64 5 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all. Our poetry, our religion are its skirts and penumbrae. Yet the charm of life is the hints we derive from this.
    Mem 12.106 24 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.
    CL 12.161 17 How startling are the hints of wit we detect in the horse and dog...
    ACri 12.289 22 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 12.290 1 Goethe...professed to point his guest to his...Acherontian Bag, in which, he said, he put all his dire hints and images...
    MLit 12.333 21 ...all the hints of omnipresence and energy which we have caught, this man [the poet] should unfold, and constitute facts.

hints, v. (7)

    Nat2 3.167 10 Self-kindled every atom glows,/ And hints the future which it owes./
    Civ 7.27 24 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall;...the river is good-natured, and never hints an objection.
    PI 8.35 23 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy, and the result is that one of the partners offers a poem in a new style that hints at a new literature.
    Insp 8.294 21 ...every word...hints ulterior meanings.
    ACri 12.297 19 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...in loud emphasis, in undertones, then laughs till the walls ring, then calmly moderates, then hints, or raises an eyebrow.

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